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 and asians felt excluded under ben ali tunisia pursued a pro western foreign policy meant taining strong ties to former colonial must of france and the u.s. 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. gafoor 0. still ahead on al-jazeera al jazeera journalists take a stand calling for the release of mom or 2 saying who has been imprisoned in egypt for a 1000 days rasper a report from the u.s.

state expanding abortion rights at a time of nationwide restriction. how the weather is set fire across the middle east no great surprises 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 clouds 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 over a lot of the showers along the spells of rain 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 plaid is sliding its way through. do cusa go through the next couple of. tunnel for a day at the top temperature of $0.70 a day. and just 20. m. from bring something to build a lot of. different so. many little things in such a sunset a little visit some little to displace this all this money on the something in the

climate change is helping the lives of the people who need. it the soul. welcome back you're watching al jazeera live from doha a recap of our top stories russia and china have vetoed a resolution on syria at the u.n. security council resolution which responds by the vast majority of members call for a ceasefire in the northwestern province of it as a last rebel held strong hopes the leader of israel who and why party benny gantz has announced plans to form a unity government with himself as leader says the government will be for all the

people of israel but did not mention by name in nets now despite the prime minister's calls to join him in government and tunisia's former president zine el abidine ben ali has died at the age of 83 he had been in intensive care for the past 3 months ben ali was in saudi arabia where he'd been living in exile since the 2011 revolution in tunisia. 2 photos have a marriage of canada's prime minister wearing brown face make up both pictures date from 2001 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 hadn't of arabian nights seen says it was a mistake and now a 3rd 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 trudeau dressed in black face in a separate incident is facing a tough reelection fight and canadians go to the polls on october 21st i attended

and indeed year gala he was already a nice. stop in a lot because you. put makeup on. and. you. should in the letter but i didn't. remember the story. stephen chase is the national correspondent for the globe and mail newspaper and is covering the election campaign he says the pictures will hurt trudeau's chances of reelection. it's a bit of a bombshell for just exploded a few hours ago and so it's created a. moment of political crisis for that for the leader and it sort of has basically thrown his campaign plans off track at the moment this is a country of immigrants we bring in $300000.00 immigrants every year mr trudeau in one when he faces here is something that suggests he's not who he says he is he's

been very politically correct leader who is a master of. political correctness and of having diversity in also suggesting is opponents are racists so this is this instance where he talked about. this business this must unfortunate conduct this wasn't something that happened when it was child or when he was a teenager or when he was in college this is when he was 29 years old so he's got it's a bit of a challenge to his brand and voters who are undecided and there are a lot of undecided voters in the selection are he's going to have to convince them this is just a blip it is past and it's not indicative of a more widespread sort of hypocrisy on his part. all just their agendas mahmoud hussein has 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 a bad man he has more. no formal charges no trial no

conviction mahmoud hussein has been locked up in the gyptian jail for 1000 days egyptian government prosecutors accuse him of broadcasting what's described as. 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 they gyptian authorities practice of reordering the detention of detainees on blatantly fabricated charges just as are about to be released is an alarming trend that illustrates extent of egypt cage justice system over the past few years gyptian police have arrested several al jazeera employees former director of news at al-jazeera arabic. and alarm. was sentenced in absentia to the death penalty for endangering national security journalist mohammad mohamed fahmy and peter greste there 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 press freedom is probably what we see right now is a massive crackdown on all in the media. broadly. just conducted in cooperation. egypt egypt is ranked one of the lowest in the world for press freedom freedom which much would you say and dozens of other journalists continue to be tonight lurid as a man the al jazeera and al jazeera staff are taking a stand of solidarity with my model saying a website has been launched for a mahmoud hussain dot com to call on the public to sign a petition for his release. the acting director general of al-jazeera media network he says there is little chance for a fair hearing and egypt's legal system he was actually in court and the court

released 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 took him 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 an curious prison with no accusation the it's the same thing. i would say is 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 the legal system anymore because the legal system have to follow the rules of the law then when you

violate the constitution the legal system of your country the human rights law the international human rights will what is the law it's a political institution or a leader as you show that is actually working under the instruction of the political and the security orders not a legal. system dozens of people have been killed in 2 separate attacks in afghanistan an airstrike carried out by government forces with us as support left at least 20 people dead in the eastern province early at least 18 people were killed and 96 injured in a taliban suicide bomb attack near hospital in the southern zabul province mcbride has more from kabul. a devastating bomb blast in the southern provincial capital of

cattle that the taliban which is claimed responsibility says it was targeting the headquarters of the n.d.s. this is the afghan intelligence service but images arriving here in kabul show that predominantly the people who seem to have been killed and injured have been civilians women children and also a number of medical personnel and doctors nurses because the building that was being targeted is right next door to the provincial hospital which has been devastated by this explosion part of the problem for the 1st responders for the rescuers has been to where to take these casualties normally they will go to the provincial hospital the very hospital which is now devastated so they bit by having to be taken to the neighboring city of kandahar for treatment meanwhile details are emerging about a nother attack in the province of on the border with pakistan of which the details are being contested now the provincial governor's office says that this was

a drone attack on an ice all hideout and that number of islamic state fighters around 20 were killed but petering accounts say that these were civilians a local provincial councilor and also now some local government sources are saying that these were people who come to nangarhar province to harvest pine nuts and were in a field nearby to where this attack took place saying that maybe as many as 30 civilians were killed with up to 40 injured as always the truth is probably somewhere in between the 2 probably there was a targeting of an i saw hideout but it does seem as though once more civilians have been caught up in this attack. the u.k. has outlined the changes it's seeking with a break 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 voice johnson suspension of comment is legal government lawyers say it's not for the courts to decide china has more from london. we've had 3 days of technical arguments debating parliamentary sovereignty the power of the prime minister and the power of this court judges now adjourn and they hope to deliver a verdict next week when the lawyers acting for the groups against the prime minister play off the court to ensure parliament can return to work as early as next week if they were to win. the judges heard from the lawyers representing the former conservative prime minister john major who said that the course would be naive to take boris johnson's reasons for suspending parliament at face value he said he needed the 5 weeks shut down to lay out a new domestic agenda noise his say his real reason was to silence the debate over brett sit in the lawyers acting for the prime minister hammered home the same point they've made again and again that this court has no jurisdiction over the matter it

is a parliamentary issue but there has been some cautious optimism among the groups who brought the original case against the prime minister because judges did go into a discussion about what the court would do if they found that the prime minister had acted on the. meanwhile in brussels the u.k. has finally put some possible options for an amended on the table it's not a written proposals that brussels was hoping for but it is something to go on not many details because boris johnson does keep his cards pretty close to his chest and that's part of his negotiating strategy but we do know that the u.k. backs it secretary stephen. negotiator will be meeting on friday for more discussions says he's willing to work day and night to find a solution that works for both sides and perhaps with these new possible options on the table. again. it's not easy for women to get abortions in the u.s. state of maine after

a new law was put in place which pushes back at recent death threats to restrict access to the procedure across the country christensen only has a story. romain may inspire artist tanya hollanders work but when she decided to get an abortion her home state presented many obstacles for 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 live fairly close to one of our clinics but there are so many obstacles and so many challenges for people things like care getting off work if they're in abusive relationship and maybe their partner does not know about the abortion and that's 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. hello again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on russia and china have vetoed a resolution on syria at the un security council the text which was bought by the

vast majority of members call for a cease fire in the north western province of idlib last rebel how stronghold in syria their leader of his arrives blue and white party benny gantz has announced he farms to form a unity government with himself as leader says the government will be for all the people of israel but did not mention but i mean it's now despite the prime minister's calls to join him in government. i mean. i am team 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 un 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 stop a conflict iran's foreign minister says a strike against his country or by the saudis would trigger an all out war

tunisia's former president zine el abidine ben ali has died at the age of 83 he'd been intensive care for the past 3 months when i really was in songy arabia wade been living in exile since the 27 revolution dozens of people have died in 2 separate attacks in afghanistan an airstrike carried out by government forces with u.s. air support kill at least 20 people in the eastern province early at least 18 people were killed and 96 injured in a taliban suicide bomb attack in southern province several photos have emerged of canada's spy minister wearing brown face make up 2 of the pictures were taken while dressed in total worked as a teacher 18 years ago they were taken at the school's annual dinner which had an arabian nights in total says it was a mistake since his apology though 2 more incidents have appeared online is facing a tough re-election campaign as canadians go to the polls on october 21st sit with

headlines on al-jazeera much more on our website al-jazeera dot com inside story starts now. eradicating violence against women in south africa the government's under pressure to act the president has announced an emergency plan but is that enough to protect women and what are the root causes of the violence this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program on im wrong on south africa's one of the worst places to be a woman the so says cyril ramaphosa and he wants action to tackle such violence the president has announced an emergency plan to stop rising assaults on south african women at a special setting a poly went on wednesday ramaphosa pledged $75000000.00 for a series of measures to curb the problem is also promised to make sure perpetrators are held responsible for carrying out killings and ripes recent incidents of sparked protests in south africa calling on both the government and businesses to take strong action is what robert plans to do. we need to make the necessary amendments to our laws and policies to ensure that pepper traitors of gender based violence approach to book we would make substantial additional funding available for a comprehensive funding package of interventions to make an immediate and

lasting difference. we were also completes the implementation of the decisions that were taken at last year's presidential summit on gender based violence and family side as you heard from rochelle pentel what victims of sexual abuse and violence are calling for is more action let's hear more about her story your family us assizes you society our society. because i've been gang raped with a cut of my nipples at 16. my the man that. sack tribe me from 6 to 9 he was living my parents' home and he broke my nose and my mama said rock and he said to my mom the sitting with me you know in my nose which is pleasing continuously my mom was

murdered in 2009 asking pleaded to get a spleen was structured she bled to death you know and that's my fight you been abusing you've been raped and then taken away interesting or king of you they're not just taking away. your body they're taking away your mind so that i mean i'm so much pain but i have kids and i need to keep them strong and this is my story in this my pleat you know it's too late for those kids for our kids for south african kids you know we've been. left in the and it's worse if. and it's not just people like rochelle appear in tell let's have a look at some of the figures sexual offenses recorded by the police including rape have risen 4.6 percent this year more than 41000 cases of rape were reported between 2 101819 this is at least 100 reported rapes

a day more than 2700 women and 1000 children were murdered by men last year that means a woman is murdered in south africa every 3 hours a 2016 report by the world health organization ranks south africa amongst the 4 worst countries in the world for femicide rights. let's bring in our guests liz that lancaster is the manager of the crime and justice information hub at the institute for security studies she joins us on skype from pretoria by kanye who is director of rise up against gender based violence and joins us from johannesburg and jolene steyn cuts is a senior research specialist in democracy government governance and service delivery at the human sciences research council she joins us by skype from port elizabeth in south africa welcome to you all i'd like to begin with you on your

late so ramaphosa has said is the most unsafe place in the world for women the u.n. seem to echo that yet this isn't a new problem this seems to be a generational problem so why are people out on the streets right now. who are people out on the streets right now because since last year or in the total shutdown much happened on the 1st of august to try and bring one awareness towards how bad the scourge of gender based violence had become but also to give solutions to government from civil society in the form of $24.00 demands those $24.00 demands expired on the 1st of august this year and only few are halfway through towards implementation so women have taken back to the streets to say but government too gave it demands we gave you solutions but it doesn't seem to be that you're actually doing in implementation and of course we then saw some of some of the new cases that actually got quite a lot of media attention such as we in any case where she was actually raped and

killed during broad daylight at a post office so some of those cases basically created some national anger and an uprising where women are saying we've had enough and you know what the solutions are government peacenik action so that's basically the situation that we're in at the moment where women are angry and they wanted to see decisive action from the government hence the joint sitting there was called on wednesday the monday so what does the decisive action actually look like what are you calling for. ok so of the $24.00 demands one of which is in this national strategic plan for gender based violence a cost of national strategic plan to actually map out a way forward as to what we're going to do about the scourge we wanted g.p. v council that's going to basically create a situation where we have a national response from prevention and response force we wanted an automated registry for protection orders what actually happens in south africa for example if

a woman has a protection order or what you call a restraining order in other countries in one province it doesn't actually apply in the next province so essentially a perpetrator can chase you from one province to the next and you have to have a fresh protection order for each and every one of the provinces in said government could have one system that is automated that works in all the police stations that could protect survivors of gender pace violence from the perpetrators that's one of our demands sensitize asian trading for the judiciary as well as the police and other stakeholders that directly liaise with survivors of violence we do find a lot of secondary victimization of survivors when they are actually in the system legislation such as the hate crimes bill being implemented that actually protects the algae community these are just some of the interventions that are listed in the 24 demands as well as things like making sure that there's funding available for domestic violence shelters in the country which are crossly and the fund that in

actual fact you get 70 rand per day for a woman in a shelter whereas a prisoner in prison gets 350 grand a day you're better off as a perpetrator in this country than you are as a survivor in terms of how the government actually takes care of your needs let me bring in lancaster here from pretoria i was actually speaking to a friend of mine who is a research and gender based violence based in cape town and also this question i said look is it why is this happening now and she said to me look one of the reasons is you just don't go to the police in south africa for anything you go. and you get a number for insurance purposes but you don't expect them to do anything about this and for too long women are either dismissive of the police process the site doesn't help them anyway old they too afraid to go because they'll be seen as the victim is there an institutional security forces problem in south africa. it is absolutely a problem. the discipline to not you know the. challenge or the problem is not

excuse that people are these but they are a great part of the problem we are to do with the internet into generational bidens here and we have to understand that our police members also grew up in these households that have seen and experienced violence in the schools that are seeing and experiencing balance in the same communities that are rife with violence so and also they carry the same toxic mess skillets we are that that is associated with her society so it is. even a problem in a challenge in this country for the class to be far less here to to sensitize the police to deal with victims of gender based violence in a sensitive way to ensure that there's no sick injury trouble but we know that there is an attack that's furthermore there is often a new 2 to treat these cases that's not serious that you know the police shouldn't

intervene and they shouldn't take it seriously and we've seen community policing forums for instance also intervening in what they call these domestic. you know just little arguments that that just needs to be dealt with but we know too that they're leading cause little david most women are because of intimate partner violence so there is a diving to deal with policing in this regard in not just how they investigate these cases and do it but also how they deal with victims of this to happen let me bring in john enos thing called same port elizabeth so clearly there does seem to be at least on one level a policing institutional problem but perhaps it's why didn't that is the government or successive africa south african governments haven't taken this issue seriously is what cyril ramaphosa trying to do now with a 75000000 pounds with this announcement some think they'll be able to change

governance generally and highlight what's going on against women in south africa. you know i think for me when we had the joint sitting i was got a sense that it was a very reactive response. gender based violence and same a side in this country is really really not a new phenomena they should have been polished stronger policy interventions much earlier so that we do not reach this situation with as we know one woman is killed every 3 hours for example for me they are 2 elements at play you not have presidents appalls of throwing the proverbial money at the problem you know making resources available which is very welcome but it will go back down to that implementation phase how are you going to monitor and evaluate what the policy responses are and what impact those policy responses have policing has one

aspect of it and the sensitizing police officers and those within the judicial system to me i think we need more progressive policy interventions we know and in certain cases laws have been passed in other countries to to allow women to take time off work if they are busy leaving an abusive relationship so they don't have to be concerned about their job security mandisa pointed out earlier 70 random day. for a survivor of gender based violence visa v what a prison or perpetrator gates. for a woman who may be economically dependent on her partner and has children even though they might be a desire to leave in a very intimate knowledge that i may die in this relationship the fear potentially also of who's going to look after my children. may keep a woman so to speak trapped in there but in that situation last thing i would say

if we had a progressive policy agenda i would argue forests of edges. program because we need to start changing the narrative about gender violence and fame aside it is not woman who must avoid being victims it is not women who need to avoid walking alone at night it is not women who needs to to watch how they they dress and what they way it is not women who constantly need to lock the doors at all time we need to start changing this narrative and say that this is a collective if it and not only the responsibility of women mandisa let me bring you in head the narrative needs to change that's what we're hearing from our guest in port elizabeth but that needs to change a lot earlier than when they get into the criminal justice system and he's to begin at home and he's begin with the education system there needs to be a structural change against toxic masculinity attitudes developing in the

1st place how you get to tackle that that's a a structural change in society. well firstly we did recommend we do have a curriculum called life orientation of life or intention as a subject in the curriculum from primary school level all the way up to high school and conversations that should be happening even at primary school level from a grade one perspective is understanding consent so age appropriate education explaining what consent is also once they get a little bit older understanding how the relationships what does a healthy relationship look like what does an unhealthy relationship look at and then also understanding early signs of violent behavior so this is what we could do from a prevention perspective but it could also generally help in terms of understanding the social ill from a childhood level because as you said once they're already perpetrators i mean the job is already done to some extent and we can't really be fixing adults but we

really do need to do a very strong comprehensive social behavioral change program that starts as early as grade one with these kids at school level and it needs to also continue out to teenagers and then becomes obviously more age appropriate when they become adults i think it's imperative that the understanding around what actually constitutes violence and what is violent behavior because people understand that if someone slaps you across the face that's violent but they don't necessarily understand economic violence they don't necessarily understand emotional violence so these are some of the conversations that we need to have as a nation and we need to popularize them again one of the demands of a 365 day campaign headed by the government communications information system whereby you actually have a program similar to what we did when we had the hiv aids response that educates the entire country around the scourge of gender based violence awareness and also

gives advice as to what to do when you find yourself in that situation a lot of survivors don't know where to go they don't know how to access particular services they don't know how to. services they don't know what to do once they actually enter a police station when they report a case what is the next step how does it into the criminal justice system with a perpetrator all of these things they need to be walked through these processes and they need to be assisted by a proper country instead of social behavioral change program monday so do you have confidence in your leader to be able to deliver anything that you're told to a cancer on the face of do any of this i would not want to preach that he cannot cannot do it i have faith that he will try i do think that this is one of those things that needs all hands on deck it needs departments to actually start working together they reconcile us so right now that's why the g.b. council is important is that there needs to be a coordinated efforts around it the president has announced his allocated resources

it's not up to his department to be pushed to actually do the implementation to in the school. doing you specialize in democracy governance and service delivery do believe that the government has the tools at its at its disposal to be able to do this. you know it's one thing having to. be you know it's one thing having making those resources available it's a very different thing when it comes to implementation monitoring and evaluation and that is where political will comes into play so for example monday's us talking about gender based violence council. if established i can proceed that such a council would play a strong role in monitoring those policy impacts for example if you are going to increase the number of shelters and doesn't help that you increase the number of shelters and people don't know how to access them or people don't access them for

various reasons there's got to be a solid evidence based policymaking approach to these interventions. and again part of that for me would be you know political will and not just you know the quick and easy solution is always throwing money at the problem but not necessarily looking at what you are getting for your buck once you start dealing with the with the situation monitoring and evaluation for me will be key monitoring and evaluation let me bring you in here a lot of this is to do with men men need to change their behavior is there a crisis of masculinity among south african men that's leading to this what are the why is this happening it does seems like you know for women 3 women in our being killed is an extraordinary figure so just try and help us understand why this is happening why men are doing this from the perspective. well it's it's simple

men don't think women are human beings they think that we're property and they think that they can own us it's a simple thing with when you hear their conversation amongst themselves they're like my girlfriend cheated on me therefore i'm justified to beat and kill her as though that person's body somehow belongs to you we need to really change that psyche and that and that understanding this is a very strong. evidence that toxic meskin it's he is not just harmful to women it's also harmful to men themselves the stupid myth that men don't cry men should always be the ones providing for the household then you find them in a situation where we have such gross inequality in this country where they're under pressure that they shouldn't be and and they take that out on women and children in the most harmful ways so they toxic masculinity definitely needs to be addressed

and dealt with but we also need to deal with the socio economic issues that are behind that and that i'm in a festering themselves and as i said playing out in incredibly violent ways in pretoria this is a problem that has to be dealt with culture is a problem that has to be dealt with through education and legislation can it be dealt with practically by the criminal justice system by the education system i mean how do you do that how do you provide a practical solution that you know stops us. so there will help organization and inspire frederick is very useful and we have seen that many are the tablet initiatives that have been implemented here on a local level. have been very successful so they are merely interventions in south africa and will that have true even to such as articulate programs such as n.t. blue programs and so the question now is how can we ask elites to more or

larger areas how can we nation them how can the next ship the funding is because we know that these can be successful for instance and kenya just then and. you know the school curriculum. intervention has proven to be highly successful in changing attitudes especially boys around how they perceive women to to to accept what's and to to break down the toxic next school and it is so there's a lot we can do and a lot is being done what we do need is now this implementation that we're all talking about it is the plan that the president has saved needs to be implemented in the next 6 months that might be a little bit ambitious we really need to hit the baseline as they make sure that whatever we do is evidence driven and at the end of interventions our mission

truckle and there are many thoughts to those that that that really do make a difference and that it's 1st to recognize we are busy with snapping as many of these interventions possible in order to make sure that we understand what works where and how. you agreeing that however i was going to put this to you bluntly surely we just need to lock these people up the criminal justice system needs to be stronger and i'll be deterrent enough. look the entire prison population of south africa is below 300000 people this would be 6000000 south africans who of which it's estimated over 8000000 of them have been raped so we just don't have enough jails to lock everybody up it's a fact i think what we need to do is ensure that one reprove event violence from happening which is which should be the key priority and when it does happen we need

to have adequate response mechanisms in place and a functional criminal justice to prosecute because a lot of these cases do actually get into police stations but never find themselves until courtrooms because prosecutors say well you don't have enough evidence and we're not even going to prosecute so jailing everyone on asli isn't the answer it's not a sustainable answer that we can afford and also i don't think having people locked up in prison with other perpetrators and further i'll be honest i don't think the prison system at the moment actually rehabilitates people i actually think that they come out much us and they end up really offending so i don't see how putting them in the system would actually work i think we need to change mindsets and really need a strong understanding of consent to permeates throughout the minds of south africans so then we ensure that this doesn't happen to more women we already live amongst rapists and murderers it's effect we just need them not to re-offend and we need to ensure that when they do actually get prosecuted that they stay in jail you

have people serving 6 months jail sentences locking them up is definitely not working. thanks to all our guests amanda in johannesburg elizabeth lancaster in a pretty horrible angeline stain culture in port elizabeth you can watch the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. inside story for me iran can and the whole team here but for now.

the biological and chemical agents are pretty weaponized throughout history warfare 1st bird it's head man started fighting developed by nation state there could be enough tricks. now within reach of those seeking. the most toxic substances. manmade invisible threat on al jazeera. al-jazeera balconies documentary film festival screws documentary films carrying strong messages through the power to change the world it is upon us to decide

whether the change will take place let us change the way we view the world and the way we treat others let us be an example to future generations 2nd a.j. be dog film festival organized by al jazeera balkans 20 it's to 24th september. a team of chinese scientists in botswana gehring deep sea mission searching for rare results and new space one a one ace produced china's underwater 0. driven by outrage and spanning generations the rohinton demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticized repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was. all too apparent and the fear was probably if you don't like we're so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today

tomorrow they'll send back 10 and the day after tomorrow they'll send back 20 if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the range of all among the most persecuted minorities in the world. this is al-jazeera. this is a news hour live from the headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes russia cast its 13th veto on a u.n. resolution on syria this one calling for

a cease fire in the rebel held province of idlib. and we move. on team to create a wide unity government with me is the leader israel's centrist party leader benny gantz says he would need a unity government and not his rival benyamin netanyahu also this hour tunisia's former president zine el abidine ben ali has died in exile after long battle with illness and more controversy for canada's prime minister a 3rd set of pictures like this one of him in brown faces surface is expected to hold a news conference this hour we'll bring that to you live. in sports a parent's rugby captain says his team is a ready to inspire the nation the country as far as seeing the world cup for the 1st time and i play russia in the tournament opener. thank you very much for joining us russia and china have vetoed

a resolution on syria at the united nations security council this is say the resolution which was backed by the vast majority of members call for a ceasefire in the northwestern province of aid late that's the last rebel stronghold in syria that speak to our diplomatic editor james space at the united nations or so james why did the russians and chinese reject this new resolution. well i think the chinese as they have done a fair few times went along with the russians for solidarity but it really was the russian objection to this resolution that had been worked on by 3 security council members for well over a month the idea was to get a ceasefire now obviously the main bombardment that's been taking place in a province has been by the syrian government backed by the russian air force they say that they are fighting groups linked to al qaida so in this draft that they came up with they said yes you can do what they call counterterrorism operations

but as long as they comply with international law the russians have certainly been accused of repeatedly bombing hospitals and medical facilities and were unable to go along with this resolution it was put to a vote and the russians joined by the chinese used their veto that making it the latest time for the russians use their veto 13 vetoes now in the long war in syria the russian veto one of the main i think weapons that has been used by the syrian government in that long war as well as the russian air force that has helped so much the syrian regime turn the tide so that we now have a situation where it liberally is the last place that assad wants to conquer and remember there were various d. complection zones all over syria and the last one is a deliberate many of the people from those other places they were given refuge in the refuge they went to was it glib so really worrying situation now what is going

to happen in one province i was going to ask just that james what does this mean then for as you said this is the last rebel stronghold extremely important of course what what can we expect. well i think you've also got another worrying thing going on in the u.n. security council giving this is going on there is a resolution that allows a to go across borders which is always a controversial one it was difficult to get russian support for and every year is controversial renewal of that is coming up very soon so that is another potential flash point it's worth noting that this came as russia currently presides over the u.n. security council and just days before world leaders gather in new york they're going to be here for the u.n. general assembly we're going to see the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov

chairing the security council no specific meetings on syria cold at this stage but that certainly is a possibility one potentially good bit of news on the sea only good news bit of news is it's looking like they're close to getting a constitutional committee together that's what the u.n. has been working on for a long time trying to get the parties who failed in peace talks in the past in geneva to go to geneva and at least talk about a future constitution for syria that is beginning to look close but it is not going to do anything to help those poor people in it live thank you very much for that don't stand for that diplomatic. leader of israel's blue and white party benny gantz has announced plans to form and lead a unity government and says the government will be for all the people of israel but did not mention any minutes now despite the prime minister's call said join him in

government harry fossett has a detail. a symbolic handshake between rival would be prime ministers benjamin netanyahu and benny gantz choreographed by israel's president reuben rivlin at a memorial for shimon peres a man who held both positions really doesn't have direct political power but he does have influence and in the current deadlock a lot of freedom of action in who to give the 1st chance of forming a government on the show me i hear loud and clear the voices calling for broad and stable national unity government and i can gradually to you mr prime minister and joining that call this morning then you know who recalled the deal done between peres and his political rival yet section near to share the premiership on a rotating basis in the mid 1980 s. a clear hint that he was seeking something similar after conceding earlier on thursday that he didn't have a way to form a right wing government and appealing directly to grant's binny we must set up

a broad unity government as soon as today the nation expects us to both of us to demonstrate responsibility and that we pursue cooperation this is why i call on you binney let's meet today at any time to start this move which is the need of the hour but benny gantz is in no hurry rejecting netanyahu proposition that his likud join a government as part of a bloc including 3 other right wing and religious parties and making it clear that he expects to be prime minister. we will listen to all but not surrender to any dictates the negotiations will be led by me responsibly and with reason in order to achieve the best results for all israelis within the shadow of this political situation we will keep to our principles. there will be no shortcuts senior figures in his blue and white alliance were more direct so you know when you whose presence is what is preventing a unity government and it's time for him to step aside is just the start of a bumpy bruising and unpredictable path towards coalition the opposition is already

accusing benjamin netanyahu of obstructing it some see that he knows public approach to guns as a way of setting him up to take the blame if coalition talks fail all together and leaving behind it all the 2 things as you know is corruption cases is 1st pretty indictment hearing is due in october the 2nd and if all else fails a possible 3rd election in less than a year are a force that al jazeera west jerusalem. tehran is prepared for an all out war that's the warning from iran's foreign minister if the u.s. takes military action following the bombing of 2 major saudi arabian oil facilities jobs every says iran want blank to defend its territory if it's attacked has denied tehran had any involvement in the drone strikes iran's oil minister meanwhile says the u.s. is using oil as a weapon disturb a conflict the u.s. secretary of state however says the attack of the we find ways was an act of war my compare arrives in the u.a.e.

for talks after visiting saudi arabia's crown prince on wednesday and the u.n. has sent a team of experts to investigate the attack in saudi arabia has more from tehran. well certainly the comments from foreign minister zarif 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 and iran saying that if the u.s. carries out any sort of attack on an iranian target that the iranian response will be destructive in the 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 iran see the possibility of an attack by the united states is something that is more closer than it's been in the past. meanwhile present donald trump has promised more sanctions on iran they speak to our white house correspondent kimberly hockett about this seoul what options are they considering that. yeah a range of options not just the effort with regard to sanctions which was announced 1st by the u.s. president on wednesday but we've since heard very little detail but we understand

that national security team that officials are meeting on thursday as they try to sort of way some of the options for the president militarily we understand that there is a list of potential targets that is being discussed to include cruise missile sites inside iran as well as covert cyber ops that could be orchestrated by the united states we know a further option is also being discussed and that is diplomatic outreach at the upcoming u.n. general assembly where we know there is an effort underway to potentially try and build international support for further sanctions something that the u.s. secretary of state might pump aoe has been making the case for and there will be more sanctions were we we have said 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 care

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 and khamenei we just heard in the last few minutes that the iranian president and the foreign minister zarif have been granted visas to attend the u.n. general assembly in new york next week this could be interesting. yeah but their attendance was very much in doubt even as recently as just a few hours ago there had been some concern on the part of the u.s. secretary of state who in fact had said very publicly that he felt they should not be issued visas that his words were that he felt they should not be allowed to attend a meeting that is about peace that being the u.n. general assembly which of course is imminent but the u.s. president on the other hand when asked by reporters on wednesday whether or not.