the hot sun for the new season of the show the frank. from. this time now just hearing. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for us as you know it's very challenging we're going to be particularly because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories i'll just mandate is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. a brief moment of celebration in mexico city where one person has been pulled out alive from the rubble.

from doha holds a coming up. trying to make his way across the caribbean but the worst may not be over yet. at the u.n. very different messages on the iran nuclear deal from president. president rouhani . supporters of. spain's prime minister calls on leaders not to go ahead with independence but. another person's been pulled out alive from the rubble in mexico where rescue workers are searching for survivors of tuesday's earthquake more than forty buildings collapsed when the magnitude seven point one quake struck the eyes of the country have been focused on a school in mexico city where number of children trapped at least two hundred thirty people have died and three days of national mourning have been declared. as

found the bodies of at least twenty one children and four adults at one of the damaged schools more than thirty other people are still missing their reports from mexico city. in mexico city a desperate search to save lives continued through the night and into the morning. these used to be a school but the magnitude seven point one quake reduced to rubble bodies have been recovered the children and teachers. thousands of volunteers have taken a sense here today in mexico city in various sites where it is prolapse and also in another front right the way anyway just the way they came with rakes and shovels in which every two hours they could find we're here to say they said they're not going anywhere until they find more people alive the quake struck at lunchtime on tuesday course in five thousand to run to safety to tehran to the station captured in the moments afterwards people are say is the wreckage across the capital dozens of

buildings have collapsed the extent of that he says is now clear homes destroyed apartments and businesses but only damaged two million people without electricity and the nation again in mourning after another major earthquake shook the country a month for lies a down and is marcus warned not to light up because of gas leaks outside the capital many other towns and cities report white spray damage and it is the epicenter of the quake was in play a state about one hundred twenty kilometers from the capital more than a dozen where cleaned well it's going to point that you can do well there are fifty five total deaths reported but we want to cross check our data to see if there are more dead people sixteen of them are from home specifically did they make some people that taking part in groups on the any base every of another devastating earthquake in haiti two years ago that in thousands of september will now be a day of remembrance not just for one but for two the sisters and rescuers fear of

a number of families mourning the dead will rice. mexico city and just well puerto rico is no longer under a hurricane warning maria swept over the island as a category four but has now been downgraded in its wake the storm left behind widespread flooding and knocked out power to reports in the capital san juan. puerto rico's southeast coast was the first to feel the effects of hurricane maria but the entire country is now dealing with the aftermath of one of the most powerful storms to ever hit this island with winds of two hundred fifty kilometers per hour puerto rico was pounded for most of wednesday in san juan hurricane force winds ripped off roofs and blew out windows power has now been lost across the entire island puerto rico's ailing electricity grid is still recovering from hurricane erma it could be months before it's restored and the sun one that we knew yesterday is no longer there so we have to reconstruct rebuild reinvent and we have

to be restored and we have to push on. with our bodies with our hearts and when i was so puerto rico has long been spared from a direct hit as hurricanes tend to veer either south or north of the island the last direct hit from a category four hurricane was decades ago the nearby u.s. virgin islands also took a direct hit with many residents leaving before marie arrived. figure out where i was going to stay in puerto rico and i think a lot of people were in the same boat i mean you had everybody leaving from the d.t.i. people leaving from the u.s. . but i'm going to be. widespread flooding is now a concern as are mudslides in the islands mountainous regions the governor of puerto rico has now put a curfew in place as a rescue and recovery operation is launched with little communication it's hard to assess the damage but it may be this island's coastal communities and rural communities that took the worst of the damage as hurricane maria leaves

a path of destruction across puerto rico the recovery in this u.s. territory already dealing with so many challenges could be a long one and gallacher al-jazeera san juan puerto rico hurricane maria battered the dominican republic on wednesday causing major flooding thousands of people were moved away from coastal areas to shelters the eastern part of the country faced the strongest winds. now iran has been one of the focal points of the un general assembly on the wednesday while the signal signatories to the nuclear deal met in new york to discuss its progress iran's president addressed diplomats at the united nations hasan rouhani promised there be no changes to the deal to curb his country's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief michaela is following developments from the u.n. the iranian president arrives to address the general assembly well aware that president trumps tridents criticism of the iran nuclear deal is rejected by the

majority of u.n. members i got into awful but that's that now it would be a great pity if this agreement were to be destroyed by road newcomers to the world of politics the world will have lost a great opportunity by violating its international commitments the new u.s. administration only destroys its own credibility and undermines confidence in negotiating with it or accepting its word of promise. other signatories to the deal have cautioned president trump against unilaterally withdrawing from it so the closest one is this need to make this is an agreement that the us pushed for i think it's the best possible agreement president trump considers that this is not the perfect agreement but i don't understand what the alternative is that's a position shared by other signatories to the nuclear deal confirmed following a meeting of the joint commission proposal of action which monitors iranian compliance we all agreed on the fact that there is no violation that the nuclear.

program the nuclear program related aspects which is all the agreement are being fulfilled. the new agreement is about nuclear nuclear is fulfilled the agreement is the living so there is no need to reopen the agreements because it's fully delivering but the u.s. secretary of state says while iran may be technically compliant it is not fulfilling what he calls the spirit of the deal regrettably since the agreement was confirmed we have seen anything but a more peaceful stable region and this is the real issue and nash while we talk about iran defaulting on these expectations because those expectations clearly have not been met since that time iran has continued to prop up the assad regime and its horrible way in which it has brought violence to its own people that they ever get to continue doing gauge a malicious cyber activity they have aggressively developed and tested ballistic

missiles in defiance of u.n. security council resolution two two three one thereby threatening the security of the united states and the stability of the root of the region we must work together and confront together those who threaten us with chaos turmoil and terror. discords of our planet today is a small group of rogue regimes that violate every principle on which the united nations is based in equating iran with north korea president trump has raised yet another question he is unable to answer how could north korea except his after disarmament full recognition in good faith if he pulls out of a commitment made to iran by the us government back in two thousand and fifteen when our president trump appears to be conducting diplomacy along the lines of a reality show teasing the audience with the phrase frequently used in recent days

. actually. i have decided he says again i've decided i'll let you know what the decision is my kana al-jazeera united nations well hillary mann leverett is a former advisor to president george w. bush she says the u.s. has already undermined its own credibility. i think the way the trump administration is handling iran further poisons the water within which we have to deal with with with north korea but unfortunately that is already in a sense u.s. credibility has already been diminished not only with the u.s. invasion of iraq under false pretenses but also u.s. arms support for the rebellion in libya to overthrow the government there after libya had agreed to disarm its weapons of mass destruction programs so this is not something new in terms of u.s. credibility it is the rhetoric is much more pitched it's much more crass from the

but from the trumpet ministration but it's not new we saw this with the bush administration in iraq and we saw this with the obama administration in libya for north korea i think there are many analysts out there who dislike the north korean government but do not see it acting irrationally in its pursuit of nuclear weapons to defend itself from the united states which has proven interested in invading countries and changing regimes protests of turn violent and boss alone or off to supporters of an independence referendum took to the streets earlier spanish police raided regional government offices and arrested public officials the central government stepping up its pressure on catalonia which plans to hold people next month called penholder reports from boston on. the streets after the police raids. probably independence activists passed out saw it kathleen be told government

offices in barcelona moments after spanish security forces stormed the. police detained public officials in an operation aimed at blocking the independence referendum planned for october the first the spanish government is the ballot. in democracy my. speech just ended with smiles and flowers were not violent all we want to do is vote and vote in peace outside the kaplan finance department thousands chanted for the right to vote. but. it's very important to be outside our catalan institutions to defend them and all the people who believe in democracy in a separate raid police say they confiscated almost ten million referendum papers spanish prime minister mariano rajoy defended wednesday's grades and arrests. the government is for feeling this obligation and i have to say that we will

continue to do so until the end i think we are acting with proportionality after the things we have seen during the last few days in catalonia the head of the cattle and regional government insisted the separatist vote would go ahead. this aggression has no legal basis it was perpetrated by violating the rule of law and all of the constitutional guarantees and violating the e.u. charter of fundamental rights as the working day and thousands more protesters climbed on to the streets they are making it very clear they're not giving up their referendum without a fight. was. a few blocks away protestors faced down riot police at the political headquarters of the left wing c u p party security forces finally left without breaching the building. for ten days until the referendum the central government and capital analysts seem to be on

a collision course neither side has given any him and he's ready to back down help him down to zero possible split. vice president tells the u.n. general assembly. the state of california falls a lawsuit again and against a trumpet ministration we'll tell you why for the state. hello there the weather isn't quite quiet across the middle east at the moment the satellite picture isn't picking up a great deal of cloud atoll perhaps we'll see a few showers around the mountains here but away from there it's largely falling and dry the winds now a feeding down from the north so far marty around twenty five degrees will be our

maximum temperature for beirut the temperatures just nudged a little bit higher over the last day or so we'll get to around twenty nine thirty as we head through the next few days a bit further towards the south no massive change for us here in doha but slowly the temperatures are beginning to ease now so around thirty nine or forty degrees will be our maximum over the next day or cypress a lot of always kuwait here and that's thanks to that wind coming in from the sea bringing in more moisture and also bringing in a fair amount of cloud and for good times to further south and there's been quite a bit of sherry weather here recently as well the latest batch of that cloud as east as it worked its way north with a little bit more cloud around cape town there for thursday but still temperatures fairly decent getting to around twenty degrees all that does change there was we had through into friday bit of a change at all wind direction will drag down those temperatures so no high than around seventeen degrees force here is quite different to what's going on further north even talk that we all the way up at around thirty three degrees.

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welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here this hour rescue workers in mexico are pulled another person alive from the rubble searching for survivors of tuesday's earthquake more than forty buildings collapsed when the magnitude seven point one quake struck the country have been focused on a school in mexico city where number of children trapped. hurricane maria has been downgraded to a category two storm but it's still the strongest to hit puerto rico knocking out power and ripping off roofs at least nine people were killed by the storm across the county and. protests of turn violent in barcelona after supporters of the catalan independence referendum took to the streets spanish police raided regional government offices on wednesday dressed in public officials. second vice president has told the united nations that violence in rakhine state is easing and deny there been any fighting since september the fifth well the four

hundred twenty thousand range of muslims fled to bangladesh since a military crackdown began in myanmar late last month. has more from. on the bangladeshi border growing refugees are still crossing the border every day you could see from the bottom side the smoke rising in the villages people are crossing into maybe the pace is much smaller but they're still every day refugees are crossing into bangladesh where the vice president say that things are improving and the security forces. to avoid call are collateral damage rather well the case is if he is so confident why isn't the government allowing u.n. observer or international journalists in their fact that this could really clear up a lot of this information what they say is going on on the ground here situations are slightly improving in terms of relief operation but the supply of goods coming in from international aid agencies or even the community if we have to put it that

way is grossly inadequate people need weatherproof dance mobile toilets because the children are exposed to. various kind of infectious disease unless the relief material comes in much faster space to go auto fan and starvation and disease sense to be on the horizon japan has sent an anti missile system to the northern island of hokkaido it's in response to recent nuclear missile test by north korea. bryant is on the island. early morning good how could dieties port the squid boats of bringing back their catch from a night's work in troubled waters. the sea between japan and the korean peninsula is regularly targeted by north korea's missile tests some of the bigger boats are now getting insurance against an attack but there's only so much you can protect against propaganda to get i want to use them if the missiles nucular you can't do

anything about it you just finished. the two recent missile launches that passed overhead on their way to the pacific ocean i've added to people's anxiety. i worry for my son because he works on ships in the waters all the parents are worried. daybreak is the preferred time for missile launches. but now with the local military base newly arrived patriot missiles point skywards they can't do much against missiles passing hundreds of kilometers overhead but are meant as a defense against a direct attack on you here i feel safer but at the same time if they have to use missiles it means war has started. i'm afraid there will be another north korean missile test when the alarm is raise sirens go off in the street and people are alerted on their mobile phones in bigger cities there would be subways and

underpasses to go to but in how people are supposed to get indoors and take shelter as best they can at city hall the man whose job it is to prepare for another alarm is hoping north korea will finally stop its tests run in order to get an idea we know we are not the target but no one knows what north korea thinking and that is the scary thing. as last night's catch is auctioned off the fisherman prepared to go out once more not knowing what they'll face next in north korea's missile lottery rob mcbride al-jazeera japan. kenya's supreme court has blamed the electoral commission for its decision to annoy last month's presidential election the court judges say the body refused to allow them to scrutinize its computer servers which opposition leader said the hacked president who are kenyatta his reelection was a no this month and a rerun of. al-jazeera stephanie decker reports. these

are unprecedented times in kenya has been atmosphere of uncertainty ever since supreme court judges know the results of last month's presidential election. after twenty days of speculation and accusations since the result was an old kenyans were finally given specific details about why. this court's order. to seventeen. lives with no option but to accept. the petition claims that

the i.a.e.a. base says i too system was infiltrated and compromised supreme court judges blame the electoral body in charge of the elections the i.e.c. outside the courts opposition supporters demanded the a.b.c. the horns echoing the message of opposition leader raila odinga he says he won't take part in the election unless they're changes in the organization which runs it . a small stand off ensued and a handful of supporters of president who can yell to turned up police used tear gas to end it as the day went on the police presence increased security has been tightened around the supreme court they cordoned off some of the road but despite still at large crowds mazda for mayor most of them are supporters of the opposition candidate writing on the police are not taking any chances and they've come out on horseback something that you don't usually see very often in the. water cannon the free courts still going on hours and hours now getting into the details of what

exactly went wrong and all the action a long list of technical irregularities and questionable explanations both with the tally forms and the multi million electronic voting system from the. a.b.c. it's been lyndon b. king the chairman. and the head of the bridge. so it's been a. great race nobody seems to know it is. going to see is organizing what they're calling a fresh election between ryan and. currently planned for tobin seventeen but the french company in charge of the electronic voting system says it will be ready by then the i.d.c. is set to meet with both sides to decide what next election could be delayed but according to the. must be held by

a tube or the thirty first whether everyone's ready or not stephanie decker al-jazeera nairobi the united states says it strongly opposes the planned independence referendum by iraqi kurds. and u.s. state department is urging iraqi kurdish leaders to engage in negotiations with the baghdad government instead of going ahead with a vote on monday iraqi prime minister hyde our body has demanded the referendum be suspended calling it illegal. the u.n. envoy has announced a new push to break the political deadlock in the troubled north african state run salami set out action plans to amend a failed twenty fifteen peace deal. the un backed government of national accord set up under that deal has never fully established itself in tripoli libya has three competing governments aligned with a rival armed groups the country's been hit by violence since former leader moammar gadhafi was toppled six years ago. now the u.s.

state of california is suing donald trump's administration it filed a lawsuit to block plans to build a wall on the u.s. mexican border the wall was a central pillar of presidential campaign but the proposal is unpopular in california and other states which have large immigrant populations out as it was rob reynolds reports. with the existing border fence looming in the background california's attorney general javier basara said his state is suing the trumpet ministration to prevent it from building a more formidable barricade one which could cost more than twenty billion dollars we allege that they have violated that that trump in ministration violated several provisions of the u.s. constitution including the separate separation of powers doctrine and the tenth amendment. in california that's not going to fly last year donald trump won many votes with anti immigrant rhetoric and a promise to build

a wall one which mexico would be forced to pay for mexico's president enrique pena nieto has made it clear his country won't pay anything toward a wall it doesn't want. if the us president's dream is to become a reality it needs to be funded by congress at least initially the trump white house remains confident that will happen the united states of america has a border the united states government has the control of that border and a responsibility to secure it we would expect to be fairly successful in moving forward with a border wall as congress gives us the money to do so however california which is dominated by the opposition democratic party forms a potential legal bulwark against donald trump's plans and godly amount of money would have to be used to be spent on a wall that would be destructive to our environment destructive to our relationship

with mexico california has sued to trump administration more than two dozen times over several other contentious proposals including over the ban on immigration from predominantly muslim countries now the state is fighting to deny trump's determination to leave a physical legacy of his presidency robert oulds al jazeera los angeles brazil's supreme court has issued a second round of corruption charges against the president michel tema but the lower house of parliament will have the final say on whether he will face trial last month congress blocked a previous round of charges saving time out from a supreme court trial that could have removed him from office. now a supermarket in the u.k. has become the first retailer in the world to allow customers to pay for items using vein mapping technology the makers say the new biometric system will revolutionize the way we shop made barker explains how it works. it's called

finger pay it works by using a small infrared scanner to detect unique patterns of the veins of the person speaking the tips the information is then a link to a customer's bank details is being used for the first time with this supermarket to brutal university in west london where large numbers of students are eagerly registering their details if there's an easier method of a paying and it can reduce queue times and can speed things up i'm not having to wait to a.t.m. machines or i'm not having to rely on them and i carry my wallet or my bag of my cash then that's a win win for both the student perspective but also from from the university perspective fingerprint recognition technology is already widely use on things like mobile phones studies show that it's vulnerable to hacking a simple smear left on a device like this can be easily copied but starla the british firm behind this reader device to partnership with a japanese tech giant hitachi claims of

a technology carol because. you can't copy it like you can with a fingerprint it is much much more secure and in fact the numbers we're told are one in three billion of a chance that anybody is going to be able to have the same thing about so it's pretty secure and it also requires the finger of the person attached to be alive scanners are already used to access some high security buildings there are now plans to use the technology in many more shops as well as places that require membership like gyms or night clubs and even football grounds another step all finger to be precise tools can. al-jazeera london. the top stories here now just another person has been pulled out alive from the

rubble in mexico where rescue workers are searching for survivors of tuesday's earthquake more than forty buildings collapsed when the magnitude seven point one quake struck the eyes of the country have been focused on a school in mexico city where number of children trapped at least two hundred thirty people have died. ok maria battered the dominican republic on wednesday bringing widespread flooding the storm was downgraded to a category two system but it's still forcing thousands of people to move to shelters at least nine people have been killed puerto rico is no longer under a hurricane warning but maria caused damage across the u.s. territory bringing down power lines in a speech to the u.n. general assembly iran's president hassan rouhani said there'd be no changes to the nuclear deal between tehran and world powers the signatories to the agreement say there's been no violations but secretary of state rex tillerson said the u.s. will continue to put pressure on iran without breaking the terms of the agreement the agreement has this very concerning shortcoming that the president has mentioned

as well and that is the sunset clause where one can almost set the countdown clock to when iran can resume its nuclear weapons programs its nuclear activities and that's something that the president simply finds unacceptable protests have turned violent and bass alone or after supporters of an independence referendum in catalonia took to the streets. earlier spanish police raided regional government offices and arrested public officials in barcelona the central government stepping up its pressure on the region which plans to hold a vote next month. myanmar's second vice president has told the united nations that violence in rakhine state is easing and theo denied there been any fighting since september the fifth more than four hundred twenty thousand range of muslims have fled for safety to bangladesh since the military crackdown began in late last month brazil's supreme court has issued a second round of corruption charges against president michel tema but the lower

house of parliament will have the final say on any trial of the sitting president last month congress blocked a previous round of charges. from a supreme court trial but those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after witness statement that sort of. russian filmmaker under a necklace of continues his journey across his homeland to discover what life is like under putin during his travels he meets christians and muslims. and separatists i told the locals in the southeast. when i arrived i don't do something completely different some long to leave putin's russia but for other russian passport means hope and a chance of happiness in search of putin's russia at this time oh no jazeera.