the region holds the secrets to a long and healthy life. on al-jazeera. zero . hello there and welcome to this news our global headquarters and coming up president and his main challenger. elections the. political system. russia intensifies as strikes in southern syria as the syrian army moves in on opposition territory also. zimbabwe's president declares it wasn't time off to surviving an apparent grenade attack on the campaign trail. and with all without.

side lighting the palestinian leader america's israel peace plan. i'm going to go with your day's world cup news including england five goals past panama and it's only half time i'll have the very latest from russia as harry crank kane and team stand on the verge of qualifying for the last sixty. so millions of turks are voting in july parliamentary and presidential polls that are being described as president toughest electoral test is looking for a first round knockout and a majority for his party that may struggle to achieve both in the face of a energized opposition whoever wins will have sweeping new powers and we have correspondents in key locations we have sent him. in live for us in istanbul and

mohammed vall in the kurdish stronghold of that's down there in the south east we'll get to them in just a moment after priyanka gupta explains the numbers of the candidates and why the changes to turkey's political system as so significant. these elections have many firsts including one that's expected to make lasting changes to turkey's presidency and its politics for the first more than fifteen million turks can vote for new members of parliament i'm depressed and on the same day what than fifty six million of them are in turkey at least three million more in sixty countries abroad the elections will end the existing parliamentary system of governance and replace it with an executive presidential one after it was approved in a referendum last year the office of the prime minister will be dissolved and the new president who would have first time can have ties to a political party will be the head of the state with vast executive powers like the

power to prepare the and with budget issue decrees and declare a state of emergency let's take a look at how the numbers stack up in the parliament the governing party has three hundred sixteen seats followed by the main opposition republican people's party all the c.h.b. is hundred thirty one seats the procreative with forty seven the mh be with thirty five the controlling six and two for independent the parties are fighting for a majority in a parliament which is now increasing in size from five hundred fifty members to six hundred and this time political parties have been allowed to form a line says which could offer a counterweight to a stronger presidency the uk party is part of what's called the people's alliance for others including the republican people's party are part of the national alliance these alliances could help smaller parties get a foothold in the parliament if their coalition wins over ten percent of the vote

now there are five men and one woman in the presidential race there is of course the current president of the gun who is running as part of the people's alliance the other parties have put their own individual candidates like more are injured for instance who is from the c.h.p. party he's our theosis opponent and a strong contender. from the party is the only female candidate in the fray and sell out the tosh is running for the pro. who's been leading his campaign from prison after being accused of having links with the outlawed kurdistan workers' party or the p.k. k. one of them needs to win more than fifty percent of the vote to become a precedent if not it will head to a runoff ok let's cross live not assume he's won during the election from a polling station in istanbul and sort of that was where the president has to cost his vote why is a sample so important in this race. well laura. is

the capital of the political pulse of the church is some elizabeth big because it has a twenty million population and at least ten million of them are eligible to vote so it is very important each politician in turkey when. a stumble in a way we always say that is marriage the agency is marriage is the castle for the main opposition party c i c h b because it has a very secular public. about it i have to admit that before akbar to the ruling party to. this level used to be a castle in order republican party so that's why the ruling party and the main opposition party has been really a big battle over this nominal and if i take you back to last year's close call referendum which shows the low support in a city where he used to run as a mayor in the late ninety's is the will shows the big picture old turkey because

of you how we have a lot of immigrant internal immigration in in this stumbled a little have a lot of people coming all over turkish cities so it is like a miniature over turkey so whatever the result is going to come out and i stumble most probably is going to be the result overall turkey ok sentiment many thanks ray is the view that from istanbul let's go now to mohamed val. that's a kurdish stronghold so just give us a sense of the significance of the kurdish vote for turkey as a whole. yes the turkish the turkish vote is significant the kurdish votes are is significant because they cared about seventeen percent of the electorate that's about a fifth so i mean there is a way to to to be to be counted on if if they supported this candidate or all about so the kurds also are motivated they are almost a homogeneous population and they have a cause they have

a cause to defend as they say here and can see that in the long history of strife for their own freedoms and for their own share in power in turkey so they are much more probably a much more galvanized much more marty fitted to come in big numbers to the to the to the ballot boxes to change the situation which they are complaining remember this election is held and emergency laws that's has been going on for some time now and it has been renewed several times remember the city where i stand now has seen fighting in two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen between the government and elements which the government considered linked to the p.k. k. the quality stand workers party but there is and mix there you have the population here who have loyalty both to the probably to the p.k. we don't know but also at the same time to the h d p the main kurdish party that is contesting this election this party's leader now is in jail so his wife has voted

today in and he's she speaks in his name she has been campaigning instead of him and people here are very upset about the leader of the party is in jail they said that this is not a normal situation this cannot be a fair election when one of the presidential candidates is behind bars so the kids because of so of the success they realized in two thousand and fifteen elections in june are barred thirteen percent of the parliament seat if they repeat that success now they will have the power to to deprive the a k. party from a majority of the parliament and that's a serious situation for mr album they also can in the first in the second term probably coalesce with the main opposition parties against a sort of one ok in the moment thanks very much for joining us there from dubai care we can also go live to ankara and then join our correspondent jim else shall he's near the at passy headquarters so jamal the polls just closed in about an hour

from now how tight a race is this looking. well i mean it's tied to in the sense that. nobody's sure whether it will be decided within the first round where there will be need for a second round of voting but in terms of the difference between ridge of tape or two on the current president's the frontrunner in this race and his next closest opponents are talking about recording gold so all the polls that have been conducted over the past couple of weeks at least a twenty point gap obviously that is because the share of votes is being divided among several opposition candidates so whilst one is the single most popular political figure within sarky he usually is able to garner around about the fifty percent of the fault not all the fifty percent is being divided amongst five other candidates the question is if they manage to force him before he is unable to decide these elections in the first round by you he fails to reach that fifty

percent plus one in this for us from today then he will face the second highest contest a contestant for either in a runoff a match then would cause a bit of a problem because what it would do is it would unite all voles different position values voices behind one person and that's where maybe it will become a bit trickier as far as the act party is concerned as far as other ones are concerned they really want to try and decide this today because this would make it a lot easier even if it just winds just over that fifty percent of the votes for some that may not be convincing for them that is half the population and they do so a lot greater than what anyone other candidates will get obviously that's the closest in terms of the raise in terms of the parliament's obviously the act party is still expected to be the largest party in the parliament whether they lose their overall supermajority the two thirds majority that is probably more likely according to a lot of the analysts but there was still maintain being the largest part you

obviously most of the power now under this new presidential system will be concentrated in the presidency and therefore a lot of the emphasis is on the presidential race and that's what people are probably monitoring a lot more closely jim out many thanks for that update from i'm crap. well turkey's election watchdog says it's taken steps to deal with what it describes as security concerns in the southeastern town of search is a response to videos doing the rounds on social media that appear to show boat voting at a polling station which is the same town where four people were killed in violence leading up to the election you can read plenty more about these high stakes elections in turkey on our web site sound zero dot com there's a special section dedicated to our comprehensive coverage as worries about the news now the united states has reportedly told rebels not to expect military support in southern syria near jordan and the israeli occupied

golan heights ideas collations aims established last year which includes parts of the provinces of daraa and netra rebels there facing a syrian government offensive the latest developments there four civilians have been killed in eastern parts of daraa activists have reported at least twenty five russian as strikes since saturday. fighting in the port of what data is forcing more yemenis to escape most are headed to the capital sanaa hoping to find safety that the largest yemeni port has been bombed for the past twelve days in the saudi an iraqi led coalition campaign to oust hoofy rebels the reports. on the road they hope to safety families escape the fighting in her data and head to would send that despite the un's also to take away the control of her day to court the warring sides haven't agreed to the proposal these yemenis like thousands of others have decided they've waited long enough for any ceasefire to be agreement

so they're escaping with the few possessions they've managed to pack. in and we have been displaced because of aggression and we have left our houses and all families in her day we have escaped. an estimated thirty thousand people have left her data in the last three weeks including this mother and her ten children they just arrived in santa. clara and we lift our home because it came under attack from all kinds guns and tanks my children couldn't sleep because of the fear of shrapnel now we haven't gotten in camps we have nothing but the most likely end up staying in places like this former school now it's home to three thousand displaced families and. as a nation we lived and died and throughout the crisis we got food baskets. but over the last few days there's been lots of bombing and i was scared my children so we

came to sauna. and. forces from the saudi amarok he led coalition which are backing yemeni government troops are moving closer to the center of her day to city the u.n. says the fighting will exacerbate what is already the world's worst humanitarian crisis with twenty two million yemenis dependent on age and at least eight million on the verge of starvation victoria gate and be zero. plenty will still ahead here on this news hour including. tell you what happened when protesters tried to stop a bus carrying migrant children near the us mexico border plus. police officers under arrest after an attack on the prime minister's rally. was. and could this be the happiest scene at the world cup they'll tell you how senegal

could dance their way into the knockout stages. a rescue ship with more than two hundred refugees and migrants on board remains in limbo in the mediterranean after asli a little to refused a permission to dock the german vessel lifeline picked up the refugees and migrants between libya and the italian island of lampedusa on thursday new government has banned migrant rescue ships from docking at its ports and called on malta to take the boat. says it's not responsible. this is. that there are two hundred thirty four people on board of the libyan coast fortunately we don't have any pressing medical condition so the situation is stable right now on the floor babies and mothers are relatively well it appears we're politics is being carried out on the back of these refugees rescuing people in danger it is not

a crime shouldn't gaited blame and returning them to libya is against it you need a refugee convention. spain's coast guard has rescued nearly eight hundred refugees migrants trying to cross the mediterranean sea from north africa they were in a fleet of around twenty five small boat sailing between the moroccan and spanish coast. so countries are in a standoff over what to do about this influx of refugees and migrants sixteen leaders from the european union meeting in brussels out of a major summit on migration on thursday germany wants e.u. states to accept asylum seekers but more evenly that some countries like italy are resistant the mccain joins us live now from brussels so don't be seen these leaders arriving for this mini summit before thursday's big summit well they've been saying so far. well those who've bothered to stop and talk to the press on their way into the building to be quite revelator in some ways we've heard from angela merkel

saying that the chances of of progression of a real solution well they don't look particularly good weather today or on thursday because thursday as you were mentioning in your introduction laura is the big summit with this summit here right now sixteen countries most of whom seem to think that there isn't a solution at the national level that it's better to be done at the e.u. level but that in itself is interesting because one of the leaders taking part in this meeting today the dutch prime minister mark of it when he stopped and spoke to the media said well he was interested to see what sort of progress there could be without the participation of countries such as those that make up the visit a group that's central and eastern european states the czech republic slovakia hungary and poland all of whom really don't agree with this idea of a plan e.u. solution don't want to see migrants being allowed to stay in their countries and who some of whom have been changing the law in their countries to prevent it so that's the sort of backdrop to this summit here those sixteen countries all in the

building behind me every playing down expectations of coming up with a comprehensive plan that this is an urgent crisis that we just saw there that hundreds of migrants are once again in limbo. yes that's the point here that's the that's what the brain does this meeting more than academic that's what gives it the poignancy that they're all trying to find solutions the problem is the many member states differ about what that solution really is we hear and i'm going to merkel saying we don't expect progress that this is about trying to find bilateral trilateral perhaps multilateral solutions the same sort of thing that emanuel might cause being saying that he thinks that the way ahead is for understandings between countries that can find an understanding remember. he thinks his idea is the best proposal would be ones where they could see centers could be set up in north african countries that could as it were filtered through the applications of people who want to come to the e.u. to decide who is an economic migrant and who is fleeing

a war zone he also is keen on seeing an end to the sort of secondary movement of people that's the other crux of this matter what happens to those people who come to the e.u. who claim asylum in one e.u. states and then move on to another and try to do the same thing that is what is energizing what angela merkel might consider to be the awkward squad the e.u. nations as i said the visa grad group but then also states such as it's early and austria because the austrian leader sebastian cortes is the chancellor will be here and he does not share perspective his point her point of view rather about what to do with with migrants refugees who present themselves and that's why whether it's possible for sixteen leaders here at the european commission today to find any common ground well that will be one thing the question then will be whether those states who aren't at this meeting the other twelve can agree with anything that that emerges from today and went to see very well indeed and they would like to.

now migration is also a major issue in the u.s. where protesters in the state of texas have stopped a bus carrying children. and then later. against donald trump zero tolerance policy on immigration police were called to a reception center near the border with mexico the bus was allowed to continue its journey border patrol agents didn't say where it was going president trump has ordered an end to the separation of migrant children from their parents but many remain in detention let's go live now to get was on the he's in brownsville on the border with mexico again as you've been reporting over the past few days it's a very confused situation there in that border area what next for the children who are still in detention sentance. yeah that's the question everyone seems to be asking what next when will these children be reunited with their parents who are seeking asylum here in the u.s.

i can tell you late saturday night the department of homeland security sent out a fact sheet update e-mail and it had some very interesting numbers in it numbers we have not heard before according to the department of homeland security five hundred and twenty two unaccompanied minors have been reunited with their parents now this is new information you ask who are these children by all accounts and no understanding these are children that are teenagers that crossed into the border with out any guardian or without any parents but were most likely either one of two things either detained for sure but then reunited with a parent or a guardian or a cousin or someone else that's already in the u.s. or perhaps deported back to where their parents are in central america so five hundred twenty two have been returned to their parents or guardian these children

but they don't give any more details about exactly where who these children were but we least have a number there department of homeland security also says that the department of health and human services still has two thousand and fifty three. children that were separated from their parents that are in shelters all over the united states including this shelter you see behind me which is a former wal-mart store this has several hundred young boys in there we've seen no activity and sort of reunification of anything happening here but new information two thousand by two thousand and fifty three children the u.s. government confirms are still in shelters here in the u.s. essentially in the custody of u.s. authorities as they try to reunite them with their parents no indication on when that reunion reunification might happen but the government says they're working hard but clearly lot of a lot of children still needing to be reunited with their with their parents and

yes. thanks for the update now from texas. zimbabwe's presidential spokesman has confirmed next month's election will go ahead as planned to spice an attack. campaign rally on saturday. the president described unscathed after a grenade was thrown near the stage but several senior officials were hurt including a vice president to say media has updated the number of injured to forty nine election in july will be the first since i was ousted in a military coup last november. she joins us live from harare and the police press conference what updates they have. all the stadium where the blast occurred has been cordoned off it is now a crime scene the police peeling to the public anyone saw anything did any people on the phone please come forward in that it is the police at the financial reward

has been offered we're told on tuesday or political parties planned to be to sign a peace agreement a peace accord basically committing to repay and peaceful election in zimbabwe campaigning if you will continuing around the country the grade of the state to resume his campaign trail i sometimes make a week we only have the regional countries in southern africa also maybe planning to also meet i did increased security in the wake of these elections ok many thanks for that update from harare well meanwhile in ethiopia nine police officials have been arrested in arrested over alleged security lapses that led to a grenade attack at a political rally in the capital addis ababa which also happened on saturday the new prime minister it was taken to safety but two people were killed and more than one hundred fifty were injured six of us suspects are also being held but no group has claimed responsibility for the last day joins us now live from. so no claim

responsibility but interesting that the arrests have been police. yes indeed laura what's happening is the police say. all of the nine policemen that they are holding one of them is the deputy commander of all the. police which is a huge thing when you look at how far. the situation is reaching all the investigations conclusive of the moment now the ease many people here shocked that people could go to such lengths so hard people want to come together to demonstrate peacefully in support of prime minister reform agenda which many in support of the six of us the top and others that apart from that mind police arrested by the people who want to come play out the thousands who were

there who said that they saw one of them throwing getting married to woods at the diocese with prime minister and other dignitaries what they say the others while accomplices and these reforms that the prime minister says and i mean just how big are they and how do you think felt in the country. well i want to look at your hero and how cruel society it's been how the block or some of the most basic of freedom of speech freedom of assembly and things like that you would understand why people are really kartik about the reform agenda amount by prime minister and already we're seeing the change here change in terms of how the media is covering how the opposition and the local media owned by

the government are in many ways similar in the stories they're covering are also opposition leaders who have lived in exile for decades now hakim that is a journalist who has been in exile for many years buck and reporting here about what's happening at a train your peers because for a country that you fought a very long and bloody war is considering sending a delegation in the coming days so mobs and lots of reforms are taking place at the same time but the big question is will also paused to those reforms stop wrote the prime minister argue or you will have his way one hundred day thanks very much for bringing us the latest there from at this hour ok time now for the weather and has richard with news of flooding from eighteen months ago we were looking at the south asian monsoon yes they were if you remember laura today will do the east asia now as soon and it's again a pretty messy picture cost much regency these great storm clouds across southern

parts of china in particular and through towards me and mark it is all been very lively indeed so as we look at how things developing these shots coming from nannying province and you see the depths of the water come down a bit look at from the rainfall totals the don't look that impressive but urban areas cause flooding these sort of situations can be very impressive indeed and it does look as though this. situation is probably going to get worse before it gets better or into the time the year now where this is what you really come to expect and you can see the cloud spreading on in more storm clothes coming in across me and mark and through into southern parts of china also going to include laos and parts of vietnam as well and see one or they're under an area of particularly heavy rain so that continues over the next twenty four forty hours meanwhile across in south asia we've heard some very big rainfall totals in dhaka bangladesh and down through the western ghats also a lot of rain being reported here too it looks as though we're going to see further

heavy rain over the next twenty four forty hours of see it all tends to come impulses and that's very much what we're going to see over the next twenty four hours more heavy rain down through the western ghats over the eastern side of india also some flooding is likely but delhi still dry. there's a thanks very much still ahead here on al-jazeera snakebites kill more than one hundred thousand people a year with a cut why this is especially a problem in nigeria and from boom town to ghost town how china is trying to combat the effects of tourism on the and vironment plus. i'm on the richardson of the world cup in russia where fans are getting used to the are they have a referees are also watching the action on a big screen. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories join the listening post as we turn the cameras on the

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and are again watching out as there is around my. top stories this hour turkish president one has voted in high stakes the elections will complete the transition to a political system and is seeking reelection for a five year term with vastly increased powers under the new constitution. activists in syria say fifty russian as strikes hit the province of daraa overnight as the government offensive there continues four civilians have been killed u.s. has reportedly told syrian rebels not to expect its military support. and e.u. leaders are meeting in brussels ahead of a major summit on migration on thursday as deep division among the monks broke about how to distribute the number of arrivals germany wants to share ask asylum

seekers more fairly but some countries such as disagree. let's get more now on our top story turkey's elections and ahmed is an associate professor of international relations istanbul's university joins us now from istanbul good to have you with us let's look at the opposition first of all we saw those rallies that the lead. managed to draw out onto the streets of a huge numbers how much of a challenge is he to president. well thank you for having me i think it is very very important what is displayed now is for the i would say for the first time for the better far of the past decade we are seeing some momentum in the opposition. and this this elections that are being held today are thanks to that motivation and momentum on the part of the opposition are

competitor ones which proves the reseal eons of turkish democracy and even if the opposition doesn't make any invasion to the presidency there are still see parliamentary elections happening today and the opposition formed a very strong bloc so that about one when there's a presidency that does not keep the majority in parliament as we still face huge challenges well the opposition or let me put it that way the opposition alliance so to speak which consists of four parties three of them on the right and c.h.b. which could nominally be called on the left are not going to win elections in terms of winning the majoritarian the parliament under the best of circumstances anyway this is what the polls show but the opposition competence puts the opposition

alliance plus the h.t.t.p. the largely kurdish dominated party which allied itself with. with perturbed issues left so to say. might win the majority in the parliament but that would even only come with a slight margin according to all the studies that are carried out so how significant is the kurdish they tear of course if the h.d.d. being a pro kurdish party. well h.t.t.p. is going to get majority seems of the kurdish wote but it also will get waltz from urban centers like is stumbles the so-called strategy quarters most of which probably r.c.h. the waters we would not be able to say this for sure until the exit polls are carried out and on till the exact results are out by starting from six

pm today but. all the polls that are carried out show how crucially important those strategies voters are for h.t.t.p. passing the ten percent threshold if p.h.p. does not pass the ten percent threshold that would mean net sixty to seventy members of parliament shifting. from h.t.t.p. to two airline says but again according to a credible studies. if that happens to be the case six or seven of those. parliamentary seats at max some of them will go to the opposition alliance and the rest will be going to the alliance of akbar t. and m h b is the could call it as the governing coalition. then the governing

coalition will be having a majority a clean slate majority of perhaps up to sixty to eighty m.p.'s ok and although i don't lie and many line of argument you have to join me at that from istanbul. now iraq's prime minister heard all about he and clerics. are entering into a political alliance which they say will cast across sectarian and ethnic divisions such as siren party won the largest number of seats then disputed election in may about his victory alliance was heard leaders say they're open to other parties joining them. we have notes across sectarian cross ethnic alliance to speed up forming the next government a strong new government that serves the interests of the regions of the iraqi people and how do you see. how the. coalition and other political

parties to join us we call for a high level meeting with all of the political blocs to rid the country of its current crisis. he was president donald trump's son in law and senior advisor says the administration will soon present its peace plan for israel and palestine and he said this will happen with or without input from palestinian president mahmoud abbas he made the comments in the interview with palestinian newspaper al could string his trip to israel because she was quoted as saying that he doubts as capable of making a deal but added that he's still willing to work with him the palestinian leader cut communications with the trumpet ministration after recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. while the details of the so-called deal of the century haven't officially been released here's what has emerged from the leaks the palestinians would initially control gaza and less than half of the occupied west bank and a palestinian capital would be created from villages surrounding jerusalem israelis would retain security control over the jordan valley and have total control over

palestinian travel between the west bank and gaza the corridor will be created between palestinian territory and jerusalem's holy sites it appears palestinians would have to surrender the principle of the right of return of palestinian refugees expelled during the creation of israel and the future of illegal israeli settlements on the final border between israel would be decided at a later date. i foresee it has more details from west jerusalem. well there's very little here that gives precise indications as to what might be in the black and white of the trim deal but what there is in this interview given by gerrard cushion are indications as to the general direction of travel of the united states administration and the way that it intends to approach this two things really stand out he's putting a lot of store by economic incentive saying that palestinians may well care less about the talking points of their leaders than the prospects of better paying jobs for future generations of their people the other thing that stands out and is

evidenced in that is the way that he is trying really to bypass the leadership of mahmoud abbas the palestinian president appealing directly through this interview which is being read by palestinians to the palestinian people themselves saying that perhaps the promising leadership is scared that palestinians might actually like what was in this deal and saying that mahmoud abbas perhaps doesn't have the ability to take the lead take the leap rather towards a compromise but there are also things which are really obvious by that absence in this interview no mention of settlements of occupation of the very controversial decision by donald trump to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and indeed to move the u.s. embassy there so the fact that that hasn't been addressed for many palestinians these aren't just mere talking points of the leadership these are very much core principles and as far as leadership is concerned it has reacted with pretty

restrained fury to all this the palestinian president's spokesman saying the united states is trying to create false history has been falsified in facts the p.l.o. second general side erekat is accuse them of trying to separate gaza and the palestinian authority even further and indeed undermine the palestinian authority leadership in the west bank so no prospect at this stage that the palestinian leadership has and wants anything to do with the united states administration or its plan even ahead of its publication. snakebites killed more than one hundred thousand people every year the world health organization says reducing the number of fatalities as a global health priority many victims are in nigeria where as act went it just reports doctors struggling to save lives. this man was bitten by a snake three days ago but he's only now arriving at hospital for treatment two hundred kilometers away a medical crisis is unfolding in nigeria where i distances between medical

facilities can prove the difference between life and death and medicines are either too expensive for many quite short supply before the doctor here can finish attending to the patient his call to another victim who's just been brought in we had a severe it's been since then and now. and as time goes on as we're entering the rainy season properly we'll be having more growth people. on the farm and also because of sleeping also thousands of people are bitten by sneaks in nigeria every year but health experts can't be sure exactly how many died because of poor access in rural areas. this is the only hospital treating victims of snakebites in a region of more than thirteen million nigerians doctors and nurses here are struggling to cope with the rising number of patients doctors say many cases arrive

year late sometimes too late and patients die or end up with permanent disability it took our people when nearly five days to get help to leave our love i never gone through unbelievable suffering to get here it's just that i didn't day at some point at least a decade. carpet vipers are responsible for eighty percent of the cases in this hospital. i do seventy going to cost one hundred fifty dollars but there are some dubious antivenom is being offered on the market and they can help of course death rather than prevent it. so many people are dying in the bush or india or areas where there is no access road or and snow and when i go there are so many. countries and they have been are circulating in the area but a growing population there is a need for more land to grow food and that has set humans and dangerous reptiles on a collision course more snakes in their natural habitat are being disturbed as more

crops are planted the rising number of snake bite cases has prompted the regional government to build an extension to the hospital in an effort to meet the increased demand for treatment a few months ago the country was hit by a shortage of i just need venom drugs it's reported two hundred fifty people died in just three weeks with a crop planting season only now getting in the way hospitals are bracing for another surge in the number of snakebite victims in need of urgent help i meant it rhys al-jazeera come to nigeria a freight train carrying crude oil has deemed veil spilling around eight hundred seventy one thousand liters in the state of iowa several homes in nearby leon county will evacuate it and use engine put oil has leaked into rock river which is already flooding from heavy rains our fears of lasting contamination and impact on local drinking water. i think the most popular tourist spots in southwestern china

attract up to forty million visitors each year and this popularity has any cause its downfall as it says have been asked to shut shop as part of an attempt to save the lake and said jim brown reports that's also up to and the livelihoods of people living in the ancient city of dolly. china is rich in tradition and this is a relatively new one posing for wedding photos before the big day and the high lake in you know and province is a popular backdrop. it's one of china's biggest freshwater lakes and one of its most beautiful. almost forty million people visited in two thousand and sixteen now that rapid growth in tourism. is taking its toll on these once pristine waters last april the government told the

owners of almost two thousand hotels and restaurants near the ancient town of darlie that they'd have to close for a year the order had followed a visit by president xi jinping who'd urged action to save the normally these narrow streets which are such a feature of the old village of dali would be teeming with visitors but since april two thousand and seventeen this place has been like a ghost town and the owners of these businesses simply have no idea when they'll be able to open again a sign of desperation rent contract expiring will sell for low price says this note huling owns two hotels and says their closure has cost around one million dollars in this incident that you knowing i'm from and i know the reasons why people come here because they're looking for somewhere beautiful but the closure of the hotels and the restaurants it has resulted in big damage to the local tourist industry. it

is though the damage to the environment that is the bigger concern to the president there's been a proliferation of new hotels and restaurants discharging untreated sewage directly into the lake workers have also been kept busy by an outbreak of exacerbating the pollution. but more than twelve months on some people like this local farmer complain that there's been little change in the water quality. close hotels around the lake so they can't discharge waste to water. the water quality. but not by very much workers are laying pipes for a new water treatment system inferi all hotels and restaurants would eventually be connected to these pipes only after that happens will they be allowed to open again and for many businesses that day can't come soon enough the lake is what draws so

many people here but environmentalists warn that the measures taken so far to try to save it may have come too late. adrian brown al-jazeera in darley southwest china. that's what is going. on the chechen award. has found himself at the heart of controversy again. land. july on al-jazeera in a new series of head to head match has been tackled the big issues with hard hitting questions mexico is getting ready for a general election what direction will the country take as it struggles with drug violence and economic instability people in power continues to examine the use and abuse of power around the world as the world cup in russia nears its end we'll bring you stories from on and off the pitch of the world's most viewed sporting

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ninety percent of the wild special dogs being fish tomato beyond best a stain upon limits growing demand an industrial fishing techniques pushing some populations of cod and china to the brink of collapse while millions of tons of other less marketable species are being used to fast eliza fish food simply discard it i'm so very rightly in london u.k. where marine scientists are working together with local fisherman to get consumers hooked on sustainable seafood it's. based in east

london a tiny startup by the name of sol shah is hoping to change london his relationship with fish. to fish for the german. order no discipline said. you choose how much for if you want how often you want to and come and get it from oh it's a bit like a budget box but let's say. we work with a couple of ensure fisherman we bother him and then handed out to us it's a really good way of just getting a home for the maze of fish trying things that maybe you haven't tried before and also supporting the guy. cool to mostyn flynn is one of five to three and a half thousand small scale fishermen working in english motives but unlike many out this these families have been in the business but generations to come to the trade a decade ago. the last of my fish it was still a problem was that a ball it was a toy ball for the darts and share of the skill set you know for the stronger for

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revisited al-jazeera. life in the islands fringing the antarctic peninsula is abundant the place of seemingly endless variety the whole region is richly biodiverse a living example of how things are pretty much free from the influence of man. by getting to see the astonishing wildlife here is by no means straightforward the weather makes everything a challenge the environment where wildlife is living is incredibly fragile incredibly delicate with all sorts of threats that are up against from climate change to cruel fishing and then of course there's this tourism the number of tourists coming down here at say the beginning of the two thousands was somewhere around four five thousand a year we're now over thirty thousand people a year and is still in pretty good shape but it's apparent this unique landscape needs to be very carefully managed as multiple threats begin to loom on the horizon

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