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and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the program the fall of i saw is declared capital rucka is near fighters are expected to leave over night taking civilians as human shields at least twenty people are killed in a truck bomb explosion in somalia's capital of mogadishu. the. final rallies ahead of sunday's vote in austria could see the country turn to the right and elect the world's youngest leader. hollywood producer harvey weinstein is expelled from the oscars a cademy after allegations he raped and sexually harassed women for decades. u.s. backed syrian defense forces are on the verge of taking full control of raka self-proclaimed capital local officials say all remaining eyeful fighters are expected to leave the

city in the coming hours taking civilians with. them as human shields it's part of a deal brokered by tribal leaders the u.s. led coalition says it isn't involved in the negotiations but believes it will save lives around one hundred members of the group have surrendered in iraq or in the past day isolated iraq in two thousand and fourteen and soon swept across iraq seizing control of large swathes of the country a couple of years on its territory has been reduced to this the iraqi government is launching an offensive to drive the group from the last area it holds there while in syria as well as being on the brink of losing rucka i said there's just lost the town of my old dean syria and its allies are also trying to drive it from the last pocket it holds in theirs or city a series of managed to escape to makeshift refugee camps face shortages of food and

medicine or who borrow reports from hatay on the border between syria and turkey. civilians have been waiting for years they are being evacuated from fighting iraq staying home was unsafe strikes have killed hundreds. in neighboring there also are thousands of syrians flee their homes as fighting intensifies eisel 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 the us. we left home because of the farting in there

it was a long journey before we got to the camp we spent a 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 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 will ever be able to return home to their villages. the battles to recover to rock and dealers or have destroyed entire areas defeating i sill 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 recover areas it lost i still the rebels and the kurds a confrontation between the kurds and the syrian army may trigger exodus of thousands of people towards the border with turkey. the time. is editor of international interest which is an online news and current affairs magazine and he joins us now from london very good to have you with us sami hamdi so obviously an important time for those who've been captured but i saw the rock about it it's what happens now that equally important isn't it the follow up. it is a very important follow up i mean we have to remember the environment in which isis

emerge which was a marginalization of large sections of the population in syria and iraq and also a lack of international desire to fight i says i mean the kurds showed when they were marching on mosul that they lacked an appetite to fight isis they were reluctant to fight outside kurdistan the iranians they liked the idea of isis because it allowed them to keep a military presence there the same with the russians and the american simply didn't know what to do with regards to syria that what's really important in the follow up is can the syrian. current syrian regime or the syrian regime that's coming or the iraqi government in baghdad can they reconcile the communities in the liberated areas can be reintegrate them back into society if they keep up this marginalization the reality is that the environment in which isis emerged is still present in modern day you see i'm going to say that because there is a reason scuse me jumping in the why i say in the first place i mean they didn't just happen as if by magic you know they they were ground root reasons that sat

comfortably there. exactly and when you look at the situation now in the region we don't really see anything that's changing with regards to the factors that contributed isis in the first place in iraq you still have the popular modern mobilization force that seems to terrify the sunni population who are marginalized in the first place and whose areas constituted a haven in which i says operate in syria you still have a dictatorial regime hell bent on crushing its people's democratic desires you have the kurdish you are pursuing independence you have the russians who are terrified of an american leaning state you have the arrangements who wish to establish germany in the region so all of these various different factors show that we can we don't really see any reintegration on the contrary we see humanitarian crises in cities such as mosul we will see a humanitarian crisis in syria to such as a nothing to suggest that there will be any reintegration of these communities into mainstream society and this leads to. one outcome and that is

a division within the region the new borders modern kurdistan and other areas seeking their own independent autonomous states because i suppose with eisel gone it exposes what those groups are doing there and what they've been hiding behind how they've justified stay you know as countries. i think when we're talking about the defeat of isis we should be wary i think isis on the ground would be defeated any day now this losing got colby a big blow to them but isis in the political discourse will continue because as long as there isn't isis in the mainstream media and political discourse iran can justify keeping the revolutionary guards in syria as long as there isn't isis in syria turkey can justify military force to restrict kurdish movement as long as there are nice there isn't isis russia can continue to keep its troops in syria on the pretext of fighting terrorism as long as there is an isis the popular mobilization force candidate can claim legitimacy to stay as an ultra vires military force outside of government control so i says what we defeated militarily

is just might resort to get tactics but politically in the discourse it's not quite time for the international powers to shelve the topic of isis and pursue other interests fascinating and riff examine handy thank you syria is demanding turkish troops withdraw immediately from it in northwest province more than one hundred soldiers and twenty armored vehicles began crossing the border two days. they are there to enforce a circle deescalation zone which was brokered with russia and iran to reduce fighting. two bomb attacks in the somali capital mogadishu have killed at least twenty people the first explosion was a massive truck bomb that targeted an area with many government offices hotels and restaurants police say people are still trapped under the rubble of a hotel and they fear the death toll could rise paul brennan reports. when the

truck arrived at the busy intersection known locally as k. five it was a traffic jam dozens of motorists stuck in their cars hundreds of bystanders too and so the explosion caused carnage behind the shelves and cover could have come out this was the biggest explosion i have ever heard the car exploded at the center of the busiest junction in mogadishu it caused huge destruction and some more than twenty dead people around the street and there may be more than that in the collapsed buildings i myself that 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 ok five is in a bustling commercial district of mogadishu with many shops hotels and businesses the blast happened outside the safari hotel not normally used by government workers and so it's not clear whether the hotel itself was the intended target or possibly the somali foreign ministry nearby it's emerged too that the police were actually

following the truck at the time of the explosion. two hours after the truck bomb blast a car bomb detonated in the city's medina district two people were killed there and the driver arrested the group al-shabaab frequently launches gun grenade or bomb attacks in mogadishu despite being forced from the capital six years ago by african union and somali troops the ongoing threat is a constant worry for many somalis hope brennen al jazeera. australians are voting on sunday in a snap election that could see the far right freedom party enter a coalition government election that is a year early after the current government fell apart in may with the conservative people's party leading the polls could let the world youngest leader. kurtz is called the austrian politics. at thirty one he may be short on years but

he's long gone and vision of this t.v. broadcast with you people's party shows his eyes are set firmly on the chancellor ship. the polls put it well ahead but he's done it by poaching some of the policies of the far right. on the. illegal migration to achieve order and security in austria. it's the freedom party led by heinz christian structure that could be drawn into a new right wing coalition with the chancellor they draw their support from a working class eighty later by the waves of immigration. struck has said his near nazi links and hughes could now be dismissed he described himself then as stupid

and naive they know islam does not belong in austria and we do not want. our own homelands i think something needs to change in australia it's a very strong to the left over very strong to the right and the middle needs to come back the middle class is missing a ban on face veils came into effect here this month but opinion was divided amongst worshippers at friday prayers at the end of mosque about what life might be like under a new right wing coalition. this no i'm afraid to be living in a country where the women are suppressed because of the headscarf or what they are wearing their exterior and i am afraid of that as i want to become a doctor. the muslims are mature voters and not feel vulnerable well let's protect them before australia has been largely successful in integrating its muslim minority but the islamophobia card is being played in this election and

it's winning votes. the changing political landscape in australia is likely to add to the problems of the german chancellor merkel she will no longer find natural allies in government here. there are. plenty more ahead on the news hour including a home at last canadian american family reveal how they suffered as hostages in afghanistan for five years plus find out why women in india and admin the said kashmir are being attacked for having long hair. and sport english premier league champions chelsea suffered a shock defeat. wranglers are being accused of planning their escape from in march to give the appearance of ethnic cleansing the government minister responsible for repatriating them from blank bangladesh made the suggestion in an interview with al jazeera more than half a million fled across the border after

a military crackdown and rakhine state. 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 not. by flirting 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 range of 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 helped 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 identities match meanwhile government records we have i didn't find those who are correct and then sent back to their homes the homes not so we were rebuilt by them so they have to live in the temporary camp. nationalist sentiment runs high here this rally in young gone organized by buddhists with right

wing views is calling for their hinge or to stay out the military operation in iraq mind states is very popular here but internationally condemned the military has launched an internal investigation into the conduct of its soldiers during the operation but a similar investigation into similar allegations of violence during october last year rejected any claims of wrongdoing yarber moment al-jazeera yangon kurdish peshmerga forces have rejected a warning from iraqi troops to withdraw from a junction south of the disputed oil province of kirkuk contested position controls access to an airbase and oil fields in the region tension has been on the rise since kurds voted overwhelmingly for secession from iraq last month for reports from west of kirkuk. two weeks ago these iraqi government forces were fighting eisel in this area now after their victory they are advancing towards kurdish

peshmerga positions the vehicles you can see there in the distance are shia militia vehicles they have moved closer to that burnt to that wall in the last few minutes the dust you can see on the horizon there the peshmerga are telling us are actually tanks they say there are least fifty tanks in that convoy the situation on this defensive position with the peshmerga is increasingly tense it was a similar situation to the southwest of this peshmerga position more shia militia an iraqi army that closed in the peshmerga say they will not withdraw. before the iraqi army were fighting isis on and they didn't pay attention to us but now i still have been beaten they have moved towards our position here we will not withdraw we will defend this position to the last peshmerga we will not leave our position the peshmerga took control of the disputed or oil rich city of kirkuk in the surrounding area in two thousand and fourteen when the iraqi army fled and i

saw offensive. shia militia groups under the command of iraqi prime minister hyderabadi have threatened to take control of the oil fields peshmerga reinforcements arrived soon after the government troops advanced towards this position. some of the more than six thousand patients deployed here in the last few days everybody denies his force he has had moved into the area to fight the patients but he has warned the kurdish regional government not to obstruct iraqi military operations in the area the kurdish governor of kirkuk says there is only one way to prevent a potential conflict here for the iraqi army and has decided to go back to their places to go back to where they say they will go either way. it will not deescalate this only way these kurdish fighters fought and defeated i saw in northern iraq in cooperation with the iraqi military and shia militia now they say they're having to

defend their positions against them john strafford al jazeera west of kirkuk in northern iraq. a canadian man and returned home with his family and is revealing more about a five year ordeal in afghanistan joshua boyle was kept hostage by the had county network which is linked to the taliban he says he's american wife was raped and one of his children killed caroline malone reports. back home in canada after 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 noble islam and ideals are 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 hodgman 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 and 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 and the kind of person that i am it's

unconscionable before he was taken hostage boil was known to canadian media for a brief marriage has a now cata sister of cata he was captured by the us as a fifteen year old fighting with the taliban in afghanistan and taken to guantanamo prison cata 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 n.-g. o. no aid worker and no government has ever successfully been able to bring the necessary house 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. film mogul harvey weinstein has

been ousted from the organization which hands out the oscars the academy of motion picture arts and sciences says over two thirds of its board has voted to reject him and the decision was announced after an emergency meeting weinstein is accused of rape and sexual harassment by more than two dozen women including actresses angelina jolie and gwyneth paltrow matheson reports. girlfriend this could be one of the last times harvey weinstein will be seen in an oscars red carpet the academy as it's known which hands out the film industries highest award says it doesn't want him as a member anymore this is the first time i've seen them do something like this and it does set a precedent and ask other questions about you know other members that have had scandals or different things in their personal lives and things like roman polanski like mel gibson like bill cosby none of them ever never came up but it did with

harvey and there was tremendous pressure as his power in the movie business has grown weinstein has been surrounded by beautiful people but there's been a series of sexual harassment allegations against him recently more actresses have been coming forward weinstein has apologized blaming his behavior parking on growing up in the sixty's and seventy's when he says the rules about behavior on workplaces were different but the academy of motion picture arts and sciences says the conduct described in the allegations is repugnant appalling and unethical and weinstein must leave i think this is a watershed for hollywood it's never gotten to this point before and that house to casting couch as it were are those kinds of things second of behavior has been going on as long as hollywood's been around quite frankly and it's been kept as all the woods dirty little secret in some cases some very open secret the great moguls

of hollywood founders of. one way or another you just read the history of ali wood but this time it's a different time and for the academy to take notice like this proves that eighty one films linked to weinstein's company hope won an oscar those and many others have earned millions of dollars but he's been sacked from the company which bears his name though no formal charges have been brought against him the hollywood star of harvey weinstein continues to fall rob matheson al-jazeera. he's a film historian and professor of media joins us by skype from buckley in california good to see you thank you for joining us what's your response to this move i believe we did the right thing the evidence was and is overwhelming i believe this is a bit of a game changer for the industry and i think they are recognizing that and i i look

forward to more steps like this from other organizations and. why do you think this will be a game changer because obviously this is being going on for a long time it's considered by many to be ok he's obviously surrounded by people who think it's ok i mean what's going to give people the carriage now to step forward because that must be pretty frightening. all right i think what's changed compared to some of the people that were mentioned in the earlier segment there is that now the victims are really being believe they're getting the benefit of the doubt maybe that's a change in social media maybe it has something to do with the current president in the white house but whatever it is doesn't seem that people think that they can just get away with criticizing these victims as just you know erratic and out of control hysterical that that isn't going to fly and for whatever reason it's there there might be a host of reasons for that but whatever it is clearly if there was some doubt you

know people like this have been impugned before let's say maybe a rose mcgowan word would have been in here before she came forward something like that this this isn't that that it's no longer like that and i do think in that world that things will change you're going to be hearing more names maybe you won't hear it's much overwhelming evidence but it's going to be very interesting the next few months and the next you're going to ask me about that i mean obviously this has been going on for a long time and it's a fantastic thing that it's come out so you just wonder how much more we going to find out how many how many of us will fold the will face the same fate that's. that is an excellent question this will continue to miss test decides because there are so many people involved there's so many i mean the men and the people who are implicit the journalists i mean this touches every corner of the industry and actually i include myself even people who cover the industry we should have done more. i'm not casting as it was

a because the people who are right now with the great women who obviously what i'm saying is people like me and maybe like yourself as well we need to do more we need to believe these women when they come forward we need to you know sort of redouble our efforts to. you know force the change that we want to see in the industry we slept on this a little too long and i guess having the carriage the victims themselves to come forward considering what they've been through i mean that must be pretty frightening it is and i thought it's interesting that some victims are now saying there are other names but they don't want to name the right this minute and i get that on some level because it is very hard for them you know they know that people are going to not believe them this weinstein thing was a bit of well in its own way a perfect storm that that the there were there was enough new york times that spent a month so had grown and barrack you know scrupulously gathering evidence that's not always going to happen that way so you can imagine these accusations are going to be i predict in a few months we are will be in

a sort of an accusation because he could but i think we have to keep pushing anyway why do you think he felt that he had to go this route i mean he could have probably got anybody he wanted considering a piece wealth and status and one of the starting guys with that. how can i how can i try to open a window into a mind that is clearly somewhat at the logical i mean i think that who knows where sun and as we've seen you know other circumstances on fox news and the presidency you know all of that isn't enough they always have to somehow one up everybody they know or i don't know what i mean it's it is a pathology these people need help that said i don't know star but well what a great start thank you for talking to us daniel smith razi thank you for having me and still ahead on al-jazeera smashing the glass ceiling the international monetary fund discusses how to improve gender inequality. once they were considered agni but

buildings like this once again back in vogue in the u.k. and in sport roger federer sets up a title shot on russia with rafael nadal in shanghai milan that coming up with. the be. hello most of the wet weather in the us is now in the midwest heading up across the border into eastern canada is quiet south of that another some cloud showing in montana and washington and oregon which might suggest a little bit of wintry weather is nothing showing up on the forecast come sunday nor is there a prevailing breeze now we had briefly change the breeze to more of a westerly which is helpful to dallas nothing there so for the weather's not going to help or hinder it's going to blue skies above north and south as well don't

notice but the rain as it sets in is talking some cold air for katter's although trying to as a twenty one degrees that's how we get to monday we're down to twelve there's been a bit of a chill to change the weather type this part of north america up and down the east coast to rain falling in washington and new york twenty one it will get cold for you the day after dropping down to the gulf of mexico to the caribbean this to still the time of year where you could see daily showers but the fan of clouds coming up through central america suggests that's where the significant rain is likely and there we are in the forecast and looks green but you've got a fair chance still of showers in his opinion or even longer spells of rain the same is true for jamaica cuba the bahamas and florida. we are witnessing around the world this hungry money which is only looking at how to make the next profit devastating economies devastating ecosystems putting

a price on the protection of nature green economy a sound good but it was all about privatizing of nature should our environment be for sale what we're trying to do this destroyed people to tread water. given enough to do that pricing the planet at this time on al-jazeera. i sometimes feel that we're really looking into the hearts and the souls of those directly involved in advance taking place really good at telling all sides of the story from the political elite to those people who think that you really get to know what's happening on the ground that's very important for me as a third generation african often feel that my continent is misrepresented and we've changed that your story is important to us it doesn't matter where you come from.

or the you watching al-jazeera or the top stories i sell is on the verge of being pushed out of iraq other groups capital in syria local officials say the remaining fighters are leaving the city taking civilians with them as human shields it's part of a deal brokered by tribal leaders to bomb attacks in the somali capital mogadishu have killed at least twenty people the first explosion was so powerful it brought down buildings in an area full of government offices hotels and restaurants the oscars academy has expelled film producer harvey weinstein he's accused of raping and sex . sexual harassment of more than two dozen women including actresses angelina jolie and when of. colombia's vice president has tried to ease tension by visiting

a village where six protesting farmers were killed by police last week they've been running against the government's efforts to eradicate the cocoa plant which is the base of the drug cocaine. reports. anger and resentment of farmers in the village of a and i took confront colombia's vice president to ask . that if you don't stop forced eradication what will happen they'll be more dead farmers this summer he says. we demand infrastructure education health not band aid solutions we want concrete things we do not agree with force eradication. then she's mean high here after entertainer police allegedly killed six farmers a week ago in an anti eradication protest. this used to be fire crevel territory it's the first time that

a high level government official travels here to speak to people for whom this state has been synonymous with military force. the government doesn't come here to have a picture taken nor do we come here to say that our farmers are terrorists we've been clear in saying that illicit crops instead of making you rich have just kept you in poverty and are exposing you to more and more risks the government needs to protect you and the system you yet this community has not signed up to the government's crop substitution program part of the peace deal with five gravels people here remain skeptical of the government's ability to help in. one of the at orlando's barber says he tried switching to call called. for chocolate but it didn't go well not too soon was one of the first we tried we planted thousands of trees but for the lack of infrastructure it was more expensive to produce than what

we made from selling it and we had to go back to coca the government says they will get rid of a hundred thousand ector's of called the lives this year fifty thousand by eradication and another fifty thousand by convincing people to switch to a different crop but while farmers here have seen thousands of policeman come in to wipe out the plant there are yet to receive any benefits to do that themselves many farmers continue to see the plane as their only means of survival and with drug gangs in far this against pressuring farmers to keep cultivating the crop to more confrontations will come alison that. police in guatemala say they've captured a leader of the new taurus m.s. thirteen street gang angel gabriel appears modoc and was arrested in connection with a gun attack on a hospital in guatemala city in august seven people were killed in this thirteen began in los angeles in the eighty's and spread through central america winds of up

to seventy kilometers an hour are helping fuel fire spreading wildfires in the u.s. state of california thousands of extra firefighters are now battling the blazes across northern california it's the worst outbreak of wildfires in the state's history thirty five people have died and more than one thousand eight thousand have been evacuated about six thousand homes have been destroyed since the fires began on sunday. this morning at three of my daughter was inside and she came out and she could see the flames coming over the side. so she told us to get out and get a trailer with the so we came here to see your point that here about the. prominent female faces in the world of business are being used to push gender equality the u.s. president's daughter among those taking part in the meeting of the world bank and international monetary fund reports from washington d.c.

. this presentation in the atrium of the world bank in washington focused on taking women owned businesses to the next level as part of the bank's core mission of eradicating poverty they were short presentations by female entrepreneurs chosen as role models by the bank my father called me back. i want to part of a company to you then presidential advisor ivanka trump took part in a panel discussion moderated by world bank president jim yong kim mentorship arguably is more valued and more important than even access to capital we've heard a lot in recent years from the world bank about the need for more female entrepreneurship the encouragement of individual talented women to succeed in a male dominated business world but opponents of this approach argue this fundamentally understands why there is so much extreme poverty in the world

particularly among women and how to eradicate it this is the n.g.o.s action aid released a report this week which says alleviating poverty by treating women as underutilized assets and the i.m.f. words in the pursuit of economic growth is flawed it's important to note that neither increased female labor force participation nor economic growth necessarily translate into gender equality it said indeed the episode has all too often been at the expense of women. action aid says the i.m.f. is pushing for more female participation in the workforce even as it advises countries to cut wages and social services that are essential to that participation in addition it doesn't take into account the already large paid work load of women around the world in mali women already work many more hours than men sixty six hours a week on average compared to forty six for men when you include all of the unpaid work and labor that they do now the i.m.f.

is saying advising miley to get more women into the workforce but they're not recognizing all the work the women oh already doing. leads the ngo gender action that's been pushing to get women's rights formally in trying new safeguards that have been drawn up by the world bank to ensure it doesn't do more social good as it attempts to eradicate poverty through its financial investments it's refused moreover she recalls one conversation during the negotiations the head of the general unit that this is a bank we don't deal in human rights even though the world bank is actually. executing a. un for the world bank it seems gender equality means allowing women the same opportunity as men to contribute to the well being of the global economic system rather than themselves. washington. four people have died after a plane crashed into the scene near the international airport in ivory coast's

largest city abidjan six others on board a cargo plane chartered by the french military were injured a civil aviation chief says it crashed during a heavy thunderstorm the plane was flying from the capital while the dog. well that was most active volcanoes has been opened up for adventurous hikers mt in getting longo in democratic republic of congo is home to the largest lava lake on earth the area has been affected by conflict but tourists are slowly returning as malcolm way found us. we're perched on the rim of the crater of mount near a gong which is just outside the eastern congolese city of goma and down there inside the crater is it lava lake lost the ruptured in two thousand and two and destroyed much of the city of goma as interrupted 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 a rebel group known as m twenty three and since then so it's been coming up almost daily the popularity is growing yeah around yeah the people you want to walk up here and witness this extraordinary sight woman in indian administered kashmir are being targeted for having long hair nobody knows who is doing it all why the attackers dubbed phantom barbers and brave choppers are causing mass panic and unrest cycad that explains. females in srinagar city are scared they've been protesting every day against a series of mysterious attacks targeting them since september at least two hundred women have reported having their hair cut off by last night's. two people asked me for water i was wearing a headscarf but one still managed to chop my hair off and another snatch my bangle

then they threw me down on the ground. because some was at home when her attacker knocked her out with a rope she came around in a hospital but it was only then she realized her braided hair had been sliced up so big she said. this is an attack on our honor this is how they have been terrorizing us this is the proof. many victims were left unconscious after being sprayed in the face with chemicals only to wake up to an unexpected surprise much shorter hair because when i came outside and i saw two men approaching they spray something in my face then i don't remember anything but my hair was cut off i was thinking sims are accusing the police of not doing enough to end these attacks and that's despite a ten thousand dollar reward to catch the culprits was scared of going outside even for buying vegetables the government has failed to provide security and safety for

the women as of now only god can save us from these break choppers but the police deny this and say widespread mass hysteria and panic is making the situation worse and needs to stop this is putting i would operations and emergency operations this is helping the moment of other sources from one place to another because you know everybody has been so. good. so much so that while the police haven't arrested and wrongfully attacks they've come down hard on vigilantes some of whom have been violently taking matters into their own hands but it hasn't stopped local some patrolling the streets at night fear of being the say confront break is very real here with some people too scared to venture out without a call off ten p.m. schools and universities have now closed as a precautionary measure to protect female students you. girls are so scared they

won't go out they ask their mothers to accompany them to school long hair for kashmiri women is central to their identity holding their braids in their hands is a reminder that until the attack is a court every stranger is a suspect. a movement is growing in the u.k. to protect buildings that many may consider ugly some apartment blocks built in the britain a style of architecture facing demolition but the harsh lines in exposed concrete appear to be attracting new fans need barco reports. when robin hood gardens the state was constructed in one thousand nine hundred seventy two it was revered as a modernist icon it now faces imminent demolition the architects allison and peter smithson were part of a post-war movement of young idealists who wanted to build a new egalitarian society the material chosen to express their vision concrete

lots of it. the new style was called brutal ism after the french breton brute all bore concrete less architecture speaks of the knowledge that said everyone should have a decent home and they should have health and education that those are the values of the ninety six days and nights and seventy's the architecture of the day says if you're rich well done if you're not we don't really care very much for you whether you love all over the severity of brutalist and the states like this were designed as high quality housing for the city's poor recent years or the british government has claimed the design in the very fabric of these buildings for fostering crime but defenders of brutal ism say the poverty and neglect are more to blame the estate stands on valuable land next to gleaming new skyscrapers it's more lucrative for the cash strapped local council to demolish the estate than refurbish it but sometimes some blogs need extra money and it's very difficult to kind of find the

resources to bring a certain dog up to a certain standard. it will be replaced with this cheap and quick to build a mixture of social and private housing that can be sold for profit. it's far from the vision of botanists like renowned architect neve brown he blames nine hundred eighty s. capitalism for killing the brutalist dream we thought we were beginning to add to an organic growth of society that would continue and so to becoming something it was in to go with the developing culture it became an object from a previous historic moment in time but changing attitudes and politics mean brutal isms being reevaluated brown's buildings are all culturally protected they cannot be demolished other buildings have become fashionable style icons here the barber can paint houses sell for more than four million dollars of what's fashionable is

frequently profitable. the capitalist economy may end up being the savior of some of these inherently socialist buildings but despite appeals from historians and leading argue tanks it's too late to save robin hood gardens the dream that never was. back al-jazeera london. it's led on elders there we'll tell you why sierra leone is banning people from jogging in groups. when we managed the financial system between one nine hundred forty five one thousand nine hundred seventy one there was not a single financial crisis anywhere in the world and then in one thousand seven hundred the bank has lobbied and they said no no no we don't need controls you know the market will discipline us banks love to make loans to sovereigns why because

behind the sovereign a millions of taxpayers we can see reaction to the liberalization finance just as we saw it in the one nine hundred twenty s. and it's going to be doing it already is ugly in many parts of the world where people are saying if my government when took off to my interest then i would look for a strong back if he's a fascist i don't care if you promises to secure the stability of my life and my people i will vote for him i think that's where we are heading and i don't think our leaders have the vision to understand that's the threat that we face.

certainly owns government is banning jogging in groups saying it promotes disorderly and criminal behavior but the opposition sees the move as a way to clamp down on its activities ahead of the presidential elections next year as a nicholas hack reports. jogging together on the beach it's an act of defiance for presidential candidate mohamed months all right and. supporters. running in groups saying it's an activity that leads to unrest and vandalism. or destroys. and. you know. 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 when sorry believes the ruling party is behind the fire from political intimidation to some form of political. and democracy 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 nineties 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 extra 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. says it's unconstitutional 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. afraid of instability but that doesn't mean people don't want to express themselves i think over the years and then as i've become a very explosive society where you try to vent out the anger and just a media and talk about things that they don't like about their government president groomer 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 al-jazeera freetown it's time for sports has andy thank you very much for luis suarez rescued

a point for barcelona in the spanish league game against at let's go madrid suarez's eighty second minute effort and showed his team in time their unbeaten start to this campaign. schooled the opener for at let's go before suarez's intervention the game finished one one as boss drops their first points of the season the still five clear though the top of the table. now is the first time pastor of played in the capital since the region of catalonia voted in favor of independence from spain earlier i spoke to football writer simon harrison he says a split seems to be developing between the majority of passive fans who want independence and many of the club's hierarchy would be against such a move that might even be a boardroom level obviously after the game that you mention behind closed doors a couple of directors or alternately resigned after that decision to play in and to not incur the penalty that would come along with with not playing against. the definite i think it's just a question of values obviously the club they've got to do what they think is best

in terms of marketing in terms of their global image and everything comes along with that but it is a point of contention between fans and the borders is is there is going to be a balance you can be struck up will be interesting to see what happens christiane and i'll go score the winner for around madrid in a game against gets half a rails next match is on choose day when i played in the champions league here are those results fall and see if they play real betis on sunday crystal palace of pulled off a big upset in the english premier league the bottom of the table side of beaten defending champions chelsea see one not only was it palace his first win of this campaign these were their first goals of the season as well and i'm goal from cesar azpilicueta got them going before offered czar haas called the winner chelsea now nine points behind leaders man city for sure do they would be very difficult for me to sleep. but if you. never we

must have. the same since. me and my players in to tell you to be good in this game to change or. is that with the situation city there are flying at stop after a seven see win against stoke the leaders had more than eighty percent of possession in this game still unbeaten in the league this season. i cannot deny today. the best performance in zero right here for a long time so we played good forty five minutes. more than. they said two actions and we have to learn about that so in general we make a really good performance for everybody nothing international break is always over with complicated but we're oh well so woodley quick because we play simple tottenham are third after a one zero win over bournemouth asto a bait and see want to weigh out what for what up to fourth liverpool and man united played out

a nail nail draw it wasn't perfect probably not otherwise we would have won but we had the big chance plus penalty it's two nil so what do you hold which result do you want against manchester united so there are not a lot of games when you win a sleep ninety minutes and you can do whatever you want to do a different with nine. is goal involved nine players in and around the box that's completely ok i don't judge his it's just that it makes our job a little bit more difficult honestly i think it is well he didn't let the game break singling out and rush for the was there were waiting for the game to be broken the game was never broken it kept always chan when alden and anderson and they did very well the press hard they recover the ball so i sing they were very good by the difference of point of view good pressing very good team by the defensive point of the german club have been showing their support for protesting

n.f.l. players at his team and coach took in a before their game against the club said the gesture highlighted their belief in tolerance and responsibility and if our players have been refusing to stand during their national anthem to highlight claims of racial injustice. roger federer and rafa nadal made for the third time in their careers and full time this year in the final of the shanghai masters federer at was up against when martin del potro in the semifinals objects on base in the quarterfinals of the u.s. open took the first set in this one federer fought back eventually went on to win three six six three six three. that i was also pushed by my semifinal but the world number one coming through a seven point seven six in shanghai final will be the spine its tenth of the season and the one hundred eleventh of his career was lost to federer all three times that played this year but least twenty three fourteen in the past over rule that's ahead

. has advanced to her first final since returning to tennis in april that followed a fifteen month drugs ban playing at the open in china which are part of a bait third seed six three six one in the semi's the russian now faces teenage world number one hundred and so arena. for that side so ok that is always sport for not more lights on that dandy and that's it for me. in a minute. hard

. enough. for years japanese have gone into countries lush force for what they call. green or forest baby thirteen years ago dr lee was one of the first to conduct research on forest bathing he concluded that the essential oils the trees produce to protect themselves from germs and bugs can boost the human immune system. a lot of financial side or essential oil is found in the forests my research has shown that forest trying to size reduces stress hormones in relaxes us in the future the time

may come when doctors prescribe the forest in the state of medicine and under put it well on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to from dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel bad for even those who managed to escape their countries haven't truly been able to escape the war. the photo of a civil self declared capital rock fighting.