because it won't work with him now for all this there was a handshake between guns and netanyahu today it came at a memorial service for the former president the former prime minister of israel shimon peres it was choreographed by the current president riven rivlin he appealed to them both to get together and to try and form a national unity government netanyahu at this event talked about how peres had served in a rotational prime minister arrangement with his great rival in the 1980 s. it's a mere clearly hinting that he wanted to see something similar to that happen this time around he said he was disappointed later on in the day that dance had not taken him up on his offer but there are those on the opposition side that see this is not in in good in good faith at all that netanyahu is trying to frame dance essentially as the one to blame if and when coalition talks fail entirely don't forget that netanyahu is facing 3 separate corruption cases the 1st print dykeman

hearing is due on october the 2nd and looming behind everything as you said at the beginning of all this is the prospect that everybody seems very keen to avoid the prospect of a 3rd election the question is whether they will be able to be creative enough make enough compromises that perhaps they'll be all sorts of fractures and splinters between and within parties along the way as they try to avoid that happening we're in for a lengthy i think period of attempted coalition building thank you very much for that harry fossett live for us in jerusalem. tehran is prepared for an all out war that the threat from iran foreign minister if the u.s. takes military action following the bombing of 2 major saudi arabian oil facilities jobs or if says iran won't blink to defend its territory if it's attacked is deny tehran had any involvement in the drone strike see vons oil minister says the us is using oil as

a weapon to sarap the conflict the us secretary of state however says the attack of the refineries was an act of war michael bale arrived in the u.a.e. for talks after visiting saudi arabia's crown prince on wednesday and the united nations has sent a team of experts to investigate the attacks in saudi arabia iran could be in breach of its 2015 nuclear agreement if it was responsible our white house correspondent kimberly halkett is standing by in washington with reaction but 1st to zain in tehran so zain what can we make of these comments from iran about an all out war. well certainly the comments from foreign ministers of odds or if as you said are incredibly worrying they've been echoed by his boss president hassan rouhani ever since they were blamed for the attack on saudi aramco facilities over the weekend which were claimed by yemen's hooty fighters now this tells us 2 things it tells us gives us a sense of the mindset of iran's leaders they are certainly on

a war footing they feel like they're on the defensive it also gives us a sense of how far we've come from the possibility of a negotiated solution how difficult it might be to get back to a place where dialogue can happen between iran the united states and other players in the region iran saying that if the u.s. carries out any sort of attack on an iranian target that the iranian response will be destructive and widespread and immediate this is certainly very very worrying rhetoric but the fact of the matter is that this is exactly what iran has been saying for years this is standing policy iran has said over and over again that if the united states carries out any kind of attack it will consider all assets and allies in the region as fair game as military targets now what is new what is different is that any time there is an incident where there is heightened tensions iran gets louder or more assertive and that's what we've seen happening since the attacks on the saudi aramco facilities were blamed on iran it really gives us

a sense that perhaps iranian officials here at the one see the possibility of an attack by the united states is something that is more closer than it's been in the past thank you for that same lie for a same tehran then our president donald trump has promised more sanctions on iran for that let's go to kimberly how can our white house correspondent so what is the top administration planning company. yeah well right now at this hour it appears it is weighing all its options dumb term saying on thursday a lockout happen we'll see what happens it's clear the president signaled even as late as wednesday that he is still willing to seek a peaceful solution even as his secretary of state might pump a 0 continues to use aggressive language to describe the attack in saudi arabia there will be more sanctions were we we have set about a course of action to deny iran the capacity and the wealth so that they can conduct their tears and to prove to prevent that from conducting their terror

campaigns and you can see from the events of last week there's still more work to do we're going to continue to drive towards that end. you cannot fail to see the failed policy of giving money to this regime but what happened and saudi arabia. so even as iran continues to deny that it is responsible for the attacks the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o continues to point to those claims this be fraudulent saying there is no way this could have been launched from yemen as has been claimed by the iranian backed peace is for the sanctions there also has been no clarity on those from the trump administration beyond the tweet that was sent out by the u.s. president so we have an unusual situation folly where right now we have vacillating back and forth between the very tough rhetoric coming from the secretary of state as well as the u.s. president earlier in the week but also this opening for signaling that there may

still be an opportunity for dialogue in the future thank you very much for that can really help get live for us at the white house or let's not discuss the implications of these tensions on the global oil industry let's speak to joshua young who is chief investment officer and co-founder of bison interests which is an oil and gas investment firm he joins is. in the united states thank you so much for being with us i am told the saudi oil company says they can bring back oil production to the normal levels by the end of november following these attacks and to 10000000 barrels a day by the end of september is that mean lists a con on do you think it will take them to bring production back up. that's a great question so i think it's important to differentiate between production and actual export capacity of the kind of barrels that are supposed to be sold to customers and if you look at what was actually damaged or destroyed there was a smaller production facility and there was a larger processing facility it seems unreasonable to expect that that process

thing will be back online in the next couple of weeks ironically right now here in houston there's a tropical storm going on and there's all kinds of flooding and there's refineries offline and you know it reminds me of when there been refinery fires or other issues where if it's just a simple fire not a missile or a drone it can sometimes take months to repair in this case it seems unreasonable to expect that it would take days or weeks and so again when you differentiate between processing and production those have different meanings and those are going to have different impacts on the global oil market but what about the the planned i.p.o. aramco says it's proceeding with the listing despite the attacks on the uptake oil facility but then they go public in the current 2nd sentence and with the current tensions. so that's a great question i mean they can probably go public they just probably can't go public at a valuation that they're hoping for i mean there are 2 things that come to mind one

is we work which just had to pull their i.p.o. radically lower value ations it kept getting reprice down based on reasonable expectations and people's understanding of the situation got better and better and as their understanding got better the valuation dropped i think there's a parallel here 'd with saudi aramco where as people better understand the risks to their ability to deliver the oil that they've contracted are they on this to their customers as those risks increase and as there's more and more evidence kerio and other data providers of showing that there have been substantial drawdowns assadi inventories if they're delivered from image or it means they're not delivering from production and processing as there's more risk there there's going to be a lower valuation so yes they could i.p.o. no it seems very unlikely they'd be at the get a multi-trillion dollar valuation and one other thing to consider is the comparative valuation of a ramp to either an exxon or something or to other oil producers in

a very depressed oil and gas equity market so when you look at how the equities are trading especially after this attack it's pretty crazy there are things that very low valuation that would imply a much much lower value than aramco so yes they could go public potentially but no probably not anywhere close to valuation that they're open at least any time soon josh young thank you so much for your insight thank you very much for joining us here on al-jazeera. meanwhile the u.a.e. has joined an american led coalition to protect waterways in the middle east a task force was formed after a time of raids on oil tankers in the water is now oman the us has named them on iran saudi arabia australia rain and the united kingdom are all part of the coalition but iraq says it will not join the force to secure gulf wanna ways and opposes israel being part of such a group. there's plenty more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including a 3rd set of pictures like this one of canada's prime minister in bronze phrase.

this time from his college days plus another 2 attacks hit afghanistan and only 9 days out from the next presidential election in sports mexico's boxing superstar targets more history in his next fight on how fast story coming up 8. dozens of people have been killed in 2 separate attacks in afghanistan an air strike carried out by government forces with u.s.s. support has left at least 20 people dead in the eastern non-god province early at least 18 people were killed and 96 injured in a taliban suicide bomb attack near hospital in the southern zabul province a defense ministry official says the intended target was a nearby training base for afghanistan's national intelligence agency now the united states' top negotiator for afghanistan is in washington to be questioned by

members of a house committee over the talks with the taliban a classified briefing is expected to see is. also questioned on trump's canceled talks with the taliban at camp david speak to michael o'hanlon who's a senior fellow and director of research in foreign policy at the brookings institution is alive in washington thank you very much for speaking to us present surprised a lot of people by calling off these talks with the taliban is it clear to you. goes into this briefing today what the u.s. administration's plans are for afghanistan right now. no it's not clear and i don't think it can be clearer frankly because if you look at the proposed 2 step process for peace the 2nd step is the hard one and it's primarily in the hands of afghans and i think it would be a mistake for the united states to think that it could somehow control that 2nd phase which hasn't even begun and also to make decisions about our longstanding or

future troop commitments before that phase has begun we can talk about reducing by 5000 troops in exchange for the taliban breaking ties with isis and al qaida and we can also expect some reduction in violence that's the 1st deal that's the one that's been at least temporarily postponed i think it will still perhaps happen but even if it does it's going to be the easy part the hard part is power sharing how do you meaningfully share power between a gandhi government in afghanistan that was elected that's based on a constitution and a taliban movement that rejects the constitution and ghani and anything smacking of a modern state system so i think that's going to be very hard maybe it's possible but it's going to be extraordinarily hard and probably protracted so it would be a mistake for the united states to say we will cut forces by this percent over this time period in that 2nd round the 1st round of cuts the 5000 fewer forces i think

we can make that plan and still have about 8500 u.s. forces left still honor our commitments to the afghan government still protect our country but the 2nd phase is going to be harder slower less predictable and so no there is no real plan yet for that yet but bringing troops home from afghanistan has been one of president trump's main foreign policy objectives you know what what is he going to say to his you know to the people as he begins sees reelection campaign. well 1st you're right it is an objective but also destroying terrorism or preventing terrorist attacks on the united states is another objective of president trumps foreign policy which means those 2 goals are in some tension or perhaps even competition with each other a 3rd point i would make president trump supporters don't always expect him to honor the letter of every promise in fact that's true of almost any president and his or her supporters it's the overall movement of the policy which is generally

considered to be the most important indicator of success or failure so if trump is in the process of reducing forces then i think he'll more or less get a pass from people who expected him to come home from afghanistan admittedly he only winds up at roughly the same level that president obama was at the end of his presidency but if trump wants he can cut another 1000 or another 2000 we'd still probably have enough to prevent the collapse of the afghan government and so i think that's the way you can sort of handle the contradictory incentives that you identify here thank you so much for speaking to us michael o'hanlon from the brookings institution joining us there from washington thank you for your time my pleasure thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera report from the u.s. state stakes spanning abortion rights at a time of nationwide restrictions and support for ports world governing body says it's time for iran to change the way he treats female football fans it's.

how the weather is set fire across the middle east no great surprises here a little bit of cloud pushing up towards pakistan or across the region deb it does stay losey dry but look up towards the black sea you can just make out this band of cloud just rolling its way down towards to say we'll see something of a change coming in here as we go through the next day or so is actually a cold front 26 celsius in ankara africa moves through and the temperature drops like a stone 19 degrees and cloud under a lot of the showers along the spells of frank coming through here and notice some wintry weather over the caucuses as well south of that well hot sunshine continues 42 celsius in baghdad 38 in kuwait city and that's a sort of temperature we can expect across

a good part of the arabian peninsula 38 in abu dhabi 37 here in doha picking up to around 39 by the time we come to saturday hanging on to some cloud just around some parts of amman so chance of the opposite of rain just coming into the slot of for example temperatures here 29 degrees that's been hotter than that recently into capetown we've been getting up into the thirty's over the past few days as bad of cloud is sliding its way through. do cooled as you go through the next couple days 18 celsius the type town on friday at the top temperature of 17 saturday. singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline with illegally dredged satins of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia and literally vanished it's a big business smuggling sample and they will take this very filling the sand is our parakeet using this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so

pleasant the tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sound was at this time on al-jazeera. well the leaders from un member states to preparing to take their seats for this year's general assembly president rouhani and president trump will attend. growing tensions between the u.s. and iran the best will multilateral efforts provide solutions to a global refugee crisis escalating laws and climate change before it's too late join us for extensive coverage of the un general assembly on al-jazeera.

a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera tunisia's former president ben ali has died at the age of 83 he had been in intensive care for the past 3 months but he was in saudi arabia where he had been living next in exile since the 2011 revolution a leader of his rounds who and why party benny gantz has announced he plans to form a unity government. with him as leader. and the u.n. has sent a team of experts to investigate the attack on 2 major saudi arabian oil facilities this comes as the u.s. and iran accuse each other of trying to start a conflict iran's foreign minister says a strike against his country or by the saudis would trigger an all out war. 2 photos have emerged of canada's prime minister wearing brown face makeup both pictures date from 2011 the 1st was published in

a school yearbook and the other in a newsletter justin trudeau worked as a teacher the pictures were taken at the school's annual dinner which nights the says it was a mistake and now 30 image has since been posted online which shows him in blackface during a high school talent show and in the last few hours a video has surfaced appearing to show true dressed in black face in a separate incident he's facing a tough reelection fight canadians go to the polls on october 21st. i attended an individual gala the being was arabian nights. dressed up in a lot in costume and put makeup on. i should have been. should have known better but i didn't. and then those sort of. live to donny alack in toronto for is danielle this controversy couldn't have come at

a worse time for trudeau who is in the middle of his reelection campaign how has he handled this crisis and what people are saying. well we heard from him follow his apology there which he did hastily last night on his campaign plane and he's more or less i wouldn't say suspended his campaign but has not appeared in public this morning local time we're expecting him in several hours to talk again and you can bet the entire news conference that he holds will be dominated by this so he'll be apologizing you know for many days to come we think the big question of course is what is the reaction from the voters from the canadian public and to be honest we don't know that yet this election campaign is only a week or so old he and his conservative rival were neck and neck in the opinion polls and it was rather a lock luster affair up until now so this is going to dominate discussion and action on the campaign trail for days to come intrude on his handlers will hope they can put it behind them they do have some weeks but it's going to be difficult

to see how this is not the 1st question he gets asked almost everywhere he goes at least for the forseeable future of this campaign that's thank you very much john you lack for that in toronto let's not speak to. race and gender columnist at the star in toronto the toronto star live from toronto now with us on the news i thank you so much for being with us bree justin trudeau has built his political reputation on the promotion of freedom and diversity in canada how much do you think this controversy is going to have him. it's a good question i don't it might hurt him politically but i do hope that you're able to screen the racism as beyond its most reductive farms as being a black brown or even saying so i mean but race is not racist it's not a racist thing as far as they're concerned oh not at all it is absolutely

a racist thing being in black face there is no history aust brown in canada but there is a violent history of blackface which is why what he has done is so offensive and so racist however i hope we don't use what he did in barrios black face and brown face as a distraction for 'd systemic issues of racism which i think are far more important and so i'm hoping that voters will look at all the candidates and see where their record stands on. issues and how they think indigenous people we're it stands where they stand on a code party. agreement that the u.s. would impact refugees coming in and issues systemic racism rather than whether somebody. is of things. as an election issue right

but just coming back to trudeau has previously been criticized for wearing costumes that some have accused of bordering on cultural appropriation for instance when he wore a traditional indian cost him during an official visit in 2018 do people why do people find this offensive in canada explain this to our international audience and you know how big of a deal is it for him do you mean the costume that we can't show you and i got the costume and the backtrace as well. so the costumes in india are not c m s s they're really as appropriation that something that say the british royals do when they come to india that is see them as some kind of respect however the costumes were made fun of because they were so over the top they were clothes that people might wear at the fanciest of weddings right and so therefore that became a bit of a joke that they were dressed more indian than the indian people who are seen with them. but skin color of procreation is far more offensive

because it's put it in the context of this election are not the people running against justin trudeau is saying the leader of the n.d.p. the national democratic party he's a sick man who wears a turban and he's only party members have left the party because they see a man who wears a turban as an electable and and now you have a white man who can read brown skin and wipe it off who gave their daughter but it's not to speak there when there's a loud but still he can wear a turban and that cost you and take it off so the conversation really has to be around the white privilege that allowed him and not just him but even the other peoples who are in the fold that with him clearly this was the belief that the boat so i i want to take away when i mentioned earlier just be specific incidents of anti black racism it was definitely bad but i also want to broaden the

conversation to the white privilege that allows him to do that right and he won't he's not alone in it he certainly is and thank you so much for speaking to us. from the toronto star joining us from toronto thank you for your time. al jazeera journalist cena spent a 1000 days imprisoned in any gyptian jail he's accused of defaming the state and spreading false news but is yet to be charged or face a trial nor birdman he has more. no formal charges no trial and no conviction mahmoud hussein has been locked up in a gyptian jail for $1000.00 days egyptian government prosecutors accuse him of broadcasting what's described as false news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions hussein strongly denies the allegations and soldiers al-jazeera

the journalist base in qatar flew from doha to cairo for a holiday almost 3 years ago after he landed he was stopped questioned and detained hussein has been helpful long periods in solitary confinement in the notorious tora prison in cairo and refused medical treatment when he broke his arm . echoing international outrage the u.n. has been calling for his release saying he's been exposed to cruel inhumane and degrading treatment according to egyptian law he should have been freed within 24 hours but he was kept in prison. amnesty international says detainees are trapped in the revolving door of egypt's arbitrary detention system it says the gyptian authorities practice of reordering the detention of detainees and blatantly fabricated charges just as are about to be released is an alarming trend that

illustrates extent of egypt a cage justice system over the past few years gyptian police have arrested several al jazeera employees former director of news of al-jazeera arabic. and a law. was sentenced in absentia to the death penalty for endangering national security. mohamed fahmy and peter greste they were all imprisoned for over 400 days while 7 other colleagues were sentenced to 10 years or denied accusations of spreading what egypt cools false news situation.

egypt is ranked one of the lowest in the world for press freedom freedom which mahmoud hussein and dozens of other journalists continue to be tonight. a man the al jazeera. the acting director general of al-jazeera media network he says there is little chance for a fair hearing under egypt's legal system he was actually in court and the court missed him. and the prosecutor decided to. to take to reject the release. and to go to the higher court. the higher court released him again i mean supported the law court decision however the prosecutor came straight away to a police station or whatever and then. later on. he was put in the tora prison which is very well known to be such and curious prison with no

accusation the it's the same thing however i would say it's like a revolving door after arrest with you see this is this is one of the problems with the egyptian legal system it's not an independent system it's not a legal system anymore because the legal system have to follow the rules of the law then when you violate the constitution the the legal system of your country the human rights law the international human rights law what is the law it's a political institution or a leader as if that is actually working under the instruction of the political and the security orders not a legal. system. the u.k. has outlined the changes it's seeking with a break see deal to the european union

a spokesman says formal proposals will be submitted when ready meanwhile the u.k. supreme court has held its final day of hearings to determine whether prime minister boris johnson suspension of parliament is legal government lawyers see it's political and not for the course to decide opponents argue the suspension is meant to be parliament's ability to scrutinise johnson's plans let's go to. london charlie so the court case i understand has been suspended has finished for today what's been presented exactly. who we've heard 3 days of very technical arguments debating the sovereignty of parliament the power of the prime minister and the power of the scene court and the judges have adjourned saying they hope to deliver a verdict next week when the lawyers who are representing the groups against the prime ministers summed up they said they hope the court will ensure that parliament can return to work early next week if they were to win earlier those judges heard

from the former conservative prime minister john major and through his lawyers he said that the course would be absolutely naive if they were to take boris johnson's reasons with the spending parliament at face value he said he needed the 5 week shut down so you could lay out a new domestic agenda but lawyers here say like you said he needed it so that he could silence debate on bricks it now the lawyers acting for the prime minister howard home same point they've made again and again that this court has no jurisdiction on the matter it is a parliament treat issue only now interestingly at the end of the case i was in very lengthy discussion from the judges about what the court would do if they found the prime minister had acted unlawfully and that is. fueling some cautious optimism among the groups who brought the original case against the prime minister and charlie there's been some developments in the e.u. some movement on brakes of negotiations tell us more about that. well earlier today the u.k.

finally. options possible options for an amended breakfast deal on the table in brussels it's not the full written proposals that brussels has been waiting for but it is finally something for them to go on and we don't have any details about what's contained in those possible options we know that boris johnson likes to keep his cards pretty close to his chest that's always been part of his negotiating strategy imagine that part of it will do to an alternative to the irish backstop that's the insurance policy to prevent a hard border in ireland but apart from that we don't have any details we do know that his secretary stephen barbee and michelle obama knew the chief negotiator and now going to be meeting on friday to discuss these proposals and that he's going to work night and day to bring about a deal that both sides can be happy with now with something to work on that work can probably begin thank you very much for that charlie and you know life for sin london. now to nigeria where they've been protests over the deaths of several women

in hotel rooms by an apparent serial killer women dressed in black raw meat for a 2nd day in the city of demanding justice police say 8 women have been strangled in hotel rooms in rivers state in the past 2 months but activists claim up to 20 women have been killed. u.s. president has shipped california his authority to set its own vehicle emissions standards which are tougher than national ones he's also banned other states are making similar rules the existing laws requires automakers to build cleaner vehicles then federal requirements demand trump says the more will know a cop prices and is unlikely to impact emissions but california's governor says he'll fight against that it's about the oil industry period full stop it's not about the car manufacturers not about consumers it's not about the health it's not about our economy. it's about oil companies in the irony of the final words

here we are the precipice of more unrest in the middle east a time when we've yet again been exposed for our deep dependence on foreign oil that now has a trajectory to get us back into conflict in the middle east. saying in the u.s. it's now easier for women to get abortions in the state of maine that's after a new law was put in place which pushes back of recent efforts to restrict access to the procedure across the country christensen only has a story. role maine may inspire artist tanya hollanders work but when she decided to get an abortion her home state presented many obstacles its administrative requirements and lack of available doctors meant she'd have to wait nearly a month for the procedure after discovering she was pregnant putting her at risk of exceeding the 10 week limit for medical abortions which are induced by pill i felt

betrayed by my community honestly. by doctors by. politicians by all of the people that protests like you have no idea what it's like . to add all of those burdens on when you're making a really hard like decision she ended up making a daylong trip to another state where her insurance wouldn't cover the cost of the procedure but a new law will mean less of a wait and mean it allows nurse practitioners like julie jenkins to perform some early in office abortions this is well within my scope of practice we are well equipped and have similar efficacy rates for docs and advanced practice clinicians those who oppose abortion on moral grounds had argued the change would put women at risk. but jenkins says the procedure is similar to another she already performs after a miscarriage since 2011 many states have passed laws restricting access to abortion

setting up a possible supreme court battle that could alter abortion rights nationwide here in maine though they've been moving in the opposite direction looking to protect and expand access ever since democrats took control of the state house in 2018. abortion providers say the law will make it easier for women who have to travel long distances to get the procedure from a doctor sometimes somebody can lie fairly close to one of our clinics but there are so many obstacles and so many challenges for people things like care getting off or. if they're an abusive relationship and maybe their partner does not know about the abortion and does not support of gathering the funds all of these things impact their ability to even make it to a clinic nearby. particularly in a state like maine with snowy winters and little public transportation were not all women have the means hollander did to get the medical care they desire kristen

salumi al-jazeera auburn maine. venezuela's opposition is celebrating the release of the deputy head of the national assembly edguy zambrano was freed from state custody on tuesday 4 months after his arrest on treason charges he was deputy to one recognized by many nations as venezuela's legitimate leader why do has just been reaffirmed as head of the opposition controlled national assembly when it's a newman official representative in the u.k. she says zambrano shouldn't have been arrested in the 1st place what we're seeing in general is a lot of flailing about of a desperate regime trying to figure out how they can stay in power we welcome the release of a no you should never have been arrested in the 1st place there is no rule of law in that as well and that is one of the things we're trying to get back along with our democracy in our freedom is a rule of law it's completely arbitrary he was thrown in prison without any process i mean it was they didn't even say they had him now they've just released him. and

now they're trying to use that to get us back into dialogue quite frankly it's entirely unacceptable. 3 top executives from the japanese firm which operated the. responsibility for the 11 disaster the plant was crippled by a magnitude 9 earthquake off the northeast coast of japan and the tsunami that followed the former officials tokyo electric power company were facing up to 5 years in prison if convicted criminal trial have been brought. to a. and

force his her whole body thank you very much her parents rugby captain mark a lady says his team is ready to inspire the nation the country is hosting the world cup for the 1st and more than half a 1000000 fans are heading to japan for the 6 week and then will harvest by russia in the tournament are better on a friday or richardson has this report. organizers hope this world cup will result in 1000000 new players taking out rugby in asia as the game aims to establish more than just a loose foothold outside its traditional heartlands. japan as they did every edition of the world cup but never before has the game's biggest international events comes of their consonants the host nation play russia in the tournament's

opener. mother the honesty must 1st of all i feel that i am shouldering a lot of responsibility while playing in the outlying match which comes with a lot of pressure those expectations of the team and also those of the japanese people so i want to play well. at the world cup 4 years ago japan pulled off their most famous win a victory over south africa. the 2 time title win is hardly have a tougher start this time outs they play defending champions new zealand on saturday if you lose you always lose a bit of confidence i mean any go to any player will tell you if you lose you lose a bit of confidence and you have to rebuild a little bit and you know it's always a tough a week in a space you don't want to lose your opening game. it's a match that brings together the favorites and 2nd favorites to lift the trophy they've met 3 times in the last 12 months securing narrow victory before a 1616 draw in july you know we know that well you know different for regular game

and. our 1st game of the tournament it's going to be you know one of those big games you play in your career. we're looking forward to the. some chance to 1st. with perfect timing and after more than 200 days on the road the referees whistle for the opening match has made it to japan delivered by 2 fans cycled with it all the way from england in a further 6 weeks the destination of this year's world cup title will also be decided on the richardson al-jazeera the presidents of world football jeremy and found tino has reiterated fiefdom on that iranian women be allowed to attend matches in their home country will feature says it's expecting positive developments starting at iran's 1st foreign qualifier for the 2022 world cup this year to be held on october 10th they'd previously been given a deadline of august the 31st to begin measures allowing iranian women to watch

domestic games for women are already allowed to watch some matches live but iranian women have been prohibited since just after the north 117 or revolution were allowed to 0 contacted fee for the farmed out if iran would face sanctions if they didn't comply but no further details were given what in a statement did say our position is clear and firm we will have to be allowed into football stadiums in iran we understand that there are steps and processes that need to be taken before this is done in a proper unsafe way but now is the moment to change things. well the movement to allow iranian women to attend the matches really gathered pace in 97 when iran qualified for the men's world cup male and female fans breach police barriers to end to iran's national stadium to celebrate the victory but in april 2006 the then iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad's lifted the ban on women fans however it was then reinstated by the supreme leader just one month later than last year

a group of women were allowed to attend the asian champions league final in tehran between iran's perse police and of japan just earlier this month a tribute to held across the football world around so-called blue girl 29 year old son was set itself on fire in protest are not being allowed to watch her favorite team. canelo alvarez is targeting history in his next fight the 29 year old is stepping up to weight divisions to take on the large tell you it won't champion sort of guy called the lead in november if he wins will jory sugar ray leonard tommy hearns and mike mccallum is just the 4th boxer ever to win world titles at junior middle white and lower it's heavyweights as is and i meant to but i mean it's a great challenge for me to be the bigger guy however i thought bigger guys before it's a great challenge so we'll see how it turns out on november 2nd but i can't wait for this the 3rd edition of the laver cup starts on friday just one of

a new batch of team tennis events targeting long term success though the leyva cup is the brainchild of roger federer and his desire to be tennis is a quick glimpse of goals ryder cup european team takes on a world squad captain in this case by john mcenroe and it's not a vent that's aiming to establish itself alongside a real old davis cup and an all new team total it called the a.t.p. cup that starts in january seems like it's something is going to shake out for me personally and i have no axe to grind other than it's awesome for me to be the captain of this team and i love. rod laver was you know an all time great roger federer all time great they've got in their heart and soul you know involvement here said to me this should be something that should should be something that survived our united states a very for their gold medal counts of the world wrestling world championships in kazakhstan last year dzhokhar when just a suffered heart break losing narrowly in the semifinals and brought in the bronze

medal match this time though she held off the nami eery of japan to win the women's $55.00 k.g. tight. that's it more lighter for a whole thank you very much for that that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera but do stay with us plenty more coming up very shortly including reactions to news of a tenacious ben ali's death do stay with us. the kickout grows of toga. defenseless against the whims of an indifferent international marketplace. and

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team to create to watch government with me is the leader many israel's centrist party leader benny gantz says he will lead a unity government and not his rival. a warning from iran to the u.s. if there is a military action based on the bombing of saudi oil facilities expect an all out. better. force or apologize katter's prime minister is in a political storm after a 4 emerges showing him wearing brown face makeup. to misha's former president ben ali has died at the age of 83 he was inside the a way he'd lived in exile since the 2011 revolution and ali had been in intensive care for 3. months sharon for takes

a look back at his legacy that's when he was swept from power by a wave of popular protest fleeing tunisia saudi arabia a former military man and diplomat. ben ali took the presidency in 1987 with a bloodless coup unseating the country's 1st post colonial president in every election since he was returned to power with enormous majorities his opponents said the votes were rigged human rights groups described his government as authoritarian and undemocratic cracking down on any attempts at press freedom and handing out jobs and favors to a select band of supporters. ultimately protests over unemployment brought the people out of the streets demanding change. to me just economy looked relatively strong when the uprising began it was ranked 1st in africa the competitiveness.

but accused of running a corrupt police state with money concentrated in the hands of a few powerful families including his own most tunisians felt excluded under ben ali tunisia pursued a pro western foreign policy meant taining strong ties to former colonial master france and the us but as his regime crumbled france abandoned him refusing him entry as he fled the country saudi arabia offered him refuge in his final days but he will always be remembered as the president who was forced from office by an uprising of popular protest. who are 0 all as i speak to use of shareef was a political analyst and deputy director of the columbia global centers in tunis has via skype from madrid in spain thank you so much for being with us ben ali's death coming just a few days after tunisians voted in their 2nd democratic election since the 27 revolution how do you think tunisians will receive this news have they moved on

from the ben ali era completely. they definitely don't run but you know as we see from the 1st election where looking in the name of the now you are i don't think that analysis course and i don't think there are any pretty isn't or they're not part of the collective so there were pieces actually over many complain and say that it was better under venally they seem to have moved away completely now of how this is the respect. i can see people some people are actually regretting him some people who of course are completely or even having him buried if that so is the very end you guys are bigger in nice history and i think until now he was perceived by one side one important side of the country as one of the worst dictators of losers this story and by others are someone who bridges. modernize

the country and so as i said it's a very divisive legacy and i think historians will have we have some time to we need some time to work on on that person a divisive legacy. and indeed since the $27.00 revolution. there hasn't been easy for many to missions many of them would say they are economically worse off than they were under the ben ali era. it's a certain nostalgia i wonder among certain to missions for for this era and you know what did it achieve to somehow see is partly his legacy is being positive why is that the case event. so i mean one has to do one needs to be neutral on this he definitely. hundreds if not thousands of canadians many is that under his roof mostly many meetings were there his moor who are of

ended up in jail or an exotic so there is that very strong police state that if you base that also destroyed it in a way but it is in tunisia this is perhaps the biggest victim in the country on the other hand he. had. made a lot of programs that a large amount of people to move were. expended on were you best biggest speech of physics. building roads and bridges and he actually introduced that all the. modern technologies in the country and therefore today you have the 2 states that think of that year and then because of the many economy issues that the country went through this about 11 there is a big number of tunisians who think that it was better and there is rude because they look at the prices today they look at the prices 9 years ago and they said that it was cheaper in the ben-ami therefore it was better however again during the

elections of sen if it works for people the candidates were openly saying that they were wrong in any of that and say that they want to take the back to those who have been at it you know they work that or 2 candidates who promises are to be far away from that and i think this is terry thank you so much for speaking to us from madrid thank you for your time. our some breaking news now from the united nations where russia has just cast its 13 veto on a resolution about syria the resolution the repos all by germany kuwait and belgium call for a secession of hostilities in the last rebel held province in syria let's speak to our diplomatic editor james space who is at the u.n. for us james what was in this resolution and why did the russians veto it. this is a resolution that they've been trying to negotiate now for over

a month trying to get a cease fire in a lead you're seeing the u.s. ambassador kelly crafts speaking in the security council right now moments after this 13th the tow by russia she's just said it's deeply regrettable that the security council was unable to reach agreement that we have this 13th vetoed by russia joined by china and she said this council must act because of the situation in it live what was in this draft by 3 countries on the security council the 3 so-called humanitarian pen holders germany belgium and quaint this was the draft is a resolution calling for a ceasefire now they knew that the russians would say well we want to go after those groups that are linked to al qaeda and they had actually said that they could be counted terrorism measures in the 2nd main paragraph of the resolution they said that could happen as long as there was nothing that did not comply with

international law the russians didn't like that they were supported again by the chinese in the security council when they cast their veto now it's not over quite fast moving developments here because ahead of this meeting after the belgians and germans and kuwaitis put forward their resolution russia and china put forward their own draft now that's still to be voted on in the next few minutes a rival draft from them but having seen the dynamics around the security council table and the exact votes were 12 security council may but members in favor of the belgian german kuwaiti resolution 2 against russia and china and one abstaining equitorial guinea i think it's very unlikely that this resolution by russia and china will pass i think certain that it will fail and i don't think anyone else will need to cast a veto because it's not going to get the 9 votes that you need. for it even to be vetoed but

a sad day when you look at it 2 resolutions going before the security council a sad day again for syrians remember there's well over 3000000 people. there getting daily bombardment by the syrian government and our allies particularly the russian force no respite coming from the security council once again it's proving a cold act on this issue thank you for that james frey's a diplomatic editor at the united nations following all the latest developments then we'll of course be going back to you james for that 2nd resolution and the outcome of the vote very much shame space. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been to lead a unity government with his election rival benny gantz has fallen flat that's now made the coalition offer with a blue and white party leader on thursday after admitting that forming a right wing alliance would be impossible. my lucky book are going to come home

from the jury in campaigning i called for creating a rightwing government but unfortunately the results of the election showed that will not be possible the people did not fully decide between the 2 blocs now i call on you benny gantz we have to create a wide based unity government today the people expect from us from both of us to be responsible to cooperate that's why i'm calling on you binny let's meet today any time to ignite this move but gantz has rolled out a unity government led by netanyahu the centrist leader says he should be prime minister and the moon a very lucky man should i intend to create a wide unity government with me as the leader we will bring a true difference and we will mean to the whole of the country the government would be comprised of and we will listen to everybody but we weren't given to any demands it will be led by me and will be done with justice the deadlock between israel's 2 largest parties has raised the prospect of an unprecedented 3rd election if neither

side can form a government that's correspondent terry fawcett in jerusalem for us so harry we heard what benny gantz said what are these options now well his options i think as he sees it are to wait and see how close he can get or if indeed he can get all the way to the 61 seats that he needs for a coalition government he says he wants a broad liberal national unity government both he and benjamin netanyahu talking in similar terms about that but the interesting thing here is that netanyahu has now clearly it seems lost the election 2 gants 31 seats for the good versus 33 for blue and white and benny gantz according to the latest numbers as they continue to come in and yet he's decided to try to take charge of the situation to be the person who comes out publicly.