it's people doesn't want it seems bad they get hired. i'm sure the people doesn't want a change that. they're losing jobs and that don implemented is going up mahinda rajapaksa is calling for political change but he's barred from becoming president again because of the constitutional two term limits but as he proved when he was in power the constitution can be changed and he clearly still enjoys plenty of support wayne hay al-jazeera colombo a town mayor who had been accused by the philippines president roderigo the territory of being involved in the drug trade has been shot dead mayor mariano blanco of the town of rondo was killed by an identified gunman inside the town hall in the popular tourism area of several province blanco is the eleventh mayor killed since the terror think came to power in june twenty sixth seen. u.s. senators have questioned executives of facebook on twitter about foreign influence an election campaigns these social media giants have been warned that move was

could be on the way to stop them from being a platform for election fraud castro reports. the era of the wild west in social media is coming to an end so says the vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee telling the bosses of facebook and twitter that government regulation is coming and i'm skeptical that ultimately you'll be able to truly address this challenge on your own i believe congress is going to have to act i think both sheryl sandberg of facebook and jack dorsey of twitter began their testimonies with sober assessments of their own operations leading up to the hacking of the us elections two years ago we found ourselves unprepared and ill equipped for the immensity of the problems that we've acknowledged which of them on notably missing was the chief executive of google's parent company alphabet larry page who declined the committee's invitation to testify i'm deeply disappointed that google one of the most influential digital platforms in the world chose not to

send its own top corporate leadership to engage this committee the tone toward the tech exacts who did appear was more positive senators praised facebook's efforts last month to remove more than six hundred accounts linked to fake users based in iran and russia facebook said it has hired more than twenty thousand content monitors who speak fifty languages let me be clear we are more determined than our opponents and we will keep fighting when bad actors try to use our site we will block them when content violates our policies we will take it down and when our opponents use new techniques we will share them so we can strengthen our collective efforts. the tech giants say they'll work with government to develop regulations but it remains to be seen when new rules would be coming the u.s. intelligence community including the f.b.i.

and the cia saying what is clear is that the integrity of the u.s. elections in the upcoming midterms in november is under attack and the giants of social media and government are being challenged to move swiftly in response. al-jazeera washington still had on the news the u.s. . something no japanese woman has managed to do so. just the most.

again time for the sports news here is peter. thank you very much u.s. president donald trump has once again weighed in through the column cappa nick n.f.l. debates by attacking nike for making the quarterback their front man in a new advertising campaign here's a short clip from the just do it ad released on wednesday believe in something. even if it means sacrificing everything. to know if your dreams are crazy. crazy. cap'n it was the first player to kneel during the national anthem to protest racial injustice many americans including the president claim it disrespects the flag and the armed forces several videos have been posted online showing angry customers

burning the nike products in disgust at the cap and a deal the president has tweeted versus just like the n.f.l. whose ratings have gone away down nike is getting absolutely killed with anger and boycotts as far as the n.f.l. is concerned i just find it hard to watch and always will until they stand for the flag. unlike trump there are millions of americans who support captain inc and welcome them like a deal it's clearly a divisive issue and that was evident when customers were asked for their opinion outside nike store in new york city. this morning i'm more i more of libel to buy dykey than i am to buy a pair of new balance how about that i have always were new balance because i am white and now i would like to wear nice because i would be proud to wear nike crazy people that have already purchased nike material and that they're burning it how

stupid is that i'm i'm impressed that nike is making such a stand that they're supporting college happening because there's obviously going to be backlash if people i'm sure they don't care about the people who have are burning something they already part is but of course there might be some people out there that want to participate their material because of their support so it's a bold move for them i don't think it's any good but if you get rid of. the storm all those garbage little feeling got it and look what it did you know it created old better football football hero. not good luck to it all you know i don't know what do you think you're going to accomplish with him. speaking off so her victory in the u.s. open tennis quarter finals serena williams said she was happy to see the cap and news and that she's proud to be associated with nike well i mean he's done a lot for you know the african-american community and it's cost him a lot and you know it's it's sad but he continues to do the best that he can to

support and having a huge company back him you know there are two. if you know it could be a controversial reason for this company but they're not afraid and i feel like that was a really powerful statement to a lot of. a lot of other companies. japan's naomi osaka has made a bit of tennis history for herself at the u.s. open air flushing meadows in new york on wednesday the twenty year old osaka wasted no time in thrashing less year to go to six one six one annihilation took just fifty seven minutes to complete soccer becomes the first japanese woman since kimiko darts a in one nine hundred ninety six to reach a grand slam single say we find more and definitely means a lot for me and i want. i want to win a grand slam the first one i would want to win if the u.s.

open. because. you know in. my mind then my grandparents can come and i just think it. not surprisingly denmark football team were beaten three nil by a sort of backyard wednesday after being forced to field amateurs and indoor football players both majority of their top players who reached the last sixteen of the world cup are unavailable because of a dispute over commercial rights they've also had to name a standing coach the same group is said to face wales in the european nations league on sunday wales have most of their stars available including gareth bale and their manager ryan giggs the former manchester united captain admits it's a strange situation. is very unusual of course it is and. why are the top two top twenty so i mean it is strange especially that they did well in the world court hopelessly the last few years the form has been brilliant

so yeah it's strange and. as a football player from a play football but obviously if you feel you know get a good deal on the other side of the coin federation think that they are going to get there is just something that you would you would think would have been sought out by now so one of giggs former teammates david beckham who has released the name of these new m.l.s. soccer franchise it's going to be called club in their last year now their football miami into miami for short bacon says the name and club badge or inspired by his love of south american football i always gravitated to you know the old south american crests and the logos and the colors and that's one thing that i felt really needed to go into this logo because you know we are a new team but we are a city with a lot of history and i think that that's what we wanted to create with with this crest but also the authenticity the south american flavor that

we wanted in there we also needed that modern twist as well because it's what miami's all about gold spigots team even the ryder cup is just three weeks away the europe of completed they line up for the showdown against the u.s. in paris captain thomas bjorn announced these four wild card picks which included some familiar faces. well my first pick is paul casey thank. you only want to be a part of the ryder cup team if i felt i could be a great contributor to that which i know i can be my second biggest sergio garcia thank you know i'm going to give everything that i have like thomas to say gnarly on the golf course but but on a team room make sure that you know some of those rookies and some of the other guys feel as comfortable as possible well next one is probably no surprise to most people and that's the impulse. when you look at the european team on paper now.

you know i'm getting goose bumps just just standing here talking about it i absolutely can't wait for the last one is henrik stenson. harris it's going to be a great venue like i said super excited to be joining you guys there and you're a strong of a team as well so does the american team so it's all set for possibility the great this battle over alastair cook has been speaking ahead of his final game before retiring from international cricket england's leading run school and former captain said he cried when he told his team mates and revealed the lowest moment of his career was the exile of kevin pietersen from the side in twenty fourteen clearly the cave here. was a tough year there's absolutely no doubt about that. you know whether this is. the fallout that was great for english cricket was in great for me but. i was involved in that season without being. actually made the final decision but it's obvious

full of english cricket and effect it had for twelve months of some great. and that's what will support from us for now we'll have another update for you again later. stay with us more news coming up right here on al-jazeera and just a moment. to . cut. just. september on al-jazeera the fourth eastern economic forum is to be held in the city

of le divorce stuck as russia looks to expand its influence in the asia pacific region on television and online the stream continues to talk into the extraordinary potential of social media to disseminate news the presidents of russia turkey and iran will meet in teheran for another summit seeking an end to the war in syria we'll have extensive coverage people in power continues to examine the use and abuse of power around the world the united nations general assembly holds a seventy third session what action will it take on atrocities in me and maher and yemen we'll bring you all the news of september up on al-jazeera. gang life this was our foundation. i tried to do some to different when i met daisy it was the best day of my life.

i wish that day could have gone on forever. but my past caught up with me. and made us all pay the price and knocks on al-jazeera. a dramatic you turn to her as it's moving its embassy in israel back to television from jerusalem. we'll show you the light from the. police release images of two russians they believe are behind the nerve agent poisoning of

a former russian spy and his daughter suicide attacks at a sports center in the afghan capital kabul kills at least twenty people seventy others are injured. plus an emirates flight from dubai is quarantined in new york after several people fall ill during the journey. hello paraguayan will move its embassy back to tell the view from jerusalem reversing a decision made just months ago in response israel says it will close its embassy in paris the country's previous president also cards has moved the embassy following the u.s. amala the moves were controversial to palestinians and others who consider occupied east jerusalem the capital of a future states arline america at its alysia newman has more. so much for the everlasting friendship between paraguayan israel professed by benjamin netanyahu

the israeli prime minister and foreign minister back in may one paralyzed former president. decided to move his embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem only accompanying the united states and guatemala in this controversial move at the time many people couldn't find a logical explanation there has been very very strong speculation that there might have been an economic incentive but that was four months ago now there's a new president in power. by the way has an arab last name or at least his family is of arab descent he says he's putting things back to where they were he says he wants to contribute to regional efforts to help bring about a diplomatic and lasting solution to the conflict in the middle east the u.k. has called for a united nations security council meeting to discuss new revelations in the northern chalk poisoning case british prosecutors have charged two russians accused

of trying to kill former spy service and his daughter with a nerve agent in southern england russia though says it's never even heard of the suspects lawrence lee reports from london the british police believe these are the men who attempted to assassinate a double agent on the streets of the u.k. alexander petrel and. probably aliases and now the prime suspects in the attempted murder of. the police have images of the two men near the strip malls house apparently moments before novacek was smeared on the front. the strippers were found slumps near their home in salzburg the case has caused a massive diplomatic rift with russia which has consistently said the u.k. could provide no proof that it was responsible the u.k. now believes that is exactly what it has and not only that the prime minister said to a stunned parliament the british security services believe that soon men our military intelligence officers of the russian state i can to day tell the house that they

stone the body of intelligence the government has concluded that the two individuals named by the police and c.p.s. offices from the russian military intelligence service. also known as the g.r.u. the g.r.u. is a highly disciplined organization with a well established chain of command so this was not a road operation it was almost certainly also approved outside the g.r.u. a senior level of the russian state after months of work the police have offered a detailed timeline of the movements of the two prime suspects they say the russians flew from moscow to london gatwick airport on aeroflot flight to five double eight on march the second they then stayed at the hotel in east london before catching a train to souls pre on the afternoon of march the third and returning to london on the same day they then repeated the trip on sunday march the fourth where the

police say c.c.t.v. footage shows them near the scribbles house by the evening they left london and were flying back to moscow on aeroflot two five eight five. at the hotel in east london the police say they found trace elements of novacek so small that they didn't pose a risk to health but it still counts as evidence we know part of everyone's read second before the sustainer sitting staring. without the railway stated we know that when we find out who they were found out which hotel i stayed on the second of may we took control of. i mean not really we found traces of. both the police and international chemical agent body the o.p.c. w have said it was the same batch of navi chalk that was used against this cripples which then killed dawn sturgis and seriously injured her boyfriend charlie rowley they had found a fake per fume case with a bottle inside adapted to release the novacek the couple had assumed it was perfect and she sprayed the novacek on

a self this case and that of this cripples and now directly being linked in the criminal inquiry. was at exactly the point when the british police were briefing journalists in london about all this the russian foreign ministry was tweeting this derogatory video comparing prime minister may's dancing ability with that of the foreign ministry spokeswoman as a signal he could hardly have said we don't care any more bluntly the last time the u.k. had prime suspects in an attack on a spy it was the alexander litvinenko case which ended with a look of oil named as one of the killers eventually made a member of the russian parliament the u.k. can't get the two prime suspects in the scripture case extradited it's against russian law and anyway it will be hardly worth the effort the scribbles have survived but u.k. russian relations a stock in the freezer largely al-jazeera london or rory chalons in moscow tells us

more about how russia is reacting. russia's approach to the whole script our affair since it blew up earlier in the year has been to deny deny deny they say that the u.k. is not being know to produce any evidence that it was nothing to do with russia or that russia has constantly asked the british government for access to the investigation access which has been continually tonight and even after the british have produced considerably more evidence than they have previously been able to do the message is the same from russia we have heard from the foreign ministry earlier we've said once again we urge the u.k. side to switch from public accusations and information information manipulation to practical cooperation through law enforcement agencies the ministry of foreign affairs also says that the two suspects that have been named by the u.k. mean nothing to them they don't know who they are we also heard from your

readership of who is an aide to the kremlin and he seems confusing that he doesn't quite know what the british authorities are trying to do with all this info that's just being released he finds it rather confusing can't understand it so the russian response again did i deny deny at least seventy twenty people that is have died and seventy injured in twenty explosions in afghanistan that happened in a wrestling gym in the western suburbs of couple police say a suicide bomber detonated explosives amongst athletes training at the gym then a car bomb went off nearby the areas predominantly populated by the haze are ethnic minority a group that's been targeted in the past jennifer glass has the latest from kabul. the first attack on that sports center a center for wrestling in the dusty bar cine brigade of kabul back to a western suburb of kabul looks mainly shia has are living in that neighborhood and then the second bomb came in after targeting first responders and journalists

killed like gone to cover that event to journalists from. tolo t.v. were killed they were actually reporting live from the scene just moments before the second explosion i mean far far more than one these are mahdi were killed in that attack among the twenty people killed and more than sixty injured in that attack it's the second attack in that neighborhood in in the past month an education center was attacked about a few weeks ago but young young men and women who are preparing for university exams it's particularly brutal attack in as are a shia neighborhood of kabul senior members of the trumpet ministration are working to undermine his worst policies that's according to an anonymous article said to be written by a senior white house official the piece in the new york times also says cabinet members initially considered ways to remove the president from office trump has already condemned the article calling it a gutless editorial he's called on the paper to reveal the identity of the author

for national security purposes the white house spokeswoman sara sanders has called for the anonymous author to resign article hain has more from washington d.c. . this is unprecedented we do not see in the new york times anonymous but the times saying that they allowed the author to write this and keep their identity secret so they could keep their job they're labeled as a senior official within the tribe and ministration that likely means it's either cabinet secretary or special assistant to the president so this is someone close to president donald trump and they are writing the scathing op ed where they call him immoral they call his leadership style impetuous adversarial petty it ineffective and that his actions are detrimental to the health of the republic this does not happen insiders within the trumpet administration side any white house do not normally talk this way about the commander in chief the president of the united states for his part donald trump was quick to fire back. nobody has ever done in

less than a two year period what we've done so when you tell me about some anonymous source within the administration probably failing and probably here for all the wrong reasons now and the new york times is trailing if i were in here i believe the new york times probably wouldn't even exist. and someday when i'm not president which hopefully will be in about six and a half years from. the new york times and c.n.n. and all of these phony media outlets will be out of business folks they'll be out of business because they'll be nothing to write and they'll be nothing of interest so nobody has done what this administration has done now the author says that the cabinet considered invoking the twenty fifth amendment early on in the administration that's basically what i majority of the cabinet votes and says the

president is unfit to hold office they said they chose not to do that to the not provoke a constitutional crisis now of course what everyone in washington is talking about right now is who wrote this you bet that the. president's going to be asking his staff that very same question for diplomats from more than thirty countries from the americas are meeting in washington to try and find a solution to venezuela's migrant crisis members of the organization of american states are discussing ways to stem the flow of tens of thousands of people trying to escape venezuela's deteriorating economic situation an estimated one point six million people have left since twenty fifteen gabriel song though has the latest from washington d.c. it was a special meeting called here the organization of american states or oas the regional diplomatic body for the western hemisphere it was a meeting to deal with venezuela and specifically the more than two million venezuelans that have fled the country since two thousand and fifteen but whose.