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un fires yet another missile over japan triggering more international condemnation despite always just going over your head and everything screaming. police hunt for the suspects behind a london tube bombing twenty two people were injured when the device exploded during the morning rush hour. and amnesty international says it has evidence meon mall security forces bund revenge of the edges as part of an orchestrated campaign . on putin's limit in doha with all your sports news as the international olympic committee insist again that there is no plan b. for february's killing chan winter games after north korea fires its and latest missile. the us secretary of state rex tillerson says north korea's aggressive regime threatens not only the region. but the entire world is commons comma after

pyongyang five yet another missile over japan the second in less than a month the un security council is due to meet in the coming hours to discuss the latest provocation will be live in new york later in the program now craig leeson has this report from tokyo the missile launch followed a familiar pattern it came early morning two minutes before seven local time with japan in its path launched from the capital pyongyang the missile flew three thousand seven hundred kilometers over the northern japanese island of hokkaido reaching a height of seven hundred seventy kilometers before crashing to the pacific ocean. just minutes after sirens sounded in her cairo is a public alert was issued residents had mixed feelings. against the just doesn't feel real i really don't know what it'll do it gives me the shivers i feel like telling them to stop it now the response from neighbors was swift south korea's

national security council held an emergency meeting of the country's new president ordered to counter fire with a missile test of its own the drill was pre-planned in preparation for another north korean test. just i'm not going there again fired a ballistic missile obviously disregarding international community's criticisms and warnings and the un security council resolutions such continuous provoking actions by not go to your c.d.'s that's the peace and stability of korean peninsula and international community that our government sternly denounced us and express anger over the missile launch moon also instructed the nation to analyze and ramp up preparations for new forms of threats from electromagnetic pulse and chemical attacks arriving in tokyo from an economic summit in india japan's prime minister immediately called for an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council. north korea has trampled on the international society's strong desire for a peaceful solution it's reckless act is absolutely unacceptable we will request

the security council to hold an emergency meeting he's urging the international community to act as one against north korea and wants the u.n. security council to implement the latest sanctions against the country the u.s. 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 this is the second ballistic missile to cross japan in less than a month it comes within twenty four hours of north korea threatening to sink japan with nuclear weapons a threat japan takes seriously now that it believes north korea has the ability to miniaturize its nuclear weapons and place them on top of ballistic missiles like the one which crossed the country today craig leeson al-jazeera tokyo. we can now speak to caffie know who is live for us in seoul and earlier on we were hearing

varying craig craig's package that south korea sees any sort of dialogue or diplomacy with the north as being less and less likely what will they be pushing their allies to do now. well yes the president of south korea mungy and was elected on a platform of more engagement and more dialogue warehouse with north korea but even he now says that there is no dialogue possible under the current circumstances south korea reacted very quickly to the news of this missile launch with a missile launch of its own it launched a missile into the sea that traveled for about two hundred fifty kilometers that's significant because that's about the distance from the launch site to where pyongyang launched its missile from so the message there from south korea is that it also has the technology to deliver a missile to north korea's launch site and that is it is watching developments

before and after the launch we're told that president moon was briefed about the launch before it happened and then again after he chaired this national security council meeting and he called for a ramp up in defenses of south korea's military and of course the other major player here is china china has been saying that it has implemented the sanctions but that sanctions are not the ultimate solution alone it wants both the united states and south korea to do more it has been long calling for south korea and the united states to stop its joint military exercises in exchange for a freeze on nuclear development from north korea that is not something that the u.s. and south korea have been willing to do so as the u.n. prepares to meet in this emergency meeting it leave your interest interesting to see what the international community could possibly do next in response to pyongyang's repeated provocations mariyam the region is divided as you say in china

has a very different view of the situation in comparison to. the u.s. south korea and japan but behind the scenes they must be extremely concerned about the fallout from any further escalation. absolutely throughout all of this what north korea has been trying to do is to demonstrate that it has the technology it says it has it has long warned that it has been developing an intercontinental ballistic missile that can develop a nuclear do deliver rather a nuclear warhead to the united states it says it already has the technology and through these repeated missile launches a nuclear test it wants to show the world that it is serious about this and ordinarily it chooses a trajectory that has a very high altitude so that its missiles when it does these test launches end up falling into waters off of japan and as we heard from craig story there in this case and in a missile just weeks ago it flew its missile over japan and what it was demonstrating

this time is that it was a traveling at a standard trajectory we heard there for seven thirty seven hundred kilometers and what that does is put the missile in the range of the u.s. territory of guam now north korea had threatened to attack before with four intermediate range ballistic missiles and we heard from president trump that there would be a strong response fire and fury from the united states if that were to happen so yes as you say divided opinions on what should be done about north korea now cassie novak in seoul thank you very much will a great deal going on in washington d.c. can we help it joins us live now from the white house and that we are seeing. u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and national security adviser mostow joining forces project a more robust position on north korea. certainly we're seeing that rhetoric that has been stepped up in recent days nothing in comparison to the fire and fury that

my colleague mentioned just a while ago with regard to the president and his comments from july but certainly what we're seeing here and this happened in a briefing that occurred just a few moments ago wrapping up the national security advisor h.r. mcmaster as well as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley in fact saying that right now it is the view of the united states that there is still an avenue for the diplomatic option in terms of these economic sanctions nikki haley pointing out that already there have been two rounds of sanctions in just the last month by the united nations security council that in her view are a fact of something that the national security adviser concurs with if you look at the resolutions that have passed in the last month or two of them they cut thirty percent of the oil they banned all the labors they banned ninety percent of the exports they banned joint ventures we've basically taken it in in the words of north korea we have strangled their economic situation at this point that's going

to take a little bit of time but it has already started to take effect what we are seeing as they continue to be provocative they continue to be reckless and at that point you know there's not a whole lot the security council's going to be able to do from here when you cut ninety percent of trade and thirty percent of the oil for those who have said and been ripped if commenting about the lack of a military option there is a military option now it's not what we would prefer to do so what we have to do is call on all nations call on everyone to do everything we can to address this global problem short of war so that is implementing now these are the significant sanctions that have just now gone into place and it is convincing everyone to do everything that they can and that it's in their interest to do it. what conclusions of being drawn and if we can call it at this point when you have nikki haley's saying perhaps as not much more we can expect from the u.n. security council in a charm monster driving home the possibility of there still being

a military option. well certainly the united states wants to articulate that position and that it needs to telegraph that that option is always on the table what we didn't hear nikki haley say there just a moment ago but what she did say in this white house briefing is that in fact she is happy to kick this down to secretary maddest in terms of that military option should the united states view that it needs to be exorcised macmaster was very clear at the start of this briefing saying in fact that they view the threat by north korea not just provocative as we heard from the secretary of state following this latest missile fired over japan but also the view that this is an urgent and dangerous problem certainly that there is the hope from the united states can be addressed internationally but certainly the u.s. reserving the right to exercise the military option should it deem it necessary or thank you very much live for us there at the white house well ambassador joseph the tranny is a former u.s.

special envoy for six party talks with north korea joins us live now from washington d.c. and i just wanted to start by getting your fault on everything we've heard today from the u.s. secretary of state to listen to now just recently h. on that last saying that look the military option is still very much on the table though he did temper that by saying it's not their preferred choice of action. this is an extremely tense period of time there's no question about that and i think secretary of state rex tillerson spot comments were right on the mark i mean we're looking to china to do a little more china has been doing quite a bit with the refusing to take call and implementing some of the other sanctions but but the crude oil continues to go into north korea so china does have a car they can be using they did that in two thousand and three when they brought the north koreans to the table to discuss it with the united states when it was a tense period so there's more china can do but this is a very tense period and everything is on the table to include on my dad if there is

an imminent threat to and our allies or the united states with a missile launch that could have a conventional or nuclear warhead on it or there's an obligation to take that missile down so that as a preemptive strike and that is something that's available and it's something that needs to be utilized indeed if there is an imminent threat so there's so much available but there's no question the offer up for north korea is the most important thing coming back to some form of exploratory discussions with a north korea but not when they're launching missiles and having nuclear tests in fact they're more nuclear test and i.c.b.m. as an i.r.b. em's and making some of these vitriolic statements about you know breaking the united states a sea of ash and taking down japan and how do you see very tense period of time i mean how how do you see this. current tense situation as you say unfolding if

you don't want to reward a regime like that by. suggesting that i should be any further talks or diplomacy but at the same time you want to prevent war. you know merriam there needs to be an off ramp here kim jong un has to understand and i think you understand it well no one is looking for war no one is looking to two to violate north korea and we're not talking about decapitation regime change we're looking at. a viable nation state that could work with their south korean brethren to talk about eventual reunification but not building up a nuclear capability where they then become a de facto and then the de jure nuclear weapon states this is not where we want to go that would just lend itself to extreme if you will nuclear arms race in the region and the possibility i might add of proliferation of some of these materials

to bad actors and it's part of the problem that perhaps there is some muddling through on the part of it's not just the administration in washington it is the international community because they need to be kind of more of a strategic overhaul of how to approach north korea because that denuclearization policy objective just doesn't seem viable does it. you know merrill right now if it is not viable all indications are there is no way kim jong il is going to give up his nuclear weapons he's on the cusp of having if you will an existential nuclear threat to the united states which is obviously what he's had for south korea and japan for some time so no he's not but there is the possibility of him stopping what he's doing holding these programs the missile launches the nuclear tests and having this exploratory discussions to see if we can reconstitute some form of formal negotiations so that north korea can address some of their concerns

which are security concerns economic development energy issues sanctions that are biting as we just heard from our ambassador to the united nations these are their concerns and they can be addressed as we did in september two thousand and five with a joint statement with his father when we had an agreement with north korea they would dismantle their nuclear programs and they would get the security assurances and ultimately on a normal relationship with the united states and other countries ambassador just said to trannie a former u.s. special envoy for six party talks with north korea thank you for sharing your expertise with i thank you mary. well as much more to bring you on the. sixth round of talks on syria yields progress we'll have details on that from a stana. thanks. celebrating the end of an era the only spacecraft. silent after twenty years on the chart.

also crowd trouble in london françoise match against cologne sees both clubs charged by european football bosses will have more on that later. blast on the london underground train as a terrorist incident explosion which happened on the district line in southwestern the busy morning rush hour injured twenty two people british prime minister has convened the emergency committee on a b phillips has more. it happened on london's underground. a twenty in the morning the height of the rush hour if this was a deliberate attack and that's what the police believe it was time to cause maximum casualties and this is what we believe caused the explosion just as the train came in to pass in the screen station a pocket still in flames moments later when

a passenger on the train filmed it on their camera but the damage to the surrounding carriage is slight perhaps someone intended this to be a much more serious attack injured and frightened people fled the station. there was panic several people rushed to hospital and almost immediately. people shell shocked and when i asked what happened they talked about an explosion in one of the carriages. that with three one of the carriages we had a bag and all of a sudden a fireball just came out. and it was so hot and it just involves the whole. the fire is just calming everybody screaming. and we run out and. we just we were right at the end she just we just jumped the fences and just ran for our lives this is a leafy residential part of west london a long way from the city center so people who live around here are surprised and

alarmed that something like this has happened and the police have sealed off a large area around parsons green tube station meaning an awful lot of disruption to people's lives we are treating the matter as a terrorist related incident and the metropolitan police counter-terrorism c'mon will take responsibility for that investigation the prime minister held an emergency security beating and the peace and security services are obviously doing all the work to discover the full circumstances of this cowardly attack and to identify those responsible and i would urge any members of the public who have anything mation or footage about what happened this morning to pass it to the police. but the british authorities are frustrated yet again that the american president is speculating or perhaps revealing intelligence about ongoing investigation donald trump tweeted that the attack was carried out by people that

the british police had in their sights never think it's helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation recent attacks in london and in manchester have put the british authorities on heightened alert around the world the choo train attacks back in two thousand and five the so-called seven seven attacks in which more than fifty people died. at the advice from politicians and the police is for people to go about their daily lives and across this vast city today that's what most londoners are doing to be phillip's al jazeera passon street in london. joins us live now from parsons green south west london and as. night falls hand tell us what's happening around here. yess evening draws in the cordon that has been in place all day around passes green station has now significantly relaxed i'm only about one hundred fifty two hundred meters away from the station entrance you're probably still see there is a heavy police presence and on the platform itself there is still

a forensic tent where specialists over the course of the day of been poring over a wealth of evidence on the platform on the train and specifically paying attention to that improvised explosive device that partially exploded of course they're also going to be looking at other things as well things like c.c.t.v. operation we operations and cameras within the station and further afield we know that specialist detectives have been drafted in we also know the specialist from m i five for the domestic intelligence agency are on the case as well it's going to be crucial for the authorities right now this investigation is gathering speed a momentum for any sensitive information to be kept under wraps to avoid compromising what is a rapidly moving case while that case continues while the investigation gathers speed questions are already being asked about security whether or not more could have been done to avert a situation like this a little bit earlier on we spoke to

a security export but who compared provisions that are in place here in the u.k. without where in the world. in china they have metal detectors and scanners when you get on the trains all the time but realistically that will require a huge investment in security guards in scanners it was slowed down in the city i think the approach to doing this is twofold one we must stop the the sources of funding for this extremism. and secondly we must make sure in this country the police and security services are properly resourced. i mean in terms of the larger political picture surrounding this some concern on the part of british authorities that u.s. president donald trump had some interesting things to say today. yes it is dreadful to fee for others here in the u.k. the message from the british authorities for the u.k.

population is to remain calm it's a message of defiance from the likes of saudi calm the mayor of london but we haven't heard also as you mentioned there from the u.s. president from donald trump who a little bit earlier on in the day took to twitter to say that the u.k. authorities need to be tougher and need to be smarter in the way that they go about averting situations like this as we heard in michael to. report a little bit earlier there donald trump also suggested that perhaps the headquarters of the met police here in london may of had particular individuals already in their sights that possibly did carry out this attack that's information that the british authorities have not made public but it does bring back memories of what happened in the aftermath of the manchester attack where. the american or thirty's let the u.s. press know the name of the identity of that bomber before the british authorities

had made it public now of course if you were trying to control what is of course a very sensitive investigation you want to keep a grip of information that could well compromise that investigation the last thing the specialists here in the u.k. want to see is their hard work in any way compromised. and thank you. amnesty international is use satellite imagery to highlight what it calls an orchestrated campaign to ban revenge of villages in myanmar and why script has detected eighty large fires in iraq and states in aug twenty fifth and a military crackdown began. he says it's targeting on groups in the area almost four hundred thousand range and more than half of them children fled to bangladesh in the past three weeks and the challenge rezone bangladeshis border with me on my . shop or the on my backside in night on the other myanmar side of the border in

between is the now free bar now you can see behind me smoke rising there's a real as it's been burned by the myanmar security forces within the last several days thousands of people are trying to cross into bangladesh through this river crossing many of them are unable to cross because the boat men are charging them exuberant prices ranging from a dollar to two hundred dollars these people are poor that cannot afford to cross because the prices are so high now a lot of these people need to be transferred into the official camp or in the quite appalling area where the presence of international donor agencies right now they're in the marcy of the local donors people from local community are providing them fresh water and food most of these people are a woman and children some elderly people that desperately need aid and they need to be mobilized and move from this area into the official area of cooper along otherwise they won't get the kind of how the need now the amnesty international latest report corroborates what we are saying and our contacts and man maher are saying the same thing the masses of people have gathered and they're trying to

cross into bangladesh the where the ploys going within some time that number could very well rich into one million french president emanuel has called for the blockade of cattle to be lifted made the comments following a meeting with the end near of cancer who's on his first foreign trip since the diplomatic crisis began in june john how has more from paris. beginning in berlin on his way to the u.n. general assembly in new york and opportunity for the emir of qatar to lobby european capitals for support in reaching a political solution to the gulf crisis what had. we talked about the readiness of qatar to sit down at the table and to discuss and solve that issue we think germany for its effort and also i think the chancellor of germany has a role to solve the problems around the negotiating table we think you for your support of the kuwait initiative which qatar has supported sense of the beginning

and will continue supporting until we get the solution there such as face all the parties why did you get a mobile phone and the emir took his offer of holding talks to paris where president emmanuel macron like chancellor merkel supports mediation efforts by kuwait and the united states and maybe even seek to join those efforts having appointed a special envoy in recent weeks in berlin earlier chancellor merkel spoke of the need for quiet diplomacy to run its course for both sides to find compromises allowing them to quote unquote save face well that's a sentiment that president macron here is unlikely to disagree with france has hugely lucrative trade and investment deals with saudi arabia the u.a.e. and qatar it isn't going to take sides in this dispute but it's very interested in seeing it resolved. a statement attributed to mccrone has called for a lifting of the saudi led embargo on qatar discussions may well continue next week in new york jonah how al-jazeera paris. with us here on the news hour much more to

tell you about you know why he said it was a bad deal but has a u.s. president softened his stance on the iran nuclear agreement. nigeria launches a new initiative aimed at trying to reduce the rate of birth related deaths. and i high altitude defeat leads one of south america's most famous pubs that's her position that story and. hello we may well see one or two showers in the forecast across parts of the middle east they're few and far between as you can see large the clear skies no great surprises him i just catch the odd shouts wards. maybe into media and maybe just sliding a little further south was northern parts of iraq but in areas of iran could just

catch the odd row welcome i suspect having said that further south well kuwait city with a top temperature for around thirty nine degrees celsius similar temperatures to across the arabian peninsula thirty eight in abu dhabi here in doha will have a high of around forty or forty one over the next few days perhaps more cloud just around southern most parts of the peninsula and hazy sunshine remaining in the forecast plenty of cloud across southern parts of south africa over the next day or so this massive cloud is just diving its way in across the western cape and it will continue to push further eastward so space some heavy rain across southern parts of south africa through saturday the southern cape the eastern cape seeing some rather heavy showers then over the next day or so but elsewhere the sunshine the warm sunshine will continue shell's meanwhile continue across central parts of africa further heavy downpours across the gulf of guinea across much of west africa.

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welcome back you're watching the news al a quick update of the top stories after the latest north korean missile tests the white house national security adviser says the u.s. is close to the limits of what sanctions and diplomacy could achieve. british police are treating a blast on a london underground train and to twenty nine people as a terrorist incident. and amnesty international is using satellite imagery to highlight what it calls an orchestrated campaign to henge of images in myanmar. all more now on our top story ongoing reaction to north korea's latest firing of

a missile united nations security council is expected to me very shortly and jordan is lifeless not the united nations in new york with more on that what are the expectations of this meeting. well it's not clear mario whether the security council is going to agree to do anything or to try anything but certainly given that just on monday it passed a new set of economic sanctions against north korea there is a real concern here at tell you and headquarters about whether north korea is ever going to comply with those sanctions and stop developing its nuclear weapons program the closed door meeting is supposed to get underway in a about twenty five minutes time we are of course waiting to speak to one basters as they're going in and coming out of this closed door meeting to find out what options they think might be on the table clearly with two sets of sanctions having

been imposed within the past five weeks there's a of course a real sense that these sanctions need a chance to actually take effect so that they can see if they are having any real impact on north korea's ability to continue funding its nuclear weapons program but clearly given that this missile that was launched over night or early friday over eastern japan given that it did once again cross japanese territory there is a real push for the council to do something but i'm not sure that they're actually going to come out and announce that the security council is going to do x. y. or z. we've just been hearing from national security advisor. in washington d.c. saying that the military option is still on the table and it can't be ruled out but i suppose one thing that's been very consistent in washington's response to north korea is the fact that they want the chinese to do more. that's right washington has long said that it's up to beijing to use its leverage its economic

leverage and its political leverage on pyongyang to stop the development of its program but while the chinese have been very much on board with the increasing rounds of sanctions they have also said and they've been backed up by the russians on this mari and that the u.s. and south korea need to think about their own behaviors in the region and consider that some of those actions might be considered provocative and young namely the joint annual military exercises that the u.s. and south korea conduct as part of a mutual assured defense treaty so they have to even though the u.s. has said it's not going to stop these training exercises the fact is according to beijing pyongyang sees these as a threat to its own national security and so now you basically have this loop this of people saying well i'm not going to stop doing this because i'm worried about

the other side and vice versa but what the russians are arguing mario is that if you want this process to stop the u.s. should seriously consider at least scaling back some of its military activities and be much more willing to engage in direct dialogue with people on the on that is something which previous administrations the bush administration and the obama administration have not been willing to do the question is will the trouble ministration be willing to consider it if it means preventing the use of some sort of military option which mcmasters said was still on the table but it was not the administration's first choice thanks very much rosen and jordan the united nations . well iran is continuing to benefit somewhat from the suspension of u.s. sanctions against it thanks to the obama era nuclear deal but white house officials insist that it's only an interim measure until president donald trump makes a final decision next month it's also issued non-nuclear sanctions on iranian

nationals over allegations of cyber attacks my counterpoints from washington d.c. . the iran deal was a particular focus of donald trump's anger during the election campaign we didn't get anything we got nothing but since becoming president he's declared iran compliant on two occasions the deal coming up for presidential review every three months the next deadline is on the fifteenth of next month and president trump is again signaling that this time he may decide against certification the iran deal is one of the worst deals i've ever seen he told reporters on air force one certain at a minimum the spirit of the deal is atrociously kept the iran deal is not a fair deal to this country it's a deal that should not have ever been made the international atomic energy agency is the lead to monitor of the joint comprehensive plan of action or j c p o a and earlier this week and reported that the nuclear commitments made by iran under the plan are being implemented i cannot tell you how many. complimentary access

something we have. but i can tell you that while we have many compliment to the us this two locations more frequently than many other. countries with extensive nuclear programs but the us secretary of state indicates that the issue of compliance is not the only thing that should be taken into account president trump has made it clear to those of us who are helping him develop this policy that we must take into account the totality of iranian threats not just iran's nuclear capabilities that is one piece of our partially towards iran at stake next month is not just the future of iran agreement but also the u.s. relationship with its european allies who've urged the u.s. to refrain from any unilateral action in ending the deal mike hanna al-jazeera washington. the iraqi kurdish problem and has approved holding

a controversial independence referendum later this month it convened especially to discuss these plans which are opposed by the central government in baghdad as well as iran and turkey imran khan joins us live now from air bill iran will there be five obstacles to this vote taking place. note for the kurdish region the kurdish region has voted overwhelmingly to let the referendum go ahead on september twenty fifth they voted inside the parliament building just behind me sixty m.p.'s voted sixty five said yes the vote the major the second largest party actually go on didn't take part in this vote so it remains to be seen what they will do there the second largest party in the kurdish region it's likely that they're going to have to get behind the kurdish referendum now so what this parliament has done is said to the independent high electoral commission make your preparations let's get the ballot boxes out onto the streets for september twenty fifth but there are

a number of major obstacles yet to come firstly coke is disputed territory the kurds say it's theirs they say there is not in two thousand and seven given control of that territory the iraqis say it's actually federal iraq you territory now the kurds have sent troops to cook ahead of this referendum and also one of the big shia militias has said any ballot box in that region is going to be an act of aggression so certainly they'll be tensions there also in the city people politicians local politicians from the arab last time from the to the turkmen share of also so they're not going to take part in the referendum so you have that you also have now the international community they've been dead set against this referendum indeed the u.n. the u.s. and the u.k. put a proposal to president of the masoud barzani to say this needs to be postponed here's what we think should happen he rejected that right he's seeing this as a victory so it's going to be for him something to celebrate especially in the next

coming days will come out and give a speech and it will be forceful in nature we expect saying that this is the ideology of the kurds that we deserve a country that we all the only people on the planet without a state thanks very much imran khan an air bill. now russia iran and turkey have agreed a new deescalation zone in syria's northern province that was reached at the sixth round of talks in the capital estonia as charles stratford now reports. after two days of talks in a star an agreement on a fourth so-called deescalation zone in syria the united nations special envoy says consensus on ending the fighting was a final as a means of complimenting un brokered talks in geneva focused on the political future of syria we really welcome death agreement today because we have been always pushing forward this coalition that's what the people of haiti have been asking.

and the fact of being a new area. is crucial but the escalation of fighting in italy presents a particular challenge the international community and the syrian government say many of the groups in need labor affiliated to al qaida and remain viable targets. the syrian opposition delegation agrees and says they are committees to fighting terrorist organizations but they are against the inclusion of iranian troops in monitoring the deescalation zones originally the interview under the pretext of keeping certain shrines then they got the militias and now with their numbers in thousands and now the russians turned them into going to use and wind out in these posts monitoring news that would be used so yes and they are not for keeping an achievement through it as a pretext their plan the head of the russian delegation says exactly where the

iranian russian and turkish monitors will be stationed needs to be discussed but iran has a right to be involved in a new alert system to get around them iran has one to country for that's done a process its exports were invited to syria by the legitimate syrian government that's why they had the right to use that up service doing to the situation to the escalation is on there has been a reduction in fighting in the deescalation zone since the plan began to be implemented for a half months ago now russia says that along with the u.s. and jordan that already represented here as observers more countries may soon be involved more talks are scheduled here for october and it's hoped that in the interim conference room played g.'s are acted upon by all parties in a bid to try and end the violence in these deescalation zones where it's believed around two and a half million people have endured more than six years of war strafford al-jazeera

a stana. in nigeria four hundred thousand women die every year because of birth related complications many of these deaths happen in the home because women can't make it to maternity hospitals because of cultural issues costs and even the distance in the first of a three part series on maternity care catherine sawyer reports from so-called. bucky sumanda is four months pregnant and wants to give birth in this government run special maternity clinic in socket a state it's new and the only one offering women different options of giving bath including how they would at home who has six other children half of them delivered at home chose the match right away. i want to give birth on the mat because it's comfortable and it's what i'm used to at home i think the nurses will take better care of me here in the united nations says one hundred forty five nigerian

women die every day from birth related complications it's one of the highest rates in the walls this is one of the biggest hospitals and women from the state come here to have a baby for many. home because. not too far away. and. this woman's baby died a year ago because it to cut too long to get to hospital after she developed complications at home she says ignorance of the artist you know of men are the biggest problems in conservative communities like cause. some husbands don't allow their wives to go to hospital i'm lucky that my husband allows me some women even think that at the hospital the doctors will injure them here garber and his wife is almost you listen keenly as the traditional path attendant and courage is them to

go to hospital ali she also shows them how government supplied tools if for any reason she'll help deliver the baby at home. because i'm educated i understand her issues are important i will give one hundred percent support to any initiative that will help my wife and children doctors say the plan is to eventually have maternal health clinics in every village and involve the communities more. villages and young girls from buffy that qualification is that you have to be from the village called will that be treated in committee and then back to the community back at the dog the special clinic but a key so he sees how first pre-bought consultation the midwest hopes she comes back the baby is born some women never do katherine saw al jazeera nigeria. and our special series on maternal maternal mortality continues on saturday when

step vasa reports from chain indonesia where maternity deaths are among the highest in the region that is on saturday here on al-jazeera it will come out very shortly second longest streak in major league baseball now belongs to the cleveland indians have that much more.

with its economy stagnant mexico's president says implemented drastic and controversial energy reforms mexico's oil opened by the mexican people for seventy five he is is being sold to private international companies. and as with the

country's agricultural sector it's exposed to exploitation by profit driven multinational corporation was a crude harvest at this time on al-jazeera. i'm back time now for us all with. maryam thank you very much the international olympic committee has reiterated that there's no plan b. for next year's pyung chan winter olympics in south korea this off the north korea fired another missile over japan on friday the games are due to take place in february one hundred kilometers from the north korean border the i.o.c.

is new head of ethics ban ki moon is backing the olympics the former u.n. secretary general who himself hails from south korea is confident the games are will go ahead without a hitch. sports has so universal language and it can reach to any place even during a time of cord one even so there is heightened attention on the korean peninsula i am sure that this winter olympic games will be a great success with a great sense of stability whenever there was or as a sports event. exchanges between south and north athletes there was a shrewd. expectations and they sure do support force ports so i'm quite confident that we will have a very safe very peaceful and. winter olympic games in the. next year. tennis australia is nick curiosus currently out on court again steve

darcy's of belgium in a davis cup semifinal taking place in brussels earlier in the day david goffin helped to belgium take the lead in this time had to come from a sit down to overcome john millman on friday the score of that match six seven six six three seven five the winner getting belgium an early one mil advantage. in the semifinal match french when joe wilford claimed a seven six six three six three win against jiro to draw france to level with serbia after lucas premier had at last to do so and lie of h. earlier in the day. after the international break last week most of the world's top football leagues are back in action again we've already seen the us the champions league and cup by limited or is earlier this weekend on saturday in the english premier league crystal palace and southampton will kick off the day's shady or top

of the table manchester city or away at watford city have had to do quite a bit of travelling having played away in the champions league on wednesday as well . you waiver has opened disciplinary proceedings off the crowd trouble ahead of arsenal's three one win over cologne in the europa league as many as twenty thousand cologne fans descended on london grinding oxford street to a halt before the match on thursday that's the spite only three thousand tickets being made available to them footage on social media showed that once they got to the emirates stadium some tried to break down barricades to make their way inside they also fought with stewards and let the players in the stands the game was colognes first in european competition for twenty five years after the manager asked and they get says he is surprised the game even went ahead. they were very clever i don't know how we managed to infiltrate trade. finance and get everywhere

but they did that at some stage i thought they would not play the game because of. police taking any risk really even a society a hundred percent security society and therefore we never take a gamble to play this game when i saw the images on the stadium but i must say our supporters still dwell with the situation as well and was no aggravation. a surprise upset now in south america's top club competition the couple limited orders argentina's river plate in the quarter finals of the competition hoping to repeat a twenty fifteen victory but they had not planned on it being so difficult to get past bolivian team for both them and they beat the argentine powerhouse three at an altitude of two thousand six hundred metres in the bolivian city of culture river will be back at home in the return leg and wellness ira's next week but they'll

have quite a deficit to overcome. formula one is in singapore this week as lewis hamilton and sebastian vettel continue to fight it out at the top of the drivers' championship standings but on friday mclaren was the team grabbing the headlines on thursday number one driver and former two time world champion fernando alonso said he might have to leave mclaren in order to challenge for another world title they have the second worst record in twenty seventeen and announced on friday they were ending their relationship with engine supplier honda. you know it needs to be competitive fernando wants to win and he wants to reigning world championships as do we so i think as long as he feels that he can do that with us then i think he'd be happy to stick around and we would love to have him around the cleveland indians now own the second longest unbeaten streak in major league baseball history they are not the twenty second consecutive victory on thursday but this win was a bit tougher than some of the others they needed an extra inning to beat the

kansas city royals three to four wins away from equalling the all time unbeaten record held by the nine hundred sixteen new york giants. meanwhile the world series champions the chicago cubs have really been hitting their stride having thrashed the new york mets seventeen five on wednesday they inflicted more pain on thursday school fourteen sixteen in the skate. the first finalist has been decided at the european basketball championships. shocking defending champion spain in the euro basket semifinal they did in dominant fashion winning ninety two seventy two the second samy final is between serbia and russia. a japanese american is continuing to make waves on the global circuit nineteen year old. beat three time world champion mick fanning on thursday to advance of the quarter finals of the hurley pro in california she was the youngest rookie on the world last season and

is expected to be one of the faces of the sport when it makes its debut in tokyo in twenty twenty and that's all the more coming up again later looking forward to it thank you peter well now now says cassini spacecraft has disintegrated in the skies above satin after spending twenty years exploring the planet and its moons it drives through sands atmosphere on friday morning in a final blaze of cosmic glory but it's myth what it's achieved over the years. at mission control in pasadena california they watched the last seconds of radio signals from cassini project manager on if it's so quiet. maybe it's because she left. your church. is gone within the next forty five seconds. i hope you're all as deeply proud of this amazing accomplishment congratulations to you all this is been

an incredible mission an incredible spacecraft and you're all an incredible team i'm going to call this the end of mission. project manager. this team has watched a c.v. travel seven point nine billion kilometers since its launch in one thousand nine hundred seventy three to one. it took a cd seven years to reach saturn as it settled into war but around the ringed planet cassini launched the horgan's lander 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 covered in snow and ice this is in salad or sun another of saturn's moons it has powerful ice blasting gazers under 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't land on saturn it may still carry microbes from earth that could affect an alien ecosystem because the importance of insult us that cassini has shown us and of titan another potential world that could be habitable for life perhaps 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. cassini's final mission was twenty two dives between saturn's rings and surface then it flew into the planet's burning atmosphere. bernard smith al-jazeera.

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