this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm watching the al-jazeera news live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the u.n. human rights office at its voice the growing chorus of concern over the fate of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. details emerge about one of the man accused of traveling to the u.k. to poison a former russian spy. said bob ways president defends

a controversial new tax as quote painful but necessary. also ahead retreating from the front line the delicate deal to prevent more violence in syria's last rebel held province. let's get going concerns over the fate of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi they are rising around the world in the last hour the un's human rights office as its voice to the growing chorus seeking information about his disappearance on monday nights the u.s. president donald trump also said he's following the case and seeking answers the washington post newspaper has obtained what it says is the last known photograph of mystical shoji entering the saudi consulate in istanbul a week ago his fiance has verified it turkish investigators believe the journalist was murdered inside the consulate building the saudis deny any link to his

disappearance. we're very concerned about a number of recent cases of reports cases and reports of violence against journalists. including the murder of victoria marie nova in bulgaria the disrepute of disappearance of jamal. both publicly and privately the secretary general has often raised this issue with member states the secretary general's position is clear a free press is essential for peace justice and human rights for all he reiterated his call it all governments to strengthen press freedom including ensuring that there is justice in me countability for crimes committed against journalists. well because shelby hinted at his concerns before he vanished interviewed by the b.b.c. in london three days before he went to the saudi consulate. a hero of an air of a list of a friend who did. nothing that warthe to be

a twisted make you feel if you don't go i'm talking that friend of mine who were who was arrested all of even talking maybe he was talking. critically over something and in there in a dinner party right that's what we want to be what we are becoming in saudi i mean right we're not used to that recently a saudi a columnist an economist who was close to the royal court got that listed and that's good many people because here we are talking about somebody was going off of the government right right i don't even want to use the term this is a decision that this isn't dissident here then this isn't i mean the people who are out of this and even being dissidents right they just have an independent mind right and you know i don't call myself an opposition right i always say i am just that i want a free environment to write and speak my mind. ok some developments for you on

that story the turkish foreign ministry we're being told that the reuters news agency says the saudi consulate in istanbul will be examined that's all we know at the moment that has just dropped as a c.b. of the reuters news agency let's talk to our correspondent jamal al sheil jamal that's highly significant. well i mean it. shows that there is some sort of cooperation or at least there was an attempt to demonstrate some sort of corporation on the parts of. these obviously. we're talking to seven days since. she went missing and seven days is a very long time where anything can happen in terms of. movements and cover ups and cleaning given not as far as the turks are concerned maybe it's their attempt to show also they are trying to cover all the bases that they came out with a very. significant message a few days ago saying that they believe it was killed but they didn't provide

significant evidence for that so maybe this is their way of saying well we're going to cover all the bases we're going to show that we have conducted a very meticulous investigation into this and then we will. prove the conclusions of this investigation he says you know there has been trickles of information coming over the past few days as i say information not necessarily evidence in the sense that the only evidence we've seen so now has been that still photographs of. the entering the building but in terms of actual. verifiable evidence that hasn't come with hard information from sources so that information includes those fifteen saudis that among some security officials who landed. at the same time went to the confidence at the same time that the model who was there we've got some more information about the fact that they came on to separates a private jets that those planes left that separate time one tried to buy the other

true egypt three learned that those fifteen saudis that they had booked were reserved several nights at a hotel close by true the consulate but never actually spent the nights there we understand that. sources are specifically interested in several vehicles that's departed the. consulate's among a tinted out blacked out van which they're trying to search so there is a bit of information like i said a bit more information every day that keeps coming galatz but in terms of actual bore actual evidence today was the first time we got that's which was the releasing of video evidence or still of jamal entering the consulate and that appears to be an attempt by the turks to throw the ball from the back into the side of the saudis and say what we've established we've proven to the world that jamal entered the consulate it's up to you now to prove that he left the official site

a line is we have got nothing to hide so if this investigation a forensic level i guess now gets well and truly into the building and they find nothing that substantiates or backs up the turkish authorities claims as to what happened to him with then in a situation where we've got more questions and no acceptable answers for a lot of people so i think it's important for us to divide this into two separate layers right from my criminal perspective an investigative perspective of course there is a need to establish once you've made a claim of something there's a need to establish the evidence that supports that conclusion and that's something that the turks will be working on to do it then there is the political responsibility from our responsibility perspective the onus is on the saudis to say that's we are no longer responsible for what's happened to demand by proving that

he left in one piece and by proving that he was safe and sound when when he left if we're to take the first one. what it seems to be the case is based on the information that we are getting is that the turks have some sort of ever evidence that is that has led them to believe that he was killed possibly maybe because they obtained that evidence maybe through ways that will cause them embarrassment possibly because they don't want this matter fallouts with somebody who at least on paper is an ally possibly because of them looking for to use it for some sort of leverage that could be a million and one different motives why they haven't released that evidence but still now that evidence hasn't been released on the second strand peter when we're talking about the responsibility that's where the movement has been made the most and that's why we've now seen people like donald trump and other world leaders come out and say that the saudis need to senators in the u.s. come out and say the saudis need to prove what's happened to come out because at

least from that respect it's very prospective it's very clear cut the types of sean that young to the consulates the saudis no matter how many people they invite into the consulate it doesn't matter they still need to establish an prove that the left there in one piece and left are safe and sound does that mean if he left the building in one piece he didn't meet up with his fiancee again she was standing outside the building or near the building for eleven hours but we're getting a clear profile of him he does not quote a punk tillius man who was not known for taking risks so he clearly felt safe enough to go into the building trying to do the paperwork and some people are saying ok he might have been rendered back to saudi arabia. i think having met some a few times and spoken to people who are very close to me even i was last night speaking somebody who had sat with him for a while in london just before he came back. is known also it's not about taking risks it's about the conversations that he had had with the saudi officials and he

was given guarantees after he when the first time he was because he was given guarantees and told that this was your place and you should come and there's nothing that would happen obviously he did have some sort of concern and that's why he had dolls for his fiance to wait for him but the truth is and what has been like i say that the one thing that is undisputed so far is that she entered on tuesday and he he was not seen either by person by his fiance by the public or by any sort of security apparatus or monitoring equipment to have left that's building and it is in that that that that is how all the responsibility has now been laid on the saudis to establish it the way in which now the turks have come to the conclusion of what's happened to him that he wasn't rendered that he had never left the airport i believe based on one of the conversations that i had late on saturday with a security official here was that they had gone through the possible partners of

these fifteen saudis in terms of the private jets that left and so forth and they established based on that that's a body or a german himself did not leave but again this is still information from sources and it's still not been validated or backed up by clear evidence that we can say ok we are comfortable with one hundred percent that this information that's been given to us is one hundred percent accurate we'll check in with you later i'm sure in the meantime thanks very much. an investigative website has revealed more details about the second suspect behind the poisoning of the russian double agents script while in the u.k. belling katz says the russian military dr alexander travel to salzburg using a different name says michigan is employed by russia's intelligence agency the u.k. accuses him and a man identified by the website as an a totally pita of trying to kill script and his daughter yulia with the nerve agent novacek last march well for more on that let's go live now to london and my

colleague lawrence leigh lawrence what's your reading of this new information. well look i mean i mean short of you know what his blood group in favorite pop group are they they seem to have more or less everything don't they there bellingham paper about suburban politicians in parliament saying that's not that's why we're here but you know they've got their what is possible it's they know where he was brought up in in the north of russia where he studied where he was tapped by the g.r.u. . what his real name is miskin. even gave his address in moscow is the geo you had horses so you know his name not petra but all its miskin they had they had facial recognition experts match his face for a few years ago it's possible to look like in the in the fake passport when he came in as petrols. cap or what they said it's a long suit find all this out about sin then check to get the other operative

because he's into the footprint was so small by the guns for the same sort of routine to try to do it publicly available documents and testimonies and all sorts of things like that's and that appears to be the size of it's and so it seems only to undermine. the claim that these two guys gave to russian television in which they said they would sell ricin that stayed in london and gone to salzburg suit to see the cathedral but with but were defeated by. an inch of snow because they now they now have two identities one one a major operative a decorated g.r.u. officer and another decorated g.o.u. officer who is also a doctor which clearly would make sense if you're dealing with a hazardous substance like not a child and it's really the quite difficult to know what what what what further anybody can do to provide any any more proof that these these were the people and their motives were well more suspect than they claimed to have been ok i mean basically here we're talking about a chemical weapon attack a weapons attack on the streets of a slightly forgotten cathedral city in very rural england what else can the

government in the house of commons where you are the british government do about this because this time last week you and i were talking about how to reason. maybe at the conservative party conference used the evidence and the supposition to go through we know who did it we know who is responsible and this is what we're doing but there's no place else that she can go to with this surely. no in terms of bringing them to justice which plainly is what they would like more than anything else there is absolutely nothing they can do because there's no extradition treaty the russians have haven't haven't said that they did this or make no effort to try to so ask them any questions that mean anything and so in that sense that's that's more or less the end of it but you know there is a certain source a sense of victory for the british side i think in this that they have been caught flat footed by the russian side so many times like this in recent years and they've

said that they wanted to respond in their own way they had claimed repeatedly without actually having any evidence for months and months that it was the russians who did it some people kept saying including the russians give us the evidence then on the first day back of the parliamentary term brought all the photographic evidence of them of the men arriving got we care ports and where they went to soulsby and everything else and said look it was the russians and we believe their own fake passports and now you have these investigative journalists providing the rest of these and frankly the fact that these are effectively high quality how much the sleuths doing this revealing the true identities it seems of these two people would also be a source of enormous satisfaction for the british because it paints the russians as being incompetent and so for all those reasons i think the british will be quite satisfied with the trajectory of this equally i think it's very bad news for the russians because they're lying all the way has been you can't prove this tell us what's the evidence prove it prove it well if the season proof then what is the

proof of it going to be lawrence thanks very much lawrence lee reporting live if the news are outside the house of commons in london. zimbabwe's president says a new tax on bank transactions is a painful but necessary measure to revive the economy it is emerson magog was first comment since he imposed the no which is led to the reemergence of queues for fuel and food shortages a town so has more now from harare. it's perhaps another sign zimbabwe's economy may take. long time to recover some people have been lining up since saturday to fill up they cause the central bank governor says fuel shortages are because of the introduction of a two percent tax on bad transactions that means products now cost more and suppliers are buying less it's little shortages and many disappointed customers it's up to a very very disappointing because everything is at a standstill i'm going to do any business we can do anything groups in the world we can refuse the worsening economic crisis is compounded by

a critical shortage of cash the last time lines were long was back in two thousand and eight some people would sleep in their cars for days hoping to get fuel government officials are telling zimbabweans not to panic but some people say they are worried. in some places feel has started arriving but it's still not enough. others are stocking up on groceries these days bread is in short supply and usually doesn't last long on the shelves in some stores customers are limited to two items per person to prevent hoarding and panic buying. stock or next month or even before a reversion even. behavior persons a change of people uncertain of the future. certainties of. very big pressure intrusions prices a tripled in just a few days it's

a question of increasing capacities it's a question of my future as my featuring more feelable shelves because it's just a sage in demand. is there some speculation that's causing some panic buying but again these things are under control they will be no shortage. but increasing production needs foreign currency us dollars the banks say they don't have enough of some importers buy dollars on the black market at a premium sums of albion's worry that could be more frustration and hardship before things get better. algis or. plenty more still to come for you here on the news hour including these stories senegal facing a crisis with water but some people fear the government solution could make matters worse also ahead. i'm john hendren in chicago here and across the u.s. millennium goals are about to become the largest voting bloc i'll tell you what that means coming up. and this n.f.l.

star makes history we'll tell you all about it in the sports news in about thirty minutes. a deal between russia and turkey to prevent a syrian government offensive in the last rebel held province is moving forward on groups of pulled out heavy weapons from the front line and it lib creating a twenty kilometer demilitarized this was a condition to avoid an assault on the province which is home to three million people the news out his in a hoarder. the turkish army has reinforced its observation posts all around province which borders turkey and send additional troops to patrol a planned demilitarized zone to separate government forces from opposition fighters the demilitarized zone is being established after a deal between russia and turkey it's aimed at preventing a possible syrian government offensive against adlib the last remaining rebel

controlled province in syria turkey's task is to free the zone from heavy weapons and so-called radical groups the state news agency says the syrian opposition and other anti-government groups have completed the first phase of the withdrawal. i. was. there is so sure. and the day was. probably a. very. turkey's president. says turkish intelligence agents an ad lib are playing a major role rebel factions allied to turkey hold a third of the twenty kilometer deep buffer zone but the rest is controlled by what the international community labels radical terrorist organizations because of their links to al qaida among those groups is how a sham it controls the majority of the province and the planned zone and it has not

officially declared whether it will withdraw its weapons and fighters by october the fifteenth regardless russia seems satisfied president vladimir putin said turkey is treating the agreement seriously and fulfilling its commitments but moscow is accusing the so-called radical groups of trying to create provocations to torpedo the deal. october ten and fifteen are deadlines for the implementation russia's president vladimir putin is already calling his own effective ruling out military action in a future. doesn't want an armed confrontation with turkey that's why it's afraid to publicly or reject the deal it's still trying to reach a peaceful solution turkey wants to prevent armed conflict but its challenge is to implement the deal the tension is growing between the hague a sham and turkey back to apples there could be more incidents of armed confrontations if the so-called radical groups refused to cooperate turkey has

signaled readiness to use force against those who don't comply. japan is pledging to help develop five countries which lie along one of the biggest rivers in asia the me kong flows through cambodia laos thailand and vietnam their leaders were welcomed into the japanese prime minister shinzo are all agreed to push forward more than one hundred fifty projects across the me kong region the include expanding airports in laos and building roads in myanmar as well as upgrading postal services and using information technology to improve health care the focus was on three main areas affected connectivity people central sciences that's what is called and environment and disaster management japan strengthening ties as china expands its investment and influence to michael pan as the president of the xing at su news agency joins us now from tokyo michael welcome back to the news hour is this all really doable in the next three years. well certainly in that

it's it's doable to spend some money in the budget and to to begin to implement some projects in the complete some projects i think that you know if if there's going to be an impact in the longer term this would be just one step not the first step but not the last step and i think that that's probably that way by the participants you could hardly say or begin to say that all of these countries have all got on famously for say the last generation or so so are there any negative residues left over that they will have to factor in how they work together well certainly among the countries in southeast asia there are still many tense relationships not all of the governments get along with each other and there's also cases of many refugees and people from one country across the border another so

there's always a potential for for problems in that sphere from jan japan's point of view of course they have no particular horse in that in that race so they're more interested in just trying to promote the peaceful development of those countries with another eye on the fact that they would like to strengthen southeast asia as a whole to make it less vulnerable from japan's point of view to chinese penetration is there another undertow here which is a huge positive i guess which is they will be working together so these big projects these big grand designs there's always slippage when it comes to the budget and the time scale of course there is there always is but if you get people working in the environment that trading environment they're all pushing in the same direction so that's good news. sure i mean whenever you have one of these regional frameworks whether it be you know the southeast asia or or the african union or r t

codd which is japan's relationship with africa you know it gets the the leaders of all of the countries thinking of themselves not only as representing one country but also as part of a region so from that perspective they're sitting there the leaders of these countries are sitting there with sheen's abbay the prime minister of japan and they're representing a region so certainly i think that play some role in bringing them together other considering do you think whether this is good for the rest of the world in a serious question here because this time yesterday on this program we were talking about the u.n. latest report on what's going to happen to the world's climate and in theory if it edges towards being a temperature rise of getting towards two degrees celsius as opposed to one point five degrees celsius the geography of this entire region might be dramatically different and it might also be underpinned by an increasingly dangerous trend for global weather events yeah absolutely i mean i think that you know there are when

it comes to the issue of climate change there is no region of the world that should be written off or which doesn't have a role to play i mean if our image of southeast asia often is of these lush jungles right well those those jungles and that is rain forests are are contributing to you know stabilizing the global climate so certainly and they're developing economies as well and so often in the developing world where you see some of the worst damage being done in terms of continuing effects of climate change so certainly i think it is important and yes in that sense southeast asia like every major region of the world is its fate is linked to all of our fates michael penn thank you very much thank you. senegal is going through a water crisis despite having some of the most advanced resources across africa aid agencies a quarter of the population lack basic water access with some homes completely cut

off for months the government does have a solution but the solution is dividing opinion from dhaka too precious to waste not a drop spilled. but to find wonders whether they'll be enough left for an extra bucket to beat her children. very obliging needs it to flush their toilets for ayesha camera it's simply about getting water to drink my mother like you know the situation is critical to have to queue for something that we also obviously need i'm reusing the water using it for everything from cleaning cooking and drinking not a drop of spared two million people in the suburbs of the capital to car have not been getting enough water since june in some districts water has been completely cut off there isn't enough for everyone this is a council distributed rations fresh water. it's just hell we can't

survive without water it's something needs to be done. not enough rain too much heat to cars not alone in facing a water shortage this is cape town in march california in may and sao paulo earlier this year according to the united nations more than a billion people across the world face water shortages this is especially the case in urban areas where the population is and multiplying it is a global challenge with officials in countries and cities affected with this water crisis trying to find a permanent and big solution to a growing problem. engineers in the u.a.e. in south africa are looking into towing icebergs to their shores to meet their freshwater needs but it's a costly project that still has a long way to go before being approved while there may be no plans to bring a nice bridge to the coast of senegal the government here wants to turn ocean water

into freshwater building the country's first desalinization plant but there's a growing opposition to the project my god i'm going to be like the site of the plant is considered the sacred land residents fear the factory could spew chemicals and water high into the ocean all the fisheries by around they're going to get like swallowed by the big pipe and it's going to decide that. despite the damage to the environment in the city suburbs where fresh water is in short supply many welcome the project. but the desperate search for water sometimes spills over into conflict. nicholas hawk al-jazeera car. stay with us here on the news because standing by we have staff with the world weather for you but also still to come here on al-jazeera he almost won but not quite the race to be the next president brazil is going to the runoff stages plus.

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to strengthen before it makes landfall in addition on thursday when it does so of course it's going to give us potentially very very heavy rain and some landslides as well so we do have warnings out for the eastern parts of india in a moment now the other storm we have with us well that one is already a tropical cyclone and it's going to work its way towards the northwest now let's take a closer look at where we're expecting it to go over the next few days because we're having a few headaches at the moment there are many models that tell us what the forecast is going to be but at the moment none of them are agreeing what we can agree on is that it's here at the moment around seven hundred kilometers to the south of celera but as it works its way northward all the model some of them take it to the east of salalah some of them take it to the west it looks like the coast of oman and yemen though is going to see some flooding. the weather sponsored by cats are and always . were.

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you're watching the al-jazeera news hour today with me peter dhabi your headlines so far turkey's foreign ministry says saudi arabia has now given permission to search its consulate building in istanbul part of the growing investigation into the disappearance of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi the washington post has published what it says is the last known photograph of him entering the building a week ago southeastern eye he was murdered this. donald trump house the first time voiced his concern about the fate of the u.s. resident the u.s. president urging the saudis to support a thorough investigation also the un's human rights office is adding to the chorus

of international concern. in other news the second suspect in the poisoning of the russian double agents in the u.k. has been identified by an investigative website telling cap says russian military doctor alexander mischka travel to salzburg using a different name the u.k. accuses russia being involved in the case but russia has dismissed the accusation. we're turning now to our top story what happened to jamal khashoggi turkey's president says he's personally following all developments but many turks are unaware of the journalists alleged fates or the diplomatic crisis that followed us has more now from istanbul. the saudi general consul ate in istanbul where journalist to market sure she was last seen entering by his fiance now the center of so much attention from the world's media. to the annoyance of saudi

consular officials. and while they stumble chief prosecutor's office has often to probe and ask for a search turkey has become a sanctuary for many opposition figures from the middle east since their apps a printing of two thousand and eleven has shipped g.'s disappearance spreading fear amongst them. now they are asking the syrians to govern and to call for their being in turkey to be in existence there also again where. as if we go inside and we never get out the vanishing of the saudi is seen as a clear warning to others that even if this is a matter of detention by this authorities or perhaps we shouldn't spare the word kidnapping of this individual this still cost you it's a very serious breach of international law and international diplomatic

traditions the level of interest among turks is mixed with no i didn't know that because i'm not following the news i don't watch t.v. i'm really busy with work the cans and it is that he seems to be an important person both research the arabia and turkey it's a subject that must be well investigated but for our up tourists visiting turkey the comments are much more telling i will disappear as well if i will talk about your manager because people are unaware. his mysterious disappearance and a stumble but the incident is further escalating the tension between both countries who have been strained since turkey's government criticized the kingdom support for the military coup in egypt five years ago but for now both turkish and international media watch at the saudi council eight hoping to get some clues about fellow journalist in math has shipped g.'s whereabouts seen them because although al-jazeera istanbul. an arrest been made in connection with the murder of

a bulgarian t.v. reporter who is investigating allegations of fraud with e.u. funds police say thirty year old victoria maher innova was raped and murdered in the northern town called russi a body showed signs of blows to the head and suffocation she was part of a group of journalists investigating corruption with e.u. money linked to businessman and politicians. a new york times investigation has found that a top campaign aide to donald trump requested the manipulation of social media activity during the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential elections rick gates allegedly tried to hire an outside company to create fake online identities the goal was to amplify divisions among strums rivals for the republican party nomination the israeli company is called side group offered to spread false information allegedly about mr trump's opponents the company is run by former israeli intelligence officials side group was not hired

and it is uncertain if the trunk campaign acted on the proposals ross feingold joins us now ross is a political risk and analyst who joins us on skype from taipei was feingold fake social media accounts given the investigation how much of a big surprise is this. well it's no surprise that there may have been fake social media accounts during the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election whether during the primaries amongst the republicans or on the general election amongst democrats who are a public but it's clear from this article that the trump campaign as you said ultimately did not hire this company so ultimately it may have just been an inquiry about what are the possible tools that a political campaign can use and this company is obviously very experienced at implementing these tools but it's unclear and frankly it's probably unlikely at least as a result of this article that any u.s.

laws were broken ok within that central and a geisha and when you talk about possible tools i'm assuming here that is not illegal but using those possible tools would be illegal so what's the what's the difference here between what kemp anes have done historically and what the central allegation lays out well one of the one aspect of u.s. selection wot as with many other countries is that foreign companies or foreign individuals cannot donate or participate they cannot donate goods to copy hire to provide services and they cannot make cash contributions to candidates and the u.s. has laws like this just like many other countries that have a lakshman and again it seems that the new york times acknowledges that this company a foreign company was not hired so there's no crime simply by consulting or inquiring what their capabilities are why have these exploratory conversations with

a privately run presumably for profit israeli intelligence company. well that's a very fair question but we have to keep in mind the extraordinary importance of social media in gauging with voters to political campaigns not just in the united states but around the world and it's very understandable whether it's a democrat or republican in the united states inquiring from the private sector what kind of technological capability to exist to get a message across so from that perspective again making inquiries seeking knowledge gathering about what's available in the technological space that's very understandable for campaigns to do that we haven't heard very much about the inquiry for a few weeks i guess we've taken our eye off the ball because we've been talking about the problems facing brett kavanaugh and his ascension to the u.s.

supreme court but how does how does this these claims from this american newspaper feed in to what mr mullah might be doing if at all it's an excellent question and one thing that molar has shown us throughout his investigation his we can only stack you late as analysts the media a lot of what or much of what muller does is kept confidential another thing that his investigation has shown us is early predictions of a quick conclusion or that a conclusion was imminent have also not come to fruition so how much longer the investigation has to go what else they are investigating we simply can only speculate on that so how this article and the facts that are reported which again don't seem to have any violations of u.s. law how it factors into the investigation we simply don't know but it's clear that the investigation is ongoing and one aspect of the investigation continues to be

whether or not there was foreign interference and that was the purpose of beginning this investigation russ feingold in taipei thanks very much. now the millennial generation in the united states is growing in votes of power and despite a booming american economy low wages high debt and political disillusionment have pushed many millennia old to the left john hendren has this report. it's a generational shift of power and to see such vast change so so early in our lives it shows that pretty much anything is possible. millennial is the bearded coffee shop dwelling hipsters and those less easily given to stereotype or on the verge of becoming america's largest voting bloc voters ages twenty to thirty five are expected to overtake boomers in population in twenty nineteen is their numbers swelled to seventy three million in a nation of three hundred twenty five million the youth demographic the young voter

the new voter demographic of eighteen to about twenty nine only shows up to the polls about eighteen percent of the time that's about one in five if we can get it to three out of five we would control and shift every major election to come midterm local presidential all of it rising property prices mounting student debt and lack of action on gun control and climate change recently have millennia of leaning away from capitalism into a more european style socialism your parents so dream go to college she can get out get good work provide for your family white picket fence with a nice lawn but that's not happening nowadays the apparent political leanings of this generation have led to his surge in support for left wing parties such as the democratic socialists of america the party has grown eight hundred percent in three years democratic socialism is just about returning the democratic party to what its roots are and seeing who. who it's basis and.

promoting policies that the base their base wants and sort of an unabashed way the party now counts nearly fifty thousand members in all fifty states most of them millennial the big question for the november midterm elections will be vote a recent ad offers this cross generational taunt dear young people don't vote fall but having fun in the way it is turns out younger voters have always leaned leftward but they've always been outvoted by older americans turnout is always the most important thing especially in midterm elections are that as low as a question of who is actually going to vote the november elections will determine whether in in surgeons of youthful enthusiasm thanks. thanks. thanks thanks was amounts to real change john hendren al-jazeera chicago. now the race to become brazil's next president is going to

a runoff in three weeks time the far right candidate. won the election on sunday but not enough to win out right now his second rival is fun. of the left leaning workers' party in latin america editor and c n human from rio de janiero. secondary school students in rio de janeiro stop the traffic to try to stop what they see as a major threat to democracy in brazil even though i think it doesn't like indigenous people black. scenarios fascism has regressing to nine hundred sixty four when he had a dictatorship we need to move forward look back to the future of latin america's largest country will be decided in less than three weeks in a runoff between ultra right wing presidential candidate nat'l and fernando had that the candidate of the discredited left wing workers' party. the underdog is clearly had died a moderate former education minister who stepped in at the eleventh hour to replace

his mentor former president. in twenty days of campaigning we were able to get more than thirty million votes and take a little known candid it into a run on the strength of our political platform. but more i'd heard anger against lula who is serving a twelve year prison sentence for corruption is had bad eighty's he'll but it's an uphill battle it's a very long uphill battle has to find some way to connect to this people has to find a way to put for his own message to to disentangle himself from miller's image but the day after the election had that first move was to visit in prison also nat'l who has a commanding lead says he won't back off from his most controversial views like supporting torture shooting criminals on sight and vilifying gays in women's rights groups. i can't suddenly turn into a peace and love je said paul sonata in

a radio interview i can't violate myself that way i have to continue being myself. already disturbing signs of intolerance reminiscent of a different time are emerging at this school for example parents demanded that a novel about a family that was forced to go into exile during brazil's military dictatorship taken off the curriculum arguing it was too leftist and brazil's national university chapters dealing with human rights were found ripped out of books and thrown on the floor crowded hour in brazil has never been more polarized and given an unprecedented barrage of fake news on social networks international observers warn the campaign could get uglier before it's over you see in human al-jazeera rio de janeiro thousands of people have been moved from their homes after several explosions hit an ammunitions depo in ukraine's northern shun the region there have been no reports of any casualties and it's not clear what caused the blasts

sabotage is suspected there's been a series of explosions of weapons depos in ukraine over recent years the country's been battling pro russian separatists in the east since twenty four team and united nations human rights envoy has criticized me in marfa not being willing to probe alleged abuses against rango muslims a u.n. fact finding mission wants me and top leaders to be investigated for genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes or than seven hundred thousand gringo muslims were forced to leave their homes after a violent military crackdown last year the government in naypyidaw has dismissed the allegations saying the un body is biased to set up its own committee to investigate the crime. an al qaeda commander accused of planning attacks in egypt is under arrest in neighboring libya. faces a possible death sentence if convicted he was seized by troops loyal to the warlord after during a raid in the city of burna after self declared libyan national army is backed by

egypt now it's a red letter day in south korea in fact it's a special day for all letters because it's the korean alphabet day north and south korea share an alphabet but their languages are grown apart during the decades that the countries have been separate with relations warming again recently the south koreans want to create a unified dictionary rob mcbride explains more now from seoul there can be many countries that have a national holiday to celebrate their alphabet but then as koreans will tell you their unique alphabet invented nearly six hundred years ago by king say john the great is worth celebrating it was created with the aim of allowing everybody to communicate with everybody else in korea through the written word and the spoken word but the seven decades of separation after the korean war has not helped that process. two snowmen the division has been causing the divergence of the meaning

and even the usage of the language between the south and the north i different events visitors have been learning that while north korea has been holding on to more traditional words the south has been adopting more loanwords from other languages for example this in the south is called bone that. but in the north it's. quite literally finger ring bread and when you take a shower in the morning you use what translates as have water over in the south will simply stand. with people from the nolt on the south already not understanding up to with the good of every day words the others are using academics have been working on a common dictionary as a possible solution to language difficulties what clear to see at the recently unions of families separated by the wall and trying to communicate again after decades of pots consider the prospect of reunification and you can take that

problem and multiply it by a nation. will tell you about the olympians who don't stay away into the history books.

time for sports thank you so much peter and a half hour history was made on monday new orleans saints quarterback drew brees became the league's all the time leader and passing yards he passed peyton manning's record of seventy one thousand nine hundred and forty yards and he did it

an impressive fashion breeze nailing a sixty two yard touchdown pass against washington after saints won forty three to nineteen not only did the thirty nine year old pass manning's record he did it and he were twelve. i don't think it could have happened in any better fashion than it did him to have been that moment with my teammates on the field the office of why. i mean it just it played out even greater than i ever could have imagined when something like this happens and i can. you know there's so many people that that are responsible for that we can be a part of that it's a makes me happy you know it makes me proud it makes me extremely grateful. things are heating up in the major league baseball playoffs the l.a. dodgers have advanced the next round of the postseason they beat the atlanta braves the manning much oddo hit a three run homer run to lead the daughters to a six two victory they have been through nationally championship series for the

third year in a row the dodgers will face the milwaukee brewers. this is going to be great both bob clubs have worked hard to get to the situation you know they're both to go bar clubs facing off in the chairmanship and. you know we're talking about them play baseball and doris keep doing what we've been doing all year and you know hopefully we can come up with a bunch of defending world series champions the houston astros have also advance they'd be cleveland to reach the american league championship series carlos grey is three run homer in the intervening help them to a whopping eleven to three when the astros will face the winner of the yankees red sox series you know when the reigning world champs and we really have a good going to belittle you to show up for the day so proud of our guys the work they put in the winner here we have a short winner for us but as you can see you know our guys are pretty hungry to to

dance and the boston red sox hammered the euro yankees at yankee stadium brock holt hitting single a double or triple at a home run all in the same game for his first ever post-season cycle the red sox russian the yankees six team to one boston now lead their series two games to one that's chinese basketball player doing young you hang scored his first point for his n.b.a. team the dallas mavericks and he could hardly have done it in a more fitting location ding on target with a free throw for the mavericks in their preseason game against the philadelphia seventy six ers which is taking place in the chinese city than the mavericks going on to win this game one hundred and fifteen to one hundred twelve. i love doing. and i thought it was greed greed energy making things happen to both ends and so really happy for him this is a big moment for him in his home country. the n.h.l.

season is still in its early stages robin lehner has made the perfect start for the new york islanders lehner becoming the first ever islander goalie to get a shout out in his debut this week as player has arrived in new york from the buffalo sabers this game against the san jose sharks finished or nothing last season the islanders finished twenty second in the n.h.l. seven in the metropolitan division. over in buffalo the sabers beat the visiting vegas golden knights jacket i shall scored two goals to lead buffalo to a forty two when it's the second straight win for the sabers who also defeated the golden knights for the first time in franchise history the first ever gold medals at an olympic event for breakdancing have been awarded known as breaking to its followers the sport is debuting at the youth olympics and one osiris to bounce around won the women's title with dances marked on creativity personality technique

variety performance of. the hell event was won by bumblebee for russia the world down federation hopes down sports will eventually become part of the full olympic games. the international committee has officially named senegal as the host of the two thousand and twenty two games the west african nation will be the first country from the continent to stage any olympic event so nichols was the only bid to make it through to the final stage of the bidding process with nigeria but want to antinous year dropping out what to do. if you bring your decision is a novelty in the history of the olympics it honors our country and our continent that is why i want to pay tribute to botswana nigeria and to newsier who had submitted their bids at the same time a cynical. and that's all your support and i will be back with more later but for now. ok thanks very much for a season that was that was up for cost folly is here in a couple of minutes with thirty minutes of al-jazeera will i will see you very soon

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