we are very frustrated because the lack of post storm services setting up several roadblocks on the main road in the town. got a bit better we just finished elections before the cyclon hit and we lost so much the houses in the farmers lost crops there's no help from the government no visits by offices that is why we are blocking the road. and about two hours away the bustle of a decent state capitol bhubaneswar has partly returned but worry over fuel supplies created long lines that fuel stations underlining the challenges ahead. life in no discernible take months if not years to completely return to normal most people are well aware of that but there's early concern over how equally the funding and the rebuilding will be distributed it's got harder al-jazeera india. ramadan which begins on may sixth in most countries this year is the holiest month in the islamic calendar and involves abstaining from eating and drinking from dawn to sunset and

some experts are actually saying that fasting has some health benefits in addition to helping with high cholesterol heart disease and obesity and allows the body to rid itself of toxins cleaning the gas and strengthening its lining scientists have also found that fasting leads to mental wellbeing reducing depression and anxiety as well as the risk of developing dementia and interesting stuff there which we're going to discuss with now who is a resident physician at the center for addiction and mental health in toronto so then we'll talk more about the mental side of things first of all in a moment but first we're going to talk about the act of fasting it's i know there are a lot of sort of fad diets out there these days with people talking about fast for x. number of days and then eat normally and all that. what happens during ramadan can it do you agree can it be beneficial like. yes so were hundreds that your people had engaged in that in this practice of thinking and there can be help benefit i think we have to be careful about making sweeping claims that it be

beneficial. to seriously depression and anxiety or get mention i think the evidence still needs to be gathered and this is an error you know research that you really lacking at this point we do have more research on that's physical benefits thanks so there have been studies to show that when done correctly you could have a positive impact on weight or cholesterol those sorts of parameters what are these which we published in the lancet think. it was our news that that area meant to help police or just yell at you but what did you find with regards to mental health because is it as we say you don't want to get into sweeping generalizations and there has to be a balance as well people who are if they have mental disorders if they are on medication the needs to be a balance between that and what they what they take into their body. absolutely so what we found is that for many people quality of studies that show that fasting is

incredibly meaningful it gives them a sense of purpose and meaning and then there's also some studies to show that in muslim majority countries suicide rates seem to decrease during the mother grandmother as compared to the rest of the year so we are told me are concluding that there are so psychological benefits what we also know is that there are some in that easter show that people with thirty disorders like bipolar disorder which is particularly sensitive to sleep and you know. can predict for those people who have bipolar disorder. can result in their symptoms getting worse and so when patients need to be doing is having a conversation with their doctors right there psychiatry is about whether or not their mission is safe to. do you fast sign up for ramadan i do you can you tell us about some of your experiences there not just conscious you know obviously you're

here in the middle east of lived here for many years and familiar with how it works but i mean a lot of people around the world are probably wondering things like what you can even drink water and is that healthy absolutely one of the most common questions muslims get not even water and sits very surprising to people that you don't crave for each year in their day and someone who has fasted personally i think say it is a challenge you arean basically at the same time it's a trying reflection prayer engagement with the community and so there is a general sense of feeling more connected spiritually and socially during this month then talking fasting with us in this holy month of ramadan kareem and thank you for joining us thank you. still ahead for you on al-jazeera the sports news thrilling performance in spain as a way to celebrate as well that's putting this moto g.p. rider back on top of the world stan i will have all the details in just

a moment. when your fiance leaves behind bars. the engagement also becomes a life sentence. zero world hears from three palestinian women whose lives have been dictated by their relationships

with men in prison. wedding on hold on al-jazeera. before we get to the sport we're going to look at online computer gaming which generates billions of dollars all over the world its popularity has grown in places like iraq as well but parliament is now banned in several popular online games government says they are harmful to society and are actually a potential national security threat child strafford as our report from baghdad. glued to the screen you know for sure reality battle to survive online gaming is

big in iraq. the most popular game is play on the battleground. developed in south korea three. years ago it's become a global sensation with players around the world being parachuted on to an island and fighting for survival by any means. but iraq's parliament has voted to ban it saying it's harmful to the health culture and security of a rocky society. student plays for a couple of hours at least four times a week led to a lot i it is an exceptional game and very realistic it gives you the opportunity to compete with and build new friendships with other players around the world it's ok if they ban it for children but not for adults we're old enough to now how to manage our time. players are known battleground is one of the most popular computer games of all time in two thousand and eighteen that will hold four hundred million

players around the world now the effects of other computer games on the young has been long debated by psychologists and social commentators and it's an especially heated debate here in iraq because young people have exactly zero us so much violence the ban which is expected to come into effect in the coming days as calls only line protests these iraqi girls dressed as characters from the game posted pictures of themselves online iraq's high commission for human rights says a teenager recently committed suicide after he was influenced by the game. you have the flatley we should clear that up here when we analyze the iraqi personality we find that consecutive wars and violence have traumatized and shaped iraqi psychology in general to be more receptive and prone to aggression confrontation and trauma due to these harsh variables and dynamic that is why these games provide a subconscious venting platform. shops are full of the games merchandise small

computer businesses are doing a roaring trade for many gamers their own line life offers an escape from the challenges of growing up in iraq if. they wish when they play gamers are able to break away from and forget the bad situations they are living in many gamers especially the older ones say the government should be doing more to eradicate the causes of real violence in iraq ali and his friends to say they are old enough to know what's right and what's wrong. but that. time for a look at your sport on the news on what's on. it was all about the race for the top four in the english premier league on sunday chelsea have qualified for next season champions league they beat what for three nil at home the victory combined with arsenal's draw against brighton means that they are guaranteed a top full finish in the english premier league there are also in the league semi's

that winning that tormented was another route into the champions league. believes is a very important issue and we want to build up a lead because we we feel. we deserved to win a trophy a decision a telsey move up to after that when at one point ahead of tottenham and four points clear of the fifth place arsenal arsenal that can still call it five for the champions league if they win the european league majesty united have officially missed out on the spot for next season's champions league they were held to a one one draw by bottom club others failed we gave ourselves a chance to be in the champions league something that we didn't think was possible we got so many opportunities to grab the third or fourth weren't able to so it's probably the right place to be for us you don't believe next year.

and if if city don't win f.a. cup we'll have a very early and bright start qualifiers for euro body and that's that's just. might make it even more difficult by munich have confirmed their wing of hong kong will be leaving the german club at the end of the season the thirty six year old frenchman has joined about variance in two thousand and seven since then he has won twenty one trophies which included eight wins league titles really will join fellow veteran forward ira when leaving the club at the end of the campaign aurukun side canada will make their first ever parents in the final of the african confederations cup but it's fast and easy inside the facts and the three nail in the second leg of this semifinals all sunday but can we face egypt as the mallika for the first leg of their final or may the sixteenth. now we will be looking to

win her said grand slam in a row at the french open later this month she is building up her form on the madrid open the japanese top seed beating domenica to bilk over six two seven six on sunday to reach the second round is the waldo number one after winning the u.s. and the australian opens back to back. on the men's tour kerry also was knocked out in the first round of germany's a young leonard stress you're straining losing his cool once again smashing his racket in the first set. pretty disinterested in the match the twenty four year old made some shots which got him good by the crowd curiosity venture li losing seven six six four. moto g.p. champion mark marquez has returned to the top of the world rankings out after clinching his home spanish go on the honda riders started from third on the grid

but sealed the wind up for his second victory of the season my kids and now lead the overall standings by a point sunday's race was swept by the spanish riders with alex rains in second and moderately malice as. they used the rockets have fought back against reigning a.b.a. champions golden state warriors in the western conference semifinals it was a game of contrasting fortunes of four the teams rival stars sam malik has reaction . to the houston rockets leading to a big performance from the dom and james harden they've been second best car in the golden state warriors with two nothing in the western conference semifinals. things got heated early on in game three cardinals stothard by night put by warriors veteran drain when the greens were still that however did little to damage he spoke of. the rockets headed into the break nine ahead houston continued to impress them

to chris paul on target from long range twenty three for break up be but it was golden state that played the better basketball in the second half in particular kevin durant katie's efforts helping golden state get back into the game which couldn't be settled in regulation time he scored a game high forty six points i was showing just why he's been the best offensive player of the postseason. so condon scored five points or less but was on target when it mattered the most be his three opening up a six point lead the warriors would need to fight back again but they usually reliable discovery couldn't deliver. hard and dropping a crucial rebound to help euston clinch a vital win final score one twenty six to one twenty one rockets you've got to be aggressive you can't if you're timid or you're not aggressive good news when i've been down to one houston we need more big performances from harden to turn this the

reason around so he'll mallet al-jazeera and that's his fall from we'll have more later on. thank you santa and we will be back in just a few moments time with the latest news here on al-jazeera an update on the attempts to broker some sort of cease fire between gaza and israel back in a moment. russia has jeopardized the united states security interests we know what you are doing and you will not succeed perceptions from the outside looking. blocks the

picture from the inside. as think russia's foreign policy is too soft cookie a most russian goals have been achieved not pieces of useful russia coming soon on a losing you. i mean to me every week a new sign who brings a series of breaking stories joined in listening finest as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter and demands on al-jazeera the nature of news as it breaks. down to. payments and. burning to start raining to the truth detailed coverage of the protests left up to the coffee pot odds that as an example of those awful days of this place from around the last few days and that is where the water is once more rushing down river it's a welcome relief for communities barely begun to live. on council

because this week trump gambles the world economy all shutting down iran's ability to sell oil. indestructible phone screen about trying these tech giants of the f.b.i. sting. will talk to the inventor who suspects his technology was stolen counting the cost. mediation efforts are underway to end these scenes after israeli air strikes killed twenty four in gaza and destroyed many buildings. and what palestinian rockets kill four people in southern israel a cease fire plan has been presented to both sides.

hello from joe hi everyone i'm kemal santa maria with the world news from al-jazeera at least forty one people are dead after a russian teraflop passenger plane lands in flames. the moscow airport. incidents military announces plans for change the opposition though remains unconvinced. so efforts are under way right now to bring an end to the latest flare up between israel and. both egypt and qatar are working on a cease fire agreement after days of rocket fire from both gaza and israel threaten to push the two sides into an all out war israel's prime minister earlier ordered to the army to continue its quite massive strikes on gaza i.

picture show a building collapse in gaza after an israeli airstrike at least twenty four palestinians have been killed in the violence including two pregnant women and two babies four people have been killed in israel here it is on the map just to show you where it is all happening around six hundred rockets fired from gaza into israel including the border towns of state out ashkelon and ashdod and then israeli warplanes struck some three hundred twenty targets in gaza which is one of the most densely populated areas in the world's two million people squeezed into that area which is only forty one kilometers long and twelve kilometers wide more from. the israeli city of ashkelon. it's early monday morning and we're into a third day of renewed violence between hamas and israel egypt and qatar are mediating a cease fire agreement between the two sides sources tell us there is consensus on all but one point one of the sticking points maybe this hamas is looking for israel

to implement any measures that help alleviate the suffering on the gaza strip late sunday evening the hamas leader says that hamas is a response will be dictated by quote the level of aggression by israel and its commitment to the ceasefire also late sunday evening the israeli cabinet had a five hour security meeting at the conclusion of that meeting the cabinet instructed the army to continue its airstrikes and to prepare for an escalation there have been four israelis who have been killed since saturday this is the highest number since the gaza war in two thousand and fourteen there are almost thirty people on both sides who have been killed prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said that he holds hamas responsible for all of the attacks in israel and that it will bear a heavy price however it appears that both sides are making signs and saying that

they're not keen to see an escalation but bear in mind we have already seen things progress march much farther than they have in years and they responded to how they have been the who is what the center for middle east policy at brookings institution he told us it is the root cause of these tensions which needs to be addressed. we've seen that happen over and over and over again and what that typically signifies is that we're not dealing with the problem. in terms of the causes of the problem we're and for gaza for many many years there's been a great deal of denial frankly in the international community on the part of israeli leaders on the part of the united states and even on the part of the palestinian leadership in ramallah as to what the causes are. and this

is you know this is the gaza has been under a blockade for twelve years there's an israeli occupation that has been in place for fifty one years there is no political horizon that is being offered by the international community the only way out of this situation is to find a way to normalize life in gaza and life cannot proceed normally we have so many reports by the united nations and others that basically gaza is unlivable for the two million people who live there and that is at the heart of this instability that we see over and over and over again and the solution to that problem is not a military solution it's not even really a humanitarian solution it's a political solution we have to end the blockade which is which is a policy of israel and to an extent also egypt. on to other news in at least forty

one people have died in russia after a plant passenger plane caught fire as it made an emergency landing at footage of the moment the aircraft returned to moscow's sheremetyevo airport was captured by an amateur cameraman the air afloat flight was bound for the city of months in northern russia but was forced to turn back shortly after takeoff because of the emergency now but some i looked on there were seventy three passengers and five crew members and twenty eight passengers are now at the airport terminal investigators on psychologists are working with them five people have been hospitalized thirty seven out of seventy eight people on board of the plane survived thirty three passengers and crew members for some of the reaction we spoke to john goglia who is a former member of the u.s. national transportation safety board he says the plane may have been overweight when it landed it's unusual to have that kind of fire engulfed the airplane so

early after it landed now it's not clear whether or not it was a fire on board prior to landing and could just too early some of the eyewitnesses was stating that there was no fire until the airplane had landed and they also have stated that the airplane had bounced on landing which may indicate that they may have broken some of the structure of the airplane and allowed the massive fuel leak that that kind of fire wood would need to support it now. it does look like the airplane still on its landing year and they're also. they really reports said that he didn't have time to jettison our dump any fuel from the airplane which means it was probably made an overweight landing so they'll be taking a look at the investigators will be taking a close look at that what the airplane weighed when it landed and if the structure broke on landing to provide the fuel for that kind of fire that intensity of the

fire it's a fairly nowhere plane it's been built flying since two thousand and eight. it's been very reliable early on they had an accident that was attributable to the flight crew making a grave mistake on a demo demonstration flight but otherwise it's had a very good record this i believe is the third accident in total for this type of airplane and so it's it's been proven to be a pretty reliable platform. at least ten people were killed and ninety injured on sunday in rebel held northwest syria which continues to be bombed by government forces and russian warplanes volunteer with the want helmets rescued is also died this weekend in an airstrike on a village in italy province which has now been under attack to six days and an underground hospital was hit by an airstrike to knocking it out of service these

twenty security forces have been killed and dozens wounded in a car bombing in northern afghanistan officials said taliban fighters and to the local police headquarters after the blast and opened fire on security forces in the city of police community the taliban has stepped up its attacks on police and troops even as it holds those direct negotiations with the u.s. to end seventeen years of war in afghanistan. sudan's ruling military council says it will unveil the country's transition plan on monday that he government protests continue demanding a reform to civilian rule the military and protest leaders are deadlocked over who would control the government a coalition of opposition parties have submitted draft proposals for a way forward to hear it said morgan with the details from the. the opposition coalition are currently divided on a number of issues but one thing they're united on is that they want the military council to hand over power to civilian rule some mediators have stepped in in the middle to try to mediate between the military council and the opposition coalition

and the question is now between the opposition coalition if that should be accept that mediation or not the mediators have offered to have two counsels during the transitional period one of them being called the security and defense council and the other being the transitional civilian council the security and defense council is proposed to have a military majority with civilian representation and the transitional council should have a civilian majority with military presentation right now the opposition parties are trying to figure out should be accept to count on or not and try to sort out the differences on how much representation should the civilians get and how much of a presentation should the military get if they have a single independent transitional government meanwhile thousands continue to protest in front of the army headquarters ahead of ramadan they are saying that they will be there many of them coming from various states across the country saying that for them if the military council does not hand over power the city and the protests will continue so at the moment a divided opposition is trying to sort out their differences to bridge their gap to try to unite before they face the military council with a single demand of having

a civilian transitional government while thousands continue to protest waiting for their demand to become a reality. u.s. president stepping up pressure on china to reach a trade deal is announced tariff increases on chinese goods trump said tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products will rise to twenty five percent on friday u.s. markets have reacted nervously though the dow futures has lost four hundred points the has more from washington d.c. . these threats by president donald trump are very significant because if he was to follow through on these tariff threats it would essentially mean this that almost every good imported to the u.s. from china would face some sort of tariff i mean the numbers are truly staggering trump in his tweets threatening to raise from ten percent to twenty five percent the tariff on two hundred billion dollars of chinese goods and trump also

threatening to slap an additional twenty five percent tariff on three hundred twenty five billion dollars of chinese goods would be hugely significant clearly this is trump's way of trying to jump start the trade talks again and get some more concessions from the chinese these trade talks have been going on for months now behind closed doors so we're not exactly sure how they're going the markets were not responding kindly to it either clearly caught wall street by surprise the dow futures trading were down four hundred points at one point nearly five hundred points on sunday indicating that the markets will probably open monday morning on a very sharp downturn the chinese trade negotiators are in washington all this week so we expect to get some more details in the coming days on how close they could be to maybe reaching a deal or if donald trump will go through with these threats of more.