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a low i maryanne demasi this is the news hour live from london coming up spain's that suspend catalonia is autonomy after the region's leader refuses to back down over declaring independence. taliban attacks kill one hundred twenty people in just a few days with at least forty three afghan troops the latest casualties. the u.n. voices concerns that kurds are being driven from their homes in areas retaken by iraqi forces. it was a ten. donald trump gives his administration top marks for its response to the hurricane which devastated puerto rico we look at how the island is getting on. and on. with the latest sports news says norway's women's football team become the first female national team to receive the same pay deal as they male counterparts getting more later this hour.

our top story this hour the confrontation of a catalonia is intensifying spain's government says it will suspend catalonia as autonomy after the region's president refused to back down on independence prime minister mariano rajoy will hold a cabinet meeting on saturday to trigger article one fifty five of the constitution a measure that's never been used before which allows madrid to impose direct rule over catalonia they've baka is in barcelona. spain's political crisis is g.p.d. after failing to comply with the spanish government to lose. will now be stripped of its autonomy in more theoretical mocking form in the absence of a clear response we note that he has not answered our request and therefore we will continue procedure of triggering article one five five of the constitution to restore legality in catalonia the capsule and president. had been given until

thursday morning to clarify and revoke any independence claim last week he unilaterally declared independence and similar suspended it to allow for talks but instead of clarifying his position p.j. mom sent a letter to madrid calling for an end to repression and for dialogue. prime minister mariano rajoy has repeatedly refused to mediate with the secessionists we're now in uncharted territory article one five five has never been invoked in mainland spain before they could see devolved powers over the raising of taxes education health care the police soon in madrid hands of the very worst you could see the suspension of the government and the arrest of its leaders it's hard to imagine any of these scenarios unfolding without more massive protests or perhaps even a change of tactics i think there's no possibility of course going like taking arms phrasing arms and or even like. seeing the birth of

a terrorist group i don't think that is a possibility at all but some kind of more aggressive i don't want to say by a land but more stronger organized insurgency in terms of political insurgency and organization i think it's it's probably. the bridge to show restraint and misty internationals urged the spanish government to avoid a repeat of these scenes of the day of the cattle referendum. they've also asked for two independents leaders jailed by spanish judge to be released the spanish government expects it to finalize plans for direct rule at a cabinet meeting on saturday. in response the cattle and leadership say they'll now formalize a dependent with a vote of the regional parliament this tense standoff is entering a critical new phase eve parker al-jazeera barcelona. all european

leaders current meeting in brussels and express their support for spain's government a spanish prime minister mariano rajoy is also there for the two day in the summit is currently taking place the french president and the german chancellor angela merkel gave him their backing but european council leader donald her school without any european union role in the dispute between the trade and barcelona. of course from and the reasons in the permanent conductor is the prime minister mariano rajoy . hiding to the situation in spain newscycle certainly but to. position i mean the institutions and member states are. clear the. room lost both for and the kind of mediation or. international. initiative or action. saying in brussels e.u. leaders have welcomed a proposal by british prime minister to resume a aimed on blocking breaks it talks but said concessions to ease the fears of

citizens living in britain just don't go far enough arriving at a two day e.u. summit may sought to shift the focus away from a divorce settlement and on to trade talks just seventeen months before britain is due to leave the union and adding to her pressures this provocative tweet from goldman sachs c.e.o. lloyd blankfein he said he'll be spending more time in frankfurt because it breaks it britain is currently home to most of the company's european headquarters but it's pushing ahead with plans to now make the german city a major base jonah how has more on the talks in brussels. to reason may has had the opportunity to address over dinner her fellow e.u. leaders here in brussels talking about what she described as concrete progress in bricks and talks so far she had hoped until recently to be able to persuade them that sufficient progress had been made in the thorny talks around money the so-called rex's brakes a divorce bill to be able to move on to the next abstained to face talks about a future trade relationship between for britain and the e.u.

at a cost big business in the u.k. is desperate to know about as it tries to plan for the effects of breaks it down the road well the e.u. is not convinced about sufficient progress they are not sold on britain's offer of meeting its outstanding liabilities and commitments to the tune of twenty billion plus dollars over a two year transition period the figure they have in mind is likely tens of billions higher than that so she's not going to get the breakthrough in talks the cheap hoped for but will the allow her to go away empty handed well the e.u. knows only too well how politically weakened she is at home they don't want to damage her any further that only makes talks even harder the hope exists i think that on friday after she's left they may offer some kind of an olive branch some kind of a concession which allows her to go home at least with a minor victory and the possibility of preserving what's left of her political sovereignty all moving now to our other top story this hour taliban fighters have

killed forty three afghan soldiers after storming a military camp in the middle of the night the group set off two suicide car bombs at a base in the my one district of kandahar which was followed by a gun battle that lasted for hours or than one hundred twenty people have now been killed in a series of taliban attacks this week jennifer glass has more from kabul. the taliban attack the afghan army base in southern afghanistan in my want near the helm on the border in the early hours of thursday morning killing forty three afghan soldiers there elsewhere in afghanistan at about the same time five soldiers killed five police killed the numers and six killed in northern bloc province that of course coming after earlier this week two separate attacks in eastern afghanistan borders impact and in gaza killed another eighty people as well most of them afghan security forces some of them civilians the gardez attack involving two suicide car bombs also wounded three hundred people

security forces as well as civilians but the fact that these attacks have taken place in the north in the east in the south and the southwest show really that the breadth of. the taliban has across the country the fact that they are able to make launch these significant major attacks across the country and hold certain areas and also that they're willing to attack military posts and inflict large amounts of casualties shows that they really can still fight now afghanistan i think that's the message they're trying to send to the afghan government and to the international community particularly perhaps the united states government which is starting to send a several thousand additional troops here to afghanistan to support the afghan security forces and the and the american secretary of state saying that the united states remain in afghanistan as long as the taliban don't come to the peace table that is the ultimate goal of the afghan government to make peace with the taliban or fight them so that they're no longer relevant so far that the taliban have shown

really no indicate indication that they plan to come to the peace table and the fighting becomes more intense. well as jennifer was saying that has been a string of attacks across afghanistan in recent days white is also attacked a police headquarters in the southeastern province of gaza on thursday the second attack on it this week and the group was responsible for an ambush in the northern balik province which killed six police officers on wednesday this after it unleashed a wave of attacks on tuesday targeting police compounds and government facilities with suicide bombers and killing at least seventy four people well david seventy from the center for strategic and international studies in washington says the taliban attacks are a way of reasserting their relevance in the region at the beginning of the fighting season this year in the spring the taliban's objective was to seize more curatorial particularly district in provincial capitals that has by and large failed on like last year in the year before when they were able to seize several provincial

capitals for periods of time this year they've not been able to seize any significant population centers so the taliban needed to send a message before the fighting season ends in the next few weeks but they are still relevant to able to carry out these attacks but at the same time in this part of lashing out a large number of casualties including civilians builds opposition to the call of bond among the vast majority of afghans so the taliban are actually in a difficult position but they still remain retain the ability to carry out these larger packs are in harm's way there they've not been able to make the kind of progress in the rest of the country that they had hoped to at the beginning of this year the leader of an offshoot of the taliban in pakistan has been killed in a u.s. drone strike. died of his injuries after two u.s. trained strikes on monday which also killed at least nine ella's it was the head of jemaah which has carried out some of the deadliest attacks in pakistan including a suicide bombing in a whole park that killed seventy five people last year

a spokesperson from the armed group confirmed his death. coming up for you this hour. taking place in pakistan after ousted pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif is formally charged with corruption. why an unwelcome speech by a white nationalist has cost the university of florida more than half a million dollars. look to having someone to cheer for in the kremlin cup semifinals it'll have that. one person has been killed and six others wounded after iraqi forces opened fire on kurdish protesters in qana keen the kurdish demonstrators were protesting against the takeover of the city by iraqi forces and i came as claimed by both the

kurdistan regional government and the central authority in baghdad. what about one hundred thousand kurds have fled the cook region since it was retaken by iraqi forces the u.n. says it's worried by reports civilians are being forcibly displaced in their houses and businesses looted and destroyed from air bill in northern iraq stephanie decker reports. in a dusty abandoned housing project on the outskirts of erbil these are unexpected occupants. kurdish families who fled their homes in kirkuk and surrounding areas just a couple of days ago now scrambling for basic supplies. to man abdul kareem says she left because she was scared of shia militia fighters called hostile shabby who arrived alongside the iraqi army. they weren't good with kurds they didn't treat us well they used to take em and imprison them even hit women my husband is dead all i could do is take my four children and run away we came to

a build it is ours to get the bride was cyc routed iraqi prime minister hi there he has ordered all armed groups out of kirkuk with only the iraqi army and federal police remaining he insists safe and calls for the protection of civilians the men here tell us they won't return. just like one rashid mohammad and his family he was a policeman in kirkuk until he fled two days ago. people are saying is safe now but it is propaganda and i they came out and beat the us they have burned houses that's why we got scared because of our families that's why we left a political party sold us out not all kurds are refugees this is all political. hinting at the internal divisions among the main two kurdish political parties the ruling accuse the p u k of colluding with the iraqi government leaders iran and turkey in orchestrating the takeover for cook a complex web of age old kurdish rivalries and geopolitical interests.

through her sixty seven years. a lot happened to us we don't own our own house now we don't even know if we have a house or out things every year there is a war the swarthy leads to this fight that leads to this war now they came to our homes and things wish should we go now. what is life in iraq she asks since i was a child i've never seen happiness it's we were off to war she tells us. many warned that regaining territory captured by eisel would mean little in solving iraq's complicated territorial ethnic and sectarian tensions it seems they may have been right stephanie decker or jazeera. meanwhile the kurds in syria been celebrating the capture of the city of raka from my sil but the growing influence of syria's kurdish factions is causing concern in neighboring turkey. now from

syria or. fighters from the popular protection units or y p g celebrating the capture of iraq. they are the most powerful kurdish group in syria the y. fiji's part of a coalition of up and kurdish factions known as the syrian democratic forces asked yeah i met the head of the operation to liberate rocco was a strategic and ideological battle for our forces we participated in a in a commanding role side by side with our comrades in the syrian democratic forces and the people's protection units behind the job didn't fight stands a huge poster of. the jailed leader of turkey's main kurdish rebel group the kurdistan workers party. i'm carlos says it's a terrorist organization next to a post is a picture of

a prominent command in the old female kurdish militia. that with solid intentions and a will that hasn't been broken we have achieved our goal which was to pound the strongholds of terrorism in the city we have restored on a to use eighty women by liberating dozens of slides who were taken from single and we've also afraid a similar number of children. the name roundabout is where isis fighters paraded in two thousand and fourteen when they took over iraq. it was also what opponents were murdered with isis gone these cars operating on the same spot to a sense of a growing influence their territory. stretch from. east all the way to after. the y.p. jews show force in iraq is likely to further stoke regional tension turkey

considers the kurds rising role in syria as a threat to its national security and turkish leaders accuse the wife being an extension of the wall force may be used against kurdish factions to stop their advances do turkeys border. a saudi government minister has already visited rucker to discuss his country's role in the reconstruction efforts there tama on who's the minister of state for arab affairs went to some of the territory captured by kurdish led rebels activists photos show him with brett mcgurk the u.s. president's special envoy against i still or u.s. secretary of state has criticized saudi arabia for failing to resolve its standoff with cata rex tillerson says he has little hope the crisis will end anytime soon and blame the saudi led bloc for a lack of progress to listen made the comments a day before he embarks on a trip to the region in

a renewed attempt to mediate the crisis in saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain an egypt sever ties with cateye in june accusing it of supporting terror groups. it's now speak to castro in washington d.c. what more do we know about to listens comments. hey mary i'm so rex tillerson had a distinct change in tone today in an interview he had with bloomberg news gone was that sense of optimism we heard back in july when the secretary of state made his last visit to the region instead after these three months of relative in action little progress to show tillerson expressed his frustration telling bloomberg that there seems to be a real unwillingness on the part of some of the parties to want to engage it's up to the leadership of the quartet when they want to engage with qatar because qatar has been very clear they're ready to engage the words of tillerson there the emir of qatar yesterday called this blockade and on it just to see and he did indicate

that his country is open to dialogue now to end this dispute mariyam and isn't the first time we've heard rex listen expressing his frustration on the foreign policy issues or the prospects for his upcoming trip to the region. well he is heading to riyadh tomorrow and then after that it's on to doha the expectation is he's renewing this push for mediation but he also said today that his expectations are low that this dispute will be resolved any time soon what this marks to is a very clear shift in evolution in the way that the u.s. has responded to this gulf crisis if you remember in june with this when this blog began u.s. president donald trump was quick to back saudi arabia trying to take claim so take some credit for the move saying that he was motivated by his recent trip to the region but since then the white house has been relatively quiet with the state

department taking the diplomatic lead to resolve this and we've seen intervention from the department of defense as well last month when the u.s. military halting some joint exercises with its gulf partners indicating that they wanted to do this in the spirit of regional unity also u.s. secretary of defense jim maddest made a surprise visit to doha last month in which he met with qatari leaders there all of this to say that this work is happening at a cabinet level and the fact that the white house has been relatively quiet is an indication of this fine line that the u.s. is attempting to walk in mediating this dispute between its allies mariyam i do joke ouster in washington d.c. thank you al-jazeera is demanding the release of its journalist mahmoud hussein who's now been in prison in egypt for three hundred two days is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and his era strongly deny mahmoud

has repeatedly complained of mistreatment during his time in prison he was arrested in december while visiting his family. white house chief of staff john kelly has defended president trump's handling of a phone call to the widow of a u.s. soldier in asia in which he allegedly made insensitive remarks let's get more on this now from our white house correspondent kimberly how kit and this is perhaps particularly poignant as john kelly himself lost a son in afghanistan what did he have to say though about this controlled a-c. it's something he rarely speaks about maryam so it was surprising to see him making a rare appearance to the white house briefing room and also discussing openly something you point out he rarely does the death of his own son which gives him a bit of gravity toss not just because he is the chief of staff at a retired marine general but also because he is a gold star family member of that is someone who has experienced their child or

a loved one. essentially losing their life on the battlefield or in action now what's interesting about this is that john kelly came out really to try and contain the crisis that has been going on for more than twenty four hours and beyond over the president's condolence call to the family rather the widow of sergeant le david johnson who is one of four u.s. soldiers killed in is there earlier this month it was very interesting because what he had to say was not only at times almost emotional but contradicted the president's denial when he said that in fact he did not ever tell the widow of sergeant johnson that he knew what he was getting into when he was killed if you listen there's no reason to list the list that he was where he wanted to be. exactly where he wanted to be with zach with the people he wanted to be with when

his wife was taken that was the message that was a message that was transmitted it stuns me that a member of congress were to listen in a conversation absolutely stunning. and i thought at least. he also says he told the president not to make the phone call in the first place but the president decided to anyway and that is the call that the democratic congresswoman frederica wilson listened in on and then criticize the president which really is what sparked all of this controversy she has always been a critic of the president but she's also been a longtime friend of the johnson family mentoring that young man before he decided to list to become a soldier the bottom line though the white house is maintaining that they feel that the criticism by the democratic congresswoman was inappropriate in fact john kelly saying in fact he believes that her actions were in his words selfish behavior all

right thank you very much kimberly arquette at the white house hundreds of protesters chanting go home nazis have tried to drown out his speech by white nationalist richard spencer at university of florida it was his first public appearance since the white supremacist rally in charlottesville which turned violent leaving one person dead hundreds of police officers were deployed outside of university or dettori him to ensure the event passes without violence the school estimates it spending six hundred thousand dollars on security florida's governor even declared a state of emergency. is live for us in gainesville and some extraordinary measures being taken here amid fears that there might be an outbreak of violence tell us more about what happened as richard spencer gave his speech that today. well the security operation in for all intensive purposes works there was very little violence here we saw a couple of arrests

a couple of minor squabbles but that was it but i can tell you from the moment that richard spencer took to the stage in the auditorium here behind me he was at odds with the crowd there were way more protesters here than so-called right protesters so we had a very hard time on stage spent much of his two hours where he was booked to speak arguing with the crowd calling them animals saying that what he said was going to change the world and they were afraid to listen but at the end of the day a white supremacist who came uninvited to a university here in central florida was drowned out by the voice of protesters i think that's the central message here but it's worth also noting that this entire security operation it was fairly unprecedented i haven't seen security this tight even on presidential visits cost more than half a million dollars now richard spencer is not going to stop the speaking tours of public universities this model worked but if that is the model that has to work going forward it's going to cost these are their institutions a lot of money and remember at the end of the day richard spencer of the national

policy institute only spent about ten thousand dollars book in this venue and they certainly got their headlines worth out of that kind of money. and so rich and spence has sparked such an intense debate about the right to free speech what do people there say about the most effective response to the type of inflammatory views expressed by someone like this. i mean that's a good question because many people i've spoken to here some say the best thing to do with a character like who is spewing hatred is to ignore him but there are other people who just feel strongly that you shouldn't ignore him and come here and make your voice heard the university president here tell people to go away lots of students actually went to disney world for the day or they went to the beach some had a virtual conference online but many of them actually did turn up here wants to make their voices heard wanted to look at the lessons of history past and make sure

that he was drowned out and that's essential what happened i mean he couldn't really get a word out edgewise while he was on stage he felt spent so much time sparring with people in the crowd and accusing them of various different things but he couldn't get any points across any way but certainly i think most people here at the university of florida weren't ready to hear the kind of hateful rhetoric that he talks about anyway but it won't stop him from going on to other institutions and getting the kind of headlines he certainly has garnered here today thanking a very much. as from gainesville florida. i want to tell you about this hour myanmar is continuing to face pressure of its treatment of range of muslims as the u.s. now weighs in on the crisis. scientists warn of a looming ecological armageddon as new research reveals the flying insect population is shrinking like never before. the second as many nights of the stars of the places.

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watching the news out a quick update of the stories making headlines spain's government says it will hold a cabinet meeting on saturday to trigger article one fifty five of the constitution that will allow it to impose direct rule of the catalonia after the region's president ignored a deadline to back down of a secession. taliban fighters have killed forty three afghan soldiers in an overnight assault on a minute tree camp in the southern province of kandahar. and about a hundred thousand kurds a fled the cocoa region since it was retaken by iraqi forces the u.n. says it's worried by reports civilians are being forcibly displaced. international pressure on myanmar is intensifying over the violent repression of her him jim muslims the united nations and the u.s. government all the military responsible in a calling for tough measures to deal with the crisis.

tens of thousands of ranger refugees are coming to bangladesh every day they see their homes are being burnt and they're being chased by buddhist mobs. they describe desperate conditions and having little to eat. military denies the allegations of abuse and insists it's going after what it calls terrorists but the international community doesn't believe the claims by the military we really hold the military leadership accountable for what's happening with the writing area what's most important to us is that the world can't just stand idly by and be witness. to the atrocities that are being reported in the area. that. there has been no let up in extrajudicial killings rights abuse rape and arson attacks the un rights chief told al-jazeera that the international community must intervene if perpetrators of the violence are not punished this is still ongoing notwithstanding the claim that the military operations have largely wound down this

does not seem to be the case but so the idea that this could be conducted with impunity i think must be put behind us and then if. resistant. security council should consider other measures of course to be applied nearly six hundred thousand people have had to leave their homes and because many don't have any official status in myanmar there's very little prospect of return. how does it. let's embrace sheltering cox's bazaar has been set up to help fifteen thousand people stranded along the bangladesh border tanveer choudhry is that. all this record is in this temporary shelter crossed into bangor those within the last two to three days now they were confined in a place called undermine part about ten to fifteen thousand were stranded there for the last three days they were not allowed inside one of the start treaty because

the bottom of the border guard confined them there not. to allow them in bangor the starter is designated certain places for this nearly. take shelter and we spoke to some of the rowing. there tells of atrocities similar to what the other refugees who came in recent days told us. that burning our homes in myanmar we can't do any business work there anymore the security forces driven us out of all villages and told us go to bangladesh you're not from hand. this corroborates with the amnesty international latest report about it find me on my arm a systematic approach of driving the most women out from myanmar into bangladesh this plight all the international pressure and diplomatic pressure nothing since myanmar army since to be determined to drive everyone in your muslim into bangladesh now at least eight people have been killed and twenty others injured in

an explosion at an unlicensed unlicensed fireworks east in india rescue is a working to clear the dead body in the collapsed building which is located in a recessed state policies are investigating the cause of the class called minute indian file a two week safety standards blast happened just hours before thursday's avali festival west setting a fire crackers is costing the celebrations meanwhile indian and pakistani troops of exchange sweets as part of diwali celebrations in the border village of atari the annual tradition takes place between the soldiers during major hay dualism festivals to promote peace. a pakistani court has formally charged the ousted prime minister nawaz sharif his daughter in law and son in law with corruption a painting a trial that could see the former leader jailed the twenty sixteen panama papers revealed the family had used offshore companies to buy expensive properties in london and now wealth did not match the income of the sheriff's insist the

proceedings are all part of a conspiracy fueled by the opposition party called reports. supporters cheered on miriam sharif and her husband mohamed saft are as they appeared in court in islamabad when they left they were formally facing corruption charges still sending a defiant message and denying the accusations. even if you know they should stop wasting their time and that's it's a country in the nation if they hand down a punishment then let them do it but they should stop making a mockery of the constitution will deprive the family of basic human rights a fair trial they should stop making a mockery of justice the leaks showed she and her family had much greater wealth than reported which helped them buy elegant expensive homes in london she is the heir to the sharif political dynasty her future complicated by the release of the panama papers that revelation lead to pakistani supreme court judges disqualifying the prime minister his third time in office once again and it early. wasn't in

court he's visiting his alien wife in europe but his daughter says he will return to face the charges political analysts say prosecutors have a strong case against them in this case there is a case of corruption. is just it's a just a matter of thirty days if the procedure takes its natural course the family will be you know in jail and they will be jailed for. the unit of seven fourteen years still his is a powerful name and to many pakistanis the rightful leader. we have always shown our respect to the law of the country and even to all institutions we are here to peacefully support our leaders and to show our solidarity with them sharif previously was deposed by coups and then the courts for that he paid a political price but now facing a future with his very freedom on the line. al jazeera.

police believe a bomb that killed. prominent journalist and molto was attached beneath her car and triggered remotely daphne a car want to see who is a renowned anticorruption blogger and fierce critic of the government died on monday as she was leaving her house earlier more than two hundred journalists marched in support of what a group of journalists have also filed a court case to ensure her sources on her phones and computers remain confidential as the investigation into her death continues. donald trump has given his government ten out of ten for its response to the hurricane disaster in puerto rico easing with the caribbean islands governor a card or a seller at the white house for us president said the federal government a done a great job its despite heavy criticism that the response to hurricane maria was insufficient especially when compared to how hard canes in texas and florida were handled trump also admitted hurricane maria was worse than hurrican katrina which

devastated new orleans earlier this month when visiting puerto rico the president said it hadn't been a real catastrophe like trina. how would you rate the way. it was a ten i would say it was probably the most difficult. when you talk about relief when you talk about search when you talk about all of the different levels. and even when you talk about lives saved. you look at the number of leave this was i think it was worse than katrina it was in many ways worse than anything people have ever seen well much of puerto rico still without electricity almost a month after the hurricane hit so let's find out more about how the island is coping with deseret rayna from the red cross she joins us now from san juan first of all what is the latest information you have about the numbers of people who are living without access to clean water or electricity. well hi

there and here in puerto rico you know we've been heartened every night that we see more lights on in the areas around the league metropolitan areas but up in the mountains we're still finding community after community that is without power without light. without safe thinking water and we're reaching in any way that we can. by climbing over my slides by forwarding rivers using smaller vehicles to get higher up into the mountains so that we can help them with the the different relief goods that we have gotten onto the island so far it's very difficult for you to gauge this from the position that your in at the moment and obviously very hard on the ground to help people but what sort of rough can you give us a rough estimate of the numbers of people who haven't had access to any supplies.

you know i haven't seen the numbers that haven't had access to anything because you know a lot of people have gotten out of their community if they're physically able to walk today to ask for a ride. to areas where they can access relief goods the local emergency management officials have been really good at pointing the red cross and other agents the to the neediest communities the ones that are most cut off the most remote and frankly have the most numbers of vulnerable people you know think about the elderly people that can't get out of their house and climb down and out and side to get to a point where there might be relief goods available so we're trying to make sure that our volunteers carry the supplies that they need up to them if other families haven't done it yet their children moms with babies and we've been trying to make sure that they have the supplies that they need like baby formula. and so it's in the diapers that kids need right now i think people without power

are. you know probably over about eighty percent of the island still doesn't have power and you know one of the key problem and finding it's just that the telecommunications still aren't up the cell towers and landline phone and that doesn't allow people to call and say what they need so we're having to go house to house community to community to find out what kind of supplies they still need for example children that need a ventilator to survive and their parents have been running that with a gas generator and they have to get gas for and what happens is that ventilator breaks down and they only have an hour battery power for their ventilator and more nurses are checking on these children and getting them help so that so that they can survive and we've just been looking at images of christie pylons and a lot of destruction on the road you've been saying that you've managed to reach

people in remote areas but how difficult is that when that has been so much devastation week by the hurricane and of the roads working of a possible. some roads are workable and passing but it changes day to day you know the rainy season has started here so areas where there are much like already they'll continue to have mudslides when there are torrential downpours i talk to one of our teams that went out today a group of puerto rican who live and work in the city of philadelphia joining the red cross they work for the sheriff's department they got leave and they came down here and they said that yesterday they reached a town that had been reached yet by anyone and they did it by going in the big truck that they were on base stood on top of the truck and lifted power lines that were down with their hands up over the truck dozens of times to get down this road

so that they could get to a community that had been reached now some of those people had gotten out of the community and gotten supplies and taking them back but they haven't been able to get bigger supplies like tarts like keepers of water like the large amount of food that we're bringing through for the families that need this and so i mean yeah it's really difficult we're trying to get some gators you know like four by four kind of vehicles that we can take deeper and higher into the mountain because it's just really impressive when you go to these communities and there's a bridge that out what might have taken them fifteen minutes to get to a hospital to get to a bank to get to their school to get to their job now was taking them ninety minutes two hours three hours to get out of the mountain with you know an elderly person who might have had a stroke for example there is still so much to be done in terms of just the basics and then also the larger reconstruction efforts but thank you for giving us a sense of what is happening there deseret right from red cross best of luck with

appreciate your time tonight. togo's opposition says three people have been shot dead in a third day of anti-government protests demonstrators have been fighting running battles with police in the capital alone may a demanding changes to presidential turn term limits president farai innocent family has been in power for more than half a century and could continue until twenty twenty on the current laws now a group of researchers in germany who have carried out an in-depth study into flying insects have discovered that they're dying off at an alarming rate and a warning of an impending ecological armageddon over the past twenty seven years the research is used sticky traps to collect insects at sixty three nature reserves across germany over that time they found an average decline of seventy six percent scientists are not sure why there's been such a big drop but they believe pesticides could be to blame kasper homan is a research of experimental plant ecology it right. was the lead research author of

the study he says it's representative of most nature reserves in human dominated landscapes. what could be the cause well this study was conducted in not in the small nature reserves that were embodied in the landscape. you know dominated particulary agricultural landscape. it may be the case types the size of the area this is in between them to be insufficient sustainable relations and being surrounded in a hostile area they cannot survive they might be drained out of nature that's one possible cause we know a lot of measures that up an official for insects and we know a lot of things that are not that cemented to insects first ones should be enhanced on the second. avoided so we could avoid for example the effects of tens of agriculture and we can provide. more and better managed areas

just our rich brosnan's which the insects really like. so i have for you this hour faced with a shrinking catch gaza fisherman i palestinian reconciliation will tun the time on their fortunes. and doping finds its way into the wild dog sledding peta will have those details in sport. business update brought to you by chance are they always going places to go.

business update brought to you by chance are they always going places together. israel has temporarily expanded palestine's fishing zone off the coast of gaza but

local fishermen say the extension will do little to improve that we're already need to incomes but it's methinks planes. it's saudi season in the waters off the coast of gaza but along with high winds and heavy seas the fishermen here have one extra challenge that no other fishing community in the mediterranean faces they risk being shot if they stray outside a narrow zone imposed by the israeli navy. i never said to somebody i've been fishing since one thousand nine hundred seventy i used to enjoy it we used to make good money and now i don't enjoy it as you see we're sweating all night for nothing . the competition for the fishing has grown as the blockade of gaza has tightened with unemployment at around forty percent more men turn to fishing desperate for any source of income. for the buffaloes there are no jobs so all i could do is help

my father and i make six dollars a day to help feed my family. israel has expanded the fishing zone from eleven to seventeen kilometers from now until mid december twenty years ago this boat would only need to cast its net swarms to catch up to eight hundred kilos of fish tonight the net is thrown out three times the total whole just eighteen. was a sufficient really want to be able to do is to sell out deeper into the mediterranean where there's more valuable fish such as sea bass and shark and it's one of the hopes that this palestinian reconciliation that the israeli military will considerably relax these maritime restrictions. during israel's occupation of gaza the fisherman sailed up to thirty seven kilometers off the coast since the hamas takeover it's been restricted to eleven seven fishermen have been killed and more than one hundred wounded by israel's navy for allegedly straying beyond the well if you're as long as we're under occupation i don't see there is any solution

the israelis control everything it doesn't matter if the palestinian authority or hamas is in charge. it cost four hundred seventy dollars in fuel and rented to take this boat to see the catch gave a profit of one hundred dollars shared between the crew of eleven bernard smith al-jazeera garza. it is here now with. marianne thank you very much denmark's women's football team could be expelled from world cup qualifying offer they cooled off their upcoming fixture with sweden due to a dispute over pay and conditions there seeking pay equality with the mainstream something achieved by neighbors norway this week nowhere currently in the netherlands to prepare for their world cup qualifying poll results from women. on a level playing field at last the norwegian women's football team training for a world cup qualifier against the netherlands have just secured

a world first off the pitch. becoming the first female national team to receive the same pay deal as their male counterparts first i was i was really surprised because i didn't know about it i read it in the newspaper so i was really happy and they really respect us and they want something we women hopefully more nations well did the same and i am really proud. the first nation they did in the team's pay is set to almost double going up to seven hundred fifty thousand dollars a year there's also twenty five percent of revenue from major tournament that's less in women's football than in the men's game but no white women qualify much more often now not only is this field the first of its kind in the world it's also been very friendly while other countries such as denmark have been in quite little dispute with their football associations over better pay this deal was suggested by

the norwegian f.a. and it includes a financial contribution from the men's team. the players here say they feel an important sense of unity from norway's myal internationals you volunteered seventy thousand dollars towards the agreement for the men's then to give us money to make it equal pay was just. really gentle and it's just really really big jester jester from them and we're really thankful this is like just a really good thing to have on the way because you don't have to worry about the money it's coming in or where you should rather study hopefully more women playing football longer in norway and then we will have more really high level players so we can. always qualify in accounting and as against the dutch side that won you were a twenty seventeen a few months ago with the dutch men meanwhile failing to qualify for next year's world cup holland's women may help a better deal may soon be on the table for them as well paul reese. have been in

the netherlands staying with the topic of women's football and equal pay the former head of women's football at fifa hanny says the sport is still dominated by male administrators who have not yet grasped the commercial potential of women's football. i really think it's a lack of understanding of. the opportunities women's football nowadays it's a fantastic sport it's appreciated by the public eye people on the street you can see that from the numbers of people watching the people women's world cup matches in the stands or following the t.v. social media you know huge numbers of people and this starts to drop the case in so many other countries and leagues it's only now if you will maybe it's the top but it's a really booming market and rights holders as well as sports organizations and basically the ones who run it seem to have not really understand or just don't see the potential which actually exists in women's football it's probably the biggest

women's sports in the world and it has a lot of. big commercialized required pe is is is a bit complicated to this can't stand i mean obviously at the end of the day that's what we all want and what the young players should aim for in the cheap but right now there are so many other issues in women's football and it's really a lack of structure a lack of access to proper facilities a lack of support operations and clubs and even giving actors to all girls in the club to play football so i think it's you know it's a complex matter and we should not only focus on equal pay it should be making sure players can have a career make sure players have a proper safe and be the right medical support environment and all these things are so crucial part of future of the game so it's it's really a lot we need to work on and probably the best way to start is giving women access to that decision making level i think that that's the biggest challenge women's football still has the semifinals of the criminal cup in moscow have been set and

woman reassure opposers out there will be russians involved germany's julia good guess is the highest growing player left in the tournament the seventh seed beat lesieur to rinko in straight sets and will now face home to the time the victory and so over for a place in the final. and russian tennis is big for the future daria cast of keener also reached the last hole she beat alexandra sort of a shadow play even a camilli a beggar in the same views on friday. i it's been an injury strewn start to the n.b.a. season a bad day or a day after the boston celtics go to haywood suffered a season ending ankle injury this happened to the brooklyn nets god jeremy lin in their opening game against the indiana pacers then ruptured he's patellar tendon in the incident and the nets have announced that he too will miss the remainder of the season the paces went on to win one hundred forty one hundred and thirty one.

doping is an issue that's been on the radar in recent months and it's made its way into dog slating most famous race the road several of the animals who participate tested positive for the banned substance a middle of the competing the one thousand mile race in alaska in march officials have been given the names of the dogs they drive is involved as yet it's the first time in history dogs in the sport have failed a drugs test. who would have thought we'll leave it there marion back to you in london randi thank you very much. that's it for myself but more news at the top of the hour.

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