this is al-jazeera. alone barbara sarah this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes. live fire on the streets of zimbabwe's capital harare as the army is the ploy to break up opposition protests over monday's and lection results opposition leader john p.s. benbow receives a hero's welcome when his return home to the democratic republic of congo the three d. technology making it possible to praying to guns at home u.s. courts are debating whether that's a good idea and we explain earth's overshoot day and alarming signal of humanity's

first for the world's resources. and i'm peter stone is in doha with all the day's sport when england are playing their one thousand test match but it's india who are very much on top at stumps on day one in birmingham and have that story more later . military vehicles and on the troops have been on the streets of zimbabwe's capital harare to try to disperse hundreds of opposition demonstrators. the soldiers have been firing live rounds and there are reports that at least three people have been killed the protesters are angry about alleged vote rigging in the country's election president emerson when god was party has won two thirds of the seats in parliament the results of the presidential vote on yet knowing he blamed

the opposition leadership for the outbreak of violence. in its leadership is forthwith to remove its violence approaches from the streets so peace returns to walk and you know asking them to pick business and step government is simply reminding them of their youth is is the responsible political player as. citizens even electoral process it is understood that some women while others lose but those would mean she would never translate very disappointment you do. life for us in this about when capital harare we heard there from emerson my god. what while reply i mean really they were speaking out almost simultaneously if not

before what is the opposition had to say in the past hour or so. well there was a clear warning from the president he's telling the opposition not to cause problems the main opposition did come out in they did speak and they said basically they are unhappy with what happened today but early before they spoke the police came out and they issued a statement they said the protesters were really they were burning tires on the roads they were blocking transports they were breaking into cars breaking into shops the police couldn't handle the numbers and they asked the army to intervene now the opposition is saying that what they saw today with the soldiers on the ground is a sign that the country's going back to its dark days and they telling some very very dangerous times. today we saw the deployment of military tanks and firing of live ammunition on civilians for no apparent reason civilians are allowed to demand the respect of their rights in a lawful manner a. disorder that may be dealt with by the police who are best trained public order

. soldiers are trained to kill during war. we are seriously meant to wonder what this means are we in a war of civilians the enemy of the state. and her looking behind you now the situation. what does it look like it is across. and also presumably a lot of people are actually waiting for the results of that presidential election to actually be released. harare is calm and quiet the soldiers we saw have largely gone back to the barracks there are still riot police stationed outside key buildings like the little commission and there's an e.p.a. headquarters but harare is quiet there is a tension you can feel it people wonder what's going to happen next the concern from the opposition is the longer it takes to release those results they become more and more suspicious that something is going on and that maybe something is

being done to tamper with the numbers allegedly the election officials say that is not going to happen just be patient and wait for final results to be announced of course once these presidential results are announced and we don't know when that is going to happen one loses that person except defeat nelson chamisa the main opposition leader has said he won't so when if that happens portas reacts is the question is it the latest from here or for the moment thank you so much and in the studio we're joined again by knox g.t.o. is an associate fellow of the africa program at chatham house thank you for staying with us we were watching that news conference where we have about half an hour ago with the opposition i mean the opposition very much in a sense you know urging the army to be human is the phrase they used to basically not escalate the situation but then again we heard from him or something very much openly saying that it was the opposition that he thinks orchestrated. these

protests around the situation doesn't bode well right now and we haven't even had the election results yes so although i think it is good to see both sides seem to have stepped back from the brink over the last hour or hour or so the. demonstrators on the streets and you know the military seems to have calmed down a little bit we hope that once the results are announced that it will be relatively calm as well but certainly visit a lot of uncertainty and there's a lot of worry about what happens going forward and the longer the results take to come out the more the uncertainty. and we heard from the opposition say that it's taking longer than it did for example the other previous elections in two thousand and thirteen and even european union monitors and hundreds of election monitors in zimbabwe over the past few days they've also expressed concern about the length of time it's taken to release the presidential election results we do have the parliamentary ones two thirds in favor of zanu p.f.

can they be used to i guess give us any idea of where the presidential vote may go so the fact is that a player has done well in the parliamentary ones would that be an indication of why they may have done in the presidential ones well in previous elections generally you know when wins on a pair of wins the parliamentary they tend to win the presidency as well but i think in this this year's elections of did we've got two new contenders and we're in we're in a different situation here so it's very hard to read into it i think it's still all to play for in terms of both both leaders we can't assume that it will be done and we have to see it was very into looking at a map was valborg by political affiliation by a large and i mean you can really tell that where the opposition is strong it's sort of one sick pockets but sort of very specific areas and then the west of the country i mean if the opposition isn't happy with whatever the result is announced them you know we're looking at a split zimbabwe now and the real potential for escalation in the country we hope

well when we really hope and pray that it doesn't escalate but certainly whichever whatever the results of the presidential we can expect some political noise to happen i mean i think that that is par for the course we hope it won't escalate doesn't bubble is deeply divided politically and i think one of the first roles of whoever wins the presidency they will need to reach out to the losing candidate and there has to be a dialogue amongst all the political stakeholders going forward even before a new government has announced i think there has to be that political reconciliation. ok well everyone of course certainly in zimbabwe waiting for the results of that presidential election we'll of course have that here as soon as it's announced on al jazeera for the moment to dr knox g.p.o. from chatham house thank you you thank. the macross czech republic of congo opposition leader and former rebel commander is back home after serving ten years

in jail for war crimes he was welcomed by sounds of supporters of the air force and on the roads of contrasts and what was freed from jail in the netherlands after a successful appeal of the international criminal court in the hague he now wants to run in the summer selections aspirants who has been following events in the capital. the highlight for many people today was when john pierre bemba peered through the window at the sparky headquarters and he was there for about fifteen minutes with his wife waving at the hundreds of supporters who were here to welcome him in the town people went into a frenzy singing his praises and chanting remember for president member for president saying that he is the only candidate he is the only leader who can provide the change of leadership that this country needs are very dramatic scenes from the airport to this place he was this court said by a very huge police contingent who fired tear gas and supporters were blocking the road wanting him to address them but i think one of the conditions he was given is

that he cannot make stopovers to address his speedball they're saying that he provides a much needed momentum in the politics of the d r c over the years the opposition has been divided and we can and people are saying perhaps he could bring them together to rally behind one candidate and all this really making a lot of of of his opponents both in opposition and the ruling party very uncomfortable because people say he is still a very popular leader and in back in two thousand and six he did he was a runner up to president joseph kabila in a presidential runoff and a lot of people are saying that he feels full was stolen. or minimal democratic republic of congo's. else ministry has confirmed four cases of ebola in the northeastern city of goma the ministry says there's no evidence linking these

current cases to the outbreak the killed thirty three people that outbreak was officially declared over last week. the afghan army says it's taking control of the eastern city of jalalabad after a series of attacks the decision follows the deaths of fifteen people in an armed raid on a government refugee office in the city on tuesday in the past three months one hundred sixty civilians have been killed and i salute taliban attacks in its. and the afghan army says more than one hundred fifty eisel fighters surrendered on tuesday that's after a heavy gun battle between eisel and the taliban in the northern province the government says more than one hundred fifty are still fighters were killed and the hundred wounded meanwhile afghanistan's election body has announced presidential elections will be held in april of next year all afghans must register to vote a drawn out process that has been marred by accusations of fraud and abuse reports

now from kabul. hundreds of women recalled the names of the countryman compiling an electronic list of who decide afghanistan's next. nine million people have registered to vote a quarter of the population but here that means nine million manually treece and this is the. name all for that person and their father name i'm for there it is very day then business then we go to the next page is hospitalized with seven hundred people working for two hundred dollars a month out of an old u.n. compound on the outskirts of kabul the registration forms are being flown or truck to a military a schools the nation's election chief wants afghans to feel they can trust the process despite logistical and security challenges. unfortunately they're in secure areas in afghanistan so we can't register people there those areas that are under the control of the government and that we have access to people should go

there for registration the government assisted in putting our registration centers there there's been a lot of criticism from election watchdogs observers about the registration process that they may be fake or duplicate registrations are you concerned about that. of course there is some complaints about the registration when it's not possible to do biometric registration and if it's a manual system like ours it's natural there may be some a duplicate registrations. name is in charge of ten thousand observers on election day and says registrations need to be chicks more thorough and vote is assigned to specific polling stations there is a willingness among the people although they are not the con men it's about. election that is not there and the need for the election about whether. afghans died in the hundreds this year for a chance to make their lives the worst was in april in kabul with fifty seven people were killed and more than one hundred wounded in a suicide bombing at

a voter reaches. seem to. afghanistan is working its way towards critical elections one keystroke at a time. from power outages to bombings patiently they push charged with holding an election that cannot be disputed. still to come on the al-jazeera news hour while we report on a makeshift medical center for people on the brink of famine in what was once known as yemen's bread basket and coming up in sports a massive meltdown this french tennis player and wife from peter. but first wildfires in california are showing no signs of abating with the u.s. state set to record one of its worst fire seasons in history firefighters are still battling seventeen fires burning across the state where eight people have been

killed in the last week the fast moving flames have destroyed nearly one hundred twenty thousand hectares of land last year was the worst season on record with nearly five hundred thirty thousand hectares burned gabrielle elizondo is in reading any as the latest for us. here in redding california fire officials are saying that this fire which is the biggest in all of the state of california is now more than thirty percent contained that's the good news but look at this this is now what people have to deal with in the coming days weeks and maybe even years to try to rebuild entire communities that have been completely wiped out from this fire one of the biggest and most destructive fires here in california in decades there are still more than seventeen fires burning throughout the state of california just this fire where i'm at now wiped out more than a thousand structures the famous yosemite national park which is in central

california it's one of most famous national parks in all of america gets four million visitors a year officials are now saying that park will be closed at least through august fifth because of a fire nearby that's threatening that area this is certainly turning out to be one of the worst fire seasons in not only california but the entire western united states in decades now this weekend they were expecting that more than two hundred firefighters from new zealand and australia will arrive here to help firefighters try to contain these blazes the white house says it will impose sanctions on two turkish officials over that the tension of an american pastor alan fisher is in washington that with the details alan who can you tell us about the story. well the two officials that have been sanctioned turkey's interior minister and their

justice minister and what the sanctions mean well essentially the united states are saying that no one in the united states nor organization nor bank should do any business with these two individuals and this is all about the detention of an american pastor fifty year old andree brunson who comes from north carolina he works in izmir as a christian pastor now if you're the tox they have detained him since twenty sixteen because they believe he is a spy who has been involved in the attempted coup in twenty sixteen if you're the americans he's simply a christian pastor who has met with many people from the community in or own izmir and may well have met with people who were talking about the curb it certainly wasn't involved in the cooler as far as they're concerned there's been a campaign behind the scenes by the americans to try and get him freed he was held in prison until the weekend when he was released to house arrest wearing an electronic tag in fact donald trump has tweeted about this on at least three different occasions that he warned the turks that there could be sanctions coming

over the weekend president the one in turkey said that they weren't going to be threatened by the united states that they were going to see this through that justice would be done and that pastor would have his day in court while the americans have decided that they're not going to let this go any farther with some sort of response from washington and that is why the treasury has announced these sanctions just in the last hour or so at the news briefing that we normally get at the white house and that will be followed up with concrete action with messages going out to everyone saying do not do any business with turkey's interior minister or the justice minister or with the latest from the white house. syrian government forces have regained control of all the land along the border with the israeli occupied golan heights isolating fighters gave up their last focus of territory in the area after a six week military campaign and according to russian media pro iranian forces withdrew to eighty five kilometers from israeli held territory israel had asked for

moscow's support to help keep back pro iranian troops. qatar's main stock benchmark has recovered all losses since a blockade was imposed on the gulf state by a group of neighboring countries almost fourteen months ago the q e index rose one point five percent at the close of trading on wednesday reaching levels not seen since may two thousand and six seventeen saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt a severed economic and diplomatic ties with catherine in june two thousand and seventeen accusing it of funding terrorism. yemen's who the rebels say though stop attacks in the red sea for two weeks to support peace efforts it follows a pax on two vessels last week in one of the world's most important trade routes the straight the attacks are hitting a vital lifeline for yemenis struggling to access much needed food and medical care mohammed the reports now from djibouti just across from yemen. this is the impact

of three years of war the city of saga of the fighters was most known as humans bread basket much will be it is now destroyed people are desperate and on the brink of a farming. roads and bridges have not been spared either limiting the supply of vital supplies of food and fuel to a population already so. militarization is at an all time high at a teen shack that now serves as a temporary health center acutely malnourished children are fed high protein peanut based food. reading the vin are scared to death every hour we see a plane i'm not exaggerating at all revision for peace peace and safety. but the prospect of peace in yemen remains of a more distant relentless efforts by the u.n. to broker a peace a failed on one side others who think rebels trying hard to keep control of huge

swathes of the contrary on the other pro-government militias back by the sooty u.a.e. coalition. in recent days they have intensified their outcomes to wrestle control of the vital part of the data from both the fight is the city has been heavily militarized forcing half of its population to flee controlling the day that is important to both sides it's the main and two point four much needed aid and most imports into yemen this is with from australia more than anything else the yemeni people now desperately need peace with peace and stability we can start to get people back on their feet start to rebuild their livelihoods their fears any escalation in the fighting could cause a shock tunneled of white told put causing father devastation in what is already the world's last humanitarian crisis some twenty two million people in the i'm in

need many of the war displaced have no way of surviving without food hundreds on their fears to outbreak of diseases strikes of this forward yemen's water and sanitation facilities something that's already call from outbreak of cholera the u.n. now say the complete could be one asked like a wave form on the brink of the fatal disease how many other wild disease or djibouti. iranian lawmaker is a given president hassan rouhani one month to appear before parliament to answer questions of his government's handling of the country's economic problems it's the first time parliament has summoned the iranian president who's on the pressure from hardline rivals to change his cabinet since relations with the u.s. have deteriorated lawmakers want to question him on why the country's currency the rio has lost that more than half its value since april. now in the past hour the french national assembly has voted in favor of changes to

a new immigration law that reduces the time that refugees can claim asylum from eleven months to six it's aimed at speeding up the more taishan of those the night asylum and the processing of those who are accepted they've a cheater has more now from paris. number of refugees in the suburbs of paris may be as high as four hundred thousand according to a parliamentary report the city authorities are struggling to cope the conditions in the parks and streets are becoming intolerable in the middle of the heat wave raids by riot police have cleared the large tented camps where many of them found temporary refuge but the tough new laws just passed by the national assembly will cut the time period during which they can claim asylum the claim is rejected that only have fifteen days to lodge an appeal and the time they can be kept in detention waiting for deportation has been doubled to ninety days not via

a sale voted against the bill she believes france would take in more refugees and be less scared influx but once people have left their home there it's a whole deal and we cannot just send them back i believe we have to look at the situation differently you can't just say we don't want that it's a way of closing your eyes that is meaningless it's a way to deny reality their original here. charity workers have described the situation as explosive the refugees are being forced to share the streets with drug addicts and dealers in crack cocaine public baths are being closed and fights are breaking out to find supplies of water. it's been estimated a total of five hundred refugees are arriving in paris every week the government say the new reforms i'm meant to make a much more efficient system for asylum seekers to to actually try and sift out those who are genuine refugees and those who are economic migrants. we found

william and his wife baking for food they have a four year old child they escaped silence in ivory coast but never applied for asylum here they now face deportation the police are constantly moving them on what before. them you must understand them you treat become an alkie fit we would start to sleep on the streets everywhere sometimes i don't know where to sleep i sit on the bench i chip my little wife by my side we pray and we keep. the deputies of the national assembly will not have heard of will you he has a master of arts and philosophy he's passionate about french culture and literature but it's no life for him on the streets here and he's already lost everything in his homeland there are tens of thousands more like him a big change to al-jazeera house. still to come on the al-jazeera news hour oh. as rates of violence against women saw or protesters take to the

streets of south africa demanding government action food security fears in britain farmers call an emergency drought summit and in sports alexis sanchez shines against reality as football's preseason. hello there we've got quite a bit of what weather still with us around parts of the black sea and the caspian sea we have a look at the satellite picture we can see the cloud here is it gradually works its way eastwards and it has given us a fairly heavy rain and we plenty more of it as we head through the next few days as well so some of the weather here really does look quite heavy and it could give us a little bit of disruption here to further towards the south and for us as you might expect just incredibly hot now we're looking at forty four degrees in baghdad slightly cooler in beirut but still warm right about thirty one degrees here in

doha it's pretty windy at the moment but the winds are likely to ease as we head through into thursday forty three degrees our maximum temperature at the moment there's a bit of a cloud over the big empty quarter of saudi here and perhaps a little bit more cloud just for seeing with the coast of oman but most places generally looking quiet until you had down to the southwest and parts of our map where for some of us here particularly eritrea looks like we're going to see some rather violent thunderstorms down towards the southern parts of africa are all a largely quite quiet on off a live picture of the moment just a little bit of cloud in the fall south but still with this just making things a little bit gray for some as we head through the day on thursday not really bringing us a great deal of wet weather though perhaps just the gold showers around in there as we head through into friday particularly in the afternoon. corrupt officials have been ousted. and the activists of the chinese villager who

can take center stage and on the president of local elections. in the fast of a remarkable series filmed of the five years al-jazeera documents of a new village committing. rebels to politicians pot wannabe china's democracy experiment on al-jazeera. and monday put it on the. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war.

welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera soldiers in zimbabwe's capital have fired live ammunition at opposition demonstrators killing at least three people concern is mounting over the country's election count which is still going on two days after the presidential. democratic republic of congo opposition leader bemba has been welcomed by supporters on his return to the country the former rebel commander who spent a decade in jail plans to run for president and wildfires in california are showing no signs of abating with the u.s. state set to record one of its worst fire seasons in history firefighters are still battling seventeen blazes that have killed eight people in the last. 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 the issue of land ownership is one of the most contentious in south africa that has more. knowledge of. land redistribution is an emotive issue in south africa a series of public appearances just ended and now would amount to policy shift the ruling african national congress says it will push ahead with land expropriations for white farmers without pain compensation supporters of the movie say it's time to address a loss to the legacy of apartheid. used were over eighty percent of the most. of the minority. since ninety ninety four the government used the willing seller willing buyer to change the balance of land ownership is brought about five million hectares or four percent of south africa's

territory through redistribution but almost a third of that has not been allocated to anyone. the problem lies with what has been done with all the thousands of victims that has been built that's still not the property of individuals it's in the hands of the state and emily charlie's parents were forcibly removed from their land in south africa's northwest province in the one nine hundred sixty s. she says she's worried the redistribution process is being rushed section twenty five of the constitution says if land is taken from the property owner compensation must be just and equitable the a n c now plans to amend that to clarify when explained it's going to happen without payment i really need to amend section going to five or even the constitution we are not that that's why. because we haven't done the process of getting

the so sure you can impact assessment. president cyril ramaphosa with one eye and elections next year knows he needs to act he's promised there will be no zimbabwe style london visions and says the process of going to be allowed to threaten the economy was the al-jazeera saying was south africa thousands of people are marching against gender based violence the total shut down protests are taking place across the country organizers say abuse against women is systemic and are demanding government action overall it's estimated the one in five south african women will experience sexual or physical violence in their lifetime some women in south africa are now using social media to seek justice malcolm webb reports from johannesburg. yeah land that yankee had just started a degree at rhodes university in south africa when 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 him in their eyes. obviously the encounter after they had my trust in people in general . and i guess i just as a become a prison's really and gets to say mostly you landers met many other students who tried 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 were responsible for sexual assault students have also protested here the university has run into anna's bag 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've been raped or killed when carol mcqueen i was found murdered in johannesburg last year it prompted hundreds of thousands of tweet activists say the pressure pushed all thirty's to act her boyfriend was found guilty of the murder earlier this year ten james one 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 your able to call out your repurposed 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 results in conviction we asked a state prosecutor what she thinks about frustrated victims receiving justice on

social media instead confidential. there are a few dish will go for three hundred were 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 i had convinced the court that someone is guilty that person really screwed you on the says a rapists have never been held to account this is the authorities failed her justice has been done malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg or to give us a sense of the scale of gender violence in south africa official figures show that one woman is killed every four hours in the eight months between april and the summer two thousand and sixteen more than one thousand seven hundred women were murdered fifty seven of them died at the hands of their partners government figures also show that the murder rate for women increased by a staggering one hundred seventeen percent between two thousand and fifteen and two

thousand six hundred seventy that over the same period the number of women who were victims of sexual offenses more than doubled from under thirty two thousand in two thousand and fifteen sixteen to more than seventy thousand for leslie in cuba is a spokeswoman for the total shutdown protest she says structural violence is not being addressed by the government. we were discussing it that a lot there's a lot of violence that people in the society have carried over from dogmatic government we hadn't done any reconsideration terms of emotional trauma and second of all people and we need to remember that africa and the world in general we need been a highly toxic. the way men feel entitled to our bodies men feel entitled to our space and talk to. that greet the violence in our community we framed at least twenty four key demand that we're going to be handing over to

government and under those twenty four key demands are more demands underneath that but the twenty four two months really represent the twenty four years of post democratic south africa who was thing women children and jinnah non-conforming people and nothing in this country and for twenty four years what are the government been doing to focus on issues of gender based violence. as the heat wave in northern europe continues farmers in britain have called an emergency drought summit to address its impact on food security farms in many parts of england and wales haven't seen any significant rain since the end of may which could affect the yields for some crops john a whole reports. with an almost rain free july following the driest june since one thousand nine hundred twenty five britain is sweating its way through both the heat wave and drought at the moment the news we're hearing about the lack of rain for speculation about shortages it's not

a local sort of northern european or british issue this time it's the whole of the northern hemisphere i'm reading hearing reports from the us canada russia sweden about long periods of high temperatures drought conditions and it's affecting harvests everywhere farmer robert lord takes me on a tour of his parched land wheat prices are way up that's good for farmers but bad of course for consumers he's worried about his livestock so your big concern now is is the grass that you have lost effectively that would mean feed for you. and it's got to the situation in the last few days that we've had to get in and bring it out of the field the national farmers union has called it a crisis we have off on our shelves twenty four seventh's and we often don't actually ever really think about where food comes from or indeed how it gets on the

shelves so i think it's a wake up call in many areas and not least around situation of market failure volatility. crucial component of a future approach of policy the long hot summer of two thousand and eighteen is a reminder says the national farmers union that britain shouldn't take its food production for granted and a timely one at that as concerns grow about the possibility of this country exiting the european union without a trade deal resulting in food shortages even stockpiling in the months ahead. we cope with it whether we manage with. the one thing bricks giving us is a lot of a. going for it and always saying as a politician's squabbling as the drought continues both briggs's and the challenging climate looks set to ensure challenging times ahead al-jazeera.

a u.s. judge has blocked a release of software that allows. nine us states safaga lawsuit against the trumpet ministration after it reached a settlement with texas based the fence this tributed to publish the printing files online while brunell's has the story from los angeles 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 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 trumpet ministration abruptly gave up on the 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 they're 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 lawmakers 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 ahead on the. news hour wishing a very happy fiftieth birthday to a groundbreaking cartoon character from the one thousand sixty's and then sports struggles to form as the from a grand slam champion has yet another early exit. thank

. you. all this first marks the official earth overshoot day for two thousand and eighteen that's when our demand on the earth's resources overshoots the planet's actual ability to

regenerate and replenish them from this stage will essentially be borrowing from the future having used the four years worth of resources in just two hundred twelve days to keep up with this kind of demand we would need one point seven earths the bad news is that the days of the overshoot has been getting earlier and earlier every year the good news experts say is that we can actually push the date back well how are we going to do that will not this vacuum is c.e.o. of the global footprint network which conducted the research used to calculate earth's overshoot day he joins us live now via skype from oakland california sir thank you so much for joining us here obviously very interested the find out how we can push it back but first of all i'd like to understand what the key factors were in how you calculated the state because when we say it's been getting earlier every year i mean it's remarkable in the seventy's it was even december first and now already we're in august. yeah we do basic accounting the bean counters we add the

beans and the milk and the cheese and what it takes to sequester the c o two and two to how was our houses and roads etc we add that all up that's our ecological footprint and then we compared that space with how much is available on the planet to renew the use and our demand and as you said very well has exceeded its can renew i mean all based on un statistics show i mean so basically it's like spending your whole year in the wage by bios and after that your living on credit cards effectively so i guess the key point now is how do we try and reverse it because the trend is shocking looking at the graph which is obviously a available online i mean seventy's it's just been a straight line up so how can we assuming the will is there what's the way of reversing it yes i mean there will that's an important part then people also wonder why is this still food in the fridge and august second and there is of cause because we can deplete our natural asset for some time it's like good money you can

spend more than what you earn for some time but your assets go down that's why we say let's move the date how can we move that date forward if we move to date in the future just five days every year he would be back to one planet way before twenty fifty and how can we do that in a number of ways that four key drivers the first one is the way we build our cities more compact energy efficient cities are far more. effective in using resources the second one is how do we power ourselves to use cold power or solar power how do we feed ourselves as dramatic amount of feed food waste and we also eat probably too many animal products and then the fourth one which may be more controversial but it's a very important factor is how many people are we've got twice as many people there's only half as much planet and by investing in women but making sure women have at least equal access equal rights families get smaller and healthier and better educated and. it's good for people to i guess all of this hinges on people

first of all realizing that there's an issue and then sort of making changes to their personal life so that it changes across the world i mean the global statistic is that we need one point seven earth two to survive but if you look at the individual countries i mean you're speaking to us from the united states if everyone in the world lives like americans do that actually would need five planets if everyone lived like australians that we need for in a little bit of a planet if i believe lived like germany and be three planets that we would need i mean i'm just interested because you're in the states right now and that's obviously a key country in all of this how much coverage is this getting how much interest are you seeing and how much will you guess getting a sense of the people are willing to put into into this to really make a change it just to get enough for the first week we haven't gotten that much interest of doing we have been doing about this since two thousand and six you haven't been getting that much interest in the early days this year has been the best year in terms of media coverage in the united states you can have an ad up on

times square to get the media interest in united states it's a polarized country right now it's not a polarizing issue it's just basic accounting it affects everybody if we don't have recently security it's going to be very difficult to have prosperous allies that's why we say let's have one planet of prosperity because the one plan we cannot change the only choice is prosperity or misery i think prosperity beats misery well sir i have to speak to you again next year at roughly the same time and hopefully actually not a later time a little later my little a little later for the moment. care nigel c.e.o. of the global footprint network which helped research thank you. well speaking of time passing fifty years ago at the height of the u.s. civil rights movement a leading cartoonist made a small but significant contribution to racial equality charles i'm sure it's introduced as first the black character alongside charlie brown in the famous and hugely popular peanuts newspaper strip autumn cartoonist carrie johnson looks back

at the legacy of franklin my name is carrie johnson i'm a professional caricaturists and cartoonists as a kid and really didn't have a lot of people of color to look up to the characters i'm a caricature illustrators or cartoonist when i see franklin in the newspapers i realize wow that's good to see a person of color of color in the charlie brown series someone asked me do you think frankly i have a franklin and newspapers really helped the black community or the way people look at african-american cartoonist you know maybe i can only say that because there are so few of us out here doing doing this if it's never took the risk to put franklin in his strip who knows would have made that that happen because one thing about it was already popular he didn't need it frankly but his teeth i think

a lady wrote him a letter of our member read about it a few years ago and he said well i don't want to thin the african community however you took a chance and it worked ok that's. right i wasn't stereotyped you know getting praise will do this here but he still was pretty straightforward with troy brown and then when the holidays are coming around you'll see franklin with the with the budget of peppermint patty loose the line is and then we're just you know i think they want to missed you most of the war but i enjoyed that. cartoonist carrie johnson looking back at the legacy of franklin another reason to love the peanuts and if you love sport let's go to dell now and chat to peter peter barbara thank you so much wednesday marked a major milestone in the history of england's cricket team they walked out onto the field in birmingham for the one thousandth time in the sport's longest format england started the first of five test matches strongly heading to lunch at eighty

three for one captain joe returned jonny bairstow then put on one hundred runs for the fourth we could but when they fell in quick succession the english tale order quickly collapsed four wickets from a rub each other in ashwin putting india in control at the close of play. is going to stump two hundred eighty five for nine finishing with figures of four for sixty from his twenty five over st the best of england's bettman until he was run out for eighty sam curran and james anderson will look to guiding them through to at least three hundred on thursday. to leap pema chodron covers cricket for u.k. newspaper the independent he says it's unlikely any other side will reach the milestone in a hurry. australia closes but even if they paid ten tests a year it's going to take them you know the thirty years to get there in india need another fifty years carol creating a journey to get there but i really can't see that happening right now apart from

england india and australia the game simply isn't commercially viable anywhere it's what they can do is to ensure that three countries i mentioned does maybe park silence or keep playing amongst themselves because they have tradition rivalries which mean something to that in the long run i see say india playing new zealand twenty years from now in test cricket in terms of the players' mindsets a lot of them will tell you yes but this is the most lucrative form of the game not by a long shot if you look at of football the champions league the e.p.l. in the league play the players the most in terms of salaries that's not true test cricket no tell that changes the mindset is going to of fluctuate greatly in the coming years. twenty three time major champion serena williams has suffered the worst loss of her tennis career the american won the first game against great britain's you had a concert but that was as good as it would get for the decorated champion williams

then losing the next twelve games to balance in straight sets six one six love in just fifty two minutes concer will now face a fear cannon in the second round of the silicon valley open. three time grand slam champion status have lost these opening match of the city open in washington american qualifier donald young upsetting the swiss in three sets of regular has been struggling for form after having two surgeries on his left knee last year. and ben while pairs elimination from the tournament was much more dramatic the frenchman had a huge meltdown at the end of these match against marcos baghdatis is likely to be fine for his repeated outbursts that saw him dr point of the change veins the world in the fifty five didn't attempt to play on match point and rounded out the last six three three six six two by smashing a third record and then being booed off the court one six three serves him right manchester united have wrapped up their five game pre-season tour of the us with

the win over real madrid in miami and alexa centuries had a major role as united beat the european champions to know the chilean forward scoring the opening goal before providing the assist and. just a marina said he hasn't learned anything from the but he was still impressed to see sanchez back to his best. as i was saying we were just trying to survive and to have the best the best possible results but as i was saying to the players some of my play is they will be in an amazing. condition you imagine alexis such as fresh and the way that the man is is running after playing for match four matches ninety minutes i think he is in a fantastic condition so let's look at it for the positive sides of this story incandela i'm delighted with my team we have a marvelous challenge ahead of us which is to recreate the team without christiana

we will try to do the best we can in every sense of that we will try to reinvent attain it's a thrilling challenge as a coach and we convince that we have the elements and the tools to be able to do so there was also a win for tottenham at spurs scoring the only goal of the match against italian side ac milan after forty seven minutes they begin their premier league campaign on aug eleventh against newcastle united. those have been for. many youngers that is that bob and they've behaved very well. off the beach and that is the most important. a youthful barcelona side took on a roma in texas with the enormously in the lineup the spanish champions looked like they missed him as they were comfortably beaten for two boss's boss suggested they could follow up a recent signing of malcolm with some more players. that had what

a squad is the team is always looking for good players i am the trainer we all work on it but we have more people who spend more time looking for good players the team decided that malcolm should join us because we are very happy with him so far we can also see that he has great potential in the tampa bay rays have beaten the angels ten six on tuesday but it was los angeles seem to feel the mike trout keeping the statistician's happy he's home in the seventh inning was he's thirty of the season that means he is now the second m.l.d. player to steal twenty bases and hit thirty homes in a season three times before turning twenty six. and that's all the sport more coming up again later it's back to barbara peter thank you very much for that that's actually all from me barbara sara for this news that we do stay with us though julie when donald will be with you in just a moment with more of the things they are fighting about.

and the vanguard of one hundred seventy s. struggle with the new zealand crown. a maori leda. accused of terrorism. filmed of a seven years. his quest for justice becomes a blueprint for national reconciliation a. witness and innocent warrior on al-jazeera. the sam's in archaeology graduate from iraq he's also a part time going to billings pergamon museum which includes

a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in bubble most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called a meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. that he had been because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life is part of life it's culture in the middle east's most religiously diverse country you still have the kind of just communities you don't have one vision for the future you have nineteen of them divided along sectarian lines the confessional system in lebanon has destroyed the only problem and heavily influenced by regional allegiances and i was one prevailing over the other you have civil war so it's always this balance that's if you kept following its first parliamentary elections and nine years people in power investigates the state of

lebanon on that just zero. point people are killed in zimbabwe as soldiers opened fire on a position. of them to what to all this is al jazeera live from london also coming up tens of thousands crammed the streets to welcome opposition leaders here then back to the democratic republic polls call. us turkey relations under pressure the white house sanctions officials over the imprisonment of an american pastor. and food security fears here in britain farmers call an emergency dr solomon.