know i thought this time on all jazeera and. al jazeera. and for us. this is al jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes another day of escalating rhetoric as north korea's foreign

minister goes on the attack against the u.s. at the united nations. aftershocks around mexico city slowed down search and rescue efforts. spain's government takes control of catalonia is police the latest move in its efforts to stop an independence referendum. and germany's main candidates wrap up their election campaigns ahead of sunday's vote. more angry words at the united nations general assembly this time from north korea and its foreign minister says u.s. president donald trump's remarks about kim jong un and every verse about a mistake in a show of force u.s. long range bombers have flown along north korea's coastline and a magnitude three point four earthquake has been detected close to north korea's nuclear test site it's not thought that it was another weapons test diplomatic

editor james bays has the latest from the united nations democratic people's republic of korea this was the podium where four days earlier president trump threatened to totally destroy north korea now it was time for the country's top diplomat to give his blistering reply. to his lack of basic common knowledge and proper sentiment he tried to insult the supreme dignity of my country by referring to it as a rocket by doing so however he committed an irreversible mistake of making our rockets visit to the entire u.s. mainland inevitable all the more none other than trump himself is on a suicide mission this clearly rankled the north koreans rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself the foreign minister kamal quipped with nicknames of his own. you are. the person who is just even by

americans as commander in grief lion king president evil is holding the seat of the us presidency and the dangerous reality that the gambler who grew old using threats frauds and all other schemes to acquire a patch of land holds the nuclear button these are what constitute the grave threat to international peace and security today north korea has proved once again it won't back down in five days of diplomacy in new york this crisis has got worse not better diplomats feel the situation is dangerous the insults being hurled may sound like schoolyard language but the u.s. has carried out a show of force with jets and bombers flying close to north korea's eastern coast and there's talk of north korea carrying out an atmospheric nuclear test that's a dangerous proposition which will be conducted in the pacific ocean unlike the

previous six nuclear tests which were contained underground the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists who had a rare meeting with a north korean foreign minister after his speech has warned there's now a real risk of miscalculation leading to conflict james phase out of the united nations or the us president donald trump or suggested iran is working with north korea but given no evidence to support the claim trump took to twitter on saturday to criticize the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran he also won bastard the agreement at the un general assembly lot earlier this week to iran launched the court shot a missile in response to the un address iran says the test was meant for defense and retaliation ok let's bring in mike hanna he's at the united nations for us mike this is a speech by the north korean foreign minister was really unprecedented in its strength at the u.n. wasn't it. well indeed it years it was but yes it's also a mirror in

a way of the speech that president trump gave at the opening of the general assembly session in which he threatened to destroy north korea clearly the rhetoric between these two nations shows no signs of dampening down and the director said the bluntness of the north korean foreign ministers statements in the assembly today are with our president rather mike going by the reactions that we're seeing inside the chamber when these statements are being heard how do you think other countries and other delegates are reacting both officially and unofficially when they hear this kind of language at the u.n. well with great great concern the u.n. generally is a place in which unity is sought in which some kind of compromises are found but what has happened in the past few days it's become a forum in which insults are exchanged in which the level of rhetoric has been

higher than at any time in the past and certainly we've heard from foreign diplomats such as from the russian foreign minister who likens it to children fighting in a kindergarten a spokesman for the chinese ministry saying that the situation is complicated and dangerous and the level of rhetoric does actually serve to accentuate the possibility of some form of confrontation so among all diplomats as a very deep concern is to higher level of rhetoric and as we heard from the secretary general that this could lead to what he terms a miscalculation mike are you getting any sense that there is diplomacy of song sort going on in the background to this that there is a certain amount of pressure to try and again bring these two sides to the negotiating table. well there's no direct diplomacy between the u.s. and north korea however the u.s. appears intent on pursuing a strategy of using china and north korea's close ally and nearest neighbor to

bring pressure to bear on north korea it's also impose sanctions unilaterally to add to those imposed by the u.n. security council and president transcends that he's had an agreement from china that the chinese banks will no longer be allowed to do any business with those in north korea now what the u.s. says it's doing is attempting to cut off revenue streams and not necessarily to change north korea politically but to actually leave to enter the revenue that north korea is using to develop its missile program the problem with this is the admitted by the secretary of state and the ambassador to the u.n. that this takes time given the level of rhetoric that we're witnessing given the fact that the u.s. air force is flying closer to north korea than it has at any time the sentry time would not appear to be what all these conflicting parties have not had

a lot of first of the united nations mike thanks very much indeed i want to talk to alexandra nova show off and she's a senior visiting fellow at the international peace institute is joining us now from new york thank you very much indeed for your time from an outsider's point of view one gets the impression that many of the delegates are as mike was saying in fact sitting in the chamber watching this happening but either unwilling or unable to stop it or even get involved what do you think this is doing to the image of the united nations general assembly. well you know i mean the general assembly is is a gathering of all member states the opening is happening is happening every every year in september and. you know each and every member state is. presenting its policy and. the damage is not to the general assembly as such is to. to each of those countries and to

a de international community the general assembly itself has a reputation for being a center of negotiation and finding diplomatic solutions to situations do you think that the pretty much on precedented tones of the speeches that we've heard from north korea and from the u.s. are going to change that are we going to see the face of the u.n. g.a. in the future move on and change and become different no i don't think so i mean i actually the real negotiations are happening in the security council that passed a series of sanctions against north korea. the general assembly is just. the assembly. member states of the u.n. but the real negotiations are happening in the security council from a context to

a point of view then are we placing too much emphasis on the words that are being spoken in public to the general assembly by the u.s. and north korea when as you say the bulk of the negotiations and the diplomacy appear to be centering on the security council and the sanctions that have yet really to take hold on north korea. well yes i think in a way we're paying too much attention because. the american president and the north korean. leaders are talking to their respective public opinions. voters in one case but relation on the other and it's it's these are speeches towards. domestic politics not. and of course the general assembly offers them.

a true boon to to make those speeches alexandra noble short of is a senior visiting fellow at the international peace institute we appreciate your time thank you very much indeed. well another earthquake has sent mexicans running back into the streets on saturday southern parts of the country have been shaken by a six point two magnitude quake but no new damage has been reported in the capital the aftershock is of course a setback for rescue efforts of those believed still to be trapped from choose days quake that killed at least three hundred people will cost was live for us in mexico city just talk us through what happened when this latest tremor hit. sure rob so we were actually standing here when the seismic alarms came off i felt not much shaking but i did see this the street signs waver a bit but what the biggest impact on of course this what's going on behind me it

did for the rescuers to temporarily halt their operations and the reality here is now we're approaching more than one hundred hours of continuous digging since that building collapsed tuesday and the chances of finding more survivors cross with each passing moment. before dawn the sight of an ambulance gave hope that another survivor had been pulled out of this collapsed office building in mexico city but that was not so the patient was a rescuer who suffered a leg injury then surely before eight a.m. local time a six point two magnitude aftershock sent everyone running from the teetering rubble the new quake centered about seven hundred kilometers away halted the rescue operations for about half an hour each minute his counts and volunteers marking their arms with names and blood types as a precaution continue to work without rest you know what to. do and honestly i'm tired but what i'm feeling is nothing compared to what the people trapped inside

are feeling it can't be compared rescuers believe perhaps six people are still alive under the debris a crane removed a significant portion of the fourth floor one. in accounting firm underneath a list of more than forty names of those who are still missing their family members have set up a makeshift camp these families sleeping here now for more than four nights living off the generosity of strangers has been bringing and words of comfort they're clinging to hope even as the hours pass is the most it was just. the idea that my niece is still alive gives us strength not just her but all the people inside the building was sure she and everyone else will be rescued alive while some families put on a brave face others cannot hide their anguish each moment of waiting an eternity. heidi it's kind of an unwritten rule in these situations that often repeated of

time a rescue operation becomes a recovery of the bodies operation but that's not the case where you are the rescue operation is still very active in that. it is in fact i just spoke with a member of this israeli rescue team here he said the team is absolutely operating under the belief the assumption that there is still life trapped underneath scrabble he did caution though that despite the speeling that were riding on the edge of hope and that at any moment someone might be pulled alive which is really what's been carrying these families and these volunteers through these many days of toil this rescue or war though there are still many hours ahead there is some progress there is an entrance is worn down from the top of that rubble pile from the bottom and also from an adjacent building and they are getting ever so closer to possibly finding more survivors. heidi give us some indication if you can of how

local people are feeling about the way that the operation that the rescue operation is being carried out do they feel that they're getting enough information for example. i see an improvement now there in the in the first days there was many complaints from the family members and particularly there was worried that the government might be russian with heavy machinery thus endangering further the stability of these teetering piles of of just rubbish that are of what remained of these buildings since then and since the dissension of these international teams from israel and from japan from the united states and elsewhere there seems to be more confidence that these expert team of professionals who have done this before elsewhere in the world that they know what they're doing this is the best possible group of individuals here to perform these rescues and it's just this courage i'm sensing in. in these families it's strange

they're saying that they do now believe everything they have that the government the mexican government is doing the right thing to this help because it's like that even through hoping that their loved ones will be pulled out alive heidi thanks very much indeed that's how to live for us in mexico city people living on the island of dominica study to take stock of the damage from hurricane maria the storm cut a swathe of destruction through the caribbean only days after how to condemn a caused extensive damage throughout the region. has more from the nearby island of st lucia we're here on the island nation of st lucia and it's a staging place for aid operations in to domenica the island of dominique is completely destroyed the situation is very bad there nearly a week after hurricane maria hit that island nation it remains essential he cut off from the outside world in many ways we've heard reports that u.s.

military helicopters are flying over the island and literally plucking people to safety to get them evacuated some of the ferries are now just starting to run from dominique back here to st lucia and other areas again bringing people for the first time off the island and in to safety now domenico as prime minister roosevelt skerritt spoke to the united nations on saturday and he described the situation is in his country like this. all building roofless all water pipes. on route infrastructure destroyed oh hospital is with. and schools have disappeared beneath the rubble scare it was also very clear on what he says is the underlying issue that caused the hurricanes that have destroyed his country. as dominic the brunt of climate

change i repeat we have shown were in the consequences of the actions of other actions that indian joe oh very existence the situation on dominic is beyond desperate the island nation is home to about seventy one thousand people but many don't many kids live abroad in other countries and they've been trying to reach out to see what's happening with their relatives if they're ok if their houses are destroyed and also even if they're still alive. more ahead on the news hour including turkey ramps up its military exercises on the iraqi border right ahead of the kurds independence referendum. a human rights group says fires are still burning in rural hinge of villages in me in my state. when somebody. right.

u.s. president donald trump attacked n.f.l. players who have been silently protesting against racial injustice what he had to say in. the final day of campaigning and germany's general election is drawing to a close poll suggested chancellor angela merkel will easily win a fourth term in this sunday's election but a third of voters are still undecided feeling on certainty about what kind of coalition could emerge from the vote marco's main challenger martin scholz has urged germans to boycott the far right party and him a gratian party is expected to enter parliament for the first time since the end of world war two. despite predictions of a victory for party the leader of the social democrats martin says he's not given up hope says rises germany's main opposition leader has been a difficult one he was forced to give up his dreams of becoming

a footballer after badly injuring his knee he became a member of the european parliament and then its president his return to german politics was expected to challenge anglo-american as tight hold on power but schultz has struggled to cut through he put social justice at the heart of his campaign but his leftist pitch lost some of its appeal after all introduced socialist measures like a minimum wage down to caine's been following the final day of campaigning and ballin. with voting now imminent the politicians make the final push for votes for angle americal there was a chance to meet her party's younger activists and thank them for their work but also to spell out why she wants to remain chancellor for the next for us. yeah but . we think of the future which is especially important in the eyes of young people and it's important that we also address the issue of social justice but it's equally important to talk about how we can work to achieve our prosperity i think

we have found a good balance and then it was on to her home state where the photo opportunity was with a medical team teaching resuscitation techniques but if anything needs reviving it's her rivals campaign the social democrat candidate martin schulz has crisscrossed the country these past weeks but from the start polls have suggested he and his party are less popular than merkel in hers his last election rally was in his home state where his message was about the need for greater social justice. we don't want to focus on the bad side of this country when you make germany better we make it more just that's the difference between them and us the final opinion polls might make green reading for his party the social democrats face the prospect of one of their worst ever results while the christian democrats have a commanding lead the closest race seems to be for third place which in germany is

proportional electoral system can be a pivotal position of the building coalitions if the polls are right more than one in ten german voters may opt for the far right alternative for germany although no other party will work with this party its lead candidate is taking nothing for granted because as new of you for. only represent a differing view and questions of principle and so there will finally be a lively exchange in parliament again that's a reason for the parliament to be the result of society and that's why the want to get in there. after six weeks of campaigning there's nothing more the politicians can do to shape this election now the decision rests with more than sixty million voters who do they want to represent them in this parliament dominic cain al-jazeera. turkey's parliament has renewed a bill allowing military intervention in iraq and syria is being seen as

a final warning against the kurdish independence referendum vote on monday turkey's prime minister in early gilded him has called the vote a mistake anderson is has more from the turkish city of the. more forces have now been deployed on turkey's border with iraq it's no coincidence this exercise started in the run up to the iraqi kurds referendum on independence. turkey's parliament has now approved the extension of an existing mandate for military intervention in iraq one of several options the details of which have yet to be disclosed. the steps will be taken in close cooperation with iraq iran and other neighboring countries these measures will have diplomatic political economic and security dimensions. the tension has tempered excitement among turkey's minority kurdish population here india but care where there's been violence and dissent for decades many kurds feel weary and anxious about the future

the ancient walls of the old city along with temporary fencing mark out no go areas in some poor districts security operations have involved houses being demolished it follows a move by the kurdish armed group ekk to bring the long running conflict to urban areas as a result kurds who have no connection to the violence have lost their homes while history hasn't treated the kurds at all kindly there are underlying fears here that a referendum in iraq on the dream of independence could present more nightmares and for some here they've had enough nightmares for a lifetime but magnet dar is defiant he's refusing to move from his home that's earmarked for demolition and he's turned down compensation he believes it's right to have the iraqi referendum now. i'm in

favor of the referendum as kurds we should have our rights here the turkish state puts pressure on us oppressing us i even consider moving to iraq now but. aside from a demolition there are teams now working on urban regeneration projects in the city that's home to around a million kurds but there's a real danger though as an independent spoke by kurds next door in iraq may prove to be more of a hindrance than a help. andrew symonds al jazeera the other key. head of the un's refugee agency has met range of refugees in bangladeshi camps for people gandhi says he's been shocked by what he calls the terrible violence inflicted on the minority group from me and he says their suffering will last a lot longer than that the time it takes to satisfy the basic human needs over the past month more than four hundred twenty thousand i was scape violence and mean mob

i flee to bangladesh meanwhile human rights watch says it has evidence memos army as being laying landmines on its border with bangladesh to try to prevent right into refugees from returning this is really heartless beyond words or sea land mine being played by the burma military in the past refugees not only at the border but also in areas around villages where then ethnic cleansing being done and people are fleeing the villages then they're encountering landmines on roads they try to get out of that area so it's doubly cool these are weapons which are indiscriminate they're illegal with the influx of oil into into bangladesh is having a huge impact on the businesses and residents of the border districts of cox's buzz on. has more from the markets in the city which is on the myanmar bangladesh 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 there's 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. business. the business models are just gonna. go home i guess it. will presume one is all the other doesn't so he's saying that business isn't going as well as it used to he's 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 right around the 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 local bangladeshi and there. hasn't always been easy. still ahead on al-jazeera. thousands rally in paris a day after the french president signs his labor reforms into law. drug use in the

u.s. we'll look at how pharmaceutical companies are said to be involved. and in sports team europe paraders border federer and rafael nadal on day two of the live a cup find out how they got along with some. welcome back weather conditions across north america looking quite lively at the moment there is hurricane maria which can be working its way northward along the coast give you some dangerous surf conditions and we've also got this frontal system across more central areas as you see a lot of rain and up into canada we're seeing is extensive rain falling over the twenty four to forty eight hours for and then jerry along the eastern seaboard thirty one in new york and washington and up in october to put your head on through into monday we're going to see maria getting close enough to the carolinas to give

certain lot of cloud and some big surf but also the chance of some showers but this frontal system where it is producing a lot of heavy rain cold air on it so western flank further towards the east drawing out some very warm air so thirty degrees the high in chicago so you head down into the caribbean region once again will pick up on maria which is moving away still some big seas here so dangerous surf conditions rip currents etc but the situation is getting better plenty of showers there across the caribbean our lot of showers up through the isthmus really very white here at the moment some localized flooding is certainly possible and showers extending to mexico city into south america relatively quiet at the moment for a few showers across western parts of brazil further south largely dry fine across argentina with ice of twenty one when it's aries. the world's primary could change producing nation. is at the forefront of the war on drugs we're talking about serious organized crime as a country where reaching

a critical point while some have made fortunes many others have suffered at the hands of this multi-billion dollar industry both of them on this business will go on for ever get from a change all of global policies do who are the winners and losers of this illicit stray snow of the andes at this time and wondered put it well on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for a dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country haven't truly been able to escape the war .

you're watching all this here a reminder of our top stories this hour north korea's foreign minister has launched a scathing attack against u.s. president donald trump at the u.n. general assembly calling him the biggest threat to world peace it happened the same day the u.s. air force called flybys along the north coast line in a show of military force. campaigning has closed ahead of sunday's general election in germany polls suggested chancellor angela merkel will easily win a fourth time in sunday's election but a third of voters are still undecided feeling on about what kind of coalition could emerge from the vote. i knew six point two magnitude earthquake has sent mexicans running back into the streets on saturday morning no new damage has been reported

in the capital but rescue efforts have been affected by the aftershocks at least three hundred people have died in tuesday's earthquake. ok let's go back to our top stories now the tension surrounding north korea and its missile program and those speeches of course by the by north korea's foreign minister and the united nations general assembly cathy novak's in the south korean capital seoul she's been gauging reaction to the latest rhetoric kathy give us some indication of how this is affecting the level of tension there. well it's just raising it rob this really caps off a week of it exchange of insults and threats at the united nations you had donald trump not only threatening to totally destroy north korea but also directly insulting the leader now of course remember in north korea insulting the leader is an offense punishable by death and not something that would be taken lightly inside north korea when it is these comments are being made on this world stage so this

prompted this quite extraordinary response from the leader kim jong un himself issuing a statement through state media and we have seen that statement repeated in north korea several times over the past couple of days we saw a mass anti-american rally in pyongyang where kim jong un the statement was read out to the crowd now and now of course we're hearing from the north korean the foreign minister who hits back at donald trump and throws out some insults of his own calling the u.s. president commander in grief president evil and saying that he's a mentally deranged person full of megalomania and he said it's trump himself who is on a suicide mission after donald trump said it was kim jong un who is rocket man on a suicide mission and know the north korean foreign minister saying that if there are the loss of innocent lives in the u.s. it is donald trump who will be held responsible so very personal also very full of

threats and when the north korean foreign minister is saying that donald trump's remarks make an attack on the u.s. all the more inevitable so it's just raising the temperature of things here in the south korean government for its part really wants to scale this back really wants to push for a peaceful solution and not see this escalate to the point of a military option being taken rob guthrie what was slightly different about this situation was the fact that at the same time as the foreign minister was making his speech the u.s. of course carried out those bomber flybys that we mentioned earlier all across the coast of the north. yes this was a bomber fly by that was on the east coast and actually flew the furthest north that we've seen the u.s. fly this century and these shows of force are really intended to demonstrate that you pay us and its allies have the military power to conduct

a preemptive strike or indeed a retaliation of any north korean attack so after this whole week of intense rhetoric the question turns to what will come next it's quite unusual for north korea to issue threats and not follow through in some way in the south korean government has been warning for some weeks now that it expects that another missile launch or another nuclear test is a likely and we heard from the foreign minister of north korea at the u.n. suggesting that perhaps north korea could detonate a hydrogen bomb in the pacific in the south korean government says it watches closely around the times of significant national holidays well there's another one coming up in north korea soon on october tenth that will mark the anniversary of the foundation of the workers' party so in the lead up to that time and on that date itself tensions will remain high here rob when you know you've spoken about this in the past few weeks you've been telling is that south koreans of course are very used to strong language and threats coming from north korea to the extent that

they they almost take it for granted it's part of their daily lives but the the rhetoric as we're talking about has ratcheted up our people reacting there now any differently. well for the most part of your walk around seoul it just really seems like any other day as you say this is been going on for decades people are used to this bombastic language coming out of north korea but i suppose what's a little bit different is that the bombastic language is coming from both sides in this instance getting as i say very personal and the rhetoric coming out of donald trump's mouth is not only insulting to the leader kim jong un but he seems to be really pushing this idea that the u.s. is seriously considering its military options so as we've talked about several times one of the concerns here in this city seoul is that analysts believe that any attack on north korea is very likely to result in north korea responding with an artillery attack conventional weapons on this city so i think day to day if you

talk to south korean people they sort of watch it and have the same sort of level of concern but i've spoken to people here who have said different things ranging from their use to this from both sides but also worried about the words coming out of the u.s. president donald trump. you know what life was in seoul for you very much indeed. the spanish government has placed cattle on police under its command in another bid to try to block next weekend's independence referendum leaders have opposed the move calling it an unacceptable interference by madrid john hendren has more from barcelona. a standoff in catalonia just got more tense and potentially far more volatile the interior minister of spain's catalan province says local police will not take orders from spain that was him denounced the government's intention to take control of the captain and police the catalan

government does not accept the intervention of the state he says that was the message he and catalans police chief delivered to the spanish interior minister in a meeting on saturday what we see here is not a technical. see is a political maneuver the spanish government is trying to take control of because of the police because the spanish government has vowed to its voters that the referendum the front referendum will not take place catalonia leaders insist they will carry out an october first referendum asking voters whether to separate from spain spanish president marianna calls that vote illegal and says he will stop it. the most sensible the most reasonable and the most democratic thing to do is to stop they should say there is no referendum they know there isn't going to be one. spain has arrested and released senior catalan government employees instead in three to four thousand national police and civil defense forces to stop the vote

spain can no longer count on the seventeen thousand regional bullies known as marceau's and that sets up a potential conflict between two armed forces with very different goals for the national police charged with shutting down the referendum and the lawsuit to see their duty as protecting the rights of catalans making matters worse the spanish troops are housed in four ships off the coast of catalonia and boycotting local port workers refused to adopt the ships as spanish delegate in catalonia says spain is not trying to control the most of those just to coordinate with them but i don't know if what we have is a not a substitution of the roles of the council on police they keep their role as far as population security goes however they will be helped by decision guards and national police and they will be coordinated by the interior ministry the muscles have long been criticized for not cracking down on the referendum now it's not at

all clear whose side they will be on john hendren al jazeera barcelona. thousands of demonstrators have rallied in paris against changes to france's labor laws president emanuel approved the sweeping reforms in friday's saying they will modernize workplaces and create more jobs but critics say they will destroy workers' rights reports. determined to keep pressure on the government supporters marched through paris as opposition to president emmanuel macro's you will cloak continues protests to say the legislation is unfair that it makes it too easy to hire and fire and favors bosses over employees. over the benefits we have fought for and now it's being taken away from us well it's not acceptable. people are working. out and the other one i know to a king i would like to work something is wrong and i don't think that they did we will make that better. after the march one of the president's faces critics and his

main political opponent took to the stage the hard left. people to keep fighting for the law to be scrapped. his reform is must be returned for the. battle isn't over it's just begun. bill very strongly. will destroy the right. stifle competition and kept unemployment high and he says his new balance and some protection with flexibility on friday mcgraw signed a rare executive order forcing streets a contentious reforms to avoid months of parliamentary debate the hope is that the changes will make it easier for people like sam weaver the owner of a bike business says expansions been difficult because of high costs and bureaucracy being an entrepreneur and friends is tougher than back home in the

united states. doing it in france has become an absolute nightmare hiring somebody is so expensive if france really wanted to grow the economy in the way i think they could probably good they need to help the small businesses like my own so that we can employ one two three people if we need you. the president has succeeded in passing his reforms and fulfilled an election campaign promise he's pleased his supporters but he still faces a battle on the streets with al-jazeera paris. u.s. president donald trump has called his country's addiction to drugs and national emergency officials say they've conducted a number of high profile arrests as part of the crackdown but there are also calls for drugs companies to share more of the blame kristen salumi has more. it's a street drug so deadly law enforcement officers wear special protective suits when confiscating it fentanyl used to increase the potency of heroin is blamed for

a twenty two percent increase in deaths by overdose in the last year sixty four thousand americans have lost their lives this recent police raid in new york the biggest ever in the city recovered a staggering sixty four kilograms of the drug. bridget brennan has been new york's special narcotics prosecutor for almost twenty years we're not making any headway right now every year it gets worse and we need to do something law enforcement historically is focused almost exclusively on removing the supply of drugs and that's critically important ultimately you want to decrease the demand president trump has said lax border security and fewer drug prosecutions under the obama administration are at least partly to blame so they look at this. let it go by and we're not letting it go by with four out of five heroin addicts believed to have started their habit with the prescription the justice department is going after

doctors and pharmacies as well as dealers. but state and local officials believe pharmaceutical companies also bear responsibility for the nation's opioid epidemic a point the trump administration has yet to weigh in on forty one states including new york have joined forces to investigate and some have already filed lawsuits against the companies alleging deceptive marketing. our subpoenas and letters seek to uncover whether or not there was deception involved if manufacturers misled doctors and patients about the efficacy and addictive power of these drugs really examine their marketing practices both to the medical community and the public ironically the trumpet ministration is partnering with some of the very same companies being sued to come up with alternatives to opioids and new treatment options the only entity that really profited from the pill epidemic were the pharmaceutical companies and it's clear to me that there's is culpability there

somewhere brennan would like to see more funding for educational campaigns like this one and more treatment options forty six percent more people have died from overdoses because while prosecutors like her applaud the administration's efforts to tackle the epidemic she believes it will take more than a rest to get the job done kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. more than fourteen thousand people on the odd resort island of bali have been evacuated after seismologists have been warning that mount agong could erupt for the first time in fifty years the last time the active volcano erupted it killed more than in levon hundred people polled said donnegan reports. thousands of people on bali are now in emergency shelters the bonnie's emergency office told eighty thousand residents and tourists in close proximity to mount to evacuate their homes and camps and i'm really worried because we feel the trim isn't getting stronger and

continuous over the last few days. seismologists have been recording what they call a tremendous increase in seismic activity near mt goon indonesia sits on the ring of fire which is an arc of volcanoes and fault lines and circling the pacific basin the last time to three thousand meter tall mountain erupted it killed more than a thousand people and injured hundreds more it's fud ashes highest twenty kilometers reaching the capital jakarta about a thousand kilometers away lava from the last eruption flowed nearly eight kilometers residents and tourists who are outside the nine kilometer radius of the crater and at least twelve kilometers from where lava could flow have been told they are not in danger always good as well as on facebook. and there were a while why no one's going home waiting on a bill saying anything different way to go it's like here right now they haven't said to return home but just to be away flights at bally's international airport

are operating as normal and tour companies say they have seen no disruption across the rest of the island over the past few days a series of earthquakes along the ring of fire have hit mexico japan fun to watch too and new zealand durgin on al-jazeera. still ahead in sport find out how nine times moto g.p. champion holland you know rossi got out of the out of on the wrong point just three weeks after breaking his leg. ever since i was a little boy in india my dream was to meet bollywood films so five years ago i decided i was finally going to do it one man's quest to realize a lifelong ambition the story i choose to lose my one village and it's transformation going behind the lens that's gone from saying brings his personal story to life. al-jazeera correspondent my own private bollywood at this time.

we're here to jerusalem bureau coverage israeli palestinian affairs we cover the story with a lot of internet to recover from that we don't dip in and out of the story we have a presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to be a journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global on this for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happened and what happens there matters.

and it's time for the support here is santa. thank you very much the n.f.l. says that u.s. president donald trump's latest comments on players during the national anthem show a lack of respect to the league on friday the president suggested that those who protest racial injustice by kneeling on the field should be fired in his home and has the story a friday night rally for a republican senator in alabama was an unlikely setting for an exceptional attack by the united states president towards the n.f.l. would you love to see one of these. when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a the field right. this guy if you heard you donald trump without prompting going off to play is he male during the national anthem to protest racial inequality in the united states because that's a total disrespect of our heritage that's

a total disrespect of everything that we stand for the n.f.l. has usually tried to stay away from politics but the lake's commissioner roger goodell responded in a statement saying divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the n.f.l. our great game and all of our players and affiliate to understand the overwhelming force for good clubs and players represent in our communities. cullen cappa nick first started the just twenty six days but the quarterback hasn't been signed by an n.f.l. team and leaving the san francisco forty nine ers in march still other league players have continued to follow his lead and trump had a message for fans there you see it even if it's one player leave the stadium i guarantee things will stop things will stop just picked up the way trumps 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 the heritage

. 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 us sport remains deeply in time gold in the national political issues the white house had suggested earlier this month that e.s.p.n. whores jamelle hill should be fired after the sports broadcaster called donald trump a white supremacist on twitter i think that's one of the more outrageous comments that anyone could make and certainly something that i think is right fireable offense by e.s.p.n. several n.f.l. owners were multimillion dollar donors to trump's presidential campaign focus will now turn to how they apply exact during the national anthem before sunday's games uli's home an al jazeera as you can imagine trumps comments that have sparked a massive reaction on social media trying to get our sky takes a look. so n.f.l.

players and officials have expressed their outrage after trump's speech in alabama the head of the n.f.l. players association damaris smith defended the athlete saying we will never back down we no longer can afford to stick to sports now e.s.p.n. journalists jamal hale who controversially called trump a white supremacist and a bigots in a series of tweets earlier this month has hit out to just so we're clear the president's comments will only incite more player protests not quell them and this is a case in point a hash tag that started trending cold taken me where people are vowing to also new during the national anthem in solidarity one fund tweeting what trump fails to realize is that millions of americans will have taken me alongside colin kaepernick before we stand with him bots conservative blogger wayne dupree who is a black republican with more than two hundred twenty thousand followers agrees with trump a says if n.f.l. is losing revenue over some players moonlighting their n.f.l.

jobs would activism what would you do your pay to play not new line of help players are the only athletes to come under donald trump's of rother in the past twenty four hours he's also targeted the golden state warriors saw seven carry after the n.b.a. when i said he didn't want to make the traditional trip to the white house the things that he said and the things that. he hasn't said in the right times that we won't stand for and by acting or not going hopefully that will. inspire some change when it comes to what we tolerate in this country and what is accepted and what is who we turn a blind eye to or this was trumps response on twitter earlier going to the white house is considered a great honor for a championship team stefan curry is hesitating therefore invitation is would draw on welker's team the golden state warriors have since released

a statement saying they will not be visiting the white house after all but has made it clear they are not welcome meanwhile n.b.a. star le bron james who plays for the cleveland cavaliers tweeted this to the president you bomb stephan curry already said he going so therefore no invite going to white house was a great honor until you showed up kenya has lost the right to host the twenty eighteen shand tournament that is the event stage every two years for african national teams featuring only locally based players will kenya was set to host next year but at the cuff meeting in ghana it was decided to strip the east african nation of its hosting rights say kenya's preparations are simply too far behind schedule morocco and the theo pierre are reportedly the two candidates likely to now step in and host shaun politics were also front and center when legal leaders

barcelona faced as your own are in catalan and it's a back drop of on rest over the state's independence to own goals and from lewis who are a striker were enough for barcelona to win the match three now and there are plenty of catalonia flags on display at this match. early in the day real madrid returned to winning ways it with a two one win at this. and the two nil win over severe and there was a high scoring draw between maga and atletico bilbao matches the city banging the goals in the english premier league on saturday they put five past crystal palace and they open the scoring before her ham stirling netted a brace to jog where i'm. wrapped up with the five nil when city lead the premier league table on goal difference while palace are bottom of the standings without a point or a goal and as a united also had a victory they won one nail at southampton in the early game tottenham defeated

west ham three two champions chelsea had a big win away at stoke four nil and in the late game liverpool defeated leicester three two. moto g.p. were maverick will start from pole position at the ara gone and gone pee in spain in a thrilling call finding session the twenty four year old is down lorenzo's the long nine time champion valentino rossi made a remarkable comeback to qualify. just three weeks after factoring his right leg in more to cross an italian missed only one race because of the injury where europe storm a nation of the a no girl live or cup against the rest of the world team has continued on the second day in prague they now lead by nine points to three saturday's doubles a lineout the european dream team of roger federer rafael nadal team up against american joe johns and sam querrey fedor and the dollar would go on to win the but

they didn't have it all their own way the final score six four one six ten five and that's how you spell for me will have more later on. and that's it for me rob matheson for this news hour i'll be back in a moment with more of the day's news all say you that stay with us. let's talk about now. right now. right now is happening so fast. you can barely keep up with it. right now we've got clouds protecting reiners. on mobile technology finding clean water not tomorrow not five years in the future. now.

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. another day of us collating rhetoric north korea's foreign minister hits out of the united states at the u.n. general assembly.