to break the will of the syrian people and to punish it for it's a firm supporter of the army in its efforts to defend serious political independence and italy to the unity. for this reason those countries have imposed is suffocating economic blockade in syria in blatant violation of international law to destroy the livelihoods of syrians and increase their suffering. from a. new letter and coercive measures and i have been imposed on vital sectors most notably health care services. so used to have an advanced health care system today however syrians are denied access to many types of medicine. even those that used to treat life threatening

conditions such as cancer. such as sanctions are a clear sign of the hypocrisy of certain countries the tears over syria and why and why dissipating. when practicing grads are a different form of terrorism. that if you problem is one of the consequences of terrorism. as syria would lead the effort of every syrian over the upcoming period this eerie and government has made the return of syrians it to their homes w.t. . to this end the syrian government has embarked on a mission to liberate and the secure world the areas occupied by terrorists and improve the basic living conditions of own syrians and.

mr president. given the united nations a failure to uphold its own charter and the principles of international law. we must all consider reforming this international organization to be able to effectively play its role and to defend their legitimacy tried against. the law of the jungle that some are trying to impose. our nations for a safer and more secure. and prosperous world. such a world will remain a fantasy as long as a certain countries believe that they can go around spreading chaos creating troubles and imposing their will with full impunity.

ladies and gentlemen. my country along with it says steadfast people and it's a brave army. supported by our loyal allies is marching. toward the goal of rooting out terrorism. liberation of aleppo and mirror that if think of the siege of very soon and their indication of their resume from many parts of syria. prove that victory is now within reach. i'm confident that. when this unjust war on syria is over. the syrian army will go down in history as the other me heroically defeated i don't know what it is supporting forces and its allies the terrorists that came to syria from many countries and

received that large exam board from the most powerful countries of the world including arms funding training of the axis but it got covered. with. those terrorists have tried and failed to impose their will but would i do a. peaceful nation that had been for a decade a cradle of civilization one. of. the annals of history will be called for in generations. to come the achievement for generations to come the achievements of the syrian people and there stood fast as in the face of it better but it did arrest campaign and understand measures which have compounded their suffering and to deprive them of

their basic needs of the syrian people have a stood their ground against all odds because the knew that this was a war that sought to eliminate the country and with it their own existence and the are an example to follow any people who might face now but in the future similar attempts to break their will and deny them their freedom and sovereignty thank you mr president. victory. is now in reach for the syrians those are the words of the syrian foreign ministry deputy prime minister one of. the united nations general assembly in fact wipe the slate clean when it comes to any atrocities committed by the syrian government he made a pointed stab a turkey an israel and their support in his words for terrorism he denied that

syria had ever used chemical weapons and is that all of this is just an attempt to undermine the government there he also said that the united states the international coalition led by the united states has killed more innocent people then terrorists and he was talking about breaking the siege when it came to i saw there in palmira the liberation of aleppo and again saying that victory is in reach for the syrian government's bring in our u.n. correspondent rosen and jordan has been following this for us at the united nations so he was rather confident there in the speech was any that basically they are winning as far as it comes when it comes to the terrorists and they're getting their own way. jane it sounded almost like a valedictory speech foreign minister of syria essentially declaring that the government of president bashar al assad has prevailed against what he described as terrorist but it's worth noting that not once at least by my reckoning did he

mention the presence of isilon inside syria we can only assume that he was referring to those in the political opposition as well as those in the armed opposition that have been trying to overthrow the government of bashar assad since the civil war broke out more than six years ago clearly he also rejected suggestions or efforts by countries that are opposed to the assad government to support the armed opposition and the political opposition and he called the rather hypocritical and plug. was that the united nations essentially has been complicit in these attacks on syria's sovereignty and that it needs to be living up to the principles embodied in the u.n. charter because he stressed several times that he was talking about the deescalation zones that syria has

a right to respond to any violation that these are just temporary he said that any presence of foreign troops is a sign of aggression yet another warning isn't it. it is another warning and certainly it is something that is going to present yet another complicating factor for the special for the secretary general's envoy for serious stuff on them and store who is trying to keep the political negotiations to end the civil war on track there have with supposed to have been perhaps another a meeting in geneva earlier in september but that was delayed so that they could have a meetings here at the united nations during the general. somebody's weak but certainly this is going to be a complicating factor because there is lots of different parties that have very different visions about what a post more serious should look like but certainly if the assad government is down

markers that's going to make a compromise that much harder to achieve or at russell and jordan at the united nations thank you now i don't know if you've seen this but it's a great interactive piece on syria the human face of this long war just click on the buttons for the journey on our website now moving on and still forcing rangar to flee in terror and still burning villages to the ground that's how amnesty international describes a campaign by me and mas army in the northern rakhine state and adds there's been no letup in the violence against the rangar which contradicts government statements that its military operations have ended the international human rights group has produced new satellite images of villages which it says are evidence of the army's continuing scorched earth campaign across the rock kind state where most of the rangar have lived for decades this is the village of a par chunk before and after amnesty says it has three new videos

showing villages burning one as recently as friday it says the intention is to make rangle leave and never come back at least four hundred thirty thousand refugees have soared refuge across the border in bangladesh since the latest outbreak of violence began less than a month ago. another human rights organization is accusing me of laying landmines which it says kill and maim indiscriminately human rights watch says that it has evidence that men my soldiers have laid landmines close to rehang of villages as well as that crossing points on its border with bangladesh minimise government says rangar rebels have themselves been laying improvised explosive devices phil robertson is the deputy director of the asia division of human rights watch and joins us from bangkok incredible to think that people are laying

landmines particularly when innocent people are trying to escape what have you found out about this so well yeah this is really heartless beyond words or seeing landmines being played by the berm use military in the past fleeing refugees not only at the border but also in areas around villages where then ethnic cleansing is being done and people are fleeing the villages then there are encountering landmines on the roads as they try to get out of that area so it's doubly cool these are weapons which are indiscriminate they're illegal burma is not a country that has ratified the landmine treaty and it should but more importantly it needs to stop laying the land mines and the removing the land mines that are late this is this is just unbelievable shocking and you know it just shows a lack of any sort of compassion any sort of understanding about the bernese

authorities about would be people are i mean i think they're being treated as less than human so villages are being raised we've had confirmation of that again people are being killed trying to escape do you think it's also an attempt to stop them from telling their story if they are lucky enough to make it over to bangladesh. well i think there's two things i think that there is one which is that it's really sort of open season on the rohingya that you know anything you can you want to do you can do if you're in the bernese military this is part of the lack of accountability that we've seen time and time again from the burma army i think that the landmines being laid at the border both intimidate people scare people but it also makes people more hesitant back. you know i think that the stories are certainly in the get out i think the issue is that at the border the burma army is laying landmines in part because they see that if they mine these areas will make people less likely to return to burma or credit risk returning it because the

evidence has been made hasn't it that you are welcome to come back we just going to sort out the papers we just going to sort out the prices but this pretty much puts an end to that doesn't it underfunding still how long this can go on for. unfortunately i think this ethnic cleansing campaign by the burmese military is going to continue until they're fully satisfied that there are no arson surgeons anywhere and of course they have a very broad definition of what an arson surgeon is and they're willing to attack kill. and stampede civilian population out of areas to try to find those. you know it appears to be at this point you know we're we could be talking at least weeks maybe months and you know we're also very worried that there's going to be a secondary crisis which that we may see at one point the rohingya desperate to get out of bangladesh and get out of rakhine state taking to boats again as we saw on

may twenty. very good to talk to you phil robertson you just can't hear those stories often enough can you in order to try and put a stop to this now that's just some of what's happening right now but obviously we want to find out more of what's been going on and how this is being reported in me and and in other places around the world let's bring in our correspondent scott hardly who's in myanmar is biggest city yangon scott i'm just wondering if people there really know what is going on they must be hearing these stories how are they responding to this. yeah they do hear the stories but it's very interesting because the way this story has been controlled here in myanmar as media they're a little bit skeptical i mean you talk to some people who are a little bit more savvy with the media if you will and they're able to kind of compare and contrast stories outside myanmar and stories inside myanmar and one gentleman young musician who we spoke with earlier tonight very sharp gentleman he

said you know look you have all the media the international media focusing on the right and the plight of the hinge and then he says you look at the myanmar media and they all focus on the rakhine those people who also fled so he's like you know i know that the numbers are the same but the coverage is so vastly different now we also spoke with the leader of a nationalist movement and something that is happening here in myanmar over these last couple of weeks a lot of people who kind of lean more to the right much more nationalistic than most they say that what is going on now kind of solidifies it has solidified their movement and that there is actually more nationalism coming through in myanmar because they see a lot of them that the way this story has been handled externally is really an attack on myanmar so myanmar really needs to come together now we kind of saw that a little bit after speech and last week and that's something the kind of get from people when you talk to them here that they really kind of need to rally together but what it seems like jane and it's very interesting as you were i spoke with a wide range of people is that there really is

a great understanding of what's happening over there either they're not really paying attention they don't really want to know or because of the control the control message here in myanmar. and is there a feeling that the real situation is being possibly exploited by all parties in order to get what they want. it's very interesting it's some of those like this gentleman this young musician i spoke with he said that he feels the national he's not part of the nationalistic movement he feels as though the nationalists are using this are exploiting this for those reasons i said that the external the outside world is going to pointing a figure at. unfairly and that this is an internal matter they should handle he feels as though they are exploiting this but then also he went on to say but he's like look also you look at the international media coverage they're not talking about the rakhine the people than the buddhist people who are also had to flee

obviously the numbers are much much smaller than what we've seen and they did not go into bangladesh so he feels as though that that story is being completely left out of the international media but he does realize the number so yes there is a feeling that this is being exploited internally but one thing that this gentleman said also that was quite interesting and really a point he said that you know when you're in this kind of atmosphere here in myanmar this is a nation that was you know controlled by the military for about fifty years is that the government here he said is very used to ruling by fear and he said that this is something that the people of myanmar fear and that is being told what to do how to govern how to run their nation by people outside the nation so he said that's something that the government is really kind of focusing on using that fear to really kind of try to bring the people together but again there is there are some voices of dissension but right now it feels as though mostly though you've got this move this groundswell for nationalism here in yemen. as well scott thanks for that update from young on another one of our reporters nicholas haq is in bangladesh and

explains how an informal economy has grown along the border. here bangladeshis come to buy their daily necessities spices food and vegetables and it's around this market that. have set up camp with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of people a new informal economy has grown here is one item that's particularly popular among these plastic sheeting they're used to build the homes to protect them from the rains inside the count's. well. the business. owner. doesn't so he's saying that business isn't going as well as it used to he saying that now aid agencies the government are distributing these plastic sheeting for

free and therefore he's not getting as much business as he used to. this is the home of a bangladeshi family regularly corner from the refugee camp and look at their home it's made out of the same plastic sheeting that you find inside the camps in fact the circumstances of the refugees and of the bangladeshis living here are very similar the difference is the refugees get international aid these people depend on their government for help and most here live on less than two dollars a day the biggest challenge is that the help that's coming through doesn't build resentment rangers have been coming here for decades persecution and the relationship between a local bank. and the real interest hasn't always been easy. and tomorrow nicolas haq will be doing a live event on facebook taking viewers inside the camp in bangladesh you can ask

him questions directly about the crisis what conditions are like for the refugees that's on al-jazeera his facebook page at seven g.m.t. on sunday and obviously there's lots of hand-wringing and finger pointing and yet the atrocities continue and what is being done to help the victims and details of all the players and regional interest in the country's ethnic cleansing can be found on a website just type in the search page. and we'd love to get your comments on these stories and this is how you can get in touch so you can just tweet us a.j. english on facebook at facebook dot com slash a.j. news good you can also send us a whatsapp met message at plus nine seven four five or one triple one four nine and as always you can use the hash tag a j news grid there's confusion over the cause of what's being described as unusual seismic activity in north korea china suspects a small magnitude three point four tremor was an explosion meaning that the

isolated state may have tested another bomb south korea though believes it was a natural earthquake and there's no official word from north korea itself the comprehensive test ban treaty organization is a nuclear proliferation watchdog it says it detected two seismic events but back south korea's assessment that they're not deliberate explosions here's what they tweeted to hash tag seismic events of eight to nine u.t.c. which refers to a coordinated unit versal time and much smaller at four forty three u.t.c. unlikely manmade similar to inverted commas collapse event eight point five minutes after d.p. r. k. six analysis ongoing d.p. r. k. six by the way for anyone unfamiliar refers to north korea's most recent nuclear tests earlier china announced it had banned exports of some petroleum products to north korea to comply with the latest u.n. security council sanctions this includes shipments of refined fuel and liquefied

natural gas china will also ban textile imports one of north korea's biggest sources of cash north korea's responded to the extra pressure with more threats saying it could conduct a hydrogen bomb test in the pacific ocean china correspondent agent brown picks up the story from beijing. what china has now essentially begun implementing what it agreed to at the united nations security council on saturday a statement appeared on the website of china's commerce ministry it said that as of now china was no longer importing textiles from north korea textiles have been until now an important source of hard currency for the regime also as of saturday china is no longer export ing things like liquefied natural gas as well as condensate or oil and significantly china is going to limit the amount of oil that it exports to north korea those exports will be capped at two hundred million

barrels a year now last month of course china agreed to other wide ranging sanctions against north korea it's no longer importing things like coal iron ore and seafood on friday president donald trump once more praised china's leaders for the fact that he says china's banks have shut the door on north korea even though less than twenty four hours earlier china's foreign ministry said that wasn't necessarily the case but this was what president trump had to say i made a friend in china president xi and yesterday he basically took the banking industry away from north korea or whatever but the way so confusion and contradiction have once more become the hallmarks of sino u.s. relations clearly president donald trump and president xi jinping will have a lot to talk about if as expected president from pays an official visit to china

in november diplomatic editor james bays is at the u.n. with north korea's ambassador is due to speak at the general general assembly later on i should imagine that it's going to be a full house james. yeah everyone is watching very closely is actually the foreign minister who is going to be speaking here a young has been in new york for all of this week in fact he's already denounced to reporters the comments from president trump in his speech saying it was the barking of a dog he's staying in a hotel that's closest to the u.n. headquarters he's already reporters there large numbers outside the hotel watched him leave there some time ago and he's already inside u.n. headquarters not clear who he's meeting at this stage but he is expected to speak in the coming hours in the general assembly a warning for me because i've heard him speak before and i've heard the north korean ambassador speak before these speeches can sometimes be somewhat opaque

that's because north korea really the word of one man only matters and that is kim but we will be examining every single word very closely of what he says in the general assembly and then i think an important meeting that will take place with the secretary general here at the united nations antonio the terrorist behind closed doors but u.n. officials are promising promising us they'll give us a readout of exactly what happened in that meeting again will be poring over every word of that because this is a crisis that has been here since the u.n. gathered in fact it's been here for years but normally world leaders hope to come here and try and find some solutions to the challenges facing facing the world but all we've had here in new york is a war of words and things i think of definitely got worse while the general assembly's been taken gives us an i ask you about that considering what donald trump had to say and kim jong un's statement how worried are people there is there a plan for the next stage. well they are worried and there's

no one really has a new plan going forward clearly the u.s. are threatening the specter of military action the chinese and the russians are going back to previous plans they'd like to see the six party talks that collapsed a long time ago that come back and be the way forward the chinese and the russians proposed an idea of a freeze for a free freezing north korea's nuclear activity in return for the u.s. and south korea freezing their military exercises on the korean peninsula it doesn't look like the u.s. is going to accept that idea one other idea floating around mentioned by the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is perhaps there could be somebody new coming in to mediate he speculated on the idea of a neutral european country that makes you think of people maybe like switzerland or one of the e.u. countries that's not a member of nato sweden is currently is one of those countries and currently on the

u.n. security council i'm also hearing word possibly of norway a country like that possibly could come in and get some contacts with both sides and maybe then start some mediation right james bays thank you a covering developments out of north korea is hard such as the apparent earthquake missile kemas our producer in seoul he explains the process of getting credible news out of a very isolated nation. covering the worst korea is always quite difficult and challenging because our access to information inside north korea is limited i largest news agencies in south korea japan and china stay off from britain news with news alerts and also i have many screens behind me as you can see to monitor to news today chinese media their first reported about this earthquake immediately started to check with created weather agency they confirmed that there was indeed a ursprache but their initial statement was it was rather

a natur earthquake and not a man made earthquake so we had conflicting information shared all this information with the curse upon the and the news desk. i followed the other always the chance such as south korean pigeon show office which shares their information with for me the ozone least. on a messenger service i call the weather agency again at this stage they have more information that they can confirm to me and also i started check with a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty organisations website and twitter feeds at this stage all the indications were suggesting that it was not a member made earthquake so no nuclear test. but the listening post program really makes you stop and think when they tackle the other side in the north korean style of a provides a fascinating understanding of why the leadership there behaves like it doesn't and

why people really do believe that the us is coming back to attack them again you can find that on the programs on our website right now facebook viewers will meet the photographers not letting anything get in his way of his passion not even death coming up in the great assyrian journalists to death in turkey the fifth to be killed since two thousand and fifteen her mother a prominent opposition activist was noted to reaction just a moment. welcome back there's no great change across the levant and western parts of asia all looking fine so any baghdad looking hot forty forty two still for kuwait city now says they want to showers around the eastern side of the black sea pushing into wards the caucuses to move on through into monday not a great deal of change expected across the region around the eastern side of the

mediterranean also looking dry and fine fine conditions in beirut and lebanon the temperatures in the upper twenty's temperatures hovering around the thirty nine mark here in qatar and around the gulf states on the other side the potential air temperatures into the low forty's still on a much drier heat here let's head across into southern portions of africa where it's all looking dry and fine save a little bit of cloud around the eastern side of south africa but that is tending to pull away so weather wise general conditions are looking dry and find it a bit cooler for durban twenty four degrees heading on through into monday we'll see temperatures begin to recover in turban we could to see wanted to showers across parts of south africa otherwise it's sunshine all the way when took their namibia temperatures of thirty two degrees central parts of africa still looking pretty lively some big showers towards cameroon nigeria also seen some storms and also looking pretty unsettled moment across parts of west africa.

deep in southern india a secret construction project a small concerns about the country's growing nuclear capacity if you're seeing that be indulging us in that you know amid fears of an escalating race with its neighbors elisabeth's i wanted to give the indians may claim that it is intended for china but it's favs indians ball when it is the end of the bush that is the so what lies behind india's nuclear rich people in power investigates at this time on al-jazeera. discover a world filled with winning programming from around the world the military and the government of blocking people because they have something really horrible to hockey challenge or perceptions at that point the relationship and their political project came to an end paul full documentary. debates and discussion was that feeling of freedom and exploring that freedom was very exciting al-jazeera.

the. other story on our website iran successive tests you've been listing missile that's

off to the us called iran and north korea right. nations and obviously defying u.s. warnings not to do that not a two and four of five rather it's all about their hand at the tragedy that they're facing off to the army left off on my parents to the son in one thousand four hundred kids who are already orphans and in third position you kill watched all those traumas are unlikely to have been man made runs breathing a sigh of relief and as james baker is telling us all eyes on the foreign minister is going to be addressing the united nations general assembly any time soon. in six pates prominence or an activist and daughter killed in a symbol now this is a really grim story and i know it's creating a lot of traction on social media let's bring in our social media. with more on that thanks jane the murder of a syrian opposition activists a rube about a cots and her american daughter hala has shocked so many people in turkey and around the world before we get to that reaction our colleagues at eighty plus take

us through what happened. with. with with. with with.

with. suzanne barakat also posted on her facebook page about her numbness confusion shock

and disbelief two more members of her family. murdered another devastating loss for her family in the syrian community in north carolina other people have been sharing tributes to both women for your dues here saying how about a cots serve the syrian revolution more than the politicians well here says that's both women strove for freedom for syrians now the u.s. has condemned the murders the syrian national coalition and the committee to protect journalists are also demanding a swift investigation by turkish authorities more on this story on al-jazeera dot com. iran says it has successfully tested a new ballistic missile and will keep building its despite pressure from the united states to stop iranian state t.v. has released footage of what it says is the missile launch just hours after it was unveiled at a military parade in tehran the device has a range of two thousand kilometers and can carry multiple warheads iran says it has

no plans to use its missiles to fire nuclear weapons u.s. president don't trump is threaten to withdraw from the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal now that agreement signed by iran and six world powers allowed for economic sanctions to be lifted as long as the iranians scaled back their nuclear program and use it for peaceful purposes only however earlier this year the u.s. left its own separate sanctions on iran of its ballistic missile program the administration said it will not tolerate iran's provocative and destabilizing behavior iran's president hassan rouhani insists tehran does not need permission from any country to strengthen its defense capabilities and says those non nuclear sanctions are continuing to strangle iran's economy afshan shah is a senior lecturer in international relations and middle east politics at the university of brevity he thinks iran is sending a clear message that it won't compromise when it comes to self defense. this is

happening at the time that the pressure from the united states is increasing. iran and been my opinion what happened just yesterday is a manifestation of a new type of the terror and of course you have to remember that from the beginning of the nuclear negotiation iran remains very determined that it is not prepared to negotiate its defensive mechanism and it is not proper to negotiate. account of ballistic care program and over the last year we had at least two new regimes of sanctions declared on iran one in january and one in july which is specifically targeted at their missile program so in brief iran basically is sending two different messages at the same time yes we are still committed to the

nuclear deal but at the same time we take our self-defense extremely seriously and as president rouhani said on friday iran doesn't see any permission to be friends or going to check in now with the caribbean where several islands are dealing with the aftermath of yet another powerful storm hurricane maria it plowed into dominican as a category five on monday that's the highest rating with winds of almost three hundred sixty kilometers an hour at least fourteen people have been killed but the scale of destruction is so bad that the number is almost certain to be much higher the island is appealing for aid saying its people are struggling to survive with no water or electricity they've also been deaths in guadalupe and the u.s. virgin islands the prime minister of dominican felt scared has just spoken at the u.n. general assembly he says he has no doubt that climate change is to blame and demanded action from the world. it has been only two years since you lost lives and do

it a substantial physical infrastructure damage from the ravages of floods and mudslides of tropical storm erica mr president to deny climate change is to procrastinate well saying. it is to deny the truth we have just lived it is to mock thousands of my compatriots who in a few hours without a roof over their heads will watch the night descend on dominical in fear of sudden much time and what the next hurricane will bring while in puerto rico more than seventy thousand people have been ordered to leave their homes as a dam wall threatens to break heavy rains brought in by hurricane maria have weakened what tucker dam buses have been brought in to help people live but damage

from the storm is making their escape difficult at least six people were killed when the hurricane hit the island on wednesday nights you can imagine where the team is all over the story as are our correspondents on the ground in the affected areas you get twenty four updates on our bulletins and our website just follow the trail of all the natural disasters that you're interested in interested in just help with into the search engine and take your pick let's look at the multi-year and we are looking at the indian foreign minister she is making an address at the united nations general assembly and that's next over there waiting for us in the office in london negative. john yes thanks very much first up a strong earthquake aftershock has shaken southern mexico just days after a seven point one magnitude quake killed at least two hundred eighty six people in the country's capital warning alarm sounded once again in mexico city which was badly hit by tuesday is quake this comes as rescue efforts in the capital are now

into a fifth day with foreign crews are continuing to arrive unofficial. there is no trust each hour is a fresh agony each minute feel so much longer families of the missing can do little but hope and pray they stay close to the office block in the condesa neighborhood of mexico city which collapsed in choose these quick that there may be spaces where people survive. there's a lot of misinformation we are very upset they want the authorities to do something and fast because a long time has passed and even if they are alive each day that goes by the chances get slim out. take all of just our own hand to help the families. they don't even want to talk it's like at this point they just want to be left alone which is normal the more time passes the less hope they have. mexican rescue workers have

toiled through the wreckage for days refusing to give up even when exhaustion makes that the easy option but no american in japanese teams have arrived with fresh muscles. and better technology what we do we bring in highly skilled and searchers and rescuers we bring in highly technical equipment and we bring in a lot of it and we were a good sort of a type one heavy team which means we can breach breaks concrete we have search dogs we have search cameras we have a variety of instruments that allow us to do highly technical skilled searching it's no more than seventy two hours of which struck in not to the forty nine scale because stories of rescue become much greater we tend to become stories of recovery but the people here look. being at the building behind me and the what is going on there. is some hope this time it may be different. mexico may have ended its official three days of mourning for the victims of the quake but many families still have their own personal tragedies to remember and

more we find themselves facing that heartbreak in peace to come alan fischer mexico city. council and leaders have rejected plans by the spanish government to help them please events in the run up to october is referendum on independence they say it's a move to take control of their regional forces it is the latest development in an increasingly divisive lead up to next week's referendum which the spanish government says is illegal it's big now to our correspondent john hendren who's in barcelona and john it sounds like the tensions are continuing to rise. nick every time i come on i say that the greatest constitutional crisis in spain's last forty years has intensified and the reason is that it just keeps getting more tense and what happened today is a great example of that there was a meeting between local cattle on officials and the interior ministry of spain and walking out of that meeting and walking straight on to local t.v. was the interior ministry of cattle and the interior minister that is and he told

television and the people who live here that the local police would not accept the control of the police of spain that's a significant point because it means while spain is trying to stop this referendum coming up on october first seventeen thousand local police will not necessarily take their control they won't necessarily be participating in that we don't know exactly what they'll do but we know they are rejecting the control of spain so what does that leave the spanish government with three to four thousand civil defense forces and national police who are stationed in ferries off the coast of course alone and they can't even necessarily get in and out from there and that is because the dock workers here in catalonia have boycotted those boats so this standoff has grown much more tense and a lot of people here are saying they are energized by this standoff that the government of spain is acting like the fascist government of francisco franco who

who was notoriously hard on the catalonian people so as it stands there are very few options here as the standoff continues the head of that october first vote and right now nobody knows if that will come off our john thanks very much today john hendren reporting there from barcelona. tens of thousands of people in the french capital of paris have been munching protests the president of manual labor reforms protesters were on to a call from the far left opposition party leader. gianluca minute show he says americans actions are destroying workers' rights on friday micro sided to create to make it easier for companies to hire and fire he says will create more jobs and opportunities. new zealand's general election has ended in the stalemates with the ruling national party taking the most votes but not enough to form a government to write the prime minister bill english his party claimed forty six percent of the vote on the labor party and you come but you seem to ardent fell

short on thirty six the hung parliament now leaves a new zealand's first leader winston peters with the balance of power hill decide whether national labor and the greens will form a coalition government. that's on the nose back to jane doe like snakes on a is here with a sporting amendment the n.f.l. has responded strongly after us president on tron said that plaza now during the national anthem should be fired off a snapshot of the way. a

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me are fluent in world news. well i kind of think i know what people talk about when it comes to sports well i'll be honest with you jamie we're going to talk about the invictus game beautiful event also the two beautiful men prince harry and justin trudeau but that has to drag us into politics was it we're used to dull the comments sparking debate a but what he had to say about protesting n.f.l. players has shocked a lot of people the u.s. president to a speaking at the iraq in alabama and without saying he turned his attention to the

leak specifically players who have been kneeling during the national anthem this was a started by calling kaepernick last yeah as a form of silent protest against racial inequality in the united states and has continued to spread listen to this. when you love to see one of these n.f.l. owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a the field right now out these guys you're hurt. that owner they don't know it they don't know if they're friends of mine many of them they don't know they'll be the most popular person for a week they'll be the most popular person in this country because that's a total disrespect of our heritage that's a total disrespect of everything that we stand for the only thing you could do better is if you see it even if it's one player leave the stadium i guarantee things will stop things will stop just pick up and leave. well the n.f.l.

commissioner roger goodell has put out a response to donald trump saying divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the n.f.l. great game and all of our play as well as to travis waldron who specializes in spall politics for the have some policy joins us right now travis why is this issue and why now. well again this is donald trump calling out the n.f.l. he's been doing this since two thousand and fourteen when he failed to buy the buffalo bills but the the main reason is that trump sees these black athletes as kind of an avatar for this movement for racial justice that's going on in this country and he uses the word heritage they disrespect their heritage he fundamentally doesn't see the racial injustice is of this country as a problem of our heritage he sees them as you know really this is what he's based his support on is people who believe that black athletes and black people in

generally need to stay in their their place and not speak out it's not shocking that he did this it's remarkable that the president is targeting black athletes and black people in general from the bully pulpit like this but it's really not shocking considering where his base of support is and who he is just in that speech and alabama he says that the and the fell owners are his friends and what kind of the support does he have. he received over seven million dollars from enough fellow owners for his inauguration and he's you know these are guys that support him he nominated in n.f.l. owner to be his ambassador to great britain. donald trump like i said he tried to buy into the n.f.l. they for a variety of reasons told him no he didn't when he didn't win the bidding to buy the bills but he would have fit in with this group i mean his views on race his views on labor these are people that donald trump

a lot of times agrees with you can see that in the way that collin cabernets has been treated since he protested this is a group that doesn't want to talk about why these protests are occurring they want to make it about disrespecting the troops disrespecting the flag disrespecting the national anthem they don't want to talk about the fact that cabinet is right two hundred twenty three people black people were killed by police in the year after he started protesting he's raising issues that that this country has and that this country doesn't want to address and again donald trump's base of support donald trump's entire presidency is based on not confronting that and even worse on the idea that you know these these black people are out of line that they're speaking out of turn that they're doing things they shouldn't be doing and you know it's easy to to see the parallels between the way the n.f.l. is treated and cabernets in the way donald trump approaches all of this jonas thank

you. one of our players both past and present have expressed their outrage after trump's speech in alabama cincinnati bengals a player george two years right now he said i can't take anything our celebrity in chief says seriously he's a real life clown slash troll or the executive director of the n.f.l. players association smith also defending the athlete saying we will never back down that we no longer can afford to stick to sports i know how it feels but here's the opposing voice and i felt i saying if n.f.l. is losing revenue of the some players and lighting the n.f.l. jobs with the activism what would you do your pay to play not neal what is the hash tag which is a trending right now is has taken you are people are vowing to also neil jewing the national anthem in solidarity one fan tweeting what trump fails to realize is that

millions of americas will take a knee alongside conquer nick before we stand with him we stand by him while trump woke up in the united states and attacked another sport for the sun in boscobel going to the white house is considered a great honor for a championship team seven kerry is hesitating therefore invitation is withdrawn he says and be a winning star steph curry has said on friday that he doesn't want to go to the white house. well back with more at eighteen g.m.t. but for now and you back to jane thanks very much for that son of increasingly blurred line between what's real and what's unreal is the big draw card of this year's tokyo game show a quarter of a million game as and take was as are getting their heads around the latest that virtual reality has to offer our very own rob mcbride went along became something of a avatar star. it's still all about the goggles but

a whole lot more ever bigger hardware to enhance the virtual reality experience making it so real there seems to be very little that's virtual about it you know. it really felt like you were moving and you felt the wind in your face. and body located a normal day now but i think people will expect experiences like this well. so real you wonder if it wouldn't be better doing the real thing like cycling apparently not. boring reality. yes with more than six hundred exhibitors covering multiple darkened holes the tokyo game show is bigger and better than ever one of the fastest growing areas is east boards online gaming by teams in professional leagues attracting big online audiences.

south korea and other countries in asia and europe have been developing and japan is the only country without a big east port industry but that's changing with the value with the market expected to double by twenty twenty and talk of e-sports becoming a limp event the japanese government is now promoting its growth much as south korea has done we actually see similar things in japan where the government is reeling seeing a way to push sports such as new tech hip thing and then for those wanting the total immersive experience there's all mixed reality to turn you into an avatar putting you in the action. three d. cameras the turntable and remembering not to talk too much this is. your favorite game in the thing.

no matter how ridiculous that might look. mcbride al-jazeera has an avatar at the tokyo game show. that man's got moves i had no idea that before we move out of this over to london just to remind you that you can always keep in touch with us before you see us again at the same time to my a.j. news group. at a.j. english and.

the story breaks this thought it was a blanket coverage follows experts and hunted titian's often have to choose and soundbites strong and stable leadership trying to play the media and shape the message. of. a new level of a good militia get they delude themselves to be shirley shirley so that they too may may get the very rich it will just be a nice day but he feel if it's not the balloon by libya should it be on a whole new me tensions are high. a little has changed and new village officials are struggling to demonstrate goodwill. a memorial is trying for a. starting this off at the u.n. general assembly in new york the saudi arabia foreign minister. is speaking right

now as you can see let's take a listen an initiative in order to establish an independent palestinian state with jerusalem as its capital within one nine hundred sixty seven borders but. what we need more than ever today is international determination to make this solution i'm a concrete reality. ladies and gentleman who. could. have been targets in yemen led by. example. i mean. something we are facing we are in our coalition helping the illegal government of yemen to save the yemeni people and to recover its state in line with the un charter yes this was not a choice.