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hello example robyn you're watching all of this there are live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes. i. protests against the u.s. as world leaders gather in the middle of the fiftieth meeting of the association of southeast asian nations plus. i had to take some security measures to return back safe and sound the lebanese prime minister says he's coming home as he breaks his silence for the first time since his sudden resignation. spain's prime minister makes his first trip to barcelona since the catalonia vote for the session. welcome to the program we start in the middle east where a seven point three magnitude earthquake has struck on the iran iraq border the

death toll is at least one hundred forty one people so far as many as a thousand people have also been injured now the epicenter was in iran thirty kilometers southwest of the iraqi town of her lab which are charlotte ballast possible. quiet sunday night in iraq and iran disrupted by violent shaking. the quake was centered on the iraq iran border merely iraqi town of. and it was severe sivan point three in magnitude and only twenty five kilometers deep. it was very strange some of the gases dropped off the table the fan was shaking we were so afraid we had to run out of the house because our house was old the u.s. geological survey immediately issued an orange alert saying deaths and damage should be expected then came the reports of fatalities on the iran side of the border in the town of custer shereen it struck after sunset on sunday night and

people use their phones in a makeshift assessment of the cost of this quite early reports suggest villages have been badly damaged and electricity cut iranian media say risk you teams have been deployed to would see if he seemed in the waist iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world civil major fault lines cross the country and in two thousand and three a six point six magnitude quake flattened the historic city of bam twenty six thousand people died. while earthquakes may be frequent here the people are not a mirror from panic in iraq shops and malls 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. al-jazeera. says the west

of iran has been severely affected. and one other comment on the other here are the places that have been damaged the most are the cities of commons and the damage is very clear and the efforts of the government are noticeable especially for medical help search and rescue and finding housing for the displaced according to an official the number of people displaced is up to seventy thousand so four is especially bad in this it is common the government is supplying tents to help these people there is a government ministry to help deal with the disaster and they have people in all of these towns they are also helping in some of the hard to reach areas including seven villages where people are still under the rubble. as we take a pacific now where the philippines is seeing and protest as clashing with police outside the asean summit meeting in middle. well it follows

earlier demonstrations outside the u.s. embassy at the dinner ahead of trump's arrival on sunday many protesters have accused him of stoking tensions in the region through his aggressive rhetoric and posturing or robert freitas following events for us it's easy to see these protests and wonder what they're really about but they are very focused really in terms of being quite anti trump. that's right i mean it has to be said to hail this there are left wing groups here in the philippines which because of its long connection with the united states tends to be pro-u.s. but there are left wing groups who regard the united states as the former colonial ruler this protest was billed as an anti imperialism protest they would come out anyway when a u.s. president comes to town but what has incensed these protesters in particular is what they see as trump's failure to address human rights in his dialogue in these discussions today with his counterpart of the philippines president rugby go deter

they are in particularly angered that he does not seem to be bringing up the issue of this campaign against drugs that deter has launched here which has resulted in thousands of deaths that bilateral meeting is taking place at the moment for his part due to take seems to have dialed back some of his anti u.s. rhetoric so the two because they do seem to be such kindred spirits we would expect that they would have their very convivial talks we will wait and see the outcome of that today though was also meeting with his australian counterpart malcolm turnbull and. of japan for discussions we are told about trade but also very importantly the. issue of north korea's missiles and of course you touch on what would be on the agenda and certainly trade is a huge topic of conversation for the leaders but north korea has dominated the last

twelve months certainly in asia pacific. and also the last twelve days of. passage through the asia pacific region obviously it was dominant today packets dominant here and he will find a receptive audience and see and has come out saying it is alarmed by north korea's program it is protested against it so yes he will have a receptive audience and there is a lot of speculation about what might be happening while all this goes on in north korea itself tomorrow it will be sixty days since the last test of missile test by north korea lots of speculation about whether it might be trying to create a kind of atmosphere where we may even get some dialogue on the issue a lot of speculation about that but it does come as tensions continue and we're seeing that this week with the start of these exercises in the seas between between japan and the korean peninsula with three united states aircraft carriers taking

part this is the largest such deployment by the u.s. navy for the past ten years and it does send out a very strong message from the u.s. about what actions it still might take if that is not resolved trump promises that when he gets back to the united states he will be telling us more on wednesday about the upshot of this trip and also whether there is any more developments on his stance on north korea or from where we'll leave it there rob throughout the day with you in manila thank you. let's move to the middle east now where lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has spoken publicly for the first time since his shock resignation eight days ago he says that he is free in riyadh rejecting suggestions that he's being held against his will hariri also pledged to return to his country very soon as in aqaba reports now from beirut. this is the first time side 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 i know it's not a normal process for a 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 it clearly was a comfortable situation physically look. what he was saying was very. contradictory to many people in lebanon

saying that he's free when i look but if and when how 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 distancing of lebanon from the regional conflicts 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 and allied groups has long resisted demands that withdraw its forces and it is unlikely to heed 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 created has only destabilize the country is the tops in a 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 and comment did little to ease the tensions instead he looked more like a pawn in the regional power struggle between iran and saudi arabia that of. beirut saudi arabia has asked for an urgent meeting with the arab league to discuss allegations of military aggression by iran tehran denies supplying a missile fired from yemen deep into saudi arabia a week ago also says it has nothing to do with an oil pipeline fire in bahrain saudi arabia has described the fire was sabotaged with bahrain's foreign minister blaming iran the arab league meeting for next sunday in cairo. meanwhile who the rebels in yemen are denying the missile they fired at riyadh was supplied by iran it comes as the u.s. joins international calls for an end to the society that blockade that's worsening

a severe food shortage saudi tighten the measures on saturday after the missile was fired the hooty say it was homemade well still ahead here on al-jazeera a crime against humanity that's how the international describes the syrian government's surrender all stars campaign targeting civilians. it's the first sunday service for a church in the sutherland springs texas since a gunman walked in and killed twenty eight of its parishioners. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. however caspian shares appear to finish an abbot all part of the same system moving east will suggest something is going to happen for the east as well so that's what has happened for cars or take the daytime daylight hours this is

monday's bright sunshine of a terran on the caspian but we have in-house the potential for showers in pakistan and afghanistan they will be raining kharaj snow near kabul or at least a higher ground surrounding kabul further west it's all gone quite a southerly breeze which is quite warm for a time in beirut twenty seven degrees that suddenly more or less gets cut off slowly in the clouds sink south into northern saudi and even kuwait now we have seen recently a bit of a breeze developed through the gulf which is not be particularly dusty it has cool things down a bit to you so cue weights maximum the doha forecast max is thirty and it's about thirty one in abu dhabi in that northerly breeze you run for a day or so a dry picture throughout the arabian peninsula which is no big surprise that's where it should be now this time of year the heaviest rains in southern africa have been recently in mozambique in zimbabwe and that's where they're concentrated but you have to look down towards cape terror this is by no means settled weather

that's particularly stormy i think for the next two days. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage the bit where every day but the message is a simplistic you have the fray no good logical rational crazy monster and misinformation is rife dismissal and denial of well documented accusations and evidence is part of the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives at this time on al-jazeera.

or go back you're watching al-jazeera it's a whole robin a reminder of our top stories rescue teams are being deployed to iraq and iran after a seven point three magnitude earthquake struck the border of the two countries the death toll has reached as many as one hundred forty one in iran with a toilet is also reported in iraq and as many as a thousand people are thought to be injured. these are just coming out of but there are. protesters clashed with police outside the caspian summit meeting in the philippines demonstrators accuse him of staking tensions in the region through his aggressive rhetoric and posturing. lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has denied claims that he's detained did saudi arabia in his first public comments since announcing he resigned last week a very said he was free to leave and plan to return to let it all within a matter of days. amnesty international says the syrian government surrender

all stars campaign targeting civilians constitutes crimes against humanity it's calling for an end to what it calls the dark stain on the world's conscience a new report says government forces surrounded and bombed a densely populated opposition controlled areas thousands of people were given an ultimatum to abandon their homes or die amnesty says farms and food supplies were burned hospitals and clinics destroyed and people were deprived of medical care the report condemns not only the syrian government but also some armed opposition groups it says both restricted and blocked humanitarian help amnesty is asking for an independent body to investigate and prosecute those responsible. reports of the turkish to out of gaza to the border with syria and we warn you that some of the images it is report are disturbing. maybe so hard drew her last breath just over

a month after she was born she weighed barely two kilos. malnutrition his killed a dozen other children in the outer suburb of the syrian capital in the last few months doctors say the siege imposed by the syrian government has caused hundreds of children to suffer from moderate to severe malnutrition. this mother pleads to roads be opened and the siege to end she wants aid convoys to bring medicine not just food. similar cries for help are being made in other areas of syria amnesty international says the surrender a star strategy which is for thousands of syrians from their homes is a crime against humanity more than half a million people continue to be besieged following the displacement of hundreds of thousands in the past year the u.n. to help end the siege for two hundred seventy five thousand people in the rebel held areas of aleppo city seventy five thousand were besieged in homs four thousand

people were evacuated from their ire and at least sixty five thousand were under siege in the four towns of monday as a danika for four. amnesty says the tactic of mass displacement by the assad regime using sieges in forced evacuations is not reconciliation. we human rights campaign group urges world leaders to not just take the local cease fire agreements and face value but in the context of systemic violations of international law. syrians in besieged jerry years have been forced to leave their ancestral homes after months of hunger and bombardment for years they have been telling the world how they feel and the fact that. i left aleppo my town our fathers and grandfathers lived there this year militias came to raise their flags with the russian occupiers this is our country the whole world let us down. rights workers say there is ample evidence of restricting access to humanitarian medical aid as well as air

and ground assaults on hospitals and homes which amounts to war crimes despite repeated calls for action aid workers and many syrians are disappointed that all they have seen is inaction and excuses by the international community a treatment this is a future generations will not forget. king mohammed the six has arrived in qatar to discuss the latest developments in the gulf political crisis the badr corps greeted by the shake to me better have adult honey this is king mohammed first visit to qatar since the beginning of the gulf crisis saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt have cut diplomatic ties with qatar the king came to doha straight from a trip to the u.a.e. . has the latest now from the qatari capital. the goal of this beauty will top the agenda of the meeting between the king of morocco and qatar since the start of the crisis morocco said he won't take any sides asking all the parties to set

aside their differences in the spirit of the ordination rest back and noninterference it internal affairs now the king of morocco is in the u.a.e. he met with senior officials in the united arab emirates and i think moroccans understand that this is a very delicate mission the americans 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 where 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 consider 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 on behalf of morocco that could bring all the parties to turn the chapter of this

crisis well to europe now where spain's prime minister mariano rajoy is in catalonia for the first time since the central government imposed direct rule over the region he traveled to barcelona to campaign ahead of december's regional elections and praised efforts to hold a spanish law in what he called difficult times to hold reports 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 marianna run home he was paying a quiet visit to supporters of his own party. to those who want catalonia to break away from spain he's something of a hate figure the man who deposed their government enforcing direct rule by madrid and 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. this was a friendly crowd of cattle and 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 for me anyway it has to be bilateral and it will be there 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 at the start of. protesting over the holding of political prisoners in our 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. hundreds of people marched through the heart of hollywood to support victims of sexual harassment and assault. it was b. two bombers followed a series of accusations by men and women against powerful figures in the entertainment industry the campaign with viral after allegations were made against producer harvey weinstein. i've been affected by this personally i'm also

a forensic medical examiner. sexual assault. you know it's very very personal. you know i was. writing a scene setter for my daughter we have to call our friends. and that's that's really hard to do i mean it's. but if we don't this isn't going to change. while staying in the us hundreds of people have held sunday service in the texas town of sutherland springs is the first since a gunman opened fire on parishioners killing twenty six people a week ago a few dozen members of the congregation were joined by dozens of people from near and far as they flocked to join them in a white tent donated by a local businessman the church where the basket happened has not been turned into a memorial twenty six white chairs with red roses were placed in the sanctuary to represent the lines last. we 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 turn out 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 you know well if you had the shooting was once again prompted coals for stricter gun laws in the u.s. but as dianne asked about reports gun owners and dealers don't share the same feelings. towards the oklahoma life flags at 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. pay 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 you 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 las 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 us defined as those which involve four or more deaths or injuries in a single incident but despite that passing tougher gun laws could be taught your shot 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 a nest of broke out zero toso oklahoma. a battle of the 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 almost suspended operations last month saying the government is causing delays and costing it millions but as johnson 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 the 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 are 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 that amounts to a 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 says 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 jump start up a loss in the cassandra mines of northern greece. you're

watching i'm just i'm still robin these raw top stories rescue teams have been deployed to iraq and iran after a seven point three magnitude earthquake struck the border of the two countries the death toll has reached as many as one hundred forty one in iran with a talent he's also reported in iraq as many as one thousand people are thought to be injured and the reports suggest eight villages have been badly damaged and electricity cut off iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world. the trouble testers have clashed with police outside the assy and summit meeting in the philippines. and the demonstrations outside the u.s. embassy in the lower head of trump's arrival of sunday demonstrators accuse him of stoking tensions of the region through his aggressive rhetoric and posturing. lebanon's prime minister saad hariri is denying claims that he's detained in saudi arabia in his first public comments since announcing he had resigned last week

hariri said that he was free to leave and planned to return to lebanon or in a better of days and a hundred women like her here in the kingdom of saudi arabia i am free i have complete freedom but i want to look after my family as well i don't want to see my children have the same fate like what happened or i'm not talking about months i'm not talking about weeks i'm only talking about days and i'll go back to lebanon amnesty international was the syrian government surrender or starve campaign targeting civilians it's a crime against humanity the group says government forces surrounded and bombed densely populated areas saudi arabia has asked for an urgent meeting with the arab league to discuss allegations of military aggression by iran there are denies claims it supplied a missile that was fired from yemen into saudi a week ago it also says it has nothing to do with the pipeline fire in bahrain that temporarily halted all surprise on friday saudi arabia has described the fire sabotage bahrain's foreign minister has blamed iran meanwhile the rebels if you

haven't are denying reports the missile fired at riyadh were supplied by iran the views curves as the u.s. joins international calls for an end to the saudi led blockade that was that is i'll be back in thirty minutes to stay with us here on al-jazeera. facing reality your president said that there would be a complete audit a hundred percent audit that audit hasn't happened getting to the heart of the matter so are you saying that the future of the. here the story. at this time. i talk about to get that. truck. thank you thank. you thank you will. care for.