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minutes. palestinians celebrate a landmark deal between fatah and hamas that brings the two sides together after a ten year split. the u.s. says it's done being a member of the un's cultural body unesco citing anti israeli bias and israel says it will pull out too. i believe they're starting to respect the united states again donald trump raises pakistan for its role in the release of a u.s. canadian couple and their children held hostage for years by the taliban. in doha with other days sports including cut up a sports t.v. channel be in sport denies allegations of bribery links a fee for world cup t.v. rights more on that later this needs our.

palestinians have been on the streets celebrating a reconciliation deal between fatah which runs the occupied west bank and hamas which controls gaza brokered by egypt the agreement between the rival political movements will end a decade long splits under the deal a consensus government will take full administrative control of gaza by december the first the agreement will also see the rafa border crossing currently governed by hamas handed over to the consensus government around three thousand police officers from the fatah led palestinian authority will be deployed to the strip on the authority will also oversee gaza civil and security sector. previous sticking points having to get control over the arsenal of hamas is armed wing as well as the face of thousands of hamas as public servants now details the information was given about this but both sides say the problems will be sorted out how to force it

reports from ramallah in the occupied west bank. in a grand hall of the egyptian intelligence headquarters and hamas officially signed on to egypt's grand plan for palestinian reconciliation after a decade of division both sides expressed hope that this time it was for good. there has been full agreement on the concept of empowering the government and the legitimate palestinian government will return to working normally in accordance with its. despite the fact that we have some different views different political points we have different disputes but this will never change the fact that we are brothers we are brothers in religion we are brothers in nationality we are brothers in the national interest we suffer the same we have the same future we need to find a way for a unity of our people to secure the ambitions of our people. this isn't the first

time they've been here repeated attempts to reconcile have failed a main stumbling block the future of hamas as military wing appears for now to have been set aside palestinian authority security services are to resume running gaza's border crossings including the vital one with egypt and other issues how to run internal security and merge two separate groups of government workers are being addressed step by step along the lines of a twenty eleven agreement also signed with great fanfare in cairo here in ramallah the palestinian president mahmoud abbas welcomed the deal saying it accelerated palestinian reconciliation is fatah delegation head indicated its timelines and targets would ensure that it stayed on track and of course it has egypt breathing hard down the necks of both parties in gaza so damaged by the split the economic blockade and three israeli wars people are talking cautiously in terms of hope. when we used to hear about any reconciliation efforts we would think immediately of

the failure of it but we hope this time is different but unity could at least solve the power crisis and bring happiness to the gazan people. we've had enough eleven years of suffering without electricity no medicine for old people no travelling we want to live like other nations. so far the israeli reaction has been muted saying hamas would need to recognize israel and give up its arms but without the full bore opposition of previous reconciliation attempts an international push for palestinian reconciliation led by the us who is much more interested in the so-called big deal between the palestinians and israelis and without palestinian reconciliation this deal might not go forward. in gaza celebrations were underway not least of the prospect of an end to restrictions on salaries and electricity imposed by the palestinian authority earlier this year to put pressure on hamas but it's clear that this is the start of a process the coming weeks will feature plenty of opportunities to build mutual

trust or we can it carry four sit in the occupied west bank. thanks to al-jazeera senior political analyst bashara who explained the wider significance of the stale . much of the process is about running the autonomous territories in the west bank and gaza that's it so it's about the palestine national authority and the legislative council governing those territories in terms of diplomacy it's the palestine liberation organization the p.l.o. that the risks that are present all palestinians including those in east jerusalem including those in lebanon in jordan in the refugee areas and so so far so the pakistan liberation organization that represents all palestinians is not for the time being under scrutiny in terms of gaza west bank preparation they want on the long term to reform the p.l.o. in order to include have mass in it but for the time being all the diplomatic agreements will continue to be honored by president abbas as the head of the p.l.o.

so i think much of these arrangements do not infringe on that the provided process again the question is for the palestinian is whether they're getting anything at all out of the plus. the united states and israel are going to pull out of unesco the united nations cultural agency washington says the move comes off the back of what it describes as the need for fundamental reform in the organization and continuing anti israel bias body claim reports. you could be forgiven for thinking that you know sco wouldn't be all that controversial its mission to promote peace gender equality protect important sites like the statue of liberty or the great barrier reef but this summer it also recognized the old city of hebron in the west bank as a palestinian world heritage site the u.s. says that showed a bias against israel one reason it said for its decision that issue was the same reason that the us stopped funding the agency in two thousand and eleven when the

palestinian authority was made a full member it didn't pay but didn't give up its membership either so its bills kept dragging up currently it owes us go five hundred fifty million dollars another reason it says the us is quitting at the end of twenty eighteen the question is you know do we want to pay that money and do we want to pay more money going forward when there is actually a law that says the u.n. entity that accepts palestinians as a member state can no longer receive u.s. funding so that's part of it the move has been roundly condemned by diplomats in a school is about promoting our ideals and values to culture education. and science these values and ideals. very much part of france's d.n.a. but also america's d.n.a. . this is part of a growing trend of international disengagement president trump is taking the u.s.

out of more than just you know esko he also said the u.s. would pull out of the paris climate deal and he walked away from the trans-pacific partnership he's also threatened under the south korean trade deal the north american free trade agreement with canada and mexico and possibly the iran nuclear deal still this is not the first time the u.s. has left us go the decision to withdraw was made by president reagan on the recommendation of the secretary of state the u.s. left in one thousand nine hundred four over what it said was a pro soviet bias but it rejoined in two thousand and two some analysts say this sends a dangerous message this to me is a bad message and it's a bad message because it says to our allies we're not going to be a leader anymore we're not going to play the kind of role we promised to play after world war two and to our would be adversaries it sends the message aha this may be an opening united states may be in retreat and we can fill the void. the trump

administration often says the campaign pledge to america first doesn't mean america alone but it is looking more and more like that with each passing move away from the world stage. al-jazeera washington august on zalmay has rescued a family held captive by the haqqani network that's an organization aligned to the afghan taliban the army says canadian joshua boyle his american wife coleman and their three children were covered in a tribal district along the pakistan afghanistan border tipped off by u.s. intelligence agencies they were kidnapped in afghanistan and twenty twelve while they were backpacking. donald trump has praised pakistan for its involvement. and i want to thank the pakistani government i want to thank pakistan they they work very hard on this. and i believe they're starting to respect the united states

again it's very important i think a lot of current right now a lot of countries are starting to respect the united states of america once again we hope to see this type of cooperation and team work in helping secure the release of remaining hostages and in our future joint counterterrorism operations will have a serious an officious life in washington washington for us right now so allan president trunk clearly pleased with pakistan right now but does it mean that relations between the two countries are really improving while pakistan has said for a very long time look we are at the forefront of the fight against terrorism in this region if you look at the number of pakistanis that have been killed if you look at the number of pakistani soldiers and security services that have been killed by these so-called terrorist networks then we are bearing the brunt of this so they've never fully accepted the idea that they're not doing all they can but there is a suspicion in washington and in the u.s.

embassy in islamabad that the pakistani government isn't fully committed to prosecuting the war against these groups that the americans see as threatening them and threatening western civilization as some have said so this will perhaps give donald trump some comfort believing that the pakistanis are perhaps changing because of the torn that he has struck since he went into the white house an official live there in washington d.c. thank you. well he has been hinting about it for weeks and now it turns out that friday is when donald trump will finally announce whether he will decertify the iran nuclear deal under the twenty fifteen agreement signed sions against iran were eased in exchange the republic curbing its nuclear program trump as a wasteland the deal as a bad one i was there as mike hanna takes a look at how we got to this point. repudiation of the iran deal was

a central promise of the trump electoral campaign and i'm disgusted i've never seen anything like it in my life and by the way be careful because we made a rare and a real power gave a hundred and fifty billion dollars now think of it think of the crowd almost certainly unaware that wasn't the case the sum of money released in terms of the deal was in fact iran's own funds that had been frozen by previous sanctions we didn't get anything we got nothing during his first months in office president trump had to acknowledge the fact that iran was complying with its side of the deal certifying so on two occasions but the us ambassador to the united nations has apparently been at the forefront of finding a way in which the president could pull his campaign promise coming up here a argument that iranian compliance sure is not the only thing. we owe it to

ourselves to look at every aspect of this deal and understand that this was a flawed deal and understand that this flawed deal has negative consequences as well this argument that other factors such as u.s. national interest should be taken into account rejected by of the signatories to the deal. the new agreement is about nuclear nuclear is fulfilled the agreement is the living. made clear to the fact that the u.s. cannot take unilateral action without security council consensus the deal being signed by the five permanent members along with germany known as the p five plus one how many you cannot join with me iran has. all members of the p five plus one stand in line with iran except that one russia china three european countries the home and hundreds of countries they are all standing with iran. perhaps the real

interest of president trump is not the deal itself but the perceived political and personal need to meet one of his campaign promises if so president trump could play a long term cost for the short term satisfaction of his right wing support base not least the dilution of trust in u.s. commitment to international agreements the fracturing of relationships with traditional allies and the possible if not probable repudiation of a security council whose authority would be disdainfully floated by a pounding member mike hanna at the united nations and there's much more to come here on the al-jazeera news including kurdish officials in northern iraq swing into action after hearing iraq's military was planning an attack on kurdish controlled areas. spain's national day is marked by a parade of unity in madrid but the mood is we'll divide it in barcelona.

and small the new york yankees avoid elimination for a fourth consecutive game in baseball's playoffs tatiana will have to tell us in. a car bomb attack blamed on iceland syria's deraa province has killed at least eighteen people a number of kurdish security forces soldiers also died in the blast dozens of others were injured a syrian observatory for human rights said the attack took place in an area where displaced syrian civilians usually gather. well cease fire deal in syria that could see an end to the siege in the rebel held areas south of damascus has been reached he greenwich brokered by cairo includes the josh al islam great the fall short of specifically mentioning the syrian government has more from antakya among the turkey syria border. for the rebels this is quite a significant deal because they have areas in which are about to fall into the

control of the governments of all the time that being there will be able to maintain those areas particularly in the south of the capital damascus now at the same time they will have a humanitarian aid allowed into those areas because we have to bear in mind that is some water has been received by government forces for quite some time now it's also important for the syrian government because the syrian army has been a focus of this fight to effect i said for the some part of the country particularly there was or. a response from conflict with the rebels in damascus will allow the government to shift all its focus to workers and some board deploy more reinforcements so there is some part of the country now. there's also another interesting development in the story which is basically the egyptians deeply involved in the syrian conflict they will have their own monitors on the ground to ensure that all the parties implement the terms of the ceasefire the russians and

the iranians because they have been key players in the past the main backers of the president so there will still be instruments of ensuring that all the parties will be committed to the terms of the deescalation. just to bring you right up to date with the latest events happening in syria we're hearing in the last few minutes that eighty turkish soldiers have crossed into a province that's according to some members of the media in turkey turkey media saying that eighty turkish soldiers for the special forces have crossed into in what is believed to be twelve armored vehicles forty more soldiers are expected to cross later this movement of course is something we have been expecting for the past couple of days or so but turkish media now saying that eighty turkish soldiers in twelve armored vehicles have indeed crossed into italy province moving over from the border with turkey something we have been expecting for a while but an important piece of news to bring it never lasts. baghdad has denied

accusations that it is planning an attack on the autonomous kurdish region of iraq kurdish authorities close roads overnight saying they received a warning from the iraqi military of a planned attack on kurdish controlled areas al jazeera stratford is in bars gerson in northern iraq. this is the last kurdish peshmerga checkpoint on the real bill mosul road. the kurdish authorities closed it another route into nineveh province for a few hours overnight saying they had received messages from the iraqi military that it was planning attacks in kurdish controlled. pressure is mounting from baghdad on the kurdish regional government ok argy following the recent referendum on secession from iraq many people say they feel punished and afraid of a rocky government is trying to fight the chaos economically wanted to close its land borders they have already closed the international airspace they have cut the

federal budget to the k. are cheap it's all coming from a bad government this is not right civilians should not be punished like this the federal government in baghdad denied any responsibility for these messages that the k r g said that it received last night from the iraqi military and shia militia groups saying that they were planning attacks around the oil rich city of kirkuk and north of mosul but the closure of this road last night as a result of those messages shows just how nervous the kurdish regional government is getting a federal court has issued arrest warrants for members of the kurdish regional government electoral commission like dad says it wants federal control over kayla ji banks and telephone networks both turkey and iran have held a joint military operations with the iraqi army close to the k r g international borders and a spokesperson for the turkish president received tipler to one says turkey will

eventually take control of its kayleigh ji border in coordination with baghdad and tehran kurdish regional government says baghdad's action amounts to collective punishment this is the clear prove that that is not ready for democracy or for dialogue. we from our side will engender violence we reject confrontation we are not force collation and we do not want to provoke but but likewise we have to respect the will of the people of iraq you prime minister hyderabadi says military confrontation is not the solution. but he says there will be no dialogue with the kayleigh ji until the referendum results are made no and void more than ninety two percent of those who voted said yes to eventual kurdish succession the k r g says the kurdish people of iraq have spoken strafford al-jazeera northern iraq . spain has been celebrating its national day with a massive military show of unity while the pressure remains on the catalan leader

pushed him out to say whether or not he has declared independence there were military parades flyovers and marches in madrid while smaller and spain demonstrations took place. laurence leamer reports. if the last fortnight hadn't been dramatic enough the spectacle of national day provided the finishing touch madrid laid it on thick the whole military display the flags of the regions used as an opportunity to say to the cattle lands just look how united we are nobody wants your independence the crowd of course loyal supporters of king and country. but here they're going to do it right here today we celebrate the day of spain which is the day of all spanish people but there's a group of us spaniards who are bent on breaking up our shared country. they should understand you've got to loan you that we belong to one country which is spain and not just a republic which they are pushing for. for the first time in thirty years the

national police were invited to rapturous applause. the government said the decision to honor them came after the barcelona attack in august this is of course the same national police which on referendum day tear gassed and fired rubber bullets at spanish citizens in catalonia. six of them are incredibly provocative if madrid wanted to rub the caps alarms noses in the does this is how you do it the . in barcelona the pro independence faction held its own protest march it was tiny compared to madrid they're on the back foot now the splits in the movement being exploited by the national governments but how they hated the spanish national police being celebrated by madrid. it's shocking as the national police are occupying forces. if they sent in the tanks we don't want them here they're not our police force from

a government that does not represent us. and if to demonstrate how divided catalonia remains there was a simple ten years of prosperity surely the police had to make sure they were at some distance from each other on one occasion they failed and the prospect of them pro-capital on demonstrators made it entirely clear what they thought of one another. so much it knows it has the catalan president in a trap now whichever way he decides on the independence question he risks losing part of his base on this day it felt like madrid was in a triumphant mood. gloriously al jazeera in madrid. kenya's government is banning opposition protests in three cities just weeks before the repaint presidential election is due to be held demonstrations have been banned in my raby. the government says protesters have looted attacked police stations demonstrators say the police used. the opposition leader announced this week that he would be

withdrawing from the race throwing the nation into political turmoil catherine sawyer has more from nairobi. the reason given for this ban is in security and it's not a blanket ban it's a ban on protests in the central business district of nairobi in western kenya and . at the kenyan coast this is where protests have been most sustained and increasingly particularly in nairobi and been seeing incidents of people be robbed shops being vandalized as well the opposition says that have been hired to infiltrate what they see as peaceful demonstrations they also blame the police for using excessive force for example a couple of weeks ago we saw a video of police harvesting and beating up university students inside their campus here in nairobi yesterday during the protests dozens of people who were injured several of them have been hospitalized with gunshot wounds they blame the police so

the interior cabinet minister at that press conference saying that what they're doing is trying to prevent an escalation of violence and it's going to be interesting how this goes going forward because the opposition is adamant they say they will continue with their protests to push for electoral reforms. all right stay with us on this because still ahead breaks it deadlock discussions about the exit from the european union stumble over the key issue of money plus. there's a riddle for you what a big german powerful being hidden from prying eyes like mine and causing no end of problems russia alarm rory talents and i'm on the hunt for them here in crimea find out more later in the program. the world's top tennis players on a collision course in shanghai will have those details in sports thanks.

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and i welcome back undermined at the top stories on al-jazeera a turkish military convoy has crossed into syria turkish media say the convoy included about eighty soldiers and twelve omid vehicles on the destination isn't clear local sources have told al jazeera the convoy is heading towards western aleppo. palestinians have been celebrating a reconciliation deal between rival. which could end a decade long split. in the united states say they're pulling out of unesco the u.s. state department says the organization needs fundamental reform and has israel. has called for national unity in an address to the nation on the red refugee crisis so cheney is under massive international pressure after the un among others accused

the country's army of a string of human rights abuses against the muslim minority she says she's ready to talk to bangladesh about returning some of the hoth a million who fled violence in rakhine state. we are now negotiating with the government of bangladesh on the matter of accepting those who are now in bangladesh since our independence we have twice successfully negotiated with bangladesh on the issue based on the success which editions we are now negotiating for time. has more now from. well for the bulk of the speech and science ritchie announced that they want to start rehabilitating bringing humanitarian aid assistance and rebuilding state where the conflict that military operations against the road is taking place but also perhaps the strangest part of the speech is that she called on donations from the public to help with that in endeavor basically calling on people to donate to

rebuild the homes that have just been destroyed by this military operation now as we know this these operations are ongoing just yesterday on wednesday the un's human rights chief called on the military to stop its operations in iraq and state a damning report about the campaign in iraq and say calling it a well organized coordinated and systematic campaign to expel the row hinges and prevent them from ever coming back to me in march and includes testimony about indiscriminate killings mass rapes and the burning of homes very honus now that i'm some soup she wants people to donate in order to see them rebuilt on this international criticism and some switchy didn't say all that much except that she said that we need to understand that there's international criticisms but that nobody knows me in my better than we do and that nobody wants development of mean

maher more than we do so really address wednesday's report by the un's human rights chief. u.s. president donald trump is threatening to pull aid funding from hurricane ravaged puerto rico three weeks after it was hit by hurricane maria many of proto ricos three point four million residents are still struggling without basic services such as power and running water in a series of tweets trump insisted that financial aid would be limited and blamed the u.s. territory. for its financial struggles. twenty six people are now confirmed to have died in wildfires across california officials say it's the largest loss of life from a single fire event in the state in eighty four years they're warning the casualty list could rise with hundreds of people in the sonoma county still listed as missing. the canadian prime minister is in mexico as the future remains unclear for

both countries on their free trade agreement with the u.s. just in today will meet the mexican president and he pena nieto and hold talks about the nafta accord let's go live to mexico city and speak out is there is john home and i'm guessing the nafta accord is going to be top of the agenda. yes definitely the fourth round of negotiations are not happening even as these two countries these two countries leaders meet and in the forefront of negotiations the u.s. has already signaled that it's going to start really playing hardball and putting things on the table those two other countries are going to like that much report already coming out about something called a sunset clause which means that after five years or so the countries would have to vote again to continue the deal of wise it would be killed and it seems like that's something that both canada or mexico happy about so these two countries they say both of them that they want to continue the north american free trade agreement the

u.s. president donald trump has been a lot more ambivalent about the actual deal itself but there are of course in very different positions mexico has quite a big trade deficit with the united states which is something the president donald trump wants to try and eliminate the kind of those on a much more even footing trade wise so although there have things in common and wanting to continue know they'll be aware both leaders are in the go shaking their negotiating stance and power quite different at the moment here explain to us a little bit more john about mexico's economic situation right now how reliant is mexico on nafta. but it really is quite reliant about eighty percent of mexican exports go to the united states which is a huge amount it's by far the biggest market for mexican goods but despite that the mexican government is trying to really take a firm. i'm position on this the mexican foreign minister has come out this week

and said if nafta ends than it's not the end of the world we can either see that as him trying to be hard with the negotiating as well or it could be seen as a senior analyst here that i talked to a bit earlier on today said that it could also be a sign they're trying to prepare the mets can publicly american companies that this might not work for in spite of all of their best efforts that nafta could be about could could end eventually and what the analysts i talked to said the industry figures are a bit worried about is a plan b. the mexican government has been saying for a few months now we're going to look into other markets we've got to look into latin america we've got to look into asia and europe and increase our trading in our in exports to those markets could be a long and painful process mexico sort of depend on the u.s. so if nuff that doesn't work if these negotiations on a success is going to be a big hit for this country or john heilemann with the latest there in mexico city thanks john or discussion surrounding the u.k.'s exit from the european union are

deadlocked over the key issue of money by exit negotiators michel barnier representing the e.u. and david davis of the u.k. have been meeting again in brussels the has been progress on the issues of the irish land border and citizens in britain but there's been no sign of a deal on what bail the u.k. will have to pay to leave the block you know don't push you to negotiate there has been no negotiation on the financial settlement we've only had technical discussions useful technical regarding that specific issue were to deadlock which is very worrying for thousands of businesses everywhere when you are up and also worrying for taxpayers. i can i try to get back to our breaking news we told you about half an hour ago that a turkish military convoy has crossed into syria turkish media sources saying that the convoy included about eighty soldiers and twelve armored vehicles also saying

all of the destination isn't clear it is thought according to local sources telling us there that the convoy is heading towards western aleppo let's try and make contact with our correspondent he's in antakya that's on the syrian turkish border and hashim what is the latest you're hearing about this turkish convoy crossing into syria. felicity free syrian army sources inside syria saying that dozens of turkish military personnel have interred into the country and that now they are stationed in areas of the west some part of. today was in that way highly border crossing area that's where the military the turkish beauty has been preparing for this operation but then we were asked by the army to put out from that military area pouted they were preparing for their final push to get into syria now they are stationed in villages on the

edges of aleppo but as per some statements that were made in the past by turkish military they say that their operation is mainly about getting into it which is the long last stronghold for the rebels in northern syria which is that the reason for the move is to try to implement a deescalation zone that was agreed between turkey iran and russia now we don't not really the details of this whole military operation what are they going to be a position how are they going to be able to monitor discoloration zone and whether some of the very powerful rebel factions operating inside like hey at the happy that which is a formal affiliate is going to put out from the. area but this is definitely a very significant development since the start of the conflict in syria about six years ago indeed and you i know i've been watching that build up of turkish troops

on the border we knew that some sort of operation was due to be carried out but as you say this is particularly significant the movement of turkish troops inside syria. it is because also about a few hours ago there's was this announcement that egypt is has managed to bring different factions in damascus to agree on implementing the deescalation zone on the ask us of the capital damascus so it seems that after the agreement of stand which was signed last month there is this tendency to move forward a bit with the three key key players in in the syrian conflict which are basically of russia iran and turkey to try to implement those cease fire agreements in four areas in and around homes around the capital damascus and all the border with joe jordan and this is

a this is something that they hope could pave the way to a final agreement between all the factions but i have to say that the situation on the ground remains quite delicate there are factions which have allowed to reject the deescalation. agreement and there are those who say that the problem is not of the escalations down the problem is that there is a government in syria there has been getting thousands of people all over the last six years and therefore the international community should play an aggressive role to bring about shuttle out of power and to help the rebels but it seems others the reality on the ground is totally different what we're saying basically is that bashar assad backed by russia seems to be having now the upper hand in different parts of the country the opposition the opposition's territory is is really shrinking. national park keeping an eye on events important developments there on the turkish syrian border more from hashem in the coming hours thanks josh. now

south africa's supreme court of appeal is due to rule on friday whether president jacob zuma will face hundreds of corruption charges the charges of course an eight year legal battle between the president and the main opposition democratic alliance the charges relate to an arms deal dating back to the early one nine hundred ninety s. as tanya page reports. president jacob zuma could face up to seven hundred and eighty three corruption charges they relate to a multi-million dollar still from the one nine hundred ninety s. his former financial adviser should be a shaikh was jailed for corruption relating to the deal and his trial judge linked to zuma to it the scandal prompted then president tavon bikie to fire zuma who was his deputy but soon after zuma deposed mbeki as leader of the a.n.c. and before too long the party recalled and diesel elected tabo mbeki he lost his presidency prosecutors then announced that they were dropping the corruption

charges against president jacob zuma completely their decision was based on secret really secretly recorded phone conversations as the spy tapes which allegedly showed political interference if it to prosecute zuma the dropping of the charges cleared the way for jacob zuma to become president of south africa the opposition democratic alliance one access to the spy tapes and use them to argue there wasn't enough proof of political interference last year the high court agreed and said the decision to drop corruption charges against president jacob zuma was irrational and they should be reinstated the president and the national prosecuting authority have challenge the high court decision at the supreme court of appeal and now we're waiting to find out how the judges will. do stay with us on this news hour because still ahead in sports racing against the sun a solar car competition is decided in australia plus. i'm kristen filling me

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business update brought to you by chance on a always going places together. again russia's president vladimir putin is due to meet representatives from siemens and other german firms in the black sea so results have sought to discuss for power generation turbines the engineering giant is salting legal proceedings against russia after the turbines it sold to moscow allegedly ended up in crimea

a disputed peninsula a mixed fire russia in twenty four. what we're looking for in this disputed land is high tech equipment proof in finally machine steel that the links russia's leaders will go to to supply the crimean peninsula with electricity and the trouble that's bringing to the kremlin where territory cannot do without. power lines but ukraine refuses to provide it russia's mainland doesn't have enough of it and ease sanctions shots crimea are offering western energy technology so russia has opted for deception to when they're thought about building a power station on the mainland and the growth for electricity to the. it was a fake because the well it was just going to recall those door buy ins from. there say well we'll install them here but not on the occupied territory of the crimea

but crimea is where siemens acknowledges the four turbines now are the reuters news organization filmed these two large objects in july for the crimean port of feodosia despite russian media reports two years ago about the turbine secret destination siemens accepted moscow's reassurances that they were for southern russia but now the scandals forced the german industrial giant to act its pursuing criminal charges it wants its missing technology back and it says it scaling down russian operations they told us siemens will hold power generation equipment deliveries from existing contracts to state control customers in russia for the time being the e.u. has also responded with new sanctions asset freezes and travel bans. when we visited theodosia the turbines if that's what they were it disappeared perhaps they're already here one of the two new power plants being built in crimea that

russian technicians are expected to face significant problems getting them to work because siemens is refusing technical assistance this whole siemens gas turbine saga illustrates in a nutshell the bines that russia has got itself into and trying to wriggle past the e.u. restrictive measures moscow is just more of them and with washington signing in new american sanctions the ability of russia to secure the investments in technology it needs to stop the country sliding backwards well that only gets harder or a challenge for al-jazeera simferopol crimea time to get the list for his tatyana thank you very much sports broadcaster b. in sports is denying i can say sions made by swiss prosecutors have opened a bribery case against the president of pakistan jamal and over the awarding of media rights for the fee for world cup p.s.g. president nasser fear who is also the c.e.o.'s being media group is being

investigated alongside faces former secretary general your own valka and an unnamed businessman so the lens attorney general on thursday announced criminal proceedings and b. in paris office was searched on the day being spores as a major broadcast rights holder in the middle east and north africa region it's alleged their media rights in question pertain to the wildcards in twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two the statement reads a b. and media group refutes all our kids ations made by the attorney general of switzerland the company will fully cooperate with the authorities and is confident as to the future developments of this investigation. now russia says it's made significant steps towards its anti doping reforms but those efforts on being recognized by the international community russia's athletics federation paralympic committee and anti doping agency remain suspended from international athletics after russia was allegedly found to be running its own state sponsored doping

program in august the world anti-doping agency found evidence of widespread doping by russian athletes and its officials as well but the head of the russian anti-doping commission and the president of the russian olympic committee have expressed their anger that their efforts to reform aren't being noticed. you should this is for most of them while talking with our foreign colleagues we found out that they are very poorly informed about the efforts undertaken by our country in anti doping over the last while our accompaniments are silenced this is very bad. the governor of the south korean province said to host next year's winter olympics as tensions on the korean peninsula will not to dampen the spirits of the games he was speaking at a games launch party in new york as officials from pyongyang went on the charm offensive to convince spectators to come only thirty percent of tickets have been sold so far with the games just one hundred twenty days away. we are one. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero you know what we're going to think the.

world we don't want to give the whole world is possible we move on from those. you know and comfortable in. tennis now and nineteen time grand slam champion roger federer has swept into the shanghai moscow quarterfinals with a straight sets win on thursday federer was facing ukraine's alexandra dull gotta love the swiss who has enjoyed a resurgence in twenty seventeen is highly ranked second in the world although he did for claim the number one ranking earlier and twenty seventeen he also won the australian open and wimbledon federer won this much six four six to play as richard gas came next. while number one rafa nadal defeated italy's fabio fognini in straight says these two of history off the phonemic not to dial out of the u.s. open in twenty fifteen and the dull criticize this year's u.s. open organizes the taking three days to suspend the italian from the event off

desirably abusing a challenge to the spaniard one six three six one. and alexander was up against one martindale quatro in shanghai but despite starting aggressively things on rattled his aggression turned into his rocket he went on to lose in straight sets with del potro reaching the quarter. the new york yankees have completed a remarkable comeback to stay alive in the race for baseball's world series the on expect city ended the season of lost is finalists in the american league division series and its home and reports you know. thoughts for the third consecutive day when the cleveland indians were a short of a place in the next stage of the major league baseball playoffs if they could win the good again that seems an unreachable thomas fielder was. the new york yankees had rights to his three not the glade by the third inning you know. you play for him had

faced last year's world series only to be beaten by the comes in game seven that were after redemption and had won twenty two games straight in the regular season and american league records. the indians got two runs on the board in the fifth inning before the yankees put the result beyond doubt in the night. you. see. you can see. with a five two victory they advance a gang to the odds to the american league championship series with the houston astros which begins on saturday it's disappointing i mean we we thought. we felt good about ourselves you know we came down the stretch play and very good baseball and we did some things in the series and i don't think we're characteristic of our

team there's just a ton of fight in this club and. you know it's a great mixture of youth and veteran players that are leading the way and. it's hard to believe because we just peter really really get it right sheriff the last season's world series champions the chicago cubs having to find all the wives there to complete a repeat performance stephen strasburg helped of the washington nationals shut out the cubs in game four of the national league division series a grand slam home run with batters on h.b.o.'s clinching a five nothing victory for washington when they took. their series is tied to two game five on thursday will decide which team goes on to meet the end i don't just in the championship series willie's home and al-jazeera. now the netherlands might not be going into next year's face a world cup and russia but they do have one reason to celebrate this week dutch

team has claimed the twenty seventeen wild so large challenge involve the cars from the northern australian city of darwin to the southern city of adelaide the vehicles raced at speeds of ninety to one hundred kilometers per hour powered by the sun alone and cross the finish line first after a journey lasting around a week. and now it's back to london. now the chinese artist ai wei wei has installed more than one hundred wire fence exhibits of various sites across new york city the exhibition is aimed at highlighting the plight of refugees and government policies towards immigrants christensen amy reports. two people cut through the fence that now blocks the triumphal arch in new york's washington square park a giant work of public art inspired by the global refugee crisis it's called good fences make good neighbors but these fences pounding parks and on sidewalks all around new york city have openings one of things i love about the park system in

the city is that you never know where you're going to rise so there's always that sense of adventure and exploration and when there's something like this it's very thought provoking. and enjoyable i think it's beautiful i think it has a lot of good work that like people can interact with it starts a conversation its creators a chinese artist ai wei wei lived in the city for twelve years but at first hesitated to take on the commission as a savior loves so much is not a using for me to the just. whole sculpture in the city i have to do sums and to. pay back my respects to my love these days i way way is an international superstar known as much for his political activism as his art but while sculptures like these may be warmly received here in new york they haven't always the light of the authorities back home. i has at times been detained and harassed in his homeland of china this time he's taking aim at the west his gilded

cage painted to match trump tower just a few blocks away. time this note to tolerance and. divide it on the three of us by the collar reduce religion and nationality and which is i think it's the company to get. going back warts. the message is universal but has a special resonance in the city of immigrants new york city's very open it excepts people from all kinds of backgrounds and i think that was a very profound experience for him so i think he was the values that and he wants to make sure that we think about it and don't take it for granted i's boundaries are fluid meant to provide comfort not divide and circling the community with the masses that all are in the quick reminder that you can find out much more

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. for sam's an archaeology graduate from iraq he's also a part time going to billings pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in babylon most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several berlin museums taking part in the project called a meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. he had been because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that moves us forward to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life here part of life is culture. in recent years the sawhill of north

africa as witness the so-called war on terror. but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara at this time on how much is iraq. a convoy of turkish. crosses into syria.