Myanmar's Pro-Democracy NLD Party Wins Majority
LU STOUT: Welcome back. It is an historic movement for Myanmar's move toward democracy. The election committee has announced Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy has won a majority in parliament, beating out the military back party in a landslide victory. Now the win comes on the fifth anniversary of Suu Kyi's release from 15 years of house arrest. Now President Thein Sein has agreed to meet with Suu Kyi over the results. Let's go straight to Saima Mohsin who has been watching developments for us from Bangkok. And again, Saima, five years ago, she was released from house arrest. Today her party has swept to victory. Walk us through the significance of this moment.</s>SAIMA MOHSIN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We know Aung San Sue Kyi is a world renowned Nobel Peace Prize-winner. People have liken her to Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner, as you say, imprisoned in her own home under house arrest after the last election, Kristie, 25 years ago when the military didn't accept the results, swept her aside, put her under house arrest. She has been five years out of house arrest on the campaign trail. A very pragmatic politician. Her detractors will say that she simply didn't stand and represent everyone in Myanmar, not least of course the 1 million Rohingya Muslims that weren't allowed to vote in this election alongside a lot of ethnic -- other ethnic minorities that have been disenfranchised in Myanmar, but a pragmatic politician with phenomenal tunnel vision. This day was her day of destiny and it's incredibly important not just for her, her party, but for the people in Myanmar, which is why we saw people coming out in their droves this week, coming out in the early hours. A lot of the people that CNN spoke to saying that, you know, we have come not just for ourselves because we've been waiting for this day for 25 years; but for our children, for the future of Myanmar -- Kristie.</s>LU STOUT: Victory for Aung San Suu Kyi and her opposition party. Saima Mohsin reporting live for us. Thank you very much indeed, Saima. Now, violence against religious minorities is escalating in Indonesia. Just last month, Islamic radicals burned down a Christian Church, one of hundreds of attacks during the past few years. Paula Newton reports many Indonesians say they have little faith that the government can stop it.</s>PAULA NEWTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Tolerance, respect, and peaceful co-existence among many faiths, it is the Indonesian ideal, embodied here as the Muslim faithful walk past Jakarta's Catholic Cathedral to Isiclal (ph), the city's main mosque. The place opened to the public in 1978 across from the older cathedral to promote religious harmony in the world's most populist Muslim country, a harmony that seems increasingly under threat. Islamic radicals attacked a village burning down its church in the province of Aceh in mid-October, one of the most violent incidents in a simmering dispute over what hard-line Muslims say are illegal churches built without permits or permission.</s>BISHOP ELSON LANGGA, ACEH SINGKUL PROTESTANT CHURCH (through translator): When the churches were seized, people felt like the world crumbled and there was nothing for them. They were crying. How can they watch a church they built themselves get destroyed.</s>NEWTON: Human Rights Watch estimates there have been more than a thousand attacks against places of worship in the last decade, not just churches but Buddhist and Hindu temples and mosques, some of the most violent attacks have been against the Amadiyah (ph), a Muslim sect deemed deviant by many Muslims. And in July in the predominately Christian province of Tapwa (ph), a mob attacked a mosque where many Muslims were celebrating the end of Ramadan. The government has been quick to condemn the violence. After the incident in Aceh, president Joko Widodo tweeted "stop violence in Aceh Sinku. Any act of violence, whatever the reasons behind it, not to mention if it is related to religion and faith will kill diversity." But human rights activists say legal protection for religious minorities are unenforcement in many parts of the country. At issue the government's ability to control radical religious groups, including those in the Muslim faith. A new law to protect religious minorities is being debated, but some say it will fail to bring religious peace.</s>ANDREAS HARSONA, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INDONESIA: History has shown that the more they come and make regulations on religious freedom, the more discriminatory it will be, because they're put under pressure by the militants, the more hard liners to be more and more hardlining. So, what the government should do is to revoke all these discriminatory regulations.</s>NEWTON: a position contested by government advocates.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: With regulation, we can solve the problem. Without any regulation, without regulation, they cannot solve the problem.</s>NEWTON: A problem that is worsening as religious freedom is challenged in places like Aceh.</s>LANGGA (through translator): The truth is that I have no hope. There is no hope because the government likes to use word but no action that goes down to the ground. And all authorities on the ground say, yes, sir, yes, sir, but they don't do anything.</s>NEWTON: Still Bishop Elson says he and others will do what they have always done, pray to god that religious tolerance will soon be the only acceptable way of life in Indonesia. Paula Newton, CNN.</s>LU STOUT: Now, the International Athletics Association of Athletics Federation is too decide in a few hours whether to ban Russia from competition over the use of drugs. Now, the World Anti-Doping Agency has accused Russia of state sponsored doping. Russia President Vladimir Putin has called for an independent investigation and ordered officials to crack down on any wrongdoing. Our World Sport has more on the Russia doping scandal about 30 minutes from now. Now, the former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson and the BBC news network, they are being sued for racial discrimination, that's according to lawyers for the BBC. Now producer at the receiving end of a physical and verbal incident with Clarkson earlier this year. Now a closed door hearing was held at a London employment tribunal earlier on Friday. The BBC tells us that they will be responding to the claim. After the break, we look at human trafficking in Mexico, and the woman who con fronted the man who dragged her into prostitution.