troy civic on al-jazeera. facebook says it's uncovered sophisticated efforts to influence the upcoming u.s. midterm elections. other again i'm certain this is al jazeera life from london also coming up around the skeptical over president charles offer of talks with officials saying they don't trust the u.s. . fifteen dead in afghanistan after gunmen stormed a government building in jalalabad taking dozens of hostages plus.

opposition supporters confident that man has won zimbabwe's president saying despite delays in the release of election results. social media giant facebook says it's discovered a coordinated campaign to influence america's midterm elections using its internet platforms is removed thirty two pages it believes in authentic or links to fake organizations aimed at creating divisions before november's vote almost three hundred thousand people follow the suspended pages alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . the phone to the facebook mark zuckerberg went to capitol hill to admit his company hadn't done enough to stop foreign groups trying to influence the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was

a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry. now as part of its continuing investigation into election interference it discovered it's happening again and so it has suspended thirty two pages on the platform and instagram which it also means they are going to be a hair trigger alert for you know for the foreseeable future so any instances that crop up like this they're likely to take to take action and then be public about that action the company uses artificial intelligence and human investigators to flag up automated accounts. you know only deal with the face of social issues aimed at finding conflict and upset. one page called resisters created an event a counter protest to unite the right rally a white nationalist gathering in washington d.c. in august it was found to be a fake group and the page was disabled and the event deleted it says it can't definitively tie this is spending accounts to russia but suggests it was possibly

involved american intelligence agencies have been warning for months russia's efforts to undermine american democracy are active under threat to november's elections at a cyber security summit in new york the homeland security secretary said the country is facing what she called a hard a can of threats let me also again take this opportunity to issue a warning as i have in other forums in speeches to any foreign power that would consider meddling in our networks or in the affairs of our democracy the united states will no longer tolerate or accept your interference you will be exposed and you will pay a high price facebook has been heavily criticized for not doing enough to stop outside interference in the twenty six thousand election it's determined that won't happen again and it says it continues to work with the f.b.i. to identify threats and remove them from its platforms. al jazeera washington.

iranian politicians have reacted with skepticism half the u.s. . donald trump offered to meet with the iranian president without preconditions iran's foreign minister mohammed jevons irie said on twitter the u.s. only had itself to blame for leaving the negotiating table after its withdrawal from the u.k. dale we drew from the nuclear code a many saying it was too generous to ramp up sanction this is the first of which comes into effect next week it's a must ravi has more from touching on iran's reaction. there's been a chorus of reaction from iranian leaders to donald trump's invitation for talks with iran and all of them are in agreement donald trump is the man who pulled the united states out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal and has proven that he cannot be trusted so any future talks are simply a nonstarter now any time the trump administration has thrown a curve ball like this to iran especially with regards to the nuclear deal president hassan rouhani iran's president has pretty much done the same thing over

and over again he's turned to european partners other signatories to the deal and he said to them that it is now your turn to step in and make sure the deal survives we're doing our part and now you must do yours you must resist american economic threats you must exert resist american sanctions you must resist the you know unilateral sanctions against iran and help us to continue to try to realize any sort of economic merits that can still be gained from the nuclear deal and that's what he did today meeting with rob macare the british ambassador to tehran from the united kingdom and he said that there was a few points that had to be reiterated that iran has no intention of disrupting any sort of shipping lanes and the oil shipping lanes in the persian gulf as he said he also said that iran has no intention of refraining from the sale and export of its own oil and so that was a very clear message being sent to the european union that it's time for you guys to step in and help us out now rob macare is

a former oil executive himself and for his part he said that he is. to be into iran at such an important time and that he would do whatever he could in his power as ambassador to help iran at this time a very clear signal to iran that the fight is not over that we support the nuclear agreement as long as you stand by it and a clear message to the united states and the trumpet ministration that you do not have a global support for unilateral sanctions against iran and that europe will continue to deal with iran as it sees fit. after his recent summit with kim jong il president declared north korea was no longer a nuclear threat but u.s. satellites have reportedly detected we need activity at one of the country's main ballistic missile production sites u.s. intelligence officials told the washington post the country appeared to be building new intercontinental ballistic missiles they sign on dong facility it's the same site where the first missile capable of reaching the u.s.

force produced trump administration commenting on the reports. an attack on a government building in afghanistan has killed at least fifteen people and injured fourteen of those two gunmen set off explosions and stormed the department office for refugees in the city of jalalabad which has seen many deadly attacks security forces fought for six hours to end the siege this after a bus hit a roadside bomb killing eleven passengers shelob ellis reports from kabul. jalalabad one of afghanistan's biggest cities and into the walls are as torn as mace the department of refugee fears for a conference on how to help displaced afghans they were targeted. explosions hit the compounds exterior allowing to government to get past the rules but others have

a government you know i was sitting in my medical store when gunman entered the refugee department right after that they started shooting and one of them blew himself up at the gate or saw two injured people come out of the building for several hours sporadic gunfire was heard across the neighborhood smoke billowing from the building as afghan special forces hunted the remaining gunman the building is next door to the city's main hospital ten people were treated to with critical injuries. it's also. just one hundred meters from a midwife training center that was attacked in the same way on saturday three staff members were killed and sixty seven trapped inside for hours. in the last three months there have been thirty attacks against civilians in this province that have killed one hundred sixty people and wounded nearly five hundred attacks in afghanistan extend to every border one at daybreak in western fower province killed a live in passengers of a bus and wounded dozens drove over

a roadside bomb on the main highway towards kabul. thought in the words it was i was taking one of my relatives daughters to the treatment of me our bus was hit by a roadside bomb but highway i don't know what happened to the girl all wish she is now the government is blaming the taliban for the bus bombing but in a hard province the taliban has denied any involvement leaving the primary suspects the area is a stronghold for both groups they are becoming more active with more complex attacks and increasingly it's civilians who are being killed or injured shiela ballasts out as they are a couple. were getting news just coming in from mexico of a plane crash the airliner from the national carrier mexico came down shortly after takeoff in the northern state of durango there are no reports of casualties yet but local reports say some survivors have been found close to a nearby highway and it's reported the plane was carrying ninety seven passengers

and four crew members. zimbabwean civil society groups are trying to illegally force electoral commission to publish election results from all polling stations results have been trickling in after monday's historic vote both current president. and opposition leader nelson chamisa say they're confident of victory. as more from harare. the wait to find out who has won zimbabwe's presidential election could be a long one parliamentary. but the presidential will only be announced when all results from the more than ten thousand polling stations have been tallied for now also bobbies can do is look at the individual results posted outside a specific polling station the final official result will only be announced in the

coming days. with. a knife. because he is the only thing the mission. will be to do not the. numbers of the. opposition supporters say they are worried about voter fixing and insist they are ready to defend a vote. to say they are not going to accept. this is. the way. to his supporters who say they have already tally to votes the main opposition leader nelson has won. i wanted to turn himself. in the letter of. the word. of.

what it was written because we felt that. the official results could only be announced by the electoral commission we're not. the actions. civic organizations individuals and other interested groups. are pretty clear in that they will a mouse was also respect for the progress of the law ladies and gentlemen sure no one wants to provoke the ruffled. so into you. with both the rulings on party and the main opposition to see alliance confident of victory the stakes are high there can be only one winner and should all be a window be a loser. but zimbabwe as a country will be that world winner if everybody please their part of the world

whoever wins must be magnanimous in victory and whoever loses must be gracious in defeat. in africa elections often the stakes are very high and nobody has a backup plan for losing diplomats and observer groups say the race we saw a turnout of seventy five percent is too close to call. al-jazeera. south africa's president says the ruling african national congress will push ahead with plans for the expropriation of land from white farmers without compensation so around opposers says the a.n.c. will try to amend the constitution with the support of the left wing economic freedom fighters the issue of land ownership is one of the most contentious in south africa with some pointing to zimbabwe's economic collapse after long before where i am opposes the move is likely to appeal to his base ahead of elections next year the intention of this proposed amendment is to promote

redress advance economic development increase our going to cultural production and food security it will also transform the un just special realities in urban areas to accelerate agrarian reform. the air the sea has further directed government to gently initiate farmer support programs in depressed areas before the festering this year this should include supporting farmers with two tractors fertilizers c extension services finance and access to key infrastructure. still to come this half hour hundreds of hikers are rescued from an indonesian mountain hit's fine earthquake they found those have been left homeless. on the first chant of stem

from russia investigation gets underway with trump's campaign manager paul manapul in the dark. and i was getting warm again in adelaide now there's a front coming off the bite so you can't really tell much from that little curls going through next one's already forming however full cost was wrapped about sixty feet in the sunshine on one side that's not spectacular not far from average only thirteen in melbourne but consider sydney's had like is the warmest july on record as pretty much that it's been warm for some but not for other seventeen in person sees the incoming rain go through and then leave you a sixty in the sunshine the following day but ahead of that rain again the breeze at the interior twenty one not laid out that is by no means a record as has been much warmer in adelaide but is quite

a few degrees above the average so that a warm spell then the last from the run through this one here is left rain in new zealand which means you should get at least one day of sunshine when that is see he was wednesday fifty degrees in christchurch a few showers in the west coast about the same in oakland but probably brighter weather on the day after well actually not overly bad you got rain coming in again but it's going to be caught i think on the western side walk around a bit to christ church in the shower too seems likely in all current significant rain is still arrived in the far west of japan but the remains of john dari is just here heading for shanghai. this is known for its history and from today a new generation is shaking things up for me is my everything five thousand six hundred years it's all different so there's all these cultures i'm now

on top of each other. we're here to see how the. culture and forward. welcome back reminder of the top stories stay on al-jazeera facebook says it's found evidence of coordinated attempts to influence the u.s. made ten elections in november. in mexico a plane operated by the national carrier m r r m or a mexico has crashed shortly after takeoff in the northern state of durango there

are no reports of casualties yet ninety seven passengers and four crew were on board and the least fifteen people have died in afghanistan up to gunmen set off explosions and still in the government building in jalalabad. the u.n. special envoy on syria says iran russia and turkey well prioritize drafting a new syrian constitution as part of peace talks seven de mistura made the comments as the latest round of negotiations wrapped up in the russian city of sochi from where are the reports. the talks focused on three main issues the first one the formation of a constitutional committee under the auspices of the u.n. both sides have actually put forward a list of twenty five names each but there is no committee yet what everyone has agreed upon is that the guarantor countries meaning russia turkey any iran will meet in geneva with the early september to talk again about how to form this

committee now the big issue overshadowing these talks is the possibility of an offensive in the province that's where a lot of the armed rebels have retreated to and it's also home to three million civilians and now the syrian ambassador do you do un who is heading the delegation here didn't directly tackle the issue but he certainly did underline that his government wants to extend its authority to the entire country was a cutie. when it comes to the sovereignty of the syrian government there is no compromise according to the mutual agreement reached on a stone of the time frame for deescalation arius was just six months a creation of such an area in italy but was to test the level of trust we have in turkey however the opposition seemed much more alarmed that actually such an

offensive could happen very soon and warned against it. i would like to point out that the agreements reached as part of the a stone a former are not being observed by the syrian government recently there has been a threat of an assault on the from the syrian army i warn you if this does happen this will put a real obstacle towards a peaceful settlement and i urge caution governments not to support the syrian national army in this russia said that the situation in libya was critical they didn't rule out the possibility of another round of hostilities between the two size but it seemed to downplay the idea that that was going to happen in the short term but should. we nevertheless hope that the moderate opposition and turkish partners who have the obligation to stabilize this region will manage to resolve the issue but unfortunately i have to say that again the

threat that comes from this region is still very high and the third topic is when russia is scheme to put forward the resettlement of refugees russia wants the international community to share the burden western powers are not. on board yet some say it's too soon others say that cannot happen without any serious move on the political front now if there is one could create achievement is that all parties have agreed to meet again before the end of the year. eleven talks. hundreds of hikers trapped on a mountain in indonesia have been rescued following sunday's earthquake the tremors caused the landslides on mount when johnny which blocked all escape routes the magnitude six point four quake killed at least sixteen people and left thousands homeless on long island stepped bassem of course. the rescue operation

wraps up for the last remaining hikers trapped on mt when johnny what in one thousand tourists from twenty six different countries have managed to come down of ok no since the fall of earthquake struck on sunday one indonesian man died through maining hikers are now safe. the guides and porters were amazing they really helped us to find a safe spot huge blocks were falling it was really scary and there was a lot of dust. at the foot of the mountain evidence that there was little so around here during the earthquake a group of hikers was staying and does home stay on malaysian woman died the house owner look for gas passports only to find a broken mobile phone and some clothes. the woman who died had just taken a shower and was still in a final a bit probably sending a message to a family because she wanted to go home that morning in this very strong earthquake happened this mountain is more than just a tourist destination many people call this place home more than five thousand of

them are now homeless the government has promised funds to rebuild more than a thousand homes never before have they felt an earthquake this powerful at the foot of mount and johnny and aftershocks are still happening that's why even though the homes are not damaged most people here have decided to spend the night in tents the earthquake happened during the peak of the tourist season but for the time being one of indonesia's main attractions to country second largest active folk will be close to hikers. step class and al-jazeera at the foot of mountain johnny in the. poem on a lawyer has laid the blame for tax evasion and bank fraud on one of his business partner the former campaign chief for u.s. president trump is on trial in virginia over allegations he embezzler fungus that he received from the ukrainian government the charges were brought by special count . robert muller who's investigating alleged collusion between russia and the chung

campaign in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election she has returned say is a course in alexandria virginia so what was said in court today she has. for the prosecution case has been widely publicized pull him out of or made tens of millions from his ukranian consulting work but in order to help fund his lavish lifestyle he didn't want to didn't want to admit to having all this money to authorities he set up show companies in cyprus in the caribbean and he made false claims on his tax return so he wasn't taxed the money not only about once the money dried up in ukraine he started making four direct loan applications to mortgage companies here in the us the amount of for defense is that it's all complete nonsense they say that he's always been transparent but with the governments and the corporations but he's never been in trouble job day to day business operations at his consulting company that was the. the purview of rick gates his associate at

the company who is no cooperating with special counsel robert mueller in that investigation and they say he shouldn't be trusted he's saying anything he can to save his own skin because the government knows that he was embezzling from those show companies in cyprus and elsewhere so he's saying whatever whatever mother wants him to say to try to try and get him out of four and shouldn't be trusted it's basically about of which d.c. lobbyist you trust basically so how does all this link back to the russian interference over say all the wrong to see whether or not this court case will prove that there was interference. or doesn't this court case has nothing to do with russian interference in fact even the drudgery of this trial is sort of the past he doesn't think robert muller of the special counsel or remotely interested in these allegations of tax fraud shell corporations and so on he thinks this is this is all about of the special counsel trying to squeeze the amount of food to

start getting him to cooperate with the russian investigation make a plea deal because multiple will face the rest of his life in prison if he's found guilty of these shoulders because miller might be interested in amount of will because of his eastern european connections and he was at that meeting famously at the trump tower where allegedly some russians offered dirt on hillary clinton so you can see why robert miller might be interested in mt a whole lot of us as all this is capturing at straws though not only as far as he doesn't know nothing about any russian collusion with the trump campaign and he was the campaign manager but even his eastern european connections don't make any sense because when he was working for you know the curve which in ukraine he was trying to get out of which we are closer to the e.u. all sounds more and more like a movie script sharon southie thanks very much. and judge in the u.s. has temporarily blocked the release of blueprints for printing three d. guns eight states brought the case to a court in seattle to stop a texas company from publishing its gun designs online it would have allowed

anybody with a three day print to create the plastic guns prompting gun control advocates to liken it to downloading death u.s. president donald trump appeared to oppose the plans in a tweet on tuesday saying publishing them doesn't seem to make much sense. five fines is in the u.s. state of california say they've saved a community from the wildfires that are devastating the north of the state and major fire has been diverted from populated areas around the city of plea and into the uninhabited national forest at least six people have died and seven more are still missing in the fires that broke out more than a week ago they destroyed more than eight hundred homes and displaced thousands of families campbell elizondo has the latest from reading in northern california this is quickly becoming an international effort to try to gain containment on these fires in the western united states firefighters from australia and new zealand are expected to arrive here in california on friday about two hundred firefighters from

those countries they are needed there are seventeen fires burning just in the state of california is particularly bad here because this is a state that's been going through a drought for the last four years so you combine very dry conditions with hot conditions temperatures going to forty forty two degrees celsius and combine that with strong winds and this is the result these fires and outside of california there's dozens of more fires in the western united states as well the really scary part about all of this is the official fire season in summer here in this part of the country has not even begun yet so firefighters are buckling down for what will the los likely be a historically bad fire season throughout the entire western u.s. . there was embarrassment for venezuela's ruling socialist party when the lights went out during its national congress meeting delegates were raising their hands to

reelect president nicolas maduro as party leader when they were plunged into darkness and later blamed on sabotage pointing out that the power didn't affect the rest of the hotel outages are becoming increasingly common country's economic crisis. meanwhile former governor governor and venezuelan opposition candidate on rick a capricious says the flatlining economy could soon force president woodrow to the negotiating table says he's optimistic antigovernment groups and civilians are close to uniting into a single political opposition is a great boy it will have better be made or lost by the challenge she's got the nurses the teachers everyone rose in the same direction that these white it is important to have a union between the different political actors and political forces whoever believes that this is the time to go along we left along and we loose energy.

plenty more news and video on our website just go to al-jazeera dot com. good reminder now of the top stories here on al-jazeera an update on a story we've been following this half hour that plane crash in northern mexico the national carrier aero mexico says all on one hundred one people on board the plane came down after takeoff in durango have survived facebook says it's found evidence of coordinated attempts to influence the upcoming midterm elections in the u.s. the tech giant says it's deleted thirty two false facebook accounts which it believes were to be used for a political influence campaign. iranian politicians have reacted with skepticism after u.s. president donald trump offered to meet with iranian president hassan rouhani iran's

foreign minister mohammad said the u.s. only had itself to blame for leaving the negotiating table u.s. secretary of state has also clarified there would be creek on dish and to any meeting. u.s. satellites have reportedly detected we knew the activity at one of north korea's main ballistic missile production sites intelligence officials told the washington post the country appeared to be building new intercontinental ballistic missiles they summoned done for solidity the same site where the first missile capable of reaching the u.s. was produced an attack on a government building in eastern afghanistan has killed at least fifty people and injured fourteen others the two gunmen set off explosions and stormed the department office for a p g's in the city of jalalabad security forces fought for six hours to end the siege i still says it carried out a bomb attack in the southern philippines killing at least eleven people soldiers

and four civilians are among the dead after an unexploded at a military checkpoint in lima town city province zimbabwean civil society groups are seeking a court order that would force the electoral commission to publish election results from all polling stations results have been trickling in after monday's a story vote both current president amazon and get worse and opposition leader nelson chamisa say they're confident of a victory south africa's president says the ruling african national congress push ahead with plans for the expropriation of land from white farmers without compensation so around opposer says the a.n.c. will try to amend the constitution you're up to date with the headlines stay with us here in algiers there that's it from me but a.j. aids is coming up next. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world.

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