happens the targets an iranian asset in the region were targets in iran in some way the the larger branches of government of the elected officials the military the supreme leader's office are slow 'd to come out with the reaction they're very measured but we initially normally hear from the parliament and that's what's happened here a senior m.p. and a member of the commission the parliamentary commission for national security and foreign policy pointing the blame pointing his fingers pointing blame at the united states and possibly israel now we have to say that the investigations are still underway we don't know exactly what's happened the foreign minister a statement released earlier today saying that it was some sort of external event some sort of external attack the targeted these vessels foreign ministry spokesman abbas moussavi also saying over the past few months some other destructive actions were taken against iranian tankers in the red sea and investigations are under way he also said that any sort of fallout that comes from this including the pollution from oil that is leaking from the vessel that will be on the shoulders of the perpetrators if european prime minister ahmed has been awarded this year's nobel

peace prize he's being recognized for ending the long running conflict between his country and eritrea over disputed border territory when mitt became prime minister in april 28th teen he made it clear that he wished to resume peace talks with every trade. in close cooperation with the side yes again the president of a victory on a method quickly worked out the principles for a 4 and then for a peace agreement to end the long no peace no the war stalemate between the 2 countries robyn kriel has reaction from addis ababa. well incredible news both for its c.e.o. peons and for africans although many at the o.p.'s here were quite surprised that he won that prestigious award many of them said that they're not shocked at all

because he is still so incredibly popular here on the ground and if you're here rarely do you see for example a cab or a bus drive past without dr b. as he's affectionately known face on the back of it as well as that flag because he is seen as the nationalist the person who united is the o.t. who brought them through those dock times through that state of emergency and through what many analysts have said could have possibly been a civil war had he not come into power at that time but when you heard that list of achievements read by the nobel peace prize committee his peace with eritrea detente with somalia the fact that he offended essentially the political process here and if the opiah which for years was a dictatorship a commentator i spoke with yesterday said that had it not been for this the fact that if europe it would likely be fractured already there so jabari has more on prime minister of iraq month peace efforts since taking office. prime minister

ahmet was sworn into office in april 2002. since then the 43 year old former army intelligence officer has launched a wide program of political and economic reforms such as ending state monopolies and allowing private sector competition in industries such as telecoms aviation and power his biggest success so far was the peace deal with neighboring eritrea and ng in nearly 20 years military stalemate following their 2 year border war in june last year the ethiopian government agreed to hand over control of the disputed border town of bad mate to eritrea until then if you appear rejected the international boundary commission's ruling in favor of eritrea. unpredictable style is a popular with all if yo peons the most open stressed him the only problem they have but i have now is that they wanted the change to happen immediately. we have a lot of economic problems in this country were

a lot of the economy is growing very fast the amount of expenditure that's going into infrastructure has been at the expense of livelihoods he played a central role in the violence fights against illegal land grabbing activities in there are a mere region 4 years ago the government stopped a controversial scheme in 2016 but disputes continued and resulted in people being killed. that fight is seen by many as boosting its political career he's from there or rumor tripe ethiopia's largest ethnic group which spearheaded the protests that forced his predecessor to resign an assassination attempt 2 years ago failed to stop his development plans for ethiopia. and activists and military intelligence officer a land grab opponent and unpredictable politician a peace maker and now abi adamant can add nobel peace prize winner to his list of accomplishments dore such a bari al-jazeera let's bring in halleluiah luly he's

a political analyst and had a fee if european foreign relations strategic studies that's a political think tank thanks for speaking to us on the news hour i think i know the answer to your to this question but just give me your initial reaction to this when well it was somehow expected but the reaction i think was overwhelming people are not just taking this recall commissioner said cognition to. the prime minister if your votes people are going if you do a proper analysis of the streets of this if you look to terror and facebook's fear people are taking this as sort of competition to what the country has achieved in the past 3 and a half and the resilience all 50 states and its people in their ambition in realizing that ambition for an inclusive and accountable states you have

a human rights organization amnesty international saying that prime minister ahmed work is far from done and this award should push and motivate him to tackle the outstanding human rights challenges that threatened to reverse the gains made so far do you think that these gains that have been made are under threat and does amnesty have a point. they depend a state has a very long history of authoritarianism and a transition. through democratization is going to be a very bumpy one and it's a cognition that are beyond what has made a difference occasions has been done in the past 3 and a half i believe are laying a beautiful foundation in building independent institutions because what our young men say for example is he has released thousands of political prisoners but the key is not just about releasing them but building independent institutions independent system that will prevent the possibility of any political prisoners in the future

so it's a still a work in progress but i believe what i achieved so far in the past 3 and a half has been very impressive and this we especially know coming at the specific moment would be would serve us that impetus to continue this project off democratizing to state and utilizing the political space but ethiopia still has a very real struggle with ethnic tensions as well as millions of internally displaced people how challenging is the year ahead going to be for prime minister ahmed as he tackles those challenges. well you know it's a very difficult task is task it was this very difficult assignment of being inclusive and being going to find at the same time the more you're inclusive in all the possibility of having contradicting voices within. is would rise but one of his i think flagship you know his ideology so far has been be summed up with

one maxim it's called macdermot or it can be roughly translated. so he's been preaching national reconciliation and cohesion among the different ethnic linguistic and religious groups in ethiopia and actually he's made. significant progress and i meant in you know narrowing the gap between the different interest groups in ethiopia of course we still have a long way to go in creating. in reaching a very strong and sustainable alex pact and political settlement but i think is that i thought it caused a reason mated with a lot of ethiopians who want peace but a consideration a unity and prosperity in this country ok how do you know lou thank you very much for speaking to us from added. 3 people have been stabbed to the shopping center in manchester in the u.k. police have arrested a man in his forty's answer especially on suspicion of serious assault

counter-terrorism officers are investigating the incident i'm hayward is joining us from london you're keeping an eye out on the situation in manchester what more are you learning amah. well we understand that just after quarter past 11 the smalling the emergency services received reports of multiple stabbings at the and l. center in manchester the biggest shopping center in the city it would have been busy because it was a fraser and armed officers arrived on the scene the place was evacuated but we understand that 3 people were stabbed one of them seriously injured they've all been taken to hospital the area has been evacuated the trams which travel around that part of the city have been stopped but clearly a very alarming incident which has taken place in manchester and the police have said that given the location of the nature of the incident they have invoked the counter terror of course from the northwest of england of course greater manchester police are well versed and prepared for this kind of incident because of what happened back in 2017 at the area and the area underground

a concert in which 23 people were killed during an attack and going much much further back during the ira bombing in the 1990 s. right and they were thank you south africa's former president jacob zuma has lost his bid to avoid standing trial for corruption and that's expected to begin next week his lawyers went to the high court to argue the prosecution should be thrown out because it's politically motivated zuma denies taking bribes from a french weapons company for $180000000.00 government contracts in the 1990 s. for mr miller was the court's. the court judgment was handed down in under 2 minutes and jacob zuma was in and out of cotton in just a few minutes the court had decided that jacob zuma will indeed stand trial that's due to begin next week but it's also worth remembering that the former president does have the option to approach the supreme court of appeal to appeal this judgement and perhaps further delay his day in court which is

a huge cheer said for a long time he wants to have the opportunity to do but it's at the same time he's also tried to delay the court appearance ultimately wanting that trial sold out essentially jacob zuma should be back in court with the week however it's not quite certain just how long that trial will take and when the south africans will have answers will a case that has been going on now for almost 15 years aside from this court case and the charges of corruption fraud and racketeering jacob zuma does face other allegations of corruption during his time as president of south africa and that's culminated in what's being called a commission of inquiry into alleged corruption the former president also having to answer questions there while that commission is ongoing. the u.s. government has imposed sanctions on 3 brothers

a base center of corruption scandal big denying using their friendship with the former president to still state by widespread corruption and bribery zuma and the group has denied the allegations punishment is being seen as a victory for zuma successor cyril ramaphosa tries to clean up politics and attract foreign investment. in ecuador the deaths of at least 5 protesters in the past week of anti-government anger is provoking an increasing backlash against the president's lead memoranda has imposed austerity measures and cut fuel subsidies which caused petrol prices to double overnight it has responded with a nationwide strike our latin america editor on c.n.n. has the latest from the capital quito. thousands of indigenous ecuadorians from all over the country called for justice for a middle aged man killed during a national strike on thursday. ecuador's peoples on between says he was one of

5 people killed in more than a week of protests i do not believe that the police there is an abuse of police force and we've also asked the government to lift the state of emergency which has generated more violence i think the government has lost control of the situation. inside people's cultural center building the leaders of the doors indigenous confederation paraded 8 policemen on to the stage. the colonel in charge told al-jazeera he'd come to negotiate the release of a patrol then who'd been detained but they were not allowed to leave until hours later that that's the protesters allegedly ran to the police has only added. explosive conflict and after demonstrations. either here i was asking for. lifted. his cabinet.

his downloads put indigenous leaders have stopped short of asking for president lenin moreno's ouster they are demanding instead the immediate end to what they call police repression the release of all detainees and the immediate resignation of the defense and the interior ministers as a precondition for a dialogue with authorities the interior ministry is being blamed for police. firing tear gas into a university where women children and elderly people had taken refuge rather than nothing but the other. children because we have no one to care for them but you interior minister women are an assassin the. president what in is refusing to give in to demands to restore fuel subsidies which he removed in exchange for a $5000000000.00 i.m.f. loan. but a former assembly deputy says ecuador can't afford desperately needed credit and that all trusts up with either moreno has to be able to negotiate with

international banks and make them understand that we are a country with an enormous political crisis that we cannot be treated as though we have a stable democracy that needs a small fiscal adjustment here an adjustment can bring down the whole deck of cards . indeed ecuador has a history of governments being toppled for a lot less something few people here have forgotten you see in yemen al jazeera. in colombia students have paralyzed city centers nationwide to demand more funding for public education riot police in the capital bogota fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters throwing rocks the 6th round of protests this month began with students at a public university alleging corruption. well millions of people in tokyo are bracing themselves for a super typhoon this is expected to make landfall on saturday the region is still

recovering from last month's typhoon. 2 matches of the rugby world cup in japan have been cancelled and flights and train services have been disrupted and evacuation warnings issued for flood prone low lying areas let's get an update on this typhoon and cross over to jenny with the latest on that hi jenny hey daryn yes a very very powerful storms this and this one indeed and we just put it into most. have the latest warnings country of the joint typhoon warning center it is time the winds have actually come down just a little bit in the last year as they're still very very strong sustained winds at 215 kilometers an hour gusting higher than that about $260.00 and it's moving to the north northwest is picked up speed a little bit so that obviously means it is getting closer to landfall as well the hours continuing to take by but the actual 4 calls track really hasn't changed now for the last couple of days so it is indeed going to making landfall very close to tokyo indeed this is it through saturday so it actually is going to be getting big actually come on shore make landfall late in the day over sea ahead of this storm

system we've already got the rains pushing in and very heavy amounts of rain we're going to be seeing as well the waves already very significant to stall 60 metres that's 53 feet they will of course ease as the winds ease but look at this by sunday it is making very very quick progress but it will certainly produce some very heavy amounts of rain is a flooding rains you add that with the wind and of course we also look at the possibility of flash floods and some mudslides but this yellow area here gerri this could be as much as hoffa need to rain in the next 3 days to some areas particularly those east areas on the low lying land that is of course a big concern we'll continue to monitor it over the next couple of days all right sir thank you very much johnny still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour why there is renewed fighting in the mountains off me and mar. hayat and calls to impeach president donald trump grow louder as 2 of his lawyers associates are arrested. in sport why it's not just the drivers who are in

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a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want and if you don't say it we're not going to speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news our churches troops say they've captured 15 villages from kurdish forces. 8 kilometers into northern syria at least 24 civilians have been killed on both sides of the border since wednesday. iran is investigating an explosion on one of its oil tankers off the coast of saudi

arabia iran's national oil company says the vessel appears to have been hit by 2 missiles. on the prime minister has been awarded this year's nobel peace prize is being recognized for ending the long running conflict between this country and eritrea over disputed border territory. u.s. congressional democrats have issued subpoenas for 2 businessmen charged with campaign finance violations the ukrainians who were arrested in florida are associates of president donald trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani and according to the indictments both men funneled foreign money to u.s. political candidates will trump is facing an impeachment inquiry into whether he withheld military aid to ukraine for personal political gain they saw political influence not only to advance their own financial interests but to advance the political interests of at least one foreign official or ukrainian government official who sought to dismissal of the u.s. ambassador to ukraine. the former u.s.

ambassador to ukraine meanwhile is the next in line to testify at the impeachment inquiry investigating president donald trump and he's accused of pressuring ukraine's leader to investigate his democratic rival joe biden memory of it she was recalled from her post in may the former diplomat was named in the whistleblower complaint that sparked the impeachment process let's bring in shihab rattansi who's joining us from washington d.c. and i suppose the question is will she show up and will she be testifying or will she be barred by the state department. right because the white house has said they don't want any administration officials or anyone employed by the government to testify she's still a state department employee we haven't heard yet whether in half an hour she will turn up for a deposition certainly members of congress who are part of these committees leading the impeachment inquiry are turning up at the secure bunker not far away from where

i'm standing where that deposition is due to be held they still seem very confident that she will turn up the reason they want to speak to her is because as you mentioned she was actually mentioned in that famous july 25th phone call with between donald trump and the ukrainian president and account of which we got from the white house where donald trump called her bad news she had been a source of gossip in republican circles for a long time she'd been appointed by president obama and it wasn't long before the gossip was she wasn't loyal to donald trump she was bad mouth thing donald trump then the prosecutor drumroll of ukraine gave an interview to the hill newspaper here in washington where he alleged she had given him a list of people not to prosecute that she was hindering his investigations into corruption in ukraine you could imagine the republicans went nuts because they're going wait a 2nd when we're talking about investigations into people are we do we mean joe biden we need him to buy biden had to replumb drop on the ukrainian energy firm however up after giving that interview that same prosecutor general walked out back

and said that wasn't true because in fact she refused to give him a list of people not to prosecute but the damage had been done this is well now and that's the huge soup of information that republicans have been dealing with about some sort of ukrainian involvement in the 2016 election on the ukrainians were open in their support for hillary clinton and come to biden's alleged corruption and so on so this is been going on for some time so what's clearly there are these investigators want to talk to her to find out what was going on why did she think she was 5 what was rudy giuliani up to was there a shadow foreign policy underway was that shadow foreign policy in furtherance of. national interest will don't trump personal interest was there a quid pro quo before a military aide in all of the gaps in order to get more information about joe biden these are all the questions they want to ask her supporters already saying that or so she was concerned she was fired because she refused to take part in quote all this personal informal stuff so you can imagine why the white house may not want to

testify or will find out in about 2030 minutes whether she will ok and we'll cross to you then as she hops thanks for the time being for that update from washington and let's take this on with young she's the vice president for the national security program at the think tank 3rd way she's joining us from washington as well hi there thanks for speaking to us on the al-jazeera news hour so 2 questions 1st of all do you think she's going to show up and 2nd of all how key is her testimony going to be no one knows for sure whether or not she'll show up but congress has passed laws to protect people who come before congress and even though the administration is trying to bar her congress views this as obstruction of their investigation and they take it very seriously career state department officials have always respected the rule of congress and congressional oversight and are likely to want to testify the question is whether or not they would retaliate against her for doing so and whether or not she is cowed by that retaliation by all

accounts this ambassador who is a career foreign service officer who happened to be appointed under the obama administration but is not a political appointee was a very by the book ambassador and did not appreciate being told to engage in this personal informal quid pro quo to benefit the president's private political futures so it obviously sounds like you're saying that her testimony would be very key i mean what answers do you think of a congressional committee would be wanting to look to get. i think they want to know the ways in which she saw the administration deviating from standard procedure which might give you an indication of wrongdoing or trying to hide things i think that you would want to see from her the kinds of pressure that the administration was trying to bring to bear on the ukrainian government she also was caught in the middle of a 'd power struggle inside ukraine itself with this former prosecutor who was trying to keep his job by currying favor with the republican administration so he's

not necessarily a reliable witness as to what she was doing but i think that you're going to want to hear from her what was happening inside those communications between the state department and the white house about ukraine and the president's personal political future now the white house has been very clear in saying that it will not cooperate with the democratic the democratic efforts are going forward with this impeachment inquiry and we did see last week the board of the u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sunland from testifying so if the white house continues to do that what happens if a democratic strategy when it comes to this impeachment inquiry going forward. well you've already seen a fair amount of the evidence that's necessary out there in the public that the president released a transcript which shows what exactly what he did there's the whistle blower complaint you have the president's lawyer admitting what happened on national television so they actually have a fair amount of evidence to prove that the president was bringing pressure to bear

on ukraine for his own personal political future it's just a question of getting other witnesses to talk about the context in which this was happening you saw that in the text messages leased by special representative kurt volker and some of the other context about where they're trying to hide things now the committee also has a couple of whistleblowers who it hasn't heard from directly that it could hear more information from about the concerns that were raised to the trumpet ministration about this particular call and the whole scheme to try and get the ukrainians to trump up the investigation of joe biden which most reporters have looked at and said there's no actual wrongdoing underneath that but i think that there is they have a long way to go in the house in terms of other witnesses they can call other information and frankly the longer this drags on the more likely the president is to admit in public at a press conference exactly what he did because he keeps doing that ok we'll leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us from washington a 5 year old child is among a group of from rakhine state detained by authorities in me and maher that's

according to human rights watch it says the child is among 30 rohingya detained as they try to reach the city of yangon 8 children have been sent to what authorities called a training school 21 adults were jailed last week for travelling without permits no decision has been made on the 5 year olds in the street so michael mcgraw in bangkok he's the director for me and more streamlined can thailand at save the children thanks for your time with us on the news hour are you hearing any more information about what authorities plan to do with the children that have been detained. no although the children have already been convicted sentenced and. sent to a reformatory the 8 children the 5 year old is with her mother in a 10 prison it's unclear what's going to happen but the fact is that no child should be imprisoned for traveling with their parents and relatives to another city

these people just the the subject of completely racist movement restrictions and they the children do not belong in reform schools and prisons why do you think they were detained and arrested because we know the arguments from the authorities side they seem to say that they were jailed under a law that bars using false identity cards well you know there are 128000 people including 80000 children locked up in more than 20 concentration camps in central rakhine for the last 7 years and there are military checkpoints on the outside there are police checkpoints there's barbed wire they can't get out without false identification papers they can maybe with a week or 2 weeks they can get to medical treatment but if they want to travel to visit their relatives that want to move to vocational training to get a job they can't travel without a false identification papers so you know the crime is not carrying

a false identification paper the crime is locking 80000 children up behind barbed wire for the crime for the offense of being a ranger what kind of conditions are they facing at these camps that you speak of. they living in long houses leaf and and corrugated iron houses. one family to a room 5 families to 2 like a long low shifted lines and lines of latrines that you know frankly are not terribly senate tree. and flooded in at. the monsoon period this tiny little schools only one clinic this one high school for the 80000 children there and no way of getting in or out and totally dependent upon on handouts upon relief they were tricked into going there 7 years ago and

this still trapped this 7 years later writes michael mcgraw we'll leave it there thank you for joining us on al-jazeera fighting in the mountains of northern i mean marmion one has resumed despite cease fires between the army and ethnic armed groups as florence louis reports civilians in shan state are caught in the middle of the conflict despite the recent announcement of a unilateral truce. the national liberation army on patrol the armed wing of the state liberation front is thought to be at least $1500.00 strong it was founded in 1992 to fight for more autonomy for the palau minority in shan state they're one of several prominent ethnic armed groups that didn't sign a cease fire agreement with the myanmar government 4 years ago various ethnic groups here are being targeted after they attacked

a myanmar army academy and other buildings last month that's despite unilateral ceasefire announcements by both sides in the past few months. that would then want to sub in the jungle where you and i would be if we are making a cease fire there must be a monitoring them and who is going to act as a mediator resurges immediate there be a member of the negotiation team all from china. the myanmar military told local media in september that the attacks by the ethnic armed groups suggest they're not interested in peace civilians are bearing the brunt of the violence here in the township more than 2000 people have been forced to seek shelter in neighboring villages and monasteries kamya has high blood pressure and diabetes the fighting is taking a toll on her health came did not limit again a little prayer i was frightened i was at time praying praying to the spirits for safety but it has no family and no relatives

a bullet goes straight and doesn't waver i'm afraid of both sides of both armies and your. door. but for some the conflict has made them take up arms yet says she became a soldier after her brother was killed by myanmar security forces. anthony we suffer more oppression than men with abuse like rape that doesn't happen to the males who are able to defend themselves to prevent these cases of abuse we become soldiers to defend ourselves and. villages can expect to be caught in the crossfire until peace is achieved between ethnic groups and myanmar's army florence louis algis ear ukase minister in charge or rex it isn't brussels for talks steven barclay met with the chief negotiator michel barnier in an effort to make a breakthrough on an exit deal it follows boris johnson's meeting on thursday with

his irish counterpart leo vardar who says an agreement before the october 31st deadline is still possible. we are. pushing. the british team of the no are you kidding me but you should learn about how the rules and the direction. of the party but. dr. rick sheet rock climbing. we need the. training and patience china's president is in india meeting prime minister narendra modi xi jinping is discussing tensions in the disputed region of indian administered kashmir china supported pakistan at a recent un security council meeting also up for discussion india's $53000000000.00 trade deficit with china and new security measures along their shared border or pakistan's prime minister is heading to iran for talks before going to saudi arabia

in what's believed to be efforts to help mediate between the 2 gulf rivals a spokesman for iran's government says imran khan stated that the saudi crown prince him.