it talks about just. talks of. reggae music i think. that's deeply relevant. especially for this. right wing assault on our freedom to ask questions and generally all freedom of expression and people you know are being it's like you just activists. right it's. been intimidated from the forest and people are on the streets in protest. so in whichever way i'd like to attempt to. get. the full of. capitol rockers neophyte as are expected to flee taking civilians as human shields.

this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up polls open in australia the election which could see the country elect the world's youngest leader. at least twenty people were killed in a truck bomb explosion in somalia's capital mogadishu plus. hong kong where gathering up people from around the world is breathing new life into the. air. on the verge of being pushed out of its self-proclaimed capital in syria officials in iraq and say the remaining members of the armed group are leaving the city as part of a deal brokered by tribal leaders for the fighters 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. well i still entered iraq i mean twenty fourteen and soon swept across

iraq seizing control of large swathes of the country a couple of years on its territory has been reduced to base the iraqi government's launching an offensive to drive the group from the last air it holds that one in syria as well as being on the brink of losing raka i still have just lost a ton of dean syria and its allies are also trying to drive the group in the last pocket holds in darrow's or city. has more now from attack if you turkey's border with syria. negotiations are still underway in iraq to convince. to live the city i mean tribes and fighters from the pub been have been trying to. convince foreign fighters affiliated with ice to leave in exchange for free passage now we're getting some conflicting reports about what is happening now some say that it's just a matter of time before everyone leaves that are others suggest that some of the

battle hardened. i see the fighters say that they are committed to fighting to the death now the u.s. led coalition has been distancing itself from this deal saying that it won't tolerate to see those foreign fighters leave and then resurface in different parts of the country but this remains a very crucial moment the as the though remains confident that it's just a matter of a few hours before they can officially declare that iraq and that control if that happens is going to be a major setback for ice which in two thousand and fourteen declared iraq that stronghold now as the fighting intensifies and the push continues to evict ice. from dealers or thousands of civilians remain still trapped in those areas of thousands more are fleeing to safety abandon they feel betrayed with nowhere to go there live and a very tough camp conditions are serious demanding turkish troops withdraw

immediately from its northwest province more than one hundred soldiers and twenty armored vehicles crossed the border two days ago there to enforce a so-called deescalation zone which was brokered with russia and iran to reduce the fighting. now the polls have just opened in austria in a snap election that could see the far right freedom party enter a coalition government the election is a year only after the government fell apart in may what david chaytor joins us live now from the austrian capital david this is being seen as a crucial election for austria so what are voters been concerned with. yes down those voters that have just started arriving at this polling station the polls have just opened here. you can characterize this election as mainly a fight between the center right and the far right that looks like the two parties that might enter a coalition government on monday after we get the results and as for the issues involved really very few have come on the on the debate apart from immigration

immigration immigration that is what is made the dynamic of this whole election and i've been looking at the final campaigns and looking at the personalities involved and what the people thought let's see see what i found. kurtz's called the austrian politics. at thirty one he may be short on years but he's long on ambition and his t.v. broadcast with you people party shows his eyes are set firmly on the chancellor ship. the polls put it well ahead but he's done it by poaching some of the policies of the far right. on the. illegal migration to achieve order and security in austria.

it's the freedom party led by heinz christian structure that could be drawn into a new right wing coalition with the 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 the end of mosque about what life might be like under you right wing coalition. this no i'm afraid to be living in a country where the women are suppressed because of the headscarf or what they are

wearing their exteriors and i am afraid of that as i want to become a doctor. to militant muslims and mature voters in vienna and we do not feel vulnerable or less protected 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. and david how is all of this likely to impact on broader issues like for the e.u. reforms. well down as a good point if you look at the record of the freedom party this is not an insurgent party it's well established here in austria and christian straka is very much

a euro skeptic but he's been running back on both his extremist remarks on immigration and also on europe but it is very very clear that he is part of the coalition if he is the foreign minister in the coalition this will do damage very much to the hopes of both the manual macro on the new president of france and anglo merkel who's coping with the far right in the bundestag for the first time it will deal a bit of a blow and a major hurdle to their hopes to try and start the reform of the european union and so immigration will course be one of the main policies of the austrian right wing coalition will be very very strong on that also be probably opposed to the eurozone refinancing their look at the how to change the financing of europe and those reforms of the manual macro is very keen on but also essentials are saying before austria will no longer be a natural neighbor in politics as well as in geography for angular merkel they're

going to be looking very much more eastwards to the visit grad group to the troublesome twins of poland and hungary and they have been causing a lot of fractions within the european union that perhaps could add to that weight those cracks appearing in that new vision of the new map on the whole of the european union so watch out for some some large debate within the european union i think the idea there's going to be a unified bloc in any way with the rest of us is very much going to change as a result of this move very much to the right by the parties here in the austrian elections or to david chaytor then vienna david thank you. now to bomb attacks in the somali capital mogadishu of killed at least twenty people the first explosion was a massive truck bomb that targeted and they're out 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 is paul brennan. when the truck arrived at the busy intersection known locally as k. five it was a traffic jam dozens of motorists stuck in their cars hundreds of bystanders too and so the explosion caused. by nischelle that i'm covered could have come a lot 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 and all the buildings around here have collapsed there were close to two hundred people in these buildings i hope everyone is ok ok five is in a bustling commercial district of mogadishu with many shops hotels and businesses the blast happened outside the safari hotel not normally used by government workers and so it's not clear whether the hotel itself was the intended target or possibly

the somali foreign ministry nearby it's emerged too that the police were actually following the truck at the time of the explosion. two hours after the truck bomb blast a car bomb detonated in the city's medina district two people were killed there and the driver arrested the group al-shabaab frequently launches gun grenade or bomb attacks in mogadishu despite being forced from the capital six years ago by african union and somali troops the ongoing threat is a constant worry for many somalis whole brennan al jazeera. the film mogul harvey weinstein has been ousted from the organization which hands out the office the academy of motion picture arts and sciences says while the two thirds of its board voted to reject him weinstein is accused of rape and sexual harassment by more than two dozen women including the actresses angelina jolie and gwyneth paltrow matheson reports their girlfriends 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 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 i says 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 mean 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 pain second of behavior has been going on as long as hollywood's been around quite frankly and it's been kept as all the woods dirty little secret in some cases some very open secret the great moguls of hollywood founders. and one way or another you just read the history of. this time it's a different time and for the academy do i 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 lots also to come here in al-jazeera including families desperate for food how they're being enticed to help venezuela's government at the ballot box plus. down there in tide the crater. on a multi-mission we get close to one of the world's most active volcanoes morning. hello this showers is proper right dragging through turkey again and that will prompt something of the coke system probably of the caspian coast of iran once again so in the forecast in the immediate future on sunday it's turkey and maybe you know a bit beyond but really we're still talking about dry whether we're still hovering in the middle twenty's for to around middle thirty's down in iraq with the wind not

particularly strong and then come monday that rain spreads across the wind follows it it's cold enough behind a little bit more snow up in the caucasus once again so george armenia maybe and as a by john we haven't seen the showers come down to to iran that's probably a day later. not much in the way of sherry stuff further south in fact sunday doesn't show particularly strong but the breeze is still blowing down the gulf by this time the cloud around the amman ecosystem isn't quite enough to bring the back but it is interesting to see cloud there this time of the year temperature wise western side of saudi was just dropped down below the forty mark about thirty eight or thirty nine mostly this is cloud free and i'm pleased to say that our violent weather on the eastern side of south africa just two or three days ago it's all gone quiet and temporarily sunny.

terrorists 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 whose side. could do this unless they were completely unhinged just as muslims responded to challenging questions in the aftermath of the. people in power manchester united at this time. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here this hour i saw on the verge of being

pushed out of iraq and the group self declared capital in syria officials say the remaining fighters are leaving the city as part of a deal brokered by tribal leaders members of the armed groups taking civilians with them as human shields. voting in an election that could see the far right freedom party enter a coalition government election is a year early though after the government fell apart in may the conservative people's party even the polls austria could elect the world's youngest leader. on the oscars academy as expelled film producer harvey weinstein is accused of raping and sexually harassing more than two dozen women including the actresses angelina jolie and when it pulled her. marking two years since the signing of a cease fire with several groups eight of me and mas twenty one ethnic groups signed up to a peace accord in twenty fifteen but many did not participate including range of fighters. has been accused of ethnic cleansing in rakhine state more than eight hundred thousand fled across the border to balad ash let's get more now from yahoo

melon she joins us from yangon yatta so. the minute the chief addressed the country this morning did they make any mention of the range of prices. well no daryn they didn't and we didn't expect them to uncensored she addressed the nation on thursday and she remained silent on the row hinge or issue despite all of the international kind condemnation her government has faced over their handling of the. crisis and i think what's really interesting to point out here is that this is the first time that we've seen. in public together with the military chief. since the crisis began late august the military chief is this is the architect of the current security forces campaign in rakhine state he's seen

as the person who holds real power in the country possibly the most powerful person in the country and who can really bring an end to the conflict in iraq state. many human rights organizations have been lobbying really hard for the fight for the focus of any international pressure or sanctions or the like to be shifted away from. to the military chief and his forces because the constant the the way that the constitution has been constructed really ensures that real power in the country is in the hands of the military and you are the certainly today is marking the anniversary of that cease fire deal that we just spoke about but how much does this current range of crisis such are into this. well it doesn't factor in at all or what's really been interesting is that the

international focus has been on the crisis but internally the focus has is completely different people when it comes to talks about peace or cease fires people think of the many ethnic armed conflicts that are being waged across the country against the military and as you mentioned there are a couple of dozen different ethnic. groups who are fighting for various reasons some of them for since the country's inception there are one hundred thirty five recognized ethnic groups however there are huge or i'm not one of those recognized ethnic groups and so. if it can even be considered to fall under this particular agreement so the celebration of the cease fire agreement this anniversary and talk

about bringing peace to the country daryn doesn't even factor in this rohingya crisis at all right jarod women of the younger lot to thank you. but as well as opposition is projected to win a majority of governorships and 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. from pitot it what the government's been trying to entice support. it's one day before the elections in these your refuge. for many one of the largest slums in the world located in the state of media and. government boxes of subsidized food 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 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 one 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 kurdish peshmerga forces. 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 air base and oil fields in the region tensions been on the rise since kurds voted overwhelmingly for secession from iraq last month stratford 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 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 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 eisel offensive shia militia groups under the command of iraqi prime minister hyderabadi have threatened to take control of the oil fields peshmerga reinforcements arrived soon after the government troops advanced towards this position some of the more than six thousand patients deployed here in the last few

days everybody denies he's four seats have 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 only when these kurdish fighters fortune 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 child strafford al jazeera west of kirkuk in northern iraq winds of up to seventy kilometers an hour are fanning the fast spreading wildfires further in the u.s. state of california forty people have died and more than ninety thousand have been evacuated as the worst outbreak of wildfires in the state's history now one of the

world's most active volcanoes is being opened up for adventurous hikers in democratic republic of congo is home to the largest lava lake on earth the air has been affected by conflict there but tourists is slowly returning as malcolm went out. we're perched on the rim of the crater of mount new recording which sits just outside the eastern congo lead city of going up and down. inside the crater is it lava lake last the rock did in two thousand and two and destroyed much of the city of goma has interrupted since then although access has been affected over the years by 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 suicide in coming up almost daily the popularity is growing year on year the people who want to walk out here and witness this extraordinary sight hong kong is hosting people from all over the

world with one thing in common they're all hackers it's a minority group of harm chinese gov cross southern china and dozens of countries their language culture is rapidly disappearing especially in hong kong cantonese or mandarin become more dominant to the departed reports. now. a hacker love song passed down through generations of the 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 hacking is a language full of which it would be a pity if it is gone seventy million hakka live worldwide but if you speak the language that's apparent at 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 there's an unusual scene a younger audience accompanying their parents and grandparents eager to rediscover their identity in public environment very few people because we don't have to try. so i have to. hear this heritage i told my grandchildren or maybe even now i cannot speak in hard. place i know some of the. 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 government closed all schools where children spoke their indigenous languages. was among the first batch to be educated in cantonese hearing the language for the first time of the school. the clear part of college to have which if you cannot be a. free man that you believe in us of the same course everything is the same as head on this except we speak so i think to revive it is to revive their language in the last century and many families stopped speaking and how 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 palin al-jazeera hong kong. a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera eisel is on the verge of being

pushed out of the group's capital in syria officials say the remaining fighters are leaving the city as part of a deal brokered by tribal leaders and members of the armed group are taking civilians with them as human shields syria is demanding turkish troops withdraw immediately from its northwest province more than a hundred soldiers and twenty armored vehicles crossed the border two days ago there to enforce a so-called deescalation which was brokered with russia and iran to reduce fighting 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 the conservative people's party leading the polls could elect the world's youngest leader they would change as more from ghana. you can characterize this election as mainly a fight between the center right and the far right that looks like the two parties that might enter a coalition government on monday after we get the results and as for the issues

involved really very few have come on the on the debate apart from immigration immigration immigration. venezuela's opposition parties are projected to win a majority of seats in sunday's election. though it's being viewed as a test of president nicolas maduro support as he battles months of political and economic crises. 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 the oscars academy has expelled film producer harvey weinstein he's accused of raping and sexually harassing more than two dozen women including the actresses angelina jolie and gwyneth paltrow 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 and are battling the blazes

across northern california forty people have died and more than one thousand have been evacuated as the worst outbreak of wildfires in the state's history. but those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after people in power station thanks for watching by foot. a family business handed down from generation to generation but when this funeral director retires will his son continue the tradition i don't think he was actually before just like i don't feel like i was actually built for a difficult choice for an al-jazeera producer caught between two worlds well it's really fight tending to the dead with the living it better an intimate portrait of an industry most and counter only fleetingly al-jazeera correspondent death in the family at this time.