a missed opportunity ron. captaining a leading used team at sixteen years old takes determination. to the staying on top of your game at school. the whole family together and shares the sacrifices necessary for a son to have a shot at becoming a professional footballer. home at this time. thousands march on the streets of zimbabwe's capital calling for president mugabe's

resignation ahead of talks on his future on sunday. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up palestinians say they will break off contact with the trumpet ministration if that office in washington is closed. lebanon's prime minister saad hariri meets the french president in paris and says he'll return to lebanon on wednesday. fearing for the future survivors of august deadly landslide in sierra leone and left homeless once again. also for artists one hot being moved piece by piece here in new york to find out why. our top story tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of zimbabwe's capital demanding president robert mugabe resign the ninety three year. has been

under house arrest at his official residence in harare after the military took control on wednesday the ruling zanu p.f. party says it will hold a meeting on sunday to discuss mugabe's fate tasa reports. ecstatic zimbabweans say they can feel change is coming soldiers posed for selfies with jubilant crowds hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of harare men women and children marched alongside armored cars and soldiers they say they want president robert mugabe who has ruled for nearly forty years to resign good money for the medicines but the. president kweisi what was caused sixty thousand dollars we are saying you should stop. this country like they've done enough i think it is. freedom to ask all of us we've been waiting for this time for so long we have been oppressed for a very little time so. basically. it

was a united front opposition supporters people loyal to mugabe is on a party and veterans of the liberation war against white rule marched together the main opposition leader morgan tsvangirai says the country is preparing for a post mugabe era the army seize control earlier in the week and confined the country's leader his private residence in harare. him. speaking from south africa on saturday his nephew patrick was reported to have said the president and his wife grace are ready to die for what is correct and they have no intention of stepping down but people at the march insisted the ninety three year old has to go explore. the country.

branches in all ten provinces have said mugabe should resign they also want grace mcgarvie who heads the party's women's league to go through things on a pair party will meet on sunday to discuss the fate of president robert mugabe and his wife and reinstate the vice president he dismissed him a similar. zimbabweans have only known one leader after decades of being afraid to speak out against mcgarvey things have changed the people marching insist it's not a matter of if but when they will go how the mythos al-jazeera. now earlier i spoke to from guy who knew a zimbabwean activist and coordinator of the group there's a vigil he told me why people are feeling like they can now speak out against mugabe. i think what the people become of discovered is that the army has opened the way for them to go out there and express you know especially the effect that they don't like robert mugabe and his wife chris so they the army is kind of opened

the door for them and these are the two main obstacles for people at home so the fact that the army is given the them that opportunity to say you can come out and express how you feel about everyone is just is you see the numbers of people in the streets in our it is shocking the people of zimbabwe expecting that the military do the right thing that is probably maybe install a transitional government the government there to be all inclusive of the opposition parties and the government that to not sideline the opposition is done before by design appear of the people want the kind of transitional government that is all inclusive including taking on board what the opposition are saying so that they move the country forward but the main main main point is so that the transitional government will provide you know free and fair credible elections that are internationally want monitored so because as you know rigged elections for the past ten years.

palestinians say they will break off contact with the trying to ministration of their office in washington d.c. is closed the state department is refusing to renew operating condition for palestine's diplomatic site and official has cited statements that palestinian leaders have made about the international criminal court is the reason. responded to them and an official letter that in case you want to officially close the office i want to be in on washington d.c. but don't hold on to our communications with this to make a mistake this is very unfortunate and september and this is the pressure being exerted on this administration from the if you know government the time when we're trying to put it to achieve the ultimate did you think such steps which would undermine the peace process in estabrook has more from washington well hopefully the p.l.o. will get some sort of clarity on the reasoning behind the state department's decision to close this mission on monday the p.l.o.

is expected to have a meeting with the state department's legal team to go over this this was a decision that came down just within the last forty eight hours now the state department says it is acting to a law that was passed by congress that says that it can close the mission office if the p.l.o. is pressuring the international criminal court to pursue legal action against israel for alleged crimes against palestinians now the trump administration has ninety days to take a look at this closure and potentially keep this office open if it deems that the palestinians are having meaningful and direct talks with israel so this is not necessarily a done deal and perhaps this meeting on monday will provide some sort of clarity regarding what those talks might entail this is the first time in three decades by the way that the u.s. has not renewed the p.l.o.

mission office here in washington d.c. now lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has confirmed to would tend to beirut by wednesday and says he will hold talks with the president michel aoun howry made the statement in paris wayne at the french president emanuel micron reports. in the latest twist in this political crisis saad hariri arrived at paris's look airport at dawn and headed to his apartment in the french capital it was the first time the lebanese prime minister had been seen in public since his sudden resignation in riyadh two weeks ago later he met the french president emanuel markoff at the elisei palace and said he would return to beirut. with regards to the political situation i will be in beirut in the next few days to take part in the celebration of our independence and our express opinions on all subjects once i've made president. hariri was joined by his wife and eldest son but

his other two children were left behind in riyadh fueling speculation about why that was at least a source is said only that it had been the hariri family's personal choice. macro invited to really he said not to offer exile but as an act of friendship the fact that some of hariri was here at the elise is being seen by those in france is something of a diplomatic success for him and call it is the french president's mediation attempts over the past two weeks that have seen hariri finally leave riyadh. brevity this is certainly a diplomatic success for a manual macro at the start of the lebanese crisis no one was very convinced that he'd be able to get results but he succeeded in getting hariri out of saudi arabia and hopefully back to lebanon soon for that it's a personal achievement for macro he's managed to re-insert france into the middle east and diplomatic arena. many people in lebanon say they're fed up with what they

regard as foreign meddling in their affairs if hariri does make it back to beirut on wednesday he'll be there is the country celebrates his independence with a public holiday that would be a symbolic moment it would be lost on no one natasha al-jazeera paris. now news from syria where four hundred thousand people living in the damascus suburb of been besieged by government forces for the past four years the area sided with opposition fighters so that meant food aid medical supplies haven't been going and doctors there say many of the residents could die if they are not immediately evacuated out of injury reports. in turkey's border with syria. twelve year old drafts a first from cerebral palsy a condition which inhibits her brain's growth the room is dark because there isn't much electricity in eastern glitter this is what she looked like before the siege and before she ran out of medicine her mother used to give her honey milk and other

nutritious food but not anymore. and the and a month raf used to be well and was going to school until there was a lack of food and medicine my husband can't work and because of the high prices we can't afford much. that's been the case for the last four years after syrian government forces besieged the area which is home to four hundred thousand people this is the most popular dish these days boiled corn or for large families a con broth for the luxury of salt for those who can afford it. the assad government has allowed in some aid but the u.n. says that is only enough for around ten percent of the besieged people this year the syrian regime approved around a quarter of united nations requests to deliver assistance the u.n. says the plight of civilians is an outrage and that it might constitute a war crime. the lack of food and medicine have forced more people towards hospitals in july doctors identified four hundred fifty two patients who still need

to be evacuated as the united nations await approval from the assad government nine of them have died faced with delays twenty nine among them were identified these are people who have one hundred percent chance of survival if they're not given care so when they will die the situation is so desperate that after operations doctors need to reuse the single use items on this table. what's regarded as medical waste everywhere else is sterilized and used again in the city duma to the so these cues might be useful in saving and in the life the later gloves which hospitals throw away are limited here so they are washed before they can be reused . then they need to be laid out to dry because they don't know if and when more supplies will come in the use powder to make sure the gloves don't stick together. the staff say they're also saving other single use medical supplies. we clean them

because the supplies aren't available here and the not coming in with u.n. aid we also stop some surgeries because of a lack of anesthetics the parents say there's no food or medicine for their starving and sick children. so they leave their infants to suck on their thumbs hoping that at least for a while they'll think it's who. don't have the era. to come will have all the latest on the hunt for missing the rain with forty four crewmembers on board. heading to the polls on sunday. did we take stock of the impact that student leaders have had on the country's politics.

hello there we've had some very wet weather across australia recently all out of this weather system here not only has it given a sim very heavy rain but also a lot of thunder and lightning too and these pictures from melbourne you can see the clouds there in the heavy rain a little flash of lightning the one here is far more impressive and the rainfall has been pretty staggering as well i really did flow into this underground area fortunately though things are clearing up and it looks like it should be an awful lot drier for the southeast corner as we head through the next few days so twenty eight degrees will be the maximum there in melbourne and it should stay dry to towards the west when it's cooler now for us in perth twenty one will be our maximum and no massive change as we head through into monday either for new zealand we've had some very active weather in the north island here you can see the cloud that still with us and that's only slowly going to move away as we head through the next day your say so for sunday then still expect some fairly heavy downpours

particularly in the eastern parts of the north island further south fine and dry eventually though as we head through into monday that system will begin to pull away and then most of us will enjoy a draw a day up towards japan we've also had some wet weather here but not rain we've had a fair amount of snow for some of us that we plenty rule on sunday and monday to. films of hope. and inspiration. a series of short stories that highlight the human triumph against the. al-jazeera selects at this time.

welcome back a quick look at the top stories this hour tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of zimbabwe's capital demanding the president robert mugabe stand down palestinians say they will break off contact with the trumpet ministration office in washington is closed and lebanon's prime minister saad hariri says he will return to beirut on wednesday more than two weeks after announcing his resignation was on a trip to saudi arabia. now and other stories we're following three months on from sierra leone's deadly mudslide survivors of being forced out of temporary camps and left with nowhere to go the government wants to move the homeless to a thousand new homes but construction is far from complete you know debra's has

more from six mile near the capital freetown. this is where hundreds of survivors have been living since their homes were destroyed from the mudslide they killed at least five hundred people sally foreigner's husband was one of them he drowned after saving her their children and his mother she worries about how she will manage once the camp's close. i'm going to go i don't snore i know my arts is school it's my own is going on and i have kids to look after is going to help me stay. relatives are trying to help her locate a house but she also worries she would not be able to afford it sierra leone's government is giving the displays cash compensation almost seven hundred us dollars for each family but there's concern over whether they will actually get everything promised well not. right now we're just sitting here and no money i have nothing

yet authorities say the camps are officially closed now the process of moving people out though will take time they say they will not tell anyone to leave until they have their compensation. because that's what everybody. across the board. i would think. would give them what just. construction of homes for the mudslide victims is underway on the outskirts of the capital freetown but there's been some obstacles this time we started the project. because. this site. this is a plan now is to have everything ready by the end of this month if you joe homes are being built here some are two bedrooms and some are three bedrooms each have a living room as well as a kitchen and toilet a church a mosque are also being built and an orphanage block an orphanage was one of the buildings destroyed in the mudslides three months ago hundreds of children also lost parents of the disaster the government says it will build an additional one

thousand homes for those affected meanwhile activists are questioning why the mud. even happened they are calling for a public inquiry we need to know not just the jew logic jew logic and scientific explanations we need to know who are responsible for the puting these logs we need to know what the people. who look at these learned or scientists be. back in the camp sally says she's still nervous about what the future holds a sentiment that by many here needed to freeze freetown sierra leone thousands of people have marched in the funeral procession for a rebel commander in indian administered kashmir movies ahmed mir was killed during a shootout with police at a checkpoint a police officer was also killed mourners chanted and he india and pro freedom slogans as they carried me as adi he was on a most wanted list by the indian police security has been tightened a curfew put in place and schools in some parts of sure nigga were kept close to

prevent any outbreaks of violence but he's have fired tear gas against hundreds of demonstrators in central paris who are protesting against human trafficking this follows the release of images on a new u.s. news on a u.s. news network which appeared to show young men being sold in a slave market in libya the country has become a gateway for thousands of migrants from west africa who want to make the dangerous sea crossing to europe the images of also sparked outrage across the african continent senegal's government called them a blight on the conscience of humanity a veteran leader of the irish nationalists partition fein says he's going to step down gerry adams has been a prominent figure in the campaign against british rule in northern ireland for almost five decades although seen by u.k. governments as a terrorist in the seventy's and eighty's adams became a key figure in the peace process persuading the ira to give up its weapons he told in phase party conference it was the last time he'll be appearing as leader.

however the measurement is never been stronger this is our time we will grow even stronger and the future what it later shipped means knowing when it's time for change and the time is now i will not be standing for the dog and the next election not on my friend and comrade martin ferguson i want to start martin marie on dark long for years of service to the republic this is also my last r.d.s. thousands of people are trying to cross the border from gaza into egypt after the rough border crossing was opened temporarily the crossing has been sealed since august but is due to open palm minutely under a reconciliation deal brokered by egypt malcolm webb has more from ramallah. hundreds of people in gaza boarded buses and made their way to the rafa crossing its last brief reopening about three months ago and aside from similar brief

openings being closed most of the time for the last ten years because of the blockade of gaza by israel in egypt right now about twenty five thousand people in gaza registered waiting to cross to egypt and beyond that only a fraction of that number will get through in this temporary opening which is meant to last three days so privacy is being given to people with the most urgent reasons to travel such as those seeking medical treatment. they stand i've actually we've registered to travel here in four months ago it was a lot of suffering it's good so far today there facilitating it. i've had a booking to go to turkey for more than three months and now think i'll be able to go. to borders meant to be open permanently soon as part of the reconciliation agreement between palestine's two main political parties and hamas is being brokered by egypt and the permanent opening do last week has been delayed it seems

not everything's yet in place and your thoughts is on your side all the palestinian authority on the gaza side of the border or for hamas who still control the interior of gaza according to a two thousand and five agreement monitors from the european union are meant to be at the border they left in two thousand and seven and they're not yet back in place palestinian authority officials say over the three days they're hoping to get two thousand five hundred people across that means the many more thousands who are registered will still be stuck in gaza waiting and hoping for that permanent reopening to come soon. chileans had to the polls on sunday to choose a new president and chamber of deputies but politicians might face a voter backlash after a series of corruption scandals involving politicians and their parties among those facing reelection often the student leaders elected four years ago vying to overhaul politics is in human reports. six years ago the

university students in chile captured the world's imagination by undertaking a peaceful revolt proofread quality education for all. the british newspaper the guardian named communist party student leader camille every year for the person of the year and the most glamorous revolutionary since che guevara. georgia jackson became a poster boy for education reform but unsatisfied with progress four of the student leaders ran for congress and won promising to hold chilean politicians accountable from within the system and here. four years later congressman george or jackson concedes it's been harder than he did expected there's no satisfaction because. the expectations are too high so. i feel that the people here in looses hope in politics to change their lives. jackson is running for reelection at this

time as part of the new left wing coalition dissatisfied with the pace of change under the current center left government former communist student leaders come you never your call and carol guardiola who are also running again have been criticized for not pushing hard enough. at the university of chile these architecture students lament that their former leaders didn't achieve their promised goal one hundred percent free education. they failed the career presenters from a high position but they don't listen to us anymore we haven't seen. jackson or burridge on the streets protesting with us. we try very very very very with every action that we may jackson argues they need more time here and many other former student leaders are pinning their hopes on the new broad front coalition which is loosely inspired in spain's leftist or their most party and even bernie sanders in

the united states for a coalition that was just formed in january doing surprisingly well in the polls particularly amongst the disgruntled who. which is why jackson continues to insist that the only way to push political limits is from within as he runs for congress again you see in human just sita santiago. a nasa research plane has joined the search for an argentine submarine which has gone missing it was returning to base in model platter after a routine mission than your reports. the argentine authorities have said that the full search and rescue operation is now underway to look for the missing submarine the a.r.a.'s. with which no communication has been had since wednesday president noted your machree said all the resources available will be put into the rescue mission something like two hundred four hundred thirty or so kilometers southwest

of where the story of where i'm standing here in. the submarine was on a routine mission from the southern most tip of south america the city of. here to its base in marbella plata your clarity so they have no idea why the communication has been lost or whether there is any technical issues with the submarine with each hour that goes by without any kind of contact whatsoever tension is mounting the families are gathering at the nearby they will base here waiting to hear word from their loved ones hoping that all is fine but in the meantime the rescue mission with help from chile with the united states with britain with a not aircraft which was on doing operations in south america are out there now deep in the south atlantic looking for the missing a or a submarine. launched a satellite designed to make weather forecasts more accurate three to.

it was sent into orbit from the vandenberg air force base in california and will circle the fourteen times a day it's observations should make it easier to predict severe weather events three to seven days before they happen. york's financial district houses some of the world's most famous structures but to go for the architects is injecting some artistic flair into the downtown square and setting themselves challenge along the way christensen amy went to find out. it's a cramped apartment even by manhattan standards which way they want to go with it over but for ten days at least it's home for these four artists and if braving the elements in a chilly new york november wasn't enough the group also has to move their hut piece by piece across the square changing it from a shelter to a makeshift bridge and back again that's when things get tricky so once you've got once you've got the new floor or the beginnings of the new that's when you have to

start thinking about where is the bathroom where's the kitchen. where's all the lumber in the bins like because it becomes this like mental pattern of. their mental puzzle solving. the team isn't allowed to touch the ground outside so beads to pick up food and supplies stored in the yellow boxes along the route also living sleeping eating and yes even going to the bathroom in the hut it's called the newcomers a performance architecture installation the artists say they're trying to challenge the idea of architecture as permanent structures and explore new ways of sharing space it's a theme collaborators alex waiter and board shelley have visited several times in recent works like two thousand and fourteen is in orbit or last year's reactor which moved in the wind but while those works were tucked away from the general public this is right in the middle of the financial district and interaction with passers by is encouraged we actually really want to know what people think it's

a way of home because we are living in the work and they see the work from the outside so we're only have an interior perspective of what this thing is and so they come to us with views from the outside looking in and through those discussions that's the way we build meaning to the course of the performance so far progress has been slow but steady the finishing line is in sight and only a few dropped nuts and bolts along the way. christian salumi al jazeera new york. was much more in everything we're covering right here al jazeera dot com is why you need to know of course more on our top story as thousands congregate in the zimbabwean capital harare to coal for robert mugabe to step down more on that in just a couple of seconds. a

quick look at our top stories this hour robert mugabe's nephew has said the zimbabwean president and his wife grace are ready to die for what is correct and have no intention of stepping down tens of thousands of people took to the streets of harare to march to mugabe's home demanding his resignation and i g three year old has been on the house arrest at his blue roof residence in harare after the military took control on wednesday sources from the ruling zanu p.f. party have told the reuters news agency that members a jew to hold a special meeting on sunday to dismiss mugabe as its leader but palestinians say they will break off contact with the trump administration if their office in washington d.c. is closed the state department is refusing to renew the operating permission for palestine's diplomatic site an official has cited statements that palestinian leaders have made about the international criminal court as the reason. bevan's prime minister says he'll return to beirut by wednesday more than two weeks after

announcing his resignation during a trip to saudi arabia saad hariri says he'll also hold talks with the president michel aoun to address the political crisis he made the statement in paris where he met the french president emmanuel micron. your politique with regards to the political situation i will be in beirut in the next few days to take part in the celebration of our independence and all express opinions on all subjects once of me president. now doctors in eastern guta in syria say the besieged area is now on the brink of a humanitarian disaster they say people will die if they are not immediately allowed to leave four hundred thousand syrians live in the damascus suburb which has been under attack by government forces for the past four years in that time only limited food aid and medical supplies of been allowed in camps for survivors of sierra leone's deadly mudslide in august to being shut down leaving

many people homeless the government wants to move people to a thousand new homes that it's building but construction isn't complete yet many say they are yet to receive compensation and all the help that was promised by the government is five hundred people died in the mudslide you're up to date with all of our top stories that's it for myself and the team in london but more news coming up from doha and off and on counting the cost of venezuela in default as the oil rich country fails to pay its debt we'll look at what a messy financial on raveling could mean for starving people how lebanon's economy is getting squeezed plus why zimbabweans are buying bitcoins counting the cost at this time on.