and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it. we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you al jazeera. barrel bombs and there are strikes continue to rain down on the band how much provinces in syria taking another hospital out of action. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up the far right expected to win big as sweden votes in an election dominated by fears over migrants and welfare. cuts and flags but no missiles as north korea marks its seventieth anniversary with

a huge military parade plus. listening. to. now mia soccer's groundbreaking victory in the u.s. open final is marred by serena williams as clashes with the. syria's government has resumed its heavy bombardment of rebel positions in a province observer groups say helicopters dropped more than sixty barrel bombs on the village of ho bait in south russian jets reportedly carried out more than ten strikes in neighboring hammock province it follows a day of heavy bombardment on saturday as syria's government paves the way for a possible ground offensive and lip locals have described almost constant attacks. had learned is a lot of displaced people people are very afraid today is drugs have been going on

nonstop since this morning every minute one who even three helicopters fly over. stephanie decker is following developments from untucked on the turkey syria border it's the second day of an escalated air campaign by russian jets and also syrian helicopters dropping barrel bombs particularly in the same areas in the southern part of the province also northern how much important highways run through that southern part of it live province one of those goes from aleppo to latakia and the other one runs all the way down to the capital damascus there have been again reports of civilian casualties it seems to be coming in waves as a wave of bombing and then there is somewhat of a low we've spoken to people who've been fleeing the area not a huge amount of people fleeing because civilians left this area quite some time ago it's also open land countryside it's not densely populated but one man that our cameraman inside spoke to when asked whether he thought that the government would

take over it live said that they really expected anything that they thought there was no safe place to go and this is why they were heading towards the turkish border while turkey's borders remain closed the authorities here made it very clear they don't intend to open them there at capacity when it comes to hosting syrian refugees over three million and this is why they're really pushing the political track behind the scenes to try and find some kind of deal some kind of negotiations as how to resolve this rather than a full on military offensive which people are terrified will be incredibly bloody when it comes to civilian casualties. eighty four people have been killed in renewed fighting in yemen's foreign city of data peace talks in geneva collapsed on saturday after who the delegation sailed to show up hospital sources say the dead include dozens of who the rebel fighters and at least seventeen government troops are they that has seen heavy fighting between saudi backed government troops and the rebels for several months this placing tens of thousands of civilians to get

more from under simmons now in neighboring djibouti am andrew the miseries of the people of yemen continues tell us the latest on this attack well barbara what we're hearing is that there are multiple sources of as evil it is said reporting that dozens if not scores of people have been killed in the past twenty four hours after saudi u.s. led coalition attacks in fact one source is saying that have been sixty attacks now who data is a key city it is under attack a norwegian refugee council with its people on the ground is reporting that the south and the west have been hit the hardest of the city and they have now to close a process they've been since the offensive started in june towards the center of

the city and there are also multiple reports of attacks in other parts of the province involving civilian deaths although many many fighters and soldiers have been killed and injured there is also a report that rocket fire some sort of missile fire has been returned by the hoochie rebels so this is definitely escalating in a fairly big way although we can't verify the casualty figures at this point. and just twenty four hours ago we saw the official sailor of the talks in geneva where all parties were meant to go to the who these didn't go because they said their safety had been guaranteed at any rate those talks collapsed do you think the this latest outbreak of fighting is related to that same year anyway. it most certainly is we heard from the yemeni government that they felt that they

had been completely let down in fact they describe the rebels in the you normal terms with no compliments whatsoever that they had deliberately derailed the talks and that they would carry out that the coalition would carry on fighting there was even a reference to date of being a target and it is a military target understandably it is the key link for any supply line to the fighters in the north of the country however it's also the supply line for he critically needed humanitarian. any source of humanitarian care food medicine so it's already been pointed out by many diplomats that if this link should be cut should this red sea port become hit directly this is going to be more than the world's humanitarian worst humanitarian disaster it's going to get even more critical for eight point four million people who are

right on the brink of starvation in this country not easy or tall it is a critical situation and what the u.n. had hoped for the talks didn't happen and now this as a direct not a direct result but motivation of both sides has to be called into question. andrew symonds in djibouti on the latest on the situation in yemen andrew thank you. going to sweden our people have been voting in an election that many believe could change the country's political landscape campaigning has been dominated by fears over asylum seekers and the pressure that the influx of refugees in two thousand and fifteen has had on welfare in sweden recent poll suggests this election could see a surge in support for the far right or the center left social democratic party of

the prime minister stefano fron has traditionally had the biggest vote share but this time it could get its lowest numbers in almost the same tree in stark contrast support support for the far right and hema gratian anti e.u. sweden democrats has grown steadily since two thousand and ten this year under the leadership of jimmy akeson it's poised to become the country's second party it could steal some of its support from the center right moderates led by christopher sun the moderates want to form a coalition with other parties from the right called the alliance or many swedes are worried about the country's shift to the right terrible i just want to cry when i think about it they see. awful things i mean yeah of course we have a lot of refugees here we need to take care of them they come from a terrible place terrible foreigners we can't just throw them out because we can't

know now sorry i just feel like crying when i think about it it's an integration issue and it's not just about what happened two years ago we had a lot of. refugees for the last two years it's more that. we haven't had an integration issue for maybe twenty years so we really have to. well john a whole is a live in stockholm forest covering this election and jonah you know result as i can remember certainly sweden's always been held up as almost you know the standard bearer for a set of center left welfare state very liberal very accommodating and yet what we might see today is a real change of its very political identity. yes i mean potentially what's at stake in this election is a change both in the way sweden projects itself to the world and is seen by the world but also the way in which swedes see themselves in their own country as you say

a country that has traditionally projected its openness its liberal values the world and embraced those values at home as well getting very involved in things like conflict resolution and peacekeeping aid missions abroad and taking in huge numbers of asylum seekers and refugees more per capita since two thousand and twelve than any other country in europe yet now it is those very values around which so many so many sweets so much of the country has traditionally united that now seems to be at the heart of what divides this country take a look at my report. weekend football refugees and swedes a model of integration and it works as these young men from afghanistan and syria are happy to explain influence swedish as they are go to school on how to spell it for them i go to school here i play football i have many friends here and there are many freedoms in sweden that's why i like it here. but it isn't working for

everyone sunday's election is likely to see a far right party the sweden democrats catapulted into second place with support from around one in five voters it's a prospect appalling to many because of the party's neo nazi origins and its anti immigration policies are multitude of what they. everything points to us having a good licks and that just how good one can never know it's a question for the voters the party's rapid rise is a psychological setback in a country that long held its own a beach in high regard it regarded itself as a sort of moral superpower in all sorts of ways that attitude was particularly shaped like a cold war actually it was issued itself between nato and between the soviet bloc and allied itself very much with the third world in more recent years this identity has been more associated with openness to asylum seekers and refugees and it's

clear that since the great crisis of two thousand and fifty that. that has changed policy has become much tighter in line with other european countries and that obviously has affected three perceptions of themselves to my biggest fear this election is that it will polarize society this we used to say and put people against each other where instead of meeting people and get to know each other i mean we live in a global world and the idea is that we come together not being apart and blame each other for things this is the sort of thing around which swedes have traditionally united the country's openness its liberal values alongside of course the famous welfare state but it is also the sort of thing now that divides that has allowed a far right party to become a prominent force in national politics exposing deep cracks in sweden's moral high ground and integration that only goes so far the stockholm suburb of be where

immigrants congregate could be another country altogether after this election sweden itself might see the earth way too. and jonah even the most optimistic projections then actually show the sweden democrats having an overall majority so if they don't do that how influential could this new force in swedish politics actually be. but well by most polls by a sort of average of polls we're talking about somewhere between a fish and a quarter of the vote that would be the best case scenario you know that's a pretty big chunk of the electorate these are people who are worried about the effect of immigration on health care on education and the welfare state. who've been told by the swedish democrats that the rise in violent crime is rule the result of immigration as well they've risen as a force as a party very quickly since entering politics to entry made street politics in two

thousand and ten they garnered all of this support off the back of the two thousand and fifteen immigration crisis they are a significant force in a force that she had to say they won't however in all likelihood be in government no party is willing to talk to the sweden democrats of what will be a complicated coalition making process but that doesn't mean they won't continue to exercise indirect influence as they already have done on the future course of this country a country which is going to have to get used to now pushing forward a rather different face to the world john hall in stockholm in general of course be with us in the next few hours when the results or exit polls start coming in for the moment thank you. two afghan migrants have been detained in germany all suspicion of killing a twenty two year old man in the eastern town of culliton while police of it to stablish a motive and the immigration tensions have been high in the region since last month's killing of

a man in can it southeast of ten which sparked violent right wing protests to asylum seekers a syrian and an iraqi were arrested. so to come in this half hour iran says it fired the missiles that killed fifteen kurdish iranian fighters in northern iraq on saturday and cost of albanians block roads to the village of thank you it's stopping a planned visit by the serbian president. how much of mainland china now is relatively dry now around in the forecast because obviously a massacre out of hickam in sichuan and a string of rain has come down through high none but just to the edge of your screen is where the heaviest rain is in east asia is just north of the philippines hundred sixty millimeters now that might well develop into

a tropical storm even even if it doesn't it's in hans in the rainfall on the string runs across to maybe southern you non heartland maybe parts of northern vietnam that will just keep feeding the potential for rain here but they say most of charters are to dry the coast at least is potentially showery certainly have a breeze here it will feel humid i suspect that the monsoon rains in their retreat tend to break out we're over the place we had a massive unserved raja's stand is breaking off now and to just clouds not showers heaviest rain recently has been up in assam as well some in magic pradesh in the forecast we are talking about the northeast of india nepal and occasional showers to the west of that there just the breeze in the carriage is much lighter and i'm a harassed yes the a few showers here otherwise it's not a particularly wet picture which is not a big surprise in the middle east a few showers still possible in the mountains of amman could be pretty.

in indonesia palm oil is a billion dollar business want to win east investigates the price the country's paying. to feed the world's. on al-jazeera. as india was updating its citizenship records around four million people in the state are at risk of becoming stateless this to be viewed by infantry these are the majority of both. how does it michael both sides of this issue talk to al-jazeera. off the back years of the mind of the top stories on al-jazeera syria's government

and russia have resumed their heavy bombardment of rebel positions and leave and how my province ahead of a possible ground affects eighty four people have been killed in renewed fighting in yemen support city of her data hospital sources say the dead include dozens of who are the rebel fighters and at least seventeen government troops and there are less than two hours of voting left in sweden's general election to vote could see strong gains for the far right sweden democrats party. iran's revolutionary guard says it was behind artillery attacks on kurdish positions in northern iraq on saturday iranian t.v. showed these pictures of the missiles being fired the democratic party of the rainy and kurdistan says fifteen of its fighters were killed and around forty others injured kurdish military sources said it was the first such attack by iranian forces in more than twenty years the strike said call yes seen jack east of it

being around the hundred kilometers from the iranian border well that's and as for now from the iraqi capital back that iran's revolutionary guard say they carried out this attack about cause they said there had been numerous terrorist teams moving into iran's west azerbaijan kurdistan and ken one shot provinces bordering iraq it also said that the k d p i the kurdish democratic party of iran had been recently clashing with revolutionary guards in iran's own kurdistan region now the k.t. p.-i is one of the oldest kurdish movements in iran and it's been fighting for greater autonomy of iran's kurdish community for many years but it's also seen several of its leaders assassinated by talk tech run during that time iran also said that it was carrying out the attack because those leaders had been told to dismantle the camps that they had in kurdistan but they hadn't done so the important thing is the timing of this at least that's important as far as iraq is concerned this is coming

just a couple of days after we've seen a significant amount of violence over several days in the southern town of basra which is very close to the iranian border injuring that the iranian consulate in basra has been burned iran has been extremely angry about that now there's nothing to link these two events but here in iraq there is a lot of speculation that this latest missile attack in kurdistan is iran showing that it can strike back and it can strike back powerfully. north korea has market seventieth anniversary with a huge military parade but unlike previous occasions it didn't show off its intercontinental ballistic missiles it follows kim jong un's talks this year with the u.s. president donald trump on the denuclearization of korea robert pride reports from seoul. it had all the usual pomp of previous military displays but lacking much of the hardware especially the missiles compare this with this.

particular bill looking at a military parade in april last year commemorating the birth date of north korea's founder kim il song. bristling with the medium and long range missiles it was provocatively testing on a regular basis. even at the start of the thaw in relations earlier this year north korea was showing off the intercontinental ballistic missiles that had taken it to what appeared to be the brink of conflict with the u.s. now you see them now you don't this parade had far more emphasis on the development of the economy in line with leader kim jong un's promise to improve his people's living standards after years of hardship. for the large contingent of journalists allowed into north korea for this event has been shown apparent signs of success even if they are carefully stage managed so you can move on to one continent you

can because this is the seventieth anniversary of our country the workers in a factory here all coming together to do their best to produce more and to make the factory a success. but if kim is going to achieve real economic development he needs sanctions on his country to be lifted and the u.s. insists for that to happen he has to give up his nuclear arsenal not simply keep it hidden from view. with negotiations seemingly deadlocked kim jong un is not doing anything to further antagonize the u.s. seen here with v.i.p. guessed these young shoe from china's ruling politburo rather he is using the event to build on his developing links with the international community trying to emerge from the isolation of the past. robert bright al-jazeera seoul. in russia voting to elect regional mayors and governors as being overshadowed by fresh

protests over pension reform thousands of supporters of jailed opposition leader lakes in a valley marched in towns and cities across russia against plans to raise the retirement age under the proposals both men and women would wait an extra five years to start receiving a pension plans are currently going through parliament and have reduced president vladimir putin's popularity rating by fifteen percent. kosovo's president is urging restraint as a serb counterpart to visit the region alexander address the rally of thousands of people in the tributes on sunday it's a serb dominated city in the north of course of a which could be part of a future territory swap was due to visit other towns in central kossovo a road blocks were put in place to stop him serbia has never recognised cos of those two thousand and eight declaration of independence sunny gago has more now from the two beats. the backdrop to the serbian president visit to north meets

repeats of the so dominated parts of the city when two issues first and foremost has been attempts to normalize relations between prishtina and bell great this has been a long arduous process with little success so far in fact both the president alexander who cheats and the cost of president failed to meet on friday in brussels at a pre-arranged meeting the european union has been placing pressure on the team to do this sooner rather than later the goal of them being if they do succeed in this then it would pave the way to a further advancement of the two nations towards membership of the european union the second issue of course is the idea of a post land swap this has been a more recent issue here and one that both leaders have tacitly referred to it's a very controversial one here many diplomats and former mediators in the region say

that it possibly could trigger off similar proposals for land swaps destabilizing the region which is already simmering with certain tensions and the issue of course being that if these territories had these countries all of them which have been traditionally multi-ethnic they would to be divided across ethnic lines then it would really stoke up further tensions within the region itself. the former u.k. foreign minister boris johnson has been criticised for describing prime minister to resign may's breck's a deal as a quote suicide vest around the british constitution which hands the detonator to the european union johnson who resigned his post in opposition to may's plans wrote the comments in a column in the mail on sunday newspaper home secretary. said the former london mayor could have used more measured language. serena williams has been fined seven

hundred thousand dollars for code violations after a controversial u.s. open final naomi all sako one japan its first ever grand slam against williams on saturday but the match will be remembered for a major argument between williams and the umpire which ended with the u.s. player complaining of sexism in the way that she was treated they did stokes reports i saved my life i was asked if i see for serena williams regularly produces a show in coach but not like this this was a us open final like no other williams was going for a record equalling twenty fourth grand slam miami osaka sixteen years her junior was looking for her first and surprisingly it was osaka who looked more comfortable winning the first set in little over half an hour. then the real drama started

serena's coach was spotted offering advice from the stands something that's not allowed at grand slams co-ordination commission warning this is williams i understand why you may not have that was coach telling you it's not a cheat to win it's as i sucked his lead grew so did serenus frustration and it wasn't long before the intervened again this time to ducting her a point the smashing her racket tensions were running high easy a sucker's domination continued. and so did serenus argument with the umpire i believe he said i can't function i think i get a thousand thousand after having a game taken off serina got the match referee involved i do my i i think. despite all the destruction kept

cool and so a memorable maiden championship. with thought they were she's the first japanese by a male or female to win a tennis crown slam serener embraced her and then stepped in when parts of the crowd booed at the trophy presentation was the way they know that everyone has changed her story at ten one this. if they'll with was going to continue to go out and play here again for safety i was if i was serene a certainly stole the headlines but the charge beat belongs to osaka and just

twenty years old if they could be the first of many they would start al-jazeera right while the drama didn't stop there it continued into the post match press conference as well i can't sit here and say i wouldn't say he's a thief because i thought he took a game from me but i've seen other men call other empires several things and i'm here fighting for women's rights and for women's equality and for all kinds of stuff and for me to say these and for him to take a game it made me feel like it was a sexist remark i mean like how he's never to gain from a man because i said. i mean those very money but i'm going to continue to to fight for women and to fight for us to have equal acorn a should be able to take her shirt off without getting a far i like this is outrageous. and there's been lots of reaction on social media

of the former world number one billie jean king took to twitter to defend serena saying when a woman is emotional she's hysterical and she's penalized for it when a man does the same he's outspoken and there are no repercussions thank you at serena williams for calling out the stubble standard more voices are needed to do the saying. and the reminder of the headlines on al-jazeera syria's government has resumed its heavy bombardment of rebel positions in italy province observer groups say helicopters dropped more than sixty barrel bombs on the village of abate in glebe south russian jets reportedly carried out more than ten strikes in neighboring hama province it follows a day of heavy bombardment on saturday is syria's government paves the way for a possible ground offensive in italy. is

a lot of displaced people people are very afraid today is drugs have been going on nonstop since this morning every minute one even three helicopters fly over more than eighty people have been killed in renewed fighting in yemen sports city over data hospital sources say the dead include dozens of who the rebel fighters and at least seventeen government troops peace talks in geneva collapsed on saturday after a who the delegation failed to show up well day that has seen heavy fighting between saudi backed government troops and rebels for several months leaving tens of thousands of civilians displaced. swedes have been voting in an election many believe could change their country's political landscape campaigning has been dominated by fears over asylum seekers and the pressure the influx of refugees in two thousand and fifteen has had on welfare in sweden recent poll suggests this election could see a surge in support for the far right while casting his vote sweden's prime minister

urged voters to reject the far right anti immigrant party. iran's revolutionary guard says it was behind artillery attacks on kurdish positions in northern iraq on saturday iranian t.v. showed these pictures of the missiles being fired the democratic party of iranian kurdistan says fifteen of its fighters were killed and around forty others injured kurdish military sources said it was the first such attack by iranian forces in more than twenty years. and at least seventeen people have been killed in a plane crash near a river in south sudan the aircraft was traveling from the juba international airport to two year old in the center of the country three children will believe to be among the twenty two passengers authorities and not yet released the official death toll at sea on when he says that.

it's in countless products on supermarket shelves around the world. from chocolate and ice cream to soap and shampoo chances are you used palm oil today. in indonesia the world's largest producer companies are acquiring new plantations by any means necessary. it's wreaking havoc on the environment and stripping farmers of their livelihoods. well i don't know. the money well but they've got a good man you're looking at you need. now some locals are fighting back but. i'm steve cho on this episode one east

investigates the price indonesia is paying.