>> at this point in time the united states last not made odetermination about the cause of the incident. however we can't rule anything out complug the mobilityd of terrorist involvement.

are obviously you heard the announcement from the british government about steps they were taking to ensure the safety of the british public and currently the obama administration is reviewing a number of steps that we can take. >> both russia and egypt have said it's too early to draw conclusions. the egyptian president says he's doing everything he can to ensure the safety of egyptian passengers. >> that the airport is safe so a good standard. >> the number of people confirmed to have been killed when a factory collapsed in pakistan is risen to 31. 100 still missing in the rubble. there are allegations that the building was poorly constructed. an investigation wl begin once the recovery effort is complete. at least one person has been

killed, and 45 people are missing, in brazil after a dam burst, flooding a mine and niche homes. ss -- and nouri homes. osama ben javad records. >> after a dam holding waste water burst, dozens are missing and injured in southeastern brazil, over two kilometers from the dam, about 600 people liver here and most of them are miners. some homes have been swept away and there was no power as electricity lines were also brought down by the strong current. firefighters say the number of people missing may rise and it is unlikely to find survivors opportunity toxic mixture. the company running the site says it is trying to find out what happened. >> at the moment, we cannot find

the extent of the victims. well-being and the environment. >> the site is operated by mining company somarco. somarco says it's doing everything it can to help the people. >> translator: the break was detected earlier this afternoon. emergency action plan, mobilizing with civil defense, all the necessary efforts to prioritize the treatment and well-being of employees working on the ground and who live close to the dams. >> the government has helped by deploying the army and civil defense teams. osama ben javad, al jazeera. >> myanmar, campaigning is officially drawing to a close in

the country's historic election. aung san suu kyi had alleged irregularities in the run up to sunday's poll. florence, how open has this campaign been? >> they have been allowed to hold rallyless speeches all across the country. but however, the nld, the main opposition city, the aung san suu kyi party, has also been less than free and fair. she says the party has made many complaints about irregularities, but they say, the election commission doesn't seem to have taken much action about, and in

fact the election commission was unable to publish the final election list on the 2nd of november, at it promised it would, but had to do in staggered days. there was one of the more serious cases had a campaign worker who was stabbed and attacked by men with knives and he had the oundergo surgery in hospital. so these are the issues that are marring the campaign process. >> aung san suu kyi says she will form a reconciliation government if her party wins. there's not a single muslim candidate running in this election, just how inclusive will this election be. >> the fact that muslims are being marginalized is a concern.

also among the action community. how race and religion is being plit sided. politicized. ban ki-moon has said he is concerned over the fact that the ruling party, the usdp, they are -- they have been accused of giving in to pressure of nationalist buddhists, hard line monks who say this country should only be for muslims and for baman race. the government has given into pressure for this group, they have denied rohingya the ability

to vote, so you've got about thousands of people being disenfranchised. and because of the sort ever pressure that the government has been under, because of the sorts of politicization of race and religion, none of the two biggest party, the ruling party or the main opposition party, have felted any muslim candidates. >> many apologizes for the technical problems there. florence looi, there. >> prime minister victor ponta resigned in ro romania. >> train ran into a truck in the german state of bavaria.

a train hit a truck at high speed and both the conductor and the drier of the truck were killed in the crash. tension is turning to the trauma experienced by refugee children. one group is using humor to produce some comfort to the children. mohammed jamjoom reports from lesbos. >> for a short while, the children were transported, all by consuming joy, which helps them forget the overwhelming sadness. in lesbos, enjoyment is in short supply as comfort. most of these children have been camped out in this parking lot

for days. this is a much needed dose of levity, from a group of kids who have become far more accustomed to sadness. >> regardless what we are who we are, what's happening to us here, you need laughter, i need laughter, everybody needs laughter. >> clowns without borders try to spread as much cheer as they can all around the island. nine-year-old noor may have been able to escaped iraq with her family but she can't escape the conditions which become harsher all the day. they're telling me they had so

much fun and they danced and they got here three days ago and the first time they smiled since they got here. for the better part of an hour, giggles replaced tears, for children who experienced so much death and destruction, their concerns were turned upside down. little amma told us how much fun they're having. once the show is over they cheer for clowns almost as much as they cling to them. no one here wants this to end. with each passing performance, sabin sees more and more just how traumatized her audience is. >> there was one thing that was happening where we were performing and a helicopter passed by and this kid who said, i was just looking at him at that moment and then his face

turned into like a horrified caring face. he took the two kids heads down and he was like oh, it's airplane, airplane, put your head down. and i saw this like in this one fraction of second this horror when we are performing, i went and hugged him and i website, it's okay, it's just helicopter, we're doing clown tour and he went back and danced again. and it's so -- it's so painful to see things like that. >> a pain whose size is already far larger than these children. campaigned with a -- combined with a trauma, yes they are resilient but when hope is gone, strength only lasts so long. mohammed jamjoom, al jazeera, lesbos, greece. >> still to come here on al jazeera, saving money and saving the planet. we'll tell you about the

revolutionary way the plastic bottles are being reused in south africa. and why the sun is to blame for red planet's dry and dusty surface. we'll be right back. we'll be right back.

>> hello again, the top stories here on al jazeera. outbound british flights from sharm el sheikh egypt have resumed amid strong security. fears a bomb brought down a russian airliner on saturday. campaign is drawing to a

close in myanmar, in the first openly questeopenly contentopen. how many people are missing, the world's chemical weapons body has confirmed that mustard gas has been used recently in syria. the leaked report from opcw says it was used in august. the first indication that the government agreed to destroy its chemical weapons stockpile. senior fellow with the arms control association in the united states, the source of the miss tarmustard gas is unclear.

is he concerned that syri that . has learned how to create chemical weapons. >> the way to get rid of assad's chemical weapons was we greatly reduced the danger that any of the parties in the syrian civil war would have access to or be able to use these very lethal chemical weapons. so although the hope was that these agents had been removed from the table, if that is not the case, if i.s.i.l. has either found some way to get the remaining government stockpile, or has figured out a way to manufacture it, that's a new element which will make this awful and bloody conflict even more deadly.

>> and anticapitalist demonstration led by the hactivist group, million man march, set a police car on fire. thousands wore the anonymous masks. neave barker in london. >> the popularity of anonymous has been growing globally in recent years, this demonstration there are thousands of people who have marched under this banner. it is the mask of gie guy forkeo tried the kill king james. different campaign groups from around the country, similar marches were also taking place

globally as well. they're hoping that this will be a million man masked march around the world. they are representing lots of different things when it comes to so on so fort but in recent years anonymous has taken on the likes of the queue clu the ku k. >> it's the first time in 30 years that a cuban leader has visited the mexico. john holman has the story. >> under two consecutive conservative, very much aligned mexican government and it's a good point to start renewing that relationship for both countries. especially mexico is seeing this

as a point where cuba can open up to mexican investment, and tourism which is strong between the two countries. also something going on between the two leaders, president enrique pena nieto and raul castro, as they sit down to talk. at the moment they granted asylum, the moment they reach u.s. soil and they're worried that that could change as the u.s. and cuba grow closer together. so that's the reason for this surge that's particularly affecting cuban migration through mexico. that is one of the things that the two leaders will be thinking of as they sit down in mexico after a long absence. >> u.s. giant the exxon, has been ordered to hand over financial records, e-mails and other documents. the investigation will look into whether the company funded

groups that opposed climate science. exxon says it is assessing its response and it recognizes climate change is real. there's a new way to build schools in safeco. helping to ease the number of classrooms and help the environment at the same time. plastic bricks are replacing the traditional clay ones. haru mutasa reports. >> may not look like it, but the kitchen being buil being built m is of recycled plastic bricks. some of sout south africa's poot communities. plastic bottles are not biodegradable and end up in landfills but the recycled plastic bowled ar bottles are rd

into plastic bricks. a wire mesh keeps the plastic bricks in place. those behind the project say it is the way to save the environment and uplift local economies. >> obviously become part of the bottles, we get those bottles back because of the controlled environment, once we get them back they become automatically a brick. we take those and construct structures like behind me. >> the bricks are circle to stack like lego bricks. here is the way you stack these like this. the builders say i.t. went very fast, took them roughly three hours. this 1,000 square meter

structure, depending on the finishing used, it is 25% less expensive to construct. accidentally catching fire. >> maybe the whole structure will bend but no it won't. >> facilities have been built using recycled plastic bolts in south africa so far. it is hoped one day it will be used across the african continent. haru mutasa, al jazeera, pretoria. >> main opposition wasn't there, it says the election was rigged.

the results in tanzania's semi autonomous region. >> the ailt annual world architect festival is being held right now in singapore. from there sahil raman reports. >> over 2200 professionals from 60 countries are here with the creations they have built, and will build in the future. the largest gathering of its kind and helps us shape the way we think in the places we live work and spend our leisure time. what architecture has is a body of knowledge, a system of thinking, a way of creating some sort of commonality of

experience across the world, and these are the ways that architecture might be able to give some sort of help to the issues of international conflict. >> the next generation is waiting in the wings. these are the finalists in the global university competition, the challenge to anticipate the future of locations based on their past and potential future use. the universities of singapore and london's westminster are working on the business district of singapore. >> through analyzing the area in general we can see things either that we have in common with them or that they actually pick up on that we don't. so it gives us a different perspective as well and in that sense it is a good collaboration so we learned from each other as well. >> this five star hotel used to be the central post office. the challenge here is not just design but working as a team. the future is also on the mind

of finalist los he gomez in -- carlos gomez in spain. >> we decide to design with bamboo structure, our intention is to create an alive building, we design our environmental building, probably people want to see more environmentally friendly buildings but companies they don't get revenue they would like with this kind of projects. >> next year's festival is moving to europe. asia has been a popular and successful venue but it is felt that another continent should benefit and inspire a future generation of architects. sahil raman, al jazeera, singapore. >> scientists now know why mars which had once plenty of flowing

water has dried. it is the latest in a new series of findings about the new planet. jacob ward reports. >> to know why mars is a cold desolate dry planet, you only need to understand the sun. nasa scientists announced thursday that the atmosphere was stripped away by powerful solar storms bills of years ago. unlike today's much less active sun, those winds penetrated mars and left it vulnerable. the relate was the disappearance of water -- the result was the disappearance of water and probably the disappearance of life. >> the stripping of the solar wind in mars was thought to have taken place very early in the history of the solar system when the sun was more active, when the wind was more intense. so the rate is low.

>> since then its instruments have analyzed solar winds and their effects on the atmosphere. scientists said maven even documented the similar wind sols earlier this year. >> we have rovers that have found rocks that were formed in ache we uak weacquious environm. valleys that looked like they were carvegd by water, lakes that were standing for long periods of time, an environment that was much more able to support liquid water. >> reporter: storms are as

active today and not as intense, but any chance that earth could suffer the same fate as mars -- >> during the times when the earth may be losing atmosphere, the rate of loss would be low. we don't have anything to worry about in terms of the earth's atmosphere disappearing on us. >> jacob ward, al jazeera, san francisco. pope francis has released a music album, called wake up. the 11 tracks include christian chants as well as parts of the pope's speeches. themes include peace, nature, attention to those in need, faith and family. a terminally ill star wars fan has been granted his dying wish to watch the force awakens. after a social media campaign called force for daniel went viral. the 31-year-old has an aggressive form of lung cancer

and has been given just two months to live. the new star wars film comes out in the u.s. in december. much more real news about real issues and real people like you and me along with analysis comments and video at our website, take a look at aljazeera.com. com. have, homicide. dad. >> plane crashes. one-year-old. disorder. >> what is the number one cause of death for police officers in the country? >> suicide. >> it's policy with most departments workers comp to deny any kind of a stress claim. >> post-traumatic stress disorder drove me to become a mental case. >> what is the reluctance to