you have to be a strong swimmer otherwise it's safe and risking it all vietnam at this time on al-jazeera. the nature of news as it breaks. during the week with detailed coverage this is what you mean for money going to find a way to buy the nigerian army hundreds like the something just for in the past few months from around the world there are also hundreds of thousands of arabs that have arrived here in recent years bullying by so they feel very let down by the baghdad government. the fall of ice and capital rock areas near fighters are expected to flee taking civilians as human shields.

hello i'm down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up at least twenty people are killed in a truck bomb explosion and somalia's capital mogadishu plus. final rallies ahead of sunday's vote in austria which could see the country elect the world's youngest leader. a race against time to save a minority chinese culture from dying out in hong kong. i salute on the verge of being pushed out of its self-proclaimed capital in syria iraq or officials say the remaining members of the armed group are leaving the city as part of a deal brokered by tribal leaders but the fight is attacking civilians with them as human shields around a hundred rebels surrendered in iraq on friday the u.s. led coalition says it isn't involved in the talks but believe the agreement will

save lives but i still entered iraq on twenty fourteen and 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. the iraqi government is launching an offensive to drive the group from the last air it holds there while in syria as well as being on the brink of losing rocket eisen has just lost the town of dean syria and its allies are also trying to drive the group from the last pocket holes in darrow's or city but syrians who managed to escape to makeshift refugee camps face shortages of food and medicines are reports from hatay on the border between syria and turkey. and moment civilians have been waiting for years they are being evacuated from fighting in iraq are staying home wasn't safe 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 took up a chair 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 sheets nothing i'm a widow and i cannot look after my children on my own they told us go to the camp and you will get help i got nothing from them. many here have lost hope they'll ever be able to return home to their villages. the battles to recapture 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 recapture areas it lost to 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 about al-jazeera the time but

somehow these edits have international interest in online news and current affairs magazine he says uniting syria after the defeat of eisel 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 model 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 uranium 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 outcome and that is a division within the region and new borders modern kurdistan and other areas seeking their own independent autonomous states. meanwhile 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 has broken with russia and iran to reduce fighting and kurdish peshmerga forces have projected a warning from iraqi troops to withdraw from an area south of the disputed oil province of quetta cook 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 succession from iraq last month and reports from west of chemical 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 the 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 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 they have moved towards our position here we will not withdraw we will defend this position to the last 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 fence if. 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 l.-a body denies he's 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 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. 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 there was a traffic jam dozens of motorists stuck in their cars hundreds of bystanders too and so the explosion caused qana fine to show them cover couldn't have come up with this was the biggest explosion i have ever heard the car exploded at the center of the busiest junction in mogadishu it cause 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 own going threat is a constant worry for many somalis paul brennan al jazeera. kenya's opposition

leaders are accusing the police of using excessive force against their supporters that's after police shot two protest is dead in salah in the country's southwest the opposition is demanding voting reforms for a presidential election rerun this month after the supreme court a no vote. in addition to killing them made me. question the 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 for the government fell apart in may with the conservative people's

party leading the polls could elect the world's youngest leader reports from vienna . austria and 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 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 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 aged eighteen by the waves of immigration into europe 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 a new right wing coalition. this you know 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. to militant muslims mature voters in vienna 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. come here or not is there including a full from grace for a hollywood mogul accused of sexual harassment in the decades plus. implied to grate. on a multi-mission we get close to one of the world's most active volcanoes is that.

hello most of the wet weather in the us is now in the midwest heading up across the border into eastern canada is quite south of that the 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 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 going there but the rain as it sets in is talking some cold air for east and south dakota'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 for this part of north america up and down the east coast a 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 that is the still the time the year where you could see daily show as but the fan of cloud that's coming up through central america suggests that's where the significant rain is

likely and there we are in the forecast in nicaragua looks green but you've got a fair chance still of showers in his opinion or even longer spells a very in the same is true for jamaica cuba the bahamas and florida. on counting the cost a scandal made in japan kobe steel admits that it fakes data on components used by the world's biggest makers of planes trains and automobiles. troubled by the i.m.f. is signaling danger ahead for the global economy even as growth takes higher counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here to solve ai souls on the verge of being pushed out of iraq and the groups the capital in syria fishel said their main fighters are leaving the city as part of a deal brokered by tribal leaders members of the armed groups attacking civilians with them as human shields. 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 the area from the government offices hotels restaurants austrians are voting in an election that could see the far right freedom party into a coalition government elections a year early after the government fell apart in may the conservative people's party leading the polls in austria could enact the world's youngest league. now

venezuela's opposition is projected to win a majority of governorships in sunday's regional elections but voter apathy a confusing ballot and a last minute decision to relocate more than one hundred voting centers could affect turnout to raise about reports from baghdad it where the government's been trying to entice support. it's one day before the elections in the refugee. from. any 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 i don't have anything. and that's why this boxes have become a crucial in venezuela these days they cost fifty cents every month people living here receive this boxes from the government there no one else claps inside you can find some sugar or some past 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. 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 worn in twenty fifteen and 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 and 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. the film mogul

harvey weinstein has been ousted from the organization which hands out the oscars the academy of motion picture arts and sciences says of a two thirds of his board has voted to reject him weinstein's accused of rape and sexual harassment by more than two dozen women including the actresses angelina jolie and gwyneth paltrow and 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 i ask other questions about you know other members that have had scandals or different pains in their personal lives and things like roman polanski like no 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 partly 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 pain second a behavior has been going on as long as hollywood's been 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 ollywood. one way or another you 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 had 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 women in indian that ministered kashmir being targeted by having long hair nobody knows who's doing it or why they attack a phantom bobbers and break up as a causing mass panic and unrest so carrot 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 us would you give me one good 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 knocked her out with a roll she came round in a hospital but it was only then she realized how braided hair had been sliced off. 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 not 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 brave choppers 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's been so. yeah 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 bright child is very real here with some people too scared to venture out without a car off to ten pm schools and universities have now closed as a precautionary measure to protect female students you know 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. hong kong is hosting people from all over the world with one thing in common they're all hakka it's a minority group of han chinese capital costs more than china and dozens of countries their language culture is rapidly disappearing especially in hong kong as countries in mandarin become more dominant didn't apologise for. a love song passed down through generations of these villagers fear they'll be the last to sing it. there are few young people left in the soccer village and paneling most have gone to live alongside the dominant cantonese speakers leaving behind their ancestral homes heritage and mother tongue. culture hakkasan

language school 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 seeing the public environment very few people because i so we don't have last chance to practice or hustling goal i have to. here fifty heritage to my children to my grandchildren or maybe even though i cannot speak in hat for at least 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 engraved 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 and fought was among the first batch to be educated in cantonese hearing the language for the first time of the school. do you fear part of college to how kind and which you cannot be a. free man that you are leaving us of the same course everything is the same as kant on this except we speak so i think to revive it is to revive their language and in the last century many families stopped 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 if you go pollen allergies era hong kong now winds of up to seventy kilometers an hour are fanning the fast spreading wildfires further in the u.s. state of california is the worst outbreak of wildfires in the state's history forty people have died and all the ninety thousand been evacuated one of the world's most active volcanoes is being opened up for adventure. in the democratic republic of congo is home to the largest lava lake on earth the air has been affected by conflict but tourists are slowly returning malcolm with sound out. we're perched on the rim of the crater of mount. just outside the congolese city of goma and down. inside the crater is a larger lake he lost the rock did in two thousand and two and destroyed much of the city of goma has interrupted since then well the act death has been affected

over the years by eastern congo as many conflicts but this area has been safe about twenty fourteen after the government flushed out the rebel group known as then twenty three and since then been coming up almost daily the popularity is growing yeah yeah the people you want to walk up here and witness this extraordinary sight and finally hundreds of waiters have taken part in an unusual race in argentina's capital participants walk as fast as possible along a one point six kilometer route in buenos aires but they must complete it without spilling their trays of drinks the race is part of promotions for the city's cafe culture. top stories on al-jazeera i saw on the verge of being pushed out of the groups capital in syria officials say the remaining fighters are leaving the city taking

civilians with them as human shields the exit is part of a deal brokered by tribal leaders. syria's 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 there to enforce a so-called deescalation zone which was brokered with russia and iran to reduce the fighting. 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 accusing the police of using excessive force after two protest as were shut down on friday they're edging followers to keep demonstrating despite a ban in major cities at this month's presidential election rerun. police.

in addition to killing and maiming. 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 gwyneth paltrow and he's in the u.s. and the u.k. are investigating the allegations which weinstein denies. austrians are voting in an election that could see the far right freedom party enter a coalition government elections a year early after the government fell apart in may with a conservative people's party leading the polls could elect the world's youngest leader. and winds of up to seventy kilometers an hour fanning the fast spreading wildfires further the u.s.

state of california is the worst outbreak of wildfires in the state's history forty people have died and more than ninety thousand have been evacuated but those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the cost staging that so much of life. the man who negotiated the dismantling of apartheid and scrapped south africa's nuclear program i don't think we needed the bomb but some of my prediction is just that they want to use it as a deterrent south africa's former president declared talks to al jazeera a distance. i'm adrian finnigan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and.