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sharp that japan has condemned the law south korea's military says it's increasing surveillance. several iranians among the dead as suicide bombers launch attacks in southern iraq killing at least sixty people. and deal or no deal confusion at the white house again over an agreement to protect the dreamer's. north korea stepped up the tension again and its nuclear standoff with the u.s. firing another missile at launch from near the capital pyongyang flying over the japanese island of hokkaido before landing in the pacific ocean about two thousand kilometers to the east of the country japan's prime minister shinzo avi has condemned the launch and he's called for international action. now is the time for

the international community to come together the latest sanctions need to be imposed in full north korea needs to be made to understand that if it continues on this path there is no bright future for it the u.s. military says the latest strike didn't pose a threat to north america or the u.s. pacific territory of guam but it did identify it as an intermediate range ballistic missile earlier this week the u.n. security council voted to impose new sanctions and north korea over its nuclear program it's now set to meet again later on friday to discuss this latest development we've got our correspondent in seoul under thomas mike hanna in washington our china correspondent adrian brown in beijing for us let's cross live to our correspondent in tokyo craig leeson so sins are producing some very strong statements there what else is even saying. yes well he

arrived back from this summit that he was attending in india and was greeted by this missile launch he's called for an emergency meeting of the un security council and for the un security council up to that point to implement the strong sanctions or stronger sanctions that would imposed against north korea on choose day and that was bought by the united states and backed by south korea so clearly they don't very happy with the current state of affairs but he did say that japan was prepared for it in that they tracked the missile and that in fact they were able to issue a jail which is a public warning to people in the north of japan shortly after that me saw it was launched and what that does is it sends a message to people's mobile phones it also makes radio and television announcements and gives fair warning that a missile is trekking across the country their main concern was that something

might fall from the miss all given the track that it took it wasn't going to be a threat to civilian populations or to land on japan itself so there was very little concern about that big clearly the concern now is that north korea is repeating this provocation and in fact the chief cabinet secretary said earlier today that this was intolerable and repeated provocation was clearly causing them concern because there was a missile launched just a month ago in a very similar track across north korea and then we had the hydrogen bomb testing in north korea just two weeks ago so clearly north korea is trying to intimidate japan and it said yesterday in fact that it would sink japan with a nuclear weapon so it's not unexpected that this missile launch would take place in japan. i think has been expecting north korea to increase the provocation given

the support that your pain is providing to the united states and south korea and particularly as it goes for tougher sanctions against north korea and of course we've got these military exercises that are taking place just off the coast of the korean peninsula with the united states and japan itself and south korea so all of these things are causing consternation to the north koreans and they are reacting and that's causing the situation we see today and what we're going to end up with i think is these emergency council meeting in the u.n. security council if in fact it agrees to japan's wish for that to go ahead craig thanks very much indeed that's quickly some live for us in tokyo let's now go to under thomas who's joining us live from seoul andrew i was just reading there on the wires that president moon for a has been suggesting that there are possible north korean threats like

electromagnetic pulses on bio chemical attacks this is really ramping up the rhetoric isn't it under. it certainly is well south korea's national security council is meeting right now it actually began meeting three hours ago eight o'clock in the morning local time we haven't yet heard of any statement or conclusion to that meeting but it is being chaired by the president and it's quite possible that those comments you refer to have come out as a result of that meeting where the south korean military have said is that this missile was fired at six fifty seven local time that's just over four hours ago now from pyongyang and they tracked it for nineteen minutes before it fell into the sea off the east of japan it flew for three thousand seven hundred kilometers now that is a significant distance because at that distance at that trajectory a missile could reach go on which north korea has made clear is a potential target in the future interesting lee a spokesman for the president here in south korea said that marine jay in the president was briefed we're not quite

sure when but certainly before today before friday that the north koreans were likely to launch a missile and he pretty authorized a military drill and exercise in response to that whenever it happened and we saw that exercise take place immediately after this launch straight after the north koreans launched their missile the south koreans also launched a missile now there's flew a distance of two hundred fifty kilometers big we're told that's significant because we are told that that is the distance between where the south korean missile launch site was and pyongyang where the north korean missile launch took place it did not fly towards pyongyang it was an exercise it was a demonstration it flew in another direction but the point is the south koreans were trying to say that we knew this missile test was coming with this launch was about to take place we were ready for it and we have the potential in a real scenario where we are fearful that

a missile has been launched in anger we are ready to take out that launch site certainly as soon as the missile has been launched but ten surely even before it has been launched because we were watching we were expecting. and we were ready to respond and south korea has said that of course is going to be stepping up its surveillance of north korea's activities but is there any suggestion that south korea is going to be expanding its defense capabilities as a result of this missile launch well that is exactly what this national security council meeting will be discussing so no we don't know yet exactly what will result in terms of south korean policy in terms of their military what we know though from previous statement from the south korean government is that they have a three pronged approach to this on the one hand they want to be able to preemptively attack a site if necessary if they believe a missile is about to be launched towards their territorial towards one of their allies territory that's number one number two is they want to develop the

capability to take out a missile while it is flying that's number two thousand of course the missile defense system comes into that and number three they want to have a retaliate treat punishment strategy towards north korea after it launches any attack a three pronged approach they call it the three axes here and that is their ambition and that will be being discussed at the national security council meeting that as i say is probably still going on now under john is live for us and solve things very much indeed. for us secretary of state is calling on all nations to take new measures against north korea specifically he said china and russia must indicate their intolerance for these reckless launches by taking direct actions of their own will maicon is joining us now from washington d.c. and might we're going to be looking ahead of course to the u.n. security council emergency meeting that's likely to be held later on today and that pressure on china and russia is going to increase in that. yes it will indeed the

secretary of state ricks to listen was somewhat dismissive of the most recent round of u.n. sanctions saying that they represented the floor rather than the ceiling of measures that should be taken against north korea he also the pointedly criticized russia and china saying that china was responsible for most of north korea's oil and that russia employed a vast amount of north korean labor making very clear that russia and china could take unilateral action to bring pressure to bear on north korea particularly in the light of this latest missile launch so clearly there is going to be greater pressure on china and on russia in particular remembering to that the sanctions introduce this past week in the u.n. security council were somewhat watered down by the u.s. in order to get full russian and chinese agreement to get complete unity within the security council my guys here was mentioning earlier on the sanctions that were put before the security council earlier on this week where watered down in order to be

able to get china and russia to agree to them but the response now certainly in terms of the white house is the one one of the ones that we're waiting for because at the time president donald trump said the sanctions voted on the council were nothing compared to what will ultimately have to happen. well the president has been briefed by his chief of staff we understand there's been no reaction as yet from the white house but early on in the day president trump did make mention of north korea saying that china was doing what it can to bring pressure to bear to bring an end to these ongoing missile launches but there is a problem here and that is the lack of clarity within the u.s. policy you have various aspects of the trumpet ministration saying different things we've had the secretary of defense making very clear that any military option should not be should be considered as

a last resort the secretary of state insisting that while more sanctions and stronger sanctions must be passed there's also a role for diplomatic maneuvering so there is no real clarity from the trumpet ministration as to exactly what policy it is going to. to implement for north korea president trump has repeatedly said that he's looking for china to bring pressure to bear on north korea china being north korea's closest ally and neighbor but as yet and as this latest missile launch shows whether china is bringing pressure or not it is certainly having no impact on north korea whatsoever thanks a lot mike. well twenty seventeen's been a year of a rapid progress for north korea's missile program says it tested a hydrogen bomb two weeks ago it was north korea's sixth 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 twenty ninth north korea fired into media to range ballistic missile over northern japan that country's fired twenty one missiles during fourteen tests since february including its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile in july less than six years into his reign kim jong un has tested more missiles than his father and his grandfather combined allowed china correspondent adrian brown is live for us in beijing adrian it seems as though all the pressure now both politically and logistically if you like is starting to focus on china. yes the question is is china going to be able to resist these growing calls now for going along with even harsher sanctions against north korea china you will recall

wanted to avoid a situation where it would cut off the oil completely to north korea it agreed to a limit in the export of oil to china to north korea but it didn't want to go down the path of cutting off all all supplies to north korea particularly as winter approaches but now of course there is going to be increased pressure on china to do just that one imagines so far we've had no official response from china's government but i can give you an indication a flavor of what they are likely to say they will condemn this latest missile test they will call for negotiation and of course restraint but so far none of those appeals from china have really worked it's another indication a reminder really that china no longer exerts the influence over north korea that it once did and part of the problem is that really china has no one really to talk to in pyongyang anymore in the past it could deal with kim jong un's uncle but three years ago he was executed no senior chinese leader has been to pee on yang in

two years and that gives you an indication of how strained relations are now between beijing and pyongyang the only person that china can really talk to is the north korean ambassador here in beijing now we know the north korean foreign minister is going to be in new york for that you in general assembly next week china's delegations going to be led by the chinese foreign minister wang needs so potentially there is the possibility that those two men might might talk. adrian from what you're saying it seems fairly clear that china's responsibilities in china's ability to act in this is somewhat limited why is it so difficult for other members of the security council and in particular the united states for example to understand that its actions are restricted in some ways well i think there's a number of factors here i think that a number of members of the u.n.

suspect that china has been backsliding when it comes to the in foresman of sanctions i've spent a lot of time in the past few months at the chinese city of done dong which is right on the border with north korea and really this is the city on which the sanctions burden falls this is where inspections take place or a supposed to take place of motor vehicles crossing over from china into north korea but the problem you have existed often the drivers will simply tell customs what we've got here are just building supplies nothing suspicious and they'll take the word of those drivers you know customs simply don't have the number of officials needed the number of inspectors to check every single work vehicle the crosses from china into north korea likewise checking vehicles coming from north korea into china there are no sort of independent u.n. supervisors up there checking on the enforcement that china is carrying out so all we have is china's word that it is doing what it can to inforce sanctions against north korea as to your fourth first point rob you know china really feels that if

it cuts off the oil completely to north korea that that will pose you know potential threats problems for china along its border with north korea if the regime were to crumble erin thanks very much indeed. over the past twenty five years the united nations and the u.s. have used sanctions in an attempt to rein in north korea's nuclear and missile program the first sanctions were imposed by the u.s. in one thousand nine hundred ninety two president george h.w. bush targeted individual companies for missile proliferation activities but it wasn't until two thousand and six when north korea conducted its first nuclear weapons test that other world powers got involved the un security council sanctions committee which created an economic and commercial sanctions were imposed there was another round of sanctions in twenty thirteen when pyongyang launched a third nuclear test last year the council imposed tighter penalties by limiting coal exports to china by sixty percent the latest sanctions imposed on monday are

the most severe yet and there are estimated to starve north korea of one point three billion dollars in revenue kim jong un has responded by threatening to sink japan and reduce the u.s. to ashes and darkness well joining is now is b.j. kim political commentator and adjunct professor with university of foreign studies in seoul thank you very much indeed for your time it sounds by what i've just been saying there that the options are really beginning to run out when it comes to trying to pull in north korea's ambitions. exactly dialogue was the one that we've been talking about for the last twenty five years but dialogue with north korea side is saying we're not going to talk about denuclearization we're interested in talking about everything else but the nuclear edition is not what we're going to talk about the economic sanctions as pointed out so far it's now working out after all these economic sanctions educational ones

continually being added last year in north korea their economy grew the largest magnitude in terms of economic growth in seventeen years so there we go and the united states the military option that's not there we have so many civilians thirty five kilometers away from d.m.z. here including american citizens here and so that's not going to work and so we have run out of options that's why in korea the realists and hawks are talking about something else. switching from denuclearization or course away from it into. there a different kind of options for the terrorists and that's the focus of discussion among the realists and hawks here in seoul give us some context if you would because it seems as though that as we've been talking about every suspect of whatever efforts a made by the rest of the world to try to discourage north korea from going ahead with its nuclear its nuclear ambitions it continues to do so but it continues to do

so in a way that is severely provocative what do you think it is actually trying to achieve given also that the country itself north korea itself has significant economic problems within its own borders. right exactly a climate problem itself it's like the way we understand it the leadership in pyongyang is pretty much let the people do whatever they want to do is just to survive on your on we can't do much about it and people seem to be kind of managing and of course we're hearing horrible things in some parts of the in the country going through a difficult economic challenges and so on but around the pentagon area of course the leadership is providing enough of the stuff to cover their own population within the capital there but in terms of talking about why in the north korea is doing this as you asked. the previous view is that they are doing this for their own survival that seems to be still true there and also added on it being added on

right now in terms of what's been happening so far is spelling out is actually trying to reach to the to the point where they can actually enough they achieve enough level of nuclear armament and development and say look let's talk from there that the way talk is going to play out is this way north korea will say ok we may freeze what we are doing right now they may say so right before the point of completing everything there is there we may freeze here in return you know there's things you have to do telling to the united states and south korea what you have to do is withdraw your troops u.s. troops from south korea or starve your joint military exercise so what can you can achieve is stopping right before the completion of their capability and then ask for a considerable reduction of south korea's capability to defend itself so that's going to be a big huge win and victory for coming on and that seems to be what they have in

mind at this point appreciate your time thank you very much indeed. plenty more ahead on the news including the latest talks in syria's civil war and there may soon be a deal to reduce fighting in some areas. and former united nations secretary general ban ki moon has a new job but this time in the world of sport. says it was behind a coordinated attacks in southern iraq at least sixty people died and dozens more have been injured when the attackers targeted a restaurant at a police checkpoint near the city of nasiriyah some of the victims were shia muslims visiting from iran as iran khan has more. southern iraq has been spared much of the violence that the rest of the country has seemed to in the west and in the north and 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 into law for in mosul you may have surrounded us in the last remaining stronghold but we are 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. meanwhile the future of a united iraq is looking ever more on this and is tensions continue over a referendum on kurdish independence the iraqi parliament has voted to remove the governor of cook from office after the province decided to take part in the

september twenty fifth vote the parliament rejected the poll on tuesday it also gave prime minister the authority to take all measures to preserve national unity but governor dean cut him a total dizzier that vote was unlawful. they can make whatever decision they want to make i'm staying in my quest the prime minister does not have the power to ask the pardon or the movie. because cook is one of the burman or 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 and illegal and we will not abide there's absolutely nothing for the people from expressing their opinion with regard to their future which 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 is going to go shoot. you and i have just like birds it is so i don't see why you know these people are so much against it in major major be it like as if the whole middle east is going to blow up which is not true u.s. president donald trump has again accused iran of breaking the spirit of the twenty fifty nuclear deal trouble he said the agreement was unfair to the u.s. and one of the worse deals he's ever seen trump said 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 speech or no waving some of those sanctions should not be seen as an indication of president trump or is it

ministrations position on the g c p a way nor is a waiver given the iranian regime a pass on its broad range of malign behavior. a senior russian negotiator says his country together with turkey and iran is called close to finalizing an agreement on deescalation zones in syria they're discussing the details at a meeting in kazakhstan as 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 and create a deescalation to draw a line under all the work which has been done in the last month since a memorandum creating deescalation zones was signed on the fourth of may the emir of qatar has 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 courthouse 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 qatar since the hostilities began. with more. the fact that the mayor of qatar been handed a tiny sees fit to leave the country is a sign as far as men 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 of 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 in 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. 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 a brain kalyan who spoke just a couple of hours before landed in ankara he said that for 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 his country's been leading the mediation efforts albeit unsuccessfully until now is also in turkey still ahead on al-jazeera. i'm daniel why. there in the flood hit. areas province where the looters never seem to subside. plus the beating heart of new york's fashion industry is being told that it's going out of style we'll explain why. two time f one world champion is reaching crossroads in his career details in this sport. and it's a gondola. let's look at the weather across eastern parts of asia we have two major

storm systems typhoon tallon which is going to be a threat for southern parts of japan over the weekend and typhoon docks story which is going to head towards parts of vietnam alas and cause some real flooding probabl this rupture in there so let's zoom in a little bit storm systems at the moment through friday it's likely that will just be some rain effect on the coast of china there towards shanghai i would just say probably some impact on shipping in the region but as we had on through into suffer they were going to find that system they're beginning to turn to the right and head up towards japan and at the same time. moving across indochina some really heavy rain i think think there could be some real disruption as a result of this and that whole area will work its way across me m r two so that you will see some really heavy rain here across more southeastern parts of asia the weather pretty much as you would expect a few showers on borneo java looking dry and fine and then up through the made plain show because if you have the showers and some heavy showers coming back into

wards central and southern parts of thailand with bangkok seeing some rain at times across into south asia was still some showers across central and southern areas wet in mumbai but it should be fine with thirty six the high in delhi. the weather sponsored by cattle race. along europe's baltic borders tensions are increasing as nato strengthens its defenses and russia gears up for war games of its own of course what worries about unpredictability of russia we have to be prepared and we have to react if needed but will the conflict rehearsals ever translate into the real thing as they say if you don't want a war prepare for war people in power reports is tonia going on a bear hunt at this time. a deadly attack destroyed her family and left her badly wounded. the long time from gaza to california and little girls

journey and. it was very timid when she came as a time progress she became our family. that would touch the hearts of the people around her ever was excited when i saw the situation. on al-jazeera wild at this time. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top story this hour the u.n. security council is set to hold an emergency meeting on friday after north korea fired another ballistic missile over japan south korea's military has to make that its maximum altitude was around seven hundred seventy kilometers and its flight

distance was around three thousand seven hundred kilometers diplomatic editor james bays has more from the u.n. . this will be seen as an act of defiance by the u.n. security council and already they've called a close session on friday to discuss the situation and particularly the very provocative timing because this missile launch came just seventy two hours after the last security council meeting in which they imposed further sanctions on north korea and it comes just days before world leaders meet here in new york for the high level session of the u.n. general assembly president trump for example will be speaking here on chews day it means that there is a high level north korean delegation coming to new york including the north korean foreign minister will be speaking to the general assembly next friday no i don't think he's likely to have meetings with the u.s.

or any of its western partners or with japan or south korea but in the past the north korean foreign minister has met with the u.n. secretary general so it's possible there could be a very important meeting with the new secretary general antonio good terrorists or joshua pollack is a senior research over the james martin center for nonproliferation studies at the middleborough institute for international studies he is joining us and skype from washington d.c. thank you for your time we've heard no doubt sure that you're aware very. provocative and aggressive increasingly aggressive language on all sides of this incident there is also been a lot of speculation that japan and south korea may start reexamining the amount of its amount of their defensive capabilities how concerned are you that we're actually getting to the stage of some sort of arms race in the region. well i think an arms race has been underway for some time in many ways it is been an off and

difference race for japan which has been building up missile defenses and not offensive systems but the south koreans have been building up offensive systems in fact they just tested two of their own missiles shortly after the north korean test today one of which seems to have failed but the arms race has has been going on for a while now and it shows no sign of slowing down the south korea's president moon has warned there is also a new possibility he says of north korean threats like electromagnetic pulse weapons and bio chemical attacks i know this is just a statement plucked i was all of a promethean that was held this morning but is there a risk that this is taking another turn. well north korea has had biological and chemical weapons programs for

a long time the assassination of leader kim jong un's half brother you know kuala lumpur earlier this year seem to be involved in a battle to the chemical weapons that is not news as for electromagnetic pulse that's simply a nuclear weapons factory i think it is not useful to single that out compared to other effects it's perhaps the least destructive effect and it it's just different and exotic and people aren't familiar with it so i don't think there's to any reason to overhype these threats which have been emanating from north korea for years now let's let's not forget they've been testing missiles since the one nine hundred eighty s. and testing a nuclear device is six so we are pretty late in the game here and i don't think whipping up hysteria particularly contributes to any sort of solution

or to managing the problem constructively but as you mentioned north korea has been ramping up its missile program we were talking earlier about the fact that twenty seventeen it's been developing more missiles now than it has previously is there not a logical conclusion to all of that in that at some point they're going to want to prove the not only can they launch them but they can actually use those missiles to hit a target as well. well i don't think there's any doubt about that. they are clearly capable of that and no one really should question that. a lot of countries test missiles including the united states i don't think that missile testing is inherently controversial in north korea's case there are some special considerations one is that the security council has forbidden missile testing for north korea. repeatedly another is that north korea's geography means that

test long range missiles they have to go over a neighboring country particularly japan to reach the pacific that makes it unusually provocative i'm sure they would avoid doing it if if they had a way to do it but their choice of japan as opposed to say russia or china or or some other neighboring country. i think illustrates how little they feel they have at state in good relations with japan they just are showing their disregard for japanese concerns and they do that george republics a senior researcher with the james martin center for nonproliferation studies at the middlebury institute for international studies thank you very much indeed for your analysis you're welcome there's been confusion over reports the u.s. president donald trump has struck a deal to protect undocumented young immigrants known as dreamers democrats had

announced they had reached an agreement to shield nearly eight hundred thousand people from deportation bought trump later appeared to suggest that there was no deal white house correspondent kimberly hall could has more from washington d.c. . confusion at the white house advance 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 see 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 he robbed 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 you would say. we don't want them but. hard right conservatives are furious accusing tromp 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 legislation lucian the president shifting positions and erratic approach to policy has only complicated matters in his heart of hearts trot 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 can really help get al-jazeera washington or u.s. nursing home where aids patients died during hurricane has been removed from a government health care program in florida the victims died in sweltering heat after the storm knocked out power and air conditioning in the facility rob reynolds has more from hollywood hills in florida as police and prosecutors continued their

criminal probe into how residents died at this florida nursing home questions are being raised about the facilities owner jack mitchell was charged with health insurance fraud a decade ago in connection with another nursing home he owned he settled the case with federal prosecutors for fifteen million dollars florida lawmaker gary farmer says that's disturbing what's most disconcerting to me is the question of why somebody like that who's been involved in prior nursing home fraud cases would be issued a license to operate a new facility politicians called for a review of nursing home conditions. the police will get to the bottom of this and their investigation. now the question is to prevent this from happening in other nursing homes farmer says government policies are partly to blame for the tragedy

we as a state have deregulated the nursing home industry a great deal over the last ten years the state cannot keep track with every single nursing home on a day to day basis but the truth of the matter is capitalism is learned a long time ago when you're not going to be held accountable you don't have to be as responsible police say the residents were kept in sweltering heat with no air conditioning after hurricane irma knocked out the homes electricity it stunned the community and the country but the state of nursing homes is a nationwide issue there are approximately one point four million people living in nursing homes or long term care facilities in the u.s. according to a federal government database in the year twenty fourteen there were more than fourteen thousand complaints of nursing home neglect abuse or exploitation prosecuting neglect can be difficult thirty five nursing home residents drowned when they were abandoned by caretakers during hurricane katrina the owners charged

with negligent homicide were acquitted by a louisiana jury some say the horror at the miami area nursing home is a symptom of a larger problem what we're really doing is evolving into a society where we warehouse elderly people and we're not really nursing them anymore and we're not really giving them palleted care we're just waiting for them to die a tragedy that raises hard questions about americans attitudes toward old age and the elderly robert oulds al-jazeera hollywood florida. two more have drowned to making the crossing for me and to bangladesh eighty eight people have died attempting the journey since the start of the crisis there are three weeks ago this baby was one of those killed when the wooden boat he was on turned over almost four hundred thousand were hundreds have fled me and since the military launched a crackdown the me and army says it's targeting groups in the region aid agencies

say they're overwhelmed by the crisis hugh many theran 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 would be scaled up very quickly we've had already an airlift of goods from the emirates other organizations are also sending goods in that are going to say we're going to be emergency very quickly and argentina has been hit by some of the worst flooding in recent years it's lost more than a quarter of its grain poppy production and cattle are dying by the hundreds of reports it's a crisis with no end in sight. some find dry land rover they can others have not been so lucky hundreds of cattle lost their food under water but

they're also suffering from insufficient sunlight a magnesium deficiency the president of argentina's main farmers organization which is a catastrophe. have a big challenge working with this crazy climate but we have the responsibility to keep producing even if the climate obliges us to modify the way we work and it what we grow. these gal shows all cowboys have seen flooding before but not this intense or this frequent these waters have been here for seven months and the rains keep coming roads are flooded schools closed. we know through our colleagues that some children have to walk a long way with rain through the countryside it's difficult to get out sometimes they get here sometimes they can't. regard who has lost cattle and sheep his house is surrounded by water it's mostly small or medium size produces in this area who he says got little help from the authorities he says they have no time to rebuild

before the next floods arrives. i love the countryside i've always lived here i love the animals and this makes me very sad. argentina is one of the world's leading grain and cattle producers and exporters its last about a quarter of both more than ten million hectares under water that will inevitably affect world markets the flooding is becoming more frequent the rains are heavy the basin is full it's a battle that never seems to end it is being forced on several fronts. some blame the government for thirty year to invest in infrastructure saying they can't cope with the intensity of the rainfall but there's nowhere for it to go all say the climate has changed and except the extremes are here to stay. we have to think about developing methods that allow us to store water so we can use it when it scares that will take time we need information

a national political plan and obviously resources. this is cattle country everyone is connected everyone is affected eventually. the forecast scanning the sky the need to live and keep producing with flooding. there al-jazeera without central argentina. the brazilian government has taken another head to its credibility with police raiding the home of the agriculture minister as part of a corruption investigation allegations against a blight on margy relates to his time as a state governor is accused of bribing lawmakers in exchange for political support but denies any wrongdoing president michelle turner and former president and lula da silva are also being investigated in separate corruption cases. still ahead in sports the elements get the best out of the final women's golf major of the season details in the sport. thank.

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thank. you. thank you. new york fashion week has wrapped up with the usual glitz and glamour that makes it one of the world's premier industry events but that status could be threatened by the city's plan to relocate its iconic garment district that i was on to reports from new york. it's one of the most anticipated events in the apparel industry new york fashion week designers from around the world revealed their clothing lines for the next season the week long event generates more than nine hundred million

dollars for the city. but this year there are concerns about the future of where all the high end fashion clothes are made city officials are trying to relocate the famous garment district out of manhattan and convert the prime real estate that is now manufacturing space into housing and offices gabrielle ferrara helps run one of the largest luxury manufacturers in new york they've made clothing for designers like calvin klein donna karan and vera wang she says moving the district would ruin the fashion ecosystem in new york the garment district is here for a reason. factoring owners in the workers are here because they need to be close to clients things to be close to the source of trends and they need to be close to their workers if you go anywhere else in the world she will not find the ability to create luxury garments the way we do here over the years the number of garment

workers in new york has fallen drastically from about three hundred thirty thousand at the peak in the one nine hundred fifty s. to about sixteen thousand today but while cheap mass produced clothing was shipped overseas to china. new york still dominates high end luxury manufacturing that requires specialized workers the only rival being italy. this industrial area in brooklyn is where the city wants to move the garment district it's called sunset park while most clothing manufacturers are against moving new york city's garment district here there are a few people that see opportunity. just ramona is a seamstress in the garment district and she supports the move trying to open and clean as a post because it's just more feasible and believe it or not the business that by as they will come to. the city is still reviewing the rezoning plant manufacturers uncertain about weirdos and many are holding on to hope new york's garment district

won't go out of style any time soon. your. it's time for the sports 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. effects commission the decision was taken in the peruvian capital of lima with the i.o.c. are currently gathering will have to deal with the i.o.c. is 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 of the sports organisations to make that you will see.

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 boyd cough. banki moon has his hands full there's no question about it it be great if one of the first things that ban 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 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's 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 arsenal have won their first ever match in the europa league the london club failed to qualify for the champions league last season and are playing in europe's second tier 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 are giants' 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 for vieira yell dinamo kiev and more say all former clubs more

familiar with champions league everton were crushed three nil at atalanta and former italian city are champions lots themselves in a way when they gained three tastes of the netherlands and you have begun disciplinary proceedings against spartak moscow during their champions league one one draw against marable on wednesday a flip from the stance 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 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 the next year's car and after the big decisions i would take

mine you know i want to stay loyal elise 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 it's a lease. is the new strapless kite. seal the title by finishing fourth in lemoore and that's 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. is there is there was a lot of pressure when i did my job you know. that they get the word and been working for for more than the six years. on a van and we had some really great conditions and good ways 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

every arm championship in france and despite there being some play on thursday the first round was scrapped and the tournament will start afresh on friday. we'll have another update later. on jordan's going to be here in a couple of minutes with more of the day's news. by for now. in the next episode of science in a golden age exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of chemistry they transformed the superstition of alchemy into the science of chemistry. many of his come to see just all those which may still be used today. science in a golden age with professor jim a look at this time. the nature as it breaks

many of the people here came to this camp with injuries and illnesses already with detailed coverage the border between china and north korea stretches for more than four hundred kilometers unlike the demilitarized zone the atmosphere here is very relaxed from around the world the water that comes in the trucks. water from the shallow holes it is full of sediment and of course the high risk of disease. you know. the growing

up in the united states i learned that the first amendment is really key to being a freedom to the point of being. men and women the resources that are available what makes an al-jazeera story is that we just don't tell you what the subject of the story wants to know the government is not going to do the one thing the demonstrators want to apologize for that's what al-jazeera does we ask the questions so that we can get closer to the truth. north korea strikes again firing another ballistic missile over japan. you know i'm going to look at the saudis iran are you from doha also coming up.