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this is the news hour live from london coming up in the program. bombers target two mosques in afghanistan killing at least sixty people. a fierce battles as kurdish fighters try to stop iraqi forces taking back the last district of its. people are urged to withdraw money from catalonia is five main banks in protest at the moving their legal headquarters. there while the festivities leave india's cities shrouded in a toxic haze is a new report claims pollution but one in six premature deaths worldwide. and with all the day's sports including the los angeles dodgers defeating the defending champions the chicago cubs to reach their first world series.

so we begin this hour in afghanistan where suicide bombers have targeted two mosques killing at least sixty people police say that one bomber detonated explosives inside a shia mosque in kabul killing thirty three people and a separate bombing at a mosque in. the province killed at least thirty and then the latest in a wave of deadly attacks across afghanistan in the last week at least forty three soldiers were killed on thursday the taliban stormed a military camp in the my one district setting of suicide car bombs before a gun battle fighters also attacked a police headquarters in the southeastern province of gardening on thursday the second attack on it this week and the group was responsible for an ambush in the northern about province which killed six police officers on wednesday this after it unleashed a wave of attacks on choose day targeting police compounds and government facilities with suicide bombers and killing at least seventy four people well let's get more

now from jennifer glass in a couple and give us the latest on these two latest attacks. well the the attack here in kabul killed thirty two people and injured forty one those and i was we have so far the attacker went into this year mosque zhan mosque in the thirteenth district of kabul that's west of the city and he said amongst those praying in the middle of friday prayers and then set off his bomb now we understand left behind were some him grenades and there may have been perhaps a second attack or the police and services here are looking into exactly what happened there but a terrible attack on a shiite mosque here no one has claimed responsibility so far but by and large any attack on shiites in afghanistan has usually been claimed by the islamic state nic there have been a number of attacks on attacks on shiite mosques in kabul over the last year or so really an uptick in the kind of sectarian attacks that we had really seen before

islamic state made its way into afghanistan in the center of afghanistan in gore province we saw another attack in a mosque again during friday prayers but the target of that totally different this is a sunni mosque and we understand that the target of that attack was a local militia commander and his men so yeah a bloody week or two very different to touch you say there's no claim of responsibility for the first we guess that it's different organizations. that's right we would assume that the second attack may have been something personal may have been something. owing to that area it's a very very divided area you got a lot of different factions there but it certainly does highlight nic the problems of the afghan security forces face here trying to people population safe a diverse population the shia are very unhappy they feel the government is not protected them at all there have been a number of attacks on them across the city last year last summer eighty eighty

were killed in an attack on a shiite demonstration they believe the government is not doing enough to protect them the security forces as you said in your time line taking punishing casualties across the country as they fight a resurgent and very aggressive taleban as well as what the united states and other international countries call eighteen other insurgent groups as in addition to the islamic state and the taleban across afghanistan so the afghan government the afghan security forces certainly have their work cut out here as they try to keep the afghan people safe there hoping to fight the taliban to the peace table but they have a whole other host of challenges in their way as well or about to put you for a girl jennifer gratz reporting there thanks very much. sending reinforcements to fight iraqi government forces and allies on the front line north of cook. the iraqi prime minister has ordered troops not to enter city limits and they must protect

civilians and their property kurdish leaders as tomato one hundred thousand people have fled since the operation began the fighting centered around pretty about forty kilometers northwest of cocoa stephanie decker reports now from the battle zone. a new front line opened early friday iraqi forces together with has still shabbier shia militias move towards peshmerga positions. in kurdish it's around thirty kilometers south of erbil on the road to kirkuk. yes they're attacking it out and play and they're attacking from dbase also and there's nothing we can do about it only slightly i'm urging the coalition forces to come in and help as it hit the peshmerga no doubt we have martyrs there. a steady stream of reinforcements were sent throughout the day blankets and mattresses packed in with the soldiers defend their positions many here feel

betrayed by iraqi government leaders in baghdad some fellow kurds and the international community. in reality when we used to fight i saw everyone used to plays the peshmerga they are brave they are fighting for the world and now they have done this plan they are attacking us as i see right now everyone is turning their backs on us. mortar shells machine guns were fired throughout the day. everyone here is tense. waiting to take any of the injured. back to our. prime minister has ordered iraqi forces not to enter a deal. to stick to what he called the two thousand and three lines this is all about disputed territories longstanding unresolved issues between baghdad inner beal about who controls what the peshmerga gained more territory since two thousand

and fourteen as it pushed myself out of many areas the iraqi army used to control and last month's referendum on the session seems to be the final straw for the iraqi government and neighboring countries who oppose kurdish independence the irony there were very similar scenes just a year ago as the peshmerga iraqi government forces and shia militias all moved in to ward a common enemy i saw but now their guns are turned on each other stephanie decker al-jazeera on the road to kirkuk well the situation in northern iraq has changed dramatically in the last week just a few days ago kurdistan regional government claimed a vast area of the north which sees when iraqi troops fled iceland two thousand and fourteen that included province which accounts for hoffa its oil revenue but since monday iraq's army has largely driven peshmerga fighters back to the four provinces officially under kurdish control the latest fighting broke out in capri forty kilometers south of for full control of cook province. well in syria kurdish

fighters to help drive eisel out of rackets say the people of the city will determine its future a u.s. backed forces have fully recaptured the syrian city which had been eisel self-proclaimed capital since two thousand and fourteen they formally handed over control of rackets to a council of local officials and tribal leaders most of it has been reduced to rubble and in less than one percent of the pre-war population of three hundred thousand still of. the future of rocco will be decided by the people of raka this is quite important and family if the government will administer their affairs by themselves we urge every peace loving country and people to come and take part in the reconstruction the rebuilding of the city and its countryside or your sector of state rex tillerson has congratulated the syrian democratic forces for retaking racker from mindful control but psyches president is angry at the kurds presence in the city as

a typo to one has condemned the group for displaying a giant poster of the leader of the kurdistan workers party which turkey considers a terrorist organization of dinner or is currently in jail in turkey. in syria they're collaborating with a terrorist organization like the white b.g. to defeat another terrorist organization this kind of logic is unacceptable there waving the poster of the terrorist leader in iraq ah how is the united states going to explain this. and well let's talk about the position the kurds now find themselves in and around the region i'm joined now by tell of the result kusa research at the university of texas strategy and security institute and joins us via skype from exeter welcome to the program and it's a very confused position very confused situation what do you make of where we're at right now. well of course we have to divide obviously between the various kurdish groups i mean the kurds in iraq and the setbacks that they have suffered recently

are entirely different and separate from the kurds who are in syria and in iraq are in fact they actually sometimes in opposite camps so the kurds who are model to cut its president must order but as an iraq are actually at loggerheads with the p.k. k. and y p g affiliated kurds in syria so while they gaining in syria they have to bear in mind that the united states who backed them in syria also backed the chaos in iraq and that still hasn't necessarily help them it's all a matter of the interests of the great powers in the region and how that will then balance out in the future right and as far as the iraq is concerned iraqi forces as we've just been discussing have a rest that have wrested control of all areas of kirkuk province what does this mean for the kurds there were fundamentally what it means is the end of their condition independence dream in iraq after all kind of court has you know quite a bit of oil it's very old rich area anymore iraq and the kurds were very much

reliant on it and the transportation about the oil through turkey to actually finance their you know protests that you could say that. that's now being completely taken away from them and they are going to be suffocated and till they back away and back down from the independence referendum that they held at the end of last month right and then you have the syrian city of raco which the kurds helped drive eisel of. and the presence there presence that doesn't please as we've also just been reporting doesn't please the turkish president. now that's right again i was saying the tax and record of very much ideologically different from the sort of cut the cards and records are very much different ideologically speaking from the kurds in iraq. turkey is unhappy with both although it was very much allied with us or did but is only in iraq kurdistan and generated you know rather large export market it's very very disappointed with the united states purely

because the united states have been saying that the p.k. kayser terrorist organization was at the same time operating in assisting with the y.p. jeep cherokee says our affiliates and as we've seen today from up portraits of our beloved and i'm in the middle of record like very suddenly the times are actually correct in that assessment so the americans have a lot of explaining to do how do you see this is this playing out across the board with the various groups of kurds as a whole in iraq in turkey in syria and iran. i think that's the fundamental issue when it comes to the question of kurdish independence i mean what people try to visualize is that the cards are kind of a monolithic group and that's not actually the case you know they they speak actually several different dialects sometimes even they're not mutually intelligible so the iraqi kurds are often at odds with the syrian kurds who are in

line with the turkish kurds and obviously these are generally speaking cards and they don't necessarily all get along and what we've seen in iraq is that even domestically there there's fissures between the two main parties the k d p on one hand and the people on the other that will skillfully manipulated by the iranians who actually use this as an attempt to kind of destabilize american plans in iraq and they split pea u.k. peshmerga from the k.t. people in northern iraq the result is as we can see rapid collapse of the peshmerga and the complete rollback of kurdish positions in iraq to preach one hundred fourteen positions and that's a catastrophe of catastrophe for the cuts and it shows that they are incapable of even domestically uniting themselves let alone reaching the all right ali appreciate your perspective on this tell her i've known as uk thanks very much thank you well elsewhere in syria rebel groups have signed a cease fire covering east and boots are on the outskirts of the capital damascus

the deal is fragile and the rebels are worried it's being used as an excuse for the government to start a major push to recapture the strategic area. in neighboring turkey explains. these are fighters from failed luck a russian man a syrian rebel group that controls. a neighborhood on the outskirts of damascus the area is a rebel stronghold. they engage almost daily in skirmishes with government forces the army has been trying hard for years to take back these areas to help secure the capital and yvonne would have thought alina the government is tightening the siege to break our resolve by it will never happen we're not scared of the airstrikes the daily shelling and the army's reinforcements we are committed to fight to the death the rebels are digging tunnels that are run from the rest of

eastern. these tunnels are vital lifelines for the rebels who are short of ammunition and may not be able to defend their territory for a long. well you know about that any good this is home town it means a lot to me my family my loved ones my memories are all linked with this distance i will fight here to the death east i'm appalled by has been under government seeds since to thousand and thirteen u.n. aid convoys have only been allowed in a few times. civilians have nowhere to go about it is where and food prices are on the rise but are. we suffer daily the army attacks us with missiles rockets and warplanes the seizures made our lives hell for the time being the fighting has stopped in this area but no one knows whether the ceasefire that was recently we would hold some water was the focal point of the two thousand and

eleven demonstrations in syria it became a rebel stronghold but six years later the army backed by russia is gaining ground using seeds as a weapon to force the rebels and civilians out of their areas or they might risk facing starvation. al-jazeera what i want turkey is border with syria a twenty one year old irish egyptian citizen has been released after four years behind bars in egypt the news of him her lover was released was welcomed by his family by island government last month he was cleared of inciting violence and and writing over the fattah mosque demonstrations in two thousand and thirteen hundreds were arrested there after protests against a military coup that ousted the president mohammed morsi. but al-jazeera continues to demand the release of its journalist mahmoud hussein who's now been in prison in egypt for three hundred four days he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread

chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny my mood has repeatedly complained of mistreatment during his time in prison he was arrested in december of visiting his family. coming up this news that makes a cry for help at an e.u. summit in brussels with a cheek it sent him and. two former u.s. presidents voiced concern about the current political climate in speech is seen as a veiled attack on donald trump's leadership. and food for thought for france are saying about the n.f.l. decision not to punish protesting. this way now and the government there has secured backing from the opposition to dissolve catalonia as parliament and hold new elections that i minister mariano rajoy says he will unveil specific measures on saturday to impose direct rule on

catalonia after its leader refused to drop his bid for independence and just symonds has more now from barcelona. what you really sense here in barcelona right now is a fear of the unknown and that's shared by both sides in this crisis politicians and public alike people on friday were going out to protest in a very different way going to banks and withdrawing one hundred five fifty five euro as a protest of protest against two of five banks which have actually moved their main administrative registrations out of catalonia because of the fear of independence or what that might mean as far as article one five five goes it's never been used before it's from the constitution of one nine hundred seventy eight and it will mean direct rule from madrid this is what the spanish prime minister had to say. they have broken the rule of law a basic principle of the european union they have deprived the representatives of

the opposition of their right to exercise control in government if you imagine if i decided to close parliament so nobody could question me it would be a scandalous situation article one five five will go before the senate after the cabinet meeting on saturday and then it will be considered and possibly by thursday or friday it will actually be agreed upon after that it's unclear what will happen will catalonia declare independence is completely unclear and no one is really quite sure but the risks for both sides are very high indeed the french president emanuel macross says talks on the u.k. so you call divorce bill for leaving the european union and not even halfway through i can eat you somewhere in brussels britain's prime minister to resume a call for more cooperation from e.u. leaders in the slew moving bracy talks. to resume

a new in advance there'd be no major breakthrough fellow e.u. leaders made clear that insufficient progress had been made to move talk beyond the current deadlocked difficulties over money and to begin talking about future trade she instead issued what sounded like an appeal for help by a politically weakened prime minister who's come as far as she can and desperately needs something in return if we are going to take a step forward together it must be on the basis of joint effort and endeavor we must work together to get to an outcome that we can stand behind that works for people what she got in return wasn't much they were encouraging words from some e.u. leaders including the all important dangler merkel. we have made progress and it is perhaps the nature of the thing that we look at it step by step i have absolutely no doubt that if we are all focused and the speech in florence was

a contribution that we can get a good result and there was an end of summit commitment by the other twenty seven members of the e.u. to begin preparatory talks among themselves about what sort of future trade deal they'd like to see. that means that at least some work will have been done on trade as the park takes down to breaks it so that if the green light is given of the next council meeting on december the fourteenth for talks to move on well they'll be just a little bit ahead of the game it is the very smallest of concessions by the e.u. where the bar for such minor victories has been set it's creamy low but in order for talks to move on the e.u. wants britain to go much further than its offer of over twenty billion dollars to meet outstanding commitments and liabilities that something the prime minister may not have the political capital to deliver jonah how al-jazeera brussels. the european union has sent

a protest letter to israel demanding compensation for payments it made for palestinian buildings that were later demolished aids e.u. countries are asking for forty six thousand dollars if israel does not return seized equipments more than one hundred fifty palestinian owned buildings were seized or demolished in the occupied west bank between march and august this year many were funded by the u. . pollution is killing more people than war and natural disasters that's according to a report from the medical journal the lancet the study blamed pollution for one in six premature deaths worldwide in two thousand and fifteen that's around nine million people well sub-saharan africa had the highest rate of desperate capita led by somalia chad and central african republic but india had the highest death toll almost a quarter of all deaths there some two and a half million were blamed on pollution china was next with nearly two million air

pollution in india's capital hit more than twenty times the healthy limit hernia after a night of fireworks celebrating the hindu festival of diwali left a thick ease in the air despite a court ordered ban on the sale of fire crackers and many in new delhi still set them off to celebrate the festival of lights residents complained of coughing and watery eyes. are commonly. my eyes are burning as if someone put a chile in them and i'm having difficulty breathing because of the superior court order to ban fireworks it looks like the pollution has come down since last year but it is still so high that humans can't live here in any other part of the world if if our air quality index would have crossed three hundred the entire city would be evacuated or the entire city would be shut down we have to look at short term medium term and long term measures well let's talk more about the world pollution problems with david had a hand he's the author of a report published by the lancet in the senior advisor. david the figures are just horrifying i mean how you how you can make this how do

you come to that fact that there's one in six deaths worldwide that's right it first time there's been a successful effort to pull all of these together it's a shock to all of us when we saw the numbers a lot of the data comes from. w.h.o. the world health organization and they've been collected for a while and recently they have started looking at the risk factors as we look into what are the risks that cause a lot of these diseases. and the analysis shows these sort of numbers coming out right and what are the risk factors. well broadly the risk factors come through air pollution that's outdoor and indoor which is one the lot of people underestimate but it's huge water and sanitation or lack thereof or problems there of and then increasingly the chemicals suggest we are

coming into what we call the year of modern pollution where more and more chemicals are getting into our environment and into our bodies we don't understand the effects yet ok and chemicals such as water and from where. the chemicals are broadly first group from mining. so every time. gold is produced a lot of material lost their chemicals used in doing that the chemical industry and related industries does it and. small and medium industries are actually of their own quite a serious problem and when we talk about this figure of one in six premature deaths worldwide caused by pollution of course it's the poor that's worst affected. that's absolutely correct on two levels one is if you're the minister of something or other in a country you have an air conditioned house you have clean water and so on if you are very poor you're living in a slum you lots of pollution around you you have

a sore running past you but secondly a lot of the poor people are actually working in the middle of these activities there are people doing dying tending mining a lot of these they themselves actually in the middle of the pollution they're partly creating it but they're very much suffering from it and it's presumed it's the first world to benefit from whatever they're doing that sap saluted correct and that's one of the reasons. we feel that this issue needs to be out there and we feel that the developing world the developed world has to take a level of responsibility for that which they're starting to do i would say finally and briefly. broad question important question though what needs to be done to put this right. we're looking really at three things i think one is getting it on the broader agenda getting it on the national agenda because ministers of finance and countries are just so swamped if they don't see the state clearly they don't do it

. there will be a need for some resources but that is south is not the greatest thing and we need commitment at national and local level to just get in and do it because the solutions exist or they will have to leave it there but we appreciate you coming in to talk about this important story thanks a lot less every time round. all right still to come this hour. in puerto rico it's a month since the hurricane struck and many communities are still struggling with the aftermath and they're asking where is the government help that they were promised. china's president for the consolidating power with his own political ideology. paying it forward but what is it. and cue the table invaded peter will be here to tell us what happens when the five times you could be wrong here someone got into a fight. now

across the middle a status lossie settled and sadly not too much right in our forecast over the next few days not too much cloud of the treatment a little bit of cloud a little bit of fair weather clouds just around the caspian sea stretching over towards the black sea temperatures typically getting up into the high twenty's by rote at twenty seven celsius baghdad getting up to thirty two degrees are still getting into the thirty's then pushing down into the southernmost part about thirty three celsius there in kuwait city set it down on a recent valleys and that will be the case as we go through saturday and on into sunday temperatures just edging down a touch too across the arabian peninsula the humidity just edging up a little bit and i just called the station on the outside of my window last night

thirty six celsius the top temperature. on saturday and a similar value as we go on through sunday and you can see similar temperatures there right across the region it will be settled sunny and pleasantly warm she said . present sunshine to intricate parts of southern africa but we are still seeing some showers coming back towards the east and just spilling out of botswana some wet weather the possibility just around johannesburg and been settled in sunny further towards the west. indian mining company is heading to australia to build one of the world's biggest mines will it be an economic bonanza or an ecological disaster. at this time when i visit. the story that impact on me would probably be the man economists thirty four miners died and we where there were no few television things being right on that's time to dismiss some of the story out of the story and.

i like to add to that i want this viewer in malaysia like al-jazeera english because the news is not sent it and you don't miss any of the news or any program because you can watch it on my. own counting the cost china two point zero zero how president xi jinping wants to reboot the economy with ai and robotics look at what hijack it all makes is causing tension along the river nile plus the u.k.'s e.u. divorce is breaks it failing counting the cost at this time. and we got him out of the top stories here on al jazeera and suicide bombers have

targeted two mosques in afghanistan killing at least sixty people the latest in a string of attacks in the past week. there's been fierce fighting north of kut cook because iraqi forces battle to take control of the last area of the province in the hands of the kurdish peshmerga. and spain's government to secure backing from the opposition to dissolve canceling his parliament and hold new elections that the prime minister mariano rajoy says he will unveil specific measures on saturday. former u.s. presidents barack obama and george w. bush appeared to have taken swipes at president donald trump in speeches let maintain the current political climate although neither directly referred to trump by name both commented on the growing divide within american society folks don't feel good right now about what they say. that they don't feel as if our public life reflects our best. instead of our

politics reflecting our values we've got politics infecting our communities people of every race religion. and equally american. is blasphemy against the american creed. what can be how it has more now from washington d.c. . both former presidents didn't mention donald trump by name but certainly he was the target that was very clear in both of those messages that it's pretty unusual to see this a league club of former presidents particularly living presidents a very small group to see sort of this political establishment turning on the newest member of the club donald trump it's unusual in that typically in the united states it's sort of an unwritten rule that past presidents don't comment on the work and the policies of the sitting president but at the same time for both of

these men it's almost become personal you have to think back to the campaign trail when donald trump was campaigning as the republican presidential nominee he repeatedly attacked barack obama rallying and galvanizing his supporters by by calling barack obama the worst president ever and you have to remember too in the republican primaries when george w. bush's brother governor jeb bush was a candidate he was particularly cruel in fact one of the kinder things he labeled jeb bush was calling a blow energy job so for these men it is really kind of a personal in nature the they've come out and sort of the had these thinly veiled attacks but again you have to remember it was donald trump that fired the opening salvo one month since hurricane maria hit puerto rico eighty percent of the audit and still without power crews are working around the clock to try and fix hundreds of kilometers of power lines the government supports rick says it could be another two months before full power into store due to a lack of money workers u.s.

government has been criticized for its slow response to the crisis an official has this update now from san. well here we're taking a snapshot here this is a fairly affluent area in sound one in the capital and that's really the only saying that there was a hurricane here a month ago but if you go in to the rural areas places that are poor then people that are having real difficulty you know they knew that things weren't going to get back to normal immediately but after a month they're beginning to complain and complain loudly the difficulty is they don't have water that they can drink they don't have electricity in many of these places getting medicines to some of these people is incredibly difficult and bridges that were swept away cutting off communities there's no sign of even temporary replacements there so people are getting incredibly frustrated they point to the hurricane of one thousand years ago and say look at that point we knew within a couple of weeks things were starting to get back to normal but if you go into rural areas they see we're not seeing anyone from the federal emergency management

agency we're not seeing troops we're seeing the ordination or guard handing out water but we're not seeing much more than that there is no one making an effort to clear roads to protect people from the potential of mudslides because they're expecting heavy rains next month all of these things build up people's frustration and they say after a month the situation here should be substantially better one hundred forty people have been arrested in malawi the cues are hunting down people they say are vampires at least five people have been killed by alleged vigilante groups after a supernatural scare triggered more violent attacks happened in districts where many believe in witchcraft united nations is pulled staff out of some areas of safety concerns an outbreak of plague in madagascar has killed ninety four people and could spread further that's according to the world health organization there are cases of people in a plague on the island nearly every year but the authorities say this epidemic is more dangerous in iraq earlier than expected one point three million doses of

antibiotics have been sent to madagascar and it's enough to treat five thousand patients and protect another one hundred thousand people who may have been exposed . what is distinctive. is that the season of transmission started much earlier. that were affected but we also have significant repercussions in the big cities like thomas and the capital. for people to remember those who fought for the country's independence from the british but by the controversy surrounding next week's presidential election. reports from nairobi it's supposed to be a. great man and women the country in different ways but this. has been overshadowed. whether or not the presidential election will take place next week

it's being organized by a commission that has admitted to being divided and vulnerable to political interference positions by politicians. the country along ethnic lines. and once the opposition against. the. kenyans. many people in kenya are concerned about.

their lives some of those who don't want to. they. cannot. give hope to the nation. i want us to meet of the ballot we only have a few days to go what dialogue can be held strong a person winning a vote. which is the main opposition. sais that eve the election is held next week it will hold power street protests but the election doesn't happen before the end of the month the stipulated by the constitution. a constitutional crisis either way there's likely to be more battles in the streets and.

the un children's agency is calling for more funding to help improve conditions for rohingya refugees in overcrowded camps in bangladesh unicef says children fleeing violence in manama are facing. in the camps many of the almost six hundred thousand people who fled the military crackdown right kinds they are children where most military denies allegations of ethnic cleansing operations are targeting groups. and cops is bizarre. that's been very little focus on the impact on the local economy on the people since the large number of running your effort just took some time within this community the number. that almost doubled a population i spoke to one of the person who lives here to say his views on the recent influx of rowing are f.e.d.'s the you know there. is right now many countries are sending aid however if for some reason the flow stops it's doubtful

the bangladesh government with this large number of people in the area. most of the reaction are makes but most people are local people who are very sympathetic to the plight of the rowing the refugees there are about concern about the number of population increases within this local area the prices of commodities at dawn. prices now we also wanted to see how the shopkeepers reacted to this recent influx of rain and why the prices are going up and recent days on the. sound of the agricultural produce can only meet local demand now with the arrival of the remaining is the demand for goods and essential has gone up to him so increasing prices. the peaceful coexistence between this to come in a day will largely depend on how the bank or the government manages the security and economic concern about this community so there is not much tension but in the long run it is yet to be seen how things are going between this community.

pakistan's ousted prime minister know as sharif has been indicted in the third case of corruption in addition to the charges that were laid against his daughter in law his daughter and his son in law on thursday in july the supreme court disqualified sharif from office for not declaring a source of income investigation response by the panama papers leaked which accused him of using an offshore company to buy property in london reef and his family tonight the challenges. china's president will have his own political. theory incorporated into the guidelines for the ruling communist party state media is reporting that the so called xi jinping thought will have fourteen principles is not yet known what they are she's thoughts are expected to further consolidate his power putting him on a par with the founder of the communist party mao zedong i try to correspondent a jim brown has more now from beijing. it's the beginning of a new era in chinese politics the era of xi jinping thought. the language

a throwback to the period when chairman mao tse-tung ruled in the one nine hundred fifty s. sixty's and seventy's it took decades for his name to be written into the party's constitution it's taken she just five years. analysts say this communist party congress represents his coronation when you talk about coronation is he an emperor or no i think he's reluctant amberg emperor in fact i think he embraces a lot of this stuff as part of necessity as opposed to something that is an extension of his ego so what exactly is she doing ping thought a detailed explanation will likely come after the congress stands on choose day some people we spoke to on friday seemed more in the dark than others. i don't really know i don't know what to say oh watch the news tonight get on with

the war in a season i think president she gave us new faith was his anticorruption campaign he saved the communist party the news of she's elevation was announced by china's official should news agency on friday there's now little doubt it'll be approved at the party congress before it's incorporated into the party's constitution all across beijing you see motivational banners like this one often with clunking dialogue this one says unite under the central government and communist party led by konrad xi jinping and continued victory of socialism with chinese characteristics you will see a lot more of this sort of thing in the coming days weeks months and years she jinping already holds more titles than any of his predecessors including party chief and head of the military now that is thoughts are set to become the party's guiding ideology his place at the very top of chinese politics seems assuring not.

just for the next five years but the hops for the next twenty adrian brown al jazeera beijing all right still ahead this news staring towards another championship formula one lead in the us how often gives up for the u.s. chrome retail's come a pizza. spell about twenty is off the harry potter show the journey back to where the guy.

how we're going to get rid of this fall prey to standing by. nic thank you very much the l.a. dodgers are headed to the. series in twenty nine years they ended the chicago cubs defense of a major league baseball title on thursday with a stunning performance from one player in particular as john i guess reports. to us that it's just. it's been one hundred eight years since the los angeles dodgers last won a world series but now they're a step closer to ending that drought. last season the dodgers run was ended by the now defending champion chicago cubs this time the dog just got their own back man deep in the center field this. can't carry. on and as he's had a lot on his mind of late his father has been battling cancer and his home country of puerto rico was devastated by hurricanes last month so his performance in game

five was even more remarkable when he followed that home run in the very next inning with something special that said yes. that's. ok. with the dodgers now up seven nothing that grand slam energize them further towards victory. even when the cubs finally got on the scoresheet in the bottom of the fourth. the joy of their fans was short lived. it's true. because. it was. this was the care they will keep a hand and as is the first dog ever with three hundred lives in a postseason game with that the dog just sealed and eleven to one win and a three two series victory and kiki to have a huge night three homers tonight just providing so much energy for us and we fed

off that tonight. and it's a very good ball clover there those guys are the world champs and they fought to the end but. fortunately we came up on the on the good side of things this year i want to congratulate them on their victory the better team won over the course of these five games they played really well. they kind of up it's just in everything else so give them credit it's a two thousand ostia the dodge is with the first to admit the comps were the better team god the borg gave us was just the tourists have won the pennant have the dodgers are headed to the world series for the first time be joining. us this time and i got the better of that time can rifles was i want to al-jazeera. let's now get a fan of the issue dominating americans both the n.f.l. has decided not to punish players protesting against racial injustice by taking in

need during the national anthem we know that inferior president donald trump so here is rob reynolds went to oakland to see what raiders support is make of it. this is one of the great american sports traditions the tailgate party a chance to barbecue drink some beer and enjoy the camaraderie of fellow fans these oakland raiders supporters showed up early to party in the parking lot near the stadium where their team played the kansas city chiefs thursday night. it's the first pro football game since the national football league owners weighed in on the controversy will play or protests that have made the sport a political football for the league's commissioner said players would not be forced to stand and this is something that what we try to do is deal with the underlying issue and understand what it is that they are protesting and try to address that

matter in response president donald trump tweeted not forcing players to stand showed quote total disrespect for our great country the president the players and now the team owners have all had their say so we came here to find out how the fans are feeling michael and lindelof and say trump has twisted the meaning of the players. protests people if we get what the original message was it was to protest lee's brutality in the black community with the has been politicized and now the flag stands for more gay military the flag stands for equal justice and liberty for all mary all over believes the protests are inappropriate it's their right to exercise free speech but. i feel that. the flag and then the national anthem represents our freedom and hands of what our

soldiers have bought for most fans agreed the players had a right to express their opinions if they want to neil i don't personally agree with. say nylander they i don't buy greed that if they want to do that they have that right there's no disrespect not not on it out not it out more but what they do before the game starts is their business and i think it's just a distraction and a topic that's not needed right now with all the other chaos going on in the world others say it's a shame that political mudslinging has soiled the game they love no i just here just watch the football game leave everything else behind and just just watch a football game before the raiders chiefs game got underway several players did kneel in protest players are making political statements and the president is playing to his political base and fans who just want to have fun are caught in the middle while promotes al-jazeera oakland california. russell westbrook so again

it's taken same to stage in the n.b.a. as the oklahoma city thunder storm to victory over the new york knicks the defending him v.p. reached double digits in queens and assists just midway through the game on tuesday and he ended with a triple double the first of the season past the from the front the knicks one hundred five eighty. lewis hamilton could wrap up a formula one chair but repaired sunday's us grand prix hamilton is on target for his fourth title he's fifty nine points clear of ferrari's sebastian vettel but the mercedes driver is refusing to concede that the rivalry is over. i mean obviously we're such a massive margin now and it was such attention throughout the season up to september but there's much less tension now from from your point of view approaching the race. in change for me when everything is exactly the same as it was going into last race into the second half a season is exactly the same mentality mentally for me so. maybe

a change from your perspective for me has been fair enough let's go to rugby now the odds are stacked against australia a head of the final bledisloe cup test match against new zealand all blacks in brisbane captain kieren reed's world champions have already tucked away the trophy with two wins in the three match series and the wallabies are out of the picture beating new zealand just once in the past eighteen bledisloe battles would you believe but australia's captaincy as a consolation victory would still mean so much you have a great number one time in the world you know i think that would do a lot of things for a lot of people and maybe change their perception but we're very very positive of how things have been working around the team and the guys commitment to the data and commitment to getting better. sneaker champion ronnie sullivan has got the runaround from a fan at the english open the five time world champion was close to wrapping up his third round match against china when right on cue

a spectator slipped past security after putting the pink sullivan little woman get in on the act giving her a shot at the black and as you will see here she proved that some things are best left to the professionals sullivan says he saved the phone from the usual fate of invaders which is a rugby tackle. and what are we like to see that nick reserve a word that would be a television rating saw very much indeed now it's finally it's twenty years since the world fell under the spell of the boy wizard harry potter the publication of the first book harry potter and the philosopher's stone most a multi-billion dollar franchise just baldwin went along to an exhibition at the british library looking at the magic that inspired minerva mechanical severus snape teachers and hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry listed by author j.k. rowling as she embarked on the plot of harry potter alchemy potions her biology

course is based on magical traditions found in ancient in rare books at the british library it's an encounter with real objects that helped form the books including a medieval scroll from the fifteen hundred describing how to make the philosopher's stone which could turn any metal into gold or maybe even extend life and we want to really make the link between the magic that's portrayed in the x. and the whole history of magical writings and practice that we have in the collections a sketch of hogwarts by rowling is she drew her expansive magical world twenty years on more than four hundred fifty million copies have been sold in seventy languages. harry potter has had a massive impact on the world kids who hated books are now inspired to read the next are considered cool and even muggles are interested in magic gustaf was

a professional magician before he became a psychologist specializing in the science of magic just picking out academics are interested in how magic works and stop one of the few how is it that we see something but we don't do we have free will then how do magicians influence our decisions. it turns into five clubs well so a lot of interaction with computers is all based on a massive illusion every time you delete a falling apart or fall into a waste paper basket you know really putting anything in a basket it's the soul just an illusion and so in the standing magic we might be able to at home. human computer interaction but what's the magic that continues to fuel the very lucrative hurry potter industry brings fans to wizard locations across london you can feel like you're with it or whatever but you wake up in the morning and you realize you know i do like magic so it does make me like you more i

know if i like how this now. or that or different we're. looking into the future it doesn't take magic to know that each new generation will come under the spell of harry potter jessica baldwin al-jazeera london. plenty more of course on our website the address to which is al-jazeera talk come all the stories that we're covering there including the news that the strikes in afghanistan but for this news hour that is it for me and the team i will be back in a couple of minutes with more of the day's other top.

provoking debate the corporate tax have not heard job growth from the barack obama that what went on in georgia that are now if not true tackling the tough issues restrictions on media freedom of the tree killings torture maybe you're giving the world didn't give me crap challenging the established line every single one of the three and a half thousand people who was killed with a drug dealer yes how do we know that you didn't try them didn't prosecute if you didn't charge them to show them on sawing join mehdi has done for up front at this time on al jazeera. it's the end of the breeding season as we take a ferry to the straits of magellan to magdalen island today the island is a penguin colony sanctuary with access to tourists accompanied by foot nonda sand penguin expert cloudy a lloyd 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 wants to abandon fly the nest warmer ocean temperatures have diminished the

quantity and quality of fish for the penguins who must swim further and further away to feed their young overfishing and ocean contamination especially plastic also killing penguins short films of hope and inspiration. a series of short stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds. at this time. in afghanistan is so tall.