in the next episode of science in a golden age exploring the contributions made by scholars join the medieval islamic period in the field of medicine. science tend to be a good subject to bring different people from all over the world together with just such like a magic book and the more i learn about the more. i respect science in a golden age with professor at this time. this is al jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes world leaders condemn north korea as it carries out another missile

test days after a new u.n. sanctions. attack may be imminent the british prime minister raises the terror threat level to critical in the u.k. as police hunt the suspects behind a london tube attack. the iraqi kurdish parliament has voted to back an independence referendum in the face of opposition from across the globe. and in sports the international olympic committee insist again that there is no plan b. for february's pyong chang winter games after north korea fires its latest missile . and we begin this news hour with more on north korea's latest ballistic missile test the international community is still scrambling to react the u.n. security council has condemned the launch. calling it highly provocative and

a threat to all u.n. members north korean media says kim jong un personally oversaw the successful launch of the ha song twelve missile he says the final goal is what he calls a quote librium of force with the united states russia is pledging to implement the latest round of sanctions but it's being joined by china and france in pushing for talks as the only way to resolve the crisis yet u.s. president donald trump may have other ideas in a speech to troops he's emphasized that military options are also available his comments come after pyongyang fired yet another missile over japan and japan that fell a second in less than a month mike hanna has this report from washington d.c. . the u.s.s. cole celebrates its seventieth anniversary and here to address the troops and their families president makes clear the air force may have a role to play in addressing the undoing north korea crisis after seeing your

capabilities and commitment here today i am more confident than ever that our options in addressing this thread are both effective and overwhelming. earlier speaking at the white house the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. emphasize that sanctions could still be an effective weapon 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 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 the national security adviser agreed but stressed diplomacy was not the only option these sanctions are just now taking effect what's really important is rigorous enforcement of those nations so that we can let the economic actions and diplomacy

progress as best we can but i think we ought to make clear what's different about this approach is is that we're out of time right is best for him he said before you know we've been kicking the can down the road and we're out of road and so for those who have said and it been commenting about the lack of a military option there is a military option with north korea continuing its missile testing despite several rounds of sanctions the u.s. is clearly exploring other options and those under the control of the secretary of defense not the secretary of state web-s today to the u.n. mike hanna al-jazeera washington iran and jordan has more on the latest diplomatic developments at the u.n. in new york the first question reporters had what will the security council do about north korea the british ambassador to the u.n. said not so fast the existing sanctions need to be fully implemented we only passed them on monday the latest round and i call on all. countries in the world

particularly the countries with the closest links and the largest trade flows with north korea to implement those sanctions completely the u.s. has been calling on china and russia to use their leverage with people and young but the russian ambassador to the u.n. said there might be another option we were discussing for a while that was it in a vicious circle where. it is illusion a provocation but on occasion that is addition then another publication and we were going to play things many people raised an issue that we have to sink maybe out of the books north korea will be topic one during the high level week at the u.n. general assembly but it's not clear that there will be any breakthroughs in anything just a lot of discussions on the way forward u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson emphasized the importance of working with other nations to deal with north korea as we consider the best offense posed by a hostile regime in north korea the least free nation on the planet we for should

look to our regional allies south korea and japan by working with them and other democratic partners we continue to build consensus at the united nations security council to grade a united international front that upholds our values and strives to make us safer but north korea is not a global threat and it requires a global response from all nations kathy novak joins us now with reaction from south korea's capital seoul we're going to talk about that south korea korean reaction and a moment cathy but we are getting media statements from north korea at the moment on we. yes quite a lengthy statement from north korea's case c.n.a. about the missile launch confirming that it was a hawse song twelve missile that's its intermediate range missile the same kind of missile that it launched last month over japan and also the same kind of missile it

referred to when it threatened one with its enveloping fire threat you may recall that north korea through its state media threatened to launch four missiles over japan to wardes the u.s. state of guam and that really raised the threat level in the united states and caused a sort of exchange of language between donald trump and the north korean government well with this missile launch it traveled thirty seven hundred kilometers over japan and landed in the sea it's the trajectory was over the northern region of hokkaido but what it demonstrated through this launch of twelve missile was that it had the range indeed to hit a qualm if it decided to launch in that direction and this casey in a statement goes on to talk about the motives of behind the launch it says it was conducted with the aim of calming down the belligerence of the united states that also adds that the artillery men were rapidly deployed to the launching ground that

early morning under a sudden order of kim jong un so saying there that north korea does indeed have the capacity to launch its missiles at short notice and it says that kim jong un said that his final goal was to establish the equilibrium of real force with the united states and to make the u.s. rulers dare not talk about military option against north korea and it also goes on to say that it's pointing out that it did all of this despite the u.n. sanctions that north korea has been facing not just in recent times but in recent years rob gaffney south korea had a fairly quick military response when the missile was launched from north korea what's been happening politically there as well. well we're told that president in was briefed before the launch and after he called an emergency meeting of the national security council an order missile launch of south korea's military and that was a demonstration that it has the capacity to travel about two hundred fifty kilometers

in this case it was launched off the coast and landed in the sea but that two hundred fifty kilometers is significant in the same way that north korea was demonstrating that it has the range with its wasan twelve intermediate range missile to hit guam here south korea was demonstrating that it has the capacity to hit the launch pad pyongyang because that's about the distance that this missile traveled from the south korean territory and where would need to go in pyongyang and as we know was elected to power on a platform of more engagement with north korea talking about opening dialogue but now he is saying that under the current circumstances dialogue is impossible and he was beefing up security and surveillance and certainly not talking about dialogue at the moment instead of showing force and showing what kind of reaction south korea might have if north korea were to step up its provocations to the point that

south korea japan and indeed the united states felt that it was a real threat unlike this one which was sort of a demonstration of its range but landed instead in the sea rob it's got here we've talked about the political response in south korea we've talked about the military response but what about the people of south korea how are they feeling about all of this. well that's often a question because this is becoming such a regular thing here in south korea we've seen an increasing number of missile launches we've seen the most recent six then most powerful nuclear test it was just in july that we saw for the first time an intercontinental ballistic missile launched not once but twice by north korea and the reaction here in south korea is often somewhat the same that this is been going on for decades that the people of south korea are in general used to this kind of behavior from north korea but there is a bit of a sense that this is

a bit different that it is more regular that it is more threatening than the technology is certainly being demonstrated as being an improvement on previous technology in north korea says it does have the capacity to mount a nuclear warhead on this i also i think in general if you walk in the streets of seoul people aren't panicking they are stocking up on food or anything like that preparing for imminent war but i think there is a bit of a sense that things are certainly more tense than perhaps they had been in the past for us and so thanks very much indeed let's not talk to barry pavel he's the senior vice president and director of the brant scowcroft center an international security he's also a specialist in emergency curacy and defense strategies he's joining us now from washington d.c. by a few days ago you know i was speaking from the u.n. security council put forward the vote on those sanctions part of the problem as we were talking about then is that there's going to take time for these sanctions to

kick in and this response from north korea is not really that much of a surprise is it. no it's more of the same we don't like what's going on but it's certainly more of the same it's one of the few leavers or tools that north korea can exercise without causing a response that causes causes any damage so yes this is continued i'm praying that these missiles continue to have accuracy and if it was a little bit short then we have a big problem if it hits hokkaido there is of course a lot of pressure on china and russia to try to bring north korea to the negotiating table but north korea has shown no interest in coming to that negotiating table and continues to fire missiles how difficult does it make to find any sort of solution to this issue. as your report said this is been going on for decades so it is very difficult to find a solution for good or for ill north korea perceives that it needs nuclear weapons

and it is quickly developing the ability to put those atop of an intercontinental ballistic missile that at some point will be able to reach u.s. targets not today not tomorrow but certainly within a couple of years or a few years and so this is getting worse and i think right now though north korea is just continuing to launch test missiles not killing anyone not hitting any targets we don't like it but we say it's certainly not is it is certainly not something that would warrant a military attack on north korea as people are sort of wantonly talking about quote unquote military options for dealing with this let me i don't think that's necessarily helpful forgive me for interrupting you but let me ask you about that very point we've heard the white house national security advisor saying the u.s.

is approaching the limit of what diplomacy can accomplish how great is the possibility that the u.s. could attempt to take some sort of you know you know lateral action on north korea or really does it depend on what the u.n. and the security council is able to put into place and it's kind of not irrelevant but to to one side what the u.s. and the white house is saying about military action. yeah i mean i think the u.s. is trying to say different things on one hand sanctions were just begun increased sanctions which should take some time to have effect on the other hand we don't want this pattern to continue for years so i mean it's not it's a dangerous situation that if it continues would only get more dangerous and so i think that's why you are hearing different messages out of the united states government different officials from different parts of the government about we're

almost out of time but sanctions just started we have military options i think they're trying different approaches to try to get north korea to some sort of negotiating table i don't see that happening any time soon although i i hope that that will happen at some point north korea has significantly ramped up its missile testing in twenty seventeen there is going to come a point very isn't there where they're going to want to move from just showing that they can loan show rockets to show that they can actually hit something with it on . well that's where you get into a really dangerous situation as you know a missile falling into the ocean north korea knows not much of a response will likely occur. but a missile hitting a target in japan in south korea elsewhere killing people or causing damage that will elicit some sort of military response and that's the real people talk about red lines that that's the real the real red line where their actions cause

damage or loss of life then they know though that they will get a response that is proportionate if not significantly greater and then you're in a real crisis and potentially a major conflict a lot of attention being focused on china and russia to try to bring north korea to the negotiating table or at least to try to find some sort of alternative to salute a solution perhaps alongside the sanctions but how much can china particularly actually do or how much is it prepared to do in terms of north korea. as of yet my understanding of the reporting is that china hasn't really enforce sanctions vigorously. for a lot of reasons they're the main economic conduit with north korea i think ninety percent of north korea's economic exchanges and trade is with china although they have some with others and china hasn't really vigorously enforced the economic

sanctions yet i imagine after the last and very recent u.n. red security council resolution that china will try harder i think they will start to see that this is not the status quo isn't great for them but certainly other scenarios are worse for them and i think there's an internal debate on in china going on and potentially evolving that as things continue to worsen with north korea's nuclear capabilities it might cause them to more vigorously enforce sanctions and take other actions because this is a major irritant for president she's much broader agenda regarding china's foreign policy very powerful always good to get your opinion on this thank you very much indeed for your time. more ahead on the news including the afghan air force is replacing its older helicopters with newer models why it will take years before they can be properly used. and the price of freedom the hefty cost many

muslims have to pay to flee the violence in myanmar. and in sports a new engine for one of formula one's most famous teams peter is going to have more on that story. the british prime minister has raised the terror threat level from severe to critical after an explosive device detonated on a london underground train. she took the decision on advice from security officials twenty nine people were injured in the incident which happened at one of the busiest times of the morning bonnie phillips has the latest from london. it happened on london's underground. eight 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. this is what we believe caused the explosion just as the train came in

to pass in the screen station a bucket still in flames moments later when a passenger on the train filmed it on 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. what happened they talked about an explosion in one of the carriages. yeah that there were three one of the carriages we had a back. the fire is just calming everybody screaming. and we run out and no one knows what's going on but 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 counterterrorism c'mon will take responsibility for that investigation the private a star held an emergency security meeting the joint terrorism analysis center has now decided to raise the national threat level from severe to critical this means that their assessment is that further attack may be imminent for this period military personnel will replace police officers on guard. checked at sites which are not accessible to the public public will see more armed police on the transport

network and on our streets providing extra protection 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 but 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 phillips al jazeera pass in the street in london. brian levin is the director of the center for the study of hate and extremism that california state university in san bernardino is joining us on skype from of and thank you very much for your time we're obviously in the very early stages of this investigation but what is your interpretation of this incident that's happened on the london underground ok well a couple of things first it was generally unprofessional we still have the

assailants at large it looks to me like there was more than one person involved just by virtue of the size of the device it had a flame out as opposed to an actual detonation so it might have gone off prematurely perhaps they were waiting for more people to get onto the train as it became closer as it got closer to central london that being said let's look at some macro issues here number one daie sure isis is getting severely constrained as they're their size which once was as big as you know the united kingdom is now just when billed to a couple of small enclaves indeed they recently had. a convoy that did had to get had to leave certain areas to get safety he also came out with the latest edition of their. english speaking

magazine ramya last weekend so i think what we're seeing is we're in the fourteenth round of the fifteen round boxing match isis is not knocked out but it's still slaving and swinging and to can still. attack even unprofessionally as it did here and indeed it urged last week for its followers to do so against the western allies. were you. for want of a better word surprised by the sword as you put it on professionalism of the attack given that i still has mounted fairly significant attacks on other parts of the world in the pasta actually yes but i was i was even more surprised that your ice is would try to take credit. for a relatively unsuccessful attack in that there were no states ality so so what it

appears is that you're really reaching out to us hello travelers who have not necessarily been as sophisticated we trained in spirit or as they'd like we don't know who did this this person might have gone in just here or a rap for all we know but the big thing about europe a little less so with england is the number of individuals who gone into theatre and then came back london the problem is england the problem is less acute but we have to be on alert or is the fact that even on the system aided fellow travelers who have some kind of connection to isis can still be very dangerous even as the sun is setting on their caliphate good to get your views on this brand i mean thank you very much indeed thank you the united states is urging the kurdish regional government to call off an independence referendum expected to be voted on later

this month the vote took place during the first session of parliament since it was suspended two years ago it comes despite opposition from iraq iran and turkey the u.s. is calling on the kurds to enter into dialogue with the iraqi government warning the referendum could spark more violence in the region and non-con is in a bill with more. it's already been described as a historic occasion because his palm and of voted yes on the referendum and so what happens now is that the independent high electoral commission will be tossed with running the referendum on the twenty fifth and it's been signed into law now let me just this is just politician mohamed ali. this is a story occasion for you yeah it is actually it is a historical session of the kurds in parliament since the of this a parliament in ninety two today we supported the holding. referendum in the in the kurdistan region and also the disputed areas so we

delegated the commission to the high commission independent commission of elections and referendum in kurdistan region to hold elections on the twenty fifth of september two thousand and seventeen let's just talk about the disputed region states going to happen. that's baghdad is federal iraqi territory the kurds have a claim on it as well you've already sent troops to the region one of the big share militias have said that any referendum there will be an act of aggression can you hold a referendum when there's that kind of tense atmosphere in kirkuk we try our best to avoid any act of dispute or any act of conflict but these areas are practically under control of kurdistan region and in those areas there were some there was supposed we were supposed to have a referendum no later than this summer two thousand and seven that never happened that was according to the confusion so went back to that does not respect the constitution we have to come up with a solution referendum is the very democratic way of involving people in this

session decision making this decision is going to be the decision of the people of disputed areas and people of for some reason. the same tough thank you very much so you heard it that it's going to take place encourage the kurds clearly very confident but let me just show you the sign here it says kurdistan parliament iraq what the kurds have been looking for now is to remove iraq from that sign. three children have been killed and eleven people have been wounded during shelling in the yemeni city of thais local rights groups say the militia was responsible for the shelling in a busy area of the southern port city the hospital treating the wounded has called for blood donations the u.n. says yemen's two and a half year conflict has killed more than ten thousand people russia iran and turkey have agreed a new deescalation zone in syria's northern province greenman has reached at the

sixth round of talks in the cause of capital stana structured reports. after two days of talks in a star agreement on a full 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 disagreement today because we have been always pushing forward this coalition that's what the people of here been asking and the fact of being a new area to do. it will show 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 something shreyas then they got the insurers and now with the numbers in thousands and now the russians turned them into going to use and when they are in these posts monies are all used or used so they want and they are not for keeping an achievable 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 the late system to get around them iran is hanging on to country for the last time a process its exports were invited to syria by they needed to meet syrian government that's why they had the right to use their office 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 four and a half months ago now russia says that along with the u.s. and jordan that already represented here as observers. countries may soon be involved more talks are scheduled here for october and it's hoped that in the interim conference room played 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 charles stafford al-jazeera a stand still ahead on al-jazeera nigeria launches a new initiative aimed at trying to reduce the rate of birth related deaths. the grand finale after a twenty year journey as cassini spacecraft plunges toward saturn. and in sports the son of one fighter takes it upon himself to defend his father's on

peter's going to be here with the details. hello vehicle at first signs of snow coming in across parts of the u.s. over the next couple of days start with the tropical weather that we still have down towards a southeastern corner the legacy of one or two showers here but for many the eastern side of the u.s. eastern parts of canada dry but i would say as a west just over the rocky mountains a chance of some wintry weather coming in here north of the border calgary temps just no higher than around thirteen celsius colder still for winnipeg with a top temperature of around ten degrees but twenty seven in ottawa too bad for the middle part of september similar values as we go on through sunday and by sunday central parts of kind of the seeing some really heavy rain pushing through actually

where the coming down across the midwest down into the central plains pushing over towards colorado for the western side of the u.s. is looking fine and dry become further south lots of fun in july for mexico recently but i think massive cloud down to the southwest of mexico tropical depression as is now max has made its way through bringing some flooding rains in very close to acapulco violent winds coming through here as well you can see a few trees down and some flooding the heavy showers spoil they continue for a good part of central america how much of the caribbean. we all have stories. some that enrich our memories. others define our futures. in

a breathtaking new season al-jazeera staff members open their hearts and invite us into their extraordinary lives al-jazeera correspondent coming soon russian filmmaker under a necker self continues his journey across his homeland to discover what life is like under putin during his travels he meets christians and muslims patriots and separatists i told the locals in the southeast we're on our side when i arrive i don't do something completely different some long to leave putin's russia but for others a russian passport means hope and the chance of happens in search of putin's russia at this time onal jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the united nations security council has come damns north korea's latest missile test calling it a threat to all u.n. members russia china and france are calling for talks is the only way to resolve the crisis but u.s. president donald trump has stressed that military options are also available. britain's terror threat level has been raised from severe to critical after an explosive device detonated on a london underground train twenty nine people were injured in the incident which happened at one of the busiest times of the morning u.k. prime minister theresa may is warning a further attack may be imminent. more than one hundred schoolgirls who were freed from boko haram can in may have been reunited with their families in nigeria on wednesday the government held what it called a send forth event for the girls who were kidnapped by the group in twenty fourteen

the girls went through months of rehabilitation before they went back to their families and they're now being sent to a boarding school in the nigerian city. i'm a dangerous has more from the capital. the decision to move the girls to a boarding school in the north of the country instead of going directly to chibok was influenced by certain decisions lots of course is sensibilities of to parents why yet to see or hear anything about their daughters held bible koran and then the security situation in the north of the country over the past few months we've seen a spike in quantum attacks. kidnappings and suicide bombings particularly in modern state although there is substantial military presence in chibok and surrounding communities to keep those communities safe stakeholders decided to move them directly to a boarding school where they will continue and this is coming at a time when the nigerian military is having to deal with so many crises across the country for example in the southeast of the country incidents between the security

forces and a physician is a group of members of assistance units group independence peoples of the africa have erupted over the past few days we've seen videos emerging on line of engagement between the military and i bought members as well as members of the indigenous peoples of the africa attacking ethnic groups from other parts of the country in the southeast this has resulted in counter action or reaction in the north of the country in north central nigeria on thursday there were clashes between locals and that you both were mostly from the south east of the country and the government had to intervene by imposing an indefinite curfew that dusk to dawn curfew and to the situation improves thousands of the hinge of muslim refugees continue to enter bangladesh every day they're fleeing me and ma from what the u.n. has called a textbook definition of ethnic cleansing but as mother starter reports from south

lebanon southeast bangladesh four weeks into the crisis authorities are still not prepared for the influx. waiting for the boats to come but for these rohingya refugees from myanmar they're still the knots. no small matter of haggling with the bangladeshi boatman not easy when you've got no local currency . in the like you like with flame because they're torturing and killing us on the other side we have to pay whatever the price of the protest no matter how high. some boatmen have been accused of charging exorbitant fees it's a touchy subject. if i were to take money from her it would be saying i'm a muslim i'm not exposing anyone the boat and say they're risking their lives to bring refugees across with little support. of the security forces here tell us that so kind for us to bring refugees in and what we should do it discreetly if we do it openly i think it was trouble. this confusion is symptomatic of

a dysfunctional relief effort this road on the very southeast tip of bangladesh is right now the main entry point for the refugees coming into the country but looking around here we're seeing little to no sign of any official aid whether from the government international aid agencies or local ones many of these people have been walking for days they finally crossed into the safety of bangladesh but they will have to keep on walking for another forty kilometers before they get any help local volunteers are trying to fill the gap. there i came from dhaka with a group of people to help out we're trying to get these people on the boats and tell them where they need to go and there is a man paid for the boat and this family can finally leave they join the almost half a million reindeer that's needed to have poured across the border in just the past four weeks marsar al jazeera shop where the bangladesh. various president

has called for the saudi led blockade of qatar to be lifted he made the comments following a meeting with the emir of qatar who is on his first foreign trip since the diplomatic crisis began in june and the hall has more from powers 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 the issue that 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 got her supporters since the beginning and will continue supporting until we get the solution to such fights all the parties 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 huge 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 lead in bargo on qatar discussions may well continue next week in new york journal al-jazeera paris. the afghan air force has received its first black hawk helicopters from the u.s. in the latest step towards modernizing its fleet but it will take months before the

aircraft can be used as jennifer explains from kandahar the afghan air force says it can change the shape of the fight against the taliban and other groups especially here in kandahar southern afghanistan this is one of afghanistan's few fighter pilots he and his family have been threatened by the taliban so we're protecting his identity. that's not easy in the mountains around me here he told me the people he's bombing aren't just the enemies of afghanistan they're the enemies of humanity he said that he's proud his country now has airpower to stand up to them for decades afghanistan relied on these soviet helicopters but a lack of spare parts means these m.-i seventeen's will eventually be replaced with u.s. blackhawks captains a far much more we are has been an air force mechanic for more than thirty years. ago throughout excited about new aircraft the only way we will get peace in this country that the new technology but the afghans still need

a lot of help they can't maintain and fly all the aircraft they have themselves so u.s. advisors and international contractors fill the gaps to build an air force in peace time is difficult it is a multi-year process to try to do it during wartime is is a herculean effort. american pilots fly with afghans on training missions to hone their skills on this flight air traffic controllers guide the plane around active battle zones. ground crews don't just have to learn how to load planes but how to transport live ammunition to soldiers in the field and for military families perhaps the most important mission is bringing the fallen home second lieutenant dick rule who was killed in fighting in central afghanistan his remains are being returned to him in the northeast. many afghans say they want faster larger aircraft but the americans say this fleet is capable and sustainable. level play your plan is to double the number of aircraft and increase personnel by fifty percent here at

kandahar air field that means the afghan air force is going to need more space and they plan to take it from the other side of the runway there there's going to be offices training facilities and room for brand new helicopters the first blackhawk flights are expected to start next year it will take years to get the new helicopters fully in service in the meantime the afghans are making the most of what they have. jennifer glass al jazeera at the kandahar airfield afghanistan. still ahead in sports plays resumed of goals every other championship and friends it is going to tell you who's taken the lead.

every day more than eight hundred expectant mothers die from preventable birth related complications ninety nine percent of all these deaths occur in developing countries poor young women in rural areas are at particular risk but they can be helped skilled care during and after childbirth can save lives between one thousand nine hundred and twenty fifteen maternal mortality globally dropped by forty four percent but still in some parts of the world giving birth can be life threatening when the nigeria about fifty thousand women die every year because of birth related complications it often happens while giving birth at home culture cost and distance keeps many from going to hospitals in the first of a three part series catherine sawyer reports from sokoto. bucky sumanda is four months pregnant and wants to give birth in this government run special maternity

clinic in sakata 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 coming here to have their babies many of. them because. the way we need. to finance. 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 odyssey 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 garb and his wife is almost you listen kinley as a 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 the

village. is that you have to. come over the tree in committee do if we and then go back to the. back of the guard the special clinic but he soon receives her first pre-birth consultation the midwife hopes she comes back to her baby is born some women never do catherine saw al jazeera nigeria in our series of maternal mortality continues on saturday i'm stunned france and reporting from indonesia where maternity deaths are among the highest in the region that's why the government is now training traditional midwives are still widely respected here but often use dangerous practices and it's time for the sport here's peter thank you very much the international olympic committee has reiterated that there is no plan b. for next year's pyung chang winter olympics in south korea the softer 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 confident the games will go ahead without a hitch but north korea's i.o.c. representative is not so sure. i hold but nobody knows. all the time politics. politics. i'm not to minister of defense. the pyung takes less than six months away some progress has been made as far as russian state sponsored doping investigations around the sorts of games in twenty fourteen are concerned on friday the head of an investigation into the matter said evidence has been found to charge athletes. but when you have a part of document like this. and you have i don't know how many cases involved.

you cannot do it and the you it you have to respect the procedure you have to. respect the presumption of you know so. you cannot just say ah they were in. the russian. tennis now and australia have now leveled they davis cup semifinals i with opponents belgium australia's nick kiri also became belgian steve darcis the second rather friday singles the twenty two year old came from behind to eventually win the match in a five said six three three six six seven six one six two was the spoke. earlier in the day. had helped belgium take the early lead he came from a set down to beat john moment in the school days six seven six four six three seven five. meanwhile frenchman joe wilford tsonga had a slow start in the second of the semifinal clashes between france and serbia but

longer came back strongly from the second set onwards became the seven six six three six three win against. to draw france level with the. and here is merely a semifinal match between france and serbia lukas lost to do so and lawyer thank you for saying this. after the international break last week most of the world's top football leagues are back in action again we've already seen the u.a.e. the champions league and cup a limited audience earlier this week in the english premier league on friday born with a two one win over brighton and on saturday crystal palace and southampton will kick off the days straight your 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 . so we'll be so demanding game especially for the game itself of the world to tell been especially just three games three days. in the tree two

can. travel to. our generation but there's a good chance so the big o. is to have to handle the action also resumes in the spanish league after the international break but similarly there are certain teams who are already on the pitch earlier in the week in the champions league or europa league now this group includes that later going madrid who are at home against malaga where one of the world's most popular teams barcelona will have to shake off a tuesday night when ever you venters to concentrate on a visit to say that i could. have a lot of energy they've also started the season with a good momentum i think that even though they lost against civilians they played a good game at their home stadium soviet expect a complicated game and for us those three points are important it. has opened disciplinary proceedings of 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 behold before the match on thursday that's despite only three thousand tickets being made available to them footage on social media showed that once they got to the emirates stadium some try to break down barricades to make their way inside they also fought with stewards and let's play is in the stands the game was close first in european competition for twenty five years. formula one is in singapore this week as lewis hamilton and sebastian vettel continued 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 three 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 it was doing

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 pakistan have celebrated the return of international cricket to its country by defeating world eleven two one in a t twenty series on friday in lahore the pakistanis won the match to clinch the series they posted one hundred eighty three four for. eighty nine before restricting the visitors to one hundred fifty four eight so when by thirty three runs they're calling it the fight of the decade on saturday the undefeated knockout artist from kazakhstan. will face all other areas of mexico in las vegas over is his nickname canelo and the very last one of his professional fights that was to a certain floyd mayweather otherwise has forty nine wins and a draw the middleweight belt of boxing federations will be on the line for those five currently holds all four of these titles and the man nicknamed trouble jew has also knocked out thirty three of these thirty seven opponents. now las vegas is not

the only place where boxing is taking place on saturday there will also be a world title fight in london but he is the famous he's w. middleweight title against junior seau in the sun but i was not prepared to wait and see what the outcome of the fight would be the youngster taking it upon himself to land an early blue team saunders. and we'll leave it there for now more sport later nasa's cassini spacecraft has plunged toward saturn after a twenty year journey and what the agency is calling the grand finale disintegrated in saturn's atmosphere in a plan descent having given astronomers unprecedented insight into the planet and its moon shihab rattansi reports. just like it was gone i mean to call this mission. project manager that. tumbled into saturn was no longer able to point its antenna towards earth to send

back images in fact at this point cassini was already long gone its faithful would be gone about an hour and a half earlier but such was the distance its final messages were only just reaching mission control and those in mission control knew cassini survived a minute maybe two after its last message before disintegrating. one thousand nine hundred seven and began orbiting saturn in june of two thousand and four its original four year mission was repeatedly extended although much of its on board equipment was already antiquated by the time it arrived at its destination the data transmitted was invaluable to astronomers investigating the origins of saturn its rings and moons it was on those moons some of cassini's greatest discoveries were made finding a vast ocean of water on and sell of us and to me thing see on titan both moons showing evidence of prebiotic chemical combinations that could support life that was one reason why nasa decided to destroy its beloved spacecraft to prevent it

crashing into those moons for fear it could contaminate them with microbes from earth dr amy simon says because these findings also help us understand our own planet has that dance atmosphere it's very primordial it might be like a really early earth before we had oxygen and so these are the sorts of things we'd like to do because we can't stay here on earth we can't go back in time nasa says it knows exactly where cassini ended its mission this is an image put together by rachel infrared mapping spectrometer team they did a spectacular job turning around this data set that just came down dr simon is one of those who's overseeing the spectrometer since nine hundred ninety nine it was surprisingly more emotional than i expected. you know just personally touched to watch. this family that's been together. uncertain time for nasa has hope that government funding for space exploration will continue the trumpet ministration has just picked a climate science denying

a politician to run the agency whose goal has long been to end nasa as exploration of the earth and its atmosphere to focus instead on the wider solar system and beyond. the out zero of the go to space flight center in maryland i'll be back with a moment with more of the day's news five. yeah. let's talk about. right now.

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by the mexican people for seventy five years is being sold to private international companies. and as with the country's agricultural sector it's exposed to exploitation by profit driven multinational corporations crude harvest at this time on al-jazeera. north korea advised to achieve an equity librium of force with the united states even as the un terms its latest missile launch highly provocative.