saying look we mean business literally we mean business we want to change we want to regain the confidence and. credibility in the international community especially among the international business community and since our stuff was a sort of a star if you will in davos the world economic summits in previous years and he certainly was the man in various in preparation for saudi arabia's role in the g. twenty i think they are regime of riyadh reckons that he is the man for the new challenge which is bring back the business and investments in a saudi arabia is going to make all sorts of changes in order not to make that one needed essential change which is mohamed missile none and since mr mann is the one who is making the changes since he is the de facto ruler apparently in

saudi arabia not his father certainly he wasn't about to change himself and this region in the middle east region the arab world is in such deep trouble is in such blunder that it seems more and more of that you know what's happening in saudi arabia is relatively more of the same that we see in egypt in iraq in syria in sudan in other places so you know welcome to the club as it were. well still ahead here on out is there a desperate search for miners trapped underground for needed to weeks in india's northeast that story on the other side of the break. how i once again welcome to another look at the international full cost we've got flooding concerns into the philippines can't see that tropical depression which is

making its way in across central and southern parts of the country already seen round ninety millimeters of fright here inside in the space of just twenty four hours further spells a very heavy right as we go on through sas day the wait is not really too much of a problem but that wet weather will continue to drive big downpours in across the country over the next twenty four to thirty six as dancing to ten little tries to go on into sunday the heaviest shall as the system makes its way into the south china seas there's a rash was there into good parts of southeast asia a little try and notice just around job and also into southern parts of smarts a lot of dry across australia but we have got this chain of storms across the finals of the country particularly up towards the cape york peninsula that's was the south where we will see temperatures starting to ease across south australia over the next very hot weather that we've seen across a good part of the country will continue for the southeast sydney thirty four degrees light winds here twenty four celsius for melbourne colder weather starts to

push his way in as we go through sas day into sunday and as you can see ten in cola for adelaide this weekend. the marshall islands holds a toxic legacy from years of u.s. military nuclear testing. as the sea levels rise one on one east investigates the threat this followed posers on al-jazeera. a controversial politician elected to the highest office in latin america's biggest country. brazil is about to inaugurate its new president. joins us live from the capital brasilia on inauguration day.

welcome back to watching all deserves a whole rub a reminder of our top stories the syrian kurdish white b.g. has asked for bashar al assad's government forces to take control of the strategic town of monday turkey has been amassing forces near its southern border and the white peachy fears that turkish attacks following the u.s. decision to withdraw troops from the area. the main opposition in the democratic republic of congo is appealing for calm so sunday's presidential election can go ahead voting is being proposed for three months in some opposition areas where riot police force with protesters angry at being excluded. by it is a nigeria of a time two military bases and their fight for control of. intense fighting in the fishing town of baghdad falls nigerian army soldiers try to treat large amounts of weapons or stolen. places have arrested at least loyal opposition

leaders and activists more protests are expected in the capital over rising prices at least nine hundred people are being killed since antigovernment protests began. but they want president. bashir to step down. it hasn't been a normal day at the office for yasser the law instead of editing his newspaper he's preparing evidence to file an official complaint against the dance police and national security forces he says they beat him during protests on tuesday. i was standing in front of the newspaper and some men in a pickup truck came some were armed some. they told me to go inside the newspaper building or fused they put me in the truck for two shots and drove off as they were beating me to beat me so much i started bleeding. protests started last week in the city of art when there was no bread to buy that anger quickly escalated into

protests against the government and demands for the government to step down and then for the president to go president obama has been in power for twenty nine years his ruling party has announced they want him to rule for longer which would need an amendment to the constitution protests to say they don't want him to finish his current term let alone run for another the president announces them as infiltrators. the infiltrators are from groups and other opposition organizations that are against the regime and against dialogue with the regime they want to topple the government they constantly repeat that they are part of the popular revolution we have seen these things before back in september twenty third same. the protests have resulted in dozens killed and even more injured activists say snipers have targeted some of the protesters and human rights groups as well as some governments are condemning the use of what they call brutal force despite a threat to their safety process to continue to demand the resignation of president

obama. some political parties are calling for an investigation one of barly seventeen people were killed in jews this protest and eighty eight granted we call on the government to launch an investigation into the killings those who committed these crimes must be held responsible. more protests are planned. says he won't give in sudan seems to be at a crossroad between the president and the people people morgan al-jazeera how to. carrying just over three hundred microns has docked in spain after being refused entry by several other european countries charity. save the migrants in the mediterranean off the coast of libya a week ago it's the first time since spain has allowed a rescue ship to dock and migrants in the country. police boats are on scene patrol in indonesia to enforce a volcano exclusion zone zones been wide alert levels raised for the and mark

volcano is threatening another major eruption which could cause a second tsunami five metre highway flooded coastal communities on saturday killing at least four hundred twenty six people bride reports of indonesia's padraig lying district. with this heightened alert being now in force aircraft are being told to steer around the volcano but as yet there's been no word of any flight disruptions meanwhile there's been a renewed warning for people to stay away from the shoreline by at least five hundred meters it has to be said that people with homes maybe two to three hundred meters away for a large part they are staying ported their houses are intact but here on the shoreline itself many people have lost their houses in any case they will be down here sorting through possessions but then come night time will be going back to stay with friends staying in resettlement centers or in most. vulcanologists

meanwhile i've been using this break in the weather and the fact that we now have a rise and they can observe to actually see what the volcano is doing they are reporting continuing plumes of gas and ash flying up into the air some two hundred to six hundred meters with the wind conditions some of that ash is landing on this coastline of java not much but certainly people here are starting to wear masks as a precaution what concerns the scientists more of the flows of lover and rocks down the side of the volcano that they've been observing the concern is of course that a further shift in the outside structure of the volcano might lead to a further massive live rock down into the sea that might cause another wave donald trump surprise visit to iraq has provoked demand for u.s. troops based there to go home to some iraqis say his trip by lated iraq sovereignty

there are reports of baghdad. the u.s. president seems determined to keep u.s. troops in iraq. but his visit lost in just three hours on wednesday night to al asad airbase one hundred thirty kilometers west of baghdad provoked a strong reaction from some iraqi politicians and had to do. i think it is shameful for the iraqi prime minister to accept the u.s. president's invitation to go to the u.s. after his mockery of iraqi politicians and the iraqi government he entered iraq surreptitiously without any coordination and no respect for iraq's sovereignty i spent three hours celebration with soldiers as if you to achieved a great victory in fact this visit is considered to fish rather than a victory. there are five thousand two hundred u.s. troops currently in iraq a lot less than the invasion sent to remove saddam hussein in two thousand and three more recently reinforcements were sent to help iraqi government forces defeat

eisel fighters who seized large areas of territory iraqi commanders declared a victory over a year ago but pockets of fight still remain despite his long flight from washington trump didn't meet iraq's prime minister their schedule talks are canceled because of disagreements about the agenda by announcing u.s. troops will remain trump has gone against the iraqi constitution which requires parliamentary approval for foreign military bases some analysts say trump has weakened support here for the u.s. presence in iraq putting the prime minister in a tough position. so this visit gave great confidence to the political parties armed factions and all those who resist the u.s. presence in iraq to ask the parliament to come up with a decision demanding the withdrawal of u.s. troops from the country visit weaken the political parties that support the u.s. presence in iraq. there's also confusion about what the u.s. policy in the region is often trump ordered the withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria some fear the pentagon may well build up forces in iraq as

a contingency. for any future action in syria or a potential war with iran. iraqi politicians from all sides are now calling for a vote that ends the u.s. presence in iraq the largest bloc of the southern us now the nationalists the us president donald trump's visit to iraq may well have given them enough i mean nation to be able to win a vote that ends all u.s. involvement in the country iran can al-jazeera baghdad the partial shutdown of the us government is likely to continue into the new year after both houses of congress adjourned without agreeing a way forward a vote on the impasse is expected next week donald trump says the shutdown will continue until democrats meet his demands for five billion dollars in next year's budget to build a wall on the border with mexico rob reynolds has more from washington d.c. . there is of course a very strong political element to the government shutdown president trump promised

during his election campaign in two thousand and sixteen that he'd build the wall on the border with mexico he said he'd make mexico pay for it he's not saying that anymore but he wants five billion dollars to pay for a section of the wall and he's saying that democrats are being intransigent and not coming to the table this despite the fact that the president said he would be proud to initiate the shutdown in a televised meeting with democratic leaders so the democrats' response is to try to paint president trump as being irresponsible and even him it sure using terms like temper tantrums one of the democratic leaders dick durbin senator of illinois said there's no end in sight to the president's government shutdown he's taken our government hostage over is outrageous demand for a five billion dollar border wall at the moment about eight hundred thousand

federal workers are either furloughed or working without pay if and when the government gets its act together so to speak and passes a bill to restore funding funding many of those people will get back pay they'll be compensated for the money the paychecks that they did not receive but still this new year season is going to be fraught with a lot of anxiety for a lot of federal workers here in washington and all across the united states. and india rescuers all racing to find fifteen month as trapped underground for nearly two weeks in an illegal coal mine government leaders are being criticized for the slow response to the emergency in the north east of the state. these rescue workers know the chance of finding the trapped miners. alive is slim but they continue their search the teenage miners went into the legal coal mine in

the north east indian state of magali on december thirteenth but got trapped soon after when the mines tunnel was flooded by a nearby river they've been without food or drinking water ever since the war that it is not going. to be to put a lid on it inefficient to fling was fun but not fast enough prime minister narendra modi's government is being criticized for not sending in the right equipment on time he was at a nearby state on christmas day and didn't mention the incident or the trapped miners divers at the scene say they aren't equipped to go down more than thirty meters and the miners are some ninety meters underground the best of what the living there will be built you start a little bit still we're doing all there and yet when dolly the sheep and visit the water live in the fish we don't condone it digging in abandoned mines has been banned for more than four years now but many break the law risking their lives by going down into so-called rat holes miners can earn up to twelve dollars

a day which is a higher pay rate than most jobs in india a similar incident six years ago killed more than two dozen miners their bodies were never recovered and it is feared dissimilar fate awaits those trapped inside this call the area paul should urge on al-jazeera. let's get back to our top stories in syria and of course having to dodge joins us now. developing story about the say in the north of the country we were talking a short while ago about a deal being struck perhaps between the kurds and damascus and that's changed in the last few minutes. since we have lost mohammed our we were expecting a statement from the government in damascus saying that they will protect all of the syrians i.e.

the kurds in man beach and we will get more reaction of that statement later in the day they said to the americas now where a boy in bolivia who was born without his left hand is transforming the lives of others like him what some might see as a disability became a challenge for sixteen year old leonardo caro our correspondent daniel shrine has been that to meet him and his remarkable use of a three d. printed by our mc. leonardo is something of a hero in these parts not quite spider-man but he's helping youngsters with similar problems to his own to feel closer to their superheroes. like him the seven year old girl was born missing a hand. it was all he wanted to christmas his parents through leonardo found him one but not just any hand he gets the spider-man prosthetic. no longer a mistake the algal is now the envy of his friends. you know there was

a victim of amniotic band syndrome which affects babies still in the womb with supportive parents he's tried to never see it as a disability there's another gambling of man people who have lost a hand often hide it cover it up they don't want to show it what i do is take off the prosthetic and say look i'm not ashamed i'm proud of who i am it's sad not to have a hand but it's sad and not to accept it you must accept who you are. he developed an interest in robotic city young age two years ago aged just fourteen he made his own replacement hand using a three d. printer. he says made more than sixty fingers hands and arms charging less than one hundred dollars to cover materials such as this biodegradable plastic artificial limbs in bolivia one of the poorest countries in the region can cost between two to three thousand dollars. what i always say is what the three d.

printer takes twenty four hours to finish can change the life of a person forever. still only sixteen his reputation growing in bolivia and beyond the plans to study by a medicine to one day used by onyx to control his left hand directly from his brain . says he's going to use his new hand to play games he couldn't play before i was no one else will have one of these he'll be able to do so many things with it i am extremely grateful so to a many across bolivia beneficiaries of laon are those dream he simply wanted a hand so he made one using his initiative on what was available. santa cruz believe. you're watching all those arms the whole robin these are all top news stories serious army says it sent to the northern town of monkey john raise the flag of the

syrian arab republic the syrian kurdish y p g said it had asked for the syrian military to take control of turkey which sees the why fiji as a terrorist group has been amassing troops near its southern border with syria follows donald trump's decision to order a complete withdrawal of u.s. forces in the area leaving the kurds without its most powerful ally. nigeria to military bases in the fight for control around lake chad intense fighting in the. street. creased attacks on military outposts recently the main opposition in the democratic republic of congo is appealing for calm so the presidential election can go ahead on sunday just days before voting. to areas where polls are delayed until march next year protesters are angry over their exclusion. foreign minister has been demoted in

a major government reshuffle ordered to step down following the international outcry over the murder of journalist. those were the headlines of more news in half an hour we continue with one o one east to stay with us. the week began with. a truce in the u.s. china trade. the world's largest supplier of liquefied natural gas is leaving the biggest oil cartel we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. the marshall islands. very big problem. one ground zero for america's cold war atomic testing it's been left with

a toxic radioactive legacy. now. that. deadly nuclear waste will be released into the ocean. on this episode we investigate how one of the world's smallest countries is paying for the actions of a global superpower. we're halfway between a stray year and hawaii. in the middle of a seemingly endless pacific ocean. below a ski chains of mostly uninhabited islands that together form the nation of the marshall islands. which is the yes no no no route the bridge on the right. we know much of my life

was carried out up the face of history. spread over two million square kilometers of the central pacific the marshall islands is a scattering of more than a thousand islands and eyelets. few people have heard of in a we talk but it's the ground zero of us nuclear testing in the pacific. the welcome sign he said what we've come to see but when you know what it really is a few would want to visit this place. the circle is a roof over the islands so remote that there's no regular transport in or out it'll be a week before our plane returns if we're lucky. it's a stunning place. hides

a dark secret. i. i. i. i. this is a place whose atomic past is. seed into its present the people of in a way talk were forced into exile by the atomic fool and allowed to return after three decades a new generation is learning about the traditions and customs of this place. they have also been told about america's top sick legacy and how it lies under a giant dime. they are interesting some of the understand that we have a voice in our you know island that is what people might think. they know that

there's a tomb. because they have been there so the dawn you call it the time. on it that. we set out the next morning to see for ourselves. after nearly two hours we approach one of in a way talk at holds forty islands. what we've come to see is hard to spot from the beach only from the air can you get a true sense of the sky of what the united states military calls the dome. is actually a dump it contains the toxic glyph to visit some of the most powerful atomic bombs in history america's cold war legacy it is

a tomb of nuclear waste the dome is completely unlabeled there's no fence there no guards there people can go there if they want and there's nobody to stop the gun but they know me up and make you write about them by the way i am glad. i. for nine hundred forty six to nine hundred fifty eight the united states detonated dozens of atomic bombs in the marshall islands. and was in a way talkies hardly knowing its closest neighbor three hundred kilometers to the east became synonymous with nuclear fallout. its name is became. my own point of the water you wave coming.

from the kid. right now i don't think i'll be able to come in it's just not clean enough for us it's not. one of the countries loves traditional never got his elson killen is adrift living in exile because he's not allowed to return home to bikini. ahead of the atomic testing there in the one nine hundred forty s. the united states told elson killings family and the one hundred sixty seven people of his asshole that they had a duty to the world to leave their islands i was it was a moment film by the military's p.r. unit they want to say they. are right now james when you tell them that the united states government now wants to channel that right if force and that's something

good a man got and that this experiment here at it are the first step in that direction i am a hot five. ready good woman i ever read. i wear you down dammit. thank you good at everything being and god and it cannot be other than go there was and here by the way you had i was thinking of the microwave version of your i've added the. the oh. well i mean yeah. there was the impacts of twelve years of nuclear testing in the marshall islands included increased rates of thyroid and other cancers and the permanent exile of

people from their home islands. in one thousand nine hundred six as part of a deal to give the marshall islands independence the us paid one hundred fifty million dollars later an independent tribunals awarded more than two billion dollars to victims of the testing program less than four million was it a paid. the tribunals office in the capital merger zero is no longer operating with most claims unresolved sitting in files gathering dust. the us government policy on the nuclear weapons legacy in the marshall islands is to simply downgrade in dismiss health hazards as not exist or in significant. johnson is the publisher of the marshall islands journal the country's only newspaper for three decades he's been

a passionate advocate for the local people his wife darlene kaiju was a famous nucleus of five who died of cancer aged just forty five it really makes us wonder if marshall and wonders will ever get justice from the nuclear weapons tests that were conducted here and justice is the right word it's really important to understand the. that a lot of nuclear contaminated material was tossed into a crater left over from a bomb test a coral atoll essentially and a coral atoll by its nature is porous. when the us was getting ready to clean up i believe in the one nine hundred seventy s. they picked the pit that had been left by one of the smaller atomic explosions and dumped a lot of this plutonium and other radioactive waste into the pit and covered it

over with an eighteen inch thick dome and left. the dome was never meant to be anything but a temporary solution to the problem of atomic waste at almost every stage of its construction safety was sector feist to save money. michael gerard is a us climate change specialist who's visited the dome the bottom of the dome is just what was left behind by the nuclear weapons exposing. its permeable soil there was no effort to line it and therefore the seawater is inside the dome already they see sometimes washes over it and you know you know our storm and united states government has acknowledged that a major typhoon could break it apart and cause all of the radiation in it to

disperse. you can see why ruin its remoteness made it seem like a good place for the and it's contaminated contents but like most of the islands of the marshal's route it is bailey a major above sea level at its highest point. when this dome was built in the late one nine hundred seventy s. there was no factoring in sea level rises caused by climate change now every day when the tide rolls out as it is now radioactive isotopes from underneath the dharm roll out with it that is the connection between the look. and the climate change which it will be very devastation even. if it were really it we're not talking just a marshall islands we're talking. sweet ocean. i think it's really telling. that the ocean is rising and it's and it's is making this nuclear

waste leak out because in a lot of ways this climate change issue has also been revived revitalizing a lot of conversations about our nuclear legacy every time someone talks about climate change you can't ignore our nuclear legacy as well it's link. is a poet and climate change activist. she's proud of her heritage. it's my home it's where i'm from that's where my family's from my ancestors they've been here for thousands of years and and there's also just nothing like you and your else and it's a part of why. you have. a rising leader of a nation the jet no kid you know was invited to the twenty fourteen united nations climate change summit in new york to speak about how. the front line in the battle against rising sea levels the marshall islands encompasses more than two million

square kilometers of ocean i mean it's the united nations these are world leaders from all over and it was the first time that i was able to share something that i was i cared about you know something about the islands and what she shared was a poem about climate change dear much of a poem addressed to her infant daughter who are a seven month old son rise a smile or bald as an egg and bald as the buddha you are thighs that are thunder shrieks that are lightning so excited for bananas hugs and our morning walks along the loop. i want to tell you about the. against the sunrise men say that one day that lagoon will devour you they say it will not the shoreline to at the roots of your bread fruit trees gulp down rows of the walls and crunch through your island shattered bones. don't cry

mommy promises you no one will calm and devour you no one is drowning no one's moving no one's losing their homeland no one's going to become a climate change refugees. in a place known for so do speeches in poker face diplomacy heavy jet gnocchi genius pledged to her daughter to fight climate change moved me to tears. i mean when they all stood up i kind of thought they were just being polite but i just found out later that's not that doesn't happen all the time. some estimates put the sea level rise here in excess of sixty centimeters by the end of this century that's enough to inundate three quarters of the country so. now we're on alert every time there's a high tide is the water will come over and flood our houses you know crushed and

homes are destroyed homes it will dry the crops and you know that didn't ever happen before you know we're getting a lot of more extreme weathers like droughts too and so it's just gotten a lot worse in the past couple years. it will kill a reef so we kill so reef a kill so fish kill so food and you know marshall has a very very limited line so this really nothing for us to survive on so i would you know i was very very short time i cannot give you the year but. we will gradually probably start moving to the clock is ticking before you it really it is ticking. for many marshallese the dome on rumor tile and remains a potent symbol of the threat of climate change it may be made from half meter

thick concrete panels but as we've seen elsewhere the ocean is likely to win out over concrete every time. the radiation levels of the people of in a we talk the supposed to be monitored here in this space age us built lab on the main island but when we visit the machine for assessing radioactive exposure isn't working. and as we're about to find out it's not just the people of the marshall islands who are living with the fallout from what happened here all those years ago. this was the side of the largest nuclear cleanup in united states history four thousand young soldiers toiled here for years to fill in the bomb crater underneath this dime among the more than eighty thousand cubic meters of contaminated soil and debris with plutonium one of the most toxic substances on the planet. the many of the young

soldiers who worked here there was a high price to pay. those young men and now in their fifty's and sixty's and few in the united states know storing. the suburban sprawl of less vegas feels like another world away from the remote emptiness of in a way talk at all but the dawn is something former u.s. soldier g.-man drole can never forget and neither can he forgive i've never heard of it only took an hour or two that there were forty three nuclear tests and it knows radioactive that it also we landed. everybody kind of pretty much flipped out on a phone no because right after the radioactive. i was told i was going to visit a tropical paradise for the last six months of the service. a specialist in the army's eighty foals in geneva talian mandrel was one of

thousands of u.s. soldiers sent to help clean up in a way talk at all in the one nine hundred seventy s. a thousand workers from the u.s. armed forces are giving the northern islands a facelift striving to dig and scrape away the radioactive soil and debris this u.s. news story shows soldiers on in a week talk wearing radiation suits b.g. mandrel says this was just a show for the t.v. cameras there was no special gear issued we were just issued our normal oh warm weather gear which we've been sure to teacher tat in the jungle been to nuts and were you given right away give decontamination truck no none whatsoever was there any safety equipment no if people do come back to rhode island they'll be risking perhaps the hottest radiation on earth this island won't be fit for human habitation again for at least twenty four thousand years unrooted island site of the daum soldiers were exposed to one of the most toxic substances known in the

result of a bomb test gone wrong one of the attempted nuclear weapons explosions didn't work and so the who put tony and rather than having a nuclear blast was just broken apart by the conventional explosives leading to a about four hundred little chunks of put tony and that were spread all around the a top those four hundred chunks were put in plastic bags and tossed into the crater underneath the dime well they have this round of walk around pick up loose pieces for instance and just gather up whatever we could throw in a pile and i never had any clue that dust could literally get into your lungs. but these girls are dealing with that every day all those were all. declassified u.s. government documents reveal that washington knew the troops would be exposed to patani i'm on route island this secret cable from one thousand nine hundred eighty

two talks about the existence of solid plutonium bearing chunks on the island surface it warned that the quantity of plutonium was undoubtedly large and that a presented a new and serious concern. many of the u.s. soldiers in particular who worked at and we have since come down with illnesses that they say were caused by their work there. jim mandrel is one of those soldiers for years he suffered from a myriad of complaints he says a link to his service on in a way talk he had as gulf bladder out shortly after their. seventy pound tumor cancerous tumor in his abdomen i suffer from roughly four you to forty five years old from the go to. us. more alert of the

watch and good news the problem for former cleanup workers like jim and raul is that unlike the other u.s. soldiers involved in the atomic tests the government does not recognize them as atomic veterans this means the four thousand clean up veterans have no special health care coverage many lumbered with crippling medical bills washington argues safety precautions on in a way top or exemplary workers radiation exposure fell below recommended limits and that their illnesses and the time they spent on in a way talk and not linked i mean these people were in the army what choice that they are they were told go clean up any way they want. i think mostly they're trying to get health coverage medical care because they've got just out of some of them have terrible bills really high bill bills from from hospitals because of their treatment. there has never been a formal study of the health of in

a way talk workers but one informal survey reported that hundreds suffered problems such as cancers brutal bones and birth defects in their children. or has it i didn't think i'd be sitting in hospital you know yeah yeah i just. hey feeling. strange. i might have had some damages done to another part of my body when they were putting in the stomach aneurism in a way took veteran cain cassock knows all about hospital bills we meet in hawaii although by the time i arrived kane has been rushed to intensive care with a brain aneurism. as a twenty four year old he was working at a u.s. air force base in hawaii when he was asked if he was interested in running the military exchange on an idyllic pacific at all called in a we talk. that's it. my whole vision in life was to live on

a deserted tropical south pacific island what's what you tell the lord. it came through. this would be no posting to paradise not long after arriving on in a way talk came kazik realized he was living and working in the middle of a messy nuclear cleanup one centered on the dime on route island. it was a very dirty operation and the same below calls that transported this filthy filthy filthy horrible atomic waste to ruin it the boys are on these boats you can see this crap going on their faces and their bodies you know you cannot get away from them. like you mandrel ken kesey says he was never given any safety gear old training he says the thousands of young men sent into the cleanup had no idea of what they were exposed to it's a total secret we didn't even know the guys didn't know none of those guys would

would be in an area that's so contaminated if they knew about it and we were lied to and our boys work six month tours on a dirty island and the government says human error there. has undergone nearly forty surgeries for cancerous lesions which he blames on his time and i know we talk but he in g. mandrel count themselves lucky america dumped all of their worst rubbish to the marshallese and abandon them with it's a disgusting shame. and it. makes us look bad. and left the natives express to the people of the united states their welcome and their simplicity and their pleasant past and that kind of family and willing to cooperate although they don't understand the world of nuclear energy any more than we do. run

a dome embodies injustices in many different ways. the fact that all these weapons were supposed to there the fact that this plutonium was left behind the fact that the workers who work there have not been compensated . and very importantly the fact that the entire nation is endangered by sea. level rise which is caused mostly by the greenhouse gas emissions the major emitting countries of which the us was historically number one these are an accumulation of justice. these are situations where the marshallese people are almost are either guinea pigs or they're just seen as disposable we're seen as disposable in both of these situations we're disposable our lives no matter the war matters nuclear bombs matter our lives no matter whose money matters gas not. profits not.

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welcome to the program syria's army says it sent to the northern town of mandy's near the border with turkey with any of these syrian kurdish y p g said it asked for the syrian military to take control of the city but turkey sees the y p g as a terrorist group and has been massing troops near its southern border with syria that follows u.s. president donald trump's decision to order a withdrawal of u.s. forces in the area leaving the kurds without their most powerful ally. yeah that day yeah i met today jaish e one of the committee for the syrian armed forces is announcing that its troops have entered the town of beach and they've raised the flag of the syrian arab republic the syrian army renews its commitment to rid the area of terrorist an armed groups the armed forces ensuring security and safety for all its residents and everyone on syrian law what moment of the joins us from gaza that's in turkey on the border with syria most so the syrian army's raised its flag unmanned what

more details you hearing there. all that information done is disputed small for residents of money beach town who we spoke to have seen any sign of syrian forces in the city but want to be know is that syrian government troops are already been all the outskirts on the countryside off mum beach where there were parts of on into mush and all. this fighting remnants of oz still include the american forces the trumpet once withdrawn as well as french and other forces from other countries but what's the syrian observatory for human rights confirmed in the past few moment is that the syrian troops who were in these buffaloes divided the free syrian army that's allowed to talk here on the city and the kurdish troops have now started moving to its members

and the syrian government media has said that the people of money beach are now under the protection of the government or call something that proves that they are doing this in consultation very close consultation with the wife would you force an armored earlier there was there was this request by the kurdish why p.j. asking for syrian government forces to take control of man beach i mean things move pretty quickly on the ground between a. thinks really quickly on the ground before. him and from the white p.d.'s saying but there were inviting the government forces to protect the people of number which they were withdrawing to concentrate on the fight against is still something that many people see talk to call lowering the impending offensive. made it very

clear that just a matter of time before these begins and inviting the government forces is some sort of a toxic by the why would you fight us twelve void confrontation with the tukey forces who are of course not all the bells nor march to and we don't know whether now is going to top the fence of on the city we're waiting for word from the foreign ministry a reaction of sorts to sent pending the breaking news we're hearing out of number but what we know is that a myth to more of the family in between a russian officials and the foreign minister of turkey as well as his defense counterpart on the head of intelligence here in turkey will prove crucial to what happens from here on in what shape it will take whether there will be an offensive all sorts but already tuckey's media local media oddity reporting that russia has.

while come the move by the syrian government forces to. mum beach. a positive move or somehow. on the turkey syria border mohammed thank you well let's bring in somebody nada he's director of the institute for strategic studies joins us live now from beirut something out of the syrian army in the outskirts of man beach we're not sure if they're actually in the in the in the center of the city but developments happen pretty quickly on the ground how significant is this. i mean this is a pretty significant here i think that the cdn troops are getting into. that. could accept because turkey doesn't want american troops to be. mended and why the other part of

the turkish troops to be members so i'm not surprised to see that both parties have accepted this compromise to trust the syrian regime to control of this area though. that. today are fearing a scenario similar to what happened. some time ago but i don't think this would happen this time why at these two decent. was. as it's hard to which is not the case today and second that tension that no mistake tension between. government. and kurdish opposition was. at its acme so today this was did all was

seems to be coordinate that at least between. kate. and extrude that definitely of agreement has not been that each yet but you know one of these. would would like this was that all would end up in jail or into a massacre all right some i mean as we know this came just moments after the kurdish y p g made that request of the syrians to take control of manby what do you think the thinking was behind this move by the kurdish why b.g. it was quite clear though wasn't it. i mean it was it was their last resort because they are a squeeze they are feeding at i said. or that are feeding the turks but as they suffered under the hand of the cv in a regime i would not say this is

a smart move i say this is the last resort for them bearing in mind that this is. that west of you frayed and their presence. was in a way perceived as crossing. a line that we're drawn wide it getting into. getting into east of afraid this would be a different ball game i think that they have to sacrifice a man bush. and then advance they've. handed. in the regime they bought. the russian approval and the talks are always between the regional powers to say who will fill the vacuum that will be left by. sunday not

a discipline of thought you i mean how are international stakeholders like russia and the u.s. then going to react to this changing developments on the ground i mean we know that u.s. forces are leaving syria and russia has already said it welcomes the return of kurdish territory under syrian government control. i mean that a major elephant and their own today is how iran. will it take advantage of such always that all will or will be at their death or a man from day one i think americans and russian daunte garage on syria yes they have diverging interests but they have converging interests as well while today the prime concern for the american strategy is to confront iran this is the number one objective as it was stated. from the arrival of that administration and now the

question is will this withdrawal will benefit iran or it's in the preparation was other regional powers in order to at least we can iran if not to say dr iran out of syria ok some another we have to leave it there thank you very much indeed for your time. thank you. now in the democratic republic of congo there been calls for a general strike after several opposition areas were excluded from sunday's presidential election. more protests in eastern areas and the electoral commission has cut the number of voting machines in the capital kinshasa government soit reports. people in beni in eastern congo take to the streets to protest against the decision by their nicole commission to postpone the elections until march next year this is part of a region where health workers are dealing with an ebola epidemic that has killed

many that's a reason given for delaying the election as well as security problems. but part of this here with that they say they must exercise their rights with the rest of the country so some burned sections of an ebola trying to center where those suspected of having the disease are held for diagnoses not joke i know it's not going to bend me demba we are tired of voters and brainy and what tempo gave this government the last election we've been killed by rebels and kept quiet they brought us a bowler and we did not say anything now we can't keep quiet any will. most of us assume that the day was the government not concerned about the situation in burnie we were told to go is here we accepted this but today they told us we could not vote because of ebola even though they themselves said the sickness was the creasing benny and with a hammer in the east in the western town of you may be a stronghold of one.