because i will bring these ladies are tough and i take their training very seriously. the feel of. the energetic life. she was the society hostess in beirut in the 1940's she was in touch with a lot of people from the lebanese bureaucracy to make this work her code name was the power and she spied for mossad in lebanon or for. what you wish it was something brave as it would make outrageous you know world to house a story of sure. the baby would spy at this time. kurdish fighters say they've been betrayed as iraqi forces claim the whole of

kirkuk province from peshmerga forces. are again a mounting that if you're without is there a life from day also coming up. so inside bombers target two mosques in afghanistan killing more than seventy people. the death of four u.s. soldiers in the spanx a call for a change in america's rules of engagement in foreign lands plus told the ritual clueless but they have broken the rule of law a basic principle of the european union and a few hours from now spain's expected to unveil details of its plan to take control of catalonia. but first iraqi forces have claimed control of the whole of kirkuk province after

intense fighting against kurdish peshmerga forces the army says they've captured the last town of algerian cooper which is situated near a bill with the help of shia militias and just a few hours earlier stephanie decker reported from the battle zone where some of the peshmerga feel they've been betrayed. the new front line opened early friday iraqi forces together would have. moved towards positions. in kurdish it's around thirty kilometers south of erbil on the road to kirkuk. yes they were talking it out and play another talking. and there's nothing we can do about it only slight on the coalition forces to come in and help as it hit the peshmerga no doubt we have. 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 everyone used to play 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 well it's going to everyone here is tense. waiting to take any of the injured. back to our. prime minister hyderabadi has ordered iraqi forces not to enter abele and to stick to what he called the two thousand and three lines this is all about disputed territories longstanding on

resolved issues between baghdad and are below about 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 secession 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 now i saw has claimed responsibility for one of the two attacks targeting mosques in afghanistan well than seventy people in total were killed in one attack into a shia mosque in the capital kabul and detonated an explosive vest at least thirty nine people were killed dozens of others were injured the most was packed with

worshippers attending friday prayers the second attack happened in the central province of coal where a suicide bomber struck a sunni mosque all the thirty three people were killed including a rebel commander who was apparently the target of the attack. right after the cleric started the prayer as i was passing by the mosque and an explosion happened there was chaos amongst the people all the windows of the mosque were shattered from a nearby checkpoint arrive and try to control the crowd all the wounded victims injured by the shattered windows or taken to hospital by ambulance and the dead bodies were lying. more now from our correspondent jennifer glass. the attacker made his way into the in mom's amman mosque in the middle of friday prayers he placed himself in the middle of those prayer growers' now that of course is a shia mosque in western kabul and then he detonated his bomb killing scores of people injuring scores of others this is one of a number of attacks that have happened against the shia population the vast number

of these attacks though against shia have been claimed by the islamic states in an increase as they kind of increase their offensive here in afghanistan at the same time as that was happening here in kabul in central afghanistan a group province another attack or another bomber detonated a bomb in another mosque this is a sunni mosque now his attack his target quite different a local militia commander and his men but these two attacks kept off a very very bloody deadly week across afghanistan where we've seen not only these attacks on friday but across afghanistan the taliban have killed at least one hundred fifty people in the north in the south in the east and in the southwest of afghanistan give you an idea of the challenges the afghan security forces face the afghan government determined to bring the taliban to the peace table but not only is the afghan government facing a resurgent taliban you also have other anti-government forces as well creating

unrest in afghanistan. well let's have a look at these recent attacks in afghanistan within the space of a week forty three soldiers were killed on thursday after the taliban saundra military camp in my one district that's in kandahar setting off two suicide car bombs before a gun battle ensued fighters also attacked a police headquarters in the southeastern province of god that was on thursday the group was responsible for an ambush in the northern the bulk province which killed six police officers that was a when say then on tuesday the taliban sent suicide bombers to carry out a wave of attacks targeting police compounds and government facilities at least seventy four people were killed in those attacks omar samad is a former afghan ambassador to france and canada we have an issue is becoming more complex there are more regional players involved i think there are reports that the

russians have a new agenda. now creating more heat from washington may also alter some of their agenda in the pakistanis about how to make many years which has not helped crimes to begin security and what the afghan government is on one hand to make sure that there is better management and better leadership at the head of the security forces and also in middle management. the commanders need to make sure that we protect their forces to protect the beaches i think that is actually. in the same time the project of strengthening the african forces in order to protect afghanistan and to stabilize afghanistan and to go on. this is the government is now saying that the number of people killed in the country's worst attack has now risen to three hundred fifty eight the president says it's al-shabaab who was behind last weekend's twin bombings the armed group hasn't claimed responsibility

so far but the accusation is prompting fears about al-shabaab future tactics as mohammed do now reports from mogadishu. some of the seriously wounded in saturday's bombing in mogadishu are being airlifted abroad for treatment somali hospitals have received much needed medical supplies patients turned away by all but one place patrols in the hours and days after the talk are finally getting attention. the talks become more lethal medical workers say they are forced to improvise their treatment plans for the main. interest. is the time when you can see. how extended. the. blast yet to be published u.n. reports a. new ways of constructing improvised bombs and increase their destructive force

it says the wait till the explosives has also increased and along with military good devices the group uses. but also fuel and gas canisters to ensure maximum damage. two thousand and eleven yet they continue with considerable influence and capital but complex system in which many businesses give them monthly contributions and with the right. become. our house collecting millions of dollars for their campaign of violence. the united nations says illegal taxation schemes involve expulsion and other so-called fees. on the strength. of the witness of the somali government help the fight to succeed somebody is going to be as angry and i stress and it.

seems there's a huge amount of you know you know the ban on the union and the e.u. and i'm so on and i that is if you want to talk. about. some presidents say it's time to act i believe it's time for us to come together and. to unite against this. foreign ideology which we have which has nothing to do with islam which has nothing to do with our country. doesn't solve somalis remain missing and many families are in mourning for them this is a massive blow in the war against al shabaab. that the u.s. is due to shift its counterterrorism strategy to focus more on africa defense

secretary james mattis has been meeting members of congress to explain the changes now this comes as the white house has been under pressure to be more forthcoming about the deaths of four american soldiers in the two weeks ago after the meetings senior republican lindsey graham talked about the new u.s. strategy the war is morphing you're going to see more actions in africa and. you're going to see more aggression by the united states toward our enemies not less we're going to have decisions being made now in the white house but out in the field now support that entire construct so the rules of engagement are going to change when it comes to counterterrorism operations we're going to move the status based targeting so if you find somebody who's a member of a terrorist organization then we can use lethal force they don't have to present an immediate threat well we've been speaking to lawrence korb is a former u.s.

assistant secretary of defense he says there needs to be more transparency about what exactly happened in the air and why. this is something that certainly the congress should have been made aware of it's certainly something that the american people should know because if you send their sons and daughters into battle we ought to know exactly what's involved and what other countries are we talking about i doubt that most people even knew we were in the jr and according to the pentagon they were the troops for an advise and assist mission it was not a combat mission we didn't have any air power we had the french was supposed to come and help us out but they couldn't drop bombs so it was run very very chaotically there why did they not get all of the dead soldiers out you know the military is very strong about you leave no one behind you know how did how did that happen what was the role of contractors ended up a contractor not a u.s.

military person or civil servant was in there and you know on how many of them are there i mean and how much are we spending on this we have an africa command why didn't they come and tell us right after this happened what was going on still to come. folks were deliberately trying to make folks saying. only u.s. presidents go on the attack against donald trump and this is the breaks a longstanding tradition of remaining silent. i'm alan fischer and puerto rico it's a month since the how to keep here struck and many communities are still struggling with the aftermath and they're asking where is the government help but they were promised. three triangle the rape. kits

and it's going to. how the weather is lost if i don't try for a good part of china as we go on through the next couple of days temperatures in hong kong getting up to around twenty nine degrees celsius but ninety's a fair amount of cloud and rain and snow into central and south western parts of the kountry and that'll be the case as we go on through sunday for anything that right popping up and expanding a little further as we go on into the next week meanwhile the sunshine continues for hong kong temperatures getting up to around twenty seven celsius was say showers for the south and some big ones at that class extends from typhoon land down across the philippines pushing right across northern parts of borneo malaysia seeing some really wet weather then as we go on through the next few days we monsoon trough which will continue to face some really lively downpours and across the region over the coming days some of that wet weather extending towards the gulf of thailand much of time that doesn't get too bad over the next day i not see bad

for a good part of india but we do have this tropical system the depression here just making it pretty wet there across the northeast of india into bangladesh easing up into good parts of nepal and will push a little further north which as we go on through sunday but the rain will continue for northern on top of that. the winter sponsored by cattle race. as we embrace new technologies rarely do we start to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was he was started getting sick but there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to the disposal of the job and investigation reveals how even the smallest devices deadly environmental and health we think ok we'll send our you waste to china but we have to remember that air pollution traps around death by design at this time on al-jazeera.

you know without a zero these are our top stories iraqi forces have claimed control of the whole of kirkuk province from kurdish peshmerga forces the army says it captured the last town of altoona cook pre which is situated very close to a bill with the help of shia forces the u.s. has come from the iraqi government and to avoid further clashes eisel has claimed responsibility for one of the two attacks against mosques in afghanistan more than seventy people were killed the attacks happened in a shia mosque in kabul and a sunni mosque in the central province of call in both attacks an individual detonated an explosive vest. the u.s.

defense secretary has told senators the military is counterterrorism effort will now shift to focus more on africa james mattis was meeting senators to talk about the death of four u.s. soldiers in an ambush in the air earlier this month. now in argentina it's been confirmed that the body found in a river is that of missing activist santiago maldonado his disappearance in august sparked protests across the country both major parties contesting sunday's elections suspended campaigning after the discovery of his body then you're sure i'm never ports out from one side as. there were demonstrations across argentina and huge social media campaign asking a simple question where is. the twenty eight year old activist disappeared an organist during a protest in support of indigenous rights in the south of the country. i want

to ask those who lead our country's president morris your mockery and as minister of. the here. i want to ask them where santiago is urgent that he be alive we need him for the well being of everybody and probably santiago's out there. speculation was rife opponents of the government generally believed he'd been beaten possibly killed by the police and his body hidden there asking why it took seventy seven days to find the body then the area that was searched three times other speculated that he drowned or disappeared voluntarily perhaps crossing into neighboring chile pressure was on the government especially the security minister to provide conclusive answers on it almost as if you don't want to i will not allow you sen to compare our government to the dictatorship that's an atrocity

if that uses have been committed by security forces you should know that those involved will be sanctioned accordingly. memories in argentina are still strong from the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's the time of the so-called dirty war with an estimated thirty thousand people were killed. not tortured and killed by the military authorities both the main parties fighting sunday's legislative elections have suspended campaigning where the sensitive case and human rights the top of the political agenda. when osiris. in just a few hours from now the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy is expected to unveil the specific measures to impose director all in catalonia catalan separatists are calling for a new kind of protest centers simmons explains from barcelona. an online message from a pro independence campaign group saying peaceful direct action shows the power of

the people. to take some money out of banks that are moving their registration out of catalonia in case of independence withdrawals of one hundred fifty five euro the number of an article in the constitution being triggered to impose direct rule on catalonia by madrid why because this spanish dictatorship is unbearable limited like the manipulation i think putting pressure on is a good move with thousands of people doing the same thing. one program i mean some ed symbolic the government still has no mood for any compromise. in catalonia there are movements that want revolution so they want civil disobedience today there was a call to withdraw money from banks. then came a message from the prime minister himself saying the crisis was at

a critical point and his party in the main opposition were agreed on action. 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 here. imagine if i decided to close parliament so nobody could question me it would be a scandalous situation. article one five five from the one nine hundred seventy eight constitution will take power away from the regional government here it could mean elections it could mean a formal declaration of independence it might lead to public disorder in barcelona and now you really sense a fear of the unknown on both sides of the divide in this crisis shared by politicians and the people alike we fear that we are going to need. so to the danger and that maybe we will not be able to push back when we are there

and that's a feeling that they sing we all are in barcelona half right now. on saturday will hold an emergency cabinet meeting it's unlikely to calm the situation right now and there's a risk it could mean calls for peaceful direct action could turn into something more dangerous andrew simmons al-jazeera. there's been a month since hurricane maria hit puerto rico and still eighty percent of the island is without power crews are working around the clock to try to fix hundreds of kilometers of power lies but the governor says it could be another two months before power is restored because a lot of money and workers the government the u.s. government that is has been criticized for its slow response to the crisis alan fisher has this now from the capital. 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 sign that there was a hurricane here

a month ago but if you go in to the rural areas places that are poor then people there are having real difficulty you know they knew the 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 in 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 say we're not seeing anyone from the federal emergency management agency we're not seeing troops we're seeing the ordinary 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 now former u.s.

president barack obama and george w. bush have been speaking of their concerns about the current political climate in their country neither of them referred directly to donald trump nor the white house but many have interpreted their comments as being implicit rebukes of the incumbent president is our white house correspondent kimberly halkett in modern history it's unprecedented among the elite group of living former presidents turning on the newest member of the club is almost unheard of but that's exactly what two of donald trump's predecessors have done bigotry seems emboldened the forty third u.s. president george w. bush lashed out first we've seen nationalism distorted in the native asian. forgotten the dynamism that immigration is always brought to america barack obama also didn't mention trump by name but campaigning publicly for the first time at

a rally for a gubernatorial candidate his target was clear we would go out folks who were deliberately trying to make folks and. to demonize people who have different ideas. to get the base all riled up the white house says it's wrong to assume they're talking about donald trump those comments were not directed towards the president and in fact when these two individuals both past presidents have criticized the president they've done so by name still it appears an unwritten code of silence among presidents has been broken in many ways it's personal donald trump repeatedly disparage both obama and bush while campaigning for the white house as a candidate trump labeled obama the worst president in history and in a debate blame george bush personally for the september eleventh attacks the world trade center came down during the race. for trump bush and obama reflect the

political establishment he ran against and won his victory is a reflection of the values of a body of american voters those lining up to criticize include republican house speaker paul ryan using humor to poke fun at donald trump's appearance at the same dinner a year ago i know his comments according to critics went too far some said it was unbecoming of a public figure and they said that his comments were offensive well. think hardy's mundus listen. trumps continued verbal assaults have and continue to galvanize supporters making the tone and tenor of trump style politics the new norm even if it offends those who once sat in the oval office kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington the world health organization says an outbreak of plague in madagascar has killed ninety four people and it could spread further there are cases of the

bubonic plague on the island almost every year but the all sources say this particular year is more dangerous than previous ones one point three million doses of antibiotics have been sent to madagascar that's enough to treat five thousand patients and protect another one hundred thousand people who may have been exposed . in mexico city women regularly face threats assaults and they can even die at the hands of taxi drivers now there's an increase in the number of murders all females generally in the country but one new taxi app is trying to improve safety by only hiring women drivers on home and reports. a new poll ranks mexico city is the fourth worst in the world for sexual violence many women are attacked while moving in the crowded spaces of the metro buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers the arrival of right hand has meant that many feel safer but the rape

murder of. the at the hands of her cabin driver dented that perception then this month another woman was killed this time by four men in a car registered with. the conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend you know very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened think about how to react what do i do if this gets worse. now marianna uses a new service it's called loud drive it's for women passengers only and drum by women drivers around occurred was one of the first. i picked up a girl that asked me can i sleep for a bit of course me so i said you can't do that with a mile drive you think one of me says something or takes me elsewhere with a female driver you know you can trust her. it's only eight months old but i'll drive already employs nine hundred women and has been downloaded eighty two

thousand times in the current climate business is growing in the double digits the apple for some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven monitoring of drivers if they feel there are risk perception looking it's about perception as well what women feel when another woman is at the wheel. getting into a car with a man they don't know makes many women in mexico feel vulnerable after the plant experiences we talk to so those incidents of sexual harassment definitely diminish but not stop with right feeling and when they do it often companies don't want to take responsibility. now drug cost ten to fifteen percent. and is currently available only in the capital that means that through geography and price is not accessible to the majority of mexican women the demand is so high that it's already planning to expand to more cities here if that works other countries around

the world john heilemann. mexico city. to take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera iraqi forces of claim control of the whole of kirkuk province from kurdish peshmerga forces the army says it captured the last town of al turn capri which is situated close to erbil with the help of shia forces the u.s. has urged calm from the iraqi government and to avoid further clashes eisel has claimed responsibility for one of two attacks targeting mosques in afghanistan over seventy people were killed the attacks happened in a shia mosque in kabul eyeless on a mosque in the central province of core. right after the cleric started the prayer as i was passing by the mosque and an explosion happened there was chaos amongst the people all the windows of the mosque were shattered from

a nearby checkpoint trying to control the crowd all the wounded victims in the shattered windows were taken to hospital by ambulance and the dead bodies were lying in. the u.s. is this shift its counterterrorism strategy to focus more on africa defense secretary james mattis met members of congress on friday to explain the change it comes as the white house has been under pressure to be more forthcoming about the deaths of four american soldiers in the two weeks ago. the war is morphing you're going to see more actions in africa and. you're going to see more aggression by the united states toward our enemies not less we're going to have decisions being made not in the white house but out in the field and i support that entire construct so the rules of engagement are going to change when it comes to counterterrorism operations we're going to move to status based targeting so if you find somebody who's a member of

a terrorist organization then we can use lethal force they don't have to present an immediate threat. it's been a month since hurricane maria hit puerto rico and eighty percent of the island is still without power crews are working around the clock to fix hundreds of kilometers of power lines those are the headlines coming up next here on inside story. is there a way forward in afghanistan taliban attacks this week have killed more than one hundred twenty afghans nationwide despite the u.s. air force flying more missions and dropping more balls both u.s. strategy and the afghan government.