activity disorder or a d h d a global study shows that the youngest children in a class are more likely to be diagnosed and medicated and that could do more harm than good mariana holland explains. parents want what's best for their children so when a teacher says they might be a problem parents naturally respond and mention them the suggestion that the child has a.d.h. day attention deficit hyperactivity disorder well a global study indicates that might not always be the case. conservative estimates put the global number of children diagnosed with a t h d at more than ten million and that number is rising there are no biological tests for the disorder diagnosis relies on teacher and parent reports of children exhibiting impulsive behavior is including fidgeting interrupting and being easily distracted this research published in the journal of child psychology and psychiatry looked at seventeen studies across twelve countries covering more than

fourteen million children in all of these countries with nations with high rates of a d h d or where prescription rates are low it was more common for the youngest children in the classroom to be assessed as having a d h d around the blood takers are looking at each of the youngest kids in class and comparing them to the other children in classes and mistaking their rights if it were normal i drew a line to maturity friday actually and that's that's extremely concerning that you know then kicks off a diagnostic process. teaches don't diagnose a.d.h. d. or prescribe medication but studies show and most cases teaches of the first to suggest a child has the disorder and that label can obscure other issues things like being the youngest in class things not being sleep or things like being bullied or abused and you know that some children are just naturally impulsive and hama and even we

need to have righted tolerance for that now i'm not suggesting some of these children don't have problems like doing that giving them a life like id actually stops dr missions and parents and teachers looking for the real coup. of the out rule undergoing because of these problems and he said you know why you have a dumbed down life and let's be honest dialogue amphetamine research is say delaying the age at which a child starts school isn't the answer as another child would then become the youngest and potentially suffer instead they advised teaches and clinicians to be more cautious when assessing a child and sapir aunts who know their children best to trust their instincts and join them on crew from university college london is a co-author of the report and she says doctors need to be cautious. the diagnosis can be applied to all sorts of ordinary behaviors that may be normal for the age

bracket that a child falls into. but are identified as being abnormal because they're in a school year in which they're relatively young well i think i think clinicians and teachers just need to be aware of this need to have an outline that the the suppose it criteria for a.d.h. they are very gruelling very nonspecific and may include normal variations in behavior and normal age related immaturity and just be much more cautious about applying the label because as we know you know the label it is a label that a child has for life and is up to sociate she would then getting on drug treatment well this is a problem across mental health diagnoses are all the criteria often nonspecific there are about behaviors that may be normal in one context but not normal in another context and they're all whether or not there is a diagnosis is always a very subjective judgement so i don't think i don't think changing the criteria

will necessarily help i think well then needs to be is a greater awareness that the criteria are always subjective and that they need to be approached very cautiously and seems that what they are that is just a label for a certain set of behaviors still ahead on the here's our tell you about the football and hang on cross out a sport that has and then like ambush and paul will have all the sport coming up. the cricket world isn't the tricks and i mean you have to think by want to give me a guard against their identity and going to get in the way you know if they have them. al-jazeera is investigative unit reveals six. zick new evidence documentary confirms the bible now is a very hard profile figure in much fiction and national park even though this man

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it is time to support now his poll thank you very much novak djokovic continues his surge towards the world number one spot in tennis his incredible comeback season highlights again with a dominant display in the shanghai must as final well known at charlotte's was his opponent the russian having beaten roger federer in the semi's but jock which came into this tie on a run of seventeen wins in a row and with two grand slam titles in twenty eighteen serve so the first set six three. much point in the next would end on a review but it didn't matter to the joke of h. this is his fourth shanghai title comes a year after his twenty seventeen season was affected by poor form and injury hell replace federer as well number two on monday and he does better than rough on the dollar the paris must as well return to the top of the rankings. i couldn't ask for for a better scenario. so you know i'm very close to now now doll in the rankings and

put myself in a very good position for you know the last. last period of the year the game is a game is working really well and you know ending and ending a year is number one will definitely be. the biggest achievement of of this year. well that was career much number one thousand and one with a joke which at the other end of the scale eighteen year old diana go on her first singles title on sunday the craning up against one shang in the hong kong open final she made very light work of what was her first final appearance the world number one hundred two taking the first set six two and she blitzed past china's top ranked woman in the second six one this means she'll go to world number sixty six on monday had best ever ranking it's been a good year for youngsters just as the sixth teenager to reach a final in twenty eight. now to the race to get to baseball's world series

and its first blood to the defending champions the houston astros against the boston red sox game one of the american league championship series was in front of a sellout crowd out boston's fenway park but it was the astros that took the victory pitcher justin verlander produced a strong performance to the immense frustration of the red sox batters. it was a close game until later on when josh reddick hit a solo home run to put the astros four to two up. and then the killer blow came from cuban uli gouri al he hit a three run shot into the crowd to wrap things up the astros winning at seventy two for their fifth straight postseason when they go one up in the seven game series. this team finds a way in big moments to show up. from top to bottom like i've said before nobody cares of the euro is just as long as you have a euro that's kind of them onto the scene you know just keep the ball rolling with the next guy do the do the job and and and see what happens. game want to see so as

big as a tone we score a lot of runs. you know when we put great about so we can get scary out there so that's what we did tonight and you know hopefully we'll take a system with that while in the other series the l.a. dodgers produced a fightback victory to square things up out one one against the milwaukee brewers the bruiser on course to win the second game in a row after two home runs help them put them three nothing up this one from orlando . just clearing the fence but the dodgers hold back to within one and then step forward justin turner a man with a big red beard hits a tehran homer in the eighth inning to put them ahead for the first time in the game. and in the field it was actually turner's throw to first that closed out a victory for three to the dodgers and the brewers twelve game winning streak and

it's one long with five games remaining the last thing i want to do is is put on the ground so i was trying to get something up and. it felt good and i knew as an owner. it's cool to run the bases and see all your teammates going crazy jumping up and down waiting for us if you're talking about the identity of our ballclub he's probably. the face. the examiner face everything that i believe in as a baseball player as a professional and then you can get into the community and all that stuff but. yeah he said you can say that i call me that will work lol. four time world champions italy are hoping to secure a first win in the u.a.e. phoenicians league after a draw and the defeat they're currently on the field against poland who held them to a draw in their first outing a few of the games on the go right now as well as early or there were

a whole host of draws exciting stuff including romania against serbia that was a win for russia as the summer's world cup hosts defeated turkey two nil now our top of the africa cup of nations qualifying group k. after seeing off zambia it's who won elsewhere tottenham's victor wanyama was on the score sheet as kenya crushed ethiopia three no in nairobi to move three points clear at the top of qualifying group f two the youth olympic games in argentina now french teenager hugo guest on talk tennis gold on saturday the eighteen year old who won the junior doubles title at the australian open earlier this year was up against argentina's for camilla the as a cost it was a close match but just on eventually took it six four seven five. it was joy for the host nation at the women's beach humble final argentina lead trace in the first period a late fight back from across threatened argentina's victory but it was the hosts

who triumph when sparking scenes of celebration in point to spain took gold in the men's competition. now what you get if you cross football with table tennis not something you've probably considered but it's called tech ball and there's even a world cup for the sport this year's competition saw double the number of entrants of last year's with participants from asia africa europe and the pacific all converging in france for the event the rules are fairly simple you can touch the ball a maximum of three times with different parts of your body before sending it back over the table to your opponent the sport first started in hungary just a few years ago but it's grown in popularity was officially recognized last month by the olympic council of asia at this year's world cup romania clinched a victory in the singles while a pair from montenegro took the doubles title tackles founder's even have hopes of the sport making it to the olympics and it's got the backing of some pretty big names in football. one of my

friend invited me to play and you know because i used to be a former player i said it would be easy to do to win against teams so i went to to make team you know with the confidants you know of i would be to the you know what i announced and i'm telling you know i was very very upset so it's not a defeat a step to pride on the table and yeah it is amazing. well that is all your sport and all your tech ball for now we'll have more light like you very much paul and that does it for this al-jazeera news hour but do stay with us because i am demanding and london will have more of the day's news in just a couple of minutes and as always you can keep up to date with all the news and

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does the designation state sponsor. charitable tell us what that designation means how bad is that evil saddam. the sudanese foreign minister al did dearie mohammed ahmed talks to al jazeera. al jazeera. with every us. brotherly the. brutal dictator. with discontent spreading through north africa time was running out for libya's self-styled king of kings. in the first of a two part series the big picture charts the rise and fall of one of the feet and

the events that helped fuel the violence of his final hours. the lust for libya on a full. saudi arabia has warned against threats to punish it over the disappearance of the veteran journalist jamal khashoggi. though i'm maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up chancellor angela merkel's bavarian allies suffer the worst election result since nine hundred fifty and a setback that risks widening divisions within germany's national government. back to school in iraq children in mosul return to the classrooms that once served as an ice base and pope francis turns a latin american hero into

a roman catholic saint archbishop for america is on a dock to being killed in el salvador for standing up for the poor. saudi arabia has warned against threats to punish it over the disappearance of the veteran journalist jamal khashoggi but the kingdom has been careful to avoid any in one thousand washington thanking the united states states for not jumping to conclusions u.s. president donald trump has said the kingdom faces severe punishment if it's found to have mud at the journalist is to believe and the u.k. france and germany of all jointly called for a credible investigation to establish fête white canner reports. the saudi stock market suffered its biggest fall in years following president trump's warning it recovered slightly during the day but it was the purse tangible sign of

the impact of this crisis on the saudi condominium with an impact too on the once cozy relationship between the trumpet ministration and saudi leaders a statement released by the saudi news agency threatening global retaliation against any sanction came just hours after president trump spoke of severe punishment that saudi arabia approved complicit in jamal khashoggi his disappearance. no doubt among members of congress that this should involve economic sanction despite president trump stated reluctance for such measures so i would just say this to you are for confidence if this is proven to be true there is going to be a response from congress it's going to be nearly unanimous it's going to be swift and it's going to go pretty far and that could include arms sales but it could include a bunch of other things as well european leaders to making clear they will not stand by they must have seen the huge international concern from the united states now from britain france and germany what they need to do is to cooperate fully with

the investigation that the turks are asking us to do and to get over all of this and if as they say this this terrible murder didn't happen then where is jamal khashoggi and that's what the world wants to know a former cia director casting doubt to the vehement saudi denials of empowerment their denials ring hollow very much for a hollow to go after a permanent resident states who writes for the washington post and doing it on foreign soil at a diplomatic mission to me would be inconceivable that such an operation would be run by the saudis without the knowledge of the day to day decision maker of saudi arabia that's crown prince mom been said. in an apparent bid to diffuse the tension the saudi foreign ministry has released a tweet thanking the u.s. and others for refraining from jumping to conclusions despite this though

a relationship that was once so warm is along with the saudi stock market reaching a new low mike hanna is here or washington. despite an offer by crown prince manager and sound man the saudis still haven't allowed takesh investigators into the compound the consulate is still conducting official business as jamal a shell reports from istanbul. opposite these how do you consulates there is a company that deals with issuing visas that's the larger and smaller pilgrimage that muslims make to mecca in saudi arabia now this company as well as a few others that are scattered around the building say that they are still able to process those paperworks by going to the consulates building albeit they have to answer from in the back there is a road parallel to this building behind now this consulate has essentially been a crime scene now for several days since the disappearance of jamal khashoggi however there hasn't been any turkish police and the only people who've been going

in this door here have been those who come on diplomatic vehicles registered to the mission here there are journalists who have been camped out here for several days now waiting for some sort of developments as far as the investigation is concerned other turks are still waiting to be allowed in to search this properly they want their forensic experts to go in there police to go when they need saudi permission to do that till now though they haven't been granted it's. chancellor angela merkel's but varian allies have suffered that worst election result since one thousand nine hundred fifty a result that risks widening divisions within germany's national government there is dominic cain has been following events for us from munich. the exit polls suggest that the christian social union has suffered a serious reverse in this parliament free election in the state of area where once

they could count on nearly hoffa's all votes cast the general elections in this state this time around exit polls suggest a thirty five percent of voting for what that means is that they no longer have an absolute majority in parliament they will have to depend on votes from other parties if they want to govern the problem for them will be but the second place party appears to be the green party ninety percent of the vote which is a considerable growth in votes and seats relative to five years ago the other interesting point from this election is the performance of the populist far right party the a.f.p. the alternative for germany which is entering the very important for the first time with an eleven percent of the vote the point to make about this parliamentary election why it matters beyond the area is that the christian social union are also in federal coalition wrangler mackerels conservative christian democrats and the social democrats the question here will be how will they go about governing with angela merkel when many in the c.s.u.

blaming government for the electoral setback they've suffered tonight. well now police have broken up anti-government protests nicaraguan capital managua the protest is a part of an alliance of forty opposition groups calling for an end to president daniel a take us rule since the demonstrations started in april three hundred fifty people have been killed and thousands more injured manolo sent us this update from an atlanta. we're in the uk because i went capitol on the day that there was supposed to be a peaceful protest and answer government protesters were police in riot gear sort of have started arresting one by one every one of the peaceful protesters i was really we are seeing tear gas being deployed against protesters and against the press the press has been victims of harassment as well as attacks by the police today i was shot earlier. with a tear gas canister than here but here right next to where we were thirty years ago the first to be taken away. these are the anti-riot police being deployed on the

street to be cut out we're right now there was a peaceful protest about two dozen people protesting part of the supermarket here in my novel one by one these are the anti-riot police have started arresting them and taking them away. we're just going to keep recording keep filming. bearing witness to what i what there are no other words to describe it other than then the repression by the police against peaceful protesters on the streets of my now. a taliban attack in western afghanistan has left at least seventeen members of the security forces dead gunmen are reported to have attacked seven security checkpoints in far province on saturday night at least eleven others have been abducted while the attack on does the u.s. special envoy to afghanistan met with taliban representatives for talks reviving hopes of an end to decades of violence in the country but in the lead up to saturday's parliamentary elections attacks have been continuing our reports now from the afghan capital kabul. the action campaigning goes on despite the

violence this candidate hoping to be voted into the next. the elections seen as crucial to and instability in afghanistan but attacks by the taliban have picked up the group has threatened more disruption of the ballot box accusing the united states of using the elections to extend its troops presence in afghanistan a meeting between the u.s. special envoy to afghanistan. and the taliban took place in qatar on friday raising hopes of a political solution the u.s. and the afghan government are remaining tight lipped about the meeting the taliban welcomed the talks but warned in a statement that the presence of foreign troops is the greatest obstacle to peace and solving problems first must be made to was

a genuine peace and the solution agreed on by the afghans themselves the afghans who have survived years of violence and bloodshed say political talks have to be good for afghanistan but they have yet to see any benefits. for the they keep talking about peace talks we haven't seen any progress those talks have been mentioned for years and yet there is nothing there yet. we really need peace but at the same time we need a third party who can help negotiate a peace deal between the taliban and the government in june the taliban and the government agreed on a three day cease fire it was the first truce in seventeen years but talks stalled and violence resumed. stock market out with a fight among. people talk about the afghan government conditions for a permanent deal with the taliban. but on the ground peace seems some way off

taliban attacks targeting election candidates and security forces happen almost every day. it's generally accepted that the military option would not defeat the taliban and that it's better to engage with a group and devise its leaders chill join a broader governing coalition many see that as the best hope of and the war decades of ethnic divide so that they can start rebuilding the country about al-jazeera couple still ahead for you on the program somalia's prime minister calls for unity at a ceremony remembering the hundreds of victims of last year's massive bombing in marketing . commenter thomas made parks in eastern australia where drought is keeping fields like this one pet food for cows having to be trucked in from a thousand kilometers away a huge expense australia's government is helping pay for the cost but should it be .

leslie hit portugal hurrican with hurrican force winds and the damage became apparent as it's in this massive cloud here you can't even see is a proper circulation because it no longer is but this is what it did felled trees but more importantly snapped a swathe of trees some wind you need to do that but that's what it did all the sudden so it's no longer as in like a hurricane it's just an area of low pressure that's feeding a lot of moisture up to and hans the flooding has already happened in the british isles unfortunately now if you take it through the daylight hours on monday the writing is rather less but the snaking line is still there and this part of it down through southern france to the western med is still potentially quite stormy in the thunderstorm sense of the word so downpours seem quite likely to break up into forming more discreet cells it runs across the islands in the next day or so and

all the time to the east this is still quite warm twenty one in body twenty five in paris and even in london ninety degrees so much of europe is enjoying settled and warm weather in north africa the effect of what has just happened in spain portugal this tale end of potential story weather is still through north now geria all day a few showers might just catch these inside libya and those storms march only slowly eastwards. an ancient disease that continues to put half of the world's population at risk if we do have a vaccine it will speed up the process of moving the disease in many parts of the world al-jazeera travels to tanzania and follows medical professions through on the frontline of the battle against malaria and s.k. just as a precaution the skeeters in a lot of cases if official it is lifeline's the end game on al-jazeera.

at am am i . welcome back a quick look at the top stories now saudi arabia has warned against threats to punish it over the disappearance of the veteran journalist jamal khashoggi but the kingdom has also been careful to avoid alienating washington thanking the united states for not jumping to conclusions chancellor angela merkel's bavarian allies have suffered their worst election results since one thousand nine hundred fifty result that risks widening divisions within germany's national government and police have broken up anti-government protests in the nicaraguan capital managua

protest as a part of an alliance of forty opposition groups calling for an end to president daniel r. take his rule. well now to iraq where children in the city of mosul settling back into class more than a year after it was recovering from i.c.l. the group shut down and destroyed most schools when it sees the city in two thousand and fourteen present reports it's hoped returning to education will help the children overcome the trauma of war. leaving the foster school and bubble elementary school in motion gridlock losses of received for the first time in three years. i still use this school as a military base firing rocket propelled grenades a multiverse of the forces by the time the complaint. most of the city was reduced to rubble the own going schools are construction work was initiated by volunteers and patents came to see their children back in collapse. this was made possible with the help of contributions from the well wishers within

and outside iraq it is the result of the tireless efforts of iraqi women to portray to the world agony and devastation and mosul. the classrooms are crowded on the children must both books and sits most top forgotten what it is like to be in school up to three years when it. can be a struggle say the teachers to get them to listen and participate but it's the trauma and psychological impact the violence that's been most diverse the. six year old. survived like that hit his home and almost wiped out his entire family he now lives in the partly destroyed house with his father and grandfather the only other survivors of the strike solace father prepares his son for the first day in school he is hopeful making new friends will help his recovery. is slowly recovering he nearly died and remembers everything vividly we need more help

in caring for him though so said mr ses everyone's trying their best to help. the psychological impact on children has been huge we have to free the children's minds from all these bad thoughts were free therapy sessions that are being clearly funded by the government unexploded bombs and other weapons continue to pose a danger to the children in the schools thought once as i said basis as many schools. to reopen to improvise running multiple shifts to accommodate all the students there now increasing calls to the government for a major increase in investment in education to help ease the diverse nation caused by years of violence. but of that. a memorial ceremonies been held in somalia on the first anniversary of the largest ever bomb blast that the man accused of orchestrating the explosion has been executed by firing squad at least five hundred somalis were killed hundreds injured and the center of the

capital mogadishu devastated a year ago. or has more. sunday was a national day for somalis to mourn a year to the day since the massive truck bomb was detonated at a busy intersection in the capital it's been described as the largest explosion in somalia's troubled history and the worst attack since nine eleven in the u.s. . they believe that they can enforce fear and us they believe they could undermine the progress we have made they believe that they can damage our image betrayed our country is an unsafe place to go they want to damage the morale and resilience of our people to the contrary blisters with stronger unity the massive blast killed at least five hundred somalis injured hundreds more and destroyed buildings in the city center including a hotel no group claimed responsibility for the attack but the man accused of

leading an al-shabaab unit was sentenced to death in february a firing squad carried out that sentence on the first anniversary for some it's little comfort shop attendant abdullah hossam goal says it's like the explosion happened just yesterday this is in the shop owner i was working for died next to me i lost a lot of blood i struggled for some time no one came to my rescue then outside the shop i saw the whole area in flames dead body.