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a madman who doesn't. and that's how they're describing the leaders of north korea and the united states of squared off once again but with those insults comes some real threats will be north korea's claim that it could bomb in the pacific. but we're focusing on the bang. as the number of refugees there from the. prime minister already said they will have to go home at some point and to disrupt the disrupt. cup the way we get from a to b. has been told it's not fit and. it won't be renewed at the end of the month so what happens to its thousands of drivers. in the british capital and in brazil it's now illegal for doctors to practice so-called version therapy or sexual orientation

millions are protesting against this calling for it. with your questions and comments. streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com if you peel back all the rhetoric just for a moment you'll see the north korean nuclear showdown has produced a moment of history for the first time ever a north korean leader has released a statement to the world and it just one man kim jong un called u.s. president donald trump to ranged a gangster playing with fire at a barking dog and threaten to test a hydrogen bomb in the pacific ocean we'll start with this report from seoul with kathy novak. 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 absolutely unacceptable. north korea should immediately stop is directly to 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. 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 e.-man it so that tensions will not become overly intensified and so that accidental military clashes do not destroy peace kathy

novak al-jazeera. and here is the official response from president trump in amongst his friday morning tweet see said kim jong un of north korea who is obviously a madman and he doesn't mind starving or killing his people will be tested like never before but perhaps the most concerning development in all of this was north korea's threat to use another hydrogen bomb remember its last test they claimed it was a hydrogen bomb and indeed most of the evidence did point to that. roger and bomb tests were once commonplace but they were effectively banned more than fifty years ago the us in the u.k. they tested hydrogen bombs in the pacific in the fifty's france followed suit in the early sixty's there is a nine hundred sixty three nuclear treaty which banned tests in the sea the atmosphere and space so now only underground tests are permitted but always bear in mind that these bombs are more powerful than atomic bombs hundred more times powerful in some cases and the threatened blast could destroy all contaminate marine life and has the potential to cause serious health problems for anyone

nearby now this is a good visual of all those nuclear tests from al jazeera dot com over two thousand of them since nine hundred forty five sit down at the bottom you have all of these tests the yellow and the red ones those are from russia and the united states they have clearly done the most of them france conducted a lot there this line here as well in the seventy's in the eighty's now up on the top right hand corner of this is where you see zoom in a little bit more that's where you've got north korea's six nuclear tests it is the only country to have tested this century and along with india and pakistan the only one to have tested since that nine hundred ninety six comprehensive nuclear band history treaty which comes in there to give all my drawing the kids along with that let's talk to richard bits and our senior fellow in the military transformations program at the nanyang technical technological university this is in singapore so i thank you so much for joining us i know it's late at night there what is your

initial take on this sort of thing when they talk about testing a hydrogen bomb in the pacific ocean feasible. well it's feasible but it so incredible that i really have tough time thinking they're actually going to do it. defies incredible only they're redacting when scientists anybody has tested in the atmosphere i think the last one was one thousand eight hundred. testing a nuclear armed missile has been done for more than fifty years with you to sit so i don't if you had me then i said you'd said it was not an incredible idea what define that for me if you wouldn't mind. well like i say i mean it's it's not been done for decades and plus the thing is and that's such a risky thing for of the north koreans to be contemplating i mean their missiles are not one hundred percent perfect and so there's a very good likelihood that such a missile if it was to go with

a nuclear weapon on it could break up in the atmosphere so all over the country like south korea or japan i mean a nuclear warhead wouldn't explode but it could spew nuclear debris causing a good deal of radiological poisoning. the other thing is they aren't very accurate who knows where it could come down and it could come down very close to a population center there could be ships that would be in the target area i mean the chance for loss of life considerable loss a life would be extremely high. so i just think that the it would have so many negative repercussions not just for human life but political military diplomatic i find it hard even for north korea to really seriously consider this option ok bigger picture wise it's more than just about the test or how big the

explosion is because you can create from wrong here it's all about north korea getting or any country indeed getting. a device which can fit on to a certain type of missile it's there's a whole lot of things that need to come together right you know well i mean you've got to build the device itself and you've got to make it small enough so that they can fit on a missile that itself is. survivable transportable these are most likely solid fuel rockets and stuff like that now it's not saying they can't do it certainly there's one thing up north koreans have shown us over and over again recent years is that they're willing to make the effort and. throwed resources to get this done so in the sense it's not about the logical problem it's really one more are they willing to. cross that line. and really do a major type of test like this outside their own territory which i don't know

you're a technical expert here but i wonder if i can throw you this question from one of our viewers on facebook live jew night who said if america and other world powers can make bombs and missiles so cool defense why can't north korea you just have to make them responsible through dialogue and discussion i know that's quite a simple way of looking at things but there's some logic there isn't there well it's not a simple it's a very it's a very good question. and the argument is often made which is still while of the united states can be a nuclear power india or pocky stalin can be a nuclear power why not north korea and i and i actually i do think it's time to recognize north korea as a nuclear state whether we like it or not but obviously what we wanted to be is to be responsible of those nuclear weapons and that this point we still don't have a very clear idea exactly what the kim regime wants to do and nuclear weapons is just simply defense you know to stop us. like

a possible attack or is that he's trying to achieve some kind of higher degree of recognition not like a regional superpower of some sort and those are the kind of things that we need to know in order to fit a nuclear north korea into the regional security puzzle richard basing a really interesting talking to on both technical and political issues thank you for your time. welcome even more comprehensive coverage on the sit down to zero dot com the teams put together what we know about north korea's nuclear weapons it's drawing on the resources of inside story they're also up front with me at the house on whole bunch of articles and in for graphics there as well to put you in the picture if you have a search for north korea's nuclear weapons here is what we know it is that al-jazeera dot com it is red herring the personal opinions about kim jong un from

north koreans but friends over the age of passive spoken with a defector have a listen to what he had to say. tensions between the united states and north korea have reached a new high what do you think people in north korea are currently thinking and what is their government telling them. by the hundred dolla two will have. to look at that within the how to. deal with clinton with. more time on their good till it's time. and then finding out where they. don't want to tell you one way no human could let. you know you know. kind of.

in the more talk. but also. you know. i mean let's and then you can look for that you. will be headed getting militant. and thinking. i just want to protect you know. what do you get in touch with us about that or any story in fact coming up we're going to be talking about. which is looking like a lose its license in london maybe you've got a view on that we're going to be speaking to a former deputy chairman of transport for london so he's got questions send them in to us hash tag a.j. news grid on twitter at a.j. english as well if you want to tag us in there if you're watching the live stream facebook dot com slash a.j. newsgroups with a live stream comment as you go into something by whatsapp questions and comments

contributions plus one simple five a one triple one for ny that interview coming up in a five minutes or so. now we can look at me and actually bangladesh where hundreds of thousands of muslim hindu from me and ma are now living in makeshift camps and the aid agency save the children is now estimating more than half a million range of children could become refugees in bangladesh by the end of the year we've got multiple teams covering what has become a very big story but in this report looks at it from the specter of just one person an orphan and could to prolong refugee camp 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 struck him a big and was playing in the fields near her home in myanmar she reckoned state unaware of the dangers to come but then masked men set her house on fire killing her parents she travelled 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 what the un describes as textbook ethnic cleansing by mean more security forces. for decades now mean mars government refuses to allow ring of children in state run schools. are denied access to government run medical facilities they live in poor conditions segregated from others and their recent experience appears to have dropped 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 the 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 irrational she returns to her tent this is the start of a new life as a ten year old refugee in a foreign land nicholas hawk al-jazeera along bangladesh all right we're going off the grid to have a little earlier than usual in the show today highly this story out of brazil that kind of grabbed all our attentions. it did and specifically impacts community in brazil a brazilian judge this week decided to allow psychologist to study and treat people for sexual real orientation also known as gay cures or conversion therapies the

decision has outraged many in brazil millions of people have taken the social media to protest against what they call a backwards decision not fit for the twenty first century this has been one of the most shared posters in portuguese it says there is no cure for what is not a disease this incident post here it says in brazil robbery rape assault corruption are all normal are normal but being gay is a disease some others used it as to show ironing to make fun of the last thing for example that they couldn't go to work because they were sick like this actress here who is a lesbian a number of other famous personalities also spoke out about this can only doctors will say i want to invite all of us parents of people like nice quiet to movement against these clownish government and prevent our children from being really killed like this and thank you here's

a spy i am praying that our representatives start caring about what really matters fixing poverty corruption and lack of education bill clinton i have the feeling this may cause great so homophobia and voss more violence more deaths less compassion less love so that if your neighbor sleeps with another man if your neighbor is in love with her coworker what difference does it make to you if it does make a difference then look for a psychiatrist because you're not ok. the world health organization stopped considering homosexuality a mental illness in one nine hundred ninety then years later brazil issued its first law to ban conversion therapies but now judge while the mayor there he overhauled that legislation saying that it affected scientific freedoms many are worried though that this will open a door for abuses and further violence against the community according to a brazilian rights group the country is one of the worst for attacks against the

community the federal council of psychology also issued a statement they said quote the decision represents a violation of human rights and has no scientific basis sexual conversion therapies do not have any result and cause sequels and injuries to mental suffering the organization says it will appeal the decision to defend what it calls one of the most important documents for the defense of the rights in brazil there are protests expected in sao paolo in the coming hours if you're in brazil or you're going to one of the protests or if you're in a country with a similar situation against the community do let us know you can get in touch with us as always with the hash tag a genius great thank you for that to a story now it's really took over social media on friday and not just where it happened actually is this was london is learning that the taxi alternative service would be stripped of its operating losses in the british capital at the end of the month now in this era of disruptive technology as they call it this is

a big one widely used and it has run thirty thousand drivers in london alone but transport for london the body which regulates transport services in the city said it lacked corporate responsibility when it comes to public safety and security in fact its exact words with it it wasn't fit and profit to hold its operating license the decision will be appealed by they've already said that and the drivers can still operate while that challenge is ongoing more on this one from london with many. well when he arrived here in london five years ago it was seen as a direct challenge to the traditional black taxi cabs which you can hail and write it was seen though by members of the public largely as a quick and cheaper alternative just a few clicks on your mobile phone and you've got yourself a right to wherever you want to go to particularly after a night out at the fair to a restaurant here in the west end is useful for tourists as well the company say

that three point five million people in london use it and it employs forty thousand drivers now transport for london justifying their decision not to renew the license after thirtieth of september say the company failed to show full responsibility in the way it reported allegations against some of its drivers of crimes including sexual assault they also cited concerns over the possible use of software which might block regulator e bodies from actually having full oversight over the company says that they're going to challenge this decision immediately in the courts and while they do so they can continue to operate so the cars will not be off the streets in the very near future but this is a setback for the company's image after a whole string of scandals which saw the departure of the chief executive not so long ago and in fact some countries ban outright for now does continue in london

but under what current what conditions and for how long is hard to guess is daniel moylan now a british city councillor there in london but also the former deputy chairman of transport for london joining us via skype and we thank you very much for your time did you see this coming actually because sort of there was a quite a buzz that when run on news and when that when it came through today and thinking wow something really big must have gone on here for t f l to make this decision. well we've been expecting a decision for some time alec they didn't completely surprise me i think we have to look through the surface here to some extent this is a decision actually by city calm the mess it's legally it's t.f. else decision but the way that t f l works closely with the city all this is the effect of effectively a political decision by city and extends those terrible signals out to the rest of the world because effectively what he's saying is that if you come to london with a disruptive technology something innovative and it upsets entrenched interests or

trades unions then i use a day card will do my best to close you down that's effectively what today's ruling means for london it's the opposite it is slow going to london is open you know a lot of new more bots if we flip the narrative around a little bit the accusations are quite serious they have been concerns about sexual assaults happening with the drive as an end for transport to london to use those very strong words and saying it's not fit and proper to hold an operating license that's not just the work of one man that's something systemic is happening here. when i started in london and boris johnson was the mayor of london i was the deputy chairman of transport for london on the tier board during that time the regulations governing private time were toughened up very considerably to try to catch up so to speak with the business model so they are extremely federally regulated as a hundred more enforcement officers who are there to ensure the regulations are

applied everyone agrees the regulations should be applied everyone agrees that if crimes are committed they should be prosecuted rape and things like that especially with the full force of the law nobody doubts that entirely what t.f. l. appears to be saying what's the detail on it saying is that with however many resources they cannot actually apply their own regulations now that's that's the position we've got to it's an admission of complete failure on the part of the men so what would you suggest. as an alternative to taking away their license what would be a better way if you're saying the regulations then they are tough how can they be better police tell someone how that if if it's too extreme to isolate an arsenal or not not even last week or the week before t f l has announced new license fee for private hire operators in london scaled according to the number of drivers and according to the newspaper calculations that would mean that would be paying not

twenty or thirty thousand pounds a year but over two million pounds a year in fees now that runs a hell of a lot of enforcement offices it is perfectly possible to cheer to go out and force its own regulations but it's not seeking to do so it's actually sending out this message to the rest of the world that if you do something disruptive we will close you down and i must say i don't want to sound cynical or to party political about this but it seems to me that it is not coincidental that this announcement has been made the week before city car gives a big speech at the labor party conference where he will receive the unanimous congratulations of his friends and supporters in the trades unions and all sorts of other people who have been working for this for a very long time very interesting don't you want to thank you so much for joining us we appreciate that you are welcome thank you had

a question from gem rose here on twitter hi jim saying i wonder how long it takes for an appeal probably a good thing considering all the allegations of sexual assault well i can tell you that they have twenty one days to appeal that is brand they have said they will and as a said before they will be able to continue operating once the appeal is ongoing so i mean that could stretch on for quite some time and over will continue to be years but still plenty of uncertainty for the as we say commuters and the thousands of drivers in london layer this one went big haven't it is virus going to fade was just overtaken oh it's right well we're watching the conversation. build up shortly after this announcement was made and it really is a battle the battle of the black app and the black cabbie and it peaked a few hours ago online with millions talking about it not surprisingly it's already trending worldwide some are saying that this is the rising of the black cabbie known for overcharging this person here though wrote that are getting kicked out of london he says is this back to hey i want to go to the end of the road that'll be

twenty five pounds mate others are saying booting out of town won't be safe lauren here she wrote that losing makes london more unsafe for young people especially students who can't afford the ridiculous rates of black cabs but london taxi driver association though they are definitely celebrating they posted this earlier today saying that we did it asking others to congratulate them others are calling on over though to take better care of its drivers political commentator owen jones tweeted and said how about instead of appealing gives its workers rights and deals with all of the issues d.f.l. raised like protecting women's safety if you're in london if you relied on or if you were planning to start relying on who were do let us know and let us know how it's been impacting you you can get in touch me directly at leo harding age or you can use a hash tag e.g. news grid thank you. robert reich i can hear your voice struggling

a little bit there looking for things we know about has not had a good run recently its image has been hit by so many scandals including when its former c.e.o. travis callum it was filmed the billy abusing and driver we covered that story back in march it is online at al-jazeera dot com if you just search for travis you'll find it pretty easily. now here at the level of while four lines coming in similar pictures they are actually but they were coming in from mexico city look at the level of damage as that camera pulls out there buildings just i mean they're just falling apart there and we're going to be getting a live report as well from mexico city later in fact you can see allan fisher's up there he's preparing for that we'll talk to him a little bit later get the latest on the post quite situation for now we'll go to london actually the clock here is with more international news on it. thanks very much as a first up iraq's kurdish leader masoud barzani says monday's independence referendum will definitely go ahead despite international pressure for it to be

delayed or canceled resigned he was speaking in northern iraq it was his final rally before monday's vote was on he says the kurds are happy to find alongside iraqi forces against i so whatever the outcome of the referendum. said before we tell the world leave the kurds expressed their own rights and decide their own independence we cannot continue any longer to status quo with the federal government in baghdad the referendum is not to risk the referendum is not to draw new borders it is to confirm and insist on our right for independence the real risk is to let others decide your fate well it's not so hot i don't know how many our correspondent who's live for us in bill and harder definitely not backing down. definitely not backing down and really this same defiant tone that we have heard throughout the week he has been going basically every day. he has held

a rally in different parts of northern iraq and also. as far as places like hiking which is part of the so-called disputed territories in the diyala province now i think in this last rally. he was speaking to absolutely everyone when he said to do is to vote who want to say no let them voice their opinion it's because there are people here in the kurdish north who do want a good state eventually but some people are skeptical about the timing maybe because of all what's has been going on in this country to war against the threats coming from iraq from iran from turkey all of that's had made some people on easy there's also a lot of political rivalry in this country in this part of iraq and some people wonder if you shouldn't have first sort of political unity among the kurds before

going ahead with such a movie was also talking to. the region he was trying to say you know this is not awful and what this situation is about is the bad relation we have with baghdad now the kurds have been complaining for quite a while that they haven't received their share of the federal budget about seventeen percent they should get annually that was stopped by baghdad because baghdad was angered that the kurds were selling oil unilaterally through a pipeline they have built here in the kurdish region the kurds are also saying well we fought in the ice a war in the war against most of couldn't have been liberated without us we paid a very high price about two thousand bush mariga kurdish fighters have died in that war but baghdad also did not send them their share of the military aid that it had received. so all of this is what bard by design he used as a reasoning and he's trying to put it forward that this is just

a vote and not it is a non-binding referendum for the world to know the opinion of the kurdish people and their will for self-determination but he also says that if that's not that doesn't mean that next week or next month they will be a kurdish state and everything is up for negotiation now it has to be said that tomorrow it is a high level. delegation from here going to baghdad for more talks at this stage a referendum in the about three days so it's very difficult to see what could come out of that part of a very much indeed how to go home at large for star and erbil. now britain's prime minister has set out plans for its high profile exit from the european union warning that goes could continue close to the shuttle departure date of march two thousand and nineteen speaking in florence to reason why he said the failure to reach a good deal would be a damaging blow to europe's future but she hopes that he would continue to work as

partners in the future of course we recognize that we can't leave the e.u. and have everything stay the same life for us will be different but what we do want and what we hope that you are european friends want to is just as partners who carry on working together for our mutual benefit in short we want to work hand in hand with the european union rather than as part of the european union. is live for us in florence the reason may say enough to ease the minds of critics. well that's a good question isn't it ahead of the speech british officials billed as an iconic moment for to reset my hand for bread an opportunity for her to set forth her blueprint for brakes it going forward i think having listened to the speech though it was more of a wish list most of it at least she talks about the need for special arrangements

between the e.u. and the u.k. when it comes to economic arrangements going forward legal security and defense arrangements as well talking about the legal aspects of things she said if there are disputes in the future between the u.k. and the e.u. neither the european court of justice no british courts really have any jurisdiction so something new would need to be developed is exactly these kind of vague idea is that of infuriated to reason may's critics in the u.k. and also in brussels they want some concrete proposals and solutions perhaps though the most concrete idea was the idea of this two year transition period so in march two thousand and nineteen when brics it begins with the u.k. leaves the e.u. there will be a two year period of adjustment more of a slope than a bricks it cliff edge they said to reason may will be good for business of allow businesses to prepare it be good for the e.u. because the u.k. is promising to continue paying some degree of financial support to the e.u.

during that period but when it comes to specifics there are still a lot of question marks we're waiting now to hear what brussels had to say in response to this friday thanks very much indeed that's a picture from florence new back reporting there and that is it from london i'll be back in about twenty five minutes for half hour of news for now it's back to zero thank you for that next stick around if you're watching us on facebook live you'll be meeting the bike has gearing up to help the survivors of mexico's earthquake that's from a day plus and for everyone after the break we're going to look at the damage inflicted by hurricane maria a prime minister a month long was damaged in the site is now appealing directly to the u.n. for help. welcome back the weather across much of the violence and western asia is looking dry and five we may just see the odd shower on the southern side of the caspian sea

temperatures not quite as high as they have been for kuwait city but as it had on through into the start of the working week temperatures back up to forty three for by dad temperatures just below forty's good to report around the eastern side of the mediterranean the weather conditions are dry and finally twenty seven of them i saw in beirut in the arabian peninsula temperatures into the low forty's from mecca and medina and around the gulf states temperatures just below forty with the humidity just easing down a fraction and abu dhabi so let's head across then into southern parts of africa where we have got a frontal system working its way in the cape of good hope so as that clears away it may just be left wanted to share a zero in the eastern side of south africa's a durban perhaps a shower and sort of a bit cooler in that cooler air working its way up from the south as we head through into sunday with your highness both seeing a five degree drop in temperatures but further north or fine across about way through into zambia with a maximum of twenty nine degrees expected in new sika as we head into central parts of africa we're still seeing a few fairly big showers hanny across parts of so sit down also into central for

a public camera in most parts of west africa where we have a circulation low pressure in the could well be some showers affecting bamako in mali. deep in southern india a secret construction project a small concerns about the country's growing nuclear capacity if you're seeing that be a enlarging option if you know amid fears of an escalating race with its neighbors if there is a missile i wanted to give the edge the indians may claim that it is intended for china but it's favs indians fault when it is the end of the bush that was the so what lies behind india's nuclear the people in power investigates at this time on al-jazeera. if you turn your back on the far. this would be collateral damage. and.

this would be an overt option. on fish the persian cost. and just you know clarity by contrast. to.

the headlines from out there the home and what's trending as well north korea pretty high up there as you would expect as well but plenty of coverage of the real hinge of there who either had to really good background in from a. and then stories from me and from bangladesh as well have a look at what's trending. on any page out through dot com a good idea of what people are having a look at today. to mexico now where nervous family members are agonizing really over the fate of missing loved ones after tuesday's powerful earthquake rescue workers are scrambling to find more survivors under the collapsed buildings of the mountains of rubble as we speak of collapsed buildings that was a live shot we showed you at the live was just recently look at that three days now after the quake and the death toll has climbed to more than two hundred seventy people. spoke to families were desperate to hear something anything about their

loved ones. 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. 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 might 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 but the work is painstakingly slow the

stakes in measurably hi heidi to castro al-jazeera mexico city. and we're going to hopefully return to mexico city as well to talk to alan fischer just shortly having a few little connection problems now look at another natural disaster of course this is hurricane maria the prime minister of dominik here is going to ask the international community for help after his country was battered by hurricane maria president skerritt is heading to new york's to speak at the u.n. general assembly after the category five storm ripped through his island on monday leaving that trail of destruction at least fifteen people killed there and twenty others are missing this this hearkens are coming in stronger than ever before for the never and the fact is all of us. subjected to the to do awfully hard. and we really need to all of us understand the world. these issues of greater concern to

small islands ago and it will be very very vulnerable as for the storm itself will instead of weakening maria's actually picking up strength again as she makes her way across the caribbean now heading towards the turks and caicos islands and the bahamas as a category three hurricane it was after of course puerto rico bought the full brunt of the or in the wake and again it is there for us as people try to pick up the pieces. entire neighborhoods ringed gulf with floodwaters even as residents patiently wait in traffic jams to head into the city to buy provisions or make contact with loved ones many roads here remain flooded. in nearby louisa the damage is extensive really hard. we came from everywhere oscar ramiro says been through powerful hurricanes before but says maria it was terrifying he took shelter with his family but his home was wrecked and rebuilding isn't something many here can afford. i don't know what the world will say is they going to hit me with some little help whatever so they give us some help will rebuild we got

a baby go we were going all the place to go in last been eunice on puerto rico's coast many have lost everything local resident peterson dollars is one of a few volunteers offering comfort water and transport to safer locations you know i didn't lose anything with just you know water you know got i got one in my house and stuff like that and all my friends got a truck military truck and came and picked me up when i would just out here you know try to how about no life has been left untouched by hurricane maria the sheer scale of the damage is almost too much to process and this community is normally a short drive from san juan but right now it feels completely cut off and here's something else to bear in mind there is no power across the entire island no mobile phone coverage so people can't talk to each other and government help or residents here are being told they simply going to have to wait it's a wait that worries many desperately in need of help they said that we're not going to the government when and if for three days until they communicate with their

families and do everything for that then they proceed to move everything so everything goes back to. puerto rico remains in a state of crisis. almost know is that recovery will be painstakingly slow and to gather crowd is era when eunice puerto rico. just quickly here's one more personal story from what the rico local singer been though shared his video showing the damage to his home from the flooding caused by maria. was assuming you know there is water in my house on the entire floor and outside. and are important again but what's important is that this tragedy didn't take any lives. we have to stay strong solidarity that's the most important thing i ask for

a lot of prayers for puerto rico. let's take you back to one of our live shots now from mexico city of show new that a few times but it it's no less impact is there that sound that house which is basically just sandwiched together the building. in the wake of the earth quite three days ago now alan fischer can hardly hear me now is what we had some connection problems but he's back now allan when you talk us through what's going on behind you right now. well you can see the building that is behind me and the rescue workers if you're back on the site know you can maybe pick a few of the moat in the wreckage and they start work on it overnight because of the heavy rain that we had here in mexico city that complicates things because it moves things around and now that's an office block and they think that the or maybe people trapped because if you look at the we the building has collapsed has collapsed almost forward which means it could have created pockets towards the back the twenty eight people have been pulled out of that building already alive and

thermal imaging equipment has been over the building and they are seeing traces of people that they think are trapped in the building the difficulty of course is that you've got to start moving it very gently because if you move one section too soon it could create a collapse in another part so that our engineers on site as well as rescuers as well as the locals that we call the mall's who can borrow into very small spaces and take a look and they're doing that to see if we can get to the people who they think are trapped towards the back of the building this that we're getting roughly to the area seventy two hours after the earthquake where people start to get concerned it's very rare for people to be pulled out of the earthquakes after that sort of time scale no we've had stories and we remember thirty two years ago of the young boy who was found after i think it was nine days and that was regarded really as an unusual incredibly unusual event something that no one expected and so the first seventy two hours are incredibly important and that's why the engineers wanted to

get back on site as quickly as they could this morning but they had to check that they had access to certain areas and they could do so without causing any problems for that during the pile so that's what's going on here right now heart of mexico city this is where a lot of the efforts are know being concentrated rescuers are standing by i've seen army teams with dogs ready to send them in if they think they need to check if someone is alive everyone is poised to move in as soon as the people who are on the wreckage at the moment on the debris at the moment say yeah please move in this quickly and i think you mentioned the weather before is that been hampering things . well it's the rainy season in mexico which means that during the day it's actually quite nice but at night we get rain storms and some of them are heavy rain storms and that causes problems simply because it makes everything shift there are about forty families who are hanging around here in the square and it's really it's feel slightly disrespectful to see hanging around there waiting in there waiting patiently but obviously with anxiety as well because they know that their families

work in that office block and so they are waiting for news hoping that they will get good news but yeah the weather does cause a few problems ok thanks for the update allan fishes in mexico city there is rescue efforts go on his leg again we've had a little break this week on the grid but there was a story that bubbling on a way to do with ryanair the budget airline in ireland and it only then that still and it's not going away right right it will to put upon to it the friendly skies they got a little bumpy for some eighty million passengers this week the turbulence was caused by irish airline ryan air is decision to intentionally bump them from their seats but why it's because the company said it didn't have enough pilots to fly the planes forcing it to cancel up to fifty flights a day until november as you can expect that decision sparked customer outrage all across europe. i was obviously very angry and i talked to my mom on skype as well. at the same time there was like nothing i could do i had to find notes and it

says i have to come back to england i have to go to roumania every year i'm not going to five demagogues of the right i change the stall under conditions the playing conditions are really but then of course the british. me and then we actually go ahead to book a guy. you know the page and you want to go one hundred say you know they should be sorted out. all the big companies are named would make such a big mistake. the c.e.o. of ryanair michael o'leary he said in a news conference quote have i demonstrated there is reputation with these cancellations yes but i would rather damage the reputation of ryanair by cancelling two percent of our flights than significantly delaying forty percent of our flights one of the issues we have to deal with is that we may have got pilot pay a little on the low side now o'leary also said that he was considering forcing pilots to change their holiday plans and warned that any pilot who did not show up

to work would get a pay freeze and would be denied promotion captains though at four hubs have been offered an extra nearly twelve thousand dollars a year in addition to a fourteen thousand dollars bonus package for working ten extra days before the end of the year since the cancellations though the number of on time flights have gone from sixty five percent to ninety one percent if you've been impacted at all if the flights are on time for you know if they were before we want to hear from you you can get in touch with us for the hash tag jane is great thank you and stay in touch with us as we said this is clearly a story that's got some runway and the from there but do keep in touch with us if you've got more stories about what's happened with you when if you have. coming up after the break toughness here with all the sports and we're going to actually should be considered a sport we're going to beat these turkmenistan. and pick three.

which is this is one of these i love about working it out zero with indoor martial arts and dancing in turkmenistan all at once we do among going to tell you more about that now thank you come all the fifth asian in. the comedy taking place in about the cop that so often missed on this is the biggest event ever being staged into minutes on the organizers have been keen to put on a show the event started on the sixteenth of september and runs until the twenty seventh there are sixty five countries taking part in eighteen different sporting categories and while the organizers have been looking to put the best foot forward so to have the host nation's athletes took minutes on current leads the medal

tables the nearly one hundred medals ahead of second place to wrong. well the game's in ashgabat of sparked up interest in as you can imagine attack a man a fan and also in saudi arabia but let's have a look at the scale of that interest via social media platforms fastly here well there's been some action on twitter including this one here from the organization itself trying to create a buzz around the swimming events which are just about beginning now this week actually only got to like in total yes only two and zero retreats as well some indication of the interest out there perhaps the official twitter page also only has five hundred ninety five follow it in total including me the story is similar across the you tube channel as well slightly better though with six hundred and three subscribers not looking great i bought their facebook page has been doing thicknesser can leap better i got have to give them some credit as you can see over three thousand people like the page and over three and

a half thousand people follow it as well while competitive borum dogs featured as part of the games in tag man a thon is recognized as a sport yes it is and has been for two decades now by the international olympic committee but it's still a struggle to convince sports fans there are real athletes as there is the how monica's in ash crowd he's finding out why fast hand whether it should be classified as a sport or not. i don't think it's something that can land you a gold medal at the game but these participants still feel they are not accepted as that because that's the feeling of maria who represents turkmenistan along with upon the nikita. nancy it is not and is this for. such a moment. ago that simple. also for the. first movement that is not easy to get was music the technique for the formants are starting for you. so. because if it were true for six

years there are eleven medal events in disciplines including the cha cha cha couples perform routines for about two minutes. timing but work and alignment are just some of the things they're judged on these downs practice and i was the day they have been building up to these games for you from personal experience having tried it myself i can tell you it isn't easy but one of the main arguments against sports is similar to those levied against figure skating and other performance spaceports the result is not quantified by points scored or by a clock instead subjective interpretation of judges is what counts. but turkmenistan's team coach feels that those leading the sport are doing what they can to counter negative perceptions. droughts we have the world federation that does everything to develop the sport i can say that is developing day by day

and thanks to our federation and i athletes the quality and quantity of the sport is increasing we also have no difficulties concerning the sponsors so everything is cool the world federation has big plans for its competitors having been part of the asian games and also featuring at this year's special olympics world winter games in austria they want to be part of the lympics one day we are dreaming about you tell us right now and then maybe i am a few years later it is moving like an expert at only seventeen maria may one day get to live her dream so here malik al-jazeera asked about. how don't forget you can get in touch with us using the hashtag. tweet me directly . as. i've seen plenty of dance moves over the years well and quite as good as this news great if you want to get in touch with us we want to hear from your. newsgroup on twitter at i j english at facebook dot com we're putting is not

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