a passenger plane crashes just off the takeoff and north mexico reports suggest that everyone has survived. a low arm or had a moment this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up facebook says it has removed thirty two pages believed to have been set to influence the u.s. metabo lections. and as i'm bob way away as the final result of the presidential election both leading parties remain confident of success. in south africa's government says it will move forward with plans to take over a farm land without compensation.

and there's been a plane crash in the mexican city of durango the airline a from the national carrier aero mexico came down shortly after take off from home and has been following all of those developments live for us in mexico city so john what more can you tell us. but as you said a little bit earlier there aren't any registered fatalities so far in this crash and that seems a bit of a minor miracle here because when you see the state of the plane after it came down on fire and it really looks in a terrible sort of state we've seen reports from local reporters there on the scene saying that survivors some of them even walked to the motorway to try and get help now the latest that we're hearing is from the governor of the state that the plane went down in the rango which is in the north of mexico he's saying that there's

forty nine people in hospital and he's also saying the preliminary check shows that they've managed to clear everyone off the plane he says that they're going to double check that just to see if there's anyone left behind on that plane so at the moment it seems like a bit of a great escape for those involved in this well the fact that there were no deaths associated with this crash is creating quite americal but how are the mad to say officials dealing with the crash now well the rescue operation is really in in full swing. obviously because they quite quickly after the crash to try and take people away to nearby hospitals the federal government has got involved so the great cross they just had a spokesman that was speaking about this have got involved it's basically just a question of taking people to nearby hospitals the recross spokesperson was talking mainly about burns broken broken bones so we just have to see how the

injured managed to get on after this. and have you heard anything more about what could have caused this plane to crash. local officials here are saying it's special the national level that there has to be an inquiry to really check into that some people that have been talking to their family members that were involved in the crash say that conditions for takeoff weren't that great talking about about heavy winds and also writing the wondering if that could have factored into the fact that the plane did again seem to get very far before it came down again so that has yet to be determined if that was a factor in this crash ok john heilemann monitoring all of those developments coming out of mexico city thank you john. now social media giant facebook says it's discovered a coordinated campaign to influence the u.s. mid-term elections it's removed thirty two accounts and pages it believes in

authentic all linked to fake organizations aimed at creating divisions before november's vote almost three hundred thousand people followed the suspended pages and then fisher has more now from washington d.c. . the founder of facebook mark zuckerberg went to capitol hill in april 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 a 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. well i know we spoke to the end of frito is the chief technology correspondent at access she says that whoever is behind the fake accounts is trying to sow discord in the united states and there's no reason to think that stopping here you know we've heard a lot of intelligence that there's a sustained credible campaign being targeted at the midterms so i would be surprised if this is the last of it to be honest i think this is what they were

able to identify now and i think also just when you look at what was attacked this wasn't pro one candidate or another necessarily this is just sowing the seeds of discontent and to the degree that that's the target that's the way that they're doing it that would require a much broader campaign these pages were generally about counter protests to the right so you have some people in the republican party saying look at the left so clearly russians or whoever is trying to aid the left i think that's a simplistic view i think the main goal here is to sow discontent so that could really be to benefit anyone who benefits from the destabilization of the u.s. that benefits from more divisiveness and political infighting so i think that's a much harder thing to pin but certainly you know it makes sense given what we know about the people that are looking to interfere with the u.s. elections. president. and his main rival nelson chamisa both say they're confident of victory

after monday's election but observers say that they could be a tight race it was the first poll since robert mugabe was forced from office has 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. some. members of the.

opposition supporters say they are worried about vote fixing and insist they are ready to defend the vote. was to say they are not going to accept a phrase that was a big secret as far as they could. and still went. to his supporters who say they have already tally to votes the main opposition leader nelson chamisa has won. i want to turn himself yet to the letter of clare was. there a little. while what was. the first thought but. the official results can only be announced by the electoral commission we have marked it. the action. for. civic organizations individuals and other interested groups. that

they will announce with. all the provisions of the law ladies and gentlemen sure no one wants to provoke the ruffled. so into you. with both the rulings on it 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 will roll if everybody please their part well whoever wins must be magnanimous in victory and whoever loses must be gracious in defeat. in african elections often the stakes are very high and nobody has a backup plan for losing diplomats and observer groups say the race with so a turnout of seventy five percent is too close to call. al-jazeera.

now 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 mark ramaphosa says the n.c. will try to amend the constitution with the support of the left wing economic freedom fighters they share of land ownership is one of the most contentious in south africa with some pointing to neighboring zimbabwe's economic collapse off the land reform their intention of this proposed amendment is to promote redress advance economic development increase our get a culture of production and food security it will also transform the unjust special realities in urban areas to accelerate the agrarian reform. the air and sea has further directed government to urgently initiate farmer support

programs in depressed areas before the festival this year this should include supporting farmers with two tractors fertilizers c. extension services finance and access to key infrastructure well we spoke to mark schroeder he's a former founder and the principal of the geo markets africa network he says this is a political ploy to head of next year's elections. this year is a significant move and certainly the political context is general elections that are that are scheduled to be held in twenty nineteen the economy has underperformed and not met popular expectations since several months ramaphosa was appointed president in february twenty eighth jean succeeding jacob zuma and so this expropriation without compensation is certainly a political ploy to ensure that the ruling african national congress has sufficient

electoral support going into those crucial elections next year the political pressure and the support within the ruling alliance the ruling african national congress and its support of parties has really escalated over the recent weeks and months to ensure or to press forward with the expropriation without compensation of not only government owned land not only private own land but the white owned land in south africa and you heard the statements by president run the focus of these are identical statements that the government of zimbabwe enacted to ensure that they won their political base over the very difficult and challenging act on economic conditions that that country faced and so while the elections are still more than six months away the pressure is on the run from a post administration in the and the econd african national congress to ensure that

these policy pronouncements are enacted sooner rather than later. now an attack on a government building has killed at least fifteen people and injured fourteen others in the east of afghanistan two gunmen set of explosions and so on the office for refugees in the city of jalalabad security forces fought for six hours to end the siege and a separate incident a bus hit a roadside bomb in the west of the country killing eleven passengers shot at best reports from kabul. jalalabad one of afghanistan's biggest cities and in a war zone as dorn is made to the department of refugee affairs for a conference on how to help displaced afghans they were targeted. explosions hit the compounds exterior following two gunman to get past the will. of others who have a hold of them again of i was sitting in my medical store when a gunman entered the refugee department right after that they started shooting and

one of them blew himself up at the gate i 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 with critical injuries. it's also just one hundred meters from the 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. you know i got thought i'm going to write a version of i was taking one of my relatives daughters to the treatment bus was

hit by a roadside bomb much far off highway for i don't know what happened to the girl always she is now the government is blaming the taliban for the bus bombing but in our province the taliban has denied any involvement leaving as the primary suspects the area is a stronghold for both groups they're becoming more active with more complex attacks and increasingly it's civilians who are being killed or injured bellus is there a couple. more head on al jazeera i u.s. president donald trump rallies the troops in florida and at the upcoming midterm elections. a new factor has been added to the gun control debate in the u.s. and that's three d. printed firearms.

from the neon lights of asia. to the city never sleeps. how there's a little real path now to the forecast rain in china it's big showers dotted around virtually everywhere from hong kong northwards not so much maybe on one single thursday where you can see what harm could be likely as wet as down the coast in the southeast corner but just coming into your screen significant swill it remains a junk dog which will bring rain to shanghai in the next day or so. further south heavy rain once again showing itself in the form of regular thunderstorms in the southern philippines and that is a fairly good diagonal line that just takes you north of borrelia and down towards the middle sata sumatra so that's the line of activity the moment in the forecast big seem likely singapore done how and again coochie and it's possible even jakarta is just at risk from dry season showers i certainly want to be the vice thursday.

now monsoon as i speak at the moment you know that we were expecting heavy rain to fall in or to protest for three days it's east off a little bit now but the figures are still there so really apart from korea you're looking to northern india hundred forty two men reason the last two days or buying the dash for significant rain and that pattern should continue for the next two days. the weather sponsored by cattle and bass. the coca plant has long been a pillar of bolivia's traditions but its use in illegal drugs today is threatening the nation's culture not my own and also dorothy's are involved because they receive kick backs while some have made fortunes many others have suffered at the hands of this multi-billion dollar industry me malady my mother was trying over to cable and brutally come up with a pole it was a he described who are the winners and losers of this illicit trade snow will be

n.d.'s on al-jazeera. anymore i'm ahead of homage and his reminder of our top stories this hour a plane carrying a ninety seven passengers and four crew members has crashed in the mexican city of durango this is soon after take off the plane belonged to the national carrier aero mexico and there is no word yet on casualties and local reports say survivors have been found close to a nearby highway. and facebook says it's found evidence of attempts to influence the upcoming u.s. mid-term elections it says it's removed thirty two fake accounts that were being

used to sway the outcome of the polls in november. an attack on a government building has killed at least fifteen people and injured fourteen others in eastern afghanistan two gunmen set of explosions and stormed the office for refugees in the city of jalalabad security forces forced for six hours to end the siege. now firefighters in the u.s. state of california say they've saved a populated area from wildfires that are sweeping across the north of the state the fire was diverted from the city of caylee into the national forest at least six people have died and seven more so missing since the fires broke out more than a week ago they have destroyed more than eight hundred homes and displaced thousands of families well let's speak to gay brothers under whose life for us in reading in northern california so gave us give us an update how bad is the destruction. well as you can probably see behind me it is

unimaginable it is really bad as you mentioned eight hundred structures completely destroyed many of those are homes this behind me is a subdivision where there used to be many homes but now they've most of them have been turned into ash near this fire which is called the car fires the name they're giving it is one of the most destructive of all the fires that's burning in california the western united states right now officials say they are getting a little bit of a handle on it it's a little bit more than twenty percent contained but it is still going to be several days till they're able to finally get this fire completely under control and finally allow people back in to what's the remnants or remains of their homes here how hard of a job is this for the firefighters at the moment. it's an incredibly hard job and in fact it's a battling these fires is quickly becoming an international effort we have

confirmed that firefighters about two hundred of them from new zealand and australia will be coming here to california on friday or saturday so a few days from now they will be joining the efforts here to put out these blazes throughout california just on this fire here there are over three thousand firefighters still battling this one and in the state of california there are sixteen other major fires burning right now and dozens more in the western united states the scariest part of all of this is that the official fire season hasn't even started here in the western united states and already it's completely on fire it gives you an idea firefighters are saying this is most definitely going to be one of the worst fire seasons in the united states in decades taking a breath on july for us in writing in northern california thank you kate. now a u.s. judge has blocked a company from releasing the blueprints of three d. printed guns eight u.s.

states have filed a lawsuit against the trump administration after it reached a settlement with the texas based defense distributed to publish the printing files online but president trump appeared to oppose this in a tweet on tuesday rob reynolds has more details. this is the computer generated weapon that's causing the uproar a crude single shot plastic pistol the united states of america will be the biggest exporter of terror. if we fail to stop these goats gun specifications for the gun were developed by cody wilson a self-styled anarchist as long as you have the right to keep and bear arms you have the right to make them in june the trumpet ministration broccoli gave up on a years long legal battle to prevent him from putting the gun plans on line wilson's diagrams allow a variety of firearms models to be made by anyone including convicted criminals mentally disturbed people or children this means that more people who are dangerous

will have guns and they will hurt more people with them in three d. printer technology machines extrude minuscule layers of plastic or resin that gradually build up three dimensional objects using computerized patterns we asked professional three d. printer peterman adi to make one for us consumer printers are available for as low as three hundred dollars so anybody that has three hundred dollars can essentially print on the designs have already appeared online and have been downloaded thousands of times three d. printed guns have no serial numbers so there are untraceable they don't require permits or background checks so anybody can have one and because they're plastic they can go through any metal detector law enforcement officials are opposed and president donald trump questioned the action of his own administration tweeting that the idea of three d. printed guns quote doesn't seem to make much sense but the guns may be less dangerous to the public then to the person wielding them in tests by the government

firearms oversight agency three d. printed guns often exploded when fired they are not as strong or precisely machined as metal guns it could explode on you you could lose a finger you could use a hand. it could catch fire there is so many things that can go wrong which is why printing it is one thing using it is an entirely separate thing democratic law may. girls are calling on trump to overturn his administration's decision and are introducing legislation to ban the weapons but in a last minute decision a federal judge granted a temporary injunction blocking wilson from distributing his blueprints online the ruling came after nine states and the district of columbia brought the matter to court the legal fight will continue robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. well u.s. president and trump has just wrapped up one of his make america great again rallies

in tampa florida and he is campaigning for republicans ahead of the upcoming midterm elections he also spoke about the trade will with time. we've taken the toughest ever actions in response to china's abusive trade practices act and we're doing very well with china very well and i have a lot of respect for china and i have tremendous respect for president xi have china but this is been too many years of abuse five hundred billion dollars a year five hundred billion we've helped rebuild china we can't do that it. mandy gallagher has been listening to trump and joins me live now from tampa sandy what would it the president have to say. well this was a wide ranging speech the president talked for a little over an hour and he covered all the topics that we expected him to talk about it talked about the economy and how well it's doing he talked about supremes

court nominations a little bit about foreign policy china there he also talked about north korea and iran deal but there is something of a bigger picture here for president donald trump the midterms are coming up in november and also there are primary elections here but florida is next governor and all roads to the white house go through florida this is the most important swing state in the country on the president won by a very narrow then margin in the presidential election back in twenty sixty so his central message to his base was get out and vote in the midterm elections vote republican and also get out to vote for the money's pick to be the state's next next governor that's wrong decentest someone who was brought out on stage because basically i campaigned very much in the same way that donald trump does and so there were the usual subjects that you hear these make a good mayor gray again rallies where don't just talk and talk to him self talk talk about how well he's doing but also the central message of the midterm

elections are extremely important to his future plans he told voters here go out go take your friends don't forget about us and if you want to see more of what i'm doing that's all you need to do and would from the white house is that the president wants to add more of these rallies to is shared job going forward to really put himself at the center of what these midterm elections are all about and the worry he really likes to be and enjoys himself the most and that's with his base and speaking about the midterms coming up in the primaries how much is he likely to step up all of his engagement activities. going forward in the lead up. i mean i think that she's done a certainly shown that he wants to do that here by his direct backing of rhonda sanders who we want to see is being the state's next governor rhonda sanders was behind in the polls a few months ago until president trump tweeted out his support for that particular

candidate he's now slightly ahead in the polls which shows you what the president can do what he can fix these candidates around the country what is in the midterms are important so the president can keep hold of the house there's also a congressional race rick scott the current government wants to take a senate seat so the essential most is was you have to vote for these two candidates and don't forget as about about as in the midterms try this and you got to lie for us in tampa thank you andy. iranian politicians have reacted with skepticism after u.s. president trump offered to meet with iran's president without a preconditions iran's deputy speaker of parliament says it's not the right time and negotiations would be humiliating trump withdrew from an landlocked nuke nuclear chord with iran in may saying that it was too generous he's vowed to impose sanctions on tehran the first of which comes into effect next week. and more than one hundred sixty illegal migrants have been deported from libya as part of

a voluntary program this was initiated by the united nations to ease overcrowding in detention centers the deportation comes a day off and libya's coast guard rescued five hundred seventy nine migrants heading to europe at least one thousand five hundred migrants have died in the mediterranean this year. and here are the headlines on al jazeera a plane carrying ninety seven passengers and four crew members have crashed has crashed in the mexican city of durango soon after takeoff forty nine people have been taken to hospital the plane belongs to the national carrier aeromexico and there is no word yet on casualties local reports say survivors have been found close to a nearby highway and facebook says it's found evidence of attempts to influence the upcoming u.s. midterm elections it says it's removed thirty two fake accounts that were being

used to sway the outcome of the polls jew in november. an attack on a government building has killed at least fifteen people and injured fourteen others in the east of afghanistan two gunmen set off explosions and so on the office for refugees in the city of jalalabad security forces fought for six hours to end the siege. and u.s. president trump says that he's wrapped up his speech which is around to make america great a grand one of the main rallies in tampa florida he is campaigning for republicans ahead of the upcoming midterm elections he spoke about possible talks with iran and also a trade war with china. with jake in the tell first ever actions in response to jungers abuse of. and we're doing very well with china very well and i have a lot of respect for china and i have tremendous respect for president xi of john.

but this has been too many years of abuse five hundred billion dollars a year five hundred billion we've helped rebuild china we can do that it. and firefighters in the u.s. of california say they saved a populated area from wildfires that are squeezing across the north of the state fire was diverted from the city of clear lake into the national forest and least six people have died and seven more are still missing since the fires broke out more than a week ago and they've destroyed more than eight hundred homes and displaced thousands of families and sad story is up next a season of ai. reaching

out to teheran donald trump says he's ready to meet iran's president any time and with no preconditions so what's behind this sudden offer and how will trump and gauge iran when he's trying to build a regional alliance against this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program on my mage i'm joined us president donald trump has extended an olive branch to iran just a week after he threatened the country now says he's ready to meet iranian president hassan rouhani any time.