if quality is the legacy for all of us the slaveries new frontier part three of slavery the world's analogy see. this is al-jazeera. when i'm come on santa maria and this is the news hour from al-jazeera there are strong words as russia and syria both threatened to retake the last rebel stronghold of it labe in syria also desperate measures as argentina hikes interest rates to sixty percent trying to prop up the crushing peso waves of unstoppable water off the part of a dam collapses in me and now more than sixty thousand people evacuated from their homes and the world's second largest rainforest is at risk we will take you to the

democratic republic of congo to find out why. i'm paul race with all the sports coming up the champions league draw pits christiane i run aldo against one of his old teams as he goes for a fourth trophy in iraq. so syria's foreign minister is threatening and threatening an assault an adlib province the last rebel held stronghold while he says the army will do everything possible to avoid civilian deaths he said that while meeting with russia's foreign minister in moscow to discuss this offensive russia itself calling it labe a hotbed of terrorists so that we're doing it constitute a little for the relationship it was with satisfaction that we know to the majority of the syrian arab republic is now freed of terrorists what we need now is to wipe out those terrorist groups which persist particularly in the deescalation zone in italy meanwhile. ministry of defense says it's going to hold

a major naval exercise in the mediterranean sea starting on saturday remember the u.s. says want to retaliate if syrian government forces were to attack opposition areas with chemical weapons also the u.n. trying to prevent any major military escalation in that's the special envoy of course to syria stephan demister who says the fighting could put millions of people at risk there is a perfect storm based on warning counter warning which is gathering around and you did a lemma which is a true daily limit on how to defeat terrorists in need leap in at the same time avoid affecting a huge number of civilians one having you would be one not accelerate militaristic elation and give a little more time for the discussion to allow him facilitate a credible credible humanitarian corridor to allow three billion population to

temporarily create two or three area so we're covering this from two locations we're going to hear from senator in beirut shortly first read chalons in moscow. well the language coming from moscow has been hardening in recent days when discussing it there has been a succession of foreign ministers coming here to talk with foreign minister lavrov we've had the turkish foreign minister the saudi foreign minister and earlier on the syrian foreign minister all of them putting their case essentially. moscow it seems has decided that there will be some sort of military assault on it it's just a question of when that will be and how severe it will be the turkish foreign minister was very clear when he came here that turkey wanted more time to be given to a process of trying to separate the groups like al nusra from the civilian population

that's something that that moscow is open to as well the turkish say that they already have three million refugees inside their borders and an assault full bore assault on ad lib could well create a new wave for a new surge a humanitarian crisis that would push more refugees and to turkey destabilizing it even further it's going through a rocky patch right now. moscow is saying that it is open to say the request from under mr a from the united nations of setting up humanitarian corridors but the belief i think is is growing from anyone who's been watching this situation unfold that it's not a question of whether there will be an assault to push on it liberates more a question of when it will be and how costly it will be to the civilian population on the ground the united nations for several weeks now has been expressing concern

about the fate of the civilian population in live in the event of a military operation there saying that there will be a humanitarian catastrophe this province in. northwest of syria is home to three million people part of the province borders turkey but the border has effectively been shut for years and turkey has made clear it has no intention to take in more refugees so the special envoy to syria dema stewart saying that he personally is ready to go to to open humanitarian corridors because the only way out for people will be to government controlled territory and people who live in it live are wanted by the state simply because of they were engaged in opposition activities so they will not have to government controlled territory without guarantees from the united nations now whether or not the russian government or the syrian government will accept that so that's another question even though they have said that they're ready to discuss this option but in the past they haven't allowed un observers or

or a third party to observe the flow of people into government controlled territories in the interim that the syrian government beating the drums of war and sending reinforcements to the front line of it live but it's still not clear if and when an operation will happen or whether or not this operation will be limited limited in scope maybe there will be some sort of an agreement between the russians and the turks for the syrian government to recapture international highways and some strategic territories or whether this operation will just be the target groups linked to al qaida while the other so-called moderate groups will agree to reconcile with the state what we do understand is that the russians and the turks turks of course being having a lot of influence and. are still holding discussions to try to decide what to do because at the end of the day the syrian government cannot launch this operation without the russians greenlight because it will need russian air cover. let's check in with our senior political analyst now into shara now in london now and i want to

sort of go big picture with you here because i think we can almost safely assume that it will lead to some point be taken back by the russians and the syrians that leaves all of syria back under government control what's the strange question to say what's changed because everything's changed in some way but yet it goes back to how it was pretty two thousand and eleven everything back on the. look as the old wisdom goes you can't step into the same river twice simply this is the way life goes it's always changing and when we are talking about not just a river but rivers of blood in syria clearly things have changed since two thousand and eleven and i think it's only wishful thinking for the assad regime and his backers in moscow to think that they can go back to previous thousand and eleven not only because syria is totally crippled mostly

destroyed half of its people displaced and several hundreds of thousands have been killed. but also because syrians wounds are quite deep and will take for a long time to heal and i think winning militarily does not mean it is the end of syria as we know it today in fact syria will continue to bleed and will never ever get the political credibility needed for anyone to govern syria in the future something is going to have to give come out and i think while winning militarily is possible but politically and moving forward to deconstruct the syrian government is a whole other matter but will they still are there is nothing like after will it still be sorry to interrupt you my one the same pressure on bashar al assad if there's not a quote unquote active conflicts in the nations who have opposed him all these

years and opposed russia as well it would have to be said will they have the same be putting the same pressure on the assad government. look for the time being there's an immediate pressure being put on the russia in us fight as it is concerned because if you lit lets in the syrian troops especially those very loyal to bashar assad you we're going to have major massacres within the province of it that's why like we've seen for example on the question of liberating muso from i so there was international pressure to make sure that some of the iranian backed shiite militias should not go into the city but rather other parts of the syrian iraqi army needed to go in just because you need to make sure there will be no massacres here now they're trying to put some international pressures by the likes of the turks and the americans and others in order to make sure that maybe turkey

would play a more rule rather than the syrian army in order to make sure there will be less massacres in the country on the second and one more long term love oh i don't think russia and the and the assad regime in the end and the absence of any natural resources over the richest in the country they're going to be able to rebuild and and and and be able to you know recuperate and be able to resettle millions of displaced people without international help without western backing and that's why president putin has been very careful in core dating his steps with the americans and others and pleading with western nations to get involved because he knows that russia cannot afford it on its own to rebuild syria and syria not being rebuilt will not and will never be stable now and bashar as our senior political analyst in london thank you mullen. a fisherman in yemen has had a the port say they are scared to head out on to the red sea because of ongoing

fighting the saudi and iraqi military alliance is trying to recapture the city from the rebels twenty eight people were killed and more than thirty injured earlier this month when a coalition air strike hit fish market alan fisher is reporting for us from neighboring djibouti. abdulhakim is still planning a future but no it will be different from how you hope to imagined his life changed forever in an instant. he was working at the popular fish market who did on the red sea when it was hit by the cellular coalition in early august after the first bombs landed he thought he was safe he wasn't. a one man one has an up and getting if nothing happened to us in the first rate we saw the did people we went to risk you and help them when the second rate happened i was busy risk uing in saving the wounded people suddenly i lost my arm it is being cut off the raid took place in front of the boom i went out there are so down i started screaming and howling. he

was one of more than thirty injured that day those were the lucky ones twenty eight people died. suddenly i heard a big explosion i went out and nothing happened some of my friends had been injured i went to save my friends then the second right took place and i was hit still shrapnel was inside my body. the water fish market fuel is hard to come by so traditional methods are used to keep the boats at sea but because the area has been hit several times by the saudi led coalition and with the risk of mines on the water fewer fishermen are willing to take the risk of working but on a lot of us all of them although now. here we have only the war planes that dogged us who died of hunger and our children died because we don't work due to these. animals. and i have crime we have children and wives and we need to feed them we

don't support any want to get the other why are we being targeted like this. abdul hakim can go home no there's nothing more the hospital can do he was the main source of income for his family his mother father brother and three sisters live very simply but they could eat because he had a job. my son has made a lot bless him he's the father and the mother may allow get him out and buy less and he'll i know this. guy will never give up and i will return to work in the fish market i have no other job and i'm not going to give it up but it's by no means certain i will be able to return to what will ever be able to earn enough money to feed his family again and so by default the two become victims of the strike alan fischer al jazeera djibouti here's what's coming up for you on this news hour why u.s. sanctions could actually be a matter of life and death in iran there is anger in pakistan over

a right wing politicians provocative stunts and in sports arena williams sets up a third round clash with her sister venus at the u.s. open. we're going to look at me now though and several people remain missing after a dam burst flooding dozens of towns and villages sixty thousand people were forced to flee their homes soldiers police and the red cross are all involved in the rescue and relief operation more from florence italy. this is the dam in. the spillway of the dam collapsed wednesday morning after days of heavy monsoon rains sending torrents of water into nearby towns and villages in some places the surge of water reached nearly two and a half meters the military police and red cross are working on the rescue and relief effort in. the water came so fast into

a village and we didn't have time to run we have never been flooded before nothing like this has ever happened. eighty five villages have been flooded and more than sixty three thousand people affected. they've lost more than just their homes. and soon after we got there waters were already rising behind us we lost our carts pigs and engines everything including. flooding at the dam site has receded all the transport remains disrupted and a badly damaged bridge will need to be replaced. we're going to build another bridge in place of the damaged. days before the disaster villages raised concerns about the dam but the government leaders reassured them it was safe and said there was no sign of anything wrong. because the hydraulic hydrologic is only we can see

only. we're going to. be for one day before one hour before we're going to this accident now puts the spotlight firmly on safety concerns about dams in south east asia another dam collapsed in neighboring laos last month killing at least twenty seven people and forcing thousands from their homes florence louis al-jazeera. we were injured refugees in neighboring bangladesh are also vulnerable to the region severe weather nearly a million of them are living in the camps and cox's bazar off the scaping violence in me and mama june is there for us we talk a lot about how our hindu refugees living here in ca to prolong refugee camp are very vulnerable when it comes to the rains let me try and explain why first of all they live in huts mostly like this this is a hut that's made entirely of tarp of plastic and of bamboo some of them are tied

down with rope there are some of them have bricks and wood on top to try to to try to keep it from flying away and some of them have these sandbags at the base but still these huts are extremely extremely vulnerable when it comes to the bad weather that affects this area this is already an area that is prone to natural disasters flooding mudslides and most of the hinge it live in these huts that are on this forest land that has been deforested so you're talking about these structures that are already rickety on muddy hillsides on on sandy slopes and when it rains that means that these areas are prone to flooding and to mudslides happening that's why it's so dangerous today is a day where it is only rain intermittently throughout the day some of the raining today has been quite heavy some of it like right now it's been light but the skies here especially during the season they can open up at any time and that's why this population that is already so vulnerable already so marginalized is is so concerned

when rains happen because it can be so extremely dangerous for the. central bank has raised its interest rate from forty five to sixty percent as it tries to arrest a slide in the value of the currency the prices continue to fall against the dollar despite the support of the international monetary fund for the government policies of the i.m.f. has agreed to foster payments on a fifty billion dollar loan to shore up the economy we've got. with us now who is an economist and chair of the political economy department at the university nasr no. apologies if i said that in korea is joining us on skype from buenos aires i want to know there's some things going on at the university of strikes which i want to talk to you about in a moment but first these interest rate hikes sixty percent sounds absolutely ridiculous but then it's not that much higher than forty five percent do you think it will actually make a difference. both are both numbers are quite ridiculous from the

point of view of economic activity they're totally unsustainable. i doubt whether they will make a difference actually the bank even out of the bank the interest rate fifteen basis points. the basal kept falling against the dollar so clearly so-called markets and not believing the government or a sense of policies even maybe because all. the i.m.f. . is there anything in your mind that would help the currency at the moment something which would at least to start stop that that acute for. well. i mean the problem the basic problem here which is a historic problem in argentina and many other developing countries is the shortage

of foreign exchange dollars as they say here to you know to buy needed imports capital goods etc. so what you need to do in a situation where foreign currency is fleeing the country is impose some sort of some sort of controls be it exchange controls be it do you a currency exchange rates. different sorts of regulatory measures that will sort of isolate the economy a bit and will stem the outflow of foreign exchange however the government has done the exact opposite they've totally deregulated markets. sort of setting the grounds for the run on the dollar and the agreement with the i.m.f. does nothing bots. deepen those deregulatory measures so it's hard to see

within the current policy framework that this could and in anything out of major crisis ok so short stories that money is obviously very hard to come by at the moment that is affecting the universities as well i believe you've been on strike for lack of increase in salary a lack of funding for what universities do is that at a stalemate at the moment is there any hope for the universities and the students and electricity. yes that the salary agreements last year our salary agreement ended in march of this year the government's salary increase offer was fifteen percent for the entire next year or march to march of next year. however inflation between march and the end of july was almost fifteen percent already so unions are saying that is clearly an inadequate increase and

so they decided or we decided not to start the second semester. so the second semester should should have started three weeks ago has not started or started in some universities only this week. salary negotiations resumed this week but the government's offer has essentially been the same one so it is not clear what's going to happen there today there is what is expected to be a very massive protest by university students professors and university workers and general downtown one zero site is. and negotiations a supposed to continue on friday but it's really given the current. fiscal of just months agreements with the it is very difficult to see how that could change or change for the better at least from our perspective and uncivil thank you for

talking to us today to appreciate the time. you're very welcome oh moved by the u.s. president could help some of odds and tina's steel and aluminum exporters at least right this crisis donald trump signed an order exempting them from some quotas and tariffs imposed in march brazil south korea also being given relief but not e.u. countries mexico canada. the nicaraguan president's dismissed a u.n. report accusing him and his administration of ignoring human rights abuses during anti-government protests report accusing the government of legal arrests torture and close trials three hundred people have been killed in that violence since mid april. they've been more far right rallies in the eastern german city of human stuff violent confrontations earlier in the week thousands of germans have been protesting against foreigners the government's immigration policies it follows the

arrest of two men with syrian and iraqi backgrounds on suspicion of fatally stabbing a german man on sunday let's check in with dominic cain to see what it's like there in particularly when it compared to the more violent protests we saw earlier in the week. welcome all the demonstration that took place here in chemist today is pretty much broken up now all the speakers have finished and as i say most people have gone their separate ways but when they were here for several hours very recent firstly making their points saying that they believe that they are the people that their government should be concentrating on not on migrants not on the people whose they believe are threats to their society they've been demonstrating here at the same time as the meeting has been taking place very nearby involving the prime minister of the slaves the questioner a christian democrat and his social democratic colleague who is the mayor of this city the reason why the world's media in the city as you say because of what took

place at the weekend that last week airing on sunday morning a german man a thirty five year old man was stabbed to death and two people two people of migrant origin are in custody following an investigation into those deaths rather point to make as i say to a very peaceful here today in stark contrast to the scenes that took place here on sunday and on monday really. excellent thank you for that dominic came an update for us from candidates. still in europe the far right dutch politician at villers has received death threats after he announced a competition to draw cartoons of the prophet mohammed the stunt led to protests in pakistan as the public politicians even a former cricketer all voiced their anger of a support from lawrence lee. the netherlands self-styled european capital of tolerance but populism and its full plan with is long resurfacing again a kid billed as leader of the far right wing freedom policy seen here before last

year's elections as announced a competition to help him plaster the walls of his office with culture of the prophet mohammed. the news of the stunt reached pakistan with predictable results one political party call for diplomatic relations. the dutch ambassador should be immediately to politics and pakistan should go back its ambassador this is our simple demand and the government should meet it but it seems others have different result the asian lives within a day a man was arrested at the main railway station in the day after he allegedly posted on facebook that he was going to parliament to target builders but a former pakistani cricketer then posted a video on twitter offering twenty thousand euros for villas murder. villas himself tweeted crazy that this happens after announcing a cult soon contest of course builders knows that what he's doing isn't really

a cartoon competition it's all but a deliberate attempt to try to provoke muslims and in that he's clearly succeeded as well as apparently making himself a target but he has received some support from the dutch prime minister who says that he backs vild is rights to freedom of expression even if it's offensive. since getting twenty percent in last year's elections supporting the netherlands fulfilled his policy has slumped one elsewhere in europe the far right torch has been picked up by matteo selvi of the italian league who shares a mutual admiration of hungary's victim. builders himself who want nothing more than to be back in the headlines alongside them even or perhaps especially if his tactics lead to a threat to his own safety barnsley al-jazeera the hague. still ahead for you on this news hour with braxton looming britain's prime minister is trying to rebuild small relations with african countries to shore up the economy also the philippines confronts its dark history and the disappearance of political opponents who were

simply never heard from again. and in sport the asian games title one is bringing home more than just medals paul is here with your sport a little later on. hello again well this hour we're going to start our weather forecast just out here across the mediterranean particular over here towards the west bank where the drought situation there has been going on for just over five years and they're dealing with it the best they can salinity levels in the well water has been coming up so really unusable to use there and they are really changing their crops more towards dates because the dates plants can actually handle the drought situation just a little bit better over the next few days not any rain in the forecast and fortune we are looking at temperatures into the lower thirty's that is really going to stay

there in kuwait city a little bit further down here towards the south you're going to be seeing forty seven but over the next few days the temperature will come down but we do think your immunity is going to go up and speaking of humility it has been very uncomfortable here across much of the gulf we are seeing temperature doha about forty one degrees but relative humidity is anywhere between seventy and eighty percent during the worst time of the day that's really not going to change too much but in terms of temperature coming down on saturday to about thirty nine degrees and over here towards miska about thirty two degrees for you then very quickly over here across much of south africa we are looking at very nice conditions across cape town the clouds are staying down here towards the south just the next few days and we do expect to see seventeen degrees. when they're on line this isn't some abstract fish can eat a bit into their shops or if you join us on sect rather than stopping terrorism is

creating it this is a dialogue and just the community is want to add to this conversation we need a president who's willing to be a villain or a short while everyone has a voice and part of civil society i need to go but i never get listened to by those in the corridors of joining the global conversation. on out to zero. al-jazeera where every. asia's largest catholic country is witnessing a dramatic rise in teenage pregnancy. when used investigates why so many filipino children are having babies. on al-jazeera.

they're on the news here at al-jazeera these are the top stories syria's foreign minister is threatening to launch an assault in the last rebel held province all of it has met his russian counterpart in moscow to discuss the offensive the u.n. is calling for humanitarian corridors to be set up so civilians can leave safely. argentina's central banks raised its interest rate from forty five to sixty percent as it tries to halt the slide in the value of its currency the peso has continued to fall against the us dollar despite the i.m.f. agreeing to fast track payments on a fifty billion dollars loan to shore up the economy and several people remain missing in me and after a dam collapse on wednesday the torrent of water flooded dozens of towns and villages france and tens of thousands from their homes soldiers police the red

cross they all joined in the rescue and relief operation. now a fragile ceasefire in libya appears to be holding after an appeal for calm by the government. the three day truce came into effect on wednesday after days of fighting in the capital tripoli at least twenty seven people including fifteen civilians were killed in the clashes between rival armed groups. has more from tripoli. the situation is still tense in the southern suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli despite a cease fire agreement that has been recently reached and it's to be laid that a force should be composed from the central and western military legions that belong to a national accord government should come to tripoli and put an end to this conflict and maintain order in the capital tripoli now the question is the question now is

will the rival the competing groups well they will they be committed to the cease fire agreement or not we know that on tuesday then was a fittest cease fire agreement but it was reached by both the conflicting groups especially was more deployment and in force and force meant coming to both sides now this latest conflict in the southern suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli is between the seventh infantry brigade and its affiliates from the one hand and they come from the city of those who are now which is around one hundred kilometers to the. east and south of tripoli on the one hand and other armored groups from tripoli which are backed by the u n backed national accord government on the other hand and this conflict is for power for control of

a strategic location. in tripoli that includes military camps and also the tripoli international airport now according to informant sources on the ground and the humanitarian suffering has been worsening during the last three days so many families have been forced out of their homes because of the clashes and there are many civilians who are among the casualties in these clashes and iran continues to comply with the terms of the twenty fifty nuclear deal and that's according to the united nations despite the u.s. the drawing from the agreement back in may because the other signature is china russia germany france and the u.k. are all sticking to the deal but the u.s. has imposed sanctions putting pressure on global companies to stop doing business with terror and doctors in iran are saying those sanctions are endangering lives

they say they can't get enough drugs to treat patients under the sanctions foreign companies are able to sell the medical supplies but the banking restrictions that makes it tougher so the reports from tehran here at ash has been struggling with people few since he was born it's a blood disorder that his parents know means he will never live a normal life. but the medical treatment he gets at this clinic gives him a fighting chance. he's a boy he should play with his friends and. if he does he has to go to the hospital to get an injection so it affects his spirit and he cannot enjoy. serious his father says his condition makes him a little weak but like any other kid his age he has dreams. he wants to be a police officer when he grows up he says because then he'll get to catch criminals for a living. his parents are hopeful that the treatment he's getting now will make him

strong enough to take care of himself and turn his dreams into reality when. i have something to tell the american they shouldn't mix multics with patients and issues they must separate these things from each other the iranian care center treats thousands of patients in dozens of clinics across the country. in the past blanket sanctions on banking made it nearly impossible to find companies willing to sell medicine and equipment to iran. and so iranians began domestic production taking matters into their own hands half of the medicine views to treat many of the patients in facilities like this is made right here in iran the other half is imported from pharmaceutical companies outside the country but it's the second half that has medical professionals worried once again. iran can't make all the medicine it needs on its own. as governments play political games aid workers say civilian

lives hang in the balance. i'm saying this to the leaders of western states and americans you may have political conflict with our government but your methods actually hurt people in classic war when it's guns that there are some rules but with sanctions we have no rules i call it a silent battle a war without sound of guns the first victims in this war are the civilians it's women it's children u.s. president donald trump and his administration say they will impose the most stringent biting sanctions on iran the world has ever seen the white house says sanctions are designed to weaken iran's government but people in this clinic want donald trump to know that at some point that means fighting kids who are fighting for their lives. foreign owned shops in south africa have been the target of days of rioting and looting because foreign pleat and ploys were shot and stabbed to death in the townships of so where. police have

made several arrests on a sheltering workers who fear further attacks. with the economic impact from exiting the european union looming the u.k. foreign minister trying to cultivate some trade relationships that have been let to fall by the wayside wrapping up a three day africa tour in kenya having stopped off in nigeria and south africa but despite some positive results it might be too little too late for the u.k. ones brigs it takes hold records. this is been a crucial trade mission for the british prime minister brics it is less than a year away and to mitigate the expected disruption in trade with europe the u.k. needs to strengthen economic ties with africa. links which have been allowed to decline in recent years in two thousand and one the u.k. provided ten percent of kenya's imports last year the figure was barely two percent . analysts say teresa mayes raft of technology partnership and investments

initiatives comes not a minute too soon because it's a huge amount of investment around china and even from the united states the largest private equity firms from the united states are investing in africa at this point of time amazon has things like the african regional open data initiatives for example where they're collecting huge amounts of data from this country and the u.k. if they don't get in at this point they're going to lose out the world bank forecasts africa's economy will grow by three point two percent this year and three point five percent next by twenty twenty five africa's g.d.p. is expected to be five point six trillion dollars to tap into that potential the u.k. is establishing several new programs to improve coordination and support of africa's tech and. straight and at the same time the u.k.'s overseas aid budget is being targeted to nurturing entrepreneurs and encouraging private sector investment as i've said this week i want to ensure that the u.k.'s relationship with kenya and

with africa is more and more about private investment about doing business and making the most of commercial opportunities together here is elsewhere in the continent where using our aid and our investment club ships to lift countries out of poverty spread stability and create jobs and prosperity for the future corruption is a problem estimated to result in more than fifty billion dollars of assets flowing out of africa every year on thursday through some a promise that any corrupt funds originating from kenya and seized in the u.k. would be repaid to nairobi this issue of coming and saying now we're going to turn your money after investing and trading in it they should actually port. the interest that that money accrued and given to us unconditionally with apologies because they are culpable or accessory to the theft and that's a conspiracy and this is what has been happening twenty sixteen the u.k.'s trade

with nigeria south africa and kenya africa's biggest economies totaled less than seventeen billion dollars compare that to the seven hundred twenty billion dollars of trade that the u.k. enjoyed with the european union that year the prime minister will be pleased with the largely positive headlines she has received but the balance sheet remains a concern paul brennan al jazeera. the first is the international day of the victims of enforced disappearances one country with a long history of that is the philippines people who go missing there apparently abducted by police or government agents never to be seen again from manila jamila undergoing looks about. this a parasitic those or they disappeared is a theater play in manila that aims to remind young filipinos of the horrors of their recent past. the scenes here hope to recreate the atmosphere of fear

and brutality the time of the late dictator president for didn't mark last. month civilians brother her money mind was a human rights lawyer he was abducted by military agents and has been missing for more than forty years the loss is immeasurable she says not just for her family but also for the country the political dissenters cheering the markers that their dictatorship where our hmong the finest men and women our country has ever produced they were really consciously the liberate li silence by the agents of this because they were very critical. rights groups say the practice of enforced disappearances by state agents started during martial law and continues today. almost two thousand people are known to be victims of enforced disappearances but

rights groups believe the number of unreported cases is even higher. the power longs for her daughter surely the pardon was deliberate activist who was abducted in two thousand and six by military agents when gloria macapagal arroyo was president and linda feels that even if a case reaches court the odds against people like her are much higher because they are poor and get very little government support the building. when or if the perpetrator or general will be toppled by iran in court there were so many soldiers protecting him but there we were the beams with no one on our side and then i realized this is government policy to protect women as these are relics and memorabilia of filipinos who were abducted tortured and killed over the years it may seem like the horrors but curators say it is necessary to preserve the memory

on these recent historical tragedies. there's been a resurgence of protest art in recent times but really i mean we hear it over and over again never forget always remember. because history is a cycle and we have to break it families all mourn for their to say even though they are no longer there their struggle for fundamental freedoms continues if anything their absence has only made it stronger. zero. a court in cambodia has extended the detention of former opposition leader kim soccer for another six months the leader of the dissolved cambodian national rescue party has been in custody since september last year on charges of treason the accusations are widely regarded as politically motivated and no date has been

set for his trial. the world's second largest rainforests is a risk in the democratic republic of congo the government there is planning to end a ban on industrial logging this is part three of our series forests under threat malcolm webb has our report. it takes about eighty years for a tree like this to grow in just a few minutes to cut it down. from hardly any jobs here in the east of the democratic republic of congo when he was a teenager to starve a pombo learn to use a chainsaw and how to survive. in this is my life it helps me to feed my wife and my two children and pay for their school fees it's the only job i know the forests provide a small income for thousands of people who live in and around them of these timbers sells for about two and a haas dollars out of the whole tree. at about one hundred dollars worth of timber

five dollars has to be paid to the landowner is an annual license fee for using a chainsaw the rest of the money is divided between the five people that it takes to do the work it's low key and it's informal the government gets very little revenue the environment minister says the government could be making a lot more timber carried out of the forest and exported congolese hardwoods of demand all over the world most end up in china europe and the us. the government hasn't granted any industrial logging concessions for sixteen years supposedly to preserve the disappearing forests but it now plans to welcome back industrial loggers he says to fund development projects new phone don't fall we sell what we can it can be mineral resources it can be any resource it can also be the resources of the forest they are ours we want to turn them into resources that help the

wellbeing of our people the forests and also home to about half a million indigenous people who've lived in them sustainably for thousands of years lower miss emmy says they'll be among the many victims if the government goes ahead with its plan. you the government has been lying for a long time about development which was never realised the big companies would just take the profits from the forest and leave the population in poverty the government should abandon this plan to benefit the local population not only for ecological reasons the out is no logging is supposedly regulated but widespread corruption mean it's not the world's second largest rain forest and disappearing steadily and it's loggings industrialised it'll go a lot faster and it'll never grow back. malcolm webb al-jazeera it turi in the democratic republic of congo.

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policy of the talk sport champions league time already yes it is you cannot escape football the draw for european football's top club competition the champions league has been made with hold israel madrid picked out in a group with roma c.s.k.

a moscow and czech sides pelz and raila going for a fourth title in a row with a man seen lifting the trophy last season christiane i rinaldo is no longer the club he's now with a telly and champions event says until faces all team manchester united in a group that also contains a young boys of switzerland and valencia. well serbian team red star belgrade are in the champions league group stage for the first time the nine hundred ninety one european cup when his face a huge challenge in group c. has all sports correspondent lee wellings. well there's no doubt at all the draw could've been a lot kinder to red star belgrade in the return to the big time of year we're playing football with only they have all the history and tradition but it's taken them twenty six years to get through to the group stages i get there and find out i have to play paris and they have to play napoli and they have to play little people who were of course the finalists in last year's competition however the other way

of them looking at it is not a negative way but to say they've got nothing to lose they were good they can have a real crack at this what i want to see is that there have been some problems with the find a new way forward have a close eye on that so we hope that they're making headlines on the pitch only now while madrid who are defending the trophy will be very happy with their group i think they are playing roma c.s.k. moscow impels and you would expect them to go for winning that group and having a good crack at defending that trophy the form around which would start christiane of a now that i was going to you ventus of course and hope i. just united states another couple of cracking games to look out for and i would urge you to take a look at a group under the radar let's do it the final is being played in their stadium they're an extremely strong team i expect them to not only win their group but possibly go why. well south america's equivalent the corporate liberty dora's is getting to the final rounds chill in champions colo colo reached the quarter finals

by knocking out corinthians of brazil the chileans held a one mil advantage going into the second leg in sao paolo an early goal for corinthians was cancelled out by lukas biases had a visit as they went on to lose to one but they're away go enough to see the two in st. flamingo word to know down going into the second leg against fellow brazilians cruzeiro layo draw it's got the rio team back in the tie in belo horizonte but they can find another goal cruzeiro going through to the last eight. while for some athletes at the asian games much more is riding on victory than just personal achievement and national pride some nations are offering bonuses for those who win a medal and in one case it could help a footballer playing in the english premier league to continue his lucrative career without being forced to do military service scott hardly reports from jakarta. in

this house shared by four generations to get the martin remembers her glory days as a. champion she won numerous medals while competing in the indonesian form of martial arts at the asian games individual gold medalist get just over one hundred thousand dollars as a bonus that surprises money though the most she ever saw eight dollars a month while she was in school she feels a bit let down but agrees with the idea of bonuses. being an as it is not easy in a money for training transport and. during my time it was very difficult to make money i had to skip school a lot this new system is extraordinary it's definitely encouraging for internation athletes. some observers feel that the bonuses are good for the athletes but there are concerns about funding. it is still a question mark we don't know if it's fair for everyone for

a different country young athletes bonuses are not a problem but for developing countries struggling economies a bonus seems excessive because they are paying tax payers money for twenty six year old hendy who won the men's double pincheck see that gold for indonesia the money will be a life changer he returns home for the first time since his big victory he's the main breadwinner for the household. they need to be honest as a human being money can motivate me i wanted to get the bonus so i trained hard now the result the money can help me make my appearance happy and improve the quality of life but for some athletes winning medals here at the asian games is not about the money so my professional is worth millions of dollars and for one south korean footballer it's about the possibility of sidestepping mandatory military service. and earns a big money as one of the club's top stars. he's playing here at the asian games

because if they win gold on saturday night he'd gain an exemption from his mandatory twenty one months of military service then he will use his bonus to hopefully improve life for his family and cause criticism about paying national team athletes shallow they're doing a service for the country he says and that requires dedication and sacrifice not to mention spending a great deal of time away from family. al-jazeera to cart. the united korean team is guaranteed to add to the whole of one gold and two bronze at the asian games after they qualified for the women's basketball final park ji soon school ten points in her first outing for korea and since arriving from her n.b.a. club the las vegas aces the joint korean sides shared the scoring with three players each getting seventeen points in their eighty nine to sixty six win over taiwan. while the unified korean side will play china in the gold medal match after

baby japan eighty six to seventy four the chinese will be looking to go one better than the silver they achieved in twenty fourteen on the beat and in the final by south korea. the track and field meet finished with more success for india the country picking up athletics gold number seven in the women's four by four hundred meter relay qatar won the men's relay that was the two thousand and six hosts for athletics title at these games. two time grand slam champion patrick fritz of it is true to the third round of the u.s. open the czech has never got past the quarter final stage in new york it was fairly plain sailing for the number five seed against china's yeah fine wong eight brutal forehand feeling seven five six three when. serina williams blazed through her much on wednesday and sets up a third round meeting with the older sister venus the six time u.s. open champion defeating green a bit tough to germany six two six two this will be the williams sisters earliest showdown at

a major tournament in twenty years. former world number one andy murray has been knocked out by financial over disco in the second round the spaniard who was seeded number thirty one beat the twenty twelve champion in four sets murray is on the comeback trail after hip surgery he had beaten verdasco in thirteen of their fourteen previous meetings i defending champion rafael nadal sealed a straight sets victory over unseeded. of canada the seventeen time grandson champion. faces russia's foreign nationals and great. stories both or a bit lighter come right paul thank you for much for that just a quick update on an earlier story we brought you the dutch right wing politician fielder's has apparently canceled his prophet mohammad cartoon contest the one that has sparked a lot of protests certainly in pakistan there will be more on that and the rest of the day's news with the team from london in just a few moments stick around. september

on al-jazeera with the u.s. midterm elections just over two months away we'll explore the mood of the nation as american fellow braids leave britney on television and online the stream continues to talk into the extraordinary potential of social media to disseminate news sweden the country known as the happiest in the world has been shaken by a recent spike in violence and it's now preparing for a general election people in power continues to examine the use and abuse of power

around the world. the main body of the united nations general assembly is to build its seventy third session we'll bring you all the updates september on al-jazeera. asia's largest catholic country is witnessing a dramatic rise in teenage pregnancy. when used investigates why so many filipino children are having babies. on al-jazeera. i mean this is different whether someone is going for someone's favorite. thing it's how you approach and that's it is a. conscious. story in. china is keen to win friends and influence you need oil rich middle east business spark the wrong turn blondel china to secure its resources for the future of the. region as a whole dollars expect to grow we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic

world we live in counting the cost. fears grow a massive offensive to retake it from rubble finsbury out well happened in syria's foreign minister says damascus is prepared to go all the way. watching out is there live from london also coming up. argentina raises interest rates to walking sixty percent in a bid to prop up the tumbling past so. rescue teams struggle to reach thousands stranded in myanmar after a dam collapse.