from brussels here has been very strong indeed the french president emmanuel a macron spoke about the facts that we know are extremely serious and worrying we expect saudis to throw light on this matter and we've had exchanges with the saudi authorities to clarify all of this jeremy hunt the british foreign secretary said reaction will depend on whether we sense that they the saudis are taking it seriously enough this is a very very serious matter and if these stories are true it would be not it would not be consistent with our values and that's the bottom line here you know this conference yesterday on the thursday and friday has been about global good governance it's been about the rules based world order and when you have an allegation such as is at the moment of a decision journalist being murdered and dismembered in an overseas consulate it runs totally counter to everything that these leaders here believe in paul brennan in brussels there were plenty more ahead on this news hour trying to tie the knot

in iraq the government tries to make marriages more attractive as women struggle to find husbands why california is planning to change a sentencing system that puts many offenders in prison for life. and the red sox book their place in the world series all the action in sports. so all is still ahead but first people in afghanistan are voting in parliamentary elections on saturday but those in the southern province of kandahar well have to wait another week an attack in the region killed two senior officials on sunday it happened at a meeting between the most senior u.s. military officer in the country and afghan commanders among the dead general abdul erotic taliban has claimed responsibility and is vowing to derail the election and target anyone who votes it is a crucial poll because saturday's election. in has already been delayed for three

years over security concerns and voter registration reforms charla bellus reports now from kabul and they're definitely a military precision for one of the most well known police chiefs in afghanistan general abdul rizieq most overpowered. general rizzi was a powerful and very respected man and his death is a big loss for us we the people of kandahar all united i will say the achievements made by general abizaid in the past years. because you could survive to many assess the nation attempts as he rose to the rank of general but he was also regarded as being tough on the taliban human rights watch he described him as kandahar as torture and chief an aging he was involved in human rights abuses of suspected taliban detainees regardless he was well respected by the u.s. and afghan leadership if the loss of a patriot but we remain absolutely committed. to an afghan led

afghan reconsolidation. we need to find who's done this. but right now. we are going toward your action and we will continue to defend him people the attack happened after this meeting of top u.s. commanders in kandahar provincial limit is not long after these pictures were recorded the gunman launched a surprise attack the provincial intelligence chief was killed until americans wounded general miller the man in charge of all u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan escaped unharmed when he returned to kabul image security forces to boost morale hit a set of days parliamentary elections revealed only this about the attack my assessment is that i was not the target it was a very close confined space but i don't i don't know that i was a part of the taliban has promised to disrupt the elections and in kandahar it has succeeded by called the by they could after the. incident in kandahar that took

place the afghan independent election commission has decided to delay the election for a week in the kandahar province. but for the rest of afghanistan the show goes on all the materials have been distributed under armed guard to more than five thousand seemed his nationwide poll scheduled to open its seven am local on the eve of a much delayed vote afghans must ask themselves what democracy means to them the taliban has promised to attack polling centers on afghan and nato forces have promised to prevent such attacks turn out on saturday or tell who are against believed chelate bellus al jazeera a couple of dozens of people have been killed in northern india after a train plowed into a crowd of a hindu festival thousands were attending the festival in the amritsar when the crowd spilled over onto a train track upon a point jump police official says at least sixty two people have been killed and more than two hundred others injured because the exact. number does

definitely more than for people sixty more than that. ravinder are saying is a local journalist who joins us on the phone from thanks very much for being with us what more can you tell us about what happened here. actually it was about sixty two people have died or not to the extent the extent took place excellent greater played with station which is the place called jewel of light the grid around i was very different you will want to get the reverend after he was one of the day we the people who were actually to do what he could not hear the sound due to the exploding crackers and that was issued from the thought has risen up to sixty to about one hundred fifty people got it. and they were moved to the hospital. where

the decision whether the ambulance is a hospital some of the hospitals or got evacuated to. one of the reports that we're reading is coming from a news agency in india the press trust of india saying that. two trains had arrived from the opposite direction on separate tracks at the same time and that gave people very little opportunity to escape does that fit in with with what you you've been hearing there. yeah i was there and. we had told there were two trains exactly but the one thing which was heading to like now from. that actually close by people gave way to to the train but if we get here at the same time around five between it'll be five thirty six thirty to six forty five this thing from that it's about eighty kilometers from under sir it was heading to a bridge. three and actually the people those who were standing off towards the

around hundred. from the track they could not hear it was exactly all the same time there was heading to like now where there was coming to a group and the crack of exploded at the same time. as happened like that rivendell thing in amritsar thank you. police in indian administered kashmir have fired tear gas and gun pellets of protesters it happened in the main city of synagogue on friday a protest started after a civilian and two rebels were killed in a shootout with police earlier in the week at least one hundred people have been injured in gaza with two of those hurt in critical condition as protests continue along the border fence with israel thermos traitors have been setting tires alight and throwing stones at israeli troops along the gaza border one day after a palestinian rocket destroyed a home in southern israel earlier an egyptian delegation met israeli and hamas

officials hoping to negotiate a lasting cease fire how a force that has more for us from gaza this friday protest is now winding down you can see the hundreds of people streaming along these pathways back towards the main roads here east of gaza city the ambulances though have been going up and down shuttling along these lanes at the same time the whole build up to this protest was in course increased in its delicacy and stakes because of what happened on wednesday the early hours of wednesday morning when there was a rocket strike from gaza in territory which hit and damaged a residential home in the israeli town of. the mother and three children living in that property escaped unharmed but israel has threatened hamas with increased military action if these border protests proceeded in the way that hat they have in recent weeks in terms of the number of people approaching the fence breaching the fence lighting and launching in century kites and balloons we did see snipers

targeting some of those balloons as they were sent on their way towards israeli territory as for the protests themselves well hamas has called on people had called on people to come out again in force it doesn't want to simply give up on these protests having invested so much in them over so many months and so far having little to show for them however it does seem that there was a call for restraint there weren't so many people getting so close to the fence the center of gravity of these protests remained a long way short of where it has in recent weeks. united nations cash provides a vital lifeline for many of the one hundred eighty thousand syrian refugee families living in lebanon but limited resources are force the world food program to redistribute aid only the most vulnerable people qualify for assistance programs so that means some will lose out so you know hala reports. of the fatah hope and his wife have survived the last four years with the help of the

united nations they benefited from a cash assistance program for syrian refugees in lebanon but they were recently told they will no longer receive the one hundred seventy five dollars monthly payment so they are victims of what the international organization says is its limited resources. we are in need of assistance from the united nations because we are in deep and i can't work for health reasons i have a heart problem every year the u.n. conducts an assessment to find out who needs help the most. are among one hundred eighty thousand syrian families who will no longer be eligible for the aid which will now be given to the same number of families who have been recently identified as the most vulnerable. has our will now be given priority for the first time since her family moved to lebanon a year ago she will be given money to pay for food and other needs. my daughters

are working so that we can each that they barely make enough money if they don't work will die from hunger almost a million syrian refugees are registered with the un in lebanon but only thirty percent are eligible for the cash assistance program because of the lack of money. it is our responsibility to make sure that the families receiving this instance are really those who need it the most the bottom line is that this program really targets the poorest of the poor and sadly it doesn't even reach the. the percentage of the families live under the extreme poverty. now it's a year the conflict in neighboring syria has made millions dependent on assistance . limited funding means many refugees have to rely on themselves and that is not easy in lebanon where they are not welcome the suffering is immense un statistics show more than eighty percent of syrian refugees have at least one family member

living with a chronic health condition. and most organizations provide only basic health care and even the ferries family didn't get that when they lost a child not too long ago they say they haven't benefited from the u.n. cash program during their four years in lebanon the twenty six year old father earns three dollars a day but that is only when he finds work hard on national machine since they came from syria i haven't been able to find a steady job whatever i earn is not enough. i owe people three and a half thousand dollars the u.s. warns the humanitarian crisis is not going to go away anytime soon and so many continue to appeal for help seven hundred because. mexico is letting in a stream of migrants from honduras who are making their way up to the united states they were allowed to cross into mexico through the southern border the government there said they would have to show a passport and visa to cross through the country and anyone without papers will be

deported in the last few moments thousands of migrants tore down a border gate in guatemala and part of rodriguez joins us by phone now from the. mexico border he is an al-jazeera producer there she she is an al-jazeera producer there rather thanks very much for being with us just tell us what you're seeing there. how keen understanding he at you can even of the greek that separate both countries are united both countries and i'm standing together with about i should say about two thousand migrants they just grew up through the same about forty minutes ago and for the sake will one just about fifteen minutes ago they're waiting now for make the call to open the cold africa going to having a family i know in the center i have a visa will tackle that most of them don't have to call conference so although we

put a lot of confusion we seeing they think that they would be able to close make the go on their way to the u.a.e. engage. each hour while i'm there but at the moment that's going on their way they think i don't suppose they wear a lot of policemen and there was a man on friday and there are also a lot of policemen in the make to comply but they all can devote us right now ten minutes ago and what sort of conditions are these migrants escaping from that is that has led them to to take this journey from home during. the summer migrants come from you can find them from someone who happens even if they aren't there to see them to one of the most violent p.p.p. in the world as i say any taken by not well they paid for violence from pulling the they entries say that they come to me see that they can still rape tonight that they can take children they say that they want that they provide for

the children and maybe even don't want to say make the goalie that they didn't want to make it to the states because they see the state of the country was a good debate held but unique to this a lot of the young people in the car in cairo we need a lot of moms through that kind of really great team going on the show that i go get that and i think about three thousand of them write the i'm thinking the lines right those things and about a thousand that i'm too kind but i write to growing them. i don't agree give thanks so much doctors. now the caravan of people left honduras on saturday a us president has threatened to use the army to stop them entering the country poll of polls. they've been hiking through muddy jungles. and crossing rivers traveling for a week now from honduras to guatemala determined to find sanctuary in the united

states you know i am available but i son was murdered and criminal gangs threaten my daughter that's why i am leaving. many have left their homes to find a safer place to live others only want to chance to work and earn a living. there were no jobs there was no work it was hard to live in honduras there was nothing to eat. and nothing will deter them not police forces nor border agents not even the threat from president donald trump to deploy the us military. they will not stop us only god can stop us donald trump is nobody even if he is the president of the united states will not stop us mexico has started processing the first of the migrants who arrive those with passports and visas will be allowed to enter others will have to apply to enter as refugees.

in the border where we are a peaceful caravan and we're not hurting anyone on the street we're looking for a new life a better future. with thousands of kilometers until they reach the u.s. border with mexico hope for better life continues to push these migrants north. all right still ahead on aljazeera accusations of dirty tricks in a campaign for the brazilian president. and the controversy over its depiction of u.s. law enforcement. and later in sports bron james makes a big impact on his n.b.a. debut for the los angeles lakers.

hello there is staying fairly unsettled for us across the middle east at the moment well one area of town in the fall in northern parts of our map that's bringing some wet weather a little bit of snow in parts of catholics and grassy drifting its way towards the east and we've also got this does a cluster. of showers over parts of iraq that stretching up into syria now this is going to intensify as we head through the next few days on saturday the area of tad widens we see more showers and then it really does become more intense as we head through sunday so some heavy rains over parts of iraq and stretching all the way up into turkey expect some fairly sharp downpours out of this a bit further towards the south and the showers in doha are likely to continue off and on over the next couple of days thirty three degrees that's just our maximum at the moment there's a little bit more persistent cloud down towards the southwest in parts of yemen stretching up into parts of saudi and this is likely to give us one or two showers as well those showers becoming slightly more intense as we head through sunday and stretching across the red sea as well down towards the southern parts of africa

there's more in the way of unsettled weather here at the moment to see one area of cloud stretching its way across madagascar and up into the northern parts of the map it's proved to dissolve but we do expect a few more showers here as we head through saturday was a move weather for the eastern parts of south africa to. we're. i have dedicated almost my entire professional life to the bench and fight against corruption and what i have learned is that we need champions we need also to shine the light on those shampoos and this award bridges that gap that existed in this.

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from inside the consulate confirm it was attacked by several people investigators have identified the exact place where he was killed sources say the forensic expert who was part of the alleged hit squad then began dismembering. turkish media are reporting investigators are questioning a saudi consulate staff over her shoulder. portably told not to come to work the day went missing. at least sixty two people have been killed in northern india after a train plowed into a crowd at a hindu festival thousands were attending the festival. crowd spilled over onto a train track more than two hundred injured. brazil's far right presidential candidate jailor is being accused of spreading fake news on social media on social media and violating campaign finance laws his rival leftist workers' party

candidate for nando her dad says he used illegal corporate funding the send messages on whatsapp for propaganda use also now has denied the accusations he is currently leading opinion polls with fifty nine percent of the vote and zillions will go to the polls on october twenty eighth in the presidential runoff. the fight for my dignity goes beyond the twenty eighth of october because i will seek justice for the attacks that he made on me on the internet because he is sponsored with dirty money and a defamation campaign which doesn't have an expiration date i will seek justice until the last consequences. again you show i'm like joins us live now from south parlor so daniel it does seem that things are getting pretty nasty now. well they've been nasty since this campaign began but as you say i think the situation has been polarized by these accusations and counter-accusations what j.

about boston are all says is that he didn't know about this campaign to discredit his opponent he wasn't aware of it and even if he was there's not much he could have done about it among the accusations which have been spreading all know especially on what's out of millions of users is that fernando i doubt has a yellow ferrari again which undermines his position as the leader of the left wing he says he doesn't even own a car and gets around using public transport so that's the kind of nature of the accusations flying around but what the workers' party would like to do is have judges look at these accusations of misuse. misuse of campaign expenditure to try to have the elections if they can at least suspended what mr ball also noddles campaign is saying that's simply a last ditch desperate attempt by the workers' party to delay the elections which they say they're almost certainly going to lose and as you mentioned the polls do seem to indicate that with. about fifty nine sixty percent in the opinion polls

and fernando that hovering at around forty but still mind days to go to the elections say i think these are accusations likely to become ever more aggressive and ever more angry so what impact is all of this having on the campaign at the moment with as you say nine days to go until halling day. well i think because of the polarized make sure of brazilian society at the moment in the run up to these elections it's unlikely to have much of an effect or both scenarios supports he's come out with all sorts of controversial statements. women and black and gay and they doesn't seem to have much impact on his what appears to be a growing support even among some of the people that he's denigrated including women and black brazilian. and who some of the r.'s are still voting for him so i think these accusations won't go down or won't really have much of an impact on their vote yet it will add more ammunition to the accusations being made by the

supporters of the workers' party that. is running a dirty tricks campaign and they would like to see something done about it daniel live for us there in sao paolo ecuador and venezuela have expelled each other's ambassadors that's after an accusation from a venezuelan government minister that the ecuadorian president lied about the number of migrants crossing the border under the thousands of venezuelans have fled their homeland due to an economic and political crisis. or the united states and south korea have suspended upcoming military drills the pentagon says it is putting exercises planned for december on hold to give diplomatic efforts with north korea a better chance of succeeding north korea sees the regular drills as provocations staged to prepare for an invasion of the north the u.s.

and south korea deny this saying the exercises are routine. or the indonesian government is using helicopters to drop disinfectant on the city of that's three weeks after it was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami the disaster agency says it is necessary to prevent flies cockroaches and rats spreading disease more than two thousand bodies have been recovered but it's estimated a further five thousand people could be buried under the ruins. at least a million widows live in iraq following decades of conflict and war it's left them a sole bread winner as mohammed atta reports from baghdad on a new government proposal designed to assist them. only a month lost eight members of her family in the conflict in iraq including her husband she's been left to bring up three children on a hot. she says she was divorced heated up fast but the experience was not broken

she now walks in this place to shop in a suburb of the couple of god. and frankly speaking there is a lot of pressure on me juggling between being a mother and putting food on the table i have managed it well so far but at the expense of my health i do most of my household chores that night then is to me to do one million widows in iraq one in ten households in the control is headed by a woman in some districts it's almost one in five of the offices of a local charity these readers are being trained as teachers it's a program partly funded with donations from the state and well wishes i've been around these women have no salaries and no source of income to raise their children we are giving them skills to enable them to eventually gain much needed income and relevance in the society the plight of arabs wheedles has been described as a cultural final got feel fully understand what they go through on

a daily basis there the painful memories they say jani for lost loved ones and then they said something. about caring for the children cool for them feeding them as the main breadwinner go on. during saddam hussein's rule war widows were looked after by the state now they mostly remain hidden and vulnerable. chris in calls for more assistance for iraq's we doze and even suggestions to allow police. politicians put forward a proposal recently for the government to over moderate men by mosher incentives to take we don't are second wives. sub billion dollars share news and can't talk show host questions the assumption that the we do. can one of them or why do we have a negative view point of widows and divorced women any law for them should come with guarantees so that all those who abuse it and those who exploit widows are forced to return any funds they have received from the state. with

a doubt the economy limping along dependent entirely on crude oil and the government preoccupied with their construction and building national unity many acknowledge that little is likely to change for arabs we don't see any time soon how would i do. but that our wonder has announced women will make up half of its twenty six seat cabinet making it one of the world's few gender balance governments want to join ethiopia and a handful of mostly european countries where women make up fifty percent or more of ministerial positions the country has received international recognition for female representation in government with women making up sixty one percent of parliament members at least five people have been killed and two are missing after flash floods hit parts of tunisia heavy rain caused waters to rise in a number of cities in the north damaging homes and shops locals have criticised the thora teams for failing to maintain drainage systems despite frequent tarantula

rains and there's concern about how an economic slowdown in china may affect the global economy you figure suggests the world's second largest economy grew by six point five percent in the third quarter of this year that is the weakest growth period since the global financial crisis in two thousand and nine china has started coming under pressure from the u.s. trade war the trumpet ministration put terrace on more than two hundred fifty billion dollars of its exports. california is planning to change a controversial sentencing system that puts a bit you will offend is in prison for life as rob reynolds reports now the state will allow thousands of inmates to seek parole. three strikes and you're out a term taken from the american sport of baseball is spent on life behind bars for thousands of nonviolent repeat offenders in california studies indicate nonviolent inmates in prison under the law which was enacted in one nine hundred ninety four

are disproportionately black and many are mentally ill some are serving life sentences for offenses as trivial as shoplifting stealing a bottle of liquor or possessing small amounts of narcotics now california plans to allow approximately four thousand third strike inmates to seek parole none are guaranteed release and a corrections department spokeswoman said they will undergo rigorous public safety screening before parole board decisions are made california voters approved changing the three strikes law two years ago but the state's governor jerry brown has challenged the changes in court brown has agreed to drop further legal action lawyers representing nonviolent offenders sentenced under the law called the decision monumental what this really does is it recognizes that some of these people are the lowest risk prisoners and the california state prison system they have. done it immense amount of programming they've done meant about education work

while they're in prison and by by the prison systems own risk assessment these people are disproportionately low risk to re-offend once they're released in the community. state records show that nonviolent third strike prisoners released in an earlier round of paroles were much less likely to commit additional crimes once they were back in society. twenty seven u.s. . states besides california have three strikes and you're out laws they were in acted during a time when it was very politically popular to appear tough on crime there had been an epidemic of violence due to crack cocaine in many american cities in the late one nine hundred eighty s. and early one nine hundred ninety s. and these laws were passed at that time since then of course the crime rate nationwide has dropped very significantly and social scientists and criminologists

are still trying to figure out the reasons for that decline robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles a new museum has opened in washington that is dedicated to the history of law enforcement in the united states museum opens at a time when policing is under heavy scrutiny something the curator has tried to address as she had to tante before its visitors to the new national law enforcement museum in washington d.c. a showing of accepting that the origins of u.s. law enforcement lie in rounding up a scape slaves xenophobia and protection of property for the rich because. examples of communities and police forces working together today presented in contrast to a brutal past amid the interactive displays and memorabilia like notorious f.b.i. director j. edgar hoover's desk is an exhibit about ferguson missouri where the killing of a black teenager by white police over.