with. other. refugees. turning to have that would be a new sign of the. nation to outsource the migration challenge but what will that mean for people fleeing persecution and poverty also on the grid singing it from the mountain top the leaders of north and south korea put on a final show of unity after three days of talks south korea's president has

returned from his visit with a message that. quickly but further progress depends on the u.s. . here after being hit by a. slow recovery. we'll speak to a former deputy governor of the u.s. territory as a bitter debate rages over washington's response. a simple flight crew error creates panic in the skies over. the questions it's raised about. dot com so the european union leaders have warmed to a suggestion from member states. austria to pursue closer ties with egypt and other

north african countries to tackle the migration crisis austria has a right wing leader sebastian kurtz who is hosting leaders in the city of salzburg as you can see it says that egypt is ready to intensify talks with the e.u. the blog has previously slug struck deals with turkey and libya that helped to reduce the number of refugees and migrants reaching europe's shores. me president risk and i have agreed you know discussions with egypt under indeed with north african countries that we are going to deepen these discussions we've agreed on more in-depth cooperation on issues of migration but also. issues such as economic cooperation with egypt. egypt is not going for refugee centers at the same time it has been very efficient in combating illegal migration over the past two years and no single vessel has left egypt illegally heading for

europe live to lawrence lee he is joining us from salt works so how far is the e.u. willing to go with this idea lawrence. well that's that's that's a very good question it's all embryonic at the moment donalds us the european council president answered. visit presidency see last weekend and have got his buy into eights in theory another go to seekers events lined up over the next six months the austrians are going to host the african union summit here in austria in december to talk about economic reconstruction in its own terms and then there's going to be e.u. summit in cairo in february which is the arab league but they're basically framing it in a number of different ways warn that the so-called quota system where european countries would share a refugees under some sort of accepted moral code has fallen apart completely and

they just bickering with each other but at the same time they can that they can get all the e.u. twenty seven in unity to say well we can pay for the country to do it and they can manage it for us outside the external border and that's absolutely grates clearly they can't run on libya to do it and they've now looked at egypt under the austrian presidency as a country which successfully manages not to let people escape and if they do bring some straight back in and say well that's that's obviously this is the solution the options are trying to frame it on some level as a way of stopping people dying in the sea because even though the numbers actually reaching europe are lower than they were during the great exodus of twenty fifteen thousands of people have drowned in the mediterranean because the e.u. has found no way of actually rescuing them successfully in organizing their asylum claims but in terms i think if you look at it in some of the european politics what it says is that the policies of the hardline populist rights are now being adopted in full by political parties which would describe themselves as center right and

that's very important given that there are european elections at the start of next year which the populous parties think they'll do very well in and so that i think is while the center right parties are so eager to support the austrian plan because they can make it look as if they're being reasonable. even of the policies of. the very best debates of all because there are very grave human rights questions attached to what they're proposing i suppose the devil will be in the detail lawrence but what will egypt be getting out of this well money i think i think primarily and obviously some some status as an excepted and you know long term potentially strategic partner for there for the european union but you talk about detail i mean i was briefed on this much earlier this morning and senior officials if you say to them what does this mean if the egyptians don't want to turn into the next big refugee senses other going to process asylum claims for germany in cairo if

a boat is found by from sex the border agency in the sea of libya do those people then get taken sweet hits and they say well we'd really like that to happen but we don't know yet and so it is early stages but you know there's it's the philosophy that counts and the philosophy says it's better to protect the free movement zone inside the european union not to allow them to come into the block in the first place so and that's a pretty by any means a pretty a pretty hardline approach and lauren so one of our viewers is asking if this this is simply european leader is getting tougher on external border isn't sort of moving away from this idea off sharing refugees. well yes and you see what what what happened when the great actors in twenty fifteen happened and the germans said we'll take a million people how about everybody else a number of other countries led by hungary said we're not taking anybody and they started putting the fences up and that put the whole idea of schengen free movement

inside the european union in doubts and over the course of the last three is frankly what's happened is that hungary has won that argument inside the european union and so the entire debate now at events like this is how better to protect the external border and no debate whatsoever about sharing the refugees outs there's been a north as a said to the idea that you've got to stop people leaving in the first place pull factors as they call it and you can only do that if you make make the country that they come from livable so that they want to leave in the first place and that's the point of the summit in december but the whole tone of what the european union is now arguing has shifted very dramatically over the course of the last three years ok lawrence thank you lawrence giving us that the update from salzburg in austria let's say now and get some perspective from leonard doyle he's joining us from geneva he's the spokesman for the u.n. affiliated international organization for migration what is your initial reaction

to this idea that it was put forward in salzburg that egypt could be the solution for preventing migrants from coming to europe. well i think i'd be wary are looking at one silver bullet to saw a very very complex massive problem that really you know affect people from right across the continent of africa and indeed other places with one. with one trend which we don't even know is going to last that long and indeed taking all hopes are. i mean we just need to make sure that whatever we do we're respecting my own rights list but the front and center of everything saving my own life and respecting their rights and less than for solutions around that and that would be a good way to go practically though mr doyle if this were to be implemented i mean do you have any idea how this would actually work so if a boat is rescued in the sea from libya for example would then be taken to egypt i

doubt if that would be that would be the case there is there are search and rescue areas and within those search and rescue areas there are modalities for making sure that those who are rescued are taken to the nearest safe fort so. you have to divide up the mediterranean is already divided into such as they are search and rescue areas so there's no question of people being whipped from one end to the mediterranean to the other just because it was more convenient i think there is already systems in place which are very important if you don't keep people on board a ship over large specially if they've taken three hundred people out of the water with it being suffering from exposure for example the last thing you want to do is to have them on a long two or three day journey in the middle of winter this would not be on why do you think then that this is being proposed. well i mean just because there is a trend in one country does not make it a trend for all countries there is no one size fits all solution to this indeed if it is the case that there is good migration management in egypt seems to be the

case well and good but that does not mean that it's automatic as a solution for libya as a very very completely different set of circumstances different issues of governance in fact almost no government in many cases so you can't simply say we'll do we're going to do what we did over there over there you have to apply you know principles of humanitarian principles and support for the human rights of those who are involved and make sure that the you have regular migration rather than irregular migration people being exploited by smugglers is really the issue not so much how you deal with the end the most important thing i think those across the board wherever there should be the disembarkation of migrants that it be done in a controlled and systematic way in a transparent way and that you know both the countries who are having problems with an surfeit surface of irregular migrants coming their way feel that it's now a control process and at the same time that's done in a way that respects the rights of migrants which is terribly important all right

and then a thorough franking first thing to us from geneva. thank you so much for inviting while there was another big issue that was being discussed in austria not for exit so the u.k. is due to give up its e.u. membership in six months and is trying to negotiate a divorce deal so it doesn't crash out with no trade agreement and one major sticking point between the u.k. and some leaders has been the irish border and here's why so at the moment the border is pretty much nonexistent allowing people and goods to pass freely between northern ireland which is part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland a fellow e.u. member what everyone wants to avoid after breck's it is a so-called hard border that's where checks and inspections are re-imposed threatening trade and a fragile peace deal the e.u. and u.k. have decided to have a fallback plan or backstop if they can't come up with a better solution but they can't even agree on what the backstop will look like the e.u. version with the northern ireland continue to follow many e.u. trade rules and regulations by itself but london says this would undermine the

integrity of the u.k. so they've put forward a broader plan for all of the u.k. to follow a common rule book with the e.u. which they believe will allow for frictionless trade over an open border now the president of the european council says leaders will meet again next month for their last chance to reach an agreement. we had a good discussion on briggs it. again the reconfirmed our full unity. let me highlight three points first we the would be. agreement without a solid operational and legally binding irish backstop. and we continue to fully support in his efforts to find such a model. second we agreed to have a joint political declaration that provides a smart clarity if possible on the future relations ever about the shirted

a view that wide positive elements in the czech proposal the framework for economic cooperation will not work. not least because it risks undermining the single market. third we also discussed the timetable for further negotiations. the moment of truth for visions will be the october european council. i've just had a frank bilateral meeting with president he's confirmed the commitment of the other twenty seven member states to reaching a deal as soon as possible but there are two key issues we need to resolve we both of the agree there can be no withdrawal agreement without a legally operative backstop but that backstop cannot divide the united kingdom into two customs territories so what happens if no deal is reached well that's what me that her guests debate on this inside story if you missed it you can catch it

online by heading to al-jazeera dot com. and you can get in touch with us here at the news grid we'd like to hear from you on the story send in your comments to any one of our online platforms where on twitter use the hash tag a.j. news grid or handle is aging list we're also on facebook at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera or you can send us a message on whatsapp or telegram that number is plus nine seven four five zero triple one one four nine well south korea's president has declared that north korea's kim jong un is willing to dispose of his country's nuclear weapons quickly and says what happens next depends on the u.s. so he's just returned from three days of talks that ended with high symbolism a talk a sacred peek robert bright reports from south korea's capital seoul. this summit ended as it began rich in symbolism president moon j.n.

of south korea and his north korean host kim jong un top of mt peck to the highest peak of the korean peninsula spiritually significant to all koreans into korean relations have seen many false starts with attempts at reconciliation often returning to threats of war but there's a strong sense moon and kim want to forge a bond so strong that they can never slip back to the acrimony of the past. two inches of the we adopted a military pact to end a history of brutal and tragic confrontation and hostility. some weapons facilities will be closed but there's little detail on how to fulfill them or they promise to make the peninsula nuclear free it's enough though to breathe new life back into the stalled negotiations between north korea and the united states and could lead to a second summit between kim and u.s. president donald trump but many believe to make real progress it's now time for the

photo ops to give way to detailed discussion i mean it's going to be really really difficult and the president and kim jong un don't know these things any kind of detail which is why we keep getting these some of declarations that are very short because the detail has to be worked out by the by the experts. more skeptical observers suspect north korea now with south korean support may have other reasons for pushing for a summit and this is another significant diplomatic success for moscow area because in a few months the disband told make preparations was a summit and during the summit itself they are not going to see any confrontation and this is exceptionally mosk idea that kicks their major goal is to wait donald trump alt as soon as moon returned to seoul he broadcast live to south korea. he revealed that kim has offered a number of unspecified steps towards denuclearization but would be expecting

concessions from the u.s. in return. the detail measures or the appropriate measures are things that must be agreed upon between north korea and the u.s. . it underlines moon's vital role now as go between the north koreas negotiations with the u.s. as he prepares for a meeting next week with trump whatever the outcome this summit with kim has revealed to leaders building a home grown man and then term for a change that may be difficult to stop probably cried al-jazeera so. so the u.s. secretary state my pompei or says that he wants to restart nuclear talks with north korea at the earliest opportunity we break down that reaction and what's at stake on our home page of al jazeera dot com. wiesel died trying that's the ugandan pop star turned opposition politician bobby wine and he's vowed to continue his anti government movement after returning home from the u.s.

wine who faces charges of treason was taken into police custody shortly after his arrival wine has been receiving medical treatments in the us his lawyer had said why needed to travel abroad after being tortured in police custody wine has been one of the most vocal critics of president yoweri seventy malcolm webb reports from bobby winds hometown near kampala as soon as the plane that will be why was in touch down on the tarmac in tempe international airport he left the aircraft people traveling with him say he was bundled into a police car arrested and taken away least a naive the rest as they just say he was escorting him home and then they eventually brought him here to his house and there are still hundreds of supporters gathered outside they were waiting here for him to arrive we spoke to him a short while ago he said very tired and that he's still in pain from the injuries that he sustained when he sustained when he says he was tortured just a couple of weeks ago though the government denies that his soldiers to shoot him

while he was in detention the crucially the security agencies today were trying to involve trying to avoid the embarrassment of having a procession all the way from the international airport down the forty kilometer road that leads to the capital is a built up area it's been probably one of many supporters that said they wanted to avoid a parade with thousands of people out on the streets cheering him on they managed to do that by taking him out and bring him here well it's worth revisiting this al jazeera exclusive interview with wine earlier this month where he discusses his detention a legit torture by ugandan security forces and what's next for the country you can head to al jazeera dot com you can click on shows then talk to al-jazeera. she on muslims sums are observing. it's an annual festival to commemorate the killing of the prophet mohammed's grandson eman hussein died in the battle of karbala a city in a present day iraq thirteen hundred years ago has sainz death was

a major factor in the split between the two main sects of islam sunni and shia and some muslims marked the occasion by beating themselves to express their grief for the pain that hossain suffered take a look at the scene in one of the suburbs of lebanon's capital beirut that's where thousands of people marched through the streets beating their chests and heads as a sign of mourning and there were similar scenes in the pakistani capital islamabad thousands gathered commemorating the seventh century definite imanpa saying with mass public fights and nations now u.s. sanctions have made it harder for iranian she on muslims to travel to iraq to mark us with our rob matheson reports from baghdad. intense and vibrant a shooting in the iraqi city of kabul. the crowds which used to park the shrine of a man who seemed no smaller because thousands of iranians can't afford to be here.

we came to iraq because we love to visit the holy shrines but the economy crunch means many iranians can't afford to visit cup i'm sure a day. iranian shia worshippers usually travel to kabul at this time of year but iran's been hit by u.s. sanctions since august the value of its currency the real has plunged but iranians getting to college is expensive now and for some even the price of a hotel room is simply too much of in their cars off the hotel business in karbala in previous years was booming now we can only make ends meet last year we had more than two hundred seventy big iranian religious groups staying at my hotel alone and now there are just seven small groups for help from the economic point of view the u.s. economic sanctions on iran have really affected iraq's religious tourism when iranians come to my shop to buy souvenirs most of them can't pay i'm sure it is marked by

prayers perceptions and food handed out at stalls like this one all over iraq is held on the tenth day of the holy was of mojado i did watch the death of a mom to say one of the grandsons of the prophet muhammad who many see almost as the third. he died thirteen hundred years ago in a battle where the city of kabul that now stands for mine here put him on a year ago iran's currency was in good shape and now we have financial problems but iranians will strive to come here during the holy month i'm hot run. for shia muslims the show is a time of reflection and remember i many iranian worshipers may also the members this uses it as a time of financial hardship matheson algis in fact. all moving to india now where a sky high drama has plenty of people questioning air safety or social media producer and schapelle is here to tell us more thanks to rain while

a boeing seven thirty seven that's operated by a low cost indian carrier jet airways took off from mumbai on thursday heading to the city of jack poor initially all seemed fine everything normal but as the aircraft climbed thirty passengers. again showing painful symptoms many started bleeding from the nose and ears as you can see the oxygen masks dropped as well and within forty five minutes of taking off the crew turned back to land safely eight people ended up in the hospital though so what happened well someone forgot to flip the cabin pressurisation switch so jet airways says that the flight's cockpit crew has been taken off scheduled duties and an investigation is going ahead the airline also hopped on twitter released this statement it says that it regrets the inconvenience that was caused to its guests but this is what some on board had to say goldblum but we were flying from mumbai to jive poor suddenly the oxygen mosques came down we didn't realize what was happening there was no arrangements

i'm a diabetic patient nobody offered us any snacks for me this airline is in worse shape than the you still care to which we've already given a danger you know inflammation you are going to do today there was no simple system of any kind doing just like to do for the learned and even off done my duty so as you can imagine many passengers are bent on social media about the lack of information that they received both during and after the incident many just talking about how scary this was for them such as sheer says that it was horrifying the worst incident in his life well this person this next one here i'm sure the sarcastic but sarcastically tweeted that in the future all passengers should make sure of their safety and remind the cabin crew to switch on all necessary buttons and precautions before takeoff and she finishes here saying your safety is in your hands fortunately we're only talking about nosebleeds headaches and hearing loss the loss of cabin pressure can be far more serious especially for an aircraft

that's flying at cruising altitude it can lead to disasters back in two thousand and five the failure to turn on cabin pressure caused the airways flight five twenty two to crash into a mountain everyone on board had passed. from the gradual loss of cabin pressure but fortunately in this case jet airways didn't suffer the same fate but it's the latest in a string of embarrassing incidents for the airline in january two jet airways pilots were grounded for getting into a physical altercation and storming out of the cockpit briefly during a new year's day flight from london to one buy so let us know what you think about this story especially if you're watching us from india you can get in touch on twitter using the hash tag it's your news good current and your thank you for that woman is former prime minister has declared he's not a thief after pleading not guilty to twenty five additional corruption charges prosecutors accuse najib razak of illegally transferring hundreds of millions of dollars from a state fund into his personal accounts while he was in office florence louis

reports from kuala lumpur. arrived in court to face twenty five new charges including money laundering and abuse of power he's pleading not guilty to receiving hundreds of millions of dollars prosecutors say the money in his bank account came from the state investment fund one m d be set up by nudge it eight years ago. the issue of the two point six billion ringgit has been used to store lender and insult me today's charges will give me an opportunity to clear my name and prove that i am not a thief. the new charges are in addition to seven others for allegedly receiving ten million dollars from another state owned entity police in at least six countries are investigating transactions involving one m. d. b. the us department of justice alleges not jim and his associates stole at least four

and a half billion dollars from the fund and go over the corruption scandal helped defeat not tip coalition government in the general election in may and during the sixty year rule of the bars a national party a new government led by former veteran prime minister mahathir mohamad wasted no time in reopening the investigation into one m. d. b. which not tipped had stopped police in malaysia issued an arrest warrant last month for a man named lo take joe investigators say the fugitive is an important suspect in the one m.t.b. corruption scandal. the malaysian government recently seized a multi-million dollar yacht that they say was bought with money stolen from one m.t.v. and anticorruption detectives have questioned not tips wife months old and his stepson. the court has set bail at eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars not just has till the end of the month to make full payment florence louis. now if

you're watching us on facebook live but we have a feature for you on a former u.n. command or who's returned to the scene of a massacre that happened twenty years ago and heard on the news grid our investigation into a shocking cases of animal abuse in china marine parts that stories coming up. hello there recently we've been seeing some showers over the northern parts of turkey but there's a sinking southwards now and you can see quite a few of them over the northern parts of iran instead i think they could be a couple more here as we head through the day on friday but the rest of that cloud has largely broken up as we head through the day marty's top temperature will be around twenty degrees of course in tehran will be in the high twenty for the south it should be still a very hot one force in baghdad at forty three and four to eight city will be

getting to forty five here in doha still hot and very few made in that humidity is making sure the temperatures don't look too high on with the moment just so i thirty eight degrees will be our maximum but it will still feel very very hot and very very sticky they could be a little bit of cloud just flirting with the coast of oman at times i will get to around twenty eight or twenty nine degrees and maybe with a bit of drizzle at times and down towards the southern parts of africa we've had lots of cloud here recently and you see that area of cloud just pushing its way northward to now cross parts of been forcing cape town then we should see a little bit more in the way of brightness as we head through friday and if you do manage to see the sun sixteen degrees will feel fairly pleasant that sixty one in fahrenheit is still a lot warmer mat for the force in durban though will be all the way up at twenty two and ten in a review in the sunshine will be at twenty six. is a popular filming location in france when it comes to stories about drugs crime and

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read more about what they have to say by heading to al jazeera dot com. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news and an outbreak of dengue fever has killed at least ten people in the yemeni city of thais more than one thousand five hundred people are now believed to be infected streets full of garbage and sewage are believed to be contributing to the spread of the deadly disease pro-government forces have been battling to retake the area from with the rebels groups of mothers in yemen have held demonstrations calling for the u.n. to help release their sons the protests a clase in the whole face stronghold of sanaa and government controlled agents a call for action to free the men the women say both sides are guilty of detaining political opponents and they fear their sons are being tortured in prison jubilant crowds of supporters have greeted pakistan's former prime minister that says no washer raef was freed from his ten year prison sentence the high court ordered his

release on bail along with his daughter and son in law until their appeals are heard judges found deficiencies in the prosecution's corruption case involving the buying of luxury homes in london japan's prime minister is on the course to be the longest serving japanese leader ever after the reelection of a as head of the ruling real liberal democratic party and that paves the way for him to stay in power for three more years he's promising to boost economic growth but is facing pressure from the united states to cut japan's sixty nine billion dollar trade surplus scheduled to meet president donald trump next week we're getting some breaking news out of tons india and we are hearing that a ferry has sunk in lake victoria with more than five hundred passengers on board rescue operations are underway right now but it is feared that hundreds of people may be dead. now proto recurrence are still struggling to rebuild their lives one

year after hurricane maria that massive storm hit last september following devastation from hurricane irma roads and bridges were destroyed and most of the u.s. territory was left without electricity for months many homes still need to be rebuilt says those in need say they've received little or no emergency funds. and. i received a letter from the federal emergency management agency saying i didn't lose anything in the hurricane when i lost almost everything even my clothes because everything got wet the beds my furniture everything i lost everything and i got nothing while our colleagues that a.j. plus look back at what happened and how things stand now.

will be with all of the stuff i have over. a little bit. for him. now i hate to tell you puerto rico but you're grown up but you're a little out away we love poor weak oh i'm. not sure that you're not important what about it.

i. i. well president trump though insists he in the government have done a great job and questions the death toll tweeting recently he said three thousand people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit puerto rico when i left the island after the storm had hit they had anywhere from six to eighteen deaths as time went by it did not go up by much then

a long time later they started to report really large numbers like three thousands and this was done by the democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when i was successfully raising billions of dollars to help rebuild puerto rico if a person died for any reason like old age just at the launch of the lists bad politics i love puerto rico speak to kenneth mcclintock in puerto rico's capital san juan he was the island's attendant governor from two thousand and nine until two thousand and thirteen thanks very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera because we'd really like to get your perspective on how puerto rico is coping now a year after the hurricane led to be your. own particular day so how are recovery and relief efforts going. they're picking up you know they started very special in the beginning because we received a little a gift and two maids in the very beginning but it's been picking up people are

realizing that we are american citizens that we're equal is an american territory that we're entitled to to be assisted not because somebody wants to give us something but because as a matter of law we're supposed to receive equal treatment now it also that demonstrates in puerto rico why i am not not receiving equal treatment hurts us at the most difficult moments of our lives as it has been there in the past year but the economy is picking up we have the lowest rate of unemployment in decades retail sales are up by a double digit digits many other economic indexes are doing very well tourism is recovering and for rico is open for business so so they have that we need now is for investors to invest for jobs could be used to create jobs and for politicos to start moving forward and we're already starting to do and for that money that you are going to receive the the federal funding to aid in the recovery what is the

priority for where that money needs to go. well and we have to make sure that the holes that still have over there are rules of war there are rules used to be that those houses can be repaired that people can receive the individual systems that the marriage jobs continue to be created so people can be to be working as a being an employee. there's a lot of infrastructure that has to be fixed in the case of the electric system a quick job was done so that we would all be electrified again which we are but now we have to work on improving the electric system to do a status beyond that better than it was before that hurt but he has we had a very deficient electric exist and we have to improve that the water system is doing pretty well because we have a very sturdy water system telecommunications are on their way to be backed sturdy

as they were before before mary and we are the most competitive the most developed telecommunications market on the american blacks and that's doing well but in the well but we have to improve the roads we have to fix the schools and we have to do all of the things that a society needs to be able to move forward and for the president we were reporting just a moment ago before we if we crossed over life to a trumpet call the response a quote tremendous triumph and he had also said that the death toll had been inflated what's been the reaction amongst people in puerto rico to those comments and is that how they see things. we pay more attention to our governor than to our presidents we all know how you know how exaggerated the president is and how self-serving arias turned out to be but as a governor who has a background as a scientist and stated he commissioned george washington here first the study

on the death though he saw the man who. we followed it closely and he's very satisfied that the number of projects are there two thousand nine hundred and seventy five is not exact was nobody was going to get the exact number but it will be very very very close to what it is a true. but more than that we're working with government agencies federal agencies some of them are working a story mary will for example the housing and urban department as the brother as offloaded but we're also working with thema that has a mess on their hands and every time that then you have another disaster that they have to handle like brandon in the disaster in florence and you know of north carolina south carolina where we would wish people well there and where we sent our rescue teams to help out and north north and south carolina then if the female has more problems on their hands that they can have it working with everybody where

were you up to the great except and the important thing is we're starting to get back in shape and we're definitely back in business all right kenneth mcclintock on that note we'll leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us giving us that update from san juan puerto rico. well going behind beyond rather the headlines and examining the us his role in the world al-jazeera show faultlines put together this documentary six months after hurricane maria so the team headed to puerto rico to investigate how puerto ricans are coping and why some of the island's poorest residents are being denied or were being denied at the time federal aid to rebuild you can watch this documentary by heading to al-jazeera dot com now in the united states one of the biggest names in politics continues to be a no show christine ford says she wants an f.b.i. investigation into her allegations against the supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh before she testifies publicly in the meantime women are turning to social

media to send her a message and just back to tell us more about that well you'll remember that cavanaugh is president trump's pick for the vacant supreme court seat and the committee that needs to approve him was supposed to vote on thursday but that was postponed after the woman we're talking about here christine that classy ford accused kavanah of attempting to rape her when they were both in high school now her lawyers are saying that since coming forward ford has received death threats and her family has been forced to go into hiding so a campaign has been started on twitter which is dear professor ford it's been formed to give her supports and a lot of prominence activists and actresses like debra messing here have joined this movement. dear professor ford. or dear professor ford we know how difficult it is to stand up to powerful. who want to thank you for publicly sharing your story especially. as members of the senate determine whether

supreme court nominee. should serve as a senior more justice disagree more or less. now a lot of people that are using the dear professor ford has tagged have mentioned a specific phrase that was used a few days ago from senator mazie hirono she's one of only four women on this committee that's due to vote on capital and i just want to say to the men of this country just shut up and step up do the right thing for change ok you can see i'm a little upset by this and as you can see from this tweet by chelsea handler that people are also comparing this they're talking about another woman anita hill during this period at the department of education my working relationship with judge thomas was positive i had a good deal of responsibility and independence. i thought he respected my work and

that he trusted my judgment. after approximately three months of working there he asked me to go out socially with him. what happened next and telling the world about it are the two most difficult things experiences of my life. in one thousand nine hundred one hill accused then supreme court nominee clarence thomas of sexual harassment and this was the hearing that followed where hill was asked questions that she and much of america found explicit and highly uncomfortable in front of the entire nation. but you. know despite this hearing clarence thomas was confirmed for his seat he's now the most senior judge on the united states supreme court at the time many women supported anita hill as well just as their supporting christine lazy for now

sixteen hundred black women in fact took out a full page ad in the new york times to show their support and now anita hill herself has been making the rounds on talk shows to encourage people to listen to ford she's also insisting that the senate comply with ford's request for a full investigation before she testifies in a hearing so far senate republicans have refused that request they're insisting that both cavanagh and ford speak at a hearing on monday but of course in this very public debate you have many people online who are accusing ford of lying even with the dear professor ford has type they're using that as well deborah here says that she doesn't even have one ounce of credibility it's awful because so many women are actually victimizer stunt makes people not believe real victims so let us know what you think about this accusation facing this supreme court nominee can get in touch with us using the hash tag it's a new script and to thank you well an al-jazeera investigation has uncovered

shocking animal abuse in china's marine theme parks the two year investigation by our current affairs program want to any stew reveals the cruel and inhumane treatment of animals of a booming multi-billion dollar industry safe shower reports. i think the public aquarium performances in china are entertaining mix of defying tricks i suppose animals feel. that some displays of apparent affection don't need. but exclusive behind the scenes video obtained by one of one east reviews a much darker picture no telling president or joe your union border city and our. workers who asked not to be identified say animals such as seals sick with skin diseases and cataracts are abandoned in places called dining rooms left to swim in

their own urine and feces for a horse so who knows who the owner you are warm and. whores are one of those would be. the wal-mart bench or you. know you share the watch and be in i all. and then come and be my old boss told you all over two years one when he stuck you mended many more sick and dying in him but this beluga whale looks like it's playing with some young visitors now see that's aggression but iommi rose one of the world's best known marine scientists says far from being happy this behavior indicates it's overstressed by captivity. if you see the same animals consistently responding in an aggressive open mount threat way to the people of the underwater viewing window then that starts telling you a bigger story that maybe this whale and particulars under stress she says

conditions in china are the worst she's ever seen anywhere with dolphins and baluga swallowing debris and display areas far too cramped the tank for these we believe guys is so small it's hard for them even just to turn around. roll says not only is there widespread abuse but animals are dying prematurely this is just a one way conveyor belt and it ends in death at the other end premature death and this is supposed to be entertaining managers of the marine park didn't respond to our requests to discuss mistreatment the parks are now so popular there are more than sixty in china with a dozen more being built. there appears no way into china's aquarium park boom and for their captives no wind to their misery steve check out al-jazeera china.

well you can. right here. in just a moment paul will join. the world.

hello again paul is here to talk about sports doping but this time it's good news

for russia paul yes seems like that during it could be very good news for their athletes but it's a decision made today that's got people in the rest of the world incredulous on social media three years ago russia was found to have carried out a massive program of doping among its athletes at events like the olympic games its drug testing authority rich sod it was banned but now that ban has been overturned the world anti-doping agency water made the decision at a meeting in the seychelles a good choice of venue it could lead to russians once again being able to participate in track and field and compete under their own flag at international events well russia's anti-doping chief has made a statement about the decision which essentially means they're up and running again as long as they make a lab of data in moscow available to wada the purpura sure it's the first step and a significant one it opens the way to international competitions for athletes and

federations moreover opens the possibility of competitions to be nominated in the russian federation in fact this is a result of very very hard work. well a lot of sporting figures have been tweeting about this two time olympic to kathlyn champion daley thompson says water has abandoned the very reason for its existence to let russia back in without having complied with what is original conditions then we've got canada's three time olympic medalist cycling. cyclist kurt hartnett sorry saying that national diving agencies should seven times with water if they want to remain credible hash tag clean sport above all else on the british heptathlete kelly sotherton who was awarded a bronze olympic medal after a russian competitor it was disqualified for doping calls the whole system dirty so to unravel all of this for us is al-jazeera sports correspondent.

live in london les this decision feel super controversial surely what it would expect a backlash why have they done it. they'll get a backlash but that is the question why has water decided to do this now or why they've been able to deal with it publicly is to say that two k. things that they wanted have been met but you have to put a question mark about whether they really have one is a public acceptance of the original mccarron report the found worship guilty of state sponsored dial pay and i received a letter from russian sports minister pavel kolob cough but did that lead to go far enough it didn't accept state sponsored doping so media times is a hash tag sorry not sorry the second one was that i wanted and said they're going to get a commitment in quotes from russia to provide data on access to samples from moscow about you know why has water not already had that access you can say that

that's fairly weak for reinstating them nobody should be forward into thinking that over russia in sports men and women can't compete for a day now it's not quite that you got something out the international is that it federation or they'll make a decision at the earliest december whether by now decide to reinstate russia and let russian competitors compete on the russian flag but this is a green light this is a big step towards many sports saying ok well water avoid this decision we can now win state marshall of course russia would pressurize anyone who's trying to keep them out now the other thing we need to become about with wada they're not all powerful they have to answer they have to be funded by particularly the international olympic committee the i.o.c. a cozy with russia so there is quite pressure behind the scenes you say saying to. them that they have ready to be reinstated they're ready to be reinstated they got along without the vote was nine to two so it wasn't unanimous one vice president

said she's definitely not voting for them to come back in but there are divisions or water and i actually think the whole body of water is in a form of crisis. so let's say restart reclined compliance again water happy sports fans aren't happy are they we we don't know what we're saying on the field israel you know i've been saying this for many years i think that the last people that are considered poll it's you it's me it's the public it's people who are sports fans who are watching this why should they watch why should they trust what they see in for instance an olympics if you've had at that stage russian competitors home you know that they were they were told they were competing under a neutral flag but it was a russian same for instance at the winter olympics i covered pyong chime i and you just can't trust what you are seeing i mean this is about as per usual sport politics political maneuvering and money it's not about fans of sport lee wellings

live for us in london thanks very much for that analysis now this next story isn't exactly related to doping more of an unfair advantage but we have to show you these incredible pictures of a race between a fighter jet a private plane an electric car a formula one car and the superbike the five competitors faced off at an airport runway in turkey and it was a superbike which crossed the line first really good effort from the bike. my producer joe made me say that line tweet me at race with your thoughts peter it will be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. for now i'll hand you back to during thank you so much for that and thanks for watching the news great keep in touch with us on social media use the hash tag a.j. news great we will see you back here and super fourteen at fifteen g.m.t. on friday see you then.

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