nine hundred sixty seven and the six day war was at its height a u.s. spy ship the u.s.s. liberty monitored the conflict from international waters suddenly she was attacked by the warplanes of america's closest regional ally israel over two hundred were killed and wounded the front part of the ship was just red with blood what happened that day has long been the subject of cover up a mystery now the truth can be revealed the day israel attacked america a major investigation at this time on al-jazeera. the. arab. land. al-jazeera.

hello i'm barbara sarah this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes. unity not separation tens of thousands of people rally in barcelona they say they don't want catalonia the split from spain. turkey flexes its military might along the border with syria as part of an operation to rid the province of al qaeda linked fighters a painful healing process we need a teenager wrongly just the scaped me i'm are with his life. and i'm far it's all the case for anyone including poland are the latest team to qualify for next year's world cup in russia. let's begin the program with some breaking news the u.s.

suspended all non immigrant visa services at its diplomatic facilities in turkey now that means that turks will not be given visas to visit the u.s. unless they're actually planning to move there well for more we can speak to tom ackerman who is in our washington bureau so tom this just literally broke what in the past five ten minutes or so what else do we know. well this apparently represents a further ratcheting up of the tense relations between the united states and turkey and specifically the government of president air two on the specific circumstances the united states just a couple of days ago had protested the arrest of a local of what they described as a local employee of their consulate in istanbul the foreign minister of turkey a couple of days ago had described this arrest as due to part of the dragnet

against alleged. plotters plotting to overthrow the government there particularly members of the movement and this man was accused is identified only as empty and he was accused of being a member of that group the the embassy denied absolutely that he had any ties to the girl and it's and just as background the turkish government has since donald trump's accession to the white house has repeatedly petitioned for extradition he is self exiled in the state of pennsylvania and so far has gotten no response of the turks have gotten no response from the trump administration so whether or not this is an indirect jab and now a counter strike by the by the united states administration against turkey whatever the circumstances here it is definitely means that relations between the two

countries have definitely reached a further downgrade of the relations between the countries have been have gotten even worse but how does this affect ordinary turkish people who may well have to go to the united states maybe to visit relatives just remind us exactly who is affected by by this measure. well we don't know the exact number but the commercial and family relations between the two countries are significant there are hundreds of thousands of people of turkish descent living in the united states many turks have arrived in the country in the united states as as as immigrants the the numbers have increased over the last few decades because of what's called chain immigration in other words someone who by virtue of having come to america can bring can can petition to bring along their

relatives the turkish turkey was not significantly not one of the countries one of the muslim majority countries that were included in the tour the travel ban that the trumpet ministration institute at the outset and one of the arguments they made in saying that this was not a real religiously based exclusion was pointing to in fact turkey is one of those countries or a muslim country which is not affected now it's clear that that turkey itself has now come under that kind of a ban effectively and we are still waiting to hear any kind of reaction from the turkish authorities i'm not seeing any yet i'm sure it will be coming in the next few hours or so for the moment tom ackerman with the latest from washington on that new measure thank you tom. now an alliance led by former al qaeda linked fighters is promising a fierce battle against those who enter its territory in syria's province that had

released the statement after the free syrian army or the f.s.a. crossed into the area from turkey on saturday they're being backed by turkish soldiers a lot of reports from near the turkish syrian border. turkish to we shall to hit a sham positions inside syria. the former al qaeda affiliate group controls most of province and this border area is the focal point of what turkish authorities refer to as a serious campaign. and the free syrian army is sending reinforcements to that i had. the starting point for the new cross border campaign. thank you but to hail a sham which has thousands of fighters is vowing to fight to the death news of the new campaign is raising concerns for civilians in there if the turkish army enters

back by russian planes they have committed a massacre a few days ago in our midst that is for sure and acceptable to me and to any muslim who rejects the presence of occupiers in our country. the russians are the first and last enemy of the syrian people are backing bashar al assad how can they be supporting the syrian people. the new push by turkey comes after an agreement with russia and iran last month to set up a deescalation zone in. the turkish army will be operating in the city while the russians will be deployed outside of the province it is one of four deescalation zones the others are the asker's of the capital damascus or the border with jordan a lot of parts of homes. the zones what established after iran russia and turkey decided to set aside their differences and find

a permanent solution to the syrian conflict. the new operation could be part of a broader deal between russia turkey and iran but we don't know who would run one site at the hague a sham quite a victory from the promise and what will become of moderate opposition factions and the thousands of civilians living in the area. well let's take a closer look now at who. are formed in january two thousand and seventeen the alliance is made up of several armed factions no one knows for sure how many fighters it has but they do number in the thousands the group is spearheaded by the former news of a front which was al qaeda is syrian branch until last year when it broke allegiance its leader abu mohammed al gilani is one of the most powerful rebel leaders in syria ariel sharon is blocking

a deescalation deal brokered by turkey russia and iran in it leave the province well joining us now via skype from at eight so in italy is joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies and associate professor at the university of oklahoma school age of international studies a sir thank you so much for being with us so the way that you see it how much is this action about it and the fact that it's one of the escalation zones and how much do you think it's actually about addressing terror here. and perhaps stopping it becoming bigger than it already is. well it's about all of these things and. mcgirt the head of the u.s. coalition and the western coalition that's working to destroy isis in syria called into the province the biggest concentration of al-qaeda since nine eleven he said this is very troubling and it was clear that the united states was going to take

action to do something about this the u.s. has asked turkey russia and the others to come up with a plan forward and this looks like the beginning of a plan turkey would move in to at least the northern half of it lit province in order to try to negotiate with the arab sunni rebel groups there to come under turkish authority and in a sense to stand down from there or from the g. hottest position that they take today telling them that they're going to get destroyed by russia and the syrian army with the help of america unless they begin to make some kind of a deal with turkey and i think that's what turkey is offering that is the chance to find a soft landing because if they don't the international community is going to find a way to destroy this key hottest unclick considering though i mean as i just read

out no one actually knows for sure how many fighters that harrell shot actually has i mean what do you think that potentially is that that the conflict that we're obviously going to see now in a blip province's going to to escalate in a way detract from the fight against iceland other areas well that's it that's a good question i think what turkey is worried about. is that syria and russia will lay siege to it eventually not in the near future but eventually once they've finished with isis in the east the scramble for oil assets and important assets in the east which is going on today the syrian army is like you can swing back towards good would in order to crush the al-qaeda affiliated groups there and other rebel groups turkey it would be laying siege and they would drive many of these rebels into turkey turkey doesn't want to deal with that they don't want to be driven into

turkey and they want to wait to take charge i think of this italy province and keep the arab rebels there inside syria rather than having helium and work out a deal that would be amenable both around those to turkey to the international community in which some order would be maintained over the region without a siege warfare and destruction and bombing the wall to sit and so forgive me for interrupting and we're just running out of time slightly how likely do you think then it is that the kind of deal the you've just been describing is actually feasible and is going to happen well it seems far away on the other hand many of the arab commentators the arab activists believe that turkey is working out a deal they don't believe it this is going to be a real war where a real fight and that turkey is going to move in in many ways like it did in northern syria a year ago and work out a deal with many of the free syrian army units and the question will be will the al-qaeda affiliated groups stand down and that we have to wait and see everybody is

sort of biting their fingernails to see what's going to happen yes another very complex chapter of the syrian war joshua landis thank you so much for joining us always good to talk to you later. now much more to come here on the al-jazeera news hour including safety standards under the spotlight in ghana after a massive gas explosion killed seven people and injures dozens more. i'm here with reporting from zambia many of the children fleeing violence in the democratic republic of congo are children i'll tell you how some of them are trying to survive in a new country. and here's another career milestone for rafael nadal at the china open tennis we'll give you all the details of the later sport.

now they're calling themselves the silent majority and they've been out in force in barcelona their message they want catalonia to stay part of spain hundreds of thousands of people traveled from from all over the country to make their call for unity exactly one week after catalonia as a session vote the referendum has plunged spain into a political crisis and this is jonah hall reports both sides are only hardening their positions. barcelona has seen plenty of huge demonstrations but not like this one see red yellow. lines the moment showing the spanish national flag. draped calls for dependents this is a highly unusual show of national unity. some have come from other parts of spain but most are from catalonia itself tony roll down

there's a couple on politician opposed to independence. crowd the best videos of these . forty years later she finished was over and we have managed to build a framework that works for everyone i think the future belongs to you i just think that we need to believe there are national framework to govern. the world doesn't make sense today but they call themselves the silent majority was their son or representative of the right forces not the well silent noble surely this. is the. one moment described an atmosphere of hostility towards those who disagree with the push for independence days ago when i was in my spanish. is what i cut. that there was i think. it's right to bite the

hand that i cut for yes. and given the opportunity to speak out many embraced it eagerly tired of being the majority and the people to say that we are not we are the majority because the union has a force and commodities common sense independent schools in this region with its distinct culture and language a centuries old with the stakes of never been higher in the dritte prime minister money on a rock hall he warns he may use special powers to revoke catalonians autonomy the regional government meanwhile is considering a unilateral declaration of independence in the weeks to come but who will follow them not these people who seem to have found their voices jonah hold al-jazeera barcelona well joining us now is the more gnaws a research fellow at the university of barcelona joining us from barcelona sir thank you very much for being with us on this news hour now do you think that. is

justified in being quite as optimistic a while as confident as he is when he says we're going to prevent independence from occurring i can tell you with absolute frankness that he will not happen do you think he's being a little bit too or too optimistic. well he said the same thing of all last sunday's vote and they've all been right along with obvious problems. from the bullies in the region but their vote did happen over two million people to vote that and that was not what we were saying before the vote so yeah he has a history of being a bit overconfident they would say. i mean we've seen we've seen pictures right next to you now of the many many people that turned out who actually aren't for independence and they do want to see a united states but what do you think authorities in barcelona will do because it's kind of you know the next move is sort of day there as you think they will declare

independence this weekend what do you think the impact of that will be one of the political for a casting is a risky business i would say the most likely thing is that there will be some sort of the canaries from the parliament i don't know exactly in what terms i guess they're never going on now within. this. most likely also with all there are. in the process those at the terms of what's going to happen on tuesday and probably everything will depend on the will it be like a ball the glories and will it be a milder colorism with some sort of compromise or space for for the negotiation taking that out there is more likely at this point how have you felt i guess the temperature change in barcelona in the past week because yes

a lot of people voted for the referendum the turnout was low but i guess it was the overreaction as many saw it of the spanish police that made a lot of catalans feel even more strongly about the referendum how have you felt the mood the change in the past week in barcelona. well the mode started to say i would say that the ending of september when the when there were arrests of. prior to the referendum but then of course the day of the of the vote with the police crackdown on voters that caused a huge emotional impact on the cd i mean i would say that their respective why interview on independence most people was affected and the emotion and the about that of all the images of all the world has seen i mean i think this is an important part of the story of what's going to happen in the next few days otherwise imagine we would have had

a peaceful vault with loads are now that i think this is going to would be much different right now what the it's the spanish government hardening of the crisis that has farther forward than i would say and everyone seems to be hardening their positions more joined the research fellow from the university of course a lesser thank you. man more as military forces have been accused of carrying out atrocities against muslims the un has warned me and its actions amount to ethnic cleansing but the government denies the charge mohammed reports now from a makeshift refugee camp in bangladesh where he's met one young man who survived an attack by the army. despite the relief his family tries to provide eighteen year old or hindu refugee muhammad is still haunted for a while his mother and siblings try to give him

a brief respite from the extreme heat and humidity but no matter how much medicine is given or the number of bandages applied his scars both physical and psychological will remain. it took us out from our home and tied our hands behind our backs they pulled us along the roads and kicked as they pulled us through the village through the jungle and took us to join another group of people they made as a lie down on top of one another mohammad all says when soldiers from me and mars army began shooting at them he was hit twice in the back. at first he pretended to be dead but then again when i opened my eyes to see if they'd left a note when i opened my eyes they saw me and shot me here two of his brothers were killed in the army's attack on mano a village in rakhine state on august twenty seventh mohammed was convinced he also would not survive a mood in the clinton who i thought i would die so i prayed i thought to myself i'm

not going to see my relatives anymore mohamed tools brother sure if i was desperate to get him some help they're going to doctors but they're not doctors we couldn't find any doctor there was military everywhere so i couldn't go to the pharmacy and get him any medicine people were telling me i should go break down the door of the pharmacy and bring him medicine but i couldn't go there because of the military i'm sure if tells us that in addition to his two brothers who were killed dozens more of his relatives were also executed during the attack a recent report by human rights watch included interviews with witnesses and survivors who told the organization that me and morris military didn't just carry out mass killings that day but that they also sexually assaulted stabbed and beat villagers who were gathering for safety in a residential compound and while the u.n. has called the actions of man mars military a textbook example of ethnic cleansing man or as government has categorically denied carrying out any atrocities against the rangers. or muhammad tools heartbroken mother there is no time to dwell on the past taking care of her family

even in conditions as miserable as these is her priority as a latina i didn't take in that when i see my son's wings i don't feel like going back to my village and also i set fire to our home they said if i ever where we saw that and we had no choice but to leave they may have been able to leave the violence behind but for mohamed will it's clear the horror of what he lived through will never really go away. at the tank ali refugee camp in cox's bazaar bangladesh ghana's government has pledged to improve safety standards in the country's energy sector after an explosion killed seven people in the capital it happened after a gas tanker court fire in aca. reports. the fire burned for nearly twelve hours in ghana's capital accra workers were offloading a tanker of liquefied petroleum gas when there was an explosion the gas storage

depot is just meters from a fuel station which also caught fire. to move on to the town the blast was felt kilometers away causing panic and confusion students in a nearby school and university hospitals were all evacuated people in the immediate area just. everybody. everybody. so we had. do you see. what i saw was. everything was. right. it was very run. on the emergency services were quick to cordon off the area controlling the crowds of onlookers many of whom have been there for hours. in this time so the fire service is releasing. just to avoid any possible further explosions now this latest incident has once

again raised questions about the nature of gas and fuel distribution in this country according to his energy minister. incidents in the past three years including one in twenty fifteen which killed more than ninety people when a fuel station caught fire proposed table. make sure the stations maintain the. proposal. is. rather tankers coming in. people say they're tired of all the talk and want action not just from the political leaders but also from those involved in the industry some of what al-jazeera. north korean leader kim jong un has told government officials that the

nation's nuclear weapons program is a powerful the terror and that guarantees the country sovereignty him and also refer to relations with the united states is a complicated international situation hours earlier u.s. president donald trump took to twitter to say that only one thing would work in dealing with north korea after years of talks have brought no results from that and actually specify what value one thing was that has previously threatened to quote totally destroy north korea to protect america and its allies trampas also accused iran of funding north korea's regime and described the country as a bad player in the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal and of the two thousand and fifteen i could see it unraveled. i believe they're funding north korea i believe they're trading with north korea i believe they're doing things with north korea that is totally inappropriate that doesn't pertain to the deal but it might

opinion it does because it's called the spirit of a deal. and you will see what i will be doing in the not too distant future but iran is a bad player. and they will be taken care of as a bad player. stay with us on the news hour still ahead voters prepare for the polls but who will prevail in liberia. we'll tell you how italy's fashion industry is saving the country's twenty minutes. doing. action from the japan grand prix in sport. still seeing some showers moving across turkey at the moment little area driving across the black sea that will produce a little bit of wet weather for turkey and will make its way into eastern policy as

we go through monday was just knocking over towards the caspian sea as we head on into tuesday becoming a little more extensive once again but for much of the middle east it's dry fine and sunny warm sunshine coming through hot sunshine a kuwait at thirty six ounces and hotter still here in doha with a high of around thirty eight degrees abu dhabi gets up to thirty six the high for many that a bit of cloud around the gulf of aden shouldn't be too bad so want to light showers just cropping up here meanwhile we're looking at heavy showers for eastern parts of south africa over the next little area cloud here making its way through the eastern cape another one drives through as we go on through monday really heavy rain across the eastern side of south africa also seeing some other way whether the choose day that rain really gathering and there's a possibility of some localized flooding but the seasonal rains well they're making their way further south was across the democratic republic of congo central africa

has a chance of want to two showers there into kenya and the usual showers there the possibility area. or is it a listen when they're on line we were in hurricane winds for almost like thirty six hours these are the things that new u.k. has to address or if you join us on saturday i'm a member of a complex one but we struck up a relationship this is a dialogue tweet us with hash tag ha stream and one of their pitches might make an actual join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be for it is you know it's very challenging liberally particularly because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are the people we live to

tell the real story so i'll just mend it is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. suspended all known immigrant visa services at its diplomatic facilities in turkey hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in a rally in barcelona against the independence from spain and alliance led by former al qaeda linked fighters is promising a fierce battle against those who enter its territory in syria as if live province

. campaigning has officially ended in liberia where voters will soon choose a replacement for president ellen johnson sirleaf vice president joseph leading the race but he's got some colorful and controversial company there is a legendary football george ware who is running mate is the ex-wife of liberia's form a dictator charles taylor then there is former warlord prince johnson is running for the second time he's accused of ordering the torture and murder of liberian president samuel doe in one thousand nine hundred ninety and for the country that africa's first female head of state only one woman is aiming for the top job that's model turned humanitarian by the akubra well twenty contenders are standing in a minute recess more now from the capital monrovia. liberia is presidential and parliamentary elections and a last minute effort to win over voters that range from the flamboyant to the

everyday person one thing they have in common though is that this time on issues look and sound the same. and this is forcing many voters to narrow their choices down to all the allegiances of tribal region and personality. candidates with developmental. platforms many political observers believe that voters are not asking the right questions. which is really. a newborn democracy is. too corny is a product of the country's broken education system. she and her neighbor take turns teaching their children the little the know this let's not use.

my children the sick. i mean. the literacy rate here is about thirty percent. some candidates have promised better life for librarians from poverty reduction to education and providing infrastructure one thing that seem to have worked well so far is a campaigning. only to record itself remarkable development for a country that emerged from. the election commission here hopes. the election commission is confident of successful elections that could lead to a transition from one democratic government to another for the first time in more than forty as one of the challenges we had of course were. so in

part of our country are difficult to read because of conative but we were blessed to have the only of the year we graciously agreed to provide air support to transport how much here's a presidential aspirant needs to win more than fifty percent of the vote to avoid a run of four legislators though a simple majority will do. but it greece al-jazeera what rovio the army and democratic republic of congo says rebel fighters of ambushed a bus and attacked villages in the country's east it's unclear how many have been killed in the fighting which took place in the beni territory in north kivu province security forces blamed the attack on ugandan rebels called the allied democratic forces or the a.d.f. welcome webb is in of iraq in the east of the country. the fighting began saturday afternoon the army says attackers ambushed road users killing civilians and then

attacked army posts and in the fighting with the army many hours after that a local m.p. said at least thirty people have been killed the mayor of anything people who dispute the violence all the attackers killing people with machetes there was a spate of massacres around the town of benny since twenty fourth the army blamed the a.d.f.a. ugandan rebel group for this although some rights groups researches dispute this this is not the a.d.f. there are various different players involved including some factions of the army itself but that's something that the army denies this is one of several conflicts in congo that at the moment is seemingly getting worse conflicts are escalating in several parts of the country and that follows presidential elections that were meant to happen in december last year not happening the electoral commission says that because it couldn't afford them it didn't have the resources oppositions say it's because president joseph kabila is trying to stay on in power and the

international community have expressed concern that the lack of a democratic process could lead to a worse and of conflict across the country possibly bring it back to the kind of level of conflict that was seen here in the late ninety's and early two thousand well for more on this we're joined in the studio by the founder of the campaign group save the congo and also i believe the president of the congolese support group u.k. is that. ok so first of all where do you think things are developing now i know that you're calling for could be the stand down as indeed are a lot of people what do you see the situation at the like. over the past. two months or so the situation has gotten incredibly worse we've seen. the killings and uprooting of people in places such as intensifying. we also see a lot of killings in places such as which was incredibly peaceful before intensifying and more people some twenty thousand people have been displaced just

last week so the situation is incredibly worsening and we suspect one of the reasons that this is becoming so listen surely the government. are creating this crisis to prevent election from taking place to use it as an excuse and you mentioned aside because actually even months ago the unrest in the central aside region was one of the reasons already used by they could be like government not to have you know to have the elections slips at a stroke of course i mean initially begun with benny benny what we saw between two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and sixteen was hundreds of people being killed and massacred with machetes and when that could not be used as an excuse all of a sudden our society which was incredibly peaceful became the center of the killings in congo and he's been so since june of last year so that is an excuse because the government is attempting to use sort of say you know what we cannot hold elections

as a result of my stay because of this crisis but that should not be as an excuse now and also i mean speaking of all the atrocities been going on to united nations experts sent to investigate less killings were actually killed in march is i mean there seems to be i mean certainly in the international community a bit of a consensus that it really would be time for kabila to go who do you think could or would replace him i mean in the landscape now seems like an obvious successor no one of the options pushing and some of my friends also pushing is essentially for now once could be less that down we're going to have a transition and in the transition should be late by someone from the civil society group and one of the names which has been mentioned which i'm supporting these things more quickly i want him to lead a transition until we return code to constitutional order and then once that has been done and then we would organize election which would be peaceful credible and transparent. and then all the political party will take place and take part and contest for the supreme of this that the us is an incredible for

a lot of us who want to know it mean it's enormous it's the size almost of western europe incredibly rich when it comes to natural resources none of which gets translated into the pockets of ordinary people and also it's a country that has suffered incredibly through civil war i mean how much hunger do you think there is in the people right now for transition i mean i know that the marcus is good on paper and not just on paper but do you think that actually there is the kind of push among the people of the year see itself to get rid of could be which one way or another is going to cause more instability before. this movement has been led by people on the ground by young people members of the looter movement member of the feelin be members of. war and so forth and what we're seeing on the grannies young people and student essentially rising up and if you remember if you go back to there's a general two thousand and fifteen and if you go back to. september of two thousand and sixteen and seventeen when thousands of hundreds of people were absolutely

massacred on the ground by men and special military forces but nonetheless in spite of all of this well we see on the ground is an incredible anger and frustration and people are ready to fight to force. out by force what we want to do and what we are pushing is we want this to be a civilian movement we wanted to be we want people to actually destroy them for the first time in college history we wanted to be the civil society and young people who would push out rather than the military well it shows no signs of leaving just yet so i'm sure you and i will be having this discussion on this topic again soon for the moment of time but thank you so much for your time thank you. now the air sea is host to more than four hundred seventy thousand refugees but fighting in the country as we were just discussing has forced hundreds of thousands of its own citizens to flee over four hundred ninety thousand have a scaped in neighboring countries now look at that map most there in uganda which

also houses the world's largest refugee camp the u.n. though is getting increasingly worried about zambia more than three thousand refugees have crossed the border in just the last month that's more than one hundred people every day the new arrivals are from border provinces of what kapanga and two thirds of them are children and they're coming with stories of extreme brutality how do we pass every ports now from compound on zambia's border with the r.c. one. and his brother are making a door for the new home it's a temporary structure at a refugee transit center in zambia the teenagers walk for weeks from democratic republic of congo we security forces are fighting different militia groups they say some adults try to discourage them from making a dangerous journey but they kept on moving the incident. my parents were both killed when the village was the only thing i could do was run and leave the country i was told. bad people won't fall in love i walked for

a long time i missed my parents but at least i'm alive and safe in zambia the united nations refugee agency says sixty percent of refugees crossing into zambia are children doesn't making the journey alone others come with relatives because they got separated from their parents during the conflict to have children who have fled because they have lost their parents and they have experienced the killing of their parents and you have children who come here because they came home to empty homes and then you have children who came here and telling us the story for street treatments for adoption u.n. officials say on average between sixty and one hundred people are coming to get every day this group has just arrived the women say they couldn't leave the unaccompanied children behind to die or get up ducted by the militia the d.l.c. border is only a few meters away children who come alone sometimes waits in neighboring villages

hoping their parents they can wait for days they can wait for weeks sometimes they never hear from their families again the refugees try to center in chile is filling up fast there are nearly four thousand registered refugees the minutes here in the aids are huge aid workers say unaccompanied or separated children need to be placed in foster homes many are traumatized others show signs of my nutrition these kids are waiting for their mother to join them they crossed the border together but their mother was rushed to hospital because she's about to give birth she told them she will come and find them but they don't know how long that could take but now they are alone in a new country. al-jazeera compound zambia. the u.n. secretary general has told al-jazeera that caribbean islands battered by hurricanes are the victims of climate change and tony good terror is travel to barbuda and and dominica to see the devastation caused by hurricanes and maria ninety five percent

of infrastructure in barbuda was damage than good terrors admits he's never seen that level of destruction before. the reason of my visit to barbara to munich is exactly to raise awareness to put pressure on international community for a stronger humanitarian aid now and also for a stronger aid in relation to the reconstruction and the building resilience in the islands of the caribbean as we manage in that in the next few years seems will get worse than worst the world bank is promoting. meeting in the context of their annual meeting and i urge the international community to fully support these caribbean states there are small islands they are sometimes completely destroyed they are pressing five many of them as middle income countries they have no access to grants or to soft loans this needs to be revisited and i think it's essential for the international community to be able to help these states allowing them to

reconstruct and overcoming the enormous difficulties that they face not only because of the natural disasters but because of the i levels of depth that they already had before they need international solidarity they have not contributed to climate change but they are the first victims of these dramatic impacts of climate change. speaking to me a little here now stay with us on the news hour coming up the pittsburgh penguins get their n.h.l. playoffs campaign back on track the details coming up in sports. a rite of passage preserved through the generations my cousin was laying down there and she was screaming she was helpless the woman have to endorse this faculty of pain for what that menai meets the women affected by s.g.m.

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it's time to get on the sports news here in doha. barbara thank you so much poland are the latest team to a qualified for the twenty eighteen world cup in russia they beat montenegro four two on sunday in european qualifying poll and finish top of group with twenty five points denmark also made the playoffs after drawing one one with romania. egypt need a win against congo to book their place at the world cup at the moment there is the score is one nil to egypt with not long to go the egyptians are trying to qualify for the first world cup since one thousand nine hundred ninety. thousands took the streets of san jose to celebrate after costa rica secured their spot in the world cup a late equaliser from canada watson gave them a one one draw against honduras this means the twenty fourth quarter finalist join mexico is the second team to qualify from the north central american and caribbean

region. was hamilton has taken a giant step towards his fourth formula one world crown by winning the japanese grand prix it was a race that saw his main rival ferrari sebastian vettel title hopes in tatters soho melich reports. lewis hamilton is closing in on the formula one world title after starting in poland the japanese group greet he got off to a smooth start. the same couldn't be said for his main talking rival sebastian vettel he lost places quickly reporting an engine failure. for the german have to retirement funds leaving his once promising totty challenge in touches. with vettel out of the picture the red bull drive is done you're called to the next stop became hamilton's main threat. the four time world champion vettel who is leading the championship as recently as august left to wonder what could have been. in the

end how much unhealed of the competition beating the stepping into second and ricardo into it's the fourth win in japan for the briton to behind michael schumacher who has six the mistake his driver now has a fifty nine point lead over vettel with only four races left and he can secure the title by winning the next race the us from crete finishes lower than fourth and today the rebels just seem to be rapid in the race track. we. say was just holding behind but it didn't go very close a couple times i think the pace it was really promising the first stand on the super soft i was struggling but with the left front the soon as we switched to the softer i was actually very competitive and i was always with lewis and. we had great pace just really hard to pass. the last two or three laps i gave it all you know to try and close the gap. britain's most successful olympic track and field

athlete far it was fifteen on hand to support his countryman. has a fourth world title. in the history books as his country's most successful f one driver of all time so i'll just. tennis now rafa nadal has won the china open for a second time twelve years after his first victory in beijing he beat australia's nick cheerios six two six one in the final. six title of the twenty seven team seventy fifth of his career and the spaniard now looks set to and the year on top of the men's rankings things change very quickly in a sport of specially when you are in a good dynamic like i am doing this year so after so much was in the first my i played a great way to wake up then is very happy far for this title. takes a long time do we need the gain of the thousand five years but that you have a good night so just may have it but i would say that despite the late they've got

a great week let's see what's going on not. just a day after securing the women's number one ranking simona halep loss to caroline garcia garcia who was also champion and will had last week defeated the romanian six four seven six in the beijing final a frenchwoman will now move into the top ten for the first time in her career was how it will officially take over the top when the new rankings are released on monday. was just for pure owns a game just try to forget about it was a foreigner and the second in a row in the race saying it was just focus on the game and what can i do to. here are some some issues and i really went in for those a tough moment i didn't wait for their mistakes because i know it will not come. to major league baseball now where the washington nationals have made a great comeback to be defending world series champions the chicago cubs and tie things up at one game apiece tatiana sanchez reports.

things were looking bleak for washington in their home stadium on saturday somewhat similar to game one where they failed to score so most of the games the hosts child they were down three run up until the eighth inning. good sense whether fortunes changed. twenty four year old bryce harper hits an impressive and crucial to run homer to tie the game. ryan vinum and looks to have bounced back from an injury plagued twenty sixteen. thank you he added a three run home run moments later to lift the nationals to a six three comeback victory against the series champions the series is. now tied at one one. we lost a game they beat us we go home at one and one and we have king tanya and then jay

coming up not bad really interesting series well played on both sides and i cannot be happier than i am with our guys right now. over in la sanjeev the dodgers hosted the arizona diamondbacks but not standard it's got off to a sluggish start to actually i think the data. that they had was a result of took the lead up until the fourth inning when the dodgers begun to make that comeback. they overturned the deficits leap the game seven two in the fifth inning and we're going to win it by the sanction is now holding to nothing lead in the back to five national league division series everyone on our team contributed tonight. austin barnes a couple big hits and just the quality of it that you look at the fifth inning that we put on those guys and stressed and logan big and bad you know ya see us continue to shine these first two games and all up and down the line up but tonight it was

a bottom part of your that really picked us up big time tonight and they are now on the brink of advancing to the national league championship series the second straight season tatyana come to do their. moving on to the n.h.l. where the pittsburgh penguins stanley cup defense is back on track after they got their first win of the season dating the nashville predators for nothing and a rematch of last year's final if you get me malkin to open the scoring for the defending champions after sixty six seconds matt murray stopped twenty six shots posting his sixth career shutout. protests during the american national anthem have spread to the n.h.l. tampa bay lightning is change brown raised his fists ahead of a game against the florida panthers the move started last season when n.f.l. player calling capper nick now touring at home to protest against racial injustice

and that's all your sport for now it's now back to barbara in london for a thank you italy's ancient monuments have survived the centuries of earthquakes floods and looting but all that damage has come at a cost now they tell you the government has turned to the country's high end fashion houses to fund the restoration of rooms iconic buildings the coliseum is the latest landmark to receive help but not everyone is happy with what could two hours intervention into two thousand years two thousand years of history need barker has more from rome. it's a steep climb to the top of the colosseum commissioned by the emperor of a space in the years seventy two for the past forty years the fourth and fifth levels have been locked away from view until now welcome to the ancient cheap seats that probably wouldn't offer the best view of the regular bloodbath below but

they do offer a sensational view of the city. the opening of the upper levels is the result of a four year epic restoration project the outsides also strengthened and spray clean to remove generations of grime the cost a colossal thirty million dollars and there's still more work to do the sheer scale of rooms archaeological heritage poses a huge financial burden for the city and for the country the vast costs involved frequently exceed state budgets. ticket sales help but revenues don't go far enough that's where high end italian fashion comes to the rescue the coliseums renovation was largely paid for by the billionaire owner of todd's luxury footwear company. in follows a three million dollars renovation of one of rome's main tourist attractions the trevi fountain paid for by clothes company fendi. on the spanish steps restored

last year with more than a million dollars from jewelry designer bulgari when we had to celebrate our one hundred thirty three we wanted to create something really special for disney birthrate and that's why we thought to pay tribute to the sea to. our our founder and also created so much richness in our creativity the financial helps launch the welcome but it's of these cash strapped government but there were some concerns about bigots and companies using their renovations as a branding exercise. there's a real risk of commercializing monument but the brands we chose last year were chosen carefully we haven't seen any signs of companies abusing their patronage. italians are intensely proud of their rich cultural heritage but preserving it comes at a huge cost that for now only the businesses are able to cover. these

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