with no credible opposition prime minister hun sen's cambodian people's party won every seat in the national assembly in july 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 who came so close and other opposition party political leaders like me i hope that they are signing your light a street or a 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 one sin says if he goes unpunished cambodia will descend into civil war wayne hale jazeera bangkok. russia and japan say they're working toward signing a peace treaty to formally end second world war hostilities russian president vladimir putin and the japanese prime minister shinzo are they made the comments after meeting lot of us stuck on the sidelines of eastern economic forum

a decades long dispute over an island chain between the two countries to stop them signing a peace treaty before now there's a reason for you to go to. sleep we touched on the peace treaty issues during the talks it's well known this issue has been discussed for decades and it would be naive to assume it could be resolved in an hour but we are already to seek for a solution satisfactory for both russia and japan and excepted by the peoples of both nations. when our us president donald trump has received a new letter from north korean leader kim jong un asking for second meeting this comes as north korea staged a dazzling display in the capital pyongyang as part of efforts to extend an olive branch to the international community pride reports from seoul. taking months to prepare and involving tens of thousands of citizens to perform them the games are an extravagance north korea can ill afford. they haven't been staged for

five years but the country's leader kim jong un clearly believes this period of improving relations is worth celebrating. him and bracing his south korean counterpart while korean characters declare a new era of reunification. you know this display also promotes the message of strengthening relations with the international community after years of isolation. that you know i think our country should be very unified soon and go out into the world he said that. north korea's neighbors may be prevented by international sanctions from trading with it but tourists face less restrictions tickets for foreigners to witness this spectacle cost hundreds of dollars and thousands are expected to visit during the coming months. kim jong un has personally overseen the development of new tourist resorts as

a way of attracting visitors and their cash neighboring china is allowing a record number of tourists to visit north korea providing a much needed boost and pyongyang wants to reopen a resort on its side of the d.m.z. border to allow return of tourists from south korea. this is an impoverished country still under maximum international pressure not that you would know it from this display robin pride al-jazeera so. afghanistan the government is building a town soley for female police officers in kabul there are about three thousand female officers in the country just two percent of the total force now they're being offered secure housing in an effort to encourage more women to join charlotte reports. female police officers are a relatively new phenomenon in afghanistan. the police force was rebuilt sixteen

years ago and there are no one hundred sixty thousand officers but only three thousand women. that i can feel there's danger for a few more police officers in afghanistan but when i joined the police i decided on that day concho coffin which means i accept that the danger i want to be a role model for people to serve them sincerely set a culture change it and lots of women join the police. 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 afterwards. one of the nation's most senior police woman brigadier general hekmat shah who 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 placed to make a city for them it's all for the safety from where i'm standing rise the first of ten five storey 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 guards how 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. to. total cost is one hundred twenty million dollars canada has put thirty million towards the first phase of building the issue 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 offices and provence when they were targeted and killed by the taliban in kabul the security elite a watching these stories where they hurt 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 a responsibility and duty for every afghan woman our men should stand side by side and fight for their 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 saddam's president says he's trying to improve living conditions and economic stability by sacking his entire government model bashir dissolved his cabinet and cut the number of ministries from thirty one to twenty one in a bid to tackle a growing economic crisis he says reducing the number of local and prevention administrations will improve the government spending and attract new investment well now sweden's inconclusive general election means the country faces months of

uncertainty about the makeup of the next government the rise of a far right party that has raised questions about a society long betrayed as one of europe's most open and liberal minded john holl reports from stockholm. so even wakes up to a confused political picture one of the main parties or blocs as a clear majority coalition talks could take weeks and the sweden democrats the far right party much talked about before is down in third place but its achievements are very real nonetheless pushing the national discourse to the right stripping support away from the main parties and forcing sweden to confront important questions about immigration integration and the kind of country it wants to be sweden has a trajectory of historical past with open society open to immigration open for other cultures and they believe that their openness is the key to its success in terms of economic development being

a done dynamic and creative and so that you think is still the case i think that is still the case but so-called socio economically challenged areas like this not far from stockholm tell a different story the government refers to them as segregated areas the far right and i called them ghettos it's not the sort of thing one often associates with the idea of sweden this may be a country that's taken in per capita more asylum seekers and refugees than any other but it's hardly a model of integration i live in and minal the community activists both swedish born of foreign descent the challenge is that we have a society in sweden has. has been ongoing for a long time it's not something that has been just popped out of nothing we'll tell you always explaining our rights yes they may are right zooming our race in may never feeling kind of the sense included in this is say that it's not the same for

us as. if you like swedish or if you are born. in the right only is this election demonstrates that immigration policy is all that comes with it matters to a lot of people north least those subject to it perhaps not lifting the lid all of these things means that sweden can begin talking about them and dealing with them joel al-jazeera she stood stock of. catalonians are preparing to hold a mass rally in support of a binding referendum on independence from spain thousands of people have already come out onto the streets for the start of celebrations to mark the region's annual commemorative day it's nearly a year since catalonia sparked a constitutional crisis in spain by voting for independence from madrid in a non-binding referendum spain's central government though has refused to accept

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business updates brought to you by. going places together. marion thank you very much the u.s. open men's final didn't have anywhere near as much trauma as the women's but know that joke of each put on a mosque the full tennis display to beat up on martin del potro and wrap up these

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. 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 tried djokovic have meant so i edged it on a tie break to go two sets up. the epic baris didn't stop that the pop chart threw everything he had a joke of it in the third set but even with his power. which he just couldn't break the serves defense and instead it was joke of it who broke him be ruthlessly took the set six games to three and the total was his for third time i 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 roughen a doubt three different people sampras but we do have john mcenroe i loved. it sampras is one of the biggest legends ever to to play the game and he's. i was my childhood idol and 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 so dream come true you're a champion you know there's a job to judge which no holds two of the four major trophies and you wouldn't bet against him making it three next up it's the australian open event he's won six times already david stokes al-jazeera. the debate over the behavior of both serina williams and the chair umpire during the women's final just won't go away williams

lost. in a bad tempered match the women's tennis association has come out in support of serena's claims that she was treated differently by the umpire than a male player would have been the chief executive steve simon released a statement on sunday saying the w.t. was committed to all players being treated the same and that they didn't believe that what was done during the final. never talk of it shows 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 not to the limit especially in a grand slam final. you know just maybe changed 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 does 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 just i don't see it's it's necessary really to to debate that italian motorbike rider man of the has been kicked out of his team after grabbing a rival's brake lever during sunday's moto to race in san marino this is the incident which for an artist team described as an irresponsible act in danger in the life of another rider the matter of any snipers have terminated his contract he was set to join forward racing next year but the bike manufacturers have said they will oppose the deal. after losing at home to russia last week turkey got the u.s. in nations league campaign up and running with a storming comeback in stockholm they went to know their own two world cup quarter final sweden but one three two win at a time portugal scraped a win over italy elsewhere scotland kicked off with a win and remaining got

a draw in. just a few months after scoring in the world cup for japan keisuke honda is back on the international stage but now as coach of cambodia honda retired from the japan team after russia although he still plays club football in melbourne he's new team took the lead in the spring the against malaysia three for selves a rocket giving the home crowd hope of a new dawn in pen on pine but they had lost to afghanistan in their previous match in march and they couldn't hold on against malaysia either because it was a three one win as the teams are set to meet again in a.z. and football zuzu kick up in november. england cricket alastair cook has scored a century in what will be his final tastings four ways country cook reached one hundred forty seven on day four of the final test against india at the oval he will retire at the end of this he's one hundred sixty first match as the most capped test cricketer in each country's history england took three indian wickets to close

in on victory still more than four hundred runs ahead. to go off now an american keegan bradley is one his first p.g.a. tour title in six years rain forced the b.m.w. championship into an extra day in philadelphia bradley shot a total score of twenty under par this shot would lead to a bogey on the eighteenth which ultimately cost him outright victory he signed for six hundred sixty four for the fourth round and tired of the talk with justin rose he held his nerve in the playoff to claim the winner's check of one hundred six million dollars it wasn't all bad for rose though the industry moves to the world number one position for the first time. some of the world's best surfers have proved you don't have to be anywhere near the coasts to catch the bass waves the latest stop on the world championship tour to surface one hundred sixty one kilometers inland to a suit pool designed by eleven time world champion kelly slater the manmade wave gives compeers as 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 made of brazil narrowing the gap between him and standings leader philippe tornado in the women's competition hawaii's carissa muar one to move to fourth in the standings and that's all the support from us for now we'll have another update again later but for now it's back to mary i'm in london now looking for ted thank you very much well that's it for me for now on this news hour but i will have a full blessing of news here very shortly a full roundup of all the day's top stories coming up in just a couple of minutes. in

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al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of counts folk abene dot. the first u.n. envoy trying to bring peace to the middle east how his 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. united states threatens to sanction the international criminal court if it proceeds

with an investigation into alleged war crimes in afghanistan. you know i'm maryam namazie and london you went out jazeera coming out. more than thirty thousand people have been displaced the syrian government forces continue to pound the last major rebel stronghold of ablett. at least six people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in somalia's capital al-shabaab claims responsibility and iraq's prime minister arrives in basra to quell weeks of deadly protests over poor public services and unsafe drinking more so. the united states has threatened to sanction the international criminal court calling it an accountable and dangerous and his first major policy speech president

donald trump's national security adviser john bolton said i.c.c. judges and officials would be punished if they tried to charge americans accused of war crimes in afghanistan he also confirmed the trumpet ministration is closing palestine's diplomatic mission in washington a white house correspondent kelly out that reports. protests in the west bank as news filtered out washington was making good on its threat national security advisor john bolton made it official the u.s. is closing the washington office of the palestine liberation organization an effort to put pressure on palestinians to return to the negotiating table amid stalled peace talks with israel the trumpet ministration will not keep the office open when the palestinians refused to take steps to start direct and meaningful negotiations with israel the threat of the mission's closure seen by many as retaliate. for actions by the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas last year at the

united nations calling for the investigation and prosecution of israeli officials to the international criminal court the actions in raged many in the united states who see the i.c.c. as a body rife with abuses and an infringement on u.s. sovereignty on monday bolton called for criminal sanctions against the i.c.c. if it moves ahead with investigating allegations of us work crimes in afghanistan those sanctions could even include blocking i.c.c. judges from entering the united states the united states will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court senior palestinian officials are enraged by the u.s. announcement following similar announcements of cuts to palestinian aid the move of the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and its blind to ongoing israeli

settlement expansion on disputed land this is an administrative mission of this administration is that to diminish and. its policies of blackmail and extortion. undermining the peace process and. the palestinian mission opened in nine hundred ninety four here in washington and palestinian leaders have long held that any closure of this office would undermine peace efforts despite ignoring these warnings the trumpet ministration says it's still committed to peace and could roll out its plan in the coming months kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington. scott anderson is a fellow at the brookings institution and a former u.s. diplomat he tells me the u.s. warning could make the i.c.c. even more determined to investigate my understanding is that right now the potential best occasion is still awaiting judicial prevail at the i.c.c. and it's not clear to me that there are any steps forthcoming on maybe mr bolton

knows something that we don't about the decision that's coming down the road although the fact that this reflects longstanding views of his in my mind makes it more likely that he's essentially taking an opportunity to try to advance and articulate this agenda not a silly that there's an i.c.c. decision forthcoming in all honesty i think there would be fairly unlikely that the i.c.c. would proceed with a major investigation perhaps or maybe some limited in instances the i.c.c. abides by a principle of complementarity an idea that where local and national authorities are in a position to investigate and have pursued investigations and accountability for violations they will defer to those national authorities the united states does have an effective justice system including a military justice system at operation in afghanistan so it seems unlikely to me it would have posed a major threat but i do does to me seem that by taking this action by attempting to bully very openly the i.c.c. going to take this sort of action mr bolton may in fact have made it more likely

that the i.c.c. is going to feel pressured to allow an investigation to go forward simply so that it can be clear that it's not being bullied by the united states well the palestinian leadership is saying that bolton's announcements are another blow to the peace process harry force it has more on that now from ramallah. well the polar state of relations between the palestinian leadership and the united states was already in evidence for many months one of those factors is the fact that the head of the p.l.o. mission which has just been closed down has been here in ramallah since he was withdrawn from the united states in may by palestinian president mahmoud abbas he was informed early on monday morning palestinian time by a u.s. official who told him that it was because of the palestinian pressure for israel to be brought before the international criminal court that this decision was being made but the palace in leadership sees this very much in the context of other u.s. measures against them in recent days in fact throughout the trump administration just recently though we have seen two hundred million dollars in aid slashed from

u.s. funding to the palestinian authority we've seen the united states and entirely its funding of unruh the u.n. organization that's aids palestinian refugees just this weekend twenty five million dollars taken away from palestinian hospitals in east jerusalem and so when we spoke to the senior advisor to the palace in president not bill south he put this in that context does mr trump provide any answer absolutely not mr trump's ideas of destructive whatever remains of the peace process are one sided are extortionists. using economic pressure to deny any right for the palestinians and to deny the importance of international law and international institutions the palestinian leadership says rather than trying to bully them into adopting a different line in terms of their rejection of the trump peace plan before its publication rather the united states has adopted

a grocery list of israeli demands this latest move being one of them we spoke to the secretary general of the p.l.o. side erica on monday he said that they would pursue israel at the international criminal court with even greater vigor adding another charge to the list that of the impending demolition of a bedouin village. in the occupied west bank he also said that after speaking to the un general assembly president abbas would return here reconvene the palestinian central council and start to enact real changes in the palestinian relationship with israel as a result of all that's happened since donald trump took power. the united nations is saying more than thirty thousand people have been displaced by fighting in syria's last major rebel held province of ed led government and allied russian forces have increased that bombardment in the past week with aid groups worried for the safety of the three million people trapped there stephanie decker

has the latest from antakya which is close to the border with syria. there's a huge numbers given by the united nations over thirty thousand people fleeing the areas where the bombardment is taking place and going to different areas inside it of most of the people according to the united nations going into camps these are camps that are along the turkish border turkey's borders of course remain closed some people going to stay with relatives also others according to the united nations are an informal camps and others renting it just shows you the concern going forward particularly touched by turkey of a mass potential civilian exodus towards its borders its borders remain closed as we've said and it has no intention of opening them up regardless of what happens it says it is on his own and it is that capacity when it comes to dealing with syrian refugees hosting already over three million inside turkey so what what they're doing to prepare for this they tell us that they already have material inside syria

in the sense that they can be setting up more camps more tense also medical facilities tree our facilities if that is needed because they do expect if the offensive gets closer to the cities to the more densely populated areas they're warning and a lot of people have used this word of a potential bloodbath as a possible offensive looms an adlib senior officials from russia turkey and iran have arrived in geneva for talks hosted by the u.n. holding two days of discussions on drafting a new constitution for the country david to has more from geneva. the united nations has warned an all out onslaught on it live will endanger the lives of three million civilians trapped in the province one million of them children. the special envoy for syria has spelled out to the security council what it could mean we have been hearing it during this last few days we are all terribly concerned the all

ingredients that exist poor a perfect storm with in chile divest the concert with other consequences as well syrian refugees and activists have been staging weekly demonstrations outside the u.n. headquarters in geneva they say it's intolerable talks of a new constitution are taking place and while bombs are falling on it live. to the united nations says if you are. just talking without action we heard my brother next. to. the u.n. special envoy to syria said in terms of real politics they realize that plans could be overturned by the escalating conflict in it live but that no political process should be held hostage by anything aid organizations say in recent days three hospitals have been attacked one of them twice they're calling for human observers

to be based in the province when there is a storm i would be told sick by the war stay in the payson and do this don't do that to survive in the case of syria it's not even a storm there is no guidance there is no instructions you never know what to do as a civilian this secretly film footage was taken after the fall of eastern ghouta earlier this year and shows young men who surrendered to the government being led in chains through the streets of damascus it's believed they were then conscripted into the army this digital artwork of life in rebel controlled. a tree in syria is going on display at the headquarters of the union of medical care in geneva it conveys the suffocating isolation of being under attack but nothing can convey the sheer scale of the suffering to come if the assault continues david chaytor al jazeera geneva. a suicide bomb explosion in somalia's capital mogadishu has killed

at least six people and injured many others the armed group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for this latest act of violence to hit market issue this year have a morgan reports the the bomber targeted a local government building in mogadishu and was followed by gunshots to the only thought that 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 but i was shocked the this is the second suicide blast and somalia's capital system on the al-shabaab claimed responsibility for that blast and dozens of other previous he said attacks in others not fighters they turned out they are jockeys the they have attacked in the hour will be they carry out attackers in the conditions somali capital they know are the last week be attacked and hello that districts like killing. and today they are all the districts and it is a people many people are they are on their way growing they are always 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 forth government sites and civilians in the capital the u.s. has also been involved in targeting senior figures of the armed groups the that but after more than twelve years people in mogadishu still face the new daily threats of attacks people morgan al-jazeera. still ahead for you on the program north korea extends a colorful olive branch to the international community as its leader kim jong un request a second meeting with the u.s. president and we take a look at afghanistan's bold plan to get more female police officers out on the roads.

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