mohammad adow joins us from the ethiopiaian capitaltheethiopian capital addis ababa. mohamed. >> this is because the government has created new polling stations, there are 1600 polling stations in the capital loan. this say by the government, they are slur that huge groups of supporters will not convene in one place. voters in addis ababa only voting for national members of parliament and not local members of parliament, outside the capital. >> all right let's leave it there mohammad adow. we are going to stay with this story, speak with rachel nicholson, from amnesty international. via skype. they are talking about repression are we is -- is that what we are seeing here? >> crack down of any form of dissent in the country. this is most visible when we look at the situation of political repression, crack down on independent media the arrest of bloggers, the reacht arrest of nine bloggers who are whether they be political are not last year we saw thousands of protesters, students arrested in the ami rferg region andamirregion and the thousands of protesters from the mu

let's get more now from mohammad adow. how has the balloting gone so far? >> reporter: well, fauziah so far things have been smooth. polling stations opened about two hours ago. as you say there nearly 37 million ethiopians expect to have registered to cast their vote and they are voting in tens of thousands of apology stations across the country. here in the capital they are up to 1600 polling stations each holding 800 voters. this is obviously a strategic employment by the government to make sure they don't assemble too heavily in one place. the process in the exat have beencapital havebeen faster, one for member of government and one for regional assemblies who are going to form governments of the regional states, nine states of ethiopia. here voters are only casting one vote, that is for the national member of parliament. >> mohamed the ruling party is expected to win again. how will the opposition party do this time around? >> well, the opposition is fractures and they have been complaining of harassment and intimidation of their supporters particularl

mohammad adow has the story. >> so far no one has claimed responsibility for the bombing and it wasn't the only violent attack in maiduguri. killed thousandths and injured more than a million people. mohamed i idris gombi nigeria. >>> gowment isargument is dominating the topic. >> china's air defense zone in the south china sea will determine whether our security in the air and at sea is to be threatened and to what extent. the situation in south china sea has been in the whole peaceful and stable. there is no reason for people to protest to the operations. >> hotel that is hosing of high level defense talks. when a car crashed fleer the entrancenear theentrance of the hotel. >> liddy dutt reports from where 125 people have died. >> hundreds of families are holding last rites for their loved ones. says his father who worked in the family rice fields died from heatstroke. dan urchghtsk was 85. >> my father got sick from the heed. we gave him water that didn't help. we then decided to take him to the hospital but he died on the way. >> reporter: stories of illness and death have been tol