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hello i'm adrian for again this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes massoud barzani steps down as the kurds president in iraq his supporters stormed parliament. marching for unity hundreds of thousands stage a rally in barcelona to protest against catalonia declaring independence. day one they want a regime change that's a sort of yes in his first interview since the five month old blockade began qatar's accuses the four arab countries of trying to overflow him. and swapping weed for why in the new growth industry in lebanon. the president of the kurdish regional government in iraq is stepping down massoud barzani says that he won't stand for re-election his term in office ends in two days he was the driving force behind last month's controversial kurdish referendum

. which the iraqi government dismissed as illegal from stephanie decker reports. an independent kurdistan was supposed to be his legacy and yet it seems to have led to his downfall a somber looking mustard better than he finally addressed the people directly on sunday night after relative silence for weeks when on and. according to the law the presidency camp extended by the parliament however i informed the parliament and i will not extend my term i will not accept any amendment in the law to extend my term as president. supporters of the president gathered outside parliament they managed to get into its grounds despite the presence of riot police at the entrance opposition media was attacked and these men also asked around for the names of critical opposition m.p.'s but it didn't disrupt parliament which after hours of talks approved the redistribution of presidential powers among the government parliament and the judiciary. after twelve years as president come wednesday by

design he will take some lot of a back seat he remains head of the k.g.b. party and he'll still lead the high political council a body created to deal with the post referendum phase and he said he will remain what he called the highest rank of references to the peshmerga featured heavily in his televised address last saturday. in the fight against. great bravery the people of kurdistan show defending spirit the international community came here admire the role of the peshmerga the people of kurdistan but unfortunately at the time they had to show action they all went back to their own interests and all the principles disappeared you also referenced a kurdish proverb saying again we realize that the kurds only have the mountains as our friends but i also mentioned the betrayal over losing her cook in reference to fellow kurds in an opposition party. at the end of his address present. the kurds to be unified there's always been internal divisions here but the aftermath of that

controversial referendum seems to have widened those cracks in kurdish unity could perhaps be the biggest challenge in the short term stephanie decker. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in barcelona calling for spain to remain united the protesters say they are the silent majority who don't support cattle any as independence bit some were even demanding the arrest of the sac capital and leader . of on andrew symonds reports from barcelona. two days after the vote to break from spain and for anyone who wondered how strongly those opposed to the move feel then is the answer. they call for the jailing of karla's police tomorrow and they describe themselves as the silent majority you couldn't find silence in the center of barcelona this sunday in sound square the seat of power for a regional government has been sacked by the state it was tense and

a small number of pro unionists pushed against barriers in front of the government palace overall it was a peaceful protest though the crowds cheering the spanish national police helicopters that provoked anger when overflying procession demonstrations for those who say catalonia should stay in spain this day belongs to them aside for the age range of people here what's striking about it is the number of people who actually demonstrating for the first time this is a family day out luis a column a and two of her daughters were reticent about. secrecy is punished out like you wouldn't normally do they say people would literally in the street be i watch out whatever i don't know like i wouldn't feel comfortable doing it because of the. time. think the kind of hates. her mother says unionists are not extremists. they are not right we are not

fascist i'm never in the social splits it will be maybe two generations three generations. in a neighborhood nearby some of the secession campaigners are working out their next moves and the mood isn't celebrated. this man says the movement is losing momentum because the regional government is spending a weekend doing little while the madrid government makes all the moves and he isn't alone we have confidence in our president. but it's very difficult. president that is very difficult for us to understand there are mine. most of the campaigners here say they are prepared to defend public buildings if the police try to arrest politicians with institutions all returning to work on monday their plans could soon be put to the test and to simmons' al-jazeera

barcelona kenya's opposition leader has branded the presidential election rerun a sham and call for a new poll within ninety days and the church leaders and supporters in the capital as the country remains in political limbo the poll was marred by violence and a low turnout of just forty three percent reports from nairobi. there's little doubt present a hook headed for lunch when of the thousands election was boycotted by the opposition but is shrunken electron monday due to a water tunnel continues to tarnish the credibility of a process that has deeply polarized this nation. opposition leader raila odinga is leading the campaign to discredit that. i think. is the best way it is. i think really no elections no

one. you know the turnout. the. the kims kids which had been the first people voting it was about three point five million people but it pitted in the so-called election on thursday. it was on the ballot of and boy declared that he would play no part in the run up to the repeat tell action but didn't get demand of the electoral commission make reforms that he believed necessary to avoid previous mistakes that did not happen the election commission has promised. voting will take place in twenty five constituencies in western kenya where security fears and violence prevented polling from taking place with voting incomplete it's unclear whether the commission would wait or declare victory. it's violence between cannot time rain

a supposed is the most kenyans concern in nairobi is calling water slum members of canal to. stand over the remains of their houses and shops of time i took clashes with the biggest supporters. both sides were armed with machetes my voice and other crude weapons what started the violence is disputed with each side blaming the other yet both acknowledge the thing is it's a place it's part of kenya's deputy president says they're willing to hold conditional talks with the opposition we cannot engage in any discussion outside the legal framework on the constitutional provisions that fix to change these or that we believe in dangerous situations of our country. police also accused of brutality and killings in opposition strongholds in the capital and was then kenya . erico tuners brother paul was shot and killed in mother slums in nairobi

yes. but how many point pinpoints now. you know in this oddest thing is that he's biting the child and then he's a very much thing it's kenya's last crisis is a two thousand and seven bolt sparked months of post-election violence that left one thousand one hundred people that mohammed at all does it or. hear the news from al jazeera still to come on the program president trump denounces the russia investigation as a witch hunter speculation builds that the first arrest could come as early as monday. the global online campaign against sexual harassment takes to the streets of france and in sport pakistan hosts its first important international cricket game since two thousand and nine far will be here with all the details.

emyr says that the countries behind the gulf crisis are trying to force a change of leadership shake to me. it was speaking to the u.s. television program sixty minutes his country's been living under a blockade for almost five months now since for arab states diplomatic and economic ties mike hanna reports from washington. there was no sign of friction among gulf leaders when they met president trump on his first foreign trip it was all smiles and a common pledge to combat terrorism in all its forms at less than two weeks later the blockade against qatar was launched much to the surprise of cutters shake it. i mean been. we were praising each other. laughing with each other this cussing you know how to solve this terrorism that is a threat for the rest of the world they're making demands of you that you shut down

al-jazeera that you may have given your word that you're not supporting any islamist groups are you going to meet these demands our sovereignty is a red line we don't accept anybody interfering in our sovereignty when you tell me to close a china like al-jazeera history were right one day in fifty or sixty seventy years how it changed the whole idea of free speech in the region do you believe that they want regime change yes they won they want a regime change it's obvious history as well tells us teaches us that they tried to do that before in one thousand nine hundred six after my father. became the emir of qatar has denied any support for terrorism. offered this explanation as to why the taliban was allowed to open an office in doha the reason why they came here it's not because we asked them to come here because other people like the united states america united states wanted the taliban here they wanted to have dialogue so they

asked us if we can host them here and have the dialogue so that we host of them here this is the reason why they're here how would they send we wanted to and believe me charlie we wanted to and but nothing was going to be about our dignity our sovereignty what we wanted to and i only say that if they go walk one meters toward me i'm willing to walk ten thousand miles towards them but maybe left to others to persuade those continuing the blockade to take that first step. mike hanna al-jazeera washington bahrain's foreign minister is calling for qatar to be frozen out of the regional bloc the gulf cooperation council khaled bin. has tweeted that bahrain won't attend the upcoming g.c.c. summit unless qatar meets the demands of bahrain and the three other blockading nations let's get a view now from who's the associate professor of middle east studies at the

university of oklahoma he joins us now via skype from norman good to have you with us. foreign minister tweeted about the blockade on sunday which he called a seed what do you make of that i mean there's no softening of the rhetoric here is that. no there is no softening of the rhetoric on either side with regard to his statement about the g.c.c. meeting and qatar has a role in the g.c.c. well i think one needs to take that with a little bit of salt there it is in some senses pressure applied on qatar before the next scheduled g.c.c. meeting but it's already been reported in the media that the next g.c.c. meeting might be postponed by six months or so because it certainly wouldn't make any sense to have the parties there are now hurling claims and accusations against twenty against one another and so on with no progress made on this issue right now

so what would be the consequences of the freezing out of the g.c.c. . well you know one has to ask about the g.c.c. effectiveness overall certainly the g.c.c. and many of the countries or several of them at least played a role in what is going on in yemen right now whether everyone views that that the g.c.c. also played a role in quassia the uprising in bahrain in two thousand and eleven certainly the certainties in the emirates seas and the concert were on board as well but the g.c.c. really is limited in how effective it is so and of course after the crisis after what has happened between qatar saudi arabia bahrain and so on i think it's going to be very difficult to have any kind of restoration of trust between the parties particularly the countries towards the certainties in the amorality s. in the coming period so the g.c.c.

has been shall we say significantly damaged as a result of this regardless of the mayor's comments on u.s. television on sunday night particularly when he was addressing sovereignty and what he said was the desire of the book aiding nations to see regime change. castro well i was a fascinating interview i mean i think that certainly the emir was speaking directly to the american people going well beyond the government and rex tillerson the secretary of state making the appeal to the american people that this is unjust and so on i think his claims about sovereignty which he made in an earlier interests over the summer are not new i think what he did show determination and the claim that this was about regime change which route which we all knew from the very beginning i think also is a toughening stance as it were all of us knew from the very beginning that the saudis and the emirates is behind these new shipments would have loved to bring about regime change and in fact there might have been

a military possibility in the first couple of days and they also miscalculated thinking that the qatari people would somehow rebel against their government after the ending of formal relations and so on none of that happened so this was about regime change but to hear the emir say that it was a bit startling and you say that that he wanted to address that the american people what are we to make of the fact that he chose the sixty minutes program and which to do that. well you know this is a very well respected longstanding program with a long history charlie rose also is probably the most senior now serious political interviewer in the united states and he came to doha so i think this was a serious attempt to address the american people and also the kind of educated classes and so on and i think it's also important to point out that in addition to his determination and his top stance he did offer a leaf or

a possibility as you mention with this claim that he sense said twice in the interview that he's willing to go ten thousand miles if they are willing to come one meter so in addition to the determination there was also a claim that we are and that qatar is moderate and reasonable and willing to find a reasonable solution to this crisis some are always good to talk to you many thanks indeed for being with us associate professor of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma some shots of that thank you. saudi arabia has accused iran of destroying attempts to end the war in yemen it says that the rebels couldn't operate without backing with no end in sight the u.n. says the humanitarian situation is still the teary raising some of and reports. for more than two years this has been the situation in many many cities a prolonged war between a saudi led coalition and through iran who the rebels. and the humanitarian conditions have worsened for nearly twenty one million people who now need

assistance or protection as the who these continue to fire and fight back forces their spokesman has again called for dialogue that almost. we're ready to work towards a solution in all regions to end this conflict but there should be at least a response from the other side instead of waiting for decisions to come from saudi arabia yemen's government in exile responded from saudi arabia at a conference to solve the humanitarian crisis the un proposed peace plan which demands a cessation of hostilities and withdrawal of captured areas has failed so far but yemeni officials insist it's the only way forward when has he with a mission to defeating the iranian project in yemen and stopping the war requires supporting the efforts of the un and the special envoy to yemen as the only path to achieve peace. frustrated over hearing both sides repeating the same rhetoric while the suffering worsens the same. either human catastrophe.

very. effective. in order to bring yemenis into submission. they. contributed. market i think we need another human tragedy an intervention and the only or the best. party to do that is really the united nice. the war has destroyed the already reek infrastructure no clean water being pumped or filtered due to electricity shortages and destroyed pipes has resulted in the world's worst cholera outbreak in decades the saudi blockade on imports means no food or medicine can enter and whatever does get through can be distributed because of destroyed roads and bridges this means children are dying from lack of vaccinations and preventable diseases at their malnourished bodies can't fight back against simple

things like a flu. once again the saudi government has promised an investigation in compensation for victims of their airstrikes about two has happened before and while warring sides proclaim their desire for peace the suffering in yemen has no real end in sight some of the job aid of the day or a course in the u.k. is acquitted two men who broke into a base owned by a weapons ban a fracture and try to damage fighter jets through to be used in the war in yemen the judge accepting the argument that their actions were for the greater good. systems make typhoon and tornado jets which are being used by saudi forces in yemen sam walton is one of the men acquitted earlier he told me about the night in question. we cut through two fences and walked across very large taxiway that was flood lit with lots of c.c.t.v. and nobody noticed us we went up to the hangar where we knew the jets were and we opened the door the door was unlocked and inside those one final door they still

had two glass windows in through those glass windows we could see a saudi typhoon ready to go to yemen and commit war crimes we were prying the door open with our crowbar which made a lot of noise and unfortunately that alerted security ok i'm completely gutted we didn't get to that jet. because if we had got to that jet we could have saved lives the the district judge james clark said of you and your accomplice they were impressive an eloquent man who had strong views about what they were doing and what they wanted to achieve they impressed me as being natural in the delivery and honest throughout the evidence what do you make of that. kind words from the judge i think we spoke truthfully throughout and his verdict really whilst he found us not guilty really what it is it's

a condemnation of saudi arabia's behavior in yemen it's a condemnation of saudi arabia's indiscriminate bombardment of yemeni citizens and it's a condemnation of being a systems and the u.k. arms export policy of selling weapons to tyrants who use them in a war crimes and what was your reaction when when the judge ruled in your favor acquitted you found you not guilty well we didn't see it coming. it's a complicated defense that we had we obviously broke into that base we obviously did criminal damage to the fences and the door and we intended to do about the best part of a billion pounds worth of damage perhaps to those planes. if we'd got to all of our planes we were trying to disarm. it's like i said it's a complicated defense to run but ultimately the judge found that it was reasonable for us to be breaking in to this space to try and prevent war crimes and the like i

said is a condemnation of be a systems and the u.k. arms export policy several delegations arriving in kazakstan capital for a seventh round of talks on syria's ongoing war last time deescalation zones were agreed upon in certain areas but since then there's been renewed fighting iran can reports from a stand. so the flags out for the various delegations are going to be arriving here in stana on monday and choose a for the seventh round of talks now the sixth round of talks took place in september where there was a major breakthrough for deescalation agreed upon within syria and places like the taqiyya homes and deliver now those deescalation zones have worked to some degree say the russians the iranians and the turks with a guarantee guarantor story of those deescalation zones however others say that

clashes have taken place now the russians say that they've been fighting groups like hates t s a crawl a sham and isis fighters now the observers have said actually civilians have been caught in the middle of those clashes now in the next couple of days we are going to see talks taking place between those three guarantor countries russia turkey and iran are also going to be saying talks take place with the syrian opposition and with representatives of the syrian government also here are the united nations and the united states now that's going to be interesting because rex tillerson has in the last few days the secretary of state said that he wants to see independent verifiable elections take place within syria but he doesn't see a role for the assad family doesn't see the assad family having a political role of any kind in syria so that's going to be an interesting conversation will take place between the americans and the syrians if they actually do sit down and talk a lot of talking going on in the next couple of days let's see what happens but

it's likely that we're going to see some sort of movement on these deescalation zones and whether they extend the deadline for the deescalation zones to last longer than the current six months twenty six syrian hostages who escaped from i saw have received an emotional homecoming in homs they were among seventy people abducted by the armed group almost ten days ago when the syrian army pro. government forces regained control of attaining some hostages are still missing syrian authorities say that eisel killed more than one hundred people in a revenge campaign before they were pushed from the town. and investigations underway into what happened to thirty six people found dead in eastern libya it's been ordered by khalifa haftar the former libyan army general who controls the region witnesses say that they were detained months ago by have to libyan national army of the west had reports from tripoli. thirty six bodies have been found in

what appears to have been a mass execution in libya the bodies were found in the village of lobby are about seventy kilometers east of the city of an area controlled by the libyan national army or l.n.h. forces loyal to negate general khalifa haftar the corpses showed signs of torture and had gunshots to the head. witnesses say the victims who were arrested by health or the forces months ago and not heard of since sources told the edges here are those who went missing including opponents of have to and military dissidents did not agree with the operations carried out by his troops academy fiza any human rights advocate says committing such atrocities is a kind of psychological warfare to intimidate have tears in amy's. corpses were found less than thirty kilometers away from the central command which means that this heinous crime is meant to intimidate after hours appearance and embarrass the i.c.c. and the united nations it's

a message to the world that have to our forces can do whatever they want and that they don't care about the international organizations. is almost auditioning itself for power and it's making amendments the constitution is making amendments to its role that it wants to take over for the whole country and what it wants to do the elections and this is saying ultimately we are in control this is how we take control and there will be no civilian oversight into anything that we do there lynn a which is affiliated to the top of the best parliament in eastern libya has ordered an investigation and a statement signed by the hefted says they will try to identify arrest and prosecute the perpetrators of the crime. is a member of the parliament yet he holds the parliament responsible for extrajudicial killing. of parliament members who have given legitimacy to have to are directly responsible for the crimes his forces have been committing i can confirm the moment. for the parliament members including myself have not given that

it some see to have to. have that is the forces have been accused of committing atrocities on numerous occasions since that engage in the launch of operation dignity in two thousand and fourteen a campaign he said to drive out on with groups of from libya last march it's allegedly on earth the graves of opponents mutilated the corpses and set some on fire in a district west of one of our z. . several human rights organizations have accused the have to his forces of committing crimes against humanity and one of his leading officers is wanted by the international criminal court for war crimes including the executions without trial . that has been supported by a regional and international powers including egypt united arab emirates france and russia many libyans are losing faith in international justice and they feel those committing the crimes will continue with impunity. so.

we're going to weather update thanks to you on the news then we'll tell you how young and impressionable mexican's of a good bike gangs to help smuggle people into the u.s. plus i'm reporting on moves to bring apex predators like wolves back to the scottish highlands after an absence of more than three hundred years and lewis hamilton makes history of the mexican appropriate fire will be here with all the cells in the spring. from the waves of the cells. to the contours of the east. hello the winter monsoon seem to be settled in now which means for say a slow drop in temperature otherwise fine looking whether it's a good part of china not just turn up in the still catching some moisture so occasionally get cloud or even rain and certainly some snow at height in the far

west of china but take you down through vietnam far from some coastal showers just mean much dry recently will be much drier think in the next few days even for the most part thailand and myanmar but not entirely. so we have got some rather more active weather something of a nascent circulation is certainly a mass of thunderstorms are just drifting past a fast out of vietnam and cambodia that might take. most of the energy out of the situation so that's the wet area look at how she's been for example they will be showers for the sas we've seen some pretty big ones around sumatra singapore and kuala lumpur recently they could be repeated but the showers are so far south as java just not so frequent nor sorry as heavy we have seen the monsoon trough retreating recently but it's just taken a bit of an edge and it looks like in the next day or so we've got heavy rainfall across again for southern india and sri lanka but also unfortunately for the coast of myanmar and by a good day. the weather sponsored by cattle and maze. it

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can witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. and i get a terrific get here into how with the news out from al-jazeera top stories the president of the kurdish regional government in iraq is stepping down masoud barzani was the driving force behind last month's referendum to secede from iraq the parliament voted to distribute his powers between itself the government and the judiciary. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in barcelona to call for spain to remain united it's the biggest show of force yet from the so-called silent majority don't support catalonia is independence

a bit so. or even demanding the arrest of the sacked cattle and lida carlos first of all. the chatter in the air has told the us television program sixty minutes but the countries behind the gulf crisis want regime change his country's been living under of blockade for almost five months after four arab states cut ties in june he says he never saw it coming. u.s. president donald trump has taken to twitter to denounce an investigation into russian meddling in last year's election as a witch hunt his tweets come as speculation mounts the fuss arrests could come as early as monday what charges have been laid or who they're against haven't yet been made public but as rob reynolds reports now the list of individuals under investigation is a long one. john drum do solemnly swear that the road to indictment began in january when the u.s. intelligence community concluded russia meddled in the twenty sixteen election on behalf of donald trump i have not yet seen any temp tentative that but in some.

i've seen lots of babbitt and set the russians for very active and trying to. election f.b.i. director james comey was investigating possible collusion between russia and the trump campaign when president trump abruptly fired him in may trump soon admitted coma's dismissal was related to the russia investigation the justice department then appointed robert muller a former prosecutor and f.b.i. director and gave him broad authority to conduct a wide ranging investigation which is now about to bring its first charges. become your jersey governor chris christie is a trump supporter and also a former federal prosecutor but when you're going after the smaller fish to get the bigger fish usual charge them that's usually stuff that's working behind the scenes because what you want to do is keep that smaller fish having turned secret because

it helps them to be able to gather more information some bowlers team is interviewed current and former administration officials including former national security adviser michael flynn who was fired for lying about his meetings with russian officials during the presidential transition former trump campaign manager paul man a ford is under intense scrutiny by miller we know that the russian government. through intermediaries was reaching out to the trump campaign reaching out to all metaphors another's and offering information on hillary clinton they fought would help the trump campaign moeller has widened the investigation to clute possible obstruction of justice as well as the trump family's business and financial dealings and has taken a keen interest in the june two thousand and sixteen meeting at trump tower attended by donald trump jr trump son in law jared cushier and a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin at that meeting trump jr expected to receive damaging information about hillary clinton from russian contacts. now the

question we continue to test again is. was the campaign coordinating in the russian help still remains to be seen there certainly evidence that's highly suggestive of that in terms of the meeting in trump tower but a lot more work needs to be done trump has called the inquiry a witch on there's no clear indication that trump himself is the target of muller's investigation most constitutional scholars believe a sitting president cannot be indicted and that the only remedy for improper or illegal behavior by the chief executive is impeachment and removal from office by congress robert oulds al jazeera washington in france thousands of people have taken the meat to online campaign to the streets to has tanks been used by millions of women to protest against sexual harassment it began in the wake of the harvey weinstein scandal a hollywood producer accused of sexual assault and rape david chase of reports from

paris. the message has already gone viral on the internet in france women in paris sunday will make sure it was heard loud and clear on the streets as well. iris meant as an everyday part of their lives and it has to stop because almost all women have experienced sexual aggression car iceman's either to work hard in their day to day life so the problem is huge there's no doubt that a girl of a problem in this country. wrong paid for by the way through a hundred twenty pounds a fact some of. the younger generation have been born is a time where equality isn't rights already exist once you've earned that right then you can start the struggle over the legal how many of us have been bribed or sexually harassed all the women i know have been harassed but didn't know that many

women had been right. the gender equality minister then has set out plans for new laws including on the spot fines for cat calling all lectures behavior in public and the french president emanuel macron has also acknowledged the scale of the issue in a television interview this month he said what adds insult to injury is the silence the to boom too often women don't press charges because they don't dare to he said activists have set up a special mobile phone number for women being repeatedly press for their personal contacts if the man doing the harrison rings it will get a text message back saying if a woman says no she means no. street terrace meant makes up ten percent of the violence against women so this is a tool for them but to find a long term social solution we need the government to act only five percent of

reported cases of harris mage reach court in france and less than ten percent of those result in a conviction and four hundred thousand women have actually lost their jobs for reporting it david chaytor al-jazeera. at least six people have died in a storm that's battering europe falling trees are killed several people in the czech republic and poland two people died in germany when storm what has overnight on saturday with winds of up to are one hundred eighty kilometers an hour large parts of hamburg are underwater criminal and criminal organizations in mexico are recruiting children to smuggle undocumented migrants into the u.s. to zero met some of the children acting as guides in ca that juarez just across the border from texas john holdren reports. your train is the united states so close to see that what is mexico you can almost reach out touch it. the dream of

many is to get to the other side and that's where mexican cartels have sent it an opportunity smuggling across those without visas for a price. what's little known is to do that they're increasingly relying on mine is as people smugglers they call them. this fourteen year old boy is one of them like others we talked to two hundred dollars for every mexican he takes across five hundred percent from americans with the money i can do many things buy clothes food i can do many things for my family. the cartels recruit put your toes in the poorer parts of quantities they can a more in a single night than their parents do in four months working in the city's board of factories. government officials told us that's drawing young people into the business along the u.s. mexico divide you might be surprised to know that only thirty percent of the us

mexico border is covered by any sort of fence and it's where that ends that the young guides try to get their kites across the united states. for your return still face the desert with its snakes biting cold and the waiting u.s. border patrol i think we had close to close to seventy people that were identified as human are smugglers in two thousand and six in twenty sixteen we had almost one hundred fifty people identified as being human are human smugglers the problem for the u.s. is that it's extremely hard to prosecute minors and that's exactly why the cartels are using them they can run the routes again and again if they're cool it usually just means a ride back to mexico. they're handed over to this government center where a small but dedicated team gives them classes while they wait for parents to pick them up trying to encourage them to go back to school and intensity that director here berthel saul is worries if they don't they'll only get more tangled up in the

cartels your money would ask if they could finish getting into arms trafficking kidnapping he says. after being caught in his first crossing his seventeen year old is one of those who decided to begin working with the newman i got scared i thought something would happen to me he told us but like many of qualities as young his options are limited and the prospect of a night's work rewarded with hundreds of dollars is a temptation whatever age you are john home and out is it or see it out. lebanon's bekaa valley is notorious for its lucrative hashish industry but the illicit trade has been struggling as a result of the war in neighboring syria so some grows and now turning from cannabis to clara's and cabernet as in test time reports. cannabis is big business in lebanon according to the government trade is worth more than a billion dollars

a year much of the crop is processed that plants similar to this one to make his sheesh which is shipped across the middle east and around the world. but increasingly these fields are starting to disappear over the years the military has launched periodic crackdowns across the eastern because valley setting fire to plants and causing major losses for growers when she comes from a long line of cannabis cultivators he says despite the risks his family had often been able to make healthy profits but not anymore. we had to stop hashish cultivation because although it was lucrative and the environment here is excellent for growing it was illegal we faced several challenges because we were small dealers and couldn't keep up with the big dealers who can export the has shisha brought one of the biggest issues facing the cannabis industry in recent years is their traditional smuggling routes through syria have been blocked because of the war tired of the uncertainty many farmers have turned to another crop to revive

their fortunes grapes for making wine. this vineyard was planted just a few years ago it produces grapes of such high quality that it is already being made into wine michelle who had been in the house she she destry for decades but gave it up to make wine growing cabernet instead of cannabis was an easy choice. in the end we want to live with dignity and with a clear conscience rather than living with the fear of being fugitives that's why i was one of the first people to leave the drugs business because everyone here wants to live a dignified and legalize. this winery was set up to allow small scale wine growers to work together as a cooperative it's part of attempts to help them crack the competitive lebanese market with their own vintages. since january more than one hundred

thousand bottles had been produced here which is still only a fraction of the eight million bottles of wine lebanon produces each year but with profits from grape vine cultivation started to surpass earnings from kind of his growing there is little doubt there will soon be more wine then we'd hear. al-jazeera in lebanon eastern because. two u.s. sailors who are going to drift to the pacific ocean for five months of enbrel to shore in japan the pats hawaii in may for tahiti but bad weather damaged the engines hundreds of distress calls went on heard until it was spotted by a taiwanese vessel thankfully that backs enough dry food as well as a water purifier. that broke just before they were found. just ahead here on the news a former world number one ends the tennis year on a high of far will have a lot of details for us in schools.

again a project been launched in scotland with the hope of reintroducing animals like wolves and bass clock has travelled to the country's remote northern highlands. rugged and remote in the heart of the scottish highlands the alladin wilderness was it is stunning to behold but it's a view shaped by man it's fantastic i mean it's amazing but it's not what it's called and used to be called and used to be a great forest you know much of britain. that forest was slowly ripped out by

centuries a ship building an industry full list of wants to return this land to how it once was and as well as already planting nearly a million trees he plans to release and control animals that have long since disappeared the large carnivores present the ecosystem such as links break shot out. to create a large scale fifty thousand acre wilderness. to bring back. not many rewilding such as this full believes this would help restore the balance of nature and keep the populations of red deer in check which reached destructive high numbers now it's not just keystone species like wolves and bears that are in the frame much less controversial but just as important is the action being taken over red squirrels here in scotland. the red squirrel has been squeezed out of much

of the british isles by its great counterpart scotland is one of the last stronghold but even here it's under threat within scotland as the situation pretty much the whole of the northwest doesn't have any red squirrels and so that's saying that this project to reintroduce them to you know why us recently catch this crows in the morning and their health inspection take them across and then release them in specially built nest boxes it's a project that engages the local community college murdoch works on a nearby state and keeps an eye on the new arrivals i think it's a wonderful idea and i do and this is done in several places new very successfully undescribable braid where they have released them. set up a little population see from the goodies and should be hitting the bracket on a dell red squirrels have already made a comeback there's also a focus on wild cats the breeding program is being attempted to help restore

a national population which is dwindled to dangerously low levels all in all the concept of rewilding is one which if properly managed can help species of all sorts thrive and also perhaps help people connect with nature the way it once was. al-jazeera the scottish highlands time now for sports has far. thanks very much louise hamilton has won the formula one drivers title for a fourth time despite finishing ninth in sunday's mexico prix hamilton's title rival sebastian vettel chances were left in tatters after the two collided at the start piers damage reports. mexico will celebrate the day on the dead in the next few days and formula one friends with seemingly costumes at the racetrack in mexico city. a chaotic start meant it was always going to be difficult to keep sebastian vettel hopes alive between colliding with

hamilton both men having to put. andry enter the race from the back. coming into the race the german needed to win and hope lewis hamilton finished well down the grid if at all vettel charged his way up the grid and would eventually manage to reach as high as fourth place hamilton also overtook several drivers although he would only get as high as ninth. while all this was going on twenty year old dutch driver max for stop and let the mexican grand prix from start to finish this is for stop and food grand prix win and many see him as a future world champion but in twenty seventeen the title of world champion belongs to lewis hamilton seldom before has ninth place been so rewarding yes it doesn't feel real man i mean obviously that's not the kind of race that i want. when you're forty seconds behind us something but you know i never gave up and that's really i guess what's important is in my heart. i can't go right to the end

so i'm grateful for today and i just want to get up to my family and to god and think as i said my team. hamilton now has four f one world titles and this is he's good in four years it is also a fourth straight constructors title for miss a day's peter stammered al jazeera. catalona hosted a football club from the spanish capital in a league on sunday reigning european champions real madrid were in town to face gerona this match taking place just two days after the spanish government sacked the catalonian cabinet and spiked taking the lead around the dread to one. third in the table eight points behind barcelona. and the highest profile international cricket match played in pakistan in eight years the hosts have beaten sri lanka in a t twenty game in a whore sri lanka was playing in pakistan for the first time since a gun attack on their team bus in two thousand and nine hope run and reports.

a routine win for. pakistani in a t twenty international against sri lanka but this was a match where the result was only a small part of the equation this was the country's most important sporting event since two thousand and nine that was the year the sri lanka team bus was attacked by gunmen in lahore eight people were killed seven players injured since that time no major test playing nation has taught pakistan. ten thousand police and soldiers locked down lahore ahead of this game to ensure sri lanka's poignant return to the same city where its team was attacked passed off safely this is sending a signal to the rest of the world they were the affected party they were the party that they haven't all said the security arrangements on board they want to help the people of pakistan bring back international stars and their lost everything in order to demonstrate that they support the game and that the security arrangements of. the last eight years pakistan's team has effectively been in

exile forced to play the majority of its home games in the united arab emirates and starving the country's cricket match fans of live games come back to pakistan. this match follows a series of exhibition games involving a world eleven that also took place in the hold back in september there is still much to be done before pakistan is ready and able to host longer series in cities beyond lahore there are concerns of the foreign teams leading teams in international cricket like australia and england because of course so much security right from the airport to the hotel to the stadium is really extraordinary and. pakistan will have to do better i feel to ensure absolute safety and security of

players and teams the west indies three games in the whole in november because pakistan slowly brings its cricket home open and al-jazeera. roger federer has decided to skip next week's paris masters to rest ahead of the a.t.p. world tour finals in london he'll be heading to london with a lot of momentum after winning his eighth basel indoors title on sunday federer face one in the final of his hometown and turn it the swiss actually loss of the arjen time in two thousand and twelve and twenty thirteen finals there and it was looking to go that way again after del potro won the first set seven six but federer fought back to take the next two sets for his ninety fifth career a.t.p. title that's put a second on the all time list behind john connor. caroline wozniak he has ended the year on a high with victory at the finals in singapore the day was up against venus

williams in sunday's final before this match bosniak he had never defeated the american in seven previous attempts but that was set to change after she took the first set six score should go on to take the second set by the same scoreline to secure her biggest title to date it's not enough to finish the year as number one though that honor goes to one. i think it's been an amazing year from the start of the season with servants six farmall some six losses on the farm which was obviously amazing but the same time disappointing and then i won in tokyo which was great for finishing off year with the women's. a final round meltdown my world number one dustin johnson allowed justin rose to win the champions title in shanghai johnson had a six shot overnight lead and was clear of rows after three rounds but a five over power final round of seventy seven saw the american slide out of

contention rose's five under par sixty seven saw the briton winning by two shots. well you want to leave any time but this is the kind of day where. that kind of swing is possible of five hundred some really tough conditions and he had to play good golf to to keep it around pots a day in office he made a few mistakes but it was really tricky out there don't sit up either one of the best back nine is i played in forever and that's all your support for now more later found many thanks that's it from a difference here with the latest thanks i found. a new level of luxury has arrived. an experience that will transform the way. our impeccable service remains but now comes the breaking.

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