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a lower intake of this is the news hour live from london coming up. sacked kaplan lead a callus bridge to mon calls for peaceful opposition to direct rule from madrid. claims responsibility for deadly car bomb attacks in the capital mogadishu. the future of iraq of kurdistan me to me seems uncertain as reports surface to step down. i'm tatiana sanchez in doha with the latest sports news including and i'll be houston astros first baseman curial of voids world series suspension but the keep in the still facing punishment in twenty eighteen over of racial gesture of all the details later. we begin in spain where the worst political crisis in four decades shows no signs

of ending catalonia as deposed leader countless bridge damone is calling for a peaceful democratic opposition to madrid takeover of the region on friday but the spanish government assists new regional polls will go ahead in december how does it was under simmons reports from barcelona. they're singing long live spain this the response to the breakaway declaration from barcelona on friday the demonstrators are unionists government supporters in madrid waving spanish flags. that i am cattle i am spanish and it is a moment in which we need to be more united be brave and to do something definitive . as the demonstrators in madrid called for the jailing of the catalan leader colors pushed him all he was freely walking around his home city of jerome surrounded by supporters and media the prosecutor general is set to announce

charges. pushed him or made a t.v. address to catalans calling for peaceful support. it is clear to us that the best way to defend what we have achieved so far it's to have a democratic opposition to article one five five this is the response to the deliberate action against catalans who have for many centuries felt different we have to overcome any threats and to act in a civil and peaceful manner. for those watching in barcelona there seem to be as many doubters as supporters. and i don't agree with making unilateral declaration because in the end even if the people who participated in october the first have moral legitimacy they don't have legal that say here at the seat of power the palace or the general attacked it was unclear who was really in control one secession activists said large numbers of students had contingency plans to

guard the building it would have to to defend. the people in the street. that the police not be able to arrest the president right now the spanish national flag still flies here unlike the city of jerome where pushed him on his spending the weekend it was unceremoniously lowered and it pleased a lot of people but you know i'm not afraid of independence because this is what we wanted and we're behaving according to our politicians are leading us down the right path. in my opinion i've never felt spanish i've always had a catalan identity and so i felt very excited and at the same time worried what events may come next which may be complicated and hard. back here in barcelona the government palace is guarded by mosses the regional police force its commander.

trip arrow who is already on a charge of the dish and has now been sacked along with a director above him officers have been warned they have to be neutral we're hearing now that some ministers of have police protection withdraw have pushed him on his head of security reduced should he returned to his office here it's possible he could be arrested and it's very likely that his supporters will come to his defense and do some of those al-jazeera us alone. but discuss this further i'm joined by nina shaikh who's a political commentator at the consultancy company hanbury strategy thanks for being with us on the issue of the new regional elections if they do go ahead as planned in december how likely is it you think that the support for catalan independence will have softened or do you think it will harden in that time what would you expect poll suggest that if the regional elections go ahead on december twenty first that the parliament will return with largely the same make up as now

the regional parliament that is so slightly in favor of independence but not by a huge majority it's worth remembering that when that vote was taken to unilaterally declare independence a lot of the m.p.'s that actually walked out of the hundred thirty five seats chamber they'd only passed by seventy so i think the region will be divided as it is now but that also depends on madrid's reaction if it is indeed very heavy handed you could see support for independence skyrocket in the region what about all this in the kind of european context or the concept of the european union more specifically what kind of role do you think the e.u. might have in the run up to that election or in the next few months if any role at all. well it's unsurprising that the e.u. and indeed the rest of the world has not recognize this as a valid declaration of independence of course the e.u. will back madrid in this because the referendum was called illegally there was no legal basis for independence to be called and i think the role that the e.u.

will play is largely one of mediator but of course the e.u. has to be very very careful because this is indeed a domestic issue one that is pertaining to the sovereignty of spain so that you cannot be seen as meddling too far in the national affairs of the domestic of a sovereign member state i suppose they some would argue though that it's in parts of disillusionment with centralized control whether it be from madrid all kind of dissolution with european union kind of control that people vote in these kind of ways did you think that the european you need to learn lessons from the weather's all panned out in catalonia that is indeed an argument that has been made ever since the referendum was called an independence was declared unilaterally however i would urge against drawing too fast and narrative across the political trends that you see not only in the european union but across much of the western world of course if you look at what's happening in spain this is largely to do with long

running tensions between madrid and the region of catalonia and indeed in the cattle and independence movement they don't want to leave the e.u. they still want to be part of the e.u. of course you see a lot of these regional kind of break will be in origin just as they say that you want one part of the e.u. but the make clear that if they are independent and they won't be part of the. well that is because obviously the e.u. is an institution that has to follow rules and legal obligations spain is a member state of the e.u. and in order for any new member to join the e.u. there is thirty five chapters of the session and each member state has a veto so there's no no feasible way that catalonia could rejoin the e.u. because spain would obviously veto it and if it were to try and rejoin it would have to first of all gain independence in a legal manner so if these regional elections are held on the twenty first of december it would perhaps be wise of madrid to consider holding a referendum but a legal one and then i suppose that madrid would then hope that the kind of silent

majority as they like to say in catalonia the fifty seven percent who didn't turn out to vote in that referendum on the first of october would come and sway potentially the vote to ward staying in until it's clear that that you cannot cannot accept catalonia as a member state aid because spain would rito it and be not if it unilaterally declare its independence without any legal basis and given that we've also got brics it looming what do you think the prospects for stability in the e.u. are well clearly the e.u. being a bloc of twenty eight soon to be twenty seven member states has a lot of problems across many of the member states but. i mean and this will continue to be the case but i think that if anything the breath of vote has actually seen support for the e.u. increase across the other member states but i think the bigger problem will be domestic problems within different member states whether that's in the eastern bloc

or now indeed in spain and of course bracks it actually means for the bracks that negotiations that the e.u. will probably have less time to spend on the negotiations because they'll have so many other issues that they're trying to deal with thank you very much indeed for your for thank you you thank. government have forced their way into a hotel and taken hostage hostages in the somalian capital mogadishu the president had been due to hold a meeting that at least nineteen people have died in the attack which began with two car bomb explosions ahmed are reports from neighboring kenya. this is the target of the first explosion. to kill tell a story throw away from the presidential palace a car was driven up to the gates of the hotel before exploding causing a blast of hot across the city at least three heavily armed fighters then stormed into the hotel shooting anyone in sight i'm going to. i was driving

a took to the front of the hotel i saw a car exploding at the gate of the hotel i don't know where two of my clients have gone i don't know if they're dead or alive but i saw four dead bodies. the two is popular with somali members of parliament and other government officials the hotel was also the venue of a meeting between the somali president mohammed of the life of the module and the leaders of somalia's five regional states. the second car bomb exploded at a busy intersection in the heart of the city and the security. expected al-shabaab fights us to cut out such brazen out talks in mogadishu so soon after the recent must've truck bombing the last in somalia's history that evidence of the city are still coming to tom's with the top two weeks ago which left three hundred fifty eight people dead four hundred injured and another five to six. al-shabaab was

a victim from the couple in two thousand and eleven it has maintained its control in many rural areas of central and southern somalia since then the group was prevented resilient able to that place commandos and fight is killed by u.s. strikes and in fighting with somali forces and african union peacekeeping. flights as recently gained control of several areas outside mogadishu including but even a strategic town forty five kilometers from the capital government officials say preventing attacks and look at issues proving the haida districts that only the cup it will fall to. one. of the well it will become. the leader of iraq's kurdish region is reportedly not planning to extend his presidential term past november the first parliament is due to meet on sunday to redistribute the powers held by masoud barzani facing mounting pressure to quit ruling supremacy controversial secession referendum iraqi government opposed the

vote calling it unconstitutional stephanie decker has more from abbi you there hasn't been an official announcement but certainly according to sources in kurdish media it seems that present massoud barzani has sent a letter to parliament where he says he will launch be seeking an extension of his presidential term now this is expected to be debated in parliament on sunday what it means basically his term would have ended november the first technically legally his term as president expired in two thousand and fifteen now elections are supposed to been held november first present result he has always said he would not have run in these elections have now been postponed for another eight months time it's complicated but the bigger picture is certainly significant once we hear an announcement that he will not be extending his term he will no longer be president this is a man who's run this country for twelve years he fought for this country and of course he was behind this controversial referendum against the advice even of his

allies and the backlash that we have seen here too that has been incredibly unexpected people here absolutely shocked about what has gone on and what continues to go on so certainly it will be a significant announcement it is what we expect but again we haven't had the official announcement as of yet. unofficial results from kenya's presidential election rerun suggest president who can yet or has won more than ninety seven percent of the vote this mandate appears to be weak with turnout estimated to be less than thirty five percent and opposition supporters largely boycotting the vote coming to miller has more from the capital nairobi. this is all that's left of these businesses and homes in cologne west of nairobi they were burned down by protesters throwing petrol bombs. event as one guy worked here he says they knew the attack was coming but they couldn't stop it he says the attacks a based on ethnicity often targeting people who have voted on friday one man was

beaten to death here. demonstrations have followed thursday's presidential rerun which was boycotted by the opposition and the areas which are opposition strongholds are bearing the brunt of it. mary oma a mother of two says it was peaceful until now she spent the night out on the street scared she and her children would be burnt in their home. while mom had to go on what we as women are so angry because we slipped outside our kids were scared they were even storms being thrown one just missed my son's i you can imagine tear gas being thrown and i have children we heard more of the same from other people living here. talk quickly turned to the political tensions they say they don't want a president to. to stay in office while just a third of voters turned out results of the presidential rerun so far indicates

that kenyatta has more than a seven million votes and many in this area are angry it's not easy moving around this area groups of protesters are blocking roads ready to stop anyone they don't want to round stops are closed some boarded up their owners here they'll be looted there are many police officers patrolling the area but many here say they don't feel protected police are accused of using excessive force when dispersing protesters human rights groups say they've killed between fifty and sixty people following the election sometimes the rich. fire tear gas canisters a lot closer towards there also goes to die because police are crowded knowledge of what a storm's interest there's a. house to house up on its own sometimes getting divorced. pulling people out but diplomats and getting them. the police say they're trying to stop the violent protests and criminals a reality for many years those trying to survive

a political battle being fought on the streets for me to al-jazeera column wire in nairobi coming up on the news hour for us to vent secretary warns the threat of a nuclear missile attack by north korea is escalating. speculation grows as the first charges are filed into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen us presidential election. and is a record breaking night at the under seventeen world cup in india tatyana will have all those details measures for. hunger in the democratic republic of congo has soared in the last year leaving seven point seven million people in urgent need of food aid in the more than three million people that's one quarter of the population are going hungry and need

urgent assistance an internal power struggle there has given way to tribal violence that's also left thousands dead since august twenty sixth. when more than a million people displaced and there's been an alarming thirty percent rise over the past year in acute malnutrition in the region the world food program says it needs twenty seven million dollars to support its work from september to december twenty seventh teen in the executive director of the un's world food program david beasley is in the r.c. on a four day mission he spoke to us about the situation from goma in the east of the country. the bottom line is we need money and we need money fast we literally are talking about in just the cost side region of three point two million people that are dearly malnourished i mean it's bad as bad as it gets literally hundreds of thousands of children if we don't receive funds and food and exist immediately will die over the next couple of months now in the p.r.c.

alone you have seven point seven million people severely food insecure but almost half of that is in the region all because of nothing but man made conflict it is wrong it's on the septa bill this is a country b. international community has spent billions in and to continue to have this type of mismanagement in government and corruption and conflict is absolutely unacceptable from the international community and we're doing everything we can to see innocent victims of conflict then you have thousands upon thousands that are hiding in the forest there heidi you know and you have militia you have rebels also in the bush if i just in the past couple days our team we we've got pictures of videos of homes of villages huts that have been burned down to the ground we have see

pictures of the capitated men and women and children it's a very desperate situation in the region. myanmar's government says it has put in place a plan to harvest rice from land abandoned by range of families in northern rakhine state almost six hundred thousand revenger fled to bangladesh since late august after a crackdown by i mean mars military human rights groups say the decision to harvest the rice business questions about whether the refugees will ever be allowed back louis has more from the angle. there are a couple of ways to look at this one is that this is simply a practical solution the rice crops are ripe for harvesting and if they were left to just stand in the fields they would go to waste so the myanmar government has put in place a plan to harvest the crops bringing in combine harvesters and laborers to do the work and agricultural ministry spokesman has told us that the local government is

in charge of the harvest and the eventual fail and the proceeds of the sale will go to the local government or there are no details on how they plan to use it but the other issue is this raises ethical questions as the asia director of human rights watch puts it you really can't call a crop ownerless when you've used a campaign of arson and violence to drive the owners from their land and this is what the myanmar military has been accused of doing and the other issue pertains to future use is this harbors perhaps the first step of the myanmar government to appropriate the land from revenge or refugees who've been driven to bangladesh now if it is it will raise other questions what about repatriation and resettlement of the refugees now granted we are a long way from that bangladesh and myanmar officials haven't yet worked out details of how they plan to repatriate range of refugees but they will have to be other questions that that need to be asked such as where will they return to and

what will they return to if their farms and villages are no longer there. and he's thirty one people including eleven children have been killed when a bus crashed into a river in nepal it was filled with passengers coming back from a hindu festival when it skidded off the road about eighty kilometers west of the capital kathmandu it's unclear how many people were on the bus. here's defense actually james mattis says the threat of a nuclear missile attack by north korea is accelerating speaking at annual defense talks in neighboring south korea that is insisted diplomacy was the preferred course of action but stressed it was only effective when backed by credible force make no mistake any attack on the united states or our allies will be defeated any use of nuclear weapons by the north will be met with a massive military response affective and overwhelming to anybody who is following

developments from the south korean capital. there were strong words from the united states defense secretary he was here in seoul on part of a two day visit partly to discuss the defense of the peninsula which is an annual thing between the u.s. and south korea and partly to pave the way for president transfers it on the seventh and eighth of november now that visit in itself is creating increased tensions here and general mattis was at pains to warn north korea that any nuclear attack with weapons would be met with a very very massive military response and he did intimate that north korea could not win in that situation having said that his tone in the last two days has been more conciliatory than that of president trump you may remember his fire and fury speech at the united nations in august and also his threat to totally destroy north korea and he has resorted to a word a war of words of mass destruction and people are worried that the world may turn

to weapons there was a lot of concern in the united states is up to its defenses its bought three naval carrier groups into the region it's flown it's moved it's five stealth fighters to japan just in case the president trumps visit produces some kind of reaction from north korea they've conducted six nuclear test most of those have been underground but the north korean foreign minister has warned that they will conduct an atmospheric nuclear test and who knows what that will provoke but there is a lot of concern on the korean peninsula that will happen what will happen general mattis is said basically the actions of north korea are provoking and accelerating the situation and causing a greater possibility of conflict on the korean peninsula but he also stressed that the need was for diplomacy for talking he said the united states would not want war it wanted a denuclearization of the canary a korean peninsula now also said that he couldn't imagine any situation whereby the

united states would accept a nuclear north korea now north korea is well on its way to being a nuclear power though so something has to give the big question here is what will give and who will give it. u.s. media is reporting that a federal grand jury has approved the first charges in the investigation into russian meddling in last year's presidential election the charges are said to be still sealed under orders from a federal judge special counsel robert miller a former f.b.i. director is leading the investigation is looking into whether trump campaign officials colluded with russian efforts aboriginals has more from washington d.c. . we don't know yet who has been indicted by special counsel robert muller in the grand jury working with him or what the charges against them might be but we do know who has been looking at in his probe of russian meddling into the u.s. election and possible obstruction of justice in interference in the probe and

the financial activities of some of the trump family businesses and some of the trump associates among the people who have been looked at very closely are michael flynn he served briefly as the national security advisor in donald trump's white house after before being fired another person is paul manna ford who ran the campaign for time in two thousand and sixteen he has extensive dealings had extensive dealings with ukrainian political parties but failed to. declare himself as an agent of a foreign power as is required by u.s. law other people that the probe has focused on our ranks priebus who served as president trump's chief of staff for a time until this past summer and sean spicer who was a well known as the president's chief spokesman the white house press secretary in

all there are perhaps half a dozen people who are in the inner circle at the white house at one time now in standard prosecutorial conduct one goes after the smaller individuals first how far this probe will go is as yet unknown. still to come in the private residence in libya's capital resort to extreme measures to overcome the westing water shortage. i'm very mean iran where growers are trying to maximize the country's flower power. and venus rising a fifth seed return season ending final the first time in eight years this fall.

and i was about to get really cold and windy for a good part of northern and eastern europe you might get an idea watch where the cloud is coming from was all become very active now various frontal systems on the spiky ones of course caught doing exactly what you might expect already we've had one go through the in the as much cold now in the balkans morning frost isn't far away by day the focus is on the still not looking up top and still double figures ten to fourteen but the strength the wind and the right to be feeling quite dismal in poland austria germany it's still fine at the moment and spain and portugal in a good part of at least southern france. best ten degrees and then one day later single figures eighteen burley not in vienna even down athens which is high young to twenty one but in ankara plus twelve this is looking particularly chilly out to say again western side not bad in the dreaded twenty one degrees still in the

sunshine and should hang on for a little while longer at least now given what's happening in eastern you'd expect a windy time in the eastern med and you'd be right temperature already been pushed back to the low twenty's twenty one at best in benghazi ronnie's likely to cyprus and then levant but the sun comes out afterwards on monday. add cattle to your journey with a free hotel stay in transit fees when you fly with cattle airways to any of our one hundred fifty destinations cattle airways going places together. al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of counts for cabana

dot. tossed by the security council to mediate between arabs and israelis. his days 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. and one of the top stories on our syria catalonia is deposed leader countless pritam on has called for continued democratic opposition to a spanish government takeover of the region. government to force their way into

a hotel and taken hostages in the somalian capital mogadishu at least nineteen people have died in the attack which began with two car bomb explosions. and the leader of iraq's kurdish region mr bowser on is reportedly not planning to extend his presidential term past november the first. ever in the libyan capital tripoli a being forced to drill through pavements to try to find water because of a breakdown in main supplies a lack of investment and security it has caused taps to run dry it comes internal fighting continues to split the country six years after the death of its leader moammar gadhafi it or again the reports. this is how people in tripoli are getting their drinking water drilling three pavements to access underground wells in a desperate search for supplies. the situation we're in now is affecting the entire city no water no electricity tenants can't pray without water they can't go to the

bathroom they can't do anything not even drink the problem is that the government does nothing so now we are digging for water as a temporary solution. earlier this month water supplies were cut to households for urgent maintenance work to make matters worse an armed group then sabotaged tripoli's drinking water infrastructure engine is a working hard to repair it but a lack of investment and a shortage of spare parts means progress is slow. remains divided and devastated. the country is plagued by internal fighting and financial collapse. is another challenge for the un backed government of national accord based in tripoli it's already dealing with a failing health service spiraling inflation and public sector strikes

a the pay people are demanding solutions to their worsening living conditions the head of the water resources authority says he needs more money from the government if things are to improve. in the absence of adequate spare parts a lack of money security chaos people have been taking matters into their own hands and this in turn has affected the performance of the system. the u.n. says divisions a deepening in libya and that finding a political agreement is the only way forward for people struggling to access basic supplies like water it can't come soon enough victoria al-jazeera. more or less i'm joined by frederica saying if as an ati has a non resident fellow at the brookings institute and an expert on libya she joins us via skype from milan thanks for being with us so it's pretty serious isn't it living conditions for people to drill through pavements to get to water how has it got to the stage do you think of this situation the cowles and

this is given to five there is no government well we have a government but it's not strong enough and completely divided and there are not public services as you said in flash inflation is growing. never been any sort of state is completely fried if we can see then we we have a state and what about all of the efforts to try and bring about a stable government in libya what progress has been made a lot recently. well politically something is moving i think. not hardly internally to the country but also and this is one of the most important as seen. on the regional actors so something is moving but still is not is not enough and the point is there until now the international community

has always worked on the top in my opinion. talking we're the politicians are leaders and so on but the country in these six years was going on another planet on another side and so if you have a country and you just don't look at the economy security. of course certain skein are. going to go away you mention the state of security there how far off are we so that at the point where they could rein in the kind of the militias who have appeared to have so much control in so many areas still. that's one of the point because as you nor a. fuller of weapons and since the times of the falling of good daffy we have something like twenty million weapons for

a six million people and. in a country like egypt. that in conflict are divided between the regions of any dolly the regions by locally. try militias as well and so on you cannot have peace or saw one of the first point to it we have to take into account to ease desiring people which is a very difficult thing of these point in libya because if you go there on the ground and you are asked to release shares give me your weapons where weapons are not only a mentor of defending themselves but a point of power of course the so or i think bad qualities incredibly important in these moment and the mission of mrs salome is absolutely. it could quite. but i think we have to work to another in other points

and for that well for people fredricka a sign of as an artefact you very much indeed for joining us on q. and a refugees arriving in greece has risen sharply over recent months putting a huge strain on pursuit is their camps or housing far more people and they were built to cope with government policy is to keep nereid balls on islands in their gin while their pride for asylum on the mainland and the island of those bostrom through a press report. these afghan syrians and africans are living in a tent city there isn't enough room for them in moria the government run camp on lesbos and they are vigilant about refugees who are in the camp crashing their lunch arrivals on the eastern islands in the aegean sea have increased from an average of fifteen a day to almost one hundred a day in the last six weeks all seeking asylum in greece in the terms of the agreement between turkey and the european union turkey promises to prevent as many

people as possible from entering greece illegally anyone who makes it is forced to stay here of sure if they wish to apply for asylum on the mainland that says the mayor of lesbos is turning the island's into an effective buffer zone for the e.u. . in turning this island into a prison is the wrong policy it punishes those who showed solidarity instead of rewarding them for it's criminal and unfair to divide europeans into first and second class citizens and we are definitely in a second class we don't have the same rights as other europeans or even other great . authorizes won't allow us to film inside moria camp currently hosting five thousand people more than twice its capacity and a record high since the e.u. turkey agreement came into force in march last year that's because the agreement for the greek government for moving new arrivals to the mainland they sleep ten to a tent not everyone has a mattress or a blanket there are no washing facilities so the air is rank overcrowding and

waiting a deepening the mental health problems of people who've already fled war discrimination imprisonment and rape and mentality of the people living in the camps as one of the . prisoners. and so his say. a lot of the activities that one would see in. any normal prison situation. gangs threats of violence violence. it's drug abuse and the problems go beyond mental health says a nurse who works inside moria we see a lot of upper respiratory tract infection and just the common cold that's given to everyone so it's more a virus that's just spreads superfast across europe refugee numbers are down on last year but not here and in this corner of greece the people forced to look after

the new arrivals are feeling the strain jumps at all plus al-jazeera lesbos egypt is watched a major shakeup of its security services a week after an attack outside cairo that left at least sixteen police officers dead men fareed hegazy has been named the new chief of staff of the armed forces here places mahmud has no relation who'd been in the job since twenty fourteen and the head of national security has also been sacked along with several generals and other senior leaders. for years barriers to international trade have held iranian industries back but the potential of the flower industry is something that could help the country's forests cashing in on a global industry worth one hundred four billion dollars a year so mr ravi went to vera mean just outside the capital tehran the fourteenth century persian poet half as once wrote the roses beauty is very

dear enjoy its petals when it is here in iran they take that quite literally from finally manicured streets to the vendors who sell roses by the basket for happy and sad occasions flowers are a part of daily life in iran. some streetlights even get their own flower beds. but iranians say they haven't been able to realize the industry's potential. one of the biggest challenges we face in iran is a lack of modern technology most of the expertise exists in europe and we haven't been able to transfer that knowledge to iran. runs greenhouses in very mean a town a few hours outside to her own he says when sanctions were lifted after the nuclear deal things got better but to be competitive in the international marketplace iranian growers will need more help all the growers we've spoken to say the same thing they wish that their government would focus a little bit more time on helping them modernize their industry not just because of the economic potential but because unlike the things you normally associate with

iran oil and gas nuclear energy growers say there's nothing controversial about flowers they're just beautiful and they make people happy. it might be a hard sell after all the global oil and gas industry is worth nearly one point seven trillion dollars a year and you can't run a car on flowers but he says in iran flowers can be a serious business too and that income from the agriculture sector could someday rival oil revenues. much as we care about seats in opec i think we should pay even more attention to the seats in the food and agriculture organization and pave the way for foreign investors in iran but getting anything made in iran to international markets is still a challenge. the main problem now is the high cost of exports we cannot compete with the main flower export in countries like hall and we don't produce flowers in mass quantities and since the production is low it's mostly for domestic consumption but even half the flowers consumed domestically go to waste dying in

transit are left unsold once they get to market. in a meeting with president rouhani i asked him to help our producers with low interest long term loans so they could modernize their greenhouse modernization is very expensive. those who are passionate about growing and selling flowers will tell you it's one of the best jobs in iran and that investing in new technology and infrastructure to reach on top of markets will be money well spent. as well as a chance for the country to show off its flower power is a. very mean iran hollywood actress who sparked a global campaign against sexual harassment told a rally she was silent for twenty years but it won't stay quiet any longer but has been down as one of more than fifty women have accused producer harvey weinstein of rape or sexual harassment kristen salumi takes a look at whether this will affect change in the workplace. by now it's

a familiar story a young woman trying to make it as an actress put in a compromising position by a hollywood power broker karen sklar is one of hundreds of women to come forward with her experience of sexual harassment in recent weeks it started with this man filmmaker harvey weinstein who lost his job after it was revealed he paid millions to silence his victims since then the spotlight has fallen on other powerful men including schoolers alleged harasser the filmmaker james toshack amazon studios executive roy price fox news anchor bill o'reilly and fashion photographer terry richardson have lost jobs as a result of accusations and even ninety three year old former president george h.w. bush has been forced to apologize for groping women in his wheelchair i feel like i have a voice. and i don't have a fear anymore of saying it because i realized so many people went through it once it kind of felt like we could come out of the hole then i felt like ok i can i can

be a voice to any social worker will tell you the problem is much bigger than hollywood one in five women say they've suffered some form of sexual harassment or abuse people are afraid of losing their job they're afraid of being reprimand the retaliated against isolated so even if they're legally protected that they could just face a lot of kind of social isolation at work but women traditionally under represented in leadership positions are increasingly finding strength in numbers whether it's here at the detroit women's convention where they're working to get more women elected as you can see it is a global movement or on social media where the need to hash tag has been used by millions of people sharing their own stories of harassment it's a movement according to the executive director of un women that is having an impact around the world gender based violence is a universal problem what is also called one and what binds women in the let's away

the. is the facts that alone often when it happens and what makes the meat to test tick exciting is suddenly for someone else to stand with you. and the moment you school karen is still performing and teaching drama as well as an important lesson for women how to use their voice kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. still to come over the break meet the winner of a top and then skate i take the prize which commemorates a straight is indigenous heritage. and an encore brought to play as objective in the n.b.a. game. as to. what did.

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winners of this year's american architecture prize one of the most prestigious awards in the industry have been unveiled out of there has spoken to the california firm which is one the top prize for landscape architecture for designing an outdoor space in sydney it commemorates australia's indigenous heritage. i'm pete walker i'm a landscape architect behringer route was a hill stone headland in australia on the shoreline of sydney harbor that had been leveled in order to make a container port and it came as a response to interest in doing something commemorating the aborigines in australia but the original idea was to build something which recalled in

a kind of symbolic way that headline that had been there before and it just so happened that this headland was where the chief of the aborigines lived the idea of putting that headland back in place caught everyone's of magination and in order to make a monumental australian landscape you had to use techniques both in terms of the geographic and geological formation of sydney you had to use native plants not just native to australia but native to this part of sydney we actually made the soils by grinding up the stone landscape architecture often isn't taken as seriously as architecture of people play in landscapes they don't buy them or pay for them so it's in a different category economically and culturally you have people think of enough of your work that they permeate it you like that and that's great but when you want an international award and when you win the top landscape award that's really

something that's a big deal as time has fallen to touch him. thank you we start with m l b and histon astra's first baseman yearly kerio has avoided wild ferry suspension but the cuban will still face a five game ban without pay at the start of the twenty eighteen season this comes after he made a racist remark and gesture towards an l.a. dodgers pitcher in game three homer reports. cubit hit so you liguori else struck a hard run for the houston astros in the second inning of game three of the world series but it's what came after that's caused controversy the right was his off you darvish the l.a. dodgers japanese born pitcher in the dugout glorio was caught on camera making a right says just and also using the words chin ito a derogatory spanish term that translates to little chinese he's going to have a statement i know he's remorseful but other than that i don't know

a lot goree island sisted after the game that he didn't mean to cause any offense. in cuba we call everybody who is from asia chino we don't call them japanese or chinese or the word how i played in japan and i know they find that offensive so i apologize for that darvish posted a statement on twitter saying what he had done to date isn't right but i believe we should point out effort into learning rather than to accuse him all i can say is. it's just disappointing it distracted from an otherwise good night out for the astros who climbed this five three victory at heart. houston are on base and in seven harm games in the postseason they'll be back again on saturday hoping to go three one up in the best of seven series.

was to. release homan out just. that's gone now and manchester city have maintained their five point lead at the top of the english premier league but they were made to walk hard on saturday at west brom they took the lead through. but jay rodriquez equalized for west brom for nineteen years scored facility before him sterling made it three one there would be a late goal from the home team the city held out for a three two win in the fourth with united so we can see three chances we receive two goals who created the know how many and we scored just as course three so of course in that from the roof we want to win titles we need to be clinical in that in that in that position good football is in predictable you believe he's done he never has done in other results champions chelsea won one nil away at bournemouth that also went for awful liverpool and stoke and in the early kick off

manchester united scored late to defeat tottenham one nil i like a lot of performance independent of the result. if the result is zero as the result is one one my in my feelings with the players in the team would be the same because i think. they gave absolutely everything everybody was like. the most important ball of korea the biggest cup competition in african football the caf champions league is at the final stage egypt drew one one with weed at casablanca in the first leg earlier on on saturday the return leg is on november the fourth i lightly last reached at this stage of the tournament in twenty thirteen england under seventeen wild football champions for the first time thanks to a five to win in the final against spain in kolkata but the event is just as memorable

for the host nation india this is the seventeenth edition of the event and will go down as the most attended in its history going into the final the total number of spectators had reached the historic figure of nearly one point three million fans and of course it was england's day with that big win over the san. fernando dar is the c.e.o. of india's domestic football competition the i league he was also part of the team that assisted fief in organizing the under seventeen wild copy is hopeful that this will be the beginning of something special for the sport in india and says the foundation is already there. it's a bully against a bottom and sides would say at the domestic level football is the number one sports interest. you pay what should do most of the ball that domestic cricket in india definitely it's international cricket which is which is. that domestic football you see number one sport that the football following is huge and you know

the league of. has an average crowd of about eight thousand which is which i think it's quite a good day and the ball is growing and the. the balls that really should have been focusing on school in the men's need to be in the skating you're introducing dawn them into them that they're doing fifteen and eighteen eleven and i think that's that's that's the part we that we are trying to create to bring you more golf people creates into the game which to church would you know. supply the best if you did last of this in your dreams about football has always been there but i think the world cup has taken that but you get the passion that tennis now and roger federer has reached the final of his hometown tournament for a third tape the time that the wild number two thrashed belgian fun in the swiss in

those twenty minutes and on saturday that with losing just three games in total in the match the final score with six one six two in a match that lasted just one hour federal will now go on to face rajan time when matter thing that putter in the final. simona halep will end the tennis season as the women's wild number one thanks to caroline wozniak eight the dane beat karen enough to survive in the semi of the w t a finals in singapore that's because it was the army off a player who could have overtaken her at the rankings she's now out for a fact he goes through to the final. push to face venus williams venus came from a set. down to end caroline garcia's run in the tournament the number five seed winning in three sets the last time venus took this title was back in two thousand two thousand and eight and she hasn't seen in the final this season ending torment for eight years. martina hingis ended her career on a losing note the retiring swiss player and her partner john young john were beaten

by to me have and today i love aaj clover in the double semi's the twenty five time grand slam champion announced on thursday she'd hung up her racket for a third and final time following this week's tornado. lewis hamilton has a commanding sixty six point lead at the top of the formula one drivers championship standings but his rivals have not given up just yet on saturday ferrari sebastian vettel raced into pole position for sunday's mexico grand prix but who is in a difficult position because even if he wins here the title could still go to hamilton off to the race the britain who qualified third fastest needs to finish fifth if at all wins to ensure for f one world title. the golden state warriors game with the washington wizards was overshadowed by an on court fight damon green and bradley beal were generated from the game when they were in a scrap in the second quarter are the players also joined the scrum there's been plenty of bad blood between the two teams since last season players from both sides

have clashed on at least two occasions and be tossed out of the game the warriors eventually rallied from eighteen points down to be the washington wizards one hundred twenty two one hundred seventeen. that's all the more later today thank you very much indeed more for you on our website the sport of the news . dot com. and that's it for me are tired of this news hour i'll be back in a minute with an a four on the day's news thanks for watching.

training starts lightly but the pace picks up quickly as these grannies work out a long lifetime of frustration. at eighty five years old intombi sword what trains as hard as anyone and. i feel so good i feel fresh i punch this side and this side like this and like that i really love this i don't like things like soccer because i will bring these ladies are tough and i take

their training very seriously you. do feel a. little more energetic a life. where there is water and there is life but finding it on australia's arid desert is a skill few still possess they took us to a small what spartans in the desert and this was this is a very important place that i've been telling us about for the last five days to clean up. and and organise against all odds an aging population is passing on its knowledge the rainmakers of the outback at this time on a.