with the listening post on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello welcome to the news hour live from doha with 60 minutes of international news demanding better protection a deadly new attack reported in the democratic republic of congo as crowds rally against the u.n. . a rare concession the saudi led coalition fighting yemen's sooty rebels says it will allow the sutta airport to be reopened. farmers frustration how they've taken a protest against the french government's policies to the heart of the capital.

port marches the city that has become the richest sports group in the world as the deal values them almost fall or even $1000000000.00. there's been another rebel attack in the eastern democratic republic of congo as anger grows against un peacekeepers and security forces for failing to protect civilians at least 15 people are confirmed dead after the allied democratic forces went into a village near now the a.d.f. were already blamed for killing 8 civilians several days ago that triggered mass protests which are now into the 3rd day against un peacekeepers in congolese forces earlier on wednesday residents of benny bartz with the body of a protester who was killed during confrontation with security forces now the anger has spread across several. cities including go another way police fired tear gas to

break up demonstrators the u.n. now says it has received evidence its troops might have shot and killed a protester when crowds attacked by going to go to catherine so we're now who joins us live from going to take us through 1st of all. about this attack catherine take us through the details what do you know about understand what took place there . well what we're hearing is that this attack happened early in the morning in this area called about 30 kilometers from beni town but it is within that wider venue region so this attack came to this village with machetes. the military congolese military has confirmed that this attack belonged to this group called a.d.f. that you mentioned we're also hearing from officials from the main hospital. that

15 bodies have been taken to the morgue they're badly mutilated some of these bodies had been decapitated as well and this stand just goes to amplify what we've been talking about all day and the prostrations that are being raised by people in beni. you know all these killings all these attacks that are happening when they're really the ongoing offensive against the a.d.f. by government troops when the president on monday also arise a joint operation joint you when. you when you end government troops operation against a.d.f. and it's also important to note in the last 3 weeks the offensive against the government started last month in the last 3 weeks of being told about 1000 people have been killed so people invent justifiably they are very angry because in the u.n. is not protecting them the government is not protecting them they've been chanting saying that if you cannot protect us leave us to protect ourselves it's just it is

not that the u.n. is just not protecting them but now there appears to be evidence that a u.n. team shortened to one of the protesters what do you tell us about that investigation. well we have just spoken to a spoke the spokesperson of morning school at the u.n. mission a messiah skillman who confirms that this investigation is going on he said are they investigating this evidence that a peacekeeper on tuesday shot artist a protester who has died but he also says they're also investigating reports that these protesters are actually up tempted to hurl a petrol bomb at the peacekeepers so that's where the investigation is that it's going on he said that very soon they're going to have more information on what they have gathered asking people to maintain some calm for the situation to be contained

they say yes they understand the frustrations of the people of money in what is going on but also with the security situation small volatile it's just going to be complicated father if people start are talking the u.n. but stan the people of benny are very angry they're saying that this has been going on for years a.d.f. is this really is this one of the oldest rebel groups in the r.c.c. but then it's very little known we don't know who's finding them we don't know what their membership is or what the structure is or even what they're fighting for really it started in uganda where they were fighting for religious inclusion but that has since changed in there been a lot of operations against the group over the years but people are seeing fight is still coming out and killing them so they're saying what's going on we need this to change right now. thank you katherine most catherine was just saying there is this u.n. investigation now into a peacekeeper shooting did one of the protesters let's discuss this further with

francois greene your who is the deputy special representative at the u.n. mission in the d c and he joins us now from benny via skype it's good to have you with us i want to go 1st of all to this investigation into the u.n. peacekeeper can you tell us any more can you confirm now that in fact a peacekeeper it did shoot did one of the protesters. yeah that's a report that we have is one of our peacekeepers showed that a protester was throwing molotov cocktails at them at the peacekeepers so we are still in the process of very trying all the facts and fact checking the ripples we have received but this is indeed the circumstances that we understand took place yesterday this is very different to what the u.n. was saying just 24 hours earlier because the u.n. had been denying that any of its any of its peacekeepers had fired on the protesters it was denying that any live rounds were used and now you're telling me

that yes one of the peacekeepers did shoot dead one of the protesters why are we getting mixed signals here. i don't think you're receiving mixed signals i think we are sharing information as we are ourselves updating you know the facts and confirming what's happening very very strict orders are being given to the peacekeepers to our troops not to use lethal weapons against protectors but they are facing and they were facing yesterday a very difficult situation so we established you know that an incident did happen that there was indeed a shoot out and one of our peacekeepers shot a protester. throwing a lot of cocktail so this is you know we are updating the information and we haven't we i immediately looking into an investigation to check exactly whether the rules of engagement were followed appropriately and what happened but you need to

understand that we have and counters with very angry crowds and while we have demonstrators who are you know very emotional about the killings taking place against civilians it seems that fuel groups have also been many police to aggressively attack and it's consistent with a campaign of disinformation and lies which are spreading on social media about the activities of the mission. and he says in difficult situations we are facing you would understand too would you say that now you're telling me that the un peacekeepers shot dead one of the protestors this goes precisely to the anger that we're seeing among the people of benny who are saying that the u.n. is not protecting them so what is going wrong here. what is going wrong is that we're in a situation where the mission is used as keep good for explaining and answering the anger and despair of the civilian population you referred earlier on to

a very you know there's not any incidents whereby another 13 civilians were killed in iraq chiefly you know distant area out of show in the northern part of the binney area i'm here i came here following the meeting between the president president has a kitty an hour special representative to be able to work together with the national army with the police to strengthen our security set up to increase protection on civilians this is the only way that we are going to make progress and i would see counter these current wave of violence disease by working together and working with the population to be able to prevent you know these offenses there is no other way so indeed it's very unfortunate and quite dramatic that this incident took place you know we are going to look into it we are going to look into the precise circumstances and we need to confirm every detail interview all the actors but at this point i'm a see what we need to do is we need to change these dynamic n.

re store dialogue and the requirement is really for us to be able to you know work with the population to protect them and then to work with the authorities and the national army now this is the biggest un peacekeeping operation in the world you've been there for 2 decades you know it's cold no it's not it's not as among. the biggest among the biggest you've been there for a long period of time you're working with the congolese forces and yet we're still seeing the idea of being able to carry out attacks that carry out attacks just again this day what is the strategy going forward to try to bring security to protect the people and be able to deal with the i.d.f. which is still able as i say to carry out attacks almost on a daily basis. the idea of brings together different criminal gangs which are all the nice to control trafficking their rocket hearing the population some of them

mind the forest but they have networks of support outside the forest into the towns and they are really you know a network of criminal gang with a lot of presence are all over the place so it's quite difficult to uproot you know this movement which has been indian present for a long time currently we have had a national offensive against the bases of the a.d.f. in the forest and to undermine these military offensive the attacking civilians and killing civilians in the bases where you have villages and of course trying to. mobilize and you know all among the population against those who are supposed to protect them then those who are working together we defeat r.d.c. to try and change the situation so we are indeed in the middle of a very difficult situation. there is no easy solution and it's not going to happen quickly i'm afraid that you know any quick anybody trying to sell any quick

quick fix will be lying to the population there is no alternative to us working through sleep together with the if in r.d.c. with the national police and with the population to uproot and arrest those who are members of the a.d.f. who are members of the of those criminal gangs and to end their presence in the area of binny once and for all for us appreciate you having a short time on always obviously a very busy day 5th ank you thank you. now the international criminal court has rejected an appeal from the democratic republic of congo's former vice president and rebel leader. of the court uphill the 12 month sentence handed to bend before driving witnesses during his war crimes trial but he won't go to jail having already served 10 years in detention he was acquitted of war crimes in june 28th. an appeal. in north western kenya thousands of people are seeking refuge in

a makeshift shelter after widespread flooding and landslides destroyed their homes at least 65 people have died in the past 3 days with up to 120000 more affected relief teams have been slow to reach the area of west where some roads and bridges remain cut off of the door reports from markets on a village completely destroyed by landslides we are. one of the dissolved truck was pulled. towards whole village all the college shopping center which has largely been destroyed by the landslide and accompanying larding not be here just a few days that will we are. told where the village used to be there was a hollow that all behind me now nothing except the huge rocks that pym tumbling down from the hill behind me the whole area is not owned by field and

it is the landslide and the rocks that came gushing out of the the hill killed most of the people and destroyed the buildings their homes in the house that was just right you know well i am right now 11 people died and all for the 11 who died just 3 the bodies help in the recall but government the rescue workers are yet to reach here because of. the swept away part of the rule. to this part of the.

coalition says it's easing restrictions to allow yemen's main international airport to be partially reopened the sunnah airport has been closed since 2016 the coalition says patients in need of medical care can be flown out with cooperation from the world health organization another airport in the eastern province of had remote has also received its 1st commercial flight in 4 years it was shot in 2015 after al qaeda took over the area on tuesday the saudi u.a.e. coalition said it's released $200.00 fighters in a prisoner swap last week the rebels released 2 south korean and one saudi vessel that they captured along the red sea this comes months after the drone attacks on saudi aramco oil facilities in september which cut its oil production by half with him and civil war has destroyed almost half of its hospitals so the reopening of sana airport is critical for patients in desperate need of help as mohamed explains

from sun. i have talked to senior officers here and but the the the told me that. they have just heard this news about the reopening of this and on to national airport but on the ground there is no complete mation and. many officers are hoping that the international airport will be off and especially for those who need for urgent medical interventions road especially human. a lot of people have died because they haven't been able to travel outside of yemen according to the ministry of health. the report says that over 45000 people have died just. over the past year. a lot over 200000 patients are on the last waiting for the chance to travel

outside yemen. the situation is difficult for those who are in need of. medical interventions outside yemen especially the more than 45 percent of the country's hospitals have been. have been paralyzed because of the war and also because of the direct attacks well it is a visiting professor at the middle east institute at the national university of singapore and he joins us from being now it's good to have you with us i want to get a bigger perspective here on what we might be seeing of course the opening of this airport comes as negotiations and talks have been continuing through the saudis and the truth is does this lead you to think that we are getting to the point where they may be a negotiated settlement to the end of this conflict. thank you very much i think what we have with the saying here is. that the method. that the marquis.

come to a conclusion that there is an old military end of this conflict and i think there have been arts showing all of them going a sign that the only way out is as has always been a peaceful negotiation and i think the illusion that i was in the end what i think now start it will be like that and it started with all directly and before that in directly with the. and it seems that they want to bring the whole conflict to an end this is a conflict that has really caused it. not only yemen in terms of tens of thousands of people killed women and children and. i'm. not full of hot men one of the out of the if you like one of the words got out that's according to the united nations in the region but it's been very costly for the coalition government that is in saudi arabia and the un but so i think now with the and all

with the challenges that facing economically and the need to stop this war and just on that the cost to the saudis and the fatigue that has said he and i'm just wondering to what extent the attacks on the the saudi oil facilities might also have factored into this that as long as this conflict goes on the capacity of the who these to be able to continue the fight and to potentially strike inside saudi arabia have also had to see to these talks. you know you're absolutely right i think not only the wealthy but i would accept sean that they're out of morally silly and then let's initially expected them they thought they were going to be overrun in weeks or months but they have shown that their. children. would be kind of pretty there and we'll see how the outer space they have been. going all of the really giving some devastating to feel like

a lot all of the side of the critical infrastructure and i think it's as you mentioned you know the oil the oil fields and book and the peace. that basically took almost 50 percent of the south with the. reduction of flying and i think the saudis they like that the longer this this conflict continual the more costly and not just in terms of. military confrontation and the cost of flying to intercept the. the attacks in the midst of from the whole the but also there are going to live for us the. thought to be exposed and or the aunts and all the spending that they have done in the past by you know you out of that and out of. them in this regard professor appreciate your analysis thank you so much for joining us what's what thank you for ya nigga

lindy's the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council which has been working in yemen for 7 years t. says it's a long road ahead to fix yemen's medical system destroyed by the war. this is a rare glimpse of hope in a in a desperate war situation. for years we've asked for airport to be reopened for these medical flights but also for other commercial and civilian flights this is a place where we always had to send patients out of the country because they couldn't care for the worst and most complicated medical treatments then the airport was closed at the same time as the medical systems in yemen lapsed so yes thousands die in unnecessary and for

those who opens over but for many patients there is now hope that they can get abroad and get treatment world health organization will now be coordinating this with the government of yemen and i hope that this medical efforts will start you know imminently but of course the whole medical system needs to be rebuilt half of hospitals and clinics and so on are inoperable at the moment rescue teams in albania are continuing to dig through rubble searching for survivors in buildings brought down by choose to as powerful earthquake the 6.4 magnitude tremor struck the capital tehran a and cities in the west and north killing at least 26 and injuring more than 600 people the quake is the 2nd to hit the region in 2 months johnson office went to one of the worst hit areas the city of douras and sent us this report. the solution

to this has been the hardest hit because it was closest to the epicenter for us break about 10 miles offshore from here and driving through the city in the liason take you can see that there are many many buildings which were appeared to be to the untrained eye structurally damaged we were just watching a lady who had gone back to her home we could see her through the open hole of her bedroom she was retrieving clothing from the wardrobe trying to. presumably make life a little comfortable for the family here where we're at the to this football stadium if the camera swings over to my right over here you'll see that there is a tent city that is springing up here. with what we have found to be hundreds of families that spent last night and presumably will spend tonight here as well because the look of inspecting homes to certify whether they are safe to return to

is ongoing they are hoping that the municipality will be sending engineers to the houses today. that is well the day is going to be spent on here people are going to be going back to their homes retrieving things waiting for inspectors and engineers hoping that tonight perhaps they can spend spend the night in tools. this is a big issue in the next 24 hours because tonight there is a rainfall cost and all day tomorrow life is going to be very difficult in this tent city off of that shelter up to stay in albania preliminary results from guinea-bissau selection shows president joseph mario has lost the race he's to form a prime minister is now the contenders for the 2nd round runoff domingo samoans pereira took more than 40 percent of the fact that he was fired by vosh in 2015 him our system cohen barlow is in 2nd place with 30 percent and i will face off at the end of december let's go. live now to nicholas in the capital and nicholas is it

fair to say that this result and the poor showing of was not unexpected. indeed it was an unexpected you know because this has been election that has really crucial election for the people of guinea bissau because for the last 5 years under the presidents the. state hasn't really function he hasn't been able to get along with the prime minister and the parliament and that's to do with this constitution of this country in fact the president doesn't have that much power and the president can dismiss and and and nominate a prime minister if the head of the armed forces but it's the prime minister that's the head of the government and the parliament and that prime minister and the parliament has been head of the p g c the main political party in this country and their candidate domingo seamless ran an extra have

a gantt campaign going throughout the country to try to get people to vote for him but unfortunately he didn't get enough votes although he's he won the most number of votes he didn't get over 50 percent of the vote and therefore there will be a 2nd round on december 29th test and you can do stuff let's look at that 2nd round now and he would be in fact. so this debate pereira and in that case who do we know them bring the political stability that people have been telling you that they see today. is that right when everybody wants here is political stability no the people that not just the people who have taken part in this election but also the west african forces that are in this country deployed to ensure that there isn't any military coup or that this election is respected by all and also the united nations stabilizing. mission that

is here in the country but of course is the main contender but there's also tomorrow sissoko the unexpected outsider he calls himself the general of the people and during this campaign the reason why he has garnered so much support is because he left this capital base out and we're now in the countryside where most of the electorate are and over there in the countryside well there's cities that have no running water no electricity town towns where there has there is no schools or no medical field so that these this state is absent who ever will win this election his main job is to not just bring balance to military to this country but also bring back the state to those people that have feel disenfranchised by their political elite stand. for us and to sell thank you for voting is underway in the media in what's expected to be the toughest challenge yet so the ruling party in nearly 3 decades president was among the 1st to cast his ballot his party won the

last election with 80 percent to 87 percent of the vote but his term was plagued by recession the corruption scandal and one of the b.b. is worst droughts which is to choosing a new president and paula. there's lots more ahead on al-jazeera including 7 people handed death sentences for 26 days see on a bangladesh cafe and roll we'll tell you why this 19 year old baseball bat could be worth more than a 1000000 dollars that's coming up in sports. hell out of the eastern med rolls a cloud of them oh it's been quite sparky quite sundry increase in cyprus bits of turkey significant rain but he's turning to weaken now on his way across the levant to the forecast for thursday takes it across to northern iraq to. maybe and

iran then the sunshine follows it's in this direction this is all traveling to start really developing and it's not going south so terence back up to 40 in baghdad at 24 by the time we get to friday as no significant breeze and nothing really happening in the eastern med are that this is true is periodic rain south of this we've seen the change in seasons you know and the northeast once is quite strong as a cloud is building on the coast of amman yemen occasional showers show themselves in the mountains to the west here otherwise it's quiet no significant breeze doha's warmed up riyadh has warmed up but dusty maybe in saudi but not so i don't think around the gulf states in southern africa and now if you watch the seasonal rains they're coming down into northern zimbabwe tanzania but across to angola south of that we've has an awful lot of trouble changing spring into summer is all gone quiet full cost wise $26.00 in cape town $36.00 up in botswana about the same in

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restrictions on yemen's main international airport in sana it's to allow patients in need of medical care to receive treatment abroad the a port has been closed to commercial flights since 2816. preliminary results from guinea purcell's election shows president. bush has lost the race these 2 former prime ministers and now the contenders for the 2nd round runoff next month. the court in bangladesh and sentenced 7 people today think connection with one of south asia's worst attacks 22 people mostly foreigners were killed in the siege of holy artes and cafe in dhaka in 2016 i'd person has been acquitted tanveer child responds why the court proceedings are so swift in this case. one of the most important and sensational court case in bangladesh of history that judge bell it took 20 minutes to hand out the sentence says the public reaction was positive most

people were happy i spoke to one of the relatives he was happy with the outcome his brother was the police officer who was killed on that frightful day those who were sentenced were taken out. by one of the prison vans some of them were shouting and reciting arabic verses one of them was waving out and saying carry 'd on with our causes there was no justice carry on with our cause then went away bangladesh has been very robust in tackling with militancy it has set up a special tribal no code for dealing with terrorism special forces and the police to tackle this since the holy artists on that track over 2 dozen militants were killed in an encounter with law enforcement agencies there is 0 tolerance according to the prime minister and the government in dealing with militancy. the us has reportedly sent teams to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to investigate how american vehicles got into the hands of rebel fighters in yemen

transfers of any military weaponry would be a violation of an agreement with washington the u.a.e. and saudi arabia have looked into the claims and deny any wrongdoing. a new report from amnesty international is accusing egypt of misusing counter-terrorism laws to instead detain peaceful protesters and journalists the rights group says a special security agency comprising of hand-picked judges has tripled its prosecutions since president. sisi time to power now the report says detentions have been renewed for years without evidence or chance to appeal or already have denied these accusations in the past in september security forces arrested thousands during anti-government protests. u.s. media is reporting that president donald trump was aware of

a whistle blower's complaint against him when he on froze military i.d. ukraine trump is facing an impeachment inquiry of allegations he withheld the money to force ukraine into investigating a political rival the new york times says white house lawyers informed trump in august before they told congress the white house correspondent kimberly halkett is in washington d.c. forcing more revelations more problems more confusion it's a verbal reporters and people watch you know it's the gift that keeps on giving. yeah this is that american holiday is the thanksgiving holiday but this is certainly making headlines people certainly talking about this latest revelation that as the new york times is reporting quoting 2 unnamed sources the president only releasing that aid to ukraine that 391000000 after learning of the complaint by the whistleblower essentially being briefed on this whistleblower

complaint in august but not releasing that aide until september now this is significant democrats arguing this just bolsters the case that the president only released this aide because he knew he may be in trouble something that they have been arguing even as republicans say hey what's the problem here release the 8 it's all about the timing and there are more revelations as well namely that the president started withholding that aid we are understanding and learning on july 25th that is a really pivotal day that's the date of that telephone call between the u.s. president and the ukrainian president where it's alleged that the president said he needed a so-called favor according to the transcript released by the white house and this is what the democrats say underscores the president was using at oval office meeting as well as military assistance as leverage to get a investigation into his rival former vice president joe biden now apparently so

concerning was this request to withhold aid that we are told that 2 officials at the office of management and budget that's the o.m.b. as it's called here in the united states they resigned over the incident. something you said this really goes to the heart of this you said that this latest revelation for the democrats is that both his bolsters their case the republicans go look he released the aide nothing to see your peers people brought to thanksgiving and the dust settles for a little while people to mull over these impeachment hearings where do you think the public is fulling in this and what impact is it having overrule i suppose particularly on those rusted on trump's supporters. well that dial has not moved is what you're hearing a lot here in the united states in terms of those who support the president still support him those who are opposed to his presidency still feeling much the same way but that has not stopped democratic momentum they believe that this could change

now that we get to kind of the next stage of things announced on december 4th that the house judiciary committee that's the committee that would draft up articles of impeachment that alleges the president needs to be removed for committing high crimes and misdemeanors they'll be holding their hearing but in the midst of all of this as you point out the president say he has done nothing wrong he says there was never a direct link between security assistance and any sort of investigation he says this is an attempt by democrats to overturn the 2016 u.s. election and prevent his reelection complete thank you kindly help joining us live from washington d.c. . unions and student groups in colombia holding a 2nd nationwide strike in support of antigovernment protests now the rallies which started last week quickly turned violent with several people killed in transit stations destroyed colombians angry about corruption and proposed cuts to minimum wages changes in pensions and taxes go live to alice songs around ph d. now i was with those protesters in bogota tell us what you say just around you

there in the summer. well santa where at the beginning of one of 4 different marches that are paralyzing will look out for a 2nd time that for a 2nd time there's a national strike that is paralyzed here practically by journey out of the country and it's happening in the middle of our week long god run demonstrations as you were saying and your introduction this is something that is president there before don't be a country that is not used to sustain demonstrations like the ones that we've seen not that business was going on riyadh it also being marked up this way if i have a protest that i think all so much. south america this new national strike was called after i go see a show failed because we've got leaders of this right and that the president not at

all behind on tuesday everybody here says that they do want dialogue god whatever they are discussing on the way this dialogue should continue right and the president wants this to be a national conversation to deal with all different sectors of society while the leaders of the strikes are saying that they want peace to be direct conversations with them this is the reason why we're seeing more mobilization and other national strike that a this also has to do with the fact that we see in the last mile and a half days and. they i'm 18 year old who was hit by a project by the police so people are. honoring. a protester that. i think i think the most being drowned out a little bit there. thank you so much fellas are up here to joining us there from bogota a very noisy sing as those protests continue. well there's been

a large explosion at a chemical plant in the us studies of texas a fireball lit up the sky as the plant went up in flames with oranges in forced a mandatory evacuation for people within range of the facility and there have been no reports of any fatalities farmers on tract as a blocking major roads in the french capital paris accusing the government a holding back the industry the 2 main farmers union say international trade agreements have caused unfair competition while policy reforms have filed to boost earnings has also blocked the famous songs of with tractors and by ols of hades as asked about the spoke to some of the farmers who were present at the rally who say they want to take their concerns to the president. well i'm standing outside a all not paris main ring right it's pretty noisy you can probably see those attracted just pausing by me right now normally this road would be busy with 4

lanes of traffic but what's happened is a boy or a truck just the stopped right here they're saying is that traditionally in the post from is was see was you know the back burner for a society they were widely supported pretty broadly cherished yet now that seems to change because they're all environmentalist it was using promise of destroying all the new thing practices using homefront just a side arm of the problem is a saying is that now the image that they obviously more negative one in the french public and simply not because they say they are the ones who are close to nature that the ones who look up to under most things they say that it all any problems with some of the practices they use the conflict in the case because they are under so much pressure because consumers more and more they want more food they want organic food they want everything fall stuff from us to run to pressure to deliver and that they say is simply what they're saying is not that it's unpleasant but

that they're being punished because the consumers more and more they're just trying to get by. opposition labor party leader german corben says he has proof that the u.k.'s health system is for sale in tried talks with the us coburn says a $451.00 page document is evidence prime minister bowler's johnson discussed offering the us access to the n.h.s. johnson has previously denied that allegation by baz promised to safeguard the end . if it wins next month's election. now we know the truth when johnson say's gets dong it's a fraud on the british people this is the reality yes above down to go see a sions n.h.s. is up for sale this election is now a fight for the survival of on national health service britain has more in london

the n.h.s. is a hugely emotive issue in this election because it goes to a fundamental. desire of people i think to have universal health care and the picture with which the n.h.s. is health is enormous 90 percent believe in the founding principles of the n.h.s. in the recent opinion poll that is the pair should be free at the point of contact regardless of the sorry of the ability to pay. question is how to pay for that cap in an intimate where costs are going up the price of drugs is going up and the reality is the conservatives have a very different perspective on that from labor despite that boris johnson the prime minister has been absolutely adamant so far in this election campaign that the n.h.s. is not up for sale you'll remember the leaders' debate that took place so we could go there which he said it was an absolute invention when confronted by jeremy corbyn and some redacted papers an absolute invention that said the n.h.s.

was even on the table he said there are no circumstances in which the government or any conservative government would put the n.h.s. n.h.s. on the table in any trade negotiations fast forward to today and the labor party has issued this 451 unredacted pages of trade minutes dating back about 2 years and 6 rounds of discussions which labor says proves that the n.h.s. does form part of the government's planning if you like. the remote pacific island of pether was the scene of a brutal world war 2 battle involving u.s. and japanese soldiers 75 years old the grim task of identifying and repetitive acting remains continues to need clock has more from pether. some of the sleepy piece of pellet he is almost too much to bad and when you know the story you understand why the 75 years ago this small corner of the pacific was

a small corner of. the marine corps the 1st division he had on the reputation of drawing operations which entailed easy landing. spot battle you'll distribution of good luck was dissipated it was at 8 30 in the morning on september the 15th 1944 when wave after wave of american troops began to pour into the beaches it heavy japanese resistance they were gunning placements at either end of the beach and many us soldiers died but the battle had barely begun. 11000 japanese were facing 18000 u.s. marines and the fighting was intense the island their field was quickly taken by the marines the japanese i didn't found they had this natural ridge that around 3 quarters length of the whole island and its highest point which is where we're at right now is about 100 meters above sea level and within this ridge the japanese forces had honeycombed with hundreds of caves with and for defensive purposes.

the battle to flush the japanese soldiers out raged for weeks hundreds of tons of munitions were used millions of rounds of ammunition. thousands of men died. still today wreckage of war life strewn around the iron and tights rusting where they were blasted to a standstill in the dense forest what's left of a japanese plane a poignant reminder to a dreadful time. the network. tunnels where thousands of japanese soldiers took refuge still there even the drinks bottles that sustain them survive old mess tins and the remains of what looks like part of a gas mask lie scattered their caves like this just honeycombed throughout the ridge where the japanese refuge and eventually the americans just gave up trying to flush them out and eventually they barricaded the japanese in in their thousands

and here they died in the end around 1600 u.s. soldiers died but the toll for the japanese was catastrophic out of $11000.00 only $100.00 survived. still today remains are found and repatriated to japan. but its government to talk. to news. of the deceased is 5 times that you so it's about his dedication common to to make sybase. about $45.00 suits. while funked. to ship out the morial to both sides stunned sentinel on the shores of poland. looking out across the wide expanse of the pacific ocean in memory of the men of 2 countries who died in battle thousands of kilometers from. al-jazeera.

still ahead in sports action from. the world of college boston will be here to explain.

to start a sport now he's found thank you very much the owner of manchester city has agreed to sell a 10 percent stake in his company for $500000000.00 which values damage all those 5000000000 dollars that's a record for a sports group while the abu dhabi controlled city football group is selling to

a u.s. private equity firm their call silver lake and they originally invested in technology but have more recently moved into entertainment investing in things like the u.f.c. we have. a tremendous global organization over 1500 players around the world over 2000 incredible employees we play a little or 2005 and games across on our teams so this is a. this is a huge organization with a footprint in many places around the world. ok let's break down the numbers there are a lot of them as i mentioned cities are in no shape months or is selling a 10 percent stake in city football group for $500000000.00 the deal puts a record value of $4800000000.00 on the group remember shut months or bought man city for just under $200000000.00 back in 2008 and since 2008 they spent one point $7000000000.00 on players and one very successful manager and that's resulted in 4

premier league titles and vats let's have annual revenue of $687000000.00 or for more on this we spoke to sports marketing expert professor simon chadwick. the industry in general is converging with entertainment and so we are beginning to see this in inter linkage between all sports entertainment digital and so what has happened today i think with the silverlink investment is testament to the fact that we're looking at an industry that's going through a process of of rapid transformation it's very closely linked to entertainment to technology to the film and what the new investment should enable city to do is is to move forward much more quickly much more dynamically than many other clubs in the world we're already beginning to see. signs of of what city it is doing reflected in are the clubs so there that the spate of for instance amazon documentaries connected to football clubs so for instance at tottenham hotspur is

evidence that. football is no longer just football it's entertainment it's a source of content for digital platforms but of course for kids i mentioned the city makes the knockout stages of the away for champions league more matches later on when starry buffalo and a host chorus adornment in group f. are winnable to kill top spot for the catalans but they were lucky to get away with the goal of the straw and they last met back in september also in that group into travel to slavia praga defeat for antonio contests men will mean very will be unable to qualify for the last 16 i'm a while it's a pretty simple equation for your gun club european champions liverpool win against napoli means they will go through as group the winners and add to their already busy schedule. it's a tough program of course but it's we don't think about really the fix for this we have an x. and x. weeks a month we think about napoli and after every will see how we do with brighton after

that how do with everton after that bomb of. them before and then got on top that's how it's always a lot to come but. in a moment my only concern is. now listen rico speaking for the 1st time since returning to his role as spain's head coach he had stepped down to care for his 9 year old daughter who subsequently died from cancer his former assistant robert rayner took charge in his absence but was controversially sacked to make way for enrique's return. i am the only reason why marino is not to my staff he came to my house and said he wanted to take charge of the team in the euros and then go back to being my number 2 i understand he's ambitious but for me that's also disloyal and a defect i would not have done that i don't want anybody with these characteristics in my stuff now the southeast asian going start in a philippines on saturday but organizers are having to deal with complaints that

athletes have been forced to sleep on floors and going hungry so mother duggan has more from manila. i don't press conference here in manila organizers in charge coming from the government actually denied that they have been disorderly in their management of the sea games here in the philippines they even said that they will investigate reports that some athletes have suffered food poisoning have been brought to the hospital and there is in adequate food for athletes and members of the changing team from different countries the even went as far as leaving journalists wolf local in international for what they described as exaggeration of reports coming in on social media and in publications but journalists aren't the once reporting it out police themselves have complaining of management and they have they have been asking the government to be sickly fix it as soon as possible specially logistical and managerial operations like organizing hotels hotel rooms

and bus transport system now president of. already said that he wants an investigation into how the scene games is being managed by several factions of his government this isn't the only controversy that has surrounded the sea games last week there has already been an inquiry in the senate about whether the budget allocated and loan for this project is overpriced and whether the funds have been disbursed properly. ok to the n.b.a. now the dallas mavericks. he is human after all he was aiming to make it 5 days running with at least 30 points and 10 assists however the l.a. clippers kept congrats just $22.00 points which isn't bad but it wasn't good enough to win the game a score learner's the top score to 28 for the clippers they won it by 15 to extend their winning streak to 6. but arguably the biggest drama on tuesday came in college basketball.

for the 1st time in nearly 20 years the number one ranked lost at home to a known conference team the stephen f. austin lumberjacks scoring a buzzer beating up to win the game by 2 points ending 150 game high winning straight against non-conference things now about belonging to baseball legend by birth is said to be ocean off a $1000000.00 that was the one ruth used to hit its 500th home run for the new york yankees back in august $929.00 that was 90 years ago ruth was the 1st player ever to achieve the fate when injuring a jersey worn by about $5000000.00 that is all the sport for now have more lighter than worth more now than when he was alive really that's if it is now back in the money with more of the dice.

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indian welfare system so they've become self-sufficient setting up their own businesses and looking for work independently but for some it's not enough. demanding better protection a deadly new attack reported in the democratic republic of congo as crowds rallying against the u.s. . this is al jazeera live also coming up rick concessions the saudi led coalition 5 in yemen sooty rebels says it will allow the airport to be reopened. out of the running of the cells president loses in the 1st round of voting the country plagued by troops. a reminder of war 75.