on the ground the following may become part of the same. crackdown the conclusion of china's democracy experiment on al-jazeera. fears of a humanitarian crisis in syria as a province as airstrikes began. welcome to al-jazeera life or my headquarters in doha with a product also ahead. in the us the senate judiciary committee hearing into donald trump supreme court pick has interrupted by protests to. the taliban say the founder of one of the most

feared factions has died and american football quarterback calling the kappa knicks new due to mikey sparks a social media boycott. activists say rebel controlled province in northwestern syria is being attacked from the air more than twenty separate airstrikes have reported to have killed at least seven civilians and did all those the united nations has warned that a full assault on could spark a humanitarian catastrophe on the scale not yet seen in syria seven you will it live is the last rebel controlled province stephanie deca has more from talking near turkey's border with syria. to twenty four airstrikes so we're being told from sources on the ground seven civilians now confirmed dead one of this happening around this. western area of the province around

a town called good what's interesting is that there had been rumors over the last few weeks at this area could be the first stage of a limited offensive of the stars for the first phase if you will having said that in the last hour and off or so there's been no reported airstrikes we are hearing from some of our sources on the ground that there been some incoming rockets around this area of good but again i think it's too early to say whether a full scale offensive is already underway and just briefly humanitarian concerns we're just waiting for the head of the turkish red crescent to come out of it live he went in there today to do a record to see how turkey must be preparing for this because it already hosts over three million syrian refugees there are over there almost a million internally displaced inside the province and your challenge has reaction from moscow. well the kremlin spoke a short while ago just over an hour ago and dimitry peskov the kremlin spokes

spokesperson talks about how it was a hotbed of terrorism and that this was a serious problem the. needs to be sorted out and he went on to say indeed the syrian armed forces are preparing to do so he said that this hotbed of terrorism in was proving problematic for russia as well that there were attacks against the russian airbase in a from a member coming from adlib and he criticized donald trump for his warning that an offensive against shouldn't go ahead. said donald trump was acting on incomplete assessments of the situation in comprehensive assessment of the situation. that he didn't think that donald trump a got it right basically or the russians are doing here i think is is saying that

the syrian army has the rights to do what it needs to do in what he is not saying at the moment is how much assistance they're going to get from russia. let's move on to other news now and in the united states the senate judiciary committee is set to begin four days of hearings on brett kavanaugh nomination to the supreme court kavanagh's president trump pick to replace retiring justice anthony kennedy has long been seen as the court swing vote on the many contentious issues protests are expected on capitol hill in response to fears that kavanaugh would pull the court even further to to the right on that the political scale let's go to our correspondent roslyn jordan now she's joining us with more from washington d.c. and protests both outside and inside the here and abroad. we're going to let this ambulance go past as it's been

a blaring of sirens where outside the hart senate office building where the confirmation hearing for brett kavanaugh has begun in the last half hour before they could even start with the opening statements congressional democrats on the panel were saying that this hearing should be adjourned because they have not received all of the documents all of the work product that brett kavanaugh has could produce during his lengthy federal career both working in the white house under president george w. bush as well as twelve years on the a court of appeals here in washington they are hearing has also been disrupted a couple of times already by demonstrators who don't want to see brett kavanaugh sitting on the supreme court and at least a couple of them have been removed from the hearing room by capitol police it's going to be a very long four days because people on both sides feel very strongly about whether mr cavanaugh should hold what is

a lifetime government position and for those that are against it draws you know one of their own maintenance. well the for the people who are opposed to brett kavanaugh the list is pretty lengthy it starts with the with the judges of views on abortion there's a widespread belief that he personally does not approve of abortion and has written a number of drug rulings indicating that he is in favor of restricting access to abortion and there's also a lot of questions about his views on how to deal with such a harassment in the workplace there are questions about whether he is and fact what they call a strict constructionist someone who would now really interpret the constitution's of provisions in a way that would be inimitable to the expansion of human rights and human and social rights in this country. however brett kavanaugh supporters say that he has

a first rate legal mind that he has worked hard to hire him promote women lawyers in his practice both in the private sector while sitting on the federal bench and they say that he is a good character and is someone that is deserving of a lifetime post because of his care and his thought and because of his description as someone who believes in following the law not in making it was thank you very much for that phenomenon as roslyn jordan joining us live from washington d.c. thank you. now so of gonna stand with the taliban has announced the death of a lot of than a commie he founded the hakani network responsible for decades of suicide bomb attacks and hostage taking at his designated by the u.s. and u.n. as an end to national terrorist organization that has more. for most of the world. will be remembered for the decades of havoc and bloodshed he plotted in afghanistan

. the hakani network he founded is accused of planning this truck bombing in kabul last year that killed about one hundred fifty people the group denied involvement and the network is also accused of taking hostages such as u.s. soldier bowe bergdahl and a canadian family. conny was an american ally during the soviet invasion of afghanistan in the one nine hundred eighty s. the cia regarded him as a brave tactician. but during the u.s. invasion in two thousand and one he became an enemy his group responsible for a string of attacks on u.s. and nato troops. the prolific use of suicide bombers and murders of government officials became trademarks 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. water that he has meaning use during the last four

decades throughout his life took on and formed alliances of convenience and adapted as needed. a common theme to rid afghanistan of occupying forces he was a military commander receiving u.s. aid to fight the soviets in the crimean. and you know you know. when your partner. and what. he learned arabic and forge ties with arab armed groups and leaders such as osama bin laden he later became a taliban leader the u.s. has long the queues the haqqani network of being linked to the pakistani intelligence agency for years have cannae has been ill and leadership of his network was passed on to his son so roger dean in two thousand and one he's also

a deputy leader of the taliban so don't expect much to my change happening in terms of techniques and i'm different in city of engagement. in the out on war as followers more in july. analysts expect the group he founded to continue to wage attacks in afghanistan natasha going to zero. now david said he is a former u.s. deputy assistant secretary of defense full of that and pakistan and he says a colony son has been leading the group for years due to his father's absence. john alluded to conny son sirrah shouldn't have cannae has been in charge of the network for well over a decade but during that time he has risen to a formal position of number two when the taliban leadership as well as the taliban's military commander at a time when the. taliban are talking about peace talks have had several quiet meetings reported in the press with the united states in doha the tal

of the taliban's ties to the commies ties to osama bin laden and al qaida are something that may put a put a poison pill in those negotiations so it's quite possible that the announcement of the death of john lydon economy will allow serious shouldn't conny to try and distance himself from these past associations with al qaeda which have led to the economies being designated a terrorist organization by the u.s. while the taliban have not now it's the final day of the china africa summit and beijing president xi jinping told african leaders that there were no strings attached as he promised another sixty billion dollars in financing on monday he also said china would waive the debt of the poorest african countries which have diplomatic ties with a j. the american football player whose protests against racial inequality and police brutality divided many in the united states is the new face of nike's latest

marketing campaign colin kaepernick announced the multi-year deal with this photo on twitter the former quarterback for the san francisco forty nine ers did controversy in twenty sixteen when he refused to stand for the playing of the national anthem which is traditional at u.s. sporting events to get all cement immediately led to calls on social media for a boycott of mikey goodes kristen salumi has more from new york. i believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything that's the slogan that nike has chosen for collin kapur nick and its new ad campaign which is proving to be just as controversial as the national football league star himself he inspired a movement among fellow players to not stand during the national anthem to instead take the need to call attention to show social injustices especially issues of race in the united states but it's been very controversial while he's gotten support

from some segments of the community and certainly other players some find this very disrespectful including president trump himself who has tweeted about the issue and called on the n.f.l. to not allow the players on the field if they refuse to stand for the national anthem this latest slogan this campaign comes out just ahead of the season opener for the national football league on thursday night no policy in place right now to deal with the issue of taking a need during the national anthem which is considered by some to be disrespectful to the flag here in the united states so fanning the fires of an already very controversial issue controversial moment in sports with this campaign still ahead on the bulletin argentina's president introduces drastic austerity measures as the economy teeters on the edge of disaster and we head to hong kong to meet a group that's trying to find new ways to tackle air pollution.

hello there was in quite a bit of cloud over parts of eastern china it's giving us quite a few showers as you can see it hey this law in of thunderstorms it's gradually pushing its way southwards it is giving us some wet weather them but not really a change in the temperature so shanghai will be at fifty feet degrees in the sunny air there is. head through wednesday for the south even though we've got the showers for some of us it's going to be around thirty four degrees those showers should eventually clear for the south woods as we head through the day on thursday hong kong will see more of them and they'll be pushing further towards the northwest as well so do expect things to be roll the way to jeer in thursday doesn't like a particularly soggy one out towards the west and we've got plenty of showers across many eastern parts of india see them here on the satellite picture also affecting us in bangladesh through me and ma and a few of them across nepal as well towards the west is largely fine and dry at the

moment and that's the way we're expecting it to stay as we head through the next few days so want to showers a possible but more drawing weather what weather around forcing kharaj see the temperatures hovering around twenty nine degrees which is about average for this time of year now towards the west and here in doha being very very sticky recently in the humidity is expected to stay high as we head through the next couple of days or temperatures generally hovering at around thirty nine or forty degrees. well there online this isn't some abstract. or if you join us on sect stopping terrorism it's creating a base is a dialogue then just the community is wanting to add to this conversation we need a president who's willing to be appealing to a short while everyone has a voice involved in civil society but i never get listening to those in the chorus

is joining the global conversation. on how to zero. good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories activists say rebel controlled and live province in northwestern syria is being attacked from the air more than twenty separate air strikes are reported to have killed at least seven civilians and others in the last record held territory the taliban in afghanistan has announced the death of come on the khan and he founded the network 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 had

been bedridden and american football player call him captain and has announced his new deal with nike but this photo on twitter cappa next controversy in twenty sixteen when he refused to stand for the playing of the national anthem the announcement immediately led to calls on social media for a boycott of nike goods. there have been protests in the south of yemen amid anger over the solve the u.a.e. coalition's presence in the country. demonstrators in the last governor childhood for the coalition to leave calling it up. puppet of the u.s. some yemenis blocked main roads and carried placards blaming the coalition for the deteriorating economy there have been more protests in yemen self of the government's failure to take measures against rising prices and the collapse of the cover and seeing. reports from spanish media that the government has cut off sales to saudi arabia it says it's canceling an order of four hundred percent in bombs

and returning more than ten million dollars in payments saw the iraqi coalition has been widely criticized for civilian deaths caused by its bombing campaign and yemen germany and norway also suspended their arms exports to the saudi led coalition earlier this year and arms sales to the kingdom have become a politically contentious issue in a number of other countries including the u.s. great britain and canada well anderson as a spokesman at the campaign against arms trade and he says spain's decision is sending a message to saudi arabia that won't support its bombardment in yemen well i think it puts a lot of pressure on the sodium led coalition and so it's an incredibly important precedence and cross to the process incredibly important precedent to the governments who are continuing to arm and support this brutal bombardment such as the governments in the u.s. view by far the most weapons with the spanish government. stays true

to its word but we also hope that it does apply pressure internationally and that it does call for over governments to do the same. emergency austerity measures announced by argentina's president have provoked protests in the capital. as cutting the number of government ministries almost in half is also boasting export texas to try and stem a currency crisis rising inflation and the world's highest interest rates traceable reports from one aside is. argentina is trying to prevent a major economic crisis precedent getting an ounce to emergency measures to stop the weakening of the pace all. but 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. to cover what's lacking during 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 arjan times are watching closely the

weakening of the base or 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. 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. problems in a reasonable way the negative side of this of course those efforts are not necessary. to vote next year we have a very important election a presidential election but i think the government's. 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. police in brazil have fired tear gas at protesters outside the national museum the demonstrators are demanding to see the damage caused by a massive fire which destroyed hundreds of years of history the two hundred year old building and rio de janeiro held twenty million items including some of the region's best preserved she when fossils are latin america editor lucy newman has. only spoken ruin or left of what was brazil's pride and joy the largest anthropological in history collection in the americas. museum of the story in regina dundas could not be consoled but. it seems like a night i went to sleep thinking it was

a nightmare that i was going to wake up from it was the fire started on sunday evening after the building and one thousand sentry form. a royal palace closed fortunately there were no casualties but brazilians are mourning the loss of a new replaceable wealth of their history galadriel view. i just saw a piece of my history the house of the empire where emperor dumped dry 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. 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 can still have a historic value a museum curator was allowed to salvage media rights that could later have been

confused with debris from 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 the 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 converged and front of the remains of the museum shouting out with terror the president and our culture is not a commodity president michelle tenner 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. to india now where road bridge has collapsed during rush hour traffic and killing and trapping motorists five people are feared dead the army is beholden to help for the search and rescue operation twenty seven people died in

a similar collapse in the city two years ago. toughing gebbie has killed six people in japan has consular airport. a lot of calls in the cancellation of hundreds of flights and an oil tanker smashed into a bridge connecting the city to the airport which is built on a floating island floods and landslides are expected in the southwest flooding earlier this year followed by a heatwave killed at least three hundred people. now the families of two voices journalist convicted of spying in myanmar and given a seven year jail term so they'll appeal the verdict the wives of lone and choice say the journalists are being punished for doing their jobs they were arrested last december while investigating the killing of ten one hundred men by myanmar soldiers and militia men. the president of the philippines has ordered the arrest of one of his most outspoken critics with an eagle the third their vote the seven year amnesty for sen antonio to be honest so police can arrest him at any time he says

he won't resist arrest and call the president's order illegal and draconian travel has helped lead to mutiny as against former president gloria arroyo in two thousand and three and two thousand and seven in the town has more from manila. in an unprecedented move that surprised many here president rodrigo the third to unilaterally revoked and amnesty granted to the smoke outspoken critic senator and for neutrally honest senator and this together with other military officers led a field mutiny during the time of former president gloria macapagal arroyo he was in jail for several years before he was released and granted amnesty by former president been need not and this amnesty was something that was even concurred by congress at the moment he remains under cost to the of the senate president at the moment he's been given sanctuary by the senate but it remains to be seen if and when he will be arrested now critics say basically that this impending arrest of

a senator to leon this sends a chilling message not just the political opposition not just the members of the opposite opposition after all it is not the first time that a member of the opposition has been arrested so the third of the massive incarcerated for over a year and the outspoken critic of the precedent it sends also a chilling message to other arm groups especially in the southern philippines trying to find a solution with the philippine government a unilateral revocation of an amnesty sense a chilling message to members of the more islamist liberation front and the new people's army that the government does not fulfill its agreement and that the government simply cannot be trusted. now cities around the world struggle with pollution hundreds of campaigners and scientists are gathering in south korea to find new ways to tackle the crisis and while the spotlight speed on cities like new delhi and beijing hong kong is also suffering from high levels of pollution from

the bride reports. and awareness event pollution campaigners in a city that is becoming aware of the growing danger. this summer home kong like. 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 hong kong actually has the highest level of always wrong 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 tied. polluted air has long been in jordan as the necessary cost of rapid economic development that's only recently been tackled legislation 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 along and there are a lot about how our pollution being not acceptable alexis loud 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 the. information they can choose our i think that will give them some help. trying to win their exposure to improve

scientists and activists helping to empower a generation of city dwellers increasingly concerned about the. bride al jazeera hong kong. and again i'm elizabeth of the headlines on al-jazeera and activists say rebel control province in northwestern syria is being attacked from the air more than twenty separate air strikes are reported to have killed at least seven civilians and injured others the united nations has warned that a full assault on ad lib could spark a humanitarian catastrophe on a scale not yet seen and serious seventy of war is the last large rebel controlled province. protests on the first day of the senate confirmation hearing for u.s.

supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh kavanaugh as president trump's picture replace retiring justice anthony kennedy has long been seen as the court's swing vote on many contentious issues where protests are expected on capitol hill in response to fears that kavanagh will hold the court even further to the right on the political scale. the thought of god and of god as father has announced the death of commander of the colony he founded the hook on the network responsible for decades of suicide bomb attacks and hostage taking his death has been reported to several times before he was thought to be in his eighty's and had been bedridden. as the final day of the china africa summit in beijing president xi jinping told african leaders that there were no strings attached as he promised another sixty billion dollars in financing on monday he also said china would waive the debt to the poorest african countries that have diplomatic ties with beijing china's also

denied locking african economies into a debt trap american football player called in kappa nick has announced his new deal with nike with this photo on twitter cap an extended controversy in twenty sixteen when he refused to stand for the playing of the national anthem before games the announcement immediately led to calls on social media for a boycott of nike goods there have been protests in the south of yemen amid anger over the sol the coalition's presence in the country. the demonstrators in the lead his governor it chanted for the coalition to leave calling it a puppet of the u.s. some yemenis block spain roads and carried placards blaming the coalition for the deteriorating economy well those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us the stream is coming up next thank you very much for watching. in indonesia palm oil is a billion dollar business want to win east investigates the price the country's

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