on monday at least 13 people have been killed and at least 2 dozen injured in an attack in syria's problems we're joined now by bernard smith who's in hatay that's on the turkey syria border hi there brian what else do we know right now. julie well we've had confirmation now from the americans from centcom that this was an air strike by the u.s. led coalition on a property to the east of the city and the u.s. centcom saying that this was a group affiliated to al qaeda training center or this group affiliated to al qaeda and we have also spoken. to local sources on the ground who confirmed that that is what this location was used for it was a location out of the center of it live in the countryside we have seen video where there is one clearly one injured child in the in this video and what we've been told by our sources is this center was essentially a training center for this al qaeda affiliated group anybody who wanted to join it

would come here for training and the problem is that they had very young people up through the age group to teenagers and to young men going through this training process so all age groups there and the americans saying this was an al qaeda training facility it's only the 2nd time this year that we know are all that we know of that the americans have hit a target by an airstrike in this rebel held part of northwestern. syria and it shows how concerned how severe the concerns are that there are these hardcore groups holding out that julie. there live from hatay bernard thanks for the update. still ahead on al-jazeera the far right is projected to make strong gains in germany state elections we report from the state that surrounds the. protests in the u.k. tens of thousands marched against the prime minister's plan to shut down parliament

for 5 weeks. hello there very unsettled picture across much of a southern china a lot of activity in the satellite and also you as and this is where i was saying the bulk of the rain but in particular the remnants of a potable but combined with the seasonal rains have really produced some heavy amounts of rain some flooding of course but also some wind damage with the remnants of that storm this is hanoi many many trees down and power lines as well as means of fairly widespread damage but this is the rain situation through sunday it stretches all the way from your non-problems right there way up to shandong so it really is a wet picture sunday but also a very wet picture continue on into monday and in fact the rains extending right the way across tools me amel this is where we see as much as 160 millimeters of rain in 24 hours in some locations as more rain in the fall calls the will be more

localized flooding and then across in india the rains are still coming down across and when the monsoon rains you can see across the northwest this is where we've got less in the way of cloud and less in the way of rainfall but as we go through sunday and in particular into monday the rains quite extensive on the west and gets pushed down into canada and then you notice on monday some darker areas and this is across into a dishes so this is because the some heavy rains and also right there on the coast into bangladesh and again as i said earlier we have got that rain continuing across into much of me. big stories generate fountains of headlines it seems that much the media is still struggling with how to deal with it with different angles from different perspectives and you hold a lawyer to separate the spin from the facts. the misinformation from journalism how careful must be your words but some tough stuff has to be said

to critics have to be listening post on al-jazeera. they're watching out to see or a mind of our top stories this hour protesters in hong kong set fire to barricades after a violent confrontation with police outside the government headquarters and he threw rocks and petrol bombs a police who responded with tear gas and water cannons to force pride's away. sidney's judge has formally charged the pool's president a while bashir with corruption and possession of illicit currency she had told the court he received $25000000.00 from saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon but

that he happened to use the money for private purposes. at least 13 people have been killed and at least 2 dozen injured in an air strike in syria if the province u.s. had confirmed the strike saying it was against an al qaeda target at least 550 civilians in a rented live died since april and other 400000 people have been displaced. the reuters news agency says a suicide bomber has attacked police including the us one of the stans biggest cities earlier the taliban launched a new friend. despite ongoing peace talks with the united states afghan military reinforcements rushed in to prevent the taliban taking control the government says at least 30 taliban fighters were killed 3 civilians are also reports of dead taliban's calling for all foreign forces to leave for the games is seen as strengthening withdrawal negotiations with the us well a spokesman for afghanistan's president ashraf ghani says the attack shows the taliban doesn't want peace. the taliban's attack on couldn't use contradicts what

it's saying in doha the attack shows that the taliban still isn't ready for peace they continue to fight well into sarcasm is the director of the center for peace and development studies and a former advisor to the afghan high peace council he says the taliban is trying to show strength in the hope it can get more out of those peace negotiations taliban would like to give 2 important signals to the united state. analysis shows that the cut the negotiation for the time to get started going very well for example the taliban knew she would like to cancel the strategic partnership between afghanistan and the united states maybe the united states includes are the envoy who will accept that but maybe with different conditions not happening for the time being sickened in the south of afghanistan i think there is some terrorism or very number

of. soldier are just raising their heads. would like to give a signal to the united states and also to other international community that they have to be crippling other to reason that rating from day to day also internally the did the taliban leadership would like to emphasize on the. boy that they have to be getting a bigger share in the in the negotiation with the with government side. well india nearly 2000000 people have been excluded from a citizens' register in us and could be left stateless as a result they will have to prove they're not foreigners or face detention a national register of citizen was created to determine who came to the state for neighboring bangladesh declared independence from the stan of some state is now on high alert extra security forces being deployed priyanka gupta reports from guwahati state. more than 1900000 people have been left out of

asylums updater finally richest of citizens that means they will now have to appeal to foreigners tribunals with evidence to prove that they are indian the decision on citizenship will be decided by foreigners tribunals the of course have the right to appeal it high court and supreme court but it is expected to be a long legal process as the government says about $200.00 foreigners tribe you know will start operating the coming few days and that number could increase to up to 1000 additional staff have also been appointed there are also promising legal aid for vulnerable and marginalized communities of different villages and towns but it's a mammoth process and this n.r.c. list seems to be just the beginning of what is likely to be a long drawn out legal process deciding citizenship of these more than 1900000000 people senior b.g.p. minister ahead of the draft ahead of the list being published has already voiced concerns about the fate of genuine citizens who might be left out and they are

saying that they want to make sure that indians are not left out of the fight and this said they have also promised support to all these people who might appear in foreigners tribunals obviously did national meanwhile has come up with a statement of voicing concerns about reports about decisions of foreigners tribunals that's being a part are. biased as well as discriminatory also has checked my is the director of the asian center for human rights he questions how people will be able to prove where they're from. well if do we are not. convinced the our treaties which are basically executive are treaties i do not expect that they will be able to convince the foreigners traveling on which to question tradition of what in fact going we had done the survey last month we had found that each person had spent roughly about 20000 feet so these people are the poorest and they don't have the

means and they have already in the process sold water available to the here so now if they have to challenge before the foreign minister i've been in as well as the high court the supreme court of course it's a huge amount of money between you know 2000 dollars to 5000 dollars at a minimum now if you're in a pocket income is about $500.00 per year how are you going to organize it so obviously these people will have nor option actually but we declare as foreigners finally be convicted as funny as because the prosecution has already started and they have no other option but they actually send to the attention center because the government of bangladesh is not going to you know take them and there are no documents for the government of india to prove that these people actually have come from bangladesh. south korean politicians a visit to disputed islands in the sea of japan attention continues to rise between the 2 countries they were there as protest against japan's decision to ban the

export of components and materials used in smartphone chips to japan's foreign ministry condemned their visit the screaming at us describing it as extremely regrettable known as dr o. in south korea and in japan the islands are controlled by so but claimed i took you . 2 states in the formerly communist germany are holding elections on sunday and the far right alternative for germany is expected to make big gains in bull one of the states is brandenburg which surrounds berlin as dominic came reports the fire rate is in contention to be the single largest party there. on a warm summer evening in you even these people have come to hear from the far right after the speaker is and they are skull bits the party's lead candidate in brandenburg and according to german media a man linked to neo nazi groups he denies some but not all of the claims the f.d.a. is popular in several areas of this state where unemployment remains higher than

the national average and towns like ligon have an aging population although the immigrant population here is tiny bits his message is uncompromising on than still are we demand criminal so called refugees who can eat imported must 1st be imprisoned one thing is clear integration means you adapt to the country it does not mean the country adapts to you. the f.t.'s closest rival is the governing social democrat party whose vote share has been shrinking for years when silent of i in our state needs reliability cohesion and strong leadership i stand for that let's stand together to make sure our land stays in good hands in the future and polls show the race in brandenburg is very close perhaps nowhere more so than here sure and i say by barely a little commuter town of over 12000 people in may's european elections the top 5

parties were separated by less than 2 percent of the votes. which explains why national party leaders have come to press the flash the green party's annalyn a bell book being the latest to push for votes. democracy survives on people talking to one another they argue and think wait maybe the other partners are the right and they say yes when energy is great length earned about the health consequences i would like to believe people go home and think about how we can address these problems together. and then there is the left party whose political ancestors ran the old communist east germany and have governed here with the social democrats for the past 10 years they hope their call for solidarity will energize the electorate and for them like all the other parties the key to winning this state lies in winning places like this dominant cain al-jazeera in brandenburg. protesters in moscow have defied

a russian government ban to again condemn the exclusion of independent and opposition candidates from next month's election in the capital one of the rejected candidate says there's significant support for their reasonable demands well the latest show of public dissent against the kremlin follows weeks of similar demonstrations and riot police arrested and attacked hundreds of protesters will step has more from school. freedom cut off for if that's what they're shouting it's quite a remark right here in moscow they go from a show you could probably locally right don't find out what he has howard k. no not me but this course you'll have to put this strange logic interim lines that we need freely in our seat in that they can refuse to give permission to our events by law we only need to notify them about a rally and not to ask for their permission the fact that there were no provocations from the government should be normal people from all walks of life but especially also young people a 20 year old student has been retained for

a couple of weeks already for what the police described as rioting and other people said it was just peacefully protesting and you are calling on people to join the protest on the you tube channel and that's also one of the reasons people are here not only to ask these prisoners to be to release but also for their right to be able to speak out anyone who wanted to smoke they're not even though i work for the state as a teacher i can't stay silent they pressure off they don't let us speak out i can't keep silent when i keep seeing people being arrested for nothing they violate our constitutional rights by fabricating article after police stood back for a while and that thousands of people protest during this uncensored rally half an hour right and the minds of people to be dislocation and they're about to push everyone. this is spend britain's parliament just before the breaks a deadline is provoking nationwide protests thousands marched in london and other major cities under the slogan stop the coup de lay. the party faction momentum

march supporters to prop holds and for just prime minister boris johnson shutdown of parliament for 5 weeks for juice is the time that m.p.'s have to stuff a note at the baba has more now from london. ways large and noisy demonstration outside downing street is one of dozens across the u.k. on saturday and many more being pondered over the next week gives you an idea of the strength of feeling after boris johnson said that he would try to suspend parliament for several weeks now he's all he meant is that it's a normal procedure to get ready for a queen's speech before laying out his legislative program the people here say it's a clear power grab trying to stop all of the from doing his job just by eating his breakfast policies and avoiding a no deal price is now some of the organizers here are affiliated to the opposition labor party and senior labor figures who said it's clearly what boris johnson's really base what is insured by the mechanism that is used and the dates that he's

chosen is that it is almost impossible almost impossible to get legislation which would bind the government into asking for an extension but you ask why i don't trust and the reason i don't trust this man is because just recently he lied about whether he wanted to probe parliament he said he didn't believe in such procedures and he lied about that the $350000000000.00 pounds that would be coming to the n.h.s. as a result of leaving the e.u. complete nonsense accepted now that it was just a lie and this is a man who is a serial liar and we cannot trust our democracy to know the action is not just on the streets there are a number of legal challenges going on it england and scotland under northern ireland that due to wrap up next week and in parliament itself and these who are really worried about a no deal price that are trying to figure out their best tactics in the. 1st and since they've agreed to try legislation to force the government perhaps to seek an

extension to article 50 beyond the end of october but it still might come to a vote of no confidence in the government a number of conservative politicians i think will vote against their own government but it's unclear whether they do at the moment have the numbers or not twice like when people here are extremely angry about what the government's doing right now. this is just the right these are our current top stories hong kong has seen some of its most violent clashes in weeks as protesters took to the streets in defiance of a place this was the scene in one child a few hours ago demonstrators set a makeshift barricade a blaze and that was after a major confrontation outside the government headquarters testers do bricks and petrol bombs at police who responded with tear gas and water cannons. a sudanese judge has formally charged the polls president obama bashir with corruption and

possession of illicit currency this year told the court he received $25000000.00 from side to crime prince mohammed bin solomon but they haven't used the money for private purposes but she is a lawyer says his client denies all charges against. the numbers of that some of them we did not supply the money to the bank of sudan because we meant to hide the source and we did so because this was the desire of the prince and i had hoped that this would have been a secret court in order not to show the name of the prince he did not want his name to appear anywhere which is why he sent the money on a private plane with a private on a voyage this was his wish for it not to be known that there were just news agency says a suicide bomber has attacked police couldn't those one of us gun the stones biggest cities earlier the taliban lost a new offensive their afghan army reinforcements rushed to present clients is taking control from the government says at least. 30 taliban were killed the

civilians are reported dead taliban's games are seen as strengthening negotiations for foreign forces to leave well a spokesman for afghanistan's president ashraf ghani says the attack shows the taliban doesn't want peace. the taliban's attack on couldn't lose contradicts what it's saying in doha the attack shows that the taliban still isn't really for peace they continue to fight. at least 13 people have been killed and at least 2 dozen injured in an airstrike in syria's it led province u.s. has confirmed the strike saying it was against al qaida but these 550 civilians in the around it live have died since pool another 400000 people have been displaced in india nearly 2000000 people have been excluded from a citizens' register in the us and could be left stateless as a result they will have to prove they're not foreigners or face detention the national register of citizens was created way back in 1951

a some state is now on high alert extra security forces also being deployed to. iraq today those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after people power we'll see you later. west africa is battling an opioid abuse trust's medicine such as tramadol legally prescribed by doctors from pain relief but taken into life threatening texts by millions and such from fakes already from. people in power has been to nigeria

to investigate and of the drug smuggling trade and abuse widespread corruption that follows islamist traffic and the appalling health consequences for those in its grip. ringback they're going to stay in the midst of the worst drug addiction and family and it's barely a week goes by without spring international reports like these documents in america's opioid crisis. the u.s. is not the only country facing such a predicament really. lagos nigeria is africa's largest city in the country with the biggest population on the continent over

200000000 people. the city is over crowded polluted and poverty stricken. and adding to its woes it's suffering its own widescale and growing opioid addiction epidemic. i was abusing the list if you think this is used in the. tramadol a lifesaving opioid painkiller is also being abused on a massive scale by all sectors of society a little too cool for for. this regulates of the other appeared painkillers like. a drug which has been implicated in more than 400000 deaths in the us since 2000 tramadol is less dangerous than oxycodone it's no less addictive according to a new study by the mayo clinic a prestigious us medical center the key findings our study which was looking at the

effect of tramadol on long term dependence in patients from acute sort of pain was the patients who received tramadol actually to our surprise i did not have lower rates of long term opioid use but actually had slightly higher rates of going on to long term opioid use tramadol is currently a schedule for opioid versus other opioids like oxy caught on or schedule 2 meaning that the government considers those at higher risk of abuse and long term dependence we found is in fact really terminal is not actually any lower interest rate of abuse or long term dependence the epidemic isn't just confined to lagos it's infected the into. country. the united nations drugs and crime. released the results of nigeria's illicit drug use. what we found is really of concern of grave concern when we're talking about the non-medical use of tramadol roughly almost 5000000 users over the past 12 months and the tendency appears to be rising poverty unemployment desperation of

people and their living situations is one of the drivers a lot of people seem to be using it associated with hard manual labor with sex work for a sex worker. eases her ability to submit to a client's more extreme demands she calls the drug street name. you. know. meaning. something supposed to. help. him 50. 50.

and if he would not have a. look at that. and most other abuses by an illegal and highly dangerous version of the drug legally produced with illegal dos search has around 50 or 100 milligrams tap that is being used widely for pain therapy it is really for a large part of the population the only pain medication. when we're talking about abuse great tramadol. we're talking about. significantly over a. 100 milligram what we have seen in seizures up to 225 milligrams and what we have heard in the reports of drug use. people mentioned even up 240-2500 taps. spoke to us on condition we had. from a stable middle class family and works as the sheriff who want to see him in the

ground. in the ground. wants. to be each pull cost $300.00. a pull that's more than double the strength of legally available. to much of. my friends. it's abuse of trauma go. some of. the more. because of drugs so where does this abuse tramadol come from from and all that is being produced both legally as well as that is produced specifically for the non-medical

use is being produced in. officially or in. tory's it is reaching nigeria primarily by sea it's entering through 2 major ports of lagos as well. this begs the question. of nigeria how does it get so widely distributed across the country. to find out more we interviewed a lagos drug dealer he agreed to be film so long as we didn't show his face. his business consists of a. in a suitcase full of with legal drugs. the tramadol he keeps out of sight and not contain terminal is handed back and just heading to tom i don't know but sometimes the pocket determined. most of his clients are young men. when the move because. now just guys will be pushing. it also sells to

women. bang townland on the phone and then. when the waking staff were told you had to do cool foods to meet i'm selling time on the left sometimes that's wrong turn to the week a significant amount for a street below where we wanted to know does he get them from these people became us and us i mean come on talks to us in secret in did not knowing even though you don't know said the time of the 3 huntingdon unclear at this point he became wary and wouldn't tell us anything more about a supplier as we put this question to you n o d c we need to be very honest we know relatively little about the criminal networks that are being involved how well they're organized how large they are. there's about 7 or 8 different nationalities that i've been identified the other issue that suggests

a certain level of sophistication is to mere size of the individual seizures some of these seizures allegedly are reaching several tons dozens of talls which really suggests like a relatively sophisticated process. to find out more about such seizures we arranged a visit to a pop nigeria's largest and busiest port. in 2018 customs and other authorities seized 41 containers of illegal tramadol here. this quarter by an armed convoy of cars. drug law enforcement officials that's what they came to show us today. programme for. this. is from. $2800.00 seizures were a coup for the authorities the largest single seizure involved $33.00 containers.

they claimed 198000000000. $550000000.00 u.s. dollars. with such massive sums of money involved we want to know how many perpetrators had been brought to book. many people who have imported. the. i can do speak for this time. the. investigation is going on on once is concluded the prosecutor. but in the past they have been. coming here what is wonderful for. the national drug agency. later told us that in the last 2 years only 5 people have been charged in relation to the seizures the prosecution is the still

in process and to date no one's been convicted. we asked the commander about allegations of corruption at the port. is not an issue because he walked in for like ts i don't think this issue. but the events which unfolded soon after seemed to indicate otherwise we phoned the customs official handing off a box of trial. to a port worker. then we captured boxes of the drug being thrown over the fanes how did you finally as we were leaving the paperwork was arrested going to legibly for stealing tramadol we tried to film that to. know what it was my statement. of the words. of the words why you tell me that the.

amount. of the salt is all you will know it you know you will. love this already but. it is not that big. of. customs did take it seriously foaming that is we were detained and pressured to delete our footage of the arrest. in the end though they let us go and official later confirmed that the arista poor work i had stolen the tramadol. at the ports of lagos are just the start of the problem next we travel to my degree in the north east of nigeria the city was once the headquarters of. the islamic state franchise terrorizing this part of the country since 2009. the group.