reduces stress hormones. in the future the time may come when doctors prescribe a forest instead of medicine. with. documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. unofficial results in iraq he cares a vote to secede baghdad and show their displeasure with more threats.

you know without is there a life and death is also coming up donald trump says he'll go to puerto rico after being criticized for his lack of empathy for u.s. territory hit by hurricane maria. changing gears saudi arabia will allow women to drive for the first time starting next year. and too slow too inefficient to the french president outlines his vision for transforming the european union. the first iraq has ordered the kurdistan regional government to surrender control of his samples all face and in boggo on international flights now as part of mounting pressure on the kurdish leadership over secession referendum which was

held on monday charles shafiq reports from a bill. the rhetoric and threats continue and from both sides iraq to me that i still is still occupying some parts of kirkuk and some parts of iraq i still is still a threat to the cities with some of our brothers in iraqi kurdistan a living we must not divide iraq according to or through all viral referendum that is completely rejected such language will go down well with the international community including the u.s. and the e.u. each sent the timing of the vote could weaken iraq's unity at a time when the fight against terrorism is paramount. ela bhatt he says the kurdish referendum on independence was unconstitutional and the federal government will ignore the expected yes result only a few minutes after all about his speech the kayleigh g. president appeared on kurdish television masoud barzani invited in leaders of

neighboring countries for dialogue but he remained defiant he said the wishes of iraq's kurds should be respected but. yes in the beginning we agreed on the constitution and partnership and the role of the kurdistan region in the establishment of iraq is very clear but you violated every agreement there is no need for anger and threats you have only yourself to blame. the results of the referendum on not binding but the kurdish president wants a mandate to push the bank that government into negotiations towards independence for iraq's kurds. neighboring countries such as turkey fearful of the effect such a drive towards independence by the iraqi kurds could have on their own large kurdish populations have threatened sanctions and even not ruled out military intervention against the kayleigh gee. that seems unlikely at this stage but the referendum is certainly increased tensions across the region already struggling to

deal with so many problems and when the patent against terrorism is far from won. the federal government says storage is must hand over control of their airports by friday or face a potential international air embargo the government also says that the k r g must hand over control of their international land borders by friday or neighboring countries will take control of them too the pressure on president barzani from both baghdad and the wider region continues to mount for al-jazeera or bill well iran has vowed to stand with iraq and turkey against the outcome of the session referendum the government says new missile systems there its border with kurdish areas while turkey is threatening sanctions anderson is reports now from on the turkey iraq border. two flags now turkey and iraq

on a battlefield that sends out a daily message it's addressed to iraqi kurds as they celebrated the referendum on the other side of the border these iraqi government troops were flown in to join the exercise. this exercise conveniently perhaps situated right beside the main border crossing road between turkey and iraq really hasn't got a great deal of military significance it carries yet another political message to the iraqi kurds. the reason is that alongside the tank charges the political attacks coming from turkey are in line with the iraqi government's sentiment the kurdish leadership is being accused of treason by turkey's president. can alter their colors yes they will be left in the lurch when we start imposing our sanctions will be over when we close the oil taps or the revenues will vanish and

they will not be able to find food and clothes when our truck stop going into northern iraq these are the trucks he mentions hardball the only border crossing from turkey into northern iraq is one of the largest in the world for trade it's worth more than eight and a quarter billion dollars of business a year to turkey if it closes it will be catastrophic for iraqi kurds it's estimated turkey supplies nearly seventy percent of their imported goods. nihad billy schick is a businessman dealing in exports he's a turkish kurd and he's anxious he says the situation could hurt both kurds and turks shand obvious now there is tension in the northern iraq really needs turkey in my view turkey also needs northern iraq because of domestic and other regional issues this bridge of friendship and trade shouldn't be destroyed on the contrary it should be reinforced. irwin's other threat is blocking kurdish oil exports

shutting off a pipeline in which up to six hundred thousand barrels worth of oil a day flows through turkey the threats are being repeated with no action so far apart from simulated combat on the border it's holding back is aimed at pressuring the iraqi kurds into some sort of u. turn it's hard to see that happening for now while armies make new alliances there is uncertainty andrew simmons al jazeera war on the turkish iraqi border. while our cell ashraf is an assistant professor in international relations at nothing in university he says the kurdish leader massoud barzani well struggle to achieve secession from iraq without cads suffering in the end. is. making calculation maybe. he doesn't remember. now i think he's going to. be people or what he might do with his

wins and. conspiracy. and then. when it doesn't look like. a mountain. through sanctions. at least thirty people have been killed in a u.s. led coalition air strike in the syrian city of raka the alliance is trying to drive i saw out of the city which fell to the group in twenty fourteen president trampas announce will go to the u.s. territory of puerto rico next tuesday he also gave details of the government's increased assistance to the three and a half million people who remain stranded on the island which was devastated by hurricane maria she have returned the reports. widespread shortages and desperation now being reported across puerto rico six days after maria hit but at the white

house donald trump was congratulatory about the relief efforts everybody has said it's amazing the job that we've done in puerto rico we're very proud of and i'm going there on tuesday and i think we've done a really good job we're continuing to we are literally unloading on an hourly basis water food supplies the federal emergency management agency says it's provided millions of meals liters of water and shelter u.s. navy says it will dispatch a hospital ship to the territory yet amid criticism of the u.s. administration is not acting speedily to help on monday the governor of puerto rico felt he had to remind the mainland but his territories three point four million people were american citizens in fact a recent survey found that forty one percent of americans didn't think they were with a further fifteen percent unsure the speaker of the house of representatives attempted to change that perception this is our country and these are our fellow citizens they need our help and they're going to get our help on tuesday the governor said he'd spoken to president trump this was his response when asked whether he thought

the president cared about his territory i am confident that he does and i fully expect his support. this effort he has. made that clear to me personally personally so you know and again i want to thank him for acting quickly and some of these things over there also specials that the u.s. is priorities are not just humanitarian to rico is massively in debt to wall street and don't trust monday night tweets appeared to reassure the bankers that no debts would be forgiven despite the disaster much of the island was destroyed with billions of dollars owed to wall street and the banks which sadly must be dealt with he tweeted in addition questions are being raised as to why the hundred year old jones act isn't being lifted under the u.s. ships and crews can dock in puerto rico with supplies which is long and the price of goods here. is far higher than on the mainland this also means neighboring countries are unable to give direct help now the administration dismissed such

concerns if you ship it just in the mean because it has more to be. bring its estimate of the put a rico will be without electricity for between four to six months the u.s. congress is expected to begin discussing long term relief efforts sometime next month she had her town see al-jazeera. now women will be allowed to drive in saudi arabia for the first time from june next chair king solomon issued a decree ending the kingdom say this as any country in the world where it's forbidden for a woman to drive. activists like dr mudd have been lobbying for decades for the kingdom of saudi arabia to allow women to drive and instead i get. i'm ready my daughter is ready and who says society is ready how much longer can we live in an oppressive society that prevents us from

a full right. by next summer dr mcgee how will be allowed to drive without risking arrest fines and punishment the new policy will allow women to obtain a driver's license without having to ask permission of the husband father's or male guardian so you arabia is hoping the policy will help the economy and increased role of women in the workforce as part of the economic reform agenda and the efforts to streamline the amount of money that the state spends on its citizens with diminished oil revenue the idea of including more women into the labor force would definitely help and so driving is is one mechanism to increase women's economic participation and almost anybody. other activists reacted on social media mundo a shot of as a saudi women's rights advocate who was arrested for posting a video of herself driving in two thousand and eleven to protest the law in a tweet celebrating the decree she use the hashtag women to drive and daring to

drive she also said the fight for equality in saudi arabia is far from over the united states also welcomed the move by the kingdom well then we're happy we're happy we're certainly happy to hear that if saudi women are now able to drive certainly here in the united states we would certainly welcome that and so i think it's a great step in the right direction for that country. another step that's been lauded by rights. activist came over the weekend for the first time women were allowed to enter the king fahd stadium to celebrate the eighty seventh anniversary of the kingdom's foundation the father i know how to still and with saudi women are able to do anything they respected and have proven themselves and every field they not so weak has to be contained to one place. the right for women to drive may be a welcome step but some human rights organizations say the kingdom has a long way to go in guaranteeing equal rights for not only women but for minorities

like those who are subjected to hate speech and violent attacks culture dirge on al-jazeera. still to come here at al-jazeera a warning from aid agencies about the huge number of mao naresh children among the hinge of refugees and have a chance discovery has revealed a bride. by one of the world's most popular. from brisk knows in few months. to the woman trying to this of southeast asia. hello i'm pleased to say we've got some dry weather pushing back into eastern china over the next day or so still a chance of some a lot of showers over towards shanghai nothing like his wet as it has been recently having said that she was close by on thursday but they are easing temperatures at around twenty five celsius general clark or southern parts of china want to see one

or two showers down towards the coastal fringes of the far south of the country but across southeast asia and they are not in for the southwest so even into these are now starting to see some increasingly wet weather lots of cloud and rain there into were thailand right down across the peninsula much of malaysia seeing some heavy and thunderous showers and those showers well they are standing now across a good part of java over the next couple of days are spent to see some very heavy rain coming through here meanwhile the heavy rain continues across western parts of india still a fair amount of cloud here easing into southern areas to instill some rather lively showers into bangladesh into the northeast of india into me and for much of the northern plains of india here stay settled fine and dry thirty six celsius in new delhi karate getting up to thirty one and similar values as we go on through thursday and notice that cloud and rain continuing to the south. the weather sponsored by cats on bass. russian filmmaker andrea christoph expose have

put ins russia impacts the very values of the nation the russians are famous for their cultural legacy but can traditional and conservative be the source of stagnation and authoritarian why was i was the assimilated by the police to misuse the crane for homosexuality the significance of voting to the russian elite is that he was like a fake you who controls the cobra in such a putin's russia at this time on al-jazeera. here with al-jazeera time for us to take a look at the top stories iraq has ordered the kurdistan regional government to surrender control of its airports or face and involved go on international flights

is part of mounting pressure on the kurdish leadership over it's a session referendum on monday preliminary results a majority of participants voted yes in the non-binding referendum. president trump says he'll go to hurricane hit puerto rico next week after his administration was criticized for not doing enough to help the u.s. territory much of the island is without electricity water or access to communication nearly a week after hurricane maria women will be allowed to drive in saudi arabia for the first time starting next year king sound man issued a decree ending the king didn't say this is the only country where it's forbidden. president trump says if a war breaks out between the united states and north korea it would be devastating for kim jong un this is the latest statement in the ongoing war of words between

the two countries here's what house correspondent kimberly how cat. the trumpet ministration is continuing to put pressure on north korea at a joint press conference here in the white house rose garden appearing alongside the spanish prime minister donald trump was asked about the statements by north korea's foreign minister that effectively the united states had declared war on north korea i'll trump did not back down saying he will exercise the military option if necessary if we take that option it will be devastating i can tell you that devastating for north korea that's called the military option your various administrations many administrations which left me a mess but i'll fix the mess the u.s. is also putting pressure on north korea financially the treasury department on tuesday and now it's a new round of economic sanctions against twenty six individuals with ties to north korea's financial industry as well as eight north korean banks the u.s.

says that those banks are closely linked to north korea's nuclear weapons program well mr trump warned catalonia that it will be foolish to separate from spain the spanish prime minister is stepping up international efforts to stop that six months independence referendum but i know the whole aim it is mr trump thank you in washington d.c. to discuss the vote we're dealing with a great great country and it should remain united i've been watching that unfold but it's actually been unfolding for centuries and i think that. nobody knows if they can have a vote i think the president would say they're not going to have a vote but i think that the people would be very much opposed to that i can say only speaking for myself i would like to see spain continue to be united. now the u.n. says the number of range of refugees escaping violence

a million miles rakhine state has now risen to four hundred eighty thousand more than forty thousand fled to bangladesh in the past two days alone and that has put a strain on resources there. is a needed for around six thousand children who cross the border without parents and a quarter of a million muslim children of. break of violence began a month ago some refuse to speak about what they've seen instead they draw pictures . there are moments children best describe using markers and pencils moments too difficult to put in words like when men in uniform slashed the throat of her friends miriam's friend i will not talk about the moment they set her house on fire with their parents inside. she may deny there's been an ethnic cleansing but ten year old john i draw a different picture. i was in my home when they grabbed my mother she was screaming

they hit. on her then they shot her in front of me. these are satellite images of the children's home collected on september sixteenth now look at it we can later. and this the international accuses me and more security forces of a scorched earth campaign on a mass scale no independent observers or journalist have been allowed into the range of villages this is as close as we can get to the right kind states where an ethnic cleansing is currently happening just moments ago we saw villages burned in the distance mean 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 rangers who are considered illegal immigrants by young gone almost half a million people now live in sprawling villages made out of bamboo and plastic

sheeting bangladesh hasn't seen such mass movement of people since its war of independence in one thousand seventy one. they too have beefed up patrols on the border and deployed the army. normally our orders are to not allow ro hinge in but given their suffering our government has told us to look after them bangladeshi soldiers patrol the camps without arms so as to not frighten the refugees they come here traumatized afraid unable to hide their pain nicholas hawke al jazeera could have a long count kenyan police have used tear gas to disperse protesters in the capital nairobi opposition supporters were demanding the removal of electoral commission a key a vote training in this presidential election the supreme court invalidated president a little victory citing irregularities in the vote. and says

only change will stop growing euro skepticism and the rise of anti e.u. parties many dig. this idea that you can flourish has not disappeared even though it's fragile globalization has had an impact we need to confront ideas with potente new solutions such as nationalism protectionism segregation these ideas have so many times before threatened europe they pretend to be legitimate because they exploit people's fears for too long we have ignored their power. macross said issues such as security refugees and globalization have divided europeans and brigs it's been a challenge to reverse the trend he called for more e.u. collaboration in defense migration and education but the focus of his reforms is the eurozone is calling for the creation of a year is a budget and ministry to finance current projects such as infrastructure from i call the you vision to become a reality who needs the support of other in your leaders and in particular germany

it's why he's delivering the speech just two days after the german election he wants his reforms to be firmly on the agenda as chancellor angela merkel begins a coalition talks merkel shares micros desire to reform europe she's open to a small eurozone budget and a ministry but who she ponders with in the new german coalition government will determine how far she can go the liberal f.d.p. party opposes the french presidents agenda say needlessly to germany bailing out weaker countries from across perspective on euro zone reform. the liberals are quite skeptical on a lot of the issues that he wants to reform so they will be a more difficult partner on the other hand we have the green party who is staunchly pro european a bit more left leaning closer to michael maybe on that front as well and they could counterbalance to a certain extent the liberals and germany. outside the sawbones students protested

against some of my close domestic reforms saying he's ignoring poorest sections of french society a reminder that like the german chancellor the french president still has much work ahead if he's to convince those at home and abroad that his ideas are in the common interest with al-jazeera powers. the european council president donald trolls has warned the u.k.'s breck's a process is not moving fast enough he was in london for talks with the british prime minister wannabe phillips reports. donald tourism a here at downing street for an hour and a half afterwards he came out and told us that he was cautiously optimistic that the tone from the british was constructive and from his point of view more realistic that the philosophy of having one's cake and eating it was finally coming to an end from his point of view and that reflects the european idea that the

british have not been entirely realistic about bret's it and that they have believed to date that they can leave the e.u. and yet retain all the benefits of membership post breck's it having said all that i think donald will six last remarks to us will be discouraging for the british he said that from his point of view sufficient progress had still not been made for the talks to move forward and this is very important the european union has drawn a line in the sand and said that it wants progress to be made on the question of the irish border the very sensitive issue of those three million or so european citizens who live in the u.k. and what will happen to their rights post breaks it and the size of the brics it divorce bill in crude terms how many billions of euros britain is going to pay out as it leaves the european union and that there has to be enough progress in those three areas before the talks can move forward to areas which the british want to

talk about namely focusing on trade and the future relationship between a u.k. and the remaining twenty seven e.u. countries. now the american also mark twain died more than a century ago that is fans can still look forward to a brand new work notes of a bedtime tale told to his own children have now been turned into a new book christen salumi has a story. a poor boy along with his animal friends finds himself on a quest to rescue a kidnapped prince it's a character conceived by the american literary icon mark twain but brought to life more than one hundred years after his death the journey of this children's book starts here in hartford connecticut this house was where the major creative period of mark twain's life happens this is where the author whose real name was samuel

clemens honed his craft writing the adventures of tom sawyer huckleberry finn and the prince and the popper his home was a place for imagination and creativity and his daughters encouraged him to tell them stories on an almost nightly basis and every story had to be different and if any element of any story seemed to be the same as an earlier one he had to go back and start over again think of what that does to your creative process as a storyteller that you have to come up with something brand new on an almost nightly basis the prolonging of prince only a margarine comes from a long clemens family tradition of telling bedtime stories it's based on a fairy tale he first told his daughters in paris one that the authors hope will continue to resonate with children for generations to come. the story was just sixteen pages of twain's handwritten scribbles when it was discovered in the archives several years ago the husband and wife duo philip in aaron stead were

tasked with turning tweens unfinished notes into a full children's book it wasn't necessarily our job to please mark twain it was actually our job to please mark twain's daughters because that was who the story was for originally when he was telling it the stead's had to make a few critical choices along the way one of the most notable illustrating the protagonist is black the simple answer is that that's who i saw when i was thinking of the story a lot of a lot of people are sort of suggesting that twain wouldn't have made that choice that character would be a person of color in tweens original vision i would argue that maybe it would have been an eight hundred seventy nine but anybody who study between knows the tween. changed radically from the beginning it was created the end of his career perhaps that's why his insights on american life remain as relevant as ever a literary tradition has modern co-writers hope to continue christian salumi al-jazeera hartford connecticut.

you know and hello again let's have a look at the top stories here and out of his era iraq has a look at the regional government to surrender control of its samples or face an embargo on international flights as part of mounting pressure on the pettishly to ship over its secession referendum on monday preliminary results show majority of participants voted yes in the non-binding referendum the president all of iraq had a son massoud barzani says baghdad should dialogue instead of threats. yes there are more and. we should all step out of our political shoes and i'll see you all i also all the brothers when the result of the referendum is announced to behave in a civil manner and express their love and not to fall short so that we don't affect that peace at least thirty people are being killed in a u.s.

led coalition air strike in the syrian city of raka the alliance is trying to drive eisel out of the city which fell to the group in twenty fourteen president trump says he'll go to puerto rico next week after his administration was criticized for not doing enough to help the u.s. territory much of the island is still without electricity water or communications nearly a week after hurricane maria women will be allowed to drive in saudi arabia for the first time from june next year king sound man is suited to create ending the kingdom say this is the only country in the world where it's forbidden for a woman to drive the me this scene is a victory for rights activists the us welcomed the decision of the us government is reportedly expected to set its refugee camp at forty five thousand people next year it will be the lowest number of refugee admissions in almost thirty years president made the decision but it will need to be discussed by his cabinet and congress the

u.n. says a number of range of refugees escaping violence in mia miles rakhine state has now risen to four hundred eighty thousand more than forty thousand have fled to bangladesh in the past two days alone kenyan police have used tear gas to disperse protesters in the capital nairobi opposition supporters were demanding the removal of electoral commission staff accused to vote rigging in august presidential election inside story is next. the kurds in iraq have voted in a referendum but hopes of getting their own homeland the votes rejected by the

evocate government and neighboring countries so he's want to construct an ethnic wall so the better end of name for the region is inside story.