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a low and welcome to this al-jazeera news i live for and i'm not seen dead is coming up in the next sixty minutes i solicit driven from a syrian stronghold of russia a battle is won but the war is far from over. after retaking kirkuk iraq's prime minister office dialogue with the kurds but says their bid for independence is over . cementing his authority china's president is due to deliver his outlook for the next five years at the communist party congress. plus millions of women take to social media to protest against sexual harassment but do such campaigns hope to stop crying. but we saw in syria where the u.s. backed opposition forces have now driven i. out of it self declared capital kurdish

led syrian democratic forces raise their flag in the city stadium after a four month battle from the had on the turkey syria border. kurdish fighters triumphantly into iraq they're celebrating the capture of the city which was i saw a main stronghold in syria but take in iraq wasn't easy. the syrian democratic forces a coalition of kurds and arabs backed by the u.s. began their pensive in june i said fighters held ground for five months but the armed groups defense lines were eventually broken by a continual wave of strikes and shelling. we control rocket but as you know there are mines that we need to clear and we have to make sure there are no us

who fighters hiding in tunnels we are now clearing all the areas we captured civilians continue to flee to save areas this is a family that has just a refugee camp controlled by the. tens of thousands of people have been affected by the fighting they mostly live in poorly equipped camps north of the city. i heard the news of a ceasefire and took my family but then we came under fire the journey was tough because we had to walk through entire areas reduced to rubble now that iraq is under their control fighters got the order to move south towards daters or i sells last area of control in syria and advance that is likely to put the kurds on a collision course with the syrian army which is also launching an offensive from the southwest to capture the oil rich province the two. house recently been

competing to expand military gains in iraq and. the capture of rocket is a major setback for ice which is now trying to hold ground in a vast desert area on the border with iraq by losing fertile lands and all fields the group finds itself deprived of crucial financial means it has perfectly needs of this critical moment and it was hoping to use syria and iraq as a starting point for its self declared islamic state. where the retaking over leaves i saw without a major urban stronghold in syria while i saw linked fighters remain present in pockets throughout the country is in full control of just one bit of eastern syria the countryside outside the contested city there as you're much of the north is in the hands of u.s. backed kurdish fighters they are seeking to establish an independent region central

and western syria is disputed pro-government forces control laws ways of country while opposition groups possess large parts of it live province areas of damascus and parts of the countryside in derive in the south in recent weeks a turkish military operation has begun along the border with live province turkish leaders say it's designed to push out several thousand remaining i saw linked fighters but kurdish groups in the region have welcomed them in for the u.s. played a key role in the removal of us all from iraq or with president trump claiming credit for changing the attitude of the military but exactly what role the u.s. will take in the rebuilding of syria and iraq is still unclear here's our state department correspondent roslyn jordan. four months of ammunition airstrikes and bloodshed. the payoff isis so-called capital of raka is practically in the control of syrian arab and kurdish fighters with a healthy assist from the u.s.

led military coalition there still is fighting left there but there is also training that continues with iraq internal security force some of that training also includes you know very very aptly the counter i.e.d. training which is allowing them to help remove some of these explosive remnants of war u.s. president donald trump quickly claimed credit for the success of the campaign saying his guidance quote has totally changed the attitudes of the military i totally changed our military i totally change the attitudes of the military and they have done a fantastic isis is now giving up it seems that winning the war against ice will be turned out to be the easy part the obama administration would only support those syrian opposition fighters who were willing to fight i sold not take on the assad government and in iraq they were dealing with kurds who felt that they should get

an independent state in exchange for taking up arms against the group now it's up to the trouble administration to figure out how or whether it should be involved in shaping the peace in both countries the u.s. has said before it's not in the business of nation building a point the state department spokesperson repeated on tuesday is to restore basic services that is our plan it's not the sort of the nation building that the u.s. government previously engaged in in other countries right now we see our role as getting the basics up and running and then eventually turning it over to some to other countries and to that host country if you will a long time u.s. diplomat says the trumpet ministration has both the will and the diplomatic and economic tools to help iraqis and. syrians rebuild their countries but james jeffrey questions whether the white house will seize the moment as long as there is one isis jihadi fighters out there there will be

a temptation to say let's continue doing what works rather than get into this very complicated other stuff where we don't have guidance from above and therefore as a same group of people are working on all of these things you tend to go with what's working doing the easy thing at a time when iraqis and syrians may be expecting the u.s. and its allies to help them do the harder thing returned their countries to being viable states rosalyn jordan al-jazeera at the state department now kurdish forces of relinquish more territory in northern iraq a day after government treats took the city of kirkuk the iraqi prime minister hyder out of body says the kurdish referendum on secession is now a thing of the pasta and he's calling for dialogue to tell shafiq has more from. iraqi government troops and shia militia on the outskirts of kill cook less than twenty four hours off the kurdish peshmerga forces withdrew from the oil rich city no one predicted the ease and speed with which iraqi government forces could take

control of the oil fields and most of the remaining towns in the disputed areas of northern iraq peshmerga forces withdrew in some areas without even firing a shot the iraqi prime minister says they know orders from bill so i want to help what they went against your instruction and didn't cancel market forces please exists as i listen many people who had fled kirkuk the day before began to return the lights and now we don't know anything yet we're about to enter but we don't know sipho not where else can i go i don't know where to go it's better to go back we're going back to our house and i think it was. some arab residents in this ethnically diverse region celebrated the arrival of iraqi government forces. and. now all of kirkuk is retaken and we are happy some of the peshmerga killed in the

sporadic fighting which taken to a morgue in the kurdish region second city so many the regional government hasn't released figures yet on how many peshmerga killed the letter and this is to let you know since last night we received twenty five corpses of troops killed in battles of coke and its suburbs relatives of those killed in battles received twenty one corpses so far the bereaved relatives are gathering at the morgue to receive dead bodies of their sons you know bill many people say they are shocked and feel betrayed accusing the international community of siding with the iraqi government against them. it looks like there was an international betrayal of the kurdish nation and that is due to the fact that we had a plan to move towards. independence unfortunately we are facing a situation where we lost everything that we had before all this loss is a result of the fact that the kurdish nation is not united evidence of factionalism and rivalry between kurdish groups and political parties is growing in

a statement released by the k r g president and head of the k d p party massud barzani said the withdrawal of peshmerga was because of the lateral decisions made by some officials the peshmerga general command is blaming this incredibly quick withdrawal of peshmerga fighters from these territories as being as a result of what it describes as historical treason by some senior members of the p u k party one former senior aide to the p k has called for a transitional government and says more constructive channels of dialogue should be set up with baghdad after the iraqi army has taken so much control of territory that the k r g was hopeful would be part of a future independent kurdish state president barzani is facing one of the biggest political crises of his life stuff at al-jazeera north of erbil afghanistan's deputy interior minister says at least seventy one people have been

killed in a series of attacks carried out by the taliban forty one died more than one hundred fifty were injured in a suicide bombing and gun battle at a police training center impact here province and at least thirty others have been killed in car bombings in neighboring province. seven people have been killed in a coal mine collapse in southeastern turkey the country's energy minister says the mine in sinak province didn't have a valid operating license in twenty thirteen the government banned mining in sinak due to safety risks rescue teams are trying to reach a miner who's still thought to be trapped inside. rescue operations continue in somalia's capital for those still missing after the worst bomb attack in the country's history well the three hundred people were killed in saturday's attack somalia's president has told. that his country cannot fight on it and has

appealed for international help mohammed reports. a huge crater the point where the explosion happened rubble from collapsed buildings . the shells of vehicles skated around the blast. these images should be familiar to the people of somalia in conflict since the one nine hundred ninety s. yet saturday's attack one of the most lethal anywhere in the world for years. the way we have never seen anything like this this was a massacre of the weakest and poorest within our society. students were returning from school and the. this changes mogadishu for ever. been hit by bombings and listened to you. have been. here the suicide bomber chose the cities the rush hour on one of its busiest streets today the bomb rescue workers are still

searching the rubble for bodies some they say. there's been no official claim of responsibility for the blast. somali president mohamed up to life. in doubt it's the fight. i thought they would claim but maybe they feared a. huge. responsibility to be claimed. but this is their fingerprint this is what they have done. strongholds are concentrated largely in southern somalia with significant presence in many little. somali troops and african union peacekeepers have been steadily taking back to the from al shabaab in recent years but the loss of territory has not been enough to stop the fighters from cutting out there being a tox the president has this warning for the international community if they

succeed here there are easier to. promote their. crazy ideology their political ideology to the youth. in the united states and in europe. the difficult search for bodies and survivors under the rubble continues investigators are seeking to establish the source of the military grade explosives . used in the talk another focus of the investigation officials say is whether help from within the security forces mohammed at all just. we've got a lot more to come on this hour including the philippine president declares victory against fighters in the. anger of the murder of a high profile. and high tea with paris france council. meant

with. the civil war in yemen has been going on now for more than two years and the u.n. says more than eight thousand people have been killed and almost fifty thousand have been injured twenty fifteen percent of the population is now in need of humanitarian assistance the country is facing a severe food shortage and a cholera outbreak in schools more than two thousand. the middle east director of the international committee of the red cross. yeah i think behind the set is six lies human tragedies and i think today the humanitarian situation is nothing short of catastrophic and every aspect of life is being affected by this

conflict you want to find any yemeni family who hasn't been affected by this conflict and imagine a country that relies on everything it needs from abroad has restriction on imports only thirty percent of medicines are reaching yemen today. there has been one hundred sixty health facilities directed targeted or attacked since the beginning of the conflict and today only forty five percent of health facilities and hospitals are running today people are not only dying because of airstrikes ground fighting they are also dying because of preventable and treatable diseases cholera is a case in point it is the most massive health crisis in modern times of a preventable disease. and you have the food crisis you have the fifteen million yemeni today affected by this food crisis seven million don't know where their next meal meal is coming from it is

a conflict that is fragmented there are dozens if not hundreds of different armed groups operating in yemen and humanitarian aid is prone to political negotiations and is being politicized so you need to negotiate everything things that you shouldn't be negotiating in the first place as getting food to the people in need getting water and sanitation services getting. in to health centers so that people want died from bad beat is for instance all this is a struggle and i think today yemenis are suffering and are paying the highest cost of this conflict and i think all parties of the two the conflict have contributed to this catastrophic situation. the philippine president has declared the southern city of malawi liberated after a five month battle against iceland fighters and. reports the threat of volunteer extremism remains not just him but all across. and people

about the future. to signal the end of a month long military operation to take back full control of. an i saw inspired group called the mouth had taken parts of the southern philippines city earlier this year even though the military admits there are still pockets of resistance. i started with the mountain armed group raised its black flag over several government buildings last may now to fighters wanted to set up an islamic state in the mindanao region. but. the significance is not lost today we have been. liberated over

a thousand people have died more than a hundred perished in the battle. for more than four months. for the soldiers this celebration is bittersweet. in. our brothers whom we lost in the fighting especially our marine soldiers who died trying to take the bridge of that's where we incurred so many casualties. that. have been the work that we can finally go back home and be in our families again i am happy that we. this was a difficult mission the damage caused by the fighting is unprecedented even for a region long held back by poverty and armed rebellion. relentless airstrikes ferocious gun battles and displacement of hundreds of thousands of

civilians have turned matter we city into a desolate place this week to malta leaders were killed in a military operation the group's plans of setting up an iso inspired islamic state in mindanao have been shattered but in the region with many conflicts groups like them out to do not remain without a leader for long the government admits it made mistakes and says it will go after local leaders who supported them out a group president that there has promised to rebuild but are we city people here say they're grateful that they are now free from their mouth is tyranny. but they say they would like to know what freedom means to those now more fearful of an uncertain future. dog and al jazeera we see at the southern philippines. the u.n. says the number of rohingya refugees who fled violence in me

a mob has now risen to five hundred and eighty two thousand and it's released during video to highlight the scale of this mass exodus of range of people to bangladesh they're escaping a military crackdown in rakhine state their progress has been made in the latest round of you and me amal talks on access for aid workers and the safe return of or hinder to their homes from the child really has more now from cox's bazaar close to the bangladeshi border with. the u.n. a.t.r. aerial footage shows a large number of refugees on the other side of bother trying to cross into bangladesh now this is corroborated by our soldiers on the other side as well as bangladesh border god on monday at least fifteen ten to fifteen thousand refugees crossed over into bangladesh and shop where they bury and along another land boundary area influx is continuous maybe not in staggering numbers sometimes but on

average two to four thousand people crosses into bangladesh the fibrillation on the other side in myanmar is still very active and volatile what we hear from the refugees talking to them families and other members is that they are very scared to get out of the house that is no food all the food shops are closed there's no aid agency distributing any kind of food specially in western russia there are all kinds state rather and they're trying to cross into buying that there's this take shelter in quite a steady hour filtered island in the not very bar and wait for the optimum moment to cross into bangladesh on the other side the bank of this government is not planning to set up a huge refugee camp which is supposed to accommodate up to eight hundred thousand people that is a staggering number of people in one refugee camp how they're going to manage this is a question yet to be seen this is a larger than the population of washington d.c. city one reason the government is trying to do that is that on one the royal left with just a scattered across bangor that they want to confine them in one area so they can

have a better planning of distribution of relate aid and other emergency aid into one particular camp but most of this camp around the rule of shanty town to accommodate that many people in one concentrated area is a clear danger of spreading of infectious disease and also a very uncomfortable and i have been in a small concentrated area in one particular place this situation remains volatile and active in both side of the border as up now. israel has approved a controversial plan and full more than a thousand new settlements in the occupied west bank the move came a day or. permission was granted for thirty one new settlers in the city of hebron the first such approval for fifteen years settlement programs of exhilarated since president trump came to office he's been far less critical of expansion than his predecessor barack obama how a force it has more now from ramallah were at the end of the first day of a two day meeting of the committee which deals with these planning approvals and we

have some initial numbers one thousand two hundred and ninety two housing units approved plans for those housing units approved at some stage what on what is a fairly lengthy series of approvals on top of that two hundred and ninety six tenders for construction approved the illegal israeli settlement of beit il behind me here in the occupied west bank this does represent a real excel aeration of the settlements business under the prime ministership of benjamin netanyahu this is one of four. planning meetings that take place during the year and this announcement alone what's expected to come over the next couple of days rivals or even exceeds what happened in the whole of the last year now we have a new president of course in the white house many on the process lament lobby in israel were expecting and hoping for the brakes to be released and its construction to be accelerated still further urging netanyahu saying that no single israeli

settlement will ever be up rooted in the future trying to shore up his credentials in his coalition however there are those among the processor lobby that say this even this isn't enough that construction isn't moving ahead at fast enough a pace of course for the palestinians is more bad news for anyone hoping for a two state solution it really does cement the key problem they say which is israeli settlements still to come here in the al-jazeera news. the. peace the life without my father. joseph cleaver an al jazeera journalist imprisoned in egypt for three hundred days. on the bridge to russia peter we'll tell you which european teams have been drawn against each other in the playoffs that's coming up in school. with.

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a lot of rain there over parts of cuba on wednesday but it does generally retreat its way toward the north as we head into thursday and to the west well plenty of sunshine and plenty of showers here as you'd expect mixed up during the day over the towards the south in force in what is always is going to be a fair amount of cloud on wednesday twenty three degrees on maximum but do expect a few outbreaks of rain it turns cooler but brighter for those day. a family business handed down from generation to generation but when this funeral director retires will his son continue the tradition he was. just like i don't feel like i was up for a difficult choice for an al-jazeera producer caught between two worlds well it's really by tending to the death of the living a better an intimate portrait of an industry most encounter only fleetingly al-jazeera correspondent death in the family at this time when the news breaks.

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a day after government troops took the city of kirkuk the iraqi prime minister hyderabadi says the kurdish referendum on secession is now a thing of the past he's calling for dialogue with regional leaders. the u.s. says it's launched its first attack on i saw this in yemen in a series of nighttime airstrikes on mandarins launch missiles at positions in southern al-baida province the pentagon says u.s. forces. killed dozens of isis fighters in strikes targeting to training camp. u.s. backed opposition forces and driven i saw for rucka itself declare capital in syria kurdish led syrian democratic forces the s.c.f. raise their flag in the city's stadium after a four month battle. we can talk more about that now with sami humvee who's editor of international interest which is nonaligned news service he joins us live now from london first of all how big. big a victory then is this for the s.d.f.

to finally kick out of rock a which they called their capital i think what's very interesting is in your question you say how big is it for the s.d.f. as opposed to for syria in general or for the powers are involved in syria because this is the very problem itself who claims a victory for defeating isis turkey claims it is fighting isis russia claims it's fighting isis iran claims it's fighting isis syria claims it's fighting isis the u.s. claims it's fighting isis who essentially beat isis here turkey's not going to allow the s.d.f. to claim victory for defeat defeating isis because it's taking to prevent an independent kurdish state in northern syria the u.s. as we saw in iraq the fact that the u.s. allowed the iraqi army to take away from the kurds essentially destroying any hope for independent label a show that you know we very well your way back to let's stick with syria show in the first instance because this is a as you've already pointed out it's

a very very crowded theater of war isn't it but it's obviously quite significant the fact that i still have been deprived of their capital city is the end of the caliphate isn't it effectively. well militarily yes but politically no because at the end of the day the one thing that keeps all of these powers within syria is this idea of fighting isis now that there is no isis it doesn't make any sense for any of these military powers to stay therefore we have to differentiate between defeating isis militarily and the fact that isis will continue to live on in political discourse turkey will continue to accuse the kurds of being terrorist groups with links to isis russia will do claim that there isis rebels that justify bombing on syrian territory iran will claim that isis or remnants of isis still exist which will justify the presence of the revolutionary guard in syria so although we are celebrating the defeat of isis militarily i don't think that isis will be removed from the political discourse we will still hear people talk about it we will still hear people talk about pockets of isis in

various different areas so although they've been defeated as an organizational force they will continue to exist in political discourse as a guerrilla force therefore i think we should be wary how much of a success we should attribute to this indeed you make a very good point of course because the ideology could well indeed live on couldn't there but then and as you've already pointed out the number of competing factions in syria what are the turks doing particularly in italy province where they've recently sent in troops exactly what is their mission there. at the end of the day turkey believes that it's facing an existential crisis with regards to the kurdish movements in syria the kurdish the y.p. g. and the s. the f. and the other kurdish groups are seeking to establish their presence in northern syria to be able to declare an independent kurdish state the problem is under the obama regime the us administration seemed to suggest that it was offering support for the idea of

a kurdish state and seemingly giving up on the current borders donald trump has come into the us administration and for all of that up in the year as we saw what happened in iraq and kurdish attempts at independence there so the turks are seeking an excuse to send troops within syria in order to curtail the kurdish movement in order to essentially fight the kurds and bring them in line to make sure that there is no possibility whatsoever of an independent kurdish state on their border that might antagonize the kurds in turkey itself all right so i mean we're going to have to leave it there but thank you very interesting to talk to you thank you very much. now to move to where the son of the journalist who was killed in a car bomb on monday says the country is a math state daphne. cea ran a blog highlighting cases of alleged corruption among politicians on the island protesters have held a demonstration demanding answers about her death the reports. had said multi was being run by crooks those mourning her murder agree. they gathered

outside the law court in the capital of a letter the center of the investigation the journalist family has already succeeded in getting the head of that investigation changed she had herself been a target of glaziers work. it is our obligation to ask the state to defend as the state did not defend the state did not do anything. whose car was blown to pieces had alleged widespread corruption and links between state actors the betting industry and the math here in malta on twitter journalists and others expressed their outrage so to do it in a sense the founder of wiki leaks he put a twenty thousand euro reward up for information there was a tribute to the european commission in brussels president young and the european commission condemned this attack in the strongest terms possible. their right to free journalist to investigate. and for uncomfortable questions

and report effectively he said the heart of our values and needs to be guaranteed fit for the times. reported extensively on the panama papers the giant leak of information about how the global rich cover up their wealth in offshore shell companies in the biggest indication of how far her allegations went attribute came into from the maltese prime minister joseph muscat he's wife had been accused by galicia of running a company out. panama muscat. hated each other. bloody said if i condemn without reservation the barbaric attack on the person and against the freedom of speech in our country everyone knows carolina galicia was a harsh critic of mine both politically and personally but nobody can justify this barbaric attack in any way because he has work made countless powerful enemies it

is a fact that some of them now have to investigate a murder and do it properly gloriously al jazeera the daughter of an al jazeera journalist imprisoned in egypt is pleading for him to be freed lamu hussein is now being imprisoned for more than three hundred days human rights and media organizations have joined al jazeera in denouncing his detention natasha's in a report. in the three hundred days mahmoud hussein has been imprisoned his family says he's grown depressed he's accusing the egyptian authorities of denying him legal rights and medical treatment and providing inadequate food and clothing he is father to nine children my sisters and brother face social stigma every day in their schools everyone calls them that they are sons and daughters of petitioners. and they are not tool or flipping during egypt they are not safe each one of us is

not safe. hussein is an egyptian journalists who is based in qatar working for al-jazeera he was looking forward to going home for a vacation last december instead he was arrested in cairo egypt and authorities have charged him with what they call disseminating false news and receiving funds from foreign authorities to defame the state el jazeera has denied all allegations while human rights and other media organizations have denounced the accusations and are demanding his release we struggle to face the life without my father it's a story of a man who was kidnapped by the government before being officially imprisoned. he was unjustly enabled as a terrorist by egyptian media hussein is the latest al-jazeera journalist to be imprisoned in egypt in two thousand and thirteen an international campaign was launched after the arrest of peter greste mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed the three

spent more than a year in prison in all cases al-jazeera says their only crime was being a journalist natasha going to iraq. that china's ruling communist party says it will focus on business at home rather than pushing for global market reforms the comments are made just before the start of the nineteenth party congress president xi jinping is expected to map out his ambitions for china and further tighten his grip on power adrian brown reports. she jinping is a confident leader confident enough to be carrying out the biggest of a shake up of the communist party that has ruled china for almost seven decades. the unprecedented overhaul includes the people's liberation army until now untouchable three hundred thousand troops have been dismissed and top generals

ousted with many accused of corruption combating graft in the military is part of a wider cleanup more than one point four million high and low ranking officials have been brought down including some regarded as political rivals she's also taken a hard line against dissent with a string of labor rights lawyers and social activist jailed many people have compared him to mao tse-tung but i think he simply doesn't mesh measure up to the to the quick and because. people fear him much more than people respect or love him and all of his power has the right from the fact that he has been very effective in using the anticorruption operators according to precedent she should now be starting his second and final term in office but that seems unlikely things supremacies at this congress appears assured he already holds more titles than any

of his predecessors president party secretary head of the military and call leader and he could be in line for a new title chairman. lucia chin is a commentator who reflects government thinking he says she offers continuity in an uncertain world i think that she is still available and that she has a chance to extend the peace terms longer there in term of fifteen i can hear three of us like him. so i think if we find a good candidate a good leader while we should not keep did i say life is possible. in the streets people we spoke to echoed that view. of course i hope she would be reappointed she is de vere a bestie disturbed at the b. are very satisfied as long as she's beneficial to the motherland he should be

selected for several terms. in my life has improved and the my family's economy condition is better so we can show more. president she has said he wants to make china stronger and more prosperous his message appears to be this i need more time to make that happen adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. now catalonia as president carlos pushed a month has walked out of a cabinet meeting in protest against the arrests of two separatist leaders the leaders of the castle and national assembly and a minion that's a group dedicated to promoting the catalan culture and language were arrested on monday thousands of taking to the streets in barcelona to protest against the arrests made barca has more from the march. the spanish government of prime minister mariano rajoy it was on to an illusion about scaling the size of the independence movement then you really need to take a look at this there were i am friends of people who are and downtown also known as

. procession. to the well they are. the leaders of the in the for the. rest of them now behind us they're being investigated for sedition for something that took place back on september the twenty i am low numbers of protests to house members of the police to settle into a building if they are found guilty on their own sedation they can now facing a lengthy prison sentence many people here are calling for their enemy have your return or and the consul and leadership of president bush a moment is already describing them as political prisoners a new deadline is looming on thursday at this occasion or less from grain whether or no independence is actually declared here alone that is to remind you it temporarily declared independence but only so many tame asli suspended it asking

for talks with mr marianna old boy who has so far refused to mediate with groups that he describes as secessionists what happens next is really yet to be seen but there is of course the nuclear option of invoking eligible one five it would potentially strip this entire region of it so tell me if that happens these protests to say that they will come out into the streets in full. now for the first time the united states justice department has indicted two men for imposing the deathly drug fentanyl is part of a wider operation to combat. gabrielle elizondo reports now from new york. it's easy to find fentanyl drugs in america highly addictive they are killing thousands of people every year and now the u.s. government says they know where most of it is coming from we believe that most if not all fennel that's distributed here in the u.s.

and in canada originates in china either manufacture there or manufactured with precursor chemicals that come from china the men behind the operation are legibly to chinese nationals shall being yen and gian john the u.s. says they ran at least two chemical plants in china which produced tons of that in all and other opiate substances they are said to have used the internet to contact buyers and hard to trace bitcoins to sell the goods to those in the u.s. and canada so we have no extradition treaty with china but we are optimistic and hopeful that the chinese will take appropriate action to make sure they're held accountable the number of drug overdoses in the u.s. is on the rise last year drug overdoses killed about sixty four thousand people in america it's up twenty two percent from the year before the leading cause of death in overdoses is spent in all killing over twenty thousand people last year this situation is so bad president donald trump is set to next week declare that opioid

crisis a national emergency releasing more federal funds and other resources to try to combat it the opioid crisis is also claiming political victims on tuesday trumps nominee for their drug czar the person who directs drug control policy in the u.s. withdrew his name from consideration tom marino stepped aside suddenly after media reports emerged that he worked with the pharmaceutical industry to craft a law that weekend that the u.s. government's authority to curb opioid distribution of barry drug now at the center of the overdose crisis gabriel is on doe. new york. so to come in sport the reigning european champions are given a tough time at home in the champions league peta will have all the details. with. click.

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again. click with the hundreds of thousands of women has started using the social media hashtag me to post about their experiences of sexual abuse know this fall as revelations about the abusive behavior of top hollywood producer harvey weinstein. reports. in the wake of hollywood's harvey weinstein sexual harassment and assault scandal women and some men around the world are coming forward on social media under the hashtag me too they've posted on instagram and the hashtag has been tweeted hundreds of thousands of times on twitter on facebook

a viral message asks women to reposed saying if all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote me to as a status we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem leslie caller is one of the women who responded i posted that the first time that i was grabbed without my consent and a sexual manner i was in fourth grade and the person who grabbed me was not adult it was another student and so i think for me i i was realizing that the reader issue in terms of me had to teach that person and that was ok. some women posted longer messages about their experiences but others worry that the campaign pressured women to reveal intensely painful episodes possibly reach traumatizing them others question whether tweet sent posts have any real impact on stopping men from abusing women women and men as well are tired of being silenced or

not recognized shamed. you were tired of not having a voice. when when incidences of sexual assault sexual abuse happens to us when we were starving let's do it similar social media campaigns by the focused on sexual predation by men in positions of power erupted last year following broadcast of the infamous access hollywood tape in which then candidate donald trump boasted about groping women we think the stereotypical person the perpetrator looks a certain way and they don't. and some have been none my my. my children's grandmother she was raped in boarding school by nuns. you know their neighbors their babysitters they work at churches they're in schools we are elected electing folks who are perpetrators the countless online testimonials vividly

illustrate a global culture of harassment assault and intimidation by men in positions of power commonplace in workplaces around the world robert oulds al jazeera los angeles right let's have a look at this will see is that his peter thank you very much the reigning european club football champions real madrid have had to come from behind to salvage a one one draw at home against english club tottenham hotspur in the u.a.e. for champions league on tuesday rail trail that one mill winner f.l. put the ball into is only the two sides continue to battle it out before kristie honoring all those penalty level that matters before halftime rael now leading spurs in group h. only on goal difference over in england there was a two one victory for manchester city against him stirling and gabriel jessa's put city in a two goal lead before the italians pulled one back pep guardiola as men remain

three points clear at the top of group if they were eight matches in total across europe on tuesday in group the liverpool hammered ameri ball seven zero away from home spartak moscow were also big winners in group e. five one over severe there were also wins for shakhtar donetsk us and rb like. the draw for the european players for next year's world cup has taken place with eight teams in the running for four remaining spots and russia twenty eighteen four time champions italy will continue to try to qualify for a nineteenth world cup they'll play sweden the first leg will take place between the ninth and eleventh of november with a return should do it for the following week. here's a look at those ties for you the four matches in european qualifying for the world cup sweden italy as we mentioned northern ireland trying to get to the world cup for the first time since the one nine hundred eighty s. up against switzerland it's croatia up against greece and then versus the republic

of ireland are reportedly willing takes a more detailed look at the draw but we can't be surprised that italy ended up in the playoffs because their ranking slipped and i ended up in the same group as a spanish team this regain its form and that's why it's really found themselves into the playoffs and having to place where you don't which is never easy i signed up when i saw them play the netherlands in amsterdam the way to go they were unusually poor in the first half but by the second half they regain their composure and they always make it so difficult so it'll even sweden could be tight you would expect italy to find a way to throw all of these guys time northern ireland versus switzerland the thing about the over niland is that actually were ranked higher than twenty three which sounds good doesn't it but if they're right where they were a couple of games ago they could have avoided switzerland and you think well actually so it's a lot the worst time to play they're constantly under rated they were in the top

eight seeds at the last four knows they have a brilliant record over the past few years and i will be favorites debate northern ireland denmark versus the republic of ireland it's a difficult one to call and the last game between croatia and grace. i think croatia could do really well if they reached the finals but you never write off greece look what happened when people did that in two thousand and four and they won the european championship it's not easy to qualify for the world cup from europe much easier to qualify for the european championships and these players will demonstrate that. the national football league says talks about players kneeling during the national anthem before games have been productive team owners and players representatives are holding meetings in new york however no specific action has been announced as yet former san francisco forty nine ers quarterback collin cap'n it first sat down during the anthem last season before electing to neil others followed suit but the movement has been criticized by u.s.

president donald trump and there has been debate on whether players should be made to stand kristen salumi has more from the meeting in new york. the n.f.l. players' meeting will continue here in new york on wednesday but it looks like the issue of how to deal with players who refused to stand for the national anthem will take longer than that to resolve owners did meet with a group of players earlier on tuesday they were greeted by a small group of protesters supporting the players' right to take the need touring the national anthem this is a practice that started last season as a way of protesting police brutality in the united states and other minority injustices that players felt strongly about but increasingly they're coming under criticism and pressure to stop the practice coming from no less than the president of the united states donald trump who has gone on the record saying he thinks the players should be suspended if they refused to stand for the national anthem this is put the n.f.l. in a tough position between both sides the commissioner roger goodell has said that he

does think that the players should stand for the national anthem but he also says he wants to help the players to promote these issues and move forward to make things better for the country so that's what the discussions have been about if there's another way that the n.f.l. can support players and maritime to change things for the better in this country their statement a statement was issued after the meeting saying that the talks are constructive and that they will continue just forty eight hours on from winning her fifty sixth to a title maria sharapova has lost on a return to her native russia playing in front of a home crowd at the kremlin cup in moscow for the first time in ten years sharp of a succumbed to wimbledon semifinalist magdalena. it marks the end of a fifteen year old season and she's played a tournament since coming back from a fifteen month long drugs ban. the route for the twenty eighteen two to france was

unveiled earlier the one hundred foot the dish and of the world's most famous liking race will begin in the west of france on july seventh chris. froome will be looking to defend the title is won four of the last five years measuring a total of three thousand three hundred twenty nine kilometers it's the shortest course this century but includes a cobblestone section and twenty five mountain climbs before the traditional finish in paris on july twenty ninth six months after surgery on his back tiger woods has been given the green light to return to golf with no restrictions by his doctor woods posted this video on monday dropping his biggest change yet that he is ready to step back up to the tee according to his agent the fourteen time major champion so is dr at the end of last week to get the good news no formal announcement yet on when he'll make his professional comeback though words hasn't played since withdrawing from a tournament in dubai in february. woods won the ryder cup with the usa only once

in eastern a career but he is unlikely to make the team of the defending champions at next year's tournament in france thomas bjorn and jim fear it will be the virtue as captains of the european and usa teams they took part in a stunning photo at the eiffel tower in paris hitting golf balls from its first floor and that is all the sport another update coming up again later big thanks to pieces time that they have with all of the sports is that so for this al-jazeera news abba don't go away because i'll be back in just a jiffy with more of the things.

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