reports of the founder of one of afghanistan's most feared factions has died how will this affect the insurgency in the region. and it's also coming up. the strongest typhoon to hit japan in more than two decades makes landfall. pressure grows on the. accusations of anti semitism is a crucial policy meeting today. green activists in hong kong join hands to find

new ways to tackle rising air pollution. but first the taliban in afghanistan has announced the death of. yet she founded the network which is responsible for decades of suicide bomb attacks and hostage taking his son the syringe of dean who succeeded him as leader said his father died in afghanistan after a long battle with illness his death has been reported several times before he's thought to be in his eighty's and has been bedridden. well july holiday in her county rose to prominence as an afghan military commander fighting soviet troops who'd occupied afghanistan in the nineteen eighties the us at the time described her cunny as a prized asset and directly funded his group's fight against communist forces although not

a member of the taliban he pledged allegiance to the group in one thousand nine hundred five after the taliban captured the afghan capital of carney network oppose the two thousand and one us led invasion in afghanistan and the presence of nato forces well. as a political analysts in the afghan capital kabul he says his death won't drastically change the landscape in the region. as far as the death of gelatine how conscious concerned he has been a father for quite a long period of time that have been so many times rumors have been spread that he had died so i don't see a lot of impact in terms of the end times affection woden's because this guy has already languished the leadership through his son said i didn't have any who was second in command within the taliban ranks and so i don't expect much too much change happening in terms of techniques in terms of intensity of engagement on his in the in the up on what he was known for his in the top tier during the since the

two thousand and one international communities invasion and american invasion honest and so the people who are supporting the cut entry jeem the kabul based administration they would certainly see him as a bad guy because he has been engaged in so many sophisticated attacks and he has been undertaking the most difficult ones and he has been the one behind that meets time and again it's really creating a lot of headaches loaded up on government international forces well of course within the college bound ranks he has been seen as a he looked during the eighty's as well he was one of those who really created a lot of migraines and headaches for the erection forces and the kabul administration so depending who you are the one thing that you have to admit is this you don't know he's a he's. in the it's a metric war that he has meaning he's doing the sort of last four digits. trains and flights are being suspended and evacuation warnings sent out as japan is hit by

a powerful typhoon is called gebbie and it's expected to bring heavy rain and winds of more than two hundred kilometers per hour japan's already endured extreme weather this year when flooding and then a heat wave killed hundreds we can go live now to fight the salami who is in the japanese capital tokyo what's it like so far foggy. yes but this is the strongest bike did japan what about the twenty five years that we had in folk you both good even in the morning when the fighting but i think you both see in japan we we had to get in here and that's about eight hundred kilometers from tokyo but it gives you an idea of how huge that i can even tell somebody it is a tugboat when i would be forty thousand bottles when that that you would think i was in the second largest city in japan

a very important. and we have receiving some pictures from their employer which is the building in a field area in the sea has been being get flooded with local and then also the other reports of that count in huge areas and those that got a bit city that will put up about the hundred thousand houses they don't have it that you know one does that is that are trying then to end them and that it's cool that you could do that once we had somebody poured several injured injuries but. then something else another incident which should give us an idea of how huge this fight was in the tank and about one thousand pounds down good which was standing you know. for the second. and for ten minutes. then jim broke down in the tank over the bridge there and then we saw that old dad

again the damage and then maybe some of the youth vote it's another to see it for all but a few days ok it's funny what sort of precautions what sort of preparations are people engaging in in order to keep out of the way and out of danger it's. well of course. this is the day go for the big day i give him. the. brains or the way to the high court is going to boss through from now quit since in the northeast of japan it's actually pretty close to japan from. to the way near the coach ian bostock ideas even if they knew where the bike was going to pounce on the many people who have been told that they but you wait about one hundred thousand people in many in the south and west and then ten and center in japan with all that good but you wait and many and most of them with the new people who were evacuated to public but that is done to people but. the betting this kind

of heavy and very strong cycle putting salami lies in take a spanking for that. fouls of people have protested against newly announced emergency austerity measures in argentina's capital one aside as president. has slashed the size of his government by half and says he'll cut public spending later on to say the country's economy miniseries due to meet the i.m.f. to speed up the payment of a fifty billion dollars loan to his abode ripples out from one aside as. i didn't trying to prevent a major economic crisis precedent setting an ounce to emergency measures to stop the weakening of the pace of. the fight on the streets tensions continues to be on the rice on monday people gathered to protest after almost six hundred workers were laid off from this ministry they're convinced the situation will only get worse if

the budget cuts you know when you see what the government is doing you know the only thing we can expect is more layoffs a deteriorating situation for those who need work. maggie announced he's continuing with an austerity push and he would see the number of ministries dropped to ten from nineteen he also reinstated a tax on exports reversing the cuts announced soon after he was elected president three years ago but agree. to cover what's lacking joining this transition that has become an emergency we are asking those who can contribute i'm referring to export hers that their share will be greater we know that it's a very bad tax which goes against what we want to promote which is more exports to create more jobs across argentina but i have to ask you to understand that this is an emergency and we need your support after signing an agreement with the i.m.f.

the government's main priority is to reduce the fiscal deficit but for people on the streets inflation is their main warry arjen times are watching closely the weakening of the. baser because it has a direct impact on inflation which continues to be one of the highest in the world and that's why exchange houses like this ones are fields with people waiting to trade their best source for u.s. dollars. the economic collapse of two thousand and one is still fresh in people's memory when a run on the currency ended with a run on the banks. millions of middle class workers were pushed into poverty many fear the current austerity measures may end up the same way economists say the crisis this time is financial and political when the government is attacking the problems in a reasonable way the negative side of this of course of those efforts are not necessarily popular and the dogs are two votes and next year we have

a very important election a presidential election but i think the government's trying to. lecture all year by trying to do as much as hard as possible this year for now maggie is focused on putting the current crisis to an end but those affected say they remain on the streets to fight the policies that hurt people like them. now for weeks the main opposition labor party in the u.k. has been embroiled in a rout over anti semitism on to say the party's national executive committee is meeting to decide on a definition of what that actually means some high profile m.p.'s are calling for its leader the veteran left winger jeremy colvin to resign or receive reports from london. who is jeremy colby is he as his fervent supporters believe the most moral politician in generations a man who spent his entire life campaigning for political justice for palestine.

equally fervent opponents allege a close it racist and anti semites who says there's a difference between criticizing israel and criticizing jews but he blows the line . between the two. it's always been a split in the labor party on israel with one wing supportive of the palestinian struggle and another wing including many jewish labor party members who actively accept and support the existence of the states of israel but never before has that spirit come to the surface like this because never before has there been a labor party leaders so obviously palestinian. at the heart of it is labour's refusal to accept several examples of anti semitic language and views as defined by the international holocaust remembrance alliance or i h r a it is deemed for example anti semitic to say that jews are more loyal to israel than their own country or that the state of israel is by definition racist or that israeli

government policy is a like those of nazi germany corbin and his supporters claim this prevents them from properly criticizing israel's actions towards the palestinian people a whole raft of labor party heavyweights like former prime minister gordon brown have demanded the party clarify properly its position by falling into line with the i.h.r. a at a time when the ruling conservative party is in the whole of a brics its labor is tearing itself apart labor almost isn't functioning as a coherent political entity at the moment within it it's not so much sort of you know moderates versus corporate knights really what you see is a sort of warring fiefdoms so in them quite small there's the right wing against coburn there's a centrist against coburn there's even the left against kobe and there are divisions within the leader's office there are influences from different parts of youth movements and trade unions things all very chaotic the other question is the effect it has on colvin's reputation the man to be three hundred thousand jewish people in the u.k. but repeat suggestions that

a veteran and she racist may himself have a problem carry significant electoral risk liberal leaning voters labor supporting voters who think they're in up. supporting a party which is anti racist and think they are themselves onto racists and don't want to be supporting a party which appears to be always claim to be anti semitic labour's national executive is under enormous pressure finally to change its policy though so angry is the move from the powerful left wing but it isn't a foregone conclusion labor remains a party whose membership of the leader of his politicians are deeply divided on the al-jazeera london. feel to come here at al-jazeera why women may hold the key to donald trump's fate this november. and. anger in brazil funding cuts are blamed for a fire at the national museum in rio that destroyed two hundred years of history.

by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. hello there from the storms are still pounding parts of europe we look at the satellite picture we can see this is all circulation here plenty of cloud on there plenty of thunderstorms plenty of heavy downpours as well and that's going to stick around to through the remainder of chews day giving many of us some heavy rain and we'll also see some showers further north towards rigorous as well further towards the west largely fine and dry for many of us here but not that warm we're looking at twenty three now in london and around twenty two in paris every look at wednesday we can see no major change for us in the west a few more showers perhaps over the north coast of spain and further east will stay with these thunderstorms are generally in the east it's unsettled with thunderstorms in the west it's generally cooler but fine across the other side of the mediterranean lots of sunshine here

a little bit of cloud just drifting its way across geria and up into tunisia but away from there it's fine and dry twenty five degrees the maximum in robots on wednesday thirty five in chino is the central belt of africa plenty of showers here as you'd expect and look at the ones over sudan recently very heavy downpours including force in khartoum the showers will gradually work their way westwards will also see some develop a bit further towards the south and for west africa plenty of showers particularly around this coastal stretch. the with the sponsored by qatar. and instantly shifting news cycle in change. the listening post takes and questions the world's media. the details the climate cannot be two hundred eighty characters or fewer exposing how the press operates is their language as their culture it's their context and why certain stories take precedence while others are ignored we can have a better understanding of how news is created for going to have

a better understanding of what. the listening post on al-jazeera. take over the top stories hear it out there the taliban in afghanistan and else the death of commander gen carney he founded the work responsible for decades of suicide bomb attacks and hostage taking his death has been reported several times before he was thought to be in his eighty's and has been bedridden two hundred kilometer an hour winds are expected in japan from the strongest typhoon there for more than twenty years. already calls the cancellation of flights and train services and evacuation orders for homeowners floods and landslides warnings have

also been. argentina's introducing a series of austerity measures to stem its currency crisis the country's currency the past so has lost more than half its value against the dollar this year president. the size of his government almost a half and says cut public spending. now monday was labor day holiday in the united states and it marks a new gearing up phase in the lead up to midterm elections a record number of women are running for political office a majority of them against president republican party now if the democratic party. control of congress in november they'll work to put the brakes on president trump's agenda here's what house correspondent kimberly halkett has been to gauge his moves 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 politicians are running on and again donald trump's record and many of them are women. a record number of women are running part of the 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. by ill hunt omar rashid had to leave 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 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 women said really horrific things about women. history is not on trump's side generally the president's party loses seats in the term elections that means if democrats take control of congress in november women could play an even bigger role in determining trump's future can really help get al

jazeera by michigan. at least eight people have been killed in an explosion at a munitions depo in south africa it happened in a suburb of cape town somerset west it's not known exactly what caused the blast but local media is suggesting that several people are still missing. germany and norway have pledged two billion dollars in aid to drought stricken countries in the lake chad region lake chad borders four countries nigerian asia chad and cameroon drought poverty and conflict forced more than two million people out of their homes the insecurity is also created a space for owned groups like the herat i would address reports now from the nigerian city of my degree. ok you mohammed has brought two children to this hospital. she says it's hard lost hope to see them. go yachting or that 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 a better shape than 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 acute on the tradition three years since the discovery of basis of hundred twelve patients still missing. memo certainly displaced persons but also residents of the city that has been struggling with my years 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. the younger patients are coming back every two weeks for

a follow up visit to see her how their nutrition is improving and we have a seventy two bed facility for him patients for severely malnourished patients with complications 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 in need of urgent assistance in the lake chad region most of them in nigeria's northeast hundreds have already died because unfortunately 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. maiduguri . police in brazil have fired tear gas at protesters outside what's left of the

national museum in rio de janeiro. the demonstration came after a massive fire destroyed the two hundred year old building protests a public institutions of being chronically underfunded reports there are of that the building didn't even have a sprinkler system the police are investigating the cause of the blaze brazil's president has promised to rebuild at a latin america editor lucien human has more. only spoken ruin or left of what was brazil's pride and joy the largest anthropological and history collection in the americas. museum of the story and regina dundas could not be consoled but us. it seems like a night i went to sleep thinking it was a nightmare the tower was going to wake up from it was the fire started on sunday evening after the building and one thousand nine hundred three former royal palace

closed fortunately there were no casualties but brazilians are mourning the loss of a new replaceable wealth of their history we'll be you i just saw a piece of my history the house of the empire where the second of brazil used to live on fire being destroyed i see the history of my country becoming ashes it has no price i'm devastated. this is what the museum looked like before the fire with war than twenty million items from egyptian and greco roman times to a twelve thousand year old skeleton the oldest ever found in the americas process during the process of the aftermath we're going to have a patisserie patient at the museum employees will be a slow process so that we can who knows recover a fragment something that could still have a historic value a museum curator was allowed to salvage media rights that could later have been confused with debris. the cause of the fire is still unknown but many are pointing the finger at. sharp government budget cuts and say this is

a tragedy that could have been prevented residents say firemen were too ill equipped to contain the blaze before it in gulf to the entire palace. hundreds of angry real residents converge and front of the remains of the museum shouting out with terror the president and our culture is not a commodity president michel temora has ordered the museum be rebuilt as soon as possible knowing nevertheless as do all brazilians that what has been lost can never be recovered to see in human al-jazeera. marisha trying to persuade the un's top court that the u.k. forced it to give up the chain of violence and exchange for independence the change of islands was split from russia's in one thousand nine hundred fifty five that's when it was a british colony the following year the u.s. lease the biggest island diego garcia and installed an air base hundreds of local

people were forced to leave russia's later gained independence but the islands remained british territory the simply weeks no call and continue to call humans. to bot of the population commonly referred to. as the thems household for more than four decades for the right to return to the place of birth the choice we were faced grieve was no choice at all it was in the advance on condition of agreement to desert or no independence. with detachment anywhere this was not and cannot be treated as the freely expressed real of the people of the bush years. tens of thousands of people have attended an anti racism concert in the german city of shame in it in response to a week of anti immigration rallies by far right groups under the banner there are more

of us the crowd carried anti racism placards and chanted now says out several rock bands performed. as such we are not a far right city the majority of the population is totally normal democratically civilized but not far right for god's sake we don't want that we don't want such people it helps a little. this is absolutely fantastic because people can mess we have to show that our city is colorful is open to everyone that we have no sympathy for what happened in recent days. if it's clear i think it's cool that so many people will come here to support him and cities around the world struggle with pollution hundreds of campaigners and scientists are gathering in south korea to find new ways to tackle it while the spotlight has been in cities like new delhi in beijing hong kong is

also suffering from very high levels of pollution. and awareness event by air pollution campaigners in a city that is becoming aware of a growing danger. this summer hong kong like much of mainland china has been experiencing record levels of ozone a complex mix of pollutants from vehicles and industry that's made worse during heat waves and a problem not helped by climate change actually has the highest level of song for the last two decades and right now we do not know how to deal with that and it is a problem for hong kong and. polluted air has long been in jordan as the necessary cost of rapid economic development that's only recently been tackled. they just lation has been passed to control the industrial emissions as well as from vehicles and shipping and there's

a drive towards using renewable sources of energy instead of coal. cities like beijing have been enjoying far more so-called blue sky days critics say the chinese and hong kong governments have been forced to act for fear of social discontent if they didn't but the outcome for china's cities has been the same after years of deteriorating air quality finally signs of improvement i think the political climate has changed a lot and there's a lot of talk about pollution being not acceptable alexis lal leads a university team that has developed a mobile app giving real time pollution readings at street level anywhere in the city people can then plan their daily routines to be as pollution free as possible then they have a set of information they can choose our i think there are some help

bad trying to win their exposure to improve scientists and activists helping to empower a generation of city dwellers increasingly concerned about the air they breathe. robert bright al-jazeera hong kong. traverses take a look at the top stories here it out there the taliban in afghanistan's announce the death of commander jalil in her county he founded there had county network which was responsible for decades of suicide bomb attacks and hostage taking his son sirajuddin who succeeded him as leader said his father died in afghanistan after a long battle with illness two hundred kilometer an hour winds are expected in japan from the strongest typhoon there for more than twenty years. already caused the cancellation of flights and train services and evacuation orders for homeowners

flood and landslide warnings have also been issued in the southwest. emergency austerity measures have been announced by the president of argentina mauricio macri is cutting the number of ministries almost in half as well as boosting export taxes by to try to stem a currency crisis the economy minister is due to meet the international monetary fund to speed up payment of the fifty billion dollar bailout. and egyptian court has extended the detention of an opposition activist who calls for protests against president abdul fattah el-sisi massoud was arrested on august twenty fourth he's being held on charges of inciting demonstrations but his way level start to use a new electronic payment scheme at petrol stations on the border it's an attempt to stop the smuggling of fuel president nicolas maduro said last month that gasoline prices currently the lowest in the world should rise to international levels. police in brazil have fired tear gas at protesters outside what's left of the

national museum in rio the demonstration came after a massive fire destroyed the two hundred year old building protests a public institutions have been chronically underfunded police are investigating the cause of the blaze a prominent opposition figure in the democratic republic of congo congo be allowed to run in the upcoming presidential elections here bemba's appeal was thrown out because of a case against him at the international criminal court all right you have today to remember you can catch up with all the day's stories get a lot of background information as well on the web site al jazeera dot com i'll be back in half an hour but that's after the string. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know. the but it got to be because you have

a lot of people that you know you did on political issues. people believe tell the real stories just men did. journalism we don't feel and people. across the globe. i am really good. and you're in the stream today we'll hear from an artist who is mixing hip hop with the history of indigenous america native american artists frank wall joins us to share his latest music and if you're new to the concept of indigenous hip hop and have a listen to this never seen a storm come without a way and it's a lot. of the people that you killed because of. the oppression from stress in mexico in the cold and i can.