and on sunday they claim further violations. by news on present it started even yesterday the n.t. fraud brigade apprehended some youth with ballot papers already filled in with the name of the current president the mali and city already know that their votes have been stolen and that the election has been manipulated. and it's attempted yet again i've come here to mobilize the people to vote for the other candidate us this morning i noticed that fifteen to twenty voter bulletins were missing in each booth 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 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 reported to be very low in parts of the country particularly in the north the main opposition party came in a distant 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 this i feel.

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. but this year. still ahead on the bulletin. i'm andrew 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 off it's their concerns they're about to be made statements. and we'll tell you why these ballet dancers are being given the right of way on mexico's usually congested road. from the clear blue sky of the doha morning. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city

of love. hello again will stop by look at weather conditions across central and southern parts of china and taiwan you see heavy rain for shanghai further towards the south in taipei probably ok during the course of monday but this circulation of low pressure is like to be bringing heavy rain to hong kong houseware plenty of showers across indochina vietnam laos meum are still looking pretty wet at the moment and wet weather extends across parts of bangladesh and into the far eastern states of india with not much change ready to head on through to choose the states you can see that circulation just the south of hong kong so it could be some really heavy rain and some strong winds developing from that system and that system will also be giving some heavy rain across northern parts of the philippines so across lose on it's going to be a wet day expect some localized flooding in manila in particular but the south of the philippines is generally looking fine and once you get into borneo it's looking good certainly temperatures imputing that thirty five degrees unbroken sunshine and that fine weather extends across central southern parts of them

a potential including kuala lumpur singapore down through some outre and also into java valley and long book fine conditions for valjean choose day two into south asia and here we still have some heavy rain down through the western ghats and eastern areas of india at the moment looking particularly wet. the weather sponsored by cat time release. denied citizenship. health can and education. forced from their homes to live in camps. subject to devastating physical cruelty al-jazeera won't investigates one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. silent abuse.

it's good to have you with us on these are our top stories of the show has been held in the u.s. city of charlottesville and on the anniversary of violent demonstrations. and racism protests last year meanwhile dozens of white supremacists demonstrated near the white house in washington d.c. they were outnumbered by thousands of anti racism protesters. 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 vote counting is underway in mali's presidential runoff election the choosing between current president of the home. and opposition leader

. now u.s. president donald trump's decision to re-impose sanctions on iran is expected to have an impact on its neighbor of rock a fifteen hundred kilometer border with iran with goods as people crossing daily and going to reports from the border district. in iraq. each day trucks slowly wind around treacherous roads in the. goods from iran to iraq says 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. is worried soon the border will close and his job of six years will disappear. really i don't know because you can expect anything here the politicians have made

any agreements if they make an agreement it should be for the sake of the people of 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 in penguin district and other iraqi border towns the iraq central bank has prohibited all iraqi banks from conducting business with iran in us dollars. 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 in 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. especially in the last few years we're buying a lot of shoes from iran

a 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. 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. to yemen now where at least eleven people have been killed in fighting between government forces and an armed group

backed by the way it happened in the southwestern city of thise the yemeni army says the has created instability due to infighting among its factions elements forces control most of the southern and western parts of. the european union has the arabiya for more details about the arrests of female human rights activists and what challenges they face so they have detained several women's rights activists in recent months all 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 also as call for the release. j. what activists led to the cutting ties well thousands of students from saudi studying and canada have been ordered by their government to return home following the diplomatic dispute printed 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 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 to 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 cope with the

uncertainty surrounding their academic future what we're seeing is our students scrambling in panicking about where they're going to be ending up in the next four weeks our studies are starting 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 them in a political dispute between saudi arabia and canada and we don't believe that students should be affected by that prime minister just introduced says will continue to defend human rights around the world but saudi arabia saw this as an interference in its internal affairs and responded with a range of measures it ordered the canadian ambassador to be expelled a new treatment vestment to be suspended but beyond the diplomatic and economic costs the students represent the human consequences of the growing dispute. al-jazeera the libyan coast guard has rescued sixty refugees and migrants from a sinking boat in the mediterranean sea they've been taken back to libya where

they're receiving humanitarian aid at a camp in the western town of zawiya the country is a major transit point for migrants seeking to reach europe the libyan coast guard has recently stepped up efforts to stem the numbers making the dangerous crossing. it's been three days of intense fighting between afghan forces and the taliban in. 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 who managed to escape say government buildings have been set on fire. now four million people in northeastern india are waiting to hear why they're being excluded from the citizenship register the government and state says those left our illegal immigrants from there are thomas reports from lancashire some believe it's an exercise in nationalism ahead of elections next year. all have been nessa knows about her is that her younger 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 citizens or n r c list two weeks ago her name wasn't on it. it seems helping 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 has an unnecessary name 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. i mean when you are no laura indian citizen i'm going in and you can be a pretty woman you. 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 them votes. those missing from the list and there are many who are hindu as well as muslims can appeal few yet suggesting the porting those made stateless just a severe restriction of their rights but that's little comfort to those who citizenship is in doubt andrew thomas al-jazeera langat in a sense tonight india. to look at argo now where anti and pro-government demonstrators filled the streets of the capital of managua it's the latest wave of political unrest and months of violence that's already killed hundreds of people opponents of president that a lot take a call for the release of those arrested during protests there also angry at plans to try and pension benefits or think are supporters also on the street backing his view that there's a conspiracy to topple has government. now mexico city is one of the most

congested cities in the well of a huge traffic jams of regular posh people's journeys but now most were some being treated to a surprise when they hit the red lights john heilemann reports from mexico city on the dolphins taking ballet to the masses one traffic light at a time. the light turns red in mexico city and something extraordinary happens. you're looking for. this is the idea of a ballet company working with the mix crew city government to take don't stop the masses mr traffick church city means here. is the satisfaction for every ballerina to dance on the stage to reach all kinds of different people and see their reactions much closer than just from an assigned seat watching you from every side. motorists and pedestrians who catch the performance earl italy nor will it ever makes you think oh i never seen something

like that here that belongs in a theater and to see it in the street you just say wow. it reminds us what we really are because sometimes the daily routine can make us mechanical this brings us back to ourselves oh they did that to classics like swan lake and the not to fit exactly in the fifty eight seconds between lights and the way it made other adjustments to special non-slip shoes and changes in routine for less jumps on the hard road on cold days like this one they have to go for an hour and a half to two performing the sacrifices are worth it they say to try and reach a new audience there are a couple of places where plays a play both at a political ploy that leads to mr city but the common thing such an is that it's something out of the race and that's what the company trying to hit to give a little change that perception and leave people searching for more and also as you

can ok. i think i'm betting the space of those in transit is a little like saying hey we're part of your society and we'd like you to come and see us we're very your space why don't you come to us why don't you take a chance and watch a performance in its entirety. twenty five lightning performances in one hour it's all over. at another trust somewhere else in the capital. city. and then again all of the problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera a version has been held in the us city of charlotte on the anniversary of violent demonstrations between far right and anti racism protesters last year meanwhile dozens of white supremacists rallied today at the white house in washington d.c.

but they were far outnumbered by thousands of anti racism protesters the leaders of russia iran kazakhstan and turkmenistan have sided agreement on the legal status of the caspian sea it means they can now share the body of water and its oil and gas resources polls have closed in mali's presidential vote off and the counting of votes underway voters are choosing between current president. and opposition leader so male a c say at least thirty nine people have been killed in an explosion at a weapons in syria's province the cause of the blast is unclear but opposition activists suspect a rebel. was detonated. the turkish lira has plunged to another record low that concerns over rising inflation and newly imposed u.s. tariffs the lira fell to seven point two four against the dollar in early monday morning trading in the asia pacific the leader has lost about forty percent of its

value this year to his finance minister says he'll start implementing a new economic plan to ease investor concerns from monday. in yemen 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 the yemeni army says the script has created instability infighting among its factions government forces control most of the southern and western parts of. it's been three days of intense fighting between afghan forces and the taliban and guzzling says he a key provincial capital that connects kabul 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 who 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 but those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us inside story is coming up

next thank you for watching. space the final frontier the united states wants to patrol it washington has announced the creation of a new armed space force by twenty twenty but who will be the u.s. competing against and is this the start of a new space race this is inside story. hello

and welcome to the program hood of that home and yes vice president mike pence says the time has come to prepare for the next battlefield and that battlefield is space the americans want to create a space force within two years to defend u.s. satellites and spacecraft from attack it will be the first new branch of the military since one thousand nine hundred forty seven pence is balls donald trump wants congress to vote yes to the plan and they agree to additional funding of eight billion dollars we will get to our guest shortly but first alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . trump has been pushing for the creation of a new branch of the military for months he talks about it off net is wrong yes we may even have a space force now his vice president says donald trump's vision will become reality . previous administrations all but neglected the growing security threats emerging in space president trump stated clearly and forcefully that space is in his words

a war fighting domain just like land and air and sea the new force will be used to protect u.s. satellites in space which provide vital services like communication it can also protect spy satellites which direct military operations and there is the growing commercial space market too it's not a new idea in one thousand nine hundred three president ronald reagan called for a space based missile defense system just a year after congress demanded the establishment of a new space force the defense system dubbed star wars by critics never got beyond the research phase the u.s. already has a space command is part of the air force and some see the new branch as an expensive waste in fact defense secretary jim mattis initially resisted it but just earlier this week signaled he was no on board we are in complete alignment with the president going to burn it down they are after him basically to be work here again

for economy we're going to have to address it as other countries capabilities what they're creating a new branch of the military needs congressional authorization and funding if republicans lose control of the house of representatives in november's midterm elections it might never happen former astronaut mark kelly says he doesn't see the point there is a threat out there but it's being handled by the u.s. air force today doesn't make sense to build a whole nother level of bureaucracy spaceports that if approved would become the sixth branch of the u.s. military it would be led by a four star officer and would pull resources from other military branches. russia has a space force china's space program is run by the military and the white house will include and a billion dollar funding request for their new space force in the next budget alan fischer al-jazeera washington. let's now get the thoughts of our guests joining us in lubbock texas via skype oliver mcgee an advisor to donald trump and former

u.s. deputy assistant secretary for transportation in beijing in our tangan a china political analyst and sidney morris jones a space analyst and author of when men walked on the moon a warm welcome to all of you all over again let me start with you i mean it does sound like something out of a star wars so what did zach lee is a space force and in what is it different from the current space command. well this isn't time for us to move from reagan star wars which was really about ending the cold war two trumps space for parts which is about ensuring global peace world peace. the space. force is really like you said in your opening segment the six military agency and it's very important

for securing a space it's about navigation we're talking it says and. communications and this is all about trying to make sure that we don't have. harbors in space where we would have a blackout and that would basically cripple the global economy this is really about ensuring that security. global capital and global businesses which are korean crease really depended upon satellite technologies and space assets and so. this is looking at trying to create a space command similar to what you see in the european command the middle east command the african command of pacific command and then make making sure that space assets are protected and that we have national security up space because in the twentieth century we're really talking about the air force and we're trying to

essentially secure the stratosphere which is about ten to thirty kilometers and now where we're based in the sky but now we're trying to basically go beyond that and then to move into that ten to thirty thousand kilometers that is and now we're trying to move into space where we can basically sure those assets are and place and then that we can make sure that we can control space and this is really more than just star wars is really about you might say. star fleet and so we're really trying to make sure that we have the president's vision intact and penn. says trying to establish the department of space spores and on the working closely with the space command to ensure that we started advancing through space science or technology which is always a very very good thing for the united states to get into because it is really all about fast capital fast technology for fast growth well mars jones i mean it

sounds a bit like militarization of space which is quite a frightening thought and it also begs the question how do you share space who this sides which country quote troels what. well i think that you can have a stronger military presence in space and still be able to share space with other nations are the united states and most nations on earth are bound by the nine hundred sixty seven outer space treaty signed at the united nations and basically that says that no nation owns straits no no nation claims exclusive access to space and so even if we see a greater military presence it won't mean that the united states or any other nation totally controls or dominate space it's legally prohibited and it's also physically impossible like. in the sense that you cannot stop satellites from orbiting the earth you cannot control the physical movements of objects through

space and so on where that you can control the nation's air space and that this is been widely recognized and one of the reasons why we have the outer space treaty so i don't think that it's a case of any nation dominating space even if they're protecting their space assets ok well that said i mean the united says united states says it has a lot of concerns some of them is china for example destroyed one of its own satellites in orbit in two thousand and seven and is likely capable of getting rid of others too russia is believed to be developing an airborne laser that would be able to destroy space based systems and north korea is believed to have used its g.p.s. jamming capabilities against south korea in twenty ten now in our town and that's where you come into the conversation how was this announcement of a space force. there been received in beijing.

well it's often received very well comes another area of competition besides the economic and political and military on the ground this is now an attempt to take it into space i'm surprised that my fellow guests have not mentioned the fact that there's a prohibits prohibits station of militarizing space and this would be a direct conflict with that so it's very hard to see how these matters will be handled creating a space force is a long way from dealing with the issues that you rightly pointed out which is how do you control this who's going to dominate it is it going to simply be the u.s. because they spend more money on the military and have the means to do this or will it be shared or will it be according to convention or is the u.s. going to simply ignore all conventions simply as they've done with iran and other issues well maybe on

a very maggie could answer some of these questions. well i think this is really about science and technology policy we've been in this business for a long time going back to alan bromley in to jack givens in two neil lane and now the current science advisor this focus to science vice to the president is about advancing science and technology in space and this is where you begin to use really supreme assets development in space technologies you're looking at in full tech biotech wireless tech micro tech nanotech cockle tech even looking at elder tech because we're really looking at not only transportation as business communications but also space as economic communications and so really this is really about how does the united states be maintain its supremacy in developing

thanks to technology and also science and technology policy going into tying it to national security policy and economic policy this is really consistent to what the united states wants to do and it's important that the president is now named his new science adviser to be able to help coordinate the science of technology development and i know ma'am said on minute vice president mike pence in his speech said very clearly the plan is to create an elite group of war fighters specializing in the domain of space as sort of special operations forces but from above that does not sound like science and technology. well warfighting it's always been about the science that the technology development the country to has the highest amount of science and technology assets is to one that went to war all to make money the most science and technology that we see pervasive in the president's budget is

through the pentagon but also nasa is involved so is the department of transportation because i wrote the national r. and d. strategy plan when i was in the clinton administration that involved looking at science and technology development at nasa f.a.a. the department of defense and so this is these are the big chunks of the budget along with department of energy where science and technology is developed this is he does very good for science and technology development to pick an education community in the united states but also we also are interested in trying to make sure that we also take care of what we need to do in developing. new frontiers where we have to do national security protections and really when you look at it when you look at the united states is about protecting its assets its military assets but all that is behind a load of twaddle i can't believe those who are going along and saying these types of things no i disagree i disagree and i think it's absolutely incredible that cheney say i just that this is about technology when you're clearly the price

president said this is about warfare let em know i'm talking about and sent a nurse that's why the man just i have to disagree with that because i'm talking about national science and technology development and to be able to i mean if you're trying to be like all the time defending something that's defenseless ok but you know talking about that i mean the man interject at the same time the head of the chinese lunar exploration program compare china's space ambition to those in the. south china sea and to be fair china controls ninety percent of that sea or somewhere along that number so i mean that rhetoric is coming out from both countries isnt it. well when when one country expands another one does two i don't think that either side is necessarily going to win this what you have in the south china seas is a little bit different than what you have out in space south china seas goes back

if you go to study the history of close the whole idea of creating something beyond the cannon shot rule beyond three miles was introduced by the us but later on us declined to enter into you close it was not a signatory to it but this caused a land grab literally in the seas in space if you want this same kind of chaos reigning creating new norms that you have based on military might rather than sitting down at the un or some adjacent body where you can sit down and create policies about how space should be used and shared as is pointed out one thousand nine hundred sixty seven they signed a treaty things have been quiet since then yes technology has moved on but i don't think that's adding eight billion dollars to an already overburdened budget increasing than government is necessarily going to help the civilian use of technology and might be that you know it's very favorable to nasa to have an

additional funding route but this is not about technology this is about warfare it's about throwing another white rabbit out into the world that people are supposed to chase around there's just nothing can be said except what the vice president said himself and that this is about creating armed warriors in space contrary to the conventions but mars jones you shared this idea that this space race could create chaos above our heads may i say and that maybe it's a bit too early and it says that nothing is regulated and nobody knows what can happen up there and what would be the repercussions for the rest of us down here. well i think that i mean throughout this discussion we've invoked the knot hundred sixty seven out of space treaty more than once and regardless of the provisions of the treaty it is a fact that we are steadily moving towards

a weaponization of space from various nations whether we like it or not china has tested and he satellite weapons so has the united states so has russia and this is been going on the decades so it's not as if the idea of the militarization of space just came about with donald trump it's been progressing steadily throughout the space age and at some point there may be a call for regulation even if it's not the by the outer space treaty through negotiations between various nations but i think that that degree of militarization will continue because everyone has space as it's every advanced military in the world uses satellites to advance its military causes and thus all of those satellites are technically military assets so it to a degree it's an a definition issue how do you define a weapon in space is a spy satellite a weapon is a g.p.s.

satellite a weapon and so i think in some ways you've got to clarify those ideas as well before you can start negotiations or treaty provisions and these are all very blurry issues right now ok well some way to argue that this is actually the beginning of the second space race the first one being back in the fifty's and sixty's at the time john f. kennedy had actually made his famous speech and talked about. the first man on the moon now trump says that space is a war fighting domain just like land air and sea but fifty six years ago former president john kennedy had these words to say to convince. because of his efforts to land man on the moon only if the united states by is a position of preeminence can we help decide where that this new ocean will be assia peace or a new theri fighting theater of war i do not say that we should or will go

unprotected against a hostile misuse of space any more then we go unprotected against a hostile use of land or sea but i do say that space can be explored and masjid without feeding the fires of war now. in our tank and you feel that this i mean those words at the time were it was different times man still had to go to space and he still had to land on did moon enter was probably more about science and technology then than it is now according to your opinion and . well look communications is not about the satellite system anymore the satellite system is really geared toward national defense if you look at the amount of fiber that's been laid and the amount of communications that's on land or by why five wireless as it's all mostly land based in terms of what we can learn from space in terms of bio genetics and things like that yes there's

a place for that but this is not a huge resource that is that is unknown to people out there issue here is do you want to plunge ahead by having everybody engage in militarizing space by having their own space force or do you want to sit down and try to figure out what the new reality is i agree with my my cohort who says that look this is about definitions and sitting down in defining them and coming to some sort of accord but you cannot do that if you unilaterally say that i'm going to have the biggest baddest space force out there you know captain kirk is going to be on call for me and we're going to take this to the next level yes. there are concerns john f. kennedy was talking during the time of the height of the cold war when he was looked at staring down the face of issues involving russia today we do not have that we have a highly connected economic political world the military option has not proven to

be anything except a disruptor you start looking at what's happened in the middle east and everywhere else that you have wars it has not settled anything starting a new one out in space is simply an invitation to spend more on something that will benefit you well on everybody i mean there was that. eyebrows raised in the united states when this announcement came some people also said do we really need to go through this expenditure now on the many problems that have to be solved on earth before going to space many pointed ak to the fact today health care system for example so but this idea of a space force is this part of the make america great again doctrine. yes it is the make america great be and dr it is really about economic prosperity but also it's about technological problem and. when i do also agree with our colleague

today that this is going to require some definitions of course but the key issue is is that do we have also abilities to be able to control what we're doing in our development of our science and technology enterprise this is really really about innovation and apprise and the magnet movement is about developing the science and technology but also the innovation infrastructure within the united states and that's very very important because when we start doing to finance and technology development not only on the ground in infrastructure development which is a really keep investment that's necessary also but also when we start doing it beyond in the to disguise that's going to empower. education in the united states more than we've seen in decades and this is really what john kennedy was doing when he did the moon shot vision he when he decided we're going to put a man on the moon he was really trying to teach business systems thinking which is

about aqua acquiring and also building technologies for data information knowledge acquisition better understanding and wisdom on world peace and also world advancement in science and technology we all benefit from the moon shot speech we are up jot down a kennedy because we saw systems thinking it invoked in business and education and in government and that seems to me wanting to use up all the time of the discussion talking about something that has no global no i mean there's no question i basically talk about nice national science and technology america science and technology without question it was asked of me and i think that's an important contribution to make today not just a political that is about as a lot of playing in markets joe is about a minute. is you know one could argue that space has been used for military purposes since the very beginning and that it is already fully military allies but we now go by stepping up spent stepping it up further are we

going in uncharted territory or we're worrying too much. i think that we are definitely going into new territory for space but this is not new territory in terms of strategic issues or the history of warfare i think we have to be pragmatic about this whether we like it or not there will be a greater militarization of space not just by america but by various nations they will look to put more military satellites into space to support ground operations they will also seek new ways to deny other nations the operations of their own satellites there could be physical attacks on satellites they could be attempts to hack satellites net which is known as spoofing and that's a form of cyber warfare beyond the earth and if we go further and further into terms of developing our infrastructure in space like large space stations or space

industry than those assets could become targets for attack by state actors or potentially even non-state actors and then we have a broader from fear of the fact that they could be threats from space that don't even originate from the earth things like the comets and asteroids that could threaten the earth as they did the dinosaurs and it could be the case that military space essence could be used to deflect or destroy threats to the entire earth and that given the fact that we've had several near near approaches and near misses from fairly large asteroids that is one strategic threat to the earth that can't be ignored it's certainly very frightening i'm sure now experts in china the u.s. and other countries are probably looking at ways to speed up the space race but we have reached the end of our programs the thank you everybody on a very good tank and more is jones and thank you too for watching you can see the

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so-called right protesters marched all the way to the white house. the rally almost a year to the day when i unite the right protest in charlottesville left one person dead after being denied a permit to rally in charlottesville this year they marched in washington to make a statement about what they see as a need to safeguard their rights for white americans are going to leave. jim crow white people are becoming more and more appealing to. me basically all discrimination on twitter so if people see something like you may see anything significant. turnout but right groups was much lower this year after organizers jason casler had a fall out with other groups over security in last year's rally now people are scared to stand up for their rights leader people. like people who are serving people who are strong. who are just paper free speech here i think you might hear i

think clearly over twenty left wing activist groups have gathered for the shutdown d.c. counter protest at the president's front door they're here to oppose all right protests unite the right to in washington d.c. large groups like and tea for and black lives matter say they're here to keep the white supremacy and fascism out of the district police have created a decontamination zone what they're calling a decontamination zone in the middle to separate the two the two groups what they're trying to do is make sure what happened in charlottesville last year doesn't have on here today they're not welcome. do you see they're not welcome anywhere their message and their sentiment is not supported by the vast majority of people in the united states you can see from the people that are here today at the counter demonstration at the answer coalition rally that people across all social divisions people from the community people from the arab community people from the muslim community people internationally are totally opposed to these messages of hate. those opposed to the so-called right say they are prepared to pursue the

white nationalist wherever they march mohamed al jazeera washington. and other news the latest russia iran kazakhstan. and turkmenistan have signed an agreement on the legal status of the caspian sea it means they can now share the body of water and its oil and gas resources. the turkish lira has plunged to another record dro amid concerns of a rising inflation and newly imposed u.s. tariffs there are fell to seven point two four against the dollar in early monday morning trading in the asia pacific the leader has lost about forty percent of its value this year turkey's finance minister says he'll start implementing a new economic plan to invest it concerns from monday polls have closed in mali's presidential runoff and vote counting is underway to the choosing between president cater an opposition leader to see say at least thirty nine people have been killed

in an explosion at a weapon in syria's problems the course of the blast is unclear but opposition activists suspect a rebel. has decimated the government and its allies have been preparing for an offensive to recapture the last remaining opposition on klav and yemen 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 southwest and city of the yemeni army says the group has created instability due to infighting among its factions has been three days of intense fighting between afghan forces and thought about and does in the city a key provincial capital that connects kabul with kandahar dozens of people are believed to have been killed some taliban fighters stormed the city in an attempt to seize control of the u.s. military has been conducting air strikes to support afghan troops on the ground those are the headlines on al-jazeera i'll have more headlines for you in just

thirty minutes coming up next this al-jazeera world thank you for watching. mian mar over fifty one million people. and since two cheese party won elections here in twenty fifteen but the army still wields great power on trance of she

unfortunately has no practical ability to write in the security force since independence from the british in nineteen forty eight its many ethnic minorities have been engaged in almost continuous civil war. it's a majority buddhist country but one minority is the region john who are muslim and they have suffered longstanding persecution. pursuit of the majority over a hinge have traditionally lived in rock kind state many in and around. in october twenty sixth seen the army began a siege of the city. there were reports of mass killings rape and of tens of thousands of russian just seeking refuge in neighboring bangladesh. the me and mark government has always maintained these reports were exaggerated so al-jazeera arabic correspondents and i'm in doubt

we travel to me and mark also known as burma in february twenty seventh team to investigate for herself. the conflict between me and mars ethnic minorities and the ruling burmese majority that controls the army is one of the world's longest ongoing civil wars the united nations and other agencies have repeatedly accused me and maher of widespread human rights violations and genocide. and. that the man. arrived to me and gone the country's largest. two finds a large demonstration in progress. the military government was dissolved in twenty eleven and sends to cheese party then won a majority in both houses of parliament in the twenty fifteen elections but has not

yet succeeded in addressing the country's long standing ethnic conflicts. on monday called put on by libya. this is the time that you know we've got a government that the road we're going to be best government that we all that we all want will we all believe that this time we don't have to fight each other we have to do have a dialogue to you know to have little to debate a better country for the for the time that you know that we are all the people standing up together to fill all beacons. but there didn't seem to be any sign of the real hinge at this demonstration. said now mass protesters about the problems suffered by the rain in june. so if you're not up on the bottom they're

not out not count from you know it on the scene about the same ooc happening that's a mistake i met idea to say aha there were over a million britain jamie mark they say they did in what's now rock kind steam for generations but the million mark oberman continues to maintain that they're illegal immigrants who came to what was then called our account after independence. asked a ranger rights activist about their disputed origins and uncertain citizenship status. or migrating to brandon. and there we. if it isn't this country we're running we had a voting record with our people many people were out of the running election we have a time limit or there is an i.r.s. and sukumar mark harmon i don't think after the military in the n.t.

sixty two and the great changing their behavior to our people after the bell to abuse ninety eighty two citizenship law. just admitting to borrowing up people from does citizenship as the government and the truth always say not from this going to india not us it is them the illegal immigrants from the battle out there with us wise to only going to going to deny we are not bangladeshi we are not the people who can migrate to from bangladesh from any dye we had the back of that this land from centuries. before the british rule. us you behalf that. produce very rarely will question because you are already issued many going to visit me and you are not a nation we are destroyed also should this man is really serious and then or i see

and then everyone talking about a border we have got to. do it. but through which you every time it was my question is why. me and mark had been tightly controlled for decades and journalists banned from much of rakhine state for some time. but talk to. some amateur video from nando there were burning houses and range appearing to flee. but some images of human remains were too disturbing to show. just here i needed to find out more about what happened in one toe in twenty sixteen.

went to the capital of frack kind state city. way rangel were allegedly forced from their homes there and put into camps. from sittwe a she planned to continue on to man dog. but soon after her plane took off there was some unfortunate news. a prominent lawyer kone had been murdered at tiangong airport. been nk sent through cheese legal adviser for several . it was also a muslim a member of suit she's ruling national league for democracy party and helped create the office of state councilor that enabled her to become the effective head of the government in twenty sixteen.