each states 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 transponder criminality this summer it's also makes the caspian sea a lock out 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 will reach allan's al-jazeera moscow a polling station worker has been killed in an attack by an armed group in northern mali this is people vote in a presidential runoff like each returning commented brand boubacar cater to power the first round of voting in july was marred by violence with three election workers killed and voting materials destroyed opposition leaders somalis to say the one nearly eighteen percent in the first round alleges voting fraud man laval has more from the capital. the final hours of sunday have seen a little better turnout here in this polling center where i'm standing in. part is some two earlier in the day and also to what we saw on july twenty ninth body has

a bad history of turnouts and this one is not different a part of the opposition has been largely demoralized by the that is many of the opposition leaders got in the first round and many of them have refused to stand behind. the sisi who is now running against the president in the realm of. we have reports of some incidents in the north think looting the killing of the head of up. station in the region of timbuktu not clear yet why this man was killed nor the identity of the people who killed him also reports of a very low turnout in cuba in the north and that has been expected because of the insecurity that's widespread there in the north and in the center of the country. expectations here are about the president will win this vote by a large majority the opposition has failed to united socks and the opposition

leader the man running against. a sissy has made a strong call to opposition leaders to stand behind him but they have many of them have refused to do that so the conclusion that insults of this election are highly expected as a big win for president abraham. coming up on this news hour from london explain how u.s. sanctions against iran could also have a negative impact across the border in iraq. i'm andrew thomas in the northeastern indian state opus where there's real concern about a new register of citizens which is left four million people of its concerns there are about to be made streets. and fireworks to rafael nadal as he reaches the final in toronto tatiana appetite in sport.

taliban fighters have attacked police headquarters and other government buildings in gaza is the battle for the southeastern afghan city enters its third day u.s. ak raft have conducted at least four as strikes in support of afghan national forces who insist the city is not under threat of collapse but lawmakers from guys me say the taliban is in control of much of the city after launching an attack in the early hours of friday morning. over one hundred people many of them members of the security forces have been killed al-jazeera correspondent eunice a.t.'s seen sent us this update from kabul. this is choice is very tense a source told the just that taliban fighters attacked the election committee office in the city and they said the building on fire. didn't provide any further information meanwhile the afghan military chief of staff said that his troops can clear the city within two days he said also that there are more troops headed to

the city to assist the special forces that are already there fighting the remaining taliban fighters in the west side of the city there are little information coming from. the main road linking kabul where i am and that has me one hundred fifty kilometers to the east is broke now three days and electricity in it work at the the phone networks are not working even the local redos are off. so there is little information but our sources given us that. people are not very happy with the performance of the government managing this crisis now three days because people told us that they cannot even rescue the wounded people in the streets we don't have any clear idea on the numbers of civilian people wounded or killed in the cities because of numbers we have only one version of the story the ministry of defense said yesterday that they managed to kill one hundred fifty

thirty band members and they said also that they lost twenty six member soldiers between killed or wounded taliban has yet to comment on those numbers in one explosion in northern syria has killed at least thirty six people including civilians the cause of the blast is not clear but opposition activists suspect a rebel over staton it dozens of people were also wounded when the five story building. collapsed in sound and it led al-jazeera correspondent adam has some has . a problem and i was really happy about more than twenty people most of them women and children have been killed by an explosion in a weapons and ammunition depot and this basement here in these residential buildings these buildings are composed of two blocks each with five floors civil defense managed to recover ten people alive from under the rubble they were sent to nearby hospitals more than twenty others lost their lives and the civil defense

units are still working hard to recover more bodies also civil defense units are working on removing tons of rubble ambulance crews and civil defense units are on high alert and they might stay here for days and days working hard because of the difficult situation and the huge amount of rubble there's some expectations that the death toll might exceed thirty people it's worth mentioning that northern syria is full of civilians and displaced people on the high floors full of families despite the shelling and bombardment funerals of being held for some of the twenty nine yemenis school children killed in a saudi led coalition air strike on the day the united nations has called for a credible and transparent investigation into that deaths which happened when saudi m.r.c. warplanes struck us i am going to die has more from japan. is one of the many for those in yemen some of the provinces in mourning.

mohammad was his only son the nine year old was on the bus full of children the tools hit in a sodium. strike. well abused. my son used to go to the mosque and to school until the day before his death he told me that there was a trip to visit some other school i didn't want to let him go because he likes to swim and he's my only son to this but he promised me he's not going to swim and his mother asked me to allow him to go. muhammad and his classmates what a tonic from a school summer camp but when their bus stopped at the busy market it was targeted by airstrikes. i heard the shelling and i went out thinking a house has been hit as usual to kill women and children but i was shocked to hear by neighbor ibrahim whose son was with mine in the bus telling me that the children's bus had been targeted i shouted and i said i lost my son this was around nine am and i spent like three hours searching for my son until i received

a very bad news. this was the waltz the talk on children since humans brutal war escalated in two thousand and fifteen according to unicef thank you. to the front of the local hospital medical workers do what they come to treat the wounded while they're on the recent hours and overwhelmed. in a cemetery two to nine child sized graves have been prepared for the victims but the joint in rules been ruled out for now due to security concerns and fears over the talk some of the children will eventually be voted here the. sa the province is the baath place of the old rebellion of the target of most of the coalition's strikes. the conflict in yemen pits the richest countries in the region so that a be on the united arab emirates against the poorest the sodium at autocorrelation has been reports that criticised for targeting civilian areas in the war against

both the fighters which has killed thousands left millions on the brink of starvation mohamad all the while jazeera. a confidential report by israeli military police investigators says that on drone deliberately killed four palestinian boys playing on a gaza beach in two thousand and fourteen according to the online publication the intercept reporting includes testimony from officers involved in the attack you say the four cousins aged nine to eleven were pursued and killed by drone operators they were mistaken for hamas fighters the testimony raises new questions about whether the attack was carried out with reckless disregard for civilian life and without proper authorization. now in india four million people are waiting to hear why they've been excluded from the citizenship register authorities and as some states say the ones left out are illegal immigrants from bangladesh the government

insists it's a genuine attempt at a census but as andrew thomas reports from language in assam some believe the exercise is about whipping up nationalism ahead of elections all has been nessa knows about her is that her youngest sister is ninety seven so she must be older passport she says has her date of birth wrong but she does have an indian passport she is she insists indian. yet when the state government of a sound published a draft national register of systems or n r c list two weeks ago her name wasn't on it. it's insulting i was born here my father and my grandfather were born here we are all from here. about thirty three million people in assam four million are not on the register for us an unnecessary is on the list but his wife's name is missing as well as his mother's he thinks the whole list exercise is targeted at muslims only one lord can be described as disasters i mean when you are normal or

an indian citizen a minute you can be a pretty. ethnically and religiously assam has always been one of india's most diverse states but there's a perception among some of rampant illegal immigration from neighboring bangladesh . india's hindu nationalist b j p party in power at both national and state level says the only way to address it is to find those they call infiltrators and strip them of citizenship they cannot order the demography or the politburo for some movie in fact right just as some in this country should do lead for. the politics of india no demography of india no. you have. in some predominantly muslim villages a majority of people are not on the list most of this crisis meeting in langley a part of an extended family of fourteen just four of them are on the list people

here think the number left off the n.r.c. list has been kept the liberally high for political reasons they say the announcement of the could be as many as four million infiltrators in assam state is meant to send a signal nationally. prime minister narendra modi's government is facing reelection next year highlighting action against illegal immigration it will probably win the votes. are those missing from the list and there are many who are hindu as well as muslims can appeal if you yet are suggesting the porting those made statements just a severe restriction of their rights but that's little comfort to those who citizenship is in doubt and to thomas al-jazeera longer in a sense to india. or flash floods have killed thirty seven people in the southern indian state of carola some thirty six thousand others have been displaced and hundreds of homes destroyed have been morgan has more. days of torrential rains in kerala in southern india have caused flash floods and dams to overflow dozens of

people have been killed some have drowned swept away by fast running water others buried in landslides and wouldn't thirty thousand people have been displaced. we got a guy there are around three hundred houses here which flood. the water has entered we came out of the houses in a hurry and our clothes our records our property papers identity card passport everything is left inside the house we couldn't bring out a single piece of paper even the books of our children and their uniforms are all inside the house. heavy rains are not need to corella but this year state authorities have described the floods as the worst in almost one hundred years eight of the fourteen districts are on high alert around fifty million dollars worth of crops have been destroyed since the end of may a huge evacuation operation began with thousands of people now sheltering in rescue camps they're relying on aid after losing almost everything they owned more than

one thousand two hundred. lengths or days and in middle age and there isn't everybody is staying here but the or lasted three days they are all here and so many people and organises and are helping us despite the floods hundreds of him to divert east on saturday gathered at the aloofness evil temple which is itself partially submerged to perform the annual celebration rituals known as vava bali. pres are offered for the salvation of the souls of ancestors this year they're also praying for those lost in the floods and that no more lives are lost before the end of the mountains in people morgan al-jazeera. still ahead for you on the program held without charge six hundred days into his arrest al jazeera journalist mom which you say remains in an egyptian jail. exploring the legacy of v.s. naipaul the nobel prize winning also who has died at the age of eighty five and in

spite of the baltimore orioles break a fifty year record but it's not one to be proud of the owner explaining the sport . hello there for many of us across the middle east that's plenty of dry weather at the moment for the north though we all still think a fair amount of cloud here that's giving some of us 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 he will be up at twenty six of course in touch and will be thirty five towards the west still a fair amount of clouds here between the black sea and the caspian sea and they could be a few more showers as we head through monday and into tuesday 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 invent top will be twenty eight degrees for harare twenty five. denied citizenship. health care and education. forced from their homes to live in camps. subject to devastating physical

cruelty. al-jazeera world investigates one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. silent abuse. a new village committed as been enacted and is grappling with the oddest tosca sustaining a community but residents of this chinese village have grown impatient and have want to consign inside. the reclamation of batman and democracy is complicated. hard to have a six part series founded by five years and china's democracy experiment on al-jazeera.

welcome back just a quick reminder of the top stories dozens of activists and residents have held a vigil in the u.s. city of charlottesville to mark the one year anniversary of the death of a woman killed during a white supremacist rally. the leaders of russia iran kazakstan azerbaijan and turkmenistan of all signed an agreement on the legal status of the caspian sea that means they can share the rip out the resource rich in land already of water. and a polling station official has been killed in an attack by an armed group in northern mali people vote in a presidential runoff likely to return incumbent to bring him to power. now u.s. president donald trump's decision to reimpose sanctions on iran is expected to have an impact on its neighbor iraq it has

a fifteen hundred kilometer border with iran and goods and people crossing daily reports from the border district of penguin in iraq. each day trucks slowly wind around treacherous roads in the zag gross mountains carrying goods from iran to iraq since the u.s. announced it was reimposing sanctions against iran rumors and uncertainty are also traveling back and forth across the border iranian bus driver rahman adela is worried soon the border will close and his job of six years will disappear really doesn't mean it wasn't a game you know it's one hitch it really i don't know because you can expect anything here the politicians haven't made any agreements if they make an agreement it should be for the sake of the poor people iran is iraq's second largest trading partner it exports fruits and vegetables fuel and home furnishings and for about

a decade it is also provided electricity here and when district and other iraqi border towns the iraq central bank has prohibited all iraqi banks from conducting business with iran in u.s. dollars robertson on the words we think the situation will get worse by the day the iranian currency is dropping against the dollar it's halting business between iran and the kurdish region. people are already coping with an economic crisis in iraq shoe store owner robin raman says iranian shoes offer the right blend of quality and affordability for his cash strapped customers but they were dumped off ali especially in the last few years we're buying a lot of shoes from iran in the good quality but now the situation is different last week i was there and because of the fluctuation in the iranian currency against the dollar most of the factory ceased production so buying shoes in iran was difficult. for as long as the almost fifteen hundred kilometer border has been

recognized smugglers have crisscrossed between iraq and iran. are common in this life that i live for sure it's uncontrollable because there are social historical and perhaps religious relationships between the two countries in the end these relations trade will continue. but merchants are wondering how to conduct business in such an unpredictable climate with no guidance coming from their government yet and no idea what will happen next in iran natasha can aim in penge when district on the iraq iran border it's been six hundred days since al jazeera journalists know what he's saying was arrested and jailed in egypt without charge is accused of broadcasting false news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions which is sane and al-jazeera strongly deny the allegations and his immediate release laura button monny 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 off a troubling 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. has complained of mistreatment hussein and al jazeera strongly deny the allegations against him that he broke last false news women writing letters even asking. african union playing to be in a lot of the good offices speaking of christians he promises democracy in the country but he's a lot of our long and happy lives which include press freedom and freedom of expression egypt level similar charges against al-jazeera trio bonhomme hammered mohamed fahmy i'm peter greste five years ago al-jazeera arabic former 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 i was a it known as shall can he's been locked up for five years reporting on the robbers 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 had its home raided a may and was arrested and detained. as the egyptian authorities target what they

describe as fake news new laws were passed in july 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 existing laws which are already being used to. suppress media freedom new laws wishes. and who are mounting unjust. we're realistic because we want to express that opinion supporters of president c.c. 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. al-jazeera. rebecca vincent is the u.k. bureau directive for reporters without borders and joins me in the studio now thank you very much for coming to speak to us so as we're hearing there are some six hundred days since journalist mahmoud is saying was arrested in egypt and jailed

without charge how would you describe the treatment of the media journalists by this government well first of all mahmoud hussein should never have spent a single day in prison the fact that it's now been six hundred days is simply unthinkable to reporters without borders has many times and we reiterate this called for his immediate and unconditional release he's one of at least thirty six journalists and citizen journalists that we know of who are currently jailed in egypt in connection with their work so this problem is clearly broader than just this case but the fact that it has been so long and that he has not been formally charged in that long period is frankly it's appalling is there anything that can be done because it seems as though this is part of a broader crackdown that we've seen on civil rights activists prominent critics of the government they say it's all on national security grounds but ultimately international criticism from the u.n. human rights office more recently seems to fall on deaf ears yes it's absolutely related to his journalism that he's been targeted the charges against him and other

journalists are ludicrous and the real reason is is definitely their exercise of the right to freedom of expression. egypt must comply with these decisions of the u.n. bodies for example the working group on arbitrary detention has condemned this case and called for his release egypt is a member of the human rights council so quite frankly it must hold itself to the standards that if it has committed itself to at the international. well and on its own. now you recently worked on a campaign of reporters without borders has been looking into recent developments in egypt where access to hundreds of websites have been blocked in the country so last summer it started with dozens and then exploded to hundreds of websites have been blocked we know of more than five hundred websites now currently blocked by this regime including more than one hundred news sites such as al-jazeera reporters without borders site was one of those blocks or two days ago on the one year anniversary of our site being blocked we are blocked at through a a project called operation collateral freedom which created a mirror site so now r.s.s.

site is available via that mirror site once again in egypt and what's interesting is that this is taking place in a broader international climate of mounting pressure on journalists certainly we see in the middle east but we also see it in western countries and particularly in the united states there's been a lot of hostility towards the media and that definitely a road to the public's trust and media of reaction like this just serves to further deteriorate press freedom which is declining around the world we were quite a lot on declining democracies as well something my bureau here does in the u.k. as well the u.k. a government accountable for its actions because we're stronger when we hold ourselves to the same standards and when western countries are slipping that certainly doesn't help our position in dealing with countries like egypt where we must take a stronger position the u.k. for example should not be continuing with business as usual in egypt when there are journalists behind bars in connection with their work can anything be done be done beyond the international criticism and calls for change well it certainly hurting egypt's international image and i think the more our efforts like that will help to

to mount pressure on the egyptian authorities to do the right thing and release these people as long as business as usual is continuing with with their bilateral partners i think these calls will just fall on deaf ears so we would call on governments that have relations with egypt to make sure that this is not being compartmentalised that they're hearing about human rights concerns about press freedom concerns in all negotiations with egypt. all right well thank you very much interesting to get your thoughts rebecca vincent u.k. bureau director from reporters without borders. one of nasa says most ambitious space missions has blasted off three two one zero liftoff. a park a solar probe will fly into the sun's atmosphere that's closer than any previous satellite the probable travel at speeds of seven hundred thousand kilometers an hour and brave temperatures of more than a thousand degrees the numbers a quite staggering the probe will travel one hundred ninety kilometers per second

for the next seven years that'll make it the fastest moving manmade object in history it will get as close as six million kilometers from the sun the previous record was forty three million kilometers and it will have to endure temperatures of thirteen hundred degrees celsius well we spoke to the astronomer francisco diego he told al-jazeera that the knowledge gained from this mission will be invaluable this spacecraft is going to fly into the inner part of the solar could all of this sort of is the external atmosphere of the sun we see charged with energetic particles magnetic fields is very thin kind of blast much but it interacts with the earth this sun and the air interact through this sort of corona and we get all these going over the ocean particles what the mc particles of magnetic fields distort us is really magnetic storms that come on affect our satellites and they probably disable some of our satellites on the earth they come out produce enormous

damage through. our power distribution networks here on the grid so the earth gun can produce no muss a block of the thrust up in several times in the past when we have very powerful magnetic storms in the sun so we need to learn more about all these things and this is the mission of these spacecraft. coming up very shortly we will explain why these ballet dances are being given the right of way on mexico's usually jested brotherhoods. and in sport jorge lorenzo playing says the austrian grand prix title tassie on it has all the details from the mostly g.p. . a firebrand thank you love your people and wonderful talking about passing people up for women's liberation. for a victory for any body sexual assault continued an iconic feminist and seminal

writer i'm waiting for solution yes we need to do something well to wait on dear boy i'm not going to meet some other man he has sand goes head to head with. i can't do anything else on the al-jazeera. in this new delhi swell artistic expression has thrived for generations. now real estate developers want to go on. tomorrow or disappear i will close documentary on al-jazeera.

a nobel prize winning author v.s. naipaul has died at the age of eighty five he was one of the first women. want to book a prize the popular but controversial writer penned more than thirty fiction and nonfiction books for. her right to criticize. a video 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 or oxford university naipaul's early work focused on the caribbean he travelled the world and chronicled the histories of people whose stories had not been written he also focused on the themes of migraine.