blushing filmmaker under a necklace of continues his journey across his homeland to discover what life is like under putin during his travels he meets christians and muslims patriots and separatists i told you the locals in the southeast will know when i arrive i don't do something completely different someone to leave russia but for others the russian passport means hope and the challenge of happens in search of putin's russia at this time oh no jazeera. this is al-jazeera. i'm rob matheson this is the news hour live from doha and coming up in the next sixty minutes remaining defiant north korea fires an unidentified miso over.

several iranians among the dead as suicide bombers launch attacks in southern iraq killing at least sixty people. deal or no deal confusion at the white house again over an agreement to protect the dreamers. and the cassini spacecraft sends back its last images of saturn before ending its twenty year mission. north korea has fired an unidentified missile over japan it was launched from so none district in the capital city pyongyang earlier this week the u.n.

security council voted to impose new sanctions on north korea over its nuclear program the latest launch is the second time north korea has fired a missile over japan in less than a month. andrew thomas is joining us now live from seoul andrew what are you hearing about this from there. well this missile was launched at six fifty seven korean time that is an hour and four minutes ago now and information has been coming out during the last hour of the latest here the south commit korean military is now saying that the rocket flew for three thousand seven hundred kilometers in the north easterly direction as you say over japan and it reached a height of seven hundred seventy kilometers they are saying now the distance there is very significant because three thousand seven hundred kilometers is a long way if it were fired in a slightly different direction in a more southerly direction that rocket that missile could have reached guam and of

course we've been talking about guam as the potential target or the sea very close to go on being a potential target of the north koreans of talked about as somewhere that they aim to aim a missile at some stage they said that explicitly now this but rocket was not fired towards go on it was fired north easterly not north westerly sorry it was it was fired north easterly not south westerly but nevertheless by achieving a distance like that the north korean regime is making a very strong point now there are two things to say about this missile launch one that it's happened at all but it's happened so quickly after the u.n. passed its resolutions at the beginning what resolution i should say at the beginning of the week putting the toughest ever sanctions on north korea that in itself is significant that they are just throwing this in the face of the international community showing that they're going to test myself anyway but second exactly what sort of missile was this and does it have the capability to at some

stage take an miniaturized nuclear warhead on it because of course for the united states as mainland that is the real real threat. it's about three hundred g.m.t. at the moment and i understand that south korea is convening a national security council meeting at the moment i think the president is going to be cheering that what do you think the response is going to be after that meeting. president moon jane is in the chairing that meeting of the national security council here in seoul that meeting should have gone the way just three minutes ago at eight o'clock in the morning local time those meetings tend to go on for an hour or two and then we get an idea of what was said what was decided south korea like the united states wanted tougher sanctions on north korea at the beginning of the week they wanted a full oil embargo on the regime they thought only you that would deliver the economic clout the economic pressure on the country to actually make it change what it is doing it didn't get that it only got a cap on oil of course the sanctions that only passed that what five five days ago

there's no way that they would have any effect any practical effect on the north korean regime yet but of course they send a signal whether further economic sanctions will follow we may hear something along those lines from the south koreans in terms of what they want we may hear something out of washington president trump might tweet something in coming hours all these things are up in the air what we do know at the moment it's not unexpected we did expect a test of some sort of missile test or nuclear test we've got this missile test it just shows north korea was serious when it said it wasn't going to be stopped by u.n. sanctions it was going to pursue its missile ambitions its nuclear missile ambitions even stronger in the light of those sanctions and provocatively that seems exactly what it's doing. very much indeed while earlier on thursday u.s. secretary of state directs telos and welcomed the recent sanctions imposed by the un the second security council in response to north korea's nuclear and missile program but he said an oil embargo was needed and that china would have to agree to

that i think it's clear that with respect to oil and a complete. embargo on all from the u.n. security council there's going to be very difficult in effect that is directed to china alone because china supplies essential in all of north korea's all. diplomatic editor james bays is live for us at the united nations in new york james what do you think the reaction is going to be there. well i think this will be seen as yet more defiance from north korea remember it was on monday new york time almost exactly the same time of day as this missile launch that the latest sanctions were passed just seventy two hours ago and north korea has now responded in this way so i think it's a matter that will certainly concern the security council the reports that the missile went over japanese territory last time that happened the security council

met pretty quickly to discuss the issue quite possible nothing scheduled yet that we could have a meeting in a matter of hours possibly even on friday here in new york remember the timing of this not just looking back to that security council meeting with those new tougher sanctions adding to the sanctions already in place but the fact that this is just ahead of the u.n. general assembly which takes place formally starting on tuesday although some world leaders including president trump will be here on monday so defiance not just of the security council but i think also of the international community who are meeting here in new york i've been speaking to ambassadors and other diplomats in the last few hours about the key prospects for that meeting of the general assembly and all are saying that very much the top issue the issue that will come up in every big conversation between world leaders is north korea also worth telling you that among the attendees of that high level week at the u.n.

here will be the north korean foreign minister ho is expected here he'll speak a week on tomorrow on the friday of the meeting so there is also the prospect of some diplomacy if he is to meet with any other nations look for example for a meeting maybe with the u.n. secretary general antonio the terrorist certainly in the past and ki-moon has met with the north korean for. a minister so there's a possibility of diplomacy at a time when north korea is showing real defiance and james what was significant about the the un security council resolution was the fact that it was unanimous which means that both china and russia supported it but you and i were discussing at the time that they were supporting it but they were still determined that talks should be held that negotiations should be held with north korea to try and deal with the situation do you think there's going to be more pressure on both china and

russia now to push north korea forward into those talks. i'm sure they'll be pressure from those on the security council including the country that's been affected in this case it seems being flown over by the missile japan japan sits on the un security council they will be deeply unhappy that this is happened again but it's also clear from that security council meeting as you say that russia and china have limits they were not happy with the first draft of the security council resolution that the u.s. circulated which had that complete ban on all our oil and petroleum and natural gas products that you heard secretary of state to listen saying we still want to go to that level china and russia don't believe that they will go that far and won't allow it to go that far and also the point that both ambassadors made in that meeting that took place on monday is yes we support tougher sanctions we provide

support the pressure on north korea but at the same time there are other pieces to this that we'd like to see in place so we're not giving up on those they're saying look the u.s. and south korea need to give some ground to north korea by stopping what they say are provoke a tive military exercises by removing the third missile defense system and they're also saying that there needs to be an immediate return to the negotiating table so it's pretty clear that there are big differences in the international community and they managed in the last resolution with a bit of compromise to keep everyone in a unified position with regard to the security council if they want to push for tougher measures i think they're going to find it hard to keep that unity and james of course all eyes are also going to be on what happens from the white house the donald trump said after the sanctions were voted on that there were nothing compared to what would ultimately have to happen so there's going to be

a lot of attention on what the u.s. does next doesn't go. absolutely the u.s. doesn't have very many options the president when he was speaking on air force one earlier on today said that he does have a plan and he's been speaking to china about a plan we will perhaps learn more in the coming days because among the big speeches that we get at the u.n. general assembly the second speech of the world leaders because the u.s. is the host country always goes to the president the united states president trump will speak for forty fifty minutes for the world on choose days perhaps we'll get some more details then worth telling you a little aside here that in that big hall of the general assembly where all the delegations of the world are represented they put the different countries in their places by alphabetical order and each year they shift around so that no one stuck in the back well can i tell you who's got the front seat in the front row for all

the speeches this year north korea james for now thanks very much indeed i want to talk to lawrence korb he's a senior fellow at the center for american progress he's also a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense he's joining us on skype from nurse in delaware thank you very much indeed for your time there were reports in the media and in the last forty eight hours that north korea had been moving a rocket launcher with it was unspecified where it was and what type of rocket it was carrying in many ways this isn't really a surprise as it. well it's not because they're trying to show they were not happy with the u.n. resolutions and that they were not going to have any impact on their policy and basically we knew they were up to something as you mentioned because there were moving things to where they usually do once you're out of these missiles

one of the key thing is what are russia and china going to do and i think the chinese nation may be more willing to go for the top or sign to his cause the last thing the chinese want is to see the japanese call mom more active buy more equipment from the united states maybe even think of getting your weapons when you talk to the chinese now you see the biggest threat to them is your plan given the history of world war two. in tennis of china and russia as james was mentioning earlier on that there is a suspicion that there is a limit to how much pressure that they can put on north korea and despite the provocation that might have happened i'm we still don't know the full details of what this missile was and why whether or not it was carrying a warhead and so on they may not actually be able to do very much could they. well again i think particularly the chinese the causes your correspondents mention the original news all of science is that the u.s.

and the other members of the security council want it on they are well watered down and i think as a new kind of show secretary jealous and talking about you know stop all the oil from coming in i think the chinese may be more willing now to do that because it's very clear that this was in defiance now you return for the i'd say probably won't watch the united states to begin to talk to the no one for eons and maybe slow down some of these exercises that we do or make some less. vocative with the with this with the south koreans because eventually that's how you're going to have to settle this again i have to recognize what korea is a nuclear power we want to stop where they are but we'd be willing to end the korean war which theoretically has an end date and guarantee their sovereignty day think that they need these weapons to protect an invasion from the south or for the

united states will just not true what is their mind it is do you think that this is going to provoke or encourage japan that i'm south korea to ramp up the defenses that they already have. no doubt about it remember when president you know he wasn't even happy about going to get all of them they had missiles the air defenses he is now and i think he may want even more and i think the same thing the japanese will do and again the chinese are concerned about that because they think those weapons will undermine their own nuclear power and so that i'm not going to you know a car you can wait with the chinese and say well you don't do anything here we're not going to be able to stop the south koreans and the japanese were getting more leads into systems which meant the chance they'd go in and you know why plead with

them to say they need to lawrence korb for that thank you very much than just to remind you that to north korea has fired an unidentified type of ballistic missile from sunan in pyongyang it happened around zero six fifty seven a.m. that's seoul time that's about twenty one fifty seven g.m.t. the missile a few over japan we believe it went over the island of hokkaido and it fell into the pacific ocean it appears the maximum altitude was around seven hundred seventy kilometers the flight distance was about three thousand seven hundred kilometers now there is this speculation that that would put it within a similar range to the u.s. island of guam that's a story we're leading with at the moment in the meantime i saw it says it was behind coordinated attacks in the southern iraq at least sixty people died and dozens more injured when the attackers targeted

a restaurant openings checkpoint near the city of nasiriyah some of the victims were a shia muslims visiting from the run as it is imran khan has more. the rock has been spared much of the violence that the rest of the country has seemed to in the west and in the north now this attack took place just after lunchtime gunmen attacked the checkpoint which leads into southern iraq and then two suicide car bombs exploded outside of. iraq as i say has been spared much of the violence and i saw have claimed responsibility for this particular attack now they do claim responsibility for a number of attacks not just here but abroad as well but it is likely to be an isolated attack this is a message really from the group saying that you may have beaten us. in mosul you may have surrounded us in the last remaining stronghold but we all still able to attack you in places that you wouldn't expect so now that's a real challenge for the iraqis do they move troops to the south or do they

continue their battle up in. the future of a united iraq is looking even more uncertain as tensions continue over a referendum on kurdish independence iraqi parliament has voted to remove the governor of cook from office after the province decided to take part in the september the twenty fifth vote the parliament rejected the poll on tuesday it also gave the body authority to take all measures to a national unity but. i'm told that vote was unlawful. they can make whatever decision they want to make i'm staying in my course prime minister does not have the powers to ask the pardon or the movie. because kirk cook is one of the brimelow this is according to the law that was passed in the iraqi parliament in two thousand and eight. he has that power with other governments but not with because. this is unlawful when you go and we will not apply there is

absolutely nothing that four bits people from expressing your opinion with regard to their future does not mean that an independent republic of kurdistan will be formed right on after that on the twenty sixth of september but. it's the will of the people to express their opinion and their will about what they want and then the of course it all depends how he's going to go issues its nature can you take me through the year and a half just like bridget is so i don't see why you know these people are so much against it in egypt making it like as if the whole middle east is going to blow up which is not true. ok let's return to our top story about north korea firing an unidentified missile over japan while twenty seventeen has been a year of rapid progress for north korea's missile program pyongyang says it tested a hydrogen bomb two weeks ago it was north korea's nuclear test and its most

powerful yet in response the un security council unanimously approved a u.s. drafted resolution imposing sanctions on the country they ban kim jong un's government from exporting textiles and restricts the shipment of oil products on august the twenty ninth north korea fired an intermediate range ballistic missile over northern japan the country's fired twenty one missiles during fourteen tests since february that's including its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile in july less than six years into his reign has tested more missiles than his father and his grandfather combined will robert kelly is associate professor of political science at national university he's joining us on skype from south korea thank you very much indeed for your time so this doesn't really come as much of a surprise but the speculation is that as we were just talking about there north

korea has been ramping up its missile program significantly in twenty seventeen there's got to be speculation that at some point it is going to try to prove that it can hit something with these missiles. yeah i would imagine that we're sort of getting close to that point firing over japan is pretty provocative right that's a violation of national airspace north korea has now done that i believe believe this is the fourth time they've done that but in some point you're right i think they are going to have to prove that they do have an i.c.b.m. that can not only go up but can also go very far that's what they've been doing now sort of these very high shots up into the atmosphere but at some point people are going to want to see the missile can actually fly close to north america because that's what they keep saying and of course that's the one that will be really really controversial and as you said i wonder if we're getting to that point because there are a lot of players in this situation of course we're talking about the responses from the u.s. japan south korea china russia from your perspective who do you think holds the key to all of this what's the response that we should be looking for forest i think

probably the two most important players in this are china and the united states if the united states were to make some kind of major concession north korea might come to the table but at this point there's so little strategic trust on the american side from north korea that i doubt that's going to happen the chinese made a proposal called will freeze a couple weeks ago where the americans would freeze their drills and military drills in south korea in exchange for a north korean nuclear freeze and the americans dismissed that on the other hand i think the chinese also have a lot of leverage here and the chinese reject this so-called china responsibility theory that china could actually force and change and north korea they really crack down and enforce the sanctions i do believe this is correct they do believe that north korea's economic lifeline goes through china and the chinese are just been unwilling to pinch that lifeline if they did i do believe that would actually force north korea to make concessions but it's hard to know when the chinese always tell us that that isn't true so that sort of gotten us to this to the stalemate. and that's exactly the point is in and through all throughout all of this despite calls

to come to the negotiating table north korea seems absolutely resolute that it will not do that do you have any idea what the tipping point might be that would get north korea to those talks yeah that's actually a really good question i think a lot of people are surprised at the level of pain that north korea is willing to endure in the late one nine hundred ninety s. north korea suffered a famine and killed something around ten percent of its population didn't change at all just let those people die so north korea's willingness to sort of endure massive pain or to be more specific it leads willingness to shift pain and suffering and with people is appalling right and so as you said the north koreans have just shown the sort of. sort of how ben attitude towards nuclear nation right they have been running for this for a while and you know come hell or high water and they have just not stopped and i think that sort of you kind of our problem right is that the north koreans really really want these things and there's really not much we can give them i think that would encourage them to actually denuclearize we're going to get to the point maybe not now because no one wants to say it but in five years or so i think we'll be at

the point where we basically are accepting the north korea as a nuclear weapon you can't say that now but that's where we are so i do interrupt you my apology is that do you think that this latest test this missile firing i should say is going to provoke south korea and japan to go back to their defensive capabilities and start looking again at whether or not rather than the remaining defensive they should be putting their forces onto an offensive footing. i think probably the first step i think there are two things that south korea and japan will it will do and both of them have already started this the first is civil defense that is actually beginning to instruct their populations on what to do if there's actually a missile strike or a nuclear strike or something like that that's something that i've noticed in the years i've lived in south korea is that sort of regular south koreans are like my friends my family you my students really have no idea what to do at all and i think you're probably going to start to get that you may recall that the government of guam handed out flyers about what to do if there was a nuclear blast near guam i think that's coming here japan has already started with

civil defense and putting people in shelters i also think missile defense is the future of the north koreans are going to build missiles then i think japan and south you're going to build missile defense and you'll see something of a measure for counter measure kind of arms race but you know missile defense is expensive it doesn't really work very well so the north koreans don't stop building missiles missile defense although he won't be enough and then there will be pressure for airstrikes really gets good to get your view on this thank you very much robert kenny associate professor of political science at present national university thanks very much u.s. president again accused iran of breaking the spirit of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal john bolton said the agreement was unfair to the u.s. and one of the worst deals he's ever seen trying to set to make a decision next month and whether he believes iran is keeping up its end of the bargain in the meantime the u.s. state department says it will continue to waive nuclear related sanctions on iran but a spokeswoman says this has no bearing on the deal as future. now waving some of those

sanctions should not be seen as an indication of president trump or his administration's position on the j c p o a nor is the waiver giving the iranian regime a pass on its broad range of malign behavior there's been confusion over reports u.s. president donald trump has struck a deal to protect undocumented young immigrants known as dreamers democrats had announced they'd reached an agreement to shield nearly eight hundred thousand people from deportation but trump later appeared to suggest there was no deal our white house correspondent can really all that has more from washington d.c. . confusion at the white house again what started out as president trump's attempt to make a bipartisan deal with congressional democrats has devolved into finger pointing about who said what to whom hoping to bridge the ideological gap with a compromise they arrived at the white house of wednesday evening democratic house leaders now tea pelosi and senate leader chuck schumer

a short time later they heralded a landmark deal they've made with the republican president to create a law allowing more than eight hundred thousand children of illegal immigrants to stay in the united states or did they the next morning on twitter donald trump said from his point of view there was no deal on the program known as dhaka. then a few hours later before leaving washington to inspect hurricane damage in florida donald trump changed his mind he claimed he agreed to dhaka but only if there is funding for border security and a wall with mexico in the future you have eight hundred thousand young people brought here don't fall for the wrong the wall will come later hours later after that trip to florida as trump reentered the white house he put that deal into further doubt issuing an ultimatum to the democrats with whom he had one day earlier attempted to negotiate with the. you would.

think we don't want them. hard right conservatives are furious accusing trump of granting amnesty establishment republicans seem equally irritated reminding the president any deal he makes on legislation must involve republicans currently holding a majority in the u.s. congress i think the president stands and he's going to work with the congressional majority to get any kind of legislative solution the president shifting positions and erratic approach to policy has only complicated matters in his heart of hearts trump may not know exactly what he is and he's sort of ideologically flexible and i think he just sort of goes for the thing that he thinks can basically get him the best headlines and the most credit that's why any deal on doctor remains in doubt but this time it may not be the president's democratic political adversaries holding up any agreement but instead members of the president's own republican party kimberly hellcat al jazeera washington well joining us from washington d.c.

is leone fresco he was the former deputy assistant attorney general in charge of immigration at the u.s. department of justice under president obama thank you very much indeed for your time i'm confused is there a deal thank you well i think what there are are the broad parameters of a framework and in that framework the trade would be that there would be a permanent legal status given the people currently on the temporary daca program in exchange for some measure of border security after that the details of that are anybody's guess is there do you think a degree of trust between the democrats and the white house that would allow some sort of deal to be made or is this going to come into a stalemate on another public shouting match between both sides. i think where the reason that you see president drawn approaching the democratic leaders is

because he can have some measure of confidence that if he reaches a deal with senator schumer and with leader pelosi that they speak for the entire democratic caucus what happened with the health care debate was that that wasn't necessarily the case with speaker ryan and leader mcconnell reaching a deal with them didn't get them the entirety of the republican conference and so the question that's going to be important here is does speaker ryan and leader mcconnell actually put a bill on the floor if less than a majority of republicans support it and what the president is counting on is basically one hundred percent of the democrats and ten percent of the republicans and that's a question that needs to be asked of speaker ryan and leader mcconnell and from your experience or do you think that that can actually happen given the splits that you've just described. i think it's very complicated because the devil is going to

be in the details of how much border security the democrats are going to be asked to take back in exchange for the dhaka students because remember the dhaka students are just eight hundred thousand of a larger population of eleven million and the democrats have to weigh concessions they make versus the ability to come back and get the remainder of the ten million who don't have legal status to also get them legal status and so the question is if the president is going to actually the house and senate majority as are going to be insistent on getting a majority of republicans then the kind of trade they're going to want to demand and you hear this term about getting rid of root causes of illegal immigration is going to be on the enforcement side in order to reach a trade for the democrats for only eight hundred thousand of the eleven million usually in the kind of trade where you say we're going to get rid of root causes of illegal immigration then what you're talking about is

a massive surge in enforcement in exchange for a legalization of all eleven million that was the proposal in two thousand and thirteen that passed the senate but did not pass the house good to get your view on this the invesco thank you very much in the bank you ok let's go back to our top story now we're talking about that unidentified missile that's being fired by north korea which has gone over the japanese island of hokkaido let's go now to craig gleason and tokyo craig what are you hearing there. well what we do know about this missile is that it's travels from pyongyang the capital of north korea it's traveled some three thousand kilometers which would indicate that potentially it could be an intercontinental ballistic missile if that's the case it means that it does have the capability of reaching somewhere like glom with the u.s. has a military base and that told us a lot about this test it could be another way of threatening the united states as

well as japan it did go over the northern part of japan the island of hokkaido and analysts are now taking a look at the trajectory to determine exactly what kind of miss all this might just be what has the reaction being within japan itself to this latest missile launch. well it's been swift the chief cabinet secretary. has released a statement he's called it intolerable he said that he's been instructed by the prime minister. to ensure the safety of all vessels and aircraft in the area and to undergo emergency operations for the public should that be the case then my main concern now is in terms of the flight of the missile as if anything fell from the missile and poses a threat to the civilian population but they are on a list they have issued to the public here and they'll be monitoring i guess

whether there are any further launches atoll what is interesting is the timing of this it was expected that north korea would launch a test missile last saturday foundation day a big day in the calendar of north korea that didn't happen for some speculate various reasons which could have included the weather. and also solar flares which it was anticipated could have affected the flight path of a missile on that day but certainly this comes following some strong rhetoric from north korea yesterday threatening japan to sink japan was the woods that we use with nuclear weapons so this is of concern to the government here specifically since we saw that test of the hydrogen bomb in north korea some two weeks ago a bomb that was said to be ten times as strong as that we dropped on hiroshima by

the united states and we saw in july sorry a month before that i mean sol that was launched across the northern part of japan successfully and in july to me sol so this comes as a series of tests and perhaps threats to japan and to the allies in this region telling them to stop the military exercises that so angered north korea at this time of year and also to the anger that north korea has felt from the imposition of the sanctions that the allies pushed by the united states have imposed through the u.n. . craig i'm just looking at the wire services here donald trump president the united states has been briefed on the north korea missile launch by his chief of staff and of course we're going to be waiting to see what kind of response if any he has the sure there will be a response in the coming hours craig just give me an indication of what you think

japan's military response is likely to be to this latest missile launch do you think that japan is going to revisit defensive and all friends of military capabilities in the region as a result of this. well japan's already indicated that it's willing and ready to do that it does have some restrictions in terms of the agreements it has with its allies in terms of the military build up or extension of its defense capabilities that it can undertake he has certainly there have been discussions with the united states about the sorts of military hardware he could look at increasing and buying from the united states to strengthen its defense capabilities here the united states does have a big presence here the defense capabilities it says that a currently in place will stop any missed saul from landing on one of its allies that being japan and south korea there is an extensive fed missile system that is

in place across the region specifically in south korea ending guam with a military bases for the united states in the pacific we see here in japan a patriot battery that woods with the system as well as these ages anti missile ships that are in the sea of japan now these ships there are some six of those being deployed by the united states japan has four and what they capability is as intercept as they are able to stop me saul's in space being launched. this defense capability i was told when i was england recently by the homeland security adviser there that there was less than point one zero zero zero zero one percent he said all the mis all being able to land on any of these allied soils so

they have pretty confident that they could stop a serious missile attack by the north koreans but of course that doesn't. stop the concerns that they have about the capability in terms of the number of missiles that north korea has and what the. will fall out of those missiles will be and of course we're seeing now these nuclear tests the sixth nuclear test two weeks ago which indicates that north korea does have the capability now of arming one of these missiles and in fact a white paper released here in japan just last week said that japan believes north korea has the capability of miniaturizing the these nuclear bombs which means they could an intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear weapon and that's what's causing the allies the greatest concern craig i know we're going to be checking in with you as a story develops but for now thank you very much indeed quickly sent in tokyo

twenty three people mostly students have died in a fire an islamic boarding school in the leisure pupils and teachers could be heard screaming for help as the fire blocked the only exit to the dormitory kucha lopez called boy and reports. it took more than an hour for firefighters to put out the flames that the dottle could on the funkiest school in kuala lumpur by then many people mainly teenage boys had lost their lives no one going to do such as you see you need we can see from a certain angle their hands waving out for help we had no choice but to ask them to jump out and we tried to catch them we did try to enter the house but the fire was too hot until certain point there was a blackout when that happened things started falling apart we withdrew after that low. the fire started near the dormitory on the top floor first thing in the morning it quickly ripped through the entire building and it was named by one of the interior of the building as one hundred percent destroyed the mattresses books

and all other things in the very damaged but the cause of the fire is still unclear we're still investigating it would have been difficult for the boys to escape as the rooms had barred windows and the fire blocked the only exit i could think of scape through the window we dismantled the window grill opened the window and climbed down on a party we force a window grill open at that time we couldn't think much of a fire department representative says their bodies were found on top of one another suggesting there was a stampede to try and get out the fire chief says the school should have had to fire escapes but it appears the building codes were not properly followed. by.

a community religious leader lead prayers for the students he described the boys as cheerful when they held religious events in the community a happy group many of whom have now lost their lives under tragic circumstances. al-jazeera id's nineteen people have drowned after a boat capsized in northern india the boat was filled with construction workers when it sank in the year mono river state rescue crews are still searching for around thirteen missing passengers police believe overcrowding was the likely cause and say they were investigating the boat's operator. have drowned making the crossing from myanmar to bangladesh eighty eight people have died attempting the journey since the start of the crisis three weeks ago this baby was one of those killed when the wooden boat he was on turned over almost four hundred thousand four hundred five million mark since the military launched

a crackdown. targeting groups in the region aid agencies say they're overwhelmed by the crisis. in assistance in bangladesh has traditionally been quite complex and the government has. preferred to certain choices in terms of agencies our presence on the ground and so forth this was before this big emergency i think that now that the emergency requires a very urgent response his presence will be scaled up very quickly we've had already an airlift of goods from the emirates other organizations are also sending goods and i think that we're going to see we're going to see the emergence of very quickly a senior russian negotiator says his country together with turkey and iran is close to finalizing an agreement in deescalation zones in syria they're discussing the details at a meeting in the capital as stana it's the sixth round of talks aimed at ending more than six years of civil war. i

want to say that the main task of this international meeting on syria is to finalize in korea. to draw a line under all the work which has been in the last few months since a memorandum creating deescalation signed on the fruits of my. it made a kottaras held talks with the turkish president in his first foreign trip since the beginning of the gulf diplomatic crisis. the one to discuss a solution to the crisis turkey has been a major supporter of cartel us in saudi arabia bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt began the blockade back in june and has also deployed more troops to turkey's military base in the cottage since the hostilities began. with more. the fact that the mayor of qatar. sees fit to leave the country is

a sign as far as many are concerned that he believes qatar has been able to withstand the worst of the onslaught that has been going on has been directed at his country for over one hundred days now in terms of the siege the blockade that's been imposed by saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain as well as egypt as well as what many believe that he's believed to be attempted coup to essentially oust him from power so the fact that he's leaving the country is a sign many would say that he believes that his country is stable enough secure enough and that he has nothing to worry about in terms of the destination going to charge he is the first of his foreign visits since the crisis began a clear sign of gratitude for the solidarity that ankara has demonstrated and manifested throughout the past hundred days in terms of filling the void supermarket shelves as well as the need for basic food produced in qatar found itself in in light of the blockade much of its dairy parties as well as other fresh

poultry and other things used to come via saudi arabia and obviously the fact that they closed the land border meant that qatar had to look elsewhere significantly obviously the security that turkey has. given qatar via the bilateral military agreements that are between the two countries in the presence of turkish forces there in terms of what's on the agenda what we understand from the. presidential spokesperson abram kalyan who spoke just a couple of hours before landed in ankara he said that turkey or the turkish president would be speaking with the mayor about finding a solution to the crisis however they didn't delve into what details that would entail it is significant to mention here however that the kuwaiti prime minister who's country's been leading the mediation efforts albeit unsuccessfully until now is also in turkey. the south african government is delaying the implementation of a controversial new mining charter the legislation would force all operators to hand over more of their business to black south africans but the new rules are on

hold after they were challenged by the country's most powerful mining industry body tanya page reports. gold was the backbone of south africa's economy for decades since the end of apartheid blacks had gained a foothold in the industry through government policies meant to share the country's mineral wealth but a revised mining charter that will force mining companies to ensure thirty percent of their business is owned by black south africans has prompted a scathing criticism from some is still logical it's unethical it's immoral it's definitely unconstitutional you don't have to read two paragraphs on the first page to say this is insane it's not workable it's not going to benefit anybody the revised charter increases the proportion of black ownership from twenty six to thirty percent it also makes that requirement continuous so if

a black owner sold there she is the mining company would have to give more of their business away to ensure its still mitt the thirty percent black ownership role the chamber of mines which represents most of the industry has just won a promise from the government that it won't implement the changes until the high court makes a ruling on its legality the industry is warning the charter is already putting investors off and costing jobs like that of timber into lee he's still putting his skills to use after being laid off but he says he can't get another job is very very bad because. i've been out. of mine because of. it. but unfortunately i didn't get that you know the charter is part of the government's plan to implement what it calls radical economic transformation. timber may have paid the price for the uncertainty and cost cutting in the industry but in the long term the government says its new mining charter will benefit more

black south africans because they'll have a bigger stake in the industry that's disputed by critics who argue only a few wealthy black south africans will benefit the mining industry says increasing inequality is not its fault and so it seems to be winning the argument in court tanya page out is there rustenburg a south africa every spring rainfall is threatening argentina's largest export farmers are concerned hoff of all soil and corn crops could be lost after heavy flooding in the province of want to say these numbers were already down after flooding affected the start of the season now after spending twenty years exploring saturn and its moons the cassini space mission is coming to an end nasa is preparing to destroy the spacecraft by sending it plunging into saturn's atmosphere looks at what is achieved over the years three to one. very closely the spacecraft what it took to see me seven years flying through space

to reach saturn as it settled into war with around the ringed planet cassini launched the whole onto the surface of titan suddens biggest moon. over thirteen years the mission has sent back spectacular images from the other side of the solar system it will feel in some sense like a death in the family you know something you've devoted your life to for twenty seven years and then it will be gone. but we certainly i will feel triumphant because it is been a magnificent and profoundly successful exploration and i'm so proud to have been a part of it covered in snow and ice this is another sutton and salad us it has powerful ice blasting gazes and here scientists believe there's water and so a chance to look for traces of life and on titan cassini revealed a climate similar to primordial earth it's why cassini can land on saturn it may

still carry microbes some earth but could affect an alien ecosystem because of the importance of in solid us that cassini has shown us and of titan another potential world that could be habitable for life for apps not like we know it but perhaps completely different than ours. we had to make decisions on how to dispose of the spacecraft. and that led us inevitably to the plan of taking cassini and plunging it into saturn. so after the last of twenty two fowle dives between saturn's rings and surface because seaney will fly into the planet's burning atmosphere. burn it smith al-jazeera. let me just give you a reminder all of the story that we're leading with the moments north korea has

fired an unidentified to type of ballistic missile from soon on the pyongyang that was at twenty one fifty seven g. and t. today the missile flew over japan fell into the pacific ocean then japanese foreign minister says that he thinks the missile the north korea fired was an end to an on going to continental ballistic missile still ahead in sports the elements get the better of the final woman's golf major of the season details in the sport.

and it's time for the sport here is peter thank you very much former united nations secretary general ban ki moon has a new job at the international olympic committee the south korean will be the new chair of the i.o.c. ethics commission the decision was taken in the peruvian capital of lima where the i.o.c. are currently gathering the ban will have to deal with the i.o.c. has damaged public reputation following a vote buying scandal among other issues of corruption. what is important is that in principle. or walk very closely with the i.o.c. members and. sports organisations to make that i.o.c. . has a trust and confidence from the international community the i.o.c. have a lot of work to do with fewer takers these days one thing to host the games not to

mention ban having to deal with the recent legacy of bribery and corruption that is according to the author of power games a political history of the olympics jules boycott of. banki moon has his hands full there's no question about it if gray if one of the first things the pond ki-moon did was to try to create a little bit of autonomy right now the ethics commission still reports to the executive board of the international olympic committee so in order to be more effective it seems to me that the first order of business for ban ki-moon is to try to get some kind of autonomy and separation from the people overseeing him on the short term they need to figure out what's going on with this vote buying scandal just the other week there been revelations that down in brazil in the apartment of carlos newsman the head of the brazilian olympic committee they found a russian passport one hundred fifty five thousand dollars in cash in number of different currencies and so we've got an ongoing scandal there that also spreads to

tokyo that are going to have to deal with that in the short term we're seeing more and more recognition from the general population that they don't really want to host the games in their city the olympics are tremendously popular as long as they happen somewhere else also who have won their first ever match in the europa league the london club failed to qualify for the champions league last season and the playing in europe's second to a competition for the first time they came from behind to beat cologne three one earlier the new look ac milan kicked off their campaign with a big win andre silver was the story of the show he scored a hat trick as the city odd giant threshed austria vienna five one to land on looking for their first european trophy since two thousand and seven. here's a look now at some selected europa league group stage results from thursday they were home wins four v.l. dynamo kiev en masse a all former clubs more familiar with champions league everton were crushed three nil at atalanta and former italian champions lots of themselves in

a way win against a fetus of the netherlands and you have begun disciplinary proceedings against spartak moscow during their champions league one one draw against marable on wednesday a flare from the stands of the visiting fans nearly hit the referee fernando alonso has refused to rule of leaving mclaren next season the two time world champion has not challenge for the title since joining in twenty fifteen and says he's future depends on mclaren ending its disastrous relationship with engine suppliers honda i want to give time to my team you know after the last three years with some struggles that we went through together to half time for them to to make it through to see the future of next year's car and after the big decisions i would take mine you know i want to stay loyal to that you know and not make any decisions without

them making first their decisions so you know. we see what's going on in x. weeks italy is a. is the new strapless kite thing will see all the title by finishing fourth in lemoore not in the richest in the final meter of the tour it's the telly and second world title in the women's event muna white claim the world title. and is there is . a lot of pressure but i did my job you know. that they've. been working for for more than the six years. when i really found a van and we had some really great conditions and get away. and i'm super happy to come out on top and also become the world champion here the final women's golf major of the season has been reduced to just fifty four holes heavy rain hit the championship in france and despite there being some play on thursday the first

round was scrapped and the tournament will still to fresh on friday. and that's all the sport for know will have another update later. and you can find a lot more information on our top story that's on identified by this technique. by north korea over north japan on our website al-jazeera dot com i'll be back in a couple of minutes with more.

for years japanese have gone into the country's lush force for what they call. or force baby thirteen years ago dr lee was one of the first to conduct research on forest bathing he concluded that the essential oils the trees produce to protect themselves from germs and bugs can boost the human immune system with a lot of fine to side or essential oil is found in the forests my research has shown that far as trying to size reduces stress hormones and relax is us in the future the time may come when doctors prescribe the forest instead of medicine.

thank. goodness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. north korea strikes again firing a ballistic missile towards the east from its capital. are about this and this is al jazeera live from doha.