other who is also no longer alive when her village of tula tooley in the district of rakhine state was attacked resume says her parents two sisters and brother were killed as well having fled man maher regime and her husband are a feat now live in the cooper long camp in bangladesh presume honorific story is similar to what we've heard from many other survivors refugees who shared their terrifying accounts of having been brutalized by soldiers and me on mars army many described witnessing mass killings gang rapes beheadings and numerous other atrocities human rights investigators are accusing me and mars government of carrying out crimes against humanity a charge me and mars government denies with more than half a million rohinton refugees having fled me and more in the past six weeks medical aid and psychological support is in very short supply it's one reason rifi is so worried sometimes she says her head feels like it's twisting and that she can't to

liberate it so sometimes she looks at the full toes of our baby and she screams and cries every single day she. says that until they have money resume i can't get any more treatment for the head and jaw wound she sustained when she was also beaten by the soldiers and so resume a sits alone and traumatized longing for a family that perished and a home that no longer exists. at the could to prolong camp in cox's bazar bangladesh. the turkish army says it has started setting up observation posts in syria's province turkey has deployed its troops as part of a deescalation deal with iran and russia it was announced that the soldiers would be advancing south but there are reports that they're heading east close to areas controlled by kurdish forces well elsewhere kurdish forces in iraq of evacuated a number of villages to the south of cocoa commit fears of an attack by iraqi

government troops and militia fighters it's believed that iraqi forces have moved into these areas which kurdish forces have controlled since two thousand and fourteen the kurds of accused iraq of getting ready to launch an offensive to seize kurdish held oil fields around the city but baghdad is tonight these claims tensions have been rising between the two governments is the kurdish secession referendum last month charles traffic has the latest from air bill in northern iraq . some very worrying reports here certainly from the k r g saying that there has been movement of iraq and shia militia forces towards peshmerga positions to the south and the west of that oil rich city kid a cook i mean there's been flat denials from the iraqi government and the rocky military with respect to these allegations the head of the joint iraqi military operations saying that this was completely untrue prime minister allawi

body yesterday in his weekly address and he's just tweeted these comments and saying that all forces cannot and will not attack our citizens whether arab or but it is very much a worry for the k r g the kurdish regional government here is saying that they have deployed at least six thousand troops down towards kirkuk in the eventuality of any potential attack there of kirkuk of course of huge importance because of its oil wealth and in a disputed area of the new iraq and the. control of kirkuk in two thousand and fourteen when iraq the iraqi military fled and i still offensive they've been in control there ever since i did cause it participated in this very controversial referendum last month and the kurds say that basically they are not going to give control of that city back so certainly mounting tension here but as i say according

to the iraqi government to the iraqi military these allegations are true. still to come this hour a new blow for jacob zuma as a south african caught up holds a ruling to reinstate seven hundred eighty three corruption charges against him. fire crews in california battled dry windy conditions today more than a dozen wildfires hundreds of people remain unaccounted for. and later in school and really for the defending world series champions as they claim their opening playoff round. welcome to look at the weather across the levant and western parts of asia you can see the clouds moving across the caucasus at the moment our way across or the caspian sea and i think that should then clear the risk of any showers so it's

looking largely find one of two showers for the southern black sea coast turkey otherwise fine conditions around the eastern side of the med temperatures stuck at twenty seven there for beirut been for quite some time heading on through into sunday not a great deal of change of more pleasant thirty five degrees for baghdad and also for kuwait city now here in the arabian picture we've got quite a strong smell which will be sustained for another day or so so temperatures up to thirty seven degrees but the humidity is coming way down those conditions here in doha it looking quite pleasant i would be coming in at thirty five pretty woman the other side the french are still with that mecca medina in the upper thirty's to low forty's and sort of breeze run to lift some dust at times let's head over into southern portions of africa satellite imagery shows the far south clear you've got to get up into angola across parts of zambia and into the south of the congo to see a real big storms so for the most part is looking dry just a chance he'll show around the eastern cape cape town's looking dr fine the highs

of eighteen degrees should be fine and then maybe your highs of thirty two in when talk. we are witnessing around the word this hungry money which is only looking at how to make the next profit to devastating economies devastating ecosystems putting a price on the protection of nature green economy is sound good but it was all about privatized sation of nature should our environment be for sale what we're trying to do this destroyed people to stabilize the country by giving them a financial incentive to do the pricing the planet at this time on al jazeera we know. we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that you might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations peacekeepers out there you know if i'm tired you know. we are

challenging the forces we're challenging companies we're going to places where nobody else is going. welcome back you're watching the news hour an update of the stories making headlines u.s. president donald trump is unveiled an aggressive new strategy against iran he says he will not approve the nuclear deal but he won't pull out that funny. farm policy chief federica mo green who was a key figure in negotiating the deal says that it's not a bilateral agreement the u.s.

doesn't have the power to terminate it. and our other top story this hour spokesman for myanmar the unsung suchi says the de facto leader is appalled at the range a crisis that needs to tread carefully to not inflame the situation. well reaction to president obama's speech on the iran nuclear deal has been coming in from many quarters as you'd expect including of course in the u.s. itself where the leader of the house democrats warn that trump's actions threaten national security and iran nuclear agreement was the best way to prevent iran from becoming a nuclear armed state president trumps refusal to recertify is a grave mistake that threatens america's security and our credibility. at a very critical time the president is ignoring the overwhelming consensus of nuclear scientist and national security experts generals and his own cabinet

including reportedly the secretary of defense and the secretary of state the fact is iran remains in compliance with the nuclear agreement if they did not we would not be supporting sort of occasion. well iran's president has done rouhani is currently giving a live address he's described president trump statement and as accusations and lies and also called on the american president to read more about history and ethics we'll get analysis on this story from john glasser he's the director of foreign policy studies at the cato institute joins us live from washington d.c. thank you very much for speaking to us and i just want to get back to reaction that we've had from the u.s. just listening there to a statement from nancy pelosi how difficult is it going to be for president trying to secure changes in the iran legislation given that reports are already suggesting congress will be divided on this. yeah it doesn't it's not

clear to me at all that trump has the votes in congress even in his own republican party to try to impose additional changes to the piece of legislation that was passed after the signing of j c p o a the proposals that have been kind of circling around by senator bob corker and senator tom cotton would constitute itself a material breach of the j.c. itself you can't unilaterally make changes to a multilateral agreement that's already been decided by the u.n. security council so you know it's i think it's important to note that trump hasn't actually decertified the deal in terms of ron's technical compliance we're not formally withdrawing just yet and that's i think the implicit concession that the entire world is right when they say that iran is complying and that the deal is working. why did he stop short of. strong action of pulling the u.s.

out of the deal together. well he didn't he stopped short of pulling the u.s. out of the deal altogether because virtually his entire national security team strongly advised against that because they know number one the iran is complying and we're to the deal is working to stave off an iranian nuclear weapon for the foreseeable future and number three that the consequences to united states of formally withdrawing or abrogating the agreement is are really dangerous i mean it's very risky it undermines u.s. credibility and trustworthiness in the world it puts the u.s. in iran back on the path to conflict it isolates us from our allies i mean trump is basically putting the united states in the position of rogue state instead of iran and that's not good for the united states interests. but i suppose there are those in congress and around who agree that perhaps the deal should have been more wide

ranging that it should be expanded to one or that there should be a follow up agreement that incorporates iran's non-nuclear activities subsequently president trump seems to imply that if these amendments to the legislation a not made that he would would end up pulling out of the deal how much how much pressure does that now put on congressional leaders. well it puts quite a lot of pressure on them what i'll say is that you know there's a possibility that congress can handle this delicately put some additional non-nuclear sanctions on iran to avoid a formal abrogation of the united states in the deal to placate trump but also amend the existing corker bill that provides the requirement for the president to certify the deal every ninety days that's what trump is really annoyed about that yes the put his imprint tour on this deal that he's criticized so harshly in the

past with regard to iran's other regional activities the j.c. was strictly a nonproliferation agreement and that was by design because if the negotiators included all these other regional activities like missile ballistic missiles and support from proxies iran would have ended up trading some of the concessions that they ended up having to make for the nuclear program in any case those regional activities are nowhere near a sufficient threat to the united states to create a big problem and forestall some workable agreement that is currently having its effect it's staving off an iranian nuclear weapon so you know trump is creating a national security crisis that hasn't previously existed and that's really dangerous john glass said director from policy studies at the cato institute thank you very much thanks. well i want to measures that trying to

unveil tougher sanctions sanctions on iran's revolutionary guard corps which he described as the corrupt personal terra force of iran's leader it was created out of the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution and has tremendous political and economic influence and it's met has a long history of the great. fanatical defenders of iran's revolution ayatollah khomeini founded the revolutionary guard in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine. it was to be a volunteer corps of loyal foot soldiers to counter the conscript military that khomeini didn't trust these were some of the course first casualties killed in fighting with the kurds the revolutionary guards were created in order to preserve the revolution so that the united states could not carry out a counter coup or a or a coup not a counter-coup bit but a coup in the country and overthrow the revolution was a popular revolution so there are many young people who want to join. it was the

iran iraq war which lasted for eight years where the revolutionary guard made its name. these men a chanting for martyrdom they believed faith would overcome iraq's technical superiority young man would walk across minefields to clear a path for the military the army had to defend the country in the face of much more powerful foe the revolutionary guards though since they were a volunteer force they were highly motivated and therefore when they went to aid the army they were very effective and the army along with the revolutionary guards were able to push back saddam hussein's forces. president. johnny oversaw the revolutionary guards expansion and you nearing skills learned during the war were used in post-war reconstruction front companies not subject to sanctions were established to carry out the work. the guards also expanded their

involvement in internal security. they suppressed these student protests in one thousand nine hundred nine and have been used to crackdown violently on any dissent since then the and the kurds force was created by the guards to train proxy groups outside iran such as hezbollah in lebanon and hamas in gaza. iranian backed fighters have been used to support pro regime forces in syria and help shia militias fight i saw in iraq there are deterrents their potential deterrent capability of helping deter foreign aggression i think is one reason why the americans. do not seriously contemplate. armed conflict with iraq there are around one hundred twenty five thousand members of the guard's land sea and air forces and there's these fighters the besiege a part time volunteer militia that has several hundred thousand members ready to be

mobilized it all makes the revolutionary guards the most important single organization inside the islamic republic of iran bernard smith al-jazeera france's candidate has been named as an al-jazeera france's candidate has been named as you know new director general audrey as a lay the former culture minister was up against cathouse have been under. her election comes a day after the u.s. pulled out of the body over its perceived anti israel bias well the new unesco chief already has a lay is a former minister of culture and communication as you were saying before her appointment to the cabinet though she served as a culture advisor to president along her father is and her father is an advisor to king mohammed the sixth of morocco. really longer to mount the issues of today and the issues of tomorrow everything must go through the collective action of you know

if we want to face those issues and because i've been chosen to lead this institution the first thing i'm going to do is to apply myself to restore its credibility. well you know headquartered in paris and our correspondent joins us from there now tell us more about the challenges facing the new head of unesco where as you mentioned audrey as he lay comes to this job at an incredibly turbulent time for the agency critics of unesco say that it's in desperate need of reform her appointment is just a day after the united states and israel said that they want to pull out accusing it of bias which of course is never a good thing for an international agency like which promotes consensus and unity now how she will deal with all of this remains to be seen she is very young she's just forty five so she becomes the youngest head of the un's a cultural agency actually spent a few years as a culture minister an advisor to the former french president but she hasn't had

very much more experience than that in this kind of international debating domain however some people here say that maybe that could be an advantage in many ways that she's a fresh face and she'll take a fresh approach and she's also someone who's very deeply personally interested in culture the arts and cinema and people wonder if that might be an advantage for an organization that's been increasingly seen as too political over the past years and perhaps she will find new ways of funding in fact she has talked about trying to not just seek funds from the states and their contributions but perhaps even look for private partners so perhaps they will be doing things differently and that could be something that people unesco will welcome thank you very much in paris. well i have some news from kenya where at least two protests as have been shot dead after more demonstrations against the electoral commission police used tear gas to disperse opposition protests in the country remains cities where protests have been banned kenyans due to vote in two weeks time in

a rerun of august presidential election which was an old by the supreme court opposition leader pulled out of the race this week he says the election board had failed to institute reforms to guarantee a free and fair vote ok news ruling party has pursued changes to the electoral law which it says will reduce safeguards against electoral for but the opposition says that they will make it more difficult for the supreme court to nullify any election . but no the duly government is determined to go those games becoming the laws. through passing through parliament. and joy in the division minute to become to buck to dictatorship. talking about a benevolent dictatorship. you just want to assure them that the people you know to keep them to. be resistance are the people who can. south

africa's supreme court of appeal is up held a high court ruling to reinstate seven hundred eighty three old corruption fraud charges against president jacob zuma they date back to before he took office in two thousand and nine zuma says he's disappointed by the court's decision and denies any wrongdoing tanya page has mall it took less than fifteen minutes for the supreme court of appeal to reject the president's latest attempt to avoid corruption charges. were dismissed because. the charges relate to allegations during a multi-million dollar deal from the one nine hundred ninety s. they were controversially dropped in two thousand and nine clearing the way for jacob zuma to become president the.