should we're called the mob we're not called the hey there is no worry here. in ma i. scriptures where we're called to hate so that's what i'm nowhere near it's starkly different from what happened twelve months ago when white nationalists and counter protesters clashed fifty two year old had to here was killed charlottesville became a flashpoint over the fate of statues of soldiers who fought for slavery activists say racism still exists here but the community is pulling together local organizers continue to come together to find ways to protect each other because we know that the city and these institutions are here for us in our first and so what i've seen is an amazing resilience from the community who is standing up and speaking up and showing up for things like the day after a year of reflection some things have changed in charlottesville the city's under new leadership but challenges remain the confederate statues that spot last year's

trouble still stand and many here say deep rooted racism is still a problem at the gallacher al-jazeera charlottesville virginia. let's move on to other news now in five countries on the shores of the world's largest and land body of water have finally decided on how to divide its vast resources the agreement between russia. and azerbaijan but open the way for exploration of the caspian sea vast gas and oil resources roy chalons reports. 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 type 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 in some admonish 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 sea 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 transparent criminality this summer it's also makes the caspian sea a lockout zone these leaders don't want anyone else meddling in their water is no country that doesn't share the shoreline will be allowed a military presence there rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. the turkish lira has

plans to another record low amid concerns of a rising inflation and newly imposed u.s. tariffs the lira fell to seven point two four against the dollar early monday morning trading in the asia pacific the turkish lira has lost about forty percent of its value this year turkey's finance minister says he'll start implementing a new economic plan to ease investor concerns on monday what turkey has blamed the freefall and currency on a plot plot to attack its economy turkey's president says the us had given him a deadline to release a past of being tried by a turkish court on terrorism charges. as washington threatened sanctions if refused to release andrew bronson by last wednesday. we have plenty more ahead on the next hour including back to school thousands of nigeria's displaced children and their families return home but under the looming threat of book. how trade between iraq and iran is under threat from donald trump sanctions and sported new singers and

battle similar outcome for manchester city tatiana will be here to explain. it's been three days of intense fighting between afghan forces and the taliban and a city a key provincial capital that connects couple with kandahar dozens of people are believed to have been killed since taliban fighters stormed the city in an attempt to seize control some residents have managed to escape say government buildings have been set on fire the u.s. military has been conducting air strikes to support afghan troops on the ground well al jazeera. and as a monitoring those developments from the capital kabul. this is choice university is very tense a source told just zero 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 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 now three days the electricity in its 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 city

speaking of numbers we have only one version of the story is 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 the n.l. with the government says the southern state of carolina is facing an unprecedented crisis off its worst floods in decades claimed thirty seven lives over the past week more than half the state is still on high alert careless chief minister estimates that damages amount to all of a billion dollars or morgan reports. 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 waters others buried in landslides and wouldn't thirty thousand people have been displaced. there

are around three hundred houses here which floodwater has entered we came out of the houses in a hurry and our clothes our records our property papers identity cards 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 corral them 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 people and their lengths or dates and middle age and there isn't everybody is staying here but. lasted three days they are all here

and so many people and organises and are helping us despite the floods hundreds of him to devote on saturday gathered at the 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 moon some say in hebrew morgan august. to nigeria now where in the northeast thousands of people displaced in violence by boko haram are finally returning home and families are leaving the relative safety of camps and my the greatest strength start rebuilding their lives but as for the rest of course the journey back is still fraught with danger. they set off on a two hundred eighty kilometer journey home most of them are going to their town for the first time since boko haram over only five years ago the destruction that

greeted them was unimaginable yet most are glad they are all. nigeria's government says four hundred thousand homes were destroyed in borno state alone over nine years about one hundred thousand have been rebuilt despite the huge challenges in the process of constructing it we experience. does this one the second difficult didn't we we have the transportation the building materials which is also another problem another issue is. skill level two added to that is a like of money. while some displaced persons of return home thousands more remain in camps like this they say it's still on safe to go back to be religious despite assurances from the security forces their warre now is whether or not they will continue to receive help in the camps many of the people here in my degree say they

would rather remain in relative safety of the city but risk attacks by book or on fighters and when my son there is no adequate security there are no schools or shelter that's why we've not gone back. but for some communities the road to recovery is a bit smaller. from what a lady whose husband was killed by boko haram got a two miles now to later on we are grateful that we have a roof over our head but it's been quite a struggle living without him and there's no want to help us out. religion one was rebuilt from scratch it now has a water supply a civil authority and a few soldiers more importantly the local school is up and running people here say the school is a symbol of defiance to book or arm whose ideology opposes western education and influences how many degrees al-jazeera nor these nigeria. the polls have

closed in mali is a presidential runoff and counting is under way much like the first round of violence and claims of electoral fraud have been major issues mama via has more from the capital bamako. the people of mali half once again been to the polls but this time for a decisive vote their choice was between current president abraham buck akita and opposition leader. the opposition had accused the ruling party of fraud during the first round and on sunday they claimed further violations. by news and present it started even yesterday the anti fraud brigade apprehended some youth with ballot papers already filled in with the name of the current president mali and city already know that their votes have been stolen and that the election has been manipulated is that. i've come here to mobilize the people to vote for the other candidate us this morning i noticed it fifteen to twenty voter bulletins were

missing in each also i found that in one room the government has two observers the opposition has none the organizers refused to allow our servers in we can't understand this several hours after the polls opened eighteen local observers who said they had a president of the opposition had to be expelled from a polling station in bamako the opposition denied any links with them and provided the new list of representatives there were also some reports of violence the head of a polling station in a village north of timbuktu was killed by unknown gunmen but the president's camp says there should be no cause for concern. without any doubt this is the most transparent electoral process in mali's democratic history a few months ago a new electoral law and other reforms were introduced at the request of the opposition the government has agreed to count the results at every single polling station separately upon

a demand from the opposition international observer missions have all praised the voting process in the first round of this sunday's turnout was reportedly very low in parts of the country particularly in the north the main opposition party came in a. second in the first round of voting in the two weeks since then opposition leader so my lissie failed to convince his colleagues and the other parties to join him in a united front that has left sisi with even less chance of winning there's a feel of the here same old talk of violations exchange of accusations and confusion in some polling stations and just as the president got the upper hand in the first round is widely expected to win the final vote today. the european union has are saudi arabia for more details about the arrests of female human rights activists and what charges they face so they has detained several women's rights activists in recent months some of them had campaigned for

the right to drive and an end to the kingdom's male guardianship system they detentions have triggered a diplomatic row with canada autobus call for the release of jailed activists led to the kingdom cutting ties and thousands of students from saudi arabia studying and canada have been ordered by their government to return home following the diplomatic dispute and john monahan has more. 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 posed as call for jailed human rights activists in saudi to be released the universities say transferring so many students would 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 to saudi. 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 our students scrambling and panicking about where they're going to be ending up in the next four weeks studies are starting starting in the fall and around september so students don't know where they're going and were 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 saw this as an interference in it's 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 into monohan al-jazeera. still ahead. a mentor thomas in the northeastern indian state of assam where there's real concern about a new register of citizens which is left four million people. that concerns what they're about to be made statements. the human cost of yemen's war parents mourn the loss of their children killed in a sally and the russian airstrike. i don't scold christiane arnaldo school was on her to stay view tatyana has the details next.

well again let's look at weather conditions across the americas in north america we've got to result temperatures on the eastern seaboard or twenty six for new york with a chance of showers we've got some heavy rain across parts of the south so dallas i think we could see some significant storm activity during the course of the day extending into parts of the west too and then heading on into choose stay still would like to see this area of rain persisting meanwhile across the pacific northwest again it remains pretty warm seattle are coming in at thirty degrees celsius for the south a few showers likely for the desert southwest should be dry picture in san francisco with highs of seventeen into central parts of america and we've got plenty of showers here from mexico looking fairly wet at times meanwhile for the showers likely down through the isthmus extending towards panama for the islands the caribbean weather conditions generally looking pretty good there will be wanted

to showers but for the most part you're looking a lot of sunshine and temperatures expected into the low thirty's for the most part into south america venom sea in northern areas we've got showers but as you come further towards the south it's a largely fine picture frontal system came some snow over the andes but otherwise temperatures not looking too powerful one is aries there eighteen degrees and it should be a fine warm day in the sunshine and power with a high of thirty. minutes to climb into violence and paranoia and. then 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 constipation. you find in the latin american liberating

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a vision has been held in the u.s. city of charlottesville on the first anniversary of deadly violence between father right and anti racism protesters last year meanwhile dozens of white supremacist. demonstrators rallied near the white house in washington d.c. but they were far outnumbered by thousands of anti counter-demonstrators. the leaders of russia iran kazakhstan and turkmenistan have signed an agreement on the legal status of the caspian sea that means they can now share the body of water and its oil and gas resources and counting is underway in mali after the presidential runoff president. is president opposition leader. let's get more on our top story now of race relations in the u.s. the first anniversary of that violence and charlottesville we're joined by mary frances berry professor of history at the university of pennsylvania and she's

joining us live from washington d.c. very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so what did you make of today's events and the fact that as we mentioned the white supremacists was so greatly outnumbered by the anti-racism protesters. well i think it was a great day it was but there was a great day because it showed you didn't have to have the violence that took place in charlottesville that if the police will do their job you can hear lots and lots of anti-racist people come out to express their point of view and you can have the few little people showed up who are not afraid to show up at least. kesler said that they were afraid and they can come out and they can express their point of view and you don't have to get anyone killed it doesn't mean that the problems are solved but it does mean that we don't have to have charlottesville over and over and over again i want to pick up on your point about the problem not being solved

because yes there are far fewer white supremacists out on the streets today than they were in charlottesville yet the southern poverty law center you know which monitor. says the number of years in the country has actually risen from nine hundred seventeen it to nine hundred and fifty four in this past year so how do you read that you know is racism the problems that we saw a year ago still just as bad and perhaps people don't feel as confident about expressing those views in public. well all of the things that the. people on the right complain about still exist the confederate monument is still up it's still up in charlottesville there's still up other places all the other things they complain about the things that black people and other people of color complain about whether it's immigration of police brutality or whatever these are our inequality and poverty these are all still problems i think that if you look at

social media and if you look at all the reports about it the issues are still there i think that people just didn't show up on the right in large numbers because they knew about the norton police presence and they knew about all the other people who show up and this is washington d.c. it's not charlottesville and the political officials local ones here would not going to permit these groups to come together and have a big bash and besides last year there was killed and someone is being punished for it so it's a totally different situation but it has nothing to do with the problem's been solved and they can't really tell us anything about people's feelings on the right mistery what do you see as the current president's role in the problems or solving the many will of course say the president has emboldened a lot of these. public now he tweeted yesterday condemning

all racism he said i want to have a look at his tweet actually his head on the eve of the anniversary of the charlottesville clashes. the riots in charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division we must come together as a nation i condemn all types of racism and acts of violence and peace to all americans what did you make of that you know condemning all types of racism when. while i think it lives with that his statement is much better than the one he made last year about the bits that happen with the you know people on both sides being somewhere right some wrong and equivocating about it was a much better statement but at the same time if you look at his policies and what he and the people in his and ministration and what they do and so on you can see that in fact he was this was just rhetoric that's all it is and that people who

support him are truly concerned about irrational way i believe about the way the demography is changing in the country they're concerned about being whites and being a minority and they are really concerned about all these issues and the confederate monument is she was just an expression of their concern and i don't think that's gone away and it doesn't look like this president is going away any time soon so can we expect to race relations in the u s if you know they have said we don't don't there's a basis and we don't know what he is going so can we explain i don't know whether he's going away a mob will come to get wait until they examine what happens in the elections. do you expect things that. they can best say well i think that if the elections turn out the way. assuming they will turn out policies may get better but at the same time i'm not sure of that and i think as long as he's going to be

president unless something happens that i think about for a mother two years or so so i think that today you had lots of people who came out to express their point of view about trying to make things better if that happened all of the country to be sure things would become better. mary frances berry people more of the politicians thank you very very much for your time more than the politicians it is good to end the notional for the interview on that note mary frances berry in washington d.c. thank you thank you very much. but to servia now and dozens of people have been killed in an explosion at a weapons and it led province the syrian government and its allies have been carrying out for an offensive to recapture that last remaining opposition on klav asama binge of aids reports. from under

a collapsed building some made it out alive we have not become a part of the work of the younger ones had to be carried out by volunteers the familiar exercise for syrian rescue us. a powerful explosion brought down this building in the town of some of them in northwestern syria but this time it wasn't an attack by the assad government or its allies because of their own they can but at first we thought it was an airstrike but shortly afterwards we realized it was an explosion inside a warehouse and a civil defense teams arrived on the scene and began working to free survivors they were able to risk you seven civilians who were still alive some of whom were badly injured and they also took out about five dead bodies according to residents there were more than fifty people living in these buildings so we believe they are between thirty five to forty were trapped under the rubble. activists say it was a weapons depot which exploded it's not clear what caused the blast. it live as the last remaining rebel stronghold and fighters have been preparing for an offensive

by the assad government the promise borders turkey and it's a major trade route from the north regime forces have warned of a final campaign and called on people to leave the area according to state media the syrian army has launched a series of attacks on what it calls terrorist positions in a province. where government media has reported a troop build up from multiple directions to or did lead radios applauded online appeared to show columns of soldiers shia militia and military hardware heading towards the rebel held province last month the shuttle assad said the retaking of it was among the priorities for the syrian military operations was other areas faced siege and bomb tactics by the syrian forces and the russian and iranian allies it was home to two million people including those forced to leave their homes from other rebel held parts. aid workers are warning of a humanitarian disaster when fighting breaks out from out of there. to yemen now at least eleven people have been killed in fighting between government

forces and an armed group backed by the u.a.e. it happened in the southwestern city of guys the yemeni army says the school has created instability infighting among its factions government forces control most of the southern and western parts of pies. meanwhile funerals have been held for some of the twenty nine schoolchildren killed in a saudi amorality air strike on thursday the united nations has called for a credible and transparent investigation and what's being described as the worst attack on yemen's children mohamad the reports from neighboring djibouti. fly is one of the many for those in yemen some of the provinces in mourning. well. how bad was his only son the nine year old was on the bus full of children that was hit in a sodium. strike. 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 but i didn't want to let him go because he likes to swim and he's my only son but he promised me he's not going to swim and his mother asked me to allow him to go. behind and then his classmates what autonomy from a school summer camp but when their bus stop at the busy market it was targeted by strikes. and this 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 my neighbor ibrahim whose son was with mine in a 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 last attack on children since humans were told was collated in two thousand and fifteen according to unicef.

at the local hospital medical workers do what they can to treat the wounded but they are under resourced and overwhelmed. in a cemetery twenty nine tiled sized graves have been prepared for the victims but the joint finagles been ruled out for now due to security concerns and fears of one of the talk some of the children will eventually be diverted here the. sa the province is the buffer place of the old rebellion on the tag at the most of the coalition's strikes. the conflict in yemen pits the richest countries in the region so did it on the united arab emirates or. the poorest the sodium of arctic or. criticised for targeting civilian areas in their war against fighters which killed files and left millions on the brink of starvation.

to india now where four million people in the north east are waiting to hear why they've been excluded from a citizenship register the government and state says those left out illegal immigrants from bangladesh but as andrew thomas reports from langley and some believe it's an exercise a nationalism ahead of elections next year. 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 but she does have an indian passport she is she insists indian. yet when the state government of a some published a draft national register of citizens or in all c. list two weeks ago.