said from the city into the city center then they began to take on the police outside the national police headquarters here in the city the smoke being thrown. right says in turn throwing pavement stones to the police firing very quick escalation into violence. to afghanistan now where explosions inside a mosque in the east during friday prayers have killed at least $62.00 people that was claimed responsibility for the attack in by the taliban says it wasn't involved and it's condemning the violence alexei o'brien reports that. they went to the mosque the peaceful contemplation but minutes later dozens were dead or injured the house of prayer destroyed. it was time for friday prayers and everyone had gathered in the mosque when suddenly a bomb exploded and many people got hurt. when the 1st one victim says about 300

people were packed into the building in rural hoskin maina and mango ha province when the blast happened and the roof collapsed on to those prying below. the sun no wonder the among the enemies of religion and their homeland blew up a mosque during friday prayers the afghan security forces arrived in the affected area immediately and helped to transport the wounded and remove the dead from the rubble. there aren't enough ambulances in afghanistan so the wounded were lifted into any car available and rushed to hospital i outside chaos as a status stream of vehicles books in the injured. both the taliban and i select groups are active in the east so the message that has come from the government is that it's the taliban and its taliban seen as partners who are responsible for the attack on the other side we have heard a statement coming from the taliban condemning the attack. a taliban spokesman

describing it as a crime against humanity. the armed groups being engaged in peace talks with the u.s. in an effort to end the increasingly bushell 18 year war but last month president donald trump declared the talks did blaming a surge of violence by the taliban. the attack comes just a day or you're in the woods and civilians are dying in record numbers amnesty international says the blast demands the world's attention. when many now have life changing injuries and mass graves are being dug many feel the international communities forgotten them brian al jazeera. a pending more ahead on the news hour including he's been a hero for the poor but why bolivia's longest serving president is now facing an uphill election battle. a failed mission mexican politicians admit mistakes and a police operation aimed at capturing the son of

a notorious drug. match between barcelona and real madrid has been postponed of the security fee as we hear from the. turkish president of the one has worn the offensive in north east and syria will resume within minutes of kurdish rebels don't abide by the terms of the 5 day cease fire the truce is largely holding despite both sides accusing each other of violations cynical soon of reports from istanbul. reports of superadded fighting continuing in syria the day after turkey agreed with the u.s. to pao's its military operation for 5 days turkey says' the powells is to allow the kurdish peoples protection units or why p.g. time to withdraw from the border region both the why p.g.

and they are oppositions national syrian army accuse each other of failing to abide by the deal the us stays it's a ceasefire turkey says it's a temporary suspension of its military operation which began 9 days ago turkey's president trajectory brereton refuted the reports of violations he expects the y. peaches with rubble from the designated safe zone area over the next 4 days and the us to oversee the process i've done is warning that defensible resume within minutes if kurdish rebels don't abide by the terms of the deal. so the issue of the safe zone will be solved with us can realize their promises when the cease fire is due to end but if the promises are not realized as soon as events are operational peace spring will continue more rapidly than before at least 15000000 of turkey's 80000000 citizens are kurdish turkey's leaders are repeated reiterating that their target is not the kurdish people but the why p.g.

because of its links to the p.k. k. which is designated as a terrorist group the european council president donald tusk is urging turkey to immediate the withdraw its forces from syria so called ceasefire this is the approach we expected. in fact it's not a she said the month of capitulation of the cuts. i think that we have to be very consistent here. and we have to do to raise the rate our call for turkey to put a permanent end to its. military action immediately and to this is well it's also sent and respect international humanitarian law and all ses turkey isn't using the safe zone to gain territory and he wants at least a 1000000 syrian war effigies in turkey to go home. it is not a problem for us if syrian government forces control the areas cleared of p.k.

k y p g at the end the aim is to clear the safe zone of these terror groups secure in the designated safe zone as a challenge for turkey presents are gone as expected discuss that with russia's leader vladimir putin during their planned meeting in such a next tuesday after the deal ends and they're due to meet again in geneva to end of this month where a political solution to the 8 year long conflict of syria is expected to be negotiated so now console. the u.s. secretary of state mike pompous says he's optimistic that the ceasefire will hold despite the signs of shelling early on friday there was some activity today but we also saw some very positive given the beginnings of the coordination that we will be required the reason this couldn't happen instantaneously so there was a great deal of coordination that had to take place so that there can in fact be a safe withdrawal of the white p.g. fighters that are inside of the turkish controlled area that is covered by the

agreement and we're hopeful in that hours ahead that both both the turks who were part of the agreement alongside of us as well as the white b.g. fighters in the region will take seriously the commitments that they made and that we will actually achieve within the next now 96 hours the commitments that were laid out in paragraphs one through 13 of the agreement let's get more on this we're joined now by dr reynolds he's live for us and washington d.c. so the secretary of state the president on the same page about the cease fire all but scathing criticism from all the senior republicans. yes it's really been remarkable elizabeth to see the the the strength of language that some of the senior republicans who have been by and large supporting president trump for the past 3 years and everything else that he's done has that has emerged

for example mitt romney who is formally a presidential candidate for the republican party lost if barack obama if you 1012 called the abandonment of the kurds a stain on the nation's history and the most senior and perhaps most important republican after donald trump in washington mitch mcconnell wrote a scathing blistering op ed in the washington post which will be published is already being published online and he called the action the president from precipitated by withdrawing u.s. troops from northern syria and the subsequent fighting between kurdish and turkish forces as a strategic nightmare for the us a is it he he mcconnell says it gives the assad regime and its iranian backers more leverage it empowers russia it endangers the fight against the islamic state or eisel and in

a clear swipe at president trump using his own rhetoric mcconnell said that while some people decry endless wars it's important to remember that yes don't simply end they actually are lost or won and you know this follows president trump saying a few days ago describing what he actually that he's taken in northeastern syria is to take a 1000000000 interesting times in washington because the president needs support right now especially amongst his i'm republicans will the erosion of support among them do you think that this would have any impact on that impeachment inquiry that trump is facing. well it's a great question i mean of course the impeachment inquiry doesn't center at all on the act actions in northern syria it's a separate matter mostly about the president's phone call and other dealings with the ukrainian leadership nevertheless the president you know it seems quite likely

after the events of the past few weeks that he will be impeached by the house of representatives a lot of commentators are saying that then he goes to trial in the senate the senate would be the body that would remove him from office so it's very interesting to see all of this up welling of criticism for the president among republicans in the senate almost perhaps you could see it as a proxy for their disapproval of some of the other things the president trump has done as far as polling goes you know the president's base is a firm they will stay with him for virtually forever for in spite of anything the president one might do but there's a new poll out that shows that his approval rating has dropped 2 percentage points a slight drop but nevertheless significant and that the new of another poll that

came out a couple days ago showed that a slight majority of people polled in the country favor from being impeached and then removed from office and it's that kind of thing that places political pressure on republican senators remember way back in the watergate era the republicans in the senate supported richard nixon right to the bitter end until it became clear that he had lost his public support and then they turned on him so we'll see what happens ron thank you very much for that for now it's time for the latest live from washington d.c. thank you. to mozambique now where preliminary results and the general election indicate that the ruling party is headed for a major victory they frame a party has been ruling the country for 44 years but international observers are raising concerns about the vote after reports of ballot stuffing at some polling stations a violent campaign saw one observer murdered and others attacked malcolm webb has

moved from the capital approach. rights groups and opposition have complained about serious problems from an early stage in the election during the campaigns they said that hundreds of thousands of ghost voters have been added to the electoral register in some provinces the electoral commission denied it one observer was shot dead by 5 policemen police say they're still investigating during polling opposition complained of pre-taped ballots and observers said $3000.00 of them weren't allowed to access polling stations there's also been violence during the counting process and now the opposition party that was widely expected to come in 3rd place the movement for democracy in mozambique. has now spoken out during the voting process. introduced in the. being introduced. to waltz in the boardwalks this interim is that from took

place so we as a political party we never accept any for all the results that's why we do reject these results were namo is the largest opposition party that used to be a rebel group for the ruling party in a 15 year civil war more than a 1000000 people died it ended with a truce in 19022 months ago the 2 sides signed a peace agreement that was meant to end the conflict once and for all this election will test the peace deal and the reaction of a normal leaders is critical people are still waiting. for their comments on how the election has gone. to mexico now with the president is defending an order by security forces to release the son of a tourist. well his brief capture led to a deadly better than the state of sin and between police and heavily armed cartel members the violence left at least 7 people dead 16 engine and also led to

a prison break dozens of and mates remain on the news. reports from mexico city. in the capital city of is in a state of shock. violence on thursday sent city residents into a panic as alleged members of the. launched a coordinated assault against police. on friday mexico's security cabinet took responsibility for what they called the failed operation aimed at detaining. son of notorious cartel leader. better known as el chapo mexico's national defense secretary added that authorities were caught off guard so this is. what we underestimated the criminal organizations response capabilities in preventing the capture of a video guzman lopez the security cabinet ordered our forces to withdraw in order to prevent a higher incidence of violence and what occurred during his daily morning press

conference the mexican president defended the decision made by his cabinet members . i backed the decision because i consider protection of the people the most important thing the most important thing is to protect against loss of life the most important thing is peace. gun fights in fires from burning vehicles raged on the streets a prison break was taking place in coordination with the attack by the cartel. over a dozen fugitives can be seen on this cell phone video carjacking passing motorists the violence in the 3rd large scale violent incident to take place in mexico in less than a week. on monday 14 police officers were killed in an ambush by cartel members in the state of. days later another gunfight left at least 15 dead in the state of getting ongoing violence nationwide is putting pressure on

mexican president. who on monday said advances are being made to address mexico's problem with worsening insecurity. mexico city. still ahead on the news hour a message to the u.n. and the world from the libyans fed up with the fighting. and where in the saddle of the world's toughest mountain bike race peter has the details of the crocodile try feat coming up in sport. we have tropical storm warnings in force just around the florida panhandle courtesy of this last massive cloud of the balloting system which will make its way across the panhandle pushing up into georgia over the next day or 2 main while we're looking at this deep air of low pressure just clearing away from the canadian maritimes things brightening up into that eastern side of canada northeast of the

u.s. but for the southeast very heavy rain which will push its way across northern florida in particular easing up into the carolinas as we go on through sunday for the west too bad last you drive into the central and great plains with some high temperatures with some snow there poly in off the rockies we got some wet weather and some wintry weather up on the pacific northwest into that western side of kind of the little of the south l.a. 30 degrees celsius so some real high temperatures down towards that southwestern corner come a little further south into the camera band we got some wet weather just a lonely pacific coast of central america but come to the caribbean the greater antilles not doing too badly we got some showers there into the dominican republic and these will be in place right through the weekend want to see showers too just around the lesser antilles there drive in the way further west was brought to skies coming through by the end of the weekend.

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it's good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour these are our top stories there are been protests in lebanon for a 2nd day against plan taxes and rising living costs despite an automated by promise to sound pretty easy to rival government has given them 72 hours to find a solution. a 5th day and protests in boston known to have turned violent and demonstrate strangers angry at the jayme of 9 separatist leaders of a failed bid for independence 2 years ago and the truce in northeastern syria is

largely holding despite accusations from both could forces and to violations to president the law has warned fighting would resume within minutes if kurdish rebels don't abide by the terms of the 5 day cease fire. now the top republican in the u.s. senate mitch mcconnell is the latest to criticize president trump over his decision to withdraw troops from northern syria calling it a strategic nightmare and democratic members of the u.s. congress are also promising to push through new sanctions on turkey next week our white house correspondent kelly how has more. at a texas rally before thousands of supporters us president donald trump celebrated the cease fire the white house has negotiated with turkey by his own admission he calls his strategy unconventional without spilling a drop of american blood not one drop of american blood on.

we've all agreed on a pause or a cease fire in the border region of syria and it was unconventional what i did i said if you have to fight a little while sometimes you have to let them fight a little while then people find out how tough the fighting is. i am but outside the rally members of the kurdish american diaspora protested the agreement . we don't have much faith in the ceasefire since you asked kurds to push 20 miles away from the border that's where the majority of the kurdish incursion areas are so it's getting turkey everything that they're already asking for so what kind of a ceasefire is it if you ask one side to give up everything in washington congressional democrats are also criticizing the white house decision to remove recent turkey sanctions so congress is promising its own bipartisan sanctions against turkey in the coming days senate republicans say the agreement abandons

kurdish fighters allied with the united states what we have done to the kurds will stand as a blood stain in the annals of american history. trump supporters in texas are backing trump's withdrawal of u.s. soldiers from northeast syria they say u.s. lives have been at risk for too long i think if we were left in there they could have been involved in between firefight between turkey and the kurds i think it's time that we got out of the endless wars over there and let them deal with their own war. we've taken out very few men that were there and brought them home but we still have a lot of our young men over there so i think the. government was going to do that anyway i don't think those few troops that came out cause the problem president trump says the next 5 days of the ceasefire will be critical but he's optimistic he

says president arab one is a gentleman who just needed some tough love to reach an agreement trump is promising to host erda one at the white house next month can't really help it al jazeera dallas texas now the u.s. has imposed 7 and a half $1000000000.00 of an tariffs on european goods french wine and scottish whiskeys are among the targets the announcement comes off of the world trade organization vote that airline make the air boss was receiving end legal subsidies which hurt its american wava boeing roslyn jordan reports. at the state dinner for president emmanuel mccall last year the white house served american one made from french grapes a year later the white house has imposed a 25 percent tariff on french wine made from crunch great i've always liked american ones better than french ones. even though i don't drink wine. the tariff has nothing to do with any agricultural tensions between france and the u.s.

the dispute was over the e.u. subsidies for air bus which the world trade organization recently said had harmed u.s. based boeing's bottom line to make things right the w t o says the u.s. can impose $7500000000.00 in tariffs on e.u. goods including wine that's an expensive surprise for small u.s. business owners such as new york wine merchant heather johnston i'm going to have a 25 percent increase on a significant amount of my wines. so all i can hope now is to just remain steady growth in this. scenario is unlikely at best. it's not just french spanish and german wines facing a 25 percent tariff lovers of spanish olive oil will be paying more so too will those buying cheeses and meats butter and yogurt even some housewares and small

tools and aircraft parts the u.s. is taxing them at just 10 percent and frankly i'm concerned that there's. not a lot of preparation because there simply wasn't time and so i've affected the italians which are across the street who sells parmesan cheese is a fact that the restaurants the whole food and wine cabinet european producers had been fearing the worst even lobbying secretary of state mike pompei o to intervene during his recent trip to rome but while some e.u. countries say they should retaliate by imposing tariffs of their own others say they have to respect the w t o's decision. so w t o skimmin know it he she said which is well quite tough with the europe but i just say that the w t o s sit it's opinion and that's that heather johnston says she's now

reworking her business plan i enjoy sharing food and wine it's like something that makes people happy but she's very much aware there is a limit to how much people will pay for their happiness rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington bolivians go to the polls on sunday with their longest serving president looking to extend his hold on power but off the 14 years he will not out as his popularity is forming because if it is he may try to govern indefinitely john holmes has more from the pas. in rural mountain communities in bolivia there remains only one man for the top job going into sunday's elections ever more oil is already the country's longest standing president and still its most popular politician thanks to a consistently growing economy and programs like this one giving low income families the chance to build their own homes and use it i'm very happy i've worked

so long in other people's houses working for the wealthy people and this time it'll be for me. banking on the support that comes from almost having poverty rallies began his bid for a full term in office 3 years ago. but that in itself became a turning point the moment when his formally overwhelming popularity began to fall . on his head to change the constitution to be able to run again so he put that to the people in a referendum that was close but they said no then he went ahead and did it anyway now he's dealing with the backlash. millions have turned out for huge civil society meetings called build those formal. dinner was one of the organizers. under the government of a very morale is there's been an excessive concentration of power of all the organs of state and the judiciary under him this means that democracy is completely restricted the electoral body for example respond directly to the regime so the

democratic system suffered permanent damage. is not just what critics say is a slide away from democracy recently bolivia had forest fires that wiped out 5000000 hectares environmentalists say the government's commitment to pacha mama mother earth is all talk. the laws are fine the problem is that i see they're not applied the fires in chicken tanya were due to policies where they wanted to de forest to plant soya beans and produce meat to export to china at the. spence of wildlife and the indigenous people there are also been accusations of governmental corruption and conflicts of interest and when the administration of president moralist built this $29.00 story $34000000.00 skyscraper you can see which towers above the former presidential palace this pink building in front of it many people saw that as a sign of the government's increasing opulent in what is one of the poorest

countries in south america. despite the missteps many believe ins like in a sense you still see morale is a safe way forward. because then i think if the president stays in power then these programs will continue before we didn't have them and we don't know the proposals on the other candidates we've lived with this president and we know that he gives help 6. that may be enough to see him over the finish line john homan how does it look. now u.k. prime minister boss johnson will take his breakfast deal to parliament on saturday to when the votes of a fractured government all opposition parties including his coalition partner the northern irish to you a set to vote against the agreement or a challenge has more from westminster. this is the karma before westminster's weekend storm on saturday m.p.'s will face off in parliament in a special session they have just one day of debate to accept or reject boris

johnson's new brix it deal and decide the future of this country if they say no the prime minister must ask the e.u. for a break sit extension something he's desperate to avoid i hope that people will think well you know what's the bounce what constituents really want do they want us to keep going with a song they want division and delay or do they want us to focus on putting more money into the n.h.s. which is what we're doing expanding a provision for a provision for education. and putting more police out on the streets tackling knife crime those against the deal are hoping opposition parties can hold the line we all know it's going to be tight and the only way boris johnson can deliver his brakes to see if labor m.p.'s break ranks in the tory press with northern ireland's d u p ruling themselves out there are 3 key groups forrest johnson must win over for the

needed 320 votes there are a group of labor m.p.'s in mostly in leave voting seats who want to see bracks it done but not sure whether or not they're going to back this particular deal there's the former concerts at peace with thrown out of the party for opposing no deal most of those votes of injuries may still but might take issue with a study. by boris johnson and then there's the 28 years he's 83 times against me still it's a big and across party group of brics it moderates still aren't convinced that no deal is off the table led by the former conservative m.p. all of a let when they're trying to amend saturday's vote so that any approval for the prime minister's deal would be deferred until legislation to enact it had been passed so. next it would be delayed until the end of january so that m.p.'s could get all the complicated work done and not crash out on october 31st because they'd

run out of time but there's no guarantee that e.u. leaders would say yes to an extension. i think we should stick to the targets of 1st deadline i don't indulge in political fiction so i'm not going to imagine a scenario where did british parliament vote this way or that way but i don't think that any new extension should be a great. despite what micron says it's hard to see e.u. leaders denying an extension and risk being blamed for a no deal crash out but yet again the u.k. is pushing bricks it's right down to the wire. now does iran london. now demonstrators in libya have staged a sit in outside the un office in the capital tripoli dozens of civilians have been killed since the beginning of a military campaign led by war lawfully for half the to seize the capital from the un recognized government in april protest to say the un hasn't done enough to stop

the violence and protect civilians. now the walls 1st of all of that scene has been approved by european drugs regulators it's a move that's been hailed by the world health organization as a triumph for public health that will save many lives the vaccine is already being used on the emergency guidelines to try to protect people against the spread of a deadly ebola outbreak and democratic republic of congo. as you have heard the emergency committee has recommended that the current ebola outbreak continues to pose publicans emergency of international concern i have accepted that advise saw the publicans emergence of of international concern the start this will be maintained for additional stream and this emergency committee will be reconvene within 3 months is to reassess again. this remains. this outbreak remains a complex and dangerous outbreak but u.n.

human rights office has called for the release of a prominent blogger a lawyer and a journalist from an egyptian jail several 1000 people have been in custody since protests against president up the feather l.c.c. began a month ago blogger at the father was released in march after serving a 5 year sentence for protesting but was rearrested and september his lawyer was the rest of the same day name on journalists as rub their father was arrested by plainclothes security officer in a car last weekend and beaten after refusing to unlock her mobile phone now around 4000000 people flock to this world famous viewing platform every year and now they can go even higher the empire state building in new york is just unveiled its new observatory 16 levels above the original gabriel and his own dove went to have a look.