don't let's the rates so events on the ground. the burning of the ballots the protests of the street the other your emergence of vices have the. whole world linger on a new election. a senior zimbabwean opposition figure has been granted bail after being charged with inciting public violence and unlawfully announcing election results tendai biti of the m.d.c. alliance was arrested on thursday after being denied asylum in zambia his bail conditions include paying five thousand dollars and surrendering his passport he's also banned from addressing rallies or the news media and till his case is ended mr beattie a former finance minister in the short lived government of national unity had sought political asylum in zambia which was refused. it's been an ordeal but

we survived. the stricture. but. i'm glad to be. more now from our correspondent in the zimbabwean capital harare. tendai biti has been charged with breaking the electoral law he gave a press conference where he announced nelson chamisa the main opposition leader had won the elections and only electoral commission can announce results he's also been charged with causing public violence last week during protests it's alleged that he told opposition supporters to burn cars and destroy property in harare an allegation he denies the judge has also told him that he cannot address press conferences until the matter is finished in court the charges i think are worrisome

on the face of it we will continue to follow this case closely and we will continue to insist that mr beattie's physical integrity human rights and constitutional rights in the constitution of zimbabwe are respected the main opposition m.d.c. alliance going to file papers in court to try and challenge the election results which they say were rigged they haven't done that yet they have until friday they say they have enough to stop the inauguration from taking place which is scheduled on sunday but officials in the ruling party say they are confident whatever evidence that the opposition says they have is not strong enough they are planning ahead with this already rehearsing and some presidents have confirmed they will attend the inauguration ceremony on sunday. still to come here it out is there the fallout from a divisive debate out into the very against a change in its abortion law. and the force will be with them the u.s. reveals military plans to protect its assets in space.

from the waves of the sea. to the contours of the east. and are there we've had some very wet weather in parts of turkey and georgia recently take a look at the satellite picture we can see why is the cloud that's over the northern parts of turkey stretching up across the caspian sea there it's given us a lot of thunder and lightning and a fair amount of hail to that system remains with us as we head through friday and into saturday so expect some more very wet weather out of this though they still we're looking at the top temperature in kabul of around thirty six of the moment for the west for us in baghdad we're up at forty four beirut not quite so hot we'll get to around thirty one a bit further south and here in doha it certainly got humid again in fact associate with the temperatures have dropped below forty there as we head into friday that worry the humidity eases again

a fraction as we head into saturday and that will allow the temperatures to bent's back up again there will be a fair amount of cloud at times over parts of the arabian peninsula most likely in the southern parts of a man and here it'll be thick enough just to give us a few spots of drizzle times down towards the southern parts of africa and we've got a good few days of rain ahead of us in the southeast you can see the little low head that's responsible that's going to give us a lot of snow over the mountains as well that system eventually begins to pull away as we head into saturday and behind it it will turn drier once more durban's looking at a top temperature of a twenty and cape town seventy. the way sponsored by the time it's. where were you when this idea ought to be. when they're online it's undoubtedly. cool. today or if you join us on sat criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like to go back for the first time everyone has

a voice. change join us. on our. take a look at the top stories here at. the u.n. has called for an independent investigation after. hit full of school children in yemen. province a total of fifty people were killed saudi arabia insists the strikes were aimed at the target. hamas the palestinian group which controls gaza has told a truce has been agreed with the israeli government is yet to officially comment.

on. opposition figures being banned from addressing rallies or news conferences while he faces charges of inciting violence and unlawfully announcing election results. was arrested on thursday after being denied asylum in zambia he's been granted bail. of the u.s. the e.u. and african union have praised. decision not to seek a third term as president of the democratic republic of congo is instead supporting his close ally emanuel should diary but there are a concern. cabella will remain a political force behind the scenes from kinshasa catherine sawyer reports. when president joseph kabila finally made it clear that he will not be seeking reelection and hunted over the baton to man. it ended two years of speculation and

anxiety characterized by partisan violent confrontations between police and demonstrators some of his critics like martin for you luke who wants to be president legacy is tainted. and his security. is a big issue there is no precise. skid to the contrary the biller legacy is a province and. we became. the president inherited a country that was just getting out of a civil war back in two thousand and one his father had been assassinated and he was thrust in the thick of the democratic republic of congo complex politics he's credited by some for unifying a country that was divided bringing a sense of normalcy reforming the military and starting an ambitious rebuilding

program went up became president few paved roads in the south but not at all in many other parts of the country that has changed especially. as a means to build a world link to different parts of the country some people feel that what he's done is not good enough. but his advisers say he's done what he could in incredibly difficult times while doing that we are hearing all sorts of bad things about him but nothing sunshines here suntrust their. wars but came from outside. the country so while fighting the war there was still build. what i've just said the infrastructure was destroyed boards airports bridges you name it in marketplaces like this one in the heart of kinshasa people say the white a leader who's going to make the lives of more bearable on the basics an end to

corruption jobs for their children and to feel they're living in one of the most resource rich countries in the world yes not black market for that i want someone to stabilize the economy so i can take my children to school feed my family and even afford to buy a house. is forty seven years old a shrewd politician many people we've talked to say whatever his legacy the fact that he's agreed not to run for that tom can only be a good thing for a country that has never seen a peaceful transition of power catherine saw al jazeera. argentina's month long debate on legalizing abortion has ended with politicians narrowly voting against change pro-abortion rights protesters for police who used tear gas and water cannon the proposal would have allowed abortion in the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy. lucien newman is our latin america editor she reports from the other side and. it

was a bitter and divisive debate both inside the senate and out here on the streets of borno site is but after the storm comes the call middle east that is what president is trying to convey speaking from the presidential palace behind me he said that argentina had shown maturity and a willingness to debate a subject that until not so long ago had been absolutely to bull he said this was a sign of democracy and of dialogue between arjun tines let's hear what else he had to say. the important thing is that we all understand that we have to listen to each other to respect each other and even expand all points of view and often change them. in many cases and i think. and speaking of expanding points of view the presidential palace is reportedly considering a change to the penal code to remove the part that contemplates prison sentences for women for illegal abortions as for those who lost in this vote well yes they

are looking their wounds there were a lot of tears out in the streets this morning but the pro-abortion advocates say that they have not lost the battle that they are going to continue to push for the full legalization of abortion and to also try to present a new law a new bill to congress before the end of next year. the russian ruble has tumbled to its lowest point in two years after the united states impose more sanctions over a chemical weapons attack on a former russian double agent in the u.k. the kremlin's rejected the sanctions as illegal or a challenge reports from moscow. well the kremlin response is that this is categorically unacceptable illegal under international law they say they've claimed again that they had nothing to do with the poisoning of the script and these new sanctions are essentially inconsistent with the atmosphere of corporation that they

felt they got from donald trump of the helsinki summit with running with putin some weeks ago now where they're saying that washington is an unpredictable actor on the international stage and they don't know yet what they're going to do to respond because the kremlin says it doesn't have enough information about what these u.s. sanctions actually are. however this in concert with another package of sanctions that looks to be shaping up in washington d.c. has rattles russian markets the ruble has fallen to its lowest level in twenty months and russian stocks and shares are being here to the script sanctions coming to bundles the first bundle comes into play on august the twenty second and involves limits on the exports of u.s. goods that washington considers to be of national security importance then if the d.c. does not get the assurance from moscow that is demanding that it won't use chemical

weapons again a new round of sanctions comes in in ninety days time and that will be as they put it more draconian then this separate package of sanctions that is being. cooked up in washington d.c. could further hit russia's oil and gas sector banks and look into the assets of president vladimir putin all of this shows i think really that whatever donald trump says to resume putin there is a large and powerful establishment in washington d.c. that does not like what trump is doing with regard to russia and obviously does not trust vladimir putin and is trying to protect itself from the activities of these two men which it feels may not be in the united states' best interests. the u.s. plans to have what it calls a space force in two years' time it will be the first new branch of the military

says nine hundred forty seven and its primary purpose will be to defend u.s. satellites and spacecraft from attack alan fischer reports. trump has been pushing for the creation of a new branch of the military for months he talks about it often it is romney's we may even have a space force his vice president says donald trump's vision will become a reality while too often. previous administrations all but neglected the growing security threat emerging in space president trump stated clearly and forcefully that space is in his words a war fighting domain just like land and air and sea the new force will be used to protect u.s. satellites in space which provide vital services like communication it can also protect spy satellites which direct military operations and there is the growing commercial space market too it's not

a new idea in one thousand nine hundred three president ronald reagan called for a space based missile defense system just a year after congress demanded the establishment of a new space force the defense system dubbed star wars by critics never got beyond the research phase the u.s. already has a space command this part of the air force and some see the new branch as an expensive waste in fact defense secretary jim mattis initially resisted it but just earlier this week signaled he was no on board we're in a point alignment with the president going to burn it down they are after him basically could be work here again for economy we're going to have to address it other countries capabilities what they're creating a new branch of the military needs congressional authorization and funding if republicans lose control of the house of representatives in november's midterm elections it might never happen former astronaut mark kelly says he doesn't see the point there is a threat out there but it's being handled by the u.s.

air force today doesn't make sense to build a whole nother level of bureaucracy spaceports if approved would become the sixth branch of the u.s. military it would be led by a four star officer and would pull resources from other military branches. russia has a space force china's space program is run by the military and the white house will include and the billion dollar funding request for their new space force in the next budget alan fischer al-jazeera. at least twenty two people so far are being killed in the worst rains in southern india in nearly a century forty eight hours of. polls have forced the local government. to release water from twenty four for fear of breaches since june the heavy rain landslides and flooding have been linked to one hundred seventy five deaths in the st tens of thousands of people have been displaced fifty million dollars worth of

crops have been destroyed. dramatic video has emerged from switzerland of an explosive month slide covering the streets of a village a storm caused a river bed to expand and. rains. a terrifying. a sudden. as the cascade crashes through. horrifying onlookers. nice to see such events. this flash flood in the alpine town of. residents by surprise resembling a torrent of lava. the massive flow had been triggered by a stalled which caused the nearby river bed to expand and births to its banks sweeping across roads everything in its path as the hit twin sudden violence and

speed nearby homes were evacuated. there was one major complaint for residents miraculously no one was hurt. and rocks. looks. now there is the clear up and reminder of the devastating effect of such a powerful and destructive natural. al jazeera. to take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera the un has called for an independent investigation into a saudi air strike on a bus full of school children in yemen fifty people were killed in the attack in the held province of saudi arabia says the strikes hit legitimate military targets

the u.s. state department has voiced concern. we call in the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident we take all credible accounts of civilian casualties very seriously we call on the parties to take appropriate measures to protect civilians in accordance with international law and urge all parties to investigate all reported incidents of civilian casualties how must the palestinian group which controls gaza has told there are a truce has been agreed with israel the israeli government has denied an agreement has been reached it follows a major flare up in cross border violence on wednesday of the day in which three palestinians were killed in iraq a nationwide recount of votes from the election has reaffirmed. his coalition as the winner the electoral commission conducted a manual recount after widespread allegations of fraud in the may vote the results must now be ratified by the supreme court

a senior zimbabwean opposition figure has been banned from addressing rallies or news conferences while he faces charges of inciting violence and unlawfully announcing election results attend the m.d.c. alliance was arrested on thursday after being denied asylum in zambia is now out on bail. legalizing abortion has ended with politicians in the upper house merrily voting against change senators defeated the bill by thirty eight to one to thirty one after debasing for more than fifteen hours the proposal would have allowed abortion in the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy a pro abortion rights protest is full of police who used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowds project today those are the latest headlines remember you can always go to the al-jazeera web site should you want al-jazeera dot com but coming up next here it is there is a stream. every weekly news cycle brings

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been impacted by this issue tweet us during the show stream. there are an estimated three hundred seventy million indigenous people in the world that's according to the u.n. which marks august ninth as the international day of the world's indigenous peoples if we do not promote indigenous rights and safeguard the knowledge which indigenous peoples treasure we will harm the destiny of all humanity and human rights to. same and mexico environment secretary jorge or scott of her today we celebrate the day for indigenous people were invited percent of the world's population consider them our guardians of mother earth now this month we're following conversations from about five percent of the world and reusing today as a starting point par series called indigenous abuse is there an issue impacting an indigenous group in your part of the world tell us what stories you want us to

cover or sending a tweet string. disappearances and violent crime affecting native american women it is an issue that continues to scar native american communities online is being discussed with the hash tag m m w that is short the missing and murdered indigenous women in their cases receive very little media attention and often suffer from a lack of law enforcement coordination between tribal and local police more than four out of five native american women are expected to experience violence within their lifetime on some reservations native women are murdered far above the national average but the numbers aren't entirely clear and that's because comprehensive statistics aren't kept at a national level so we wanted to know why native american women are more likely to become victims of violent crime and what should be done to protect them joining us

to discuss this in portland oregon jacqueline keeler is a d.n.a. dakota writer and activist in eureka california anita lucasian is a southern descendant doctoral student at the university of left which anita maintains one of the largest databases of cases of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in canada and the united states and in boulder colorado carla frederick's is a director of the american indian law clinic ad american indian law program and that is at the university of colorado she is an enrolled member of that math danny hit that out of carter nation of north dakota ladies i wish i could get you here under better circumstances but thank you so much for helping us unpack this series of stories and this phenomena in north america anita this database is extraordinary can you tell us a little bit about it how it was set up what it does. sure well we've got it thanks

was inspired by. work that i started a few years ago in trying to assess how all the different ways that native people are mean to disappear within north america and in trying to find an accurate number of missing or murdered native women i found that everyone has a different number everyone has a different list none of them out completely none of them are updated frequently and it really was just trying to work through it and so at that point i felt a responsibility to step in and and so about got these not just numbers that is he's a people he's a life he's a family can you shed some of those family stories because the stats that we had at the top of the show i can't believe that this is almost any major family that hasn't been touched by some tragedy of violence or abuse or something else that almost unbelievable. there really isn't any native family that hasn't been touched

by this in some way and to give you an example of some of the cases in the database . you know for me one of the most personal cases is actually having a runner who has been missing from browning montana which is on the blackfeet nation in northern montana and she has been missing for over a year and while she is in a family member she was a student when i taught at the tribal college and she was beautiful inside and out of very bright future was in her final semester about to graduate and you know i was really the grief that her family is experiencing is something that her community feels as well and they really galvanized you on her case because that grief is felt so deeply and fortunately she's not alone in need of course as you mentioned among people are sharing the story of another person right here tweeds this is a living alone bear her body was discovered in a truck at the bottom of

a lake in north dakota please consider sharing this so her death isn't in vain and help spread awareness another person writing about her case it is confirmed are smiting sister has been found please pray for her children and her family and all those that have helped in the efforts to find her jacqueline talk to us about thirty two year old north dakota woman who went missing in october twenty seventh tina know you were writing about her case and covering the story. yes i wrote a piece for high country news about all the as you case and and they and i got to travel out to dinner to north dakota to tell the community where she's from and talk to her family and see the search going on on the ground and they searched for over over eight months and so it's it was quite tragic news for them to find out that she's a mother of four living children one deceased and and that she and she came home

but sadly she came home. you know she was she was found her body was found in a truck that she'd been gone missing and it was found over twenty feet in the water in like a hawk aliya on her reservation checking i think it's important to note that you don't bring in. you know she the truck when it was found it had been found for days and her family had struggled with law enforcement for days to get law enforcement to respond adequately in determining that the vehicle was hers and to find out you know if she was in error or if any evidence pertinent to her case was in it and i think that shows a really powerful example of how difficult it can be and working with law enforcement on this issue and how things need to change you know a woman she has children they're about to start a new school year and they deserve to know where their mom was and law enforcement

could have and should have responded to that better. yeah my article and it was called no crime scene because basically she was told by her family that because there was no crime scene they couldn't even report her as a missing person they wouldn't do so they would accept a missing persons report the tribal police and throughout this the family felt very strongly that the that the case was not taken seriously they had you know why the searching themselves they were urging they really wanted a search of the water and you know that the reservation is over a million acres and it's in the center of the bach and the oil fracking oil fields in arctic oda and it and they could not get the police to address this issue or to to actually search the water and there keep in fact at the press conference after she was found last friday her her her that little bear her cousin said that that they are being put off again about

a water search until october they waited for the water to unfreeze and but really it's i hear this story over and over again you know from the loring family in montana here and i live in the pacific northwest on the yakima reservation you know where often sadly enough the police are not helpful in helping to find helping to find some and that there is no protocol in place regarding this whole issue about tribal police federal police police response generally in these pieces so we've actually i'm a member of were brutal and then he got regret tried as you mentioned before a libya was also remember my tribe and we worked extensively with the tribal. issues how to prosecute and investigate crimes on the reservation as jack jack go inside the reservation there's about a million acres and it's larger than the state of delaware there's only fourteen

tribal police tribes here tax and so any tribe who used to. paid for a private tribe through whatever revenue it's able to establish through development or through. any number of. your gaming base and to privatise so fourteen police to police the size of the state of delaware and delaware has i think twelve hundred state troopers and that doesn't include local police so there is a big mismatch there in terms of things like that you're making it sound like it's a resource issue and it's absolutely resources and it's absolutely jurisdiction so that we rank so have more raising since they would know they wouldn't be. missing indigenous swimming if it was more money so you know it is that is that a hierarchy of well. about jurisdiction and that's about. so he said what you can do on tribal land and what you can do on non-tribal that's right and the rate that we're talking about that olivia was found in is actually.

systemic sent. because that rate was originally of the community. woods which was flooded out to provide electricity for the pixel own project and my tribe was relocated to five segments around the lake and so there is more coastline on my reservation than the pacific coast of california so i don't know how without adequate resources and there there's the percy adequate one force that responds our marriage their patient in particular. and carla picking up on what you're saying there and i just wanted to bring this week in because a it picks up on what carla was saying. tweets under current law tribes cannot prosecute non-natives for sexual assault and native american victims are denied access to justice i mean can you weigh in here how is this. completely true. and. fortunately f.b.i.

declined about seventy percent of the cases of sexual assault involving a native victim that they received so you know that creates an environment where people know that that kind of violence is normal and ok and that there aren't any consequences because of these jurisdictional. gaps where people are able to you know exploit. you know i do want to add in discussing the issue of jurisdiction and it's not just cases even a case that happens you know off the reservation this jurisdiction question is still an issue so nice i'm going to be very confined to national audience watching it because even in the u.s. people don't understand this jurisdiction the f.b.i. is on a reservation and i go into reservation and investigate a motive or a missing person and they just kind of do that and i go anyway they have the responsibility to do that in your head and the big question that i think we would all ask is why why isn't that happening why is that not happening we don't know i

think that you know one of the things and thinking about this issue that's been very obvious to me is that it is a human rights issue and there has been a situation through u.s. law where indian people have been dehumanised in multiple ways particularly with respect to when they're in a situation where they're victims of crime instead of being looked at like every other person in the united states what can we do to prosecute this the quicker the first question is who did it because that's who decides how it's decided how it's prosecuted so is it in india potentially is the way it's potentially so in a string what crime is that sometimes you get behind somebody stripping and that has no direct getting help tonight. out of finish a sentence go ahead so i guess you can i sing because it never considers the victim it never considers their family and this is a human rights crisis for him that was. so i just want to address some of the

history behind that the if in the early native reservations are not just like parks they're actually sovereign nations within the united states so they have jurisdiction over their own lands and and they have nations actually legally have a status higher than states you know that the the u.s. government doesn't sign treaties with anyone but nations the senate doesn't ratify treaties when you're that nations and so what happened was in the nineteenth century there was some disagreement i'm dukkha to sue and and and on a reservation there was actually a person prosecution a murder and back east and you know there was all the yellow journalism going on and they made a big deal about it and so they took away jurisdiction over five major crimes that the tribes enjoyed including murder and so this is why that goes under the jurisdiction of the f.b.i.

and then later yes or later even more jurisdiction is taken away in the twentieth century and whereby tribes could not have jurisdiction over non federally enrolled people so if you're not rolled in a federal federally recognized tribes the native nation does not have jurisdiction over you which leaves a huge gap in prosecution of these crimes and leaves native women incredibly vulnerable and of course in two thousand and thirteen the violence against women's act was passed with amendments to address this gap but address and a very narrow scope and just with domestic violence only if it's between committed partners so if you're talking about cases of actual sex trafficking you know it wouldn't apply there. it was spot on for two years this amendment was fought by republicans in congress and some of the arguments are well you know we don't want the tribes to have jurisdiction over us if we can't vote in their ally. actions but you go to other countries and you are under the jurisdiction of that country

whether or not you can vote in that country you know that's just how it is and but there's this great and willingness to basically give tribes jurisdiction over white people and as white men they're committing most of these crimes and incur hording to the data we had which is which is not perfect but allegedly seventy percent of the perpetuators of these violent crimes against native women are white men and if that was not like this i was convinced and so this becomes a race crime hate crimes this is racism. well it's definitely going to i want to see call as you're nodding because i don't want to put was in your mouth you and i and don't you tell me what is the point of you i know that this is a way you can see me in this fight that's missing in a murder and it's women issue is very similar in my mind to black lives matter native women matter and our lives matter and what is going on in this country and

has been going on in this country for centuries to deny us our basic humanity and our basic right to life you know not prosecuting not anything not investigating and creating a situation that you're describing accurately as one where criminals feel empowered to go and he's going to ration these crimes because they know there is no consequence again like i said it's a human rights issue and it's a human rights issue because. that's what it is and we can call it that and we shouldn't be afraid. and carla in addition to that i think some of the consequences i want to bring this in here because in addition to that the seemingly no consequences there is also people online saying these things also aren't reported as well as they should be any here on twitter says i woke up this morning to see the news talking about a missing woman on the news and thinking about how finding the body of a living alone bear who we mentioned earlier didn't make a blip in national news why because i mean if women death is as american as apple

pie another person marty tweets into the stream saying there is no reporting system there is no news coverage there is no follow up they cut short search efforts and then the families have to rely on fund raising to continue searching for their loved ones and it's a continuous cycle of native people being swept under the rug as if we don't exists and need to why is this so underreported. well i think there's a number of factors and it ties into the point that i wanted to make on issues of jurisdiction and racism it's not just tribal police or the f.b.i. that failing native women and it's not just you know this this issue doesn't happen just on reservations for example savannah grey went with mention she wasn't living on the reservation she was living in an urban area and it wasn't tribal police that failed her it was local police there's an ongoing case right now her name is khadija britton she's here in northern california she was kidnapped at knife point

by her abusive ex-boyfriend a witness testified to that fact and for some reason that wasn't enough because when he showed up in the courtroom they decided to dismiss the charges because could either wasn't there in court to testify well she wasn't in court because she's still missing and her family is still fundraising and doing ground searches themselves so that's another example of law enforcement that have totally failed to not only protect the native woman but hold the perpetrator accountable and that was the county sheriff that wasn't tribal police or the f.b.i. you know and in collecting this data one thing that we've done is compare community source data to law enforcement data to see ok where are the gaps happening and what are those miscommunications happening for example the state of washington recently passed legislation that the washington state patrol is required to collect data on all missing native people in the state and report that to the governor's office we compare the dot of the state patrol currently has to what we have in the database

and found the state patrol is missing at least a third of missing native women and girls in the state from their records and of those cases only about ten percent are cases that happen on a reservation so you need to think that really other you know you help you help. all the old and i say sions all the departments who should have this information you will helping that and with that. weta that they don't have is this the activism and the work that's happening within the community where we are saying this is not good enough i'm wondering if what you're doing can we put that under progress. well actually had you said heidi heitkamp has put together a law suit and his act to cut collect more data right and but if it is it does come down to this idea which one of the two years marty mention which is that we're invisible in general and so when we're when we die you know it's not national news

and or when our bodies are found and often they are not found you know and so it's . you know i think i've made a comparison in my article with the movie wind river a hollywood movie depicting. a missing martin to just woman and girl and and you know they're the body right away and then it's just simply not the case most of the time but yeah i think i want to show this because i think this helps us sort of visualize what's going on this is a facebook page looks the missing in indian country and what it does is it shows you some of the people who either missing or their remains remain on identify and it gives you just a little glimpse into it's not just women it's all different members of the native communities but this is happening on social social media and i'm wondering kala is

this the way the community is saying we are doing this for ourselves we are not going to be victims forever right i mean i think that's a really great and i think a tremendous amount that can be done with collaboration with the grassroots with the tribes between state and local law enforcement and the federal government and that's really what we've recommended in our work that this is an all hands armed attack type of problem. given the type of circumstance that. given the route and the number of cases it does require what we call a comprehensive solution and that comprehensive solution have to be ground in. having a victim centered approach and that's really what's missing no one's working together no one's thinking about the victims and what anita's doing is amazing and i'll be e-mailing her after this if we can integrate her dad into what we're doing but frankly you know he does work should be supported by the federal government because

it's their responsibility to collect this data and they're not doing it you know this is this is a player where i just i don't government has actually requested access to my data because they know that i have things they don't there was a case last week where someone called in with a tip and said hey we know this girl is missing we've seen her in such and such location please check up on her and the f.b.i. had no record of her and had no idea she was missing but she was logged in the database so i was able to provide that information to them and in the process tell them you know clearly this moment has demonstrated there's value in the community maintaining a role in protecting and caring for those data because we do it in a way that these agencies even though they're paid to do it you know and to clarify i'm in pain this is been three years of unpaid work that i've done as a community member. i know we're doing a better job and these are called tell tell us what i'm saying one thing to say when the last one minute of the show so i just mean one thing that makes the

situation better cala one thing by one needs to be amended to include all sexual violence credits against women's at. the update at the shelter as we're in trouble i mean one thing so ban as an act needs to be amended to require law enforcement to pull archival data on this issue and that it needs to be written with an enforcement mechanism. tribal sovereignty needs to be reckoned and restored particularly the issue of jurisdiction this is easy also the community they have the answers they have the solutions ladies thank you for joining us we continue our indigenous view series next day and we will be looking at south africa's sam people and other indigenous groups who are taking charge of how i answer politics study them they are giving them guidelines you can do this you cannot do this we also want to know about your indigenous stories that you would like us to tell to you can find us on facebook at the stream and a.j.

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a glimpse into someone else's work out inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers everybody's going to. sacrifice. is going to be so. old all. witness on al-jazeera. the u.n. calls for an independent investigation into the saudi coalitions and strike in yemen that killed at least thirty children on a school bus. welcome george is there a live from doha i'm also coming up says it's agreed a truce after twenty four hours of rocket fire from gaza and israeli airstrikes.

afghan officials say the taliban have launched massive attacks in gaza. and introducing the starship troopers the u.s. reveals plans for a new military force to protect satellites and space ships. the u.n. secretary general. has called for a prompt independent investigation into a saudi a mirage a coalition air strike that hit a bus full of school children in yemen in all fifty people were killed when the bus was hit as it stopped by a crowded market inside a province which is controlled by rebels the coalition says the strikes were aimed at legitimate military targets mohamed odeh is following developments from. little still wearing his backpack this boy was in a minibus full of children had been. dropped through

a busy area of the town. bring him children. and medical workers to. a real. billable space in the hospital for the fighters of accuse the sodium led coalition of launching. a saudi led coalition attacked a bus carrying more than thirty students who were on a summer school trip to the city there's no exact number of the dead people the hospital has received many many wounded with a lot of serious injuries and this boy refuses to harvey's injuries to his brother school with him on the bus. no no i mean my brothers get had brothers. the strike happened during morning rush hour in the busy market. a huge crater lies

in the middle of the ruled the exact support where the missile fell the mungle wreckage of the school bus the children what's troubling him now trapped under the destroyed market buildings lining materials belonging to the children us through not around even mine does of the talk and the friends that struggle to live the seen by those lucky enough to escape on in a statement the sodium but i had to coalition say to its aspects inside what aimed a missile launches used to attack an industrial city in southern so debbie on wednesday the statement for the accused the host of fighters of using children as human shields they are increasing calls for investigations into these hot topics we've seen news reports it's very important as you said repeatedly that who bought into the conflict in yemen adhere to international humanitarian law where there is an incident of this sort it's important in its investigative story on the

conclusion that investigation channel learned from them will be according to that in this instance as well so debbie and its allies have been fighting in yemen for more than three years against the holdings who are aligned with iran to hold this control macho from yemen including the couple's son are these latest out tuck small kushal to the list of thousands who've been killed during this war the u.n. calls it the world's wost humanitarian crisis and recent months odeon u.a.e. forces have advanced towards the port city of data which is under the control of who with the forces most aid and food to yemen gets in through these ports in this force the flights of intensified talks against so i'm not out to targets how about a wall just djibouti. well let's have a little more of a closer look then at the situation in yemen the war is now in its fourth year the no easy refugee council reports that fifty six films have been jumped on sana

international airport within the last few years and that's above every two weeks the last death toll reported was ten thousand yemenis have been killed in the fighting the u.n. says two thirds of those that you just saudi air strikes who thief i says are also accused of causing mass casualties but the current death toll is likely to be much higher getting accurate information is hard but save the children estimates that one hundred thirty children die every day from extreme hunger and disease just last week the u.n. warned of a new color epidemic now yemen is viewed as the world's worst humanitarian crisis with more than twenty two million people in need of food assistance rather than jordan has more from the united nations. general realm of condemnation of thursday's airstrike in which dozens of children in northern yemen were killed while on a school field trip the un's high commissioner for human rights say the crowd

hussein told al-jazeera that he felt the news quite disturbing the specific and. richard richard the time and i'm sure my office is gathering god and so i have seen what you've seen on the media. as occurred in regard to reason to believe that of course i mean absolutely horrific and it's precisely these sorts of the times that impelled us to request time and for a serious inquiry to be mounted by international experts to look into all of the major. and horrific at the serbs were civilians and through. children. were killed on a panel of experts had been convened nearly a year ago to look at the human rights situation during the yemen civil war they

are expected to release their report in the next several weeks zehava hussein told al-jazeera that while he does know generally what might be in this report he said it's much more important for the international community to focus on the efforts to end the civil war and protect the lives of yemeni citizens. now let's listen to what some of what the u.s. state department had to say. let's look at some of the things that have been happening in yemen you have the who the rebels who continue to attack saudi arabia they continue to do that with iranian weapons missiles and rockets and they continue to try to attack civilian infrastructure in saudi arabia for example and that is part of the reason why these actions are being taken. by beginning breaking news coming from afghanistan reports of heavy fighting in the city that's the capital of central girls in the province our correspondent shiela by this is in the

capital kabul bring us up to date then what's going on. good morning so we're hearing from the ground that there is heavy gunfire in the city of new this morning there are jets in the air i just talked to us command they say that indeed they have seen. two gosney and that they have been strikes on the taliban in the city at one o'clock this morning this started the taliban morphed into the city start an attack on the police headquarters in gaza city they launched eighty rockets into the police headquarters the him took up positions at a towel nearby in the supermarket across the road and start engaged in a fierce firefight with afghan security forces and then launched from the spread out across the city and gun battles and surged through the night on the streets of gaza me witnesses this morning telling us that they see bodies in streets across

the city that dozens of people wounded they are hiding in their homes they terrified they tell us that the taliban have into people's homes and using human shields to protect themselves from the government this morning meanwhile the government is saying that they have taken back control of the taliban to take control of some of the facilities in and government buildings overnight but they have taken back control of that and only two people have died the taliban of saying they have killed one. hundred and forty police and soldiers the numbers wildly different here this is a developing story we're trying to speak to as many people as we can on the ground but so far in cell phones are being blocked so it's very difficult for them to get information out of what's happening we also understand that the main highway between kabul where i am and gosney it's the main highway south of kabul and gaza is run one hundred fifty kilometers south of here that is closed. telling us that the taliban flows that road just north of the city and is awaiting people being shot at this moment as we speak as far as your understanding is who's in control of

the city. well exactly the taliban say they are in control that they they have multiple checkpoints across the city and we've got witnesses on the ground telling us yes the taliban have taken control of checkpoints of proscar me from the government the government is denying all of us taliban this live in kabul the hamas the palestinian group which controls the gaza strip has told our jazeera a truce has been agreed to stop the violence but israeli media is reporting the israeli government has denied and agreements from reach a flare up in cross border violence has seen three palestinian killed in israeli airstrikes and hamas rockets have been fired into southern israel andrew simmons has the latest. an israeli airstrike on a five story building it's a cultural center and it's destroyed it happened as israel was deliberating its

next step after schools of strikes on gaza yet even as ambulances rushed the injured to hospital and i was in negotiations for a truce. nearly five hours have passed without any israeli attacks off to the asteroid on the cultural center hamas said in its statement of al-jazeera that this was a truce would be imposed at twenty forty g.m.t. not a full ceasefire guarded words there and they said that the united nations and egypt had been involved in mediation earlier a senior official from hamas had hinted that they could stop firing rockets something of this novel for go for this and. six i was going to four hours after that was to i think that the equation of the confrontation always was not so i think both sides are not involved we are not interested now now to the support of

the white girl for dishes or a war we try to avoid that wednesday's fighting had been sporadic but one of the last actions of hamas before it relented with rocket strikes was the launch of a grad missile the first time it had use the weapon since the twenty fourteen war. at times on wednesday night civilians said the intensity of the bombardment seemed reminiscent of the last three wars this house and darrell was struck by an israeli aircraft a pregnant mother and her eighteen month old baby died here the husband a hamas policeman is critically ill in hospital the first to see this seen as an extraordinary one five. am very angry a pregnant woman and her baby she happy marriage the two year there's nothing dangerous about any. gaza has been has so many times before waiting and watching cease fires have come and gone will the truce hold there is

still some hope here in a place surrounded by walls with no way out but there is cynicism about whether they've seen the last of this. hundreds symons al-jazeera gaza city. and iraq a nationwide recount of votes from the election has reaffirmed. his coalition as the when a natural commission conducted a manual recount of the widespread allegations of fraud in the may election results must now be ratified by the supreme court bilawal hobby is a fellow at the washington institute for near east policy he says there's more than one explanation for how they are that true froment could have. actually surprising that by may twenty fifth would be to fraud allegations. so called for investigation and fire the. electoral commission and appoint the judges

said and at the time they called the investigations that resulted in the recount they called the incidents of fraud as dangerous and and they agree just and yet here we are with the almost one hundred percent. recount the matching the original elections mean one of two things one much of the fraud happened before the elections to the mitigation through the features networks of the corruption that exists. on the other hand. you think those don't fix this let's break. even on the ground with the burning of the ballots with one hand the protests on the street the other emergence of vises have the sense that the move will linger on a a an election some of these questions. lots more to come here is there including in

handcuffs and in court zimbabwe opposition figure tendai biti faces charges of post-election violence i'm too scared to go home like thousands of leaving their villages and flocking to towns in north western nigeria. hello there we've had some very wet weather in parts of turkey and georgia recently take a look at the satellite picture we can see why is the cloud that's over the northern parts of turkey stretching up across the caspian sea there it's given us a lot of thunder and lightning and a fair amount of hail to that system remains with us as we head through friday and into saturday so expect some more very wet weather out of this for they still we're looking at the top temperature in kabul of around thirty six of the moment and for the west for us in baghdad we're up at forty four beirut not quite so hot we'll get

to around thirty one a bit further south and here in doha it certainly got humid again in fact associate with the temperatures have dropped below forty there as we head into friday that worry the humidity eases again a fraction as we head into saturday and that will allow the temperatures to bent's back up again there will be a fair amount of cloud at times over parts of the arabian peninsula most likely in the southern parts of a man and here it'll be thick enough just to give us a few spots of drizzle it times down towards the southern parts of africa and we've got a good few days of rain ahead of us that's in the southeast you can see the little low head that's responsible that's going to give us a lot of snow over the mountains as well that system eventually begins to pull away as we head into saturday and behind it it will turn drier once more durban's looking at a top temperature of a twenty in cape town seventy. denying citizenship. health care and education.

from their homes to live in camps. subject to devastating physical cruelty al-jazeera world investigates one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. silent abuse. travis a take a look at the top stories here doubtless era the un has called for an independent investigation after a saudi amorality coalition air strike hit a bus full of school children in yemen's hoofy held sada province

a total of fifty people were killed saudi arabia insists the strikes were aimed at legitimate military targets. proposed coming in an attack by the taliban on police headquarters in the afghan city of girls the government forces say there is heavy fighting throughout the city. hamas the palestinian group which controls the gaza strip has sold out is there a truce has been agreed with israel the israeli government though is yet to officially commented follies a major flare up in cross border violence on wednesday and thursday. so seniors involved in opposition figures being granted bail after being charged with inciting public violence and unlawfully announcing election results tendai biti of the m.d.c. alliance was arrested on thursday after being denied asylum in neighboring zambia his bail conditions include paying five thousand dollars and surrendering his passport he's been banned from addressing rallies a news conferences until his case has ended. it's been an ordeal but we

survived. but. i'm glad to be. because. what happened to me. more correspondent in harare. tendai biti has been charged with breaking the electoral law he gave a press conference where he announced nelson chamisa the main opposition leader had won the elections and the only electoral commission can announce results he's also been charged with causing public violence last week during protests it's alleged that he told opposition supporters to burn cars and destroy property in harare an allegation he denies the judge has also told him that he cannot address press conferences until the matter is finished in court the charges i think are worrisome

on the face of it we will continue to follow this case closely and we will continue to insist that mr beattie's physical integrity human rights and constitutional rights and the constitution of zimbabwe are respected the main opposition m.d.c. alliance said is going to file papers in court to try and challenge the election results which they say were rigged they haven't done that yet they have until friday they say they have nothing to stop the inauguration from taking place which is scheduled on sunday but officials in the rulings on the party say they are confident whatever evidence that the opposition says they have is not strong enough they are planning ahead with this dog already rehearsing and some presidents have confirmed they will attend the inauguration ceremony on sunday. now a major military operation has begun in far of faith in northwestern nigeria to crack down on criminals raiding villages more than two thousand villages in the

area of being killed by gunman says twenty or. haven't on that address reports after marriage isn't in zamfara state. digging in for a fight these soldiers are part of a one thousand member force sent to fight gunman would laid siege to villages in northwest nigeria for more than seven years they sacked many villages looting killing and raping the criminals are forced up to forty thousand people from their homes yet despite the military operations civilians continue to seek refuge in larger towns. sanny our community says his village was raided and you can hear my e. ticket get are going to kill my father they walked right into israeli i shot the old man there we did our cattle and camels some of my villagers were kidnapped for ransom and they took our women raped and abandoned them for us to take to hospital . more than one hundred people lies to me to have been killed in the past six weeks alone survivors say their tigers showed no mercy it what i had to tell my neighbor

who was pregnant was shot at close range she lost the baby but she survived she's now in hospital. each day at meal time they line up their plates to be served but the quality of food has not been good an outbreak of cholera swept through some camps recently leading to several deaths but officials say it's been brought under control this camp in didn't can open just ten days ago and officials say already six thousand people have registered or thousands more are living with their relatives in town some say they are eager to go back home but most say they're afraid to even step out of town this is a religious are not saved by the army which is trying to battle so many crisis across nigeria says it can guarantee their safety i will continue to assure them of their protection as long as they are willing to go back to their localities officials say six thousand people listen to the army's advice and returned all but

more than thirty thousand others are still waiting to see if it will ever be safe enough to go back army al-jazeera north west niger. the south sudan president salva kiir has granted amnesty to former vice president red matra as well as rebel fighters involved in the five year civil war a power sharing agreement was signed just earlier this week and it gives care and his former deputy macha eight months to form a transitional government south sudan's opposition though has criticized the amnesty saying care first needs to answer for the atrocities committed by his troops tens of thousands of people have been killed in the war that began after south sudan gained independence in twenty eleven. well asia's former prime minister is back in court for the next stage of his corruption case is expected the hearing in kuala lumpur will set

a trial date for now jeev reza on charges of corruption and money laundering they relate to most people in the looting of the state investment fund one m d be achieved denies the charges. north and south korea have taken another step closer to improving relations workers from the north of arrived in the south for a friendly football match. sport has played a big part in the increasingly long ties between the countries the united for the winter olympics simply on chang in february. at least twenty two people have been killed in the worst rain in southern india in nearly a century forty eight hours of to wrench chill down polls have forced the local government to release water from twenty four dams for fear of breaches since june the heavy rain landslides and flooding have been linked to one hundred seventy five deaths in the state of carol. a video shed on social media shows waves

of rubbish and plastic washing ashore at a popular mexican tourist resort media in cabo san lucas are reporting that the normally pristine playa made on a beach has now been swamped by garbage as hurrican john makes its way through the pacific people are trying to clear the beach collecting tons of debris. but a rico's government has a knowledge that hurrican maria killed fourteen hundred people that's more than twenty times if issue of death so the government made the new estimate in a report to congress castro ripple. when hurricanes irma and maria struck puerto rico nearly a year ago there furious winds and waters were initially reported to have killed about a dozen people. president donald trump highlighted the number when he visited days

after the storm. that. power. but trump's words would prove premature the disaster is drawn out aftermath the days and months without power fresh water and working hospitals has taken many times more lives on thursday the puerto rican government acknowledged for the first time that the death toll could be twenty times the current official count of sixty four a report from the governor's office says there were one thousand four hundred twenty seven more deaths in the four months after the hurricanes than normal but adds the cost of yacht that may or may not be attributable to the hurricanes. where me there's no doubt that they have to do. and you still need something to laureus well

keep telling you how everything changed my idea how they don't have any rain or how they lost their houses or farms how they don't even have money to build on the table this summer some puerto ricans are living under the same blue tarps in dealing with the electricity outages which continue to plague swaths of the island story both through i feel powerless it's called powerlessness because i can't do anything puerto rico's governor has asked congress for one hundred thirty nine billion dollars in relief assistance noting that almost a year after the disaster permanent reconstruction has just begun does it get us a very good for only the government has given me a little more everyone i called offered a hand but i'm still waiting. for the people of the island who are suffering and dying to help cannot come soon enough. castro al-jazeera.

the u.s. plans to have what it calls a space for two years time it'll be the first new branch of military since ninety forty seven and its primary purpose will be to defend u.s. satellites and spacecraft from attack and official report. has been pushing for the creation of a new branch of the military for months he talks about it often that is raleigh's we may even have a space force his vice president says donald trump's vision will become a reality while too often. previous administrations all but neglected the growing security threat emerging in space president trump stated clearly and forcefully that space is in his words a war fighting domain just like land and air and sea the new force will be used to protect u.s. satellites in space which provide vital services like communication it can also

protect spy satellites which direct military operations and there is the growing commercial space market too it's not a new idea in one thousand nine hundred three president ronald reagan called for a space based missile defense system just a year after congress demanded the establishment of a new space force the defense system dubbed star wars by critics never got beyond the research phase the u.s. already has a space command as part of the air force and some see the new branch as an expensive waste in fact defense secretary jim mattis initially resisted it but just earlier this week signaled he was no on board we are in complete alignment with the president going to burn down the bar after the basic could be worth hearing for economy we're going to have to address it and other countries capabilities what they're creating a new branch of the military needs congressional authorization and funding if republicans lose control of the house of representatives in november's midterm

elections it might never happen former astronaut mark kelly says he doesn't see the point there is a threat out there but it's being handled by the u.s. air force today doesn't make sense to build a whole nother level of bureaucracy spaceports if approved would become the sixth branch of the u.s. military it would be led by a four star officer and would pull resources from other military branches. russia has a space force china's space program is run by the military and the white house will include and the billion dollar funding request for their new space force in the next budget alan fischer al-jazeera. take a look at the top stories here of the breaking news reports are coming in of an attack by the taliban on police headquarters in the afghan city of girls the government forces say there is heavy fighting throughout the city more now from our

correspondent schalit ballasts in kabul. there is heavy gunfire in the city of this morning. in the air. they say that they have seen. two gosney and they have been strikes on the taliban in the city at one o'clock this morning this started. on the police here. they launched rockets into the police which is the in took up positions at a tower nearby a supermarket across the road. in the fierce firefight with afghan security forces the u.n. has called for an independent investigation into a saudi amorality coalition air strike on a bus full of children in yemen fifty people were killed in the attack in hoofy held solder province saudi arabia says the strikes hit the military targets hamas

the palestinian group which controls gaza has told a truce has been agreed with israel the israeli government has denied an agreement being reached it follows a major flare up in cross border violence on wednesday and thursday in which three palestinians were killed in iraq a nationwide recounted votes from the election has reaffirmed. as the winner of the electoral commission conducted a manual recount after widespread allegations of fraud in the may vote the results must now be ratified by the supreme court. a senior zimbabwean opposition figure has been banned from addressing rallies or news conferences while he faces charges for inciting violence and unlawfully announcing election results tendai biti of the m.d.c. alliance was arrested on thursday after being denied asylum in neighboring zambia is now out on bail today this is the latest headlines for us here at al-jazeera coming up next my cuba. it's

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time walking up on the full of pleasure. i don't mind i'm getting where's the good obama here but i'm not going to an intimate look at life in cuba today as it was on a long walk and that i can now watch the news i got my bicycle my cue on al jazeera . we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current events that matter to you al-jazeera. this was wrong to teach children away from their parents and heard them into a school against their will there was no mother no father figures they put is

a big player and we sort of looked after so i don't remember the children's names but i'll never forget the kind of his dark secret on al-jazeera. hello i'm on team dennis in doha with the top stories here it out as there are holes coming in of heavy fighting in the afghan city of girls the government forces saved by sleeping throughout the city after the taliban attacked a police headquarters let's go live now to the afghan capital kabul our correspondent there charlotte dallas spring and bring us right up to date. so heavy fighting is ongoing we have some people who are telling us that they're hearing

heavy heavy gunfire they hearing rockets this has been going on now for some nine hours the first they heard of it was when they heard rockets landing and nearer and nearer and then the police headquarters in gaza me from the taleban targeting police military installations and then they spread out from the area and they're telling us that they they do see bodies on the streets in gaza and that there are dozens of people wounded but incredibly hard to get information out of the at the moment cell phone towers are down all being jammed us were lying on the internet to get information out the government has said that they have only suffered two casualties the taliban is saying that they have killed one hundred forty sole jews and policeman we did talk to u.s. military commanders short time ago they gave us a statement saying that we can confirm that there were attacks or mosul government seem to be last night the u.s. forces responded with close air support what is closer support mean it means one

drone strike. from u.s. attack helicopters and they say u.s. aircraft will also present that may make for a show of presence so this is own going. people living in gaza city a terrified this staying in their homes and simply listening to gunfire rockets outside shell about us live in kabul thanks. the u.n. has called for an independent investigation into a saudi a morality coalition air strike on a bus full of school children in yemen fifty people were killed in the attack in hoofy held sada province saudi arabia says the strikes hit legitimate military targets. how mass the palestinian group which controls gaza has told his era a truce has been agreed with israel the israeli government those denied agreements reached it follows a major flare up in cross border violence on wednesday and thursday in which three palestinians were killed in iraq

a nationwide recount the votes from the election has reaffirmed. as the winner of the electoral commission conducted a manual recount after widespread allegations of fraud in the may vote the results must now be ratified by the supreme court russia says it would consider it an economic war if the u.s. imposes a ban on its banks or its currency prime minister dmitri medvedev has vowed to take retaliatory measures if necessary he made the comments a day after washington confirmed it was imposing a new round of sanctions on moscow there over the poisoning of former spy so gay scrip raul and his daughter in the u.k. earlier this year a seniors in bubbly opposition figure has been banned from addressing rallies or news conferences while he faces charges for inciting violence and other lawfully announcing election results tendai biti of the m.d.c. alliance was arrested on thursday after being denied asylum in neighboring zambia

he's out on bail. it's been an ordeal but we've we survived. it's a. mystery to strict. standards but. honestly i'm glad to be to be home tomorrow we. are on day courtship into me and why i am here women are supposed to be here. malaysia's former prime minister is back in court for the next stage of his corruption case is expected the hearing in kuala lumpur will set a trial date for now. on charges of corruption and money laundering which he denies at least twenty two people have been killed in the worst rain in southern india for nearly a century forty eight hours of tarantula down polls have forced the local government in kerala to release water from twenty four dans those are the latest headlines the news will continue after al-jazeera world.

mian maher over fifty one million people. and sends two cheese party won elections here in twenty fifteen but the army still wields great power on transit she unfortunately has no practical ability to rein in the security forces since independence from the british in nineteen forty eight its many ethnic minorities

have been engaged in almost continuous civil war. it's a majority buddhist country but one minority is the region joe who are muslim and they have suffered longstanding persecution. pursuit of the majority overhead have traditionally lived in rock kind state many in and around. in october twenty sixth seen the army began a siege of the city. there were reports of mass killings rape and of tens of thousands of russian just seeking refuge in neighboring bangladesh. the me and mark government has always maintained these reports were exaggerated so al-jazeera arabic correspondents and i'm in doubt we travel to me and mark also known as burma in february twenty seventh teen to investigate for herself.

the conflict between me and mars ethnic minorities and the ruling burmese majority that controls the army is one of the world's longest ongoing civil wars the united nations and other agencies have repeatedly accused me and maher of widespread human rights violations and genocide. and. that the man. arrived in gone the country's largest. to find a large demonstration in progress. the military government was dissolved in twenty eleven and sends to cheese party then won a majority in both houses of parliament in the twenty fifteen elections but has not yet succeeded in addressing the country's long standing ethnic conflicts.

on on monday a call put on by libya. this is the time that you know we've got a government that the road we're going to be best government that we all that we all want will we all believe that this time we don't have to fight each other we have to do have a dialogue to you know to have little to debate a better country would be for the time that you know that we are all the people standing up together to kill all. but there didn't seem to be any sign of the real hinge at this demonstration. said now mass protesters about the problems suffered by the rain in june. so if you're not up on the bottom they're not at the concrete know it on the scene about the same ooc happening that's a mistake i met idea to see how there are there were over

a million brain jamie mark they say they did in what's now rock kind steam for generations but the million mark of raiment continues to maintain that their illegal immigrants who came to what was then called the ira can after independence . asteroid enjoy a rights activist about their disputed origins and uncertain citizenship status. and there we. if it is of this country. we had a voting record with our people many people were out of the running election we have a time limit or there is an i.r.s. sukumar mochas hummin i don't think after the military in the n.t. sixty two and the great changing their behavior to our people after the

bill to abuse ninety eighty two citizenship law. just admitting to borrowing up people from does citizenship as the government and the authorities always say i'm not from this country and they are not us it is them the illegal immigrants from the bangladeshi would us wise to only going to going to deny we are not bangladeshi we are not the people who can migrate to from bangladesh from anytime we had the back of that this land from centuries. before the british rule. us you behalf that. produce very rarely will question because you were already issued many going to get me and you are not a nation you have to state also issued a statement as relations and then always see and then everyone talking about a border we have got to go to the us. but through which you every time it was my

question is why. me and mark had been tightly controlled for decades and journalists banned from much abroad kind steet for some time. but top the sheet some amateur video from nando there were burning houses and range appearing to fee but some images of human remains were too disturbing to show i'm just here i needed to find out more about what happened in one toe in twenty sixteen.

went to the capital of frack kind state city. way rangel were allegedly forced from their homes there and put into camps. from sittwe a she planned to continue on to madoff. but soon after her plane took off there was some unfortunate news. a prominent lawyer coney had been murdered at tiangong airport. been nk san suu cheese legal advisor for several years he was also a muslim a member of suchi is ruling national league for democracy party and helped create the office of state councilor that enabled her to become the effective head of the government in twenty sixteen. sittwe a was at the center of serious violence in twenty twelve hundreds of rahane joe

were killed and tens of thousands forced to leave their homes in the city and move to nearby camps. in february twenty seventh teen it was difficult to find any range on the streets. there was no call to prayer and it was forbidden even to enter any of the mosques. salaam wanted to enter one of the camps near sits way but it was heavily guarded by the army.

of a myth. it's up to. them it's not going to measure a lot of say for those that believe i'm ok i'm. going to. just write my names my congressman my phone number so on but i know this and does reporting to the office and to just put it in storage. you know to me i mean you. know.

the camp was not only had pretty guarded but strongly fortified by barbed wire fencing it looked much more like a prison than a camp. the ringette live in huts here they say they fled their homes after being persecuted by the ethnic burmese they allege that buddhist monks were among their attackers they relied heavily on non-governmental organizations and were restricted in their movements their ability to marry in their educational opportunities and their access to health care. first of all i want to thank. you. both even more i am in a confined and also that. you have to learn to love something like a living how that might be because it was followed. by the word of the landlady

talking. much of that among us can manage it and there might be a. time like how michael would he ever. selamat the camp's so-called doctor but it turned out he had no medical training or qualifications. but that it would be. a money a job not on your life and i would love only. sugar you didn't think so would you money that in the edit room me over the movie so would you do i go. to hell do you. want to see the money. on the lawn with. but i thought. military or.

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from the movie argo with. from the. target video with many minutes from the movie with little to make. the big move out of the valley the low but they are not. moderated by the lovely little by the when i get the. money. they've got to come with other members. and i. bet i'm damn big knew that with. its accountants mind and suffering. many rangers seem to have been there for years. and these children appeared never to have lived

anywhere else. mohamed took to visit a woman suffering from joint pain but he warned her that they were both probably under constant surveillance. after a night out of there at the where are you at the time. or. something . like. that gift. giving connected mohalla tough. i got

a good getting money out of the nothing with my video that we have an army and a number. of my guy there would have on their own mother to. get a ha ha ha ha ha ground lot of. know about it i'm only a guy in the army but i'm going to do what it would up farmers are some of all that i mean are they were more good than a lot of the. young and young young either one of them would have it. but they went over to. buddhism is the most popular religion in me and maher some have accused rightwing monks of being prejudiced against muslims particularly when they were here just. said i want to visit a monk to ask him about the situation. modern

. ocasio would free up what he saw to let you fraud allah. will let you know he. the room. but now i. will go pick up. but i cannot yet. and the movie. you know grandmother and. he did little to cremate him and even then you're not ready yet he knew who. she grew. up with him he will be yelling. that another week by. the public figure who's the real thing and not just the. nine to one of my. lucky enough the

second guy could little from them not going to be out for that but who check that you have you know if we have an accent for you at the head of cops at the un for you can still ask something. that can be done complicit or not and how you could have a laugh at my hobby as i go through i've been awful up one not be paying you to produce goods here we have mining about would evolve like that without them on one leg you would be out of. the market grew up with food then i'd be sitting at my they have their own. legacy here i'll be the child on the. good of a good man will want to come up with the out of the deal and not get goofy while he did the planning because obviously if i feel. if a man and love bill. the thought. of that

if the limit of it. the. rooney rule of law to be rude. oh oh yeah. good now you go well you'd love it. but shouldn't i have the right with. the one who won't get another place who want to mean me and my grandma now and then and kind of one who might decide to come back better to him. without she took them up. and that he will. never talk i know who nobody needed but that love it tell me no but. then the legacy. can you give my lad. very good. indeed both of them up. but yet minute.

we've got to see them a kind of. i mean you. can't go. only if you do that without. revealing. you tell ya got what you need who don't you will get. in an interview in kearney twenty seventeen states counsellor and sense to cheat acknowledged there were problems in rock kind states. she didn't refer to the ranger by name but said that ethnic cleansing was too strong a term for what was happening. she said that there was a lot of hostility and talked about people on both sides of the divide and divide she said she was trying to close.

to find out more about the rahane just citizenship problems headed for another part of such way to meet a community leader she asked about the claim that the real hinge a migrated from bangladesh help from one to mumbai and lead us. there although being live is gullible and over the border a lot yet the mahmoudiya yet will much easier with a live edition of the others than it. though is that much too general of english. annoyed at five in denmark fall five you don't even that it loses than a little. me in mars nine hundred eighty two citizenship laws did not recognize the range. and this has precluded them from gaining equal rights. but the government has since issued

what are called white cards. at the time this was viewed as a commitment to ground the rain just tatas that would enable them to apply for citizenship. only. zones osho disallow these white id cards. that they got him a few got what that deep. deep dug up. the polish economy. and all the money but they don't democracy if we recall where jim by matching was sick and not been caught it says that got him direct and yet written down the seine will not be ma. i mean she would have allowed it to get the.

whole be viewed on the counter samah and all not the gun they've made it to an agenda a bit a few of the and never give it to her that had been beaten up enough not columnists and not not by much not thousand it doesn't have to be dirty that got the out more you know who's who who are joining us on the other. i don't go about it i let a slew of it out move out of the well what zozo was referring to was the government's move in twenty fifteen in which it asked the region just to handed their white cards in return for new papers categorizing them as bengali of all the old models. you know one or two gonna look. good at all who will not be. here that i'm about to hope. to go to the whole obama in the hope of really not

a movie of the money and money of it the money and not get it you know the want to look up the music upbeat and look at the mobile game. coming up in part two there were a hinge of women who fled to bangladesh with harrowing stories of their alleged treatment by the army in iraq kind states. but that's. what this young man that ever really blame them really would like to get that the mother automated it would be or do that if he did it in the way it would be by the court of law that are going to get when i am just. it is what you are abducted and forced into sexual slavery by the japanese imperial army. for the so-called comfort women of the second world war decades have passed

but the trauma lives on. whitney's on is the story of the women who campaigned with unwavering resolve for an official apology for this appalling chapter in history. the apology on al-jazeera. a new village commit to me as being elected and is grappling with the odd use tosca sustaining a committee but the residents of this chinese village of grown impatient and have one concern inside. the reclamation of the land democracy is complicated. to me of a six part series founded by five yes one kind of chinese democracy experiment on al-jazeera. that they set sail for gold. but this cover their resorts worth more than its wants him and be. driven by commerce

enabled through politics and religion executed with brutality. in episode one slavery roots charge the birth and rise of the african slave trade mapping out history that the strength of humanity. for all the gold in the world want to just go. you're watching all of us there arms the whole rob and these are all top stories we're getting reports of heavy fighting in the afghan city of gasoline. government forces say there's fighting throughout the city after the taliban attacked police headquarters let's go over to charlotte balances in the capital kabul for the very latest conflicting reports from both your thora t.'s and the taliban as to exactly what's going on there. yes and so we're talking

a lot to people who are actually in residence trying to hear from them to try and clarify the situation these saying they still hearing heavy gunfire this is nine hours after this attack began they say they first heard. rockets sitting in their bedrooms counting rockets hitting the police headquarters around two o'clock this morning tell a band taking up positions around the place he called us to launch their attack and then spreading out around the city they say that tell of on have taken control of checkpoints across the city from the police and as you take a look conflicting reports so the police the government and the u.s. are denying the same there is no we are back in control of gaza need us into is strikes this morning and they say that they launched a joint strike and they provided support to the military but it's a very it's a moving situation in gaza new this morning but we do know that people inside their homes hearing gunfire hearing rockets and terrified for the moment we'll leave it there and of course come back to you as that situation develops charlotte dallas

the carbon russia that would consider economic war if the u.s. imposes a ban on its banks or currency prime minister dmitri medvedev has vowed to take retaliatory measures if necessary he made the comments a day after washington confirmed it was imposing new rounds of sanctions on moscow rather over the poisoning of former spice ship and his daughter in the united kingdom this year. the un's called for the independent investigation into a saudi iraqi coalition strike on a bus full of school children in yemen fifty people have been killed in the attack in the held such a province saudi arabia says the strikes hit the just about targets and hamas the palestinian group which controls the gaza strip has told al-jazeera a truce has been agreed with israel the israeli government has denied that the agreement has been reached it follows a major flare up in cross border violence on wednesday and thursday those were the headlines back with more news in half an hour.

i. mean maher also known as burma had the bottom million rangel at the start of twenty seventeen they're muslims and say they've lived in what's now known as rock kind states for generations. but official and public discrimination led to widespread violence in twenty twelve and tens of thousands of french moved to refugee camps by early twenty seventeen thousands more had fled to bangladesh but numbers have now reached about seven hundred thousand with the un finding evidence of human rights abuses including gang rape murder and torture. al jazeera arabic correspondent salaam hindawi this it'd mean maher in february twenty seventh team to investigate how the rangel were being treated. but i

want to come. out of. every. me. or. that yeah really. some now and her film crews every move was closely observed by paying close police . on. a walk to

a shot of the anomaly a dog had a. boy we're not culpable but should i know about the have not yet done. you mean. yeah right eat and. watch. what. they ate meat is. shame and. it's. still wary of the police who are on hinge a man sold said a video clip from an isolated area of mondo in rock kind states. what

happened. is a member crew and the police supreme. know my form and a number of the unmarked police were killed by an armed group in rock kind states in october twenty sixth seen. this reportedly sparked a series of attacks against by the army. a special government committee was that up to investigate the violence but it found no evidence to support the allegations of atrocities against. despite these powerful images. was given more video by humanitarian organizations the images again graphic

appearing to show violence. and torture. with. some of the images to horrific to be shown on television.

had planned to travel on from scituate to mandel. but the police refused to allow it. me and mark can often be a very difficult place for journalists to operate. instead met a member of the rock kind national party who had served on the government committee that investigated the alleged violence against the rangers in october twenty sixth . could have and on he would be a. good these are you me are you believe that you did the less you know double of being lee was a bully of an emoji that he needed. anyway you cry to really are. these are

the big alleviate the entire area who view the goatee and i go to the. double is terrible area to whom you wrote that much as i do got a little. deeper than opulent don't. really need me to ramble any maybe to which all of you and he made me do much either not now you know ari monday night off when a year of change i'll do it when you do go wrong will go locally so leveled by today general lot of them that alliteration. asked why there seemed such strength of feeling against the region joe general being able to. come over the generals the ball goes up to the iraqi government general most of all when. they're trying to do they are here is the job. thing by

visit roy. the other not only a moment generally the cry but the other people with their tribute to what they've always. love you this is what you want to be. a kind of zero zero zero being the. other growing doesn't bother to look you may you cried with a big whistle the face of a lot of it. in february twenty seventh teen the u.n. reports today a raft of human rights violations after interviewing over two hundred were injured . in march twenty seven thousand it announced a fact finding mission to me in mar but in june twenty seventeen they mean mark government said it would deny entry to officials taking part in the u.n. investigation. meanwhile me and mark continue to receive financial assistance from india israel russia and the united states which lifted sanctions against it in

twenty sixteen. scilab at a former director of human rights watch in me in march now an independent observer that the military is still the major institution in this country military still has extraordinary powers guaranteed by the two thousand i consider tuition twenty five percent of the seats and in the parliament three key ministries that really controls a lot of the country massive troops all throughout the country. they run huge parts of the economy they don't just get one of the the biggest shares in the national budget. they also have extensive business interests throughout the country . said nan asked what the situation was like in mendon in february twenty seventh. there is no doubt that there is a new phase in the conflict among dog with the appearance of this militant group

that has staged violent attacks against the security forces and has killed a number of security personnel however. the threat posed by this new group. is is disproportionate to the scale of the security forces responses. what about the rule of nk send suchi. aung san suu kyi doesn't have a role in this she hasn't done anything and when she is effectively the leader of the country and she stays relatively silent about the abuses going on and does not make a public call for the security forces to rein in their behavior and call for accountability for any violations that have taken place then she's been in dereliction of injuries as i was a julie elected leader of the country and i'm so she's really been absent when voice as a leader needs to be heard quite simply i think the military and the government of blocking people from going into northern longo because they have something really

horrible to hide i think they're all indications through satellite imagery into the government's own admissions and through credible reporting coming out of the area that there has been extensive human rights violations and they want to hide the extent of the deal of the abuses against the civilian population that's a cover up. of them decided to make one more big to try and get to mandel shaking off her minder and they're arriving at the ferry terminal at dawn. so how a little sort of alert that i could who bought up to thirty curtis neon that he had bought us off that there wasn't enough but they don't want minha cell phone was a. mundo like an awful at that that could lay says the one

a shortfall here meant to ship alibi ahead here at the dock. look. at why i need better mission. why i misread a mission to the. police. is a doesn't know exactly what. the police stopped before she even got close to the ferry. i need better michel. better to the people i'll have to fight i'll

get. no paper no trip to man. the alternative was bangladesh. in late twenty sixteen and early twenty seventeen tens of thousands of russian jet began fleeing there to escape the violence in iraq and states. again. phelim could not gain access but british members of her film crew were allowed to travel. they would broadly follow the same routes as they were hanged jump across the naff river which separates the two countries a hazardous journey for the revenge on foot and i'm going to let you know about i

voted for hattori or to have more tax. forms. it's now estimated that around seven hundred thousand two hundred john have fled to bangladesh since august twenty seventh. this prompted them to set up security posts and checkpoints along the border with me and mark. once inside the country the crew had to pass through further bangladeshi checkpoints where they posed as tourists and used hidden cameras. to look. for.

work. yet the them there was the so many don't see the need even though it was the military intelligence maybe they should assume most of them. would use the daintily the usefulness of the slowdown when it is the better difficult to meet. when trying to force a. yeah you can see that it's more. solid week who's. there were a hand job by the side of the road.

in order to continue filming the crew took a side road to avoid attracting the attention of the bangladeshi police. they came upon one of the many unofficial or hinge or refugee camps in baghdad that . these refugees were living in the most primitive conditions in locations rarely seen by the

international media. even by the standards of makeshift refugee camps this was a miserable existence. the crew spoke to a group of rangel women who had recently arrived from. what i should do that event was very wise and. question i wonder why some of them are my cousins in the to. the harness of the cliff on a hollow pacific with a heart of god in mind to go about it on the side of it to. get out of the big what i wanted to be done is i met. mine's a fine idea on duty. satellite equipment now down when one is a master nine on the unity. of the hunted and. if

you want to gain a little moccasin then i know my job. from my mom as you have more. visitors for months. i am sure that official and. employer. can call eight hundred to have it on one side hossam wanted that. there's a target on mine so i don't know about the neighborhood and. the right job women all tell similar stories of their treatment to me and mark. what a little they did it i had and bloods had all but. i had a daughter not a done not done it to hide you would imagine i had got out of that i did it. not at all it did not out of the got that are there are a mob i can out of their studio had a mass and. decided. that he said to them will do little by little and little for

the want a lot of money. go by them without the need for grub that i got i do not a little boy you are. lonely. i'm going to take it if you don't know i'd better go they give it easier. for me so what i did was part of years old i did a mamma says little that is to say about adoption above all moldy. then go to cut it out of her. but. no matter the only. time i thought i had i began and i not got it i got to get into a bit and now i am back and now i'm getting now late into the good hour honey i'm one. of another and i love my family and i would like to be out of this world that it has to and. i don't want one of them.

are. that really wasn't a good. club is on the other. blah and don't believe what it is that i would do not but i gotta stand on your own i began by goodbye lunch and does another night of about another candidate i thought i'd get it out. to canada and i thought i would manage it all about what i'm going to go down that there might have been out of there you are particular about was it up on your end would have the down to the the mother to make it will you do then if he did get in then that would be by the court of law that her going to go down when i am just a. thought out there was hard enough the child doesn't get that one you gotta learn to live and learn by all the wood as she took him by that the wood at the bushido

thought that it would be that he would not what i should know about the area but not on our own. after fleeing this terrible abuse these women refugees were living in appalling conditions although some camps have since been improved by eating seeds and the generous help of the bangladeshi government like this one. however the rains have already arrived in bangladesh and even this site and its occupants will be at serious risk if the rainfall is heavy and deets to flooding. since and i'm handout these reports in february twenty seventh hundreds of thousands more were hanged john have sought refuge in bangladesh in fact it's now estimated that there are as many growing jane bangladesh as there are remaining in me and mari. meanwhile

human rights organizations the un and the media have struggled to gain access to raw kind state to gather first hand evidence of the alleged human rights violations . in september twenty seventeen the un high commissioner for human rights. a san spoke out because myanmar has refused access to human rights investigators the current situation cannot be covered yet sorry cannot yet be fully asserts but the situation remains or seem to use a. textbook example of ethnic cleansing. then in june twenty eighth amnesty international published the results of interviewing over four hundred people in bangladesh and within racking states they revealed the plans and systematic military campaign with satellite evidence of attacks on

villages in which only the ranger homes where satellites villages were surrounded by the myanmar military soldiers swept through they opened fire on men women and children as they were running away and they systematically burned down that which is and what this shows is that this was not the work of world soldiers or units involved units across a large area that this was a pattern carried out and therefore suggest that it was a pattern carried out pursuant to a common plan. i missed he also joined the international voices calling for those responsible to be sent to the international criminal court. was the only shooter in twenty seven. it's clear in the operations recent incident in but it is a zero and it reach out and made absolutely no mistake the crimes against humans we actually about right. or asian in the land mines and targeted large scale elites enough runs us so serious and they should be rooted in just.

such a referral is not guaranteed as the i.c.c. has no jurisdiction in myanmar and china would almost certain d.v. to any such intervention in the un security council. the main mark government continues to deny any human rights violations meanwhile it's not clear firstly what can be done to enable the range and bangladesh to return safely to me in march. and secondly to enable the international community to call them in mar government and its security forces to account. for their treatment of what the un has called the world's most persecuted people.

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something while tom waits on dear boy i'm not feeling sorry maybe his son goes head to head with jimmy i can't do anything else on the i'll just be. hello that we've had some very wet weather in parts of turkey and georgia recently take a look at the satellite picture we can see why it is the cloud that's over the northern parts of turkey stretching up across the caspian sea that is giving us a lot of thunder and lightning and a fair amount of hail to that system remains with us as we head through friday and into saturday so expect some more very wet weather out of this that they were looking at the top temperature in kabul of of around thirty six of the moment and for the west for us in baghdad we're up at forty four beirut not quite so hot we'll get to around thirty one a bit at the south end here in doha it certainly got humid again in fact associate with the temperatures have dropped. forty there as we head into friday that worry

the humidity eases again a fraction as we head into saturday and that will allow the temperatures dip back up again there will be a fair amount of cloud at times i've opposed the arabian peninsula most likely in the southern parts of a man and here it'll be thick enough just to give us a few spots of drizzle it times down towards the southern parts of africa and we've got a good few days of rain ahead of us in the southeast you can see that little low head that's responsible that's going to give us a lot of snow over the mountains as well that system eventually begins to pull away as we head into saturday behind it it will turn drier once more durban's looking at a top temperature of a twenty in cape town seventy. minutes to climb into violence and paranoia. there's still willing to dream. in honduras then a seeks a brighter future for his son and community. using art to reclaim the city.

and transform the very symbol of constipation. you find in latin america liberating a prison on al-jazeera. taliban fighters stormed the city of gosney in central afghanistan gun battles are ongoing we have a live report. hello i'm still robin you're watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes the u.n. demands action on saudi and the rocky led coalition attacks that killed dozens of children in yemen. also

a day of attacks and counterattacks end with hamas saying a truce has been reached with israel. did handcuffs and in court as zimbabwe's opposition figure tendai biti faces charges over post election violence. welcome to the program we begin with a developing story coming out of afghanistan gun battles are happening in the central city of gardening between taliban fighters and government forces. heavily armed men stormed the city attacking several government buildings including the police headquarters their own widely conflicting reports on the numbers of fake tallaght dozens are believed to be wounded let's cross over to our correspondent charlotte dallas who is monitoring developments from the capital kabul and just for all of us who are waking up to this news charlotte just give us an idea of the

timeline of events when did this start and what's the situation so far. sure so we're now ten hours into this is salt on the city of gas and it's only about one hundred fifty kilometers south of where we are in kabul the taliban launched this so initially on the police headquarters in gaza we've got residents in girls me telling us they heard eighty rockets launched towards this police headquarters then the taliban set up around the police headquarters in a supermarket and a teller and started their assault the in spread out around the city managing to take control of checkpoints from police and starting to try to take control of the city trying to take control of government buildings residents telling us that they took control of the road between kabul and girls near the main highway and nobody could get as you say conflicting reports the u.s. said that they came in and wanted to drone strike and seem to assault helicopters as well as u.s. aircraft mainly for the presence of the aircraft but they did use those assault

helicopters in this attack that is on going of course if the authorities are getting air support from the u.s. the larger question will be who's in charge of the city on the ground and how are civilians at large dealing with what seems to be a rather major attack at the moment. exactly so we understand where the fight is right now is that there's a main street that cuts through gardening on one side you've got rich tall residential new buildings where with a lot people living on the other side you've got government buildings ministries we understand that the fight now is that the taliban is holed up on one side of this road in these residential areas essentially using human shields and on the other side you've got these government buildings where you've got afghan military and this is this is happening back and forth both sides claiming that they are in control both sides saying that they have taken the city and that they have caused multiple fatalities to the other but really all we can verify is that witnesses are

saying that they hearing gunfire the hearing rockets they see bodies on the street dozens of people are wounded and they're terrified of course we'll leave it there for now shelton come back to you as that situation develops in kabul. one of the top stories we're following and that's the u.n. secretary general on to new terror she is calling for an independent investigation into a saudi iraqi led coalition air strike in yemen that killed a bus full of school children in all fifty people were killed the bus was a tank to a crowded market inside a province that's a stronghold the coalition says the airstrikes were just a bit military targets is following those developments from neighboring djibouti. still wearing his backpack this boy was in a minibus full of children heading back from a school some of them. but as the bus drove through a busy area of the town town inside the province. rescue workers bring in children one often. overwhelmed medical workers treat the injured on the

corals and every available space in the hospital for the fighters of accuse the sodium morality led coalition of launching the toc be. a saudi led coalition attacked a bus carrying more than thirty students who were on a summer school trip to the city there's no exact number of dead people the hospital has received many many wounded with a lot of serious injuries. this boy refuses to harvey's injuries to take to lizzie's his brothers who were with him on the bus the night yes no no i mean my brothers everyone get had until i see my brothers. the strike happened during morning rush hour in the busy market. a huge crater lies in the middle of the ruled the exact sports where the missile fill the monk gold wreckage of the school bus the children what's troubling him now trapped under the destroyed market buildings lining materials belonging to the children us through not even mind as of the talk

and the friends that struggle to live the seen by those lucky enough to escape on in a statement the sodium erotic coalition save its aesthetics inside what aimed at missile launches used to attack an industrial city in southern sudan or be on wednesday. the statement for the accused the host of fighters of using children as human shields there are increasing calls for investigations into these hot topics we've seen these reports it's very important as you said repeatedly that all bought into the conflict in yemen adhere to international humanitarian law where there is an incident of this sort it's important in its investigative story under the conclusions that investigation shared i'll learn from them will be according to that in this instance as well so debbie and its allies have been fighting in yemen for more than three years against the holdings who are aligned with iran to hold this control module from yemen including the capital sana'a. these latest up talk

adds more casualties to the list of thousands who've been killed during this war the u.n. calls it the world's wost humanitarian crisis and recent months odeon u.a.e. forces have advanced towards the port city of the day that which is under the control of who with the fight is most aid and food to yemen gets in through these ports in response to fight us of intensified the talks against so i'm not out to targets the hama that awhile just djibouti now the u.s. has been sending mixed messages and its response to those attacks the state department spokesman defended the coalition air campaign while at the same time called for an investigation into the attack. we call on the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident we take all credible accounts of civilian casualties very seriously and we call on the parties to take

appropriate measures to protect civilians in accordance with international law and urge all parties to investigate all reported is the incidence of civilian casualties hamas the palestinian group which controls the besieged gaza strip says a truce has been agreed with israel but the israeli government seems to be denying it that's according to the israeli media there's been a flare up in violence over the past forty eight hours at least three palestinians including a pregnant woman were killed in israeli airstrikes and two sevens has the latest. i and israeli air strike on a five story building it's a cultural center and it's destroyed it happened as israel was deliberating its next step after schools of strikes on gaza yet even as ambulances rushed the injured to hospital and last was in negotiations for a truce. nearly five hours have passed without any israeli attacks off to the asteroid on the cultural center said in its statement of al-jazeera that this was

a truce would be imposed at twenty forty g.m.t. not a full ceasefire guarded words there and they said that the united nations and egypt had been involved in mediation earlier a senior official from hamas had hinted that they could stop firing rockets something of this novel for go for this and thanks six i was going to four hours after that to stop i think that the equation of the confrontation always will not so i think both sides are not involved they are not interested now disappointed to be wide call for dishes or a war we try to avoid that wednesday's fighting had been sporadic but one of the last actions of hamas before it relented with rocket strikes was the launch of a grad missile the first time it had use the weapons since the twenty fourteen war . at times on wednesday night civilians said the intensity of the

bombardment seemed reminiscent of the last three wars this house and darrell was struck by an israeli aircraft a pregnant mother and her eighteen month old baby died here the husband a hamas policeman is critically ill in hospital the first to see this seen as an extremely isn't one. sam very angry a pregnant woman and her baby she happy marriage the two year there's nothing dangerous about any. gaza has been has so many times before waiting and watching cease fires have come and gone will the truce hold there is still some hope here in a place surrounded by walls with no way out but there is cynicism about whether they've seen the last of this. and under joins me now from gaza not really big question andrea is the truce holding and will it hold. i can't

answer the last part of your question but it is holding right now a glance at the israeli military twitter feed twelve hours old this message sirens sounding in. the negative regional councils that's the last rocket out of gaza that was noted and that was just before twenty forty wednesday thursday night when the ceasefire the temporary ceasefire permanent ceasefire you can't really describe it other than the woods truths which is the language used by hamas now it has to be said that there hasn't been official clarification of these ready position however is ready media reporting. sources in from various newspapers that this is not a truce that it's a ham is how mass unilateral declaration effectively as. it is it isn't

clear how things will go but i think possibly the position of these rate is is to wait and watch so to speak with demonstrations today the twentieth a week of demonstrations they do indeed into smaller numbers of lights and we've been hearing from the mosques announcements calling for people to protest to keep the momentum or to revive the momentum should i say of the presence on that border area that is fraught with tension there could be a hitch that could be from either side so you cannot really. predict how this will play out longer term and the situation it says is calm but tense of course will continue to follow events through the day with you andrea under seven in gaza. the violence in gaza has also been part of talks between qatar's amir and the palestinian president mahmoud abbas on thursday to member how mental tiny reiterated his support for the palestinian people back to reconciliation efforts

between palestinian factions. still ahead here on al-jazeera a state of emergency in parts of ecuador thousands of venezuelans arrive at the border to escape poverty and hardship back home. and the hurrican that struck puerto rico a year ago could have killed more people than previously estimated those stories on the other side of the boy. hello there who are larry's now rushing across europe for a look at the satellite picture we can see this area of cloud here that's the leading edge of that cold air and it's gradually edging its way towards the east but then it is a lot of fresh air so london there getting to around twenty degrees is the maximum on friday and force in paris will be at twenty three here's that leading edge there already overburdened where in the cool air as well twenty three degrees will be our

maximum but ahead of that system it's still hot water so about thirty two that will change though as we head through into saturday all temperature this time topping just as twenty one for the south hot for some bucharest thirty one degrees will be on my thumb and still pretty warm in madrid around thirty six it will be all top of the further towards the south of so many of us here is fine and dry certainly is warm there in chile is about thirty five but there is this is larry of cloud that's working its way northward save a pulse of algeria than you think enough to give us a few showers some could be rather heavy it gradually disperses as we head through saturday there most of us seeing a drawing day once more for the central belt of africa plenty of showers here as you would expect stretching from eric try all the way towards the west some particularly heavy downpours there over parts of west africa at the moment and they still stretching a long way into parts of northern mali. al-jazeera

follows the lives of people in the heart of immigrant communities. in six major cities across europe. the stories we don't often have told by the people who live them. a brand new documentary series this is year a coming soon on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm so whole rob the reminder of our top stories a ten hour long gun battle continues between afghan forces and taliban fighters in

the central city of dozen heavily armed men stormed the city overnight attacking several government buildings including the police headquarters. and the u.n. security council is set to hold a closed door meeting to discuss the saudi over r.t. coalition air strike that hit a bus full of school children in yemen fifty people were killed including the children some as you just had the u.n. secretary general and tell you good terrorists has called for a prompt and independent investigation. into palestinian group hamas says a truce with israel has been breached to stop the violence in gaza but the israeli government won't confirm the agreement at least three palestinians were killed in israeli airstrikes and harass rockets fired into southern israel. russia says it would consider it an economic war if the u.s. imposes sanctions on its banks or currency prime minister dmitri medvedev says he'll take retaliatory measures if necessary he made the comments today after

washington confirmed it was imposing a new round of sanctions on moscow there over the poisoning of former russian double agents cripple and his daughter in the united kingdom earlier this year. senior officials from north and south korea are meeting on monday to prepare for their leaders' third summit this year denuclearization is expected to be high on the agenda south korea the president in north korea and kim jong un have already met twice since march which. the death toll in indonesia is continuing to rise at a staggering pace after an earthquake five days ago the official death toll now stands at two hundred fifty nine the humanitarian crisis is also living in la baku where the magnitude seven earthquake hit on sunday there have been at least three hundred aftershocks in the area since thousands have been left homeless and in desperate need of clean water food medicine and shelter. the u.s.

e.u. and the african union have praised his decision to not seek a third term as president of the democratic republic of congo kabir is instead supporting his close ally and there are concerns that he'll still remain a political force behind the scenes from can. report. when president joseph kabila finally made it clear that he will not be seeking reelection in handed over the baton to man. it ended two years of speculation and anxiety characterized by partisan violent confrontations between police and demonstrators some of his critics like martin for you lou who wants to be president legacy is tainted. and his security. is a big issue there is no precise. skip to the contrary or legacy is a poverty. we became. the president

inherited a country that was just getting out of a civil war back in two thousand and one his father had been assassinated and he was thrust in the thick of the democratic republic of congo complex politics he's credited by some for unifying a country that was divided bringing a sense of normalcy reforming the military and starting an ambitious rebuilding program when puppy love became president you paved roads and stuff but not at all in many other parts of the country that has changed especially at the top. as a means to build roads linking different parts of the country some people feel that what he's done is not good enough. but his advisers say he's done what he could in incredibly difficult times while doing that we are hearing all sorts of bad things about him badmouthing sanctions here sanctions there.

wars came from outside. the country so while fighting the war there was still building what i've just said that music infrastructure were destroyed ports airports bridges you name it yeah in marketplaces like this one in the heart of kinshasa people say they want a leader who's going to make their lives and more bearable on the basics and jobs for their children and to feel they're living in one of the most resource rich countries in the world yes not by much that they are that i want someone to stabilize the economy so i can take my children to school feed my family and even afford to buy a house. is forty seven years old a shrewd politician many people we've talked to say whatever his legacy the fact that he's agreed not to run for that tom can only be a good thing for a country that has never seen

a peaceful transition of power catherine saw al-jazeera kinshasa. a city as a barbarian opposition figure has been granted bail after being held for inciting violence tendai biti of the movement for democratic change was arrested on thursday after being denied asylum in zambia beeches alliance rejected the july election results accusing president but i quote of rigging the polls. protests that followed led to the deaths of six people. it's been an ordeal but we we survived. it's a key to the. muscle for africa are we turn to strict. limits cost and that's what we survive we live to fidelity i'm glad to be to be home and to morrow we get closer show you shoes i don't do what you can to me it's in the way i'm here we never suppose we're. always three months of the parliamentary elections lebanon's prime minister really has yet to form a government progress in bringing together rival parties has been slow and although

lengthy negotiations are not unusual national unity is at stake from beirut. three time prime minister was appointed to continue in his role in may since then he has been trying to form a government it's not easy in lebanon where political divisions reflect those in the region and the recent parliamentary election has rivals the armed group hezbollah and its allies gained at his expense and they have demands. breaking the monopoly the drews monopoly by what a lot and to use thing a and lose minister to the government who's outside. and also breaking the sunni by having by introducing also sending ministers from the eighth march camp or from the pro has been. around there's been alliance is being accused of using its enhanced

political position to alter the agreement that we distributed power after the civil war ended in one thousand nine hundred eleven has a sectarian political system. by which the wrangling is not just about to present patient in cabinet but about division of power in trying to imply sees this as a chance to amend even if informally and. not to granted by the court. the office of prime minister for example is the highest post reserved for a muslim seventy lost his majority in parliament but still heads the largest sunday block his opponents are threatening to nominate someone else. if necessary we will stage a political diplomatic and popular campaign to liberate lebanon from political captivity . had it is accused of delaying the formation of the government to prevent the normalization of relations with syria. their relationship with damascus has long

been a divisive issue eleven on the new government will have to address it now that it appears president bashar assad will be staying in power the iranian backed hezbollah party and pro assad politicians want lebanon to resume dealing with the syrian government in an official capacity hezbollah and its allies say the government makeup should reflect the election results which means they want the top power heidi he wants to prevent that but politically he is too weak to. be able to . acquittal has declared a state of emergency because of other usually high in the brevet as wayland's crossing the northern border with colombia into three provinces where the measure will stay in place until the end of the they could also has more than four thousand venezuelan vibrance of be deriving each day but as well as hyper inflation of the colic product shortages of fuel the exodus via colombia. will stay in the

region puerto rico's government has acknowledged that hurrican bria killed one thousand four hundred people that's more than twenty times the official death toll the government made the new estimate in a report to the u.s. congress where it's asking for one hundred thirty nine billion dollars to rebuild the oil and i joke castro has more. when hurricanes irma and maria's drug court a rico nearly a year ago they're furious winds and waters were initially reported to have killed about a dozen people. president donald trump highlighted the number when he visited days after the storm. that two thousand people that died in another hurricane. right here leave here but trump's words would prove premature the disaster is drawn out aftermath the days and months without power fresh water and working hospitals has taken many to. times more lives

on thursday the puerto rican government acknowledged for the first time that the death toll could be twenty times the current official count of sixty four a report from the governor's office says there were one thousand four hundred twenty seven more deaths in the four months after the hurricanes than normal but as the cause of the yacht that may or may not be attributable to the hurricanes where me there's no doubt that they have to do. and you still need to use your ears. telling you how we can change. how they don't have any rain or how they lost their houses or farms how they don't even have money to run the table this summer some puerto ricans are living under the same blue tarps in dealing with the electricity outages which continue to plague swaths of the

island story. i feel powerless it's called powerlessness because i can't do anything puerto rico's governor has asked congress for one hundred thirty nine billion dollars in relief assistance noting that almost a year after the disaster permanent reconstruction has just begun. if only the government had given me a little more everyone i called offered a hand but i'm still waiting. for the people of the island who are suffering and dying to help cannot come soon enough. castro al-jazeera. immigration activists in the us all recusing the president of being a hypocrite donald trump has been critical of the legal practice that helps relatives of american citizens to have a great start but his wife's parents have been granted citizenship seemingly as a result of the same immigration policy committee health it has been. for years

president donald trump has railed against the u.s. immigration system calling it flawed and in need of reform specifically trumpets argued against chain migration the practice of giving preference to the families of legal immigrants who also hope to come to the united states. under the current broken system a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives under our flag we focused on the immediate family by limiting sponsorships to spouses and minor children. this vital reform is necessary not just for our economy but for our security. and for the future of america but that effort by the president to end the longstanding u.s. policy known as family reunification appears not to apply to trump's own family on

thursday victor and amalia canards parents of first lady malani a trump were officially sworn in as u.s. citizens the application the process the interview was no different than anybody else's a pair is from slovenia or malani it was born and raised until she moved to new york the iranian who poc recy was not lost on twitter users who on thursday expressed outrage over the news pointing to the fact that the president on twitter just a week ago called for the end of chain migration program that appears to have granted his in-laws citizenship we must have border security get rid of chain lottery catch and release sanctuary cities go to merit based immigration he wrote we're glad that this administration and their family is benefiting from this but it does seem strange the timing of it and the fact that they are willing to benefit while not

giving others the rest of us the opportunity to benefit from our family immigration system a spokesperson for the first lady refused to comment to al-jazeera saying her parents are not part of the administration and deserve privacy the subject of family reunification is a sensitive issue in the united states especially given the trumpet ministrations recent zero tolerance enforcement of illegal immigration that has even included separating children from their parents kimberly help at al-jazeera washington. you're watching officer i'm so raw but these are all top news stories. long gun battle continues between afghan forces and taliban fighters in the central city of gaza the heavily armed men stormed the city overnight attacking several

government buildings including the police headquarters. model showing those developments from the capital kabul the taliban which this is initially on the police headquarters in gaza and we've got residents in girls me telling us they heard eighty rockets launched towards this police headquarters then the taliban sit up around police headquarters in a supermarket in a tower and started their assault spread out around the city managing to take control of checkpoints from police and starting to try to take control of the city trying to take control of government buildings residents telling us that they took control of the road between kabul and guards me the main highway and nobody could get. the u.n. security council to hold a closed door meeting to discuss a saudi a broad coalition air strike that hit a bus full of school children in yemen fifty people were killed including the children some of them as young as ten u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists has called for a prompt and independent investigation. palestinian group says

a truce with israel has been reached to stop the violence in gaza but the israeli government won't confirm the agreement at least three palestinians were killed in israeli airstrikes and hamas rockets fired into southern israel russia says it would consider it an economic war if the u.s. imposes sanctions on its banks or currency prime minister dmitry medvedev says he'll take retaliatory measures if necessary he made the comment today out of washington because it was imposing a new round of sanctions or. a cd is a barbarian opposition figure has been granted bail after being held for inciting violence to die bt of the movement for democratic change was arrested on thursday after being to launch a sign of the beaches alliance rejected the july results accusing present by the god of breaking the poles those with a had lots more inside story with up to let me just next. when mexico's

leaders implemented drastic and controversial energy reforms the country's own will by the mexican people for seventy five years was to be sold to private international companies. but to what extent is the country exposed to exploitation by profit driven multinational corporations. who target on al-jazeera. the united states reinforces harsh sanctions on iran but both allies and adversaries refuse to follow the trump administration's leak is this a new blow to american leadership or the first time a new pull over power structure is beginning to emerge this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm adopted hammy earlier this week washington reimpose that wide range of sanctions on iran the move followed the u.s. decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear agreement formerly known as the j c p o the trump administration called on other powers to join it but also issued a threat telling governments to choose do business with america or iran not both the response has been a nearly universal no some of washington's closest allies have even promised legislation to protect their own companies against possible american reprisals. are you a little concerned that countries like china. but now actually more. of. the world imports around zero

making progress we think the sanctions are biting already and we think they will continue to bite and cause significant negative economic consequences for iraq we really just encourage me united states to start talking to its partners in iran in order to be able to find a route forward for me. personally in the meeting i had with president trump i made it clear that if the american intelligence has information that creates a different picture in terms of nuclear proliferation that was originally acquired and agreement that was reached is no longer effective and if there had to be additional checks my opinion italy has to be willing to steer the relation with iran in this direction this is not the first time to us has tried to force other countries to go along with this unilateral sanctions in one thousand nine hundred six the u.s. passed the burton act a law strengthening the embargo against cuba by penalizing foreign companies doing

business there another law dating from one hundred seventy seven forced american companies not to follow the arab boycott of israel but extraterritorial sanctions have sometimes been successful in twenty fourteen before the nuclear deal came into place u.s. sanctions on iran hit france's largest bank been agreed to pay the u.s. justice department an eight point nine billion dollar fine. so let's bring in our panel in new jersey steven rogers member of the double j. trump for president advisory board in birmingham in the u.k. scott lucas professor of political science and international studies at the university of birmingham and in london and he say best city to breezy research fellow at the royal united services institute welcome to you all stephen raja's let me start with you why does the u. s.

always as you that everybody has to just follow its lead even if they don't agree well the u.s. doesn't automatically assume that the president and the president trumps administration he believes in the go she everything that he does not look with regard to iran the question each leader around the world has to answer is what has iran done to advance world peace the answer is nothing so the fact that a matter is is that the regime has done nothing but create misbehavior around the world has not lived up to its obligations regarding that horrible deal and the united states is no longer on an apology tour as president obama was there's a new sheriff in town his name is donald trump business is not going to be as usual the e.u. and nato and other countries have always wanted the united states government to take the lead on

a lot of worldwide issues president trump is doing that and now they've got to make decisions as to what side of the issue they're going to stand with and at the end of the day believe me they will stand with the united states that's cut lucas. we just heard there is that you know they us says that iran doesn't help for world peace well it's pulling out of the veto jeopardizing and this deal going to bring any kind of world peace so bring us close to it. now our first audit i don't give two hoots for campaign talk i mean i care about political economic and military fucks i'm not a big fan of iranian foreign policy and what it's doing in the region for example its support of the assad regime in syria the killing of hundreds of thousands of people but when we're talking about the deal itself the deal is not quote the worst deal in history the deal actually was containing iran's nuclear program ninety

eight percent of uranium had been taken outside the country it had restricted development of centrifuges it had iran was adhering to the deal in other words if you really want to deal with middle eastern problems you needed to take the nuclear issue off the table the deal did that by ripping up the deal partly out of dollars from spite over barack obama and partly because of pursuit of regime change you put the nuclear back again you to stabilize the region you don't make it any better. and they say that debris is it is their feeling in europe really that the u.s. just pulled the rug from under the european countries feet. i think so i think the europeans have done during basta to come to terms with even though what were perceived as the concerns over to deal with their main things being their absence of their mystery show from the deal this so-called sunset clause and the top of the spetum that are supposed to be conducted under the deal the europeans

have been working with us to try to address some of these concerns and according to the same u.s. state department there was significant progress between generate and may when a decision was taken by the us to withdraw from the d o two i'm afraid is concerned despite that trump administration decided to withdraw the us from a deal and put the europeans in a very difficult position the europeans continue to be committed to this virus to deal and as we know and they continue to strengthen their support for it and to implement the just nation that it's going to make it possible even weeks limitation for iran to continue to abide by is an obligation but of course it's going to be very tricky for the europeans and russia and china to. enable that deal to survive without the us being a party of it ok steve i just need to understand this j c b o

is that a multi lateral deal with several countries involved now the u.s. is going alone on this so far you seem quite confident in your first answer that everyone else will follow suit but why not also listen to to position of the europeans their concerns and also why not give them some leeway when it comes to their own relationship or their part of that deal. the president is listening to the other world leaders i remember when he was involved with discussions with nato and there was a narrative around the world that he's breaking nato that he's not listening to nato leaders and at the end that if they nato rally behind the president and they began to pay their way with regard to military you know the military

might in the region etc look it's easy to blame the united states for everything but the reality is the iranian government is not taking care of its people the united states government is not the threat that iran needs to worry about its own people just look at what we're seeing they're out on the streets and iran they're tired of their government they're tired of corruption they're tired of iran sending more money to create mr for around the world to their own than their own people the president of the united states has made it clear that even he loves the iranian people we in america want good relations with the people but it's the government that needs to be held accountable it's the government in iran that needs to be held responsible for its own actions when i say in reality they have been eleven and consecutive reports by the nuclear agency and all of them said that iran

was complying so if you are now any other country in the world and if you are north korea for example and you're looking at what is happening why would you even negotiate with the you asked if he know a change of commander in chief will also mean that change of agreement. yeah i mean absolutely in terms of how trusts war at the united states looks today international community this is something that of course has been raised by a number of countries including of course a day rainy and but also going back to steve's point i think about being economic pressure and their role that sanctions are playing and also the reaction ofsted different parties and companies so to do sanctions i just wanted to remind him also of the fact that already in two thousand and ten two thousand and twelve there was a distressed set of sanctions which were imposed against iran to was a u.n. security council resolution there were you know this action in polls by the united

states by the european union and by and number of additional countries australia canada you name it and even done not only that you brain and regime did not collapse economically but also the whole negotiation point that he's making did not really change the change came once rouhani came to power where iran dropped it is iran return thought they see and a number of issues came to lyme so i dare we come to the reality station that pressure of economic pressure did not work in the past and we are far away from that type and that would have economic pressure to was exerted in the past now because of lack of global support to the united states or it there will be a continued lack of strategic policy from the united states to worsen iran moving forward ok scott lucas now europe is not happy about this it made it clear.

yet steve has a point that several companies have already decided to comply with the sanctions so does he also have a point that in the end europe will have to follow suit or does it have any exit of all of that order would it have to develop its own policy what could it do really. the e.u. can protect smaller companies maybe medium sized companies but it can't necessarily cover billions of dollars in protracted legal action so that's why you've same companies like total and france like p.s.a. the french car manufacturer like siemens and they were in germany saying we have to suspend business for now but beyond that then you've got this fantasy world that stephen that donald trump or in what donald trump is not beloved by nato members that was a fantasy that you just heard there the idea has been not only on this issue but on others that the u.s. can bully others and then your macro appeals to trump do not pull out of this deal

theresa may appeal to trump do not pull out of this deal and the americans threw that back in their faces so in the longer term the question is where will europe stand economically and politically none a while on the iran issue but on other issues when you can no longer trust the administration in washington and. steve this sort of rift within each you isn't that something that concerns the washington concerns a trump administration it has been since at least world war two and a close us ally things are changing now in the world isn't that a concern at all president trump is known as a great negotiator look there were three presidents of the baltic states here in the united states a couple months ago and the common theme that they articulated at their press conference was that we trust donald trump we trust his judgment there is no fantasy

world here it is not a fantasy when the president of united states somehow through good negotiations got nato countries to pay their fair share with regard to economic military aid that is exactly what happened that is exactly what happened and now it's very true you have talked earlier how it was campaign talk this is not campaign talk this is reality on the ground and you're doing with the u.s. media does you're creating a false narrative face on nonsense the fact of the matter is donald donald trump said in the pit he would protect the american people first and he's doing that. scott that's reality if you don't seem to agree with any of that well look i mean it for what it matters on the nato issue the nato members did not agree about out of donald trump they agreed to continue with the path of increased expenditure that they've been on since two thousand and fourteen so that's washington spent on the

broader point in the point when you're talking about iran is that you have this sort of not only the idea that if donald trump shouts everyone will follow and that makes him a great negotiator when in fact there's a lot of distrust as donald trump as a negotiator including amongst the leaders of the baltic states by the way but then is also the idea that in iran the. people are just waiting for liberation they're waiting for regime change and if you put this together what it's saying is is that the iranian people who are caught between hardliners in their system and the americans if the americans put an economic gun to their herds and say rise up that's when the iranians will hit the streets actually some opponents to do regime in iran say that usually when sanctions happen or hearts situations like that it actually emboldens the regime moving on any say i just also want if you're iran. post the deed in two thousand and fifteen iran has has looked to.

europe mainly for its contracts and its business dealings now it's looking at russia for example as a plan b. . russia and china are both against. the unilateral move of the us. should iran when we see iran moving a bit more eastwards or will they also be a bit more pragmatic and say well at the end of it that president trump is in power for two years maybe six at the most just ride the wave after all they used to that i think it's a going to be a mixture of these two tendencies so of course we know that the preference of the iranians ministration has been since the very beginning since two thousand and thirteen to improve relations with the european partners and he has stressed that from a political perspective and economic perspective so i don't see the european preference

dropping anytime soon of course because of the limitation of the european tools available to protect what the scope was mentioning are referring to is so small and medium enterprises it's going to be difficult for it iran just to rely on europe a so they are going to look at russia and china we have already seen a number of statements and discussion about no agreements on the energy sector infrastructure scepter between iran and russia and china and that has been also the tendency that we have seen during the toughest round of sanctions and in two thousand and ten two thousand and fourteen period in particular tool. basically enable iran and to continue to some extent its oil export and its investment in a gas fields but also into infrastructure by looking into the east their partner so i think it's going to be a mixture of to two policy is that if romney could choose it would go with europe

we know that by fact partly because he will need to prioritize also a bit situation of the iranian economy a whole city printing laying off its relationship with russia and china who have been supporting iran to out all the difficulties and all the sanction imposition that and the. partners are going to be also looked at very closely by iran as well ok steve so now president trump said clearly you either do business with us or you do business who is iran china said it will continue to do business with iran russia is pledging up to a possibly up to fifteen billion dollars investment in the oil and gas industry in iran the e.u. might have legislation passed the legislation that will protect its own companies.

where does that really leave president trump on all of this is he's quite isolated from his. diplomatic partners on this specific issue. well a couple of points are the economy or russia is not good china is having some economic problems at the end of that they each of the countries in the e.u. are going to have to answer one question do you trust iran russia and china or do you trust the united states and at the end of the day we will find that they trust the united states but saying that all of what they're doing they're positioning themselves into bringing their ideas as we said earlier to negotiating table with president trump so all of this is a family squabble nato the e.u. the european countries who we've had relationships forever we're going to continue to have great relations but the president is

a tough negotiator and at the end of the day you either deal with a country iran that exports terror that exports mr for a wide or you're going to work with the united states government who is trying to lead. the world not only united states but the world into some stability and peace so that's the answer that these individuals are going to have to or the question that they're going to have to answer and they'll answer it by coming eventually to the side of the united states on this issue scott lucas one could also argue that actually at all the u.s. administrations have had more or less the same kind of approach when it wants to impose something on the international community maybe the defense is not in substance but actually inform. the snuffing you coming out of washington at the end of the day. i think that's an interesting point because i think we have seen

previous administrations try to get very tough on iran we certainly have seen that for example with the george w. bush administration when they even considered regime change we saw it with the obama administration when in fact you know they took a fairly tough line to lead up to the two thousand and fifteen agreement but the huge difference here is is that. there was cooperation between those administrations and between partners such as the europeans and indeed between russia and china who were other parties to the agreement because you knew the rules you knew you could work with the state department you knew you could work with the national security council there was an element of trust here what has happened is that a combination of certain officials in washington such as the national security advisor john bolton who is committed to regime change and just the volatile nature of donald trump who has very little knowledge about the issue but just wanted to rip this up because barack obama did it means that the rules are gone you can't trust

dealing with troponin on and again steve wants to make this into a fantasy where trump is like the leader of this coalition or i'd love a rainbow unicorn for christmas but in a going to happen i think we will however see countries be cautious we will see for example china be cautious as to how much it defies the u.s. we will see countries like india and russia maneuver so i think in the short term the u.s. probably hold certain cards to put pressure on the iranians to cause cracks in the economy but it's beyond the short term that we get real uncertainty not only about the relationship with iran but indeed the u.s. position in the region and beyond. and steve you seem to have something to add yet look under the obama administration and scott i'd love you to respond to this what about that jet with cold cash millions of dollars of cash in this secret of the night land in iran that's how b. administrations dealt with that's how they dealt with their hands behind in secret behind everybody's back we have

a president of the united states who's very fine i was very clear on his positions no one has to ever guess where he is so you're want to talk fantasy while there was a fantasy land when the obama administration was in thinking that and this is also this is a problem with our country before trump that we could just use our dollars to pay everybody off all donald trump is not going to do that there are going to be a plane load of cold cash for the aftermath and i'm just going to we have we're running out of times i just want to give the final word to any say that we've heard to two gentlemen here. but again going back to iraq am indeed to the rest of the world. do you think that with all what's going on we might see a new way coming out from to you on how to deal with for example washington or primarily washington i would say are they going to be able to forge their own european way and be

a bit more independent and briefly please because we're reaching the end of the show that's a very good question i think it's very not swarthy to all understand that the europeans were not thinking they were going to be able to reach a consensus a unanimous decision to implement the legislation that was just approved that they you bilking regulation which might be a political tool and not be as effective as we wish in terms of protecting the european companies and financial institutions from the u.s. a secretary sentients but i think because of precisely the. the nature are thought this situation and it's like they don't trust in the united states and the mortgage on the iran issue even if they had been trying to work with down day saw that it is you know it was take the unit out ready and we did our consideration of the consequences and most importantly iran is abiding by its own a big a son and therefore to europeans and don't really see any reason why did you should

be joker dyson so i think the situation is very complicated i'm sorry i'm just going to have to interrupt you because we have actually reached the end of the show so i'm going to thank our guests even roger scott lucas and he said best suited to brissie f.a.q. two for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter a handle is at a.j. inside story from the head of the heavy and the whole team here and don't buy for now. mian mars commercial capital yangon is a symbol of its rapid economic growth but in its slums families struggle to survive borrowing money from merciless loan sharks is their whole inside this cycle of debt

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a day of attacks and counterattacks and with hamas saying a truce has been reached with israel. and handcuffed and in court zimbabwe's opposition figure ten diabetes faces charges over post-election violence. welcome to the program we start in afghanistan where there's been hours of fighting between taliban fighters and afghan forces in the central city of gardening. have only armed men stormed the city attacking several government buildings including police headquarters overnight there are widely conflicting reports on the numbers of fatalities dozens of people are believed to be injured let's get the very latest from our correspondent charlotte dallas's in the afghan capital kabul this fighting has been going on for some time now and there is official word on the death and injury toll. so we're about ten hours and counting at the

moment for this assault on gaza city from the taliban we've just got the initial figures a fatality starting to come in we just spoke with the government hospital in gaza and they say they have seventeen dade police military persons and twenty five people were injured but that's just the initial toll we believe it will go much higher this started around two o'clock this morning local time the taliban launching a major assault on gaza only about one hundred and fifty kilometers south of we in kabul residents in the city said they heard eighty rockets hitting the police headquarters when the so again taliban taking up positions in a heavily attacking this police headquarters and then spreading out from there they took checkpoints from police they made their way into people's homes us got involved they seem to drone strike and head assault helicopters go in to assist the

f.b.i. in military they seem to us aircraft mainly just a short presence this is going to have you better between all sides this morning and it is ongoing we understand it is a main road in gosney and both sides are in somewhat of a standoff at the moment there is still gunfire but on one side you've got residential buildings where the taliban is holed up using human shields and on the other side you've got military forces in kind of government buildings and they're firing back and forth of course communications all sketchy terms getting that information we know how difficult it's been charlotte for it's actually quite difficult to know who is actually in charge of the city or which parts of the city even with. american support a lot. so we're talking to a number of people in the city at the moment residents and cell phones are being jammed it's very difficult for them to communicate with us a lot of the cell phones are down we even government officials can't talk to us forces cell phones are being blocks of the taliban's putting out statements every

tweet. thirty minutes saying we've taken this part of the city we're doing this with killed one hundred forty police and government soldiers on the other hand you've got the the government saying the same thing no we're in control everything's fine we've got control of government buildings and with code one hundred fifty taliban and this is solves the true numbers we will not know until peace comes to girls in the city and people are able to get back out onto the streets and we start to see the end of the celt indeed a book about to for further updates through the day thank charlotte now the u.n. security council is set to hold a closed door meeting to discuss the coalition airstrikes that hit a bus full of children. in yemen fifty people were killed including the children some younger than ten the u.n. security u.n. secretary general told you the terrorist has called for a prompt an independent investigation. the u.s. state department spokeswoman defended the coalition comparing it to yemen while at the same time calling for an investigation into the attack on the school bus. we

call on the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident we take all credible accounts of civilian casualties very seriously and we call on the parties to take appropriate measures to protect civilians in accordance with international law and urge all parties to investigate all reported incidents of civilian casualties. is our correspondent in nearby djibouti and following events for some across the water it is a war of words between the saudi led coalition of the. narratives they want the international community to believe i mean but seeing injured and dead children being treated in hospital doesn't sound like a legitimate military target as the saudi a barrage the coalition would like us to believe. and also hold far from it and this is what the whole the fight is on tribal elders in north and yemen have been saying all day and they say that it cannot be

a legitimate target when it is a market place and children the majority killed most of them under the age of eighteen now these growing chorus of condemnation is going to come. as some sort of relief to the people of yemen who for a long time have thought that this is a war that is for a war that is being fought in that country by their neighbor. in the boat which is fighting for regional domination. and which is which has got the. support of policies like the united states and the u.k. that are not only selling it but also helping in not only the ruling but also. giving them intelligence on where so that the whole particularly is going to come as a huge relief. to the people of yemen is. that is the case of it over the last twelve

months what we've seen are attacks on funeral processions attacks on weddings now attack on a school bus when there are calls from the international community about getting an independent inquiry how difficult is it going to be to do that considering the ground realities that yemen is facing right now. well it is going to be a logistical nightmare first of all because most of the infrastructure. has been destroyed roads bridges water and sanitation facilities have been targeted in these aspects one of the things that's making the aid community get really concerned about outbreaks of disease is so getting out of town itself is going to be a huge problem but there is a feeling among the people of yemen that what they need right now more than anything else is for the attention of the world on the war happening in their

country many of them and also international diplomats i disputed the figure being given by the government of. the which controls only a section of the country that only ten thousand people have died in the war many say that the figure is much larger than that and the more attention they get the more international attention they believe they will be able to get. justice for some of the things that have happened to them. that that the have a. p.c. . now hamas which controls the besieged gaza strip says a truce has been agreed with israel but the israeli government seems to be denying it announced according to local media there's been a flare up of violence over the past forty eight hours at least three palestinians including a pregnant woman were killed and israeli asteroids under simmons has the latest. an israeli air strike on a five story building it's

a cultural center and it's destroyed it happened as israel was deliberating its next step after scores of as strikes on gaza yet even as ambulances rushed the injured to hospital and last was in negotiations for a truce nearly five hours had passed without any israeli attacks off to the asteroid on the cultural center and i said it statements of al-jazeera that this was a truce would be imposed at twenty forty g.m.t. not a full ceasefire god had words there and they said that the united nations and egypt had been involved in mediation earlier a senior official from hamas had hinted that they could stop firing rockets sometime this novel for go for this and thanks six i was going to four hours after that to stop i think that the equation of the confrontation always will not so i think both sides are not involved they are not interested now now disappointed to

the wide gulf on vision or a war with try to avoid that wednesday's fighting had been sporadic but one of the last actions of hamas before it relented with rocket strikes was the launch of a grad missile the first time it had use the weapon since the twenty fourteen war. at times on wednesday night civilians said the intensity of the bombardment seemed reminiscent of the last three wars this house and barrel was struck by an israeli aircraft a pregnant mother and her eighteen month old baby died here the husband a hamas policeman is critically ill in hospital the first to see this seen as an extraordinary one. i'm very angry a pregnant woman and her baby she happy marriage for two years there's nothing dangerous about her any in. gaza has been here so many times before waiting and watching cease fires have come and gone will the truce hold there is

still some hope here in a place surrounded by walls with no way out but there is cynicism about whether they've seen the last of this. hundred seven joins us now from gaza and it's all about this truce holding andrea on a friday when we do expect more protests perhaps between or at the gaza israel fence. so how do you hit on the point that is going to determine whether this truce holds or not definitely all eyes will be on these friday protests these of the twentieth demonstrations since this whole demonstration range of demonstrations so much violence so many deaths started the numbers have dwindled in recent weeks and we've been hearing form or press sessions over the past twelve hours calls from the rooftop from the mosques for to for people to actually get to

the demonstrations to protest will the numbers be big will they be small it's to some degree irrelevant we still get violence even if the numbers are small on past record will it be different on this friday that will determine really whether or not things move forward in a positive way the people of gaza the vast majority of the two million population here want to see some peace that desperate and that's not an overstatement so there is certainly an atmosphere now tense perhaps in the wrong war is the wrong word it's really a sense of anticipation perhaps a dream that the could be some peace here in gaza as far as hamas is concerned it briefed very assertively on thursday night that a truce had been agreed mediators in egypt and the u.n. had been engaged israel has not responded officially the israeli media is negative

about the situation saying that this is not a real truce perhaps but there is really war on thing that is profound if hamas to stop firing rockets if there is no violence and attack counterattack this friday there is going to be real hype no doubt about it. well we'll see what happens up through the day and continue to monitor events for the u.n. . thank you. well still ahead here on al-jazeera creating crime or stopping its police in the u.s. city of chicago accused of entrapping young black man. and catering for people too scared to go home for thousands of flocking to larger towns in northwest deitch area. from dusky sunset so it's a sprawling savannah. to sunrise atop an asian

metropolis. hello there has been some really violent thunderstorms over parts of europe recently some of the worst storms that we've seen have been in the southern parts of france this is what it looked like here see the flooding that we've had and this is the cloud responsible as this must here this question to be working its way eastwards those showers in the south have fizzled out for now but further north they're still going and there's lots of thunder and lightning still mixed in with that this line of thundery downpours that is the beginning of the cooler spreading across europe that's why there's such an explosive change so we're seeing nineteen as a maximum day in london the cold air also flowing now into but twenty four degrees will be our maximum for the east we're still in the hotter his so thirty two will be the maximum in warsaw things will change even here though we'll see that wet weather work its way across with lots of thunder and lightning still and then the temperatures will drop down to around twenty two on saturday for the south still

warm for us here bucharest about thirty one and madrid still rather warm a pot to thirty six for the other side of the mediterranean we've got a fair amount of time out here that still drifting its way further north we're seeing some of it in parts of morocco and algeria is not really giving us any significant rain at the moment they will just take the edge of the temperatures a bit a maximum in out of thirty. there with sponsored by the time race. it's a story of survival. it's a story about how people learned to live in such remote lands. but each week to the way it did with the cheap and how that instinct help them recover from the financial crash i will continue as long as i can stand. this is a story about iceland. on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera the whole rob a reminder of our top stories. at least seventeen policemen into being killed in an hour long battle between afghan forces and taliban fighters in gaza city heavily armed men stormed the city overnight attacking several government buildings including the police headquarters. the u.n. security council is set to hold a closed door meeting to discuss the saudi abroad to coalition air strikes that hit a bus full of school children in yemen fifty people were killed including the children some younger than ten u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists has called for a problem an independent investigation. a palestinian group hamas says

a truce with israel has been reached to stop the violence in gaza but the israeli government won't confirm the agreement at least three palestinians were killed in israeli airstrikes hamas fired rockets into southern israel. russia says it would consider it an economic war if the u.s. imposes sanctions on its banks or currency prime minister dmitry medvedev says that he'll take retaliatory measures if necessary he made the comment today after washington confirmed it was imposing a new round of sanctions of moscow over the poisoning of former russian double agents triple and his daughter in the united kingdom earlier this year or challenge our correspondent joins me now from moscow a rory the prime minister has used the term trade war in the past so what's the difference why does mehdi death calling for sanctions and calling this an economic war. well i'm not sure there is that much of

a difference i think his language is broadly similar he has called what the u.s. has done previously with regards to sanctions a trade war that happens almost a year ago just over a year ago when donald trump signed in the cats legislation countering america's adverse reason through sanctions which put russia iran and north korea in the same bracket now he's using similar language this time is calling it perhaps an economic war broadly what it does though is it frames what america is doing towards russia as something that is purely competitive and purely economic and it removes from the debate removed from the language the kind of aspects that this is america this is the united states responding to things like the script poisoning or hacking of servers in the united states or or meddling in elections that sort of thing so basically it puts it in the frame of economic competition and not to do with the

punishments of russia's actions i think that's why he's using this sort of language interesting because it's also talked about sort of the need for a response so i mean what can we expect. well this is the problem that russia has at the moment its economy is significantly smaller than the united states the leaves that it has over the u.s. economy are fairly limited so there's not a huge amount that it can do in response to actually hurts the united states on any grand financial level so this is why medvedev said it will be necessary to react to this war economically politically or if needed by other means which means you know he's basically leaving open the prospects of asymmetric responses that the issue that russia has is it is precisely those sorts of asymmetric responses things like hacking things like espionage. and electro interference which have got russia

into the sanctions position in the first place so it does have a bit of a problem there on how to respond to these new economic sanctions from the united states will fall over with you in the days ahead for the moment where we think you know malaysia's former prime minister is back in court for the next stage of his corruption case the hearing in call a long pause expected to set a trial date for najib resign he's been charged with abuse of power criminal breach of trust and money laundering he's being investigated for the multi-billion dollar from a state investment fund he set up in two thousand and nine the jeep denies any wrongdoing . almost three months after parliamentary elections in lebanon prime minister saad hariri has yet to form a government progress in bringing together rival parties has been slow and although lengthy negotiations are not usual national unity is at stake as say they heard a reporter from beirut. three time prime minister saddle had eighty was appointed

to continue in his role in may since then he has been trying to form a government it's not easy in lebanon where political divisions reflect those in the region and the recent parliamentary election had rivals the armed group hezbollah and its allies gained at his expense and they have demands. breaking the monopoly of the druze monopoly by what a lot and then using a ruse minister to the government who's outside. of town and also breaking the sunni by having it in by introducing also sunni ministers from the eighth march combo from the pro as a process campbell has alliance is being accused of using its enhanced political position to alter the ta if agreement that we distributed power after the civil war ended in one thousand nine hundred eleven has

a sectarian political system. a modern movie for why the wrangling is not just about to present asian in cabinet but about division of power in trying to employ sees this as a chance to a mandatory for even if informally and consoli they were not granted by the courts . the office of prime minister for example is the highest post reserved for a muslim seventy lost his majority in parliament but still has the largest seventy bloc his opponents are threatening to dominate someone else. if necessary we will stage a political diplomatic and popular campaign to liberate lebanon from political captivity . how did is accused of the formation of the government to prevent the normalization of relations with syria their relationship with damascus has long been a divisive issue eleven on the new government will have to address it now that it appears president bashar assad will be staying in power the iranian backed

hezbollah party and politicians want lebanon to resume dealing with the syrian government in an official capacity has blinded to the government make up should reflect the election results which means they want to be top our party wants to prevent that but politically he is too weak. they see the opposition figure has been granted bail after being held for inciting the violence of the movement for democratic change was arrested on thursday after being denied asylum. beauty salons rejected the july election results accusing president. rigging the polls protests that follows led to the death of six people it's been an ordeal but we survived. it's a key to. return to strict. standards but we survive we live to fight in the city i'm glad to be to be home. because

there's no issues around what you've been to me and why i am here for you. the latest from harare. tendai biti has been charged with breaking the electoral law he gave a press conference where he announced nelson chamisa the main opposition leader had won the elections and the zimbabwean only electoral commission can announce results he's also been charged with causing public violence last week during protests it's alleged that he told opposition supporters to burn cars and destroy property in harare an allegation he denies the judge has also told him that he cannot address press conferences until the matter is finished in court the charges i think are worrisome on the face of it we will continue to follow this case closely and we will continue to insist that mr beattie's physical integrity human rights and constitutional rights and the constitution of zimbabwe are respected the main

opposition m.d.c. alliance said it's going to file papers in court to try and challenge the election results which they say were rigged they haven't done that yet they have until friday they say they have enough evidence to stop the inauguration from taking place which is scheduled on sunday but officials in the rulings on a party say they are confident whatever evidence that the opposition says they have is not strong enough they are planning ahead with the already rehearsing and some presidents have confirmed they will attend the inauguration ceremony on sunday. while staying on the african continent a major military operation has begun in northwest nigeria to crack down on criminals who've been raiding villages it's estimated that more than two thousand people in the area have been killed by government since twenty eleven there is evidence of support from northwestern nigeria. digging in for a fight these soldiers are part of a one thousand member force sent to fight gunman would lead siege to villages in northwest nigeria for more than seven years they sacked many villages looting

killing and raping. the criminals are forced up to forty thousand people from their homes yet despite the military operations civilians continue to seek refuge in larger towns. sonnier committee says his village was raided and you could hear my e. ticket get out go to kill my father they walked right into israel i shot the old man there we did our cattle and camels some of my villagers were kidnapped for ransom and they took our women raped and abandoned them for us to take to hospital more than one hundred people lies to me to have been killed in the past six weeks alone survivors say their taxes showed no mercy it what i did take my neighbor who was pregnant was shot at close range she lost the baby but she survived she's now in hospital. each day at meal time they line up their plates to be served but the quality of food has not been good an outbreak of cholera swept through some camps

recently leading to several deaths but officials say it's been brought under control this camp in getting can open just ten days ago and officials say already six thousand people have registered or thousands more are living with their relatives in town some say they are eager to go back home but most say they are afraid to even step out of town they say their villages are not save but the army which is trying to battle so many crisis across nigeria says it can guarantee their safety i will continue to assure them of their protection as long as they are willing to go back to their localities of viciously six thousand people listen to the army's advice and returned home but more than thirty thousand others are still waiting to see if it will ever be safe enough to grow back. northwest nigeria. these are called the police department has been accused of talking some of the city's poorest communities with

a controversial tactic looked like activists say police are entrapping young black men with a so-called bait truck which is part of the road with expensive products and left on attendant from chicago child hendrick reports. back to the truck at all to you paul you know these people as opposed to a truck. police pull over the bait truck on locked and loaded with boxes of nike shoes they look at on the side of the road in one of chicago's grittiest neighborhoods locals say sometimes the back is round up to reveal the one thousand shoes inside the yard chasing crime drama great drug crime then they wait for the young men of englewood to discover on these you tube video posted by anti crime activist charles mckenzie outraged residents call that entrapment. is the basis of the baby oh you probably want to be like the streets of chicago's south side are among the city's most violent but neighborhood activists say the bait truck preys

on poor black children tempting them to steal what they wouldn't touch of police hadn't put it there oh you probably want to be like trying to make it look like he bought the image in the ghetto. in the ghetto this young man apparently took the bait each year across the u.s. the f.b.i. says cargo theft costs twenty seven million dollars in losses but local activists say police tactics here are racist they say there are no reports of bait trucks being parked downtown or in the affluent white neighborhoods of chicago's north side many here are now asking why. now how to turn so you seem police officers of park a truck full of bones and mac books in a white neighborhood. i wonder how many awake he had to actually go today and is trying to start looking through the grammar now for all the math books you know get a word here go over there and do that same thing like he had to do it in his statement chicago police told al jazeera quote the operation was conducted by

norfolk southern railroad police the chicago police department assisted with enforcement as necessary but i think this is. a. real. one of which just so you know how. this time neighborhood activists persuade police to move the truck along. and on it goes to the next neighborhood john hendren al jazeera chicago. you're watching all just the whole rabbit these are all top news stories. at least seventeen policemen have been killed in an hour's long gun battle between afghan forces and taliban fighters in gaza city actually all men stormed the city overnight attacking several government buildings including police headquarters

charlotte dallas is monitoring the developments from kabul. we're about ten hours and counting at the moment for this assault on gaza city from the taliban we've just got the initial figures they tell us he's starting to come in we just spoke with the government hospital in gaza new they say they have seventeen dade police military persons and twenty five people wounded but that's just the initial toll we believe it will go much higher this is going to have you better between all sides this morning and it is ongoing the u.n. security council is set to hold a closed door meeting to discuss the coalition airstrikes that hit a bus full of school children in yemen fifty people were killed including children some as young as ten u.n. general secretary and tony terrace house call for a prompt and independent investigation the palestinian group hamas says a truce with israel has been reached to stop the violence in gaza but the israeli government won't confirm the agreement at least three palestinians were killed in

israeli airstrikes one of us rockets fired into southern israel russia says it would consider it an economic war if the u.s. opposes sanctions on its banks or currency prime minister dmitri medvedev says that he'll take retaliatory measures of necessary he made the comments a day after washington confirmed it was imposing a new round of sanctions on moscow. that a senior opposition figure has been granted bail after being held for inciting violence today bt of the movement for democratic change was arrested on the day after being denied asylum in zambia bts alliance rejected the july election results accusing present by the go-go of rigging the polls and more than twenty thousand people in southern california have been told to evacuate their homes because a wildfire california's governor has declared a state of emergency in the area until the flames are put out i'll be back with more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera next it's the stream to stay with us.

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and violent crime affecting native american women it is an issue that continues to scar native american communities online is being discussed with the hash tag m m i w that is short the missing and murdered indigenous women in their cases receive very little media attention and often suffer from a lack of law enforcement coordination between tribal and local police more than four out of five native american women are expected to experience violence within their lifetime on some reservations native women are murdered far above the national average but the numbers aren't entirely clear and that's because comprehensive statistics aren't kept at a national level so we wanted to know why native american women are more likely to become victims of violent crime and what should be done to protect them joining us to discuss this in portland oregon jacqueline keeler is a d.n.a. dakota writer and activist in eureka california anita lucas e is

a southern descendant and doctoral student at the university of less which anita maintains one of the largest databases of cases of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in canada and the united states and in boulder colorado carla frederick's is a director of the american indian law clinic ad american indian law program and that is at the university of colorado she is an enrolled member of that math than a hit that's out of carter nation of north dakota ladies i wish i could get you here under better circumstances but thank you so much for helping us unpack this series of stories and this phenomena in north america anita this database is extraordinary can you tell us a little bit about it how it was set up what it does. sure well we've got it thanks was inspired by. work that i started a few years ago in trying to assess how all the different ways that native people

are made to disappear within north america and in trying to find an accurate number of missing and murdered native women i found that everyone has a different number everyone has a different list none of them out completely none of them are updated frequently and it really was just trying to work through it and so at that point i felt a responsibility to step in and and so about got these aren't just numbers that is these are people these a life these a family can you share some of those family stories because the stats that we had at the top of the show i can't believe almost anything family that hasn't been touched by some tragedy of violence or abuse or something else that it's not almost unbelievable. there really isn't any native family that hasn't been touched by this in some way and to give you an example of some of the cases in the database. you

know for me one of the most personal cases is actually having a runner who has been missing from browning montana which is on the blackfeet nation in northern montana and she has been missing for over a year and while she is in a family member she was this student when i taught at the tribal college and she was beautiful inside and out of very bright future was in her final semester about to graduate and you know i was really the grief that her family is experiencing is something that her community feels as well and they really galvanized you on her case because that grief is felt so deeply and fortunately she's not alone in need of course as you mentioned among people are sharing the story of another person right here tweets this is a livia lone bear her body was discovered in a truck at the bottom of a lake in north dakota please consider sharing this so her death isn't in vain and help spread awareness another person writing about her case it is confirmed are

smiting sister has been found please pray for her children and her family and all those that have helped in the efforts to find her jacqueline talk to us about thirty two year old north dakota woman who went missing in october twenty seventh tina know you were writing about her case and covering the story. yes i wrote a piece for high country news about all the as you case and and they and i got to travel out to dinner to north dakota to tell the community where she's from and talk to her family and see the search going on on the ground and they searched for over over eight months and so it's it was quite tragic news for them to find out that she's a mother of four living children one deceased and and that she and she came home but sadly she came home. you know she was she was found her body was found in

a truck that she'd been gone missing and it was found over twenty feet in the water in like a hawk aliya on her reservation checking i think it's important to note that you don't bring in. you know she the truck when it was found it had been found for days and her family had struggled with law enforcement for days to get law enforcement to respond adequately in determining that the vehicle was hers and to find out you know if she was in error or if any evidence pertinent to her case was in it and i think that shows a really powerful example of how difficult it can be and working with law enforcement on this issue and how things need to change you know a woman she has children they're about to start a new school year and they deserve to know where their mom was and law enforcement could have and should have responded to that better. yeah my article and it was called no crime scene because basically she was told by her family that because

there was no crime scene they couldn't even report her as a missing person they wouldn't do they would accept a missing persons report the tribal police and throughout this the family felt very strongly that the that the case was not taken seriously they had you know why the searching themselves they were urging they really wanted a search of the water and you know that the reservation is over a million acres and it's in the center of the bach and the oil fracking oil fields in arctic oda and it and they could not get the police to address this issue or to to actually search the water and there keep in fact at the press conference after she was found last friday her her her that little bear her cousin said that that they are being put off again about a water search until october they waited for the water to unfreeze and but really it's i hear this story over and over again you know from the loring family in

montana here and i live in the pacific northwest on the yakima reservation you know where often sadly enough the police are not helpful in helping to find. hoping to find some and that there is no protocol in place regarding this whole issue about tribal police federal police police response generally and so we've actually i'm a member of were brutal and then he got regret tried on as you mentioned before a libya was also remember my tribe and we worked extensively with the tribal. issues how to prosecute and investigate crimes on the reservation as jack jack go inside the reservation there's about a million acres. and it's larger than the state of delaware there's only fourteen tribal police tribes here tax and so any tribe who used to. paid for by the tribe through whatever revenue it's able to establish through development or through.

any number of. your gaming base and to privatise so fourteen police to police the size of the state of delaware and delaware has i think twelve hundred state troopers and that doesn't include local police so there is a big mismatch there in terms of things like you're making it sound like it's a resource issue and it's absolutely resources and it's absolutely jurisdiction so that we rank so with more raising say this they would know they wouldn't be. missing indigenous swimming if there was more money so you know it is that is that a hierarchy of well. about jurisdiction and that's about. so he said what you can do on tribal land and what you can do on non-tribal that's right and the rate that we're talking about that olivia was found in is actually. systemic sent back to atlanta because that rate was originally of the community. which was flooded out to provide electricity for the pixel own project and my tribe

was relocated to five segments around the lake and so there is more coastline on my reservation than the pacific coast of california so i don't know how without adequate resources and there there's the percy adequate one force that responds our marriage their patient in particular. and carla picking up on what you're saying there and i just wanted to bring this week in because a it picks up on what carla saying. tweets under current law tribes cannot prosecute non-natives for sexual assault and native american victims are denied access to justice i mean can you weigh in here how is this. completely true. and. fortunately f.b.i. declines about seventy percent of the cases of sexual assault involving a native victim that they received so you know that creates an environment where people know that that kind of violence is normal and ok and that there aren't any

consequences because of these jurisdictional. gaps where people are able to you know exploit. you know i do want to add in discussing the issue of jurisdiction and it's not just cases even a case that happens you know off the reservation this jurisdiction question is still an issue so needs are going to be very confined to the national audience watching it because even in the u.s. people don't understand this jurisdiction the f.b.i. if that on a reservation can they go into reservation and investigate a motive or a missing person and they can and they do that kind of go a lap they have the responsibility to do that in your head and the big question that i think we would all ask is why why isn't that happening why is that not happening we don't know i think that you know one of the things and thinking about this issue that's been very obvious to me is that it is a human rights issue and there has been a situation through u.s.

law where indian people have been dehumanised in multiple ways particularly with respect to when they're in a situation where they're victims of crime instead of being looked at like every other person in the united states what can we do to prosecute this the quick the first question is who did it because that's who decides how it's decided how it's prosecuted so is that in india potentially is the way it's potentially so in a string what crime is that sometimes you get behind some of the stripping and that that has no direct getting help i. got to finish a sentence that has silenced you can i sing because it never considers the victim and never considers their family and this is a human rights crisis for him that was. so i just want to address some of the history behind that the youth in the early native reservations are not just like parks they're actually sovereign nations within the united states so

they have jurisdiction over their own lands and and they have nations actually legally have a status higher than states you know that the the u.s. government doesn't sign treaties with anyone but nations the senate does not by treaties when you are not nations and so what happened was in the nineteenth century there was some disagreement i'm dukkha to sue and and and on a local reservation there was actually a person prosecution a murder and back east and you know there was all the yellow journalism going on and they made a big deal about it and so they took away jurisdiction over five major crimes that the tribes enjoyed including murder and so this is why that goes under the jurisdiction of the f.b.i. and then later yes or later even more jurisdiction is taken away in the twentieth century and whereby tribes could not have jurisdiction over non federally enrolled

people so if you're not rolled in a federal federally recognized tribes the native nation does not have jurisdiction over you which leaves a huge gap in the prosecution of these crimes and leaves native women incredibly vulnerable and of course in two thousand and thirteen the violence against women's act was passed with amendments to address this gap but address and a very narrow scope and just with domestic violence only if it's between committed partners so if you're talking about cases of actual sex trafficking you know it wouldn't apply there there is it was spot on for two years this amendment was fought by republicans in congress and some of the arguments are well you know we don't want to try to have jurisdiction over us if we can't vote in their. actions but you go to other countries and you are under the jurisdiction of that country whether or not you can vote in that country you know that's just how it is and but there's this great and willingness to basically give tribes jurisdiction over white

people and as white men they're committing most of these crimes and incur hording to the data we had which is which is not perfect but allegedly seventy percent of the perpetuators of these violent crimes against native women are white men and if that was not like this i ask you this and so this becomes a race crime hate crimes this is racism. well it's definitely going to i want to see you nodding because i don't want to put was in your mouth you are native i am not you tell me what is the point of you i know that this is a way you can see me in this fight that's missing in a murder and it's women issue is very similar in my mind to black lives matter native women matter and our lives matter and what is going on in this country and has been going on in this country for centuries to deny us our basic humanity and our basic right to life you know not prosecuting not anything not investigating and

creating a situation that you're describing accurately as one where criminals feel empowered to go and he's going to ration these crimes because they know there's no consequence again like i said it's a human rights issue and it's a human rights issue because. that's what it is and we can call it that and we shouldn't be afraid to call it karla in addition to that i think some of the consequences i want to bring this in here because in addition to that the seemingly no consequences there is also people online saying these things also aren't reported as well as they should be any here on twitter says i woke up this morning to see the news talking about a missing woman on the news and thinking about how finding the body of a living alone bear who we mentioned earlier didn't make a blip in national news why because it made up of women staff is as american as apple pie another person marty tweets into the stream saying there is no reporting system there is no news coverage there is no follow up they cut short search

efforts and then the families have to rely on fund raising to continue searching for their loved ones and it's a continuous cycle of native people being swept under the rug as if we don't exists and need to why is this so underreported. well i think there's a number of factors and it ties into the point that i wanted to make on issues of jurisdiction and racism it's not just tribal police or the f.b.i. that failing native women and it's not just you know this this issue doesn't happen just on reservations for example savannah grey went with mention she wasn't living on the reservation she was living in an urban area and it wasn't tribal police that failed her it was local police there's an ongoing case right now her name is khadija britton she's here in northern california she was kidnapped at knife point by her abusive ex-boyfriend a witness testified to that fact and for some reason that wasn't enough because when he showed up in the courtroom they decided to dismiss the charges because

could either wasn't there in court to testify well she wasn't in court because she's still missing and her family is still fundraising and doing ground searches themselves so that's another example of law enforcement that have totally failed to not only protect the native woman but hold the perpetrator accountable and that was the county sheriff that wasn't tribal police or the f.b.i. you know and in collecting this data one thing that we've done is compare community source data to law enforcement data to see ok where are the gaps happening and what are those miscommunications happening for example the state of washington recently passed legislation that the washington state patrol is required to collect data on all missing native people in the state and report that to the governor's office we compare the dot of the state patrol currently has to what we have in the database and found the state patrol is missing at least a third of missing native women and girls in the state from their records and of those cases only about ten percent are cases that happen on

a reservation so you need to think that really other you know you help you help. all the old and i say sions all the departments who should have this information you will helping that and with that. waiter that they don't have is this activism and the work that's happening within the community where we are saying this is not good enough i'm wondering if what you're doing can we put that under progress. well actually had you said heidi heitkamp has put together a law suit an attack to cut collect more data right and but if it is it does come down to this idea which one of the two years marty mention which is that we are invisible in general and so when we're when we die you know it's not national news and or when our bodies are found and often they are not found you know and so it's

. you know i think i've made a comparison in my article with the movie wind river a hollywood movie depicting. a missing martin to just woman and girl and and you know there the body right away and then it's just simply not the case most of the time but yeah i think i want to show this because i think this helps us sort of visualize what's going on this is a facebook page through the missing in indian country and what it does is it shows you some of the people who either missing or there remains remain on identify and it gives you just a little glimpse into it's not just women it's different members of the native communities but this is happening on social social media and i'm wondering kala is this the way the community is saying we are doing this for ourselves we are not going to be victims forever right i mean i think that's a really great and i think

a tremendous amount that can be done with collaboration with the grassroots with the tribes between state and local law enforcement and the federal government and that's really what we've recommended in our work that this is an all harems armed attack type of problem. given the type of circumstance that. given the rats and the number of cases it does require what we call a comprehensive solution and that comprehensive solution have to be ground in. having a victim centered approach and that's really what's missing no one's working together no when thinking about the victims and what anita's doing is amazing and i'll be e-mailing her after this if we can integrate her dad and what we're doing but frankly you know he does work should be supported by the federal government because it's their responsibility to collect this data and they're not doing it you know this is this is a player at all government has actually requested access to my data because they

know that i have things they don't there was a case last week where someone called in with a tip and said hey we know this girl is missing we've seen her in such and such location please check up on her and the f.b.i. had no record of her and had no idea she was missing but she was logged in the database so i was able to provide that information to them and in the process tell them you know clearly this moment has demonstrated there's value in the community maintaining a role in protecting and caring for this data because we do it in a way that these agencies even though they're paid to do it you know and to clarify i'm in pain this is been three years of unpaid work that i've done as a community member. i know we're doing a better job and these are called tell tell us what i'm saying one thing to say when the last one minute of the show so i just mean one thing that makes the situation better cala one thing by one needs to be amended to include all sexual violence credits against women's at. the updates at the shelter as we're in trouble

i mean one thing so ban as an act means to be amended to require law enforcement to pull archival data on this issue and that it needs to be written with an enforcement mechanism. tribal sovereignty needs to be recognized and completely restored particularly the issue of jurisdiction this is easy also the community they have the answers they have the solutions ladies thank you for joining us we continue our indigenous views series next thursday and we will be looking at south africa's san people and other indigenous groups who are taking charge of how i answer politics study them they are giving them guidelines you can do this you cannot do this we also want to know about your indigenous stories that you would like us to tell to you can find us on facebook at the strain and a.j. stream on twitter and then you can tell us your story and make an eye on the team like it you'll find it right here in the next couple of weeks thank you so much for watching we will see you on like take everything.

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dozens of children. also a day of attacks and counterattacks end with hamas saying a truce has been reached with israel. and introducing the starship troopers the u.s. reveals its plans for the military force to protect satellites and space ships. back into the program we start in afghanistan or where there's been hours of fighting between taliban fighters and afghan forces in the central city of ghastly . heavily armed men stormed the city attacking several government buildings including police headquarters overnight at least fourteen police officers have been killed dozens of people are believed to be injured let's get the very latest now with our correspondent charlotte ballasts who's bottling events from the capital kabul. we're getting some more clarity really on the present situation on

the ground in gaza what more do we know. so fighting is still ongoing but we have just had an update some updated figures we know now that thirty six civilians have been wounded so far twenty five police were injured and fourteen police killed but these numbers are moving very quickly because the situation on the ground is evolving it's very hard to get a clear picture so phones are down and we're hearing quite conflicting reports from the taliban and the government now we are some twelve hours into this now it started around two am local with the taliban going to heaviest so they started on the place he called his residence telling us they had some eighty rockets landing on place headquarters for the taliban started to move out through the city taking control of checkpoints from the police and then moving into residential areas where they believe they now hold out residents saying this essentially taking humans who do human shields on one side of the road is

a reason. area where the taliban are and it's essentially moved into somewhat of a standoff situation with government buildings and ministries on the other side of the road in the other half of the city and that's where afghan forces are now with still still gunfire being hurt u.s. military did get involved overnight there was a joint strike there seemed to assault helicopters they seem to aircraft. just essentially put on some more pressure but they're saying now that it's more of a clearing operation although as i said we're hearing conflicting reports as to where we're at in the cells indeed i suppose there isn't a part of afghanistan that hasn't been touched by violence over the decades of its traumatic history but why ghastly in particular why attack this particular city. is strategically very significant it's one hundred fifty kilometers south of kabul two hundred eighty thousand people in this area it has been vulnerable. taliban

have been in the villages surrounding the city this year they're going to open border with pakistan so there were a lot of taliban fighters in this area it has been vulnerable to attack and. is one of three places so this is the third place that has seen the taliban waged quite a heavy assault to the point that the taliban has actually claimed the city so in fire a city in the west in may this year the taliban briefly took control of the city before they were pushed out and until today the only other time was some two hears ago in clinton's province for the moment we'll leave it of course and follow events with you through the day thank you. the u.n. security council is that to hold a closed door meeting to discuss these thirty or r.t. coalition air strikes that hit a bus full of school children in yemen fifty people were killed including children some of them as young as ten now the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists has called for a prompt and independent investigation the u.s.

state department spokeswoman defended the coalition air campaign in yemen while at the same time calling for an investigation into the attack on the school bus we call on the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident we take all credible accounts of civilian casualties very seriously and we call on the parties to take appropriate measures to protect civilians in accordance with international law and urge all parties to investigate all reported in incidents civilian casualties have a don't miss our correspondent in djibouti and joins me now live mohammed really a war of words is developing between the saudi led coalition and the who these as to whose narrative they want the international community to believe but seeing sort of injured and dead children being treated in hospital doesn't sound like a legitimate military target as the saudi over r.t. coalition would like us to believe. not at all so the tug at all the hot course the busy market in the sun the

boss in the morning that oshawa the market. is when the strike hit the market we so the mongol rick of the boss the children were travelling in hock and the buildings off the market that. they'd been destroyed huge gaping hole in the middle of the road to the point where the missing heat and then in the whole spittles. overwhelms. the injured in almost every space available some of them holding bowls so. pointing to the. fight is as well as elders tribal elders in the north of yemen saying these cannot be legitimate civilians have borne the brunt they say much. have been cut it out by this so the coalition take getting i.d.p.

camps hospitals bridges and all kinds of civilian facilities like water and sanitation plants so all this saying it cannot be legitimate so they are asking them to continue to exercise caution and ensure that they do not target civilians and what is going to come to them as that only for faults is the growing chorus of condemnation all. going on condemnation is all very well of the cold independent inquiries mohammed continued but it also calls for these sides to sit down and suggestions that september would be the month where the un could get everybody around the table in geneva do you think that's going to happen in the light of this sort of an attack or even what many would worry about is any further attacks between now and that data. september the sixth.

been tempted by the sex would be too late for many people in yemen we've already seen there is sodium an article lucian revealing rags all by yemen after a three day lull i believe we seem to have lost mohammed than of course so we're trying to relocate and sort of reconnect with him later on through the day palestinian group let me go to another story now of course palestinian group hamas says a truce with israel has been reached to stop the violence in gaza but the israeli government won't confirm the agreement at least three palestinians including a pregnant woman were killed in israeli airstrikes this came of course as you must find rockets into southern israel and two sevens is monitoring events force in gaza and it's all about this truce holding andrew it certainly is of course. as you were saying earlier in one of other other shows this is basically

a crucial day it's friday friday prayers it is for the past twenty weeks there have been calls for protests the numbers have dwindled just lately and we've been hearing right across the city here in gaza and all across the strip mosques calling for people to protest at the border now what we sponsor will be to that is unknown so it's impossible to predict but one thing you can guarantee and that this is the israeli forces will be on hand in their usual numbers with snipers with all the usual weapons and also tear gas from the drones all of those implements of occupation so you will see. possibly a large number or indeed as previously small numbers we're not sure we're not sure but we are sure of is that hamas have stopped firing rockets they have declared

a truce now that truce isn't directly with israel it's through intermediaries it's egypt it's the united nations there is very little coming out of israel on the fischel basis but you can guarantee that they are at the moment on watch and prepared to respond to any eventuality possibly large possibly small and it has to be said it could just be a situation where a sniper fires a bullet on order. could be questionable reason to that i'm not going to speculate but the bottom line is how mass is briefed widely not just with al-jazeera right across international media reuters included to say that they are engaged in a truce and the i.d.f. twitter feed the the israeli military to feed does suggest that this is holding in place because it hasn't been warm for some considerable time certainly

on my last check anyway it could be overtaken by some advance but there has been no action so people of gaza are watching and waiting indeed and we'll continue to watch and wait and monitor events with you through the day thanks andrea the russia says it would consider it an economic war if the u.s. imposes sanctions on its banks or currency prime minister dmitri medvedev said that he'll take retaliatory measures if necessary he made the comments a day after washington confirmed it was imposing a new round of sanctions on moscow there as the poisoning of former russian double agents i scribble on his daughter in the united kingdom this yeah really chalons has the latest from moscow. talking about u.s. sanctions against russia as part of some sort of economic war is language that we've heard before from to be true method of just over a year ago when donald trump signed in the countering america's adverse the reason through sanctions act made very upset that this is part of a full blown trade war what this kind of language does is frame american sanctions

as part of general geopolitical economic competition and not a direct response to the behavior of russia what russia is going to do about this though i think it's still being discussed in moscow the responses are being mold over at the moment russia has a problem in that the disparities in size between its economy and the united states mean that the lever's it has it it's at its disposal to retaliate economically afaik limited that's why dmitri medvedev said that they could respond economically politically or if needed by other means now that's keeping things deliberately vague but russia has a problem in that it's some of its other means approach the more kind of on the hand aspects like election hacking or espionage that sort of thing

which we've got russia into the sanctions program in the first place still ahead here on al-jazeera a state of emergency in parts of ecuador thousands of others wayland's arrive at the border to escape poverty and hardship. and the edinburgh fringe festival attracts community of artists of all was from around the globe but the local say it benefits the few. hello there showers a fairly subdued across the southeast in parts of asia at the moment the satellite picture is showing plenty of cloud over the philippines and a big mass towards the eastern parts of borneo but further west it's dry it's dry across java as well and then this just discovering of showers through some archer as well a bit further north there are more in the way of heavy downpours across parts of

thailand and it looks like the showers here will be banding together once more as we head through saturday and sunday and that could give us quite a bit of wet weather meanwhile elsewhere still looking fairly subdued showers as we head through sunday so plenty of sunshine and just want to showers perhaps even further towards the south in the wet weather here is now making its way across south australia and into parts of victoria and tasmania in tasmania we've seen winds gusting over one hundred kilometers per hour in the hobart area so very very windy in this system but it's of rain too and it's not feeling that warm either look at that maximum temperature in melbourne and adelaide just of eleven degrees as we head into saturday meanwhile further west and friday saw the coldest morning of the year so far with a low of three point two degrees very cool but now the temperatures are recovering so sixteen will be our maximum on saturday and as we head into sunday will be up to the dizzy heights of twenty degrees.

mian mars commercial capital yangon is a symbol of its rapid economic growth but in its slums families struggle to survive borrowing money from merciless loan sharks is their hope inside this cycle of debt when east on al-jazeera china is keen to win friends and influence you need oil rich middle east business part of a long term plan of china to secure its resources for the future sub-saharan region as a whole laos expect to grow we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching arches there are

a reminder of our top news stories that least afford to police could have been killed in hours long gun battles between afghan forces and taliban fighters in ghastly city heavily armed men stormed the city overnight attacking several government buildings including the police headquarters. the u.n. security council is said to hold a closed door meeting to discuss the study abroad to coalition airstrikes that had a bus full of school children in yemen fifty people were killed including children some younger than ten the u.n. secretary general and tony a good terrorist has called for a prompt and independent investigation. and the palestinian group hamas says a truce with israel has been reached to stop the violence in gaza but the israeli government won't convert the agreement at least three palestinians were killed in israeli airstrikes hamas fired rockets into southern israel. now the irish budget carrier ryanair has canceled four hundred flights after its pilots and several european countries staged

a walkout there demanding better pay and working conditions a strike by a german union accounted for many of friday's cancellations strikes also planned in sweden ireland belgium and the netherlands. to asia pacific now where malaysia's former prime minister is back in court for the next stage of his corruption case the hearing in kuala lumpur is expected to set a trial date for najib razak has been charged with abuse of power criminal breach of trust and money laundering is being investigated for the multi-billion dollar theft from a state investment fund he set up in two thousand and nine the jeev denies any wrongdoing florence louis has more from kuala lumpur. not your product will face trial he's been charged with money laundering criminal breach of trust and abuse of power now all of this is in relation to the allegations that he had deposited about ten and a half million dollars into his personal bank accounts between the months of december

two thousand and fourteen and february two thousand and fifteen and these moneys allegedly came from a company called s r c international a company that was under the control of the finance ministry at a time when not just was not just the prime minister of malaysia but also the finance minister of malaysia s.r.c international was formerly a subsidiary of one beat the state investment fund that knowledge it had set up when he was prime minister in two thousand and nine now u.s. prosecutors allege that four and a half billion dollars have been stolen from that fund one n.d.b. is being investigated in at least six countries including the us switzerland and singapore is also accused of trying to cover up the corruption scandal at one m. de sacking his then deputy prime minister and the attorney general replacing the attorney general with an officer who subsequently not jets name but since coming into a part into power the new administration led by mahathir mohamad has made uncovering

the true extent of the corruption scandal surrounding one m.t.b. one of its top priorities will staying in the region the death toll of indonesia's continuing to rise after an earthquake five days ago at least two hundred sixty million people are believed to have died in sunday's magnitude six point nine earthquake there have been at least three hundred aftershocks in the area of law book thousands have been left homeless and in desperate need of clean water food medicine and show. at least twenty six people are being killed in the worst rainfall in southern india in nearly a century forty eight hours of torrential downpours of force the local government encouraged to release water from twenty four downs out of fear of breaches since june heavy rain landslides and flooding have been linked to one hundred seventy five deaths in the state. so to african the way opposition figure has been granted bail out to be held for inciting violence to diabetes of the movement for

democratic change was arrested on thursday after being denied asylum in zambia bts alights rejected the july election results accusing president ever submit a gag order of rigging the polls protests that followed led to the deaths of six people. it's been an ordeal but we survived. it's a treat to. return to strict little florida in this stuff and that's what we survive we live to fight in the city i'm glad to be to be home and to morrow we get closer snow issues around what happened to me it's why i am here women are supposed to be here. almost three months after parliamentary elections in lebanon prime minister saad hariri has it to form a government progress in bringing together rival parties has been slow and although lengthy negotiations a lot of usual national unity is at stake reports now from beirut.

three time prime minister was appointed to continue in his role in may since then he has been trying to form a government it's not easy in lebanon where political divisions reflect those in the region and the recent parliamentary election has rivals the armed group hezbollah and its allies gained at his expense and they have demands. breaking the monopoly the druze monopoly by what a lot and to using a. minister. of the government who's outside the home and also breaking the sunni by by introducing also sending ministers from the eighth march or from the pro has been. around there's been alliances being accused of using its enhanced political position to alter the agreement that we distributed power after the civil war ended in one thousand nine

hundred eleven has a sectarian political system. by the wrangling is not just about to present in cabinet but about division of power in trying to imply sees this as a chance to amend even if informally. and i would not be granted by the court. the office of prime minister for example is the highest post reserved for a muslim seventy lost his majority in parliament but still heads the largest sunni bloc his opponents are threatening to dominate someone else. if necessary we will stage a political diplomatic and popular campaign to liberate lebanon from political captivity . how did he is accused of delaying the formation of the government to prevent the normalization of relations with syria. their relationship with damascus has long been a divisive issue eleven on the new government will have to address it now that it

appears president bashar assad will be staying in power the iranian backed hezbollah party and pro i said politicians want lebanon to resume dealing with the syrian government in an official capacity hezbollah and its allies say the government make up should reflect the election results which means they want to be told power how he wants to prevent that but politically he is too weak to. be able . turkey's currency years hit a record low after study falling all week investors are concerned as inflation rises in turkey and tensions with the united states grow it's calling on the turkish government to release an american evangelical pastor who's being held on terrorism charges the volatility has forced the lira to drop more than thirty five percent so far this year president recipe of the world has citizens not to panic. has declared a state of emergency because of an unusually high number of venezuelans crossing the northern border with colombia into three provinces the measure will stay in

place until the end of the month i could also more than four thousand venezuelan migrants have been rising each day but as well as hyper inflation and chronic product shortages have fueled an exodus via colombia. local media in mexico reporting that waves of rubbish and plastic are washing up a short a popular tourist resort this video of these social media shows the normally pristine plier down the beach swarmed by garbage as hurrican job makes its way through the pacific people are trying to clear the beach collecting tons of daybreak. more than twenty thousand people in southern california have been told to evacuate their homes because of a wildfire in the area the so-called holy fire in lake eyes a wall was set on purpose it's named after the holy jim canyon where it's first started and burned a dozen cabins california's governor has declared

a state of emergency in the area until the flames poor child. yes president all transplants for a space force are now underway it's meant to launch in two years time the space force will be the military's first new branch since nine hundred forty seven its goal will be to defend the u.s. satellites and spacecraft from attack al official reports. trump has been pushing for the creation of a new branch of the military for months he talks about it often that israelis we may even have a space force now his vice president says donald trump's vision will become a reality while too often previous administrations all but neglected the growing security threat emerging in space president trump stated clearly and forcefully that space is in his words a war fighting domain just like land and air and sea the new force will be used to protect u.s. satellites in space which provide vital services like communication it can also

protect spy satellites which direct military operations and there is the growing commercial space market too it's not a new idea in one thousand nine hundred three president ronald reagan called for a space based missile defense system just a year after congress demanded the establishment of a new space force the defense system dubbed star wars by critics never got beyond the research phase the u.s. already has a space command as part of the air force and some see the new branch as an expensive waste in fact defense secretary jim mattis initially resisted it but just earlier this week signaled he was no on board and we're in complete alignment with the president going to burn it down in part after and basically could be worth hearing for economy we're going to have to address it and other countries capabilities what they're creating a new branch of the military needs congressional authorization and funding if republicans lose control of the house of representatives in november's midterm

elections it might never happen former astronaut mark kelly says he doesn't. see the point there is a threat out there but it's being handled by the us air force today doesn't make sense to build a whole nother level of bureaucracy spaceports if approved would become the sixth branch of the us military it would be led by a four star officer and would pull resources from other military branches. russia has a space force china's space program is run by the military the white house will include and the billion dollar funding request for their new space force in the next budget . al-jazeera washington well to europe now where the edinburgh fringe festival brings together thousands of performers from around the world events generate a huge amount of money for the local economy but as the barker reports many residents don't see the benefits all guns blazing for the welfare state they're scarred of society austerity austerity austerity this is killing mark

a play about growing up on a housing estate penned in by poverty a place where addiction and depression are rife. it's an eclectic narrative one that's found a stage at the edinburgh festival but the writer of the play questions whether the festival this truly accessible to those whose lives she's depicting. we need to encourage more working class and more and underclass people into the theaters and that's really tough because obviously. again money dictates access to these things that. ticket revenues exceeded five and a half million dollars every year the events are a feeding frenzy for local businesses for hotels and restaurants and shops it sometimes with their prices up just for the month of august and then the events themselves well they're often powered by an army of volunteers all low paid workers after all the show must go on beyond the fringe of real life continues this is my

house the city suburb still reeling after the recent murder of a local woman edinburgh has some of the poorest communities in scotland we don't see any of the trend we don't see in the trend but. we should really it would benefit a war of the youngsters because again l.o.l. trouble. you're crazy scottish rapper darren mccarthy station name loki found his voice growing up on the wrong side of glasgow he uses performance to try to bridge the social divide the french. idea of being accessible and a festival for everyone and well i don't just i don't i don't think that that's disingenuous of and people would like it to be that we need to be a lot tougher when it comes to. groups in terms of making sure that people are being encouraged to walk here for promotion or. festival organizers say tickets are cheaper in edinburgh the other european

festivals accessibility they say is a top priority but whole question is extremely important to us. and it's also very important to be part of this city there's obviously lots of visitors and we want to make sure as many of them can visitors but we also want to make sure that as many people as possible who live here year round can enjoy that. the first edible festival was staged here in one thousand nine hundred forty seven to unite a continent shattered by war but can culture and now help unite a fractured society needs barkha al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera i'm still robin these are all top news stories. at least fourteen policemen have been killed in an hours long gun battle between afghan forces and taliban fighters in gaza city heavily armed men stormed the eastern

provincial capital overnight attacking several government buildings including police headquarters charlotte dallas's monitoring those developments from the capital kabul. so fighting is still ongoing but we have just had an update here some updated figures we know now that thirty six civilians have been wounded so far twenty five police wounded and fourteen police killed but these numbers are moving very quickly because the situation on the ground is evolving it's very hard to get a clear picture so phones are down and we're hearing quite conflicting reports from the taliban and the government the u.n. security council is to hold a closed door meeting to discuss a saudi over r.t. coalition air strike that hit a school bus fifty people were killed including children some younger than ten u.n. secretary general and tony good terrorists call for a prompt an independent investigation a palestinian group hamas a truce with israel has been reached to stop the violence in gaza but the israeli government won't confirm the agreement at least three palestinians were killed in

israeli airstrikes harasses also fired rockets into southern israel russia says it would consider it an economic war if the u.s. imposes sanctions on its banks or currency prime minister medvedev says that he'll take retaliatory measures he made the comments a day after washington confirmed it was imposing a new round of sanctions on moscow. a senior is a barbarian opposition figure has been granted bail after being held for inciting violence tendai biti of the movement for democratic change was arrested on thursday after being denied asylum in zambia bts allies rejected the july election results accusing president mother got word of rigging the polls and turkey's currency is hit a record low after steadily falling all week investors are concerned does have glacial rise in turkey and tensions with the united states grow washington has threatened more sanctions of turkey fails to release an american evangelical pastor who's being held on terrorism charges those were the headlines more news in half an hour to stay with us. amidst

a climate of violence and paranoia. there's still willing to dream. in honduras dennis seeks a brighter future for his son and community. using art to reclaim the city. and transform the very symbol of past oppression. you find in latin america liberating a prison on al-jazeera. which is blaming new shopping malls and high rise apartments yangon's become the symbol of me and mars economic progress. but in its poorest neighborhoods families trying to loan sharks just to survive. i'm steve cho on this up a sort of one of one east we meet those trapped in

a cycle of debt and the people who profit from their despair. and go on living on the wrong side of the tracks means living on the wrong side of the river. it is here that room migrants a force to settle or they search for jobs in the city. some cross the river at the break of dawn knowing that they will return missing money in the hands. of the most those with no regular source of income. mornings or just the start of another day of struggle. oh oh oh. oh oh oh oh oh oh every day when one comes to the market to buy food to have family

the globe only on the way out but will be a. problem. on my photo. standing. at least sent counts. which the twenty year old is shopping for her husband two infant children and three members of her extended family. is just two dollars twenty disparate and how if i need to buy my. i like clear family. and also i don't want to hear this is the way i found. him i found a love that will weigh out. four dollars fifty a day in a part time job cooking and cleaning the middle class families in the city. this

makes the family breadwinner with her husband working just two days a week as a plumber. the family have been struggling ever since no one gave birth to the twins. and when shit last year. with hospital bills for one hundred fifty dollars they had to take out a loan from a local money lender who charges a steep twenty percent month interest. over the course of eighteen months they managed to pay back almost all of that money but then the monsoon season struck. me . and it's hard to come out when you down and down a lot on meola but i'm now dynamic as a same breed and i met a lot of the little that they are. only. allow. me. every day as she makes her way to the money lenders house loan carries with

more than half the family's things. it's a heavy burden. the longer. a lot of. the days he thinks. the money lender is a friend of the family and the young mother herself but only feelings of empathy. forgotten when deciding the terms of the learning. feel good ol. days you know but. again i was you know not allowed to take. with such high interest rates how long do you think it's going to take you to pay back in flames he was number one of those who have a little. machine i was. younger i may have been there but that the little demon will again it's

a lot of. why. it's. a watch out i but she does you know. learn is not the only one crippled by high interest rates in neighborhoods like this eighty five percent of households important money. learns usually rescue to borrow from an immediate financial emergency it was monthly interest rates as high as fifty percent become a crushing cost. mornings with thirteen year old unfit and his ten year old brother simon start with breakfast and to play for. in the past they would head off to play football with their friends. now the only

game that the two boys can play involves reading in between the checking desperately searching the size of the right the plastic bottles until. it's a relentless toss particularly in the summer months when temperatures can sort of forty degrees celsius and shade is difficult to find. with a family of six to feed the poor as it's a choice. they're not going to let him a way to let me out. i don't need it i don't know at the mills i'm not a mad man imma call them. i want i don't know you know i'll. tell them they want to see you. one lot don't want no need to. go to. a new.

me well if they go about it. the boy's mother took us from there in just three dollars fifty with twenty percent monthly interest. eight months later she was sixty dollars. with their debts spiraling out of control their mother decided to take her sons out of school and put them to work as collectors. in the break botolf. no number of them in. the nation think i didn't do that. would you. john does the job and. that i'm good libel in the one. hundred dollars. thing it is. or didn't know if you don't want

to do it i don't. know where that are you i don't know there are. some militia. in the. color of the. color. starting with. unthreatening and simon. but their loyalty to their families is on the way. they are still limited. to live in the c.r. they want to write the will. level. i got it made the wall but. not until. after three hours the boys arrive at the recycling center it's too packed full of cans and bottles. of sixty cents but.

it's not enough to pay off their mother's daily interest payment. so they will have to return to the streets again in the afternoon. and then not only children who have to work here to survive. the government estimates that there are one point three million child laborers in. one of the worst rates of under-age appointment and. poverty has always been the driving force behind this phenomenon could the dependence of man most poor on these high interest loans be making it even was. we've managed to track down a break that specializes in recruiting children into jobs as waiters cleaners and housemates the minimum working a. realist and this lady children far younger than that.

she may live in a squatter come think about. respectable four hundred dollars per month as a. recruiting tool for jobs in towns and cities across the country. she says almost all of her clients come from families crippled by debt. i do need to need to call my why do you do such a man who can leave you she the whole young women are a little tired of your i do we can do. a little research and it would have had to be there were no plans of juvie or mortuary or whether our. present top being a loser regime may soon be either that or a little or do know your door yet while i walk about julia later i gather at the wrong order the living and working conditions like for these children don't know who i'm annette paired. with someone i know she mumbled mumbled i'm in bed you or i

walk run ins are going to march out she said as the descendants are nearly at the army now so they're going to say and i don't care about their son and i said don't i know you're gonna. allow low on a radio one of the only way. you know was with him a lot of was going either way they looked at me so each of them with. some people would say that taking children below the legal working age and placing them in jobs in different towns and cities is human trafficking would you agree with that and i will be also i don't know when you say well we were depending only poor imo i thought i was on what. do. the irony is that daughter will believes she is helping the families around. even after she says that under aged children. the burden of debt remains.

and it's the community's money lenders who gave the money. so who all these shrewd individuals profiting from their friends and neighbors. you would. need i need i know how do you know. the longest. daughter is the village seamstress but she doesn't spend much time behind the sewing machine craze and. the idea. that they might. only know. about i was early and if. you want to tell you we are not. there how did you get how many i'm not trying to. get out of it i mean a lot of. them are

down on it yeah i'm a bit how do you get my drift abbottabad to do it i said but when. you need my money i do is eat a little acting. now it is dollars you know see it live you need i need a. good no shortage of people looking for some quick cash money lending takes up more and my daughter has time. for that one neighbor that i love. and i do i did the day that he had. me going now they are not. so on. i don't. really common ground i'll drop in on in she gonna be a. lovely and daughter.

in law and not. that much i mean are suited. to living in a nest in their. own yard the. town. here or not. she has around twenty clients you pay monthly interest rates of either twenty or thirty percent technically this makes her work illegal individual money lenders cannot charge more than eighteen percent . and they require an official license. but under quoted law is ready and daughter he says all the money lenders get away with charging a lot more and i'm now the. world around. them. and. i don't. do you want any. do you want anyone to tell

you. you. don't would you say that your money lending operation is well the business or service which i doubt are lazy and more not if you don't let me know what they don't lead you when i use i don't use i learned them by my lab the water or my lab. b.b. been at the y. not. when you did the daily we've met families being so critical by their interest payments that they struggle to feed their children do you think that it can still be classified as a service but these are the consequences. you're going to get a. little bit about what he did the born it got as it only. needs to be named i know but.

he. in fact according to door take the risks to slowly upon the money lenders with clients regularly disappearing in the middle of the night without paying off that debt. but i'm out all night you know mellow gave you a. beating. by your middle. and when you had the law all about it. being on a couple you want. to. be a model. it is rare here for the money lenders to get violent when their clients refuse to pay so shooting is a common tactic and one that is often employed by doing today she controls the neighborhood i don't know if that meant they know so far that they got the. same again those are the kind of. barely a man who might be money i will be. very

clear that. i love or they will start over. the door take the benefits outweigh the risks and with interest rates of up to thirty percent she has decided money lending makes good business sense. you know i show my. now having. you know i don't really know by the next. day you know i was not. going to endure you. and with a steady stream of clients that future. and her profits and looking very easy spending time with door today has shown the ethics of money lending and not black and white the one shots are profiting from the vulnerability of their neighbors but

that's such a vital component of the local economy that monthly interest rates of twenty to thirty percent i considered normal. the problem is that cash is still killing me i'm up less than twenty percent of the population and bank accounts. however there is one place the need of the banks nor money lenders but. i've come to the subject of the young guns made group of women that have managed to escape the clutches of lying sharks to a collective stable state the results of your life changing. for the last nine years these thirty four women have been meeting every week to invest their money in a great savings account. and deposit two dollars fifty into this green car and after three months of rest and energy bills for my. son i have a geo not yet it would have to miles while take down it a while but not if you don't. wait. for the system to work everything must be fair

and accountable to the women have set up strict rules which they must fall into two . zero zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. zero zero. zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero they do pay a monthly interest but just two percent and at the end of the year that money is shared among the group. since the initiative began they have used the profits. in the savings account to buy because of who themselves in housing and create a community of entrepreneurs who are financially self-sufficient. before joining the collective can no more could barely afford to rent. a movie.

and they want to talk about me now than it. say last. only be able to where they were the only big issues. people are she. she is one of the few who can make traditional percussion moments in and gone before she could only produce around fifty. she did do it do not do it but she. let you go without it. but you know you are able and all but you go without it having a little maci you don't want it but you but even if. it became an itchy out how to the what she did she let go that it wouldn't have done any good and they did a good job. with help from the group can now move was able to buy the additional

materials that she needed in order to meet the demands from her clients she now produces anything from one hundred to one thousand pieces of me. again no one on the machine. will all. be. my son i was adored in and out of the car that army how do you how you lived about beckham how you didn't you'll i mean i. don't know on a. level where. you know me i go down to out do you know where you are you know the impact of this group is quite localized the issue of money lenders is. quite widespread do you think the model could be replicated broadly to help other families in the younger one. do i mean. you know your viewpoint is the or do it into our. totally i will say google machine.

do you what am i being i do it. to get to the heart the mentality. that humanity has paid off. with the sound of sewing machines just in from almost every house you can literally hear the entrepreneurial energy created by these low interest loans. and with the women taking care of family finances the husbands have plenty of time for a game of billiards. i don't know if you don't know no matter what the new. album at the top i'm going to have i'm going to follow my father's and if you don't know what you got it propped up on me and tell me. but until then. you continue to be trapped by that predatory lending practices you

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a day of attacks and counterattacks and with hamas saying a truce has been reached with israel. currency plunges to record lows concerning investors a facial rises. and introduce a get the starship troopers the u.s. reveals its plan for the military force to protect satellites and space ships. so we start in afghanistan where they have been fighting between taliban fighters and afghan forces in the central city of me. ok. heavily armed men stormed the city attacking several government buildings including the police headquarters overnight an unknown number of fatalities dozens of people are believed to be injured this branch she's live for us in kabul saw this has been

going on for some time now with the situation as we know it. twelve hours in fact and we are starting to get somewhat of a picture about casualties in this ongoing assault around sixty people were due to which makes up police and civilians and then at least twenty police officers in this attack were very difficult to get firm numbers out of gas me right now with cell phones down and both sides television and the government putting out boss lee different figures and a vastly different picture of what is going on there this all started around who are you local time with the taliban who watched it's just started by by targeting the police headquarters residents say they heard rockets hitting the police he called his the taliban the inboard shelves around the city they took control of chick points from the police and moved into received in chill areas and residents tell us they are still the taliban still working from these recent chillier you still holed up essential using human shields in gaza

a nearby near the area is that a lot of government buildings and that's where we believe the afghan military is working from we still and send the sporadic gunfire but so far into being jammed it's very difficult to get information out of there exactly how this assault is taking place as the minister grace i mean this is a major assault isn't even as we're hearing of potential the cease fire for the end of the month another cease fire. indeed and it's a strategically significant place as well so gaza is another one hundred fifty kilometers south of kabul it lies on the main moesha way between kabul and it can mix the south of the country that motorway. close is the cell takes place you cannot connect kabul to the south of the country with that motion away clothes from a taliban perspective this is a win despite regardless of whether they actually manage to take control of gaza me it's difficult it's very rare that they manage to get inside the city to the point that they can actually say that they're claiming and taking cheap points from the

police they briefly took parts of forrest city which is in the west and may briefly took parts of condos they can twenty fifteen twenty sixteen but neither were as significant as the city is today being so close to kabul two hundred eighty thousand people and on the main merge way that connects kabul to the south of the country ok so many thanks for the update and keeping us up to date with the latest going on there in central afghanistan now hamas says a truce with israel has been weeks to stop the recent violence in gaza but the israeli government hasn't confirmed the agreement at least three palestinians including a pregnant woman and an eighteen month old baby were killed when israeli airstrikes hit more than one hundred forty targets in gaza and last had fired rockets into southern israel earlier sevens has the latest. on israeli air strike on a five story building it's a cultural center and it's destroyed it happened as israel was deliberating its next step after school strikes on gaza yet even as ambulances rushed the injured to

hospital and i was in negotiations for a truce. nearly five hours have passed without any israeli attacks off to the asteroid on the cultural center said it statements while jazeera that this was a truce would be imposed at twenty forty g.m.t. not a full ceasefire guarded words there and they said that the united nations and egypt had been involved in mediation earlier a senior official from hamas had hinted that they could stop firing rockets sometime this novel for go for this and takes six hours twenty four hours after that to stop i think that the equation of the confrontation always was not so i think both sides are not involved they are not interested now now disappointed to the wide gulf on station or a war we try to avoid that wednesday's fighting had been sporadic but one of the

last actions of hamas before it relented with rocket strikes was the launch of a grad missile the first time it did use the weapon since the twenty fourteen war. at times on wednesday night civilians said the intensity of the bombardment seemed reminiscent of the last three wars this house and was struck by an israeli aircraft a pregnant mother and her eighteen month old baby died here the husband a hamas policeman is critically ill in hospital the first to see this scene was an extremely urgent one. sam very angry a pregnant woman and her baby she happy married for two years there's nothing dangerous about her journey in. gaza has been here so many times before waiting and watching cease fires have come and gone will the truce hold there was still some hope here in a place surrounded by walls with no way out but there is citizen about whether

they've seen the last of this. well andrea joins us now from the neighborhood of a tune which is near the gaza israel fence and i'm sure will flash point for violence has long been friday protests at the fence will be interesting wanted to see if this truce holds today. most certainly this is the big test of friday it's been twenty demonstrations since march this is the twenty first hind me you see the border under that step out right now that you look more closely you'll observe that it is deserted right now that is not unusual it's early on its afternoon prayers following afternoon prayers that the protesters assemble and the question is this there have been a number of announcements from mosques a calling for protests that's not huge hugely unusual but it certainly has been

trying to rally round higher numbers than previous weeks and so what will happen here could determine what is going to happen to this declaration of a basically a truce and so what it what is the question now it's israel's responses it's remained quiet officially so far media in israel most of them are reporting that this is not a truce now. defined a truce it was self declared by hamas that was mediation with the united nations and egypt intense mediation it has to be said just like the amount of fire that fell upon gaza and the rockets that went across into israel more than two hundred of them now what we're going to wait for now as i say is not just what happens here but also diplomatically could this kick in to the broader agreements that set

to hopefully happen and that is the long term cease fire that involves a whole trail of deals involving massive investment billions dollars of dollars of investment and also a breath of life for the people of gaza two million people as i said in that report who are desperately needing some semblance of normality in their lives so this is an m. porton day this friday it is crucial it could follow up we don't know what the israelis will say officially but but it could be just a simple one shot that starts off the whole thing again that's the situation in this part of the world it isn't doesn't take much and accident. the trigger happy soldier or somebody with an incendiary kite that just happens to live it off it could be a number of things that starts kicking things through so there has to be constraint on both sides to make things work and the people of the civilians of gods i hasten

to add are praying for peace and the hamas brigades appear to be certainly not engaged in any plan for rocket attacks but they say they will retaliate if they're provoked and they're that is now we're talking to what's just above fourteen hours with no gunfire no shelling no where strikes no rockets and one of the last rockets that went in was was was felt on waste ground it was symbolic ok and you will certainly keep an eye on those protests as they develop over the course of the day thanks very much of the violence in gaza was also part of talks between the palestinian president mahmoud abbas on the end there of qatar checked i mean been hammered out on a reiterates its support for the palestinian people and backed reconciliation efforts between palestinian factions. the u.n. security council will be holding a closed door meeting later on fridays discuss the saudi ambassador coalition air

strikes that a bus full of school children and yemen fifty people were killed including children some younger than ten the u.n. security secretary general and senate terraces called for a prompt independent investigation by the u.s. state department spokeswoman that's a friend of the coalition air campaign in yemen was at the same time calling for an investigation into the attack on the school bus we call in the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident we take all credible accounts of civilian casualties very seriously we call on the parties to take appropriate measures to protect civilians in accordance with international law and urge all parties to investigate all reported incidents of civilian casualties and joins us live now from nearby djibouti emotive finally got some international reaction we got the un security council meeting later and the united nations call for an independent investigation. yes indeed we

have on this is something that is going to instill some hope in many yemenis who have told that the world has totally forgotten about them about the whole by the u.n. secretary general there was need for investigation the state department speaking on countries in europe picking it up at the u.n. security council that is going to instill a lot of this was one of the last togs the wost asked strikes that have hit north yemen and it caused. now all true familia give us titian we're used to seeing in yemen. still wearing his backpack this boy was in a minibus full of children heading back from a school some of. the bus drove through a visit. bring children one of. the medical workers to the injured on the corner every available

space in the hospital. as of accuse the saudi led coalition of launching. a saudi led coalition attack to carry more than thirty students who were on a summer school trip to the city there's no exact number of the dead people the hospital has received many many wounded with a lot of serious injuries. this boy refuses to have his injuries to his brothers who were with him on the bus. no no i mean everyone get had until i see my brother . the strike happened during morning rush hour in the busy market. a huge crater lies in the middle of the route the exact spot where the missile fell the mungo wreckage of the school bus the children what's troubling him now trapped under the destroyed market buildings lining materials belonging to the children us

through not around eating remind us of the talk and the friends that struggle to live the seen by those lucky enough to escape on in a statement the so democratic coalition save its aspects inside the what aimed at missile launches used to attack an industrial city in southern so debbie on wednesday the statement father accused the host of fighters of using children as human shields there are increasing calls for investigations into these attacks we've seen news reports it's very important as you said repeatedly that all bought into the conflict in yemen and here to international humanitarian law where there is an incident of this sort it's important its investigative story conclusions not investigation shared i'll learn from them will be calling for that in this instance as well so debbie and its allies have been fighting in yemen for more than three years against the hotels who are aligned with iran to hold this control macho from

yemen including the couple's son these latest out tuck adds more casualties to the list of thousands who've been killed during this war the u.n. calls it the world's wost humanitarian crisis. apart from the most of civilian casualties they are. the constant or. break cultural diseases specially in the middle of the country where there have been people diagnosed with colon the international aid agencies the warning that unless there is a cease fire that will enable the world health organization and health service organizations to immunize us many people as possible in the mall then we could see . one which could be more or you told them the ones seen before because of the must leave lovell's of man the tradition within the communities living in

more from yemen and also the immunity the have to diseases of these point ok joining us there from djibouti thanks very much monitor. has here on this news hour including handcuffed and in court zimbabwe's opposition figure tendai biti faces charges over a recent post election violence. and harken that struck. could have killed more people than local leaders previously said. players continue there and some protests in the n.f.l. channel have the latest in school. currency has hit a record low up to seventy four in a week investors are concerned as inflation rises in taki and tensions grow with the united states which is calling on the texas government to release an american evangelical pastor he's been held on terrorism charges volatility has caused the

lyrics to drop more than thirty five percent this year president. not panic. and of course he joins us now live from istanbul so sam talk us through this drop. well there are yes this political tension between two countries to nato allies has become like an economic threat as united states pushes turkey for and under for an ongoing jurisdiction to release pastor bronson and turkey in his an indictment passer brunson is actually accused of spying over turkish national security issues however this spat has become very critical for turkey whose economy is in a fridge position right now but of course what is interesting is that. this problem is this really a problem between the united states and turkey or is this nato problem

a league in the near a crack in the nato because this is the first time that a nato member country is threatening another member country who is a long term ally for itself with sanctions so this has actually many dimensions here also another thing is that the turkey has this is not the first time that the relations between two countries has been on especially since the latest latest term of. former president barack obama by a literal ations have been strained and after the failed coup attempt in july two thousand and six in turkey arrested a few you know american nationals including pastor bronson and some other u.s. consulates in employees who were illiterate to be in walled in the failed coup attempt in two thousand and sixteen so this this that is going serious as. as washington pushes tricky for releasing to pass releasing passer brunson and

the weakening of lira is actually another tension over the turkish government and also i have to add that since president dawn was elected after june twenty fourth election. the presidential system has come to turkey and the international community hasn't actually tell you allies the new cabinet yet so that the pla magic pension seems to be called the spiked undergoing an a go between the two ok many thanks for that from istanbul. skin is a senior analyst at i.h.s. market he joins us now live from london this helps explain to us why the turkey tech is economy is in such a fragile position one of the key reasons for why we have come where we are is the lack of trust in the turkish banks ability to do what it is mandated to do that is to of course safeguard growth on the one

hand but also fight inflation what has happened in the past months and actually in the past years the government has been pressurising the central bank to focus on the growth aspect of the story and that has come at the cost of price stability and that has come at the cost of as we have seen in the past few days the value of the euro what the turkish government nonuse to do is to signal to the market somehow that they will allow the central bank to do its job without outside interference this is one of the key principles in technocratic governance that a central bank should be. not interfered with by a political bodies ok so that's that's interesting how much then of the four in the value of the lira can be blamed on the spots with the u.s. . this is definitely an immediate trigger and on which is for

sure when the country has such a gaping current account deficit that renders the economy to fluctuations in investor confidence when the economy is the pendants on on inflows of short term money however obviously as you made the point there is a fragility that has created fertile ground for the sudden drop in the value of the euro and in order to address that you need to as i said address central bank independence but also show signs that you're willing to undertake the painful steps that are required for addressing the structural problems in the economy one of which is for example excessive focus on construction instead of higher value added in the streets and many other problems which the government has not shown sufficient signals they are willing to address ok so if the markets are not taking reassured by. taking necessary measures can they put their faith in his son and or

the finance minister because he's due to unveil a new economic model today isn't it. yeah very much so the son in law but i thought about the new minister who's in charge of the basically economic affairs hugh has not had the chance yet sufficient time to prove his worth to the markets and that's unfortunate but however the fact of the matter is the markets don't necessarily need to wait for someone to prove what they're capable of. my personal opinion is that but i thought barack is uniquely positioned to have sufficient trust from president are gone to have the room for maneuver to do what is necessary but unfortunately he has not had the time and the developments surrounding him that are outside his control are currently outpacing his ability to. exert control over the situation the statements in

a couple of hours today would be a unique chance to gain back some control gain the initiative once again for the turkish government but it is very difficult because if the right messages are not delivered then the situation will be all the worse for entering see what he comes up with cesc and thanks very much for joining us there from london. opposition figure has been granted bail after being held for inciting violence tendai biti of the movement for democratic change was arrested on thursday after being denied asylum in zambia it seems an alliance rejected the july election results accusing president of wrecking the polls protests that followed led to the deaths of six people. we said very. strict. but.

harm has more from harare. tendai biti has been charged with breaking the electoral law he gave a press conference where he announced nelson chamisa the main opposition leader had won the elections and only electoral commission can announce results he's also been charged with causing public violence last week during protests it's alleged that he told opposition supporters to burn cars and destroy property in harare an allegation he denies the judge has also told him that he cannot address press conferences until the matter is finished in court the charges i think are worrisome on the face of it we will continue to follow this case closely and we will continue to insist that mr beattie's physical integrity human rights and constitutional rights and the constitution of zimbabwe are respected the main opposition m.d.c.

alliance is just going to file papers in court to try and challenge the election results which they say were rigged they haven't done that yet they have until friday they say they have enough evidence to stop the inauguration from taking place which is scheduled on sunday but officials in the ruling party say they are confident whatever evidence that the opposition says they have is not strong enough they are planning ahead with this already rehearsing and some presidents have confirmed they will attend the inauguration ceremony on sunday. at least twenty six people have been killed in the worst rain and southern india in nearly a century forty eight hours of torrential downpours have forced the local government carola to release water from twenty four dams breaches in heavy rain landslides been linked to. a hundred and seventy five deaths in the state. just three minutes we'll have all the weather with steph and then here i had on al-jazeera strong words for russia warning the u.s.

against imposing sanctions on its banks or currency. preventing crime or creating it pretty easily u.s. city of chicago accused of and trapping black young men. and has forced many of the big names fail to fire on the opening day of gold's major final. through tranquil rave you can use. i do not care and freedom comes and if it means going to. hello there as laura was just saying we do have some flooding in the southern part of india at the moment and here's why on the satellite picture you can see this huge block of cloud here in the south western parts that fizzled out just over the past few hours and that's certainly good news because the rains here have finally come to an end unfortunately over the next few days we are expecting some more showers and again some of them a likely to be heavy i think they'll turn even heavier heavier as we head into

monday and choose stay away from the southwest though the rains have been fairly subdued for a while we're seeing them getting going once more in the eastern parts of india there on sunday through into some parts of bangladesh and nepal as well so looks like the rains will turn a bit more active across this region now for the southern parts of china we've seen a lot of heavy rain recently as well you can see the bright white cloud here that stretches from more left hong kong there all the way across towards high noise and then for some of us in the northern parts of vietnam there we've also got some heavy rain and this is all thanks to a system that's developing just to the south of us the worst of the rains at the moment all to the west of that system but it still developing and it could well become a tropical so i clone as it works its way northward and certainly along the south coast of china whether it becomes a sly stone or not we've got a period of very heavy rain ahead of us over the next couple of days. the weather sponsored by qatar airways.

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there again you're watching out there has reminder of our top stories this hour palestinian group hamas says a truce with israel has been reached to stop the violence and gaza but israeli government hasn't confirmed the agreement at least three times finian's were killed in israeli airstrikes including a mother and her young child amasses five rockets and have fired rockets into southern israel. council is set to hold a closed door meeting later on fridays discuss the saudi coalition as strike that had a box full of schoolchildren and yemen fifty people were killed including young children general antonio terrorists has called for

a project an independent investigation. and at least fourteen policemen have been killed and hours long gun battles between afghan forces and taliban fighters in gaza the city heavily armed men stormed the city overnight stacking several government buildings including police headquarters. well russia says it would consider a economic war if the u.s. imposes sanctions on its banks or currency promise that they make you mad. dad says he will take time out to measure if necessary he made the comments the day after washington confirmed it was imposing a new round of sanctions on their over the poisoning of former russian double agent and his daughter in the u.k. earlier this year for a challenge as the latest from moscow talking about u.s. sanctions against russia as part of some sort of economic war is language that we've heard before from to be true method of just over a year ago when donald trump signed in the countering america's adverse the reason through sanctions act made very of said that this is part of

a full blown trade war what this kind of language does is frame american sanctions as part of general geopolitical economic competition and not a direct response to the behavior of russia what russia is going to do about this though i think is still being discussed in moscow the responses are being mold over at the moment russia has a problem in the disparities in size between its economy and the united states mean that the leavers it has that it is at its disposal to retaliate economically off air lee limited that's why dmitri medvedev said that they could respond economically politically or if needed by other means now that's keeping things deliberately vague but russia has a problem in that it's some of its other means approach the more kind of on the

hand aspects like election hacking or espionage that sort of thing which we've got russia into the sanctions program in the first place. of more now on our top story the taliban attack in gaza city in afghanistan we're joined by michael semple via skype he's professor the institute for global peace security and justice at queen's university and in belfast good to have you with us how strong is the taliban to launch an attack of this kind. they're clearly they are strong enough to put together a force which can breached the defenses of an important city fight their way in stay through the state through the night put up some resistance but they're not strong enough. to stay there to actually hold onto the territory so in this kind of raves they are showing that they are a major threat to security but they're also showing off their limits ok they do

have a strong presence in the area anyway even if it's not sort of militarily they've got a financial hold on this area and there were lots of reports of the taliban tank saying it does need province residents well this is really quite a dilemma for them. because normally the taliban military stay out of gaza city stay out of the city limits they haue armed groups operating in the rural areas around it and they send tax collectors in to the city to try and squeeze resources. out of the. out of the traders and the dilemma for them is this is that by putting on this great show look this show is for the media they want the world to see oh the taliban have the strength to move into somewhere like gaza need to cause carnage on the streets to help people to occurring inside their homes again bodies bodies scattered everywhere but that of

course kills the business which they have been taxing so i suspect that you know by the time the taliban move out of town there probably tonight come tomorrow businessmen in gaza and they will be sending the taleban messages. saying you know take a choice and do you want to tax us or do you want to kill us because you can't do both ok i also see there's a was a towards the end of a launching attacks like this because on the one hand you've got the battlefield on the other hand you've got both the taliban and the u.s. indicating that they are ready for direct negotiations well i think we have to because. indeed we have to be very careful how we make sense of the of the parts the the taliban have been putting out signs that they are prepared to talk with the u.s. they see as a way open legitimizing themselves sort of projecting themselves as a as a government in waiting but that's a very different agenda from what the u.s.

is pushing because the u.s. has been saying we are prepared to talk the taliban so as to prepare the way for the real negotiations which would be negotiations between the taleban and the government of afghanistan the taliban have not agreed to those negotiations or actually i mean at the moment i'm not convinced this negotiation track is going anywhere so the real for the real action is what's happening on the battle grounds and the taliban today are declaring this of a great success they say you know you know what the taliban told me today they said we are convinced that the government casualties are greater than our casualties now i mean that's a dreadful indicator of success but that's all they've got because negotiations at the moment are not going anywhere fast thinking speaks you thanks very much michael sam for joining us there from belfast. i respond to carry on ryan air has canceled four hundred flights after its pilots and several european countries

staged a walkout and planes in germany ireland belgium sweden and the netherlands demanding better pay and working conditions on call the strikes for aggressive all and the unions to return to the negotiating table. malaysia's former prime minister has been back in court for the next stage of his corruption case a hearing in kuala lumpur is expected set a trial date for najib razak who's been charged with abuse of power of criminal breach of trust. he's been investigated for the multi-billion dollar theft of a state investment fund he set up in two thousand and nine and achieved denies any wrongdoing he has more from kuala lumpur. not your product will face trial he's been charged with money laundering criminal breach of trust and abuse of power now all of this is in relation to the allegations that he had deposited about ten and a half million dollars into his personal bank accounts between the months of december two thousand and fourteen and february two thousand and fifteen these

monies allegedly came from a company called s r c international a company that was under the control of the finance ministry at a time when not just was not just the prime minister of malaysia but also the finance minister of malaysia s r c international was formally a subsidiary of. the state investment fund that nudge it that set up when he was prime minister in two thousand and nine now u.s. prosecutors allege that four and a half billion dollars stolen from that fund. is being investigated in at least six countries including the us switzerland and singapore is also accused of trying to cover up the corruption scandal at one m. de sac in his then deputy prime minister and the attorney general replacing the attorney general with an officer who subsequently not ship's name but since coming into a part into power the new administration led by mahathir mohamad has made uncovering

the true extent of the corruption scandal surrounding one and one of its top priorities the number of people killed in indonesia is rising and five days after a powerful earthquake struck in the region about the official. stands at three hundred and twenty one humanitarian crisis is also looming in long book where the magnitude six point nine earthquake hit on sunday have been at least three hundred aftershocks in the area since thousands have been left homeless and in desperate need of clean water food medicine and shelter. a major military operation has begun in northwest nigeria to crack down on criminals have been raiding villages it's estimated that about the more than two thousand people in the area have been killed by government since two thousand and eleven. with interest reports from northwestern nigeria. digging in for a fight these soldiers are part of a one thousand member force sent to fight gunman would lead siege to villages in

northwest nigeria for more than seven years this act many villages looting killing and raping the crew and also forced up to forty thousand people from their homes yet despite the military operations civilians continue to seek refuge in larger towns. so i mean how can you says his village was raided and we'll hear more it's a good you know are going to kill my father they walked right into his room and shot the old man there we did our cattle and camels some of my villagers were kidnapped around and they took our women and then them for us to take to hospital. more than one hundred people ice committed to have been killed in the past six weeks alone survivors say their tackles show no mercy it what delegate a my neighbor who was pregnant was shot at close range she lost the baby but she survived she's now in hospital. each day at meal time they line up their plates to be served but the quality of food has not been good an outbreak of cholera swept

through some camps recently leading to several deaths but officials say it's been brought under control this camp in getting can open just ten days ago and officials say already six thousand people have registered or thousands more are living with their relatives in town some say they're eager to go back home but most say they're afraid to even step out of town they say their villages are not save but the army which is trying to battle so many crisis across nigeria says it can guarantee their safety i will continue to assure them of their protection as long as they are willing to go back to their localities of viciously six thousand people listen to the army's advice and returned home but more than thirty thousand others are still waiting to see if it will ever be safe enough to grow back. northwest nigeria. as you call the police department has been accused of targeting

some of the city's poorest communities with a controversial tactic local activists say police and trapping young black men with a so-called bates truck which is pot on the sides of the road with expensive products and left on attendant from chicago john hendrick reports. back of the truck and all these people as opposed to a truck. police pull over the bait truck and locked and loaded with boxes of one thousand shoes the luggage on the side of the road in one of chicago's grittiest neighborhoods locals say sometimes the back is round up to reveal the one thousand shoes inside the store yard chasing crime drama great drug crime then they wait for the young men of englewood to discover on these you tube video posted by anti crime activist charles mckenzie outraged residents call that entrapment. is the basis of the baby and probably want the money from the streets of chicago's south side or among the city's most violent but neighborhood activists say the bait truck preys

on poor black children tempting them to steal what they wouldn't touch of police hadn't put if there was any probably want but did not try to make it might be back in the ghetto. in the ghetto this young man apparently took the bait each year across the u.s. the f.b.i. says cargo theft costs twenty seven million dollars in losses but local activists say police tactics here are racist they say there are no reports of bait trucks being parked downtown or in the affluent white neighborhoods of chicago's north side many here are now asking why no hundreds has a you seen police office of park a truck full of bones and mac books in a white neighborhood. one how many white kids actually go today and they in his trial start looking through the engram enough all the math books you know a good word to go over there and do that same thing like he had to do it in his statement chicago police told al jazeera quote the operation was conducted by

norfolk southern railroad police the chicago police department assisted with enforcement as necessary but i think this is bogus you. really must be committed but you've got one of the richest i don't know how. you know that this time neighborhood activists persuade police to move the truck along and thus whatever this is a good job people and on it goes to the next neighborhood john hendren al jazeera chicago. pleasure eks government says acknowledge that hurrican maria killed one thousand four hundred people that's more than twenty times the official death toll . the new estimates and the report to congress was asking one hundred thirty nine billion dollars to rebuild the island. when hurricanes erma and maria struck puerto rico nearly a year ago they're furious winds and waters were initially reported to have killed

about a dozen people. president donald trump highlighted the number when he visited days after the storm six. hours. but trump's words would prove premature the disaster is drawn out aftermath the days and months without power fresh water and working hospitals has taken many times more lives on thursday the puerto rican government acknowledged for the first time that the death toll could be twenty times the current official count of sixty four a report from the governor's office says there were one thousand four hundred twenty seven more deaths in the four months after the hurricanes than normal but as the cause of the yacht that may or may not be attributable to the hurricanes. where me there's no doubt that they have to do. and you still need something to.

keep telling you how everything changed. how they don't have any rain or how they lost their houses or your farms how they don't even have money to build on the table this summer some puerto ricans are living under the same blue tarps in dealing with the electricity outages which continue to plague swaths of the island story. i feel powerless it's called powerlessness because i can't do anything puerto rico's governor has asked congress for one hundred thirty nine billion dollars in relief assistance noting that almost a year after the disaster permanent reconstruction has just begun does it get. if only the government has given me a little more everyone i called offered a hand but i'm still waiting. for the people of the island who are suffering and

electricity outages which continue to plague swaths of the island. i feel powerless it's called powerlessness because i can't do anything puerto rico's governor has asked congress for one hundred thirty nine billion dollars in relief assistance noting that almost a year after the disaster permanent reconstruction has just begun does it get. if only the government has given me a little more everyone i called offered a hand but i'm still waiting. for the people of the island who are suffering and electricity outages which continue to plague swaths of the island during. i feel powerless it's called powerlessness because i can't do anything puerto rico's governor has asked congress for one hundred thirty nine billion dollars in relief

assistance noting that almost a year after the disaster a permanent reconstruction has just begun does it get us a firm if only the government has given me a little more everyone i called offered a hand but i'm still waiting. for the people of the island who are suffering and. will become a reality well too often. previous administrations all but neglected the growing security threats emerging in space president trump stated clearly and forcefully that space is in his words a war fighting domain just like land and air and sea the new force will be used to protect u.s. satellites in space which provide vital services like communication it can also protect spy satellites which direct military operations and there is the growing commercial space market too it's not a new idea in one thousand nine hundred three president ronald reagan called for

a space based missile defense system just a year after congress demanded the establishment of a new space force the defense system dubbed star wars by critics never got beyond the research phase the u.s. already has a space command this part of the air force and some see the new branch as an expensive waste in fact defense secretary jim mattis initially resisted it but just earlier this week signaled he was no on board here in kuwait alignment with the president going to burn it down they are after him basically to be work here again for economy going to have to address other countries capabilities with. creating a new branch of the military needs congressional authorization and funding if republicans lose control of the house of representatives in november's midterm elections it might never happen former astronaut mark kelly says he doesn't see the point there is a threat out there but it's being handled by the u.s. air force today doesn't make sense to build

a whole nother level of bureaucracy spaceports if approved would become the sixth branch of the u.s. military it would be led by a four star officer and would pull resources from other military branches. russia has a space force china's space program is run by the military and the white house will include and the billion dollar funding request for their new space force in the next budget alan fischer al-jazeera. so i had. a long time he tells coming up with.

let's get all this for now with laura thank you and i for all players are continuing to protest during the national anthem several of them to kony all sat out the anthem in their locker rooms pre-season games around the u.s. on thursday others raise their fists in protest against racial injustice and police brutality players from the miami dolphins philadelphia eagles and jacksonville jag us with those who took action well let's remind you of the background to these protests because they've been going on since two thousand and sixteen when former san francisco forty nine ers quarterback calling captain ik began kneeling to highlight racial inequality and injustice earlier this year the n.f.l. announced it would fine players who protested jury anthem followed a public backlash that saw president donald trump call for protesting players to be fired but the n.f.l. was forced to shelve that policy just weeks ago when the players association complained so as it stands players can protest without fear of punishment the

new premier league season kicks off later on friday with manchester united at home to leicester there was a late flurry of action before the transfer window closed on thursday everton picked up three major signings in yairi meena andre gomes and bernard lester held on to harry maguire and extended jamie bodys contract by four years while jayson marino couldn't secure the defenders he wanted for man u. after his requests were vetoed by the club's owners now is serious stuff is not any more about what's true is not that the more about. about preparation is that all points and a point can be can be crucial you don't know what is going to happen in the end of the season you have to try the best to try the best to try to get points and even the difficulties that we had with our pre-season i don't think it's time to be

speaking about that as a first game i know it's a little salutatory. i don't know i don't know better but i want to tool. to see. a team a team always desired to the sadness of a deputy. former brazil coach louis philippe scolari has made a successful return to the helm pomade us scolari is back in charge for a third time at the brazilian club having already led them to one couple of stores title on thursday the team put themselves in a strong position to make it into this year's quarterfinals two goals from regaled border secured two nil win over paraguay set a portent in the first leg of their last sixteen. over in argentina host atletico took a month took full advantage of a goalkeeping mistake in the seventh minute from atletico nasty and isles netty

later in the second half he had a more cost scored from a header to secure a crucial to know when headed the return leg in colombia. a month. and in the other game of the night river plate had leonardo poncy i was sent off to after a second yellow card but they held on against rushing for nil neutral in that one to stop. the supergroup pairing of tiger woods justin thomas and rory mcilroy all struggled through the opening round of the p.g.a. championship thomas who is the defending champion finished the best of the group on one under par but he still five shots off the pace set by world number forty three gary woodland worth reports. gary woodland has never finished inside the top ten of the major after nervous bogey on the first hole he had a simple message for himself just take it take a second take a deep breath and sco. and that's exactly what he did the thirty four year old

american shooting seven birdies in the final eleven holes to storm into the late was nice as is a close i've ever played a home which is which is awesome i have a million friends and family on here which is really cool ricky fowler who is widely seen as one of the best players to never won a major since one shot behind woodland wasn't exactly happy with you know the start we'll see if we can you know keep that wrong because i know lost last year events we haven't had haven't exactly put together four consecutive rounds like we need to and want to and this is a different week. tiger woods full back from being three over after two holes to finish the day even pa. well kept me in the law firm i thought of using on gone the other way with him you know being three over thirty two. a lot of things

could happen and my lot of are a positive but i hung in there and turned it around while the johnsons who aren't related better ordered out for some of the shots of the day well number one dust and building the six before sex on his long range chip on the ninth the birdie was the open one a francesco molinari dropped three shots on the front nine but ended the day to wonder while defending champ justin thomas is five shots off the pace full vanda with al-jazeera. while tennis number one rafael nadal is going from strength to strength at the rogers cup in toronto he's booked his place in the quarterfinals after a spirited challenge from stanislaus for brinker the swiss has slipped to one hundred ninety fifth in the world rankings after a series of injuries but for hard against the doubt the spaniards pinching the match seven five seven six will now play met in chile in the last day.

but another former world number one didn't fare so well wimbledon champion novak djokovic was stunned by stephanos to surpass the greek team securing the biggest win of his career two cents to one to surpass who turns twenty on sunday set up a meeting with second seed alex on this very open finals thirteen time grand slam champion novak djokovic going home. the other wimbledon finalist kevin anderson had no problems making it through to the last day to the number four seed beating him to set up a meeting with demitra. and over in montreal women's number one simona halep advance to the quarter final she had to finish off her match against understudy a public chunk of a first because of a rain delay but hallett showed no signs of tiredness as she took on venus williams venus appeared to be injured but that didn't stop her from continuing how it went on to beat the seven time grand slam champ in straight sets she'll play caroline garcia in the last stage after the frenchwoman ok maria sharapova.

now players began in the second test between england and india after the first day was completely rained out england won the toss and sent the vistas into batting conditions favorable to bowling that decision the made to leave paid off as james anderson told murray v.j. with just the fifth ball of the match and then struck again to claim india's other opener to leave his just struggling on eleven for two but the covers a back on and off to seven overs the players are off the field following moral right and indian captain for kohli is not out on one england lead the five match series one nil and there's plenty more sport for you in a little while with peter the porter thanks very much. and that's it for me lorica for this news up to say whether sell rahman is back in just a moment more of the day.

is abducted and forced into sexual slavery by the japanese imperial army. to the so-called comfort women of the second world war decades have passed but the trauma lives on. witness follows the story of the women who campaigned with unwavering resolve for an official apology but this morning chapter in history. the apology on al-jazeera. full of struggles. around i would not comment about me prolonging all that i'm walking about on the

fall of pleasure we go out on the getting where. the brunt of. an intimate look at life in cuba today as it was around one o'clock on saturday at the onion watch daniel i got a bunch of my cube on al jazeera. in an exclusive series of documentaries i was born into a very ordinary japanese family. shows five different stories i am just too excited to focus on anything else right now from five different countries and it was true. but i was most importantly was with the one journey no one in my family has ever been to mecca this is the joyful location the road to has an al-jazeera.

taliban fighters stormed the city of girls in the in central afghanistan hours gun battles will be live in kabul. alongside all robin you're watching over there live my headquarters here in doha also coming up. at overtax in counterattacks and with hamas saying it truce has been reached with israel. turkey's currency plunges to record lows concerning investors as inflation rises. and the edinburgh fringe festival of.