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this is al jazeera. some of them chilling with all of this is the news hour live from london coming up . at least three dead in kenya as protests against the disputed election prevent voting in parts of the country. no end to the standoff in catalonia as the regional president rejects the idea of early elections. a u.n. report blames the syrian government for a chemical attack which killed at least ninety people last year. we can be the generation that an opioid epidemic we can do it. president trump unveils a top tier of the opioid crisis declaring it a nationwide health emergency. and i'm peter stone at him with the latest sports news including aids homos for a world series record as the used to astra's to level with the l.a.

dodgers. and their warm welcome to the news that at least three people have been killed in a dozen others injured in election violence in kenya most of the casualties were in the opposition stronghold of kisumu a city which along with several other areas did not receive election materials kisumu and three other opposition strongholds will now have their vote on saturday mohammed the dough has more now from the capital nairobi. of the months of political uncertainty it's back to the ballot for the people of kenya falls these poll is a rerun of the most contested elections in can just history now promising to be the most like among us they make it does that we have survived that we have seen people being intimidated in some parts of the country already is not a very good thing and downs of transparency you can see video of the process for those groups because. i'm

a free atmosphere in which voters could be able to. and franchise themselves as far as wanting what is concerned. vaulting incubate or kenya sludge islam was interrupted when protesters but it catered droops to polling stations police used tear gas and fired live a mission and blanks into the air to dispose of the protesters water lentulus the grouping us fosters they dispersed the playground of the olympic primary school in kebede out tells the story of this election and equally usually these filled will be full of files of enthusiastic voters with accused making into the alleys of the slum today they are none the protestors he has succeeded in ensuring as few people exercise their right to vote the police showed no mussy to those they arrested the violence was however the most pronounced in the city of kisumu in western kenya

almost all the fatalities in play here. i do believe that we are living in a fascist society where the government is essentially freshest it has profiled the world community and definitely is determined to. punish the no community but these kinds of killings yes because we refused to vote in this sham election while tensions simmered in some opposition strongholds the situation was called me in other areas they were peaceful since the voting in kimball outside they will be strongholds of president who can no voting took place in four counties in western kenya results are expected today of the voters in those counties i expected to vote right. now dingell was criticized polling stuff in the run up to the vote is likely to argue that the boycott of the poll in some parts of the country shows that iran

is pointless and that will do little to improve president kenyatta legitimacy if he's declared the winner. mohammed atta walshes in nairobi kenya. catalonia president has announced he will call a snap election until spain central government agrees to certain conditions spurge wall says he hasn't received enough guarantees from madrid that it won't impose direct rule on his home in this region if the new elections help spanish then it is expected to trigger article one five five on friday anderson as reports. demonstrators defiant towards the actions of the spanish government are calling on their regional leaders to declare session but before their march begins their hearing catalan media reports saying their regional president was planning to announce snap elections in a deal with the druid that would take charge of the one five five and avoid the imposition of direct. point i mean is that

we are completely opposed we didn't conceive of any other scenario apart from the declaration of independence we cannot conceive of any other elections the demonstrators change their plans marching to the building where president carlos was due to speak others went to his party's headquarters. we were protesting today against article one five five and all of a sudden we hear that pushed him on wants to call for elections we are totally against it we feel this is treason to the castle and people. eventually put amounts that no decision had been made. when she did it yes i know that i am willing to call an election so long as there are certain guarantees so that we can hold elections under normal circumstances those guarantees of not being provided and after elections are not warranted my duty was to try to hold elections and to

do it honestly and truthfully in order to avoid any impact on our institutions after the president finally did make an appearance these crowds seem to the main support to that idea they had shouted straight up when reports emerged that it was going to actually announce a staff the election is a day or so it was should you was then suspended by his start. in madrid the spanish deputy prime minister said nothing had changed article one five five would go ahead on friday. the question doesn't want to think contrary to what some say the procedure of article one five five does not mean a new political scene but it means the beginning of the end of the repeated disobedience of the law the interest of all and to the use of self-government against its foreign autonomy. there may have been some new twists but this crisis is now back to where it was nearly a week ago madrid intends to impose direct rule on and sockets government

friday is the day when politicians will take big steps into the unknown with risks on both sides of the lives of millions of people could be affected symons al-jazeera barcelona it watching the news hour is to lead. defense minister tells m.p.'s not to criticize. fear of hurting army. declaring the opioid epidemic a public health crisis we investigate a company which has made a fortune selling the pills as medicine. and stepping out of the spotlight. from tennis after a career spanning more than twenty years story in sport. experts from the u.n. and the chemical weapons watchdog of the syrian government for

a chemical attack in april over ninety people were killed when the nerve agent. of concha could warning you may find some of the images in her. report the starving. this is one of the gasping for air moments after government warplanes bombed hunchy home on the it live neighborhood is a rebel stronghold within minutes hundreds of people were rushed to hospitals suffering asphyxiation and other agonizing symptoms after they were exposed to the nerve agent sarin gas. this is one of more than a year later she survived but more than eighty people mostly children were killed. we are still traumatized by the attack we face the near death experience its impact remains what i get attacks from time to time and start banging your head on the

walls the attack triggered an international outcry and growing calls for sanctions against the syrian government. denies using chemical weapons but u.n. war crimes investigators say they gathered evidence to confirm the attack was carried out by government forces those who survived and chose to stay in can take home we never fully recover from the ordeal. i still try to victims through their will up long term complications patients still suffering from blurred vision neurological problems and the biggest challenge of course is psychological impact of the attack people lost their loved ones and we still treat them as their use or began helping others in the immediate aftermath before becoming a victim himself he woke up in hospital days later to devastating news so

. started carrying fixed seems to ambulances but many died on the spot i saw rescuers rushing into the area but as soon as they started the rescue the victims collapsed and died i collapsed but when i woke up i was told my family was gone but lost his father mother and two brothers he's one of many people who feel they have been betrayed by the world and left to struggle on. syria days after the attack the us launched resize into the air base that was used by so you can walk planes to drop sarin gas on her and she home but the american response fell short of the expectations of millions of syria's father. should have been a turning point in the syrian conflict and a wake up call for the international community. when my camera is at the united

nations and joins you know high there my more can you tell us. well the report itself has not been officially released but we are told by at least two diplomats here at the united nations that the report by the joint investigative mechanism does hold the syrian government responsible for that sarin gas attack now that was a position adopted by among others the u.k. the u.s. and france in the wake of that attack in april that you just saw hashim report about and they were absolutely adamant that the syrian government was responsible at the time hence the attack that was carried out a few days later by the u.s. however russia at the time insisted that there was not sufficient evidence to hold the syrian government responsible it pointed out that members of the fact finding mission the sli investigative arm of the joint invest to go investigative mechanism did not actually go to the area itself however within the report that will be released in the coming hours or indeed minutes jim makes very clear that there is

enough evidence gathered despite the absence of inspectors from the site itself so once again that report saying what a number of western countries had insisted that the syrian government must be held responsible for that sarin gas attack that killed more than eighty people mike the joint investigative mechanism that you mentioned is up for renewal what what effect if any will this have. well indeed the date for its renewal is by the middle of the next months now the u.s. introduced a security council resolution earlier in the week trying to get the mandate reviewed before this report was produced russia vetoed that resolution insisting that it first want to see the report now what we are going to be seeing in the days and indeed weeks ahead leading up to the renewal of the joint investigative miniger mechanisms mandate is whether russia will now accept jim will accept its honesty

and will allow the renewal of that mandate to go ahead given the fact that jim has held the syrian government responsible for of sarin gas attack a point that russia always denied and has denied since the attack in april so that is what is going to be happening in coming days debate between the russians and other members of the security council about whether the mandate of the joint investigative mechanism should be renewed and whether in fact it is carrying out its work on a silly without prejudice without bias can there live at the u.n. make franky iraqi forces have launched an assault to recapture al qaim and from myself it turns on iraq's western border with syria among the armed groups last strongholds in the country step back a reports from a rebel northern iraq. ready for the final phase the iraqi prime minister has given the go ahead now the task of these men is to push out of

the last areas of western anbar specifically which is the border town with syria the group still holds. we have been encountering some sporadic attacks but they are weak especially since the last of holiday and. the enemy is in a desperate situation right now and hopefully will retake all the remaining areas from. iraq's army and police together with pro-government sunni tribal fighters and the hash shadley or shia militias are part of the offensive. we are now engaging in the offensive to retake. we have received full military support from the iraqi army to participate in this offensive the tribal fighters have now become a supporting force in this offensive we aim to help that and after we retake these areas we will take control of security with the help of the iraqi forces. the

campaign will also be backed by coalition air support and ground advice the towns of. the last few territories isis still controls in iraq many here feel that it won't be a long protracted battle but ridding eisel of its territory in iraq does not mean the group's threat has been eliminated it is still capable of carrying out large scale attacks the announcement of the all crime offensive comes at a time when iraqi forces together with shia militia are involved on another front sporadic fighting with the kurdish peshmerga in the aftermath of that controversial secession referendum is putting huge pressure on air beale and the leadership here many kurds believe that this offensive is an attempt to divert attention from sporadic fighting we're seeing northwest of there along the border with iraq and many believe ultimately is to reassert federal control over the border crossings that the kurds. regional government currently controls stephanie decker al-jazeera every hour the iraqi prime minister says his government won't accept anything but

the cancellation of the kurds secession bid high dollar body is in tehran for talks with the rainy invidious both countries have large kurdish populations and oppose any talk of separation iraq's kurdish regional government had offered to freeze in secession bit but iraq says that doesn't go far enough the u.k. defense secretary has angered human rights groups by appealing to british politicians to stop condemning saudi arabia saying it's affecting arms sales to riyadh michael fallon told a parliamentary defense committee a fighter jet deal was being compromised any british politicians of openly criticized saudi arabia for its intensive bombing campaign of yemen un says the war there has killed more than ten thousand people and injured more than forty thousand . to repeat to this committee that obviously. other criticism of saudi arabia in this is not.

leading that we need to do everything possible to encourage the arabian. i believe they will commit to that we continue to work on the. u.s. president donald trump has declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency by declaring an emergency the government will have more power to address the issue more freedom to change the legislation it's estimated more than sixty four thousand americans died last year to the opioid addictions and overdoses where kimberly halkett is at the white house for us hi there kimberly so trump did say this would be one of his priorities. that's right certainly the president has talked about this repeatedly before he was president of the campaign trail again and august he said that he was addressing this within his administration and now the president has signed a presidential memorandum declaring the open would ever demick here in the united states to be a national public health emergency the president when speaking here at the white

house in the east room said that this is the worst drug crisis in his view in american history and he believes that these actions will be a critical first step for confronting what he called the complexity of the epidemic for too long we have allowed drugs to ravage american homes cities and towns we owe it to our children and to our country to do everything in our power to address this national shame and this human tragedy we must stop the flow of types of illegal drugs into our communities kimberly buying to claiming this an emergency what effect will. well it's narrower in scope than many who are addressing this on the front lines every day had hoped and here's why the president stopped short of declaring this a national emergency what that would have done is injected federal funds to the states to allow them to deal with this instead by stopping short of that by calling

this a public health emergency not only does it shorten sort of the the outline in terms of timing from one year to ninety days mind you that can be renewed but also two it doesn't free up those federal funds that many states for hoping for instead what it will do is kind of redirect existing resources cut through some of the red tape in terms of bureaucratic delays but again it doesn't include that extra funding that many states were looking for and need desperately given the fact that this is a major cause of unintentional death in the united states seven americans die for opioid overdoses every hour that is more than gun deaths that is more than car accidents so many saying this is kind of a bittersweet moment the president keeping his promise but not going far enough as many on the front line of this disease and combating this feel the president need to go and even his own opioid commission had recommended given how could there live from the white house can be thinking. president trumps an announcement is

a blow to the manufacturers of prescription opioids who made a fortune selling the pills for years she had her sons he reports. heard you pharma based here in stamford connecticut is often identified as the originator of the us is opioid epidemic and it's never been easy to hold them to account. the company pioneered the aggressive marketing it with the release of oxycontin in one thousand nine hundred seven up until then such narcotics derived from the opium poppy were reserved for cancer patients and palliative care the rate of addiction. patients who were treated by doctors is much less than one percent the company courted doctors eager to treat chronic pain with assurances that opioids were safe and all addictive. financial incentives were also offered other pharmaceutical companies also followed the strategy and soon opioid sales rocketed in the us but

so too did opioid deaths ten years ago per due pharma finally admitted it knew its drug wasn't the miracle cure for pain it said it was paid out six hundred million dollars in fines but as of last year the company's estimated to have made some thirty one billion dollars from the drug states around the country are suing the company or exploring legal action whether this is a public health crisis there's no bigger public health crisis and and then it seems right now it's not just about getting a paycheck for the state it's about rehab for people addicted to drugs and also the kind of education and reforms that would hopefully prevent certain like this again not only does but you know what are filming anywhere near its headquarters and also declined our request for an interview however the company did want to use a statement which said the u.s. is committed to working collaboratively through addressing the opioid crisis. but even as opioids face scrutiny in the u.s.

oxy compton is going global in may twelve members of congress wrote to the world health organization with this warning the greed and recklessness of one company helped spark a public health crisis in the united states that will take generations to fully repair we urge the w.h.o. to do everything in its power to avoid allowing the same people to begin a worldwide opioid epidemic the w.h.o. has yet to respond to the letter which has congresswoman marcy kaptur concerned one county and her state of ohio leads the nation in per capita u.s. deaths i would say do not let these medicines be used in your country i don't want to call them medicines i do not let these pharmaceutical products be used in your country. without very careful review and tight control oxycontin is already being marketed as an internationally proven low risk treatment for chronic pain to doctors and consumers globally. medicine can change the

u.s. politicians are warning the world to be vigilant she every time see al-jazeera connecticut . he security measures have come into effect for us but in flights now the measures switching to enhanced screening of passengers and electronic devices are aimed at reducing the threat of attacks the latest decision by the trumpet ministration affecting global travel and again like a reports now from miami. and then by the u.s. authorities say the new measures are in their words raising the bar on global security and arraigned reducing the threat of hidden explosive devices u.s. bound passengers will now face additional screening of electronics and short security interviews the u.s. department of homeland security is convinced terrorist groups a targeting aircraft flying to the u.s. together we have the opportunity to raise a baseline on aviation security globally and we can do it in a manner that will not unduly inconvenience the flying public let me be clear

security is my number one concern our enemies are adaptive and real we have to be adaptive as well around two thousand u.s. bound flights a day for more than one hundred countries will be affected. the measures on his controversial as president trumps failed travel ban on six muslim majority countries but security experts say the new rules would lead to further delays it's going to make things more complicated and i think you're going to have a lot of passengers very dissatisfied with the passenger experience it's so behavioral analysis will now be used to screen passengers focusing on their demeanor and travel background but the rest is that certain passengers may be unfairly singled out some are also concerned that placing additional security responsibilities on airline staff is unfair more than three hundred thousand passengers a day will be affected by the new measures but the airline industry have reacted with some criticism they say airlines weren't consulted and they also say putting

the onus on ticket counter staff may not be the best way of enhancing security but all agree if you are traveling to the u.s. you need to turn up to the airport even earlier and gallacher al-jazeera. miami's international airport are just serious demanding the release of its journalist mahmoud who say who's now been in an egyptian prison for more than three hundred days he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos flames he and al-jazeera strongly deny same has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail and rested in december while visiting his family. it's much more to come on this news hour from london after a year of mourning thailand says goodbye to minutes late. classified documents on the assassination of president john f. kennedy are set to be released more than fifty years after his death. and it's so only warming up the testing ground for the bloodhound which seems to be just speed of sixteen hundred kilometers an hour with more in sport.

we got signs of some colder red tucking into western parts of europe over the next couple of days not just yet we still got the winds coming in from the atlantic always a mild direction lost in the warm front here just pumping a little bit of warmth up across that western side of europe there across the british isles but as we go on through friday those winds come screaming in from the north fourteen cells is top temperature in london believe you may it will feel cold and that when you add on the strength of the winds chilly northerly blouse coming through fourteen celsius the. amounts of wet weather into central parts if you will continue to push its way for the south which as we go on through sas day vienna struggling to get into double figures by that state fair amount of clouds you

notice into central and eastern parts just fifteen celsius for london and paris and we're still hanging on to that northerly wind cold enough mind she went to the northeast of europe wasco with a top temperature of just two degrees celsius ice any signs of or some if not winter pushing through some of the showers still in place just around the eastern side of the but it's rainy just around crete pushing a little further research and started to fizzle out as we go on through the weekend to temperatures in cairo well be paid back to around twenty celsius not too bad in a bat with a high of twenty four. al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of counts folk abene dot. tossed by the security council to mediate between arabs and israelis. his death would prove one of the darkest days in the quest for peace in the middle east.

killing the count at this time on al-jazeera. discover a wealth of wood winning programming from around the world. documentaries we were running away for our life from a brutal regime that kills its opponents debates and discussions we're getting comments on what the international community should do how worried should we therefore be that this guy has the nuclear codes on a scale of one to ten and can challenge your perception. al-jazeera.

a quick reminder of our top stories here on out to sea or at least three people have been shot dead in election related violence in kenya prompting a fish oils to delay the vote in four counties catalonia as president calls bridge mode says he won't call a snap election until spain central government agrees to certain conditions. the iraqi forces of launched an assault to recapture two western border towns from. a nearly elected opposition governor in venezuela has been sacked after he refused to swear in loyalty to the constituent assembly one. said he would never know before what he described as the dictatorship of president nicolas maduro venezuela's opposition democratic unity coalition which group several dozen and parties together that's been in crisis since i'm surprised to see this month's state elections. prosecutors in mexico say they've arrested one of the top heroin traffickers for sin

a lower drug cartel victim manuel felix was arrested on thursday at an apartment complex in the upscale suburb of mexico city chapel sons of largely taken over the cartel after their drug lord father was arrested last year and extradited to the united states. argentina's former president cristina courage has been made to testify in an investigation into one of our country's deadliest all mings eighty five people were killed when a jewish center and when this iris was attacked in one thousand nine hundred four kirschner is accused of covering up the role of iranian security forces in the bombings trees a bow has more. we're here outside the courthouse where christina kirshner just left wants out side she said but she's being a victim and being politically persecuted not only by the current administration of mogadishu marcie but also by members of the judiciary she said that she's innocent let's not forget that she's being investigated. based on an accusation made by

a late prosecutor over thirty percent of the time she heard restrictions signed a memorandum with iran that would allow argentine judges to travel to iran to interrogate suspects of an attack that happened here and when a site is back in one nine hundred ninety four but the prosecutor said that there were other reasons why the memorandum was signed that dot the argentine government wanted to do business with iran well kirschner is basically saying that that's not true that her only objective was to bring justice to an incident that happened over twenty years ago also because your was elected a senator or last sunday show over three million people voted for her during that election and that in a way gives her immunity but still many here have doubts that kirshner could end up in prison. that thursday is the day when secret government files relating to the death of u.s. president john f. kennedy will be released j.f.k. was assassinated in november one thousand nine hundred sixty three shortly after

this which was filmed he was shot in the head as his convoy made its way through downtown dallas shortly after this man the harvey oswald was arrested and accused of killing kennedy two days later all swelled with himself killed by a nightclub or a jack ruby while still in place custody the following year a commission headed by chief justice or a warrant to the evidence and concluded that in killing kennedy also old had acted alone but in january one thousand nine hundred ninety two the film j.f.k. by all of a stone captivated the public image as many magination with conspiracy. the reason including the alleged involvement of u.s. intelligence agencies well in order to contain that congress passed a law promising the release of the classified files relating to j.f.k.'s death within twenty five years which brings us of course to now or twenty six two thousand and seventeen the final day that those files could be released but with

more on this i'm joined now by bill sanderson journalist and author of diligence from dallas reporting the j.f.k. assassination bill a very warm welcome to the program so we are going to see these files released today well that's what the that's what the law states there's only one person can stop the release of these files and that's president trump and so far today he hasn't he hasn't moved on this yet we're not sure exactly when today the files will be coming out how much interest bill do you think there will be in these files i think will be an intense amount of interest in these files people have been talking about conspiracies since within a few minutes of the of the shooting the first the first word of the possibility that some shots had been fired from the grassy knoll which is separate from the place where oswald fired his shots they keep that came out on the news wires just sixteen minutes after oswald files his bullets so the conspiracy theory started really within a few minutes of the shooting itself bill what you think it is about this big lot

of this day what do you think it is about this particular moment in time bill was it because there was food to just what happened that kind of captured the public imagination and still fascinates us all to today. i think that that the reason and the conspiracy theories exist is that this is a monstrous crime this is the death of the president of the united states the most powerful man in the world and it's hard for people to imagine that one person could have carried it out on his own i think people want to believe that there is some sort of conspiracy that there is that there's a group or a series of people who are behind this i don't think i think i think the idea that just one person did it is just difficult for a lot of people to grasp i think that's really the root of it and then and then some things happened after the assassination that sort of fueled the consistency of the theories aside from the business of a few people hearing echoes or claiming they heard shots around the grassy knoll the doctors who treated the president at parkland hospital in dallas give

a very confused press conference after the a sad after after the shooting they they said that they found what looked to them like an entrance wound in president kennedy's neck but they never turned the president over and they didn't realize it was really an exit wound and that just added to a lot of the the confusion surrounding the case then you have the history of oswald himself who lived for a few years in the soviet union before he before he returned the united states and carried out the assassination and then you have the story of jack ruby who killed oswald in the basement of dallas police headquarters a couple of days after the assassination if you add all that up i think it's almost inevitable that the people are going to think that there was more than one person involved and beyond your book it's written isn't say about the actual reporting of what happened on that day and one journalist in particular who got let's face have masks it's good. he did get a massive scoop my book is about and then a merriman smith who was the white house reporter for united press international

and he was sitting in a press pool car about four or five cars behind president kennedy's car he heard the shots right away and to smith who was kind of what we call today a gun nut he knew that the shots came from the book depository he said they were over my right shoulder from above me and that's where oswald was will smith was sitting next to a radio telephone which is sort of the closest thing they had to a cell phone in those days he picked up the phone and called the story in to the dallas united press international bureau and what happened next is in the back seat of the same car there was a reporter from from the associated press press smith's rival and the smith hard of the phone he crouched down under the dashboard of the car while wallach the car sped along following president kennedy's car to the hospital and the associated press reporter he wanted to use the phone as well so he tried to grab it away from smith and there's a bit of a pit fistfight between these these two guys as as they headed to the hospital fascinating stuff bill samson there joining me live from new york bill thank you.

thank you and the u.n. chief is calling for militia groups to put down their weapons in central african republic and tonia get terraces visiting the troubled nation where for years after ethnic violence muslims in a neighborhood of still too scared to leave their own it was hard courts. there are safe here but this act of faith is too dangerous to perform in some neighborhoods of benghazi. at the height of the ethnic violence in c.a.r. four years ago we saw adam a son who was chased down by christian vigilante group lynched because he was muslim the family home destroyed fled to the muslim district of p.k. five. they're hunting a stone that will runs so we have to hide our religion otherwise it will cut into pieces. disguises his faith whenever he leaves his neighborhood

he shaved his beard and changes his clothes. he even changes his name. becomes. he's not alone many muslims in the capital disguises themselves as christians to avoid attack in areas outside the capital controlled by muslim rebel groups christians do the same on a visit to central african republic the united nations secretary-general called for armed groups to disarm and engage in political dialogue. for decades religious leaders and politicians have been for mentoring hatred and divisions in this community bringing this country to the edge of civil war it's now up to the recently elected president and his newly appointed government to bring back dialogue instability to this country president says he will bring peace.

we want to build a safer she gay are where the population lives in peace in mutual respect so that we work together to build a dignified nation. some question his decision. has appointed a former leaders of christian militia groups to his government he also wants the weapons embargo imposed on his country to be removed so he can arm his soldiers but this is a country already overflowing with weapons at a food relief distribution point. a man pulls a grenade sending the crowd into panic christian and muslim men with guns continue to run this country. this is as far as music can go they call it the bridge of death on one side are muslims and the other are christians who says home is on the other side across an invisible border built on hate now tearing the central african republic apart nicholas hawk al jazeera p.k. five monday an explosion at

a fireworks factory in indonesia has killed at least forty seven people and injured thousands the blast happened other than industrial complex in the city of time west of the capital jakarta a local official says all of the victims were fact two workers. now after a year of mourning thailand's laking it's been created kink. day died last year aged eighty eight was the world's longest serving more like his five day funeral ceremony began drawing hundreds of thousands of mourners scott hide from the capital. home in a year of mourning and reflection the people of thailand have said goodbye to the king i don't use them. in during late monsoon rains in searing heat hundreds of thousands of thais clad in black descended upon bangkok. bucket come sunk arrived in the pre-dawn hours told me i have to continue with our lives but i will do good

things for him so we. will not have to worry. full of ceremony and tradition of perception carrying an opulent turn left the royal palace for the two and a half a kilometer journey to the royal crematorium crafted over the last eight months the elaborate crematorium is designed to represent a mythical mountain sending the late king to heaven here and one applause thousands have gathered there laying sandal wood flowers on this replica of the royal crematorium dozens have been set up across bangkok and across thailand giving thais the opportunity to actively participate in their king's funeral get loose on decided that he was a young boy when he met. his father was the king's tutor for twenty six years in switzerland when some thai people do not abandon us he said if the thai people had been. abandoned then and that was he's new and he's profound meaning he wanted to to be there for thai people in

thailand has progressed greatly under king put me upon some field that's part of the grieving yes for the man but also for the period of transformation he led the nation through i think first and foremost people grieving because they're saying goodbye to a part of themselves a part of their collective identity that was form and shape during the king's time he was called father by many thais even viewed by some as a demagogue this is. as mean least of all as type people the late king's son and heir king. corn lit the crematorium on thursday evening it was followed by traditional dances and performances they carried on throughout the night marking the end of the year of mourning scotter al-jazeera bangkok. kazakhstan is to change its official alphabet for the third time in less than one hundred years originally the cause that language was turkic and written in arab.

script that changed in the one nine hundred twenty s. when it was replaced by a latin alphabet in one nine hundred forty acrylic language based on the russian alphabet became the official written word well clearly it includes forty two symbols which are difficult to integrate into digital devices and so the country will soon begin the transition once again to latin based text well joining me via skype from penarth in wales is not a quest giver she's a ph d. candidate in linguistics other spent nine months doing research in kazakhstan and a very warm welcome to the program so why is the government making this change is it just about a digital future. thank you so there fishel reasons for the switch from the silver lake to the roman base alphabet given by the government back in december two thousand and one when they first widely announced this innovation were exactly what you just mentioned modernization of the cars

a client was and facilitation of its integration into the wild eyed the patient of the language to the digital future so for that reason there's a debate if the president of kazakhstan specifically requested for the new alpha bit to be free from diabetics so there are little dots and hoops that you might see in languages such as french or german for instance so those are by that wanted to do away with those and he wanted any user to be able to type character on any standard english language keyboard and saw another reason that they gave the government gave for this information for this reform is the unification and sort of becoming closer to the average turkish speaking countries such as turkey or what was back a stand for instance where roman based alphabet has been implemented already does that also mean it's kind of cutting ties to some degree with the soviet past nadia that's right yes i mean a lot of critics and a lot of commentators view this as

a highly symbolic political move as well so kind of eckstein is sort of finally it's like a final goodbye to the soviet and some psychological parts of conflict started and so this is right in assuming the base alpha bit was implemented and they want to do wear away with this now that now they are practically speaking how does a nation go about implementing a change of alphabet even if it has done it you know let's face it three times in the last hundred years what about the practicalities. well this is of course a very challenging task and the main sort of challenge is to be honest it's also an opportunity that have a great opportunity here to do. practice a practical and elegant alphabet and there they seem to be the only way that they have done away with forty with a with a forty two letter alphabet and a current advantage and a half percent of the draft. only has twenty five letters which is a significant you know cut down and it is a difficult task it's

a challenge. current the jobs that have that has been presented has been criticized it received very very mixed reviews however the president seems to like it what effect does this have it is perhaps a naive question for him for me but what i say does this have on the ordinary parsa dickie to having to to change the language of. well the i know what another person you know wouldn't have probably lived through all the three changes so it's only an older generation who would remember the change in the 1940's late one thousand factories and in one nine hundred forty s. from the roman based up a bit to the semantic based alphabet for the current generation of people for the younger generation of people i think that this will not be a problem and talk a lot about you know how to spend time in kazakhstan i know especially large in

largest it is a lot of them speak about it with english already at least you know they definitely at least know the alphabet that's for so or so learning the letters and learned alphabet will not be a challenge for them however five the critics again say that for people of all the generation this will be very very very challenging to have to switch completely from you know the similar by stuff a bit to the roman based alphabet. will be you know will not go as fast for the. notes so it's not really i just want to ask you what he quickly not here what could things like you know libraries for the text that have to be translated what happens fair well exactly this is a massive practical task so one thing the other because been agreed upon the long and very expensive process will have to take place so first of all i would imagine and from what i have read and how i understood they will be they will prioritize

that minister to documentation of course and school textbooks so the largest you know amount of literature that has been printed in in russian and in this era i think version of the kinds of alphabet will software will have to wait its time until you know everything else there and minister to side of things and the state priorities have been sorted out now dorothy. there from penarth not be a thank you very much thank you still ahead in the program no deal a european court trumps card players hoping to be back in eyes a sports men and women details coming up with peter. king a. business update brought to you by always going places together.

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welcome back let's get all the day's sports news that would be to enter. thanks juliet's truism dodgers fans will have to wait until friday's game three of baseball's world series to see if it matches the excitement of the foods to make this the nation is used to and astros fans will be hoping the a team carries on the momentum of the coming from behind to make it one one after a while the game two he leaves home and reports. fifty four thousand fans in los angeles hard thing to see the dodgers double the world series lead and for most part of gang two it appeared they would do just that. was to corey sega had put the dodges three one up in the sticks sending was

god and i had lost in ninety eight games this season off to later they sent this standards exceptionally high but the astros staged a comeback in the eye at the ninth innings to level the game at three three was. a bit like this post the teams to an extra inning consecutive harm run for houston in front for the first time was. but still things were far from martha yes the old quick helping the dodgers tie the game the game and send it to an eleventh inning the way the astros then struck two more harm runs taking the games tally to right breaking the old time record in the world series. the old even more remarkable the i harness were hit by id from places all of her and had never hit one in

a world series before saying at. this time the astros held on to that lead for this dust devil world series which was so. i mean that's incredible game on so many levels so many ranges of emotion. and if you like october baseball you know if you like any kind of baseball now that's that's one of the most incredible games that you'll ever be a part of. the best of seven series is now tied at one one. the two teams had to houston with game three percent today. home an al-jazeera twenty five time grand slam title when a martina hingis has announced she will retire from tennis at the end of this week's w t a finals in singapore and just began a career as a professional way back in one thousand nine hundred forty three years later she was dominating the women's tennis winning three grand slam titles that included the

australian open wimbledon and the us open she would go on to claim two more of the opens before retiring in two thousand and three because of persistent injuries she would return in two thousand and five and after some reasonable success well she tested positive for a banned substance so she called it quits again although she played a little bit intermittently never saw us made another comeback but she would quit singles and instead focus on doubles and achieved quite a bit of success in mixed doubles winning a total of seven grand slam titles including all four of them but it was doubles itself where she really had the most of her success winning all four slams in a total of thirteen titles the thirty seven year old will retire with a total of twenty five grand slam titles in a twenty three career that has certainly been colorful. some people knew it then and i mean still probably people think yeah after a year like this after a season like this but i think it's also perfect timing you know you want to stop and. when you're already going backwards i mean i couldn't ask for

a better finish like that another thirty seven year old venus williams is hardly slowing down the americans still a year hasn't finished yet williams has made the same the finals in singapore by beating spain. seven five six one it keeps on track to the season ending tournament for the first time in nine years and it continues a remarkable run in which she's played two major finals last year including losing to me at wimbledon williams will face either carolina was the heir to the caroline garcia in the final four. now for a blast of the bloodhound it's a car that a british engineering team hopes will smash the world speed record the aim is to eventually exceed a speed of sixteen hundred kilometers an hour in south africa the winnings reports on whether it passed its initial test. the dream is to go faster on land than ever before. bloodhound is the name of the

jet powered car. the british team of developed over nine years. and a new key in the southwestern corner of britain was the venue for crucial testing at the will we can command and degree and if anybody knows how to handle speed. he set the fastest time of over twelve hundred kilometers per hour twenty years ago. but this is not only to break that over thousand miles per hour which is over sixteen hundred kilometers per hour these tests were kept down to a mere three hundred twenty kilometers per hour along formula one's top speed a fifth of what they'll attempt at the next stage in south africa. this was about testing steering brakes suspension data systems on a jet engine sourced from a year zero five to talk. the wheels will be solid because rubber tires would never

hold together at this pressure he said a project to run over ten years and you're at the cutting edge of technology in year one you certainly have to innovate to keep on the cutting edge so that when you get to year ten you move forward and you're still on the cutting edge of technology so i guess i would say it's this innovation backed by course so i don't finances. the husky nepad in north west and south africa will be the place this team look to go to the next level and beyond as early as next year it's not quite all systems go for the world record attempt there is plenty of work still to do including over to to be a time just but bloodhounds lead partner chinese comm i could generally side out finance this project through to its conclusion the new contest was a success showing a pioneering teng the comeback a sound barrier with a new line speed record firmly in their side they. chase and

projects the size the mind rather than the body but all they sports in the case of the card game it's no deal the european union's top court has ruled against british players who argued they shouldn't have to pay a sales tax to enter a competition the taxes waived for sports the courts sitting around playing cards is not a physical activity. unlike greetings falls in front of a t.v. camera julie completely different peter you're absolutely right. that's it from us here on the news hour for me in the scene here in london i'll be back in just a cop the sex but much more the day stacy that.

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