A whites middle classes are being blamed for a rise in pollution. Now in algeria thousands are protesting outside polling stations rejecting the president ial election. But as you can see crowds tore up their ballot papers in the port city of police also 5 tear gas to Disperse Protesters demonstrators are saying the vote is a false that will enable the old leaders to remain in power they want sweeping political reforms before any vote is held so far the turnout has been low are in the around 15 percent in the capital algiers crowds lined up to cast their ballots there are 5 candidates and they all have close links with the old regime well lets take a closer look at just who they are 2 of the main contenders are both former Prime Minister has. Held the position for less than 3 months and 2017 before he was sacked by then president of belies the spirit of frica ali bin fee. It was Prime Minister between 22003. 00 since then hes run twice against bush defeated to become president then is as a day whose twice as a government minister and was also director of the state Radio Station also in the running is. Who heads the next about front policy and a bill cut a big green a from the l b a Islamic Party protest his view all of the candidates as part of the current regime use it as a professor of Political Science and International Relations at council you know best here in doha and hes explaining why the town has been so. 1st of all i think that the jail in of the 2 former Prime Ministers and also a number of businessmen and ministers goes along given some sort of legitimacy to the defendant or it is you know julia but obviously as far as the little bit of concern for the section of our joy in the level of concern this is not enough to satisfy the demands given the fact that the current government headed by you know to deal with we was appointed by you side with the call to police the blood of former president and obviously the 5 candidates for the president ial elections the close ties with the beautifully cut and the fall of 2 some of jillians these elections is just a smokescreen to keep the start youve called. While its being called the u. K. s most election important election in a generation by both the conservative party and the main Opposition Labor Party millions are deciding who will form the next government underside the future of brechts that the country but as you can see promised Boris Johnson has cast his vote in his west london constituency hes seeking another term for his conservative party after just 5 months as leader and a short time ago Jeremy Corbyn the leader of the main Opposition Labor Party also cost his vote this time in north london this will be his 2nd attempt at becoming britains Prime Minister well lets go live now to rory chalons who is in a very wet london the polls have been open for 3 hours now rory and it is looking pretty damn what kind of turnout and we expecting. Well yeah this is unusual for a British Election most British Elections are held in the summer this one as you can see its cold its damp and the big question is what is that going to mean for voter turnout that leads on to another question of course if voter turnout is low what kind of impact does that have on the fortunes of the different Political Parties theres another big unknown as well thats looming over this what is the effect going to be of tactical voting because this is an election where there seems to be a great deal of volatility people are orientating themselves perhaps down lever and remain lines rather than their traditional. Party affiliations so what kind of impact is that going to have the way that this day is going to pan out were going to have voting going through until 22. 00 g. M. T. Then we have the 1st the exit poll which will give us an the 1st indication really about how this is going. The 1st results start coming in at about 23 g. M. C. And by 2 to 3 in the morning g. M. C. Well get a rough picture of the new Political Landscape for the u. K. Boris johnson has tried to keep this focused firmly on bricks its bricks it bricks it bricks it is been his you can say a sentence without getting the word brechts it into it over this campaign labor has tried to. Refocus attention on Public Services and the n. H. S. And their traditional issues. What happens next of course is dependent on whether we get a majority parliaments or were in for another Hung Parliament is a big question for italians theyre feeling a selection for us and london will be chatting turns out the day thank you rory well as he was saying in the u. K. The party that gets to govern needs to secure a majority in parliament in particular and crucial this election where the future of brecks it is a major focus so how 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 their 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 to win the overall election and form a stable government the party needs to win a majority of the parliamentary seats now that means at least 326 and piece of 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. On to other news now and the army is searching for what it calls several 100 heavily armed terrorists who killed at least 70 soldiers their map and their camp near the western border with mali sustained hours of heavy gunfire late on tuesday no claim of responsibility is being made but fight has. Increasingly active in the remote Northwest Region he did just like you he did the detachment in the 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 but our correspondent on that interest is following the story from mali and he says frequent cross border fighting with armed groups is an issue for both countries. An artist has always 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 looked up 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 the 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. Now clashes have broken out between protesters and Security Forces in indias northeast state of us some thousands of troops were sent there following violent demonstrations over a controversial citizenship bill but. Hundreds of defied a protest curfew to protest in goa hati where they fear migrants from bangladesh will be made citizens now both houses of parliament have passed the bill which allows citizenship to minorities facing religious persecution in pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan but muslims are excluded and savor as at those demonstrations in goa hati. Idea of general just to go i live to the state of assam in india the testers are not giving up on the roads and are jaunting slogans on the day demanding that the government withdraws the the citizenship Amendment Bill they say their struggle is to protect their Indigenous Culture and live you some of these boys abuse will go to your seats all of our jobs if you do my grades are given indian citizenship then they can get the jobs these people say they should be getting on the same street weve also seen several recalls 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 planning to send more boots on the ground this is the road which goes from the airports to the capital city of us though hearty tough news being imposed here mobile services have been shut down but despite that several protests have been planned in the capital city today. Chandra is professor of government at Georgetown University here in doha d he explained why theres been so much opposition to the bill in indias northeast. I think in the asylum and 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 so its a bit different from the situation in the indian mainland where its clearly about non muslims who are being let in and that doesnt seem to be a problem the problem seems to be just muslims from neighboring countries its so and whereas in the case of a sam it really 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 building this to take on the executive and they really abdicated any kind of law making function. You know 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 well the weather is next but still ahead of genocidal intent in the International Case for. Now is give a graphic testimony to back the gallery as allegations of genocide. And the philippines president war on drugs is back in the spotlight Rights Groups say the Police Statistics just dont add up. Hello again a welcome back to the International Weather forecast well it has been a little bit cooler over here towards parts of northern asia but the temperatures will be coming up over the next few days and with that we are going to be see an increase of rain as well as snow a lot of that is coming in off the sea of japan now what is happening is we call that sea effect sea effect snow we have that colder air pushing over the warmer water and dumping all the moisture on that western side of japan so you can see a mix of rain as well as snow across much of the region for tokyo a little bit warmer 15 degrees and some rain in your forecast there well across parts of china not looking too bad in terms of the any brain or any a cloud in the forecast fairly sunny across much of the region for shanghai that means 17 degrees for you here on friday down to about 16 by the time we get towards saturday in hong kong it is going to be a nice day few with a temperature of 23 degrees there and as we go down here across much of malaysia heavy rain is expected over the next few days it has been like this for the past week so any more rain of course were talking about flooding localized flooding could be quite easy across much of the region up towards below partly cloudy conditions with the possibility of a rain shower too in the afternoon with a touch of 31 but you carda it is going to be some heavy rain in the forecast for the tempter of 31. 00. Bit of a strange day to start these interviews we just heard today to city of aleppo has fallen. Should we say liberated. One or 4 astonishing stories tode in their own rights how did you know who to trust and who not to trust. A stranger came to town witness on aljazeera. You know again im mr hot reminder of our top stories this hour thousands of algerians have been tearing up their ballot papers in protest against the countrys president ial election which is currently under way demonstrators have been calling for a total boycott and turnout has so far been only around 15 percent. Of the u. K. s general election in 5 years is also under way Prime MinisterBarak Johnson is hoping to secure another term against labor leader jeremy cotton. And indias government has ordered thousands of troops into the northeastern states of poorer they are responding to violent protests against a controversial bill which allows citizenship to persecuted religious minorities and pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan bought excludes muslims. Now lawyers for the gambia have been giving their closing arguments in the International Court of justice as they push for me to be tried for genocide against the range theyre providing testimony on allegations of mass murder and rape leader Aung Sun Suu Kyi told the court on wednesday that the accusations are an incomplete and misleading factual picture of the situation she said soldiers conducted in a just in that operation against groups way in haiti is in the hague and he says a ruling could come quickly once they hearings have wrapped up. We are now hearing from the gambians who are summing up their allegations and they have responded in fairly strong terms to some of the comments made on wednesday by Aung San Suu Kyi and the lawyers representing me particularly the assertion that the Clearance Operations conducted in Rakhine State by the me and my Security Forces were part of legitimate Counterterrorism Operations because of the existence of an militant group the lawyers representing the gambia saying they dont deny that there was a. Militant group but that conflicts cannot be an excuse for genocide and theyre saying that the Security Forces made no differentiation when they went through those villages between suspected armed militants and innocent civilians many men women and children murdered raped and tortured by the Security Forces when they clearly werent parts of any group so after we hear from the gambians today it will be followed by summing up and then the judges will need to go and decide whether or not they agree with the gambian assertion that protection needs to be granted and that could happen fairly quickly if we go back to 993 the case of Bosnia Herzegovina against serbia the i. C. J. Judges did agree that provisional measures should be granted and they made that decision in 19 days so this this 1st phase could all happen fairly quickly. Rights group Amnesty International says the Philippine Government is a literally getting away with murder latest government figures show an estimated 5 and a half 1000 people have been killed since 2016 and president try to go to tat a socalled war on drugs but activists say that number could be as high as 27000 and no one has been held accountable for the deaths well known papa is a human rights offset for Amnesty International in the philippines and he says the Police Figures just dont paint the whole picture but its mostly operational numbers that they have reported on this morning personalities arrests the operations conducted these are just you know. Outputs of of. Their drug operations from 10 to 16 not much worse was said about the killings themselves and yes they have mentions its 5500. Its just them perplexing for us for example when we released our report in february 27th being the numbers are already up to 7000 in our. Almost 2000 killed in Police Operations and more than 3000 killed in a more than 4000 killed in by unidentified gunmen and by the end of 27th in this is a government report they have mentioned that around 4000 killed in full use operations and more than 16000 dead by an unidentified gunman this is at the end of the 17 so it just doesnt make sense the numbers. And an exclusive interview with al jazeera russias special envoy to syria has denied there have been more attacks on civilians in the province of speaking in kazakhstan where the latest round of talks are being held Alexander Levante have called the reports fake news of some a bunch of aid reports from. Another round of talks aimed at ending the conflict in syria now in its 9th year for 2 days delegates have negotiated an argued about peace because the capital formally called us donna is where this track of diplomacy began in 2017 between the guarantors russia iran and turkey the United Nations also took part alongside the Syrian Government and opposition representatives they have to put civilians on their priority list make sure to go forward with the political process there are hundreds of thousands of detainees in syria that they cant connect with their families they cant that we dont know even if theyre alive or dead although the u. N. Believes the real diplomatic solution is being drafted in geneva with syrias new constitution progress there has been stalled for Months Committee in the software of course not solve the Syrian Crisis so we need also to discuss the broader aspects of Security Council resolution 2254 and i would continue to discuss servitor 2 parters the socalled safe zone along the Turkish Border and the offensive in rebel held for top of the agenda the turkish and russian president s agreed to establish a corridor free of kurdish fighters where Syrian Refugees could return but like everywhere else in syria guaranteeing safety in the 30 kilometer zone can never be certain diplomats and representatives tried to shore theres been progress in the 14th meeting of the stand up process will be no military solution to the syrian conflict in the Firm Commitment to advance viable and lasting syrian lives and syrian only you and facilitate that political process in line with your own Security Council resolution going to do. 54 although its still very cold but optimists will tell you minus 12 degrees centigrade is a lot better than minus 30 a few days ago similarly all parties involved in the conflict in syria have been telling us that it is an achievement to have everyone under one roof but previous agreements such as the conviction though than avoiding civilian casualties have not been fully implemented. Thousands of miles away from the 5 star hotels bombs are still dropping on syrians. The Syrian Opposition says regime of president Bashar Al Assad with help from its russian allies has intensified attacks and it could have. Aid workers say more than 1002000 civilians have been displaced from the countryside of hama and in recent weeks russia says call that sparked through. All of it completely fake news there is a threat. In military piece of the russian personell coming out from this area of course will respond to the right have some red lines but nevertheless. Despite the red line which we cannot cross not the turkey we as the russian. Nevertheless will manage to. Agree also on the different subjects and while millions brave another winter the hope for peace in returning home remains elusive for more syrians. On kazakhstan. U. S. Democrats have warned that president is on the verge of dictatorship while republicans have defended his record it was all part of a fiery debate on the House Judiciary Committee on the 2 articles of impeachment against donald trump the Democratic Party is leading efforts to formally charged with the abuse of power and obstruction of congress. With the president we can sit down i would vances American Security interests by fighting in america an adversary the president weakens america where the president demands that a Foreign Government investigators domestic political rivals corrupt our elections to the founders this kind of corruption was especially british is free and Fair Elections are the bedrock of our democracy is our elections are corrupt everything is corrupt so tonight weve experienced were in december after a year of trashing this institution a year of trying to trash this administration and this president we come up with abuse of power and cant define it we come up with the obstruction of congress after 72. 00 days i know theyre desperate you know how i know it adam schiff soem words yesterday we cant go to court that would take too long the hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein is reported to have reached a 25000000. 00 settlement with women who accused him of Sexual Assault the New York Times says more than 30 actresses and former employees would share the payout and the deal would end nearly every north st and he avoids missing any wrongdoing now the Un Climate Change Conference is in its final days statements and i will commitments from was leaders are expected by the end of this week up 25 is particularly important because its the last conference before 2020 when many countries will have to explain the steps theyll take to meet paris climate targets but im buying into it and it is at the summit and he says theres still a number of outstanding issues that need to be a great aplomb. It is the penultimate day here madrid probably going to actually time is these things will be days or probably into saturday as some crucial issues still at play not least National Commitment to reducing emissions which is vital as we go into 2020 and also some rather well be but again Crucial Detail on Carbon Trading and loss and damage that is compensating those poor nations impacted by climate change. We had some drama in the homes here outside the main plenary where the u. N. Secretary general is speaking as lots of protests and doesnt pictures of the incident lots of protesters gathered hundreds of protesters gathered making their voices heard frustrated at the state the slow state to progress here at home now these are credentials observers who then had their credentials taken away because of this protest covered quite a few of these conferences over the last 2 years since 2012 and never have i seen scenes like that so its an important issue and also demonstrates the a chasm there is between the feeling outside these holes and as i say the slave state of progress within one piece of developing news we have the European Unions greendale it hasnt been widely accepted as a Real Progress but there is an element of progress in the sense that they put forward a 100000000000 dollars to try and wean e. U. Countries off fossil fuel so thats one development theres an awful lot more needed. Well lets go now to the worlds top carbon mess and china where the desire to have a brand new home is being partly blamed for an increase in air pollution that steel and cement factories are producing smog as they meet demand for new infrastructure and housing from madison reports from beijing. China produces about 20 percent of the worlds Carbon Emissions coal makes up around 59 percent of chinas Energy Consumption and thick smog can still hang over beijing in winter as people light a relatively cheaper coal fires to ward off the bitter chill. But in recent years coal mines have been closed and the building of new power plants has been restricted they are heavily polluted areas. In the last couple of years you see smog almost every day in winter the pollution was very serious but since last year its getting much better the number of electric vehicles in china has been booming the amount of investment the chinese be making over the last 7 years in Renewable Energy has been significant and the pollution levels from its power stations has leveled off but despite that chinas emissions the hole for the 1st 6 months of 2019 rose by 4 percent china as well as the middle class is being blamed the surge in demand for new housing and infrastructure has meant more work for chinas steel and cement factories and a rise in pollution there result of that is overcapacity industry a lot of questionable. Infrastructure projects in other areas so thats the part where there is space to build what you actually need but. Stop building just because you want to create demand for more steel and cement and construction work china has argued for years that it shouldnt be criticised for using coal to power its remarkable transformation into the worlds 2nd largest. Economy i think china and. At that time some other developing countries believe that this is our rights to develop because they recognize that yes its our rights to develop but on the other hand its also about our rights for you know peoples right to brief house here the skies above beijing maybe clear more often but while chinas new middle class demands new homes chinese factories are likely to continue pumping out pollution rob Matheson Al Jazeera beijing. Hello again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines in algeria thousands are protesting outside polling stations to reject the countrys president ial election crowds tore up their ballot papers in the port city of beijing police also fired tear gas to Disperse Protesters demonstrators say the vote is a fost that will enable the old leaders to remain in power they want sweeping political reforms before any votes is held turnout has so far been low as only around 15 percent. Well millions in the u. K. Are taking part in that countrys general election to decide who will form the next government and decide the future of brecks it Prime Minister bars johnson is hoping to secure another term against a labor leader Jeremy Corben its the u. K. s 3rd general election in less than 5 years chalons has more. Tactical voting is likely to be a big consideration in this election we dont know how much you have to wait and see but the traditional bournes of Party Loyalty seem to have been fraying over the last 2 or 3 years depending on whether you remain a or a lever quite likely people are going to be crossing party lines voting for the party that it didnt do in previous years because that policy most closely follows where they feel about breaks it when the army in asia areas searching for what it calls several 100 heavily armed terrorists who killed at least 70 soldiers they are camped near the western border with mali sustained hours of heavy gunfire late on tuesday no claim of responsibility is being made but fighters into eisel and al qaeda increasingly active in that remote enormous region clashes have broken out between protesters and Security Forces in indias northeast state of awesome thousands of troops were sent there following violent demonstrations over a controversial citizenship bill hundreds defied a curfew to protest in goa hati where they fear migrants from bangladesh will be made citizens both houses of parliament have now passed that bill which allows citizenship to minorities facing religious persecution and pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan but muslims are excluded. Well those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after the bottom line in the meantime you can keep up to date with all the news on our web site thats aljazeera dot com stay with us. Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question for you are you concerned that the worlds economy is more fragile than anyone is admitting lets get to the bottom line. You can always find doomsday predictions telling you that the dollar is on the verge of collapse or the Global Financial system is in serious danger but how much of it is true lets look at this clock this is a live shot of the u. S. National debt clock in new york its not 100 percent accurate but it gives you a good estimate of the American National deficit right now earlier this year it pushed well beyond 20 trillion dollars its 22. 00 trillion dollars now but what does that mean for the United States and for the world is this guy about to fall what do we really need to be worried about and what trend should we be paying attention to