but i feel that. it talks about the fall of. a lot and there's a reggae music lesson that's deeply relevant to this right especially for a good thing and this is kind of all in all the right wing assault on our freedom to ask questions and then when they all freedom of expression and people you know are being taught it's like students teachers activists filmmakers writers may so they've been intimidated from the forest and people are on the streets and protest is just our doorstep so in whichever way i'd like to that sounds to. me it's. this is al jazeera. live from studio fourteen year around as their headquarters in doha i'm from our santa maria welcome to the new streets the iraqi army claims

victory in the. last stronghold in the north but it's now back under iraqi control which means in the fight against the islamic state of iraq and the levant it's not just one area in iraq remaining in the hands of the armed groups also in the great moscow welcomes a sound the monarch for the first time. has begun his official visit to russia but why now specially when the two countries are on opposite sides of so many of the world's geopolitical back and in the unlikely location of malaysia syria has drawn with australia in their world cup qualifying match not the result that he wanted but it does mean serious ones improbable path to russia twenty eighteen. now why men in india are placing selfies of themselves. but you can also tweet me.

with the new spirit live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and the red dot com and you know at first glance it looks like another small piece of the puzzle in iraq but cumulatively it's now means iraq is close to ridding itself of i saw the islamic state of iraq and the levant iraqi government forces have now recaptured the northern town of how we just it was one of just two remaining pockets of territory held by isis or in iraq and in what may be a sign of just how weaken the group is looking at the army operation to reach the center of her region and secure the surrounding villages took just two weeks here's the who controls what map at al-jazeera dot com i purposely haven't had this updated just so we can show you where we were before her wages as zoom in there i'm going to very quickly and crudely color that in red to show that that has now been taken by government forces which means the only area we're looking at under eisel controls this whole area here along the border with syria charles stratford has our

report now from a checkpoint close to home. exhausted in scale it took this family five days to reach the peshmerga defensive position. they walked across these parched hills from their village and i still can troll territory sometimes struggling to find shelter from coalition airstrikes and iraqi army shelling. the situation is tense there are airstrikes artillery shelling i have escaped with my family as soon as we could i saw were relocated from one place to another and many of them were pushed and squeezed further into how we there is no food or water available in our village. condition so we barely managed to get out we used to live after scraps of food our property result destroyed the peshmerga defending this position against potential life full fighters. from this area as the iraqi military and shia militias advance in this

direction this area here is still a number of villages there that are controlled by i saw in the last few minutes we've seen two i saw fighters come here and surrender the commander of this position says that in the last two weeks around two hundred fighters have surrendered at this position alone. the peshmerga took control of this area from eisel in two thousand and fourteen after the iraqi army fled. it is beyond the official boundary of the semi autonomous kurdish regional government controlled area of northern iraq but the commanders here say the peshmerga won't withdrawal when the fight against the last pockets of eisel is over. as of all these lands you see have been taken and defended by the peshmerga and we will not give them back many pacemaker died defending these lands we've been she managed here in any military corridor also people displaced and military personnel who asia was the

last stronghold for eisel in northern iraq iraqi prime minister hydrilla but he says the town has been retaken but disagreement between the curves and the iraqi government about who will control areas such as that we have just begun john strafford al jazeera debases in iraq of course the other issue we're following in iraq is the kurdish regions vote for secession turkey says it will soon close its border with northern iraq and shut its airspace in response to the kurdish referendum france's president emanuel micron is now offered to help with mediation efforts between iraq central government and the kurdish leaders met iraq's prime minister head of the body in paris to talk about those kurdish secession efforts he urged all parties to stay united at least in defeating ice of prime minister about he said he didn't want a confrontation with kurdish forces a more from the tatar butler in paris in a moment first here is what. mr a body had to say. and.

our concern is to preserve iraq's sovereignty within the iraqi constitution which is adopted by a massive majority of iraqis in two thousand and five this constitution brings together all iraqis are fellow citizens who are kurds voted for this constitution separatism does not figure in this constitution and it's not acceptable. he was here just to talk about thirty. days however talk about the referendum. even offering to mediate to try and calm the situation in his words he said that it was very important that iraq remained united recognize the rights of the kurdish people as for the iraqi prime minister he said that this referendum is illegal but he wasn't looking for any confrontation with the kurdish forces now the two men also touched on a number of other issues they talked about closer cooperation in areas such as science and education but of course there was also a focus on working more closely in matters of counterterrorism in the region they

both said that they want to look to the future they both talked about reconciliation and rebuilding the country and it was in that way that the french president pledged around five hundred million u.s. dollars for rebuilding and helping to stabilize iraq. meanwhile in syria a prominent aid organization says fighting in the country is the worst it's been since last year's battle for aleppo remember that the red cross says up to ten hospitals have been damaged in at least one hundred thirty people killed in multiple airstrikes in the province in just the past two days amateur video shows what appears to be dozens of bombs targeting several areas sources on the ground accuse rusher of being responsible u.s. and russian backed forces are separately trying to retake the region from once again eisel fighters. want to get in touch with us contact details are coming up on screen now we have got three guests coming up on the show we're going to be talking

about saudi russia relations in a moment if you've got any questions on that we're going to talking about global refugee crises of course the ranger but we've got a man who's waiting in greece finding out whether he might be deported back to afghanistan perhaps you've got a question for him and then also later the plague in madagascar did you even know the plague still existed well we're going to be talking to someone from the w.h.o. about that in madagascar answer any of those questions or topics i should say the hashtags a.j. news grid send in your questions twitter facebook and whatsapp let's move on now yes the story about saudi arabia and russia two nations who back opposing sides in the syrian war you think these old foes wouldn't be seen in the same room together well take a look at this one has become the first saudi monarch to visit russia he is on a five day trip meeting with the russian president vladimir putin shake hands with him there along with syria being on the agenda for the talks the two countries have plenty in common think about things like oil investment to that is their foreign

ministers however do the talking on everything from syria to what they call terrorism have a listen. you can actually yes it's obvious that the fight against terrorism means that we have to fight extremist ideologies which are well known to saudi friends. we very much that our contribution to these efforts will lead to good concrete contributions by russia to peace and stability in the islamic world and also to good work on the islamic council. so he really mattered less as far as syria's concerned then no we are certainly you know cooperating very closely with russian russia in terms of the opposition and the. grants of talks in geneva and of course really fully support the talks. and the need to make sure that we preserve territorial integrity and sovereignty.

is challenge in moscow following events for us worried just on a housekeeping issue is it any surprise that the foreign minister did the talking today do you think we'll actually hear from the two leaders themselves. i doubt we will know there was no press conference there were shed jewels between. putin and king solomon they were always i think going to have their meeting and leave the talking really to the foreign ministers and i think what the foreign ministers said there. didn't come as a huge surprise particularly they touched on all the various regional or global hotspots the. they're involved in or interested in at the moment so we heard brief words on syria we had brief words on libya and yemen and also iraq and that the g.c.c.

crisis but nothing that was particularly surprising from that press conference i think that really the most notable thing about this visit is that it has taken place because as you said in your introduction saudi arabia and russia have not really been seeing eye to eye with each other for decades and certainly not recently when they've been backing opposite sides in the in the syrian conflict they have been working towards this meeting for some time diplomatically there's been a good deal of work that's been going on and essentially it's kind of camp out from a number of different reasons one is that they have been cooperating for the last year or so on the oil markets on basically limiting production to try and pick the oil price back up again that's built trust between the two countries and then of course there's the changing politics of of the middle east and what you might say is the diminishing of of u.s.

influence there and russia and its intervention in the syria war has carved itself out as basically one of the region's key power brokers now so countries like saudi arabia also turkey israel jordan egypt. except for hedging their bets basically by coming to. moscow and dealing with the region's new powerful force and adding stuff for a challenge in moscow thank you for that as we mentioned king solomon is the first saudi monarch to make this trip just background there's an interesting interactive piece that al jazeera dot com it's called house of solve what next nexus was actually prepared a couple of years ago when king salmon came to power but still very relevant shows you how intricate and delicate the whole line of succession has been in saudi arabia houses out as in the interactive section at al jazeera dot com. a little quick footnote for you from saudi arabia the kingdom has arrested twenty two people

including a cutlery for quote inciting against public order on social media at this stage it's not clear what they have done wrong but assad a security source told reuters it was because of espionage activities and having contacts with external entities including the muslim brotherhood a member saudi arabia can consider the brotherhood a terrorist organization no comment on the qatari national arrested but as we know saudi arabia along with the u.a.e. behind in egypt has cut all diplomatic ties with carter and threatened to fine or imprison anyone who showed online support for carter we're going to return to the story in moscow in a moment or two i guess but it's got a little bit of breaking news to go through fourteen at least fourteen people killed in a blast in pakistan's baluchistan region. is with us now from islamabad to tell us what you know. well placed in a remote rated age. district there.

don at least five drive from the provincial capital we are told that through a bomber tried to. located in the tiny relates. tried to stop a man he detonated a like. that about twenty two people are wounded some of them are in serious condition. and therefore the likelihood of the death toll of going higher cannot be ruled out a remote region can you maybe tell our viewers a little more about it just a bit of background about. forty two percent of the country. the largest. developed. take a long time because the road conditions are not very good and some of the region do

not have proper harsh but there's this region. and. on the other hand the border with afghanistan and iran region. because of the lack of infrastructure and that province ok with a live update for us from islamabad that news that coming out of fourteen people at least killed in a blast in pakistan's block just on problems ok we're going to go back to moscow go back to the russia saudi story which we were talking about before and we've gotten sort of with us who is a foreign policy analyst at the russian international affairs council joining us from moscow i hope if the satellite gods are with us. anyway what we're talking about is of course the saudi king king solomon making his first visit to moscow not just his first visit but the first visit made by a saudi king and being told we haven't got a connection with. moscow unfortunately so i'm going to desperately throw over to

london and let them do some other news for us just. groups in central african republic are using rape and sexual slavery to terrorize women and girls according to human rights watch investigators documented more than three hundred cases of rape torture and sexual violence in the past four years iran colonizer reported a warning you may find some of it up setting hidden beyond the tall grass and veiled behind curtains survivors in the central african republic talk of barbaric acts cruel and brutal crimes that are still unpunished. one of them took a grenade and they put it in my vagina then they removed the grenade and they raped me. this thirty five year old is among hundreds of women and girls who have told human rights watch about sexual violence and torture. and then. when i think about it my heart beats so fast and really hard when i remember my heart beat so hard so

hard so hard even right now when i'm thinking about it it's beating hard and so fast fast fast three of the victims are children when they were raped and became pregnant. they raped me over and over again they never stopped not for even one day when i was eight in the house months pregnant i escaped when i had the baby i didn't want to hold him i felt like killing him the survivors say they were raped by a dozen men fighters beat the women and left them with broken bones smashed teeth and had wins. the fight is kidnapped women beat them up rape them and tortured them young girls older women they just didn't have. the rights watch says the abuses are not only crimes under central african law but also constitute war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity

a new task force is trying to address the plight of survivors. those that we know are responsible for these grave crimes of rape in violation of human rights if you are not arrested right now and taken into custody no victims will have the will to seek justice and that makes justice inaccessible you have to talk about zero impunity then you need the women to have the courage to come forward and report the facts human rights watch says only eleven of the tears hundred ninety six survivors interviewed try to initiate a criminal investigation so far no member of any armed group has been arrested or tried to committing sexual violence. u.s. authorities say the gunman who killed at least fifty eight people at a concert in las vegas had meticulously planned the attack stockpiling weapons and ammunition over decades is still not known what motivated stephen paddick to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history on sunday but police believe he's unlikely to have collected the arsenal of weapons on his own paddocks girlfriend donnelly says she had no idea what her

partner was planning and described as kind caring and quiet. spain's constitutional court has suspended a session of the catalan parliament on monday the parliament was planning to declare independence you know that tree from the country after two million catalans voted in favor of secession in ma spanish national police have pulled out of a catalan hotel in what the government is calling a shuttle departure deportment triggered a standoff between rival protesters extra police presence has angered many in the region who say officers used excessive force during the banned vote on sunday. for much of the focus from a catalan secession referendum has been on barcelona their claims in smaller villages of a campaign of intimidation by far right activists people in the catalonia countryside say car tires have been slashed and windows broken since sunday's vote largely reports from the village of version. this is what verges woke up to on

wednesday on street after street every single car that even parked outside had been worked over one hundred three cars in total very professional very fast nobody heard or saw a thing nor did the attackers care that some of the cars were full of children's playthings you keep some of your things in the car mark is a gardener so. he needs his car for work so no work there is. theirs i feel that. if the far right did this then we'd be surprised they never did it before but we all suspect is the national police or people close to them. verges reeks of cancer land history they barely speak spanish air and afford for independence for hundreds of years the us signs from the referendum are everywhere if you want to hit the heart of the enemy it's as good

a place as any as you can imagine a little tiny village like this in the middle of nowhere has never known anything like this at all the council and police have begun dusting for fingerprints but you haven't got to be sherlock holmes to figure out the conclusion the villagers have come to that this was a form of collective punishment for backing cattle and independence. all the talk from the doorsteps and balconies is of shock. revulsion against violence and resolve that they will not be overcome. several other villages were targeted as well local officials point out acidly that the spanish media are nowhere to be seen . that we know very well the message they're trying to foster the post truth message being created from spine that are trying to turn the truth upside down that we're acting violently in catalonia it doesn't exist. the nagging question of course is whether this is a one off or the start of

a campaign of violence towards the cancer lands one thing is certain it feels like the wheels of falling off in spain largely al-jazeera verges catalonia israel is planning to close its borders with the occupied west bank and the gaza strip for an unusually long period the closure for a jewish holiday means no palestinians will be allowed to cross into israel for eleven days palestinians say the move is collective punishment and hard force that reports now from the occupied west bank. it's typical for israeli checkpoints to close on public holidays but not for this long israeli government announced this week that the occupied west bank and gaza strip would be sealed off for eleven consecutive days the longest such closure for more than a decade hardest hit by the tens of thousands of palestinians who crossed daily from the west bank to work mainly in construction in israel. on thursday some were renewing work permits and reflecting on the loss of nearly a half

a month's wages for some it's worse he paid a broker of his permit it costs him more than twenty five dollars a day where he works or not and to me about that it's hard on everyone that's daily suffering it's going to cost me more than three hundred dollars for my permits economic situation in the country is. the forced closure has been linked by israel to an attack last month in which a palestinian worker killed three israeli security forces at the entrance to an illegal settlement israeli media report that the army's closure recommendation came only after political pressure from government ministers what israel is calling a security measure palestinians are referring to as collective punishment and with seventy five thousand permit holders working inside israel that comes at a serious cost to the palestinian economy a cost says the palestinian government that goes beyond the loss in wages of up to fifty million dollars. it is the new home and it means they won't be able to buy goods and so it impacts on the economic cycle especially given that

a number of workers purchased permits and brokers for more than seven hundred dollars a month. permit renewed. is back home and while in israel work will resume on and off throughout the super hot holiday like tens of thousands of other palestinians who have to wait out the full eleven days it is own considerable expense sorry for sit out in the occupied west bank that's over i'm going back now to come out there lauren thank you so much for that much appreciate it i'm determined to go back to the story about the saudi king's visit to russia and joining us from moscow now is nikolai it sort of covers a foreign policy analyst at the russian international affairs council thank you for joining us thank you for your patience as well what is your take on the very simple question of why now. well i think that it is the point when actually both sides manage to agree on certain

terms and concessions that they're ready to make because it took about a year and a half to prepare this visit at least a year and a half and it took two of these it's by prince mohammed bin solomon to moscow before it could actually be done so. substantial preparations took place and on the after that the king was actually able to go to moscow because i think it's clear that he came here to bless some kind of a deal. well obviously in economy but also i think there will be a political deal to tell me your views on the syria situation i think this is the one which is dominating the conversation simply because these two countries are on opposite sides of of a six year war. well exactly and not because only because of that the problem is that syria is the most the most serious problem

and agenda it is actually preventing us from developing economic ties from developing a korean cooperation in other spheres. so certainly the syrian issue will of course help us advance in other spheres because you probably know that russia and sodium are taking the same stance towards egypt russia and so india red there are also taking the same stance towards yemen so there are many other spheres for cooperation but because of the syrian problem we cannot go for any for they can i let me ask you a question which i got from one of our viewers watching on you tube at the moment j.c. who said saudi arabia and russia are both skint at the moment i haven't got enough money and are trying to work out what they can do to thrive after the end of oil this is a good point isn't it these are two economies absolutely dependent on oil and maybe they've got some tips to share for each other. well probably

but well at least. as we've heard that there will be some cooperation you know on the renewables and nuclear power but i think this is not the case if you if we talk about it konami cooperation konami cooperation will be mostly about oil and or refineries and probably some energy things too because for example russian. nuclear power company or saddam is very anxious to work with the saudis but i don't think that this is the issue right now economy or will be only. a kind of a bonus which will be added to political cooperation and political. dialogue i think you lie a fascinating story and i'm glad we could talk to you about it thank you the world's refugee crises something we devote

a lot of time to it and as the refugees are so often voiceless and one of our goals is to give a voice to the voiceless so we're going to take you through three separate issues on tonight's grid the democratic republic of congo afghanistan and of course me and now united nations rights experts are warning violence against women and children in me and rakhine state may actually amount to crimes against humanity weapon five hundred thousand range refugees have not crossed into bangladesh and are in dire need of assistance and supplies mohammed judging reports now from a camp in cox's bazaar conditions are worsening there and just a warning his report does contain some distressing images. with nothing else at her disposal a desperate mother blows air on her baby severely burned head to try and cool her off. i don't know dr. that there are doctors in the camp but when i took her to the doctor they said they don't have the right medicine for her she needs to be taken

to see specialized doctors where will i get the money. tells us her baby was burned when me and mars military set her village in iraq and state ablaze it took her family ten days to escape to bangladesh with no medical care the nine month old girl's wounds especially the one on top of her head have only worsened and i've got about an alum one of them i think if she doesn't get any treatment that my baby will die it's too hot here so i'm not able to keep her calm here she can't get any peace i can only make her feel better by finding her. at the tank ali makeshift camp for him to refugees in cox's bazaar the misery is seemingly endless reflected as much in the faces of residents as it is in the appalling conditions they're trying to survive the people you see behind me here they're lining up for

aid distribution to give you some idea of the scale of this crisis this encampment that we're in today it didn't exist about three weeks ago now there's at least twenty thousand refugees who live here. they are among the more than five hundred thousand refugees who've crossed into bangladesh since late august the u.n. calls it the most urgent refugee crisis in the world like so many others here who is attempting to find family members she's been separated from. i know what i'm searching for my mother and my aunt to i came across my neighbor who told me they came here. waiting barefoot through mud sadness is matched only by her persistence asking after her relatives at every turn she tells us she'd wanted to remain in me and more but that the military's brutality made that

impossible. if only they weren't shooting and setting fires to our homes we would stay there even in the jungles eating leaves but they set fire to our homes and we couldn't stay there anymore. with each passing day jarno as her chances will only grow dimmer not just that she locate her loved ones but that she'll ever be able to experience anything close to her previous life again. at the ten kali refugee camp in cox's bazar bangladesh. last week i told you you might remember about the iron range of reality film with al-jazeera dot com there's also this a companion piece called in the footsteps of a ranger refugee and it's got three hundred sixty degree cameras and already a commentary which puts you right in the middle of the crisis and leaves you wondering what's going to try and go to through the next scene does leave you wondering could i handle this and also makes you wonder how bad things but state

must have been this became the only option was that the slowed up a little bit slow today but in the footsteps of a refute it is there it is look at those crowds she a number of people there it is in the interactive section at al-jazeera dot com. so exam be an hour where aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian crisis they are dealing with more than three thousand refugees have crossed from the democratic republic of congo in just a month the un is now estimating one hundred new asylum seekers entered zambia each day it is the largest influx into the country in the last five years by fleeing fighting between congolese government forces and a local group. is in the transit camp in northern zambia. this translates into a set of three and a half weeks ago the people many from attending and some from the troubled region is a running away from ethnic tensions and fighting between government forces and militia

groups aid workers say it's not as good between eighteen hundred people coming into zambia every day and conditions a basic the new arrivals haven't yet told their own form of structure to live and stay in these communal kind of compounds held together by reading math and some. to cover the top three or four families can live in here until they move to a spot where they can build the own temporary structure with their families some aid workers say that they see a large number of mainly women and children coming into this transit center and about sixty percent of those who are coming here are children under the age of eighteen there is a communal set up already whereby the meals are prepared by the women the men cut the firewood the people are then given food in the morning and then at supper but at any c.c.a. they need more help the rainy season is about to start in a few weeks the concern once is rains all this to be flooded with water people need

some kind of decent accommodation any mosquito nets in need medicine they need more food and a concern that as long as the balance keeps continuing in the d.r. see more people crossing into zambia for protection and one final note on refugees in europe amnesty international is accusing european governments of putting nearly ten thousand afghan refugees in danger by sending them home they've discovered the number of afghans deported from europe nearly tripled in twenty sixteen and those who have returned home are at serious risk of torture kidnapping or death if you would like to get in touch with us contact details are on screen right now thank you for your comments on facebook mustapha who said shame on the spanish government catalonia should declare statehood that was of a story that lauren brought us from. london a little bit earlier you can't comment on anything but you've got on the great people watching from ireland kashmir and saudi arabia on the lifestream so welcome to all of you it is well teacher's day to

day so hello and thank you to all the teachers out there who educate our kids and frankly take them off our hands for a few hours every day if you are watching on facebook live we've got a story from brazil for you on the teacher who set up a solar energy panel to print materials for a student. and then after the break. a disease that once wiped out a third of the world's population and it's back epidemic of the plague has hit madagascar around the world health organization is doing all it can to control the spread to talk to the. global head of epidemics is on the ground. hello the show is the song caspian musta been quite dramatic over the last ten days or so we've seen a shower to shower usually sundry mostly of the iranian coast and that's still the case the heaviest downpour recently recorded a bit further west in the last one from yesterday hundred forty eight millimeters

in twenty four hours huge figures really considering now focus wise that should all cease come friday the line is still there in the form of a shaggers fast tashkent or beyond to get rain out of these systems it's going back to drive around in the sunshine anyway twenty degrees in baghdad stand about thirty three though it is warm again come saturday there is a breeze here the breeze has been a northerly but it's going back to a southerly which will pick up the dust somewhat it's turning quite brazen the eastern side of the net as well by route twenty seven reason the south here to the arabian peninsula we still got nearly forty in mecca nothing much happening i don't think from the point of view of clouds building the heaviest may well briefly richard said i was with the bulge in the monsoon has it retreats thirty seven doha might see the wind die down has recently seen a drop in humidity and as that breeze turns around to. bring dust to the gulf nations as well still with the same temperature.

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headlines around and what's trending as well what is the strategic importance of well you saw our report from. earlier in the show you can have a look at that. dot com plenty of other. things there who are there were so much content online. well with the background to back story that's what's trending . right now it's a four time because i'm not sure my voice is going to last and i know how to reason my feels quite frankly the water is going to help. if you will seeing pictures of men and you know social media feeds both saying a mustache then there's a good reason for that it's actually part of an online campaign against violent attacks happening in the last few weeks in india and they talk to men with now don it's all been released privilege in the cost estimate india and they've been discriminated against just for that now if you're thinking of joining this campaign

like for example take he's from atlanta and he's been using these are the hashtags that you want to be following and he posted a picture of himself just scroll up a little bit and he says he stands against oppression and discrimination against any group of people now also showing another picture by activists or he's encouraging people to join the selfie campaign he. he says if a mustache hurts people from other caste then every day that youth must grow lovely mustaches now the attacks happened in the indian state of gujarat where on tuesday people from upper caste stabbed a seventeen year old done it for allegedly having a moustache luckily he survived but on sunday a twenty one year old didn't and he was beaten to death by a group of people from a higher caste who allegedly considered him to lower cost to be attending a festival they were out now a well known activist in india who supports rights for dallas has also joined this

campaign viney he wrote on his facebook page this is the utter failure and used as the of the good drug government this is a third victim of the moustache issue it seems that the communal and the j.p. government needs to be taught a lesson now he also tweeted later after that post that he'd been arrested for planning a protest to call for the resignation of the state's governor but this campaign of course is against the attacks on dallas and has been limited to just twitter or facebook people have also been using other means like whatsapp locally to spread the message and get others to join this campaign but all this isn't new because there are two hundred to two hundred eleven million dollars in india and they used to be known as the untouchables now in sanskrit means of press so that gives you an idea of the daily show goals that they have to face and while the national

commission schedule course is meant to protect them the discrimination hasn't stopped in fact in twenty sixteen alone thirty people tried committing suicide to create awareness to their plight and there's an article i actually personally found quite interesting is an al-jazeera article i tweeted about it yesterday so you find it if you follow me and actually show some very fascinating pictures of a doll that community. they tattoo their faces in their bodies as well with the name of the hindu gods ramified to show you some pictures here quite colorful as well as another lady who's been tattooed and they do that because some of them are not actually allowed into the temple and that's why they talk to themselves that god is with them all the time but of course if you want to get in touch with me we'd love to hear from you the hash tag of course is always a genius grades interesting stuff thanks are now when you hear about the plague yeah that's the one which killed a third of the world's population in the fourteenth century you would probably think it was a thing of the past apparently not so many of us here on the newsgroup team didn't

know this but the plague or black death as it was known was never completely eradicated and in some parts of the world there are minor outbreaks every year like in madagascar right now is one way of it so far killed at least thirty people with almost two hundred suspected cases reported the world health agency has arrived and teams are sweeping through towns trying to contain it but it looks like the disease is spreading much more aggressively than usual in fact it's getting so bad public gatherings in the capital have been bans to try to limit the spread and just like hundreds of years ago there was one particular rodent to blame some of inch of it has our report. these are the culprits partly responsible for the plague spreading in madagascar infected right spread the bubonic plague while the mnemonic plague is carried from person to person more than one hundred sixty people have been infected when they say plague the. actually stands for the swelling in the

various love notes but it soon as it spread from the lungs i could cough and those droplets could infect you that's alarming because it's human to human transmission rather than animal to human. on average two to six hundred people are infected annually in fetal outbreaks of the plague in madagascar as rule areas but this time it spread to populated parts the government has now banned public meetings in the capital and then and i reveal that there must first we must because we have heard of the disease that is spread through breeding so just to be on the safe side you never know i don't shake people's hands and i don't care so i don't know the precautions you take are not to talk to people and always wear a mask. the disease killed an estimated two hundred million people in the fourteenth century health experts are advising caution but they say there is no need for panic the plague is treatable with antibiotics and the world health

organization says there is no risk that the disease can spread internationally with lisi example i would like to remind you here and it is important that the plague exists in many countries and the latest epidemics in some countries including kenya madagascar zambia algeria and the d.r. see it's not only madagascar and this is important because what we hear in the city is that the plague is if madagascar is the end of the world we would just like to say that it is a disease like any other but we are lucky that this disease has a cure and this treatment is available and it is free. many schools are closed and they're being sprayed to kill fleas campaigns are also underway to remove trash in cities and officials are setting right crops the health ministry says it's taking steps to keep infections from spreading of a disease which was believed to have already been wiped out. some of his job eve i was there still ahead on the news here with all the sports news syria and all stray

go head to head in world cup qualifying for russia twenty eighteen so much anticipation so much emotion for so many reasons to have the latest from what is actually serious hung match being played in malaysia first look at some international.

back talking honestly to talksport is this some hope for syria in the. well i think we did pretty well we'll find out now thank you km all there is unlikely dream of reaching a fee for world cup is still alive they've been facing australia in the playoffs as they try to pick the spots are russia twenty eighteen for a team that's used to define the odds they did it again scoring a late penalty to draw one one in the leg naturally the capital damascus wasn't the venue for the home game of this two like a playoff but rather in malaysia the hash tag for this game was the s y r v a us has been featuring in the top global trends over the past few hours as you might expect the bulk of online conversation centered in australia where fans are hoping to see that team qualify for a third successive wild card but look at the corresponding hash tag in arabic

reading syria underscore australia and you have close to two hundred thousand tweets naturally sent it across the middle east. also i want to show you the hushed i guess we can has been used on twitter and instagram throughout syria's world cup qualification campaign take a look at this selection of tweets posted on the instagram page over nineteen thousand posts in total and you can see the amount of support shared on here very clearly then there is this tweet here using the same hash tag yes we can the reads there's a caption that reads here is aunt erminia war and the image here is really quite emotive as well well australian football fans online are largely angry about the penalty decision during the game that led to the equaliser but there's also sentiment like this this tweet reads hats off to syria tonight in the midst of so much turmoil you've done your country proud this is what sport is about again using

the hashtag that please share your reaction with us to the hash tag as you can see here is a.j. news great i'm on twitter and i am tatiana reporter from missouri was actually at the game in malaysia getting a sense of how syrian fans there were feeling. some have built this match to be a sort of david versus goliath match australia have three consecutive world cup qualifications syria has never played in the world cup. now they very rarely get to play in the world cup qualifiers on. security reasons and to deal with the power through but malaysia stepped in at the last minute so they've been playing the home matches here now some critics have said that the game and its teams achievements are being used as a propaganda tool by the syrian government as the conflict and seven but for the fans here tonight it's all about the beautiful game. right.

yeah it will. be flowing. but it. will. be both sides narrowly missed out on automatic progression so this is second chance to advance via the playoff route the second leg will be played in sydney the winning team will then meet the fourth placed team from the northern and central american and caribbean region for a spot in russia at the world cup next year. we're going to get a little more sport now with sauber has been looking at a controversy in the u.s. that's combined sport sexism and the media. that's right and it's about this man a hit which will pop up just like you guys but it's cam newton now he plays for the carolina panthers he's been in a bit of hot water over a female reporter press conference on wednesday and his is what happened. a lot of

pride in your seniors. bunches to seem to really embrace the physicality is grounds and maybe getting those actually are you a little bit of an enjoyment to see them and. it's funny to hear female talk about round. while the twenty eight year old eccentric did go on to answer jordan rodriguez question the charlotte observer reports a reporter didn't let that one go in fact she turned to twists and she said i don't find it funny to be a reporter and talk about roots i think it's actually my job and when i asked if anyone had actually confronted cam at the time she also tweeted there i spoke with him after and it was worse i chose not to share because i have an actual job to do today and one he will not keep from me in fact he actually didn't apologize and she added had she had better things to do which was getting on with her job now while

jordan didn't receive actually an apology panthers spokesperson did release the statement saying i have spoken with jordan and cam and i know they had a conversation we expressed regret for using those words we strive as a department to make the environment for media comfortable for everyone covering the team but all this wasn't enough to stop people especially females from posting their thoughts and on social media and i actually have a funny just here friend get it to play just there and they're saying they he thinks he's still in the one nine hundred forty s. and this was his reaction when he realized we weren't in the 1940's of course but kelly rowe she's a fox reporter and she gave the internet some of her thoughts as well kim here for you so you heard us like this such a tough time i mean there was this award to get out there week after week after people you saw early in continue to disappoint your family. and you think with all

those weird hats you were the lakers game to get sober for your brain injury but there's. no. related upset i just under through complete child learn just know that i'm a woman so a lot of emotions bring a lot of emotions and. i'm here for you. and this video was posted by sports reporter reporter abbi what she tweeted it saying that she since you think it's funny to hear females talk about roots his post roots of course quite a few females and other people basically making fun through their videos on so should be and that's being tweeted several times but not everyone feels that cam's remark was actually sexist in fact this is from a sports presenter brit she wants everyone to just relax she says she was given interviews by a panther spokes person she didn't have to give those interviews and also i have another tweet from here that's jason and he says that he doesn't see what the fuss is all about in fact he had responded to the reporter in the middle of all this and

says it's no different to females being surprised if men talked about makeup now is also another person who says i sincerely hope that cam newton doesn't apologize dude did nothing wrong so there you go so different opinions one story one comment made by one person but actually we want to know what you think that and you can find me on twitter a.j. news good tell you what i think so i've got no issue talking about make up because you should see the amount of make a point to where i'm totally talking about people in south korea are celebrating the traditional harvest festival known as true sock although there is also being marked in the north giving all koreans maybe just a brief response from all the escalating tensions on the peninsula robert bryant went to a ceremony at the border between the two countries. traditionally a time for family reunions for these aging koreans this is as close as they will get to one it's a ceremony near the d.m.z.

border between the two koreas. people like one young hope who attends every year and who was separated from his family in the north during the korean war more than sixty years ago he's on a waiting list for an official reunion but the current tensions have put the program on hold. if both sides can compromise hopefully my chance will calm. the two koreas may share the same holiday but seem as far apart as ever while north koreans celebrate to sark in a similar way to people in the south it's only a one day holiday in north korea and while millions of south koreans are travelling to see family and friends travel restrictions and a lack of transport in the north means that most people there have to stay put translated as harvest festival to suck is a time of thanksgiving with special cakes made from the rice just harvested. one of

the many festivals and group of north korean defectors perform in front of their south korean audience. some of the most popular songs date back to before the war when there was only one korea. by celebrating our culture three art we can show how south korea and north korea are one nation but as the families waiting for reunion can attest the political divisions remain as wide as ever. urge north korea once again to join us on the path of reconciliation to help reunite families who don't have much time left. not knowing how many more to start festivals they will see without seeing long lost families. the bride al-jazeera and the north south korean border. before we leave you some live pictures from space two robots two robots no two humans astronauts out on the two hundred third

spacewalk on the international space station they are repairing a robot there repairing the robotic arm which is broken the international space station has a broken arm at the moment so they sent two astronauts out there to figure out if a six hours to do that. so yes that'll do it for this music about how you get in touch thank you to andrew on facebook you just said we're the best dressed. that one facebook dot com. comments they will see you back here again. tomorrow right.

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