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minutes three days of national mourning after a bombing rocks somalia's capital killing at least eighty five people. some myself fighters leave rocker as part of a deal but others vow to fight on as the battle for the syrian city enters its final stages. the academy expels the disgraced media mogul harvey weinstein condemning hollywood heris months of women. also ahead why the people of venice don't like tourists and how they're fighting back to reclaim their ancient city. at least eighty five people have been killed in two bomb attacks in the somali capital mogadishu the first explosion was a powerful truck bomb that targeted an area with many government offices hotels and restaurants the police say people are still trapped under the rubble of the hotel and they fear the casualty number could rise paul brennan has the story. when the

truck arrived at the busy intersection and 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 michelle one cover couldn't 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 some more than twenty dead people around the street and there may be more than that in the collapsed buildings. that i've never seen a scene like this ever before over the buildings around here have collapsed they 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 had tell not normally used by government. because 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 that the driver arrested in the group al-shabaab frequently launches gun grenade obama attacks in mogadishu despite being forced from the capital six years ago by african union and somali troops the ongoing threat is a constant worry for many somalis hope brennen al jazeera. abdul rahman yet also a spokesman for the somali government he joins us on skype from the capital mogadishu up there on the other so what's the latest information you have for us. if there's a lot of thoughts and prayers. like there is. and what they may be

a clear indication that they want to destroy people as many innocent people and the place at the time gets. to the easiest junction of the city where they knew a number of civilians were there so you know all morning. the lady who's a black to the victims and indeed people we are still in the process of counting the number of casualties the primaries are the. ministerial committee including civil societies. already suspended his official to keep and for us to be with the people so we are all morning what happened and this is something that we cannot explain beyond our imagination that terrorism so it's an act. are you expecting the death toll to climb absolutely we

know and number of. hundred people are already in the hospital and some of them are labs that are to me and some of them are my main injuries we are walking we've. gone to see how they can support the appeal to the international community to come and help others these are times when we need also the turkey has already responded by sending in the planes to pick up the injured people. we are all doing what we can and we are very grateful for that but had to be done i'm straight in mind of people how they responded to yesterday's attack by helping the victims and we are still doing that and still trying to set some of the rebels where they have to have to place so these are one of the largest that that's happening i mean as you can see. in this community and. then that there is we're planning for

such a time to really destroy the image of the city under the people staying with that issue of security for a second how can the government make mogadishu safer than it's been so far. this is the best time for the last four miners who are. just really done a magnificent job but if you're really and. one of the soviet cities and we did everything in the soil and number of tracks. but if you're going to someone want to blow themselves up as you said earlier the fact that school boards have to start with but it's too late so we're doing everything we can and this is the time we thought that we did all required in this community but there is always going to distort. the people that this is something that we are all mourning

and trying to do what we kind of help those people who are in the hospital and a couple of weeks ago maybe ten days ago we were reporting on another story to do with al-shabaab and they had come across the border across into kenya they had staged an event but that was really to steal weapons and then retreat this incident appears it feels totally different is this in your mind a different tactic on the part of al-shabaab and could it be the beginnings of a different campaign on their part. we knew a result of our ability to different tasks such as a symmetric warfare since we have defeated them militarily and these kind of things is something that we were expecting but not this last as a student where they started to. innocent people leave so that they would try to come to the government official is that was this but this is clear indication of

that as to but as regards to the civilians and we are very grateful of our people. so quickly for that while the emergency needs of our people in the system if. we can only do what we can but this is something that we were the international media support self-possessed to see there to mobilize the international community the innocence of the system is the moment in the of the start of this year or so a very busy time for you so we do appreciate you taking some minutes to talk to us here on the news out thank you very much. i still appears to be on the verge of being pushed out of it's self declared capital in syria local officials say some eisel fighters have been allowed to leave rocka after a deal was brokered by tribal leaders on saturday it is not clear how many eisel members are still inside the city kurdish bank syrian fighters at the battle could take hours or days well i still ended raca in twenty fourteen it's control soon

spread to areas of iraq and the armed groups seized big areas of both countries three years later and its territory has been reduced to this the iraqi government is launching an offensive to drive it from its last stronghold there as well as being on the brink of losing rocka in syria eisel has just lost the town of dean syrian government forces and their allies are also trying to push it from the few pockets it still holds in the city of dealers or hashem is following developments for us from the turkey syria border in antakya what's the latest information on what's going on inside the city as of this hour. he said about an hour when i go as the f. which is the coalition of different factions led by the white b.g. and backed by the united states of america has launched its final push to capture the city of. shelling positions in the center of the city there were

negotiations that will be brokered by tribal leaders to try to convince. those negotiations particularly when isis fighters decided. to continue their why now we do understand from a force. that about two hundred seventy five syrian i said members of the kurdish factions and there were dozens of foreign fighters still committed to continue the fight to the. fighters they're saying that it's just a matter of hours before they can manage to control all those areas because as you know we're talking about tiny ways that lead to the city this is something that slows the advance of the concerns about the potential of suicide bombing attacks or booby trapped buildings and this is so they are being very careful of the shelling these areas are waiting for the moment to manage to get into the buildings. thank

you. what's going on in iraq or let's talk now to he is a political analyst and joins us live from baghdad. retaken what do you think they'll find. well actually i think. what's happening now in iraq is actually that reflects from the coalition forces and even from every force of that fighting isis is that daunts go forward for what's happening what's happened in mosul because we know very well that killing eighteen eight hundred. isis fighters while casualties have been about fifteen thousand so the lesson i think learned well is that do not make a closed circle. around isis open a gate for them and make a deal is that they can they can be transferred into another place so i think

that's why the casualties now on a minimal range and also the civilians are can be handled well is that opened a free zones or let's say you save zones for them and at the same time you can manage not to destroy the whole city because we know that you can see the pictures of that truck are still have some sort of buildings around or it's not or all destroyed just just to interrupt you there for a second one hundred thirty gotten more so when you talk about making a deal with ice or you're talking about people living people surviving fighters they live on to fight another day surely. well at the end we you don't need to make some sort of implantation for isis ideology because if you're going to go forward killing everyone and start to let's say targeting them on every building it means that are they going to be they going to use the civilians as

a human shield which which is at the end it will end to a disaster and it will say that ok we killed isis and also we killed the civilians so everyone going to point out the one who was fighting isis that you are not recognizing me as a civilian and they sent people that's why and that's that's why i said i think everyone learned the lesson well do not kill everyone do not make a closer to a circle against isis just what happened in mosul and do not target the civilians in a way or another because it will show you and in front of the others in front of the whole country is that you are killing your own people so i think at the end you're going to have some sort of deals with isis is that you are going to make you say we're going to make you go out on a save on

a safe transportation but please do not make the human shield around you and do not enforce us to kill everyone very very briefly we're talking about foreign fighters what is it about the foreign fighters that is particularly of interest here are they particularly committed to the eisel ideology in thirty seconds please. well i think this is the most important thing is that you have the foreign fighters who are most committed to their eyes as ideology and i think the deal of. the deals is doing some sort of many my using the this ideology in a way that he keeps but what keep your ideology in a way over the people but at the same time be aware that you must not stay on this territory this is i think the deal that has happened with the foreign fighters thank you. serious demanding turkey withdraw its forces from the northern province of idlib immediately more than one hundred turkish soldiers and twenty armored

vehicles crossed the border two days ago he says they are there to enforce a so-called deescalation zone which was brokered by russia and iran to reduce the level of fighting. ground still to cover for you here on the news hour including find out why women in indian administered kashmir are being attacked for having long hair. down there inside the crater. a molten mission will get close to one of the world's most active volcanoes. and in support barcelona fight back. details coming up with in about thirty minutes. austrians are today voting in a snap election that could see the far right freedom party enter a coalition government opinion polls have suggested the leader of that government is likely to be the thirty one year old sebastian cortes of the people's party he

has just cast his vote if he does become chancellor he'll be the youngest leader anywhere in the world earlier the incumbent christian current of the social democrats cast his ballot took over the party leadership and the chancellorship from his unpopular predecessor his party is expected to lose seats david chase is live for us in the capital vienna so david we've got a good idea i was going to go what does this say about how the country is moving. that's a good question i mean the whole debate in this election has really can i use the term coagulated around the issue of what they're calling illegal migration into austria and also worries about what they call islamization in austria so barely anything else has appeared in the in the run up to this election and had discussions about unemployment about tax increases or tax cuts about debt and

students none of that's really appeared and that is because that sebastian kurtz's realised that he was playing the the card of taking the clothes off the hard right and the and that the policies of heinz christian straka and putting them on those put in those clothes on himself and that's worked he's a overtaken the hard right there on a twenty six percent and sebastian kurtz is on something like thirty three percent so looks like he's almost a shoo in to the chancellorship that's what he's got his eye on he'll be the youngest leader in europe but it's been done at a cost and expense and what his former coalition partners say is a streak of ruthlessness by stealing these policies but i know i've been across the last a few rallies by the main party leaders here and gauging people's opinions about

how this whole election has gone. sebastian kurtz's called the austrian politics is wonderful to see at thirty one he may be short on years but he's long gone and vision of this t.v. broadcast with you people's party shows his eyes are set firmly on the chancellor ship. the polls put it well ahead but he's done it by poaching some of the policies of the far right. when he kind of does fish play here up to. 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 hines christian structure that could be drawn into a new right wing coalition with the young chancellor they draw their support from a working class eighty later by the waves of immigration into europe struck has

said his near nazi links and hughes 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 an islamic nation of our own homeland. i think something needs to change australia it's either very strong to left off 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 a new right wing coalition. this no i'm afraid to be living in a country where the women are suppressed because of the headscarf or what they are wearing their exteriors and i am afraid of that as i want to become a doctor. the most innocent muslims are mature voters in vienna and we do not feel vulnerable or less protected them before us through what 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'll no longer find natural allies in government here. i mean david clearly there is a move to a younger generation of politician we've got mr trudeau in canada we've got him on your mark or in france but thirty one is pretty young does he have the political back story apart from the issues that he's been talking about does he have that political hinterland to run a country say to run the economy. it's a good point again i mean he essentially got into politics just two years after leaving university what sort of experience of life is that but it is proved very effective on the foreign policy front and also much like a manual macro and sort of distorted mirror away he's taken hold of his party

called it a new people's party and has shown himself very very capable of reorganizing everything so that he's got this vote he had a very clear strategy he knew what his idea was he knew he had to move towards the hard right and will have to accommodate the hard right in a coalition government but he's so ambitious as i said in my package he's got a very clear idea of where he's going he's short on years but he can also bring in people who've got a lot of background a statesman if you like as a statesman like the freedom party leader is trying to show himself now trying to put that neo nazi past far behind him to try and take on the role of the foreign minister but this is really going to give a lot of trouble to angela merkel and to and to manual macro on their vision of what europe is going to be yet again we saw the the bundestag taken to

a large extent we saw the hard right get in there for the first time since the second world war and now here we are again yet again another problem for the european union for the macro and merkel alliance and their vision of a new of a new europe this is a hurdle for them the fact that their neighbor here in austria is going to be looking much towards the east towards poland and towards hungary and the troublesome twins of the european union and will not be an automatic supporter of the new visions and the new reforms which merkel and i want to bring in david thanks very much. women in indian administered kashmir are being targeted for having long hair but nobody knows who's doing it or why tanks are causing panic so out of character explained. the 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 masterson it's what you do you want 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. because 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 her braided hair had been sliced off so. 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 the dozen words i came outside and i saw two men approaching they spray something in my face then i don't remember anything but my hair was cut off thank you victims are

accusing the police of not doing enough to end these attacks and that's despite a ten thousand dollar reward to catch the culprits was 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 bank choppers but the police deny this and say widespread mass hysteria and panic is making the situation worse and needs to stop this and bring i would have patience. and emergency operations this is helping the movement of other sources from one place to another because you know everybody's been suspect is. god yeah so much so while the police have been arrested and wrongfully attacks they've come down hard on vigilantes some of whom have been violent they're taking matters into their own hands but it hasn't stopped local some patrolling the streets at night fair of being mistaken for a bright child 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 know that the. girls are so scared they won't go out they ask their mothers to accompany them to school they don't have a 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 saddle height as well jazzy at us. refugees in bangladesh now become overcrowded making it easy for families to get separated and for children to get lost more than half a million ranger have fled me and rakhine state since august after the army there began a crackdown mohammed germ jew met one refugee at the cook to prolong camp in cox's

bazaar who's now started a lost and found operation. swarmer there were come almost saying the time had come to try and make a difference. in one day in the morning i was going to work i saw one lady who was sitting in front of the gate and crying when i asked what happened she said my baby's been missing since last night and i can't find him after opening the office that day i was thinking about it and i was feeling very bad i was thinking how can i help it that was in late august just as the massive exodus of refugees fleeing violence in me and more was beginning since then more than five hundred thousand people have arrived in bangladesh. i'm. come all himself or hinder refugee who's lived here for years noticed that more and more families were getting separated in overcrowded camps so he set up a lost and found booth from behind this microphone at the could to prolong camp he makes announcements about unaccompanied children that have been brought to him as

well as individuals who have been reported missing by their relatives he says that there have been more than fourteen hundred people reported missing and estimates that more than seven hundred families have so far been reunited and. i have family too i have kids too if i lost my own kids then i would feel very bad so until i'm able to give the lost children back to their parents i remain distressed when i can return children to their parents then i feel a pace come on those the chances of children being found increases when people can continue to communicate with each other that's why he's also set up a charging station where refugees can charge their mobile phones for free come on i've been working as a security guard for an aid organization when he first got the idea for this initiative he used the money from his own savings to rent a microphone and start calling out the names of the missing and the lost now he is doing this full time. normal hamad was frantic when he couldn't find his two and

a half year old son. my people told me that i should go to the booth with a microphone where a person named kamaal will announce my baby's name i searched all over for my son and still couldn't find him when i was about half of the way to the booth i heard that they were announcing that they had found a child then when i arrived i found my son with kemal now reunited with his son mohammed tells us he's not just relieved but also extremely grateful to come out but for every happy parent we find there is a distraught one. if i knew where my baby was i would do anything to get him back. as she waits for news alongside her other son mohammed aziz al gore reaches desperation only deepens cum all is all too familiar with this kind of suffering it's why he sits in this booth despite the heat it's why he works from early in the morning until late at night finding children helping adults making

a difference one name at a time. at the could to prolong camp and cox's bizarre run of the ditch. at least forty people have been killed in wildfires across northern california more than ten thousand firefighters are trying to put out the worst outbreak in the state's history at least ninety thousand people have been forced to leave their homes and as many as six thousand houses have been destroyed since the fires began on sunday. this morning at three o'clock my daughter was in fact i and she came out and she can see the flames coming over the side of him so she told us to get out and leave then we had our train and went in so we came here to see you point we've got here about people making the film mogul harvey weinstein has been expelled from the body that's responsible for the oscars the academy of motion picture arts and sciences says more than two thirds of his board voted to reject him weinstein has been accused of rape and sexual harassment by more than two dozen

women and. 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 ask other questions about you know other members that have. different things in their personal lives like roman polanski like mel gibson like bill cosby none of them ever never came up but it did with harvey and there was tremendous pressure as his power in the movie business has grown weinstein has been surrounded by beautiful people but there's been a series of sexual harassment allegations against him recently and 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 that's never gotten to this point before and that house casting couch as it were are those kinds of things second. hey your has been going on as long as hollywood's been around quite frankly in its. dirty little secret in some cases some very open secret the great moguls of hollywood founders of. one way or another you just read the history of but this time it's a different time and for the academy to take notice like this proves that eighty one films linked to weinstein's company helped won an oscar those and many others have earned millions of dollars but he's been sacked from the company which bears

his name though no formal charges have been brought against him the hollywood star of harvey weinstein continues to fall rob matheson algis even. now in a moment we'll have the very latest weather with everton but also still ahead here on the news hour we'll tell you why security is being tightened as kyrgyzstan holds its presidential election. i think appalled and hong kong where gathering up people from around the world is braving your life at the fitting for dinner here plus it was quite the celebration in l.a. as the dog just took game one of the championship series opening details coming up later in the schools. by the sky nine information. or off the coast of the italian riviera.

threatening further flooding across central and northern parts of vietnam you can see the huge. cloud him moving through the south china sea heading towards vietnam this was the scene across the south of china in guangdong province recently where we have already seen huge amounts of rainfall the way out of this moment in time but some very very heavy rainfall waynes are actually packing up now sustained winds hundred sixty five from which is making it the equivalent of a category two hurricane simpson scale this may be with fairly quickly that around thirty one from this practice a gust of around two hundred kilometers per hour so we have the potential for damaging winds along with the flooding rains center the storm will make its way across lays you peninsula around about twelve hours time then will head its way down into central parts of vietnam i mean to see some huge rainfall is coming through as we go on through monday two hundred three hundred millimeters of rain

a possibility that will exacerbate the flooding that we already have in place here potentially some flooding into central parts of india over the next day or so but if this massive cloud moving through the by a goal much to see a tropical side developing over the next few days. the weather sponsored by the time race. and age old part of spanish culture no one can stop thinking about the bullies in my life others are excluded and a symbol of central government by one shouldn't carry on something that goes against the morals of comes along she said she is a from the catalan nationalist perspective the represents the banished culture minister in the catalonia fight this time on al-jazeera wild. when the news breaks. through actual break. though the street.

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restaurants a government spokesman has just told this program they are expecting the death toll to rise. i still appears to be on the verge of being pushed out of itself declared capital rocka in syria local officials say some myself fighters have been allowed to leave the city after a deal was brokered by tribal leaders on saturday prostrations of voting in a snap election that could see the far right freedom party enter a coalition government opinion polls have suggested the leader of that government is likely to be this man the thirty one year old sebastian cooks of the people's party. iran has close its border with northern iraq the kurdish region tension has been rising between the kurdish regional government and its neighbors iran and turkey after it held a referendum on secession last month iran is the second biggest trading partner of the kurdish region following turkey northern iraq where nice heavily on imports the kurdish regional government is also under increasing pressure from baghdad peshmerga forces have rejected

a warning from iraqi forces to withdraw from an area south of the disputed province of kirkuk charles stratford now reports from west of kirkuk two weeks ago these iraqi government forces were fighting eisel in this area now after their victory they are advancing towards kurdish peshmerga positions the vehicles you can see there in the distance are shia militia vehicles they have moved closer to that burnt to that wall in the last few minutes the dust you can see on the horizon there the peshmerga are telling us are actually tanks they say there are at 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 ice on and they didn't pay attention to us but

now i still have been beaten and they have moved towards our position here we will not withdraw we will defend this position to the last pitch america 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 meisel 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 foresee and 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 to be to go back to their

places to go back to where they say they will go either way he says 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 child strafford al jazeera west of kirkuk in northern iraq spain's catalonia region has held a ceremony to remember a former independence leader who was executed in one nine hundred forty council only as current president callus boogyman was at the service in barcelona he's under pressure from the government in madrid which has given him until monday to say whether he'll declare independence after last month's controversial referendum . voters in kyrgyzstan are heading to the polls in a presidential election there none of the candidates are expected to win outright with many analysts predicting a runoff between two former prime ministers security has been high because of previous political violence in the country kyrgyzstan's first two leaders since the

fall of the soviet union were removed from office after riots but the country has since restyled its parliamentary system and the outgoing president can't contest the poll on sunday. that's well known the ancient city of venice is sinking but it is also shrinking its fifty four thousand residents are steadily leaving complaining the city has been overrun by tourists fed up locals who want to stay hoping to change that with an anti tourist campaign is china angela. venice the timeless city that tourists seem to have little time for twenty million visit each year three quarters of them only stay for twenty four hours they follow the same routes see the same sights the impact is devastating fed up residents and leaving for ever one thousand each year for them house prices are astronomically high the crowds are unbearable italian city no longer caters for them they say here

to one ear who you call the fly and who can life will do now you can buy only bags. is if mccain would be easily led how is it possible to appreciate a city where ground zero citizens. shops only for curious. the craft are not working in their shops. residents are protesting against the visiting cruise ships that dwarf the city and damage the environment. is threatening to blacklist the world heritage site unless action is taken a campaign to enjoy and respect venice is under way police move on to us to sit on steps and encourage them to visit less popular attractions but there are no plans to reduce tourist numbers only we. we agree cruise ships shouldn't pass by sand marks but we need to keep five thousand jobs we are looking

into a different road regarding day trippers we are working on a possible experimental closure of sun miles square tourists would have to book a free visit to try and encourage the right type of visitor the city has also introduced by putting up these posters all over venice terrorists can be fined two hundred forty dollars for a picnic on a bridge like this one hundred twenty dollars for littering they can also be charged for holding too long which many of these birds would be guilty of generally being annoying. piano dream is one of few remaining artist making it steer the gondolas which helped make them famous so if they want a lot of challenges to show them the real venice not because we want to create a museum there because we think that this is the most intelligent way to visit here and the only way to keep the nancy alive. but hoping for tourists who go with the

flow is like venice battling against the tide charlie and al jazeera that is democracy in action in venezuela there's going to show you some live pictures coming to us out of caracas people waiting to cast their vote because the ballot boxes will be opened in about twenty minutes at eleven hours g.m.t. millions of venezuelans as part of their usual electoral cycle. electing twenty three new governors the leading opposition party that's well ahead in the polls but hasn't shied away from condemning a complete lack of what's being reported as a complete lack of impartiality and independence on the part of the national electoral council if the elections are fair and deemed to be transparent it will be the united socialist party loyal to the president that is predicted to pick up at least twenty of those governors jobs while the opposition is projected to win that majority of those jobs in regional elections the poll is being viewed as an indicator of just how much support the president nicolas maduro still does actually

enjoy the economy is flatlining pretty much pretty much it's deteriorating people face daily shortages of food and there is hyper inflation to raise a boat now reports from pataki where the government's been trying to gather support . it's one day before the elections in the refugee. for many one of the largest slums in the world located in the state of media and. government boxes of subsidized food i 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 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 they're known as flaps inside you can find some sugar or some past for something else two 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. hong kong is hosting people from all over the world with one thing in common they're all chakra

it is a minority group with franchise in east their language and culture is rapidly disappearing especially in hong kong as cantonese and mandarin become more dominant typical palin has a story. 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 full of which it would be a pity if it is gone seventy million hakka live worldwide but few speak the language that the parents of the world haka conference where english cantonese and mandarin are spoken to talk and 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 a chance to practice or hustling goal i have two old 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 and waved 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 fought was among the first batch to be educated in cantonese hearing the language for the first time of the school the new parts of how college to how kind and which you cannot speak. for you and that you believe a lot of the same course everything is the same as cannot just accept the spill 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 pollan al-jazeera hong kong still to come here on al-jazeera one of football's all time greats is closing in on the presidency of his country details in the sports news.

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just. at this time. one of the world's most active volcanoes is being opened up for adventurous hikers mind you to go go in the democratic republic of congo is home to the largest loven lake on the planet the area has been affected by conflict but slowly returning as malcolm webb found out with perched on the rim of the crater of mount you're going right which is just outside the eastern congolese city of goma and down there inside the crater is a lava lake he lost about it in two thousand and two and destroyed much of the city

of goma hasn't erupted since then well that access has been affected over the years by eastern congo as many conflicts but this area has been safe since about twenty fourteen after the government flushed out the rebel group known as m twenty three and since then so it's been coming up almost daily the popularity is growing yeah around yeah but people do want to walk out here and witness this extraordinary sight. so if you sports news is far peter thank you so much roger federer be world number one rafa nadal to win the shanghai masters and seal his fourth victory over the spaniard this year the swiss world number two brushed aside and down in straight sets six four six three in sunday's final to win his sixth title of the year federer beat nadal in the finals of the australian open that mean masters and the last sixteen at indian wells this season the thirty six year old is the only man that can still stop myself from ending the year as world number one maria

sharapova has won her first title since returning from a fifteen month long drugs ban the former world number one beat are now sub lanka in st sides in the final it's her thirty sixth title of her career and her first since may twenty fifth. luis suarez rescued a point for barcelona in their spanish league game against athletico madrid suarez's eighty second minute effort ensured is to maintain their unbeaten start to the season so only give score the opener for athletico before suarez's intervention the game finished one one as the bar soon dropped their first points of the season their five points clear at the top of the table christina rinaldo scored the winner for round madrid against top a rails and next match is on choose day when they play top in the champions league play or el bettas on sunday or match a city or two points clear of the top of the english premier league about's after thrashing stoke city seven to do with the leaders had more than eighty percent of

possession in this game and are still on beaten in the league this season i cannot deny today. the person seems right he is in for a long time so we played. more than. we said to actions and we have to learn about dads who in general make a really good performance from everybody nothing to mention a really good goal was. well you would complicated but we do very well. greek because we play simple. seven games in all taught them our third after one no win over bournemouth christian eriksen what the goal liverpool and manchester united played out a nail nail draw do and feel the champions chelsea suffered a huge upset losing to crystal palace for sure they would be very difficult for me to sleep. yet but that is never we

must have. the same since. me and my players in. the next game to change the. situation but german club berlin have been showing their support for protesting n.f.l. players are those team and coach took a knee before their game against the club said the gesture highlighted their belief in tolerance and responsibility one of the fiercest darby's in world football takes place later it's between inter milan and ac milan there is an added element to the rivalry now both sides have chinese owners ac's new owners have invested particularly have a lease splurging over two hundred million dollars on new players it's interval that go into the game second in syria seven points ahead. you know sincerely i don't think there's a seven points difference between us and into considering the values shown on the pitch and thinking of the future this is what i think and we have to show it to

ourselves and to our found on the pitch so we don't have to think about into but try and be maligned through our qualities. but when i joined we are looking at a very important dobby for both clubs an opportunity for rebirth considering the expectations and the results of recent years one of the most iconic footballers of the ninety's george way is closing in on the presidency of his country liberia partial elections results were released on saturday and show where to be ahead a presidential runoff next month against vice president joseph looks likely way a won the ballon d'or in one thousand nine hundred five you also went to skid out i was with ac milan has been serving in the liberian senate since two thousand and fourteen for the opposition. and major league baseball the l.a. dodgers beat defending world series champions the chicago cubs in their playoff opener yes a plague start on the night for the dodgers scoring an ivy i double and a home run l.a.

went on to beat chicago five to two the dodgers are now three wins away from their first world series appearance in twenty nine years the cubs will have the chance to level their national league series on sunday and game two still in l.a. . i think that the season we had versus season they had last year i think that you can parallel those two in the confidence that we have in our group and they had in their group last year so i think there are some similarities but i really can't speak to them i just know that this year we're very focused group very confident group and we know we have a lot of work to do and we'll be ready for more night. and over in houston the asters beat the new york yankees to take it to nothing lead in their american league championship series justin verlander pitched another cellar game for the astros striking out thirteen allowing only five heads carlos korea had a solo home run houston winning two to one against new york three at yankee stadium

on monday and that's all your sport for now will have more later but pronounced back to you peter we'll see then thanks very much last more news for you on the web site al jazeera dot com is the address you need alternatively to check out your smart phone the death toll from mogadishu truck bomb rises to eighty five that's our top story more on that story with adrian and a couple of minutes also you know that later on today.

right. until now the coverage of latin america and most of the world was about covering khuda taz tragedies of quakes and that was it but not wow couple feel how they look how they think and that's what we do we go anyway five and a half months of demanding a good education system that was introduced to. latin america as euro has come to fill a void that needed to be filled. from the shawnees of the red sea storage of clean water act the global problem and home management of the

major battles but in georgia this team of the muppet is changing out to the pics of the himalayas where water conservation looks like this. solutions to save the world's most precious resource and the next episode of rights we look at what is being done to stop what's prices. at this time of al-jazeera. three days of national mourning after a bombing in somalia's capital that killed at least eighty five people.