watch and hear more about amazon in this documentary. the headlines, millions of iranians are heading to the port. elect members of the country's parliament and the assembly of experts. the leader of iran's islamic revolution calls on voters to cast their ballots in the early hours of the voting, saying that a high turnout will disappoint the ill wishers of the nation. an rights chief warns israel's ground invasion of the southern gaza city of rafa would incur potentially massive loss of life on people that are sheltering there.

hello and welcome everybody, it's 3:30 p.m. here in the iranian capital, tehran. you're watching press tv's world news. our top story for this half hour, it's election day uh in iran and people are heading to the polls to cast their ballots. well, in iran, people are heading to the post to cast their ballots for parliament and assembly of experts. voters are taking part in the parliamentary election to choose 290 members of the legislative body from over 15,00 candidates. elected members will serve of for a term of. four years in the parliament

in another election which is being held simultaneously, participants are voting for 88 members of the assembly of experts, deliberative body elected for eight years. this is the 12th parliamentary election and the six voting for the assembly of experts since the victory of iran's islamic revolution, more than 61 million people are eligible to vote for both elections. iranian voters have expressed their undwavering support for the islamic revolution by actively participating in the ongoing elections. iranians say they deeply believe in their power of their collective voice and the democratic process in the islamic republic. let's take a listen to what they have to say. with our votes, we want to show that despite problems and deficiencies in the country's governance, the... we have to

fulfill our duty to the extent we can, yes there are many problems, too many problems, we're sad and we voice our criticism as much as we can, godwilling, those responsible would think about them, and probably many of them do care. i feel that the participation is much better than last time and in my opinion. made, i think the turnout would be higher than the previous round. the leader of a iran's islamic revolution has cast his ballot in the country's parliamentary and assembly of experts elections. voted in the tehran constituency as soon as polls opened across

ممکن برید رأیتون رو در صندوق ها بیاندازید. توصیه دوم این است که در هر حوزه ای به تعداد لازمه برای اون حوزه رأی بدید. به کمتر رأی ندید. امروز چشم بسیاری از مردم دنیا چه آحاد of مردم و چه م افراد سیاسی و صاحبان جایگاه های

معتبر ملی و سیاسی امروز چشمشون به ایرانه چشمشون به شماست. می خوان ببینن که شما چه می کنید در این انتخابات نتیجه انتخابات شما چه میشه هم دوستان ما افرادی که علاقه مند به ملت ایرانن هم بدخواهان اونا همین دوستان رو خوشحال کنید و بدخواهان رو ناامید کنید و اما پاسخ به سؤال ایشون که آخرین حرف من. the iranian vice president for parliamentary affairs has in an interview with press tv elaborated on the importance of the

parliament and elections within the constitution of the islamic republic of iran. let's take a listen to what he told our correspondent earlier in tehron. in the islamic republic, there is no authority that can dissolve the parliament, in some countries the president can dissolve the parliament and call for snap elections, but we have the 12 madles being formed and every four years and there's been no parliament that is been incomplete and all the... have resolutions of the parliament cannot be dismissed but in the us, the president can continued the work until the very end and the veto the resolutions or in germany or france, but such a thing does not exist here and so

you cannot dissolve or veto the parliament and and so we had this at the beginning of the revolution and so remove the president, so not only can president not remove and dissolve the parliament in ran, but it's a president that can, it's the parliament that can remove the present in iran. our correspondent gisumi shah ahmadi at uh one of the polling stations has talked to iran's vice president and head of planning and budget organization dr. davood manzor said the high number of candidates fing for each legislative seat shows how fierce the competition is in this election. right now

i'm a joined by head of the budget and planning organization also vice president of iran uh dr. david manzo. thank you very much for joining us, now first of all, this time around we have more than 15,000 candidates competing for 290 seats, what does that mean? i for one would like to say hello and greetings to our viewers and thank you for giving us this opportunity. this number of candidates, this shows that actually they have an opportunity to have a... competition candidates who have been qualified, they come from a whole range of political parties and different political parties, naturally the high number of candidates, well you know there are more than 50 candidates for each

seat up for grabs, this shows that we in the true sense of the word, we do believe in the in the competition in the elections, we also have. each term we see we are seeing the presence of women both as candidates and as uh actually elected representatives, their number is increasing. religious minorities in iran are also casting their ballots alongside their fellow countrymen in the nation's legislative and assembly of experts uh elections, the archbishop of tehran says elections are the sign of stability in any country. usually elections taking place in any place, it is a sign of that country's

stability, and now in iran, when the election the parliament is going on peacefully. rightly, this is a sign of the iranian society's well being, therefore, it is important to participate in the election, election, as i said, it's a sign of sound society, and thanks got that in iran the election that is taking place, it's a sign after. sound of society in iran,

the un human rights chief has once again issued a stark warning against israel's planned ground offensive on the southern ghaza strip city of rafa. a ground assault would incur potentially massive loss of life, additional risk of atrocity crimes, new displacement to another unsafe location distribution, and sign death warrant for any hope of effective humanitarian aid. for my part, i failed to see how such an operation could be consistent with the brinding provisional measures that were issued by the international court of justice. turk told the un human rights council that attack on rafah

would take the nightmare that is being inflicted on gazans to new dimension. he slammed the regime's attacks and killings in gaza's examples of israel's brutality and carnage. turks stressed that there are no words to capture the horrors that are unfolding in gaza. rafa is the territory's most populated area where over 1.5 million people are sheltering. they have nowhere safe to go and many of them have already been. displaced multiple times and condemnations are pouring in from all over the world against the latest israeli massacre of innocent palestinian scrambling for life saving aid in the north of gaza. for having sake put an end to killing civilians, children, women. according to the information that we have, dozens of them have... bullets in their heads, it was intentionally targeting and killing, and the number that we

have now is 112 have been killed and the number is increasing and 750 injured and possibly the number would be increasing. this outrageous you know massacre is testimony to the fact that as long as the security. is paralyzed and vetos casted, then it is costing the palestinian people their lives. the secretary general condemns the incident today northern gaza in which more than 100 people were reportedly killed or injured while seeking life saving aid. france has also reacted to the heinous massacre with the countries ambassador to the un saying civilians and civilian infrastructure should never be targeted. has also strongly condemned the gaza aid delivery deaths. meanwile the iranian foreign ministry in a

statement said the wounds of gaza will not be erased from the memory of the world's free people. turkey, egypt and jordan are among the regional countries that have condemned the cold blooded murder. the un under secretary general for humanitarian affairs warned that uh life is draining out of gaza. israely soldiers on thursday opened fire and killed hundreds of starving palestinians were trying to get life saving aid. well, a draft proposal has been released as a result of extensive talks in paris over potential ceasefire in gaza, one of the conditions exclusively prevents displaced men of military service age from returning to their homes in northern gaza. our correspondent motiabu musape has talked to some of the palestinians in dar alball about the ceasefires conditions. this proposal is null and meaningless to me. i'm married and have kids, i can't let them go back to gaza while

i am still here. we prefer to die here rather than accepting this proposal. we demand a permanent cease fire that guarantees our full return to our residential areas in gaza. undoubtedly it's another pressure exerted on the palestinian resistance. this is another pressure practice against us. they know that the display. families are not going to accept it. no one accepts to abandon the rest of his family and go back without them. they propose it just to blackmail us. i won't accept going back to gaza without my husband and my mother won't accept. it's impossible to accept such thing, our men raise our kids day by day until they grow up, we spent these horrific days worrying about our children and young men, we escaped the killing in gaza to protect them, we can't leave them and get

back, we live together or we die together, no one would accept it, it's unnegotiable, we are... still steadfast until we go back in dignity, it's definitely rejected, we have been displaced from gaza for the sake of our children safety, they killed thousands of our children and our men and they destroyed our homes and buildings, but now they propose us to go back without our sons and men, no rational human being would agree on this, this proposal means that israel is procrastinating and it dogs having a real deal, netan yaho is a war criminal and he's wants to prolig this war against us, firstly, this proposal is completely rejected, it's a continuation of the expulsion that took place at the beginning of this war in gaza, they want to separate the families and increase their suffering, they want the women and children to go to gaza while keeping the men here so they can target them any moment under any pretext. this is another way that israel

occupation progress in it's putting the cefire deal in place in order to continue its genocide in gaza. saada in a show support for palestinians in the ghaza strip, the eminy protesters waved palestinian flags enchanted slogans against israel and its main supporter, the us, the protesters have been holding rallies on friday since the gaza war broke out early october, they held pictures their leaders in a show of support for their pro- palestine operations. those operations have targeted israeli linked vessels in the red cn effort to pressure the regime to stop its genocide. in gaza, the emity protesters have also voiced support for their armies operations against us and uk ships in response to their ongoing strikes on yemen, the air strikes began in the wake of yemeny attacks in the red sea. our correspondent

abdul latif al washholi is joining us now from emmy capital santa at one of these rallies to tell us more about the pro-palestinian demonstrations that have been going on uh for weeks now. abdullahtif what's going on behind you? thank you so much. as you can see here we have thousands of people here in the capital sona, they taken to the streets, they have taken to the streets of the capital sonna to protest in solidarity with the palestinian people. the protest today is under the title, you are not a alone we stand steadfast with gaza, the people here are reaffirming their position that they will absolutely stand with the palestinian people in their fight against the israeli regime, they said that they hope to see the yemani army utilizing its unexpected weapons in the uh operations in the rid sean gulf of aden,

you know after listening to the uh uh speech of said abdul malik al-huthi yesterday and he said that the... armed forces will unveil surprises uh for the uh enemies and the red sea and in the naval operations, so the people today are demanding and urging the yemani army to start using these weapons and escalate even more against the western interests in the region. they also condemned the israeli crime of targeting uh hundreds of the civilians who were waiting for humanitarian aid, they said that this brutal war should be faced with military force, the any army will absolutely escalate its operations, and this is the most proper way to respond to such a crimes being committed by the israeli regimes and its backers, what are still killing the palestinian people for the fifth month, so they came to the streets today and they said they will uh keep taken to the streets not only in the capitals and

across the country to support the palestinian people uh every week, every friday. will keep doing that to reaffirm their position with the palestinian people. all right, we're going to leave it there. that was our corresponent abdul washingly joining us from the emmy capital. sano. now to the uk where veteran pro palestinian politician george galloway has want to vote to become a new law maker following an election campaign dominated by israeli lobby groups. "well, you know, a genocide is not a small thing, and the international court of justice has already sent israel for trial, uh, having concluded that there were was a plausible case." for genocide uh being committed in the gaza strip, that's not a small thing, that doesn't happen every day, but the local politicians here in the council and the

national politicians across the consensus of the front benches, want to pretend that it isn't happening, want to disguise that they are deeply involved in it, they're giving cover to it, and even given military uh collaboration with it. galloway who is left-wing politician became the new law maker for the northern town of rockdale after running a pro-palestinian campaign, he won people's votes through criticizing the labor party and governing politicians for supporting the israeli regime, the labor party which withdrew its support for its own candidate over anti-israeli comments was uh beaten into fourth place. gallaway's victory comes as the growing support for palestine, it's brought people in the uk. streets to condemn israeli crimes against the people of gaza, hundreds of thousands have rallied to condemn israel since the beginning of its genocidal war on gaza on october the 7th. a

protest was held outside the italian parliament against uh the arrest without charge by the italian police of a palestinian. the man has been in europe for over 10 years. televuse regime now wants to... to be extradited on thursday, demonstration was staged in rome's parliament square in protest against the arrest of anan yaish, a 37-year-old palestinian citizen from tulkam in the west bank. anan was arrested without charge or justifiable coast by the italian police in the central italy mountain city of lakuvila on january 29 on an extradition request by the israeli government which italy is...

committed one and only very serious offense, he has not given up the fight, that's why they are behind him, italy is survil and subservient as usual with israel, our authorities have arrested innocent man who is just member of the palestinian resistance, during the demonstration activists... strongly condemned italy's government for its complicity in the genocide in gaza. well full well how heavy israel's influence is on the

italian government. prime minister meloni wanted to ban pro-palestine demonstrations. we have seen her going hand in hand with netanyahu. more pro-palestine protests will be held in italy at the weekend, large demonstrations will take place in rome, florence and piesa. meanwile. a group of italian law makers announced they will travel to the rafa border between the gaza's trip and egypt. they say they want to provide the italian government with testimony of the tragedy the palestinians are experiencing as result of israel's crimes. max chivili, press tv, rome. that's a rap for now, but stick around. there's plenty more to come here on press tv. see you soon.

on march 1st, the iranian nation will go to the polls to choose the members of the islamic consultative assembly for the next four years. what power does the iranian parliament hold, and what challenges will it have to face in the years to come? these and more on this edition of iran today.

you seen footage of children's bodies, that's my taxpair dollars and going to going to bomb those kids, so i think we should kill them all, if that makes you feel better, everybody, yes.

it's the election season in iran. with the candidate lists finalize and preparations underway, the country has already geared up for its highly anticipated parliamentary elections. the helpfuls are spending their hectic days, each one trying to grab one of the 290 seats in the islamic consultative assembly, the official name for iran's parliament. on the first day of march, the iranian nation will go to the polls to elect their mps for the next four years, but who is elegible? to cast his or her vote and what do they expect from the representatives? on the other hand, what does candidate have to undergo before making his or her way into the parliament? and as an mp, what can they do?