but its use in illegal drugs today is threatening the nation's culture not my idea and also dorothy's are involved because they receive kick backs while some have made fortunes many others have suffered at the hands of this multi-billion dollar industry meanwhile it is my mother was trying to live the cable and brutally coupled with the cold because he described who are the winners and losers of this illicit trade snow of the andes at this time. this is al jazeera. i'm richelle carey this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. our armed forces are on the borders with iraq to do whatever it

takes and warning a potential military action from the turkish president as iraq's kurds if i regional opposition to hold an independence referendum. weekend when our angle of merkel says other parties have a responsibility to ensure a stable coalition as the far right mix of president electoral gains and her name. and with his approval ratings on the rise since the north korea crisis japan's prime minister calls a snap election. i'm joining us with the latest plaiting is bigger than me i've got a daughter we don't have to live in this world and i thought players respond by sitting off the u.s. president donald trump a touch those engaging in protests against racial inequality. iraqi kurds are voting in a controversial referendum on the region's independence the ballot

a strongly opposed by the iraqi government and neighbors turkey and iran there are fears it could fuel the separatist aspirations occurrence in the region turkey's president has denounced the vote and says the turkish army stands ready. getting. our armed forces are on the borders with iraq to do whatever it takes iran is well will do whatever it takes our air force stands ready we will never allow anyone or anything to go from turkey to iraq this week we will adopt so many other measures to close the borders nothing will cross the border. and we have two live reports on the referendum anderson this is in turkey on the border with iraq first let's go to charles strapper he is at the toboggan displacement camp and northern iraq where there are polling places there charles what have you been hearing today what's the what's the turnout and they feel been like. well certainly

the turnout at this camp one of three camps in one of the disputed areas of northern iraq has been very good we understand there are about three thousand people that were registered to vote here and we've been here a few hours to have some of the long queues have gone now but it's still a fairly steady flow of people what's important to recognize here is that this area is indeed disputed there are many towns and villages in this region that. during the fight against isis will the kurdish peshmerga took control and these towns and villages and this camp for example are taking part in this referendum and of course but usually controversial and a big storm in the side for the bank government we've been speaking to people here who have cost their ballots in this camp today and there are an incredible mix a major ethnic diverse group really you have syrians you have is edis you have

sunni arabs and of course you have kurds in the underlying message that we've been hearing today from the people that we've spoken to is that they are very happy to be voting in this referendum and by and large most people have said that they're going to vote yes and the reason for that they say is that they felt very let down by the baghdad government in the fight against eisel of course we heard about the iraqi army in some places literally just fleeing for their lives they said that they were wholly dependent on the patient and the international coalition to fight isis. and moved them out of these areas and so they're pinning their hopes on this referendum full potentially independence pinning their hopes on a kurdish kurdish government in this region because of those safety issues and because they have such a lack of trust with the federal government ok let's talk about some of the bigger cities some of the other cities disputed region in particular what do you know

about that turnout there and what they want. we understand the kirkuk turnout has been big as well is obviously a major importance this is a very oil rich city there are two oil fields in that area understood that the kurdish regional government exports around at least six hundred thousand barrels of oil a day for a pipeline that runs across turkey as if huge called since and again it was taking control of by the patient in the fight against eisel the kurds referred to kirkuk many kurds refer to kirkuk as the jerusalem of curtis stone it's a huge significance to them both economically and so they say culturally but again it's massively diverse and it's ethnic makeup you have shia turkmen you have arabs you have a syrians you have kurds there and what's vitally important as well and it obviously

brings a lot of bells with the baghdad government when they talk about this referendum potentially jeopardizing the fight against eisel south of kirkuk in the area. the battle against eisel continues there's been an offensive this being launched in the last few days the kurdish peshmerga say they want to be part of that offensive so you can understand the great significance and the huge controversy surrounding this vote in this region ok carol strafford live for us and camp. good answer is simmons now who is on the east turkey iraq border so andrew turkey has been very steadily and very consistently against this referendum happening now that it is happening they seem to be ratcheting up the rhetoric a bit we've already heard a little bit from the turkish president raja tayyip erdogan on. how far is turkey

prepared to go should this referendum continue to to work its way through a process. michel that's looking as if it's going to become clear over a matter of days if not weeks as you say it's ratcheted the pressure up colossal pressure both symbolically with the military deployed just near here and with threats right across the board against the kurds but in terms of action very little so far just words although you heard president start of this show saying that he wanted the border closed that the border would be closed in the coming days this is the border there's a slow trickle of traffic as always in both directions but apparently it is in the coming days likely to be closed in firstly one direction and then the other as well iran has also more immediately apparently reportedly closed its borders wide

across the border and they're also closing aspace in the sense that they will not take in flights from the kurdistan region or to the kurdistan region now we understand that the turkish government has had the same request from the iraqi government to take the same action and hasn't made a decision on that yet but in terms of the language. he was quite clearly saying that as far as he was concerned that the kurds kurdish leadership in northern iraq had double crossed turkey effectively had been helped in really bad times right there he threw out he even threatened to switch off the oil flow from the kurdistan region which comes through turkey by pipeline more and a half a million barrels a day going through to the mediterranean threaten to cut that at some point but no indication that that will indeed take place it's still flowing right now but

certainly very harsh words indeed big contrast between president and ben ali the prime minister who said that. that the turkish people needed to know that this was not a war situation the military would be engaged in possible cross border activity for the safety and security of its citizens and the states and the sovereignty of the borders but not as a full time war footing and he said in the coming days that measures would be exerted by key towards a showing of the world that he would not take seriously or indeed even entertain any declaration of independence end of this ok andrew salmon is live for us on the tarp iraq border andrew thank you russia has denied attacking u.s. backed opposition fighters in syria the syrian democratic forces say they were targeted by russian planes near a natural gas field indoors or province moscow's defense ministry released

a statement rejecting the claim yes fighters battling i saw in the area are being supported by u.s. airpower and specialist units syrian government troops backed by russian planes are also fighting i saw in the region. permit has long the merkel has won a fourth term in office but her party's share of the vote that has fallen she's calling on other parties to share responsibility in securing a stable coalition that's because the mainstream parties have lost out at the expense of the far right after which finished a strong third it's the first time a far right forces making it to parliament since the nazi era florence li reports 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 for angular muckle even if her party's vote share shrunk on the far right

emerged once again it was a problem she was quick to acknowledge that when you win from let's mark we want those a.f.d. voters to move to come back to us through good political work we want to solve the problems people are facing these might be shoes of integration and illegal immigration but there are also questions around services in rural areas or questions of public transport or opportunities for farmers as recent opinion polls have predicted the far right and see 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 led them to this position said she was so angry with the direction of the party that she would not be joining the bloc because i knew i wanted to do such an anarchic party as we've seen in the last two weeks can be successful as an opposition party cons often realistic expectations of taking over the government i have decided that i would not be part of the f.t. clique in the bundestag 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 center. on monday morning reflected both these views. of the democrats and we have to accept that and i'm confident they did find a solution and i also think that up the next day if they want to be as strong anymore. and said i am our thread 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 at all her job now is to try to dismantle the f.t.'s influence in the german parliament and their core argument that immigration is a threat to germany's way of life once the headline writers are finished with the f.t. 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 if she knows how to win lawrence the al-jazeera belin. well they were had on the news hour including president trump's son in law and personal advisor at mit's to using his personal e-mail to communicate with white house personnel. plus praying for protection villagers and valley brace for what's expected to be the first direction of the malecon hainault in more than half a century and for a player who once said he didn't care about tennis anymore a loss at the labor party and a curious hard that's coming up with challenge sport. for players of the most popular sport in america are joining the protest against the

national anthem three days after president donald trump call for a national football league players to be fired you know fell as become a symbol both of political division and unity holeman reports. say n.f.l. play is taking a stand some by taking a name by sitting while the national anthem played or by raising 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 gesture 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. the seattle 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 a one hundred villanova i have a and. elsewhere other players chose to lock arms together. in solidarity it's beyond politics it's about being a human being and having dignity and compassion for other human beings regardless of their race in new 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 it symbolizes everything that 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 a 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 get involved in saying that he has a one sided stance he's not looking at the issues that arose before the new and 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 country we have great people representing our country back we are told that . 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 and i'll just era. more now on this growing controversy from our white house correspondent kelly halkett in washington d.c. so kelly president trump has carried this over into another day started this morning again tweeting about sports and the flag except he pivoted to to nascar

and to racing. there are certainly some under some some racial undertones to what this is and obviously this started out as a protest against any quality where the president seems to think he's getting something out of it if he can continues to do this what might that be. well i think the overarching message in all of this comes from the president this morning and one of those tweets where he denies this is about race but i don't think anyone can argue this is exactly what the controversy is about right now given the fact that seventy percent of the players in the national football league or american style football are african-american and you have to remember that when this all started what's now turned into a movement where you had calling capron a kneeling on one knee during the national anthem an african-american player who

started doing this under brock obama because of the concerns about police brutality and as specially the treatment of minorities under that administration will that movement has only grown in the concerns of only grown and it stems from this concern about racial inequality in the united states so for the president to be tweeting as you point out the last couple of hours this is not about race certainly differs with the views of most americans a poll conducted over the weekend says two thirds of americans feel the president is dividing the nation under this issue rather on this issue particularly when most americans look to the president for unity so certainly not seeing that right now a lot of americans concerned and feeling deeply divided almost as if the president is throwing salt into an already very raw and open wound can really let's pivot. for a moment to a story we just referenced a little while ago about the son in law of president trump so now there are

revelations about his use of personal e-mail which is we know is something trump talked about consistently on the campaign trail and reference to hillary clinton so what else do we know about this. it's hard to believe we're even talking about this part of me given the fact we talked about it so much during the presidential campaign the fact that anyone is even considering a private e-mail. uses we saw with the vice president mike pence when he was the governor of indiana and also now with the son in law of the president is really mind blowing but that's what we're talking about paranoia according to his lawyer less than one hundred e-mails this was a private account that was set up to use initially for the transition in the white house the spokesperson for questioners saying in fact that this was really just a forward news articles and anything that was of a potentially classified or sensitive nature was immediately forwarded to a white house government a counsel that it could be preserved but the reason that people are raising

questions about this and why appearances matter right now is given the fact that we have this roger i'm going to parchman of justice investigation with regard to potential collusion between the trump campaign and russia in the twenty sixteen presidential election now jared cushion or in july of two thousand and sixteen said i did not collude he said there was no collusion with a foreign government but it raises questions and leaves a sort of doubt in people's mind about the use of an account given the fact that there is still this investigation that is ongoing and really how to lie for us in washington d.c. thank you north korea is among three countries added to an updated travel ban signed by u.s. president on a trial that extends restrictions on people from eight countries placing the original ban on citizens from six muslim majority nations it's expected to take effect october eight. trumps original restrictions targeted countries the u.s. considered to have more security so they were sudan iran and libya syria somalia

and yemen now full travel bans have been placed on citizens from north korea and chad and venezuela restrictions are limited to certain government officials and their families and sudan's been removed from the list leaving eight nations with complete or partial blocks on travel to the u.s. . japan's prime minister has called price that general election next month and so while they is doing a while opinion polls show strong support for his conservative l.d.p. party particularly strong stance against a threat from north korea. has threatened to sink japan into the sea and fired two missiles over the northern island of the cato within the past month problem private ports from tokyo. with an approval rating of around fifty percent they is seizing the moment under a campaign banner of overcoming the national crisis he is promising strong leadership in the face of what he calls the escalating provocations from north

korea try to turn you from a gun on how to we need to urge north korea to abolish all of its nuclear weapons in a verifiable and irreversible way unless north korea accepts that we have no choice but to continue to increase pressure in all sorts of ways to its maximum level. its thought is also exploiting the weakness of the opposition parties and trying to act before this woman becomes too much of a threat. yuriko creek a governor of tokyo is widely popular and is starting a national party to challenge the ruling liberal democratic polity. it's debatable how big an upset she might cause given her conservative policies are similar to our base in the elections in july in tokyo her party took many votes away from the l.t.p. but i think for a lot of voters the party that she will form will probably disappear in l.d.p.

light and therefore for a lot of voters it may not be particularly attractive for many voters to a sense of apathy after recent national and local elections and there is a danger that north korea factor could backfire on. the risk for our bay is the electors could punish him for seeming to take advantage of the north korean crisis for political gain holding an election where many people believe japan should be exercising maximum unity. it's better to make japan secure first and then dissolve and call an election i think an election is going to be expensive so i don't want them to do it. i really don't see the need for an election what's being predicted is a low turnout beyond that they'll be very little for certain in this election mcbride al-jazeera tokyo. a state of natural disaster is then declared on the indonesian island of bali were a volcano is expected to erupt for the first time in more than fifty years

a mountain gong erupted in one nine hundred sixty three more than a thousand people were killed so it falls on reports from communities living close to the crater. these are to villages on the slopes of mount are good. people still stay here or to to leave immediately some villages have returned after spending the night in africa away shin 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 feel kind of quakes felt on monday and multum liquids being pushed to the surface. yeah we're going to cain was 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 folk are knowledge is say lives are at risk the last time around argo 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 then you go first i heard this very loud bang i saw a lot of the coming down from a gong and there was ash everywhere small rocks fell from the sky and then everything was dark on the slopes here 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 moment. monday marks a month since the largest military crackdown on the ranch of began and man maurice rakhine state and we four hundred thirty thousand people have been forced to flee as nicholas hawk reports bangladeshi guards patrol the border as her hands are villages burned within sight inside me and our this is as close as we can get to the record states where an ethnic cleansing is currently happening just moments ago we saw villages burned in the distance. it's through this land border between me and moore in bangladesh that a few weeks ago hundreds of thousands of ranges cross the border since the more security forces have put up barbed wire fencing and planted land mines on the

border the general in charge of this clearing operation says that all its citizens are welcome back to me and more except ranges who are considered illegal immigrants by young gone. but for bangladesh these ranges that are in camps here belong to me and more and they have to go back home bangladesh has deployed its military on its border it's beefed up its presence with border guards increasing their patrol on the border area the relationship between young gone and hockey is at its lowest point yangon refuses to recognize ranges bangladesh wants the un to mediate the return of these to their homeland meanwhile this border is getting increasingly tense as there is more and more military presence being deployed here dozens of missing hindu villagers are feared dead and me and more after twenty eight bodies were discovered in two mass graves the man more military says it's

evidence of a massacre by rote hinge of fighters in rakhine state and who say they have also been victims of ethnic cleansing sense a military crackdown against her hand she began a month ago qatar's foreign minister has been speaking and paris he says qatar is being falsely accused of supporting terrorism because it's progressive policies have differed from those of the nations blockading it saudi led blockade us now in its fourth month we being located and accused of terrorism as a smokescreen for our policies. for wanting meaningful change for the last two days. however we believe that to resolve these differences we all need to look and discussion based on respecting our choices and. turn to weather now whatever ten box things are warming up in canada yeah that's

right richelle it's been a long time coming but i've finally found some nice weather to talk about and it may well be fall as you call it in north america autumn to us yet but we see temperatures in toronto to thirty two celsius on sunday and then should be about twenty degrees take a look at the satellite picture and you can see why that is his area of low pressure that is actually harakah maria the reason for the temperature being quite so high is because of a lie speak area of high pressure which is settled just to the south of the great lakes and as our high then winds in a high pressure they travel in a clockwise direction in the northern hemisphere so we're pulling up warm southerly winds up across that eastern half of north america but how it's blocking off from the rest of that's good is helping from that point if you and it's also a lot of the temperature and also where you can see thirty two celsius for monday twenty eight celsius there for toronto. some very good news this is absolutely lovely here we are going to see that was continued for another few days at this was the same in toronto where we take it up to the highest temperature since nine

hundred fifty nine a record breaking heat and it will stay with us for at least the next couple of days later on in the week i think we're going to see the temperatures easing off but you can see thirteen days in a row the temperatures getting up above that twenty five degree mark there if i press is also having the effect of talking off the rain that we have across the central and northern plains of the u.s. it will slowly make its way further race was over the next few days still on the warm side but it's just a lawsuit right but a little fresher by the weekend for shell aerate and thank you still ahead on al-jazeera the devastation of what is left of the caribbean island after hurricane maria. this was 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 a cure city here. and how the second place finish was still enough to quench the picturesque pricing. will have all the details coming up.

facing the realities you know president said that there would be a complete audit a hundred percent audit that audit hasn't happened getting to the heart of the matter so are you saying then that the future of the g.c.c. will be in doubt. here the story. on talk to al jazeera at this time. it's the end of the breeding season as we take a ferry through the straits of magellan to my island today the island is a penguin colony sanctuary with access to tourists accompanied by penguin experts. we learned the penguin colonies in south america are under threat climate change is one reason it is well documented that changing rain proud. or spend was to abandon the nest warmer ocean temperatures have diminished the quantity and quality of fish for the penguins swim further and further away to feed their young overfishing and

ocean contamination especially plastics are also killing penguins. watching al-jazeera let's take a look at the top stories this hour iraqi kurds are voting on a controversial referendum on the region's independence there are fears they could feel the separatist aspirations of kurds across the region turkey's president has to now the vote and said the turkish army stands ready. germany's angela merkel has won a fourth term in office and has called on other parties to share responsibility to ensure her a stable holy shit populist surge weakened her party as well as the main opposition

opposition social democrats and the nationalist a.f.d. was third the first time a force made it to parliament since the nazi era. transport minister has called a snatch election for next month opinion polls show strong support for shinzo obvious conservative tea party in a strong stance against the nuclear missile threat from north korea. the us has carried out air strikes on an i sold as her camp in libya killing seventeen fighters happened on friday two hundred forty kilometers southeast of sirte the coastal city is a former arsenal stronghold in libya the strikes are the first by the u.s. in libya since president on trump took office in january. and it's been a month since hurricane harvey devastated parts of south texas all a great deal of attention was for. because on q. system smaller towns and cities to the east were also nearly underwater port arthur was hit particularly hard as home to the largest oil refinery in the u.s.

and residents are worried about toxic contamination share but hansei report. when we arrived to meet community activist hilton kelly important to texas he was on looting a truck full of supplies donated by nearby houston's sikh community care and good. just. place it's estimated that between three and five thousand residents of this town have been displaced three quarters of the houses were inundated with water lining the streets like so many neighborhoods across southern texas piles of water damaged manager. kelly and his family are among the homeless this was the moment he and his wife returned to find their home uninhabitable. only as one international recognition of his work trying to improve the quality of port arthur a low income african-american majority community surrounded by petrochemical plants and refineries this stretch of the gulf coast is nicknamed camp fat alley due to

the elevated levels of disease as a result of toxic emissions during harby the refineries admitted to discharging millions more pounds of toxic gases into the air as they shut down and burnt off their excess chemicals now kelly is worried that those who call this town home will be exploited even more as the coast rebuilds for example he points to this dump that appeared overnight in a residential area of port arthur all this garbage and debris stacked across the street from an elderly lady here who's on elated at. the house down the street on the corner there had a triple bypass heart surgery there. very little boy this is one reason why people. because of contamination black mold contamination now we got mold spores. suddenly while we were there no attempt was being made to pour water on the day bri to prevent dust from spreading however for others matter insists

there is nothing to worry about and this site will only be temporary kelly is skeptical but he does wonder whether the sudden attention port arthur is receiving is an opportunity to change things. every. most of the people here don't touch that money will leave it at below the poverty line while. the saudi king look at ways in which he can help enhance the community. got a free reign you don't really want to dump it down there and that we don't have the benefit from these mega. however when kerry knows it's a distant hope that all the attention will transform port of those fortunes not least because of the trumpet ministrations determination to weaken environmental emission standards even further. for french investigators have opened

a full scale inquiry into allegations one of europe's largest banks was complicit in the one nine hundred ninety four wanton genocide. accused of authorizing the transfer of one point three million dollars that was used to purchase weapons used in the genocide transfer allegedly took place a month after u.n. arms embargo to rwanda the rwandan genocide killed more than eight hundred thousand people talk about learn has more from paris well then paper is from says biggest banks it is one of the biggest banks in the world and it's the first time that a bank in france is being accused of links to the genocide in rwanda nasseri ngo's have filed this lawsuit against being paid by her in france and what they say is that the bank transferred more than a million dollars via their wanda national bank to an arms brokerage linked to the regime and the bank must have known at the time back in one thousand nine hundred four of the regime's genocidal intentions now we spoke to

a spokeswoman from one of those n.g.o.s and she told us the reason this case has come forward after so long more than twenty years after the genocide is that much of the evidence many of the documents that they needed to collect to until now secret classified documents and only recently have they become declassified. hoover's boss has apologized for mistakes made in london us the firm by the decision by the city not to renew the taxi service license chief executive daraa khosrowshahi has promised change after the british capital transport regulator deemed unfit to run its course service writing in an open letter he said has revolutionized the way people move in cities around the world it's equally true that we bought things wrong along the way on behalf of everyone it ever globally i apologize for the mistakes we've made. as the economic and political crisis deepens in venezuela so do the levels of hunger as of our survey by

a top university found the average windows whalen has lost nine kilograms and the past year many families are now forced to scavenge for food what was once south america's richest country a lot america been reports on the capital caracas. there are rarely any leftovers after lunch is served at this soup kitchen run by the catholic church in us you know that i would. bring my children here to ensure that they get at least one good meal a day but the kitchen runs on donations only enough to serve one hundred children so every day giuditta out assia is forced to turn many people away. every day more children are crisis is such that as they say has been forgotten people would rather beg for a plate of food for their children than watch them go hungry she says many of the children were given a special formula to help them recover from severe malnutrition but the parents who

are not entitled to a meal are not so lucky and. sometimes my wife and i do without food so at least the children commute twice a day. when israel is prolonged and acute economic crisis characterized by food shortages and hyper inflation has seen infant mortality rise. almost thirty five percent and maternal mortality is sixty five percent in just the last year a name is rampant the oil rich country is now leading latin america in what is called acute malnutrition the type described by experts as a rapid decline in nutrition that puts a child's life at risk. never in my twenty two years of humanitarian work have i seen an emergency expanded on so many fronts as this one and so generated by the state was such a bad prognosis because there is no sign that the government wants to rectify and recognize that it has to address

a humanitarian crisis. the catholic church and all position leaders have called for the government to open a humanitarian corridor but constituent assembly president dench's realty is tells al-jazeera she flatly rejects such a notion. because under international humanitarian law by definition a humanitarian crisis can even facilitate and justify foreign interventions of international coalitions. whatever the definition the venezuelan state seems unable to halt a crisis the does driving thousands of families across neighboring borders. and while home a lucky few still receive help the number of deaths from malnutrition grows. you see in human al just got access. ok maria has left widespread devastation on the island of puerto rico people are without power and basic necessities and a gallagher has more from the capital so that one. 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 look like this there are 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 i'm 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 which is hope that that's going to happen and here is yet another problem the entire island is facing whole communities a 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 ok maria has claimed at least thirty one lives including fifteen on the island of dominic at it's estimated up to eighty percent of dominic as buildings have been damaged ever elizondo reports from there . 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 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 sir how are things here right now things are pretty. good yeah what do you need what do you need to do what i wanted food on. how

bad was a hurricane it's a very very bad it is there's an american they were there but right now that i don't know how they did everything that's good luck 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 domenica is completely gone and it's a debris field. thousands of people in mexico city are homeless with nowhere to go six days after the earthquake that killed more than three hundred people. parts. with government estimates of more than a thousand buildings seriously damaged by tuesday's quake in mexico city it's the lucky ones who still have a home. and his wife and daughter escaped only with their lives.

when we went out to eat. when we couldn't get out. and open. the family is now among the thousands of people staying in shelters many here suffered injuries from the quake but it's the invisible wounds that cause more worry they don't know where they'll go next. morning it was i'm very nervous very nervous i'm almost in shock. the shelters director says more people will become homeless in the coming days. thousand of dealings been inspected many more will be demolished and then there are the hundreds of lost pets that are also in need of shelter volunteers have gathered them in the city park and organized an adoption effort to find these animals temporary homes until they can be reunited with their owners

that if. he doesn't have a color because he was in the house and escaped he's been lost since that day. while some hope for a happy reunion others are saying good bye this boy is giving up his cat because his family is without a home for a city that suffered so much the loss seemingly small feels unbearable. castro al-jazeera mexico city. there is one happy story that's dogged take a look for the rubble and mexico city rescuers found the animal under a collapsed apartment building on sunday. still ahead on al-jazeera resending and and dictation to the n.b.a. champ and we'll tell you which u.s. sports team will be celebrating with donald trump at the white house.

with. the big. time for sport with joe michelle thank you very much president donald trump is determined to keep the debate going on the n.f.l. players should do during the anthem in the last hour he tweeted simply hash tag stand for anthem it comes off an unprecedented display by players right across the u.s. on sunday around two hundred players knelt sat's while the national anthem played fourteen different games this was two days after trump said the play is the process of racial inequality by failing to stand should be follow it plays team officials

and fans expressed a variety of views off to sunday's game. to protest you know nonviolent protests is as american as it gets you know so we know we're on the day and the let them know that we're unified front you're you know. dividing us you know i'm saying i guess we're all sort of. today it was about. using our platform to promote love and unity and acceptance and togetherness and i hope you did that it seems like every time he's opened 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 is different for for other people you know people say is i'm preaching 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 awhile 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 they're right there their voices were all watered down i mean everybody could do whatever they want to do i don't care what the owners do or what you know i care about you know my teammates and i said the belief that i have a name and a love i have for them and 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 of the type that 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. it's. the road to do what we want it just amazes me with everything else that's going on it's world press involving the u.s. that's what you concerned about. you did you get a leader for. this what you this what you talk about so it. doesn't mean the father left american manager somebody. like. yeah it's

a good person but at same time i set him up to oppose bigamy you know it's not like me i got a daughter you don't have to live in this world you know son. you do have are going to do to me so you know she looked like her dad and be like ok this child mentioned well n.h.l. when is the pittsburgh penguins have confirmed they will visit donald trump at the white house the u.s. president had rescinded an offer to stephan curry in the n.b.a. winning golden state warriors off the car he suggested he didn't want to go but the penguins released a statement saying they respect the institution of the office of the president and have a long tradition of visiting the white house the last time they were there was in two thousand and sixteen when barack obama welcomed them after the stanley cup victory. you generally don't get involved in the political side of things but. that's the system in that's why i stick to it so we have to relish this opportunity

it's something that. we need to do because we have can we were champion your champion you have very little money and. we're giving most of. all to another collision of politics in sports and football officials in cattle hoping that the gulf cup of nations will go ahead in december the tournament between the eight gulf nations is due to be held in doha remains in doubt because of a blockade of several neighboring countries some of the job was at the trial. 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 for bar 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 amendment we have a lot of tournaments. we have a lot of championships water championships and this is just. 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 about missions about neighbors so it's easy to bring neighbors so i hope sports can bring all the neighbors together over into the rules of the game if less than five nations take the decision goes back to the executive committee whether this tournament will need to be postponed or canceled altogether but we spoke to a minute federation and they are positive that this event should happen and it is going to bring back the unity into the gulf council which seems to be at odds with each other. the three countries participating so. they're trying their best to solve the problems. as you know 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 sportsman here who we spoken to say that when regular diplomacy formal diplomacy fails they hope that sport diplomacy will prevail. now justin thomas has completed a super season with a ten million dollar prize after winning the gulf gold riches competition the fed ex cup trophy thomas finished as runner up to stand at the top championship in atlanta on sunday he was a straight behind but that was enough to ensure him the top spot in the fed ex cup standings edging out jordan speed to win the huge check for thomas it caps a two thousand and seventeen season which also saw him win five titles including his first major the us p.g.a. championship i ticked off most of his goals without any interruption this. year you know sixteen seventeen goals. made on. my grandpa's calling me.

a grandma can i call you back on the over press conference and. i'll call you back . when at least once be in the final two groups of the major on sunday when a major make the president. well for a moment it appeared that the n.f.l. is nearing protest had crossed into tennis when nick kerry else took a knee before his decisive leyva cup match with roger federer on the australians gesture went viral and he later said he had nothing to do with protesting the u.s. president's comments instead he was remembering his late grandparents curious was attempting to save the world team from a crushing defeat to europe at the inaugural leyva cup as he took on the world number two federer now last year curial said he didn't love the game anymore but

that seems to have changed you can see just how much this loss meant to a devastated curiosus he went down eleven to nine in the super tight break europe winning it fifteen tonight. with a week left in the regular major major league baseball season the lineup for the playoffs is becoming clearer the arizona dynamo diamondbacks clears the top called sports of the national league after a three two victory over the miami marlins in phoenix is the sixth time in the diamondbacks twenty year history they've made the postseason they'll be at home for the while talk i tell you that before. and a group of surfers got a huge fright is that competition was interrupted by killer whales this video was shot from the shore during the last ten mass most is in the icy waters off norway the killer whales also known as known as orcas circled to the combat says and you can see one of them paddling in panic to get away they rarely attack humans in the wild but do have

a road shot teeth capable of biting. that is all this bull will now mostly later show i try to get away to. are that's all for the news hour but much more to come on al-jazeera on me other side of the break i'm richelle carey thanks for your time keep it here.

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