at this time on al jazeera the strength of al jazeera is that because we have such a stance of not poor people would come to us and actually share the information with a team into the. scope of the world of al-jazeera. the best films from across on the network of travel along the suit i'm going to be doing but they're not going to be fresh perspectives and new insights. to challenge and change the way we move from. this time on the edges of. the president. to explain why saad hariri has not returned to beirut following his

surprise resignation a week ago. hello i'm maryam namazie and london this is al-jazeera coming up. a trans-pacific partnership lives on and off to eleven countries agree a whole deal without the united states. abusing me on the sidelines all the summit in the asia pacific and agree a way forward in syria. then he did what you wanted to do to me i lived. and when i was crying. reclaiming that confidence women fight back against sexual violence in the democratic republic of congo. l.o.l. we begin in lebanon where it's been seven days since the show. the resignation of

prime minister saad hariri which he announced on a surprise visit to riyadh the lebanese president michel aoun is calling on saudi arabia to car fire exactly why harry reid has yet to return to beirut following suggestions he's been detained and is under house arrest the saudis to fair in lebanon has denied this insisting hariri hasn't returned because of security concerns saying holder has the latest from beirut. posters are springing up across the lebanese capital beirut expressing support to. the resigned prime minister whose fate really is unknown uncertain times in lebanon the country finding itself at a crossroads for the past year this country enjoyed relative stability in a very turbulent region but things have changed and lebanon finds itself in the middle of the saudi iranian rivalry playing out across the region it's been like him for quite some time since two thousand and five i guess it's when he really thinks things are really assassination. and we have two poles like saudi arabia and

iran and those who pose have people on the ground iran has tons of those economics and they're in the middle of all this i think and live under a lot of. special politicians what they do best is that they they they lie and they say things. to make people more and maybe scared and to put this like political pressure on everyone just to get what they want we are in a. neighborhood hold many people here feel that the current crisis is going to march and allies them even further this in the community has long complained of iranian dominance in lebanon and now they're blaming their own ally saudi arabia of robbing them of their leader. and. this we want to know the reason behind his detention lebanon can't handle this

crisis dignity the detention of a prime minister is unacceptable. this is a loss for all of lebanon hariri is loved by everyone we are all upset by his detention no one will accept what is happening this is humiliation we won't be quiet we will demand his release. so for the time being all of the different parties avoiding political escalation but the question is this rare unity will it be short lived. and as of a transpacific partnership trade deal of agree to move forward without the involvement of the united states president donald trump withdrew support for the deal this year in favor of an america first policy which he hopes will save us jobs but on saturday the remaining eleven countries his trade total three hundred sixty five billion dollars last year agreed on the core elements to proceed on the sidelines

of the apec summit in vietnam by and he has more from then on the asia pacific economic cooperation summit ended with yet another photo opportunity the twenty one leaders came together in vietnam on the back of a difficult year for trade but continued on the sidelines of a pick with canadian prime minister justin trudeau at the center he initially balked at a deal to push ahead with the trans-pacific partnership trade agreement involving eleven apec members but after further often heated discussions between government ministers all t p p members finally agreed on the core elements of the pact. all eleven of us have agreed on the content with my time to actually were same high standards to twelve i think we've maintained a balance we've avoided opting for lower standards there are lots of areas where if you rush to agree our standards will be sacrificed but if you insist on high standards we can take

a long time or some countries more drop out so all eleven countries are on board and this will send a very strong message to the us and other countries in the region. that message is asia pacific country see regional trade deals as the best way forward that's in contrast to the views of u.s. president donald trump who withdrew the united states from the t p p the trans-pacific partnership isn't finalized yet some parts of the deal still need to be negotiated but the fact that it's still alive without the us combined with china is increasingly assertive role in this region means that this apec summit has come to a close with a sense that the united states is looking more isolated even the final statement from apec leaders was contentious and took longer than usual to finalize reportedly because of u.s. concerns about the wording the leaders call for the removal of market distorting subsidies came after president trump was highly critical of unfair trade practices during his speech on friday or the promotion of free trade and investment in the

asia pacific region is a mission for opec member economies to maintain a pact as a key driver for regional integration. despite the statement apec again showed that the united states under donald trump has a different view on trade to most other asia pacific nations wayne hay al jazeera donning vietnam well us president our trampas and his russian counterpart vladimir putin have agreed to a joint statement supporting a political solution to the war in syria that is now on the sidelines of that summit in vietnam while they reaffirm their commitment to syria's solve n.t. independence and territorial integrity i also called on all parties to the conflict including president bashar assad to take an active part in the geneva political process. just now we've adopted that document with the prism of the united states it's a very crucial document because we see it for some principal things firstly we

continue the fight against terrorism in syria that's the most important for the united states and for us especially in light of recent tragic events which happened there to do with recent terrorist acts as i've said we've been confronting that evil for quite some time now it's important for the whole international community that we continue to apply joint if it's of the utmost importance that we reaffirm the suffering of syria its territorial integrity that after the fight against terrorism is over we'll start the political process under the auspices of the united nations. chalons has. in his press conference in vietnam flooding a piece and said that the reason this agreement had been reached for the united states this statements which was puts hounds is that the fight against isis in syria is coming to an end it's the hotbed of terrorists as he put it in syria is being defeated and the important thing now is to finish that job then the circumstances will be right for moving ahead with the geneva peace process but

there are a few questions left hanging in the air about all of this one is why was it the kremlin that puts out this statement a full six or seven hours before the u.s. state department released its version why did stunnel trump say that this or agreements have been reached between him and who's in very quickly when we know that actually intervene bashed around for many days now by rex tillerson and sergey lavrov why does it also break no real new ground or the commitments that we have in this statement the commitments that both countries have made in the palm os also why considering both sides seem to be trumpeting this as a breakthrough was there no proper bilateral meeting between trump and produce in vietnam will produce it was talking about that and saying well it was just a matter of julian problem that their approach so coles didn't quite match up with

each other he jokes i assume that someone was going to be punished for this but he also alluded that there were problems and that perhaps the united states hadn't been as committed as russia was he said when he was asked what the suggest is that there was no meeting his answer was well it suggests that there are still there is still a deep crisis in the us russia relationship russia he says would like it to make it better the united states the illusion is it seems to be dragging its feet. thousands of polish nationalists holding manual march in the capital walsall rallies largely being attended by supporters of the ruling lorin justice party his recent controversial court reforms and refusal to welcome migrants has drawn criticism from the european union and ronnie also attracts members of far right groups several counter-demonstrations a plan including two large and protests by the far right the near nazis the white supremacists seen in europe since the fall. as far as they're concerned it's been

a great success and their message their rhetoric too is now entering the mainstream of the politics here in poland because the law and justice party leader has said only a few months ago that he regarded the migrants as bringing in diseases and parasites now that's the sort of rhetoric you hear in this in this sort of venue but you don't expect it in the mainstream politics but that's where it's now residing now the policies produced by the party have not yet reached the extent that the neo nazis and white supremacists here want them to they're essentially the and see any immigration or any refugees they want to keep put poland for the poles they say and in the last two years there has been a steep rise in the number of violent attacks against the muslim community here it's a tiny community some forty thousand at the very most in

a country with thirty eight million people but nevertheless they are the target of xenophobia attacks and that is the most worrying thing about the fact that so many fringe extreme right elements are gathering here it's like a magnet this was all protest march on independence day for these groups and been many calls here for the far right groups throughout europe united states russia ukraine and in scandinavia to start uniting to to make their voice. heard so that is a worrying development for a country like poland which is in the at the center of the european union and it's disturbing to brussels and to many other people in the liberal and left wing cringes here in poland thank you very much david chaytor with all the way to stand from warsaw watching out is there a more to tell you about in the program a new lease of life quite a modern find a new use for decommissioned says. i'm john l.

with a view on catalan independence from an enclave of spain inside france. hello there there are a few bits of cloud and rain developing across the middle east at the moment on the satellite picture you can see this area of cloud is drifting its way across parts of iraq and into iran not a great deal on it at the moment but is it works its way towards the caspian sea it really will become rather more intense so for some of us around the coast of the caspian sea going to be pretty wet there as we head through sunday it will gradually drift its way eastwards on monday but then ease as it does so and instead another system will develop a towards the east over kabul that's really quite wet and around in the mountains we'll see a fair amount of snow as well for the south and here in doha the temperatures are

really quite nice at the moment thirty two degrees is our maximum during the day but on monday we've got a bit of a change the winds will be picking up will be a very blustery day and thirty degrees will just be maximum insolent of the clouds of clear now and thirty two we are top temperature down towards the southern parts of africa plenty of cloud with us at the moment we have seen some rather active showers here plenty of heavy downpours also lots of thunder and lightning as well this istomin slowly edging a little bit further north woods there for sunday so still some very wet weather and stretching across parts of mozambique also southwest is generally a lot calmer cape town will get to around twenty one degrees.

with. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera quick look at the stories making headlines now the lebanese president is calling on saudi arabia to clarify exactly why prime minister saad hariri has yet to return to beirut seven days off his shock resignation. members of the transpacific partnership trade deal have agreed to move forward without the involvement of the united states. and thousands of polish

nationalists have been holding that annual independence day march and capital warsaw. let's go to spain now where thousands of people are gathering there for a rally in support of cattle answer session is live for us now in barcelona catalans of certainly turned out in large numbers but is the independent independence movement as strong now as it was a few weeks ago. when i marry him it's got a lot to do to pull itself back together after a series of very serious blows in the last few weeks the crowds that turned out here though a pretty large number thirty or so great for those markers that are stolen from from the balance of power because there's a lot of anger towards the madrid government because of the jailing of eight elected government officials ministers in the previous government that was deposed as well as to leaders of big civil society organizations to the largely led the

drive for dependents from across the room from level here as much as anything this crowd is even solidarity with them and with their families demanding their release but the movement as a whole is as a demoralized it has had its declaration of independence top. by the constitutional court this week the government deposed autonomy revoked by madrid. but they are determined to fight back with an election in december but i've got a lot to do to win that election they are disunited going into it they've got to pull themselves back together but all of that said you know the emotion that a lot of people a lot of people here in catalonia still feel towards the idea of independence is actually undiminished if anything in fact reinforced by recent events particularly by the jailing of their leaders well let's change pay slightly now and give you a sense of that emotion and how widely felt it is i took a little trip recently to an outpost of catalonia in fact a small enclave of spain inside france called libya this is my story.

two hours from barcelona the mediterranean coast kline's to the foothills of the pyrenees. the town of libya is a piece of spain surrounded by france the languages capital and and they see themselves as an enclave of catalonia and the end up on that. we already feel independent because in some way we believe that we've already built our borders at any given moment we could see that separate libya from this. inside the twelfth century in prison tower libya's mayor shows off relics of spain's not forgotten past franco. we've had to hear them he explains how on the day of catalonia independence referendum libya's ballot

boxes were hidden from the police up here with the bust of general franco and fascist political leader primo de rivera placed on top so many layers of irony in that. the man by name with the sentiment is there. the majority of the village favors independence the voting was ninety five percent for the yes side. it was a quirk of history that one libya it's geographical if not political independence in sixteen fifty nine the treaty of the pyrenees ended the war between spain and france under the treaty villages on the spanish side of the border was ceded to france but libya was considered a town and so it remained part of spain. in the bars and cafes of this mountain town it's difficult to find a resident who doesn't support catalonia drive for independence is. difficult but

not impossible. parazit is a local stone mason there's little girl dressed as a nice. they should never have asked for independence in my opinion and they should have looked for a new financial arrangement maybe because the only thing that has been provoked is disagreement among families in the entire place splitting people splitting everything. time passes slowly in a place like libya soon the snow will come and with it the winter tourist season visitors will pass between france and spain without really noticing on their way to the slope. but people here most of them anyway have no doubt where they belong not in france or spain but catalonia. don't hold a zero libya. now iraqi forces say they've captured one of the last remaining areas on the ice control in the country to iraqi infantry divisions and sunni tribal

forces of carrying out the operation in anbar province it's believed eisel fight is a holding ten thousand civilians hostage in the town of rawa meanwhile saudi arabia says it has suspended the pumping of oil into behind after an alleged pipeline attack saudi's energy ministry says the kingdom is tightening security at its facilities after the blast rain has blamed the explosion on what it describes as terrorism linked to iran to iran denies the claim. now five u.s. senate says of strongly condemn president donald trump's environmental policy at the call twenty three summit taking place in germany they told the u.n. climate conference in bonn that americans recognize their responsibilities as global citizens and were taking action to combat climate change they say the country will remain on track to meet its carbon reduction goals despite trumps decision to withdraw the u.s. from the paris climate agreement it's critically important for our environment and for our economy we get it we get it we understand why america's pledge is not

only important for the global community it's important porton for the people of america we have their support now the us republican senate candidate roy moore has expressly denied allegations of sexual misconduct in his first on camera appearance since the allegations were made a former judge has been accused of initiating a sexual encounter with a fourteen year old go back in one thousand nine hundred nine when he was thirty two. to be attacked for all a geisha of sexual misconduct contradicts my entire career in law. i want to make it clear to the media present and to the people present i have not provided our call beverages alcoholic beverages beer or anything else to a minor i have not been guilty of sexual misconduct with anyone these

allegations came only four and a half weeks before the general election on december twelfth why now the democratic republic of congo has some of the highest rates of sexual assault and rape in the world the worst cases are in the east of the country where conflict is rife and armed groups are accused of widespread violence but many women a stocking starting to take action visited a school in the city of become the which is helping survivors recover and protect themselves. the seeker not her real name says she was raped when she was sixteen years old she's an orphan and her guardian and uncle was struggling to pay her school fees she says a neighbor offered to give her some money but instead lured her into a bedroom in a guest house. if i shouted for help people would have asked me what i was doing

so i decided not to shout and to just allow him to do what he wanted then he did what you wanted to me i lived with a lot of anger i mean when i was and i was right. but not anymore he says his cross classes help turn her life around part of a program for rape survivors. here at the panzi foundation in the town of because in the democratic republic of congo the foundation's attached to a hospital run by dr denny mccuaig a three times nobel peace prize nominee is renowned for his reconstructive surgery for women who've been injured during gang rapes often by men from eastern congo many armed groups. and the quality is one of several activities that helps provide his recover and defend themselves aside from improving the chances of slicing off an attack on those who are recovering from injuries three said better said the physical fitness many of the women and girls say proves their self-confidence in

the mental well as well having the knowledge the pad to deal with any future situations that might arise. in their. music therapy is also part of the program these women who called a song they've written called my body is not a. truck to frank says the karate is popular and the benefits are clear. says when we received him here some are very angry others or novice that is something therapeutic. them when reaching them and the excesses the can discharge this emotion get. stuck in their minds and feel better. because says she felt like she didn't want to live she was raped she says meeting women with similar stories and training with them. energy and self-esteem once again. where powerful they were in

a democratic republic of congo. when our protest as of clash with police in sydney of the australian government's treatment of asylum seekers. was. two hundred demonstrators rallied outside a fund raising event for the conservative liberal party washout in shame on you and free the refugees more than four hundred asylum seekers remain inside australia's decommissioned immigration camp on guineas nine a silent saying they fear for their safety if they leave well in all the developments the australian government has lost his parliamentary majority after another politician was forced to quit because he may hold dual citizenship conservative m.p. john alexander resigned after discovery might also be a british citizen making him ineligible to sit in parliament former deputy prime minister barnaby joyce was disqualified last month under similar circumstances that will now be by elections in both seats. my right to remain in parliament

depends on my belief that i am soley australian. given what i have learned about the constitution and understanding now of the high court decision just a couple of weeks ago. i can no longer with sufficient certainty maintain the belief that i have held. through by sixty six years. therefore it is my obligation that i must resign now every month hundreds of decommissioned school buses from the us are driven south to guatemala where they given a new lease of life they all repaired repainted and made roadworthy so millions of people across guatemala can get to work every day david most asthma from antigua in guatemala. inside this workshop in guatemala

a radical transformation is under way these old school buses were taken off the roads in the united states but through hard work and ingenuity what i'm olens are injecting new life into another country's junk. in the united states these yellow bus isn't working at eight to ten years and i no longer use they might say we take their garbage and we transform it and make it better and the buses work for another ten fifteen or even twenty years. each bus is customized according to the needs of its owner windows and seats are removed and the body is repaired and modified larger engines more powerful turbochargers ten speed manual transmissions and beefier brakes are installed custom paint jobs complete the month long process which costs upwards of thirteen thousand dollars. for a bit here a bus with ten rows might be loaded with eighty people well in the united states

would only carry half as many and their children the buses also carry lots of merchandise on the roof they need a big mechanical transformation there are the brightly colored buses are a ubiquitous part of the guatemalan landscape the up cycle buses haul millions of people to work every day passengers choose the fanciest buses hopeful that a nice paint job means the owner has also maintained the brakes and the tires. drivers often work twelve to fourteen hour shifts earning around three hundred dollars a month but they can earn more if they beat the competition to the next stop some have driven the same bus for more than a decade. the bus is part of your family and over time you develop a lot of affection for it every day you're with it so the bus becomes like a farm remember put these tricked out machines represent an antidote to our throwaway culture unwanted up north they've become an affordable transportation

solution that shows no sign of slowing down david nurse or al jazeera and what amala. a quick look at the headlines for you now the lebanese president michel aoun is calling on saudi arabia to clarify exactly why the prime minister saad hariri has yet to return to beirut a week of his shot resignation the saudis to fair in lebanon has denied suggestions he's under house arrest insisting hariri hasn't returned because of security concerns members of the transpacific partnership trade deal are moving forward without the involvement of the united states president donald trump withdrew support for the t.p. deal this year but the remaining eleven nations agreed on the core elements to proceed on the sidelines of the apec summit in vietnam. well

u.s. president and his russian counterpart vladimir putin have agreed a joint statement supporting a political solution in the war into the war in syria the leaders met on the sidelines of that summit in vietnam where they reaffirm their commitment to syria's sovereignty independence and territorial integrity. just now we've adopted that document with the prism of the united states it's a very crucial document because we see it for some principles firstly we continue the fight against terrorism in syria that's most important for the united states and for us especially in light of recent tragic events which happened there it's of the utmost importance that we reaffirm the sovereignty of syria its territorial integrity but after the fight against terrorism is over we'll start the political process under the auspices of the united nations. and now thousands of polish nationalists are holding their annual independence day march in the capital warsaw the rally was largely attended by supporters of the ruling laurent justice party is

recent controversial core forms and refusal to welcome my grants has drawn criticism from the european union it also attracted members of far right groups. and five u.s. senators have strongly condemned president donald trump's environmental policy at the co-op twenty three summit in germany they told the u.n. climate conference and the americans recognize their responsibilities as global citizens and taking action to combat climate change you're up to date with all of our top stories but much more on everything we're covering is coming up in twenty five minutes time when i have the news out for you but that's off the inside story which is next.

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