and helps west stunning scenery play host to europe's latest arrivals. sampras in origin. share a common room. and together dream of a german future. welcome to germany cafe vald left a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello again from doha everyone i'm come out santa maria this is the news hour from al-jazeera coming up police in london say they've made a significant arrest in friday's bombing of an underground commuter train. also at

least eighteen refugees from burundi a killed by troops in the democratic republic of congo the battle for deer as all intensifies u.s. backed syrian democratic forces and syrian government troops along with russian all trying to reclaim territory from myself and bangladesh accuses me in my hour of continually violating its airspace while on the ground the number of muslim or hindu cross the border is now almost four hundred thousand. so british police have arrested an eighteen year old man in connection with a blast on a london underground train yesterday friday police are calling it a significant arrest the u.k. terror threat level was raised from severe to critical after an explosive device partially detonated on the district line during the busy morning rush hour twenty nine people injured in that on here is not covering events in london for us tell us

about the arrested him. the arrest of this eighteen year old man happened in the port area. the port area of dover that's a town on the kent coast where many ferry sets off every day for continental europe mainly to france security sources also reminding people. in previous incidents i saw so-called islamic state have used that port specifically to get people in and out of britain the police are saying that it was a significant arrest they're not saying anything more about the identity of the eighteen year old who was taken to a local police station but sometime on saturday will be transferred to a police station in south london now where we know that hundreds of officers have been involved over the last twenty four hours in looking at c.c.t.v.

images videos and stills from the underground train involved in from other sources for any clues that might help to identify who placed the device in the underground if there was anyone else helping him as well and at the moment the suspicion is that there was more than one individual involved because the police even before the arrest was announced were saying that they were hunting for suspects and making really good progress at the same time they're analyzing the device itself there are unconfirmed reports in the british media that the chemical involved was of the same type that was used in the manchester arena bombing back in may which killed so many people and they're suggesting that really it could have been so much worse this time around thirty people twenty nine or thirty people suffering injuries mostly burns but most of them now released from the hospital so the message from the

police is that they are carrying on their investigations as quickly as they can. urging people to be vigilant not to panic though not to give in to fear but stressing that they have to be cautious about what information they can release right now dame can i ask you if your earpiece is all right there just about the threat level as i said it's been raised from severe to critical what does that actually mean. well come out there are five different levels than previously. international or threat level to the u.k. was put the fourth highest level severe meaning an attack is highly likely now it's critical meaning that the or forty's believe an attack is imminent is expected to be imminent really stressing the government is stressing that it's a decision that's made independently by experts including the intelligence community. a group of experts who do confer with ministers who look at things like

how quickly. arrests are made in incident also the movements of people suspected of being involved and a whole range of factors that change almost hour by hour in previous instances like after the manchester bombing when the threat level was raised to critical it only lasted for a few days and that's because it's so labor intensive it gives police greater surveillance powers it also puts hundreds of extra arms police officers on the street so what's happening is army personnel military personnel are taking over a closed sites where the police are guarding specific potential targets releasing those police officers to patrol the streets of places like london and to be visible in transport hubs and the like so everyone's expecting to see that over the next few days but in the longer term everyone's asking the question could the police

have done more and how do you stop this kind of attack being prepared when it seems to be so up to level i still say they were behind it but really it was a very crude device not a bomb or the latest on that incident in london yesterday on the trains and arrest made today of a nineteen year old man. to a story that's come up today security forces in the. democratic republic of congo killed at least eighteen burundian refugees in the eastern town of come on your the police and soldiers opened fire as the refugees protested over a resettlement plan witnesses say some of them through rocks at security forces sold out more than four hundred thousand people have fled to the d r c since violence began in burundi back in april of twenty fifteen we're going to talk to malcolm where he's actually in the ugandan capital kampala but he has covered this story extensively for a sort of perfect man to talk to maybe just put it in the wider picture first of all malcolm as to what causes the refugees from burundi to head to the d c anyway

was he said maybe twenty fifteen you know when the president yeah he's out now it's his intention to run for. office the constitution says the president's. opponents said this was illegal and it wasn't allowed to this is what triggered the conflict opposition to the streets began with protests it became more violent and subsequent months and up till now. you swing the ruling party is often described as a militia or koori accused of violence throughout the country targeting anyone they see as a threat the government deny any of these actions accusations of actually killings and so on but it's result in about four hundred thousand ruini in the country to neighboring countries most of them in tanzania and about forty thousand of them are in neighboring democratic republic of congo this. puts

a massive strain on those other countries doesn't it and we see it happening in plenty of places around the world but that's what basically flood of refugees coming across all these borders. actually and of all the countries around the democratic for the most strained itself the country it's been plagued by conflicts and foreign incursions for more than twenty years so it's not a stable place in the first place or infrastructure they have a u.n. peacekeeping mission there just to try and stabilize the situation calling it so that of course for the next year forty thousand people living there counts it's not an easy situation it's all in all of these countries around the world and the. government agencies and the opposition been accused of operating recruiting people talk of killing people in the camps when it cools the rule of law is so weak in the surrounding area anyway makes the situation in those camps not only say thank you

for that update malcolm webb's income part updating us on what's happening on the. border. now egypt's top appeals court has upheld a life sentence for the former president mohamed morsi the ruling is final it cannot be appealed morsi was convicted of espionage in june and it's expected to serve at least twenty five years in prison remember he became egypt's first democratically elected president when he won the vote in two thousand and twelve but was deposed in a military coup a year later and seven people have been sentenced to death in egypt over links to the libyan branch of i thought they were convicted on charges of taking part in the beheadings of twenty one egyptian coptic christians back in twenty fifteen seven a part of a group of twenty on trial in the court is set to issue a final verdict on the wider case in late november. now air strikes have hit syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. their positions in eastern syria as they try to take the city of dealers or back

from eisel from the west of the city the russian backed syrian regime forces are also closing in and we have got to some of been divided with us here in the newsroom having a look at this and you. been covering this war from a couple of years now rio sama. yes kemal isis been steadily losing territory if you remember on our website interactive page right here this portion that you see in the yellow and red used to be all black let me show you the eastern side of syria where we've been getting a lot of news lines from this is the their results are area on the right which is oil rich and has been the gateway between iraq and syria for ice and fighters and if you zoom in slightly here the yellow part is the best year for the syrian defense forces which are u.s. back in the red part is the russian and the iranian backed syrian government forces in these two areas these are the strikes which have been carried out in the azores which killed as the a fight is now know that the russians or the syrian government

has confirmed if they carried out the attack and this blue line that you see is the euphrates river which is the dividing line between the two sides as they squeeze out eisel from the neighborhoods india is sore now is unified to say that they will not let the government cross the river euphrates river that is and the syrian regime is insisting that it will target all those who stand in its way including u.s. backed fighters. it's also worth noting here come on that according to the syrian observatory for human rights nearly eight hundred people have been killed in the last four months the deaths have been attributed to iceland tax u.s. led coalition strikes and russian attacks. from everything you describe it sounds like this is a very crowded battlefield is it really putting the screws on iceland taking away territory compared to where they were a year ago say absolutely you seeing these new forces emerge these forces which

have been void by a coalition of international actors you see the iraqis forces in the iraqi military squeezing in on ice and from the iraqi front then you see the s.d.f. forces which are also backed by the u.s. led coalition and also you've seen the syrian regime which was on the back foot backed by russia all taking territory from isis which makes it not just congested but also very very complicated because as i say leaves it will be a very tough battle to figure out who controls what in these areas that these new forces and some of been looking at things in syria for us from the newsroom thank you osama large demonstrations in barcelona are underway were an independence referendum is just weeks away. they say some of those pictures have come in from earlier the california flag flying probably in barcelona as people still ask for their votes also ahead florida's slow road to recovery this is in the wake of course of hurrican i will take you there. and in sports

a record victory for new zealand over their oldest rugby rivals joe with all the details a little later on. now the international community is split to deal with the growing tensions around north korea's nuclear program. to achieve what it calls an equilibrium of force with washington while president donald trump says all options remain on the table under thomas with this report now from salt. their image is designed to convey delight confidence and power the north korean regime says kim jong un personally guided friday's launching drill it was shown on north korean t.v. on saturday the presenter said the test to be a success on the force on twelve rocket was now operationally ready the regime says kim's final goal is a coup librium a real force with the u.s.

on how to stop him there's a split u.s. president donald trump talking to troops on the seventieth anniversary of the u.s. air force suggests they could have a role. after shooting here capability and commitment here today i want us to them to know that our. units listing just to read our posts thank you is overwhelming president donald trump already said sanctions passed by the united nations security council on monday were nothing compared to what will have to happen but others including his ambassador to the united nations stressed sanctions time 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 united nations security council met again on friday and condemned the latest launch but there was no suggestion in their statement of further sanctions and from china a renewed call for talks with the year of age aleutian also calls for reopening

dialogue every job in the issue of consultations the regulations should be implemented comprehensive lee but south korea no longer wants dialogue in a big change in its position its president now says talks are impossible in the current climate he did use quite exceptional language he said that there is no chance for dialogue and he said that south korea will be able to destroy north korea there's a sense that moon has been forced into this corner by north korea that he's made all these overtures to dialogue he said that. is willing to engage in military and humanitarian talks and north korea's. south korea is extremely wary of military action on kim jong un's regime it could provoke an attack on this city seoul in revenge but north korean mid and long range nuclear weapons threatening american cities might make the u.s. think twice in coming to south korea's defense if the young decided to make a first move you wouldn't know there was any threat in so it's

a war some day and the atmosphere is completely calm you say that particularly worried for behind the scenes the house being a subtle but important shift towards a more assertive position one closer the president trumps and china's president xi and at times how does it so well north korea maintains its nuclear program is strictly for defense and what people in the capital pyongyang have to say about all this international reaction. for don't is in their lives sanctions will never surprise our army and our people and they will never hold us back we will continue firing victoriously and frequently to show that this is the end of american imperialism and america is doing all it can to deny our sovereignty in our right to live but we will keep doing what we want and will do it even faster but the latest provocations from north korea led to calls for stronger ties between the u.s. and japan thousands of japanese visited the u.s. your call to air base on saturday drive is there for us. opening the doors for

a so-called friendship festival for many this event is one of the clearest signs of the alliance between japan and the u.s. especially given the heightened tensions with north korea when something exists for a long time we tend to forget about it and take it for granted it's not until we need it that we understand how important it is and i think that might be occurring right now people are remembering the importance of the purpose and strength of the u.s. japan alliance for most visitors it's a reminder of u.s. protection a day after another missile was fired over japanese territory with people living beneath its flight path powerless to do anything about it so this name out of the meeting i think it was very selfish act like not korea would soon and you know what you notice in japan we can't do much about the metals because soloing it would add in japan and i don't feel safe. japan's prime minister shinzo of

a hazard to the full implementation of tougher u.n. sanctions while working more closely with the u.s. but not everyone in japan is happy with closer ties to washington critics of shinzo abbay say that inconsistency is in the u.s. policy towards north korea have increased the risk of confrontation and japan's close alliance with the us might mean it being dragged into a conflict whether it likes it or not. given the potential consequences for japan many believe it's never been more important to be working closely with the u.s. as it weighs up potential military options rob mcbride al jazeera tokyo. bangladesh's prime minister is expected to demand more international help to deal with the ranger crisis in a speech at the un general assembly that starting on tuesday four hundred thousand refugees have crossed into her country in the last three weeks fleeing

a military crackdown in me in law and he living alongside the road just without food or shelter is also expected to call for more international pressure on me and most governments meanwhile hospitals in bangladesh are struggling to cope with this massive influx of people needing help. went to visit one hospital in cox's bazaar i mean cards are government district hospital every day dozens of growing are refugees are admitted here with various inmates 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 a mobile emergency clinic within the refugee camp areas unless they do that the local hospital just are not capable of coping with the new refugee is over four hundred thousand crossed over so far within the 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 right admitted within the local hospital system they are getting some sort of body but not at a great 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 a number of rolling up patients admitted in these hospitals well turkey is a prominent supplier of aid to the ranger both in me and mart and bangladesh we've got a little you with us now president of turkey's disaster and emergency management or far as a fund i joined us via skype from ankara and we thank you for your time so tell us when you talk about sending aid sending help what have you been able to send. hello i mean as turkey and as to actual turkeys like corporation agency technical corporation a just zester agency offered them to accept a person be offered to both sites that we can do our best two weeks or ten days ago

it was in also in cox mozart and we offer to the bangladesh what sort of is that we can from the c.d.'s we have camped foundation campus supposition and camp management experience we offer them that in. when you show us at blent we can also establish needs camps and we can manage the camps and we are still waiting for the assessment from bangor sorties and on the myanmar side also turkish. corporation agency technical corporation agency was also able to send some food relief but when we look at the numbers as also our friends from mission the numbers that we are talking about hundreds of thousands of people i mean just in street weeks about four hundred thousand people. in the bunker the site and even the camps and. is is not enough currently you offered them and we are still waiting for the english word sorties to sponsors what was it like there we're looking at pictures

now from constance bazaar we've seen it on video i wondering what it was like in person for you to see this many people in this level of suffering. i mean you spoke with people who just came from bangladesh all of whom was israeli every individual was. some of them lost some of them lost a wife or husband and also. ten days from to expose us and from viewers from heals from sort of it wasn't an easy passage from one country to another country and in the last. station the conditions of the camps. who else is helping out as well which of the countries in which other aid groups there. sort of the. u.n. organizations and i. mean. i'm

going to leave it there obviously the call to prayer is behind you it's a little difficult to hear about thank you for telling us what you've seen there in bangladesh with the. huge rallies been held in spain's catalonia region as the fight over a planned independence referendum heats up thousands of people have been protesting in barcelona in the support of the more than seven hundred catalan males who are facing criminal investigation for supporting the vote they have been summoned to court for questioning and after and have been threatened with arrest if they do you know here spanish government declared the october first vote and legal and says it will work to stop this. here is more from karl penhall reporting from barcelona. thousands of people have climbed into government square in downtown. chanting and chanting we will vote some of them carrying also the castle and independence flag

this is a clear reflection of their determination to go ahead and vote in a referendum on october the. first to decide whether the catalonia region will break away from the rest of the reform thank you very much. for your argument. thank. you very much every month for the last. three months a very long to write of ok thank you for your vote i've already given the best thank you very much thank you for the first of all very much thanks for day you never said you were right thank you very much thank you for the record i am very much for your help necessary got a little respect thank you for your looks are going to storm through a forty four million dollars for an already fair election. let's look at the

weather now with staff and looks at your back on hurricane watch basically doesn't matter where you look at the moment it seems to be some storms yes let's take a look at these ones over mexico first of all this is max it disintegrated over the giro state it gave us a fair amount of flooding there but while it disintegrated another storm has been wrapping itself up just to the west of it you can see why has developed and we're now watching that storm as it gradually runs its way northward it is strengthening now it is a hurricane in strength and it's running its way very close to baja california and which track seems to be taking it each run of the model seems to be taking that track a little bit further to the west or a little bit further to the east so there's a great deal of uncertainty into exactly when the storm will make landfall but it certainly looks like it's going to get very close to baja california and therefore will give us some flooding rains probably and maybe some wind damage as well already the worst of those rains will be over parts of california on sunday and then the storm system just runs its way northward continuing to give us problems

with very heavy rain now another storm we've been watching as jose you've probably heard me mention over the past week or so it's still with us. in the atlantic this were mass here but it's expected now to just run a little bit further towards the north and sort of swallowing up the other weather system just to the north of it now the actual storm itself is expected to stay away from land but it's getting close enough to affect the weather just along the east coast we could see a few thanks to that thank you for that stephanie still ahead here on al-jazeera where to hear a step forward for women's rights but not without controversy either. i'm stopped reporting from in indonesia. the highest in the region that's why the government is now training traditional midwife widely respected here but often you think first practices. and the second longest on base and streak in major league baseball history is over with the details in sports at about ten to the out.

along europe's baltic borders tensions are increasing as nato strengthens us defenses and russia gears up for war games over its own of course what we're worried about unpredictability of russia we have to be prepared and we have to react if needed but will the conflict rehearsals ever translate into the real thing as they say if you don't want a war prepare for war people in power reports this story is going on a bear hunt at this time. this is a really fabulous news from one of the best i've ever worked in there is a unique sense of bonding where everybody teams in. something i feel every time i get on the chair every time i interview someone. often working round the clock to make sure that we bring events as i currently as possible to the viewer that's

what people expect of us and that's what i think we really do well. you're on the news here at al-jazeera and these are our top stories british police have arrested an eighteen year old man in connection with friday's attack on a london underground train a device partially detonated near parson's green station and twenty nine people were injured at least eighteen burundian refugees have been killed by security forces in the democratic republic of congo police and soldiers opened fire at refugees protesting against a resettlement plan witnesses say some of them threw rocks at security forces and

bangladesh's prime minister is to demand more international help to deal with the ranger crisis in a speech to the un general assembly four hundred thousand refugees have crossed into bangladesh in the last three weeks fleeing a military crackdown in me and my. gynecologist 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 either while giving birth or from pregnancy complications this is part two of a three part series looking at maternal health step fasten your travel to province to find out about efforts to educate midwives there. 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 with.

my relative don't ever let your wife give birth at a local clinic go straight to the hospital because. 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 use 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. dr arika abu bakar is training local midwives so they can replace traditional birth attendants and use modern medical knowledge instead so it's 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 are 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 having the living babies from general. families instead of banning what they regard as their dangerous practices the government is using the local knowledge and training . 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 step pass and al-jazeera b.d. . third part of that series is coming up on al-jazeera we will travel to the u.s. city of chicago where maternal mortality is on the rise it'll be sunday on al-jazeera now orphanages in sierra leone's capital freetown are struggling to cope after a recent landslide that killed at least a thousand people and the children are now in desperate need of a home with no cause heart problems. 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 and. 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 home this is a country still in mourning trying to come to terms with the sheer scale of the destruction. and. are some of the hundreds of children that have lost their parents in the mudslide they are now under the care of the don bosco orphanage in downtown freetown. yes in mind for them it was. well known that they feel. listened to then many people put something. similar in the last. nine. children who suffered a brutal civil war and the recent poll the outbreak has found

a place they call home here they receive counseling and attend school. volunteers 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 go to school i want. myself on. the others will stay here for another three months the government has promised to re 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 nicolas hawke al-jazeera freetown it's an indian government has lifted a decades old ban on muslim women marrying non muslim men but the decision is

facing opposition from religious leaders. has our report. this is to new zealand president baz subsea attending a gathering to commemorate national women's day. he says he said he was committed to lifting a decades long ban on women marrying down muslims on thursday he fulfilled that promise and overturned in one nine hundred seventy three law paving the way for women to choose whom ever they want to marry regardless of their partner's religion but decision is unprecedented in the muslim world we look at gender equality has been in trying in the constitution but when we call for you quality that doesn't mean we are against religion our constitution stipulates we are a secular state but our people are predominantly muslim. although to the most progressive country in the region conservatives have gained ground since

the two thousand and eleven revolution clerics have stepped into the fray criticizing the president for what they consider to be a violation of islamic law biased groups hailed the decision as a landmark victory for women but insists women have a long way to go to get full rights. for months there have been protests to ensure equal inheritance rights for women and the local laws where men can only get half the inheritance of what men receive a decision of reforming the inheritance laws has been met with strong opposition from religious leaders the president insists he is determined to strengthen women's rights and freedoms but many where we are today could see more confrontations between those who support a secular state and those that are not

a lot easier. in tunis now with human rights watch there the director thank you so much for joining us explain something to me first is this something that women really wanted internews here or is it more about them the equality and being given the choice the freedom to choose. i think the issue around the prohibition of marrying non muslim men was really considered as something discriminatory and something of a symbolic violence against women because this same prohibition does not exist for men who can marry whomever they want so obviously it's a very significant move for women's rights it's something that a lot of human rights groups and women's groups fought for for a long time in order to rescind this. this bolton or this decree from the

ministry of justice dating back to the one nine hundred seventy three and i think it's symbolically very strong in terms of trying equality in tunisia. but also. really respecting several of the principles that the constitution and international standards came with such as the principle of the right to freedom of conscience which was also trampled by this kind of the cream is completely interfering with faith and of the freedom and the right to privacy which is also very important. sort of interrupt you can i ask you about the opposition to this because as a reporter pointed out there are a lot of religious clerics there who are opposed to it how much power and influence do they have because this is obviously a government decision which has been taken what could the religious clerics do in opposition. well the religious clerics obviously as you said have they are

saying in this they would of course you know like oppose this kind of very progressive move from the government they can for example in the like resist it in if they have any you know food hold in courts for example by i think as in any democratic country there will be forces who are for such very revolutionary reform in a state like to nisha and others who are opposed to it and it's very important that the low sets the ground and sets the future for women's rights but then of course it's the mentality it's the whole you know like context that needs to change and this might take more time but the first step is to change the legal framework and this is starting to happen but there is still a long way forward i'm going to it's a pleasure talking to you about this topic glad we could discuss it today thank you

. it is the final week of campaigning in germany's general election ahead of the vote on september twenty fourth chancellor angela merkel and her rival martin schultz have been both holding rallies on saturday dominic cain was at the merkel rally in the northern town of queens. in rallies across germany angle america's message has been one of continuity urging voters to consider her record as chancellor of this country over the past four years indeed over the past twelve years and saying that germany cannot risk a change of government a change of policy a change of agenda from her agenda to those of her rivals here in beenz her message was very clear she spoke about the refugee crisis she spoke about the debt crisis in europe and the threats that germany and europe faces from what she considers the dangers of terrorism and she also spoke about the economy here in germany and why the vote for the c.d.u. was the only vote that could secure germany's economic future about their phones

yes i'm all of those when it's going well for us we are more likely to avoid leaving future debts to our grandchildren and children so de are better able to control their own futures for that reason it's important not to create new debt in the next four years. beenz is part of angular merkel's home state indeed this is her individual constituency so when she was asking for people's votes here it was a direct personal appeal vote for me she said the point she also made was that although the opinion polls suggest that her party is cruising towards victory voters should not take that for granted complacency was the enemy she said every vote counts and that therefore every vote given to the c.d.u. would strengthen her hand in a future government if the opinion polls are correct and as i say she is heading towards what might be considered to be a handsome victory and some analysts now say the question is not whether she will get elected as chancellor it's whether she will get to choose the party that she

would prefer to govern in a coalition after september the twenty fourth. human rights watch says the authorities have arrested dozens of people including prominent clerics the arrests were made ahead of a call by exiled opposition leaders to hold demonstrations after friday prayers a 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 mayor of culture is in new york ahead of the united nations general assembly his first foreign trip since the gulf crisis began back in june i mean been hammered out than he is expected to hold talks with the u.s. president donald trump on the sidelines of the assembly while the french president emmanuel micron has called for the saudi led blockade of qatar to be lifted after meeting the emir in paris john holl has our report. 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 what had. we talked about the readiness of catarrh to sit down at the 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 tank you for your support of the kuwait initiative which katter has supported since the beginning and will continue supporting until we get the solution that satisfies our 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 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 lead in bargo on qatar discussions may well continue next week in new york journal al-jazeera paris. zimbabwe's opposition leader morgan tsvangirai has been admitted to hospital he was airlifted from the capital harare to a hospital in johannesburg in south africa party members say he suffered a severe fall missing after a meeting. four people killed and ten others injured after a storm hit central vietnam typhoon story made landfall in hatton province before hitting six coastal districts with its one hundred thirty five kilometer an hour winds destroyed the roof of a sixty thousand homes and damaged electricity poles which of course caused

widespread blackouts meanwhile the mammoth cleanup effort after hurricane hit florida is proceeding slowly but tens of thousands of people still without electricity vast the largest atlantic storm on record hit almost a week ago but many people still unable to get home as robert also 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 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 sit non 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 and i lived on a sailboat. but it's not in the harbor we can't find my son's friend 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 us 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 street that put it back in 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. but you know no intentional even oh no never was home this is home in the florida keys it seems human nature can handle whatever mother nature dishes out rob reynolds al-jazeera big pine key florida. still ahead for you on the news are sports which sports in fact good cause brain injuries and children adopted one cup of long term effects of. an n.f.l. playoffs. or a break. away blanket coverage follows experts and politicians off of platitudes and sound bites strong and stable leadership trying to play the media

and shape the message in an age of simplistic narratives the listening post critiques the mainstream response today and the two hundredth day of this administration exposing the influences that drive the headlines at this time on al-jazeera and. discover a wealth of award winning programming from along the world the military and the government of blocking people because they have something really horrible to hockey challenge your perception of the point their relationship and their political project came to an end powerful documentary those debates and discussions in that feeling of freedom and exploring that for you know it was very exciting al-jazeera .

is here to talk sport that's a mighty fine video will picture behind you i knew you'd love it yeah absolutely and that's what we're starting the new zealand have recorded the biggest ever rugby victory over traditional rival south africa in oakland the only black swan an eight tries to crush the springboks fifty seven male and. rugby championship games seven different new zealanders cross the trial line when they have scored a scoring twice the all blacks recorded their previous biggest win against the south africans in their previous encounter of loss just once to the box in the last six years now those a big win for strayer as well though not quite as overwhelming they trailed argentina half time in canberra but turned it around two tries from israel folau and six overall help the australians to a forty five to twenty victory. the second longest unbeaten streak in major league

baseball history has come to an end the cleveland indians will finally be soon after twenty two wins by the kansas city royals cleveland's fans have packed their home stadium to get a taste of this record run the all time unbeaten mark in them all be is twenty six games held by the nine hundred sixteen york giants and the indians looks set to move one step closer as they raced to an early three one lead but the royals made their comeback from that point onwards and went on for a four three victory cleveland still getting a standing ovation from their fans. they have a long way to go to match that record but the chicago cubs have not their fourth straight win the world series champions have scored forty seven runs in those four games their latest victory an eight two defeat of the san louis cardinals they lead national league central and their players looked pretty happy about it too. now friday was concussion awareness day across the united states the campaign has been

trying to get teammates to speak up and report symptoms to a coach or trainer brain injuries an issue that continues to plague some of the country's elite sportsman and it's something the n.f.l. and its players are facing and that's largely down to the work of dr bennett molly he discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy or c.t.e. and has written a new book called truth doesn't have a side about the disease and how some in the n.f.l. wanted to silence his discovery he joins me now live from sacramento adult tamale you began this journey fifteen years ago now but it was only last year that the n.f.l. finally admitted there was a link our contact sports finally getting a grip on the dangers of concussion and brain damage. well thank you so much for having me dollars why i have my book to a doesn't have a side i don't believe i have never believed this sports industry do much about brain damage in sports because the n.f.l.

is not in business to provide held public health education and business to provide a productive football entertainment business to make money so i believe the did decision on whether to play or not to. stop on each and every individual each and every parent knowing what we know today there is no justifiable reason what so ever that a child under the age of eighteen are the age of eighteen should play any of the high impact high contact sport the big six football rugby ice hockey makes martial arts boxing and wrestling when your pledge is games there's no question about it there is a one hundred percent risk exposure to brain damage it's quite frightening actually because there's so many things sports that children do participate in around the

world i want to what does long term impact like that do to children's brains. well we all realize that if the child is high in power. for repeated blows to be had this suffer brain damage which sometimes good mining first twenty thirty forty years later mining for us with symptoms like diminish in intelligence suicide up psychiatry. criminal behavior violent tendencies. bullied into our high level it's of education greater risk to drop out of high school greater risk to drop out of college good risk to engage in addictive behavior drug abuse alcoholism children should play non-contact sports. attorney it's not just about concussion there is it

because we're also talking about things like head to. tell me what your research tells you about that. yeah just thank you so much it's not about concussions. blows can be heard wait without kong cautions without a helmet in soccer if you're not as many times run two children go for their body. so there should not be any in shock or below the age of eighteen but even if you watch soccer soccer is a high dexterity sport. high levels of visual special called the mission children don't have such capacity so sarkar street play. before the age of eighteen early child under the age of twelve should not play soccer as we play today because you play less dribble soccer or less contact circle on today our brains become

selfish at least double love to play soccer and i just want to go back to the professional side of sports because that's where your research really began at the canadian football league you know they announced on wednesday that it's eliminating full contact padded training sessions the n.f.l. maybe also bringing in some new type of helmets these leagues really doing enough at the moment to tackle the issue of brain damage long done brain damage in professional players. we can never do enough because these games are. played. today and that is why i have said i don't. so when you play you know. children football can never say. never. log can never be mentioned yet.

who does not have. other types of brain damage i believe bears on the science that if you play. professional level. most one hundred percent chance you will suffer some type of. such in degree but those are for i don't i don't offer to do whatever the one of do as long does having fun i would defend the right . time i am sorry to interrupt we've run out of time we could go on but when you've made your message very clear thank you very much for speaking to us at al-jazeera not for now. thank you for that really interesting to hear about was rolled back in a couple of minutes time. right here on.

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