swim further and further away to feed their young overfishing and ocean contamination especially plastic 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 received it but while some have made fortunes many others have suffered at the hands of this multi-billion dollar industry malady my mother was trying to live the cable and brutally come with the cold it was a crime who are the winners and losers of this illicit trade snow of the andes this time. 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. about this and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a president trump plans to cut the number of refugees entering the u.s. to the lowest level in nearly four decades plus. johnny a page from the cell network gallon nationwide strike. calling the president jacob zuma to step down. and all aboard the corruption coach for a ride on a money laundering lane the london bus tour that takes in properties allegedly bought by crooked and high profile nigerians. hours after winning a landslide in the secession referendum the government of caracas kurdish region has rejected by. demands to hand over control of airports ninety two percent of

kurds who posted about have voted yes the results been announced despite a last minute appeal to cancel it by the iraqi prime minister charles traffic reports from. so liberations on the streets of the build up to ninety two percent of voters said yes to secession for 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. with the federal government in baghdad has called the referendum on constitutional and he's refusing to even recognize the result that alone start negotiations with the kurdish regional government ok allergy of the future independence for iraq's. 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

governments and neighboring countries and there's a sense here of great uncertainty as to what could happen next. the federal government has threatened to close the region's international airspace it could heal thor it is don't hand over control of their two main airports by 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 not beat ourselves. we don't have that much power you come to our threats that a body is making of the same is the damn regime and that the kurds don't have a life if they stay with bank that. they maybe determination among the people who have wanted a country of their own the generations but the celebrations here may not last long so i'll stop at al-jazeera the bill u.s.

congress is being briefed on president trump's plans to cut to refugee numbers from one to cap the numbers for twenty eighteen i don't all time low of forty five thousand white house correspondent kimberly hawker 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 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 made it 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 aiding activists. the trumpet ministration says the lower cap on refugees is for national security and safety it's just based on fear and not 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.s. government has sent a flotilla of ships to puerto rico to help with the growing humanitarian crisis there caused by hurricane maria the ships are bringing thousands of extra military personnel to distribute aid six days after the storm hits the island is still

without adding tricity 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 says he'll visit on tuesday nato says a u.s. air strike in the afghan capital kabul has caused a civilian casualties the strikes come hours after an attack on kabul airport during a visit by u.s. defense secretary james mattis the taliban says mattis was the target of the failed rocket attack the airport bombing which left at least five civilians injured occurred 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 are struggling to defeat the taliban. 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 were organized by

the largest workers' union and 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 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 chatted with. the president. says ninety members of the scene they have to stand on. the demonstrators switch through the city delivering their demands to government the banks and big employers like the mining industry.

because such as pressure on the president has apparently been ignored and that. its alliance with the afghan national police and the south african funniness it's not what it used to be not only. tells that government is deeply divided. the a.n.c. says its partners a 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 god dogs protect an almost empty construction site the is supposed to be a new power station here where we. are just one example where you or me. five million u.s. dollars was paid to a contractor without doing any job i mean if you look around you can see that

nothing has been done keenan lost his job at the site and now his community suffers frequent power cuts because the upgrades have stopped it's. something. 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. anticorruption campaigners in the british capital have organized a tour designed to expose money laundering by foreigners they've went on the latest trip focusing on nigerian money in london. all aboard the kleptocracy toll our guide russian anti corruption activists roman bodies have it previous tours of focused on russia and the middle east now nigeria is in the spotlight although he

has to stop we have a thirty mile that is boring. real estate. to the central. organizers of this store claim that london is at the heart of international money laundering a place to easily hide and spend astronomical sums of cash where there's a lot of that money goes into london's lucrative property market. we pass a three million dollar property recently seized from nigeria's for 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 u.s. and this property near hyde park owned by a family of barca 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 jurisdictions so that means when they bought those titles they didn't even have to tell me where the law doesn't know the police doesn't. present it really easy the corrupt individuals to steal money abroad i'm talking u.k. 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 the uncertainty of that money was returned three treasury. 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 tour or can i just hope will dissuade others some choosing the u.k. to stash like cash back al-jazeera london. still ahead an al-jazeera catalonia says it will defy spain's government with the referendum vote on sunday and what next for thailand's former prime minister after she sentenced for corruption even though she wasn't in court. three triangula raveena can you. can free. and if the. same some flooding into central and eastern parts of china recently and

it stays a little disturbed here we go through the next heavy rain over towards shanghai some west of whether they're just around the far south of the country never too far away as we go through the next day or so but it should turn a little drier which will shanghai as we go on through friday. continue across southeast asia some rather lively shadows making their way back into the philippines and you see the showers the spread as we would expect to this time of year now starting to ease down into it in the c s i some will love you down there possibility cambodia thailand seeing some heavy downpours as we go through thursday and on into friday possibility of some localized flooding here it's been particularly wet around thailand recently and those heavy showers do look set to continue they stretch across the. lovely showers into myanmar up towards the funnel feast of in the eastern parts of india again seeing some rather wet weather but the central and southern parts of india which will see the heavy showers as we go

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you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour hours after winning a secession referendum the government of iraq's kurdish region says it won't hand over airports to baghdad several airlines say they'll suspend flights to. the u.s. congress has been briefed on president trump's plans to cut refugee numbers from wants to cap the number for twenty eighteen at an all time low of forty five thousand south africa's largest workers union has organized marches to protest against president jacob zuma claims corruption has become endemic under his leadership tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets. catalonia says aid will go ahead with an independence referendum on sunday despite spain declaring it illegal the government in madrid is planning to deploy police at polling

stations to prevent people from voting call pam hall reports from barcelona. last thing at night activists stay up late campaigning for catalonia to break. the first thing in the morning there are get up early morning for spain to stay. in. the spanish government. but catalan interior minister forn explained why. we're pressing ahead. i mean the. government is not just trying to stop a referendum. deciding his political future things have gone beyond the simple call for self-determination and what we're also debating here is the defense of

democracy and of the most fundamental freedoms. dritte is stepping up efforts to stop the referendum. going to be. into the area. madrid has also said it will take command of the police force that is the. cattle an authority is a resisting. the security force of catalonia the responsible for law and order. should be to permit people to vote in peace we don't want a confrontation but we will defend our rights and responsibilities. the referendum is planned for this sunday.

would have been like in the scottish referendum sides to debate the alternatives that's been impossible in spain. on the streets of barcelona. loud and not in the mood measures they would like to see spain remain united and for the catalan government to be completely shut down. low displaying. the u.s. is threatening to slap a two hundred twenty percent tariff on jets made by canadian aircraft manufacturer bombard it comes after a legal challenge by u.s. plane maker boeing boeing is accuse the canadian government of unfairly subsidizing bomb body a c. series aircraft the canadian province of quebec has a one billion dollars stake in the company but it says it doesn't provide any subsidies the u.k. has also warned boeing the dispute could jeopardize its defense contracts with the

company wings of the craft a made out of body a plant in northern ireland where more than a thousand people work. the u.n. has met to discuss the humanitarian crisis in syria it's alleged that russian led airstrikes destroyed hospitals and killed dozens of civilians both and hama provinces have come under heavy bombardment this week but russia says it only struck i so 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 the things april some airs today some allegedly hitting three million and theory than 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 intense have been 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 un 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 bashar al 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 opposition but we are urging their belligerent to realize that it is most credible and effective when it's down together and show the radian is to negotiate which with give 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. 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 zira of the united nations the indonesian island of bali remains on high alert because

a volcano might erupt moms are gong has been spotting smoke and ash for the past six days it's tremors are becoming more intense more than seventy five thousand people have been moved from the area volcano last erupted in one thousand nine hundred sixty three and more than a thousand people were killed. and on the pacific island of vanuatu villagers who fled an active volcano there are facing food and water shortages about seven thousand people left their homes after the manado volcano started raining rocks and vanuatu declared a state of emergency on tuesday the fifteen official evacuation camps have quickly become overcrowded. thailand's former prime minister yingluck shinawatra has been convicted of negligence and handed a five year jail term the case surrounded the mismanagement of a rice subsidy scheme that cost the country billions of dollars wasn't in court to hear the verdict she fled thailand just over

a month ago when he reports. under thailand's military government gatherings like this are banned but there was no stopping some supporters of you know what who gathered outside the supreme court in bangkok. i came here to give support knowing that i may not show up because i'm a supporter of the. because of them at one stage as able to forge a better life the judges took four hours to read the decision before the former prime minister's legal team emerged to confirm a guilty verdict and a five year jail term. i don't know how to feel. the court has done its duty to deliver the verdict that legal team with allies have verdicts again how we have fought this case and see if we can appeal. the case centered on the rice pledging scheme it was a populist policy that helped party win the two thousand and eleven election and sort removed in a military coup three years later after widespread protests the scheme so far has

paid above market prices for the harvest the court ruled that you knew there was corruption going on but didn't act to stop it she failed to show for the initial court session to hear the verdict last month after leaving the country two days earlier it's believed she's either in london or dubai where her brother also a former prime minister thaksin shinawatra lives he too was removed in a coup in two thousand and six and sentenced to two years jail for abusing his power he was also out of the country at the time and hasn't served the prison term . there's no doubt the shinawatra and their party still enjoy a lot of support around thailand but there's unlikely to be any significant mobilization of those supporters following this verdict since the military coup in two thousand and fourteen that saw the government removed from office the shinawatra believed are victims of a campaign by the establishment and military to remove them from politics for good . the supporters may have been largely silenced but they refused to give up. i

don't know what's the political future but the people always support the shinawatra the party will always vote for the poor thai party with a without the chena what's the verdict means that depending on the political situation you know what is unlikely to be back in thailand for a long time if at all wayne hay al jazeera bangkok the governor of tokyo has launched a new political party and it adds more uncertainties in next month's general election in japan. is promising to end nuclear power and freeze a proposed tax hike prime minister shinzo of be announced the snap election on monday. there have been brought in uganda as parliament for a second day. the latest ones happened during a debate over changes to laws about the upper age limit for president at the moment presidents have to quit when they reach seventy five years old currently don't you

worry most of any is seventy three and he's seeking an amendment to the law so he can run for a sixth term brazil is investigating the reported massacre of up to ten members of an isolated amazonian tribe it's believed that the indigenous people were killed by gold miners who later boasted about the attack al-jazeera as a team is the first to be given access to the area since it happened in america editor lucien human has part one of our exclusive two part special series from the job of 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 communities and the 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 hectares of 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 roamed 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 contacted a non-contact the tribes have lived here for centuries. on our seven hour journey up the river we learn 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 of not impossible for prosecutors to find the evidence no go to meet the chief of the mio 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 in agreement or chief tommy insists on putting on his ceremonial paint he says his father used to kill the white invaders but was persuaded by four ny state indigenous authority 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 lived 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 doing the going to morgues and the state keeps 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 and a helicopter weeks later people in mn oust the prosecutor for amazonas state concedes the 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 drives. 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 authorities in charge of protecting everything on the reserves have actually been closed down leaving no way to solicit this vast area we will have more of the same this is having in the second part of our special amazon report.

this is all just about these are the top stories always after winning us a session referendum the government of iraq. has rejected baghdad's demand to hand over control of airports in the region several airlines say though suspend flights to cities despite threats from the government in baghdad there have been jubilant scenes in erbil. is there. a future for the good. fight. the great. right. right. right. about what. the u.s.

congress has been briefed on president donald trump's plans to cut refugee numbers to cap the numbers in twenty eighteen at an all time low of forty five thousand. the u.s. government has sent a flotilla of ships to puerto rico to help with the growing humanitarian crisis caused by how it can maria the ships are bringing thousands of extra military personnel to distribute aid six days after the storm hit the island is still without any food and clean water are scarce. south africa's largest workers' union has organized marches to protest against president jacob zuma it claims corruption has become endemic under his leadership tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets. catalonia says it's going to go ahead with an independence referendum on sunday despite spain declaring it illegal spanish government is planning to deploy police at polling stations to prevent people from voting the regional governments warned of public disorder if that happens. the indonesian island of

bali remains on high alert for a possible volcanic eruption from mt more than seventy five thousand people have been moved from the area those are the headlines now in al jazeera its inside story i'll see and often by. women in saudi arabia finally allowed to drive from. is lifting the ban the real reform in the kingdom speed up with the powerful religious establishment this is inside story.