once the new york times to identify the author of and then none of. that a case has him of a morality and impulsiveness the piece apparently written by a senior white house official claims these have led to fold and reckless decisions from washington patty culhane reports. according to the new york times someone close to the president wants the world to know they think he is unfit to hold the highest office anonymously writing this op ed describing the president as a moral and his leadership style as impetuous at the serial petty and ineffective they also say the cabinet considered invoking the twenty fifth amendment which could have removed him from office but say they chose not to provoke a constitutional crisis this is an extraordinary step and the label of senior official means it was likely written by someone close to the president he was quick to lash out so when you tell me about some anonymous source within the

administration probably was failing and probably here for all the wrong reasons now and the new york times is failing if i weren't here i believe the new york times probably wouldn't even exist the white house spokesperson issued a statement calling on the author to quit labeling them a coward meanwhile some republicans were quick to try and downplay this unprecedented editorial but i didn't think that anything was relayed in that op ed that was. think this is what all of us have understood to be the situation from they want so again it's not very it didn't reveal much to me i understand this is the case the president took to twitter casting doubt on the existence of the source but then said if they do exist they must be turned over to the government for national security tweeting a simple word treason this is a president in many ways under siege under pressure from multiple investigations

and now undermined by a member of his own staff in a most public way pedicle when al-jazeera washington. there's a crown here at al-jazeera how pregnant ranger women in bangladesh are getting medical care some for the first time and chile's economy feels the pinch from its neighbors. hello we've had some very heavy downpours across the southeast in parts of asia recently the satellite picture is showing up plenty of cloud across parts of the philippines now the heaviest rains from this are actually just off shore to the west of us and there's a chance that within this area of cloud we could see a storm developing over the next few days whether we do or not it's still going to give us some rain hans trains there as we head through the day on friday and we'll

also see some very sharp showers across the northern parts of luzon as well and those are going to stick around for friday but then eventually begin to move away as we head into saturday further south there will also be some showers here but in between that should be some good spells of sunshine as well and that's the way it's going to be for k.l. and singapore to some showers but some sunshine too as we head further south for us in australia we've had a lot of work weather in the eastern parts recently across parts of new south wales and into the southeastern parts of queensland as well very useful rain here and it looks like we'll see a fair few more showers as we head through friday as well as we head into saturday the showers are trying to move away towards the east and the temperatures the reason as that system works its way through so sixteen will be the maximum there in sydney towards the west fine force in perth a maximum temperature not to go at eighteen degrees.

taiwan. a sovereign island state. or a renegade province of china that must soon return to mainland control. as the battle for taiwanese hearts and minds intensifies. people in power investigates the tactics of those to whom reunification is only a matter of time. taiwan spies lawyers and prostrate ties on a. time to take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera white workers at a south african petrochemical firm are on strike around three thousand of them. to

plant around the happy the black clad has been exclusively offered company shares south african law requires firms to meet quizzes on black ownership and employment . south sudanese soldiers have been sent in for the rape of five aide workers in the murder of a journalist in twenty sixteen in a military court handed sentences ranging from four years to life for an attack on the terrain hotel in the capital juba north korea's leader kim jong un says he is ready to continue with the new could arise ation of the peninsula is also hinted an official end to the korea war could be declared after sixty five years he'll meet his south korean counterpart means in in two weeks. now the leaders of iran russia and turkey due to meet on friday for talks on the future of syria top of the agenda will be the syrian government's planned offensive to retake it loop the last remaining rebel held province seventy dekker reports. over the years the province

of it live has offered some want of a refuge for almost a million internally displaced syrians but that seems like it's all about to change with the expected government offensive backed by russia to recapture the last province left under opposition control turkey's preparing for a worst case scenario already met with the head of turkey's red crescent just as he returned from visiting it lib if any huge influx. inside or other two o'clock turkish border now we are preparing. refugee camps in sight syria turkey already hosts more than three million syrian refugees and it doesn't want any more the turkish border with syria has been closed for years unfortunately there is no clear line for armed groups there are. settling down inside in the societies so it is really difficult to target the military and the points so.

it's been a repetitive cycle for years despite endless political negotiations it's the military option that always seems to come first millions of syrians are homeless in their own country dependent on aid unable to rebuild their lives this fact she belongs to the turkish aid group i h it sends one hundred fifty thousand bags of bread to live every day each piece representing someone who cannot feed themselves the individual desperate stories often getting lost in a mass of lives interrupted. those who fled to look we're sleeping with predator death now they're facing death once again they have no plan b. in the last few years we've tried to build both of herman structures into this place or today we're back to square one setting a basic intents to prepare for a new wave humanitarian corridors are being proposed by aid agencies but they will remain inside syria and the question remains to where most people don't want to go

to the government controlled areas which surround it lib and that leaves the turkish controlled northern part of the country and many are reluctant to go there to no one wants to be displaced again even though aid agencies are preparing for what they fear will be a bloody battle everyone is saying it's still too early to predict how exactly it will unfold that they say will be decided at the negotiating table between iran russia. but there is a consensus that the battle for it will be the final major battle of this war. on the turkey syria border. argentina's sinking economy is starting to have a negative impact on one of latin america's most stable neighboring chile has seen its slump in what's being called the time go effect latin america editor. sent gallo's cost the net a center is one of latin america's largest and most modern shopping malls until recently it was full of origin times conspicuous because they'd come with suitcases

to shop till they dropped and now they're still conspicuous by their absence. in argentina represents fifty two percent of our tourism maybe we've been too dependent on them because when they fall into their periodic economic crisis the empacher here is very strong. the fallout from argentina's currency crash has already reached chile arguably latin america's most stable economy. at a five star hotel but. for us the drop in tourism will be terrible especially now that the summer's coming. to give us work and the so-called tangle effect goes further. there is a direct impact on a large number of chilean companies who've invested significantly in argentina their stocks have dropped and so will their profits it also affects trade because now it has become more difficult to export to argentina. while the overall impact

may not be devastating it comes at a very bad time chile's currency has dropped to a two year low because of the international trade conflict and that sharply push down the price of copper chillies primary export. argentina the economy here is solid and much better place to ride out adverse international conditions but in these times. global economies when a neighbor like argentina gets pneumonia tilly at the very least catches a bad cold. talks to end the war in yemen in geneva on friday the government and heathy rebels last met in twenty six meanwhile on the ground in yemen there's growing frustration over a struggling economy andrew simmons reports. a full day of protests and reports of violence away from here at one gathering when police intervened to disperse

protesters a security official says they opened fire and some demonstrators were injured the street band i was torn down and thank the united arab emirates which backs the local administration. eyewitnesses say a number of roads have been blocked by demonstrators in government controlled. since sunday demonstrations have been going on in many parts of the south people who find themselves in poverty as the economy of yemen collapses its currency is now at its lowest values ever against the dollar food prices have never been higher what the civilians make of the un's attempt to get dialogue going between the warring sides i shall be adding on how well the people are destroyed and the situation requires mutual agreement if we really are arabs and we really are patriotic we have to compromise and can see each other and god willing we will all succeed and the country will have

a space for us all no one wants anything but peace. we call on all the parties in those disagreeing to unite under one banner in order to relieve the people from the division they've reached and relieve them from suffering and also to end the siege and the recent deterioration of the currency also to put the country's interests above their own personal interests and shown their differences some hope then despite an underlying cynicism. consider leins do other than wish for some sort of progress towards peace in geneva the diplomatic key words are confidence building while in yemen the key words are different increasing desperation the un's world food program says eight point four million people are now on the brink of starvation and the norwegian refugee council says that the collapse of yemen's economy could cost more lives than in the war itself and drew simmons out zero djibouti india supreme court has ruled that homosexuals sec should not be treated

as a crime gay rights campaigners celebrated as the landmark judgement was delivered and strikes down a colonial era law which made homosexual acts punishable by up to ten years in prison. tens of thousands of people have rallied in sri lanka's capital they're angry at economic conditions and a delay in provincial elections former president mahinda rajapaksa is leading the charge as wayne hay reports from columbus. the leaders of the protest movement said it was going to be their biggest show of force yes their predictions of hundreds of thousands fell short nevertheless the streets of colombo would choke for several hours with protesters from communities throughout sri lanka they came to the financial heart of the capital to deliver their message to the government that they want change but i operated in up the tax burden on the difficulties we're facing that brought us here we can voluntarily spending our own money to be here. now but

yeah we came here because we want mahinda rajapaksa back he's the only one who can deal with the country's problems mahinda rajapaksa is beating the opposition campaign he was president for nine years is seen as a hero by many for ending the almost thirty year long civil war with the tamil tiger rebels he lost the two thousand and fifteen election to form a health minister my trip to the same after accusations of human rights abuses and corruption of president saddam hussein and the government was seen as a fresh start but critics say their failed to deliver on many election promises. there are many things working in my hand to rajapakse his favor right now there are the everyday issues that are brought people onto the streets combined with what's perceived to be a weak unstable government into someone who's regarded as the strongman of sri lankan politics who clearly sees an opportunity the government says it is achievable goals but needs more time mahinda rajapakse his son who's seen as

a potential future leader of sri lanka says time is up for the government until people doesn't want it to and where they get there to be a higher tax. i'm sure the people of on a change all that can certainly stop them losing jobs. and that the unemployment rate is going up mahinda rajapaksa is calling for political change but he spied 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 thousands of ranger refugees are struggling to survive in bangladesh with aid groups warning of a health crisis among the most vulnerable of pregnant women as well june reports. during the hottest hour of the day in the world's largest refugee settlement these rural hinge a traditional midwives are searching for a woman who needs their help. and sabia begum are two of the one

hundred thirty community health care workers who have been recruited by the united nations population fund or un f.p.a. from among the or hinge of residing here in bangladesh. when they find regime who already has two children and is about to give birth to a third they explain how they'll assist with her delivery and outline all medical options available he. tells me she had no idea care like this was possible. dr not love i didn't get to see any doctors in the doctors there are buddhist they wouldn't treat us because we are muslim in another part of the camp these newborns and their mothers are being looked after in a facility run by un f.p.a. . a novel experience for a population of refugees harboring largely conservative attitudes toward reproductive health. one of the biggest challenges has been trying to convince roy

hinge a women here to voluntarily go to clinics and that's because of the unrelenting persecution they faced in me and more it's left many of them distrustful and fearful of medical facilities like this one since august two thousand and seventeen saudia bedroom has come to the aid of numerous really enjoy women subjected to extreme physical psychological and sexual violence by members of me and mars military as plainly and painfully as she can she explains why the women she helps are so fearful. of these women are always scared that the doctors will kill their babies. despite the obstacles aid workers say providing service is the aim to ensure not just safer pregnancies and childbirth but also options for family planning are already having an impact and we've seen a real increase in the number of women. like to have

a long acting contraceptives we're also seeing in a big increase in the number of men who are being supported with their wives during the night a lot of women have decided that they've had enough children. and they want to get on with their lives in a new skill and don't have any more children down another alleyway and saudia locate a refugee pregnant with her first child dispensing wisdom to the anxious mother to be they do what they can to provide a kind of comfort this woman has never known so. long refugee camp in cox's bazaar bangladesh. time visiting to look at the top stories here at al-jazeera white workers or the south african petrochemical firms are on strike around three thousand employees at

the plant around happy the black quarters have been exclusively offered company shares so the african law requires firms to meet quotas on black ownership and employment it's an attempt to address the inequality of a party. for south sudanese soldiers have been sentenced to life in prison for the rape of five aid workers and the murder of a german this into the sixteen another soldier was acquitted five others will see sentences of between four and ten years in jail north korea's leader kim jong un says he's ready to push on with her eyes ation of the peninsular he's also hinted that an official end to the korea war could be declared off the sixty five years he'll miss is south korean counterpart in in two weeks. the death toll is rising after a powerful earthquake in northern japanese island of her k do the six point seven magnitude quake struck in the early hours of thursday is said items tumbling off store shelves and left cracks in the roads of the island's main city support no

tsunami warning has been received we need protests in the iraqi city of basra have forced the port of to close is the key access point for food imports into the region major demonstrations demanding jobs and improved public services have been ongoing in this is he since july at least nine protesters have been killed in confrontations with security forces u.s. secretary of state might compare and defense secretary james masses are in india the focus will be strategic and security issues including washington's amount that india stop spying on oil from iran. india's supreme court has ruled that homosexual sex should not be treated as a crime it strikes down a colonial era law which made homosexual acts punishable by up to ten years in prison right those are the latest headlines coming up next here it out there it's people in power. china is keen to win

friends and influence in need oil rich middle east business spark the wrong turn blind of china to secure its resources for the future the i.m.f. said the sub-saharan region as a whole now is expected to grow we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. taiwan a sovereign god in state or a breakaway province of the people's republic of china that must inevitably return to make gun control as the battle intensifies to influence tyrolese hawks minds on this question we've been to investigate the tactics opposed to reunification is only a matter of time. asia's

most vibrant democracy is feeling the heat from an increasingly powerful neighbor that claims it has a renegade province over that one yet we have a. president that i think in the democratic way of one element away and in any way. the two sides share a complicated history of civil war in china drove the fleeing nationalist army to taiwan in one nine hundred forty nine. it's had its own government since its own laws. and lately off freedoms not seen in many parts of asia

and yet formally taiwan is not a country i love is all very well wouldn't we all go for good will. toward which. you have become literally. the supporters of unification between china and taiwan insist both sides agreed in one nine hundred ninety two that there is only one china. but within taiwan the so-called one nine hundred ninety two consensus is the subject of much debate womans and will enjoy them playing because it's home. now tensions have escalated since president chai of the independence leaning democratic progressive party took office both sides ramped up military activity in the taiwan straits off to beijing cut diplomatic contact in two thousand and sixteen. china

also forced a string of airlines and companies to amend references to taiwan on their websites i want to make us out with you on the way out i don't know all these recently. i was young oh yeah and i knows on water we're hearing and out of. frosty relations with china come amid a strengthening of ties with the united states officially washington agrees with beijing that taiwan is a part of china but on officially it's one of the island's main allies. this year the u.s. opened the new two hundred fifty five million dollar complex in the capital taipei it also committed to stronger military support for taiwan and passed a bill encouraging visits between officials from both sides as went down thinking it is feeling i don't think my president wanted to choose sides between china and

the united states but the situation needs to be at least countrol manageable sol we are walking on a thai roll. for the chinese communist party a campaign to win the hearts and minds of the taiwanese people continues. here this year beijing announced its so-called thirty one measures placing such an taiwanese businesses and individuals on an equal footing with their chinese counterparts. within taiwan china is also making its presence felt. people in power investigates the fringe political groups working with beijing not to get eaten for nothing i think it's. really nice. we find out some of the ways china gathers information inside taiwan all to juggle their boots which will drive the proposal social teaching gold

. ahead of local elections at the end of the year there are fears things could get even more intense almost sold in helpless it's just a. little new eat. what happened here. they showed up just after six in the morning or their job and out of hiding in pro unification politician one being drunk says he was completely unprepared and he was it will hold it pretty hard as it turned a. tradition that he underling higher than that he would amend notes into the garden and. what followed was live streamed by one on his facebook page the video here today. and remember. the standoff which lasted

forty minutes ended when police broke the lock i mean even when i was by the sort of help a man and a. good sound to many. passengers are listening to. the raid might not have happened were it not for this man joe home shoe a chinese citizen and former student at one of taiwan's best universities. he spent fourteen months in jail for attempting to recruit spies for beijing a charge he continues to deny today so long so that one's will that be it among joe's alleged collaborators being shown when we meet again it's at a hastily called press conference. his father and two members of his political party have just been indicted and are awaiting trial we'll let you see what the reason for the for you one should be or why. you know it's also the wisdom of god

i don't think you go that. wasn't quite what it. but prosecutors insist the three politicians took money from the chinese communist party with former student joe home shoes acting as a middleman. the national chain she university is where he caught his postgraduate degree. joe declined our request for an interview but we managed to speak to a former exchange student at one of taiwan's other universities she's asked that we hide her identity. joe you'll run home courses cereal bowl will go soon for hashimoto's four. hundred one. coming out swords are going maples hug hold the real. amy says she quickly suspected something was wrong but government officials wouldn't leave her alone to go hunt for one seems sure seems so.

dull shoes holes in their home junk you know whose arguments you've wondered if you . wait until you get home a joint session of the pool hall to see. three pm on a weekday afternoon outside the presidential palace in taipei and this is a regular site. members of the concentric patrick as an alliance are on their way to one of the city's best known one mocks taipei one o one. here they broadcast their message on unification to tourists from mainland china i think that you know i don't. think that. i would want to let you do that or when i went. to the family and they take on followers of the following spiritual movement who are publicizing the plight of their fellow

practitioners in mainland china where the group is outlawed in. this thread are you on your own and i've done this for you i knew that. today's exchange ends peacefully. but that hasn't always been the case. the concentric patriotism alliance has members regularly feature in online videos like these. their targets include pro independence supporters. democracy activists. as well as the following any kind several of their members have been convicted of assault. within taiwan questions over the methods and funding sources of the concentric patrick ism alliance have swirled for some time. people in power has been investigating. posing as a mainlander who has recently moved to taiwan are under cover researcher has been

getting to know the group. among the first things we learned is that co-founder jang su year is running in this year's local elections learning. the whole. all three of them. this conversation with a supporter confirms what many have long suspected that the group pays people to attend its events. on. the. level. of the concentric patry tism alliance is headed by seventy five year old child. originally from mainland china chow hosts of both hong kong and taiwanese identity cards.

in this video he's in central taiwan marking the anniversary of the founding of the chinese communist party. but channel was not always a believer in one nine hundred eighty four he wrote a letter to that then british prime minister margaret thatcher objecting to hong kong being handed back to china his letter began it is known to all that communist rule is characterized by suppression that leads only to bloodshed deprivation and diet poverty clearly chow has since had a change of heart but are chinese authorities funding his political activities. here's what chuang siri year co-founder and manager of the concentric patriotism alliance has to say on. here as. i understand it. and. everything you've written and.

i'm. reading from. it really turned it. around. at the offices of the taiwanese government spokesperson cole last year tucker says more can be done to regulate all political groups one nations agencies you want all warsaw. wendy. says you're going to see this time. but even before changes to legislation police have started to act in early august they raid the offices of another fringe party the china unification promotion party and the home of its chairman chang on suspicion the group was receiving funding

from the chinese government. agency was on well as. the americans on the mail now don't. know what are. two days later a crowd greets chang as he arrives for questioning at taipei's district court. he's arguably one of taiwan's most controversial politicians also known as the white wolf chang is a former mob boss who spent ten years in prison in america and seventeen years on the run in mainland china he was arrested on returning to taiwan in two thousand. and thirteen and released on bail hours later in the hood eleanor hall chang has since remade himself as a pro unification politician and while his party has no seats in the legislature chang's controversial past has kept it in the media spotlight. up chiang

sohn chang way shows up a little later a travel agency managed by his wife has also been raided he denies it was receiving money from the chinese communist party but confesses to something else instead was the guy use those in those who are against it and we go through again from the roof over her groove of for me old through the can feel to have the option of. going to both of them all goes as well i thought it was under our association for him. group was a vote of the awful way the phone from the wall was showing how do you think i can find. the interrogation last supper out for hours chang says he was mainly hasta about relief efforts organized by his posse following an earthquake in east and taiwan earlier this year you warn you the way kids inside your school.

is all the go on the marginalised and she want what you didn't eat e.g. you were the only one mars was a challenge and a woman to chant zerg meet women will be involved was that he was into. the incidence of the whole island just. as chiang leaves the district court challenging the head of the concentric patridge is among lions. and jancsi yes. shout slogans in support of him. but in the privacy of their office some alliance regulars paint a far murkier picture of chang and his party. in the future yet there's jang sin is a former member of taiwan's main opposition party the corpsman dung and an

independent candidate in upcoming elections you know this so this is regions in the it appears he also knows chang and pretty well buses sloot is going to know where to shoot if you. are not on the bubble and life into the arms and hug him the whole black kids agree with compound out home cheese you have for your heroes are going down to come home sometimes many of the ins when that's an option just a missile shot in a new down close and longmuir small bomb i'm going out with them i don't you know you're going to be done you're going to be the. worse you get tangled up in the bomb on the downhills house is a message from now all of them are to my money cause a new gun up with the red bar they know you mean margaret. despite differences in their beliefs some parties within the pro who know for

cation camp have started coming together on a saturday afternoon in august hundreds of tender banquet in taipei i think if you want being junks colleagues and members of chang and china unification promotion party are also here. it's three months to the elections and campaigning has clearly started. the host is the hong man association sometimes referred to as the freemasons of china home and not in the summer with the born in the nice thing is on the board even those who comes out to vote. jamieson answers to her home and that's even some fancy that i would as a whole frenzy of rooming house cars in that i would says into the dog. for now that means bringing about peaceful unification between taiwan and china.

believes this can happen if both sides adopt the one country two systems model most often associated with hong kong taiwan your units are easier to pull intensive and lose you so you in the news you know how good your was jamba juice you know was available via one or two you would argue that one account is the same there are several hundred twenty young and out. for twenty six year old lin geeing that's not a workable system. a politician from the pro independence new power party she's been observing developments in hong kong and believes beijing is not up holding its side of the bargain does it was hands down cars are not allowed to enter the near her had hot dinners and downing that high one on body and you know he did so how all men see them ethan's on home on this until the. it had simple does it does it

not sold out going up or that is. lynn is running in local elections in the southern city of tire none traditionally a stronghold of president chuy's democratic progressive party now on e bay ching it seems has been reaching out to young people here too as a student lynne and her classmates go to visit china on a highly subsidized tour child their. family and a little city of have a whole the heart of a in the heart it goes through nelson on all the harm done that i dassent ha ha ha an issue and only you should it's done it's fun for the when the mayor you go i want you to find out if beijing has been trying to influence politics at the grassroots level we've come to see challenging true he's a pro independence village chief in an area that has traditionally been pro

unification this afternoon he's busy showing some primary school children his offices chan says mainland chinese academics have asked for similar tourists come and go home and being. soon fate so when things are high where i'm just wrong here i don't. know the knowledge i. drink his first year in office chan was invited to visit china with a group of other village chiefs. it's an audience all the. year and. bang bang with one arm and all that harlem is one thing joe doesn't mind our city. taiwan's mainland affairs council says these sorts of exchanges have been happening for some time for many years. in this gentile media opus's or below you that the tool somehow and they mean that in the search. for any. real wouldn't they

be aware that incident home. back at the offices of the concentric patrick to some alliance in taipei chief. has decided to offer our undercover a such a job. but first he wants to see some id and. let our go down as a reviewer to the public. although i don't know how to get it wasn't much of a couple. more a little later we find out why the film and probably not in the world because you're. probably going to die you. can. only get a gun when the only one you're going to go on we're going to see if you know why we don't bash them on your point generally and get you to. believe all you're not really kind of. it's clearly time to end the undercover assignment

but just before she leaves child receives a call what were you i would be leaving me even if you come here because that was the key you can't. give up even if i do it in the middle infield. will keep working. on hold on you know. kelly come. on yeah. yeah ok i'm going to go with the times we live to guide you on the eagle. on hypermodern. one of. the concentric patrick says i'm a lions china's taiwan affairs office and the taipei police don't respond to our requests for comment. beijing's attempts to simple tenuously intimidate and charm the taiwanese public have drawn mixed results and annual poll by the taiwanese

public opinion foundation found more respondents viewing china favorably than unfavorably for the first time since the survey started but in a separate survey conducted by the mainland affairs council sixty four point seven percent of respondents agreed that the taiwanese government should take stronger steps to prevent infiltration by the chinese government during cross straits exchanges. for most taiwanese historical ties to china are hard to ignore. culturally the two sides have much in common like this traditional lion dance these teenagers are learning in a village outside the capital taipei. their teacher is a village chief chin jong way he's a supporter of chiding when but has also been criticized for leading other villages

chiefs on exchange visits to china. was engines are you tired and in your jeans you are in your city even your that are within your own for them been down. so they're using the obama for good she. chen makes it a point to show us this creature a lion unique to taiwan. he says he supports democracy but sidestepped the issue when we asked for his views on unification of the eating so i will go towards the sun with jeans and enjoy the new one more than you need bottom dollar you could than thousands of ins on thoughts of the wise it would be an hour and sensibility to still wishing what. i'm doing know you did or your home is all for more or did you go out on which a latika. it's an ambiguous and yet commonly held position in

taiwan recent calls for clarity i mean its leaders will have to strike an increasingly delicate balance in a time of heightened tensions. jewing sierra leone civil war nigerian forces were deployed to protect civilians in state sometimes on the population in plain sight of a journalist camera these is an aim to be well trained to see a green peacekeeping force the last approach complete. his own using his harrowing images international lawyers seek justice for the. peace kill is on al-jazeera. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together.

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as large as i am an expert is going to make it because it's they they are killed. is from an africa is no life call me at all for my kids last warrior a witness documentary on a. zero . hello there i'm nora kyle this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes france issues a warning if chemical weapons are used in any assault on syria's province it will take action. white oil workers in south africa go on strike over benefits being

offered only to the company's black workers. a court in south sudan sentences ten soldiers to prison and orders the government to pay compensation in a closely watched case involving aid workers raped in two thousand and sixteen on polar east with all of the day's sport including surfing through the gender gap the sports organizers announced equal prize money for male and female writers on the world took. france's military chief says his country is prepared to strike syria if the damascus government uses chemical weapons the syrian government and its allies are widely expenses expected to launch an offensive to retake rebel held province in the coming days french armed forces chief called speaking to reporters in paris u.n.

reports have blamed assad's forces for chemical weapons attacks during pre-set for previous operations seven deca joins us now live from turkey says seven the the use of chemical weapons has emerged as a red line before but what action has ever been taken. well you have what was the first time really the trumpet ministration launching missiles at syrian targets and of course there was that famous red line that omar obama mentioned in twenty thirteen that came and went and i think what is interesting at this point in time is that there's a lot of talk of allegations of chemical weapons use so you know the french are saying they're ready the americans are saying they are ready the russians of accused the brits the americans of being behind a plot to have the rebels use a chemical weapons attack in this upcoming offensive but the reality is laura nothing has happened yet so a lot of people will tell you this is very odd particularly in

a war that is so sort of smoke and mirrors the bottom line is the offensive hows and officially largely begun but you do have low level rumblings have been a few airstrikes in the southern province of shelling so that is of course a concern i think and all eyes are on the meeting that's going to take place in iran tomorrow between russia turkey and iran many people will tell you that what's going to happen to what shape this offensive is going to take will be decided there at the negotiating table turkey of course one of those countries that is watching perhaps the most closely at the borders turkey and what fares all of that any offensive is going to send thousands of people streaming over the border. what is their nightmare scenario and it's something that they're trying to do everything to avoid turkey already hosts over three million syrian refugees it is providing aid to the internally displaced inside syria there's almost

a million internally displaced that are sort of nestled along its border inside syria we actually went to see what kind of preparations turkey was undertaking because they do expect from what we were told this offensive to happen for it to be bloody in the words of a few people we spoke to and for there to be a massive billion influx towards its borders. over the years the province of it live has offered somewhat of a refuge for almost a million internally displaced syrians but that seems like it's all about to change with the expected government offensive backed by russia to recapture the last province left under opposition control turkey is preparing for a worst case scenario already met with the head of turkey's red crescent just as he returned from visiting it led if any huge influx. now we are preparing. the refugee camps in sight syria turkey already hosts more

than three million syrian refugees and it doesn't want any more the turkish border with syria has been closed for years unfortunately there is no clear line for armed groups there are. settling down inside the societies so it is really difficult to target the military points so. it's been a repetitive cycle for years despite endless political negotiations it's the military option that always seems to come first millions of syrians are homeless in their own country dependent on aid unable to rebuild their lives this fact she belongs to the turkish aid group i know it sends one hundred fifty thousand bags of bread to live every day each piece representing someone who cannot feed themselves the individual desperate stories often getting lost in a mass of lives interrupted. those who fled to look we're sleeping with

predator death now they're facing death once again they have no plan b. in the last few years we've tried to build both a permanent structures in this place or today we're back to square one setting up basic intends to prepare for a new wave humanitarian corridors are being proposed by aid agencies but they will remain inside syria and the question remains to wear. most people don't want to go to the government controlled areas which surround it lib that leaves the turkish controlled northern part of the country but many are reluctant to go there too no one wants to be displaced again even though aid agencies are preparing for what they fear will be a bloody battle everyone is saying it's still too early to predict how exactly it will all unfold that they say will be decided at the negotiating table between iran russia and turkey but there is a consensus that the battle for it lib will be the final major battle of this war stephanie decker on jazeera on the turkey syria border. more than twenty years

after the end of apartheid and south africa whites workers at a petrochemical firm have gone on strike saying they are being discriminated against around three thousand employees a. plant are unhappy that black workers have been offered company shares but they won't get them south african law requires firms to meet quotas on black ownership and employment for me to miller is live for us in. that protest strike meter. laura we've spoken to a number of people here at those posters there are about four thousand of them here demanding that. hear their calls for what they're saying is equality many of the people we've spoken to have assisted that that this decision based on race excludes them and very much their concerns around the years of service they've given to stossel and then are saying that's not being recognized but to give us a better idea of what people here are complaining about we're talking to dhaka the man from solidarity now doc you were on stage

a short while ago talking about this not being a race issue but one about equality but many would would look at the protesters saying that this is about race and about what white workers specifically are demanding difficult to determine between right and wrong and black and white in this specific case we say right and wrong you want just the fore. exclusion of a specific group simply on the grounds of race but is too lazy argument you must deal with this complex issues more nuance but to try to address a boss of exclusion that we had in south africa through a future of exclusion is not acceptable so what this will cause us is for balance so we drive for balance so that we can get the solution in south africa that's inclusive of all we've also spoken to trade federation cosatu says this type of demonstration would bring about further racial tensions within the company is that

a sentiment you're too concerned by this with no doubt the specific scheme bring about racial tension and that is against the scheme or did it do work is this guy a would you work your improved blue overalls side to side with the black colleagues this is actually good relationships between sitting and now this scheme brings in a racial division between this orderly workers and the child in south africa the morning charter actually resolve this dilemma by saying the workers are workers everyone was must be included that is what the charter actually are saying and that piece is kind of solution that we must find in south africa do you see a way forward with us in terms of how you will resolve the so the question is whether. it's a moral conscience because the fact of the matter is you don't morally justify this they made a commercial decision they want eat black economic empowerment scorecards it's about points for them that's a commercial think it's not

a moral thing so that is the. source of all illegal so that they commercial approach and replace it with a moral approach we believe they must do that if they don't do it we will continue we have three weeks that we will focus on social and they know we will move our focus to other places as well like for instance the united nations committee for the eradication of all. racial discrimination of african human rights commission and we will all even go the union to the united states. stock exchange also the bodies of the ship people that subtle but a list of the as well do this kind of discrimination and they thanks very much for your time from solidarity you know i think those protests are very much for south africans could be a reflection of the difficulties the country is experiencing specifically when it comes to corporate south africa as well as the government navigating its way through black empowerment and just how that will work we we know the thousands of white workers here say they are unhappy with that. indeed for me to many thanks for

joining us there from. south sudanese soldiers have been sentenced in order to pay compensation for the rate of five aide workers and the murder of a journalist in two thousand and sixteen a military court handed censuses ranging from four years to life for an attack on the terrain hotel in the capital juba the case is widely seen as a test of will by the government of president salva kiir to bring accountability to the military. south korea's president. and the american secretaries of state and defense are in india with washington's iran sanctions on the. sport comes out on top. at the u.s. open.

a protest has been held in the city of tire ahead of friday's peace talks and the country's war protests as the warring parties in the geneva meeting to address the plight of tires residents living under siege. friday's talks of the first between yemeni government and. says he's confident it will still go ahead. when you. force the port of. the key access point for food imports into the region major demonstrations demanding jobs and improved public services have been ongoing in the city since july in recent days there's been an escalation in violence. has been killed in confrontations with security forces. unidentified gunmen head of the biggest coalition in the country's parliament. has also other provinces.