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hello everyone mining's p.t.w. watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up it's happening again another storm downgraded to a category four slams into the caribbean. before tonight's a protest in the u.s. after another white police officer was acquitted of shooting dead a black man plus. caught on camera students in south africa turn to their mobile phones to defend themselves against abuse by their own teachers. after weeks of international condemnation the head of the government and me and my son suchi has addressed the plight of the country's range of muslims in her first national speech on the crisis over the past three weeks more than four hundred thousand have escaped violence sparked by

a military crackdown in rakhine state speaking to military officers and foreign dignitaries mr cheney refused to criticize the army and me and mom which many injured have accused of murder rape and burning their villages. it is not the intention of the government to apportion blame gauge responsibility we condemn all human rights violations and unlawful violence we are committed to the restoration of stability and rule of law throughout the state. the united nations has called the violence in rakhine state a textbook example of ethnic cleansing but she said the majority of muslims are not actually leaving the state human rights watch says at least two hundred ten villages have been burnt to the ground since the violence began on august the twenty fifth suchi said fifty percent of the villages are still intact and she said the unrest in rakhine is just one of the complexities facing what she called her

young and fragile country. or the head of a un inquiry into the violence in rakhine has asked for more time to investigate the allegations of human rights abuses against the ranger the fact finding missions chairman marzuki darusman says it's necessary to get a full and truthful account of what's happening policing an escalating situation in north america there is increasing outward load exponentially we are deeply concerned about a very private bank necessary to produce a report of the depth and quality that is expected by much. more respect. to consider extending our mandate by six months to september two thousand need. to naypyidaw and my colleague scott hyde let scott was this from one son suchi the right speech at the right time.

well i guess for some it would be well it's too late quite honestly and at the end to some here the reaction is it fell it fell a bit short or a great deal short of what it was it's very it's a you know because there's been such international condemnation call for her to speak out against what was happening in the recliner state in her country and she finally did address that it's kind of interesting you know this was billed to peter as an address a national address address to the nation here from the nation's capital but she spoke in english and the audience was primarily diplomats army brass and also some other people from n.g.o.s in the united nations so the audience clearly was an international audience for this and you know when you look at what she said it was very kind of broad topics as you mentioned peter was she kind of reflected back on you know how difficult period this is for the nation it's just coming into democracy it's a young democracy she's only been in power she said less than. eighteen months so

she kind of built this big picture but then she really didn't get into the nitty gritty of what's happening in her country and why more than four hundred ten thousand people have fled the western part of the country in the bunga deck that is where i've been hearing some of the criticisms coming from she talked about what will happen what she'll try to make happen and that is bringing some back repatriating them but that's a very long process and a very difficult process with henjak who are essentially a stateless stateless people because a lot of them don't have citizenship here because the government doesn't recognize them so it's a very difficult process she said that's going to be one of the solutions but where some of that condemnation comes from from this speech is the fact that there needs to be immediate immediate assistance for those hundreds of thousands of refugees just across the border in bangladesh horrible conditions and bound to get even worse later she also seems to be saying scott i'm going to play the clip you know this is a. situation of claim and counterclaim use what she was saying. there

have been allegations and come to allegations and we have to listen to all of them and we had to make sure that these allegations are based on solid evidence before we kick action very difficult scott to establish the idea of solid evidence there when some of the evidence has literally been burnt to the ground and nobody has cell phone footage of allegedly for example the me and ma military placing landmines in the areas that the range of a fleeing from. absolutely burned to the ground you know more than forty percent of muslim villages in this part of her kind have been reported to have been burnt to the ground two hundred ten so you have that exact lab a lack of evidence if you will peter but you also have a lack of eyewitnesses you know you've got the eyewitnesses who fled those who experience this horror but then you don't have much media access there but a couple of very controlled media trips to these areas of violence over the last

couple of weeks but then since then it's been sealed off it's been sealed off to the media for the most part but also the humanitarian organizations who need to get in there for the people who are still there but then also the see what has been happening on song suchi in today's speech is that she will open that and she actually called on the international community for assistance in this and help by going to these places and seeing what is happening how to prevent this from spreading how to prevent it from happening again but again these are going to be very controlled government trip so to get that evidence peter absolutely the government here has control over it obviously the united nations human rights council has asked for it you know you got to kofi anon a commission that studied the issue before this latest violence and they had a very specific list of things that they thought should happen this the government here says they'll start to implement those but again we're not seeing that much action straightaway but again the most immediate need right now we need to keep underlining is what's happening with those refugees in bangladesh peter scott listless for a second just flesh that idea that you will get you're going to want

a couple minutes ago when she was talking about it being a young democracy. reality young. democracy facing many problems but we have to cope with them at the same time in the way that we have to cope with our health problems at the same time we cannot just concentrate on the few. do you have the sense scott that this speech could have been a one inch pot it could have been look i condemn the violence please return to come home i will guarantee your safety and i think certain parts of this country are to blame for you instead of which she's kind of in a way exposed what we think or we interpret her relationship as being with the military and maybe the fact her critics are saying the same thing maybe the fact that she's actually enjoying at some level being a politician having spent all those years under house detention.

absolutely and it's a combination of those peter i believe now you look at you know in speaking to some people and even even traditional allies of myanmar and those who nations who have stood by myanmar over these last couple of weeks months of the range of situation saying it's an internal issue i spoke with the russian ambassador to myanmar and he said it's a good first step that this is down the path but many more steps need to take place so you look at it that way that yeah this is just the beginning and one thing that's very interesting to the kind of paint the pictures you're saying before she was a. politician on the outside an advocate for democracy in the am on the outside now she's on the inside and she has to play the game here and the game is still heavily weighted toward the military and their force and their power within the government so she has to play that game but one thing that's interesting when you look at her party the n l d and the rigging it hinges situation and how the government's handled them over the years this isn't not looking at what's happening with the

violence but the way they approach it not recognizing them officially not officially giving them citizenship is something that they've a stance they've had all the way through so when you look at politically this wasn't a complete right turn for her and her party stance on dealing with the rain just in recovery and obviously that's a different story when you see this violence and this mass exodus over to bangladesh that's a separate issue but at least overall how they're viewed as a people the right hand here in the country even her party didn't recognize him peter scott many thanks to you later. another big story the electronic voting system will not be ready in time for the rerun of the kenyan presidential election next month the french supplier says it needs more time to properly install the system following the void result in august supreme court judges blamed voting irregularities for the reelection of president over kenyatta he's campaigning along with his arch rival reloading for the planned rerun on the seventeenth of october

live now to our correspondent stephanie decker who's in nairobi how do they make sure this next election is free and fair and aboveboard stuff. well it's a million dollar question all the the institutions involved in this the ib see that the electoral commission and you know as you mentioned there the french company in charge of the electronic systems also that they've done internal audit that everything is back on track and that they're now going to undertake these next elections free fair and exactly is what you said but the opposition has an issue with what with this what they're saying is that there have been no changes to those institutions the exact ones that held the last elections that were deemed you know full of irregularities we still don't know exactly what is deemed irregular by the supreme court we're waiting for their decision on thursday but it is a very sort of uncertain times here peter people haven't been here before and i

think it's interesting we've just had a statement issued by the heads of mission these are countries like the united states of the european union sweden the netherlands all host of nations saying basically that where they respect the free and fair elections that kenyans wait to go to the polls but they're making a point that the recent months i'll just read a bit says there's been an upsurge in fake news in hate speech and ethnic profiling and that there's been an increase in attacks on the judiciary and the ib see this is the electoral body and also on themselves because of course the word service and urging all sides to refrain from this kind of incitement and hate speech and this is interesting because there is this whole back and forth between all sides peter politicians supporters in the media which can be quite aggressive towards each other we also speak to spoke to one organization that monitors fake news online they were telling us that they have never seen kenya this divided that there is incredible vitriol on both sides it is politically organized and that it can be

very very dangerous so this is the atmosphere really that we're finding ourselves and it's very interesting that they've now issued this statement to try and calm things not the street is agitated or anything but there is. that sort of potential for the politicians to ignite the streets are basically they're saying to all sides just to calm down and try to get these elections back on track briefly stephanie to get the sense here that this election system the electoral system is now an election issue when there are serious questions say over the state of the economy well absolutely this is what people will tell you they just want to get this done because this is a limbo phase as i said they haven't been here before there's all this back and forth but when it comes to the people you know there's a lot of uncertainty now foreign investment is going down the economy is not doing well tourism is down it's not a good point for the people there so when you have all this finger pointing and insults on behalf of the politicians and it is constant peter watching this i

haven't really covered kenyan politics before it's quite extraordinary to see what kind of language is used constantly letters being issued fingers pointed when it comes to the people they just want to get on with their lives they want to be able to feed their families and this is affecting them directly so i think it is something important while we talk about the politicians it is important for this country moving forward to be seen that these elections are going to be free and fair and that whoever loses except that thanks stephanie. hurrican maria has left a trail of destruction on the caribbean island of dominic up the prime minister roosevelt skerritt used facebook to say this initial reports of widespread devastation so far we've lost all that money can buy and replace my greatest fear for the morning is that we will wake to news of serious physical injury and possible deaths as a result of likely landslides triggered by persistent rains well islanders are preparing for the worst elsewhere in the caribbean including the u.s.

territory of puerto rico dynasty brooke is there. hurricane maria barreled towards the eastern caribbean islands packing two hundred sixty kilometer per hour winds it intensified to a rare category five hurricane with dominica in its path hurricane warnings were posted for dominica guadalupe st kitts and martin eak we do in the home to trust the system and. that's something very common no. i mean i'm not the best you know when this thing you know this storm is heading towards many of the islands that were devastated a little more than a week ago by hurricane earl on the u.s. virgin islands residents emptied store shelves waited in long lines for fuel loaded up on plywood and began preparing their homes for another possible disaster. right from the. that they like to get. in is when you didn't want to take them down will be. there waiting for their rooms

and. maria is on a track that would put it over the u.s. territory of puerto rico by wednesday and could be the most powerful hurricane to hit the island in eighty five years diane estabrook al-jazeera. still to come here on al-jazeera organizes a hong kong's twenty fourteen democracy process to appear in court once again. hello there we've had plenty of showers over the southeast in parts of asia recently the satellite picture is showing some particularly lively he ones over the southern parts of vietnam and there stretching down towards the southwest more very heavy rains in this region as we head through the next few days generally speaking though in the southeast where you find the brighter weather so for the southern

parts of borneo through job and into bali that should be plenty of dry weather although the clouds are gathering a little bit in the western parts of java there for thursday so you might just catch a shower in jakarta but further south and there's a fair amount of cloud here drifting its way slowly towards the east not bringing us massive amounts of rain but a few breaks here and there it is also dragging down the temperatures so here comes that cloud then on wednesday ahead of it bit of sunshine twenty two degrees there in adelaide but then the system sweeps its way across us a change in the wind direction will ensure adelaide doesn't get any hotter than around ninety degrees for a woman force in sydney where up to twenty four and still no rain for us now from new zealand we've had a spiraling area of low pressure affecting us for the past couple of days but that's trying to move away as we head through wednesday so things are looking a little bit drier for tall i'm but then we see this next belt of rain work its way across us that we've been exe of various we can reengage on terms more favorable to the united states back at the climate summit exasperate at the uncertainty over the

implementation of the paris accord it would be great if the president would join the join the movement he's not there yet he believes this whole thing that we're talking about when all the scientists are publishing thousands of papers is all a hoax and it's a hoax invented in china he believes that well elsewhere diplomats saying all they can do is take trumpet his word. but you don't we have heard the declarations made by president trump and his intention not to respect the agreement and we can only hope to convince him in the long run for now america plans to pull out of the world's leading climate accord at least today but check back tomorrow gave rosendo . new york. a full nights of protests have been held and sent lewis in the us and more arrests were made following the acquittal of a white former policeman accused of murdering a black suspect john hendren has the story the days of been filled with peaceful

protests the nights with conflict and sometimes violence rain did not stop a fourth night of demonstrations. this time protesters collected bail money outside the jail. not since a st louis court on friday declared a white officer not guilty in the two thousand and eleven killing of a black man suspected of dealing drugs protesters here have sought to disrupt business as usual officer jason stokley was accused but not convicted of planting a gun near the body of anthony lamar smith after shooting him before the shooting he was recorded as saying he was going to kill the suspect it's a scene that's all too familiar here in st louis the suburb of ferguson erupted into weeks of protests in two thousand and fourteen after a white officer fatally shot michael brown an unarmed black teenager was

a problem when someone is an american problem this is a problem that's not an all over the country any number of african-american men and women who have suffered all sorts of injustice at the hands of police officers. shop owners here boarded up after several stores were damaged so we will protect the rights of people who protest demonstrate and have their opinions heard. we draw the line though of violence each night as the sun has gone down protesters and police have gotten active and business owners have grown nervous police on bicycles and in riot gear lined the streets some saying protesters sprayed them with a mystery chemical after dark the agitators outnumbered the peaceful demonstrators the unruly crowd became a mob. this mob was intent on destroying or damaging property.

assaulting police officers and setting fires demonstrators say it was police who repeatedly attacked them and the police used a lot of unnecessary force grabbing people biting them in holding them in stress positions with their retirement isn't an arresting them for what looked to me like no discernible reason that i could see the demonstrators say they will continue to fill the streets here and everywhere it happens john hendren al jazeera st louis. china and russia holding joint military exercises chinese naval fleet arrived in the russian port city of lot of our stock close to the border with north korea thirteen russian and chinese warships are taking part in the exercises china correspondent a dream brown from beijing. well the timing of these naval exercises come as the military's of south korea and the united states have also been holding war games

now both russia and beijing say we shouldn't read too much into these naval drills they've been happening every year for the past five or six years but of course it does underscore once more that militarily russia and china are moving much closer together even though formally they have no military alliance now analysts say that perhaps the intended target of these war exercises involving russia and china was japan and that once more underscores the complicated tensions in northeast asia right now and of course monday marks the eighty sixth anniversary of japan's invasion of northeast china a very sensitive anniversary in china now these naval exercises involve not just warships but also submarines and once more it demonstrates that china and russia are very close and that is borne out by the increasingly close relationship between president xi jinping and president. vladimir putin on the diplomatic front china

has once more warned that military action military threats will not resolve the crisis on the korean peninsula those comments came from china's foreign ministry spokesman and were in response to comments that have come earlier from the u.s. defense secretary jim matters also president xi jinping and president donald trump have held a further telephone conversation their second in less than two weeks north korea of course figured high on the agenda both leaders saying they remain committed to enforcing sanctions against north korea but president xi jinping also saying once more that diplomacy and negotiation had to be given a chance as well. nine pro-democracy activists in hong kong have appeared in court for a pretrial hearing they're charged with conspiracy to commit a public nuisance for their roots and protests in twenty fourteen sarah clarke

reports now from hong kong. today is the much anticipated pretrial hearing that nine made about this including the founders of occupy home mom movement made by. this and legal academics. have been charged with inciting public nuisance for their roles. like tests which shut down. today right about civics and. rally that's not the quartet's can hear behind me they're watching this case very very very closely and last month three students including a high profile job. you can set up right behind. my long hiatus back in twenty four for more time to investigate the allegations of human rights abuses against the revenger the fact finding missions chairman says it's necessary to get a full and truthful account of what's happening. placing an escalating situation in north america in there is increasing our weird load exponentially we are deeply

concerned about ability to a very private bank necessary to produce a report our depth and quality that is expected by march we will respect. to consider extending our mandate by six months to september two thousand and eighteen the company behind the electronic voting system for kenya's presidential election rerun next month it won't be ready on time the french supplier says it needs more time to properly install the system following the void result in august supreme court judges playing voting irregularities from the reelection of president two who are kenyatta. american maria is heading for the u.s. territory a puerto rico after jam and other islands in the caribbean dominico was hit when maria was a category five hurricane and the island's prime minister says quote all that money can buy is lost or he has now weakened briefly to

a category four storm but has now regained strength it's now categorized as being back up to category five. donald trump is due to make his first speech at the united nations general assembly in new york in just a few hours time he made his debut at the u.n. on monday warning the world body isn't living up to its potential the u.s. president lane bureaucracy and mismanagement but also promised to help reforms. nine pro-democracy activists in hong kong have appeared in court for a pretrial hearing charged with conspiracy to commit a public nuisance for their roles in protests and twenty four teen if convicted they could face up to seven years in jail. those are your headlines up next science in a golden age james here top of the hour i'm back after that. modern

high tech advances in medicine and health are of course the result of many centuries of development research and experimentation much of which took place in the islamic world between the ninth and fourteenth centuries a golden age of science during this time scholars in the islamic world made huge contributions to medicine and created a body of knowledge that was tremendously important and influential around the world for many hundreds of years i'm jim al-qaeda which is professor of theoretical physics.