the family here they're trying to get people out and the government would like that they'd like as many people as possible to leave the city so that they are left with as few as possible to deal with that but certainly one of the priorities as well as getting food and water and it's getting tents in top all in basic shelter really not that many people want to go back into buildings that are still off the shocks it's quite possible it could be a very powerful aftershock no one really wants to be two or three stories up if something about that was to happen so we're hearing from many people including i should say as we've taken tents with us when we get to the city most people want to stay on the top all in rather than under what could become rubble so those who stay will stay at ground level as far as they can but those who can leave well andrew thank you both very much iran's military says it hit positions in syria linked to a group it suspects was behind last week's attack on a military parade in the city of of us several missiles struck the region of eastern syria last week twenty five people were killed when gunmen opened fire on

a military parade many of the victims were members of the elites iranian revolutionary guard and as far as a military analyst and retired army general of the lebanese army he joins us now from beirut and his father the iranian authorities are saying multiple deaths multiple injuries do you accept that. yes. so far we didn't have exact information about the outcome of this hit but that if you have got. a. ballistic missile fired is against a small village of will come out of that which was one of the remaining pockets of isis in the region naming that both people in this village where responsible for all of the attack in arvada about the say again please we didn't say anything mr hart please carry on with your answer.

ok ok so but you see that when the attack on and off as that taken place we have seen a declaration from the front of struggle for liberation of our values and claiming a sponsibility on this for this attack and the day after we heard something from isis was also. with. a small movie from isis are showing the four members of vices that committed this attack so that this front for liberation of isis is an offshoot of i was is an offshoot of isis or there is a cooperation between isis and those people who are backed but so idea way the revolutionary guard said that the people lower responsible and planned and

led. operation where and that target and hit that target by the ballistic missile and why did the iranian military planners decide to go after the specific location and this is not the first time. i think in april two zero seventeen after an attack on the. side the parliament and the hand. of a man khomeini the revolutionary guard also launched. but a sickness i was on site for isis. never heard of data. this is not the first time. avenged by. launching ballastic missiles against isis. do you detect. a certain softening on the part of

the iranian ministration here they're talking about external actors as being involved in this but in a building it the language seems to be getting less because in the immediate aftermath of the attack on that military commemoration that took place last month they were saying very explicitly they were naming names they were putting names and frames and saying certain countries were definitely involved but now they're talking about those countries having enabled what happened if it is that event i think that there is softening language. against the countries that they. accuse of being after this attack or being supporting. the. front but it is if it is on the back i think it's over we were not see any other. action or respond against their anybody as. including with states that were

accused namely by the iranian authorities ok we'll leave it there many thanks for your analysis. there in beirut. now there's been a huge explosion in somalia it happened near a military base in the capital mogadishu both african union peacekeepers and somali troops used the road closed close to the facility. plenty more still to come here on the news hour including deal sealed and friends again canada and mexico reach a new trade agreement with the u.s. after donald trump dismissed the old one as a disaster. celebrations in macedonia for a referendum change the country's name is invalid because of a very low turnout. and basketball's biggest star le bron james to use for his new team will tell you how he did in the sports news in about thirty minutes.

the u.k. minister responsible for making sure that happens his government is preparing for a no deal divorce from europe he's dominant rob within the last half hour or so he's been addressing the annual conservative party conference the governing party conference in birmingham there are less than six months to go before the u.k. is due to leave the e.u. correspondent paul brown is there for us paul how significant was this at the party conference the party faithful he says we're getting ready to crash out. i think it's a stark warning from the direct it's actually dominic robb it was an interesting performance he's not a natural orator let's be certain about that and there were times where the audience listening was unsure whether to applaud or not it was a couple of uncomfortable pauses in fact the biggest applause that he got were when

he was attacking the opposition labor party and also standing up against anti semitism not for what he was saying about rex it what he did say about bret's it was to push out a message that he expects to be heard by michel barnier his counterpart in brussels and that is the u.k.'s willingness to compromise is in his words not without limits the u.k. may have no choice direct quotes for a no deal brackets if the e.u. tries to lock us into a customs union do i think the deal we are pursuing is perfect said dominic rob of course not but he said i am a stubborn optimist those questions would series amazing leadership and tenure in number ten downing street of course they're still off in the shadows paul has this been so far a good conference for her or a bad conference for her. it's almost too early to say that a lot of the squabbling about teresa mayes future has been done not here a conference but in the kind of lead up in leader articles in newspapers and in

television studios in the in the run up to this conference we're going to hear in the next hour from the chancellor of the exchequer philip hammond and he's been supportive of theresa may and her stance he's also been warning about the dangers and the prospects of bret's it he will say things like for example we have our red lines which is to end freedom movements and to control the u.k.'s laws but there is room for negotiation the outcome has to work for both sides and he's been very critical of boris johnson as philip hammond describing him as incapable of drawn up politics so by definition full of power and coming down in support of terri some may beis lashing out against boris johnson and when it comes to those central dog whistle issues poll for example the border between northern ireland and the irish republic is there a sense there in the u.k. for the voters that instead of saying here is the solution british politicians are

still talking about the problem and there's less than six months to go. i think so i mean the tourism may for example has said that basically checkers remains the deal that is what's on the table and as far as she is concerned the european union is now going to have to come up with some kind of opposition in response to that so she's not about to compromise just because the leaders back in salzburg a couple weeks ago rejected it and she's saying that was an unreasonable act by those e.u. leaders and it's up to them now to bring forward what they think is their alternative and she's put the ball into their court and on that basis i think what we're looking at here is a party which is deeply divided on it but nevertheless i don't think that's going to be any serious challenge to teresa mayes leadership made here paul thanks very much talk to you later. israeli forces have ordered palestinians in call. to

destroy their own village and leave by midnight on monday they say if the deadline is not meant they'll go in and do that themselves last month israel supreme court approved the demolition to make way for more settlements imran khan has more now from qana. this is the village of qana which has been given until the end of the first of october to demolish all of these houses it was a notice given by the israeli army and they say if the residents don't demolish these houses that they will come in and demolish them after this high court order was given in the beginning of september but let me just show you this over here this is what residents are telling me is a cesspool of waste coming from the nearby settlement the israeli israeli settlement into the valley next to where the people are the residents here say it's actually part of a campaign of harassment by the israeli settlers against the village themselves that's quite impossible to tell where that waste water is coming from but the

residents tell us every night this fills up with waste that they say is coming from israeli settlements meanwhile palestinian activists are expressing solidarity with khan as part of a general strike another strike was organized to protest against israel's nation state law schools stores and other facilities have been shot across the occupied west bank gaza and east jerusalem the nation state law was passed by the knesset in july and gives the right of self-determination to jewish people only canada the u.s. and mexico have reached a new trade deal to replace the north american free trade agreement or nafta that the u.s. president donald trump dismissed as being a disaster mr trump blamed the twenty four year old deal for the loss of american jobs i did your castro now from washington. this deal that would replace now is called the us embassy a short for us mexico canada agreement and it is being trumpeted by senior u.s.

administration officials as a win for all three countries major provisions here include benefiting u.s. dairy farmers by opening up the dairy market in canada as well as protections offered to the canadian auto industry to a degree from possible future u.s. tariffs on auto this deal would also require more auto production to take place within the u.s. and within the north american region as well as shore of intellectual property protections and strengthen labor visions to in the words of senior administration officials even the playing field between the u.s. and mexico now this u.s. m.c.a. deal is the result of an eleventh hour push that ends more than a year of talks i had its fair share of stalls and starts now the top of ministration will of course say this is a big win on a campaign promise for his american first policy however there are still hurdles

ahead this trigger is now sixty days for trump and his mexican and canadian counterparts to sign off on the deal but that does not make it final then the u.s. congress must approve this trade treaty they're expected to do so in the coming year which is going to be after the u.s. midterm elections if democrats win control of the house of representatives in november ratification for this trade agreement may be a bigger hurdle ahead the votes are still being counted after parliamentary elections in the kurdish region of northern iraq it's the first time we've gone to the polls since last year's failed suspension bridge that referendum was rejected by the central government in baghdad plunging the region into economic turmoil and beating its leaders deeply divided earlier a member of one of the main groups the p u k so it was party would reject the results of the vote. a bit by the former yugoslav republic of macedonia to change its name has failed the referendum on sunday had strong support but the turnout

didn't reach the fifty percent threshold required to make it valid just over one third of voters cast ballots with ninety percent of them supporting the new name the republic of north macedonia the government wanted the name changed to help and a long dispute with neighboring greece or the country's leader says the low turnout doesn't mean he should step down he's pledged a parliamentary vote no name change was easier not to figure out again i know the opposition knows all the citizens know there is and there can be no better agreement with greece there is and there can be no alternative to macedonia as membership of nato and the e.u. let's not play games with our unity and our macedonia my personal message to every member of the macedonian parliament is let's put the national interest of the interest of the citizens and the strategic interests of the state above politics and party interests al-jazeera scott joins us live now from sculpey what do you

think happens next with the political process here. actually there are two and as prime ministers around said it's really going to be a new drive for the constitutional changes in the next few days here in the parliament here expected to support from the opposition for these constitutional changes let me remind you that mr dorney and need to change for constitutional amendments one of them adding joe graphic reference north to the name republic of macedonia and that you'll be changing the constitutional name in republic of north macedonia but if prime minister. don't get support from the opposition the second option is early general election as he said the selection can take place on twenty twenty fifth of november because that's the days when he can.

effect so the implementation of the process of the ratification of the agreement we agree is if this sort of the election took place later maybe we will have influence of all roads as of reaching to deal with neighboring greece turnout was thirty four percent why do you think so many people chose not to use their democratic rights. here this referendum was just as advisory it was an obligatory referendum so maybe that was one of the reason reasons this or friend whom wasn't a pirate of the legal part of the agreement with greece but previously and president of the republic said it will boycott better friends i'm an opposition

call it supporters to decide by their own it's real or how they will vote on a referendum but the prime minister as i have last night said that this was clear message and organize boycotts by the opposition but let me say that given the low percent of the people voted on this or for in them more than ninety percent of them sent in favor of the dream and greece let me say that yesterday nine hundred thousand people needed to walton this is a. question about how this number. is representative of the population here in macedonia because the last census in this country was sixteen years ago and there are so some estimates that more than call of a million people live discount three scenes two thousand and second when the last

census took place here in macedonia. thanks so much. now in just a moment we'll have the weather for you with everton but also still ahead here on the news hour the u.k.'s n.h.s. is becoming the first health service in the world to routinely offer genetic testing. brazil's unemployment rate is falling but it hides uncomfortable truths about the economy. europe's best golfers beat the usa to lift the ryder cup on home soil far we'll have the best of the action coming up in about twenty minutes in the sports news. binny's pink sky by the time hot. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. it's quite nicely now across japan and it really is

a case of the lull before the the next storm so i think treme has swept away clear skies now come back in behind we did say some big rainfall totals in excess of two hundred millimeters of rain in twenty four hour periods for parts of southern japan as the system made its way through but as you can see why it's the weather now coming through celibate a cloud in the sea of japan which will sink its way further south was but i think enough time says just squeeze out the odd shower because northern parts of honshu but warm enough to take a twenty five celsius is similar values as we go on into wednesday but to make the most of it you can already see this brand of cloud the shale of cloud this fellow trial which is pumping in ahead of us would you believe it the next typhoon and that's going to be something for next weekend here we go it's already out there in northwest pacific it's going to continue making its way further north woods and west woods as we go on through the coming days and so that's chiz de spicher grassy

crohn's its way up towards that east coast of china i think shanghai could see something coming out of this system by around about wednesday or thursday increasing winds and some flooding weighs a possibility before it heads up towards the korean peninsula. the weather sponsored by the time release. we're. i have dedicated almost my entire professional life to the bench and fight against corruption and what i have learned is that we need champions we need also to shine the light on those shampoos and this award bridges that gap that existed in this. nominate your own version of your own child the light on what they do and do

it not shine a light on your hero with your nomination for the international space award two thousand and eighteen for more information go to isa war dot com. you're watching the al-jazeera news hour live from doha let's just recap you have loans for you the official death toll from the earthquake and tsunami in indonesia has now risen to eight hundred forty four but that figure is expected to go into the thousands mass graves of the. president said he's ready to welcome

international help. iran's military says its positions in syria linked to a group it suspects was behind last week's attack on a military parade several missiles will come out of eastern syria last week twenty five people were killed when gunmen opened fire on a parade and. israeli forces have ordered palestinians in. to destroy their own village and leave by midnight on monday they say if the deadline isn't met they'll go in and do it themselves last month the israeli supreme court approved the demolition to make way for more settlements. the nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to two immunologists for their work on cancer james p. allison and. separately discovered and developed cancer treatments which improve the human immune system the body can better attack the cancer cells allison is based in the u.s. is in japan the nobel prize for physiology or medicine is awarded every year for outstanding discoveries in health or life sciences let's take

a look back at the history of the prize now. the first when i was a male adult then bearing in one thousand or one he found the antibodies could be transferred between people and animals and took diptheria antibodies from horses to create a human vexing early laureate's one for breakthroughs in and fictious diseases and bacteria like robert cog who identify the per kilo suspect ariel i'm ronald ross who uncovered that malaria sprayed by mosquitoes in the twenty's and thirty's prizes were awarded for discovering insulin the electrocardiogram or e.c.g. even the concept of blood groups after a brief hiatus for world war two the nobel prize in physiology or medicine returned awarding one of the biggest breakthroughs of the century alexander fleming one for discovering penicillin the foundation for a modern antibiotics chain and how would florrie were also awarded the helping to turn it into the drug we know today is a cool considerations roves as time and science progressed robert edwards one and

twenty ten for developing in vitro fertilization what he did was to develop in several steps a method whereby you can take a break from the. eggs meet the spirit. of the potter in a test tube or in vitro which means in the last forty years later i.v. if has resulted in more than eight million babies recently focus has shifted to a gender imbalance among award winners and physiology in medicine they have been two hundred fourteen when it is they have been overwhelmingly white male and whiston the orange dots twelve of them represent women. u.k.'s n.h.s. has now become the first health service anywhere in the world to routinely test patient d.n.a. hospitals will have access to a specialist center that analyzes d.n.a. identifying mutations will help with diagnosis and treatment options the service will be routine for people with cancer and rare diseases but it could eventually

revealed the risk of early onset of several diseases let's talk now to david jenkins and he's chief scientific officer at the brain chuma charity he joins us from london david jenkinson welcome to the news hour what diseases are we discussing here. many of the at the outset it will be for cancers and as you say some red disease as well but given instance cancer is going to be the largest part of this how does it work. so when when a diagnosis is made blood is taken from an individual and that is then screened through some rather complex machines that then look at all of the bases that make up the d.n.a. in a person and see changes in those from from the reference samples given family history given gender given age how low could you go with this test in terms of you

know could you say start testing a ten year old because the parents or the grandparents displayed a history of l. simons or parkinson's. in the future that could be possible at the moment we don't know the changes that would lead to those diseases but certainly we do test some infants for certain diseases that hereditary already and this could be rolled out ultimately to that sort of approach as well is there an optimum a to start testing for specific diseases. i think when we're talking about cancer cancer is a generally a disease of older age although brain tumors which is obviously the cancer that i'm more interested in is the largest cancer killer of children under forty's so i think that generally speaking it will be towards the later age groups for his as you mention in the future when the technology is a proven and and more understanding of these diseases in place we'll be able to

roll that back into earlier life and potentially prevent cancers and other diseases they were jenkinson in london thank you brazil which holds presidential elections on october the seventh as a giant in size and economy but has been struck by widespread corruption yet a large percentage of candidates tied to some of brazil's worst corruption scandals are expected to be reelected the sea and human reports from much ego. from one in the morning till long after dawn men died into this lagoon in northeastern brazil to scoop out mussels from the mud with their bare hands. on the shore their wives like twenty five year old just. sorting clean the shells. on a good day the family can make five dollars barely enough to feed her sons just to lanny is eligible for

a social program called media that could significantly improve their lives of a little snippet of a valley but i've never been approved i don't know why they spend so much time evaluating my request and i've never managed to get it. one explanation can be found at the state legislature with twelve deputies are being investigated for pocketing funds allocated to the program we were told they were out campaigning for reelection corruption in brazil spreads from the local level to the very top in southeastern former president lisa. is serving a twelve year sentence as part of a multi-billion dollar corruption probe that snared dozens of businessmen and high ranking politicians but there are hundreds of more politicians accused of corruption who haven't been touched and who in fact are running in this month's elections as candidates for the senate the lower house and even the presidency and

if some aura lect in which of course they will be they will enjoy immunity from prosecution which in many cases is the point. back in northeastern brazil we found senator allen one k. yodels who has eight outstanding criminal investigations campaigning with his son the governor but here you know when you shocked it's a historical problem but just like everywhere sometimes you see in effect off life he says people often vote for corrupt of. they think may give them the most benefits. but those benefits rarely trickle down to the bottom of the social ladder and simply does it in love with builders that we need to have faith in god says just experience has taught her that having faith in politicians is pointless. you see in human al-jazeera musée of brazil now there have been rallies in the brazilian city of paolo in support of far right presidential

candidate. opinion polls have him as the front runner in the election next week the demonstration comes a day after thousands protested across the country against balsa novel and his controversial views on gay rights women and minority groups. thousands of people in spain's catalonia region are protesting as we speak as they mark one year since a failed bid forced the session they've been rallying in front of a prison where some of the leaders of last october's referendum are being held spain's central government called the vote illegal the prime minister. has proposed a referendum for more autonomy but ruled out another poll on full independence catherine stansell has more. the scenes are reminiscent of one year ago pro independence protesters clashing with police catalonia may have voted for independence but it's failed to materialise and the issue remains as divisive as ever protesters who supports the session have come out in their thousands. so have

people on the other side of the independence divide brief skirmishes broke out in a rally in barcelona on saturday and those one on and off. we will continue to fight for independence despite the many difficulties we'll do it day by day in the hunt we will continue to defend the folks we held on the first of october and remind people that fascism still exists in spain. last year carlos preached dimanche the catalan leader at the time pressed ahead with the vote despite being declared illegal by spain's constitutional court on the day of the referendum spanish riot police stormed polling stations across the region and clamped down on protesters hundreds of people were injured the violent crackdown brought international condemnation the cattle an assembly officially declared independence on october twenty seventh but it was not internationally recognized the spanish government dissolved catalonia parliament and imposed direct rule shortly

thereafter carlos peach demands fledge to belgium and remains there and self-imposed exile earlier this year spanish authorities revoked european an international arrest warrants for him on the eve of the anniversary he says that the route to independence was never going to be smooth or quick. we are facing a very complex crisis i said that even before the declaration of independence i don't regret a vote but there isn't a button that we push and just like that we have a republic it doesn't work like that direct rule in catalonia and it in june and petra sanchez ousted mariano rajoy in a vote of no confidence sanchez is against independence but his approach is softer than not of his predecessor. his government agreed to move jailed cattle and politicians out of prisons and madrid too once in catalonia is below if you are in there with the election of petra sanchez is actually good news because he has

a softer approach and is open to dialogue but it's not clear if he has specific political objectives or he can resolve the situation because he just doesn't have a parliamentary majority. the promise of talks between the spanish and catalan leaders has yet to come to fruition so for these demonstrators the fight for independence remains in the hands of the people happenstance of al-jazeera china is marking sixty nine years since the founding of the communist people's republic flag raising ceremony was held in tiananmen square in b. jing national day on october the first kicks off a week of celebrations with fireworks and public performances is in beijing clear blue skies crisp autumn sunshine perfect conditions for china's national day we've come to the forbidden city one of the symbols of china's antiquity and as good a place as any to reflect on the past week which in many ways has been one of the worst periods in sino us.