was held as the philippines slips further towards the bottom of the press freedom list. dogon reports. they are poets novelists journalists writers from all over the world have been in manila for a major literary gathering over the past. but one chair remains empty. and. his loss is felt deeply here is a. mexican pull with the star reads verses about the killings often connected to the drugs war in her country at least 11 mexican journalists have been murdered this year. the tyranny has taken root she says and the world

must not forget. whole writes about how political turmoil in hong kong has turned streets into a battleground. it's a message often repeated here writers from uganda ukraine and indonesia also read their prose almost all with the same underlying theme they say repressive regimes are tightening their grip over freedom of expression it's no coincidence that the penn literary congress one of the largest and will gatherings of writers from all over the world is being hosted for the 1st time in the philippines which has slipped further down the world press freedom index during the. rule of president

the terror to the journalists rights groups of reporters without borders ranks the philippines at the 134th 180 countries we have you know other countries there was a very important question earlier from. i think someone from norway who are asked among other things so what else can we do to help you writers artists in the philippines and i think that's the kind of question that's been raised in other panels in the other discussions here at the 50 international congress so there's a real sense of solidarity the sky to crack down on freedom of expression there remains a strong sense of defiance here writers tell us they will push back through literature using words to fight syria. al-jazeera manila. divers are exploring unknown waters off the coast of french it's all part of

a campaign to better protect the world's oceans with the 2nd of his reports from the region. alexi rosenfeld is dived all over the world but this is something new along with his team he's diving where no human has been before we're now 135 kilometers from shore and around 600 from the mouth of the amazon. it's a real challenge to diving conditions and no no no one has ever dived here before we have to go through a really thick layer of sediment from the amazon mouth this layer is about 20 meters deep and after that it's pitch black until the bottom there is a deep and complex dive careful preparation and double checking of equipment is essential. so there they go and they'll be heading down to a depth of 110 meters which is so deep that i only have 15 minutes on the seabed

and in that time they've got to collect samples and send them back up to the surface and then they have to stay in the water submerged for 3 hours to decompress . they drop down. into almost darkness seen by their dive lights. at the bottom they have to work fast collecting biological samples other divers scan the reef and film it for review revealing a rich of biodiversity. the samples are sent up to the surface heads over to pick them up and we hold the moment board and as the divers stay below to decompress the samples are right back on the esperanza is all manner of life care including all types of molluscs crustaceans sponges and starfish now you're finding that you don't recognize well 2020 because this is all easy stuff so very very few

people over. here. meanwhile back with the divers some inquisitive hammerhead sharks pass by the decompression stop but it's just an inquiry sharks lose interest and head off. back on the ship it's time for a closer look at the kind of species that exist here it has been an extraordinary morning and one that even the most experienced divers have found exhilarating it's really i mean we're we're diving where yeah nobody has ever been it's like discovering you a new world it in age when our oceans are threatened by climate change overfishing oil drilling and deep sea mining the scientific evidence the team gather will help bolster the case for greater protection of the world sees nicholas al-jazeera off the coast of french guyana. china. goodbye.

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. odd. times. thank you very much a.j. welcome to dell has international stadium where there's been a yet another night of. championships wednesday was filled with hot breaks and. new stars emerged.

leading up to the show so. the pressure couldn't have been greater on britain's petrina johnson thomson. she was favored to win the heptathlon after leading from the 1st day and after missing out on medals at the worlds before and finishing 2nd at last year's european championships she was determined not to come up short. this time the 26 year old didn't disappoint she stormed home in the 800 meters to capture that elusive gold medal the briton also made history her score 6981 is the best by anyone from her country. i am so happy i'm done just this is my 4th championship the soloist has dinner so i'm just happy that i was able to perform at my surgery. there was heartbreak in the decathlon defending champion kevin mayer who is leading off to 7 events had to pull out because of an achilles injury his exit opened the door for

a surprise winner 21 year old nicholas count who was ranked 8th in the world come into these championships stepped up i the german won the final 2 events for a total of $8691.00 to become world champion. you would have anticipated the result of the women's $400.00 metres saeed nasser shocked the world by upsetting a limping champion. to see the gold medal. the bahraini. on the race to her life clocking in at 48.14 seconds for the quickest time the event is seen since 1985. there were no surprises however in the women's shot put china's gold retained her title she now had to tokyo 2020 as the woman to beat and she seeks a 1st ever lin pick title sawhill malik al-jazeera. now

and said you know. well whole another great night for britain absolutely great britain fantastic very good santa. catarina johnson thompson winning they have transformed all the resources how to package she's part of a great tradition in this event in the heptathlon where denise lewis winning goal for britain in 2000 in sydney and then just around us hill winning 3 well it's hard to get out of the kind in 2012 when everyone thought that after a no k j t is the brits call or i would carry on that mantle and she won the world junior championship in 20 well since then in the senior level senior were chairmanships she's finished 5th would be earliest $28.00 and 5th so it was essential she wasn't fully realizing her potential on doubted potential but she definitely allowed to him last night she recorded personal best across 4 of the disciplines she broke the british record she's now world champion she'll be one of the front runners for that limping title and also she knows from liverpool that my girlfriend has found

a local wanted me to mention about the job or. anything. but women's 400 meter race fantastically incredible race the favorite going into that was the olympic champion from the bahamas a. previous favorite of course and she broke her personal record they think probably going to win it now if she came 2nd in fantastic right fantastic performance from far in the far east now so she wanted 48.14 seconds which is the 3rd 4th in history and the fastest right there are that distance since the 19 it's a farce right political reform and quick mention diary for the. a girl who finished in 4th life her name is lynn toler 1st from the north right now on her couch last night her college georgetown and the showing she came from haiti when she was very very young during the american college system i was running 53 seconds in college me about a year ago and one year later she's in a world fargo getting a bronze but nearly getting a bronze medal and improving a post the best part for 2nd amazing so thank you very much for that we'll talk to

you a bit later on now these have been a number of rising stars a step up but one of those is the new men's one isn't 10 metres hurdles in a grant all the way and it the 21 year old spoke to andy richardson. you want some professional in june was it realistically a talk if you the start of the year it's a come to door and win a gold medal and it without a doubt that was definite because. i think when we 1st sat down on me and coach not my coach mike hollywood 1st said now we're gonna mapped out what were the goals for the year 'd and the goal was to weigh indoor and outdoor and to double and then you know to double back when the world championships and no doubt in my mind i knew i was fully capable of winning this this medal but it was just more so you know i just have to prepare mentally and physically and just get my mind you know believe in myself. plenty more tendons that will be crowned on friday is the biggest day so

far in terms of titles out for grabs with 6 finals the men's high jump is the main draw hometown favorite. and will look to retain his title on the track the pick has to be the men's for the meet is a favorite michael norman's injury has blown that wide open and humidity should again be a factor in the men's 20 kilometers walk away from the athletics majesty night as poor run of form continued in the open league on thursday they failed to have a shot on target and a goal the strong. among the other group stage when as well arsenal fan order and. and that's all the sport for now i had to bow to adrian. so many thanks indeed the activist group extinction rebellion has returned to the streets of london spraying a government building with fake blood to the mound urgent action on climate change but. was stunned when long when protesters lost control of the high

a pressure fire hose they were using outside the u.k.'s treasury building there was no damage because the paint was made out of beetroot shoes. catch up with the latest video here to take a look at our website down to 0 dot com that's it from the the news how it has and here's what takes you just a few moments i'll see you. culture

of dance thrives here every day generations of tibetans continue to embrace and be taking their cultural heritage it's a reminder of who they are or whether. this is a suburb of the capital new delhi tibet so the refugees here since 1964 buttons here have been defined as migrants are not refugees because india hasn't signed up to the 1951 un convention on refugees so tibetans here have been able to access the indian welfare system so they become self-sufficient setting up their a businesses and looking for work independently but for some it's not enough.

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 our jersey are. we are fighting for our freedom is so valuable. hero fury boils over in hong kong as its leader kerry lamb invokes colonial era emergency law.

as i'm sick of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up iraq's prime minister calls for a dialogue as for days of anti-government protest killer at least 35 people. turbulence over the river nile how ethiopia is ambitious dam project is angering egypt. and why new yorkers don't have to travel far to see a giant comeback. khan's leader kerry lamb is enforcing a colonial era emergency law to clamp down on anti weeks of anti-government protests that have power lies the territory of the north forbidding the use of face masks what she calls illegal rallies comes into effect on saturday but demonstrations are continuing on the streets of hong kong now entering their 19th

week follows a recent increase in violence during the protests carry lamb says it will be an effective deterrent despite the use of emergency laws hong kong's chief executive says the city is not in a state of emergency home call it's not in a state of emergency and we are not claiming that hong kong is entering a state of emergency but we are indeed in an ok sion of serious danger. which is a state a condition and legacy regulations ordinance for the chief executive council to exercise certain policies and i would say that we are now in rather extensive and serious public danger. in hong kong with more news. this group of protesters has been out here on the streets of central phone calling since even before kerry lamb made the announcement about the facemask and they started in

a park was in his march here into the financial center of phone calls and i've been here for hours what they've been doing a lately as they've been going to main intersections and blocking traffic they've also started fires and built barricades now direct defiance of what kerry lamb is just announced on friday the facemask then they're wearing them you talk to them they say they're going to continue to wear them and they almost seem energized by this move by the government they thought the government that this would tempt things down it is going the opposite at least with the mood of the protestors here we also know over the weekend it will continue their protest planned both saturday and sunday. well you know we were joined by emily lau from hong kong's democratic party she says the new rules will only make protests worse. it is really terrible the whole thing is completely counterproductive we all want this situation to be escalating but the way to do it is to really engage the community and expect

now that the months particularly the one which is very reasonable and that is to set up an independent commission to be moderate not just investigating the police but to look into the whole saga the whole blago we've had many commissions of inquiry to the past that they knew but she refused to do it and now she's at it to a file and to morrow that resentment at conning on a bit notch at 2 pm so i think you spoke as much as will not stop and are not going to stop wearing the brace from she's crazy and the probation politicians and business people led by so. all cranky i agree with the prime minister of malaysia not the mafia is that she should step back just expect that route. of 40 people 44 people have died in 4 days of anti-government protests in

iraq. security forces are using a live fire people are demonstrating defying curfews in baghdad and several other cities they're angry at back lack of basic services almost 2 and a half 1000 have been injured. the. promises by the prime minister are to fool the people and they are firing live gunshots on us this was a peaceful protest they set up these barricades and the sniper sitting right there since last night i never think we need a government that will be just for the people that will end unemployment will end ignorance not increase corruption and we need a government that will hold the corrupt accountable from 2003 until now. imran khan is in the iraqi capital for a same or more slate is there now well i can tell you that the curfew is still in place now the government has said it will remain in place until further notice and they've given no indication as to when it might come to an end on the streets of

baghdad you see the checkpoints every few 100 meters there are a huge number of mobile patrols as well throughout the city is trying to stop anybody from coming into central baghdad to go to the focal point of where the protesters want to be which is chris square now in the last hour we've been hearing from the highest shia muslim cleric in the country grand ayatollah ali sistani he's been speaking through his spokesman after friday prayer and he's been delivering a message to the protesters saying he sympathizes with the protest movement you understand why they're out on the streets but he is very worried that there could be an escalation let's take a look at one of the things he had to say now. we hope that the voices of reason and logic can prevail for the best interests of the country all the officials have the responsibility to make the right decisions to move forward everyone should be

aware of the danger of excessive violence before it is too late. now the question is will any of the protesters actually listen to this very influential the highest authority muslim in the country or whether they will simply carry on with their protest movement the government is certainly hoping that this might quo things showing sympathy and saying that they need to corrupt tackle corruption may well quote things let's see what happens in the coming days imran khan live for us there in baghdad thank you mom. our new dam in ethiopia could threaten the water supply to neighboring countries further downstream sudan ethiopia and egypt are holding an emergency meeting in the hall to take up the issue nicholas hawk reports from addison. this factory is making baby clothes destined for the u.s.

but it has a problem it's out of electricity running on a diesel generator much to the frustration of human the site's manager who wants to go green. means when you just talk about the war in the balkans or you know the you know the direction of the field but ethiopia has done what most countries thought impossible ethiopians half of whom live on less than 2 dollars a day raised $4000000000.00 to build africa's the largest hydroelectric dam on the world's biggest waterway the river nile without any assistance from international donors the ground is now near completion and this is making countries downstream nervous among them egypt because it gets 90 percent of its fresh water from the river nile. either recognizing them you hear his friends going in and. for his money or to watch of the night. and. egypt wants more water than

ethiopia is ready to supply the dams reservoir is the size of greater london if filled too quickly egypt will fall short of water 100 percent. garman's of scientists and see what is going on this is 100 pound dumb doesn't consume or could interpret to right to use its response but talks between the countries are stalling intention is arising. last year ethiopia accused egypt of sending rebels to neighboring a rich to sabotage the dam prompting another country sudan to send its troops to its border i. while this is the rainy. even here in ethiopia and waterways are overflowing bringing power to people's homes and farmland for most of the year this river is a slow trickle because egypt controls most of the flow of the river nile into its country at least for now ethiopia's dam will start producing electricity next year

with the potential of providing power to the entire horn of africa where most live off grid clean energy to a promising and rising economy its neighbors might be worried about the effects but it seeds there is no stopping ethiopia's ambitions nicholas hawk al jazeera. i have a morgan has more on this now from car too. meetings between ministers from sudan if european and egypt have started here in the sudanese capital khartoum and it's expected to go on for 2 days now it comes after 3 days of meetings between technical teams from the 3 countries over the issue of the grant if you can read his own stem before the talks started here has been describing demands from egypt which relies heavily on the mound waters as impossible egypt wants to have engineers at the site where the dam is being built that is something if your view has rejected it also want the dam to be filled over a period of 3 to 7 years something if you also rejected it is also said that the

dam should release 40000000000 cubic meters and if europeans negotiating team said that would be impossible because the highest capacity from the dam would be 35000000000 cubic meters that it can release sudan's minister of water resources and irrigation has said that progress has been made while the technical teams were meeting and negotiating over the dam and he says that he's expecting a breakthrough by the end of the talks tomorrow but so far there is no progress that has been announced all we know is that the 3 sides are meeting right now here in the sudanese capital khartoum they're trying to sort out how this dam will be operational how to extract it and how it will be filled once it becomes operational . leading democrats in the us are accusing president donald trump of breaching his oath of office they've released a series of text messages which they say show how the state department urged ukraine to publicize investigations into trump's rivals and after asking ukraine to investigate his political rival trying then called on china to do the same white

house correspondent kimberly how could has more from washington. with his presidency caught up in an impeachment investigation over a phone call with the ukrainian leader u.s. president donald trump on thursday called on china to get involved what africa's giant is just about as bad as what happened was. when you phrase the unconventional request to beijing comes as trump faces questions over his administration's request to foreign governments to help investigate former u.s. vice president joe biden his potential democratic rival in next year's presidential contest. trump was chinese authorities and other countries to investigate biden's son hunter and his business dealings overseas members of the u.s. congress are investigating allegations trump abused his presidential powers in a july phone call with ukrainian president vladimir selenski we need support real

support in a trunk calls for an investigation into the biden's which is now the foundation of an impeachment inquiry led by democratic lawmakers on capitol hill 3 committees in the house.