i can help them with lots of things but mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life it part of life it's culture folks something that i was told by the pakistani army to the americans and we got held in guantanamo a number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial that had a paper that said they were. never talked to or screamed would be beaten again a quest for a better life but ended in a concentration. of one ton of no twenty two at this time on al jazeera. saudi t.v. shows new pictures of lebanese prime minister in riyadh a support group for saad hariri on the streets of lebanon.

close welcome to al jazeera live from doha i'm answering dennis also coming up. i believe very much in our intelligence agencies now at the same time. i want to be able because i think it's very important to get along with russia. donald trump contradicts his earlier view on russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election. thousands of civilians flee their homes in aleppo province as government jets hit rebel targets. and what it flared kenya sails on with plans to build a boat made entirely of recycled plastic. the saudis say t.v. has shown pictures of king solomon meeting lebanon's. prime minister saad hariri as

lebanese leaders continue to demand that he returns home now this is just the third time that mr hariri has been seen since he unexpectedly announced his resignation in the saudi capital that was eight days ago he hasn't spoken publicly either since then and now there are suggestions that he could be being held against his will now places a started to spring up in beirut in show support for the absent leader his shock resignation has placed lebanon at the center of a power struggle between eleven and iranian backed hezbollah group and saudi arabia but the lebanese president michel own hopes sunday's marathon in beirut will help demonstrate unity and solidarity with saad hariri then a hoarder has more now from beirut. the beirut marathon a yearly sporting event that aims to bring people together and it really takes on a whole new meaning this year because of the uncertainty in the country the political vacuum following the sudden resignation of the prime minister saad of how

do you see over a week ago his faith really is open to question and the people are using this marathon to show solidarity with the with the prime minister slogans that we are running for you we are waiting for you there are a lot of questions here on why the prime minister has not returned lebanese authorities and many lebanese believe that in one way or another the prime minister is detained in saudi arabia and he has no freedom of movement yes there are some people who believe that he hasn't returned citing security concerns but even in his stronghold his own supporters feel very betrayed by their ally saudi arabia they feel humiliated we've been speaking to people and they're saying whether you support heavy d. or you don't the very fact is this is a blow to lebanon a humiliation to lebanon we want the prime minister to return home now if and when he does return it doesn't end the political crisis in lebanon there's a very deep divide now the lebanese from across the political divide they're coming together there is where consensus but once once how do you does return they're

going to have to tackle contentious issues issues really that are not new for example has well as arms as well as the session to engage in in the war in syria these are issues that divide the lebanese and unless that is resolved and outside players can easily exploit the differences and the fragile unity in this country the president trump is remaking quite contradictory statements on the alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election this is trying to clarify remarks that he made on saturday in which he appeared to accept the russian denial of the scene and he made the comment soon after meeting last image putin on the sidelines of the apec summit but speaking in vietnam on sunday mr trump said he accepted the u.s. intelligence assessment that did interfere he also accepted president putin's belief that russia played no part. i believe very much in our intelligence

agencies now at the same time. i want to be able because i think it's very important to get along with russia to get along with china to get along with vietnam to get along with lots of countries because we have a lot of things we have to sell i believe that president putin really feels and he feels strongly that he did not meddle in our election what he believes is what he believes what i believe is that we have to get to work a president trump orto talked about north korea he appeared willing to improve relations with kim jong un and he emphasized the importance of all nations working together for the greater good russia and china in particular can help us with the north korea problem which is one of our truly great problems it's now time to get back to healing a world that is shattered and broken those are very important things but we've been

speaking to graham own where there's a research fellow at nanyang technological university in singapore what did he make of the trump suite. he does sound like the great globalist except for many observers in the region he isn't using a globalist he is an isolationist in the least the messaging that he is delivering right now as we speak while he's visiting. the philippines is creating confusion increasing confusion rather than lessening it over the last few months we've been receiving mixed signals from the trunk ministration about the exact specifications of the role of the united states here in this region in economic and security terms i think right now our optimism has and hasn't grown it's lessened there's a signal perhaps even a sign in the cards that i can ask you and has to get on with doing a great number of things on its own. well actually our leaders are already beginning to gather for the our new us and summit in the philippines the group is

made up of ten countries in southeast asia their leaders will be meeting with delegates from eleven known member countries and they include the u.s. china and canada during the two day gathering the nuclear threat from north korea will be one of the main issues discussed. is our correspondent in manila. the asean meeting in manila is seen as the biggest event under the chairmanship of philippine president let me go to thirty twenty one heads of state as well as the united nations secretary general are expected to attend it comes at a time when the region is struggling with a growing security concerns. north korea is expected to dominate the discussions the united states' relationship with the isolated government of kim jong il and continues to get worse over north korea's missile and nuclear programs but despite it being seen as a pariah state all ten member countries of the association of southeast asian

nations have diplomatic ties with north korea and the united states is expected to put more pressure on countries to take a stronger stand against kim jong un but for their again his asian the most contentious issue a ball is the dispute in the south china sea china and the united states have been disagreeing over policies when it comes to disputed waters claimed by several as the and member states many see it as a fight between giants. in the. u.s. . it's fight the grasshopper. a framework on the code of conduct between china and assay and is expected to lay the ground rules that will guide navigation and exploration in disputed waters but

president both their day refuses to use the arbitration ruling warned by the philippines against china at the hague vietnam now finds itself the lone strong voice among countries against china where you have. a situation where the philippines has no clear policy on what to do with the first philippine sea salt issue that this good enough for china because it buys them more time to consolidate their position in the south china sea the migrant and refugee issues are expected to be discussed including the reading your prices in me and maher isis growing influence in the region is also on the agenda but many filipinos here say they're more worried about domestic issues like president or they go to church as human rights record last year trump was vocal about this support for deterrent this drug war which has left thousands of filipinos dead and critics say they worry that trump might gloss over a detective's drug war again which could encourage more state forces to commit

human rights abuses. the syrian province of aleppo is again under heavy bombardment by government warplanes are targeting rebel fighters the bombing started this week and they've managed to force thousands of people out of their homes and into makeshift camps in the countryside the un's expressed concern over the bombing by russian backed syrian government forces a savage of aid is following developments from gaziantep near the turkish syrian border. aleppo is a is a big province and the city is part of it so on the outskirts of aleppo city there are pockets that people fled from aleppo city which are still under rebel control this particular area where this latest campaign by the syrian government is underway is close to the aleppo it laborde are these are the two provinces and these areas were held by rebels and now syrian forces are pushing to words and it's

worth noting that this is an area that is just on the outskirts of the deescalation zone as well so it is perfectly ok and legal for syrian government forces and their russian ally for them are the very end and push the rebels back and this is what the contention of the syrian opposition has been that they have been saying that the escalation zones rather have been helping to bring down civilian casualties but they're also an excuse for the assad government and its allies to consolidate their control and push rebels back to words these areas where they would if they fire back they would be in violation of the laws and it is very difficult for the people who've been displaced from place to place from aleppo city from other parts of provinces in these areas which have come under relentless bombardment in the last five years to try and set up shop here is a few of them who told us how it feels and what do they have now as they move from their homes. we don't and the villages and towns in the southern countryside of

aleppo faced a wave of civilians fleeing towards the east or one thousand seven hundred thirty four families from the south of thousand one. three hundred families from the northern country side of hama after visiting the random camps in the area we evaluate the humanitarian situation as a disaster people need tends to protect themselves from the freezing winter and as you can see that the desperation among the people who fled from these areas and who are continuing to flee from the various the tents that you seen these pictures are not new these are tents that have been recovered by local and international can't get there because it's an active battlefront and hundreds of people have been living out in the open and it's worth noting this is the onset of winter and it's get very cold at night. in aleppo and aleppo countryside for these people so it's a struggle to survive and they don't know what's going to happen to them next lots more to come here at al-jazeera including mass graves of suspected i saw victims discovered in northern iraq will be live in the capital baghdad. is

how we deal with not only our own issues but it's how we interpret our place in this world. as described. americans challenging stereotypes. again in calgary we have tucked in some cold air out of the northeast of china and russia is a best now single figure sapporo. about twelve in beijing with the air moving so actually surprisingly good but look at how cold it is it is minus sixteen so winter is waiting to come in just hasn't made it yet still enjoying about sixteen in tokyo about where it should be the time the warms up

a little bit to warm up usually means increasing humidity and therefore probably right in there it is coming back into honshu and possibly during to see the sun stay. that in the korean peninsula for the most part and in fact you could draw that line through shanghai and back to this western side of china and turkey down to the science coast this is all developing a lot of rain once more probably won't actually affect shanghai's it's inland but it wants to hong kong sits just to the north i think you should be dry twenty eight degrees as a result of this will be rain on the south coast of china there's certainly some evidence it could be briefly heavy as well so the size of that and the most likely place to get caught by heavy rains are the central philippines and those surprise they recent vietnam and so sudden thailand but in the next twenty four hours to shasta south of that much lighter. discover the world of al-jazeera. the best films from across on the network of

travel for the legacy of i'm allowed to do it but i'm about to be fresh perspectives and new insights. to challenge and change the way we look. at this time on this. tough as it takes a look at the top stories here it out as air assault is a t.v. has shown new pictures of king sound meeting lebanon's prime minister as lebanese leaders continue to demand he returns home saad hariri hasn't been back to beirut

nor made any public comment since unexpectedly announcing his resignation in riyadh eight days ago president trump says he accepts u.s. intelligence assessments of russian meddling in last year's election campaign and he also accepts president putin's denial of kremlin involvement. rebel fighters in syria are again under heavy bombardment by government warplanes thousands of civilians have fled days of bombing in aleppo province the u.n. says it's concerned by the bombing campaign involving government forces but by russia. prime minister mariano rajoy is in catalonia he's in barcelona in the capital for the first time since direct rule was imposed on the region thousands of people turned out on saturday demanding the release of catalan leaders who were imprisoned while. speaking investigated for their role in last month's secession

bid we can go live now to our correspondent joe holly's outside the venue where maria row holy is tell us what is he doing in the castle and capital. martin he's here ahead of the elections on december the twenty first that of course he called addressing in the hotel behind me here local members of his popular party here in catalonia including the candidate who will stand for the party in that election he's promised that the elections here in catalonia will in his words restore the rule of law in catalonia he's called for a massive turnout at the polls in the hope presumably that people traditionally against independents here who often don't vote in big numbers will turn out in big numbers now and prevent the pro independence parties from regaining their majority here is not a particularly welcome presence in catalonia of course at least to half the

population who support independence here you see the something of a hate figure representing the government in madrid the blame for oppressing their people their language their identity their culture and their rights nevertheless here years he's not going to be doing much of a big public walkabout he probably won't go far beyond this hotel but he's here i think to put his stamp on the pre-election period here in catalonia indeed and what are people of catalonia actually going to be voting on specifically come december the twenty first is it a matter of procession and those who are against the session. well i think the debate has shifted certainly in tone. after the events of the last few weeks and the government in madrid mariano rajoy triggering that section of the constitution one five five revoking the government's autonomy here we are sacking the government all together all based on its drive for independence of the

madrid government insists was illegal means that the word independence or session probably isn't going to feature very highly in this election essentially people in catalonia know that the election has. to pass and be seen as legitimate by madrid if they are to have any hope of turning around after the election and saying right we've played the game within the law you need to restore our autonomy so that issue of independence has taken a back seat what has come to the fore and we saw it with three quarters of a million people on the streets on saturday night is the idea of political prisoners that half of the people of catalonia who support independence now believe they have political prisoners eight former ministers of course in jail in madrid on charges of rebellion and sedition the former government in exile in belgium and that i think is the central issue at least for the pro independent side in this election they want the freedom of those people they want to return to democracy and that very potent cause is something which may well bolster their support ok jonah how live in barcelona thank you. now iran has called bahraini allegations that it

was involved in an explosion at an oil pipeline absurd and baseless bahrain blamed what it called terrorism linked to a round train explosion in voting on friday iran's denied any involvement and called the accusations childish finger pointing. mass graves containing at least four hundred suspected i thought victims have been found in northern iraq the sites were discovered near a military base close to the town of who we are the governor of kirkuk says many of the dead were dressed in prison uniforms i saw was forced out of the region by iraqi forces in october and around town has more now from the iraqi capital baghdad . this find will be very significant not just for the families but for investigators as well a lot of families are wondering what happened to their loved ones by then defying the bodies within the mass grave they'll be able to get some sort of closure

hopefully for investigators this would be a way to find out exactly how many people died under eisel rule now this mass grave was found in how we just which is one of the main towns it was in a. a military base which eisel allegedly used as an execution ground according to locals now this isn't the first mass grave that the iraqis have found they certainly won't be the last as they go into the areas that i saw used to control and trying dig and look for information on any potential mass grave sites that there are now i've actually seen one of these mass grave sites a couple of them in fact actually up in this enjoy mountains in the north they are very gruesome places to come visit everything has to be catalogued so bones are being dug out of the ground forensic scientists are looking at and investigators are looking at what they find just to see how many people actually were killed now in this particular grave we're hearing that at least four hundred people had been killed now whilst all of this goes on i still continue to hold very small areas

here in iraq but significant ones by the al qaim border crossing and operation started against them against those i saw fighters in the early hours of saturday morning that's when they took the village of ramana just out in anbar province just outside of fallujah that was very quickly done in a few hours they took over that particular town now the iraqi forces advancing to the last remaining stronghold of i saw which is now we're hearing that there might be at least ten thousand civilians that are trapped in the middle of the joint operations come on have told is that they're very concerned about any civilian casualties that might take place so they're going in very slowly however we're not expecting this operation to be like mosul or to be like iraq and to take months this operation is likely to be over in the next few days it is a very few in number of fighters that are in but like i said it's the last

stronghold of perhaps one of the last strongholds of i saw fighters and it's a significant move on the part of the iraqis however once i see these defeated in the territories they control the still the ideology that remains. and an iraqi military helicopters crashed during a training exercise killing all seven people on board it happened over iraq's provinces just east of baghdad so far the cools isn't. the u.s. has joined calls for the saudi led coalition to lift its blockade of yemen but it also says it recognizes the coalition's concerns about stopping the movement of arms to his the rebels the blockade is causing a humanitarian crisis with the u.n. saying the closure of yemen's borders is pushing millions of people to the point of starvation. about four hundred refugees refusing to leave a decommissioned prison camp oh man this island had to build makeshift fences out of fabric in order to keep people out proper new guinea has dismantled large parts

of the fence at the former australian wrong camp in a bid to force a refugees to leave their manor refusing to move saying they fear man a silent locals will attack them some of the refugees have moved to new accommodation outside the facility. they say of american artists and writers are gathering from a rally united states for the indigenous comic con in new mexico now that work examines issues that have long played their communities by substance abuse domestic violence and the search for identity of reynolds recalls. superheroes star wars characters costume players all native american at the second annual indigenous comic con in new mexico. the artists here draw inspiration from rap and i'm a skater culture and war proudly calling themselves indigent nerds think

a lot of nerd culture helps us to deal with like real issues that we face and it gives us a positive like a lot of it is really positive and hopeful there are many issues trouble. native americans poverty disease violence drug and alcohol abuse and the generational trauma from centuries of conquest and colonise ation this event gives native american artists a chance to express themselves in ways that challenge stereotypes and caricature artist riccardo cocktail draws on the long tradition of meat if humans were not stolen away like hollywood always depicts of we were very funny people and i just want to showcase how funny we are we see humor in just about everything as native american why have we been reduced brothers can and john little made a documentary about what they were guard as offensive sporting names like the

washington redskins and we want to reclaim our identities we you know we kind of want to take back you know a lot of the stereotypes and kind of flip them and just you know kind of represent ourselves more accurately comedian and artist bobby wilson points to storytelling traditions perfected over hundreds of generations what are we going to do for nine months out of a wintertime in minnesota in the seventeen hundreds but tell each other stories you know what i mean with any culture you know art is how we deal with not only our own issues but it's how we interpret our place in this world and why is it that we need this lee francis is the convention organizer and the ability to adapt and draw in these other cultural elements is that act of resistance it's that act of of defiance something like this provides hope it sparks the imagination what more than superheroes and space travel sparked the imagination and it also ties us back to

our traditional stories because in those we had superheroes we had space travelers and so that it's this it's that full circle adaptation and are flourishing from one native jenner. ration to the next rob reynolds is locked up with new mexico. a boat that's made entirely out of recycled plastic is being built on kenya's coast it's being assembled using two hundred thousand recycled flipflops and twenty five tons of plastic waste from mere ssion once it's completed it will make history as the first paid built entirely of recycled ocean plastic catherine sorry has been to see it. but it may look like an ordinary boat being built on the shores of the indian ocean in lumber along came a skull but there is nothing normal about this boat. called bookmakers a building what they call flip flopping using mostly plastic waste and discarded

flip flops that are often washed up ashore if it works the plan is to eventually build a sixty foot down like this one which is usually built with wood it will sell to south africa with the hope of creating awareness about the devastation brought about by plastic dumped into the ocean it would be a good message to the world because this is a moving object you know people have done different type of recycled things but it's not one hundred percent everybody sees it but when is a moving object it will reach to many parts. this is one of the cleanest beaches on the coast local residents load trash they've collected for the last two months plastic bottles polythene bags flip flops which will be used to make the boat. the waste ends up in a factory in more than two hundred kilometers away this is where plastic waste is crushed off credit then melted using that machine and molded into planks the dow

will need the factory receives trash washed ashore from countries in africa and asia and also rubbish collected locally. getting an end product that is strong and safe to withstand the ocean has been tough we are making the first. nobody's ever made of being out of plastic that's ten meters long no twenty two centimeters wide twenty five centimeters deep that's a huge piece of plastic so all we have tried multiple ways of doing it mark what types of materials stabilizes an archive of things to make sure it gets better better and. back in law. and his workers give us an idea of how the boat and eventually the dow will look like it will be covered using this colorful print made from war than two hundred thousand used flip flops they say they're not only

campaigning against pollution but also for what is a dying culture of traditional. catherine soy al-jazeera on the kenyan coast. now don't forget there's an awful lot more on the web site al jazeera dot com that's where you get lots of pictures lots of analysis lots of background information. let's have a look at the top stories here it out as air so they say t.v. has shown pictures of king salmon meeting lebanon's prime minister as lebanese leaders continue to demand he returns home saad hariri hasn't returned to beirut nor made any public comment since unexpectedly announcing his resignation in riyadh eight days ago president trump says it sets u.s. intelligence assessment of russian meddling in last year's election campaign and he also exerts president putin's denial of kremlin involvement. i believe very much

in our intelligence agencies now at the same time. i want to be able because i think it's very important to get along with russia to get along with china to get along with vietnam to get along with lots of countries because we have a lot of things we have to sell i believe that president putin really feels and he feels strongly that he did not meddle in our election what he believes is what he believes what i believe is that we have to get to work. the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy is in catalonia for the first time since director was imposed on the region he's addressing supporters ahead of next month's elections thousands marched on saturday demanding the release of catalan leaders are imprisoned whilst being investigated for their role in last month's secession bit. rebel forces

in syria again under heavy bombardment by government warplanes thousands of civilians have fled days of bombing in aleppo province the u.n. says it's concerned by the bombing campaign involving government forces backed by russia last craze containing at least four hundred suspected i saw victims have been found in northern iraq the sites were discovered near a military base close to the town of who we the governor of kirkuk says many of the dead were dressed in prison uniforms. the u.s. has joined calls for the saudi led coalition to lift his blockade of yemen but it also says it recognizes the coalition's concerns about stopping the movement of arms to his the rebels roger today there is the latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming up next it's an inside story.

saudi arabia is accused of forcibly detaining lebanese leaders saad hariri calls his with a unified different political groups but is level and becoming an open battleground for a regional proxy power play this.