until now we don't have reports of major incidents security wise and are we getting an idea of the amount of not to not. know how much are we getting an idea of how turnout has been because we know that in the first round it was it hovers around forty percent so has it been higher this time or lower. i mean it takes time for these figures to come out we know that according to our own personal observations the turnout today until just an hour ago was very weak compared to july twenty ninth oh this was a rainy day of course and many people were injured i'm i can i can suppose by the iranians now it's taken off but still i saw more crowds on july twenty ninth today remember many open seats and parties have probably abandoned the race and they haven't been mobilizing their supporters to come and vote many opposition leaders some of the those twenty three candidates have told the mileage he said the

head of the opposition was running against the first and they told him. not to go to sleep they're not going to support him in person but they don't mind if their supporters come and vote but that doesn't amount to mobilization of the of their party members all their supporters to come on folks who they thought. there was a feeling among the opposition that there is a fait accompli and the president by him because he thought it would win anyway whether by fraud or by you know normal voting by his by the supporters ok michael thank you giving us that update from bamako well you can head online for more on that crucial runoff that's where you can read more about the election as well as the candidates and you can click on other links as you can see related to mali on the right hand side of the page. it has taken twenty two years but it's looking like russia iran john turkmenistan and cousin don are close to settling their differences over the caspian sea their leaders signed a convention in port city in because

a court city of act how it establishes rules for declaring each country's territorial waters and fishing zones but the issue of carving up the resorts rich seabed will be negotiated later nonetheless the russian president vladimir putin says the agreements a good start and will be crucial to regional security and beyond. species is up us this to the u.n. security is very important and this is what underpins our agreements which is this region has an influence on afghanistan on the middle east so this really affects the basic interests states and we need to pull together to combat the threat of terrorism and trans boundary criminality while iran's leader hailed steps towards sharing the caspian's natural resources adding it was a good sign of their support of the iran nuclear deal but he falls into as bad a jumble involved in the five countries efforts to support the iran nuclear deal is a good step towards expanding regional cooperation and the betterment of relations

between us the natural resources of the caspian sea belong to the five countries bordering it so to prevent any dispute in the areas we have not negotiated we must avoid any unilateral exploration of the natural resources in this area so why have all these nations spent decades squabbling over the caspian sea while in short there's a lot of money to be made let's begin by getting a grasp of the size it's the largest in the body of water in the world with seventy thousand cubic kilometers of water it's also bigger by volume than both the north and baltic sea the five countries surrounding it want their fair share of riches that lie beneath it's believed to have reserves of forty eight billion barrels of oil that's more than nigeria or the united states and eight point three trillion cubic meters of natural gas roughly the same size as saudi arabia it's also an important source of one of the world's most expensive delicacies caviar

a kilogram can fetch up to twenty five thousand dollars per kilo or a chalons covering this story for us from moscow so as they say the devil is in the details rory what more do we know about this agreement. well it's a big step forward as you say it's been decades in the making and has had serious rocky patch is along the way these five countries have essentially been negotiating pretty much since the end of the soviet union back in one thousand nine hundred two and essentially the crux of the problem was could you call the caspian sea a lake or is it a see now this agreement that they have reached basically says that it's not quite one and not quite the other and that there are going to be different rules apply as to the surface of the water to those applied to the seabed now

the rules are applied to the top of the surface and basically mean that they can all access so they can all share it. and it's a sort of common resource essential the when you get down below the surface down towards all this. very valuable hydro carbon deposits underneath the world that gets a little more complicated and they haven't yet properly delineated who exactly gets water that's going to come in future negotiations. one thing they've also decided in this summit the fifth of these caspian sea summits he's that the the area is basically going to be a kind of lock out zone exclusive to the countries that share its shoreline no other power is going to be allowed to have any military presence there so they don't want any any other people mess and messing in these waters essentially so the

united states europe nato china whatever they're all out of it this is just belonging to the countries that surround it ok rory thank you. well some of the thousands of saudi arabian students order to return from canada appear to be pushing back the kingdom wants them home as its diplomatic dispute with canada simmers along fintan monica has this reports. saudi students in canada or caught up in a diplomatic conflict they've been ordered by their government to leave the country in the middle of their studies it blows count as call for jailed human rights activists in saudi to be released the universities say transferring so many students will be a logistical nightmare and could leave many with nowhere to go if there is one victim in all of this and this is important to keep in mind it is the sixteen thousand students that are being recalled to saudi arabia or who will be transferred to other countries you cannot transfer sixteen thousand students within a week or two this is complicated some of them were in the last stages of their ph

d.'s some of them were medical students doing internships or fellowships in very specialized fields that will take time many students are not happy at being told to go home a saudi student group issued a press release urging their leaders to keep them out of the political route we kindly urge the government to immediately reverse its decision and work to stop the repercussions of the saudi government's policy which will affect the future of thousands of graduates canadian students unions are trying to help them cope with the uncertainty surrounding their academic future what we're seeing is a student scrambling and panicking about where they're going to be ending up in the next four weeks studies are starting in starting in the fall and around september so students don't know where they're going and we're quite concerned that students are being involved with then a political dispute between saudi arabia and canada and we don't believe that students should be affected by that prime minister justin trudeau says canada will

continue to defend human rights around the world but saudi arabia sold this as an interference internal affairs and responded with a range of measures it ordered the canadian ambassador to be expelled a new trade investment to be suspended but beyond the diplomatic and economic costs the students represent the human consequences of the growing dispute vinton monahan al-jazeera. now four days into the saudi kazan diplomatic crisis there are plenty of people talking about the plight of students and there are several tweets like this one this is awful for the students this person says many who are not likely to be in canada over the summer but now scrambling with what to do with their lives unjust they call it others are also pleading for saad arabia to consider the life career dreams of saudi students in canada in this use it says let them complete their studies and feel considered as well it's a human right to pursue knowledge and wisdom and here's also sweets by a student who asks on twitter how he's expected to defend his dissertation which is

due in two months now so it approaches saudi troll reply just come back home and work in a mobile shop now the students who who was an undated rather with responses like that forced him in a way to delete his tweets but many people have also reacted to the statement by the saudi student group in canada mentions and for instance report you just heard their country to reverse their decision but not everyone a number of saudis have implied online that this shouldn't committee is actually a fake while the kingdom's government is swinging into action to bring the chutes home it's commission for health speciality is reportedly announce it's ready to support saudis and canada to come back and complete their education now earlier we spoke to more money she's a professor of political sciences at university of waterloo and told us that it's unlikely that the dispute between the countries will end soon and here's why.

unfortunately the saudi canadian diplomat it will not go away easily or quickly i believe that the saudis want a very formal and public visit the prime minister justin trudeau to visit riyadh and to seek forgiveness from king so man or head the crown prince mohammed bin cement and that is just untenable politically for any sovereign canadian government and certainly would mean the political death for the liberal party currently in power and some of my assessment is that this is going to last for quite some time perhaps until the next election of october twenty nine hundred in canada and the prospect of this ending quickly is probably not going to happen well we want to hay from name a b. or a canadian or a thousand students in quotes up in this diplomatic around say get in touch with us well elizabeth on facebook is telling us that this dispute shouldn't even exist there was no reason for saudi arabia to start this in the first place just like the blockade on qatar that is one point of view well moving on to another story we're

covering here on the newsgroup and it's now been six hundred days or well over a year and a half since al jazeera journalist mahmoud hussein was arrested and jailed in egypt without charge he's accused of broadcasting false news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions allegations he as well as al-jazeera deny the media network and others are demanding his release as laura burden manly reports. locked up in solitary confinement al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein is yet to have any formal charges brought against him the egyptian national was stopped questioned and detained in december two thousand and sixteen after traveling from doha where he was based to visit his family in cairo he's been held in the notorious tour a maximum security prison where he's complained of mistreatment hussein and al

jazeera strongly deny the allegations against him that he broke last false news writing letters in the last. african thing to me in a lot of the good offices. democracy in the country but he's a lot of people which include press freedom and freedom of expression egypt level similar charges against al jazeera trio bahama hammad mohamed fahmy i'm peter greste five years ago and as there are explore editor in chief ibrahim helal was sentenced to death and absentia two years ago. reporters without borders ranks egypt one hundred sixty one out of one hundred eighty countries in this year's watch press freedom index it says at least thirty two journalists are being held in egyptian jails few have been put on trial most of been detained for months or years and over a being held on trumped up charges. those imprisoned included gyptian

journalist mahmoud abbas say it known as shock and he's been locked up for five years reporting on the rubber square protests in cairo where hundreds of protesters were killed and thousands injured recently shall can be nominated for unesco is press freedom prize and multi award winning journalist well about us had its home raided a may and was arrested and detained. as a to. some authority is target what they describe as fake news new law also passenger lie to support the arrests of journalists they allow the state to block social media accounts and detain journalists who have more than five thousand followers the existing laws which are already being used. suppressed media freedom new laws more wishes. many more who are not even journalists but will be honest and because they want to express their opinion supporters of president sisi say they

will safeguard freedom of expression. but rights groups say it will give legal basis for egypt to crack down on criticism or to send more about manly al-jazeera when you're the news group if you're watching us on facebook live we have a video for you coming up on the struggles facing those making the journey from gaza to mecca and ahead on the show israel's prime minister a blast the latest massive protests against his nation state law can the critics keep up the heat. hello there for many of us across the middle east there's plenty of dry weather at the moment further north though we are still seeing a fair amount of cloud here that's giving some of a somewhat weather including us in al-mahdi although it does look like it will

begin to break up and move away as we head through monday on monday then our marty will be up at twenty six of course in touch and will be thirty five towards the west still a fair amount of cloud here between the black sea in the caspian sea and they could be a few more showers as we head through monday and into tuesday a little bit further towards the south it's hot in baghdad as you'd expect at forty two degrees at the moment and pretty hot here in doha fortunately at the moment though the winds are coming down from the northwest so the air is quite dry it's not humid and that's the way it's going to stay for monday and tuesday to the south coast of oman little bit more cloud there building as we head through tuesday and that will again be giving us some drizzle down towards the southern parts of africa and here there's plenty of fine weather to be found but there is a bit more cloud just in the southwest that's been giving us a fair amount of rain and there's another batch edging its way towards us so it will be warm under that cloud a maximum temperature just of thirteen degrees around some of the coast is likely to give us some drizzle further inland of course it is warm as you'd expect force

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along to the protest followed in the footsteps of a druze led german strace in that packed the same city square a week ago the law defines israel as the nation state of the jewish people and don't grades the status of the arabic language critics liken it to apartheid we allude to freeze it is believed. to be equal to the jewish state but the people that leave. to be equal to us because the border israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu reacted angrily to the protest saying it reaffirms why he and his government wanted to pass the law. i'm going with more of the blue and the food really but from what we saw the palestine liberation organization flags yesterday flying in the heart of tel aviv in the heart of tel aviv we heard the chants with blood in fire we will redeem

palestine many of the protesters want to cancel the law of return for jews they want to an old the end they want to fold up our flag they want to nullify israel as the nation state of the jewish people and turn it some of them say into an israeli palestinian state others will say a state of all its citizens precisely for this reason we passed the nation state law earlier we spoke to law professor eugene who helped draft that nation state law and this is his response to suggestions it's discriminatory nothing in the law discriminates against any individuals based on any basis it does not take away anybody's rights and it does not give a special rights to any individuals the notion of having an official language of the majority language in the country is not a weird idea most western european liberal democracies have it and every arab country has that there's nothing racist there's nothing discriminatory in this law and of course the fact that you can have huge protests in tel aviv with the

palestinian flag is a sign of how vibrant israeli democracy is this is a democracy that functions this is a democracy where even the harshest critics of the existence of the country can speak out in the middle of tel aviv if only we could have such demonstrations in ramallah let's bring in harry farsight is joining us from west jerusalem so as we're saying that idea who defiant those around him that support that law defiance as well how will those who oppose it carry their fight forward. well as he said this is the second such protest in two consecutive saturdays first by the minority druze community who very much felt betrayed by this law given the fact that they are subject to the draft that they serve in the israeli military that they have long backed the israeli state tens of thousands some fifty thousand out during that protest last night a bit smaller twenty five to thirty thousand and different in character as well it

was called by israeli palestinians who have long felt many of them discriminated against in this country and so that was their chief opposition or reason for opposition to this law but it continues what they have seen as a long narrative of discrimination and unfair treatment inside israel and so it was very much then that the prime minister's words were targeted highlighting the fact that there were some dozens of palestinian flags held aloft during this demonstration i think it was quite clear in his remarks that he wants to characterize a substantial part of the east of the opposition to the law as being opposition to israel as a state however that isn't quite the full story the polls show that there are among jewish israelis there is about fifty eight percent support but if you break it down

a bit more it's slightly more complex among centrists it's split fifty fifty there are many leading israeli politicians members the establishment who are concerned about this law about what it says about israeli democracy about the potential continuation of divisions between israeli jews and the jewish diaspora there has been a story of the last few years of a feeling of separation between american jews especially democrat american jews and the increasingly right wing nature of the electorate in this country and so the question is now what does this protest movement. have any legs there's no protest settled for this saturday at least but there are challenges in the israeli court system there are petitions which challenge the constitutional nature of this law the israeli justice minister has said that if there is an attempt a successful one to overturn this law in the high court that would set off an earthquake between the branches of israeli government they have made it very clear

that they want to see this law remain on the statute books the chief justice however has said simply that their actions will be governed by the rule of law ok harry foster thank you well if you had online author susan writes about this new nation state law on al jazeera dot com she says that it follows in the footsteps of nazi era legislation as these laws in similar fashion deemed citizenship a privilege exclusive to certain peoples and the remainder are classified as state subjects without citizen shipwrights her op ed is online at al jazeera dot com meanwhile a confidential report by israeli military investigators has shed more light on why an armed drone killed four palestinian boys on a gaza beach and twenty fourteen it's leaked to the online publication the intercept the report contains testimony from officers involved in that attack who say the children were mistaken for hamas fighters in broad daylight that's despite

the fact that israel's army said high definition live video feeds would help them avoid killing palestinian civilians the killing of the four cousins aged between nine and eleven prompted an international outcry mary is joining us from our london news center with more of the headlines now hi mary. hi there during yes we begin with some developments from jordan three attackers that thought to be behind a bombing have been killed in a police raid security forces stormed this building west several suspects were hiding they eventually blew up the building four police officers were also killed and five other suspects arrested the raid was in connection to a homemade bomb attack on friday and for haste which killed one person in afghanistan taliban fighters a pushing to take control of the police headquarters in gaza any two days after they stormed the city security checks are being conducted on the kabul guys me

highway as the fighting continues u.s. aircraft have conducted at least four as strikes in support of afghan national forces who insist the city is not under threat of collapse i am adela security analyst based in kabul he explains the significance of controlling the central afghan city. spirted you could you that's me is an important city hundred fifty kilometers east of kabul city situated on the highway connecting kabul to kandahar. which is what side controls because me can control the neighboring provinces as real. as any it has but yeah and it's neighborhood and if. there were many countries of us need then it's easy for the government to. send troops in. to describe it says so strategically it's an important stooge city and. country as the city has

a strategic and it weren't beach so the government says that they heard reports of the taliban attacks about their doctor expect. such an attack on the city and the nature of the arctic is different destroying. taliban huge already makes a number of suicide tactics but this time. number of suicide attacks were out of large in number and the first. covered a number of suicide attacks and in the. city so it was strange the new part of the government otherwise the government had expected. to take on the city. an explosion in northern syria has killed at least eighteen people the cause of the blast is unclear but opposition activists suspect a rebels on staff was detonated dozens of people were also wounded when the five story building collapsed in some of the. now nobel prize winning british author vs

ny paul has died at the age of eighty five it was one of the first one is of the leading british literary award the book of prize a popular book controversial right have penned more than thirty books reports. that oh i think you know it is hard to get a sense through video dollars through a press pool was born into an indian family in trinidad in the west indies in one nine hundred thirty two he was the son of a civil servant and want to scholarship to study english literature and oxford university. naipaul's early work focused on the caribbean he traveled the world and chronicled the histories of people whose stories had not been written he also focused on the themes of migration displacement exile and rootlessness i think we should remember in full swatches just with i think what an exceptional writer he was in my opinion the greatest writer of english prose of the second half

of the twentieth century one of the things that happen to people who get the nobel prize is that they also get a lot of media attention naipaul received the nobel prize for literature in two thousand and one the swedish academy praised him as a philosopher who chronicled the stories of the vanquished i want to be a writer i wanted to. to do a series of books over to have a little of the book for the show fans flocked to read his self reflexive books and enjoy his unique voice which used the tools and the art of short stories to compose books that it just seems like the human condition the trauma of colonialism and the struggles of people in the developing world nine ball like any other human being or a writer had his drawbacks and. and there and problems. but that does mark. me my dad his

writing. can be it is rejected completely. all those writing was widely praised for its compassion his critics called him offensive bigoted and the sausage mystic. he was accused of being racist when portraying african societies and for talking islam most critics agree that night paul wasn't afraid to be offensive or eccentric and that he dared to write about his most unpleasant thoughts and present them to the public with honesty and a unique gift for storytelling he died at his home in london age eighty five well that's it from london for now i'll have more in about twenty minutes time for you let's get back to sarin now in doha thank you mary and all an estimated seventy thousand people on the japanese island of okinawa have been protesting against the planned relocation of a u.s. military base now that also come a they've come out in force to remember the governor of iowa who died on wednesday

and he's been fighting a very long battle in court against the government over the very existence of the marine base on the island now the dispute reflects centuries old tensions between the island and the japanese mainland which annex the islands now ok now island was the site of a bloody world war two battle now host most of the u.s. military forces in japan and locals want it removed all together they argue it's a burden in the japanese government says it's trying to compromise by moving it to a less populated area now there are about twenty six thousand u.s. troops on the island now a number of residents fear it will cause environmental problems at the bases new home. a new u.s. base with a v. shaped runways is planned to be built to replace the marine corps air station for demba. the construction of a new u.s. base has been imposed by the japanese government on to okinawa. for the sake of

military action conducted by the united states. despite the strong opposition of the okinawan people. are. together we must break from the coral reefs. now there have been several cases a few years that have fueled a perception that u.s. troops and workers that at the base pose a danger to locals last year worker at the base was jailed for life for the rape and murder of a twenty year old woman in okinawa now the case had spunk and see us protest then in twenty sixteen a drinking ban was imposed on us navy there for drunk and disorderly behavior back in twenty thirteen c. u.s. sailors admitted to raping a woman as well on the island and in one thousand nine hundred ninety five a high profile gang rape of a twelve year old go by three u.s. service personnel sparks huge protests as well now people have been sharing pictures from the protests on social media and here are some of them of families

and children that attended that protest and this picture here just shows you people protesting on the beach that's near the site where the construction is happening and some protesters there they got some kayaks out to reach the area of construction and i've got one here of a sit in the happens in the offices of the defense authority we want to hear your thoughts if you happen to dave in japan get in touch with us. sarah thank you well one of the most ambitious space missions has blasted off. three two one zero liftoff the one and a half billion dollar spacecraft contained in that rocket right there is expected to shatter records on several fronts the parkers solar probe will fly closer to the sun than any previous manmade object during a seven year quest it will eventually reach speeds of seven hundred thousand

kilometers an hour that's faster than any other spacecraft in human history for comparison it's fast enough to travel from new york to tokyo in a minute in this nation you can see the heat shield at the front of the probe right there it's designed to withstand temperatures in excess of a thousand degrees celcius. yes well the mission hopes to solve a number of scientific riddles why the sun's atmosphere is three hundred times hotter than its surface for example it also studied geomagnetic storms solar outbursts that are so powerful they can wipe out power grids on earth and scientists also hope to figure out why solar particles actually speed up while traveling through space let's bring in former nasa astronaut leroy chiao he's joining us from hong kong via skype thanks for speaking to us are you confident that this misson is going to be able to the solar program there is going to be able to fulfill its mission and what it set out to do. yes from all

everything that i've read about the probe it looks like it's a very exciting mission i'm very excited about it in the heavy stuff a successful launch this morning and as you mentioned in your report it's going to be touching the corona or the atmosphere if you will of the sun and help to unlock hopefully some of the mysteries including why is the corona three hundred times hotter than what is defined as the surface of the sun it will also study criminal mass ejections and sunspots and and other solar activity solar flares and all of those feed right into as you mentioned the possibility of disruption of communications of satellites and ground stations here on earth but also interfere with space exploration as we talk about sending astronaut crews farther in deeper into space it's important for us to understand what kind of radiation levels and contents have some of these things will contain and what strategies we can build to

counter those yet with having to do all of this what are the risks to this mission . well of course any spacecraft is there's a risk of some kind of failure and now the nasa spacecraft you know j.p.l. they have a long heritage of designing and building spacecraft and very successful spacecraft so i'm confident that this spacecraft has been well designed and and has a lot of redundancy built and of course it is breaking new ground as you mentioned it's going to be much traveling much faster than any other previous spacecraft and it's also going to do something unprecedented then that is actually get get in touch you know actually touch the corona of the sun so a lot of things could go wrong but i'm confident that j.p.l. its contractors have designed a very robust spacecraft and explain why this mission has been around for more than sixty years yet it's only now that this probe has been able to get up there and

explore. well this is an ambitious mission we have never sent a probe to the crone of the sun before there's been other probes in the past that have you know examine the sun the observer the sun and you know are stars about four billion years old is a medium sized class and class c. star but it's you know it's kind of an average star and so it's very important that we understand it because that'll help us understand other stars in the universe and you know as i mentioned hopefully unlock some of those mysteries that we don't quite understand of how stars work so you know it has been a long time coming. dr parker for whom this probe is named first postulated the solar wind decades ago he was actually ridiculed by most of his peers and turns out he was of course right so it's really and a special honor i think that this probe was named after him still a still living scientist and that's also a first yet it is

a project that does cost millions of dollars do you believe that the benefits outweigh the costs here in terms of the kind of direct benefits and direct results that the public will get to see. well absolutely i mean it's impossible to tell exactly what benefits will drive down the road but understanding more about coronal mass ejections and solar flares and things like that in the solar wind will help us to build more robust systems on both our communications satellites underground systems to be able to withstand these kinds of these kinds of burst from the sun in the future so it's impossible to tell exactly what tangible results are going to come out and benefit the average person here on the earth but the other piece of it is exploration this is exploration is science it's understanding another piece of our universe and that's just what the human human spirit is all about ok we thank you very much for speaking to us from hong kong to get your thoughts on the nasa a probe is featured online so if you head to our web site al-jazeera the com click

on the trending tab you'll get to this article and if you scroll all the way down you can check out this graphic right there on the solar probe as well as its mission. paul is here in a moment to tell us about the sports news and tiger woods is just four shots off the pace and in the hunt for his first major and a decade that stories coming up right after a snap shot off the world weather. in

an exclusive series of documentaries i was born into a very ordinary japanese family. shows five different stories i am just so excited to focus on anything else right now from five different countries and it was really rude. but i was supposed to leave. with the one journey no one in my family has ever been to mecca this is a joyful occasion the road to has an al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where every.

all is here now with the sporting tiger woods once again in contention at a major paul what's going on yes the ring we've been on the tiger watch in the sports department for quite a while now he's four shots behind leader brooks kept at the p.g.a. championship in missouri going into the final day's play saturday so him on the other players having to race to complete two rounds because of a rain delay on friday joining reports. thunder and lightning cut short the second round but as the sunshine returned so too did the hot shots were remarkably was one of those who had to finish two rounds on saturday i got to pin help the

fourth time a champion and it's time for the forty fifth's. speaking of champions mcelroy playing partner tiger woods has been waiting ten years to add to his school team league titles. but over the last three months he's inched closer to return to some of these basic goals brought on by the crowd tiger shot third round of sixty six to sit at eight under par and just pull shots hates tomorrow or said i'm not just myself i'm going to show lawrence it's softer scalable and. we can't go out there and is make a bunch of pars he's going to have to make make somebody. just five players stand between woods and the top of the leaderboard. a man to beat is two time u.s. open champion brooks kept he made a hot start and despite dropping shots late in the round kept can lead by to you from adam scott. i feel like if i do what i'm supposed to i should winning golf

tournaments yeah there's a lot of star power and then there should be it's a major championship you should see the best players in the world come to the top and and that's what you have and that's what's going to make this moment. very exciting to watch and. even with all that star power the shots of the day came from englishman matt wallace who aced the sixteen the world number seventy five was catapulted to five under par i had a tie for twenty first in his first weekend to parents at a major was joining us roster just you guys well as you can imagine the prospect of woods winning his first major in a decade has got fans really really excited take a look at this clip that was posted by the p.g.a. championship of the crowds standing at least ten deep at one of the holes one fun even tried to climb a tree to get a better look at the golf legend well on the subject of those crowds a local t.v.

station k.m. ovi tweeted this pic of the eighteenth hole before tiger showed up where there is hardly anyone there and afterwards. this is when he was playing a little bit upsetting if you were the player in the first picture not everyone is a fan of the mark lazarus saying how insufferable broadcasters are on mark when tiger woods is in contention look at his eyes look at him marching to the tee look at him inhaling oxygen exhaling carbon dioxide i think that's the right way round could be reverence be justified. porter saying a kid just passed out right before tiger teed off the rule after tiger hit the ball seemed to revive him and he looks fine now scary well finally this from two inches short tiger's going to be in one of the final groups in consecutive majors a year after not knowing if he'll play golf again let's about sink in for

a second well tiger woods was it safe to say something of a golfing prodigy in his time the world of a flat six now is proudly showing off its new one decade a norwegian seventeen year old young any a brit some beat his older brother henrik to win the european five thousand meter title just a day after also clinching the fifteen hundred meters or he's actually the first athlete to complete the double at the european level and the youngest winner on the european championship track in eighty four years both of his brothers have also previously one european championship gold. well you can get in touch with me using the hash tag a.j. news grids or tweet me at. it will be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. for now on you but. paul thank you and that'll do it for this newsgroup thanks very much for watching you can keep in touch with us on social media as ever just

a reminder to always use the a.j. news grid and all the other ways to connect our right there we will see you back here in studio fourteen fifteen hundred g.m.t. on monday thanks for watching but by. amidst a climate of violence and paranoia. 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 cost oppression. you find in latin america liberating a prison on al-jazeera. the sam's in archaeology graduate from iraq is also a part time going to pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in babylon most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasize the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life is part of life it's culture it looks ugly it sounds ugly and scares people from america's high streets to mexico's on the wild card is the side and who

controls the other side people in power follows the smuggling route and test the ease of acquiring untraceable weapons on american soil the weapon that was designed for war and it took you about five minutes to buy it. america's guns arming mexico's cartels on al jazeera congressman are you interested in stopping crime. after twenty two years of negotiations an agreement has been signed which could finally settle a territorial dispute over the caspian sea. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up six years on from a military coup the people of mali vote in

a runoff election to pick the new president. under thomas in the northeastern indian state open where there's real concern about a new register of citizens which is left million people off it's their concerns they're about to be made statements. three two one zero. liftoff. at nasa's latest mission is underway to send a probe to unlock the scientific secrets of the sun. after twenty two years of negotiations the leaders of russia iran kazakstan azerbaijan and turkmenistan have signed an agreement on the legal status of the caspian sea it means the five countries can move ahead with sharing out the resource rich in the body of water the largest in the world or a challenge reports from moscow. with the signature of five leaders more than two

decades of troubled waters could be receding into history the disputes over the legal status of the caspian sea has been churning since the collapse of the soviet union. in kazakstan four of the u.s.s.r. successor states and iran took a big step towards resolving it is that because you have passed the security and stability on the caspian sea are determined by the convention which we have signed naturally it opens a wide perspective for the tight cooperation of the caspian states for solving economic and transport issues these questions will improve the living standards of our peoples have cheney and that he has some admonish and we have shown in this convention that we stick to the principles of fairness although we did not determine the borderlines we mark that the countries with the coast of particular significance should take a special position that includes iran the dispute is centered on whether the largest inland body of water in the world is a lake or a sea defining it

a lake would mean the caspian should be divided equally amongst the five countries but if it's a c. then each state gets a share in proportion to the length of its shoreline the new agreements is that it's not quite either not a lake because of its size and not a sea because it's not connected to the world's oceans so the surface will largely be open for joint use whereas the floor will be divided between russia iran turkmenistan azerbaijan and kazakstan though the exact size of each country's lot is still to be agreed. at stake are several trillion dollars worth of oil gas and pipelines for years the full economic potential of this has been blocked by the lack of a settlement the u.s. government estimates caspian gas could boost global production by twenty seven percent over the coming decade but it's not just about energy. which it which to security is very important and this is what underpins our agreement this region has

an influence on afghanistan on the middle east this really affects the basic interests of our states and we need to pull together to combat the threat of terrorism and trans boundary criminality these summits also makes the caspian sea a lockout zone these leaders don't want anyone else meddling in their waters no country that doesn't share the shoreline will be allowed a military presence there rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. well now to our other top story this hour lines of voting in a presidential runoff likely to return incumbent abraham boubacar catered to power despite criticism over his handling of security and corruption the first round of voting in july was marred by violence with three election workers killed and voting materials destroyed opposition leaders to say who won nearly eighteen percent in the first round alleges voting fraud some six thousand troops have been deployed to

help with security on how to develop joins us live now from the capital bamako what's the turnout been like in voting today mohammed. hi then i have a not sure if you can hear me but i was just asking you about turnout in the second round of voting in mali today. yes what i'm not i can hear you are the turnout has been very slow throughout the day after this in the places we visited including this one i found i was one of the biggest and largest centers inside. we have seen it speaking out over the very. day progresses and i have seen crowds around me here i've been asking questions why are people crowding in the in the in the area between the classrooms where the voting is taking place are not going to vote

because when we go in quite the classrooms we don't see much happening outside the place is full of people discussing and some of those discussions it. looks like some of those discussions are about. problems happening in the space where i'm standing lists of observers representing the opposition party have been replaced in the middle of the day because the opposition party of so my this is a denied any relationship with these representatives so they brought a new list of people on the the people who came in the morning hours representatives of these opposition parties have now been. expelled from the polling booths and it has been you know like a great fuss about this here we don't know what's going on we know that there are problems it's not really smooth as we have noticed in the beginning of the day and this is only one place in mali we have about twenty three thousand polling stations across the country and we don't know what's going on there i think tonight who will

say we will have more reports about any violations there right and also on the shadowing this has been the threat of violence what can you tell us about the security situation. yes the government is not taking any chances according to their own statements and also as they said that they have increased the number of security personnel from their thousand to thirty six thousand and they have been trying to make sure that they spread across the country and be at all the polling centers we know that the government has very big issues with that you know presence the government has a very weak presence in many areas in the center of the country and in the north the center of the country and the north they represent more than two thirds of the territory of mali and those are the areas where the government doesn't have much presence so there are no guarantees that the security will be better now than on the first round on twenty ninth of july all right thank you very much with all the

latest on ronald and pam the come hundred. now dozens of activists and residents have gathered in the u.s. city of charlottesville to protest against racism a year after a white supremacist rally turned deadly there last year white supremacist and counter protesters clashed in the city's streets before a car was driven into the crowd killing a thirty two year old woman this year the city is holding a rally against racial hatred while over in washington d.c. hundreds of people are gathering for what's being dubbed a white civil rights rally organized by unite the right group and gallagher has more now from charlottesville. but we've been here since wednesday and for the most part it's been very peaceful and for one good reason there is a huge security operation here in place in charlottesville one of the biggest deployments of this state's police force in years but there has been of course also a lot of soul searching after last year's events much of the city's leadership stepped down including the mayor the chief of police many of the people on the

council here so for reflection is really about what happened many of the residents here blame external forces for what happened twelve months ago but a lot of other people say this was a reflection of the white supremacies that still exists in this city they want to see things happen like last stop and frisk of police on minorities more affordable housing they want to address those problems going forward but of course a lot of people are simply remembering the life of heather here the thirty two year old protester that was killed when that car was driven into the crowd last year we spoke to her mother just a couple of days ago and she said her one hope that the sacrifice her daughter made is that people will wake up and see what's happening in modern day america. well alan fisher has the latest now from washington and allan i can just see some people gathering there behind you what just tell us about events there where you are. yeah well this is lafayette park it sits right in front of the white house as you

can see perhaps the most famous building in the world just through the other side of the park there's a huge security operation underway here as well a lot of the streets will be closed off in the coming hours this is the part where the all right movement got their permission for the rally it's very rare in fact that no one in living memory can ever remember a request for a first amendment a band freedom of speech event being turned down in washington d.c. and what the police intend to do is keep the all right with their group of supporters and they've been given permission for up to four hundred on one side of the park and those have started to gather here already to confront them to tell them that their message is not welcome here they will be kept in another part and what we will see are two lines of police with what they call a decontamination zone in between trying to make sure that the two sides don't get close to one another so there can be no confrontation no physical confrontation although i'm sure they'll be plenty of shouting at one another it's interesting that jason castro who is the organizer of the unite the right rally who are coming

here in the next couple of hours he sent out an e-mail to supporters yesterday and he said what they should do is not bring any weapons not bring any intent to commit any act of violence and not bring any racist baggage know what that means we're not entirely sure i can tell you one of the people who will be speaking from the stage in the next couple of hours is david to christen a former imperial grand wizard of the ku klux klan now you might remember his name of the twenty sixth election campaign that's because he endorsed donald trump and it was controversial because it took donald trump a number of days to disavow that endorsement to say that he didn't want that sort of backing initially he said he didn't know who david was and then it was pointed out the dad actually met him on a number of occasions and that is one of the reasons there are so many people here because they believe that the all right is getting support tacit support from the white house called tommy well have tweeted out. in the last couple of hours that is against racism of any kind the belief that they believe he wasn't strong enough

last year when he said that it was problems of the bad people on both sides that he was unequivocal enough in condemning people who took to the streets in the united states and twenty seventeen and chanted see slogans and that is why we're expecting to see a lot of people here in the next couple of us interesting to know who's also to risk gathering here as well i just passed a couple who were saying that they come here to see what was going on this morning they were going off for brunch and then they were going to come back to see what was happening later on ok there you go thank you very much with all the latest from washington alan fischer. still ahead for you on the program taliban attacks key buildings in the southeastern afghan city of gasoline but the government and u.s. eight u.s. allies are saying they are still in control and they're returning home despite the danger we have a special report on the thousands of nigerians displaced by around.