Hello im speechless and this is a news outlet live from london coming up a former footballer and the Vice President to wipe the voters verdict as polls close in the leadership runoff in liberia from the bottom of his hearts perus former president asked for forgiveness for his crimes. A russian Opposition Leader faces a kremlin investigation after calling for a boycott of next years president ial election plus. Please press the motivation to please the car and go to meet him and we take a journey in a driverless car and examine the benefits and drawbacks of all to official intelligence. And im santa how much and i have all the days sport including defending n. B. A. Champions the Golden State Warriors that beat the Cleveland Cavaliers there in a Christmas Day showdown thanks. Polls have closed in liberias president ial runoff is the first democratic transition of power in the country in seventy three years but turnout has been lower than the last round of candidates have pledged to revive the struggling economy and 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 World Football player of the year in one thousand nine hundred five his bid for the presidency was unsuccessful in two thousand and five it was also the running mate for the main opposition candidate in twenty eleven his rival joseph barca has held posts in the private sector. And a government including agriculture minister a seventy three year old has served as Vice President on the Ellen Johnson sirleaf since two thousand and six but is twelve years of service didnt secure him so this back in shape he endorsed george weah. Thats the good of our country. Im not associated. To this this virtue they said im going to win their great beer because its the curse of democracy because we were anyone there were doing to our work and i would reduce it to. We have got through to the process this is what the president would use were willing to live with. Mom and life for us now in monrovia so my which way is the voting on whats the money on whos going to win. While thats a question now will put to my guest in a moment but to vaulting cause just concluded. Vote counting will begin in honest in polling stations of course that can three or five thousand of them and the Electoral Commission it will declare results in about four or so based no joining more than me for the to discuss this further is a Winston Tubman hes a full mombassa the of liberia to the United Nations a former foreign minister also twice a president ial candidate and against the current president and joe sally thank you very much for joining us ambassador. Whos going to win these elections. I think the better person will win and this time the field is not so crowded. The better of two will win and i wont say who it is because i dont know myself but i think we will get a clear result in a very short time. George where who right now has to have stopped because he warmed the foster round in october was your running mate your Vice President candidate in two thousand and eleven so you know him more than most liberians i would say do you think he haas what it takes to be the president of this country when most of what he has done i mean most of his life has been playing football. Well i he he was my running mate and i thought and brought him on as my running mate because i felt that working together he would be ready to take over the country when i stepped down that was the plan we had worked on but we didnt get it going the way we wanted however he has the ability to learn and the most important thing is hes a unifier so he brings the country together one of the things that has been our problems in this country is that weve been very divided and george weah the fact that he was willing to accept to be running mate to me shows that he is someone whos prepared to make sacrifices for the country and we need that now more than ever. Most liberians hope that these elections will be a farm peace and democracy in their country and catapults country from post conflict situation to proper Economic Growth will it do that i think it will if the liberian people continue to cooperate and be patient and Work Together i think thats what has been missing if we can bring that to the scene and bring it to the fore the country will make great progress and in a short time i really what you contested against Ellen Johnson sirleaf twice in the last twelve years. What do you think would be her legacy. What greatest achievements well i mean the things that i mentioned shes the first woman to be elected president in liberia and in an african country and during the period that she wasnt power twelve years we had peace she also a lot of freedom of the press and brought a lot of people into the political space hadnt been the force of all of these things she will be remembered thank you very much on bus about Winston Tubman former liberian ambassador to the United Nations and foreign minister and also president ial candidate twice against and and Johnson Sirleaf back to you in the studio so thank you mohammed from monrovia. Still to come on the aljazeera news hour in three to five minutes all the houses were wiped out. A trail of death and destruction the philippine island where entire communities were devastated by storm tembin. Mail so slowly comes back to life five months after the end of a brutal operation to retake the city from iso and sports a near disaster as one of the worlds most grueling out races kicks off sounds i will have much more on that story later did i tell you to. Peruse former president Alberto Fujimori has asked for forgiveness from peruvians from the bottom of his hearts thousands of people have protested in lima off to president Petro Pavlo Kaczynski announced he was pardoning fujimori for previous crimes on humanitarian grounds salad ballasts as more. Chaos in lima these peruvians a furious the former president Alberto Fujimori was pardoned by the current president picture a public option ski a man they believe was trying to save his political career peaceful ive gotten to the summit of seeing all the people mobilizing the police were following us and circling us they got close to us and threw bombs at us. Fujimori was serving a twenty five Year Prison Sentence for murders 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 here. To try 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 Furniture my. He was admitted to hospital on saturday suffering from low Blood Pressure and haas arrhythmia he responded to the cry on facebook and think. 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. 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 home. Or say city 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 cotton was but 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 shallop bellus al jazeera. Fifteen men have been hanged 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 at two separate jails and kyra. A chain is he an official says the a knighted Arab Emirates has intelligence that female fighters returning from iraq and syria may be trying to use june is impossible to stage attacks the u. A. E. Caused outrage earlier this week by banning female chin is in citizens from landing in the gulf states and egypt protests in tunis and all the african country responded by barring emirates flights from tunisia and demanded an apology action is your government Spokesman Says the u. A. E. Did not communicate his reasons for the ban properly and says they wont accept how its citizens are being treated the way they live their mission 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 emirates is 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 called 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 if he claims the charges are politically motivated or a challenge is 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 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 me for calling for a boycott that remains to be seen i think this can be viewed basically as a shot across his bows a warning. No one really believes we would be able to beat putin if they were. Head to heads votes the recent polls suggest that if a vote were taken now we dont we get between two and three percent perhaps but this ring into the kremlins thinking was the potential damage the valley could have done if hed been allowed say on state t. V. With his anticorruption message so narrowly 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 on to the streets in parts of the country where you do not normally see political protests or joining me in the studio is to let go of vogue and shes a Senior Analyst in Russian Affairs with a Consultancy Firm i. H. S. Market and shes based here in london thanks very much for coming in to aljazeera i like sent around the he obviously wants to run against bruce and hes being stopped from doing that because the Election Commission is in the hands of princeton he can even arrange a boycott without now being under threat there is no chance of any kind of opposition here is if were talking about nonsystemic opposition say no i agree with you i think chances of a seeing change of government in russia from a process that comes from bottom up that is really unlikely when it comes to president putins grip on the country is it as strong as ever is there any sense of that his waking in any part of the country i think is a witness this is the economy it has witnessed for link real disposable income it is people feeling that they dont have enough money as they used to have and this is all linked to the economy that is not diversified that is a heavily dependent on on its Energy Sector and the sanctions that the west imposed after the ukraine crisis are also biting but also ultimately it is there is deep rooted corruption there is a. Lot of mismanagement the bloated Public Sector so these are all adding up and. Russian consumers are feeling this and this is why when putin nominated you declared that hes going to run for presidency yet again he he mentioned that he is going to make sure that this really spur disposable incomes rise again and what about the tussle with the american president with with all thats going on with the Russian Investigation does that help putins image does it help his run for presidency in march or is there any sense that does doesnt the damage as well i think could did the Russian Media which is totally controlled by the state has done a really great job to to portray this fallout as the fault of the west of the americans that theyre jealous of of rising russia under putin that theyre trying to undermine russia by any means possible by sanctions the conspiracy that all prices jord drop just to hurt the russian economy so yes it is playing in into q putin propaganda but on the other hand you have a new generation that actually they have no no other leader but putin and they want to change and this is the pocket of voters that nonviolent is happening and indeed he came up he began as a blogger didnt he and in that way can he work on that is that the area he should be really pushing social media trying to get the Younger Generation to think of an alternative to president putin i think one thing that i see very clearly is that no vile ne is playing a long term game this is not about Upcoming Elections time is on the site hes forty one put in a sixty five and he knows that in the long term he stands a better chance than anyone else that is in in the Political Landscape at the moment to to beat for the presidency. Having said that i have to say that we havent seen any change of government in russia that comes from bottom up something has to happen with the ruling elite and something has to have been with the economy to to try to bring all these factors together to see real change of government but hes playing the long game thank you to let go of all again for coming in to see. 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 arm fighters in the same region at least four people died in that attack and heavy gunfire was reported in the more lie as the army fought off the attackers a powerful storm has left that left a trail of death and destruction in the philippines has been downgraded while it was on route to vietnam typhoon tembin failed to make landfall in vietnam and the 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 of tembin 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 more still missing rob mcbride traveled to two border town where 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 i know 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 louis tims 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 gap 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 only the one i guess that there was a flood before but we didnt evacuate that time but after what happened this time i cant go back all 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 th