he. >> after four and a half years of war, this is the first time we have been able to come together at the united nations in the city counci security couo embrace a road forward. >> the u.n. security council unanimously supports a resolution outlining a peace process for syria. hello i'm darren jordan in doha with the world news from al jazeera. also, voters have backed a constitutional change to allow the president to extend his term in rwanda.

controversy, over arabic script, the row ends in a closure of the school system. the united nations security council has unanimously backa syrian peace plan. political talks to help bring the conflict to an end. but there are still major differences between russia and the united states over the future of syrian president bashar al-assad. jaibjames bays reports. >> a unanimous support for transition in syria, face to face talks and possibly a ceasefire in just a matter of weeks. but this resolution was the result of very last minute negotiations. it is the demonstration of the

difficulty of the task ahead that ministers were arriving in new york talks were still underway. fighting with their counterparts over many of the words and details of the resolution. when it was finally passed, it was praised by the current president of the security council, the united states. >> after four and a half years of war, this is the first time we have been able to come together at the united nations in the security council, to embrace a road forward. during that time, one syrian in 20 has been killed or wounded. one in five is a refugee. one in two has been displaced. the average life expectancy in syria has dropped by 20 years. >> here in the corridors and offices of the united nations they now face a tough challenge queeninconvening peace talks net

january, and there are stilling unresolved issues, who should be in the opposition delegation and which groups should not be allowed to go to the peace talks or even take part in the future of syria because they are designated as terrorist groups. despite this the man charged with leading the peace efforts says it is now doable. >> do you remember the name mission impossible? well, mission impossible is becoming potentially possible, thanks to what we saw today. >> but the hardest issue of all, the future of president assad is still in dispute. the russian foreign minister again stressing it was not for international community to decide his fate. >> translator: as to bashar al-assad's fate we talked about that repeatedly just recently, president putin addressed the nation in his annual press conference and he elaborated on this issue, on principle we

cannot agree with any on another nation from outside certain vision of what its leadership should look like. >> at one point as he was speaking in russian, secretary kerry wasn't getting his translation in his headset. this day on which the two men in the security council executed the exact language in the resolution but will those carefully created words still make sense to the two men in the coming days. james bays, al jazeera, new york. >> andrew tabler still isn't sure how the resolution would work. >> with the option saying assad must go at the start of the

transition and the assad regime refusing to engage in what they call terrorists. that's going to be the initial stumbling block if we're going to get this off the ground. first of all, bashar will say what he needs to say, he will probably engage, the question is with whom and will it be anything meaningful. secondly, i think the russians are bringing him along, you have one decision maker obviously and the opposition which the west and the united states has to deliver has multiple players. if you bring those together, you can't have any resolution. >> president obama says he was right in his assad strategy. >> we're going to defeat i.s.i.s. and we're going to do

that by systematically squeezing them taking out their leadership, forces, infrastructure. >> an air strike by the u.s. led coalition fighting i.s.i.l. may have accidentally killed a group of iraqi soldiers. the u.s. military says it will conduct a full investigation adding there have been no previous incidents of friendly fire in operations against i.s.i.l. iraq's foreign minister has demanded turkey remove their troops from a training camp within 48 hours. sunni and kurdish troops being trained to fight i.s.i.l. >> today iraq requested a u.n. security council to adoptive a resolution condemning the recent turkish intervention in iraqi territories and the turkish violation of iraqi sovereignty. on the third of september we

were surprised that the turkish forces had moved 110 kilometers into the iraqi territory. represents a trespass into iraqi territories. stretching system to bake point, osama ben javad has more from erbil in northern you iraq. >> forced out of her home from the iraqi city of mosul when i.s.i.l. took over. she lives in a camp among thousands of iraqis. last month she was diagnosed with cancer and had to have multiple surgeries and therapies. now she says she's stopped her treatment because she can't afford it anymore. >> since last year i had cancer and a charity helped me to go to the hospital and with surgery. they helped to take out the

cancerous lumps and all over treatments but after that i had to do all the tests and treatments by myself and i have no money for that. test and treatment costs at least $100 and i stopped all of that. >> her story is not unique, u.n. estimates more than 3 million iraqis have limited access to health care. charity and aid agencies are doing whatever they can but it doesn't seem to be enough. to provide for 5.2 million people the government admits that it's struggling under tremendous pressure from overcrowding and lack of money. it also says that it has to accommodate an additional 2 million people who have either been displaced from their homes or refugees from syria. those that can afford it use private clinics and hospitals. dwindling oil priets and falling

revenues have taken a toll on many public services. in this kurdish hospital alone, 20 new rooms were supposed to be built. calling for more hope from the international community. >> they have to provide more aid than they are providing now. the governorren that belong to iraqi other part of the kurdistan that belong to the iraqi region, there are people here in kurdistan. share of this government we are calling all of the international organizations and also the countries, the other countries, to help us. >> until that appeal is heard and help arrives, she will be faced with the stock choice. either feed her children or continue treatment. soam ben javad, aosama ben java,

erbil. rwanda's electoral commission says voters have overwhelmingly backed a constitutional change and a referendum. it means president paul kagame could stay into office until 2034. >> results of the controversial referendum were exactly as predicted. people celebrated as the total from peach district was announced by the electoral commission. in all districts it said nearly 100% of people voted in favor of changing the constitution and its presidential term limits. paul kagame has been president since 2000 but effectively since his party took control in 1994.

could stay in power until 2034. >> say you wanted to be president for life and that would be a disaster for rwanda. >> i don't want. what is happening is, people's choice. ask people why they want it. >> since the referendum was announced just ten days acknowledge politicians have been urging support for the changes. they were told that people were pressured into attending rallies but they said they came freely. >> we asked members of our parliament to change term limits because it was difficult to reelect president kagame. >> voting went ahead anyway. since early in the morning people have lined up at the polling station and voted in a quiet and orderly manner. supporters of president kagame say it is an expression of people's will because they have

not hesitated. peter mutuburuku was born in rwanda. >> it is a big shock to us that there's a referendum which was arranged in one week, to allow president kagame to be president for life essentially. we think it's illegitimate. >> they say the referendum results reflect that, the critics say the political climate means it's not possible to determine how popular he really is. malcolm webb, al jazeera, kigale, rwanda. coming after a short break.

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>> welcome back. the top stories here on al jazeera. the u.n. security council has unanimously backed a resolution to help bring an end to the five year conflict in syria, calls for ceasefire and political talks but there are still major differences over the future of syrian president bashar al-assad. rwanda's electoral

commission, means president paul kagame could stay in power until 2034. u.s. president barack obama has delivered his final annual address as he enters his final year in office. he promised to close guantanamo bay, step up the war against i.s.i.l. and stop the war in syria. youngest convict in a 20-year-old rape case. calls for harsher penalties for rapists. the ruling has age eshed women's rights activates. >> on the other side we have lawmakers who don't care. so what do we do? what do we people in society do? i think if he is released, we'll

go to any extent and try to protest his release and really be really really upset. >> the court in the hague has ruled that the oil joint shell, undernigeria law that meant it was not liable for compensation. ahmed idris reports. >> the niger oil delta, production poisons the water and the land. instead of enriching its people, it's predominantly brought misery. royal dutch shell has 60,000 kilometers.pipelines. farmers have fought a long battle for compensation but are toll they can only pursue

shell's nigerian subsidiary. the ruling in the hague says the parents can now sue the parent company. campaign group friends of the earth. >> the fact is that there is a court's jurisdiction on the case marines that probably in the future in similar cases, victims of human rights abuses by corporations and other companies that also have a company here in the netherlands can can bring their case to the netherlands to get justice. >> of course, it is not just about these four farmers but all the other farmers in the niger delta, who have an opportunity to take their case to the netherlands and fight their case in their home country. >> we are disappointing that

dutch court has determined it show assume international jurisdiction over the company. over issues which took place within nigeria should be heard in nigeria. the question whether shell is actually liable for the oil spills has so far not better than answered on appeal. this will be the follow e-topic of continuing litigation pep. >> being able to sue the parent company, in home countries, will be effective, they accuse the government of being too slow in acting on such judgment. ordered shell to stop all gas flaring in the delta, ten years later the government has yet to fully enforce this ruling. the actual liability for the

pollution remains unresolved. there will be more court cases in that in 2016. ahmed idris, al jazeera, nigeria. >> violent anti-mining protests in peru this year in which something are civilians have died. the are dust is settling on british coal mining, last teen mine closed following a long time for waiting. >> emerging from almost a kilometer underground, the final shift in britain's deep coal mine. now, the last 451 miners are

saying good-bye to a man known simply as bik k. >> this is not deem, this is not deep. >> this is a marshal, you think he's pen coming but you think you're prepared for it, yoang you've asked. >> e-snrnchts 11 mile journey to the coal face. noisy, dangerous, 50 years after it opened,ivity the end of the line for the mine. fueled the british e empire. the price of coals has crashed. coal fired power stations like this are gradually closing and moving to cleaner forms of

energy. coal imported from outside the country from as far away as 8th, colombia and the united states. u.k. company cannot compete. mine whereas among several oto ris the local working men's club some of the newly redundant miners find distraction preparing for theirs final credit cribs. it is his job to cap and seal it. >> i find it with the company, if the mines are going to close, i feel bitter if we haven't been given a fair chance. >> some miners have been forced to retire. others are hoping to retrain. when the mine goes, the

surrounding community will fade, also. soon after the last miners have left and the delaware belts have stopped the shasms e-turning kellingly a monument of an early time. >> schools are been closed over a rowe or part ever a class on major world religions, students were asked a copy what is was nobody as the shahada, its states there's no god you about god, and meement was the is arod

god. >> this is an example of irrational decisions and actions because we have been enduring a campaign of hate and fear for the past 18 months. anti-muz plix sentimenmuslim cad and deliberate campaign to metropolitamanipulate that and s testimony to how powferld this plokdz of fear really is. people who want to like i.s.i.l. want people to be afraid but so do many members of the reason party and of dr. republican politically candidates and that's not a statement, we have

heard more and more outlan dish rhetoric, as a part of a campaign. so when we are being fed fear day in and day out we act as the human beings we act out of that fear and act rationally. we are getting to choose our next president, this is a very important policy decision h we are, we are not going to are miking aa recognition,. >> bernie sanders is accusing hit own party for sabotaging his of you, riervel hillary comploirnt.

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front of a crowrd that included the country's eany. the of course all the news on our website, there it is on your screen, the diswreases aljazeera.com. that is aljazeera.com. fes ring out and the debate over gun violence and gun control echo again. away from the headlines "america tonight's" sarah hoye considers the high cost of a gub shot. a of the day was the cost? >> about a million dollars, it was really expensive. >> also ahead, house of screams. the torture that took place