Old so this hour im going indias northeast over a bill that grant citizenship to minorities from 3 neighboring countries but excludes mostly us. And im only a hearty an endo with all of your sports as tiger woods captains the u. S. State their worst start out of the president s cup in 14 years. We begin this news hour with algeria where thousands are protesting outside polling stations to reject the president ial election which is currently under way. Crowds destroyed their ballot papers in the port city of beijing police also fired tear gas to Disperse Protesters the demonstrators have called the vote a farce and say it will enable old leaders to remain in power they want sweeping political reforms before any vote is held the voter turnout has been so far. As a dean may hope be one of the 5 candidates running for president early a cast his ballot in the capital is the former ruling party through there so. Board behind him earlier this week all candidates have closely with a former president. Who stepped down in april after massive government demonstrations the protesters have been demanding a complete overhaul of algeria as ruling elite for almost 10 months now the demonstrations began when then president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced he would run for a 5th term hed been in power for 2 decades and was rarely seen in public because of Ailing Health the 82 year old was forced to step down in april as we mentioned but protests continues with called wide scale political reform huge rallies have been held every friday since with demonstrators calling for the election to be canceled or less speak to. Who is an algerian political analyst and resident scholar at Carnegie Middle East Center she is via skype from beirut thank you so much for joining us on the news. Of the 5 men running for president even supported what if or participated in his movement and the protests is clearly dont see these men as representing them so if not venom and if not an election then who and what. Well yes it is true actually thats right candidate 2 that have been you know whats his debating in these elections are actually really except that which we do important figures that such as abdul majeed the born and to anybody who wears respectively try minister and head of the government so who are algerians that this is and this is for them and masquerade that this is a circus because actually the un jiri in the region is trying to rejuvenate itself that by putting get again people who have been there for decades and who are actually products of the system that now some people have been saying good that the Popular Movement that should have been institutionalized that its sad and you know put people such as or. At the head of this Leaderless Movement in order to all represented and to negotiate with the government wide it is true that the institution that only they shun of the movement has been problematic shit is also true to say that the lack of free there is are that a Popular Movement have been the also problematic show in the sas that this left of the door open for the reach him. Apologies we seem to have lost our connection with our guest there in beirut. Yasbeck gerry in political analysts who was talking to us about the election and what we expect to happen next in algeria as demonstrations continue there despite this vote to replace Abdelaziz Bouteflika many algerians not satisfied saying that the current political regime will stay in power even after this election well continue to follow all the developments for you in algeria and bring you all the latest updates here on r. G. P. Lets move on to another election and this one is being called the u. K. s most important vote in a generation by both the conservative party and the main Opposition Labor Party millions are deciding who will form the next government and decide the future of brecks it and a country from mr Boies Johnson has cast his vote in Central London hes seeking another term for his conservative party after just 5 months later a short time ago Jeremy Corbyn the labor leader also cast his ballot in north london this will be his 2nd attempt at becoming britains Prime Minister live to rory challenges covering the election for us hes in london of course the polls have been open for about 6 hours novel is been pretty wet so far i mean its been raining on and off what kind of turnout are we expecting. Yes its very unusual to have a winter election in the United Kingdom i think you have to go back many many decades to find another one usually theyre held in may late Spring Summer where the weather is much better the days are longer so there is a fear that this might depress voter turnout certainly some of the pictures that are coming in of early voting seem to show sizable queues at polling stations but we dont know where yet whether that is being replicated across the country we also dont know whether low voter turnout will benefit or hinder any particular party then other big question about this election is how big a role is tactical voting going to play because this is an election that essentially is come about because of brechts it and brecks its whether your leave or remain is one of these things that seems to be sending perhaps voters off in directions that they wouldnt normally go in to vote for parties that they wouldnt normally vote for so well have to see how about plays out as well Boris Johnson certainly is drills or try to drill into the public consciousness that this is a bricks at election labor have tried to steer it away so theyre more comfortable ground of Public Services and the National Health service the voters have until 10 oclock this evening to make their choice thats when the polls close thats when we get an exit poll as well to tell us how things might be going the 1st result will come through at about 11 oclock g. M. T. And then in a few hours after that 2 or 3 oclock g. M. T. In the morning well start to get Something Like a respectable picture of how the landscape is looking for this election and therefore what it means Going Forward for the country and for brics it. Ok rory thank you very much for the moment chalons line in london in the u. K. The party that gets to govern needs to secure a majority in parliament and its particularly crucial this election where the future of bracks it is a major focus so will the government be decided paul brennan explains. The United Kingdom is divided into 650 electoral constituencies which each sent an m. P. To sit here in parliament and theyre elected using the 1st past the post Voting System with people in each constituency each casting one vote and whoever gets the most votes becomes their m. P. Now most candidates are affiliated to a Political Party such as the conservatives labor or the liberal democrats or several others and 2 in the overall election and for a stable government a party needs to win a majority of the parliamentary seats now that means at least 326 mph but the Biggest Party gets fewer than 326 then it can try to form a minority government or it might try to form a Coalition Government with another party. In other world news dozens of arrests have been made in northeast india during protests against legislation on citizenship thousands of troops are deployed in the state of sates of asylum entry poor the protesters fear migrants from bangladesh will be made citizens both houses of parliament of pass a bill which will allow as we said citizenship to minorities facing religious persecution in pakistan bangladesh and afghanistans but muslims are excluded or has more from the largest city in assam state. And there are several justice. In india. Are not giving up. And are joining slogans i was there demanding the government withdraws their citizenship Amendment Bill they say their struggle is to protect their Indigenous Culture and live you some of these boys abuse local d. S. A. Its all about jobs if you do i agree its a given indian citizenship they can get the jobs these people say they should be getting on the same street weve also seen every week goes back to the soldiers of the indian army now we will really be reporting. That one column of the indian army thats about 70 soldiers wasnt standby in the state of assad but now it looks like the government is perhaps nodding to send more boots on the ground this is the road which goes from the airport to the capital city of us though hearty curfews being imposed via mobile services have been shut down but despite that several purchase had been planned in the capital city to the. Day chandra is professor of government at Georgetown University he explained why so there is been so much opposition to the bill in indias northeast i think in the solomon trip around the northeast there are parts of those states where the news citizenship Amendment Bill the revised one is going to apply and you know theyre not interested in the religion of whos coming in from from across the border they just dont want anyone and this is sources but different from the situation in the indian mainland where its clearly about non muslims who are being let in member that doesnt seem to be a problem the problem seems to be just muslims from neighboring countries its so and there is in the case of assam it really admit may well be that hindus bengali hindus in particular are coming from bangladesh are actually the major threat it is being challenged in the Supreme Court but im not very optimistic that the Supreme Court additionally in general not just the Supreme Court but also high courts have really not shown the billing this to take on the executive and they really abdicated any kind of law making function. To parliament and you know the will of the majority so to speak so we really do have a populist government that now sets the agenda and nonelected institutions including courts are really reluctant to go against it. The army in these areas searching for what he called several 100 heavily armed terrorists who killed at least 70 soldiers there kept near the western border with mali sustained hours of heavy gunfire late on tuesday theres been no claim of responsibility but fighters linked so i selema al qaeda are increasingly active in the remote long this region he detests lead you need deputy the detachment in the in not has military post near the border with mali was attacked by heavily armed terrorists estimated at several 100 there followed a combat of rare violence combining artillery fire and the use of kamikaze vehicles by the enemy on our position for 3 hours a search in pursuit has been launched in the footsteps of terrorists fleeing from our borders. Frequent cross border fight. Scenes an issue for both countries. In not just us all its been in the crosshairs of the extremist groups operating along the border but by far this is the biggest in terms of casualty numbers according to sources the attackers numbering in the hundreds at the army post with suicide bombers as well as mortars and by the way you notice has been largely vacated since the last major attacks last year in the area and weve also seen across the region in this hell the uptick of violence carried out by al qaida into sliming state in the west african province and all the fighters in the region and the targets mainly all well military bases that were overrun and equipment being seized now i look to people are warning especially security analysts are warning that we probably will see more violence in the coming months or weeks as the groups there want to establish a foothold meanwhile across the region there is anger and concerns about the rule of Multinational Forces in the region especially the french presence here in mali that is particularly that feeling that the french are not doing enough to cut the violence and a meeting with the g. 5 leaders of 5 civilian countries with their french president which was supposed to start next week has now been shifted until early 2020 but a lot of people in the region i really concerned about why are all these is leading to. Plenty more ahead on this news hour including of genocidal intent in the International Case when. Lawyers give graphic testimony to back of a gambler years allegations of genocide in marc klaas the philippines president s war on drugs is back in the spotlight rise groups say police are to 6 dont. And messy reflects on his telly year in football yeah well have more in sports ticked. Lawyers for the gambia have been giving their closing arguments at the International Court of justice in the hague as they push for myanmar to be tried for genocide against muslim. They are providing testimony on allegations of mass murder and rape leader on santucci told the court on wednesday that the accusations are quote an incomplete and misleading factual picture of the situation she said soldiers conducted a legitimate operation against armed groups more than 700000. 00 muslims fled myanmar after a military crackdown in 2017 when haye is covering the proceedings for us at the hague he joins us now live on the news hour or so wayne whats been the gambas response then to arent on sochi is opening speech against genocide charges. Yes well that opening speech my own son sujit which was of course the opening of me and maz defense has been widely criticized some of said she was lying in that speech that she was using it as a way to avoid any future Legal Proceedings against herself personally which isnt going to happen this time here at the International Court of justice this is a state versus state disputes but the gambian lawyers in their closing arguments on thursday really did systematically dismantle the arguments put up by the state councilor and after her the me and my lawyers particularly the assertion that the raids on reading given in Rakhine State by me and my Security Forces were part as the me and my delegation put it of a legitimate counterterrorism operation the because of the existence of an arm to retain good militant group now the lawyers representing the gambia say they dont deny that there was an armed elements in Rakhine State unarmed. Group but they say that combat cannot be used as an excuse for genocide and they said that the me and my soldiers that went through those village villages failed to differentiate between armed suspects belonging to that militant group and innocent civilians so men women and children were targeted indiscriminately for murder torture and rape their villages their homes burnt to the ground even though it was clear on most occasions that they were not members of any sort of armed militant groups as certainly as to say it was a thorough dismantling all that me and my argument put forward to them on wednesday that today is the last day of this phase of the proceedings wayne what happens next that the court. Yes well the gambian closing arguments have finished we wait for another few hours before we hear the closing arguments from the me and my side again it will be fairly brief lasting in total about 90 minutes and Aung San Suu Kyi herself will make a brief statement in those closing arguments says the head of the me and my defense team after that the court will adjourn that is the end of this an issue phase phase one of this genocide case and then they will need to decide whether to grant the request put forward by the gambians that provisional urgent provisional measures be placed on the government of myanmar to take urgent steps to ensure the safety and security of the rich in Rakhine State now that could happen fairly quickly if we go back to the 1990 s. The case of Bosnia Herzegovina against serbia they requested the same thing urgent provisional measures the judges came back in 19 days and ruled in favor of the balls but the ultimate decision the ultimate taste of medication to do genocide took until 2007 to be decided so phase one could be decided in this instance very very quickly in a matter of weeks but the broader genocide case being leveled against me and will that will take years 3 thank you very much wayne hale live for us at the hague and al jazeera stephanie deca is in comics as bizarre in bangladesh as for hundreds of thousands of muslim writing a threat to she says more International Pressure is needed on myanmar before any changes will be seen on the ground. What they want is justice and they want to be able to go back home whats going to come out of this trial is going to have a direct impact on these people probably not going to pave the way for them to go home any sooner probably not it doesnt have the capacity to implement things on the ground through a course of 2 usually significant when it comes to the diplomatic front when it comes to International Pressure and that is key you need to have International Countries putting pressure on you more to resolve this were not doing that at the moment but certainly yes it is a problem its going to go on its not going to be resolved anytime soon the mass amount of people weve just been speaking to the head of the u. N. Refugee agency here in bangladesh and he said even if repatriation started tomorrow it would take a very long time to process this amount of people to be able to go back home but again that is nowhere nea