is a mark of progress there's also a very real element of danger of course we are threatened but because just sit in the corner of our homes we have to go forward and develop ourselves and help bring peace and stability to our country as we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop 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 kind of disclosure and 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 you have to remember that therefore you should travel around death by design at this time on al-jazeera. we cannot force people who are not ready. it's a stalemate in the gulf high level meetings on the diplomatic rift with cutout

appeared to go nowhere. imo matheson this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up an exclusive look inside the central command the desert air base in qatar some called the most important military facility in the world. and the world health organization revokes the appointment of zimbabwe's president robert mugabe as a goodwill ambassador. on drugs we look at iran's first clinic for substance abusing mothers and their children. despite hopes of a breakthrough it seems the gulf crisis that seem caught on living under a blockade for nearly five months is going to drag on u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is in the region but he's saying the saudi arabian

led block is not ready to talk to me to take time and been calm about tani in doha he called all sides to deescalate tension but he said the u.s. couldn't force any discussions tell us and flew from saudi arabia where he met king solomon but there was no indications of any progress he also held talks there with iraqi prime minister. and says he wants to counter iranian influence in iraq particle han reports from doha. he talked tough on his way over blaming the saudi led coalition for the impasse but in the region the tough talk stopped meetings with the crown prince mohammed bin samana asked him to please and gauge please and gauge and dialogue. there's not a strong indication that parties are ready to talk yet. and so we cannot force talks upon people who are not ready to talk still us secretary of state rex

tillerson took great pains to compliment the qatari significant progress has been made in a number of important efforts in our counterterrorism joint efforts including sharing of terrorist list terrorist financing we've participated in a number of counterterrorism technical sessions and training and significant steps have been taken to advance a v.a. ssion security he didn't criticize the blockading countries not even after the saudis seem to publicly slight him by sending the deputy minister of protocol to the airport for his part the qatari foreign minister is clearly frustrated by the behavior of the four blockading countries. i also feel sorry to say that they are not ready to face this issue and to tackle with dialogue the reasons for this crisis these countries have resorted to undergo a magic method they have nothing to do with modern diplomatic channels and this is no good secretary tell us and isn't leaving the region and he is expected to do one

more press conference this time on his own here in doha so that means he has one more chance however unlikely to try and put some public pressure on the blockading countries to try to resolve this crisis as it begins to enter its fifth month. al-jazeera. jonathan crystal is with the world policy institute he's also a specialist on u.s. foreign policy in the middle east crystal says the u.s. could do more to push the situation forward. the u.s. certainly has leverage and tillerson claim that all we can really do is ask and can't force people together it's sort of laughable now there might be contexts in which that's true but in this case the us has a lot of leverage over saudi arabia in terms of arms sales that haven't gone through yet that are sort of on board they're certainly much more diplomatic pressure there's financial pressure but that really has to come from the top or from a sort of unified administration speaking with one voice and if the saudis think

they can go around telling directly to the president and they're probably right about that then why should they actually listen to him why should they agree to talks when they think that they can wait out the clock votes are being counted in argentina's mid-term congressional election pre-election polls suggested president that he's he'll knock his coalition government could win close to forty percent of the national vote and extend its control over congress seeking a mandate to overhaul the economy official results are expected early on monday that no one has more from want to set eyes. so the results of these midterm elections are going to be carefully scrutinized in the next few days by all sides taking part in these elections first of all by the governing party of president mauricio matley to see exactly where he feels he stands where the electorate feels he stands halfway through his term in office to see how much more strength he can

gain in the lower house the congress and the house the senate to see whether he can push through economic policies he says are necessary to overhaul argentina's struggling economy to deal with the rampant inflation here also the previous president cristina fernandez she's standing as a congresswoman to try to get into the congress in the very populous one osiris province to use that as a platform to try to relaunch her career her bid for the presidency in two thousand and nineteen to see where her party stands to see how they can reorganize reestablish themselves to challenge. if he decides to stand for a second term in two thousand and nineteen these elections overshadowed in large part by the discovery of the body of activists maldonado on tuesday still unclear how he died but protests across the country asking for our losses to those questions campaigning was suspended. head of the elections because of the

sensitivity of the issue all related to argentina's dictatorship from two hundred seventy six to nine hundred eighty three when it's up to thirty thousand people who were kidnapped and killed by the or thorough it is still a very sensitive issue here in argentina and when somebody dies in mysterious circumstances in relation to the police those questions are always good and your thought is being held to account for this the circumstances of santiago maldonado's death. the leaders of italy's two wealthiest regions say they've won a vote for more autonomy from the central government between the number they invented to generate thirty percent of italy's g.d.p. but many taxpayers in the north resent subsidizing the relatively poor south they want more say in how their tax revenue is used thirteen people have been killed in a suicide bombing in northeast nigeria five others were injured in meadow giving

the areas home to account for people who fled the conflict with the armed group boko haram and at least eleven people have been killed in a roadside bombing in somalia a minibus carrying mostly female farmers was hit just outside the capital mogadishu close to areas held by the armed group al-shabaab it comes after more than three hundred fifty people were killed in two explosions in mogadishu eight days ago that attack triggered demonstrations against al shabaab in somalia intelligence agencies say a turkish military base was the intended target of the mortgage issue bombings mohammad out o. has more. on a prime piece of land in the somali capital look at the issue is the new turkish military base it's the biggest the turkey military has outside. and i keep plunking on. to help the somali government to. restore order in that country. at least ten thousand somali troops will be trained here in the coming months.

nearly a year and force i think in the near future. b . r m e. s this is. news that these base was the real target of last week's massive bombing in mogadishu. for troops the turkish ambassador in mogadishu says their. fight is well in the past. threats. on the ground but despite all this. we will continue. somalia is the biggest recipient of turkish aid in the world it all began in august

two thousand and eleven when the then prime minister president. visited mogadishu. he met starving somalis and displaced people on the help. he came at the height of the country's famine since one thousand nine hundred two and was the first african head of state in the two decades what i saw particularly as a business at the time they were the first to respond of course a lot of international community have. came for what could be many many countries but. they are always in and out of meat and it's out of kindness and humanity. talk you also ha see its biggest embassy in the world the question of somalia struck two full fourteen and interests in the horn of africa region yet. their presence in somalia has more to do with the interest of this country than that will

. help. a lot in somalia. which really look at the interests with the war. many don't seem to mind. mohamed at all just. protesters are demanding the resignation of multis police chief after the killing of a journalist who exposed allegations of corruption. they've been demonstrating outside the police headquarters in the capital valetta. was killed by a bomb in her car last week earlier thousands of people marched to demand justice for. dozens of people have rallied in memo's capital in a show support for a leader. she's been widely criticised for her government's handling of the hinge

a crisis on the six hundred thousand range of muslims have fled to bangladesh since late august after me and most military launched a crackdown in iraq and state nearly two thirds of the range of refugees living in camps in bangladesh children aid groups say that at risk of trafficking sexual abuse and child labor time to charge it has more. shown are the most vulnerable among the new record is there close to three hundred forty thousand children and mungo refugees according to unicef nearly twelve thousand children cross with the referee every week from me amounting to bangladesh you can see a lot of the children will hang out in the street looking for food or begging for money some time with their parents some time alone playing by the state's sometime he said never stopped at rest children actually selling stuff now they don't have much to do in the refugee camps the question is really bad. for hunger they're out in the state looking for something or other we have seen one time in one of the

refugee camps some time back a man tried to snatch a child from my mother and was beaten up by refugee mob obviously. according to save the children many of them at a high rate for sexual exploitation child trafficking and child labor unless there's some sort of schooling set up here in the long run lot of this children with. in the state and when we had high rates of exploitation within this community in the refugee camp area still ahead and al jazeera leaders in spain in catalonia refused to budge in their deepening political crisis plus. up. to the revolution of course there are parts of. napoleon bonaparte hugo source of shame question remains more than two hundred years after his death. yank you. from

brisk noise and fuel. to the wound trying to use of southeast asia. continues to have an impact on japan away from here though the fauna dry that is the case across a good part of china well see the winds coming in from the north east the direction is that all of you where the wealthiest the monsoon comes in twenty seven celsius there for hong kong in the sunshine over the next couple of days a little bit of shabby rain over towards that southwestern corner of charge into northern parts of vietnam maybe into laos but for many it will be fine and sunny sunshine in. the philippines. continuing hair wet weather continuing across a good part of malaysia running down across the malaysian peninsula and easing of the south was said to be some pretty heavy showers just around some largish hours to pushing up into the gulf of thailand joining up with the showers that we have just said he said side of the by a single place to say things to look

a little more cheery across india as we go on through the next couple of days lost a clear skies now after the very heavy rain that was seen around the northeastern side of the country down towards the southeast of the few showers just around the western gas. for side now brightened up as we go on through choose day one it's just added to sri lanka but to the north of that it's fine dry and sunny. the weather sponsored by cattle and face. she was a society hostess in beirut in one thousand nine hundred forty she was in touch with a lot of people from the lebanese the requests to make this work code name. and she spied for mossad in lebanon. she was doing it was something brave because it would make jews you know well to have sister we have shewn acoa. at this time.

you're watching all just here a reminder of our top stories this hour the gulf crisis that seen qatar living under a blockade for nearly five months looks like it'll drag on u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is in the region and has met as a mayor in doha but he says the saudi arabian led bloc is not ready to talk. votes are being counted in argentina's mid-term congressional election exit polls suggested gains for president but it still knocked its coalition he's looking to extend his control over congress my facial results are expected early on monday. protesters are demanding the resignation of multis police chief after the killing

of a journalist who accuse senior politicians of corruption death a cut on a girl if it was killed by a bomb placed in her car last week. more on our top story now the gulf diplomatic crisis central command is the arm of the u.s. military that handles all operations launched from the middle east and south quarters are just outside doha a senior official there has told al-jazeera the blockade isn't affecting operations against eisel. reports. this is an already to her base in qatar some military personnel considered it the most important u.s. base in the world. it's revise u.s. central command with the facilities and equipment required to operations. the base is home to several different types of aircraft used in missions across the region these tasks range from strategic bombing flights to just stick support such as the

ones provided by refuting turncoat planes you date is truly the nerve center of all the operations that we execute across the central command responsibility from the planning execution and assessment of the every day operations that we operate throughout the region is done right here without this base without the capabilities that we bring every day we would not be able to orchestrate the fight that we're executing today against isis and also in afghanistan which is another important area that we provide support to there are no diplomatic issues that are impacting our ability to operate every day from here on our counter isis mission this is the sensitive operation called the combined operation center al-jazeera is one of the few media networks allowed into this place some screens were blurred to protect sensitive information many countries have joined the coalition to

coordinate the complex operations in iraq syria and of gunston when the screens we can see the busy earth strikes a coalition aircraft along with military and civilian planes for both the coalition and our field level operators they work back through the commander control system to provide us information we have near real time information where the aircraft are operating and we can talk to a control agency who is able to talk directly to those aircraft and in many cases we can talk directly to the aircraft. more than twenty countries we're told here which is considered the commander predations center called the. hold all can get a holiday the air base in qatar. m hundreds of people have been protesting in spain's capital to show their support for catalonia the government is moving to take control of the autonomous region following a disputed secession referendum this month spain's foreign minister is urging

catalans to ignore their leaders and accept a direct role catalan political parties are going to meet on monday to decide what to do next andrew symonds reports from barcelona. this is the center of regional government in barcelona in less than a week it's set to lose its powers president and his ministers. in spain's capital madrid the mood seem to be hardening both politically and on the streets the government has responded very well but they should have been had article one five five should have been applied much sooner all eyes are on catalonia as president carlos pushed him on now he gave little away after the government announced its action on saturday at the mass protests followed in barcelona. parliament is expected to meet soon a declaration of independence is still an option along with the possibility of calling elections one thing is guaranteed there will be more protest action we are

not going to. the one point five articles. we have a right. and we are sure. just on our side in this one of the most decentralized countries in the world the spanish state and the regional government in barcelona i'm now more entrenched than ever before but what about the millions of people affected by all of this for some of them isn't as simple as choosing one side or the other parent who used to be a socialist party supporter he's been against independence but is now in a dilemma he says he's horrified by the action of mariano rajoy is government in taking power away from elected politicians they decided to apply the worst case scenario for suppressing the intel to the people hey were you are going to vote

again to get what you want but what we spend in government one because now i'm feeling not comfortable at all with the spanish. government or solution but still not believe in what the independence is saying that everything is going to be fast and fantastic i don't know what what what's going to happen next week and i think going to be worst than now. after the mass protests on saturday a contrast catalan coach will events all relating to nationalism. and outside the palace housing a regional government that wants independence an old catalan nationalist song is played its lyrics romanticize the struggle for independence in reality there's nothing romantic about the situation right now and drew simmons al-jazeera. a turnaround from the head of the world health organization on appointing

zimbabwe's president robert mugabe as a goodwill ambassador and follows a backlash from international leaders activists and health groups who pointed to allegations of human rights abuses but gabi is also being criticized for going abroad for medical treatment micah readies a south african media activist journalist and co-founder of the sound africa podcast he explains why there was so much anger at mugabe's appointment. well he's very good at looking after his own health he regularly jets off to singapore for medical treatment abroad his ministers and high level politicians often use private south african health care facilities while audrey zimbabweans die in dilapidated hospitals waiting for treatments the healthcare system is with up with is collapsing because they cannot make a law that is the result of zanu p.f. policy and zanu politics this is a regime that spend ninety one percent of the tiny budget on paying salaries and

yet cannot afford to pay nurses and doctors who regularly go on strike and if you recall in two thousand and nine it was a cholera outbreak that killed four thousand five hundred people there about and this is a preventable disease so this is all political. and it's a slap in the face when we do bubbly and so it is quite hard to understand. and of course this it's not just about health care the regime is one that is that is marked by brutality that ruled with an eye and says and that has left ordinary zimbabweans in the diet to age so it is hard to understand where the support for mugabe does come from and he does have some support although. his legitimacy is certainly crumbling and i think in order to really understand this one has to look at the complex legacies of colonialism and imperialism and you know that iran has opened its first clinic for drug addicted mothers the facility is highlighting

the government's shifting attitude towards drug users from treating them as criminals to realizing it's a larger issue of public health then bus stop it reports from tehran. began smoking crystal meth when she was seventeen ten years later she says she wants a better life for herself and her baby. it was a very bad situation before i came here when my daughter was born i was addicted we had no money her father said let's leave her in hospital but i took her and we without paying we had no money for work we were both addicted. because of her mother's drug use this is little girl may have to deal with problems of her own while she seems healthy using meth during pregnancy can cause long term neurological and developmental problems in children. my daughter got taken away because of me when i quit and could get an identity card for her i was able to get

her back it's been almost six months we've been living together. the clinic into her own name to rebirth has offered both mother and daughter a new lease of life. in a morning i take. we have a normal life like a normal person at least my daughter can play with her friends and grow up in a proper manner doesn't want to show her face or use her real name because in iran drug addicts are seen as a source of shame but her story is so common you know the ration of this government run clinic was a publicized event among the v.i.p.'s were a government minister a vice president and a gaggle of t.v. news crews a sign perhaps of the changing attitudes towards the country's major drug problem. you kind of addictions show that it's not just about poverty and unemployment lack of psychological security is the main reason for being addicted in urban societies this is true all around the world including our country and the message to iranians

that the government has started treating drug use less like a crime and more like a public health problem that has a cure. you know first isn't media we should spread information so you can be informed and choose the right path many young people say they didn't know about impacts and harms of drugs we have to inform them that it is something that will hurt their future. housing a municipal building next to a park in the old part of the city the clinic gives parents a chance to get better and reunite with their kids. there's even an ambulance that patrols the streets in search of drug users to help. the women receive support from social workers and they're able to help each other it's a chance for these kids to retain their innocence and for their mothers to reclaim a little bit of theirs is in basra the old a zero to one to many he's

a national hero to others he's a tyrant napoleon bonaparte still divides opinion more than two hundred years after he rolled over france and much of europe but a new exhibition with rare works of art is shining a more positive light on the emperor. reports from paris with his determined steely gaze and distinctive hat napoleon bonaparte is one of french history's most recognizable figures a brilliant general he forged his destiny in the french revolution crowned imprint thirty five he went on to dominate europe but while many french people regard napoleon as a hero others say he's a source of shame a tyrant and a cruel war monger curators hope a new exhibition in northern france will help restore his reputation as a military and political visionary if. a pretty rebuilt france after the revolution of course there are parts of history that are hard to accept without tearing aside

and his desire to conquer europe if people have fallen out of love with the polian it's because these days we value peace and we're not accustomed to wars like people were in his time. napoleon transformed france he created many of its institutions and his napoleonic code still defined civil law across much of europe for visitors here his legacy is clear on the. whole he was a great figure of french history we owe him a lot our institutions and our schools. in troubled times he built an empire and restored order napoleon's tomb is under the sumptuous dome in paris it's one of the capital's most visited sites a testimony to his enduring appeal napoleons youth and ambition his love of symbols and his focus on europe have led many people in france to draw parallels with president emmanuel like napoleon presents himself as a man of the moment one who can restore french glory. france's

youngest president also promises to transform france and restore its prestige historians say macros regal leadership style can be traced back to napoleon. an ember did what any story and once called the myth of the savior in the world watching shallow was seen as a savior let's see if a man would be one but there is no doubt french presidential elections focus on one person we can fix everything and that is part of the legacy the exhibition in ass is called images of a legend whether those visiting will see napoleon as a genius and a reformer or an ambitious autocrat will depend on their perspective but it's clear that more than two centuries after his death napoleon bonaparte continues to fascinate natasha buckler al-jazeera paris.

this is our jazeera these are the top stories the gulf crisis that's in qatar living under a blockade for nearly five months looks like it will drag on u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is in the region and has met carter's amir in doha but he says the saudi arabian led bloc is not ready to talk tell us a top level talks and saudi arabia. i did in my meetings with the crown prince mohammed bin samana i asked him to please and gauge please and gauge in dialogue. there is not a strong indication that parties are ready to talk yet. and so we cannot force talks on people who are not ready to talk so there is been no invitation to the white house because it's not clear that parties are ready to engage but we're going to continue to work towards that dialogue and towards that engagement thirteen people have been killed in

a suicide bombing in northeastern nigeria five all those were injured and maiduguri and stuck in an area with a camp for people who fled the conflict with the book ohana. votes are being counted in argentina's meant congressional election exit polls suggest gains for president and coalition he's looking to extend his control of a congress official results are expected out on monday protesters are demanding the resignation of multiple police chief after the killing of a journalist who accused politicians of corruption that think it was killed by a bomb in a car last week. hundreds of people have been protesting in spain's capital to show their support for kata lonia the government is moving to take control of the autonomy in following a session referendum this month spain's foreign minister has catalans to ignore their leaders and accept a direct rule. president robert mugabe has been removed as a goodwill ambassador for the world health organization at

a little over two days after he was appointed and follows a backlash from international leaders activists and health groups who pointed to zimbabwe's collapsing health services. japan's prime minister shinzo ave has fought to victory in a snap election has pledged to toughen his stance on north korea and revive the economy coming up next on al-jazeera its inside story. america's top diplomat is back in the gulf trying to heal the rift between its arab allies breaks tennyson's playing down the chances of an early end to the crisis what you have to take to find a solution and does the saudi led courts.