slaves it's brazil's oldest and his residents say they're more vulnerable than ever on drugs government has been rolling back environmental and human rights legislation. since i'm a pro and you don't know where to go for help we feel like. the federal government doesn't help us the local authorities don't care about us a mistake government tried to bribe us with fifteen million dollars landownership in brazil is among the most concentrated and unequal in the world order the intimidation the murders are rarely brought to justice this road and the bridge i'm standing on cut right through the middle of the king goma community there was no consultation no negotiation no compensation the authorities simply came and they built evil but it will feel was killed in by. and. i'm real to a spiritual standoff in. brazil is consistently the most dangerous country for environmental activists and these were just some of the nearly five hundred stood

in the way murdered since two thousand and two trying to protect their land from big business. it seems that those who run the country are construction companies mining companies and the agribusiness when you have land disputes in brazil bs economic groups define how the government reacts to cases of murder and threats and lucy is his her people have preserved this land they don't pollute the forest but when short term profit is put before sustainable development it's the most vulnerable the already marginalized who are most risk. by a state brazil. the count on al-jazeera this news hour swim against the current the senegalese people who say they're willing and able to work despite the physical disability and how they're scared to send them to the record one of the highest minds is in the wow.

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business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. hundreds of people with disabilities and join political leaders in london for the first ever global disability conference a woman of disabled people to be made a higher priority particularly in developing countries where many find it difficult to secure meaningful employment in senegal the government is pursuing new laws to encourage companies to create citable job opportunities because. it's in the water and crystal fields the most if you.

gomez was born with a genetic disorder that caused a malformation of his hands and arms. despite others staring at him he completely forgets about his disability. and if you. will suffer what. i feel like a fish in the water or like a bird in the sky anything is possible. after earning about schuller's in marketing works double shifts selling t.v. packages by day. and chinese takeaway by night. for the. disability is a state of mind we have so much to do to change public perception of people like me our society needs to stop seeing us as a burden and more like people you can depend on almost one in ten in senegal is handicapped and yet many still believe it is a curse like our gays parents who abandoned her as

a child she's been living on the streets with others like her trying to survive. this is two weeks old mobile phone footage of a police officer beating our gate to the ground because she was begging next to government buildings the officer was arrested and then later released and. i think they want us off the streets so do we what we need is work a job but no one will hire us members of parliament are debating a new law that will force private companies to hire people with disability and ensure handicapped children have access to schools. senegal is one of the fastest growing economy on the african continent yet seventy five percent of those with disability are illiterate. with this new piece of legislation the government wants to change that so that no matter what the disability everyone from participate in senegal's booming economy and it starts here in the only school for disabled in the

country she wants to be a banker jennifer a doctor and city wants to write and company their teacher says nothing can stop them getting their girls. why they need to overcome other people's prejudice go beyond their disability to be their best self and contribute to humanity then people will stop seeing their disability as a handicap that he was christopher good mrs teacher in school as much as it was that sort of attitude that cheap his outlook in life no longer handicapped by his disability but now equipped to overcome whatever challenges lie ahead. nicholas hawke al-jazeera the car let's get all the day's sports news that would show who's . julie thank you turkey's president at the un has weighed in on message in the german national team over claims of racism a meeting between as o.

who has turkish roots and the one in may sparks controversy in germany came before the team made a shock exit at the group stage of the world cup at the one says critics couldn't stomach the past meeting. i spoke to ms that as of last night first of all visits comments and his approach is completely nationalist it's beyond any form of admiration i extend my love and respect for him because such racist treatment towards a young man who is given has all to the german national team for his religious beliefs is an acceptable. meanwhile officials an ancestral town in turkey have put up a new sign marking. have a new they removed an old picture of him in his german kits and replaced it with israel standing with one to highlight his ties to the country . favors announced the shortlist for the world players and coaches of the year and

as you'd expect the big names from the world cup dominate the men's top ten there are plenty of threats to the decade long reign of christianity in alto and lee and all messy french stars. griezmann and rafael veranda all among the favorites while cup winning coach to the official is up against countryman dan for coach of the year as all the coaches from the other three semifinalists plus russia stanislav churches of the winners of the last two women's awards failed to make the list which is dominated by players from the european champions league five time when america and australian striker sam kerr also among the other nominees three finalists will be announced for each award ahead of the ceremony on september the twenty fourth. thomas continuously the tour de france from teammate chris froome after stage sixteen the one hundred eighty one kilometer stage in the pyrenees was won by julian phillipe but it was one that will be remembered for a bizarre incident in which the peloton was pepper sprayed by police now they

weren't being targeted intentionally the police had been trying to break up a protest by farmers who blocked the road with hay bales but the wind blew the pepper spray into the eyes of the passing riders growing thomas was among a number of competitors who needed medical attention when the race was stopped around fifteen minutes. and while you might have thought that the tour de france is tough it is really nothing compared to the trans-siberian extreme cycle race which started in moscow on cheese day the race is three times longer than the tour de france covering a total of nine thousand one hundred kilometers there are fifteen stages over twenty five days the longest of which is fourteen hundred case the riders cross five climate zones and seven time zones before getting to the finish line in flight if a stock take care has become the two year countdown to the olympics it will be the second time the japanese capital will host the games haven't been the venue in one

thousand nine hundred sixty four but concerns have been raised following a deadly heat wave across the country in the last two weeks temperatures have reached record levels and that's forcing organizers to think of ways to keep athletes and spectators safe our correspondent funny salami is that. i'm president. we can mention and now many airports have been. used. for them here in this the question they think that some kind of gray water spray devices he would use believe but in a lot of patients there are really no i think a big challenge which is how to use this. heat one of the ideas that they care about is stopping the game or sports and other conditions out earlier time for example one of the. seven o'clock on the fifty kilometer at work for the men when i don't think so go here in the morning. six time

a limpet gold medal winning swimmer ryan lochte he says he's cooperating with the u.s. anti-doping agency after being given a fourteen month ban usada punished the american for receiving an intravenous infusion of a permitted substance without first getting a therapeutic use exemption the agency found out about it after he posted a photo of the treatment on social media look he was expected to compete at this week's national championships in california it would have been is biggest event since coming back from a ten month ban following false claims he was robbed at the rio olympics this is devastating for my family and mean and i was finally back in top shape i was ready to turn to the national scene and represent the u.s. once again and that purpose if you're going to this summer and world championships of next year. i know it sounds like a harsh penalty for something unintentionally and we are doing it put anything prohibited in my body but a role as a rule and there is no call violation i wore have to consequences

the silk way rally continues to take its toll on the trucks and cars making their way from southern russia to moscow which is driver harry hunts who had been leading at the start of the three hundred sixty six kilometer long fourth stage is now well off the pace after suffering multiple mechanical issues such as not solitaire moved up to third overall despite having ongoing issues with his rig dave yes he'd al raji holds a forty six minute overall lead heading into wednesday's five hundred thirty seven kilometer stage to pull grass. and finally a polar skier has entered the record books as the first person to ski down from the top of k two in the himalayas i'm sorry but again had to first summit the world's second largest mountain which stands at eight thousand six hundred eleven meters the thirty year old then descended to base camp on his skis avoiding huge ridges of ice and progress is along the way. all right that is useful for now it is back to

judy in london so thank you you guys can find them much more about our stories on our website. at al-jazeera dot com you'll find loads of video on demand and input from our correspondent and experts around the globe that's it for this day's i'll be back in just a sec bill with much more of the day's to see that. august on al-jazeera european muslims today are facing the consequences of having their faith linked to armed attacks even though day two of victims of the violence the

largest multi-sport event on the continent asian games in jakarta i will host athletes competing in a mix of traditional and the olympic sports a vibrant new series of character led documentaries from immigrant neighborhoods across europe as a rainy and graceful u.s. sanctions due to get back in place on the sixth of august al-jazeera will cover the developments from time round in a three part series al-jazeera uncovers the motivations and impact of the brutal human exploitation system then lay the foundation of today's global powers ogust on al-jazeera. are fighting. young men who join us chabad in the battle for somalia. that. many never return. loved ones pick up for instance. to try to understand.

from the north i witnessed. in syria. the i.m.f. said riyadh's breakeven oil price of twenty eighteen is likely to be around eighty eight dollars a barrel why is argentina again turning to the i.m.f. for help now we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. the prime minister is calling it long speakable tragedy of the seventy six people are killed in wildfires in greece whole families are found huddled in a final embrace.

all of them jim mcdonald this is al jazeera live from london also coming up under some missing in a lie was softer down collapses sending more than two million of them pick swimming pools worth of water crashing into villages israel should stand a syrian fighter jet that it says strayed into israeli airspace. site security preparations pakistan gears up for an election one hundred million people are eligible to vote in. wildfires this went to a coastal areas near the greek capital athens have killed at least seventy six people including entire families rescuers fear they'll find more bodies after the fires devoured homes and forests people ran into the sea in a desperate attempt to get away from the flames and many fires are still burning the worst affected areas are connecticut west of athens and matty and refine it to the east where most of the deaths have occurred if barker reports now from the

tastes. would ferocious intense that see the flames tore through homes because of the livelihoods. of the wall five's quickly turned deadly. locked in a final embrace dozens of bodies discovered in the popular seaside village of monte east of athens families had huddled together for safety the found no escape. early this morning we discovered three other victims further away this place where unfortunately there are twenty six people when women and importunate children see. cars with the keys left in the ignition the doors open and first aid supplies left on the streets picture emerges of people abandoning their cars and trying to escape on foot. within hours large parts of marty had been destroyed survivors described running for the sea to escape the choking smoke military and coast guard

vessels along with dozens of private boats join the effort to rescue more than seven hundred people from the beaches some survivors were discovered at sea here in the resort town of marty nearly every block nearly every street there are signs of devastation like this charred cars lined the streets the fire was so intense here it's even melted the metal on some of these vehicles and some locals who've returned to inspect what's left of their properties in every fourth or fifth house here seems to have almost been completely destroyed but where do you begin thinking about the building owners emergency crews supported by the military go from house to house and as coast guards inspect the sea the fear is the death toll could rise to see many eleventh he is the me me or africa today greece's morning and in memory of those who perished we are declaring three days of

national mourning however we should not let that overwhelm us because this is a time to fight to be unified and courageous you're buying up all early in the hot dry weather fires burn on the other side of athens too there was panic because greeks looked for their neighbors the flames closing here. this is a coastal town an hour's drive west of the capital fire crews try to limit the destruction but it was out of their control. an appeal for international help has resulted in additional resources being dispatched from spain and cyprus to deal with the worst wildfires in more than a decade in two thousand and seven more than eighty people were killed as fires raged across the country for days. this year the dry winter has again cause tinderbox conditions with one hundred kilometer an hour winds fanning the flames for greece in peak tourist season the fires are

a danger to its frontal economy only adding to the toll of a tragic summer move barca al-jazeera monte east of athens. hundreds of people are missing after a hydroelectric dam that was under construction partially collapsed in laos it's not known how many people were killed but fountains have also been left homeless in after province after the collapse and flash floods are nearby villages where he reports from bangkok in neighboring thailand. in this part of southeastern laos villages have disappeared beneath muddy water that cascaded down stream on monday nights. it's not known how many people have been affected by the partial collapse of the city and say numb noisy dam but it's thought that some four thousand families lived in the downstream area the dam was still under construction on a tributary of the mekong river after a recent heavy rain it's believed a warning was issued that a so-called saddle dam built around the reservoir was in danger of collapsing the

warning apparently didn't come in time for many people laos is a landlocked impoverished country that embarked on an ambitious plan to become the battery of southeast asia by exporting l.-a tricity to neighboring countries this dam on the main stream of the mekong river in the south is one of at least seventy that the communist government has built has under construction or planned but for years critics have warned of impacts on the environment livelihoods and express concerns about safety is down great shows several things that shows that there are there are major risks and downs that are. down designs that maybe i'm able to cope with extreme weather events such as very heavy rains that. laos is a secretive one party state and there will also be concerns about the transparency of any investigation that may be launched into this incident wayne hay al jazeera bangkok.

israel shot down a syrian jet that it says violated its airspace their plane crashed on the syrian side of the golan heights where the syrian air force has launched several raids against rebels syria says the jet was flying over its own territory stephanie decker reports. the israeli army has confirmed that the jet went down in the southern golan heights on the syrian side which is the area behind us the army says that it penetrated israeli airspace two kilometers that it was monitored and then intercepted by two patriot missiles the syrians are saying that the jet was targeted inside its air space well it's been a very active conflict behind us we've seen russian jets in the sky we've seen syrian jets in the sky over the last couple of days the last opposition held area in southwest syria and just to tell you around here as a as a full out really from that patriot attack on the jet we've seen burning fields at

some point we bumped into some soldiers who were assessing the damage they were saying that that was probably due to the actual. outgoing so now what you can see is further airstrikes that are happening in this area it is controlled by a group affiliated with eisel which is why at the moment there are no offers to negotiate with them which is happen to other areas along this border it is the last held opposition area in southwest syria and the syrians together with the russian allies are very keen to take it back u.n. envoy for peace in the middle east this want of increasingly frequent and day very dangerous confrontations between israel and syria and it blew me off that made the comments during the u.n. security council meeting in new york diplomatic editor james pace explained. it's a time of fresh tension in the middle east the u.n. special coordinator briefing by video link from jerusalem warned of troubling developments too from this as we meet today tensions between syria and israel

continue through us while lost on saturday we were minutes away from another devastating confrontation between israel and hamas in gaza. even before the meeting started the israeli ambassador came to brief reporters on the downing of the syrian jet which he claimed to infiltrate israeli airspace he dodged my question though about a deal which president trump has said he's done with president putin concerning israeli security the world really doesn't know what the deal is can you explain more for us i don't know about you know a friend and i can tell you one thing we will not allow that even to be the basis that our borders in that one height this is our policy and by means that are now with very clear about if we name it is to put in when you meet mr trump wherever he was meeting with her the same we would not allow the iranians to be at their bases next week while i do have an agreement. we have a policy we don't have an agreement inside the council meeting the israeli

ambassador went on to blame the escalation of violence in gaza on hamas while his palestinian counterpart said it was the result of israeli on going occupation and aggression that sweden has the presidency of the council this month it sam bacile his assessment was sobering there are you know questions to be put whether there are real preparations for peace in the region we have constant bandaids on the wounds that are there but no real long term solutions everyone is waiting for a credible peace plan we haven't seen that yet the us has for eighteen months said it's coming up with that he's plan but there were no fresh details from ambassador nikki haley she instead used her speech to attack countries of the arab world talk is cheap no group of countries is more generous with their words than the palestinians arab neighbors and other member states but all of the words spoken

here in new york do not feed clothe or educate a single palestinian child. it's not just on bass today haley's hectoring to own that has ruffled feathers members of the security council are frustrated that they've been given no details of the u.s. administration's middle east peace plan or of a secret deal that's already been done between the u.s. russia and israel over syria jamesburg zero at the united nations says amir is in london for talks with the british prime minister he met to resume downing street with the pair discuss the fens and security cooperation as well as joint work for the twenty twenty two football world cup in qatar in mir is keen to strengthen relations with western allies amid a blockade on this country and neighboring arab states as mourner central and qatar's emir and britain's prime minister bonded over football chatter i mean been

hammered he told terrorism a he was impressed with the english football team. he hoped they would do better when his country hosts the next world cup it was well to see. this. then the discussion shifted to politics the g.c.c. crisis and bilateral relations qatar is one of the biggest investors in the u.k. and a major buyer of british military hardware. last year when saudi arabia u.a.e. bahrain and egypt sapper times with qatar and imposed a blockade doha bought twenty four typhoon fighter jets from the u.k. . during a ceremony at old scars parade in central london the president of the flag over joint squadron of qatar.