Home so this hour anger in indias northeast over a bill that brand citizenship to minorities from 3 neighboring countries but excludes muslims. And im were hard in with all of your sports well tell you whos made it the last 16 of the Champions League plus Qatars National champions kick out the people Club World Cup in style would break through in the opening. Thank you very much for joining as its being called the u. K. s most important election in a generation by both the conservative party and the main opposition labor. Deciding who will form the next government and decide the future of break sits and the country Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has cast his vote in his west london constituency is seeking another term for his conservative party after just 5 months as leader a short time ago Jeremy Corbin the leader. The Main Opposition Party also cast his ballot in north london this will be his 2nd attempt at becoming britains Prime Minister live to rory chalons covering this election for us in london rory the polls have been open for about 3 hours now. Voters have until 10 oclock this evening g. M. T. To make their choice get down to a polling station and put a vote in a ballot box at 10 oclock we then have an exit poll which will give us some idea of the way things are going of course its no guarantee but it will give us an indication at least voting stops see can sing goes on through the night and into so morrow morning Boris Johnson of course is going to be hoping that he can improve his partys performance on to reason mays pretty disastrous efforts in 2070 when she squandered a conservative majority and ended up having to rely on a party from Northern Ireland the d. U. Peter prop up government Boris Johnsons been campaigning on bricks it pretty much exclusively saying that hes the only one that can get it done the labor party has been trying to refocus minds on Public Services particularly the National Health service 2 Big Questions really how is the weather going to affect turnout so winter election thats very unusual youre normally elections in the u. K. Or in the summer so will the weather drive down vote to turnout and if it does so what will that mean for the 2 parties other parties as well of course there is also the question of tactical voting because this is a that election has basically been brought about because of brechts it it suggests that perhaps Traditional Party loyalty is a fraying and that what you were lever. Or a remainer is. More is driving your your choices of more than your Traditional Party political affiliations but yet some more morning we should have an idea about whats happened and as he said rory the last election back in 2017 didnt return a majority what happens if voters dont give any party won this time also. Well if the parties do get a majority to any one of them then that simple they are more mourning the victorious leader will go to the queen have a meeting and then come back to downing street and theyll pretty much be Prime Minister if there is no majority for any party remember they have to get 326. 00 m. P. s at least in the 650. 00 seat polly went to get that majority if they dont get that then were in a Hung Parliament territory and thats where things become more tricky is what happened as i said and 2017 the reason they had to go so another party to prop up governments so Boris Johnson as the Prime Minister at the moment would be given the 1st chance of forming some sort of coalition or alliance of his party if he can do that and hes got a couple of other options he could either try and rule as a minority leader thats very difficult or he can resign if you resigns then he policy is the batson so the next Biggest Party and they would try to do some sort of coalition or arrangement that thats the system really what happens and in a Hung Parliament thank you very much for that very charles live for us in london and of course well have special coverage once the 1st exit polls come in later this evening in algeria thousands are protesting outside polling stations rejecting the president ial election. Still and stepped over ballot papers in the port city of beijing police also 5000. 00 gas to Disperse Protesters demonstrators say the vote is a farce that will enable the old leaders to remain in power they want sweeping political reforms before any vote is had the turnout is therefore expected to be no in the capital as crowds lined up to cast their ballots or 5 candidates. And there are also have close links with the old regime lets take a closer look at the candidates 2 of the main contenders are both former Prime Ministers Abdel Majeed Tbone held the position for less than 3 months in 2017 before he was sacked by then president abilities but if leak up and fleece was Prime Minister between 2002003 since then his run twice against but if leka to become president then there is a dean milby who served twice as a government minister and was also director of the state Radio Station also in the running is abdul aziz belied who heads the el move fun party and Abdelkader Ben green a from the Islamic Party protestors view all these candidates as part of the current regime lets speak to use of one del about this hes a professor of Political Science and International Relations at qatar universities here in doha with a sink you so much for being with us 2 days ago yousif there was a significant ruling that came before this president ial election in which to form a Prime Ministers and a former Parliament Speaker was sentenced to jail for corruption it would seem that this has not been enough to convince a jury and so it dismisses election to go out and vote why are they so opposed to this vote to choose a successor to beautifully 1st of all a thing to do julian of the 2 full plug ministers and also a number of businessmen ministers goes along given some sort of legitimacy to the current or it is in all julia but obviously as far as the algerian looked a lot of concern over such an awful jewel in the little bit of concern this is not enough to satisfy the demands given the fact that the couldnt government how did well you know you didnt but we was appointed by so you would really call the police the blood of a former president and obviously like you said earlier on in your report. The 5 candidates for the president ial elections the close ties with the beautiful and the fall of 2 from julians these elections is just a smokescreen to keep the study of coke as they say the 5 men running for president either supported but affleck at or that dissipated in his nov 9th protest says clearly dont see them as representing them if not these candidates and if not an election then who and what. Obviously do we will. Reach to some kind of a study made world about 2 sides extreme sides on the one hand you have the military head of the. Other who wants this election at any price and the 2nd time the hell out of the all jealously part of it doesnt want this particular election obviously that has not been enough done as far as the streets is concerned the army feels all the military feels that they have done. What the demands of the streets especially not 54 beautiful and all the good and the establishing an independent body to supervise these elections and the military is saying that we have done enough the time is light for elections and we have to overcome the current situations destroy those leaders so you can accomplish something completely different we have to get rid of the system the faces that were associated with put in order to ensure a minimum of transparency of this political election the fact that members are some spec that figures of algerian politics like former Prime Minister would have lost who say that i dont want to run for these elections even if i did and i am not elected i will not be able to do anything significant to the head like was not able to provide some somebody. To represent them until one fall elections. Because they feel that the couldnt circumstances do not allow for a proper elections so the power out to met lee lies with the army doesnt it what is going to happen then after this vote the status quo will process what i think that the elections we will go. Probably the president will be the. Model otherwise there will be a 2nd round and by the end of the year i expect to have a president because the under a little system provides for a tour around like the one used in france the turnout would be very low i dont expect it to go above 15 percent or 20 percent the demonstrations in algiers over the last few weeks and even today suggest that i expect the president to be in office and i also expect to do all the protest to continue obviously this will do what happens next will depend on what the next president we do once in office will there be a National Commission for dialogue and try to establish deludes of the game that will be needs to be seen thank you so much for your thoughts on this use of wonder from cateye University Joining us on this aljazeera news hour. Plenty more ahead on this news hour including a genocidal intent in the International Case known. The gambia his legal team gives graphic testimony to back it sound a geisha genocide against Myanmar Military brass the philippines sprays it in its war on drugs is back in the spotlight the white school say Police Statistics dont add up. And score tiger woods captains a usa today worst taught of a president scott been 14 yes. Lawyers for the gambia have just begun giving their closing arguments in the International Court of justice as they push for myanmars ami to be tried for genocide against their providing testimony on allegations of mass murder and rape the un was leader on sun sochi told the court on wednesday that the accusations on an incomplete and misleading factual picture of the situation those are words she said soldiers conducted illegitimate operation against armed groups stephanie deca is in coxs bizarre bangladesh where hundreds of thousands of muslim refugees are taking shelter 1st we speak to wayne hey who is covering the proceedings in the hague for is so wayne western the gambia responds to on some sochi is opening speech against genocide charges. Yes well that speech by sun sujit which opened the defense against genocide charges leveled against me has been widely criticized some have accused her of lying all of using this as an opportunity to try to protect herself against any future legal action against her personally remembering that cant happen here this is a state versus state dispute as you mentioned we are now hearing from the gambians who are summing up their allegations and they have responded in fairly strong terms to some of the comments made on wednesday by own son suchi and the lawyers representing me particularly the assertion that the Clearance Operations conducted in Rakhine State by the me and my Security Forces were part of legitimate Counterterrorism Operations because of the existence of an armed militant group. Representing the gambia saying they dont deny that there was a. Militant group but that conflict cannot be an excuse for genocide and theyre saying that the Security Forces made no differentiation when they went through those villages between suspected armed militants and innocent civilians many men women and children murdered raped and tortured by the Security Forces when they clearly werent parts of any armed group this is the final day of this phase away at the hague this phase of proceedings what happens next that the court. Yes well this 1st 3 day phase is about the gambian seeking protection for the rich in Rakhine State and those in bangladesh who want to return so theyre asking the judges in the International Court of justice to grant provisional measures which would force the governments to take steps to ensure the security of the ring so after we hear from the gambians today it will be followed by the me and my team summing up and then the judges will need to go and decide whether or not they agree with the gambian assertion that protection needs to be granted and that could happen fairly quickly if we go back to 993 the case of Bosnia Herzegovina against serbia the i. C. J. Judges did agree that provisional measures should be granted and they made that decision in 19 days so this could all this 1st phase could all happen fairly quickly thank you for that wayne wayne han live for us at the hague lets go now to Stephanie Decker in bangladesh concepts press on thats where hundreds of thousands of refugees have taken shelter not easy i imagine for the people they had to follow the proceedings in the hague in real time stephanie whats been their reaction. Speech and how much hope do they have thats whats happening at the International Court of justice can make life their life better. Well some are aware some are not aware at all those who are aware are not that verse lets say in the legatees of it all some will say they hope that this is a start of potentially some form of justice for them a start to potentially going back home the sun is just setting here in coxs bizarre folly and man maher is that close they can literally see the mountains of their country from from from this camp and that is their dream of course to go back home but because of the terror inflicted of them every person in this camp folly the biggest refugee camp in the world now a consequence of the actions of men marrs military almost 2 to half years ago now is based on trauma and tragedy so what they want is justice and they want to be able to go back home whats going to come out of this trial is going to have a direct impact on these people probably not is going to pave the way for them to go home any sooner probably not it doesnt have the capacity to implement things on the ground so of course is to usually significant when it comes to the diplomatic front when it comes to International Pressure and that is key you need to have International Countries putting pressure on the in march result this morning were not seeing that at the moment but certainly yes it is a problem its going to go on its not going to be resolved anytime right in this is a mass amount of people weve just been speaking to the head of the u. N. Refugee agency here in bangladesh and he said even if we touch aeration started tomorrow it would take a very long time to process this amount of people to be able to go back home but again that is nowhere near at the moment and thats not likely to happen anytime soon repatriation have been attempts at repatriation in the past bangladesh doesnt want these refugees any more theres a big question mark over whats going to happen to them and where they go to next. Absolutely and its almost because we are at the far southeastern part of bangladesh bali its easy for the rest of the world to sort of accept this is a new status quo and just deal with it because you do have many aid agencies on the ground here you do have the Bangladesh Government who has hosted them for over 2 years as but as you touched on theyre becoming frustrated theyve made it clear they want them to go home yet so there is its a city its a population of some of the worlds cities but you have you know you do have projects set up you have very basic Education Systems so theres a lot of help but this is not sustainable in the long term this used to be a forest and its interesting i was here in march and it was much more barren the forest was starting to grow back they cut down those trees to make waves and people when they came but the irony is that no one is going home so theyre starting to share you see this sort of very lush green but you taishan going around all these huts but theyre staying so i think in the absence of International Pressure particularly talk about the International Criminal court which is the court that can bring individuals to justice you need to curate the Council Recommendation for that to happen you have china who is on the vetoes these kinds of things on behalf of new now unless you have movement on this kind of a level i think its me very difficult to resolve this and these people are going to remain here for a long time and i think that will tell you there will be challenges ahead if the status quo remains as is thank you very much for that Stephanie Decker reporting live there from ba