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a government after the socialists fall short of a majority in the election. believe years now former president abel moralez heads to mexico to seek asylum he leaves behind a country in political turmoil and in school one of england's highest profile footballers has been dropped from the national side after physically confronting it say mates sterling said emotions got the better of him during a clash with joe gomez. 5 palestinians including a senior islamic jihad commander had been killed by israeli airstrikes on gaza triggering the worst cross border violence in months funerals have been held for about how. and his wife who died in a targeted strike on their home overnight israeli airstrikes have also hit apartment buildings. and how massive facility in the enclave of fighters in gaza

retaliated firing the more than 50 rockets into israel one exploded on a busy highway narrowly missing cars and buses a factory incidentally was also hit setting it on fire israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the strike was approved by his security cabinet 10 days ago ari force it is live for us now from the israel gaza border so harry where things stand right now. well just in the last couple of minutes we've seen with our own eyes a couple of rockets being fired out from gaza territory about 5 kilometers or so behind us heading west they were both intercepted by the israeli iron dome anti-missile system so still hours with the sun is just set as we're heading into the evening the situation continues to play out of course as you say it all began early this morning in the early hours of the morning with that strike on.

and israel says that this was not a return to a policy of targeted strikes against senior figures inside gaza despite the fact that's exactly what they're being blamed for doing by many palestinian leadership figures they say that this was an instance where they were trying to prevent this man from carrying out further attacks they blamed him for a spate of rocket attacks over recent months which had been firing rockets into israeli territory and they said that this was a window of opportunity to take him out the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was very careful at a time when he's under immense political pressure of course having failed to win a 2nd election in a row in a decisive enough manner to try to form a government and with the attorney general about stood decide whether or not to charge him in 3 separate corruption cases it was very careful to say that this decision came very much from the military and from the internal security agency

saying that they had been following this man they recommended this action it was agreed by the cabinet 10 days ago and it was up to the top brass of the intelligence and military to decide when to carry the strike out and he approved it when they came to him with that recommendation. and the question still remains then harry as to whether this was just a one off self-contained operation or whether given the response from the palestinian side the rockets fired into into southern southern israel well this could escalate into something more that's the big risk that is attached to carrying out this kind of assassination of such a high profile figure and don't forget there was another attempts to kill a very senior islamic jihad figure overnight as well that being a crumb a jury in damascus he we're not clear but it seems as far as islamic jihad is

concerned at least that he was not killed in that strike his son and one other person killed in that strike israel is not claiming responsibility for that it's not saying anything about what happened in syria but these are 2 very senior people who appear to be targeted within a few hours of each other that demands a huge response from islamic jihad there promising a much bigger response than what we've seen in recent months and hamas is also saying that it stands with its its faction its the the other major faction inside gaza and that it will engage in this escalation as well so far though the majority of what we've been seeing has been coming from islamic jihad the israeli military has been talking very much about targeting islamic jihad there might be a strategy there from the israelis to try to separate these 2 entities certainly islamic jihad's rocket fire has left hamas in a difficult position of the time when it's been trying to secure further easing of the restrictions on gaza from israel so the question is whether hamas really

matches its words with actions intent in terms of a big assault of its own and whether that in turn could despite israel's part of stations that it doesn't want to see an escalation whether that could lead to a wider conflict in the coming days. harry for the life worse there on the israel gaza border thanks terry let's talk more about this now with jeremy bob is an intelligence and terrorism legal analyst for the jerusalem post he joins us live via skype now from moore dean in central israel thanks very much for being with us so give us a sense of of the calculations of the israeli security leadership in in this because they targeted assassinations like this we have seen before from from israel but we haven't seen too many of them in recent years because they've often served to to to raise tensions rather than do anything else

so so why is this happening now do you think. so i think it's happening now because from the israeli perspective this didn't start this morning bob a lot has been according to israeli intelligence behind several escalations over the last several months including just last week and basically israeli intelligence considered him the root of the problem maybe if they can remove him from us actually from the perspective as israeli intelligence is more moderate than islamic jihad they're not directly connected to iran right iran has all sorts of things going on with the united states sometimes iran orders exotic see how to make trouble with israel in order to get attention so it would rather deal with hamas and islamic jihad they thought if they can remove this islamic jihad leader from the table maybe there will moderate obviously we're going to have at least a few days of high tension rockets from the gaza side airfix from the israeli side

before we know whether this will blow up into something more or is i suspect i think neither side actually wants a full scale were at this point so if both sides sort of operate according to some unwritten rules about not striking down a certain amount probably after a few days things will settle down as has happened a few times over the last year but what evidence is there to suggest that that strike like this war will make any difference in neutralizing islamic jihad because there's every indication that posts like you like the one that he had will just be filled again in time it'll. well i'm not giving my personal opinion here about whether we're smart or not but i can tell you that according to israeli intelligence they've been in valuating. they've been evaluating yassine water from some os other leaders within islamic jihad the mossad in the shin bet have a fairly good penetration in a lot of different places and they clearly made the decision that even within

islamic jihad and certain is relative that some us taking this person off the table might moderate things and basically they're not satisfied there have been a number of instances over the last year where 500 rockets were shot within a couple of days so far we're up to regret 160 today so this actually isn't as bad as some other things that have happened over the last year from their perspective of this at the end you have to remember there was also rocket fire during the israeli election season so politically this is a big issue both on prime minister netanyahu and ben again by the right right benny gantz netanyahu is challenger right now for the government of these 2 who's going to be the prime minister or rotation and benny gantz also just a few days ago called for a return to his ass nation so there is political wide political support in israel for this kind of an action whether it will succeed or not and getting islamic jihad to back off that's any and nobody knows that we'll see soon good to get your viewpoint on they say you and i jamey bob thanks so much for being with us and you

now move sad that is professor of political science science at a university he says the attacks could prompt days of fighting. this is the most serious escalation over the past 6 months. in terms of its intensity until this moment the last time israel launched an escalation against gaza was mid may of this year but it does also as it was reported by your correspondent in jerusalem that this is the fair start it assassination by israel in 5 years since the as wedo offensive against gaza and the summit of 24000 since that time is where refrained from killing palestinian commanders or palestinian militants and this is the 1st time israel has approved the s.s. a nation of a top military commander here in the gaza strip which opens the door for further

escalation between israel and the palestinian resistance in the coming few hours and days in hong kong police fired tear gas to force back hundreds of protesters targeting the city's major universities more demonstrations continue in the central business district they are burning ties in clashing with police demonstrations started in june against the plan to allow extradition of people to mainland china that bill has now been withdrawn but activists are demanding greater democracy and police accountability in hong kong would be ago pollen is covering this story for us from hong kong in. she joins us live now with more on. what's the situation where you are right now. that's right 6 going to have fill you in on what's happening a chinese the chinese university of hong kong i believe. you've been showing

pictures of the clashes between protesters and police there many because they are students and they're wearing the customary gas masks and part has earlier of yars ago they were soaring petrol bombs physically tried to advance to the campus retaliated with tear gas 'd and the university vice chancellor even tried to intervene and was also tear gas i've been attending dialogue between. the representatives to try and quell the unrest there it started earlier in the day when police accused sudanese of throwing bricks from a bridge that connects the university to the train station on 2. tracks to try and take part in what's being called a general day of strike in the hong kong they tried to breach the campus grounds today and said they had no right to be on campus and it just escalated throughout the day with clashes between protesters and police now going in late into the night

it seems there is so much anger on both sides and police have fired water cannon into campus now with the blues i often use they can identify the protesters. students being always standing their ground and have sent out a call on. social media and online opting for reinforcements for more support and the numbers have been growing so it seems like the standoff will continue at that chinese university. and of course to these protests a big going on for several months now it all started with that extradition bill. to allow the hong kong government to extra action by suspects to china that's what that's what triggered all of this and even though that's been shelved now this is become something much larger doesn't and this is all about hong kong's place in the whole government of china and their relationship with with beijing

absolutely has and it is this has become much much bigger than that one issue that started all these protests this is not about hong kong. maintaining its autonomy on comforting it's trying to maintain its freedom of speech freedom of expression and now it's also served in a different direction with many protesters along with their calls to sample a phone call met with hong kong and for democracy now calling for investigation into police brutality they say the police response to the protests particularly the earlier peaceful protests were disproportionate they used. x. excessive force against them and so those are the causes that we have been seeing recently with the young protesters out on the people at the moment much of home kong. it's under gridlock with the many areas that hong kong. having

brought a traffic being brought to censor by the protesters the set up blockade in many different areas that playing the cat and mouse chase we've seen the please please is bursting the protesters with tear gas and even rubber bullets because that's running to another area and setting up located so this looks like it's set to consume you. not because there's a vote to set fire to police family here and even a train so it seems like those initial post a sudden vishal call that a rallying call for democracy is now moving into a completely different phase where protesters are calling now on the government is to hear their calls yet not really making room for dialogue for this to happen and so what we're seeing is calling once again as a city. in almost a stranglehold of these protesters on one side and the government on the other side and then you have the police trying to take action against the protesters to quell

them and instead they react with even more aggression giving appalling life for us there in hong kong on the phone thanks so much to you plenty more ahead on this news out i'm scared all the time it doesn't matter word go. she's one of 800000 foreign students hoping the u.s. supreme court reverses donald trump's decision to kick them out of the country. to college professors in exchange for 3 taliban leaders a prisoner swap arranged by the afghan government more on that later. and in sports our china ease changing its foreign policy in a bid to qualify for the next football world cup.

so all are still ahead but 1st spain's acting prime minister has made a deal to try and form a government pedro sanchez a socialist got the most votes in sunday's election but not enough for a majority now sanchez has signed a coalition deal with the far left party you need a spa day most it was the 2nd general election this year and though the socialists got the most votes a far right party also increased its share of the votes we need is live for us now from care only france spain border so 1st of all announcement are we any closer to breaking the stalemate in spanish politics that it's been in place now for the last 2 years. i think we're rather at the beginning of the road. to breakthrough there are several steps that need to happen 1st no actually of this coalition will be able to go ahead as it is now so this

deal between the socialist and put it was the 1st step is largely ceremonial a sense that the king has to. tell. the difference. try to form a government then. to go to parliament and ask them to vote on this. it's also includes. trying to solve the catalan issue they need to get an outright majority of a 176 votes at the moment between the 2 parties i have a 100 and 58th seed so they need this too short of nearly 2018 seats if they get the 100 votes i'm getting confused here if they get the 176 votes parliament then they can go ahead but that's very unlikely so at that stage they will have to do some horse trading tried to bring other far does avoid the best

parties could be won but they only have 7 seats there was still the shores of seats and that there are votes rather and at that point they will have to maybe they will have to reach out to at least one of the gro independents catalan parties maybe this square or really care now which is more leftist bartie but they would not never agree to any to give their weight judas' coalition unless they get something in return so we're just at the beginning of something that could lead to a breakthrough but there's a lot of negotiations that need to happen to other of deals that need to happen. some things to do watch unfold really is just to read the beginning yet what's the situation where you are right now ina catalonia you're likely to need to come down there thanks to the coalition agreement. well i think it's add those think that the 2 necessarily linked at this stage we are in

they chew of this 3 days of civil disobedience campaign called upon by the democratic tsunami here where you can see behind me you have the police. cordoning off the protesters who are trying to block a roundabout that leads to the main highway they have been pushed back but the democratic tsunami has just announced that shortly in less than half an hour they will announce the further actions for the rest of the day and the day and tomorrow and we also heard from another pro independence group that said that starting $830.00 g.m.t. which is $1030.00 local they would block all the engine says lead to barcelona so certainly the action on the ground this street protesters street pressure is ongoing at the moment we haven't heard anything from the captain and leaders themselves as as of yet but this time that action is certainly good on go

regardless of what kind of political deals are happening in madrid all right hala gorani live for us there in lahore in spain now for more bolivian president evo morales is on his way to mexico after the government there offered him asylum resigned on sunday after we surprised test following his disputed reelection the country left behind is bracing though full move violently as thousands of his supporters marched towards the capital dollars as promised to return to believe year 2 in his words with strength and energy john homan is in mexico city where morales is due to land. the mets can foreign minister described a night of negotiations really to get ex president morales out of bolivia and through other countries in latin america's airspace to try and get him to mexico

he said that they had to negotiate with paraguayan we perused with ecuador with brazil to try and get him through their airspace and yet she described quite a tense situation when president riley's was actually picked up he said that they finally got permission to go into bolivia to land and to get him they got ex-president moralise in the plane and then the plane wasn't allowed to take off so they had armed forces within the airport within the airfield x. president morales his supporters outside of the airfield and the plane just stuck on the runway with ever more ali's inside and he said that that was a very tense moment so it's been a long night really for mexico's foreign ministry and probably also for several more rallies he was actually honest as well in the press briefing about how this might affect the relationship of mets cope with the united states and what he said was we were each have our own ideas about how to do for our foreign

relations he said that the key to the relationship was not submission but respect and he was saying all of that because for mexico this is a coup the president really has been pushed out after the military asking him or saying publicly that he should leave for the united states this is a welcome transition after what they feel was a fraudulent election. where does bolivia go from here where marianna sanchez is live for us from the capital so marianna in the power vacuum left behind by morales it is the 2nd day there without a clear picture of just who is in charge do we know anything about whether an interim president will be sworn in today. that is the big question today legislators from the opposition are calling on other levels later. later on. where is.

the 2nd vice. president who is the one in line to take the presidency as an interim president other officials resign now it is very difficult to know if it will be in fact possible because. where haroon. they need an absolute majority now 2 thirds of the chamber is composed by members of the mouse party the parties at. least that's where he's still the chief and members of the party have been saying that their legislators should resign some politicians are saying. opposition politicians are saying that this is legal it is legitimate and it is mandatory. it's unclear if they will in fact attend the session some politicians are saying that many of them will that they've been

talking to. party legislators but the situation is still unclear there is a vacuum that continues the political disability the fear continues. it will more or less left to requesting asylum in mexico he thanked mexico for protecting his life and city he was her to leave for political reasons was. what alice was departing thousands protested on the streets of us. at the national assembly an emergency meeting of the senate's 3rd vice president jenny agreed to be sworn in as into repress it and to fill the power vacuum. the news is likely to be sworn in on tuesday if members of what i list is party field a quorum she said the country must move forward will any of you get that we have a timetable to have a new president by the 22nd of january. opposition legislators and politicians hope

the call for elections will help restore stability in the andean nation. backed by regional allies like un when a sweet little moralist characterized his downfall as a result of a coup d'etat. but the opposition rejected the allegations are not. and this moment of process this shouldn't be political colors official or opposition there is an institutional responsibility to respond to the events we are facing. many critics of morales say the electoral fraud should be the focus of this political crisis. but model is his supporters are out in the streets they say the military pushed him out and they want to bring him back here in the center of the past tensions continue with police reinforcing barricades to prevent protesters to reach the president's a palace the violence turned up a notch in the past businesses were wrecked political and civic leaders attacked

and homes and buses were set on fire the army chief has ordered troops to be deployed in the capital to rein in what he called groups of vandals the capital remains nearly shut down schools and businesses. closed international flights canceled fear the tensions may rise. will pray now this is enough division we're all brothers. but today are more divided than ever the 1st indigenous president has left suspected of committing electoral fraud the country is in turmoil but what i was promised to return with more energy and strength. with the situation here in the past is much more calmer than the previous 2 days however in the field a lot of which is higher up in the mountain where the airport is there are still a lot of tents a lot of tension being built there there are roadblocks still it's very difficult

to move around however the situation throughout the night has been much calmer in the past after the army joined the police it but trolling the 15th that is after the police commander. of the. violent protests. here continue and the big question that looms over. charged how some might in ascension is live for us there in marion. all right still ahead when we come back. i'm out in. the west drought in yaz rain just say she might not make it. plus we're in the democratic republic of congo for an exclusive look at a unique campaign to stop the spread of be a bowl of virus. then later in spore one of canada's most famous hockey broadcasters is fired for his on air comments about immigrants.

had of the season is changing we've had some significant rain in many parts of the levant and iran the still rain and more likely story of course you know afghanistan and although for the time being looks fine of the levant $27.00 in beirut still 20 in ankara there is developing now on account of the storm in the central mediterranean she's going to throw rain out towards turkey cyprus lebanon process northern syria in the next 24 hours or so and the temperatures dropping in toronto as a northerly rees comes down through the caspian probably prompting a shower or 2 in the southern coast start that different further subsidy in iraq baghdad's about 28 we've had a spell of rain in the u.a.e. which indicates a change in season now it's dry and stop tickly hot 20 is

a max in doha 21 in sun i was sunshine in the sky where us in southern africa as you might expect there has been some pretty active weather reason the decent rain and thunderstorms in this seasonal line here all of across around the tall in the suit too in the last 20 or asked typically 5060 millimeters of rain much wanted and caught and you know to developing storm system here just south of cape town the picture on wednesday is still we want to keep moving further east.

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hello again you're watching are just a reminder of our top stories this hour 5 people including a palestinian islamic jihad come on there have been killed and at least 30 injured in israeli airstrikes on gaza the targeted killing of a lot triggered a wave of rocket attacks from rebel fighters israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the security cabinet approved a strike 10 days ago. in hong kong police of 5 tear gas to force back hundreds of protesters targeting major universities and demonstrators burned tires and 4 with police in the business district of central. former. president. is set to arrive in mexico city shortly that's after the government there offered him asylum what are his resigned on sunday after weeks of protests following his disputed reelection. the afghan government says it is releasing 3 senior taliban leaders in exchange for 2 foreign professes american kevin king an

australian timothy weeks were kidnapped outside the american university. in kabul 3 years ago the taliban prisoners include hakani the older brother of the group's deputy leader seized in 2014 president says the decision was made in his words in the interests of the afghan people of phyllis bennis is a fellow at the institute for policy studies she joins us now from washington via skype thanks very much for being with us so what do you make of this of the announcement of this. release what does this do as far as any mediation efforts between the government and the taliban. well i think this is very much at the root of the possibility of this prisoner exchange if it goes through it will be an indication that there have been talks underway between the afghan government and the taliban leadership about the possibility of

a new round of peace talks the talk that were under way until september when they were canceled by president trump will not touch between the government and the taliban there were talks between the u.s. and the taliban the taliban had taken the position that the afghan government is only a puppet as they said of the u.s. and that they insisted on talking to the u.s. directly but what this may mean since it became clear that the u.s. targets that had gone quite a ways towards the possibility of a peace deal. are now being canceled at the at the whim of the u.s. president so they really they may well have realized that it's going to be necessary to engage in direct talks with the afghan government itself if that happens because the prisoners that are to be exchanged are being held in the custody of the afghan government although they're being held in the prison at bagram airport the u.s. control airport officially there under the authority of the afghan government which

would make the decision to release them so that would put the afghan government in a different position where they would be able to engage directly with with the taliban which up until now had refused to talk to them directly similarly until now the afghan government has refused to talk about prisoner exchanges but i think what they're dealing with now is very much looking at who these people are the that the 2 westerners kevin king intimately weeks. who would essentially be what the afghan government gets back on behalf of the united states on behalf of their patrons and the 3 prisoners that that have that the taliban have asked to be released from the custody of the afghan go. raiment are our family members of tough leaders the one that you mentioned and asked hani the younger brother as you said of the the head of the had had a network part of the taliban network but the other 2 as well as rush is the

brother of a member of the taliban's political committee based in qatar that's the group that was carrying out the negotiations with the us and the 3rd had you molly khan is supposedly the uncle of the leader of that accounting network so there are. there are people with with close personal ties to leading forces within the haqqani network of the taliban and so what it means that they're trying hard to get them released or does that what does the afghan president mean then when he says that these taliban members these 3 taliban members are being released in the interests of the afghan people is this the suggestion there is that we really don't want to do this but this is in in in terms of the bigger picture here and trying to to to reach a final settlement with the taliban. i think that's absolutely right i think that the money is is recognizing that there's going to have to be negotiations we've heard it over and over again there is no military solution in afghanistan despite

that every president of the last 3 ministrations every congress has has supported paying troops to be there paying u.s. troops to be there there's now about $14000.00 u.s. troops still in afghanistan so this notion from from president trump that he is somehow ending this endless war simply allied simply not true there's going to have to be negotiations to settle this and the taliban are going to have to be part of it the afghan government's going to have to be part of it hopefully the the main negotiations will be among the afghan parties themselves rather than among the outside forces particularly us that has played a major force in creating the war since 2001 but i think that what the president of afghanistan is saying is we recognize now we're going to have to have negotiations and this may be a start to getting those negotiations on track directly between the afghan government and the taliban and could talk you finish bennis there in washington

thank you. thank you very much and australia firefighters are trying to contain fast moving bushfires across the southeast emergency services there are battling some of the worst conditions in recent memory andrew thomas reports. australia's fire service chiefs have described conditions as catastrophic high temperatures strong winds and dry conditions are making bushfires travel fast and people are being warned to prepare themselves for evacuate complacency kills we cannot afford for people be complacent the fact that the catastrophic writing is the that's that's the highest level risk of all about dozens of fires a blazing in the state of new south wales and there are more in queensland to the north and in western australia and many have come close to cities this one just 18 kilometers northwest of sydney's famous harbor bridge but firefighters were able

to contain it got home from work and then heard sirens ok up front were 345 trucks on the straight line of cars the trees. everyone was running around like mad and other fires took hold in sydney's western suburbs baseball fighters are hosing down the last of the smoldering trees here but authorities are saying that this is the exception rather than the rule in these catastrophic conditions they can't hope to get on top of every fire. emergency alert have been issued some by phone and some people warned it was too late to leave their homes and they were safe inside although that doesn't mean it's safe for. many fires are out of control and with more strong winds and high temperatures forecast for the end of this week they're likely to spread. al-jazeera sydney. the u.k.'s labor

party says it has been targeted by a cyber attack. just weeks before the country's general election the opposition party's web site was hit by a short lived attack designed to overwhelm the domain and take it offline labor leader jeremy corbyn says it was in his words a very serious attack or no information was stolen paul brennan has more from london labor staffers started reporting that their computer systems were operating very slowly on tuesday afternoon and that problem persisted through tuesday evening and overnight and what's now been established is that the labor party computer system that's not just the website but also the internal party systems for campaigning have been targeted by the dos attack a distributed denial of service attack as you say essentially that's a bot or bots plural which bombard the website or the computer system with information and with web requests such as the system itself then slows to a crawl or perhaps even freezes altogether it's not an attempt to hack into the

system simply to prevent the system working as smoothly as it should now let jeremy corbin's been out on the campaign trail up in northern england today and he mentioned it as part of his speech and he said this follows if this is a sign of things to come in this election i feel very nervous about it's because a cyber attack against a political party in an election is suspicious something one is very worried about that said the national cyber security center that i've spoken to the smalling categorize this is a rather low level attack certainly not evidence of state sponsored activity but the very act the very fact that the political party has been targeted in this way at this time is cause for concern. the u.s. supreme court is hearing 2 cases related to president trump's crackdown on immigration justices will hear arguments to decide whether trump's decision to cancel the so-called doco program that affected $700000.00 people was lawful the

obama era law prevented the deportation of undocumented migrants who came to the u.s. illegally as children separately the court will hear the case of a 15 year old boy killed in mexico by a bullet fired across the border by a u.s. patrol agent in texas 9 years ago judges will rule if sergio hernandez parents can sue the border agent for their son's death the verdicts for these cases are expected in june next year i do you know castro is outside the supremes court in washington. these are young undocumented immigrants who were educated in the united states many have college degrees and some have even served honorably in the u.s. military in 2012 president rock obama gave them the opportunity to come out of the shadows by offering them temporary protection from before haitian and work permit but after president trump took trump took office he tried to rescind the government

program known as darpa however a lower court has been siding with these young immigrants saying that they do offer a significant contribution to the country and in fact holding shows that the american public has sympathy for dr recipients as well president trump has gone back and forth on the matter at times saying that he wants to help utilize the status of these young immigrants but this morning on twitter having only harsh words writing many of the people in dhaka no longer very young are far from angels some are very tough hardened criminals in fact none of the darker recipients have serious criminal records that's a factor that would have disqualified them from the government program in the 1st. and now he's hosting 8 100000 young immigrants are taking their fight to the u.s. supreme court. a former u.s. president jimmy carter is recovering from surgery are getting admitted to hospital

in atlanta the procedure for the 95 year old was to relieve pressure on his brain from briefly bleeding after a series of falls he served as u.s. president from 1987 to 981 carter spent time in hospital in october after falling and fracturing his pelvis a doctors in the democratic republic of congo have told the new zealand they hope to reduce the number of ebola cases to 0 by the end of this year and more than 2000 people including dozens of health care workers have died since the latest outbreak began last year catherine sawyer reports now from where the 1st case was diagnosed . i seem about to take what is what is known as an airball a contact trace off from the north eastern city of beni in the democratic republic of congo she looks for people who have come in contact with a ball of patience and mourn and has their health for $21.00 days but that was fast

morning stop is the home of a woman whose they died of the disease this month and then another neighbor where tended the burial this is not an easy job well you know if you go in and out sometimes people are hostile others go into hiding or don't get the proper address but we explain to them that what we're doing is for their own good the number of people becoming sick has reduced in alban towns and cities like benny but doctors are still struggling to contain the disease in the villages father out as we head to monkey in a town the number of stops on the road for people to wash their hands and have the temperature checked tells us approaching ground 0 it's in villages in this area where the fast cases of the fall of i discovered nearly a year and a half ago. lost 13 relatives including his mother and we a moment why out got sick 1st relatives nursed her until she died when we buried her and that's how more people got sick. some communities have been hostile to

health visitors resisting attempts to get help several treatment centers and thousands of health workers have been attacked educating people about the airball issue is a big priority. for a lot of well loved her family here ever like their one time they're not getting on my nerves and the reason i heard that you hear you read the memo on how to deal with them or not respond is all to working in volatile areas where rebel fighters ambush villages at will while health organization officials say despite this problems they're hoping to have 0 a bullet cases by the end of the 2 is important to make sure the suggestion. is under control. the challenge is 1000000 thermal security but also making sure that you don't have. big cities.

at the market in beni as kitty's performed simulating a death and safe burial it's a serious story told in a simple way the performers hope it will drive the point home that it is real and dangerous can be treated if detected early catherine soy al jazeera mangina eastern democratic republic of congo. hundreds of animals in zimbabwe's national park have died from a severe drought with many others struggling to survive ranges plan to move some to areas where there is food and water how much are such travel to mana pools national park to find out more and a warning some of the images in this report may be disturbing. she's thirsty hungry and too weak to get up. cold water is poured on her to try and cool her down but the animal is too far gone 24 hours later she's dead is

the dry season in zimbabwe but park officials say this year it's much hotter and drier than usual hundreds of elephants and other animals are dying. we've been through some pretty bad ones. when you see animals just walk here alone and elephants for example and they just collapse on their legs or really roll over they just collapse and die. it's very emotional. this is monopoles national park a unesco world heritage site in the north people here say the land is completely changed this is long haul the biggest watering hole in the national park this is distinct smell the smell of death over here is the carcass of an elephant and over there that hippo got stuck in the mud it couldn't get out for days and then died and if you look up at this tree over here there's that white line you can see there that's where the water used to reach but now the area is parched temperatures can

reach more than 45 degree celsius and even the fish are struggling there are too many animals competing for scarce food and water and many are exhausted. volunteers from the feed mana program bring in food when they can including fuel that's in short supply it cost around $2.00 and a half 1000 u.s. dollars per truckload that's a lot of money in zimbabwe when the rain starts again it's going to take some time for areas devastated by the drought to recover park officials say that's why they're planning the biggest relocation of animals in the country's history reforming elephant zones in the country not waste much a 1000000000 which is a puzzle game artists broke. those 4 to populate it over to the publishing. them. with the project that we are going to where we have.

hundreds of eleven's to the northern parts of the country predators and scavengers seem to be thriving in these harsh conditions the more animals die the more food they have although the parks are government owned they receive no government funding those working here raise funds through tourism and safaris and by selling some animals to zoos abroad. to help. them. struggle to stay top of world.

oh it's good old sport now his empty thanks so much as manchester city forward range sterling has been dropped from the england squad after he was involved in a fight with liverpool defender joe gomez the incidents what happened at the england training camp a day after the pack clash jurymen city's 31 defeat at liverpool in the english premier league in the manager gareth southgate vents at the decisions of drop sterling from the euro 2020 qualify with months and i go on thursday the forward has now issued a public apology to go as far instagram in which he said both joe and i have had words and figured things out and moved on we're in

a sport where emotions run high and i'm man enough to admit when emotions got the better of me. what has been will be sorry a busy week of euro 2020 qualifiers a vital much coming out the defending champions portugal in their caps and christiane are in eldar they host. the 82nd in group b. right now 8 points behind leaders ukraine. now china is planning to naturalize more foreign footballers as they try to qualify for the 2022 world cup and possibly host the tournament in 2032 foreign born players have already made it into the national saying fans are divided about whether using outside talents is the right way to go for as louis reports from beijing. born in london playing for a team in beijing not unusual in an age when buying and selling players has become the norm among football clubs but nicole yen arist is also the 1st foreign born footballer to represent china that's as the country steams ahead with its addition

to become a force in world football. chinese president xi jinping has said he wants to china to not only host the world cup i but one day to lift the trophy i the national team has a long way to go china's only world cup appearance was in 2002 i but the move to grant citizenship to foreigners as a way to lift standards has divided fans * are those out there by the way if all the players on the pitch a match for lies isn't a real chinese political team look at allison does he have any chinese blood he has nothing to do with china nothing at all the more because. it could encourage competition whoever is the better footballer should get to play this will force local players to compete it's a good thing. it's a sensitive topic football officials turned down al-jazeera is request to speak to foreign born players the rising number of foreigners in football clubs here in

recent years has led to the chinese football association introducing a quota. teams in the chinese super league only allowed to buy for foreign players and only 3 are allowed on the pitch at any one time during a match a move seen as a way to ensure chinese footballers get enough playing time. china doesn't have a strong football culture but it's trying to change that football academies have sprung up across the country clubs have set up more youth teams this one in beijing has 5. my dreams to play for beijing then china's national team maybe one day i can play major league europe too until china's homegrown talent is ready to shine on the world stage it's happy to look abroad florence louis al-jazeera. one of the most star recognizable things in canadian hockey commentator don cherry has been fired following on

a comments about immigrants people love you come here whatever it is you love our way of life your logo or mark and honey at least you could pay a couple of bucks for poppies or something like that. well the 85 year olds run their focusing on his belief that he rarely sees people he believes to be immigrants were in poppy's on remembrance day in canada the n.h.l. called his remarks offensive the president says his now former employer sportsnet said following further discussions with don cherry after saturday night's broadcast it's been decided it's the right time for him to immediately step down during the broadcast to make divisive remarks that do not represent our values or what we stand for. tennis now and roger federer is in action at the a.t.p. finals in london after losing his 1st match his dominant team federer has just beaten matter of seanie in straight sets to keep his semifinal hopes alive have a joke about is the day's other match on monday rafa nadal had a setback in his efforts to hold on to the world number one ranking he lost his opening match in london the spaniard thrashed by the defending champion alexander's

verified never beaten him in 5 previous matches and els been struggling with injury hasn't finished the tournament since winning the u.s. open in all this was further on good after the match when asked if he'd been distracted by his recent marriage. the big surprise for me us made is after being with the same girl for 15 years and having a very stable and normal life doesn't matter if you put the ring on your finger or not. in my in my personal way i am in a very normal guy maybe for you was it the how many years you have been with you. and before that after maybe you are not sure that's way. not a happy man ok that is how your school is looking for now all right thanks andy and that is it for this news hour but i'm back in a couple minutes with more of the day's news stay with.

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al-jazeera. where ever you. i. top come on the palestinian armed group islamic jihad is killed in gaza israel's prime minister says the strike was approved by the security cabinet 10 days ago. and hasn't seek it this is live from doha also coming up police in hong kong warn the city is on the brink of a total breakdown universities become the new battleground between protesters and security forces. but libya's now former president abel morales.