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coming up in the next sixty minutes. european union remains committed to support the full and affective implementation of. a united front raney and officials meet to defend the twenty fifty nuclear deal while the us president donald trump considers reimposing sanctions. i'm a c international calls for an investigation into suspected atrocities by mere miles military after its admits its soldiers killed muslim ranger. mudslides and flooding sweep away houses in california at least seventeen a dead and more and missing. over is the controversial choice to apparently draw ceremony for the australian open. last year because she was serving a dark. european

countries that helped to broker the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal a cooling on the u.s. to reaffirm it support the eve foreign policy chief and the foreign ministers of britain france and germany met an iranian delegation in brussels they say the deal's essential for international security the agreement needs to be signed off every ninety days president trump has until friday to decide if he'll really impose sanctions. the european union remains committed to support the full and effective implementation of the agreements including to make sure that the lifting of nuclear related sanctions has a positive impact on trade and economic relations with iran including benefits for the iranian people. the agreement has allowed for deeper cooperation and continuous dialogue with iran on all issues while we have expressed concerns related to

other issues such as development of us listing the size and increasing tensions in the region this issue is right outside the scope of the nuclear agreement and are and will be addressed in relevant formats and fora. let's go live now to our correspondent nadine barber who is there in brussels nadeem there seems to be complete unity with regard to the european members of this people plus one group who supported the iran nuclear deal. there is martin unity in terms of stressing the importance of not doing anything that could jeopardize the deal and the reason for vita is because the e.u. foreign ministers have been stressing that it's the way they see. the way forward to stop iran trying to push for a nuclear weapons program they've all been saying in unison that so far iran has

been complying with the deal and it's been allowing inspectors to do their job and just after the meeting finished mama george zarif the iranian foreign minister tweeted the following there was strong consensus in brussels today that iran is complying with a j c p o a the nuclear deal that the iranian people have every right to its dividends and that any move that undermines the deal is unacceptable the european three and the u. of fully aware that iran's continued compliance can is conditioned on full compliance by the u.s. the vats of veiled threat that if on friday president trump does reapply sanctions on iran's oil industry that iran would consider that a breach of the deal they then could take unilateral action the head of iran's nuclear program a nuclear organization rather has said this week that iran is capable of greatly

increasing its uranium enrichment if there was a violation of the twenty fifteen deal that's why the europeans are so worried that americans shouldn't do anything hastily and how seriously is the threat being taken of the u.s. not signing up to the next at ninety day waiver. well i think many people are suggesting that on friday president trump will refrain from reapplying those oil sanctions but since october he said that he's not going to recertify the deal and it's possible that he will not get serious about pushing congress to make. legislative amendments to the deal now the democrats have said that they won't agree to any changes that are not backed by their european allies in the european allies are saying any change will completely destroy the deal and it won't be able to be really renegotiated so bit of an amp us there the europeans know that they've got a friendly ear in parts of washington but president trump has called the deal the

worst ever he accused president obama of giving away benefits to iran and he's likely to keep pushing at least for sanctions on more of the iranian economy if not for a complete withdrawal from the agreement all right nineteen thank you for that nadine barber there live in brussels. was saying best ravi as our correspondent who's following developments from terror on. a busy few days for iran's foreign minister divides reef as he engages in a flurry of diplomacy to try and reinforce international support for the twenty fifty nuclear deal signed with western nations he met with survey last brothers counterpart moscow on wednesday before leaving for brussels due to meet european leaders zarif spoke to reporters on the plane echoing what iran's leaders have been saying all along iran is in compliance with the nuclear deal it's an example of how peaceful dialogue can yield positive results and the united states is only

isolating itself on the international stage that it be limited from the international perspective it doesn't seem that the u.s. withdrawal from the deal is acceptable to other members of the international community everyone has stressed to the point that it's necessary for the u.s. to stick to its commitments their multilateral commitments and the u.s. just like other signatories of the nuclear deal has to meet them back into her on the government says that it is prepared for any decision by the u.s. president donald trump and that the world should prepare for a worst case scenario a political impasse that would see the deal collapse iran restart its nuclear program on wednesday a spokesman for iran's atomic energy organization said that if the u.s. ditches the deal iran will expand its nuclear program to levels not even seen before the deal was signed strong posturing by iran's leaders a reminder to the white house that iran is held up its side of the bargain all right we can now talk to hama and mousavi a professor of political science at the university of tehran thank you for talking

to us how are the people of iran taking this moment all the apprehensive do they seriously think that the u.s. may pull out of the deal. yes i mean of course there is concern i think i'm donald trump in nate and you know the three decisions tomorrow scenario one is that he decides to really cause the nuclear sanctions on iran that were seized on the the application of which were seen as a result of the nuclear deal if he does bad he's essentially withdrawn from the united states from the nuclear deal and iran has made it very clear that if that happens it will also be crossed from the deal under the second scenario is that he decides to continue staying in the deal and that would be the ideal case of course and i think the third scenario which is probably the most likely scenario is that he wore continue to stay in the deal but he was tried

to implement new non-nuclear related sanctions now if that happens and i think that is the most likely outcome and what is happening is that you launch benefits from the deal are continuing to deny inish as a result of all the sanctions the trumpet ministration isn't all going on you want in the past year and i think if we do continue to do that if the trumpet ministration continues to do that i think it will lead down to a path that iran will withdraw in the long run because the benefits you on was supposed to receive out of the deal or according to a lot of people and according to the protests you just witnessed in the weeks have been very slim that's the that's the next point i wanted to make because if indeed donald trump does pursue that scenario scenario number three then that will do very little to settle what seems to be

a very restive population in many parts of iran at the moment given that they feel that they're not receiving the benefits from this nuclear deal. yes and this has been a strategy of the donald trump administration since the first they came into office essentially what he's doing is that years not really imposing nuclear related sanctions but he's implementing sanctions through other excuses and the result is the same essentially for the uranium economy it is making the europeans very restless in regard to it investing in iran and as a result iran is not seeing the kind of foreign investment it was hoping to receive out of the deal and i think that is the main point in the sense that if the united states this decides to withdraw from the deal then you want to not continue to up hold the deal with the europeans because the united states is not saying that we

will not be part of the deal it's saying something more in saying that even at other companies europeans chinese russians dislike to do business with iran we're going to implement sanctions on them and the result is that a lot of european banks are not working with iran even today so even before all of these concerns in the result has been that the iranian economy has not improved as much as people were hoping it will and how far is the credibility then of president rouhani and his fellow reformists depended upon the success or otherwise of the nuclear deal in the in searing benefits. the wrong government is suspect and especially his foreign policy team like doctors the real doctor iraq to dr robin cheek they have invested immensely in the nuclear deal i mean we have to remember the army came into office five years ago on the agenda of weeding a nuclear deal with the west and as

a result of that improving the iranian economy now he did reach a deal with the united states and five other countries in the arabian economy has improved slightly so he has done something but it has been much less than people were expecting and i think if the deal falls apart then it's going to have a huge impact on raw army and the reformists especially considering the fact that we're going to have parliamentary elections next year and in three years we're going to have presidential elections. thank you very much indeed that imus international has called for an independent investigation into suspected atrocities carried out by mere miles military this comes after the army admitted for the first time that its soldiers murdered ten muslim ranger their remains were found in a mass grave in record time state last month so to hide the reports. for the

first time in mars' military has admitted wrongdoing in its crackdown on the range of community a statement posted on the facebook page of the military's commander in chief said troops and buddhas villagers murdered ten russians are muslims in rakhine state calling the dead bengali terrorists. it said the army will take action against those involved the bodies were found in a mass grave in the village of in the one thing to note about the statements on the commander in chief's facebook page what it doesn't admit which is that this incident is not an isolated incident that in fact we had amnesty the un and media outlets around the world who have documented how there's a much wider pattern of killings of sexual violence and the burning of religious across rakhine state and so we need to see justice and accountability for this enormous range of crimes and not a pretense that there's really just you know one or few isolated incidents the announcement comes two months after the military issued the findings of an internal

investigation into its security forces following attacks by revenge rebels in august the military concluded no atrocities had taken place the united nations has been prevented by the government from undertaking its own investigation into what happened inside rakhine state during august and september when an estimated six hundred fifty thousand people fled to neighboring bangladesh the un has called me on mars actions in rakhine textbook ethnic cleansing a charge the government denies. even with this reversal of its own findings the military will face increased international pressure to allow independent observers and investigators into rakhine state scotland al-jazeera well as is the me i'm a country director for the center for humanitarian does over me says it's no coincidence that. admitted to killing ten am rakhine say on the very same day that two journalists with charged for violating the country's secrecy laws. there's

a lot of speculation about that and the reason hasn't been formally stated so some news reports for example the new york times have pointed to the arrest of journalists who admits hanes last month and charged yesterday under the official secrets act and the suspicion is that they were researching alleged abuses in rakhine state that they had evidence of this so one theory is that well the minute you know military are doing is trying to get ahead of the new story and show that the action before that story broke and of course that's just speculation at this point or a number of people have drawn a link between the arrest of these two best journalists for more answers and what we've seen today in terms of the amounts were from the memo miller i think what we're going to see is a continued disconnect between the domestic position and the international position and the international position and seen uses of them on access for the u.n.

and others to independently verify the allegations of abuses that have been made while domestically there's no pressure from the local population for so let's say in. international organizations and they will address it themselves but that will not i think satisfy the international community so i think the gap between what's happening inside the country and outside is only like you. but there are a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including protests continue in tunisia against austerity more than three hundred people have been arrested by the prime minister and his calm the worrying impact of slotting on a cholera outbreak in democratic republic of congo and in sports a limpet champion low fat gets ready to start a new chapter in his career and. the only

thing and the opposition leader saying. there are major hurdles to clear before a new coalition government can be formed and other merkel is hoping for progress on a deal on the final day of talks in berlin it would break a political stalemate there's left germany without a full government since elections in september mrs merkel's christian democratic union party and the opposition social democrats have been trying to find common ground to begin formal legacy ations on an alliance sheet of farm. we've made a lot of preparatory work but there are still big hurdles to clear i can say that our party will be constructive to find the necessary compromises but of course we will also focus on the knowledge that we have to conduct the right politics for our country here we are. poised to be we will look at the progress made over the past four days in its entirety which is quite a number of issues we have identified together as common interests but there are

still big hurdles to clear and it will definitely take all day. let's go live now to our correspondent david chase is there in berlin sounds very much david as if they're trying to manage expectations do we think that there will be a deal which will allow them to go into formal negotiations by the end of the day or not. good question martine it's been an extraordinary period of political limbo for germany they really must get on with government so these talks are vital but they are only talks about talks now been taking a range of opinions from think tanks and analysts here in berlin and they say there is indeed a lot of common ground between the parties but one of the most intriguing interesting points they were making was that there seems to be no chemistry between the parties and that there's no real grand vision they're going to have to take to the country to move germany forward it's more like are trying to construct

a patchwork quilt of votes but no real vision for what where they want germany to go no real mission there pointing out and also that social chemistry within the social democrats itself and that is also difficult so this makes this makes any talks coalition talks and talks about coalition talks extremely difficult for them to handle and that's why it's taking so much time and remember those hurdles that were being talked about by angela merkel and martin schulz these are a considerable hurdles and they're not the only ones if they do agree to go ahead and talk then there are more hurdles along the way as well so very difficult time for for germany and german politics but it's vital a government does get going again because of vital budgetary decisions of how to be made martine indeed in europe is awaiting the reemergence of germany to to help

with decisions there as well i'm just wondering what are the options if the two leaders cannot form what's known as the grand coalition. yes a grand coalition without any grand ideas it is extraordinary isn't it a repeat of what we've seen before but there is a lot of temptation within the social democrats especially from the youth wing of the party and i remember i must mention that there is a special delegation for the socialists in general the twenty first and that's going to be a lively debate because many of their long souces were saying that martin schultz the beginning of his period just after the election said they're going into a position that period of opposition would have been very good for them it would bring on the new leaders bring on new energy bring in a new goals an insight into what germany needs and that's not happening so even if there is an agreement here there will still have to be that delegation the party has to accept that formal talks should start and don't count that as necessarily

just a shoo in it won't be and of course as you said germany is traditionally one of the main engines of of europe the main way of keeping it together the main engine of reform the main engine of the economy so yes there is sort of trepidation especially i think in the french government press and macro about just how long this has taken if you see after president crohn's election what he managed to do with the labor reforms really put great energy onto this national stage none of this can happen while these parties are caught in this swirl of debate about the issues which separate them and how they can overcome those those issues of course martine many of the refugees should the family members be reunited also on taxes should taxes go higher for the higher earners or should the social democrats win this point are they going to be actually. increased for the very top level

of german society something that angela merkel and her allies in the bavarian sister party certainly don't want so let's not ignore those hurdles we might not get a clear result tonight and then what will happen nobody knows her right david chase i live in berlin thank you. now israel has approved more than eleven hundred new settlement units in the occupied west bank the defense ministry committee signed off on the houses on wednesday they'll be built across the occupied west bank the move will further strain relations between israel and palestine following the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital all settlements are illegal under international law perry force it has more from west jerusalem. well these announcements often contain a very complex series of numbers and this one is no different seven hundred seventy of these new settlement units are being announced at one stage of this lengthy

complex layered process of planning approvals the remainder at the next stage of the process and there are more stages the process after that so it's often hard to get a real handle on exactly what is being announced at any one time and that can serve the israeli government because it has to satisfy right wing coalition members that the process of the groups more generally so being able to make these announcements several times a year as they do can be politically expedient it's never clear exactly how many are entirely new how many are being rian out but the the activist group peace now which monitors settlement construction in the occupied west bank says that there are eleven hundred twenty two of these units being announced across the west bank and more than half of them well away from the zone between israel proper and the occupied west bank where any future land swaps are most likely in any possible two state solution so peace now is saying that this further hampers the prospects of

a two state solution in the future as well as that the israeli defense minister who's in charge of this process he's talking about two thousand five hundred nearly further new units being put up for promotion six hundred fifty tenders for those units and amounts that's seen as the first tranche of that on thursday morning and this really does tally with what we saw last year when the nearly seven thousand units announced in some stage or another during the course of the year that was several thousand more than we saw in the previous two years and so far in these early days of twenty eighteen this year seems to be keeping pace with that. after the leaks have emerged of attempts by egyptian military intelligence to influence local media every codings broadcast by their t.v. channel an officer can be had instructing a presenter at another station to attack the a mayor of cutter. the officer also tells the presenter that pressure should be increased on kuwait to prevent it from supporting catherine the gulf crisis egypt

the u.a.e. saudi arabia and bahrain imposed an economic blockade on cata in june kuwait has been attempting to mediate in the dispute what is the latest leak of kools between military intelligence and media personalities in other revelations an officer could be had telling presenters that contrary to the egyptian government's public stance cairo has no problem with the us decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel he said egypt was willing to recognize israel's illegal occupation of jerusalem with ramallah becoming the capital of palestine he also admitted that military intelligence pressured former prime minister ahmed shafik to not run in the presidential election in march shafiq withdrew his nomination less than twenty four hours after the leaks emerged now the recordings are raising concerns about press freedom in egypt dozens of independent journalists are behind balls with many

alleging mistreatment at the hands of state security services mohamed el masry is chair of the journalism program of the day her institute for graduate studies and he says such friend calls are consistent with the approach of what he calls a crazy thora tarion government. in some ways the c.c. government is a continuation of the earlier mubarak government actually did my dissertation on egypt almost a decade ago and in that dissertation i talked about advice calls that government officials like to give to these media personalities and newspaper editors and so on and so forth essentially suggesting this is how you want to approach this this issue right and it's not really advice as much as it is kind of a command right and the consequences are understood the consequences of not complying with these with these commands so this is pretty consistent with the egyptian government behavior and it's consistent with the c.c. government i think the bit about jerusalem is is really interesting i would argue that it's also not surprising it's not surprising that the government is on the one

hand telling the egyptian public one thing right that they support the palestinians and then behind you know behind the scenes working the back channels essentially supporting the israeli government this government has a relatively long history of working with the netanyahu government in israel this goes back to two thousand and thirteen fourteen fifteen in two thousand and sixteen it was a very interesting diplomatic visit by egypt's foreign minister to israel and he held that meet they held that meeting in jerusalem a kind of flew under the radar it was only reported by a few news outlets but this was a signal to the israeli state that egypt was shifting its longstanding policy and that it was willing to bend on this issue of jerusalem. there's been more violence between police and protesters in five cities during a wave of rallies more than three hundred people have been arrested during four days of demonstrations protests is an angry over the government's planned price and tax hikes the opposition is calling for the twenty eighteen budget to be scrapped

that you newseum prime minister has a calm saying the economy will improve this year when it happened was that he said . we would like to send a message to the protesters no matter what the government undertakes its top priority is and. proving economic and social conditions and ensuring the trust in the country and its institutions the government wants open dialogue regarding their demands but look at the snow is the director of the choom this exchange conference and he says it's not just to new zealand to be worried about the instability in the region. it's very damaging for the government it's already damaging the tunisian economy for sure it's damaging also to european an external interests who are quite worried about the situation of another kind of seemingly unstable state on the mediterranean on their borders so all around this is great greatly concerning it's also concerning to our tunisian friends as well who are experiencing extreme

economic hardship but who are also scared about unrest and violence and some reports of thuggery and vandalism except for so i would say really you have all of the different actors that have a hand in tunisia future they're all quite concerned at this moment i don't think anyone is really benefiting from this disruption in unless it resolves itself in these coming days and weeks into some fundamental reforms of the tunisian socio economic. let's say if this goes in the direction of real reforms that addresses the vast majority of tunisians complaints about inflation corruption and monopoly monopolist behavior in their economy then we can see the tunisian people and their fragile democracy actually benefiting and austerity protests is in greece have been fighting with police against planned new laws the government's been debating more benefit cuts and measures to make it easier for banks to repossess homes from

people who are in debt john psaropoulos has our report from athens if the government has its way such protests will become a thing of the past the new bill submitted to parliament puts all options and foreclosures of property on line that means people who are in danger of losing their homes because they owe money to a bank all the taxman will no longer have anything to gain by protesting outside a court such forms of protests have been effective in the past forcing courts to cancel auctions and notaries public to go on strike which made all. sounds impossible but banks are on a schedule to liquidate thirteen billion dollars worth of property this year and next once this obstacle is removed. at least seventeen people have been killed one month slides triggered by heavy rain destroyed houses and swept away cars in southern california and rescue operation is underway to find more than

a dozen people who are missing and to reach hundreds of others who remain stranded but reynolds reports now from one to see. the day after disaster struck monta seato mud and storm water covered highway one hundred one the main road connecting los angeles and santa barbara work crews and heavy trucks fire engines and police cars were the only vehicles plying the normally busy highway which could now remain closed for days the force of tuesday's mudslide smashed metal barriers and swept cars downstream from the canyons above residents describe a terrifying night of touring rain and roaring flood the sound with boulders and huge boulders because after storms like this you go down the creek and there's boulders the size of votes wagons left that you have behind eighty year old bernard sandler and his wife tried to walk to

a pharmacy to get his heart medicine but they got stuck in thick unyielding mud two hours later was still standing up to our middle of our thighs and my dad and i wife almost fell in and i thought she would die and i actually. been married fifty seven years as my. owners and i felt that we were going to make our lives many of the roads in the narrow canyons around this area are so badly damaged the only way to rescue stranded residents is by helicopter. a u.s. coast guard jayhawk helicopter rescued a maroon family of five including a newborn baby and two pet dogs on wednesday afternoon local authorities gave an update we realized that this is going to be a long and difficult journey for all of us and for our community and we ask

for your patience we ask for your understanding. and i ask you for your prayers people here i've lived through nature's one two punch first wildfires then floods california. that's an attitude that will no doubt be valuable in the days ahead as the cleanup continues robert oulds al-jazeera montecito california. well the weather has improved in southern california rob is head to tell us though of the floods elsewhere yes we mentioned congo where ears are vibrance the other side of the world more or less times new zealand where conditions are different but summer rains a heavy rain. has reported some flooding different scale here they've had a month's worth of rain in just one day but effectively ols happen so far as some flooded roads and i've given geography is hard rock and we haven't had any forest fires here it's no big surprise two hundred seven millimeters so far we've got

another a day or so of rain still to full here nor think we have the rain will be a little bit further north where it was but it is significant i know it's summer and we've got different geography the obvious significant rain however in australia rather more familiar sight but possibly a little bit more damaging luckily not so many people who live in these areas in the tropical sark and just look at the spin here this one has been named joyce so far it's dropped something like hundred thirty millimeters of rain in the area where it's heading towards it's not as strong as it was only six hours ago in fact he's full cost drinks is somewhat dropping so we've got winds of ninety five kilometers around the winds are going to be a problem the waves whipping up a for me to waves used to that is but the writing for the two hundred fifty going to be his plus its route takes it from there way down through western australia sparsely populated but still with potential big floods. thank you very much indeed

still to come on this al-jazeera news. it's a national plan of action with international ambitions. the u.k. launches a plan to clean up the environment but some are already saying it's not ambitious enough. and fears for the state of cambodia's democracy look ahead to its election later this year yawn both voted to go to. the worlds of top level football and basketball collide with mixed results andy will be here with that story. you are making very pointy for months whether on line the main u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been the criminal mind or if you join us on say no evil person just wakes up other than the morning and says i want to color the world in darkness and this is

a dialogue and that could be what leading to some of the confusion online about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the conversation at this time on al-jazeera. the carter center.

tavis take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera european countries that helped to break of the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal a calling on the u.s. to reaffirm its support they say the deal is essential for international security president trump has until friday to decide if he'll reimposed sanctions more than three hundred twenty people have been detained during a wave of anti all stare at the demonstrations in june is here violence has flared between police and protesters in five cities the crowds are angry about the government's planned price and tax hikes amnesty international has called for an independent investigation into alleged atrocities by mia miles military it follows the army's admission for the first time that its soldiers killed ten. who were buried in a mass grave. that kenya's government is criticizing european observers who

monitored last year's election the e.u. observer mission released its final report in brussels on wednesday and it said that it couldn't travel to kenya to release it because of a lack of government cooperation where the head of that mission says the long and sometimes volunteer lection process had weakened the country's democracy but kenya denies this president kenyatta won the election rerun in october after the august poll was nullified by the supreme court the opposition boycotted that rerun kenya's ambassador to belgium has accused the e.u. mission of what he calls contemptuous political grandstanding saying the chief observers actions were distain full and condescending well the chief observer outlined the main issues her mission highlighted in its report. what we do is look in a great amount of detail to for example how the legal process was conducted in the case of kenya there were very very last minute legal changes to the electoral code

which are not in line with good practices around elections we saw people being paid to attend election rallies we saw the police using violence including bullets and people killed we saw the abuse of state resources hate speech at times those are all points for great concern and then of course the kenyan election saw a lot of use of new technology which in fact came with a lot of hope that they would improve the integrity of the process but we concluded that technology cannot replace trust and we recommend that for the future there is more testing of capacity and security of technologies used in the elections these are just a few examples from our final report the british prime minister has announced plans to extend a tax on plastic bags in an effort to reduce environmentally damaging waste the move follows the introduction in twenty fifteen of a mandatory levy on plastic bags in major supermarkets in england which cut the

number of bags used by ninety percent on the philips has more now from a recycling center in bristol. the british prime minister says she wants to end what's called a road away culture it's a plan which goes forward over the next twenty five years ending the use of recyclable nonstate expanding the levy that british people have to pay each time they use a plastic bag in a shop in a supermarket but if you want to see the consequences of this culture what better place than the leaf cycling center like this near the town of bristol in the west of england hostesses hundreds of tonnes of our way down state paper next will every single day be. well here in the industry the prime minister. but they say to be joined thinking with british industry british industry

needs to be. recycled material. a lot of out of this has been exploited in the past to china chinese. a lot of it will go to countries like india and. what about environmental groups. of. speech of course they like to see powerful politicians green but there is also a little bit of. proposals. they want legislation they want to see. british people and people across. the president says it is possible for washington to rejoin the paris climate deal but he didn't elaborate a more needs to change for the u.s. to stay in president trump described the twenty fifteen a cold as

a bad deal for the u.s. when he announced washington's withdrawal in june his comments come as new york city has announced it's to sue five all oil companies for contributing to global warming the mare of new york says the city also plans to withdraw five billion dollars worth of oil investments. forty five people have been killed and thousands of the left homeless after flooding in the democratic republic of congo aid agencies say the conditions are making a cholera outbreak. has more. this was an unceremonious funeral at a local community center mourners gathered somebody to bury the latest victims of the flooding. balance easily the lightweights of the child's coffin as they lay its body to rest the latest casualty after five days of heavy rains poured through the capital kinshasa last week and. we are really very sad today my sister lost five

children because of the rain she's inconsolable we will bury them today we thank everyone who came to support us. away from the crowd these mothers sit together offering some comfort to each other as their children buried their neighborhood stands in ruins as more fortunate dig through the debris seeking my sister my son dishes like this all i have left are those two chairs that you see over there everything is gone if i had not been at home i would have lost my children but because i was at home i was able to get out with my children. over five thousand people have been left homeless and anger is mounting against the government who they accuse of doing little to protect them from the devastation of. these the floods that brought such misery the trench of showers coupled with a poor sewage system flush makeshift shanty homes down the city's slopes will start to say most of the deaths were caused by drownings and landslides. kinshasa is the third most densely populated city in the world and it currently counts twelve

million residents aid agencies are warning these floods and mudslides and likely to antagonize the waterborne and cholera outbreak in the capital and in previous weeks we registered around twenty cases per week on average right now we're getting more than one hundred cases each week in kinshasa nearly four hundred fifty have been registered the u.n. says the democratic republic of congo is experiencing its worst cholera outbreak in twenty years the disease has killed over one thousand people over fifty five thousand cases reported across the country since july overcrowding unsanitary conditions and lack of clean drinking water these cases look set to rise. a mass burial is taking place in central nigeria after more than seventy people died in violence between for lonny has been and farmers the long simmering conflict is over the use of land to graze cattle at least fifteen hundred people were killed

in violence last year most of them were women and children prosecutors in vietnam seeking lengthy jail terms for former state oil executives twenty two people are on trial for corruption at vietnam petrik construction the company's former chairman g. soon ton believe faces life behind bars if convicted of embezzle meant his cases attracted attention last august when germany accused vietnamese intelligence officers of abducting him from berlin. said tom returned voluntarily police in paris say some of the jewels solan in an armed robbery at a store in the ritz hotel have now been recovered five people smashed a window and grabbed items sold to be worth more than five million dollars on wednesday three people were arrested at the scene two others escaped on skitters one dropped a bag after hitting a pedestrian whilst trying to escape the scene. japan is sending

a warning to china after a chinese military vessel was seen near disputed islands in the east china sea the country's lay claim to the resource rich islands known in japan as the same cuckoo and the are you in china adrian brown has more. but once more china and japan are pointing fingers at one another over these disputed islands in the east china sea they are tiny clusters of rock claimed by china but it ministered by japan on thursday japan said that china sent a warship and a submarine very close to these islands china says what was happening was this it was tracking a japanese warship and submarine it is a reminder that this area remains a flashpoint another flashpoint of course is the south china sea and the philippines says it's going to be protesting to china over what it says is clear evidence of the continued military buildup in this area in particularly on an

island called fiery cross reef now china is making no secret of the fact that it's been building up these islands but it says what it's doing here is simply really environmental protection measures they are not aimed at any particular country the problem is that china's neighbors simply aren't buying that argument and actually these disputes in the east china sea and the south china sea are two disputes this region doesn't really need right now as efforts begin to try to reduce tensions on the korean peninsula. rights groups are concerned that cambodia's general election later this year will not be free and fair the government has dissolved the main opposition party and restricted non-governmental organizations as part of our series looking ahead to the major stories of twenty eighteen rough mcbride reports from. twenty eighteen will mark twenty five years since the united nations organized election meant to set cambodia on the path to democracy after years of

civil war. today critics say it is starting to resemble a one party state dominated by prime minister. he has been in power for more than thirty years and could be virtually unopposed at the next election in july we don't have a democracy some call florida marcus. it will survive as a marquee cambodia's democratic journey has been deeply troubled political intrigue and then fighting sometimes leading to by law and clashes between factions but the country has generally held to the democratic beijing planned for it until that is the latter part of twenty seventeen. the opposition leader cam subtile was arrested at the beginning of september for allegedly plotting with foreigners to overthrow the government the supreme court then used that allegation to dissolve his party

the c.n.r. p. the government says the party was a threat to democracy not the other way round to see an r.p. of a great problem and that they never listen to a king they never listen to me it's a state institution they are a beta for. the political crackdown was accompanied by what rights groups say was a clampdown on civil society with the closure of a leading newspaper and restrictions on the activities of non-government organizations. all allegedly smoothing the way to the election most observers think back the the crackdown and the tensions to happen right before the election that's not the case as usually happen in the middle of the in the middle of the of the of the term and then it's starting to actually cause harm before the election as twenty eight hundred starts when send those the protests from abroad will mostly be forgotten and the changing skyline in phnom penh is

a reminder of the chinese investment which now protects him from the risk of the u.s. and europe withdrawing funding allowing him to consolidate power with an election victory seen as a stamp of legitimacy rob mcbride al jazeera numpad. self just in time. for.

as promised it's time for the school sees his thank you so much more seeing well australian open organizers have defended the decision to invite maria sharapova to appear at the drawl ceremony fishies first grand slam share of of missed the event last year because she was serving a fifteen month suspension having found a drugs test in melbourne sue years ago the tournament director said as a former champion the thirty year old russian deserved the opportunity when i was younger and i was a teenager i had never thought that i would play past thirty years old it was just . you know i maybe from like a family perspective my mother was an only child my mother had me when she was very young and so i just had a family vision in my mind that i would maybe one day when a few tournaments and then have a family and raised children and normal atmosphere not globe trotting around the world and then here i am and i feel like i still have so much to get to the sport because it's given me so much so i i don't know i hope to continue to do it. well

twenty sixteen australian open champion angelica has continued her strong start to the season the german advancing to the sydney international semifinals with a straight sets win here over the many kissable however. has been drawn by compassion and alina great some in now. as entertains it and says he's not worried about his future as around one hundred manager of us despite another poor performance from his team on wednesday real struggle to break down thirty side you mount fear in the cockpit all right they were held to at sea to draw out hung but they still progressed to the quarter finals winning the time five two on aggregates the cup israel's most likely route to domestic success this season their fourth in the league sixteen points behind leaders. and also manager arsene wenger says he believes a strike alexy sanchez will still be at the club at the end of this month transfer window sanchez started on the bench in wednesday's league cup semifinal with chelsea that much finishing nil nil but shine is out of contract at the end of the

season and manchester city already tempting to sign the twenty nine year old. people don't know. this is a guy who's completely for two blue from groups you know he came on to do. like you because you want to play foodborne and he can make a difference between what's going on outside and what's going on in the food we're peach really respects not psychological theories and different views when you turn on a new pitch you proof with near and view hundred percent and that's what you don't . one of the world's most successful athletes will start a new chapter in his career on friday mohammed for me my far is in cats offer his first road at running events in stepping away from the track so helmick reports. he's not about to become a professional footballer but most far is in the process of changing careers after winning six world titles and four olympic gold medals on the track he's in qatar to

run the doha half marathon but first it towards his new goal of the olympic marathon gold in my name is to go to tokyo twenty twenty see how it depends on my body just work i've got to look after stay injury free stay focused stay hungry like you do i'm doing and i am enjoying it i got his mo mo far as the center of attention here in doha he's won so many championships and gold medals worldwide he's going to go down as a legend on the track the question is now whether he can achieve the same success as the marathon runner. to emphasize his change of direction britain's most decorated athlete now wants to go by his full name mohammed again distancing himself from his former glories although it may take some adjusting to you know people think mo is a great trait money's gone to go where those can be doing it in the in america as the questions are like guys leave every guy. on the track that whaleboat and asked are going to slowly chapter i is journey to the top hasn't come without

controversy his relationship with alberto salazar has generated unwanted headlines far as former coach is being investigated by the u.s. anti-doping agency for what's called unlawful conduct. and the somali born muslim has been vocal politically criticizing don trump's u.s. ban on travel through a number of predominately muslim countries he says athletes need to stand up for what they believe is right now is important because the train architects and we do stand up for the right but the right things you know for me a song when i was vocal about dr donald trump it affected me and my family and so many members people who are in the same positions me. and the tracking says long distance success on the road is the only story he wants to be the focus of in the year ahead. so he'll malick al-jazeera doha.

kevin durant's has become the second youngest player to reach twenty thousand points in the n.b.a. reaching the milestone in a rare loss for the golden state warriors who went down to the l.a. clippers no problems for the side just below them in second place in the western conference that's the houston rockets chris paul scored a season high thirty seven points they beat his portland trail blazers one twenty one to one twelve that is their fourth win in six. now the lights of the philadelphia seventy six in the boston celtics will play in london a promotional event for the game involving two premier league football a star didn't quite go to plan yon book voted ten. bogan from tottenham hotspur that is young vertonghen of tottenham hotspur along with his team mate eric die trying their hand at basketball is the eighth time a regular season game has taken place in the english capital and some of the visiting n.b.a. star saying that quite like to swap sports as well. a lot shorter lives are on the writer's room now when seven years older are not where you and mary woodward well

know what a marriage on the what it was all about a very middle girl without a frame of dolls are well known to this article they're also a minister of ireland over there comes through in rhode island there are cared more sport throughout the day but that is it sir for now author andy thank you very much indeed don't go away i'll be back in just a moment all to have much more of the day's news of stay with us here and out of there. the am. in two thousand and eight al-jazeera documented a groundbreaking scheme. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. ten years on we return to see how the students and the scheme a helping change the face of india. super thirty at this time on

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