it. right there. another day of escalating rhetoric north korea's foreign minister to the united states at the u.n. general assembly.

and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up strong aftershocks around mexico city slow down search and rescue efforts after tuesday's earthquake germany's main candidates wrap up their election campaigns ahead of sunday's vote. spain's government takes control of catalonia is police the latest move and its efforts to stop an independence referendum. are being more angry words of the united nations general assembly this time from north korea its foreign minister says u.s. president donald trump is remarks calling kim jong un a rocket. and reversible mistake the comments happened the same day u.s. long range bombers flew along the north coastline in a show of force and a magnitude three point four earthquake has been detected close to north korea's

nuclear test site it's not thought it was another weapons test our diplomatic editor james bass has the latest from the united nations democratic people's republic of korea this was the podium with. president trump threatening to totally destroy north korea now it was time for the country's top diplomat to give his blistering reply. due 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 a rocket's 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. on. the person who is 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 greatest 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 zero of the united nations when the u.s. president donald trump has suggested iran is working with north korea but has given no evidence to support the claim trump took to twitter on saturday to criticize the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran he also lambasted the agreement at the u.n. general assembly earlier within the week to iran launched our commissar missile test in response to the un address iran says it was meant for defense and retaliation mike hanna has been following developments on the tensions from the united nations in new york. it was a level of personal invective seldom heard in the confines of the general assembly

but in a way was a mirror of president trump's speech at the beginning of the general assembly session in which he threaten to destroy north korea but all diplomats deeply concerned at this level of angry rhetoric the secretary general has said that it could lead to what he calls a miscalculation the russian foreign minister says it's like children fighting in a kindergarten and a spokesman for the chinese foreign ministry says the situation is deeply complicated and dangerous and this kind of rhetoric will not help us find any solution in any way and a backdrop to the north korean foreign minister's speech the u.s. air force of b. one bombers latest generation through past the north korea coastline they went further north into the demilitarized zone then any u.s. forces have done this sentry and importantly they were not escorted by south korean fighters or japanese fighters they were escorted by u.s.

fifteen eagles so this was a unilateral operation done we are told with the knowledge of the japanese and the south koreans but the pentagon issued a statement making very clear that this was a display of as they put it u.s. resolve and also said that this was a message that there are other options that can be considered if diplomatic solutions or sanctions do not address the problem ok i think novak is in the south korean capital forest cafe of course south korea right across the border from north korea as all this rhetoric is ramping up what's the view there. well we heard there of a concern of miscalculation and that's something that president moon j.n. has also been talking about the fear that accidental military clashes made disrupt

the peace here he really does not want to see another war on the korean peninsula and he has said that any military action that is taken here must be taken with south korean knowledge and approval and say so what's of concern here is we're talking about these references to schoolyard talk kindergartener's fighting but really this exchange of insults is something that is taken extremely seriously in north korea of course the leader kim jong un is not just considered a leader there his family is in fact basically the religion of the north korean people and insulting the leader is an offense punishable by death and we often hear analysts talking about the fact that the yorks korean government wants to be taken seriously on the world stage wants to be taken seriously as a nuclear power wants a seat at the table so when you have the president of the united states hurling insults at kim jong un calling him rocket man on a suicide mission that's taken very seriously in north korea and we saw this very rare move on the part of the leader himself kim jong un issuing

a direct statement in response to donald trump's remarks as saying that donald trump will be made to pay dearly for them that statement has been read out to citizens of north korea in a mass anti american rally in the square in pyongyang and now again we have the north korean foreign minister following up on that kind of language insulting donald trump himself calling him the president evil mentally deranged and it's also not just the insults it's the threats well what north korea's foreign minister is saying is that after the latest nuclear test and after the tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles he says that north korea is entering the final stages of its development of its nuclear program so that's all of great concern here in south korea traffic no word live for us and so very very much. another earthquake has sent mexicans running back into the streets and saturday morning 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 aftershock is a setback for rescue efforts following tuesday's quake that killed at least three hundred people. reports 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 i. want to sleep 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 once 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 the family's 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. the idea that my niece is still alive gives a strength not just her but all the people inside the building was sure she and everyone else will be rescued a lawyer while some families put on a brave face others cannot hide their anguish each moment of waiting an eternity. castro al-jazeera mexico city.

campaigning has closed ahead of sunday's general election in germany polls suggested chancellor angela merkel will easily win a fourth term in sunday's election but a third of voters are still undecided feeling uncertainty about what kind of coalition could emerge from the vote because main challenger martin schultz has urged germans to boycott the far right a f d party gratian party is expected to enter parliament for the first time since the end of world war two dominic cain has been following the final day of campaigning in berlin. with both immanent the politicians make the final push for votes. 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 four years. 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. but if anything needs reviving it's her rivals campaign the social democrat candidate martin schultz has crisscrossed the country these past weeks but from the start polls have suggested he and his party are less popular than merkel in her his last election rally was in his own right his message was about the need for greater social justice. we don't want to focus on the bad side of this country. 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 damage. grants 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's 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 just as new of your for change consideration only represent a differing view on questions of principle and so there was finally be a lively exchange in parliament again that's a reason for the parliament to be the resoundingly board of society and that's why i began to get in that. 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 they want to represent them in this parliament dominic kane al-jazeera berlin still ahead and al-jazeera there are allegations range of

villages are still being burned in mia mars rock in state and drug use in the u.s. we'll look at how pharmaceutical companies are said to be involved. from the waves of the cells. to the contours of the east. welcome back across much of southern china and taiwan the weather conditions are fairly quiet at the moment being see this massive cloud moving away from the philippines being very wet here over the last twenty four to forty eight hours and that whole system is going to move further towards the west towards high now and eventually into parts of northern vietnam hong kong too will be on the northern edge of that system so heavy showers are likely to move the forecaster into monday you can see that system getting into vietnam also some heavy rain the on the along the yangtze river valley further south oh for taipei and maybe rather cloudy but it

should be largely dry for southeastern parts of asia generally we've got to find conditions across much of the philippines for the time being scattered showers across borneo and then some showers begin to push in across java and bali so a bit of a change there through the midday potential we have bright conditions for singapore in kuala lumpur once we get into thailand there looks pretty wet weather conditions extending across much of cambodia and southern vietnam into south asia and we still got some rain affecting the western ghats that's returning again during the course of sunday that area of rain gave some quite large rainfall totals in parts and old india but it should be largely dry here with highs of thirty expected in delhi. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. the world's primary could change producing nations is at the forefront of the war on drugs we're talking about serious

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a show of force a six point two magnitude earthquake has forced mexicans back on to the streets aftershock is a setback for rescue efforts following tuesday's quake that killed at least three hundred people. campaigning has closed ahead of sunday's general election in germany also just chancellor angela merkel will easily when a fourth time. the spanish government has placed catalan police under its command in another bid to try to block next weekend's independence referendum on leaders have opposed the move calling it an unacceptable interference john hendren reports. 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 and once again we denounce 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 win over the spanish government is trying to take control of because of the police because the spanish government has vowed its voters that the referendum the fund 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 those 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 dock the ships as spanish delegate in catalonia says spain is not trying to control them oh so so just to coordinate with them but i don't know if what we have is a not a substitute in of the roles of the 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 or u.s.

backed coalition of coalition fighters says it's retaken around ninety percent of eisel self declared capital in syria remaining fighters have reportedly concentrated in a small area of the city of iraq but expected to fight to the death. has more from beirut. it appears that it's only a matter of time before it's cleared of all i saw fighters that's according to the united states military as well as the kurdish group the syrian defense for the democratic forces of the y p g is there no one on the ground who have been leading the fight against isis or backed by the u.s. led international coalitions airstrikes on that area according to the u.s. ninety percent of the city has been cleared of myself fighters are only a few remaining pockets which are expected to come in the coming few days however even if and when i saw is cleared out of iraq that doesn't necessarily mean that

there will be some sort of peace and stability established there because if it was the kurds who are ruling are in control of the city that there is a lot of resentment directed towards them from the arab population in the area who've accused them in the past of trying to change the demographic makeup of those areas in order to pave the way for a future kurdish autonomous entity if it was bashar assad's troops the government troops who are in control but obviously also there is a lot of opposition to him because this seven year bloody civil war started with a revolution erupting against him and obviously the opposition factions themselves who are opposed to both the kurdish groups and bashar al assad's forces aren't exactly united amongst themselves so whilst there will be a lot of celebration amongst other. sections hailing the victory of iraq on expelling i thought that doesn't necessarily mean that it will usher in and immediately brighter

a more stable more peaceful situation in that area of syria. turkey's parliament has renewed a bill allowing military intervention in iraq and syria it's being seen as a final warning against the kurdish independence referendum vote on monday turkey's prime minister banally go get him has called the vote a mistake under symonds has more now from the turkish city of the hour back here. 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 is defiant he's refusing to move from his home that's

the 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. i even consider moving to iraq now but. aside from the demolition there are teams now working on urban regeneration projects in this city it's home to around a million kurds but there's a real danger that there's an independent spoke like kurds next door in iraq may prove to be more of a hindrance than a help. andrew symonds the. head of the un's refugee agency has been meeting ranger refugees in bangladesh camps ground he says he's shocked by what he calls the terrible violence inflicted on the

minority group from me in march over the past month more than four hundred twenty thousand have escaped violence and more by fleeing to bangladesh meanwhile human rights watch says it has evidence manned mars army has been laying landmines in its border with bangladesh to try to prevent refugees from returning. this is really heartless beyond words or seeing landmine being played by the berm you know the cherry in the pack fleeing refugees not only at the border but also in areas around villages where. the 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 and the influx of ranger into bangladesh is hurting local businesses in the border districts of cox's bazaar nicholas hike has been speaking to market vendors in the

town here bangladeshis come to buy their daily necessities spices food and vegetable and it's around this market that. have set up camp with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of people and you informal economy has grown here is one item that's particularly popular among ranges these plastic sheeting they're used to build the homes to protect them from the rains inside the camps hi yeah. and ask him if this is going well just like the business models or doesn't get no parts of this and i'm going to. connect with them i guess i don't get under the us does it there's a lot of the other there's not presume one is not going to 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 that resentment rangers have been coming here for decades leaving persecution and the relationship between local bangladeshi and their interest hasn't always been easy. u.s. president donald trump has called his country's addiction to drugs a national emergency he's vowing to ramp up government efforts to deal with it officials say they've conducted a number of high profile arrests as part of the crackdown but they're also calls

for drugs companies to share more of the blame chris and 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 looked 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. or 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 where 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 be. leaves it will take more than a rest to get the job done christensen leamy al jazeera new york and you can find much more on the website address for that al-jazeera dot com. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories north korea's foreign minister has launched a scathing attack against donald trump the u.n.

general assembly calling the u.s. president of the biggest threat to world peace it's happened the same day the u.s. long range bombers have been flying along north korea's coastline and a show of force really young host says trump's remarks at the u.n. calling kim jong un rocket man were very simple mistake. he try to insult. my country by referring it to a rocket by doing so however. an irreversible mistake. rockets visit to. mainland. all the more. than trump himself. and the us president donald trump has suggested iran is working with north korea but he's given no evidence to support the claim trump is taking to twitter and saturday to criticize the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran he's

also done busted the agreement at the un general assembly earlier in the week to iran has launched a missile test in response to the un address iran says the rocket is meant for defense and retaliation six point two magnitude earthquake has forced mexicans back on to the streets the aftershock is a setback for rescue efforts following tuesday's quake that killed at least three hundred people. campaigning has closed ahead of sunday's general election in germany polls suggest chancellor angela merkel will easily win a fourth term in sunday's election but a third of voters are still undecided fuelling uncertainty about what kind of coalition could emerge from the vote goes main challenger martin schulz has urged germans to boycott the far right anti immigration a.f.d. party the spanish central government has placed cattle on police under it's come on then another bid to try to block a next weekend's independence referendum catalan leaders have opposed the move

calling it an unacceptable interference spain's sending an extra three to four thousand police officers to catalonia to block the october the first vote was the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story. just days after the u.s. president calderon a rogue nation tehran says it has successfully tested a ballistic missile thoughts what will that mean for the landmark twenty fifteen uclear agreement this is inside story.