able to repel this sort of attack well that's a very good question and i'm certain in the next couple of weeks you will see an announcement of several 100 millions in contracts to anti drone capabilities but i can tell you now our i was in denmark on thursday on friday at a conference dealing with just this sort of scenario and we were predicting this sort of thing happening because we know that drones have been sent even further than saudi from yemen the point of course is that what there are simpler more effective ways of dealing with drones than the ones that these companies are selling and if the saudis want to help we can get them that information there are cheaper more effective more cost effective ways of securing installations such as all families against drones which don't need these very sophisticated systems that people are putting on the market if these sort of long range precision attacks continue credit be

a turning point in this war and how might riyadh react well i think riyadh will probably want to be seen to be reacting and the question of course is what will they do that if they have any legitimate targets they'll be hitting the many way the problem is i think we will have a continuation of what's going on in the last few years there will be attacks against what are believed to be who the targets but they will be within population centers and the price for this and many other wars will be paid by innocent men women and largely children it is not going to result in a in a military victory it's not going to result in a political settlement this thing needs to be sorted out with some deep thought but in the meantime they should start to harden and protect their facilities and they can do so against drone attacks at a relatively low cost if they think asymmetrically rather than thinking in conventional terms and buying expensive carrot which is only partially effective

thank you very much appreciate your analysis are so ashraf from nothing you know i think that you. well now to zimbabwe the founder robert mugabe has been honored by african leaders as a revolutionary icon and an intellectual giant but many zimbabweans have stayed away from a ceremony that pay tribute to their former president they remember a darker side to mugabe israel and blamed him for their battered economy army tatar ports now from harare. it was a chance to remember robert mugabe and say good bye to zimbabwe's founding father who ended a white minority rule in the country but there were no big crowds many say he was responsible for ruining the economy he was however added at the ceremony as a principled leader a liberator and an intellectual giant who championed pan african as a sub in the continent has a see much of recently. to the africa's leader. was booed by some zimbabweans angry at her african foreign nationals are being attacked and cheated in south africa.

apologized. to her royal. herbs. for what the. other african leaders spoke fondly about mugabe africans to own their own resources including land without interference from western nations and the honor of this goal and so offered. a call on leaders are the people of africa. to be united. and regarded girls negative interests and when the. mayor. has given

a 21 gun salute the highest of the military help keep him in power for 37 years but they also removed him in a coup in. and people who attended the memorial service say it was a fitting sendoff for a man who ruled them for nearly 4 decades this is a 30000 seaters stadium the beginning today in the capital but it's not even half full meaning people did not come to the memorial or a carrying on with their lives trying to make ends meet in a struggle or earth was controversial in life and indeed there was even a dispute between the government and the family over women should be buried now it's been decided his final resting place will be at the national heroes at a cemetery in the capital but only after a muslim special grace has it that will take about 30 days had a massive al-jazeera. just a quick look at what's coming ahead in the news hour serious scuffles between rival

protest as in hong kong as they clash over the city's democratic future also. there are down hard working. heading for safety via tallinn government allows a mediterranean rescue ship to dock off to an agreement with its european union partners. and in sport english champions manchester city are put in their place by their opponents be here with that story. aid efforts have been suspended and airports closed in the bahamas a stolen bartos for costa lashley archipelago just 2 weeks off it was devastated by harken dorian at least 50 people are confirmed dead and more than a 1000 missing on an fishing is in a south and joins us live from there now and we know that there has been

a big international effort to help people and survivors of the hurricane but tell us more about the local efforts what's that been like. well here at the national stadium n.s.i. where you can see behind me are people sorting through donations that have been a riving here for more than a week and starting on monday those that have been displaced will be able to come here and pick up a few things that they're missing because many of them got out of the islands with nothing more than the clothes on their back one of the men behind all of this is christopher roberts who joins us live here just for this has been an incredible effort that we've been watching for hours how did it come about. and where this bird out of a phone call saturday morning from a friend of mine who was working at the shelter. lies in me that they were in need of certain supplies i sent out a message to my contact them to send it out there is it literally went viral and

within about 5 or 6 hours we had tons of donations and clothes and food and supplies and out of that we ended up i know physically with the distribution center that is being exists phenomenal with the responses from the banking people why do you think they've responded quite is as well as they have well the bahamas is why we boast of 700 islands and keys the islands that are not of nassau we refer to them as the family of islands and so in the bahamas we regard everyone as family so for us our family members went through a tragic situation they weren't just country men but these were family members and they respond differently when families in trouble and so that's i think that's the mindset behind it that these are our brothers these are our sisters these are cousins aunts and uncles who lost basically everything and so those of us in the

house or another island have responded like i said tremendously and you yourself were saying it's personal for you because you put yourself in their position certainly if you know nassau it this island which is the capital in. 7 miles by $21.00 it is the small in the style that abaco is one of the largest island grand bahama is larger than nassau so if if the type of devastation that occurred in those islands if if the hurricane dorian had come to nassau. i shudder to think what would have been our condition here and so for me i am doing what i would have expected somebody to do how did being meet in a place of need in tragedy and insight you've got an incredible array of things ranging from stuff for babies new babies everything everything from a to z. has come in we've got like i said for would stuff toiletries and body hygiene stuff then clothes and shoes everything hats. everything i

would tell you we've gotten a lot of. donation of clothing and so all of our appeal is for a lot of the other. basic items of again of toiletries and underwear and deodorant and soul plane toothpaste and those kind of stuff is what we're no one because the demand is great everybody for those kind of things and so that if there is a peace if there is an appeal as to what persons might be able to assist with they are the items that are in great demand and i know while you've been the driving force from what we've seen today you want to thank the people behind you all you know understand what he almost asked and this is a people's effort i've only been here for tending to be the one in charge but they're the ones in charge because they came literally from last week saturday to now we we've created a register and we've had at least about $500.00 volunteers running through here from last week saturday to now giving anywhere from 6 to 8 hours

a day many of our attire reason persons are coming in so i really want to thank the people of the obama's for their response not just in their going in donations but while attending voluntary in their time and for just spreading the word of the need that existed i'm responding in such a in such a great way just it's a real pleasure to incredible job here thank you very much and thank you guys for coming and sharing and thank you for having is and so the distribution will start on monday people will be assigned a volunteer there will then. go into the building you see behind me and they'll be able to pick up all the things that they need that will make life slightly better it will give them a little bit of comfort and perhaps even give them a little bit of hope that things are going to get better. let's hope so thank you very much from the south island. more than $1005.00 fighters are struggling to contain blazes that have spread to a thick noxious haze in southeast asia the flames are raging across rainforest and

farmland in indonesia the indonesian government to seal off 30 plantation companies which it blames for setting the fires to clear the land the haze has spread to neighboring countries igniting a diplomatic dispute clashes have broken out in hong kong this time between rival factions of demonstrators hundreds of probation protesters sang the chinese national anthem waved red flags and chanted slogans as opposing protesters gathered the situation turned chaotic as the group started heckling each other and trading blows police later moved into the scuffles and detained several people in the process sarah clarke reports from year long district of hong kong there was another anti-government protest. it's been a tense standoff the last few hours in the area where we are which is in you know long it's on the border of mainland china and hong kong around a 1000 protesters marched to this particular like cation where they tried to access a park the police blockade of the streets and deny them access now other requests for the permission was denied for this particular assembly to go ahead therefore

the police deemed this particular protest today on saturday here in hong kong illegal but this didn't stop the protesters now at the moment the protesters have retreated but tomorrow and sunday we do expect another mass rally to go ahead this is one that's organized by the civil human rights front this is the organization that's led the mass rallies the ones that are attracted a one to 2000000 people in the streets of hong kong of the last 15 or so weeks now they requested permission the police again they deny that permission so therefore again once again on sunday that particular simply if it does go ahead will be danger legal but at the moment the protesters have said they will not back down until they're 5 demands are met and so crucial to those demands a number one you know will suffer universal suffrage to be met they want this particular protest not to be referred to as a rush and they also want an independent inquiry into the police actions against the protesters in hong kong. within the last half hour the as you migrants rescued by the charity ship the ocean viking have started to disembark at the italian port

of lampedusa the decision to allow the migrant to show was a significant change from the closed ports policy of the previous coalition government spearheaded by the far right politician moto salvini the new government took office on choose day and promised a different approach to migrants colbran and has our report. the news brought tongil relief to ocean viking after nearly a week in limbo just urge. you to sign a place of safety for you over. there i know. you are. it's wrong to. spontaneous celebration among the rescued migrants invited we are very happy about the news it is amazing we're going to arrive in a place where people understand and listen to us if they're happy to learn that we have to swim back in and lead to italy's new prime minister decepticon tech has

been in power just a week and qantas center left coalition government supports a more humane approach than the hardline closed ports policy of the previous interior minister matteo salvage any but ministers insist that does not mean it's only now has an open door policy. i believe there's a big misunderstanding about the safe port given to ocean viking it was assigned to ports simply because the e.u. stuck to our request to take the majority of the microbes it must be clear that already is to ensure that those who arrive in italy or redistributed to other european countries. that hasn't stopped salvini from criticizing the up only part of the redistributions in europe are just words because i am still waiting for the other european countries that take a few 1000 of those they have already promised to take so this is a surrender obviously one of qantas promises to europe was that it really would return to being a refugee camp. back on board the grounds are already planning where they might be

sent germany has promised to take 25 percent of any refugees rescued in the mediterranean but the rest of the distribution is less clear the subject will certainly come up when e.u. interior ministers meet in malta on september the 23rd paul brennan al-jazeera. another and pay has left u.k. prime minister boris johnson's ruling conservative party former university's minister has joined the pro e.u. liberal democrat party it was $1.00 of $24.00 conservative m.p.'s who were effectively expelled after voting to block and no deal brax it by the 31st of october the liberal democrats want the u.k. to remain in the e.u. despite the 2016 referendum that resulted in a victory for the leaf vote tunisians had to the polls on sunday for the 2nd democratic presidential election since the 2011 arab spring $26.00 candidates in the running clearing prime minister youssef shower head and media mogul now bill

karzai who's leading opinion polls despite being in prison stephanie decker reports from tunis. for 20 years feisal has been sitting in this exact same spot in tunis is ancient medina creating souvenirs engraved with tunisia's past but the future is far harder to hammer out of that really if you know of years we've been going downhill since 20 live on an elaborate thing politicians are arguing and we pay the price what used to cost $1.00 do you know is now to no more used to cost team do you now now it spirity we ask him if you will vote in sunday's election i don't really know. he voted many times before he tells us and that's been more than enough for him he doesn't trust the politicians. 36 year old abdul hyder feels the same disappointment he will go to the polling booth on sunday but in protest to the commercial criticism i will cast a blank vote so no one else can use it many of us are not satisfied the

presidential elections were brought forward by 2 months after the death of the late president 92 year old. it's the 2nd major elections to be held here 8 years after mass protests force the ouster of strongman saying that aberdeen banally are $26.00 candidates among the prime minister and defense minister a former president a couple of lawyers and even a media tycoon who is currently in prison they represent a cross-section of political social and religious ideals illusions have a lot of toys and that's a real difference and before the protests broke out here in 2011 which is in decades of single party rule tunisia is often cited as the only success story of the uprisings which swept across north africa in the middle east for 2011 but it's not that simple 1st of all i mean having. democratization process succeeding and this is happening because in the middle of the middle east and north africa this is

unique this is an exception we cannot deny that at the same time what can democracy provide in terms of economic demands that's the major challenge so it's a mixed story if we meet a group of ladies in the medina they too aren't happy with what's been achieved in the last 8 years economy security corruption the main issues everyone highlights after the revolution everything had to change but nothing has changed everything is actually worse infrastructure for instance we just had terrible floods here the economy before everything was covered up but after the revolution it's now out there to see tunisians go to the polls on sunday if no candidate gets over 50 percent of the vote there will be a runoff in november many will tell you that is an almost certain scenario parliamentary elections will take place in october the next 2 months could reshape the entire political landscape and determine what tunisia will look like moving forward stephanie decker al-jazeera tunis. so ahead for you on the news down by fax

or create as a pledge a $1000000000.00 towards tackling the terri writing security situation in the sawhill. on don't want to pain at the front foot motor show finding out why some people say forget hybrids and cars hydrogen fuel the motor vehicles of the future. and it's all to play for the final day. so i'm come. when i play so we've got some quality weather now pushing into that western side of the med it's right now where we have the flooding rains across eastern parts the spine you still see this area now this little circulation so we have still got some right in the forecast here's notching

a little further west was pushing inland actually of course the plain but it could see some showers as we go on through sunday further north lossie dry some wet weather there into northern parts of england pushing up into scotland all the models are seeing some wet weather and some rather wet and windy weather looking rather breezy autumnal across parts of scandinavia notice a little bit of snow over the high ground for good measure further east we got some very heavy rain pushing across the baltic states into that western side of our russia for the south is fine and dry we got 20 celsius in athens some of the temperature in rome over the next couple of days staying breezy across northern parts as we go on in some monday and by monday we could see northern parts of spain also seeing a little more cloud wanted to showers creeping in hip of the central southern parts of spain things should start to quieten down by this stage largely dry and quiet meanwhile across northern parts of africa a little bit of cloud there into northern areas of algeria from time to time just pick up the road but essentially it's looking fine and sunny.

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but open your eyes to an alternative view of the world today. on how does iraq. welcome back a look at the stories making headlines now saudi arabia's oil production has been severely disrupted by drone attacks on q major oil facilities run by state owned company. yemen's who the rebels say they carried out the assault zimbabwe's founder robert mugabe has been on it as an african icon of the state funeral outside the capital harare the giant stadium where the event was held was only about a 3rd full of. rival demonstrators have clashed in hong kong as hundreds of beijing

supporters faced off against pro-democracy protests as police moved in to end the situation detaining several people. i want to bring you more on our top story now the attack on saudi oil facilities since the start of yemen civil war who the rebels have been using drones and combat the small cheap to produce and capable of evading radar systems who use drones to disable saudi arabia's patriot missile batteries allowing the rebels to fire ballistic missiles into the kingdom on challenge to saudi's vast oil fields and pipeline network of been a prime target for hoofy drone attacks saturday strike on the uptake of facility being the biggest and most daring so far and the technology is becoming more sophisticated with drones in rebel hands capable of distances that go up to 1500 kilometers bringing most of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. within range. well i know i spoke to brett and the look of it she is a military drone expert and says it has these must be given what they must have

been given the technological assistance to this used to be the case that only major superpowers could afford this type of technology now it's relatively cheap and inexpensive you can put something together for $10.00 to $15000.00 in this case but what again makes it so sophisticated is the range all right think of drones like a cell phone when you're you know moving around with your cell phone you're hopping from tower to tower to get a better signal with drone that remote is your cell phone tower and as you push the range you need other towers to be able to relay the video signal and communication equipment and i was using drones within the u.s. military we have a massive communication infrastructure so we can fly a drone over the middle east while sitting back in the united states or we're able to do that because of the this decade relay systems the who these they don't necessarily that they can afford that internally they have to go to larger entities to do that and that's why i believe the iranians are providing them these towers

these these ways to amplify the drone capability to be able to cover the entire country egyptian president abdel fatah he says allegations of corruption against him and his generals amounted to him ation the egyptian businessman who worked as a military contract has been posting videos online accusing sisi of wasting millions of dollars on palaces villas and hotels but he has dismissed the accusations as allies and slander well look you have lifted this is all shia laws and difficult mission i am an honorable and honest man just like a seed this is not a response to anyone this is an assurance to the maimings and the values that are known about me for why a wife before look look he is building up tell us yes i am building in the capital of a new country that the whole world will be watching. now west african leaders are planning to spend a $1000000000.00 to fight on groups i wrapped up an emergency summit and became

a fast and say they'll develop the poor areas to prevent people from turning to violence catherine so it brings us more now from. heads of state from this a hell are arriving whether dougal there is a security crisis in the region following an inside inside by armed groups allied to al qaeda and the islamic state of iraq and the levant fighters have carried out a series of attacks in book enough facile mauritania mali chide and. they scan sign that this problem could spread beyond us to hell and to other coastal countries. we have said that there needs to be a link between development and security if we develop the affected areas there will be security and if we provide good security we can develop those areas this summit has been organized by west africa's regional bloc and has brought together presidents from the so help countries called ju 5 mandated to fight terrorism and

illegal migration a crossbow does representatives from other west african countries affected by extremist groups like the book are also here book enough fossil has seen increased attacks in recent years until a few years ago when book enough fossils former president plays come power it was removed from power in a popular driving the country was largely safe but in 2016 on this very day the top of the world the google a man on the internet that hotel and 2 restaurants more than 20 people were killed that mourn human to remind us of what happened here. the attacks have spread to the east and north of the country about 500 people have been killed and nearly 300000 displaced like ben norbi in law who's hosted by well wishes in a town about a 100 kilometers away from where the leaders are meeting she fled from her home

father north 2 months ago. you know if they came to our village and began shooting everywhere we fled with our children we walked for over 50 kilometers we came here with nothing. the leaders in were good to say the only way to help millions of people like bill maher and her children is by working together implementing what will be decided at the summit though will be the hardest part we've been here in book enough for about 2 weeks and spent a considerable amount of time in the north one of the regions that have been badly affected by this security problem where troops have been deployed to deal with this armed groups and we've been speaking to many people who tell us that a military intervention on its own is not a viable solution there also needs to be a development agenda these are areas that have been marginalized very extremely poor areas that have been marginalized a neglected by governments for so long so

a lot of people feel disenfranchised and they feel 1st frustrated and this becomes very easy for armed groups to target particularly young people recruit them into their ranks and also gain the support of the local communities so people have been talking to say that these people who are affected really need to be empowered if this battle is to be worn afghan security forces of broken out what they say was an isolated cell behind a series of suicide bombings 3 men have been arrested but there are concerns other cells might be waiting to be activated anybody reports from kabul these 3 men are what afghan security forces say were part of an terrorist cell there's been busting kabul it's claimed they are responsible for $29.00 dead the attacks in the capital . they're been they've been recruiting from very from the educated society the young. young educated youth and they've been very savvy with

technology and even a ability to to to plan and launch attacks they have valid a lot of innocent blood on there and so it was a huge huge bust the hunt for eisel or die as it's called locally is not easy for the security forces the group has become more sophisticated and difficult to track down it is a relative newcomer to the afghan conflict but is making its presence felt with a string of attacks and suicide bombings. this is one of their biggest a few weeks ago the target was a shia wedding reception in kabul more than 60 people were killed and 180 injured the largely home base group is relatively small in number but it is developing and expanding into more areas people who are fighting in the name of their if they're all old hardcore taliban who support it are trying taliban and they are supported from some elements from outside but the afghan army believes that as i saw fighters

are driven out of syria some are making their way to remote areas of afghanistan but also that i saw ranks will swell with disaffected taliban fighters that oppose a peace deal. the cornerstone for the us of any peace agreement is that the taliban agrees to prevent any group from using afghanistan as a base to launch attacks on the u.s. in the west the taliban nor matter how the guarantee they cannot fight and their own with support of the government support of the army and support of the international community but that's probably a long way in the future if the attacks in afghanistan now that frighten people abdul-latif knows the pain i still can inflict his youngest son abdul jamil was a musician who was killed in the kabul wedding hall bombing. of the bus there. they are against humanity they're not lost limbs and nothing about our religion allows you to go and blow someone up this was not a military police this was just

a burden party breaking up this group has been a big success for the security forces but there has been some concern a surprise that it took so long to catch them and there are worries that there may be further isolate cells waiting to be activated it is clear that when afghanistan eventually a cheese piece i saw will still be a big problem that will be difficult to solve tony berty al jazeera kabul donald trump says he's discussed the possibility of a mutual defense treaty with israel the us president says he spoke to israel's prime minister about the proposal and will bring the matter again bring up the matter again after the israeli election israel goes to the polls on tuesday for the 2nd time in less than 6 months high fawcett reports. on who sews himself as israel's mr security came reminded of its frequent absence in and around gaza a week before polling day sirens gave notice of a new round of rockets forcing benjamin netanyahu from the stage at a campaign rally in the southern city of ashdod. his main electoral

opponent former army chief benny gantz gaza is netanyahu is a weak point on security policy the deterrence has been utterly eroded it's time to act it's time to put an end to this it's time to change the leadership challenge netanyahu to come to the southern town of steroids and look into the eyes of its frightened residents but stare out has long been a stronghold of netanyahu likud party and in april's elections 2 thirds of its voters chose netanyahu or his right wing allies over gun says centrist bloc. we hope it will be fine i don't have the tools that netanyahu has i hope what should be done is done and. netanyahu doesn't bring a sick.