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including the rwanda genocide our diplomatic editor james bays looks back at and don's life and legacy. a towering figure on the global stage bringing the peace bell of the united nations a man who did so much in the cause of global peace. u.n. secretary general for ten years a nobel peace laureate. kofi annan was born in ghana joining the un in one thousand nine hundred sixty two rising through the ranks to be the organizations head of peacekeeping at the time of genocide in rwanda eight hundred thousand people were killed he later said it was one of his greatest regrets that he was not able to do more to halt the bloodshed i am happy on and i hope you and sullenly souad when he became the first u.n. staffer to take over the top job he prepared the u.n. for a new millennium. his tenure coincided with the arrival of

a new president in the white house is. after nine eleven the u.s. invaded afghanistan. and then dividing the u.n. security council. iraq he had tried to avoid war with tireless diplomacy and by keeping a team of weapons inspectors in the country until the last moment later the un went back into baghdad after the invasion but its compound was then bombed with twenty two staff killed iraq was also the biggest controversy of his decade in the un job the oil for food program set up to help iraqis lead to massive corruption with the secretary general's own son kojo implicated. when he stepped down at the u.n. he addressed these remarks to his successor banki moon. you're to take over

the most impossible job on end of quote. while that may be true i would add i would add this is also the best possible job that. he did not choose to go into quote retirement he was the u.n. an arab league envoy to syria in two thousand and twelve coming up with a plan that would have ended the war six years ago. but it was ignored by the parties that continued to fight more recently he went to myanmar coming up with proposals that form the basis of the international community's approach to the rohingya crisis the result once again of his own personal style of diplomacy strong words but softly spoken even if you get into the shouting matches sometimes the bigger megaphones and you have and it doesn't necessarily get you where you

want to go there are times when you have to raise your voice and there are times when that i had to but generally i can get results without shout. rosin jordan joining us from the u.n. headquarters in new york how is he being remembered over at the u.n. rules and. daryn what you're hearing is an outpouring of tributes to kofi annan both as secretary general and in his post as a life we might tell use the phrase we hear consistently from former and current leaders around the world as well as top diplomats here at the u.n. kofi on a commitment to trying to make life better for the billions of people living on the planet trying to find ways to and disputes and disagreements and trying to prevent

war especially in light of his experience with rwanda and the genocide which happened there in one thousand nine hundred ninety four we've heard from other former presidents bill clinton barack obama and george w. bush even though george bush and kofi annan were very much at longer heads over the u.s. invasion of iraq in two thousand and three bush's statement still said that he was a consummate diplomat and that he was extending his condolences to aunts family we've also heard from leaders as varied as narendra modi and bloody mary pluton we've heard from the leaders. alice of bolivia who thanked kofi annan for trying to help him negotiate some sort of sea access with his neighbor to the south west. we've heard from theresa may the british prime minister as well as from the reverend desmond tutu who in

a statement said to be not taking the news well we've also heard from among others many fischel is here at the united nations including the outgoing high commissioner for human rights prince. hussein who said that he was grief stricken by the loss of someone that he considered not just a mentor but a friend so really a full outpouring of someone who's a. legacy in his eighty years has been one of trying to do well even when he fell short of the more yeah and that's the thing rosalynn he did for side over many successes but many scandals as well during his tenure at the united nations so one wonders what his legacy will be. well because of the way that one he dealt with the u.s. in trying to prevent the two thousand and three invasion of iraq there are those particularly in the u.s. on the conservative side who don't look fondly on kofi annan they thought that he

was perhaps too naive by howth and there were also those who thought that he was at least if not corrupt himself at least too close to corruption and not willing to do enough to try to prevent it of course i'm referring to the oil for food scandal it which saddam hussein apparently scammed doth millions if not billions of dollars in that program during the one nine hundred ninety s. when iraq was subject to global sanctions for his. benefit rather than for trying to help iraqis who did not have enough food during that period after the gulf war of one thousand nine hundred ninety one there is also love the idea that perhaps he didn't push this idea of the responsibility to protect that he didn't do enough to try to make it a focal point in preventing other conflicts around the world especially after he left the u.n.

and could have used his influence on countries when they were trying to deal with things such as the balkans war such as the situation in me and maher but because he was very open about his shortcomings i think that may have led to more people showing respect for kofi annan because he was the first to say i didn't do all that i could i didn't meet my own personal standard i'm trying to do better i would hope that others would try to do better as well now payrolls and jordan giving us the update from the united nations thank you and just to pick up on what rolls on was saying let's take a look at what some of the world leaders have been saying and they've been paying tribute to the former u.n. secretary general on twitter. including the country where he was born gone us presidents. said the governments and people of ghana first lady rebecca and i are deeply saddened by the news of the death in bern switzerland of one of our greatest compatriots mr kofi annan then there was india's prime minister narendra modi he

said the world has lost not only a great african diplomats and humanitarian but also a conscience keeper off international peace and security and iran's top diplomat jawad zarif tweeted extremely saddened by the passing of kofi anon a towering global leader and an unwavering champion for peace justice and rule of law rest in peace my dear old friends and here is how michael muller the director general of the un office in geneva reacted it was unexpected it is. pretty bad for the world we have lost the moral voice of the world today is but for the world in many so so many other ways he was a peacemaker he was. always in the forefront of trying to help people it's devastating for me personally he was a mentor he was a role model he was a friend. part of my life but profession and person let's not

speak to so they will shatter he's a former secretary general of amnesty international and he worked closely with kofi anon he was a friend of his as well he's joining us from london thank you for speaking to us how will you remember kofi annan. well i think. perhaps one of the most important. is an inspiration particularly for young people you know he there are not many leaders of global stage that kofi had if you think about in the last twenty thirty years we've had monday we've had coffee and maybe to some extent but. very few people that young the youth of today can look up to and feel inspired by interestingly all the three names i mentioned african origin are fricken some cells but you know they're very few maybe muckle to some extent but so yeah i remember him as an inspiration and

a moral voice and somebody one could look up to i think the second thing i remember him for was for having a spine because one of the big challenges we have in the world today is that we have very few leaders who have the kind of spine and that spine that result we had came from his clarity on values and the commitment to ordinary people the u.n. charter says we the people but often we forget the u.n. and leaders should be committed to people and not just governments he was described by many years the champion of human rights during his tenure and perhaps after his time or is un secretary general to what extent would you say he advanced the cause of human rights and what difference what real difference did he make there. human rights is a is a difficult subject to touch on for people who are in power and typically when you talk about diplomacy you know the leaders who are diplomats they tend to see that let's go for the lowest common denominator which means we can all get agreement and consensus but he was very clear that it meant the highest value denominate do so

whenever he was negotiating human rights were right on top of any any process that he was leading and he would never shy away from telling leaders what the truth was in relation to human rights and human rights means accountability to people accountability to the poorest the weakest and goofy's voice was loud and clear on those issues and i personally worked a lot consulted him a lot on the myanmar question which is a very wakes question where he decided to you know explain his political capital and work with. and i consulted a lot with him so i know that story quite closely and i know that he stood up for the right things there as well and what can you tell us about the work that you did with him on the million millennium development goals. the millennium development goals you know one of his biggest legacies and success stories and i worked to run the campaign for the millennium development goals of the u.n. and again interestingly dislike you know he stood up on the issue of the iraq war

he stood up against the u.s. position he also had to stand up against the u.s. on the millennium to john bolton who is now back in the administration and the u.s. government then tried to scuttle the millennium development goals but goofy was a little resolute very clear that they should move forward and you know much of the development successes we have on the ground today on education on board literacy may not have happened if we didn't have these goals which were a unifying set of goals for the world to come together both from rich countries and poor countries but also from the private sector and civil society so he was a unifying force he was constantly reminding us that peace development and human rights have to be treated together you can. create different silos these have to be integrated and yeah i think that sort of mind do it she constantly goes where they inside the u.n. or outside we thank you for joining us on al-jazeera. news just coming in and saudi state media is saying that a ballistic missile fired by

a whole theory rubbles has been intercepted if it happens in the port city of. the rebels have been targeting several key cities and installations in saudi arabia and the u.a.e. with drones as well as missiles meanwhile the bomb used by the saudi led coalition in an attack that killed forty children in yemen earlier this month was made in the u.s. that's according to media reports there have been growing calls from politicians in washington to track an american made weapons that are being used in the conflict in the middle east's poorest country the u.s. is the main supplier of arms to the u.a.e. and saudi arabia and provides logistical and intelligence support to their military campaign in yemen let's speak to michael christian he's a journalist who wrote about the weapons used in the air strike he's joining us via skype from berlin thanks for speaking to us and when we refer to that airstrike we are talking about the one that targeted the. area and that happened on

august the ninth what can you tell us about that particular bombing what u.s. allies and the munition used in that bomb. so what we can say is that the bombing happened on the morning of the ninth and he targeted area very close to a market in the center of the city also along its busiest street at a time when there was a significant amount of traffic alone. as we can see tragically. fifty people lost their lives including more than forty children and whenever social media activists on the ground have been posting pictures of what they say are fragments of the bomb that was used in the attack and one particular of those fragments was athene from allegedly from the start was the site and this feeling allowed us to track where this bomb was from and a clue to something called a cage code which is used by a defense with just sticks agency in order to track items around the world and so

if this cage code let us back to our pave way to bomb that was built by lockheed martin however the question remains whether this particular theory that was showing pictures from social media activists whether this was indeed from the bomb site whether it was place their domain today my next question because there have been a chance or is there a chance at all that the spend was deliberately placed there there is a chance however the damage we have seen is consistent with the kind of munition that that fear that that feeling was from however you are correct in saying that there is still a chance that it could have been placed there by a third party what do you make of the saudi a response to however that the coalition had hit a legitimate military target during that attack. i certainly sorious of i certainly don't believe this was a legitimate military target even if this was the boss that that was what they were

allegedly targeting was a military target it was in the middle of a civilian area a very densely packed area with many vehicles that would be easily visible from an aircraft that was over the area so that targeting anything in the middle of this busy street next very close to a market would still. get you to the fact that it was no way to take attributes from there so nearly attacks are in your obviously covering the story quite closely and. there are reports that there is growing pressure in the us among some congressmen to put pressure not to sell weapons to saudi arabia anymore do you think that that has any legs isn't going to go anywhere. it is very difficult to state to say at this stage even in the past they were being moved to restrict because they would be used i mean issues to saudi arabia and other gulf states how other cities my understanding of the trumpet ministration change those rules and all of these issues are now so i we need to put in to the current political

environment the united states it's difficult to see how these things would have any effect in the short term all right michael we thank you for speaking to us via skype thank you. plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including not safe for civilians the u.n. says the taliban assault in afghanistan's guys the city is among the worst it's seen and they wanted refuge in europe but their bodies washed ashore and found a grave instead we have a report on spain's grave diggers that's coming up also ahead find out why jamaican sprinter usain bolt is causing a fan frenzy in sydney. so to a story where i've been following closely here on al-jazeera and that's to ation in

the indian state of carolina affected by the worst floods in a century heavy rain is showing rescue efforts and relief supplies desperately needed by hundreds of thousands of people who are still stranded in remote areas the indian prime minister narendra modi has promised more than seventy million dollars in aid and deployed forces on the ground more than one hundred ninety people have died in just over a week three hundred ten thousand others have been displaced andrew thomas reports now on the relief efforts in caroline. i don't want to put my election points and that's the state capital every few minutes a bus or a truck elated with boats and go by it's also the road just in front of me everything that's. in a car park and then base operation kick saying everything is passed down but becomes a cold ally and you can see going on behind me of men as about the past down there shouting to each other was inside each box whether it's food medicine or war and then it gets put in a different room for many of them around here and then the army is coming in

collecting that specialized in taking it to where it's needed where the worst of the floods are and this is just one of many many i question points in this fight a real huge effort has kicked in because while the need is huge so is this effort and aid is coming in now from neighboring states bangalore chennai and others around here it's also coming in from other countries from the middle east particularly where many people have family members working the numbers that are that need that need usually three hundred thousand people now living in camps able to be in their own homes and that's a number that is bigger than the population of some small countries it really is staggering we were talking to a colonel in the indian army on saturday he told us that fifty three military helicopters are now working flat out to rescue people some eighty thousand people have been rescued sorry but while the needed future so is this lost the volunteer rescue effort relief effort that's going on as well refugees and migrants are

increasingly trying to reach europe through spain as alternative routes have been cut off the un's migration agency says about forty two percent of the sixty three thousand arrivals have come in that way this year and the treacherous journey is still claiming many lives karl penhall reports from tyree fall where burning the unknown has become all too common. nobody knew the names and soon the letters spelling out on the current will peel away too if i did nothing. but grave digger. remembers where there was buried. a lucky few have been identified merlin you. hope. destiny and we all have our own destiny we all know when we're born but none of us really know when we're going to die it's packer's work to this cemetery into reefer

on spain's southernmost tip for fifteen years when a refugee or migrant dies mourners rarely come. i've got a heart and we're all human beings whether you know them or not you must treat them well if this ever happens to me i'd like to think somebody would help me to this crossings to the spanish coast of surge this year migrant drownings have tripled spanish authorities spend months trying to identify remains and repatriate them if possible. calls these the pioneers twenty two moroccans washed up two decades ago. flower seller antonia velasquez has a message for the mothers of all those buried here. they are here and where treating them well they are dead but if i can i will put a flower on their great there are some people here along the coast it's a short distance to the town of

a part of batty grave digger who claims shows me the tomb of the five year old congolese boy some world was swept ashore here his mother was found dead on the other side of the mediterranean in algeria. it's outrageous there's so much power and money in the world and yet the rich don't invest more in the countries where margins come from so they don't need to travel here like animals. until those in power he dead advice the grave diggers just help juggle the consequences many people as i bury these migrants i told them that they didn't find a better world down here and i'll ask god to give them a better life up there they have sacrificed everything and this is what is left and not a monument to a wandering son or daughter name on. call pinhole lodges era to retha spain. let's now speak to nando sego now he's an associate professor

in migration and force displacements at the university of birmingham he's joining us on skype from birmingham itself thanks for speaking to us to what do you put down to the increasing numbers of undocumented migrants and refugees trying to reach europe through spain now. the sentiment there in your group that want that goes. back to we've seen since last summer but most here even more clearly last few months since and you were going to go there to see a place that's basically become history would it be truly believe that in course the large majority you know that said that back to you i would but it's not simple just sort of for water to know that i mean if you look at the numbers to. spain to the number of our i believe. but it's nothing like what we have seen the last few years since what we didn't you were talking about just first falling off the number

of migrants and refugees from the same time last year. even in the dozen it's seventeen the we have about twenty two thousand people arriving in the spain and it's july the series was about twenty three thousand and now it's about twenty six thousand so if you look at the monthly arrival there has been an increase but just to give you a sense of last year you need the you have about under the twenty thousand right so it's not just about you close to one group another one opens there's been an increase possibly also because of the more seen but that the governments in spain compared to to eat only answer this question are in greece but also because the route from italy from libya tweet that he says to me being generous so while you have a call up something rival the number of people that don't see creasing that he proportionally so just to give an example you know about six percent of the people that cross the central valley that i'm you know to die if you look at there are going to spill is

about thirty one percent and if you look while a broader picture over the short term what would you say is the broader outlook for you migration i think that the point is it being implemented but you know opinion written to the south and european states have roughly been affected i mean effectively see if there is the main goal was to defuse a rival and clearly that it been people think it's see that it's been one right well nation there is a been a lot the problem of breaking which i strongly dubious richey not the gnostic then particularly but if the point was just what you think right well that's been successful my much from my point of view the main issue from in europe at moments is the integration of those who will read or write with younger people tauzin the people that write the less you know the people and for whom there is a better legal done especially in countries like egypt ok and now and so as to go now we thank you for joining us on the news hour on al-jazeera. here's what's

coming up in the second half of this news hour a cricketer turned politician am on const arts a new innings as pakistan's prime minister mourning the dead funerals for a sudanese children who drowned in the river nile on their way to school and roger federer is chasing an eight career title in cincinnati peter will be here with the latest as the swiss chases morning glory back in a moment. hello and welcome back to international weather forecasts well across the caspian we have been seeing some clouds pushing through with these clouds across back who we have also see some rain showers in the forecast and as a system pushes through winds are going to start to come out of the north and what that's going to do is start to bring those temperatures down slightly over the next day so on sunday we can expect to see

a time for they have about twenty nine degrees but as we go towards monday twenty seven degrees for you much different down here towards the south where kuwait you're going to be seeing it quite city temperatures into the mid to high forty's forty seven degrees expected high there and as we go towards the beginning of the week we do expect that dust to start to settle in visibility come down as well here across much of the middle east what we are looking at dalhousie about forty three degrees a little bit of clouds pushing over towards me with a higher relative humidity there but clouds are improving along the coast of oman as well as yemen where we saw a lot of mostly cloudy conditions a close coast with saliva still cloud if you at about twenty seven degrees and more clouds pushing in as we go towards monday but up towards muska we do expect to see thirty degrees in your forecast then down here towards the southern regions of africa we are watching a film about to make its way across the southern portions of the atlantic that's going to be coming into cape town over the next day bring those temperatures down from about fifteen degrees on sunday to about thirteen degrees as we look to monday .

national bulletins the debate on migration is polarized and. too strident positions all close headless how do you define an indigenous person who do they benefit isn't this more about living with a difference and you and visas and who do they contain. the right to live anywhere in the world the right to leave their country maybe his time goes head to head for the cold coming on al-jazeera. on the streets of greece and violence is on the rise there or you have to go for. that this is a plus ism and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims of vicious beatings. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is zero on al-jazeera.

hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour the former u.n. secretary general kofi annan has died at the age of eighty he served as the seventh secretary general from one thousand nine hundred seven to two thousand and six u.s. media reports suggest saudi arabia and the u.a.e. used american made bombs in an attack that killed forty children in yemen earlier this month there are growing calls from politicians in washington to track american made weapons that are being used in what they call work crimes in the middle east's chorused country more than fifty eight thousand people have been rescued in the

southern end. in state of carolina on saturday that's as the region struggles to cope with more heavy rain and flooding more than six hundred sixty thousand people are in camps after what's being described as the worst floods in a century. the company who operated the bridge that collapsed in italy says it's setting up a fund to help families of the victims more than forty people died in the disaster and the cause is still being investigated the transport ministry has already demanded the company rebuild the bridge and pay to restore buildings damaged by the collapse the italian president said italy must learn from the disaster and do right by its people. there are three commitments that must be honored one about being close to the relatives of the victims to the injured to the families that were forced to leave their homes because of the risk of further collapse the commitment to a quick and rigorous prosecution of those responsible and the obligation to grant

road safety and have a safe transportation system in our country these are commitments made by italy to general but also to the whole country which david chaytor has more from genoa. after so many days of anger and grief following this tragedy this is the first time that the senior executives have actually appeared in public to actually tell us exactly what they intend to do in the aftermath of this bridge collapse they said first and foremost that it was the sympathy they wanted expressed for the pain that was being felt here in genoa and not only of course in general but across many countries in the world where they also had victims they said their priority was to build a fund and mediately to disperse to the victims and their families to help them with this tragedy a second priority was to try and and clear away the extraordinary number of high rise blocks and towers that are sandwiched underneath what remains of that bridge

they were built so close those have to be demolished on the company also admits that they will have to create a fund to help many hundreds of those residents find new homes and new houses that's not going to be easy that's going to take a long time but they also said they were going to rebuild the bridge they said it would take about eight months they've also got a problem with trying to get the heavy goods vehicles from the ports into the right areas and back on to the motorway system they'll have to look at some sort of new by way and also new by way to get to the airport because this was the main route to the airport so they have a huge number of problems and they say they are really taking it seriously they're taking action right now and there will be daily reports on the progress of those actions funerals are being held for some of the children who drowned in the river nile on wednesday twenty three were on their way to school when their boat capsized

ensued on some of the bodies are yet to be found have a morgan has more but she was on her way to school along with her four sisters when the bullets transporting them. on the capsized. almost daughter drowned along with twenty two other children and their teacher. and look up to my of the fellows are we were expecting the accident to happen and we always used to say that there will be an accident they have been using this mode of transport for ten years it's happened in the northern river nile state when the boats engine broke down after heavy rains. boats are the only way to cross the river and this area because there are no bridges according to officials forty people were on board. some bodies have been recovered but the search continues for the other is just beginning every . when the boat capsized and held onto a tree and found my daughter clinging to me and i was able to save her but i lost

my other daughter and son who drowned we live in a modern age our children shouldn't have to go to school using boats heavy rains in several states in sudan have led to the closure of hundreds of schools flash floods have killed at least forty people since the start of sudan's rini season in july it has also caused damage to tens of thousands of home displacing fountains of people . as the rain want to destroy what infrastructure there is many are now questioning with the sudanese government is doing to keep them and their children see people morgan al-jazeera. hundreds of thousands hundreds of people that is have been rallying in mali's capital against the reelection of president obama. most are supporters of the opposition leaders say who lost in sunday's runoff vote said describes the results of a parody as his campaign team has filed an appeal to mali's top court for some ballots to be council. qatar is accusing saudi arabia of blocking its citizens from

performing the muslim. the qatari government says its nationals are unable to get permits to travel to mecca saudi arabia denies saying an unspecified number of categories have arrived for the pilgrimage the u.a.e. saudi arabia her ain and egypt diplomatic ties with cats are more than a year ago they accused of supporting terrorism a claim because every government strongly denies from doha laura burdon mentally reports. this small skin doha's education city suburb is famous for its architecture the impulse was of the car on the wall and a building that rests on five pillars representing the five requirements of islam. one of these is to attend the hutch pilgrimage in saudi arabia. abraham says since the saudi imposed blockade on he's been unable to do so i applied

last year just two days before the place. and it happened that. i paid to get my passport to. the blockade happened just two days later so i was able to go. from france but lives in qatar and is attempted to gain a visa many times over but he's constantly told the same thing apply for me a country of origin. to see that yes we need them but. it was not if i was not able to get the visa was his case isn't unique many worshippers here in ca to have faced the same difficulty it's not possible to fly anymore that is more like saudi arabia and a counselor at embassy is to apply from so it's not possible anymore this shouldn't happen and for any muslim anywhere in the world i don't think that. something like this has to do with them political issues it's something religious people attending

this mosque live in qatar but have come from all over the walls many here say they'd like to apply to had but if found the ok mechanism to do so instead many said they have no choice but to apply for the own country something they say is time consuming costly and against the core principles of islam saudi authorities say that cesspool websites to handle requests from countries who wish to go to hardship but his ministry of religious affairs says the border crossing remains closed. there are no planes transferring people from doha and there's no clearly defined way of applying. agencies that organize hutch travel from say that also be banned by saudi arabia and i've heard a lot of things about going to another country and then applying for from there which is not very convenient for a lot of people prior to the blockade jasmine says she would simply drive to saudi arabia with her family it was. issued an eric. said it was really

fine justin says she's more familiar with saudi arabia than her country of origin and since she live so close to the border she doesn't understand why it's become so difficult to perform hotch about a manly al-jazeera doha. the former cricketer imran khan has been officially sworn in as prime minister of pakistan it's taken more than two decades to get the top job after retiring from the sport and turning his attention to politics he was elected prime minister in a vote at the national assembly on friday his to headache and soft party won the most seats in elections last month. has more from islamabad. imran khan take. twenty second prime minister of pakistan the order administered by the president of pakistan mr mom. in a simple many presidential palace in islamabad it is important.

that he will be big against corruption in a country where corruption and in. that he will provide employment to the young in a country where the majority of the population is below the age of thirty imran khan of course had a huge stock ahead of him the country's economy is in poor shape. but the united states are rock bottom. of one it's done need to be improved emraan had. honest on extended an olive branch to india a thing that really discuss outstanding issues including the key issue of that buggiest on the extra step. of young leadership who have replaced the old guard who have ruled this country for several decades. single largest party in

a country but he also has to contend with many challenges both on the internal and external fronts. four days after a taliban fighters were pushed out of the afghan city of gazan the the un says it's still not safe for civilians or aid workers to get in or out more than two hundred civilians were killed and hundreds more wounded during the five day assaults charlotte bellus reports. the un's humanitarian chief in afghanistan visits patients wounded in the taliban assaults on me but this is not in gosney this is the capital kabul and hundred and fifty kilometers north they were brought here because the city's hospital is too crowded and that road is as we hear quite right dangerous and not open all the time that are multiple trackballs all these questions are raising about what had better be going to say for i have to. be the person that is affordable life. patients are scattered to hospitals across

kabul more than fifty have arrived at this one is suffering from head and chest injuries and last words from bombs. and so far this year has been the worst that we have seen in terms of the damage done and the number of people killed. a very serious situation which we hope is now subsiding. gosney moved into an urban battlefield last friday people were trapped for five days in their homes as thousands of taliban fighters and afghan soldiers fought in the streets u.s. helicopters drones in a b. one bomber patrolled over here when they emerged on wednesday the city was barely recognizable red cross workers recovered two hundred fifty bodies from the streets . people here say u.s. airstrikes also killed civilians there were more than thirty across the five day

assaults the u.s. military says it takes geishas of civilian deaths seriously during a visit to go on friday prison ashraf ghani had this exchange when a reporter brought up the issue of civilian deaths. but what the court heard there has to be clear assessment these don't make conclusions or judgments in what is not your area of expertise if there is a claim to senior officials here are actual service give the documents if true absolutely. in a convoy of helicopters prison gani flew out leaving behind a city cut off for days after the taliban assault ended the roads in and out are infested with mines and the u.n. is struggling to get in instead its work is visit the wounded in kabul those brave disparate enough to make the journey shallot ballasts. civilians are fleeing in northwest syria ahead of a planned offensive by government forces as one of the last strongholds held by

opposition fighters the un has warned that a military operation would put three million civilians at risk many are taking refuge in camps near the turkish border. the u.s. special counsel investigating possible russian interference in the twenty sixteen election has recommended a former trump campaign aide be jailed george papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to f.b.i. investigators in october he's due to be sentenced early next month special counsel robert muller says he should serve up to six months in prison. sports news is up next and he beat michael phelps at the olympics so now just the schooling is preparing to defend gold at the asian games we'll hear from him in just a moment with peter. southbound on the economic heartbeat of

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time for the sports news and the asian games his peter thank you so much the asian games has begun in indonesia for the next two weeks fourteen thousand athletes from forty five nations will compete across forty seven sports it all kicked off today with an extravagant opening ceremony in the capital jakarta as scott reports i in a stadium purpose built for the asian games fifty six years ago indonesia officially launched this year's games with a big show in central jakarta i more than forty thousand people watched this performance took to a six hundred ton stage with a waterfall and a volcano replica tickets sold out but there was criticism over the price ranging

from seventy dollars to three hundred fifty dollars too expensive for most indonesian many gathered outside the stadium to be there when the games began but. everything has been smooth peaceful even dequeue too went to the stadium is very well organized indonesia is showing. such a big event in the near future i hope indonesia can bid for. like they did at the winter olympics earlier in the year north and south korea march together under one flag as a sign of unity and they will have joint teams for three of vents but the two powerhouse nations to watch in the middle rankings are china and japan held every four years an estimated three billion dollars was spent putting on the games two thousand and eighteen most of that on infrastructure the organizers are optimistic that hosting the games will help elevate indonesia's international stature and could boost its economy and that the money spent is an investment that will see

dividends we're not going to happen with an over like water here this is a national branding. if we success to have the station games we believe that. the trust it will come and the tories for future it will comes by itself so we believe that this is a long term investment. but for now the focus for the next two weeks will be on the athletes as they compete to bring home victory for each of the forty five countries participating algeria jakarta. as you saw in scott's report north and south korea are competing together in some events there women's basketball team lost again yesterday but one supporter was just happy to see the countries combine. the i think with the south they actually collaborated really loud leave me out like it's just one team made me write make certain they are not korean we all together each year got to get married talk to family feel like they're not going to say we are

actually one major thing so important games for the koreans but also for the host nation indonesia author james dorsey says that in the modern world sport is a significant diplomatic weapon. so no longer many coat. pocket of. the public would be. one of the ways that companies rank is how they are both in the order it is the ability to hold. and how they perform in the in. the book e-sports jet skiing and bridge or some of the more unusual sports but these conventional ones too like swimming and the singapore star jones of schooling could well shine at these games he shot to fame at the twenty fourteen games in south korea where he won gold in the one hundred meter butterfly and then storm to gold in the same discipline at the rio olympics speeding michael phelps in his last

race before retirement. yeah no asian games always very few. i'd say it's you know up there with four championships and that under the olympics and so you know it's always nice to come back and embrace and a crowd like this i'm excited to see what i can do i've been feeling good leading up to this meet and yeah it's it's always a stage from comfortable performing so i'd say you know i don't really think about medals right you think about recently or so it's i coming to this meet just trying to race myself trying to raise my own expectations and that's all i can focus on and that's the best thing to do christiane or another city on debut has finished in a three two victory for his new club you vince's but remarkably the portuguese superstar did not get on the scoresheet for now those top flight debut in italian football was eagerly anticipated but his new teammates found themselves training key a vent only a two one with fifteen minutes to go even though they didn't score ronaldo helped

his new team to a three two when chelsea were top of the english premier league after beating awesomely in a thrilling london dalby also fourth from two goals down to draw a two two at one stage only for it in has to win it for chelsea with nine minutes remaining now here's a look at the day's other schools newcastle missed a late penalty and the chance to win at cardiff they were home wins for everton leicester and talk them while bournemouth were winners at west ham. the world's fastest man you saying bolt has been causing a fan frenzy insignia ahead of his football trial in a league side the central coast mariners fans cheered and posed for selfies with the a time of the big gold medalist sprinter at sydney airport bolter retired from athletics at the world championships in london last year has trained with germany's brasier dortmund south africa's motherlode sundowns and norway's strong squad say it says he pursues a career in football something here say it is one of these dreams. of my last season truckin feel that i want to play football and i knew

a lot of people don't know what i can do some. sort of minus all giving me the opportunity to show for any of a string of some of the to call a serial. novak djokovic is aiming to reach the final of the cincinnati masters but marion challenged stands in his way the two players are still in the first set of they semifinal three two at the moment to joke a bit later on it's roger federer has turned the world number two will face david goffin as he chases an incredible eighth title in cincinnati that he seven year old federer fall from a sit down to be fellas with stand of rinky yesterday to watch the same from. things all very evenly matched between england and india after an eventful first day of the third taster trained bridge chris woakes took three wickets to have india shaking at eighty two for three but captain virat kohli and the john carroll honey put them back on track with a partnership of one hundred fifty nine kohli was caught out three runs short of

the century by ben stokes who is back in england's starting eleven after being found not guilty of frayed earlier this week james anderson struck a right at the end to take his one hundredth test week against india who were three hundred and seven for six at stumps in nottingham. south africa have started a rugby championship campaign off with a thirty four twenty one win over argentina in due been early in world champions new zealand made a strong start to the defense of their title by beating australia in sydney thirty eight thirteen even though the australians were leading at halftime the all blacks running six tries to one to make the school line look overwhelmingly one sided two of those tries came could see of why i suck in the hole. because you know it's a special thing to be out of them. you know that probably isn't the same it won't be honest between drinks but come back again here in sydney it's always better. and

just. as it is meant for me. for the victory of the ones that you really remember jersey. yeah it's really disappointing it's not. really. buildings i'm not surprised particularly when you do get down in the other end like mark was saying and throwing the ball away. not just back and back and what we can do that hold the ball and go i probably want to tell you we all know that one of the phases liable of walking money you know is some of the guys we have it on the edge and. we didn't do that. ok most sport again in the twenty one hundred g.m.t. i would agree we will see you later thank you peter well nearly every country in the world has statues to honor figures off the past haiti is really only just beginning to appreciate it steely figure is and is gabriel is on the reports from port au prince it's a miracle they're still standing. he sits quietly overlooking the city

his name is angry krzysztof a former slave who fought to free modern day haiti from the french ruling eighteen zero four a statue honoring him is in one of the main squares of the capital port au prince in many ways it's incredible it's still standing the two thousand and ten earthquake reduced much of haiti to rubble two hundred thousand people killed three hundred thousand homes destroyed after the quake hundreds of thousands of people took refuge in parks and plazas right underneath the very statues that are still standing today through it all they remain unscathed and often overlooked symbol of the country's long history overcoming hardships like the statue of john gasoline who helped fend off incursions from the british and spanish before revolting against the french occupation the first ruler of haiti after independence the haitian national anthem named after him subtle enough that. every time i look at

this deafening structure i feel like doing a second revolution to liberate our country a second revolution is needed today if we not but it's this statue that often resonates the most with haitians a runaway slave completed by haitian sculptor in the one nine hundred sixty s. it is one of the most important pieces of art in all of the caribbean it's full of symbolism a broken shackle hard fought freedom a machete to fight a shell of his lips alerting the people to their freedom. the symbols represent the glory of the past generations when we look at them it's a reminder of what they have done for us and what we can accomplish for future generations. the statue's unbreakable a trademark of the haitian people of today gabriel's on. i'll just see it ordered prince. thanks for watching the news our knowledge is zero difficult pollin has

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