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hundreds of thousands of the hinge of who fled to bangladesh. i want crimes prosecutor says the levels of sexual violence committed by both sides in south sudan's civil war are the worst known plus. the media saying nice things and no one is talking about. satire and politics to come up trumps at the emmy awards in the u.s. . with a day sports news including smash and grab a huge crash knocks title contender sebastian vettel out of the singapore grand prix allowing german leader lewis hamilton to cruise to victory. from us has signalled it's ready to end a longstanding feud with its palestinian rival fatah the group which has ruled gaza

for ten years has agreed to dismantle the administrative committee that runs the strip and held elections. which controls the occupied west bank has welcomed the move but for clarifications from gaza sorry for. the pressure has been mounting on hamas the results of ten years of israeli and egyptian blockade have been intensified this year by rival palestinian faction fatah the fatah leader palestinian president mahmoud abbas has cut salary payments and electricity supplies attempting to pressurise hamas into giving up its sole control of gaza how mustard. gypped which pushed the palestinian reconciliation. we responded to these efforts and made a brave decision to dissolve the administrative committee and now there are no excuses for a bass and a bass has one choice only to respond positively to achieve the palestinian dream

of national unity. that dream was written by gunfire in two thousand and seven when hamas prevailed in street battles and the political division between gaza and the occupied west bank began repeated attempts to reconcile have collapsed this time fatah says it's ready to send its officials to gaza that plans are in place for the unity government to get to work its no matter of details. we now look positively on this but we need clarifications and the clarifications should come from the guarantor and the mediator which is egypt some of those who potentially have the most to gain from any deal between hamas and fatah and the hundreds of thousands of gazans who live in refugee camps like this one but over ten years of separation and economic blockade they become used to being let down. they certainly borne the brunt of the palestinian authorities recent pressure tactics for hours electricity a day has become the norm this on top of a crippled economy which is left and his four sons among so many others in gaza

without jobs. reconciliation could solve the power problem it could solve the water problem the markets are empty because people have no money no regular salaries people live without being able to plan. their remains much to resolve such as who has ultimate control over the armed wing of hamas what happens to the tens of thousands of hamas employees who till now have been working in a parallel administration to the palestinian authority is in the details and the ones that sit down together and try to figure out the issue of future palestinian disease. guards are the issue of how last forty five forty three thousand employees . other minor issues that might be a big problem other issues not least oh mahmoud abbas handles relations with the u.s. and israel both of which describe hamas as a terrorist group gazans though are more interested in decision could make any time

now to lift the recent restrictions and make their lives a little better original said al-jazeera gaza so how did we get here well how must took over gaza in two thousand and seven after a war with fatah the fighting followed parliamentary elections which hamas won the two parties couldn't agree on how to share power the conflict weakened the palestinian authority leaving it only in charge of palestinian territories in the west bank which is occupied by israel since march last year hamas has run garza under an administrative committee which is seen as a rival government to the fatah dominated palestinian authority in the west bank but as you've been hearing how must now says it's dissolved this administration to allow unity government led by mahmoud abbas to assume responsibility in gaza hamas has also agreed to hold general elections now bill scher an adviser to palestinian

president mahmoud abbas says elections are important for a future unified government. we are very optimistic but we would like to see that first step takes place we are ready the consensus government is here and it can travel quickly to gaza after a long and long period of saying and not doing the only thing is that step which might take place to morrow i mean it is not talking about weeks we're talking about something that could happen very very soon once it happens once the consensus government a government that hamas had accepted every one of its ministers it's been chaperoned by egypt also once this government really starts ruling gaza and the west bank can start developing problems. canonically start solving the economic problems of the gazans and that that first step will set real optimism for the second step which

is the elections a step that we have called for for a very long time and now from us except that legislative and presidential elections will bring back our elective democracy and will bring back more support from the people to a unified government. now to bangladesh where the government has announced controversial restrictions on the movement of residential refugees crossing over from miami is setting up new camps to house the more than four hundred thousand refugees who have fled ethnic violence in iraq and state according to state media the revenger are barred from using public transport and looking for accommodation outside these cramped refugee camps bangladeshis prime minister shaikh has seen a is traveling to the united nations general assembly to last for more help to deal with the crisis the un has warned that about sixty percent of those who have fled are children and they are facing severe health concerns. mains in bangladesh have

added to the misery of hundreds of thousands of the stuck in. the refugees living in like conditions almost eight centimeters of rain fell in twenty four hours and more rain is predicted over the next two days there are also food and water shortages. every day what you see over here really trying to get relief to growing our refugee every day like. the red cross work and the local agencies everybody is working very hard but. the. run across with this private trucks trying to deliver. three people died in the stampede one woman children at the same time bangladesh government in

a controversial move have told the police to arrest the movement of the rowing us across the country. and all the. other parts of the country. started the biometric registration process that started several days ago they want to register each and every rowing who have fled from to bangladesh so they can keep an account where they are who they are and they want to confine them within the. areas they don't want them to move around the country they wonder eventually able to send them back to me and this is a proof to show that these are me on my record during our refuges who have crossed over to bangladesh and the mayor in marseilles i don't want them back. fencing all across the border in the air and this running the refugees will be stateless people stuck between the two countries. still to come here on the al-jazeera news hour iran threatens a board to shut down pressure mounts on kurds in northern iraq not to hold a referendum on independence. conservationists battle to save what was once asia's

biggest freshwater lake. and then sports through to the davis cup finals. with all that entails. human rights groups say thousands of women have been raped and sexually assaulted during the four year long war in south sudan and those are just the ones they know about they blame the beauteous on government troops of president salva kiir and opposition forces loyal to former vice president. many civilians have fled to seek safety in neighboring uganda from where malcolm why we pause. florence walk through the bush for two days in south sudan these sandals to get to the safety of this refugee camp in uganda she told us that was after five government soldiers gang raped her along with four other women would change her

name and hidden her face. my husband was following a should distance behind us when he came and found these men on me he told them to stop they grabbed him immediately and killed him with the night. we had many similar stories from the people in the camps men tortured or killed and women gang raped by government soldiers he told them all ethnic groups other than there should leave south sudan people in this tent it will arrive within the last couple of days there waiting to be registered the u.n. says more than a million of arrived here in uganda since the conflict began and health workers here say they think there are very many among them who survived sexual violence but i think just a fraction of them are coming forward. in recent weeks opposition troops of government forces near the border with uganda but ever since the conflict began

in twenty thirteen rights groups say sexual violence has been a widely used weapon by both sides. unless the international says thousands of women girls and some men are victims a un report last year said seventy percent of women in the camps around the capital juba have been raped the spokesman for the government forces told us soldiers who rape a punished and he question what we've been told in the camps. those claims to know for sure that. without someone coming forward all part of these are claims that are being made in the revenue come out. being told to say weird things about this family opposition forces have been accused of sexual violence too but the majority of allegations of sexual violence by government soldiers can scott a war crimes prosecutor who's worked on tribunals for many conflicts he investigated south sudan's conflict for the u.n. he says the sexual violence is the worst he's ever known it's at such

a high level of incidents widespread. being going on for a substantial period of time not as isolated incidents. you know one can only. work crimes involving sexual violence are taking place. in the camps mary not her real name says she wants justice but doesn't expect it she says she was raped by three soldiers they found her fleeing with her husband killed him and threw her baby in a bush. they tied up blindfold on my face they took all my positions and stripped me three all on me after i grabbed my baby and left i was naked now i have no. malcolm where al-jazeera west nile uganda. iran's government sees rationing to end all border and security arrangements with the kurdish regional authority in

northern iraq if its planned independence vote goes ahead is the latest country in the region to condom the referendum show for september the twenty fifth turkish nationalists have marched through istanbul to protest against the vote president richard tiber the one who has urged the kurdish leadership to cancel it calling it a matter of national security united nations secretary general antonio terrorists has warned that a referendum would detract from the need to defeat islamic state and to reconstruct regained territory is a harder abdel-hamid is in a bill the capital of the kurdish region in northern iraq. this might be the first explicit statement coming out of iran but certainly there have been several warnings by the iranian government over the past few months relations actually between tehran and the kurdish authorities have been strained for quite a while now at the bottom line iran sees this as

a threat to its own national security in the sense that iran has a sizable kurdish population several iranian kurdish opposition parties are based here in northern iraq and iran fears that this referendum even though nonbinding if it goes ahead might bull the aspirations of the iranian kurds just those are exactly the same fears that turkey has for example now the mood here remains defiant over the past few days president and he has held rallies and he has said very bluntly that the referendum will go ahead because the alternative put forward by the international community may need the u.s. to u.k. and the u.n. is actually not clear enough is not is not binding enough in the sense that. it. is to postpone this referendum until after the iraqi general elections are to be

held in two thousand and eighteen but i think it would be would like to get a assurance guarantees from baghdad that after that it will go ahead with this referendum the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has a may change a miniature response may be the only option to containing north korea to listen says he famous a peaceful solution but it might not be possible north korea find another ballistic missile over japan on friday. if our diplomatic efforts fail though our military option well the only one left so all of this is backed up by a very strong and resolute military option but be clear we seek a peaceful solution to this demonstrators gathered in tokyo to demand they released of japanese citizens abducted by north korea the issue has been overshadowed by pyongyang's recent military aggression and threats towards japan where.

the north korean abduction issue is a highly emotive one here in japan even forty years after they took place this was a bizarre series of abductions often from deserted beaches in northern japan by north korean special forces of anybody they happened to come across people who were then taken back to north korea to help in their spy training program basically teaching north korean spies how to speak better japanese now it was only fifteen years ago that the then leader of north korea kim jong il finally admitted that yes this policy had been taking place he apologized for it and subsequently a handful of japanese citizens and sometimes dependents children born in captivity were released back to japan that according to the north korea was the end of the matter but for many people here in japan like these at this pressure group and other support groups they've often believed that many more people have been held in

north korea that north korea has not accepted responsibility for and they're pressing for those people to be released that a concern for these campaign is that with the current standoff with north korea over its missiles and nuclear development program the issue of the abductions is being lost well prime minister shinzo of a came along here to tell these people that he for one has not forgotten. even if north korea keeps threatening our country we'll never forget about the abducted families from japan. goes to the u.n. general assembly where he says he'll be taking up the abduction issue it's also a session where he will be having a very important meeting with his south korean counterpart and with president from of the united states a session that will be dominated by the one question how collectively do they deal with north korea

a session that could have very far reaching consequences. the wife of former pakistani prime minister now as shareef has won his vacant seat in a parliamentary election in lahore sharif's wife. who was the front runner has won and narrow majority the vote was seen as a test of support for and i was sheriff and his party his political heartland if he became vacant in july when he was disqualified and dismissed from office by the supremes court over corruption allegations catulus foreign minister says the international community is not doing enough to combat what he calls terrorism shaikh mohammed bin abdul rahman called on world leaders to do more he was speaking at an event in new york organized by the u.s. think tank the brookings institution. about that it must be terrorism is quite a frightening phenomenon and i'd like to say that violence and hatred in regions of

attention has helped a lot in the creation of these terrorist organizations the international community and the world in general hasn't done enough to address this phenomenon and i regret to say that the more conflicts disputes and suffering that exist the harder it has the international community to solve the problem of terrorism the international community must adopt all necessary procedures to fight this phenomenon because it's a threat to individuals societies countries and it's a threat to the human race. has the latest from the new york. during his address the qatari foreign minister mohamad. funny said that there are root causes behind the terrorism carried out. and other extremist groups claims he blames prejudice and bigotry and he says that if there is an. to accept that these groups are perverting islam for their political aims he said

the way to fight pilot extremism and terrorism is to actually increase cooperation particularly with the united states and he said one effort is already bearing some possible good news. that we look to the international community especially the united states the new administration which has publicly stated its interest to achieve. we appreciate its efforts for the resumption of serious negotiation to resolve the policy. and to end the occupation of arab lands under time. and according to international law and the arab. world forum is convening a number of working groups and plenary sessions such as the one behind me in order to get participants to think more creatively about hell to counter groups such as. participants saying that this is an effort to really exchange notes and ideas the

real test is going to be what happens when they return to their home communities around the world whether they can get their friends neighbors and governments to take up the mantle of doing all they can to combat violent extremism. and signed a deal with the united kingdom to buy to fight the sale of the typhoon croft was a great meeting of the country's defense minister and. has been ramping up its spending on military equipment since its neighbors cut ties with it in june it's also signed a deal with the u.s. to buy f. fifteen jets and another one with italy. you case terror threat level has been lowered from critical to severe it had been raised to the highest level after friday's bomb attack on an underground train place have been searching two properties in surrey and have two suspects in custody a twenty one year old man was detained in the west london suburb of hounslow on saturday night earlier an eighteen year old man was arrested at the port of dover

the main fire relinked affronts on the london tube injured thirty people following the attack in parsons green last friday the police have made good progress with what is an ongoing operation the joint terrorist analysis center which reviews the threat level that the u.k. is under have decided to lower that level from critical to severe now severe still means that tack is highly likely so i would urge everybody to continue to be vigilant but not alarmed like in indian administered kashmir used to be the largest in asia hundred years ago since then it shrunk in half and is now clogged with silt and smith went to see whether the latest clean up campaign is working its water chestnuts season on the lake at the foothills of the himalayas. where the waters are getting harder to navigate all around as a growing mounds of silt this boy is jumping off one of them. and it's because of

these willow trees. guards who are underwater was very clear here it was blue so pondar tells me as we walk over what was once a lake it was a forestry worker in the one nine hundred fifty s. hired by the government to plant willows to later harvest for firewood a lot. landed hundreds of thousands of trees but it was a mistake this has just brought destruction to. my heart that i'm responsible for planting. the willows choking the lake. in one thousand eleven will last surface area was two hundred sixteen square kilometers it's now half that. well are supposed to be a natural flood barrier for the city of srinagar downstream. but the lakes defenses failed with severe consequences in twenty fourteen inundating the city more than three hundred people were killed if you look at the data over there and bear in

mind is including the meat you can see there diprivan see of the extreme events including the precipitation cloudburst fluids is increasing so whenever we will have this type of flooding so the little bit goes up with this massive sedimentation is not able to absorb the floodwaters and that will if there does not take care of that will again lead to the you know massive inundation of the city in a good city. a small section of clearwater is the only evidence that anything has been done recently to clean the lake now in recent years there have been attempts to restore well our lake but they have always ended up costing between tens to hundreds of millions of dollars of has never been enough money so this latest project aims to try and persuade private contractors to dredge the water and take part payment of willow trees in return but they're only going to start with one square kilometer we are getting remember special from public from god would do

under to get as early as possible it is one. gives an idea how people are concerned and it will be taken for. the contractor will get two years to d. silt and up root the willow from there one square kilometer if the scheme works the government will extend it it'll take decades to finish perhaps not enough time to beat the next extreme weather event bernard smith al-jazeera. and the kashmir valley. so to come here on the al-jazeera news hour. oh. maternal mortality on the rise why new mothers are dying at a higher rate in the us than anywhere else in the western world angela merkel received alter made some from a potential coalition partner with just a week to go to germany if election. and europe has its first women's major winner since two thousand and nine it will be here to tell you how she did it and school.

however you got more wet same windy weather pushing across parts of western europe seeing some of the live the storms just easing across the southwest of england courtesy of this massive cloud diving down across france really heavy showers continuing just around the balkans because the of this area of low pressure and then some wet weather pushing right up into the baltic states easing over towards that western side of russia stays very disturbed here as we go through monday temperatures in stockholm thirteen degrees or so not too bad in moscow around twenty three celsius touch above the seasonal average but not so great once again there are tools north west london and paris at around sixteen degrees over the next day or two whether they're still continuing across southern parts of france down into the western side of the med for a time and then it'll push its way. with say yet more rain coming back in across

italy and the balkans northern areas of italy there are some snow there over the alps and cool enough of yet over the top temperature just twelve degrees celsius on the other side of the med this fine and dry pleasant sunshine continuing warm sunshine there for cairo at thirty four degrees celsius maybe a thirty five on tuesday otherwise it's fine inch right into the mid twenty's up across the northwest of the continent central areas see more lively showers with whether the west africa.

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a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera how mass which israel gaza for ten years says it's willing to end its feud with fatah which controls the occupied west bank a major breakthrough in what's a long running and bitter dispute. the government in bangladesh which is struggling to cope with an influx of refugees is imposing restrictions on a barring them from using public transport and from looking for accommodation outside their crunch refugee camps. iran has threatened to close all borders with the kurdish region of northern iraq if a semi autonomous region. goes ahead with a planned referendum on independence. and more now on that hamas announcement joining me is he's the head of international relations at regents university in london and a senior research fellow at the chatham house think tank thank you very much for coming in to doctors at al jazeera first of all on the question of why this is happening now is this really because things have got just so bad with the

humanitarian situation that hamas has just gone we have to move forwards it is a combination between your money turning crisis that is ongoing your report actually said that by twenty twenty gaza will be unlivable so there is an ongoing to tell you ation in gaza but there's also the political side and when into the scoring side in this case between egypt and the hamas visit the security in the in the sinai so there are ongoing pushes on the humanitarian side from we film gaza from outside together with the political interests of those involved in the reaching this agreement i think it was twenty fourteen when when they last sort of agreed to form some sort of national consolidation administration and that obviously came unstuck what are the issues now that they are going to have to thrash out with power sharing we've been there few times wishful conciliation and unity but at the end of the day election. it's not a must to have

a unity government but it's must we have a unity political system in which sure gaza is not separated from from the west bank and you don't have two alternative government because this actually weakens the palestinian stand visibly easily visit. the world it's also we know that gradually palestine is reaching the moment of course when it comes to succession president abbas is not getting any any younger so they are not it is certain point something must happen in order to relieve the situation do many turn crisis in gaza but also create a united political entity which can deal with the challenges and there are plenty of them and that was my other question i suppose was what sort of an impact if they are managing to speak with one voice i hesitate to use that but possible well what have on the wider region on i you know the peace process as as it is how much more

of an impact can i have if they join together especially if they have election because they were elected more than ten years ago eleven years ago so it means they lose their legitimacy so by having fresh elections they will get regain legitimacy and also the military to because in sort of one voice we surveyed the world is blockaded. they have only four hours electricity per day seventy five percent of the population is no access to clean water we can go on and on and on and on how severe is the situation there as long as there is no some level of few nitty in aimin objective inability to talk to do world this situation will continue and get worse and if i really had to push it do you think they will succeed with this joint agreement with this resolution well they actually managed to hold it together this time i think they have better chance for than for

a very long time however isn't one make it any easier for them and we've the thump of ministration who knows nothing about thank you very much for talking to us pleasure thank you. germany's free democrats have ruled out joining a post-election coalition with chancellor angela merkel if she supports french plans to further integrate the eurozone economists michael spent sunday answering questions from children on her policies at a news conference in berlin where christian democrat party is not expected to win and nothing to govern alone and the free democrats are usually seen as the natural coalition. and after twelve years in power merkel is already one of germany's longest serving chancellors as we head into the last week of campaigning parker takes a look at her leadership and the people who shaped her rise to power. and global kuwait history when she became germany's first female chancellor. forty eight years

earlier with german city still in ruins after the defeat of the nazi regime the country's first post-war chancellor konrad adenauer signed the treaty of rome that led to the creation of the european union european integration was designed to contain germany's power it would turn the country into the most powerful economy in europe your chance falling from the second world war and continuing with angela merkel have had this trend where they want to protect german interests through the vehicle of the e.u. and focus on trade and also on kind of democratic liberal principles that you see almost become the beacon of germany so-called economic miracle began under chancellor ludwig erhard he forged ties with the us a soviet russia tightened its grip on communist east germany. later chancellors willy brandt and helmut schmidt try to improve ties with east

germany in the soviet union while supporting nato and the european community. as the cold war thought the burning wall dividing west and east germany. merkel entered politics later joining the christian democrats she seemed became chancellor helmut kohl protege a woman and former east german she symbolized a new united country in two thousand and five she won a narrow victory over gary hart schroeder becoming chancellor of a grand coalition during her twelve years in office angela merkel has drawn some key lessons from her previous cessna's she's remain flexible during the refugee crisis an open door policy has allowed the country to bolster its plummeting population and in the same way the previous transfers have tried to balance both eastern and western powers so she has struggled to overcome rival political impulses within her own country and abroad she has played a pivotal role in balancing western interests with those of putin's russia and

increasingly confrontational turkey and the present. and heritage policy traditions but she's maintained a very pro european policy and a sense that germany should talk to both east and west and try to find a peaceful solution when possible one of her biggest achievements is in balancing germany's national budget but the austerity measures that benefited europe's largest exporter have crippled others for many greeks she's a symbol of a divided europe however for those unnerved by donald trump's america first policy she's seen as the last defender of liberal western values and together with her allies she's wage war on euro skepticism and the hope of reinvigorating belief in the e.u. a union central to germany's place in the world the parka al-jazeera london. the emmy awards begin in just a few hours time and this year's on us are going political with shows like saturday

night live and stephen colbert as the late show leading the nominations saturday night live has a twenty two nominations with the unorthodox administration of donald trump giving leading lights alec baldwin melissa mccarthy plenty to poke fun at as a reminder of some of its most watched moments i just had a lazy week folks that were leaders from egypt and jordan who are search was confirmed the media saying nice things and no one is talking about russia. going to different just fifty nine tomahawk missiles commit. some of the people just let me let you know why just give me the hammer and nails and let me fix it oh no. really i think that you've heard enough in here let's get out of here you go ahead and i have one more trick. paper tender people coming.

i'd like to begin with the president's schedule three p.m. the president travels going to meet with the leader from central asia the president's voice and. also my back to my every day. a clear and small is that source awards daily t.v. and he joins us now from raleigh in north carolina thanks very much for coming on to al-jazeera i mean on this question the president ciampi is dominating the news agenda are all over the world is now obviously dominating the lights of saturday night life and he looks set to be dominating the emmy award ceremony tonight. yes thanks for having me absolutely i can't imagine a scenario in which stephen colbert doesn't focus on quite a bit and as well as the winners in the speeches that they give it's been a heavily political year i mean you have to tell you have to some of the right that

there is so much change going on within the white house even just the personnel in the performance to keep up with that is quite changed and so i surprised they didn't deserve these nominations absolutely i mean if you look at alec baldwin he started the year just as a trump as a candidate and i don't think anybody ever actually thought that he would win and then to take that and carry that forward throughout the entire year it's very rare if never i don't believe it's ever happened before that a non cast members actually nominated for an emmy in a supporting role i mean course they've had guest nominations but this is the first time we've seen someone who is not a cast member receive a supporting nomination so that shows you how much they had to dedicate to alec baldwin playing donald trump and he did it so well they couldn't find somebody else to do it present a talking that the mainstream news media fake news nowadays how much of a position do these sorts of shows play now within the political process and the

use of humor really just to have a jolly but the president and you know many other characters within american politics it's almost become part of the process itself absolutely i mean we have a reality show. presence as a president so there's no other way that you can drive the entertainment you know what the night league show hosts and saturday night live and other venues they have to respond to this this is this is what's going on in the news and it's it's sort of the snake eating its own tail so to speak. just thinking about the emmys this evening there are obviously the streaming programs that go out now the likes of netflix and hulu and amazon a different kind of of of sort of network is that emerging it's not just the traditional big four anymore is it how much to think that's going to weigh in on on the way the emmys are handed out nowadays. this is you know

it's the way that we have built our industry and it's the way the industry is going to be for the next foreseeable future in fact this year you have only one network traditional network nominee which is this is us and there have been you know from the emmy voters that we've talked to here towards daily some people are actually voting for that because they want to reward the network they're still hesitant to give their overall top series emmys to those shows that are on the streaming presence but here you've got netflix and amazon who have the money to put behind several emmy campaigns and so forth they've they've had a tremendous haul over the past couple years course they've never won the top prize but then you've got hulu with the handmaid's tale this year it's their first big entry into the emmy race and there's a very good shot that they will win the main prize and that has to be that's to be challenging for netflix to see who come as an upstart and then take the top prize

good to get your fill of course my thinking is that a lie from north carolina. the number of deaths of name of this is on the rise in the united states the rate is now high have been in any of the major industrialized country john hendren is in chicago to find out why in the set and final parts of a series on maternal mortality around the world. fermat local and the joy of childbirth lasted a day as their daughter madeline took her first breaths his wife liz died hours later of a pulmonary embolism the sudden blockage in her lung made her one of more than seven hundred women in the u.s. who die each year during or shortly after childbirth two things that are guaranteed to every single one of us are birth and death that's it there's nothing else that's guaranteed right and so i experience both of those things in twenty seven hours it's an increasingly common story in the united states even as maternal mortality falls elsewhere around the globe more american mothers die in the first year of

their child's life than in any other industrialized nation a study published in the lancet medical journal says the u.s. ranks forty six in the world in terms of maternal mortality with twenty six women for each hundred thousand live births that's more than three times the rate of neighboring canada due to the longstanding inability for women to access free or low cost health care in the united states women in the united states tend to enter pregnancy much sicker than counterparts in other developed nations so women enter pregnancy with medical issues such as obesity diabetes hypertension kidney problems the list goes on and on the problem here is growing the u.s. is one of just thirteen countries where the rate is worse than it was fifteen years ago. illinois is about average among american states when it comes to maternal mortality in two thousand and seven five point eight mothers died for every hundred

thousand live births according to a group called the march of dimes by two thousand and sixteen according to another study that number had nearly tripled to sixteen for black women in the us it's far worse one reason the stress of being black in america stressing out about not having a job or money coming to the father and others have either is not around or not consistent in their life the family members left behind never get the chance to offer that support is more american mothers die in the year after childbirth infant mortality in the u.s. is at its lowest level in history researchers say the two facts might well be related just six percent of the money the u.s. government gives to states to lower mortality birth is devoted to mothers john hendren al jazeera chicago. still to come on the al-jazeera news hour we meet the residents of a five hundred year old kingdom in nigeria who are living in fear of. i'm

no time for a break hate so i will show you what this quick thinking about when some player did with this racket. we all have stories. some that enrich our memories. others that define our futures. in a breathtaking new season al-jazeera staff members open their hearts and invite us into the extraordinary lives al-jazeera correspondent coming soon. a survivor of the genocide people who. are suffering. searching the woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre.

in the past arrest and given to the victims' families. just find if i could bury him. at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back and in northern nigeria is struggling to recover and rebuild from an attack three years ago. destroyed five hundred year old buildings. people fear their homes will lose its status as a world heritage site and remain wary of the bochum attacks on

a culture reference or reports from states. the kingdom of so core is high in the mandarin mountains which straddle the border between nigeria and cameroon more than one hundred gunmen attacked this village almost three years ago when boko haram controlled matter of adamawa state in northeastern nigeria. like his relatives who lived here centuries ago. is a blacksmith he was home sleeping when the ambush began. i was lying on my bed where i heard screaming everyone ran away when i came when i returned after a draft. so we started putting out the phone the people of socor are still feeling the effects of that attack these are the gallery that held important artifacts that were used centuries ago traditional clothes carrying beds and other

household items war on display boko haram fighters burned everything that was in here. kingdom is a unesco world heritage site villagers can't afford to have their home lose its historic value and its u.n. status. they recently started repairing what was destroyed along with experts from the national commission of museums and monuments here they are working on a section of the king's palace this is a liberal who decide what other people decide because. of all the. so living here do so most so stern cause of the boats and the people in another part of the village the king heads a security meeting every member of the community is welcome to attend he says it wasn't only this heritage site which was destroyed. when i. lost so many

things. i was like you're going to be constructed structures were burned somewhere else we're continuing it so we have to try to move to what our village used to fetch water. to sixty churches. boko haram fighters haven't been back since their talk but vigilantism are always on the lookout they may have less sophisticated weapons than. they say there won't be quote i'm prepared or let the heritage be destroyed again kathleen saw al jazeera so-called kingdom in northeastern nigeria let's go to sport now here's peter. thank you very much lewis hamilton has extended his lead in formula one's drivers chairmanship stays with a victory at the singapore grand prix on sunday but there was drama for ferrari who suffered in a race they were expected to dominate as reports. to dissolve the ferrari at the start of the singapore grand prix

a wet marina bay street sakit made way to vent. both ferrari's out of the race they were expected to dominate. the best in vettel collided with teammate kimmie reichen in and right both much to stop and stop a good average go to every car of the crash causing the face d.-ca to come out on to the track which ended up being sent out a total of three times during the race due to a series of incidents. but what of lewis hamilton depart started fifth on the grid and managed a clean escape from the carnage he managed to slot into fast place and that's where he stayed eventually crossing the line ahead of red bulls daniel ricardo who finished in second place for the third year in a row hamilton's the fading teammate valtteri bottas completed the podium c.s.a. we struggled and we are and we had no idea what was in happens there but the thing is we just try to stay focused and try to get ahead obviously it was very fortunate

with the prize the beginning so yeah i can be very grateful all over disappointed obviously to to miss out on a win but i still going to be pretty grateful and happy with another podium and i think there's more of these here than last year and there was more than the year before so it's getting better and thanks for the win is the sixtieth of hamilton's career and it means he now has a twenty eight point lead in the championship standing tatiana sanchez al-jazeera. tennis now in france have reached the davis cup final where they'll face belgium joe will fritz be to do sam ally of h. in the reverse singles on sunday after using the opening set six two song came back to take the second six two it went on to seal the final two sets france winning three one steve d'arcy is a belgian one the deciding rather in three sets against australia jordan thompson darcy's wrapping up a match six four seven five six two the same and the belgians three. majesty united

have joined their local rivals city at the top of the english premier league table united overcame everton in the late kick off on sunday and tony of the lens opened the scoring less than five minutes into the game but the goals did not stop there three more including a penalty which anthony marcial converted successfully in the dying minutes gave man united four nil win meanwhile champions chelsea hosted arsenal in a london derby at stamford bridge in the early kick off their game ended nil nil when you play this type of war of game a. massive game and. you know very well that anything can happen. i think we tried to win both teams played to do with a good chance of chances to score and. yeah i think. in the final i would do.

it was a game total intensity with two teams went really for it it was a bank loan moving picture and we responded well. in domains where we questioned you know when you like when the team shows what kind of response although i feel like. it's a deserved point and we should be more freedom maybe less inhibition we could really want this game over in spain real madrid appear to have kick start their leg a campaign were after winning three draws from their first three games they have won three one away at a rail saucier that they're still four points behind league leaders barcelona very early and they were away when the soviet a.o. and severe well last pole must be to athletic bilbao one though. african champions league holders sundowns of south africa have taken a step closer towards the season's semifinals on sunday they defeated we blank one

mill in the quarter final first lake in the other match tripoli of libya drew nil nil against to near zero while do so how at a neutral venue in egypt. slovenia are the european basketball champions after a closely fought victory in the euro basket final against serbia on sunday in istanbul basketball is a big supporter in the balcony and this was the first time a euro basket final was being contested by two teams from the former yugoslavia in the end it was the slovenians who triumphed captain goran drag a true place for the miami heat in the n.b.a. still thirty five point seven rebounds and three assists ninety three eighty five was the school. boxing fans were calling it the biggest fight of the year but there was no winner from the bout between soul of arias and get out of the loft in which ended in controversy the pay for two a draw in their middleweight world championship clash in las vegas but one of the three judges schools was heavily in favor of mexican of our is and has been

criticized by both professional boxers and fans they were boos when the decision was announced in the end goal love can landed more punches overall and remains unbeaten in his career a rematch could also be on the cards. i saw all the computer you know paul taught all parts of. the song reaction people reaction you know. the fuck does the darkness know this terrible form is terrible just. this is not correct you know it is very bad for sport. and no i didn't base it on the score card i wasn't looking at points round by round but what i am sure of after the fight was that i won i have no doubt about it in my mind and an old chris has won the year's fourth and final women's major the championship on a dramatic final day nor to start of the day five strokes behind the leader but carded two eagles in a six under sixty six to finish nine under american brittany ultimate emulated the

swede on sunday to also finish a nine and then really difficult conditions it was not the first time where the interfered after thursday's first round was cancelled the two players headed for a playoff nordquist sank a four foot putt for a bogey five on the soaked eighteenth hole while the one hundred second ranked all to mark out of the six this is the swedes first major since two thousand and nine which is also the last time a european won a women's major. now equipment failures can be part and parcel of professional sport but it's how you deal with them that counts take a look at how one badminton player at the korean open coped when he realized he'd smashed his record in the middle of a rally china's wearing you know you left part no one to do the work for the rounds of the bench to get a space you made it back on to court just in time to make a return despite that the pay went on to lose to us. and that's all the sport for

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