which means pressure is high settles it might be rather keyboarding but if morning mist otherwise lightening trust church in the sunshine seventeen oakland possibly the next two days. the russian orthodox church is deep pockets in the rapid expansion may bear its crucial role in putin's grip on power with some elevating the former k.g.b. officer to sainthood president putin is our leader and that given top good people in power investigates how afterwards attempted elimination by the soviet union religion has returned to the heart of the russian state the orthodox connection at this time on al-jazeera.

this is al-jazeera. hello i'm lauren taylor this is the news hour live from london coming up. a call for mass protests on polling day as kenya's election chief says the presidential rerun may not be free and fair. but he's far in the air to stop angry somalis reaching the scene of saturday's devastating truck bomb attack. again just catalonia is needed to act sensibly as the deadline looms for him to abandon his independence bid or lose autonomy. president trump engulfed in a new controversy after the family of a soldier killed a kneejerk uses him of disrespect. and i'm peter stanhope in doha with all the sports news for the day including n.f.l. bosses meet with players and team owners for a second day in new york that and more coming up later in the program.

head of kenya's electoral commission is warning that he can't guarantee that next week's presidential run will be free and fair well for to look at he admits there's been political interference this after another top election official resigned and fled to new york saying it would be impossible to hold a credible rerun of august disputed vote amid a miller has more from nairobi it looks as if things are falling apart at kenya's electoral commission headquarters rather than a combo one of seven commissioners has resigned alleging political interference she says threats have been made on the lives of staff members including her own commissioners are serving political interests and they've been last minute changes to technology and electronic transmission of results. hours later the commission's chairman gave

a stern warning without political changes and he said. this . function without. the chairman's appeal was also aimed at the kenyan public hoping to regain their trust but the damage has been done the electoral commission is already starting with its credibility the chairman's admission that the commission is split and that conditions wouldn't allow for free and fair elections has only echoed an earlier supreme court ruling. last month the court an old august presidential elections it says the commission had not been transparent and there were illegalities in the telling of results that named incumbent president will work in the art of the winner a rerun is planned for october twenty sixth opposition leader raila odinga has withdrawn saying as long as the electoral commission does not reform the polls

would be a sham but this week the ruling jubilee party said elections would take place within the sixty day limit set by the court and that the opposition is stalling we have absolutely no problem and we told you be very clearly that whatever their agree with our competitors they don't have to be fired what. can the outer is campaigning around the country while the opposition looks for public support for electoral reform questions around the electoral commission's ability to do its job of only added fuel to increasing confusion around just how next week's election will take place for media miller al-jazeera nairobi. four people died in togo in clashes between security forces and protesters demanding the resignation of the president. police fired tear gas at people defying a government ban on midweek protests for

a second day opposition activists have been demonstrating since august they want constitutional reforms including a two term limit for the president whose family has ruled the west african nation for half a century to protest his and two policemen were killed on tuesday. when we deal position want to demonstrate their take what have we done to them. their weapons. we only have stones. it is our last line of defense the people who have already suffered so much have to be on the streets we don't have weapons we do not have tear gas so we come out with nothing and i have to say all this is an offer we are determined to the street will make you go but he says somalia have fallen into the air to disperse thousands marching through the capital over saturday's massive bomb attack where the three hundred people were killed in two bombings and hundreds of others were injured ramadan who has more from mogadishu. on the streets of mogadishu the

wast single of talk in the city's history. towns public anger. when will our suffering and enough is enough it's time we stood up and fought our enemy as the crowds of protesters at that is a blast site there was cut by somali police and up to continue peacekeepers but the cards pressed. the police to ship them back to this part of the goldfish bowl mourning period is over. so they come out of the difficult questions they say i'm going to. believe cut it out talk. for what they call a failure to protect them. they say somalia security forces failed to identify and disrupt out time. of the national emergency operations center the human toll of the blast is clear. days after the autopsy relatives of the injured and missing keep

coming to register themselves. for the hussein a mother of two traveled from hard village one hundred twenty kilometers away. tooth brush from the end of the five junction where the truck exploded. i last spoke to him two hours before the blast i don't know if he is dead or alive . the huge casualty figure has all but one place but also in the city they quickly ran out of blood and medicine forcing them to turn away some of the injured for a lot of zavos yet to receive medical attention their patience is wearing thin and . my son is missing one part of his head and the wound is infected. yet they keep asking me to wait i can't wait i need help from my son. international aid has been quick to arrive in somalia with tuckey. leading efforts

to airlift the most seriously wounded governmental officials say more help is needed. we don't have blood and we don't have the facilities for us even to locate the missing people. the explosion has shattered hopes of recovery in an impoverished country left by decades of conflict somalia remains from a country in shock. coming out this new iraq turns its attention to developing. after pushing kurdish peshmerga forces back to the positions they held in twenty fourteen. china should take center stage in the world that his vision for the future of the communist party congress.

forces fighting iceland syria have been clearing main roads in iraq are a day after their commanders declared the city under control their. troll the kurdish led syrian democratic forces raised their flag in record stadium after a four month battle to push myself from its self-proclaimed capital they say no redeploy fighters to the current front line against eisel in the eastern province of dares to question her about her has more from gaziantep on turkey's border with syria. vs the it is now going through the mammoth task of trying to clear a right of land mines and ensure there are no booby trapped buildings this explains why they are not allowing civilians into the area we're talking about hundreds of thousands of people were forced out of iraq during the fighting over the last few months but a further south is fighting which is continuing to go on different. from climbers the syrian army is launching out offensive from the south and senior army officer

was killed today some slot of d. and brigadier general who was leading the fight against isis in terms of how to deal has been accused by the syrian opposition of committing atrocities against civilians in different parts of the country particularly in two thousand and twelve on the outskirts of the capital damascus and this comes at a time when the iranians the top military commanders are meeting in damascus with their syrian counterpart the iranian chief of staff said that israel has no right whatsoever to violate syria and i think he was referring to the past attacks targeting syrian targets. by the israelis israel on the other hand in says that it is concerned about way considers to be an iranian growing influence in so you and i found by syria to build a military base. on the border with israel something that israel rejects

but he's back now to venice or coming or is a medical corps nater firm it's doctors without borders she joins us on the phone from tel aviv near the syria turkey border thanks for being with us i understand that m.s.f. has got people operating in there in the record region what kind of humanitarian situation have they found there. yes so we've been not following contacts of a few very very long time in responding as and when we've been able to obviously in the last months of the offensive we've been able to scale up and support stroma say this is inside the lobby and various other locations around around not to governor ridge alongside maintaining as much medical assistance to the accessible population that a spice population within that within the region unfortunately no eyeball to to reach rucka city itself not able to cross those front lines have been able to receive many many patients died last month wounded with and from from bombing the missiles and a strikes that have bombarded to city over the course of the conflict and we're going

to say i mean people have been managing to get out but they've been essentially asked by some of them under siege for a long time so what what kind of state of health for those who didn't actually make it out with a in an in general you know and i think you mention really good point which is that i don't think people have been able to get out and i think maybe. just think that a large number of people that have been injured and wounded over the course of of the last months of the feet have you know many of those women and children and families had that have been affected have not reached you know medical assistance but certainly throughout for those lucky few unlucky few that have had been pushed out of the city with injuries. you know i think it's always a daunting task in the last few days feeling you know mothers and children come you know covered in and that's i mean stuff that you see when you know that there's been enormous structural collapse from from from the powerbomb not meant people are shell shocked not to use to be like they many of them lost children partners

help families lost and i'm able to tonight i waited for their extended family my day and of course again this coming with the clothes or not the clothes on their back if they've been injured and we often have to remove and including when someone is has been injured and you know it's it's one of those things we realize it's probably all that cousin has right now. the the next week it's again trying to meet those basic needs a study to get cold here in northern syria people are displaced going in camps without a lot of provision to make sure that i have food water shelter those being cared to have been in the coming weeks and then alongside that it's got a lot of health care application. and it needed to start to touch on the psychological impact of this which i think will be overarching and continuous bergrin long time to come and what i wanted something of a longer term issue but rock a has been destroyed isn't it and it's actually the moment they're trying to clear the roads in lots of booby traps i.d.'s and so on left behind so actually getting

back into record itself what's left of it is probably a longer term issue but but once you can can use crisis we can but it does cause you mean challenges to operate safely within that kind of contaminated space but i you know even throughout the course of the last few months we have seen people who have returned to to recheck in areas and have unfortunately experienced a booby traps and and land mines and children bringing an i.e.d. even to the house because i don't know what they are for that has been a frequent reality and i cannot even imagine that the frequency of that will increase over the coming period even today you know that obviously has been a relative poison and the active fighting now and indeed the armed groups potentially looking to to clean the environment and and indeed seeing already today people who have been affected by standing on land mines and things like that so yeah it's only going to be a busy a different period ahead for us mr freeman from the n.s.f.

thank you very much needs to hit on tortoise appreciate it iraq's a rocket government as a mission that civilians were tied by armed groups during the minute she operation to retake a cook province from kurdish peshmerga fighters prime minister hyderabadi has ordered the security forces in kirkuk to protect civilians and property. say that. mr about he the iraqi prime minister has received information that some armed men whose affiliations are unknown have attacked some civilians of course the prime minister does not accept such violations we also emphasize our commitment to the orders of the prime minister to protect the safety and security of all citizens and the governorates without exception the interior ministry will take all measures to stop those who commit such violations iraq has asked their petroleum giant b.p. to make plans to develop the kirkuk oil fields after it took back control of the oil rich region the fields are generating billions of dollars of revenue for the

kurds from erbil in northern iraq charles stratford reports. the rocky government forces a rueful control. the oil fields around kirkuk one of iraq's two main oil producing areas were vital for the economy. before the peshmerga forces withdrew the kurdistan regional government was pumping around six hundred thousand barrels of oil a day from wells like these. this is one of the main processing units the buy has and feel it used to be exploited by the occupying forces of coke now thank god the fields have been handed over to the iraqi authorities when the peshmerga controlled this area the iraqi government accused the kurdish leaders of not sharing oil revenue with bank dat. so it stops sending the seventeen percent of the federal budget as per the two thousand and five constitution to the region now with the oil fields back under iraqi government control the oil ministry has vowed to increase

production to one million barrels a day. and it's threatening legal action against the kurdistan regional government if it stops the flow to the turkish mediterranean port of jihan through a pipeline across the kurdish region of northern iraq the oil ministry isn't taking any risks. it plans to repair and reopen a pipeline that was damaged in two thousand and fourteen during fighting against eisel one that doesn't cross kurdish territory. as militia and iraqi government forces filled the streets in the nearby town of debase the sheer song echoes from loudspeakers. don't underestimate mr kurt we are the ancestors of the grandson of the prophet muhammad would be an accurate translation. prime minister hyderabadi says in taking back control of the kirkuk oil fields he has acted according to iraq's constitution for the benefit of all

iraqis the kurdish government says it's being punished by baghdad and the international community for holding a referendum on eventual secession from iraq which was the kurdish people's right we are disappointed at the reaction of the international community they should not have let down the people of color to stop they have abandoned us at the time that we have done exactly what they have been preaching they mean people preaching that democracy human rights rule of law transparency and openness going to the public going to the source of legitimacy is this a crime the kurdistan regional government is around seventeen billion dollars in debts and revenue from kirkuk spoil fields was vital to compensate for the seventeen percent of the federal budget the baghdad stopped sending this region in two thousand and fifteen now baghdad has not yet said when know if it will restart sending the money but with the oil fields firmly under government control the

economic situation of this region could get even worse. there bill. spain has warned it will take the unprecedented step of seeking to suspend catalonia is autonomy if the region's leader doesn't abandon his secession bid careless pledge to man has until thursday morning to tell us central government in madrid whether or not he is declaring a split from the rest of the country if he does declare independence madrid says it will trigger article one five five of spain's constitution a measure never used before which will allow it to take direct control over catalonia madrid could then suspend please demands regional government and eventually trigger new elections in catalonia barco reports from barcelona. save catalonia as independence movements looking increasingly desperate they're reaching out for help it concerns to each and every european citizen but slick campaign

videos won't end the tense standoff with the spanish government now before it's too late. to earlier this week protests at barcelona against the jailing of two independents leaders by spanish judge the catalan president carlos putsch of almost called them political prisoners last week he unilaterally declared independence and civil tasty suspended it to allow for talks but prime minister mariano rajoy says his government won't mediate with secessionists he's given puchol until thursday morning to clarify revoke any independence claim if he doesn't back down the spanish government could take another precedented step and impose direct rule which of on his entire government could be suspended or even jailed this is high stakes political brinkmanship of mr preacher moss he was ready to risk everything he believes he's honoring the will of more than two million people that voted in favor of independence in

a referendum that isn't recognised outside catalonia if the madrid government decide to impose direct rule the independence movement says there was. seismic i think it would be tremendously unwise to interfere in catalan autonomy because i know my country people will be an enormous response by most of the people in schools and television in the media we're talking about people taking to the streets again of course we've been doing that for seven years we've had millions of people going to the streets and we would have thought again in protest of course but the spanish government knows the regions defy did some catalans want secession now others are hesitant in large numbers hate the idea of these risky his career he's risking his liver to his freedom he is risking a start really i mean i. mean is divided into two parts and i think. if he goes farther it will be. with time running out which of all

has little option but to push for talks with the whole way where you've got the desire for independence against the possible loss of everything he and others here spend years trying to achieve the falcon al-jazeera barcelona and joining us now live is a genius he's a presser in spanish studies asked invested with me here in the studio so. deadline looming for. thursday morning yes decide what to do and we've had one report this evening from from russia saying that he told a meeting of his party that he would formally declare independence if spain starts the process of suspending regions autonomy so it's almost like he's saying he'll declare it once they impose it will what do you think is that you know that's likely i don't think that's very likely and i think there's still continue in this game of chicken with the two sides so he's going to blink first so putting out information just to kind of excitement out information and first he was going to be the clear in the pen for you that was later than it was

a suspended independence so it's a little bit odd and we don't really know what's going to happen but what is sure is that he is posturing on both sides are waiting to see what the other one is going to do. you will have to wait and see and so if spain does because article one verify what in practice will that mean that's a very good question and it can mean a number of things there is no real sense that there is just one thing about taking on sort of the away from god saloon you know there's a certain sort of degree of recent trial a station that can take place and this has taken place in spain before it's a constant process of giving out saddam and then something is pulling it back as well so it really depends on what the central government wants to do there is a sense that the most important side of it which was a security forces somehow already happened with the presence of spanish forces and police in catalonia so we have to wait and see what they decide to do and what about this issue the issue of potentially elections maybe being some kind of way out is that would that really be a possible kind of end to the to the office that was

a proposal by the socialist party and i think was well received in madrid that this crisis could be averted if the catalan government was to call new elections and then both would be thinking that the result of the election might be a little bit different and hence could break this particular deadlock it's obviously a gamble from both parties the catalan government is not particularly keen on that outcome because in their mind the referendum took place it was perfectly legal and perfectly binding the spanish government of course has completely different view and what about the people involved in this i mean two of the leaders who helped to organize a referendum have been. detained and put them on course the political prisoners essentially what will happen to him if if direct rule is imposed you think he could be locked up or no i don't think he would be locked up i think there would be perhaps are going to be two four and i think perhaps it's a gamble too many for the central government and that would really have negative repercussions for the relationship between the two the two sides but there is certainly a chance he sees certain

a risk in his political career and at the end of the day the spanish government is holding all the cards and they really have most of the support so it really depends on how the catalan government can wheedle out of this situation about it or maginnis thank you very much indeed for coming to talk to us thank you. u.s. president don't trump is facing more controversy over his handling of the deaths of four u.s. soldiers in an ambush in need of this month he's been forced to deny making insensitive remarks in a phone call to the we do one of the men i want to ask correspondent can be healthy just following the story first committee that had the briefing what's the white house been saying about all this. well the white house is defending what is really sort of devolved into a he said she said involving the deaths of one of the soldiers at issue claims by a democratic congresswoman who was present when the president called the widow of one of the service members that was killed in a share she says that the president in fact was insensitive in his remarks saying

that the soldier who died knew what he signed up for and now the white house as you point out of the press briefing that happened very recently is denying the president was an any way insensitive lauren they are saying that in fact there were many witnesses in the room including general john kelly his chief of staff who himself is what americans call a gold star family that is the family of a fallen service member general kelly son was killed in afghanistan in two thousand and ten so his opinion does carry some weight he says the president acted appropriately was empathetic in the telephone call and also respectful of the white house is sort of firing back saying that the democratic congresswoman is really trying to politicize an event that they say they consider to be appalling that this would occur and now i should point out too that this democratic congressman has been a longtime critic of the president at the same time frederica wilson the congresswoman along with the service members family are standing by their story that they feel

that this service member was disrespected by the president in his condolence call in a possibility and hasn't tended to back away from any kind of confrontation but on this one is it possible for him to come out on top with this. it doesn't appear this is one that the president can win the president's known for not backing down even sometimes when it's proven that he may be in the wrong he maintains and sticks to his story but have to give you some understanding gold star families as they're called are really put on a pedestal here in the united states they're considered almost untouchable in terms of criticism because their loved one is paid what they call the ultimate sacrifice and that is dying for your country so the fact that the president isn't choosing to engage even if he is in the right many are finding distasteful lack of compassion being shown and really feel that politically this is not one that he can win and add to that too there are increasing questions being raised about the mission itself that allowed for these four soldiers to be killed the fact that it was an

ambush occurred in an area that is known to have had some insurgent activity why they were there at all and why they were traveling in an unarmed vehicle can be how could thank you very much indeed as much more still to come this hour including venezuela's opposition refuses to join other state governors who've been sworn in before president maduro his constituent assembly. argentine investigators say they believe they found the body of a young protester who went missing months ago sparking major protests. and it was a bad day for the top seed at the kremlin cup tennis and moscow peta has more not spoken.

at all the excitement over the remains of feet of dissipated into the eastern across scandinavia we've still got plenty of cloud in western europe navvies your standard frontal climates done some good in portugal and spain has had to help damp down the fires that are no longer a significant problem but that strong up frontal system encloses what is really becoming a very warm area is nearly twenty in northern germany much the same in london and even the other side of that cold drugs still talk about seventeen in madrid and that's light and warm up i think in the next day or so but the rain on the front itself will age in western side a minute rain in southern france the riviera included but notice the wind in the water still travelling north with it back out through belgium towards probably holland just hover around the twenty mark till the cow digs in of it will even then it's sixty seventy the real warm to sitting down and remain your bug area and greece where we see temperatures slowly rising up into the middle twenty's with the sun in the sky now is not much for wind on the eastern side of the med says fine

sunny not too hot twenty four in benghazi so a bit more unsettled with the word i think america and i'll geria wet and breezy. she was a society hostess in beirut in one thousand nine hundred forty she was in touch with a lot of people from the lebanese the requests to make this work. and she spied for mossad in lebanon. what she was doing it was such a big break as it would make. sure that. the baby. at this time. discover a wealth of wood winning programming from around the world powerful documentary as we were running away for our life from

a brutal regime the queue for the cell phone and debate some discussions we're getting comments on what the international community should do how worried should we therefore me that this guy has the nuclear codes on a scale of one to ten can challenge your perceptions al-jazeera. one of the top stories here out of there ken you know positionally the writer dingo has called for mass protests on election day this is total action officials cast doubt on how credible a presidential rerun will be. police in somalia have fired into the air to disperse thousands of angry protesters trying to reach the site of saturday's deadly

bombings which killed more than three hundred people in mogadishu. and u.s. backed forces fighting are still in syria have been clearing main roads and graca a day after their commanders declared the city under their control. china's president has told the communist party's nineteenth congress in beijing that it's time trying to take center stage in the world in a three and a half hour speech she's being laid out his political and economic vision for the next five years he highlighted china's successes and vowed to open its economy further but he also warned of severe challenges like rising debt and inequality reaffirmed his vow to stamp out corruption promising new laws to tackle a problem which is currently handled by a shadowy internal party process and he talked about the dangers posed by climate change saying china must cooperate with other nations to as he put it ensure the survival of mankind or china correspondent adrian 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 ahead. our country is at a strategic point in is development 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 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 seems 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. laze 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 al-jazeera beijing. united nations says it's considering whether violence against muslims constitutes genocide or than five hundred eighty thousand ranger have fled me in march from bangladesh since august in what the un has previously described as textbook ethnic cleansing amnesty international accuses me of mass curacy forces of raping and killing villages and setting fire to homes is calling for an arms embargo on me in march and criminal prosecution of its forces un human rights chief says perpetrators of crimes against range of muslims must face charges and if they don't he's calling on

the security council to act it all out there is mike hanna the crisis that began in august is only getting worse. the attacks by the american salvation army was met by a very methodical and well planned well organized response that did not seem to us to be anything remotely like counterinsurgency but a wholesale displacement of people from northern iraq to cox bazaar and bangladesh and so it had all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing now what monitors had made clear as well is that it's not just the enforced removal of people it's also the destruction of their homes to prevent them from brittany i mean the confirmation of this will come in two forms one is harmony they're willing to accept back if it's only a trickle then this confirms the ethnic cleansing cleansing hypothesis and the second of course is that all of this would have to be confirmed when one day surely those

who have committed or perpetrated these atrocities are holed up before a court and answer to a judge so that the victims can sense that a certain extent justice will be served to me in particular for many years have asked that we not just have an office in young gone but they will be given unfettered access to northern rakhine whenever we feel and deem it necessary and this second part was not forthcoming when we made it an explicit request of uncensored she in october last year to send in investigators at a time she was telling the international community that the military had completed its operation in the wake of that attack last year satellite imagery made very clear that they had not yes and today. they received further

information that what we're seeing in northern rakhine is still continuing what we have. still continuing reports of extrajudicial killings reports of sexual abuses of the most horrific kind of course including rape this is still ongoing notwithstanding the claim that the military operations have largely wound down this does not seem to be the case but the idea that this could be conducted with impunity i think must be put behind us and then if. resistant then security council should consider the measures of course to be applied tanishaa reports from the bangladeshi border with me and what conditions are like that at least ten to fifteen thousand people are stranded here in no man's land what is called a line between myanmar and bangladesh brought out this area. this paper that flagman my within the last two days that been stranded they have and has no safety

to go to most of them people are exposed to well the majority are women and children or elderly people that the government has given permission to some of the aid agencies to bring critical care medicine and food but still taking shelter in the pedophile and manmade dike just doesn't make sense that coming under critical review by the u.n. agencies and other international aid agencies that why are still kept we are one of the broader got off that we're undertaking to shelters include a public we need a coordinated approach before we take them in that shelter in quite appalling 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. and that's right his opposition is refusing to swear in its newly elected governors before present maduro's powerful constituent assembly which it deems unconstitutional under socialist government

eighteen out of venezuela's twenty three states in sunday's regional elections this despite polls putting the opposition far ahead opposition leaders have refused to accept the surprise win and edging dirty tricks such as elections and is being moved to dangerous areas at the last minute calling for street protests if there isn't a full recount to risible is live for us now in caracas so riza eighteen of the governors have now been sworn in what about the five who refused. well that's correct eighty new government orders were sworn i mean amity big celebration inside the constitutional assembly where the president of the national assembly gave people do you think also the former foreign minister said back to venezuela democracy was exemplary video elections that happened last sunday were almost perfect them that they are not. need to respect the country's democracy however the five governors representing the state i won by the opposition were not present in the fleet they are basically asking that be before now and in fact the legislative

council so far the government has not. lost to reason both the calm here anymore either so with that we'll move on thanks to tourism reporting there from caracas about the latest twist in the venezuelan political crisis. investigators in argentina say they believe they found the body of a young activist who's been missing for more than two months santiago maldonado was last seen at a tribal rights protest in the southern patagonia region in august just before it was raided by police a twenty eight year old disappearance smart major protests a body was found in a nearby river on tuesday and has yet to be formally identified campaigning has halted in argentina as midterm congressional elections general china joins us now via skype from the capital but as area so what do we have any further confirmation about whose body this is. we don't know who the signs point to the fact that it

almost certainly is that that missing activist sent the article by then our bill i think the fact that the major political parties here are all suspended campaigning ahead of sunday's latest this election shows how sensitive this issue is as you mentioned big protests around the country in the last few months asking for the story it is to come up with our service to say whether he was killed by the author already it's whether he drowned in the river to all fact disappear in on those circumstances so really the family has also asked the families that you know about that are those asked for that piece of this occasion they've asked to be left alone waiting for that final confirmation in what is a very tense time and the very fact that they'll come up with confirmation or not by no means means that the process that division is it art and science has started well there tell us more about santiago i'm not a nutter and what his cause was. but he was an activist he was an artist twenty

eight year olds who. aligned to various causes he was out campaigning on behalf of the. people of the south of argentina about land rights beginning old organise there was a clash with the local police with the gendarmerie police he disappeared shortly afterwards and there's been a great deal of speculation that's been citing supposing sightings of santiago across the border in chile some people said they had saw activity on his mobile phone others that they saw him being beaten by the police his body there was that hidden so really a great deal of speculation over what might have happened to him and really showing up divisions in argentine society many of them related so i think that the wounds that we still have here over the war the military the government that was in power here for nine hundred seventy six the one nine hundred eighty three when something like thirty thousand people were kidnapped tortured disappeared by the authorities

so those wounds are still very raw and any incidents in which this clashes with the police this a clip disappears after clashes with the pit police often ends of this kind of speculation divisions in society big protests it's not meant to be the issue ahead of sunday's election that is that elections but has now become very much the issue with just a few days to go and so voting takes place. thank you very much indeed there were contacts there from argentina thank you. let's go back now to toure is a bone caracas for more on the fallout after the state government ship elections in venezuela so i think we've got you back and and what will the opposition do now for those results. well there's a big question about what's coming next now the five governors from the state that well from the of the opposition one year in the country did not attend the swearing in ceremony of the constitutional assembly they asked to be sworn in in the legislative council but they got the president in the back of that those who did

not attend the swearing in ceremony were going to begin so we don't hear yet what's going to happen but the whole debate right now with what the opposition is going to do because let's not forget that right now the democratic duty round table is composed of about twenty parties twenty party that have lots of difference of one another and those differences are coming out now many of them are basically saying that they shouldn't have participated because there were no guarantee that the government was going to respect this whole focus that there were not that already been lots of irregularities in the past prior to the election that they should have taken part i don't others are basically trying to find a way what are they going to do now they're saying that there's going to be more protests but given the situation that we're seeing right now in the country people are exhausted they feel months and months of protests and election those who are you supporting the opposition are basically do not trust in the electoral government i don't think it's going to be difficult for the opposition to be able to put people back on the street because in general there's not so frustrated and

disappointment to resemble something very much. al-jazeera is demanding the release of its journalist hussein who's now been imprisoned in egypt for three hundred two days is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos and al-jazeera strongly deny the murder has repeatedly complained of mistreatment during his incarceration he was arrested in december while visiting his family. israeli army has raided the offices of several t.v. channels and production companies in the occupied west bank confiscating equipment and closing some of them down the media companies raided into channel in hebron power media in bethlehem and ramallah and the access and palestine channels in ramallah as well as the offices of transmedia in nablus and hebron israel accuses the media companies of broadcasting material that quote incites terror israel has approved another large set of plans for settler homes in the occupied west bank is

part of an israeli government push to expand illegal settlement building and as harry force it reports it's increasing the pessimism about progress towards a two state solution. it's been a week that's demonstrated israel's plans despite palestinian protest international opposition and us calls for restraint to accelerate settlement construction plans for two thousand six hundred forty six new housing units are being promoted in thirty illegal settlements that figure from just one of four planning meetings should yield this year is higher than the total for the whole of twenty sixteen one senior palestinian political figure says the motivation is clear to guarantee in advance the failure of attempts to reach a two state solution but they feel they're already going to have to end is that they can make a qualitative tune and because the world is not the nuclear desponding with punitive acts against israel the thing that can do it the approvals come at various stages along a lengthy and complex planning process here at bay hill for instance it's right at

the end final tenders being approved for the construction of nearly three hundred new housing units that would grow the settlement by about a fifth of its current size. the israeli prime minister has been trying to satisfy a powerful processor boyce's in his coalition government last month leading celebrations of fifty years of settlement construction the increase in building hasn't satisfied settler groups though he wanted more from whose warm relationship with a new u.s. president but the trump white house is still if in milder terms than its predecessor urging restraint on settlements while it considers its options for reviving the israeli palestinian peace process this is not what stops the peace process from moving forward what stops the peace process from moving forward is is when you see the palestinian authority make a deal with hamas what kind of confidence does that give the people of israel to make concessions that deal signed in cairo last week was aimed at healing ten years

of division between the rival palestinian political factions fatah and hamas on tuesday israel declared it would not hold any peace talks with a future palestinian unity government that included hamas which it considers a terror group all of which leaves the peace process as stalled as it's been for years as israel's west bank footprint continues to grow very force it al-jazeera in the occupied west bank. portugal's interior minister has resigned after a major outbreak of wildfires killed dozens of people from stars so burn notice was a ministry has faced public criticism over its handling of the emergency hundreds of fires have raged across northern and central portugal after the driest summer nearly ninety years killed at least forty one people and sent to a new cost us government faces a no confidence vote next week over its slow response to the fires russian t.v. personality senior sub czech has announced the show stand in the twenty eight hundred presidential election thirty five year old liberal candidate who was once

described by vogue magazine as russia's paris hilton is the daughter of the first democratically elected marius of petersburg a father anatoly sobchak hired the current president vladimir putin into city hall in the one nine hundred ninety s. so object could steal liberal votes from putin critic x. in a volley opinion polls give putin a comfortable win if he decides to run for a fourth term toxic fumes of forced a last minute venue change for an e.u. leaders summit in brussels fumes from kitchen drains in the europa building caused to switch as and twenty four hours before leaders were due to meet for the two day event it was evacuated after catering staff were taken ill with thursday's summit now due to be held next door the building opened in january amid controversy over its three hundred twenty million euro price tag. so ahead this news hour well tell you what caused these n.b.a. stars to react in hama and game of the season that's just ahead of peter in sports

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thank you business update brought to you by catalog they always going places together. as a way to pay to put sport. lauren thank you very much it was a special night for barcelona star linnell messy in the champions league on wednesday as he neared to the one hundred goal in european competitions cero piquet was red carded after a limpy our courses dimitrios nikolaus put the ball into his own it basso then doubled the lead courtesy of messi bringing up essentially in european competitions look at dean made it three before nick allow made up for its earlier era somewhat

with a consolation goal three one the final score there was a thrilling six goal encounter at stamford bridge between english champions chelsea and say our side roman louise and it in has a chance here to go lead before alexander color of and inject the level four roma then gave the italian club the leader but has been levelled to secure a three three draw and it was a good night back in europe for the returning buy in munich boss your pint this thomas miller handed by in the lead in the first half against celtic joshua chemical made it to no before the half time break and then early in the second period mats hummels scored the third to wrap up a three nil win for brian also on the night event has defeated sporting lisbon two one paris st germain hammered anderlecht for no away from home and manchester united will one no winners at binfield. the way forward in the n.f.l. seems there's unclear is over despite a two day meeting in new york between players team owners and officials in an

attempt to work out some of the big issues plaguing america's most popular sport top of that agenda players who neil during the playing of the national anthem and it fell commissioner roger goodell says the league will not order players to stand during the anthem but stop short of announcing any penalties for those who continue to protest players protesting against racial injustice in the u.s. by kneeling during the national anthem has been a major point of contention and has divided opinion in the country. we believe. everyone should stand for the national anthem that's an important part of our policy it's also an important part of our game that we take great pride in and it's also important for us to honor our flag and to our country and we think our fans expect us to do that and so that is something that we continue to focus on the small but really talking a lot about the opportunity that exists with our players to try to go and really

make a difference in our communities in a positive way so that is some of what goodell had to say is our reporter gabriel elizondo is in new york he can tell us more now. after more than two days of closed door meetings at this hotel behind me it's pretty clear that we're not much different than where we were two days prior to these meetings roger go dell the powerful n.f.l. commissioner basically saying that the n.f.l. believes that all players should stand during the national anthem but giving no indication that the n.f.l. plans to fine players if they do not abide by that or if they plan to change the rule book that simply seems like it will not be happening so a lot of this was just about dialogue that's a word that we heard over and over the last couple days it was one of the first time since this controversy has erupted that both the players' union the n.f.l. commissioner and the thirty two owners of the n.f.l.

teams have all gotten together to really discuss this to try to reach some sort of compromise and a lot of ways the n.f.l. is trying to have it both ways trying to appease both the players who make up the n.f.l. and are the key aspect of football but also the fans and those that think that this is a patriotism issue now it will be interesting to see the next time n.f.l. game will take place will be on thursday evening in oakland california it will be interesting to see if players there decide to continue the protest and if they do what the fans reaction might be. let's move on to the n.b.a. known the chicago bulls have suspended forward. eight games off to seriously injured teammates. in an altercation during practice meanwhile the golden state warriors got they tied to the fence off to a losing start against the euston rockets while the boston celtics went down to the cleveland cavaliers in the season opener has but it was meant to be a joyous night in cleveland full celtics gordon haywood turned into

a nightmare one hundred twenty seven million dollars signing school two points but it was only on court full six months six minutes that is a big step in the twenty seven year old who. knocked over by the bron james inflicting a gruesome fractured ankle that made even the grown stars of the n.b.a. wince haywood was taken to hospital for surgery the celtics losing one hundred to one thousand nine hundred. in tennessee it's been a bad day for the top seeds at the crimson cup in moscow christina mladen of h. has been suffering from a knee injury recently and hasn't won a match since all this the french seeded number one in russia made it ten straight defeats and she lost to xander cessna which in three six. second seed coco than the way was also an early casualty in the american who was coached by four women champion pat cash suffering a three said defeat to leslie at soaring. and home favorites elena vesnina swiftly followed suit the third seed losing in

straight sets to further russian the tally of victory young said. and that is all the sport for now it's back to you lauren in london peter thank you very much indeed and plenty more for you sport and news on our website address what is al-jazeera dot com. that's it for me and i'll be back in just a moment on a full day's news that's what your news hour by for now.

it's the end of the breeding season as we take a ferry through the straits of magellan to magdalen island today the island is a penguin colony sanctuary with access to tourists accompanied by foot nine percent penguin expert cloudy old boy we learned the penguin colonies in south america are under threat climate change is one reason it is well documented that changing rain patterns or spend was to abandon fly the nest warmer ocean temperatures have diminished the quantity and quality of fish for the penguins who were swim further and further away to feed their young overfishing and ocean contamination especially

plastics are also killing penguins al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of count folk abene dot. the first u.n. envoy trying to bring peace to the middle east how is negotiations with himmler helped save thousands of jews from nazi concentration camps and how these mediation skills put him at the vanguard in the quest for peace in the middle east. killing the count at this time on al-jazeera. a call for mass protests on polling day as kenya's election chief says the presidential rerun may not be free and fair.

nor until this is al jazeera live from london also coming up.