overlook even pages about history. as for the future it seems likely that the next generation will share the uncritically proud view of their homeland that prevails today.

welcome back we'll start by looking at weather conditions across australia this time we're going to be seeing a change in temperatures for parts of south australia through into victoria as the wind changes from the southwest slightly more on towards the west so melbourne will see the temperatures coming up to eighteen degrees as we head on through into wednesday and it should improve across town as many as sydney look at highs of just twenty showers along the coast of queensland probably dying out of that stage and rather on the cool side for perth with a mix some of nineteen degrees across into new sears being very unsettled here in recent days and we've still got this area of low pressure circulating close to the north on this the showers here there's a little bit of a gap across the south on a before the next weather system pushes in across the tasman sea produces more wet some windy weather as we head on through into wednesday so let's head up then into northeastern parts of asia where what was typhoon talum has been dominating the weather here at home see we can to become

a tropical storm is one across japan it's not over the far east of russia so for much of japan weather conditions are looking significantly better it should be a nice day in tokyo on tuesday with highs of twenty seven degrees but as we head on through into wednesday we might see an area of low pressure developing across the sea of japan and eventually will get into the western side of honshu late in the day. why the sky why should be no borders up here why only horizons. as an airline we don't believe in boundaries we believe in bringing people together the world's better that way. it is a right for all of us to go where we need to go to feel the things we want to feel . to see the people we want to see. that's why we'll continue to fly the skies were providing you with everything we can and treating everyone how they deserve to be

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because of bureaucracy and mismanaged on his first trip to the u.n. president trump criticizes the world body but pledges to help it before syrian troops crossed the euphrates river risking a standoff with us back rebels battling i saw on the other side islands across the caribbean prepare as. another powerful hurricane heads their way. we visit japan's dimentia cafe as the country breaks its own record for the number of people reaching the age of one hundred. i'm here just a moment with the latest sports news in doha including around the world in less than eighty days a british cyclist completes a record breaking fifty. thank

you for joining us u.s. president donald trump has made his debut at the united nations an organization he has slated in the past he repeated his previous criticism saying the world body is not living up to its potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement however this time he promised the u.s. would help reform the u.n. to make it stronger and more effective our diplomatic editor james bay reports now from. diplomats will wary about this trumps first trip to the united nations as president. or trump has railed against the u.n. many times in the past suggesting it's inefficient and bloated at times this transactional america first president would seem to question the entire international system this existence since the un was set up at the end of world war two ahead of the meeting there was some unease about what this unpredictable president might say but he only seemed concerned about how the microphones worked

his way to the its own result. when trump finally spoke there would have been a big sigh of relief felt across the united nations he now seems to be a fan of the organization mr secretary general of the united states and the member states presenter their support. this great reform vision we pledge to be partners in your work and i am confident that if we work together and champion truly baldry forms the united nations will emerge as a stronger more effective more just and greater force for peace and harmony in the world so instead of declaring war on the un trump seems already to be declaring a victory this turnabout it seems the result of an unlikely partnership between the us ambassador nikki haley and the u.n. secretary general who like the president took up his post in january and tonio good

terrorists is a canny political operator who knows how all this needs to be presented someone recently asked what keeps me up at night and my answer was simple bureaucracy fragmented structures byzantine procedures and endless red tape at the beginning of the year in washington d.c. i spoke with a senior white house official who said it was the administration's intent to gut the united nations that hasn't happened so for now the u.n. may feel it's dodged the bullet but this is an issue that will be revisited and it's possible down the line that president trump may feel that the changes that have been made are not bold enough. the president will be staying in new york for most of the week he gives his long formal address to the u.n. on cheese day as well as holding meetings with all the world leaders with north korea high on the agenda james space al-jazeera of the united nations well our u.n.

correspondent rosalind jordan joins us live now from the headquarters in new york and obviously be interesting to see and hear what president trump will actually say when he addresses the general assembly properly but i mean what we've heard so far it does seem to have completely changed disunity certainly softened the stance towards the u.n. . well if there were an opportunity for the present to quote go off message this would have been such an opportunity by given that it was donald trump who convened of this meeting and who also took note of the fact that until he has been talking about reform here at the u.n. even before he was chosen to be the secretary general it seems rather gracious at the very least for the president to make note of the of the secretary general's ambitions to reform the united nations and it also can't be disputed that almost

certainly there had to be influence from the u.s. ambassador nikki haley who has worked very closely with antonio good tears on this goal but of course the real test barbara will be whether the trumpet ministration revise its request for foreign policy of funding it has wanted to cut a sizable chunk of the u.s. contribution both to the un's general budget as well as to its peacekeeping operations and certainly if those cuts were to go through unchanged the u.n. would be looking to find other sources of money money that doesn't seem to be easily attainable even though some would argue other countries should be paying more of the town so certainly that one of the the topics. it is under discussion as all the world leaders are gathering there at u.n. headquarters the actual speeches to the general assembly haven't started yet but a lot of bilateral meetings are taking place and probably one of the most visible

and important ones that have taken place in the past few hours between the president donald trump and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu do we know what came out of that. well they had some public comments before they went into their closed door meeting there hasn't been a formal readout from that meeting but certainly when they were speaking to reporters both netanyahu and underscored their suspicions about whether iran is holding up its end of the nuclear deal which was brought into force in the last couple of years that deal of course to keep iran from developing nuclear weapons and they also talked about the prospects for peace between the israelis and the palestinians the administration like the obama administration before it and before that the administration of george w. bush has been trying to see if they can broker some sort of definitive peace accord one has not come about but both men agreed that they felt that there was an opportunity to try to broker peace between the two sides it's also worth pointing

out barbara that when prime minister netanyahu addressed the reporters he talked about not just achieving peace between the israelis and the palestinians followed peace between israel and its arab neighbors basically saying that there doesn't have to be one before the other or that there could be two separate peace tracks going on at the same time if that is a serious where it really could be significant in terms of bringing stability to the middle east but we don't have any more elaboration what the prime minister was getting at but certainly analysts are already taking a close look at what he is saying examine whether in fact this is a real possibility there's just so much going on in the world right. now that this really is going to be an incredibly interesting united nations general assembly meeting you of course will be following all the details for us for the moment though rosalind jordan thank you. kurdish leaders in iraq say they'll go ahead with

an independence vote next week despite a ruling by iraq's supreme court suspending the referendum the court ordered that the poll be postponed until questions about its legality have been addressed the referendum will be held on september twenty fifth of the three provinces that make up the oil rich kurdish region as well as this future territories the government of baghdad regional neighbors iran and turkey and the u.s. have all called for the vote to be delayed fearing that it could create instability which in turn would help eisel out of the army does more now from air to be in the capital of the kurdish region. more pressure to postpone the referendum this time coming from the british government the u.k. defense secretary michael fallon is here where he is meeting with kurdish president masoud barzani he was earlier in baghdad and he said from there that he was coming here to try to convince the kurds to postpone the vote he also said that the u.k.

was firmly against it at this point now this comes after earlier in the day the federal supreme court issued a state order calling for the suspension of the referendum until it reaches a final ruling now this is actually an order that should be barring the poor do kurds even though after the supreme court expressed itself a statement came out from the regional prime minister's office saying that the referendum was still going ahead but according to the thousand and five calls it you said well the federal supreme court is the authority that rules in case of ethnic sectarian and regional political problems in this country. and the kurds were fully part of the process of writing that constitution so they are the moment at least publicly showing still that posture of the foreign whether there are some

sort of negotiations going on between erbil and baghdad at the moment is something that one could fairly be confident about. syrian activists say government troops are close to in circling a pocket of eisel fighters in their result after crossing the euphrates the river serves as a kind of demarcation line between government allied forces and the u.s. backed rebels syrian government troops have been fighting ice on the west side of the river while u.s. backed rebels are battling the armed group on the east side well joining us now is chris doyle who is director of the council for arab the british understanding here in london crystal thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so the fact that asset backed forces have crossed the river effectively this demarcation. does it have the potential of an escalation between the rebel forces and asad forces leaving aside deisel for a moment without doubt the forces concerned are only about five kilometers apart

and remember overhead you've got russian fighters syrian fighters as well as american jets and other members of the n.t.i. so coalition so the chances that there could be escalation by accident and we saw on saturday the fact that the russians are certainly been accused of bombing injuring six members of american backed forces. reserve or so that's just one example of what could happen but then there's also the escalation by design by crossing over the euphrates it certainly sends a message to the syrian democratic forces that are basically the majority of which are kurdish forces that the regime is prepared to cross that red line which had been agreed between washington and moscow and now what we see here is several key strategic objectives going after the syrian regime and russia and iran

certainly want to take their reserves the seventh largest city in syria it's important there have been seven hundred ninety thousand syrians who have been under siege by isis to control the majority of city until recently for three years. but more importantly perhaps in the long term is all the oil fields including syria's largest oil field which lie around the reserve across the province and so there is a massive rush to procure these both by these kurdish forces backed by the americans and the syrian regime moreover it's expected that regime forces will swing down euphrates to actually secure the border crossings particularly at my edina kemal in order that there would be a land corrigible that were once again connect iran iraq syria to lebanon and that is a strategic objective of iran as well as the syrian regime so this strategically

important area with lots of oil so important economically as well assuming that i still will be defeated i mean taking us to the future and getting. the syrian democratic forces are backed by the us but we don't really know what the u.s. plan is beyond the feeding isolette mean do we have any idea as to what the second step would be once you take isolette of this equation well everybody is still second guessing what president trump wants in the middle east full stop but to particularly on syria or we've really heard from them is that they want to crush eisel now this means that there's no clarity as to what the americans see the political end game we have some idea what the russians might want or the iranians might want even the turks but unless the americans come forward with their own political blueprint it's going to be very hard to see how this will transform from what we see at the moment zones of deescalation areas of control by combination of

powers across syria into various areas into some meaningful political process and it causes a certain degree of confusion because the fear of the kurdish forces is that once i salute. defeated at least in terms of controlling territory that they will actually be sold on the riddle and abandoned by the americans that they won't be the reliable partner because in the end that the americans will decide that their relationship with turkey for example is going to be more important than their relationship with the kurds i'm sure it's one of the issues that will come up at least in the bilateral meetings at the u.n. general assembly over the next few days for a moment kristoff the rector for the council for arab british understanding thank you thank you. well still to come in this news hour we're going to look at how houston is coping with the millions of tons of daybreak that hurricane harvey left

behind. we'll tell you why one hundred and thirty three year old the border dispute is overshadowing chile's independence a celebrations and in sports houston's baseball team gives the city a reason to cheer. but first north korea has once again dismissed sanctions against it as a quote hostile act and warned that it will simply spur it to move faster towards completing its nuclear arsenal u.s. bombers and fighter jets have been taking part in joint military drills with south korea and japan in another show of force against pyongyang meanwhile separately china and russia carried out their own naval drills off the port of life evolves stuck in the far east of russia well fears over a potential conflict on the korean peninsula are damaging south korea's tourism

industry the number of visitors from china has already fallen by seventy percent but not everyone is put off by talk of missile launches and military drills as andrew thomas found out. with tensions on the korean peninsula building south korea on monday hosted a conference of military leaders from across asia pacific giving the keynote address was a former south korean minister who's also head to the united nations i'd like to remind north korea that no single nation has a subway it is a fate against you now you are sitting united international community in the course of history. in the south rising tensions are having an economic impact at an hour from seoul it's easy to see into the demilitarized zone the d.m.z. and beyond that the mountains of north korea the lookout has long been a tourist site people can even take a train from here just inside the d.m.z.

and despite the tensions some visitors are still coming for me my tickets were booked when advanced so i had to make it and we kept checking the news just to make sure that everything's kind of ok my sister was very white said this is actually getting married next week and she was very worried that something was going to happen to me and i would be able to make it back say it was a bit she was quite. a large military presence here and so many civilians that the foreign of having to like take care of us citizens and let us know if something was about to go down but visitor numbers to south korea overrule the down forty percent fewer came in july compared with the same month a year ago on sunday most raw eats at the funfair which strangely is part of the engine light when they are empty the latest heightened tension is only weeks so when really it's too well yet to judge the impact of violence on tourism here so far the missing tourists are exploring more like all the things that the. chinese

tourists are the ones almost entirely absent in march china angered by south korea's deployment of the fat anti missile system banned its citizens from taking package tours to south korea but. last year about half of the seventeen million tourists to south korea were from china but this year chinese tourists are down by seventy percent that spink felt here it's hurting my business sales are roughly a third down in the longer this concern about next year's winter olympics in pyongyang ticket sales so far are poor the international olympic committee said last week there is no plan b. . the to move the games if tensions escalate but they can't make spectators come south korea's defense ministry on monday said it believes the north was ready for a new nuclear test if it comes that will only heighten the tension and dissuade more tourists from visiting south korea andrew thomas al-jazeera apology south

korea's border with the north. romania's prime minister has visited the western city that bore the brunt of a storm that killed eight people and injured one hundred forty others over the weekend most of those who died were killed by falling trees and flying objects as winds gusted at one hundred kilometers an hour half a million people were also left without electricity with more than two hundred thousand villages affected in western romania more bad weather is forecast not just for romania but also for serbia and croatia. well speaking of bad weather just over a week after the caribbean was pummeled by hurricane irma that was stating several islands another storm is approaching hurricane maria is currently in the eastern caribbean threatening a chain of islands including where the loop st kitts and nevis martinique and the british virgin islands it's expected to move further northwest later in the week

ahead rick and watches in effect in forty three as well as st martin st barts which were severely damaged by irma well maria is currently on course to reach the minicon republic and haiti by thursday both countries were largely spared by the worst effects of irma preparations for the arrival of maria taking place across the caribbean this is san juan the capital of puerto rico where residents are stocking up on fuel food and other essential supplies the island nation is still recovering from being hit by hurricane irma less than two weeks ago with many people still sleeping in shelters. and we'll get back to this into the owner has already filled up our six hundred gallon tank of gas for gold we never used it if we need it this time we've got it we're looking for panels now to cover the last dollars that remain unprotected ok if there are. a problem in parts of the electricity and water go out the power system is precarious. well hurricane harvey may be long

gone but it's left behind millions of tons of daybreak in texas getting rid of what is becoming a major public health concern is now a top priority allan shuffler is in houston to see how the big cleanup operation is going. it's a beautiful day for an ugly job and the trash collectors are out in force in houston working to clear away the rotting smelly reminders of hurricane harvey regular visitors are in use in the city cleaned up. only those who are doing johnny in haley say this load will be just the first to come out of their flood damaged home and they're delighted to see city crews at work be able to get their debris out here right now is a good sign it's a huge job of course trash haulers expect to move more than six point one million cubic meters of garbage or enough to fill one of the world's biggest football stadiums one and a half times and that is just for the city of houston. residents are being urged to

separate their garbage to make recycling easier setting aside electronic components like television sets for instance but most of these piles include all kinds of unsorted material and the city says that's ok too the point now is to move the trash if we can get himself or even get them pushed toward that. set up we'll but right now if they're mixed in their trailers under a piece of carpet then we're going to pick it up use and residents just glad to see the debris that's been growing mold in the hot texas. all the way. is going to be big relief here. but as the trash is removed outside it's clear there's still plenty of misery left behind city officials say this job could take three to four months allan shuffler al-jazeera houston. a

transport strike over new taxes has brought much of haiti to a standstill protesters took to the streets to demonstrate against the government's proposals all shops and schools were also closed government offices were technically open but most employees just couldn't get to work unions called the strike because of proposed new taxes on driver's licenses and floor. a new attorney general has been appointed in brazil at record eldad jailed replaces rodrigo gillard who only last week charged the president michelle temeraire with leading a criminal organization and obstruction of justice president temaru point of dodgin self overlooking the top nominee who is considered an ally of general. obeys bason the country is going through a moment of purification the members of the judicial system have respect and harmony between institutions they are the point of balance so that we can have a strong justice system for each concrete case. as chillis celebrates its

national independence day tensions are growing with bolivia its neighbor to the northeast bolivia has gone to the international court of justice trying to regain access to the pacific ocean after losing land to chile in a war more than a century ago the c.n. human has more now on the territorial dispute from the chilean desert pal of ya-ya way. this is the at that gamma the world's driest desert. one hundred thirty years ago destroyed barren expanse was part of bolivia. at 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 cost it's only access to the pacific ocean. plain cake the libyan minerals for the now heavy imports of making your list and out of africa from port hundred kilometers south of here to the libya free passage and it also gives it a corridor to the chilean port of id but one of the libyans that's not accorded up people is what libya's president devilment alice has made sovereign access to the pacific is 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 more analysis is dreaming is century and a half later or most is they want to research or learn third tory. they won. sovereign territory and that is unacceptable of course we're living in their twenty

first century is one of them but bolivian sists it will never give up its claims not just to a pacific order 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 the record low volume 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 m'donald who sells soft drinks to the border guards like most bolivians she too has a dream a little nervous 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 the 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 cedar or yeah with chile. once more to come in this news hour including general motors recalls more than two and a half million vehicles in china why the island of some hour has one of the world's unhealthiest populations despite its people being surrounded by fresh fruit and fish and then sport we'll look at how turkmenistan could benefit from hosting the biggest sports event in their history.

hello and welcome to international weather forecast and we'll start with europe we've got this deep low pressure center across the baltic states and given some really stormy weather we have had some severe storms affecting parts of southeastern europe remain in particular that seems to be easing at the moment western areas very unsettled too so we've got a low pressure dominating the whole picture down across the u.k. france iberia parish not doing too badly there were twenty seven in madrid but we've got some really severe storms like to be affecting parts of italy switzerland austria and down through into the baltic region heading on through into wednesday storm areas still very sending down through the adriatic just about hang on to warm weather across the southeast there is otherwise pretty chilly stockholm for instance eleven degrees as a maximum now as we head into north africa it's all looking fine indeed for karo temperatures a light to be on the rise over the next twenty four hours or so for central parts of africa is looking pretty much as we would expect at this time of the year with showers across the center for public towards cameroon west africa also

a circulation of low pressure could give some heavy rain there for some of the more western areas senegal and the gambia for instance bamako mali perhaps peaking out wanted to showers but for southern portions of africa weather conditions are looking dry and find it should be a pretty nice staying cape town with highs of eighteen degrees. in the next episode of science in the golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of medicine. science turned to be a good subject to bring different people from all over the work together. to such a magical that the more i learn about the more. i respect science in a golden age with professor jim miller at this time on a. germany is very and helps

where stunning scenery is playing host to europe's latest arrivals. separate in origin. they share a common roof and together dream of a german future. welcome to germany cafe volved a witness documentary at this time on ounces zero. time now for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has made his debut at the united nations ahead of the general assembly he pledged to help reform the organization to make it more

effective and and mismanagement kurdish leaders in northern iraq are pushing ahead with an independence referendum next week despite a ruling by iraq supreme court the suspend the vote. syrian government troops battling i saw have crossed the euphrates river and they're risking a potential standoff with the u.s. backed rebels on the other side. me on mars the fact a leader was supposed to be among the world leaders addressing the general assembly the seer but uncensored cheney is the site at the state home where she is expected to break her near silence on the military crackdown against her hand to muslim muslims in a televised speech the nobel peace laureate has become a lightning rod for criticism over the treatment of the ranger which the u.n. humanitarian chief has called textbook ethnic cleansing scott heiler has more now from bangkok. were known songs to choose party the national league for democracy

enjoyed a sweeping victory in two thousand and fifteen selection it was welcomed as a new chapter in myanmar's history a more democratic one after fifty years of government control by the military. but just over a year in office on song suchi is facing serious international criticism over the army's violent crackdown on the muslim rohingya minority in recovery and state for the most part has remained silent. this latest violence began after a hint of fighters who want to taunt me attacked multiple myanmar police post in an army base on august twenty fifth. since then four hundred thousand rohingya have fled across the border into bangladesh amnesty international called it a scorched earth policy by the army dozens of raping of villages were burned to the ground. on song suchi called some of the media coverage fake news and that there is an iceberg of misinformation. to take the minds disillusioned by her

recent actions some international observers feel she's not the same leader she was when fighting for democracy she entered essentially an informal compact whether she realizes or not when she asked for the world community to use your freedom and promote ours someone who believed in human dignity and the importance of every person and i think that now has been a real major letdown for the world community that perhaps she's not the person they thought she was perhaps you know she's we're negative on this compact a united states state department officials expected to attend televised address to the nation on tuesday the u.s. has called for more access to the conflict area for humanitarian workers and the press on sunday suit she is skipping the world's largest annual diplomatic gathering this week the united nations general assembly she says because of pressing issues at home many are eagerly anticipating her speech hoping she'll finally break her silence and fully address the rang

a crisis but don't expect her to call them or hang up that's a term the government does not recognize scott hodler al-jazeera. general motors has announced it's recalling more than two and a half million vehicles in china over concerns about faulty airbags the parts which are made by the japanese firm at the katha have the potential to inflate was too much force firing shrapnel at the driver and passengers it around has more now from beijing. rush hour in beijing a reminder that this is the world's largest auto market with almost thirty million vehicles on the road but now some of these vehicles are having to be recalled because of problems with their airbags specifically the airbag deflator is now according to some reports the air bags have been exploding when they come under too much pressure and they've been linked to sixteen deaths worldwide although no deaths so far here in china but.