which was initial course of course of events leading to the humanitarian crisis in rakhine remains real and present today and this is security challenges address the risk of intercommunal 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 lots more so to come here not just here including sad yeah defeat. the afghan president's deed message of sacrifice and charities interrupted by violence and venezuelans are braving attacks to make their way into neighboring brazil to escape the economic crisis back home one state that's. how it was they'll have plenty of solace storms rumbling away across the great

plains of north america a lot of clout there pushing up towards the lakes and only to the east the side of canada are actually so possible to recruit back seeing some lively showers longer spells of writing to say had a lot of cloud is making its way over towards the appalachians it'll move through as we go through the next. twenty one celsius in ottawa so warm enough not too bad twenty eight celsius there for new york but more clout there across the central plains easing over towards the rockies denver around twenty four celsius want to hopefully useful showers down towards the southwest in court about the west coast will be dry thirty celsius in seattle. warm one here then as we go on into stay when it cools off to just twenty degrees or something you'll notice the showers do continue just around the southwest over towards oklahoma the sable fight in try by this stage more warm sunshine new york at about twenty six degrees similar temperatures there for ottawa but if on a dry weather to into the caribbean but the use will scattering the showers you

mostly want to show is that into hispaniola maybe in two or jamaica as well southern pass on cuba some wet weather of course also in place for a good part of central america. struggles. of an embattled. full of pleasure. only a half. an intimate look at life in cuba today it. can be for the good of the ethics this is my cuba on zero.

welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera investigators in the u.s. some successfully prosecuted two big players in donald trump's twenty sixty election campaign michael cohen wants the president's personal lawyer says he broke the nor the directions from donald trump in a separate trial a jury found trump's former campaign chairman guilty of eight charges pulled man a ford is now facing sentencing for breaching campaign finance laws touch fraud and failing to disclose foreign bank accounts. countrymen efforts are underway in carroll after southern india's worst floods in a century that killed if these three hundred seventy people about a million still remain in makeshift camps. now a message of peace in afghanistan has been interrupted by violence rockets were fired as president ashraf ghani was delivering a speech for the muslim holiday in either

a mosque but it smith reports. afghanistan's president might have been hoping for a quiet start to the eagle holiday but as i reviewed his troops and officials gathered for the press 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 the 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 honor 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 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 you know one month to the next so they're on convinced 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 and the leadership are resisting serious peace talks those inside the movement who are actually 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. i mean all muslims around the world are celebrating that either i'll add a holiday but for syrian refugees in turkey only a small number will be able to go home for the festivities some of yegor reports from istanbul. the prez marking the start of each. as it's known in turkey 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 a damascus bazaar dotted with shops and cafes that are remind us of a country they want new before war forced them to leave. mud 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. elysees in. 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 who 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 managed to has been here for more than two and a half years with his family they maybe 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 it is a 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. stumble the northeastern coast of venezuela has been rocked by a strong magnitude seven point three earthquake the quake was centered close to the coastal city of forced people to flee buildings in the capital six hundred kilometers away is the strongest earthquake to hit venezuela in over a century. what business is in ben is in venezuela have closed as part of a twenty four hour strike it's been organized by the three leading opposition parties over the growing economic crisis venezuelans have been fleeing their country to seek a better life elsewhere some of them have been moving to neighboring brazil but is to reason by reports they've not been welcomed there by everyone. brazilian troops now at the main point of entry between brazil and venezuela. bases what the border town of my looks like after the anti migrant violence over the weekend. the money.

has been waiting for her three children four hours the venezuelan has been living with her husband in brazil with what is going on at home she's decided to send for her family. i have three children and we cannot risk it any more we have to bring our children here because in venezuela they cannot survive and we don't know what we have been in the future. in this northern brazilian state say the scale of the influx of men women and children from venezuela is now on the scale of an emergency the state government wanted to close the border temporarily but their federal counterparts said doing that would be illegal around eight hundred venezuelans come to this place every day escaping the crisis here they're given a meal there vaccinated and they're given an identification by brazilian

authorities tell us that they want them to leave this part of the country as soon as possible in order to prevent confrontations with the local population. last weekend a crowd of brazilians attacked a temporary camp in back i'ma saying some venezuelans had assaulted a local man they destroyed the improvised housing and force back across the border more than a thousand people. but he got a little known was one of them he has returned because he says he cannot survive in venezuela. we all had to run to escape they destroyed everything i own my id my clothes and my positions but i cannot go back to my country we cannot survive it's a disaster and i won't go back as long as nicolas maduro is in power we're stranded all thought is have increased security and are trying to process be. as fast as possible. we see lots of people crossing every day and it is constant there is more fluidity some people are passing by going somewhere else so the challenge is to try

and help them get where they are going and then give paperwork to those who want to stay. for those who want to stay they will find refuge in brazil but neighborly hospitality he's being put under severe strain by venezuela's economic crisis. brazil iran has unveiled a new fighter jet as tensions with the u.s. continue to increase president hassan rouhani got a firsthand look at the cockpit of the aircraft which will be produced locally run he says iran will keep boosting its military he said that's what's stopping the u.s. from attacking the country the u.s. has placed new sanctions on tehran president trump says sanctions are the only way to keep iran from developing its nuclear program and the impact of those sanctions is being felt throughout iran the unemployment rate now is at twelve percent which means some three million people can't find work and many of those who have jobs are

struggling to cope with the rising living conditions. reports in the capital tehran . the busy birds of a factory floor where business suits and boardrooms are left behind for overalls and dangerous work. mirabeau makes industrial scale water valves and employs hundreds of people around the country and if things go to plan the intend to hire hundreds more obvious than that. some industries inside iran more development in the more export we can do the more factories will be brought online so we could employ some new workers business leaders and industry chiefs want to shift iran away from an agriculture based economy and develop its ability to make and sell manufactured goods it's in big factories like this that iran sees its financial future heavy machinery being worked by skilled labor force making important things but if you were to drive by this industrial park on the outskirts of the capital to

run you might not notice these buildings are a hive of activity and that's part of the problem both say is sanity i mean vesting an industry needs financial resources one of the solutions is foreign investment where providing some incentives to attract foreign investors definitely foreign investment speeds up industrial development and consoled the issue of unemployment iranian manufacturers boast about cheaper labor costs than china but foreign investors point to problems of scale and quality control factors holding a run back from taking on a production powerhouse that's been called the world's factory american sanctions also hangs like a question mark over iranian factories. the government hopes offering free land and tax breaks will make it easier to convince people that iran might be their cup of tea. away from the factory floors some three million iranians are still looking for

work. is a forty six year old air conditioning technician he's been out of work for a month and his age the job situation is not good opportunities are taken by people with connections have no university degree my resume doesn't register anyway when i lose my job i have to start again from zero and fortunately there is no way for people like me security. basic necessities are so expensive having fun is something most in his wife no longer think about he'd be willing to do anything to earn an honest living but says the job market is saturated with young people also looking for work says he's too old for the government to care about him and that he's putting his faith in god but he admits being unemployed is destroying him. now changes in coal mining technology could be behind the rise in black lung

disease poor screening is also being blamed as a potentially deadly risp or two diseases now being diagnosed in younger mynahs done us a book reports when was the last time that you remember that your breathing was perfectly normal that your lungs were fine seventy year old chris byron recently traveled halfway around the world from australia to chicago to find out how far his black lung disease has progressed at heart. he was diagnosed two years ago after forty years of mining i kept getting my new. rating of the lungs from the two thousand. and four. byron was among a half dozen australian coal miners undergoing testing at this black lung clinic at the university of illinois and northwestern hospitals. long term exposure to coal dust causes the disease the respiratory illness began declining in the u.s. in the one nine hundred seventy s.

and was thought to be eradicated in australia decades ago because of better regulations but both countries have seen an increase in reported cases in recent years and miners like thirty six year old tim true and are getting sick younger it was a normal thing for the ship to come up on the shelves and coca-cola. and you can see these massive lesions on both sides of the long clinic director dr robert cohen is researching the spike in black lung disease he thinks poor screening is part of the problem but he also thinks there might be something else some of the new stuff that we're seeing in the u.s. may be due to changes in technology that's creating a finer smaller perhaps more toxic dust and we're doing research right now to evaluate that so we don't know that for sure miners undergo much more rigorous testing here than what they would get at other facilities the clinic considers everything from the patient. medical history to physiology blood drawn during

stress tests analyzes oxygen levels in blood now you drive it all the way and he's going to go if you go in and out pulmonary function exams evaluate lung strength and how well oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchange from the lungs to other parts of the body cohen says these tests and research will provide a better window into black lung disease and how it develops the state's c.e.o. three well it won't help him cure these miners cohen thinks it could help in the development of new methods of preventing black lung disease in the future diane estabrook al-jazeera chicago. backed off a quick check of the headlines here not to zero investigators in the u.s. have successfully prosecuted two big players in donald trump's twenty sixteen election campaign michael cohen once the president's personal lawyer says he broke

the law after directions from trump and in a separate trial a jury found trump's former campaign chairman guilty of eight challenges paul metaphors now facing sentencing for breaching campaign finance laws tax fraud and failing to disclose foreign bank accounts. the place. was. very. weak. russia has dismissed claims from microsoft that it's been targeting u.s. political groups through cyber attacks the world's biggest software company says it stopped fake websites that were set up to steal log information from visitors head of the u.s. midterm elections but the russian foreign ministry says there's no evidence to support microsoft's claims and calls the allegations which aren't. facebook says it's taken down more than six hundred fifty fake accounts that were part of descent

from asian campaigns originating in russia and iran the social media giant says the fake accounts targeted users in the middle east latin america the u.k. and the u.s. but the company identified no link or coordination between the separate campaigns cleanup efforts underway in kerala after southern india's worst floods in a century that killed at least three hundred seventy people about a million still remain in makeshift camps the northeastern coast of venezuela has been rocked by a strong magnitude seven point three earthquake it was centered close to the coastal city of greece and forced people to flee buildings in the capital caracas six hundred kilometers away is the strongest earthquake to hit venezuela in over a century. and iran has unveiled a new fighter jet as tensions with the u.s. continue to increase president hassan rouhani got a firsthand look at the copper to the aircraft which will be produced locally rouhani says iran will keep boosting its military he said that's what stopping the u.s. from attacking us has placed new sanctions on tehran. well those are the headlines

news continues here on al-jazeera after my cuba station cancer watching. for five years venezuelans have been feeling the country to escape a socio economic disaster of a magnitude rarely seen now latin america is facing a refugee crisis in a series of special reports al-jazeera looks at the challenges developing in an already volatile region. now mighty. true.

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