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The first critically ill patients are evacuated from the damascus suburb of eastern guta as part of a deal with the government. I am. The one to tell us and exult is there a live from london also coming up ukraines government and pro russian rebels complete a major prisoner swap can be brutal and. Hundreds of new shelters are set up in the philippines for fountains displaced by fighting and flooding. And the Art Exhibition that gives the public a red glimpse of life a grand time obey from the perspective of its templates. And i. Aid workers have started evacuating critically ill patients from eastern groups or in syrias capital damascus at least eighteen people have died while waiting to go to is one of the last remaining rebel strongholds its been under a tight government siege since twenty thirteen and the target of hundreds of asterix out artillery attacks thats caused severe food and medical shortages for about four hundred thousand syrians truck that last month the u. N. Called for five hundred people in need of Urgent Medical care to be allowed to leave but it was only after long negotiations that twenty nine critical cases were approved for medical evacuation ill just say now the house the latest on the warning some of the following images may be disturbing. Its a start but its not enough only a handful of critically ill are being allowed to leave to hospitals in damascus which is less than an hours drive away twenty nine patients the majority of them women and children a six month old baby was on that list but when the aid workers reached house they found out she died weeks ago the Syrian Government is allowing them to be treated outside the besieged opposition stronghold after the armed group. Agreed to release some government prisoners its not clear if new deals will be reached it has been four years since i was besieged by the syrian army the siege has tightened in recent months there are according to the United Nations almost five hundred Urgent Medical cases. Man has brain cancer she says her condition is only deteriorating the u. N. Says more than a dozen people have already died while waiting to be evacuated for treatment. There is no treatment available from here i have nothing no medicine no money im just waiting for gods mercy its not just the lack of medical supplies there is a lack of food the United Nations says the area is experiencing the worst case of child malnutrition since the start of the conflict. Medical equipment of vaccines have affected children also they are malnourished this has that to a number of diseases unfortunately the children are facing dire conditions. There have been three reported deaths because of malnutrition in the past two months. Savva and were all not even two months old when they died the u. N. Says more than one thousand five hundred children are at risk among them two hundred thirty two who are acutely malnourished more than half of the four hundred thousand people trapped in east are believed to be children the area is not just under siege it remains a war zone despite the russian guaranteed d. S. Go. That was supposed to have silenced the guns and allowed aid in. Its september aid reach the area for the first time and bought but it was only enough for forty thousand people there is suffering in this region and the fear is that the worst is yet to come the government is using the siege and starvation tactic as a military strategy and as the situation worsens the likelihood of a surrender becomes more real so whether bay built or spokesperson for the International Committee for the red cross in syria she says there are many more people inside is single and desperate need of evacuation for the current operation the number should be twenty nine people dont ration is still ongoing and that maybe it might take a couple of more days and he acknowledged get out together with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent its very hard for us to know right now when it will and however that we do all we can in order to speed up the process the ad totally aware that there are much more cases. Who need also medical care and i say even medical treatment and you will get in the coming. Days would reach a solution and reach an agreement in order to allow more cases to come out and get the necessary treatment where the last time we managed to get inside eastern water before the current evacuation was under twelve of them then which is more or less a month and a half and i have to tell you that when he visited there i was myself there and the situation was really really dire it wasnt the first time for me to go to eastern but. Remember i could be a list of the situation has deteriorated. Frances president emanuel has urged saudi arabias king solomon to lift the blockade on yemen the blockade which has been in force since out is limiting supplies of food fuel and medicine margaret says hes concerned about the humanitarian crisis in the country where millions of people are on the brink of famine parts of yemen are also in the grip of a cholera outbreak a political prisoner in yemen has spoken to al jazeera about his brutal experiences behind bars human Rights Groups say thousands of yemenis have been really detained and tortured during the two and a half year war thats going to reports yousif new the opposition newspaper he edited made him a target of the armed rebel who thiis it was time to take precautions but it was too late last year he says he was kidnapped outside his home in sanaa. I was repeatedly tortured and interrogated due to my job as a journalist before my detention i openly declared that i was suspending my work because of the harsh conditions facing journalists opposed to the hutus in sanaa and so began more than a year held in several prisons in yemens capital. To have the yeah i was threatened with physical abuse and rape so was my family i was put in solitary confinement for twenty six days my health deteriorated. Human Rights Groups say thousands of people including children have been arbitrarily detained and tortured by both sides in the war Yemeni Forces and who the fighters are accused of beating using electric shocks and forcing prisoners to strip others taken captive have simply disappeared this human rights Attorney Says families have reported the deaths of almost one hundred twenty prisoners and when it was in severe and if there are secret prisons human Rights Groups have documented four hundred seventeen alone in sana from residential houses to schools and even places of worship the kidnappers have abducted individuals from all walks of life and juniors doctors and even journalists they are subjected to brutal torture but journalists are given a harder time ashlan was eventually transferred to a military prison camp where he says he was housed along with prisoners of war last month he was released as part of a prisoner swap because you have it but if i thought about like it i wished it didnt happen that way simply because i was not to convict a person i was kidnapped outside my house. Is lucky to be alive days before he was released the camp was bombed dozens of his former cell mates die natasha in a zero. Russian Opposition Leader i like saying a valet says hello guys a nationwide rally and january to support his call for a boycott of president ial elections now has been barred from running in the march election over an embezzlement conviction that he says is politically motivated meanwhile russian president Vladimir Putin has officially filed his documents to run for reelection if he wins who turns rule will be extended until twenty twenty four making him the longest serving russian leader since dictated Joseph Stalin. Moves in what is our choice by shook up our news out of the way we will start a big camp here and on one hand to persuade everyone to participate in the boycott and not to take part in the election and on the other hand the kind of time many people really come to the polling stations not to let putin fabricate the number and of course we need an all russian mass street action the Ukrainian Government and pro russian rebels have completed a major prisoner swap in the war to an east it happened near the city of horlivka which is mainly controlled by the pro russian separatists the exchange is reported to be the largest since a pro russian uprising in Eastern Ukraine in twenty fourteen or which islands has more from moscow. Well both sides are now confirms that this prisoner swap has concluded with people being handed in both directions across the front lines in Eastern Ukraine the numbers that actually did cross the lines a bit different from the earlier advertised figures of three hundred six people going from kiev territory back to the east and seventy four people going from the eastern regions back into kiev territory the reasons why the numbers are different is because some people were transferred earlier and some people on both sides it seems didnt actually get want to go back to where they come from this is an events that has been quite a long time in the making the final impetus though came as a recent meeting in moscow there was attended by the heads of the two separatist regions in Eastern Ukraine by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch kirill and by representatives from kiev but the the real political will it seems as come from both kiev and also from moscow with Vladimir Putin saying that he was going to use his influence with the with the separatist regions to make it happen its a breakthrough undeniably a step in the right direction and the sides now are talking about keeping this going theyre doing more prisoner swaps but while people are still dying while moscow is still supplying the rebel regions with a weapons and hardware etc and while there doesnt seem to be a final drive for peace this is just a step in that direction we havent got to the destination that we want to get to yet which is a final political solution. The Philippine Government is setting up hundreds of new shelters for some of the thousands of people displaced by fighting and flooding city took the area from fighters links to i say not after five months only for Tropical Storm tending to sweep through the city bright reports from. For people displaced by the more are we fighting life in a muddy camp with open drains was already miserable then came the floods sometimes were washed away and all of them was the land of the poor oh families possessions are still a wet pile and they go to sleep in the damn things their neighbor for an amp on and her family lost their home and business in the fighting now her daily battle is with the water and mud to keep it out. Of them you have to constantly think about where to put your things in my dowry we had money and could property and i could go to school in the city bears the scars of the months of conflict between Government Troops and fighters linked to eisele for now which is quiet but theres still a threat of renewed hostilities and martial law in mindanao has been extended for another year but on the edge of the city signs of hope new permanent homes are being built for displaced people president rodriguez whos from mindanao has promised to find a lasting solution to the conflict for him this project is an important step on the road to peace. In that. Part of my job or none what is good is above government its an ongoing dialogue fomented out the conflict holds up development the lack of money and jobs then fuels the underlying discontent and none of this is helped by being battered by storms. From her tent home for an ample one can see the new houses being built on the opposite hillside but doesnt know if she will get close to moving into one model i hope one day we can make a new start and living in one of the new houses would help but now the new houses are far outnumbered by the thousands of tents. Look bright aljazeera the city southern philippines so coming up on the program liberians the way the outcome of the president ial election runoff but polling suggests a lack order known turnout and ten years after she was assassinated at a Campaign Rally we visit Benazir Bhuttos ancestral home to see how her legacy is firing. Her the quiet and cold and foggy mornings are of the last few days disappeared now from western europe that incursion of a massive cloud or coming from the atlantic indicates pretty unsettled conditions to be honest the lines a Straight North sass which means normally breeze youd think it would be colder but that shes displacing fairly cold air anyway so the temperature difference isnt great theres a bit of a warm tuck in a long way ahead this fourteen in rome thirteen beaudry the eleven in vienna thats going to be evident just pushed this gentle way eastward of the next twenty four hours massive snows on the Higher Ground even temporary low ground through the outs and the toward sudden germany rain to the sas and that will be having fairly stormy stuff for italy in the adriatic balkan state for a time but theres the warmth belgrade in twelve ten inches still nine in vienna as it starts to rain behind it all the next systems already lined up come from the bay of biscay more rain to come through from spain and portugal londons at four degrees but in the sunshine now south of all this of course is going to be something happening in the Central Mediterranean theres to curl of rain potentially still in the adriatic it might drag some rains through tunisia and catch northern libya and the temperatures are after it drop a bit more thirteen degrees in tunis and in the wind. When libyan troops to pledge their dictator the wardrobe struck an unlikely to be. Shut. Down. For some time but instead news it was the weapon of choice stronger than bullets with which documentary but this time on aljazeera. Welcome back reminder the top stories here on aljazeera a workers have begun evacuating critically ill patients from of the seats of syrias capital damascus but at least eighteen people have died while waiting on says president has called on saudi arabia to completely left its blockade on yemen so aid can be delivered to millions of people on the brink of starvation and the Philippine Government is setting up hundreds of new shelters for some of the thousands of people displaced by fighting and flooding and theyre always sissy. And its been ten years since pakistans former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated as a Campaign Rally she was the first woman to lead a Muslim Country and a part of pakistans most famous political dynasty camo haida has visited lacan the ancestral home of the bhuttos to see how her legacy is firing. She just told her that Group Believes if you drive with the all the photos that. We defend their way will be excite me. A little. All happening at the compound of a. Female Prime Minister who was a fashion aged ten years ago but such beloved now leading up to the fall of the first part. Of the people. Her grave has become a shrine and draws people from near in a fall who pay their respects put open arms you have i think the future did a state wont have any enduring and the stay is a gift from god to reunite us every year through our been as you appear to have paid the price but her mission and vision will continue she is always with us in our hearts and minds and will be remembered for his services for the a priest class of the country for the Pakistan Peoples Party they say feed a group of experienced popularity Bilawal Bhutto has just entered politics and is also the partys new chairman maybe believe the party were to spare dr banner against killie but actually its a strong. Showing through her really would intrigue most. People. Are the people around the country who are longing then reverse introduced time wont make it because chairman banal would do the research. Country doing. Near. The people of Central Bridge have always supported the family and many here today dont like it you change any time soon in fact a show of support on the anniversary of bases if that is the strip. Search for joy the party i doubt for tipped the balance in their favor. Paid the ultimate price for pakistan and for democracy according to our party to fort hood already a real gauge for progress on Peoples Party will come and the next general election and you and the middle of. It will be dead. The facts will come out on the ground and redrill prove where the party failed i supported one had. The idea for the box larkana. For me for the Army Commander who led the military takeover against zimbabwe is former leader Robert Mccarthy spain appointed as Vice President the promotion of Constantino Chiwenga has deepened concerns about the close ties between the military and zimbabwes new president m. S. M. And god our local media says former state security minister cambo hardy is the second Vice President president is under pressure to implement political reforms of the mcgarvie thirty seven year rule and did last months. I bury in president ial hopeful george ware says hes on track for victory in the president ial election runoff but no results have been released so far the former football star is up against current Art Exhibition<\/a> that gives the public a red glimpse of life a grand time obey from the perspective of its templates. And i. Aid workers have started evacuating critically ill patients from eastern groups or in syrias capital damascus at least eighteen people have died while waiting to go to is one of the last remaining rebel strongholds its been under a tight government siege since twenty thirteen and the target of hundreds of asterix out artillery attacks thats caused severe food and medical shortages for about four hundred thousand syrians truck that last month the u. N. Called for five hundred people in need of Urgent Medical<\/a> care to be allowed to leave but it was only after long negotiations that twenty nine critical cases were approved for medical evacuation ill just say now the house the latest on the warning some of the following images may be disturbing. Its a start but its not enough only a handful of critically ill are being allowed to leave to hospitals in damascus which is less than an hours drive away twenty nine patients the majority of them women and children a six month old baby was on that list but when the aid workers reached house they found out she died weeks ago the Syrian Government<\/a> is allowing them to be treated outside the besieged opposition stronghold after the armed group. Agreed to release some government prisoners its not clear if new deals will be reached it has been four years since i was besieged by the syrian army the siege has tightened in recent months there are according to the United Nations<\/a> almost five hundred Urgent Medical<\/a> cases. Man has brain cancer she says her condition is only deteriorating the u. N. Says more than a dozen people have already died while waiting to be evacuated for treatment. There is no treatment available from here i have nothing no medicine no money im just waiting for gods mercy its not just the lack of medical supplies there is a lack of food the United Nations<\/a> says the area is experiencing the worst case of child malnutrition since the start of the conflict. Medical equipment of vaccines have affected children also they are malnourished this has that to a number of diseases unfortunately the children are facing dire conditions. There have been three reported deaths because of malnutrition in the past two months. Savva and were all not even two months old when they died the u. N. Says more than one thousand five hundred children are at risk among them two hundred thirty two who are acutely malnourished more than half of the four hundred thousand people trapped in east are believed to be children the area is not just under siege it remains a war zone despite the russian guaranteed d. S. Go. That was supposed to have silenced the guns and allowed aid in. Its september aid reach the area for the first time and bought but it was only enough for forty thousand people there is suffering in this region and the fear is that the worst is yet to come the government is using the siege and starvation tactic as a military strategy and as the situation worsens the likelihood of a surrender becomes more real so whether bay built or spokesperson for the International Committee<\/a> for the red cross in syria she says there are many more people inside is single and desperate need of evacuation for the current operation the number should be twenty nine people dont ration is still ongoing and that maybe it might take a couple of more days and he acknowledged get out together with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent<\/a> its very hard for us to know right now when it will and however that we do all we can in order to speed up the process the ad totally aware that there are much more cases. Who need also medical care and i say even medical treatment and you will get in the coming. Days would reach a solution and reach an agreement in order to allow more cases to come out and get the necessary treatment where the last time we managed to get inside eastern water before the current evacuation was under twelve of them then which is more or less a month and a half and i have to tell you that when he visited there i was myself there and the situation was really really dire it wasnt the first time for me to go to eastern but. Remember i could be a list of the situation has deteriorated. Frances president emanuel has urged saudi arabias king solomon to lift the blockade on yemen the blockade which has been in force since out is limiting supplies of food fuel and medicine margaret says hes concerned about the humanitarian crisis in the country where millions of people are on the brink of famine parts of yemen are also in the grip of a cholera outbreak a political prisoner in yemen has spoken to al jazeera about his brutal experiences behind bars human Rights Groups<\/a> say thousands of yemenis have been really detained and tortured during the two and a half year war thats going to reports yousif new the opposition newspaper he edited made him a target of the armed rebel who thiis it was time to take precautions but it was too late last year he says he was kidnapped outside his home in sanaa. I was repeatedly tortured and interrogated due to my job as a journalist before my detention i openly declared that i was suspending my work because of the harsh conditions facing journalists opposed to the hutus in sanaa and so began more than a year held in several prisons in yemens capital. To have the yeah i was threatened with physical abuse and rape so was my family i was put in solitary confinement for twenty six days my health deteriorated. Human Rights Groups<\/a> say thousands of people including children have been arbitrarily detained and tortured by both sides in the war Yemeni Forces<\/a> and who the fighters are accused of beating using electric shocks and forcing prisoners to strip others taken captive have simply disappeared this human rights Attorney Says<\/a> families have reported the deaths of almost one hundred twenty prisoners and when it was in severe and if there are secret prisons human Rights Groups<\/a> have documented four hundred seventeen alone in sana from residential houses to schools and even places of worship the kidnappers have abducted individuals from all walks of life and juniors doctors and even journalists they are subjected to brutal torture but journalists are given a harder time ashlan was eventually transferred to a military prison camp where he says he was housed along with prisoners of war last month he was released as part of a prisoner swap because you have it but if i thought about like it i wished it didnt happen that way simply because i was not to convict a person i was kidnapped outside my house. Is lucky to be alive days before he was released the camp was bombed dozens of his former cell mates die natasha in a zero. Russian Opposition Leader<\/a> i like saying a valet says hello guys a nationwide rally and january to support his call for a boycott of president ial elections now has been barred from running in the march election over an embezzlement conviction that he says is politically motivated meanwhile russian president Vladimir Putin<\/a> has officially filed his documents to run for reelection if he wins who turns rule will be extended until twenty twenty four making him the longest serving russian leader since dictated Joseph Stalin<\/a>. Moves in what is our choice by shook up our news out of the way we will start a big camp here and on one hand to persuade everyone to participate in the boycott and not to take part in the election and on the other hand the kind of time many people really come to the polling stations not to let putin fabricate the number and of course we need an all russian mass street action the Ukrainian Government<\/a> and pro russian rebels have completed a major prisoner swap in the war to an east it happened near the city of horlivka which is mainly controlled by the pro russian separatists the exchange is reported to be the largest since a pro russian uprising in Eastern Ukraine<\/a> in twenty fourteen or which islands has more from moscow. Well both sides are now confirms that this prisoner swap has concluded with people being handed in both directions across the front lines in Eastern Ukraine<\/a> the numbers that actually did cross the lines a bit different from the earlier advertised figures of three hundred six people going from kiev territory back to the east and seventy four people going from the eastern regions back into kiev territory the reasons why the numbers are different is because some people were transferred earlier and some people on both sides it seems didnt actually get want to go back to where they come from this is an events that has been quite a long time in the making the final impetus though came as a recent meeting in moscow there was attended by the heads of the two separatist regions in Eastern Ukraine<\/a> by the head of the Russian Orthodox<\/a> Church Patriarch<\/a> kirill and by representatives from kiev but the the real political will it seems as come from both kiev and also from moscow with Vladimir Putin<\/a> saying that he was going to use his influence with the with the separatist regions to make it happen its a breakthrough undeniably a step in the right direction and the sides now are talking about keeping this going theyre doing more prisoner swaps but while people are still dying while moscow is still supplying the rebel regions with a weapons and hardware etc and while there doesnt seem to be a final drive for peace this is just a step in that direction we havent got to the destination that we want to get to yet which is a final political solution. The Philippine Government<\/a> is setting up hundreds of new shelters for some of the thousands of people displaced by fighting and flooding city took the area from fighters links to i say not after five months only for Tropical Storm<\/a> tending to sweep through the city bright reports from. For people displaced by the more are we fighting life in a muddy camp with open drains was already miserable then came the floods sometimes were washed away and all of them was the land of the poor oh families possessions are still a wet pile and they go to sleep in the damn things their neighbor for an amp on and her family lost their home and business in the fighting now her daily battle is with the water and mud to keep it out. Of them you have to constantly think about where to put your things in my dowry we had money and could property and i could go to school in the city bears the scars of the months of conflict between Government Troops<\/a> and fighters linked to eisele for now which is quiet but theres still a threat of renewed hostilities and martial law in mindanao has been extended for another year but on the edge of the city signs of hope new permanent homes are being built for displaced people president rodriguez whos from mindanao has promised to find a lasting solution to the conflict for him this project is an important step on the road to peace. In that. Part of my job or none what is good is above government its an ongoing dialogue fomented out the conflict holds up development the lack of money and jobs then fuels the underlying discontent and none of this is helped by being battered by storms. From her tent home for an ample one can see the new houses being built on the opposite hillside but doesnt know if she will get close to moving into one model i hope one day we can make a new start and living in one of the new houses would help but now the new houses are far outnumbered by the thousands of tents. Look bright aljazeera the city southern philippines so coming up on the program liberians the way the outcome of the president ial election runoff but polling suggests a lack order known turnout and ten years after she was assassinated at a Campaign Rally<\/a> we visit Benazir Bhuttos<\/a> ancestral home to see how her legacy is firing. Her the quiet and cold and foggy mornings are of the last few days disappeared now from western europe that incursion of a massive cloud or coming from the atlantic indicates pretty unsettled conditions to be honest the lines a Straight North<\/a> sass which means normally breeze youd think it would be colder but that shes displacing fairly cold air anyway so the temperature difference isnt great theres a bit of a warm tuck in a long way ahead this fourteen in rome thirteen beaudry the eleven in vienna thats going to be evident just pushed this gentle way eastward of the next twenty four hours massive snows on the Higher Ground<\/a> even temporary low ground through the outs and the toward sudden germany rain to the sas and that will be having fairly stormy stuff for italy in the adriatic balkan state for a time but theres the warmth belgrade in twelve ten inches still nine in vienna as it starts to rain behind it all the next systems already lined up come from the bay of biscay more rain to come through from spain and portugal londons at four degrees but in the sunshine now south of all this of course is going to be something happening in the Central Mediterranean<\/a> theres to curl of rain potentially still in the adriatic it might drag some rains through tunisia and catch northern libya and the temperatures are after it drop a bit more thirteen degrees in tunis and in the wind. When libyan troops to pledge their dictator the wardrobe struck an unlikely to be. Shut. Down. For some time but instead news it was the weapon of choice stronger than bullets with which documentary but this time on aljazeera. Welcome back reminder the top stories here on aljazeera a workers have begun evacuating critically ill patients from of the seats of syrias capital damascus but at least eighteen people have died while waiting on says president has called on saudi arabia to completely left its blockade on yemen so aid can be delivered to millions of people on the brink of starvation and the Philippine Government<\/a> is setting up hundreds of new shelters for some of the thousands of people displaced by fighting and flooding and theyre always sissy. And its been ten years since pakistans former Prime Minister<\/a> Benazir Bhutto<\/a> was assassinated as a Campaign Rally<\/a> she was the first woman to lead a Muslim Country<\/a> and a part of pakistans most famous political dynasty camo haida has visited lacan the ancestral home of the bhuttos to see how her legacy is firing. She just told her that Group Believes<\/a> if you drive with the all the photos that. We defend their way will be excite me. A little. All happening at the compound of a. Female Prime Minister<\/a> who was a fashion aged ten years ago but such beloved now leading up to the fall of the first part. Of the people. Her grave has become a shrine and draws people from near in a fall who pay their respects put open arms you have i think the future did a state wont have any enduring and the stay is a gift from god to reunite us every year through our been as you appear to have paid the price but her mission and vision will continue she is always with us in our hearts and minds and will be remembered for his services for the a priest class of the country for the Pakistan Peoples Party<\/a> they say feed a group of experienced popularity Bilawal Bhutto<\/a> has just entered politics and is also the partys new chairman maybe believe the party were to spare dr banner against killie but actually its a strong. Showing through her really would intrigue most. People. Are the people around the country who are longing then reverse introduced time wont make it because chairman banal would do the research. Country doing. Near. The people of Central Bridge<\/a> have always supported the family and many here today dont like it you change any time soon in fact a show of support on the anniversary of bases if that is the strip. Search for joy the party i doubt for tipped the balance in their favor. Paid the ultimate price for pakistan and for democracy according to our party to fort hood already a real gauge for progress on Peoples Party<\/a> will come and the next general election and you and the middle of. It will be dead. The facts will come out on the ground and redrill prove where the party failed i supported one had. The idea for the box larkana. For me for the Army Commander<\/a> who led the military takeover against zimbabwe is former leader Robert Mccarthy<\/a> spain appointed as Vice President<\/a> the promotion of Constantino Chiwenga<\/a> has deepened concerns about the close ties between the military and zimbabwes new president m. S. M. And god our local media says former state security minister cambo hardy is the second Vice President<\/a> president is under pressure to implement political reforms of the mcgarvie thirty seven year rule and did last months. I bury in president ial hopeful george ware says hes on track for victory in the president ial election runoff but no results have been released so far the former football star is up against current Vice President<\/a> joseph cao i am a ghetto reports from the capital monrovia. As liberians wait for the outcome of tuesdays Runoff Election<\/a> many place what they call a peaceful vote vote counting is underway and the process of telling results trickling in from more than five thousand polling stations across liberia why the national in nature are pulling out against. There were. Very small number of incidents to report where the incident occurred and i should mention they have been dealt with on his part in most of these cases if not all the contest pits fifty one year old former football star where against seventy three year old Joseph Walker<\/a> i who has been the countrys Vice President<\/a> for the last twelve years but polling coincided with christmas and many chose to stay home observers say the tunnel close much lower than the fos round held in october delatour Commission Says<\/a> it will announce the results in four days its what happens after whether the losing side will accept defeat that has most liberians concerned. Liberia is one were not willing to destroy the woman and that will mean for us to go back to war for anybody to be president of this country and we will not do it we are going to have peace the children of this country need peace and they also want peace and were going to call for whom ever we decide is president of Liberia International<\/a> observers to a calling for calm so what was in was without this is hilarious because who knew this. So the issue is now when you know. If you when you celebrate it is celebrated where should be because you would have the president of everybody if you lose you also served for the first time in more than seventy years this was not founded by freed american slaves will see one democratically elected government power to another whoever wins will inherit tonic or me but by forming prices of liberias main exports of rabat and i dont and are forced depreciating currency in the past twelve years Ellen Johnson<\/a> sirleaf has guided this country through the process of recovery from civil war on the horrors of a bull outbreak but she too has been criticized for not doing much to talk all poverty and corruption in hog government behind it all jazeera monrovia liberia. A bosnian courts has convicted a female former fighter of war crimes as a force for the croatian and Bosnian Croat<\/a> thomas shes been sentenced to fourteen years in prison for killing an Inhumane Treatment<\/a> inflicted on bosnian serb civilians during the conflict in the one nine hundred ninety s. Is the longest sentence for a female former fighter in the bosnian war. Brazilian baby is affected by this virus will need a lifetime of cat according to a new report and are growing into total a spent many of their families say there has been little government help others there is down home and reports from breast. Two years after the sikh epidemic brazil in the world has moved on but not just and elisei still here. Shes one of almost three thousand babies who were born with microcephaly an underdeveloped head and brain caused by the majority like police say were in the north east of the country you know when aljazeera first visited receive thing in two thousand and six thing and i just said the government was yet to help them lets was changed by the i least i know the government assistance for a few families i know some of them in my case ive never received anything its been more than two years and we havent got a thing. Even elise is medicine is so expensive the familys income cant cover it they have to rely on donations from friends niger nurses her around the clock but her conditions getting worse ive seen a mill caught up in the me i dont have too much hope from the bottom of my heart is hard for a mother to say that but i can imagine alison ten years time in fifteen years time i dont dream about it that is why i like to make things happen today. Elisei and others ecosoc to children receive fake receipt free rehabilitation from a foundation partly funded by the government but its overwhelmed one hundred fifty is stuck on the waiting list all the time getting deeper a mesh than the semi blindness and muscle stiffness that typifies the condition wife Camilla Ventura<\/a> says they need more funds we try not to like people forget about seeka and because it. You know we still have all these children and we still have a burden and its it involves the government but also a public health. Issue that has to be addressed and never forgotten the government says that it hasnt forgotten as well as engaging in a Massive Campaign<\/a> to eradicate the mosquitoes which currently seek a virus it since are invested about fifty Million Dollars<\/a> in Rehabilitation Centers<\/a> like this one and next year its promised eight Million Dollars<\/a> for. The Christmas Party<\/a> for children with Rare Diseases<\/a> we met again with of the mothers who say they havent seen the money they feel theyre struggling alone enjoying small moments in the midst of a long battle for them and their children. Join home and to see it or receive a resume. Exhibition in new york is highlighting works by who are former and current inmates at Guantanamo Bay<\/a> the paintings are for a glimpse into life inside one of the worlds most secretive prisons and is on the reports. Its an exhibit where the artists were also inmates in fact some still are all these works painted by eight inmates at Guantanamo Bay<\/a> Detention Center<\/a> half of them currently being held the other half subsequently released after years in detention and one day i got a call from a lawyer he said would you be interested in displaying my client had made a kuantan a band i said what do you mean those are from Guantanamo Bay<\/a> and we went from there the theme of some of the paintings is dark not surprisingly for inmates who have spent years imprisoned or were interrogated some tortured sharks in an ocean is the work of qassam a yemeni inmate who has been held without charge for the past fifteen years he signs all of his artwork with his prison number two for two peace works are fairly skilled there is darkness but as the curator told me there is also some light i was surprised to see how calm and peaceful many of the paintings were i was expecting more more pain more anger but the detainees i interviewed told me we paid to distract ourselves from our conditions like a pair of hands clutching prison bars and flowers created by another yemeni inmate who has spent fifteen years in guantanamo some of the work sorry labrat like this would model ship made with cardboard and bottle caps. As powerful as this art is to fully understand its impact is to know where it came from Guantanamo Bay<\/a> prison was opened in the aftermath of the september eleventh attacks to hold terror suspects at its peak it housed six hundred eighty four inmates today the prison remains open holding forty one prisoners some without charge us President Donald Trump<\/a> has talked about filling the empty cells again. Its only in the past few years lawyers for the detainees have been permitted to take the inmates are out from the prison there have been some complaints the exhibit glorifies terrorism the pentagon is said to be considering banning order work from public view the theme of the exhibit is ocean because many of the inmates say the ocean is a symbol of calmness freedom and escape each brushstroke a glimpse into the inmates innermost thoughts of the moment gabriel is on doe aljazeera new york. Now its so lets have our ring achievement in israel lets play the whole year and a half a million breaks in the making a group of lego enthusiastic built a weld wreck or thirty six me to heights how a secret to a twelve Story Building<\/a> it was launched by teaches of eight year old. Who died of cancer in twenty fourteen and used to build a lego towers jaring his illness much more news on our website just click on aljazeera dot com. Now quick reminder of the top stories here in our designer aid workers have begun evacuating critically ill patients from i beseech suburb of syrias capital damascus in ited nations has been calling on the Syrian Government<\/a> to allow some five hundred critically ill people to leave Eastern Ghouta<\/a> for months the area has been under a tight government seed six twenty thirteen and subjected to hundreds of air strikes on the artillery attacks at least eighteen people have died while waiting to be evacuated and he said there is the spokesperson for the International Committee<\/a> for the red cross in syria she says there are many more people inside these two groups are in desperate need of evacuation but the current operation did not number should be twenty nine people dont ration is still ongoing and maybe it might take a couple of more days and we actually need to get it with you know. Its very hard for us to know right now when and how were going to do all we can in order to speed up the bruises from says president to hang on the cross as a saudi arabia to lift the blockade on yemen the blockade which has been in force since october is limiting supplies of fuel food and medicine says hes concerned about the humanitarian crisis in yemen where millions of people are on the brink of famine parts of yemen are also in the grip of a cholera outbreak. Russian Opposition Leader<\/a> Alexei Navalny<\/a> cecille organize a nationwide rally in january to support his call for a boycott of president ial elections now while the house being barred from running in the march election over an embezzlement conviction that he says is politically motivated meanwhile russian president Vladimir Putin<\/a> has officially filed his documents to run for reelection if he wins putins rule will be extended until twenty twenty four making him the longest serving russian leader says Joseph Stalin<\/a> the Philippine Government<\/a> is setting up hundreds of new shelters for some of the thousands of people displaced by fighting and flooding and are always city the army talk the area from fighters linked to iceland in october after a five month see only for Tropical Storm<\/a> tembin to sweep through the city those are the headlines that stay with us on aljazeera the stream is coming next. 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