leavin here down to the southeastern corner brought us guys coming back into the southeast of pakistan but we have seen some lively showers a recently 35 celsius the karate central baghdad kuwait city 4243 still good 3 or 4 degrees above the seasonal aberration in beirut we're getting up to around 28 celsius over the next couple of days a similar value to 4 jerusalem full of the dry weather down across the arabian peninsula southern parts a little more cloud there because some wetter weather on the southern end of the red sea that western side of yemen absolutely towards a lot of as well but elsewhere as you can see more hot sunshine 30 in ourselves just in doha on sunday evening. cooling off to 38 celsius as we go on into monday so not much of a cool down here plenty of heat to recently into southern africa getting up into the upper twenty's across south africa once again on the eastern cape the western cape seeing some welcome rifle i suggest cape town of 80 degrees celsius that is making its way further east.

every year 50000000 tons of electronic waste is thrown away the majority can be dumped in developing countries right now electronic waste is the most traded as of this with retracing the 10 through the criminal organizations making big profits and asking why the west is turning a blind. eye on the trail on al-jazeera.

a reminder of our top stories this hour demonstrate the rebels have announced that thousands of saudi backed fighters have surrendered during a month long military campaign 3 things have been targeting the southern saudi region of a spokesman says they've also captured several saudi army officers. and speaking at the un general assembly the foreign minister of yemen's internationally backed government blamed iran for the conflict he thanked saudi arabia for its role in helping to fight the rebels but criticized its coalition partner the u.a.e. for supporting separatist fighters in the south. and hong kong is bracing for another day of mass protests a probation rally has been taking place it comes just 2 days before the 70th anniversary of the founding of communist china and antigovernment launch is scheduled on sunday. now a series of attacks as well as technical delays haven't stopped people voting in

afghanistan's 4th presidential election since the fall of the taliban but the turnout was low as nearly 70 attacks across the country killed 5 and injured hundreds of others voters chose from 14 candidates so it's likely to come down to just 2 men and come the president and chief executive abdullah abdullah the results will be announced on november 7th tony back to reports from the capital. the city in lockdown the streets of kabul almost deserted on election day because polling stations open the biggest and tightest security operation ever in the capital was under way. the taliban had warned people not to vote and it didn't take long before the group carried out its threats. encounters there were attacks around the city aimed at disrupting voting roads were blocked and lines of communication cut a mortar round was fired into the grounds of the school used for polling hospital confirm civilians had been killed and

a number were injured elsewhere the taliban launch more attacks to north of kabul one in helmand and one in one the hard province no casualties were reported but a number of people were injured in a blast at a kandahar polling station it didn't deter some others from voting a lot of them despite all the hardships and violence we haven't lost hope we have to vote and think about future generations this is afghanistan's falls presidential election government officials maintain the use of advanced technology and highly trained personnel are making these the freest elections to date but there were reports of some polling stations failing to open and voters complaining that they hadn't been registered i came here to choose a person who can help the poor of this country but they say i'm not registered to vote it's not right at the last presidential election 5 years ago there were queues of people waiting to vote at this polling station in central kabul on saturday it was a trickle and voting had to be extended. we'll have to see. has extended for couple

hours we hope that people. come out and make the choice but as well as in security people have also become disillusioned with politics in afghanistan and the broken promises in failure to tackle corruption poverty unemployment and security international aid agencies say the situation today is worse than 5 years ago though not everyone agrees there is improvements being made we cannot deny that but there are some traits in our taliban decrease increase their attacks you know so there are other factors that affect it. so many other factors affected more and bigger taliban attacks had been expected perhaps an indicator the group may be keeping its hardline element of peace while at the same time pushing a diplomatic strategy for peace talks with the u.s. they were abruptly canceled by president trump this month the election results will be announced on november the 7th but it's not just important who wins but whether

the other candidates and all the other groups accept them and agree to work with them and in the fractured world of afghan politics that hasn't always been easy and in 2014 it only happened because of the strong arm tactics of the united states attorney berkeley al jazeera kabul. syria's deputy prime minister has used his address at the un general assembly to demand the immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces while. his country is open to international dialogue but not at the expense of its national integrity and a fanatic has more from the u.n. . syria's deputy prime minister walid muallem again representing his country at the un general assembly hit out at 2 nato members for their military presence in syria . and. the united states and turkey maintain an illegal military presence inside northern syria they have been so arrogant to the point of holding

discussions and reaching agreements on the creation of a so-called safe zone inside syria as if they were planning to establish the zone on american or turkish soil the u.n. believes this is an important moment for syria after 8 and a half years of war at the end of october 150 delegates comprised of 3 groups nominated by the assad government the opposition and representing civil society will meet here at u.n. headquarters in geneva under these terms of reference the committee will come up with a new constitution for syria the authority for the new committee is a u.n. security council resolution from 2015 it also calls for a free and fair elections something that hasn't happened in the country since half as an aside the current president bashar is father sees power in the 1970 s. can you guarantee to us now will be as that resolution says free and fair elections can i guarantee you that this will take place no but as the right to stated this is

part of my mandate it's very clear to stamp that stated and it's also in for national consensus estimates for take place some diplomats on the u.n. security council are extremely cynical about the assad regime's decision to support the constitutional committee. this stage they believe that their main focus is still the military operation in a blip but they're trying to keep the constitutional committee busy until they can declare a military victory james al-jazeera at the united nations. protests have been taking place outside the egyptian embassy in khartoum to demand the release of a sudanese students attend in cairo while it has done as accused of taking part in recent anti-government demonstrations and of belonging to the muslim brotherhood outsold group in egypt his family says he was tortured and forced to make a false confession on state television the 22 year old moved to egypt an organist to study german. now the trial of saddam's of former president omar al bashir has

been delayed until next saturday following a brief court hearing there is facing charges of corruption and treating illegal possession of foreign currency and illicit enrichment the trial 7 session was held in khartoum amid heavy security now police in nigeria are trying to find the families of hundreds of men and boys freed from a purported school on thursday as many as 400 captives as young as 6 were released during a raid in the city of can do and how they were supposed to be enrolled in a religious school a number of them had been chained up or sexually abused 7 teachers have been arrested. yesterday when i came one of the most. so it is really good to go here one could not even stand a little and then there were so few that we needed to go through to the 2nd to listen to. the team the. now planned to

build a coal power plants on a unesco world heritage site in kenya has fears about the impact on the environment and wildlife a consortium of multinational companies want to build the plants on the islands. reports some locals are welcoming a project. a protected site under threat is an ancient solely settlement built from coral in memory of timber. for centuries arab chinese and indian traders have come to these islands of exceptional beauty. while its beaches in ancient history attracts tourists this location facing the indian ocean is now attracting investors. who produce many sim sim has 3 months of his farm to investors who want to transform this unesco world heritage site home to endangered lions and buffaloes into 1000000000 dollar coal plant which they did because we see he said different up and coming to all the. time on the whole

a lot you know that but young people who have been protesting against the project saying it will damage the environment kill animals and destroy their island we have a little did you get right to anything that was we did community different than what we did not want this cleaned up to do let's not get a model they took the government to court and won but the consortium are appealing the court's decision now we've reached out to this consortium to get an answer to our questions but to no avail this is a consortium made up of various multinational companies from the united states china and europe supported by the world bank in their appeal to the judge they say that the courts overlooked their efforts to mitigate the damage to the environment saying that this coal plant would bring electricity to millions of people. damage to the environment has already started with the construction of this deep seaport the coal plant would not only power it it would also bring electricity to

$20000000.00 kenyans who live off grid despite the risk to the environment the state wants the project to go ahead and so this world heritage site unique in its history and wildlife sheltered from human intervention for centuries is about to be irreversibly damaged because hawk al-jazeera. at least 50 people have been killed after days of heavy rain caused flash flooding and parts of northern india relief camps have now been set up to help to take care of the thousands of people who had to flee their homes their. entire communities underwater this is what remains of one home in the northern state of pradesh tarantula rain proving too much for some buildings now destroyed some say what is almost the biggest problem here is that day by day the water level is rising the water has ended houses as you can see the police of. the powerful

weather system drenched the state for more than 24 hours affecting close 260-0000 people schools were closed down and thousands of displaced families have been moved to relay for camps it's not knowing how long they'll be allowed to stay. and as the rain came down the death toll went up dozens have drowned while others were killed as buildings collapsed relief efforts are under way with authorities trying to drain floodwaters. sit up temporary and permanent pumps there's a problem with water logging at 3 or 4 locations the water is being removed by cutting the road and creating channels. flooding isn't uncommon in these areas but the timing is india's monsoon season normally retreats at the start of september intense rainfall in many parts of the country has triggered floods that have swamped huge areas 11 people were killed when flash floods hit twist in india on

thursday. the heavy rain can be said to be unprecedented because of this a large amount of water into low lying areas and caused a lot of damage there is the possibility that some people were swept away. as the cleanup continues many are trying to get on with daily life nicola gage al jazeera a funerals been held for a palestinian man killed by israeli forces during protests along the gaza israel border fence on friday 20 year old was killed and 52 others were injured during those demonstrations protesters have been staging weekly rallies for the past 18 months calling for an end to the security imposed by israel a man law says it wants revenge a muslim refugees in bangladesh to return home it's now been 2 years since security forces launched a violent crackdown on more than 700000. days man was envoy told the un general

assembly and repatriation must happen under controlled conditions which the president displeased. with who had been regine in the kind of given legal status. we are willing to repatriate them in accordance with the balata agreement signed between you and bangladesh the agreement calls for the issuance of identity cards to the journey. well in the it's been almost 4 years since a so-called nationwide ceasefire agreement was signed between ethnic rebel armies and the government but there's still no sign of lasting peace some groups are refusing to sign the documents and looting what's regarded as east asia largest non-state army now controls an isolated region on the borders with china and thailand when hate takes a rare look at the secretive wa state in the far east of me and mine is

a defacto independent territory it's run by the country's largest rebel army which unilaterally declared it a state it's largely cut off from the outside world in particular the rest of me and my. right now why is still a wild frontier people who live here have id cut only for the state we can travel out of here. the united states army controls 2 areas on the borders with thailand and china the state is run under a one party communist system it's heavily reliant on chinese support in the form of trade investment and in the near future thanks to a new casino possibly tourism. when i 1st moved here there was only jungle everywhere but now it's more developed in the past it was very poor and 5 behind but it's getting better. there was signed a bilateral ceasefire deal with the me and me in 1909 and haven't been directly involved in any significant fighting since the largely left to run their own

affairs and still maintain a well organized and well resourced fighting force of up to $30000.00 now about having under pressure to join the government's nationwide cease fire agreement which like many other ethnic armies are refusing to do they say they're not prepared to meet one of the key conditions of that deal which is for this soldiers to lay down their weapons and join the me and my military the why are also fiercely protective of their income streams like jade mining and the illegal wildlife trade many products like tiger and beer teeth are sold openly in the state capital punk come the united states army is also thought to be one of the region's largest manufacturers of illegal drugs a business that says it's no longer in but there are many who believe those who run this area are still stuck in the past and until they open up life will not improve for you i'm in fairly good i want want to continue to develop i want to see more

people move through here which will improve trade in business in the past 2 or 3 years it's been very bad i can make a so much. state serves as a reminder of how fragmented me and mar is while the syria may be at peace for now it's the people that continue to pay the price of civil war through isolation and a lack of developments wayne hay al jazeera. well the northern hemisphere has been treated to a spectacular celeste see a light show at these images of the northern lights were captured an invalid and finland they became visible on friday nights quickly reaching storm level and dancing across the sky the lights are the result of electrically charged particles colliding in the atmosphere. and i'm just as detail with the headlines on al-jazeera yemen syria the rebels have announced that thousands of saudi backed fighters have surrendered during

a month long military campaign that he is have been targeting the southern saudi region of knowledge around a spokesman says they've also captured several saudi on the offices will all open mineral wealth to log thousands of you to be food sousa been captured as prisoners . from among the prisoners is a large number of high ranking officers and soldiers of saudi citizenship. was from the lucero operation to be destroyed imprisoned and captured and speaking at the un general assembly the foreign minister of yemen's internationally backed government blamed iran for the conflict he thanked saudi arabia for its role in helping to fight the rebels but criticized its coalition partner the u.a.e. for supporting separatist fighters in the south. on. well rummy has had to face myriad direct military attacks in violation of international law these attacks were mounted by him a rotty air assets these attacks have undermined the stability of our homeland and

in this way the immorality aggression has undermined the noble goals of the coalition. hong kong is bracing for another day of mass protests a probation rally has just been taking place that comes just 2 days before the 70th anniversary of the founding of communist china an anti government marches also showed tools for later on sunday. a series of attacks as well as technical delays didn't stop people from turning out to afghanistan's 4th presidential election since the fall of the taliban but the turnout was low as nearly 70 attacks across the country killed 5 and injured hundreds of others and polls have just opened in austria snap election a corruption scandal in may lead to the collapse of the right wing coalition government opinion polls suggest that form a center right chancellor sebastian kurtz and his people's party are likely to

return to power well those are the headlines next stop its people in power stay with us. you've been accused by several women of being detained you've been with us from st confinements all the while you have refrained from speaking to the media why have you trust them to talk about islamic studies professor tonic ramadan talks to al-jazeera about the ongoing brain bank you sanctions against. in june 26th the u.k. decided to leave the european union in the aftermath amid acrimonious debate on the exact terms of britain's departure questions surfaced about the legitimacy of the referendum that began it all we asked journalist polish ma to investigate now with the brics it saga still mired in divisive political wrangling was showing his

report again. last. october 28th seen hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through central london one of the biggest demonstrations seen in the u.k. in years i aim to get in the 2nd child's to rethink britain's proposed exit from the european union the only way the college is going to cover their own behinds by giving us a people's vote so they feel we can actually decide. what to do next. lot of us think the remaining is a much better idea and trying to reform the european union make that better product

running and hiding went brits britstown quite. britain's prime minister might say the same thing but a truce of my not quitting has meant staying faithful to the small majority that voted to leave the 2 years ago whatever the cost yet what if that vote was tainted what if instead of being a free and fair reflection of the people's will the brics it referendum was one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated on british democracy in any other election if fraud of they slava had been uncovered then we have the legislation. puts aside the results and we have the election again as the deadline for britain's exit from the e.u. draws near there are still too many troubling questions about the vote that breaks it underway about its fairness and its legitimacy about who was behind it who paid

for it and the motives of many of those involved. my name is dr paul lashmar i'm an old and deputy head of journalism at city university of london. breaks it is a watershed moment for the u.k. like everyone else my students will be directly affected and look at the mess they could be one of the most important political events of their lives so i've been looking for answers what i've heard is a story so complex and murky it almost defies belief. thank you the only began in 20. 8 a wing of his party had loaned being antagonistic to the prime minister david cameron was taking the biggest gamble of his career we will give the british people a referendum with a very simple. choice. like

all ballots in the u.k. the referendum was to be overseen by the electoral commission. anyone could take part in the public debate the commission designated 2 official campaign poll g's. one in favor remaining in the e.u. one for leavin and gave each a fixed spending limit of $7000000.00 pounds. only british registered donors were allowed to contribute to those campaigns. david cameron became the public face of the pro e.u. campaign better off we are safer in a reformed european union vote leave was fronted by the p.m.'s cabinet colleagues boris johnson and michael go i think we should take the chance now as a country to take back control the probe breaks its side have the backing of another unofficial campaign leave. its most prominent figure was nigel farrar of

the u.k. independence party but cameron's plan backfired against all the odds the u.k. opted for the exit the u.k. has no teats to leave the european union. a majority. you know history was in the right. the shock on the remains side was profound early hopes of an easy victory dashed how had it gone so horribly wrong. as the post-mortems got underway attention began focusing on the role played by social media a powerful tool for sway in public opinion to find out more i went to see one of my university colleagues will be looking at a bracks of debate for a very long time dr marco bastos is a specialist in communications of this is what we call a network graph or

a plot if he showed me a graph of twitter activity during the referendum strange patterns emerged we noticed a drop in the number of users that we were monitoring it was a significant drop i hadn't seen anything that big up to a point and they turned out that. he had very much to very much so we're like features thoughts of computer generated accounts program to automatically push messages online. what's happening here is that this box is between a range of real world users this is a single message in all likelihood that was what we did several times by this very same bot marco explained that while bots were used by the remaining campaign it was the leave side that made the most of them there were more bots for leave out of the campaign for sure. the figure was quite clear some of my colleagues have looked into similar data and they have come to the conclusion that these accounts war at

least a portion of them were operated by internet research agency in russia based in some petersburg the internet research agency or. is a troll for an organization created expressly to sow discord in this information on the web it was identified by american intelligence as having played a key role in manipulating the 26th election of president donald trump though no one knew it at the time it now seems that they are also played a role in bricks it. on the death of my friend we found a marked change in behavior so accounts that have been intimate tweeting brax it suddenly started to. edinburgh university research dr clearly well and has examined millions of tweets that were posted prior to the referendum many of them it turns out from the same suspect internet research agency accounts say the tweets often at the same format which was not hatched had many u.r.l.

and they were using that to make trending topic so that a lot of people saw them mation and that they were trying to act fast. what we have here is trolls so it's human people writing tweets well the flick was being. the true scale of the russian twitter activity on brakes it only came to light by accident because the company passed the data to us congressional investigation into the trump election in that probe another key social media player facebook was already playing a starring role this is like over what is facebook doing to prevent foreign actors from interfering in u.s. elections one of my greatest regrets in running the company is that we were slow in identifying the russian information operations in 2016 and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry what no one yet fully understands

is the role that facebook may have also played in breaks in the company says it has found almost no evidence of russian interference and repeated that claim in a statement to this program but research was skeptical but facebook is basically a black box so we don't really know what's going on inside facebook and that's not just facebook that's for the instagram what's up and a number of other platforms operated by facebook. the fact that doubts persist is jus in part to the company's connection to another murky affair. in early twenties the guardian newspaper revealed the 87000000 personal facebook accounts had been illegally harvested by a u.k. based strategic communications business called cambridge analytical it worked because of the presidential campaign and had ties to leave. an offshoot of a larger company called s c l which had an alleged background in military decision from asian cambridge analytic is promise was that it could target people with

messages to modify their vote in choices so for a highly erratic and conscientious audience you're going to need a message that is rational and fear based or emotionally based the cambridge analytical scandal would eventually wind almost $120000000000.00 off of facebook's market value and raise serious questions about the vulnerability of western democracies to manipulation. to find out more i went to meet the journalist behind the guardian's cambridge alex because scroope current cadwallader told me how she 1st began to pull the threads together it started when in order to confirm the data company's links that leave you you she contacted the campaign group spokesman and you went more andy right back and he said happy to clarify came originally did the work for us but we never paid them they were happy to do it for free and i was

like there's definitely something interesting here because this looks like a donation to me and donations need to be declared. champion for art in front of the golden left and he's the person who took that photo and in the face of the more he's in one as well the bad boys it breaks it and breaks it he said was. like a petri dish with a charm campaign. you know it was like a test case carol's revelations led to the biggest data protection investigation ever held on both sides of the atlantic we started a conversation with mr zuckerberg general that it can start to identify mental vulnerabilities in voters and works to exploit them by targeting information designed to activate some of the worst characteristics in people chris wiley a former director of cambridge analytic turned whistleblower gave evidence to the u.s. senate and a british parliamentary committee that began taking an interest in the brakes at

referendum of fake news the definition of a conversion so i don't want to say that i had to do these institutions she did feel good said the outcome of the referendum might have been different i think it is completely reasonable to say that there could be a difference in the wrestling. you know had there not been in my view. there needs to be a deeper investigation of the of fake accounts and a group of facebook groups being used to propagate information conservative m.p. damian collins is the chairman of the british parliamentary committee without evidence from facebook but we feel that we should hear from october because he buys into mr he's the person who decides what happens at facebook there are still big concerns are faced with not enough to investigate the role of fake accounts they've not been transparent on the issue of data breaches and user data and make up in the hands of people who shouldn't have it. fake accounts russian trolls data mine.