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and. brought him in so i had. the british. terror threat level to critical. aspects. on the ground attack. the iraqi kurdish parliament back at independence referendum. and the grand finale after a twenty year journey. spacecraft. and. we begin this program with global reaction to north korea's latest ballistic missile tests the international community is still scrambling to react to five days launch but the north korean leader remains defiant in a statement kim jong un says the final goal is to achieve an equilibrium of force

with the united states north korean media says kim personally oversaw the launch of the song twelve missile but the u.n. security council has condemned the missile test calling it highly provocative and a threat to all u.n. members russia is pledging to implement the latest round of sanctions bob has been joined by china and france and pushing for talks is the only way to resolve the crisis but u.s. president may have other ideas in his speech to troops he emphasized that military options are also available well 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 trump makes clear the air force may have a role to play in a christian ongoing north korea crisis after seeing your capabilities and commitment here today i am more confident than ever that our options in addressing this threat 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 sanctions 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 as investor hiley 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 following yet another north korean missile launch despite several rounds of sanctions the u.s. is clearly exploring other options and while the north korean leader may watch admiringly he could soon be facing u.s. action planned by the secretary of defense rather than the ambassador to the united nations mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well let's go to our correspondent in seoul now andrew thomas is joining us live from there does the u.n. security council condemnation go as far as seoul wants andrew in terms of reaction to the test. well the security council resolution was passed on monday and now we had this extra condemnation on friday but there's nothing new in that and the issue as far as the international community is concerned is that they are split north korea for all its faults many felt it least has

a unified voice kim jones when it comes to presenting its position to the world the international community does not cover most of the talking about the end of the road there's no road to kick the can any further down and yet china and it sounds like france as well as suggesting there is more of a road to travel along the sanctions need to be given time to take effect the u.s. doesn't seem to have the patience to let that happen and that split in the international community really plays into north korea's hands they put out a very strong statement overnight celebrating their successful missile launch they say that it is showing the big power chauvinists how our state attains the goal of completing the nuclear force despite their limitless sanctions and blockade as you said earlier the statement said that the final goal is to establish the equilibrium of real force with the u.s. to make the u.s. rulers dare not talk about military options for the d.p. r. k. for north korea and of course and that is the fear of the united states that their

missile program the nuclear missile program north korea gets to a point at which military options are not an option because of the risk to the u.s. mainland to go on or whatever of taking that course so consistently defiant kim jong un and when as you've mentioned a divided international community on how to deal with kim jong un and north korea and what had a change in what the south korean president is saying up until the last missile test he was calling for dialogue since the last month he's been saying that it's impossible. that is the word impossible that is a very strong word from president when j. and he was seen as a bit softer on north korea than his predecessor he for example didn't want the found defense shield system put in place in south korea pre-election because he thought that might make south korea more of a threat he's gone full circle on that you know welcomes a third missile defense system and he's now actively talking about south korea's military options it's interesting that on friday as soon as north korea launched

its missile south korea launched one of its own it flew same distance it would have needed to fly to take out that missile launch site it wasn't fired at north korea the south koreans didn't think the north korean missile was actually a threat but they were trying to make a point that they were watching that launch site and they were ready to attack it in a real world world scenario if necessary and president moon has talked a lot more about this three pillar approach that south korea has always had but always sort of kept in the background is now coming to the foreground the idea of preemptive action on north korea if necessary the idea of intercepting a missile in the air and the idea of punishment of overwhelming routes hal or a jury attacks on north korea if the north were to launch an attack that kind of language from south korea is new it's unusual it's always been there to some extent but now it's being talked about more openly or at entry thank you very much for that or fanaa that's andrew thomas joining as of the very latest from seoul thank

you. let's move on to other news now the british prime minister has raised the u.k.'s terror threat from severe to critical after an explosive device detonated on a london underground train two is amazing as she took the decision on advice from security officials twenty nine people were injured in the incident which happened during the busy morning rush hour bonamy phillips has the latest from london. it happened on london's underground which it's 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. this is what we believe caused the explosion just as the train came into parson's green station in a bucket 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 some had

burns there was panic several people rushed to hospital. arriving in the thirty. people shell shocked and when asked what happened they talked about an explosion in one of the carriages. yeah but with three one of the carriages we had a back. just came. and it was so hot and it just involves the whole. the whole defies just coming everybody screaming. and we run out and. we just we were right at the end of the cheap so we just we just jumped the fences and just ran. 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 command will take responsibility for that investigation the private a star held an emergency security beating 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 the 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 parsons street in london. 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 which 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 that the referendum could spark more violence from the region and mankind has more from the kurdish capital and be. 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 a politician. this is

a story occasion for you yeah it is actually it is a historical session of the kurds in parliament since the start 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. 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 to we were supposed to have a referendum no later than december two thousand and seven that never happened that was according to the constitution 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 but i would only say 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 be looking for now is to remove iraq from that sign. still ahead on the bulletin the price of freedom they have to have to pay to play violin . and the afghan air force is replacing assault helicopters with the new models but

why it would take you where they could be probably you know. how i would go at first signs of snow coming in across parts of the u.s. over the next couple of days with the tropical weather that we still have down towards the southeast in cola the legacy of want to say but for many the eastern side of the u.s. eastern parts of canada but dry but i was also west just over the rocky mountains a chance to some wintry weather coming in here north of the border calgary temps just no higher than around thirteen celsius colder still for winnipeg the top temperature of around ten degrees but twenty seven in ottawa. for the middle part of september some of this 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 will they continue for a good part of central america and much of the caribbean. the philippines is asia's largest catholic nation priests are treated like gods but the church has a dark secret when used investigate sexual misconduct inside the most powerful institution in the philippines at this time on al-jazeera.

and. good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are all top stories north korean leader kim jong un has evolved to continue his country's nuclear program despite u.n. sanctions he said the final goal is to achieve a fourth with the united states can personally i've a saw the launch of the haasan twelve massage. the united states is urging the kurdish regional government to call off an independence referendum warning it could

spark more violence in the region the referendum is expected to be voted on later this month that comes despite all this mission from iraq iran and turkey the u.s. is calling on the kurds to enter into dialogue with the iraqi government and versions terror threat level has been raised from severe to critical after an explosive device detonated on the london underground train twenty nine people were injured in the incident which happened during the busy morning rush hour u.k. prime minister trees amaze wanting a further attack may be imminent. now u.s. president donald trump was quick to react to what happened in london but his tweets were described as unhelpful by british prime minister trees in may but the reports . hours after the attack on a london underground train u.s. president donald trump made a series of controversial comments on social media including the suggestion that the suspects were known to british police he tweeted another attack in london by

a loser terrorist these are sick and demented people who were in the sights of scotland yard must be proactive he went on to say the travel ban stopping people from some muslim majority countries travelling into the u.s. should be followed tougher and more specific his comments made before police released any information about the attackers all the motives led some to accuse the president of jumping to conclusions but he reiterated them later when speaking outside the white house. showing. we have to be very we've been very very tough. with. british police described his comments as on helpful and to reason may was unimpressed i never think it's helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation as i've just said the police and security services are working to discover the full circumstances of this cowardly attack and to file those responsible critics say

trumps willingness to speak out about this attack and others where muslims are suspected to be involved is it all it's with his response to incidents such as the white supremacist rally in charlottesville last month where a woman was killed in a car attack when there are acts of terrorism that's where the perpetrators his world view. is almost in a knee jerk. you know. react but when it is not the people that. you condemn then he will be much more deliberate about his statements. it's not clear if trump's tweets were based on intelligence or speculation either way they irritated a close eye on a day that was difficult enough already victoria gate and be al-jazeera. now human rights watch says saudi arabian authorities have arrested dozens of people including prominent clerics the arrests were made ahead of

a call by exiled opposition leaders to protest after friday prayers the u.s. space group condemned the arrests calling them a crackdown on dissent protests and political parties abandon saudi arabia and any question is among the royal family carries a prison sentence. french president emmanuel mccall has called for the saudi led blockade of qatar to be lifted he made the comments following a meeting with the native covers on his first foreign trip that included germany for the diplomatic crisis began in june john holl has more from paris. beginning in lynn on his way to the u.n. general assembly in new york an opportunity for the emir of qatar to lobby european capitals for support in reaching a political solution to the gulf crisis. and 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 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 back around 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 led him bargo on qatar discussions may well continue next week in new york journal al-jazeera paris to yemen now with three children have been killed and eleven people weren't adjourned shelling in the city of five local saidee where the militia was responsible for the shelling in a busy area of the city hospitals treating the wounded have called her blood donations the u.n. says yemen's two and a half year contract has killed more than ten thousand people. now thousands of people have gathered and a nation to protest the persecution of mailman's four hundred muslim minority and in asia is home to the world's largest muslim population and they're urging me to allow u.n. monitors to investigate allegations of ethnic cleansing. well thousands of one hundred muslim refugees continue to enter bangladesh every day they're fleeing myanmar from what the u.n. has called a textbook definition of ethnic cleansing but as mine has south i reports from

sharp and south east involved in the four weeks into the crisis authorities still prepared for the influx. waiting for the boats to come but for these rohingya refugees from myanmar there are still the not so small matter of haggling with the bangladeshi boatman not easy when you've got no local currency. 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 was to take money from it would be saying i'm a muslim i'm not excusing anyone. the boatman 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 but 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 rohingya 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. we are still 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 or the bangladesh. have all star now where the air force has received its first black hawk helicopters from the u.s. and the latest step towards modernizing its fleet but will take months before the aircraft can be used as jennifer glass reports 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 how you feel about dropping bombs 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 air power 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 us blackhawks captains of our much for your has been an air force mechanic for more

than thirty years. ago got excited about new aircraft the only way we will get peace in this country with 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. for 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 roula 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. 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. well nasa is cassini spacecraft has plunged with sasha and a twenty year journey and what the agency calls the grand finale disintegrated and saturn's atmosphere and a planned descent haven't given astronomers unprecedented and sought into the planet and its moons shihab rattansi reports we have.

done just like that it was gold i'm going to call this the end of mission. project manager that. tumbled into saturn's atmosphere no longer able to point its antenna towards earth to send back images in fact at this point cassini was already long gone its fatal 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. sr was launched in october of 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 biracial 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. epsilon certain time for nasa there is hope that government funding for space exploration will continue the trumpet ministration has just picked a climate science demoing politician to run the agency whose goal has long been to end mass as exploration of the earth and it's up to focus instead on the wider solar system and beyond. space flight center in maryland. and i will have a prominent of the headlines on al-jazeera and north korean leader kim jong un has vowed to continue his country's nuclear program despite u.n. sanctions he said the final goal is to achieve an equilibrium of force with the united states north korean media says kim personally oversaw the launch of the why

twelve missile. well in space at an army base u.s. president donald trump emphasized that military options are available the regime of north korea which is once again shown its utter contempt for its neighbors and for the entire world community after seeing your capabilities and commitment. i am more confident than ever that our options in addressing this thread are both effective and overwhelming the united states is urging the kurdish regional government to call often and dependents referendum warning it could spark more violence in the region iraq iran and turkey is the vote the u.s. is calling on the kurds to enter into dialogue with the iraqi government. persons terror threat level has been raised from severe to critical after an explosive device detonated on a london underground train on friday twenty nine people were injured in the

incident which happened during the busy morning rush hour u.k. prime minister tourism as want to further attack may be imminent. three children have been killed eleven people wounded during shelling in the yemeni city of thise local rights groups say the who the militia was responsible for the shelling in a busy area of the city hospitals treating the wounded have called for blood donations human rights watch says saudi arabian authorities have arrested dozens of people including prominent clerics they arrest were made ahead of a call by exiled opposition leaders to hold demonstrations after friday prayers the u.s. space court condemned the arrests calling them a crackdown on dissent any criticism of the royal family carries a prison sentence and saudi arabia. now thousands of people have gathered and to protest the persecution of a muslim minority and in asia is home to the world's largest muslim population and there to allow u.n. monitors to investigate allegations of ethnic cleansing that's the headlines on

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