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 manager 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 i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as i would that's what this job. this is al-jazeera.

lab or shall carry this is the news hour a lot coming up in the next sixty minutes. calling for a dialogue with madrid first catalonia is later steps back from an immediate declaration of independence. kenya's opposition leader withdraws from the presidential election rewrite by loading it says the election commission will give him a fair chance. a major cholera immunization campaign begins in bangladesh as rangel muslims continue to flame me and mark. all the parties must come out of their possible trench position and put an end to hostile rhetoric and. the un envoy to yemen says warring leaders are not interested in finding a solution while a humanitarian crisis is getting worse. with the sports on a big night of world cup qualifying as. scores a hat trick to send argentina through to the twenty eighteen world cup in russia that is more later in the program.

catalunya slater has stepped back from declaring independence instead calling for talks to resolve spain's worst political crisis and decades charles page the mont karl's apartment which the mounted however signed it symbolic declaration although it's unclear if it has any legal status john a hall reports from barcelona. he arrived at the parliament building bristling with expectation a heavy police presence into the weighty announcement to come but carlos the president of catalonia is regional government stopped short of a full declaration of independence. as president it's my responsibility to declare that catalonia should become an independent state in the shape of a republic. should become the words greeted with rounds in applause in the chamber before the independent state party was put on hold. we asked the parliament to

suspend any effects of the declaration of independence so that we can have dialogue and so that we can find the necessary solution we need to lower tensions and show our will and commitment to meet the demands of the catalan people the reaction in madrid came swiftly and this course ok. that the speech that the catalan president has made today is a speech by a person who doesn't know where he is where he's going or with whom he wants to go the government cannot accept that the catalan referendum be validated because it's been suspended by the constitutional court. having consistently refused to talk one centrist politician suggested the time may have come for the government to compromise i think the better way they can solve the problem is with that negotiation some kind as i said of mediation a disappointment perhaps to some staunch secessionist. tonight would be their night

but sweet relief to many who fear the consequences of an outright declaration of independence after threats from madrid and the flight of top companies from catalonia since the referendum on october the first. place that you would you know living. alone or the faithful who gathered to watch the speech on the big screens left deflated but accepted it always was not lost i'm happy that he's given time in order for people things we really don't understand what's the situation we can say what does it mean what the president just said so a signed declaration but independence deferred which demands speech stipulated no timeline for talks with madrid the drama of catalonia is independence that has played out in this parliament building for nearly one hundred years isn't over yet jonah hill al-jazeera barcelona and lawrence les has more from madrid on the

spanish government's response. if you got on government thought that by extending the hand of friendship to spain as they would have put say they might have got the spanish government to reply in kind to open negotiations it looks like that was a completely vain hope the response from the spanish government already tonights here has been acids and immediates they have said what on earth the catalans doing announcing in the pendants and yet immediately suspending it they say has no legal basis a popular policy the ruling party spokesman described it to me as a joke and a full she said there was absolutely no grounds on which they could negotiate at all then the deputy prime minister spoke and she said that there would be an emergency cabinet meeting on wednesday morning during which the spanish government response would be clarified and the prime minister has been meeting people from all the opposition parties to discuss a sort of power spanish parliamentary response to what the catalans of said now clearly the catalans hope that by acting in this way they will have suspects and

appease the european union and the that they hope perhaps the european union will now put some pressure on spain and say well look the catalans have done this now you must come to the table and negotiate in the same way but as is the moment there is no sign whatsoever that the spanish government to do anything of the sort there's another twist in kenya's presidential election i thought position later violet went drawing from the right that the president says the poll will still go ahead in just over two weeks doing this accuse the electoral commission of failing to make the changes necessary for a more credible outcome catherine sawyer reports from nairobi. well into. the. unprecedented times in kenya the only other kind of data expected to be on the ballot paper for the election rerun late in the month has pulled out. his not opposition coalition say they will not participate in

a poll they feel is predetermined one where the same individuals and companies that oversaw the last election are still in place. almost foldable. going to have to. really. have a belief. system. in the rest of the. interest of the people ok. in the world of. believe that all we've been. searching the presidential. elections to do. is. to. supporters have been staging demonstrations against the electoral commission. and calling for electoral reforms commission officials say some of the

opposition demands are and reasonable and there is simply no time to implement them the political situation in the country is worrying many. families i think have moved on i am a strong feeling that. they've accepted that species. and that. in order. that. people would accept that and. already everywhere. everywhere. kenya is in uncharted territory politically and constitutionally the law isn't clear on what happens in a situation like this the constitution does not envision an eventuality where no reelection is held within a sixty day legal timeline which expires at the end of the month lawyer save no election is held by the deadline there will be a constitutional crisis president who has been busy campaigning he says he's ready

for an election we always. should he be declared the winner and induced anyway then the legitimacy of his presidency will inevitably be questioned many kenyans are feel full about what the political grandstanding between the two sides is doing to the country tensions are high the economy is struggling the country is very much in limbo catherine al-jazeera nairobi kenya. come out in defense of its ambassador to turkey stands by him despite criticism from ankara. turkey president said his government no longer recognize the diplomat it's a latest twist in the escalating dispute between the two nato allies as political hand reports from washington d.c. . another day of tough talk between the u.s. and its nato ally turkey now the u.s. says this all started when two turks who work for the u.s.

embassy were arrested in the third one was questioned in response they said they were no longer going to issue visas out of turkey for travel to america turkey responded with the exact same action now we're hearing from recipe tayyip erdogan the turkish president trying to at the seams find a way out of this blaming the ambassador not the trump administration unit you know lives you can't assure that. it is interesting that an ambassador in ankara makes decisions and says he is doing so in the name of his government if that's the case we have nothing to talk about with the high ranking officials in the united states but if that's not the case and the ambassador took this decision on his own they should keep that in basket or in that position even for a minute so did investor john bass go rogue well not so much according to the state department this was coordinated with the state department it was coordinated with the white house and courted it coordinated with the n.s.c. the goal of selfish ambassador john bass is not going to be

a concern for turkey much longer he is moving he's been nominated to the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan and at the state department senior officials say they did notify the turkish officials that this was coming down the pipeline still not doing anything to ease the tension between these two traditional allies that had a frosty relationship as of late turkish authorities have arrested thirty members have the armed forces over suspected links to ban guerrillas movement the state run news agency says police issued warrants for forty others in the air force navy and the army ankara says the movement led by u.s. based cleric to a local one was behind last year's failed coup and sense then authorities have arrested at least fifty thousand people. the u.n. special envoy for yemen is accusing the country's warring leaders of pushing for power and wealth and set of peace. shake up matt is proposing new talks to alleviate the deepening humanitarian crisis mike hanna reports united nations. this

is now the greatest humanitarian disaster in the world that's according to figures presented to the u.n. security council which indicates some twenty two million people in yemen require immediate assistance. nearly one million cases of cholera and more than two thousand people have already died of the disease famine on an unprecedented scale is a real possibility it is the result of this crisis that has left some fifteen million people lacking adequate access to clean drinking water sanitation and hygiene health services seven million people are faced with the threat of famine and all of this is exacerbated by the largest single year cholera outbreak ever recorded the u.n. special representative is. insists that what he calls influential people are not interested in finding solutions as a lose power in any settlement in and worked out how to live. i request the

security council to use all its political and economic power to exert pressure on all parties to commit to a path of peace all the parties must come out of their past and transpositions and put an end to hostile rhetoric instead of fighting over yemen let's cooperate for the best interest of the country. in the coming weeks a special representative will convene a meeting in london of the u.k. the u.s. saudi arabia and the united arab emirates which together with amman make up what is referred to as the quint charged with the renewing the long dormant political process in yemen the problem though is that two of these states are part of the saudi led coalition and as such themselves parties to the conflict. mike hanna al-jazeera united nations had in the news hour and quoting scorched earth california the damage is wildfire spread to the u.s. state for a third day. and it will consider players protests against racial inequality also

ahead in sport i'm a welling's in. all over the world cup so. all of the full story. one of the world's biggest cholera immunization campaigns is underway in bangladesh and it fares have an epidemic nine hundred thousand of the vaccine had been prepared to protect local community refugees who have fled by lines and man mark mohammed reports from a refugee camp in cox's bazaar. for these or him to refugees who've been exposed to so much violence and who still don't feel safe this is an attempt to at least keep them healthy. a massive cholera vaccination campaign led by bangladesh his ministry of health and supported by groups like the world health organization and unicef. the goal is to vaccinate six hundred fifty thousand people during the first phase

many in this makeshift camp are happy it's happening but say far more needs to be done. order is too far away that's a problem and people are suffering there are just too many people here and that's why it's so do everyone is getting seen. more than half a million refugees have fled from me and more to bangladesh in just six weeks at the sheffield camp the signs of overcrowding are everywhere. aid workers worry that extremely and hygenic conditions in camps like this one could make an already awful situation even worse which in turn could lead to a full blown health crisis among the many causes of concern are thousands of diarrhea cases reported and treated just in the past week and when you see like thousands of people are suffering from the idea that actually gives you an indication that the locked us up my situation as well as less anguish and situation is not in good shape and if we don't react if we don't think the preventive

measures things may go really wrong. shortages of food water and shelter all indicate how dire things have become recently and we have just talked with a number of people and among nineteen out of them ninety percent have said that they're leaving on a one minute pardon so the situation is really bad but everybody here down here is working really hard to make that humans. with very little clean water at their disposal life which is already hard only gets harder especially in such severe heat good obama made sure she and her children were vaccinated but that has done little to lessen her worries. there are very few toilets here in a period of three to five days it becomes full and unusable it stinks and not there are too many people here we can live without eating once or twice a day but we can't live without being able to use the toilets struggling to survive

is nothing new for these refugees and it's likely their struggle won't end anytime soon. at the shop a refugee camp in cox's bazaar on the dish human rights groups say many of their hands are refugees are fleeing not only violence but hunger is here the food shortages are getting worse and a groups are denied access and. state reports. this was meant to be an interfaith prayer rally but it quickly became clear it was a show of support for a government facing international condemnation over its handling of the ranger crisis about thirty thousand people attended this gathering in yangon organized by and sons who cheese national league for democracy. but in iraq and state in the country's north a military campaign continues it's already forced more than half a million rohingya to flee to bangladesh in the last six weeks un has described it

as ethnic cleansing and all say they're leaving not just due to violence but hunger al-jazeera attained this video from a hinge a community leaders in young gone they say this was filmed on sunday in monk in rockland state hear a man says they are moving as they have no food left to eat he asks the children not to cry who say they're sad about leaving their villages. from we meet or hinge a community leader who says he was sent other videos from rock kinds but he done township which the u.k. based aid organization burma human rights network says is facing severe food shortages here a woman says they aren't allowed to go to the market and have a shortage of food and medicine she pleads for help. over the last ten days what we're hearing from people is that the reason they are flaming is that

they have run out of food there are only two raisins in security and food a lack of food is exacerbating the situation for the mostly poor communities in northern iraq i'm reliant on aid they say is just not reaching them service say that up to eleven thousand rohingya fled neymar to bangladesh on monday alone and that many more refugees are on the way the united nations has been urging all for eighty's to allow humanitarian aid access to the conflict zone people are running out of food this is the lean season at the moment and people don't have access to their fields or have a sufficient don't have access to markets and they're simply running out of food and we're getting reports now people are fleeing not from violence but from extremely difficult circumstances in extreme isolation in their villages and they're taking a very desperate decision to leave. the international organization for migration estimated that up to one hundred thousand rohini just may be asked or heading to

the border to cross into bangladesh and it's clear that hope doesn't arrive for him to communities who remain in me they'll have no choice but to leave to. al-jazeera gone to u.s. b. one bombers have flown over the korean peninsula in a show of force against north korea they were accompanied by planes from the japanese and south korean military it comes amid heightened tensions around north korea's nuclear and missile programs launched a series of ballistic missiles in late september a value to destroy the u.s. if provoked. united states is offering millions of dollars for information about two senior hezbollah officials the state department says the media and the corps have played key roles in hezbollah attacks targeting u.s. citizens she was accused of being involved in a major attack in beirut and one nine hundred eighty three two hundred forty one u.s. service personnel were killed and really how come that's more from washington d.c.

. the trump administration is ramping up the rhetoric when it comes to iran it is signaling that it will begin to crack down on the armed wing of hezbollah which the united states says is backed by iran now the u.s. state department declared hezbollah a terrorist group in the late one nine hundred ninety s. but now the trumpet ministration is launching a new campaign to undermine the group's political legitimacy it's important to recall that hezbollah hasn't developed its military and terrorist capabilities on its own it has become the global threat it is today for one reason tehran's deep and abiding assistance the iranian regime has built and bankrolled has the lot to film of instability throughout the region and across the world now this is all part of a wider u.s. strategy on iran the president has until the end of the week to recertify iran's compliance under the terms of the twenty fifteen agreement to limit iran's nuclear

program it is widely believed that the president will announce that the deal no longer serves u.s. interests but will stop short of calling on congress to reimpose sanctions. they national football league in the u.s. has to consider a new rule forcing players to stand during the national anthem several players have been kneeling in symbolic protest against racial inequality and police brutality earlier this week u.s. vice president mike pence walked out of an n.f.l. game saying kneeling players had disrespected the american flag and if players association is to offended its members right to free expression and rest estabrook is in washington d.c. she joins us live now so diane over the past few weeks that this has been brewing that this has been percolating what have been coming out of the n.f.l. on the owner side and from the commissioner was you know these are great guys they're members of their community they stand up for things that they believe in and now a pivot

a letter from the commissioner saying that he thinks they there should be this rule why the change. well this is been going on now for three weeks and i think the n.f.l. hoped that this would all go away but again you saw over the weekend the vice president walking out of a football game and then today president trump waded back into the controversy again saying tweeting this morning that perhaps if these players don't stand during the national anthem that these teams should not get tax breaks which was interesting because the n.f.l. teams do pay federal taxes but then clarified later by his press person who said well what he was referring to was potentially state and local subsidies also you have team owner jerry jones with the dallas cowboys now saying that if his team members at the players' meal during this week's game that they won't be able to play and in response to that the local union in texas has filed

a complaint with the national labor relations board so this is an issue that doesn't seem to be going away there are fans that are angry about these some of these players that are kneeling viewership over the past couple of years with the n.f.l. has been down television viewership has been down so i think there are concerns among the n.f.l. that this could drive fans away it could further drive viewers away and that could affect ad revenue well changing the role and forcing this issue is certainly not going to make it go away if that's what their goal is so what is the players' association that if a telltale a what have they what are they doing. yeah we actually put a call into the n.f.l. players' association association this evening and they're offering no comment but again as you mentioned if you go to their website they do have a post saying that they are a union that represent these players and these players are part of the community and they use that as a platform to speak out on social issues so you know they may not be so quick to

say you know go along with this it'll be interesting to see what the response is over the next few days we looked on twitter to see if anybody was tweeting about it yet and nobody's really taken to twitter or social media to address this so we'll look forward to seeing what they have to say over the next few days the n.f.l. is going to be meeting on this the players or the teams are going to be meeting over the weekend so there may be more on this later in the week or potentially next week ok diane esterbrook reporting from washington diane thank you at least fifteen people are dead in the u.s. state of california as wildfires continue to spread for a third day of live pictures from sonoma county actually these are taped pictures but sonoma county is the famous wine country in california flames there have forced twenty thousand people from their homes california's forestry authorities say about two thousand buildings have been destroyed and the governor has declared a state of emergency checkerboard has more from santa rosa. the fires that began on

sunday night were so devastating but also so fast the residents of this community of santa rosa california lost not only convention centers and hotels like this not only their structures but in some cases they were so surprised they had to abandon their vehicles and so in block after block you see vehicles like this destroyed the wildfire reach temperatures approaching fifteen hundred degrees celsius which is enough to burn steel and so just a fundamental destruction not just of of property and all the things you see in normal fires but also infrastructure sewage lines cell phone towers all of that gone this is truly a devastated community here in california but because government says the number of people killed by hurricane maria has risen to forty three every three weeks after the storm hit the u.s. territory only sixteen percent of the island's electricity services have been restored as president donald trump has asked congress for a four point nine billion dollars loan to help cash strapped puerto rico pay its

bills. still ahead on al-jazeera. they are sending the absolute wrong message to the world and to the american people and our manila slam the trumpet ministration for scrapping obamacare a climate change law. so we hear it's a very nice a bit. of a trolling can it ever conservation officers are trying to stop poachers pushing a native hard to extinction. and sports serious world cup dreams come to it and it will have. by the springtime families of a mountain lake. to the side snow on a winter's day. and know that the remains of a tropical depression are still bringing us heavy rain in parts of it i'm you can see the very very wet weather here as the remains gradually drift their way towards

the west but does mean though as we head through into thursday there will be slightly more drawing weather to be found here still some showers but not quite as many of them further north there is a little bit of a dry patch until you see this area of rain here that is giving us some very very heavy downpours and is gradually sweeping its way eastwards so shanghai is in the firing line of that the further towards the south and there's a lot of sunshine here but also lots of showers and that's really how things are going to stay as we head through the next few days currently we're seeing some particularly lively showers here just to the west of borneo in those stretch west with still and i think this is the region where we're going to see a lot of very heavy showers possibly banding together as we head through the next few days across towards india around its in the southern hoffa really where we've got the wettest of the weather but also fairly low i.v. showers around cold cuts or is well this region again is going to be where we see the heaviest of the rains it does look very very wet here but towards the north it's a low for a lot drier it's dry air but it's still very hot so for new delhi we're expecting

a top temperature of around thirty six and karate we're up at thirty eight. the weather sponsored by cats on a race. in the heart of the amazon bolivian family has put their lives in peril to harvest brazil nuts. it's getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. risking it to the libya. at this time on al-jazeera. sometimes pictures of the only way to truly to a story and. some of the latest. to be is not just. with the.

political refugees. in a way different kinds of stories. you're watching al-jazeera let's take a look at the top stories this hour. background declaring independence talks of madrid to resolve the political crisis the spanish government will hold an emergency cabinet meeting on wednesday. presidential election will go ahead in just over two weeks despite the opposition leader pulling out. a mission of failing

to make the changes necessary for a more credible. million dollars reward for information leading to the capture of two has. washington says they targeted american citizens in multiple attacks iran backed lebanese group that's fighting alongside president. and syria. polls have closed in libraries presidential election and their hopes for the first democratic transfer of power in more than seventy years twenty candidates are seeking to replace ellen johnson sirleaf who became africa's first female president in two thousand and five from the capital monrovia reports want to know if you africa's first female president. the prize winner. at this polling station the process was largely orderly. but another centrist tempus flap as the process began the situation in this polling scenting

painesville delayed the casting of ballots for hours. and he queued up for two hours but says she was turned back at the ballot box. they said i cannot vote so i was here for al as i went to one where i was redirected to another they don't want me to vote i will go home as. a man living with disability cast his vote but was not impressed with the arrangements and one of these genes i want to see change in public buildings school buildings the disabled people to enter easily we should have access and be part of decision making. the election commission said it has worked hard to address most of the complaints the result today i think i should have my all preparation. though we have i want to two. problems the successes of

a women and i think we are heading for success hundreds of those of us also deployed for the vote. liberians are passionate about this election to choose a new president and seventy three legislative people queued up for hours before polling stations open. these elections are not only about who will succeed ellen johnson sirleaf after in power now also about things liberia has been passionate about roads health care education and building upon the existing plans but whoever wins this election will have to work very hard to unite liberia still divided by the war and by the politics of the last one year. presidential candidates will need more than fifty percent of the vote to win outright some of the of a say a runoff may be required i mean greece al-jazeera monrovia. severe storms and south africa have left at least four people dead and dozens injured heavy winds hail tornadoes and torrential rain hit many parts of the

country from durban to ana's on the rising waters level trapped in their cars on the highway and flooded homes and businesses because government has banned all midweek marches as protesters gathered steam against the fifty year old of the now saying they family protesters are calling for the resignation of president for nothing they took over his father in two thousand five hundred been in power for almost forty years the government is proposing a limit to presidential the protesters fear this won't be applied to after the next elections in two thousand and twenty meaning us and vacate their radically stay in power twenty thirty. al-jazeera is demanding the release. of hussein who's now been in prison in egypt for nearly ten months he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny but already have refused to allow him to be transferred for specialist treatment on a broken arm and injury he's. detained he was arrested in december while visiting

his family but wall street journal says a turkish court has sentenced one of its reporters to jail in absentia on terrorist propaganda charges the court said. had shown support for the outlawed group through one of her articles p k k s a kurdish separatist organization that turkey's declared a terrorist group. has dual turkish and finnish citizenship is currently in the us and will appeal the conviction. hollywood mogul harvey weinstein is being accused of rape by several women according to an article in the new yorker magazine now this comes as a string of actresses have come out and accused him of sexual harassment following an investigation by the new york times weinstein has fired was fired from the production house that he co-founded apple the allegations surfaced on monday a spokesperson for weinstein has deny the rape allegation. and five analysts in the u.s. have slammed the top administration for sending the wrong message on climate change

has taken its first step to repeal the claim powerplant proc obama's landmark law aimed at reducing the use of fossil fuels john hundred reports president donald trump struck another blow in what environmentalist's call the war on climate control or as his environmental protection agency chief prefers to put it. in his previous job as oklahoma attorney general scott pruitt led more than two dozen states in challenging in court a signature climate control rule and acted by then president barack obama the environmental protection agency said we are committed to writing the wrongs of the obama administration by cleaning the regulatory slate the news angered environmentalists it is a historic mistake especially when this country is weakly suffering billions of dollars of economic impact from wildfires hurricanes sea level rise slowly happening over time this is just hugely irresponsible and they are sending the

absolutely wrong message to the world and to the american people that they're willing to side with polluters over people's public health. scientists suggest this year's recent spate of deadly u.s. hurricanes was fueled by greenhouse gases the fisc power plant is one of two plants in chicago that burned their last batch use of coal in two thousand and twelve when the plant shut down chicago last its two biggest sources of industrial carbon dioxide which contributes to global warming the owner midwest generation said the company didn't want to pay for upgrades to comply with expensive federal regulations but there was another reason for years coal has been losing out in competition to cheap been clean natural gas coal workers make up a tiny fraction of the american workforce a report from the department of energy showed that in two thousand and sixteen there were more than four hundred seventy five thousand jobs in wind and solar energy while they were little more than one hundred sixty thousand jobs in the coal

industry but as president trump often notes the eastern appalachian mountain region where the industry is based was key to his election victory i've ended the obama administration's war on coal and we're putting our wonderful coal miners back to work producing beautiful truly a home that's a promise the white house seems intent on keeping john hendren al-jazeera chicago conservation officials in canada are warning poaching american tensing is on the rise as prices for the medicinal are up soar and east asian and thought to have a wide range of health benefits such as lowering blood sugar levels and reducing stress to no lack has more from ottawa so a visitor it's a very nice. we can see butternuts on patrol not far from canada's capital city ottawa john francois du bois is looking for wild american gin saying it's an endangered species and record prices for the plant in east asia are attracting

poachers if mr dubois finds any jinn saying he knows where to focus his surveillance and we're using a lot of technologies and that's what the poachers there's no they may be walking in the forest and it may be some cameras live cameras that will receive the live pictures on our cell phones conservation officers across canada sees many kilos of illegal wild gin sing every year poachers can spend five years in jail but with a global market worth more than two billion dollars a year illegal harvesting is getting more organized and difficult to police just like the trade in the world's other endangered species interpol estimates that wildlife crime is the fourth most lucrative crime out there after illegal drugs after human trafficking after counterfeiting the fourth most valuable is wildlife this is big time crime canada as well ginseng population is under threat even though farmers in ontario are legally growing what is essentially the same plant in

east asia in traditional medicine well ginseng is more desirable and it's domestically grown cousin that's not what scientists in toronto have found though in clinical trials researchers at st michael's hospital have discovered farm jin singh has positive health impacts that the wild plant does not have we have very enthusiastic we continue we're not talking to growers who want to make but the color formula for diabetes may be full of blood but i should and be a very optimistic john francoise dubois even spends many of his weekends combing the woods for a plant that poachers have helped push to the brink of extinction he has his eye firmly on the future especially i would like to someday come here with my son is now two and a half years old and maybe come back and say you know you can see here the tears while dancing there well while americans in saying and it's here because we did something for it. canada's jensen protector remains vigilant and committed to what is essentially a passion not just his job then you're lucky you're. ever

a zillion congressional report has recommended president michelle timur should not face trial for obstruction of justice arguing the charges are unfounded the report by congressman but if they are an ally of president also recommended the shelving of charges against two cabinet ministers the charges stem from the same corruption case involving bribes paid by a meat packing packing company at least thirteen people have been killed in a prison riot in northeastern mexico security teams were sent to regain control of the facility after fighting between rival gangs it is the second major outbreak of violence in a mexican jail in recent months and july twenty eight in mates died after fighting in. australia has offered to move refugees from its mannus island can pop on new guinea to another detention center on the island of narrow the manis count is close to the end is to close at the end of this month after

a court in the role that holding people there was unconstitutional seven hundred ninety one people are detained on mannus and a further three hundred seventy one on now are they offshore prisons have been criticised for refugee advocates amid widespread reports of abuse. what sector workers in france on strike over labor reforms have fought with police members of nine unions for protesting against president now now transplants are porous well our employers to hire and fire workers more easily. a report from the british government has found deep seated any qualities at all sectors of u.k. society are bred in reports from london. in the eighteen nineties charles booth's maps of the rich and poor areas of victorian london showed the glaring inequalities of the age but more than a century later at a round table in downing street britain's prime minister admits that inequality remains endemic nationally employment rates are higher for white people than ethnic

minorities but the gap between the two in the north of thirteen point six percent is significantly wider than that in the south at nine percent black caribbean children are excluded from school at least three times at the rate of white pupils but chinese pupils excel at primary school with seventy one percent reaching the expected standard for reading writing and math although just thirteen percent of white room and traveller children achieve the required great. the newly collated statistics confirm that in almost every aspect of society a person's racial and economic background profoundly affects the opportunities and treatment they receive it's not overt racism in vats people are saying i don't want to black person working for me but it's more of a subtle things around ok will this person have the right communication skills to race amaze racial disparities orders had been due to report its conclusions in july

but then in june came a tragedy which turned the widespread concern about equality international outrage the ground for tough. almost eighty people were killed and in the midst of recriminations about cost cutting and social housing a shocking reality emerged that in one of the u.k.'s richest boroughs the numerous safety concerns raised by some of its poorest residents had apparently been ignored or dismissed by authorities to some i doesn't need to do an already on rice look at you all south and how you treat us and try and work out why you do that rather than constantly coming in and doing all day it's what our lives are like because our lives will only china if you change if you treat us differently. britain's prime minister has echoed that call and demanded that if disparities cannot be explained they must be changed better data should mean accountability and reform but charles

booth probably also thought that a century ago paul brennan al-jazeera london transgender people in greece are hoping a new law will improve their lives parliament's voted to allow people to change their gender identity without medical treatment from the age of fifteen transfer reports from athens. russia has felt trapped in her male body since she was thirteen her family reacted by throwing her out on the street where her life began to unravel. i wanted to study astronomy i never got the chance i was rejected and thrown out of schools because of my appearance because of a transgender person i was denied the right to education and to follow a career i would love after that i had no choice but to prostitute myself in order to survive it's the only choice i was given routine things like withdrawing money from the bank all boarding an airplane are all deals for rafaela because her name

and appearance differ from the information on her i.d. card other transgender people at this protest outside parliament faced similar problems problems the new law will now solve last april the european court of human rights broke new ground when it ruled that a legal change of gender should not. change or sterilization in other words sexual orientation should be determined by how a person feels not by their genitalia greece is one of twenty european countries where the law was in contravention of that ruling but the new law is controversial too because it'll give people the right to determine their own gender at the age of fifteen greek society is strongly family oriented which reinforces traditional gender roles and it is ninety eight percent of the dogs which means that the church is opinion carries weight they are for the church of greece we understand the right of each and every person to be different to feel different to be however this is

completely different from the legal position of being different as the dominant social norm child psychologists agree. when people search for that broader identity who am i what i my goals what is my sexual interest but this doesn't mean that everyone has found. the sexual orientation by the time the fifteen it's too early to say that a child has settled this issue. has already recognized same sex marriage and says transgender rights also have to be upheld but its political opponents say this bill is a cynical attempt to cultivate voters in view of future elections people like rafael or don't care about the politics though they will rejoice to be able to board planes and perform banking transactions jumps are open less al-jazeera athens after more than two hundred days of coalition talks dutch politicians have agreed to form

a government and major sticking point was migration an issue that dominated the election in march the new four party alliance has unveiled a center right at. the world health organization's warning that the number of obese children in developing countries is soaring it says rates are worse in the middle east north africa and parts of asia while levels among kids in rich countries appear to have paid researchers use data from the past forty years predicting that by two thousand and twenty two there will be more obese children and adolescents adolescents than underweight ones and i think seventy five there were one hundred million obese adults around the world but that number jumped to six hundred ten million by two thousand and sixteen by the end of last year there were fifty million obese girls and seventy four million obese boys in the world the study was published to coincide with world obesity day. and sport. the court and the shanghai masters tennis detail with peter just

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but peter thank you so much five time fifo ballon d'or winner. has fired in a half trick to qualify for the world cup in russia with a three one win over ecuador the ecuadorians actually took the lead in the first minutes if i had lost they would have been eliminated altogether but macy's three

goals guaranteed they would take their place had rushed to the relief of all of then you watched the match and when osiris. clearly didn't defend not that the court was some of the greatest class ever assembled. and that a. little was remarkably easy three goals finally ended and that's the opt out do you know went behind with a goal in the black widow at that moment to trim out right to cross out into you know they'll be. off the twelve minutes knew what i am not that little prick to the top. ranked up how. the looks field are beginning to realize the result would be much regard to the way. i feel losing now began the process of planning for the world cup next year a russian rocket science well known felt they should have been that they must be

clear that they must be allowed to help this team of wonderful players to keep what they have withdrawn and argentina were able to prevent a massive shock but they would still be a big surprise on the night in south america the winners of the last two cup america to chile will not be going to russia they were beaten three nil by brazil and other results went against them. here's a look now at those results peru's one one draw at home against colombia was enough to see them overtake chile in the qualifying standings euro wire wrapped up their qualifying campaign with a full two win over the livia while venezuela who had no chance to qualify finished on a high with a one no win pair of why and here's a look now at what those standings look like brazil the runaway group winning group winners with two time world cup champions europe why they're in second position argentina eventually finishing third after the scale of possibly not qualifying at all at the start of the night the fourth and final automatic qualifying spot going

to colombia as for peru they move on to face new zealand in a play off chile are eliminated on goal difference there was bad news for three time fee for world cup runners up the netherlands who will also not be in russia after failing to qualify for the dutch needed to beat sweden by seven goals on tuesday but could only win two mil the dutch goal difference was inferior to that of sweden who progressed to a playoff match and robin announced his retirement from international football after the game. still is one of the best players in the past and the world still can do the his job his club really misses delicious playing with. because he is a quality player. who will listen that there's confirmation of france winning group a in europe with sweden progressing to a playoff game the dutch failed to reach russia twenty eighteen with an inferior goal difference our sports correspondent and he willing as was at the game in

amsterdam and can tell us more. so predictably winning by a seven goal margin did profound so much for the netherlands and it is painful for the people who have missed out on world cups before of course by have i missed two thousand and so i missed out a couple of times in succession in the ninety's i would nice for them but this is not a great and the one thing i can say about the victorious way is that they were flickers of life there were signs that beyond are your barber who is of course their best player and won't be around for the future but i do have some young talent having i can qualify for major tournaments in the future so we can still qualify for this world cup of course i go into the playoffs by one hoping to finish top of the great france finish top sweden into the playoffs and evelyn's it's a long while back now meanwhile portugal are on their way to a fifth straight world cup finals appearance they beat switzerland to no as for the swiss well they have to try and qualify for the world cup now via the play offs in

all they were nine games across the european continent group h. was already won by belgium but greece ensured a crack at a playoff by hammering gibraltar by four goals to nil. there was massive disappointment for the united states of america on tuesday in world cup qualifying the americans were beaten two one in trinidad and tobago and with panama beating costa rica and honduras surprising mexico three two it means the usa will miss their first world cup since one nine hundred eighty six panama will be going to a fee for world cup for the first time and honduras will take on australia in a play off match that was after the australians dashed syria's unlikely dream of reaching the fever world cup for the first time in sydney this playoff was tied at one one after the first leg and even though the syrian school first thirty seven year old time taking school twice including in extra time to send the socceroos to the next stage of qualifying andrew thomas was at the game in sydney. going into

the sky not many syrians a chance against australia much higher ranked on home ground syria remember a country in the midst of a civil war and yet they fought and they fought and i thought and even in the last three minutes when it looked as though the money. that would have taken them to russia rather than australia of course syrians coming out of the ground disappointed but they have pride and i think i talked to some friends. and this is the furthest i've come. next time they can go all the way back to bed very well to be quite disappointing the fact that they get away. i have never left. australia aunt's going to russia yet they still have another to get through but i think leap

forward on that road i could pretty good. just forty eight hours after finishing runner up in beijing the curious. has exited the shanghai masters in controversial fashion for the second year in a row after warnings for an obscene a c. and for smashing a ball into the crowd the australian lost the opening set of his match to steve johnson and decided to stop playing he declined any medical help but has since tweeted that he had a stomach bug and a shoulder injury there has also been a lot of controversy in the united states in the last few weeks when it comes to president donald trump and sports teams it all stems from n.f.l. players who have chosen to kneel during the playing of the national anthem to protest racial injustice in their country some players have chosen not to visit the white house to honor usual invitation from the president to

a championship winning team while the golden state warriors had their invitation withdrawn recently by president trump but the n.h.l. stanley cup champions the pittsburgh penguins were more than happy to honor the invitation to visit with president trump. and we'll leave it there most sports coming up later in the day richelle that's all i have to say thank you very much peter. and me right here thanks for your time. the sky. should be no borders up here. only horizons. as an airline we don't believe in boundaries we believe in bringing people together the world's better that way. it is a right for all of us to go where we need to go to feel with things we want to feel

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