as at the forefront of the war on drugs we're talking about serious organized crime as a country where reaching a critical point while some have made fortunes many others have suffered at the hands of this multi-billion dollar industry this business will go on forever it will not change on as global policies do who are the winners and losers of this illicit trade snow of the andes at this time. riding into trouble is stripped of its operating license in london. hello and welcome i'm peter sagal you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up more war of words a rare statement by kim jong il illness his foreign minister threatens to test

another hydrogen bomb this time in the pacific. a grim report for injured children escaping the violence in me and mom many are likely to end up as orphans. and together in tragedy families of the victims of the mexican earthquake comfort each other as hopes fade for finding more survivors. the company has been stripped of its operating license in london from the end of the month the british capital's transport regulators at the car sharing company lacked corporate responsibility when it came to public safety and security issues that he joins us live now from london nineteen for the customers and the company what does this mean. well peter first glance this looks quite alarming and it looks like bad news both for the company and for

those three point five million people in london according to who use the service now what we know is that the current license which expires on the thirtieth of september so next saturday at the end of next week that license is not going to be renewed by transport for london but they say that the company has a twenty one day window to appeal against that decision and until the whole appeal process finishes it can continue operating so i think that there will be sam relief among the people who use the service that it will come to continue to operate on the streets of the british capital as well as around the country now this is purely a london decision it has been welcomed by city can the mayor of london saying that it would be wrong for transport for london to continue licensing uber if that were to pose any risk or threat to the safety and security of the

population here now who has come out and said that the the regulator tearful has come out has caved in rather. and the mare putting lumping them together they have caved in to a small number of people who want to restrict consumer choice if this decision stands it will put more than forty thousand licensed drivers out of work and deprive londoners of a convenient and affordable form of transport well it certainly is convenient term just in a in a very short space of time that people are up across the world have got used to using their mobile phone to order a taxi which arrives very quickly and generally cheaper than the alternatives of course the debate has been about the conditions for the drivers that's the debate that's going on. continually there have been legal challenges in britain but interesting to note that the decision by transport for london does not mention that

there were serious questions asked a few months back nadeem about the people running the company so how do we fold in this idea of corporate responsibility into how the organization was organized on a day to day basis i mean there were questions over how much the drivers passenger safety that kind of thing. absolutely and that debate still going on despite the departure of the chief executive several months ago the company has had an image problem because for example there have been allegations that some of its drivers in the u.k. have committed sexual assaults of varying degrees of seriousness but somebody from the metropolitan police here in london actually wrote to the company this year saying he had can serious concerns about how the company was failing to act on and to report on such allegations and in one instance he said that somebody who'd committed a fence had not been suspended and then go on to commit another offense the company

said it was extremely surprised by that communication and that it always cooperated with the police and the author already is but beyond that yes it's about how it how it negotiates with its drivers whether they're self employed whether it actually gives them a guaranteed number of hours and a decent basic income and lots of people say that the drivers themselves like the flexibility to choose when they work the unions here in britain say that the company is trying to get round the law it's challenge to the unions have challenged the company in the courts some of those challenges are still going on but right now it seems that the specific points that the company has to answer are other points then they're more to do with things like its approach to to these allegations of crimes and so on and also its cooperation with the regulators thank you.

now for the first time in history a north korean leader has released a statement to the world in it to kim jong un directly takes aim at the u.s. president donald trump calling him doraine just a gangster playing with fire and a barking dog pyongyang has also threatened to test a hydrogen bomb in the pacific ocean kathy novak now from the south korean capital seoul. inflammatory threats from north korea are not unusual but it is rare for the leader kim jong un to issue a statement himself. it was read out on state television along with a photo of the leader responding to donald trump's speech to the u.n. in which he threatened to totally destroy the democratic people's republic of korea or d p r k kim called the us president's behavior mentally deranged and said now that trump has denied the existence of and insulted me and my country in front of the eyes of the world and made the most ferocious declaration of war in history

that he would destroy the d.p. r. k. we will consider with seriousness exercising of a car spawning highest level of hardline countermeasure in history as to what that countermeasure might be his foreign minister in new york had this suggestion. i think it could be a hydrogen bomb test on the ground of an unprecedented scale in the pacific ocean. there hasn't been an underwater or atmospheric nuclear test in decades they are banned under several treaties considered just too dangerous for people and the environment there was immediate condemnation from the two countries in the region likely to be most at risk from a north korean attack japan and south korea. north korea's remarks and behavior provocative to regional and international security and they are absolutely unacceptable. north korea should immediately stop its directly provoke ations that

will lead itself to isolation and collapse but kim jong un says trump's remarks convinced him that he chose the correct path and must continue to follow it. south korea's president used his speech to the u.n. to repeat that his country does not desire the collapse of north korea and to insist that there will not be war again on the korean peninsula he says the situation must be stable the managed so that tensions will not become overly intensified and so that accidental military clashes do not destroy peace kathy novak al jazeera. and it seems the war of words continues the u.s. president donald trump has just reacted to those comments from the north korean leader on twitter saying kim jong un of north korea who is obviously a mad man who doesn't mind starving or killing his people will be tested like never before.

thanks prime minister sheikh hasina made a plea to the u.n. to help the range of refugees return home to me and more than four hundred thirty thousand ranger have fled me and in the past month because of the military crackdown in rakhine state. for me in ma must unconditionally stop the violence on the practice of ethnic cleansing in the rakhine state immediately and forever secondly secretary general of the united nations should immediately send a fact finding mission to me and my third all civilians irrespective of religion and ethnicity must be protected in me and ma for that saves earns could be created inside me and under a un supervision for ensure sustainable return of all forcibly displaced in bangladesh to the homes in me and ma aid agencies are warning that by the end of the year more than half a million range of children could be refugees inside bangladesh reports now from

could along in bangladesh asking for money from strangers is no easy task when you have never done it before it's especially difficult when you are a child. just a week ago bagan was playing in the fields near her home in myanmar as record state unaware of the dangers to come but then masked men set her house on fire killing her parents she traveled alone to bangladesh here a former neighbor took her under her care. i miss my mother had such hugs i miss her cooking i miss the way my parents made me feel she is not alone according to the agency save the children a thousand ringgit children have either been separated from their parents or orphaned and would the un describes as textbook ethnic cleansing by mean more security forces. for decades now myanmar's government refuses to allow ring of

children in state run schools. they're denied access to government run medical facilities they live in poor conditions segregated from others and their recent experience appears to have brought the ring get closer they look after each other. my concern is that she doesn't end up being exploited by sex trafficking people trying to use her she's smart and she's now part of my family. there are brief moments of fun but for the most part running a children have to act like adults they work build homes and search for food. this is the hardest part of the day for. and all the others here she is going to have to compete with adults other children to try to get a small bag of rice and length and that will be their meal for the day. in the chaos she fails to get

a ration she returns to her tent. this is the start of a new life as a ten year old refugee in a foreign land. nicholas hark al jazeera could to prolong bangladesh. rescuers in mexico are focusing their efforts on ten collapsed buildings as they try to find more survivors from tuesday's earthquake at least two hundred seventy three people were killed and more than two thousand were injured heidi joe castro from mexico city. with each passing hour the hope to find survivors grows more desperate the work more grim the body count continues to rise since the seven point one magnitude quake struck central mexico tuesday afternoon vasquez had an appointment inside an office building in mexico city his wife says he arrived half an hour before the quake struck in the six story building collapsed she found his car parked nearby. where here outside waiting for him to come out he has to be ok no.

the families of some forty people feared trapped or dead inside the building are holding vigil along with hundreds of professional rescuers and volunteers we just got close to one of the rescue sides with this brigade of volunteers who are now waiting for instructions some working for more than thirty hours without stop their target this apartment building or what once was you see now the soldier with a police dog on top of that pile of rubble it is fear that beneath him another forty some people are still trapped the dogs have already indicated there are signs of life inside but what they really need at this site and many others now are thermal imaging equipment families begging for more technology to help rescue their loved ones. that the families are also fearful that the government will begin using bulldozers and cranes. heavy machinery because supposedly there's no one else

left alive but they're pulling out survivors at least twenty nine people have already been rescued from these ruins alone dozens of other sites the city. representing mexicans and here to help the children. at a school where the mexican navy says nineteen children were found dead eleven others were pulled out a life and adults may still be trapped. the work is painstakingly slow the stakes in measurably high. castro al-jazeera mexico city still ahead here on al-jazeera not the right time plus the warning to south sudan about holding elections next year which the u.n. see is could lead to more violence plus. was. an election with a difference in new zealand the thirty seven year old who's turned the tide for the opposition party.

welcome back we'll look at the weather across asia and starting in northeastern areas we've had a frontal system pushing through southern parts of japan and certainly spoke to some very heavy rain there one hundred forty three millimeters in twenty four hours a southerly flow in fact if you look away back down you've got to hit central parts of the indonesian archipelago before you find another landmass so it's very very exposed to that direction so look at the forecast dry weather there and indeed for tokyo for a time on saturday but as we head on through into sunday will find another little wave on this frontal system coming back across southern parts of japan so maybe late in the day tokyo seeing some rain not too bad across south korea certainly twenty seven the high in seoul beijing should be largely dry maybe one or two showers your own temperatures pushing the thirty mark into central southern parts

of china and taiwan there are a few showers around generally weather conditions not looking too bad here so pick up the old sharper house for hong kong during the course of the day weather conditions across northern parts of vietnam still see wanted to showers but dry and that has been the really heavy rain remains across parts of me in march and that's going to continue as we head on through into a lot of part of weekends now as you head into southeastern parts of asia more heavy rain for parts of cambodia through to vietnam and also for northern parts of the philippines. russian filmmaker andre explodes happily joins 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 growth why this is the assimilated by the police to seize ukraine's sexuality as 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 al-jazeera reminder of the main news so far this half hour london has stripped the operating license from the british capital's transport regulator transport for london so the corporate responsibility when it comes to public safety and security issues. the first time in history a north korean leader has released a statement to the world kim jong un has called the us president donald trump a barking dog after he threatened to destroy the north korea pyongyang is now

considering a hybrid from bomb test into the pacific. and the bangladeshi prime minister sheikh hasina has made a plea to the un to help the ranger refugees return home to me and she called on the international community to take action to stop ethnic cleansing in myanmar's northern state of rakhine. more protests happening in catalonia right now as spain central government steps up its efforts to stop the independence referendum for a third day in a row thousands of people around outside a courthouse to demand the release of catalan officials have been arrested ahead of next month's poll joining us now from barcelona is call. penholder coalesces kick off by talking about those people who've been detained what happens to the mix presumably the authorities have to charge them or let them go. without as was done on right now the typical six of those top line government officials who were detained by spawn a security forces there in the wake right now in front of a judge in preliminary hearings supremes court official has told me is that by the

end of the day the judge will decide exactly what specific charges those officials will face and she has told me that they could face charges ranging from misappropriation of public funds civil this disobedience right through to the much most serious charge of incitement to rebellion that charge if any of them are convicted of that they could face fifteen years behind bars now eight of the others who were detained on wednesday have now been released it's not clear if they will face charges in the light to date but it's news of these preliminary hearings a stilt that out then as you can see thousands of her independence supporters have come to take it the cold buildings to charge for the release of those detained and also to express their determination to vote in the planned october the first referendum what many of them a saying is that they are not going to move aside uneasily to let the police take.

was to the cells now there are other events going on in the rest of wasilla right now as well there is a student mobs down in the center of balsa longer involving students from cuts alone his public universities and also right now at least ten of the independent labor unions across catalonia talking about the possibility of launching a general strike and that could affect public services and also thomas in the region but of course two sides to this story and later tonight we understand the facts on suppose. this independence referendum will also be holding their own demonstration a tough call thanks very much. turkey's army is continuing to hold military exercises close to its border with iraq today tanks and armored personnel carriers have been deployed near the harbor border gates the drills come just days before iraq's northern kurdish region is expected to hold a referendum on independence. the u.s.

president donald trump and the afghan leader ashraf ghani are hopeful that more u.s. forces in afghanistan could be a turning point after sixteen years of war but the report has cast doubt on that optimism has practical again thank you very much thank you it was all smiles as u.s. president donald trump now which president ashraf ghani from artistic vision all. troops that have been sent are to enhance their assist support its vice mission and that is playing a very crucial role victory political and military is within our state. us both took pains to stress this is no longer a u.s. fight so i think it's important to understand that the afghan soldiers are doing the fighting we're training and we're working with them very closely but it's the afghans that are doing the fighting but this new report from the inspector general

says that training program has huge problems right in the u.s. didn't understand just how hard it would be to train afghan forces overestimated their abilities and didn't have enough staff the mission it says is chronically understaffed by more than fifty percent and many of the staff it has were not trained mean a helicopter pilot was teaching afghans how to patrol and it says one u.s. officer turned to the. crime dramas from television to learn how to teach being a police man this is just the latest report highlighting problems with the training program the strategy the u.s. is relying on to eventually get out still the report's author says he is optimistic we have new presidents in both countries we have a different leadership team on the ground. and i'm optimistic about them. h.r. mcmaster general mattis general nicholson it's

a different team i think they recognize some of the problems and want to fix it and the training program can be fixed according to michael o'hanlon but taliban has gained perhaps ten percent of the nation's territory in the time since nato pete back in the early part of obama's second term or towards the end of his first term and the trend line is therefore in the wrong direction needs to be reversed but i would not say that the military and police have proven themselves incapable of battlefield success they've actually held on to most of the country president guy is predicting he will have control over more than eighty percent of his country in four years time. reports says if he's going to reach that goal the u.s. is going to have to change the way it's been trying to win the longest war in its history. al-jazeera washington the kenyan president says a court ruling that an old his election victory last month is a coup kenyatta says the supreme court is still in democracy from the people the

court blames the electoral commission for cancelling the results a new vote is national for the twenty sixth. by admitting they've got to get away for a little like kenya what has really happened in our country is nothing short of what kenya has so successfully managed to avoid over the last fifty years or so of our independent that has happened in many other countries where we have seen military coups overthrowing civilian government but today we have broken our history with a coup in the republic of kenya that has been done by four people in the courts this is a coup and i must call it what it is and i would never be afraid to say that the un is worried that an election planned for next year in south sudan could lead to more violence in the area it's calling for the revival of the twenty fifteen peace process before the vote is held here at morgan reports from south sudan's a coper region in the northeast she's lost her children and fled her village with

her grandchildren now knew both as she doesn't hold much hope of getting to bury them she says government soldiers attacked her village forcing her to leave. i used to live in new i but got displaced by the army when they came to our area and attempt to. have killed so many people including my children and the father. is one of thousands of civilians who have been displaced in the past few months of the conflict south sudan has been at war for much of its time since it gained independence in twenty eleven fighting between government and opposition rebels in the past few months has forced many south sudanese from their homes several have ended up here in a couple one of the last few areas controlled by opposition rebels led by the former vice president riek machar but there are problems here too including shortages of food and medicine many rely on fishing but the conflict has made it hard for them to access parts of the river. if there are areas where the government

soldiers and i get close to them i stay hidden and drew away so they don't see me if they see me then it's a problem for me a problem made worse by the large number of people who have fled to this region at least twenty five thousand people have lost their homes since april because of fighting between government and opposition forces some of those displaced have crossed the border into if you're adding to the refugee crisis described as the fastest growing in the world a quarter of the country's twelve million population is now displaced and the u.n. says seven point six million are in need of aid but delivering that aid has challenges we do have into what we call localized from him so actually the from is not widespread but actually has been it has affected actually particular areas of the country of course one of the humanitarian us is one of the main issues with everything social done not only not about overall in the country as fighting in displacement continues and despite warnings from the international community and

the u.n. south sudan's government has announced it plans to hold a presidential election next year as part of the twenty fifteen peace deal it's fine with the opposition we are implementing that demand as it came where waiting for me a guide and they are you and the u.n. security council to tell us what we would do for them yes. what i would say we are going for elections but for many thousand east who have been displaced like. a presidential election is the last thing on their minds he will morgan out as there are a couple south sudan voters in new zealand heading to the polls on saturday and forty is one of the most hotly contested elections in years several weeks ago it was widely believed the incumbent bill english would easily win but since labor's just cinda took over half party in august things are starting to change as you are with . candidates are in fighting mode in an

election that has fast become about voting for stability or change the incumbent bill english thought he was guaranteed victory but has been forced to campaign hard to see a fourth term play center right nationals party six weeks ago labor changed leadership pitting him against the charismatic thirty seven year old just dern sending labor's support surging prime minister has described himself as boring but he's turning it to his advantage he's starting himself as a dependable steady hand with strong economic policies would say new zealand is through a political volatile world and job thing so mike sure i understand that. choice . mike a. national building on the streets saying you're saying here and trying to bridge an across the board cuts out and labor wanting to take back

would stall the economy. in a meteoric rise dern has pulled her party out of almost a decade of isolation even putting it ahead of the nationals in some polls over the last few weeks the new zealand made ia have dubbed the just cinda effect or just in the mania and likened her to other young leaders like canada's justin trudeau or francis emmanuel necron. believes the youth vote could decide the election this is going to come down to whether or not people tune out and vote their policies include a tough stance on immigration while promising to eradicate child poverty and tackle rising house prices analysts say the attraction to odan is part of a progressive yet nationalistic global trend we look at the wind which some of the center left parties around the world have reposition themselves they've been more nationalistic at times by being less generous with regards to immigration

policy but i've also read guyon some i think some of the all the more socialist it's all welfare tax policies and a lot new zealand's multi-party system almost guarantees that one party won't be able to govern alone and deals will have to be made to form a coalition so even after the votes are counted it could still be some weeks before it's known who will be governing the country yarber mohammed al jazeera sydney. this is al jazeera these are the top stories has been stripped of its operating license in london from the end of the month the british capital's transport regulator said the car sharing company lacked corporate responsibility when it comes to public safety and security issues but drivers can still operate while challenges the decision in court. for the first time in history a north korean leader has released

a statement to the world kim jong un has called the u.s. president donald trump a barking dog after he threatened to destroy north korea pyongyang is now considering a hydrogen bomb test in the pacific ocean. these north koreans say they support kim jong un's threat against the u.s. . the statement by a respected supreme leader makes me feel really worked up about donald trump's reckless speech very respected supreme leader ask me i'm ready for revenge or pick up a gun straight away and wherever trump is of find him and wipe him out. made a reckless speech on the world stage at the u.n. general assembly we are not frightened at all we've got our leader so we can get rid of anyone well always when the bangladeshi prime minister sheikh hasina is urging the un to help arrange a refugees return home back to me in my aid agencies warn by the end of the year more than half a million range of children could be refugees in bangladesh four hundred thirty

thousand are injured have already fled meanwhile in the past month because of the military crackdown in rakhine state turkey's army is continuing to hold military exercises near its border with iraq tanks and armored personnel carriers have been deployed near the border gate the drills come just days before iraq's northern kurdish region is expected to hold a referendum on independence. the death toll from the earthquake in mexico has now risen to two hundred seventy three the president believes there could still be people alive in ten buildings that collapsed in the quake on tuesday. supporters of catalonia an independent separating the region from spain are protesting outside the courthouse in barcelona for a third day they're demanding the release of regional government officials been arrested ahead of a referendum on independence next month spain's central government says the poll is illegal but catalan leaders say they will hold the poll anyway you're right up to date with all the top stories the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside

story all season. a show all false an act of defiance hundreds of thousands of those please take the streets of yemen somalia the anniversary of the takeover of three years on and off the thousands of deaths is there an end to the war in yemen this is inside still.