hello i'm don jordan in doha with a quick reminder the top stories here al-jazeera north korea's foreign minister says his country may consider a hydrogen bomb test in the pacific ocean follows new sanctions imposed by u.s. president donald trump on top of those passed by the u.n. north korea responded to those sanctions and speech of the u.n. earlier this week with a rare statement from leader kim jong il said his remarks which describe the u.s.

options have convinced me that the path i chose is correct and that it is the one i have to follow to the last we will consider with seriousness exercising a corresponding highest level of hardline countermeasure in history i will make the man holding the prerogative of the supreme command in the u.s. paid dearly for his speech calling for totally destroying the d.p. r. k. . kathy novak is following developments from the south korean capital seoul. this was the north korean foreign minister speaking to reporters in new york after that statement issued by the leader kim jong un talking about the highest level of countermeasure and what that could possibly mean the foreign minister says he is he's not sure what it would mean but it could mean the detonation of a hydrogen bomb in the pacific so this would indeed represent an even higher escalation of tensions that are already externally high here on the korean peninsula the unification ministry was asked about this comment here in seoul this morning and said that once again this is an example of provocations followed by

sanctions followed by more provocations and that south korea is calling on north korea to stop those provocations now of course simply calling on north korea to stop hasn't had any effect in the past and we've heard from kim jong un today saying that this latest language in the latest sanctions coming from donald trump the united states and the united nations only reaffirms to him he says that the path north korea is taking is the correct one as far as south korea is concerned it is continuing to urge for a peaceful solution bangladesh's prime minister has used her address at the u.n. general assembly to push the international community on the recent crisis shake a scene once the u.n. to help establish some sermons for people who fled the violence in myanmar's rakhine state. she says four hundred thirty thousand range of muslims fled to her country since a military crackdown in myanmar began last month. we are horrified

to see that the million marrus already are laying land mines along their stretch of the border to prevent the road from returning to me and mark. these people must be able to return to their homeland in safety security. and dignity. at the same time i condemn all kinds of terrorism and violent extremism to. the death toll from mexico's earthquake has risen to two hundred seventy three mexico's president believes there still could be people alive in ten buildings that collapsed in tuesday's quake rescue crews are working around the clock to reach an adult trapped under the rubble of a school in mexico city hurricane maria has been upgraded to a category three storm as it makes its way to the turks and caicos islands and the bahamas puerto rico bore the brunt of memory and on thursday residents are now returning to find extensive damage to their homes the northeastern part of the island was hardest hit parts of the u.s.

territory are expected to be without power for months the u.n. has added its voice to the growing opposition to a controversial referendum in iraq's kurdistan it says the vote planned for monday could destabilize the region so far demands to call off the poll have not been heeded hundreds turned out for pro independence rally now bill iraq central government has dismissed the vote as illegal cody's delegation is set to visit baghdad on saturday to discuss possible alternatives. protests are showing no sign of letting up in spain's catalonia region with thousands of independence supporters are running outside a courthouse in barcelona. they're demanding the release of counted on government officials detained of next month's independence referendum spain's prime minister has called the vote illegal and says they'll be consequences if it goes ahead but counting on the government says it's time to hold the poll anyway. those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after al-jazeera with state of

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a world that can be dominated by men but as and see saddam and assad made up the crew of as. they are in their boat were named after a constellation of stars. i don't look at them. but i know both of them. but run over them with a god now i still have. kerry i can't say hey i've got to go here but how to have my gun evidence in the car even i wouldn't. going to beat any that i had invaded her how one can white coat it. with the head do look at us as a little. even numbers of how to say i says and how they. land in a. do that and we stand i was do that she could. have been any damage if you.

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and i mean no our. cottage on both teams for what i want to pot. in the mafia. i'm on sale is funded by the government and started in two thousand and eight its stated aim is to revive our month's merry time heritage promote the country internationally and quote use the power of sport to contribute to the development of the almighty people. they're calling it but at the open then i. thought i brought my mind of how to do let it go and if you have been there and.

i love to look at them to know. a woman doesn't. need a damn time i need to have a. i would probably consign home collapsed on him i don't want out of that interview in a column w. often that. when i joined the company a year and a half ago those women would just starting to do some racing and it was just a one off opportunity but then they did so well the idea was such a good one that it was decided we should we should let them continue they enjoyed

it. it's hard work but they seem to like that. having. this point here we. want. constantly been my theme been my camp the same mad about the. men who've been out to look on and help and get on the ice

the minute my. brain was just had to. make in detail. as the they had been there had been a feeble gamera almost half of mr way at the telling me of an exam i will install some of the thunder we are in and sun am in bed. with. jeff toobin i was just sort of. in that i thought i. feel left about all sort of. the but i thought. i was what. i was a book and nothing just i'm just like i work i'm done with it then the resume has

a fox i was in a can a little file and sleep would. have been a part of the live hit that i would miss. the young women had to pass an initial training stage in order to be accepted at home and say. thank you. i cannot. and this about her going to look i'm. just a. kid doesn't agree why we got on with the guy getting all the data on why every day when you get. there with a wife you got a good fantasy. with. a smile and you think and wife but i don't wear the honey. and local t.v. got a warning for happen be a hand gun watch a video write me and. you make sure your flea. gets more typical after that was on

most of us in march. so we had it's going from the high forwards of our. sharon is says progress out at sea was unfortunately affected by an untimely illness but the company offered her a job on dry land in the education center now she teaches young children about the sea and tries to inspire other young armani's to get involved in sailing. i think it would be. better.

than as. a man has over three thousand kilometers of coastline and so has always had a close relationship with the seat and not just through fishing. pearl diving goes back centuries before the common era and the ground stretched along the coast beyond the strait of hormuz that separates it from. by the one thousand nine hundred twenty the centuries gulf pearls were among the most highly sought after and brought in considerable revenue. but was an exclusively male domain. for.

business. and. it was. this stereotype is that men go to sea to fish and that women stayed home to keep house. but some parts of our money society have always challenged that common belief in them which demand they get.

he. would. not be you. know our money in the. woman i would get. the way in which gulf countries for spawn to change is a question they wrestle with on an almost daily basis how to maintain traditions in the face of rapid growth and miners station and how to balance local values with outside influences. different countries adopt varying approaches as do individual families. and what.

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a well i don't know ruger. i think the reaction has been great because i think the most important thing that we've shown people with very very. women's program and that's not just the race team but all all the program is you can be a very. good woman in the traditional sense you know you can you can be. a wife you can be your daughter you can be a mother but you can also have this adventure you can also learn to sail and teach other people than inspire people and i think because we've shown that you can do both. you can still you can still be. good i'm only a woman and also a very talented so going off around the world showing a showing everybody how how strong people are.

the young women and their families had to think carefully about the effect their sam lee would have on family life and whether it might affect their marriage prospects or responsibilities in the future. set up the clip of a silent miscall and then. as work with what i want to have the. results have been a man out of this was that i gave a sphere some part of what he. was. and could i let you have been my having. got. a one. off. ahead. and when any within. the saw and saw what has happened and for them and.

role models are important in sport especially for young people. the most successful sportswomen in a man has been the tennis player fata and the panel. and then he gets an eye to form an opinion they are. manila's that within a human a human can within her maybe even a normal reality rigby ac with me that's when my salary of shakey did that when i had. forgotten the. you know so i thought i saw on there how. someone who didn't how was and if some fun. assure us enough of my on him. they. got away with the facade where. the heck couldn't go had run out of food. at the one of them. and the pennies are man's number one tennis player

she started playing at the age of forty and at her best in two thousand and ten was ranked three hundred sixty two in the world. she still plays an international tennis federation tournament and is a successful doubles player winning in las palmas in spain in august twenty seventh . for as she is a role model. well i. have a stake in the friend and the second in the head funny. and that's a man and a cornfield. but

public support from high profile figures like men and the panel did not guarantee except insofar by every sector of our money society. even the men's team sometimes attracts opposition. hannaman into by the way the distance the model into a car that i am on the money will have the union if footmen is in the mess and i just. had a full length. in the mail. been done. to her but for. my fishy. oh. fuck off never.

is that an office of the kind with. the with an. apollo accept them and coffee the what going under. in a lot of on a shoot or how watching. me in the. garden when steve go with and. i'm going to run out them at the what's my home for them and complete the what could be a company. i'm watch going on and how can i. make an online art of going out and. the girls come along and they work just as hard as the boys and if they lose to the boys then they say write tomorrow you know tomorrow we win so it's it's it's it's interesting all i see is someone who's driven someone who's committed and somebody wants to work so i find it very difficult to tell them apart to be honest. coming up in part two these are many

women became about something more than just going out to sea in boats. when mum has been with them now when she. may be not the sort i had on a bit of a yet i'm a foreman in the not to do in a month and not in number four. and number three for us and what i've been kind of talk to. them a full manassas. and the impact made when they took part in international competitions at the end of the regatta they were. going up to go and saying to them ok respect you know well you know you have all respect i have been sailing for twenty five years you've been

sailing for one year. and you've been. i just want to make sure all of our audience is on the same page when they're on line and what pollutes the u.s. citizens here and what puts people of iraq by one and the same or if you join a sunset i was never put a file then look at differently because i'm darker than all the people but i'm a lot this is a dialogue tweet us with hash tag a.j. stream and one of their pitches might make a connection join the global conversation this time on al-jazeera. for decades puerto rico schools of being crumbling beneath the weight of massive debt now one hundred seventy nine due to close for good the largest closure of schools

in the history of this u.s. territory is a frightening development this elementary school will remain open but will take in one hundred fifty of the twenty seven thousand students due to be relocated that's double its current student body over the last decade enrollment of puerto rico schools has dropped by more than forty percent as families continue to leave those left behind often don't have the means to follow suit but ultimately it's now puerto rico's poor communities that are paying the price for this island's staggering debt. from the tropics of southeast asia to the feral islands in the far north atlantic when i went east meets the women who crossed the world for love and state to change a community. at this time and out to zero. now . germany is very analogous where

a stunning sceneries play host to europe's latest arrivals. separate in origin. share a common room. and together dream of a german future. welcome to germany cafe vald left a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. with your top stories on al-jazeera north korea's foreign minister says his country is considering a hydrogen bomb test in the pacific this follows new sanctions imposed by the us president donald trump on top of those passed by the un the e.u. and china are also stepping up measures against pyongyang over its nuclear program . the prime minister of bangladesh has used her address to the united nations

general assembly to push the international community about the crisis shaikh has seen no wants the u.n. to help establish safe zones for people who fled the violence in myanmar as rakhine state she says four hundred thirty thousand range of muslims have fled to her countries since the military crackdown in myanmar began last month. we are horrified to see that the million marise already are laying landmines along their stretch of the border to prevent the rohingya go from returning to me on mine. these people must be able to return to their homeland in safety and security and dignity. at the same time i condemn all kinds of terrorism and violent extremism to. the death toll from the mexican earthquake has now risen to two hundred seventy three the president believes there still could be people alive in ten buildings that collapsed in the quake on tuesday rescue crews are working

around the clock to reach an adult trapped under the rubble in a school in mexico city. hurricane maria has been upgraded to a cracked agree three storm as it makes its way to the turks and kickoffs islands and the bahamas puerto rico bore the brunt of maria on thursday people are returning to find extensive damage to their homes the northeastern part of the island was the hardest hit parts of the u.s. territory are expected to be without power for months. protests are showing no sign of letting up in spain's catalonia region with thousands of independent supporters are running outside a courthouse in barcelona there demanding the release of cattle and government officials detained over the next months independence referendum spain's prime minister mariano rajoy has called the vote illegal and says there will be consequences if it goes ahead but local leaders in cattle and insist the poll will happen those are your headlines the news continues after al-jazeera world i am back

with thirty minutes of world means top of the hour see that. four young women in our mine took part in a government initiative to widen their horizons and develop their skills by training to sail competitive. it was part of an ongoing national strategy to put our man on the global map and open up opportunities for young armani's even if it meant challenging some gulf stereotypes. the crew and the boat took their name. from a constellation of stars. but they mean. the little. bit of condition of the for a year by then. and then i got

a heart from them a lot of it. is my thought here who is a midget to get them. home because. you suggest in a month. yeah. when crew took part in the muskets regatta in two thousand and eleven it was their first big race as a team. and the. market they've been.

sampling can be a sport for different shapes and sizes as with other sports mental resilience is just as if not more important than physical strength. and. not about sport for women because you don't have to be the strongest. if you're strong helps but there's positions on the boat where actually we need someone to be as small as possible we need the tallest we need the smallest we need someone strong we need someone very gentle the most important thing you need for sailing is you need a good mind if you go to a good mind and you can understand the game then then there's a position on the boat for you to ten men ships to ten men shed a little levy and it. will be it will be fleet feel here. ten men lead going and. teamwork not going to head going to get the most.

would idea and so we might add so we went to we have other that have had. places that haven't been any i'm the other but any of the anything i've said enough to say. it does it does this about. the henman magnet is that the head out of the fantasy for those at the hands of those to live in the. i think you're at a new cures to head the i would have to had to that women in sailing in general there is the perception that women are not as strong. and nor does dedicated and therefore they'll be they'll be easy to beat but we've had a wonderful some of this year with the girls of going round to europe on good racing and they competed in

a world championship and there was at the end of the regatta there were male teams going up to the girls and saying to them ok respect you know well done you know you have all respect i have been sailing for twenty five years you've been sailing for one year. and you beat me and hopefully you know the goals realize that even though you're starting in a position where people don't believe that you will be a good competitor when you are they are so impressed that you have their respect for life.

the my. uncle and one of them. and it's going to. let any one get out that they could have loved the didn't bit the foreign policy doctors say and if so what you did had. arabia tore it in two thousand and twelve started and. went past. and the united arab emirates. and didn't know how much. the four and thirty a women joined for professionals for the race to make a crew of eight. with

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of professionals. in. a saucer up at the month's going to see. the most of what through the window. i mean behind. but how this should come up but in john's been spotted in the i'll do a sausage for you from somebody at the loo and he only had. some money you know it had to have the money but it hasn't been any it up in. a month and he's going to call the butt to get started but the cop on the right look i'm not going to. get his and you and inch and so what. you've been so we listen to each other. within. and so we judge my on coming so soon you've gotten full aka.

apart from gender driving motivation and the mix and chemistry of the team are all key factors in mold seen a successful crew accession move the had to begin immediately no shabab acquirement know. what the home was a one with all the men sit. behind. the scenes where she father. was sent home to lend them money for if i. don't want to have one also haven't been the one has really worked each one is a little different. they're all very individual we have some girls who are very very quiet very calm under pressure but inside their own ways thinking when it goes badly for them we make a mistake we don't do very well you when you see them getting upset we have all the girls that always like to joke and always like to turn everything into

a smile and laughter but when we start the race. everyone becomes very serious and everyone becomes very very driven on the. ways an atmosphere of next time we do even better next time we do it better. as well as empowering these young armani women in ways they didn't imagine possible sandlin enabled them to develop as people. yeah.

way to she i need that i have a teeny kid my nephew. can do much to my you oid this is him lot of anatomy and they are so how can be any. good on the committee j.t. on a was a media. and professional. so why not the. assessment and in the office a welcome one j.t. ward hundred the one of j. toward jib not hands and what had to say when. someone. with broken have a come to know the skin of having to been a member of the hanna milan agree so we don't have

a hand with it. it was the first woman sailing team in the whole gulf region. they set out to change perceptions of women in the region by doing the same thing as the men in the same conditions. but it was about more than just yacht racing they wanted to move barriers to achieve something different. has been with. well. you know. maybe not the sort i had to want to be. in with a lot of. the

december. for. us. the. at the. athens a lot of. that have see first sales competitively in two thousand and twelve and july twenty third. in the world competition i must say. a month later she became the first of many women to compete in the fastnet race and . send them.

we send them and. because of the britney see the know how the car. kind of an aspiring i want to feel caught a. cot above must send them. a shot when you can't watch it from hannah had any welcome to. any model for no. seat other. but how. about a quote and motivational. talk and so we would be fought how did i know you cannot or before had come and gone and for a year or sidney or thought i seem kind of monitor him dylan know i was the.

one of the check on among them. done or. done and if in a pot i set him to death so i want to comment about what i. thought it meant because i thought you know they're not a bit. a lot of. that. in two thousand and thirteen was the first time i had competed outside the. class size of. going to france was a major speech and development.

that will come. at the risk of and so we could rebut that seebach shark it will elena. i have a horse. and sheriff a dollar. sheriff. and so and so was so so in just almost i went in just for the simple reason so we say and in if. there was. a minute. i had a shot at. the war so and this woman said she and our friends that would end but if you. and. your blood intend to get much out there much our value and it. and. and so on but. then again when i come back to american most only but when i can all but i do know she.

doesn't as and if you tell her she had got much. harder and not let me. give it to you. i cannot be. only. what i would really what i would really like the authorising to do and if i if i leave him on sale twenty years' time you know look back what i want the author writing to do is to show other people. women men via vision is a good adventure it's hard work but if you work hard you race against other people around the world and you earn their respect there is there is nothing better than that it is something really special to have people say

well you know you were impressive you really you know i respect your talent and that's what this team is about it's about hopefully some children looking at the team and think it will maybe maybe that is for me maybe i should work hard enough that i can go to a world championship with your mom flag or you know on my back and show everybody how strong we can be. as today i gradually began to see themselves as role models and that they had a responsibility to send example to other young are many women who might follow in their footsteps in the future. and that is a console human am i want morrow money at the phone and a reality to live. and get i thought that they landed in. my theory but the big thing for all of us and that's the same for the girls is hopefully we

don't want to be the only thing we want to show everybody that it's possible it's possible to be to be a good arab woman and to be a fantastic athlete as well they are both very possible so the more teams the more happy we are and shyla atlantic will feel they can be come in. for a common work well if there were a lot of via. in an a d in jazz mama kind of range as b.c. called out of. i don't beata. and foday yet team represented on the for four years. the four women laid the

ground for what's now called the on man woman sailing team. it has new members who've picked up a day as baton like a. medal and safety and. they took part in the twenty seventeen. arabia event sailing in this new car thirty class boat. verity have track records and sports medal was an athlete and handball player. a mother comes from an equestrian background and played football volleyball and basketball. in twenty fifteen it de sam was invited by her british coach. to join the only all female crew at the volvo ocean race which covers over forty thousand nautical miles and nine months. she's part of the

same class of graduates as and food and is one of the new generation of professional female sailors in the middle east. the team's goal is to represent a man in the international arena and add more offshore miles to their sailing careers. dispose of frank pushing across tokyo within the. course much. the middle east stays fine and dry lots of hazy sunshine hot sunshine too for baghdad temperatures still getting up to around forty celsius forty one celsius there in kuwait city looking at a high of around twenty nine in beirut pleasant sunshine across that eastern side of the but it's right in more of the same as we go on into sas day by sas day

without rain could just push across the black sea across northern parts of turkey a possibility of a few spots of showery rain coming through at this stage well maybe getting up to forty three celsius in kuwait city and warm sunshine too right across the arabian peninsula still a chance of a little more cloud into southern areas of amman but nothing much to speak of for the most part hazy sunshine will be the order of the day of chance of a little more cloud just around the gulf of aden and northern parts of the region here just pushing down to the southern end of the red sea so the passes south africa also seeing a little more cloud sixteen celsius in cape town little suppressed what she won in . that forty back to around nineteen degrees as we go on through sas day the winds coming in from a southerly direction with a chance of some right further north that he still that ferrari thirty one. russian filmmaker andre explores how russia impacts the very values of the nation

the russians are famous for their cultural legacy but can traditional and conservative be the source of stagnation and authoritarian rule why was i was the assimilated by the police but you see the crane homosexuality is the significance of the boot into the russian elite is that he's like a fake you who controls the cobra in such a putin's russia at this time on al-jazeera. with bureaus spanning six continents across the globe. to. al-jazeera correspondents live in green the stories they tell. about it. al-jazeera fluent in world news.

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