tensions rise across the capital and it's missing reports from colombia i supporters of sri lanka's ousted prime minister aren't going to let him go quietly i run a wickramasinghe has refused to leave his official residence here in the capital since president might recall a serious cena fired in and suspended almonds on friday i'm sure. the president has been made to the electoral mandate to strengthen democracy by trying to seize more executive power as we went and now it. presidents are saying that the sworn in the head of the rajapaksa as prime minister former president rajapaksa lost the election three years ago which was called after he scrapped the two term limit for the presidency protesters on the parliament speaker say there's been a constitutional coupe the prime minister they say should be chosen by palm and not to the president i think everyone is really surprised by what happened everyone's

he shot but everyone kind of feels like they need to figure out how we can stop this he has happened not on our watch we are hoping that a process of protests of this nature by citizens by the people of sri lanka whether right to fund the government to follow the democratic process while posters of rajapaksa have started appearing nationwide the former president hasn't yet spoken publicly about his new appointment parliament remains closed this evening the country's constitution was changed a couple of years ago to take power away from the presidency and give it to parliament presidents are saying it says he's not breaking the law but his critics will say he's going against the spirit of the constitutional amendment which was made to strengthen democratic institutions. al-jazeera colomba. so i have for you on the program deep sea diver search for the black box recorders a plane that crashed off the coast of indonesia killing all one hundred eighty nine

people on board and the race is all over the top job in europe's biggest economy as john the chancellor angela merkel prepares to step down. hello again it's good to have you back with this are going to take you down here towards australia we are watching a few clouds passing across parts of tasmania into the tasman sea right there also along the queensland coast we are picking up some thunderstorms now it is that time of the year where we do start to get some severe weather particularly along the coastal areas and that is going to continue here as we go towards wednesday a little bit further to the south though brits been really not looking too bad at about twenty seven degrees but out here towards the west perth we do have a front coming through not a big drop in temperatures maybe from twenty down to one thousand degrees but still a lot of clouds across much of that area winds coming out of the north of adelaide

and that means the temperatures if you are going up here across parts of new zealand well unfortunately messy for much of the area look at the clouds right there on satellite image and we're going to be seeing those clouds continue over the next few days maybe a break or two for auckland eighteen degrees few here on wednesday but as we go towards thursday a little bit more of a breakdown here towards the south island with christ church seeing about thirteen degrees and then very quickly across the northern part of asia we are still seeing some heavy rain showers across much of the north but down here towards the south it is going to be the clouds in the cooler air asako only high a seventeen degrees few a little bit further to the back we're going to see in seoul with a partly cloudy day with a temperature of twelve. eighty percent of the visually impaired could be cured without access to treatment. or where there was a will there is a way. over seventy seven countries

probably everything is rationed the since if it were a little pakistan. provides free treatment for over one million patients. revisited. iraq. welcome back just a quick look at the top stories now sources tell al-jazeera the saudi public prosecutor in istanbul is refusing to answer questions about west saudi journalist jamal khashoggi is this is the u.n. human rights chief calls for an independent expert to be involved in the murder investigation. u.s.

president is in pittsburgh paying his respects to the victims of saturday's synagogue shooting president john was greeted by demonstrators who say he's not welcome in the city until he denounces white nationalism on the united nations as one that it's too soon to return wrangle refugees. agreed to begin repatriations by the middle of next month more than seven hundred thousand rainbow flooded military crackdown a. day last year. tunisian government minister says monday a suicide bombing in the center of tuna's was an isolated act fifteen police officers and two teenagers were wounded when a woman blew herself up in a new in the city center. has more from. the scene of the suicide attack in the very center of tunis minutes after the explosion new group has yet claimed responsibility. the thirty year old woman who detonated was thought

to be a set of grenades has no known connections with any so-called extremist groups the majority of those injured were policemen manning a checkpoint but five civilians including two children were also caught in the blast tunisia's president shared the shock and dismay of the people in the capital then the night of the noon hour in the heavily nightly i regret to say that security personnel are always paying a heavy toll paying it in blood we thought we had driven terrorism from our cities into caves now it is in the heart of our capital the target of the attack was a street called the shans elisi of junius packed with shops and restaurants has been reopened for the public but with police on every junction tourism is the main earner for the country's beleaguered economy struggling with high unemployment and inflation tunisians are afraid the latest attack will once again undermine an industry that was making

a recovery most of k.b.'s what happened was terrible carried out by cowards who just want to take over to newseum he said and we're all against terrorism because terrorism is a very bad thing if he allows more money on something like this happens in the capital it is the end the country has been in a state of emergency for the last three years since this spate of attacks which killed scores of people in twenty fifteen including many british tourists shot dead at the beach resort the police and security forces now will have to step up their efforts again to remove the threat. to new zealand is the country where the arab spring started and the only one to successfully establish a stable democracy but this latest attack could undermine those gains and provoked political instability already threatened by harsh austerity measures david chaytor al-jazeera shoot us some muse from nigeria where police have shot dead and now the

shia muslim protester in the second day of unrest in the country's capital violence erupted after members of the movement of nigeria took to the streets on monday the number of dead is disputed the group says twenty four people have so far been killed while the government says it's three the movement is demanding the release of its leader who was jailed during a crackdown on the group in two thousand and fifteen to indonesia now where the government has ordered inspections of all brand new boeing seven three seven jets of the same type involved in monday's crash one hundred eighty nine passengers and crew were killed in the second worst ads also in indonesia's history deep sea divers are now searching for the line airplane's black box recorders to determine exactly what happened after it took off from jakarta while in hey is there and sent this report. piece by piece search and rescue teams bring back what the found floating on the java sea id cards passports and other personal items belonging to some of the one hundred eighty nine people on board are being sorted. body parts

are being taken to a nearby hospital where relatives have the harrowing task of making identifications that most people had of the. family still hoping she survives we still have a big hope for that but if she did not survive we pray that her remains can quickly be discovered so we can take a home to be buried. finding out what happened in the final moments of lion air flight six one zero and why it crashed into the sea soon after takeoff is likely to take a long time. my father was on board but we still don't know we're still hoping for the best because there hasn't been an official statement from lion air so we are still hoping for the best but increasingly speculation is turning to a problem with the instruments in the cockpit giving false readings lion air has confirmed there was a technical problem with the plane before it took off from bali to jakarta on sunday it says the issue was fixed but during that flight the pilot reported

problems with the flight control system and satellite data collected by independent flight monitoring websites shows unusual fluctuations in speed and altitude soon after it took off from. the situation stabilized in lyon is says the problem was fixed again when it landed in jakarta and it was cleared to take off on monday morning it crashed some twelve minutes after it left the indonesian capital small pieces of debris being found but the search for the main wreckage continues her removed. today we've adjusted our calculations and widened our search areas to eighteen point five kilometers on the java sea more than eight hundred people are involved in the search for debris bodies and clues to what happened to lion air flight six one zero wayne hey al jazeera jakarta. the race is on for the top position europe's biggest economy after german chancellor angela merkel and out she will leave politics at the end of her term in twenty twenty one it's not just

a contest for the job but a battle of ideas about what's best for the future of germany again barbara ports from berlin. on her way out but hoping to guide her country for a few more years chancellor angela merkel remains of course a central figure on the world stage and she's day she was hosting a g. twenty conference to promote private investment in africa. but now she's set to quit as leader of the center right c.d.u. party where does that leave germany. because grand coalition with the social democrats has already been weakened by the success of the far right alternative for germany or a.f.d. party i suppose it's accuse the d. of exploiting isolated incidents of crime to incite anti of of the leagues but it's been taking votes from the city you around the country is now the official position of the german parliament real tough decision. to take next year for example is. whether to form coalitions with the local and the state level

for example. if he is in a very strong position and the left part is also a strong position somebody whose vision for germany's further to the right there merkel's is health minister again she. is popular in the cd use conservative wing and is seen as the most ambitious of the potential leaders he opposes jule citizenship for young foreigners and advocates policies such as banning the burqa in public. but it's an open secret that as she battles out as party leader merkel has her own favorite to replace her and it could come current the company has a k.-k. is the cd used general secretary and former head of a small regional bazaar and she's earned a reputation as a moderate liberal attitudes really gracious is aligned with merkel's and then there's merkel's longstanding rival friedrich admits the conservative pro-business figure is the first to officially announce he's running for the c.d.u.

leadership by stepping down as party leader chancellor merkel hopes to give the c.d.u. time to revive its fortunes before the end of her term in twenty twenty one but nobody's ruling out a collapse of her ruling coalition before then and that really could change the dynamic in the race to become the next chancellor the dean barber al-jazeera belin . and news just in the united the u.s. secretary of defense has called on both sides in the war in yemen to me since we next month the peace talks james mattis made that statement just a short time ago at the u.s. institute of pace yemen has had it more problems than any people deserve to carry and we're calling on all the parties share specifically the cooties and the arab coalition to meet inch wheaten in november. and come do a solution not talk about subordinate issues about what town they're going to meet

in a what size table if they meet around a talk about demilitarized in the border shows that the saudis and the emirates do not have to worry about missiles coming into their their or their homes and cities an airport. well now human patterns of consumption and development are pushing the natural world to the brink according to a major biodiversity survey the worldwide fund for nature's living climate report found a sixty percent decline in global populations of vertebrates over the last fifty years the worst affected region was south and central america which saw a decline of eighty nine percent in its fish birds mammals amphibians and also reptiles among the causes is shrinking habitats due to manmade climate change and other human activity twenty percent of amazon rain forest has been lost in just fifty is the report highlights the economic importance of buy a dog biodiversity for human life threatened pollinators like bees contribute between two hundred thirty five and five hundred seventy seven billion dollars

a year to crop production and it calls for a new global deal for nature and for people to protect biodiversity along the lines of the two thousand and sixteen paris agreement on limiting climate change some of australia's best loved animals are among those losing their natural habitat in new south wales the qualis species is in crisis as more trees are being cut down to make way for farming and development andrew thomas reports now from port stephens. they're one of two animals australia is known for but unlike kangaroos koala numbers of fulling fast cars kill them as do dogs and disease but the central cause one that lies behind all those threats is human destruction of the places koalas live forcing them closer to people and each other it all comes back to habitat loss if quality has lost habitat they have to come down search for habitat which then

makes them have to cross the road so this is set to both being hit by cars and attacked by dogs as well north of sydney this small rehabilitation center is about to be transformed into a full koala hospital costing two million dollars the state governments of new south wales will pay for it but that's the same government say campaigners which is allowing even encouraging the destruction of koala habitat where incredibly appreciative that we're getting this hospital we need this hospital but the laws that allow the habitat clearing and it's give on one hand on the other last year new south wales relaxed laws controlling the amount of land farmers can clear of trees as a result of the new report lang clearing rates have tripled those behind the report say that if current trends continue while it's could be extinct in the wild in new south wales by twenty fifty it's really shocking and it's certainly within our power to stop but if we don't stop habitat destruction we will be the ones that

will save these animals in the few in the wild for the last time you south wales environment minister turned down a request for an interview but the state government says old lang clearing laws were too restrictive bombing and development does not need to threaten koalas but this patch of wet and forest north of sydney illustrates the subjective nature of the decisions its own by the education department of the state government which doesn't need it for a school so two years ago sold it to a developer after environmentalist start. petitions and campaigns the state government said it had made a mistake and is now trying to buy the land back for more than it was sold one part of government doesn't communicate with the other before any government to comment on this post to. other government departments and ask if you want it nobody asked the department of environment as far as we know do you want this land the more land the disappears the more animal hospitals will be needed andrew thomas al-jazeera

port stephens australia. the latest move by china is unlikely to help the government says it will legalize trade in products made from endangered animals under special circumstances the announcement reverses a previous ban on the international trade of tiger bones and rhino horns both are considered to have healing powers in chinese traditional medicine wildlife activists say the move sets back efforts to protect endangered species and more on that story and everything we're covering of course this is the address al jazeera dot com. just a quick recap of the top stories this hour the u.n. human rights chief michel bash lay is saudi arabia to reveal the whereabouts of jamal khashoggi his body and his call for independent experts to be involved in the murder investigation turkish and saudi prosecutors have met for a second time in istanbul to discuss the case sources to the saudi prosecutor is

refusing to answer questions about where khashoggi is body is turkish president range of type i do one says no one should be protected in the investigation. although. it is obvious that these eighteen people are involved in this killing you have to shed light on this and you will secondly your foreign minister made a statement but was that we delivered the body to a local cooperate are there for both the saudi foreign minister and other officials should reveal this local cooperate or of the facts about these eighteen people know whoever this person is and we will find them. the u.s. defense secretary has called on both sides in the war in yemen to meet in sweden for peace talks james mattis made the statement a short time ago at the u.s. institute of peace the meeting will be convened by un yemen envoy martin griffiths within the next thirty days well in all the headlines this hour the u.s. president is in pittsburgh paying his respects to the victims of saturday's synagogue shooting donald trump has been to the scene of the attack and is also

expected to meet with hospital staff and the wounded demonstrators gathered near the tree of life synagogue in protest against his visit by any jewish community leaders say he's not welcome in the city until he fully denounces white nationalism united nations as one that it's too soon to return wrangle refugees off to bangladesh and myanmar agreed to begin repatriations by the middle of next month officials from me on my plan to visit rangar refugee camps in bangladesh around three quarters of a million rangar fled across the border after a military crackdown that the un has described as genocide the speaker of sri lanka's parliament has told president my trip palace syria saying amos recalled parliament by friday at the latest he's been accused of violating the constitution after he fired the prime minister and appointed former president manda rajapaksa as his replacement you're up to date with all of our top stories more news coming up a bit later on in twenty five minutes time coming up next on al-jazeera the q

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so there's a particular score that you have to get for you let loose on notations on holidays a hundred a check. how many of these patients receive today everybody else and oh i got fifty lost a set. of two hundred eighty five million people all blind or visually impaired worldwide and ninety percent of the us live in developing countries and yet with the right to buy care and medical interventions eighty percent of visual impairments could be prevented if all kids. on drugs just lacey and i'm in zambia to meet the team of all this on the fly and on most of the oldest flying on hospital is an airplane has been converted into a fully functioning surgical and training hospital which travels to developing countries worldwide the oldest team has been working here in zambia one of the

least developed countries in the world since two thousand and ten. zero zero. zero zero zero zero. zero zero i get a. lot of my mother grandmother let me be their money back i think it costs a little less cuts to. the plane has a fully equipped operating room alongside laser treatment area. a multimedia classroom and an interactive training facility. richard has been brought in to have corrective surgery on a screen and. this relatively simple operation will have a huge impact on richard's ability to perform well at school and therefore his prospects for the rest of his life. it also gives a local doctor. the opportunity to work alongside his mentor laurie benjamin one of the u.k.'s leading our surgeons so you see over there at our microscope dr and bony

doing the searches together with the dr benjamin it's it's amazingly well equipped the proper modern you know for a long period really expected when you come into the plane incredible. i wanted to show you another interactive feature on feet on the aircraft is this monitor over here so we have eighteen cameras onboard we have the opportunity a podcast and everything that's happening in the main operating theatre to the front classroom and as i can hear is a sudden voice yes said the surgeon doing the surgery as wearing a microphone so during surgery he's explaining the procedure step by step to the front from classroom and it also gives the ability of the participants in the training doctors to ask questions opens up a fair after another forty eight people in the course exactly mazie. doctor in bali which is just have the operation how did it. they

went. we were trying to correct this winter here in terms of for your training had you done many years surgeries or you involved in all this actually most of the screens that we did during training was observatories is watching lots of what he was doing i see ok so season three come with this. today the following are hospital team has trained medical staff and form surgeries in seventy eight different countries. one of the most important procedures that they teach is cataract surgery. cataracts occur when areas of the lens become opaque due to a change in the structure of proteins with. this. prevents the normal transition of light through the lens making vision blurred or misty over time and without treatment the cataracts make grow barges leading eventually to blind. this is one

of the major problems that all the stills wear and zambia essentially the problem is that you know the lens which sits just behind your people goes from being totally transparent to a bit cloudy and therefore impacting your vision is a nice way to demonstrate this so if at the moment of normal vision and then with the cataract. vision degrades to about so you can imagine the impact with this surgery when it returns to know. that you have another unique tool called a training program called the high simulator that was introduced to get doctored up to have a high and i started out really just write to you what later does ok i have tracked i'd love to go yeah here's my patient gets here's your luckily not real these these are icing a major you know you're going to grasp they're trying goals and put it in the center go too low you hit the lens and get the cash in your heart that means

they're going to ok ok. if the countries that leaves it you know now that they don't have a chance to try this before i gave before going to a real i use that exact outsize screen here. don you know now closing you know and pull it out withdrawal and we're going to see your score ok. ok very nice first to know how do you know my sense a million there's a particular school that you have to get at least on the rotation oh hundred is a hundred before levi meets a group of women who have all had cataract surgery i'm sure she was totally gone she can see everything she couldn't miss one and she would much rather than using one and then did she have surgery on the plane. yes yesterday are you the lady who was dancing just now here because because you're happy when you can you teach me to dance come on like i don't have anything that i was talking about myself right now

thank you. very much i mean. i think. i like what i. a key element of the old this program is to work with local medical staff using local facilities this ensures that even when the plane is gone the much needed specialist i treatment can still be provided in zambia this training is done it could to a central hospital where dr m. boney works our children and my problems vision impairment is not a big problem in zambia we have about fifty thousand children did you get into the country since obvious came to keep the provider what we needed to sit there

only to give people a simple. this is the only guy hospital children that hospital in zambia yes is there are. three young sisters and travelled over sixteen hours by box with their mother to receive treatment from you will be steamed. all three suffer from varying degrees of cataract blindness which has caused them to fall behind at school as i can see. two of the sisters are now recovering from the surgery. so we're just in the main hospital now i want to go out going to one of the wards to meet lucy who's the third child of the family who is having cataract operation this afternoon so from this way. they're. going to share any motion me lucy. what lucy what's your favorite subject in school what you like to learn about this one issue of children in florida. so.

how is your english lucy one. year. untasted. so this issue lucy has that she has cataracts in both eyes and appears as though she has normal visual ability but in fact it's significantly impaired so much so that it's had a real impact on being able to go to school and her lifestyle at home so with the intervention this afternoon with the right medical treatment she may be able to make a real positive impact on that. i don't see. they don't want to have this surgery is another opportunity for doctors benjamin and bony to work together your age this kid. so they're all set to go and theatre is now sort of sleep under general anaesthetic the surgeons are scrubbed and set to go so this can see how they're going on.

during the operation the cataract is removed through a tiny incision in the on and a synthetic lens is inserted and i'll just use the pickup laser fifteen degree being prepared two point seven five. can see on the screen that the. better things as return the transparency to the people. and therefore should provide a good outcome for lucy. no new. york a few. weeks you see that that figure that's. yeah

i. know. you have a thirty year overall by the situation but we'll see what your sister shows now some people you think you know for. certain but what are you looking for with this examination. just to see if that's the cornea. the eye not collapsing from the point it was your inserted could the new lungs. oh. you know. so if it's line goes moron. and it is going to the smaller sized objects not. the improvement from pre-surgery test is dramatic it really is amazing. she was able to see just.

figures that's all she could recognize it before the operation ok and now she improved to be able to see the something credible we know we know it is by. doing our best i think. it's just my first such as going to say. i. saw it come to the end of my time in zambia and what's been wonderful to witness is this very special relationship between obits and its local partners and the success of this project has been plain to see in the stories of lucy and her sister and the hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have had their site saved and their lives changed. the public health care system in pakistan as in many developing countries for.