it is i mean you just saw that from the the present united states saying they were locked and loaded and now president trump likes to use very dramatic language as we know used to with north korea and others as well but certainly anything is really on the table quite frankly we saw clearly strong language again from pompei o about this list and this is a clear escalation here and quite frankly it's a very dangerous escalation. of rhetoric here and this goes right to the u.s. key interest when it comes to saudi arabia it comes down to saudi arabia and oil and and also visa v iran and when you see the u.s. secretary of state saying that iran is responsible for attacking oil. infrastructure in saudi arabia a key ally to the united states that is clearly worrisome for the united states on multiple levels so a clear ramping up of the rhetoric no indication that the u.s. is taking off the table the use of military but we've seen no strategic movement in

any way of military being moved anywhere at least in the last few hours or so but clearly ramping up the verbal rhetoric here donald trump here on twitter gabriel is on to that for us in washington d.c. watching the story for us very very nicely thank you again. well let's remind you of what's happened in the last few days before has more on those attacks on saudi aramco. who the rebels in yemen say they flew armed drones across the border deep into saudi arabia to attack 2 major oil facilities if confirmed that's their most ambitious and devastating operation following dozens of smaller scale strikes in the kingdom in recent months but. we exploited vulnerabilities in the saudi defense system and we built our drones in order to avoid these systems therefore the saudi and iraqi air space became open to us after their defense systems failed

to even spot the drones. the u.s. secretary of state flames iran for saturday's attacks might pump a 0 says there's no evidence they were launched from yemen although he hasn't explained how iran is to blame or where the drones took off from secretary powell has made clear that the iranian regime is responsible for this attack on civilian areas and infrastructure right are vital to our global energy supply and we're not going to stand for that in fact our department of energy stands ready to tap into the strategic reserves of petroleum reserve asked to stabilize the global energy supply iran says it rejects the u.s. accusations. what is concerning is the wrong path of the americans in the region they are supporting saudi arabia and the u.s. in a set of confessing to their role in creating instability the point the finger at other countries in the region dialogue between regional neighbors is the only solution to resolving the conflict. the state owned oil company saudi aramco says the fires

started by the attacks knocked out more than half of its entire daily output close to $6000000.00 barrels of oil the saudi energy minister says stockpiles of oil will be used to offset the loss of production but oil markets haven't seen the shutdown on this scale since iraqi troops invaded kuwait to start the 1st gulf war in 1990 and it's not clear how long repairs will take. the attacks may also undermine investor confidence in iran co's anticipated stock market debut the saudi government hopes it will raise up to $100000000000.00 based on a 2 trillion dollar valuation of the company i don't think it will affect the i.p.o. of course the global supply of 10 percent of the global supply come from and what the global economy and the global source of energy so the world won't accept the street. with no saying so that if you want

a love of the attacks have cut 6 percent of the world's oil output the impact will depend on how quickly the saudis can restore full production. gov for al-jazeera. correspondent also jabari has the view from tehran. iranian president hassan rouhani commented on the latest accusations made by the us government that iran was involved in the attacks in saudi arabia has on iran he said that the united states instead of pointing the finger at other countries needs to take a look at its own role in creating this instability in this region lonnie said that the united states is supplying arms to saudi arabia and the emirates he led coalition that is waging this war in yemen he urged all parties that the way to resolve this conflict and have some kind of stability in this region these suits were dialogue their remains have said over and over again that they're willing to mediate between all the parties involved to bring some kind of an end to this conflict iranian president hassan rouhani has also said in the past that these

kinds of accusations only further ties between tehran and washington do not help to create any kind of dialogue between the 2 countries that is something the u.s. president donald trump has said he's interested in having a meeting with the iranian president at the united nations later this month but given the current climate and the accusations that have been coming at the rate in officials it is very unlikely that president hassan rouhani will be open to that kind of meeting until these sanctions are lifted on iran and that these kinds of behavior that iran says has been waged them is changed for the time being. well there's plenty more ahead for you on this news hour including rebuilding the bahamas the cleanup operation resumes in the islands battered by both the tropical storm and hurricane. new gun laws in texas that make weapons more accessible despite mass shootings. and in support peace they will be here with action from

spain's basketball wealth cup final when. now ballot. it's being counted and after nearly half of british half of registered voters turned out to choose their country's next president official results on to expected until cheers day but supporters of the 2 candidates siad and that will cut all we have both claims to have on the fast round and already celebrating sunday's vote for a 2nd presidential election since the 2011 revolution 70 deck reports from us. half an hour before voting was due to start a small queue had already formed tunisians waiting to have their say on who is going to be their next president. they should have i came here to vote in order to get someone who can get this country out of the crisis the economic crisis the

financial crisis we have lots of debts it's very frustrating for me so i'm not fully convinced about any of the candidates because there are so many and i haven't seen them from the beginning it's the 2nd time tunisians are electing their president since the revolution 8 years ago tunisia is often quoted as the only democratic success story to come out of the so-called arab spring the 1st country where its people took to the streets bringing an end to the 23 year rule of president saying. this is democracy in action yes there are many different candidates to choose from but the question is what can they offer the people are they going to offer real change or is the next president going to be more of the same voters here are telling us they're tired of empty promises. the next president is pressing issues to deal with unemployment is higher than it was before the 2011 revolution the security situation is a concern and corruption remains rampant the new leader will face

a population hungry for change especially the youth many have told us they don't trust the politicians. to leave these elections are a good thing it's the 1st time we've had a debate on t.v. with our presidential candidates. we used to watch the debates on t.v. the united states and now we're watching the same thing here in 2 days ago that's the 1st. national and international observers were polling stations across the country we knew. people but interestingly we saw many elderly coming in very in the morning and been very well organized. use. so so far it's been good we're just hoping that by you know the young people who would have come on only increase the percentage of the luminary results are due later with the official announcement on tuesday the winning candidate will need more than 50 percent of the vote and no one expects that to happen the likely scenario out of $24.00 candidates the top 2 will head to

a runoff in november by the end of the day tunisian should know who they are stephanie decker al-jazeera tunis. and algeria is set to hold its presidential election now on december 12th the day it has been announced by interim president other carbon salar the country has been rocked by months of protests since former president others is precisely who was forced to resign back in april after nearly 20 years in power now workers at u.s. automaker general motors are due to go on a strike on monday for the 1st time in more than a decade 40 $8000.00 people are expected to walk off the job at $31.00 factories across the country the united auto workers union is pushing for better wages health benefits and job security guarantees and they've threatened to stay on strike until an agreement is reached the talks are scheduled to continue on monday on michael martinez is a reporter for automotive news based in detroit and he says that workers are

demanding a greater share of profits and explains how this will impact general motors. it could cripple g.m. if the strike last long enough currently the automaker has been preparing for some type of action and they have a 77 days supply of new vehicles on hand that number fluctuates depending on what the able you're talking about is there more profitable more popular s.u.v.s and trucks they have a lower days supply in the fifty's but if this drags on and then it essentially means they can't build any products dealers won't be able to sell those new products because there won't be anything there this is a very significant action it's sort of the last resort that the union has in negotiations that have reached an impasse. we don't know yet what the impact will be on general motors it depends on how long the strike last but workers in less than 10 hours now will leave the assembly lines and form picket lines outside of

all those facilities workers are looking for higher wages they're looking for retention of very lucrative health care benefits that they've been able to keep. they're looking for a greater share of the profits that general motors ford and chrysler have been able to amass over the years and they're also looking for protection for temporary workers to try to find a way for them to reach full time permanent status as the u.s. congress continues to debate possible gun control measures texas has moved in the opposite direction making guns more accessible that the fight to mass shootings in the city of el paso on adesa just an organist how does a castro has more from mission in texas. last month's 2 mass shootings in texas took at least 29 lives. and here at the mission skeet and trap club the incidents have apparently driven up business it's gone up extremely yes ma'am the shooting

range manager jeff simpson says the number of people who have come to practice shooting to qualify for a license to carry a concealed handgun in texas has more than doubled what do you think is behind that . people that are. open to protect ourselves simpson says he is a prime example he says last week he had to use his gun to scare off several adult male migrants here near the mexico border who wanted to take his phone i carry a gun. all the time that i'm here so i didn't pointed out i pulled it out i didn't want paul and i didn't chamber it i didn't pull it out but it made them leave me alone since the reason mass shootings in texas it's actually become easier to legally own and carry guns in this state 8 pro-gun new laws passed prior to those shootings took effect this month they include allowing guns in school parking lots apartments and churches texas governor greg abbott

a conservative republican responded to the latest mass shootings with executive orders to increase police training and public awareness he rejected calls from democrats for more gun control this is absolutely the wrong direction for us to take it's going to be measured in the lives lost not in the lives saved but it was a gun carrying good samaritan who ended the 2017 attack on a church in sutherland springs texas an armed bystander chased away the shooter after he killed 25 people but before he could kill more. at the shooting range members say owning a gun requires discipline and practice but even here there are support for removing weapons from people who are likely to use them to cause harm and a lot of people feel they're safe by just having but that's not the case texas has the most registered guns of any state more than 700000 whether that makes texas

safer or more dangerous is still unclear. castro al-jazeera mission texas. aid operations have resumed in the bahamas as tropical storm battering we have to away from the area after dumping rain over parts of the archipelagos northwest some communities are now coming together for the 1st time since hurricane dorian hit 2 weeks ago our correspondent allen fisher has this report from freeport on the island of grand bahama. for many this was the 1st time to come together since the hurricane the church a source of comfort after some difficult days once more the hugs were warm the tears were real the stories of survival frightening we watch our house and our home destroyed. whatever you want to call it they just. sometimes over 20 feet. over the roof into the roof because you know sustained some damage in

that area we saw that but didn't see us there sharing what they have one man and his family are sleeping at a friends one woman has a walking well so a sharing water community coping together she lost everything everything. in her shoes and pants and stuff to get out of the suffering of a few of my church members have lost everything you know so i thank god that i didn't have that major damage in my house like some of them but we're all alive and we're holding on. just a short distance so we in the hudson neighborhood the work to rebuild has already begun. many buildings survived but have been left to shell by the storm waters. is probably about a kilometer from the sea but at the height of the storm the water was so high it would have been above my hate simply inundating all of the houses in this city.

people are saving what they can but there's not a lot left to see most of it is. salt water and sewage backing up into the building. but the everything is you know. but wait while saving the contamination with the sewage george like many families here is hoping things will start improving before the end of the year getting back to normal that's not even under consideration for no alan fischer al-jazeera in freeport on the island of grand bahama. now still ahead on al-jazeera. a frustrated by palestinian refugees living in lebanon are demanding asylum. a classroom on wheels and mexico how a few children are getting an education on many of the u.s. asylum seekers in the sounds.

and your fear of a hard time coming up with an incredible comeback tell you how they did it and. how i welcomes another look at the international forecast weather let's say about across eastern parts of the u.s. we do have one but so strengthening as it pulls away from a hama's it's got its head towards bermuda takingly west windy a weather with it as well along the carolinas. we should be ok here there have been some comments pushing through on the coastal fringes some showers some breezy conditions but things will improve as we go on through monday and on into cheese day as it heads into the open waters strengthen as it does so becoming a hurricane in the process but

a good little tribe right weather across the eastern seaboard senseless of the u.s. lots of warmth in place dallas 35 celsius 33 there for kansas city i was also west the telephonic flyby than i just some showers that just around the rockies. longer spells of rain around the pacific northwest into that western side of canada will see a fair bit of wet weather just pushing in across here and a fair bit of weather to into western parts of the caribbean nicaragua costa rica seeing some lively showers at present and i think we might will see some increasing showers also pushing towards the lesser antilles still to be medallist was laid with. some very heavy rain but it's on become to choose day but it stays fine and dry for jamaica. world leaders from un member states to preparing to take their seats for this year's general assembly rouhani and president trump will attend. growing tensions

between the u.s. and iran be used will multilateral efforts provide solutions to a global refugee crisis escalates in laws and climate change before it's too late join us for extensive coverage of the un general assembly on al-jazeera. singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline with illegally dredged satins of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia literally vanished it's a big business smuggling illegal take who say they're in the sand is our parent you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that is not so pleasant the tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sandals at this time on al jazeera.

and again i'm. about top stories this hour saturdays drone attacks on saudi oil facilities have triggered a record jump in brant crude prices in futures trading u.s. president donald trump says he's authorized the release of oil from america's strategic reserves to fill that market cap if needed and. also says the u.s. is quote locked and loaded preparing for confirmation of who attacked riyadh's oil facilities secretary of state's mike pompei o has already accused iran of the attacks that have been claimed by yemen's freaky rebels tehran has denied and fall from and. and ballot papers are being counted in china's year's presidential election official results on to expected until tuesday but supporters of the 2 candidates case sayad an appeal. who have both claim to have won the 1st round

already celebrating. now israel is holding its 2nd general election and less than 6 months on shoes day palestinian israelis are being urged to vote in grayson numbers than they did in april and a leading palestinian israeli politician is provoking a strong reaction by making an unprecedented call for coalition forces has the story. big with days left in the election campaign a clash over race voting and hidden cameras came to a head in the israeli parliament. you rely a sheltered knesset member iman or day to confronting israel's prime minister with a camera benjamin netanyahu had been trying unsuccessfully to force through last minute legislation allowing party activists to film inside polling stations palestinian israeli politicians saw that as an attempt to intimidate voters in arab areas. but in this election i'm an order isn't just taking on what he calls

netanyahu is racist campaign he's confronting a long held within palestinian israeli politics saying he would be prepared to be the 1st leader to take his grouping of mainly palestinian parties into israeli coalition government albeit with conditions that make it unlikely in the near future that. we have a great influence on who will form a government if you put aside the arab vote netanyahu will be the pm if you include the arab vote then there are other scenarios other members of his alliance have distanced themselves from his message but a recent poll suggests nearly 80 percent of palestinian israelis are in favor of either joining a coalition government or supporting one within the knesset nobody ever expected an arab politician to say it and the reason is for all sorts of historic internal debates. among the arab palestinian citizens in israel there's been a very ambivalent feeling to what extent the parties should legitimize the israeli government to what extent being part of the israeli government puts them in

a position where they would have to give up on very significant principles in april's elections the turnout among palestinian israelis was down to a new low 50 percent so with this idea of more active political engagement lift that number. and voting is a very positive step people here don't do it and if you don't vote our vote goes to rival parties but i am against arab parties joining an israeli government. it's good if they join a left wing government not a right wing races government that works against arabs the palestinian citizens of israel there is a level of support for the idea of engaging in coalition government in the future but the palestinian israeli politicians they say the vital thing is that their electorate comes out and votes in greater numbers than they have before to have any chance of bringing down the administration of benjamin netanyahu netanyahu is themselves using or it is stance toward voters of the suppose a danger in supporting the main opposition led by benny gantz and yeah i like pete will be me at the head of the likud or will be the pig and guns at the head of

a leftist government that will include the be and i mean as minister of the government those politicians say no and you know who is trying to diligent in my eyes palestinian israelis in gauge meant in national politics the question is whether this time it might inspire them instead to engage more our aforesaid al-jazeera type israel and just 2 days before the vote the israeli cabinet held a meeting in the occupied west bank where approved another illegal settlement benjamin netanyahu his caretaker cabinet met in the jordan valley an area that he has pledged to annex if he wins a 5th town the palestinian president's spokesman said the meeting itself was illegal. and palestinian refugees in lebanon say they don't have enough money to live and are demanding asylum in countries such as the u.k. germany and australia protesters say a government crackdown on foreign workers is adding to their plight said a halt to reports from beirut. they're demanding a dignified life

a future for their children palestinian refugees have been gathering outside western embassies in the lebanese capital beirut demanding humanitarian asylum. give us the opportunity to live. we want. to give our children indication palestinians are criticizing a recent lebanese government crackdown on undocumented foreign labor as refugees they believe they should be exempt lebanese law already bans them from working in many professions and denies them access to public services as part of a long standing policy to discourage them from staying. if we are denied the right to work and open businesses then how do we pay for medical treatment for example and it was says it covers 100 percent of the cost but that is not true only 10 percent of my father's operation he was a cancer patient and he has since passed away international aid for palestinian

refugees has decreased in recent years the un relief and works agency which supports palestinian refugees says it is providing services to all of them but it needs $120000000.00 to be able to fund operations until the end of the year palestinians have been living here for more than 70 years since the creation of israel but now the situation is getting worse unemployment was already a problem before the recent decision by lebanese authorities that requires them to take work permits are not only expensive but they are also difficult to get palestinians who own shops like us are were also affected by the government crackdown this 27 year old lost his livelihood in a country going through a severe economic crisis. told me i have no right because i'm a palestinian. many of us are graduates the use of kidding your children.

they are not allowed to work there is anger and resentment among the almost 200000 refugees they say they should be given special stock to be treated as foreign workers but many have lost hope in their host country and they're looking for a better life outside. beirut a former health minister from the democratic republic of congo has been arrested accused of embezzling $4300000.00 of public funds raised to tackle the above the epidemic police allege was planning to flee the country and escape justice something his lawyers deny the about outbreak is the 2nd west in history with more than 2000 people losing their lives just over the past year and doctors in zimbabwe are protesting over the alleged abduction of a union leader they say peace disappeared after he called for a strike over pay the doctors say he received death threats several government

critics including a comedian and a teaches union are also said to have gone missing just over the past few weeks. he's actually unfortunate that he ended up coming to. we've. not been able to afford to be going. and seeing it just to bring down the end is in doubt he would give it up. we are not putting our boat there look talking about brain cars going to turn up with anything just to survive just to be able to work with. dozens of passengers on missing after a river boat sank in the democratic republic of congo police say 76 people on board were rescued 36 others are feared to drowned in the shasta the boat went down overnight in the congo river as it headed for the capital. and at least 13 people have died and dozens are missing after a boat capsized in india it happened in the godavari river in the southern state of

under pradesh local media are reporting that $61.00 people were onboard including 10 crew members only about 14 people have been rescued so far now the taliban says it will revoke it span and allow the red cross to work in afghanistan as it excluded the group along with the world health organization an april accusing them of carrying out suspicious activities during vaccination campaigns the taliban also says it will guarantee the security of red cross staff in the areas that it controls. there's been more violence in hong kong after tens of thousands of people defied a police ban and marched through the city center it was the 2nd mass demonstration since the territories the leader withdrew an unpopular extradition bill the protesters are demanding more government concessions and political reforms our correspondent tamara allan dogan reports from hong kong. another day of the rep

a suit of interest. hundreds of thousands of demonstrators defy a police ban to march through central hong kong once again. there is no shortage of anger here the turmoil in hong kong is well into its 3rd month and protests continue unabated. in the formal groups of volunteers from 1st medics to lawyers and religious leaders show that support for these demonstrators is far reaching a full withdrawal of the proposed law to extradite suspects to china was announced by chief executive to care really lamb last week a concession by b. genes leaders but observers see it may have been given too late. protesters say they're refusing to give in until their other 4 demands are met demonstrators say care really is just unlucky and. everyone knows she's not sincere to

face to people at home call a slow as she doesn't respond to all demands we will continue to protest. the government is full of hypocrisy it's the government that undermine the rule of law police are using on reasonable violence the protesters are using force not ballance it's violence only when it harms people. water cannons of the respect 6 which have so far only emboldened protesters to surging forward for the last few months these have become familiar scenes the streets of hong kong have become a battleground this is hong kong on edge young people here tell us they are forever transformed by the recent political turmoil and they are risking all to resist what they call creepy authoritarianism from. hong kong.

time media says at least 86 tigers rescued from an infamous tourist attraction 3 years ago have now died wildlife officials confiscated nearly 150 tigers from a buddhist temple where visitors took selfies with the animals and fed them the temple had promoted itself as a nature sanctuary that was later investigated for wildlife trafficking and animal abuse officials say the tigers immune systems were weakened by inbreeding and many fell victim to a virus. about 50 fires continue to burn across queensland in new south wales in eastern australia about 20 homes have been destroyed and another 30 damaged favorable conditions on sunday helped slow down the pace of the destruction but crews remain on alert with ha so windy a weather forecast for the next 2 days fires have been burning across the states for more than a week destroying an estimated 55000 hectares of land we've been through.

was unfeeling and jumped through over rain forest over river and. i always thought for a movie come up there it will never get across the river now a battle is underway for the survival of the largest forest of its kind in east africa kenya's government has a victim hundreds of thousands of settlers from the mal forest over the past 20 years as nicholas have reports and digitas people in the region say their homes are at risk and so is the area's very rare wildlife. deep in the forest or people who communicate with honeybees. these concerns are intentions explained secure my children if you collect honey with a pure heart she says that you will be unharmed hanging from the branches or wooden hives people built to pretty.