taken without hesitation. fortan died for. our defines our. people and our investigate exposes and question the use and abuse of power around the globe. at this time on al-jazeera. china is holding what appears to be its most significant communist party congress in decades with president xi jinping keen to consolidate his power but what does that mean for this country and indeed the rest of the world join me adrian brown for live coverage and analysis here on our visit . my good issue in mourning the death toll after a massive bomb attack in somalia is reported to have risen above two hundred.

hello there i'm julie macdonald this is sounds easier live from london also coming up sebastian court says projected to become the world's youngest leader after victory in australia's general election. kenya's opposition made to stages a mass rally urging his supporters to boycott the presidential election. on a surprise first prime victory encourage astounds presidential contests. a very warm welcome to the program a massive bomb attack in the center of somalia's capital on saturday is now reported to have killed more than two hundred people hundreds of people have been protesting on the streets of mogadishu voicing their anger at what happened it was

the most powerful bomb blast to ever hit the city which suffers regular attacks a residential district was also hit by a smaller car bomb somali as it declares three days of national mourning. well it's still not clear who carried out the bombing a senior al shabaab members denied responsibility catherine sawyer reports from i will be in neighboring kenya. when people in somalia's capital mogadishu are trying to come to terms with one of the worst car bomb attacks ever a truck bomb exploded outside a hotel at an intersection lined with government offices restaurants and shops hours later a second blast struck another business district in the city most of the buildings in those areas have been destroyed the still being pulled out of the rubble president mohamed up to live from a jew visited the scene his government has declared three days of mourning and you know. the target of these terrorist is not government officials but civilians as

you see here there are no government buildings only civilians who are going about their daily life we have to come together and fight these monsters until we eradicate them from our country and speak into our desire the united nations deputy special envoy to somalia say despite such attacks the security situation around the country has improved a great efforts have been made by the government to particularly secure city but also other areas in in the country but nevertheless when one is desperate enough to get through these kind of things do happen and we've seen it yet again into mali unfortunately doctors are doing their best with limited resources to deal with the many people who have been injured dozens are in critical condition several have lost limbs so. what happened yesterday was incredible i have never seen such a thing before and the death toll is uncountable corpses were burned and no one

could recognize them. attacks on soft targets like markets and restaurants have become common in somalia and what sets this one apart is just how large it was and the devastation it has caused right now people are in shock hospital supplies like blood are i did he needed many are wondering how someone was able to drive a year called packed with explosives into the heart of the city catherine. aerobic kenya. the latest projections in austria put thirty one year old sebastian curse on course to become the youngest leader in the world the figures based on the can so far show his conservative people's party in the lead with thirty one point five percent the social democrat party the other partner in the outgoing coalition looks set for third place but is not projected to come second on around twenty seven percent that put signs question struck so far right freedom party in third place on twenty six percent but he manned up forming

a coalition with corus who still some of the standby to talking tough on immigration will cost has declared victory and says he will fight for a new style of politics in austria berryman on. today the very two men and women in this country gave us a great mandate we must be aware of this opportunity women and men are putting their hopes into this movement we will use all our strength and all of our fight to bring about change in this country i invite you to go on this path with us there is much to do to establish a new style new culture of politics in this country. well the leader of the far right freedom party heinz christian struck says the results show all strings do want change. is it over to all of us this is the middle east peoples are the first this is important to wait for the official results or not to start speculating about coalitions but one thing i can tell you the freedom party remains true to themselves and to austrians and therefore it is crucial to introduce the direct

democracy of switzerland here so let's get more now from david chase who's at the people's party headquarters in vienna hi there david so another meteoric rise in international politics. yes julie is that in fact a victory for the thirty one year old chancellor in waiting sebastien kurtz he only started what he calls his movement the new people's party back in may when he started breaking up the grand coalition and many people the time said that he didn't really have much of a chance of reaching the the chances position that it was a steep mountain to climb and he wasn't capable of it well he's proved them wrong he's also proved that the populous right wing the movement in europe still continues another in phatic victory for them if you like especially after what we saw in the german elections when for the first time the hard right got into the

bundestag so a repeat if you like or rather an emphasis a reemphasis that this turbulence these popular movements will still continue to swirl around the european union and continue to cause trouble for the ambitions of chancellor angela merkel and the french president. to try and reform revive and reinvigorate the european union we don't know yet exactly because the account is still going on but it's very clear that the new people's party will remain in the lead whether it be the other parties which position they come to second or third doesn't really matter because it's very clear from the statements made by by curt's that he is sitting in the same camp as the hard right and that will be the coalition that will probably emerge over the next week julie and david what about

politics more generally in austria walks kind of change are we going to see it was a result of what's happened today. but i think the most disturbing thing for the muslim community here which is. essentially been well integrated that many statements were made with this sort of islamophobia card was waved by both the extreme right and the center right of curses new movement and so we might see policies like. the immigration issue that they'll be no more integrations i'll put up the borders and the fences they'll refutes the quota system from brussels they'll join hungry in poland as a troublesome trio if you like from the physical movement also there's been many statements made about parallel societies being developed because of the private muslim kindergartens here in austria which they say were

a breeding ground for radicalism and they created parallel societies that will change that perhaps they'll bring in new laws to enforce and mandate the teaching of austrian to those children at kindergarten age also one of the other policies was mentioned we might see coming out very quickly if the coalition goes ahead is the fact that when refugees do come in here they'll have to be five year period before they actually get the full social benefits because. both parties both the center right and hard right were saying they've got to start paying into a system before they get the benefits out that is a big change in attitudes here and it might make the muslim community feel very very vulnerable so on that front alone we can expect to see some turbulent times ahead but it's exactly it's a very very it's a very very different australia that's now emerged and an emphatic turn to the

right surely it's david chase there live for the latest from the end of david. the final assault has begun to root out i still find it is still holed up in pockets of the northern syrian city of raka u.s. backed syrian forces say almost all civilians and about two hundred seventy five eisel fighters have left under a deal that was brokered by tribal leaders on saturday between two and three hundred mostly foreign fighters are still inside the city. meanwhile syrian government forces have retaken the town of my adin in eastern syria after intense fighting with dying still this is a major gain in the race for territories previously held by the arm groups over the past months may have been had become a refuge for eisel fighters from syria and iraq as it self-proclaimed caliphate crumbled syrian army units are now in control of several strategic roads leading to ice will control neighborhoods within their store province. this update from on

talk in turkey the tape and some. fighting in iraq is confined to a few areas in the center of the city the s.d.f. which is a coalition of kurdish and out of fighters backed by the united states of america the shelling those areas with the hope to try to evict eyes of fighters from from their vision and a town to back to buy time for a deal backed by tribes in iraq how to convince ourselves fighters to work with draw but that didn't work some of the foreign fighters insist that they would like to stay and fight to the death but this is why the significant development here the sense that i said is losing ground is losing their self-proclaimed capital in iraq they're pulling out but also in their roles or this suffering some major setbacks the loss the city of. pulling of towards areas on the border with iraq in two thousand and fourteen or fifteen was hoping to use iraq as

a platform to expand further towards it live. and let. that narrative is now being with. iraq's kurdish leadership is rejected baghdad's demand that it cancels the outcome of last month's secession referendum as a precondition for talks to resolve the dispute iraq president ford must and iraqi kurdish president must have barzani have met in salumi to discuss the recent military standoff between their forces in the disputed city of kirkuk oil which cookbook is claimed by both governments tensions have risen since the kurdish the session vote on september twenty fifth by dad sees as illegal. a rebel former governor of aden who is leading a movement for southern yemen secession had said a referendum would be announced soon. baby set out his secessionist plans to thousands of supporters gathered in saturday's yemen's main southern city they were marking fifty four years since the two over nine hundred sixty three uprising

against the british so a baby was previously declared a can so or has previously declared a cancel the one south yemen to secede from the north south yemen was previously an independent state from one nine hundred sixty seven to one nine hundred ninety when a large to with the north. still to come. in the general elections which could hand the opposition another victory over president maduro plus. i'm in california in a moment i'll explain why the government is looking at smacking something my size into something that size to save the earth. hello and welcome to international weather forecast now we've got some quite interesting weather across europe many central southern areas looking at really

woman moment temperatures way above what they should be for the middle part of october meanwhile out across western parts of the british isles we have an extremely deep area of low pressure which is incorporated the remnants of hurricane ophelia within it this storm is going across on and with wind potentials of up to two hundred kilometers per hour in terms of gusts come tuesday though you see is gone because this shot away up towards parts of scandinavia so other states the warm air is still very much in place we get a lot of dust coming up from the sahara at the moment so some sets could be quite interesting across parts of france towards a more central areas dust is showing up as a sunset so watch out for that otherwise cool conditions still for more eastern parts here twelve as a high in moscow north africa but wanted to showers coming in from the gulf towards the coast of libya otherwise fine conditions further east inkaar with temperatures topping out at thirty for central parts of africa we have a fair few showers around cameroon and towards the gulf of guinea region leiber

avila looks to be wet at times and across parts of it west africa still some showers likely here for the north into mali should be largely dry and bamako of thirty six. in recent years the sawhill of north africa has witnessed the so-called war on terror. but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara at this time on al-jazeera.

quick mind at the top stories here on al-jazeera the death toll from the powerful truck and car bombs that exploded in the somali capital mogadishu on saturday is reported to have jumped to two hundred the government has declared three days of mourning. conservative leader sebastian curse has claimed victory in austria as a general election the latest projections for the thirty one year old politicians people's party in the lead with thirty one point five percent of the vote. u.s. backed syrian forces say almost all civilians and about two hundred seventy five isis fighters have left the northern syrian city of raka under a deal brokered by tribal leaders on saturday. voting is underway in venezuela as all twenty three states elect new governess the regional vote is the first since a new super body was created by president nicolas maduro that has powers to

overrule opposition m.p.'s and amend the constitution polls of the opposition of course to win many of the state votes reasonable has the latest now from the city of tire in the east of the capital caracas. for here in a polling station in baghdad if your fellow neighbors out of about three million people seven thousand of them i'm expecting to come here to vote we've been told that turnout has been pretty low here compared to previous elections where you could feed long lines of people coming here and it's mostly affect the opposition because many are different chanted after months and months of violent protests that they were not able to achieve what they were expecting which was presidential elections and national presidential elections even if we're not happy and struggling with the political and economic crisis with shortages of of many fans among other things. i'm a single mother i have three children and my daughter can't find work we have to find a solution and to find

a solution to venezuela's problem. in the last election that happened here in venezuela last july smartmatic the company in charge of the electronic voting system denounced that the turnout had been many appreciated by the government but the opposition is convinced the baby able to control this because before we quitted the previous election and their money tours were not pressured well that's not the situation this sunday their monitors from the opposition press and in the base of voting center and that is what makes a big big difference this election for the government is a way of seeing whether their support base continue to be strong things which are just took office the governorship where the bastions of chevy's most of the socialist party and if they lose in some crucial areas this will certainly show that the economic crisis has in a way affected the popularity of the president and off a party for the opposition however this is a way of showing up their strength on the streets during the protests is also happening in the violence and it's definitely

a preview for the presidential elections that could happen next year. the egyptian army says it spoiled an attack in northern sinai killing twenty four members of an armed group six egyptian soldiers also died in an attempted assault by the group on a checkpoint in the why this area near the city of gyptian security forces say they're carrying out a sweep of the location u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has denied accusations this was the president trumps threat to tehran the iran nuclear deal had weakened america's chance of reigning in north korea now to listen has vowed that efforts to contain its nuclear and ballistic missile drive through diplomacy would continue quote until the first bomb drops on the she have returned to reports several members of the trumpet ministration have appeared on us t.v. on sunday to defend the white house's position. u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley brushed off european criticism of the trumpet ministrations unilateral approach to what is

a multilateral nuclear deal with iran specifically the german foreign minister is warning that should the u.s. withdraw the danger of war would return iran is not right now saying death to germany they're saying death to america and when you look at the ballistic missile testing when you look at all that they're done with arms sales and things like that they are not proportionate to what the concessions that we gave she also addressed reports of divisions in the trumpet illustration on iran notably between herself and secretary of state rex tillerson some have even suggested haley could soon replace tillerson that's so dramatic that that's so ridiculous no i think what you have is sometimes secretary tell us and i have different opinions but when we come into the n.s.a. everybody has different opinions also doing the rounds of the u.s. and they talk shows the israeli prime minister if they want to save the deal then the european allies should start working with their the united states to actually correct its deficiencies and there are many they have to they're very clear and

they have to be changed and it's an opportunity that president trump has created for them to fix this very bad deal i'm donald trump's national security adviser argued the president's position was already having an effect in europe they already are revisiting the terms of the deal on the implementation of the deal and our european allies the three they're called france germany and the u.k. are supporting much more rigorous enforcement of the j c.p.o. and monitoring however it was iran's foreign minister also interviewed on u.s. network t.v. whose position seemed closer to the other signatories to the deal except the u.s. this is not a bilateral treaty between you know on and. you know the united states is a permanent member of the security council. and if it's not going to oppose a resolution that not only go to court but it sponsors. then the credibility of the institution that the united states considers to be very important would be actually

it will now be up to the u.s. congress to balance what is a reef called domestic politicking and the u.s. is international strategic interest she able to answer al-jazeera washington preliminary results in kurdistan's presidential elections show a surprise first time victory for the former price prime minister so when l.b.j. in because of that he trailed a young and charismatic oil tycoon for much of the electoral campaign stands out going president has pledged a peaceful democratic transition a first for the central asian region open for us a walk reports now from bishkek this presidential election has been a test for democracy not just for kyrgyzstan but for a region typically governed by strong men who cling to power. though it is used in electronic voting system designed to eliminate fraud and had a genuine choice eleven candidates with two front runners. but panel of

a charismatic oligarch promised to kickstart a chronically ill of recent economy. we will have the name of a new president and this name will be bob another pseudonym by jean b. ack of the incumbent presidents chosen candidate promised continuity today i voted for consistency in power for the development of our country for the future of our country. incumbent president almas back at him by a wants to be remembered as a leader who delivered the democratic first in the region a peaceful legitimate handover of power. that legacy however risks being undermined by the jailing of political opponents using state bureaucracy to influence the outcome of the election and attacks against the media this election boils down to new power versus old power between

a man who has spent millions of dollars of his own money on this campaign against an outgoing president term means to make sure his chosen successor and his office. early results indicate a first round jen the echo when that was unexpected groups of volunteers on sunday night pledged to keep the peace contested results not so long ago have led to revolutions democracy on kyrgyzstan is fragile and first you will carry out this era. liberia is heading for a run awful in the presidential election form a footballer george way and vice president joseph will cry for best in the second land after both failed to win more than half of the vote but almost all of the votes counted way took a thirty nine percent twenty nine point one percent appears economy strong rapidly in the last decade and many complained of poor public services and corruption.

kenya's opposition leader raul a dingo has held a rally in the city of mombasa where his urged his supporters to boycott the presidential election follows days of violent protests despite a government ban to protest his were killed during clashes with police on friday as anger over an increasingly uncertain rerun shadow to take place later it's gone from me to miller was at that rally in mombasa. opposition leader raila odinga maintains that should there be no reforms to the electoral commission and the way in which it conducts the poll then they won't be any elections at all a dingo withdrew from the upcoming rerun that's due to take place on october twenty sixth he says that he doesn't believe the rerun would be free and fair and there wouldn't be any quid equality thousands of the supporters who gathered at a rally in mumbai agree with the sentiments saying that they don't trust the

electoral commission the i.d.c. says that it's ready for elections in about ten days' time it says that it's retrain some of its officials it's trying to deal with some of the issues that the supreme court doubts were in its judgement when it's an old the august eighth election elections president who can artist says that he's ready to participate in these elections in fact do you believe party says that it's sure it will get even more than the fifty four percent of votes it got in august before the time being there is a lot of confusion following or doing those withdrawal that is uncertainty around if indeed the election will take place is basing his withdrawal and the call for fresh elections on a supreme court ruling from a twenty thirty in his party says that there should be fresh elections and that the rerun in ten days time should be abandoned. me and mars held a ceremony so are two years since the signing of

a cease fire are the several on goods eight a very unwise twenty one ethnic armed group signed up to the peace. accord in twenty fifteen but many didn't participate including where. the most you crack down on the ranger has prompted accusations of ethnic cleansing against me in my eyes on me more than half a million have fled across the border and into bangladesh since the end of august fire officials in california say they've turned a corner with several of the wild far as they were battling which have killed at least forty people thousands of firefighters are working with special aircraft to tackle sixteen major blazes in areas north of san francisco one hundred thousand people have been displaced and five and a half thousand homes and buildings have been destroyed high winds are forcing further evacuations. here today state of california from january to last sunday had burned approximate two hundred forty three thousand acres from sunday to today two hundred fourteen thousand acres have burned statewide in sixteen major fires that's

a pretty stunning figure that the fact that we burned almost as much in a week that we burned all year long so it's a it's a fire season in a week earlier this month an asteroid the size of a high was passed close to earth every day our planet's bombarded with more than one hundred tons of particles of dust and sun nasa studies also show that about once a year a car sized asteroid hits our atmosphere and scientists are working on a plan to try to push potentially deadly spacewalks off course jake aboard explains . space is not empty it's full of objects most of the ones that smack into earth are tiny and they burn up in our atmosphere but even small asteroids that get through have had devastating effects you may remember there was an impact over siberia three or four years ago that was caused by something that was only twenty meters in size or so in fact

a private foundation is begin raising money to build a satellite the sentinel that can track smaller so called city killer asteroids these hit the earth about every hundred to two hundred years. so flip a coin that's the odds that somewhere on earth during your lifetime it's going to happen again nasa even has a department called planetary defense no really that's its name and the agency tracks asteroids larger than a kilometer across those big enough to end human civilization now the agency has greenlit the next phase of the dart project which will try to push a nearby asteroid called did a most b. off course the asteroid they were talking about is about the same size as the ship you see behind me just shy of two hundred meters long and i am roughly the same size as the projectile they're going to smack into it now in this context that seems ridiculous right i mean for me to just kick as hard as i can is going to have

no effect at all on this ship but in the vast openness of space and the slippery in this of a vacuum smacking me into the bad at something like three times the speed of a bullet well you get the effect you want basically it would be using a spacecraft to ram the incoming object and change its orbit so it would not hit. so this this would be kind of a dress rehearsal for a first show we hope never to stage the test will take place in twenty twenty two here's hoping we won't need to knock anything off course in the mean time take aboard al-jazeera san francisco. from much more about the stories we're following on our website the address for that is w w w dot. dot com.

mind of our main headline some ali has declared three days of national mourning after saturday's bomb attack in central mogadishu the death toll from the powerful truck and car bomb is reported to have risen to more than two hundred hundreds more people were injured in the blast which hit the center of mogadishu and a residential district. what happened yesterday was incredible i have never seen such a thing before and the death toll is uncountable corpses were burned and no one could recognize them conservatively to sebastian curtis has claimed victory in austria general election has projections but the thirty one year old politician's people's party in the lead with r.'s one point five percent of the vote social democrats on the far right freedom party are fighting it out for second place. the larry men don't belong there and today the very two men and women in this country gave us a great mandate we must be aware of this opportunity women and men are putting their hopes into this movement we will use all our strength and all of our fight to

bring about change in this country i invite you to go on this path with us there is much to do to establish a new style new culture of politics in this country. the final assault has begun to reset eisel fights are still holed up in pockets of northern syrian city of iraq u.s. backed syrian forces say almost all civilians and about two hundred seventy five i still fighters have left iraq under a deal that was brokered by tribal leaders to take. iraq's kurdish leadership has rejected baghdad's demand that it cancels the outcome of last month's secession referendum as a precondition for talks to resolve the dispute iraqi president ford mussulmen iraqi kurdish president massoud barzani met to discuss the military standoff between their forces in the disputed city of kirk. voting is underway in venezuela as all twenty three states elect a new governor as the original vote is the first since a new super body was created by president nicolas maduro that has powers to

overrule opposition m.p.'s and amend the constitution. kenya's opposition leader raul a dingo has called on his supporters to continue protests despite a government ban on demonstrations it was addressing a rally in a moment and we want to all this and all the election set for the twenty six top al jazeera is next. you. see. the stages now he promised himself to get for the fewest countries apartheid system

and its nuclear weapons program. those were the two.