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home joined and this is the news our live from doha coming up in the program i am announcing a new strategy to address the full range of iran's destructive actions the us president condemns iran's government as a fanatical regime and sets off a chain of events that could lead to the collapse of its landmark nuclear deal. and iran's president heads back a charm speech saying it was full of insults and fake accusations plus. opposition protesters defy a ban on demonstrations in kenya two are shot dead by police in the west of the country plus was. the stars returned to asia's biggest film festival after a political scandal almost threatened its future. u.s.

president donald trump has laid out an aggressive new strategy on iran he didn't pull the us out of a nuclear deal struck in july two thousand and fifteen but he has decided not to certify iran as being in compliance with the accord in effect putting the green mint in limbo can really how could reports from washington d.c. he's often threatened to tear up the landmark deal with iran but in the end u.s. president donald trump stopped short of pulling out of the two thousand and fifteen agreement to limit its nuclear program for now and even though his own administration has twice certified that iran is complying with the deal he now says he won't do it again i am announcing today that we cannot and will not make this certification. we will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence more terror and the very real

threat of iran's nuclear breakout that is why i am directing my administration to work closely with congress for months trump has accused his predecessor barack obama of being myopic in negotiations with iran focusing only on iran's nuclear program but not the financing of groups trump says are causing instability in the region the president has directed the u.s. congress to potentially revamp u.s. law to set up tough new standards. if iran by a late arbitrary trigger point lifted sanctions could be put back in place senate republicans are already drafting legislation supported by top democrats who have always viewed the twenty fifteen deal as somewhat imperfect we're saying if they're not in compliance we're all with together on this where i am the administration also has its sights on another ronnie and target the country's revolutionary guard

new u.s. treasury sections are being imposed which donald trump says are long overdue critics say these actions put international relations at risk and could spell the end of the deal painstakingly negotiated over more than a decade this deal was working it was delivering the iranians were living up to it the i.a.e.a. certified eight times in iran was at hearing today a deal trump took a perfectly working deal and transformed it into a crisis with the decision that he made today donald trump has shifted u.s. iran policy and he's not entirely ruling out withdrawing from the agreement altogether i may do that the deal is terrible but for all his tough talk against iran donald trump has for now taken little action ceding that responsibility to the u.s. congress to take the next steps or none at all kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington i don't fish joins us now from washington d.c.

tell us more about why you think he's done this alan. well he's appealing to his being she'll remember throughout the election campaign he talked about many things but one of them was the iran deal he described as a terrible deal said he could get a better deal and he said this if you go into the oval office one of the first things he would do would scrap the iran deal well he's had to recertify the last two times it's come across his desk but the word was that he wasn't going to keep doing this but what he's done essentially is just kick it down pennsylvania avenue to congress and say look you have to deal with it the problem is that he's also got to say to congress you don't we certify it because it breaches these parts of the deal but what he's talking about when he talks about iran's ballistic missile program or its funding for hezbollah is outside the parameters of the nuclear deal when the p five plus one got together to talk to iran about its nuclear program they decided to concentrate only on the nuclear program that's because they knew that if they started taking in other issues then there is the possibility that the

p five plus one could be split and they would never get a deal so now he's got to hand this over to congress they've got sixty days to come up with an answer there's a possibility they might do nothing they might as hilary kimberly said in her report they might come up with well if you do this there will be trigger points and we will get a snap back of some sort of sanction deal or they might come up with a new plan in itself but essentially what donald trump is doing is saying it's now up to congress so he can turn to supporters and say wow i decertified the whole deal with iran it was congress that didn't do its job it's something that donald trump has done a number of times over the past ten months and how do people feel about this they're. unless you live in washington you don't pay a great deal of attention to it if you're out in the heartland of the united states you haven't read the deal you don't understand the finer points of it you get bored when people start talking about it in any great length what you know if you live in

the american heartland and this is a sweeping generalization i know is that you hear america has done a deal with iran and people here still remember the hostage crisis still think that the shouldn't trust iran and there are many reasons why they should be dealing a deal with iran now when donald trump stands up and says we have given them millions of dollars of our money which isn't actually true to go and spread the so-called terror network then people get angry about that because they're still raw because of what happened in nine eleven and so generally people will be watching to see what happens over the next sixty days which is exactly how long congress has got to do to deal with this but be of this in mind they've got a big domestic agenda donald trump wants tax cuts he wants to see health care change he's got many many things he's put in front of congress and said right let's try to get this done by the end of the year including immigration and that is just another thing so that people in congress are looking to see when is he expecting is to get this done if there is nothing wrong with this deal maybe just park it to the

side and we'll come back to some point in the future let's leave it there alan but talk more about the responses iran's reaction to try a speech has been quick saying that israel has more from teheran. a swift and strong response from the iranian president hassan rouhani saying of donald trump's speech that it seemed as though the american president needed a history lesson and then he proceeded to give him one he reminded people that it was the u.s. central intelligence agency that backed a coup that toppled the democratically elected government here in one nine hundred fifty three he also reminded people of the nine hundred eighty eight shooting down a civilian airliner by an american warship he also reminded people that it was the u.s. that backed saddam hussein in iraq against iran during the one nine hundred eighty s. iran iraq war and he said these were all examples of why iran had every right to pursue any reasonable defensive capability that it deems necessary chaumont. are you

worried about iranian missiles what about those weapons you give every day to aggressor countries i know targeting of the oppressed people of yemen with planes and bombs that you built yourself you don't have any protest about those weapons and that's aggression and you targeted our oil platforms you are always the aggressor in this region our weapons our missiles of defending ourselves we have always been determined and today we are more determined to defend ourselves president rouhani speech was unmistakably defiant in tone designed to match the aggressive tone and rhetoric coming out of the white house he also took an opportunity to defend the revolutionary guard a group in iran that he says enjoys a great deal of public support he also addressed trends criticism of anti-american slogans chanted by iranian demonstrators saying that those slogans were not meant to target american people but instead those slogans were meant to target the wrong

policies of the american government times decision is raising international concern about the future of the new can't deal mike hanna reports from the united nations. the security council went about its daily business discussing me and mine a closed session but the abrasive speech by president trump certainly resonated in this building please raise the iran deal was codify than a security council resolution back in two thousand and fifteen at a time the u.s. and the u.n. had different leaders of what has been agreed by the united states and european union or should germany when you write you must be fully implemented it is a very important i'm sorry to see what is now happening diplomats of today are sorry to be are concerned by some of the implications of this statement because we stand by the joint conference of plan of action we judge it to be

a good deal which helps improve international security and we want to see it continue to remain in force others argue the u.s. cannot unilaterally amend a security council resolution and it is not a bilateral agreement it does not belong to any single country and it is not up to any single country to terminate it it is a multilateral agreement which was unanimously endorsed by the united nations security council resolution twenty two thirty one and the leaders in germany france and the united kingdom added their concern for the deal formerly known as a joint comprehensive plan of action they say preserving the j.c. p.o.a.'s in our shared national security interest the nuclear deal was a culmination of thirteen years of diplomacy and was a major step towards ensuring that iran's nuclear program is not diverted for military purposes the leaders added that they were worried and willing to act over

iran's ballistic missile program and what they described as its regional activities . iran has sent a formal letter of protest to the u.n. secretary general it says the islamic republic of iran will not be the first to withdraw from the deal but if its rights and interests in the deal are not respected it will stop implementing all its commitments and will resume its peaceful nuclear program without any restrictions the greatest concern that iran itself withdraws from the deal shifting what was an internationally monitored and restrained nuclear process back into the darkness mike hanna al-jazeera united nations blank is a senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace and he joins us now from washington d.c. it's good to have you with us you worked closely on this deal have believed closely

with barack obama was there something missing in this deal is donald trump has he spotted something is he doing something clever here absolutely not this deal is restricted to the nuclear file and that is the single most important issue that needed to be resolved between the united states our european allies and partners and iran not a single of the other issues that we've heard addressed already this evening ballistic missiles regional activities terrorism would be easier to address if the restrictions in place and the invasive inspections in place as a result of the way were removed and saying what he said i mean is this going to make the world a safer place or easy helping to create the chaos that he's predicting. i think that this is a move of chaos so in the best case scenario congress essentially there takes no action or takes no meaningful action and then a continues in force. even in that best case scenario the president has isolated us

from our allies has enhanced iran standing with europe is frankly is enhanced iran standing in the region and has left us less powerful to deal with the other problems that are admitted lee still present like ballistic missiles and how should iran now respond and how should the partners involved in the deal particularly deal with this now well first and foremost everybody needs to recall that so far the united states is still in full compliance with its obligations under the deal the president has not reapplied reapplied the same ones that were lifted by the j c p o a and congress has sixty days to do so using expedited procedures but may not so long as neither congress nor the president reimposed the sanctions we are in compliance and the deal is functioning despite the rhetoric i think what's very important is that for now everybody stay in full compliance and our european allies

and partners continue to explain to an audience here in washington that this is not just an issue between the united states and iran it's not just a middle east regional issue but that if the united states were to withdraw from all working j c.p.o. a it would be a transatlantic crisis save and should remain in compliance is iran in compliance. the answer to that absolutely is yes the international atomic energy agency has confirmed it each of its quarterly reports a director general amano reconfirmed today in an extraordinary press statement after the president's speech but don't take their word for it. heard defense madis in testimony before the senate last week made very clear that it's the view of the united states government the professionals in the military in the intelligence community that iran is in compliance with the steel don't thank good getting you experience thank you pays your head on the news i'm kidding we'll look at tension

in northern iraq in the latest fallout from the kurdish referendum last month and will press. director general heading the un's cultural body in what looks like tough times ahead in sports international cricket is set for a major revamp as the test game fights to secure its future. at least two people have been shot dead during protests against kenya's electoral commission rallies have taken place despite a government ban peace in iraq dispersed protesters using tear gas opposition supporters took to the streets ahead of a planned presidential election rerun in two weeks time for me to has more from the capital nairobi. small scale protests have continued in different parts of kenya and that's despite a ban on protests taking place in the central business district of the three main

cities the opposition says banning these protests is unconstitutional and they want to continue demanding electoral changes from the electoral body now we understand that at least two people were killed in the bondo town in the western part of kenya when a group of demonstrators tried to storm a police station and that's when police opened fire now the concern is that there could be excessive force by the police in these demonstrations if we look back to demonstrations in the week immediately after the august eighth elections a human rights bodies released a report saying at least thirty seven people were killed at that time and it's only all of these cases besides to that police report indicated police used excessive force we expect to see more demonstration in the coming days as the

electoral commission prepares for a rerun of the presidential of vote on the twenty sixth of october. former u.n. chief kofi annan is calling on man martin sure the refugees can return to their homes not camps more than half a million on neighboring bangladesh to escape a military crackdown in rakhine state in his capacity as chairman of the advisory commission in rakhine state he presented a report to the un security council on the crisis the international community is prepared to engage me. and where can a common road map. used in the reported there are kind state commission as a basis and to go for move forward together engage them on all the range of issues we have recommended and try and stabilize the situation because if we don't we are

going to have a long term history and problem not be in the region which can be very serious down the line the u.k.'s ambassador to the u.n. spoke out against what he calls ethnic cleansing i think we have all been appalled by the scale of this manmade tragedy that began with the despicable attacks by the ira camera being a salvation army on the twenty fifth of august and we've all been sickened by the massive and disproportionate response from the burmese security authorizes which is left countless dead and over half a million homeless it's hard to deny that this targeted violence is anything other than ethnic cleansing of the rohingya muslims from rakhine state manaus military has launched an internal investigation after its soldiers were accused of killing and abusing the army says it is responding to five is attacking its outposts just

as a homage on june is in a camp at cox's bizarre way he met one woman who lost most of her family. for resume a big home there is nothing but pain. my baby was in my lap and when the soldiers hit me and he fell out of my then they pulled me closer to the wall and i could hear that he was crying in after a few minutes i could hear that they were hitting him too she tells us soldiers for me and mars army had set a fire outside the house they were in and then the unthinkable. my baby was thrown into the fire and then they raped me these are pictures of resume a son sadik he was one and a half years old and very playful a happy child she still can't believe is gone. i feel like i'm pinning on the inside. then she breaks down.

as she wails in agony resume screams out for her mother. a mother who is also no longer alive when her village of to literally 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 now live in the cooper long camp in bangladesh resume 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 and 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 tolerate it sometimes she looks at the photos 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 kuta belong camp in cox's bazar bangladesh people in thailand mocking one year since the death of king.

mourners gathered in prayer at bangkok's grand palace where the late king is lying in state to be cremated they just this month marking the end of the official mourning period. ruled for almost seventy years. a new head of unesco is france's film a culture minister audrey as a lay she's been elected as the un's cultural agency faces uncertain times of the united states putting out on thursday a test about to reports. she didn't start out as the favorite but at the end of a tense week of voting for audrey as les emerged as the winner. executive board picked the french former culture minister as his new director general replacing paul guerin area. as latex over at a turbulent time for the organization the u.s. and israel say they're pulling out accusing it of anti israel bias. at this time of

crisis i think it's more important than ever to invest in unesco supported seek to reinforce or reformers and not to lay her. at forty five as a way will be the youngest head of unesco she was a cultural advisor to former french president francois hollande before becoming culture minister her father is an advisor to the king of morocco she beat katter's hammered by only two votes her selection has disappointed those who said that after decades of european and north american heads it was the arab world's turn i think this is a disappointment for many many other citizens. i mean. but any way. that. she will be doing. for. action. begins her term in office she will face some tough challenges she

takes or. the critics say is in desperate need of reform and you'll have to work hard to try and heal the divisions. image and not state is central funding the u.s. stopped is eighty million dollar a year contributions in two thousand and eleven of the us gave palestinians full membership israel followed suit and japan also cut funds last year after a different. politicize. what it could do better than it has until now is avoid divisions that lead to some countries abandoning it bundling the ship and leaving it without funding and without a consensus you know sco was created in the aftermath of world war two to promote peace through international co-operation in education science and culture some say as a late doesn't have enough experience to resolve its problems others say her youth

will bring a fresh approach and a much needed change natasha al-jazeera paris. ahead on al-jazeera elections against a backdrop of protest the venezuela vote that's been seen as a test of nicolas maduro his presidency we examine why of thousands of penguin chicks are dying in antartica and in sports we'll hear from the veteran manager hoping to revive munich's seized. from the sky. to the fresh breeze in the city of love. welcome back tropical storm canon is going to cause some real problems across eastern parts of china and indochina in the coming days is already giving a lot of flooding across parts of the philippines some very heavy rain that this

storm system is going to go across thailand and then through into parts of vietnam laos which already affected by the previous tropical storm system so there's the forecast through saturday still the philippines getting battered by some really heavy rain this system will increase in strength as it heads towards thailand and may well hit the island as a typhoon equivalent of a category one hurricane at this stage and then as we head on through into monday choosing that's when it's going to hit northern parts of vietnam certainly want to keep a close eye on as we head into southeastern parts of asia you see once you get away from that storm system is little bit better further south in the philippines but generally all the way from thailand through cambodia southern parts of vietnam towards the philippines it is looking very wet at the moment you come further south across borneo a few showers but nothing remarkable body generally look you know k. and then for the peninsula we generally have fine weather conditions but then northwards it becomes really wet into south asia here we've got some heavy rain

really from one poor southward metairie heavy rain likely in hyderabad. there with sponsored by the time these. are the rain forest of the sea we continue on our current way we won't have hallways within twenty thirty forty years from now so you're sensibly trying to recreate the ecosystem but under controlled conditions the legal. stuff that some. of. the great barrier is still saveable up we're going to start now i mean everyone behind the solution know this time on hold is the right. continence across the.

and again you're watching al-jazeera in mind of our top stories u.s. president don chompers decided not to certify iran as complying with the new good deal struck in two thousand and fifteen but he stopped short of pulling his country out of the cord iran says the move goes against the spirit of the treatment police in kenya have shot and killed at least two people during protests against the electoral commission opposition supporters defied a ban on demonstrations calling for reforms to prevent fraud in the rerun of the

presidential poll in two weeks' time. general kofi annan has called on me and martin let rangar refugees safely return to their homes more than half a million in neighboring bangladesh to escape a military crackdown in rakhine state. venezuelans will vote in regional elections on sunday opposition parties are predicted to win most of the seats after months of violence anti-government protests the poll has been seen as a test of president nicolas maduro his popularity that as a ball reports. opposition leaders in venezuela are crying foul they've just been told that more than two hundred voting stations for sunday's local elections have just been. there closing many voting centers around twelve percent of the people in this state have to vote somewhere else and they were only just notified the center was open until last night the voting machines were here. now it's closed. and. this is part of

a strategy to discourage people in the state of media that has traditionally voted for the opposition to head to the told on sunday. these elections are long overdue they should have taken place in december last year. for models has been taken to the streets to demand elections accusing the government of dismantling venezuelan institutions to hold on to power. government rejects the accusations it's told international observers that everything is on track for the vote. relocating voting centers it's completely constitutional nobody is breaking the law it was announced by the electoral council decided is that in the places where there were incidents in the past. and that is legal precedent has said that the governor selected on sunday will have to be sworn in and subordinate themselves to the constitutional assembly a five hundred member legislative body that was elected almost three months ago he

also said that those who are face to acknowledge it could face dismissal but. that the constitutional assembly is illegal because it's election with field with irregularities. for the opposition. are a chance to win some governorships and test the ground. scheduled for next year. the government is aware the world will be watching that. they're using them to wash their face and. well that to venezuela where there are elections this is not a dictatorship and there is no hunger here when all that isn't true. the government insists the election will be free and fair. the opposition will be hoping for some big wins any doubts over the way the vote is run and demonstrators will likely take to the streets again. more than thirty people have been

killed as wild fires continue to sweep through the u.s. state of california it's the deadliest series of blazes in the state's history thousands of homes have been destroyed including a mobile home park where emergency mergence e personnel are searching for survivors many people are unaccounted for rescue workers believe the number of dead will rise. over three hundred missing people so we want to get to the target searches of known missing persons unknown addresses and we can come back to this area and go through again. if we could our lives with two missing people will consider ourselves lucky. austria's anti immigrant freedom party has ended its election campaign with a rally in vienna immigration has been a major issue ahead of sunday's vote the party's leader heintz christian struck accuse the government coalition of trying to swap out people for muslims election

is being held a year early after the break up of the coalition government of the social democrats and the people's party the family freed after being held hostage for five years have returned to canada from pakistan joshua boyle and his american wife kate and coleman was seized by the taliban inter-county group while hiking in afghanistan the couple and three children while in captivity. it was incredible you know i've been waiting to hear that voice for so long and then to hear her voice. and have it sound exactly like the last time i talked to you know taking your pregnant wife to a very dangerous place to me and the kind of person that i am unconscionable u.s. defense secretary james mattis is aging iraqi and kurdish peshmerga forces to remain focused on defeating eisel that's after kurdish forces cleared villages around kirkuk and accused iraqi forces of paying to seize kurdish held or oil fields near

the city tension rose of the kurds voted overwhelmingly for session from iraq in a non binding referendum last month also if it isn't all from a bill in northern iraq the kurdish regional government ok our g. says iraqi government troops and shia militia forces have moved closer to their peshmerga positions the peshmerga have controlled kirkuk and surrounding area since two thousand and fourteen after defending it against eisele when the iraqi army fled but kirkuk one of iraq's two main oil producing regions is disputed the peshmerga say they will not withdraw and will defend the city and its oil at any cost. large numbers of popular mobilisation forces and other iraqi forces of arrived in this area south of cook this is dangerous and threatens war we did not come here to fight the iraqi army but if any forces try to overcome

our front lines we will stand up to them. the iraqi prime minister hydrilla body denies his forces have moved into the area to take control of the oil fields from the peshmerga. forces cannot and will not attack citizens whether. he said it's been more than two weeks since the kurds celebrated the referendum on to session from iraq. since then turkey says it will gradually take control of its land border neighboring iran has made similar threats. the federal government has banned international flights to and from the kurdish region of iraq and a federal court has issued arrest warrants for members of the kayleigh g.'s aleck true commission and now the k r g says it is under straight from the same forces it worked with to defeat. in iraq the peshmerga say they have voluntarily withdrawn

from an area south of kirkuk in order to ease tension with nearby iraq eat government forces but with thousands of pressure being deployed to kirkuk and neither the k r g all the baghdad government willing to talk face to face unconditionally about the results of the controversial referendum there are mounting phase of a potential new conflict in northern iraq it's all stuff that al-jazeera bill the turkish army says it started setting up observation posts in syria's entire province after sending troops there the deployment as part of a deescalation deal with iran and russia has announced the soldiers will advance south to central adlib to fight the group but several reports suggest that actually moving east towards the town of but i cut this prison close to areas controlled by kurdish forces in the north of the region seen here in red. reports on the border with syria. turkey's cross border operation is under way these are

soldiers from a special unit tasked with setting a surveillance post in province. turkey aims to enforce a cease fire agreement that was signed last month. president. said the move was crucial for turkey's national security. is it our front here we have to take our precautions no one has the right to tell us why are you doing this we are the country with nine hundred eleven kilometer border with syria where there was that under harassment and threat no one has the right to tell us why did you do this. turkish soldiers are seen here in. a village on those border with. not far from areas controlled by the why p.g. syrian kurdish faction turkey has repeatedly insisted it won't allow

fighters to expand further to worse the northwestern provinces of and lattakia thank you this is a delicate operation for turkey. is those controlled by hate and. if qaeda affiliate. rejects the deescalation agreement vowing to fight to the death it's not yet clear if the group will be turkey's next target. was all new. people but all. of the kurdish more. than boarder off to syria. on thursday egypt and opposition fighters

a cease fire agreement in the east of the. rebel stronghold in the syrian capital damascus. the deals allow the rebels to get humanitarian aid in their areas but would also allow government troops to shift their focus to the east where they are on the move against i sell the military campaign in syria poses many challenges for turkey. stated goal is to ensure a ceasefire agreement holds in but its real motive might be denying the kurds access to areas like the coastal province of latakia. on turkish border with syria so africa supreme court of appeal has upheld a high court ruling to reinstate nearly eight hundred old corruption and 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 decision and denies any

wrongdoing on your page as more it took less than fifteen minutes for the supreme court of appeal to reject the president's latest attempt to avoid corruption charges. 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 reason given by the prosecutor at the time was that secretly recorded phone conversations showed political interference last year the high court ruled the decision to drop the charges was irrational and they should be reinstated some legal experts say with the supreme court's now dismissing his latest appeal the ruling must be enforced his action over the last decade smacker with this provoked him to avoid the. actions of a man who has a lot to answer so in this light. i'll be writing to the national prosecuting

authority the national public prosecutions are able. insisting that in fact jacob zuma be served with an indictment and appears in court at the soonest available. but the n.p.a. the national prosecuting authority sees it differently it says that because the supreme court didn't explicitly say the charges are reinstated that means it's able to reconsider the investigation. did you not instruct the n.p.a. it is one of the canals that we put them out on appeal that the court has not instructed to reinstate the charges it must be said the matter to the n.p.a. for reconsideration this is an important decision because it's being interpreted differently by the opposition democratic alliance which is doggedly pursue the

president and the n.p.a. it's not as decisive as it might same ultimately there are still several options available to president zuma who has always strongly denied the allegations. the national prosecuting authority says it will do the right thing and follow the law but some opposition parties say its current here is an ally of president jacob zuma making the prosecution of a president who's facing mounting opposition seem unlikely tinier page al-jazeera along from time south africa. witchcraft in zambia toxic masculinity in south africa and folktales from swaziland are just some of the african themes of this year's london film festival al-jazeera charlie angelo reports on our film makers from the continent are challenging the way africa is depicted on screen. it looks like a western a familiar genre for audiences but five fingers from us a is set against the backdrop of south africa's eastern cape. director michael matthews has dusted down

the john are creating something thrilling and fresh. why don't we take a picture together look at the camera. send it to another african film with a unique style is i am not a witch based on a real witch camp in ghana it's a comment on women's place in society told with humor critics according directive on god and ione a new voice in cinema if i if as if i'd been trying out of probably been a different kind of filmmaker in the sense that in because i don't know where and i was some things i tend to follow rules like literally sort of been very much about filmmaking and i have been different the london film festival really stands out for its support of african cinema because they've got a dedicated program advisor who seeks out new voices from the continent and the films that they find challenge cultural stereotypes and play with new styles of storytelling like an animation from swaziland but the festival's director

says they may struggle to be seen by a wider audience i think we live in very difficult. times the artists who are trying to tell stories that are outside the mainstream and or you have to do is look at the u.k. . overall box office results for example and only three to four percent the new box office is made by films in a language other than english even though they actually constitute about a third of the films that are released if you do not you know. you know. defying the odds the wound has been selected for the oscars a gay love story set inside the traditional african practice of initiations. you know the form speaks about things that are really relatable it speaks about not just masculinity but the notions of of i think talks of masculinity. the way in which men raised to behave. and that is something that it's.

not just doesn't just impact on men or closer men or african men but that's something that affects all of us new talent new styles that will hopefully reach a new audience al-jazeera london tens of thousands of penguins chicks of starve to death in antarctica and what scientists are describing as a catastrophic breeding season it's a second bad season in five years for colony of adélie penguins all but two of the chicks died experts say it's caused by unusually high amounts of ice late in the season with penguins traveling for the full food rodin is head of the worldwide fund for nature's polar program in the u.k. he says steps can be taken to help the penguin colony recover. we can ensure that there are no krill fisheries. that overlap with the areas that the penguins go to feed and indeed on monday of next week there's

a major international meeting happening in hobart in australia it's called camelot that's the commission for the conservation of antarctic marine living resources and camera considering a proposal that's been put down by a stray leo and the european union for a new marine protected area which would protect some of the amazing wildlife in this area including a deli and emperor penguins the good news is that those same birds will return to the same colony next year and try all over again so whilst it was a catastrophic breeding attempt this year they will try again adelie penguins are very hardy little birds. still ahead and i was there all the sports news including world number one rafael nadal is aiming for his seventh title of the year and is here with that story.

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cost at this time on al-jazeera. asia's biggest film festival has opened in south korea a year after a political scandal almost threatened its future a former president. had blacklisted artists that were critical of the government some filmmakers boycotted last year's events and protests with talking peached and out of office the stars are returning to the red carpet rob mcbride reports from. on the red carpet there was stars and glitz in abundance but the opening was still

a little time. this is the first busan film festival since the full extent of the so-called blacklist contrive a c. was revealed. movie makers are still coming to terms with it. i believe no matter what happens the freedom of expression should not be controlled late last year it emerged then president park geun hye was operating a blacklist against artists she saw a risk hostile to her government a number of them in the film industry they were allegedly denied public funding and showing their work was discouraged. an investigation of the scandal has led to ministers and senior officials being prosecuted while park herself is behind bars. the control of the arts was a historical regression. impacted the creative reel of the filmmakers and undermined artistic freedom. one of the highest profile victims was this

documentary about the saywell ferry tragedy that killed more than three hundred passengers most of them schoolchildren in twenty fourteen the film laid a lot of the blame on government negligence supporters of president tried to stop the documentary being shown that here when it was shown its place in the festival budget was cut as a punishment leading some filmmakers to boycott this event they say with government think the pay of. the festival has begun to recover helped by a new government in power and like any good plot the organizers see this as a life changing episode which makes it strong. the festival is suffered and difficulties but in overcoming them we can take pride from not succumbing to political oppression we have pulled the festival together and move forward.

hoping to emerge the hero and the happy ending macbride al-jazeera busan south korea. time for a supporter than a hitch. thank you very much while international cricket is set for a huge overhaul a new test championship will be launched as the format fights to survive alongside that c. twenty gang starting in twenty nine saying the event will culminate in a world test championship final a new one the international league will begin in twenty twenty one that will also act as a pathway for world cup qualification not all the test playing nations are included in the test championship zimbabwe island and afghanistan not taking part each team will play three home and three away series over two years with each one featuring at least two tests while the point system hasn't yet been finalised each series will have the same amount of points on offer regardless of its length. already we've seen that test cricket is at different stages in different countries and it's

still very popular extremely popular in the likes of in the new australian particular and maybe less so in some others. and whether we can reserve the interest in those countries where it is cricket interesting to see cricket as full in a way it is is what we tried to overly achieve but. you know time seems to fly by very quickly and you know in the in the foreseeable future that i'm very hopeful that this cricket will survive and. that's our strategy really well earlier i spoke to soon i grudged got a parody who is the assistant editor at e.s.p.n. cric info he says young players may still choose a lucrative t twenty franchise korea over playing for their country. it's a concern not just of the i.c.c. but the member boards also but they cannot stop it no one can stop it any more in fact every board and importantly the smaller nations the law the top level the top

four or five but the bottom five or seven nations even including of ghana stan they're investing a lot in twenty twenty leagues because that's where the money is to host the biggest problem of hosting a test match or a test series is the amount of money the host. loses because the broadcasters are not paying them huge amounts the only the broadcasters only come forward when the top three or four nations are in fact it has to be australia india and england outside these three countries no broadcasters willing to pay for a bilateral series a big amount of money so where do you pay the money from that's the question bruce arena has stepped down as the head coach of the u.s. national football team it follows the sides failed to qualify for next year's world cup in russia brings to an end the rain is a second spell in charge a two one loss to trinidad and tobago on tuesday so the us missing out on a place in the finals one of english football's greatest rivalries resumes on

saturday liverpool and manchester united have won thirty eight top flight league titles between them and the polo failed to beat united in six premier league games since a three nil win at all traffic in twenty fourth saying they've made a bit of a stuttering start to the season liverpool are seventh in the table if everybody would give us still then this kind of time would say yes now let's change it now let's do the next that would be perfect. if they sacked me no i don't think of the lot of a lot of managers will do the job better than i do and i don't think i'm. difficult to find. better options. six other games in the premier league on saturday league leaders man city will host stop defending champions chelsea a visiting bottom of the table crystal power us chelsea and i will be without and can say he was injured while on international duty with france this is a big loss for us because. you know very well the importance of borg and

you know what the him and we don't there were no other players in the play with with this him correct that is the. your point is getting ready to start his fourth term is by new next manager the seventy two year old is back in charge after the foreign of current shotting buying our five points off the pace in the bombers league and lost three nil to paste in the champions league they play freiburg at home on saturday. and a good atmosphere i think we have to create a good atmosphere train and work very hard it's one thing to carry on talking with players but we also need to be successful you would forget that over the last two or three games we have conceded seven goals i can remember when we won the treble in twenty thirteen we conceded lot of goals in the first half of the season for me the important thing isn't so much creative play at the front as it is a stable defense. roger federer is through to the semifinals of the shanghai

masters the world number two beating france's richard gask a hit seven five six for federer he was the only man who can deny that i'll be here and the ranking faces on martin del potro in the final. in a down needed three sets to get past grigor dimitrov that are winning the first set six four but the bulgarian get back to the second in a tie break the spaniard don't think i won the decider six three your plate in sami's. was up against vinnie last in his quarterfinal in shanghai be twenty fourteen your second champion a straight sets win a six three six four the final school. and it's elisa hundred of his ers so has clocked the fastest time in practice ahead of the japanese marts r.g.p. whether liking the track a little bit difficult to navigate will champion lead him up marquez have the second fastest time in practice despite crashing out in the afternoon session with

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