logical attack that is a very credible threat the u.s. and its allies are making because they've already use force twice before after a chemical weapons attack and in fact that one. that it's been used. for a major u.s. military strikes against the syrian government from the joint syrian russian command post the message is clear it will face the same attacks as all other rebel held areas liberated from what they call terrorism this is what that liberation looks like whether in homs or aleppo areas back under control of president bashar asad forces backed by russia and iran big turi gating be al jazeera britain's prime minister is in south africa as part of her first trip to the continent since taking office there is a maze in cape town to try and strengthen bilateral trade and investment and at boosting your case post back their fortunes britain with south africa thicks

largest trading partner may will also travel today geria and kenya we have been working with with african nations african governments in the past what i'm talking about today is a new partnership for the future recognizing the challenges that we both face we've already seen the benefits of the growth in the economy the stability here in south africa in the investment we've seen from the u.k. i think there are huge opportunities for us to work together both the u.k. and south africa to increase investment in the future to the mutual benefit both of south africans and of the united kingdom and our correspondent for me to miller is following her trip from johannesburg. the prime minister is calling this a new partnership with africa she says based on shared prosperity and security now so far she's announced that the u.k. will invest about five billion dollars in african economies and will follow up with

a five further five billion dollars from private investors and the aim here is that the u.k. would want to be the largest g seven investing in africa by twenty twenty two so this trip around the continent is very much about renewing and strengthening ties with african countries african countries not only around their economies but also security and stabilizing individual african countries she said that the stability of these countries will only allow africa to prosper and also in that way benefit the u.k. in terms of trade and investment she's looked at a number of issues ranging from poverty of alleviation as well as migrants traveling to europe saying that africa should stabilize and that the u.k. is here to help the continent do that reason may will move on or to nigeria and kenya later this week really looking at what happens all to the u.k.

of the brics that. an indefinite curfew has been put in place in southwest nepal in the hope that it will prevent further protests following the rape and killing of a teenage girl the police commander in the region has been suspended after accusations of a cover up the instructions have spread to the capital katmandu asked sabina shuster reports. the monsoon rains didn't stop the latest protest against the police artists joined the protesters in solidarity following the rape and suspected murder thirteen year old schoolgirl. a month ago. we had the government does not compel us to stand here again and again other protests have been held elsewhere in the park demanding change at least three rapes are reported to police every day in the park around fifteen hundred last year activists say many more are supported more than half of all the parties attacked iraq to sixty. the police are being criticised for their handling of the schoolgirls murder investigation. a sixteen

year old boy was shot and killed while others were injured and armed police confronted protesters and punch a group district where the girl was killed a curfew was imposed there four days ago. police are accused of arresting a mentally unstable man and framing him for the girl's killing while the true culprit remains free will is. we are an institution that believes in giving justice to women and children nepal police has suspended the commanding officer in country on four and our initial investigation shows the police were a bit reluctant in the initial response their communication with the victim's family was also lacking these individual cases of carelessness have tarnished the reputation of the entire force. protesters see booth the police and the government have to do more to restore faith in them the proportion of people who are coming to report versus the provos sion of people who have registered in f y r versus the proportion of people who have really been can convict it is is very different the

action of people who have been convicted in this country is very low compared to the people who have been reaped we have lost faith in the system as protests continue against alleged police mishandling of the keys government leaders are under pressure to offer more than what demonstrators see approach to use. al-jazeera that meant. the official estimates of the death toll in puerto rico from hurricane maria has been raised to nearly three thousand from sixty four its double the previous estimated figure for pozen four hundred deaths when maria struck in september last year it was the most powerful storm to hit the caribbean u.s. island territory in nearly ninety years the updated death toll figure of two thousand nine hundred seventy five comes from an iq academic study which calculates the number of deaths which could be attribute to directly or indirectly to maria.

iran's parliament has voted to reject president has on her knees explanation for the country's economic troubles rouhani was summoned before parliament to explain the economy's darr performance it's only the second time such a demand has been made of a sitting president he defended his economic record and blamed the u.s. sanctions which were earlier this year they're on his dealing with high unemployment while the value of their own in riyadh has fallen. now a us company is to sell blueprints for three d. printed plastic guns despite a federal judge ruling against it on monday a nationwide injunction that blocked the online distribution of the three d. printed gun files was extended but cody wilson the founder of the texas based company has that made the firearm designs available for sale via posts rather than download for a suggested price of ten dollars each he will sell the files and ship them to buyers on a flash drive the designs include a weapon used in several u.s.

basher things. leaders of the internationally recognized government in libya are appealing for calm after three days of fighting between rival armed groups in the capital it sees far is in force after artillery shells destroyed homes markets and mosques at least five people were killed. by head has this report from tripoli the real little did you know that a ceasefire is in force for the fighting in the south east village being capital. drivel on which groups include the seventh brigade from the city of third huna which commanders say is part of the presidential guard in. the clashes resulted in terrorizing civilians in the southern suburbs of tripoli we are currently working on a cease fire to bring good things back to normal we are calling on all parties to refrain from violence in tripoli tripoli is the capital of war libyan. heavy

weapons have been fired in the fighting for control over strategic locations in tripoli random shelling has damaged buildings including homes markets and mosques despite the ceasefire hospitals remain on high alert to receive casualties were likely one of the. victims of this war include anderson civilians his hoses were accidentally causing the growth. you know. bob what would be the loss of a word with the u n backed national accord the government has condemned the attacks and says the seventh brigade any affiliates are outlaws libya's interior minister says the terms of the cease fire agreement provides for the hand over of the headquarters of the seventy brigade to government forces but that's in doubt because the government is not full to be strong enough to rein in the army groups

and hold up through a. tripoli i'm plenty more to come this news hour the big reveal will preview some of the films vying for the golden lion glory at the bennett's film festival. and extreme heat at the u.s. open hits the players hard joe will be here with all the sports. business updates.

business updates. going places together. before. the venice film festival gets underway on wednesday in recent years it's premiered

many of the movies that have gone on to win big at the oscars the top honor at the festival is the golden lion but just who will win at this here is anyone's guess and that's not a member reports the field is wide open. as they get ready for the seventy fifth venice film festival there's already plenty of excitement about what's on offer in recent years venice is how to reputational make over enjoying access to big budget hollywood productions as well as critical hits likely to go on to oscar success the man who's overseeing this reemergence says he's proud of the balance he's struck of course we have some blockbusters we have a number of. big themes and established filmmakers but at the same time we have a huge number of on with unknown filmmaker. that means that we see this thing go on me making a work of real scouting and discovery two years ago this festival began with a piece of american escapism which went on to win six oscars well now the same

director damian shows al gets to premiere his latest work right here on opening night but this time it's a true story. masterpiece test to reconsider trying to land the first man is about how nasa astronaut neil armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon starring ryan gosling it's one of twenty one films in the main competition. so is roma by alfonso cuarón whose last film gravity premiered here before winning the oscar for best film it's a tribute to the mexico of korans youth once again it's visually stunning and it's one of the favorites to grab venice is top prize the golden lion. and some spirit is one of a strong set of italian films competing here it's a horror remake directed by look why don't you know whose last film called me by your name was nominated for best film at this year's oscars. over eleven days the

critics and the public are about to discover a world of film in one of europe's most glamorous settings palaces prizes and prestige venice has the ball in abundance. al-jazeera venice. ok now it's time for sports and joe is have it for us and our. thank you well we start with donald trump a welcome the head of world football into the oval office on tuesday the u.s. will co-host the world cup with mexico and canada in twenty twenty six and fee for president johnny pitino wants to make it even better than the one we've just seen in russia when russia president said that he would organize the best one cup ever right and we did organize events will come out right in the u.s. we're going to kind of that makes the goal we want to organize the greatest world cup and they are we've got canada we got becks ago involved and we're going to have a great partnership and it's going to be very special i look forward to it so let's

see twenty twenty six i will be here. and will be here maybe they'll extend the time because they know they left as if. it was if they don't agree that reason that the media is going to be very boring going to be very boring or to get a business i guess you're part of the tea party that's good. that's good one more thing that could be useful for you you don't sulk or we have referees right and they have carts. you know. and. yellowcard is a woman. and when you want to call someone. for this that's true that's true. that's very good this could be useful i don't know i like good for you that. oh he's saying you're saying vote me false but as he prepares for his first competitive football match he admits he's finding a hard to stop bolt is trying to secure

a contract at the australian side central coast mariners and his expenses play fifteen to twenty minutes in a preseason game on friday but it's been training hard but says some of the new skills have taken some getting used to. it's a stop in gold so he don't mean it to be done because i'm not used to because she's all about down up and down on the back of four ducting decibels charge and i definitely would be there is not that is a charity game anymore this is how you had it on my first two and now organizers at the us open of implemented extreme heat breaks as players suffered in temperatures over thirty two degrees c. on day two in new york one of those who struggled in his opening round match was two time champion novak djokovic he took the first set against hungary's martin for chip rich but as the match went on both players needed ice packs to cool them down after a ten minute break between the third and fourth set joke of it went into survival mode as he called it to win three sets to one. seventh seed and

two thousand and fourteen champion met in chile which came from five one down in the first set to take control of his match with marius coco only for his remaining opponent to retire with a leg injury in the third. in the women's draw second seed caroline wozniacki played at the start of the day and didn't wilt in her first round match against two thousand seven champion sam stosur she came through comfortably in straight sets six three six two and she plays less yes so then coach of ukraine next. and take over was another former champion in action on tuesday the two thousand and sixteen winner is looking for back to back majors having fits the title at wimbledon she had a good effect yes but i am in straight sets. now china have passed the two hundred medal mark at the asian games and one of their goals today was won by twin sisters the jang sisters tinting and when when won the

women's two at synchronized swimming is the third time they've taken the asian games title and you can't see them in these pictures but they're actually another set of twins that took bronze alexandra and you capturing an image from kazakstan. china took gold in the men's team to see it as well but only after the favorite south korea crashed out a gnostic on this one they missed out on a medal together china beat hong kong to take the title. their emotional scenes in a step back to malaysia for from behind to beat host indonesia in the men's regular final with a spectacular winning point lots of tears on show as they ended a twenty four year gold medal drought at the asian games last time they won gold as a russian macgames way back in one thousand nine hundred four. but the best of the action of the day was in the men's badminton doubles where there was an all indonesian final watch this amazing rally and see if you can spot the moment one of the players in red runs off court to change racquets.

i. i incredible well the philippines basketball team are on their way home without a medal even though the sport of really popular that many people feel the height is holding the country back but could a growth spurt be about to change that german island are going reports. basketball is big in the philippines but traditionally its people are not. they haven't

qualified for in the olympics in four to six years. participation is not the problem. sines did. but could the national growth spurts get bound to change things there seems to be the trend that the filipinos are getting smaller dollars kids are being brought to metro money to train at the younger age so their bodies are also stimulated physically to grow old they're given the best training the best nutrition to travel abroad to play against tougher competition so the also strengthens them so their children.