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 plunged to another record low amid concerns of rising inflation and newly imposed u.s. tariffs the lira fell to seven point four against the dollar in early monday morning trading in the asia pacific that there has lost about forty percent of its value

this year. to his finance minister says he will start implementing a new economic plan to invest concerns from monday. while turkey has blamed the free foreign currency on a plot to attack its economy turkey's president says the us had given him a deadline to release an american pastor being tried by a turkish court on terrorism charges. the one says washington threatened sanctions if refused to release andrew bronson by last wednesday. to yemen now we're at least eleven people have been killed in fighting between government forces and then backed by the way it happened in the southwestern city of far as the yemeni army says they are has created instability due to end fighting among its factions government forces control most of the southern and western parts of the rise meanwhile funerals have been held for some of the twenty nine schoolchildren killed in a saudi ever rotty air strike on thursday the united nations has called for

a credible and transparent investigation into what's been described as the worst attack on yemen's children the home of the reports from neighboring djibouti. yeah he is one of the many fathers in yemen some other province in mourning. was his only son the nineteen year old was on the bus full of children that was hit in a sodium coalition air 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 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. but then his classmates were a tonic from a school summer camp but when their bus stop at the busy market it was targeted by

strikes. 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 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 they spent like three hours searching for my son until i received a very bad news. this was the last of talk on children since humans were told was completed in two thousand and fifteen according to unicef the u. . of the local hospital medical workers do what they come to treat the wounded but they andare symbols and overwhelm. in a cemetery twenty nine times sized graves have been prepared for the victims but the joint fin rules 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. size of the province's the baath 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 against the poorest the sodium about equality sean has been to put them like criticised for targeting civilian areas in the war against hold the fight us which has killed files and left millions on the brink of starvation mohammad on the wall just djibouti. well plenty more ahead on news al including a tense run off and mocking the opposition alleges ballot stuffing and favor president came. back to school with thousands of nigeria's displaced children and their families for ten han bought under the looming threat of. an unspoken it's a new season bought

a similar outcome for manchester city tatyana will be here to explain. to serie a there were dozens of people have been killed in an explosion at a weapons death and live province the syrian government and its allies have been preparing for an offensive to recapture that last remaining opposition on clay asama been reports. from under a collapsed building some made it out alive it'll be the mother grandmother part of the world the younger ones had to be carried out by volunteers the familiar exercise for syrian rescuers. 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. at first we thought it was an air strike but shortly afterwards we realized it was an explosion inside

a warehouse and civil defense teams arrived on the scene and began working to free survivors they were able to rescue 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 there 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 in 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 they leave the area according to state media the syrian army has launched a series of attacks on what it calls terrorist positions in at the province. where government media has reported a troop build up from multiple directions two or deadly videos uploaded online appeared to show columns of soldiers shia militia and military hardware heading

towards the rebel held province last month which said the retaking of it was among the priorities for the syrian military operations was other areas face 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 another humanitarian disaster when fighting breaks out from moving out of there. to gaza now where hospitals have run out of vital drugs for treating cancer patients as well as land air and sea blockade has delayed medical supplies from reaching the the sieged coastal strip for now the u.n. says international funding cuts and the vest between palestinian groups has made the situation worse than ever before charles traffic reports from gaza. was diagnosed with breast cancer five months ago. has come to this gaza hospital

for the seventh of eight potentially life saving chemotherapy sessions but the drugs she needs have run out and they aren't available in any of the hospitals in gaza either head that he learned the treatment for this kind of disease cannot be delayed i blame anyone who is in any way responsible for this i've pain in my neck my shoulders i have trouble breathing my sons have to help me move around i need that seventh dose but the doctors say they don't know when it will come. if a cancer patient wants to be treated in israel the occupied west bank the process is complicated and time consuming ultimately israel has to agree the palestinian health ministry in gaza says around the applications are denied this isn't the first time there has been a delay in the supply of vital chemotherapy drugs to but it is the first time that this hospital is had to turn cancer patients away because it cannot treat them. now

the crisis is not only to do with israel's blockade on gaza it's also related to funding problems and the political crisis between hamas and the palestinian authority in the west bank the un says only around forty percent of the fifty million dollars needed from international donors for the palestinian health sector in gaza and the occupied west bank going through for twenty eighteen the whole city with difficulty in the health care sector has been impacted in the last in the last twelve years because of the season imposed on the local. political city always in the. fall. fatigue it is a view the city wishing does that this will. seriously the life of the hundreds of people who are deceiving. the beds empty because there's no point in cancer

patients coming to this hospital for treatment. and many like her have no choice but anxiously wait for the medication they so desperately need john struck but i'll just say or gaza. now a confidential report by israeli military investigators says an armed drone deliberately killed four palestinian boys on a gaza beach in two thousand and fourteen that's according to the online publication the end to sept the report has testimony from officers involved in the attack say the children were mistaken for hamas fighters in broad daylight on the morning of the attack the israeli army had said live video feeds from drones help them avoid killing palestinian civilians that heading off the four cousins aged nine to eleven years prompted an international outcry. and egyptian court has handed the muslim brotherhood leader mohamed but the another life sentence he was convicted in

a retrial on charges of murder. and inciting violence near cairo in twenty thirteen that's just one of a number of cases against him human rights groups have raised serious concerns about thousands of political prisoners in egypt who are often convicted in mass trials staying in egypt a billionaire linked to former president hosni mubarak has been cleared of all money laundering charges with is was released after agreeing to pay around one hundred million dollars he's now free to travel and access his funds as was a senior figure in mubarak's party but was arrested after the revolution twenty eleven. polls have closed in mali's presidential avan off and counting is under way much like the first round of violence and claims of electoral fraud have been major issues mama valar has more from the capital bamako. the people of mali have 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 on presenting it started even yesterday the anti 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 is 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'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 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 with even less chance of winning there's a feel of this hour for 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 mohammed but. now it's been a year since a mudslide on the outskirts of sierra leone's capital killed more than eleven hundred people it was the worst natural disaster in the nation's history many people are still missing and survivors eleven without homes or compensation when the first reports from freetown. seventeen year old mark to cut is returning to where her family home used to be for the first time since last year's disaster. that means of our father mother four sisters two brothers and

a brother in law are still trapped under this must have rock like hundreds of other victims rescue workers one able to retrieve their bodies. i cry anytime i remember them live last fall when they were around right now i must work for someone who pays me now with money but with food to eat and. when i would use it as poked in my to last august in hospital she was looking for an aunt she hoped was still alive she didn't find her after three days of torrential rains part of sugarloaf mountain broke away and crashed onto a once vibrant community burying homes and people. most could not be saved due to lack of equipment manpower and bad weather so my boss of the two thousand and seventeen tragedy still come here to get close to relatives they didn't get the chance to say proper goodbye to hundreds believed to be buried under

the rubble the government plans to build a monument of salt here for the missing and the dead more than five hundred victims of the disaster were buried here their graves tones bare no names some contain just body parts i think kilometers from the cemetery i fifty two unit housing estate was built by three local construction companies. the houses what they needed to the government for the survivors but it can only accommodate one hundred fifty of them . yeah latest algorithm and thousand people and this eleven thousand people not everybody in here lost it outs staying then for we don't stay here we find things difficult the survivors have now been asked to pay monthly rents on the house us sugarloaf mountain remains very unstable

a few weeks ago huge boulders of rock came tumbling down causing panic among villagers the government has demolished more homes that are considered unsafe. on the first anniversary of the disaster survivors including mark to got to still without a hole are looking to the government for help and hope that they can get a new start in life. frito. still ahead on the news hour course in the middle of a diplomatic dispute thousands of sell these students wonder what's next after being forced out of canada the trade between iraq and iran is under threat from donald trump sanctions. and sport christiane of analogous as you went to stay tatiana have these have.

been nice pink skies by the taj mahal. or is the sunsets in the city of angels. hello again we'll start by looking at weather conditions across central and southern parts of china and taiwan can 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 likely bringing heavy rain to hong kong elsewhere plenty showers across indo-china 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 though thirty five degrees unbroken sunshine

and that fine weather extends across central southern parts of the many potential including kuala lumpur singapore down through some outre and also into java valley and lombok fine conditions prevail during choose day two into south asia and here we've still got some heavy rain down through the western ghats and eastern areas of india at the moment looking particularly wet. the weather sponsored by qatar at race. when people need to be heard. but has been for a few jomo still is life it's not a normal life. and the story needs to be told we do stories that in fact. i testify in the court of law to make sure that the bad guys behind al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring new documentaries and live news on air and online.

al-jazeera follows the lives of people in the heart of immigrant communities. in six major cities across europe. the stories we don't often have told by the people who live them. a brand new documentary series this is year a coming soon on al-jazeera. good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour these are our top stories a vigil has been held in the u.s. city of charlottesville the first anniversary of deadly violence between far right

and anti-racism protesters last year meanwhile dozens of what supremacists rallied near the white house in washington d.c. but they were outnumbered by thousands of anti racism protesters the leaders of russia iran kazakhstan azerbaijan 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 pitted against opposition leader. now a chinese state run newspaper says increased security and region has helped stop what it calls a great tragedy it's the first chinese reaction to a u.n. panel which said it received a credible reports that a million ethnic we are being held in secret internment camps have been reported be forced into political indoctrination camps. editorials in the chinese newspaper.

say criticism about human rights record and shouldn't gag is aimed at creating trouble and destroying stability. in the european union has all saudi arabia for more details about the arrests of female human rights activists and what charges they face saudi arabia has detained several women's rights activists in recent months some of them have campaigned for the right to drive and an end to the kingdom's male guardianship system the detentions have triggered a diplomatic row with canada call for the release of jailed activists led to saudi cutting ties. now thousands of students from saudi arabia studying and canada have been ordered by their government to return home following the diplomatic dispute and to monaghan 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 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 a saudi student group issued a press release urging their leaders to keep them out of the political route we kindly urge the government to immediately reverse its decision and work to stop the repercussions of the saudi government's policy which will affect the future of thousands of graduates. canadian students unions are trying to help them cope with the uncertainty surrounding their academic future what we're seeing is our students

scrambling and 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 justin trudeau says canada 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 trade investment to be suspended but beyond the diplomatic and economic costs the students represent the human consequences of the growing dispute bintan moment al-jazeera now thousands of people have attended the funeral of one of the jordanian police officers killed during a raid on suspected attackers four police officers dog in the operation of an

explosive devices were set off inside a building in the south west of the capital on saturday three armed men also killed us president all tromped decision to impose sanctions on iran is expected to have an impact on its neighbor iraq it shares a fifteen hundred kilometer border with iran with the goods and people crossing davey that's going to reports now from the border district. 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 a bella is worried soon the border will close and his job of six years will

disappear. as it was going to give me an edge on his chest 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 in 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 there were. especially in the

last few years we're buying a lot of shoes from iran they're 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. it's been three days now the intense fighting between afghan forces and the taliban and. as a kid provincial capital that connects couple of kandahar dozens of people are believed to have been killed since taliban fighters storm the city and an attempt to seize control some residents who managed to escape say government buildings have been set on fire well out today as you know say yes and as a monitoring those developments from the capital kabul. this is choice you know doesn't he is very tense a source told that taliban fighters attacked the election committee office in the city and they said the building on fire. didn't provide any further information mean why the afghan military chief of staff said that his true. hoops 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. in it work at the the phone networks are not working even the local radios 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 is the ministry of defense said yesterday that they managed to kill one hundred fifty taliban members and they said also that they lost twenty six member soldiers between killed or

wounded taliban has yet to comment on those numbers. and they are now with the government says the southern state of care is facing an unprecedented crisis after its worst floods in decades claimed thirty seven lives of the past week more than half the state is still on high alert or morgan reports. days of torrential rains in kerala in southern india have cost 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. there are around three hundred houses here which floodwater has entered we came out of the houses in a hurry and on. 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 people. 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. present 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 seems in people morgan are just there. the libyan coast guard has rescued sixty refugees and migrants from a sinking boat in the mediterranean sea the been taken back to libya where they receive a humanitarian and medical aid at a camp in the western town of zawiya libya is a major transit point for refugees trying to reach europe the libyan coast guard has stepped up efforts to stem the numbers making the dangerous crossing. now former british foreign minister abbas johnson's remarks about muslim women who wear face veils has triggered both criticism and praise and deepened divisions of the ruling conservative party johnson a seen as the biggest threat to promise to tourism a struggling leadership song a guy i got looks at whether islamophobia is becoming more acceptable and british politics. the politics of prejudice are creating a summer of discontent in the u.k.

the labor party dogged by accusations of anti-semitism and islamophobia cost him a shadow over the governing conservative party triggered by the ex foreign secretary boris johnson's article in which he outlined his position against a ban on face males describing women who wear them as looking like letter boxes and bank robbers that prompted an inquiry into mr johnson's behavior and criticism from the prime minister the question of how a woman should dress is a matter for a woman's individual choice nobody should be trying to tell a woman how to dress in these tense times where the u.k. is shopping divided over issues of breck's it immigration and a higher presence of extreme right wing politics somewhat worried that the current debate is leading to a rise in hate crime especially given mr johnson's recent article. two weeks.