in the country the last batch only gets to kinshasa on saturday the president of the electoral commission has said that the delay is mainly because of a crisis in kinshasa after a warehouse where the city's voting machines were stored was burnt down security and any boiler outbreak in the east have also been mentioned and some people are angry about this decision. our pain and suffering on president kabila and the senate president we are ready to be killed for our country this man who outside the commission's office is saying. send his executive board had held in margins the meetings with presidential candidates the catholic church and government officials to explain why it's impossible to go to the polls on sunday three main candidates a man will show diary of the ruling party felix just a caddy leader of the country's largest opposition party as well as martin for you the kind of a quality called did not show up we are telling him he has to he has to be told

if both he and the mr they have to be removed from the actual position because the people of poland are fed up that they cannot have an excuse to forestall the election for sure we're going to prove that we will not do this because this is kind of you know. a way of you know all of the respecting people. on wednesday the governor of conciousness suspended all political rallies in the city for security reasons this campaign period has been chaotic and violent delaying the election only adds the tension and sat in thousand the country catching story out is iraq kinshasa. eight people have died as protests grow against rising food and fuel prices and saddam there's

a state of emergency in place in the city is about to get our f demonstrations spread to the capital khartoum on thursday where police fired tear gas at hundreds of demonstrations near the presidential palace protesters are angry about inflation now at nearly seventy percent that's one of the world's highest the sudanese economy has struggled since the independence of south sudan and twenty eleven when it lost the majority of its oil output thirteen miners have died in a methane explosion at a coal mine in the czech republic the blast happened about eight hundred meters under the ground in the city of kabul near the polish border eleven of the dead miners are polish and to check the site is operated by the station and mining company. where the next but still ahead on al-jazeera some relief is stranded travelers that britain has taken the biggest airport after it cancelled flights because of drone sightings plus another setback for central american asylum seekers hoping to seek refuge in the united states.

from brisk listen. to the tranquil waters of southeast asia. mode weather is now breaking through i'm working its way across europe if we look at the satellite picture we can see this huge band of cloud here that's the leading edge of that mild air and it's all tumbling its way eastwards so the temperatures will be rising for many of us over the next few days but we're also going to see things tomorrow the weights and roll the windy say for paris will be up around fourteen london at thirty and the belin will be up and knowing and then the mall day sweeps its way east with the saturday so we'll see more of that mall where working its way across warsaw even the leading edge would set increasingly wintery as it hits the cold air that's in place over the eastern parts of europe the further west and the snow that we see here will be tending rather

quickly to rain further south largely fine and dry for many of us here fifteen degrees is the maximum temperature in rome well sunshine force in madrid for temperatures up at around twelve for the other side of the mediterranean we've got a good deal of cloud with us at the moment of the clouds giving us one or two outbreaks of rain but most of that is really quite light a few spits and spots of rain are likely as we head through friday and into saturday but nothing too significant i mean further towards the south of for many of us over the central belt of africa it's fine and dry is just in the fall some parts of arm up here we've got a few show of some of which could be heavy. the weather sponsored by cats own race . a policy imposed decades ago pregnant woman part but she put philip to be goods and while many boys changing demographics across asia with far reaching consequences are creating a pool of socially disadvantaged young men so you have the system where people at

every level will be get being given money money to agree distro zation our money to get other people to agree to certain social outings their examines the politics of population control. welcome back i'm just. a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. defense secretary james mattis is quitting this is the latest high profile resignation in the trump administration it comes a day after the president announced that all u.s. troops will be leaving syria. and there are reports that trump has also ordered the withdrawal of up to seven thousand u.s. troops from afghanistan that would leave only about one thousand five hundred american soldiers in the country. people have been protesting in the democratic

republic of congo after voting was delayed by a week the election will now take place on december thirtieth the electoral commission says the violence and the just call issues forced the postponement. tensions are once again running high in spain between barcelona and the central government a year off to snap regional elections pro castle and independence activists are holding protests in barcelona they coincide with prime minister pedro sanchez holding his cabinet meeting in the city sonia diego joins us live from boston or sonia tell us why this protest is happening. when this does if you want to any proof that tensions still continue to simmer here in catalonia fourteen months off to the attempt to see to that today of all days with that cabinet meeting taking place certainly. face security in the

capital of the region is high with nine thousand national and regional police deployed to try and prevent the testers from getting close to the location of where the cabinet meeting is taking place but in a sense the government has tried to use this meeting will certainly spawn it as a way the prime minister the spanish prime minister that are such as. put it as a kind of a gesture of warm society as he called it that sentiment could not have been the sieges further from the protest groups with the committees for the defense the public has that called. direct action groups direct from the grassroots they are against that idea they say that it's a provocation and that all this is done is to inflame that and is a subtle form of base say the spanish government trying to impose its own rule on the autonomous region so quite

a lot of anger flared up there occupations of roads of attempts to be taken place as well but security forces have also shut down the entire area in order to prevent this trouble breaking out anywhere near to where that cabinet meeting is taking place on your is it likely that the spanish prime minister will actually be able to resolve the issue of. the prime minister has really stuck between a rock and a hard place he took over as leader of the government after the fall after there was a vote of no confidence in the previous prime minister might end up with our hoyt since that time he has taken a different approach from what's the right wing government that had taken which was to be very hardline he has tried to open it up a bit try to create a sort of atmosphere of dialogue something which has also been equally received by the. leader of the government voted out here as well that you have been anxious to see how they can try and find

a way but with tensions flaring on both sides of the political pressures that mr assad sure there's also facing in the coming year with the elections coming up in may local elections he really does face difficulties with his own party as well as the castle and. defend this is well of parliament. going live for us there from boston thanks very much sonya. well some flights have resumed at the u.k. second biggest airport after drones brought it to a standstill on thursday british troops have been sent to gatwick airport south of london as police continue to hunt for the operation of two drones the devices repaired nearby everytime the airport tried to reopen its runway nieve barker joins me live now from gatwick airport neve what's the situation like there now are pains actually being allowed to take off very tentatively indeed after thirty six hours of misery and chaos for travelers many of whom were stranded

inside the terminal a limited number of flights are being allowed to take off and land i've just been inside the terminal building into the arrivals area it is a ghost town hardly any people at all but if you go into the departure area particularly where people trying to check in there are vast queues of people as tries of course to clear the backlog of many tens of thousands of people that were stranded here overnight why is there for reopening well according to sussex police who have been at the center of this inquiry they believe that the help of they've received from the military mitigates the effects of any drones in the area still big questions though about who the perpetrators are no indication of whether or not they've identified anyone or indeed whether or not their way of even captured a drone there are apparently according to police several lines of inquiry they say that they have their best people on the job one suggestion is that it's environmentalist's maybe being investigated we know that there have been some

strong campaigns against the possible expansion of get we cap or but it is according to the police early days and what consequences could be in store for these drone operators if if they are taken into custody at some point. well in other british law flying drones illegally particularly close to sensitive sites like airports does could be punished with a maximum sentence of five years in prison the british prime minister to resign may speaking on thursday indicated that the maximum law all legal possibilities would be exhausted in bringing these people individuals to justice no indication yet as i said as to who they are but suburbia very serious questions are already being asked about standards of safety not only here when it comes to british airports when international airports as well a tremendous amount needs to be learned very very quickly says the chief operating

officer of gatwick airport there have been concerns raised over a very long period of time by people within the aviation industry that more needs to be done to protect protect the perimeters more needs to be done in terms of investment so most certainly there will be an awful lot of planning. that will only come about as a result of what's happened here over the past thirty six hours new farkas speaking to us there live from gatwick airport thanks very much neal. the lower house of the u.s. congress has approved a spending bill with more than five billion dollars for president transport post war along the border with mexico it now needs at least sixty votes in the senate to pass a temporary funding bill must be approved and signed by midnight on friday to avoid a government shutdown. the trump administration has also announced that migrants seeking asylum along the southwest border will no longer be released into the u.s. while their cases are pending the change means they'll be forced to wait in mexico

by their asylum requests are processed the mexican foreign ministry has agreed to accept them but says it still has the right to deny entry to non mexicans human rights groups have condemned the decision john homan has more from mexico city. this is really quite a big change in quite a big win also for president trump and the u.s. administration this is what happens now a lot of people from central american countries like honduras and guatemala el salvador even fleeing violence or poverty cross mexico and then cross over the mexico u.s. border illegally into the united states once they're in the u.s. they then asked the first floor and offered. an order and officer that they can find poor asylum in the united states now while that case is being processed they are reaver in detention centers all living in the united states they stay in the country that process can take months or even years because the u.s.

court system is so backed up with those cases now that's obviously not a good look for a hardline anti migration administration you've got thousands of people living in the country while they wait for their case to be processed so that now it is going to change next pope has accepted that while those cases being processed processed those people can be brought back across and even though they're not from mexico they can be placed in mexico now what difficulties is that going to make and what problems well the mexico u.s. border area specially on the mexican side of the obviously has a lot of problems with violence with cartels and with gangs and they've already for years been praying all migrants now dumping a lot of those people on the mexican. side of the border is only going to give them fresh opportunities for people to even exist or even as we've heard of cases in which people are pressed into service for organized crime that's one of the

problems another one is the mexico obviously isn't a wealthy country in comparison to the united states it also hasn't really put a lot of resume into its mechanisms and its agency to deal with refugees into situations like this so the new administration on the president lopez obrador is going to really have to address that and mexico is going to deal with this vulnerable and often penniless new population. police in japan have reportedly raided the home of nissen's ousted chairman after prosecutors filed a new charge against him carlos cohen is accused of breach of trust on top of allegations that he understated his salary over a five year period he's been in detention since november on thursday a court rejected a request to keep him behind bars during the investigation but the new charge could reduce his chance of being given bail. the same rates what's with just

some of the ones famous ski resorts less well known is suffolk darra it's the only resort into just on where a new generation of local ski is dreaming of sporting glory charles stratford got his winter while he's out to take a look at least fifty percent of the stone is over three thousand metres above sea level it's one of the most mountainous countries in the world mountain ranges that defy national borders include the premier's which stretch into northern afghanistan . and the cheer which reach into kazakstan was becky stone kyllikki stahmann china but as you can stand has only one ski resort soffit is about seventy kilometers north of the times you capital to shop. it was built during the soviet era but has been renovated and expanded in recent years after the first big snow fall of two thousand and eighteen olympic slalom skia aleesha could also has

a lesson to give he represented tajikistan in the two thousand and fourteen olympics held in sochi russia. whenever i'm teaching the kids i feel great because this is my sport i teach them from the bottom of my heart because these kids will become flag bearers of digic and then. alisa teaches these children for free the kids come from poor families who can't afford the latest warm clothing but that doesn't in any way dampen the children's enthusiasm. i have been skiing for one year i want to ski in other countries i want to be the best at the sport there may be only a couple of runs on these mountain slopes but they are enough to challenge these young learners and some who are considerably older now i haven't skied for twenty five years but i cannot tell you how much of a pleasure it is to be skiing again for the first time and especially here in tajikistan.

back at the ski school children are preparing for another lesson eighteen year old metal bar helps them tighten their boots and ski bindings. from early childhood i had a dream to ski and so now my dream is come true because for six years i've practicing i've always wanted to represent my country and of course get the first prize. despite the uphill struggle of living in one of the poorest countries in asia these children have the infusion asm and potential talent for being down hill champions one and all. that al-jazeera suffer darryl tajikistan. i'm the star and these are the top stories u.s. defense secretary james mattis is quitting this is the latest high profile

resignation in the trump administration it comes one day after the president announced that all u.s. troops will be leaving syria and there are reports that trump has also ordered the withdrawal of up to seven thousand u.s. troops from afghanistan that would leave only about one thousand five hundred american soldiers a spokesman for afghanistan's president says the withdrawal won't affect security in the country people have been protesting in the democratic republic of congo after voting was delayed by a week the election will now take place on december thirtieth the electoral commission says the violence and logistical issues forced the perspiration and. people have died as protests grow against food and fuel prices in sudan there's a state of emergency in place in the cities of at bar and direct demonstrations spread to the capital khartoum on thursday where police fired tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators near the presidential palace protesters are angry about inflation

now at nearly seventy percent that's one of the world's highest tensions are once again running high in spain between barcelona and the central government a year after a snap regional elections pro castle and independence activists are holding protests in barcelona there to coincide with prime minister pedro sanchez holding his cabinet meeting in the city some flights have resumed at the u.k. second biggest airport after drones brought it to a standstill on thursday british troops were sent to gatwick airport south of london as police continue to hunt for the operation to drones the devices reappeared nearby everytime the airport trying to reopen its runway more than one hundred thousand passengers have been stranded. police in japan have reportedly raided the home of innocence ousted chairman after prosecutors filed a new charge against him carlos ghosn is accused of breach of trust on top of allegations that he overstated understated his salary over

a five year period he has been in detention since november on thursday a court rejected a request to keep him behind bars those are the headlines join me for more news here after the street. every week you sign brings a series of breaking stories joined the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the marks on al-jazeera. how come poetry make an impact in an ever more uncertain world well today on the street we'll hear from three of what muslim writers whose work is really big or a take of the art form i'm femi oke. send your questions and your comments via twitter and as always on the you tube for this.

in the u.s. interest in poetry is reaching new heights with a number of people here reading poaching almost doubling over the last five years the national endowment for the arts says the biggest increase in poetry readership is among young nonwhite people between eighteen and twenty four and young black muslims are in the vanguard of those presenting compelling poetry to new audiences here in the u.s. today we're joined by three poets who are boosting the profile of the art form tarik touré is a west baltimore born writer whose work examines social justice arts and culture black muslim experiences his latest book he happens to have just right in front of him is called two parts oxygen and it examines faith family and fatherhood. city of this year is a two time youth poetry grand slam champion and her most recent book seven surveys the challenges that society places and black muslim women and offers a spirited message on how to overcome adversity and how my tool is twenty seventeen

baltimore city youth poet laureate he starts with invisible cage listen to my heart go. me to do day to do day to do day do do day. capitalism wants to put an end that there is god and me because to them god is wealth but god himself and never been dollar bill green i've seen politicians baptize them false dreams but i've been graced with psyching enough to see past the facade and recognize god that's because i've been graced with the spirit of fidel ready to castrate madero with the castro falsetto waging war against minimum wage with the rage of faith in him a koofi witness in the bloody aftermath capitalism leaves behind when the left behind the machine says you're fine then it takes your struggle and the trust to

refine like sugar it's a domino effect god bless how we resurrect then take our bones and add to the shrine how divine death must be that's what the poor man who used to be the floor man before he was a four man before blacks were whole man he knew he was the whole man he needs somebody to hold man they held him down the whole main square cops never cared so today he got to hold hands and pre say verify in saddam's mom in the qur'an for me some say dying while fight instead been on the to me but them people are really down for the cause because if they could they put me down for the cause just because then they were asked now come how come and he will say with a grin like martin muhammad should have known that the marksman already mocked him men who speak against the invisible cage are marked men the invisible hand of karl marx with marks around his neck

a stick ca to flush fills cotton pills are still filled with. how does one make me pick enormous fear might have caught ken if i never caught on to the post of the gold coast. removing the tumor your brain centric countries attempted to make black men their own prison for profit now all the profits in prison mandela's medallion keeps must live in even though they chop and next march so i'll make sure that i'm always best the cornell west key came from the west livin in the west sin must come but the government tell them that are meant to tell them that are meant to this poem right here with me to dismantle the invisible cage you're watching poetry on the stream in our community is feeling get a lot here says mohammed tall who you just saw perform is a lyrical prodigy that's what it delivery and performances of always wild me very

proud of him in his achievements being poet laureate of baltimore and all another person writes and this is a need she says i became extremely infatuated with mohammad's poetry when i was first introduced to slam poetry particularly his wordplay and use of rhyme and cadence it's safe to say he has influenced my poetry style and many different ways throughout the last couple of years. you were at a point where you are influencing younger poets out there but i want to talk about how you got started because i know there was a point in your life where you were told you weren't good enough to be a poet. a high school. and basically they think i have to compete for a spoken word in a specific competition. a year later i transfer schools. and we had a theater arts class in the draw for that day was to tell a story and it didn't matter which medium we chose we just had to tell the story

and i remember a year ago i would have pong and i said let me i was comfortable in the class everybody loved me i was i want to share this poem with your and when i shared everybody went crazy well. this is one crazy guy gal but i was like oh yoda that's hot like. it was it was a very like diverse group of young people. and then it just took off from there my mentor at the time jake mayberry he he heard about my performance and he came in met with me after class and he said i want you to come to our poetry club on thursday and so when i went to the poetry club i perform the same paul he was like congratulations you on the baltimore city told you to do and a year ago if you was telling me you need to join this team you need to sign no you have what it takes and i was like no i don't think i have what it takes so as soon as we left the room i ran to the bathroom of course if. you're the one who threw you for what you think. oh my laptop i got

a picture from your twitter profile picture and i am wondering whether are you born a poet does that poetry comic in you when you with that little i mean here done. when you already a poet i think so i think a lot of what you see just like my development created the poetry a lot of the poetry that i speak on especially in the new book that i just published of and it has a lot to do with my development growing up and the things that i saw as a child both tom and triumphs so i think those are really the foundational moments to create the poet that is here today. so we are getting a few questions online there's a lot of love for all of you over. just say put that out there but there are a few questions in how one even gets started so i'll give this one to you tariq yves writes into the stream how old were you when you started writing and performing and was it difficult for you to find poets you felt that you could identify with. daughter writing when i was about seven but i didn't perform an

actual poem until i was a freshman in college and i basically was richard in my freshman year from football and i mean just have nothing to do basically it was just like. they had a black history month program and i ended up being asked to do something because people knew that i wrote and like mohammed said like you've done reading it and then like is a pause and then i people saw going crazy and i was like. ok i guess this is the thing though so i started publicly sharing my so. i think that for me it was people like. who's a great poet i just came across one of his videos and then i saw watching more like def poetry stuff and i was like i think might want to do that i was interested when i learned how to actually write and participate in the art form it kind of just took off from there so do you when did you know that you were good when did i know that i was good. maybe. i didn't. i for me

it was a situation where nothing i would qualifies as good but it was a situation where i had dealt with. i had to look like a lie in like trying to get into poetry and tried out for like different things and i didn't make it and then i went up to somewhere at that time i was living in prince george's county alone i was like you want to go where baltimore like that so far and sort of i just really want to do this moment just really want to try to do we just do this so just now we have to baltimore and i prefer it and like i said there's a moment where everyone fallow it just take a moment and then. no one even said anything the coach. kind of morris said he would like called my mom says that he was like listen i understand that you all the very thought but we need her. and for me that was like wow because i had dealt with like so much rejection like in the process and stuff

like that that i was just like oh. dear we're not going to make people wait anymore to see you perform live so i know you're going to get ready while many could does this no more rejection there sosa deal now perform for lay on a message to her niece about the strength and lineage in her skin color and while she gets ready to listen to the nasa taylor at philadelphia writer who explains why suzy as work is so important to her people often forget how influential black muslims have been times. when the. black arts but often we do talk about black muslims we only focus on the men so they do use work because she's a black muslim actively transcribing her own history and that kind of follows the footsteps of black woman it's what came before so to say you could also write about fighting so and that is something that i see greatly reflected in cities book seven . for one my niece grows up with too

much backbone for men to kneel before huss ten and a tongue as sharp as fire and she asked me to unsee what do you do with skin next screams however i will tell her right because i could be well too ignorant to tell you not to system us soldier safe in the melanin in your skin for ink so join your truth but know that they will come for you even when your supro to buy a stead to send for them and their privilege what try to take all the letters up your page to write their legacy and once there is no more ink their privilege will say well i don't see color so i asked god to make you will end for when you are broken and bloody from them you can rewrite your legacy by tenderly caressing just because. there's an angel in you and god sends you a book that rhymes so that you could define the divine in you name one of our

prophets who was a poet who song was more of sons to shine for you and she would ask me what kind of poet she does just can love to recite and i will tell her and ensue writing poems that prove like survivors for writers never die we make heartbeats out of syllables and the next hundred out of semi-colons for when my miss grows up with too much backbone for mensa kneel before husband dad that's only as sharp as fire and she asks me. what do you do with skin that screams tether i will tell her let it be heard for your skin is the most supreme spoken word.