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our assessment right now as it is and crisis affiliated group the u.s. says i still was responsible for the deaths of four american servicemen and four soldiers from the. eleven welcome i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up we have to continue the fight against the taliban and against others in order for them to understand they will never be the battle will go on the u.s. was to stay the course against the taliban in afghanistan. china enshrines president xi jinping has political philosophy into the constitution and. i'm andrew thomas with tourists in the rural chinese village were talking about changing paying spent his formative years although explaining why this place matzos president xi as it is policies congress in beijing he taught his grip on. powers.

the top u.s. general says he believes a group linked to eisele is behind the ambush that killed four soldiers in the jail he warned that isolates trying to establish a physical presence there as it loses ground in iraq and syria meanwhile the widow of one of the fallen soldiers has made a televised appearance she accused president donald trump of being insensitive in a condolence phone call his gabriel elizondo. the united states' top military officer said the families of soldiers killed in the share deserve answers for american and for nigerian soldiers were killed during a brazen ambush on what was supposed to be a routine reconnaissance patrol few details are known but dunford said all signs are pointing to one group and it is an isis affiliated group and i think what you bring up is what we're dealing with in many places is isis and al qaida isis in

this case they try to leverage local insurgencies. and connect those local insurgencies globally this is the challenge that we're dealing with and so our initial assessment is these are local tribal fighters that are associated with isis the incident took place in a remote area new shares border with mali the region that also includes neighboring countries of chad mauritania and burkina faso is facing an ongoing challenge against armed groups to help with the fight the u.s. has around a thousand troops in the up from one hundred in two thousand and thirteen they share intelligence and help train local forces the incident in e.j. or has caused political ramifications as well the widow of sergeant led david johnson said president donald trump was insensitive when he called to offer condolences to president. gore but he hurt

anyway. and they made me cry because i was very angry at the tone of his voice and how he thought hold. my hands when they something the president disputes i had a very respectful conversation with the widow of sergeant like david johnson and spoke his name from the beginning without hesitation from tweeted the pentagon has also come under increased criticism from prominent lawmakers so. in the death of the u.s. soldiers and overall transparency of u.s. operations in africa this is an endless war without band boundaries no limitation on time of geography you got to tell us more the u.s. has about six thousand soldiers stationed across africa the killing of the troops in niger has prompted the pentagon to begin a review of how it conducts its missions across the entire continent gabriels andro

is it your. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is traveling to pakistan the latest stop on a tool focusing on conflict and security he was in iraq on monday and met the prime minister body the two at all however over the presence of iranian backed militias inside iraq the shia fighters helped defeat eisel but to listen wants them to be sent home they also made a brief stop in afghanistan to discuss the fight against the taliban we have to continue the fight against the taleban and against others in order for them to understand they will never win a military victory and there are we believe moderate voices among the taleban voices that do not want to continue to fight forever they don't want their children to fight so we are looking to engage with those voices and have them engage in a reconciliation process leading to peace process and therefore involvement in participation in the government well mr tillotson is expected to use his visit to

islam about to action to stop taliban fighters operating in pakistan the tension in the impossible. pakistan has been basking in rare international praise after it rescued a canadian american family earlier this month this is proof enough to me that. the. pakistanis are doing everything to their utmost to. preserve the calm the family spent five years as hostages of the taliban linked network the united states gave pakistan and ultimatum if they didn't act on urgent intelligence it would send in their own troops to bring the hostages home the pakistani government's cooperation is a sign that it is honoring america's wish that to do more to provide security in the region. the u.s. and pakistan are long time allies but the relationship has been strained the u.s.

says pakistan is creating safe havens for the taliban which is in the midst of a renewed campaign in afghanistan and pakistan denies that and says when the u.s. has provided intelligence it's acted u.s. and pakistan they have agreed to that it made engage in the future for the corporation. but the understanding of each of this concerns. us secretary of state rex tillerson is on his first official visit to south asia he'll have talks with pakistani prime minister shahid khan abbassi who was elected in august then on to india where he'll meet with prime minister narendra modi. the trump administration hopes to expand its ties with india seeing it as a stabilizing force in a volatile region president trump and prime minister modi are committed more than

any other leaders before them to building an ambitious partnership the benefits not only our two great democracies but other sovereign nations working toward greater peace and stability a deepening of american and indian ties is a sensitive topic for pakistan india and pakistan are locked in a decades long. stalemate over the disputed region of kashmir the u.s. is stressing both countries are crucial partners but u.s. president donald trump is seizing the momentum of recent cooperation by urging pakistan to help release other hostages and join in future counterterrorism operations natasha going to name al-jazeera the chinese president's name and ideology have been added to the constitution cementing his status as one of the most powerful leaders there in decades the announcement was made on the final day of the communist party conference ping's thoughts follows in the footsteps of

former leaders mostly talking and on shopping she's described his concept as central to making china a great multan socialist country by the twenty fifty. i mean. the chinese people and the chinese nation embrace brilliant prospects and a bright future living in such a great era we are all the more confident and proud and also feel the heavy weight of responsibility upon us we must have the courage and resolve to build on the historic achievements made by the chinese people under the leadership of the chinese communists generation after generation and create new accomplishments befitting of this great stride forward to an ever promising future and thomas has more now from beijing. after their weeklong congress these are the members of the communist party pouring out of the great hall of the people behind me getting on the buses in tiananmen square to go back and spread the message oh over china what

is that message that's come out of this congress well first and foremost that president xi is an absolute control of his party not only is his name going to be enshrined into the communist party's constitution that was confirmed on his court will be part of the constitution he's also standards authority on the personnel in the party there was a seventy percent turnover in the membership of the central committee of the communist party of four hundred members of that the overwhelming majority of the new appointees officially elected but appointees they are firmly she supporters on wednesday will find out the membership of the important politburo and the seven member standing committee politburo again we can expect to see she supporters dominating that so the next five years will be absolutely his new era as he calls it the specifics well this congress was very light on what that is but this will be she's era so an important time perhaps to take stock look at where she has

come from particularly the religious but he says turns him into the man he is today . when she lived in the early one nine hundred seventy s. it was a rule village where people lived in caves and in poverty now people riding on electric shuttle buses most villages have left their home turned into an open air tribute museum honoring the man who's now president. some very young tell a sanitized version of the she story what he learned here what he did here and how loved he was visitors see the bed in which the flea infested she is said to have slept they hear how he built dams and dock wells most groups are brought here by communist party workers and photographed in front of she's wise words she's young thing was born the son of a senior communist party member in beijing but in one thousand nine hundred nine

his father fell out of favor the family was banished by chairman mao during the cultural revolution at fifteen she was sent to remotely angle her he spent seven years farming in fertile land living and working alongside some of the poorest people in china they were his formative years she became a leader of the local branch of the communist party he'd go on to more senior roles all over china until becoming president five years ago she never forgot her returning for a visit to years ago the village has become an important part of who he is the president with the common touch. i'm happy and excited this is where uncle she started his long march all his hard work began here the official she story one of hard work honesty innovation and empathy means the president sounds authentic when he demands those qualities of party members and of the chinese at large this is

essential thing park extension of the sheeting paying brand what these people have come to see for themselves is the setting for a story that hundreds of millions of chinese people are reading about daily in state media and learning about in schools. at the entrance to the un john how well kids are expanding the cop arc and building a grand ole two and a half thousand people already visit every day but a lot more expect it for many years to come after thomas al-jazeera young john central china. still to come here on al-jazeera attention similar in kenya stays to speciate election rerun. screening of the oscar contender insulters can see the most in your film festival we'll tell you why.

hello there heavy rain is pouring in some parts of europe for a lot of this weather system in the southeast is just drifting its way down towards parts of turkey it's going to some very heavy downpours in the southeastern parts of europe lots of thunder and lightning as well some places have been reporting over fifty millimeters of rain from the system that is going to continue to drift its way southeast as we head through the next few days so the heavy downpours we working their way into many western parts of turkey there and then slowly edging their way eastwards there as we head into wednesday behind it there's a bit of a break but still for the northern parts of europe there's another system is going to be bringing us some heavy rain that's working its way into parts of sweden there as we head through wednesday and into the baltic states as well and that weather system in the southeastern parts of europe is also affecting us across the other side of the mediterranean as well so you can see the winds are beginning to pick up

their own choose they were likely to see more in the way of clouds but the wetter weather really pushes in as we head through the day on wednesday so the wednesday is where we see the heaviest rain over the northern parts of libya and a few showers a likely in the northern parts of egypt as well for the western parts well generally fine and dry. i would get around twenty seven as a maximum a robot now the showers across central parts of africa that he said jud at the moment but want to be free ones there in south sudan.

welcome back here with out zero live from doha your headlines the u.s. military believes and i still linked group was behind an ambush that killed four american servicemen and four soldiers from the asia general joseph dunford want diceless trying to establish a physical presence there as it loses ground in iraq and syria. the u.s. secretary of state is traveling to pakistan as part of a tour of the region focused on conflict and security rex tillerson is expected to use the visit to pressure pakistan to do more to stop taliban fighters from operating there. and the chinese president's name and ideology have been added to

the nation's constitution the final day of the communist party conference that makes him one of the country's most powerful leaders in decades. far right politicians are set to take their seats in germany's parliament for the first time in years as the first session since the election and september the chancellor angela merkel has yet to form a governing coalition dominic cain is in berlin. as germany's newly elected members of parliament gather here in berlin to take their seats in parliament they do so at a particularly nebulous time in german politics because for the first time in many many years openly far right politicians have won seats in parliament from the party called the alternative for germany or a f d more than ninety of them with seats in parliament the issue for the f.t. will be can they be a coherent cohesive united force in parliament already one of the f.t.'s former leaders has said she will not take her seat alongside her colleagues we should say

her former colleagues the f.t. is in opposition because nobody else will work with it also an opposition on the social democrats with one hundred fifty more than one hundred fifty seats and the left party of former communists mostly well they have sixty nine seats they're in opposition to form a government you have to have three hundred fifty five seats in parliament and the only option of coalition analysts say might work is one which involves angela merkel's christian democrats with more than two hundred forty seats still the largest party in parliament even though they lost many seats at the election were also there would be the free democrats or liberals with eighty seats and the green party with sixty seven seats but can those three parties thrash out their differences and find an agreement they're trying to do that the talks they're holding right now in this building just across the street from parliament they're trying to talk through these issues right now the question will be how do they

bridge the gaps between them they were opposition candidates against each other in september and now they're trying to form a coalition in october staying with elections campaigning is wrapped up in kenya as does rerun of the election there it is the second vote this year after the supreme court and the old president of the kenyatta victory last august the opposition leader raila odinga says he won't take part nor recognize the. catherine sawyer reports from nairobi. kenya is on sale or at least on a stage at a theater in the capital nairobi this is a rehearsal of a satirical play showcasing the country's political uncertainty for the repeat presidential election and what's at stake. this year. the most sought after values peace democracy are respected regional economy things the director says are being put a triscuit i mean not double down to. the plea comes out

of him. now has to be affecting the mission out in the real world many people are equally concerned about what's going to happen after the election most kenyans even those in the rural areas are very much aware and engaged in the politics of the day many say they've lost confidence in the ability of the electoral commission today live off free and fair election but when you ask people whether or not they are going to vote the opinion is largely divided along partisan lines in kisumu in the west of the country almost everyone is fiercely loyal to opposition leader raul odinga they say they will not vote here the governor visits the family of a seventeen year old boy sage who have been shot by police he says he will pass a million sure no election happens in his region when you have a government. which is in course it's really on the people with all the people monday. the people have

a right to rebel. who are looking at are supporters are keen to vote but there's concern about their letter commission itself the commission has resigned the c.e.o. has taken a leave of absence and the chairman says the commission is under siege from outside influences and he cannot guarantee. a credible election in a current colorized environment which if you what we have now is ascension yet dialogue of the deaf but sides are talking at each other rather than with each other the most ideal situation would be to. especially the electoral commission to go back to the supreme court and seek a binding authority to advisory many people including religious groups civil society politicians and even the lecture commission have asked for dialogue between president two groups and dr dean of the gifts says the election must be postponed and reforms carried out time sists it must go on catching sight al-jazeera

nairobi. the un says there are signs of possible genocide in the central african republic is fighting intensifies between rebel groups the un secretary general and to nick the terrorists will be there on tuesday and once more peacekeepers reports now from the capital. the streets of bangkok at first feel like any central west african town bustling with activity but if you scratch beneath the surface and start talking to people you realize this is a deeply divided country just days ago hundreds of muslims were killed by a militia group led by christians and animists in this part of the city people now fear that muslims will attack them such is the level of distrust between the two population this you did not see was a building you scared of muslim s.m.u.

. fear us to. the court don't. he say that muslims he's afraid of them that they kill people and they have no respect for anyone here now. if you were wearing a skull cap if you show any outward sign of your muslim religion here then you risk being lynch until you get terrorist wants more troops on the ground he's calling for nine hundred extra troops in order to help the twelve thousand u.n. peacekeepers here to try to protect the population but it's not without controversy because some of these troops have been accused by human rights organization of sexually abusing the people that they are supposed to protect young children who have been that are displaced until you get your says that he has zero tolerance for

this yet no one has been prosecuted yet in so many here in central african republic are hoping that he would put action to his words and help this country from further sliding into chaos. now there's been anger and dismay over a saudi court ruling which cleared a construction company over a crane collapse at mecca at least one hundred ten people were killed in twenty fifteen courses the bin laden group doesn't need to compensate the victims or pay for damages to the grand mosque as the disaster was and caused by human error. when a friday afternoon september eleventh two thousand and fifteen less than two weeks before the had put him from storm down a giant construction crane at the grand mosque in mecca. it crashed on to hundreds of pilgrims inside the mosque compound one hundred and eleven people died hundreds more were injured the majority of the victims were from iran turkey afghanistan

pakistan and egypt saudi king said man visited the scene of the disaster and order and then investigation. he also visited the injured in hospital away and police announced that victims and their families would be compensated one million saudis or two hundred sixty six thousand dollars for every death and half that amount for each of the injured. contacts with the giant bin laden construction group which was in charge of the renovation of the grand mosque was suspended a travel ban was imposed on its senior staff pending the results of an investigation the investigating committee accuse the company of contravening the manufactor as instructions that the crane should be lowered were not in use or during heavy winds but the saudi court said there wasn't enough evidence and the bin laden group of and it is sponsibility instead it found the extreme weather conditions have you rain lightning strikes and high winds were to blame and not

human neglect. but called lifted the top and banned on the groups employees and ruled that no deal of blood money has to be paid to the victims saudi arabia's attorney general says him appeal the ruling there was dismayed too from social media activists the compensation pledged by king said man was seen as a gesture of a way of compassion and nothing to do with the so-called blood money but it's not clear if or when rough money will be paid to the victims one hundred five hundred zero. two activists imprisoned in hong kong over protests pushing for a more open democracy have been released on bail joshua wong a nascent law were jailed in august for six months and eight months respectively they were found guilty of leading demonstrations in twenty fourteen and what came to be known as the umbrella movement both have appealed against the sentences. the palestinian territory of garza will soon have a second mobile telephone network for twenty years there's only been one the new

company got permission after eighteen years of negotiations with israel but there are still issues with three g. technology in gaza has been its method. in the palestinian territories just like anywhere else in the world you will find people staring in their mobile phones but here it's because they're usually waiting for something to happen because in guards around the occupied west bank they only have access to slow two g. technology it's taken eleven years of negotiations with the israelis the palestinians to be allowed access to three g. technology and that equipment has only just started arriving in the west bank it hasn't been allowed here into garza so while in garza the arrival of a new mobile phone operator is welcome if you're being called charges down or people really want is access to high speed internet on their mobile phones and in the gap in the market that's been left the israeli companies have slipped in with their three and four g. technology because while they're not licensed to operate in the occupied palestinian territories of course their signals drift across on the world bank

estimates that those israeli companies have taken a twenty percent market share from the palestinian companies at a cost to the palestinian economy of hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue. the lebanese film in contention for the oscars is attracting attention but some say it's for the wrong reasons last month the director of the insult was detained and questioned in lebanon because he shot a previous film in israel is led to his latest work being banned at a palestinian festival sorry for certain from ramallah. it's the last night of the palestinian days of cinema first of all the biggest media rise to a big reception palestinian actor. stars in what was to have been the festival's closing film the lebanese or so you contend the insult but the auditorium is empty the screen a blank space the showing has been banned by the local government then molecular under the occupation we've resisted all bans we've managed to bypass them or we've

been to prison to say what we want to say we always do that no more will stop us the insulters certain lebannon charting the escalation of a minor argument but. i mean two men of different arab communities into a courtroom battle the fixates a nation but its content isn't the problem the controversy surrounds it's french lebanese director z.r. doing very and his decision to shoot his previous film in israel the attack told the story of a palestinian surgeon discovering that his wife has carried out a suicide bombing the b.d.s. movement which campaigns for boycotting divesting from and sanctioning israel says do areas continue defensive israeli shoot means none of his work should feature at a palestinian film festival if a hollywood filmmaker would come to film in tel aviv we would oppose it very strongly so imagine a lebanese filmmaker crossing red lines crossing our picket line and coming to film in tel aviv this certainly in french on p.b.s. guidelines and undermined our nonviolent struggle for palestinian rights online

opposition to the film has been mounting in recent days including implicit threats denounced by b.d.s. targeting the festival. municipal government decided to ban the screening on grounds of preventing civil unrest we don't believe that the palestinian audience instances it has the right to see it as ice and the sky is like the film is good but definitely we disappointed but we want to stand the pressure that it was a bit of that the love was there and while the insult has already won international awards and high critical acclaim its director is feeling the heat last month he was detained in lebanon and questioned about his twenty twelve film the attack just as his latest work the insult was about to open there now that film to a large extent about the palestinian experience in lebanon has been denied a place here at the most important festival of palestinian film our aforesaid ramallah.

this is al jazeera these are the top stories the u.s. military believes and i sold into group was behind an ambush that killed four american servicemen and four soldiers from these air general joseph dunford want eisel is trying to establish a physical presence there as it loses ground in iraq and syria. the u.s. secretary of state is traveling to pakistan as part of a tour of the region focused on conflict and security rex tillerson is expected to use the visit to pressure pakistan to do more to stop taliban fighters from operating there. we have to continue the fight against the taliban and against others in order for them to understand they will never win a military victory and there are we believe moderate voices among the taleban voices and they don't want to continue to fight forever they don't want their children to viper ever so we're looking to engage with those voices and have them in gauge you know reconciliation process leading to peace process and therefore

involvement in participation in the government the chinese president's name and ideology have been added to the chinese constitution on what was the final day of the communist party conference that makes him one of the country's most powerful leaders in decades. the chinese people in the chinese nation embrace brilliant prospects and a bright future living in such a great era we are all the more confident than proud and also feel the heavy weight of responsibility upon us we must have the courage and resolve to build on the historic achievements made by the chinese people on the leadership of the chinese communists generation after generation and create new accomplishments befitting of this great park and stride forward to an ever promising future. has been more fighting between commanders say they destroyed three iraqi vehicles and prevented government forces were advancing towards the south of the town it is part of an

operation by the iraqi government to push the kurdish forces back to the territory they held in two thousand and three those are your top stories the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story i will see you in about thirty minutes. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera a political gamble that paid off shinzo arbaaz coalition election victory in japan and the prime minister is now eyeing a revision of the country's pacifist constitution but what would that mean for japan and this volatile region this is inside story.