president calls on turks to support their embattled currency us president trump increases the pressure on the lira. hello i'm david colony of watching ologies there live from london also coming out. meet to discuss yemen in the saudi led coalition says it is investigating airstrikes that hit a bus full of school children. a volunteer palestinian medic is shot and killed by israeli fire joining protests at the gaza israel border. and zimbabwe's presidential inauguration is delayed as the opposition legally challenges the

election results. u.s. president has doubled steel and alimony and tariffs on turkey to force the release of an american pastor who's been held on terrorism charges now the move is already increasing the pressure on the turkish economy but the lira falling to a record low president of type i don't want to address the issue at a rally or citizens to sell their dollars and buy lira instead to prop up the banking tanking currency tweeted that he had increased the tariffs on turkey quotes as their currency the turkish lira slides rapidly downwards against our very strong dollar our relations with turkey are not good at this time the turkish president says he will not lose an economic war with washington. no you know the dollar will not stand in our way to know more 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 liras in our banks this is a domestic and national struggle we will not lose his economic will we will respond to those who are we should make an honest source against us with our national currency. so let's take a look at how bad things have got for the turkish lira since the start of the year the layer has lost thirty five percent of its value against the dollar and most of that has happened since i don't want to we took office with hugely expanded powers a month ago turkey's trade minister says that extra tariffs are against the world trade organization rules sin and cos he has more from the turkish reaction from istanbul. turkish economy is meant to be one of the fridge all economies like many other emerging markets and says the failed coup attempt in july two thousand and sixteen turkish reroute was under pressure the rate for one dollar was three point

five last year around this time and today it's more than six neeraj however the latest political dispute between united states and turkey over their arrest of a pastor brunson is actually challenging because it's turkish government supporters and the government itself see this as a political movement as a manifestation speculation over the turkish lira but the analysts the market analysts warn the turkish economy has structural problems and turkey's finance minister and that's pressure minister but it's all directors trying to deliver messages that turkey is committed to independence of the central bank. ok let's get the u.s. reaction from alan fischer who is in washington d.c. so allan tensions have been ratcheting up between the nato allies over the recent weeks can you give small context behind these trade tariffs. or characterized to me as too strong leaders who don't want to give any ground

certainly don't want to admit they're wrong there has been a problem between the united states and turkey for a while it's been bubbling on really if you go back to twenty sixteen that will take that as a starting point and the coup that almost unseated the one of course it failed that was in july twenty sixth in the uk say that it was masterminded by a turkish cleric who lives in the united states they demanded to extradition the united states said no that's simply not going to happen the same time there was a pastor called andrew bronson who was arrested in is near a few of the targets you see that he was a key figure in the attempted coup if you're the americans you see he was an evangelical pastor who walked in izmir spoke to many people that he came across during his ministry there and certainly wasn't involved in the coup add into that you have got problems too with the way that the u.s. and turkey have been operating in syria the turks very unhappy that for part of the

battle that the americans were relying on kurdish fighters the americans aren't overly keen on some of the things that the turks have been doing particularly in northern syria as well know just last week in reaction to the brunson case at the united states decided that it was going to impose sanctions on two senior members of the government in ankara two senior cabinet ministers even though it's not quite clear if they have any dealings in the united states this was a statement of intent from the u.s. and we know that when the u.s. launched its trade war with many other countries china mexico canada among them they also included turkey in the list of countries that they were going to put tabs on for the steel and aluminum what they have done is just increase that with this announcement from donald trump so what happens next or don't or try. has sent a note to the department of commerce saying i want this done how can he do it

without congressional approval well if he says that this is in the interests of national security that gives him a very narrow focus to be able to do this and he gets to do it as well how is it impacted here in the united states where people are paying attention to it but they're paying attention to a lot more on the markets they're clearly worried about what's happening in turkey they don't think that what's happening with the united states is helping that either so shares in europe and in the u.s. are done over the last few hours and with both sides saying we want this sorted then you don't see a chance of a resolution coming close you've got to remember as well that the turks sent a delegation into washington just this week and they met with people from the state department and they talked to people from the treasury department and the andrew bronson case was at the center of that the americans were looking for some way to get them back they left without any deal and so that makes the reason why don't trump is doing this exactly twenty four hours later perhaps

a bit clearer but it certainly doesn't make how this plays out any clearer to me to you or indeed to the world markets and david thank you very much that's alan fish in washington for us. yemen's hit the rebels have joined the united nations and calling for an independent probe into a saudi attack on a bus full of school children on thursday of the un is holding a special session on those strikes which killed fifty and would seventy others inside a province a saudi that coalition insists it struck at legitimate targets while i'm at audio has the latest from djibouti. it's hard to imagine a more disturbing and sickening image of the futility over war in the media. at the scene of one strike by the sodium without equally should put it parts us through. a manhole cell phone video but. what is guilt what is his crime he wonders

why target these students this is the walk of the american soda coalition and strike schoolchildren why we will seek revenge no matter what he says. these children were in a minibus full of students heading back from a school some a company in yemen. but as their boss drove through a busy market in. the probe his it was targeted by the strike they do what they can here at the hospital which is under resourced and overall well. what effect will it have on these young minds dozens of their classmates were killed in the strike there's now a growing chorus of condemnation a real thing in the immense three and a half year. it took the images of these children drenched in blood and reeling from shock to most of the world we deplore thursday's attack in yemen where a coalition air strike hit

a pass carrying children in diane market inside the reportedly killing forty people and injuring another sixty eight the u.n. secretary general and tony harris called for a swift investigation into the talk to secretary general emphasizes that or parties mistake constant care to spare civilians and civilian objects in the conduct of military operations and he calls for an independent and prompt investigation into this incident the conflict in yemen pits the richest countries in the region so that it be on the united arab emirates against the poorest the sodium and arctic qualification has been reported that the criticised for targeting civilian areas in their war against the whole thing ford says the fighting has killed thousands and left millions of us on the brink of starvation how about the world just djibouti and we can now go live to roslyn jordan who's at the united nations so rosalind

what are we expecting at this u.n. meeting. well the meeting did get underway in the last fifteen to twenty minutes it's a closed door meeting but according to sources we do understand that several of the countries that sit on the security council have condemned thursday's attack inside province they have called the images of the injured and dying children shocking and they're calling on the security council to actually make a very strong public statement about the conduct of the war in yemen and they are all calling for condemnations of both the saudi coalition and the who the rebels who do control northern yemen we did hear early on before and unrelated open hearing at the security council on friday from lisa greg van hollen as she had this to say she is the deputy ambassador from the netherlands to the united nations what

is important for us is that we keep our focus on the humanitarian situation and make sure that there are no indiscriminate attacks against civilians and we have seen the images of children who died we have heard about the attacks in the hospitals and we heard also claims but we think that what is essential at this moment in time is to have a credible and independent investigation but now there is this sense that when something such as what happened in the province on thursday happens at the u.n. security council should be responding very quickly very vocally it's not the way things work here and in fact it's probably the situation where if there is going to be some sort of statement that there is going to have to be a lot of discussion and a lot of negotiating of the language before the fifteen members of the security council would actually put forward a public statement seems as if it should be easy but it's not always easy also in

jordan with the latest from the united nations thank you. palestinian health ministry says a volunteer medic has been killed by israeli far as protests take place on the gaza border the demonstrations are testing and an easy this week between hamas and israel on thursday at cease fire fallen two days of intense violence we saw at least three palestinians killed by israeli airstrikes iraq have also been fired into southern israel as well as burning heights and balloons child stratford has more. another friday of protests here in all the factions including hamas calling people to come out and participate in these demonstrations now these latest protests the twenty is week in a row come off to the worst escalation of violence between hamas and israel since the two thousand and fourteen war and there are great fear is that these protests

something that israel often calls a provocation could lead to a new escalation of violence of course hamas are saying that the people here have every right to continue to come out and protest against the twelve year long land and sea blockade by israel the israeli army earlier today saying that they had eased security restrictions on the towns in southern israel close to northern northern gaza poor an indication that they were confident that this truce seems to be holding but as i say there are phase here that any provocation any slight incident during these protests in the hours ahead could lead to another escalation of violence between hamas and israel. and still to come on al-jazeera a major battle is continuing and i got a phone or a taliban government have attacked the city of gardening. the travel plans of thousands of people are disrupted as ryanair its pilots go on strike.

hello there we've still got a showers around the black sea at the moment we're seeing some particularly heavy downpours over the northern parts of turkey and into ga ga's really being quite wet over the last few weeks more wet weather is expected to as we head through the next few days the showers just slightly becoming more broken up so if you will driest slopes in between perhaps further south and it's fine drive just warm as you'd expect in beirut thirty degrees in force in baghdad is just hot at forty six couple not quite as hot here will get to around thirty five now here in doha it's been very sticky over the past few days your sunglasses have folks up instantly the moment you've stepped outside it's still going to be like that as we had three saturday it changes on sunday the winds fire down from the northwest bringing in so far dry air but dry air can get that bit hotter so we'll see the temperatures climb

up to around forty five degrees i think as we head through the day if we have down towards the southern parts of africa we've seen some very wet weather here particularly here in the southeast is also brought a lot of snow over the mountains as well this system is gradually going to move away as we head into saturday and then we'll return to the sunshine and the dry weather for the temperatures and been a pleasant twenty degrees for us in cape town will be at around seventeen. a new religion committee has been in there. and is grappling with the do this task of sustaining a community but residents of this chinese village the burning nation and how one can stand inside. the reclamation of. democracy is complicated. with a six part series by the chinese democracy experiment. hello

again here's a reminder for our top stories on al-jazeera turkey's currency has fallen to a record low after a u.s. president. on national security grounds. have backed the un's calls for an independent investigation into an airstrike that it's a school bus at least fifty people were killed including twenty nine children. and more protests are taking place on the gaza israel border testing on easy reach between hamas and israel on thursday the palestinian health ministry says

a medic has been killed by israeli far. as a moderate president in my god has had his inauguration delayed because of a legal challenge to his electoral victory earlier lawyers lawyers for the movement for democratic change alliance while their case of the supreme court and harare and they said they had a mammoth evidence of fraud and election rigging. joins me live from harare. what sort of case is the opposition hoping to build. well it's a first time in zimbabwe as history and inauguration has been stopped the m.d.c. alliance say they want the election results overturned they say they have evidence they have forms which they say show that some of the results have been tampered with the judges could meet quickly if they think this evidence is weak they could throw the case out if they think that the more time to go through the evidence that could take a couple of days if they don't meet over the weekend monday and tuesday here

a public holidays which means all meet on wednesday they're fourteen days to make a decision and all the bombings can do is wait so what reaction have we seen from amazon appear. earlier in the day he said that he respects the courts and he will observe whatever decision that they decide so basically because of this case now on on the courts the integrations postponed zone have supporters are not thrilled about it the opposition seem happy about it but those concerned about the economy are worried already there's been a warning from south africa the business community saying we want to come and invest but if you don't get your house in order we cannot do that similar calls we're hearing from other countries in the world people wanting to come and pump money into the stagnant economy to help it recover most people just one jobs a normal life once again the base is there some people around the world enjoy those countries when the highest unemployment rates in the world most people who voted

were young hoping for change hoping the economy improves that could take time the longer this political stalemate drags on are what are so in the zimbabwean capital thank you. heavily armed taliban fighters have stormed the central afghan city of gaza attacking police checkpoints and government buildings and fighters tried to overrun the city setting off a day long clashes with the u.s. backed off on forces now at least fourteen afghan police officers were killed and twenty were wounded in the assaults the police chief says there were more than one hundred fifty other casualties but he could not give a breakdown well charlie bellis has the latest from kabul. this is attack began at about two am local time here in afghanistan the taliban launching a heavy assault on the place headquarters in the capital of the province residents saying that they heard eight rockets hitting the police headquarters just after two

o'clock this morning the taliban then moved in took up positions around the police headquarters and from the air they moved out throughout the city there were heavy gun battles through the morning between taliban and afghan police and afghan security forces the taliban then moved into a residential area where they remained for most of the day that's where they'd want a lot of their assault from a centrally taking human shields in people there terrified as they heard gun battles outside they saw bodies on the streets they were hearing rockets at one point the u.s. seem to be one bomber of a hit and cellphone towers were down so they really had no way to figure out what was going on in the city the taliban however was sitting out statements throughout the day claiming various successes saying that they killed one hundred forty afghan soldiers and police officers the government steered fastly denying that throughout the day saying it's simply not true we are in control of the city yes there is an attack but we are in control and have been throughout the day we maintained control

of government ministries and buildings they said this in a statement earlier because. there has been fighting in gaza the province for a long time in the entire province of gaza as well as guys knew fifty we have defeated the taliban and our enemy has sustained significant casualties last night the storm from back to you. and my dad wardak province is you know unprecedented attack on gaza and. very important for the government to maintain an air of confidence for the public here in afghanistan make sure that people feel secure because we have coming up here on october the twentieth. at least four people including two police officers have been killed in a shooting in eastern canada police say one suspect is in custody and is being treated for serious injuries the circumstances of the shooting in the city of fredericton are still unclear officers had urged people in the area to remain inside there whom with the divorce law so i went to my back window and i seen

a fire truck coming around here is like well maybe it's something blowing up like propane or something then i realized that the area was filling up pretty quickly with police officers and that i'd better hit my ground so i sat on the floor of my my house shots are going off in a few more you're in there then it went downhill for about twenty minutes there was no shots or so let's say for about five all shots went off and then it was quiet for another half hour in the studio shots. more than twenty thousand people in southern california have been told to evacuate their homes because of a wildfire california police have arrested and charged a fifty one year old man for purposely starting the so-called holy fire in lake elsinore the governor has declared a state of emergency that frees up additional resources to battle the blaze the holy far is one of several fires burning in california that have displaced tens of thousands of people relief agencies are warning of the potentially catastrophic

impact of a heat wave in north korea has been no rainfall there since july with temperatures soaring to an average of thirty nine degrees celsius it's causing rise maids and other vital crops to with their increasing the risk of a full blown food security crisis international sanctions could also worsen the situation in the country where twenty five million people are already vulnerable to malnutrition. if they don't get support to work with their crops what it means is that there is a reduction in food production or food output from the fields and it will be. from the field in the next seventy that we have an effect on the food that is taken in the form into our food most of the vulnerable children and the like toting mothers in the communities so it is important because like you to it's used both for oil and the for cooking is eating is part of the staple food so if all of these

fields are north or describing to the mexico did to water their fields naturally there would be the reduction in ford introduction in food means also is actually enough in effect on the nutritional status will be home all of the people getting the food. protests by members of china it's way ethnic minority have halted the plans emulation of a mosque. last was set to be destroyed for what the government said was a violation of planning regulations the mosque recently opened after two years of construction the local county had now says no action will go ahead without think we meant of the townspeople members of the peace on at me muslim way have complained of growing restrictions on their religion. the travel plans of fifty five thousand people across europe have been disrupted future pilots going on strike at ryanair one in six of the budget airlines flights have been cancelled as pilots in germany are lynn sweet in belgium and then that balance walk off the job over pay and

conditions dominic cain has more from berlin. sleeping on the airport floor rather than in a holiday hotel all because of the strike that's hit ryanair for these passengers their vacation is beginning with uncertainty and lots of tricky questions like this couple freshmen from the states and we landed here in berlin right yeah i mean really. they told us that the ryanair flight to athens that we had booked are being canceled because. pilots on strike so we just went through a couple different ways of getting that. their line rebooked going up that's all we need tonight and then tomorrow morning bouncing from that's the only thing to athens so what's behind this industrial action ryanair employs about four hundred pilots here in germany they are members of the pilots union cockpit and for the union issue with ryanair is very clear they want improved terms and conditions and

they say ryanair really needs to reform. today is not about want to debate ryanair and it wouldn't be possible any way against a transatlantic employee but what it is about is to signal to management that there needs to be an end to them trying to beat their own staff today you want to send a clear message to dublin ryanair much charring and so far at least the airline appears not to want to but as chief executive has accepted ryanair will take a financial hit it's hard to assess the damage of a new features from the well he said no quarter results is that our fears this summer we thought they would get their four percent you know that fifty you get one percent so here's the damage that that's. the story. but not perhaps for those caught up in friday's strike action don it came out zerah had been shown a lot. thousands are romanians who live abroad are rallying and the capital book

arrests calling for the government to resign there were some scuffles at the rally after. the demonstrators crossed police lines the demonstrators many of whom drove across europe to attend the rally are angry about the way romania as being governed by the social democrats hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition calling for people to be indicted for corruption every year millions of visitors flock to france a scenic court those are for the summer holidays but it's good for the economy if the tourism is having a terrible impact on the local ecosystem and fishing population they've achieved has been speaking to fishermen and marine biologists in my say on the battle to save francis fish. the mediterranean is now the most overfished sea in the world according to the latest report by the united nations working the waters of the small port of lassie autarky men like cher are cut at darnall are counting the cost. more than a third of the seized 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 if you more than your yuppie look is it to say there is no more fish when you see the pressure created by the motors every day four to five hundred sports leave last year to port imagine each of them brings us a killer fish some less some a little more well that's a lot of fish taken away every day and then when you were sold to leave your tip 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 fisherman who are 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. deposits here of course from sea bream mullets horse mackerel and a lot of plankton housed on the key site in the port of must see 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 this is the forefront of this bookstore delicacy it's mostly because of pollution caused the construction surrounding the ports the use of cement and the urban planning on the coastline gerard has seven grandchildren he needs to help support and he's not lending enough fish to do it so now he raised his recipe she's 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. hello again here are top stories knowledge is there turkey's currency has fallen to a record low after u.s. president donald trump doubled steal an aluminum tariffs on national security grounds the turkish lira was already in freefall over worries about president russia type i don't want influence over monetary policy and strain ties with america the u.s. has been pressuring turkey to release an american pastor has been held on terrorism charges are no one is urging citizens to sell their dollars and buy lear and to prop up the currency. dollar will not stand in our way do no hurry about it i see it again i call on you all citizen to change the euros dollars

into gold that you are keeping beneath your pillows into liras in our banks this is a domestic and national struggle we will not lose his economic will we will respond to those sure we can make anonymous source against with our national currency. evans who the rebels have backed the un's calls for an independent investigation into an airstrike that hit a school bus the movie say the attack by the saudi led coalition killed at least fifty people including twenty nine children the coalition insists the strike inside our province was aimed at legitimate targets. palestine's health ministry says a volunteer medic has been killed by israeli fire and gaza as protests take place along the border the demonstrations are testing and on the easy truce between hamas and israel on thursday that seems far followed two days of intense violence in which at least three palestinians were killed in israeli airstrikes zimbabwean

president emerson monday god has had his inauguration delayed it because of a legal challenge to the electoral victory lawyers for the main opposition party filed the case that the supreme court in harare they say they have not left evidence of fraud. heavily armed taliban fighters have stormed the central afghan city of gosney attacking police checkpoints and government buildings a local health official says at least sixteen people have been killed the fighters try to overrun the city setting off a day long clashes with u.s. backed off guard forces well those are the headlines stay with us now plenty more ahead inside story followed by news our.

dozens of children are killed in air strikes in yemen that i made the outrage and calls for investigations broader questions into what is the international community's role in this war and what can be done to stop it this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm hooked up to him yemen is routinely called the world's worst humanitarian crisis but sometimes an individual event can bring that face talk lee into focus that's what happened on thursday when a series of air strikes in the norden province of sada killed dozens of people most of them.