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and i'm rob matheson this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes at least sixty one people have been killed following an earthquake that's hit the iran iraq border the lebanese prime minister speaks publicly for the first time since his resignation saad hariri says he's free in saudi arabia and plans to return to his country soon. ignoring efforts to turn them back or henge of refugees are still streaming into bangladesh. people in the small town of southern in the springs in texas attended sunday service a week after a gunman killed twenty six parishioners in their church. and we begin with some breaking news a seven point three magnitude earthquake has struck on the iran iraq border with reports that at least sixty one people have been killed and hundreds have been

injured across both countries the epicenter was in iran thirty kilometers southwest of the iraqi town of halabja rescue teams have been deployed to the region charlotte ballasts reports. quiet sunday night in iraq and iran disrupted by violent shaking. with quake was centered on the iraq iran border merely iraqi town of halacha and it was severe seven point three in magnitude and only twenty five kilometers deep. suddenly the glasses dropped off the table that was very strange the fan was shaking we were so afraid that we ran out of the house because our house is old the u.s. geological survey immediately issued an orange alert saying deaths in damage should be expected then came the reports of fatalities on the iran side of the border in the town of cusses sharing it struck after sunset on sunday night when people use

their phones in a makeshift assessment of the cost of this quite early reports suggest villages have been badly damaged and alex tricity cas iranian media say risk you teams have been deployed to would see if he seemed to in the waist. iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world several major fault lines cross the country and in two thousand and three a six point six magnitude quake lessened the historic city of bam twenty six thousand people die. quakes may be frequent here the people are not immune from panic in iraq shops and most evacuated across kurdish territory it was felt throughout the region as far away as israel residents flee their homes from baghdad to kuwait they face an interrupted night with aftershocks still rolling through charlotte dallas al-jazeera. lebanon's prime minister saad hariri

has spoken publicly for the first time since his shock resignation eight days ago he says he is free in saudi arabia rejecting rumors he's being held against his will how did he also place to return to his country very soon zena harlow reports from beirut. this is the first time saud how did he makes public remarks since his resignation announcement more than a week ago from the saudi capital riyadh he sought to dispel reports that he had been detained the well being of lebanon's prime minister and his freedom of movement have been open to question in a live interview he denied he was forced to resign and said he is a free man and. i submitted my resignation is not the regular resignation process for any prime minister but i had to take some security measures to return back safe and sound. the circumstances behind his decision to step down united a deeply divided country earlier people used. to show solidarity with.

some lebanese may now be convinced that he is not under house arrest others however haven't changed their minds clearly wasn't comfortable situation physically look. what he was saying was very. contradictory to many people. but if and when he does return it doesn't guarantee that lebanon's latest political crisis will be resolved if i withdraw my resignation as prime minister of lebanon we must respect the distance in lebanon from the regional conflict we should pull out from the interventions in the region. a few years ago lebanon officially adopted a policy of staying out of regional conflicts particularly from the war in syria hezbollah has been accused of ignoring that policy by sending troops to fight alongside the syrian government allied has long resisted demands that would draw

its forces and it is unlikely that demand now. also singled out yemen accusing hezbollah of interventions that puts lebanon at risk. he said he resigned to save lebanon but the political vacuum his resignation. ated has only destabilize the country is the top seventy politician in lebanon replacing him will not be easy democracy here is about consensus and a candidate has to be accepted by all rival camps for stability to prevail appearance said comments did little to ease the tensions instead he looked more like a pawn in the regional power struggle between iran and saudi arabia said of. beirut jomar own as a policy analyst at the arab center in washington d.c. he's joining us now from there thank you very much for your time do you think this latest interview gives us any more clarification about the circumstances of saad

hariri in the saudi arabia. it seems that raises more questions than answers we got few clues of where he stands on some of the issues we don't have clarity on a lot of other issues but let's just focus on the political messages he sent obviously he toned down the complete chip in his rhetoric compared to his resignation a week ago and he was very cynical as against iran and other stuff he was very close on your t.v. he basically said the reason of the shift of the policy was yemen much of the other issues you mentioned before so i think a lot of anybody's still believe what happened in the last week while his own political movement is saying what say why there's a lot of us and american and u.s. and french and and other than the national unity are also worried about his movement so we didn't hear the whole story and we have yet to see what will happen

in the next days and weeks in this interview he did seem to make a condition of his possibly withdrawing his resignation and negotiation with hezbollah over its military actions in other countries given the level of apparent instability that this seems to have created in lebanon do you think hezbollah is actually going to be open to those negotiations. i mean the issue now he's much weaker than everybody believed that he was basically under pressure from the when he comes back he's not as strong as he left so he's struggling if he has a big popularity you know he is the more embraced by. either by the older goshi or by the yemenis people but i'm not sure how much they will give up this point because they believe that the saudi prince the pressure and they should maybe come back so i think we the u.s.

pressure was effective on the saudis they thought the pressure he might come back but i don't see the political quests resolved any time soon but at least the the bush in the first of a little bit put some brakes on it now but it seems much more complicated but some of the issue he raise he has right easy he's right about them about the neutrality of the lebanese system there but his government those issues should be discussed but the issue is not by forcing the prime minister to resign over seas this is the question not the substance of the stock. we well know there has been a lot of speculation about our wider picture a wider proxy conflict as it were between saudi arabia and iran and this lebanon has been a focal point for that in the event that this circumstances in lebanon don't turn out to suit saudi arabia what do you think saudi arabia's next step is likely to be

. they don't have much option this is the issue and. the way i see it is they are trying to do it offensive or to push the two weakest link which is yemen and lebanon while in syria they are fine they are not even in the game they are not even trying to be an obstacle in iraq they are engaging the government but it wasn't so they are basically trying to do and i think of the two weakest link and the way i understood the saudi message so highly today is now they only focus on yemen so they want basically hezbollah out of yemen they want more neutral issue on the normalization of relations between beirut and damascus and it seems open to coming back to government but all those are details the big shift if we are not talking anymore about taking out of the equation we are not talking about a war all the rhetoric now has changed and you have

a saudi retreat basically and this is i think the big question and they want to be maybe more. aggressive on yemen but for me at least they seem to be more flexible in their but on now the u.s. is very worried about syria they have an agreement was russia now there they don't want the saudi policy eleven not to impact that so i think they they came to the reality that you know you might have some trouble at home some thought they were more but the region is much more complicated than there's a limit to what you can do or you cannot do jomar on of the out of center washington d.c. thank you very much. saudi arabia has asked for an urgent meeting with the arab league to discuss allegations of military aggression by iran to iran denies claims that supplied a missile that was fired from yemen into saudi a week ago it also says it has nothing to do with a pipeline fire in bahrain that temporarily halted all supplies on friday saudi

arabia has described the fire as sabotage and minister has blamed iran the arab league meeting for next sunday in cairo. meanwhile france's president also wants a meeting to discuss iran's activities but tech iran has rejected a request for direct talks on its ballistic missile production plants iran says the program is for defense and its unrelated to the deal with world powers to the development of nuclear weapons. the rebels in yemen are denying reports that the missile fired at riyadh was supplied by iran the news comes as the u.s. joins the international calls for an end to the saudi led kade that's worsening a severe food shortage united nations says the closure of yemen's borders is pushing millions of people close to starvation the u.s. sees but rebel leaders say the missiles are homemade. we confirm to the world that the rocket unit of the yemeni military has been producing ballistic

missiles for a long time now having learned from the russian scud missiles and also benefiting from korean technology and so we've become the new factories and producers of missiles and we are also further developing missiles that we had previously in yemen a senior u.n. official says me and mars troops have systematically gang raped and tortured a woman the envoy has been speaking to some of the six thousand refugees who fled to neighboring bangladesh since august she says she's going to raise the mistreatment of it with the international criminal court calling rape a weapon of genocide peter sharp has more the imposingly wide river now which separates my ma and bangladesh was the final hurdle for another wave of increasingly desperate rohingya refugees nearly two hundred people many of them women and children made their way to freedom paddling improvised rickety rafts kept afloat by empty plastic jerry cans scavenged along the way as they fled the country

using homemade paddles and sheets of plastic it was a long and slow crossing some just paddled with their hands. on the final half of the raf's were intercepted by bangladesh frontier guards these people are not welcome here and for an hour the guards circled the raf's trying to persuade them to turn back and pushing them rather the refugees ignored them and pushed on to the shoreline. they've been travelling for weeks and with land for a mixture of exhaustion and relief on the faces of those who'd reach safety traumatised by what they'd witnessed during the long march out of my mom for the children still too young to comprehend that they may never return to their homes. each had their own story to tell. we built this raft with plastic jerry cans that we found in burned down villages. we couldn't manage boats as we

couldn't afford the rent moreover i thought of our neighbors got robbed when they left the camps with the boat people they lost all their money and everything they had. it took us three days to reach safety one day to cross the hill one day to prepare the raft and a third day to row across the river. these are just a handful of the hundreds of thousands to have sought refuge in bangladesh many repeating stories of violence rape and murder carried out on the refugees a senior u.n. official in dhaka raise the issue with the international criminal court this week whether my own mom military can be held responsible peter shop al jazeera. myanmar's leader aung san suu kyi has spoken out and assy on business meeting on gender discrimination and girls' education but she remains silent on the military crackdown that's forced the ranger to flee her nation she's been criticized

internationally accused of inaction over what the u.n. says is ethnic cleansing instead she's described women's equality as one of me and was biggest challenges. women are still missing out. in contests areas the social. unskilled labor and. incapable of making decisions is one of biggest challenge. to overcome social constraints. and economic. development the clock's ticking for about four hundred refugees who are refusing to leave a decommissioned prison camp and mana silent papa new guinea authorities say the manhunt until monday to get out large sections of the australian run camp have been dismantled in a bid to force the refugees to leave the men are refusing to move saying they fear minus island locals could attack them about two hundred refugees have left already

moving to new accommodation outside the facility. plenty more ahead on the news hour including digging for gold the owners of a greek might you know caught between jobs versus the environment and transforming this into this the canyons turning rubbish into a rowboat and switzerland buying to place in next year's world cup we're going to tell you who else from europe will join the job with the details later in sport. that when a show of force aimed at north korea the united states and south korea have launched joint naval drills it's in response to the rising tension over the north's nuclear weapons program three u.s. aircraft carriers along with several south korean war ships will carry out the exercises over the course of four days it's the first time in a decade the u.s. has three carriers operating in the region. president donald trump says he backs

the conclusion of u.s. intelligence agencies that russia did meddle in the twenty sixteen presidential election but writing on twitter he slammed what he called the quote fools who oppose better ties with moscow trunks codification comes after he suggested he believed to be a putin when he said russia didn't interfere with the vote when he reports from hanoi two things dominated donald trump's visit to vietnam competing with china for influence in asia and offering conflicting messages about russian influence on his election win last year i believe that president putin really feels only 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 and i think everybody understood this that heard the answer hours earlier he spoke off camera with reporters and said something different following brief discussions with blood amir

putin at the apec summit in downing he said he believes the russian president didn't meddle in the election comments were criticized by some in the united states government intelligence agencies have concluded that there was russian interference in the campaign in his meeting with the vietnamese president in hanoi trump said he believes a strong relationship with russia can help fix the world's problems we have to get to work to solve syria to solve north korea to solve ukraine itself terrorism it's now time to get back to healing a world that has shattered and broken those a very important thing donald trump backs himself as a deal maker someone who can make things happen and while much of this trip was about trade and business he also offered to help keep the peace between vietnam and china vietnam and china are in a long running territorial dispute in the south china sea along with other neighboring countries donald trump told his vietnamese counterpart. that he could

help make things better while also touting u.s. weapons contracts. you. know. really where. we're going to use. donald trump says he's not interested in multilateral trade deals china's president xi jinping who's also in vietnam's capital says he's not interested in multilateral talks on the south china sea when hey al-jazeera hanoi. trunk's now in manila for a summit with southeast asian leaders and on monday he's going to meet the philippine president rodrigo deter but deter he has appeared to rebuff trump's offer to mediate in the south china sea dispute in a forum in this sidelines of the summit to tell it he said the issue is better left

untouched under his leadership the philippines has strengthened its ties with china . and you know. there is. so. but their lives and. nobody for. spain's prime minister mariano rajoy is in catalonia for the first time since the central government imposed direct rule over the region it travel to barcelona to campaign ahead of december's we general elections and he's praised efforts to honor spanish law in what he called difficult times john holl has more from barcelona. on a sunny altar morning in barcelona a marching band goes through its routines oblivious to the presence of spain's

conservative prime minister you know who tell behind them. mariano rajoy was paying a quiet visit to supporters of his own party to those who want catalonia to break away from spain is something of a hate figure the man who deposed their government enforcing direct rule by madrid . should expect them and we have done exactly what any other country who respects itself would have done what france or germany do if one of their regions suddenly wanted an autonomous referendum. the party faithful were in clear agreement. was was this was a friendly crowd of catalans supporters of spanish unity vote for a voice governing popular party in december's regional election i don't you know i don't really never know just know it's not the middle anyway that it has to be bilateral and i'm sure it will grow but the. kind of thing that you need to fit the

crisis in catalonia has done prime minister mariano rajoy and his popular party no harm its ratings are way up people pretty happy with the way the prime minister has put down the secessionist insurrection here and it's also had the added benefit of largely obscuring a raft of corruption allegations against the prime minister and his party in madrid . his visit came the morning after three quarters of a million cattle lands took to the streets in a show of solidarity for eight former ministers jailed on charges of rebellion and sedition to imprison civil society leaders and the government in exile in belgium but this bottle actually think that it was protesting over the holding of political prisoners in the country people who just want to vote and decide to imprison. the prime minister has promised december's election will restore the rule of law in catalonia but a great many people here feel the government has simply bent the law for its own

purposes jona whole al-jazeera barcelona. well the battle of jobs versus the environment is raging in northern greece as one of the country's largest foreign investors threatens to withdraw canadian mining group eldorado gold on the suspended operations last month saying the government's causing delays and costing it millions but as john said opulence reports the government says it's protecting the environment. two hundred and seventy meters below sea level these men are digging for gold eight million ounces of it thought to be hidden in these rocks with more than ten billion dollars which would make greece europe's biggest gold producer and there are billions more in silver copper lead and zinc but these which is aren't yet within reach the government hasn't consistently worked through the permits as required under a contract and under regulations here in greece and we've suffered our share price is significantly down compared to our peers in the predominant issue is our

investments in greece have not proceeded as planned el dorados shares have fallen by more than half this year this mill should already be crushing rock instead it's waiting for permission to build walls and a roof to house the machinery and now the city's a government has taken the company to court because it's only completed two thirds of its one and a half billion dollar investment it's the sort of behavior that is putting off other potential investments in greece and losing cities or votes down here. i'd like the government to come here and see what we do what we produce and see with our own eyes what we can achieve for the national economy if they do away with my salary today tomorrow there won't be any income for the very people in government. this is the growth greece is looking for salaries here average about fifteen hundred dollars and that twenty four hundred workers monthly payroll of about three and a half million dollars that kind of money creates an entire economy on the surface

but cities are says it's not the only economy. these people will work for twenty or thirty years this isn't a sustainable form of development for the area or it will eventually run out what will remain for the future generations yes this entire valley will become an open cast mine pit half a kilometer deep once that happens farming and tourism won't stand a chance but mining is the biggest driver of the local economy and that full swing this operation would give the government half a billion dollars a year in taxes for a quarter century and double the size of the mining industry to seven percent of g.d.p. cities at once those taxes but it wants the votes to win the last election the environmental vote defeated the mining vote next time around the tables could turn . in the cassandra mines of northern greece a sailing boat made entirely out of recycled ocean plastics and flipflops is being

built on can use coast it's being assembled using two hundred thousand recycled flip flops and twenty five tons of plastic waste from the ocean once it's completed it's going to make history as the first boat built entirely of recycled material catherine soy went to see it. it may look like an ordinary boat being built on the shores of the indian ocean in lima along came this coast but there's nothing normal about this boat. to make a building what they call flip flopping using mostly plastic waste and discarded flip flops. that often washed up a straw 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 it's a moving object you know people have done different type of recycle things but it's not one hundred percent everybody says it but rain 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 metres long no zero point two centimeters wide twenty five centimeters deep that's a piece of plastic so we have tried multiple ways of doing it mark what types of materials stabilizers and all kinds of things to make sure it gets better and better. back in line. and his workers give us an idea of how the boat and eventually the dow will look like. it will be covered using these caliph prints made from war than two hundred thousand used feet. 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 still ahead an al-jazeera. renewed bombardment in aleppo

province that's forcing thousands of people from their homes plus. a body on the turnaround of one of germany's most industrialized cities that led to it becoming this year's european brean capital. the primary you. brain when we. find. a special message from. farewells as home finds jones for the formula one action in sports. hello winter a bit into the great lakes in the early part of the weekend it's easing off a little bit now but the still fairly cold air around but you know it is not direct north anymore the winds going in that direction tends to make things not as bad and we've got a bit of water coming up from further south to new york after

a very frosty start to the weekend going to be a plus nine all monday and is plus five in toronto even chicago's were freezing so . the brief bite the still snow falling in the north of washington oregon probably came down to was idaho northern california in the next day or so seattle's temperature data sea level is plus ten so it's winter up in the mountains but actually everywhere else to the east the sun's come out and it's looking quite quiet once again settles down but obviously it will be lost it but we've fixed temperatures huge rise now it's head further south where we've seen significant rainfall out of the sky recently from jurors and delays you see the bright white top clouds here but have more useful not quite as heavy showers or jamaica eastern cuba haiti and dominican republic but i think the concentration of the next day or so is going to be further west again as you're catan through billie's honduras guatemala maybe and further south to nicaragua and mexico see quite a few more showers as well.

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been able to escape the war. you're watching. the top stories this hour rescue teams have been deployed to western iran after a seven point three magnitude earthquake struck on the iran iraq border health officials have reported at least sixty one dead and hundreds injured across both countries lebanon's prime minister. claims he's detained in saudi arabia and his first public comments since announcing he would resign last week he said he was

free to leave and plan to return to lebanon in a matter of days. prime minister mariano rajoy has visited catalonia for the first time since the central government imposed direct rule over the region travel to barcelona to campaign ahead of december's regional elections but dissolved parliament after a declared independence last month. ok let's go back to that crisis in lebanon prime minister saad hariri has spoken out for the first time since his shock resignation eight days ago let's hear a little more of what he had to say. but i decided to. so to awaken the people to what's happening and that is that as if there was a heavy. my reaching this is the people sometimes i'm the worst stages of my life. and when i see people that i'm in the happiest stages of my life and i thank everybody every person. all the political parties.

who want to go back some how do you not going to leave the country how you will go back to this country and i wish that this thinking not because it is the flood zone and politics but he says one thing lebanon comes around. first we must always keep. well as we said they were his first public comment since he resigned last week saying he feared assassination and criticizing the iranian backed group in lebanon and hezbollah when he returns to lebanon his resignation will need to be officially accepted by michel aoun the country's president own is allied to hezbollah he would have to find a new prime minister under lebanon's political system the appointee must be a sunni muslim and it won't be easy harry the lead coalition government was put in place last december after years of political deadlock the syrian province of aleppo

is again under heavy bombardment by the government targeting the rebel fighters the air raids have forced thousands of civilians to flee the area and set up makeshift camps in the countryside some of binge of aid has more from tep on the border between syria and turkey. the war in syria is far from over. the army and air force of president bashar al assad and his allies continue to attack opposition positions in the southern countryside of billable province regime forces are advancing to secure an important supply route a highway that connects damascus to a city. in fighters as well as. which is why there are fighting to retain control of small towns villages. the days of fighting has displaced thousands. we don't have any shelter no tents no cover when we left we didn't take anything the syrian army went after us with airstrikes and now the

children sleep there while. there's no water no power no roads just we move a lot for god's sake have some fun with just the clothes that we wear now here in a tent and. the used tents are not just for people from so the but also from hama province in the north around three thousand people in all. many here haven't seen any help from international aid organizations because the front line is close by local aid workers say they are doing what they can but don't have enough provisions 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 and one thousand three hundred families in the northern countryside of after visiting the random camps in the area we evaluate the humanitarian situation as a disaster people need tends to protect themselves in the freezing winter the

united nations says at least one point one million syrians have been displaced in the last year the u.n. is concerned by the escalation there were strikes in aleppo and it led provinces and is calling for the protection of civilians. the fighting is continuing on the edges of the deescalation zones agreed by the united states and russia the opposition says that the government is taking advantage of these zones to target them while the government says that is going to go after what it calls terrorist groups and as this goes on millions of syrians continue to suffer. and the tech a syrian border morocco's king mohammed the six has arrived in qatar to discuss the latest developments in the gulf political crisis king was greeted by the emir and bin hama d'antoni this is how much first visit to qatar since the beginning of the ongoing gulf crisis where saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt have cut the diplomatic ties with qatar. has more from. the gulf

dispute it will top the agenda of the meeting between the king of morocco and. sees a sort of the crisis morocco says he won't take any sides asking all the parties to set aside their differences in the spirit of ordination rest back noninterference it in turn and. now the king of morocco is in the u.a.e. he met with senior officials the united arab emirates and i think americans understand that this is a very delicate mission that america has failed to solve the crisis the kuwaitis are still hoping to bring all the parties to for a compromise while the king of america has strong relations with the families in this part of the world who would like to tap into those relations and ask all the parties to negotiate a settlement there's also another element which is basically the g.c.c. countries can see the morocco a crucial ally and they have been committing billions of dollars in investments and

also aid in morocco something that the moroccans believe could be an asset to help america that could bring all the parties to turn the chopped out of this crisis. under the people of howard sunday's service in the texas town of sutherland springs is the first service since a gunman opened fire on parishioners killing twenty six people a week ago warners gathered at a roadside shrine about a kilometer from the sanctuary to pay their respects to those killed in the worst mass shooting in the state's history a few dozen members of the congregation gathered first but their ranks soon grew to hundreds of people from near and far flocked to join them who want to express our condolences and show it to to him and to his family and to the community that they don't stand alone something like this can tear one individual up but it doesn't tear up the family it doesn't kill the whole and that's why we're here one

of the things that people ask during times like this is or they the statement i hear most often is we need to do something but here that something is pretty clear we need to fix this broken background check system i'll be introducing bipartisan legislation perhaps as early as tomorrow my hope is that we can expedite consideration of this get it into law and to make sure that this sort of thing never happens again and all the shooting has once again prompted calls for stricter gun laws in the u.s. but as dianne estabrook reports gun owners and dealers don't share the same feelings while tulsa oklahoma flies like that half staff mourning the victims of last week's texas church shooting thousands file into what is billed as the largest gun show in the world take. a gap right. in the parking lot of this exhibition center there are license plates from dozens of states visitors come to buy and sell

guns and everyone we spoke to told us the same thing the u.s. should not pass laws restricting their second amendment right to own guns the person behind a gun. we need to get back to god before we need to go you know there are lots of problems because people don't enforce the current statutes really and force them on us for anyone that breaks the law we should stand behind it and convict them and stick but then we weren't allowed to take our cameras inside of the gun show but i did go inside and walk around and what i saw were a lot of hunting rifles antique guns and a handful of a ar fifteen which are assault rifles a bill banning assault weapons was introduced in the u.s. senate last week just days after the texas shooting and last month after the mass shooting at a los vegas concert legislation was introduced to banning bank stocks which allow guns to fire more rapidly so far this year there have been more than three hundred mass shootings in the u.s.

defined as those which involve four or more deaths or injuries in a single incident but despite that passing tougher gun laws could be tom your job before. we're going to fix that. in states like oklahoma guns are part of the culture dave king has been shooting competitively for decades and now teaches classes like this one king says he doesn't see either side in the gun debate finding common ground because the way we see it out here the way the voters see it is you're trying to restrict our second amendment rights to us this is a civil rights issue we have the right to defend ourselves all right king says he wants to preserve for his grandchildren die in us to broke out jazeera toso oklahoma. the coal mines a steel plants and germany's of rural region have powered the country for more than a century but with the decline of the nation's industrial hub he says he's not looking to tourism to recharge his economy clock reports from s.

and. his stands a ghostly relic to a time now just one of the largest industrial monuments in europe the silver and coal mine the last miners descended the shaft in one thousand nine hundred six but in its time zone verein was a key cog in the german economic machine for many going underground was a way of life the region was the beating heart of the nation's industry its coal mines and on and steel plant the country for more than one hundred years. this is the largest of the region's this use coal mines and back in the day it employed eight thousand people around the clock producing twenty three thousand tonnes of coal every twenty four hours now it's a unesco world heritage site and the old coal washing is the room. where once machinery thundered and tens of millions of tons of coal were processed now there's an impressive curation of the region's history we sought for people who

came from outside to build one place to have a window to look in the history of this region beginning at three hundred fifty million years ago when cold starts to exist today to the present so these days there mining the tourist dollar sees one and a half million visitors a year bringing in more than sixty five million euros. seventy. and i think very important. like a lot of money. everybody can come here today and just. the line in the. a process in green space now blankets much of the city's industrial past with here and there a looming reminder this fight back against environmental degradation has led to the

e.u. naming the city as a european green capital for two thousand and seventy when. we are a model for change how to create something when a complete branch of industry breaks away from thirst we are interesting for europe and the rest of the world how if a crisis there evolved a chance and we are now entering a green decade. of course is not all good news despite some major energy companies still being based here local unemployment remains high at nearly eleven percent but there was a time when they were a river was a toxic flow now it's a stunning clean i mean it's with no end of profitable potential by honoring its industrial heritage while shaking off the coal dust and looking to tourism this is start city may just reinvent itself. al-jazeera essen germany still ahead and al jazeera setting new goals how football is helping indigenous women in mexico fight back against violence joe has more in this part.

tracing the fall from prosperity to financial ruin this is beside the movement where we humanize that nothing was first wealthy in the devastating impact to save the banks means to save the deposits. and the failure to prevent disaster banks and political leaders the people who needed to learn the less i go or from democracy to the markets at this time on al-jazeera. discover a wealth of wood winning programming from around the world powerful documentary as we were running away for our life from a brutal regime the kills the cell phone and debates and discussions we're getting comments on what the international community should do how worried should we

therefore me that this guy has the nuclear codes on a scale of one to ten and can challenge your perception. al-jazeera. that it's time for the support here is joe. thank you very much will switzerland have banked a spot in next year's world cup in russia and they did it at the expense of northern ireland whose hopes of reaching the finals for the first time in thirty two years were crushed switzerland went into the second leg holding a one will advantage thanks to a controversial penalty but despite having home advantage in basel they were far from convincing the nil no draw was enough to secure

a place croatia will join them in qualifying off to beating greece on aggregate the croats hammered them for one in the first leg so despite the second leg finishing. off to their fifth world cup finals now mark market has won his fourth moto g.p. while championship in five years but the spaniard gave himself a scare with seven laps to go in the valencia grand prix he managed to stay on his bike optimise judging his braking and recover to finish the twenty four year old cementing his status as the top rider in motor bike racing he's the youngest four time champion in the moto g.p. class. amazing amazing feeling you know the thing that as i was always. going through although the situation but tony i say ok now it's time to board because i felt really good but then done one honestly i love the tradition of the big boy i'd like to read as. i read. you

know what at this time. sebastian vettel is a step closer to securing second place in the form and on world drivers' championship the ferrari front man sees the advantage over a pole sitter valtteri bottas at the first corner of the brazilian grand prix after that he was never threatened by the sadie's man but the most impressive drive of the day came from newly crowned world champion lewis hamilton he started from pit lane after crashing out in qualifying and narrow. really missed out on indian place . but the moving moment of the day came for the fans favorite philippe must say it was the williams miss avies drive his farewell race in his home country before he retires and he received a special message. he and still plan to do you any way when

really you know i ocean find you i know you may doing a living here stand by really. emotionally today. because of all of you guys so thank you very much for everything that we passed together for the support. and their joy that i felt. for making the best race i could oh well the united states have claimed their first fed cup tennis title the seventeen years in a thriller against deloris it went to a doubles decided before shelby rogers and coco vanda way one six three seven six for a three two victory in the final and minutes away it meant she was on base and after winning both her singles matches the u.s. has now extended their record to eighteen fed cup tie us. this is amazing i've been dreaming about this for a very long time since my first are fed cup tie in with one of my best friend was

unreal there are no words for that she's such a leader for this team she's been here all year long for us and at this moment it's so special. and this is a made. me two years this is all. roger federer has become the season ending a.t.p. world tour finals with a win the world number two was up against jack salt they sealed the opening set off just thirty six minutes but the nineteen time grand slam champ had a much tougher time second with the american seven six was how it finished eventually to federer the swiss miss this event last season but he's going for a wrecker. sending seven tycho this year. indigenous women in mexico are finding a sporting way to fight back against physical and sexual violence so are people vulnerable often within their own communities but one woman is helping them set new goals as john heilemann reports. for these girls from them as our indigenous group

in mexico this is more than just a kick about in a male dominated society football could open the door to another world. where the loop a suffer the fate of many goes here violence in her own home and then being sent to work as a maid in mexico city at just thirteen she decided she was worth more than that. she got a university education and headed back to help other girls forming an ngo that heads into school uses football to get them to open up about things many face daily that would i guess i'm sure if i asked you who has faced by their own home or as a woman everyone would raise their hand. she holds workshops on other subjects that are often to boo in their communities like avoiding early pregnancy and sexual rights around four hundred girls who are in the program. there are many women who

haven't been to their doctors because their husband won't let a man examine them that kills us just putting on a sports kid is an act of rebellion because it sends a message that i can dress as i want i can decide how i look not to please anyone other than myself. but most of our team is at the center of the tomb aspiring plays have to not just have the skills but also nine out of ten of my studies will seal doesn't let anyone get in the way of football even her husband who she divorced when he could be playing. by the as a woman and the indigenous community it's great to feel a clone that you were the same as any other woman that you have the chance to feel excited happy and possibly tame. it's generally agreed the indigenous women have the worst lot of anyone in mexico they're the poorest of the poor have the least access to education and often face discrimination and violence within and without

their communities initiatives like this one i'm not going to change overnight but they do send a signal that these women are prepared to fight for something more john home and. mexico city and that's so useful for now. native american artists and writers from around the united states are gathering in new mexico for the indigenous comic con they're working examines issues that have long plagued their communities like substance abuse domestic violence and the search for identity rob reynolds reports from the slate and new mexico. superheroes star wars characters costumes world 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 in like the real issues that we face and it

gives us a positive like a lot of it is really positive and helpful there are many issues troubling native americans poverty disease violence drug and alcohol abuse and the generational trauma from centuries of conquest and colonise ation this event gives date of 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 stoic when hollywood always depicts of rivera 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 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 active resistance. it's that act of of defiance something like this provides hope it sparks the imagination what more than superheroes and space travel spark 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 and up taishan and are flourishing from one native generation to the next robert oulds al-jazeera is left up well below new mexico. and that's it from a real matheson for this news but i'm going to be back in a moment with more of the day's news join them by.

what began as a small extremist group in africa's most populous country we know that they're in there to from the government to just shoot soon turned into a battle front for the nigerian government. the tories for abducting more than two hundred schoolgirls the killing and displacement of thousands of people al-jazeera investigates the origins bloody rise of iraq at this time on al-jazeera . a new poll ranks mexico city as the pool of worst in the world for sexual violence many women are attacked while moving in the crowded spaces of the metro

buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers the conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend you're very pretty young you feel unsafe threatened you think about how to react what do i do if this gets worse now mariani uses a new service it's called lal dr it's for women passages only and run by women drivers the apple for some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven monitoring of drivers. dozens are killed when a powerful earthquake strikes on the iran iraq border.