A little but the heart of the town of counted. And less than an hour polls will close in spains 2nd general election this year acting Prime Minister pedre sanchez called for the vote after failing to form a governing Coalition Following the april poll spain has been without a stable government since 2015 and this is the 4th vote held in as many years the leftist but demos party has vowed to help sanchez a socialist form a coalition the vote has been overshadowed by the rise of the far right vox party and the unrest in catalonia we have correspondents covering this election in a moment we speak with Hoda Abdelhamid she is in the catalan regional capital barcelona 1st go to jonah hall in madrid and jonah as you are saying this is the 2nd vote. Take place this year and that the 4th in 4 years voters must be feeling somewhat fatigued but whats turnout been like today. What we await final figures on turnout its like to be slightly lower than it was in april thats what the indicators are sho
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
Monster we look at whats behind the global success of the childrens show sesame street. But in americas longest serving leader bolivian president evo morales has resigned in the face of widespread protests of his disputed reelection moralities who spent nearly 14 years in office made the announcement in a televised address to the nation hours after the countrys military chief called for him to step down the president s of venezuela and cuba have condemned what they are calling a coup against morale as international monitors of call for octobers Election Results to be an old because of alleged irregularities a little money im resigning from my position as president in order that people from culture obama and the poor people are not on anymore im resigning for them we dont want there to be confrontation early this morning we met ministers and we decided to resign in order for there to be new elections so awful bolivia all for life all for the country. Mariana sanchez joins us now on the