and i had read that what we've got here is not just about france and new caledonia it's got much bigger strategic implications the big unmentioned country joy about the mention of course is china china's influence across the garden nations is growing at an incredible rate they're spending money they're investing in a project infrastructure projects certainly influencing politics in many pacific island countries and the concern among many countries in this region including australia it has to be said is that an independent new caledonia independent of france would struggle economically france at the moment massively subsidizes that territories budget and it would look to find another benevolent power that could give it the money that it needs and china is where many people think it would look so that is the big strategic question in all of this now we should get ahead of ourselves the vote so far looks as though it's going to be for new caledonia to remain so none of these questions will be but securely relevant in the short term but bear in mind this because france's president wanted this to be

a fair and free process if it's a no this time for independence there will be two further chances in subsequent years this might not be the end of it and thank you very much for that for now that is andrew thomas live in sydney thank you now madagascar is going up for a presidential election the first round of voting will kick off on november seventh and thirty six candidates on the ballot three former presidents including the incumbent running some of those running say weak campaign finance laws have given richard candidates and unfair advantage. to pakistan now with a lawyer representing a christian woman acquitted of blasphemy has left the country says he fears for his life and that he had to leave so that he could continue to represent represent b.v. his conviction was overturned on wednesday by the supreme court maybe had spent eight years on death row. officials have now agreed to stop her from leaving

parker's thumb to end violent protests over the court ruling. protesters have rallied in india's capital demanding justice for the families of those killed during sectarian riots against six in nine hundred eighty four activists accuse the congress party of ignoring the killings and some say some say of its leaders help orchestrating the violence around three thousand people were killed in retaliation for the assassination of ben prime minister in that regard the. killing followed her decision to flush out six separatists from the golden temple and. more than seventy british business leaders have signed a letter calling for a second referendum on the u.k.'s exit from the european union follows a march by more than half a million people in london last month demanding another vote talks are being stalled over the status of the irish border after brics that the main sticking point in the gold she ations a spokesman for russia's foreign minister tourism

a played down media reports that the deal is near. floods in society have killed at least ten people extreme weather has been recorded across the country in the past week landslides have flash intrigues the northern areas the latest deaths increase the number of people killed nationally to twenty five. turkey's move to start drilling for oil and gas in the mediterranean is threatening to escalate a dispute with greece the turkish energy minister is warning of retaliation if the greek navy harasses his country ships during the exploration period so i'm call see all the reports from un tarja. that is soon mediterranean is the new frontier for oil and gas it's home to libya thumb and time are gas fields of the israeli coast the sore fields facing egypt and also aphrodite discovered by the greek cypriots and the region's underwater wealth appears to turkey which is dependent on energy

imports all the g. and g. studies and everything is telling us it is the right locations but you never know without doing so ankara is sending its first ship out to drill for natural resources there says the ship that turkey is using to drill for oil and gas she is called party which means the conqueror the first exploration will begin around one hundred ten kilometers of the mediterranean coast line at a depth of at least twelve thousand meters. but the drilling mission is causing friction with greece and it's set to reawaken tensions with cyprus the island of cyprus will supply it during your turkish military intervention in one thousand nine hundred seventy four triggered by a brief greek inspired coup it forced the mess displacement of people with greek cypriots now living in the south and turkish cypriots in the north turkey and international recognize greek cypriot government have overlapping claims of

jurisdiction for offshore oil and gas research in the eastern mediterranean however experts say political differences could take a back seat when it comes to commercial benefits and even israelis are thinking of joining egypt to develop explore the export yes so between when that is happening then between greece and turkey and the two parts the two sections of the island of cyprus to the problem of cyprus and the turkish republic with in cyprus i think they have to resolve their problem turkey stays its goal is energy independence and accelerated exploration is simply part of the. then another drilling vessel is set to be added to its exploration fleet by d. and of this you see number. zero. now with one of mexico's most notorious criminals about to go on trial in the u.s. succession battles have broken out for control of joaquin guzman drug empire the

trial has not stopped the center lower cartel from carrying on with its illegal business john holman has the second of a three part series on the man known as el chapo. the impending trial of plucking guzman the former king of mexico's criminal underworld might be stopping traffic in new york but back in his home state cinna lower things have simply moved on these caps proclaiming the wealth and fame of the man they call chapel used to be top sellers now they're almost gone so to the protests that called for his release. even in his organization the sin aloa cartel it's more or less business as usual after a vicious succession battle there are still tensions between his brother and sons they've gone back to doing what they could producing and distributing vast amounts of drugs. we asked a similar low a police chief why detaining mixed top criminal hasn't led to

a cartel implosion. one of. the structure of the organization is linear it's not completely vertical the leadership of the chopper was already declining and he delegated functions to his lieutenants and they always he dealt with certain things . the sylow a cartel is made up of several factions and has always had more than one leader and chappell himself once told rolling stone magazine that the business is far bigger than just his. drug trafficking doesn't depend on one person it depends on a lot of people. the fact the cartels business continues doesn't mean that all chappell's heartland is free from violence the police remain on alert the homicide rate in sin alone has full and but we're still talking about will them five murders a day and police tell us they specially and chappals home minister polity. there are still problems. here some still remember him as

a robin hood like figure who help the local economy they're pulling for him in his upcoming trial. hell i get that hopefully they can help him hopefully he gets out he hasn't done anything wrong he just. worked in what he could do he's a good man now a chopper but others didn't even realize he was going on trial to be honest i didn't know i hear them heard about it reminded that even for the rich and powerful the wheel of fortune turns john home and now does it a sin lower. and the last part all the series on one look at how security has been ramped up given his history of escaping from presidents. now an automated future where the robots have stolen our jobs is a widespread modern concern and even the most traditional of professions can be vulnerable take church bell ringing and russia for example or a challenge reports now on how a recent expansion of the orthodox church has created

a skills shortage that is being filled by machines. a small modern church in a village outside st petersburg and people have gathered for a morning service for time immemorial russia's orthodox faithful have been called by bells rung by a person in yukito is not a human ringing it's a computer for a growing number of russian churches this makes a lot of sense. well if there aren't many schools for bell ringers in russia and not many people study it that's why it's such a rare profession and so difficult to find a decent ring in every village can afford to have a staff this is them allows good quality ringing in any church even in a small village like. the officially atheist communist years when many churches were closed and bells silenced were followed by the uncertainties of the post soviet era but now the kremlin has settled on reestablishing religious faith

as one of the country's principal identities sorry the russian orthodox church has been on a huge expansion drive in the past ten years the number of dioceses has doubled and ten thousand churches being built. it's exacerbated by human resource problem many more churches not enough ballerinas automated systems are an obvious solution but some people say they lack the soul and spirituality of the human touch like at this church school in moscow where featuring is being trained. as robots will never replace a human soul for me it was also discovered that each spring implies a praying glory to father glory to song and when we prayed the same time as i found out it's certainly something that requires skill ok i've just been given a brief lesson and what i've been told is my right hand controls the for hire bells

by the left hand controls and middle bells on my foot down here trolls the boss about so let's give it a guy. has about rhythm as well. but it's not just small churches that automating that same petersburg's huge sin isaac's cathedral they say the mobile phone operated system has been a big help and a labor saver even though familia technical problems can still occur. here is an example of how it isn't able to reach a network i don't know what let's try again here you go live example of one of the mobile phone is out of the coverage but even elektra enthusiastic say the ideal is to have more humans not more machines to reinforce this village priest father gives

the computer a break and let's rip with an energetic one hundred percent organic church bell jam session a little better than my if it. will reach alan's al-jazeera russia we have the sports news to the head on the things out some on balls finishes the artistic gymnastics and world championships and style action on the highland day coming up. in the eighteen seventies hundreds of genes were banished to the foggiest corner of an empire where their descendants still live today. my grandparents died with a heavy heart they left everything behind. us don't we would claim our jury and identity it's always present inside as this french territory in the pacific prepares to vote on independence al-jazeera world tells the story of exile in new

caledonia we know the culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and with pointed out a story that you might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations peacekeepers i think lloyd anti-riot you know. you are challenging the boys you were challenging companies or going to places where nobody else is going. it is time for sport now his joe elizabeth thank you very much novak djokovic is

one win away from the paris mostest title he'll play cameron catchin off on sunday after coming through a semi final encounter with longtime rival watch ephedra shaded the first set on a tie break but did lose this point lot of his dolly when the ball bounced off the net and rebounded off the frame of federer's rescue. federer hit back in the second the swiss taking seven five to keep his dreams of a one hundred korea trophy alive. joke which showed the frosty that had him on a twenty one match winning run going into the semifinal the third set a so i went to a tie break a joke which took it to make it twenty two wins in a row. found both of the next week no matter what he does in some baseball i. think it would be deserved that he won the match as well we weren't told to told to the la shots i mean it was really really a spectacular match i was

a part of this year and if it was the best i've ever played against the record events is incredible run in syria continues they've now won their ninth came out of ten and could see to dominate at the top of the table six points ahead of into milan before their match with calorie christiane a renowned i was honored for scoring his four hundredth goal is actually now in four hundred two but didn't get to add to that on saturday when i was divide by the post late in the first half. instead paolo and one quadrotor added to an o. . go to help eventis clinch a three one win it's a good base for the italians to face manchester united in the champions league this week. barcelona left it very late to be in the spanish top flights down to one or some of them barely struck on eighty seven minutes in the risk. of getting the window with his second goal of the game in the ninetieth to seal it

three one the win means. by three points above you. when you win you are always happy for the match at times we were the better side at times we were the worst side but our attitude has been the same during the whole game and that's in the end what gave us victory by i mean it is coach says his team is angry and sad after a late equaliser from freiburg saw them draw one one at home it also means they for four points behind the bundesliga leaders boadicea dortmund. less city played their first premier league match since the death of their owner in a helicopter crash a week ago type billionaire very shy. was killed when the helicopter took off from les's pitch and crashed in the stadium carpark leicester won the match one nil. we're norway chimaira we said it's a good feeling with a big game i pod above or above my periods in these conditions of course. well

lesser players went straight from that game to the airport and flew overnight to thailand to attend the club chairman seen all these are live pictures now from bangkok we saw those leicester players arrive in bangkok around twenty minutes ago they're expected to make their way to this funeral that's taking place right now this is the second day of the morning which will last around weeks from now a week starting from yesterday now the show i see that are a problem was best known for his empire of g.t. free organizations around thailand and he's being mourned now after that crash about a week ago. the artistic gymnastic world championships have come to an end in cata simone biles dominated throughout the competition and was looking to finish on a high sale matic reports from dive. all eyes are on the mon biles on the final day of the artistic gymnastics world championships she had the chance to into

more titles to take a gold medal tally to five in doha representing the united states of america show me what she looked shaky in the balance beam final. and while she didn't fall down like she did in the all around final her score thirteen point six was far from her best thanks. it opened the door for others to capitalize and they did. first and marie had to raju better to score. thanks but the canadian efforts would only get her silver china's looting thing putting in a stellar display to seal the gold. would have to settle for bronze. the floor finals next an opportunity for the american to sign off in style and she didn't disappoint. shrug of competition from fellow

american morgan heard the golden v. event just like she did at the rio olympics it brought to an end a memorable championships they cut off for the twenty one year old today was really exciting to come to this country and have them so welcoming and competing here has been that the honor to mobilize finishes the competition on a high for her and the rest of the women are the only ones their action and of the medals three goals are on the line for the men on the final day seagoing ri came out on top in the vault final the north korean following up his title at the rio olympics in the same event was. one in short china would end the championship on top of the men's medals table the twenty year old getting china's third gold by winning the powerball final. but it wasn't to be a golden finish for one of the sports legends koichi europe was a doubt with the heart because uncle problems could only manage silver.

the three time olympic champion finishing behind because on demand of the netherlands the event finishing off a dramatic fun day of competition so well molly al-jazeera. now a dream match for fight fans is still on course between u.f.c. heavyweight champion daniel courneya. who currently performs in world wrestling entertainment as that champion kept the fight on track by successfully defending his u.s.c. title on saturday the thirty nine year old beat derek lewis by submission a madison square garden he then called out less know who confronted him in the ring after his last fight lesnar who is also former u.f.c. champion cannot fight until his doping ban expires in january. and no spec businessman who denies links to organized crime has been elected president of amateur boxing federation the us treasury says gaff or write him off is one of his country's leading criminals with links to the global heroin trade his appointment

is put our uber in direct conflict with the international imput committee who criticised his bid they've previously threaten the future of boxing as an impact sport if writing off was put in charge. it's a classroom division i would like to address our friends in the olympic movement we listen to everything we learn and we will work we did everything you asked us for and even more than that these two days have become an acknowledgment of our commitment to follow the olympic movement and the olympic values. the houston rockets is starting to get their season back on track after what's been a disastrous start they've recorded their second win in a row beating the chicago bulls ninety six to eighty eight james harden scored twenty five points only the third we know they've already lost five games and have the third worst record in the western conference. tony recorded their fourth straight win on saturday the spurs beating the new orleans pelicans one hundred ninety ninety five new recruit to marjorie's and top school for them with twenty

six points. there's no stopping moto g.p. world champion mark not even with the grid penalty the spaniard was given a sixth place punishment for impeding another rider in qualifying for the malaysian grand prix but by the end of the fifth lap marquez had stationed himself behind leader valentino rossi with four laps to go ross rossi did slide down climbed into the lead to clinch his ninth victory of the season now some of the world's best cyclists are in japan for a race that pits riders from the tour de france against japan cycling and leads the slight tama criterium is a fifty eight kilometers or ride one hundred valverde one this year's edition thomas who finished second for the whole trip to japan didn't start well for thomas at a promotional event for the race he was dressed up as a baseball player an accident he hits a fund in the face with the ball all is forgiven mary when he invited the fan up to the states to apologize and post

a photo. didn't stop him from laughing. joe thank you very much for that now finally this bulletin the streets in france being taken over by a pair of giant mechanical creatures are on the spider and a stereo on the miniature of the latest creations from french straight theatre group machine the twenty major tall spider and then a tall controlled by dozens of operators who guided the machines through the city streets each creature took two years to build. well that's it for me and that's news out hasn't think it's back in just a few minutes. in

south korea around two million dogs are eaten every year but now animal rights groups want the ancient tradition taken off the menu want to when east investigates korean dogs or food on al-jazeera. volcano kill way erupted explosively last thing boiling clouds of steam and ash and rock high into the atmosphere scientists say it's not unusual for eruptions to stop and start up again later as for kill away a it has been spilling lava continually for more than thirty years. leader hoyer and spiritual beliefs say eruptions reflect the mood of the goddess. arse's native hawaiians who barely is always nice to us whether she thinks our home or not we accept this type of event. in many countries pregnancy and childbirth are still

extremely dangerous for mothers and babies most of the mother dying from the infection being they were dying from. algiers even travels to my maoi and looks at how little communities i challenge in tradition and in order to reduce child in the toilet and improve maternal health. is too strong life lines between life and death on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you. focus for their anger and team u.s.

protests pick up momentum in iran on the eve of sanctions coming back into force. a lot hasn't sleeker this is al jazeera live from dot also coming up turkish media reveal more about how saudi agents got rid of the body of murdered journalist. came to make their vote count signs of the highest turnout for decades in the u.s. midterm elections. and as the leader of one of mexico's most dangerous cartels awaits trial in the u.s. we look at why as chappell's business is still thriving. hello in less than twenty four hours the u.s. will reimpose one of its toughest sanctions on iran today the move is fueling anger in the capital tehran where protesters have been chanting down with the usa the

demonstration was part of a ceremony to mark the thirty ninth anniversary of the nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution president donald trump announced he would bring back sanctions lifted under the twenty fifty nuclear deal the trump withdrew from that agreement earlier this year iran's leaders have played down the u.s. move the current commander of the elite revolutionary guard saying tehran will resist any sanctions let's go live now to tehran zain basra he is there for suzanne you were just at the protests earlier marking this thirty ninth anniversary of the storming of the u.s. embassy there what's happening there right now. well the rally at the time there were thousands of people there is one of the larger crowds we've seen in the last few years of course to commemorate the takeover of the u.s. embassy compound university students stormed the compound took fifty two americans prisoner and that sparked

a four hundred forty four day hostage crisis the longest in recorded history the reason i mention that history that context is because it was a seminal moment in the history of what was then the very young islamic republic of iran this was only a few months after the revolution that overthrew the shah of iran reza pahlavi and brought the current islamic republic of iran into into existence and not only was it a seminal moment in the country's history but a seminal moment in the relationship between the united states and iran this year the crowds were bigger and the security was higher and it seemed that people there certainly were angrier and that's probably because this year the anniversary coincided with the deadline for the reimposition of sanctions that had been lifted as part of the two thousand and fifty nuclear deal and reimposed by the american president donald trump and so what we've seen is that these sanctions going into effect made those crowds a little more. animated if you will of course the sanctions we know are coming up

will be targeting iran's oil sector the oil industry banking and shipping all these things combined earned iran its largest economic revenue it's the biggest generator of money for the country and this deadline means that from tomorrow on words iran will no longer be able to sell its oil freely on the international market but many iranians we spoke to said that this deadline is meaningless because foreign investors have already left the country and american economic pressure has already had the desired effect and economic damage has already been done we spoke to some iranians here's what they had to say. when you look past all the politics what becomes clear is that american sanctions people more than they change iranian government policies american policy some would say brinkmanship has meant economic chaos for iran the value of the iranian has suffered a major fall in the last year adding to high inflation and unemployment concerns

all of this hurts low income and working people first and foremost they struggle to feed their families because prices for some basic goods have doubled. they talk about their problems. when a customer wants to buy some. people used to buy meat once a month. when it comes to iran u.s. presidents have pursued a policy of containment for decades trying to limit iranians economically militarily and politically in their regional and global affairs even the twenty fifteen nuclear deal that president barack obama championed that gave iran back some of its financial freedoms many iranians saw that is just a softer approach to the same containment policy but by turning back the clock on bilateral ties with iran what president donald trump has done is to show people

here that during his administration there will be no blurred lines between friends and enemies but if trumpet hope pushing iranians towards poverty would inspire them to topple their own leaders he'll likely be disappointed previous protests never got big enough all he's apparently done is make people here miserable. do you think mr trump is a crazy man who made the situation in the region drastically worse his involvement in the region and sanctions have made the people hate him i really don't think that he's the one that should be the president of america. maybe good for his own people but not as you do i think. it's better not to say anything about his personality everyone knows how. everybody knows. what iran's leaders signed the nuclear deal they said it was the thing to fix everyone's financial problems three years later with american promises of more sanctions than ever before the

best that people here can hope for is that iran can manage to sell enough oil to survive until donald trump has left the white house so what is the mood there regarding the sanctions and how people are reacting in general. well at the heart of all of this is the fact that iran is going to be technically limited in its ability to sew oil these sanctions are targeting the thing that is at the very heart of this the thing that one's the country's economic engine and so what we've saw in the last few days is people reacting to the announcement of eight countries receiving waivers to u.s. sanctions to be able to continue to buy iranian oil and many of the officials here have been saying the same thing that experts are saying which is that the one thing that donald trump didn't count on in his attempt to try to reduce iran's output is the basic principle of supply and demand one expert we spoke to here

a former iranian representative to opec said that the global infrastructure to make oil simply put all the all the countries making oil simply don't have the infrastructure in place to make up for any oil that iran would stop selling on the international market and so they really counted on the fact that supply and demand would kick in that that would take some kind of toll on the oil price and that would trigger. some sort of reaction by the americans which is what they say these eight waivers are so officials here are optimistic about what happens going forward this is going to keep being able to sell oil and that sanctions in the past were international sanctions involving the world there was a u.n. mandate these are only sanctions the triumph is putting into place there's a great deal of support for iran by world leaders on the global stage and so these sanctions are going to be relatively easy to cope with that's the sort of macro government approach to everything that's happening and what might happen going

forward people on the other hand are discouraged by this they say that they didn't sign up to this nuclear agreement to simply sustain themselves that they want to see some sort of economic advancement not just economic survival zain thanks for that zain bus ravi live for us and to herat. well iran is one of the world's largest oil produces and its oil and gas exports are worth billions of dollars a year or so who are its biggest customers while this chart shows iran's average exports in thousands of barrels of oil a day from november twenty seven thousand to april of this year and as you can see china is the biggest importer of iranian oil with about seven hundred thousand barrels next is india with just under six hundred thousand barrels a day followed by south korea then turkey and rounding out the top five is italy a mother she had tack in is an international oil and energy consultant he says iranian oil companies are used to operating on the sanctions so these are all good

signs as far as iran is concerned that you don't can continue exporting its origin that it has been i think success will see it only an orderly sportswear saber in the spring about two and a half million barrels per day and the reports were that already in summer many customers and stopped buying or has reduced the purchases but the data are a bit contradictory for example some reports say that in september you know exports were one point eight million barrels per day.