thing happened to his friend what carried out the investigation but did not publish the findings instead he took the notebooks to a state prosecutor so he could initiate an official investigation silence was crucial not only for the case to move forward but also for his own safety. i held back publishing because i believed much more needed to happen i only published it when the investigation was on and those involved are being questioned what it shows is that the history of corruption in public works is not unique to the previous administration but it did happen and it is this that brought christina kirshner again to court on monday she tweeted that this is a regional strategy to prescribe leaders of movements some political forces that have increased people rights and allowed thousands to leave poverty behind for many the corruption investigation is the biggest in a country that has failed to prosecute white collar crime over the years you know.

the reality is bigger than what we imagined we all knew that there was corruption but not that it was systemic like the notebook's revealed it is a difficult case to put on trial because it involves so many things it forces us to rethink the whole judical process the former president her aides and important business men for the prosecutors say are all part of the same plot that shows for the first time the vicious cycle of corruption between private companies and the state. a former australian archbishop convicted of covering up child sex abuse has avoided jail time stead for the brawl some will serve as twelve months home detention after the court was told he has early stages of alzheimer's disease he's the highest ranking official in the roman catholic church to be sentenced for covering up child abuse you're out of a mile how much more from sydney. all the survivors wanted to see a tougher penalty they wanted bishop wilson to be serving out

a custodial jail sentence as opposed to home detention at his sister's house the line from one survivor was that bishop wilson will be eating the best food and drinking wine at his sister's house during the course of his sentence the siblings of another survivor is mounting a campaign for tougher penalties for those who don't report crimes like this. at the moment the maximum penalty in a strange year is two years bishop wilson has been given a one year sentence for his part in failing to report the child sex abuse at the hands of a priest of two altar boys he will be eligible for parole within six months though and he's planning to appeal this conviction but there are broad implications moral implications on the church regarding this particular case and the major impact of this case is that of accountability no longer can the church hide behind

canon hide behind the confessional seal in order to prevent tourist scape reporting crimes like this. well still ahead an al-jazeera crackdown on corruption in kenya as seen in government figures and businessmen are arrested in connection with a multi-billion dollar relic project. five years on from one of the worst massacres in modern egyptian history the country still reeling from its effects. through triangula radian can you. can feel it seems in a finnish gondola. hello this moment is still almost hitting the fifty degree mark down in the southwest of iran where there's nothing to stop it happening frankly any showers around a lot reforming in the southern caspian we've seen a couple of recently but even they have gone from the forecast to choose to there's

nothing much of a to get out towards tashkent thirty seven in toronto hotter of course down the plane in iraq in the breeze is still blowing out of the tech in the dust sas with it spot and showers maybe in the caucasus or eastern turkey if you're lucky now to say the breeze is a dusty one therefore not too she made his just on the verge of bringing he was in but i think we'll avoid it forty three degrees in bahrain thirty and i would obvious should be relatively dry. air so the feel of it isn't too humid which is a nice change but it's just the setting down the eastern side of saudi arabia down towards the empty quarter the heart of so blowing for showers on likely further west we have season decent rain recently in eastern cape on the western cape and the cloud is still there around the eastern cape which hints there might be something start a huge amount in the forecast but there is something that tend to be offshore us the temperatures by day oversea twenty two by night close to freezing. the

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you're watching out zero time to recap our headlines now turkey central bankers stepped in to try and end the currency crisis it's eased restrictions on how much lira and foreign currency banks need to hold turkey's president is accusing the u.s. of betraying a nato ally by imposing sanctions huge crowds of gathered in northern yemen for the funerals of people killed in a saudi amorality coalition air strike more than fifty people died in last week's attack forty of them were children all school bus it sparked an international outcry and led to calls for an independent investigation. iran's supreme leader has rejected u.s. president of trans offer for direct talks. banned iranian leaders from meeting trump saying the u.s. never follows through on promises it makes during talks. in kenya seventeen senior government officials and businessmen involved in a multi-billion dollar railway project have been arrested for corruption the

railway which was funded by china connects the capital nairobi with the port city of mombasa kenya as government is acting on its pledge to stamp out corruption catherine soil has the details this is the latest corruption case involving the construction of a really line in kenya the biggest and most expensive infrastructure project in the country at the moment the heads of the national land commission the state railway and other business people have pleaded not guilty to one thousand charges including fraud corruption and abuse of office they're accused of authorizing payments for compensation of land used in the construction of a section of the really about three million dollars paid to people off the land that did not exist or that was already owned by the release corporation this year the government has intensified its crackdown on corruption in a way kenyans have not seen in the long time no matter how powerful you think you are no matter how much you think you know people in high position no matter how

much money you have large will not save you corruption has been a major concern. candles have been an artist in several public offices government officials politicians and powerful business people have been implicated some have been brought to court i report by the auditor general's office shows that a bad as the country's budget is lost to corruption and mismanagement every part of where i'm optimistic is that for the first time it's not just the job of the director of public prosecutions or the and the corruption commission it's a multi agency so we're going at this with everything that we have. and in the spirit of the crackdown demolitions of buildings of broad reserves and italian land say to have been acquired for me is ongoing so this is one of the buildings what millions of dollars that have been brought down by the government in the last few weeks if it's right next to an important stream the next one to go is

also all center there the owners have already started bringing down the path that year maps for demolition. this is president hu king at his last time in office and he's promised more jobs through the manufacturing industry he vassal health care affordable housing and food security for that to happen he needs to deal decisively with crash i think he understands that this is the only shows that he has. to basically break away from the past which is basically i break the law but i have friends in high places that make a phone call and this is going to go away many kenyans say they're happy with what they see there however also calling for speedy trials convictions and the assets of those found guilty to be confiscated captured saudi al jazeera and. mollie's opposition candidates for mayor cease a plans to reject the results of the presidential election which has been marred by violence and accusations of fraud vote counting is under way after

a tense presidential runoff observers declared the second round fairly peaceful despite the polling station official being killed in timbuktu more than one hundred stations are closed for security purposes president of cater is the front runner in the vote. it's been five years since at least one thousand people were killed by security forces in the rahbar square in egypt's capital human rights watch describes it as one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history the group was protesting against the coup which depose the democratically elected president mohamed morsi burn smith reports. the wizened and you'll sit in warms the voice from egypt's ministry of interior. everyone wants to avoid any bloodshed. but by now

hundreds of people had already been killed by the country's security forces as they moved in and the last of the major protests by supporters of president mohamed morsi he'd been deposed in a military coup for forty seven days they'd occupied a square outside a lot away a mosque to have some order from kill us just secured arse just to kill our president is more suited. for legitimacy this is only going to fuel that's what. the us says this is this is about. this is mostly they are there and they are not in the old. most of the protesters had little to defend themselves with the security forces said that some of them were probably big trouble yes yes look look . everyone in the square including journalists covering the protest came under

a hail of apparently indiscriminate gun find this was a team from al jazeera was five years later more than seven hundred people arrested at rabaa a standing trial together the cases of seventy five of them have been referred to egypt's top religious authority to decide. whether they should be sentenced to death. among those on trial is photojournalist mahmoud known as shall count he was arrested for taking pictures of the security forces as they broke up the protest. god willing the trial is fair with no injustice he's a man who's been wronged at the end of the day journalism isn't an insult or a crime. more than a thousand people were likely killed on august fourteenth twenty thirteen that's according to human rights watch. no one from the egyptian security forces has ever been charged with any offenses relating to the massacre bernard smith

al-jazeera. a speech planned by a pro independence political campaigner in hong kong has triggered protests national party leader and the channel is speaking at the foreign correspondents club a pro beijing group is outside the venue while the chinese foreign ministry called for the event to be canceled. and the danger is government says it'll take a long time for people to rebuild their lives after this month's earthquake on the island of lombok at least four hundred thirty six people are now known to have died the damage bill has risen to more than three hundred forty million dollars have a morgan reports. rescued alive from the rubble this boy is one of the lucky ones he's at least being treated for his injuries but his mother says even that was a struggle because the earthquake destroyed thousands of buildings including hospitals and medical centers at mabille and that was the hat i didn't know if my son had fractures or not and there was no facility and i was told to stay away from

home remedies that's why i came to the military hospital where there are volunteers here that was. more than a week after the six point nine quake struck the search for survivors is drawing to a close more than four hundred thirty bodies have been recovered but many more remain missing treating the injured has also been a major challenge as many parts of the island are almost impossible to access now. volunteers have been doing their best to find out and it's a route through the destruction. of the reason that patients with fractures come to us because we have five operation rooms and how doctors are volunteers who join the military we have five operations day here but that's not enough for the thousands of people affected there still discovering people who haven't been reached for the system and at the same time they're delivering very basic emergency assistance food water medical care shelter the damage hasn't been assessed so there's

a lot of uncertainty about the future thousands of people remain displaced and afraid to go home because of the fear of more earthquakes and aftershocks. they've already lost family friends in many cases their homes and. they don't know how much more. north and south korea have agreed to hold a summit in pyongyang in september a trip by the south's president when jane to the north capital could be the first such business in more than a decade both sides say they committed to a foreign relations this fight pyongyang is continuing disputes with the u.s. over the terms of its denuclearize ation deal. u.s. president dog trump has called the former wife house. and the low life after she accused him of racism on the rosa money gold newman was fired in december and secretly recorded conversations she had while she was working in the white house she's also written a book about

a time that can be healthier as more there sometimes strange relationship goes back years you're fired omarosa manigault newman was a contestant on donald trump's reality t.v. show the apprentice when trump became president he brought her with him to the white house she was one of the only african-americans among trump's west wing staff was but months after general john kelly was made chief of staff omarosa was fired in a new book she details how she was pushed out without being aware of the decision something she recorded without his knowledge what's going. to leave what happened in general kelly general kelly came to me and said you guys wanted me to leave. nobody even though i had a blind spot working to donald trump i wanted to see the best in him but she says she failed miserably in her tell all book about her experience she charges the

president is a racist donald trump is a con and has been masquerading as someone who is actually open to engaging with diverse communities trump lashed out on twitter on monday calling her wacky describing her as not smart. many of us argue trump. has done much to aggravate racial tensions in the united states and what we see most polls show a large majority of black americans still disapprove of trump but the strong u.s. economy and declining black unemployment has led to support from some african-americans notably the musical artist kanye west however it's unlikely. will change anyone's perception of president trump no matter what happens no matter the outcome of anything like this that. forty percent high thirty percent of support that he gets that's big and that's not going anywhere at any time still the

perception that this white house is not sensitive to the needs of african-americans persists almost eight months after omarosa was fired the trumpet ministrations still has almost no senior african-american staff can really help at al-jazeera the white house u.s. media are reporting the queen of soul aretha franklin is gravely ill the seventy six year old american music legend is known for her the sting to voice and powerful life performances franklin this one eighteen grammy awards in a career spanning many sixty years with hits such as respects a natural woman. and let's take you through some of the headlines now turkey central bank has stepped in to try and and the currency crisis restrictions on how much lira and foreign currency banks need to hold has been eased and they've also been guaranteed loans

turkey's president accused the u.s. and nato ally of the trial and deepening the crisis by imposing sanctions. huge crowds have gathered in northern yemen for the funerals of people killed in the saudi erotic coalition air strike more than fifty people died in last week's attack forty of them were children on a school bus and sparked an international outcry and led to calls for an independent investigation. iran's supreme leader has rejecting u.s. president donald trump's offer for direct talks. banned iranian leaders from meeting trump saying the u.s. never follows through on promises it makes during talks in an exclusive interview with al jazeera iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif says trump decision to pull out of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal has further strain ties are. we have no problem with dialogue but is mr trump really serious about talks if he

is serious about talks without preconditions well the secretary of state put some conditions for talks two hours after trump's comments impossible conditions the first question is if they themselves have reached an agreement inside the u.s. about talks with or without preconditions our policies in the region are totally clear it's the us who needs to be accountable for policies in the region of formal astray an archbishop convicted of covering up child sex abuse has avoided jail time philip wilson will serve his twelve month sentence in home detention after the court was told he has early stages of all simers disease he's the highest ranking official in the roman catholic church to be sentenced for covering up child abuse a probe aging group is protesting against the speech planned by a pro independence politician and the chan in hong kong freedom of speech and political representation has become a growing issue hong kong is a former british colony it was handed back to china in one thousand nine hundred

seventy. the largest multi-sport event on the continent and the second largest in the world the asian games will host sounds about competing across a mix of traditional and a limp explore soloist from the news and updates from jakarta the hosting city of the eighteenth asian games on al-jazeera tensions are high. little has changed and new village officials are struggling to demonstrate goodwill. among morial is trying for a comrade who sacrificed his life for political change. but really it might drive a wedge between the village and. fractures part three of a six part series filmed over five years. china's democracy experiment on al-jazeera.

the ok and you're in the stream today a growing number of muslim americans have hit the campaign trail ahead of time elections this november and some are saying that could be history in the making we'll speak with a few of those candidates to hear about the ups and downs of running for public office and their efforts to change the political status quo we are live on you try to leave your comments and questions in the chat but. a journalist for my stream who suggested today show. this show. growing up i feel like i have a lot of role models in the political sphere today that's totally changing there's so many young muslims especially young muslim women getting involved and i think that's really encouraging. i'm hoping it will encourage muslim communities to go vote and i'm hoping it will encourage young muslims to rather have in the ring and run for public office. americans will head to the polls this november to vote in

mid term elections are for some muslims in the u.s. that presents an opportunity to transform activism in the street into policy the associated press news agency reports that a wave of muslim americans across the country are making bids for public office inspired by the desire to not only challenge negative perceptions about their community but shake up the political landscape. of course running for office isn't easy but some like michigan congressional candidate where she totally are on track to make history although she's running unopposed in her home state police could become the first muslim woman elected to congress we're happy to welcome rashida to leave to the stream but she's not the only muslim american candidate looking to shake up the system in november to hear i'm going to do it is an attorney hoping to represent the first congressional district of massachusetts in arizona abood is campaigning for a seat in the united states senate and with us on set her to how is the director of policy and advocacy for the washington d.c.

based muslim public affairs council or empathic welcome everyone to the stream thank you thank you i want you to look at these three ladies these political candidates look at them what does this tell you about america when you see them all together these women i am hopeful there is not a lot i think for us to be celebrating these days but looking at these women looking at their dedication their commitment to wanting to see a change in america in our political landscape and then really taking on that leadership role to be those leaders makes me very very hopeful let me share a headline with you this isn't boston globe when it says with hope and a hit job to hit i'm a to what doug aims to catch and wave in western massachusetts that is such a cheesy headline hope and a hit job anymore ladies that you have had to deal with some thought at least to ration which you could please stop already with the muslim american label rashida

you go first well i think mitt you know my district is a little bit different and the media coverage is little bit different just because i'm been an activist in detroit for so long it has been more about me being kind of allowed you know warren carey woman so happens to be muslim. or in some cases people say muslim but i think that it is been an incredible journey i really haven't you know gotten this kind of so-called like attention in the media in regards to be you know muslim but more about being a. little bit more aggressive or maybe sometimes people that come at it which is unfair approach to public service and i've been an active as i've been marching against injustice over the city and. and i think that was more of a big push back as being a woman and i think it's harder i mean you know for my muslim is that where the his

dad like my sister it's always the first thing that people talk about even though my sister is you know she's a poet she's you know challenging issues around domestic violence and all these other things as her career people first see that and i think that's always been something she struggles with like i'm so much more than that but yeah i it is frustrating because we actually care so deeply about public service and about elevating the voices of our families that so many of them happen to be non muslim but people want to focus on that and it's ok in some sense because i'm so proud of it plus it's kind of get in your face trump statement being muslim on and kind of challenging the rhetoric that's been coming out of the ministration but i'm i'm incredibly proud to be among women who have so much courage because it takes so much courage to run so on line there are people that say saying that you have an added burden to just being a muslim woman who wears her job running for office if it could get more burdensome

than that this is donna austin a former stream gas and she says tyra for congress as a black muslim woman faces potential challenges not only because of her race and because of her gender but also prevalent public a slime a phobia that informs much of the current public of political discourse she goes on to say but you are more than your demographic identity you're also a key. capable tourney community advocates with years of experience and solid policy positions that we've often have difficulty analyzing black women can sway because of our difficulties with race and gender so she adds on being african-american on top of all of that what's your take on not. i agree that it is sort of a trifecta and i talk about that a lot going back to the boston globe article with the headline with hope that he jabbed when we posted it on social media and engage with some of our constituents particularly women who are not muslim we started saying that he jab superpowers and

we totally embrace the idea that the jab has superpowers it's interesting because i'm running in a district that of course is predominately white depending on what it was to to stick you read it's between seventy five to eighty one percent white and so the question about my identity comes up quite a bit but i think is that most people when they get over whatever the shock might be of seeing me they recognize that we have a universal message we have lots of commonality and that overcomes that that initial sort of shock who is this person why is she running. and can she represent me when she looks and dresses and presents that way did i'm just wondering about how you were dealing with your identity your faith your identity as a politician and the attention that has been focused on you because of your identity. well funny enough locally in the media it was always the muslim candidate

no matter what i mean they would say you know a male entrepreneur is running and then they would say and the muslim candidate we've actually had an evolution and there is no no where the local media doesn't do that anymore they actually call me an attorney which is you know what they call everybody else and nationally that has not been the case nationally every story seems to be about the muslims running or the muslim women running or you know somehow i'm not muslim out that wouldn't even you know get their attention but out on the campaign trail what we've also seen an evolution because i am the only person in this race really. from both parties that is running on my values and being truthful and transparent accessible and accountable on the values and we've never had that in arizona so especially i'm a democrat so it really is changing the conversation in arizona away from whether or not i'm muslim or whether or not i'm dressing although we made addressing part of it you know we have a whole shoot thing we have i wear color most people would like to dress like me so

we embraced that but because we were willing to stand up for our values and really get out and talk to the people engage them answer their questions whatever they were be respectful even stand up to white supremacists and it deescalate them then we really earned the respect so that we earned the vote. you know of course this is a conversation that we're centered on in the united states but our audience is global and so this is resonating with people outside as well we got a video comment from someone named a small malik and she's a candidate for toronto city council and she's also billed as the first hit job wearing woman elected to office in canada was for the toronto district school board and these are the things she says that she faced have a listen i was the first to jump around muslim women to be elected to congress in canada and it wasn't in this that. i was the time. he you can in one of the most diverse places in the world i was attacked for who i am

and the work i've done on human rights people came together pushed back against the wall for sure in a city that works for everyone now i'm around the city council or toronto city hall i believe you're going to city hall so that she explains what happened to her based on the research and what you know about candidates running here in the states is this more common than not you know i think it probably is common and i would love to hear the ladies who are actually running and their perspective you know there is a very interesting intersection i believe between gender race and sometimes ethnic origin in the spotlight that's put on these candidates can sometimes be. you know it's intense and it's extreme and they don't feel that other candidates are also put in that same situation but i do believe going back to talking to

a statement about that being a superpower you know there's something about american muslims there's something especially about american muslim women who are you know becoming the leaders who are the leaders for today and for the future who are saying you know what all of that noise aside i'm still going to take this on and i'm still going to be dedicated because i am fighting for justice for my community for my district for my country. how to ask you that question how would you respond. i know you. had a then you can second yeah so so i love that we talked about the his having superpowers i think that's so amazing to kind of embrace it and twist it to something that's what i personally think could be a possibility because i always say that you know trump being in office just everything that's happening is kind of blip in the signal for women but women of

color not just muslims but i see more latinos running i see more women from different kinds of backgrounds just coming up and stepping up and running for office but i can tell you from somebody there's one my democratic nomination and just seeing the kind of intense attention i've been getting. it is been it's been hard you know my team is actually keeping me away as much as they can from social media of some of the painful kind of attacks on me i think a lot of people you know i'm i'm also palestinian you know my mind i mean mine do you mind sharing some of those because i think this is the reality check of what it means when you. come from a particular community and you're representing people. who may not know about your background. one example. well one example is you know i automatically think it because i'm palestinian that somehow you know anti-semitic which is so unbelievable because it's so those are the kinds of things that like i'm not going to support

you you're going to promote sharia law but also using derogatory terms like the b word towards me or you know being written watching certain kind of comments lead to almost just just pure anger and frustration that i could be a possibility and our country which i think you know overwhelmingly there has been more hope inspiration and light has come from my election and the other noise that you see people want to concentrate on that people want to focus on that it's really hard to understand that we are actually much much more overwhelmingly. you know population just more positivity that's coming but yeah it is been hard for me to get that much show all at once within just literally i don't know if you know how to like within a few minutes of winning to get that kind of push back again not from my own district not from the people that elected me not hear from the backyard of you know

my and the trader mentor detroit area it's been people from around the country and even around the world that have attacked me already late putting labels on me assuming various things that you you know the stereotypical things that you think that somehow i'm an american somehow that i'm so somehow going to be. so busy that i promise to hear that she would get in but i'm going to go to hear out by your campaign announcement because it gives me tingles that to supplying it to hear out of the congress let's press play. i've decided that we need representation that reflects that someone is hearing someone is experiencing someone is listening someone is engaging someone is qualified. interstate willing we lend this persistent brave fearless and beholden to no one but our community and have that. to you you are up against somebody who is very well

established they have a lot of money what made you decide i have to run i decided that we needed to rhyme i needed to run because our district was really lacking in zealous representation especially on the heels of the trump of the trump election and when i made that decision it was well respected people. and we have been on fire ever since i launched in december our primary is september for and we have just so much traction and enthusiasm that i just believe that we're unstoppable and with the help of this community in this district we're going to when i we believe that this is our reality. i like that enthusiasm and that passion there we're seeing it online from others as well we got

a tweet from side and she was one of the five democratic candidates for the primaries for congress also in michigan it was wrote this i learned in this process that the community is paying attention they want to be engaged they're ready to vote but they also want to see their voices reflected and feel heard it's not just our job to engage but politicians and to stop writing them off or taking them for granted and she continues by saying because we need to change the narrative and not allow our community and our issues to be defined by others as it's been for far too long and if we're not at the table we're on the menu so keeping that in mind what is it that you are bringing to the table why did to run for office in the first place. i announced in april two thousand and seventeen when i was announcing against the established republican and no one had a clue that he was going to choose not to run opening the seat later in the year and then my opponent in the democratic primary decided when he announced that he

was going to run that she would run easy pickens but i had already established six months of raising the expectations for this office of denouncing that our u.s. senators were not having town halls weren't answering questions were inaccessible gave zero information to the people and hadn't even visited the fifteen counties of arizona much less the tribe so i stayed in the race because my opponent continued to do exactly what senator flake was doing so basically we're getting the exact thing thing we weren't going to raise the expectations even though we were going to have a democrat in office and that's what this has to be about if it was about getting around and having these conversations about the real things that matter you know criminal justice health care net neutrality separation of religion and state these are all important issues and people need to talk about it but we also need to talk about who are we as democrats and are we reflecting those values or are we willing to trade them for suppose that when digital social you take your constituents

through what it is like to cab by this is dangerous twenty eighteen and this is last week and you're knocking on doors what is the reality of campaigning for you. well first of all we made social media a big platform and we made it very transparent everywhere i go everywhere i do we're pretty much online in some way we've been facebook live all of my speeches we also have the campaign chronicles which are snippets of little conversations but generally you know people meet you where you are so if you meet them with a smile and and inclusion then they'll respond to that and we've had a few like that that day when i was door knocking we had a man who his wife was democrat he was republican he was not happy that we were at the door and he said you know democrats are running the country and he was very upset he was closing the door to that but we love you still and he opened up the

door and said i wasn't talking about you personally nothing and i didn't think that you were i was just reminding you that in the end we're all a community and because it's that community and that aspect here that people are picking up on this is being a show on twitter who says there are more muslims running for office than any other time after nine eleven and that seems relevant and she's referencing stuff from the associated press but keeping that in mind we got a video comment from mohammed a girl who talks about what that stat has meant for average everyday americans on the ground who are now invigorated to go campaign for you all and for other candidates this is what he told us about what it was like to be out on the streets getting the vote out. stepping down from the. door you saw them big. workin on the poles i mean. the street knocking on doors working at the polls as well and then we would literally

pull people out of the mess to. make sure that they went to vote i mean we had literature. coming everyone. together for a common cause. that we had precincts that actually ran out of about it we have redefined what it means to be muslim in america so he talked about women in full face veils prayer leaders being pulled out of the mosque to go get out the vote how important are those our friends and it is that difference that striking to you it's incredibly important in fact a few a recent pew study just released announced that nearly two thirds of american muslims are dissatisfied with the direction of the country today and i think that it's so incredibly important and i think it makes a very powerful statement that while we may be dissatisfied with the direction

we're doing something about it we're not just sitting back we're not letting things happen we're not you know sitting we're not we're not on the menu we're sitting around the table and we're part of those policymaking discussions and i think it's important to ensure that the faith community is involved in the civic in the political process i think for too long our community has been overlooked and now we're starting to see this push again yes while we have while we may have a lot of men who are running for office too i think that the the banner is being led by american muslim women and i think that that is a powerful perception. it's a myth busting. exercise so that people are not. continuing to have that stereotype in their mind that american muslim women or muslim women in general are treated differently in the faith and certainly not as americans and i just jump in as an aside because you mention men running for office as well that we there are also two male members of congress already under carson and keith ellison.

tahira for congress i want to see this right on your own here to defeat the manias and i just spoke about the campaign ad vision of ability to shape our future it's a beautiful day and this picture is so striking we have to seen as we have you there's a lot of diversity in this picture or maybe there isn't a lot of diversity and how you see it what was that like. it's that picture i met with some seniors in a part of the district the district is very large and that sort of that scene is not an uncommon scene but when we get over the sort of shock value of what i look like what i present like the reality is that we connect on a on a commonality that is that is almost all people love our message they love the energy that we bring and the identity that i have as

a muslim woman only helps me to connect with folks just in a more universal way so the fact that in this district we've been able to get the momentum that we've gotten comes because we lead and we serve with a place of from a place of love and people respond to that and it's been electrifying i'm just wondering what the political climate. insisted to here a says a place of love it's so true what happened in a room with even you know predominantly white communities just seeing that picture and it reminds me of some of the parts of my district it really is you know like people like us don't you know you don't hear from members of congress talk about coming from a place of love you don't hear members of congress even talking about that in talking about being really truly real and trying to connect people connect with people i mean human level when i see draw on the door of bickering how powerful

that direct human contact is your replaceable you know when they have i contact with you when you're. talking to them i mean do you drive a terror probably know because you're just looking at you and they're like wow to my door but even more than that they're connecting with at a level that is so extraordinary that if you like that when i hear pastor of african-american pastors say this in my district he says we're not divided we're just disconnected or she will type from what i can see and you by getting out there is that we're connecting all right so she turned to here to and did you all connecting as a little clip i want to play and this comes from dancers promotional video have a listen there has to happen is we have to come to back together as a society i think people are very tired i think that they want to attack issues and stop attacking each other and i think that that i am the message that we're picking up from my guest today mainly because very different from some of the news that we

hear around the united states in terms of that pos and chip that's out there what are you seeing online i am seeing a lot of love and support from people that are in your districts and maybe not this is matthew who says go did ya give them a run for their money inspire young arizona mohammed says what an honor to have rashida representing her district in congress we're very proud and me and says mr dude is a wonderful human being with a proven track record thank you so much gas rashida to hear. as well we really appreciate your time on a stream we will always be online see that take everybody. to. on counting the cost what the first wave of u.s. sanctions on iran means by iranians and companies doing business there the world's

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a school bus attack in yemen. they don't trust trump iran's supreme leader forbids talks about rules out going to war with the u.s. . and they won't go to jail the highest ranking catholic official to be convicted for concealing child sex abuse is sentenced. turkey's president is accusing the u.s. of betraying its allies as he tries to stem a currency crisis last week the u.s. impose new sanctions on its fellow nato member after ankara refused to repack creator detained american preacher the central bank has now stepped in to try to stop the liras free for its restrictions on how much lira and foreign currency banks need to hold and given loans from a stumble simcoe saw the reports walking through

a business street people take nervous glances at the foreign exchange screens wondering how much less their money might now be worth. the dollar is that if prices are up what she wants to buy overruns her budget. and give me a discount on leaves her request is turned down turkish lira is down at least thirty percent against a dollar in ten days this doesn't only hurt the buyers but the sellers too. including tibet's carts all he has run this shop for at least twenty years how far his products are imported is cost horizon tremendously. triangle one office and we are almost at stagnation waiting for exchange rates to settle i purchase in dollars so my costs increased forty percent i'll have to reflect this in my prices. however exporters are happy with the depreciating. our house owner who has run the

silver wholesaler with his brothers for twenty years say's his profits have grown. for the other although i import my products export them all we don't have a problem my profit margin is bigger now also we bring foreign exchange to our country but there certainty it worries everyone the finance ministry says it has an action plan to help ease the markets concerns and turkey central bank has pledged to provide all the liquidity needed by the banks many economists say the markets the men do you trust to stop the us trouble but prisons are gone and this financial team are totally i guess i don't say is this is a speculative attack against still there are by foreign countries and might continue. if it does experts fear it could have a spillover effect into europe where turkey's biggest lenders are seen on to solo al-jazeera the stumble the turmoil in turkey is spreading to other countries is the

global banking system tries to manage the crisis the argentinian peso fell to a record low against the dollar as did the indian rupee south african rand dropped more than ten percent zol so concern in mexico and russia about the knock on effects and there are fears in the e.u. that turkish companies may not be able to repay loans if the crisis continues long term. huge crowds of gathered in northern yemen for the funerals of people killed in a saudi immorality coalition air strike more than fifty people died in last week's attack forty of them children strike sparked an international outcry and led to calls for an independent investigation how to reports from neighboring djibouti. falls on sultan that the funerals a convoy of vehicles fed into the bodies from the morgue snaking through the streets of the city the stronghold but the coffins draped in green were laid out of

the square in the city portraits of the victims lined up on the ground head of a special prayer for the dead. as well as yes as the mourners shelter slogans again so that every year and who they say is its biggest ally and supply the united states these people have come from various parts of the country to give a proper sendoff to those who died in the latest sodium or to coalition strike security was tight at the ceremony which was attended by several high ranking officials the funerals was supposed to take place on saturday or were postponed due to security fears the children water tunning from a school summer camp when their boss topped at the busy market it was targeted by air strikes unicef has called the carnage the single biggest attack on children since the war in yemen escalated in two thousand and fifteen images of the children

covered in blood and reeling from shock have provoked international condemnation. request all parties to the conflict to end the attacks against civilians against children in particular against infrastructure and we plea for them to enter into a situation of hostilities to put an end to these war the cerruti i'm about to call you should initially denied aiming at civilians and defend the incident as a legitimate military operation a response it's a top ballistic missile fired into so that it be at the previous day but hours later the coalition promised to investigate i don't think it will be accepted that the side that has committed this crime. is allowed to investigate it because we know that it's old idea the saudi that coalition has investigated many. crimes like the great funeral hold of a strike they did on that is noticeable pos come from this investigation the united

nations security council has called for credible and transparent investigation into the talk the war in yemen has left a list of them people led to what the u.n. describes as the world's wast humanitarian crisis the u.n. special envoy to yemen martin griffiths has invited parties in the conflict to talks in geneva from the sixth of september. to get a cease fire deal before them so far failed. one hundred other world does it or djibouti. iran's supreme leader has turned down the us president our trance offer for direct talks and i says he's banned during in leaders for meeting trump saying the u.s. never follows through on promises it makes during talks he also ruled out the possibility of war with the u.s. in an exclusive interview with al-jazeera as with other iran's foreign minister says the u.s.

has proven not to be trustworthy homage to obsolete says trump's decision to pull out of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal further strain ties are hitch more shit he broke off that we're not getting we have no problem with dialogue but as mr trump really serious about talks if he is serious about talks without preconditions well the secretary of state put some conditions for talks two hours after trump's comments impossible conditions the first question is if they themselves have reached an agreement inside the u.s. about talks with or without preconditions our policies in the region are totally clear it's the u.s. who needs to be accountable for policies in the region and so must ravi has more from to her around. it has to be said there's nothing necessarily new in what the supreme leader of iran has said today but every time he speaks on any given issue with lends a certain amount of religious weight to the issue that he is discussing and so if you follow the arc of that logic now it is the law of the land of to not negotiate

with the united states but as is the case with most of what officials in iran say there are it's the supreme leader later in that address said that if iran is in a position to resist economic pressure and if iran is strong enough to negotiate with the united states on more equal footing and if the united states becomes more human towards iran then then iran may enter back into negotiations with the united states so there is a subtle nuance there but he said as far as the trumpet ministration is concerned there is no way that iran will ever negotiate with the current white house. a speech planned by a pro independence vertical campaign in hong kong has triggered protests national party leader andy chan is speaking at the foreign correspondents club a pro beijing group is outside the venue while the chinese foreign ministry called for the event to be canceled robin wright is there joins me now live so how the

process shaping up rob. that's right this is a controversial speech by andy chan is due to begin just about now it is lunchtime here in hong kong it is the billed as a lunchtime event they have regular speaker bands he is now we understand taken to his feet and will be addressing the people who congregated here meanwhile outside as you've made to there certainly there's a good hundred or so very angry protesters determined to have their voices heard these are people who have been protesting all morning here as head of this the speech they are pro beijing groups they've been no waving the national flag of the people's republic of china with various banners condemning this as being an act of treason if you like for them the mention of the word independence is really crossing a red line that it is a very controversial subject here this small party it's only has around about two dozen members which has suddenly sprung to prominence because the old thirty's here

seem to be about to abandon it from operation in the assertion of a very controversial laws which stipulated you know of allowed to talk about independence so this is a very divisive subject here the we're expecting that ban to come into force but the foreign correspondents club here had already invited and the chance to come along here and speak they say these people here put say that it goes against the basic law it's the mini constitution of hong kong to talk about independence the journalists inside this building say there is free speech in shrine did not basic law. in fact it's not only their rights to have free speech but the fact is they duty to have this news they could come here and explain what he means by independent so i mean well if the speech goes ahead and in what ways say about china's approach to hong kong at this point rob. we understand it is going to head but there is

a real concern here that is the whole subject has been used by a number of people trying the people in hong kong probe aging forces really as a way of trying to maybe batter free press the journalism of hong kong the hong kong as we know has free media it's the only city in china that has a a freely independent freely operating media and there has been a lot of controversy here that the former leader of hong kong c.-y. alone has joined calls for the f.c.c. not to go ahead with this event and in fact is also a question whether the foreign correspondents club is a seventy five year old organization here various steam did all the rest should be allowed to have this headquarters here the building behind me in central and that's been seen as a way of putting pressure on free journalist operating here in rome something all right thanks so much robin wright. still ahead on al-jazeera typhoon yankee decimates parts of the philippines forcing falsehoods from their home.