they called off a planned emergency summit in november judging that insufficient progress has been made to expect a deal by then it looks that still we do have a lot of discussions and i channeled through the man told to stand so there were educated was and it's very difficult for european side to negotiate with their personal yes no or full support of the position they know she's politically weak at home to resume a has bowed to different factions in her government and parliament rejecting the e use plan for a backstop or insurance policy against a future hard boarder on the island of ireland. they insist it's non-negotiable and there's more and more talk about all of this ending in no deal disruptions of borders tariffs on trade british passport holders requiring visas and work permits on the continent. there is one new idea doing the rounds the a use potential willingness to extend the so-called transition period after britain

leaves the e.u. allowing a full three years for trade talks to take place before that warning issue of the backstop applies it might soften some opposition to the backstop hardly imaginative thinking at this stage but possibly all they've got the prime minister and others stressed that a deal is ninety percent done but on the problem of ireland they're still miles apart jonah al-jazeera brussels we're going to weather update next hour al-jazeera then a special investigation into cricket match fixing leads to a confession from one of pakistan's players. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. as a set up in europe weather wise much the same as it was about

a week ago in the you got a band of rain on the western side of europe and circulating cloud in the west and negative view some pretty heavy showers as you know in southern france more recently on the arms of corsica seventy seven millimeters the last two days is further south nasa affecting northwest africa portugal and spain and i think that's what's going to carry on in the next day or so that circulation of thunderstorms quite significant ones there's very little elsewhere temperature wise we're creeping down where we should be below the twenty mark was still quite warm in ukraine it's got to eighteen in moscow and paris still showing the twenty one mark just pleasant enough quiet looking weather very few showers at all this one indicated the middle of remain the monks that cloud but now the place to watch is still spain portugal of course north west africa that's right today and tomorrow the circulation in the low so where you see deep white clouds that's pretty heavy rain thunderstorms flash flood territory has already happened in places in tunis

your knowledge area it could stretch as far west as morocco says the circulation eighteen are about an underneath the green that suggests rain it doesn't prove that it's a slow process things will go slowly get better. the weather sponsored by cattle and lease. if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships one mess was that somehow time is aiming to replace america and hanging around the world while the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china part one on a jersey. well

again the top stories on al-jazeera turkish investigators looking for evidence linked to the disappearance of the journalist jamal khashoggi have completed searches of two saudi arabian diplomatic buildings in istanbul turkish sources have told al jazeera that important samples been found meanwhile in the u.s. democrats are putting pressure on the president over his response to the case donald trump has been reluctant to criticize the saudi leadership despite mounting evidence linking riyadh to push oxys disappearance. and european leaders are in brussels to discuss brags it was to go see asians with the u.k. remain deadlocked over the future of the irish border plans for a special brigs at summit in november have been postponed the e.u. says britain's prime minister to resign may needs to provide new suggestions for resolving the issue. israeli airstrikes targeted twenty sites in the gaza strip on

weapons say killing at least one palestinian the israeli military says that it was a response to rocket fire but how mass which controls gaza distance itself. from the attack it says the rockets were an irresponsible attempt to undermine it gyptian efforts to broker a new long term truce let's go live out of gaza serious hurry force it is the this rocket attack obviously viewed very seriously by israel arie what can we read into the fact that there was no further military action last night who. yes that is interesting and i think we ought to just put a clarification here that we're talking about no further military action up until this point there was a five and a half hour security cabinet meeting carried out by the israeli prime minister the defense minister other senior politicians and the chief of the army which lasted until two thirty local time this morning so they obviously very carefully

considering this response there's no doubt that they see this as a major escalation the fact that one rocket struck a residential home in the city of bell shaver some forty kilometers away from the gaza strip border another rocket falling into the sea just southwest of tel aviv had either of those resulted in fatalities indeed if the one heading to towards the center of the israeli territory around tel of if that had struck a populated area there we'd be talking about a very large response underway already they do now have this period to to consider the situation and it is a delicate situation because the indications are that the israeli army doesn't want to go to war that the israeli prime minister himself looking at potential early elections is very wary of going to war despite the very bellicose language coming from his defense minister they may also be taking into account how mass is very strong denial of any responsibility saying that this was an attempt to undermine

the negotiations being led by egyptian officials those egyptians left the gaza strip yesterday wednesday and according to local media reports here in gaza they took a message from hamas directly to the israelis again denying responsibility saying that they were investigating the events and how these rockets were fired at these these rounds of the large medium range rockets and also again saying that they had no interest in a full scale war so if a massive military wing didn't fire the rockets that triggered that israeli response who did. well indeed that is the question and it is one which i'm afraid leads us into the realms of speculation but what i can do is outline some of the the speculation i mean hamas has in the past talked about salafi groups here in gaza linked to the islamic state being a potential fires of such rogue rockets they are explicitly saying that this time

there are some who talk about the fact that fatah the other palestinian political faction has its own military wing here in gaza bit as far as the israelis are concerned they say that the only people that possess these pretty strategic medium range heavy rockets the only people who are supposed to be in control of such rockets belong to hamas and perhaps islamic jihad both of whom have denied it so the theories coming out in the israeli media are either that hamas doesn't have the kind of control over such weaponry that it is supposed to which they say obviously is a worrying situation or that hamas is trying to to prod israelis and the egyptians the international community having had no real benefit from the months of border protests and the kind of heavy casualties that we've been seen here in gaza from israeli sniper fire on those borders that they're trying to sort of prod. the

israelis and others into some kind of action without going too far and leading to a full scale conflict and at the same time denying responsibility was the two main theories coming out from the israeli side at least very many thanks how does this very force of their life in gaza. people in bhutan casting their ballots in a run off parliamentary election more than four hundred thousand registered voters are electing forty seven members to the national assembly royalist and center left parties are facing each other in the runoff barkha is in part. was being treated very very seriously indeed as you said this is only the third election since the country's transition to democracy back in two thousand and eight that has been a very very unusual journey because the transition came about as a result of a direct order by the previous monarch so people have embrace democracy enthusiastically perhaps largely out of respect for the monarchy that's the bizarre contradiction

about politics here in bhutan as you said there's a population of around seven hundred fifty thousand about half a million voters there are two main parties the p.t. party that's right and the n.t. party the first of those parties formed the government back in two thousand and eight the other party has never actually had a role in government no experience of government but is hoping to shape up the political landscape here in the country very little politically separating the two of these party it seems a largely to be cosmetic but at the center of all political life here in bhutan is the pursuit of domestic national happiness that's how the success of the nation is measured in sharp contrast to g.t. g.d.p. it compared to the rest of the world. afghanistan will hold a general election on saturday the taliban has called for a boycott of the vote it was warned that it will attack polling stations that's led

to concern about a low turnout the government is trying to encourage as many people to cast their ballots as possible pass with almost two thirds of the population illiterate campaigning for the elections is no simple task force from kabul. there are two thousand five hundred candidates running in this year. of just two hundred forty nine seats here in kabul their country candidates which means that if you're. going to vote you'll have to look through the streets list of candidates to try to find that one person you want to vote for which makes it very difficult another problem is a literacy here in afghanistan that is thirty one percent literacy which means two of every three people cannot read and write therefore if you show up to voters and you cannot read your candidate's name how do you know what election commission has come up with the system every kind of get a simple. bombs to see. how

much they have papers and it has been dispersed in the last me system to every candidate let me take some examples here you have one person who has to balance. a man with three. and over here a man with two only two thousand five hundred. candidates across this country. as a way to find the one source of. thousands of people fleeing poverty and violence in honduras arrived in guatemala city the group including hundreds of children traveling on source is headed for the us mexico border but u.s. president donald trump is threatening to cut aid to guatemala unless they're stopped david reports. some people here are calling it. an exodus more than a thousand migrants fleeing hundred on foot arrived in a migrant sheltering guatemala city on wednesday

a group of migrants set off from honduras last week and the caravan has since grown rapidly people hope that traveling as a group will help protect them from robberies assaults and kidnappings on route to mexico in the united states many say they've been forced to make let's get i'm all for anybody but we don't want to go and invade their country but hunger and the needs of our children oblige us to do this we don't want to abandon our nation i didn't want to come here but we've been killed little by little i hope people can understand the. staff at the privately run shelter say they've already provided food shelter and medical assistance to around two thousand migrants and they expect thousands more to arrive at the shelter in the coming days neither tropical heat and seasonal downpours nor threats of detention from security forces have deterred the migrants do not come out of. it was a really hard decision to come i have two small children one and two years old that

are doing this to avoid more suffering president donald trump has threatened to cut off hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to honduras guatemala and el salvador if the migrant caravan isn't stopped and turned around but for the people who are escaping a region beset by gang violence poverty and corruption such threats have little meaning. that it's a troubling action because the poor have never benefited from this aid not from the alliance for prosperity more from free trade agreements basically those who are rich benefits while the poor are excluded and so they continue to migrate. more hundred migrants are arriving here by the minute both say that they're going to stay in the shelters for the night to rest up before heading towards the mexican border that's a journey that's more than two hundred fifty kilometers long. now with a lot of rain in the forecast it's going to be a difficult journey with little to lose these migrants say they're determined to push north regardless of what stands in their way but with the trumpet ministration

intent on stopping the caravan before it reaches the u.s. border their dreams of a better life could be cut short david mercer al-jazeera in guatemala city. a government minister in india has resigned after at least twenty women accused him of sexual harassment and assault and was the deputy foreign minister allegations against the sixty seven year old date back to his time as a leading newspaper in the late one nine hundred eighty s. ninety s he's part of a long list of prominent men who've been named in what's being called india's hash tag me to movement an international cricketer has confessed to his role in a match fixing scandal in england six years after being banned from playing following a recent zero investigation donnish canaria pakistan's most successful test match spin bowler decided to come clean david harrison has are exclusive report from london. canaria played over sixty test

matches and took nearly three hundred wickets in international matches for pakistan . but in two thousand and twelve his career came to a sudden and he was banned for life by english cricket's governing body for match fixing canary was found guilty of encouraging a team mate at essex county cricket club to underperform during a match in two thousand and nine and with bringing the game into disrepute for six years canary has protested his innocence two appeals were rejected but now in an exclusive interview with al jazeera as investigative unit canaria has finally confessed his guilt right. and i went. into the charges brought against me. and stricken. her. become for show you know make that decision because you cannot live a life ripped life in areas said that the imminent death of his father was initially

a reason for not admitting his guilt and headed toward getting worse and worse and worse and i didn't have that kurdish to face him and to tell him that i was wrong canaria introduced his as sixteen the eight nevin westfield to an infamous engine much fixit in a nightclub westfield was jailed for four months and banned from cricket for five years for accepting around eight thousand dollars he admitted allowing opposition batsman to school runs when he was bowling i want to apologize to invest. and fix a marriage mike fixed or get my i figured and i fish forty to park a foreign canaria says the ban has had a devastating effect on his life i want their hearts to get thicker or park or foreign and that. i was achieving good money i lost my friend

effect which i used to get everything done everything i lost everything he is now pleading with crickets governing bodies to lift his ban and didn't return he pledged to help young players i want to teach young people young cricketer there are people who will do temptation for you but you have to be strong go to it right that action right there going to work shortcut and making money in a short and then bad argument today. david harrison al-jazeera london watch cricket match fixes the monaro of files on al-jazeera a twenty hundred hours g.m.t. on sunday. it is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories this hour on al-jazeera turkish investigators looking for evidence linked to the disappearance of the journalist the mouth ashaji of completed searches of two saudi

arabian diplomatic buildings in istanbul turkey sources i'm told i'll just say are that important samples were found during that twelve hour search of the consulate of the consul general's home in one of the u.s. democrats of putting pressure on the president over his response to the case donald trump has been reluctant to criticize the saudi leadership despite mounting evidence linking riyadh to show cheese disappearance stratford says that investigators have been focusing on the garden of the consul general's residence who according to sources we've spoken to involved in this investigation we understand that a lot of the focus of oath that investigation last night because the general's house was in the garden we understand there may well have been some sort of excavation and we also hear that there was a lot of focus on the garrote in a vehicle in that it is believed on the day that crucial she disappeared mood from the consulate to the consul general. european leaders in brussels for another day

of meetings to discuss briggs it as negotiations with the u.k. remain deadlocked over the future of the irish border plans for a special briggs and summit in the event of been postponed the e.u. says the britain's prime minister to resign may hasn't provided any new suggestions for resolving the issue voters in bhutan accosting the ballots in a runoff parliamentary election more than four hundred thousand registered voters are electing forty seven members of the national assembly royalist and center left parties a facing each other in the runoff. israeli airstrikes have targeted twenty sites in the gaza strip where the say killing at least one palestinian the israeli military says that it was a response to rocket fire but hamas which controls gaza distanced itself from the attack it says the rockets were an irresponsible attempt to undermine egyptian efforts to broker a new long term truce those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera

after the stream next after a three year delay afghanistan is finally preparing to hold parliamentary elections told by constant violence and continually influenced by foreign powers many afghans are hoping for a real change what direction where the country takes for give you an in-depth coverage of the afghanistan elections. my name. he. and. the strain.

feeling anything yet you are going to need a pair of really good headphones for today show for me ok today we are diving into the world of autonomous sensory meridian response or a s m r now the term is used to describe the sensation people feel when they watch certain types of stimulating videos so do you find the sound of soothing desisting to someone crinkle wrapping paper low you like a lullaby if so you're probably one of the millions of people poring through a s m r videos on you tube but is there more to it than brain tingles joining us to talk about this in singapore melinda lauer she's the co-creator and artistic director of whisper large an immersive spiral for the senses in new york comedian and a s m r enthusiastic glaser in the studio we have craig richard he's professor of biopharmaceutical sciences shenandoah university you also founded the n.a.s. m.r. university and that was in an effort to encourage research and in london you've

already seen and heard emma smith is an a.o.s. m.-r. artist so low everybody's good to have you here emma and the people watching the show at the very top of the show will be thinking what on earth is going on here explain. answer is a tingling the sensation it's very relaxing it usually begins in the crown of your head and works its way down the back of your head down your spine often through your limbs it's trickett by certain sounds soft voices someone playing with your hair during letters on your back. but ultimately the best way to describe it is that it's an extremely relaxing calming feeling and i make videos on you tube along with lots and lots of other people we use different sounds and our voices to trigger that feeling in the viewer

and people who experienced it are so calm that they're able to fall asleep that they're able to feel happy and rested and all kinds of different things that people are using the videos for so many different things m a u s m r ring us right now you doing it on us right now i think you might yes you are. let me share this with you this i'm falling asleep unless but for good reason stay with us here as don't fall asleep yes exactly is that tim lewis on twitter because i was talking about quiet what we were doing today and i said this is a s.m.r. and tim says i had to google i had no idea what this is it's quite new in terms of giving it a name you know wrecked yeah the name didn't get created until two thousand and ten before that it was referred to as brain orgasm right some people were uncomfortable

starting that again because i want everyone to hear this that it used to be more so known as a brain orgasm so for two thousand and ten that's what people call that but jennifer allen decided in two thousand and ten that she and others were not comfortable performing to it as a brain orgasm or what is just more so a very deeply. actually experience so she gave it this more clinical sounding name of autonomy in response and as a researcher i super appreciate that because when i go to research conferences and i share data about it's much easier for me to submit my abstract to a scientific community and have a have the one simple mistake. as a deep sea diver carries immense risk to the lives of those willing to take the chance but for. the opportunity for a prosperous new life in the south with his family was an even bigger risk to take

. a witness documentary on al-jazeera. was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to. around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp. the government raised our hopes and then abandoned. politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government failed. getting to the heart of the matter the three big challenges facing human problems in the twenty first century of war climate change and technological disruption realities

what is there to fear is not. in the people. here the story on talk to. well you probably aware that there's been some pretty heavy rain recently in sumatra satellite picture picks up the white top class which is pretty big thunderstorms really in the last twenty four hours not so much in sumatra sitting it's true through singapore running through northern borneo otherwise the shells are pretty well scattered but they're going to return at the moment the emphasis is sort of circulation here which catches sort of rock to some degree the southern part of vietnam possibly cambodia and parts of central part and bit of late rain here very few showers in the philippines you know it's not like many further south but see the way he does catch them and for the time being it looks like sumatra the whole island is dodged a dry area so exactly the rain is fallen off it should be for this time the end but

it's creeping south in places and yes sulawesi is one of those places jumping sas was traded you know it's been an active spring and it continues in the same vein that's one little trough going offshore which means showers they redevelop and they're just coming up here as the sun comes out so if the queen's and new south wales useful rain is possibility the next trough is going through the bike which means warms ahead of it then temperatures tend to drop eighteen adelaide but the bonuses you get showers in the areas currently dry. the night to date people myself you have story of time where you'd like flip through because i'm always watching people watching me like reading through magazines very delicately and if there is there's something like that you're spot. well not current any of us you know we called the aa is that you there's all kinds

of paper and packaging which. we do some charcoal drawing and i around the beauty of. the extent of so many eggs and. glory so i guess i want audience watching this to walk out do they have so intricate as that means that they can actually enjoy this experience so craig you put together certain sounds that may well be triggers let's have a listen to some of them. so .

craig was we know about the science of this there's not a lot yet known for the science the first publication science publication came out in twenty fifteen so we're only three years deeper into the publication world what we do know is that whenever people are surveyed why do you enjoy them are their number one response is they find it relaxing their number two response is it helps them to fall asleep and that is consistent all the research studies so far and we also have seen with some m.r.i. studies that there appear to be some differences in the brains of individuals who can and can experience as some are i've got some pictures here and you can help me

with this this first picture what are we looking at right now. this is an m.r.i. study that was just published by bryson locked myself and some other investigators right and we had some people watch a from our videos they select to be a small videos that stimulate their areas tomorrow the strongest and then we captured brain images right while they were experiencing some are to see what areas of the brain are activated something akin to another image and this is people at sleeping activated by a.s.m. so what do what will the only engine the yellow dots what are they those are areas in the brain that are having more activity during the moments of a as some are so by doing those brain images that allows us to look at well what are these brain which is what do they have to do with human behavior and what we show in the paper is the brain areas that are activated. are very similar to the brain areas that would be activated if you were to think about someone who you care about or who cares about you right or someone was to play with your hair or to give you like

a grooming experience of any kind we have certain areas of our brain that are activated during those interpersonal bonding moment you know that even though research is only a couple of years out you're certain of this so far so good right there's no there's no such thing in science as conclusive evidence there's only supportive evidence and so par so. this fits the target patterns what we see interpersonal connections being made between people there's partly we've also had another paper published as well in sheffield in this country that was published earlier on this year wasn't it and that that showed that the heart rate decreases considerably in people that watch videos and experiences some are much in the same way that meditation does so some people say to me when they're trying to understand what i assume are as they say to me war is a sexual thing and now i'm able to say to them well actually we've had research

published now to say that the heart rate lowers so that's a really nice thing to be able to say because it's been a lot of years when we haven't really had that much research so now we have three papers and it's so. this is the eight hundred pound very quietly spoken gorilla in the room for me because i've been watching some of your videos no videos are beautiful but when i see them you're hot mama i'm not i'm not going to camp here right let me just let me just play one and then you can then continue to tell me how this is not sexy let's have a look. are you ready for my.