the decision is in response to strikes by pilots and cabin crews across western europe. passenger plane has overshot a runway in the small aciphex island nation of michael meacher and landed in the ocean the new genie plane from papua new guinea was flying into chuck international airport when it ended up in the water at local fishermen scrambled their boats and rescued all forty seven passengers and crew it's not yet known what caused the boeing seventy seven to crash seven men suspected of planning a major attack in the netherlands are expected to appear before a judge about four hundred heavily armed police officers carried out raids in the town of on him and worked suspected leader is believed to be of iraqi descent police accuse the man of trying to get hold of automatic rifles grenades and materials for suicide vests. our trains stopped running between the cities of baghdad and fallujah when i saw overran much of western iraq back in two thousand

and fourteen a year ago the government declared the group defeated and the railing between the two cities has now been reestablished math and of course. to shining real stretchy west from baghdad snaking through the desert for fifty seven kilometers by the other end is the city of fallujah accessible once again to rail travelers. flew job today is not like flew in the past the railroad is a sign of life getting back to normal after getting rid of. these wheel tracks were closed when i saw fighters swept through the west of iraq in two thousand and fourteen. when iraqi railways reopens the bag that the for lucia line we didn't think of the economic benefit this is a message of peace to the people of lucia after dark days when eisel used to rule those parts. after the defeat of isobel have been roads that have been open

between baghdad but the path of the security checks and that journey can take anything up to several hours but this train doesn't stop for checkpoints. the journey between baghdad and fallujah takes just fifty five minutes by railway and the high cost of fuel traveling by road is more expensive. basic train tickets for a one way journey cost just under two dollars. there's nothing going by the train is much easier we avoid traffic jams many checkpoints across the highway or even deadly car accidents it's also much cheaper than road transport. when the train arrives in fallujah fifty seven kilometers may not seem far. but this reopen track is a milestone for iraq's railways rob matheson al jazeera baghdad. the united states stock market regulator wants to bar tesla c.e.o.

elon musk from serving as the head of the electric car maker securities and exchange commission says he committed securities fraud when he tweeted about plans to take the company private last month our town with prehistoric fossils should be able to capitalize on the world's fascination with dinosaurs and gong in china the world's capital of dinosaur replicas has been doing that for years but now a very modern trade war has some manufacturers worried as scott had reports i as you approach this is gone on the main highway it's just one problem it's pretty evident what this area is know. it's home to one of the largest dinosaur fossil discoveries in the world the dust formation fascination for dinosaurs put the city on the map drawing in millions of visitors each year but it's ancient history was also the spark for a home grown industry about eighty percent of the world's large dinosaur replicas

are made in just gone among the first of twenty five companies to start making replicas of some of the earth's first inhabitants was founded by gucci home he was born and raised here. is a dinosaur tom i've been very interested in dinosaurs since i was a kid and i majored in like trolling engineering so i wanted more people know more about through our replicants that's why i started this business but the business of manufacturing in distributing these prehistoric animal replicas of all shapes and sizes is facing a very contemporary issue tariffs imposed by the united states. now has to pay ten percent tariff on his dinosaurs going to america and then on january first it goes up to twenty five percent. this will definitely have.

to try to reduce costs. everything. by their trade or. he says this is one of the biggest challenges he has faced since he opened the factory doors some twelve years ago he hopes to continue shipping two thousand dinosaur's a year without the need to downsize this despite the noise that's being made. by the leaders in washington and beijing. thanks. to seven straight games action from baseball just a. time

now for his far as and thank you so much we start with golf where the usa have made a strong start to the defense of their ryder cup title they lead europe three points to one after friday's opening four balls matches in paris dustin johnson and rickie fowler secured the first point for team usa who are bidding to secure the ryder cup on european soil for the first time in twenty five years but there was no winning ryder cup return for fourteen time major winner tiger woods he and partner patrick reid were beaten by open champion francesco molinari and tommy. are fighting back in friday's second session which is under way now here's a quick reminder of the ryder cup format there will be twenty eight matches played in total over the next three days each worth one point of matches are tied each

team gets half a point each for ball and for some matches take place on friday and saturday in the four balls each player has one ball and whoever takes the lead shot wins the hole for their team for some matches also featured two man teams but there is only one ball in play with players taking alternate shots singles matches then take place on sunday defending champions usa need to get fourteen points to retain the trophy team europe have to get fourteen and a half to win it back. germany may have be in turkey in the race to host the next european football championships in two thousand and twenty four but the controversy surrounding former and germany international mesut ozil continues as all who is turkish ancestry quit the german team after their disappointing world cup campaign saying he'd suffered racism from fans and from senior figures in the german football federation germany head coach joachim loew has now revealed he's yet to speak directly with decision and was snubbed by his former player on

a visit to his club arsenal earlier this week given by the fusion. we were there for three to four i was and it goes without saying that i was like the opportunity to speak to him as it might before i want to do that with all my heart but he wasn't all the german players at alston all day we chatted and ate together but ms it wasn't there and we have to accept for the time being that he doesn't want to speak to us eventis forward cristiana rinaldo will be available to face former club manchester united in the away for champions league next month the portugal captain's participation had been in doubt after he was sent off in his european debut for uva against valencia last week it could have seen him banned for three games meaning he'd have missed both the home and away ties against united but european football's governing body ruled he must only serve a one much suspension. chinese tennis number one when chang's historic run at the open came to an emotional and on friday the twenty six year old who became the

first home player to make make it into the quarter finals of the event was forced to retired with a dream her semifinal against estonia was that quantum. will play. belarus and saturday's final. future olympic games will have more autonomy to deal with doping issues that have recently affected the events from tokyo two thousand and twenty the anti-doping system will be independent from the international olympic committee i.o.c. president thomas bach announced the move on thursday it follows the decision taken by the world anti-doping agency to allow russian athletes to compete at the olympics again they had been banned for almost three years for a state sponsored doping program. all the testing programs will be managed by the international testing. which is. in full independence from the. meanwhile

a two year investigation has found that there is no evidence of institutional doping and kenya the report commissioned by what i did describe the drug taking in the country as serious though and found that one hundred thirty eight kenyan athletes have tested positive for banned substances since two thousand and four. we couldn't find any hints or prove that there's institutes in stopping here in kenya what we can confirm is that doping is it's not really planned it's more opportunistic performance enhancing drugs is very easy to get. in pharmacies and some even don't know actually what they are taking the bron james is set to make his l.a. lakers debut as they prepare to face the denver nuggets and their preseason opener braun who is entering his sixteenth season in the n.b.a. will only be playing for a few minutes but it's a chance for fans to see him with his new team also the lakers have other new

players are incorporated as well and the brown says he's happy to play with anyone . no. person should be or. where. it's great taking. a great shots. or. just. in major league baseball the colorado rockies won there some game in a row with just three games left in the regular season david doll trevor story and tar all scored home runs to lead colorado to a sponsor we went over the philadelphia phillies the victory extends their lead over the l.a. dodgers to one sold game in the national league west of vision. to their eighth loss in a row. over in chicago the cups blank the pittsburgh pirates three nothing at

wrigley field on thursday david bought a hit a two run triple in the second inning to help seal the win chicago move a game ahead of the milwaukee brewers at the top of the national league central division. british brock sers george grows and callum smith waitin for their super middleweight fight in saudi arabia later this friday smith was first on the scales but it was gross who came in slightly heavier there's lots on the line in this fight groves is defending super world title the street is ringing magazine title is up for grabs and so was a trophy named after mohammad ali to have this super boxing super middleweight championship series named after my father was a huge honor to have these two champions rovers and smith went to west beyond the channel feed it was just a huge honor and i'm deeply honored in just humbled by by this series being named bury my dad's name. and that's all your support for now war coming up later

on has in fact. that is it for this news hour but i'll be back in two minutes with more of the day's news stay with us for that. what makes this moment is good we will never see you. we haven't seen the president this. leader speech is a reality oddly plausible that is a formula for authoritarianism and here and here and here the lights are on and there's nowhere to hide let me ask you straight out here is the true state solution no bid up front or italians on al-jazeera one suffer because wealthiest country held together with an iron grip libya is now told the talks everybody wants to have

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a visitation i get my e-mail with this bagnio. even. appreciates that what he does contribute to the prevention of such. big together many sectors to achieve one goal eliminate the babies i love by lifelines the quest for global health on al-jazeera. gulf countries meet for the first time along with u.s. secretary of state mike pump a zero since the regional blockade on qatar. you can this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the leaders of germany and turkey meet again agreeing to host a four way meeting to discuss the situation in syria. i've never

sexually assaulted anyone down a high school college not ever donald trump supreme court nominee vigorously defend himself before u.s. senators after his accuser stands by her accusations. yemen's u.n. special envoy tells al-jazeera he's hopeful son as airport could be rewritten reopen next week. i know a rare meeting has just taken place in new york involving all of the nations caught up in the gulf crisis that has seen a cutter on the block blockade the foreign ministers of countries from the gulf cooperation council came together in the same room cameras were allowed in for the first few moments it happened on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly organized by u.s.

secretary of state mike pompei oh it is the first time a meeting like this has been held since the blockade of qatar the united arab emirates saudi arabia egypt and bahrain cut diplomatic and economic ties with in june last year is live for us there so i asked him what so was this a meet i mean how significant was this meeting and what do they discuss. quite significant because this is the first time that all the parties to the g.c.c. crisis were together sitting together with the united states of america it was a meeting chaired by u.s. secretary of state mike payor to try to build some sort of a regional alliance to tackle the issues that the region faces and the hope was basically for the american to try to convince all the parties to set aside their differences and will forward i mean if the were a few days ago a few weeks ago any hope that this crisis could be solved any time i think of those hope were dashed for good and that it might take ages for the parties and for the

simple reason two days ago saudi foreign minister i did as you aware said that his country is patient you can wait for fifteen twenty fifty years and the onus is on qatar to solve its own problem now today just a while ago i asked the qatari foreign minister about that statement from the sided coin minister and this is what he had to say. about the middle east strategic alliance and the g.c.c. relation with with the us plus egypt and jordan the meeting was productive somehow was what is your reaction to the speech to stick to the saudi foreign minister when he said that his country is willing to wait fifteen twenty fifty years and it's fine for them and that's part of the house to solve the problem we found in a few earlier from no actually we know when we know what's what would be the future of the countries even so we cannot predict from now until five or ten or fifteen years or fifteen years but that can wait also for a vote but we have to address the challenges in our region first before we talk we

talk about just by coming in like this diplomacy means communications meaning he's engaging and this is not that. many will point to the fact that just getting these leaders in the same room together was progress in itself but where do things go from here. well definitely this is going to the dark the cloud of doubt and uncertainty will continue hanging over the region i left all the parties come together and set aside their differences the situation as it stands now the u.s. is hoping to bring all the parties together to build a little lions against iran because the america's defeat vison to the statements by the us president donald trump by his national security adviser john bolton by. secretary mike bump a over the last few days about iran you get a sense that the americans top of the the top player to put america now is to

contain what it sees as iran's growing influence in the region for that they are hoping to have the g.c.c. key players along with egypt and jordan build a new alliance so they want those are allies to cooperate militarily diplomatically politically and economically but the problem is that those countries disagree about every single regional conflict they disagree about iran they disagree about syria they disagree about libya and they disagree about yemen not only that they are imposing land sea and embargo or qatar and they say that qatar has to meet a list of that of thirteen demand which includes downgrading relations with iran shutting down a turkish military base and. cutting financing of extremism those were allegations. strongly dismissed by qatar where does it leave the region.

i think we have to brace for more uncertainty more tension in the region it doesn't look from what we saw today and over the last few days that the g.c.c. will ever be the same again it's passionate about ally for us there in new york thanks hash. now turkey and germany have been trying to project the unity of type one met angle of merkel in berlin the two agreed to hold a four way meeting with russian and french leaders to discuss the situation in syria's province next month they are deadlocked over a number of other issues though including turkey's demand to extradite supporters of a businessman five hundred glenn and turkey is accusing him of masterminding the twenty sixteen failed coup against one. of the diet uncut there's a possibility to talk about things we don't agree on and also things we have in common this visit is so important because we can only resolve our differences if we

communicate if we don't communicate we cannot find common ground sometimes it takes a while but i am in favor of such discussions that is why i'm happy president adarand is here. expressed. the chancellor so that the turkish economy is built on strong foundations we have taken structural steps to respond to the speculation challenges in the economy we are prepared for any difficulties in our economy just as we are prepared to meet any other challenges in any other respects we feel that the relations between germany and turkey are very important and we want to advance a win win scenario. our journey how has the latest from berlin. well first and foremost of course this was a state visit by president to one at the invitation of president frankel to stand on one the election back in june but also it was i think quite

a difficult meeting between two leaders who perhaps realized that their countries have more of importance between them the the things which they disagree about but found it quite difficult in their press conference chancellor merkel and president the one to put to one side or hide their disagreements and so you heard chancellor merkel saying that they had a common strategic desire for a good relationship but pointing out that in terms of a free open and democratic society the two countries had different perceptions of what that looked like president responded by saying he was looking for a win win relationship between turkey and syria two countries he said that had to respect one another the clear implication we will work together but don't lecture us on the democracy on human rights on the judiciary so issues of common importance both countries wanted to see dealt with they made an announcement on syria they'll be meeting next month bringing in france and russia to help deal with the situation

in syria there is of course the ongoing migration and refugee crisis turkey holding up the floodgates to three and a half million syrian refugees desperate to make it to europe germany very keen to reinforce that deal there's an economic crisis going on it turkey's worst in fifteen years germany its biggest trade partner its banks and businesses deeply exposed and of course no one likes the prospect of two nato members turkey in the united states at loggerheads perhaps germany can help solve that little problem along the way so clearly not the easiest of meetings this an exercise in political expediency to countries that recognize they do have problems but they can perhaps try and solve together. c.n.n. all again is a former turkish diplomat who now serves as a visiting scholar at the think tank carnegie europe he says early when state visit to germany is a great example of political pragmatism. the fact that these talks are being held

at this level with the state visit by the turkish president is in itself a sign that there is willingness both unburden in ankara to start a constructive powerful being engaged with it does not necessarily mean that some of the areas of disagreement have been settled far from that as we saw this morning but nonetheless it's a sign that they are ready to talk to each other in a frank amende there at the highest levels of political leadership on both sides there are benefits to be had on the german side. wants to ensure that turkey continues to comply with its commitments under the refugees deal whereas onkar wants to open tain germany support in advance of an expected period of economy hardship so it's important for the turkish government to get germany's backing if need be going forward. some democrats have walked out of the

u.s. senate judiciary committee final debate brett kavanaugh confirmation to the supreme court the committee has been reviewing faires days testimony from cavanagh and one of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct was when jordan is live for us in washington with the latest so rosen what more can you tell us. well senators kamel harris and cory booker walked out during what they considered to be rushed through vote on whether to vote on brett kavanaugh nomination at seventeen thirty g.m.t. on friday in about three hours from now they walked out to protest. as being described by the democratic senators as a process that is being rushed through that is ignoring the allegations of sexual abuse allegedly committed by brett kavanaugh the supreme court nominee and so

rather than give some sort of comment voting no they simply got out of their chairs and walked out of the caring room that's not the only effort that democrats have tried to launch during this business committee meeting on friday richard blumenthal another democratic senator pushed for a motion to try to basically subpoena markets. childhood friend to get his take on what may or may not have happened back in the summer of one nine hundred eighty two that was voted down along party lines right now the chairman of the committee chuck grassley is running through what he considers many of the inconsistency is that were brought up in the testimony on thursday by christine blog.