died in hospital today from what we know of that individual we are treating this as a terrorism incident. and it's not until a smiley in respect to relatives that he has that i certainly persons of interest to us. and he's someone that accordingly is now in two bodies troy police and the federal intelligence already. police say the attacker came from somalia in the one nine hundred ninety s. and previously had only been charged with minor offenses traffic violations and smoking cannabis. investigators say the vehicle to drive down buck's street with filled with all the q. style gas bottles before being set on fire place say they don't believe there's an ongoing price but more officers will be deployed at events around the city this weekend especially as christmas shopping begins we will not as a city in a state be defined by this act of evil will simply refuse to do that. we will go

a better business this weekend. and every weekend because we are bigger and stronger than this we will not be defined by this but we're not ignorant to the challenges we face police say they had no information to suggest that anything like this would happen in melbourne on friday but australia's government has been saying for some time that ideologically inspired violence here is likely so while this attack was a shock an attack is not under thomas al jazeera says. much more still ahead for you on the program a spy scandal and here at this time between austria and russia. and taking the fight against pollution into space for tell you why scientists are about to last laser beams into the sky.

we got some bits and pieces of cloud and right into central parts of china the amount of cloud down towards the southwest as well you can see some of that shabby rain just making its way across the gulf of tonkin easing into the central and northern parts of vietnam for a time there's a heavier right into those central areas find a dry to the southeast hong kong gets up to twenty seven celsius mostly want to show is creeping towards taiwan over the next day also rather more the way of widespread rain just sinking out of central china aging a little further south hong kong stays in the clear or sunshine coming through here fair amount of sunshine will be a hazy across central and northern parts of india the smoke problems the smoke problems continue for the most of the cools while the fall works causing problems across new delhi once again as per usual for the south let's concentrate on the right there is some rain around into the fosse out of india. plowed. still seeing

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welcome back quick look at our top story this hour at least twenty people have been killed in the somali capital mogadishu after a series of attacks in the heart of the city two car bombs were set off near a hotel frequented by parliamentarians a third explosion hit the street shortly afterwards witnesses have described the scene after the assault. with an. ira i pulled many dead bodies from the burning cars one of the cars exploded next to a boss and there are many people innocent including women and children the number of casualties is unknown as bodies are still been pulled from the burning cars. and

there were three huge explosions up to now ambulances have carried thirteen wounded people and four dead bodies but we still don't know the exact number of dead. on the hamad abraham bulbul is a radio and t.v. journalist he joins us on skype now from mogadishu thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us we were just hearing one of the witnesses that describing abbas full of women and children what more can you tell us about those who were targeted in this attack. well of what seventeen people have been. is schools in great. seaside from the attack on so have your hotel which is not far away from the issues of an international airports nearby the criminal investigation wazza in mogadishu claims by frostbite is saying it is carrying despite his have carried out the suicide bomb attack in mogadishu.

the most acute of the killed people are among the. of course we know that somalia and its capital have seen a number of attacks over the years but what might the reaction be to the series of attacks today how might people in the city and in other parts of somalia view what has happened here and. reported by the go. as. it is on. the initial report to say almost seventeen people. all right well thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us mohammed ibrahim bobo a t.v. and radio journalist with all the latest on those attacks in the somali capital market issue. well now u.s.

investigators working hard to establish the most have behind a mass shooting at a bar in california which killed twelve people and twenty eight year old gunman has been identified as a marine corps veteran in afghanistan he took his own life after being confronted by police offices brunell's reports now from sounds and. a far room full of college students dancing enjoying a night out then horror. we saw them. wearing black and carrying a forty five caliber handgun burst into the borderline bar and grill in thousand oaks firing dozens of times people fled the carnage any way they could we just had to get out get behind a car get behind something that he redistributed would be among the dead was the police officer who was the first to get to the scene ventura county sheriff's deputy ron helix who was fifty four is being hailed as

a hero he had every intention of going in there and ending that threat and saving lives the gunman twenty eight year old ian long killed himself as police closed in long was a marine corps veteran who served a tour in afghanistan he had run ins with local police before in april of this year deputies were called to his house for a subject disturbing they went to their house they talked to him he was he was somewhat irate. a little irrationally longs motives are on known and are the subject of intense investigation we're going to pursue the leads that are developed from at evidence wherever they take us to identify any possible motivation. paint a picture of the frame of mind of the subjects parents and relatives of the shooting victims gathered at the community center to get information jason kaufman

way to define. i doubt if his twenty two year old son cody was safe but i know nothing here i was woken up in the morning by some friends of cody's and. say maybe he hasn't made it out of the bar moments later he got the terrible news cody was dead thousand oaks now joins us cities like pittsburgh orlando last they gits and parkland shocked and broken hearted by sudden horrific violence you know where the safest city in america and how do you stop somebody that comes in to do something like this it's a. it's a wake up call for everybody that that evil exists and had it jumps into the most quite of communities and how we're hurting according to the gun violence archive there have been three hundred and seven mass shootings in the united states involving four or more fatalities this year alone whether it's

a bar nightclub a school or a synagogue it seems there are no safe spaces anymore robert oulds al-jazeera thousand oaks california. false moving wildfire in northern california has quadrupled in size overnight forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes it's engulfed an area around the town of paradise in the northeast several hours drive from san francisco the blazes ripping through the area so fast that five services a struggling to contain it authorities have now lost residents to evacuate the entire beach site city of malibu traffic reports. flames engulfing trees and buildings on both sides of the road branches falling on the windscreen of this car the driver is lucky to be alive as the wildfire ripped through woodland on these north california hills emergency services ordered the entire population of the town of paradise some twenty seven thousand people to

evacuate their stuff really burning on all sides of us on the way out here some residents abandon their cars destroyed tries to remain calm go go go go go. people go. it's not known what started the fire which was reported at six o'clock in the morning within six hours it had spread across an area of more than sixty eight square kilometers serene and hazardous lots of smoke dark devastation active burning of all throughout the town to me and i lived there for eighteen years and it looks like the fire came. east and is came straight through town all the way to the west a vast spreading cloud of smoke filled the sky some people were said to be sheltering in a nearby hardware store i know there was a plan put in place they use the walgreens up in paradise as

a temporary refuge area and why we do that is to get civilians or people that are allegheny elements meaning the fire in the smoke we try to get him into an area that is safe away from the fire and smoke until that fire front pushes through we did have fire personnel with them and so once they deemed it safe we were able to get them out of. the town located on a mountain ridge there were very few escape routes traffic turned to gridlock one woman reportedly went into labor waiting in a traffic jam the hospital was among the buildings reportedly completely destroyed firefighting aircraft were unable to fly because winds were too strong and those winds were expected to strengthen further hampering efforts to extinguish the blaze racing across dry woodland slopes. they have been on verified reports of at least one person dying in the. millions of dollars worth of property of being burned to

the ground as want to see spokesperson said pretty much the entire community of powered ice is destroyed. al-jazeera. some breaking news now from sri lanka where the president has struggled to stem the country's constitutional crisis that turmoil began on my trip on a serious cena fired his prime minister almost two weeks ago and installed opposition he demanded rajapakse that the position instead may nelson and his joins us on the phone from the capital colombo what's the latest you're hearing on the political crisis playing out there and trying to come in now. news just breaking here out of colombo that the president writes about the citizen has officially signed the guys with certification dissolving the sri lankan parliament as yet unconfirmed spoken to government sources who say that all indications are that the president has signed that notice which will be effective from midnight tonight

friday night however with the waiting for sort of official notification of this bear in mind that given the political crisis here in sri lanka and the whole issue being the constitution and what is the law constitutionally following the sacking of prime minister under the commencing and the swearing in of mine the rajapaksa the country's former president as the new prime minister. those disputing the dissolution say that the president cannot is of parliament less than four and a half years into it we are a few months short of that not him so if if that means that it's in legal for the president to make a move like this to dissolve parliament well what happens next will the case be heard by a court. mariyam these these are unchartered waters that should answer is concerned the very removal of prime minister amir the comment

saying according to the constitution it's last amendment was not allowed constitutionally according to one school of thought and similarly if indeed this dissolution has been signed by president much to politics and as a hearing again it would be contrary to the constitution which says that the term of parliament must be four and a half years into its term before we can be dissolved so yes there would be challenges and issues and questions to be raised whether this is being done on on what grounds of the constitution and whether it's in keeping with the constitution of this country and i am well thank you very much to all that ice from come by me now fernandez. now scientists are preparing to fire lasers into space a blast some of the one hundred seventy million pieces of manmade deborah orbiting the earth at cosmic class a pose a constant threat to satellites spacecraft and people as my on a honda explains. we've been launching things and people into space since

nineteen fifty seven satellites be a favorite programs spacecraft to explore the unknown people to take our first deep and in the more than sixty years of space exploration with managed to leave behind around one hundred seventy million bits of junk to give you a sense of just how big the problem is take a look at this graph from scientists at the university of texas these orange dots a functioning satellites orbiting the earth every day everything else this sea of pink the below is debris junk basically some of it's tiny some of it says big as a bus all of it's hurtling around the earth at speeds in excess of twenty seven thousand kilometers an hour crisscrossing at different orbits and on a potential collision course with the things and people that we want up there. scientists warn it has the potential to create

a string of catastrophic even unstoppable collisions that could read up parts of space unusable nesa scientists donald case the first identified the scenario thirty years ago scientists have been trying to come up with ways to clean up after ourselves if a sentence has the predicted that when the population density of space debris reaches a certain point it will start to cool i would self and start multiplying by itself and we're seeing the beginnings of that we see recent number of satellite collisions. through core you know the best minds on the planet in this to mine we have another ten years we could be very lucky and have twenty years or twenty five we could be very unlucky and it could happen tomorrow scientists are making progress with innovative ways to clear the class a but none of it's ready to launch just yet that's where a new use of well established laser technology comes in ataman astray leah working

with experts from around the world is preparing to fire high powered lasers to blast space debris away to a safer orbit yes it is rather cool using simple high browed lasers to gently know which name to side gently gently match the space race one order to another we don't have a solution for space to bring out we have the means to reduce the scale of the problem and defer the doomsday event so we get more time space based laser technology dates back to the one nine hundred seventy s. and now has a myriad of applications that already make a real difference to us down here on earth but it's this latest use of laser ranging technology to clean up the cosmic junkyard around our planet that's capturing global attention it's the biggest clean up if it ever the same and this corner of the universe at least madame hond al-jazeera.

just a quick look at the top stories now at least twenty people have been killed in the somali capital mogadishu after a series of attacks in the heart of the city suicide attack a set of two car bombs at a hotel near the headquarters of somalia's criminal investigations department police say security forces opened fire after the blast a third explosion then hit the street around twenty minutes later the hotel is often visited by parliamentarians and government officials witnesses have been describing the scene after the assault. or pulled many dead bodies in the burning cars one of the cars exploded next to a boss and there were many people in it including women and children the number of casualties is unknown as bodies are still been pulled from the burning cars. there were three huge explosions up to now ambulances have carried thirteen wounded people and four dead bodies but we still don't know the exact number of dead the

u.s. president to sign a proclamation to deny asylum to migrants who cross the southern border illegally donald trump says they must arrive through an official force of entry until now asylum seekers have been entitled to a hearing in the united states regardless of how they entered the country. turkish police say they're officially ending the search for jamal khashoggi as body but the criminal investigation into his murder continues so says of told al jazeera traces of acid were found at the saudi consul general's residence in istanbul it's believed the saudi journalist body may have been disposed of using chemicals yemeni government forces backed by the saudi led coalition say they've launched a major offensive to retake the rebel held city of data in the off a million people have fled the area since june although the u.n. has warned that thousands of others remain trapped by the fighting if you rebels have held for data since two thousand and fourteen. police in the australian city of melbourne are treating a stabbing spree that killed one person as

a terrorist attack a somali immigrant set fire to a pickup truck and stabbed three people in the city center being shot in the chest by armed police as the headlines all have much more for you from london the bit later on coming up next on al-jazeera at the q we visited.

the health care office had been training targeted effect attacks for the tops of the skin lightly in the patient is just reports of thinking feeling. so in some way could be an organism that's producing the next month of august. over the last twenty is more than fourteen million people have been saying on the number of new the detective cases this fall and dramatically but in the last decade progress is stagnated threatening our chances of completely eradicating the disease . louise paling and i'm here in cambodia to see how a new israeli transmission strategy is being used to track down and treat potential

sufferers in the hope that leprosy can be wiped out. leprosy is a chronic infection caused by the bacteria mycobacterium left brain the disease spreads in droplets of nasal mucus between people in close and frequent contact it damages peripheral nerves and as the disease progresses nerves swell hands feet and facial skin become numb and muscles paralyzed leading to deformity. loss of sensation also increases the risk of injury with open wounds often becoming infected leprosy is entirely curable and if treated in the early stages disability can be averted yet it still affects thousands of people around the world. so how big a problem is that in cambodia. program

. in cambodia. eliminating. the. many leprosy in. affective treatment. their activity is limited. so they cannot access to gold roads or you know that's why i didn't touch them. over time patients new sensation in their hands and feet meaning that any cuts and so as they develop a painless if these become infected it committal to the loss of fingers and toes as he's left for a so big oh so right and also maybe today people can still go to make the show and i'm taking yeah is it painful i could have just

had just surgery on thursday yes and. just a little bit of today getting the eggs and for them to continue my studies to feel good to have freeze over old and to me i mean when i make it and we delay we can molly and jada can you tell us what music you're listening to you are like you are hip hop and some family thing go wild and you know it's there when feelies tries to go to our all be quiet at night thank you very much and good luck feel leg getting a new leg in that interval that it was used thank you very much. and. i said i said ok. thank you all chain can you share was our legacy is affected you know more than one kid in the.

middle stick to the names. within the chain which can favor here that is affected the long in the in the body and has caused the toast to become amputated because this area gets nothing and then what happens is people damage it just just doing their daily activities walking around and it's not going to get someone so the damage itself can actually take off the times the person will be getting married as affect the eyes. thank you or to. medicines to cure leprosy are available free of charge all around the world these are provided by pharmaceutical company novartis for the world health organization and have been hugely successful in the fight against leprosy but recently progress has stagnated in june twenty thirty experts from around the world met to develop a new strategy to completely halt the transmission of leprosy the last mile in

fighting leprosy proved to be the most difficult one what we now do space look at every patient who is diagnosed specially and look up the look of his contacts persons in his family his household the neighbors his colleagues examine them for their procedure and if they do have signs of the procedure opus he they should be treated fairly with the multi-group terrapins leprosy is also very much associated with stigma when you get a diagnosis of leprosy you may be excluded from society completely in some countries or you may lose your job which very often is the case. our plan is to introduce that in several pilot areas in six countries in the world to demonstrate that this is feasible and when we have critical mass of the day we could convince the rest of the world to apply that as well yes and this is what we hope to do. i pay out yearly net to know that means that now but what if you buy it

off i guess you might say these guys health workers and they can go into the local communities and. diagnose a chance to see a hypoxia but it will be at the end got you. new for the new on new exam the noose and not the label right i run now which up let me check the numbers out on the key under the mat more case of the fifty or so three hundred meters around the house where the person was identified yeah yeah it is reading tracking down that procedure and is the how to go through it of the fish and among those that were seeking through. to eradicate it i think it's obvious that no don't want to match that particularly when you're. in a country still recovering from civil war and genocide the basic health care provision available means that knowledge about leprosy is limited

a key element of the strategy is raising awareness of the disease reducing the stigma surrounding it and informing the communities that the health workers are coming before the contact tracing begins the team put on a festival for the local community so that when it just just getting ready for the field to show where people are going to be told about leprosy and then actually going to announce it and began to speak is going on the next. summer and i can't wait to do yet read it. to see. how this is fun this is not what i was expecting with chrissy to be driving along in the van but i was with them for both of them on the phone from one of the problems of the fire was all of them are going to have out of i don't know about i don't know come out of the not was found out from a bike i don't talk bible but man my mother it's not as easy for me i'm not about the problem obama obama might have. this is a key element of the stuff here to go out into the debate and tell people about the

show but again that i've never seen from all of her on the number one i would call her a little older than are with her own party or five or whatever haha. i'm amazed by how many people arrive for the show. it really demonstrates the power of putting on a show for communities such as this one we. would . like to. know what. this show is telling of a show about eradicating leprosy is as much about information as if you met him i

didn't know what was the real one who was who. the little one who got killed. i got you a little bit more like a little under one of the last. night the actors perform parables about leprosy to educate the community about the reality of the disease and also to inform them about the contact tracing that will take place the next day. we come to. ok have to. be going to check up on. me think. about what did it actually get to. the team doubters at the home of the cured leprosy patient from where they will head out into the surrounding community to trace his contacts to check if anyone

has been infected. with the person. hello placed with you it diagnosed five years ago. do you have any symptoms from the leprosy still a min. no not on me i'm one who lives with you at home. by doing what i do with three children that keep you very busy yes. i mean the moon and so you have one child affected by let's see. can we meet your child. oh hello ok i am live. to be legalized are we to how do you. do so and when did you get diagnosed. right now when and how did they diagnose you how did they know that you

had leprosy. movement. where's that where is the package can you show us. thank you so it's very it's very very subtle. it's the health care workers have been trained how to defend the test for they touched the skin lightly in the patient is asked to report if they can feel it whether leprosy is the coffee that because the area is now. the team confirms that germany has been entirely cured of leprosy thanks to the medication what do you think might have happened had the health care workers not come to find you and i call you do you do you give them yes so this is this is how easy it is to treat leprosy the.