powerful secretariat the greek prime minister has ever had to monitor his cabinets performance jumps out open out 0 thessaloniki the brazilian president to your boss an ira has used his country's independence day to send a message about sovereignty over the amazon rain forest also narrow joined a parade in the capital urging brazilians to in his words show the world that the amazon is ours he's been criticized for his response to the record number of fires there but continues to refuse international aids not everyone was out celebrating though there were protests in several cities are latin america editor of the semen was at one in sao paulo. this is national independence day in brazil and while in the capital brasilia the president is leading the military parade here on the streets of sao paulo people are dressed in black that is their sign of protest and this year they're out on the streets protesting against budget cuts in education and against the government's policies in the amazon rain forest boy because he

should be presuming with education we acquire knowledge and without a recall and do anything it means we'll be at the mercy of political leaders that's why we are fighting for decent public education. is you know. the government has a plan to destroy our citizens' rights because without science and education we have no rights and i think that now the amazon is in the hands of the exploiters in the agricultural business sector. others are carrying flags and signs saying st louis let the former president who is now in prison accused of corruption they believe that he has been wrongly accused and condemned 2 years in prison while supporters of the government and the previous government as well are free. in fact there are no shortage of it issues to protest against these women for example say that there's been an increase in femicide because of what they say is

the president the sergeant is started to. leave me it's a crime it's a crime this isn't the largest protest against the government on the streets of sao paolo but perhaps more significant is the result of the natives that fornia up the new people it shows that the president's approval rating has gone down from 33 to 29 percent just since the end of july he was elected with 55.2 percent of the bolts so this is quite significant and one of the important things that has changed since july is the burning of the amazon. while much of the world's attention has been focused on forest fires in brazil pope francis is visiting madagascar that's where he's condemned the illegal logging and deforestation there is a global threat aid agencies say 44 percent of the island's forests has been cut down in the past 60 years. madagascar is rich in plants

an animal biodiversity yet this treasure is threatened by deforestation from which some profit the deterioration of that biodiversity compromises the future of the country and of the earth as you know the last forests are menaced by forest fires poaching and unrestricted cutting down of valuable woodlands but for the people concerned a number of activities harmful to the environment ensure their survival so it is important to create jobs and activities that generate income while also protecting the environment people in the central philippines are struggling to rebuild centuries old churches damaged by a powerful earthquake 6 years ago. reports from. it was a time of great suffering for the people of the whole. nearly 6 years ago a powerful earthquake struck the province in central philippines. more than 200 people were killed and thousands more lost their homes. at least 10 churches that

dated back to spanish colonial times were also destroyed the hall is home to some of the country's historical church landmarks the devastation also signaled a period of longer agony for the feet will more than 80 percent of filipinos are room and catholics catholicism was 1st introduced here by way of the beside this region hundreds of years ago making the philippines the only bastion of catholicism in asia the church in the town of mareeba hawk was established in the 18th century they said that they had dreams the image of st vincent is. asking for $33.00 remains so 3 days after the earthquake. to retrieve but you made from there where. the national museum says this is one of its biggest

projects in recent years for centuries the church has served as a moral and spiritual calm pass for communities here this is why people here tell us it felt as though their own identity was also lost in the rubble and they know that the only way for them to fully recover is for all the churches to be restored . the struggle is not just to rebuild the churches back to their former glory given the scars resources and limited to knowledge but also to ensure that the structures are restored properly we have to understand that nature is not just the thing that destroys these but it is also human neglect you know we would be people start to look at these and take these structures for granted that much has been said about the role of the roman catholic church in philippine society for its followers catholicism has long been a symbol of social justice and they sent but forwards critics it has also been

associated with abuse of power and corruption but whatever role it has played for centuries people years say these chuck schumer's no longer just serve their feet full or they also represent the soul of the country's history. jim ellenbogen al jazeera behold providence central philippines todd phillips is dark drama joker starring hawking phoenix has taken home the golden lion award at the venice film festival she explains batman's nemesis story follows his transformation from vulnerable loner to the confident villain roman polanski's military drama an officer and a spy took the runner ups overlying grand jury prize so head on the news hour will be with us with the sports update and you'll find out why this 85 year old has decided to call stumps after playing the game he loves for 60 years.

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exceptionally al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news. well again time for the sports news with leo. thank you very much serena williams has fallen short again in her bid to win a record equalling 24th grand slam while there was no repeat of last year's meltdown in the final against the only osaka williams never looked like herself in this match 19 year old canadian bianca and to be school won the 1st set 63 she was then up 51 in the 2nd set before williams fought back to

a 5 games all andrew school kept a cool head to claim her 1st grand slam title of her career winning the 2nd set 75 for the men rafa nadal will play didn't medvedev in the men's final on sunday that's after he beat my teo barrett seanie in the semifinals the italian went for love up and then had to set points in the 1st set however and typical not all fashion team managed to emerge on top beating medvedev it will move nadal to 19 career grand slams just one short of his rival roger federer. i don't like it working hard to try to produce chances on some days one and it's just one more chance but so. then my opponents want to keep playing. if i'm able to the way in this on sunday ok well big amazing if i lose i hope to keep having chances and if you don't do work things for hours charles look clerk has claimed pole position for the italian grand prix after

a final qualifying session that saw just one of the 10 drivers able to set a flying lap while all the drivers at monza looking to gain benefits from the slipstream nico culkin burkle went down the escape road at the 1st corner the other cars slowing as a result as they tried to avoid leading the pack round the fastest of the f one circuits that resulted in only carlos songs setting a flying lap like clerks time earlier in the session was enough to give him hold over the mercedes pairing of lewis hamilton and valtteri bottas. happy with the pole but it's a shame that at the end there was a big mess and. i hope all of us now but i was annoyed you don't see what happened for that. i want to see you have to be grateful that i'm in the front row i get to have a fight with the ferrari some are which is nice he split them so as a team it's a really good position for us to be in it that means a little bit of an anticlimax that we could all go out and do that last final that

that's one of the most exciting ones. before that happened all the earlier talk at mons that was about an accident in saturday's formula 3 race just a week since f 2 driver and one who died australian alex perrone was launched into the air after running wide and hitting a curb the car flipped several times before landing on the wall cockpit side down mazing link pronate was able to walk away from the crash and he was taken to hospital for check ups. meanwhile the other driver involved in last week's fatal f 2 crash one manual career is in an induced coma after suffering acute respiratory failure the 20 year old has also has a spinal injury and leg fractures following the 250 kilometer an hour crash his parents say his condition is critical but stable at a hospital in london and there was a big pile up at a d.s. 3 race and wet conditions in denmark one driver suffered 2 broken ribs while the other involved weren't seriously hurt. could be but no maggot madoff has retained

his u.f.c. lightweight title after beating deaths in a proper rear by submission could be blunt straight on the offensive end claimed the win in the 3rd round he's now unbeaten in his $28.00 fights that was his 1st time back in the octagon since he was given a 9 month suspension after beating caught on mcgregor. england footballer marcus rash for and believes racism is getting worse against players online he's one of several athletes targeted recently and says he is considering quitting social media altogether there's been examples where people have spoken i wouldn't say they've been ignored book you know no friends no friends barely changed. so just to see it to see it so spike in the last couple of months it's been it's been unbelievable so. you know we want to we want to just nip in the bud wells says this is something australia will go into the final day of the 4th test against england needing 8

wickets to retain the ashes that's after england were set a target of 383 runs and pat cummins took 2 wickets in 2 balls after losing early wickets steve smith once again studying things for australia his 82 the lowest he's managed so far in the series also out in his eighties is sessile right that 85 year old is retiring after a cricketing career that has spanned 6 decades the former fast bowler played one 1st class game for jamaica against barbados back in 1958 and is said to have taken thousands of wickets despite his love of the game wright says his body can no longer take the strain. sometimes when i walk in back to feel a little bit you know and i think well i think up about enough now and. we're going to finish i feel like a foreigner and you know not like when you do us run about and i get it done so

this is the reason why i said i think this is enough now well that's it for me we'll have more sports for you later. and that's it for the news hour thanks very much for watching richelle carries with you in just a moment she'll have much more of the day's news coming your way right here on al-jazeera thanks for watching but by. rewind returns with a new series and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera is documentaries or think that it's so easy to see back to rewind continues with saving sou'wester seeing the light 10 years later the plot of you average person to a community it's all there for it is no better this is a great much of that so for us to keep giving back to these communities on al-jazeera al-jazeera is there with us tory breaks but it's also a day to see what happens next iteration become such an unpredictable it fired by

the barriers for a model a barricade of the old 7 streets that b.b.q. here in the middle east now is we're all about change people have gone past the fear area the mission of the national army is to search the entire one complex and i'll just your stories about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture. i cannot lock my phone with my face you can access your bank accounts with your voice unique algorithmic measurements of us that are revolutionizing the process of identification the biometrics are far from perfect they convenience and seeming infallibility comes at a cost most crucially our privacy in the 4th of a 5 part series on the radio addresses the appropriation obama's personal characteristics all hail the algorithm all on a jersey girl. on

jews you know. with every. donald trump reveals he's called secret talks and balding taliban leaders and afghanistan's president in the u.s. because of an attack in kabul. i'm richelle carey this is out as your life from doha also coming up. aid workers

warn conditions are quickly deteriorating for hurricane survivors in the bahamas even as emergency plies supplies are rushed and. 45 ukrainians back in the arms of their loved ones after being returned from russia and a prisoner swap also. parks a division's more liberal typewritten parliament as a cabinet ministers resignation delivers a new blow to prime minister forced johnson. president donald trump says he's canceled meetings that were to take place in the u.s. on sunday involving the taliban and afghanistan's leader of this is what he tweeted . to almost every one of the major taliban leaders and separately the president of afghanistan were going to secretly meet with me at camp david on sunday unfortunately in order to build false leverage they admitted to an attack in kabul

the killed one of our great soldiers and 11 other people i immediately called off peace to go and what kind of peace. it would kill somebody in order to simulate strengthen their bargaining position they didn't they only made it worse if they cannot agree to a ceasefire during these very important times and they probably don't have the power to negotiate meaningful agreement anyway how many more decades are they willing to fight. more from washington d.c. doldrums tweets help give us a framework for understanding various events that we've been monitoring over the last week on monday zalmay khalilzad the u.s. on voice for the talks with the taliban had said agreement in principle had been reached with the taliban for the withdrawal of u.s. troops them on thursday we had about bomb in kabul 10 afghan civilians dead 2 nato so us personnel killed including one american and shortly after that return suddenly to cutoff for more talks with the taliban that have been previously

scheduled also on thursday we began hearing reports that the afghan president was going to make a sudden visit to washington but over the course of the day we sort of hearing that he was going to postpone that visit and now we have the tweets the questions in washington firstly was this really about the kabul bank or what other more serious problems with the negotiations perhaps even with interim sort of ministration itself not to mention the afghan government's opposition to the way that the negotiations were going and secondly is that all trump really going to give up on this when he desperately feels he needs a foreign policy when it was notable that the schedule for the withdrawal of u.s. troops over the next year over the next few moments did seem to hew very closely to the campaigning schedule ahead of the 2020 presidential election afghanistan expert michael semple says will be most likely be another attempt to hold talks. this is much bigger than just the consolation of a round of meetings this should have been leading towards the signing of the deal

between the taliban and the us and opening the way for the taliban and the afghan government to meet that was meant to be the script it's very difficult to see how that can happen immediately the taliban have made it quite clear that without the deal with the us they're not prepared to move towards the here towards talks with the afghan government so it's things are stuck however there's a reality there the war is continuing they the u.s. does want to bring the troops back that's just just pulling troops out without some kind of arrangement afghanistan is not good enough because that the u.s. cannot afford to afghanistan fall apart so even if there's a sort of a cooling off time even if there's a time when the taliban have to reflect on what went wrong the afghan government is

going to be coming up with some proposals they everybody's going to have to work out what happens with the afghan elections which are shuttle to take place at the end of this month but face tremendous challenges that they in terms of the security so it strikes it strikes me that there's going to be a period in which you can't go forward but there's going to be a reflection on there's going to be another attempt at this perhaps with a different format and i think in particular there will be pressure on the taliban to to lower their expectations and to get honest with their own people about what can be achieved in such a deal to the bahamas where thousands are fleeing the destruction left behind by hurricane dorian one of the strongest storms ever to hit the caribbean u.s. coast guard is moving people from hardest hit areas to the capital nassau and more than a 1000 others have taken to the u.s. state of florida even as well. learning the conditions on the island are actually deteriorating because there are 70000 people they need help and supplies aid is

being rushed in but it's hard to distribute because everyone peers runways and roads and 43 people are known to have died but the government says that number is likely to climb significantly as recovery crews reach more devastated areas. that are going to be really too is a gun related what you see in the movies like those and the times clips you watch on you tube is that it's on really just. adds has been or awful has more from freeport we're in freeport grand bahama just outside of the airport as you can see behind me this is an aircraft that has been kind of delivered here by the storm surge from hurricane dorian again this was a category 5 hurricane wind gusts upwards of 350 kilometers per hour it wasn't just those strong winds that caused so much devastation in this part of the country was also that storm surge exactly where we are right now just next to the airport tarmac this would only a couple of days ago was under 2 meters of water now at the moment there is still

a lot of concern over shortages of food shortages of water and shortages of medicine but we've heard from the world health organization that help and disaster relief is on its way we've heard that somewhere around 8000000 tons of food supplies have arrived in nassau and are are and will be delivered to the island most affected in the northern part of the country christiane going to grand bahamas and the island of abaco just a couple of days ago we were on abaco is in island at that arguably was the worst hit power lines still down trees snapped in half debris covering the roadways but but but much of the island is now being cleared up sister in terms of roads there's access in terms of aircraft there's access but there for that for many of the people that are still there they're their number one priority is getting off of these islands getting out of the bahamas until a sense of normal normalcy returns. dorian is now i mean it's wrath of canada where it's made landfall in the eastern province of nova scotia more than 300000 people

are without power in the coastal towns have been told to expect heavy rain and flooding earlier roofs were ripped from houses and a crane toppled over and dorian is up the u.s. states north and south carolina and its way north carolina's governor says there's a lot of work to do to get things back to normal we have about 45000 people who are still without power most of those people are here in day care and in high care any today i traveled to visit some people who had storm damage i went to emerald isle to the r.v. park that was hit by the tornado there were significant damages damage to many homes there we talked to a number of people who live there and a lot of volunteers who came to help it was amazing that no one was

hurt or killed at this r.v. park i talked to a man named bill who was drinking a cup of coffee when the tornado hit and he showed me where he had on the floor and there were boards in beams all around and i don't know how he survived but he got by with a few scratches and ling-ling has killed at least 3 people and a south korea that hit with winds of up to 196 kilometers per hour 200 flights were grounded across the d.m.z. north korean state media says leader kim jong un scolded officials for being unaware of the storm size and power. police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters gathering for a 2nd night in the district a cone the crowds were pushed back from a police station where they were demanding an end dependent investigation into the alleged use of excessive force and earlier officers stopped another protest from targeting the airport with a major security blitz trains did not stop at stations on the way to the terminals

to prevent demonstrators from getting their protesters shut down the airport for 2 days last month difficult holland has more from hong kong. this time the police and security were prepared last time they came well into the chaos well after protesters had paralyzed the airports and the transportation linking to police complete train change their strategy this time they were here at the airport hours before protesters were due they were here in large numbers and they also instigated stop and searches at young people that they suspected of being protesters and that's basically because the protesters to change their tactics they called on those who are willing to take part in the movement to come to the airports and try to blend in as topless they are told them not to wear their customary black shirts masks and helmets and even maybe take. printout fake boarding passes so that they could be seen as legitimate travelers so in response to what the police has been

doing is searching anyone that the suspected of not being at the airport with a valid reason to be at the airport and of all set up checkpoints at various tunnels and highways and train stations that would take people to the airports and conducted searches there anyone they suspect of being a protester they turned away russia and ukraine have swapped dozens of prisoners in a deal that could help dog years of frozen relations the 35 who came home to ukraine include sailors who were captured near crimea a tory kate and he reports. it's the 1st positive move in 5 years between ukraine and russia a filmmaker and a group of sailors landed. in a long anticipated prison to swap. the release of ukrainian filmmaker all legs and so he was jailed for 22 years is seen as a major concession by russia and president followed him as an end ski fulfills his election promise to bring home 22 ukrainian sailors and 2 security service agents

we have to do all the steps to phoenix this horrible war and have them relate. by being easy to feel for him. things will get better thank you very much thank you we'll leave you the sailors on board 3 ukrainian vessels were captured here in the courage strait 9 months ago after russian warships opened fire on them the kremlin says they illegally entered russian waters near the crimean peninsula which russian troops seized and annexed from ukraine in 2014 since then the kremlin backed separatists have been at war with ukrainian government forces in eastern ukraine at least 10000 people have been killed since the fighting began 5 years ago he crane's recently elected president the lenski says he wants to revive peace negotiations with russia he's been seeking support from european leaders recently and.