and we take a look at afghanistan's plan to get more female police officer says out on the run . helen is developing el nino which is never particularly good news the eastern side of australia having suffered the winter drought and i need a bit of this early spring right in the picture looks draw if and what's coming through the bite this cloud he will produce something the way of rain but that's about it then just these we confront systems in the first one comes into wars adelaide but not getting there on tuesday it's a little warm breeze a twenty two here twenty four up in melbourne about the same in sydney sort of into the twenty's very reliably perth temporarily you are not you're being beaten by east and neighbors and a similar story but a reduction in temperature for winds to the cloud is coming in the winter action has changed have you seen the significant rain probably not even in tasmania not

a great deal in the forecast as for new zealand what the remnants of what's called an active system still there could in quite happily through north island as you can see the winds coming from the north so the potential for quite a lot of humidity and therefore raney's with us fifty in oakland fourteen down the sunshine in christchurch and come wednesday looks like a nice dry picture and i should be able to say the same for go directly north to japan having suffered yet again days of rain we have probably got one day off but then i'm afraid the rain comes up again from the south. climate change is more of a manager is a much. more fire and. doesn't really need. to put. my arm. at any time

it's. all over to. my nigeria on al-jazeera. network of top stories now the u.s. has threatened to arrest and prosecute judges and other officials of the international criminal court u.s. national security adviser john bolton says sanctions will be imposed if the court proceeds with an investigation into alleged war crimes by the u.s. and afghanistan the u.n. says more than thirty thousand people have been displaced by fighting in syria's

last major rebel held province in the north government an ally of russian forces of increased up on meant of a blip in the past few days and at least six people have been killed in another sixteen injured in a car bomb explosion in somalia's capital mogadishu al-shabaab says it carried out the attack. well now to iraq where the prime minister hydraulic body has visited the southern city of basra to quell growing on rest of a poor public services and growing unemployment at least fifteen people have been killed in protests over the past week many angry that they're not benefiting from the region's oil wealth rob matheson has more now from baghdad. under pressure to resign the prime minister hide the body or arrives in the southern iraqi city of basra where protesters say his government is to blame for much of the corruption and neglect which have destroyed their water and power supplies and left thousands without jobs. what happened in a bathrobe was one hundred percent true to

a political conflict unfortunately some political blocs have military wings and some of them wanted to burn down by the throat but thankfully there was stopped by the cooperation of the peaceful civilians yet they're going to get a body is facing calls for him to step down over the crisis in basra the iraqi government is deadlocked disputes over the result of an election in may have left politicians wrangling over power in basra fighters from the air run by a group known in english as the league of the righteous have paraded through the streets their headquarters is one of several private and government buildings burned by protesters during a week of demonstrations against corruption which also targeted other pro iran shia groups the governor says the destruction is criminal part of many protest organizers and activists have denounced such actions and a criminal act should be denounced by the people of basra regardless of who had carried it out but is only allowed to have peaceful protests in order to deliver

the people's messages to the government. three hundred kilometers to the north of basra is the city of samarra protesters there tried to storm the offices of the political party but were pushed back by police so the party's leader is shia cleric ahmad all hakim who is also part of the parliamentary coalition headed by fellow shia cleric walked out all sudden seen as a nationalist and anti iran solder is vowing to fight corruption he's demanded the protests should hold for forty five days in that time he says the government should demonstrate that it's doing something to help bus but critics say this short visit by the prime minister won't achieve much. in basra there's a heavy military presence but there are fears that might incite move violence no groups to about could make politics and security even more complicated. rob matheson al-jazeera back down several armed men have attacked the headquarters of

libya's national oil corporation killing at least two people and injuring ten dollars it's the first attack of its kind against top managers of libya's state oil industry which is vital to the country's economy security forces say they've now regained control of the landmark building in the capital tripoli mahmud abdel wyatt has more from tripoli the special deterrence force that is the security apparatus policing in the capital tripoli has a now said that its individuals have taken full control of the headquarters of the national oil corporation following that attack that targeted the national oil corporation and killed two of the employees and one did ten others now according to the head of the tripoli security directorate the attackers belong to isolate but at the same time the interior ministry issued a statement saying that the attack is

a terrorist attack without without naming the assailants at the same time the g.n.a.t. that is the government of national accord condemned the attack calling it a terrorist attack now the situation has called of to some extent but there is still security measures security measures have been tightened in front of the state institutions and premises now this attack is very similar to the attack on the high national election commission last may when i solute claimed responsibility for that but so far according to security sources this is this period the science of a terrorist attack but the identity of the assailants has not been confirmed yet. lawyers for brazil's jailed former president louise silva say they'll keep fighting to run in next month's election is barred from running because of a corruption conviction and supreme court has rejected his latest appeal but his

lawyers say they'll press the un's top court to make an exception so he can stand as a candidate a latin america editor b.c. and human is included kiba is in jail but clock is ticking and it is still unclear whether former president lula da seen about will ultimately save his presidential candidacy to his running mate for. the workers' party and lula himself are still hoping against all the odds that the court will pick up a united nations appeal to brazil to allow the president former president to a run but that is a long could take the court weeks or months even debate that united nations and in the meantime there are a liberal calendars that have to be respected that means that her dad would have to be would have to be registered as an alternative candidate by late tuesday and if he is not then himself would have to be accepted as the candidate on the seventeenth of september that means that this is

a very very high stakes bet that's taking place right now the party the workers' party is going to be meeting on wednesday on tuesday rather to decide exactly what its strategy will be russia and japan say that working toward signing a peace treaty should formally end second world war hostilities russian president vladimir putin the japanese prime minister shinzo army made the comments after meeting in vladivostok on the sidelines of the east an economic forum a decades long dispute over an island chain between the two countries to stop them signing a peace treaty before now and has also told me he would help resolve the issue of japanese citizens being kidnapped by north korea. well in other developments us president donald trump has received a new letter from the north korean leader kim jong un asking for a second meeting it comes as north korea has staged a dazzling display in the capital pyongyang extending an olive branch to the international community as a bride reports now from sell. 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 bracing his south korean counterpart while korean characters declare a new era of reunification. leave this display also promotes the message of strengthening relations with the international community after years of isolation. i think our country should be reunified soon and go out into the world he says. 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 overseeing the development of new tourist resorts as a way of attracting visitors and their cash neighboring china is allowing direct code 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's 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 well now they're being offered secure housing in an effort to encourage more women to join charlotte alice explains. female police officers are

a relatively new phenomenon in afghanistan. the police force was rebuilt sixteen years ago and there are now 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 eisel 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 hekmat shah who had no idea to improve the female to male ratio build

a town only for police woman to protect them 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 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. the total cost is one huh. hundred twenty million dollars canada has put thirty million towards the first phase of building the issues 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 province when they were targets and killed by the taliban in kabul the security elite

a watching these stories weary recruitment even without a brick laid the site is already listed with tower was unarmed it's 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 zero. saddam's president says he's trying to improve living conditions and economic stability by sacking his entire government. dissolves 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 provincial

administrations will improve the government spending and attract new investment sweden faces a period of lengthy political wrangling after an election which ended with no party winning a majority the center left bloc led by the prime minister stephan loaf and won just over forty percent of the vote but the center right alliance that by the moderates says it's been given the mandate to leave the country they want virtually the same share as the center left bloc but neither group wants to negotiate with sweden's far right party which won seventeen percent of the vote. meanwhile 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 on to 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 spain central government has refused to accept that result but.

squid look at the top stories now the u.s. has threatened to sanction the international criminal court calling it unaccountable and dangerous u.s. national security adviser john bolton says i.c.c. judges and officials would be slapped with financial and criminal charges if they try to charge americans accused of war crimes in afghanistan bolton also confirm the trump administration will close palestine's diplomatic mission in washington. we will not cooperate with the i.c.c. we will provide no assistance to the i.c.c. and we certainly will not join the i.c.c. . we will lead the i.c.c. die on its own after all for all intents and purposes the i.c.c.

is already dead. the un says more than thirty thousand people have been displaced by fighting in syria's last major rebel held province in the north of government an allied russian forces have increased that bombardment of adlib in the past few days as well as parts of the jason hama a group say they're concerned about a potential humanitarian crisis in the region. at least six people have been killed and another sixteen injured in a car bomb explosion in somalia's capital market issue a car rammed into a local government office al qaeda linked group al-shabaab says it was responsible for the blast. the iraqi prime minister is made a surprise visit to bastareaud where weeklong protests have left at least fourteen people dead protests is accused bodies government of corruption and failing to provide jobs and basic public services about thirty thousand people have been hospitalized from drinking contaminated water. the lawyers for

brazil's jailed former president louise in are suited to silver say he'll keep fighting to run in next month's presidential election lula is barred from running because of a corruption conviction in the supremes court has rejected his latest appeal his lawyers say they'll press the un's top court to make an exception so he can stand as a candidate. i have more on that story and everything else a bit later on do stay with us though for our next program my nigeria which looks at the life of a stand up comedian trying to grow his brand. that is a perfect formula for authoritarianism and me here let me ask you straight up korea is the two state solution now that the lights are on and there's no way it's high up front which hangs on his ear.

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quiet when i sneak into your dream that's what you see for granted. and i actually took what i was eating french fries. and i want. my mom. we can see what we want. what do you think. the president was like. why did you know i mean if you're going to. come i want to meet him i. know him well he's you're. going to go back and i don't i'm going to come on. i don't. know that i'm going to find.

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you do that you'll get a strong man for the people i said my brother if you're not one of the web in dark clothes. i love my wife wanted to send it to reach me which is key i'm very hard to read. through all the things i talk about my wife is real it's true but just a little bit of it. trying to ask me one chats and so when she does it. i think isn't much you around here you know san soo she is older than i. then my reaction on how i do it. from everything i talk about my wife has. of truth in. live loses more lives like my restaurant. whatever i write. was relieved and grimy like trying to. live is very fast

as you have to be on top of your game everyone was in there. knew that it was where you can get. or you second. if you're smart or what you do you. just need to just seeds and grab it and that's one thing i love about. me. i was funny. and i saw you. and. the first time i saw it coming it was actually supposed to be a rock performance we him and his brother. as they were performing on stage the crowd because my university a very vocal crowd they were not just enjoying the rap so much at the time like somebody in the crowd just trash talking them and i remember you know picking on

the guy like you do or you can't charge struck me because he was with the mike in just a trust look at this guy and then from that point everyone just a laughing like everybody stay locking and he just he just stopped the music the music just to pretty much stop before he was now at the start of committee thing and it just might have been this guy and someone a guy would you know to something that in the end he would look at the other guy yeah i was so funny even the guy that we've been trying to stop with laughing really all over the place when i saw that performance of i didn't you know does this way should be like just stop and everybody on the compost. after midnight after he just became a star in the compas everybody just recognized that you know i said. push him to perform an event. p. u p i was doing it's just a feat. he. literally. got

cut off what to eat. just doing comedy and then just. then. shot the truth. because of the freebie. imo the only tool always pulled me up all day and that was a body place she behind you with these guys but somehow you listen to your mom. who happens. the funny thing is he dropped out and that he's the only one with master. you know my next life i want to drop. down being punished. i'm going to put a straight face so these kids don't mock me i'm just going to act like i'm not me.

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so in a city talk to the city i've never felt so much been like for. two weeks i should be fine. is the hottest part of being this kind of media you have an injury where you feel. you be able to fight sunday more so right now for the next to you.