Trying to find a better life we meet a migrant whos decided to call libya. Lets begin in hong kong where voters are casting their ballots to narrow the field of Democratic Candidates who will run in an upcoming election campaigning has been underway for several hours people will be voting over the weekend but a newly imposed National Security law reserve a shadow in the lead up to the main vote in September Sarah clarke reports. These images of a mob indiscriminately attacking protesters journalists and civilians in you know last july turning point in the hong kong demonstrations journalist with hope was Live Streaming when she was targeted i know that the prachanda live broadcast of me being beaten up by gangs and lobsters its terrible to watch but the thing is you know why. That so many people they went to you know after that because they watched barca it was this incident and last years months of antigovernment protests that inspired going to toe to enter the political arena for the 1st time shell run as an independent candidate in the New Territories at the Legislative Council elections in september despite chinas newly imposed National Security law shes prepared to take the risk and fight for greater democratic reform in hong kong of course im concerned about my future of course the people here concerned about the future we also know that if we do not do something if we do not resist the offer tarion or even to the tarion rule theres no future at all for us to concern about you know in last years local Council Elections the prodemocracy camp secured 17 of the 18 districts and thats put greater competition in the prodemocracy bloc more young independent candidates are now standing for election to the citys legislature the probation camp which holds the majority acknowledges it might lose some seats but its confident voters will support their central policy to restore order in a city rocked by months of political unrest. The upcoming election will be a tough one we will focus on issues such as restoring social stability because of last years social unrest people hope the city can go back to normal soon as possible chinas new National Security looms over this Campaign Analysts say it effectively empowers authorities to disqualify candidates from local and prodemocracy camps who are critical of the Chinese Government this year i think china is taking up a much stronger position against the opposition so i guess. The opposition candidates make out this wildfire the National Security law has already seen some parties withdraw from this election because some members fear the risk of imprisonment should the prodemocracy cap secure the majority that would leave than the power to. An act of laws and reject or prove the budget and in extreme circumstances they could even try and force the resignation of the chief executive order over the final results on september 6th the coming months are unlikely to narrow hong kongs political divide sarah clarke aljazeera hong kong. Pollen joins us now live from hong kong so how is the campaigning and turnout going that. Well sami. Organizations we spoke to say they estimate about 60000. 00 people have already cast their ballots and if that is the case thats not a bad turnout particularly due to the fact that they targeted a total of 270000 they still have until sunday night when the ballots closed but organizers have faced an uphill battle right up until the early hours of this morning where police raided the Polling Institute thats meant to be monitoring these ballots and eventually counting the votes they say police say its related to 2013 projects that the Polling Institute did has nothing to do with these primary elections but democratic can activists and the democratic camp are questioning the timing of this saying its very suspicious also a lot of the venues that were your marked as polling stations have suddenly pulled out and they say its because their landlords have been putting pressure on them saying that they dont want their property used for political means so organizers have had to become very creative about this in trying to push forward this process 3 District Councils here in fact and if youre wondering why im at a bus station they harden a bus to use as a polling station that that red and yellow bus you see behind me and so they say they can circumvent a lot of the issues by doing certain things like this by being creative and using certain means that perhaps the government or the probate camp would not have envisioned originally. And to what extent even if the democrats make a big win september elections how far does that go to altering the balance of power between beijing and hong kong. Right so the whole point of these primaries is so that the democratic camp can consolidate their support and eventually when 35. 00 or if not more than 35. 00 of the 70 seats at the Legislative Council elections and september and that is that prospect that beijing will not be happy with because it means that their support within the legislature would lessen the question now though is even if they do win those seats or even they managed to get through these primaries and stand in elections will they still be quote disqualified due to their support of protest or that previous actions that one of the people standing in these elections is just about won he is contesting these primaries but he is currently facing charges of Illegal Assembly hall says face jail time so even though he is running there are very huge questions about whether he would actually be able to contest the elections but he says this still is a very important process and here is what he says about it. The director. Is not. A small. Man. In a primary election that. We probably hard. There are many questions as to what this process will eventually lead to and what weather would be how would it be viewed under the National Security law many here say part of the reason they havent seen a huge turnout as they would have seen maybe a year ago is because of that law and the vagueness off it but the democratic camp says they are determined to push ahead and keep hong kongs Movement Democratic movements going even under these circumstances sonny all right thanks so much to vic apollo and the largest broadcaster in the philippines will remain permanently off the air after m. P. s refused to renew its license no appeal was filed before the saturday deadline president of the bigger the territory has repeatedly threatened the a. B. S. C. B. S. Corporation network over its Critical Coverage was forced to go off in may after its license expired. Alan dogon joins us live from manila so is this the end of the road for c. B. S. Now. Well essentially it will be the end of its position for a new renewal of its franchise essentially the voting yesterday killed the existing application and now what they have to do now is possibly apply for a new franchise license for them to be able to air and broadcast on Live Television earlier we heard statements from the House Speaker basically appealing to the public for understanding we were seeing basically a narrowing space for a legal remedy for the a. B. S. C b n but were also seeing growing public outrage over the decision of congress as you can see the vote was quite overwhelming 70 out of the 84 voted against the renewal of a. B. S. E. B. M. The what they see basically according to congress is that 1st the public should read the decision that the last 12 congressional hearings were fair although executives of a. B. S. Even said that all of the allegations thrown against them were basically answered and they were all cleared and the House Speaker encouraged the few days ago for congress to vote according to their conscience but as you see me this is a Congress Largely allied with the president a president who actually basically made the statement several statements against a b a c b and in the past who basically himself said that he was going to see to it that he be a c. B. And will not be able to air and you know its lunch its franchise during his time how are people reacting to this. Well then people are basically saying that the priorities of the government is misplaced that there is a Global Pandemic and since over 3 months now more than 3000000. 00 filipinos have already lost their jobs because of this pandemic hundreds of thousands of them are overseas Filipino Workers are coming back without a job they have been displaced and basically now you know with the closure of indias c. V. And its also threaten the lives of 11000. 00 more filipinos it is also what they say is an injustice so those who live in the far flung communities they impoverish to live in the far flung communities whose only access to free information before was a b a c b m so that would be a means to be seen how this will be played out in the coming weeks or so if there is going to be another another legal remedy or maneuvering from both sides but you see it is not the 1st time basically that a. B. A c b n has been shut down it happened in 1972 when former president for it marcus basically ordered for it to be closed during the time when he declared martial law it was opened in 1008. 00 is extreme the people power revolution so critics are basically saying that history continues to repeat itself and what has happened here basically as their accusation is the president s grievances has actually cost the nation even more trouble and injustice not just to the employees but also to the public deprived of public and free information and i will leave it there thanks so much a commemoration is underway in eastern Bosnia Herzegovina for the 25th anniversary of the strabane needs a genocide. More than a 1000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys who are under the protection of u. N. Troops were murdered by bosnian serb soldiers the trimmings the only massacre on european soil since the 2nd world war to be ruled a genocide or most of the remains have been recovered many victims still havent been found when theyre going to go explains. An expanse of grave stones each one a victim of the genocide perpetrated here a quarter of a century ago the fathers grandfathers brothers uncles and sons of. Those they left behind come to pray here but the trauma of what happened is present. I only wonder why they killed my children they were my neighbors and my oldest sons wedding day i invited them 1st my serb enables. The widows and mothers of srebrenica left with their photos their memories for lost her 3 sons and husband the body of her eldest has never been found every day she is haunted by the last time she saw her youngest son. And. He hung on to me when super soldiers came to take him he said mother dont leave me i stroked his curly here and said i wont leave you. They took him and i followed i dont know if they hit me i dont remember anything it was this man retcon lad teach the commander of the bosnian serb forces who gave the order to exterminate the muslim men and boys of srebrenica here he reassured the younger they had nothing to worry about before condemning them to a massacre. Together with a war time leader of the Bosnian Serbs rather than courage each the unleashed an atrocity the like of which had not been seen in europe since world war 2. They were later found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity by a un real crimes tribunal both are now serving life sentences in the hague. But the failure of the dutch forces acting as un peacekeepers sent hundreds to their deaths many of the victims fled to the un designated safe zone only to be handed over to the bosnian serb forces. Lost his entire immediate family in the killing that ensued he succeeded in holding the netherlands partly liable for their deaths. Here. With the army. You. Was always a. Bystander while of genocide was. Now there is a new generation of young people many may have been born after the genocide but it is never far from their minds or their Family History as is the need to preserve the memory of those who were killed and i grew up near here i keep an eye on the cemetery i lost a lot of family then i lost my grandfather keeping the memory of the victims alive and for their families a chance to remember them in dignity so. Aljazeera. Part of their mission joins us now live from strober needs this years calmer ations a little bit different because of coronavirus right. Yes it is everything had to be scaled down due to the pandemic initially since it is the 25th anniversary or a century anniversary the plan was to for this to be a big Memorial Service honoring the victims but that just fell apart the commemoration is going on at this moment and its quite a lengthy one there is a lot of speeches most of them pre recorded underline center speech Justin Trudeau emanuel mccrum icon peo bill clinton United Nations secretary general of the terrace most of them were announced that they will be they will be attending here but due to the pandemic they couldnt be here also the pandemic took its toll on the crowd the crowd is much much much smaller than what we used to see here in the in the in the recent years but most importantly the pandemic took its toll on the number of victims that are buried that will be buried today some families couldnt be here they dont live in boston any more they went to western countries as refugees now there are there are citizens there they couldnt be here so they had to withdraw their consent on the burial so only 9 victims of the 7 its a genocide will find their eternal peace 25 years later. How much of an open wound is not only 70 the issue of recovering remains a quarter of a century on product. It is still an open wound in the process the process is far from finished there is more than a 1000 people still missing yet to be found now in the official number of persons who were killed and genocide the 8372 in the cemetery behind me around 6600 victims have been buried identified. 7000 have been identified wonders to explain this difference we have to go back to the to the summer of 95 so when in july when the killings were finished the victims were buried in mass graves but then in the late summer came the outcry from the International Community and a looming nato intervention so theyre both already went back to these mass graves with heavy robust machinery and relocated the bodies since this was done with heavy machinery. Remains of a Single Person and it up in different locations. There is this infamous case of a 14 year old boy who is the remains have been found in for their friend locations now this cover up operation created as you may imagine a nightmare for those who had the mission and the job of recovering the bodies and identifying identifying them now since everything was done with robust machinery. The fact is that in the cemetery there is practically not a single grave with a full skeleton and not just that there there are many much more grays than one might imagine with containing only a bone or 2 so when they say that someone has been identified that means that that that can mean that only a bone or 2 has been found now the final say on whether or not to bury remain stands with the. Understandably and for some. That thats enough a bone or 2 is enough but understandably again for some of them thats just not enough to make their final piece all right thanks so much part of. Still ahead on aljazeera. 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Weve got lots of hazy sunshine but so lively shall is to ask the usual across a good part of Southeast Asia weve seen some very heavy rain into malaysia recently subtree kuala lumpur and singapore 155 millimeters of rain in the space of 24 hours still plenty of showers in this region actually as we go on through sunday usual splattering if showers all the way across borneo into the philippines and further north as well little time to just drift a little further east which as we go through the next day or 2 wanted to show was there in the heat of the day indonesia plenty a shot was recently making the way across southeastern parts of australia as well and even pushing a little further north into the far south of queensland this weather system here this cold front that will gradually slide little further east which as we go through the next couple of days coming up a little unsettled some very very heavy rain damaging winds a possibility into parts of New South Wales eastern areas of victoria i. C. T. Seeing some very heavy rain some of that western weather also affecting the southeastern corner of queensland planted them right that will make its way towards new zealand some lively downpours on that staying disturbed for a good part of the week ahead into southeastern areas of australia. On countering the cost of war games in the South China Sea washington sends an Aircraft Carrier is beijing flexes its military and economic muscle by jury gets ready to export gas as big oil prepares for a post prove it world plus global remittances plan counting the cost on aljazeera. Every. Quarterback youre watching out this is time to recap our headlines now on kongs prodemocracy camp is holding a primary vote to decide on its candidates for septembers Legislative Council elections they say a newly imposed security law is threatening freedoms in the territory the largest broadcaster in the philippines will remain permanently off the m. P. s refused t