Cast their votes in a Runoff Election. Hello im adrian for again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a trail of destruction the philippines assesses the aftermath of one of the worst storms to ever hit the country. A Prominent RussianOpposition Leader calls for a boycott of next years president ial election and that could land him in further trouble. More on rest in peru police fired tear gas and fight with protesters angry over a decision to pardon of former president. Both candidates of cast their votes in liberias Runoff Election thats expected to mark the countrys first democratic transfer of power in seventy three years creating jobs and fighting corruption of the. The Major Campaign issue is liberia is one of the worlds poorest countries and many of its four point seven million citizens live without basic services george weah has crafted his image as the candidate for the poor drawing on his own meteoric rise from poverty to blow ball football stardom. Listen. To this led me. To believe im not as soon as you would lose him to do this theres virtually no they said that im going to win his rival joseph walk i has served as Vice President since two thousand and six which is the curse of democracy because we went in one time there were during your work and i would use a tool. We have today were going through the process this is what the president produced and were willing to leave it there running to replace president Ellen Johnson sirleaf the Nobel Peace Prize laureate helped to unite the country after its fourteen year civil war that killed a quarter of a Million People lets go now to monrovia aljazeera has a habit out of the reports. Hours of the polling stations open people are still lining up waiting to cost to ease the momentum around the Runoff Election libyan state this is an election that is crucial to the countrys future and the eager to vote but not in as big numbers as they did in october during the first round then there were twenty candidates in the contest now only two and their running mates sol the only one full of books where voters are putting their cost holds of course the issue of. Peace is high on the minds of liberia as them enjoyed between twelve and fifteen years of uninterrupted peace the longest in a moment time and they say they want to ever takes over from president Ellen Johnson sirleaf to be able to manage that piece properly they also want the economy which has suffered greatly due to the uncertainties surrounding the Runoff Election and tire political process to be improved but also want to corruption big issues within the government of and also say leave dealt with present and deals with really fast self house can first start it is corruption and the issue of recall filing the people of liberia that has been the greatest failures a powerful storm that left a trail of death and destruction in the philippines has now been downgraded typhoon tembin also defied weather forecasts and did not make landfall in vietnam has become delta where hundreds of thousands of people have been told to leave. But experts say the heavy rain and strong winds from the weather system could still cause damage in the region the storm left at least two hundred people dead in the philippines the island of mindanao was the worst his local administration has been criticized. For not doing enough to help prop mcbride has traveled to two boards where an entire neighborhood has been destroyed. When the flood came this river was turned into a torrent throwing boulders and trees against the houses in its path it took more than one hundred homes and killed nearly fifty people those in the area had been told to leave but many had heeded the warning too late imo there are trying to evacuate but the surge was like in three to five minutes all the houses were wiped out. Whats left of mary louis tims possessions are below the ruins of what used to be her house she escaped with her children and her brothers family just in time well me until we were all crying and the water gap getting stronger and i told my brother i think we are going to die here they survived but another brother died. Their temporary home is now the local school its also where rosemarie sort of yellow now lives with her children and ten other families in the one classroom she says she had never experienced a flood like it got only. There was a flood before but we didnt evacuate that time but after what happened this time i cant go back all in a country that receives up to twenty life threatening storms a year theres been criticism of why mindanao suffered so badly as one of the most disaster prone countries in the world the philippines invests heavily in infrastructure and awareness programs to deal with severe storms but in mindanao the ongoing conflict makes that difficult and its the poorest People Living in the most vulnerable places who suffer the most in storms like this. Community leaders have told people not to rebuild their homes along the river but the need to earn a living from farming nearby means many in time probably will and when a future storm comes the river will probably take more lives rob mcbride aljazeera to board town southern philippines the kremlin says that it will study whether an Opposition Leaders called to boycott the president ial election in march is legal alexina valmy urged his supporters to snap the votes after he was burned joining the race due to a past criminal conviction the kremlin also says that the the gist of a sea of the election will not be influenced just because one person was declared ineligible to run polls show the president Vladimir Putin is on course to be reelected comfortably which would keep him in office until twenty twenty four one hour from aljazeera as warry chalons in moscow. This was no surprise at all really how 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 putin 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 from running against putin now 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 only due 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 problem is a russia policy analyst and columnist with the he says the decision to bar the valley from running means that the kremlin sees him as a serious threat. Well not only is clear we expect yes and the most charismatic will be and the Opposition Forces and wait yours and he has being for the last several years running a rather expected. At least publicly effective Anti Corruption campaign and along with acts corruption and the very serious social in the court. That exists in russia and several years ago enough it was running for mayor of moscow he got almost a third of the boat so he has support and thats not going up that arent great doesnt like human sees him as a serious threat paras former president as a full time already has asked for forgiveness from peruvians from the bottom of his heart thousands of people have protested again in lima after the president had republicans keep popping forty morry he was serving a twenty five Year Prison Sentence for murder and disappearances that happened during his time in office in the one nine hundred ninety s. Charlotte ellis reports. Chaos in lima these peruvians are furious the former president Alberto Fujimori was pardoned by the current president patriot public which in ski a man they believe was trying to save his political korea ok so i dont believe some of the ive seen all the people mobilizing the police were following us in circling us they got close to us and threw bombs at us. And fujimori was serving a twenty five Year Prison Sentence for murder is kidnappings and disappearances carried out by a government death squad during his time in office he made from one thousand nine hundred ninety into two thousand. Started on sunday and families of his victims lead the charge. To try to fit any im angry because i think its a violation of the men. Three of her family members its a violation of the fight for the relatives for justice in truth a frail seventy nine year old fujimori was admitted to hospital on saturday suffering from low Blood Pressure and haas arrhythmia he responded to the cry on facebook and think christian ski. I am aware that what resulted during my administration on one hand were well received but i recognize that on the other hand i also disappointed other compatriots to them i asked forgiveness from the bottom of my heart. Critics say it was his son came g. Who secure with the pardon hes a congressman in the majority Popular Force posse thats led by his sister keiko and saved president christian ski from impeachment by abstaining from a vote last week critics say it was in exchange for his fathers pardon the president has defended the decision saying it was made because of fujimoris poor health. 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 credit him with the defeat of the shining path rebels and 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 their calls for justice bellus al jazeera will get a weather update next here on out zero then well meet the family of a six month old baby who was killed during recent election violence in kenya. These press the button. Pleased. To say here it was this but i will tell you why the development of Driverless Cars could drive thousands white out of a job. Welcome back across southern and eastern parts of china the weather is fairly quiet at most most part b. C. This rain across the far south into northern parts of vietnam the last particularly heavy over the next twenty four hours by thursday area of rain a sort of narrowing but extends further towards the northeast of the states are still fine for hong kong taipei should be sunny across the rest of indo china weve got showers still for parts of laos b. M. R. Should be largely dry and fine young gone there twenty seven degrees across into south Asia Northern parts of india still having issues with the mist and folk but otherwise weather conditions largely find some snow right up into the himalayas otherwise just a chance i want to showers for sure lanka generally looking better than the house done in recent days by the should be a largely fine day on thursday with sunshine in colombo here in the Arabian Peninsula found a weak front push through the region so temperatures are a bit lower than they have been twenty three is a mix one in tow and then for thursday fine across the bulk of the region and fact quite warm in mecca once again with highs of thirty four degrees heading up into advance and western parts of asia temperatures not too bad for the taron at eleven by data twenty run the eastern side of the mediterranean quite topsy turvy temperature wise here nineteen the high from beirut. You are making very pointed remarks where on line the main us response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been decriminalized or if you join us on saying no evil person just makes up of it in the morning in saying i want to cover the world in darkness they say is a dialogue and that could be what leading to some of the confusion the lie was about people saying they dont actually know whats going on join the colobus conversation at this time on aljazeera. A log of the top stories this hour on aljazeera both candidates cast their votes in liberias president ial Runoff Election thats expected to mark the countrys first democratic transfer of power in seventy three years former footballer george weah is taking on Vice President joseph walker. The government says that it will study whether Opposition Leaders called a boycott the president ial election in march is legal alexina valmy urged his supporters not to take part in the vote after he was banned from the contest opinion polls show president Vladimir Putin on course for a comfortable whip and peruse former president Alberto Fujimori has asked for forgiveness after being pardoned by president had republicans in skeel Christmas Eve thousands of people again took this to the streets in the capital lima to protest against his release he was serving a twenty five Year Prison Sentence for corruption and crimes against humanity committed during his time in office in the one nine hundred ninety s. South koreans have had their say in the last public hearing before the government finalizes its plan for the country. Energy supply president j. M. Wants to phase out reliance on coal and Nuclear Power and to expand the use of Renewable Energy kathy novak reports from all sun. This is south koreas scenic southeastern region a popular Tourist Destination home to stretches of coastline and eighteen uclear reactors so when a magnitude five point four earthquake forced more than a thousand people to evacuate their homes in november some wondered if those Nuclear Reactors are safe cian young why is so worried shes been protesting in the streets that its almost impossible but. I was so scared when the earthquake happened here i had evacuated from my building but when the tremors continued the thought of the Nuclear Power plants exploding hard to me. More reactors are on the way during the Election Campaign president monday and promised to halt their construction but he reversed that position after public consultations found the majority of people wanted the existing projects completed the Environmental Organization greenpeace want safety reexamined we saw the. Significant increase of the people who are concerned about the safety of Nuclear Reactors to. The twenty eleven fukushima disaster in japan happened just across the sea its not hard for South Koreans to imagine the worst Case Scenario but a tsunami triggered by a magnitude nine earthquake caused of that catastrophe and experts say that sort of event would be extremely unlikely here in a statement korea hydro a Nuclear Power the company that runs this plant says the newest reactors being built here are designed to withstand earthquakes sixty three times more powerful than the five point eight magnitude quake that hit the nearby city of film due in twenty sixteen that was south korea strongest earthquake since records began in one nine hundred seventy eight. Locals are still rebuilding many replacing traditional ceramic roof tiles with more affordable and sturdy metal sheets even if you church quakes damaged homes again uclear power advocates say the plants are designed to contain any radiation leaks in the fine physical barrier the caption containment is Strong Enough to withstand any kind of the significant creek joe myung moon says Nuclear Power must be part of south koreas Energy Supply the government still wants to phase it out over time in the meantime the Energy Ministry has told South Koreans that close inspection of power plants revealed no damage