information is still limited at the moment but presumably that they will be focusing on this decision by the pilot to turn back shortly after takeoff and then there's also this unknown technical problem from that they said was was fixed as well right i mean and that's that's the key thing is what what was that technical fix i would really like to know from the authorities and they say that they can't. disclose any more information about it but it would be interesting in that particular model of airplane the seven thirty seven max a which is a good airplane and and all of these planes are boeing's good manufacturer airbus is a good manufacturer embraer. all the other manufacturers are good manufacturers adept supermodel the seven thirty seven max back in two thousand and seventeen was actually grounded. because they had some disc problems the disks that are inside the engine the respect in around it hundreds and hundreds of r.p.m.

they have some problems with and they had to ground the airplanes to fix those engines that were made by c.f.m. and if we look at that that's so on understood if we look at safety records here is this morning. lion air specifically and their what's considered a poor safety record or did this region as a whole. well indonesia has had problems for many years i think one of your correspondents may have addressed that earlier when they talked about the european union had removed indonesia from the blacklist back in two thousand and seven all carriers from and had been blacklisted by the e.u. and i think also had been downgraded by the united states and that was only changed in june of this year. to have problems as well so the problems and into nature are not exclusively restricted to the lion air all the airlines of problems and all

and a lot of the air traffic control and the infrastructure the airports that have problems in indonesia as well simply because there are so many people flying today and there are so many people that are projected to fly in the future that the aviation infrastructure not just in indonesia but around asia is being stretched then and i mean you say to a lot of this is because of the pressures of needing to transport people and so on but is is this also an issue of pilots perhaps not being given given enough training enough and experience and so on that that's a big concern because i've been to a lot of conferences like billie here in singapore and elsewhere and part of the concern is boeing came out for example with an estimate the other day about manpower issues and in southeast asia specifically which obviously includes

indonesia. in the next twenty years this area this region is going to need forty eight thousand five hundred or new pilots that's new pilots because and. that's completely new so you've got a lot of experience and sed captains that are retiring. and there's not enough capacity in the pipeline to replace that experience so you've got a lot of younger pilots coming in they're probably not getting paid as much as the older more experienced pilots and sometimes that creates problems that creates. you know you get some of these in the workforce there so it is a big problem i don't know about line air specifically but i can tell you that you've got a lot of younger people well actually you've got airlines that are searching for younger people because they can't find the people to replace the ones that are rich are good to get your analysis on this matthew driscoll joining us there from singapore thanks very much and you are plenty more ahead on this news hour

bangladesh's former prime minister is jailed for seven years for corruption. also stopping illegal fishing we go on patrol with sierra leone's navy as it battles a two hundred million dollar problem. and later in sport lest the city fans pay tribute to their own a and for others killed in a helicopter crash outside the state that's coming up with. a form of bangladeshi prime minister and opposition leader a leader has been sentenced to seven years in jail for corruption the seventy two year old was convicted of taking more than three hundred thousand dollars from a charity in february she was given a five year prison term on another challenge the theft of money from an orphanage zia says all the charges are aimed to keeping her out of politics with elections

due in september tanveer choudhry is live for us now from the capital dhaka so tell me how significant is today's vote. well it's significant very much symbolically the opposition for them it's a blow this technically main that under the constitution anyone getting more than two years times on a moral crime is in eligible to participate in the election although that can be decided by the election commission in there and this was almost expected the opposition came out with a reaction this is a dictator. very much malice against the opposition to keep them out of the election saying the opposition on its part says they will continue the movement and protest that declared tomorrow as a protest. against this verdict in the context of this you've got to realize by now this cold system moves very slow it also is very questionable critics will point

out including the opposition that the last chief justice of the supreme court was forced to resign he then went into america to write a book and was very critical of the government interference and judicial process not only. four hundred thousand opposition members are facing various charges many of the leaders are already behind the bar many of them are facing newquay says this is literally putting a break in opposition to go out and campaign for the election which is due in within several months. and what is the state of the opposition ahead of the upcoming election. well they're still very hopeful and participating in the election although out of the eight key demands one of the demand is that they release the opposition leader from the jail other major demand is that they have a caretaker government or interim government to run the show because they said the

government is very motivated they will rig the election now the government on its part says it's under the constitution they will retain the parliament and conduct the election and i have to point out the space for free expression is very limited here the government came out with direct tony on digital security act very recently they also have a draft broadcasting act which is been very critical. editorial council that that will almost mean we cannot do investigative reporting besides the cases faced by the opposition there are unable to rally the police usually delays their permission for rallies so before the election there's a lot of incredible critics also pointing out that more of most of these cases are dictated by the government to keep the opposition leader behind jay so there's a major challenge ahead for the election on the public wants a free and fair election that is the key demand with all this impediment the

opposition is still hopeful that they'll be able to participate in the election although maybe without their chairperson khaled in the upcoming election time here chad rely first there in the. police also has been killed in the afghan capital after a suicide attack a target targeted an election commission office several staff members were injured the taliban and i still have threatened to disrupt the mantra elections the began on october twentieth have been several attacks since then. a former army captain j.m. on auto has promised to take brazil in a radically new direction that's after winning a bitterly four presidential run a photo despite offending many with remarks considered massaging this racist and homophobic also nara tapped into voter anger over corruption crime and economic problems writes about reports from rio de janiero. until a few months ago j.d. wilson added chances of making it to the presidency were slim now he supporters

call him the meth and knife attack last month and the general disenchantment with the political class have propelled him to the presidency judge that we are here. finally we will put our beloved brazil above all else this government will be one of constitution democracy and freedom the says a pledge not of a party it's not the vain empty words of a man but it's a promise to god freedom all make us a great nation what happened today in the polling places was not the victory of a party but rather the celebration of a country. also nathalie's a former army paratrooper and an admirer of brazil's military dictatorship he said that a good criminal is a dead criminal and has promised to clean the country of what he calls the red communist threat he supporters say he is the man brazil needs. first like the poor people of his very simple way i feel like everybody.

i met the people have gathered outside i have also not all that hard when they're chanting the national anthem and celebrating they say they want order and progress something that's written in the brazilian flag but there are many who fear that both are not a selection is the threat to democracy. i know told us he celebrates every election in brazil because he was banned from voting for twenty seven years during brazil's military rule. your. i cherish every election because it's our way of expressing ells selves and this election is more important than ever because of what's at stake and what's at stake is our democracy. this is the first defeat of the workers' party sixteen years when former president won the presidency. what we saw was an awakening of people as to what was at play in the selection

precipice being put to the test we had twenty sixteen one president dilma was being a beached we had the un for a president of president the failure to follow the u.n. resolution we will forward with courage to listen to all corners of this country democracy is of value above all of us. has vowed to appoint former members of the military in cabinet and that he run the country with an iron fist analysts believe his election will present a challenge do the brazilian situations harm the capacity to defend themselves against of schilens to the democratic way of doing things and what we've seen i think from the. electoral courts and some of the other instances makes me worry that perhaps not. will take office in january he will be to fulfill his promise to kick start brazil's economy and the crime wave that has already left thousands of people dead.

deborah is a lecturer in political science at the university of new south wales and she joins us now from sydney thanks very much for being with us so when we look at the election of mr this seems to be part of a global pattern of right wing populist leaders taking power and there are obviously a number of reasons for that do you think that they are similar in brazil but one of the fact is there that led to his rise. well there are some reasons there are very specific to brazil so for example as it was said the the time that the workers' party was in place and there's a lot of frustration with corruption specifically because of the party but there are aspects that are quite international and if you want to look at a bigger picture so now in august of this year out of sun who's

a congressman met with steve bannon. tweeting a picture with him and there's a lot of people who are thinking that that type of campaign using a lot of social media a very divisive sort of internet use and with also a very blatant use of fake news is what makes brazil election not just an element of brazil itself but does feed into this global phenomenon of a rise in the far right. and this is a man who as we've been reporting over his almost three decades in politics has become notorious for his. hostility to to black gay indigenous brazilians to women as well as for his admiration of previous dictatorial regimes in brazil in particular in one thousand sixty's and seventy's so given all of that what can we expect. from from him as president.

that is the question that it's on the mind of many brazilians specially the ones that are very fearful of him and the and one way you can say that his greatest enemy is himself because he's been in the public eye for about thirty years and as you said he has a lot he has a long record of things that are just simply appalling however there is also a parallel with donald trump in the sense that a lot of brazilians who did vote for him or who do support him think that what he has to say it's either a joke or it's something just for the drama it's not really serious so the big question and nobody's quite sure yet is to know what exactly which side are we going to get from both so not only is it the side of the one the speech that he gave just a couple of hours ago talking about democracy and. basically this idea of still of

unity in following the constitution or is this really going to be the hard core. that he's presented himself essentially for the past thirty years it's a scary question what about the institutions in brazil the courts and the legislature and so on are they are they strong enough to. withstand any assaults on democracy. again a great question and in that sense it is kerry or brazil does not have we've only been a democracy again for only about thirty years so it's not like in the united states where you do have a very much more structured way of democracy of checks and balances so far. there are signs that there are elements that will contain and even within the military there's a lot of speculation saying that even inside the military that even though he does

have support from some important numbers of people in high positions but it's not fully clear until now if he will actually have the full support of the entire defense structure in brazil because a lot of people in the military just don't want to go fully attached with it to him because if he does fall if he does fail then the military would also fall in would also fail and so they might not want to risk that reputation of going down with him but unfortunately only time will tell that there's a lot of concern that brazil is heading to. something on the likes of turkey with the gun or something like the philippines with the deter so there's a lot of concern and i believe there's a valid concern to be really observant about what's going to happen in brazil all

right deborah. in sydney good to get your thoughts on this thanks very much now in a few moments well how about the weather with everything fox sports that i don't i just. hung arising figure takes over as sri lanka's prime minister. one. political rivals turned into allies. and we'll tell you why human rights defenders from around the world have galut empowers. later in sport a scathing report into australian cricket only tampering scandal is released or we'll have the details later in the program. hello there well you two were making an appearance in the philippines within the. course talk about the typhoon not the bands the outer bands of this storm already

bringing some wet weather into that eastern side of the philippines we it's located around about five hundred kilometers to the east of manila at the moment you can see that we're already starting to see a cloud over we're seeing some very very heavy rain already started to push in it will sweep its way across lose all within the next twelve to eighteen hours or so and then i'll push this way up toward southern parts of china sustained winds hundred sixty five kilometers per hour so damaging winds it will weaken further it was of course significantly stronger than that just a few days ago but it's going to weaken further as you go on through the coming hours and we are going to see those damaging winds move across lose on that's the position at the moment gradually the heavy rains and those rains smee looking at maybe up to three hundred fifty four hundred millimeters of rain over the next twelve to forty eight hours a huge amounts of rainfall has been stays picture there and then gradually it's

going to push its way up towards the southeast of china. where we have got some wet weather to the north that will clear through over the next couple days. sound sudan is one of the last places on earth to ha beginning when disease a gruesome affliction that has affected millions of us injuries trying to stand out in the world as the only country we didn't almost all the cases from the uk it is a huge response when it is no vaccine and no could this disease be on the verge of extinction we know where the problem we know what needs to be done if it does about the things lifelines how to slay a dragon on al-jazeera. when the news breaks and the story of the elements the fight against isis is still continuing in the arm bar desert when people need to be heard. and the story needs to be told by families status

and wealth has benefited from their choice translate it on al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news on air and online. hello again you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour turkish sources of told. that saudi arabia's top prosecutor has admitted the killing of journalist. was premeditated that follows his meeting with turkish investigators in the stem. one hundred eighty

nine people missing feared dead after a passenger plane crashed into the sea or indonesia's coast air traffic controllers lost contact with the lion air flight thirteen minutes after takeoff after request from the pilot to turn back to jakarta. former army captain. has promised to take brazil in a radically new direction after winning a bitterly fought presidential runoff. despite upsetting many with remarks. racist and homophobic also naro tapped into voter frustration over corruption crime and economic problems. in new prime minister is assuming duties after his sudden appointment triggered a political crisis former president mahinda rajapaksa is replacing. refused to leave the official residence. believes he still enjoys majority support but is unable to prove it as president. city's senior suspended parliament

president said the move was motivated by an assassination plot i mean. first now in colombo so you know i mean the rajapaksa formally started work as prime minister can he do that. doesn't he think so and obviously the administrative a part of also thinks so the building behind me you see is the prime ministerial secretariat in colombo in fact behind the rajapaksa has just arrived in his convoy to meet with the three armed forces commander and the chief of defense services now obviously with his swearing in before president might receive policy to say no on friday. the prime minister the new prime minister has. shortened that he has been recognized as the new prime minister of this country and

he's getting about his business to day he sort of signed the first document formally assuming duties in this office behind me he's now having meetings obviously with the tri forces chiefs and basically getting on with the business of being prime minister. so what is the sand prime minister up to. de sac prime minister running over missing her still say is that he is the legitimate for me and of he says that his removal was unconstitutional he is staying put in the official residence of the prime minister called temple trees he says that he has the parliament pejoratives he enjoys the confidence of parliament and he says that the parliament should be convened without further delay so that he can show basically this majority now among the rajapakse of the new prime minister is also claiming that a majority and in fact just to reassure lanka speaker of parliament meant to with

the high priest the chief priests of one of the most sacred buddhist shrines in sri lanka earlier today to brief them basically what he's urging is that the suspension of parliament which was effected by presence of the scene or that he rethink it that the sixteenth of november when parliament is shared due to meet again is far too long he says with both these candidates or both these prime ministers of so to speak claiming that they have the majority that the best thing to do is to reconvene parliament and let whichever one who can show and yvonne strip that. that majority be recognized as prime minister in fact he was quite stark earlier today when he spoke to reporters after that meeting in candy he said that parliament should decide and resolve these issues he said there were steps to take and resolve this issue on the streets and if that is allowed to happen blood will be spilt on

the streets so the parliament speaker being very clear and issuing stock warnings as to how this situation in sri lanka can escalate and saying that what can be resolved in parliament must be done so or else that there is the possibility of a large number of lives being lost as i'm now for nando's live for us there in colombo. german chancellor angela merkel has decided not to run again for the chairmanship of the christian democratic union party mochas says she will stay on as chancellor until the next election in three years time the party will meet next month to choose her successor both major parties in germany's governing coalition suffered heavy losses in a regional election seen as a test for merkel a preferred successor is c.d.u. part is the c.d.u. party's secretary general our human rights activists are gathering in paris to talk

about the challenges facing grassroots movements around the world the un recognized the role of human rights defenders twenty years ago put the responsibility on states to protect them from risks in their work organizers of this summit say activists continue to face many challenges including harassment imprisonment and torture according to rights groups at least three thousand five hundred activists have been killed worldwide in the last two decades many were campaigning for land rights with most of the killings happening in latin america that number includes journalists at least at least eighty one were killed last year with many more sent to prison the tasha butler is live for us in paris so the tasha what can we expect from this conference them. what those taking part in this conference want is to send a real message to world leaders to do more to try and protect people who would

cause to defend human rights and what we have here in paris and more than one hundred fifty campaigners activists and journalists lawyers many from big organizations name goes like amnesty international one of the organizers of this conference but also citizens people who just feel passionate about human rights who risk their own lives to try and defend the rights of others but the problem is i say experts here is that their lives are increasingly under threat from governments or groups who are hostile so the work that they are trying to do we're joining me at this summit is one of those human rights activists he's called ya is siri he is from saudi arabia was formerly with the saudi air force but now a human rights activist in the u.k. thank you very much for joining us indeed for some people perhaps you don't understand the context of saudi arabia why is a human rights activist could you not work in your own country to try to do any work from inside the country on as we try to start some n.g.o.s inside the country

what's its end to the process or the human rights defenders that right now there are behind the bars accept people there are walking and i want to sleep without using them it otherwise anyone ask for your form or anyone ask for freedom of speech or different human rights or have been behind the bars some of them they're facing very harsh sentenced in the prison and some of them. named by by the government and by the media from the. pro-government media they called them sorry terrorists and until now we are waiting for trial for some of the women are stephen got to live as he's elusive human enough john vause we won't be named in this social media and pro-government media they called him terry towards it's high crime it is criminalize in him what are still in human rights watch inside the country.

of course the killing of yemen national g. has been you know it widely reported around the world saudi national a critic of the government killed in the saudi consulate in turkey how did that make you feel because it really shines a spotlight on all of the work of critics and of human rights defenders around the world what's having two hundred school blue flee and accepted and completely. we haven't expected dots before we know very soon so get over there i'd have to sort of gene we know there are people inside the country but when if i expected something like that when they killed jamal in this or the consulate just because he criticized him dark complex sometimes. he used to be pro-government in the past later on because he believes in already fallen from inside the country he toppled dot side on to start to criticize the government and india is a later on its in are by killing jamal inside the consulate. had

a better appreciation had been planned by embarrass himself but not all the war it's a very no holds that criminal who will plan the killing. and right now nobody in the war believe in or believe he's ready for tomorrow or believe the p.r. which is. india's paid a lot of amount of money to do p.r. for himself his success in the past and lots of people are on the wall they believe he's ready for more but at the end of the war in yemen on the my side wrist for all human rights defenders are reform of inside the country after out of the nation on what's happening to them up right now all the ward they know he's a killer i'm not a farmer despite. right your high series thank you very much indeed for talking to us here in paris at this human rights defenders summit there are many people here of course talking about their experiences of working as human rights defenders

under threat their lives at risk social media of course adding to the sorts of risks and exposure that they faced at the end of this three day summit there will be an action plan presented to the u.n. next month back to the tasha thank you natasha but in paris force. for months people in gaza have been living with just four hours of electricity a day now that's about to double and maybe even triple but this rare positive development depends as always on the tense relationship between hamas and israel are a force that explains. for the first time in two years gaza's only power station is working at seventy five percent capacity three of its four turbines generating desperately needed electricity the power company says the territory can now expect a rise in supply to twelve hours a day from purer than five that sort of an agenda been isolated from israel we get one hundred twenty megawatts and now seventy five from the power station so right

now we can talk about implementing to schedule of eight hours on and eight hours off when we have to increase a little bit more i forgot this is poorest cut off from alternatives like generators and solar power the idea of a reliable power supply has become the stuff of dreams but also supplies some respite for garza's collapsing economy she's manufactured. says sales of harvard in the last year regular power supplies would save him expensive generated fuel and more importantly could spur demand for the sea that caught up with the mythical if there's no fridge they say i'm not going to buy cheese if they get eight hours of electricity in a row they can keep it property they can buy without thinking twice and. our sales increase but much rests on politics qatar has pledged to provide fuel for the power station for six months supplies have already been affected though by tensions between israel and hamas which controls the gaza strip the ability for the power

station to continue operating like this though depends on an israeli political decision and already this month the israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman has use that power denying the fuel trucks access to gaza. that followed a rocket fired from gaza that severely damaged his really home the supply was restored only after a reduction in the scale of that week's friday border protest this friday saw another exchange of rockets and israeli air strikes for now israel has allowed the fuel to continue the palestinian president mahmoud abbas who for more than a year has been imposing economic sanctions on gaza as opposed to fuel deal which was negotiated through the un bypassing his palestinian authority. gaza's people a painfully aware of how much lies outside their control for the moment they have at least one red development they can welcome inching them if only a little closer to something.