♪ taliban fighters attack the city of kunduz in afghanistan and seize government buildings. ♪ hello from al jazeera headquarters in doha, i'm jane and talks ramp up at the u.n. with the war in syria but the sticking point remains what to do with bashar al-assad. typhoon heads to taiwan and a double dose of moon magic and star gazers across the world get a rare lunar treat.

♪ first afghanistan where security forces are battling taliban fighters who raided the city of kunduz and the city is reported to be in lock down after the early morning attacks from several different directors, it's the second time this year taliban gunmen threatened the province of kunduz and we are live from kabul and can you tell us what happened there? >> jane, call ban claimed into kunduz 200 bed hospital where they are looking for injured people and this has worried local residence and residence say the taliban are also searching houses looking for government officials. taliban, now there are unconfirmed reports, we cannot independently verify but there are reports that taliban have

taken control of kunduz of the council and high peace council office and currently the clashes are ongoing with security forces and taliban fighters are now trying to block the roads leading to the hospital where they are trying to prevent getting injured people to the hospital or any medical help. according to the officials the road to the airport is also closed off and residents in kunduz are hiding in their homes. officials say bulk of security forces and afghan security forces in kunduz were outside of the city limbs at the time of f the attack and it was launched in the city limits at 3:00 a.m. local time and taliban closed off four ways into the city effectively cutting it off. officials also telling us that the reenforcement troops have

been sent to the area along with air support and air space strikes are not carried out because of the high number of civilians that live in the city. >> this is the second time we have seen an attack on kunduz. why kunduz and why now? >> well, kunduz is a province bordering pakistan and also bordering another province so there have been insecure in the past in kunduz and taliban managed to control three key districts of kunduz and the fighting season this year have seen more fighting in northern afghanistan. >> thank you for that with that update from kabul. world leaders in new york for the u.n. general assembly with

the war in syria high on the agenda and putin is due to make the u.s. president barack obama later and no plans to deploy combat troops to syria and there is disagreement about the future role of president bashar al-assad in any agreement. >> reporter: france has been involved in strikes on aisle targets in iraq for over a year but now for the first time the french president has ordered his airforce into action over syria in what he told reporters was an act of self-defense. >> translator: france struck on a training came of islamic state of levant threatening the country and we prevent the country and to act in self-defense. our forces reached their objectives, the camp was totally destroyed and other strikes could take place in the coming

weeks if necessary with the same goal. >> reporter: the u.s. coalition against i.s.i.l. but in an interview with the u.s. network, cb s&p bc president putin said that and training of opposition forces in syria is illegal because it's not authorized by a government which still holds the country's u.n. seat. >> translator: and it's my deep belief any actions to the contrary to destroy the government you can witness it in other countries of the region or other regions for instance in libya. all the state institutions are disintegrated and we see the similar situation in iraq and there is no other solution to the crisis than strengthening the government structures and rendering them help in fighting terrorism. >> reporter: sent troops to

syria and told the u.s. counterpart it set up a military coordination center between its forces, iran, iraq which is supposed to be a u.s. ally and conversely the assad government. u.s. secretary of state john kerry was quick to express his miss givings. >> all of the efforts need to be coordinated. this is not yet coordinated. i think we have concerns about how we are going to go forward because that is precisely what we are meeting on to talk about now. this is the beginning of a genuine effort to see if there is a way to de-conflict and find a way forward to but noted, secular syria and can be peace and stable again without foreign troops present. >> reporter: in an interview uk prime minister said in his view it wasn't the case of choosing which enemy to fight first.

>> we want syria without i.s.i.l. or assad and both have been butchering ordinary syrians and so i don't think it makes sense to say you have to have one before the other, what needs to happen is both need to go. >> the good news for syria there is a great deal of talk going on involving all of the key nations and all say they want to defeat i.s.i.l. and say they should be a political solution but the bad news on the key point that stopped any political settlement in syria for 4 1/2 years the future of president bashar al-assad is so far no agreement, james base, al jazeera at the united nations. on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly efforts to boost peace keeping numbers at the uk has already announced it is sending troops to take part in peace keeping missions in south somalia and south sudan with medical and engineering support and 70 could be deployed to somalia and 300 in south

sudan and david cameron will give more details about the plan later in new york. the president of maldives has escaped unhurt from an explosion on his boat. the government says it may have been a problem with the engine but it is too early to say. his wife and several others on board were injured. the president took power in a disputed election in 2013. expected to hit taiwan in a few hours and train and domestic airline flights have already been suspended and thousands of tourists have been evacuated from outlying islands and we are following the storm and looks pretty frightening and what is happening? >> same as the one six weeks ago but potentially more powerful when it hits land and the satellite pictures shows you a clear eye and in the last 12 hours it was in the eye of the

storm and it's almost a perfect circle and indicates a strong storm that is not falling apart any time soon. now what does it have in store for taiwan, in the next 6-12 hours and it created 12 meter waves and one thing to contend with and rainfall and the amount of time you get the rain matters and could fall 3-6 hours huge amount of rain and storm surge as the eye goes ayos and takes the oshent with it, the ocean surface 1.8 meters and that can inundate low lying coastlines and let's say for example china. it's a category three and sustained winds over 200 kilometers and gusting to 50 and it's moving northwest which is a fair clip as well. so it will take less than 24 hours to do it crossing of the north of taiwan and then hitting

mainland china. once it is over land it will fall apart but there is so much of it it has an awful lot of rain still to dump and that is happening. in the next 12 hours it will cross taiwan, cross the straits and head to the chinese mainland and this is the second in about two mains, jane. >> thanks for that pope francis heading home after a six day trip to the united states and address to congress he reminded politicians to care for people and encouraged religious freedom and immigration, it was a promise to hold accountable clergy who sexually abused children and we have been following the pontiff's visit. >> reporter: with a smile and a wave pope francis ended the trip to the united states and attracted crowds and afunction and a visit from the points and

talked about climate change and inequality and same sex marriage and abortion and in the final days he talked about sex abuse in the catholic church and said he met victims and heard stories and offered prayers. 2002 and allegations of sex abuse in the church became public and estimated there may have been 100,000 in the u.s. with many more worldwide and the pope, the leader of the world's 1.2 billion catholics promised there would be no hiding place for the guilty. >> translator: these things cannot be maintained in secret. i commit to a careful oversight to ensure youth are protected and all responsible will be held accountable. >> reporter: for many victims they had this before. >> this meeting today protects not a single chide and exposes not a single predator and does not deter a single cover up.

>> reporter: the church is refusing to hand over details of any internal investigation into child sex abuse to the authorities and they claim they are doing that for financial and legal reasons. meanwhile they insist the guilty go free and the victims continue to suffer. >> he is handling it in a christian and loving way like jesus would do, as god would forgive. >> reporter: the pope attracted a large crowd in the largest public event and thousands more turned away as they failed to get through security, the vatican will consider this visit a success but many will wait to see if the pope's actions match his words. allen fisher, al jazeera, philadelphia. still to come in the program, ♪ spain's capitol region and separatist parties win big in parliamentary elections and location, location, location in

bangladesh's crowded capital and they are losing out to property developers. ♪

>> what do you want american's to understand? >> there's so much injustice. >> workers are being injured constantly. ♪ hello again the top stories on al jazeera, in afghanistan security forces are fighting taliban fighters who raided the northern city of kunduz, the city is reports to be in lock down, russia president vladimir putin says they have no plans with troops to syria and due to meet president obama in new york

and u.s. secretary of state john kerry talked to sergei fedorov a typhoon expected to hit in a few hours and train services and domestic airline flights have already been suspended and tourists e voc waited from islands. one year after police moved in on demonstrators and they did not want candidates for the 2017 leadership selection to be preselected by beijing but despite 79 days of prosite there was no concession from the mainland and rob mcbride joins us live from hong kong. >> reporter: well, the numbers here have been swelling in the last couple of hours and we are at the spot a year ago today the 28th of september where the occupy movement began, there is something of a carnival atmosphere here and making speeches behind me and giving

various memorabilia and the ribbons and the umbrella symbols which are symbols of the movement and it has been fairly good natured but we have heard warnings from the police, warning demonstrators here not to get into any illegal acts as they call it and have been more radical groups here calling for a few minutes silence at the point of which the occupation officially began but calling protesters to move on the highway as they did a year ago and that is something the police here are determined to stop several thousands of them who are here and the moment people are waiting for is two minutes to 6:00 local hong kong time within an hour from now, that is the point at which the authorities here tried to clear people away with the use of tear gas and 87 canisters and caused a swift response and many thousands more came on the streets the following day and the numbers are three or four

fold and saw the start of the occupation so at the moment every one is waiting to see what happens in the next hour. >> what happened in the year since the occupy movement started? i mean, has it made any difference? >> it depends who you talk to. even leaders of the occupy movement themselves which were mainly the students who began the movement followed by other groups they would tell you, no, it didn't make a difference to the political scene and beijing did not budge and they would have been told that i think once the occupation had started, once we saw the response from beijing, the anger in the comments and denunciation and the case with china and not seen to give away to demonstrators and have not since the tieneman

square and we have seen some meetings between senior chinese officials and prodemocracy groups to talk possibly about a way forward after this impasse but certainly they won't want to see giving away to any demonstrations that might happen here tonight, jane. >> rob mcbride thank you. a separatist coalition in spain's region won a landmark election and took 62 seats out of 135 in the regional parliament, if they join forces with the proindependent left wing party they will have a majority that will allow hem to pursue independence and we report from barcelona. >> reporter: it looks and feels as if nothing can stand in their way, independence, hungry in full cry. >> nothing like that has happened in europe in the last year. >> decides the future and the

future is the only way. >> reporter: who will deliver it for them? a coalition of parties from the right and the left likely to include the far left with nothing in common whatsoever except the promise to pave the way for independence in 18 months time. >> translator: we have a lot of work to do and we are not going to relax, we have a democratic mandate and we know what that means and know how we have won, we have won against the odds. >> there may be trouble ahead on the road to independent ensz and the full way to the spanish constitutional court to block moves to independence but also the fact this incredibly p precarious place will have to stand together and govern. there is every possibility that in politics an arrangement will fracture and fall, in the meantime battle line also be drawn across the country just

emerging from economic crisis who can afford to lose one of its parts. >> barcelona and the place that we are i think there is no sense in trying to separate from spain, it would not bring anything good for us. >> it's only the interest of the politician. >> reporter: and movements elsewhere will be watching closely. >> big flag, best flag and whales and scotland, britain and we want catalonia to be free and they have to decide it but think they have the right to do so and spain so far has only said no, no, no. >> reporter: what happens next may provoke a constitutional crisis not just in spain but

possibly in places far beyond. al jazeera, barcelona. israeli security forces have fired stun grenades at palestinian workers at the contested mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem celebrating a holiday and jews allowed to visit but not to pray to try to avoid more confrontations and we report. >> reporter: there are still clashes going on in the mosque compound and do seem to be isolated and relatively small. still, it really does under score the very tense situation at the mosque compound since relatively early this morning when israeli security forces entered the compound and confrontations erupted between them and palestinian worshippers and we are told at one point that some palestinian workers had barricaded themselves in the mosque compound and some security forces smashed the windows of the mosque and fired

stun grenades inside and a metal barrier by them to prevent worshippers from getting out and numbers today at least have been relatively small in comparison to other days because of the israeli security forces and governments have put restrictions on palestinian worshippers from entering in the mosque compound and men under the age of 50 are not allowed in so that is why the numbers are not as large as we have seen in past days but again as we have been saying a very tense situation. six months into the war in yemen and the city aiden is in ruins and government trying to unite factions and in the north fighting rages on too and we have more. >> reporter: the sea port city of aiden is under government control. entire areas were destroyed

during months of fighting between shia houthi rebels and government troops. the security forces patrol neighborhoods and most of these fighters are members of the successionist movement and southerners who want to break away from the north. >> translator: we are at the palace which the houthis have taken over, thanks to coalition they are the ones that ousted the rebels from the palace and god willing the security and stability will return to aidel. >> reporter: president hadi has the task of uniting the fashions but his authority has been weakened and now depends on coalition troops for securing aiden in the south. hadi's government has so far rejected cause for talks with his rivals insisting the houthis must surrender.

>> they have to understand they have to cooperate fully with the united nations and to withdraw and no violence and recognize there is no solution in yemen unless they return back to where we started before the 21st of september. >> reporter: another major battle front. these are government fighters trying to push the rebels out of districts in their control backed by elite army units loyal to former president saleh the houthis still hold ground. volkswagen suspended the heads of research and development for vw audi and porch and until tell scandal is

cleared up and the chief executive stepped down after it was revealed that software in some vw and diesel cars were designed to cheat emissions tests. mexico relatives of 43 missing students have trased the path the group followed when they disappeared and the walk was held to mark one year since the trainee teachers vanished and witnesses say the students come on buses which were heading for protest and later attacked and relatives refuse to take the account they were seized by corrupt police and handed to a local drug gang. real estate developers in bangladesh forces refugees out of their camps and forced having no where to go dispute a court injunction preventing the sale of their camp lands and we report from the capitol. reporter: it's been four years since she and her family were crammed into this small room.

before this they lived in a refugee camp for the minority. the accommodation was hardly ideal but it was better than this. developers wanted to turn the refugee camp into a commercial development, they pressured them and fellow refugees into leaving offering just $5,000 in exchange. >> translator: we were worried about what might happen if we didn't take the money. my daughters are grown up and worried we would get attacked if we tried to keep the camp open. >> reporter: land set aside for the destited and homeless has value and this is where the refugee camp was before it was shut down. it was one of 40 camps here and a densely populated part of the city with a growing middle class population has become the focal points of this land struggle. many of the camps are on public land, despite a court injunction

preventing the government from selling to private developers is exactly what happened here. a representative of the national housing authority told al jazeera he finds it strange that he is facing lawsuits. >> translator: you must understand that these people are refugees and them saying this is their land has no meaning and they are occupying the land, they are our guests and does not make them owners of this land. >> 300,000 live in cramped conditions in refugee camps across bangladesh and a same number outside of the camps and with society they are kept low profile. at this meeting young residents of the camps discuss what to do next, most would like to improve the camps they already live in with an option of moving out if they want to. >> translator: our people do need to be rehabilitated and don't disagree with that but we

think this should take place without forcing us to move to some location in god knows where. >> reporter: as these young men and women draw their visions of an ideal future their actual future remains uncertain, in this real world green won't get you very far, al jazeera. a rare so called blood moon has been seen in night skies around the world, a total lunar eclipse and hasn't been seen since 1982 and this is from argentina and the earth is passing directly between the moon and the sun, that blocks out certain high frequency light waves leaving only the lower frequency waves making the moon look red. and sky watchers gathered on the beaches in rio to see it and the moon is also at its closest point to the earth and makes it look up to 8% bigger and that is

called the super moon and here is a view over tripoli in libya, this combination of a full moon, eclipse and super moon won't be seen for another 18 years and if you are like me who sadly missed seeing it you can check it out on our website as well, details on that super moon. ♪ i'm ali velshi "on target", stopping the revolving door of low level criminals that spin in and out of america's prisons. a programme let's cops send nonviolent drug addicts to social programs instead of gaol. advocates say it's working. i take to a detective who says not locking up criminals is a big mistake. >> criminologists have a fancy word for the problem of lawmakers that are arrested,