on al-jazeera. oh. oh. precious continue in iraq the city of basra over a corruption and unemployment with the iranian consulate storm. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. i. i am strike. in syria against a looming military action by the assad government. you'd need to vote because our democracy depends on a former president enters the political fray and where intervention obama gives

a scathing view of current u.s. politics. the release of new movies online raises hackles among traditionalists at the venice film festival. iran has reportedly close to us border crossing with the rock after protesters set fire to the iranian consulate in the southern iraqi city of basra the demonstrators are angry at an iranian influence in the region as well as unemployment for services and government corruption and may work as more. it has been a day of tension culminating in the face the iranian consulate on paula after being stormed by a group of protesters they tried to set it alight the day before but were pushed back this time though it was left burning. demonstrators venting their anger about

iran's alleged involvement in iraqi politics and its failure as i say to deliver key services to the city people here believe the politicians have turned their backs on that neglecting government corruption has caused a systematic decay of its infrastructure yes. why eleven come to parliament and inside the green zone while we were out here dying of hunger and thirst why are young people in graduate school in the market selling onions all the government jobs and we scripted to the parties. at least fifteen buildings connected to politics and the oath or it is have been targeted in the past few days this is the shell of the provincial government offices. some iraqis have been killed in what's regarded as iraq's shia muslim heartland in northern bass where hundreds of people were attending

a funeral and. these are protesters. they are protesting unemployment the water crisis the bad services how dad how to kill them would never allow this. during friday prayers the representative of a rexx leading shia cleric condemned the violence against both the protesters and security forces guarding the buildings he also criticised politicians for being too interested in buying the power to shop at sab miller the patient people cannot afford or lack of interest from the officials in solving their increasing problems and the crisis they're competing between themselves for political gain and gaining governmental posts along foreigners to intervene in the country's affairs. iraq's parliament is expected to hold an emergency session to discuss the crisis on saturday and he would al-jazeera. in kabul on

a structure of policy analysis at the doha institute he says demonstrators have been angry for a long time. i think people are just put this thing against iranian interference in their own and don't know if it was after fifteen years of the us invasion of iraq and iran has influence in the contrary because as you know those who are running the country those running the country for the boss fifteen. allies and those. against the elites which are backed by iran on the one hand and also the what this thing against iranian policy in the south of iraq because as you know how it is that the iranians i mean there has been some accusations against iran that it's. not a waste and what are we i mean is the meaning what the source for. most people drink from this what i'm doing has been. incidents reported recently that people have iran has electricity supply in recent weeks or claiming that the iraqi

government has not been able to be. a city and that is another reason actually why people have died there against iran so so the corrupt elite which has been the willing which is backed by iran i think we have seen i mean today the sort of got back to is actually expressed by iraqi against those people turkey says it can't take in more refugees if the syrian and russian military offensive is launched to take it live province president ratchet high part one is warning of a bloodbath and the last rebel help him at the leaders of iran and russia to discuss how to prevent a humanitarian crisis for three million people trapped there has more from tehran three leaders of modern nations born from ancient empires around the table into her on the plan the future of a country whose leader was not in the room. as the presidents of russia and iran

patted themselves on the back for a job well done keeping syrian president bashar al assad in power turkey's leader reminded them that the mission was far from accomplished we do not want a bloodbath in italy and we expect you to support us in this regard a decision which we reach in relation to the fates of it lib will also shape the future of the region much of the to her own summit was spent talking about the future of it blew up the syrian city and province where armed groups and opposition rebels are preparing to make their last stand against syrian government forces and russian warplanes for the underwriters of the syrian conflict it blue is a clearly a point of divergence iran and russia see it in national security terms the syrian government needs to regain control of the city to combat what it calls terrorism as well as asserting national integrity turkey already home to three and a half million syrian refugees. in humanitarian terms president recha paper to once

said the majority of men women and children there are not fighters and have suffered enough and the turks can't cope with millions more fling it iran's president acknowledged that the vast majority of people in ad lib are civilians. so c.n.n. . is sensed it because terrorists use civilian people as human shields they hide themselves among people to continue their shameful really we should try to separate terrorists from people fight terrorists and protect civilians in this area but if iran's leader held the middle ground russian president vladimir putin whose military involvement turned the war on us as favor has a different view if armed groups are willing to use civilians as human shields he said what happens next is their fault. those are good jobs that terrorists do the same thing everywhere all the time they use human shields the russian military always tries to spare civilian lives soon after that they're on summit ended the united nations peace envoy for syria warned the security council that. any battle

for ad lib would be horrific and the the time has come to evacuate the city throughout the day leaders in tehran discussed a future syria free from terrorists with new buildings a new constitution and even elections while leaders in new york were left to weigh the potentially disastrous consequences of what seems like the inevitable battle for it live in basra the older zero. diplomatic editor james spader's has more on that u.n. security council meeting from its headquarters in new york but many diplomats believe it's not now a case of if there is an offensive in need live but when despite that though stephane de mistura of the u.n. special envoy has come up with a new plan to stop the bloodshed he first said he'd like to give the security council the plan in a private session but then and thus the nikki haley the u.s. ambassador who's the current this month president of the security council said no we want to hear your plan in public and this is what he said ideally all militant

fighters should be asked with a deadline to move their own military presence basis our way i did beat away from populated think the villages at the same time and here comes the message and the message i got from the population. i mean you're indicating that this is what they've been asked from door to to move out of they may house those day in may fifty three million people are going to be mobilized on that so one of the lever's for this plan is that people power guessing the civilians needless to say to the fighters you need to move out of the built up areas out of the villages and towns and cities the other lever he says is the turkish government putting pressure on those fighters but i think there is a big question here if you are a fighter or a commander of one of those fighting groups who's been fighting now in this war for

more than seventy years why would you now leave areas built up areas among civilians where you may feel more safe and instead go into the countryside when you know that the syrian government and the russians have aircraft ready to bomb you people have been protesting against threats of that government assault al-jazeera saddam allison has more. what are they going to be that they were going to do about that it would be about dozens of demonstrations in the province of italy and the countryside of pema and aleppo have taken place condemning the russian intervention and moscow's threats to launch a military operation it limp the demonstrators called for the armed opposition factions to unite to repel any possible attack by the regime forces and their allies on it and at suburbs the demonstrators carried banners condemning the u.n. envoy to mr with statements about it live and the thought of and so the

international community about the threats of the regime forces and its allies to launch a military operation on the raging essar so much a friend save the children says it's working with other aid organizations to prepare for a worst case humanitarian scenario. it makes sense for us as aid organizations to come together to be calling for what we consider will be i mean joe boyd a humanitarian catastrophe and it lead because we are aid agencies already extremely stretched we're talking about three million people in adelaide household them all behalf of them have already been displaced from other parts of syria if you live in the area in in syria which has the highest the highest you meant to thailand needs and it is going to asian and bidens could only make things worse so we are

preparing on the ground for potential escalation but i think the thing to stress right now is the fact that supplies are already then when we talk about the medication we're talking about also displaced people. who are already in other crowded conditions who are living in shelter in rural areas that in terms of hospitals the world health organization is saying that the war national prospects also are not functioning it live right now and. we can imagine that this opens it will make things even worse so head on al jazeera over before it even started the rebels refused to attend a yemeni pace talks in geneva until their demands are met. with the front runners and hospital and in jail in their name of barges in brussels and protectable race for president.

from cool brisk knows in few words. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia. however we've got more rain pushing towards southern parts of china at the moment more big downpours into the southeastern corner and that will also affect taiwan the possibility of further flooding coming through here this way across southern parts of china but this rain band will sink a little further south what's in these woods as we go through sunday prizes try to get in behind my to see that right it's pushing its way back towards hong kong and at times it will be heavy enough to cause some localized flooding and that's certainly the case into taiwan some wet and windy weather starting to push its way back in here waking up with the showers that we have across northern parts of the philippines while russia showers into northern and central areas of the philippines roll out across the south china seas we're seeing some more wet weather just into southern parts of vietnam into cambodia and that right also making its way into

thailand particularly as we go on into sunday so we'll see some rain making its way here by kaka thirty one degrees and those showers along the spells of rain still affecting the eastern side of the bourbon goal not as heavy as was but as they have been the main weather action that's feeding its way across northeastern parts of india through bahama through addition some very heavy rain here for a time northern plains seeing big downpours that weber makes its way further northwest dry to the south. the weather sponsored by cattle and peace. as we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to the chemicals closure and the job and investigation reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health costs we think ok will send merry ways to china but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe death

by design on al-jazeera. so watching al jazeera let's recap the top stories for you. ron is reportedly close its border crossing with iraq after protesters stormed and set fire to the iranian consulate in the southern iraq the city of basra a protester died on friday taking the death toll since monday to twelve turkey's president and the united nations are warning of a bloodbath that syrian and russian forces push ahead with an offensive to retake the last travel help province the leaders of turkey iran and russia have been

discussing how to prevent a humanitarian crisis and it live. former u.s. president barack obama has criticized his successor donald trump and the republican party and a rare political speech obama urged people to vote in november midterm congressional elections which could have a major impact on trump's presidency i also correspondent kimberly reports accusing current president donald trump of capitalizing on resentment former u.s. president barack obama delivered a blistering attack on trump's time in the white house this is not normal these are extraordinary times and they're dangerous times obama is back on the campaign trail advocating for democrats in advance of a november vote that will determine control of the u.s. congress and offer what he believes is a much needed check on his successor the politics of division resentment and paranoia is unfortunately found

a home in the republican party. obama's fiery speech took aim at some of trump's most controversial moments as president looting his response to white nationalist protests in charlottesville when trump blamed both sides for the trouble we're supposed to stand up to discrimination and was sure as heck supposed to stand up clearly and unequivocally to nazi sympathizers. how hard can that be saying that marx's are bad obama's attack comes as trump is also campaigning for republicans in north dakota trump responded i'm sorry i watched it but i fell asleep i shot back at obama who said the economic recovery started under his presidency if the democrats got in with their agenda in november of almost two years ago and said that having four point two

i believe honestly you'd have four point two down and you'd be negative you'd be in negative numbers thank you illinois. still obama's speech is a stinging rebuke of a sitting president with a distinctly different vision of democracy kimberly al-jazeera washington a former campaign advisor for donald trump is going to jail for two weeks for a lying to the f.b.i. george papadopoulos pleaded guilty to line two investigative that has contacts with the russians during the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign has been a central figure a special counsel robert morris probe into possible russian interference in u.s. politics particle hang reports from washington d.c. . so in this courtroom george papadopoulos learned that he will spend at least fourteen days in prison coming up in the next couple of months he's also going to have to serve two hundred hours of community service pay a nine thousand five hundred dollars fine and he will be on supervised release for

an entire year now who is george papadopoulos well he's really one of the key reasons why the f.b.i. looking into the potential of collusion between russia and the trump campaign potential russian interference in the twenty sixteen election how is that well he was drinking in a london bar while talking to a diplomat from australia and he told them that some russian officials had told him that they had dirt on hillary clinton well after her those d.n.c. democratic national committee e-mails were released they notified the f.b.i. and that is what the investigation so the sense of fourteen days that's because. admits he lied to the f.b.i. when they tried to question him about it he said it took about six months when they came back at the arrested him then he offered to cooperate but they say he did so begrudgingly and didn't give them a whole lot of helpful information still the judge did say that it was a very serious crime and so he said he was going to sentence him to fourteen. talks on yemen are due to take place in geneva they were but they're on hold because the

standoff with the rebel delegation only attend if certain demands are met including guaranteed safe return to the rebel held capital saana protests continue in yemen against the war there and against food shortages and support across the gulf of aden. another protest over a shattered economy much bigger than previous demonstrations this is the booty rebel held capital city of sana'a well. look they want to starve our people to death shame on them we will triumph no matter what the saudi and american enemies to the devil may be in the detail of preconditions for talking in geneva but with a hoody delegation still here the motivations of both sides seem unclear and the hopes of many people for dialogue are diminishing. in government held areas in aden

and southern yemen here the aftermath of a six day of protests with shops all closed down but central to whichever side people are on isn't so much the cost of living it's the cost of survival demonstrations continue for and against the saudi u.s. a coalition backed government and different reasoning for some of the unrest there's anger shown by those joining the fighting this man says fighting for the u.a.e. earns a fraction of the money paid to those fighting for the saudis and with the currency worth so little now it isn't enough progress. we want our burning tires because our people are exhausted compared to those who are saudi salary we find prices extremely high hunger and everything else is here we are protesting against what we call corruption and the situations where the yemeni people have to suffer they store fuel from the petrol stations and fell on the black market people keep

the days to get people back in santa suit is a united with their enemies in one interest getting by here in the old market plenty of produce but it can only be afforded by a minority with enough cash this is a country in a deeper crisis than ever before in yemen it's the unspoken thoughts of such a vast. the number of civilians the hungry the bereaved the injured the destitute that could speak so much louder than all the protest slogans one in g.-o. was tried to convey some of the thoughts of those people by saying this it's time to put aside strategic and political ambitions and consider the future of yemen and the children all of those children who have been so recklessly treated hundreds simmons' o. jews era djibouti israeli soldiers have shot at a palestinian teenager during renewed protests on the gaza border the palestinian

health ministry says the seventeen year old was shot in the chest and ninety four others were injured including thirty with live bullets palestinians have been protesting every friday since march to demand their right to return israel has banned palestinian activists i had to meet me from traveling abroad the seventeen year old our family were supposed to go to europe on friday and talk about her experience in jail and the palestinian resistance movement to me was freed in july after spending eight months in prison for slapping an israeli soldier the death of an engineer in charge of the grand renaissance dam project in ethiopia has been ruled a suicide saving new bikila he was found dead in his car in she lie with a bullet wound protesters took to the streets believing he was murdered police say he was under work pressure due to project delays the four billion dollars came to dam the river nile has been underway since two thousand and eleven effaced opposition from egypt which fears that will affect its main source of water. the

front runner ember sells presidential election as unlikely to return to campaigning until after next month's first round vote following his stabbing on the election trail doctor say jay are also in our last forty percent of his blood when he was attacked at a rally on thursday island america journalists and human reports. just when it seemed brazil's presidential election campaign couldn't get more and predictable to bush a leading candidate was stabbed in the stomach during the street crowd. were two conservative evangelicals i.e. the device of law and order candidate sent dismiss a true hospital. bill would. these men can so of never home to anyone. but many brazilians disagree well so now to is facing the supreme court trial charged with making inflammatory anti gay and t. black and massaging the statements which promote hatred and condone rape. all of

bulls are not as rivals strongly condemn the attack against the former army captain even former president rousseff whom he once said deserved to have been tortured during brazil's military dictatorship. is now whoever did this has to pay whoever did it. equally controversial would be leading candidate lula da silva continues to fight for his right to campaign from his prison cell where he's serving a twelve year sentence for corruption still brazil's most popular politician he's been barred from running but he's appealing the court decision but given the likelihood he'll lose he's expected to cede his candidacy to his vice presidential choice. before wednesday the deadline for registering the former south paolo mer from the left wing workers' party is also now being accused of receiving in direct payments to his two thousand and twelve campaign he denies any wrongdoing.

what does a prosecution happiness hands the word of a band-aid who lied eight times to the courts. regardless opinion polls show the head that is unlikely to inherit lula's popularity. also not as divisive and pro-gun stance also frightens many brazilians. all of which means that the thirteen chanda did race is still wide open unless there is states that tac actually gives both the edge he needs to win in a first round next month to see in human al-jazeera a scarce human rights commission says almost seven hundred bodies have been found in mass graves sense the start of last year and there is de investigators found one hundred sixty six skulls and more than thirty burial pits in the state of veracruz that are cartels often use clandestine graves to dispose of their victims or rivals . far right supporters rallied in the german city of candidates that is another

night of protest they're angry about that they'd all stabbing of a charming man last month to migrants have been arrested and charged with manslaughter over the killing the crowd marched under the motto security for ten minutes. the popular online streaming service netflix is busy at the venice film festival a record six netflix productions are having their premieres online as well as at the cinema but that's not going down well with some italian filmmakers that explains why. venice is a city known for its unchanging beauty but over at the international film festival they're moving boldly into the future but that's what the organizers say anyhow they've put on a record six films backed by the online platform netflix including the latest coen brothers film and you stamina and oh i don't mind if you want to live alessio criminy knees crying drama on my skin placed on a real life case of a death in police custody it will be released on the same day on netflix and in its

how do you believe the creators. but for most of the netflix films including this newly finished final film for the late tolson wells it's not clear how widely they'll be screened and for how long and that's worrying some in the industry who are involved in nurturing new talent about the business model and if netflix keeps going to it's going with a place for everybody else in the room. in a cinematic process and has a lot of integrity in the way that it develops and include us and ultimately that experience is for everyone to be in the cinema this week the international confederation of art cinema surged venice to reserve competitions slots for quote works of art that will be seen in cinemas internationally but for this venice veteran it's time for change our group of netflix prove him as an improved anybody who's. prepared to give money to people who make films who would otherwise not get

the money. so i don't think it'll make any difference to a lot of the type of films being made because netflix will keep on saying you can make the film as you want. here at venice is industry section business is brisk as people look for a deal to support their films or their ideas more and more of those deals are being struck with online platforms like netflix and amazon which means more fields that the public can choose to see either at the cinema or on devices like their smartphones. but the man heading this part of the festival rejects worries that netflix will make it harder for independent filmmakers to break through i would say netflix is not so firsts choice for them but for some as a project yaar on something like that of course they are more looking to have to make business was the cheeks or imus on netflix didn't have anyone for us to talk to in venice but they could end up with a winner alfonso koran's nine hundred seventy s.

drama roma is one of the competition favorites. whatever happens make shaken up the industry but the real impact is still being debated the zero at the venice film festival. is how the headlines on al-jazeera iran has reportedly closed its border crossing with the rock after protesters stormed and set fire to the iranian consulate and they southern iraqi city of basra. was demonstrators are angry at iranian influence in the region as well as corruption and unemployment on protester died on friday taking the death toll since monday to twelve. turkey's president and the united nations are warning of a bloodbath of syrian and russian forces push ahead with an offensive to retake the last rebel help province the leaders of turkey iran and russia have met to discuss

the crisis and live a former campaign adviser for donald trump is going to jail for two weeks for lying to the f.b.i. george papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about his contacts with russians during the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign he's been a central figure and special counsel robert ballers probe into possible russian interference and us politics speaking of politics former u.s. president barack obama is back on the political spotlight he delivered a rare political speech in his home state of illinois the urge people to vote in november as midterm congressional elections and he also took one of his first public jabs at the current president. in the end the threat to our democracy doesn't just come from donald trump or the current batch of republicans in congress or the koch brothers and their lobbyists were too much compromise from democrats or

russian hacking the biggest threat to our democracy is indifference the biggest threat to our democracy is cynicism the death of the engineer in charge of the grand renaissance dam project in ethiopia has been ruled a suicide something new because he was found dead in his car in july with a bullet wound protesters took to the streets believing he had been murdered police say he was under work pressure due to delays in the project the plan to dam the river nile has been under construction since two thousand and eleven and faced opposition from egypt with fears it will affect its main source of water are the headlines keep it here and sad story is next.

thousands of white states in south africa under the employer is giving companies exclusively to blacks they say that's racist discriminatory and unfair what constitutes fantasy in the post apartheid era this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. for the first time in south africa's history thousands of white union workers have staged a strike that furious that employer one of the country's leading and as a company is has introduced.