his presidency. and that. is the. change of the president on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome to this out is there a new life and i'm martine that is coming up in the next sixty minutes using starvation as a weapon of war more than one child could die of hunger every minute this year in conflicts. the u.s. moves to close palestine's diplomatic office in washington. gunmen attacked libya's national oil headquarters in tripoli two people are dead. and.

sports as novak djokovic makes a grand slam trophy number fourteen with victory at the u.s. open. and more than one child a child would die every minute from hunger in war zones now that's a startling conclusion that's at the heart of a new report by save the children the charity warns that starvation is now frequently being used as a weapon of war with tori gates and the ripple. in towns and cities across syria loyal to president bashar assad have long used a surrender all stop strategy against civilians in rebel held areas eastern ghouta is now under government control but earlier this year four hundred thousand people would be siege many starving. a similar military strategy is being used in yemen

both the fighters and government forces backed by the saudi u.a.e. coalition deliberately obstruct deliveries of food hunger has become a weapon of war and its use is more prevalent now than it anytime in the last twenty years. save the children has looked at child hunger in the world's ten worst conflicts it's found that four point five million children under five will need treatment for mt nutrition this year but five hundred ninety thousand a likely to miss out on the care they need and die of starvation and disease that's an average of sixteen hundred a day or one child a minute i think what we've seen this time is a buckin kind of a two decades trend where global hunger has been decreasing for the first time in that time period is now increasing and complex is behind that and so. yes it's always been there but i think we're seeing a much more acute pinch on children across particularly eastern countries in some

areas starvation is a military strategy in others war disrupts food production which in turn leads to hunger. in the democratic republic of congo years of fighting has displaced large numbers of people from their homes aid groups say three hundred thousand children are at risk conflicts disrupt people's ability to form to keep their livestock jobs disappear it can lead to economic collapse that causes food prices to skyrocket so even people who are miles and miles and miles away from any act of fighting will find that they are no longer able to afford the simplest of meals fighting in just ten countries is now responsible for reversing a twenty year decline in global hunger save the children is calling for governments around the world to protect children and hold to account those responsible for using food as a weapon victoria gayton be al jazeera. we're here with me on set is our

correspondent have a more than haber is normally in south sudan not you here so tell us about how this issue is manifest in the conflict zone that is sudan tical south sudan being the world's newest country and yet it's had so much conflict well as you know martin last year south sudan had to declare a famine officially in two parts of the country because of lack of access to aid organizations and the population there south sudan's population nearly one million people are on the verge of famine and why exactly is that is that because people are laying siege to them fight is a laying siege to them how are they disrupting food production but first of all south and conflict is an unconventional conflict so what happens is areas would change hands but from government to opposition to various other militia groups and they tend to block access to aide workers and it workers have to negotiate their way to get access to the people in need of aid that whenever there's a delay people tend to get hungry and starve and some of them die which is why

families declared last year there are fears that south sudan would return to famine once again but the fact remains that the unstable and stability of south sudan. were and was of the growth of the ground and the core infrastructure makes it very hard for people to access their lands and a lot of people have been displaced and they had to move from their farming areas and go to displacement camps and refugee camps outside the country and that made them effectively rely on aid as opposed to their own and there's a great problem isn't there in terms of the disrupting the agricultural cycle because you have to plant you have to so then you have to wait a period of time before you how all of this as if you haven't done the sowing then you're going to likely to go hungry for several cycles of years there are concerns that there will be several cycles where people would go hungry or would be facing severe food shortages in several parts of the country now in are going to have been talking about it repeatedly saying they need axes they need to get to these people but more than that they always say that these people need to go back to their

farming lands they need to go to get access to their lands again because they need to feed their families but then again south sudan is a conference on like you said and it's very hard for them so without and without pieces no there's a chance of people going back to their land just one comment also is that saddam was mentioned as well now of south sudan we've been speaking an awful lot about syria but sudan we don't talk about quite so often need to remember the full is darfur is one of the conflict zones in sudan where people are again facing hunger yes because the people in darfur also have been displaced and they also have to have have to leave their farmlands and rely on aid we're talking about roughly a million people at least in darfur who are in need of aid to survive and who have been blocked from their farming lands and people say that they cannot go back to their homes again the same case in south sudan their militias over there they can't go back to farming they have to rely on going to stations and yes so yes conflict has deeply impacted food security there as well even more than thank you. now the

united states is expected to shutdown palestine's diplomatic mission in washington d.c. it's in response to palestinian efforts to get the international criminal court to investigate israel it's also being reported that the u.s. may sanction judges at the i.c.c. for plans to investigate suspected war crimes by american soldiers in afghanistan we can go live now to our correspondent forsett he's in ramallah in the occupied west bank first of all the palestinians have been told haven't they that this is something that is definitely going to happen the palestine mission in washington d.c. is going to be closed. that's right we spoke to the head of that mission not who's been back here in ramallah since he was recalled by the palace in president mahmoud abbas in may he told us that he was informed of this very early in the morning local time five thirty in the morning by a u.s. official and that in the course of that conversation united states informed him

that it was because of palestinian support and pressure to bring israel before the international criminal court now that's something that we're expecting to hear as well referred to by john bolton the u.s. national security advisor in a speech in a few hours time when he's due to refer officially publicly by the night is on behalf of the united states for the first time to this closure saying that the united states will stand with israel in terms of any attempt to bring it before the international criminal court. as well as saying that this goes as part of a peace with what we've been seeing from the u.s. in recent weeks withdrawing aid from the palace the north already withdrawing all aid from one rather the u.n. agency that aids palestinian refugees just this weekend withdrawing twenty five million dollars in u.s. funding for palestinian hospitals in east jerusalem he said that basically they were adopting a grocery list of what the israelis want to the united states administration to do

we also heard from the secretary general of the p.l.o. . and he also utterly condemned this and he said that sensually the passings had nothing left to lose in terms of their relationship with the united states this was the last thing that they could really close down in this way having taken away so much money and in terms of the international criminal court the u.s. was siding with the war criminals. we will sue our if errors to the international criminal court and those who are about going to courts should stop committing crimes and in the next forty eight hours our response will be to make and you would have fared on the. decision by the israeli higher court to demolish this village so hairy if the us policy is the aim the objective of it is to bring the palestinians back to the negotiating table it looks as though it's failing well that's right i mean the policy is even say that isn't

a sincere aim it's more of an aim to to aid israel that's the case the united states and again john bolton is expected to make reference to this in his speech the united states is saying that is the palestinian reluctance to. have any truck with the impending trump peace plan that is at stake here and the pressure is on to try and make them consider this plan and come to the table with the u.s. and the israelis but as far as side erica is concerned he says that that is is not going to happen there won't be any such bowing to u.s. pressure something as well that we heard from mr lott as well when he said that this would would have no impact in terms of changing palestinian policy but that the palestinians would through the hundreds of thousands of palestinian americans continue to succeed in trying to turn u.s. opinion especially among younger americans mr erekat as well saying that after the u.n. general assembly meeting in september president abbas would return here to ramallah

there would be further high level meetings at which a reevaluation of the palestinian relationship with his with israel would also start to be enacted herefore said live in ramallah in the occupied west bank thanking. right now they speak to moon rabani who is a senior fellow at the institute for palestine studies is joining us live from washington d.c. thanks for talking to us what material effect will it have then for the palestinians for their calls and and indeed for the well being of palestinians in america when this year when this mission in washington d.c. is closed. well i think there's two issues to look at america's first as this is already a broader american assault on the international criminal court it's also threatening to to prosecute them sanction and the r.c.c. judge or prosecutor who was involved for example in. a mine can we get to that in

the in a little while first of all i just wanted you to assess for us exactly what kind of impact the closure of its washington d.c. office will have as i say on the politics in the diplomacy for the palestinians as well as for the country affairs involving palestinians living in the states well as far as consular affairs are concerned those will obviously see so for example palestinian. community story subjects that live in the u.s. will no longer be able to move their passports in the u.s. and make up to go to canada or elsewhere to do to do so as far as the broader political and this is often packaged as a preparatory towards a new american diplomatic initiative if people are waiting for that magic initiative in the conventional sense of the word coming this is the american initiative which is basically to bully and real world the palestinians into

accepting the most extreme israeli agenda and then perhaps at the end of that process publish a piece of paper out morning what your sources achieve and that's obviously magical thinking and is is not going to argue until i see our citizens negotiate and dana that the palestinians have the palestinians have maintained the position throughout the trumpet ministration have they that the bullying is not going to force them to the table they're not in the least bit interested in what's being up to basically call that the deal of the century but it is this policy of mexican pressure by the united states is incurring a great deal of hardship and suffering on an already suffering people the palestinians both in west the west bank and in gaza. well it's not only inflicting . suffering it's intended to inflict mass suffering among the process in

civilian population in the occupied territories and and elsewhere in the middle east i mean it's designed to do that in order to book pressure on the leadership and i think we need to take a step back and recognize it looks happening here in this instance one country is effectively severing diplomatic relations with the second city on the grounds that it is seeking or trying to belittle under international law for work crimes committed against its people on the military occupation that is essentially the u.s. position that the palestinians have to pay a price for pursuing accountability for israel in the international criminal court and that knowing can i never ending at a time it can i quickly i feel about the if you have the i.c.c. a co-author of the americans have not signed up or not ratified the saturday of rome nor have the israelis or does it actually matter the i.c.c. how likely are they to undertake

a full investigation of israeli practices in palestinian territories that that investigation may get materialize i think the american position is that it should be the international criminal court for africa and for africa alone and that explains also this broader a so important as it's john bolton the national security adviser is expected to launch later today going substantial i.c.c. investigation of american and other actions in afghanistan plain rabbani thank you very much indeed for talking to us live from washington. well the palestinian authority is now saying that it will provide all of the aid that the u.s. has scrapped for six hospitals in the occupied east jerusalem in a statement prime minister. said the decision to fill the void shows the government considers jerusalem hospitals as part of its network washington and outs on saturday that it would cut one of its last remaining programs for palestinians.

we've got a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including. one of europe's most liberal nations takes a turn to the right find out about sweden's political deadlock. at least six people have been killed in a car bomb in the capital of somalia. and taking a need to more players continue to protest on the opening weekend of the n.f.l. season he said we'll have the details in sport. at least three people are dead ten others are injured after a gunman stormed the headquarters of libya's national oil corporation in the capital tripoli libyan security forces say they have now gained control of the headquarters after several individuals tried to take over the building now this comes after u.n. brokered talks between several groups vying for control of the city agreed to halt

fighting al jazeera. joins us live now from the libyan capital tripoli what's the very latest situation now. well the special deterrence force that is the security apparatus policing tripoli says that its individuals have taken full control of the headquarters of the international oil corporation then you see here in tripoli following this attack and as you know as we mentioned in the previous lives. the security forces managed to evict the chairman of the most of us an hour and many other employees according to the interior ministry two employees were they were killed by the attackers and ten others are wanted now their forensic teams and paramedics are currently checking the remains the body parts they found of the attackers according to the health

ministry the. paramedics teams they have they have picked a body parts of two of the attackers now the d.n.a. that does the government of national called has condemned the attack and called it a terrorist attack now that is a state that is still a state of panic in and around the headquarter of the national. security procedures or security measures have been tightened in front of state institutions marty. any idea as to the identity of these people who wore masks and tried to take over what is the harbor of libya's prosperity is the only way that libya makes money is with its oil sales. well martin so far there is no there is no confirmation and regard to the identity of who is behind this attack but we're getting reports from different officials from several officials

that for example the security the head of the security directorate now said that it's ice but on the other hand the interior ministry and it's a statement announcing that it's a terrorist attack without naming eisel but at the same time we're getting reports from the special deterrence force saying that they are currently putting all the evidence is under scrutiny to recognize who is behind this at that but in all cases multi in this operation is the signs of an extremist target that reminds us of the the same attack on the on the national election commission headquartered here in tripoli last may were the attackers did too needed or blow themselves themselves up now today two of the attackers did a themselves and that also that also indicates

that this is in most cases might might seem or might be close to a terrorist attack martine mahmood of the why have thank you the russian president vladimir putin has invited his north korean counterpart to visit russia a letter from president putin was sent to kim jong un on monday no further details have emerged regarding the time and the location of the meeting that kim was invited to attend an economic forum in bloody valve stuff which starts on tuesday but a russian official has confirmed that he won't be attending. and russia and japan say they're ready to find a solution that could end a decades long dispute over an island chain that's claimed by both of the countries president putin and the japanese prime minister shinzo while they made the comments after meeting in blood of all stock both leaders say they're moving towards a peace treaty to formally end second world war hostilities both countries have never signed a treaty formally ending the war because of the dispute over the korea russia c.z.

islands at the end of the war. the relations between our countries progress for the first time in our history including joint military cooperation. today i would like to have their a talk on bilateral issues including economic questions also on international issues and cooperation with russia in this field i would also like to discuss our historic task to sign a peace treaty. sweden now faces a period of lengthy political wrangling after an election in which no single party won a majority but the far right sweden democrats made significant gains and joined a whole now reports from stockholm. the center left social democrats have been the biggest party in every swedish election for a century true again this time but not by far and it's a relief it's been their worst result ever i think it's fine the problem now is how

can we make it. how can you be government with this since it's really hard to see. how to how to make a staple of government this is an election that seen support shift from the center to the extremes coalition building will be tough one big winner has been the empty immigrant sweden democrats are not as big as they'd hoped the story of the night is that while the far right has become a force in swedish politics they won't be taking over just yet what would seem harry is a political earthquake. really brought his political history and i think that they're the leaders of the two big parties social democrats and the moderate party need to listen to this single from the swedish people need to do saying is the policies that that the sweetest people want to see the rise of the far right in sweden meant voters took to the election with customary enthusiasm even if many harbored deep concerns 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 for us we can't just throw them out immigration and integration have been front and center in a divisive vote with this country's famous values of tolerance and openness at stake so sweet and isn't in danger of becoming a far right state and nor are the sweden democrats even likely to make it into government no party at this stage will even talk to them but they are likely to continue to exert and in direct influence on the way ahead having already succeeded to the horror of many. in putting nationalism and identity politics on the swedish agenda peter waller dusky is editor in chief of one of sweden's major daily newspapers but the tone has already changed it has changed a lot and i think the major change came in two thousand and fifteen after the big

refugee crisis a lot of refugees came in sweden in a very short time span and the systems here didn't work properly a lot of people reacted to that and the sweden democrats sort of logical consequence of the well they searched in the polls as a result of that crisis and they've stayed on that kind of result since some swedes will tell you the rise of the far right is overblown that this country has never been happier or more prosperous but extrusion politics are in sweden to state now and many other swedes see trouble ahead jonah hill al jazeera stocco at least six people have been killed and another sixteen injured in an explosion in somalia's capital market dissing the blast was caused by a car bomb very close to a district government building huge car the smoke could be seen rising above the city there's been no claim of responsibility but al shabaab has waged

a bombing campaign against the un backed government in mogadishu. earlier we spoke to mohammed bulbul who is a journalist based in the somali capital. after the explosion and going to fire the firing deploy is and is why dispersing the these if you knew where the explosion it is at the second which. explosion you see it was the weakest vote and expand carbon exploration kids in grow that district in with a fish in other fighters they turned out they are takis the they have attacked to the hour with a cat at frequent attackers in the vicious somali capital you know are that last week they attacked in hollow that districts by killing. millions and today they attacked the districts where hundreds of people many people are there and they were a growing they are always in daily life like food in that distance be exact to

kushal it's no it cannot be i don't think it means cheap so nobody can say a bear could be exact a number but when this is just told me that agriculture it seems is very he. right it's time for the weather kevin farron if you're anywhere around the atlantic you better watch out that's right we have a lot of storms to talk about different places that they're going i want to get straight to that right now because we're talking about four different storms let's put this into motion here across the atlantic you can see the circulations in the atlantic has really really fired up just over the last week first of all hurricane helene that's going to be making its way to the north not really a big issue hurricane isaac is going to be making its way towards the eastern caribbean we will be watching that one here is hurricane florence that is going to be a major storm that system is going to be striking i'll get to that in just a moment and then over here in the caribbean a little low pressure area that is going to cause flooding in parts of texas so

let's talk about what's happening here with hurricane florence this storm right now is one hundred seventy kilometers per hour it is a category two equivalent it is firing up very fast development because it is going across much warmer water in this area let's put this into motion you can see over the next day or so it is going to be tracking to the west northwest and by friday morning we do expect the storm is going to be making landfall here across the carolinas right now the forecast models to say this could be a quibble into a category four hurricane once it makes landfall now people are already taking plans to evacuate that area getting their supplies but in that area we could be seeing anywhere between two hundred to potentially up to six hundred millimeters of rain. thank you very much kevin still to come here on the news hour trying to under pressure why rights groups say the government is cracking down against its muslim population. the former leader of cambodia's opposition party is out of jail but

wife is not free. and in for their meal africa shows off the u.s. open trophy on top of the rock in new york. they are women. mothers. performers. christmas. from their prison and the plot to argentina. that inspiration is a force new fluid world skin cheap stifled invisible mothers parties that you find a lot in the mail series at this time. al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of count folke abene dot. the first u.n. envoy trying to bring peace to the middle east how is negotiations with him helped

save thousands of jews from nazi concentration camps and how these mediation skills put him at the vanguard in the quest for peace in the middle east. killing the count on al-jazeera. right have a second look at the top stories here at al-jazeera more than one child will die every minute from hunger in war zones that's according to save the children the charity warns of starvation is now frequently used as a weapon of war. the united states is to shop the palestine liberation organization

mission in washington it says the decision is in response to the palestinian government refusal to enter talks with the united states in israel and comes just weeks after the trumpet ministration cut two hundred million dollars in aid to the palestinians. at least two people are dead and ten others are injured after gunmen stormed the headquarters of libya's national oil corporation in tripoli libyan security forces now say they've got control of the headquarters and this comes after a u.n. brokered a cease fire between between armed groups who were vying for control of the city last week. right let's find out more about that save the children report a really disturbing report that talks about the world's children facing hunger in the conflict zones around the world we can speak now to charles lawley who's with human appeal that's a u.k. based development and relief charity he's joining us now from manchester in the

north of england. the report by save the children talks of there being an increase in the amount of of of incidents in which food is used as a weapon of war first of all i wondered if you agreed with that given that it has always been part of the of war has of conflict using all resources to lay siege to the enemy and secondly how you think if indeed that's the case how you think it's changed the the way this is carried out. thank you for having me on. why wars are conducted change is not like it used to be joining victorian times when it was all about you want to take to him now we're seeing more devastation for school. just destruction being left in the wake of conflict so. over as you say out. throughout history

sieges have always been your. darling drought. the siege of troy. is liberally starving a population. in terms of what can be done to change it i mean despite this has been going on for a long long time there's never been one referral to the international criminal court with regards to people using starvation. let me jump in and just ask you then how specifically is it outlawed i mean is it covered by the geneva conventions international humanitarian law for instance yes no is it isn't it's not. well there's just no it was never been even refer alone. as. a contract and how it's being used in yemen and syria. people. military. groups. starve the population with very little

repercussions but is nothing stopping contains that i mean if you say that it's outlawed by existing international legislation what would it take in order for those who are currently conducting this kind of policy including using food as a weapon of what would it take to get them before an international court. well it will take members of the u.n. security council. referral to make just a criminal cult with the case in syria probably never going to see. a prosecution in that respect because russia will always be telling and but there are so many other aspects. to this brutal seventy eight war in syria i'm thinking of in particular that perhaps seizing the food and starvation almost gets overlooked because there is so much as the use of chemical weapons the use of barrel bombs indiscriminate bombing of civilians and so perhaps the fundamentally see the food.

somehow lost in the fat. point i mean if you see syria as you see the. military is trying. down the population they surround it with a virtual. wall wall. of stuff. n.g.o.s like ourselves who operate in conflicts like syria like to stop us being able to access the people and give them what we're on the ground to do. we just want to get the exposed folks to make it will it will stop what it is. it is all talk of wearing down the population. starving the people through college eating civilian i'm stopping n.g.o.s like delivery going to those most in each way they will crush morocco crush of people using chemical

weapons but you've asked about the time the people are completely crushed. conscious east of that also the expense of the civilian population absolutely and it goes without saying that it's going to be a challenge and it's going to be the elderly it's going to be the vulnerable who are the most quickly affected by this tactic. i mean. the most impressive thing is we look we we would you know your home computer and we are going to need two or three million people voted with now i'm very of probably going to be exposed to what. they will be stop it will be bob are we we can we are going to be up and. now everyone has a nothing's going to stop it was happy with the narrative and now it's going to happen in the country and what what's being done to stop the. human catastrophe

that is impending charlie thanks very much for taking the time to talk to us charles is with human appeal for a developmental relief charity based in the north of england that the united nations knew human rights chief is urged the creation of a new body to investigate alleged crimes committed against me and miles ranger michel better let's comments come after the international criminal court ruled just last week that it has jurisdiction over the mass exodus of range of refugees that have fled to neighboring bangladesh i also welcome efforts by member states at this council to stablish an independent international mechanism for myanmar to collect consolidate preserve and analyze evidence of the most serious international crimes in order to expedite fair and independent trials in national and international courts this mechanism would also complement and support the preliminary examination

of the i.c.c. prosecutor i urge the council to pass a resolution and refer the matter to the general assembly for its indorsement so that such a mechanism can be established. human rights watchers accuse the chinese government of conducting a systematic campaign of rights violations against muslims in shin jang in northwestern china the report is based on interviews with almost sixty people they accuse beijing of arbitrary tensions religious repression and surveillance against the thirteen million million muslims who live in the area many of the interviewees said more than half of their family are either in prison or in political education camps now the report cites what it calls disturbing high tech massive elites and says officials have a database of everyone's biometric data the chinese government's yet to comment on this report but beijing has denied accusations of mistreatment of muslims in jang

in the past it says the increased security measures are to guard against the threat of separatists in the region. but human rights watch is china director so if your vicious and welcome the cool but says much more needs to be done. one of the challenges that everybody faces is of course chinese government restrictions on access to the region and beijing really has nothing to hide then it's time to revoke this restrictions the governments obviously have an obligation to provide public safety it's very hard to see how a campaign of site gross repression operates actually produces that result rather than deepening you know a nation across the region there's nothing in chinese law that allows this kind of arbitrary deprivation of liberty we're talking about people who are being detained simply for having family members outside the country for having a pretty good in what the authorities view is to often for having observed cultural traditions you know it's hard it's hard to conflate that either with extremism or it's something that you know that people don't have

a right to do in their every day but it's extremely important that the new i produced her baby's comments this morning and i think what she's proposing is one piece of a solution but we also need to see individual governments first of all pursue things like sanctions or visa bans against the officials who you know are responsible enjoying it and be doing for the uses but also to come together in a bubble isn't to pressure beijing to close the camps now in a way out for the beginnings of investigations and justice a former cambodian opposition leader is being released from prison in place on the house arrest cam saka was arrested a year ago for treason but has yet to go to trial wayne hay reports now from the thai capital bangkok. after spending a year in a remote prison camp was finally able to return home but he's not free as cambodians awoke to news the opposition leader was released on bail and placed under house arrest a small number of supporters and media gathered outside his home in phnom penh but

he ain't quite what i'm very excited to hear that he's been released when i first heard the news i grabbed my shirt and came straight here. was a wrist in september last year on true. easing charges in a case widely dismissed as politically motivated the supreme court then dissolved his cambodian national risky party the largest opposition political party more than one hundred of its members were banned from politics for five years it came amid a broad government crackdown on dissent with independent media outlets closed and rights workers harassed or arrested with no credible opposition prime minister hun sen's cambodian people's party won every seat in the national assembly in july is election. last week swearing in formality confirmed one since thirty three year rule would be extended for at least another five and with that it appears the time was right to release. the release of. an other opposition party political leaders

like me i hope that they are signing your light street path to national unity and reconciliation that seems unlikely at the moment as kim so car still awaits trial and never afraid to intervene in the judicial process when cin says if he goes unpunished cambodia will descend into civil war wayne hale jazeera bangkok. the afghan government began construction on a town solely for female police officers in kabul there are about three thousand feet of is in the country and that's just two percent of the total force and in an effort to encourage more women to join the government now offering them secured housing shelob ellis reports from kabul. female police officers are relatively new phenomenon in afghanistan. the police force was rebuilt sixteen years ago and there are now one hundred sixty thousand offices but only three thousand women. that i can feel there is danger for female police officers in

afghanistan but when i joined the police i decided on that day country or coffin which means i kept the danger i want to be a role model for our people to serve them sincerely so the culture chain. ges and lots of women join. finding and retaining women is a challenge is a cultural hurdle convincing parts of society that women should work it's also dangerous as i saw in the taliban specifically target the military and police during shift and after hours. one of the nation's most senior police woman brigadier general hekmatyar he had no idea to improve the female to male ratio build a town only for police woman to protect him and their families as a gift from the government. i am also a mother and i'm looking for the safety of these women i know how difficult it is place to make a city for them it's all for the safety from where i'm standing rise the first of

ten five story buildings to be built across the site for three hundred policewoman and their families around the perimeter will be a high security wall with six guard towers to protect the people inside. the plans include a daycare center and school for nearly seven hundred children along with a medical clinic and gym for women. the total cost is one hundred twenty million dollars canada has put thirty million towards the first phase of building the issue of security is not a hypothetical one earlier this year al jazeera spoke with the family of nor hire a menorah two sisters who are working as police officers and badakhshan province when they were targeted and killed by the taliban. in kabul the security elite a watching these stories with recruitment even without a brick laid the site is already listed with towers and armed guards building confidence that they can and will protect women as they push towards the goal of

five thousand female officers by twenty twenty i think it's responsibility and duty for every afghan woman our men should stand side by side and fight for our country there are no short cuts to equality in this nation moving security and gender equality and the right direction comes one shovel at a time shell of dallas al-jazeera kubel. iraq's prime minister has been to the southern city of following weeks of deadly protests the latest wave of demonstrations began after thirty thousand people were hospitalized because they drank polluted water residents have complained of water and electricity shortages and widespread corruption among officials matheson has more from the iraqi capital baghdad. there's speculation here in iraq that this visit by prime minister hi that i love body to basra probably won't achieve very much he's likely to be meeting

tribal leaders amongst others in order to try to get a sense of what's been going on but one set of tribal leaders has already said that they're not prepared to meet with them that's not really a surprise because those that he will be meeting are the ones he's most likely to have established links with already those who are refusing to meet him probably have a legion series which lie elsewhere in the parliament the people of basra of course have been calling for months for somebody from the government to come and visit their city to see for themselves what the problems are but so far that hasn't happened it is likely that the prime minister is trying to address that situation by making this visit but of course the people of vaster are going to say that they've been talking for months about the problems they have for the salah nation and the water that's thousands of people with the problems they had of power outages which conditioning systems work in the cottage parts of the day and of course the thousands of people who are without jobs will be saying that would be

complaining about that for so long and yet nothing has been done what is likely to happen in a short space of time when the prime minister is visiting the city today on the streets. there are rumors that might be some protest outside where the prime minister is going to be staying the prime minister has made a statement from basra in which he totally rejects any attack on diplomatic missions and consulates and of course that's following the ball burning and attacking of various private and public buildings in basra which included the iranian consulate in the violence that we saw last week there is a heavy security presence in basra and now there's an app which is being relating to the city in the white flag it was one of those who is building was burned during the protests last week and it's saying it's looking for those responsible for the combination of having a heavy security presence and the armed groups on the streets is likely to raise

tension even further. hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested in moscow at a rally against the raising of the pension age the russian government wants to increase the retirement age by five years the protest is mainly in their twenty's were eventually blocked by police barricades the opposition leader alexina valmy called for protests before he was sentenced to thirty days in jail. these actions by the police of very strange an outrageous people came peacefully without they did not disrupt public order and to act against them using batons and arrests is outrageous this does not correspond to the spirit of the constitution i hope the police officers will be punished and their managers will be released from their responsibility and. some of the worlds.

time for this post is out with peter thank you so much the u.s. open men's final didn't have any way near as much drama as the women's but nevertheless never talk about put on a great tennis display to beat one martin del potro and wrap up his fourteenth grand slam title moving in level with one of the greats of the game david stokes has the action. plenty of pre-match smiles between two close friends but once the photos were done it was down to business and it was just a bit chilly dial then comfortably taking the acting say six three.

it was more competitive in the second set which lasted ninety five minutes but no matter what del potro tried just a bitch had none so i be edged it on a tie break to go two sets up. the epic barry's didn't stop there the pop chart threw everything he had a joke of it in the third set but even with his power. he just couldn't break the serves defense and instead it was joke of it ch who broke him i be ruthlessly took the set six games to three and the title was his first third time. not bad for a player who had elbow surgery in february since then he's won wimbledon and now the u.s. open to move level with pete sampras on fourteen grand slams third behind on a bunch of federer and roughen

a doubt we don't have people sampras but we do have john mcenroe i love john. pete sampras is one of the biggest legends ever to play the game and he's. it was my childhood the i don't think i grew up playing and thinking that i'm one day i'll be able to do what he does and to be actually be here is suggesting come true here champion you know that joke joke which now holds two of the four major trophies and you would bet against him making it three next up it's the australian open and event he's won six times already david stokes al-jazeera it wasn't the only final in new york on sunday australia's ashley barty and the home crowd favorite coco event away won the women's doubles from the set down to be to marry bubba shan christine in the den of h. in the final it's their first major title. but the debate over the behavior of both serena williams and the chair umpire during the women's final just won't go away

williams lost to naomi osaka in a bad tempered finally it rather took the glass of first aug first grand slam victory she was in tears when she was given the trophy as a partisan crowd booed the match officials but the newly crowned champion was in diplomatic mood when asked about serena's behavior as she celebrated at the top of the rockefeller center on sunday. i know that's you know how. new york gets in america and it's the u.s. open so you know everyone knew how badly she wanted to win the last twenty fourth and final and none for me i felt like i was a kid and now i know for sure if i was in the crowd i would have been pulling for scene into the women's tennis association has come out in support of serena is claims that she was treated differently than a male play would have been chief executive steve simon released a statement on sunday saying the w.t. has committed to all players being treated the same and that they did not believe

that was done doing the final never talk of it has responded as well he says the umpire was harsh on serena but that six of them doesn't come into it. may i have my personal opinion that may be determined by or should not have pushed syria to the limit especially in a grand slam final. you know just maybe changed not maybe it did change the course of the match in just was in my opinion maybe unnecessary i don't see things as mr simon i really don't think you know men and women are you know treated in this way or the other way depending on you know on the situation it's hard to generalize things really i just don't see it's it's necessary really two to debate that italian motorbike rider a man a fanatic has been kicked out of his team after grabbing a rival brake lever during sunday's motor to race in san marino this is the

incident which for an artist you describe as an irresponsible act endangering the life of another rider the matter nearly snipers have terminated his contract you see it is going forward racing next year but the bike manufacturers have said they will oppose the deal. to miami dolphins players have knelt during the national anthem ahead of their team's n.f.l. season opener kenny stills and albert wilson took a knee while teammate robert quinn stood but raised the first during the dolphins game against the tennessee titans three players have continued the protests against police brutality and racial injustice which started two years ago by former san francisco quarterback collin kappa nick kaepernick himself tweeted his support for the players he said my brother's going to need to show their unwavering strength by fighting for the oppressed they have not backed down even when attacked and in terminated their courage will move the world forward love is at the root of our

resistance. one fan has died and at least forty have been injured in a stampede ahead of madagascar's home africa cup of nations qualifier against sinegal it happened before kickoff as thousands of fans were trying to access the stadium through the solitary entrance in antananarivo there was a minute's silence for the victims before kick off but the match still went ahead and finished two nil and olivier giroud goal proved to be the difference for world champions france as they beat the netherlands two one for their first win in the u.a.e. for nations league the chelsea forward smashed them a second half ali to win the game after dutchman ryan babel at cancel delta killing them barbie's first of strike on monday it's the turn of european champions portugal who will be without star man cristiana rinaldo as they take on italy in lisbon in group b. sweden play turkey elsewhere scotland begin their campaign against albania

england cricketer alastair cook has scored a century in what will be his final test innings for his country a short time ago he was unbeaten on one hundred forty one on day four of the final test against india will retire at the end of the verse he's one hundred sixty first match of the most capped test cricketer in his country's history jared getting a century as well england lead by three hundred and fifty one runs to goal found it's been raining in philadelphia which is good news for justin rose but not so much for jordan speed the b.m.w. championship has already gone into an extra day with rose top of the leaderboard if bad weather cattails the contest then he'll get the win then become world number one for the first time but spaeth would fail to qualify for the championship next week so he won't have played enough events of the season and could be banned they have teed off this monday morning but more rain is forecast. some of the world's best surfers have proved you don't have to be anywhere near the coast to catch the

best waves the latest stop on the world surf league championship third six of his one hundred and sixty one kilometers inland to a surf pool designed by eleven time world champion kelly slater the manmade wave gives competitors one of the longest barrel rides in competition slater couldn't quite pull it off in sunday's final though the ana belonged to gabrielle mae dino the brazilian went back to back having won into haiti last month it also narrows the capital in him and standings leader philippe tornado in the women's competition hawaii's caressa muar one to move to fourth in the standings with two events remaining the seeds. and that's all the sport will have another update again later on martine peter thank you very much indeed and thank you for your company for this al-jazeera news have a don't go away because i'll be back in just a moment or two with much more of the day's news and we'll have the very latest from it live in northwestern syria.

in germany's capital there is a barber like no other sort of what he to. propose from cross what you have. but as his city changes he's moving with the tide. and going on the road. the stories we hear told by the people who live there. the master barber of berlin this is europe. police suspect the lone gunmen is behind fifteen unsolved shootings in the city all targeting immigrants an ethnic minority and an attempted murder on a young life friday evening police were out in full force again after another man was shot at the cycling disillusioned with the state prosecution and the victim's

sister strikes up an unlikely relationship with the accused unless his two serial killer a witness documentary on al-jazeera. the. what makes this moment this view. so unique that. we haven't seen the president this. freedom of speech is a valid widely plausible that is a perfect formula for authoritarianism in tyranny or any of the lights along.

there's nowhere to hide let me ask you straight out here is the true state solution no upfront retellings on al-jazeera. the team no place to go to the u.n. says thirty thousand people have already been displaced in syria's rebel held held italy province. alone again you know with live from doha i'm martine dennis also coming out using starvation as a weapon of war more than one child could die of hunger every minute this year in conflict zones. the u.s. moved to close diplomatic office in washington. libya's national although

headquarters in tripoli to.