these hearings thank you for sharing your analysis on this story with us appreciate it bruce fein former us associate deputy attorney general. so there is much more still ahead for you on this news hour from now on they're going to be live in san bernardino california where authorities are struggling to contain a fast moving wildfire has also indian administered kashmir is formally divided into 2 regions directly controlled by new delhi. and then a bit later a washington nationals celebrate their 1st ever world series title. iraq's president is about to hold elections and says the prime minister. will resign but only when a replacement is found barham sali addressed the nation in a bid to quell weeks of violent anti-government demonstrations which have left more than $200.00 people dead zones you're going to reports now from baghdad. 9 and

a half minutes into an almost alert teen minute speech to the nation where by iraqi president barham saleh finally spoke about the resignation of prime minister dilma haiti and holding elections it was a yes but speech to protesters yes maddy will resign but only once a successor is determined yes elections will be held but only after a new election law is implemented and a new election committee formulated rice said it was the prime minister is willing to submit his resignation that he's also asking the political parties on a replacement within the constitutional fine legal measures that would prevent a constitutional vaculik a few. no time frame was given from a haiti's resignation or when elections might be held since october 1st protesters have been demanding maddie's step down and elections held in 60 days monitored by

the un to ensure they're free and fair they have publicized this until this hour the parliament didn't give anything to satisfy the rage of the demonstrators and they didn't give them any hope that at the very least the government can calm the protesters by removing the or having his cabinet resign as a. there were high hopes when it was announced that president saleh would address the country on thursday evening instead there was greater anger and resolve among protesters one called the speech a joke this week the protests in baghdad have been fueled by students many skipped school members of the teachers attorneys unions boycotted work. i asked my teachers why do we study and when we have an unknown future how long can we keep silent we study had you graduate and then want we stay at heart but i've done it i believe you mad he has been in office a year he was

a consensus prime minister after wrangling in the parliament the un special. representative in iraq is urging patience he says no government could comprehensive we tackle past and present challenges in just one year whether protesters heed that advice remains to be see that talks are going to aim. baghdad. meanwhile over in lebanon the president than michel aoun says the country must change from a sectarian state to a civil one this is anti-government protests continue in the capital beirut calling for political leaders to resign plans to reopen schools and universities have been cancelled because of ongoing rallies prime minister saad hariri quit on choose day he's been asked by the president to stay on as temporary caretaker until the new government is fully formed. and to libya to more heart the menu was a day we are shrink into a government and we hope the upcoming government will live up to the as gracious of the people that it should gain the confidence of the people of the parliament it

must be a government which is capable of achieving what the previous governments had failed but that's why ministers should be basing their qualification is expertise not political or sectarian leadership is that they are very critical cross really so it is about diet and government. firefighters in california struggling to contain new fast moving fire is a blaze in san bernardino east of us torched at least 4 homes forcing thousands of mandatory evacuations more than $200.00 acres of reportedly burned fires across the u.s. state of being fueled by strong and unpredictable winds coupled with continued hot and dry weather. joins us from somebody you know california now just describe conditions for us there at the moment. well the situation remains flow within this part of the south california as

new blazes erupted overnight which forced hundreds of people to flee their homes the cause of those fires is still under investigation zz though no casualties have been reported so far it back wages have been ordered for more death to people in 500 houses alone in this area of san bernardino as well as 2000 houses and account is of riverside and ventura couple of miles. from from here did he's good but slow progress and to containment of those fires namely in the southern part of california those destroyed winds remain the big challenge for to firefighters more than 4000 firefighters are battling to contain doe's fires across 'd the state to good news there are coming from the north part

of california in particular the county also no mo where death toll it is there declared to contain ment of more than 60 percent of the 4 years that's erupted since last wednesday did so it is a low there toward the return of more done 150000 people that have been evacuated from that region since winds they dig into the auto riches are hoping to achieve some progress with the improvement of the weather conditions in the hours and days ahead thank you very much behind and from california. now in all the stories we're following closely fighting has intensified near the syrian town of tell tom or as government and s.t.'s fighters battle with opposition forces hoping to expand their influence in the region safe zone take in russia and start joint patrols of the northeastern area on friday. on the turkey syria border

. there's panic here in syria's north east as fighting flares up near tel tama underlying caught up in the fighting are civilians who are fleeing the area and moving to the province of has under the control of the largely kurdish as the but syrian government troops have military bases in the region. yes and they took over western parts of the town people have had enough each time someone controls the area it ends up being worse. as the fighting got worse syria troops sent reinforcements to tell tama. but opposition fighters say they are determined to expand their influence south of. and that is just a matter of time before tell comes under their control. that turkish backed syrian opposition fighters the syrian national army or. has launched an offensive

and taken over areas that were under fighters of. syrian government troops took part in the fighting but were forced to retreat damascus accuses the turkish military of targeting their positions with heavy artillery. since the start of the turkish military operation in eastern syria thousands of civilians have been displaced these people say they've been on the run for months or regionally from their lives or their escape the fighting between i still and the syrian government last year they thought their journey was over when they were sent to the camp and control. we left any 10 days ago we were taught syrian government troops were coming to the town scared they might arrest us we had our 1st listen marc noyce and me and my 70 year old has been locked

a long distance before reaching that. a few weeks ago and the family of thousands of people had to once again leave the camp and resettle in tel aviv now under the control of syrian rebels. kurdish fighters denounced the turkish military offensive as an invasion but a deal between turkey and russia last we left with only one choice those include body. must retreat east of the euphrates river and those near. east must withdraw sorrow. the latest fighting poses enormous challenges for turkey who are expected to start joint patrols in a safe zone where turkey plans to set up observation posts to ensure their fighters won't be able to states called back but the syrian government fears the safe zone would pave the way for a prolonged turkish military presence in northeastern syria. charlie over

all the border with syria we go to pakistan now where tens of thousands of people have converged on the capital islamabad as part of a large anti government caravan which set off from karachi last week the conservative chinmaya to islam party has been rallying supporters across the country to take part in what they calling for the freedom march they want prime minister imran khan to step down over the struggling economy security has been tight around islamabad for fears of unrest a final rally is due to take place in the capital on friday. at least 70 people have been killed after a large fire tore through 3 carriages of a moving train in pakistan so a blaze is caused by a gas stove on board a train was making its way from karachi to raul pindi just outside of islamabad survivors say it took nearly 20 minutes for the train to stop some in germany reports now from andy. water he says someone give me water because

this man is among the dozens of people wounded when a passenger train caught fire in pakistan witnesses say in addition to those who were burned alive many people died in the trying to jump from the high speed burning train most of them were programs heading to a religious gathering they routinely carry all essential items including gas cylinders and bedding for their religious meeting which lasts for days. initial reports suggest that someone tried to make breakfast on an open gas flame one investigator told al jazeera that the speed of the train fan the flames small mattresses and belongings of the pilgrims acted as fuel and the fire quickly spread to other witnesses say it was caused by a short circuit the prime minister has ordered an investigation and the minister in charge admits there was a failure here marty this is a security lapse at these people were successful in carrying the souls in cylinder in the coaches we don't have scanners a small station but we have scanners at all the 7 railway divisional headquarters

which are great that this happened. it's been a difficult task to identify people because many bookings are made for groups nearly half of the people killed were burned beyond recognition and their bodies have been sent for d.n.a. tests 70000000 people use a real service every year in pakistan but there are no fire extinguishers in passenger compartment and safety checks are almost nonexistent this is not the 1st incident of its kind box on race history of be checkered with many such accidents before people here say that despite this being one of them with affordable more of transport it is a lack of investment mismanagement and corruption which has plagued the bottom. when the prime minister and israeli minister were in opposition the call for resignations and strict action after 3 accidents this is the 7th accident under imran khan's government some passengers now ask when really carry out punishments he used to recommend for those in power. * and in

a minister kashmir has been formally split into 2 territories under the control of the central government alice follows india's controversial decision to strip the disputed region of its autonomy in august diane has mall. in the end prime minister narendra modi's move to strip indian administered kashmir of his special status on august 5th was celebrated by his supporters but it sparked a fall out with pakistan and led to some international condemnation both india and pakistan claim kashmir in 4 but only rule part of it here is a state of play 3 months later india administers part of the disputed region and pakistan the other these parts are separated by an internationally recognized line of control china also administers part of the territory in a dispute the dates back to 1962 but india's version of the map is somewhat different this area shows what india considers to be its sovereign territory in kashmir the plans to converge jehmu in kashmir from

a self administered region into a union territory this means india's government will gain more control over its political affairs india also plans to split the area into 2 the new indian proclaim state of jammu and kashmir which will gain as a legislator and the remote region of the dark which will not will the moves caused anger among many in the kashmir valley is it expected been living in a communications blackout since august until the her reports on this now from china go. under tight security indian administers 1st left and gov. was sworn in. as prime minister narendra modi delivered a speech about india's unity riaz a sportsman and swimming coach felt disenfranchised he says a bound to be the losers in the new system jobs nickel and didn't know we've got all the stupid jobs but now about 50 percent of those would be minorities like

delegates tribals and the disabled and on top of that our land was ours but now anyone can buy it. this all began in august with new delhi's decision to revoke the autonomy of indian administered kashmir and split the region into 2 union territories now law enforcement will come directly under new delhi but it is the possibility of sharing land with. that has most people worried here many kashmiris also fear that by putting them with a hindu majority part of the region the indian government intends to alter their demographic that they say is to reduce the numbers of those who seek autonomy or separation the supreme court of india is yet to give its judgment on this decision while downtown scene in india administers the smeared with the several small for test soras the only area where people regularly have mass protests for the supporters of the indian government say that the lack of such demonstrations

elsewhere in this region is a sign of the acceptance of the indian government's decision however even if just to alleviate concerns the indian government had earlier said that the reason stated in the indian union would be restored at an appropriate time. a mother of 2 meanwhile is waiting for the day her husband is released from the prison he was among thousands arrested during a security lockdown in august this is how the children wait for him to return every evening when they see the fathers of all the children come back home they ask mamma has papa come back families of thousands of others who've been arrested along to see their loved ones as millions of kashmiris also wait to see what the future holds under direct rule from new delhi. al-jazeera indian administered kashmir. israel has approved the construction of more than 2300 settler homes in the occupied west bank according to the watchdog peace now and geo says most of the new

housing units are being built in settlements that israel might eventually evacuate under a deal with the palestinians more than $8000.00 units in the settlements have been approved since the beginning of the year an increase of nearly 50 percent compared to last year how due to a friend is the head of the settlements watch team at peace now she says the israeli government is only making the situation more difficult for both science israel needs to withdraw from west bank because as long as we occupy us bank we are. situation where we control the palestinians without rights and this is something wrong. with drawing from who is bank would be very hard for the israeli government if there are so many israeli settlers there so the impact of thousands of settlers being added every year is said to me is that it's harder to undo it and that's why we must stop it you know the developments the

israeli army has arrested a prominent palestinian politician during a raid on her home in the occupied west bank city of ramallah i needed to or are as a former member of the palestinian legislative council she's also a leading figure in the popular front for the liberation of palestine a party that's been banned by israel gerard's doorstep posted on social media saying more than 70 soldiers and at least 12 minute tree vehicles were involved in the raid. you want the news ally from london more still ahead hong kong feels the impact of 5 months of protest falling into a recession for the 1st time since the global financial crisis. odd. person well interest the actual house speaker is buying ourselves to tenney as is the chamber as a referee. and in sport find out why liverpool light refused to take part in the

english meet cup quarter finals. how the weather so looking pretty miserable across the good parts of western europe with my loss of plough piling in from the land 60 going across the british isles western parts of france and pushing into that western side of the medics for any further races some will say because high pressure in charge fine and dry early morning mist in photo ways and they should have he said that and cool enough just for selves is the top temperature in kiev struggling to get to freezing in moscow 7 i guess they're into central parts of your body 18 into the eastern side of the med 18 therefore athens further west not far off those kind of numbers for london paris

$1516.00 celsius it's not enough but it could be a pretty miserable day on friday strong winds lots of rain piling in here so that a fail as warm as that and not a whole lot better as we go on. more cloud of rain coming into those western parts of the british isles central areas of france down swards sea alps will see some a wessel weather and that is to the southeast including celsius in athens with some dry weather and some sunshine rather than sunshine so into possible of africa we got some heavy rain just around the central parts of the mediterranean as we go on through friday that what's the weather will gradually make its way east. god another day another explosion. from one of the thousands of i.e.d. strewn through the landscape of this lawless tribal region in pakistan with only the most basic equipment

a fearless bomb disposal unit are determined to counter the horrors of a relentless taliban non-steroidal to. armed with faith a witness documentary. on al-jazeera. a young girl in the film a lot of bias when be wrapped up as an asian. when we have this opportunity. to limit so the young girls both through secondary school with a son or to be able to stay employed but that's one per cent of able to change have fun. meet the women in guyana who are going places when it comes to education women make change on al-jazeera.

and recap the headlines now the u.s. house of representatives has passed a vote formalizing the next stage of the impeachment inquiry into president on trial testimonies will now be open to the public instead of being held by closed doors iraq's president has addressed the nation in a bid to end weeks of violent protests barham salih has promised to hold early elections and says prime minister. will resign but only once a replacement is agreed upon and then in lebanon the president there is call for an end to the country's sectarian divide after weeks of county government demonstrations says lebanon must establish a civil state. the spanish government has offered to host december's cop $25.00 climate summit after chile withdrew as host after deadly anti-government protests chilean president sebastian pinera said spanish prime minister pedro sanchez agreed to host the summit on the original schedule dates violent protests

of group large parts of santiago initial veni for the conference this by abandoning hosting the summit chile's president said he was committed to tackling climate change rather good. i want to go for a commitment to the protection of the environment and nature we would be no commitment to fighting climate change and global warming completely and immutably. tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of guinea's capital to show their support for president alpha condé rallies in response to weeks of violent protests against a possible change the constitution that could allow condé to seek a 3rd term in power large crowds lined the roads in conakry to welcome the president home from a trip abroad demonstrators say they back the constitutional bit meanwhile funerals for 11 people killed in guinea's anti-government protests have been delayed because the bodies haven't yet been released to the families to a gate and b.

has mill. frustrated relatives wait outside a hospital in guinea's capital conakry desperate for news on when the bodies of their loved ones will be released or. did it we came today to collect the bodies but the ministry of health says they not ready to be released the families be mourning for forcing dice we want them to give us the bodies for burial the 11 protesters were killed earlier this month during one of a number of demonstrations against president alpha condé the c c thousands of people have been marching through the city week after week angry about a possible constitutional change that they say will push me into a dictatorship. they accuse president condé of wanting to hold on to power for a 3rd term for them 10 years of condé government is enough. 81 year old khan they 1st came to power in 2010 it with guineas 1st democratic election after more than 50 years of mostly military rule since its independence from france in 1958

formally dissolve worried about the future of guinea on the condé. move i don't have the words to express myself this deception what are we seeing on the ground it could kill politics and get the futilely sacred in our tradition our younger brothers were killed how can the family come here 14 days later with no chance to have the funeral. the ministry of health says the delay in releasing the bodies is because it's pathologists have finished performing autopsies which it says will help on cover the real causes and circumstances of their loved ones death these relatives have no faith in that process and they insist the government is making an already difficult situation even was victoria gate to be algis there in. a report by human rights watch says afghan forces backed by the cia of committing abuses against civilians which amount to war crimes the group accuses the troops of

carrying out grave abuses without accountability in alleges the soldiers unlawfully killed civilians during night raids took part in forced disappearances and attacks health care facilities for treating fighters the cia disputes the report though saying many of the claims were likely false or exaggerated. nearly 5 months of protests have pushed hong kong's economy into recession for the 1st time since the 2008 global financial crisis newly released data shows hong kong is now recorded negative growth in 2 consecutive quarters but demonstrations continue on the streets of fired tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters in the districts of calhoun and monk caulk hundreds of people defied a ban on face masks as the rallies kinds item with halloween celebrations sarah clarke has more now from hong kong. right just as i define as miles back to thank god a question in hong kong that using costumes to get around this extraordinary little to take part in his pride started in victoria park and not to try to censor to an

area known as line by phone which is the look alike question for the annual salary question that police have set up checkpoints to monitor this and local assemble that they describe as animal phyla simply around $3000.00 police have been deployed but protesters are using this particular pride to demand that the anti mosque will be done we want to tell the government that we have the right to wear math. i don't think they should just and that the emergency law and then just pass all the acts they want it's not against the kind of basic law i think this is the month of protests in hong kong at its type of its toll on the economy phone call is fully into this recession in 10 years retail sales and tourism plummeted but neither side is showing any signs of compromise more protests planned this weekend. fires devastated and ancient caso on the japanese island of okinawa the 500 year old sherry caso burned for 12 hours before firefighters but the blaze under control one

of the region's most popular unesco world heritage sites as a bride reports. surely castle is one of arkan hours best known tory spots and had earned world heritage status in 2000. the fire broke out in the main buildings before dawn the flames spreading quickly through the ancient timbers more than 10 fire engines were sent to tackle the blaze but there was little they could do local people looking on helplessly the full extent of the damage was revealed at 1st light many of the buildings reduced to smoking ruins the castle dates from the rio q kingdom which spanned 450 years until lock in our was an extra by japan in the 19th century as a symbol of the island's heritage it had in recent days been holding an annual festival recreating rituals from the past. oak an hour's loss will be felt by

japan as a whole think i thought i understand sure a castle in a world heritage site is an extremely important symbol of okinawa i feel my heart ache a stan my heartfelt sympathy to the people of iraq in our the castle had been wrecked and restored before from fierce fighting between u.s. and japanese forces at the end of world war 2 the government has promised to rebuild it once more problems bride al-jazeera. greece's parliament has passed and you know that will make it more difficult for migrants to claim asylum as athens struggles with the biggest for sergeants and arrivals since 2015 human rights groups say the law fails to comply with all standards the government says it makes the process more efficient chancer office reports now from athens. alecia left his native town of daters in eastern syria last year when the civil war then

made it unsafe for him and his family he applied for asylum in greece and was told to wait 2 years for his hearing if he's given international protection it'll be up for renewal every 3 years a new asylum law that takes effect on january 1st forces renewal every year i asked me how he would feel if that applied to him. it's cruel and unfair instead of focusing on renewing papers every year and whether our community them or not i could just focus on supporting my family and being a good citizen and supporting greece but they're doing this on purpose to drive us away and also don't allow us to go to another european country to apply for asylum there another want nor want us to leave. greece is a turning point for 6 years it's tried to keep up with asylum applications but constant new arrivals keep lengthening its backlog of cases greece's a-g. and islands where asylum seekers arrive from turkey are in constant crisis

reception camps are built for 6000 people now house 30000 the 3 month old conservative government says greece needs a tough asylum law that keeps economic migrants out of the system and allows only true refugees to apply human rights groups are crying foul. what this law does is to deregulate the asylum procedure in this country and expose many people to real danger of being sympathetic without their asylum applications being seriously examined and it introduces so many obstacles that the asylum procedure is an accessible to many people who truly need it these government wants a faster procedures we want to separate who is really a refugee and who is an economic migrant from africa. countries that aren't at war see europe as paradise because it has social security. infrastructure. billeted the government believes the new law will allow it to deport $10000.00 unqualified asylum seekers next year that's 5 times more than it's deported in 3 years under an

e.u. turkey agreement greece also wants other e.u. members to take asylum applicants off its hand. greece has received 6 out of 10 migrants who've crossed the mediterranean this year and it's processing one in 10 e.u. asylum applications that's 7 times it's under european commission rules there's currently no burden sharing mechanism for countries like greece with external borders and that's perhaps what frightens greece most it's the recipient of a phenomenon it can't control europe is happy to send money and rules but little else jump several pull us out jazeera athens. if they opposition here jeremy corbyn is accuse the u.s. president of trying to interfere in britain's general election to quote get his friend boris johnson elected donald trump made the comments on british radio carbon

would be so bad for your country he'd be so bad he'd take you in such a bad way he'd take you are just such bad places. trump has been accused of meddling in british affairs of backing boris johnson joining the leadership race or earlier on in the year of openly supporting breakfasted and of dialing the prospects over a very large us trade deal in the face of british m.p.'s providing the u.k. leaves the european union one person he was very clear about though it was the opposition labor leader jeremy corbyn who we said would be bad for the country if he becomes prime minister he also denied accusations coming from corbin and his that labor party that the united states wants to buy into britain's revered national health service although it was later pointed out that donald trump when he was over here in the u.k. in june gave a press conference in which he said that the n.h.s.

would possibly be part of any deal with the us going forward something trump also said he hoped to see would be some kind of.