Solomon islands as thousands of communities are washed away. Security is tight across afghanistan as voters choose a new president to take over hamid karzai. Despite threats of violence, there has been a steady flow of voters turning up at polling stations. It represents the first democratic transfer of power. The encincumbent, hamid karzai,s been in power for 12 years. Eight candidates campaigned. Including abdullah abdullah, who ran in 2009 but lost. Another is ashraf ghani ahmadzai, a formier finance minister and world bank figures. And zalmai rassoul, serving as foreign minister, and has been one of Hamid Karzais closestal lies. Well, many afghan came out to vote, despite the threat of violence. Here is what some had to say . I voted for the welfare of my country, the future and the rebuilding. Im happy, and now im going back. As an afghan woman, ive come to cast my vote. I ask all afghan women to come and vote. The police are providing us with security. Happily we have dom cast ou
Protesters off the streets. Welcome to the programme. Irans president says his government will fight what he calls terrorism in iraq. Hassan rouhani didnt go into detail about how iran would get involved. Military forces are struggling to combat fighters. They captured mosul and tikrit from the government. We can join imran khan in the capital baghdad. Its about this time imran that parliament is sitting and Nouri Almaliki is asking for a state of emergency. Thats right. The Parliament Session is about to begin, which is what we heard from state television in baghdad. Its a crucial meeting. An emergency session of parliament declared a few days ago. Prime minister Nouri Almaliki wants a state of emergency giving him sweeping powers. Its unclear whether hell visit the parliament and meet with the parliamentarians. Hes not technically he doesnt technically have to be there. Several sunni politicians insisted that he put his case forward. Hes under a tremendous amount of pressure, a meeti
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Here is more of what is ahead . Anything but peaceful at the conference amounted at ending syrias civil war. Just a few minutes. I cant promise you. Theres no way that the man who led the brutal response to his own people could regain the legitimacy to government. The focus has been on ending the war as opposed to winning it. Its important for americans to recognise that we have young men and women in harms way. We need to see the job all the way through. After saving the game for seattle sherwin is getting all the attention. That is a result youre going to get. That was immature, i regret doing that. We begin with bitter words and accusations that broke out almost immediately. Syrian peace talks began in switzerland, where opposing sides in the conflict met for the first time. Syrian foreign minister walid almuallem was defiant, becaming the rebels for atrocities and the destruction of the syrian culture and strongly rejected secretary of state john kerrys assertion that syrias presid