donald trump's rivals brands him a phoney an a fraud. the republican front runner faces a barrage of attacks in a vicious debate. you're watching the world news on al jazeera. coming up on the next half hour. 99 allegations of sexual abuse against peacekeepers, international police and u.n. staff in ten different countries. iran accuses gulf states of undermining lebanon's stability by supporting hezbollah a

terrorist organization. north korea's leader tells its military to get ready to launch an attack the republican race for the white house has turned ugly. front runner donald trump has been branded a fraud and a phoney by his rivals on the latest tv debate on fox news. the barrage was crude at times >> reporter: fewer people on stage than insults. >> he was a failed candidate, mitt romney, he should have beaten obama easily. he failed miserably. >> reporter: from ted cruz, he did not have the experience or the talent to be president

>> this is not about the insults back and forth about the candidates. this is not about what attacks we can throw at each other >> reporter: marco rubio won only one state on tuesday but insisted voters didn't want donald trump who won seven as president >> people have voted against you. they dot not want you to be our nominee >> reporter: then there was this bizarre comment >> look at those hands, are they small hands. he referred to my hands if they are small, something else must be small. i guarantee there's no problem. i guarantee you >> reporter: this exchange sums up a lot of evening in the republican contest >> don't worry about it little marco, i will. >> i will appear big donald >> don't worry about little marco. >> you've got to do better than that. >> i would like to ask you a

policy question >> reporter: this tried to whittle down the numbers >> i'm playing to the fact that our country is in trouble, that we have a tremendous problem with crime. the border is a disaster. it is like a piece of swiss cheese >> reporter: in relation to refusing orders of torturing captures >> if they say do it, they will do it >> reporter: there was an appeal for calm >> there are people out there yearning for somebody who is going to bring america back both in the leadership level and in the neighborhood where we can begin to reininvague rate the united states of america >> reporter: donald trump took the majority of the attack tdz and dominated the air time. despites efforts to derail him, he still dominates the polls and

the race the united nations has reported a sharp rise in allegations of abuse against its staff. a new report catalogued 99 allegations of abuse overall in ten different countries. from 80 in 2014, 69 accusations were against peacekeepers. u.n. mission in car, ivory coast and mali accounted for the majority of the claims. for the first time the u.n. named the nationalities facing the allegations. they are 21 countries. car came top of the list. dangerous oil used in south sudan have been polluting drinking water. a german based rights organization says thousands of

facing health risks. p the area has seen some of the heaviest pollution in more than two years of the war two policemen have been killed in south-eastern turkey. it happened in nusaybin, which is close to the border. at least 30 people are reported to have been wounded. a syrian rebel group says there can be no ceasefire as long as the government continues to attack its people. there is continued attacks against civilians, ghouta as well as aleppo. iran has accused gulf countries of jeopardizing lebanon's stability by labelling hezbollah a terrorist organization. >> reporter: the you gulf cooperation saying hezbollah is

terrorist will say a problem across the reason region >> as we know on previous times, kingdom of saudi arabia along with behrain has been labelling them as terrorists. there is the addition of another two. >> reporter: an escalation that indicates how lebanon where hezbollah is based finds itself once again on the front lives of the regional power struggle. coming as it does within two weeks after saudi arabia announced it was cutting 4 billion dollars to the lebanon army and also a week after citizens were warned not to travel to lebanon.

much of the growing tension can be traced back to january when the saudi arabian embassy is iran was stormed by protesters. they were protesting against saudi arabia's execution of the proposal shia cleric. in a tell advised address on tuesday, the leader accused of saudi government of punishing lebanon. >> translation: saudi arabia have the right to sanction lebanon, the lebanese army, states and people and the lebanese residing in saudi arabia and the gulf just because one particular posse took a certain position and raised its voice? >> reporter: the g.c.c. said they called hezbollah a terrorist organization because of hostile acts within the member states, as well as other countries in the region. analysts say the g.c.c. is determined to stop hezbollah

>> i think that the gulf countries are determined not to allow hezbollah militia to determine the fate of not what goes on in lebanon but also because of the militia's involvement in syria, in iraq as well as in yemen. >> reporter: just days ago came more accusations from saudi arabia that hezbollah was aiding houthi rebels to plot and carry out attack in those countries. for the moment it's lebanon that could be most affected north korea's leader has told his military to be ready to fire nuclear weapon $at any time. north korean state television reported that he made the announcement while supervising an in military drill. it comes lease than 24 hours after sanctions on north korea. japan has suspended construction

work on the relocation of a u.s. air base on the ireland of okinawa. there are about 6,000 troops there. the government wants to move the base to a less tensely populated part of the island. there has been a standoff with officials and residents who want it shut down entirely. china is expected to raise defense spending by up to 8% this year. the exact numbers will be announced on saturday at the party's annual conference. he is positioning himself as the most powerful leader since d oshg ng. >> reporter: president president xi jinping made the rounds of state media recently. adoring journalists could barely contain their excitement. as they gathered around him, he issued them their job was first and foremost to serve the party.

>> his purpose was there no say that the media have to fall in line with the central party which means him, that no dissent is allowed in the media. >> reporter: online the adulation is even more fawning. this song dedicated to the president says if you want to marry, marry someone like uncle xi. the state news agency has turned to rap releasing a cartoon to promote party slogans. [ ♪ ] >> reporter: the lyrics don't exactly roll off the tongue. it is everyone's dream to build a moderately positive society comprehensively. president xi jinping now regards himself as the most leader chins mou. >> he is creating a positive%

around himself. he is dominating the media. he is putting out a sort of mou-ist line of leadership where everyone has to line-up with him >> reporter: in the days leading up to the congress meeting, he ordered the party's 88 million staff to study his mou's law. they're aimed at wiping out corruption and making the military a more powerful fighting force. his campaigns against corruption and dissent suggest that what that is most to him right now it party allegiance. if some matter members are resentful of the president's style, they won't be showing it

at this congress. they know that to survive they need to unite behind xi in thought and action still to come here on al jazeera, poaching for survival. fisherman in south africa say they have to break the rules to feed their families. smoke them if you've got them. cuba's famous cigar festival has some new clientele. me new clientele.

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the top stories. donald trump was branded a phoney and a fraud by his rivals at the latest debate. which was sometimes crude and nasty when ted cruz and marco rubio lodged attacks at the front runner. a sharp rise in allegations against u.n. staff. a new report claims 99 cases of abuse in ten different countries. that was out from 80 in 2014. police policemen have been killed in a car bottom in south-eastern turkey in nusaybin, which is close to the border european council president donald tusk has warned economic migrants not to come to europe. his comments come as thousands of people gather as

greece-macedonia border. refugees blocked a railway line in a protest to let them in >> translation: we are not prisoners, she says. we are humans. we escaped from i.s.i.s. and we came to you. pleas that have become more desperate aas each day goes by. if there was any hope that the bottleneck at the border would be soeld in a few days, it is now all but gone, replaced by this pair, anger and frustration and an overwhelming state of confusion. access to macedonia is restricted but no clear guidelines have been given as to what the stranded here need to do. information is spread by word of mouth and often it is wrong. >> translation: every day there are new rules. i'm afraid they will tell me that i can't get in because my

jacket is background and they want it to be black. >> reporter: any semblance of a unified european system has completely reason down. many of the registration papers issued by greek authorities are not valid any more. macedonian and the balk, ans now require a new stamp. many stand in queue for hours even though there are no guarantees it will end their polite. another source of anxiety is a turkish stamped on passports. like many here, he first stopped in turkey to earn enough money. >> what does that mean for you? >> reporter: for it is terrible like it is very hard as you come all this designation long way on suffering without sleep and food and then you hear like you hear the news that you can't get into macedonia because you have been in turkey one month.

>> go. >> reporter: police are struggling to keep order. t they have been organising refugees into numbers of 50, but with so many conflicting rumors few are waiting to carry it out. they have spread all the way to the borderline and even those who managed to reach the crossing point have to wait for a long time with the uncertainty of whether they're going to be pushed back or not. that's what happened to this man. he made it across on wednesday only to be back in greece by the evening. you >> translation: i went through this morning and was pushed back. they say the signature on my registration form is fake. i'm not the only one in this situation. >> reporter: faced with such hardship temper $often flare-up. there are scuffles. people push and shove, but, perhaps, what is most difficult is the humiliation for the refugees here who are begging their way for the sake of their

children britain and france have questioned russia's commitment to the ceasefire in fighting in syria. they called on russia and the syrian government to end attacks on western-backed rebel groups of the this shows russian air strikes in syria early this week despite the truce. british prime minister says russia needed to have a transition away from bashar al-assad as that is the only way reunite the country. francois hollande has warned that there will be consequences for border arrangements if britain votes to leave the european union. he met with david cameron on thursday. the two leaders also discussed the need to find an urgent solution for unaccompanied children and more than 300 minors in the port city of calais where the police are dismantling the camp noun as the

jungle. a ukrainian pilot accused of killing her journalists says she will go on hunger strike. she has been held in russia since her capture in 2014 and is protesting what she claims is an unfair trial. they say she provided the ukrainian army with information that killed the journalists and several other civilians. prosecutors on wednesday asked the court to sentence her to 23 years in prison. a ground-breaking discovery into the genetic make up of cancer tumors could allow scientists to explore new ways to fight the disease. it could open the way for more powerful treatments by harnessing the patient's own immune systems. the discovery was made by an international team of scientists from harvard, massachusetts institute of technology and institute of london.

fish are being caught nearly three times more than than reported and much of that catch is illegal. as our correspondent reports from the western cape in south africa, small-scale fisherman say they have little choice when it comes to making a living >> >> reporter: this crew sets out for their task. it is made difficult by a small and unsafe boat and unpredictable weather on the south coast >> sometimes the water can be rerough. we can cop size >> reporter: the crew says they're willing to take the risk because it's the only way they know how to earn a living. they risk their lives every day facing the rough waters of the atlantic ocean. sometimes they fish withinment quota they're allowed and sometimes not. they say they have to break the rule if they want to feed their

family. >> i have a prment. i can catch 96 kilos to november to june, but with three children and wife, it is not viable for me to go catch that. that's why - then they call it poaching because you have to do something to survive >> reporter: he has already been arrested once for exceeding the amount and type of fish he is allowed to catch. trouble with the police is a risk hanging over many people here which relies on the fishing industry. the number of unemployment rose here after the fishery closed or shut down its door. >> whenever you need to apply or put in permit, it is a lost obligations and paperwork. most of the people living along the coast, they don't know a lot about paperwork. all they know is how to fish. it's quite difficult. >> reporter: according to the

department of environmental affairs, the illegal fishing industry makes almost 400 million dollars a year. it is fuelled for demand by exotic sea products specifically abalone and rock lobster. it is intended to conserve species threatened by over fishing but it often appears ineffective >> the quota is under 100 tonne for abalone is between 2 and 3.5 tons. it is probably less than five%. >> reporter: these men say big business is dictating how they make their livelihoods. they want restrictions relaxed so they can stop poaching and end and earn in a safe environment zimbabwe's president says he wants to nationalise the state's diamond history. they say that mining companies

were robbing the country of its wealth and they haven't benefited. at least 16 people were killed in a prison fire in the capital of george town. inmates protested against over crowding problems at the prison and a riot broke out as they lit two fires. security gather seized drugs and cell phones during the riot. eight other prisoners were hospitalised rains in peru least people dead. waters flooded cars and blood the highway. thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes. 42 areas have been declared as a state of emergency. more than 8,000 people died in a massive earthquake that struck nepal last year. many more were injured and had to have limbs amputated. al jazeera spoke to a family to

find out how it is coping with the trauma. >> translation: it all happened suddenly when the quake struck there were clouds of dust everywhere. i called my mother and daughters and started digging around. first i found my eldest daughter. she was dead. then i found kim. her leg was smashed. i pulled her out. i kept looking for my mother. she could not be found. all this while my wife was away working. phone lines were bad. when she finally called a few days later i asked her to come back. the ground was still soaking. if we were all to tie we might as well have died together. i just cried and cried. i became weak and fainted. kim told me to stop crying. she threatened that if i didn't stop she would start crying too. everything in the house was buried. her clothes were drenched in blood. on the third night a foreigner

called sen came to our village. it was raining. he put some medicine on her wounds. maggots fell out of it. we took her to the health center. the helicopter came that evening. she was dropped to the hospital. when i went to visit the next day her leg was gone. i found my mother six days later. i cremated her and made a shrine next to my daughters. when i made it to the hospital, all i could do was cry. my only daughter who survived lost a leg. i really had to tell myself that i have to survive for her. i told myself she will get better. now she has a prosthetic leg. she doesn't like to put it on. we have to skold her. i hope that she will be comfortable with it and confident on it. when she feels like it, she exercises. a lot she doesn't.

she is being helped with her education. when she grows up i hope she can work and take care of herself. there is much to be done in our village, but i can't go back. i have to take care of her. her mother can't put her leg on for her. i've been staying here to take care of my daughter, but when i'm alone i get restless four for tobacco fan, the celebrations in cuba are a definite go >> reporter: the smell of tobacco is over powering. a c acres gar lover from the world over puff away. competing to see who can produce the longest ash. it is not just a hobby but a passion for men and women attending the annual sick ar festival-- cigar festival >> there are more and more young

people in china to start smoking cigar. >> reporter: this area is turned into a classroom to learn how to roll a cigar. >> reporter: it looks easy enough and it is very difficult. people are coming here from all over the world to learn how to do it. among them this man from new york who said he smoked his first cuban cigar before the embargo that barred americans from bringing cuban cigars into the country. >> my grandfather was a physician. i was hooked from 17. >> reporter: until now he couldn't come here legally to smoke them. now with the restoration with diplomatic ties between havana and washington, a record number of americans are here openly to take part in the festival >> it was a long time because

it celebrates the the-- anniver >> reporter: this was castro's favorite cigar. it was for the leader of the revolution and dignatories. now american can buy and bring to home up to $100 worth. not make-up when you consider that many here will be leaving with tens of thousands of dollars of cuban cigars. maybe just enough to last them until next year's cigar fest the u.s. base agency n.a.s.a. has released a new photo shoepg what appears to be

snow on pluto's surface.