well i'm richelle carey this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes iraq's kurds vote in an independence referendum despite fierce opposition to the ballot from iraq turkey and iran. a fourth term in power despite

big losses for on the merkel and germany's election is far right nationalists win seats in parliament for the first time since the nazi era. and the devastation of domenica the caribbean island dealing with the destruction of hurricane maria. this was the first time in nearly six days that there's been any water distribution here you can see people are anxious to get water they're thirsty they're hungry there's no electricity here. i'm joined again. by another door to live in this world and respond by needing all sitting on u.s. president donald trump attacks in protest against racial inequality. iraqi kurds are voting in a controversial referendum on the region's independence the ballot strongly opposed in iraq and neighboring countries there are fears it could fuel the separatist

aspirations of kurds in the region five million people across northern iraq are eligible to vote so the poll is taking place in the provinces have to hook. or be. areas that are officially under control of the kurdish regional government disputed areas outside its administration claimed by both the kurdish government and baghdad you're also voting that includes. the ethnic and oil rich province of crow cook this is further angered the iraqi government which opposes the vote along with iran turkey and syria if you're an independent kurdish state and iraq could fuel further separatism among their own kurdish populations are there any orange so the u.s. is also against the vote calling it provocative and destabilizing the un has issued a similar warning and is refusing to monitor the ballots so we have two reports on this referendum. in. turkey on the border with iraq turkey fiercely

opposes this referendum first though. be capital of iraq's kurdish region so there's been some confusion about whether the borders are closed can you clarify that for us. prime minister. and. officials of the. confirmed border crossings. borders between iran. comes just twenty four hours. it was closing its airspace for any. referendum. on having. a

kurdish population has very close cross border ties with living. we were actually in that area a few days ago and. they were fearing. the referendum in the repercussions on that because of the referendum most of the people there. trade with iran to have someone tell you we have our relatives across the borders our cousins across the border when asked how long do you think that closure would last no one was able to give us an answer to how has the turnout been so far from what you can tell and what you hear. was definitely. a bit of a lot i think it's also lunchtime and the voting is going on on. the loss of hours for people to come back ballots we understand the similar turn out hope now those.

of kurdish president. his party now from the conversations we had with people in. movement is. the strongest. union of kurdistan we understand that there's a much lower turnout movement had told people there that they were not against the referendum they were against the timing of them they told their supporters you can do whatever you want but the position of the ground movement is at this moment is this referendum is only for the political gains of the. ok made by for us in erbil thank you went out to andrew symonds who is on the turkey iraq border and her turkey has consistently been a boat vocal rather against this referendum now that it's actually happening. any

reaction seem eminent from the turkish government. it would seem that the answer is we guarded on that because there's certainly been no sudden and now on the part of the turkish government now at the moment we have the president making a number of remarks live on television but he's only just started a speech in a ball but prior to that we heard from ben ali the room the prime minister and he was making it quite clear that despite all the build up of military here on the border there would be no question at all about a war going on here he said i was sure the turkish people that the military was here for possible cross border operations for location focused operation of the future only if the safety and security of turkey or turkish citizens was at stake

now he did say that they were the turkish government was now liaising with the iraqi government rather than the kurdish regional government about the border issues and indeed aspace now this all hinges in to what you heard from holder there the request was made to iran to close their space to stop flights going to the kurdish region and also to close borders now we do understand we hear from the prime minister that a request was made to turkey to stop sending flights in to the kurdish region that is being considered as for the border we're not clear on that whether or not he was asked to close its border is unclear but right now i can tell you categorically that we can see this border is very much open and trade still going on so andrew if ankara turkey takes some sort of economic measures and response to all of this

is that not also a risk that turkey might be harming itself. it most certainly is and that's obviously a factor in all of this iran appears to have less to lose in this than turkey at the moment we have a situation whereby turkey does a massive amount of trade with the kurdish regional government the current the the iraqi kurds are very much dependent on turkey for imports seventy percent dependent it would appear from all that's coming into the region comes from turkey. in the other direction we have trade that was set at around eight point two million dollars a year value in twenty fifteen of the come down because of the i saw trouble the war with them and also because of doing prices but right now it is important there are many many companies turkish companies based in that region and turkey has

had good relations with mehsud bizarre me in the region for a long long time for decades in fact and they are effectively allies against the p.k. k. the group which has been fighting with the turkish people in government for four decades ok and to some of life for us here on iraq turkey border thank you. iran khan explains why this referendum faces strong opposition in iraq most neighboring countries and beyond. the kurds are spread out across the region and they here in northern iraq in turkey they are mainly based in the southeast and make up the largest ethnic minority in the country that's around fifteen percent of the population in syria the kurds based mainly in half governorates and also make up the largest ethnic minority in iran kurdish areas include west as a boy's own kermanshah province kurdistan province and the lone province and have a population of nearly seven million but the independence referendum is only being

held in northern iraq in the semi autonomous kurdish region moving ahead with the vote but the borders of any potential kurdish state all problematic cookbook for example is disputed territory between iraq and the kurdish regional government and just on the hof its population is took when an arab yes votes won't automatically trigger independence and the birth of a new kurdish nation it will likely take years of negotiations and talks between all the various parties to reach any decision and the iraqi kurds are alone the rest of iraq and much of the international community u.s. and the u.k. included all oppose the vote. as president of the middle east research institute and author of nation building in the system of self governance in kurdistan region in joins us from rb ellen thank you very much sir for your time so all current did not want to spend now that the referendum is actually happening do you think

they're more unified on this. i'm sorry is there so the question again for us absolutely i said it leading up to this there there wasn't any it wasn't unanimous at all cars wanted this referendum to happen but now that it is happening do you think that they are more unified on this. i think the division was on the timing and everybody was essentially saying the same thing that it's a matter of time but let's choose the right time and lobby better internationally but more importantly internally put the house in order now this was undone and it was called for the internal dynamics moved in the way that a referendum was done today and once it was fixed then everybody came on board and everybody the vast majority the overwhelming majority including the opposition who've been asking for the postponement they have voted and they voted yes so the

unification is around the yes vote but i doesn't mean the political the debates and deadlock some problems are over because this is just catalyzing as some kind of unity around the national issues is a big issue but the details and the fragmentation remains so assuming that this you know referendum that people want this how will baghdad react and how should baghdad react. what baghdad at the moment lives in an atmosphere of populism there are elections around the corner maybe in a few months time nobody can afford to be. at least being supportive or quiet about a piece of iraq going independent so these rhetorics are expected and of course the these statements are statements translating them into action is another matter

and of course at the moment the in baghdad the mood is that everybody is building up to. lobbying for prevention of activation of the referendum results or at least convince the kurds to remain within the boundaries of iraq but of course on the other side in kurdistan there's also a sense of populism there's also more enthusiasm for us and these two are coming together after the election whether this will be in the form of the discussions and good peaceful debate or whether there will be tension and incremental measures taken front by both sides and as you say incremental measures because yes this referendum does not mean this is a done deal that this is about to happen this would still be an extremely lengthy process for it to actually be realized so during that time do you see that there are opportunities there for dialogue or for the two sides to become more entrenched . i think there are always plenty of opportunities for dialogue and there must be

dialogue but before today the promise was different from tomorrow the premise would have been how to keep the kurds within iraq embraced and the satisfied with the extra measures to give them greater sovereignty within iraq and with the kurds not really going for the referendum tomorrow i'm going to enter. the borders should be met we're going to actually we're going live right now to turkish president reza typer one the president. and he. spoke together the results of these lead to things. frankly that the referendum. is against the federalism so.

it's. in this connection. ok. there's people you know. i know i will give you a saying or a proverb i don't know how the will translate it because you want to know something important on the political level and they can amik level on the trade and commercial level on the security level. steps. you know we'll be taking it on all these levels. because our forces. are on the borders. with iraq to doing what ever it takes iran as well will do what ever it takes.

forces quiet ready and yet we will never allow anyone or anything to go from here to iraq and this week we will adopt so many other procedures and will take so many steps and we will close. nothing will go across the borders and we have other steps and see that to be taken at the proper time in addition to that the northern parts of iraq and its administration have. to know how they will say. how they will move the oil from there the violence with us when we close them

that no oil no petrol in northern iraq the brothers and sisters. those who had managed. the region have to understand everything from a to z. . we need to know that our decisions cannot depend on our emotions we have to think. once and twice so we have to think for a long time we have to have a lot of called the nation which we have to have a lot of diplomatic ordination and this is why it's important for the time being israel is the only country or supports what's going on in northern iraq i have had some meetings in america and i have told them say it and that's and yeah please that. their

relations with turkey will never be good why should our nation will be a good why in. what is going on in northern iraq and israel is like you know either jane what's going on in northern iraq the situation is completely different and we need to put that in mind say to netanyahu that he has to stop supported what's going on in northern iraq. so we can continue all of the steps and the procedures and decisions apply them at the same time at the proper time and we need to tell the administration in northern iraq that. enough is enough and it has to stop why do you. because the third lesson is. system

will never accept. the iraqi constitution cannot accept what's going on in northern iraq we will never accept smolder for it to be established in northern syria. is. over the dream that will never come true. because. you're listening to turkey's president ratchet tie a final are very adamant that he does not support this referendum this referendum the vote that is happening today joining us on set to talk more about this is so here is a associate professor and contemporary history and the middle east at qatar university so turkey has steadily been against this all along right and he's he's digging in even more now that this day has actually happened saying that the court and iraq

has ruled it unconstitutional who is his audience at this point who is he trying to to to. bring along i think this message to the kurds to their to the iraqis. it says to send the message the turks got position has not been changed towards that referendum it's important to highlight that turkey was against this around the from the beginning and they did consider that illegitimate and it was that is that it is it's led to more of you know fragmentation with an iraqi politics and basically it's this civilised the region so that they have many concerns about the whole process however they don't have the power to stop that so exactly what can they do i mean he alluded to some sort of you know economic repercussions you know but what can they really do with that what also be damaging to them you know this referendum basically is facing serious rejection not only

from turkey from europe and there's a lot of question marks from superpowers even including the united states united kingdom european union there is a lot of i would say doubts about the benefits of such a process including of course directly government itself. and i think the referendum itself is a symbolic step to show the world that iraq that kurds they want to be independent and so the but as danny he is doing exactly what his father did in the late last century when he insisted with working with the soviet union on that time and the iraqi government at that time to move toward that direction and they did promise him to sort of you know. to be part of the state to give more freedom but again they always. rejected that process and they moved toward military

confrontation with iraq at that time so basically so they're better than it is moving ahead to benefiting from two main reasons one the situation. after two thousand and three was basically the fragmented political platform and secondly the community the national community is not one hundred percent against kurdistan against this one hundred percent and he relies on the fact that and listen he is a very big no he will move and that is what happened he did not here he did not hear any big nor from the national committee for that reason he went ahead and the run them is taking place today ok and again this is a non-binding referendum we need to have my lawyer said there was i mean this is this is this is just what the voters in these hills as they say because after this is the there will be at least two years ago shushan with the iraqis central government and god knows what's going to happen on when when when things were

coming to the district absolutely images larry thank you so much my pleasure. us that forces and syria say russian warplanes have struck their positions in stores or province a syrian democratic forces say they were targeted near a natural gas field which they've retaken from myself fighters they've been fighting i saw on the eastern bank of the euphrates river indoors or supported by u.s. wide jets and special forces syrian government troops backed by russian airpower targeting i saw from a different location. plenty more ahead in the news hour including japan's prime minister calls a snap election next month and while base approval ratings have risen since the north korea crisis. of villagers as they rushed to escape a volatile. and for a player who once said he didn't care about tennis anymore a loss at the labor cup. minister

has called for a general election next month opinion polls show strong support for shinzo obvious conservative l.d.p. party and its strong stance against the threat from north korea has threatened to sink japan into the sea and has fired two missiles over the northern island just within the past month mcbride joins us live now from tokyo so why now for this snap election. well she certainly seemed to be capitalizing upon his boost in the opinion polls because of the north korean crisis in announcing the election he doesn't have to call the election for a full year so it's a year early he announced that he would be campaigning under a banner of overcoming the national crisis clearly a reference to the north korean threat he spoke at length about the escalating

price of provocations from north korea but also about how the strength of japan lies in the roots of its democracy and how this election he said would be a chance for japan to show that strength and as a result of that are presumably from his point of view give him a bigger mandate he has certainly benefited from the boost in popularity a couple of months ago his opinion rating was languishing in about thirty percent his approval rating now is around about fifty percent so he has certainly seen as a strong leader somebody to rally round at a time of national crisis which this seems to be viewed as in japan also in more practical terms he is under pressure from a couple of personal scandals that refuse to go away there have been various allegations in the media and from his critics in parliament about about favoritism and cronyism given towards

a couple of acquaintances of himself and also his wife now these allegations have refused to go away and opposition lawmakers were promising to give him a good grilling with the start of the new session of the guy at the parliament here as a result of this when the diet comes back and we convenes this thursday he can simply say that's it thank you very much we are now dissolved for elections and for a few weeks at least he can put those put some of those scandals on the back burner ok pride live. thank you. german chancellor angela merkel has won a fourth term in office but she'll face a very different political landscape the far right after a party not only one seat for the first time that received strong support merkel center right christian democratic union party has won just under thirty three

percent of the vote giving them two hundred thirty eight seats the main rival and coalition partner they center left social democrats led by martin shells got just over twenty percent of the vote or one hundred forty eight seats but the biggest change to germany's poll what political scene is this the far right and anti alternative for germany or a f t one thirteen percent of the vote and that translates into ninety five seats the three other main parties one between nine and eleven percent of the vote could find themselves in power as part of a coalition. has more from berlin. the most important politician in europe the most important female politician anywhere the flag bearer for liberal democracy in an uncertain world four wins in a row. even if policies vote share shrunk from the far right emerged once again it was a problem she was quick to acknowledge in the most annoying of course. and

parliament will carry out a profound in masses because we want to win back the vote of the by solving problems and listening to the lorries and sometimes that proposal through politics . as recent opinion polls have predicted the far rights and immigrants alternative for germany which wants to close most and stop immigration took thirteen percent meaning more than eighty seats in parliament yet the disorganized by monday morning the woman who'd led them to this position said she was so angry with the direction of the party that she would not be joining that bloc. just. looking ahead to me want to be sure we're able to govern quickly the f.d.a. will be good in a position but it's not a good time to govern which is why i want to be active here i want to produce real politics in a conservative sense and i've decided that i will not be part of the f.t. creating a plan to start this was my decision. the morning papers tell both these stories the tabloids in shock at the symbolism of the far right getting into the german

parliament again the more sober media arguing it was still merkel's night despite some losses a sample of opinion in central billion on monday morning reflected both these views . of steve i'm surplus came out so strongly i expect a different result now it's obviously going to be difficult to build a coalition but we're democrats and we have to accept it and i'm confident they did find a solution i also think that on the next court they have devoted to strong anymore and said i am. poor germany to a bad set against recent european elections in austria the netherlands and france in which it was fair the far right might actually gain power and given the angle of merkel herself decided to take a million refugees into germany it is quite striking that she's actually still in power of saw her job now is to try to dismantle the influence in the german parliament and the core argument that immigration is a threat to germany's way of life once the headline writers are finished with the

story expect more focus on merkel's bigger concerns how to deal with the u.s. presidents on issues such as climate change iran and north korea as well as stabilizing the european union to think about merkel though is that she knows how to win. and lawrence joins us live now from our land so lawrence wiped and hacked. far right actually have on a mark of agenda. well that's a good question actually i think i think judging by this morning's. storm doubts because she said that they become to an archaic. it's difficult to see exactly what they're going to be able to do substantially inside parliament but what i think they do too is to represent a body of opinion that is significant in germany you know i mean there are lots of people saying on twitter in place this morning well yeah but eighty seven percent

of people didn't vote for them and we have taken a million refugees and we're tolerant country really but. it is still a point of view that says if you take that many people in situation where parts of germany in the rust belt are impoverished and they're in very low wages then that then they feel resentful about it think it's that body of opinion rather than their political status inside the bundestag the parliament here that i'm glad merkel really needs to worry about and she she said so last night is a get the voters back i don't think she's worried about the way in which they're going to behave as a bloc of politicians because that chaotic what she's worried about is the sense that she's lost people who have traditionally voted party because they think she's moved too far to the left and become too soft and clearly want one thing that is pretty obvious is that germany has a gigantic budget. and if she wanted to make those people's lives better then that you could just make them richer and she could do something about social security better jobs with better pay which is what center left opposition was talking about

so much in the election campaign. largely live for us and our land all right thank you. monday marks a month since the rihanna crisis began in myanmar as for kind state military crackdown has forced nearly four hundred thirty thousand people to flee to neighboring bangladesh china hollis and cox's of star near the bangladeshi border with me and mar and. it was it's been chaotic and there. are the camps and getting more organized more subtle what is it like there now. well the didn't full swing international aid organizations are very evident joining the bangladeshi and those that have been. on the job since day one there. has been the void the rains have held off for the last three or four days which has allowed them to make a lot of progress very very quickly and among. the best organized yes the situation

is much much improved there's better access to food better access to water and to help see is. because of disease very very real indeed they've come a long way toward meeting the most basic needs of a large portion of the enormous refugee population four hundred thirty thousand people joining the three hundred refugees who were already. in what the u.n. has described as the world's most to keep most urgent refugee crisis well here's a look back now at their story so far. it began on the twenty fifth of august. reprisals in min mothered followed attacks by richenda rebels sent thousands fleeing for bangladesh then tens of thousands then hundreds of thousands. they arrived with little more than the clothes on their

backs in a place that had not much more to offer. some suffered terrible injuries as they ran the gauntlet of gunfire and landmines to cross the border others fled torture sexual violence and random killings by the army and their raco neighbors as their villages were set alight but they were safe at least in bangladesh. the men mark government of nobel peace prize winner and song suchi continues to deny what the u.n. calls ethnic cleansing by its forces but there is no denying the destruction of the hinge of villages in northern rock and state that have been their homes for generations these are their homes now makeshift shelters on hillsides muddied by the monsoon rains nature too has been unkind to the injured. a shortage of basic sanitation means the ever present risk of disease and aid efforts are only

starting to meet their needs. the mixture of needs that are staggering together with the trauma that they carry from having witnessed incredible violence that mixture shock me profound that maybe this is the first the un's refugee chief warns this crisis may be long yes we need to be ready for. it's a problem that could last for some time but we also need as the prime minister of bangladesh has said many times we need to invest in a solution to this problem we cannot simply ignore the fact that these people have a right to return. but me and doesn't recognize their right to be there nor does bangladesh want the river to stay a people made stateless and helpless. borderlines of colonial history.

publicly at least planning to meet the needs of these people for the next six months but i'd be astonished if they are looking longer term than that because there isn't even a hint of a viable political solution to this problem and they've been really enjoy refugees in this country since the early ninety's could it yet get worse well consider this there are still inside myanmar well over the size of the population that have a right here in the last four weeks over half a million great interest in living in myanmar among the neighbors who have been implicated in the violence with the army still around them they must be living with the paris if not terrifying existence the possibility must be there that some or a large number of them may yet come my goodness all right turn a whole life for us and cox's with our john i think you dozens of missing hindu villagers are feared dead in myanmar after twenty eight bodies were discovered and two mass graves i mean maher military says it's evidence of

a massacre by ranjit fighters and rakhine state and they say they have also been victims of ethnic cleansing since a military crackdown against our henschel began a month ago scott hi laura. i mean our government confirming that its forces in rakhine state found twenty eight bodies of hindu villagers on sunday they found them into mass graves in rakhine state hindus are a small minority in rakhine state that kind of caught in the middle of this violence that's been going on the last several weeks now we know that dozens of hindus have been reported missing from refugees who have crossed over into bangladesh but there is a difference sides of opinions of exactly who carried out these attacks these supposed it attacks some of the refugees have said it was carried out by myanmar government forces some have said they were carried out by writing of fighters we do know that the government forces here on earth these graves near a hindu village they say that they're going to continue looking there possibly more

graves out there but right now they're not definitive as to who carried out these attacks obviously there's going to be investigation going on and the government officials say they're going to continue that and look for more graves in the area of these hindu villages were kind state and a few moments we'll have a weather with every ten but still ahead right now on al jazeera thousands great qatar's amir as he returns from his first trip abroad since the g.c.c. crisis began. a dog found alive in mexico city gets hope of finding more survivors six days after a seven point one magnitude earthquake and how that second place finish was still enough to record highs that's for details coming up in support. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. we've had some heavy and very thundery downpours across parts of eastern

china recently about area cloud very close to shanghai sliding its way slowly eastwards shanghai seeing staggering one hundred seventy one millimeters of rain in twenty four hours well above the september average rainfall also seen some very heavy rain across northern parts of it and this was courtesy of our old tropical depression seventy six millimeters of rain coming down here in the space of twenty four hours things should quieten here as you go on through the next twenty four hours or so still see a little bit of wet weather there in place for tuesday just around hanoi just to the north of hanoi temperatures getting up to around thirty two degrees thirty two celsius two for shanghai choose a looks a better day or tried to make the most of it but the way to stay the rain comes rolling back inside further heavy downpours and further flooding certainly looking likely over the next few days meanwhile hanoi should brighten up and that west of weather now in the process of making its way further westward towards me and ma

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government of blocking people because they have something really horrible talking challenge or perception and at one point the relationship and their political project came to an end powerful documentary us debate and discussion was that feeling of freedom and exploring that freedom was very exciting al-jazeera. you're watching al jazeera let's recap the top stories right now iraq's kurds are voting on a controversial referendum on the region's independence the vote a strongly opposed in iraq and neighboring countries there are fears it could fuel the separatist aspirations of kurds across the region. respect forces in syria say

russian warplanes have struck their positions and ours or province syrian democratic forces say they were targeted near a natural gas field which they were taken from fighters. japan's prime minister shinzo of a has dissolved the lower house of parliament making way for snap elections and october fifth column says public opinion polls show rising support for a base conservative l.t.p. party and its strong stance against north korean aggression. or players of the most popular sport in america are joining a protest against the national anthem and racial any quality two days after president onil trop call for protesting the national football league and for the players to be fired the n.f.l. has become a symbol of both the political division and unity home and reports. and if foul play is taking a stand some by taking a name by sitting while the national anthem played all by rising a feast. it was

a scene repeated at fourteen games right across the united states and london was. they were responding to comments made by president trump on friday night attacking players who had knelt over the past you to protest racial inequality a just started by colin kaepernick would you love to see one of these n.f.l. owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a the field right now out this guy or. this. seahawks and tennessee titans chose to stay in the locker room while the national anthem played as did the pittsburgh steelers with the exception of one playa hondros illinois eva and. elsewhere other players chose to lock arms together in solidarity is beyond politics it's about being

a human being and having dignity and compassion for other human beings regardless of their race and their gender but if the protest becomes that we're going to sit down to a meal we're not sure respect to the flag of the united states of america and everything that symbolizes everything it stands for everything our country's been through to get to this point. i do not agree with that reactions by supporters across the u.s. but also divided i think our flag represents the services that our military fights for our freedoms and there is i just think it's completely disrespectful that there's kneeling for that i think they should be suspended at certain time and they are exercising their right of free speech i mean that's the first amendment and we've always had the right i don't think the president should actually be getting involved and saying that he has a one sided stance he's not looking at the issues that arose before the kneeling started which is that what we are known for trump himself tweeted about the issue five times on sunday reiterating his position and spoke briefly in new jersey we

have a great guy and we have great people representing our going back to old trafford. and they would bring back a sunday in the n.f.l. where passions before the game matched if not exceeded those that came after. you lace home an al-jazeera. three countries including north korea have been added to the u.s. travel ban it now extends restrictions on people from eight countries replacing the original ban on citizens from six muslim majority nations it's expected to take effect from october the eighteenth. a lawyer for president tom son in law education or has revealed the white house aide used his personal e-mail account dozens of times to communicate with colleagues in the administration between january and august kirshner either received or responded to about one hundred e-mails from white house officials using his private account in the presidential campaign trump

repeatedly attacked hillary clinton for her use of a personal e-mail server when she was secretary of state qatar's emir shake to mean been home at all danny has returned home after meeting with world leaders at the u.n. general assembly in new york thousands greeted him along waterfront at the general assembly he spoke about ending the saudi led blockade of qatar which is now in its fourth month that's the worst diplomatic crisis to hit the region and thirty years . a lot of qataris foreign minister has been speaking in paris he says qatar is being falsely accused of supporting terrorism because it's progressive policies have different from those of the blockading nations. we being located and accused. as being what i would call it. meaning. for the last two days. however we believe this to resolve these differences

we all need done in the uk and discussion based on a stick to a lot of choices and. the indonesian island of bali has declared a state of natural disaster with seismologists warning of volcanoes eruption is imminent now google has has interrupted rather and more than half a century with stories of the death and destruction it caused have biliteral spearing the worst seven import some communities in bali on the edge of that volcano. these are to villages on the slopes of mount are good. people still stay here are ordered to leave immediately some villages have returned after spending the night in africa wish and santas to quickly collect their belongings also known as i did. what. i actually don't want to go i want to stay here i don't want to be separated from my family i can see my grandchildren they are all in different evacuation centers i cry every day i miss

my grandchildren terribly seismic activity of the volcano continues to increase with hundreds of shallow folk anik quakes felt on monday and multum liquids being pushed to the surface. we're going to. do is becoming more active and is heading towards an eruption we don't know when it could be soon it could be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow or next week we just don't know. some villages are angry at the f a q a sion orders and worried about the loss of income but fall can knowledge is say lives are at risk the last time around are going to erupted more than one thousand people died and houses as far as time kilometers from the crater were destroyed. remembers that day with deep sadness she lost four members of her family. i knew dana going at first i heard this very loud bang i saw a lot a coming down from a gong and there was volcanic ash everywhere small rocks fell from the sky and then

everything was dark and the slopes here of mt many fear the worst they left in a hurry they were afraid of or not at that li eruption like what happened in one thousand nine hundred sixty three. more than sixty thousand people living in what's been called the red zone around the volcano have been ordered to leave their homes but depending on the activity of mt albert this number could go up step fasten al-jazeera at mount argo. has claimed at least thirty one lives including fifteen in the island. and estimated up to eighty percent of the island's buildings have been damaged or destroyed every elizondo reports the devastation here on domenica is on fathomable look at this neighborhood here right here it is completely destroyed hurricane near maria came through here washed out the entire neighborhood and the situation remains very bad as you can see there's lots of people here

there's a water distribution point this is one of the first times in nearly six days that there's been any water distribution here you can see people are anxious to get water they're thirsty they're hungry there's no electricity here the reason there's been no electricity on the island is because all of the power lines are down the situation is very difficult how are things here right now things are pretty. yeah what do you need what do you need really to want to we need food. how bad was a hurricane very very bad if there's an american they were there right now and i don't know if it was you know they did everything. thank you as you can see the situation is very difficult here again more than six days after the hurricane came through here and there's no other way to describe it than a catastrophe both on a physical scale and for the humans the people that live on this island for all intents and purposes the country of domain. is completely gone and it's

a debris field. thousands of people remain homeless six days after the earthquake in mexico city that killed more than three hundred people as a desperate search goes on for survivors the rescue of a dog has brought some hope and station as first family animal under a collapsed hartman building on sunday i'm talking probably rubble. to residents who. are rescue efforts to continue for at least five more days. i'll turn out to support what joe purcell thank you was you've been hearing in the snes ause on they saw an unprecedented display by n.f.l. players right across the united states around two hundred players knelt all sat while the national anthem played at fourteen different games this was two days off the u.s. president donald trump said the play is a protest of racial inequality by fighting to stand should be fired players team officials and fans expressed a variety of views off to sunday's games to protests you know nonviolent protests

is as american as it gets you know so we know we're on the day and they let him know that we're unified front you know larry you know dividing us you know i'm scared to get across and if. today it was about. using our platform to promote love and unity and acceptance and togetherness and i did that it seems like every time. he's opening his mouth as something that is dividing our country and not pulling us together and that has nothing to do with my feelings about the anthem the anthem is this neighborhood for other people you know people say is i'm crazy patriotic but it's unpatriotic of the president not respecting our rights there is an equality out there. you know there isn't liberty and justice for all and i think guys for a while i mean at least a year now have been protesting now by taking in the sitting down putting up the

physics cetera et cetera but there were there their voices were all watered down i mean everybody could do whatever they want to do i don't care what donors do or what you know i care about you know my teammates and i said the belief that i have a name and i love i have for it and then we had to play a you know a great game we live in america and you respect our country respect our flag and you respect what you what everybody all of our service men have done for all life is are protecting our country and then to disrespect our country with all the turmoil that's going on is just not right and they're doing what they want to do somebody was. wrong it's. true of the road to do what we want it just amazes me with everything else that's going on and swirled expressive over to us that's what you concerned about the man you did you to lead a free world is what you this would you talk about so it's. as a man as a father as after american man or somebody and if it was my son you know like. yeah

that's a good person but at same time i set him up to oppose bigamy you know it's not like he's bigger than me i got a daughter you don't have to live in this world you know son you know. you do it i got to do to me so you know she could look at my day look at her dad and be like a decent each other many times. another collision of politics and sports and football officials and cats are hoping the gulf cup of nations will go ahead in december the time of twenty eight gulf nations is due to be held in doha but remains in doubt because of the blockade of several neighboring countries as on a binge of eight was that the drawl. the names have been drawn and the games are set for the gulf cup that is due to happen in december in qatar but this event organized by the arab gulf countries football federation is not sure whether four out of its eight members will take part but organizers here tell us that they are confident that the event will take place on time in december and they are hopeful

that all of the country her part of this association are going to take part but this is not the first dominant we have a lot of tournaments. we have a lot of championships water championships and this is. so when you talk about spitting and lots of betting this is against was the number tata saying the sport can bring all missions together so it's talking to talking about missions about neighbors so it's easy to bring neighbors so i hope sports can bring all the neighbors together or into the rules of the game if less than five nations take part the decision goes back to the executive committee whether this tournament will need to be postponed or canceled altogether but we spoke to a money federation and they are positive that this event should happen and it is going to bring back unity into the gulf council which seems to be at odds with each other. the three countries.

they're trying their best to solve the problems. in quake itself but we'd love. to be with us because he's one of the major founders of this tournament the gold cup of nations goes back to the one nine hundred seventy and organizers here in qatar are hopeful that this tradition will continue despite the blockade upon them and sportsmen here who we've spoken to say that when regular diplomacy formal diplomacy fails they hope that sport diplomacy will prevail. just in thomas' conveyed a superb season with a ten million dollar prize after winning the gulf richest competition the fed ex cup ties. almost finished as runner up to. play at the top championship in atlanta on sunday he was obstruct behind but that wasn't often show him the top spot in the fed ex cup standings edging out space to win a huge check for thomas it caps a two thousand seven hundred season which also saw him win five titles including his first major the u.s.

into a championship. for a moment it paid the n.f.l. is nearing protested crossed into tennis when mick kerio to can the before his decisive leyva cup match with roger federer straightens gesture went viral but he later said it had nothing to do with protesting the u.s. president's comments instead he was remembering his like grandparents curious was attempting to save the world team from a crushing defeat to europe that you know who made the cup as he took on it well number two roger federer lost to carry all said he didn't love the game anymore but that changed you could see just how much the loss meant to devastated kerio says he went down eleven to mind in the super time break europe winning it fifteen to nine the next edition of the leyva cup takes place in chicago next year. all right that is a sport for now will have plenty more for you but later michel all right joe thank you very much and thank you for joining me for this news hour there is much more to

come on the other side of the break but adrian and again in the meantime visit our website when you get a moment at al-jazeera dot com we have the latest on the referendum that is happening kurdish referendum and keep it there.

for decades puerto rico's schools of being crumbling beneath the weight of massive debt now one hundred seventy nine a due to close for good the largest closure of schools in the history of this u.s. territory is a frightening development this elementary school will remain open but will take in one hundred fifty of the twenty seven thousand students due to be relocated that's double its current student body over the last decade enrollment of puerto rico schools has dropped by more than forty percent as families continue to leave those left behind often don't have the means to follow suit but ultimately it's now four to rico's poor communities that are paying the price for this island's staggering debt. ever since i was a little boy in india my dream was to make bollywood films so five years ago i

decided i was finally queen to do it one man's quest to realise a lifelong ambition the story i choose to lose my one and get stance polishing going behind the lens has gone from saying brings his personal story to life. al jazeera correspondent my own private bollywood at this time. iraqi kurds vote in an independence referendum despite fierce opposition from iraq turkey and iraq. hello this is al jazeera life doha i'm adrian fit again also coming up a fourth time in power despite big losses for hagel america.