Without Running Water for seven days. Well look ahead to the climax to the English Premier League season. Plus a horrific crash in the latest round in the indy car championships in the United States details later. Voters in parts of Eastern Ukraine are casting ballots in a referendum on self rule. Its been condemned by the international community. The pop has been held in two region, donetsk and luhansk, but only people in a dozen areas understand separate control will vote. More than 3,000 polling stations reportedly have been set up. There has been fighting in donetsk, slovyansk, maricopa among the towns voting on sunday. Rebels have printed 3 million ballots, asking if voters agree to selfrule. Opinion polls suggest around 70 in the east dont support the separatists, dont want to leave ukraine or be part of russia. The majority rejects the new government in kiev. The vote will not be legally binding. Well talk to paul brennan at a polling snags donetsk in Eastern Ukraine. I believe theres confusion about what the question means. Reporter theres the possibility of it being open to interpretation. Im here in school 95. Voting has been under way for five hours, its nearly 1 oclock in the afternoon. It asks whether people want to vote yes or no and whether they want self rule. What does that entail . Is that the freedom to run to the arms of russia or beindependent of both russia and ukraine. Its not clear. Its coy. Its open to interpretation, thats important to say. Its calm, there are 10 registrars taking details. They are gin an Identity Card or passport. They sign their name on a piece of paper and are given a ballot. They tick where they want to. I havent seen a single no vote yet, and they put it in a perspex ballot box in the center of the room. Theres no booths, no privacy, and its obviously open to the possibility of electoral fraud. Theres nothing to stop these people registering at a polling station somewhere else in the city and doing it all over again. The yes or no question doesnt reflect the spectrum of opinion that there is here in the east. As my colleagues jonah hull reports. Reporter the voters in Eastern Ukraine are invited to see their country in stark turps, those waging war on the peaceful communities of donetsk and its surrounds. A take for yes the only answer to the idea of their own peoples republic. Opinion polls suggest that Popular Support for the idea is low. We found it to be divided at level. Ill vote yes. I want piece, i dont want the west coming here, shooting at our kids. I will not vote. It will have an impact on us. I will not go and vote. Its not that i dont support it, i dont find the referendum legitimate. The head of the Central Election Commission of the peoples republic of donetsk says the referendum will meet international standards. Here is something that observers may cause to question, a sign in the windowo of the polling saying say yes to the republic. Of course, there are not going to be international observers. And among volunteer polling station workers, the outcome is not in much doubt. When it comes to the percentage, i cannot tell, but i believe it will be 60 in favour. If the polls are right and theres a majority against, veteran Civil Society campaigner says theres good reason to stay silent. In recent weeks many colleagues have been ab ducted, beaten and intimidated. The ukranian colours all but vanished from the streets of the east. At the beginning it was hooliganism. There was no reaction from the police, no punishment. When the evil grew, they armed themselves. We only have our hands. As security and Civil Society fell away. Violence and lawlessness has rich. Its hardly an ideal environment in the exercise of democracy. The poll is not legally binding what happens next then . It is a good question, and its top the whim, i suppose, of the peoples council. The vote is undoubtedly going to be an overwhelming yes. I have not seen a single no vote. There are limitations the vote is taking place in the areas controlled by the prorussian, and largely at the point of a gun. It could not, in an international way, beregarded as legitimate. Its been dismissed by the international community. The people out here and in here, voting today, are not doing it at the point of a gun, they are not forced to come here, they are expressing grave dissatisfaction with the situation that the kiev government is putting them in. It simply cannot be ignored. They are legitimate grievances. They want to re negotiate the relationship with the central government. Its easy to dismiss, the gunmen in balaclavas, easy to dismiss them as gunmen and extremists, ordinary people are here, and although its a quasi democratic process, what they are saying is heart felt and cannot be ignored. Lets take the message to kiev and speak to kim bernal there. How is this viewed . We have heard from the head of the president ial administration here, acting at least. And he reiterated the governments position that he believes the referendum is illegal, but he went on to say he believes its nothing more than the actions of murderists and terrorists to cover up their times. He said where this to be legitimate, theyd need thousands of polling stations. It was illegal under the constitution, and would have had to be overseen by the residential commission. There has been offers of dialogue that could have led to a legitimate referendum. At every point that has been offered, its seen as a delay from the government, and that the terrorist equalled them in the east, they used that to continue their operation there. Its clear the government in kiev will not accept the results of this referendum but they are planning roundtable talks this week. Negotiations between all political sides, although nobody they said nobody with a gun or terrorists will be allowed to take part in those talks. Ongoing in kiev, very much the message is clear that this is an illegal referendum and it will not be recognised going forward. Three gen men van killed. The incident took place near the president ial palace. In the capital sanaa. Syrian activists in aleppo said many residents had been without Running Water for a week. As explained, there are conflicting reports where the reasons why. Reporter these children have to queue to get water. Many invested in central aleppo havent had any for days. People here have been looking for water for the past few days. They are getting it from wells and mosques. Its mainly used for cleaning, but we dont have any other options. Translation we dont have tap water for more than two weeks or more. We come to transfer water to our homes. We are getting exhausted. Tap water has been cut off. As you see, the boys are trying to get water from the mosque taps. Without this they wouldnt have a single drop of water. Antigovernment fighters blame the Syrian Air Force for bombing the water pipeline. The syrian observatory for human rights based in the uk accuses antigovernment fighters of Cutting Supply lines to western parts of aleppo, saying the rebels were trying to cut the water for government areas and desstructed the supply to other areas. Translation there has been no water for a while. We had to dig a well so people an cues and dig water. Theres neither water nor electricity here. The city was home to millions. Years of fighting crippled the infrastructure. Activists warned that unprotected Water Resources carried the risk of spreading the disease. A suicide bomb attack in pakistan killed four people. It happened in the northwestern city of peshawar. Police say the plast targeted a refugee champ for internally displaced people from nearby khyber province. 14 others were injured in the attack. Seven police men have been killed in a landmine plast in indias west of the two police men injured in the attack were taken to a hospital. They were searching a forest, looking for maoist rebels. After the explosion there was a change of fire between police and the rebels. Staying into the final phase of indias 5week election comes to a close on monday. There were tens of millions prevented from voting. We went to the meet some of them. Three generations of the rappi family talking about the elections. Most were able to vote. Raj and his wife couldnt. You have a lot of free emotions when you discuss this. At the end of the day you want to action what you think, so you want to work for a party with whom your ideology goes far. When the day comes, you go there, you dont see your name and you feel frustrated, helpless. They voted in previous general and local elections. No one in the Election Commission can tell him why he was not on the electoral role this time around. He was one of two who were eligible to vote, but couldnt. They include crews in transit. Indians working and studying abroad. The government estimates there were 10 million working abroad. Many lowpaid migrants in the gulf and cant afford to come home and vote. There are others, who the issue isnt cost. This woman had surgery, and therefore missed the chance to vote. If the government had a provision for postal ballot and i had the papers coming into my house i would have voted. I dont know why the government hasnt thought about it. Only a few people can vote by mail, including security personal, polling staff and diplomats abroad. Indias Supreme Court ordered the Election Commission of india to look into the problem. The postal ballot has to be the exception and not the norm. It should be available for people who, for a valid reason, not empathy, lethargy, not watching a movie on television they should not be the reasons people use postal ballots. Analysts predict india is heading towards a coalition government. What is clear is the Worlds Largest democracy has a problem that can be fixed by the Election Commission in time for the election in 2019. More to come on the newshour, including making history michael sam becomes the first openly gay man drafted into americas biggest Football League. What does it mean tore advertising revenues. Hamilton versus ros burger. Two drivers qualify ahead of the spanish grand prix. The trial of the son of the late leader resumes in tripoli. Dozens of former officials face charges ranging from corruption, war crimes, resulting from alleged role in suppressing the 2011 uprising. He has been tried via video link. And we go live in the capital tripoli. I believe its started now. I think you are breaking up and i couldnt hear you properly. Im just asking about the effect and what we can expect. Yes, it has. For over an hour or so. We saw Muammar Gaddafi son standing in the dock in his prison cell, and the court held via video link. The judge asked him. The audio was not clear. He didnt know what he said. We do understand that the judge as called on all defendants to prepare their lawyers, if not, the court will £lawyers for them. Some of the lawyers that took the chance to speak where demanding the court and the prosecution to give them the evidence and file against all the defendants to study it. This case is one of the biggest in the history of libya, and we understand that there are 200 witnesses, and some 40,000 pages of evidence. They want to have a look on those evidence against the defendants. Amnesty international is saying that theres no way this can be a fair trial considering the fact that it is being conducted via video link. Why the decision to take that route . Its simply. The rebel group refused to hand in Muammar Gaddafi, and that was the only way to have safe and trial. The militias gave the authorities two options. To hold them in time. The reason is the following they fear if they hand in him to a weak government in tripoli, he will be killed by western intelligence this is what they say or he could escape, or he could escape because trip and the government is week, and the capital has rival Militia Group and armed rebels that refuse to hand in their weapons. The final point is that this is their big fish. They are the one that is want to keep Muammar Gaddafi there, to improve barring since between the bargains between the two, because they would lose huge influence. Police in iraq say around 40 soldiers have been killed in two separate attacks. Troops on their way to a village south of missual were killed when gunmen ambushed their convoy. They were kidnapped and executed. In the city of fallujah 22 soldiers who were kidnapped have been confirmed dead. Three were killed in a car bombing in a restaurant near the iraq capital. The blast wounded 14 others. A series of bombings killed a total of 19 people on saturday. We are getting reports that iraqs air force are using barrel bombs. The pictures are set to show the improvised device which has been dropped in civilian areas. The weapon used in syria. The government has taken to improvising explosives due to the shortage of conventional weapons. We have an iraq researcher of the north African Division of Human Rights Watch and she joins us from fallujah. Tell us about the barrel bombs and the impact they are having. Thank you very much. I actually im not in fall usuala, im outside of fallujah. People who have fled fallujah i have been told that the army has fired barrel bombs on residential neighbourhoods in fallujah. We havent been able to confirm it, but there has been serious destruction of homes and in the southwest part of fallujah and also barrel bombs have been dropped in other neighbourhoods. We dont have information that casualties as a result of the barrel bombs [ inaudible ] a number of residents fled, but we heard that at least 500 families have left fallujah and arrived in towns around the area in the past two weeks. We dont have a number, the total numbers in the last few days. But we are extremely concerned about the possibility of indiscriminate mortar fires, which killed, according to my sources, 15 people in the last couple of days. A worrying development there. Thank you for talking to us. A Suicide Attack in afghanistan killed three people. It happened on the outskirts of kandahar. The target of the blast was the afghan army and an isaf convoy. 18 people were wounded including three african soldiers. The African National congress has been declared a winner. The victory cements jacob zumas presidency for another five years. The a. N. C. Fell short of a twothirds majority. The lost 15 seats. The leading opposition party, the Democratic Alliance took less than a quarter of the vote, but made the biggest gains in parliament, securing 89 seats. 22 more, the most held. The Economic Freedom fighters made gapes, winning about 25 seats. Reporter the African NationalCongress Celebrates its fifth election win. Jacob zuma is upbeat. Millions of South Africans have given his administration another chance. The president survived accusations of poor delivery of basic services and allegations of corruption. Who can defeat us if you are with the people. Who can. No one. Those who are not with the people, the people are not going to vote for them. And that is what has happened. That is why other parties of those who spoke so violently in parliament they have been reduced into little puffs in parliament. The partys liberation has been voted into power as a party of government, but this time with a reduced majority. The administration has lost the a. N. C. In the first election it fell from 70 to 66 , and now from 66 to 61. 2 . The big question you have to ask is we are unhappy with jacob zuma and some of the behaviour. The new kid on the block go more than 30 feet. The main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance increased the chair of the international vote. Reporter the public and officials are celebrating their win. Theyll likely head to the drawing board and go forward. Local government elections are 2016 and they cant afford to lose any more support. The African National congress is more than 100 years old and is seen as a party that liberated the black majority. Its a wake up call that South Africans have other options if they fail. Leaders of the association of Southeast Asian nations are meeting in myanmars capital. A dispute over ownership of islands in the South China Sea is expected to top the agenda. Chinese ships allegedly rammed Vietnamese Police boats in the disputed waters a few days ago. China claims the entire South China Sea, putting it in conflict with taiwan, philippines, malaysia and brunei. Thousands of Thai Government supporters rally on the out skirts on the capital bangkok. They are angry at the dismissal of yingluck shinawatra. They are determined to defend democracy. They call for the entire cabinet to step down in an overhaul of the political system. In southwest china firefighters rescue 49 people from two flooded areas in the city of gerlin. Lets get more on the weather with richard. What about the floods in china . It is covering a vast swathe of the country. Shell take a look at the satellite imagery. It doesnt pick it up all that well or give an indication of how severe the rain has been. Some of the totals have been massive. In some ways, this is not metrology. It is part of the weather front they get at this time of the year. It is to be expected. We have seen a vast amount of rain coming down. These shots come from a province where there has been province in terms of trouble and transport. The heaviest rain we have seen there for more than 20 years, and the situation in the prove joins towards the north is see how ferocious the water