germany is very and helps west stunning scenery. europe's latest arrivals. a common room. and together dream of a german future. welcome to germany. a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. hello there. this is the news hour live from doha coming up the next sixty minutes cautious optimism palestinian president mahmoud abbas welcomes

a reconciliation offer by rival group hamas. the u.n. chief for a kurdish referendum could divert the focus from the war against. the cost of conflict these women allege widespread rape by government troops and opposition forces. as a celebrated this independence day reports from a remote desert town caught up in a territorial dispute with livia. person you know farsi president what abbas has welcomed an offer by hamas to set up a unity government in gaza hamas which has ruled gaza for ten years has agreed to dismantle the administrative committee that runs the strip and hold elections is seen as a major breakthrough towards resolving a long and bits of this. but as harry forth reports the real challenge lies in its

implementation. 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 facts are the facts are leader palestinian president mahmoud abbas has cut salary payments and electricity supplies attempting to pressurise hamas into giving up its sole control of gaza hamas turned to egypt 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 national unity. that dream was riven 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

factor 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 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 mahmoud 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 and. 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 . who sit down together try to figure out the issue of future palestinian resistance in gaza the issue of how last forty five forty three thousand employees and. other issues that might be a big problem other issues loom not least how mahmoud abbas handles relations with the u.s. and israel both of which describe hamas as a terrorist group gazans though more interested in decision could make any time now to lift the recent restrictions and make their lives a little better. al-jazeera gaza. so how did we get here well

until two thousand and six behind a boss is fatah party was in charge of palestinian territories and gaza and the west bank which is occupied by israel that hamas beat fatah and elections in gaza weakening the palestinian authority the two parties couldn't agree on how to ship power the following year how moss took over gaza after a war with fatah and also repeated attempts of reconciliation the two sides finally reached an understanding to create an interim government in twenty eleven but that agreement was never enforced now since march last year moss has run gaza on an administrative committee which is seen as a rival government to the fatah dominated palace and you know thora t. in the west bank but pressure has been mounting on hamas and earlier this year the un has said that humanitarian conditions in the territory deteriorating further and faster than previously for cost and it concluded that the enclave is effectively on livable for its two million people now earlier we spoke to summer we he is

a middle east analyst and contributor to the seven two magazine he says the hamas and fatah have been under increasing pressure to engage in reconciliation talks. if anything can be said about the announcement today it's it comes in the wake of several political developments support both hamas and fatah how under increasing pressure in the case of hamas of course what you have is the complete closure or near complete closure of the rafah border crossing the less than five percent movement between gaza and the west bank through the arabs crossing as compared to fifteen years ago and the israeli withdrawal and then as far as mahmoud abbas is concerned it is of course the situation in syria and the increasing indications that any revolution that might have existed five years ago is now about to come to

an end and hafez assad will once again resume power of the entire country so this changes the calculus in terms of both mahmoud abbas and fatah and hamas the other thing that must be said here is that. about three months ago mahmoud abbas essentially turned off the electricity in gaza and the four hours a day is unprecedented in the ten years of the closure of the gaza strip and that is a direct result of mahmoud abbas and the fact the house already refusing to pay the bill for the electricity that the israel israeli power company was supplying to gaza so all of those pressures combined have made this announcement inevitable the question however is as your correspondent said that the details which are of course the devil in all cases. the u.n. secretary general and tanika terrace has warned the planned kurdish independence referendum would detract from the need to defeat iraq iran and turkey oppose the poll and demonstrate his march through the streets of istanbul on sunday and

protest iran's government threatened to end all border security arrangements with the kurdish regional authority in northern iraq if that vote goes ahead of me and has more details on our bill in the kurdish region of northern iraq and she says that iran is worried about how kurds living in the territory would react to referendum in neighboring 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 descents of 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 aspirations of the iranian kurds just those are exactly the same fears that turkey has for example now the mood here remains the fine over the past few days president masoud barzani 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 eight assurance guarantees from that after that it will go ahead with this referendum. earlier we spoke to beyond sunday at the ramadan she is the representative of the

kurdistan regional government mission in the united states she says there's no chance of the kurdish independence vote being delayed. president barzani has been clear that so far we haven't had an off or let's say an alternative that is as good as or better than having a referendum it is the right people like the right of peoples around the world to have self-determination let's hear what the people of code to stan have to say why is the world so afraid to hear the voice of five to seven million people let's hear what they want to say first of all we are committed to defeating isis fighting isis and the successor of isis what the results are another formation we will continue to fight isis america didn't ask us to fight isis we fought isis our

peshmerga fought isis of course where extremely grateful for all the assistance we are getting to fight isis but it is our fight and we will continue there was no destruction second we have not said we will unilaterally declare independence we have said we will have a referendum so that the will of the people of pakistan can be expressed this will give the mandate to negotiate with the fact that we are heading towards negotiations i don't know why that is so scary for everyone we want to talk to baghdad we want to be partners and good neighbors to iraq we have given our best to be part of iraq i'm sure you know in your view is no the dog history of the people of pakistan and iraq under saddam we had chemical bombardment. on file genocide and so on off the two thousand and three we saw this is our opportunity to peapod to but iraq a partnership the federal and democratic iraq that is what we signed up for that is

what the constitution of iraq sets out we did our best we can talk best shot but. over the years all that we have seen from baghdad is a reversal of those promises undermining of the constitution fifty five articles of the constitution have been violated the disputed territories. other areas have not been resolved despite a specific article in the constitution setting this out how much longer should we negotiate with baghdad on the old basis. warhead on the news hour including. maternal mortality on the rise why new mothers are dying at a higher rate in the united states than anywhere else in the western world. and a major boost to cut us air force as assigns a new deal with the u.k. to buy typhoon fighter jets. and in sport i huge crash knocks title contenders

sebastian vettel out of the singapore grand prix peter will be here with that story . u.s. president donald trump will use his debut speech to the u.n. general assembly to offer warmth to allies and warnings to the first freeze among the topics are going to be only agenda on north korea and iran are trying to also meet with leaders on a number of countries including britain france israel as well as qatar jane was based takes a look at some of the issues these world leaders will be addressing at the u.n. this week and the development of this every year when world leaders gather in new york in september they listen carefully to the words of the most powerful person. but for the first time since the u.n. was created at the end of the second world war the u.s.

president will address them from this podium is someone who at times has appeared to question the multilateral order the united nations represents. diplomats are wary of what president trump will say in his nine months in office he's already attended nato g. seven and g. twenty summits on the global stage he's appeared at times uncertain his actions unpredictable donald trump does not perform well a big international summits when he attended a nato summit he actually managed to physically push another leader out of the way and his advisors must hope that he will be back here because this is his last chance to really convince other world leaders that he is someone they can do business with and that is not just a nativist who wants the u.n. over to china as usual global leaders face a whole host of challenges among them an ongoing humanitarian emergency with the

exodus of the row hinge are in myanmar then there's the wars in syria in iraq yemen and libya as well as the future of the iran nuclear deal but this year at the top of the agenda another nuclear state north korea. it is a particularly pressing issue because of the provocative timing of the latest missile test which took place just days ago the number of launches the number of tests is much greater even in this year than it's been over the last decades so this is a very immediate very immediate question and yes i think it will be the top question here in this week at the u.n. this is not just the first general assembly week for the new u.s. president and terrorists became u.n. secretary general at the start of the year he plans a program of modernization and streamlining president trump is also planning to hold a meeting on u.n. reform but some diplomats fear that may simply be an attempt to further slash the

organizations budget james zero at the united nations. now the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. has warned that north korea will be destroyed if it continues its reckless behavior and forces the u.s. and its allies to defend themselves against an attack the comments for the u.s. secretary of state are excellence in admitting a military response may be the only option to containing north korea another ballistic missile was fired over japan or friday and person says that he favors a peaceful solution but it might not be possible if our diplomatic efforts fail though our military option will be well the only one laughing 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. and meanwhile military chiefs and other top brass from some thirty countries are meeting in the south korean capital seoul and top of that

the gender is the increasing threat from north korea joining us live now from seoul is andrew thomas hey andrew so tell us more about what the sweeting's about. well it's amazing isn't specifically about north korea in fact north korea isn't officially on the agenda it's a meeting that takes place every two years it's called the pacific army's chief's conference and it involves army top brass from right across the asia pacific region it's hosted this year by south korea and the u.s. jointly here in seoul and banki moon a former south korean politician but of course also former secretary general of the united nations are we giving the keynote speech so north korea isn't officially on the agenda it's likely to dominate talks on the sidelines of this conference what to do about that most pressing of issues so it's no coincidence i think that on monday morning just as that conference is getting underway south korea's defense ministry announced the latest tests joint exercises to be coming up with the united states they say that an aircraft carrier u.s.s.

craft carrier will be positioned just off the korean peninsula in october and they've also announced a joint exercise between the south koreans the americans and the japanese that will take place at the end of september the beginning of october all of this of course designed to send a message that the international community particularly military leaders here in the asia pacific region are of one voice when it comes to north korea and china is going to be sending a representative is that significant. it is significant i think because of course china is very unhappy with the deployment of the thad anti missile defense system here in south korea because they believe that although the stance of the that's a look at the north korean missiles it's able as well to look into china and see what their military is doing they've made it very clear that they are not happy about that there's been a unofficial boycott of south korean companies by chinese people encouraged by the chinese government so for china to be sending a three star general to this meeting rather than boycotting it i think is

a sign that china realizes the serious of the seriousness of the situation and they are if you like positioning themselves with south korea and even the united states against north korea it is significant that this man is coming ok and to tell us live for us in seoul thank you. now heavy monsoon rains in bangladesh have added to the misery of hundreds of thousands of stuck in makeshift camps almost eight centimeters of rain fell and twenty four hours at that main bangladeshi border crossing with me and ma creating like conditions for the refugees also severe shortages of food of fresh drinking water and bangladesh authorities say that they've begun moving an estimated one hundred thousand living by the roads to aid points. has more from. every day what you see over here really trying to get relief to growing i reference

every day. the red cross work and the local agencies everybody is working very hard but. the. children 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 junction. to the other parts of the country have started the registration process that started several days ago they want to register each and every road from me to bangladesh so they can keep an account where they are who they are and they want to confine them would in 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 right he's going are refugees who have crossed over to bangladesh and the mayor in marseilles i don't want. them fencing all across the border in this drawing the refugees will be stateless people stuck between the two countries. qatar signed a deal with the u.k. to buy twenty four fighter jets the sale of the typhoon aircraft was agreed as a bilateral meeting in doha qatar has been ramping up its own its spending military equipment since the start of the g.c.c. crisis in early june and the past three months of a signed a deal with the us to purchase f. fifteen jets and another one of its four seven navy jets. now cost us foreign minister says the international community is not doing enough to combat what he calls terrorism mamak been a bra model tawny hold on while davis to do more he was speaking at an event in new york organized fire the u.s. think tank the brookings institution. terrorism is.

a phenomenon and here i'd like to say that the violence. in tennis areas has a lot in the eruption and creation of these terrorist organizations and there is a national world. the world in general hasn't you know nuff. facing this terrorism phenomena and i feel sorry to say that the conflicts disputes sufferings. the more this national community is not able to sort these problems out the international community has to do at all necessary to say just to fight this phenomena because it's a threat against the end of it is the society is the country and it's a threat to the human rights. jordan has more on that forum in new york.

this is the thirteenth annual u.s. islamic world tour and this year's theme is trying to target efforts to confront biotech strangers and or to terrorism the keynote speaker the qatari foreign minister on the international. to combat. or to. community. to redouble their efforts to take. people. in order. to once again. between the israelis and the. more important.

because. people are extremist groups. people here during his keynote address. issues going. international peace and security. and the u.s. government is considering. health problems. to the unexplained. traumatic brain injury. attacks. diplomatic relations with. now protesters are marching for a third day in st louis following the acquittal of

a white former police officer this is over the shooting of a black man more than a thousand people walk the city streets a day after a violent clashes erupted between police and demonstrators you're looking at live pictures now from st louis where police have been ordered to disperse protesters friday jason stokley was cleared of first degree murder over the twenty eleven killing of anthony the moss smith the u.s. department of justice says it will not open a new civil rights investigation into the case. intel a is celebrating its national independence day after increasing tensions with neighboring bolivia and it's gone to the international court of justice demanding that chile be obliged to negotiate an outlet to the pacific ocean al-jazeera to see a new man has more on that territorial dispute from the chilean desert town of oil way. this is the at that gamma the world's driest desert.

one hundred thirty years ago described barren expanse was part of bolivia. and nearly thirty seven hundred meters above sea level the tiny desert town of oh yeah we're proudly celebrates chile's national independence holiday with a military parade. just five hundred meters from the bolivian border it's meant to underscore that all this is now the chilean territory the two neighbors don't have diplomatic ties and relations are at their worst since bolivia lost the eighteen eighty four war of the pacific but costa it's only access to the pacific ocean. plain cake with libyan minerals but the now have the import of making your own if. some poor hundred kilometers south of here should we give free passage and it also gives it a corridor to the chilean port of id but one of the libyans that's not good enough

people believe me is president evo morales has made sovereign access to the pacific his number one priority he's brought chile before the international court of justice in the hague to try to force it to negotiate chile's foreign minister tells us what alice is dreaming is century and a half later or most is they want to research or learn third tory. they want. sovereign territory and that is unacceptable of course we're living in a twenty first century is one of them but bolivian cysts it will never give up its claims not just to a pacific corridor but now also to this small atacama desert river the seilala chile is countersuing bolivia after morales accused of stealing the water that flows through both countries. the mayor of chile's last desert outpost insists the feud isn't impacting daily life. of one of us you know it might take another

hundred years before the two governments reach agreement but the communities on both sides of the border work together they existed long before the divisions. we crossed into the even smaller bolivian community of iowa there we met valentino mcdonald who sells soft drinks to the border guards like most bolivians she too has a dream and whenever we haven't seen the ocean we don't have an ocean in bolivia where if it is. but it's no laughing matter with libya's president now calling for all citizens to join a militia to defend the country's sovereignty chile is standing more firm than ever leaving little reason to expect an end to the longest running territorial conflict in the americas. you see in human i'll just see die or yeah with chile. and forehead on al-jazeera conservationists in india the minutes of kashmir work to

restore one of asia's biggest freshwater lakes. and after a twenty year wait local elections are finally coming to a village in southern nepal. i don't sports or france so our through to the davis cup final it'll have those details. from a fresh coast to breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello the weather's quieting down nicely now for southern parts of china but still some lively downpours in the area we can see a cloud making its way away from the eastern seaboard to ward japan that is probable storm talim or so saying cloud easing away from vietnam but

a large massive cloud across the other sort of into china through laos easing across into northern parts of thailand and continue to drive its way further west which is because on through the next few days a few showers there in hong kong as we go through monday into tuesday it should drop it should brighten up some very heavy rain though you can see across central parts of china the usual showers continue across southeast asia some lively downpours coming in here malaysia cool seeing some other wet weather that wet weather just stretching across towards the good part of will seldom areas of thailand joins up with the wet weather that we have over the other side of the thing goal as big down polls will continue as we go on through the next couple of days quite a massive cloud actually across the goal of the moment be a mosque seeing some heavy downpours again the remnants of docks year here weather into the far northeast of india very wet weather into central and southern parts of in the western areas the western gets look very disturbed over the next couple of days to the north of that it's dry. there with sponsored by cat time release.

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science in the golden age with professor jim at this time. and again he watched mind of our top stories this hour. president mahmoud abbas has welcomed an offer by hamas to set up a unity government in gaza hamas which has ruled gaza for ten years has agreed to dismantle the administrative committee that runs the strip and hold elections. u.n. secretary general of the terrace has warned that the planned kurdish independence referendum would detract from the need to defeat. that representatives from the

kurdistan regional government says there's no chance of the vote being delayed. and military chiefs of staff and other top officials from thirty countries are meeting in the south korean capital seoul south korea's army hopes to use this event to both support from our regional countries to counter north korea's threat. human rights groups say thousands of women have been raped and sexually assaulted during the four year war in south sudan they blame the abuses on government troops of president salva kiir and opposition forces loyal to former vice president react and many civilians have fled to seek safety in neighboring uganda where mark o'mara reports. florence walked 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

change her name and hidden her face. my husband was following a short distance behind us when he came and found these men and me he told them to stop. immediately and killed him. 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 and all 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 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. and if the international says thousands of women girls and some men are victims a u.n. 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. whether someone coming forward thought to. be made in the revenue come. to say weird things about this family opposition forces have been accused of sexual violence to the majority of allegations have been of sexual violence by government soldiers ken's got to walk 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 one can only conclude 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 he 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 of them were all on me after i grabbed my baby and. i was naked no i have not. malcolm where. west nile uganda. now the wife of pakistan's ousted prime minister nawaz sharif has won his parliamentary seat the country's supreme court disqualified him in july over corruption allegations also no was sharifa won the by

election securing the seat from the eastern city of lahore she defeated the rival party's candidate in absentia. now a rare local election is being held in southern nepal after a twenty year wait security is tight in province to a stronghold of marginalised by death see ethnic communities now at least fifty five people were killed there during political protests over the past two years so we distrust reports from stop tare district where villagers are trying to recover from last month's floods. preparations are almost complete a local election is finally happening here after a twenty year wait. elections are like festivals in the park and there is much excitement but not among villagers in my now kerry one hundred seventy two families who lost their homes in the floods last month are taking refuge on this strip of road most are from what the pollies called the low cost community daytime

temperatures soar to thirty eight degrees celsius here and these tarpaulin sheets are no relief government officials tell us to move back to our houses but we don't have a house said one man was over the other in our houses are destroyed but the powerful get all the relief we are left with very little. schools are closed and children have fallen ill many. villages complained that the local leaders failed to visit them during the floods everyone here says they are going to exercise their democratic rights and vote but they also say they do not trust the local politicians because they were abandoned by them during their hour of need so as not to be seen as influencing voters the government stopped all relief for the past few leaves the only visitors to these villagers are polluters sions asking for their votes beneath the pond it showed us her home destroyed by floods got out i've taken

a loan of five thousand dollars to build a house but nothing is left politicians say they would do this once we vote for them but what is the guarantee they will deliver. her farmland has been swept away and crops destroyed besides just the immediate need for food villagers who say they need flood protection systems to save them in the future they hope the local election will address their needs but also fear they will be forgotten again once they have voted. to al-jazeera sup their district in the southern plains of the power. and germany is a liberal f.t.p. party has ruled out joining a post-election coalition with chancellor angela merkel as if she supports france's plan. ans to integrate the eurozone economies merkel spend sunday questions from children in berlin polls indicate a christian democratic party is almost certain to retain power in next sunday's election but not expected to win enough votes to govern alone the f.d.p.

is usually seen as a natural coalition partner but has taken a hard line on francis plans to overhaul the eurozone and with uncertainty about which direction the u.s. is moving in many countries are looking to germany for that stable global leadership now germans are still very wary of backing up their political power with military spending lawrence he has. deep in the forest west of berlin nato is wargaming again one of its members has been attacked there are casualties and all the other states have joined in to help tend to the wounded the exercise is called vigorous warrior which hardly invokes the sort of fire and fury rhetoric of donald trump we are a host nation we are the nation for this exercise and of course we want to do it perfect we want to be a very good office and i think we achieved a store but we are not alone there are twenty five other nations and they all

brought their skills was in this exercise the generals watching come from twenty five nato allies and other invited states they know where germany's red lines have always been on the battlefield this is where germany feels most comfortable helping out medical excellence logistical support that's all fine but when it comes to things like attacking other countries invading other countries killing people there is no appetite for that at all. this is heidelberg a perfect example of liberal educated germany where merkel support is guaranteed by the wealthy middle aged middle class no doubt many take pride in the global admiration for the chancellor but asked them should germany back it up now with a more aggressive military position staying us i think germany and the rest of the world should be disarming i believe germany's doing enough for nato we shouldn't be spending any more. it's

a no brainer why germans don't like to be seen invading other countries the nazi scar has never healed when they pushed it like wrongly calling in an american air strike in afghanistan nearly ten years ago which mistakenly killed dozens of civilians there was a national shockwave and the defense minister resigns the source of political guilt trip that doesn't happen in the u.s. where u.k. nor is the most powerful country in europe impressed with how its neighbors have prosecuted wars in places like libya if we go in with military force it needs to be backed up and slanged by civilian measures as well so there is diplomatic there is civil in crisis management and there is also the idea of so what happens afterwards how do we rebuild a country which has not been necessarily the prime objective by recent interventions by other european countries u.s. president trump demands germany spend far more on defense merkel's opponents on the left say that would make her an american stooge in

a fragile world germany is looking for other solutions than war or asli al-jazeera in germany the philippine president rejected a terror tape has launched a personal attack on the head of the country's human rights commission the territory asked chito gascón if he was a paedophile after gas on expressed concern about the killing of teenagers in the ongoing ongoing violent crackdown on drugs the human rights commission has expressed repeated reclass with the president over his sworn drugs last week lawmakers reduced the commission's budget to just twenty dollars. so. young. boys. and several caribbean islands that were devastated by hurricane or a number of pairing to face a possible second major storm the u.s.

national hurricane center are graded tropical storm maria to a category one hurricane it's currently leaving heading for the leeward islands where it could make landfall by monday night. now the number of deaths of new mothers is currently on the rise in the u.s. the rate is now higher than any other major industrialized country john hendren is in chicago to find out why in the final part of our series on maternal mortality. for matt low glenn 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 the 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 developing 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 only one 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 u.s. 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 of this either is no. or not go system and be alive 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 us is at its lowest level in history researchers say the two facts might well be related just six percent of the money the us government gives to states to lower mortality at birth is devoted to mothers john hendren al jazeera chicago. head on al-jazeera all the sports including europe has the it's

fast of women is a major win a since two thousand and nine it'll be his tell you how she did it.

now the one hour freshwater lake in indian administered kashmir used to be one of the largest in asia since then it's shrunk to hof its size and it's clogged with silt but it's worth went to see if the latest cleanup campaign is working its water

chestnuts season on the lake at the foothills of the himalayas. but 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. but the water 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 lay to harvest for firewood law to was mother i planted hundreds of thousands of trees but it was a mistake this has just brought destruction to the lake my heart that i'm responsible for planting. the willows choking the like. in one thousand eleven will last surface area was two hundred sixteen square kilometers it's now half that. well our is 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 need you can see their deficiencies of the extreme events including the precipitation cloudburst floods is increasing so whenever we will have this type of a flood in so little because our produce masses 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 clear water is the only evidence that anything has been done recently to clean the lake now in recent years there have been attempts to restore light 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 tremendous pressure from public from god would do under to get as early as possible it is monday and gives an idea how people are concerned and it will be taken forward 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. the kashmir valley. and it's time for sports now. thank you very much lewis hamilton has extended his lead in for me the ones driver's chairmanship stays with a victory at the singapore grand prix on sunday but there was drama for ferrari who suffered in a race that were expected to dominate. his reports. to dissolve the ferrari at the start of the singapore grand prix

a wet marina bay street circuit made way to visit. both ferrari's out of the race they were expected to dominate. the best team vettel collided with teammate kimmie reichen in android both much to stop and stop a good average growth over. 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 miss avies teammate valtteri bottas completed the party yesterday we struggled and we are and we had no idea what was in happens there but the thing is we just try to say focused and try to get ahead obviously it was very fortunate

with the prize at 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 this year 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 tsonga came back to take the second six two he went on to seal the final two sets france winning three one. steve darcy's about 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 have a lengthy open 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 for no 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 game a. massive game and you know very well that anything can happen. i think we tried to win both teams trained to do when to good chance and chances to score and. yeah i think. in the

final i would do. virtually. total intensity with two teams went really for it it was apparently only preach and we responded well. in domains where we questioned you know when you like when the team shows what kind of response or 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 off to win and two draws from the 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 milner 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 bosket final against serbia on sunday in istanbul basketball is a big sport in the balkans and this was the first time the eurobasket 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. scored thirty five points seven rebounds and three assists ninety three eighty five miles to school. and an old course has won the year's fourth and final women's major the evian 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 a in really difficult conditions it was not the first time whether 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 be 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. 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 smash his records in the middle of a rally in china is when you know you left partner. to do the work while you ran to the spanish to get a spanish hit back to cool just in time to make a return despite that the pay went on to lose today indonesia. and that's all the sport for me more coming up again later. and you can find much

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