A somber day is being marked with special ceremonies. And protests. People demand the president s resignation over attacks by armed groups and economic challenges. Begin in hong kong where voters are casting their ballots to narrow the field of Democratic Candidates who will run an upcoming election campaigning has been underway for several hours people will be voting over the weekend but a newly imposed National Security law is overshadowing the lead up to the main vote in september as sarah clarke now reports. These images of a mob indiscriminately attacking protesters journalists and civilians in you long last july. Marked a turning point in the hong kong demonstrations journalist with hope was Live Streaming when she was targeted i know that the broadcast live broadcast of me being beaten up by gangs and lobsters its terrible to watch but the thing is i do know like that so many people they went to you know because they watched a park and it was this incident and last years months of antigovernment protests that inspired going and hotu into the political arena for the 1st time shell run as an independent candidate in the New Territories at the Legislative Council elections in september despite chinas newly imposed National Security law shes prepared to take the risk and fight for greater democratic reform in hong kong of course im concerned by a future of course the people here concerned about the future we also know that if we do not do something if we do not resist the other terror or even total the tarion rule theres no future at all for us to concern about you know in last years local Council Elections the prodemocracy camp secured 17 of the 18 districts and thats put greater competition in the prodemocracy bloc more young independent candidates are now standing for election to the citys legislature the probation camp which holds the majority acknowledges it might lose some seats but its confident voters will support the central policy to restore order in a city rocked by months of political unrest. The upcoming election will be a tough one we will focus on issues such as restoring social stability because of last years social unrest people hope the city can go back to normal soon as possible chinas new National Security looms over its Campaign Analysts say it effectively empowers authorities to disqualify candidates from local and prodemocracy camps who are critical of the Chinese Government this year i think china is taking a much stronger position against the opposition so i. The opposition candidates make out this qualifies the National Security law has already seen some parties withdraw from this election because some members fear the risk of imprisonment should the prodemocracy cap secure the majority that would live then the power to enact laws and reject or approve the budget and in extreme circumstances they could even try and force the resignation of the chief executive order over the final result on september 6th the coming months are likely to narrow hong kongs political divide syria clock aljazeera hong kong the largest broadcaster in the philippines is just hours away from shutting down for good but after m. P. s refused to renew a b. S. C. B. S. License on friday the deadline to appeal the decision expires in the next few hours president of the bigger the territory has repeatedly threatened the network over its Critical Coverage was forced to go off air in may after its license expired general and organising manila she reports theres no word yet on whether an appeal will be launched. The technicality we were told is that that appeal should be coming from a member of the majority that voted against the reopening or the re issuing of the license so this is a bit absurd if you look at how unlikely though that just yesterday one of the a lawmakers of the 70 may actually come forward and petition for an appeal in favor of a. B. A c b n but you see its executives its lawyers say that over the last few weeks during the 12 congressional hearings that were conducted by this committee and despite this all the allegations and accusations hurled against them that nothing has been proven allegations against tax evasion about labor violations and even the citizenship the question over the citizenship of the owner of e. B. s e. B. M. Media corporation has been put into question so again just before the voting the speaker of the house told everyone to vote against their conscience and you see it was a crushing blow for a. B. C. B. N. And to a certain degree according to Rights Groups to press freedom in the philippines 70 lawmakers out of 84 voted against the issuance of a broadcast license for the biggest Media Network in the country Rights Groups have said this is ill timed where you know basically some or around 11000 workers of a. B. S. E b. N. Are might be losing their jobs in the middle of a pandemic where millions of filipinos have already lost their jobs they say this is also an injustice to millions of filipinos who live in the countryside in far flung areas where free broadcast of e. B. s c. B. L. Used to be the only access to information well lets take you back to the story weve been covering in hong kong where primaries on the way to decide which Democratic Candidates are going to run in septembers Legislative Council elections the vehicle polland joins us now from hong kong so how is the primary going what is turnout look like. Whoa so i mean. Penton which area where many people have are said to have shown up and cast their ballots but there are certain other areas where people are much more wary but organizers estimate that around 60000. 00 people have already cast their ballots and thats not bad showing especially their target is only 170000. 00 which means theyre nearly halfway there and. Balloting and casting and polling will continue until sunday evening so thats quite a time to go yet but they have faced a lot of obstacles in the run up to this particularly just before they try to open the polling is they had to delay polling due to the fact that police had raided the polling monitors that were supposed to monitor these pull these ballots and then eventually count them but he said they were investigating them due to 2013 project they did it had nothing to do with this but democratic activists are questioning the timing of this also many of the venues that were earmarked have pulled out and thats because landlords have said that they do not support the offices or shops that it originally said that they could cast or be balloting stations have said that they were not allowed to do that anymore and so the Democratic Candidates had to be very creative with this and if youre wondering why im standing at a bus station one of the ways that circumvented this is by getting a bus if you see the red and yellow bus behind me which says polling station number 0481 that has now been converted into a polling station and people have been trickling in there to cast their ballots. You know whats at stake in terms of the balance of power with ultimately if the democratic guns make a big win in september elections. So yes that is the plan and thats the whole idea of these primaries the democratic camp wants to consolidate their base consolidate their supporters and try and get a majority in the Legislative Council elections which are happening in september but the question now is whether they would be allowed are valid there or their candidacy would be valid under these new National Security laws which are being used vaguely and being imposed upon for instance joshua wong has highlighted the issues with this saying that it just steer ours move the process towards the probate camp but says that this is a very important time for the prodemocracy camp and people should be casting their ballots in these primary elections heres what he had to say about it. With the fact that the basic thought was not i was surrendering everything and the protest vote would receive and generate the moment that what you put in. The full you know primary election lets face it oh that we were not part of the time. So he basically says that this is a very important step in the democratic process whether it will eventually be regard how it will be regarded or rather will amount to anything is questionable particularly because hong kong is going on there through such on certain times at the moment sami all right thanks so much difficult. A commemoration is underway in the same bosniaherzegovina for the 25th anniversary of the stubborn its a genocide. More than 8000. 00 Bosnian Muslim men and boys who are under the protection of u. N. Troops were murdered by bosnian serb soldiers it remains the only massacre on european soil since the 2nd world war to be ruled a genocide while most of the remains have been recovered many victims still havent been found so on the guy go has more an expanse of gravestones each one a victim of the genocide perpetrated here a quarter of a century ago. The fathers grandfathers brothers uncles and sons of strep and. Those they left behind come to pray here but the trauma of what happened is present so. I only wonder why they killed my children they were my neighbors and my oldest sons wedding day i invited them 1st enables. The widows and mothers of srebrenica left with their photos their memories. Lost her 3 sons and husband the body of her eldest has never been found every day she is haunted by the last time she saw her youngest son movie and. He hung on to me when super soldiers came to take him he said mother dont leave me i stroked his curly here and said i wont leave you. They took him and i followed i dont know if they hit me i dont remember anything it was this man retcon lad teach the commander of the bosnian serb forces who gave the order to exterminate the muslim men and boys of srebrenica here he reassured the young that they had nothing to worry about before condemning them to a massacre. Together with a war time leader of the Bosnian Serbs rather than courage each the unleashed an atrocity the like of which had not been seen in europe since world war 2 they were later found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity by a un real crimes tribunal both are now serving life sentences in the hague but the failure of the dutch forces acting as un peacekeepers sent hundreds to their death many of the victims fled to the un designated safe zone only to be handed over to the bosnian serb forces. Lost his entire immediate family in the killing that ensued he succeeded in holding the netherlands partly liable for their deaths. Here all. The army. Was. Bystander. While genocide was. Now there is a new generation of young people many may have been born after the genocide but it is never far from their minds or their Family History as is the need to preserve the memory of those who were killed and i grew up near here i keep an eye on the symmetry i lost a lot of family there a loss my grandfather keeping the memory of the victims alive and for their families a chance to remember them in dignity so. Aljazeera. Joins us now live from part of how our collaboration this year given the current a virus pandemic. Well we are here in the Memorial Center and 7 its and the people are starting to get there you may see people walking behind me but this will definitely be a much smaller crowd than usually everything is down due to the pandemic. Since this is a quarter century anniversary it was planned to be a big Memorial Service honoring the victims but that had to be cancelled some dignitaries high level dignitaries had to cancel it was announced that the United Nations secretary general will be here former president used former u. S. President bill clinton also they had to cancel they will address the common ration via video message sent in advance the commemoration is on its way later in the day around one. In 3 hours or so. They are will be held and then afterwards the burial prayer the socalled. And then the physical act of burying the. Take it had taken its toll on the number of victims that will be buried here today some families couldnt be here so they had to withdraw withdraw their consent for the burial and 9 victims of the 2nd its a genocide will find their internal peace 25 years later how its maybe surprising for some but you know 25 years later still burials still recovery of remains still an issue right. Yes that is the exact the official number of. Victims of the genocide a 1372 in the cemetery behind me 6600 victims have been buried 7000 have been identified now the difference to explain the difference we have to go back to the summer of 1905 when the killings stopped when they were finished the victims were buried in mass graves but then came the outcry of the International Community and the only major intervention in the in the in the late summer so the answer both already is went back to these mass graves with heavy machinery excavated the bodies and relocated them since this was done with heavy robust machinery. You had victims and the ending in different location there is this infamous case of a 14 year old boy who was the remains have been found in 4 different locations in the cemetery behind me and there probably isnt a single grey wood a full skeleton. Also not not not just that but there is more than one might think the graves with containing only a bone or through this cover up operation created a nightmare for the i. C. M. P. The commission that was engaged in identifying and searching for the missing people so when they say they have identified 7000 people it may mean that there is only a bone or 2 and for some families and the families have the final say over there are not remain will be buried for some of them its just not enough to make their final peace and also still there is one more than a 1000 people missing and yet to be found all right thanks so much tajik live from 70. Still ahead on aljazeera find out why millions of lives are at risk in syria as the u. N. Security council fails to meet an important deadline. And another latin american official tests positive for cope with 19 with the pandemic worsening across the region. How it got so warm and dry weather pushing into western parts of europe over the next couple of days the heat for the race does remain in place for the time being but this weather front here that cold front thats going to sink its way for the southwards and eastwards it will squeeze the heat out of the way as we go on through the week ahead so temperatures in vienna yesterday friday got up to 35. 5 celsius saturday noticeably colder 22 degrees sunday showers some very heavy rain on this line actually pushing all the way up into that western side of russia but here we go with more in the way of clearer skies that will still be want to see showers around but it is brightening up and temperatures lifting nicely as we go on into the next couple days to 24. 00 celsius in london by sunday 25. 00 in paris. Wetter whether the live the storms they will continue to make their way for the race was 34 brooke arrests will fall away sharply as we go on into the early part of next week that few showers across spain largely dry across southern areas if europe with more very warm sunshine which extends across northern parts of africa come down into Central Africa to west africa some very heavy showers there into nigeria and some very heavy right all the way along the west. An image can change the way we see the womb ask if we had not seen. Yes you could be talking about it it can spark mass action or serve the interests of the powerful he created does not mean. It can obscure the truth this is a legitimate news story. And it. Looks pretty intense because it can forge narratives right through the listening post gives you the full picture on a 0. 0. 00. World. Welcome back youre watching our just time to recap our headlines now kongs prodemocracy camp is holding a primary vote to decide on its candidates for september is that just that of Council Elections they say a newly imposed security law is threatening freedoms in the territory the largest broadcaster in the philippines is just hours away from shutting down for good thats after m. P. s refused to renew the a. B. S. C. B. S. Why since on friday the deadline to appeal the decision spiers in the next few hours. A commemoration ceremony is underway in eastern bosniaherzegovina for the 25th anniversary of the genocide more than 8000 miles away and most american boys were murdered by bosnian serb soldiers during the 1995 war. Opposition supporters in mali have attacked the Prime Ministers Office as calls for the president s resignation intensify a rally turned into violence and turned into violence rather after protesters tried to occupy the National Assembly and force the state broadcaster off the air. Reports. Protesters attempting to burn down mollies National Assembly saying the parliament no longer represents the people overwhelmed police fired tear gas outside the Prime Ministers Office demonstrators have set up roadblocks in the capital bamako the country is on edge. And we have come back and we are here and then hes there right now today is the last day of president the president you prime bucketed and we are calling everybody to come out to stop on this popular idea. In an address to the nation president called for dialogue saying he would form a National Unity government appoint new judges to the Constitutional Court and organize a new vote in constituencies where there were allegations of fraud in favor of the ruling party during last april to elections for protest organizer mahmoud eco this is not enough. I am not an opponent or opposed to. I am opposed to the system and the way of ruling that isnt working. In the center a