witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. another day of angry rhetoric north korea's foreign minister hits out at united states at the u.n. general assembly. has a stake in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up strong aftershocks around mexico city slowed down search and rescue efforts after tuesday's earthquake. germany's candidates wrap up their election campaigns before sunday's vote. and the

spanish government takes control of catalonia is police the latest move in its efforts to stop an independence referendum. north korea's foreign minister has launched a scathing attack on u.s. president donald trump really young hole told the un general assembly the insults towards kim jong un make a north korean rocket launch towards the u.s. mainland inevitable in his words diplomatic editor james various reports 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. 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 us 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 us to morrow or. the person who is chastised 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 zero of the united nations a cafe novak is following the story now from the south korean capital seoul. insults against the north korean leader kim jong un are taken very seriously by the

government there if people within north korea were to dare to insult kim jong un that would be an offense punishable by death so what we have seen in response to the us president donald trump's remarks at the united nations is a strong reply from kim jong un himself and now from the north korean foreign minister alert hurling insults back in the direction of donald trump and not only insults but threats as well saying that a strike against the u.s. is now inevitable now the north korean foreign minister also said as part of his speech that north korea is nearing the final stage of completing its nuclear force he had suggested that one of the options north korea might take would be to detonate a hydrogen bomb in the pacific so now that we have had the ramping up of rhetoric the concern is what happens next the united states has launched a show of force flying bombers off the east coast of north korea we are expecting

the unveiling of strategic weapons here in south korea as this country marks its armed forces day and the south korean government has been warning for weeks that it does expect another missile launch or perhaps another nuclear test from north korea particularly around important dates there there's one of those coming up next month when north korea marks the anniversary of the founding of its work as workers party on october the tenth the u.s. president donald trump has suggested iran is working with north korea but he's given no evidence to support the claim lambaste of the twenty fifty nuclear deal on twitter again he also criticized the agreement at the u.n. general assembly earlier in the week iran launched the hot i'm sure our missile in response to the u.n. address it says the test was for defense purposes. another earthquake has sent people in mexico running back into the streets a six point two magnitude quake shook southern mexico on saturday but no new damage

was reported in the capital the off the shock is a setback for rescue efforts after tuesday's quake that killed at least three hundred people castro reports we're now past the one hundred now we're. taking trying to reach people who are possibly still trapped alive in the six story office building that one story behind it is now ten kids and despite the moment to pass despite the reality that each minute these less likelihood of finding survivors people here are riding on edge. before dawn the sight of an ambulance gave hope that another survivor has 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 was. going 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 these families sleeping here now for more than four nights living off the generosity of strangers has been bringing food and words of comfort they're clinging to hope even as the hours pass. it was the most that would have to start. 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. i spoke with a rescuer from israel who said that his team things that still going to be many hours before finally make physical contact with these possible survivors but he says he has said that since hour one and l. stretching on past hour one hundred nothing has shaken his belief that there are still signs of life under the rubble and that is what's motivating everyone here the rescuers the families and the community members to continue their virtual. emergency services in puerto rico are grappling with the scale of the devastation left by hurricane rita there the storm hit the u.s. territory on wednesday bringing widespread flooding and strong winds towns are still without running water fuel power or phone services maria is now

a category three storm and making its way toward the bahamas. just a few hours german voters will go to the polls for a general election that is widely expected to reaffirm chancellor angela merkel's leadership but polls show a third of voters are still undecided fuelling uncertainty about what kind of ruling coalition will emerge from the vote not his main challenger martin urged germans to boycott the far right anti immigration a.f.b. party dominic cain has been following the final day of campaigning in berlin. with voting now in and the politicians make the final push for votes for angela merkel 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 hers 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 when you make germany better we make it more just that's the difference between them and us the final opinion polls might make grim

reading for his party the social democrats face the prospect of one of their worst ever results while the christian democrats have a coup. mounding 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. only represent a different view and 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 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 they want to represent them in this parliament dominic

came al-jazeera pearland all right still ahead on al-jazeera. i'm joined now in southeastern bangladesh where range of refugees continue to arrive hourly from me and just across the water. and syria's foreign minister says victory in a six year civil war is close but there's a that's done little to reassure the international community. 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 the stance of rainfall in the

overnight twenty four to forty eight hours for and then jerry along the eastern seaboard thirty one in new york and washington and up in auto or 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 really 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 house of twenty one when it's aires.

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a scathing attack on donald trump at the u.n. general assembly calling him the biggest threat to world peace it happened the same day the u.s. long range bombers flew along the north coastline in a show of force. another earthquake a sent people in mexico running back into the streets six point two magnitude quake shook southern mexico on saturday but no new damage was reported in the capital the aftershock is a setback for rescue efforts off to choose days quite that killed at least three hundred people. in just a few hours german voters will go to the polls for a general election widely expected to reaffirm chancellor angela merkel's leadership but a third of voters are still undecided and that's fueling on certainty about what kind of ruling coalition will emerge. as the head of the un's refugee agency has been meeting with refugees in bangladeshi camps they told filippo grand day about the alleged murder rape and

violence happening in myanmar's rawhide state our reporter john howell has been hearing similar accounts from people in tech now in southeastern bangladesh. these are new arrivals. well over four hundred muslim or hindu have fled ethnic cleansing in me and in just the past month and that number is rising daily. i don't have any expectations of bangladesh i just came here to save my life. in a scene a beggar makes plains through her tears that her husband and brother were killed when the military laid waste to her village. this is one of several entry points into bangladesh a busy water taxi route from sharply island to the mainland many rangers have crossed the nafs river from me in march two sharp and into bangladesh this way.

gathered on the water's edge the members of a large family who fled their homes two days ago during what the me and my military calls clearance operations. we were totally blockaded in our village they wouldn't allow us out and we began to run out of food. makes planes what happened next. the army surrounded our village and set it alight our husbands and sons were slaughtered we ran away to save our lives we can take anything with us except what we were wearing. and then she adds some brutal detail. if they found a woman they'd rape her and then throw her away so she couldn't be found they did this in village after village at this point two things become clear the first is that the exodus of britain from the wild down from its peak is still going on the

second is that the number of people who've lost their lives inside me and may be extremely high so many of the people arriving now are young mothers with children there aren't nearly enough husbands brothers or fathers and despite statements to the contrary by the government of and sang suchi the violence across the water goes on jonah how al-jazeera bangladesh. heiler is in myanmar is largest city yangon he says many people there feel the international criticism of the ranger crisis is undue. nearly a month into this range of crisis here in the m.r. for the most part the people are sticking by the government there have been pro-government rallies there have been nationalist rallies over the last couple of weeks actually later on sunday there's going to be a pro unsung suchi rally here and young gun this really focuses on the idea that the people of myanmar for the most part view the criticism from the international community as as

a little bit undue they feel as though this is an internal issue you know a lot of the the narrative that the government has been putting out and not just during this recent crisis for decades back that the readings that were illegal migrants from bangladesh that is something that for the most part the myanmar people seem to be believing they do have access to international media but the focus for the myanmar media has really been on those government themes in the government themes that we heard unsung suchi deliver in her first major speech about there were hints issued last tuesday so right now kind of a sense of nationalism is growing here in the country but then also there they say that they're going to be starting this process of reintegration for those refugees that recently crossed over into bangladesh this is something that unsung suit she has met with a group a committee over the last couple of days to start the logistical planning for that but right now we haven't seen anything on the ground to show that they're going to start to bring back some of those refugees who can prove that they left me in mar over the last several weeks the u.s. backed coalition of kurdish an arab fighters says it is retaken around ninety

percent of isis self declared capital in syria remaining i so find is all reportedly concentrated in a small area of the city of jenin to show yet has more from beirut. it appears that it's only a matter of time before is cleared of i saw fighters that's according to the united states military as well as the kurdish group the syrian defense for the democratic forces or the wife is there no one on the ground who've been leading the fight against ice 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 ice or fighters there 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 but 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 or in control of the city that is 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 them a graphic make up of those areas in order to pave the way for 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. since forces aren't exactly united amongst themselves so whilst there will be a lot of celebration amongst the other some sections hailing the victory of iraq plan expelling i so that doesn't necessarily mean that it will usher in and immediately right or a more stable more peaceful situation in the area of syria a serious foreign minister claims his government is close to

a military victory in the country made the remarks in his united nations address in new york syrian government forces have been accused of carrying out atrocities targeting civilians in using bank chemical weapons while and has denied the claims and criticized the u.s. led coalition. i love you. and you really had too much to have the so-called international coalition led by the u.s. which was created three years ago to allegedly fight terrorist groups such as i saw it has killed many more innocent syrians mostly women and children but terrorists and has destroyed vital infrastructure that syrians have worked for years to build it has also used phosphorous bombs and other internationally prohibited weapons before the eyes of the whole world. and the syrian foreign minister added he hopes the deescalation zones will help bring an end to the fighting but he said syria reserved the right to respond to any violation of those areas rosalyn jordan has more now from the us. the syrian foreign minister walid muallem was defiant in his

address before the u.n. general assembly on saturday not only did argue that syria is about to win the six year long civil war against the military and political opposition he also argued that syria is about to win the war for its reputation on the international stage especially in the face of challenges raised by countries such as the united states then syria has fully eliminated its chemical program this is enough proof that there is an ill conceived intention to tarnish the real image of the syrian government in the international public eye and come up with new excuses to continue the aggression against syria in favor of terrorists and their supporters this was the case when the united states blatantly attacked the shit out airbase claiming that it contained chemical weapons used in the alleged han shaikh huna to share and of course numerous investigations including those from the un the us and the u.k.

have found that syria may well have committed crimes against humanity and commit war crimes against its own people including using sarin gas against people living in khalid shaikh own earlier in twenty seventeen a saudi arabia's foreign minister has defended its military intervention in yemen claiming it had no choice i don't need you better says saudi arabia was forced to help the yemeni government against iran back hooty fight as the conflict has caused a humanitarian crisis which he says his country is committed to ending. in the last . this was not a choice for us in yemen it followed sustained political left first to preserve safety stability territorial integrity as well it's its independence and we reaffirm our full support for the political process in yemen and we will stand by the side of the u.n. special envoy to arrive at a political solution in saudi arabia is aware of the humanitarian suffering of our

brothers and we have and we have spared no effort to come to the help of yemenis. dismissed claims by saudi arabia that it's not doing enough to fight terrorism. to those countries that accuse qatar of supporting terrorism we say you need to follow our example the state of qatar has fully implemented security council resolutions this record has been commended and a number of united nations reports these reports stressed the constructive role that qatar is paying to support the u.n. in sustaining peace in providing humanitarian un developmental assistance which paves the way to sustainability and contributes to rooting out terrorism. the spanish government has placed cattle and police under its command in another bid to try to block next weekend's independence referendum catalan leaders are calling it an unacceptable interference by madrid john hendren has more. 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 fight over the spanish government is trying to take control of the cut of the police because the spanish government has vowed to 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 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 more so 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 the most of those 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 dissident 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. tens of thousands of people have marched through paris to protest the government's labor reforms made it easier for companies to hire and fire people fall left lead as sean nuke metal show all says measures will destroy workers' rights. more than fourteen thousand people on the result on the bali have been told to move that's off the seismologists warned that mountain could erupt for the first time in fifty years the last time the active volcano erupted it killed more than eleven hundred people . report us. thousands of people on bali are now in emergency

shelters the ball needs emergency office told eighty thousand residents and tourists in close proximity to want to evacuate their homes and camps and even. 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 well i think you know one thing commenting on a bill signing in a different way bill well it's like here just like they haven't said to return home but just to be aware 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 culture durgin on al-jazeera. says as you know that's going to round up on the top stories north korea's foreign minister has launched a scathing attack on u.s. president donald trump at the u.n. general assembly he called him the biggest threat to world peace the u.s. air force has carried out flights along north korea's coastline and a show of military force real house says trump's remarks at the u.n.

calling kim jong un a rocket man were an irreversible mistake. u.s. president has suggested iran is working with north korea but gave no evidence to support the claim trump lambaste of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal on twitter also criticized the agreement at the un general assembly earlier in the week iran launched a horror show missile in response to the un address it says the test was for defensive purposes another earthquake has sent people in mexico running back into the streets six point two magnitude quake shook southern mexico on saturday but no new damage was reported in the capital the aftershock is a setback for rescue efforts after tuesday's quake that killed at least three hundred people german voters will go to the polls on sunday for a general election widely expected to reaffirm chancellor angela merkel's leadership but a third of voters are still undecided fuelling uncertainty about what kind of ruling coalition could emerge from the vote of the head of the un's refugee agency

has been meeting in bangladeshi camps they told a few lupul grand day about the alleged murder rape and violence happening in myanmar's a high instinct what if they were bloody lucky that the army surrounded our village and set it alight our husbands and sons were slaughtered we ran away to save our lives we can take anything with us except what we were wearing if they found a woman they'd rape her and then throw her away so she couldn't be found they did this in village after village syria's foreign minister says government forces are close to military victory in the country why what he'd mylan used his united nations address to tell world leaders about the six year conflict as forces have been accused of carrying out atrocities targeting civilians and using banned chemical weapons as deny the claims and criticize the u.s. led coalition those are the headlines next scouting the cost.

says all sorts in an age of simplistic narratives the listening post critiques the mainstream response exposing the influences that drive the headlines at this time on al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is counting the cost of al-jazeera a wiki look at the world of business and economics this week we'll look at the economic forces at play in germany as a new government takes shape. also this week weather catastrophes does climate change mean that some assets are now at insurable. plus riot as mess up europe's biggest discount airline flies into trouble with pilots and passengers as it cancels.