heard but he says everyone he's working with wants peace and the return of business confidence. traders are uncertain will there be war in northern iraq they worry we need to decision fast and we need the language of peace from the authorities so that we can go back to the good old days of real trading. gets on with his work but he's just heard the owner of this truck wants the engine repairs stopped his customer doesn't want to be faced with the bill until he's sure the border remains open andrew symonds al-jazeera on the turkey iraq. a truce between colombia's government and the country's last standing rebel group has begun the national liberation army or air land agreed to the terms after negotiations that failed several times it's hoped that the agreement will stand while talks for a longer term deal continue in ecuador. reports now from. it's

the first ever ceasefire declared by the national liberation army or. the last active rebel group in colombia and the first concrete step after seven months of peace talks to end its five decade conflict with the state a historic truce but one temporary at least for now. the new this doesn't completely end the conflict with the e.l.o. this is temporary it is not a cease fire weapons are surrendered or where demilitarisation takes place the truce will run through january twelfth and may be extended if respected they. start kidnapping greek routine minors tacking on oil routes and pipelines in exchange the colombian military will avoid confronting the rebels yet the group stepped up attacks ahead of the deal. since talks began with some sources government we have insisted on the urgency of this ceasefire because it stops offensive actions and

brings important humanitarian relief to the colombian population. founded by radical cata the priest in the one nine hundred sixty s. the. peace with the government before making little progress. in the capital news was met with relief and hope that the sides will comply with the terms of the truce . we leave this uncertainty in its peace process but it's definitely positive if the eleven wants to do its part to end the war it is great professor victor that says monitoring the truce will be important that the government nationally but it should. elaine are clearly committed to respect. this is the most important and i would say this with a vision of the unit the nation as was as well as a catholic church on the third depression of the society in colombia have biggest movement in favor of the peace process and we are really pushed the parties to respect that really mean talks will restart on october twenty third in quito

ecuador but the road to peace will still be long and complex and the year land is seen as more hardline in its ideology and more divided in the chain of command compared with the former fired gravels but there is hope here that this ceasefire will indeed help pave the way to end all political violence in. the us president has called critics of his response to disaster hit puerto rico quote politically motivated ingrates power is still down goods are running low on some families remain separated nearly two weeks after hurricane maria his zero stories a boy has followed two sisters on a journey to find their missing father. shadi anti health failed have not heard from their father for more than ten days he lives in the central mountains in an area that was among the hardest hit by the hurricane gas is

difficult to find these days that's why when neighbors gave them some they decided to go and find him. before they go. their ways to get their work. and now we are trying to. find them he lives in one of the most remote areas of puerto rico if i spent a year in there. there when i was a child but this is the strongest one that hit the island so far we headed to was a nice in the center of the island there is no electricity no communications here nobody knows how bad the situation really is. normally you go in there. and everything is green and. all these big trees are beautiful and now looks very. very sad but once there we were told we needed to take another

road very much of the river this is what's happening all around port authority that are covered with everything bridges that collapsed now heavy machines are trying to clear the road so people can start moving freely around the island. were able to cover part of the trip by road then we have to walk through the mountains. some houses are destroyed and this is how many are trying to locate their relatives this days and neighbor told us that been seen a little light going on at night so they are turning on their small electrical panel and this is really good news but even though they lived here most of their lives things have changed since the hurricane there used to be as. mall road here but it's now completely covered with trees so they're trying to find alternative ways to make it there in spite of the difficulties they say nothing will stop them from making to their old home half an hour later they start calling out and there

are signs that things could be ok shortly after they found what they searched for. her alive we're alive my girls don't have help it says he has been living here for forty seven use. rico has been devastated by hurricane but for at least two sisters the wind and the rain were not able to take away the people they cherish the most. what about. me and mass leader aung san suu kyi is sending a representative to hold talks with bangladesh foreign minister as the ranger refugee crisis continues the head of the un world food programme visited camps in bangladesh on sunday aid agencies are trying to help more than half a million people who fled the military crackdown in may and mass rakhine state

there's limited access to clean water and toilets health workers fear that they could be an outbreak of disease david beasley says that bangladesh needs international support to help deal with the crisis. just for example. seventy five million dollars just for food. we need anxious we need we need we need support from around the world because you're talking about . we me from health care to proper nutrition safe water and sanitation. exploded into a catastrophic humanitarian disaster. on the bangladesh border. to discuss their. personally by. the desired to meet the

prime minister she isn't here now the discussion we want to have had with. prices is going to we have to see how five point. put whether any of those will be implemented on the ground it remains. close to. coming to bangladesh within a span of one month when they are going to be taken out what are the process how are they going to be identified is a very complicated although there is a lot of diplomatic maneuvering going on by the us by the un the real pressure should come from china and india to kind of leverage on myanmar unless that happens not much is going to happen we know that. thousands of refugees been here for decades and nothing's been solved yet so the complication lies how is buying with us going to sustain this close to

a million refugees from the old and the new influx how they're going to be helped by the international agencies and foreign governments what is on the ground things have improved since the first few weeks what we have seen there is a better relieved. better coordination lot of the u.n. agency heads are on the ground personally monitoring things however the threat of infectious diseases still there because the sanitation and sort of system within the camps are still in condition unless those. there is a clear danger of infectious disease spreading into the camps as well as within the local community many things still need to be resolved and the crisis is far from over refugees are still coming in not in great numbers but within fifty and hundreds almost every other day or every day. two men in berlin have become the first couple to tie the knot after germany's new laws on same sex marriage came into force town halls opened on sunday to allow couples to celebrate the law change

same sex partners have been able to register their partnerships since two thousand and one but they now have the same tax advantages and adoption rights as heterosexual couples germany's parliament agreed to change the law in june. good to have you with us adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories this hour on al-jazeera initial figures show a decisive vote in favor of catalonia secession from spain in sunday's referendum but also indicate a low turnout more than eight hundred people were injured across the region spanish police moved in to shut down some polling stations the local government unveiled the preliminary results stressing that despite the violence millions voted and behaved peacefully. today democracy won more importantly today people won and they won because they behaved independent democracy peacefully in

these exceptional circumstances two million two hundred sixty two thousand four hundred twenty four people voted two women accused of killing the half brother of north korea's leader kim jong un have pleaded not guilty to his murder trial has begun in malaysia accused of poisoning kim jong nam with a nerve agent at kuala lumpur airport in february the u.s. president has contradicted his secretary of state's handling of the north korea crisis dismissing efforts to negotiate with pyongyang over its nuclear program as a waste of time donald trump's comments come a day after rex tillerson revealed the u.s. was using direct channels of communication with north korea. i saw has claimed responsibility for a knife attack in france in which two women died at my ses main train station police opened a counterterrorism investigation after the attacker was shot dead by special forces at the scene police in canada say a man arrested over an attack in edmonton is

a somali national seeking refugee status five people were injured when the thirty year old rammed a vehicle into a traffic control barricade before attacking a police officer with a knife a truce between colombia's government and the country's last standing rebel group has begun the national liberation army or e.-l. and agreed to the terms after negotiations that failed several times it's hoped the agreement will stand while talks for a lasting peace deal continue in ecuador and iran has joined iraqi efforts to take control of its border crossing from the kurdish regional government the economic measure is aimed at pressuring the kurdish leadership into canceling last week's secession referendum i'll be back with more news in a little over twenty five minutes right after on china's democracy experiment next they thought they were american until they broke the law now they're deported to cambodia for life. the families fighting for their loved ones at this

time on al jazeera. tens of thousands of demonstrations erupt across china each year driven by anger over corruption and the illegal sale of communal land most protests fail to make an impact but in two thousand and eleven one village defied the odds. was to out cancer villages rose up demanding the return of their land calling for their leaders to step down after decades of corruption the out and made a crackdown activist shreds i'm born died in police custody. but who can achieve the unthinkable the right to choose their own good leaders.

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