the targets the activists who fought for democracy. part five of the six part series filmed. china's democracy experiment at this time on al-jazeera. facing reality the president said that there would be a complete audit a hundred percent audit that audit hasn't happened getting to the heart of the matter so are you saying then that the future of the g.c.c. will be in doubt. here the story. on talk to al-jazeera at this time. u.n. demands myanmar allow humanitarian access to rock island state and that expects even more of the refugees to flee from violence.

and welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha with me elizabeth brown and also ahead dozens are dead and thousands affected as another major storm battered central america. surveying the damage we meet puerto ricans fearing what will happen today how it can help communities and plans for a permanent memorial for the victims of sunday's match in the u.s. city of las vegas. the u.n. is bracing for what it calls a further exodus of the hang of refugees from myanmar to bangor there with up to one hundred thousand people waiting to cross the border half a million rangar have already crossed since the end of the stores for the military crackdown and what kind of state says it's fighting separatist groups and deadlines

accusations of ethnic cleansing. where the un is criticizing myanmar over difficulties getting humanitarian aid into iraq and state. the access we have. in rakhine especially in northern rakhine is unacceptable and we repeat our call to the authorities. to put in place the arrangements that make it possible for humanitarian not just un across the peace humanitarians to do the normal work. when jamar has tightly controlled access to iraq and state in september leader aung san suu kyi invited observers to visit saying her government doesn't fear international scrutiny but me on my canceled a planned un visit later that month citing bad weather in recent days a small group of local un delegates was allowed access and a high level team is expected to enter a concern urging the hunger to return to their villages and promising food and

security mohammed as at a refugee camp in cox's bazaar on the bangladeshi side of the border but first let's go to mel him she's and yang gone for hours so how is the government there responding to the calls for humanitarian access to the criticism that it's not being given the access it means so far. well this isn't the first time there's been calls for humanitarian aid access and as with most of those times the mean mouth already is have largely ignored the calls for access forages have told al-jazeera that there is aid being delivered to communities in record time stay in this is through the international red cross in the mean my red cross the only agencies still operating there but it's unclear exactly how freely or how fictive this delivery of aid is just

a couple of weeks ago we got reports that an aid convoy was mobbed by buddhists villagers as it was trying to deliver aid to reinjure communities now media organizations and independent observers are on the block. i follow gys we have lost our connection with our correspondent and yang gone with the government response to to those un coals. to access to racan states and let's go to call. on the homage on june is live for us what is the situation that mohamed thousands continuing to pour in every single day . elizabeth that well first of all the weather is that worsening today we were expecting that it was going to rain it has started to

rain and as i mentioned to you last hour when we were speaking last when it rains here in these camps where the conditions are so appalling so on hygenic it only makes things worse it makes the conditions right here for epidemics to break out and this is one thing that aid workers are very concerned about it's why organizations like unicef are going to be starting immunization programs to try to ensure that there isn't some sort of a cholera outbreak that might happen now as far as where we are right now this is the good to prolong camp this is the main the biggest camp we're in direct you g.'s here in cox's bazaar now behind me is a rather chaotic scene there is a line i don't know if you can see it behind these makeshift tents but there is a line that is at least a thousand people long that they are waiting to receive food aid food aid that would allow them to have nutrients and supplements for at least two

weeks these people are hungry and desperate and when we were along that line a few minutes ago and seeing how chaotic it was people say they really need to get aid delivered to them in a quicker fashion and we're not just hearing this from refugees we've heard this from aid workers we've heard this from. you in officials everybody is concerned about how long it is taking to get aid in here about as a response by the international community to this crisis which the u.n. is calling the world's worst refugee crisis currently so a lot of concern in this camp right now you know we've been going to this camp the other camp for the past few days. really the word of hauling as far as describing these conditions just doesn't do it justice the heat the humidity there brutal the smell that you encounter it makes you nauseous. the people have very you

materials by which to protect themselves against the elements most of the temps the people have they built themselves using tar and bamboo they can barely would stand the heat in there let alone the rains that could come at any time so a very difficult situation and everybody we're speaking with says they only expect that it's going to get worse at least in the short term elizabeth mohamed thank you very much for that for now and that's mohamed joining us live from. there thank you . let's move on to other news now and u.s. will cost us a tropical storm may become a halakhah as it bears down on the gulf coast it's already battered central america with at least twenty five people killed in flooding and landslides across costa rica nicaragua and el salvador david missa has more. naked eye what is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere tropical storm nate has just made it that much poorer three thousand homes destroyed communications cut

the force of the storm ripped boats from the sea and left part holes large enough to consume cars. that centers on this bus were so panicked escape was the only thing on their minds. pummeled central america with heavy rains during the week. the flood has taken away almost everything that all these people had in their home they had breakfast in the morning but not had lunch nor dinner because everything was taken away from them where waiting for any help that would be well received so many children are crying with hunger. in neighboring coast the storm left at least seven people dead and some five thousand people were forced to leave their homes the western province was going to cost they was the hardest hit schools across the country were closed for two days deaths were also reported farther north in honduras and el salvador. now neda's swing in north and picking up strength

as it heads towards the u.s. gulf coast in preparation new orleans mayor declared a state of emergency the current forecast indicate three to six inches of rain over the duration of the system which is going to be thirty six to forty eight hours and potential double that. although overall rainfall may not be as high as other tropical events short durations of rain as we can see can produce flooding we are particularly mindful in this regard for this particular storm of coastal flooding because of the potential storm surge for those areas of the city that are outside of the levee system. yet another deadly storm in the americas leaving a path of destruction in its wake david mercer al-jazeera. the storm's. central american coast on thursday bringing flooding to. el salvador that's now just off the coast of cancun mexico and has gathered strength to become

a hurricane for calls as expected will make landfall and you want to inflate on saturday or sunday. now the president is trying to reassure people and harken head puerto rico that they haven't been forgotten many of the island's three point four million residents still struggling to get basic necessities. bring you greetings. and he was here just two days ago. the forty fifth president of the united states there could. be we are with you the evening be with you tomorrow night we need you here thank you but many puerto ricans about what will happen to their communities they point to residents being forced out of parts of new orleans off to hearken katrina as property developers moved in she reports. the presence of the u.s.

military and emergency contract is can be felt around the convention center of someone and in the tourist districts yet still over two weeks since hurricane maria made landfall almost all for puerto rico is without notable water ninety percent without electricity. like many neighborhoods we visited no one we spoke to from the low income san juan neighborhood of kanu mount in kenya that seen any federal personnel helping to rebuild. eventually community leaders did ask the federal emergency management agency for topps to temporarily cover the eight hundred houses here without grooves but when a fraction of that amount was supplied. the bribes are too small or too small not long enough not long enough yet yeah. tenure has a well organized community infrastructure that's been recognized internationally most recently winning the un's world habitat award. after the hurricanes of one

thousand nine hundred six and twenty eight and during the great depression the mangroves around the mountain penya channel was illegally squatted by those fleeing the impoverished countryside for san juan through robust community organization the twenty five thousand residents living here now legally owned two hundred acres of this land but their suspicion that authorities will use the aftermath of maria and the increased risk of hurricanes and flooding as a result of climate change to get rid of this community altogether. explains why this area is prized by developers who like the residents here have long been waiting for the promised dredging of the club channel intersecting it. all of san juan barry will become an ambitious tourism and economic development project that links the city. that's happened before this was once the low income neighborhood of tokyo and san juan situated near a waterway authorities ever take to the residents claiming it wasn't feasible to

live on a flood plain or whether the city then built expensive housing office blocks on the puerto rico coliseum on the same land evan can or says she will not let that happen to her community in kenya. communities did not want that to happen to us that's why we created the interest to protect ourselves it's well documented that after hurricane katrina in new orleans developers swiftly moved into have a low income communities and replaced them with hotels and expensive water from the problems but the residents of can you say they're aware of the dangers of post hearkened relief and reconstruction and that they're ready she had her time see al-jazeera can you know martine ten. created to remember the fifty eight people shot dead by a gunman in las vegas. with flowers and messages in the council says it will become a permanent memorial preston salumi reports. the city. now has a place where the victims of the october first shooting will be remembered

permanently on monday just one day after the shooting landscapers felt the need for a community space somewhere people could come together to heal. the city for a place where they could put up a temporary guard and what they got was a plot of land for a permanent memorial and in just a few days about four hundred people have come forward to donate time or resources to this memorial and many more have come to. i think that most of us are here tonight because we're not willing to be fearful and we're going to continue to live our lives we are a community and we came together. people. and. in terms of.

fact and speculation. investigation but they are asking the public. goods. between. from cool breeze news and fuel. to the woman trying to diss of southeast asia. how i was still got some very heavy rain around eastern parts of here but i was also west to another area a cloud of rain piling us why and here we go from the balkans step out into the black sea it's ukraine pushing up just that western side of russia there's a window of trial whether the towards the north west some way some windy weather

streaming back in the across the british isles into the low countries side across into scandinavia so sad state does look a pretty wet one their first northern france through the low countries pushing right up into suede and the cool northwest wind coming down across sea u.k. around seventeen celsius or the around fifteen they're full of the end in central pa so there is that really wet weather down towards the southeast and heavy downpours coming through here corrected just eleven or twelve degrees celsius over the next couple days a real wet weekend here and that wet weather stretching across that eastern side of roumania the clouds in the rain that will spill its way across a dance awards poland still some very wet weather there into finland and sweden and then looking at some price and quiet to weather across the northwest london and paris at around seventeen degrees well the parts of africa generally five and dry looking very quiet now a little bit a fair weather cloud in place temperatures are bats at around twenty six celsius.

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what it calls a further exodus of refugees from myanmar to bangladesh half a million behind the have already cost is the end of the military crackdown a heightened state law says it's fighting. and denies accusations of ethnic cleansing. that isn't based on the gulf coast it's already battered central america but these twenty five people killed in flooding and landslides across. and el salvador and a makeshift area where residents are laying flowers will be turned into a permanent memorial to eight people shot dead by a gunman in las vegas on sunday they say they haven't established why sixty four year old stephen paddick carried out the attack. now catalonia is raging on president has met community leaders in barcelona to discuss what to do after sunday's referendum the group includes lawyers academics and are members of the barcelona football club catalan separatists leaders say they're planning to go

ahead with the session despite a ban from the spanish central government promised a horde has rejected any talks on the matter. but madrid has apologised for the violent response by police during the session but health authorities say around nine hundred people were injured pen hole reports from barcelona. as apologies go it was a little lukewarm the spanish government spokesman said he was sorry for the hundreds of catalan voters injured by national police and civil guard riot units but he said they were just following orders those orders to stop sunday's referendum from happening at all direct from madrid on this. i said this very clearly before they were following an order they weren't order to avoid in a legal vote they were ordered to seize ballot boxes if there were incidents and there were people injured evidently sorry other than those words there was no hint

of madrid softening its stance on friday catalonia as police chief only weeks ago hailed a hero became the villain appearing in court in madrid major just stepped up arrow commander of the regional muscles disquieted a force was lauded for a swift response in august to the attacks in barcelona in madrid prosecutors accused him of sedition or inciting a rebellion for failing to quash support for catalan secession the process ation leaders of two of catalonia civic and grassroots organizations face the same charges prosecutors say the leaders revved up crowds around cattle and government offices on september the twentieth. and the human blockade hampered raids by national and civil guard police under orders from government leaders in madrid. is that when i invoked the right not to make a statement because i don't recognize this court's competence in relation to the

crime we are accused of sedition because we are convinced we have not committed any kind of crime as the crisis lurches on there's a whiff of disarray among cattle and process session politicians some want to call a potentially historic parliamentary meeting for monday that debate could lead to a full blown declaration of independence others favor rescheduling it until tuesday and yet more sensing they may have overplayed their hand suggest catalonia may not yet be ready for independence at all call pennell al-jazeera barcelona spain. tens of thousands of people have paid their last respects to former iraqi president and kurdish leader. it was laid to rest in his hometown of died on tuesday in one champion herself accepted the president in two thousand and three. prompting tests from. the central government. without him on his death comes

a week ultravox kurdish region voted in favor of all the. prime minister has rejected the referendum and called on kurdish peshmerga forces to work with his troops to fight. the reports from. the daily grind. military tactics against elusive enemies under the baking sun this training session is about detecting suspects and suspicious vehicles. make sure no one is wearing a suicide vest and the car is not says the trainer a threat to soldiers here know all too well many of them were children at the time when just going to the market in this part of iraq near the border with syria could be a deadly trap there all sunni muslim arabs proudly serving under the kurdish banner . we saw what the kurds did and what the government the kurdish areas are safe

there is no security in places like baghdad we prefer to be with them and i. there is a sense of newfound purpose and identity among the soldiers here ever since the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three this area was taken by various armed groups including and i and the tribes here frustrated by the lack of support from the central government in baghdad had only one choice left just seek protection from the kurds. really man i career soldier still remembers when it was too dangerous for anyone in uniform to be up the streets he survive several attempts. i said yes to the referendum and yes to independence i used to say my country's iraq united. but after the central government ignored us and let iceland areas i changed

my mind. the tribal leaders tried to kurdish president masoud barzani for help now they fully backed the referendum for secession and. joining the kurds doesn't mean we forego all arab roots the kurds who represent the real. sectarian with baghdad we are less than nothing not even second class citizens. this border area was controlled by the iraqi government in baghdad up until two thousand and fourteen when the kurds ever arrived. iraq's prime minister threatening to retake control of similar areas but increasing numbers of sudanese are calling for further disapprobation. there is no other choice but the division of iraq each live in the area. unity is an illusion we told the arab countries there is no more iraq this will put an end to sectarianism and we are aiming for a sunni autonomy. the kurdish referendum other minorities were never found their

place in the iraq after saddam hussein. to failures of the baghdad government to be inclusive it's difficult to see how the iraqi flag will be raised here once again. hundreds of people have. free and fair elections and. opposition leaders accuse the ruling party of tampering with. elections next year the. president. has. great. now millions of women in the u.s. may no longer have access to birth control through their health insurance on the new roles brought on by president on trump any company claiming to be morally opposed to contraception canal have the benefit removed from the employees cava it's one of a number of for the just freedoms trump promised during his election campaign don

estabrook reports from washington d.c. . it's a move that could impact millions of american women the trump administration is rolling back on obamacare mandate requiring insurance coverage for contraception the white house said effective immediately a new rule allows employers to refuse contraception coverage based on religious or moral reasons this is a president who supports the first amendment supports the freedom of religion i don't understand why that should be an issue the american civil liberties union was quick to respond it filed a suit in san francisco saying the rule violates the separation of church and state and discriminates against women but while the courts may exempt some employers from providing contraceptive coverage their workers might still get it anyway really they put a duty on the government to step up to the plate to provide

a way for. the people who potentially stand to lose and then to get that coverage in another gesture to the religious right attorney general jeff sessions issued a number of broad guidelines aimed at protecting religious freedom one says religious organizations should be able to hire workers whose religious beliefs are consistent with theirs critics say that could allow some employers to discriminate against the l g b t community and others but for president trump the guidelines are a reaffirmation of the commitment he made to evangelical voters who swept him into office and who he continues to court free speech does not end at the steps of a cathedral or a synagogue or any other house of worship we are giving our churches their voices back we are giving them back in the highest form. with this executive order we also make clear that the federal government will never ever penalize any person

for their protests religious beliefs but these moves could set the administration up for another long battle in federal court diana zero washington right to a tall order for south korea's capital now sells us that he dominated by skyscrapers built following the korean war but now there's a push to preserve some of its old homes reports from seoul in this bustling metropolis in the shadow of skyscrapers these houses known as hummocks are a slice of days gone by traditionally made from wood with tiled roofs they're designed to be cool in the summer and warm in the winter but as south korea modernized many moved out preferring the convenience of new apartment buildings. there are not many handouts left because most. would take special effort to

preserve them. but turned this old hanukkah into a guest house with modern amenities and international touches from british designer wallpaper to arabic style tiles it's one of a number of new businesses that are turning rundown neighborhoods into trendy hotspots and changing the face of the place eighty three year old park junge salk has called home for fifteen years you can hear us it's really more just many bars and restaurants have opened up in this area especially this year and the residents have sold their houses and laughed. professor leaky womb studies gentrification in seoul he says some of the residents felt forced to leave this area become so expensive. because it is it used to be. appalled to stay in this area others didn't appreciate being turned into a tourist attraction even though he was writing

a. story that became a huge issue as couple of. past couple of years at another nearby village tourists are encouraged to visit quietly one more inconvenience is that these hanukkah's can be difficult to maintain and require specialized repairs but the city government wants to preserve them and offer special subsidies and loans to owners. do you says it's all about striking the right balance so more of these houses don't disappear and on a porch on a cut it is important to preserve the coexistence and conservation and come up with ways to interpret the henoch in a modern way to share with people. taking the old and reimagining it for the new generation to enjoy cathy know that al-jazeera sold. again on of the problem and of the headlines on al-jazeera and the un is bracing for what it calls

a for the exodus of the hand of refugees from myanmar to bother with up to one hundred thousand people waiting to cross the border half a million one hundred have already lost since the end of august to escape a military crackdown a state says it's fighting separatist groups and denies accusations of ethnic cleansing the homage i'm joined has more from the refugee camps and cox's and bangladesh. when it rains here in these camps where the conditions are so appalling so one hygenic it only makes things worse it makes the conditions right here more epidemics to break out and this is one thing that aid workers are very concerned about it why organizations like unicef are going to be starting immunization programs to try to ensure that there isn't some sort of a cholera outbreak that might happen. us focus is a tropical storm that has become a hurricane as it bears down on the gulf coast it's already bad in central america

with that they used to twenty five people killed in flooding and landslides across costa rica nicaragua honduras and el salvador. a makeshift area where residents have been laying flowers will be turned into a permanent memorial for fifty eight people shot dead by a gunman in las vegas on sunday police say they haven't yet established the motive of sixty four year old stephen paddick who carried out the attack. catalonia is regional president has met community leaders and barcelona to discuss ways to discuss what to do rather after sunday's referendum the group includes lawyers academics and members of boss alone a football club separatist leaders say they're planning to go ahead with secession despite a ban from the spanish central government tens of thousands of people have paid their last respects to former iraqi president and kurdish leader. who died on tuesday he was laid to rest in his hometown of saline many of and hundreds of people have held a rally to demand free and fair elections and serbia's capital belgrade opposition

leaders accuse the ruling party of tampering with the ball to lists before local elections next year the vote is seen as a test for president alexander church those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with the listening post of coming up next thank you for watching . facing realities your president said that there would be a complete audit a hundred percent audit that audit hasn't happened getting to the heart of the matter so are you saying then that the future of the. story. on talk to al-jazeera at this time. we. were always told we're going to.