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hello i'm rob matheson and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. after a landslide yes vote in a session referendum the government in iraq's kurdish region rejects baghdad's demand to hand over control of airports. the u.s. president plans to cut down the number of refugees entering the country to its lowest in nearly four decades plus. i understand human in the japanese indigenous reserve where there is increasing concern about the survival of un contacted tribes living in this remote part of the amazon rain forest. a day at the opera the spectacular london show aiming to attract a new generation of fans.

hardening positions hours after winning a landslide in a secession referendum the government of iraq's kurdish region has rejected baghdad's demand to hand over control of airports ninety two percent of cards who posted about have voted yes the results been announced despite a last minute appeal to cancel it by the iraqi prime minister charles strafford reports from erbil. so liberations on the streets of the bill up to ninety two percent of voters said yes to secession from the kurdish region of northern iraq. the referendum is very important it will for my future and i hope at least that baghdad will eventually to be independent. of the federal government in baghdad is called a referendum on constitutional and he's refusing to even recognize the result let alone start negotiations with the kurdish regional government ok allergy to the future independence for iraq. events of the last few days here can only be

described as some of the most momentous in the region's history but the political ramifications are massive the threats continue from the baghdad government and neighboring countries and there's a sense of great uncertainty as to what could happen next. the federal government has threatened to close the region's international airspace it could heal thora g.'s don't hand over control of the two main airports by a friday deadline. turkey is threatening to cancel the kayleigh g.'s oil pipeline and close the land border turkey is the biggest supplier of goods and food to the k r g we can. we don't have. to use making of the same damn regime but the kurds don't have a life with. maybe determination among the people who have wanted a country of their own for generations but the celebrations here may not last long

. but al jazeera is built. about is director of the center for the study of middle east at indiana university he also served as iraq's ambassador to the u.n. and he's joining us on skype from bloomington thank you once again for your time given the fact that the vote has been held and it's been held overwhelmingly are the demands that baghdad are making of the kurds going to cloud the issue when it comes to actually doing the negotiations which are likely to follow well you know. where in a very interesting time because the referendum was posited by the code just regional government by the kurdish regional president or better zani as a non-binding vote unilaterally extended the referendum into areas that are disputed

between baghdad and beatles control and there have been some allegations of voter intimidation amongst minorities so it's a very volatile mix it isn't clear what sort of mandate if any. was on the has given that it was supposed to be a non-binding. vote it they had legitimacy of the referendum has been rejected by the united states the united kingdom the european union and the united nations. so it's really not clear why we are now in this sort of cycle of escalating the tensions rather than trying to deescalate and to bring the two sides as it were around the table i think it's a very volatile situation we have right now as you say the situation does appear to be escalating but it would appear to outsiders that the escalation has initiated from baghdad to turkey and iran where do you see this situation proceeding and

is there any way of diffusing it. well i think. the escalation began with the referendum in south i think that. the the reaction and but it was entirely predictable that there would be. an immediate reaction as for turkey as and iran also they warned of what would come if the right front of her and yet the referendum went forward all of the region regional states including the arab states. by consensus the united states the united kingdom again the european union and the united nations recommended against holding this referendum the referendum proceeded so what i would say is that the escalation has been mutual the question we should be asking now is hollow to

deescalate and how to get the parties sitting around the table going to stop islamic law iraq and pakistan as landlocked. and it is surrounded by neighbors who are not friendly to the independence project that for. some intermediate solution at least for the time being for the foreseeable future needs to be entered into as you mentioned the referendum is known binding massu buzz and he himself said that following. a state is a long way off how strong is the argument that iraq turkey and iran have been overreacting to this referendum given those circumstances and also who do you think would be a good mediator to step in and try to pull the situation back. on the second question as as you noted in the introduction i say that the united nations i think that the united nations has the expertise and the ability to do this ideally it

would be the united states but i'm not certain that the professional contrail of diplomats still is employed by. and experts in the region are still working at the state department but somewhere between the united states the united nations and the united kingdom i think would be an ideal set of mediators of the european union perhaps as well but yes i agree with the promise of the first part of your question which is that and i won't speak to turkey and iran but i will agree that i think barked out needs to calm down the rhetoric as well the problem the prime minister has is that he has a former prime minister current vice president of iraq nobody minded who is attempting to outflank the prime minister to regain the prime ministership that far he has put and he and his supporters are putting the prime minister in a position that if he appears weak or. or sort of going wobbly in the phrase of

margaret thatcher from a different air also referring to iraq it could redound to the detriment of the prime minister and genuinely cause a deterioration in the situation should monica return to power now the kurds should have anticipated that's exactly what you would do and they should not have put the body in that position. but at the moment both sides both died and out of the same to me to have painted themselves in a corner it should theoretically be an ideal situation for external mediation it's always useful to get your opinion in this thank you very much feisal is the nobody . i did top u.s. democrat has come out in support of an independent kurdish state senate democrat and democratic leader chuck schumer has issued a statement calling on the u.s. government to recognize what he called monday's historic vote and to back the creation of an independent kurdish state catalonia says it will go ahead with an

independence referendum on sunday despite spain declaring it illegal the spanish government is planning to deploy police at polling stations to prevent people from voting the regional government has warned of public disorder if that happens spanish judges and prosecutors have already ordered the seizure of all electoral material including ballot papers fourteen officials organizing the referendum have also been arrested and websites linked to the vote have been shut down john hendren reports from lists and challenges ahead catalans vote yes. millions of cattle and look to divide and the government of spain by voting to create their own nation if they succeed within days they hope to declare their independence but it is after the vote that the real work begins is britain discovered headlines would have many questions left to answer. will they form their

own military will join nato what league with the barcelona football club play in. what currency will they use has to seek international recognition as a state from the united nations secondly it needs to it should try to join the european union as a new member state and needs to get on with the business of striking deals as soon as possible. who exports eighty three percent of wines from his cattle on vineyard there could be new higher tariffs for selling to the european union but he's voting to secede anyway in two weeks catalonia like never in a state kind of arrived at courts with a different country is explored with a normally because it is in interest of everybody. here in the land of cavernous cellars and vines that stretch into the horizon europeans and fine lines have

a way of finding one another now there's nothing stopping anyone from crossing from catalonia into mainland spain and back but if this side becomes independent catalans will have to turn sheep pastures and creekside crossings into man borders on an international front yr catalans have struggled for independence for centuries and whatever happens with sunday's vote that's a medal and. so this takes years to make it's a little like independence you have to be yes it day by the vineyard must have many many. younger that doesn't work are you willing to wait that long for independence of necessary yes some things he says are worth waiting for john hendren al-jazeera lesson yes spain. plenty more ahead on the news. the growing support for the u.k.'s opposition leader that makes him feel his party

is close to coming to power. thousands moved to safety in indonesia as a volcano threatens to erupt for the first time in more than fifty years and in sports p.s.g. when that champions league showdown against buying munich where the help of one of europe's hottest strikers. senior officials in the trumpet ministration have briefed congress on the president's plans to cut refugee numbers donald trump wants to cap the numbers next year i don't know all time low of forty five thousand refugees white house correspondent kelly holcomb reports donald trump first announced he would seek to permanently reduce the number of refugees entering the united states as he addressed the united nations we offer financial assistance to hosting countries that will seek to host refugees as close to their home countries as possible.

this is the safe responsible and humanitarian approach now trump's secretary of state is meeting with lawmakers to formalize the goal of capping the number of refugees entering the u.s. to around forty five thousand this is an historic reduction in two thousand and seven more than forty eight thousand word mid under president bush under barack obama almost seventy thousand refugees settled in the united states but this year under donald trump the refugee cap is set to fall to around fifty four thousand and by twenty eight thousand the president hopes to reduce that number even further its fury ating activists the trumpet ministration says the lower cap on refugees is for national security and safety it's just based on fear and on facts and because of

that we're turning away people that could die if we don't let them in and the white house claims that even with the lower number of refugees being admitted to the united states it says it still takes in more refugees than any other nation kimberly held at al-jazeera washington. the u.n. has met to discuss the humanitarian crisis in syria that russian led airstrikes destroyed hospitals and killed dozens of civilians both hama provinces have come under heavy bombardment this week but russia says it only struck fighters diplomatic editor james bays has more. after more than six years of bloodshed the un security council has heard about so many atrocities in syria the latest attacks bombardment of civilians including the targeting of hospitals acts of escalation by the syrian government and its russian allies in what's supposed to be a deescalation zone british and french diplomats have described it as an acceptable

and the palling yet the words of the un's own special envoy were markedly less harsh for the first time it seems april some errors today some allegedly hitting civilians and civilian infrastructure including health facilities human rights groups say there's nothing allegedly about it i think there should always be talk about what happens after the conflict ends but it's not ending right now what we saw last week as i said was direct hits on hospitals as the start of intensive but apartments are civilian areas so what that tells us is that this looks like a strategy to punish the civilian population and take out the hospitals first so that health care is impossible the u.n. is trying to reconvene talks in geneva the man who many believe torpedoed previous rounds of negotiation by refusing to discuss political transition was in the council chamber syrian ambassador basher jeffrey is his country's chief negotiator

mr de mistura put pressure on him but his toughest words were reserved for the opposition no one is asking the opposition to thunderous dubbing the people but we are urging their belligerent to realize that it dave. most credible and effective when he stands together and show the radium is to negotiate which read and take the high negotiations committee position is that they are the only legitimate representative of the opposition and it's definitely true that some of the other groups that call themselves opposition have in the past had close contacts with the assad regime in a famous quotation winston churchill once said history is written by the victors and it may just be that's what's now happening in syria the russian military help the syrian regime turn things around militarily and it seems there are some who now want to give them the are planned in the diplomacy to end the war james. the united

nations tens of thousands of people in south africa have held street protests against president jacob zuma they say corruption has become endemic under his leadership the marches have been organized by the country's largest workers' union its alliance with the ruling african national congress is looking increasingly strained than your page has more from johannesburg. miners teachers and laborers are among the thousands of workers taking part in a nationwide strike against corruption. and the man they say is to blame for it is president jacob zuma they say he's been compromised by private business leaders have kept it control of the state the president has indicated that he's not willing to go and we know the reason is because he has been the print if you shout it from . the president.

since ninety members of the. head was there not. the demonstrators switched to the city delivering their demands to government the banks and big employers like the mining industry. because there is pressure on the president. and then. the us. and the south africa. not only. is deeply divided. the a.n.c. says its partners are free to protest but it can't be happy at the level of corruption being uncovered by the opposition democratic alliance which won control of johannesburg at the last election. not far from the march dogs protect an almost empty construction site there's supposed to be

a new power station here where we this is just one example where almost five million u.s. dollars was paid to a contractor without doing any job i mean if you look around here you can see that nothing has been done keenan lost his job at the site and now his community south has frequent power cuts because the upgrades have stopped it's. some things you do when you're in a. you know keenan is the victim of corruption that cost south africa about two billion dollars a year but it's far from certain that it will cost the president his job no matter how loud the call is from one of the n.c.s. oldest partners for him to go tony a page out of their johanna's. there have been bros in uganda's parliament for a second day. this happened during

a debate over changes to laws about the upper age limit for presidents at the moment it's set at seventy five years old how to lead and your body must have any seventy three he's seeking an amendment to the law so he can run for a sixth time in office. britain's opposition leader says his labor party is the government in waiting and a wide ranging speech at the party's annual conference jeremy carbon accused prime minister telling some may of bungling and brags that negotiations he also criticised saudi arabia for what he described as a cruel war in barnaby phillips has more from brighton even in this age of the political unexpected it's an extraordinary story the apparently an ambitious backbench m.p. he became labor party leader now adored by the members he promised more spending on health education bringing industries back under state control higher taxes for the rich and big corporations the crowd loved it is the country ready for it. today's

center ground is certainly not where it was twenty or thirty years ago a new consensus is emerging from the great economic crash and the years. when people started to find a political voice for their hopes for something different and something better. there's no doubt. this conference but of course here jeremy corbyn is preaching to the converted somehow he has to convince the majority of the wind. that he is the right man to lead this country. they call it corbin mania a celebration of the man even his pet cat so is the labor party in danger of falling for a cult of personality this man is no ego whatsoever on like many of the people i know. use so much virus sometimes but the truth is.

one of the definitions of leadership is to inspire me inspires millions of young. people from all over our nation this is as close to dissent to speak out at this conference pro you demonstrate as we call been to take a stronger line against blacks it on that labor like the government conservative party is badly divided trying to keep options open in other areas germy corbin says he put the pursuit of peace and human rights at the center of his foreign policy so we cannot be silent cruel. well continue to destroy the saudi arabia thank you and i say this to. a champion of democracy and human rights please do all you can to end the violence now against the ruling. have suffered. but

first he needs to win a general election an election that the conservative government will do its best to avoid jeremy corbyn says labor is a government in waiting prime minister to resign may plans to keep him waiting to be philip's al-jazeera upright. brazil is investigating the reported massacre of up to ten members of an isolated amazonian tribe it's believed that the indigenous people have been killed by gold miners who later boasted about the attack al-jazeera steam is the first to be given access to the area since it happened our latin america editor let's hear newman has part one of our exclusive two part series from the job out in the valley as you can see where inside the amazon rain forest known as the lungs of the world because of its thick vegetation that helps counter c o two gas emissions but what is less known are the dangers facing the community said live inside this jungle including those who have chosen to have no

contact with the outside world they are facing new and very very serious threats to their survival and we have come here to find out why. the java the valley indigenous reserves. eight million hedge here's a brazilian amazon the size of austria it's home to the largest number of non contacted tribes in the world photographed only rarely from the air and it's here that ten indigenous people were reportedly massacred last month by illegal gold miners who roam these rivers we flew four thousand kilometers from sao paulo to menow so. and there by boat to. there we met leaders of the reserves indigenous tribes who agreed to take us there . this is the reserve along the giovanni river that borders per contact in non-contact the tribes have lived here for centuries. on our seven hour journey up

river we learned that the reserve is being increasingly invaded by outsiders cattle farmers loggers hunters fisherman and miners the latest reported massacre on this reserve is said to have taken place when members of a non-contact and tribe men women and children were looking for turtle eggs by the river the alleged killers are said to have boasted that they cut up their bodies and threw them in the river making it difficult if not impossible for prosecutors to find the evidence oh go to meet the chief of the my your luna tribe which was contacted about fifty years ago around fifty five hundred people belong to the reserves six contacted tribes but it within a minute before speaking any other chief told me insists on putting on his ceremonial paint he says his father used to kill the white invaders but was persuaded by for ny state indigenous

a farty to move the tribe into the reserve for protection maybe. it is better but not good we have people dying from diseases i didn't have before i wish we could move back inside the forest where our ancestors leaves the outsiders are sure killing people. he shows us how he is prepared to fight the outsiders he believes are again trying to take their land and resources incursions by poachers and man grabbers have soared since brazil's president more than half the budget of the authority in charge of protecting and leasing the reserves. the reported massacre of the east or levels or isolated ones as they're called here are just one result says paloma rule we start going to. the state keep saying that what happened recently is not true but how can they say that they haven't sent anyone to where the massacre happened they just overflew the area in a helicopter weeks later keep in mind oust the prosecutor from amazon

a state concedes it with government is leaving indigenous tribes especially the uncontacted almost defenseless the most in the world if you don't place a barrier and effective policing of the area which is not happening now the danger of these tribes becoming extinct is huge. and investigation into the massacre is underway but there's no guarantee there won't be more as the pressure increases from outsiders who believe they too have a right to the land and resources until now reserved for these amazonian tribes. everyone we spoke to in the javelin reserve tells us that they're afraid that the clock is being turned back to the time when all of this was fair game for economic gain in fact we saw for ourselves just how many of the bases of foreign i which is the government authority in charge of protecting everything on the reserves have actually been closed down we didn't know what to suggest this vast area we will

have more of the same that this is having in the second part of our special amazon report. still ahead an al-jazeera a london bus tour that claims to show how corrupt follows a living it up in britain's capital we'll tell you about the canadian plane maker that's been hit with a massive hike in judy by u.s. regulators plus. it's cricket ground in london regarded as the hub of cricket the games the changing players will be sent from the field for bad behavior of the four story. determined to live life to the full. i have very limited sight five percent but i can distinguish objects big and small and realise their ambitions. but also. because i'm married. i still. follows for

inspiring people in istanbul as they seek to prove that seeing isn't everything at this time. but i think one of our biggest strengths is that we talk to normal everyday people we get them to tell their stories and doing that really reveals the truth people are still gathered outside these gates waiting for any information most of them don't know whether their loved ones are alive or dead or miami really is a place where two worlds meet we can get to washington d.c. in two hours to get on join us in the rest of central america about the same time but more importantly is what those two cultures north and south america have to teach to very important place for all to do it's a big. welcome

back you're watching al-jazeera. minder of our top stories hours after winning a secession referendum the government of iraq's kurdish region has rejected. to hand over control of the airports several airlines have. flights to. the u.s. congress has been briefed on president donald trump's plans to cut refugee numbers . twenty eighteen at an all time low of forty five thousand refugees that number is far lower than the one hundred ten thousand that president barack obama had set . south africa's largest workers union has organized marches to protest against president jacob zuma they claim corruption has become under his leadership tens of thousands of people took to the streets. a u.s. airstrike in the afghan capital kabul has caused a number of civilian casualties according to nato the strike came hours after an

attack on kabul airports during a visit by u.s. defense secretary james mattis the taliban says massa's was the target of the failed rocket attack the airport bombing which left at least five civilians injured after he and nato chief jens stoltenberg left the airport their trip follows u.s. president donald trump's pledge to send more american troops to afghanistan afghan security forces struggling to defeat the taliban. refugees who escaped a military crackdown in me and i have spoken to al-jazeera about how they were raped by soldiers government denies the claims but refused to allow international observers to investigate four hundred eighty thousand have fled to bangladesh in the past month. has more from long in bangladesh.

two sisters twenty five year old me and twenty two year old aziza share their story of escape from me and my both say they were raped by soldiers. the military tortured they murdered our parents even our sisters they took us to the jungle they pushed us down on the ground there were two of them they raped me and then i became unconscious. some people came and rescued us and took us to a group of people who were going to cross the river to bangladesh but they wouldn't take us in the boat as we had no money we told them either you kill us or take us with you. it's estimated that more than a third of nearly half a million refugees who arrived in bangladesh in the past month are women and young girls i've met survivors myself who've told me their harrowing stories about how one gang raped and killed in front of her how one was raped and then

a baby was killed in front of her they have experienced its extreme amount of pain fled some have walked for days not even if you say trauma it's an understatement they are severely traumatized it is of course impossible to verify the stories we've been told but those n.g.o.s are hearing this sort of testimony every day now as this vast population of refugees slowly gains access to health and counseling services but despite the best efforts of aid agencies the task of reaching all those in need is nowhere near complete the sisters have had no direct help. we are young girls where can we go we don't have anything left they killed everyone my sister and i are alive. whether or not sexual violence is being used as

a weapon against the fleeing richenda is something that may be proven in time when dissident einsteins hoochie was fighting for democracy in myanmar she's on record as saying that rape was used systematically by the army against minorities now as the country's leader she's had nothing to say about the latest allegations nor has her government granted access to international agencies to investigate jonah how al-jazeera bangladesh the chief of the un's refugee agency has just returned from bangladesh and he's been recounting the horrors experienced by the woman the combination of. limited health facilities who are sanitary and hygiene the conditions and the overcrowded sites you can well imagine he is a recipe for disaster in terms of possible epidemics unicef and probably

a chore working with the government to the ministry of health in stepping up. immunization campaigns that the risks remain very high the other. the other striking feature of this particular refugee flow is the trauma that these people carry with them i've spoken to several women who had been raped or had been wounded because they had resisted rape and most likely those are those were survivors because other had been killed. thailand's former prime minister yingluck shinawatra has been jailed for five years for corruption she was convicted of negligence over the rice subsidy plan set up by her government before she was toppled in a coup in twenty fourteen the scheme to help farmers has lost billions of dollars being locked wasn't in court to hear the verdict she fled the country last month.

the indonesian island of bali remains on high alert for a possible volcanic eruption from mt agong the volcano in the northeast of the island has been sporting spoke for the past six days the intensity of its tremors have also been increasing more than seventy five thousand people have been moved from the area the volcano last erupted in one thousand nine hundred sixty three killing more than a thousand people step vasant explains how the eruption could affect the island's tourism. valley's most famous diving resorts it's close to hotel staff and guests were ordered to leave the town as soon as authorities raised alert level when mt last erupted fifty four years ago the area was damaged by lava and hot gas clouds but the resorts owner. has decided to stay he doesn't want to leave his business behind it. i trust my parents told me i don't believe. in is not critical when the mountain exploded nine hundred sixty three there's

a lot more smoke quakes didn't. die for us from all over the world and to see if they missed historic ship wrecked but they now are all gone and the diving equipment is being taken to a safer place for storage even the guides i do skew to go out to sea. it was a one or two pm when i felt something happening in the water i could feel the pressure and i could feel it in my heart i panicked and i went to a friend so i was not alone and could calm down. all they can do now is watch mt as it release a steam and gas while all eyes are on the volcano people are increasingly concerned not only about their safety but about their future as well their livelihoods could be gone in an instant business had picked up over the last decade but why and fears he may be faced with having to start all over again. it has a big impact especially on our economy it's all dead now

a total standstill there's nobody left i really hope nothing bad will happen here and the situation quickly turned to normal. most interests have also left a nearby beach resort which is considered safe for the few who stayed behind they are enjoying special treatment. yeah. it's like a club here. a different story for business owners and their staff they can only hope there will be no disaster and mount will instead go back to sleep steps al-jazeera. the u.s. government has sent a flotilla of ships to puerto rico to help with the growing humanitarian crisis caused by holic and maria the ships are bringing thousands of extra military personnel to distribute aid six days after the storm hits the island is still

without electricity food and clean water are scarce president donald trump has been criticized for not responding quickly enough to the crisis which is on u.s. territory he's promised a visit on tuesday the u.s. and two of its closest allies are in the middle of a trade row washington has threatened the canadian aircraft maker bomb body with a heavy tariff and this measure may cost many workers in canada and the u.k. their jobs reports from toronto. several years behind schedule and more than a billion dollars over budget bombard the series passenger jet is finally flying a modest number of planes have been ordered including by the u.s. airline delta but this u.s. commerce department ruling in support of a complaint by rival boeing could trouble the price of the bombard planes and this government is holding crisis meetings obviously were disappointed by the decision

and i will continue to play hard for the canadian jobs canada's not standing alone in the u.k. bombarded is a major employer in northern ireland where the largest political party props up prime minister to resign may's government she's expressed bitter disappointment so have workers at the bombarded a factory in belfast who want britain to take action of its own against boeing that's we're going to lose weight and i need to speak that's what the politicians need to realize that. we sell for. one of our cars commercials this week. and they need to. say to believe that they need to sell less with those it kills over us canada too is said it will take a serious look at future business dealings with boeing a five billion dollars deal to buy fighter jets from the u.s. company could be scrapped according to the prime minister justin trudeau but the country also says it has legal means to challenge the ruling at the world trade organization and under the terms of the north american free trade agreement nafta

with president trump threatening to scrap that agreement the current talks to renegotiate nafta haven't been going well canada says it invests in not subsidizes bombard and as it points out the u.s. has bailed out general motors in the past and gives boeing preferential treatment by some measures canada and the u.s. have the world's largest trading relationship but it's growing more hostile by the day daniel lak al jazeera toronto. ukraine has blamed russia for a fire at a military ammunition depo which has triggered multiple explosions that are started on tuesday evening the bases around two hundred kilometers southwest of key arab rescue services have had to evacuate thousands of people from six nearby villages. it's the side of the british capital that many prefer to ignore anticorruption campaigners in london have organized a tour designed to expose a money laundering by foreigners. in the latest trip focusing on nigerian money

entering the u.k. all aboard the kleptocracy total. russian anti corruption activists. previous tours of focused on russia and the middle east now nigeria is in the spotlight our goal is to stop the of a dirty money that is pouring. relistening. to the central. organizers of this talk claim that london is the heart of international money laundering a place to easily hide and spend astronomical sums of. where there's a lot of that money goes into london's lucrative property market. we passed a three million dollar property recently sees from nigeria's fall oil minister design. it's one of several apartments owned by men in london gives allegedly from nigerian businessmen seeking oil production contracts she's under investigation in

both nigeria and the us this property near hyde park owned by a family of. interim military leader of nigeria in the late one nine hundred ninety s. he's accused of dodging taxes and siphoning state assets are many of the properties we pass are owned by high profile political and business figures who struggle to explain their wealth. most allegedly bought by a shell companies based in offshore british tax havens the more lead the financial set up the heart of it is to trace exactly where the money comes from there are forty thousand titles in london by companies basis sixty years dictions so that means when they bought those titles they didn't even have to registry. doesn't know the police doesn't know. rezzes don't know and that makes it really easy for corrupt individuals to steal money from a pocket. on a visit to london nigeria's information minister told us that he believes fifty

five people are responsible for stealing six point two billion dollars from the nigerian treasury between two thousand and six and two thousand and thirteen if only one third of that money was returned three treasury it was built six under collimator soft roads. hospitals twenty thousand housing units and it would have been able to train four thousand children from primary school to university level it's a side of london few will ever see a tall organizers hope will dissuade others some choosing the u.k. to stash nick cash back al-jazeera london. tourism industry leaders are in qatar to celebrate world tourism day qatar wants to attract five and a half million visitors within the next five years that's despite the blockade by neighboring countries some a binge of it reports. that there is capital doha is not as busy as it used to be

but after nearly four months of a blockade by four of its gulf neighbors travelers are still coming the tourism authority more than hotels and encouraging people to include qatar in their plans. from a month says the blockade did not stop him. our gulf is one gulf and when i mean culture i feel as if i'm in oman saudi u.a.e. blockade will never affect the relations between brothers and families in the gulf countries. and that confidence goes beyond the arabian gulf parents oh you sure you want to go yes why not. we're told anything else. out there now provides visa free access to people from more than eighty countries there's a lot of different kind of people you get to see a lot of different. cultures i feel very very safe here as one of the safest places i've ever found in my life. but the blockade has had an impact on the tourism sector hotel occupancy has suffered this year it's down to fifty seven percent

compared with sixty seven percent in the first three months of two thousand and seventeen the number of visitors arriving from g.c.c. countries and other arab nations is also down by seven percent but due to visa relaxations and other incentives being offered there are a number of visitors who are coming in from asia africa europe and the americas that is on the increase and overall the number of visitors coming to qatar has increased. and the battery government is keen to diversify further with challenge there's always opportunities where the blockade is more open. for a while there might be a challenge or there's a force people who want to visit from neighboring countries. also expanding into different sorts markets. people to. further is hosting world tourism day celebrations this year in two thousand and fifteen the international community adopted a global plan it loading tourism is one of seventeen sustainable development goals

to be achieved by twenty thirty sustainable tourism is meant to ensure long term benefits for participating nations which promised a fairly distributed benefits among all stakeholders there is no logic in closing borders and making blockades actually dissuading detention and increased tensions would create further insecurity open borders. the future. recognizes. and those open borders are what other plans to rely on to reach its goal of more than five and a half million visitors by twenty twenty three. zero. still ahead on al-jazeera. paulo. eat find out why one singer quit the business after performing the u.s. national on so.

it's time for sports here's far. thanks very much paris send your man has come out the winners and a champions league showdown against byron munich danielle's open the scoring for the host just eighty four seconds into the match and think of andy doubled their lead before neymar made it three nil against the five time champions p.s.g. who had never won the champions league before go three points clear at the top of group b. and a huge result for manchester united the c.s.k. moscow for one away romelu lukaku lead for united with two goals the english premier league side maintain their one hundred percent record to stay top of group . elsewhere barcelona only managed one goal against portuguese side sporting it was

an off for the win though and chelsea were two one winners against atletico madrid . and they're at the semifinal stage in the asian champions league china's shanghai ass and red diamonds of japan drew their first leg match the johnnies side are into the last four for the first time thanks to their manager andre vs boas send they soon took the lead of the shanghai stadium with this stunning strike just fifteen minutes into the match but two thousand and seven winners fought back to square things up in the twenty seventh minute to finish the one one. new cricket rules will come into effect on thursday it will be the biggest changes to the game in seventeen years but the main difference is disciplinary measures players can now be sent off from the field for bad behavior but has behavior really got worse lee wellings reports. the rules of world cricket have been made at the famous unloads

cricket ground for one hundred seventy three years the model of own cricket club m.c.c. accustomed use of a day that was always meant to be played in a so called gentlemanly manner but a perceived deterioration of behavior means it's time for a change there has been a spotlight on confrontation in international goings currently dealt with via disciplinary points and suspensions now if a cricketer takes their aggression too far i will be sent from the field there is a growing trend that behavior protected at lower levels of the game less so the international level but in the recreational game is declining to the extent that many empires are leaving the game or choosing not to go into empire but now there are four levels of discipline level one is for such misdemeanors as excessive appealing level two includes deliberate contact a mains conceding five runs level three including intimidation would mean timeout like being sim bin other sports for the most serious offenses including actual violence a player will be sent off signal is

a sort of waving of like that and then followed by a sort of the signal tiles about the legendary english cricket to w.g. grace suggest a sense not new to cricket in one incident he was clearly out but said to the umpire people have come here to see me but not to say you're one pile i refused to leave the crease the kind that behavior has worsened in modern cricket is debatable remember confrontations like. encounter in perth in ninety one or gutting versus umpire shako vanna in far as about six years later. mike sutcliffe was played the game as man and boy from village greens to captaining his mc say to loads he agrees behavior in amateur cricket is slightly worse and but overall cricket retains a spirit of fair play. as a player i want to say that i want to retire. but he did. because you know has a reputation still doesn't preclude as being you know serene yeah and the spirit of

cricket is fundamentally important to our great great school i'm now after thirty five years and it's playing into new levels and i'm going to change that and it's really important which is we're encouraging pontian you people to get involved in the game cricket is different because of the spirit of the game quick as well governing body the i.c.c. want this to work as a deterrent not to see players regulate banished to the pavilion but the boundaries of acceptable behavior have been made for good leigh welling's al-jazeera but now it's cricket ground in. tennis now and world number four carolina is through to the quarter finals of the open and china jack chris passed chang wang to get there she won in straight sets six two six one winning in less than an hour looking for a fourth title this year french open champion elaine awesome panko is also through to the quarter finals but she needed three sets to beat eight seed monocoque quake

puerto rico off the panko will face top seed garbin more grist for the next round and the official national anthem singer of the n.f.l.'s baltimore ravens has resigned. joey odom's has been the team's official singer for three years after winning a singing contest odom's is stepping down because he believes fans who attack players who protest during the national anthem don't take the time to understand why the ravens join the n.f.l. wide protest before sunday's game in london. and that's all your support for now more later. all pros can cost a lot to put on that usually means of course that tickets cost more to the times they can also struggle to attract a younger audience but a new exhibition in london is trying to change things is just a go bold one reports. love it or

loathe it for some it's the highest form of art combining everything from singing to set design to acting to instruments for others it's everything that's wrong with high culture completely impenetrable why are the actors singing when they could be talking and why is it so expensive the victorian albert museum is trying to win over new audiences with an exhibition designed to show that opera played an important role in political and social upheaval the royal opera house with a clear self-interest is collaborating and i hope that if they were a new comer. they would. decide that they love it. mozart's marriage of figaro was consider groundbreaking and enlightened in vienna in seven hundred eighty six audiences would have been shocked to see people they recognize from their own lives servants singing with duke's another opera included

in. lady macbeth amid sang originally embraced by audiences in st petersburg in one nine hundred thirty four it was banned two years later. for it sympathetic portrayal of a murder. today it's not centers that keep people out but high ticket prices each opera requires enormous manpower and that's expensive has become much more popular has become something that longs to meet with all the faults of life if they can afford the tickets. some opera houses are innovative broadcasting performances live in cinemas to tempt younger audiences. what is it about opera that attracts the next generation the best place to answer that question is that the world opera house is a place where you can be a must and it feels like almost like a lone wolf light and and this music is just allowed to be brought to life by

everything in front of so music first and then the sort of in of experience. as the man in a let's out the royal opera house is hoping the exhibition will change some opera lo there is indeed lovers jessica baldwin al-jazeera london. and that's it from a rope matheson for this news are we back in a moment with more of the day's news i'll see that.

right. it's the end of the breeding season as we take a ferry through the straits of magellan to magdalen island today the island is a penguin colony sanctuary with access to tourists accompanied by foot nine percent penguin expert cloudy old boy we learned the penguin colonies in south america are under threat climate change is one reason it is well documented that changing rain patterns or spend was to abandon fly the nest warmer ocean temperatures have diminished the quantity and quality of fish for the penguins who were swim further

and further away to feed their young overfishing and ocean contamination especially plastics are also killing penguins the coca plant has long been a pillar of bolivia's traditions 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 good bucks while some have made fortunes many others have suffered at the hands of this multi-billion dollar industry meanwhile it is my mother was strangled with the cable and brought to me come with a pole it was a humorous crime who are the winners and losers of this illicit trade snow of the andes this time. yes vote in a session referendum the government of iraq's kurdish region rejects.