Im suited to mrs algis there a long way from london also coming up from the bottom of his hocks 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 im strong in seattle the u. S. Says it comforting Plastic Waste and encouraging recycling. We start in liberia where just one hour remains for people to cast their votes in the countrys president ial Runoff Election which will see its first democratic transition of power in seventy three years turnouts has been a lower than the last round both candidates have placed to revive the struggling economy and kickstart 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 fief as World Football player of the you. Here 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 in twenty eleven his rival joseph block a house held posts in the private sector and in government including agriculture minister a seventy three year old has served as Vice President under Ellen Johnson sirleaf since two thousand and six but hes twelve years of service didnt secure him so lease backing she endorsed george weah. To. Do to her that are so she would lose it to this this is very true they said im going to win the great beer because of the curse of democracy that we went in once there were two hundred workers and i will reduce it to. We have got through the process this is what the president produced we are willing to live with for a while voter turnout has been low compared to the first round of election october just days runoff represents several milestones for the country mohammed ago has more from the capital monrovia. This Country House seen for. Such a long period of uninterrupted peace since ninety nine and secondly. For seventy three years led be a hospital to know the hondo of all of power from one civilian leader to another so generations later libyans will have the opportunity to see these up 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 elections. And also what the people of liberia want is someone to talk whole crop shouldnt so. Today theyre choosing who is going to replace Ellen Johnson sirleaf on take their country into the future. Perus former president Alberto Fujimori has asked for forgiveness from peruvians funk the bottom of his heart thousands of people have protested to president petro pablo kaczynski announced he was pounding on Health Grounds he was serving a twenty five Year Prison Sentence for corruption and crimes against humanity joining his time in office in the one nine hundred ninety s. Challah ballots a small. Chaos in lima these peruvians a furious the former president Alberto Fujimori was pardoned by the current president pedro public option ski a man they believe was trying to save his political korea ok so i thought the summary of seeing all the people mobilizing the police were following us is 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 until two thousand. Started on sunday the families of his victims lead the charge was. That i tried 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 hostile 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 asked forgiveness from the bottom of my heart. Critics say it was his son came g. Q. 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 may because of fujimoris poor health. Moore says 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. 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 hangin in egypt for attacks which killed Security Forces in the Sinai Peninsula is believed to be the largest number of executions on a single day since president Abdel Fattah Elsisi took office in two thousand and fourteen emanuel hung from a two separate jails in cairo eight people have been injured in a Suicide Attack in Northern Nigeria just outside the city of my degree a female suicide bomber struck a day after the military stopped an attack by suspected baka her own fighters in the same region at least four people died in that attack and heavy gunfire was reported in the most area as the army fourth off the attackers. A chin is an official says the enlighted are about intelligence that female fighters returning from iraq and syria may be trying to use chin is in passports to stage attacks the u. A. E. Caused outrage earlier this week banning female shooting in citizens from landing in the gulf states leading to protests in china and north african country responded by firing emirates flights from tunis here and in mounting an apology. 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 immoralities 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 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 charges are politically motivated or were challenges in moscow with the latest. Its no surprise that the kremlin seems sensitive to what looks like an attempt by Alexei Navalny to drive down voter turnout in march the talk has been this year that the kremlin is concerned about voter apathy and want to turn out to be around seventy percent if it dips much below sixty percent well theyve got a problem with legitimacy quite how they will prosecute in the valley for calling for a boycott that remains to be seen i think this can be viewed basically as a shot across as a warning. No one really believes the valley would be able to beat putin if they went head to head votes the recent polls suggest that if a vote were taken now we dont get between two and three percent but perhaps factoring into the kremlins thinking was the potential damage the valley could have done if hed been allowed say on state t. V. With his Anti Corruption message so in around he will now have to do his appeals and also go back to doing what has been very successful actually for him over this year which is his online videos his anticorruption message reaching out to particularly younger russians and calling them out onto the streets in parts of the country where you do not normally see political protests taking reportedly wants two years a military base in the rebel held province of idlib in syria as an observation post the country already has its troops deployed in some areas of it to i. D. S. Collation zone but the region has recently come under heavy attack by president Bashar Al Assads regime and its allies with an increase in ass strikes targeting civilian areas they know how to 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 the scene 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 would 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. This stepped up airstrikes 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 the rebels forced them out of and two thousand and fifteen an all out assault on. Many of whom were other areas by progovernment forces its still not clear whether the government. The whole province or whether its just. Control of some areas in the countryside. What is clear is that the government wants the. Back it is one of the Largest Military airports in the north turkey reportedly wants to use as an observation post already its military is deployed in some areas of as part of a deal. Is supposed to be a safe area. The opposition now fears the presence of al qaida linked will be used by the government as an excuse to step up the Bombing Campaign they also fear that progovernment forces are no longer busy on other fronts and are now turning their attention to ad lib. Beirut youre watching. The program. For. A trail of. Its way into the heart of the. Hello again across western parts of asia weve got a massive cloud which is gradually clearing away towards the east look at the forecast dry conditions across much of this region falling in kabul in afghanistan the highs of twelve and its all looking fine on the caspian sea the eastern side of the mediterranean still a fair amount of kleiber the winds from the south so temperatures not too bad if i should reach twenty degrees in beirut on thursday here in the Arabian Peninsula has been a weak front pushing down from the north and temperatures only just twenty one in riyadh and russia the cool nighttime temperatures quite low doha twenty three just sort of clear the air somewhat so weve lost the fall for the time being on the other side of the peninsula is looking warm in mecca with highs of thirty four degrees lets add that into southern parts of africa where weve got some heavy showers affecting parts of angola through zambian zimbabwe and towards mozambique thats where the bulk of the shariat seventy will be it could be quite wet into soccer but further towards the south following up to the woman harare just nineteen degrees plenty of sunshine across parts of south africa that would durban coming in at twenty seven degrees celsius and that fine weather continues to head on through into thursday showers across angola further south fine across much in the maybe thirty three the high in winter. Welcome back remind of the top stories here on aljazeera polls are closed in under an hour in liberias president ial Runoff Election which will see its first democratic transition of power in seventy three years bruce former president Alberto Fujimori has asked for forgiveness from peruvians from the bottom of his heart after being pardoned for corruption and crimes against humanity. And the kremlin says it is investigating whether calls by the russian Opposition Leader alexei know valorie to boycott next years election breaks a law. About a storm that left a trail of death and destruction in the philippines has been downgraded while it was on route to vietnam typhoon tembin fell to make landfall 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 in the region ten been devastated the philippine island of mindanao where authorities have been criticized for not doing enough to help the storm has killed at least two hundred thirty people with many was 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 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 only 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 bornagain 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 the bride aljazeera to board town southern philippines hospitals in gaza have been forced to cancel operations after cleaners went on strike over delays salary payments the Health Ministry says plans surgeries cannot go ahead as operating theatres are not ready and cleaning staff are demanding overdue pay from the palestinian Health Ministry which is run by the National Consensus government they say they have not received wages for several months. The u. S. Canada European Union have joined top u. N. Officials and demanding the release of two want to journalists and mammal while own and carry our south who were arrested earlier this month after they were invited to meet Police Officials on the outskirts of young gong. Says reporters quote illegally acquired information with the intention to share it with foreign media in working on stories about the military crackdown has forced over six hundred fifty thousand range of muslims to flee to bangladesh since august. The u. K. s defense Ministry Says its navy escorted a russian warship as it passed near its territorial waters over christmas the admirable cost cough was sailing in what british officials call areas of National Interest it was then tailed by a Navy Frigates and a Navy Helicopter and other intelligence gathering vessel was detected and discourse in through the English Channel on Christmas Eve twenty seventeen comes to an end were looking back at some of the biggest stories of the year through the eyes of five families in power for we speak to a kenyan family who lost their six month old daughter during Political Violence following a disputed president ial election catherine sawing reports from kisumu. Joseph and his wife linda are still trying to come to terms of the killing of the six month old daughter samantha pendle. They say she died from a severe head injury when police raide