the warnings road access to roads to a problematic in laos. the lao government says harnessing the energy of the mekong is vital to its plans for economic growth opponents believe the cost to the environment of livelihoods outweighs the benefits not only for laos but the whole region wayne hay al jazeera gen kong thailand the body of the former u.n. secretary general kofi annan is being flown back to his native garden for a state funeral his wife and children accompanied the casket which was draped in the u.n. flag mr body will lie in state before the funeral say the nobel laureate of second african to serve as u.n. secretary general died last month in switzerland he was eighty. a mass rallies being planned in catalonia on tuesday for a binding referendum on independence from spain thousands of people have been on the streets for the sounds of celebrations to mark the region's national day is

there a year since catalonia sparked a constitutional crisis in spain but voting for independence in a non-binding referendum the central government has refused to accept that result. to same out the seventeenth anniversary of the september eleventh attacks at the world trade center site in new york rebuilding continues but work to replace a greek orthodox church that was crushed by the attacks has been suspended after the project hit financial problems gabriel elizondo reports from new york. it was an unassuming structure that for more than eighty years was home to the st nicholas greek orthodox church in new york and for decades it stood in the shadows of the world trade towers until september eleventh two thousand and one when the towers fell the debris crushed the church. frozen.

lies. in. st nicholas was the only place of worship destroyed on nine eleven well the whole history of zero zero or one hundred s. . courts. their archives. but also the memories of those the with chris and those now with mara do those the way our. visit that the church the greek archdiocese bowed to rebuild st nicholas at the very world trade center site and this video animation shows their big plans a new church and towering shrine made for more bull and glass inspired by the byzantine churches of his stand. famed spanish architect center. was hired to design the new church he also designed the oculus structure at the world trade center site and then something happened work on the project suddenly stopped

so the question becomes why the budget balloons to nearly eighty million dollars double what the archdiocese says raised now there's simply no money left to finish the project a plastic tarp now covers the construction site there are no signs of workers and no signs of the doors opening any time soon their cost structure stopped because the origin of course fortunately. i could rate. a huge cost overrun but as tourists visit the nine eleven memorial site off to the side most are oblivious to the construction site of the church the grand structure remains unfinished with nobody able to say for how much longer gabriel is on doe al-jazeera york. find out why this go for you

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time is full she was about his job thank you and i cartoon depicting serena williams outburst in the u.s. open final has been criticized as racist and sexist now this is the image in question drawn by a straining cartoonist mark knight for the herald sun newspaper based in melbourne critics say it uses racist stereotypes but knight denies that and says he intended only to betray her poor behavior in the match which williams lost to naomi osaka after being deducted a point for smashing her racquets and then a game of verbal verbal abuse in the umpire perhaps the most high profile critic is harry potter author j.k. rowling who responded to the cartoon on twitter saying well done on reducing one of the greatest sports women alive to racist and sexist tropes and turning a second great sports woman into a faceless prop she's referring to a soccer there but the editor of the herald sun newspaper damon johnston disagrees

he says the concertina is not racist all sexist it rightly mocks poor behavior by tennis legend mark has the full support of everyone at the herald sun well the whole exchange between serena and the chair umpire began when she was penalized for being coached from the stands the man in charge of the australian open says the sport needs to make its position clear on the. the sport has to really get itself sorted out on what it does with coaching and to just to be clear we are we going to have coaching we're not going to have coaching and what's it going to look like are you talking to a coach here so you have a specific view on it and and the view would generally be there has to be a certain element that that that needs to be allowed in the sports and and i think that needs to be looked at so the sport needs to get together and really sort that out and then i think once they're sorted out you don't have the issue that you haven't found a formula one driver came iraq in and will relieve ferrari at the end of the season the finn announced on instagram that he's rejoining the style the team for the next

two years reichen and he won the drivers' championship in two thousand and seven made his formula one debut with salvos seven years ago monegasques ricky kirk will take his place he's moving from. football legend diego maradona says taking drugs caused him to waste away but that he's now moving forward with his life he's actually moved into a new club in mexico the heart of the country's drug lands the argentine has taken over as coach of mexican second division club he's held his first training session a news conference the club is based in the hometown of the sin the lower cartel which is one of the most powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world. you know what. if i made a lot of mistakes in my life i'm now fifty seven years old and i'm assuming this responsibility like someone who has a new child you could say a lot of things but since i overcame my sickness fifteen years ago and when they were talking about drugs it was just dragging me down i was just wasting away i

wanted to explain this to kids that when i used to consume drugs i was going backwards and what a football player has to do is to go forward what happened i stopped all of this thanks to my daughters brazil's head coach says donald trump needs to brush up on his football history he's responding to a comment the u.s. president made when meeting with the head of the fire in the oval office last month is a reminder of trump's exchange with a brazilian reporter. so you're part of what you thought was right once again over where you broke. thanks over. oh. you did have a little problem with us down. so trump referring to brazil being knocked out of the world cup by belgium in the quarterfinals but when else about it head coach t.j. simply held up his hand to represent the five world cups that brazil have won. european

champions portugal have got their nations league campaign off and running with a win over italy the team were without their biggest star christiane or an elder for this group a encounter but andre silva scored in the forty eight minutes as they won one nil in group b. turkey came from two goals down to beat sweden three two. on she's a at the turn of well cup run is up to croatia they'll play spain with louis in reclaim making his home debut as coach in the other group a game iceland will look to bounce back from a six no loss in the opener against switzerland but they fell face belgium who finished third at the world cup. now they say that football is a religion but sometimes the two don't mix a football stadium in peru was the scene of clashes on monday between fans and a group of evangelical christians both say they own a piece of land on which the stadium in lima stands on monday hundreds of members of the religious group entered the building painted over the club's emblems and set up a church but the football fans chase them out with sticks at least one person was injured

and several were arrested. gold has a new world number one justin rose finished second at the b.m.w. championship to secure top spot in the rankings for the first time in his career rose put himself in a great position to win in philadelphia on monday with shots like this one. but he then went on to miss this parts that could have won in the tournament. and it was eventually american keegan bradley who beat rose in a playoff to claim the title the second was good enough for the englishman. rose who won the us open in two thousand and thirteen on the olympic gold medal at rio twenty sixteen dedicated his latest achievement to his late father he said we did it dad well number one thank you so much to my family friends and everybody that has helped me achieve this incredible goal and i meant to stay then for rose and also for american tony pheno who was handed the final spot up for grabs at the

ryder cup for now finished tied for eight in philadelphia which impressed u.s. captain jim furyk enough to hand in the last wildcard pick female then posted this video from his plane ride home. you guys told me you know here so excited to be on the ryder cup team and i cannot wait to get to paris thanks for all the support oh you're safe. so we're looking for guys that have had a great body of work all year don't he's had eleven top downs working for guys that are in good form right now he just wants second fourth and eighth in the playoffs you know he came over and played a practice round with us in paris in july song play the golf course liked what i saw i just really feel like tony checked all the boxes he's got a great background a team sports he looks like a basketball player but he's going to fit in gray's world well like i gets along with everyone and i see a lot of options for him for pairings no issues there and all the u.s. wildcard is tiger woods who finished sixth in philadelphia no wins this year but

has impressed on his comeback from back surgery rising well over a thousand places in the world rankings and he's sent out a warning to his competitors that he'll be even stronger next season. playing you know ever single week it seems like every single day it's just maintenance at this point it's just war of attrition it's what you do in the off season this allows you to maintain it through the through the year especially on the back side of the year and i really didn't train for all this you know that's because i didn't know how much i would be playing i'm just trying to play. so next you have a better understanding of what i need to do and this offseason to be very different than i was last year and then scritches are on course for four one series win over india on the final day of the last test retiring open alice a cook led them to four hundred twenty three for it to give india a victory target of four hundred sixty four but india lost wickets quickly they've now resumed on the final day at the oval and they are ninety three for three. and

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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. i remember the first time i walked into the newsroom and it felt like being in the general assembly of the united nations because it was so many nationalities. just we all come from different places but it's one that gives the back of the us the ability to identify the people who live at the side of the wall but we can understand what it's like to have a different perspective and i think that is a strength for al-jazeera. whether online this isn't some abstract we need to be attention to their stoops or if you join us on insect stopping terrorism it's creating a base is a dialogue and just the community is wanting to add to this conversation we need a president who's willing to be unveiling a short while everyone has

a voice and part of civil society i need go but i never get listening to by those in the corridors of joining the global conversation. going out to zero. signs chief negotiator accuses the u.s. of doing israel's bidding its allows more settlements and cuts aid to palestinians . and other more of this is a live from doha also coming up talks are underway in geneva as phase of a humanitarian catastrophe and syria's province rise. and

under pressure from the west to russia's leader of that amir peretz ten looks east . plus a seventeen years off the nine eleven attacks why the reconstruction of a historic church near the site in new york has stalled. but first at least ten people have been killed and forty one of those injured in afghanistan as a side bomb a targeted protest as and dollar districts in east sonangol province around eight hundred people were gathered to demonstrate against local. police and instability in the region. scientific says the united states is an unreliable broca in attempts for peace talks with israel p.l.o. secretary general saab arquette also accused compass tracing of doing israel's

bidding by allowing more illegal settlement building and crossing desperately needed aid as results come a day off to the u.s. announced it is shutting down the palace mission and washington d.c. . in the cats and spoke out about the u.s. as recent behavior toward the palestinians and what the united states has done so far. they have left the negotiating table. they did not honor the commitments made to us by president trump personally and the meeting at the white house and method two thousand and seventeen which he believed that he would give a peace process chance for one year and he would refrain from any actions that may preempt or prejudge issues that are there for parents to address. and then he decides that jerusalem as israel's capital and he decides if it is from that file of negotiations and he decides that settlements are illegal yesterday his national security adviser bolton became the first american official

to describe their legal settlements as housing projects because of the two state solution six seven and then they threaten us and they come to them because of this and because of the close offices because we didn't come back to the negotiating table what negotiating table in every single meeting we had with them we request of them to with us but there's really very few used. so what the united states have done with all its decisions so far and we never for any thought to have a confrontation with the u.s. by the way but how can anyone in their sin mind with all these american decisions drum's decisions believe that these people can be honest brokers facilitators arbitrators in any peace process. activists have set up several makeshift homes in front of a palestinian village in the occupied west bank in defiance of an israeli court order to demolish the area high court judges approved the demolition of the village last week saying there was no evidence approve the buildings in qana legal israel

wants to relocate the bedouin try that lives to an area next to a landfill which advocates say is against international law let's go back now to our top story increasing violence in afghanistan and shafiq hand down is a security expert in afghanistan he joins us today from washington d.c. good to have you with us now this area where we've just had this suicide blast that killed at least ten people in nine the hard province you know it well don't you it's your hometown. yeah good morning actually i wake up this morning with us from home that they were living in and i was we. we it is but i learned that there was a hole to us against. and there was an explosion so her there is no immediate way anybody else but i believe it's probably almost like he was been boosting their operation in the center on a son in the kind of triage you bill just all of our. problems and their strong.

ok so just how strong is di so i saw in that region. i think at the moment it's their headquarters it's the place where they plan and operate not only in eastern afghanistan and then go hard all of our not mine but even in auckland afghanistan as well as. another part from the sun as well you probably remember look around to meet sicko one of their leader or leaders are isis horus and was targeted by going forces that mean stolen you know they may try to change the leaders and so there are a lot of people in one of the primary these in the day she has been are getting stronger and stronger in eastern afghanistan particularly in general but because it's immediately more to do with pakistan and most of the members enjoy.

operates and she while in achieving me in the major problem districts of. their heart they are coming from pakistan so i think this trip may increase part there in the coming months and years and the danger from try to keep up a stronghold in jalalabad and to control other areas as well as sense of the security situation has reached a point that that locals can't handle anymore they were outright attesting against a lack of security when this attack happened what needs to be done. there has been a lot of mentions by the uk and the moment as well they have changed the leadership of the number hard to the government has been changed recently awesome security operations have been changed and there are special operation forces who have been dispatched and sent to the streets in order to allow the it's probably first ever city to do special operation forces or up and special forces there on the streets

underwood's or searching their car instead of the police and they're doing arrest and they're sometimes searching even houses but the issue is that has invested so much as well and their support of pakistan in eastern afghanistan so it's a bit difficult than other provinces however the government was during a lot but it's the not and not one of the main reason is the people and then their heart they have a very close relationship across the border in pakistan they have a kind of open border however there are some tricks people go freely and come back and it's absolutely difficult to control the wild border we have between method of heart problems and across the united states one of the main reason and meanwhile the rock band and extremism other than you know. this situation

a sort of even in the heart of university which is the second largest university and the one is not there's a lot of influence of extremism mutineers have been brainwashing their views other than your house and other provinces as a soldier as well or as applied to traffic jams and we'll have to leave it there but thanks very much for coming so and sites on that taken apart of afghanistan thank you so. now the criminal court says it will continue to do its work on the touch as the u.s. is threatening sanctions against the i.c.c. if it sees an investigation into american troops in afghanistan. bolton also confirmed the u.s. is closing diplomatic mission and washington a white house correspondent kimberly reports from washington. 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 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 retaliation 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 were 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 in. blind eye to ongoing israeli settlement expansion this isn't and if it mention of the u.s. administration is that in a nation. who continue its policies of blackmail and extortion. and undermining the peace process and the two state solution the palestinian mission opened in one 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 trump administration says it's still committed to peace could roll out its plan in the coming months kimberly help get al-jazeera

washington to juarez director of the human rights program american civil liberties union he says the u.s. is treating the i.c.c. judges as if that will criminals it's a really very very dangerous act by by someone who really has been hostile and mr bolton himself as was mentioned earlier was a bush administration ambassador to the u.n. and within that administration he he went against i see now he has a chance under trump to not only to shut down the investigation as united states but also to undermine the credibility of the i.c.c. as one of the foremost and the most important judicial bodies that is in charge of fighting impunity and i think this is really important this is part and parcel of a general policy of the u.s. in particular under trump to deny any foreign jurisdiction with regard to u.s. war crimes or crimes against humanity we saw the u.s.

going to europe to germany to spain even under the obama administration pressuring those countries to sgt loz investigations that attempted to do what the u.s. government and the u.s. judicial system failed to do that is to hold the bush administration officials accountable for the very serious crimes committed in the in the armed conflict in afghanistan. delegations from russia iran meeting in geneva for a second day of talks on syria this as the u.n. says thousands of people have been displaced in the last rebel and play of the syrian government and russian as strikes continuing the population of it has swelled over the years of conflicts with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of people escaping battles in other parts of the country aid organizations warn any military campaign to retake the region a humanitarian crisis they would change or joins us now from geneva so david what are the diplomats actually discussing the.