zero zero. zero zero. and over america this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. hours of gun battles as taliban fighters stormed the city of god me in central afghanistan will be live in kabul. turkey's president says he will not lose an economic war with the u.s. the turkish lira tumbles to record lows. and a heatwave that could cause a full blown food security crisis in north korea. plus

a pollution climate change and tourism take a toll on the mediterranean sea and the fish nets. gun battles continue between taliban fighters and afghan forces in gaza. heavily armed men stormed the provincial capital attacking several government buildings including police headquarters overnight at least fourteen fleece officers have been killed entire city is in lockdown in the main highway connecting it to the capital is closed let's talk has been following the story throughout the day from kabul so saw the attacks been going on well over twelve hours what are you hearing now. fifteen hours in fact very very difficult to get hold of anyone in gaza at the moment so far and how as we understand it been damaged and it's very hard to get any communication with it with anyone down there

last information we had from the hospital in gaza is that there's at least fourteen people dead and sixty people were injured u.s. military has sent aircraft down there to assist with afghan special forces we understand taliban are still in the city are holed up in residential areas so afghan special forces have moved in and what they're calling a clearing operation the americans seem to be one bomber and a petty helicopters earlier today they say they have seemed aircraft unspecified aircraft back to assist with these f. going special forces the softer known to try to regain full control of gaza and get the taliban out and security back for the civilians there this all started around two am local time two o'clock this morning taliban watching heavy assault on the police headquarters resident saying they heard eighty rockets landing and the police headquarters and from beer they spread out through the city they took

control of checkpoints from the police they moved into residential areas they took human shields and ever since there's been a gun battle between the taliban and these residential areas and afghan special forces police and soldiers in government areas what's the significance of gaza he says he why with the taliban targets in gaza he has been vulnerable cigars in provence there's been a lot of taliban surrounding us in the city for some time now so it has been vulnerable to attack in recent months has been talked the taliban are actually in gaza he said he ready to plan an attack and so it was vulnerable to this but strategically it's significant because it's only one hundred fifty kilometers south of kabul it's on the main highway that connects kabul to the south of the country. and have the law taliban launched attacks like this before when we have see these sort of attempts to take over provincial centers have

a way i think the taliban would consider this a success regardless of whether they managed to take control of gaza me or not in the last time that they managed to get into a city and control parts of it was in far which is in the west in may and then before that it was twenty fifteen twenty sixteen. in the north so from the taliban's perspective they've done well to get into the city and cause casualties but we really don't know at this point how many taliban who die in this assault and how many how many afghan soldiers or police have been killed ok let's bring the very latest from kabul thanks alex palestinian protesters are expected to gather along the israeli border fence in gaza for a twentieth week they have been demanding the right to return of palestinian refugees as protests come at a time of escalating tensions between hamas and israel the palestinian group that controls gaza says a truce with israel has been reached but the israeli government hasn't confirmed

the agreement on wednesday at least three palestinians including a pregnant woman an eighteen month old baby were killed by israeli airstrikes let's hear more now from chance trafford is there the israeli border fence where protests are expected. the situation remains calm here in gaza and southern israel since that house truce was called for late last night now there's been no official recognition or statement released by the israeli government on that call for a truce but as i say there have been no rockets fired no violence since since late last night we are hearing that the i.d.f. the israeli military has said that after a security assessment in southern israel those towns and villages close to the gaza border after an assessment they say that security restrictions now can be lifted perhaps an indication that israel at least is confident that this truce will last but we're expecting many people here in the coming hours for those weekly protests

that happen here every week this will be the twenty is week since they've been held people still determined to come out and demand the lifting of israel's near enough to twelve year land air and sea blockade but as i say the situation does remain calm but the coming hours will be critical because in previous weeks during these protests we have seen an escalation in violence turkey's president up type is adding his people to exchange foreign money to support the national currency how ironic to ask the country's growing economic troubles that a valley in the northeast and. that is there has had a record low after falling steadily all week long on has previously blamed the volatility on what he calls an economic war the us is threatening to impose more sanctions on talking to force the release an american pastor who's being held on terrorism charges somehow he joins us live now from istanbul so some of us were

just talk us through this pretty substantial fall in the value of the lira. well laura yes thirty ish economy has been for a job for a while actually the for the last couple of years especially following the failed coup attempt in july two thousand and sixteen and the international markets have actually expected some interest rate hike by the turkish central bank but mr president rejects a prior don has always been against that and many of them aches and economic analysts have focused that turkey is becoming late an interest rate increase to meet the market demands but on the other on the other side of course turkish economy is imports oriented and dependent on. foreign foreign money it has a lot of foreign that spots at the current crisis kind of related to the tension between united states and turkey and the turkish turkish economy minister of

finance minister is right now giving a speech to the turkish businessmen saying that turkish economy will be committed to budget discipline and the independence of the central bank is very important which means presumed dawn's conservative stance against the interest rates is that it is not going to be a measure or it for the turks central bank but the government actually mr president. sees this as an economic war and many many of to government supporters believe that this is a blackmail by the united states to push turkey to a corner by demanding the requests demanding the release of pastor brunson and trying to put turkey in a corner suppressing turkish lira and causing get declined the degrees and the turkish lira but as you have said donald trump has just tweeted that he's committed

to impose some sanctions against turkish economy which is actually a very first board a long time as to nato allies who have been. a very good friends for a long time it is the first time that a nato ally is threatening another nato ally for for sanctions but president zardari made a call to preserve the turkish currency saying that everybody should buy turkish theorize and sell out their dollars this call was made by president zardari last year to air around this time when the when one dollar was it cools almost three point five turkish nero's and today one dollar is more than six point two turkish the rise as of now and now i've really turkish economy is going to be waiting for answers from the american officers yeah ok thanks very much for bringing us the latest there from istanbul some breaking news on this story is in the past few minutes we've had the u.s.

president donald trump tweeting about additional measures of the u.s. is going to take against turkey and he said i have just a doubling of tariffs on steel and with respect to turkey as their currency the turkish lira slides rapidly downward against all very strong dollar aluminum will now be twenty percent and still fifty percent relations with turkey not good this time speak to jane foley she says foreign exchange currency expert joins us live from london jane first of all let's just look at this tweet from donald trump you've already got an element of panic in turkey what's this new u.s. announcement going to do the whole. well i think it's just going to turn the screws on an economy that's already suffering and seen a huge amount of inflation and i think the timing of the tweet is is interesting and we just had an hour or so ago those comments from her to go on they were very defiant they were very nationalistic they weren't cools off when the markets were

investors what they wanted to hear the markets wanted to see structural reform it wanted to see a tightening of fiscal conditions it wants to see where inflation before it gets its money back into the turkish column e. so turkey under a lot of pressure but certainly the noises both by erdogan and now by trying to turn this into more of a political scene and also you've got the finance minister and son in law he's just been announcing his new economic model in how far he's going to be able to calm the situation he has at the very least stressed that there will be an independent central bank we many people are concerned has to tighter grip on the financial situation there in turkey. well there are many of us is do believe that and this is really about i think a crisis of credibility certainly with respect to the central bank and also at the fact of the finance minister is a good son a law that of course is impacted many people's of idea of credibility in the me too

so what he needs to do is really assert the ideas of structural reform and certainly for the central bank this is very interesting because of course the market just a few weeks ago thought that such about would we needed to hike interest rates by one hundred basis points they didn't meaning that at the market assumable this is no longer an independent central bank and now the speculation in the market that if that central bank is to retake credibility it may need to hike interest rates next month but by five or ten percent huge measures which of course seems very unlikely given the early going is very much against higher interest rates in turkey to go to the lira to reach the lira for a moment how much of its plummets in the last day and today how much is that was jus to the spats with the u.s. and therefore how vulnerable is it now to these recent announcements that we're hearing from trump about trade tariffs. well of course politics are now has been very much layered on top of this but i would say that fundamentally this is about

economics turkey has a large current account deficit that means that it needs international investors to plug that deficit to balance it out and if international investors don't like what they see well will they take their money and go elsewhere and that's why the currency has been adjusting lower now that we see of course the sanctions from the u.s. and turkey well that obviously makes matters worse but i think the rest of language that we've heard both from zero to get in trouble today definitely putting more of a political angle on this but i think for most investors this really is about economics it's about returns to their investment and that's why they want to see more structural reform in turkey ok just in terms of what turkey could do retire eatery measures to the u.s. is there anywhere that it can hit the u.s. in return for these tariffs that trump has just announced. it's not going to be significant they don't have that degree of firepower and you know

turkey's economy relative to the u.s. is really quite small we know that their exchange rate is really on the back foot over the longer term perhaps turkey can do what happened to russia when they first saw sanctions at russia began to grow its own food and that's made it stronger over the long term but unfortunately probably means there's a lot of pain first for consumers and for the people of turkey from inflation until late they begin to see the upside of this game very very good indeed speak to some second times joins us there from london. now the. coalition says it's investigating as strikes that had a bus full of schoolchildren in yemen fifty people were killed including children some of them younger than ten spokesman said anyone involved will be held accountable he wants action general antonio terrace has put called for a prompt and independent investigation security council will be holding

a closed door meeting on the air strikes in the coming hours from the u.s. state department spokeswoman has defended the coalition air campaign in yemen whilst at the same time also 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 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 mohammad has more from neighboring djibouti about the whole by the un secretary general about there was a need for investigation of the state department speaking on countries. picking it up of the un security council about these going to use to a lot of this was one of the was a talks the was. more on the yemen and it caused the

all too familiar divorce titian were used to seeing in yemen. the most of civilian casualties and they are. the constant of. break cultural diseases specially in the middle of the country where there have been peace corps diagnosed with the international aid agencies the warning unless the ceasefire both will enable the world health organization and health service organizations to immunize us many people as possible in the mall then we could see another. one which could be more the ones seen before because of the must live. within the communities living in yemen and also the immunity to help to diseases of this point. as twenty more still

ahead here on the news hour including. for people too scared to go home why thousands are flocking to lhasa towns in northwest nigeria. and flash floods destroying thousands of homes in sudan. players continuing their anthem protests in the n.f.l. will have all the latest in schools. at least four people have been killed and a shooting in the canadian city of fredericton police say the incident is ongoing and of all stresses to stay inside their homes for the doors locks police have arrested a suspect in the case local media reports that firefighters and paramedics have been deployed to the scene. oh world's largest disaster relief network is warning of catastrophic effects of a heat wave in north korea in seattle federation of red cross and red crescent

societies as there could be a full blown fuld's food security crisis agency warms international sanctions will worsen the situation no rainfall since early july has led to crops withering in north korean fields un says one in every four children under the age of five is stunted from chronic malnutrition for more on this let's speak to joseph my own bo he's in pyongyang and is the program director in north korea for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies thanks very much for taking the time to speak to us so what is the situation there it sounds very much like a drought. yes good evening it sounds very much like a drug because the heat has affected crops which i have to tussling time like maize which opcodes tool now having them really corpse so the he has a twenty i'm soaked all the west on the ground and believes i've dried in so it missed the crops cannot really grow very well in that way. they will produce

very little fruit not only maize but also say a prince and not on a nice way of business but also derisive been affected was this goodly to lead then since july that need to light and up to now haven't had any effect on prince the temperatures average in twenty five and up and in the food in stock you know going up so. how do you know the temperatures are around forty degrees and up above and that alone affects the growth of the crops and the communities what they have done is to what we like themselves to get to get their crops from these small what aboard is that up in a pool and that's the federation is hoping those communities to try and water their crops so that they can salvage something i watch the potential effects on the people that are in north korea and many of whom we've just said i'm already suffering from acute malnutrition. yes if they don't get support to work at their

crops what it means is that there's every duction in food production or food out for trim the fields and they don't want the food from their fields and naturally that we have an effect on the and therefore that is taken in the warm and what effect most of the vulnerable communities the children and the like touching mothers in the communities so it is important because like you text weapons it's used both for oil and therefore cooking as eating is part of the stepper fort so if all of these fields are not a star or describing to them what's up on it to water their fields naturally they were a bit reduction in ford introduction in food means also is actually enough in effect on the nutritional status of the home all of the people getting the fort and does organizations the red cross have access to all the places that it needs to get to in order to help the people that the red cross works throughout the country

national state is seven hundred branches in the. nine provinces and also all two hundred nine county branches so you can see that it is a wide spread across the country and the information that we just bought when we launched the huge wave of support from our engineer office was coming from the community themselves who give us pictures of the device that in effect of the heat wave where the community is devoted to started changing their waking periods where they wake up and in the morning go to the field and rests in the day and try to work in the field late in the afternoon and of course the mid one nine hundred ninety s. famine is never far from people's minds that a how much of a threat is all out famine now in north korea. it is a true fact because if you take last year twenty seven thousand i don't approve of

july when the books were being blinded there was a dry spell or go it didn't last long but the effect was that there was a seven point four. food production shortage of these programs and even if the rain comes and we are looking at the tropical storm that is being said it will come rain might not but the food. areas in might not have effected because of this or want to chance or more ok they will leave it joseph i am both thanks very much for updating us on the situation inside north korea thank you very much protests by members of china's why a ethnic minority have halted the plans demolition of a mosque. grand mosque was to be destroyed for what the government said was a violation of planning regulations mosque was recently opened up to two years under construction and local county had now says no actual go ahead without the

agreement of the townspeople and this is the predominately muslim who a have complained of growing restrictions on their religion. the irish budget carrier ride there has canceled four hundred flights after its pilots and several european countries staged a walkout employees in germany island belgium sweden and the netherlands are demanding better pay and working conditions yellen called the strikes regrettable and the unions to return to the negotiating table. a number of people killed in indonesia is rising five days after a powerful earthquake struck the region this video has been widely shared on social media showing a supermarket collapsing after one of the three hundred aftershocks that the rattled in this week if fishel death toll now stands at three hundred twenty one people. a major military operation has begun in northwest nigeria to crack down on criminals have been raiding villages it's estimated that more than two thousand

people in the area have been killed by government since two thousand and eleven. where they just reports from northwestern nigeria. digging in for a fight these soldiers are part of a one thousand member force sent to fight gunman who'd 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. so many arguments says his village was raided and we'll hear why it's a good argument 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 lies to me to have been killed in the past six weeks alone survivors

say their attackers showed no mercy it what i did my neighbor who was pregnant was shot at a 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 with thousands more 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 their villages are not safe 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 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 home with al-jazeera northwest nigeria. as it is an 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 but his alliance for jacked up the july election results accusing president. of wrecking the polls protests that follow his lead to the death of six people. flash floods caused by heavy rain have killed half a dozen people in sudan have homes have been destroyed in the eastern state of ca sala state of thirty say they are working to rebuild areas as it continues to rain about morgan has more. this is the aftermath of heavy rains in eastern sudan

more than seven thousand homes destroyed and thousands more damaged the rains have caused flash floods displacing hundreds of families and leaving them without shelter. there was flash floods and we lost everything with it when we tried to save our properties but we lost it all we need help especially shelters. we're grateful to be alive but we lost everything even our clothes we got little from charity to help the government hasn't provided us anything and we're still living in the open with our children so dan's rainy season has been a challenge for the government doesn't have been killed in the last few years including seven around the country this year alone despite it being only the beginning of the season tens of thousands of homes especially in rural areas have collapsed because of the rains poor drainage systems and subsequent flash floods and the water left behind is raising concerns of water borne diseases including malaria and cholera people who have been displaced by the recent floods have

criticised the government for its slow response local authorities saying they're working to provide assistance at. the damages were major to those affected we've provided them with temporary shelters and basic necessities we're now asking organizations to help those affected this could get worse if heavy rains come again and the conditions will be much worse meanwhile the rains continue those who have been displaced can only hope it doesn't get worse and that they'll be able to rebuild their lives here morgan al-jazeera. well time now for weather and his staff i'm going to stay in africa only that's right a more heavy rain but this is far more welcome because it's in south africa were always desperate for rain much was made about the drought in cape town where we were fast heading towards cape de zero the day which the city ran out of water but elsewhere across southern parts of africa there's also a major drought at the moment including imported little bit so this rain that we've

recently seen is very much needed now it's not only brought to some rain we've also seen a fair amount of snow that's been very pretty there but it's the rain that's most needed and that's what we're seeing and it has been heavy port elizabeth has seen fifty seven millimeters of rain in the last week or so which is about what you'd expect in the entire month so the amount of rain that we need to really isn't massive but it's just desperately needed because otherwise port elizabeth would run out of water in december so we need lots of rain between now and then so it's in plenty of it then unfortunately this looks like it's now beginning to clear away so you can see from our charts the general circulation is moving away towards the east and behind it it's cool for a while there in durban but the temperatures will eventually begin to bounce back up as we head through the next few days so there's been some rain there and it looks like we could do with a little bit more another place where we're seeing lots of rain though and that is giving us a few problems is the southern parts of china where we've got a storm heading its way northward and there's likely to be some flooding here laura

. steph thanks very much while still ahead. could have killed more people than previously thought. and unschooled with peta a surprise lida off the opening day of gold's final major think yeah. full of struggles with one on one with no show me that i mean all along that i want either one of them to full of pleasure. and i'm getting it i don't know it but i'm not going to be an intimate look at life in cuba today as it was young ones. that i had more than you know i've got a bunch of money cute on al-jazeera. then

there's nothing they set sail for gold. but discovered there resource worth more than its way to human be. driven by commerce enabled through politics and religion executed with brutality. in episode one slavery roots charge the birth and the rise of the african slave trade mapping their history at the strength of humanity. for all the gold in the world i want to just go. there again you're watching out there as a reminder of our top stories this hour at least fourteen policeman have been killed long gun battle between afghan forces and taliban fighters and he he says.

city overnight stacking several government buildings including police have courses dozens of people believed to be. led coalition says it's investigating ass trucks that hit a bus full of school children. fifty people were killed including the children some of the younger than ten years old a coalition spokesman said anyone involved will be held accountable council will hold will be holding a closed door meeting on the strike in the coming hours. and u.s. president donald trump tensions with nato ally turkey by doubling steel and aluminum tariffs on turkish imports on twitter trump has said i've just authorized a doubling of tariffs on steel on steel and aluminum with respect to turkey is that currency. but the down once again it's all very strong dollar will now be twenty percent and steel fifty percent our relations with turkey are not good at this time

while it's ex-president type one has said he will not lose an economic war with washington. the dollar will not stand in our way do not worry about it i see it again i call on you all citizen to change the euros dollars and the gold that you are keeping beneath your pillows into lira banks this is a domestic international struggle we will not lose his economic will we will respond will you make enormous north against us with our national currency. russia also says it would consider it an economic war if the u.s. imposes sanctions on its bank or currency prime minister dmitri medvedev says he will take would tolerate any measures if necessary he made the comments the day off to washington was imposing a new round of sanctions on moscow over the poisoning of former russian double agents and his daughter in the u.k.

this yeah. iraq. has read retained his victory in the may parliamentary election after a recount of votes it's not all to the initial result significantly was keeping his tally of fifty four seats in parliament and ordered a manual recount after allegations of widespread fraud results was not be ratified by the supreme court's almost three months after parliamentary elections in lebanon prime minister saad hariri has yet to form a government progress and bringing together rival parties has been slow and although lengthy negotiations are not unusual national unity is at stake holder reports from barry's. 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 rivals the armed group hezbollah and its allies gained at his expense and they have demands.

breaking the monopoly monopoly by what. and then using a. minister. of the government who's outside. and also breaking the sunni. by introducing also ministers from the eighth march combo from the. camp there's 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 and has a sectarian political system. for the wrangling is not just about to presentation in cabinet but about division of power in trying to employ sees this as a chance to amend even if informally and 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 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 in levanon 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

hour he wants to prevent that but politically he is too weak. the overwhelming number of tourists flock to the mediterranean every summer is taking a toll on its ecosystem that's according to the u.n. and it's now the most overfished in the wild. fisherman in the city of on the french riviera who are trying to make a difference the mediterranean is now the most overfished sea in the world according to the latest report by the united nations. working the waters off the small portable. men like share are cut at darnall are counting the cost. more than a third of the season total fish population has vanished over the last fifty years . pollution and climate change are taking a toll but the impact of tourism is not even being monitored. you more than your yuppie look is it to say there's no more fish when you see the pressure created by

them a turkey every day four to five hundred sports leave last year to port imagine it's of them brings us a killer fish some less some more well that's a lot of fish taken away every day on them and. we'll be back in the one nine hundred fifty s. just over this small stretch of the coastline in southern france there used to be something like seventy fishermen casting their nets in these waters and now they've gone down to just thirteen. rubber goodell is one of the shrinking band of artists and fishermen were being paid to take part in a unique project to restore the ecology of the coastline a company of marine biologists have deployed special traps at sea to catch juvenile fish and raise them in protected nurseries on shore. here we've got some sea bream mullets horse macro and a lot of plankton housed on the key side in the port of must say the species are

given the best start to their hazardous lives the odds are stacked against them in nature for every one million eggs coastal fish produce only one will make it through to becoming a reproductive adult and the press of humanity makes it even worse is a profile of this bookstore delicate mostly because of pollution caused the construction surrounding the poets the use of cement and the urban planning on the coastline. gerard has seven grandchildren he needs to help support and he's not landing enough fish to do it so now he raises rest species themselves to sell to specialist aquaria across europe like many others in the fishing communities here he has nothing but contempt for the bureaucrats in brussels running the common fisheries policy he says if you want help help yourself david j. to al-jazeera must say present donald trump has repeatedly threatened to end the so-called dreamers program which gives temporary protection to young people who

came to the u.s. with their parents but if they see even if they stay dream is all an eligible for the loans that many of them need to attend college now some states are helping them with that sunday reports from new jersey. was yet the chance of teenagers wanting the opportunity to go to college in america but who can't afford it they're the so-called dreamers from the dhaka program started by barack obama in two thousand and twelve it gave temporary protection from deportation to undocumented migrants who arrived in the u.s. as children but dreamers are barred from getting government aid for college most coming from working class families it means college is out of reach such as for this teenager whose mom couldn't afford the college fees she barely makes it now with all the bills so i think a college tuition on to that is unthinkable. while president donald trump is into

the dreamer's program altogether new jersey's newly elected democratic governor of signing a law that expands rights to the dreamers allowing them to apply for financial aid to attend college and state. it's a direct rebuke to trump president trump and many of his republican enablers and congress have cast the worst aspersions on our dreamers but we had to jersey go better we know that economic progress could not be achieved without social progress new jersey now becomes the tenth state in america to offer financial aid to undocumented immigrants or dreamers just here in the state of new jersey it's expected to benefit over six hundred people but critics say the new law will be expensive and encourage undocumented immigrants from other states to move to new jersey interests he was ranked number one in the entire country for him plucks of new un documented immigrants within the state we're already spending in excess of i

believe two hundred twenty million dollars per year in public education funds just on the e.s.l. programs so it has a financially detrimental impact on the state to have. supporters say it's a matter of fairness and i was there we believe firmly believe that all students should have access to financial aid nobody should be rushing to a dilemma of whether to pay for college out of i mean the cost of which are increasing year by here jersey's not only asking undocumented immigrants to stay and attend college but now also providing the money to do it gabriel is on doe. newark new jersey. was rico's government has acknowledged that harken morea killed one thousand four hundred people more than twenty times if death toll is territory made the new estimates in a report to congress was asking for

a hundred thirty nine billion dollars to rebuild the island. 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 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 the normal but as the cause of yacht that may or may not be attributable to the hurricanes. where me there's no doubt that they have to be me and you still listening to all of these stories people keep telling you how everything changed their money or how they don't have any rain or how they lost their houses or your farms how they don't even have money to one who don't that they will this summer some puerto ricans are living under the same blue tarps in dealing with 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 us a free moment 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 dying to help cannot come soon enough. castro al-jazeera. more than twenty thousand people in southern california have been told to evacuate their homes because of a wildfire in the area a so-called holy fire in lake elsinore was set on purpose it's named after the holy jim canyon started and burned a dozen cabins california's governor has declared a state of emergency in the area until the flames are pushed out. zimbabwe's main opposition party and court to challenge the july presidential election results lawyers for the movement for democratic change alliance claim they have evidence of

fraud the ruling party. was declared winner of the election and joins us on the phone from harare zahari the opposition party really left it to the last minute to submit these court papers. from zimbabwe. well number one the drought sets up a quarter final clash into long details with pizza next.

it was born out and as peter lorre thank you so much the new n.f.l. season kicks off in less than a month and teams are now in a pre-season stages for the players well they're continuing to protest during the national anthem several of them took a knee or sat out the anthem in their locker rooms around the u.s. on thursday rays they first seen protest against racial injustice and police brutality players from the miami dolphins philadelphia eagles and jacksonville jaguars with those who took action. let's remind you of the background to these and the protests they've been taking place since twenty sixteen when former san francisco forty nine ers quarterback collin kappa nick began kneeling to highlight racial inequality and injustice earlier this year the n.f.l. announced it would fine players who protested during the anthem it 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 their 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 gary mena undergarments and bernard lester held on to harry maguire and extended jamie bodies contract by four years while joe is a merino couldn't secure the defenders he wanted for man united of these requests were vetoed by the club's owners now is serious stuff. it's not anymore about what friendly is not anymore about. about preparation is of 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 to 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 and we so desire to visit me and said sorry deputy. former brazil coach louis philippe scolari has made a successful return to the helm at palmira laurie is back in charge for a third time at the brazilian club having already led them to one cup a limited dollars title on thursday the team put themselves in a strong position to make it into this year's quarter finals two goals from the board asked to no win over paraguay set up or ten you're in the first leg of their

last sixteen tie. over in argentina hosts atletico took a man took full advantage of a goal keeping mistake in the seventh minute from atletico and elsewhere none the more netty later in the second half more cost us from the hated to secure a crucial to know when the head of the return leg in colombia at the end of the month. in the other game of the night river plate had leonardo poncy all saints so far for a second yellow card but they held on against dressing for a nolo draw in their brain osiris darby. the supergroup pairing of tiger woods justin thomas and rory mcilroy all struggled through the opening round of the p.g.a. championship on thursday but that was not the case for will number forty four gary woodland the forty four year old american shooting thirty three four year old a pickpocket shooting a six under round of sixty four to take the overnight lead woodland has already teed off the second round at the belle reve country club rickie fowler is widely

seen as one of the best players to never win a major cause of the five under par round in st louis missouri he'll be looking to make further inroads on friday and tiger woods fought back from being three over after two holes to finish the day even par. i'm definitely happy with you know the start and we'll see if we can keep that wrong because i know last year events we haven't haven't exactly put together four consecutive rounds like we need to and want to and this is a different week. will keep me in the last term and i could have easily gone gone the other way with the you know being three over to. a lot of things could happen and lot of were positive but i'm going to and turned it around tennis now and world number one rafa nadal will face marion chiles of croatia later on friday in the rogers cup quarter finals the spaniard to book these place in the last eight in toronto despite stands of brink of putting up

a good fight seven five seven six the school the swiss is being played with injuries recently has slipped to one hundred then mine to the world rankings. but another former world number one didn't fare so well wimbledon champion and thirteen time grand slam champion novak djokovic was stunned by stephane austerity pass the greek team securing the biggest win of his career to say it to one person who turns twenty on sunday set up a meeting with second seed alexander vetting in the quarter for us. the other wimbledon finalist kevin anderson had no problems making it through to the last day the number four seed beating. to set up a meeting with dimitroff. over in montreal women's number one simona halep advance to the quarter final she had to finish off her match against anastasio probably a chunk of a first because of a rain delay but help showed no signs of tiredness as she took on venus williams in this appeared to be injured but that didn't stop her from continuing talent went on

to beat the seven time grand slam champion in straight sets she'll play catalina garcia in the last eight after the frenchwoman overcame a really a share of over. the russian former world number one upset by garcia in montreal in straight sets it cos he is sick and straight will never show up over this year final school six three six two to advance to that meeting with halle. play has begun and then called off in the second test between england and india temporarily after the first day was completely rained out in the won the toss and sent the visitors into a batting conditions favorable to bowling that decision immediately paid off as james anderson bowled morally veejay with just the first ball of the match anderson then struck again to claim india's other opener to leave the visitors struggling on eleven for two but the covers are back on and after seven overs the players are off the field following more rain indian captain virat kohli is not out on one england lead the five match series one. that's all before level up again later laura great

before thanks very much peter ok let's return to that news that we had coming out for of zimbabwe the opposition parties of missing a pail of election results in court and. join us on the line from harare for her friday was the deadline to submit these papers they've really left at the eleventh hour over the last ten minutes we've seen lawyers coming into the court room becoming in groups of each of the carrying piles and piles of paper they say this is the evidence they have to show that they say the election was rigged to save our president elect image and i got now the case now is what's going to happen next if the judges agree to leave now and look at this evidence because either say there's nothing they throw it out or that you the truth is that a date goes through each and every piece of paper was not today friday they may not show on saturday they won't said on sunday or monday and she damn public holidays here which really only time will actually look at them could be wednesday but you

know gratian it may be happening on sunday some present to confirm the coming if the judges feel that there is some kind of case chair or they don't look at the paperwork until wednesday let me tell you know gratian const take place is really in the earlier today that he binds you know gratian not taking place he is preparing for it but it's called by the court not to do so then he will put on hold to the matter if it will in court but these lawyers feel confident that what they have a strong and it's a tough to stop immigration election see it really as to be a name doesn't head off to these elections but what the people in zimbabwe generally feel of a general accepting of the results of my god who are winning. well of modern have only known buildings on in. one thousand eight. hundred supporters have stated that the judges lied to the ruling party don't digital come out of the matter and immigration will happen on sunday but. the politics just want to move on they know

that is the way to kind of create the country to become stable they can come in that could mean that the millions of poor people it's different feelings in the air but certain die hard opposition supporters are hoping that the evidence is strong enough to stop immigration supporters confident that they won this election. and they hope the gratian happened on sunday ok joining us on the line from. joining us with. the main opposition challenging the july presidential election results. call. ok.

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