hormones. in the future the time may come when doctors prescribe the forest. and the. 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 for dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. the fall of self declared capital rocka is never expected to flee taking civilians as human shields.

and i'm joined up and this is live from doha was coming up at least twenty people are killed in a truck bomb explosion in somalia's capital mogadishu. final rallies ahead of sunday's vote in austria which could see the country turn to the right and elect the world's youngest leader. hollywood producer harvey weinstein is expelled from the oscars academy after allegations he sexually harassed women for decades. on the verge of being pushed out of its self-proclaimed capital in syria iraq officials say the remaining fighters are leaving the city taking civilians with them as human shields is part of a deal brokered 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 armed group have surrendered in iraq or in the past day i saw into iraq in two thousand and fourteen soon swept across iraq seizing control of a large swathe of the country a couple of years on its territory has been reduced to this 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 rocka i saw has just lost a ton of mire dean syria and its allies also trying to drive it from the last pockets it holds in the city syrians are managed to escape to makeshift refugee camps face shortages of food and medicine. reports from hatay on the border between syria and turkey. if civilians have been waiting for years they are being evacuated from fighting iraq staying home was unsafe

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 s.d.f. took up a chair the city. north of iraq 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'll ever be able to return home to their villages. the battles to recapture 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 recover to last till the rebels and the

kurds a confrontation between the kurds and the syrian army may trigger an exodus of thousands of people towards the border with turkey. the time so many is editor of international interest an online news and current affairs magazine he says uniting syria after the defeat of eiffel will be a major challenge 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 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 were pursuing independence you have the russians who are terrified of an american leaning state you have the iranians who wish to establish the 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 most and we will see a humanitarian crisis in syria to such as that nothing to suggest that there will be any reintegration of these communities into mainstream society and this leads to one one outcome and that is a division within the region and new borders modern kurdistan and other areas seeking their own independent autonomous states. syria is demanding turkish troops withdraw immediately from its northwest province more than one hundred soldiers and twenty armored vehicles began crossing the border two days ago they are there to enforce a so-called deescalation zone which was brokered with russia and iran to reduce fighting kurdish peshmerga forces have rejected a warning from iraqi troops to withdraw from an area south of the disputed oil province of kid cook the contested position controls access to an air base and or

oil fields in the region tension has been on the rise since kurds voted overwhelmingly for the session from iraq last month child stratford 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 shia militia vehicles they have moved closer to that burn 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 and iraqi army that closed in the peshmerga say they will not withdraw.

before the iraqi army were fighting i saw them and they didn't pay attention to us but now i still have been beaten and 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 isolate pensive 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 he's force he has had moved into the area to fight the peshmerga 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 to be to go back to their places to go back to where they say they will go either way. it will not deescalate but it's the only way. these kurdish fighters fulton defeated i still in northern iraq in cooperation with the iraqi military and shia militia now they say that having to defend their positions against them shall stop at al-jazeera west of kirkuk in northern iraq. two bomb attacks in the somali capital mogadishu have killed at least twenty people the first explosion was a massive truck bomb the target is an area with many government offices hotels and restaurants police say people are still trapped under the rubble of the hotel and they fear the death toll could rise in reports. when the truck arrived at the busy intersection known locally as k. five there was a traffic jam dozens of motorists stuck in their cars hundreds of bystanders too

and so the explosion caused qana by itself 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 are some more than twenty dead people around the street and there may be more than that in the collapsed buildings i myself and i've never seen a scene like this ever before all the buildings around here have collapsed there are 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 but the. 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 obama 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. kenya's opposition leaders are accusing the police of you. excessive force against their supporters that's after police shot two protesters dead in syria in the country's south west on friday now the opposition is demanding voting reform so a presidential election rerun this month after the supreme court and now the august vote by sheer numbers. it is clear the police are using a different kind in responding to the most the most the. other

areas considered to be. strongholds. in addition to killing the maiming the police also in good in the system of the blood of looting this election or property austrians are voting on sunday in a snap election that could see the far right freedom party enter a coalition government the election is a year early after the government fell apart in may the conservative people's party leading the polls austria could elect the world's youngest leader david chaytor reports from vienna. called austrian politics. at thirty one he may be short on years but he's long on ambition at this t.v. broadcast with you people's party shows his eyes are set firmly on the chancellor ship. the polls would have 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 straka that could be drawn into a new right wing coalition with the chancellor they draw their support from a working class aged eighteen by the waves of immigration. struck has said his neo nazi links and hues could now be dismissed he described himself then as stupid and naive that there is no islam does not belong in austria and we do not want to. own homelands. i think something needs to change 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 worshipers at friday prayers at the mosque about what life might be like under you right wing coalition. and 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 exteriors and i am afraid of that as i want to become a doctor. i mean the muslims are mature voters in vienna and we do not feel vulnerable let's protect them before austria 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 angela merkel she will no longer find natural allies in government here. al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera families desperate for food how are they being enticed to help

venezuela's government at the ballot box plus find out why women in indian administered kashmir are being attacked for having long hair. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. hello the flooding that to happened for four or five days ago in vietnam has not subsided there's not very much rain since and is not much in the forecast to be tightly but it's a wet area and the next batch of wet weather is this circulation is tropical storms come out of the philippines is drifting slowly west woods but it's brought right it's enhanced the rain in taiwan and it will they do so down the eastern side of china through southern china and then eventually into vietnam probably by tuesday so flooding slowly subsiding getting worse it is just not

a good time about this part of the world has the ready season slowly come south that means also of course the showers to the south are going to be quite as big as they were this is the massive white cloud it does certainly go through thailand and we've seen some flooding in thailand recently and then off towards india which is the receding monsoon trough but if you're not in this line so if you're in borneo if you down indonesia daily showers or a lot of cloud wants to be less prevalent than say a week ago but it is still coming to wet season you know going to get away with it completely i said the monsoon was retreating but in the last week it's actually push yourself back up to good euro slowly going south again and that's certainly where the heavier rain is. the weather sponsored by cattle race. 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 is 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 stabilize the country by giving them a financial incentive to do that pricing the planet at this time on al-jazeera. and again it's take a quick look at the top stories i saw is on the verge of being pushed out of rocca the group's capital in syria officials say the remaining fighters are leaving the city taking civilians with them as human shields out 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. austrians of voting in the election that could see the far right freedom party enter coalition government the election is a year early after the govern for the party in may with the conservative people's party leading the polls. could lead the world youngest leader. the myanmar government minister responsible for repatriating rangar refugees from bangladesh has told al jazeera they may have planned their exodus to give the appearance of ethnic cleansing more than half a million rangar fled a military crackdown which began at the end of august. as more from yangon it was meant to be an interview about repatriating mohinder refugees but then the minister responsible for their resettlement said this. 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 may 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 one hundred refugees escape to bangladesh since late august 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 if 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 the road to stay out the military operation in iraq mind state 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 then as well as opposition is projected to win a majority of governorships in sunday's regional elections but voter apathy a confusing ballot on the last minute decision to relocate more than one hundred voting centers could affect turnout there is a ball reports from pataki where the government's been trying to entice support. it's one day before the elections in these your refuge in. for many one of the largest slums in the world located in the state of me. government boxes of subsidized food are being distributed among the more than one hundred sixty families living in this abandoned building. this is where we write people's names this woman got two boxes another only one we don't want to get confused we're all

struggling here this sunday i have to go and vote. we were told voting is an obligation here if they want to continue receiving government help but many are frustrated even though the government has built millions of houses around the country those living here have been waiting for years for their return to live in a better place. and has been here for four years she lives with her husband and two children in this small room and says feeding her family is a struggle every day. sometimes my children tell me i'm hungry i'm hungry i don't know what to do i get desperate because we don't have anything. and that's why this boxes have become crucial in venezuela these days they cost fifty cents every month the people living here receive this boxes from the government there no one else

claps inside you can find some sugar or some fast or something to bottles of oil milk among other things this is supposed to last for a month but people tell us that it only lasts eight days if you look around and this is the only food available in this household. vehicle nomic situation in venezuela will play a big role in sunday's results as people are struggling around the country rampant inflation shortages. staple foods and basic medicines have dented the government's popularity you know. venezuela is going through a deep crisis we think that if the opposition had won in twenty fifteen and the situation had got worse in the following years then we believe the opposition vote would probably have increased even more the government is doing everything possible to win here because it's located in the state of me down there that has been traditionally controlled by the opposition. but even though those present here told

us they will be voting on sunday it is not clear whether the government has done enough to win their vote. just. venezuela film mogul harvey weinstein has been ousted from the organization which hands out the oscars the academic the cademy of motion picture arts and sciences says over two thirds of its boat has voted to reject him weinstein is accused of rape and sexual harassment by more than two dozen women including actresses angelina jolie and going to rob matheson reports. 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 to have 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 are.

different in their personal lives like roman polanski like no like. none of them ever never came up but it did with harvey and there was 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 partly on. growing up in the sixty's and seventy's wayne says the rules about behavior and 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 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 all the woods dirty little secret in some cases some very open secret the great moguls of hollywood founders. one way or another the history of 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 helped 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 winds of up to seventy kilometers an hour fanning the fast spreading a wildfire further in the u.s. state of california it is 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 and one of the world's most active volcanoes has been opened up for adventurous hikers mt need in going all in democratic republic of congo is home to the largest lava lake on it the area has been affected by conflict but tourists are slowly returning has not come way find out. we're perched on the rim of the crater of mount near a gong it's just outside the congolese city of goma and down there inside the crater is it lava lake he 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 by eastern congo is many complex 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 when in india and ministered kashmir being targeted for having long hair nobody knows who's doing it or why the attackers dubbed phantom barbers and brave choppers are causing mass panic and i'm rest sad i can't it 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 i must say it's just like you want to get 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 round in a hospital but it was only then she realized her braided hair had been sliced off you know so on but 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 bring 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 hampering the movement of other sources from one place to another because you know everybody has been so. yeah so much so that while the police have been 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 that the 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. you

and. i don't get the top stories i saw is on the verge of being pushed out of rocker the group's capitol in syria 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 the u.s. led coalition says it isn't involved in the negotiations but believes these moves will save lives 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 police say people are still trapped under the rubble of the hotel kenya's opposition leaders are cruising the police of using excessive force after two protesters was shot dead in c.i.r. it's urging followers to keep demonstrating despite

a ban in major cities and head of this month's presidential election rerun but here number. it is clear the police are using the town. in responding to their will to. other areas to go to the. stronghold of. the police in addition to killing them maiming the police also in the mud the blood of looting. or property austrians are voting in an election that could see the far right freedom party enter a coalition government the election is a year early after the government fell apart in may with the conservative people's party leading the polls could elect the world's youngest leader. a cademy has expelled film producer harvey weinstein he's accused of raping and sexually harassing more than two dozen women including actresses angelina jolie and

quinn of paltrow police in the u.s. and the u.k. on vesta gating the allegations which weinstein denies. the headlines and the news continues and al-jazeera often side story. donald trump's nuclear reaction is he writes about iran the u.s. president has a refusing to recertify the nuclear deal signed two years ago and accuses the iranians of breaking the agreement iran says allegations are delusional and world leaders are also critical this is inside story.