it was meant to combat extremist teachings although some critics have said saudi arabia really isn't the right partner for this considering its strict interpretation of is islam has inspired islamic state ideology now the government hasn't given a reason for the immediate closure off this center but saudi arabia and the former malaysian government led by prime minister had extremely close ties and when not just when it was discovered but none had seven hundred million dollars deposited into his personal bank account not yet said that this was money given to him by the saudi royal family this was a donation and because of that he was cleared by malaysian authorities of any wrongdoing florence lawyer live for us in kuala lumpur florence thank you dicks business partner of donald trump's former campaign manager paul manner for has testified that he committed crimes with him gates has admitted he helped metaphor file false tax returns the charges against him in

a ford include money laundering and making false statements about lobbying for a pro russia party in ukraine a special counsel robert muller charged him as part of a probe into alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election a tightly contested special election for a us house seat in ohio could offer clues to november's national mid-term elections the seat has been held by republicans for decades but democrats think they have a chance to win when the votes are counted on tuesday night and if that happens it would be very bad news for donald trump john hendren reports. the twelfth congressional district in ohio is one that under normal circumstances no democrat has a chance to win no democrat has won here since the one nine hundred eighty s. and donald trump won just two years ago in this district by eleven percentage points but as trump popularity has fallen democratic fortunes have risen that's why danny o'connor the democratic candidate for the house in a special election here this week is running neck and neck in polls with the

republican leaders and so the republicans have pulled out all the stops the republican has been endorsed by the governor john kasich by vice president mike pence and on saturday president donald trump came to give his full throated endorsement to boulder's tremendous victory for troy troy bogus. republicans who have also poured in money from outside of the state of ohio more than six million dollars has been spent on bulger's in his behalf that compares to about a million dollars from outside groups for o'connor even though in direct fund raising o'connor has raised more than balders and house democrats think if they win here this could be the beginning of a ripple ahead of a massive democratic wave in the november midterm elections and that means they could take control of congress they need to win twenty three seats to win and they hope this is the beginning the chief executive of one of the world's biggest food

and beverage companies is stepping down and he has led pepsi co for the past twelve years and will remain as the chairwoman until early next year sixty two year old from india was the company's first foreign born c.e.o. . two thousand and seventeen was the most violent year on record in mexico in two thousand and eighteen it's expected to be even worse the last administration has brought in the military to try to stamp out powerful criminal groups but with little success president elect andres manuel lopez obrador says he is going to try a very different approach what in office john heilemann sat down to find out more from the incoming security minister alfonso garozzo in the mexican city of seattle . soon mexico will have a new government with a big problem this violence is on record levels the last two administrations of men with pools it hasn't worked now we can coming security minister russell is charged

with plotting a new course toward soft solutions that includes controversially an amnesty for some of those on the lowest levels of organized crime to recent polls show that the amnesty is one of your least popular proposals so why persevered with this why is it so important. it's important for us because there are sectors that are vulnerable hundreds of young people armed to the teeth and we can't abandon them to their face in the criminal activity that they're in now that the aim is to provide fresh opportunities for drug growing farmers. those on the margins of society than that i am a scope or would have to offer programs of restitution or substitution of crops that are economic and educational opportunities particularly for young people but the government says that violent criminals will still be prosecuted but the amnesty policy and others are still yet to be fully defined and to try to work them out they're holding town hall meetings across the country with civil society groups

victims and even prisoners the first ones here and see it out qualities. and also use the forms to gauge reaction to other plans like legalizing marijuana that swing away from hard line tactics. means they'll be revising their security cooperation with the u.s. including the marriage initiative it's two point nine billion dollars aid program to help fight drug trafficking and organized crime or. this if we don't see from the outside it doesn't need a plan is a military plan and that aid is not a priority for us but we believe that we're not going to resolve the problems of insecurity in this country or with more force or more military support i need that along with the changes one aim unfulfilled of previous administrations remains a better paid and equipped police force russell says delivering that will mean the army can finally leave the street they've been this since two thousand and six this is the ngo. we want to reduce the crime rate to between thirty or fifty percent in

three years. on the first of december the new administration takes power under president elect and that is money well lopez obrador then the countdown will begin to see if the new tactics do work john home and. see about what he's thousands of people attended a rally in caracas to support them as well as president nicolas maduro but he didn't show up on saturday he escaped but the government says it was an assassination attempt drones exploded while he was speaking at a military parade but are all was unharmed and has accused colombia's president and u.s. financier's of being behind that and said at columbia south going president juan and all santos projecting that arose allegation of any involvement. yesterday i found there was an even stranger accusation that i am with american intelligence with the venezuelan right setting up plots to assassinate the

president of venezuela for god sakes to the venezuelan president i say this on saturday i was doing more important things while i was at my granddaughter's baptism. al-jazeera has been given rare access to a detention center in northern iraq housing teenagers accused of convicting or committing crimes for they were arrested by security forces in the semi autonomous kurdistan region over the past two years. met some of them in our bill. in this juvenile detention workshop inmates are learning how heat can break down and remold even the toughest of materials staff have been trying for the past two years to do the same to their most challenging inmates all convicted or accused of committing crimes in the name of eisel. own often on a macdonald is out of my head i changed my behavior and i have some skills in

a trade i want to work and become a professional football player there are seventy five i full teenage inmates isolated from the rest of the population they're all male and as young as eleven years old their crimes include murder and rape. the warden admits at first even staff are afraid of these young men the rehabilitation program doesn't just include learning trade skills such as cutting hair or repairing air conditioners. or they enjoy the simple pleasures of music and playing football pastimes often forbidden by eisel in their previous lives on. they feel like they belong somewhere they think that once again people care about them they are transformed from a destroyed person into someone who has a life that. the attack on the regional government headquarters in our appeal last

month is a reminder of the challenges and limitations of any rehabilitation program the security council of the kurdistan region says one of the man arrested from a suspected eisel sleeper cell involved in the attack used to be in this program so hard with him to tell you the truth they don't always change one hundred percent there is a fifty fifty chance they will change. five hundred eisel juveniles were arrested during the iraqi army's offensive to recapture the city of mosul in twenty sixteen it was jailed for what is described as terrorism related offenses most have been released and as far as the warden knows haven't committed any additional crimes but part of rehabilitation involves inmates acknowledging their crimes and accepting accountability those we spoke to denied belonging to ice all and maintained their

innocence. ali is serving a five year sentence for weapons training with ice all now all of us on the huddle i'm angry there were two hundred members inside here everybody knew that they committed crimes all of their sentences would have for years and they have been released why does my sentence have to be five years when these men are eventually released from detention in the kurdistan region they're worried they might find themselves behind bars again serving time for the same crime but this time they would be in a jail run by the federal government in baghdad natasha going to el dizzy. if the o.p.'s federal government has taken over the administration of the eastern somali region a move it says is to restore law and order the original president resigned in a crate to hand over power after fifty people were killed in the state capital to take on saturday the violence began after the federal government deployed troops

leading to a standoff with local paramilitary forces motto has more from neighboring djibouti the ethiopian federal government seizes the stick in this rare step to issue a security is brought back to the somali region a statement from the prime minister's office hinted the local administration i'm going rule being on the verge of announcing the suppression of the region from the rest of the country the government communication minister spoke on national television saying the federal government was now in charge of security and i missed all the somali regional be theo about federal troops and policemen have been deployed he also said that the commission of inquiry has been appointed to look into what caused the clock today about the left fifty people dead the minister also said. the government is going to ensure in the coming days to appointment of

a political leadership for the region around the world people are marking the twenty year anniversary of simultaneous us embassy bombings in kenya and dar es salaam in tanzania and nairobi a prayer meeting was held to remember the day suicide bombers affiliated with al qaeda killed two hundred twenty four people and injured close to five thousand yes al qaeda was to blame for the attack and it's part of a number of missiles dropped in afghanistan and sudan we talked to one of nairobi survivors at the side of the bombing and he told us how others can rise above their personal tragedies. my name is douglas gallo i was on this location when i got blinded aside assault of the one thousand nine hundred eight u.s. embassy bombing in kenya that. i never knew i would be in the wrong place at the wrong time. when i lost my sight so i was a very bitter person in fact i imagine that if if i don't make it. the

men behind that barbaric and kenya's act of cowardice i would have came to my life so that they could feel and experience the pain while going through a survey of us and over and we do if we had lost their loved ones but down the line . i realized that bitterness and anger only hinders him and. so i accept my plane as a challenge and chose to move on with life i'm currently involved in the area over information communication technology. business and energy my space my face. space we are victims but we could be victims whatever we have to pick up out his pieces and move on with their lives. they've been massive attack i don't know what.

the issue of terrorism does not really being why i think i don't think israeli being american we are all but victims of these butt buddy so-called cowardice i don't know what this course of of terrorism look at themselves us survivors but did them do something. that they can look at and say i'm not a surveyor but i'm a victim because i have conducted a. just a bit better.

time for sports now with rachelle thank you so much english premier league side are small are on the verge of being taken over right by their highest stake holder american billionaire stan croaky croaky also owns the n.f.l. team the l.a. rams through his holding company k.f.c. and they've made a seven hundred and seventy million dollar offer to buy arsenal can see already have a sixty seven percent stake and they say the other majors shareholder spun off has agreed to sell them his thirty percent the move was an announced at the london stock exchange earlier and it comes at a time a big change at arsenal former p.s.g. coach you know i am re took over as manager in may and has since been overhauling the squad he inherited from arsen vendor who managed to for twenty two years

despite being the club's most successful manager winning the league three times he didn't manage to lead arsenal to any title since two thousand and four and last season arsenal finished sixth in the league which was their worst campaign since one nine hundred ninety five or earlier we spoke to financial and investment analyst who thing is the last move could pose some serious risks for the north london club. so i think you know for a lot of boston fads out one of the problems with mr vento was the fact he didn't slash big in the tonsil old so he was always very like. patch we all know the east but he was never interested in buying i take him over the edge so i think in that sense it's the fans from disappointed from you know in shawl will be don't make the big stars will probably

look to borrow some money. in that regard and i think in that respect the first two years by drew very interesting but the fact that i think what the consensus of people is that you rode you just the financial sound that's possible for all but there is no other fall out as sound is awesome. and i think that can be. laid at the at the at the feet of us that. built that over the last twenty. chilean international our terror of the dow has officially become a barcelona player after coming through a longer than normal medical test but i had a knee operation last season but far so we're happy with the results and his thirty five million dollars move from byron munich has now been finalized bars are strengthening their squad following a departures of andreas any after and polynya the close season. of

course being at barcelona is a much bigger deal than being over by munich this to me is the best team in the world i also think this could clearly be my years one must be in the best shape possible i hope to win all the titles with so why not the champions league in the next three seasons. belgian midfielder alex sol is on his way to german club dortmund it's all has spent the last year in china with chanche and kwan jan the twenty nine year old helped his country to a third place finish at this year's world cup. tennis world number one rafa adel is stepping up his preparations ahead of the u.s. open in dallas about to to return.