yeah. it's rather a shame that. k.d. . and i got pulled out of that yes you are put out at a loss for each of those sites in. lack of support or disagreements from the supporters so with the breakdown of the petition coalition and it appears you know the. wait appears the election will be smooth sailing for a couple let's see candidates. show daria if not the government the ruling coalition has gone nuts to say that's very sad for you loose the country to see these contests you know would you rather easy easy for them and ok felix to security though he is the son of a t.n.t. security and longtime opposition politician in the d r c do you think for leaks to

say katie can capitalize on his late father's popularity and support well he has a lot of support but. that's just for the support and lord by not being enough without garnering i mean the support of the opposition. parties so for him to go it alone rather you know it makes it easy for companies cut the dates in one go diary and already said but what he said he alone on his own i'm not sure we'll be able to beats without will gun in the boat votes to defeat you want to shut our reorder and decide what will be said. these elections of course are long delayed. they've been a long time coming do you think these will be free and fair elections for the d r c will they be change after this. well i'm free of. the

side of the thing i don't believe in my the completely free of fear because look. the cold police and oh i used to the old fashioned way of on the voting on over there but a box of people. preferred candidates now diff introduced the say voting machines you know in a diverse country which would be about nine percent and on. vacation right would make it difficult though the security police have said that the lights will be sold out of police stations twelve h. you know any any it's a guess of a blackout but it's not enough ok and again the critics also say that the device should do much since in or more will would make for easy vote rigging no more than the butt of papers so i'm not sure the

the elections from where i'm sitting on a show is going to be free of fear and again. shuddery sudbury you know who has been appointed sorry to say by. kabila used to be as strong ally of god but his late father laura copula and it's become a close confidante of use of copula current president so we believe that's in india vents off his election in a will be department must and are pretty districts from behind the scenes so we do see nothing much changing after the elections in zero on october twenty third thank you so much for speaking to us and giving us your thoughts on this jonathan a fancy joining us from london. as saying with the democratic republic of congo a newborn babies in the country are now being infected with the border virus according to the world health organization the u.n. health agency says seven newborn baby. among thirty six new cases of the outbreak

babies don't usually catch the disease but experts suspect they may have caught it from infected parents the break in the d.r. c. is the worst in its history with three hundred forty six confirmed cases including one hundred seventy five deaths. there's plenty more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including. so a sad attack us talk at china's consulate in karachi pakistan plus the u.n. envoy to yemen returns from the portsea for date as he makes a fresh push for peace talks and book a journey as fans pack into the stadium in bias eyes just to watch a training session at saturday's big final against river pates more on that coming up in sports a tale of the. first a politician and former militia leader accused of war crimes in central african republic has appeared at the international criminal court in the hague. also known

as a rumble was a senior leader within the mostly christian movement and fighters attacks muslim seleka rebels who sees power in twenty thirteen tom is accused of killing civilians rape and recruiting child soldiers where we challenge reports from the hague. well alfred soames first appearance at the international criminal court in the i was short some procedural just thirty minutes or so long the three judges confirms the suspects identity they also establish the language in which he is to understand proceedings as they own fault and state outlines the charges against him he specifically accused of being involved in murder so cruel treatments mutilation intentional attacks against the civilian population intentional attacks against buildings dedicated to religion and this means of child soldiers and displacement

of the civilian population this is a step of some significance for the central african republic it's the first time that anyone involved in the recent conflict has ended up to face charges it's going to be some time before the actual trial proper gets underway the judge said that it wouldn't be until april thirtieth of two thousand and nineteen that things really will swing into full action here at the i.c.c. . failed africa analyst and author of distant just says the impact of the international criminal court on african politics he says the i.c.c. isn't actually doing a good job at brain high profile suspects suggests yet it's all me is in effect a middle ranking actor in the violence in central african republic that there's no doubt that he's charged with extremely serious crimes but but within central african republic he's not considered one of the big fish and so the suspicion

around his case is that we're seeing something that we've seen with many of the other i.c.c. cases across africa which is that the court is going off to suspects who are available rather than those who are potentially the most responsible for these crimes in fact the i.c.c. only issued an arrest warrant for you tom when he fired this rifle in the palm and he was then arrested by the car government so he was in jail and therefore he became a viable and then we saw the i.c.c. issued this arrest warrant it's not clear that the i.c.c. has been focused on him for a long time it seems like he might have turned up in the hague more by accident rather than design i.c.c. in many ways is a very weak institution it has very few resources it also has very little expect to use about the african societies where it's conducting these investigations so this means that the i.c.c. is really struggling to go are often the most important cases the the high ranking government officials the highest ranking or rebel leaders who are responsible for

atrocities instead it's having to go off to these kind of middleman activists and yack yack it's always very much in that category in pakistan gunmen trying tried to storm the chinese consulate in the city of karachi friday three attackers and at least two policemen were among those killed in the attack the separatist. has claimed responsibility the gate to be has more. this is the man who attacked the chinese consulate in karachi armed with guns they calmly walked up to a security checkpoint and opened fire police say the men threw up to ten hand grenades at the compound as they tried unsuccessfully to storm the building they were stopped by gods before they reached the consulate. two policemen who were on duty have been killed the attackers parked their car away from the consulate they were stopped from entering the building three attackers have been killed. the separatist group the just down liberation army said the three gunmen were it's

members the groups angry at the so-called china pakistan economic corridor will a sixty four billion dollars chinese investment which aims to connect the port of in southern pakistan to northwestern china railways and pipelines the development promises to bring jobs but many people in balochistan say china is exploiting pakistan's resources the chinese government says it's asked islamabad for more security. josh the chinese side strongly condemns any violent attacks targeting any diplomatic missions and requests the pakistani side takes measures to ensure the safety of chinese nationals and organizations. pakistani prime minister imran khan says the attack on the consulate was part of the conspiracy against economic cooperation between pakistan and china the foreign minister also condemned the gunman. one attack

a designated his suicide vest killing two policeman but police killed the other two attackers before they could enter the consulate premises we're glad that all the consulate staff a safe the government says chinese consulate staff have been moved to a safe location and that security forces have the area under control however there braced for more attacks from people who feel china is transforming the impoverished region but not giving them a fair share of the benefits victoria gates and be there. in a separate attack in northwest pakistan an explosion in a crowded market killed at least thirty five people including children dozens were injured in the ares chi disarray did recently major with province after decades of direct rule from islamabad no one has yet claimed responsibility for that attack has more from his. region in an area where drugs formerly known as progress down tribal areas recently merged into dawn now the big question

. rigo see if. they cross the country where they're going to go to the ford. in the southern border city of god during the trying to. liberation army but there are other third group who are general store and ward in a dug in bug just on including i. go again go for gordon runneth on and at that he get dollar bond project on the big question hadn't gone. the beginning over not a while and across the country and there's been a blast in neighboring afghanistan were at least fifteen people have been killed it happened in the city of call study least twenty others were wounded as they attended friday prayers at a mosque in a military base. the u.n. special envoy for yemen has urged all warring sides to maintain peace. the port

city is crucial for supply of aid for millions of young men on the brink of famine pro-government forces backed by the saudi u.a.e. coalition have been trying to seize her data from hoti rebels for months now. is in nearby djibouti and has more on what the u.n. special envoy visit to her data has achieved so far. u.n. special envoy martin has managed to get some form commitment from both parties in the conflict in yemen to peace talks to be held december in sweden he visited the port city of. the management. of more than seventy percent of the country's imports including aid go through the un wants some sort of supervisory role in the management of the port on the. intense pressure to hung over the management of the ports to a third party. managed to get the. agreement of the

management of the port to talks about how the u.n. can get some sort of a role in the management of the port there seems to be consensus building all around within the international community for peace talks to be hauled it's the only way it's believed that yemen kundra tongue to peace and also the humanitarian crisis in the country can be resolved these a lot of pressure on not only the fighters on the pro-government alliance but also the sodium supporting the government in yemen all the humanitarian crisis in who data is dire the u.n. humanitarian coordinator for yemen says munger especially among children is getting worse the people of today have been struck since june because of the conflict you and your teammates about thirty percent of people who are still working in the city are. barely holding on and that's why we have welcomed the pod now there have been

outbreaks of fighting and every one of those has taken a toll but for the last ten days that you ration militarily has improved dramatically we can't say the same thing in humanitarian terms twenty five percent of all of the children. are suffering from depression we are deeply worried about health conditions. people do not have the supplies that they need in order to survive and this is why the united nations is dramatically ramping up the assessment that we are providing to people in the port in the cities the united arab emirates is reviewing a request for clemency from the family of a british student jailed for life for spying. basser to the u.k. has defended the judge's decision matthew hedges was arrested at dubai airport in may while on a research ship for his university thesis says he was forced to sign a confession in arabic which he doesn't understand mr hedges family have made

a request for clemency and the government is that that request british foreign secretary jeremy hunt had a good conversation with our foreign minister i also met him yesterday privately as mr hunt say that we have an extremely close partnership with the u.k. because of the strength that relationship we are hopeful that an amicable solution can be achieved. paul brennan has more from london. the u.a.e. ambassador who's come out and first of all defended the integrity of the united arab emirates judicial system saying that that he had just was not convicted after some five minutes summary justice trial the three senior judges examined his case over the period of a month and found that the evidence against him was in the in the ambassador's words anyway compelling that said he said that under u.s. law there was the possibility of

a defendant to appeal against the sentence or be applied for clemency and it's he made it clear that the family of matthew hedges has now made that application and the government of the u.a.e. is looking at that location for clemency he didn't say which way it would go and this follows a whole flurry of diplomatic activity from the british side daniella to hard who was there when matthew hedges was sentenced to life imprisonment on weapons they met with the british foreign secretary jeremy hunt here in london on thursday came out with a far more formal reassured she seemed with the actions of the foreign secretary and the foreign secretary and self who had earlier in the day met with the. london tweeted as i follows i believe and trust the u.a.e. foreign minister that's in abu dhabi is working hard to resolve this situation a s a p and that's holly's with a statement from the foreign ministry in abu dhabi saying that they hoped an

amicable solution could be found. i said ahead on this al-jazeera news hour not a setback for sure because newly appointed prime minister. keeping a close eye from the sky donald trump's threatening diplomacy u.s. border with mexico to keep migrants out. and support the west indies and knocked out of the wild twenty twenty on home soil here i'll have details later in the program. the new norm for the middle east says sunshine and showers longer spells of right looking rather disturbed once again across much of the middle east that the cloud of rain pushing into the levant syria lebanon jordan all the way down into israel seeing some bits and pieces of rather wet weather possibility of further flooding eastern areas of iraq still seeing some heavy downpours pushing into the west of

iraq and you can follow that line of right right there way up into the western himalayas where it turns white readily to snow clearing away here as we go on through sunday more wet weather coming across eastern iraq into western iran kuwait we'll see further flooding big downpours continuing i feel a little dry and brighter just around that eastern side of the mediterranean so inevitably that cloud that we have around kuwait that will make its way to northeastern parts of saudi arabia can expect a few showers to just around the red sea sinking further south was for sunday thing here in qatar we could see somewhat weather more so sunday into monday but the cloud on the right not too far away on the other side of the gulf we will see some flooding into western parts of iran some showers too now coming back in. a little clutch of storms in place there will be some wet weather in the forecast but largely dry for south africa.

impoverished excluded and under attack roma communities are paying the price of heightened nationalism in a country at war with it so. people in power investigates the surgeon hate crimes at the hands of far right groups. ukrainian repression on i'll just zero. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after a while it borders between five safe countries facing realities the brain starts from the very beginning of the school providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story and talk to al-jazeera. welcome

back you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me for the battle for reminder of our top stories technician investigators say the murder of saudi journalist. twelve days in advance they're analyzing phone calls made between the saudi consul general in istanbul leading member of the hit squad and a top aide to saudi arabia's crown prince a third voice can be heard on one of the calls and they're yet to identify it's. a new alliance has been formed in the raised to replace president joseph kabila in the democratic republic of congo two leading candidates have agreed to put forward

fairly. she said katie from the p.d.s. party and pakistan's prime minister has ordered an inquiry into an attack at the chinese consulate in karachi seven people were killed including two police officers and three gunmen a separatist group the baluchistan liberation army has claimed responsibility. now three jailed saudi activists have been awarded the right livelihood award also known as the out turn to nobel in absentia in stockholm sweden. a tiny and what leads higher all serving prison sentences in saudi arabia for their work campaigning for democratic reforms in the kingdom they also fought for civil and political rights particularly for women the murdered saudi journalism on her show jihad said he would defend the trio through his journalism after he left in two thousand and seventeen to live in exile in the us the committee behind the right now would award are appealing for the three men to be freed and say saudi

arabia must stop harassing and killing those who fight for democracy all joining us now is johann a small skin who's the director of communications at the right livelihood award foundation is via skype from the award ceremony in stockholm thank you so much for being with us so why did your organization choose to honor these three saudi human rights defendants what is your message. well thank you so much for having me. well first of all what's special about our award is that anyone in the world can nominate candidates and we received a very interesting nomination. around these three prominent gay rights activists defenders in saudi arabia and we of course want to send a message that it's high time for saudi arabia. to choose a different path which is respect in reforms and human rights

you were going to zation is appealing for their release but don't you worry that process sentences could be handed down to the recipients of this award. well you know it's difficult not to be worth it when you see what's happening both inside salary of the r. and outside. this is so on everyone's lips these days or the horrible killing of subtlety for example. but at the same time. on three laureates they have really chosen to be outspoken even during the trial as they used to do to send their messages out and and we believe and we hope that it's giving them this award will give them just another platform and put the highlight on this the situation they are facing personally but also the overall situation for human rights women rights when ne and so on in saudi arabia you mentioned the saudi jen nestle a scaled inside the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey has been very critical of

the international response to his killing saying that not enough he's done what action would you like to see from the international community to denounce human rights violations by saudi arabia. yeah i mean this is a it's a bigger picture doesn't read only relate to this horrible killing but it's for the lasts six seven indicates where leaders elected in democratic countries have chosen to side with a totalitarian regime instead of those who are calling for a peaceful reforms from within and it's really a fine time to be. in a democratic country like sweden than in elsewhere choose to side with those who are actually fighting for justice son equality instead of of the author terry.

thank you so much for speaking to us your highness mosque and from the right livelihood award foundation joining us there from stockholm thank you for your time we appreciate it thank you so much. in sri lanka members of parliament supporting the disputed prime minister mind the rajapaksa have walked out of parliament for the second time this week they accuse a speaker of favoritism punches were thrown last week when m.p.'s passed a no confidence motion against mahinda rajapaksa both he and ronnie become a singer who was such by the president last month say they are the no for prime minister and now for nanda as has more from colombo for. another day and another route here in sri lanka is parliament this time for a committee a sort of an umbrella committee which oversees and does all the appointments for all the committees to select committees here in sri lanka is parliament both sides back to prime minister minded rajapaksa and ousted prime minister brown and become a senior wanted to control that committee of selections now the speaker just outset

of the parliament sitting this morning said that he was a locating five seats to the rajapaksa faction and seven obviously to the ousted prime minister the rajapaksa faction rejected that allocation the accusers speak will be biased and partial and then they staged a walkout of the chamber the speaker continued the proceedings had called for all basically what was different in recent days there was an electronic vote and the results of that in the county bought the house of prime minister garnered hundred and twenty one of the two hundred twenty five votes their vote showing his majority it was symbolic in that the consumer was able to demonstrate basically the support he has in the house as you can see the business of parliament on the floor of the house progressing and it's basically a matter of who accepts these proceedings as being the official proceedings of the

house. thousands of people in bahrain are illegible to vote in parliamentary elections on saturday but he say the vote will be anything but free and fair after the government banned all opposition. has more. parliamentary elections are held him back reign every four years but in two thousand and fourteen international observers were banned and they won't be allowed in this year either the former british colony is ruled by a sunni monarchy over a majority shia population this imbalance has caused tensions in the past in two thousand and eleven she has protested demanding greater rights but any opposition was quickly crushed by the government which was backed by tanks from the bring saudi arabia bahrain's assembly consists of an upper house appointed directly by king hamad bin. called the shura council and an elected council of representatives

the main lawmaking body each with forty seats but critics say this lower house has no real authority this simply sherman actions they mean nothing but they mean an empowerment for the dictatorship. to give their own of the parliament following their performance within the last year and this is the body which has authorized military course to try civilians almost three hundred sixty six thousand citizens have been declared eligible to vote but not everyone is eligible to run for the election shake man is one of the most well known opposition figures but he's been sentenced to life in prison and his political party the largest shia party has been banned human rights watch says this is not unusual they have seen in the years preceding two thousand and eleven the government has taken steps to completely stamp out the opposition to detain and torture dissidents they have

banned all opposition political parties and even all independent media. behind it is a long standing ally of the united states and hosts the u.s. fifth fleet but lawmakers in the u.s. united kingdom and europe have declared that these elections lacked legitimacy while local parish to go to the polls the elections already created divisions between the ruling royal family and the shia population and the lack of transparency and inclusiveness is likely to widen that gap further. al-jazeera spain is warning it will veto the u.k.'s departure from the european union if it doesn't agree with how it effects gibraltar gibraltar has been a british territory for more than three hundred years since it was captured from spain during a war by the spanish government still lays claim to a ten prime minister petro sanches a spain must support any divorce deal between the european union and britain

because of its impact on the territory. flash floods have killed at least seven people including four children in northern iraq the mayor of a ship conses affronts by unusually heavy and early brains have left three thousand people homeless more rain is expected in the region in the coming days strong winds are fanning bushfires on the east coast of australia some homeowners have been advised to move to safety flights were canceled at sydney and melbourne airports stranding thousands of airline passengers now the united nations says levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached record levels the u.n. is trying to pressure governments to the government before next month's climate summit in poland the aim is to name it global warming to less than two degrees celsius the amount agreed by the paris climate accord three years ago. present donald trump to close a u.s. border with mexico if he decides the mexicans have lost control of migrants helping

to cross into california thousands of asylum seekers on the border city of having walked all the way from honduras and other countries in central america john heilemann re for some to. the day starts with the battle to keep clean 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 give 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 curve and of central americans they've got to teach right up against

the us buddha but now they stuck no way to go and nothing to do. some brush up on the football skills others practice their poker faces or explore the small playground for the umpteenth time. the clothes washing area is busy so is the phone charging station at fifty cents a go. in a pass is 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 queues for the country laid on by the minutes can they be 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 daily here saying there's going to be no space for anyone more. authorities say the city can't deal

with the influx any longer sometimes people believe the newcomers bring only crime and problems. others do what they can to help it 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 holdren now does it or to one up the reimposition of u.s. sanctions on the rainy and oil exports are threatening various parts of iranian society but one business sector in particular believes it's virtually sanction proof. has a story. the.