Of justice over the crackdown on muslim arrangers aljazeera sheds new light on some of the alleged crime and current pressure in the pacific we travel to the tiny island nation of allow to find out exactly whats at risk. So in hong kong the polls are open for local elections and in just the past hour chief executive kerry cast her vote this poll is seen as a test for her probation government following months of demonstrations this is amazing a record 4100000 people have registered to vote 7000000 people in all of hong kong which would make it the biggest turnout since the territory was returned to china from britain in 1907 speaking to the media caroline was appealing for a peaceful vote. We are facing an extremely challenging situation in organizing this years elections but im pleased to say that with the concerted efforts of all parties including of course over 30000 Civil Servants in many departments working today we should have a relatively peaceful and vironment to conduct these elections successfully weve also heard from prodemocracy activist joshua wang who urged. Protesters to continue opposing beijing he himself was disqualified from running in the election says i will protest movement stop for a few more people around the world just a pom pom pom should come up booked district house in your action is that your action in marketing to the base of islam on the street. Instead over the political system but i still urge people to keep the action to show how this can head to beijing. Its just after 10 am in hong kong and well be live at the polling booths in just a moment but 1st this report from rob mcbride coming amid unprecedented unrest everyone agrees this will be an election like no other many seats are being contested by a new generation of candidates some molded by the protest movement. And wing an independent is out on bail after being arrested and charged for unlawful assembly. People have been paying close attention to the process the excessive use of force by police and the aris and theyve been studying the views of the candidates on these things and making up their minds in a city of 7000000 people a record 4000000 have registered to vote. Its tough we dont know which side to take but beijing is in charge in any case so all signs indicate that the prodemocracy protests are poised to win a big victory. This is important for hong kong people its like an opinion poll. Normally dominated by local issues this election will instead focus on the much bigger question of hong kongs relationship with mainland china. With pro china parties having the majority of seats up for election they are seen as having the most to lose given the groundswell of antigovernment feeling prodemocracy candidates are contesting every seat with thousands of new young voters registering for the 1st time the probe aging camp seems to be bracing itself for losses this year the elections have been highly politicized and violence have become a central issue and there are people for and against so local issues sidelined campaigning on streets the bad the scars of months of unrest leo chu is a candidate for the democratic party. Hes not hopeful about the chances of this vote forcing the government to concede on any of the protesters demands i do not have a very strong am optimistic mind about they were care about the people. They both. In this direction but thats why it is. Important matters for the International Community that people but people are thinking in hong kong. This ballot will likely prove the strength of feeling in this deeply polarized city the question then will be watching impact it has on the escalating violence of mcbride al jazeera hong kong. And now sarah clarke at that polling sessional one of the politicians i should say in hong kong bring us up to date sarah. We have huge lines at most polling birds across hong kong behind me this line snakes its way around the block now as rob mcbride mentioned we have a Record Number of people who registered to vote in this election 4100000 people and the increase of the senate has been in the 18 to 35 Year Old Age Group now im joined by anthony deferent whos an author and lawyer oh i asked you about what this early line up with saying i think its 3 times the turnout right in the 1st hour since the last election which is in 25th and what does this early turnout name well people have been saying that a big turnout should favor the pan democratic parties especially given that very large number of new young voters so it could be that this is looking to be something of a swing towards the democrats but its very hard to say because passions have been very high in hong kong over the last 5 to 6 months of protests today being seen as somewhat of a referendum of that whole period of hong kong history and so passions are high on both sides so really its hard to say you think its a referendum on certainly the governments handling of the crisis as well as the support the public support for the prodemocracy movement and these protests absolutely i think people on the one had been very frustrated with carrie lamb and her handling of the crisis but also on that same side frustrated with the disruptions to day life and some of the violence and vandalism that theyve seen from the protesters so that may push people to the probate side on the pro democrat side of course that discontent with the way hong kong is being governed the very broad support the protesters seem to continue to enjoy means that the democrats should hoping to see a swing in their favor so the post office mccampbell the camp as we often refer to it has the majority in the district elections can the pan democrats the prodemocracy Political Parties can they pull back some of that support and some of those seats i think this certainly expecting to see that in the more urban areas like Hong Kong Island in the the more highly Populated Areas of calhoun moving out to the New Territories where its a more rural population traditionally more of a pro beijing stronghold they may not see that same swing out there. So what would you what the early results i suppose will expect out of the seating what do you predict. If you look at a tough call and i feel like we may end up back where we started over these months of unrest people who at the beginning may have even though they lent pro beijing may have been inclined to support the protesters were against the government the violence and the vandalism may have swung them back to the government side whereas people that started out pro democrats unlikely to have changed their minds and still support the protesters so we may end up a scenario looks pretty similar to what it was coming into all of this and to be different thank you very much for joining us thank you and i should say the police of today theres a record turnout of police around the 30000. 00 strong force basically guarding these polling booths we expect at least to rot place to be polling at these polling bays to try and keep the place there was some room is early that they might maybe violent clashes and as a result the right place that they got a particular polling place but at the moment as i mentioned earlier we have a mass turnout when im president ready and study just a couple of polling booths have. Good stuff sarah clarke at the polling station in hong kong for those local elections. Were going to look at colombia now where antigovernment protests have continued in the capital for a 3rd day. Of Security Forces patrolled the streets. And fired tear gas on thousands of protesters are gathered followed an overnight curfew ordered by president even do k. Which was defined by demonstrators who stayed on the streets there angry over proposed reforms to the tax and Pension System. With more now from the time. Small groups of protesters are on the streets most are peaceful and happening without major issues but other ones if protesters try to march on the streets are blocked one of the rows. Front. Quo. Bylane plea by the police in and take riot gear with tear gas with grenades bombs as we have witnessed earlier during the day we have now been able to confirm that at least one of these protesters was seriously injured by one of these. Grenades that hit them in the in the head he is now. Under surgery in a hospital in downtown bogota we understand that his condition is critical but under control so were going to try to find out more about him in coming hours and more people are also out and planning to repeat. These demonstrations were people hit on pots and pans in different parts of this city most of the violence seems to be happening when the protesters try to reach the government buildings downtown if they stay further now north and in the plazas and dont try to move on the streets then things seem to move on peacefully. Plenty more ahead for you this news are we looking at voting for change the program in the west african nation of Guinea Bissau goes to the polls and hopes to end the political crisis more revelations in the impeachment inquiry into alleged misconduct by a us president on all the details on that. And in sport history for canada and britain russia to want to reach their 1st ever davis cup tennis final. So its look at the latest from the impeachment inquiry in the Us State Department has released records related to its dealings with ukraine documents that support testimony at the inquiry that several senior officials were in the loop on the efforts to pressure kiev into investigating Donald Trumps rival joe biden john hendren with the details now from washington. The cast of president Donald TrumpsUkraine Pressure Campaign grows ever wider 100 pages of newly released state department documents show that secretary of state mike pump aoe spoke to President Trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani twice in march that was shortly before u. S. Ambassador to ukraine maria vonn of h. Was removed from office scott lucas says its not hard to infer what they were talking about but the day before pompei 0 2nd call with giuliani there was a time line prepared which set out all of the material about biden his son hunter and maria on a bitch trying to set up in other words a paper trail for the secretary of state of these alleged alleged activities by biden and yavanna bitch that werent in the best warranted an investigation by ukraine the impeachment inquiry is looking into whether the white house engaged in a coordinated campaign to withhold nearly 400000000. 00 in military aid to ukraine until the president of vacuum tree publicly announced that he would investigate President Trumps chief political rival former Vice President joe biden President Trump denies that accusation i want nothing. Thats what i want for you thats what i said i want nothing the newly released documents support this damning statement from embassador Gordon Sunland was there a quid pro quo the answer is yes everyone was in the loop we kept the leadership. Of the state department and the n. S. C. Informed of our activities and that included communications with secretary of state pompei o. The state department had refused to give those documents they were obtained through a freedom of information lawsuit by the Watchdog Group american oversight now Senate Democrats are asking pump aoe in a letter to recuse himself from the state departments response to the impeachment inquiry pump ale was quick to respond im not going to accuse myself from this i know precisely what american policy was with respect to ukraine i was working on it and im incredibly proud of what weve accomplished also joining in the circle of those implicated in the president ial Pressure Campaign is the president s top defender in the impeachment inquiry republican devin nunez clearly these little chris accusations dont reflect Committee Members who are honestly searching for the truth on saturday reports emerge suggesting nunez met with a disgraced former ukrainian prosecutor to find dirt on biden that is according to a lawyer for a businessman live parness indicted for his role in working with giuliani to prompt a ukrainian investigation of biden and his son if true the circle of all the president s men in the Ukraine Campaign just got bigger john hendren washington. One of egypts last independent news publications mother mauser is appealing for the Urgent Release of one of its journalists a statement on the website says police took from his home in cairo on saturday also confiscating electronic equipment and documents related to his work that its arrest is the latest sign of a widening crackdown on press freedom in egypt israels Opposition Leader benny gantz is once again called on Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu to resign over corruption charges that follows netanyahu saying on friday he wouldnt step down over the 3 indictments calling it an attempted coup and one can with more than tel aviv or against time do statement perfectly for the evening news and this was very much a message not just to the israeli electorate but to the likud party itself he actually spoke in that building just behind me here in the Television Expo center where he had an offer for Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu take a look at what you had to say. Surely i call for unity government as large as possible i will be the Prime Minister for the 1st 2 years while netanyahu can deal with his legal issues its clear he can come back as Prime Minister this is the only way to prevent an unnecessary election. So the idea is that the Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu will be a part of the government but he wont have any ministries and certainly wont be Prime Minister instead what benny gantz is just thing is that he fights his court cases and then once that is resolved that they can take a look at any idea of the power sharing agreement and anything that might take place in the future between the good and the blue and white party whether thats going to be acceptable to netanyahu remains to be seen but the entire game the moment seems to be avoiding a 3rd election were in a period of about 17 days left where any member of the knesset can try and form a government if that doesnt happen then the country goes to the election which is what all the politicians seemingly are try. To avoid so this was not a generous offer to the very practical one to try and avoid going to a 3rd election lets see what the Prime Minister has to say about this offer hes also under a tremendous amount of pressure from within his own likud party as well gideon so is a pretender to the israeli throne and he says he wants the likud party to have a primary election internal election and to choose a new leader and to move on with the process of forming a government so then you know under a tremendous amount of pressure right now theres been renewed fighting between kurdish fighters and Turkish Backed forces in Northern Syria this was not the town of. Turkey launched an offensive against the kodesh Led Syrian Democratic forces last month a truce was agreed in coordination with russia but small scale fighting has continued well out as a result down with the turkish minister of defense to discuss the Ongoing Operations in northeast syria. 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Meum hours later and sung suit shes expected to defend her military against allegations of genocide at the International Court of justice the army is accused of targeting the countrys range of Muslim Minority back in 2017 a documentary to be aired on aljazeera sheds new light on the abuses as well just a warning a summer binge of its report does contain some disturbing images of. Nearly a 1000000 muslims live in the Worlds Largest refugee camp in bangladesh as the International Court of justice prepares to begin hearing allegations of genocide and forced deportation of the ringer a new documentary uncovers testimonies of abuse and the involvement of me and my government officials. The prosecution has gone on for decades but since 2017 hundreds of thousands of rangar were forced to flee after the military accused the rebels of terrorism. As early as 966 the Burmese Military started to see the real hinge or as a problem. 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