and denial of well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera the nature as it breaks because you can see there in the distant shia militia vehicles the dust you can see on the horizon there the peshmerga telling us are actually tanks with detailed coverage when the mine closed in one thousand nine hundred for many people. from around the world this is supposed to last for a month but people tell us that it only lasts a day if you look around this is the only force in this household. uncertainty in zimbabwe mediators from south africa arrive in harare the day after

the military seized power from president bush. hello i'm adrian from again this is our zero live from doha also coming up cambodia's opposition about to find out whether it will be disbanded after being accused of trying to mount a coup. as lebanon awaits the return of its prime minister president back on to france invites to paris and scientists believe they have found a planet much like earth in the solar system eleven light here's a way. a south african delegation has arrived in zimbabwe to mediate a way out of the political crisis the army seized power in zimbabwe on wednesday and placed robert mugabe under house arrest he's ninety three years old and is the world's. longest serving head of state the military was angered by the second year

forgot his vice president last week but it denies that it's launched a coup instead it's calling it a bloodless correction it says it's focusing on what they call criminals in the president's circle side of the pressure on president mugabe a staunch supporter of his wife grace has made a public apology to the military president mugabe had been pushing his wife's for his wife to succeed him. reports from zimbabwe's capital. harare on thursday. and quiet the government has told civil servants to go back to work shop owners have been told to open the businesses and schools are functioning normally there's a delegation from south africa in the country they're talking to members of the army to officials and to the mugabe family this speaking nation that they're trying to arrange an exit package for prison mcgarvie and make sure that he and his get family will be safe if he decides to step down is also speculation that this talk

of sitting up a transitional government's to be led by former vice-president innocent and other leaders from other political parties sources who are close to people in those talks are telling us the talks have been long and they haven't been easy let's get the view now from johannesburg zero zero zero is turning a page reports. an emergency meeting of the regional body said it is taking place in botswana this afternoon because it's the home of sadek secretariat present at that meeting will be the foreign ministers of south africa and goler tends an area and zambia and they are going to receive a report from the south african delegation that's been in zimbabwe to get fully up to speed on exactly what the situation is there now in terms of results it's political crisis at the end of that we are expecting some sort of statement in the past twenty four hours we've heard from the african union they have said they wouldn't want to see. unconstitutional change of government and they want to see

a process which promotes democracy human rights and the social economic development of zimbabwe the issue of course is that any unconstitutional change of government would mean that under both said act and the a use zimbabwe it would have to be expelled from both bodies to other news in cambodia riot police have blocked the streets around the supreme court in the capital phnom penh the government has filed a lawsuit against the main opposition party accusing it of plotting a coup the cambodia national rescue party or c.n.n. r.p. says that it expects to be banned drop the bride reports from rome. with three million supporters across cambodia the main opposition c.n.n. r.p. party had been gaining strength and was threatening to unseat the ruling party in elections which have to take place by next year their dissolution now brings the question will those same supporters take to the streets protests here are fraught

with danger if you go out and protest in support of a band politicians who've been accused of trying to overthrow the government you yourselves could be guilty of. it seems according to critics of long time prime minister hun sen he has used this opportunity to crack down on his main opposition so that when he does go to the ballot next year he will be faced with much smaller this organized opposition parties that he can defeat and continue to stay in office at least eighteen people four of them female suicide bombers have been killed in a series of blasts in northeastern nigeria twenty nine others were injured in the attacks in which is on the outskirts of my degree city the group boko haram has been active in the area twenty thousand people have been killed by the group since two thousand and nine when it began its campaign against the nigerian government

desirous of address reports stuff from lagos. and what looked like a coordinated attack on. the side bombers walked into town one of them. run into a house deteriorated our device killing a woman instantly child was killed in similar circumstance when a female suicide bomber hugged the child and did it i devise but the most victims were killed. even in prayer as muslim girls are to say their late evening prayer. bomber walked into the crowd and. initial reports said at least nine people died instantly then the fourth female suicide bomber panicked and detonated her device in the process killing ourselves and. one or two other bystanders string tonight people are currently in hospital receiving treatment funeral services i've been holding since morning in my degree as people try to bury the dead now the military has stepped up its operations against what i'm in the north east of the country and also responding in its own way the military has claimed several victories in the

past few weeks or so. attacking positions from the air. and what i'm also in one video released recently. recorded some such as this i guess the military killing some soldiers and also taking some weaponry so the fight in the north east is not yet over it's continuing effort as the military said and they're walking as the military spokesman said they are working very hard to ensure the book what i mean is finally decimated and defeated france's foreign minister is due to age with lebanon's prime minister saad hariri during a visit to saudi arabia the president of france and. has invited her lady to paris on wednesday lebanon's president michel aoun said that nothing justified the apparent detention of howdy by saudi arabia today the announced his resignation in riyadh nearly two weeks ago. this is an act of aggression against lebanon

this is a violation of the vienna convention in the bill of rights this isn't a resignation this is an aggression on our independence sovereignty and dignity the new york times is reporting that u.s. officials are increasingly concerned by the actions of the saudi crown prince saying that they could damage u.s. interests in reports from washington. a less than flattering article about the recent moves made by saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon in the new york times the headline reads at thirty two he's begun a war and jailed his rivals what's next paints a picture of a prince making rash moves and possibly destabilizing the region putting american interests at risk now oftentimes the way this works in washington because we've seen president come out with his tweets and his statements giving his full support to the moves that n.b.s. has made as he's known here in the united states oftentimes though if the rest of the government wants to send a message they do it by speaking off the record or using anonymous sources to the

new york times and the message in this article from officials at the state department defense department but also the intelligence communities is they're growing increasingly concerned about these moves that are being made and there is growing fear in washington that it will destabilize not just saudi arabia but the entire region yemen says that the saudi led coalition is still not allowing ships to deliver much needed aid on monday saudi arabia said that it would reopen some yemeni ports and airports to tighten the blockade after the rebels fired a missile at riyadh nearly two weeks ago the special good name reports. you can hear the wind blowing and the chirping of birds at this port and who died but what you don't hear much of is this. sign that shipments of critical supplies such as food and medicine are arriving in yemen saudi arabia sealed off all ports of entry almost two weeks ago i was right our margins are not going to. deport last

more than seventy percent of his operations poverty and starvation are now the headlines. led coalition has falsely claimed they have opened the port to aid vessels. saudi arabia says the blockade is intended to cut off smugglers arming. the rebels they've given assurances that they'll allow humanitarian aid to continue to flow yemenis say it's obvious shipments aren't arriving. about twelve to thirteen thousand truckers are now out of work we know that the closure is meant by the coalition to bring the yemeni people to their means but yemeni people will never knew but to go out the u.n. is calling for a lifting of the blockade and warns yemen could suffer the worst fan mean in decades that would add to already widespread suffering two and a half years of war has only exacerbated poverty in what was already the poorest

country in the middle east you know on a map and they are now we are facing real exhausting life conditions not of the government authorities or relief organizations are reaching out to us diseases are spending and the children are getting sick we cannot afford to eat how can we afford to treat them or buy medicine is a crisis aid agencies say they're desperate to address but can't natasha going to al-jazeera. a human rights watch investigation claims to have uncovered disturbing cases of men must security forces raping range of women and girls it's new report accuses troops of using rape as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign in rakhine state activists interviewed fifty two range of women and girls twenty nine of them were rape survivors three of them under the age of eighteen many women say they were gang raped and walked for days with serious injuries to seek refuge in

bangladesh they described witnessing soldiers murder their children parents and husbands phil robertson is deputy director of the asia division of human rights watch he says the research to prove disprove them in the military report which cleared troops of wrongdoing. it directly contradicts the total denial that the burma army gave itself in their own internal report just released two days ago it shows that. rape and other sexual abuse will use systematically as part of the ethnic cleansing campaign initiated by the military and the. that things that we found were absolutely brutal i mean we're talking about at least eight cases a multiple rape with more than five men involved we're talking about women who have had their children killed and then they're raped you know the process of these just go on and on and on well we sent our own researcher in to do the documentation certainly we talked with different humanitarian groups working with the refugees in

bangladesh but the research is all ours and what we found was also a lack of services being taken up by rohingya women and girls who have been raped in part because of the stigma involved in being a victim of that crime a weather update next here on al-jazeera that venezuela science a multibillion dollar debt restructuring deal with russia as a graph with only going shortages of food and other staple goods plus driving towards a clean a future of the world's biggest polluter spends big on electric cars. from. two an enchanted desert breeze. they still the weather continues around central parts of the mediterranean elsewhere as you can see it's a slushy dry and pretty normal weather really

a little bit of mr fog into southern parts of germany plowed right spinning in the cross united kingdom low countries northern areas of up to a scattered everybody really is down towards the mediterranean where we are we remain very concerned this area pressure has been stuck here for quite some time central italy hundred fifty nine millimeters of rain in twenty four hours macedonia hundred eleven millimeters of rain in the same space of time in the south of course this is where we say those problems very close to athens and these pictures speak for themselves ready playschool mantra has been struggling here very dramatic footage of the deadly floods have moved in across the air. i'm afraid we still have further spells of rain in our forecast heavy downpours to just around italy balkans down to grace from thursday into friday and you can see i'm afraid it does stay pretty wet in and around the area further north as you say very little change temps getting up to around nine or ten celsius for london and paris nineteen degrees for

madrid not too bad here for the stormy weather that we have crossed central parts of the mediterranean well that will also bring a few showers into tunisia and libya. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. and when they're on line we were in hurricane. almost like thirty six hours these are the things that new u.k. has to address or if you join us on saturday i'm a member of a complex one but we struck up a relationship this is a dialogue tweet us with hash tag a stream and one of your pitches might make the next shot join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

hello again the substories this just south african delegations arrived in zimbabwe to attempt to mediate a way out of the current political crisis speaking to members of the president mugabe's family and his zanu p.f. party the military seized power wednesday and placed under house arrest in cambodia riot police have blocked the streets around the supreme court in the capital phnom penh the government has filed a lawsuit against the main opposition party accusing it of plotting a coup at least eighteen. people four of them female suicide bombers have been killed in a series of blasts in northeastern nigeria twenty nine others were injured in the attacks in the which is on the outskirts by degrees says he. iran's president has on rouhani is promising to find the builders who constructed poorly designed buildings that collapsed in sunday's earthquake at least five hundred thirty people

died when the magnitude seven point three quake struck in the mountainous iran iraq border region survivors and building temporary shelters with whatever they can find while they wait for emergency supplies meanwhile engineers in northern iraq are carrying out repairs to a dam that was damaged by the earthquake. a report from the khan on the border with iran. is vital for northern iraq it provides water and electricity to around two million people but supplies are threatened after some base quake on the border between iraq and iran cracks have appeared and engineers are trying to repair the damage to reduce the risk of flooding for now at least no leaks have been spotted.

he said that we don't have time to pull data about the total damage we can see deep cracks inspection teams are trying to identify the damage under the water they're going to write a report we're also gradually draining water to decrease the pressure. is one of the many iraqis who rely on the dam he's a policeman and lives right next to the giant structure on the diyala river. the father of four is worried about his family's safety. when it short i was at work with my colleagues we left our place barefoot and in panic tumbling on to us from the hills when i arrived home my younger son was so scared there were lots of cracks in the walls he spent the night out altogether now his wife and children have been packed off to his in-laws just in case while engineers assess the damage . people living nearby the them are anxious about the results of the risk

assessment reports if they are required to leave because of the danger they want to know what kind of government assistance they will get whether they will be given a new home or lend some able to continue their lives the policeman has to keep working with them to provide for his family until the engineers find a solution he says he'll be sleeping out in the open along with his neighbors. al-jazeera they're going to come in northern iraq. we were telling you earlier about the french president. inviting lebanon's prime minister saad hariri to france the french foreign minister has just announced that lebanon's prime minister has accepted that invitation and will at some point in the future visit paris we don't know when we'll bring you more on that as and when we get it but france's foreign minister saying that lebanon's prime minister has accepted president backroads

invitation to visit paris now a ceremony in new york is honoring journalists around the world who faced intimidation harassment and imprisonment in the past year thirty four journalists were killed working in the field more than two hundred fifty would jailed on the reports. any labrat evening gala but for a cause to fight for press freedom the committee to protect journalists one of the top organizations that defends the rights of journalists to work without fear of reprisal honoring several reporters for their courage. one is our friend nasser a yemeni reporter and blogger who now lives in exile in sweden after receiving death threats in her native country for her critical reporting of the government yemen remains one of the most difficult places in the world for journalists to report from and nasser says it's about more to herself you know a word to me it's not only for me it goes to all yemeni joining this was behind

bars and if used to be part of the book and the system it's also to pay tribute to all men to know this was despite all the obstacles out of trying to put yemen in the media agenda nasser was one of several people honored with a press freedom award but there were others as well. there are also journalists being recognized from cameroon thailand and mexico a reminder that threats against journalists exists in all corners of the world now more than ever according to the latest data thirty four journalists have been killed while doing their job so far this year and last year two hundred fifty nine journalists were imprisoned and today fifty five journalists remain missing. al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein was detained in egypt when he arrived in cairo

on a personal visit to see family he's been held for over three hundred thirty days for what the government has called spreading false news how does it i categorically denies the charges against him and demands his immediate release egypt is one of the saddest stories in the world right now because before the uprising in two thousand and eleven there were no journalists in jail at maybe there was one you know from here to there were no journalists murder now it is the third leading killer of journalists on an evening when people who care deeply about press freedom spoke out to say the time has come to recognize journalism is not a crime gabriel is on. new york. russia has extended a lifeline to venezuela to help it get out of debt under a restructuring deal that will pay moscow some three billion dollars over the next ten years it's the result of talks with creditors from nine nations in the capital

caracas on monday two of the world's major credit agencies downgraded venice venezuela's rating outright failed to make repayments the deposed president of catalonia as parliament is planning to run in next month's spanish regional elections colace pushed him out is choosing pro independence candidates to join him he plans to manage his campaign from belgium where he and four of his cabinet ministers facing extradition to spain on charges of sedition and rebellion months regional government held a vote last month on splitting from spain. greece has declared a day of mourning for at least fifteen people were killed in flash floods on the western outskirts of athens more bad weather is expected in the coming days johnson reports now from flood hits my god. bulldozers are trying to push this river back into its bed to wrench will rain swelled it so much that it burst its banks and sliced through a network of roads. this flood came before dawn catching people in bed some drowned

in their apartments others were found in their front yards two bodies washed out to sea the body of one woman was found in the street even this dog couldn't outrun the water the mayor has opened up the town hall for people who have nowhere to sleep because their houses are ruined. it is a catastrophe a biblical proportion of the entire town was flooded before daylight the water came with the force carrying materials with it and blocking drains cars were swept away and people were trapped in their houses some climbed on to their roofs nothing like this has happened before the damage is still being assessed but dozens of homes and businesses have been destroyed. until wednesday this was a doctor's waiting room there's nothing left of this flower shop stock and equipment destroyed the owner has lived next door for over fifty years and was lucky to escape alive. i always leave this window open

a crack and i heard the moan of the torrent and came out and i shouted to my grandchildren to get out of bed but the time we were out of the house the water was already flooding in it took seconds the manholes in the street broke open and the water was jumping two meters up into the air the water came into the others house a metre high destroying everything she owns even her clothes are unusable she saved just her dressing gown this is partly a manmade disaster people who grew up here remember the driver that used to run through this intersection thirty six years ago it was built over but the piping used wasn't wide enough to carry the torrential rain down to the sea and the area flooded even when it was rebuilt eighteen years ago the same thing happened but other factors may also play a role in the mountains above were recently devastated by fire the loss of vegetation means heavy rain more easily eroded the soil the cleanup here will take

days or weeks but repairing the damage to people's lives will take months or years john psaropoulos how does a measure the. world leaders have joined talks in germany on how to slow down climate change china is one of the world's largest emitters the biggest emitters of carbon dioxide but it's beginning to change its habits and once it's nearly two hundred million car owners to move to electrically powered vehicles with huge incentives for producers and buyers stop asking reports from beijing. this is how china sees its near future blue skies and the soothing sound of electric vehicles roaming the city streets present day often looks like this research shows that one third of air pollution in china comes from petrol and diesel cars. that's why the government recently decided that traditionally fuel cars are a thing of the past and like france and britain wants to ban them in the next few decades when gen don bought his electric car two years ago he didn't have to go

through the license plate lottery a government measure to limit traffic he also got his car much cheaper because of a government subsidy of up to fifteen thousand dollars and unlike petrol and diesel fuel cars he can drive an any part of the city anytime he wants as long as car has enough power. ones or was about to go to a charging station but mine they will let me into the wrong place there was no charging station and not a single person around i was forced to call a rescue team in china more than half a million people bought an electric car last year that's half of all electric cars sold worldwide forcing the government to quickly build more charging stations it's been hard to keep up with the demand and car batteries often don't last much more than two hundred kilometers this by government incentives electric cars are still not that popular here in china many consider them impractical and ugly but

producers are trying very hard to make electric cars more fashionable. car makers are increasingly pressured to produce electric cars and recently announced attractive credit system allows companies to make money selling carbon credit quota to traditional car makers but some experts believe the government's plan is unrealistic and they question the benefits of electric cars if we want to. replace all the traditional cars in the nest through take it that this is a lion this is a fundamentalist scientific lie to the world greenpeace says china's rapid switch to electric cars as a positive step to combat climate change but the environmental groups that it's by far not enough because seventy percent of the country's power plants are using coal a major emitter of greenhouse gas if we really want to clean future and we really want to count that and climate change only pushing for the actual vehicle is not

enough we need to at the same time push for a face out of coffee of hope that. saving the planet or not for consumers like jan dong driving an electric car it's more about saving money and it's about reducing emissions and complain the government still needs to work on as well step fast and al-jazeera beijing. astronomers say they've discovered an earth like planet eleven light hears away from our own dr ross one two eight a pit stop but it's warm rocky environment may support life and again like a reports. earth like planets have been discovered before but ross one twenty eight b. may be the most significant yet it's about the same size and temperature is earth and revolves around a so-called quiet star so doesn't get blasted with harmful radiation it took scientists more than a decade to discover ross one twenty eight b. using a planet seeking program and an observatory based in chile but the still much we

don't know the planet can't be observed directly so it's hard to say whether an atmosphere or water exist anything is the time of the low thirty's but it gives scientists important clues about potential life outside our solar system when new so-called super telescopes come online in the next few years scientists may well look for red dwarf stars like the one that ross one twenty eight b. rotates around other notable discoveries like the earth size trappist planets and proxima b. were made around similar stars and in the case of proxima b. or even closer to our solar system to date nasa's exoplanet archive includes more than three thousand alien worlds most are on inhabitable but there are a few dozen earth twin's that from a distance look like our own but ross one twenty eight b. has been described as special and may go further than any other discovery in answering the question about whether we're alone in the universe and gallacher al-jazeera.

could tell you whether saved. in fitting in here in doha the top stories on al jazeera lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has accepted an offer by france's president of money to visit paris it comes as the french foreign minister is due to meet heavy on a visit to saudi arabia later today on wednesday lebanon's president bashar i wouldn't said that nothing justified the apparent detention of hariri by saudi arabia who really announced his resignation from riyadh nearly two weeks ago. a south african delegation has arrived in zimbabwe to attempt to mediate a way out of the political crisis there speaking to members of the army president mugabe's family and his p.f. party the army seized power wednesday and placed mugabe under house arrest it was angered by the sacking of his vice president last week reports from harare. that he trying to arrange an exit package for prison and made sure that he and his

family if he decides to step down is also speculation that's. sitting up a transitional government by former vice president. and other leaders from other political parties in cambodia riot police have blocked the streets around the supreme court in the capital phnom penh the government's filed a lawsuit against the main opposition party accusing it of plotting a coup at least eighteen people four of them female suicide bombers have been killed in a series of blasts in northeastern nigeria twenty nine others were injured in the attacks which is on the outskirts of my degree says he deposed that oppose catalan leader is planning to run in next month spanish regional elections scholars push demand is choosing pro independence candidates to run alongside him he plans to manage his campaign from belgium where he and four of his cabinet members facing

extradition to spain on charges of sedition and rebellion a day of mourning has been declared in greece at least fifteen people were killed in flash floods on the western outskirts of athens the heavy overnight storm roads into rivers sweeping away cars and buildings. headlights will have more use for you here on al-jazeera after days edition of the stream next. you. know very different way. for me ok you're in the stream live with al jazeera and due to you today india's capital new delhi is one of the lead most polluted cities in the world in fact the small base so bad that doctors say breathing it is the equivalent of smoking up to fifty cigarettes a day.