unlike the demilitarized zone in the un his fear here is very relaxed from around the world the water that comes in the trucks relist and water from the shallow holes is that he is full of sediment and of course the high risk of disease. how is it if you boy in india my dream was to me. so five years ago i decided i was fine to do it one man's quest to realize a lifelong ambition. to lose my one and it's. going behind the lens that's going to sing brings his personal story to life. al jazeera correspondent my own private bollywood at this time. a fourth term for german chancellor angela merkel but after sunday's election she

faces a very different parliament. i'm not matheson this is all just a lie from doha also coming up donald trump adds north korea and venezuela to the list of countries whose nationals face a u.s. travel ban. iraqi kurds refuse to back down from monday's independence referendum despite opposition from all their neighbors. i've never said anything about this is nothing to do with race anything else this is with respect for our country and respect. and how a remark at a political rally has suddenly put it donald trump against america's most popular sport. german chancellor angela merkel has won a fourth time in office her victory was widely expected but she will face

a very different political landscape when the new bundestag convenes the far right a.f.d. party not only won seats for the first time but made a surprisingly strong showing exit polls per. medical center right christian democratic union party has won just over thirty three percent of the vote that gives them two hundred twenty seats their main rival and current coalition partner the center left social democrats led by martin schultz got around twenty one percent of the vote or one hundred thirty seven seats but the biggest change to germany's political scene is this the far right and anti islamic alternative for germany or d. getting thirteen point two percent of the vote that translates into eighty seven seats with three other main parties one between nine and ten percent of the vote but could find themselves in power as part of a coalition dominic came the ports from berlin. a moment of celebration for the christian democrats confirmed in first place but for some it was

a hollow victory they lost almost one hundred seats in this election so although anglo-american very probably remain as chancellor this was a choice a moment when that's really. of course we are facing a huge task. and parliament will carry out a profound because we want to win back the voters of the by solving problems and listening to their worries and sometimes their fears but above all through good politics. and there are many of those voters four years ago the far right alternative for germany party failed to win any seats in its first federal election campaign this time with an anti refugee anti islam platform it nearly tripled its vote and we'll be the third largest party in parliament. because we've been given an electoral mandate and we will accept this electoral mandate with

humility because millions of voters have given us their trust to carry out constructive opposition work in the german parliament and we will deliver ladies and gentlemen we will deliver. for the social democrats this. it was a disastrous election martin schulze led them to their worst result since world war two he and his party will now form the main opposition in parliament which means angle americal must now trying to form what's called the jamaica coalition after the colors of its national flag taking in the greens and the free democrats a combination that has never been tried at a federal level she had looked long and lament as the comforter winner but she really lost significantly and she needs the party which lost most in this election in comparison to the last election so hopefully the c.d.u. world learned its lesson too that they have to change something because otherwise they will be defeated in the next elections. the first the democrats have their

first full enjoy this and the fact the sun doesn't rise in this thread might well be full of how difficult it will be to form a coalition on the next government the federal government to members of the far right i'm not gonna have just come from the bank of america still targeting as being dense in government al-jazeera the. us president donald trump assigned an order implementing sweeping new travel restrictions on citizens from eight countries it replaces his original travel ban on citizens of from six muslim majority countries the new restrictions are expected to come into effect on october the eighteenth let's go straight to mike hanna who's in washington d.c. for us mike what more do we know about this. or robert ministration officials have told us that this new proclamation follows a country wide assessment global why the assessment of u.s. security issues to states around the world were given fifty days to meet

a list of bench line requirements by the united states at the end of this period there are eight countries that u.s. officials say have not met these benchmark requirements and they are chad iran libya north korea syria somalia venezuela and yemen now off these five countries were on listed on the original ban that ban expired today but now comes into effect again with this proclamation the new countries added to the list the ban will come into effect on october the eighteenth but very important to know this is very different from previous bans each of the countries is dealt with specifically in the proclamation conditions and requirements and restrictions vary from country to country iran for example there was a total ban on travel for iranian nationals now this has been eased although it

remains on the list students and exchange visitors may be given visas from iran in the case of venezuela for example when those who were in nationals are allowed to travel but the restrictions are restricted to government members certain government members so that's very different in terms of the fact that it is targeted and also the proclamation does make a case for waivers in each case to be granted there is a mechanism within the proclamation so a very different beast from previous bans also important to note that all visas currently issued will remain valid despite the ban commencing on october the eighteenth mike hanna live for us in washington d.c. mike thanks very much indeed. the u.s. has carried out air strikes on an i sold desert camp in libya killing seventeen fighters it happened on friday two hundred forty kilometers southeast of sirte the coastal city was a former stronghold in libya the strikes are the first by the u.s.

in libya since president donald trump took office in january there i can government is ramping up its efforts to stop a controversial referendum on kurdish independence on monday it's asked the autonomy's kurdish region to hand over control of its international border posts and airports it's also calling on foreign countries to stop importing oil from the kurdish region and to deal with the baghdad government instead by mr hyde that are the ones the vote will have dire consequences. i want to speak clearly with our dear kurdish people most of the problems in your region are local and not coming from baghdad the call of secession will only make the crisis of economic and financial difficulties get bigger resulting from the corruption and bad management i want to direct my verse of the kurdish people and ask those responsible where has the money from oil revenues gone where the president of iraq's kurdish regional government in my suit bazzani insists the vote will go

ahead he says officials in baghdad have failed to live up to the promises they made to the kurds. they have been continuing threatening and him a million people the state that we agreed on should have been a state based on citizenship federalism pluralism multiculturalism and democracy but unfortunately the state we have right now in iraq is a theocratic sectarian state. has more from bill the capital of iraq's kurdistan region. this was the final tie we hear from kurdish president masoud barzani before the reverend takes place on monday and he had some very harsh words for the government in baghdad he said the didn't you iraq because participated in building and went willingly to baghdad for back in two thousand and three turned out to be a crack take and think tarion country he said the kurds did all what they could they believed a key role in ratify the constitution back in two thousand and five but they did

not get what they expected in return then he went on speaking about all the current problems with the central government in baghdad and he said that after the vote they will still be a time for negotiation that independence won't come on the next day and maybe it will take a year or two or even more depends on how good these talks with go but within minutes the prime minister either allowed by the gave us choice statement and he also didn't mince his words he said that baghdad when never accept the disintegration of iraq and that this referendum will lead actually to a creation of a racist and sick tarion state he then went on putting a lot of the blame on the kurds he said that yes they did not receive their share of the federal revenue but about a quarter of iraq's oil production at the moment is being sold unilaterally by the kurds and he then he went on saying that at

a baghdad is going to take further steps he did not elaborate what those steps could be but he did warn that iraq was entering a dangerous zone and nobody knows what the outcome will be despite of all the talk of war between the two politicians well people here are getting ready to head to the polling stations monday morning about twelve thousand of those around the kurdish region and the disputed territories and also in the camps where the displaced people will be a. it's certainly an upbeat atmosphere here. this is their time to express their opinion and to take this into their own hands on monday also marks one month since the beginning of an army crackdown that triggered the latest crisis in million mark since then four hundred and thirty thousand one hundred refugees have fled to neighboring bangladesh to escape i think violence reports from the bangladesh myanmar border inside this bag

is a twelve year old girl she's being carried to the camp by her cousins after crossing the border. more soldiers slit her brother's throat they then came after her cousins won't say exactly what they did to touch of since she's been unable to speak eat or drink whatever they did has put her in the state of shock the young sons who choose responsible for all this she's responsible for the killings for the violence against our people. supported the nobel laureate hoping she would bring an end to their persecution instead mob attacks led by buddhist monks and the military against their community have intensified since she came to power in two thousand and fifteen despite the return to democracy they can vote go to school or practice their religion freely. this is the.

nation army formally known as keen as secular militant group responsible for the august attacks against the me and more security forces their leader ayatollah continues to call on all men and women to fight what they describe as the brutal regime of young go on and and then to the oppression of ranges. we met one of the group's members in a secret location it's the first time they accept to talk publicly. he says they have no choice but to take up arms in order to stop what they describe as the start of a genocide against their people. if they don't give us our rights if they keep killing our people raping all women then yes there will be more attacks to come this is our land and we will fight back i mean more as response to the group's attack is described by the un as textbook ethnic cleansing the group is ill equipped and has few weapons it is no match to me and morris military might but it has the support

of many refugees at people stateless and in limbo. who continue to suffer of unspeakable violence. nicholas hawk al jazeera at the bangladesh me and more border still ahead on al-jazeera thousands group. to returns from its first trip abroad since the g.c.c. crisis. dog find alive in mexico city gives hope of finding more survivors six days after a seven point one magnitude earthquake. skies by the time. are is the sun sets in the city of angels. hello and welcome back now across parts of china and taiwan weather conditions relatively quiet at the moment we have got this frontal system up towards yangtze

river valley giving rain for shanghai further south and notice as circulation this is going across high now and this is going to get some really heavy rain across northern parts of vietnam including annoyed but up into the mountains i think the rainfall pepper once again that could be some significant landslides and flooding concerns that system that runs across through into me i'm on that has been made for some very wet weather here already plenty of showers around for coastal areas but inland areas too are going to be seeing some to rancho rain at times into southeastern parts of asia here we can see further showers right across the philippines looking freddie wet at the moment so showers are on board and much as you'd expect but it's also looking quite white in parts of java and bali to pick up some showers so definitely some thunderstorms there highs of thirty two up through them they can cheer for singapore and kuala lumpur weather conditions generally aren't too bad but once you get into thailand and across central southern parts both come both here and vietnam it is looking pretty wet at times so again some localized flooding is possible here into south asia we've still got some showers

effect in the western ghats we still got some showers for the east but northern parts of india largely fine highs of thirty five in delhi. the weather sponsored by cattle ways. for a man he's decided to break his tradition and train to sail competitively maybe not that we want to present a positive image and to use this typical expectation. for them it's about more than just racing yes you can still be a good woman and also a very talented sailor going off around the world showing everybody how strong omani people are al-jazeera meets the first female sailing crew in the gulf sailing stop at this time on al-jazeera.

they're watching all jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour german chancellor angela merkel has one of fourth term in office in the country's general election but her conservative party suffered its worst result in a twelve years in power following a surge in support for the far right. u.s. president donald trump's approved new travel restrictions on citizens from eight countries that replaces his original travel ban on people from six muslim majority countries the new order now applies to north korea chad venezuela iran and libya somalia syria and yemen. hundreds of people continue to flee across the border one month on from the start of the hinge a crisis in me and my state the u.n. says nearly four hundred thirty thousand range of refugees have escaped to bangladesh so far. well it's a week to go until residents of catalonia seek to hold

a band vote on whether to separate from spain catalans defiantly posting yes signs across boss alone and other cities in the region john hendren reports from barcelona. catalans are building a growing movement and perhaps a nation the government of spain has branded these pro independence signs a crime making these children human. is a bit of a pain in the bucket on the advent of anybody differen. we want. our freedom yes. spanish police have banned the october first referendum on independence and confiscated the regional governments ten million ballots so catalans printed these in spanish and in their own language we don't have spain we actually love their culture and all but i know we are free people and we. are in the business catalans handed them out and posted pro independence signs as the

region's most those police who refused to take their direction from spain look on here only. want to be free their cars are strewn with flowers by thankful locals some draped in what they hope will become their national standard because spain has outlawed the referendum there's been no real campaign here this spanish government office is as close as you get to a no campaign headquarters and cattle on officials who have urged people to vote yes have found themselves in jail and face charges as serious as sedition which carries a fifteen year prison term all for urging voters to cast a homemade ballot we have to vote but it was not bus about the you saw out of the people about the shows so i don't. i don't got i couldn't vote yes or no. at the ports it's the spanish flag that's unfurled by proud nationalists do we have we can't allow them to say that catalonia is not spain as

a castle and all my life i feel very spanish and i will always on my homeland which is spain here more than three thousand spanish national police and civil defense forces are housed in crucial. order to stop the referendum whether catalans vote to build a new nation or whether the movement they've built falls apart will be decided on october first john hendren al jazeera barcelona. president emmanuel party has taken a hit in the country's senate elections partial results show the conservatives are dominating the vote to renew half the seats it's seen as a crucial to help pass his controversial labor reforms which have sparked mass protests the senators are being voted in by mayors and we general councils qatar's emir tom and bin hamad all dani is back home after meeting world leaders in europe and at the un general assembly in new york it was welcomed by thousands of people in doha after discussing the gulf crisis abroad. he reports

a grand for the immediate. shake to be. surrounded by hundreds of people a soon as he's plane landed at the airport. and other waterfront indo has city center his people came out in the thousands to welcome a leader they have rallied around since the gulf crisis began a few months ago. he drove along doe has famous coney his motorcade stopped several times along the way to greet those who have come to welcome him back. what you saw was a national festival a nation united behind its leader i feel sad about what our neighbors did to us but we are proud of our immunity sunday's turnout is in stark contrast to what some regional media have reported about

a khatami leadership that's out of touch with its population while the gulf dispute has posed economic challenges to qatar the country has managed to launch new shipping routes to prevent the flow of goods from being disrupted. and for many who showed this was their chance to passively thank the emir and show the world their resolve throughout the crisis. that despite the blockade we showed the world we are united and with that resolve we can overcome all the crises fashion and i mean you know american abby living here for eighteen years i feel i belong here this was the first time the emir left qatar since the crisis began. visit took him to. berlin and paris before landing in new york to address the united nations general assembly to aid and the u.s.

have been trying to convince all the parties to negotiate an end to this dispute people here see no end in sight of the gulf crisis there's a strong feeling among that the allegations made by the. countries against qatar is just a pretext and that their ultimate goal is to impose their will on a sovereign state. well the thirty five thousand people on the indonesian resort island of bali have moved to temporary shelters because of all kamal lying to erupt seismologists have warned among could blow up for the first time in fifty years. been visiting people affected in northern bali the most sacred ok you know in bali it's rumbling after fifty four years of silence this is the edge of the danger zone and people are still evacuated their animals at the last minute this is their main source of income and these farmers are worried that they can feed the animals when they're staying in the evacuation centers this team is warning people to leave the

area immediately and they're also looking for i mean most that are still left behind for like dogs hundreds of promotion quakes have been found in the last ten days since the volcano woke up again mount is known to be a very explosive volcano one thousand nine hundred sixty three. material and put into the year ten kilometer villages were destroyed the more than thousand people die more than two hundred thousand people are now in these evacuation centers and many artists are now staying in with relatives the balinese have come out to help those affected by the folk a no i bring in no food and other things they need the tourist areas in the south of bali i'm not affected by the whole idea so i just believe that if an eruption happens airports might be closed and then tourism is affected you start to see the option is imminent but nobody knows if and when it will happen

a mexican court has ruled search and rescue efforts must continue for another five days at a damaged apartment block in the capital it was one of more than fifty buildings that collapsed in tuesday's seven point one magnitude quake that have been protests in mexico city following local media reports some of the partially destroyed buildings will be demolished relatives have been calling for rescue efforts to continue more than three hundred people died in the quake. well there are still signs of hope in mexico city a dog's been found alive under rubble six days after the quake struck rescuers pulled the animal out from a collapsed apartment building on sunday i can maria has left widespread devastation on the island of puerto rico people are without power and the basic necessities and the gallacher has more from the capital san juan. hurricane maria struck puerto rico in the early hours of wednesday morning as one of the most powerful storms this island has ever experienced it's now sunday in many streets here in the capital looked like this there were downed trees all over the place

blocking off roads telegraph poles have been snapped like toothpicks but there are some very basic needs here that are going to make this a long term recovery firstly let's deal with fuel if gas stations are open there are a very long lines and people are now being rationed but for businesses and places like hospitals that are running off generators time is now running out particularly for important places like hospitals if they can't get fuel they are in deep trouble the other big problem here is things like fresh water that's also being rationed which is an incredibly difficult situation but power may be the biggest issue of all if you look at the power cables here you can see why this island and i mean the whole island has no power at all officials say it may come on sometime next year but in neighborhoods like this families are coming together and doing what they can they're finding food and water wherever they can buying it but they're also coping

with there being no power and no telecommunications and for many this is an incredibly difficult long term situation every day it serves becoming like more of a reality you know because it's like surreal i guess so you know it's. you know we think that this is going to be back to normal and we just hope that that's going to happen and here is yet another problem the entire island is facing whole communities submerged below flood waters and all of this is been here for days it's starting to smell because sewage is leaking in oil is leaking in and it's simply heartbreaking for people in the street behind me but what we can say for certain after spending a week in puerto rico is this is going to be a long and painful recovery and for many people simply heartbreaking and a gallacher al-jazeera san juan puerto rico. the playing of the national anthem is a ritual before sporting events across the u.s. but on sunday more than one hundred national football league players sat or knelt

down as the music played three teams didn't come on to the field a tall for the anthem they were protesting about racial injustice and president donald trump's call for an end to such demonstrations by athletes can believe it has more from washington d.c. . some knelt on one knee others raised their fists and locked arms as hundreds of american football players in the united states in london pushed back against president trump's criticism of their protests during the u.s. national anthem it was a sign of solidarity with other athletes criticized by donald trump since friday for using the anthems to protest racial inequality and aggressive policing in the united states would you love to see one of these n.f.l. owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a off the field right out the sky. fired on sunday trunk continued his criticism on twitter suggesting fans boycott the national

football league and owners fire players who he believes disrespect the country by protesting during the anthem as the n.f.l. players association was quick to put out a response supporting the athletes right to express themselves and demonstrate on the field products walk and we so the process of freedom trumps tirade has been met with pushback not just from athletes but also from team owners who have contributed to trump's political campaign or visited the white house in a statement the new england patriots c.e.o. robert kraft said he's deeply disappointed by the president's comments as the debate spiraled members of trump's administration defended the president's comments i think what the president is saying is that the owner should have a role that player should have to stand in respect for the national anthem this isn't about democrats it's not about republicans it's not about race it's not about free speech they can do free speech on their own time the right to protest is

protected under the constitution of the united states in two thousand and sixteen quarterback collin capper nick started using his platform to highlight injustice experienced by minorities in american society. the movement has spread to. other u.s. sports leagues saturday catcher bruce maxwell became the first major league baseball player to kneel during the american anthem. and other famous athletes like basketball star le bron james have also been speaking out because this guy we've. put in charge has to try to divide us once again the nature of the protests arm precedented and will continue say the athletes until the u.s. overcomes the racial divisions they say persist kimberly how good al-jazeera washington. this is al jazeera these are the top stories german chancellor i'm going to marco

has won a fourth term in office in the country's general election but she's admitted there will be tough negotiations before she can forge a new coalition the conservative party has suffered its worst result in her twelve years in power and follows a surge in support for the far right a f d party when that's really the most annoying of course we are facing a huge task they after entering parliament will carry out a profound acis because we want to win back the voters of the air by solving problems and listening to their lorries and sometimes that fares. through politics . u.s. president donald trump has signed off on new travel restrictions on citizens from eight countries it replaces his original travel ban on people from six muslim majority countries and you order now applies to north korea chad venezuela iran libya somalia syria and yemen sudan has been dropped from the original list the new

restrictions are expected to come into effect on october the eighteenth. the u.s. has carried out air strikes on an i sold desert camp in libya killing seventeen fighters it happened on friday two hundred forty kilometers southeast of sirte the coastal city was former stronghold in libya strikes of the first by the u.s. and libya since president donald trump took office in january the iraqi government's ramping up its efforts to stop monday's controversial referendum in kurdish independence is calling on foreign countries to stop importing oil from the autonomy's kodesh region it's also asked the region to hand over control of its border posts and international airports hundreds of people continue to flee across the border one month on from the start of the crisis and mia mas rocking state the u.n. says nearly four hundred thirty thousand range of refugees have escaped to bangladesh so far. french president emanuel party has taken a hit in the country's senate elections partial results show the conservatives are

dominating the vote to renew half the seats seen as crucial to help home passes controversial labor reforms which have sparked mass protests the senators are being voted in by mayors and regional councils. those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story i'll be back in half an hour. europe's biggest. flight is affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers. what are your rights as a traveler this.