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this is the new live from coming up in the program the fall of ice shelves declared capitol rucka is near fighters are expected to leave overnight. at least twenty people are killed in a truck bomb explosion in somalia's capital mogadishu. final rallies ahead of sunday's vote in australia could see the country turn to the right and 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. i say is on the verge of being pushed out of its self-proclaimed capital in syria rucka officials say the remaining members of the armed group are expected to leave the city as part of a deal brokered by tribal leader. yes but the fighters are taking civilians with

them as human shields the u.s. led coalition says it isn't involved in the negotiations but believes it will save lives isolated rock in two thousand and fourteen and soon swept across iraq seizing control of a 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 rocka isis just lost the town of our meyer dean syria and its allies are also trying to drive it from the last pocket it holds in their us or city and syrians who managed to escape to makeshift refugee camps face shortages of food and medicine. are reports from hatay on the border between syria and turkey. and 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 i still fighters have regrouped in a dean a city on the border with iraq before an expected push by syrian kurdish factions known as the s.d.f. took up each other 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 diabetic 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 imo 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 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 of the syrian army may trigger exodus of thousands of people towards the border with turkey. the time sammy hamdi is editor of international interest an online news and current affairs magazine he says uniting syria after the defeat of ice a little 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 would see a humanitarian crisis in syria to such as that are 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 lib 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 kirkuk the contested position controls access to an airbase and oil fields in the region tension has been on the rise since kurds voted overwhelmingly for the session from iraq last month told 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 are 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 did 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 a fence of. shia militia groups under the command of iraqi prime minister hyderabadi have threatens 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 got deployed here in the last few days l.-a body denies his force he had said 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 decided 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 they're having to defend their positions against them chance struck 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 that targeted in the area with many government offices hotels and restaurants and he said 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 there was a traffic jam dozens of motorists stuck in their cars hundreds of bystanders too and so the explosion caused qana vanish on cover couldn't fire coming 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 i see more than twenty dead people around the street and there may be more than that in the collapsed buildings. myself and i've never seen a scene like this ever before and 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. 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. kenya's opposition leaders are accusing the police of using excessive force against their supporters that's after police shot dead two protests is in c.i.i. in the country's southwest the opposition is demanding voting reforms for a presidential election rerun this month after the supreme court and now the august vote but here number. it is clear the police are using the town. in responding to the most there will.

be. strongholds. in addition to killing them maiming the police also in the mud the blood of looting. putting people in kyrgyzstan are heading to the polls to elect a new president on sunday voters can choose from eleven candidates they include two former prime minister soden by gen because from the social democratic party and the businessman baba not security has been tightened with more police patrolling the streets austrians are voting on sunday in a snap election that could see the far right freedom party enter a coalition government election is a year early after the government fell apart in may with a conservative people's party leading the polls austria could elect the world's youngest leader david chaytor reports from vienna.

kurtz's called the austrian politics. at thirty one he may be short on years but he's long on and vision of 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. i cannot i promise today that we will end 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 young chancellor they draw their support from a working class aged eighteen by the waves of immigration and euro 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 worshippers at friday prayers at the they and a mosque about what life might be like under a new right wing coalition. no i am 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. to militant muslims mature voters and not feel vulnerable 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. i'll just. plain to head on the news including. the race against time to save a minority chinese culture from dying out in hong kong. smashing the glass ceiling the international monetary fund discusses how to improve gender equality. and in sports english premier league champions chelsea suffered a shock defeat. me and my 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 well than half a million rangar fled a military crackdown which begun at the end of august. as more from young gun it was meant to be an interview about repatriating the hindu refugees but then the minister responsible for their resettlement said this not about my fling 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 it could. 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 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 camps 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. 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 a canadian man's returned home with his family and is revealing more about a five year ordeal in afghanistan joshua boyle was kept hostage by the a kani 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 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 so 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 the gunny network boylan his 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 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 cata 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 her 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 film producer 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 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 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 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 this 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 moment for hollywood it's never gotten to this point before and that house casting couch as it were are those kinds of pain second of behavior has been going on as long as hollywood and around quite frankly and it's been kept as hollywood's dirty little secret in some cases some very open secret the great moguls of hollywood founders of hollywood were in one way or another just read the history of hollywood 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. daniel smith rouses a film historian and professor of media he says the cademy made the right decision

and it will be a game changer now the victims are really 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 really is clearly if there was some doubt you know if people like this have been impugning or let's say maybe a rose mcgowan word would have been in here before if you came in like that this this isn't that it's no longer like that or this weinstein thing was a bit of well in its own way and perfect storm that that the there were and there was enough new york times that spent a month so had grown and you know scrupulously gathering evidence that's not always going to happen that way as 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 but i think we have to keep pushing any more prominent female faces in the world of business being used to push genda equality the u.s. president still to is among those taking part at a meeting of the world bank and international monetary fund the 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 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 leave easing poverty by treating women as underutilized assets in 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 it 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. 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 labor that they do now the i.m.f. are saying advising to get more women into the workforce but. not recognizing all the work that women oh already doing. leads the ngo gender action that's been pushing to get women's rights formally and trying new safeguards that have been drawn up by the world bank to ensure it doesn't do more social harm than 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 that this is a bank we don't deal in human rights even though the world bank is actually. executing at the 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 still ahead on al-jazeera a new political parties introduce an unexpected twist in the lead up to japan's general election. why women in. kashmir are being attacked for having long hair. and sports roger federer sets up a title showdown with rafael nadal in shanghai on that coming up with andy shaw. from bruce knows in few weeks. to the war in trying to use of southeast asia. hello the flooding that 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 in hearts the rain in taiwan and they 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 as the rainy season slowly comes south that means also of course the showers to the south are going to be quite as big as they were this is the mass of 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 here in borneo if you down indonesia daily showers or a lot of cloud worlds can be less prevalent than say a week ago but it is still coming to wet season you not 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 heavy rain is. the weather sponsored by catto and grace. what are you seen like how i might a suspected terrorist attack people of all faiths fell victim to a suicide bomber in manchester but if the bomb was indiscriminate was the placing of blame this is nothing to do with us this is about an individual who psycho you know nobody could do this unless they were completely unhinged how much just as muslims responded to challenging questions in the aftermath of a deadly attack people in power manchester united at this time want to.

al-jazeera. where ever you are. and again to remind of our top stories eisel is on the verge of being pushed out of the group's capital in syria local officials say the remaining fight is leaving the city taking civilians with them as human shields it is 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 of government offices hotels and restaurants the oscars academy has expelled film producer harvey weinstein he's accused of raping and sexually harassing more than two dozen women including actresses angelina jolie and going to punch him. in as well as opposition is projected to win a majority of governorships in sunday's regional elections but voter apathy a confusing ballot in a last minute decision to relocate more than one hundred voting centers could affect turnout today as a ball reports some to where the government's been trying to entice support. it's one day before the elections in the 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 langkow 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 i 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 they're known as flaps inside you can find some sugar some faster some means two bottles of oil emailed 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. the economic situation in venezuela will play a big role in sunday's results as people are struggling around the country rampant inflation shortages of staple foods and basic medicines have dented the government's popularity. venezuela is going through a deep crisis we think that if the opposition had warning twenty fifteen the situation had got worse in the following years then we believe the opposition vote

would probably be increased even more the government is doing everything possible to win here because it's located in the state of media 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. venezuela winds of up to seventy kilometers an hour fanning the fast spreading wildfires further in the u.s. state of california thousands of extra firefighters are now are battling the blazes across northern california the worst outbreak of wildfires in the state's history forty people have died and more than one thousand eight thousand have been evacuated. one of the world's most active ok nose is being opened up for adventurous hikers mt gone gone 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 mark and webb find out we're perched on the rim of the crater of mount. which sits just outside the eastern congo city of goma down. inside the crater is its larva lake last the rock did in two thousand and two and destroyed much of the city of goma have interrupted since then access has been affected over the 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 sorest have been coming up almost daily the popularity has grown year on year of people who want to walk up here and witness this extraordinary sight japan is going to the polls in a week's time after prime minister shinzo abear called an early election last month to new parties are trying to win votes away from the ruling coalition flown flu

report from tokyo where people are weighing their options. such oco fujioka never used to give much thought to politics that is until she had a child. that i was the kind of person who worked and worked to talk to having a child i began to see society through them politics is connected to our everyday life for example nursery or day care issues food and energy that realisation inspired her to set up a small organization called chorus which means living in japanese to create a space where people can take time out from their busy schedules to talk about society and politics among other things you don't want to hold on you guys i think it's important to know your position and have reasoning behind it i want to continue to shop my views through talking to many people. when prime minister shinzo called a snap election last month many voters questioned the timing given he's not required to go to the polls until december two thousand and eighteen he said he is

seeking a stronger mandate to deal with the country's problems ranging from a north korea security threat to a rapidly aging society but he's also likely to be taking advantage of an uptick in approval ratings and an opposition in disarray several opinion polls suggest the ruling coalition is on track to retain its majority but these same surveys also say many voters still remain undecided part of the reason for that is the emergence of two new political parties the liberal left party the constitutional democratic party of japan. and the party of hope led by tokyo governor yuriko billed as a conservative alternative to the ruling party there are two opposing parties it's easier to decide where there are three it becomes more difficult to determine the deciding factor for your vote. g'kar says she's having a hard time deciding which party to cast her ballot for because as a young parent she now has to think about issues like education and reducing the

national debt issues that will affect her children's future florence italy al-jazeera tokyo hong kong is hosting people from all over the world with one thing in common they are all it's a minority group of han chinese scattered across southern china in dozens of countries their language cultures record lee disappearing especially in hong kong as cantonese and mandarin become more dominant to video pollan reports. lovesong passed down through generations the villagers fear they'll be the last to sing it there are few young people left in this village and paneling most have gone to live alongside the dominant cantonese speakers leaving behind their ancestral homes heritage and mother tongue. culture hacker is a language full of which it would be a pity if it is gone seventy million hakka live worldwide but few speak the

language that's apparent the world hacker conference where english cantonese and mandarin are spoken of hong kong's past and present leaders opening the event it's the biggest gathering of the haka diaspora held every two years and this year an unusual scene a younger audience accompanying their parents and grandparents eager to rediscover their identity in single pop pop like environment very few people because i so we don't have a chance to practice or hustling goal i have so. old dear face heritage to my children to my grandchildren or maybe even now i cannot speak in happy. place i know some of the philosophy hong kong used to have hundreds of traditional haka villages most have disappeared and the remainder are only recognisable by their dissing to ancestral hall. the hard to worship their

ancestors and believe they're always with them once the head of the family dies their name gets an grade in the hall so the next generation respect their lineage and never forget their roots the community was thriving until the one nine hundred fifty s. when hong kong's government closed all schools where children spoke their indigenous languages bouchon father was among the first batch to be educated in cantonese hearing the language for the first time of the school the the all clear part of her college to how kind and which you cannot be. feeling that you are leaving because of the same course everything is the same as cannot just accept the split so i think to revive it is to revive their language in the last century many families stop speaking and haka to avoid discrimination taking it to the brink of extinction experts say if the haka want to reclaim their vanishing heritage a push for revival has to happen now they've got pollen al-jazeera hong kong woman

an indian administered kashmir being targeted for having long hair nobody knows who is doing it or why the attack is dubbed phantom barbizon brayed choppers are causing mass panic and unrest so herat explains. the females in srinagar city are scared they've been protesting every day against a series of mysterious attacks targeting them since september least two hundred women have reported having their hair cut off while most. 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. some was at home when her attacker knocks 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 do you know. 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 head was cut off was thinking sims are accusing the police of not doing enough to end these attacks and that's despite a ten thousand dollars 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 bank shoppers but the police deny this and say widespread mass hysteria and panic is making the situation worse and needs to stop this bring about up racial and emergency operations this is helping the moment of other sources from one place

to another because you know everybody has been so. got. so much though 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 locals 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 brittle a style of architecture facing demolition but the house lines and expose concrete are attracting new fans as need barker 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 vol concrete mess architecture speaks of the marriage 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 or 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 certain standards. 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 set of becoming something that was into a go where the developing culture became an object from a previous historical 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 tanks it's too late to save robin hood gardens the dream that never was leave. london still ahead we'll tell you why.

is banning people from jumping in groups. we here to jerusalem bureau covered israeli palestinian affairs we cover the story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of the story we have presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to be a journalist you know the story very well before going into the field covering the

united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks are meant and what happens here matters. sir leone's government is banning jogging and group saying it promotes disorderly and criminal behavior but the opposition sees the move as a way to calm down on its activities ahead of the presidential elections next year's nicolas hackable. jogging together on the beach it's an act of defiance for presidential candidate mohamed months all right and his supporters. running in

groups saying it's an activity that leads to unrest and vandalism. or destroys. the. 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. political intimidation with some form of political. and not 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 force are called to get into that in terms of compliance because of the history we had 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 your 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 not challenging this ban. says it's unconstitutional he believes 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 become very experts perceive society where they try to vent out their anger and just the 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 not his fault. thank you very much for luis suarez rescued a point for bass liner in a spanish league game against at let's go in madrid this eighty second minute effort and showed his team in time the unbeaten start to this campaign. called the open in fact let's go before suarez's intervention the game finished one one as boss drops their first points of the season a 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 fancy want independence and many of the club's hierarchy would be against such a move and 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 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 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 the game against gets half a rails next match is on choose day when they play in the champions league here are

those results follow and see if they play real betis on sunday crystal palace of pulled off a big upset in english premier league the bottom of the table side of beat in 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. the winner chelsea now nine points behind leaders man city for sure do they would be very difficult for me to sleep. but these never we must have. the same since decision me and my players and to tell you to beat them in the next game to change the. situation city though or flying at the top after a seven c. 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 movie was.

the best performance in zero right here for a long time so we played good forty five minutes with. more than. they said to 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 do a row well so woodley quick because we play simple tottenham are third after a one zero win over bournemouth astore basin see want to weigh out what for what for up to fourth liverpool and man united played out a nail nail draw wasn't perfect probably not otherwise we would have won but we had the big chance plus penalty it's too little 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 different with nine. as

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 they were waiting for the game to be broken the game was never broken kept always chan when alden and anderson and they did very well the press high they recovered the ball so icing they were very good by the defensive point of view a good pressing very good team by the defensive point of the german club hurts a billion have been sharing their support for protesting n.f.l. players at his team and coach talk 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 and i will meet for the third time in their careers and full time this year in

the final of the shanghai masters federer was up against when martin del potro in the semifinals the argentine beat him in the quarter finals of the us 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 marriage in their semifinal but the world number one coming through seven five seven six in shanghai final will be the spaniards tenth of the season and the one hundred and the eleventh of his career was lost to federer all three times that played this year but least twenty three fourteen in a pairs overall head to head. over his advance to her first final since returning to tennis in april that followed a fifteen month drugs ban playing at the open in china sharp overbid third seed six three six one in the seventies the russian now faces teenage world number one hundred and sue arena. for the title ok but as always sport for not more later

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