southbound fifteen degrees as an average car last for long i'm afraid sunday is none too good to the north island it looks went. this is al jazeera. and i mean this is a news hour live from london coming up in the program. and you're heading for

a showdown with spain yes folks is running in barcelona and occupy schools designated as polling station. baghdad international flights to the kurdish region and says it plans to take control of its border the. u.s. pulls its embassy staff from cuba and wants americans not to visit after mysterious attacks on diplomats. you know my space x. is developing a rocket that can take you anywhere on earth in under an hour. and in sport russell westbrook signed the biggest total contract in n.b.a. history and one of the most prolific partnerships in the history of basketball is about to be knighted. bron james and the cleveland cavaliers. so it kind of late here is preparing for a showdown with spain over sunday secession referendum for the last few hours

thousands of us voters have been attending a massive rally in the center of barcelona spain is determined to stop sending fouls and police officers to the region to shut down the vote even google has been ordered to delete a smartphone at the council and government was using spread information about the referendum the farmers and firefighters and the parents i mean together to ensure that it goes ahead. well let's say as a rally goes ahead and you can. dress in the crowd let's break down to a person john hendren he was there in boston tell us more about what's happening right now and how things are building up. well nic this rally was to have ended half an hour ago it started out as a crime concert with a bunch of bands and then it became a political rally and all night people have been talking in cattle on well now

you've just heard people chanting already oh oriel drunk heiress is the man who would be the vice president of the republic of catalonia if this comes through you can hear her. chanting over and over here this is a very enthusiastic crowd they've been going on for over four hours here. and this is the kind of enthusiasm we have been seeing here on week we've seen these procedures session call them pro independence rallies if you like with thousands and thousands of people on the crowds have been growing and we've noticed that the polls now show are a recent poll says that more people are expecting to vote now then work two weeks ago about two out of three catalan say that they are going to vote on sunday that's about ten percent more than said they would do so two weeks ago despite the fact that the spanish government says that this vote will not happen and they have ordered the police to shut down the schools here the local police have been very

gentle about doing that and there have been students from the local universities occupying those schools my colleague karl penhall has been observing all of this for the past twenty four hours he put together a story and this is what he found. in the fields and into the political fray. these cattle farmers have found to turn the tractors into barricades if police try to crack down on the referendum. we have come to the fence the countryside and we are fighting for democratic rights on the right to protect children. as. you can see. with one hundred twenty five all wheel drive. this is like to. thank.

the night before in the harsh light of a small square neighbors gather. this is one of many so cool defense committees grassroots groups controlled by any political party on a mission to defend the vote they strategizing to resist police were under orders to close down schools to stop them being used as polling stations. the children will sleep in the schools to stop the police closing them down we're afraid our neighborhood could be the first target of the police. marching to the same drum beat students have occupied university and set up their own defense committee. they've been sharing practical advice on civil disobedience tactics i don't think. they have in years also

volunteer with different organizations to go to us in the. dark could begin to. think this is something you can raise. cattle hands a deeply divided in the centrist party is among those opposing secession regional law make a lot a not all dan is concerned about the emergence of citizen defense committees during the civil war days basile and was run by private militia factions. like the catalan government and its head mr. a driving a car with no brakes and a heading over the precipice and crashing into all cattle lands. as evening fell process session groups put plans into action taking over schools to preempt police operations to close them. the people it's the people if the people want something

nobody can like. and in a final rally process session supporters wave what they hope will become the standard of their breakaway republic. panel al-jazeera barcelona spain. well as we've been hearing that has been going on for more than four hours more and more people are turning up and we're looking at right now the. president who's staring the result of the attendees encouraging them to vote on sunday let's bring in our correspondent john hendren and john when. crowds a vis size want to do something that the government does not want them to do one wonders where it's all going to end. that's right there seems to be no. stopping them you. know you talked about the carlos. the man who would be the president of the republic of catalonia is now speaking it's now over

a half an hour after this rally was supposed to have ended and there was a crowd of thousands of people here we've all been to sporting arenas where people leave before the game is over and this is not like that these are these are people who are invested in this election they are occupying the polling stations around the city of barcelona and around the region of catalonia they are wearing the flag of catalonia these are people who are fired up and we all worry that this could get ugly over the weekend there are an awful lot of police in charge more than fifteen thousand with shutting down the polling places that's just the national police and the civil defense force it doesn't even include the seventeen thousand local police officers who are from here generally live here. this is a people that are fired up and it is by no means clear that there will be a significant number of people who are even able to vote the ballots they've got

are homemade they have been reprinted over and over and that is because the government of spain continues to confiscate them that this is what it looks like it's made out of paper. and you say see or know in three different languages but these are people who were fired up. and i expect that they're ready to go vote on sunday because they are here tonight long after they were expected to be home that are john we'll be with you as events proceed thanks very much indeed those two hundred reporting from a bus load of. well meanwhile the iraqi kurds a feeling the fallout from their referendum the u.s. secretary of state has called for calm and an end to the threats of reciprocal actions and in a phone call the french president to manuel macro has urged iraq's prime minister to avoid all escalation this after iraq's defense ministry reiterated that it plans to take control of the borders of the kurdish region in coordination with iran and turkey the government is also holds an international flights there in an effort to

get monday secession vote an old order a one hundred points down from. the last passengers to catch a plane before to close up to airspace to international flights over to kurdish region. it's meant cutting short his vacation that was two years into coming. it was the first time his two year old son born in new york visited the homeland he says he didn't feel safe transiting through baghdad. the measure was taken by the central government in baghdad after the kurds went ahead with their referendum against. iran as the first to close its airspace to the kurdish region a few days ago. that. this airport. for a period of three months only. anyone

else wanting to travel from here. will have to transit through one of the domestic airports outside of the kurdish region or they can travel around. to the rest of iraq by land but some drivers told us they have avoided going south because they felt unwelcome iraq's government says it's only extending its authority on the whole country to preserve its unity and kurdish authorities replied that they won't hand over any border controls to baghdad. i mean people actually because. a lot of people you know. and you have a big number. right now.

prime minister he said the closure of the airspace was not meant to starve. but people. don't agree he traveled from sweden to take part in the referendum. this decision is wrong. body had no right to do this you can contest the referendum but through legal ways now i don't know when i'll be back again the future doesn't look good. the kurdish region is landlocked turkey iran has threatened to also close their border crossings and many kurds are now bracing themselves for what their leader described as collective punishment but at that hammy al-jazeera arabic . government airstrikes have hit towns and villages in northern syria killing more than forty five people and wounding dozens more at least thirty people were killed in a wave of strikes on various parts of italy province warplanes also talk of ham and

leopard provinces where syrian and russian troops are battling opposition fighters on thursday the russian in turkish need is agreed to push for the creation of a deescalation zone and to try and help end the civil war five civilians have died in yemen in their strike by the saudi led coalition six others were injured in the attack on the town of soha inside a province sources told out there that the strike targeted a vehicle carrying workers heading to a water project well the united nations is going to set up a group to examine all human rights violations committed in the war in yemen the year and human rights council said it hopes to identify those responsible for possible crimes the yemeni delegation said it accepted the resolution that was passed in a compromise between western powers and arab countries the international committee the red cross says all the warring parties you have been are using disproportionate force which is led to excessive civilian casualties is also worried that color

isn't the only outbreak the country could suffer and it's calling on all sides to open sana airport to commercial flights for essential aid supplies. the situation from a humanitarian standpoint is a catastrophe we have we have something which is close to a million cases of suspected kolarov maybe by the end of the year and but this is i told you it's only possibly do an external illustration of something more serious we could have an outbreak of something else well let's talk more about this very serious situation with nigel de mint who's the humanitarian director at oxfam joins us now niger you've recently come but you were there in august i think which yes so you know very well seen firsthand how bad the situation is we're talking about a million infected with her with cholera by november possibly other outbreaks as well who knows the situation is just unimaginably. yeah and is just continuing to deteriorate so we're already over seven hundred fifty five thousand cases of

cholera so in six months we've seen cholera spread to a greater scale than we've seen in haiti over the last six years of the same time less than half of health services are working and so the situation just continues to deteriorate slowly inexorably without any real serious addressing of the problem so how do you as a charity try and get help on the ground as well as all science been focusing particular on water sanitation we've helped over four hundred thousand people with clean water supplies so that's building new systems in every three million people have been forced to flee their homes because of fighting so they're in these ramshackle camps building new water supplies chlorinated existing water tanks providing better sanitation also helping people understand how color is transmitted . the international community doesn't seem to have done enough to say the least what is it is going on here is it just because it is it is so hard to conceive of

just how dreadful the situation is that nothing is done or is it purely political i think ultimately has to be political you know where there's a will there's a way in. certainly oxfam would call on all parties the conflict to seek a peaceful resolution and we think you know the various international countries that support different sides the conflicts also need to apply pressure i mean suddenly yemen doesn't seem to get the same level of attention and coverage whether that's because they're not creating so many refugees coming to europe i'm not sure but we need more attention on this because you know. more than four hundred thousand children are acutely malnourished more than half of the entire population don't have enough food to eat and yet the world doesn't seem to be paying attention so if the right scale of aid of help was going in what was a whopper a she would be would it just be hundreds of jets going in every day delivering food supplies what does it need you know in these a massive scale up i mean at the moment we have all sorts of restrictions on us

difficulties in terms of getting people in difficulty to move supplies around in country so you know the various authorities on the ground need to make it easier for us to move supplies around. but you know the international u.n. appeal is only half funded so there's a whole range of practical things that need to be done right now on the ground paying civil servants salaries and civil servants haven't been paid in over ten months so a lot of the basic infrastructure that did used to work in yemen has collapsed so there's a lot that commit them practically but ultimately it requires a political solution to end the war or acknowledge you have to leave it there but thanks for coming in to what's important story in order to thank you. so the head on the news draining the swamp how this private jet cost another senior member of donald trump's cabinet his job plus. i'm stepfather reporting from an evacuation camp on the slopes of mount don't wait for possible eruption continues. his

captain makes his mark action from the first test against pakistan coming up. now the united states government has ordered sixty percent of its staff in cuba to leave its embassy in havana said to be because of quote specific attacks on u.s. diplomats some of which have taken place in cuban hotels also used by american tourists the embassy is now expected to stop processing visas and issue a new travel warning the u.s. first became suspicious in late two thousand and sixteen when several embassy employees in havana reported mysterious health problems twenty one staff of so far been affected the most recent just last month with symptoms ranging from dizziness to permanent hearing loss u.s. officials initially said they suspected some sort of sound weapon the cuban government has always denied any involvement and says the u.s.

decision to pull its staff will affect relations between the two countries pretty culhane has more now on the attacks. what happened here the beginning of an international mystery an american diplomat says while in bed in this hotel he heard a strong annoying hum only in that spot later he and twenty others would be diagnosed with a variety of symptoms from hearing loss to traumatic brain injuries some heard a noise others did not it's like something out of a spy mystery the name's bone. james bond ok maybe not that sophisticated still hollywood has had its share of sonic weapons. invisible wave stuff the incredible hold. even put iron man on ice. so what hollywood thinks out of weapons can do they really do that find out we came here to the university of maryland to ask an expert they would have known if you have a sonic weapon that causes hearing loss you know you were exposed to it there is no

missing doctor d.d.a. do pray says it's easy to cause hearing loss with sound if you turned on this speaker in his lab he says i would be completely deaf pretty quickly the kind of sound that i use for the. would be just a few minutes search from sub two minutes and forever and want to know that but he says to make that kind of sound you would need something like this military project he worked at called the mother of all speakers the size of a truck can't hide that in a hotel room because he would be next to impossible to have those kind of sounds be directed at only a few people right we're talking about in for cells they will shake the whole building if you're inside a building he says alter sound can cause that kind of damage but there is a reason it has to be pressed up against the body it doesn't travel well so that's probably not it the bottom line sound can be a weapon but he doesn't think it is the likely culprit in cuba meaning this

international mystery continues but with real world consequences. college park. when it certainly is a strange business that speaks to my kind of who's in washington d.c. my what's what's being said about this in washington. well there's been some political fallout from this whole situation there is divide on the hill between senators we've got the republican ted cruz saying that cuban embassy should have its personnel reduced within the u.s. you have patrick leahy a democrat saying that the intention of whoever perpetrated this act was to diminish relations between the u.s. and cuba so any retaliation on a diplomatic level to cuba would be doing exactly what those who are carrying out the attack want to do so there are internal political ramifications bottom line though is that a spokesman for the state department says the still no idea who is responsible

there is speculation perhaps that it's a third party but no idea about what is causing it and in fact who is carrying out these acts. one wonders why cuba would want to jeopardize jeopardize reconciliation because it's certainly going to affect bilateral relations in. well indeed yes and speculation is that the fact that the embassy is kept open where there was open discussion that state department was going to close it is because they is conviction among senior state department officials that cuba is not involved in any way that there is some kind of third party in four months or even the possibility that this faulty surveillance equipment now one must point out as a piece of context here is that back in may and june a number of canadian families were affected by similar symptoms the canadian government sent out investigators couldn't find what was causing it however it kept

its embassy open they have been no attacks or no incidents among canadians since so the canadians dealing with what appears to be the same set of circumstances in a very different way keeping its embassy completely operational carrying out that investigation but also like with the u.s. investigation the f.b.i. investigation that's been held along with the cubans there's still no reason given for why these incidents have happened mike thanks very much that's pretty from watching d.c. my kind of. the u.s. health secretary is has resigned following a scandal over his use of private jets tom price stood down after it was revealed that four hundred thousand dollars of taxpayers' money paid for his use of charter planes with government business he also used military aircraft to fly to europe pushing that cost to a nearly nearly a million dollars price a promise to pay back some of that money and only fly commercial in future his decision to resign came just an hour after president trump told reporters that he

was disappointed. to alan fischer who's live for us now and it seems that tom price had little alternative in the event. i think he got resigned rather than he resigned himself i think it was made clear that he had no future in the trump white house he's been on life support for the last twenty four hours during the briefing at the white house on thursday the press secretary was asked does the president still have confidence in him she answered that they were following through the investigations that was hardly a ringing endorsement few hours after that he went on american t.v. did a couple of interviews it was a real media culpa saying look i may have misjudged things i understand the anger but the anger he really had to understand was donald trump because he of course campaigned on draining the washington swamp in his inauguration address he said look there are politicians in washington who get advantages and benefits that ordinary americans don't have and therefore we have to stop that so when he's got his health and human services secretary flying around the country at the taxpayers'

expense then at some point donald trump wasn't going to tolerate that particularly when it became public added to the fact that tom price as the head of health and human services was looking at ways to cut the budget including medicaid which is the support that's given to the most vulnerable people in the united states it looked really bad for him to rack up a million dollars flying private jets when some people might not even get basic health care right is this the end of the story on this or is there more to come out of the woodwork do you think. there are three more officials who transport arrangements are being questioned there's ryan zinke is the interior secretary he flew from last vegas to montana to essentially speak to hawkie team and to meet with the governor of montana people are saying that why couldn't have done that when he was flying commercial that cost about twelve thousand dollars scott pruitt is the head of the environmental protection agency he's flown back to

his home state of oklahoma several times on private jet that's cost a substantial sum of money and then the stephen itchin who is the treasury secretary is taking that private aircraft on a few occasions he has perhaps got real legitimate reasons for doing that but he also asked if he could take a government jet on his european honeymoon with his new bride that was turned down but all that does is just fuel the idea that people in the white house and the trumpet ministration are looking to see what they can get out of from themselves which leads to criticism which really upsets donald trump and if you upset donald trump then you tend not to be hanging your own for too long just a quick point this is another friday night resignation from the white house there's been several of those recently donald trump has no was more than a dozen senior staff in the first nine months this was the man who said he would drain the swamp but also he knew all the best people indeed very very much indeed alan fischer reporting there from washington d.c. where the u.s. administration has appointed a senior general to oversee military relief operations in puerto rico after the

devastation caused by hurricane maria aid agencies there are still struggling to get help to those who desperately need it there is a post in this update from san juan. we're here at this convention center in san juan where an emergency coordination center has been created for federal government supported with no californians about what is needed on the ground and on the ground the situation is desperate for many people here in puerto rico there's still no water no electricity there's no lines of fuel fuel that is not only needed for vehicles but also for generators for generators that have been used in people's houses but also. hospitals for example showing there's been conflicting reports about what exactly going on on the ground of evil and complaining that not enough aid is being distributed and while the local government said that everything that has a right here to puerto rico has been distributed at the federal government the state that they have sent here everything that the local authorities requested so of

course people on the ground are saying that much more it's needed to deal with the current crisis what makes the situation even worse that there are still some areas around the island that have been off limits because of road blocks among other things and that's why so far the united states military has concentrated on opening airports for example for example i'm blocking roads that were concentrating on saving lives that's what they say now three star general that is in charge of this whole operation they're saying that they're moving there they're moving their priorities to on ground operations and that's when supposedly vital resources i'm going to be distributed around the island probably most of them in the news hour including field of dreams of pioneering scheme allowing syrian refugees increase to grow food for us. and scott are there in yangon where myanmar's hindu community is going great the concern about the bengali hindus in recount state we're going to

come in the twenty minutes or so a big drama at the practice session ahead of the malaysian grand prix i know. hello again you know there is still sun storm drum going around greece sometimes western turkey in southern italy this is just won't go away it's not the most active area of weather the next few days in europe but at the moment yes it is but mostly over water there's been a string across northern turkey and that probably disappeared now but just watch the area around the igi still being fed by cold winds answer ukraine from russia so max only thirteen in kiev still twenty two in ankara but sixteen in bucharest this is a sunday but if you look further west this is the atlantic weather breaking through now that eventually and i'm thinking it's beginning to come back into the weekend when it involves the remains of hurrican merrier and hurrican levy. but that will

produce a lot of cloud a lot of rain and maybe a bit of wind as well so wet spells fifty for the british isles a little bit to the north and france as well as some of the showers have been spilling out of the aegean my well carry on catching the eastern side of libya benghazi a particular gulf the sea it looks dry and i and there's an increasing likelihood of being of cloud building particularly north now dearie and eventually tunisia by the end of sunday or the afternoon sunday to bring some pretty big showers here scattered but big. determined to live life to the full. to go to so i have very limited sight five percent but i can distinguish objects big and small and realize their ambitions. and i was hungry for but also afraid because i'm married. i still have

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are going to back room out of the top stories here on al-jazeera and hundreds of cattle and farmers have driven a tractor through barcelona in a show of force ahead of sunday's vote on whether to split from spain. baghdad has banned international flights to the kurdish region and says it plans to take control of its borders following monday's referendum the u.s. and france have appealed for calm and for an end to the threat of retaliation and the united states has ordered sixty percent of its embassy staff to leave cuba after a spate of mysterious attacks on its diplomats. at least twenty two people have been killed many more injured after a stampede in. india's commercial capital of mumbai it happened during the morning rush hour on a protest from bridge connecting two stations when it smith as more i was crushed against the steps of this railway overpass or the bodies of commuters flattened as

a stampede of passengers pushed them to the floor. by police a falling concrete part of the hammer and people panicked thinking the bridge was collapsing a monsoon downpour made things worse as they were also people sheltering from the rain. that is where the stampede happened because there were too many members of the public on the bridge and the people were in a hurry and wanted to get out there was no one helping they were suffocating a felony child. a commuter film the crowded bridge minutes before the stampede. it was the mom by friday morning rush hour and the world's second most densely populated city this scene is typical. as soon as the bodies had been moved the bridge was open again a few blood spots the only indication of what had happened. and. the injured who had probably been on my way to work when our on their way to hospital.

relatives of those who didn't survive waited outside to recover their bodies india's railway minister says he's ordered a high level inquiry burnet smith. at least sixty ranger refugees are feared dead after their boat capsized in waters off bangladesh on thursday million who fled when marking the last month because of the army crackdown in iraq and hundreds more continue to make the perilous journey time the challenger has more now from cox's bazaar in bangladesh. i mean. you can see the beach behind me this is where the boat wreckage tragedy took place on thursday evening we spoke to some of the survivors in this boat racket they told us there were at least two hundred people in that boat. by the bangladesh. hit something hard on the capsized. my mother sister brother in law.

lost family members. this boat i meant for only barely twenty five to fifty people you can see the boat on my left side part of the wreckage. spread across the bridge now most of this people. the people in northern part came to their villages and told that you need to flee because army is going to crack down in the central part of the villages at least within the last two days there's been thousands of people have crossed into baghdad that the exodus isn't over the pace but hundreds of people are crossing into bangladesh every day we spoke to the. two thousand five hundred people on. the twenty five thousand people between when i crossed into bangladesh the camps the temporary shelter just to cope with the sheer number of refugees coming into bangor that's where the community bangali hindus is also being

caught up in the violence in the most rain state it's a small number of people compared to the hundreds of thousands of muslims who fled the buddhist dominated country but their plight is raise concerns among the hindu community in the country's largest city the reports now from young gone. this week been gali hindus are celebrating their annual festival. and marking the victory of good over evil. born in eighty six year old. has been coming to this bengali hindu temple since he was a child and remembers more difficult times for his people back in the early one nine hundred sixty s. . it was difficult for us to live here back then we only had foreign registration cards so it was very difficult to travel but now it is much better. hindus with bengali roots and muslims with bengali roots or entered the area of rakhine in the early one nine hundred century. but i'm not you know after the first british war

was controlled by the british there colony spawn across india so people would bengali roots came to iraq. but the government here does not recognise there were hints as an ethnic group. some bengali hindus were also caught up in the recent violence in rakhine government says dozens were killed by revenge of fighters their bodies found in mass graves the fighters deny this several hundred hindus escaped to bangladesh along with hundreds of thousands of the hinge hindus make up only half of one percent of myanmar's population bengali hindus even a smaller slice one of their leaders here in yangon is greatly concerned about the bengali hindus in rakhine state and considers them be part of their community and he's not happy that myanmar's government uses the term bengali extremist when it talks about the way hinge of fighters. we are hindu bengali and some of our people

were killed in a kind we are people of the same race i am worried for the future living in as they are what's between now and muslim communities. as they mark the festival of good triumph over evil in young gone the government is urging the hindus who have left to return to rakhine capital city where but there's no word on the return of the hundreds of thousands of the hinges it's got harder al jazeera. more than one hundred thirty thousand people on the indonesian island of bali have been forced from the homes by fate is that a rumbling volcano could erupt at any time mt i don't has been spewing white smoke and sending tremors through the area it's alert status was raised to the highest level last week stedfast reports now from bali. for the balinese mound argonne is the center of their universe the highest mountain on the island is always in their prayers now they fear the sacred folk

a no is angry many are fleeing from the mountain taking their most precious possessions but some refuse to leave why unchaining us ten years old when mt last erupted he was safe then and is convinced he will leave now. if i move to a shelter who will stay at home who take care of my animals but what about my livelihood especially if it takes three to four months. other farmers have moved themselves and their cattle to safer ground this village has temporarily adopted more than seventy couse normally had. when we received evacuees in our village they looked very sad especially the old people it reminded me of my late father for these old people the cows are there saw more than one hundred thousand people and their animals have now moved to safer ground and uncertain wait continues nobody can predict if and when will erupt and some are wondering how long the authorities

will be able to prevent evacuees from going back home people now living in these temporary shelters don't know how long they will have to stay authorities are trying to keep them healthy and busy. if this will continue for a long time we will ask evacuees to cook their own food also we want them to start making a living again even if they live in temporary shelters we will provide a place and equipment if needed in the nation as more volcanoes than any other country in the world eruptions her force many from their homes sometimes for years the balinese pray their ordeal will be over much sooner step fasten al-jazeera. einar is growing in mexico city in the aftermath of last week's earthquake as evidence emerges of a failure to enforce building standards the death toll has now risen to three hundred fifty five and around one hundred fifty thousand buildings were damaged

many homeowners say lives could have been saved if strict anti seismic regulations were followed john holdren reports now from mexico city. the earthquake left martin's apartment with cracks so wide you can see through to the street he and his family have been forced to evacuate for now mixed with his anxiety for the future is anger he's building is only seven years old he says it should have emerged unscathed but i feel frustrated that what we have is all gone i'm angry with the company that they didn't do what they promised angry with the authorities who didn't check that this was according to regulations after parts of mexico city were flattened by the one thousand nine hundred five earthquake building protocols were tightened to stop the same thing happening again but despite much stricter rules several recently built apartment blocks collapsed were badly damaged in last week's quite residents have been asking why earthquake and construction experts get tapia

is checking damaged buildings for free he says the rules do work but in practice companies can ignore them to cut costs. if they'd applied the rules the new buildings would have performed better money plays a role sometimes the construction companies go for the trip east option and look to lower costs to increase their profits we asked three construction companies all of which apartment blocks damaged in the quake for interviews but we got no answer the head of civil protection in one of the hardest hit areas says that once building plans were approved by authorities any deficiences are the responsibility of those companies it will be up to the government doesn't have the human capacity to supervise the building process and see what type of materials the building can. and he said using. there are government agencies charged with overseeing construction but we're told some officials are easily paid off despite the problems only an estimated ten to twenty percent of buildings that collapsed in mexico city were

newer ones damage is far more prevalent in older buildings that were built before the nine hundred eighty five earthquake and the subsequent improvement in construction proto go and experts say that since then there has been a real marked improvement in building standards both the government and experts agree that this latest earthquake is another painful reminder that construction standards and regulations should be strengthened once again john home in. mexico city the russian opposition leader alexina valmy has again been detained in moscow ahead of a pre-election rally here as his supporters to assemble anyway and suggested his detention is linked to a larger rally planned for some petersburg in october the around the as one of the most prominent critics of russia's president vladimir putin and hopes to run in the presidential election in march but electoral authorities say he's not eligible because he has a suspended sentence for. european union leaders have been discussing the digital

future of the bloc in the stony the birthplace of skype at the summit looked at how the internet can help create growth and jobs cyber previously in security laws but also on the agenda on the sidelines leaders discuss the progress of divorce talks as britain negotiates its way out of the european union as speaking in a stadium britain's prime minister said her country has made good progress in the brics talks but european commission chief. says it would take miracles for them to make enough progress to begin trade to go see a sions ireland's prime minister as prime minister they have a car agrees. i think i'm right that this definitely is a matter of life and a better mood coming out of the negotiations between the submarine yeah and david davis but i think it's still very evidence that. there's more work to be done and we're not yet at stage so we can say that such progress has been made to talk about the relationship the trade. that it will be able to make that call until until much

later in the month. as sources about side funding for refugees in greece dry up because syrian ex-pat has begun his own initiative to help out he set up a farm to give hundreds of refugees the opportunity to grow their own food the government's now thinking of adopting and expanding the idea but in a country already under austerity but everybody is happy joyous reference reports now from central greece. he goes by the name of castro and wears a cuban style military jacket but his is a silent revolution castro left his native syria in the one nine hundred seventy s. when syrian refugees fled to greece two years ago he helped them become squatters in abandoned buildings in central athens as donations to help the refugees began to dry up he set up a charity called syrian solidarity house it rents land to grow fruit vegetables honey pulses and wheat refugees are being taught how to feed themselves and then

mix a bit of this but it's not dignified to expect charity racist's accuses of burdening greek society now we can prove the opposite we plant for sale and even pay wages to those who come with tractors to plough up the fields contributing to the community using a former high school as headquarters castro distributes organic produce to one thousand two hundred people in his care and bart has some of it for fish and milk and the old school's kitchen tomatoes are turned into paste and cans to eat during the winter syrian solidarity house has further ambitions to establish a dairy farm and produce cheese and yogurt and a seed bank to set up individuals as farmers and beyond producing and consuming its own goods it also plans to trade them and become financially self-sufficient government leaders have visited castro's farm and are thinking of repeating the refugee experiment on a larger scale but the policy risks offending hard pressed greeks trying to survive

higher taxes me me and my mother need me just as the government gives free land to war refugees and only to war refugees and should offer free land to our children to castro's greek neighbors are supportive but austerity has sapped their hope this farmer has invested almost two million dollars in his land and sees little return. you know i respect the refugees a lot they never bother. anyone they've never stolen anything i hope they manage to settle down but the truth is we can barely support ourselves they won't survive here the refugees bring a different attitude they're willing to work for food and this land has given them a sense of belonging for the first time since they left home here they're creating their own future jumpstart ople us al-jazeera in central greece. still ahead here on out in sport we hear from by munich as they continue the search for a new manager to replace cullen to talk to and telling science fiction into science

fact their space companies unveiled a futuristic plans to colonise mom. business update brought to you by cats are they always going places together.

business updates brought to you bike they always going places together. how to get a welcome i pad let's get straight on to support for a study by in doha. thank you so much nick russell westbrook has signed the biggest total contract in n.b.a. history he's planned a five year two thousand two hundred and five million dollar extension with the oklahoma city thunder also dwayne wade has been unveiled by the cleveland cavaliers where he really nights with le bron james we played it before season alongside le

bron of the miami heat where they won back to back championships le bron left miami in two thousand and fourteen while wade spent last season with the chicago bulls but agreed a buyout of his contract to leave i mean is that i was a different time in the moments you know i would want to play together we want to play play off each other very well miss a different team it's a different time and i think everybody want to reach into the lobs and although i definitely thought those you just get if you will go get on the nose will happen but you know the biggest thing you want to be can do is success. and like i said i'm happy to be a part of what they built here but you know you just we just so i think about it is only man you just go together. captain did ash chamomile has had his first century since taking over as his country's test captain he scored an unbeaten one hundred fifty five against pakistan in the u.a.e. helping sri lanka reach four hundred and one thousand runs on day two of the first

task total looked on likely on the opening day when the tourists were on just sixty one for three in response box on have started well they finished on sixty four for no loss at stumps in the first game in a two test series. south africa scored four hundred ninety six in their first innings against visitors bangladesh dean eldar falling one short of a double century with also recording a three figure score in response bangladesh have already lost three wickets closing on one hundred and twenty seven runs their star man tom ball is still at the crease on twenty two. manchester city and argentina are striker sergio guerra has been injured in a road accident in the netherlands the twenty nine year old was reported to be in a taxi on his way to the airport after attending a concert in amsterdam city have yet to disclose the nature of his injuries but they say he will be returning to manchester to be assessed by club doctors ahead of their premier league match against chelsea on saturday. byron munich say they will

not rush into hiring a new manager and will explore all options the bundesliga champions fired carlo and coach on thursday his dismissal followed a serino loss to p.s.g. in the champions league with biron sitting third in the bundesliga. let me say that this season how can i say it got worse it was than good and already started from the beginning we had a difficult preparation period when we lost several players there wasn't a good atmosphere within the team the manager didn't manage to get good football play time and get these players to a place where they are playing the type of football we're used to it by munich and at some point it became clear that we had to react at the moment we are looking at and discussing our options and collecting all the information and when we reach a conclusion we will hire a trainer but first we have to explore all the options. for a driver sebastian vettel set the pace in the second practice for formula one's

malaysian grand prix but the session was brought to a halt when a truck followed caused a dramatic crash driver remain careering into the barriers at two hundred kilometers an hour after clipping a drain covers he wasn't hurt his practice was called off ten minutes. unseeded australian ashley bharti has charged into the final the tennis open in china with a third win over a top ten player and she did it in comfort defeating french open champion elaine austin penco six three six party will face caroline garcia finds final. roger federer has won a record nineteen grand slam tennis title now he's acknowledging the part two greats played in his career a movie on the rivalry between born the organ john mcenroe has premiered at the festival fetter says both players were an influence on him and showed rivals can still be friends in the same way he has a good relationship with

a. and it's. been unbelievable for tennis you know they paved the way for us so i'm forever grateful to what organ luck how did sports back you know as a player singles doubles and commentator and boy just as an absolute legend and a mystery to some extent because he wasn't around very much especially after he retired when he played he was extremely quiet now in england's tyro hatton leads the way at the halfway stage of the british masters the overnight leader carded six birdies and difficult weather conditions to finish the day on sixty five to lead on twelve under the twenty five year old has a three shot lead over come patry an importer chris hansen and ashley chester's who are all on nine under and that's all your support for now it's now back to back for a thanks for the thank you now a space x. found says he's developing a rocket which will soon be able to take humans anywhere on earth in less than an how the tech entrepreneur made the promise of

a space conference in australia saying that he's confident it will be ready for launch in five years time a promotional video said it would only take twenty nine minutes to fly from london to new york and yet it's merely a byproduct of his much more ambitious plan to colonize mars in the next few decades. has more now from adelaide industry heavyweights and space lovers converged on adelaide for this year's international astronautical congress the highlight of the event was without doubt space royalty entrepreneur and billionaire a long musk his long made it known he wants to make humans and interplanetary species to make sure we don't go the way of the dinosaurs now he says he'll start a colony on the red planet with the first human flights in twenty twenty four. for the base starting on one ship then most horse eps then circling off the city.

then the city bigger. over time tom foreman was. making it so really a nice place to be. located martin to has plans to get humans to the red planet's it revealed more about its blueprints for a modest base camp that will orbit the moon and act as a launching pad for human missions to mars it believes he can have it operational in a decade in about five billion years give or take the sun will eventually be going to a red giant it will expand and devour the earth so at least in five billion years we need to have somewhere else now how much do you need to worry about it in twenty seventeen fair question but that eventually you've got to get off the planet if we're going to continue as a as a as a human race at the moment all we have on mas two rovers like this replica of the

curiosity and while there are many companies here that believe humans will journey to mars within this generation and possibly even colonize it there are doubts about whether a mosque should be considered a back up plan to. all missions to mars need the help of one of three nasa deep space command centers this one is near straightness capital camera it operates like air traffic control but the space sending commands and receiving signals from spacecraft and all the vital communications for any human missions to mars will also go through here i think one of things that journey to mars will tell us most especially is that really in reality the earth has always got we have to look after this planet first and foremost going off to mars is going to have to create whole range of new technologies to survive in an environment that's trying to kill you every second of the day and there's no shortage of companies working on those technologies to keep humans alive in deep space technologies that if nothing else

could perhaps be useful to humans on earth to yard mow him out dizzy or adelaide extraordinary possibilities all right that's it for this news i can find out much more of course on the website address which is al-jazeera dot com but for me the news out team that is it for now i will be back in a couple minutes with another half hour of news so either. the sky why should be no borders up here. only horizons. as an

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