across the country waste can now be used to manufacture building materials. nigeria's mantri is accused of holding the thousands of children captive in the fight against boko haram. hello i'm sam he's a band this is al jazeera live from coming up which way out of the break. boris johnson's election thrown out parliament suspended for weeks. bring our soldiers home from yemen the call from a prominent coalition leader in sudan plus. millions of visitors gather in karbala for the annual commemoration of assura strain on the

city's infrastructure just ahead. nigerian army soldiers are being accused of detaining thousands of children in their efforts to crush the armed group. human rights watch says children have been barred from seeing their families and forced to live in squalid conditions as the head of greece reports and made a goody the capital of borno state military denies the accusations. friends are not doing what they love most playing football. but they haven't always enjoyed such freedoms. they were raised by mothers married to book or apply to. the boys now 12 were rescued by the nigerian army 5 years ago and taken to

a detention camp. conditions they say why basic. they gave us good food to eat was a given to us when we think he's a sometime this soda will stop us from playing the among ourselves when it's time for bed we had marked and some pillows spread on the floor. so not only will they brought us food we had clean water and even clothes they didn't beat me. but activists say some children have experienced a lot worse human rights watch says the army has been holding thousands of children in squalid conditions it says many have had no access to lawyers and families haven't been told of their arrest or detention the organization said such cases may constitute enforced disappearance as the nigerian military says the allegations are false i mean come under say 4 years ahead tools of engagement and it's just that they're almost being guided by those who are saying no child was deliberately

mistreated the army says steps have been taken to address previous allegations human rights activists on their part i q state governments are failing the children they say only a few of them have so far received any form of support to deal with their trauma the united nations says at least 2200 children have been released by the nigerian authorities from detention most of them without charge the u.n. children's fund has since rehabilitated thousands of children and reunited them with their families use of were seized by book as a teenager now we need to early twenty's is among dozens of dear article eyes young men who have been given a new start is still remembers the 1st 2 weeks in the detention center. it. was that we serene did and were taken to a police station in gaza where we were beaten by security officials and vigilantes we were later transferred to the game

a military barracks for 14 days where some soldiers wanted to beat us more but we were told that we were being transferred to be d. radicalized it was traumatic to go. back to the say rehabilitation is an important step for children to can buy a book. he would rise to watch the surge in the nigerian army to release those remaining in detention immediately. or for more on this now we're joined by as i did receive holmes live to us from mind in nigeria so ahmed that aside over the dispute over the treatment of charcoal of some of these children is the army acknowledging that it's still holding hundreds if not thousands of children. well the army is saying that it's no longer holding any child and it's still it is an interest on our detention facility is what one senior commander was telling us is that when these children were recovered from areas previously occupied by boko

haram they bring them in to secure locations and debrief them and then hand them over to social welfare workers who in turn will take care of them but again if you look at the numbers we're talking about and considering the fact of the northeast it's a theater of operations for war i guess but then you realize that there are not enough facilities to deal with the number of children we're talking about now over the past years the government and eunice about talking about thousands of children who have been handed over to them by security forces and vigilantes were fighting against book or i'm in the northeast of the country so the army in effect is saying that it's no longer holding anybody but the activists in terms of human rights activists are talking about hundreds still being held by autologous in the north

east of nigeria mostly of course in borno state while the book or implied is still and go in and it's still very tough for either one address there thanks so much for that let's bring in now joe baca in the blue jays she's the children's rights advocacy director at human rights watch good to have you with us as you are hearing perhaps from our correspondent there the army well it's 1st of all flatly denies human rights watch findings saying they're false the military says it's not holding children in detention what it considers to be detention centers it says apprehended children are. housed in secure places and said we all response to all of that. well the united nations since 2013 has documented the detention of more than 3600 children in military holding facilities in northeast nigeria we interviewed more than 30 of these children in june of this year many of them had been detained at

barracks for months and some for years in fact 2 of the children we interviewed have been held there without charge for 3 years but many of the children we interviewed described trying to escape boko haram attacks when they were arrested and as folks of iran suspects they have been held generally without charge without any opportunity to go to court or to see a judge only one of the children we interviewed ever had a chance to say that they thought might have been an attorney there held without any contact with the outside world in appalling conditions children described cells with 250 year 300 teenie asked them to a 10 by 10 meter area hundreds of detainees sharing a single toilet with overwhelming stench detainees fainting from the heat and in fact sometimes bodies being taken from. we acknowledge that the nigerian

military has released over 2000 children and the rate of detention according to un statistics has dropped significantly between 20172018 if there are no children there now that's wonderful news but we really encourage nigerian authorities to open the barracks to the united nations so that they come can come and verify whether or not any children are there and in any case where urging nigerian authorities to sign what's called the handover protocol to ensure that when children are apprehended by the military that there swiftly transfer to civilian child protection authorities so that instead of languishing for months or years in military detention they can be reunited reunited with their families and get the rehabilitation of the community high point that they need let me jump in if i can a so fall from what you've seen those children who are detained obviously are going any kind of derives its allies ation process. but as i mentioned most of the

children that we interviewed appeared to be both victims not boko haram fighters none of the children we interviewed expressed any sympathies with boko haram in fact some of them felt that the boko haram commanders should be dealt with by severely. but the children described no programs while they were in detention no education so i was just a time to really do authorities tell you what is ok why these kids being held them if they're not undergoing any of the radicalization because most of them may not even have anything to do with boko haram what was the official reason for holding kids then. that's an excellent question as i mentioned virtue very few of these children are ever charged with a crime and so our evidence shows that there is you know very little evidence or weak evidence to hold them in the 1st place we approached the during authorities 2 months ago with our preliminary findings asking them for comment and to date we

have no received no reply. interesting thank you so much for coming in and sharing your experience with that job back of their i pleasure. now britain's prime minister abbas johnson and his cabinet are desperately searching for a way to navigate out of that brags it impossible they've just been meeting after a night of high drama in parliament johnson's push for an early election was thrown out before parliament was suspended for 5 weeks lawrence the begins our coverage from london. mr speaker the lord's will also rise by how much is this commission to declare to declare how well it said to ask housewife eyes this is and so also declared the prior great holiday and. these are the prices of this honorable have really no. choice what the outside world

makes of the purchase parliament shutting down for 5 weeks when the u.k. is going through the biggest political crisis since world war 2 is anyone's guess it's most certainly less than popular among the opposition and peace on the speaker of the house of commons this is not however a normal part of geisha it is not difficult it is not standard it's one of the longest for decades and it represents not just in the minds of many colleagues but huge numbers of people outside and to be executives be asked. as conservatives file doubts they were heckles by opposition m.p.'s who refused to leave they tried to stop the speak up from leaving and then signed protest songs in the chamber. to demonstrate only too clearly the collapse of traditional politics here government ministers of offered

no explanation of the deal they all seeking if there is such a deal less aching let alone any work time proposals presented to parliament scrutiny no wonder they are so keen to baroque so early to avoid any scrutiny of what we're doing the right $293.00. the left 46 johnson had lost his 6 votes in 6 days even fewer and peace casting their ballots for a sober election but had done well. he tried it the 1st time and so while the opposition accused him of cowardice for suspending parliament he accused them of the same thing they're right on the bill james remove his cronies together with those other opposition parties have been trying to disguise their proposed risk cowardice by coming up with ever more rangers excuses for joining you know an

election until the end of october and perhaps november when hell freezes over. in media the delay and procrastination that has become the hallmarks of the opposition before parliament was put into this induced coma the opposition was able to force boris johnson in civil corner he is now going to have to seek some sort of compromise with the european union if the u.k. is to leave the block by the end of october as he insists must happen but that in turn will infuriate the most pro breck's it right wing of the party and will inevitably cost them seats whenever the national election happens with his cabinet holding its regular meeting these calculations will all be in play rumors abound of the potential for more resignations from the ruling party as johnson's many critics say his grip over bricks it becomes ever weaker. snape joins us live from

london so is there a way out on the horizon anywhere after that cabinet meeting. well well not looking at it certainly given the leaks that have come out susa reporters close to the conservative party johnson apparently said that he didn't believe his government was extreme and that's he apparently wouldn't or wasn't able to say what he'd do on october the 19th the day after the european summit meeting if he doesn't have a deal by then and of course both of those things presuppose he was asked the question by his own ministers do you think you are extreme and secondly what what is your plan he going to resigning in to break the law are you going to be the lore and go for the extension and break your own promise to the people in the conservative party and of the moments he's not prepared to say or doesn't know what the answer but that the. that we're now in a position where someone is senior in the conservative party is william hague the

former conservative party leader has written in the daily telegraph which is the conservative party's own go to newspaper this morning that he regards johnson as being guilty of quotes a disgusting acts if you pull chrissy a disgusting act of hypocrisy he wrote through the summary sacking of these 21 very senior conservatives who refused to back in they do it when you have that level of language being used at the highest level of the conservative parliamentary party from one former leader against the currently that you can see what a mess they're in and the old facts are that he's lost 6 votes in 6 days he says he's prepared to go with no deal even though plainly there is no majority either in the parliament or indeed among the public for no deal the most recent polling i've seen will support the new deal about 25 percent and at the same time he says he's not prepared to back down in any sort of way that that the rest of parliament or the european thinks he has to on this issue of the backstop and where the customs union fits in the low sort of things and so they're now going to have to spend

several weeks i think trying to figure out among themselves what it is they're going to do without telling anybody else all right thanks so much the there. well still ahead on al-jazeera the grim task of searching for bodies after hurricane dorian ripped through the bahamas. equal pay for women becomes a hot topic when the us president meets the head of world football. we've got some quality weather for the time being across parts of japan now that set food has made its way out of the way that's fast just making its way out into the open waters clear skies do come back in behind we have some very stormy conditions of course well the packed away in is will out the clear up operation to

get on the way but this is a city not too far from tokyo you push across towards beijing and here we have some rain which is making its way in and that's going to be the forecast as we go on through the next couple of days pushes through the allies say well cloud and rain coming back into the korean peninsula eventually pushing across into that western side of japan for thursday that will sweep its way through dry skies come back in behind the still pretty wet there across south korea so at around $23.00 degrees not too much wet weather across parts of southern china that's what the southwest yes we do have some wet weather for hong kong is fine and dry $33.00 celsius shanghai $32.00 degrees some values as we go on through thursday a wet weather not too far from hong kong by this stage but it should be a law she try across the region some of that west the weather will affect the philippines over the next day or 2 some showers into northern parts of borneo before washing malaysia along with indonesia is fine and sunny.

finally with. that but that's. when it's not. so. you know david there are others out of all of our cars and the bunch is a bit shocked about that. in part one of this 2 part series al-jazeera explores the world of performance enhancing drugs. sports doping the endless chase on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now the

nigerian army is being accused of detaining thousands of children in its effort to crush boko haram human rights watch says children have been forced to stay in squalid conditions are not given access to family members the military denies the accusations many of the children are suspected of being involved with. the british prime minister's cabinet is gathering to work out the next step in their bid to pull out of the european union boss johnson's attempt to call an early election be rejected again now suspended for the next 5 weeks. the violence is causing major problems in west africa hundreds of people have been killed amid fighting it became a fast so over the past year was causing a major food crisis affecting their be one of a half 1000000 people the world food program is now warning of what it calls an unprecedented humanitarian emergency because of hunger and instability in the region as catherine sawyer reports from northern became

a fast farmers are abandoning their crops to escape the violence the. fact that only. on a normal day i said to diyala tells us she'd be at half hour in the village of utica children looking after their livestock. but instead they're not come for displaced people more than a 100 kilometers from home alongside many other bookie nobby who have fled attacks . bill ijaz arrived in january after many were killed in a revenge attack when. rival community blamed them for the matter of a local chief and he signs. they bond to houses and clothes i fled with 6 children their cues does of collaborating with the armed groups from outside the country this is what remains of their village following other attacks more than 200000 people have fled from their homes in parts of the north and east over the last 3 years some blame armed groups in bulk enough as well as others from

neighboring mali for the increasing violence and tensions between rival communities are making the crisis harder to resolve. the wall food program says it's a humanitarian emergency. more than a 1000000 people need help we are focused were killed just in the area which is much more serious so we are. going work that is supposed to be security problem it's really hard to imagine the horror some of this displaced people have faced most of them have come here with nothing but the clothes they're wearing they're supposed to stop harvesting their crops and by both we talked to said the congo back to their villages to do that because it's still too dangerous. and a few others however did manage to return to their village after government forces secured the area he still relies on food aid. and i have 20 family members

to feed through wives to bring and grandchildren this food will last for 2 weeks we fled from our home before we could plant because the neighboring the blue village was attacked and we feared attackers would come to war almost next. after a whole day's wait starts his long journey back home it's 50 kilometers away and he'll pass through a dangerous area but he says it's a risk he's willing to take to feed his family catherine sawyer al-jazeera nuffin booking a fossil. reuters news agency is reporting algeria's prime minister will resign following 4 months of protests over his rule in order d.m.v. replaced longtime president abdulaziz beautifully a close also forced out by mass demonstrations activists demanded prime minister by the way stepped down before any new elections they also want all members of the former government to be put on trial

a prominent member of sudan's ruling coalition is calling for a peace agreement in the arm and then once sudanese troops fighting they're brought home sudan joined the saudi led military operation 4 years ago calls in sudan for them to be withdrawn have grown louder as the number of casualties has increased the saudis have also recruited sudanese mercenaries and child soldiers to fight for them in yemen rescue workers in the bahamas are still searching for bodies after hurricane dorian devastated the islands last week the death toll stands at 45 but that number is expected to increase the u.n. says about 70000 people are in need of food and shelter of tauruses in the capital now have asked people to open their homes to evacuees millions of share muslims are in the iraqi city of karbala for i was sure of the annual mourning of the prophet muhammad's grandson remember her saying was killed in the battle of karbala in what

is now iraq 1300 years ago sure muslims commemorate his death every year on the 10th day of the slamming calenders 1st month. the influx of visitors is a huge strain on iraq's infrastructure and services companies in the gulf. and investing heavily to try and improve the situation as charles stratford reports that being helped by the country's biggest foreign investor iran. every year millions of shia muslims from around the world come to karbala bush or. the time to pray and mourn the death of the prophet muhammad's grandson hussein ali. you're feeling. is beyond words no you cannot explain. some people wear costumes depicting hussein and his followers people queue for free food kitchens set up by volunteers but also the writing on signs in farsi because many of the

visitors from iran the iraqi government dropped visa fees for iranians in april many of the young and old we put themselves in remembrance of what they describe as the martyrdom hussein. assurance perhaps most associated with the practice of self flagellation birth is one of the many ways that many of the shia muslims the combat every year commemorates. the security here is improved in recent days so was the amount of investment in this one country that's investing much more than others here and that iraq hotels residential buildings and office blocks a rising above the city's skyline the giant black flag is perhaps a reminder of the importance of religion and tradition here no matter the future development plans. iran is by far the biggest investor here iraq she has a huge border with iran and a common religion iran had

a vital role in fighting eisel in iraq so it's been a fitting politically and economically in iraq now but we hope that eventually the . iraqi companies can be stronger then the foreign oil iran is pouring money into religious tourism around the holy sites in karbala but iraq is a major u.s. ally some u.s. officials have complained to their iraqi counterparts that iran is investing here to try and lessen the effects of sanctions over its nuclear program the iraqi and iranian government recently signed agreements focusing on infrastructure development and hope to build a direct role link between the 2 countries trade between iran and iraq is worth around $12000000000.00 a year iraqi religious leaders say donations and investment is flooding in from around the world but they don't deny that iran is the biggest foreign player here. in the next 4 years will expand the area up to 20 times the size it is now because

the numbers of people visiting increases every year we're also expanding projects offering services such as hospitals and schools to try to supplement government if it's which don't meet the people's needs. but no matter who supplies the money to develop this holy city for now the focus is on mourning and prayer chance strafford al jazeera. sure a procession zar band in kashmir pakistan's foreign minister has told the united nations it needs to respond to the crisis the united nations human rights chief says she's deeply concerned about the clampdown since the indian government revoked the region's autonomy last month kashmiris remain under military curfew and internet mobile phone service is a cut off in most places. donald trump says he's working to improve equality in women's football the u.s. with of the women's world comp are in a legal dispute with their federation over gender discrimination after meeting the

head of world football it seems the us president wants to tackle the problem david stokes reports. president trumps relationship with the u.s. women's football team is frosty at best but after talks with the president jonny and ponting you know he for the 1st time publicly acknowledged that he's trying to do something about gender inequality in the game. gianni and i just had a meeting on women's soccer is what everybody's going to do to make that even better and more equitable etc etc so johnny thank you very much greater great meeting women's soccer worry you are world champion there is much more to do or the president was saying this to me and he is right and we are going to do that and we will announce very soon the new initiative the u.s. women's team won the world cup in july but all 28 squad members are engaged in a lawsuit against the federation alleging they were discriminated against on pay us soccer dispute this and after mediation talks broke down

a trial date has been set for may 2020. 5 there's plenty of public support for the team from equal pay chants during matches to the thousands who turned out for their victorious return to the states even politicians got involved. in a play the same game that demands our players play by the way they play it bad or there's a big play in with better results if there's any economic rationale the man should get paid less than the women trouble of his work cut out winning over the biggest star in the u.s. team making rypien oh she's been involved in a public media battle with the president ever since this interview clip of merged during the world cup he's going to miami. now and i know i have the women's game aside trump an infant to know also discussed planning for the 2020 sick. men's world cup which the u.s. will co-host with mexico and canada and although it's 7 years away trump joked he was keen to play a part jonny we're going to have to stand by 2nd term because 2026 i'm going to

have to extend it for a couple of years the u.s. women's team will hope he uses the time that he does have left in office to further their cause david stokes al-jazeera. let's take you through some of the headlines here on al-jazeera now the nigerian army is being accused of detaining thousands of children in its effort to crush boko harm human rights watch says children have been forced to stay in squalid conditions and not given access to family members the military denies the accusations many of the children are suspected of being involved with. the british prime minister's cabinet has been gathering to work out the next step in their bid a lot of the e.u. johnson's attempt to call an early election has been rejected again suspended for the next 5 weeks the house cannot choose it will not let anyone else choose

to speak. only to be really be resolute besides only to be undecided determined to do their adamant good grief. and so you know the house will be to adjourn. a prominent member of sudan's ruling coalition is calling for a peace agreement in yemen months with news troops fighting there brought home sudan joined the saudi led coalition 4 years ago and thousands of sudanese soldiers are in yemen calls in sudan for them to be was drawn of growing louder as the number of war dead increases. the level of we don't need the war to continue in yemen we want the talks to go on according to the plan prepared by the united nations i think sudan can play a role in this regard through giving momentum to its allies of the arab coalition there for the sake of a peaceful solution that will guarantee the regular withdrawal of our forces without harming our relations with other countries rescue workers in the bahamas

are still searching for bodies after hurricane dorian devastated the islands last week the death toll stands at 45 but that number is expected to increase the u.n. says about 70000 people are in need of food and shelter authorities in the capital now asked people to open their homes to evacuees. millions of share muslims are in the iraqi city of karbala for a shura the annual morning of the prophet mohammed's grandson a man hussein was killed in the battle of karbala in what is now iraq 1300 years ago sure muslims commemorate his death every year on the 10th day of the stomach calenders 1st month it's inside story now.

it's a local election but a test for vladimir putin the russian president's party takes a hit in moscow's poll that's come after weeks of protests against the government so how will you deal with this setback and is he losing influence this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm homage enjoy him it's sparked some of the biggest demonstrations the country has seen in decades thousands took to the streets over the summer in russia after some of the kremlin's fiercest critics were barred from a regional ballot but despite moscow's attempt to silence them the ruling party.