underground cabins near a benteke and cemetery the cold case has generated years of conspiracy theories. now years of war and stability have damaged iraq's gas and oil infrastructure leaving it dependent on energy imports despite having huge reserves but the government wants to change that for the help from both of the seas and best and some of the job i reports from a bear in the 1st of all series on iraq's energy challenges. claims like this one help keep the lights on across iraq electricity is in high demand specially during the summer in power plants rely on gas most of it comes from fields like the basra gas field in the south and because it's associated gas with oil a single will provide support or oil and gas but iraq doesn't produce enough gas for its power stations a 3rd of what it needs is imported from iran. in the 1980 s. raining jets took out most of iraq's oil and gas infrastructure and the sanctions

that followed saddam hussein's invasion of kuwait stalled any redevelopment now iraq's economy is weak the u.s. is an important ally and both saudi arabia and iran are its neighbors iranian gas is a burden on baghdad stretched budget and a loaded issue for domestic and regional politics prime minister mehdi wants to make iraq energy independent his oil minister has already signed multibillion dollar deals with international companies such as honeywell eggs on and shell unfortunately because of those who were delayed and that's why really the guys and us who was lagging behind. we are concentrating on this and the possible use to burn more than 50 per cent for 2 years to 3 years ago we are now at that i think about $55.00. $45.00 i want to be realistic for the 5 years that will be i would be there to say there would be. those of use you know

ok and this of course will lead to many advantages one of course a white in gaza for about a generation that will definitely make. energy independent we don't need to import and of course and instead of burdening we can make you know i've been you know that with. maintaining a gas field under $46.00 degrees is anything but easy but these iraqis are making sure that they continue to pump the gas which helps run their country besides the gas needed for electricity these gas fields also produce other types for domestic use and export 75 percent of it they provide petroleum gas or l.p.g. come from the gulf but it is a facility which is more than 25 years old that's why this section of the plant is being renovated it's electrical mechanical the instruments or are being replaced. to do these upgrades requires major investment rox government says despite

obstacles like corruption and an unstable region investors are coming to back that . the month and you know gas is their primary resource in the southern region especially to generate electricity most of the old power plants were motor fired from liquid fuel operations to cast power plants has there was an urgent need for investment and to upgrade production as tensions escalate between us and iran iraq wants to diffuse so it can attract more companies to help achieve baghdad becoming energy independent. down to 0 holders of air bus or. and on monday we'll bring you the 2nd report. at a look at the iraqi government's plans to increase oil production. now fluoride has long been added to drinking water and countries around the world to improve dental health because there's not enough of the mineral and natural water supplies but in some nations like ethiopia there's too much of it and that is causing health

problems meha than has more from the town of marjah. it's tasteless odorless and invisible but the effects are obvious high fluoride levels and water cause teeth discoloration and in extreme cases bone decay but a solution ironically comes from bones of a different kind specialist working for a nonprofit humanitarian organization in southeast ethiopia have figured out a way to absorb fluoride and water by using cow skeletons the idea is that water containing high fluoride levels sticks to the animal bones when put through a filter instead of harming human bones the process to make the bone charred takes weeks. we're inside the furnace and as you can imagine it smells awful and here it smells like death they just look the flame and these bones will essentially be baking at temperatures of 350 degrees celsius for at least 10 days until these bones are whittled down into bone char. the char is then ground

sifted and washed if fluoride levels are too high a more expensive chemical alternative is provided half of the battle with this program has been convincing communities that it's safe to drink water filtered by bones from what i'm most only take this product to the local community we were facing challenges and they asked if this was a muslim or christian slaughterhouse we finally convinced them that this was only from cattle. the chart is then brought to rural communities to be added to water supplies the rift valley has an unusually high level of fluoride because the volcanic rock naturally produces the chemical the world health organization recommends fluoride levels to be around $1.00 milligrams per liter in this village the level is 9 the excess levels of fluoride causes a chronic condition called fluorosis 67 year old fatality suffers from it as do most of his 9 children. and we get a new to the new rule i feel back pain enjoying to play him i can't sit down or

stand up properly and i also feel pain all over my body the effects of fluorosis are irreversible but increasing calcium intake can help 97000 people have been helped by the chart program but 16000000 are affected this project is just scratching the surface but for those in this village safer drinking water is making a difference leo harding al-jazeera mojo in southeast ethiopia. where the sports news coming up on the news al and they don't think legend calls time on his career to find out why.

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time to sport with the whole and you keeping a close eye on a couple of different races or a whole absolutely is thank you very much the german grand prix is well underway with lewis hamilton still leading at hockenheim going to start as i said with a different rice just a few hours until again better now almost certainly will become the 1st colombian winner of the tour de france the 22 year old will also be the youngest winner in more than a century he's more than a minute clear of the feel which means just the sound his bike during the final professional stage into paris it also means team in the us for many team sky 17 of the last i told one of the so he said a lot of that to be honest i still can't believe it i haven't even had time to think about it the message i want to send is that i feel really proud of being colombian i'm very proud of becoming the 1st colombian to win the tour de france. i just said to just enjoy it soak it all and. don't worry about crying because all

real mccoy. now it's amazing to be a visa phenomenal athlete $22.00 he's got maysan you're ahead of him it is just an honor to have been a part of this. and these are the same in both town of the pick you know it's about 40 kilometers north of the capital but the top hundreds of people here celebrating the heroes victory will not only will develop become the 1st colombian to win the tour de france but also the 1st winner from south america so what else do we know about the tour de france champion alecto you've just seen the scenes from his home town of the picking of the colombian city where he was born back in 9097 is 2650 meters above sea level which probably explains why he's been one of the best climbers on the top he 1st came to real prominence in 2080 were making his debut for team sky he won best young rider at the top down under in adelaide and he is the 2nd youngest ever winner of the top

the youngest well that was all recall mary he was 90 when he won the race back in 19 for. the last hours being reported that gareth barrels move from around madrid to chinese pub. is off the 30 year old had been expected to join the chinese super league club where he was set to work over $1200000.00 a week however the transfer has been blocked by around madrid after their board dana transfer fee insufficient file now looks set to stay despite the fact the royals manager's in against it and saying publicly very long that wanted the player at the club. some great pictures and sounds from the malaysia f.a. cup final what a world record was broken by the fans more than 3000 in kuala lumpur before kickoff and they did a viking class made famous for icing that year a $26.00 thing. in

my history when they use but will the claims it set a national record for the country's biggest viking club. imagine how big the world record is all swimming australia has then are trying to cover up one of its athletes filing a doctor to shine a jack tested positive for a banned substance 2 weeks before the world championships in south korea but the news only broke on saturday in our east taking the substance knowing the strain has had some encouraging since they were bound by strict rules and not allowed to reveal news of the file test until either the athlete or the drugs testing body announced. we're not trying to cover and you know we all know that a case like this you can't go over it i don't want to cover it up. we don't want to play the game either you know she's not here. and i think that actually shows that your friend is the worst it is not the 1st time and won't be the last but for us not for any other club more importantly and i think we've done that very well is

that you would never. go swimming australia will be especially embarrassed because that athlete mark horton has used the chairmanship to take a public stand against drugs he refused to share a podium with china sneering he has a dark case pending. mack has made a stand for something that he truly believes in and i think we actually have the same stance we absolutely do not want drugs and sport i think that match made a stance that he absolutely is comfortable with and would be comfortable with that . run up previously banned for dieting has won the 1st gold medal for the host peru the pan american games druggists a joy to win the women's marathon with a new record on competition record time she went to 4 years ago in toronto but was stripped of the title and banned for 6 months because of the filed our characters with a well supported race in lima and 100 fans also rewarded with a gold in the men's rights as well kristen picture of her forcing the mind. now

after the disappointment of missing the cut at his home open chairmanship role and back roy has stormed back with a stunning round to take the lead and jude invitational he shot an 8 under 62 on saturday which moved him from 17th all the way to the top of the leaderboard with a dog but it's still just one clear of the world number one brooks kept after all to play for on the final day. golfing legend tom watson's announce he's retiring after his final round at the senior open championship he's approaching his 70th birthday and says he doesn't have what it takes anymore some $18.00 majors. now there was an eventful climax to the b.m.x. world championships in belgium you're about to see the men's final as you can see there the weather we're out of in pole but it did make for some exciting racing one crash taking out a straight answer the dean worse was the comments later when 2 other riders david graf and your day took each other around to get into the netherlands managed to

avoid any mishaps to win the race the 27 year old got florida winning its 1st wild card. thank you very much and that does it for the news hour but do stay with us i'm back with another full news bulletin and just a couple of minutes we will be live in hong kong where those protests continue thousands of people thank you very much for watching. i have been looking at your instagram account and reading tags into the apples fall behind the scenes this is a dialogue when donald trump and elsa's karen say for president ever laughter that everyone has a boyce the best chance for democrats have to beat donald trump is to nominate an exciting inspirational college logic nominee join the global conversation on your thoughts to twitter and on al-jazeera. bogost and i just.

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hello and welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha with me out of the problem also ahead. a 2nd night of violence and hong kong a city reeling from weeks of anti-government protests that show no sign of ending. a general the russian opposition leader chatham is rated one covering the police crackdown on demonstrators. and the stakes debate why scientists are measuring the empath raising livestock has on the environment. airstrikes are intensifying in syria's problems despite warnings that war crimes are being committed at least 17 civilians including several children have been killed in the past 48 hours syrian government has been on a 3 month offensive aid groups are quoting the escalation a nightmare zain

a hole that has the latest from istanbul. another lifeless body pulled from the rubble another syrian child a victim of the airstrikes by russian and syrian warplanes the town of a rehab has been repeatedly hit in recent days and yet again residential buildings have been targeted have been how do you know you don't really know what the no rebel places will fall this is a residential neighborhood look children live here what is their crime the syrian people are being bombed by planes. and the un remained silent. as opposition controlled towns across the southern countryside of it live and northern hama are under fire people there say they are being bombed into submission but that surrendering is not an option since they have nowhere else to go this is the last rebel held territory in syria are people going to. do all this year and people need to die so that she can stay in power is everyone at their wrist except we moved

closer to the border with turkey but how do we know the players want to hit us here . the recent escalation in violence is worsening the displacement crisis according to the united nations many people are living in the open air because there is overcrowding in camps and reception centers more than 440000 syrians have been made homeless in the last 3 months how long then the. building was bones and all our belongings are under the rubble we came out and didn't know where to go we have nothing there's no water no bathrooms no tents for the children there under the sun . many people have been displaced more than once and many towns and villages are now empty. in our house and car as it's always heard so we left a hoss and again we were targeted we survived but our neighbor was martyred it was too dangerous to stay so we came here we hope this place will be safe. that will

depend on russia and turkey russia which backs the syrian government and turkey which supports the opposition co-sponsored a cease fire and last year the deal collapsed when russia supported a syrian government offensive in april blaming turkey for not fulfilling its commitments to an agreed demilitarized zone around the province turkey repeatedly said it needed more time because forcing some will groups from the zone would have put civilian lives at risk there is nothing that indicates the ceasefire will be revived soon. i just want to be able to play i just want to go home i just want to go to school that is no longer an option for many children 7 year old son has become another statistic in the escalating violence and despite criticism by the un over the international indifference nothing has been done to stop the bombing campaign. istanbul. moving on to other news to hong kong now where police have

5 multiple rounds of tear gas to disperse protesters gathering near the office of beijing's representatives in the city dozens of arrests have been made in the past hour as police try to clear people off the streets thousands from an early a peaceful rally in hong kong sent district special off and march 2 words police roadblocks let's go to our correspondent sara klock she is monitoring the protest for eyes in hong kong so once again the clashes between police and protesters say or where have these been taking place. where the main area now where the standoff is continuing between the police and the protesters you might be able to see behind me number of police vehicles about 10 minutes ago a police fought yet another round. on these protesters trying to push them back push them back out of central traffic through these streets i also believe this big rubber bullets made fun of it is great resistance from the protests front they've

come from. the stuff that you mentioned in central hong kong and china it split into full of like tensions now those tensions are joining this point and that simply because these protesters want to show the support to the other ones who've been on the phone about the place in this area which is essentially hong kong behind me the very tall building is the international finance sends us so if anyone knows hong kong we are right in the thick of it. hong kong there's a huge number place every single street behind me on my left and right hand side trying to clear these protesters out before the end of the not so a tense situation continuing this there are these protests have been taking place for 7 weeks now is they much anticipation about what the chinese are going to say tomorrow when they hold a briefing. great anticipation right anticipation about what they will cite some are it's a rare press conference to discuss this just. in hong kong this is basically the

chinese policy that the cheap chinese policy body who oversee which overseas hong kong and macau is a state of affairs is they going to do this press conference in the afternoon to discuss their life his position on hong kong and the ongoing protests that been dominating our weekends. here in the city for 4 weeks now as you mentioned several weeks the my months out of the beginning of june we're now almost at the end of july and the escalating our weather but with regards to the level of violence we saw a lot of clashes last not in your long between police and protesters we're seeing more violent clashes here again tonight sara thank you very much for that side correspondent sara clark keeping a close eye on the protests and hong kong. now russian activists say more than a 1000 people were detained in central moscow during a crack the olive demonstration they were protesting against the exclusion of all position of candidates from the neck sions the commons jailed opposition leader

alexina vali has been taken to hospital to be treated for a severe allergic reaction he's serving a 30 day prison sentence after calling for the on north rise of protests and moscow now has lot of internet t.v. channel was raided by police for covering the demonstrations on you tube presenter vladimir melanomas arrested broadcast police were also filmed by security cameras as they burst into the volleys anti corruption found offices around khan has the latest from moscow. one of the senior advisers his press secretary has actually tweeted this is a translation that i'm going to read from read to you from the russian today in the morning at 9 30 am local time alexina valley was hospitalized with a diagnosis of acute allergic reaction his face was seriously swollen and his skin went red it's unclear what caused the allergy he's never had any allergic reactions

in his life and he's currently in a hospital room guarded by policemen he's receiving necessary medical help that's all the updates we have on his condition right now however it's interesting that the press secretary would say that he's never suffered from an allergic reaction in his life and now suddenly he's got one now we've also been hearing from other people that have been prison they said the conditions there are very bad they are quite disgusting so it's quite possible that he could have had an allergic reaction now lost all this was going on of course the offices of his you tube channel were raided by police and there have been protests out on the streets on saturday in a number of people of been arrested but how many will it really depends on who you speak to this week the opposition activists will tell you that at least 1400 people have been. arrested the moscow city police official figures say 1074 people were arrested and a lot of those now have been released but these figures are always disputed between

the opposition activists and the police even when it comes to things like how many people were at the protests some people are saying opposition activists was at least 10000 people out on the streets the police said the official figure is 3 and a half 1000 now there's a lot of anger from these activists because they're very worried that local elections are coming up for the moscow city council duma and they're very worried the candidates have been banned reasons they're quite understand and that the kremlin is looking to stuff these elections full of their own loyalists the u.s. presidents twitter comments about a democratic congressman have been denounced as racist by house speaker nancy pelosi and logic cummings criticize u.s. policies on the mexican border and response donald trump quote i'm a brutal bully saying his baltimore just struck me as far worse and more dangerous than the southern border he also called cummings district what's largely black disgusting rat and rode into the festive mess

a congressman responded saying mr president i go home to my district daily each morning i wake up and i go and fight for my neighbors. as he has more from washington d.c. . another norm broken this is a us president denigrating a major american city that has happens to be mostly african-american and it's african-american congressman but the larger cummings is not an ordinary congressman he is an icon of the civil rights movement he has huge respect not only in his district but in the halls of congress the president has made it clear this is his strategy to get reelected he believes if you fires up his base core supporters of white supporters that they will come out in droves and they will get him another term there are a lot of analysts who are sending a warning message though about that strategy they look back to 216 and one of the reasons that trump won in this incredibly close election was because the vote was down in african-american communities and hispanic communities polls show that his racist tweets and comments are hurting his support among african-americans and

hispanics so what some analysts are warning while the president is firing up his own bases core support hasn't moved he's also firing up the base on the other side . still ahead on the bulletin the 100 refugees demand guarantees before they'll return home to myanmar. and to keep the lines of communication open for palestinian children arrested by israel. hello again it's good to have you back well here across the south china sea we are watching the potential of a tropical system that is going to be developing over the next few days and as you can see there are some clouds here just to the west of the philippines and so for the philippines we do expect to see some very heavy rain showers across parts of

western resign and that will also affect manila as well the circulation is quite we here on monday but as we go towards tuesday you notice that the system makes its way slowly to the northwest begins.