a display of africa china unity but it would seem very much on china's terms adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. governments around the world are condemning a decision by a court in myanmar to convict to reuters journalists of breaking state secret laws the un's new human rights chief michel is calling their child a travesty of justice. or were arrested in december while investigating the killing of a range of muslims by myanmar soldiers when he reports from neighboring thailand. instead of walking free while alone inch or so who were taken from court and back to prison throughout this ordeal the reuters journalists had remained defiant and positive and that continued even after hearing that been sentenced to seven years in jail oh you know knowing this is directly challenging the democracy and media freedom of our country we will calmly face the situation with our best efforts in the appeal since we do not do anything we have no fear we are going to do our best to face it the verdict was widely condemned reuters says it will not give up and is

considering what steps to take next today is a sad day for me and maher reuters journalists were alone in charge so who and the press everywhere these two admirable reporters have already spent more than eight months in prison on false charges designed to silence their reporting and intimidate the press. the journalists were arrested in december last year as they were investigating an arbitrary execution of ten reading your men by soldiers and militia the prosecution's case since it on secret documents the reuters writers head at the time of their arrest but while lone inch or so to say they were framed testifying that those papers were given to them by the police who moments later arrested them it seems that in doing their job they had gone too far in the minds of the military that still the most powerful force in myanmar now has been unfairly accused we have been convicted of breaching the official secrets act we performed according to media ethics we didn't do anything home feel towards our nation or we

didn't commit any crime however they decided to convict us anyway. the verdict will heat more international pressure on me and my own son suchi once a campaigner for freedom of speech and human rights she remained largely silent throughout the trial the government now has the ability to issue pardons for while alone and sure so two journalists imprisoned for investigating a crime signaling the end of media freedom in myanmar wayne hay al jazeera bangkok . jerusalem's man says he wants to expel the un refugee agency from the city on friday the u.s. announced it will cut all funding to a lifeline for millions of palestinians in the region and the barack out who's backing the move has accused the un body of failing those in his care and inciting what he calls terrorism i mean i have instructed staff of the jerusalem municipality to prepare a plan of action for the expulsion and closure of jerusalem present this plan to

the prime minister and the government of israel for approval a plan to close down the schools and provide a better option for the residents of foreign and under sr going to zation that has failed miserably. bad to morehead on the news hour including mexico's president delivers his final state of the union address before his replacement takes power. well live in mexico city plus dying at sea while refugee drowning rates are rising even as fewer people attempt the desperate journey and in sport one of the world's biggest names is missing from his best men korea nominees list will have the details in sports. but first germany is giving one hundred sixty million dollars in emergency aid to the countries in the lake chad region that's on top of nearly three hundred million dollars already promised to help bring political civility and pay for development

and infrastructure germany's foreign ministry says the money is in europe's security interests. to do in this we are doing this because we know that security is only works together and because as europeans we are convinced that regional cooperation as it's happening around charge right now emerged our full support for just one leg chad is crisscrossed by four countries nigeria me share cameroon and chad the inland lake is a source of water for as many as thirteen million people but due to climate change and population growth it's shrunk by ninety percent since the one nine hundred sixty s. that on top of poverty and conflict has forced more than two million people from their homes and the u.n. says it's left more than ten million vulnerable it's also according to those attending the brilliant conference created a space for groups like books and i saw to florrie al-jazeera zama dangerous reports from the nigerian city of my degree. ok you mohamed has brought two

children to this hospital. she says it's time lost hope to see them. i brought my four year old daughter here for treatment and my son was also diagnosed with severe and acute malnutrition he's been like this for a long time. as freely as muhammad looks she says he's in the british but his sister who are not a lot from. a few kilometers from the clinic is a big hospital dealing with cases like mohamed. this is one of the two facilities run by doctors without borders. dedicated to treating crazy. and the tradition three years since the discovery basis of hundreds of patients still missing. they mostly displaced persons but also work in the city for those who struggle with my years of before. the hospital is already full with more patients

waiting to get it. doctors are now faced with the difficult choice of either turning away patients. and lowering standards. in the bartman for the moment. coming back every two weeks for a follow up visit. how their nutrition is improving and we have seventy. four in patients who are severely malnourished patients with. where we're having for the moment about one thousand one hundred new admissions per week. thousands of displaced people have returned to their villages in northeast nigeria but it's still too dangerous to go out to farm because of fear of attacks by boko haram fighters the united nations says more than ten million people need to systems in the lake chad region most of them in nigeria's northeast. hundreds have already died because of just in the last three years in my just the workers and the

displaced say they're worried about doing a fatigue if that happens they fear thousands more could die. ahmed reese. we degree. of boko haram has targeted both soldiers and civilians during its one near armed campaign in northeastern nigeria and we've just gotten reports that the death toll from an attack on thursday on an army polls has risen to forty eight this is what's left of zary the légion northern borno state after a large numbers of books around fighters in trucks stormed the base said they took weapons and military equipment before they were pushed out by soldiers with aerial supports. and wanderings i've been voting in parliamentary elections which will decide the makeup of the a.t.c. parliament twenty four cs are reserved for women too for youth candidates and one for a disabled representative the other fifty three seats are up for grabs president paul kagame his party is predicted to hold on to its large majority. now it's

a labor day holiday in the u.s. when election campaigning for the midterm elections kicks up a gear in war spin dubbed the pink wave a record number of women are running for political office this year the majority of them against president trump's republican party if the democratic party takes control of congress in november that work to put the brakes on trump's agenda our white house correspondent kimberly hockett went to gauge voters' moods in the battleground state of michigan. at the michigan state fair women have plenty to say about u.s. president donald trump powerful disappointing dangerous different. november americans will vote to choose a new u.s. congress decide whether or not trump's republican party maintains control and since women tend to show up in greater numbers at the polls than men the president will need their support labor day monday is the unofficial start of

a surge in campaigning from here in the u.s. state of michigan to all across the country all institutions are running on and again donald trump's record and many of them are women i am a record number of women are running part of a so-called pink way. we always thought it was possible clue democrat alexandria ocasio cortez who ousted a long time congressman to win a new york primary he said we were going to fight the ill hunt omar and rashida to lead both democrats will not only make history as the first muslim women in congress but will undoubtedly be part of an effort to push back against the troubled ministration in michigan's eleventh district two female first time candidates are running against each other it reflects a trend that's been going on for years but one analyst argues trump's victory over hillary clinton the first female candidate for president. it was

a big reason for the search there is this a long time sense that president trump has not cared about women has not spoken to women has denigrated woman said really horrific things about women. history is not on trump's side generally the president's party loses seats in the turmel actions that means if democrats take control of congress in november women could play an even bigger role in determining trump's future. and life took him but he now joins us from michigan kimberly so what's motivating voters in this election cycle. well there's no question that in fact it is women who are certainly coming out many of them as the analyst in my report pointed out feeling very strongly opposed to donald trump but there are so many different demographics that will be at play well this is very different from

a presidential election like we saw in two thousand and sixteen the congressional elections often have more of a local feel and to talk about that i'm joined by. she's from the detroit metro times and she's here and she's been sort of taking a pulse of what the ordinary voters think in your district here we're happy to be at the fair we have to show the chart to be able to talk to me a little bit about the different different demographics that are playing and said that women are very important in the midterms but but it's more than that isn't it women are important but for democrats in order to flip seats like they need to do in order to regain one of these legislative bodies here they have a chance to get the house in order to flip seats they need to go for sort of the people who live in this exact district where we're at right now sort of suburban maybe better educated voters who don't like republicans who perhaps don't support trump that's the way they're going to get what they need they need twenty five seats in congress in order in the house in order to. get control of one of the

legislative bodies and stop trump's agenda and donald trump has certainly been touting the stronger economy saying look at ordinary americans i kept my promise i set out improve the economy i said i'd bring back jobs that's what i'm doing how did democrats counter that message well the democrats right now are focusing on working class the policies that benefit the working class you know they want to carry the mantle and continue the economic improvements they really tailored their messages this time around so they're not focusing on identity politics so much they're also focusing on the economy now they might counter that trump isn't responsible for these economic gains the economy has been improving since the recession how much his tax cut actually made a difference is not totally know and when it comes to the republican party the president's party maintaining control in both chambers of the u.s. congress in a midterm election how likely is that happening right it's very unlikely there's

only been two times in the past hundred years where the ruling party the party that controls the presidency has actually gained seats in the house or senate and right now people are voting on donald trump you know the races are local but ultimately it's a referendum on trump and his approval ratings are very bad his disapproval ratings a new poll shows up to sixty percent depending on what poll you're looking at he's fifty tween fifty three and sixty percent of americans don't approve of the job he's doing so very quickly is this a referendum on trump in sturm some of it may not be people voting for something but instead against something indeed it definitely is and democrats are going to play to that too right thank you so much violent. joining us here at al-jazeera and certainly this mid-term congressional election this is the final homestretch push in the next weeks coming up until november sixth it will very much feel like a presidential election in terms of the national messaging coming from the white

house but again this is about vote. for control of the u.s. congress this will be a fight and a battleground will be taking place in local districts just like the one that we are in and we will be continuing to cover it for the coming weeks here on al-jazeera indeed we will thank you very much kimberly hocket live for us in nov a michigan. now over the southern border mexican president enrique pena nieto is delivering his last state of the union address once considered a savior has lost much of that shine while in office his presidency been disciplined dogged by corruption scandals some of which involved tame and his wife that speak to john heilemann in mexico city has been listening into this last state of the union address this is a century enrique pena to us farewell to the country what's been his parting message so far john. he's not used to speaking i think he should be wrapping up soon but he really kicked it off by talking about reforms president pena nieto would really like to be known as a reformer and that's what he tried to do especially in the first two years of his

government he tried to reform various sectors from energy to education to telecommunications to the labor market itself in the country and it was quite an achievement to be able to get mexico's big parties together to be able to do that so move those reforms experts say didn't go as far as they should done some of them have been more successful than others of the my down completely and some will probably be just removed like the education report by the incoming administration so that's how we wanted to kickoff we then talked about violence and this really has been where they said mr a shim for many people has gone wrong most mates car is now moved boiling but it was the heart of what was cool the drug war when we were covering this back in two thousand and not the people but. hasn't been seen this level of violence since the mexican revolution and he was kind of about he could be anything and said we have

been able to restore peace to most. it's a bit worse than that as we've just talked about so those were his first two major talking points all through this address he stepped aside quite often and there were very glossy videos talking about the different achievements and that's really been a feature of his presidency he's spent a lot of money on advertising he said he was going to cut government advertising has actually increased it and a lot of it has been about image some people would say that he's used a lot of style over actual substance a lot of things about how things are perceived of what he's actually doing to change the so how will he be remembered by mexicans john what's his legacy. by a lot of mexicans and not actually that fondly his approval ratings his hope of quite constantly around about throughout every ten minutes can stink he's doing a good job which is fairly historically low among mexican president

a couple of things i think that really marked his presidency a crucial moment you mentioned that he was being hailed by time magazine they had him on his covers the savior of mets cover things seem to be going quite well and then in two thousand and fourteen first there was a case of pulte three students they were taken not just by organized crime but also by policemen themselves and he was very slow very reluctant to get to grips with the in the investigation ok she was really told by regularities into that and he didn't seem to have a lot of political will to help cases like that were important people on the ground these thirty seven thousand disappeared people in mexico and he didn't seem able to really get to grips with at the same time there was a conflict of interest the same year involving himself and his wife in the thave a government contractor and again he really didn't seem to realize how much that meant for mates compulsively that we just really had enough of

a corrupt mix complete. but it didn't just cost him its cost his political party mates oldest political party the pre which enjoyed seventy years of interrupted uninterrupted power up to two thousand score some very dearly they're now in the place is a political force in mexico so this is a sort of a side if you will and not just for him but also the political party thank you for that john heilemann live for us in mexico city. i had in the second half of this news hour heartbreak in brazil as a fire at a two hundred year old museum destroys one of latin america's most important collections off precious and a former england captain decided to call it quits touch and i will be here to explain why.

and it still remarkably hot in iraq kuwait you may not be surprised by this but you mum is a prize for the level of the temperature there's nothing in the sky to stop it so you end up with some of the shooting up to nearly fifty mark that we had fifty in basra a couple days ago but forty eight forty nine is a regular occurrence now of course if he exists only here it's about five degrees cooler in baghdad and near the coast in kuwait city but it's still the hot zone clearly it's cooler higher ground in iran and back towards the coast lebanon israel for example thirty's nothing much else to changes on shore breeze which is pleasant enough to decide there isn't going to significant breeze blowing size so it's humid around the gulf states which is where it should be ignored less so in september admitted lee but with still there so i was got the southwest breeze so it's still cloudy and drizzly here which is consistent was time the year from the look on the satellite picture significant rain running through south africa the study has been

some all of it welker of course both western and eastern cape want this sort of winter rain asked for the next twenty four hours bit of a breeze ahead of the cloud building cape town that green streak he's very promising rain should well be on the way. as europe's public opinion shifted to slavery as opposition allowed the. human exploitation took on new homes as a whole slate that became the hidden face of europe's industrial revolution is true slavery is not the black history and it's not just the history of white colonization but the history of human equality it is the legacy for all of us that slavery's new frontiers part three of slavery it's on al-jazeera after fresh perspectives even possibilities. debates and discussions it's

only one piece on a story that doesn't get nearly the news coverage that it deserves says so much to talk about is there any way of measuring that is our number and all that we could put on. al-jazeera is award winning programs take you on a journey around the globe and. only on al-jazeera. welcome back our top stories on this al-jazeera news hour there's been widespread condemnation of a myanmar course decision to jail to war it is journalist while on a child soon war were found guilty of possessing fake secrets and sentenced to

seven years in prison the journalists say they were framed by police china's president xi jinping has spent sixty billion dollars in financial support to africa he's hosting a major summit in beijing but there is criticism chinese investment may be noting poor countries with too much debt and argentina's president has announced a series of cost cutting measures to help stabilize. spiralling currency crisis greece says he'll get rid of half the government ministries and reinstate export taxes on agricultural products argentina's requested a fifty billion dollars we need package from the international monetary fund that's resulted in protests across the country. and. considers more austerity cuts more measures alice way in latin america have been blamed for the size of a fire that destroyed much of brazil's national museum to say nearby hydrants weren't working natasha reports. flames shot through the french windows and ornate

iron balconies of this former nineteenth century palace. museum employees and art lovers watched in frustration. as firefighters fought to say rio de janeiro's national museum and in doing so preserve centuries of cultural and artistic history you know we'll be you i just saw a piece of my history the house of the emperor where the emperor of the second of brazil used to live being destroyed i see the history of my country becoming ashes it has no price i am devastated. president michelle tamera echoed that sentiment calling this a sad day for all brazilians who have watched two hundred years work investigation and knowledge lost the fire began after the museum closed its doors on sunday evening eighty firefighters worked through monday morning to put it out.

a fire department spokesman says they were hampered because two fire hydrants closest to the museum weren't working and fire trucks had to be dispatched to retrieve water from a nearby lake. good to hear that a person is showing injured it's a loss for the world the skin never be recovered for the people the building there's no way to get it back thankfully no one died but the loss can never be recovered and. even before the flames were put out there was anger among museum employees they blamed budget cuts by the government and a chronic lack of support the national museums hundreds of rooms featured ancient egyptian artifacts the largest collection in latin america and the oldest human fossil in brazil known as louisa the museum turned two hundred this year now twenty eighteen will also be remembered for this devastating fire natasha going to

aim al-jazeera. now mauritians says trying to persuade judges that the international court of justice that it was illegally stripped of a group of islands by the u.k. britain split the child goes on in a one thousand nine hundred sixty five marriages late to gain independence for the islands remained british territory the us least the biggest island for an ad base forcing people living there to move the u.k. has apologized for the eviction but says the issue should be resolved away from the courtroom rishis is a case the shameful or weeks no go and continue to cope humans. do bottom of the mortician population come on you refer to. the terms household for more than four decades for the right to return to the place of the choice we were faced with was no choice a toe it was in the advance on conditional agreement to decide whether or no

independence we've detachment anyway. this will not and cannot be true to the really first real of the people of blue shoes or less speak to tom in london he is chairman of the u.k. child support association thank you very much for speaking to us so we heard them arisia saying that the u.k. forced it to see territory before independence from what you heard today at the proceedings understand you were there do you do you think they have a strong case here. so i should correct you first i wasn't in the proceedings i'm afraid or i'm in london they were not sure since you were the boss suddenly wasn't able to make it ok ok but you did you did watch what happens right do you are aware of what happened during the proceedings. i'm aware of the proceedings i mean my points would be as follows. firstly. i don't want to claim that i speak on behalf of the course in people if you were to speak to present in the courtroom today

you'd hear a massive diversity of opinion some who would like to see the judgment go in favor because marriage is a pledge to give the island give the right of return to the islanders and there are those who are indifferent or would like to see the decision going favor of the u.k. because they seem playing politics with their islands but as far as we are concerned we've been campaigning for the right of return for the islanders for many years and we believe that the question of sovereignty has no bearing whatsoever on the on the the question of return right but you know that a decision by the international court of justice is non-binding or so what can this more. really achieve for those who took it that. well that's that as you say it's non-binding it may be the case that it's quite difficult for the u.k. to ignore an advisory opinion from the i.c.j. because they don't have a judge currently on the i.c.j.

and they will want to get that judge back on the panel surface seem to be flying in the face of judgments made by the i.c.j. that may not work in the case favor in the long run but in terms of the campaigns to cost in return as i said we know that return is practically feasible and we think whichever way the decision goes the right of return must be granted that the nationals who were deported from from the island were offered compensation whether or not. they were offered compensation there were compensations given at various times but it's not nearly to the value. that the u.k. government say that it is and it's also doesn't it's impossible to compensate that kind of not reaching from the island so to us compensation is is not the issue the right of return needs to be given the u.k. and the u.s. government need to take responsibility for their actions over the last fifty years even if sovereignty is given to malicious and the trade offs is need to be front and center any of any decisions being made about the islands in the future what about the role of the u.s.

here the largest of the child was islands idea garcia has been used by the u.s. military for the past fifty years do they have a role and responsibility here as well when it comes to return. here of course they do and the u.s. has been challenged on this a number of times when barack obama visited the u.k. jeremy corbyn raised the issue with him and the president the president didn't push they had no objections to the rise of return we don't know what the trumpet ministrations position on this is but we. we've been speaking the u.k. and he's been speaking with the u.s. and we want to see the right of return but the currently the objections to the right of return are primarily coming from the u.k. not from the u.s. thank you very much for speaking to us tom very good to get your thoughts on this tom chairman of the u.k. child support association joining us there from london thank you for your time. iraq's new parliament has met for the first time since contentious elections three months ago that were marred by allegations of fraud and there were few signs that

the animosity has passed as rival factions competed over the right to name a new government the bloc led by incumbent prime minister hyde on a body and populous shia cleric. says it's confident that he holds the most seats lawmakers must now select a parliament speaker before electing a president the president then appoints a prime minister to form a government fighting continues in the southern suburbs of libya's capital tripoli for the eighth straight day roads have been cut off and residents are trapped already forty seven people mostly civilians have been killed and taking advantage of the fast deteriorating security situation four hundred prisoners have escaped after riots broke out in a jail. and thousands of people are attending an anti-racism concert in the eastern german city of chemnitz headlined by some of the country's most popular bands the events been organized to take a stand against a week of sometimes flying at rallies by far right groups they've targeted refugees and migrants after the fatal stabbing of

a german man allegedly by two people from iraq and syria. the indian state of carolina which saw the worst floods in a century is now grappling with a new disease scare at least fifteen people have been killed because of what's known as the riot fever there have been two hundred confirmed cases of the water borne disease the number of patients surged to to renshaw rain flooded almost all of these southern states last month. now the u.n. refugee agency says crossing the mediterranean is getting increasingly dangerous for refugees and migrants trying to reach europe one in every eighteen people who try to make the journey so far this year has died in twenty seven thousand the death rate was one in forty two victoria gave me has lost story and a warning that some of the images in her report may be disturbing to some of you. these images of three year old alan curry's body shocked people around the world it was a reminder of the human cost of the syrian war and the refugee crisis three years

on the dangers faced by other refugees trying to get to europe have increased a report by u.n.h.c.r. shows more than sixteen hundred people have died or gone missing while attempting to reach europe so far this year well the total number of people arriving in europe has fallen the rate of deaths has risen sharply particularly for those crossing by the mediterranean sea in the central mediterranean one person died or went missing for every eighteen people who crossed to europe in the first half of twenty eighteen compared to one death for every forty two people he crossed in the same period last year during the traffic has become more deadly east traffickers are taking more risk because there is more silver. cause god's on the are trying to get the coast it does cost them more to keep those people who longer in day out where i was and they are kept. the drivers of forced migration remain unchanged

conflicts in africa and the middle east are forcing people to leave their homes the solution should not just been europe sure to sort of lead us to be exemplary in its response but it's quite clear that it's already too late when the people in need we need to work downstream in country first in country are forging on that takes time despite information campaigns the more warnings through social media about the dangers they may face refugees feel they have no choice but to risk their lives crossing the mediterranean victoria gate and be out there. inmates at an immigration detention center in western australia has set the facility on fire after an iraqi asylum seeker attempted suicide refugee advocates have described the man's treatment as shocking adding that he's a victim of detention.