perspective is the only represents punished culture in this and catalonia last fight at this time on al-jazeera wild. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much and put in contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know. the body we've got to feel because you have a lot of people that are deployed on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real story i'll just mend it is to do the work individualism we don't create people. across the globe. civilians escape the syrian democratic forces launch their final push to take rocca and dozens of i still fight to surrender.

hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up at least twenty people were killed in a truck bomb explosion in somalia's capital mogadishu. a neon ma minister says the refugees may have planned their exodus to make it look like ethnic cleansing. more than two hundred polling stations and moved at the last minute as venezuelans prepared to vote in long to next delayed regional elections. follow our top story syrian forces backed by the us are on the verge of driving i still from morocco the group self-proclaimed capital tribal leaders have been brokering a deal to allow local i so fighters to leave the city foreign fighters are not included in the evacuation the u.s.

led coalition says it is not involved in these negotiations but believes it will save lives around one hundred members of the armed groups have surrendered in iraq in the last twenty four hours syrians have managed to escape a to makeshift refugee camps face shortages now of food and medicine. are reports from hatay on the border between syria and turkey. it's moment civilians have been waiting for years they are being evacuated from fighting iraq staying home wasn't safe as strikes have killed hundreds. in neighboring dales or thousands of syrians flee their homes as fighting intensifies i still fighters have regrouped in a mayor dean a city on the border with iraq before an expected push by syrian kurdish factions known as the to capture the city. north of rock was

built to accommodate the internally displaced it's struggling with a growing number of refugees who have nowhere to go such as. well has just arrived from there as. you left home because of the farting in there it was a long journey before we got to the camp we spell long sleepless nights and many days with nothing to eat and they're buried and my daughter is sick and she needs treatment we have been suffering since the start of war in syria kurdish factions control the. very few aid organizations manage to reach the area the camp lacks basic infrastructure services. a situation that is likely to worsen during the winter. time and. look at the tents they gave me in this camp i have nothing no cover sheets nothing i'm a widow and i cannot look after my children on my own they told us go to the camp

and you will get help i got nothing from them. many here have lost hope they'll never be able to return home to their villages the battles to recover to rock and dealers or have destroyed entire areas defeating i still may not be the end of war in syria as the s.d.f. advances the syrian army is on the move both competing to control more territory the syrian government is determined to recapture areas it lost to. the kurds a confrontation between the kurds and the syrian army may trigger an exodus of thousands of people towards the border with turkey has. had time. now syria is also demanding an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of turkish troops from the north west of the country saying their presence amounts to flagrant aggression turkish troops entered syria's northern province in

a cross border deployment the began two days ago or one hundred troops in a hundred and twenty armored vehicles of crossed the border to join troops who are already inside syria they were inspected by turkey's top general before advancing into ed live to enforce a so-called deescalation zone. now thousands of iraqi troops are logs in an armed standoff with kurdish forces in the disputed oil province of kirkuk kurdish peshmerga fighters say iraq's central government has ordered them to surrender key military positions within hours i've been given a deadline of two a.m. local time on sunday brief clashes also erupted between kurdish forces and shia militia backing the iraqi government tensions have been on the rise since kurds held a referendum on independence last month which iraq called illegal. it has more from

the west of coke. we are at the western most peshmerga position from kirkuk and the tension here is frankly palpable ask ali to zoom out behind me there you'll be able to see the smoke on the background those are shia militia tanks kicking up that dust the peshmerga commander here says that around fifty tanks in that area you might never see vehicles with flags on as well those. armored vehicles again shia militia armored vehicles those vehicles have moved up that road one would think around about one hundred yards in the last few minutes and as i say the peshmerga here are very nervous indeed they're also telling us that the pressure sorry the shia militias have approached from another direction on this position i mean as we've been reporting as the k r g has said around six thousand at least six thousand forces have been deployed to they say area and the area south of care cook

these guys are basically would not be surprised if there was an attack at any time it's obviously important to again reiterate just how important this area is around kirkuk this area was taken by the peshmerga taking control of by the peshmerga in two thousand and fourteen when the iraqi military fled and i still a fence of these peshmerga here the commander we've just spoken to says this is purely a defensive position but they are not going to with rule any any further back. a large truck bomb has exploded in somalia's capital mogadishu killing at least twenty people and injuring fifteen others attack appeared to target a hotel in an area lined with government offices restaurants and shops police say people are still trapped under the rubble of the hotel and they fear the death toll could rise as been no immediate claim of responsibility but fighters from the al shabaab group have previously carried out similar attacks. when this is close to

seeing of the blast have been describing the attack. over could this was the biggest explosion i have ever heard the car exploded at the center of the busiest junction in mogadishu because huge destruction and some more than twenty dead people around the streets and there may be more than that in the collapsed buildings. i've never seen a scene like this ever before all the buildings around here have collapsed there were close to two hundred people in these buildings i hope everyone is ok. for moldova nationals have been killed after a cargo plane chartered by the french military crashed into the sea close to a big john in ivory coast six others were injured two of them older than four of them french plane was approaching from the capital of neighboring bikini when it crashed in a heavy storm was part of a long running french military operation against fighters linked to al qaida in west africa.

the myanmar government minister responsible for patrick refugees from bangladesh has told al jazeera they may have planned their exodus to give the appearance of ethnic cleansing is facing massive international condemnation for its actions in iraq and state more than half a million ranger a fled in military crackdown which began at the end of august you are a bit of mallam has more from young gone. it was meant to be an interview about repatriating the hindu refugees but then the minister responsible for their resettlement said this. by fighting with the groups like you make the accusation that this is ethnic cleansing maybe they systematically playing for that reason i'm saying it could be that i don't know if. they might have been planning for that they may be planning for that to make it come under the definition of ethnic cleansing ethnic cleansing is the description used by the united nations for the military campaign which has seen more than half

a million room to refugees escape to bangladesh since late august the un's latest report details indiscriminate killings rape and the burning of homes by security forces in a campaign designed to expel the rohingya and prevent their return a commission set up by the to find solutions to the underlying causes of the wreck and conflict has just break the un security council and called for the safe return of the hinge or they can it will only go back if they have a sense of security and confidence that their lives will be better and we in their recommendation indicated that they should not be put in comes they should be allowed to go back to the appalachians and they should be held to rebuild and reconstruct government leaders in mainmast say they'll meet with their bangladeshi counterparts at the end of the month to begin a process to repatriate at least one hundred a day whose identity is much meanwhile government records we have i didn't find

those who are correct and then sent back to their homes their homes not so we were rebuilt by them so they have to live in the temporary. nationalist sentiment runs high here this rally in young gone organized by buddhists with right wing views is calling for their hinges to stay out of the military operation in iraq and state is very popular here but internationally condemned the military has launched an internal investigation into the pond up of its soldiers during the operation but a similar investigation into similar allegations of violence during october last year rejected any claims of wrongdoing yaba moment al-jazeera yangon. u.s. president donald trump's threat to tear up the nuclear deal with iran is strong criticism from international leaders russia china and european governments of all reaffirmed their support for the agreement iran's president has says the united states is

isolating itself on the international stage and causing anger into iran saying he has more on the reaction from iran. while most people will have seen the political theater the night before on their smartphones in iran newsstands are still a great place to get a check of the political atmosphere and the morning after divergent speeches from the presidents of the united states and iran headline writers had a lot to play with drugs save the nuclear deal says one illiterate dictator says another and this one simply he's just nagging truman eisenhower for you don't go i think the way he spoke was very road and i don't think that it's possible to have any relations with the u.s. as long as he's president and there's a lot of money. in my opinion we shouldn't even talk about trauma because what he said was totally meaningless from a legal perspective it was unwise nonsense. from a political point of view he knows nothing at all he's not a politician he's just

a very rich businessman who sits at the top of power now he can't make political decisions properly for the future of the country i think rouhani is response wasn't bad but he should have been tougher we need to really stand up against the u.s. so it would stop them thinking that they can dictate what ever they want us. iranian say trumps comments about their country are not only inaccurate but attacks against their national pride the american president has been trying to paint a picture of iran as a country living under one man rule a kind of dictatorship and while it is true that iran has a supreme leader who presides over the country the fact is he doesn't always get what he wants this country has elected officials who have a great deal of power there's a president there's a parliament and they have elections every four years and that means that public opinion really matters. and no doubt public opinion is a concern for iran's leaders hammad mousavi is a professor of law and political science at iran university he says when the nuclear deal was signed there was great optimism but government promises of jobs

and foreign investment haven't been kept so even before this whole trend issue from the iranian side you have this disillusionment from the nuclear deal if things get worse then i think there would be very little incentive from the iranian side to you know keep up with this deal with the nuclear deal improved iran's public image on the global stage but here at home iranians are growing impatient to see its benefits zain bus robbie al-jazeera to run. and want to tell you about on the program the five years held captive by taliban lang fight as a canadian american couple a back home. and one is going to have a job as i sorry i'm being each will soon be breaking the law. hello there were more rain making its way across turkey at the moment it shows up

on the satellite picture just as this little area of cloud doesn't look too significant but it's drifting its way south was bringing a few showers to the northern parts of turkey at the moment and it's going to develop as we head through the next day of say so on sunday then it will be the northeastern parts of turkey where we see some of the wettest of the weather but as it sings its way south was georgia and as a bit john a lot need to see some pretty hefty downpours during the day to the south of that while it's still warm for now twenty six degrees in aleppo there but the winds are going to be flowing down from the north over the next few days who do expect the temperatures to drop off in the coming days i mean further towards the south and here in doha the temperatures will be easing over the next few days as well thirty eight degrees will be our maximum on sunday the winds will be easing as well so no massive change for monday so generally less wind but also less humidity as well further south maybe a little bit a clown just along the south coast of oman the but nothing too significant as we head down towards the southern parts of africa the wettest weather here is in the

northern parts of over parts of angola and working its way into the democratic republic of congo if you will shout was a likely here as we head through the next few days the further south last we draw it until you see the showers in cape town. with.

with al jazeera a quick look at the stories making headlines this hour syrian forces backed by the u.s. are on the verge of driving. the group's capital tribal leaders have been brokering a deal to allow local i. say iraq's central government has ordered them to surrender key military positions in kirkuk before a deadline of two a.m. local time on sunday and at least twenty people have been killed after a large truck bomb exploded in somalia's capital market issue with fifteen more injured. demanding the release of it's john. who's now been in prison in egypt for two hundred ninety eight days is accused of. chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny saying has repeatedly complained of

mistreatment during his incarceration he was arrested in december while visiting his family. a canadian man and his family have returned home off to being held hostage in afghanistan for five years joshua boyle says his american wife was raped and his infant daughter mudded they were held by the haqqani network which is linked to the taliban caroline malone reports. back home in canada off to five years as a hostage on the border between afghanistan and pakistan joshua boyle spoke to reporters at toronto airport i apologize for the lateness of this opportunity we were delayed due to a medical emergency surrounding one of our children in the aftermath of wednesday's gun battle the pakistani military acting on u.s. intelligence rescued him along with his wife and three children who were born in captivity those who speak high and over his line of ideals are not going to simply

raise our family you boil said one of his daughters was killed and his wife was raped three years ago. the stupidity and the evil of the haqqani network kidnapping of a pilgrim and his heavily pregnant wife engaged in helping ordinary villagers in taliban controlled regions of afghanistan was eclipsed only by the stupidity and evil of authorizing the murder of my infant daughter martyr boyle and the stupidity and evil of the subsequent rape of my wife not as a lone action by one guard but assisted by the captain of the guard and supervised by the commandant i will hard of a county network boylan's american wife kate and coleman were backpacking across russia kazakhstan to g. kissed on coast on in afghanistan when they were captured five years ago it was incredible you know i've been waiting to hear that voice for so long you know taking your pregnant wife. to a very dangerous place to me and the kind of person that i am unconscionable

before he was taken hostage boyle was known to canadian media for a brief marriage to zainab sister of omar khadr he was captured by the us as a fifteen year old fighting with the taliban in afghanistan and taken to guantanamo prison kadar was released twelve years later and given a ten point five million dollars settlement by the canadian government boyle met coal money year after his divorce from zainab catarrh in two thousand and ten and remains sympathetic to the plight of afghans i was in afghanistan helping the most neglected minority group in the world those ordinary villagers who live deep inside taliban controlled afghanistan. where no end no aid worker and no government has ever successfully been able to bring the necessary how boyle says his focus now is to build a secure sanctuary for his three surviving children and to help them live a more normal childhood caroline malone al-jazeera. austrians will vote on

sunday in a snap election that could see the far right freedom party and her coalition government the election is coming a year ahead of schedule after the breakdown of a grand coalition government in may with immigration dominating voter concerns the freedom party could win enough seats to hold the balance of power no party is expected to win an overall majority david chaytor has been talking to voters in vienna. like all the other elections so far this year in europe this one here in austria is being closely watched by analysts to find out how far the wave of populism will go the leading candidate here is sebastian kurtz just thirty one years old and he looks set according to the polls to be the chancellor monday after the elections this is essentially a battle between the center right party led by sebastian kurtz and the the far right party which is led by a form a neo nazi hans christian striker he said that his neo nazi links in the past were

part of his youth he was stupid and ignorant at the time and that time has gone but it looks likely that the election will form a coalition of the right wing as a result and these policies have been deeply disturbing to the muslim community here in austria this no i'm afraid to be living in a country where the women are suppressed because of their headscarf or what they are wearing their exterior and i am afraid of that as i want to become a doctor the fear in brussels is that if this new right wing coalition does take hold in vienna it could cause problems with trying to get a common policy inside the european union on such vital issues as immigration and refugees police in guatemala say they've captured a leader of the notorious m.s. thirteen street gang anchor gabriel rares merican was arrested in connection with

a gun attack on a hospital in guatemala city in august that killed seven people m.s. thirteen began in los angeles in the one nine hundred eighty s. and then spread through central america and now operates internationally and has a reputation for using brutal violence. but as whalen's are also voting they're going to be voting on sunday to choose governors from each of the twenty three states the country has seen months of violent antigovernment protests sparked by deepening economic crisis and worsening poverty the opposition is expected to win most seats but many fear the vote won't be transparent or fair to raise a bow reports from caracas. 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. their closing many voting centers around twelve percent of the people in this state have to go somewhere else and they were only just notified the center was open until last night the voting machines were here

the military now is closed. this is part of a strategy to discourage people in the state of. what has traditionally voted for the opposition to head to the told on sunday. these selections are long overdue they should have taken place in december last year. for. being 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 super body that was elected almost three months ago he also said that those who face to acknowledge it could face dismissal but. that. is illegal because it's election with field where the regularities. for the opposition b.c. elections 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 when. they're using them to . 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. sierra leone's government has banned runners jogging in groups saying it promotes disorderly and criminal behavior but the opposition in the west african nation says it's a political move to clamp down on its activities ahead of the next presidential election in march nicolas haq reports from the capital freetown. jogging together on the beach it's an act of defiance for presidential candidate mohamed months and his supporters. the police been running in groups saying it's an activity that leads to unrest and vandalism. and. or destroys. and. you know if. you think. supporters of the alliance democratic party believe the directive is

politically motivated to prevent members of the opposition and their candidate from campaigning ahead of the presidential election into their party headquarters it was set alight. believes the ruling party is behind the fire from political internation with some form of political unrest meant and i democrats say we need to allow people to speak up. and peaceful ways the government deny any wrongdoing saying it is promoting democracy. in such a large group. the reason why we continue to be the most peaceful country in west africa it is because the citizens all of. us because of the. with the conflict in the ninety's the decade long civil war that

left fifty thousand dead in the one nine hundred ninety s. still haunts here leone the police are taking extreme measures to avoid violence it is possible to run in groups it requires the prior permission from the inspector general of police he says this isn't a political decision but one to guarantee public safety human rights organizations are not convinced with this argument some lawyers are now challenging this ban. he believes that running or gathering in groups are fundamental rights there is a need for people to express themselves he says in order to avoid mistakes of the past. fraid of the bill but that doesn't mean people don't want to express themselves i think over the years as i've become a very expressive society where they try to vent our social media and talk about things they don't like about their government president groom has been the country's president for a decade and will not be standing for reelection you candidates are emerging

wanting to run for office and setting the pace for what will be a hotly contested election because hawke algis iraq freetown. time now take you somewhere special unusual the top of an active volcano. is in the democratic republic of congo and it's home to the world's largest along the lake the area has been plagued by conflict so terrorism has been understandably quiet it's now open for hikers with an adventurous nature well they're not the only ones out now can web has more from the rim. perched on the rim of the crater of mount new we're going go which is just outside the congolese city of goma and. inside the crater is lava lake he lost the ruptured in two thousand and two and destroyed much of the city of goma hasn't erupted since then although access has been affected over the years why eastern congo has many conflicts but this area has

been safe since about twenty fourteen after the government flushed out the rebel group known as the m twenty three and since then so we've been coming up almost daily the popularity is growing yeah around yeah people who want to walk up here and witness this extraordinary sight. first commercial passenger flight to the remote south atlantic island of st helena has finally landed more than a year after the airport was built the opening was delayed after test flights suffered from dangerous problems with the wind flights will arrive from south africa every saturday up until now the british territory has relied on a shipping service every three weeks it's hoped the service will encourage tourism on the island most famous for being home to exile french empress a pilot in bonaparte's.

look at the top stories this hour syrian forces backed by the us are on the verge of driving i still from iraq are the group self-proclaimed capital tribal leaders have been brokering a deal to allow local eisel fighters to leave the city foreign fighters are not included in the evacuation as far as mill. we're getting different reports from divisions within those members of the isis of saying it's time to leave and others saying. they want to continue the fight but for many of us the commanders whether the fighters leave in the coming hours or not they are confident that the full control of this city is just a matter of a few hours they say that we could officially. rocka to light. when all the development syria is demanding an immediate unconditional withdrawal of turkish troops from northwest syria saying that their presence there amounts to flagrant aggression turkish troops ended syria's northern italy problems in a cross border deployment that started two days ago. meanwhile thousands of iraqi

troops are logs in an armed standoff with kurdish forces in the disputed oil province of kirkuk kurdish peshmerga fighters say iraq central government has ordered them to surrender key military positions before a deadline of two a.m. local time on sunday. at least twenty people have been killed after a large truck bomb exploded in somalia's capital mogadishu with fifteen more injured and we say that people are still trapped under the rubble and they fear that the death toll could rise. for moldova nationals have been killed after a cargo plane chartered by the french military crashed into the sea close to a big john in ivory coast a plane was approaching from the capital of neighboring became a fast so when it crashed in a heavy stone. the government minister in myanmar responsible for patrick refugees from bangladesh has told al jazeera they may have planned the exodus to give the appearance of ethnic cleansing more than half

a million ranjoor a fled a military crackdown which began at the end of august that's all for now but a full news hour coming up in just over twenty five minutes off the inside story which starts now. donald trump's nuclear reaction as he writes about iran the u.s. president is refusing to recertify the nuclear deal signed two years ago and accuses the iranians of breaking the agreement iran says allegations are delusional world leaders.