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referendum just weeks away regional sentiment meets national demands in catalonia spain large demonstrations happening right now in both alone among the hundreds of mayors have been summoned by madrid for supporting an independence referendum also ahead is there room for dialogue in the standoff with north korea china thinks so it's putting pressure on the united states toward more instead of making threats and bangladesh accuses the me and my government of continually violating its airspace while on the ground the number of muslim or hindu who cross the border is almost four hundred thousand. i'm joining the latest sports news including the second longest unbeaten streak in major league baseball history is the cleveland indians defeated for the first time in twenty three games. over on the fight over catalonia independence referendum is heating up as hundreds

of mayors from this well tony. spanish region of hit the streets in support of the live pictures from barcelona now is more than seven hundred. the ones have been summoned to court for questioning over sorry questioning over their support for the referendum prosecutors have threatened to arrest people who don't comply live to penn hall now he's in the catalan capital. the mall what we're seeing now are pictures of seven hundred or more mans from around the catalonian region that is two thirds of the elected man's form this weekend just been having a meeting in city hall and now moving across as you can see into the offices of the castle the general government they've come in the day first of all to protest an order from the prosecutor's office that they should appear as part of an investigation of their support of the independence referendum that is due to be

held in two weeks the only way to meet and discuss how they're going to respond when they get the letter to appear in court because some of these meds have said they will not get they were not told before the prosecutor announcing any questions they have said that they would rather be arrested that is really what they're planning to do what their strategy is going to be but if you look around the square here in downtown boston alone up thousands of people have gathered in support of their elected officials how do you think the central government messages which they believe are heavy handed way to trying to launch the referendum vote on october the first and all round as these people wait they are chanting we will vote we will vote they then break out into singing the catalonian national anthem and the old wound the independent flag catalonia flying what is. very clear is that

right now a national government and the regional government on a coalition course a collision course that many political analysts say is spying worst political crisis since the end of the franco dictatorship in nine hundred seventy five but speaking to. take a stand they've always been tension between the regions obviously it becomes bigger as this independence vote gets closer i mean what are people saying about what could actually happen if the vote goes ahead the. concert in the resume to lou yeah that's cool story independence something growing for roughly about the last five years and until now the government is trying to roll with the blows is not too much attention but now that the kaplan parliament two weeks ago voted to hold this referendum on october the first the central government is really stepping in and what many people feel is

a very heavy handed response there is this threat to arrest up to seven hundred man that is seen as a heavy handed threat and also the national government is stepping in to pull all the financial and budgetary capacities of the regional government that's going to try and stop regional government from spending any money in the lead up to this referendum on education health or social services or even the straightforward payroll of public officials not as an attempt by central government to ensure that regional government doesn't spend a cent on hold and i sing the referendum the central government has also told the public security forces to step in and carry out searches and even raids to try and seize ballot boxes and ballot papers and we've already seen the seville a civil dog. walking in a printing works and even newspaper offices looking for the ballot papers ahead of

this vote. thank you. times i am very tense as well as we look at more live pictures from barcelona politicians and perhaps some of those seven hundred mayors included there i'm not sure but they are in barcelona for this mass protests they have been summoned. by the special prosecutor the chief prosecutor say in spain a lot of them saying they will not. listen they will not do that and they are instead still fighting for independence and for that in a couple of weeks we're keeping a close eye on this one of course throughout the day on al-jazeera we just want to vote they say. with you on the international community is split on how to deal with the growing tensions around north korea's nuclear program u.s. president donald trump says all options remain on the table he's under thomas and seoul to talk us through this one andrew first of all some details i believe from north korea's state media about the actual missile launch the most recent one.

yeah well the missile launch took place on friday morning korean time but it wasn't until saturday afternoon so it's about four or five hours ago that the north korean regime actually released a video of that launch and all the smiling photographs that we've come to be a custom to really of kim jong un personally overseeing that launch smiling cheering celebrating with his nuclear scientists because the north korean regime this was a big success the rocket did what they wanted it to do it flew further than any north korean rocket has flown so far and they want to make the point that their nuclear progress is on track they aim to have missiles soon and it seems they are going in that direction this statement that accompanies this video was pretty strong as well it's talked about north korea kim jong un's eye of being to establish equilibrium of real force with the u.s. and make the u.s. rulers dare not talk about military options for the d.p. r. k. for north korea so the north koreans very strong they're trying to say we are

strong we've got a good program in place and again these images show a unified north korea of course it's a dictatorial state but a unified north korea nonetheless and that contrasts of course with the international community's position on this issue and speaking of which they head to being international community head to new york for the general assembly next week what are you expecting to hear from various sides on north korea. well there isn't there is a bit of a split some members in north korea will dominate the u.n. general assembly later in the week but there is a growing space in the international community that really comes down to this do you let sanctions take their course which could take months or years now that's the position of china and russia they say the sanctions have only just been put in place there was strong as those two countries were prepared to go they weren't of course as strong as the united states or south korea would have liked to have the go on they would have liked a total oil embargo but nonetheless sanctions in place they've only just been put

in place the latest ones on monday do you let them run their course which could take a long time but may eventually produce results or do you take the u.s. position which is north korea's nuclear program is going much too fast to let sanctions take their course we need to nip this in the bud now we need to stop if we wait a year or two north korea may well have long range and you claim itself we can't afford to let that happen well the nikki haley of the united nations she the u.s. representative there at the united nations she seems to be saying sanctions should play their part donald trump speaking to air force men on friday seemed to say that they might have a role in stopping the north korean crisis in other words suggesting that military force is still an option and of course that is a very different position to china and russia many of those countries all those countries will be there at the general assembly all day the prime minister of japan trump and president moon of south korea will meet together on thursday they're

going to have lunch together just the three of them to discuss this and north korea's foreign minister will be there in new york too that will be an interesting speech to watch that on friday just briefly andrew how are things there in seoul at the moment of this has been a lot of focus on japan recently with the missile testing in their direction but what sentiment like where you are. well so is a very modern efficient city and it's just the same way it was last week or even a year ago you would not know there was any kind of crisis or threat is in a warm autumn day and so everyone's out in the cafes and it's only when you really push people to talk about the crisis that they will and frankly not many are too concerned they've lived remember with the threat of north korea for many decades conventional weapons admittedly rather nuclear ones and they're not too fast yet but of course that may change and while two people of the speaking to say that their parents if i'm talking to younger people are saying now what it is like a long holiday and leave seoul for a bit that's the exception not the rule but at the moment people are still pretty

calm the calculation over south korea's leaders changes if north korea were to get nuclear weapons at the moment they can be fairly confident that if the north were to invade or attack them in any way america the u.s. would come to their defense that calculation for by the united states changes if the u.s. could be facing the destruction of a city like los angeles with a nuclear weapon it can the u.s. be seen as a reliable ally in that world but at the same time to the south koreans really want the u.s. to make any kind of unilateral military action in north korea that could provoke the north to attack the south and no one wants that interesting business as usual in seoul thank you thomas the thousands of people have gathered in indonesia to protest the persecution of me and miles for hinge in muslim minority indonesia home to the world's largest muslim population people they are now urging me and maher to allow u.n. monitors to investigate the allegations of ethnic cleansing up to four hundred thousand muslim ranger i've crossed the border into bangladesh and many more

continue to flee the violence in rakhine state hospitals in bangladesh meanwhile struggling to cope with the influx of people needing help to be a child we went to visit one of them. i mean our government district hospital every day dozens of rowing are refugees are admitted here with various elements including bullet injury mine explosion injuries this hospital is only two hundred bad and it cannot cope with the influx of refugees patients coming here it is overflowed you can see patients out on the floor that made temporary arrangement with the government need to do is set up mobile emergency clinic within the refugee camp areas unless they do that the local hospital just are not capable of coping with the new refugees over four hundred thousand officers are crossed over so far with them last three weeks and more and more are coming there's two hundred thousand children among them who need medical care at least two hundred infants when i admitted within the local hospital system they are getting some sort of change but

not adequate and the international donor agency also need to gear up to set up mobile clinics otherwise the local hospital just won't be able to cope with the number of rolling up patients admitted in the hospitals. plenty more ahead for you on this news germany just over a week away now from general elections but can be live from been swear chancellor merkel is holding a rally today also florida's slow road to recovery in the wake of. that ice of the day is this gulf a puts himself in contention at the b.m.w. championship the details. coming. now just in the past few minutes british police have arrested a nineteen year old man in connection with the blast on the london underground train on friday a significant arrest is what it's being called meanwhile the u.k.

terror threat level is up at severe now raised from critical after the explosive device partially detonated on the district line during a busy morning peak hour twenty nine people. injured there an update from. now on this arrest the status of the whole investigation and. welcome all that's right in the last hour we learned that police arrested that eighteen year old man in the port area of dover down in kent where many ferries set off for france of course they're not telling us much about him what they've said so far is this they called it a significant arrest and said a strong investigative reasons we will not give any more details on the man we arrested at this stage we know that he's been transferred to a police station in south london but earlier on we were hearing from the metropolitan police that they were making what they call really good progress saying that hundreds of police officers were going through c.c.t.v.

footage probably from the underground train involved and from elsewhere so they haven't given away whether or how many possible associates the person who put the bomb on the train might have but they did say that they were chasing down suspects an indication that there could be several people involved the british media have started to speculate on the explosive material there suggesting it could be the same as what was used back in two thousand and five the so-called seven seven attacks in which fifty two people were killed on public transport in london no confirmation from the or forty's here they'll be of course in fact they've said that they're analyzing the actual object the device which failed to detonate fully but they haven't given us any updates on but so at the moment obviously they're trying to put out the message that they're doing all they can to catch whoever did it and whoever might have helped him or her put that device on

a train but they're being very cautious trying to make sure that they will actually find everybody possibly involved rather than tip them off the team when the threat level is raised it goes from severe to critical critical being the top does that actually mean anything for the british public can you explain how it works. welcome are basically it will mean something but for a very short period of time it. the definition of the critical level of the highest is that all forties believe an attack is expected imminently previously it was severe which the attack was highly likely it's the fourth time it's been a critical since two thousand and six after the manchester arena bomb back in may it was raised to critical for about three or four days to give your forty's extra powers to look for for any suspects now what's going to happen is that the police

are saying that members of the military will take over from armed police at places around the country which aren't open to the public but which are security sensitive allowing police officers it know to be armed police officers to be present on the public transport networks and to be profiling on the streets a visible presence but also giving them greater surveillance powers and this is all very labor intensive that's why it's not likely to last very long in the longer term there as there was a call from a government minister on saturday morning for internet companies to do more to make sure that websites which might inspire such attacks or which might tell people how to make bombs asking them to make sure such materials taken down far quicker from websites but also since friday's or incident the mayor of london city can has again suggested that it's impossible to make his city one hundred percent safe given the level of cuts to police starving and budgets so there's

a political debate going on there's an operational debate as to how to stop this kind of attacks at the same time and i know it's a saturday they're generally quieter on the train system but what's it like there a day after one of these attacks how people coping carrying on. londoners and perhaps britons in general. known for their phlegmatic hearty too that's what foreigners say about british people and i think there's a sense in london as well that london has lived through decades of security alerts of terrorist attacks going back to the one nine hundred seventy s. in the irish republican army putting bombs in places in london so it's a city which which prides itself on being able to come together and not to change or its way of life after such incidents but at the same time people will be feeling

cautious given the number of incidents there have been this year and the fact that it happened on the underground system where it's virtually impossible to stop people from entering it's very very hard to imagine how you check everybody going into t.v. stations or getting on to buses for that matter it's not like an airport so people will be thinking about their own safety but here at parsons green which is reopened to the public very calm in fact there are police officers around keeping a discreet presence but no sense of alarm no sense of panic come out ok thank you for that update and barbara outside parsons green station and london there's been tension at the top tiers of british and u.s. governments the president trying to comment about that blast on the tube the u.s. leader launched a twitter tirade which was described as unhelpful by the british police and the british prime minister this from victoria gazing. 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 their motives led some to accuse the president of jumping to conclusions but he reiterated them later when speaking outside the white house. we have to be very hard we've been very very. with. british police described his comments as on helpful and theresa 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 identify all those responsible critics say trump's 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. reactor state but when it is not the people that he likes to 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. now the united states wants the kurdish regional government in northern iraq to call off an independence referendum to be held later in the month the kurdish parliament approved the proposal on friday despite opposition from iraq as well as iran and turkey the u.s. is seeing the u.s. is now calling on the kurds to enter into dialogue with the iraqi government warning the referendum could spawn violence in the region imran khan with more now from the kurdish capital it bill. 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 mohammed ali. 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 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 to we were supposed to have a referendum no later than december two thousand and seven that never happened that

was according to the confusion so went back 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 be looking for now is to remove iraq from that sign. the iraqi military along with shia militia has started an operation to retake areas in the western part of anbar province for myself the armed group has held several towns on the western border with syria since two thousand and fourteen but it's been losing ground in iraq and syria in recent months my son now controls less than seven percent of iraq compared to what compared to forty percent nearly three years ago

and airstrikes have hit us back syrian opposition forces in the it has or it's been fighting eisel in that area with the help of u.s. warplanes so you have russian backed syrian government forces what's unclear is if russian or syrian government planes targeted these fighters backed by the united states a large anti-government protest in honduras capital has turned violent with riot police firing tear gas at more than five thousand demonstrators the rally confess coincided with independence day celebrations the protesters are opposed to president final undermanned as a bid for reelection in november poll two years ago the supreme court overturned a one term limits for presidents in honduras. a large protests blocked streets in the u.s. city of st louis where a former policeman was acquitted of killing a black driver demonstrators wanted jason stokley to be convicted of that two thousand and eleven death of anthony lamar smith but a missouri state judge said the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond

reasonable doubt smith was shot five times after a car chase and prosecutors allege the officer planted a gun in his car after he shot him. a mammoth clean up effort from. which hit the united states of united states. strike in u.s. state of florida it's going slow they have tens of thousands still without electricity the largest atlanta storm on record hit almost a week ago but many people have still been able to return to their homes with ronald reports. big pine key is a study in desolation here on one of a chain of low lying islands that bore the brunt of hurricane earl mouth trees are stripped bare debris is piled high houses are trashed boats lifelong onto the shore telephone poles are snapped into like rotten driftwood there's no electricity no running water and hardly any people except for

a few die hards like and mccarty my baby the house boat where she's lived for ten years is now i have sunk in the debris choked financial i was tied good. i came through it i and tell the tide went out yesterday and this boat right here i'm sitting on poked a hole in the bottom of my boat and her friend roxie gillespie have taken refuge in the house of a neighbor who fled before the storm hit i lived on a sailboat. but it's not in the harbor we can't find my son been looking on satellite pictures for we haven't found it yet with most residents still evacuated and not able to return the only traffic on the keys streets highways and bridges consists of convoys of police national guardsmen in humvees and other emergency workers. tillett crews from around florida and beyond are working long

hours trying to get electricity flowing again according to the federal emergency management agency sixty five percent of all houses on the keys were damaged by erma and another twenty five percent were destroyed there have been reports of thieves stealing property in the wake of the storm. proven benami runs a maritime supply store in island morada key as night well somebody came in and stole the jet ski dock that i did tired up especially because i saw it sort of moving toward a straight up put it back and i tied it with big cable and a big log and they still cut it off and took it away from here signs by the roadside bear a blunt warning. for the most part though people are taking the destruction and disruption in their stride without tears we're going to. i mean i

could cry everything i own in the world was on that boat except for a few little things right. gone but what are you going to do i'm here and a life time to clean up i'll make money clean up and i'll be able to start over again. well you know intentionally or i don't know never. home in the florida keys it seems human nature can handle whatever mother nature dishes out rob reynolds al-jazeera big playing florida says here in a moment with a look at the world weather but also still ahead on al-jazeera. i'm stuck fast reporting from a change in indonesia when to turn it to death how long 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. also sierra leone tries to help

children left orphaned often last month's deadly mudslides and boxing fans say it's the biggest fights this year. and explain why in sport but. from the waves of the cells. to the contours of the east. we've seen plenty of tropical systems recently and there's another two around asia at the moment actually the first ones already made landfall that's this one down here towards vietnam the other one hasn't made landfall yet that talum just here and it's creeping its way toward japan has made landfall as i said and it did that in viet nam and it caused a fair amount of damage when it made landfall because it was still a typhoon too so incredibly strong winds mixed in with this system and we also saw

a fair amount of flooding as well because we saw in some places over three hundred millimeters of rain now that system is going to continue to disintegrate as it works its way towards the west but the other one is the one we've really got to keep a very close eye on because this one has still to make landfall it's creeping quite slowly at the moment towards japan we're expecting it to get a bit of a wriggle on as we head through the next day or so so there it is working its way towards the southwestern parts it will be a pretty intense storm by the time it makes landfall we're looking at sustained winds of one hundred twenty kilometers per hour and of course gusts on top of that and by the time it makes landfall we're already start to be moving a little bit faster so we'll be seeing it move it around forty kilometers per hour of course the faster it moves through the courts here it can clear but while is with us it is likely to give us a fair amount of flooding. the winds are sponsored by the time.

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of the news are from al-jazeera these are our top stories a large rally is happening in spain catalonia region right now is the fight over a plan to independence referendum carries on spanish governments trying to stop the vote in more than seven hundred catalan mayors have been summoned to court for questioning over the best support for the whole. north korea's release pictures of its most recent misfile tests political thought was launched by the japanese island of hokkaido on friday of korea's as a part of a plan to achieve military equilibrium with the united states. and bangladesh as a. me and mar of repeatedly violating its airspace further straining relations

damaged by the ongoing crisis in march the military has been accused of attacking ranges civilians who are attempting to flee just in camps in bangladesh have been overwhelmed by the number of refugees. final week of campaigning now in germany's general election the vote happening on september twenty fourth and chancellor angela merkel and her rival martin schultz of both holding rallies on saturday we're going to be now with dominic cain has been at the merkel rally the main themes for the chancellor with this one week to go dominic. welcome all what you have we heard here was anglo-american speaking to people in her home state indeed in her home constituency and so when she said that people should go out and vote for the c.d.u. she was basically saying vote for me as your guy is your candidate because people remember the german voting system voters on sunday the twenty fourth will have to

vote one for a direct candidate in each constituency of germany but also one for a party so angle americal was directly appealing for votes both for her personally but also for her party and she then said well look the point is this election is not decided yet the whatever the opinion polls suggest and let's be clear that the opinion polls suggest that she's cruising towards a fourth term in office with a fifteen percent lead over her nearest rivals but she says no every vote still counts and that complacency could be a real problem in the election if people just assume that this is a walk over in some way so a direct appeal for votes and then in so far as the topic she talked about well she returned to the theme of the refugee crisis people remember the decisions she took in twenty fifteen to allow in very many people from syria and from other war zones into this country which caused controversy then with many people on the right of politics in this country saying it was too much and what has followed since then and clearly the refugee crisis has has attenuated sent to some extent weakened in

terms of its importance here but there are still some people here in germany who are angry at the decisions that i'm going to merkel and indeed there was some small but for sit for us opposition to the rally here in bents while she was talking trying to draw out to drown her out but most people here seem to be applauding what she had to say rather than listening to the opposition as it were can i go back to that point you made about complacency be it on her part or on the voters part because it really does feel like it's a one week out that she has got this election. almost sewn up. yeah well that's the point here isn't it that the opinion polls going back many months now have suggested that there is a much stronger support for angela merkel and for her party than for her main rival and her main rival of course is martin short is the social democrat candidate the point here if you break down the figures well he is slightly more popular than his

party but both of them he and his party are far less popular than angle americal and there were some surveys not so long ago perhaps a week a week and a half ago that suggested that something like one in six supporters of the social democrats would prefer angle america as chancellor chancellor rather than the leader of their own party which emphasizes the problems that the opponents of anglo-american all have in trying to to damage her image and trying to to to sort of burst her bubble of popularity as it were so there are many analysts now suggesting that the question is not whether angle americal will win another term of office it's rather who will she govern with and the race for third place is particularly important because angela merkel would prefer if she could to lead a coalition which involved the free democratic party the liberal party which currently is getting around about nine percent ten percent in the opinion polls but then there are other parties to the green party for example which normally would go

into coalition with the social democrats well as things stand that seems unlikely given that the social democrats are only on about twenty twenty one percent so there is discussion here about well who might merkel govern with after the election if one assumes that the opinion polls are correct and of course there is a big caveat there that perhaps the opinion polls are wrong and perhaps people might change their minds when they come to cast their votes on the twenty fourth of september when it came in vince thank you so much for that. going to college just in indonesia are trying to change traditional habits to save the lives of thousands of mothers and their babies the world health organization estimates one indonesian woman dies every hour while giving birth or from pregnancy com complications this is the second part of a three part series on maternal mortality that boston is in a province finding out about efforts to educate them it wants. city and nurse

mother died when she was giving birth three years ago so jani had a history of complicated birth and high blood pressure the birth attendant in the village insisted she could deliver the baby the baby girl died along with her mother hours after being rushed to hospital young life. i have told my relative don't ever let your wife give birth at a local clinic go straight to the hospital because disburse don't know what they are doing and don't have the right equipment. more than five million children are born in indonesia every year many of them at home around six thousand four hundred women and seventy thousand babies died during birth lack of professional medical care is one of the main reasons many indonesians used traditional birth attendants such as fatima who rely on rituals and have no formal medical training didn't.

we use hot stones and charcoal so the body recovers after giving birth and a belly will strength so the mother will get her figure back also her body will get stronger and she won't have to use contraception but obstetricians strongly warn against the practice which they say increases the risks of internal bleeding one of the main reasons for maternity death. your doctor. is training local midwives so they can replace traditional birth attendants and use modern medical knowledge instead. it is very difficult because this has been happening for generations but with the help of community leaders we are trying to change their beliefs and practices were useful and they are to train them traditional midwives still have a lot of influence in indonesia especially in remote areas like here in our take have been the living babies from general. since our families instead of banning

what they regard as their dangerous practices the government is using their local knowledge and training them doctors say not only traditional birth attendants lack proper training midwives are also still insufficiently trained their education needs to be improved nationwide so mothers and their babies have a much higher chance of surviving childbirth steadfast and al-jazeera b.d. . that was part two of a three part series as we say that third part will be in the u.s. city of chicago where maternal mortality is also on the rise now security forces in the sorry no the tune is in government jumped a story there the two news in government has lifted a ban on muslim women marrying non muslim men president said he recommended the change saying needs to modernize muslim men were allowed to marry in on the some women but not the other way around as law changes angered muslim clerics who consider marriage rules unquestionable in islamic sharia law on which the tunisian

legal system is based now security forces in the democratic republic of congo have killed at least eighteen burundian refugees in the eastern town of come on your luck police and soldiers opened fire is the refugees protested over the plan to send them home more than four hundred thousand refugees have fled burundi to the d.n.c. since violence erupted there back in april of twenty fifteen human rights watch says sorry authorities have arrested dozens of people including prominent clerics his arrests made ahead of a call by exiled opposition leaders to hold demonstrations after friday prayers the u.s. based group condemned the arrests calling them a crackdown on dissent any criticism of the royal family in saudi arabia carries a prison sentence. the emir of qatar is in new york ahead of the united nations general assembly this is his first foreign trip since the gulf crisis began back in june i mean been hammered out there and is expected to have talks with the u.s. president donald trump on the sidelines of the assembly french president emmanuel

micron called for the start of their blockade of qatar to be lifted after he met the emir in paris going to hell with the support from the french capital 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 catarrh to sit down at a table and discourse and solve the issue we tank germany for its efforts and also i tank the chancellor of germany for their role in trying to solve the problems around the negotiating table we take you for your support of the kuwait initiative which qatar has supported since the beginning and will continue supporting until we get the solution that satisfies all parents 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 led him bargo on qatar discussions may well continue next week in new york journal al-jazeera paris. three children have been killed and eleven people were injured during shelling in the yemeni city of pi's say they heard the militia was responsible for that in a busy area of the city the hospitals treating the wounded have now called for blood donations in sierra leone the scale of the humanitarian disaster following

last month's flooding and landslides is overwhelming the orphanages in the capital freetown more than a thousand people were killed leaving so many children without parents this report from nicholas hot. in the chaos of august is landslide came a few miracles. nineteen months old that is one of them rescuers found him in the neck deep in mud much to his mother's relief. when i saw him alive my heart melted but when i heard his father had died his body stuck in the mud my heart went cold. the recovery effort has stopped an eerie silence hangs over this vast terrain hundreds of bodies still lie buried deep in the mud among the buildings destroyed were an orphanage with sixty children inside the church with seventy students studying and hundreds of family homes this

is a country still in mourning trying to come to terms with the sheer scale of the destruction . brahim. are some of the hundreds of children that have lost their parents in the mudslide they're now under the care of the don bosco orphanage in downtown freetown. in mind for them. that. they feel. listened to then many people are putting something. in the last. night. children who suffered a brutal civil war and the recent bold outbreak have found a place they call home here they receive counseling and attend school. zone tears say teenagers suffer the most too old to be called a child but too young to be considered an adult sixteen year old. fears for her

future most young girls in sierra leone her age are married off i don't. know how. the others will stay here for another three months the government has promised to reach house all of them by then but you homes will not take away their trauma after so much loss and destruction these are orphans who are uncertain with what lies ahead nicholas hawke al-jazeera freetown. in zimbabwe the opposition leader morgan tsvangirai has been admitted to hospital he was airlifted from the capital harare to a hospital in johannesburg south africa party members said he was suffering severe after a meeting. nasser cassini spacecraft has plunged toward saturn after a twenty year journey and what the agency is calling the grand finale she pretends

he looks at that point. and just like that it was gone i mean the 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 plunge 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 it's a 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. i'd like to do because we can't study out 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 a racial 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 is overseeing the spectrometer since nine hundred ninety nine it was

surprisingly more emotional than i expected i was actually you know just personally touched to watch the end of this you know this family that's been together for so long. time for nasa as hope the 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 mass as exploration of the earth and its focus instead on the wider solar system beyond. space flight center in maryland will grab another quick break on the news for it is a brazilian. on the world. that. the centenarians of italy one hundred years old and counting when you told me that people like these and you these you think that you want to be think

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baghdad is here can we talk about the rugby we can we will get to that in just a minute but first the second longest unbeaten streak in major league baseball history has come to an end the cleveland indians were finally base and after twenty two wins by the kansas city royals cleveland's fans had their home stadium to get a taste of this record run the only time unbeaten in the m.l.t. is twenty six games held by the nine hundred sixty new giants and the indians looked set to move one step closer as they race to an early three one late but the royals made their comeback from that point onwards and went on for four three victory cleveland still getting a standing ovation from their families. have a long way to go to match that record but the chicago cubs are not their fourth

straight win the world series champions school forty seven runs in their games the latest victory and eight two defeat of the louis cardinals i lead national league central and i players look pretty happy about it too. new zealand's rugby team have recorded their biggest ever victory over south africa this was amazing of the two remaining unbeaten teams in the four nation rugby championship but the all blacks run out fifty seven no winners in the other two teams australia and argentina are in action right now in canberra argentina lead australia thirteen to ten coming up to half time now with less than five months to go until the winter olympics in pyongyang china still no decision about the fate of russia's athletes investigations are still underway into whether the country is running a state sponsored doping plan and the cases of the athletes which were implicated in sochi games in twenty fourteen are also being looked at now the i.o.c. president thomas bach says russia's unwillingness to admit that they have

a problem is just a small part of the issue and admission is not. that big. a deal breaker or a game changer and admission then only then maybe a meeting gating factor and that mission alone can not make. what might happen in the past one russian who won't be at the games is ice hockey star alex ovechkin but it's got nothing to do with doping the national hockey league announced earlier this year that it wouldn't be sending players to the olympics for the first time since one thousand nine hundred four the decision has angered and disappointed the washington capitals forward. it's so new a. moment for us but for me personally but. the respect. also. now france's davis cup team is looking to keep the momentum going

in lille on saturday they go into the doubles against serbia with the semifinal tie at one one there were for tonga was their savior on friday he dispatched twenty two year old debutant lasso gerry after his teammate look who is suffered a shock defeat the singles match in the absence of djokovic sure it's cake and tips are a bit serbia are considered the underdogs but have shown they can't be underestimated as they look to repeat their twenty ten davis cup title. in australia are also tied one one after the opening day in brussels and kerry also battled through five sets to beat steve d'arcy curious made sixty five unforced errors but hit twenty eight this to this semifinal finally poised going into the doubles now to a couple of australians doing well on golf's p.g.a. circuit smart leishman will take a three shot lead into the third round of the p.g.a. championship in illinois on saturday but the shot of the day came from another

australian jason day who remained in contention with an ace on the seventeenth hole the hole in one was his second on the torn and the b.m.w. car which he donated to a foundation providing college scholarships for kids. fans in pakistan are hoping the twenty twenty series against a world eleven is just the beginning when it comes to the return of international cricket in the country pakistan clinched their three game series in the hole on friday after a thirty three run victory no test cricket has been played in the country since an attack on the sri lankan team bus in two and in two thousand and nine. we really felt as if we were at home. we've been extremely well looked after and we go home on saturday with memories that i hope the boys will. cherish for the rest of their lives. this is another reminder of the fact that cricket transcends boundaries around forty million mexicans are expected to watch one of their biggest

sporting stars boxer canelo alvarez when he takes on going to get lost in what many fans are calling the fight of the year on saturday the three time world champion will come against again school of ken who is the unifying w b a w b c i b f n i.b.o. middleweight champion the to fight his weight in front of a largely mexican crowd in las vegas on friday the final of european basketball's biggest tournament will be contested by two teams from former yugoslavia for the first time serbia counted for russia in the semifinal a euro basketball tournament is stumble on friday i had a surge of points late in the first half and went on for an eighty seven to seventy nine victory their opponents in sunday's final will be slovenia who shocked spain in the other semi brazilian surface have swept the latest stop on the global to awfully bad toledo upset while number one jodi smith in the final of the men's event at san clemente in california for his second win of the season so then ensure the all brazilian podium by defeating australia's keeley andrey to claim her first

tall victory in seven years and there's always support for now i have more feel a bit later come all lovely thank you for that joe yes john are back for two hundred hours g.m.t. with another new here what and where that for you right after the break it's richelle carey with twenty more news here on al-jazeera the latest course on those demonstrations going on in catalonia in spain. it.

was. the streets is quiet the signal is given. out so it's safe to walk to school last year there are more than thirty years in this community in one month the police say this area is a red zone one of several in some townships. children sometimes a quarter in the crossfire when rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents are what they call a walk us to try to take. them. go. there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as

security guards. a deadly attack destroyed her family and left her badly wounded. first for a long time from gaza to california and little girls journey of love through adversity. and progress should become our family. that would touch the hearts of the people around her forever i was excited to come but when i saw the situation. on al-jazeera world at this time. large demonstrations happen in barcelona word and the referendum is just weeks away .