always. hold more. of. another day of violence in afghanistan the latest target the presidential palace. making a speech to mark the first day of. the attack. the taliban. also on strike and. taking place to protest against the. economic measures this is an. attempt to revive the country's economy in

a meltdown many though feel he is only making a bad situation. and switching allegiances el salvador has become the latest country to cut diplomatic ties with taiwan its relationship to get closer to china . not. calling it the right decision. and children as young as ten years old being held in detention centers on the pacific ocean and. now there's a campaign to get them out reaction. to show using the hash tag. live on air and streaming online for you to live in an hour. a message of peace in afghanistan and erupted by violence were fired as president he was delivering

a speech for the muslim holiday at a mosque the attack comes less than two days after the president offered a cease fire to the taliban or smith reports. afghanistan's president might have been hoping for a quiet start to the eat out holiday but as ashraf ghani reviewed his troops and officials gathered for prayers they were all reminded that there are fewer and fewer peaceful days here. that was the sound of one of two rockets fired towards the presidential palace could do you think it gave me if they think that with rocket attacks this nation will surrender they have to think again this is a brave nation as always ready to defend its independence on earth and islamic tradition. i source says its fighters were behind the attack the armed groups numbers are growing in afghanistan although it's the taliban that remains the greatest threat. that was made clear in a recent attack on the nearby city of gas that exposed the government's fragile

grip on security thousands of taliban fighters stormed the city cutting communications and access to the highway to kabul at least one hundred fifty soldiers and more than one hundred civilians were killed in the five day battle to regain control of the city the government says hundreds of taliban fighters were killed. the taliban has been at war with the us backed afghan government for nearly seventeen years but one analyst has told al jazeera the while the taliban leadership believes it's doing well on the battlefield many foot soldiers see things differently most of them never see an american for all you know one month to the next so they're on the convince that they're actually fighting against an occupation but they don't have a way out so i mean they're stuck the war continues the leadership are resisting serious peace talks those inside the movement who are broadly in favor of it because they're in a in a centralized top down movement have no way of affecting the decisions of the

leadership. tuesday's attack on the presidential compound ended when an afghan helicopter gunship targeted the house where the rockets were apparently fired from bernard smith al-jazeera so how much further will the violence in afghanistan spiral the afghan military insists that its making strategic gains along with support from the u.s. air support that is will it make a difference how much damage can the taliban do their website for an inside story discussion on the state of things in afghanistan. and we'd like to hear your thoughts on what's going on in afghanistan and any other stories that are on your mind you can send your comments to any of our online platforms on twitter to she's the hash tag at a.j. news find our handle is at a.j. english course we're also on facebook facebook dot com slash al-jazeera or send us a message on whatsapp or telegram the number is plus nine seven four five zero one

triple one four nine it is a day strikes in venezuela that is the opposition has called for a day of protests on monday we told you how that is way low was knocking off five zeros from its currency in another desperate attempt to prop up the country's failing economy president nicolas maduro created a new currency and has increased the minimum wage and as well as struggling to contain a crisis that's led to inflation of one million percent per year there is widespread shortages a basic necessities in millions of people have left the country so let's cross now to caracas where let america or we'll see an image is live for us now so we'll see if this pushback this call for an organized pushback against these these measures this this strike out of the go. well you know michel that there are less businesses open there less people out on the streets but it's not really quite clear that this has to do with some of the opposition's call for

a national strike i have to underscore that not all of the members of the opposition are on board with this many believe that this was premature that they needed to wait and see just what the actual impact of president my little currency changes would be before going out to protest against it this is after of course the private enterprise association declared that this would be a disaster and it would end up destroying what's left of private businesses here in venezuela but the real problem is that people just don't know what anything costs they don't have any cash they still don't have the new salary which is it gives them a three thousand four hundred percent increase but that doesn't go into effect until september although the government is giving a one time only bond or subsidy which is supposedly is rolling out is sometime this week and so things are rather paralyzed businesses say they would rather not open at all than work at a loss and so we've got people bus stations aren't opening and and there is this

kind of sense of everybody just waiting to see what is going to happen without too much confidence that this is going to work and then that paralysis is there confusion as well as to what some of the changes actually are i mean it's difficult to discuss nap your fingers and everything is supposed to be defined in twenty four forty eight hours yes. it's truly incredible i'm still trying to get my head around it and certainly so i venezuelans what used to be one million is now worth ten but it really is what the same they've taken off the zeroes but things aren't worth more the currency is not worth more and even though the salaries are going to increase almost all economists will tell you that that's highly in play surely that the government is going to have to keep printing out and printing out more money which in fact they say they will do to subsidize for ninety days the small and medium sized companies so that they can give workers this salary increase does it produce more goods in the country not necessarily on the contrary the government is increasing sales tax and other taxes for the private business sector so there

really many many more questions than answers which is why we continue to see more and more venezuelans rushing to the border as fast as they can to leave the country so there's been bearing degrees of pushback against the people that are trying to leave depending on the country and you know there was a time that colombia wasn't receiving them now they are where do things stand with people feeling like they have to continue to lead. well for leaving actually today many people went to the bus stop the bus station to try to get a bus to the border to get to colombia from colombia to ecuador ecuador to peru they know now that they were told that they can't go into ecuador anymore unless they have a valid passport ecuador has made one concession allowing venezuelans that have valid passports to go with their children who don't have passports but the parents have to have them and crew is demanding that they have valid passports as of this

saturdays some people are desperate to get there before those new regulations go into effect brazil doesn't require a passport just a valid id card but they've been a lot of problems there at that border because of attacks against some of these venezuelan migrants and so people are finding themselves at more and more restricted having more difficulty getting out of here and would difficulty getting into the country if they want to get to see a new man with a very thorough wrap up they are from caucus thank you and say yes thank you now there's a livelihood of course is tied to oil and the al jazeera program the big picture we explore how the exploitation of that oil created what is the modern venezuela but also how the oil industry helped create a divided society and this and any quality that we see now so you can go to our website to search for bin as whale and to take a look at that program el salvador has diplomatic ties with taiwan another blow to the ruling island the central american country affected two rival beijing the third

nation to do so just the sheer china has been pressuring countries and companies to recognize taiwan as part of its territory. when called china's behavior out of control. hinted that the war which is the today's china is not only a menace to cross straight relations what china is doing right now all over the gnomish if it's interfering in the and if it is of countries or destroying the order of international markets it has already caused a high degree of global instability and we need to remind the international community that this is not only related to taiwan that we will not tolerate the serious situation in the more so only seventeen countries now have diplomatic ties with taiwan most of them are impoverished nations in the pacific region or latin america such as haiti honduras and nicaragua taiwan's only diplomatic ally left in africa in both taipei and beijing having gauged in years

a diplomatic tug of war in developing countries china has offered economic support from the world's second largest economy to smaller nations as a bargaining chip much of the world and the united nations do not recognize taiwan as an end dependent country adrian brown has more now from beijing. well this is another important symbolic diplomatic victory for china as it seeks to pick off one by one those countries that still have diplomatic relations with taiwan since zion when became president of taiwan in january two thousand and sixteen five countries have severed ties with taiwan el salvador now joining that lengthening list on choose day taiwan's foreign ministry reacted angrily taiwan's foreign minister joseph who said that china was luring away taiwan's allies with promises of vast financial aid he said this was a game that taiwan was not prepared to play well of course this all comes just as

zion when has been on a stopover in the united states she'd been visiting believes and paragliding two of the seventeen countries that still recognize taiwan she made a speech in the united states the first time a taiwanese leader has done that in ten years that upset the chinese and then lo and behold literally just a day later we learned that el salvador has decided to sever ties with taiwan now taiwan said that it knew what el salvador was planning to do in fact it had an idea this was going to happen back in june it a try to persuade el salvador not to do this but of course in the end it simply lost out in the inevitable bidding war with china there is now just one country in africa that has ties with taiwan that is swaziland and i think china would very much like swaziland to come into its orbit before early september because that's when president xi jinping will be hosting an africa china summit here in beijing.

sort of that andy is the managing director of the china team at ts lombardo political economic consultancy he joins us now from london we appreciate your time so. what particular interest is china has in central america beyond just expanding their one china policy. it's also because central america has been one of the best humans to put it that way of taiwanese recognition around the globe and china is very interested in chipping away at that every country can win over with salvador is. its cap so that will continue with various attempts also in the pacific in africa as your correspondent was just saying and in general

we've seen over the last two years during size presidency in taiwan a considerable resumption of the attempts by beijing to win over those few countries so to recognise taiwan let's talk about her presidency what are the. politically domestically speaking politically the implications for her. well taiwan which is remember democracy which is not recognized by most countries around the world only seventeen recognizing it as your report said taiwan is feels that it deserves international recognition if not full diplomatic recognition that at least a place in organizations like the world health organization and so on and that is definitely an important element for the government in

taiwan particularly the d.p.p. government which parties which present. belongs which won a big majority at the last presidential of legislative elections but believes in retaining or tanami it hasn't gone for independence as yet in taiwan and part of that struggle for autonomy is the struggle for recognition and the president of el salvador and announcing this new and said that there were extraordinary opportunities there were comments recognizing china what is can what is china doing for these countries well immediately this was announced the recognition the taiwanese said that the chinese were going to finance a big infrastructure projects which taiwan would not have funded and obviously this spreading of chinese diplomatic presence through getting

recognition away from taiwan forms part of a broader chinese push for global influence through the belts on the road initiative through the offer of a loans for particularly for infrastructure projects in poorer nations. ok and i suppose this is clearly just indicative of china's and growing influence. it is i mean there has been some pushback it must be said recently we just heard from malaysian prime minister mahathir who's been in beijing and who is reported to account sort of a couple of chinese funded projects and he's been talking about the dangers of a new colonialism we've had controversy over chinese involvement in sri lanka and in various other countries and there is some concern we got this from

international organizations too that the chinese law dress offering loans get governments which can't afford it into debt and can have difficult consequences also of course on the taiwanese issue we've had moves by the trumpet ministration in the united states to back up taiwan expressions of support for taiwan in. defense act the building of a big new american representative office in taipei arms the technology deals the taiwan relations act which provides for high level. exchanges via a fish source so although the united states still keeps to the one china policy of just recognizing the people's republic the trump of ministration still i think has beijing on something like ten to hawks as to the extent of support it's going to

get for taiwan mr jonathan fenby thank you so much for joining us from london we appreciate it. back in two thousand and sixteen when taiwan's president signed when took office our colleagues at inside story took a look at whether she could maintain stable relations with china at the time when she was sworn in she did strike a conciliatory tone so you can watch that program with us and see go on our web site at al-jazeera dot com australia is once again under fire over its detention centers on the pacific island now rue where he lives here to tell us more about that revealing thanks michel now this time the focus is all about the children being held there with the hash tag kids off narrow which is being shared widely online a group of thirty n.g.o.s is trying to raise awareness about one hundred nineteen children held in australia's detention center of nauru they say twenty children are behind bars and the rest and also allowed to leave the island many say this is inhumane and insists that locking up children is not the answer. how the story of

one child says two year old george is getting a lot of attention online as well george was born in nauru and has never known anywhere else his family has been on the island for five years and australia is government has long been criticized for its hardline policy on immigration asylum seekers and refugees are banned from arriving by boat to settle on the mainland instead they move to detention facilities on our island home to women children and families or among us islands in papa new guinea which houses single men now since the detention facilities on our island opened in twenty twelve there have been reports of near idle suffering from physical and psychological abuse the rights groups are saying that children living in poor conditions as well with no health care or education some have gone on hunger strike and others as young as ten years old have attempted suicide they want the children sent to australia or a safe country elsewhere with

a deadline set for november twentieth and that's universal children's day now the australian medical association federal council is also calling on the government to act urgently to guarantee the health and well being of the children and their families will be heard from chinee a journalist and kurdish refugee who's being held on one a silent. keeping innocent for five years in a prison like no treason against humanity. after five years it's unbelievable that. this is more it's. sort of life it's really hard for the parents are uncertain and many. people are surprised when the children in the country i feel.

shame not only for three for. humanity well rights groups also applying pressure on neighboring new zealand to get more involved prime minister we are calling on you to take the remaining one hundred nineteen refugee children and families that are being held on. these innocent kids being robbed of their childhood and their future they are enduring conditions that no child should experience now is an opportunity for the new zealand government to stand up and take action for those still being held on now or it is not only in our power to do so but it is who we are. well some members of australia's parliament are also speaking out saying newman who is the opposition labor party immigration spokesman tweeted a story is government should take up new zealand's office of resettling some refugees given it have managed to do it with the us there is an agreement between australia and the us to resettle refugees but right now there is no clarity as to

whether these one hundred nineteen children and their families will be included in this particular deal will get in touch with us share your thoughts use the hash tag his get michelle thank you very much as take a look at some of the other stories that are making news right now from around the world. more bodies are being found as floodwaters recede in the indian state of carola more than four hundred people have died in the worst floods in a century on point two million people are living in temporary camps emergency workers are handing out medicine to prevent water borne diseases and cambodia land rights activists has been free from prison after receiving a royal pardon to danny spent two years in jail she was arrested in two thousand and sixteen protesting against the force remove all of thousands of people in the capital now head officially as prime minister malcolm turnbull has survived a leadership challenge by home affairs minister peter dutton term ball won the vote forty eight thirty five that resigned as

a minister shortly after or was later shipped had been under pressure he was forced to make changes to his energy policy this week after members of his own party threatened to vote against it that today the liberal party room has confirmed my leadership and julies deputy leadership of the liberal party a reminder of the need for political parties and for governments to be united and determined to keep delivering for the people for whom they would twenty five million australians now we know that disunity undermines the ability of any government to get its job done and unity is absolutely critical we cannot allow as i said in the party room today. internal issues to undermine our work computer company microsoft claims its i'm covered a russian hacking targeting u.s. political groups the firm says it stopped fake websites that were set up to steal

log and information from visitors to think tanks the hudson institute in the international republican institute how their websites copied microsoft says it's part of a russia plot to influence of member midterm elections oscar denies any involvement . iran's interior ministry says it will stop issuing new visas to qatari nationals escalating measures against qatar more than a year into a diplomatic dispute state news contrary students studying in the country along with other country citizens with existing visas would not be affected bahrain saudi arabia the united arab emirates and egypt cut diplomatic transport and trade ties with qatar in june of two thousand and seventeen the country's accused katara supporting terrorism which doha denies students at the university of north carolina in the u.s. have brought down a statue of a confederate soldier around three hundred protesters took down the memorial statue without approval from the university the fate of confederate statues is an ongoing

heated debate so far more than one hundred confederate symbols have been removed across the u.s. . the great prime minister has hailed the end and to an age of austerity as the country exits the biggest international bailout in history alexis tsipras acknowledged the hardship of recent years and said past mistakes would not be repeated grace avoided bankruptcy for the last eight years through three hundred billion dollars in loans from the i.m.f. and the european union now in return it imposed punishing last year any measures aimed at balancing the budget greece will now have to borrow on the international markets he must above the musk's in medicine like in the bailouts that carried with them austerity and recession and turned our country into a social desert over our country's regaining its right to define its own fortunes and its future like a normal european country without being compelled to do things from abroad with no more blackmail no more sacrifices for our people john topples has more from athens

. the prime minister signal to the beginning of a new age for greece one in which greece will become a normal european country again able to choose its fate to determine its economic policy free from the external coercion of other countries and memorandum of understanding this is very much within the seed is a narrative that this left wing government was elected to rid the country of austerity policies imposed from without due to the policies of previous administrations and admitting no blame itself in prolonging or causing any further problems in the course of the greek economy the opposition conservatives have a very different narrative they believe that sees us election itself spooked the markets for a long greece's period in the wilderness on able to borrow from the private sector and therefore remaining dependent on the third handout from its heroes and partners

those two narratives are likely to persist as greece heads into an election year with local and european parliament elections coming up in may and the general election by september of twenty nineteen as the two parties try to polarize the greek electorate the conservatives are consistently ahead in the polls cities may try and regain that lead or at least close the gap as much as possible which means that the lack of consensus here is likely to spook markets further as the government and the opposition openly disagree about who caused what and what the best course is for the greek economy from here on out. would like to hear your thoughts on that story and other so engage with us please you can send your comments to any of our online platforms on twitter just choose the hash tag at a.j. news grid makes it easy for us to find your comments the handle is at a.j. english and of course facebook facebook dot com slash al-jazeera or you can send us

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wednesday your humanity is going to start to come up and that means it's going to be more uncomfortable temperatures only reaching forty degrees but still a very uncomfortable day expression during the holiday week over here towards abu dhabi on thursday about forty degrees in your forecast and mecca well we do expect to see some clouds a few terms there of about forty one as we make our way down here across parts of the southern reaches of africa we did have one follow boundary that did pass through cape town but it is now here across much of south africa for the next day tempers look like this as we go towards wednesday fifteen degrees there we do expect to see another front coming through but over here towards parts of johannesburg where we are looking at twenty two degrees not too bad but durban is going to be seeing some rain in your forecast with the temperatures there of twenty one degrees. and one thousand nine hundred seventy eight. disappeared after boarding

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today on. new domestic fire. rockets that hit the presidential palace in kabul. and other stories. that are. he has watched a complaint about a new u.s. tariffs with the world trade organization. doubled levies that steel and aluminum this month when turkey refused to release an american pastor the turkish government retaliated by imposing tariffs of its oh a president saying his country was under attack. there's no difference between the three attacks on our call to prayer and flag and the attack on our economy the goal is the same the goal is to bring to heel to key in the turkish nation to hold a captive we're nation that prefers to be shot in the nick rather than to be

chained to the name of the has been hearing international trade cases since one nine hundred ninety five some of the most memorable include a decades long dispute between brazil and canada or the cost of an aircraft over the queues the other of receiving illegal subsidies from their governments the case was only resolved in april of this year with the world trade organization siding with brazil india malaysia pakistan and thailand once initiated proceedings against the us alleging that a us ban on their exports was trade discrimination in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight a panel agree that the ban was illegal another one involving food was a dispute between the u.s. and the e.u. about before mons in two thousand and two because of a public outcry beef exports with hormones were banned in the e.u. the us it backed by imposing one hundred percent tariffs on european beef so we highlighted three cases there but in truth there are hundreds of cases many of

which are still pending because the website they list all of their complaints and it literally takes several minutes to scroll through all of them. as present as once again gone after his two biggest trade partners china and europe saying they have manipulated their currencies accusations were made in an interview with reuters sanctions and tariffs are fast becoming trump's weapons of choice a shopper tonty reports from washington. the trump administration has been setting new records with its imposition of sanctions on foreign entities though it is continuing a trend we saw under barack obama what is different is the imposition of economic tariffs this administration overtly views the dollar as a weapon and the globalized economy as a battlegrounds. the numbers have been climbing proud of donald trump's presidency but according to the u.s. treasury sanctions were imposed on close to one thousand entities and individuals in twenty seventeen a new record. and this year analysts predict the administration will suppose that

number potentially adding more than fourteen hundred entities to the list of those sanctioned he's a president he came into office without much to government experience any with very limited in the western relationships with people on the hell of the product executive branch and what sanctions lesson do is execute foreign policy effectively not stop it is unclear sometimes whether the u.s. has a grand strategy when it imposes sanctions is washington trying to change the behavior of those it deems as working against u.s. national interests or simply punishing them without any opportunity for redemption . and there's anyone really believe that russia will forsake crimea for example as a result of sanctions what exactly is the u.s. trying to achieve in the rush to project u.s. power such questions sometimes remain unanswered. at least with the trumpet ministrations imposition of economic tariffs they would seem to be a goal president trump says other countries are exploiting the us economically and

that needs to end and that is why we are going to stick together and win for our farmers and our factory workers are still work this year we are all across this nation. the imposition of tariffs began in january with restrictions imposed on solar panels and washing machines the trunk of ministration said it hopes to boost domestic manufacturing since then china has borne the brunt tariffs have been imposed on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese imports they went into effect july the sixth and tariffs on an additional sixteen billion dollars of goods will go into effect on august twenty third in addition twenty five percent tariffs on steel and ten percent on alum in human ports have shocked allies such as canada mexico japan and the e.u. . turkey's tariffs of meanwhile been doubled to fifty percent on steel twenty percent on aluminum yet here too there is confusion in imposing the steel and aluminum tire of don't trip invokes national security his administration is using

those type of as bargaining chips in trade negotiations how does that square with keeping america safe that has long been international grumbling to the sun trial and see if the u.s. dollar financial system to the global economy and it is likely that the frequent deployment of both as weapons often with little recourse for those affected will heighten those complaints in the future. washington brian patel is a global business executive he joins us live from los angeles we appreciate your time very much so let's start very specifically with this complaint that has filed on behalf of turkey with the deputy against the u.s. does that have any legs. no i mean i think he's following what he needs to do with the deputy you know as you mentioned a few minutes ago there's a lot of complaints and there are going to be a lot more complaints that's been piling to b.t.o. this isn't turkey's first complaint for this year against the u.s.

obviously this sets up for this you know sixty day period. hopefully them coming together and negotiating where there's a win win for both countries they have both leaders i'm out looking good and i think that well i think turkey is obviously. following the path kind of what kind of has lead and following that complaint if you will as well so the trump administration to their degrees is either threatened tariffs or impose tariffs on allies countries that are that are allies of the u.s. how would you characterize. donald trump strategy when it comes to tariffs and or sanctions do you think he how would you describe his understanding of terrorists. well i mean i think he's using his lack as a lack of political experience to his advantage i mean that's how he won. the presidency he's run this playbook that he was going to be hard people joke

about you know the art of the deal he is looking at this in the short term perspective and trying to get wins here and a bit of nobody uses a political win with his base how do you connect that to actually having an effective policy that doesn't end up harming his base or harming the country the u.s. well well he's how you try to do both ways right you take for example the tariffs that that between them and china with the farmers tariffs and it really targeted the soybeans and then he comes back and says well here's a twelve million dollar a plan with no details it kind of still keeps this based on pretty happy but you and i both know that it's still affecting them in that piece and then there's a second piece behind being strong against these export is important jobs i get i'm not saying that there is all this detail to say that he is winning obviously there

is no win the winners in the trade war per se but he is came into this campaign wanting to be the leader of protectionism and that's what he's doing with these perils he's using this as leverage economic leverage on the things that he thinks this is the way it's being done what might the effect be on the global economy if he continues to make decisions and moves like this. oh this is this is a long lasting economy in effect global implications obviously we're still in the new new stages of it but the longer these trade wars go this is going to affect not just the commies for example it's turkey in the u.s. off to church is the number six exporter of steel china in the u.s. the number one and two economies right now it's going to affect south asia europe throughout the supply chain and i'm just talking about the raw materials where you're buying things it's the it's the companies me economy they're putting these well materials together they get hit the hardest because of the margins that are

involved and that's where you start seeing these closures in jobs really you know huge hit in these in these industries brian patel joining us from los angeles ryan thank you very much contriving memoirs later on sunset she appears to have finally broken her silence on the persecution of the rangel muslim minority speaking in singapore the head of government said the danger of what she calls terrorism is real and present and rakhine state she went on to say that it was at to bangladesh to decide how quickly rushed into refugees would return to me and maher more than seven hundred thousand have fled a military crackdown and buddhist majority myanmar to bangladesh the u.s. imposed sanctions against the military last week. the danger of terrorist activities which was initial course of course of events dating to the humanitarian crisis in rakhine remains real and present today and this is security challenges

address the risk of into communal violence will remain it is a threat that could have grave consequences not just for myanmar but also for other countries in our region and beyond lines lawyer reports from kuala lumpur. it's not a surprise to hear myanmar leader aung san suu kyi talk about the threat of terrorism in reclined state this is the reason the myanmar military gave when it launched its crackdown in northern rakhine state against the rangers a year ago it said its operation was in response to attacks on security posts carried out by a little known armed group that calls itself the our congressmen salvation army now the military's actions have been condemned by the international community as disproportionate a un official has described the violence taking place against the ranger as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing and the myanmar government has been criticized for not doing enough to help the will hinder for not speaking out for

the revenge or for not adequately investigating the reports of atrocities committed against the rule hinges and lately for not creating a safe enough and vironment for refugees who fled to bangladesh to return to myanmar now the government lays the blame for the violence on this little known group are such a group of armed fighters who in turn say they're fighting for the rights of the revenge a minority in myanmar now academics say the root of the problem really is discrimination against this minority and the problem can be solved by creating more opportunities for the ranger for integrating them into the community and for stopping the widespread discrimination and persecution against the revenger but that is something we've not seen the myanmar government get addressed. a year on from the military crackdown in rakhine a new report has revealed the scale of the atrocities they were hinch of people face more than three thousand three hundred rohinton now living in makeshift camps

and bangladesh's cox's bazar were interviewed for this study and it found an estimated one hundred sixteen thousand or henschel were beaten i mean more authorities forty three thousand suffered gunshot wounds around nineteen thousand women and adolescents are raped at an estimated twenty five thousand were murdered and facebook has actually come under fire for being too slow to address so much misinformation on its platform in me and maher ala has been following that story where he lives with right richelle people on it talking about hate speech on facebook and how it's being used to target the muslim minority the united nations has previously reported that the site is being used as a tool to spread hate and also misinformation the recent investigation reveals how the social media platform is failing to resolve the problem or to says it found more than one thousand examples of comments videos and images attacking were

hundreds of muslims some posts go back to twenty teen now last week facebook published a statement admitting that it reacted too slow to prevent misinformation on its platform in march c.e.o. mark zuckerberg promised to address the issue by using tools to automatically detect hate speech also hiring more burmese language speakers to review the posts and they've also looked at. removing a number of hate figures and organizations from the network as well now we heard from nice son when he is a ranger activist and he told us why this hasn't been very effective. as if it s. feasible do not and does tend to. have many. bum his language speakers and dish should have stopped would not buy as you go though you know they have a blanket in. their stuff all the. loll of bull but you know those

where that is where you told the rebel their own law promoting to be just the. color promoting the hate speech and of violence where roommate in the plays so dish should have one not bias or thought to get your thoughts on the story or anything else that we're covering he's the hash like agent is great all you can to simply message me directly and that for him ha meant for hell thanks rail antics for the history of the ranch and there's a series of maps on our website it it follows their path from their ethnic homeland of course are kind stayed in the m.r. to bangladesh's district the coxes bazaar as well as several other countries in asia where they have been seeking sanctuary since the one nine hundred seventy s. and mr get in to get in touch with us who want to hear from you about the stories we are telling you about you can send your comments to any of our online platforms on twitter just use the hash tag at asian news creator our head a less at list or facebook dot com slash al-jazeera or our whatsapp and telegram that us nine seven four zero one trip triple one four nine.

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one is around the world are celebrating the holiday and many will be spending time with family and friends but for syrian refugees in turkey only a small number will be able to go home for the festivities so long ago reports from istanbul and how they are commemorating the that the prez marking the start of eve . as it's known in taki a time for devotion giving thanks and for sharing among communities. and stumbles fati district it's a bittersweet experience home to one of the largest syrian refugee populations in the city so much so that it's known as the damascus bazaar dusty it was shops and cafes that are remind us of

a country they want before wall forced them to leave. hey ahmad martini has added to that mix he owns a shop in the heart of the community selling traditional syrian sweets and this week it's an especially busy time as many customers yun the flavors of home. the idea of the this to bring people together but like a lot of syrians we are alone many of our families are still back home are scattered all over the place we have a generation of children who have no idea about the joyful celebrations we had back in syria during so we're making sure we pass on our traditions on to them and so the syrian community does what it can to keep its traditions alive there are an estimated twenty thousand to have decided to return home for the holidays but of course there are many here who simply cannot do that. turkey has taken in some three point five million syrian refugees more than any other country maj to has

been here for more than two and a half years with his family they may be one and a half thousand kilometers from damascus but they don't want to be identified as their relatives still there he makes a living working in a textile shop to support his son and his two nieces their father died in the notorious said ny a prison four years ago for them eet is less about the celebration more a reminder of their loss they had to sell their home to pay for the journey here. there is no we loved ones are far away my wife and i have the same situation both our brothers have disappeared for as we remember them we have no idea where they could be so for the painful time not a happy celebration. he says while bashar assad remains in power in syria he cannot return even to see his relatives it's too dangerous for this couple it's the

children that give them the reason to carry on. the decoration you see we put it up for the children because they wanted it it's our way of giving them something special for aid a tradition he hopes in time will become less painful so new diagonal al-jazeera stumble. let's take a look now at what you are talking about what has her interest since or her andy thank you so much for asian games host indonesia have already surpassed their medal count of four years ago taking their fifth goal just a few days into this year's competition it was that suits medalist echo you early on who got it winning the men's sixty two kilogram weight lifting on choose day or one scene where winning olympic silver brackets games in twenty sixteen lifted a combined three hundred and eleven kilograms for victory in jakarta where our correspondent scott hi there is in the indonesian capital and says the host country

has ambitions the car far beyond these games. host indonesia delighted getting their fifth gold medal in the category of weightlifting this is a sport that they really haven't excel that in the past and that underlies just how into these games these asian games that country is and the fans are underlined because there are sports and areas that they haven't really excelled at in the past or even focused on in the past but they are for these games that's because this nation wants to use these asian games as a showcase of the nation a showcase of what they can do they say they want to put in a bid for the olympics down the line so it's important that they show how successful they can carry off these this very complex series of events but also how well their athletes do and something that's very interesting that that you know other areas where they've expanded internees and athletes are indigenous sports other sports that are part of the asian games that can't be found anywhere else in the world and that's interesting because yes you have certain nations putting forth

athletes in specific sports and it's the first gold medal in these games came and which is a sport that comes from this region so it's very interesting to see how the other nations maybe it's not from their country compete as well and it's because internees it has gone into sports that come from india that goes along with the national pride but it also goes with the idea that they want to expand their base for their athletes moving forward and again they seem to look at this as a showcase for what they can do possibly in the future. a teenage farm a son from india created one of the other big stories of the day sixteen year old serb changi winning gold in the ten meter air pistol he was taking part in his first ever senior of a not surprising if you're in sixteen i suppose one is f. it far enough a big media response from some more established indian sports stars this from tennis player sonny immerses saying it's one heck of an achievement to compete at the asian games when you're a teenager to pursue it so win

a gold at the asian games is what dreams are made of congratulations to serve choudhry proud this from the former cricketer brenda say wag what we you doing when you were sixteen will serve choudhry is shattering records a new games record in the final with a score of six hundred forty point seven points congratulations for the gold syrup competing against some of the best in the world india india and this from india's former hockey captain ruskin a saying gold sixteen year old serb challenger in men's ten meter air pistol he's not even an adult and beat a pool of olympic and world championship medal winners. now at a time when usa gymnastics is struggling to articulate a convincing response to revelations of sexual abuse involving hundreds of its young athletes a country's star performer as eloquently taken the lead. to

go full time olympic gold medalist among biles war he'll colored leotard on sunday night as she became the first woman to win five u.s. all around titles now says he'll is the color associated with sexual abuse survivors while said she wanted to acknowledge all the women who are the victims of all my national team dr larry nasser including herself she said afterwards it is for the survivors and i stand with all of them. are bars just over a million followers on twitter and more than three million on instagram and a twenty one year old is continuing her comeback after a two yr break issues on twitter saying i've been back for only nine months i'm so proud of myself not the same event ahead of us a gymnastics kerry perry had failed to impress journal press conference when she was asked what was being done to prevent a possible repeat of the nasa case for usa today reporter nancy armor was there she

said well if you're going to duck the media and the public for eight months then you'd better have something to say when you finally speak carrie perry didn't and this from former gymnast rachael brown honda she was the first to publicly accuse nasa perry says she's reached out to survivors will my cell hasn't rung i passed it to perry after sentencing wondering if ali reisman jets and celine jamie densher or any other sisters have been contacted by perry for their inputs let us know what you think using the hash tag a.j. news grid or tweet me at and they are underscore sport me more from ours in the eighteen hundred g.m.t. news hour but for now let's get back to russia andy thank you. very much and thank you for joining us that's going to do it for this news spread but you can keep in touch with us on social media the hash tag. for it and there are plenty of other ways to connect as well right there behind me back here tomorrow so if you're fourteen and fifteen thank you.

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