Know im suited for this is al jazeera live from london also coming up on the bottom of peace hala perus former president asked for forgiveness for his crimes a russian Opposition Leader calls for a boycott of next years election the kremlin investigates whether he is breaking the law. And stroll us in seattle the u. S. City comforting Plastic Waste and encouraging recycling. We start in liberia where just two hours remain for people to cast their votes in the countrys president ial Runoff Election which will see is first democratic transition of power in seventy three years then house has been lower than the last round both candidates have pledged to revive the struggling economy and to kick start Infrastructure Projects fifty one year old george weah spent his childhood in the slums of monrovia rising to become the first african to be named feet as World Football player of the year in one thousand nine hundred five his bid for the presidency was unsuccessful in two thousand and five he was also the running mate for the main opposition candidate twenty eleven his rival chose it parker has held posts in the private sector and government secluding agriculture minister the seventy three year old has served as Vice President under Ellen Johnson sirleaf since two thousand and six but is twelve years of service didnt secure him surliest backing she india was endorsed george weah. According to the. Associated i would resume to do this. They said to go to a room. Because of the curse of democracy because we want there were two hundred workers and i would reduce it to. We have gone through a good process this is what it is the process of rules we are willing to live with. Mohamed al is live for us in monrovia hamad i was just saying that the turnout in the second round has been much lower why is this. Well so yes Election Officials have been quick to admit to astarte the tunnel is not anywhere near what it was like in the foster round in october one the. Key extending into the streets of the polling stations the tunnel today though the process of course will simply because then the voters were casting many ballot papers but given that. The explanation the Election Officials have been giving us that they have been twenty candidates in the race then now just two they say its because of all the rules supposed to solve all different kind of the because of they come from their ethnic group or from their own region that made that moment big time out today all that is lacking and also the people have been affected by the delay that have been taking place with this runoff. And of course mommy then the Ellen Johnson sirleaf has been running this country ever since the civil war and shes ruled it peacefully how significant is it now that the power is handed over for the future of liberia in a peaceful way. Quite significant because this Country House seen for. Such a long period of uninterrupted peace since one nine hundred eighty nine and secondly. For seventy three years liberia hostile to know the hondo of all of power from one civilian leader to another so generations later liberians will have the opportunity to see these help and secondly they need a leader who builds on the peace that had been managed by the government of Ellen Johnson sirleaf and then bring back the economy back on its feet its bought up by ball ill break as well as the un something sounding these election. And also what the people of liberia want is someone to talk whole crop sion so. Today theyre choosing who is going to replace Ellen Johnson sirleaf on take their country into the future many thanks Mohammed Omar with the very latest on that crucial president ial election in liberia. Perus former president Alberto Fujimori has all for forgiveness from peruvians from the bottom of face hearts thousands of people have protested in the mouth off to president Petro Pablo Kaczynski announced he was part of fujimori for previous crimes on humanitarian grounds. The. Chaos in lima these peruvians a furious the former president s Alberto Fujimori was pardoned by the current president picture a public option ski a man they believe was trying to save his political korea ok so i thought i was going to the summit of seeing all the people mobilizing the police were following us in circling us they got close to us and threw bombs at us. Fujimori was serving a twenty five Year Prison Sentence for murder is kidnappings and disappearances carried out by a government death squad during his time in office he led from one thousand nine hundred ninety into two thousand. Started on sunday the families of his victims lead the charge i think that theyre trying to see if any im angry because i think its a violation of the memory of her family members its a violation of the fight for the relatives for justice and truth a frail seventy nine year old fujimori was admitted to hospital on saturday suffering from low Blood Pressure and haas arrhythmia he responded to the outcry on facebook and think kaczynski. I am aware that what resulted during my administration on one hand were well received but i recognize that on the other hand i also disappointed other compatriots to them i ask forgiveness from the bottom of my heart. Critics say it was his son came g. Who secure with the pardon hes a congressman in the majority popular force. Posse thats led by his sister keiko and saved president kaczynski from impeachment by abstaining from a vote last week critics say it was in exchange for his fathers pardon the president has defended the decision saying it was made because of fujimoris poor health. Or safety then its obvious to all of us that the government he inherited at the beginning of the ninetys the country was in a chaotic and violent crisis incurred significant transgressions of the law as far as democracy and human rights are concerned but i also believe his government contributed to National Progress im convinced that those of us who believe in democracy cannot allow Alberto Fujimori to die in prison going to. The pardon was bet by a silent majority a survey in may found sixty percent of peruvians wanted fujimori free supporters credit him with the defeat of the shining path and saving the economy from collapse. The fujimoris critics the death squads still hold them with a hes imprisoned or not they say they will voice their calls for Justice Charlotte bellus al jazeera fifteen men have been hung in egypt for attacks that killed Security Forces in the Sinai Peninsula its believed to be the largest number of executions on a single day since president. Took office in twenty fourteen the manual hung simultaneously and two separate jails and kyra. At unity in official sense the United Arab Emirates has intelligence that female find says returning from iraq in syria may be trying to use to newseum passports to stage attacks the u. A. E. Caused outrage early this week by banning female chain is in citizens from landing in the gulf state leading to protests in tunis and north african country responded by barring emirates flights from tunisia and demanded an apology and unity government Spokesman Says the u. A. E. Did not communicate its reasons for the ban properly and says they wont accept how its citizens are being treated. We are not part of emirates we are a sovereign country and they should deal with us according to what normally happens in relations between two countries after the continuous calls with the in the right to through our ambassador in abu dhabi it appears they have lifted the ban but they did not give us details on how the ban was lifted eight people have been injured in a Suicide Attack in Northern Nigeria just outside the city of maiduguri a female suicide bomber struck a day after the military stopped an attack by suspected baka her own finances in the same region at least four people died in that attack and heavy gunfire was reported in the mobile area as the army fought off the attackers. The kremlin says it is investigating whether calls by a russian Opposition Leader to boycott next years election breaks the law Alexei Navalny has asked people to avoid the march vote after he was barred from running as a candidate official say hes ineligible to take part due to a suspended prison sentence he claims the challenges are politically motivated or with challenges is in moscow and now it joins us live so indeed novelli might well be facing fresh challenges because of his calls to boycott aurore. Yeah i mean theres been plenty of talk this year in russia about how the kremlin is worried about voter apathy heading into election that the tightly controlled stifle system has got a bit dull and therefore voters might not actually turn out they want we have being told turn out to be around seventy percent and if it dips below say sixty percent well then theyre going to start worrying so in that context its quite easy to see why theyll be concerned by in a valley saying that says supporters should not come out and vote on the election day in march quite how theyll prosecute him for this well that remains to be seen we dont really know but we can see that this is pretty much intended as a shot across his bows a warning to novell me and carol incidentally the head of the Orthodox Church came out today and said that it was every believing russians patrick do you think his votes and hes long been a loyalist of a lot of a putin found after etchepare going to support really does he have. Well hes probably not an electoral threats you know if you look at the latest polls which have been done by organizations like gallup and a lot of Levada Center they say that if a vote were taken now then the rally would only get between two and three percent so lets be clear this is not a man who is likely to beat putin if they go head to head with each other on election day but having said that he can still cause some damage to the system and spur haps going through the kremlins mind when it decided that it didnt want him running was looking at the potential damage he could have done if hed been allowed on state t. V. For him for instance a t. V. For instance and bringing his messages and corruption message so a much much wider audience than hes been able to reach so far so they decided to keep him out still have to go back to do what he has done very successfully so far which is reaching out to younger russians and being very adept at actually getting them out onto the streets in parts of the country where you dont usually see political protests thank you were a child is a life in moscow. Still to come here on aljazeera in three to five being its all the house is very wiped down. A trail of death and destruction the philippine island where entire communities were devastated by storm ten men just. These crazy evil to me from the bottom to raise the mood to me to move to take a journey in a driverless car and examine the benefits and drawbacks of Artificial Intelligence. Welcome back across southern and eastern parts of china the weather is fairly quiet at most part b. C. This rain across the far south into northern parts of vietnam looks particularly heavy over the next twenty four hours by thursday area of rain a sort of narrowing but extends further towards the northeast states are still fine for hong kong taipei should be sunny across the rest of indochina weve got showers still for parts of laos b. M. R. Should be largely dry and fine young gone there twenty seven degrees across into south Asia Northern parts of india still having issues with the mist and folk but otherwise weather conditions largely find some snow right up into the himalayas otherwise just a chance i want to showers for sure lanka but generally looking better than the house down in recent days by that should be a largely fine day on thursday with sunshine in colombo here in the Arabian Peninsula found a weak front push through the region so temperatures are a bit lower than they have been twenty three is a mix when and then for thursday fine across the bulk of the region and five quite warm in mecca once again with highs of thirty four degrees heading up into advance and western parts of asia temperatures not too bad for the taron of levon by data twenty run the eastern side of the the trends being quite topsy turvy temperature wise here nineteen the high from beirut. 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Welcome back reminder of the top stories here on aljazeera pose on the coast in a few hours in liberias president ial runoff but so expect it to produce the first democratic transition of power there in seventy three years bruce former president Alberto Fujimori has asked for forgiveness from previous from the bottom of his heart and the kremlin says it is investigating whether calls by a russian Opposition Leader to boycott next years election breaks the law Alexei Navalny has asked people to avoid the march vote after he was barred from running as a candidate. About a full stall the left a trail of death and destruction in the philippines has been downgraded while it was all roots of it nom diving tembin fail to make landfall in vietnams mekong delta where hundreds of thousands of people were moved from their homes but experts say heavy rain and strong winds from the weather system could still cause damage to infrastructure and the reach him. Have been devastated the philippine island of mindanao where authorities have been criticized for not doing enough to help the so on has killed at least two hundred thirty people with many more still missing bride travel to to our town or an entire neighborhood was destroyed. When the flood came this river was turned into a torrent throwing boulders and trees against the houses in its path it took more than one hundred homes and killed nearly fifty people those in the area had been told to leave but many had heeded the warning too late imo there are trying to evacuate but the surge was like in three to five minutes all the houses were wiped out. Whats left of mary lou eatons possessions are below the ruins of what used to be her house she escaped with her children and her brothers family just in time. Well me until we were all crying and the water kept getting stronger and i told my brother i think we are going to die here they survived but another brother died. Their temporary home is now the local school its also where rosemarie sort of yellow now lives with her children and ten other families in the one classroom she says she had never experienced a flood like it got on the born again there was a flood before but we didnt evacuate that time but after what happened this time i cant go back. In a country that receives up to twenty life threatening storms a year theres been criticism of why mindanao suffered so badly as one of the most disaster prone countries in the world the philippines invests heavily in infrastructure and awareness programs to deal with severe storms but in mindanao the ongoing conflict makes that difficult and its the poorest People Living in the most vulnerable places who suffer the most in storms like this Community Leaders have told people not to rebuild their homes along the river but the need to earn a living from farming nearby means many in time probably will and when a future storm comes the river will probably take more lives rob mcbride aljazeera two border town southern philippines turkey reportedly wants to use a military base in the rebel held province of in syria as an observation post the country already has its ships deployed in some areas of italy as part of a deescalation zone but the region has recently come under heavy attack by president Bashar Al Assad regime and its allies with an increase in airstrikes targeting civilian areas they know how that has more from beirut. Those who were killed in this airstrike were internally displaced syrians a woman and her two children their new home a tent has been destroyed whatever belongings they had now rubble they moved to tell it to convolute in the southern edges of the rebel controlled province of idlib and search for safety but in recent weeks the region has been the target of heavy airstrikes. The displaced from came here the planes came and hit them theyre targeting civilians there are no unfortunates here where do you want us to go or i its not clear if the bombing raids are being carried out by Syrian Government planes or those of its ally russia but what is clear is that the strikes are only increasing. They are putting pressure on the civilians the civilians will pressure the rebels not to fight because the regime has made major advances on the ground. They want people to hazed arrivals and the regime is trying to pressure the rebels to agree to a political settlement. The stepped up air strikes coincide with a ground offensive by progovernment forces who have been advancing from the northern countryside of hama and the southern countryside of aleppo towards. They entered small parts of the province advancing into the administrative borders for the First Time Since<