Im Richelle Carey this is al jazeera life and also coming up the kremlin wants a new investigation into alexina volumnia over his call to boycott next president ial election after he was barred from running against Vladimir Putin. Very happy we waited for this day for a long drive and acquittal in a free for bribery trial of a former president a priest soccer federation. A show to go on top of my posts several tens of thousands of kids by the police and. A look back on the Political Violence that took the life of this couples six month old child and kenya. It began in liberia where polls have officially closed in the president ial runoff vote its the first democratic transition of power in the west african nation in seventy three years but the turnout was pretty low. Voters are choosing between former football superstar george way and experience political operator and current Vice President joseph otto reports in the capital monrovia. Thousands lined up to vote in more than five thousand polling stations across liberia arriving long before the stations opened the tunnels however nowhere near the out of the foster homes held in october that had been delayed twice up to being contested in court amid claims of a declared it is in the foster round Officials Say the reduction of candidates from twenty two just to may have caused a pussy among voters a kindle for twenty six. And a new process to score small this morning and i hope everything was well this morning the contests is between a former International Football star george ware and Vice President just white guy the we know would replace africas first female head of state Ellen Johnson sirleaf who came to power after the countrys lost civil war told me years ago im not associated that would lose him to this theres virtually no they said to me that im going to when i walk back you know we know georgia seventy two year old Joseph Walker has served as layby as Vice President since two thousand and six he too wanted in the capital and had red bearded cards is a test of democracy we went in one way during your work and i would use a tool. We have today were going through a difficult process isnt working to the president or do we are willing to live with both where promising peace in liberia and also on and to corruption in one of the wooden sportiest countries if the results hold it will be the first time in generations that lead videos will witness the transfer of power from one elected leader to another International Observers also praising will be. Violence free pool says. The bottle books replaced blitz but this is a big election for everyone whos following democracy west africa the trend has certainly been you know more towards the democratic shift and really rooting that more firmly and i think that is what we will see here in liberia today the liberian people are determined to do it theyre ready to do it. And im very confident they will then have two weeks within which to declare the results. Confident that well have them ready in four days. When. The kremlin says calls by russian Opposition Campaign are alexina vaal need to boycott next election should be investigated to see if they break the law have on the has asked people to stay away from the polls next march after he was barred from running as a candidate against Vladimir PutinOfficials Say he isnt eligible because of a suspended prison sentence he says his conviction was politically motivated or 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 his bows and a warning now no one really believes that the valley would be able to beat putin if they went head to head in a 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 meanwhile russias president Vladimir Putin has been nominated for reelection as an end dependent candidate who has been in power for eighteen years and is expected to win another six year term so far he has a frame from campaigning that has praised his governments management at the economy. And you see. The billion dollars and of course these have been difficult years for both the country and for those who had to ensure Stable Development and overcome the difficulties that stemmed from the World Economy i can say that the russian government not only did everything that it could but in my opinion even more than that you have essentially solved all the economic tasks at hand and russias Opposition Party has formally nominated t. V. Personality to say new subject to run against and next years election she is the daughter of putins former mentor and a totally subject who was the first elected mayor of St Petersburg her critics object say her decision to run plays into the hands of the kremlin by creating an artificial contest that our National Committee for the red cross and red crescent has begun medical evacuations from eastern and go to the besieged rebel held area in syrias capital damascus almost four hundred thousand people have been trapped there by Government Forces since two thousand and thirteen but widespread through charges the enclave has been the target of hundreds of airstrikes and artillery attacks United Nations said earlier call for five hundred people in need of Urgent Medical care to be allowed to leave meanwhile syrian state t. V. Is reporting that a government shut has been shot down over Hama Province that says the military plane was downed by rebels in the north of the area in the pilot was killed in that attack has been the target of heavy airstrikes by russian and Syrian Forces throughout the countrys civil war. Mexican police have arrested a suspect in the murder of a crime journalist Juan Carlos Marina cho is accused of planning the killing of. Brioche in march rush was shot several times as she drove out of her kharaj mexicos one of the worlds most dangerous countries from reporters with at least six to ensure analysts killed there in the last three years. To search a location works continue to achieve the arrest of the other people responsible for the homicide and want the Public Prosecutors Office the states general Prosecutors Office processed the suspect will present the Main Elements of the investigation and its methodology this past year has seen numerous protests denouncing violence against journalists demonstrators accuse the government of not doing enough to protect reporters or bring their killers to justice mexicos one of the worlds most dangerous countries for journalists again sixteen at least killed there and just the last three years and the u. S. Canada and the European Union have joined top u. N. Officials in demanding the release of two reuters journalists being held in me in mar a lone enquires so who were arrested earlier this month after they were invited to meet Police Officials on the outskirts of van gone me and maher accuses their reporters of planning to share illegally acquired information with foreign media they were working on stories about the military crackdown thats forced over six hundred fifty thousand one hundred muslims to flee to bangladesh since august a former senior official with National Football federation has been acquitted of conspiracy by a court in the United States and walpurga was charged with taking bribes in exchange for the award of marketing and media rights to International Soccer matches or go walk free just days after two other south american officials were convicted of similar charges the case has been linked to corruption at the heart of fee for the International Footballs governing body. We are very happy we meant well as waited for this day for a long time he took about the neighborhoods to to get to the point. Well they had over thirty million pages of documents in this case and hundreds and hundreds of witnesses and thousands of files that we had to go through. To say it was a herculean task. Really to understate it but. We want. And it was the right thing to do for the jury to do the Philippine Government is setting up more than six hundred temporary shelters for people to place by the conflict in iraq the army retake the city from separatist fighters in october after a five months. The fighting caused over a billion dollars in damage and thousands of people are still homeless and conditions have been made even worse by Tropical Storm tembin rob mcbride has more from murari. On the edge of your our way this is a hopeful sign in an area that has been plagued by conflict and now the effects of these damaging storms this is a new Housing Development for people whove been displaced by months of fighting between Government Forces and also fighters who are linked to eisele be given its important president right really go to turkey and it will be coming here to perform the ceremony it is very important for him and his presidency is from mindanao he calls himself a son of mindanao and has promised that the people will find eventually long lasting peace the people here have suffered from the double effect of both the stalled and also conflicts so its very important around the building exercise for the president to be here this whole event in our face is the classic dilemma of a conflict which holds up development then the lack of money and jobs then feeds into the underlying feeling and rest which then contributes to. The violence all of this is of course not helped by being patted further by the storms still. They take a look at the legacy of pakistans first female head of state after her assassination last. The most delicate operation but could robots be told to. Run. By the springtime flower of the mountain. To the sun snowfall on a winters day. Hello and welcome back across the levant and western parts of asia its all quite certain on wednesday weve seen the snow clearing away there are marty will get up to freezing elsewhere fine around the caspian sea to much of eleven degrees finer on the eastern side the mediterranean with variable amounts of cloud as we head into thursday weve got a southerly flow so temperatures jerry not too bad here twenty one in beirut heading into the Arabian Peninsula its thirty one woman off from mecca with thirty three degrees as of night so cooler here in doha as a front just clears through twenty two. But the winds picking up for the northwest we should lose the fog that weve had over recent days not a great deal of change on thursday props a very slight warming so lets head across into southern parts of africa where for south africa and much of botswana namibia its all looking draw and fine once you get further north into certainly more northern parts of godor through into zambians about way mozambique malawi here were seeing heavy showers heavy showers too on the eastern side of madagascar which continues a head on through into thursday with highs of twenty three in and around the river so head into central parts of africa the northern limit of the showers is right about the bonds leavell still a risk of showers but west africa fine sunshine and highs thirty one. There with sponsored by qatar. You are making somewhere there on line the main u. S. Response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been criminalized or if you join us. 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Watching aljazeera lets recap the top stories right now counting is underway after a peaceful day of voting in liberias president ial Runoff Election observers say the turnout is much lower than it was during the first round in october voters are choosing between a former International Football player and the countrys Vice President s the kremlin says calls by russian Opposition Leader election of all need to boycott next years election should be investigated to see if they break the law meanwhile russias president Vladimir Putin has been nominated for reelection as an independent candidate the Philippine Government is setting up more than six hundred temporary shelters for people displaced by the conflict in the lorry the army retake the city from separatist fighters in october after a five month siege conditions had been made even worse by Tropical Storm ten bit. As two thousand and seventeen comes to an end were looking back at some of the biggest stories of the era through the eyes of five families and part four we speak to a kenyan family who lost their six month old daughter during Political Violence following a disputed president ial election i was there as catherine saw reports on consumer. Joseph and his wife lands are still trying to come to terms of the killing of the six month old samantha pendle. They say she died from a severe head injury when police raided their home in the town of. This was in august just after the fast president ial election when president was declared the winner. Supporters of Opposition Leader the took to the streets in protest. Police responding with tear gas batons and live ammunition joseph and learned so however say they were attacked in their home at night. Its been an unpredictable and volatile Election Year in kenya the Supreme Court of a time to the oldest paul citing irregularities of fast in africa. Then withdrew from the repeat election saying the Commission First needed reforms. Rerun went ahead anyway in october. One thousand eight percent of the vote but only a fad of the one thousand million registered voters cast their ballots. All the while political brinkmanship deeply dividing the country along partisan lines continual street confrontations between police and protesters only making things worse more than thirty people including baby pendle have died in the violence since august and i used to play here and on that night in august her family and neighbors say police came banging on doors they used tear gas to force people out of their houses pendle was in her mothers arms when they were being beaten she did not stand a chance. Of a doubt she will ever vote again. And. I came back. I didnt know that that. Theres no need for me to pull. Time whenever theyd be. Getting election day. She also says theyll continue to seek justice for their katherine sawyer. Western kenya i dont one say you can watch the fifth and final report in our series one year five families what about a father and son who havent seen each other for nearly fifty years because of tensions on the korean peninsula. It has been ten years since Pakistan First female head of state was assassinated and servitor was killed at a Campaign Rally after a suicide bomber detonated explosives hyder has more on the legacy she left behind. Oh. The art of complicated pakistani politics by how far duck really Portal Energy dope became the was young Prime Minister and pakistans first woman state. Was actually an incredible. During her lifetime she got such wide screen off. Literally everything she was a Global Leader she was very good night is a. She had a strong command on foreign funding she had intense interest in. Pakistan the bottom of the filament Prime Minister twice been or did was unable to recover from corruption charges during her second term as Prime Minister she was barred from politics but i did with general musharraf in two thousand and seven paved the way for her return in october two thousand and seve