zero. three. zero. zero i'm really mohammad's this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes facebook says it has removed thirty two pages believed to have been sexed up to influence the u.s. mid-term election. a passenger plane crashes just off to take off in north mexico early reports suggest everybody has survived and south africa's president says that he will go ahead with land reforms which would see white farmers denied

compensation. and as a way away from the final result of the presidential election both leading parties strong remain confident of success. a 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 that it believes all fake aimed at creating divisions before november's vote almost three hundred thousand people followed the suspended pages adam fisher reports from washington d.c. . the phoned 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 and fisher al-jazeera washington. all anyway spoke to an afraid who's the chief technology correspondent

for access she says that whoever is behind the fake accounts is trying to sow further discourse and further discord in the united states. and there's no reason to think it's 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 a passenger plane has crashed in northern mexico shortly after takeoff all one hundred three people on board the brazilian built and bred jet survived but most of them sustained injuries and were taken to hospital the plane belonged to the national carrier aero mexico and was on a domestic flight from durango to mexico city to home and has more from mexico city . it really was the great escape for those on board the plane in mexico that crashed just off the taken off when you see the pictures of the plane post crash we flames coming out of it really is incredible that no one died on impact the plane

was headed from durango a city in the north of the country to the capital mexico city and there around one hundred people on board now some of those after the crash were reportedly able to walk to the nearest motorway to ask for help and given since then turned up and took people to nearby hospitals some of them suffering from burns others from other injuries now there's going to be there's already starting to be investigations about exactly what happened what we do know so far is that the plane was trying to take off in quite bad weather but coupled with that is a sensation in mexico of relief over something that could have been a lot worse. as a president m.s.m. went on gaga and his main rival nelson chamisa both say that they're confident of victory after monday's election but observers say that it could be

a tight race it was the first poll since robert mugabe was forced from office how much 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 assaults 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 leaving with movie. night sure this week because he is not really a commission no. choice and he will not so good with everything that comes out in numbers of the. opposition supporters say they are worried about votes fixing and insist they are ready to defend a vote that was i want to say they are not going to accept

a phrase that was this week as far as they could take out of. the way. to his supporters who say they have already talita votes the main opposition leader nelson chamisa has won first yes i want to turn yourself yes and i want to play like that was. the message of the from the from the out here why what's the. difference between. it and when will the official results can only be announced by the electoral commission we have marked it with. the actions. simply going to individuals and other interested groups. are pretty clear and direct they will americans

results we will speak to or the progresses of the. ladies and gentlemen sure. no one wants to provoke. so into you. with both the readings on it and the main opposition to see alliance confident the stakes are high there can be only one winner and so it will be a window be a looser. but zimbabwe as a country will be that will roll if everybody please their product well 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 was so i turn out of seventy five percent it's too close to call. elitism. so 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 ramaphosa 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 neighboring zimbabwe's economic collapse after land reform their 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 unjust special realities in urban areas to accelerate agrarian reform that has further directed government to gently initiate far more support programs in depressed areas before the festival this year. this should include

supporting hamas with two checks to us for ten lies us seeds extension services finance and access to p. infrastructure. of mark souder as founder and principal of geo markets africa he says that this is a political ploy ahead all for 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 from a post was appointed president in february twenty eight hundred 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 now only private own land but the white owned land in south africa and you heard the statements by president ramaphosa these are identical statements that the government of zimbabwe enacted to ensure that they won their political base over the very difficult and challenging outcome economic conditions that that country faced and so while the elections are still more than six months away the pressure is on the ramp the post administration and the and the economic african national congress to ensure that fees policy pronouncements are in acted 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 off exposure and stormed the office of four effigies and such after the all of our security forces fought for six hours to end the siege and then in a separate incident a bus has 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 another walls are as torn as most of 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 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 your thought of the words i was taking one of my relatives daughters to the treatment bus was hit by a roadside bomb much fire on highway i don't know what happened to the girl. the

government is blaming the taliban for the bus bombing but in the province the taliban has denied any involvement even as 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. or. this cancer more head on the news hour including the first trial stem from robert maas a russian investigation gets under way with travis campaign manager paul man a fort in the dark. and india attempts to contain the fallout from a decision that left four million people left in legal limbo. and in sports in that recall a controversial spend as they get set to play their one thousand test match.

the 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 trumpet ministration after it reached a settlement with the texas based firm defense distributed to publish the printing files online but president trump appeared to oppose this in a tweet on tuesday runnels has more this is the computer generated weapon that's causing the uproar a crude single shot plastic pistol united states of america will be the biggest exporter of terror. if we fail to stop these goes 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 trump administration abruptly 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 one 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 lawmaker. there's are calling on trump to overturn is the 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 a pool not a for its money laundering trial has heard that a business partner rather than man for himself was responsible for tax evasion and bank fraud for my campaign chief for president trump denies all his trial in virginia and his opening remarks manifolds lawyer said business partner but did gates was the one who had his hand in the cookie jar charges were brought by special counsel robert muller who is investigating and that's condition between brushes russia and trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign shepparton c. has. the prosecution accuses poor amount of four of attempting to fund a lifestyle with the tens of millions of dollars that he accrued from his consulting work in ukraine which he put into show corporations in cyprus and the caribbean and then he also avoided paying tax on all this money form out a fool says this was none of his doing the ukrainians wanted to set up show

corporations that wasn't his idea and anyway he wasn't even in charge of day to day business dealings that was all the responsibility of britain gates's associate at his company and he was the one who was embezzling money from the show companies that's why he's now called working with. the action to try and save his own skin and still over this entire case is the question what does this have to do with the rush or investigation and there is that suspicion even explained by the judge himself but really this is all about robert trying to put the squeeze on mount a for so he starts cooperating with that russian investigation. and 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 kale ache into the national forest at least six people have dined and seven more still missing since the fires broke out more than a week ago they've destroyed more than eight hundred homes and displaced thousands

of families every other thunder has more from reading in northern california the fires are still raging across northern california but the cleanup here in redding is going to take months maybe even years in some cases this is just what's left of one home here this was the garage and you can see inside some of the remains or what's left of it you see there well looks like a clothes dryer a water tank and that's really the only thing that you is really recognizable everything else has just been reduced to ash and twisted metal just to see how hot this fire was this is the car that was in the front driveway and the back of it just simply melted away that's one thing firefighters continue to tell us that these fires are particularly deadly and destructive because they're burning so hot and so fast in some ways they are calling them a fire tornado that roared through here but look at this just down the street in

this neighborhood you see green trees normal houses they were completely unaffected that just shows you the nature of how unpredictable this fire was as well but unfortunately most people here are not that lucky that their homes are no longer standing look at this one here. the remains of what is someone else's house here as well. and again this is a story not so much about the homes that have been destroyed but it's the people's lives their livelihoods their memories their personal belongings all in these homes all that are now gone u.s. satellites have reportedly detected renewed activity at one of north korea's main ballistic missile production sites the southern dong facilities the same site where

the first missile capable of reaching the u.s. was produced the time of ministration says it expects kim jong un to stand by his commitment to denuclearize. and early on cheers day military leaders from north and south korea described their talks at the demilitarized zone as candid and productive the two sides met at the truce but let off john they talked about disarming the border and withdrawing troops from the area it's a second military level meeting between seoul and pyongyang says the historic into korean summit in a prob back upright has the latest from solved. this latest round of talks has wrapped up but without a joint agreement or even a joint press communique even so both sides have been putting a positive spin on proceedings saying that progress has been made the proceedings were friendly as the leader of the north korean delegation put it they have continued to nurture the seeds of peace and prosperity as sown by their two leaders

the two sides have been looking at ways of easing tensions on the demilitarized zone particularly looking at troop numbers in posts that face each other across the no man's land on the weapons that they have including of course the soldiers who face off against each other on a daily basis between the blue huts at panmunjom peace village both sides have committed to continuing the process but it does come against these latest reports of the restart of work on north korea's intercontinental ballistic missile program we don't know from the satellite pictures that have been produced just what level of completion these missiles are supposedly up to but according to optimistic supporters of the peace process and that would include of course president donald trump they would point out that there hasn't been an actual missile launch or missile testing now for months even so it is certainly casting doubt

on president trump's assertion that north korea is no longer a nuclear threat. four million people have been asked to protest citizenship in india's northeast state of a song the government has not included them on its national register of citizens now rights groups are worried that it could lead to discrimination or even deportation. the fallout from the release of india's national register of citizens filled the pages of newspapers in assam state along the border with bangladesh four million people have been left off of the list and are now worried they'll be deported or put in a detention center. we have been harassed a lot in the name of the national register of citizens so many muslims have not been registered we feel there is a lot of politics involved in making this list and that should not be the case. the

register was the one nine hundred fifty one to identify indian citizens at the time there were undocumented immigrants arriving from what is now bangladesh. critics say the omission of millions in the latest register is designed to prevent muslims from voting the government is assuring people there is still time and a system in place to fix any mistakes. is there any mistakes that people can go to court or deferring his tribe it will be checked irrespective of cost trade and religion and whether he or she is muslim. there's concern the government hasn't provided adequate outreach especially to the poor and illiterate. so many are generally indian but they haven't received notice due to poor communication from the government but the one good thing is done foreigners and politics has been stopped. some state has long struggled with anger over

undocumented immigrants. to government seal the border this is more important than the national register of citizens if the border remains open than the infiltrators to be always be there the government should look for the permanent solution. the four million people not listed as citizens want a permanent solution to their status as well for many india is their home and they fear being stateless natasha going to. and more than one hundred sixty. have been deported from libya as part of a voluntary program that was initiated by the un to ease overcrowding in detention centers and deportation comes a day off from 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. now dissolving governments and appointing new prime

ministers has been jordan's way of dealing with this economic crisis but after protests in june. the country's seventh prime minister in seventy is a harvard educated economist is seen as a reformer but as reports from amman he's also inherited deep structural problems and needs to deliver a public that's impatient for change m r how soon a is a supporter of he be a use movement that mobilized the streets against the government a few weeks ago the demonstrations described as the biggest in years were according to this twenty seven year old only the beginning. i have faith in the people who demanded their rights they weren't just opposing economic policies but demanded accountability and transparency they proved they have power. just like in previous occasions protests and with the appointment of a new prime minister who then temporarily overturns unpopular economic decisions

but jordanians seem to be giving him a chance when we hope as his government going to be better than the previous one and he can did us the burden faced by the people and those on the. i'm optimistic is doing his best. results is seen by some as a reformer but there are challenges ahead of. them he is the best chance for change in jordan but hard decisions are needed they may not be good for the people but necessary for reforms his plan needs five years to bear fruit but he is facing a lot of pressure not just from the people as as his government has until the end of the year to fulfill commitments made to the international monetary fund to receive much needed loans that means reducing the large public debt but to do so economists warn would mean putting more financial burdens on the population

jordan's economic problems are not new but they are getting worse the cost of living is on the rise prices of basic goods fuel and bread they have been steadily increasing unemployment is at eighteen percent the highest in decades. people want lower fuel prices and sales tax on basic goods slashed they don't want more taxes and for this use movement it's not just about the economy but the demand for change in the way the country is run they are giving the government one hundred days since taking office in mid june to deliver. a man. more head on al-jazeera. u.s. president to troops in florida ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. and off the capturing most of syria from opposition fighters is the government turns its eyes

to the next battlefield in the north. and u.s. open preparations for this former world number one take a major heads carol have those details later on in school. from the waves of the south. to the contours of the east. how there's little real power to the full cost of rain in china it's big showers dotted around virtually everywhere from hong kong northwards not so much maybe once a day where you can see what harm could be like he is wet down the coast in the southeast corner but just coming into your screen the significant swirl is remains john dollars will bring rain to shanghai in the next day or so that heavy rain once again is 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 borneo and down towards the middle of sumatra so thus the line of activity the moment is in the forecast big shall seem likely singapore done how and again coochie and is possible even jakarta is just at risk from dry season showers i certainly want to be the vice thursday. now one soon as i speak of the moment you know that we was expecting heavy rain to fall in uttar pradesh for three days it's eased off a little bit now but the figures are still there so really apart from curry 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 cats are always. when diplomacy fails and fear sweeps then our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and it's not

effective instead of being an obstacle to atone wastes into became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera. the nature of news as it breaks the syrian government with the backing of iran and russia now controls sixty percent of syria after steadily recapturing territory with detailed coverage what was supposed to be a summit between the two most powerful leaders in the world is taking things to a new level from around the world the bank of this is a gigantic power vacuum in politics with no functioning local government for eighteen months.

and again you're watching al-jazeera the mind of our top stories this hour facebook says it's found evidence of attempts to influence the upcoming u.s. midterm elections it says it's removed that t. to fake accounts that would be used to sway the outcome of the polls jew in november. a passenger plane has crashed in northern mexico shortly after takeoff all one hundred three people on board the brazilian build and bred jet survived but most of them sustained injuries and were taken to hospital the plane belonged to the national carrier aero mexico and was on a domestic flight from durango to mexico city. 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 ceremony cyril ramaphosa says the

n c will try to amend the constitution with the support of the left wing economic freedom fighters. now u.s. president bill trump has held one of his make america great again rallies in tampa florida and he's trying painting for republicans ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. we've taken the toughest ever actions in response to jungers abusive trade practices. 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 a big deal many years of abuse five hundred billion dollars a year five hundred billion we help rebuild china we can't do that it. andy gallagher was at the rally in tampa. this was

a wide ranging speech from president trump we spoke for a little over an hour he hit the topics that we expected him to do it talked about how well the u.s. economy is doing he talked about supremes court nominations we also judge in a bit about foreign policy in particular his relationship with china the iran deal and also his successes according to him in north korea but the real central message of the bigger picture for donald trump is to revitalize his base and make sure they don't forget about the republicans in the upcoming midterm elections of course florida is the key state in any election is the biggest swing state in the country and his message to his supporters to his voters who turned out here in thousands is don't forget to vote in november. third in politicians have reacted with skepticism off the u.s. president all trump offered to meet with iran's president without preconditions iran separately speaker parliament says it's not the right time and the gauche ations would be humiliating trump withdrawal from a new clear from

a landmark 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 . now the u.s. secretary of state has already backtracked on some of tom's comments my campaign has says that he's on board with meeting iran's president but he's listed several requirements before it could go ahead. president wants to meet with folks to solve problems if the iranians demonstrate a commitment to make fundamental changes in how they treat their own people reduce their malign behavior can agree that it's worthwhile to enter the nuclear agreement that actually prevents proliferation and the president said he's prepared to sit down and have a conversation with them and then bizarrely has more now from. 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 of ministration 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 at a meeting with rob macare the british ambassador to teheran 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 glad 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 with 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 spending more than a decade in prison at the hague congolese opposition leader. well arrive in the democratic republic of congo on wednesday morning member has declared that he wants

to run for president that's a move that has shaken up congolese politics ahead of a long delayed election port's now from the capital kinshasa. was john pierre bemba supporters all free to welcome people it's been ten long years they say and now it's time for him to take back his rightful place in the country's political scene. we are very happy many people see the hateful of us i have confidence in him because he's. bambery ties to the democratic republic of congo intense political times president joseph kabila has delayed a crucial election for two years kristen sat in tea and protest in which dozens have been killed by security forces many congolese say they feel oppressed corruption is high and the government is increasingly isolated by the international community the supporters believe that only he can change the bad tight surely. you

don't know congolese need. ten years in prison for nothing and he is still in the acts of the people. was supported by his rebel group time opposition party many analysts believes that they still present a formidable challenge to the ruling party the sense of bringing the. moment for the liberation of the congo political party headquarters he said what does that mean you believe that he is a change of action in them by himself in the coming days really to a little document to the electoral commission congolese law states that any kind it has to be in the country for at least one year to contest an election the fact that the has been away for ten and still has a pending. witness tampering case that the international criminal court could walk against his eligibility themba told that he hopes it does not come to that are you surprised that the government. say that. i think that.

the people in the. right people are able to talk about it. it's still unclear if president kabila plans to run for a third despite being barred by the constitution so many congolese are anxious to see who the ruling party's nomination will be and whether hopefuls like bemba will be allowed to contest the december election catherine soy al jazeera kinshasa. now thousands of south africans are expected to march against gender based violence on wednesday trade unions and civil society groups have organized demonstrations across the country they say violence and abuse of women is systemic and are demanding government action now official figures show that around a thousand women are killed on average every year mostly at the hands of their

partners one report estimates a one hundred seventeen percent rise in killings of girls and women since twenty fifteen and that's five times higher than the global average sexual offenses have more than doubled since twenty fifteen and last year seventy thousand women were victims overall it's estimated that one in five south african women will experience sexual or physical violence in their lifetime now some women in south africa are using social media justice malcolm webber ports from johannesburg. yeah landa kyunki had just started a degree at rhodes university in south africa but she says she was raped she went for a drink with friends she doesn't remember anything else the following day other people told her that two different men had sex with her it's just really made me angry. really angry and through kids and i mean it has affected my relationships with men

in their eyes. obviously the encounter after that i had my trust in people in general. and i guess i just was a become a prison's really and gets to say. you landers met many other students who were tired of their universities and police not acting on reports of sexual assault. on exchange students marched in broad university in twenty sixteen as part of their campaign they published a list of students and university staff on social media they said responsible for sexual assault students have also protested here the university has run into hundreds back and since the student movement began thousands more south africans have taken to social media to express their anger at the lack of justice for women who have been raped or killed when carol mcqueen i was found murdered in johannesburg last year it prompted hundreds of thousands of tweets activists say

the pressure pushed all four of these to act her boyfriend was found guilty of the murder earlier this year ten james won a study the movement she says the social media activism and the naming of suspected rapists may not always bring justice but it breaks the silence because of the of help quickly hashtags pick up you're able to call out your rapist and there's a bunch of people who say i believe you this is your first interaction been going to the police and saying this is happened to me and the police saying well what we were where were you what time was it south africa some of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world activists say less than one in ten. ported rapes result in conviction we asked the state prosecutor what she thinks about frustrated victims receiving justice on social media instead consider the dangers. if you do. think it works extremely well where the burden of proof is on the accuser at least as

a prosecutor i know i can sleep soundly at night because i know if it can convince the court that someone is guilty that person really screwed you learn the says a rapists have never been held to account this is your source he's failed her. justice has been done malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg. cotton israel has jailed an israeli palestinian poet for five months over a poem and comments that she made during a wave of palestinian street attacks their entire tour of posted a video of palestinian youths throwing stones and fire bombs at israeli soldiers with audiotape of her self reading out her poem on facebook and you tube in october twenty fifteen prosecutors said the video encourage violence she says her video was a call for nonviolent resistance. and the syrian army is continuing its onslaught in rebel held it lit province activists report shelling in just a sugar south of it lip city and also in neighboring hum of province it is the only

significant territory still held by the rebels president bashar al assad says retaking the province is his top priority. the u.n. special envoy to syria says that he wants agreements from iran russia and turkey on the formation of a body for drafting a new syrian constitution so finding mr a says he hopes to finalize the plan in september he made the comments as the latest round of peace talks wrapped up in the russian city of sochi all parties valid to work towards the resettlement of syrian refugees as well as a pilot project for prisoner swaps between the government and the opposition what are the hamid reports now from sochi. 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 you and 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 in 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 acute. when it comes to the suffering to the syrian government there is no compromise according to the mutual agreement reached in a stone of the timeframe for deescalation areas was just six months of creation of

such an area and it 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 of a not being observed by the syrian government recently there has been a threat of an assault on the lip from the syrian army i warn you if this does happen this will put a real obstacle towards a peaceful settlement and i urge 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 sides but it seemed to downplay the idea that that was going to happen in the short term but should. we nevertheless hope not 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 keen 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 for the eleven talks. misbehaving.

siva sport now has far. thanks very much england start their one thousand test match on wednesday the game against the world number one indian team is the first of a five match test series but england selection of spinner the rasheed is proving controversial poll that of work has more. england lost the first of a test match that was played back in eighteen seventy seven against australia by forty five runs just two tests were being played in that series the one starting on

wednesday we'll see five games played in the space of six weeks it's going to be hard obviously has got some world class players throughout that and we're going to have to be very consistent in performing a deal rashid has controversially been recalled to the team. the thirty year old last played a test them december twenty sixth thing and has previously said he didn't want to be considered for the test team in order to concentrate solely on the shorter forms of the game i think we've got to look at the positives of it we've got. a different style of english spinner with a little bit mistreated here and his bowling really well and that should be what we should be excited about india haven't wanted to series in england in over a decade the red kohli may be the world's leading batsman but he struggled to perform in england scoring just one hundred thirty four runs until during the last two or four years ago i have no complaints whatsoever norden a frame of mind to prove myself in any country i just want to perform for the team

obviously i want to school runs for the team and i want to go forward and that's my only move. then as far from a sell out for the historic match the midweek starts leaving thousands of tickets still to be sold for the opening days pulver and worth al-jazeera they're going to big blows for organizers of the city open in washington the defending champion catarina makarova lost her first round match in straight sets while australian open champion caroline wozniak he was forced to pull out of the tournament with a right leg injury shortly before her first round match it's a big fat back for the world number two was built up to the u.s. open it would have been her first match since losing in the second round at wimbledon. english football managers will now be shown yellow and red cards for sideline dissent of behavior that could result in a card include inappropriate language or gestures towards match officials sarcastic clapping him throwing objects like water bottles or coats managers will get an

automatic one game ban after their fourth warning referees will take the action during the f.a. cup second tier english football league and national league matches primarily bosses will get verbal warnings rather than a card and the superstar le bron james has made his first public appearance since signing for the l.a. lakers earlier in july and he says the decision to walk away from the cleveland cavaliers they go on was best for his family he opened his new i promise school for underprivileged children in his hometown of akron ohio the thirty three year old who has been highly critical of the us president says that donald trump is using sports to divide the country before time m.v.p. says he's open to running against trump in two thousand and twenty and was sounding political is a huge arrest the new students give just want to know that we care about them they they have the dreams they have the aspirations they have everything that they can

actually get so whatever they want to get to a life they just want to know to someone to robert metallik is the c.e.o. of black sports and entertainment he says le bron would be well suited to a career in politics. yeah i think he has the time well. the type of backing that type of charm in the type of drive which comes from being an athlete that he will be very successful in public golf i don't know if there's something that he would want to do because obviously politics is a reason or they call it politics and a lot of. it is not as clean as you want to be but maybe he wants to get into that to clean it up a bit but i think he has massive crossover appeal and i think the base that he's doing now is the career is lay in their foundation that if you does want to go into politics or pretty much anything that people see that he's more than just out he's

not want to just going to shut up and he is someone that is willing to take a stand to put his money where his mouth is to put its time. and that's what people like to see a politician they want to see so one big debate can relate to that is going to fight for them and the larger the show that he so want to will fight for the causes that are important to him and finally some stunning pictures to leave you with from the european paragliding championships one hundred and fifty competitors have been taking part in the event over the last week and a half men and women from twenty eight different countries competed alongside each other and a range of tasks pilots flew a total distance of five hundred and sixty seven kilometers across the mountains and valleys of north portugal and that's all you support for now more later. i'm here to mohamed the call is up next with another full pulitzer in his. life.

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united nations peacekeepers out there knowing anti-riot. we are challenging the forces we're challenging companies who are going to places where nobody else is going. corrupt officials have been ousted. and the activists of the chinese village of cam take center stage and on the president of local elections. in the first of a remarkable series of five years al-jazeera documents. rebels to politician. china's democracy experiment. which is in. ethiopia's economy has grown at a fossil rate than any other african country. that sirens were heard here is that gives indication of just how close the fighting is groundbreaking documentary. discussion just six months ago we were at the brink of

a. world winning programs take you on a journey around the globe. only on. facebook says it has removed thirty two pages believed to have been set up to influence the u.s. mid-term elections. and. live from doha also coming up a passenger plane crashes just after takeoff in north mexico and everyone on board has survived. zimbabwe awaits the final results of the presidential election both leading confident of success.