by an electrical fault. time for a short break here not just when we come back. the buck stops with me and i take responsibility the canadian prime minister apologizes again for a scandal that's threatening his reelection campaign. and fears the world's most diverse rain forest will one day become a desert we look at how deforestation is killing they almost more in that state. we've got some warmer weather pushing into western parts of your private the next couple of days but still on the cool side the brazen wall autumnal should we say scandinavia eastern areas if you are pushing over towards that western side of russia pieces of cloud here showing up quite nicely and you got this march weather front running right down across the black sea through the balkans into the adriatic

into italy some shop showers all messy some heavy downpours as well sliding further southwards in east was it picking up the northwest leaving the cool direction of course with the temperatures around 14 celsius in warsaw just 90 degrees there for moscow may well i was told the western side if you're one of 20 in london not see bad 22 in paris gets better to go on into sas they could touch 24 celsius for london 28 in paris it's not going to last make the most of it and of course so much weather just pushing for the baltic states fun enjoy dance awards towards remain iot was bald garia little colder there for ankara 19 degrees celsius in the 23 for athens a chance of some showers a similar temperature there for madrid fair bit of wet weather there just across that western side of the mediterranean as some of that cloud and rain will affect the northwest of africa could see some wet weather pushing in here for the weekend .

it. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera iran's foreign minister is flying to the u.s. after being granted a visa for the annual u.n.

general assembly tensions are high between the u.s. and iran after washington accused of attacking 2 saudi arabian oil facilities. the u.s. justice department is being accused of playing a key role in reportedly withholding a whistle blower's complaint against president donald trump u.s. media is reporting this relates to a phone call between trump and foreign leaders. on a global climate strike has begun with protesters from more than 150 countries joining a youth led movement calling for an end to fossil fuels and begins a weeklong global campaign demanding greater action on climate change or head of the u.n. summit in new york. now wildfires are still burning in brazil's amazon forest which i often refer to as the green lungs of the planet the fire has a prompted a warning from some scientists that escalating deforestation could eventually turn the rainforest into a dry savanna despite a ban on fires for land clearing the amazon is burning at a rate not seen in almost 10 years this in human reports now from dusty mattis and

the state of mother would also. 60 year old agronomist. walks to the charred remains of his land for the 1st time since fire destroyed all . these with seedling beads 4 years of work here you would grip the dirt and it smelled differently it hit life now it's. but governor applied a sustainable system without artificial fertilisers only native species to make the land more productive. but all his work to grow his 1st pineapples sugarcane fruit trees and corn went up in smoke in just a few minutes he says that filmed this video on september 7th just before he had to run to save himself. he describes what's left as

a prelude to total dysart if occasion. the characteristic of this next of forest is its ability to survive decades of fires but with every new fire it becomes more degraded and smaller until it withers away and the only thing left is it does it. last month the number of wildfires in the amazon tripled compared to the previous year and as elsewhere here in the most impacted state they continue spreading until a week ago all this looked like a kind of in chanted forest what scientists call an environmental corridor with more than 100 native species and not just trees but also animals like wild deer armadillos wars poulos and many many more are the fires have destroyed all this in some cases were accidental in others intentional but in all cases they were manmade . the state environmental department argues that the number of fires is relative.

compared to $2810.00 which was a rainy year the amount of deforestation will double this year if you compare it to other years that's quite everett's nothing extraordinary. but that's not really the veil says she's lived in the area for 20 years and says her family never experienced anything close to and wildfires came right up to their doorstep they survived by a miracle she says that if i. i'm very frightened still too afraid to even go to work because i don't want to leave the house and my family alone it's jane generous . she's right to be worried the temperatures have been hovering at nearly $43.00 degrees for weeks the start of the rainy season is at least a month away and even that won't guarantee that this vital tropical forest will be out of danger you see in human i'll just see that shop either digvijay singh brazil

canada's prime minister has apologized again after another photograph and video emerged of him wearing blackface makeup just introduced says he will continue with his reelection campaign but its opponents say he's not fit to govern down your luck reports from toronto. these are the images that have justin trudeau saying he's sorry there from an event in 2001 when as a high school teacher he was part of a gala within a rabia nights the other images including a grainy video have also emerged of trudeau in similar makeup reportedly in high school in the 1990 s. here's his 2nd apology in less than 24 hours. i want to begin by saying a few words directly to racialize canadians who face discrimination every single day in their lives even in a country like canada. what i did. hurt them hurt people who shouldn't have to face intolerance and discrimination because of their identity

what previously appeared to be a dull election campaign has been energized and thrown into uncertainty one of trudeau's opponents canada's only nonwhite federal political leader spoke of his own experiences with discrimination when i was growing up i thought rhesus i dealt with them myself and i fought back but i got a message from a friend who reminded me that there's a lot of people out there they couldn't do that they couldn't fight back they didn't have the ability to do that and i think that that's going to hurt to see this is going to hurt them also during this campaign mr trudeau and the liberal party of often linked andrew shear the conservative opposition leader to right wing media and white supremacist websites mr scherer was quick to condemn the prime minister wearing brown face is an act of open mockery and racism it was just as racist in 2001 as it is in 2019 but what comedian saw this evening is someone with a complete lack of judgment and integrity trudeau has been the face of his

government in front of the cameras much of the time welcoming syrian refugees apologizing for the ill treatment of indigenous people in canada he was deadlocked in the opinion polls with his conservative opponent before the images appeared. how this affects his standing with the voters will certainly determine his political future the more the more damaging possibility for him the more severe one is that this causes people to kind of reflect on who he is as a leader to look back not only at this incident but other incidents where he's his judgment seems to have been poor and then to make judgments about his character kind of globally it's hard to know why trudeau and his liberal party appear to have been blindsided by the release of these pictures which have been on the internet for all to see for quite some time the question now is can trudeau recover or will his party be looking for a new leader without such images linked to his or her name daniel lak al-jazeera toronto to mrs former president zine el abidine ben ali has died his 3 year old had

been in intensive care for the past 3 months ben ali it was in saudi arabia where he'd been living in exile since he was overthrown after the 2011 revolution he claimed his rule games to believes it isn't as if it was criticized for suppressing political freedoms and widespread corruption. russia and china have vetoed a u.n. security council resolution demanding a truce in northwest syria a call for an end to hostilities in the last rebel held province russia is the assad government's main ally and this is its 13th security council veto in relation to the syrian conflict is that diplomatic editor james bass. about the defense here are you going to use your feet or you will see it was clear by the time the russian ambassador arrived at the security council that he was likely to yet again use his veto on a resolution about syria 3 members of the security council kuwait germany and

belgium have been working on a resolution calling for a cease fire need lived for over a month their draft allowed for what they called counterterrorism operations but only if they didn't breach international law is there a chance for last minute negotiations to avoid a russian veto this stage we do everything possible to reach our goal and that is to protect civilians and have international humanitarian law being observed. i'm afraid we really witness another very sad day for syria as your know the situation in syria is worse than ever in the real tragedy in the council chamber as predicted russia backed by china were the only ones to vote against the resolution this the 13th russian veto on the issue of syria it is deeply regrettable that the council was not able to agree to a cease fire resolution that would have saved lives in italy. especially as the

assad regime and its allies prepare to launch another offensive on the people of. russia then put forward its own rival resolution it failed to pass with only russia and china voting in favor throughout the syrian war which is now lost it 8 and a half years 2 of the main things that have kept aside in office are russian air power and russia's unwavering support for its ally in the un security council province is the last target of the assad regime the bard meant is likely to continue and for the people of more than 3000000 of them there is nowhere to flee to james al-jazeera at the united nations. pakistan's declining rupee has sent commodity prices soaring and everyday people are beginning to feel the pinch it's not cheaper to buy a liter of petrol than only to have milk on the country's central bank is warning inflation when i mean chris reports the pakistan afghanistan border. a

country of over 200000000 people in the august honest confronting an economic crisis its population expanding at a rate of 3 percent annually by day inflation a. double digit figure after the government bailout package from the international monetary fund. creating that gap between the rich and poor because the pakistani rupee and loading it rally you and i'd already shared almost 30 percent against the us dollar buckstone is going through a partially artificial inflationary situation and because of massive deep devaluation of the repeat and all of the sudden rise in the interest rate. the government is trying to slow things down because the government said that the fiscal and trade deficits were out of control however it has had a backlash which is in the form of higher prices the ordinary people are suffering

even the so-called rich people are suffering because as i said the sudden rise in interest rates has caused this problem the sudden devaluation of the rupee has caused this problem incoherent and then. i have also added crude a problem. a problem with corruption and money laundering and it now is struggling to try to the economy people are already complaining because the price of eccentric commodities have gone up. and over yeah they got about we hopeless now the prices have gone to an extreme that even by running the shop i can't cope with my utilities and my family expenses even i was not able to pay the fees of my son and took him off from school to work with me at the shop to save the salary of the worker i don't know what to do next. there is no work for me and i am sitting on the roadside since this morning and this is my daily root. but i can't get any job

to earn money so i can feed my kids i am very worried how to sustain as i am not able to pay the rent for the house as the owner is threatening me i don't know what to do i am at the mercy of god. don had received head from the united arab emirates and saudi arabia still had to go to the i.m.f. under tough conditions. that are already being felt on the ground by the ford. because of the local population may feed their day to day the neighbor delivered on their. own is going through a major crisis and. they did it. right now even higher than died off few. they are not to states expelled 2 cuban diplomats for what it calls influence operations officials were posted at the cuban mission to the u.n. in new york the state department hasn't revealed any details about the accusations or released the names travel for other officials of the mission has been restricted

mexicans have been gathering to remember the victims of multiple earthquakes 3 decades apart which killed more than 10000 people. and on the desktop as all but goal lead and a moral ceremony in the capital to a quake some 2017 came 32 years off of the country's most deadly quake so far the government's only managed to rebuild less than half of the houses destroyed 2 years ago. trying to boost its image on revive lost traditions the government's organizing the 1st ever games. people are attending the event this week on the banks of lake reports. this game started on the plains of central asia more than 500 years ago could cook bordeaux teams on horseback compete to drop a did go into a. it's

a classic sport among nor men it's one of the most fiercely contested kurdistan's 1st national nomad games the event was created to revive traditional sports and customs but it's also a global branding exercise. the main goal is to promote friendship between regions and nations you know since the 1st nomad games it is our brand and is known around the world if it is nomad games it means coca. extends beyond competition into culture this man is reciting the epic of mammas a famous poem about a strong man uniting all of kurdistan. eagle hunters show off their birds the centuries golden eagles help nomad survive on the step is even yet making competitions in honor of the traditional homes in the region. my games are essential for his people the current generation doesn't know our history and

traditions the lazy no mind game show them traditions games customs history culture and how our ancestors lived. this is the 1st national games the kurdistan created the 1st global event and 2014 it is pitched as the no matter lympics but is held every 2 years in the last of a and 2000 athletes from 70 nations competed it was such a success they created this national version with all districts represented. these people may have no medic roots. but they aren't leaving anything behind. to offer a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera a global climate strike has begun with protesters from more than 150 countries joining a youth led movement calling for an end to fossil fuels it begins a weeklong worldwide campaign demanding greater action on climate change head of

the u.n. summit in new york mohammed has more from a rally in jakarta. there's . now. this is actually the 1st. significant and. much wider issues facing indonesia right now. in. the u.s. justice department is being accused of playing a key role in reportedly withholding the whistleblowers complaint against president trump and us media is reporting that it relates to a phone call between trump and a foreign leader the president has called it fake news iran's foreign minister is flying to the us being granted

a visa for the annual un general assembly tensions between the u.s. and iran all to washington accused and attacking to saudi arabian oil facilities at least 2 people have died in the hundreds forced to leave their homes after torrential rain drenched parts of texas forecasters are warning that further rain could bring catastrophic flooding liberia has observed a day of mourning for 27 people were killed in a fire on islamic school near the capital most of the victims were students they were sleeping in the blaze broke out night. canada's prime minister justin trudeau has apologized for a 2nd time off to another photograph and video emerged of him wearing blackface makeup trudeau says he will continue with his reelection campaign even though opponents say he's not fit to govern to make his former president zine el abidine ben ali has died the 83 year old that been living in exile in saudi arabia since he was overthrown after the 2011 revolution. those are the headlines the news

continues here now to 0 of the inside stories that you've done so watching i thought the. al-jazeera. where every. eradicating violence against women in south africa the government is 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 i'm in wrong come on south africa's one of the worst places to be a woman the so says cyril ramaphosa and he wants urgent action to tackle such violence the president has announced an emergency plan to stop rising assaults on south african women at a special setting apollo 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 will also complete the implementation of the decisions that were taken at last year's presidential summit on gender based violence and family side as you head from rochelle pentel what victims of sexual abuse and violence are calling for is more action let's head more about her story. your family us assizes you society asa sizes you because i think gang raped with a cut of my nipples at 16. my the man that. that thread moved from 6 to 9 he was living my parents' home and he broke my nose and my mom was at rock and the sitting with me

you know when my nose was just plain continuously my mom was murdered in 2009 asking pleaded to get the spleen was structured she bled to death you know and that's my find you've been abusing you've been raped and then taken away interesting or king of you they're not just taking away. your body they've taken away your mind so dark i mean 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 rachela parents hell 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 $41000.00 cases of rape were reported between 2 101819 this is at least $100.00 reported rapes a day more than $2700.00 women and a 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 monday so can you lay 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 in the streets right now because since last year or when 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 at 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 that 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 costed national strategic plan to actually map out a way forward as to what we're going to do about the scourge we wanted cheap easy 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 based 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 is funding available for domestic violence shelters in the country which across the 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 all 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. it's not just us pointed out you know the. challenge or the problem is not excuses people 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 mescaline that you 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 to ensure that there is no 2nd jury trial 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 there just needs to be dealt with but we know too that they're leaving people as little david and 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 type of the let me bring in germany in this 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. and 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 as 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 too 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 for a civic 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 needs 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 interaction 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 again a little bit older understanding how the relationships what is 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 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 access. services they don't know what to do once they actually enter a police station when they report their 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 by a cancer on the face to 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 those so right now that's right the g.d.p.

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 departments 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 foresee 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 to me would be your 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 an hour 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 mesquite energy 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 way so they toxic masculinity differently 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 mean 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 culturally 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 of the tablet initiatives that have been implemented here are on local level. have been very successful so they are merely interventions in south africa that

have true going 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 to empower the next should have 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 are mission truckle and that the money it goes to those that that that really do make a difference and that it's fast 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. see 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 re prevent 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 into courtrooms because prosecutors say well you don't have enough evidence and are not even going to prosecute so jailing everyone honestly 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. 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 and mandisa in johannesburg elizabeth lancaster in a pretty sure ia angeline stay in 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 i don't know.

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and iran. will multilateral efforts provide solutions to a global refugee crisis escalates in laws and climate change before it's too late join us for extensive coverage of the un general assembly on. a global youth protest against climate change and what may be the biggest demonstration of its kind ever. hello i'm down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha coming up a political firestorm in the u.s. the whistleblowers complaint against president trump has reportedly been kept quiet

. iran's foreign minister heads to the u.n. general assembly a day after he threatens all out war if the u.s. attacks plus. i'm. on my way to meet with thousands of people planning to storm a secretive military base where they believe the u.s. government. welcome to the program the largest climate change protest in history has begun protesters some more than a 150 countries are joining a youth led global strike calling for an end to fossil fuels it begins a weeklong worldwide campaign demanding greater action on climate change but protests began in sydney with thousands of people joining one of australia's. largest protests in a decade demonstrators there want the government to change the country's status as the world's biggest exporter of coal and liquid natural gas in thailand more than

$200.00 young people stormed the environment ministry demanding government action on climate change and thousands took to the streets to call for action in kenya's capital nairobi experts they're expecting rising temperatures more challenges to humanitarian crises across the region and in new delhi students have gathered outside the ministry of housing and urban affairs to protest against unplanned construction which is contributing to see 2 emissions whether he mohamad joins us live now from jakarta in indonesia so just talk us through what's happening with the protests there behind you. carrying around 4 to 500 and many young people that gathered and in fact i'm sitting here in jakarta that very much and message that the spirit here is only about 50 police that it seems like everyone is in very much of a good mood and they answered the one thing they want clean air and blue skies and

they're fed up with having to deal with that they wanted seats across the country and the what we know so far is that this is actually the 1st time a strike turns as into cuts as it is highly significant for the state speaks to the century out from the 2 years from everyone such i thank you so much for taking time to speak to us so it's happened a hectic day for you thomas why this day is so important to. understand the risks that. are for generating. playgrounds on wednesday was. that now everybody here students their parents were. there concerned about the climate change and climate crisis. now. what do you make of them foreign cars and the haze that has taken over some of the islands and so much right in borneo and the government's response to this so far. we're going to as

a body are. going to forest fire it's accounting about 63 percent of the total emissions so the government really needs to act fast and acts like because this is. this is like reoccurring every almost every year what does right the government really miss it's a connection. that's really efficient and effective to prevent the fire before even starting and just finally and to these are is committed to to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 41 percent by $20.00 each but the activists here at home anyway that's happened much sooner. well from my perspective it's still work hard to do that at the moment. you know we need we still need to act quickly to do without all the forest fire here and then we can move forward to

to prevent the next in the next later in a letter year. years to forest fires and also we need to to move from the fossil fuels to renewable energy and just like you put things into perspective for us how bad is the situation at pollution the traffic how about as well that hard to hear and to kotzebue well if you've got those because really it's really bad because last year doesn't mean we are. in a global city the 1st. us. you know what if you next so we are the most polluted city. in the last year so it's really bad here in jakarta. thank you very much now as you know the protest is not going to be heading to the presidential palace they're already walking all the way they should take about an hour for them to get to the next location so we'll keep you up to states in terms

of how this protest will develop throughout the day all right a regular mahama day in jakarta rainouts thank you. now the u.s. justice department is being accused of playing a major role in reportedly withholding a whistle blower's complaint against president donald trump according to u.s. media that complaint related to a phone call between trump and a foreign leader the head of the u.s. house intelligence committee says officials a block from passing it to congress the president has called the reports fake news the whole point of the whistleblower statute is not only to encourage those to report problems abuses violations it was but also to have a legal mechanism to do so and not to disclose classified information because there's no other remedy. that whole purpose is being frustrated here because the director of national intelligence has made the unprecedented decision not to share the complaint with congress or trump has denied the accusation here's what he tweeted another fake news story that it never rains virtually any time i speak on

the phone to a foreign leader i understand that there may be many people listening from various u.s. agencies not to mention those from the other country itself no problem mike hanna has more now from washington d.c. . the man who received the original complaint as inspector general of the intelligence community he has now sent a series of letters to the house intelligence committee outlining the procedures he followed and the procedures that have not been followed he says he took 2 weeks to investigate the complaints and found them to be credible and importantly of an urgent nature he sent his report to the acting director of national intelligence who legally has a week to consider the report before forwarding it to the relevant congressional committee in this case the house intelligence committee but the director the acting director of national intelligence went to the justice department who told him that

legally he did not have to pass the information on now this of the intelligence oversight of the intelligence community making very clear he does not agree with this decision and in fact finds that the incorrect decision he's made this opinion public in that letter to the congressional committee this is given ammunition to that committee to take further action against the justice department in particular which it accuses of blocking information that legally the congregational committee should receive in the interests of protecting the president the congressional committee has now subpoenaed the acting director of intelligence to appear before it next week to explain why he did not follow constitutional and legal procedure and forward vetted complaint to the relevant committee in congress were clear thinker steve is a professor of law at the university of pennsylvania law school she says this is

a significant development. this is an enormous story possibly the biggest story of this presidency because 1st of all it's arguably the 1st time that a whistle blower action has been filed against the president if indeed that's what this action is as we now are coming to understand. and there are extensive protections that are required by law for whistleblowers to enable them to bring important information of corruption to light. second of all there would be as part of the story obstruction of justice potentially on the part of the white house actors in the white house or even the president because it appears as though there is a potentially a coup or it needed effort going on to ensure that congress adam shifts committee in particular does not receive the copy of this complaint. and

that's of very very serious matter for the president if indeed it's borne out that he had anything to do with directing the office of national intelligence not to produce these documents and directing the attorney general's office to it so it vies the office of national intelligence iran's foreign minister has flying to new york after being granted a visa for the annual gathering of world leaders at the united nations next week demands or if diplomatic mission comes just a day after he warned of all out war if the u.s. takes military action against iran that follows the bombing of 2 major saudi oil facilities so bizarre reports from tehran. drone and missile attacks on saudi oil facilities last week iranian leaders say the only reason the u.s. and saudi arabia are blaming them is because the alternative is too embarrassing

that yemen's hoopy fighters were capable of carrying out such a destructive military operation. but the saudis say the drones and missiles direction of travel recover debris the capacity of the technology used in these attacks all draw a straight line back to tehran foreign ministers of odds are it has said of the incident is used as an excuse to attack his country iran won't think twice about defending itself he also warned u.s. president donald trump not to listen to his saudi allies who would march to war with iran for their own sake they should pray that they won't get what they seek they're still paying for a much smaller a human wall that they were too arrogant in 4 years ago for those hoping for cooler heads to prevail the rhetoric coming from to iran of widespread and destructive retaliation is worrying and an indication of how far the u.s. and iran have come from the negotiating table but the reality is iran's position is nothing new the promise of

a kind of mutually assured destruction of american assets and allies in the region has been standing policy for years and iranian experts say is keeping iran's enemies at bay what is new is how frequent and assertive the message from iranian leaders has become a signal perhaps that there is real concern into iran that some kind of u.s. aggression may now be closer than ever. on a visit to saudi arabia the u.s. secretary of state described the oil facility attacks as an act of war and promised more economic sanctions on iran and 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 them 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 the.