in place being used by the military so it's incredibly difficult and cell phones come back every so often and we managed to get snippets of information the latest from the smalling being that the taliban is in control of more of the city than the government is which is a vastly different line than what we were hearing from the government they did a press conference yesterday saying everything's fine we're seeing in reinforcements but there's nothing to worry about as far as the government's concerned with the really caught by surprise here because you've got the taliban doing things that they haven't sort of displayed in their playbook before destroying roads the government forces can't get in you've got bodies on the streets and the government saying we still control all the central institutions but for how long i mean they shouldn't be surprised because ghassan has been vulnerable to a taliban attack yeah i mean city it's provincial capital of this province it's been surrounded by the taliban controlled the villages around it the taliban have been infiltrating the city. but the police have been known that they're there in the town but they haven't acted on it and now they have launched this attack on friday

morning and they very well organized residents saying they've got trucks they've got guns i've got rocket launches they've managed to embed themselves in a residential area which is essentially protected them from a military because they're using essentially human shields if the taliban are about to take me if and it's a big what do they do with it once they've got it very good question i mean strategically it's incredibly important to the taliban to get this to get the city because it's so close to kabul it's two hundred seventy thousand people in there and it's on the main highway that connects kabul to the south of the country they get gas and that's a huge huge queue for them through all of the things. a leader of a party advocating independence for hong kong has accused china of suppressing freedom of speech rival protests greeted andy chan as he arrived at the foreign correspondents club to give a speech both the chinese and the hong kong government want to be event canceled last month the police put forward an unprecedented proposal to ban chan's party for

national security reasons. due to the nature of how the chinese public machine works the national party was instantly demonized as some sort of extremist group due to these single word independence in reality what the national party is chasing now there is no difference from what many homeowners wish for the dream of democracy and now as you all know the government is trying to. complete the calling us an illegal society. joins us pardon me we spoke to a little earlier here's what he had to say. this is been a fairly regular scheduled event and suddenly and the chant found himself being the man of the moment with his organization it seems being earmarked to be potentially banned here in hong kong for having this position of advocating for independence

now as you heard there and the chant says that this is not talking for any kind of violent overthrow of chinese rule here he said talking about this autonomy or independence through peaceful means and that's what he's been talking about at this event but that for many people for the protesters who've been angrily making their voices heard all around this building here that really goes across a red line any talk of independence as far as pro beijing protesters are concerned is really treasonous kind of talk treasonous behavior and a lot of their anger is that being directed not only at andy chan but also with the journalists are here for giving this man a platform for their part the foreign correspondents club says that it has under the in the constitution the basic law by which hong kong is governed as being a chinese city but with special rules and special privileges it has freedom of speech and that's really all they've been doing here indeed the journalists here say that if they didn't have this news baker to come and speak to them and hold

them to account they wouldn't be doing their job still to come here on al-jazeera consulting the people cubans have their say on the biggest change the island in decades. he won't go to jail the highest ranking catholic official to be convicted for concealing child sex abuse is sentenced. by the skyline of asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. hello and welcome to international weather forecast as we look at conditions across europe we have this frontal system pushing in from the west into central areas a cold front here and he's doing what it says and we're introducing much fresher conditions from the west so further towards the east are looking pretty warm temperatures there in the mid to upper twenty's still in the thirty's across southeastern areas being see much more unsettled conditions around the baltic

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abstract issue we need to pay attention to their stops or if you join us on sacked rather than stopping terrorism it's creating a base is a dialogue and just the community as want to add to this conversation we need a president who's willing to be a villain or a short while everyone has a voice i'm part of civil society i need help but i never get listening to by those in the corridors of power joining the global conversation. going out to zero. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm peter double your top stories so far a man's been arrested after crashing his car into security barriers outside the british parliament police say

a number of their strings were injured several blocks around the area have now been cordoned off the weakness of the turkish currency is starting to affect other emerging markets the indian rupee hit a record low just a few hours ago and currencies from argentina to south africa all fell on monday the turkish lira is fallen more than forty five percent against the u.s. dollar this year. fighting is continuing in the afghan city of gasoline more than three hundred people have died over the past few days and half of them are civilians according to the u.n. afghanistan's military is sending reinforcements to help defend the city from a taliban attack. pakistan has started celebrating seventy one years of independence a presidential parade has been held along with a flag hoisting ceremony in central islamabad the prime minister elect him run counter to he's filled with great optimism for the country it became independent following the one nine hundred forty seven partition of the british ruled india kamal hyder has more now from islamabad. bugger's gun celebrates seventy first

independence day amidst much there are many entire families have come out there crushed by get on with their national flag and all day have been firework displays across major cross bar get on it in that time for people to decide ethnic cultural and linguistic barriers and your night that same band seventy one years ago all their dream of an independent homeland for the muslims. became a reality this independent film awkward much excitement because of the fact that the country has now a new political party at the helm of affairs a new prime minister will be taking orders. on celebrate independence day and the people of pakistan of course will be hoping that this time around their government did they bring to deliver on its promise and to ensure that that country

had a bright future for its people kiba is to have its most significant political change in more than forty years and the government wants people involved thousands of community meetings are being held for people to share their thoughts on the new draft constitution from havana as the story. their work is done at this hospital and have a nap but the staff can't go home yet. they're staying on to discuss the proposed changes to the cuban constitution thousands of these government organized meetings are taking place across the island over the next three months. it's the most comprehensive change to the country's constitution in over forty years. i'm here to fulfill my revolutionary duty i haven't read the full project but i think it's all great. last month cuba's national assembly approved the draft constitution after several days of televised debate. the main changes proposed establishing term

limits on the presidency was lamenting the communist party as the sole governing body on the island benefiting. the process will help strengthen the unity of all cubans around the revolution. but cuba's legislators had to make concessions to reflect an evolving society and to try to ensure a more sustainable economy for the first time since the castro led revolution to power the proposed magna carta recognizes private property long considered an enemy of a socialist society. same sex marriage has also been proposed perhaps the most visible of social issues to feature in the constitutional draft the government is encouraging cubans to read this document in detail it's made available for sale at newsstands all across the island and to take part in the public meetings about it the leadership here says these meetings are emblematic of the country's democratic process while critics of course dismiss the entire exercise as

a pointless. the problem they say is that the government is only affecting changes to benefit themselves not ordinary people but for a society that has barely experienced any constitutional change since the soviet era many analysts argue that even small changes matter when i walk i think cuba is changing and the constitution is part of that change it won't make the change go faster. the constitution is not a change it won't protect everything people want nor will it give everything that they expect. the process from here is a painstaking one officials are expected to take down the principal commons and send them back to the assembly line a cuban's will been vote on a final document in a referendum early next year julia galliano al-jazeera. argentina's former president has denied any wrongdoing in a corruption scheme cristina kirchner appeared in court on monday and says the

accusations are politically motivated to resolve a reporter from buenos aires. she was once argentina's most popular president but things have changed for cristina fernandez the commissioner since leaving office she's faced a series of allegations over corruption the latest in which her name is reportedly mentioned in the notebooks of a driver in the public works ministry in which he details how millions of dollars in cash were moved in his vehicle and delivered to the presidential palace when neto and then christina were in office in the past week businessmen and politicians came to this courthouse to testify in this enormous corruption investigation several businessmen admittedly they paid millions of dollars in bribes to members of the previous administration in exchange for public works contracts the lot was the first one to see the notebooks as it was. a neighbor had a friend who was

a driver who gave them a series of notebooks which described how corruption operated in the previous administration and he was supposed to reveal them only if something happened to his friend. 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 were 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 cristina kirchner again to court. on monday she tweeted that this is a regional strategy to prescribe leaders of movement 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 notebooks 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. heavy rains and flash flooding in the philippines to force more than fifty thousand people from their homes at least three people have died in the country's northern islands his pull to judge again. a swollen river overturned cars and thousands of filipinos desperate for help. tropical storm yagi hit

manila's marking a city with heavy rain causing major flooding. this gym is one of the places many of the displaced found shelter now i'm going to see you know my flood waters inundated our home the river overflowed and have no place to stay and that is why we are staying here in disaster management officials said that in just eight hours the maori kena river rose from sixteen to twenty one meters just shy of the record twenty three meters nine years ago when seven hundred people were killed this weekend's flooding left behind mounds of mud and debris everywhere and we now have won. a house was flooded and then we have been back this morning to clean it it was all rushed out and in the middle of the road. city officials are asking the international community for help they want to strengthen and build up their flood control infrastructure. for eighteen or was and we are now improving our reading

image. networks. and as the typhoon season continues making a city and other low lying parts of the philippines are bracing for more flooding paul should urge on al-jazeera. the highest ranking official in the catholic church to be sentenced for covering up child sex abuse has avoided jail staley and philip wilson will serve a twelve month sentence as home detention on that saying that abuse victims reports now from sydney side story williams i thought not only did he dodge jail time but philip wilson evaded pleas for an apology to abuse survivors one word of contrition philip will use side story somebody in the catholic church so i sorry to people like million others will is the contrition from archbishop former archbishop wilson he's grace as somebody just set up stays has shown no grice on the saudi myself

about this the former archbishop of adelaide was convicted in may of failing to report a child sex abuse by a priest of two altar boys in the one nine hundred seventy s. he's the highest ranking roman catholic official convicted of such a crime but resigned from his post last month following intense pressure from political leaders including the prime minister feeling actually quite happy it's a custody will sentence that has been handed down and he begins the sentence today . in world news he's my singing claiming to have been found guilty sentenced and start the sense that the court decided wilson will serve out his sentence at his sister's house due to a range of health issues including heart disease victims and campaign is say the law needs to be tougher on those who conceal child sex abuse pedophiles get to do their highnesses act because people are the conceal or ignore what they do this is totally unacceptable it's a betrayal of the victims of

a trial of the community and it's a big trial about children of the future because if the lackluster laws of the present are going to be used again in the future then the results of the past are going to be the results of the future wilson intends to appeal his conviction but this case is being. seen as a landmark decision with broad ramifications for the church sends a message that the church is accountable can't hide behind canon or the confessional seal to escape reporting crimes like these yaba mohammed al jazeera sydney. more news on the website including the developing story mount arrested after a car crashes into the parliamentary area. this is al jazeera these are your top stories a man has been arrested after crashing his car into security areas outside the house of commons in london two people have been injured several blocks around the

area have now been sealed off counterterrorism officers a leading the investigation lawrence lee has more now from london. it's a very very quiet here there's no politicians around there all the central london is very quiet because it's all the days. if it was a deliberate attack and in that sense it's kind of come out of nowhere. and it doesn't look like it's been tremendously successful from the point of view of the perpetrator for all that clearly if you want to have the police will want to know why why they didn't have anything about it on their radar. who might have been responsible for. the weakness of the turkish currency is starting to affect other emerging markets the indian rupee hit a record low just hours ago and currencies from argentina to south africa all fell on monday the turkish lira has fallen by more than forty five percent against the u.s. dollar this shia. fighting is continuing in the afghan city of ghastly more than

three hundred people have died over the past few days around half of them civilians according to the un afghanistan's military is sending reinforcements to help defend the city from a taliban attack. a leader of a party advocating hong kong's independence as a peace china of suppressing freedom of speech rival protests greeted and chan as he arrived at the territories foreign correspondents club to give a speech that with the chinese and hong kong governments want to the event to be cancelled. the highest ranking official within the catholic church to be sentenced for covering up child sex abuse is avoided jail philip wilson will serve his twelve month sentence in home detention after the court was told he has alzheimers the former archbishop of adelaide will be fitted with an electronic tag. pakistan has started celebrating seventy one years of independence a presidential parade and flag hoisting ceremony well they've been held in the capital islamabad the prime minister elect imran khan tweeted that he's filled with great optimism for the country it became independent following the one nine hundred

forty seven partition of british world india those are your headlines up next it's the stream all season. every week lee news cycle brings a series of breaking stories join the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most. i am fairly ok and you are in the stream today a growing number of muslim americans have hit the campaign trail ahead of midterm 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 tube so to try to leave your comments and questions in the chat but first here's some

maya toba a journalist and former streamer who suggested today show. growing up i feel like i do a lot of ronald in the political sphere and to me that's totally changing there's so many young muslims especially young muslim women getting involved and really encouraging. i'm hoping it will encourage muslim communities to go out go and i'm hoping it will encourage young muslims to rather have. run for public. americans will head to the polls this november to vote in mid-term elections out of 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 beds 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 a boot is campaigning for a seat in the united states senate and with us on set her the 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 so far at least to ration which you could please stop already with the muslim american label rashida you go first well i think that you know my district is a little bit different and the media coverage is little bit different just because i've 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 getting 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 to here 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 strain gas and she says 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 play

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 our. league 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. 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 jad 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 was statistically 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 density 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 i male entrepreneur is running and then they would say and the muslim candidate we've actually had an evolutionary zone where the local media doesn't do that anymore they actually call me an attorney which is 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 if i'm not muslim i wouldn't even get their

attention but out on the campaign trail what we've also seen an evolution because i'm 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 it's like 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 shoe 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 supremacy this and to escalate them then we really earned their 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 a mess needing with people outside as well we got a video comment from someone named a small moloch 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 candidate 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 were muslim women to be elected to public office in canada and it wasn't. i was there. he campaigned 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 and now i'm running to city council or a toronto city hall i believe we need your voice 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 the saw in 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 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 automatically thinking 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're going to promote sharia law but also using derogatory terms like the b word towards me or you know we've all been 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 will.