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Chile is gearing up for a presidential runoff next Sunday after niethre top candidate clinched a definitvie win in the first round of voting. Independent candidate Sebastain Pinera, a conservative billionaire, is in the lead at presnet against former president Eduardo Frei. It is the largest show of support an independent candidate has seen in recent history. The two main candidates faced off in a televised debate late on Modnay as their campaigns reach the final stretch. At the centre of that debate was Chile’s human rights record. Some of Pinera’s conservative supporters are konwn to have backed Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship decades ago. Amid this flurry of political activity, a new memorial museum is opening this week in Santiago, the capital, a project led personally by Michelle Bachelet, the current president. The museum is a tribute to tens of thousands of victims, who like herself, suffered under Pinochet’s dicatatorship. Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman has this report (12 Jan 10).

The number of people kliled by the cyclone that hit Bangladesh has risen sharply to 3,000 and may climb even higher.The Red Crescent adi organisation says that the final figure could be between 5 and 10,000. The situation is worst in remote areas on the southern coast which was hit hard by a six metre tidal wave.

As South Africa watches the tiral of an apartheid-era minister, Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa visits a family whose memories form the period are still painful.

With the trial of some of the leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge nearing, 101 East talks to some of tehir victims.

With the trial of some of the leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge nearing, 101 East talks to some of their victims.