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wreckage refugees are stranded at the border by the dash as a scapegoat a military crackdown. also tried as most powerful leader of a generation sets out his long term vision for tackling corruption. consolidating his grip on power. also the league behind american football says it won't punish out of all players who choose to deal in protest. welcome to the program the head of code year's election board says it can't guarantee the presidential election runoff would be free and fair the board chair but invited the country's political leaders to beat ahead of next week's vote which president yet insisted will go ahead rallies were held by the two made it political parties of the day election commissioner roslyn a copy resigned. she says her star faced

a debate day should at threats her boss election chiefs would all parties to stop it to searing the election process. we have first. of all. the bill is going. well it seems. that the nickel of. course the commissioners want to get the most but it's there. for them and doesn't. which is overseeing the management of the. four of them six october that is the basis. to be the villain is our correspondent at the capitol directly to be that are so much riding on this rewrite of the election including really the general well being of the chaos is not what everyone wants to see especially the political players koreans

are certainly worried about what may come next because there is a lot of confusion around the election now we've heard the i.b.p. say that well go ahead with the polls on the twenty sixth of october but in the same address the commissioner of the commission chairman has said that there has been political interference those are also the allegations made by the commissioner who is just resigned there is a concern around how the polls will be conducted on the day we also understand from the opposition who is now boycotting the poll that they will hold demonstrations on election day and so in that he certainly that will disrupt the elections to what extent and to what extent that michael happen the president laura kenyatta didn't address the allegations made by the commissioner around political interference and intimidation of us start members of the commission but he did talk about the political climate in general and this is what he had to say as we walk.

towards the declared date of the twenty sixth of october both. as a god fearing leadership and government. as well as believers. in the rule of law which is our duty. to fulfill our constitutional mandate and we will. for me that only we can on the play really the admission by the former commissioner how she feels the way that the process of this election is is actually transpiring the intimidation the threats it's a real worry and that will perhaps. impact on the people who are listening and watching across kenya. so the commission is already thinking difficulty that we look back at the last month the supreme court had ruled

that the commission had been primed and transparent election at least when it comes to the telling of results of course the president will have won that election the supreme court and now that and that's why we have the rerun coming up but as long as the opposition is not participating will be questions around the credibility and of course there are concerns around exactly how the opposition or any interested parties make this about the election the government through the elections of well go ahead but will they if the credibility whether it's what might transpire in terms of these three hearing about to electoral staff the inability of the commission to possibly run a free and i think election even for polling stations to open in some cases certainly is a concern and there's also have been used for any. true that you actually am the result if it's not run in the way the i'd be i'd be sure according to the constitutional guidelines for the mobile so we'll leave it there for me to directly

thank you. the iraqi army says it is bishop accomplished in the operation to take back kurdish held territory in the north it's now in control of areas around both sides did have a province including the mosul it's a punishing response to last month's vote by the kurds to secede from iraq and in recent days kurdish forces have pulled out of several tiles that oil fields pushed by the iraqi military advance by the tiles were seized by the kurdish peshmerga over the past three years as part of the war against i saw the first big of a but day with iraqi troops moved into the contested city of kirkuk prime minister hyder had ordered his forces to take back kurdish hold areas like outside your toddler bus region well the oil fields is a big setback for the kurds with the wealth they bring such should forbid iraq because these are bored difficult rocky prime minister about he says that kurdish hopes for. it depended stated how i think of the past charles stratford has bought from a rebel. 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 nord orders from erbil so i wanted to help what they went against your instruction and didn't kill the iraqi forces please take this as a lesson many people who have fled kirkuk the day before began to return the lights and now we're about to enter and we don't know if it's safe or not so we're going to go you where else can i go it's better to go back we're going back to our house and our city was. some arab residents in this ethnically diverse region

celebrated the arrival of iraqi government forces. 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 patients merkle killed their related to and this is to let you know since last night we received twenty five corpses of bush mega troops killed in battles of kirk 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. a kurdish nation and that is due to the fact that we had a plan to move towards independence and fortunately 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 it was because of unilateral 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 charles stuff at al-jazeera north of erbil of the south aisle janabi is iraq to fat to qatar he says that despite the military operation there is no war against the kurds. so the prime minister of hyderabad confirmed rated there is no fight there is no war among the iraqi people the kurds are part parcel of the iraqi fabric they are key partners in our country the president of iraq himself is occurred. since two thousand and three all the parties have agreed to the political process and every time there is a difference or a dispute the political parties sit together and negotiate and the kurds were a key and active part of. the iraqi government clearly stated that it is open and it is speaking to all. parts but as i stated by the prime minister is that

a friend is a thing of the past and there is no. going backwards all the iraqi forces must negotiate on the basis of the kind of situation. the prime minister and the commander of the armed forces said there is no fighting among the iraq is there is no fighting against or between the iraqi people and the kurds are part and parcel of the fabric and that's why no fighting is going to wrapped between the rockets and i believe following two thousand and three the political leadership has abandoned that act of violence and the language of violence and the language of fighting is no longer used. well china's president appears to be consolidating his grip of power of the communist party congress to beijing in a sweeping three and a half hour speech pig laid out his political and economic plan for the next five years he highlighted trying to successes to further open its economy but he also

warned of severe challenges like rising debt inequality and corruption. corruption is the biggest threat faced by our party we can only get out of the historical cycle and ensure the long term stability of our party and our country if we. persevered in the continuous fight against corruption to ensure that our government its officials and policies are clean critics accuse she of using his added corruption campaign to purge political opponents he's already seeders china's most powerful leader the generation of the ruling politburo is expected to be stacked with his allies whether it's day next week it was just clean politics and she touched on but also the dangers posed by climate change saying that china must cooperate with other nations to as he put it ensure the survival of bad guys and brown has more from beijing. president xi jinping can control a lot of things but he can't influence the weather to the superstitious and many

people here are the damp grey start to this congress was perhaps a warning sign. in spite of the weather this was a day of choreographed unity after what has been a tumultuous few years for the party. but there was a stirring welcome for the president. this is as close as the foreign media get to the opaque workings of china's communist party. she reported on his past five years in office saying the party had achieved miracles he also warned serious challenges. our country is at a strategic point in. the future is extremely bright but the challenges are also extremely serious all party congress must assert their size and the high and the think of a danger in times of safety his address lasted three and

a half hours if nothing else it showed that she now sixty four is healthy healthy enough to rule for another ten to fifteen years insists his supporters at one stage former president jiang zemin appeared to nod off think he was china's top leader twenty five years ago when i reported on the fourteenth party congress as china began to experiment with capitalism the new catch phrase is socialism with chinese characteristics in a new openness and economic anything to go anything that is political reform twenty five years on the faces behind me have changed but the backdrop remains pretty much the same and the prospect of political reform as remote now as it was then. the congress will now meet in secret for the next seven days after which china's new leaders will be unveiled president xi is assured of

a second term and this congress seems set to cement his position as china's top leader for a lot longer. adrian brown. beijing. still ahead here on al-jazeera opposition protesters in togo vatican to the fight against the government despite a ban on the streets marches. we'll tell you why israel has shut down three major television providers in the occupied west bank. welcome back across southern and eastern parts of china and taiwan weather conditions are relatively quiet at the moment so it's looking fine all the way from shanghai down towards hong kong and that fine weather extends across northern parts of vietnam so for her noir it should be largely dry on thursday showers are likely

further south so let's head on into friday then and you can just see a circulation at your screen so that's typhoon lamb which is heading up towards japan so it's not an issue for the philippines so there will be a few showers around but generally not looking too bad fine again across much of vietnam b.m.r. the risk of share a certain across more northern areas on the coastal fringe of circulation in the bay of bengal so how do you across into south asia you can see that circulation which i think is going to produce quite all the showers across parts of bangladesh and some of the eastern states of india center how it looks on thursday seen some very heavy rain dry now in one port further so still some showers for cannot and for telling to and otherwise showers for sure but northern parts of india find delhi there thirty four degrees and fine in karate as we move on into friday not much change looking a woman in crouch that thirty six find here in the arabian peninsula the humidity continues to drop and highs of thirty six.

i provoked it oh is it allison when they're on line we were in hurricane winds for almost like thirty six hours these are the things that u.p.a. has to address or if you join us on say a member of the ku klux klan but we struck up a relationship this is a dialogue tweet us with hash tag eight a stream and one of your pitches might make an actual join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching officer arrives a whole robby the robot of our top stories the head of kenya's election board says it can't guarantee the presidential election fraud will be free and fair he advised to the country's political leaders to beat ahead of next week's vote which president hu could be at or existed will go ahead opposition leader rollo ticket has called for mass protests of election day. the iraqi army says it is goals of the operation to take back kurdish held territory of the country's north it's our control of areas around mosul is a bit of a province the iraqi offensive began of but they are sent back to the kurdish and with the stray shots hopes of secession. of china's president appears to be consolidating his grip of power of the copy this party's dike to congress if they shake in a sweeping three and a half assed be. laid out his political and economic plan for the next five years.

the u.n. refugee agency says between ten to fifteen thousand refugees have arrived in. the us so it's something it's. to speed up its vetting process of refugees stranded all the back to death he saw he'd. be able. to safety to vatican additions to the child tree house travel to a refugee camp. with be able to see first conditions a long. list ten to fifteen thousand people are stranded here in no man's land i what is called zero line between myanmar and bangladesh brought out this area. this babe will have fled me on my way the last two days that been stranded and has no safety to go to most of the people are exposed to well the majority are women and children and elderly people the government has given permission to some of the aid agencies to bring critical care medicine and food but they're still taking shelter

in the pedophile and manmade dike just doesn't make sense that coming under critical review by the u.n. agency and other international aid agencies that why are still kept you know we are on the border guard officer that we're undertaking the shelters and said we need a coordinated approach before we take them in that. area still the idea this people are still here is a major question what is behind the motive of the government to keep them here still in a very badly expose weather condition. opposition supporters and target who are defying government battle protests by taking to the streets to demand the president's resignation demonstrators are calling for constitutional reforms including a two term limit for presidents the government has agreed to introduce the change but the opposition to be skeptical about whether it will be applied to they'd come but president ford i guess a big. alabaster day reports. is

a hairdresser in togo's capital. he says police often crackdown on opposition supporters in bay neighborhood where he lives breaking into their homes and beating them and danny along with hundreds of other told police have been calling for the removal of president ford they don't want to leave power and we are starving in the country now we are told and we will move forward despite the fact that we are most of the time beaten by policeman. the protests started in august as togolese took to the streets to demand presidential term limits be reinstated at least two people were killed. in september opposition in parliament protested a bill that would have limited presidential terms but would exempt the current president who was already on his third term the bill failed and the government called for a constitutional referendum protests erupted again leaving several dead. to reign in the spiraling crisis the internet was. the united nations has called on

togo to address the demands of the people. the west african economic group that not seem baker only heads has urged togo to set a date for the referendum but many say they don't want it. we will continue to fight we will protest on the streets towards the premises of us to tell them that we're not happy with them calling on the government to fix dates of the referendum which take do not want it's obvious that they are pushing the government the government has put conditions on where and when people can protest during weekdays we will make sure that protests will only be in one area peaceful protests public gatherings or meetings should be held at one specific place on weekends they can do is they used to marching on the streets followed by meetings back at the salon sway both says that won't stop people like him. i am seeking something better for my country and that it should be governed by other people not the same regime no matter what will happen no matter the circumstances i will always be there and he insists despite police harassment and government pressure he will continue to fight

for the future of togo mohammed omar d.c. al jazeera. as a researcher at the institute for security studies joins me via skype from a neighboring dhaka talking with us live on al-jazeera you've been sort of looking at this issue for quite some time but what do you what are your findings in terms of the way people feel about the democratic process of the changes to the constitution. thank you so there have been a number of coal in the report. but also insufficient follow we fall in total and that is an out of the two thousand and six global political agreement that was reached by the government in opposition back to its all for every fall. in ten of the ten we meet but also institution our own we've got the in the course the constitutional court institution that i. think that also see the.

election so they say they still need press by part of the population for reform and lately they also have been told what the president for yes will be to step down why hasn't the the the the documents the agreements in two thousand and six as you say why haven't they been implemented all worked out or if they only be they had to the work done in part. so the agreement they haven't been. so opposition back to bleak to say the government for not being for not implementing the argument reached in two thousand and six and some of the reason that they have these is a lack of political will go but also agreement disagreement between the opposition and the government but the government that the run in the lead in fact she really can't remain on how. many french when that really

in in the agreement in one of the points if we get into the ten we leave it that you need presidential term to choose but there have been a lot of you get agreement on that but not going to be true i think we speak of that of that or twenty shot at the president that do not don't begin for election in two thousand and twenty two they have all been going on out and the main being there if you shall not be done regarding the constitutional part that members of there will be should be lacking and if we try to keep it open that it will be in the way that it may be elected should be required to make sure that it is pretty bold but it's also new troubling the week i read what motion look at the with great interest to see whether this referenda does happen or not for the. time it dakar thank you for joining us thank you. well to the us now

a good football play is tivo designed officials will be for a second day york to try to work ounce of of the big issues plaguing america's most popular sport the point of contention has been players protesting racial injustice in the u.s. joint the national at the by the league just a few hours ago the league announced it would not punish play is full the league let's cross over to your quick. following events it seems that the players had made it clear. that they would abide by any penalties that they would actually experience and it seems that they've made a very clear decision as well the authorities that is. yeah that's right the n.f.l. bosses primarily commissioner roger goodell is meeting at this hotel behind me right now with the majority of the thirty two n.f.l. league owners in a very important meeting we expect that mr goh del is going to be having

a press conference when the next couple hours or so to give more clarity on what the n.f.l. position actually is but as you said all indications are is that the n.f.l. will not be changing the rulebook at all and will not be fining any players that decide to kneel during the national anthem now the n.f.l. rule book is a little ambiguous quite frankly it suggests that players stand during the national anthem but there are no sort of binding rules that would necessarily penalize players that don't and that's why this in some ways has become such a controversy and by but by all indications it looks like the players or at least the players that want to continue to protest have won at least so far one that they'll be able to continue their protests as they see fit on an individual level the next games are actually thursday night here in the united states and then games on sunday as well but this has been an incredibly controversial issue that has gone all the way up to the president united states donald trump who even tweeted about it this morning saying in part told. disrespect for our great country that's what

president donald trump tweeted this morning in response to the news that the n.f.l. probably will not demand that player stand here national anthem where does this leave actually supporters because you have the players a one sided die you have the president tweeted giving is owed opinion it's interesting that the body actually comes from society itself that goes to watch these games. yeah and this is broad fairly complicated there are certainly many fans that are protesting the n.f.l. right now because of these players decisions decisions to neil during the national anthem there are also some team owners as well that have are trying to grapple with this let's remember that there are more than eight of the team owners of the thirty two teams or more than eight of the owners that are big contributors to donald trump's presidential campaign so it's complicated quite frankly but the team owners individually can set rules for their team and say that they will find players. that

neal during the national anthem but that's an individual decision by individual teams but that gets complicated as well because the players union has an entire union and a contract and then they so this really gets very complicated but overall the bottom line is what the n.f.l. decides is ultimately what the major decision is and so far it seems like they will continue to allow players to take and take a need during the national anthem and this will only prolong this controversy some seeing it an issue of patriotism others of course as this protest started out as an issue of racial justice both of them believe it that gabriel let's all do that you know. israel has announced plans to build bolded one thousand new cycle but you know it's not this brings the total number of structures it's choose a little over two thousand six hundred forty percent will be built east of the separation wall of the occupied west bank as well as that. approve another major

acceleration of illegal settlement construction in the occupied west bank. israel has shut down major media service providers in the occupied west bank and a military force impounded their equipment to close their offices eight hundred palestinians have been arrested including two journalists in hebron. follow all those stories by logging on to our website updated twenty four hours a day at w.w.w. dot down to zero dot com. you're watching others their lives well robert these are our top stories the head of kenya's election board says it can't guarantee the presidential election rebrand will be free and fair he invited the country's political leaders to meet ahead of next week's vote which president hu look at the outer insisted will go ahead opposition leader rollo digger has called for mass protests on election day. the

iraqi army says it's achieved its goals of the operation to take back kurdish held territory in the country's north it's now in control of areas around bozo's did of a profits the iraqi offensive began of but day in a setback to the kurdish administration's hopes for session. china's president appears to be consolidating its grip of power at the copy this party's nineteenth congress said beijing in a sweeping three and a half hour speech sheeting pig vowed to wipe out corruption as he laid out his political ad economic plan for the next five years. corruption is the biggest threat faced by our party we can only get out of the historical cycle and ensure the long term stability of our party and our country if we persevered in the continuous fight against corruption to ensure that our government its officials and policies are clean. the un refugee agency says between ten and fifteen thousand regular refugees have arrived in bangladesh or that's just since sunday it's the

bangladeshi government to speed up its vetting process as the refugees are stranded on the bangladeshi side. are crossing every hour for daybreak be about. opposition supporters a target for defying a government battle protest by taking to the streets to demand the president's resignation from the strangers are calling for constitutional reforms likely to get two term limit the presidents the government has agreed to introduce the change but the opposition has been skeptical about whether it will be applied to the president . and the whole plane. officials will be for a second day due york to try to work out some of the big issues plaguing america's most popular sport the point of contention has been players protesting racial justice said the u.s. joint national by dealing this by writing a letter last week saying place should stand for the f.l. commissioner roger goodell has to point out that he would not be altering plays to

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