big scheme the right. age pensions are going to go on beyond the horizon b. i'm not sure maximum pressure alone without any light at the end of this convo is going to be effective pressure from a single pressure is not effective pressure is that it will be run you know what some sort of carrot and there's a rise out of us i'm sorry to cut you off we are out of time appreciate your time thank you. doctors in the democratic republic of congo have quarantined 15 people in south kivu province of affairs they've been infected by it by a lot until now the area has managed to avoid the epidemic that has swept across the eastern d.l.c. all 15 are members of the same family and recently returned from goma where a 2nd person died from a bola on wednesday catherine sawyer has more now from my right. this is the clinic

in goma where the man sought help before he died he fell sick days after returning home from an ebola infected area where he was working in a mining area the clinic is now closed some clinicians have been vaccinated and health workers are trying to trace people the victim made contact with. more than a 1000000 people live in this city on the border with rwanda had to call juanita we did not know what was happening we just saw people looking like doctors carrying him away they said they will come back to the vaccinators. she says we have got my resident because we have seen how people are dying it would temper and benny night and day. the 2nd worst outbreak in the country's history was declared a year ago and has since claimed the lives of 1700 people it's 2nd only to the outbreak in west africa that killed 11000 people 5 years ago health workers trying

to combat the outbreak are having to deal with militia groups and communities both hostile to them as well as poor infrastructure in vast regions where villages are hard to reach. for to mark a humble is an airball a survivor who spends her time taking care of children whose parents are the sick or dead she also talks to people and have believed in the town of benny about the importance of health care some congolese want to know about a new a ball a vaccine they've hired about from other jungle but some people are saying the new proposed vaccine isn't good enough workers need to seem surprised people so they can understand because this virus needs to go away the proposal by the world health organization to use a vaccine for clinical trials is controversial critics say the drug is experimental and shouldn't be tested on congolese people w.h.o. says vaccination is important for research expert.

trying to get more information on the. effectiveness of more concrete recommendations the best way because briggs says a lot. for the 1st back in goma doctors try to work out how to stop the disease from spreading health workers in goma say the wall prepared to deal with this situation they've set up hand washing points in different parts of the city they say the treatment centers are well equipped and they have enough personnel but they're also warning people to keep vigil avoid unnecessary contact with each other not to worry but people that we've been speaking to in goma a telling us it's very difficult to keep calm at this moment catherine soy al-jazeera nairobi kenya. sudanese protest leaders of called for a 1000000 man march on thursday to demand justice for the killing at least 6 demonstrators earlier this week rallies have been taking place across it all since security forces opened fire on

a student protest in north korea on monday if morgan has more now from neighboring ethiopia. for the 3rd successive day students in various parts of sudan raise their voices calling for justice and accountability and trials for the soldiers who opened fire on fellow students on monday at least 6 were killed and dozens injured in north dakota fun as they protested about the cost of living the protesters called for justice i repeated by the african woman. i went in that it had to be 3 of the african union kids it directly denounces the killing of students taking pass in a peaceful protest and offer our condolences to the families of those who lost their lives we urge the quick arrest of those responsible for the killings and for them to stand trial and face punishment according to the laws in this country. monday's shooting happened as high school students complained about the lack of bread and the rising costs of fuel and transport as students took to the streets to mourn and

voice their anger at monday's killings the military council blamed the opposition put to death and ordered the closure of schools nationwide the opposition coalition known as the forces of freedom and change continues to negotiate with the military to form a transitional government oh it's aimed at replacing the military rule in place since longtime president already bashir was ousted in april the sudanese communist party one of the opposition parties which is part of the coalition an ounce that it wouldn't participate in talks to form a government. and we as a party will not go down that path or play a role in the transitional authority are communist party takes the side of the masses we will escalate the situation in the streets and continue efforts to achieve the hopes and aspirations of our people to bring about radical change. most of the protests have been led by the sudanese professional association it says the communist party is refusing to participate in tulsa negotiations and called for more protests to pressure the military to relinquish power. since al bashir was

toppled all the parties said they would not participate in any of the levels of the transitional authority so the communist party is no different but that does not mean that those parties will not take on the future government a civilian government has been the demand of demonstrators ever since they took to the streets in december now they're also demanding justice and accountability for the rising number of protestors being killed while campaigning for change he morgan under their own. still has on the program who can take hold of donald trump look at the democratic challenge is it to become president. hello that expect a bit of

a cooling off embers then not particularly cold but sunny the time is it low that we have seen just lately in a feeble cloud of analysts satellite streaming into towards the southwest is the usual areas saying of course the worst of the weather but no real rain in the for cos you may just have a scout a shine to her about 12 degrees that's at 900 sydney's a little bit to cool it has been there but also 20 degrees in brisbane so as a few degrees below what we've seen lately 20 degrees in the past it's been at that sort of level after last couple days i will state that as well and no real change you can see on friday as the 20 again in brisbane and 17 degrees celsius in sydney then we head across tools new zealand not a bad day on thursday quite a bit of the last year as again bringing just a scattering of showers but both cries judge norton should stay dry on thursday or you will have but a cool down particularly in the overnight hours and with the moisture that's around that will certainly produce some snow to the alps as we head through friday and again you could see want to 2 showers there but not a bad day in oakland with a high of 14 celsius and we've also continued that sort of dry spell across much of

japan that is one of 2 business of cloud and again the child maybe into tokyo the korean peninsula not bad as we go through thursday the rain pushing in to the north as we head through friday but warm in seoul at 33 in the same in tokyo. america is divided like never before each side is so convinced that they are absolutely correct that the other side is dangerous people in power investigates how pot is empty. takes on eroding the civil norms vital to american democracy every indicator shows america to be the least well functioning democracy of any establish democracy. one of the strange death of american civility on al-jazeera.

talking back and reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. treasury department has imposed sanctions on iran's foreign minister mohammad job at zarif serif has responded saying it's because he's quote a threat to the us agenda. doctors in the democratic republic of congo have quarantined 15 people in south kivu province over fears they've been affected by it until now the area has managed to avoid the epidemic that is swept across the eastern d.l.c. . and cities process leaders of called for a 1000000 man march on thursday to demand justice for the killing of at least 6 demonstrators earlier this week. now the 2nd set of u.s. democratic presidential candidates take to the debate stage in the coming hours to

try to outshine last night's contentious with 20 people vying for the nomination the event has had to be split across 2 nights let's go live to detroit and speak to john hendren so john what are we expecting from these candidates tonight. the validity tonight is going to widely seen as the big night in this debate this 2 part debate and that's because joe biden is producer begin to he's leading in the polls right now some people say he was the winner of last night's debate despite the fact that he wasn't there and that's because the progressives. johnny to that debate and the moderate who was standing in essentially for biden was a little known maryland congressman former congressman named john delaney and he was pretty much devastated taking attack after attack by elizabeth warren by group did not perform particularly well in the 1st debate he was attacked by camila harris on his past views on civil rights. bussing minorities into

better schools and he didn't respond particularly well so tonight his campaign says he's not going to be such a nice guy he's going to be standing right between his 2 bit biggest critics that is harris on the one side and cory booker on the other both of them senators both of them african-americans and both of them critical of his civil rights record cory booker has been particularly critical critical of biden on criminal justice that because biden sponsored a bill in 1094 that among other things made crack cocaine a crime that was punished more heavily than regular cocaine that affected the african-american community and booker has been talking about that all week he's also not doing particularly well in the polls so you can expect him to really strike back tonight last night we saw some fireworks tonight we're expecting to see some more as going to very interesting but what's going to happen in the race moving forward aleph to these debates. will this is the stage in the debates

where in the race where things start to winnow down we've got 20 candidates right now it's unmanageable if you look at that stage they had 2 nights with 10 candidates apiece in each of them only gets a few words and so what happens now after this debate is that the rules get stricter for the next series of debates those are in september and that means that fewer candidates are going to follow 5 instead of the 20 now perhaps fewer than 10 and what that means is that funding and support for those other candidates is likely to dry up and right now you've you've got just about said. in a way candidates who have qualified for that the top runners right now according to polls are joe biden elizabeth warren. harris and. forgive me i'm blanking for the moment but those are the ones that are going to continue having all support bernie sanders by the way said other candidates. they're going to continue get funding no matter what but you've got a couple of moderates who have really moved up and that's harrison pete who

performed well in the 1st night of debates last night they're really neither in the moderate nor progressive camp so you've got a couple options you could end up with a moderate versus a progressive or someone right in the middle likely this field goal will be narrowed down very much shortly after this debate for some of them the race is probably just about over and for ones like you narrowing the race from 20 down to a few would be a lot easier with life back in detroit thank you. well person germany and france have also united nations security council for a closed door meeting to address north korea's latest missile launches state media reports that leader kim jong un personally oversaw wednesday's operation and that it confirmed the effectiveness of the weapon pyongyang fired 2 short range ballistic missiles from the city of one san they flew around 250 kilometers before crashing into the city it comes just days after the north carried out 2 similar

missile tests. from the south korean capital seoul. this latest missile firing is being viewed with deep concern here in south korea it's the 2nd double launching of short range ballistic missiles in less than a week and the 3rd missile launch to take place since may in direct contravention of the landmark military agreement signed between north and south korea last september during the period of improving relations that was meant to have put an end to testings like this one south korea's defense minister has said that if the north continues with threats and provocations like this then it would have to be considered an enemy so there has been some very strong words used by south korea contrasting with all of the period of reconciliation that we've had over the

past year and a half or so north korea said when it launched missiles last week that that should be considered to be a solemn warning to south korea being very careful not to direct any of its anger all wrath at the americans and that u.s. president donald trump in particular but this does seem to be a reminder from them about the size of their nuclear and missile arsenal that yes this is only a short range missile but it is a reminder that they are serious about getting the u.s. back to the negotiating table and eventually getting some relief from the crippling sanctions a kenyan hotel has reopened 6 months after it was at the center of an attack by al-shabaab fighters 21 people were killed and 4 gunmen and a suicide bomber stormed the hotel where reports from my raby. 2 hotel in kenya's capital nairobi wants the world to know it's open for business

once again. it was a different picture 6 months ago gunmen from the mali armed group al-shabaab attacked. it says it wants kenya's army to leave neighboring somalia. one of them detonated a suicide bomb i just saw something like a back like a gas explosion tracy 10 so it always was something i saw like an explosion from here so i saw a hand that i don't know whether it was a hand or it was a leg for you down there so she hid inside the hair salon where she worked into police came but since that day i have feel like even to do when i came in i just shed tears because they act like a so how could risky get me into such an emotional moment for me. but the message of the hotel management and politicians is defiant. and this is. not what we.

visitors come to see. soldiers and police arrived within about half an hour of the attack starting they swept through the buildings they rescued hundreds of people killed the remaining attackers and the whole thing was over in less than 24 hours the security agencies respond with scene is much more effective than in previous attacks. when i sent gunmen to the westgate shopping mall 6 years ago the attack blasted hours but security forces besieged it for days shops were looted by soldiers dozens died. the bloodiest attack in kenya by al-shabaab was a university in 2015 nearly 150 students were killed repeated requests for security at the campus had been ignored. it began when kenya's army

entered somalia 8 years ago along with its allies it controls the major cities a terrorist group could be degraded their military power could be diminished as been consistently done in somalia but that does not mean that they they cannot mount attacks inside somalia in kenya and other places to carry out attacks to announce that they are still relevant. to do city maybe back up on its feet the security is now tighter here. kenya's conflict with al shabaab is far from over. malcolm webb al-jazeera nairobi kenya. and reminder the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s.

treasury department has imposed sanctions on iran's foreign minister mohammed javid zarif they include freezing his assets in the u.s. as well as travel restrictions u.s. officials have also said they do not consider as a reef quite a significant decision maker in any future talks on the iran nuclear tail well ali is a reef warm but iran will further scale back its commitments to the tail unless europe does more to protect the agreements the foreign minister wants the remaining signatories to shield iran from u.s. sanctions and allow it to sell oil wealth and children has more well the primary reason why the administration says at least in legal terms that it is sanctioning mohammed's odds are if the iranians foreign minister is because he leads an office that cooperates with the authors of the supreme leader the ayatollah ali husseini on the day and the offices efforts to crush political dissent within the country to destroy human rights to basically support groups such as hezbollah and hamas as

well as to try to destabilize other countries through the deployment of its own. soldiers or to fund other insurgent groups season a protest leaders have called for a 1000000 man march on thursday to demand justice for the killing of at least 6 demonstrators earlier this week rice have been taking place across since security forces you can follow the student protest in north korea final monday the teenagers were demonstrating against few 100 children. burson germany and france have also united nations security council for a closed door meeting to address north korea's latest missile launches state media reports that leader kim jong un personally oversaw wednesday's operation that it confirmed the effectiveness of the weapon pyongyang fired 2 short range ballistic missiles in the city of one song they flew around 250 kilometers before crashing

into the sea those the headlines next up people power looks at how society has changed in america. the wilderness of cambodia is under threat. to profit by illegal timber trade. investigates the plunder of cambodia's forests. dizzier. america's seems more disunited going to any point in recent history its politics undermined by partisan divisions consensus on almost anything impossible to achieve so what's with the policies that once held this huge democracy together where could that this lead in the 1st of 2 special reports. this be to investigate.

america today is a house divided now by slavery which abraham lincoln warned would lead to the us civil war of the 260 s. but by toxic partisanship between democrats and republicans the nation's 2 main parties i'm angry at democrats because of what they do to our country right now we have people in congress that hate our country. we have a president who intentionally purposely trying to go boy a dog loved by the cold i was scared by our joined up to the republicans have

become complicit in bringing down the character of the united states president trump keeps just fooling knowing it that character and our republican friends think you're shrug their shoulders. partisan rancor has worsened since the release this year of special counsel robert mothers report on his investigation of president trump and russian interference in the 2016 presidential race appreciate very much what mr moller did for the country. i have read most of the report for me. it is republicans believe that the mother report clear trump the real scandal they claim is that the f.b.i. spied on his campaign has the f.b.i. ever launched a counterintelligence investigation of another president that you're aware of not to my knowledge that's the real crisis here if this can go on to the united states of america we don't have a democracy anymore democrats counter that muller's report provides ample evidence that the president obstructed justice and committed other misdeeds that warrant his

impeachment we took an oath to protect and serve the constitution of the united states of america and the way we do that is we began impeachment proceedings now. each side is so convinced that they are absolutely correct that they are morally. and truly correct that the other side is dangerous liana mason is a professor at the university of maryland a recent book on civil agreement examines why partisan polarization in incivility are so extreme now in the united states trump isn't the cause of a lot of discord that we're seeing he probably makes it worse but but one of the things he has done is actually to bring out into the open these divides that have been accumulating between the parties so you argue that the democrats and republicans represent 2 mega identities today we've seen a process of what i call social sorting and what that means is that basically

between the 1960 s. and now the parties have grown more socially distinct from each other their public and party has become largely white christian rural somewhat more male and the democratic party is sort of everyone else and so it starts to feel like every election isn't just about our parties competing it's about our racial groups and our religious groups and our geographical groups and if you lose it's not just your party that lost it's all the things that make up your individual identity all the groups that you feel attached to it's almost like they've all lost to this sorting of people into 2 political camps fuel stereotyping and distrust in the 2018 poll by nielsen 70 percent of republicans and 60 percent of democrats agreed that the opposing party is a serious threat to the united states as we become more socially distinct as partisans it's a lot easier to dehumanised the other groups and so we start to think of the other

side as not only opponents but actually enemies and dangerous why is the rise of partisan mega identities a threat to democratic norms but the constitution wasn't written for parties if you care only about whether your party wins or loses and you care about nothing else then there is no. running there is no accountability there's no impeachment the only thing that matters is beating the other side and being winners again. in order to investigate political division in the us what americans think about toxic partisanship and where it's taking the country we headed to north carolina the state is a hotbed of partisan conflict north carolina is ground 0 when it comes to polarization and that's been true for decades now rob christiansen is a political author and reporter and worked at the rally news in observer for 45 years the problem trying to figure out the state of the strategy is that the states not one thing it's many things that has a little bit of alabama in it state has

a little bit of silicon valley in it state has a little bit of berkeley in it the state has little bit of harlem in it i mean it's a really interesting mix and a very volatile mix in 2020 the republican national convention will be held in north carolina underscoring the state's importance in the presidential race north carolina has been very very close and almost every presidential election in recent decades barack obama carried more talented $1008.00 but it was a small slaughter of any state kerry and so the closeness of races in both parties think they can win it one day we're going to win the great state of north. 2016 donald trump campaigned hard in north carolina and won it by 3 and a half points down trump was in part a backlash against barack obama i think it was just total shock and an acceptance by some substantial minority of the population to see a black man as president states in 2007 whites in the rest were just as likely to

identify with democrats as republicans who bites fled the party during obama's presidency by 2016 there was a difference of 15 percentage points do you think race is at the core of polarization in north carolina and the nation as a whole race is certainly. a very very powerful issue having yet come to grips with north carolina played an important role in the american civil rights movement in 1964 african-american college students in greensboro shut down and white only lunch counter at all worst apartment storage daughter coffee they were arrested sparking a bunch counter sitting that lasted for 6 months so how old were you when you participated in the greens were saying i was 19 years old student and bennett college and we had just gotten the word of on johnson picketed at woolworths and sat at the counter herself she currently serves on the greensboro city council. when you look for gas that around here we were so excited that it was an

opportunity to get rid of some of that injustice that we had been experiencing all our lives what was life like for african-americans here in north carolina in 1960 i'm the product of segregated schools there gated waiting rooms the colored and white water fountains sydney in the back of the bus so it was it was harmful it was terrible how did the word sit in come to an end it came to a new when the mayor and the powers that be get together and they began to open businesses to african-americans to restaurants and facilities to and it spread like wildfire this is not a tactic that could work the woodward sit in was a catalyst for a youth led sit in movement that helped create momentum for the passage of the civil rights act of 1964 in the 1965 voting rights act moderate democrats led the fight for the legislation setting the stage for the regional sorting between the

parties that we see today i do date this back to the mid 1960 s. when the democratic party chose to be the party of civil rights that really angered a huge portion of the people who identified as democrats namely white southern democrats the change was gradual for some people but it helped pull away a lot of conservative democrats into republican for they started voting for people like george wallace who was a democrat although he ran some point this is 3rd party and then the century they began crossing over into voting for richard nixon or ronald reagan or don't trump that this is happening all across the south dividing up along racially polarized lines but you know that's true down. a good example of this racial shift between the parties took place in the north county north carolina there were once plantations with slaves here and in kinston there is a replica of a confederate gunship in the center of town at the visitor center we met up with mike parker the commander of the local chapter of the sons of confederate veterans

all of us are descendants of confederate soldiers more manned in the civil war than died in all the other wars we've ever fall put down here it involved almost every family and this is one reason i think why in the south the civil war is such a big deal there are about 800 sons of confederate veterans chapters across the american south how big a battle was it here the lines went on for several miles too bloody civil war battles were fought in kinston are you concerned about the divisions in american society today yes i'm concerned because it shows a tremendous lack of open mindedness and respect down here is there a racial split between the parties i would say most african-americans are a service democrats and probably 2 thirds of white voters are registered as republicans so that's a shift from years past yes do you think that racial tensions got worse as

a result of president obama being elected to the presidency it's too easy to just say well he was a black man therefore white people didn't like him. there are there are people who just say look we don't want socialism we don't want these huge government programs and i think obama also put in you know he constantly seemed to me to play a race card what race card do you think he played i think he played a card i think he played the blackguard. do you support president trunk i support him oh many things i think his economic policies are sound i think his position on trying to secure our borders is sound. and parker supported president trump's response to in august 2017 unite the right rally in charlottesville virginia trump acquitted white supremacist organizers of protesters who came to confront the issue . i think is blamed on both sides and i have no doubt about it and you don't have

any doubt about it either growl he was organized to protest the removal of a statue of confederate general robert e. lee violence or rocked it in more than 30 injured in a counter protester dead. but you also had people that were. very fine people on both sides he wasn't talking about there being good people among the white supremacy and clay and there were a lot of other people who were there that were defending that monument who were the good people that were there defending the monument i'm sure that there were some people who were just history buffs i mean not everybody who thinks a monument should should stay where they are is a racist one doesn't need to be racist in order to. still be ok with a system that systematically oppresses non white groups. and that's what's affiliated with the republican party it's not that everyone in the.