came the mayor in in late ninety's he could just perform the mayor shift for 2 years and then he was prisoned after he resigned to the point i am. because the military was involved etc and that's why right now into a kid there's a perception that if you become the mayor of istanbul one day your political career can reach up to the be up to be prime minister and then the president because president don is there live proof of this political career that's why a couple of years ago again during the elections he resigned he said that he said to his colleagues that if we lose a stumble we lose turkey because istanbul is the most populated city in turkey it runs. the economy it runs one 3rd of the exports and taxes businesses here media is here that's why it is important to win its stumble for both are drawn and the opposition party in the cause all over things so much. still

ahead on al-jazeera we meet the most vulnerable victims of ethnic violence in the democratic republic of congo. and afghanistan narrowly missed out on the biggest win of a cricket streak. hello again welcome back here cross much of the we are seeing dry conditions not a lot of rain we did have some up there towards turkey but those thunderstorms are beginning to die down as we begin the way here across much of the area though temperatures are expected to come up as we go towards monday so for baghdad $44.00 degrees for you quite city at $43.00 but as we go towards monday those temperatures and quite city could come up to about 44 to 45 degrees and even higher as we go towards tuesday well across the gulf though we have been seeing some windy

conditions those die down on saturday and that will continue as we go towards sunday high humanity though has been a problem make you feel very uncomfortable so for doha expect to the minute he could continue as we go towards the end of the weekend and then here on monday though it will be a little drier but it will be a little higher at $45.00 degrees there down towards it is going to be a cloudy day temperatures only getting into the low thirty's and then very quickly parts southern africa there it's going to be quite windy as well as cloudy across much of the south coast those winds could provide a little bit of rain showers across much of the area but over here towards johannesburg it is going to be a dry day a cool day at 15 degrees there and then as we go towards monday a little bit better in terms of temperature but harare a nice day at 23. they wanted $43000000000.00 with the weaponry that was 6.

interim if. there is no and in because there's always a small. government. in essence we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function your shadow on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching our just the time to recap on headlines now ethiopia's chief of defense is being shot dead in the capital at this haboob general's conan was gunned down on the same day that was filed to attempt on

a regional government leader and on harvest day. the worst president says that he only stopped strikes against iran for now military action is still an option the u.s. is imposing additional sanctions against iran which will go into effect on monday. but it isn't turkey's largest city a stumble of been casting their ballots in a controversial rerun of this year's election to choose a new mayor the result of the 1st vote was a now legal challenge by the ruling. irregularities. the trade war between the u.s. and china is dominating the latest summits of southeast asian countries known as asiana and thailand leaders of the 10 nations that make up the block or attending the meeting territorial disputes in the south china sea the hunger crisis and ocean waste are all being discussed. scott hyla joins us now from bangkok let's

start with regional trade pacts how they shaping up. some of the regional trade pacts you know it's very important to this region because so much trade comes through its waterways and that ties into the territory disputes in the south china sea but also as a trading block you know you have 650000000 consumers in this block of 10 nations so it's very important it's also very important what they trade with the united states and china but one of the bigger issues yes that is 11 of the bigger issues on the agenda that's not really being talked about fully are things like the range of crisis another human rights issues now to discuss this further let's bring in i mean hill who is with the international commission of jurists thank you very much and one for joining us scott for bringing us here so let's look let's take that we're going to issue to begin with this is a massive internationally recognized crisis that's been going on here and

a lot of the nations here have to deal with it but they're not really discussing it as as much as you would think why is that this is well. on this recently said it's preliminary assessment report which actually speaks about how. is preparing to repatriate there he said those who actually left and went to bangladesh during that tax of the military forces of myanmar in their villages and it was quite disappointing in the sense that it actually paints a very rosy picture of the efforts of myanmar to bring back their he us and this goes into the noninterference principle of the way member states work and we always say that the noninterference principle is a myth because in very many instances for very many years asan member states actually comment on human rights issues in other os and member states and and man just saying. that house and she is actually an example of this when she was

a political prisoner a few years ago that actually had the courage to release a statement us an institution that in myanmar to release her why the other nations so luck didn't then are they worried about this opening the door to maybe the block criticizing their human rights indeed that is the that is usefully the reason for that. loss in member states do not want to be criticised they there is such an aversion to to dissent and criticism of government policies and practices and there is always that effort to preserve the status school within the governments when you look at let's look at those governments a little bit and this is something that we've been reporting on over the last day or so when you look at some of the governments in southeast asia now it appears as though there's a bit of a backpedaling when it comes to democracy you've had elections but you don't have fully fledged democracies say in thailand and cambodia that's quite

a interesting example maybe explain a little bit about how that infringes upon the human rights in those nations well human rights violations attacks on dissidents at backs and activists have always been there in many countries in southeast asia you have that in the philippines you've always had extrajudicial killings in the philippines there has always been attacks on political opponents in cambodia however and you're right in saying that there is an increase and it's it seems as if it's more. it's more apparent nowadays and governments seem to be unafraid to to be more flagrant in these at that acts and perhaps this is also because they know that nobody's going to take them to pass or they think nobody's going to take them and nobody's going to make them accountable for these violations i mean thank you very much for joining us asemi obviously a lot of what's focused on at the asean summit is what's being said but also it's

about what's not being said and there's quite a bit of that that's not going to be brought up at the summit and probably also in this joint communique that will come at the end of the day sami going to see that thanks so much scott. more than 80000 people in a tory province in the democratic republic of congo remain trapped by ongoing ethnic violence the fighting in recent weeks has killed at least 100 people and displaced hundreds of thousands some have fled to lake albert in neighboring uganda where catherine soissons this report. james has suffered what no child should has just arrived at this refugee transit center in uganda after escaping an attack on he's village in the democratic republic of congo the 14 year old was separated from his 7 siblings and mother who he last saw running away from an attacker with a machete i was running by go with. my mother or. my

mother. and for me i just did. on still one with. my mom but by the time. he came to my mom. the village attack is just one of many many years of conflict between the lendu and hamad ethnic groups the fight by tribal militias need to a province is of a farm land and mineral reaches some say their rivalry has been politicized or paint his father was killed in another round of violence last year. has also just arrived in uganda the 15 year rules also conch tracy spire and he's one of about $4000.00 congolese who recently fled to uganda mainly from villages on the shores of lake albert which podesta dossie people are coming here with what ever they could and it's not much what we've also know from the huge families and many

children some with quite difficult stories of what they experienced back home the processing they're going to be taken to a reception area and then on to a settlement which will be for now. the u.n. refugee agency says a large number of children are arriving it's a concern. they will have a different way of police but it is informing those. that this one is a. and then right there when. their partner will take over that bed. across the board at any to the region local government and catholic church leaders are appealing for humanitarian help for up to 400000 internally displaced congolese aid agencies i guess to get to those who most need help because the security situation remains volatile says. that besides the hundreds of

thousands displaced people in come we have more than $80000.00 still trapped in some conflict areas in this situation is bad and so are their old it's very difficult to get those areas to rescue them back in uganda prepared his bed for the night he's safe for now but worries that his family able to escape to catherine sigh al jazeera lake albert. senior white house advisor and president trump son in law john krishna has laid out the 1st part of the so-called deal of the century that's the middle east peace plan he says it's based on $50000000000.00 of investment more than half would be spent on palestinian infrastructure over 10 years the rest would be split between egypt lebanon and jordan one of the main projects is a $5000000000.00 transportation corridor to connect the occupied west bank and gaza

nearly 2000000000 will also be injected into the palestinian tourism industry is trying to drum up support for the 179 infrastructure and business projects ahead of an international conference and behind next week palestinian political leaders are boycotting the event very very few use the talks of the u.s. since it recognized jerusalem as israel's capital in 2017. the plan would invest about $50000000000.00 in the region would create a 1000000 jobs in the west bank and gaza take their unemployment rate from about 30 percent single digits it would reduce their poverty rate by half if it's implemented correctly it's a 10 year plan that would double their g.d.p. we've had a peer reviewed now by about a dozen economists and dozen countries and we're very excited to put it forward donald trump has decided to delay mass deportation raids against illegal migrants for 2 weeks to work with democrats on immigration issues the raids were expected to

target hundreds of families facing deportation orders in 10 u.s. cities on sunday trump says the default haitians will begin if a compromise can be reached to close immigration loopholes large parts of india are suffering their worst drought in decades and that's forcing many farmers to abandon their land after their crops fail many are moving to the cities only to find life there it's much better elizabeth for a reports from one of india's hardest hit regions the western state of maharashtra . pandit on more days left his 40000 square meter cotton farm in his village 6 months ago he now lives in this cramped rented room with his family. 2 years of drought have forced him to find work as a laborer in one of the many factories in the city of about. it is very difficult

to live in the city i feel very good but then what can i do i have to live. nearly 3 quarters of the state of maharashtra is suffering drought and crop failure . farmers often take out loans to buy seeds and if they crops fail they can't pay back the money. there have been heavy loans because for the last couple of years there have been no rings there have been 4 or 5 suicides in our village the plight of farmers has been a major problem in india in recent years more than 300000 farmers have killed themselves in the past 25 years a study found a 5th of those deaths were due to climate change or even a marginal increase in rainfall let a few a suicide that here. the government has encouraged farmers to insure their crops against failure through a nationwide scheme they say they have distributed more than $60000000.00 to farmers in this district this year. and the condition of crops there is

a prime minister's scheme and i will get the insured amount. but many of those who are supposed to gain protection say it doesn't work. says insurers won't cover his silk farm and morris says he also can't get support it has a rich poor people the middlemen big door so it doesn't benefit the poor farmers. and our mentalist say what's really needed is for farmers to stop relying on crops like cotton and sugar cane which takes lots of water to grow. if you look at b it's continuously in drought because of sugar factories i think if this problem needs to be solved we should work on cropping patterns. but changing types of crops and where and when they're grown will take time so back in the city more day waits and hopes the rains will come and he can go back to work in his fields elizabeth

al-jazeera. for now afghanistan have narrowly missed out on the biggest win in their christian history they lost a tight world cup match against india by just 11 runs sile malik reforms. if you gave afghanistan a chance against india but they look good early on picking rohit sharma for just one there are kohli got india on track i'd. but when he fell for 67 leaving india on 135 full afghanistan had real hope. they managed to restrict india to less than $100.00 runs in the final 20 overs the men in blue ending on a modest $220.00 full freight afghanistan didn't have the best start to the chase. by filling in the 7th over they recovered though and managed to get beyond 100 for the loss of just 2 wickets but disaster struck in the 29th over by just being too

much getting to wiki. the afghans didn't give up though they have enough these costs and to got to verify no been needing 60 runs but a mohammed shami hattrick ended afghanistan's dream india winning it by 11 runs and the 9 afghanistan a memorable with the helmet al-jazeera. you zealand have maintained their own beaten back old they beat the west indies but only just came in williamson scored 148 to help them post 291 the windies struggled in response and looked out of it at 164 for 7 of the century from carlos braithwaite gotten close he couldn't finish the job oh birthrates failing in the penultimate over the black caps winning by 5 rounds.

and let's take you through some of the headlines if he appears chief of defense has been shot dead in the capital addis ababa generals they are in my column was gunned down on the same day there was a failed coup attempt on the regional government leader numb harvest date sudan's leading protest group says it's accepted a plan for a transitional government the plan proposes the creation of a governing body made up of civilian and military members the us president says the only stop strikes against iran for now the prospect of military action remains on the table the u.s. is imposing additional sanctions against iran which will go into effect on monday. iran right now is an economic mess they're going through hell the sanctions have had a hard war sanctions are going to be put off a lot more it's hard to believe you could even put on but it's the best geared

around want to become a wealthy nation to get become a profit they will call it let's make a run rate again does that make make the right way to get ok with me but they never going to do it if they take a 5 or 6 years to get out of a nuclear weapon i know too much about nuclear a lot about nuclear and let me just tell you they're not going to have a nuclear weapon. photos in turkey's largest city a stumble have been costing their ballots in a controversial rerun of this year's election to choose a new mayor the result of the 1st vote was an old altar a legal challenge by the ruling out party over alleged irregularities north korea's leader has praised a personal letter from president donald trump kim jong un says he will seriously consider its content he said the letter was excellent but didn't say what it was about. say headlines the news continues here now desir of people in

power. sri lanka's easter sunday bombings reverberated around the world with religious and ethnic tension rising one a one east investigates it is the new front line in sri lanka. 0. in 2017 a referendum cuts alone in independence spot to respond to spend state i made accusations politicians behind the pope were committing rebellion over the past 4 months those charges being leveled again in a controversial criminal trial raising serious questions about the independence of the spanish tradition we went to find out why.

it's been called spain's trial of the century. and it's divided the nation 12 cattle and leaders accused of sedition and rebellion after calling a referendum on independence from spain. the whole independence bubble is just going down normality is coming little by little to cut alone what we have seen is full to cover oppression and violation of fundamental rights so now we have even more reasons to want independence. on the 6th of september 27th teen the cattlemen regional parliament took

a vote which was to precipitate the biggest crisis in the history of spain's relatively young democracy. oh well that is the deal a lot of opposed to be. told that they. don't offend doing that unless you're willing julia ward a lot of them going in the spanish capital of madrid the decision to hold the referendum was met with outrage that the government backed by the country's constitutional court made clear the spanish nation was in divisible cool threats break up unconstitutional the referendum would be on your full and it would be stopped. in barcelona's extensive talks to when congress lee decorated cruise ships arrived commendation

the thousands of state police drafted into catalonia by the spanish government. the scene was set for a major confrontation. on the 1st of october 2017 the morning of the referendum more than 2000000. in defiance of a huge police presence. concealed in bin liners to puting stations. is. civill out in force. they smash their way into hiding stations in such a ballot boxes. police personnel wearing balaclavas

confiscated books isn't papers. others physically sculpt people. enjoy rayna with a cotton president was due to vote and in towns across. the police operation was. with remarkable disregard for the t.v. cameras and maybelle phones recording everything they did the police force for the trad finches from hiding stations seemingly recall edges of their age from her ability. to many villages raise their hands in peaceful protest. last

august who sat on the ground in a bid to defend polling stations. dragged off by the police. i. i. still offered flower as a symbols of peace. little but. outside one polling station ramon u.a.e. primary school in barcelona the police operation was particularly heavy handed. i one of the men caught up in it was a musician who has been you. know you are not alone. in the

gusta. well. the thing was i went beyond the laws and then. when i went up thinking analysis or when the police tried to leave with confiscated boxes and others attempted to block their way. into the last. study and other i mean with a lot of other what i think on this. weekend the police began firing plastic bullets at the crowd. pushing was struck down becky on his right eye paramedics rushed him to hospital for emergency surgery but you don't time only look for a little blood but an obvious you don't see given the numbers in the local. hundreds of bridges that referendum day. something seriously.

despite the police a tense just told him nearly half of the population of catalonia either very cheated or tried to. but the result of the referendum was controversial people opposed to cutters on independence night feeds demonstrators had mostly boycotted the vote will soon with the footie 3 percent of the electorate did manage to cost a fate 92 percent voted for independence. in truth as far as complete homes. actually remains pretty evenly divided on the only similarity. in the tense days that phone age the spanish government declared its intention to suspend the cattle and. ornament. the catalans

responded by signing the declaration of independence. 3 days later spain's attorney general made an announcement. coffeecup going to list the list the quinta and begin them by none other than the are the only the ministry of the skull that of course does indicate they got one of the leaders there very early on said if you own my little study on the score it shows. by level of politicos that i get it only that they got the lumia. of these charges perhaps the most serious is that of rebellion suggesting the accused instigated a violent insurrection against the state. particularly as minister for foreign relations post-school not allegation. all the violence that was on that day was perpetrated by the spanish police troops which were sent 600000 to.

brutalize the people who were voting but if found guilty of rebellion the accused face sentences of up to 25 years in jail. some including the president called us puja among escaped into exile he's now in belgium from where he continues to campaign. but others politicians and civic leaders attended court as instructed. when they were refused bail. in title 9 which taken into custody some spending 17 months in jail before the trial even began. their lawyers contended the refusal of bail as a clue to attempts to silence them. migraines are in pretrial detention got it

george. said that they didn't like start their political careers so we have some citizens former legal representatives that are in jail because they are all issues. but spain's center right party papuan in kaufman twin the charges when a comprehensive plea reject scattered on planes this is a political trial and a denial of free speech. i know is part of the narrative is part or the stress that the defense of the independent is i was brought in on the time but i cannot accept that this program and i will never share any any doubt about it in the been done so that you can see it on we're a full democracy there is no risk of freedom of speech i think there is too much freedom of speech and all parties say yes because everyone can say whatever and with no consequences and that is ok but that's the thing that's freedom of speech i

hear there is such a freedom of speech here in spain that you've heard everything on the contrary at the same time so freedom of speech is not a risk now responsible because. then in june 28th seen the party people who are government of my own notify was forced out of office leaving spain's new center left socialist party government to defend the trial. but a propaganda video produced by the new government in a bid to redeem spain's reputation with cruelty and featuring the town which again this is the real space was quickly mocked by pretty dependent supporters. this is the response is that last minute. this is. the new spanish government's representative in pattern lumia acknowledges that

there was a problem you're going to move the calendar there's no. luck but you'll go with the humility saying you'll say throw the loudest poster for it like you will but she defends the trial itself. they committed by this by now at least another pretty motherly the who they were said leave it but up a little harder but at the last of this issue and. form a supreme court judge martine piolín has a very different view. about is so. surreal to even every 5 most men look at possible relations here. or see that other common or the sort of the next bully course or. at the very early it or move. into the ready or own that lead to a safe here.