through a criminal turned. on al-jazeera. and live from studio fourteen here al-jazeera headquarters in doha i'm fully back to bolt welcome to the news great punishing the palestinians the u.s. is to shut the p.l.o. mission in washington in response to what it says is the palestinian government's refusal to enter peace talks is the latest in a series of measures against the palestinian leadership which is threatening to take the u.s. and israel to the international criminal court we'll have live reaction from one and washington also on the grade dying from starvation charity save the children warn ungar as a weapon of war is on the rise from yemen to syria afghanistan and sudan tens of

thousands of children are in danger we'll explore how food insecurity is being exacerbated in one of the world's most neglected crises in the democratic republic of congo and monsta tensions mass surveillance force political reeducation a report paints an old picture of life for china's muslim minority the government though insists it's the victim of outside prejudice and crowdfunding downs. citizens living abroad for test to keep tabs on the head of the home as well tell you how people are responding to the hash tag aging is great. deal of the news great night on air and online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining us all of those stories and more in just a moment but we want to begin in syria because we're getting news about the numbers of people displaced by the latest campaign. lights in rebel held the u.n.

says thirty thousand people have been forced from their homes since last week the attacks intensified since iran and russia who backed the syrian government failed to agree with opposition supporter turkey about how to stave off an offensive let's speak to stephanie decker who is in an taqiyya on the turkey syria border stephanie it seems that even before the full scale offensive begins on edge live people already on the move more than thirty thousand according to the u.n. where are these people going to. that's right well according to the united nations they are going into the official camps the camps that are managed by turkey very close to the turkish border they're also going to live with relatives in more populated areas because the area is under target at the moment in the southern part of italy a province in northern helmand province and these are sort of more sparsely populated if you will it's countryside. other reports according to the united

nations a minimal amount of numbers being set up in informal accounts and even a smaller number took twelve percent the u.n. says or renting accommodation so it gives an indication in the very early stages of this offensive and i think you know we need to question what does it mean whether the offense was a fish officially started because you know is it once they start hitting the cities it's irrelevant because the psychological aspect of it is already underway people are terrified people after hence of people do not know what is going to happen and they certainly don't know where to go turkey along their border inside syria eight hundred thousand syrians are already live in those camps or any so that will only increase as this continues let's give our viewers stephanie a better idea of what we're talking about right now and i want to show you this map on al-jazeera dot com right now this map shows you the current situation on. as you can see it live province in green there is completely surrounded by syrian

government territory the province is to teach a clean porn as on one side shares a border with the province of latakia which is home to the biggest russian naval and air base in syria and on the other side it borders turkey and stephanie turkey extremely concerned about a new influx of syrian refugees on its territory what sort of preparations on the making ahead of what is expected to be a full scale syrian government offensive on it. very much so it's in fact their nightmare scenario falling we've been following the soft over the last week while this is sort of escalation began and turkey is making it very clear we spoke to the head of the turkish red crescent soon after he came out of it live on a recchi there that the borders will remain closed preparations they're doing is inside syria they have extra material now inside syria to set up more camps more tense if you will they want to preferably do it inside it live fully again dynamics on the ground you probably had that on your map there just to the north of it live

provinces territory inside syria that is technically controlled by turkey in the sense that turkey backs the rebels there very much under turkish influence it also doesn't really want to have the move there so this is the challenge that you're facing now and this is why we still have extremely a lot of let's say political negotiations going on behind the scenes to try and manage it but i think it is clear you know damascus has made it very clear that they will be taking back the province how is it going to happen how long is it going to take and what form is going to take is different but of course it's the civilian aspect of all of this that is extremely concerning indeed stephanie thank you very much for that stephanie decker reporting live from on talk you need the turkey syria border and we've got a special page up on al jazeera dot com on the battle for the last remaining rebel stronghold in syria you will find all the latest news on the fighting and the humanitarian situation on the ground it's at al-jazeera dot com. on to other news now in the u.s. has decided to close the palestinian mission in washington in what palestinian

leaders are describing as another move against them by president donald trump is understood that trumps national security advisor john bolton will confirm it during a speech later on monday president trump has been trying to force a fantasy back to the negotiating table to talk about his so-called deal of the century with israel and the palestinian leadership cut off contact back in may when the u.s. relocated is the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem on a sunni and c. occupied east jerusalem as a capital of their future state and then washington cut funding to the u.n. agency supporting palestinian refugees provides health care education and food to more than five million people also in august the u.s. acts two hundred million dollars in aid to gaza and the west bank and then on saturday the u.s. announced it would freeze twenty five million dollars in funding for hospitals that mainly care for palestinian patients when we have harry fawcett standing by in ramallah live to him after we speak to there is white house correspondent kimberly

harkat in washington for us kimberly so the u.s. expected to formally announce the closure of the p.l.o. mission in washington in the next hour john bolton expected to make that announcement what can we expect what toll are they likely to take on this. we've had an opportunity to see some excerpts of the speech that are now widely available in the u.s. media and it really the speech by the national security advisor john bolton foley seems to have about two main headlines that as you touched on the first is the closing of the palestinian mission in washington the second is the threat of criminal sanctions against the international criminal court now why is all of this important what this marks as you point out is a serious escalation by the united states in terms of its effort to in the view of the united states press the palestinian side toward peace talks but as you point out given the fact that the u.s.

has essentially with many of its actions taken the side of israel in those talks it's very hard to see how this could come about you cited the the fact that the aid has been cut to palestinians the moving of the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and then of course the policy on settlements essentially turning a blind eye to those ongoing settlement expansion so all of this we should put into context because certainly the concerns by the palestinians with regard to this threat is not new we do know in fact that the united states did threaten to close down this mission almost a year ago in fact and why did it threaten to do that why do we expect that is now going to take this action well essentially this was because the palestinians went to the international criminal court asking for investigation and prosecution against israeli officials for their actions so that's where all this is stemming from we should point out here in the united states particularly among conservatives they're not big fans of the international criminal court see it kind of as

a threat to u.s. sovereignty so there are a lot of factors underlining underlying this announcement that we are expected in the next hour or so and we will carry it live here on. the white house thank you very much for the moment that's crossed over not to have a faucet on correspondent who is in ramallah today in the occupied west bank carry as we've said the expected announcement of the closure of the p.l.o. mission in washington just an atheist in a series of moves against the palestinian leadership where spin their reaction to this latest one. well we spoke to the head of mission the palestine liberation organization head of mission in washington he has been withdrawn from that role since may as has already been lined out earlier and he said that he was informed by the united states directly ahead of this public confirmation we're expecting from john bolton he was informed early this morning and he says that the united states official who spoke to him so that it was because of palestinian

pressure for the international criminal court to bring prosecution investigation prosecution against israel over matters such as settlement expansion aggression in gaza palestinian prisoners and indeed sagarika who we also spoke to today the secretary general of the p.l.o. he said that they would continue to do so with even greater vigor now pursue israel through the mode of the international criminal court and they would add another charge to those three we will pursue 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 if they are on the. decision by the israeli higher court to demolish this village. harry it sounds like the american intention to force the palestinians to

go back to the negotiating table is having really the opposite effect here but how far can the palestinians really go with their plans to take israel and the u.s. to the i.c.c. . well they say they will pursue it with ever more power and that they will be looking for support elsewhere i mean we spoke to a senior presidential adviser nigel scharf earlier today about this very idea of the united states trying to pressure the palestinians towards a negotiating table well as far as the palestinian leadership is concerned it's less about that it's more about adopting a a list of israeli demands and really cementing them and carrying through with them and they see that they see this latest move to punish the palestinians on this charge of i.c.c. pressure as part of that he also said that really what they had to do was to in a sense wait out while doing all they could to try and stem settlement activity and

other things by trying to marshal international support on their behalf but that really they have written off the trumpet ministration as any kind of partner or indeed even as a diplomatic contact was was the message that was coming from him and indeed from side erica he was saying that as well as mounting this additional motion in the international court or trying to over this bedouin village which the israeli high court has recently endorsed the demolition of that also the leader the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abbas will be speaking to the u.n. general assembly later this month he said that when he returns from that speech he will reconvene the palestinian central council and there will be additional measures put in place in terms of redefining the relationship with israel so the things that are always on the agenda there are regarding security cooperation the the nature of the political contacts with the israelis and so on so they're looking

for other things to do but they see no partner no even real prospect of any contact with the trumpet ministration for the forseeable future thank you for that harry harry fox said life. as in ramallah and algis there has been a smith has visited a hospital in occupied east jerusalem to get an idea of how u.s. funding cuts threaten to impact sick palestinians take a look this is the children's dialysis unit in the old victoria hospital in occupied east jerusalem and serves his patients from across the occupied west bank garden is one of those places where any interruption to funding can direct consequences on people's lives and the quality of life for the millions and millions of dollars for example they spend it on the chemicals that are used for dialysis that can be no interruption in the supply of those chemicals because there are children come on a daily basis for dialysis many of them traveling many hours a day from the west bank and back to get this critical treatment there are no

others know of a hospital in the palestinian territories that provide the sort of services are needed here that is why one of the reasons why the palestinian authority stepped in very quickly to say will provide the twenty to twenty five million dollars funding shortfall the u.s. is taken away but the palestinian foreign minister said this whole idea of the u.s. cutting funding to the palestinians is part of a u.s. attempt to liquidate the palestinian cause. and if you get a chance read this opinion piece on al-jazeera dot com one how u.s. and israel have been joining forces to bury palestinian statehood award winning palestinian journalist daoud kuttab says trump and netanyahu are trying to push a more blatant and legalized form of apartheid on the palestinian people an interesting read on al-jazeera dot com and we're getting quite a few comments on this story today here on the news quiz one here from francis on facebook who says as a citizen of the united states i deeply and profoundly resent this action to close

the palestine diplomatic mission in washington d.c. and another one from jia on twitter who says why are we closing our diplomacy diplomacy to the palestinians it seems like we are only holding up the israelis and taking their sides thank you very much for your comments you can keep on coming on this and other stories we're covering on the grid today use a hash tag a.j. news grid and all the other ways to get in touch on your screen right now moving on and. being warned that hunger will have killed almost six hundred thousand children in the world's conflict zones by the end of this year the alarming prediction has come from save the children which says starvation is being used as a weapon of war average that sixteen hundred infants aged under five dying every day or one every minute one hundred six thousand of the deaths could happen in sudan with another seventy two thousand in afghanistan and thirty six thousand in yemen but the biggest number of fatalities three hundred twenty seven thousand is

expected in the democratic republic of congo where warring sides regularly brought food and medicine from reaching people. works for the world food program she says the world simply cannot keep turning its back on hunger being used as a weapon of war. well i think that the world needs to make it very clear to the parties to this conflict that they won't accept this kind of callous brutal and vicious assaults on innocents conflicts disrupt people's ability to farm 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 active fighting will find that they are no longer able to afford the simplest of meals in south sudan for example it takes a day and a half's wages for an average person to be able to afford a simple plate of beef stew of beans too so it's absolutely imperative that the

world. makes a political commitment to ending these conflicts and to ending them quickly and in most countries we are still making very good progress in dealing with the chronic systemic problems that keep people chronically hungry the poverty and the un unemployment and the other sort of development challenges we're making progress against those things in almost every country on earth it's just a handful of places. save the children has outlines ton of them where things are so bad that they're actually reversing the progress they're outweighing the progress that's being made in all of the other countries on earth and that is deeply shocking and it has to stop. and we want to look more closely now democratic republic of congo our friends at a.g. prost have this reminder about what is so often referred to as a forgotten conflict the little. yellow

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what can be done to save children in the d.r. c. from starvation a very interesting discussion on inside story about this recently with peter darby watch the show by clicking on the show. dot com and then click on inside story iraq's prime minister has tried to ease tensions in the oil rich south with a visit to basra the city's been rocked by deadly protests over alleged corruption and government's neglect the latest demonstrations began after thirty thousand people were hospitalized for drinking polluted water matheson is our correspondent in iraq he joins us now live on the newsgroup from baghdad what is this visit by the prime minister to basra likely to achieve from. well there's a lot of expectation that it would really achieve very little but maybe at the point we should remember that the people of israel have been going through these problems for many many months now and for all that time they have been telling people and holding protests and saying we are really suffering in that our city county make it anymore the infrastructure is falling apart and their biggest

concern their biggest criticism as well is the fact that nobody from the government at any level has apparently ball that to go to talk to them about it so it's very possible that this visit by prime minister high that all the body is an effort to do just that let's not forget of course that his coalition partner in the iraqi parliament. the shia cleric. laid down i dead line if you like for the government to do something about the situation in. basra within about forty five days and he also said that the protesters should abandon all their demonstrations for the same period of time to allow the government to be seen to be doing something they may well be that the prime minister's visit to today's part of that effort to be seen to be doing something the problem is of course that the people of basra will be saying that we have been telling you for months about the

fact that our water is full of salt and it's poisoning people we've been telling you about the fact that our power goes out constantly and that means our air conditioning doesn't work in the heat of the day and the temperatures can get up to about fifty degrees in mid summer that's when these problems really started to kick off and when the protests really began back in july and of course there's the other problem of the continual issue of joblessness so they're going to be thinking of course that we have been mentioning these problems for so long what do you possibly think can be achieved in a brief visit. so what is that situation like in bassa right now. well there is a certain concern that the protests which have been very quiet over the last couple of days i'm a big star be maybe inciting a little bit of rest we haven't seen any of that yet but the reason i mention that is because there is a significant military presence in basra at the moment they were called in by

a promise a high that all of the at the behest of the governor of basra to try to contain the the demonstrations that we saw last week which turned into such violence you know which buildings were burned down but we are also seeing on sunday that there was a one of the armed groups whose building was burnt down during those protests has paraded to the through the streets in white pickups and carrying flags and guns saying that they are determined to find out who it was that actually burned their buildings down so there is a level of tension there no that wasn't there before when you got soldiers on one hand and you've got the armed. groups parading up and down through the city streets at the same time so there is the possibility that things might kick off again i should point out that one of the interesting things that happened just when the prime minister arrived he made a statement and he said what happened in basra was one hundred percent due to political conflict unfortunately some political blocs have military wings and some

of them wanted to burn basra he's trying to put a very political spin on this as opposed to dealing perhaps directly with the problems on the ground thank you for that rob live for us in baghdad rob matheson and more on the recent deadly demonstrations in basra in pictures at al-jazeera dot com if you scroll down you have some great photos there of the demonstrations at least twenty seven people have been killed since the wave of protests for i spoke out in basra in july buildings destroyed as you can see and brant and these photos show you just the extent and just how violent these demonstrations have been you can see them on al-jazeera dot com. now to pakistan where the new prime minister is calling on citizens living abroad to send back money to build dams at home for him how many of our social media producer and she is here to tell us how this all came about ready to start falling you'll remember that imran khan made resource management one of his top priorities what he calls the new pakistan and our friday

he announced how he wants to tackle the most pressing problem just a problem that you know as a bunny the muslim of all the problems facing pakistan water is the biggest when pakistan was made every pakistani had five thousand six hundred cubic meters of water today that stands it only as a thousand cubic meters this means we need to build dams right now and so i'm asking pakistanis wherever they are in the world to send money overseas because that is going to die i know not every overseas pakistani will be able to send a thousand dollars especially the ones working in the middle east to them i would say donate as much as you can if you have a cs pakistanis in europe and the united states i want them to send at least a thousand dollars or even more if they can america well this is the. one of the most ambitious projects khan is hoping to help fund with overseas donations construction has been on and off because it's run out of money the crowd sourcing

proposal was originally the idea of the pakistani chief justice but khan's feets has made the idea go viral and supporters are using the hash tag donates for dems to get others on board the posting screen shots all the money transfer confirmations. but of course there are also the skeptics this which he uses says that he was actually pointed out in one cons well here he says he should first sell his own pestle property and deposit the amount in the dam fund only then i will donate as i want says the pakistanis already pay enough in taxes so government he accuses of having no plan for the economy infrastructure or development now it to help raise money pakistan's railway minister has a dam tax but most of the cash will still be coming from the crowd funding and three pakistanis that we spoke to are not very happy i don't think the government can build a dam between nations i know that want to shorten is going to be an acute issue

with a country with a long term and i want the current government to succeed but i think they're not the solution that they have been proposing are very naive and hannah going to be willing to do this if not the biggest infrastructure projects in the country and it's mind boggling to tended to hold and believe we can fund it to the nation from what he thinks tiny in pakistan with the passion and the proposing to build a dam for fourteen billion dollars. with the average escalation on a large dance being ninety eight percent according to one commission and downs which means that the basha dam is likely to end up costing about twenty eight million and the g.d.p. of pakistan is two hundred eighty billion dollars to ten percent of the g.d.p. how do you collect that kind of money through donations from anyone how does a country come up with ten percent of g.d.p. from somewhere from the nations i don't i don't understand that no one in the financial world in the sense that the biggest question that the dam fund bulls at the moment is to what extent is it actually going to become a substitute for a policy direction in the future. policy priorities such as

broadening the tax base. boosting productivity in the economy diversifying the base of exports flexibly the flexible management of attacks of the exchange rate are these going to be substituted by emotional appeal for one and thirty donations and contributions to help plug the media deficits plaguing the economy but are those on deficits strong in the fiscal not external dream book or for infrastructure finance at the moment there are conflicting signals emerging from the government but the finance minister is said to be working on a plan that will set an economic direction of economic policy in the future and unavailing of that plan of eagerly awaited. all in his speech on friday imran khan said pakistan will face drought like conditions by twenty twenty five if dams are not built immediately so do you think his crowdfunding solution will work if not what will your thoughts he's the hash tag eight in his grades thank you very much

if you're watching us on facebook live coming up find out how a netflix show has boosted sales of a japanese milk train called quaint and later on the news grid miss america is quality in the me to me iran will look at how people are reacting to changes brought on by global outrage over sexual assault and harassment to status. hello again well this hour we are going to start just out here towards the eastern part of the mediterranean notice these clouds pushing up across parts of turkey we are seeing some showers affecting uncle as well as the northern section of the country but down along the eastern parts of the mediterranean really not looking too bad beirut seeing a partly cloudy day ten twenty nine degrees there jerusalem at about twenty eight and as we go towards wednesday well things get a little bit warmer with temperatures in beirut seeing thirty two degrees and

speaking of those warmer temperatures quite city forty eight is your high here on wednesday and we are seeing some dry conditions winds are coming out of the north northwest so as long as are there it is dry but it's still very very warm make your way across much of the middle east we're all here in the gulf doha at thirty eight degrees very humid here so that is going to be very uncomfortable for most people here on tuesday as well as into wednesday but down across a low in oman we are looking at clouds along the coast a temperature few twenty eight degrees then as i make a way down across parts of southern africa we are looking at one funnel system way off the coast so across much of the region really looking at mostly cloudy to partly cloudy conditions but as we go towards tuesday it is going to be relatively nice for cape town at nineteen and up towards durban it is going to be twenty three degrees in your forecast and twenty nine on wednesday. 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 become a focus on the job and investigation reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health costs we think ok we'll send our you waste to china but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe death by design on al jazeera. police suspect the lone gunmen is behind fifteen unsolved shootings in the city all talk getting immigrants an ethnic minority an attempted murder on a young life friday evening police last in full force again after another man was shot out cycling disillusioned with the state prosecution the victim sistas strikes up an unlikely relationship with the accused and that's his two serial kana a witness documentary on al-jazeera.

headlines on al jazeera and the stories trending on our website al-jazeera dot com at number one there are top story today on the news great and. us announcing the

closure of the palestine liberation organization mission in washington d.c. and we've just got confirmation from the u.s. state department of the closure of the p.l.o. mission in d.c. earlier today it was the palestinian government that had said the u.s. was going to close their mission in washington and just now confirmation from the u.s. state department also trending the u.s. threatening the i.c.c. the international criminal court judges with sanctions that's expected to come in a speech by the u.s. national security advisor john bolton very shortly in about a half an hour or so his first major address since that joining the trumpet ministration john bolton we'll carry that live for you here on al-jazeera and also trending out of john missing waycross recount china town we'll have more now story in just a few minutes here on the news great in the meantime you can check out our website come to sarah dot com and those stories that we're covering here on al-jazeera let's not take a look at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world this

hour and a suicide bomber in somalia's capital mogadishu came at least six people and injured many more so far no one has claimed responsibility as he morgan reports. the bomber targeted a local government building in mogadishu and was followed by gunshots. a little of it i was drinking tea when the car hit the key i fell down on the ground and saw other people on the ground as well i was shocked. this is the second suicide blast and somalia's capital has now. claimed responsibility for that blast and dozens of other previous he said attacks many believe the armed group is behind sunday's attack tumor in other stuff watches. out they are doctors they have a doctor the i would be a doctors in the condition somali capital you know all the last week they are. dealing good. and today they are all the districts where they are and it is

a it will be when people are there on their way growing. in their life like food that this. somalis government withheld from the african union. fighters from the capital in twenty eleven but the group still has control over territories in the southern parts of the country and continues to target both government sites and civilians in the capital the u.s. has also been involved in targeting senior figures of the armed groups. but after more than twelve years people in mogadishu still face the new daily threats of attacks people morgan al-jazeera. and other news at least two people are dead and a dozen others injured after gunmen stormed the headquarters of libya's national oil corporation in tripoli libyan security forces say they have now gained control of the headquarters this comes after un brokered talks between several armed groups vying for control of the city agreed to halt fighting sweden's main political

broncs are grappling with the outcome of dead heats elections that have set the stage for complicated talks what is clear is that the anti integration sweden democrats have increased their vote the center left social democrats who were in power on track for their weakest showing in one hundred years later prime minister a stephane often has rejected cost to resign pending the final results. now the chinese government is being accused of conducting a campaign of human rights violations against turkey muslims in change young in northwestern china human rights watch interviewed almost sixty people who used to live there they spoke of muslims being detained without proper cause and are very religion being repressed under mosques surveillance and many interviewees said that more than half of their family are in prison or political education camps the chinese government has not yet commented on this report but has denied similar allegations of mistreatment in the past it says increased security measures in this

part of china are to keep a lid on separatist groups when i speak to steve zahn now in london he's the director of the china institute at the school of oriental and african studies thank you very much for being with us these are some pretty damning accusations there against the chinese government these recent one anyway how far do you think this government is willing to go to reeducate as it cost millions of people as far as it takes the current chinese government and she jinping who delegated the management option john to the party secretary engine junction trying all we would do whatever they think is necessary to from their perspective cured the illness that the people. have what do you think is the illness in the chinese government view the illness as you call it is it about religion about them being muslim or is it about separatism.

well from the particular perspective the two things really are not separated and the idea the perceptions they have that the readers are not sufficiently synthesise us chinese citizens is really the problem and therefore they see in the terrorist when they really aren't anything like the terrorist why is it important for the chinese government i guess this goes back to my previous question that they are seen as chinese citizens as you say is a perhaps about the separatists issue. well there really isn't a real separatist movement in john ok. the we are muslims and because they are practicing muslims keeping used to the islamic

practices therefore they are not doing what the atheist communist party expect and we quiet stems to do that is interesting that does the government do you think have a valid claim that tough security measures are necessary to combat terrorism. i mean we are talking about about ten million or a bit more because engine john and reports about a million of them are in some kind of concentration camps i don't think there is a government anywhere in the world who can just defined imprisoning ten percent of a particular population and whatever the challenges that the population may pose to the government at the un has also issued a report detailing mass surveillance program disappointingly targeting muslim minorities how concerning is that and how do you think the international community

should intervene and can it in fact intervene with the chinese government. what i think we should be paying a lot of attention to that even normal chinese citizen should be paying attention to that because what is being done against the muslims to ensure today can be what the chinese government can do to. han chinese dissidents in chinese cities in the future and the the leaders are normal human beings they have to write sed to practice their religion and and it is something that we have to support them and defend them wherefore we are for the international community should pay a lot of attention to that even though in reality china being so powerful there's a huge amount that we can actually do to change things engine john thank you very much for sharing your views with us steve sands is director of the china institute

at the school of oriental and african studies he was joining us on the newsgroup there from london and an excellent documentary on the wigglers of china by a team at al-jazeera world this film is external exile follows a story of the way or people of the former east turkistan occupied by china in one thousand nine hundred forty nine and remained province it provides for the context and background about the people and their predicament a film that you can watch on al-jazeera dot com brazil's jailed former president luiz inacio lula da silva could be on the verge of giving up on his bid to return to office the law is banned from running due to a corruption conviction and of the supreme court has rejected his latest appeal and this looks set to pave the way for his hand-picked successor died to vie for the presidency the workers' party has until the end of tuesday to register her dad as their candidate as we talk about america editor lucy and human who joins us now live from in brazil so what's the latest on this are we really expecting lula to

throw in the towel. hello fairly well i am standing right outside the federal police facility where lula is basically imprisoned he has been here since april and since early this morning he has been meeting with fernando had dad his vice presidential candidate who just about a second ago came out he's taking a lunch break but we've been told by the workers party press people that he will be coming back they'll continue to be meeting what we understand is that they're trying that they are discussing just what will be said at a meeting on tuesday with the top brass of the workers' party where apparently and this we're getting from party insiders apparently they will make the official announcement that will be stepping down and ceding his presidential candidacy to the vice presidential candidate this is being dragged out very slowly there seems to be a great reluctance to get this moving forward but that's just the way it is right

now a lot of you know a lot of not suspicion but a lot of. questions about why this is taking so long that was going to make my next question do you as you see they're dragging this out i mean has lost every single appeal so far why doesn't he just pass on the baton before it's too late or they're losing time here are they not. exactly well you know this exactly the campaign is underway they've already lost so much time with lula here he hasn't been able to campaign in public unlike his the other presidential candidates one of the reasons could be that lula is a fighter he is very reluctant to give up until until he's absolutely tried every option left him in fact at this hour they've put in another appeal to the supreme court to try to postpone the deadline to give them another week or four is not really clear at all because it seems very unlikely that he would win any other appeal at least soon enough before the election takes place on the seventh of

october but the other reason is that for them the hard that is unlikely to win it's not so easy to simply transfer your popularity lula is still the most popular individual candidate to someone else and so many think it doesn't really matter how long it takes thank you for that lucien newman our latin america editor reporting there live from cruelty in brazil and if you have a moment to watch lucy is interview with done about two years ago it gives you insight into the man who is not you know the silver the impoverished son of illiterate farmers rose to become not just a president of the world's seventh largest economy but the man who could tap rooted but brazil on to the catch go to brazil rather on the global stage as no one ever has a great interview watch it on talk to al-jazeera at al-jazeera dot com. the head of u.s. media giant c.b.s. les moonves has stepped down on new allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault and knowledges relations with three women but says everything was

consensual six more women came forward last month andy gallagher has the details from washington. well let's leave moonves is a titan in the t.v. industry he's been chief executive of c.b.s. for around fifteen years and is largely credited with turning the network from one of the least watched to the most watched in the united states but over the last few months these accusations. have been coming forward first six women now a total of twelve women accusing leslie moonves of forcing himself on them taking ruining their careers if they didn't do what he said sexually assaulting many of those people and now c.b.s. is a network has announced that he has been fired but that's really not the end of the argument and there is the question of leslie moonves his pay package as he leaves the organization there are some reports say he will get as much as one hundred million dollars in restitution for his twenty four years of service at c.b.s.

the network says they will donate twenty million dollars of whatever he gets to organizations that will help women in the workplace but this is outraged many people across the entire industry saying that after these allegations of come forward someone like him shouldn't get a penny and it's important to know that leslie moonves is got paid around seventy million dollars per year is chief executive of the network and through stock options is said to be worth something close to a billion dollars but here we have again one of the prime examples of the me too movement is very much harvey weinstein like behavior c.b.s. says it has launched an independent investigation that many people crying out for a clear and transparent investigation to find out exactly what went on but this is something that will shake the t.v. industry to its core this as i said is a very influential man in the business but in total twelve women made serious accusations against leslie moonves and he's now gone are saying in the u.s.

and on this issue the ninety eight year old miss america beauty pageant which has rebranded itself following the need to movement rainy days here and a new miss america has been crowned in a new era exactly folly plenty of changes on states and also behind the scenes there was a master potter of those at the top allowing for a new board to run the organization but what has people talking most is the scrapping of perhaps the most famous part of the event the censored competition. and that's been the big draw card ever since the first pageant in one nine hundred twenty one now the idea was to make it more inclusive to women of all shapes and sizes and it is the changes was a gretchen carlson a former miss america and chair of the board of trustees she also sued fox news chief or to els in twenty sixteen for sexual harassment a call sign says she wants to modernize the event into a platform for empowering young women replacing the swimsuit components with more on stage interviews candidates were judged on substance and other attributes not

just on physical appearance and as part of that miss america two point zero campaign the organization has been sharing this video online all of a white's bikini going up in a puff of smoke with the hash tag bye bye bikini and this is what some miss america contestants had to say about dropping the sense of competition listen i think i remember all of our leverage our candidates who are brilliant and the culmination of everything that it means to be an american woman you know we take away some say we're not giving them the characterization or simply just push it back to the nation onto another group for women who are in it's important that we are physically fit and very humble people but i don't think the constitution itself is focusing so much more on the key elements of the job of miss america talking with people talking about their social impact and promoting the organization and

recognize that most people interact with miss america one night and be here during the broadcast and part of what they're seeing is beautiful women walking around in swimsuits and because of the way that our society said that gives a certain message that isn't actually reflective of what it's going to miss america organization. which is scholarships and services and it's more. well there is also a lot of strong opinions online and some argue that the swimsuit portion is tradition hillary says she hates the new changes and this cartoon is also being shed as well depicting the miss america ship sinking is also another mean that's getting a lot of attention as well this one with the caption lose some suit equals lose viewers but there are also those who applaud the changes saying the need to hash tag with me to hash tag they say for decades the event was seen as a symbol that objectifies women jenny says that miss america should have eliminated the sins of competition decades ago it just wasn't needed and then lori adds that

it seems strange to me that there is still a miss america pageant is twenty eighteen should we be beyond beauty pageants well what do you think is a sign of progress for women get in touch use the hash tag is good. thank you very much for that.

i don't say when the sports is going to be dramatic weekend at the u.s. open ended the men's final live up to the women's folly perhaps not in an emotional sense but certainly in tennis history now this is a photo of pete sampras winning his fourteenth tennis grand slam at the u.s. open in two thousand and two and fifteen years later this is novak djokovic doing exactly the same thing he drew level with his childhood hero with a straight sets win over one month team del potro in new york david stocks has the story plenty of pretty much smiles between two close friends but once the photos

were done it was down to business and it was just a bit chilly. comfortably taking the acting say six three i b it was more competitive in the second set which lasted ninety five minutes but no matter what del potro detroit just a bitch have meant so be edged it on a toy break to go two sets up. the epic berries didn't stop the pop chart threw everything he had it took a bitch in the third set but even with his power. he just couldn't break the subs defense and instead it was joke of it ch who broke him it would be ruthlessly took the set six games to three and the total was his for third time. it was 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 rafael nadal beat him have people sampras but we do have john mcenroe i loved. it sampras is one of the biggest legends ever to play the game and he's. i was my childhood idol and 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 sadr in control here champ you know that i've just been i joke about it now holds two of the four major trophies and you wouldn't 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. well joke of it says he was inspired by a five day trek in the french alps with his wife this year but he's still got some climbing to do if he's to catch his compresses in the career grand slam list as we were hearing in david's report this is the hike djokovic has won wimbledon and now the u.s. open to make it fourteen korea slams along with some prize bots both players above

him are still playing rafael nadal is just a year older than him and is currently three ahead with seventeen slams and three for the clay it's the mighty roger federer who is the top of the pile with twenty grand slams he's six years older than joke of it still competing and capable of adding to that tally what djokovic has also asked about saturday's controversial women's final well get into his view in a moment but here's where we are right now because the questions remain did the umpire overreact to williams breaking the rules or did she react to him doing his job and whose ball is in which court the u.s. tennis association find serena seventeen thousand dollars for the code violations which included her calling the umpire a thief and a liar but then the head of the organization katrina adams said williams showed class in how she behaved towards when they i mean a sucker and the male chief of the women's tennis association or steve simon

released a statement suggesting that male and female athletes are held to different standards novak djokovic though disagrees with that view. i don't see things is mr simon does i really don't i 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 may i have my personal opinion that that may be the champ should not have pushed serino to the limit especially in the grand slam final. you know just maybe changed not maybe you did change the course of the match and just was in my opinion maybe unnecessary all right well what about the new grand slam win and they are a soka in all of this while she has been celebrating her victory at the top of the rockefeller center in new york and despite the partisan crowd booing during the

trophy ceremony she's taking the high road. i know it's you know this. new york it's in america and it's the u.s. open so i know everyone knew how badly she wanted to win the last twenty four and. for me i felt like i was a kid and i know for sure foes in the carter would have been calling for seeing it . all right well that debate is obviously going to keep running and running and i'd love to know what you think you can tweet me at j. and you can also use the hash tag a.j. news grid and get in touch the on what's up piece it will be back with more sports at eighteen hundred g.m.t. but for now i'll hand you back to fully john i thank you very much for that that will do it for today's news great remember to keep in touch with us on social media as jill said on own times on the hashtag a.j. news break do stay with us we'll get into may well because coming up next we'll be live from london you send it from me fully back to one whole team thank you for watching.

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