zuffa just talking to us live from islamabad thank you very much well there's been another attack a separate attack in the northwestern part of pakistan an explosion in a crowded market this killed at least thirty five people including children dozens were injured in the zeid district now that recently merged with. packed to inquire province after decades of direct rule from islamabad so far there's been no claim of responsibility for that attack now to sri lanka where m.p.'s opposing the disputed prime minister or hindu rajapaksa have walked out of parliament for the second time this week they accuse the speaker of favoritism punches were thrown last week when m.p.'s pass a no confidence motion against mr rajapaksa both he and run no wiggle room a singer who was sacked by the president last month say very other lawful prime minister. they've got a lot more to come on this al jazeera news hour including keeping a close eye from the sky don't transfer i think the players the u.s.

border with mexico to keep migrants out and the journey is fans pack into their say damon but aside is just to watch a training session ahead of saturday's big final against river plate don't have the details in school. that taiwan is holding key local elections this weekend the outcome will be closely watched by china because voters will also be deciding on a name change for taiwan china regards regards taiwan as part of its territory to be taken back by force if necessary relations between the two sides of worsened and as adrian brown reports on the economy. it will be another six months before pineapple farmer live new shoe complete in picking his crop normally three quarters of what he grows in these fields would be exported to china but in

may the orders suddenly stopped a loss of business that cost him more than three hundred thousand dollars he's not hopeful things will improve. the government should find ways to help farmers to sell their fruit i think the situation to work at worst next year with the government's failure to connect to china another bad year can be expected. on. china's leaders cut off communication with taiwan's government after zion win was elected president in two thousand and sixteen her party supports independence the port city of cow shown is taiwan third largest city and was once popular with chinese tourists but operators say visitor numbers from the mainland of fallen by more than a million and a half in the past two years the faltering economy is one of the reasons why maurice cho is considering look. for a job in china become tree many taiwanese consider as the enemy if we want to china

for our needs we want to talk about politics because the most important thing for us is to have a better career better job in the future. science party has held for twenty years but recent poll shows the main opposition party gaining ground this city is a stronghold for the ruling democratic progressive party their supporters like the president's tough and the china stance but they worry about the impact it's having on the economy and if the d.p.p. were to lose this city it would represent a severe setback for the president or that will be a major blow for the ruling government and the ruling party because they have secured the position for more than twenty years and now there's an opportunity for the opposition party to turn over the election that will be a major brought for the p.p.p. supporters. china's leaders like zines opponents in taiwan

will be pleased if that happens because they want to ensure she's a one term president adrian brown al jazeera encounter. a former militia leader in central african republic is appearing at the international criminal court in the hague alfred is also known as ram they was a senior leader with the mostly christian anti baloch a movement and this is the scene live at the hague the international criminal court there you can see. yet at home watching events where this is rory challenge he's our correspondent there live at the hague and rory tell us specifically what tom or rambo is actually accused elf. well he is accused a century of war crimes and crimes against humanity the initial

proceedings which kicked off a few minutes ago here in the hague are likely to be short and fairly procedural this is his first appearance in front of the three judges of the pretrial chamber number two at the international criminal court what they are going to do is identify the suspect himself workouts they languish in which he is going to understand proceedings and also outline the charges against him now these basically boil down to. torture deportation you know sort of crimes against the civilian population enlisting child soldiers all of these relating to the fighting that took place in the central african republic between two thousand and twelve but the fighting is some extensive ongoing but it reached its peak in two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and fourteen and tom

is that now a member of parliament i mean he's in the elected official and tell us about how his extradition came about. well this all happens very far it was in october of this year that event took place which essentially precipitated all of this now. fired a gun inside the parliaments that resulted in his detention in the central african republic it was only on november the eleventh that the i.c.c. presented its arrest warrant for him and he was extradited sade's here to the i.c.c. just a week later on november seventeenth so this is all happened very fast. the charges against him go back to the high points of the fighting now what was going

on then in central african republic was essentially an outbreak of religious strife and ethnic tensions when mainly. fighters from the celica movement flooded down from the north of the country and captured the capital bangui and ousted president. in response to that there was a movement set up called that. which pushed the seleka fighters out of the capital and it is as a leader of one of the militia groups of. that alfred jackets on is alleged to have committed these crimes war crimes crimes against humanity this is the first time that the central african republic has extradited someone involved in that fighting to the international criminal court so this is

a significant moment for that strife torn country it's a trial although the proceedings today are going to be very brief it's a trial that is likely to go on for several months. rory chalons live at the hague thank you. government workers intimacy of being on nationwide strike because they say they cult afford to make ends meet more than half a million public sector workers walked out in the demands for higher pay mariana honda has more. from the capital tunis to. the city that gave birth to the arab spring around two thirds of a million people stopped work. was public sector workers went on strike after negotiations between the powerful trade union that represents them and the government failed they want better wages but they say they're marching for old tune izzie and her engineering soaring living costs and high unemployment but soon

as you told it here people here don't have enough to buy even the most basic food especially those with children you cannot imagine how difficult the situation is yes this is a revolution of the hungry here in tunisia rather than one of them that i last saw a man there and what have we done to you the government has failed us and undermined the rights of retirees where are those who love tunisia where are those who love this black media has disappeared the strike shut down government ministries universities and public schools hospitals operated with emergency staffing around a sixth of june is u.s. workforce a civil servants and well public sick the wages have doubled since two thousand and ten it's added to the burden on tunisia's fragile economy the north african country has failed to fire economically in the years since the overthrow of its long term president in two thousand and eleven unemployment is now at fifteen percent

inflation is at a record high a two point eight billion dollar line from the i.m.f. two years ago came with conditions of economic reforms and ditch reduction this mess walkout shows to new zealand are already feeling. the pent union leaders called on the members to use the power of the numbers. that. i call on you the free people to take part in the next municipal legislative and presidential elections for you the workers the next elections are very important. to this he enjoyed a relatively smooth transition to democracy in the wake of the arab spring but its government is now confronting the challenge of accountability to explain people well being beholden to those it owes money media on the hand which is even. now within the last few minutes or so the united arab emirates has said that it's reviewing a request for clemency from the family of

a british academic has been sentenced to life in prison on charges of spying the country's ambassador to london defended his country's judiciary but says his government is considering matthew hedges case let's go live to our correspondent paul brennan who's in london for so paul give us the very latest and the ambassador made a statement as i say just a few minutes ago. yeah just in the last half an hour a very brief statement just a couple of minutes and as you say he started off by defending the integrity of the u.a.e. judiciary and saying that matthew had his trial was not just a five minute hearing as has been reported in some quarters but there was a whole month of three senior judges examining the evidence and finding in the bus of those words that there was compelling evidence to support the case but that said he then went on to say that the family has applied for clemency and that under u.a.e. law a defendant can both appeal or apply for clemency the family has applied for

clemency and the government he said is studying that request now that tallies very neatly with words that were coming out during the course of thursday where the u.a.e. foreign office foreign ministry in abu dhabi was saying that they hoped an amicable solution could be found to this diplomatic crisis and the british foreign secretary jeremy hunt who followed up a meeting that he had yesterday with matthew had his wife danielle to hard where he said that the he saw matthew what hedges wife i believe and trust that the u.a.e. foreign minister is working hard to resolve the situation a s a peanuts a tweet from jeremy hunt on thursday night i think the diplomatic planets are aligning here for a possible face saving compromise with perhaps no blame accepted on either side but matthew had just potentially being free quite soon and i reminded them pool that this is

a thirty one year old academic he's been seeing his doctor at durham university and he was in dubai are on a two week recess. project as we understand and arrested it did by airport and then detained for six months. that's what yes i mean he's been is been in custody now for seven months and sentenced to life imprisonment earlier this week of a hearing that took place on wednesday essentially met yet as you said thirty one year old academic from the middle east institute of darren university on a two week research trip to the united arab emirates he was arrested on may the fifth the sea was dubai airport just about to leave the country apparently according to one report in gulf news as a result of a tip off from an emirates he says is a new thought that matthew had his questions were somehow suspicious it has to be said that the structure of the law in some gulf countries is very strict towards national security issues and the defense of the dignity of the kingdom in some

countries is paramount so there have been cases in the past where issues of putting a parody video on you tube has landed people in in prison for some considerable time very strict indeed and i think that the way the the emotions of this case are going at the moment it could be that the u.a.e. accept that matthew had his intentions were entirely innocent while at the same time saying that under our strict law under the letter of a strict law he was technically guilty and in that way they can pardon him without actually losing any face of their own all right thanks for that poor brennan has arrived in london. in just a few moments everton will have the weather and also coming up on the. sending in the troops and guinea paid wages anything to complain about the opposition protests . and faces long forgotten how the art of one of the world's oldest civilizations

is being remembered. and the west indies a knocked out of the world twenty twenty on home soil as australia and england reach the final in general have the details and spawn. from the clear blue sky return home. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city of la. because of a stormy weather gathering on either side of the philippines at the moment we've got two tropical systems this one out in the open waters of the northwest pacific that's a typhoon that is pushing up towards japan i suspect it will not reach japan hopefully it will stay in those open waters of greater significance for the time being this is something we have comical stormy soggy making its way back towards vietnam just over a week ago we had a tropical system moving across a similar area further concerns same for the coffee and all production in central

and southern parts of vietnam very heavy downpours coming through maybe three four maybe even five hundred millimeters of rain a possibility with the damaging winds which will punch their way through saturday going on into sunday the system does diminish as we go on into sunday but still some really heavy downpours coming through here and widespread flooding certainly on the flooding on the cards too for a good parts of q wait you can see this long line of cloud spilling out so iraq into western iran getting right down across the north of saudi arabia sinking its way further southwards in the swiss just around the gulf there will be further heavy downpours again with some flooding slot its way down to us here in qatar as we go on through sunday with the possibility of shops i was by monday. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. born in palestine under british rule educated in america. a controversial professor in

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take a look at the top stories here on the al-jazeera news out his foreign minister says it's unacceptable that the us president is turning a blind eye to the killing of jamal khashoggi met with speaking of the donald trump again backed the saudi crown prince has been accused of ordering the murder. pakistan's prime minister has ordered an inquiry into an attack at the chinese consulate in karachi that killed two police officers a separatist group called the baluchistan liberation army has claimed responsibility. for the militia leader in the central african republic is appearing at the international criminal court in the hague where he faces war crimes charges alfred jacket almost unknown as rambo was

a senior leader within the mostly christian anti baloch and movements. a news just coming in now from afghanistan where at least ten people have been killed in a bomb attack it happened in khost city at least twenty others were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque inside a military base more on that of course as soon as we get it. the president has threatened to close the border with mexico that his administration decides its neighbor has lost control of its side thousands of asylum seekers from central america apparently gathering in the mexican border city of hoping to get into the united states john holmes reports from there. the day starts with the battle to keep clean but it's hard when you're sleeping rough with five thousand three hundred other people got to try and get washed because it feels weird being dirty all the time. easier said than done in the sports complex hardly turned into

account privacy doesn't exist or even shelter to some of the rainy season is just beginning and those who went up with that i'm going to have you know last night it was tough my blankets got wet so we had to go and stand where there's a roof and we didn't sleep all night. it's going to be that way for some time for this caravan of central americans they've got to teach right up against the u.s. border but now they stuck nowhere to go and nothing to do. some brush up on the scales others practice their poker faces or explore the small playground for the umpteenth time. the clothes washing areas busy series of phone charging station at fifty cents a go. in a passes the time with the daily concert for anyone who cares to listen to them and

that it will be them also it's a way to forget the bad moments that we've gone through with all been suffering so it's a way to forget that stress. they were accused of the country laid on by the mexican navy and the buses going to a newly arranged job fair but the semblance of order can't last. this makeshift camp is almost full but you can see people are still arriving day me here saying there's going to be no space for anyone more. authorities say the city can't deal with the influx any longer some townspeople believe the newcomers bring only crime and problems. others do what they can to help get ok with them so you know i don't think we should lose our humanity at the end of the day where city of migrants and mexicans have had to cross as well into the us. that's what everyone here wants to get to the other side instead they're setting up for the long haul just a stone's throw away john home and how does it take one of the u.n.

special envoy to yemen has arrived in the contested port city of her data after holding talks with his rebels in the capital sanaa pro-government forces that backed by the saudi amorality coalition have been trying to seize the data from the rebels for months now as mohammed added reports from neighboring from nearby djibouti massing graph it says both sides have pledged to attend peace talks in sweden next month. un special envoy martin griffiths his efforts to launch peace talks collapsed last september now he's back in yemen trying to get a farm commitment from the warring parties to a cease fire and a new round of talks is an opportunity to try and build trust ahead of peace talks and sweet as we know we when you have peace talks you need to speak to the various people back channels up lines of communication to build up trust ahead of almost talks to try and make sure that people will attend but then they also listen

to what the other side has to say their ongoing fighting in the port city of what they the how about risks upsetting the special envoys efforts to bring the warring parties to the table in december. the sodium erotic coalition announced earlier this week it was holding all hostilities around what they did they said later fighting broke out again a patchwork of yemeni fighters loyal to the international legitimacy government are leading the fighting on the ground despite loud claims of progress al jazeera has just published but they have not been able to enter the city most of the fighting so far has been confined to the eastern suburbs of the city healthy fighters have fortified the city's outskirts. of taint such images captured on the fourteenth of november one day before the sodium routed coalition announced it out suspended its military operations in the city the images shoulder the coalition forces failed to

untie the data they also showed the massive fortifications and trenches created by the oldies around the city and along the roads leading to the port side light images showed the old dog must've trenches along the edges of the city as shown by these lines these pictures also show the before and after when the port was full and then off the shipping containers were moved to form part of the rebels' defenses the whole face of also booby trapped compounds and houses in the outskirts of the city this video shows a group of pro-government fighters and tearing a booby trap compound and then the massive explosion that decimates them all right we'll go live now to our correspondent mohammed atta who is in nearby mohammed samos in griffith has now arrived in his day that we understand a heavily fortified city what's the objective of his visit there.

well it is very visitor who is first of all to build trust and best probably some back channels with some of the commanders on the ground for both the whole theater and also the pro-government alliance but the overwhelming reason for his visit to the day that is to see for himself the extent of the damage caused by recent fighting have been concerns that some civilian is to lessons like medical facilities have been not only destroyed but also used as basis by the fighting parties and the particular concern about the disruption to the vital work of the al for a hospital which is about by the international red cross it has a fully fledged treatment center and a fully fledged hall at a treatment center which is really important for the thousands of people who need

the services and he's going to visit those places as well as about vital port in the day that which is a lifeline for millions of yemenis is accompanied by the u.n. humanitarian coordinator for yemen ground in his visit to the u.n. is again suggesting that it take a supervisory role of the operations of the port indeed to protect as you just pointed out the vital the critical nature of this port to the people of yemen doing do we think that that suggestion will get any more traction this time. well we're seeing more and more consensus within the international community the united nations and countries like the united states france britain and even russia now pressure on the purchase in the conflict to go back to folks because the feeling is there can be no solution to the massive humanitarian crisis in yemen as

long as the fighting continues and fighting continues in places that are so crucial to the work of aid workers who are trying to alleviate the hunger that exist in yemen so we are seeing in preparation for peace talks to be held in sweden griffis the u.n. special envoy says he is confident both parties will be talks and he has promised. unlike other times when they did not get opportunities to leave as they had claimed he is now ready to even trouble with them if need be for now mohamed thank you very much mohamed atta there live in. now one of the sticking points of the brics it plan as proposed by two reason is the role of gibraltar in the u.k.'s withdrawal from the european union and now it looks as though this problem could be ironed out

gibraltar is a british territory but spain lays claim to it and was unhappy with its status under this draft divorce proposal gibraltar's chief minister has told british media that they are working with spain to reach an agreement well earlier spain's prime minister had threatened to vote against the draft deal better sanchez tweeted after my conversation with a reason may oppositions remain far away my government will always defend the interests of spain if there are no changes we will veto breck's it were better sanchez is concerned about the future of this disputed british overseas territory the small outcroppings also known as the rock has been held by the united kingdom since seventeen thirteen spain has long laid claim to it wrangling between britain and spain over gibraltar must be settled before leaders meet on sunday to sign this deal despite that and other hurdles to resume a told parliament

a final agreement is within their grasp barca reports this week i would like to update the house on our negotiations to leave the european union a crucial step forward in britain's brics a journey we have an agreed text between the u.k. and the european commission the negotiations are now at a critical moment and all our efforts must be focused on working with our european partners to bring this process to a final conclusion in the interests of all our people. a draft political declarations now in place determining the future political relationship between the e.u. and he. with a twenty six page document was attacked by politicians the crossing some of the government's earlier red lines and failing to provide many details this empty document could have been written two years ago it's happened with phrases such as the parties will look at the parties we'll explore watch on earth as the government been doing for the last two years. the paper makes no mention of frictionless trade

between the e.u. and u.k. scene is vital for the health of the british economy. the e.u. and u.k. will be regarded as two separate markets making hard barry is almost inevitable. it has big implications here on the border between northern ireland a part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland and a you member the u.k. says it's now pursuing a high tech solution to keep goods and people moving. the draft plan also says both sides and to provide a visa free travel only for short term visits longer trips may now require visas. in addition the document leaves room for an extension of the two year transition period after breaks it aimed at easing britain's departure but it also means the u.k. will be subject to european rules for longer without any e.u. voting rights the plans will now be decided on a political level by e.u.

leaders to brussels on sunday it's been an extremely busy few days for the british prime minister she has been successfully able to hammer out draft proposals on firstly the withdrawal agreement and now a declaration of a future political relationship between the e.u. and the u.k. but history's amaze big breaks it plans head to brussels she knows that those plans could flounder at any stage either voted down by the e.u. or voted down here in parliament and i commend the states next. the park westminster. guinea unpaid wages and election results of now led to. protests government leaders in the capital conakry of all that the. us hawke reports. discontent is spreading teachers left their classrooms swapping pens and paper for rocks and sticks protesting for better pay the join a growing wave of discontent against president alpha condé and his government civil

servants want their unpaid wages trade unionist wanted to oil price hikes and the opposition want the killing of protesters to stop it here in the shell but if the army has been deployed against the people the military are heavily armed this is in violation of our rights and the constitution. and overwhelm the police now patrol with an elite army battalion turning the capital into battlefield human rights groups accuse the president of using the military to fire live bullets at the people it's meant to defend hundreds have been injured and twenty killed including members of the security forces we're calling for is. to ensure that this stops there should be no more death in the context of demonstrations in guinea and there are a number of ways. this can be done one is ensuring that the members of the security forces whether use excessive force are held to account that they are taken to

brought to justice bishan me also a clear message from the your thirty's but also from the political parties that are violence should not be used during demonstrations including demonstrations of the imposition of the or the ruling party i mean they should be very clear that they're right that he's protected is the right to peaceful demonstration. protests began in february over a contested local election and quickly spread the government accuse the opposition of using guerrilla tactics running street battles with armed men pitted against the security forces despite a ban on marches protests continue. they are trying to take part of the population hostage by militarizing the streets and they give the excuse that this is to maintain law and order to has been in power since two thousand and ten opponents fear he wants to change the constitution in seek another mandate with

elections scheduled for twenty twenty and growing popular resentment these protests may be just a glimpse of what lies ahead nicholas hawke al-jazeera elect.