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and we tried to access the main leader and the opposition stronghold and protesting and burning things and putting up cars and barricades and it's a way to protect themselves from the police to come in the area and the shops many are open and

mr. places are closed and it is more quiet than usual and people we are told have left the capitol and gone to the country where they think it's much safer and the referendum is on sunday and it may be quiet now and certainly could be violent the closer we get to the referendum on sunday. >> and what is the public mood there in the republican of congo now over this referendum because there is a lot of opposition to it and enjoys his support as we understand many of them were out in the streets to support extending his rule. >> exactly. they have been marching and saying they want the constitution and say it's a good thing for the country, some are still campaigning last year and you see some of them are on the roads waving flags and waving t-shirts reading french saying they want the country to be

changed and opposition to it and the government says it's a good thing and saying this new constitution will improve things like health, education and improve the lives of the people of the poor. the contagious issue is it will allow the president to run for a third term which some people don't want to hang on to power and some people enforce it and some people do not and do not see polling stations in parts of the city and in this area they say they will not vote on sunday and the president they say it will support the constitution. >> live for us there in the republic of congo. now a massive manhunt for the most wanted criminal in mexico is forcing many villages to seek safety and el-chapo is on the run after escaped prison and have been to remote villages to see how they fired at civilian

homes. >> displaced mexicans scared and desperate for help and many walked days to get to the town from their villages deep in the mountain range carrying their children with them. >> translator: we walked for three days day and night, by the second day i had no shoes, sometimes there wasn't a drop of water to drink. >> reporter: they are fleeing the mexican navy whose helicopters fired on several communities before ground troops stormed through. they were hunting the man known as el-chapo the world's most wanted drug lord and the navy missed him but not the houses of others, as she looks at her bullet riddled home she remembers running to try and protect her two-year-old daughter. >> translator: i tried and screamed and begged them not to

harm us and turn them we were not bad people and wanted them to talk to us like the government did before but the only thing they did was shoot at us not caring who was there or who they killed. >> reporter: when we visited the village the day before we found only animals, all their owners had fled, this small village really is in the middle of no where so you can imagine the surprise of someone living there to suddenly see navy helicopters in the sky and then have their house peppered with fire from those helicopters before infrantry swooped in here and the forces are long gone but the people living here are still too scared to come back. it's just the latest of many incidents which the military trampled the rights of civilians while battling organized crime says human rights organizations. >> translator: military forces are made to kill, not to detain people or take them before authorities and that means that

there are frequent human rights complaints against them. >> reporter: many support or at least fear el chapo in the mountains where he was born and raised and may explain the navy's aggressive approach as they entered the people's community and homes but it's one of few new friends, john in mexico. staying in mexico catastrophic damage is feared along the west coast of the country which is about to be hit by the biggest hurricane in the region's history. hurricane patricia is strengthening as it approaches the pacific coast where state of emergency has been declared in three states and gerald tan reports. >> taking no chances, mexicans living along the pacific coast prepare their homes and businesses for what forecasters warn could be a catastrophic storm. >> translator: it's better to prevent than to regret because i have windows i put in wood panels, the truth is i don't know how the hurricane will hit. >> reporter: hurricane patricia

is sweeping across the pacific with winds topping 260 kilometers an hour. it is quickly growing overnight to the highest category five storm, the hurricane is expected to make landfall on friday afternoon mexico time. >> translator: given the situation and the reports presented by the national emergency commission, the secretary of the interior instructed the extraordinary emergency declaration in three states of the country and ten municipalities and 34 and 11. >> reporter: the bustling port city is in the direct path of patricia but not everyone is worried. >> translator: as a precented measure we decided to buy some specific goods in case some roads are closed we will have the essentialsed a home. >> translator: we really didn't buy that much because they regularly say a hurricane will come and sometimes they don't hit, that is why i think the majority don't participate that much. >> reporter: many villages have been evacuated and orders issued

to close schools and ports and government leaders say they are bracing for what is threatening to become the most intense hurricane to hit mexico's specific coast. gerald tan, al jazeera. let's get more now on hurricane patricia, here is rob with the weather, so rob just how bad could this be? it's looking like a real monster. >> it is and being come complacnet is not an option and it is developing quickly and within 36 hours it has gone from a massive cloud and really a tropical storm of little consequence to a category five hurricane and category five is the top of the symptom scale, you don't get any higher than that and it's still a category five if higher than that and absorb the figures and sustained winds of 335 kilometers per hour, gusts of 400, the thing moves north and 19 kilometers per hour which is a reasonable

speed given that its conditions are rather again generative and the ocean is warmer than ever recorded and warmer than most of the land to be onst and feeds moisture all the time and why it develops so rapidly. oh, it's going to be the strongest, it already is the strongest east pacific hurricane on record judged by the wind speeds and hardly surprising and yes the damage is likely to be catastrophic as it hits the coast and comes in land so peel that away and go back to where we started and these are current figures and the forecast cost takes it probably north of purta-villarta and also hit in 1959 but direct hits are a rare thing and maybe that is with why you heard some level of

complacency and gusting 400 miles per hour and with typhoons, the wave also be battering 14 meters high at the moment and then the storm surge and i don't know how deep it will be but the central pressure is almost record level and meters to add to that and that is the most damaging thing and think the storm surge sweeping up the beaches coming against the higher ground and most people live on the lower coastal reach. rainfall, that is still to come. rob thanks for that and stay with us on al jazeera and still ahead. >> i'm tonya page reporting from ivory coast where economic growth is having a second term. climate change is back on the agenda but just agreeing on a framework plan is proving to be a problem plus. i'm andy richardson at the para athletic championships in doha and finding out if a

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jerusalem are being lifted and they blocked some men from entering the compound since september and the question and the role of u.s. troops in iraq after an american soldier was killed during a raid to free hostages from i.s.i.l. it's the first u.s. combat death in iraq since the campaign started in june of last year and let's talk more about the questions now with a retired jordan airforce general and military analyst and joins us from amed and thank you for being with us and so what do you think is going on here with this raid, the news of this latest u.s. led raid in iraq because it would go against what their stated mission was when they first went back into the country more than a year ago that they were there purely as support troops, purely as a backup, now it appears that this -- they are going back into combat.

>> yes, indeed but over all i could say it is all planned very successful, unique in a way and very noble in syria in saving people's life. having said that, yes, they consider it as part of training, advice program but i don't see on that -- i mean we need definition for that. i mean the american forces everyday are supposed to modify around from the west end because this also train assist program or you know getting people in combat fair fighting and it's good to see good cooperation also in the future might happen again and again but it would be considered a mission on the future and i don't know i don't know what is going to happen but we could see more operation of

this kind in the future also. >> and if we do see more operations like this could you see this as the u.s. sort of sending a message to the russians perhaps because obviously the russians have gotten more involved in syria with the air strikes there backing up bashar al-assad, could this be seen as america's way of saying we are still in iraq, this is our patch? >> yes, in a way. i mean, the americans are looking for some victory in iraq, responding to the russian occupation of syria i could say, not interfering. we could say that they are encouraging the iraqi forces to get, if you remember three weeks back so they are looking for it and they are sending a message in the dress also, don't approach over fear of influence in iraq like you did in syria

especially in the northern part of it. >> do you think there is a danger here as well of what is often termed as mission, the stated objectives of the u.s. mission turn out to be something quite different later on as time goes by but it ends up expanding from what they originally intended, do you think there is a danger of that for the united states? >> i don't think -- you know, to defeat i.s.i.s. in that effect you need a full scale war and you need to surround them in the battlefield and led especially by the american but i don't think we are going to see that. the mission i doubt it very much with obama aid but if the future might happen, i don't know, i cannot tell that but at the moment with president obama doctrine sort of there is no mission or boots on the ground. but we might see as i said

before some clashes or fire fighting and the considerate, this is inconsistent with their program to train, assist and advise. >> good to get your perspective on this, appreciate your time. how britain's prime minister david cameron and david president have met at cameron's residence checkers on the third day of his state visit to the uk. in a joint statement they praised the trip as opening what they call a gold end era in uk china relations and two leaders visited a local pub for a british favorite fish and chips and a pint of beer. now police in northern ionia are being accused of torturing a teenage boy to death and 15-year-old was found dead at his home hours after being taken into police custody in the state and he is from the same state and from the same cast as two

children who were burnt to death earlier this week and let's get the latest from our correspondent in the capitol new deli and what happened here? >> so i'm hearing conflicting reports in this particular incident, the family says that the 15-year-old boy was tortured to death by police in police custody, he was taken into police custody for allegations of stealing a pigeon and they say the boy committed suicide and investigations going on and hearing reports of an increased security presence in the area given what we have seen earlier this week as well as you mentioned the case of two young children who were burnt to death in an attack as well. >> and how deep rooted is this issue of cast in india and the apparent killings that result

from it? >> look, it's not a new issue, it's something that india has been dealing with for many, many years, these are traditional structures that still continue to exist in communities and villages across the country. in terms of the statistics in the state here as we reported yesterday, government figures seem to suggest there has been a several fold rise in the space of the killings in the last 15 years, that in itself suggests there is an element of fear in these communities, it is also highly politicized issues in the past and with the community and the support base that they offer to politicians looking to get their numbers up so it's going to be an issue that continues to be talked about and now we are looking at two cases in the same state and space of a few days it is certainly going to be an ongoing discussion. >> reporting to us there from new deli.

india is hosting talks with african trade ministers as it vies with china for closer ties with the resource rich continent and new deli is already spending a lot of money and they struck a $18 million deal to upgrade the capitol's main mode of transport and nicholas hawk reports from dhaka. >> reporter: every morning no matter how hard she tries she is always running late for work. she works in town but lives in the suburbs. finding reliable transition isn't easy, this is the best option and are anything but fast and break downs and traffic congestion makes in the most unpleasant part of abbey's day. >> i dread this moment where i have to sit in here for hours

enlessly and the bus smells like gas and it's an unpleasant start of the day. >> reporter: imported from france they have been around since the 1970s and the drivers added colorful touches to the exteriors but on the inside the basic mechanics have not changed in more than 40 years. the state wants to get rid of them in a bid to reduce pollution in the volume of traffic. >> they are dangerous and not for a modern city and our goal is to replace them with vehicles with more comfort and a better service for people working in town. which manufacturer would replace this. much to everyone's surprise they chose the indian car maker tata to ve vam p the system out bidding chinese makers including better quality buses that pollute a lot less than tata but they were cheaper and to modify the vehicles to adapt to the driving.

>> translator: the traffic in india is similar to dakar and they hope to get people from the suburbs into the city and decon -- decongest things. >> we understand the kind of technology required. >> reporter: and they are betting on this, the magic ace, with the million sold in india it's a no thrills van with no windows in the back or electronics, just a strong engine but it still needs to convince african consumers. and tata is testing the magic in sin gallant already had to make changes with more head room and better suspensions making abbey's commute home a little less bumpy and a little more

comfortable but still a long journey home. nicholas hawk, al jazeera, dakar. zimbabwe president awarded the chinese equivalent of the peace prize and they are disgusted and the award is attack on the people of zimbabwe and accuse him of using systematic torture to remain in power and says he is being honored to bring in committal and economic order and improving people's welfare. a vote is in the ivory coast and go to the poles on sunday, incumbent is expected to win easily the vote partly because of his work to turn the economy around but as tonya page reports not everyone is feeling the benefits. >> the hkb bridge is the pride here symbolizing ivory coast's revival, after civil war and violence which 3,000 people were

killed the ivory coast's economy is now moving forward. >> translator: i think the bridge is a shortcut and don't waste any time and any appointment i will i will make it. >> reporter: the bridge is part of president's multi-billion dollar investment plan driving growth of 9% a year. international hotel chains are staking their claim signalling faith in the country's stability after so much blood shed. the african development bank partly paid for the bridge and it moved its headquarters back after a decade in tunisia to avoid civil war here. >> this is very important and extremely under estimated so with a piece and better infrastructure is calming a lot of investment which also is very important for economics. >> reporter: the violence of the last election when the former president refused to accept defeat will not be repeated and he is awaiting

trial forward crimes at the hague and people simply don't have the appetite for it. widely expected to win a second term largely because the improvement to the economy here, the markets are busy, new buildings are popping up all over and the big challenge is making sure everyone benefits. eugene drives businessmen around the city but wishes he was the one carrying a briefcase. >> translator: the economy is booming but what is the point if people like me don't feel the effects, we need more investors so i can start my own company but right now i have no choice. >> reporter: and while money is also being spend in the rural areas half the population is poor and inequality can breed unrest, tonya page, al jazeera, ivory coast. a suicide bombing killed at least 11 people and happened at dawn prayers in the northeastern city and it's the capitol of borno state, the birth place of

boko haram. hillary clinton faced 11-hour grilling by republicans over an attack on a diplomatic compound in benghazi three years ago and former u.s. secretary of state and democratic hopeful sparred with republicans over how she handled the incident and kimberly reports from washington. >> reporter: it is the second time hillary clinton has appeared before a congressional committee to answer questions about what happened in 2012 in benghazi libya when four americans died. but the head of the committee invisits this line of questioning is different. >> these questions linger because those previous investigation were narrow in scope and either incapable or unwilling to assist the facts necessary. >> reporter: so the former secretary of state is defending her actions. >> i lost more sleep than all of you put together. i have been wracking my brain about what more could have been done.

>> reporter: this is the ninth investigation in more than 17 months, $4.5 million spent and turned up few new details and democrats charge the true motivation of the congressional committee is to destroy clinton's presidential ambition. >> republicans are squandering millions of taxpayer dollars on this abusive effort to derail secretary clinton's presidential campaign. >> despite allies on the committee clinton found herself under attack defending why she didn't personally see or respond to hundreds of e-mails requesting additional security in benghazi from the ambassador who ultimately lost his life. >> no one accountable and how come not a single person lost a single paycheck. >> he took the request where they belonged and took them to the security professionals. >> reporter: the hearing went on for hours and at one point clinton looking on be wildered as the top democrat and republican openly bickered. >> i move that we put into the

record the entire transcript of sidney blumenthal, we will release the e-mails let's do the transcript that way the world can see it. >> those are her e-mails, that is why they were were released. >> reporter: the witness under attack who told the politicians to work together. >> i would like us to get back to those times, congressman, beirut we lost more americans not once but twice within a year. there was no partisan effort. people rose above politics, a democratic congress worked with a republican administration. >> despite hearing from its star witness the committee says its work is not yet complete and will be interviewing more witnesses in the months to come and issuing a final definitive report in 2016. kimberly with al jazeera, washington. a presidential hopeful in argentina held their last rallies before the vote on

sunday. president kirchner and the success is leading in the polls and she has already served two times and argentina constitution bars her from running again until 2019 and she has been in power for 12 years. police in sweden say attack at a school which left two people dead was racially motivated, a masked man carrying a sword killed a teacher and student and wounded two others, police shot and killed him at the scene and most of the students at the school were from immigrant families and local media say the social media showed extreme right wing tendencies. smoke from forest fires is blanketing southeast asia and singapore where pollution soars in the danger zone and they are told to stop and burn the practices in indonesia and they

cleared the forest with vegetation. six weeks until a major climate conference in paris and negotiators in germany are trying to agree on a framework deal. it will be the starting point for world leaders meeting in paris next month to come up with a global climate plan and developing nations say their demands were left out from the first job and want richer countries to take the lead in cutting emissions and providing clean energy technology, more than 100 countries already submitted plans for fighting pollution but they have not agreed on a way to compare each nation's target and achievements. bob ward is the policy director at the grantham research institute on climate change and is from london and thank you for being with us and what do you expect to happen in these talks then? >> this is the final day of a week-long of negotiations and they are focused on specifically on a legal agreement which is

one of the outcomes that they are aiming for from the paris process and they started off the week with a document that was 20 pages long. now over the course of the week people have been adding things in but they want to have included and they massively increased the length of the document so today they are going to have to start making some very hard decisions that takes out some of the text that has been in it and got to reach an agreement but this is exactly what we expect to happen, this is an international negotiation process but people's minds will be focused on as you said there are only six weeks until they have to gather again in paris and it is very clear that they must have an agreement in paris. if we do not get an agreement in paris and our chances of avoiding global warming of more than two degrees and scientists have said would be very

dangerous for the world, that chance will probably disappear and i don't think any country really wants that to happen. >> when you say that chance will disappear could you elaborate on that? is there a tipping point you think the world will reach here? >> well, ahead of the talks we've had individual countries submitting their pledges for action that they will take including cuts in emissions but when you add up those plans at the moment it's very clear that they are not consistent with the goal of trying to avoid warming of more than two degrees so the agreement has got to layout a process beyond this year through which countries will ramp up their ambitions and find ways of cutting their emissions more than saying they will be able to do because we are at a critical point now, if we leave it much longer we will find that emissions will have already got

to a level where we won't be able to cut them down and we will deal with global warming of more than two degrees which has huge risks, huge risks of sea level rise, of the loss of glaciers that support major rivers in asia and changes in extreme weather, the kind of thing that will be very difficult to cope with and things we won't be able to stop once they start. >> good to get your thoughts on this bob ward joining us from london and thanks for being with us. >> thank you. still ahead we will have all the sport for you, some of the most ancient sports set to go on display at the first world indigenous games. ♪ without spin. >> not everybody is asking the questions you're asking me today. >> we give you more perspectives >> the separatists took control a few days ago. >> and a global view. >> now everybody in this country can hear tt not

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plans pan out. china's resort has netted nothing more than broken promises. ♪ let's get all the sport here and know is joe. >> anticorruption police investigating allegations of max fixing surrounding the country's biggest football match known as al-clasico and pressured to save madrid in the match against barcelona and the official who wants to remain anonymous said instructions given by the spanish referee and committee, no response from the committee yet but the corruption office in barcelona is investigating. >> translator: appears inplausible because the referees to do the match have not yet been designated so at the moment for me it's implausible but know what i read in the newspaper.

>> reporter: announced he will run for fifa president for a second time, champion launched his campaign on friday with a detailed plan how he wants to modernize the governing body and fight inequality and failed to secure at least five votes to be a candidate in the last election in may which was won by current president sepp bladder who is now suspended and joins michelle and the president and former trinidad football at david in meeting monday's deadline to apply for next february's election. german beat 3-1 in the eropa league on thursday and did it without one of their star players who failed to make the trip because of security fears and he scored ten goals this season is a member of the national team of armenia which technically is still at war over a disputed region. despite assurances from the

foreign ministry he decided not to make him travel because he feared being arrested. five world records were broken on the opening day of the par athletic championships in do what and the first time it has been held in the middle east as well as showcasing top level sport, organizers hope the event will continue to change attitudes towards disability in the region and andy richardson reports. >> roman is not just getting ready to compete in the para athletic world championship and javin thrower and shot putter expected to win metals this year and next at the para olympics and he is hoping his efforts will inspire others. >> translator: my aim is to encourage more youngsters to take up sport and want to be an example, nothing has stopped me,

in fact, my disability is a motivation for me to try harder. i really want the next generation to do sport. >> this is the first time the event has been held in the middle east and, in fact, only the second time it has been held outside of europe. organizers saying this is a natural step in their efforts to normalize attitudes toward para athletics around the world, a platform for competitors to show what they can rather than cannot do. those working in this region to promote equal opportunities in all aspects of life say the fight for acceptance is still ongoing. >> people with disabilities in the arab world face tremendous obstacles whether it's at school or in the workplace or getting around in their neighborhoods and communities and most importantly they face tremendous obstacles in the way people perceive disability. >> reporter: the effort to remove those obstacles is one local organizers hope can be accelerated by these

championships. >> i think in our society there is a way forward for this but we need to make it for sure, we need to make it, you know, official. we need to let the people know that they can be champion, they can be trainers, they can be official, they can be anything. >> reporter: yes. >> the people with disabilities to be included in the same sentence or in the same concept as super athletes like bolt or others is a real powerful vehicle for changing the way people perceive disability. >> reporter: after the metal winning exploits just one more example of what can be achieved. andy richardson, al jazeera, doha. well the first world indigenous games are getting underway on thursday in the brazil city, the event is bringing together ethnic groups from 22 countries across the globe and competing in ten

sports over ten days, aside from events like running, swimming, wrestling and football there are more traditional sports on the schedule. this includes the native north american form of football and it's played with the head alone rather than the feet and a log charging contest but as lopez reports in the north of brazil it's about more than just sport. >> reporter: has been holding indigenous games for close to two decades now but this is the first time ever that other tribes from all around the world like i said like new zealand and russia have joined in and certainly it's a sporting event but it's not your traditional type of sporting event and the effort is also culture and also spiritual so very much a coming together of these indigenous people from around the world and spoke to someone today who said this was a perfect and very unique opportunity not only to

showcase the practices to the world but also to come and exchange ideas with other people. >> six time champion rossi could complete a remarkable return to the sport in malaysia this weekend, italian is on the verge of clinching another world title six years since his last, he will go into the race on sunday with 11-point advantage over his nearest rival lorenzo at the cert, more sport on our website, for the latest check out al jazeera.com/sport. we have blogs and videos from our correspondents around the world and the address again is al jazeera/sport and we will have more from the world indigenous games a little bit later. >> thanks joe and look forward to that and stay with us here on al jazeera another full bulletin of news is two minutes away. size to del with.

>> bahamians have weathered tough economic years, and with baja mar people worry and wonder if the future can be as bright as their government pledges. >> melissa chan joins us now. we understand there is a november 2nd deadline to determine the future of baja mar. what do you know about it? >> let me back up a little bit and say a few weeks ago a judge in the bahamas appointed provisional liquidators. that judge is going to reconsider and decide whether he wants to move forward with full scale liquidation. now when we spoke to people in the about a ha baja mas and asked what it means, they were not really sure. it's important to keep in mind that 97% of the project is complete and they have just have 3% left. what the chamber of commerce says if you can get all the parties together and agree to an

arbitration, it will be a much better solution than moving forward in a liquidation. >> they have many projects in latin america and the caribbean, and these projects are usually success stories. what went wrong here? >> very interesting, it's parent company is china state construction. that company is huge. they've worked on 70 or so major projects around the world. consider the possibility that two or three fail, and the bahamas might be one of them, that's a pretty good average. but the story from the baja mar side, the bahamian investors, they do accuse china con inves investors. that's where things get complicated. there is so much finger pointing no one really knows who is to blame. that's really one of the things that's part of the problem. >> thank you.

melissa chen joining us. that's our show for today. ♪ i've lost more sleep than all of you put together. >> marathon testimony hillary clinton is questioned for more than 11 hours about the benghazi attacks, the former secretary of state revealing few new details about what happened. breaking overnight one person is killed and three others injured at a shooting at a tennessee college and that campus is still on lock down. daring mission in iraq ending with a u.s. soldier death and the first u.s. service member to die in the fight against i.s.i.l. potentially catastrophic category five and the mexico pacific coast in the cross hairs of hurricane patricia and overnight it became the strongest ever recorded in the westn