On the cookie monster look at the global success behind the iconic childrens show sesame street. But its being counted in spains general election and whats shaping up to become a battle for power between the countries fragmented left and right this is the 4th time despondence have gone to the polls in 4 years after socialist leader and acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez failed to form a Coalition Government but sundays vote has been dominated by fears of a far right surge and a renewed push for Catalan Independence well al jazeera is jonah hol is following this story for us from the spanish capital madrid and jonah polls have now closed always getting an idea of whats happening. Thats right 8 pm polls are closed we dont have any official exit polls they dont do that sort of thing here in spain there are opinion polls that are conducted throughout voting day that give us some highly unofficial but sense of the direction of travel we can at least talk about those itll be a couple of hou
Celebrating 50 years of elmo big on the cookie monster we look at the global success by the iconic childrens show sesame street. Larkin darwood sports as liverpool beat of Manchester City in the English Premier League plus Rugby World Cup win in south africa parade through Port Elizabeth the home town of kalak to see our colleagues. We begin with breaking news this hour bolivias president obama has announced his resignation follows comments from bolivia as military chief calling on morale is to step down so that stability can be restored to the country on sunday morales declared he would hold new elections after the organization of american states said there was serious it regularities in octobers vote the president won that election with just enough votes to avoid a 2nd round runoff but it did trigger suspicions of. And its nationwide protests have been taking place over the past few weeks and that puts south americas longest serving leader under increasing pressure as opposition grou
A bloodbath. After 2 years under house arrest for treason cambodias Opposition Leader kem succot is released. But we begin with breaking news out of bolivia where president has announced his resignation in the past hour or so now this does follow comments from believe his military chief calling on morality to step down so that stability and order can be restored to the country. Sunday morale is declared he would hold new elections after the organization of american states said there was serious it regularities in octobers vote president won that election with just enough votes to avoid a 2nd round but it triggered suspicions of fraud and spawn nationwide protests in the country. Ceremonious year i am resigning from my position as president in order that the people of course and the poor people are not strident on any more i am resigning for them if we dont want there to be confrontations early this morning we need to ministers and we decided to resign in order for there to be new elect
In this league but a hard fought win against patter go on. Twitter welcome to the program afghanistans president ial election day has been marred by approximately 68 taliban attacks most of them by rockets at least 5 people were killed and scores more were injured according to the interior minister the Islamist Group threatened to disrupt the election with violence and had warned voters to stay at home there were also problems with the voting process fuelling concerns about the legitimacy of the poll. They went to vote and ended up in hospital. Joy after the polling station open some voters came in and cast their votes and suddenly there was an explosion i dont remember what happened after that i got wounded one of. Here in kunduz in afghanistans north as well as in kandahar in the south voters were left injured after attacks on polling stations votes are now being counted after a tense polling day marred by violence or threats of it from the taliban for many voters Peace Security and
Robert mugabe is to be buried in his rural home town today and it follows weeks of wrangling between the government and his family over his final resting place. Im rebecca rivers welcome to the Program Fresh rallies have been taking place in hong kong to mark 5 years since the start of the socalled Umbrella Movement which saw mass protests in the territory prodemocracy demonstrators have been protesting for months after a controversial extradition bill was tabled back in march this year its since been shelved but protesters have a wide range of demands that echo those of 5 years ago they include direct democracy for hong kong and autonomy from china. Lets go live now to hong kong where our correspondent charlotte shell some pill is standing by charlotte how is the protests today shaped up on this anniversary. A lot of people were back i had predicted clashes on the streets today and that is what we saw for a brief time protesters were throwing bricks and stones and government buildings