well you think you've also the studio position has been gaining a lot of momentum going in the last couple of years remember. the opposition last year those big rallies last basically by these parties have been able to force president to buy a book or keep to some toll from the constitutional amendment that he wanted to introduce so that would like a big win for the opposition parties who lost and they built on the momentum coming up to the selection so my schooling that. you know i'm going to vent to support through to him not to even that was surprising to many. of these that the president in many african countries has to give states on stage influence and so on to move the ball and look ok to have been accused of using those needs to to get benefits. but but he did to vote not surprising

it did building up to this it was a vote and the honesty is not on our use of in the money they will go through the expedition some of your pollution need of particularly some of those candidates. for somebody to. defend happens on a wide scale maybe you have the sense that bill charland to president to bind the country to it has never happened that he is the macaca mahdi's of if you. voted out of office if it happens to be a great president madiba people on how. to have supporters. who could surprise him or. station of the country in the last five years to talk yes. no ending violence across the country you have to fix the economy. political instability in the country five government inspired. by lies is the. i pulled it looking in the country and expectations about it's not

. on. august. eighth a huge challenge your position is. for us on the phone from bamako thank you very much indeed the democratic republic of congo's health ministry says it's identified the strain of a bowl and the country's latest outbreak they say it's the strain which has been successfully treated by a vaccine in the past and international team is in the town of beni in north kivu where the outbreak was detected on whedon's state twenty people are confirmed to have died from the disease and four others are ill. warlords turned opposition figure in democratic republic of congo's bemba has lodged his application to run for the upcoming presidential election the former rebel commander arrived home and wife in the state after eleven years in exile ten of them spent in prison catherine

sawyer reports from the capital kinshasa. john pierre bemba arrives at the electoral commission offices to submit his candidacy for president the last twenty four hours have been a whirlwind for him has been heavily guarded by police party officials say his movement has been restricted he's not allowed to publicly address his supporters and the government has denied him access to a residential home in the suburb called in the capital city. the police are telling us that the. residents this is a violation of his words he's come home and should be able to freely move around and leave where he wants to. kinshasa as police commissioner is in charge of security arrangements he says all this is for his protection but they will not allow him to go to court which is also a presidential area so. security measures have to be taken he's holding going there

is very close to the president as he didn't in two thousand and six he supporters clashed with the presidential guard and people we are trying to avoid anything like that happening again. and the electoral commission offices had to first register as a voter before filing his candidacy he's been away at the hague for the last decade was arrested in two thousand and eight in belgium for war crimes committed by his militia in central african republic between two thousand and two and two thousand and three he was then convicted to eighteen years in prison two years ago by the international criminal court that decision was over time on appeal in june but has just finished submitting. strong and. before a distraction next week some of the bodes ill have been here all afternoon chairing him on the ground based on the commissioners a vow to move forward to see. it took him hours to clear up with

a commission and now he has to wait for a few more weeks to know for sure if he'll be on the ballot paper in december catherine soy al jazeera kinshasa a struggling mining company in south africa says it's going to slash thirteen thousand jobs as a battles to stay afloat impala platinum which is in violent protests in the past over pay will cut its workforce in rustenburg and reduce the number of mines operating there the government's criticised the decision calling the job cuts careless and reckless. but he more ahead in the news hour including cutting off the supply that helps keep gaza alive israel stops fuel trucks entering the strip. thousands take to the streets in bangladesh calling for justice following the death of two college students. and in sports the wickets have been tumbling in birmingham as the first test between england and a.b.'s is even the point stuff to two days.

so i delighted coalition in yemen has denied carrying out an airstrike in hard data that killed at least twenty six people the strike hit a fishing port and fish markets near the main hospital there who think rebels say fifty five people died meanwhile the un special envoy for yemen is convening a new round of talks in the latest bid to end the three year old civil war was led jordan reports from the united nations the families of at least twenty six people who day to yemen are now planning their funerals the victims were killed in a saudi coalition air strike near the hospital in the city center on thursday this as the u.n. special envoy for yemen announced he will host talks between the government and who think rebels in geneva on september sixth these consultations will provide the

opportunity for the park use among other things to discuss the framework for negotiations to agree on relevant confidence building measures and specific plans for moving process forward griffiths argument keeping her data open to delivery of humanitarian aid to millions of yemenis is important but it's much more important to end the war the un's humanitarian aid she described just how bad the situation has become for ordinary people. three years of conflict have left two million people displaced from their homes eight point four million people do not know where their next meal is coming from and the worst cholera outbreak in the word of the card in yemen last year with one point one million cases the humanitarian situation is indeed shocking both in scale and severity and these figures they represent a call for urgent action the saudi coalition which backs the government of president abdulla robbo monsour hadi and iran which gives the who these military

support are not invited to griffiths talks but they'll probably go to geneva to keep an eye on things and then there's the u.s. under fire for giving military support to the saudi coalition and a critic of tehran support for the who these the us ambassador used her security council remarks not only to chastise iran for destabilizing yemen but also to send a message to riyadh about its air war against the who these we've hit a new day now in yemen and we've had a new sense of urgency and u.n. and that if this is what started to happen civilians are at risk infrastructure is at risk but in the last three years at least ten thousand people have been killed in yemen another forty thousand injured the risk for civilians already a reality. rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the united nations hundreds of iranians angry at the state of the economy have protested in at least five cities iran's official

news agency says the demonstrations were illegal and they've been broken up by police iran's currency the real has hit record lows this week it's lost on half its value this year as concern builds about the reimposition of u.s. sanctions which are due to start next tuesday. has more from the capital to iran. but we're seeing these protests break out in the main cities about five or six different provinces the biggest demonstrations in the city of isfahan and ensure rise now protests in iran have become relatively normal with the economic struggle that the country's been seeing for the past several months so dozens of people protesting in their cities in the towers in the villages is not something that generally makes the news but what we have seen in the last forty eight hours is dozens of protesters in a few pockets around the country turning into hundreds in main cities in multiple provinces and that's really what is interesting here we also saw or have heard

unconfirmed reports of small demonstrations yesterday and the day before in the capital but what is interesting is that about an hour outside of the capital in carriage there were a few dozen people to try to set fire to a mosque there were demonstrations there but the police who ordered that attempt to burn down a mosque what we're seeing is the number of protesters are swelling people who came out protesting economic conditions those slogans are now turning into more political chants and to government protesters are also coming out not just people protesting the economy and what we're also seeing now is a government effort to try and quell that as soon as possible there is a very large police presence out on the street not just in the capital to han but in several places around the country and that's likely a response to a call by several anti-government media organizations based outside the country that have called for another round. protests to take place later today russia says un peacekeepers have returned to the buffer zone between syria and the israeli

occupied golan heights for the first time since twenty fourteen that's when the u.n. pulled out after forty five peacekeepers were kidnapped by al qaeda linked fighters syrian government forces say they have no regained control of all territory along the frontier after a six week military campaign against isolate fighters and other rebel groups israel however says it carried out an air strike on thursday on targets in the area moscow's says it will deploy military police and set up monitoring posts there to avoid any possible provocations israel's defense minister says he believes the front here will be quieter with president bashar al assad's rule restored. from our view the situation is returning to how it was before the civil war meaning there's a clear address someone responsible and a central forty the golan heights is split between syria and territory occupied by

israel israel successfully lobbied russia to help keep pro iranian troops back from the front here this map shows the bigger picture this is the whole of syria and most of the country is red that means it's in government control the only significant rebel held territory left is in the north and lip marked in green while the asaad government has said taking the province back was its priority most schools ruled out a major assault the assad government is now in negotiations with kurdish leaders who control the areas in yellow. israel's announced it's blocking fuel and gas supplies into the besieged gaza strip defense minister avigdor lieberman says fuel trucks won't be allowed through the. crossing it's in retaliation for palestinians using incendiary kites to set israel land alight palestinians in gaza are already suffer frequent power cuts and rely on fuel to power generators seventy decker's in

gaza. this is all part of wider political pressure that israel is trying to impose on have the israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman saying it wants leadership here to stop the incendiary balloons and the kites and also quoting the friday protest the bigger picture here is this there is still a very fragile ceasefire a fragile tense situation between israel and hamas another interesting development we have a senior hamas leadership that are not based here in gaza coming to gaza today from cairo they've been in cairo discussing with egyptian intelligence and others this cease fire deal also potentially discussing palestinian reconciliation it is important why it is important because any of those things need to be done to move forward here and improve the situation for the people it is unclear what is going to be achieved on the table we know certainly when it comes to palestinian reconciliation there is no trust between how mass in fact certainly more urgently the ceasefire needs to hold there been intensive efforts by the u.n.

special envoy to the middle east peace process to try and maintain that cease fire even though it is ten so have to wait and see how those talks develop and what the delegation of hamas brings to the leadership here. tech giant apple has become the first company to hit a valuation of one trillion dollars in the u.s. stock markets that's a million million dollars or one followed by twelve zeros the market was reached two and apple's share price tipped over two hundred seven dollars it's the second company worldwide to hit the trillion dollar value petro china did it very briefly eleven years ago on the shanghai exchange market analysts expect an alphabet the company that owns google to be next jim anderson is the c.e.o. of social flow it works with social media companies and he's also a commentator on social media and technology he's joining us now from new york city thank you very much indeed for joining us analogies ears or is this a reflection of consumers' confidence purely in apple or is that it's more

a confidence in the tech sector as a whole i think it's both the tech sector it surely has been performing phenomenally the growth in these tech companies had a few bumps lately with earnings releases the past couple of weeks but still you're talking about companies that are worth more than half a trillion dollars and now for apple to get to this one trillion dollar mark is certainly it's the best of the best what do you think have been the key factors for apple that have driven this. it's growth all of these tech companies are being rewarded for stellar growth and sometimes they're punished when we saw what happened to facebook you know facebook had record earnings a couple of weeks ago when it was punished pretty badly because the growth was not quite what was expected you look at apple's numbers and the growth was there and so clearly the market loves when the tech companies continue to grow they know they know how to turn that growth into profit one of the things that surprised me about this as an outsider looking on the this is the fact that it seems to have been

driven predominantly in this in the first instance by the fact the apples design was so radically different when it began its software was variable at some point it's also had its significant problems with its software in the rollouts of his updates over the last few years and yet one of the things that seems to be driving this is one of the more expensive phones all in the market and that just doesn't seem to make sense to me people still seem willing to spend on north a lot of money just to be part of the the our police force if you like well and that's really a marketing story you think about it you and i could reasonably say wow that's a lot of money for a phone i'm not sure i want to spend it i'm not sure our opinions matter so much that consumers clearly have voted with their wallets and their pocket books and they're buying those phones and apple ever since steve jobs came back you know when after he had been booted out of the company really honed in and made its products have a very sleek sense of design and have a whole lot of consumer appeal and that clearly hasn't changed people still want to

own i phones and other apple devices and we see the results jim anderson thank you very much for your time thank you still ahead on al-jazeera. to drill it's unusual rock music that critics say incites violence. in europe on high alert as another heat wave looks set to break temperature records in spain. and in sports the italian champions had towards the new season with another win over the fan favorites returning to the club. welcome back time to look at weather conditions across the americas we still have

heavy rain hail along the eastern seaboard showers extending all way down through to the florida panhandle behind our systems the warm air we've got thirty six there in dallas and across the west we also at the risk of some showers there across parts of colorado and down to the desert southwest cooler conditions for washington state their highs of twenty in seattle and then heading on through into suffer a recovery in temperatures there generally should be a woman in los angeles highs of twenty nine into central america we have some heavy showers through panama costa rica nicaragua further north as scattered showers around i'm a sicko wanted to these are quite heavy particular on the pacific side as for the islands of the caribbean are generally fine picture attempters in the low thirty's the bocas sharrett to pretty across western parts of cuba and through into the bahamas into south america heavy showers there for colombia and across that region generally coming further towards the south the middle showers extending through parts of peru and into bolivia powers could see the odd downpour and we still got some heavy rain affecting southern parts of brazil through into paraguayans so

expect to see some rain in asuncion telling to clear as we head through saturday certainly looking woman and when is aries here expected to reach fifteen. controversial liberal i am not an idealogue let me be absolutely clear to democracy and international development build roads doesn't cut inequality in fact to increase i'm from a bestselling author and distinguished global economist you don't know the case for greed like you gentleman i sure do many times just fine having read my book yet how many men might know me i guess and maybe his son goes head to head we've done the same liam i've been accused of being crazy i'm not in fact pointing it on i'll just see him. every armed attack. creates fear and division amongst its citizens where stories of loss no one tome. is sweeping association of islam with violence

leaves erupt in muslims facing the stock reality of being ostracized by the very communities in which they live love and moon the tragic loss of life. twice a victim on al-jazeera. you're watching all jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour emerson among dog what has been declared the winner of zimbabwe's presidential election with just over fifty percent of the vote it's the first time since independence that robert mugabe has not been on the ballot. the side he led coalition in yemen has denied carrying out an air strike in

hard data that killed at least twenty six people both the rebels say fifty five people died meanwhile the u.n. special envoy for yemen is convening a new round of talks and the latest bid to end the three year old civil war. hundreds of iranians angry at the state of the economy have protested in at least five cities iran's currency has hit record lows this week it's lost on hof its value this year as concern builds about the reimposition of u.s. sanctions. pope francis has changed the catholic church's teachings on the death penalty saying that it can never be sanctioned because it attacks the inherent dignity of all humans the church previously sanctioned the death penalty in some cases the key question here is human dignity ok and what pope francis is saying is that no matter how grievous the crime for which someone should be punished and they should be punished there is nothing so bad that it takes away their human

dignity and certainly the church always always teaches about redemption to hot air from africa is bringing a heat wave to europe prompting health warnings about the heart of desert dust and high temperatures forecasters say the old time temperature record in europe could be broken this weekend in spain and portugal the current record is forty eight degrees celsius and was set in athens in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven farmers in many areas are battling the effects of drought and wildfires called pan hall has more from one total in southwestern spain. the extreme heat warnings that have been put out by the splash spanish national weather office are expected to last right through to the weekend so more hot weather to come in those coming days the significance of this town montoro is this is where that the spanish record was set last year forty seven point three degrees and so today all eyes have been on

the thermometer has to see if that record will be broken i don't think that is going to happen today from our measurements in the shade temperatures have been around forty two degrees standing out in the direct sun of course above and beyond fifty degrees very hot indeed but talking to some of the older generation in town they say the way to deal with these extreme temperatures is really to go back in time to the old methods the old methods of building houses with thick stone walls using natural fibers and also they point to this spanish air conditioning here both men and women use fans may not be good as good as normal air conditioning but it certainly will help you with your electricity bills talking to one of the oldest generation that are going to find a ninety two year old olive farmer he said that he's been noticing year after year temperatures have been getting hotter and he said quite simply one of these days

the world is just going to burst into flames. over five hundred fathers are holding a hunger strike in an immigration detention center in the u.s. state of texas the khans county residential center currently houses hundreds of newly reunited migrant families according to races it's an advocacy and legal services group the father's a striking to urge the government to expedite their cases u.s. president donald trump was forced to end his zero tolerance family separation policy last month amid public outcry well the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement has reiterated its stunts on hunger strikes saying in general ice fully respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without interference i say does not retaliate in any way against hunger strikers ice explains the negative health effects of not eating to our detainees but their health and safety ice closely monitors the food and water intake of those detainees identified as being on

a hunger strike jennifer vulcan is communications director at races as i said it's a nonprofit organization that provides legal services for immigrants and she she is joining us now on skype from san antonio in texas thank you very much for being with us what's your understanding of what's going on at cons so we know that the situation right now in current three weeks ago we noticed a shift in the population where mothers were being transferred out and fathers and their sons would be reunified inside a car. we have met with many of the fathers who say that they were given an english paper and asked to sign it so that they could be reunified with their children when in fact they were signing papers they later found out. is there any evidence and i forgive me for interrupting but just on the point this is obviously valuable evidence i'm guessing that's coming from the father is there any of the physical

evidence to show that these papers that there were signing were in fact as you say deportation orders as opposed to reno if you read if acacia orders. that's actually more evidence that the fact of the chaos that the administration is in trying to reunite these families as many of the fathers have said that they have came to karnes with paperwork and now we are unable to find that paperwork so they're kind of just in limbo right now in karnes and they're demanding their freedom they do not want to be deported they want to be able to submit reasonable asylum claims here in the us given that your organization obviously as i mentioned specializes in providing free legal advice or low cost legal advice to immigrants is this a route that you would have recommended that these men take in order to expedite their cases. do you mean the strike or they a forgive me the hunger the action of a hunger strike itself is it something that you you would have recommended to them

or would you have advised them to take another route i don't think as attorneys were. it by them either way but they have asked us to share their stories and we have definitely advocated on their behalf and shared some of those clips with the public and definitely got their story out to media to select people understand that while there were families reunify and release there are still families in family detention here in the united states and there are also families who have not be been reunited yet in the u.s. what impact if any does this action this hunger strike have on the legal standing that the the families the fall those have lost there in detention. i don't know that it has any. standing on their good legal cases but i think that it is forcing america america to keep and the world to keep talking about these stories and

what's going on here in america and how unjust it is and how we're treating people who are merely seeking asylum as if they're criminals when in fact they're not and they're being held against their will in a detention center in the middle of nowhere as you were talking about before the part of the issue to an outsider appears to be the sheer bureaucratic clumsiness for want of a better phrase of the system that has is trying to deal with this kind of process is it not the case that i know argument should be put forward to try to put more resources into trying to expedite cases like this and actually to help the immigration authorities in the border patrol's deal with these cases more quickly which is of course is at the core of this hunger strike well i think that it's a good question to ask is why are needed he people of the canadian border i think this is clear racism on aren't ministrations part and they do not want these people to seek asylum in their lands and maybe it's because there's

a bigger picture that many of the cases that america has to do with the civil unrest in these countries that they're leading from one of the concerns i would imagine from someone who represents those in detention is that carrying out a hunger strike whilst dramatic can nevertheless doesn't really have much of an impact on the process given the kind of block that you were talking about earlier when it comes to the bureaucracy. sadly and and have to agree i think that it's absolutely devastating that his fathers feel like this is their only. way to have their voices heard at this point some of them have been to university three months while seeking asylum in reno that's a violation of international and domestic law. i think it's absolutely devastating that even the son are participating in this strike in their own way by not

participating in school activities throughout the day jennifer falcon really interesting to get your views on this thank you very much for your time and thank you. a london rapper who was cleared of murder earlier this year has been stabbed to death known by his stage name incognito the twenty three year old was part of the drill rap scene it's a style of music known for its violent lyrics think of me talk recently agree that there's owner was responsible for the rise in gang violence in london drill rock music originated on the streets of chicago's south side it's now spreading around the world critics blame it for the rise in gang violence with social media spots among rappers erupting into real life gun fights john hendren reports from the place where it all began. its vivid violent in proudly made in chicago. the drill rap took

off in two thousand and twelve the year the f.b.i. named shy town america's most dangerous city its founding father chief keef. question right. now from the windy city to london where you tube removed thirty videos at the request of metropolitan police who found the incited violence . this exploding musical genre is accused of sending violence spilling from the speakers to the street. i've listened to enough rooms to find little sort of redeeming value in terms of the narrative of life as it is unfolding in the streets of america other than reflecting the sort of wanton violence that. inflicts permanent solutions for temporary problems and that solution will soften the step for many drill rappers life

imitates art little jo-jo when j. loud were gunned down in two thousand and twelve king louis in two thousand and fifteen in the list goes on. here in the birthplace of drill rap where thirty five hundred people were shot and six hundred fifty killed last year even some fans say the music fumes the fury on the street called. life. and they song oh yeah we will employ it bieber's a bum living at the somebody rapping like load up the black in the mouth so much drill and i get somebody who don't like me and i ran around with it. i'm going. kill him that boy lived with a pup in me up here in chicago's south side where drill rap began people say the violence was here long before rappers started talking about it the reality is in chicago we have so many homicides in students every year and it's been this way for the last twenty or thirty years that a lot of guys who roam the streets of chicago mainly the south asacol go that's

their experience that's what happened here in chicago for critics of the city's latest export the key is letting the videos go viral and not the violence john hendren al-jazeera should congress. the bangladeshi government has closed universities and high schools as grows at the deaths of two students dozens of young people a block streets across the capital dhaka for a fifth day witnesses say the students died after being hit by a speeding bus on sunday the protesters are calling for the arrest of the driver and better road safety measures. has more from. the fifth day of protests by the students all across the country especially in the capital city dhaka intersection like this right i'm standing it's totally shut off there's a great loss all across the city and in other parts of the country as route we have never seen this unprecedented number of students even their guardians industry supporting them they want some sort of major reform in the road accidents and

implementation of road transport laws by the government that demand is also the resident.