iran has close to go to crossings delaying plans by millions of iranian pilgrims to visit iraq for a religious ritual iraq's us i mean united nations are appealing to iraq's government to exercise restraint promised. and his year old government is facing its biggest challenge yet but it's unclear how he can still be out for against his rule with no apparent leaders of the protesters readership with. which is a. journalist for the gulf matters and has reported extensively from the middle east he says the protests aren't simply political it's very much the power of the street it's interesting that these protests don't seem to have a political focus that is there's no one place particular political unit that's pushing people out of the streets it's been quite spontaneous from the ground up and interestingly i'm told a lot of professionals who are unemployed doctors teachers engineers lawyers are

out there along with unemployed youth and of course the youth unemployment rate in iraq is approaching 20 percent when you when you put all these things together and you look at what the money government has accomplished in one year which is very little the frustration level is high these people are really putting their lives at risk i think the the the death count as as gone above 30 now but i think it's a measure of just how deeply frustrated how angry people are at the promises of this of this government and really the failed to deal with these issues that they promised they would at least get a start dealing with. in the news hour and clearing ecuador's president declares a state of emergency we'll tell you what's fuelling protests and the south american country safer more but under threat of deportation the new fear for syrian refugees

that's another goal tonight for britain at the world athletics championships far has been sport. carolan is expected to an act an emergency law that will allow authorities to ban face masks at rallies protesters where the mass to conceal their identity and also to shield themselves from tear gas i am a hold a special executive council meeting on friday to discuss the ban another tough measures under a colonial era emergency law meanwhile an 18 year old student shot and injured by police during a protest has been charged with rioting and assaulting 2 officers sorry clark has more from the court where the student was charged. the itin year old high school student who was shot with a live bullet during tuesday's demonstrations by a police officer has now been charged with a number of offenses including rioting and assaulting a police officer that he wasn't able to appear in thursday's court hearing it was

shot in court simply because he's still in hospital in stable condition he was one of the group of 7 cases that were heard at the shot in court but only 4 of those people were able to attend because of the injuries now a couple 100 people gathered at that court to show their support for the hospital student who was shot because the police are still under pressure as to why they used live bullets during that demonstration and why they targeted the protesters chest now on friday the government is expected to announce a special meeting the executive council which is effectively the government's cabinet will host this meeting and is expected to consider implementing a new anti mosque bill which simply bans the use of mosques being worn at these unlawful assembly is that considered by the government not the strategy would be used by simply used to use. lies through the emergency powers now the probation groups have already showed their support towards this particular act of this particular motion on friday kerry lamb is expected to hold that executive council meeting and will make an announcement shortly after. apple has banned an out that

allows protesters in hong kong to track the police saying it helped users evade law enforcement the bank says demonstrators use increasingly innovative tactics to keep ahead of authorities there are harnessing low tech solutions like using sophisticated hand signals to communicate swapping train tickets bought with cash and changing clothes to make themselves harder to identify that's along side tech like using the heavily encrypted cloud based messaging out telegrams to coordinate rallies and bluetooth based apple airdrop is used to anonymously pass on information including protest street maps address for a senior fellow at the university of nottingham research and to toot he says protesters in hong kong are using novel ways to evade monitoring and capture. in the 21st century political activists actually need to be quite skillful. so online need to outsmart their oppressors by. mustering very sophisticated

communication technology to avoid state surveillance and of course on display in hong kong. and you mentioned telegram these kind of apps have been very useful but they've also used what are termed peer to peer mesh networking apps like fire chat where users can use bluetooth or you know short range while wife radios to connect with one another and therefore become less reliant on the internet which of course can also be switched off by any given state but offline they basically have to outrun the police. quite literally for example yesterday in one child they were in a situation where they literally couldn't escape the police but then they disappeared and the police was quite surprised and what happened was that hong kong actually opened their doors to their apartments to their high rise buildings and so

people up just fled that way into the alleyways into you know the rooftops and so if they did the police crackdown. 4 people have been killed in a knife attack at the paris police headquarters it's believed the attacker was a 45 year old i.t. assistant in the police and tell john unit several others were wounded when the police employee stand a number of his colleagues before being shot dead or has the latest details from paris well speaking after the attack the paris prosecutor gave more details about the attack he said he was a 45 year old man who'd worked in police administration for 20 years in fact to be based in the paris police headquarters this huge building in the center of paris very close to not redound the paris prosecutor said that a criminal investigation is now being opened into the event to find out exactly what the attackers motivations were now in terms of what we know so far it was

about 1 o'clock when the attacker lunged at fellow police officers inside the paris headquarters he had a ceramic knife so it was a knife that would not have been detected by the metal detectors now 4 police officers were killed 3 men and one woman we also understand that a police officer that had been nearby witnessing the scene opened fire and killed the attacker well the french president tomorrow in my craw as well as the french prime minister and interior minister were at the scene been terror minister gave his condolences to the victims' families he said that this shows what a difficult job the police have to do and it has to be said this comes just one day after thousands of police officers marched across paris to protest against what they say are increasingly stressful conditions and also against what they say is increasing police violence but it has to be said that a few of them would have expected an attack to come from within their ranks. it's

prime minister boris johnson is hoping is no set of proposals will block stalled negotiations they include a new regulatory zone in northern ireland to replace the backstop arrangement in the existing withdrawal bill hasn't gone to other with some senior european parliament figures who say they don't support it and a whole reports i wonder if it is going to fail to ring a morning meeting of the cabinet boris johnson told ministers he would defend his new brakes of proposals in parliament with glutinous emoluments typical johnson language meaning he'd be sirup the sweet q very much was just proved from the prime minister and his proposals could hardly have seemed more reasonable for this government's objective has always been to leave with a deal and these constructive and reasonable proposals show us seriousness of purpose of alternative a range but the prime minister's proposals while welcomed by former skeptics on his own side have not gone down well with the opposition plan to have even the remotest

customs checks on the island of ireland while northern ireland alone retains elements of the e.u. single market has been shot down as not credible and designed to fail if he doesn't get a deal at the october council summit will he abide by the laws of this country the emir withdrawal number 2 act and request an extension to avoid a disastrous no deal that option does not comply commend itself to me it would incur another 1000000000 pounds a month there are going to do whatever there are in this divided house of commons now 2 opposing forces on the one hand a force of will willing a new brics it feeling to be willing and to this breaks it crisis and on the other hand a force of resistance those who simply don't trust boris johnson's motives and who will do what ever they can to prevent and no deal breaks it. none of which points

to an easy majority for a deal in the house of commons which in turn is little incentive for e.u. leaders who will need to make their own compromises but our objective is very clear we don't want to see any customs posts between north and south nor do we want to see any tariffs are restrictions on trade north and south and they were all in the 1900 s. we don't want to go back to that the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't but if we're going to be in 2 different customs unions i think that creates a real difficulty that's going to be very hard to reconcile separately european commission president john. problematic senior european parliament figures say they won't support it boris johnson will have to use his most glutinous when he heads off as expected on a tour of e.u. capitals later this week jonah. of course president has declared

a state of emergency as protesters block roads throughout the country over the fuel price hikes that. affect all transportation organizations say they will strike and definitely the decision as it were burst reports. taxi truck drivers blocked streets and. transport unions went on strike to protest the end of subsidies that have been in place for decades. to make what. we don't go out to protest because. the people the person is hurt because afterwards things will become more expensive the government announced a package of government measures worth more than 2000000000 a year. producer. after years of leftist rule says the elimination of fuel subsidies was necessary to lift the

economy and stop smuggling he also announced a tax reform plan intended to reduce the fiscal deficit. because of that he declared a state of emergency. in order to preserve citizen security and prevent chaos we have disposed of the state of exception at the national level rights my friends should be requesting without hurting those who are fundamental for the country's progress. under former leftist leader korea morning or in 2017 but since then he has become his staunchest critic for his turn to market friendly economic policies. in february governments signed a $4200000000.00 agreement with the international monetary fund but skepticism of the i.m.f. runs strong and throughout latin america where many blame austerity policies for the economic struggles they face every day they. still ahead on

al-jazeera it's a battle for independence that killed thousands but now there's fresh hopes of ending the conflict in cameroon. and driven from their homes thousands are forced to evacuate province after violent protests and sport manchester united find it going tough again in the europa league far will have the details. hello there still some very warm weather across the southeast and pin to the mid atlantic states in the united states we have got this a clear area here this is where the heat is in place and then this line of cloud is where we've got the dividing line between the much cooler air to the northwest and this warm moist across much of the south as he had through friday the temperatures beginning to come down so washington d.c.

24 degrees 18 celsius in new york but atlanta 35 that is still more than 10 degrees above the average for this time of year cooling kansas city at 15 degrees i know nice as well here we've got more snow to the rockies as we head through friday by saturday that clears it was fairly swiftly eastwards and then we've got some fairly heavy rain across the upper midwest and into the ohio river valley and by then we've got this much cooler finally pushing across into the southeast so 25 degrees in atlanta then at the caribbean and central america widely unsettled plenty of rain showers really covering much of cuba up into the bahamas and you'll see really across central america against that you know friday it's a very cloudy picture dry place is really good news because one is mexico so some good at drawing up weather over the next couple of days and really nicaragua is the only area where it's dry we've got rain showers in cozumel with a high of 30. as

governments fail to cut emissions scientists are proposing drastic measures to save the planet. people in power ways technological endeavors to counter humanity's pollutants against the risks of further meddling with the environment to ever feel like this is playing god it's actually quite unsettling and quite frankly makes me quite anxious. klein attackers on al-jazeera. one in 3 brazilian women is a victim of domestic abuse it seems every day a woman dying and it just becomes a statistic but some of broken away from the cycle of violence it's not easy to leave you have to ask. and inspired others to turn the lives around i call the straw hat program the dream program my life changed after the course it gave me opportunities for my business women make change.

they're watching al-jazeera these are the top stories right now the u.s. president has called on ukraine and china to investigate his political rival joe biden democrats say the move is or breach of his oath of office this comes as the former u.s. special envoy to ukraine becomes the 1st official to testify in trunks and pietschmann inquiry iraq's government will vote on a wall to grant some of the country's poorest families a basic wage the prime minister. made the announcement following 3 days of deadly protests people are angry over corruption lack of jobs and access to basic services

. later kerry lamb is expected to engage in an act that is an emergency law the wall allow authorities to ban face masks at rallies and this is an 18 year old student shot and injured by police during a protest has been charged with rioting and assaulting 2 officers. families of the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history have rached aside a lot with the hotel where the gunmen stay and jam resorts international says the settlement worth over $700000000000.00 is not in mission of liability 58 people. were killed when a gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor at mandalay bay and las vegas reports. the last vegas massacre was the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history a gunman firing from the 32nd floor of the hotel casino killed 58 people attending a music concert more than 800 were injured many horrifically now the company that owns the hotel m.g.m.

grand as agreed to pay approximately $800000000.00 to victims and the families of those who were killed this settlement will provide compensation for thousands of victims and their families the payout believed to be the largest for any mass shooting settles a lawsuit brought by victims we all must be accountable for our behavior when we make a mistake. we have to own up to it we have to make restitution and we have to change the bad behavior and that's what we're doing with this lawsuit and that's what we're going to do going forward as well 30 year old chelsea romo nearly died after being wounded in the head she's now blind in one eye my who i am proud of all of this is all it's all that all plain truth. so how dare i have chapman i still have my part of it all throughout my brain attorneys argued that

m.g.m. was negligent in its security allowing the gunman to spend days stockpiling an arsenal in his hotel room without attracting any suspicion at one point m.g.m. actually countersued the victims claiming the company board no liability for that claim was dismissed in court victims attorneys hope the large settlement will encourage corporations to make security a priority and i think this should be a message to all of the other corporations businesses around the country. stuff about their security you've got to be on high alert with all of our security i think it's just that simple robo a single mother of 2 young children has had 7 surgeries suffers from flashbacks and lives with constant pain nothing about my life is normal anymore and. the amount of people i have met that were there and the friends that have become

family through this and the memories that we are how from that night and that we share. is just as something that it's never you know never ever be able to prepare and be of the same m.o. certainly ever the money will be distributed through mediators with amounts to vary depending on the severity of injuries and loss robert oulds al-jazeera camerons president paul b. a has ordered the release of hundreds of prisoners linked to the separatist crisis and its country's angle phone regions a national dialogue was launched in cameroon on monday in hopes of ending the conflict only 3000 people have died since fighting broke out in 2017 between the army and separatists who want their independence for cameron's 2 english speaking provinces dangerous house far from the capital. one is immediately clear who the $333.00 individualist release was announced by the company wouldn't government off

but a lot of people going to spring key opposition figures and leaders of the separatist movement for the among them and the and also when came as delegates to the national dollar conference a roughing up their discussions would be a government wants to be seen as taking some steps towards piecing sucked in individual groups in the country by this of course includes opposition figures on the on during the strong debate got a conference walked out on stage protests because some of the items they wanted to discuss about one knocked on the agenda of this discussion now a government source is telling us just enough that the individuals whose release was announced by the current government will all have in one way or the other been found guilty or associated with crimes against the state and crimes against humanity so there really is made to a certain extent these such in the bridges of groups in general who are actually at loggerheads with the government almost sucked in steps or sucked in by just in this

country now regarding the notion of the conference which is a ball dropping off in your wondering what the most sources telling you know that several steps could be taken or several and also meant i expected to be put on the table which of course will include them in a meeting of the country as well as the appointment for formulation of a new council of chiefs mainly to be uncle forced into the region of general which of course will help to smooth in the dialogue as well as the resource addition forces in the north was insulting as a front for which an officer should i want to support his and the government of the stones. and gerry's president mohamed hari is on a 3 day visit to south africa following attacks on nigerian and other foreign owned businesses and johannesburg last month the scene of violence has had a major strain on relations between africa's 2 largest economies the minimal or has more from pretoria. it's the 1st visit to south africa by unite judit head of state

. but the pomp and ceremony for their arrival of muhammadu buhari in pretoria last underlying tensions following last month's attacks in johannesburg on foreigners of various nationalities including nigerians the south african government condemned the attacks and dispatched envoys to mend relations with countries whose citizens were attacked we have expressed deep regret at the end of the past few weeks that many 1st the attacks that were directed at foreign national. condemnation or or form of. violence remains. some africans who carried out the attacks blamed foreigners for taking their jobs being a drain on the poorly performing economy and drug dealing after nigerians were

attacked $600.00 of them took up the government offer of a free flight home some businesses owned by south africans in nigeria suffered retaliate she attacks both governments say they should never happen again we have very good who are. concrete measures to do that we've been very. good in the future both governments a significant attention will be paid to the safety of citizens in each other's countries 64 percent of south africa's trade in west africa comes from nigeria and so many sub african businesses there suffered attacks in response to the xenophobic violence at home with those trade links so important to both the presidents want to ensure that their country's relations stay strong while here at the union buildings officials have managed to quell diplomatic tensions it's not certain if the same

has been done amongst those affected by the violence for me tim miller al-jazeera pretoria south africa people have been kidnapped at gunpoint in nigeria police say 6 girls and 2 teachers or abducted from a boarding school in could do in a state early on thursday morning officers from the police anti kidnapping unit are searching for them. friend says the european union is looking at imposing retaliatory terrorists as the u.s. plans new duties on a wide range of the box products washington will impose $7500000000.00 with the tariffs on over a 15 year dispute the u.s. argues aircraft giant boeing lost billions of dollars because of legal subsidies to airbus world trade organization says those subsidies are illegal and u.s. is planning to attack including french wine and between 10 to 25 percent around 11000 people have been evacuated from indonesia's pop up province after demonstrations against racial discrimination turned violent last week at least 33

people were killed dozens injured. in the capital jakarta. driven from their homes these people have reach safety in the provincial capital giant what began 2 months ago as a demonstration by people on the indonesian island of papa against racial discrimination reinvigorated a decades old movement for independence and those tensions burst into violence last week in jayapura and the town of woman are forcing residents to flee. their houses and doors open we tried to escape from the back of the house and had to break the wall we met 2 indigenous proper hooman who helped us to get to the police they saved our lives the riots started last week after a teacher referred to her native students as apes according to social media reports fighting between student protesters and security forces in what manner left dozens of people killed and injured ethnic tensions began intensifying in august that's

off the rumors spread the student living on java island had damaged an indonesian national flag the video footage also showed indonesian security faces calling students monkeys and dogs that the 2 thousands protesting for weeks against alleged racism and discrimination against people in pop and west. many of those who fled violence all riginal from indonesian islands of sumatra java and who have been living in poplar province for generations. our current priority is to evacuate children and women the situation very stable and we hope it will go back to normal soon we'll do our best to rebuild and repair the damage the indonesian military says thousands of people are still waiting to be moved out of flights a carrying around 200 people at a time but some problems officials are telling people to stay and be patient tensions date back to 1969 when the un declared in tunisia could take control of

west if people agreed in a referendum most said the result was rigged and calls for independence president has said that he's willing to meet a pro independent in pop up to resolve the crisis but it's unclear if independence will be up for discussion as for human rights groups say people in pop are discriminated against the problem is that there are discrimination against ethnic problems in terms of home loans in terms of bank credit in terms of. the practicalities to get papers to get documents id cards. that need to be stopped and they were this to stop discrimination against ethnic pop one it is better to integrate these 2 different different people. leaders say they're trying to calm the conflict but that will take time with no guarantee of success for now many of the displaced awaiting for the next flights this time to the islands or sumatra.

al-jazeera jakarta pakistani officials and taliban leaders are calling for peace talks aimed at ending the war in afghanistan to be reserved senior leaders of the afghan taliban met pakistan's foreign minister shah. in islamabad the appeal comes after u.s. president called off talks with the taliban last my. following a bomb attack in kabul that killed 12 people there she says the taliban will meet with the u.s. envoy who is also in as. lebanon has been criticized for its decision to send back syrian refugees who arrived after april without proper documentation human rights groups are accusing lebanon of putting the lives of the refugees in danger lay 3000 of them have been sent back and the past 4 months and hoda reports. these refugees may be safe from the war in neighboring syria but there is little that protects them in lebanon leaving the camp to find work has become a risk they live in fear of arrest and deportation due to tightening restrictions

by various government bodies which insists returning to syria is safe. i entered legally in 2012 but i haven't renewed my residency since i need to pay $200.00 for every year and i don't have the money i also need to sponsor which i can't find the lebanese the restrictions began in 2015 when doors closed to syrian refugees new visa and residency regulations were imposed now syrians who entered without proper documentation after april the 24th this year are being deported rights groups dismissed assertions by lebanon's leaders that the restrictions are about improving security and protecting the economy its general security has admitted that they have to look at all the 1000 syrian refugees. human rights groups say some of those deported entered before the cut off date and weren't given the chance to consult

a lawyer or challenge the order in court they also accused lebanon of putting those syrians at risk by handing them to the government in damascus accused of arbitrary arrests and torture that has led to deaths in the tension one of the individuals that was deported was a prominent opposition reporter he wrote publicly for opposition and has all the name and of course upon. transfer to syria he was arrested by the syrian authorities the un confirmed deportations are happening and there could be more because the majority of refugees lack proper legal documentation which. documents. that's very important some international organizations are accusing lebanon of violating its obligations to protect those fleeing persecution and violence they said representatives to beat officials here to find

a way to stop the deportations when someone calls us and is in the airport near stop and we know if they go back we're going to be killed that's one violation from the. anxiety is growing among the almost 1000000 registered syrian refugees who along with rights groups believe the deportation order is part of a wider government crackdown that is about making their life increasingly harder to pressure them to leave. beirut making movies and palestine is difficult and sometimes dangerous but every year the local film festival celebrates stand the street makes it a more acceptable for people across the occupied west bank and gaza abraham reports from the premier. this is one of the main cultural events that has to do with the movie industry in palestine it promotes many work of palestinian independent movie directors as well as introduce international films to the palestinian audience the week long event attracts

a lot of media attention and wants to bring more people to cinemas and cinemas to people who don't have movie theaters aiming to hurt the movie industry especially as it faces financial challenges these obstacles such as the military checkpoints there the war live the permit regime all these fragmentation system imposed by the israeli army impacts heavily on the palestinian film made producers and film makers and teams the opening film it must be heaven by palestinians erector easily man palestine's nomination to the best international film award at the oscars. for the spin that the final status agreement is going to be awarding of rights for women a little bit of that out to be stuff from the fore. rise and. given recent events in the u.k. parliament regarding frank said it might seem fitting that a banksy painting has just sold for $12000000.00

a record price for the british street artist devolved parliament which depicts the house of commons full of chimpanzees was actually painted 10 years ago south that keeps his identity a secret tweeted record price it's a shame i didn't still own it still ahead on al-jazeera. i made the greenpeace campaign ship as brands a report on a unique scientific expedition off the coast of south america and spore for a how ireland. at the rugby world cup.