This is the news. Coming up in the next sixty minutes a choice to define the future of liberians votes in a president ial runoff. For the unrest in peru police fired tear gas and fights with protesters angry at a decision to pardon the former president. Barred from running against a Prominent RussianOpposition Leader is told hes not eligible to run in next years president ial election. Including defending champions. In Cleveland Cavaliers. So polls are open in liberias president ial runoff thats expected to lead to the first democratic transition of power in seventy years the former wild footballer of the year george weah is taking on the current Vice President joseph block i in an election thats focused on creating jobs and fighting corruption. Reports now from the capital monrovia. In the contest for the liberian presidency this month former International Footballer do it well and start saying he received thirty eight percent of the votes cast in the foster round held in october hes opponent in the round of current liberian Vice President just a walk i got twenty eight percent of the vote its here in the car. That where grew up has been hyping his humble upbringing and style himself as the pro of pork and to date a man who knows exactly what liberians want from the government tension of politics we have a traditional voting along ethnic religious and regional lines where you were born and grew up is important there is a hope here thats when he becomes president he will help his community where dropped out of school at an early age to concentrate on playing football he applied his trade in liberia until he got a break to play for the french club a is more like oh and from there on to some of the worlds most glamorous clubs in two thousand and three where now is his intention to run for the presidency after taking on the incumbent president Ellen Johnson sirleaf to a second round vote in two thousand and five the footballer was bitten this is known as walk in the park this could be we as the he led in the first one in two thousand and five and phil to win in the second round this is wide open it could be president we have a president was. A former head of liberias Petroleum Refinery company and agriculture minister seventy two year old joseph. Has served as liberias Vice President since two thousand and six his tenure as Vice President will be remembered as a period of an interrupted peace no small feat in a country torn apart by years of civil. Considered a safe by many given his long experience of the highest echelons of power in liberia ambassador walker strongest point his credentials in Public Policy and the broad perception of him. On the. True this line around he has an honesty capital. In liberia where theres been so much reports of corruption hes managed to keep on touched he will have to persuade many liberians still that he can do it differently than he has done for more than a decade many hell hold the government responsible for failing to improve their lot and i have a joins us now live from monrovia. The hood up people voting today whats the turnout like. While everyone was. Long hauling stations is about two hours since the voting. Is expected to be. The foster round where there was seventy five. Because of course this is. Just two candidates they want. To bring. All these. Greaves shes the chair paul some of the mush most Civil Society consul thank you very much for joining us and do you expect to see. In this i mean today. I was a yes and nor will anyone know why. In october when we had a elections we had twenty candidates and each of those candidates had to follow and today you have to. So you expect all the followers of the candidate to come out but you also a half. Paul representative as well himself had to follow us. Now were standing in i expected ten hours because for me as all this entire election is not about it when a candidate but this is in a leg shuns in october or rather is about a decision as to well i want to go so based on that fact it turned out a mill one know why you dont have a lot skew as there was in the ten is because you only have two president s today and the process is not as tedious as it was in in october you had two sets of ballot you had a balance of twenty candidates for president that you had to check and then you had also had a ballot of representative some of the district had twenty eight president contesting some of them had five some other had started so the number of prices that were contesting the ballots of very long it was a different poll says. Most of the people weve been talking to tell us what they want is a continued wish of the whole year. To piece the. Hard since one thousand and nine. President. And leave how much of a challenge would be would it be for whoever takes over from home pressed up off a correction pieces fifteen years. In two thousand and three we had the signing of the comprehensive peace accord in our crowd so in fifteen years three years of interim government twelve years of madames the least we have been at peace with ourselves now moving far one was liberians want to ensure that at the end of the day they can continue to go to sleep and be. Of running to and he was to all the fourteen years of this. You have two contestants who are looking to. Ensure that it. Was standing one will want to add these two candidates what do they. Know i can say that their Vice President. Immediate step to the president he almost anyone has a reason all the Different Things we know that. He was a part of. Ambassador also some. Peace ambassador. How to manage the peace yes. But i mean. Im not. So much from his group so he will talk about this later on thank you very much at all right now but he thinks they will have a lot of their reporting live from monrovia russian Opposition Leader alexina valley has been barred from running in next years president ial election hes been told that hes ineligible because of a criminal conviction from best moment a charge that he says was politically motivated but all the is now calling for a boy cause of the march vote polls show president Vladimir Putin is on course to be reelected comfortably which would keep him in the kremlin until twenty twenty four hours a serious worry chalons reports from moscow. This was no surprise at all really how i mean i have been talking with colleagues yesterday and weve been speculating that there was maybe a small chance that the tightly controlled russian president ial system the electoral system here would be given a bit of a shake up and maybe there would be some fresh life breathed into it most people are assuming that person is going to march towards a fourth term in office when the elections are held in march next year but no that was not to be the thirteen member panel of the Central Election Committee decided twelve votes with one abstention that they were going to bar the valley from running against putin now the the argument they use is that he has this prior conviction and therefore is ineligible no valley has always said that although that may be the election rules actually the constitution which should have primacy says that any one of sound mind who is not in jail can run in the elections so hes going to take this to the Constitutional Courts to watch them to make a decision this was a Heated Exchange at times he was saying that the panel should do the right thing for once in their lives that nobody is holding a gun to their heads and that they should stop messing around with the election the panel fired back saying that he was brainwashing kids that he was disrespecting the Election Commission and that they hinted he was politically irrelevant anyway now what is now and we do next will of course are said hes going to take this to the Constitutional Courts but he is also saying that his supporters should boycott the election and he is saying that yes there will be street process he hasnt set a date for these yet but hes saying that when the protests hits they will be nationwide lets talk to get markoff who is the director of the institute for Political Studies in moscow former kremlin adviser good to have you with us as you heard there in the valley says the constitution doesnt bar him from running and that the constitution outweighs the constitution electoral law. How do you think the Constitutional Court will will view that little except that argument. Not. Enough money. And. Lets see if there are a lot. Cheaper to. Buy court for. The. Lawyers theyre. Criminals so why does president putin view election of as such a threat. Our public nearly got in a lot. Of red in the running but what will there be a lot was in the army you can stop the war but i mean every joining gratia and you know what im going on about are you going to send mark dont you weve got. A big problem with that but if youre not one it doesnt weve been every order a medic and that isnt generally want to undermine to get him or rush on. Election and who want to appear russian. But i think all these guys. Who are finally army. Dream im not told but well be going in there and so well and you know weve been there all really well and so our political or our using we got a. Role in this but the budget was inaudible and it wont be what do you and we are outside why are wanton rushing going to get many thanks to the amount of staff live from moscow many approaches but the quality of the the sound on that now nigerias military says that it stops an attack by suspected boko haram fighters on the outskirts of the northeastern city of my degree heavy gunfire was reported in the one lie area as the army forced off the attackers swell the number of casualties remains unknown its thought that many women and children have been injured more now from al jazeera as an address in a butcher. According to security sources weve talked weve spoken to a short while ago but i was repelled by the military but it lasted a long time i was in this is a corking about cyclists arriving instead of the pickup trucks and thence talking to a test fire firing their guns and going to exculpate in the mall area apparently they started with a military or security checkpoint there now the sources weve spoken to said hes too early to say how many people died because of late getting attacked and that area has been cordoned off and he is being secured by the Nigerian Army there and that but that source also confirmed to me that most of the people affected well indeed women and children he particularly transported three people from that area to the hospital inside made a good move that by the way is just a few kilometers from known eastern idlers biggest city make a quick my degree has always been in the process of that crisis that city but the military stopped them from taking the city they have occupied lots of territory which by the way assad now they have lost to the military and of course the Regional Forces to fight out of motives to magadan parts of the moon chad and measure the public for the time being the situation in my degree and on the outskirts of my to go at the outskirts of my degrees come. In peru thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest against the popping of president former president albert of forty mori he was serving a twenty five Year Prison Sentence for murders and disappearances that were committed during his time in office in the one nine hundred ninety s. Ballasts reports. Of. Chaos in lima these peruvians are furious the former president Alberto Fujimori was pardoned by the current president pedro public option ski a man they believe was trying to save his political career diesel Oil Companies im afraid of seeing all the people mobilizing the police were following us in circling us they got close to us and threw bombs at us. Fujimori was serving a twenty five Year Prison Sentence for murders kidnappings and disappearances carried out by a government death squads during his time in office he lived from one thousand nine hundred ninety until two thousand critics say his was the most corrupt government in peruvian history. Proteus started on sunday the families of his victims lead the charge. To try to fit if any im angry because i think its a violation of the memory of her family members its a violation of the fight for the relatives for justice and truth the reason for the protests is inside this hospital the frail seventy nine year old fujimori is suffering from low Blood Pressure and hostile arrhythmia. He recorded this message with his son came Merry Christmas he says. Critics say it was cain g. Who secured the pardon hes a congressman in the majority Popular Force posse thats led by his cystic acre and voted to save president from impeachment last week critics say it was in exchange for his fathers pardon the president has defended his decision to. Pollan fujimori those most a city then its obvious to all of us that the government he inherited at the beginning of the ninetys the country was in a chaotic and violent crisis incurred significant transgressions of the law as far as democracy and human rights are concerned but i also believe his government contributed to National Progress im convinced that those of us who believe in democracy cannot allow Alberto Fujimori to die in prison going to. The con and was bet by a silent majority a survey in may found sixty percent of peruvians wanted fujimori free supporters created him with the defeat of the shining path in saving the economy from collapse. The fujimoris critics the death squads still hold them with a hes imprisoned or not they say they will voice the calls for justice bellus al jazeera here with the news from aljazeera still to come on the Program South koreas government is reconsidering its plans for more Nuclear Power plants well tell you why and its been four months since hurricane swept through florida will visit one Farming Community that still struggling to recover and a little later in sport the fourth ashes cricket test is on the way between australia and england far will be here with all the details. A powerful storm that left a trail of death and destruction in the philippines has been downgraded typhoon tembin also defied weather forecasts and did not make landfall in vietnam is because delta where hundreds of thousands of people were told to leave homes but experts say that heavy rain and strong winds from the weather system could still cause damage in the region the storm killed at least two hundred people in the philippines the bride has more now from the island of mindanao in the philippines where relief and aid efforts on the way. This is the township of too bad its probably one of the worst affected areas of one of the worst affected provinces in mindanao we are down river that was the site of a surge of water that came through here if i can stand back and just give you a quick look at the kind of damage and trail of destruction that it left a torrent of water came down here leaving all of these boulders some of them the size of cars these werent here a couple of days ago taking with it this surge of water more than one hundred houses sadly twenty nine people are confirmed to have died here a number of the bodies are being kept at a makeshift mortuary just a short distance away while the search continues in this area for a further sixteen people who are missing and the search is being conducted some six kilometers downstream it gives you an idea of the strength of the power of the water that came through here all of mindanao like this area are assessing the damage from this storm and looking at ways of being more prepared the next time and the philippines as it is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world does take Disaster Preparedness very seriously and invest a lot in infrastructure also in Awareness Training to be ready for the next time but here in mindanao given the security situation it is an added complexity it makes it harder to introduce any of those plans but the philippines has to think in terms of introducing those things given what we are seeing people tell us here about stronger storms and people certainly here believe it is the evidence of Climate Change that these storms are going to be the shape of things to come to his ears to mounting an apology from the United Arab Emirates after a band to new zealand female citizens from boarding flights heading to the gulf states as soon as he and government barred Emirates Airlines flights in response says the ban was put into place by the u. A. E. Last. Countrys Intelligence Services raised security concerns regarding female two new zealand passport holders. We are not part of emirates we are suffering country and they should deal with us according to what normally happens in relations between two countries up to the continuous calls with the immoralities through our ambassador in abu dhabi it appears they have lifted the ban but they did not give us details on how the ban was lifted hospitals in gaza been forced to cancel operations after cleaners went on strike over delayed salary payments the Health Ministry says the planned surgeries cannot go ahead as operating theatres are not ready for cleaning staff are demanding overdue you pay from the m