words fail music speaks. to me about how music film and inspire hope for a better life a.j. selects on al-jazeera. iraqi protesters set fire to the ukrainian constitution this southern city of najaf after another day of deadly demonstrations. there and live from london also coming up as purchase spread in the east and d.l.c. demanding better protection for civilians a brutal rebel attack kills another 19 people. more positive signs from yemen their saudi led coalition says it will allow some flights out of port people who need

medical treatment. and mexico demands urgent talks after president trump says he's working to designate mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups. i know a curfew has been imposed in the iraqi city of najaf off to anti government protests as the iranian consulate and set fire to the building was believed stuff at the consulate were evacuated before the incident meanwhile iraqi security forces have denied reports that 2 protests as were killed in baghdad often live ammunition was used to disperse demonstrations there. joins us on the phone from baghdad so why would why would protest us target to the iranian comes consternation this way. we learned there is a great anger here in the by by these thousands and our government demonstrators 'd

that that very dog is far too beholden to store and powers that among those foreign powers that are exerting too much influence the it's country is the country which is their neighbor and that is the work extraordinary about what happened this evening is that the iranian consulate. younge s. which is the seat of iraq shiite religious authority was attacked this is a shia majority city and the events like government demonstrators there are you know. showcasing their anger about the fact that they believe it is evolving with the dirty too much power in iraq by going in and storming the compound where the iranian embassy is house and it is similar to an attack that happened in early november. in another southern shia majority of city the city of karbala which is

also considered a holy city by the shia and in that incident you had anti-government demonstrators that stormed the iranian conflict there they scaled concrete barriers around the compound they tried to get to the consulate they screamed slogans like karbala it's pretty and we want. so this is a very big signal to the government that there is a growing discontent that iran is far too much present in iraq internal affairs now this again all playing out against the anti-government movement that is growing you see several cities as you mentioned just earlier today you had this report 2 more protesters. were killed of course the government has denied that despite the specter of violence despite the clashes between the happen every time the ego out to tahrir square here in the capital of the epicenter of the anti that statement

the protesters say they're going to continue to come out until they see the government actually responding to their demands and so they feel there will be a complete overhaul of the political system in this country. in time to thank you very much indeed and these 19 people are being killed in a rebel attack and they voted democratic republic of congo this membrane anger and un peace campus hesitating to protect civilians and allied of democratic forces and the nato carried out the don't attack on the town of a recent string of attacks about they as a violent protest against a u.n. conference or hold. another penn state than that bahrain will handle a protest a shot that by a policeman on saturday the policeman was made to killed by an angry mob. they marched through the city with his body in a cost that led to the area where he was shot in the head. of bodies one of 6

people who have been killed since the process started over the weekend people here are angry and their anger is directed to the u.n. peacekeeping mission called one school they blame the peacekeepers for failing to protect them from a tox from an armed group in the area called democratic forces or a.d.f. . the un mission in has also been accused of using excessive force in protest as one of our peacekeepers showed that a protester was throwing molotov cocktails at. the peacekeepers so we are still in the process so very fine old socks and fact checking the ripples we have received in the midst of all this another tragedy happened on our you morning attack by a.d.f. in a village about 30 kilometers from benghazi more than a dozen people to death with machetes some of them

a copy tainted. on the streets of benny is also being felt many kilometers south and north. protestors here have expressed their frustration police have been deployed to keep them from getting too important says this is the. people who have. fired. in the air to the fact that they have 150 people much more all of what is going on in beni they think killing. although the united nations may feel more new might leave the country. they told us no matter what force is used to remove them from the streets they'll keep coming back until the demands of the people of. that. was funny we are tired i come from our

people are being slaughtered the un and our soldiers are there and doing nothing why then all this force is there if not to protect our people and. they finished their protestant a police station. where they paid their last tribute to heed or battle and back in bed me he was buried by family friends and hundreds of other protesters determined to keep the pressure on until the violence stops catherine al-jazeera. rescues in the capital kinshasa searching for bodies after tuesday's flooding which killed at least $39.00 people heavy overnight rains caused landslides and brought a rubbish dump down on top of densely packed housing 2 bridges also collapsed and the road fell into a ravine people in west county are looking for relatives still missing after heavy rain course flooding and landslides there at least 65 people have died in the past 3 days with up to 120000 more affected from the ridge of tomko in the west but

court county my medical reports. the people of time called village in kenya west book called county. mission days after floods and landslides swept away the homes there such and for the bodies of the missing relatives william domi killer is looking for the body of his 5 year old daughter much somebody's gonna i found the body of my son who also died not far from here so i've asked my neighbors to help with the search for my daughter her body is under this rubble the flood some landslide in some cult followed days of torrential rain entire families were wiped out when a vast side of water rocks and mud swept across the village the land that once held their homes is now covered by mud and rocks. lost his entire family down by them a little it's hard to bear the loss of my sister who had just finished school that

day as well as my mother and 2 brothers i'm all alone in the world in all 21 people died in time called 11 bodies have been recovered the rest are still missing. william capello is yet to find the bodies of 7 of his 9 children who died began you know with my appeal to the government is to help me raise and educate my only remaining son life will never be the same for us we also need machinery to move these rocks to check if there might be anybody's underneath. but government rescue workers are yet to reach this far flung village they've been hampered by the traditional rain and floods swept away bridges and grooves in was the court that tried to do that took place here as part of a grim picture affecting many parts of west cork county and with continued rainfall there is the possibility of water repeats government officials have been appealing to people to move to safer ground but the people of this village say they can't do that until they find the bodies of their loved ones local say the last disaster

that witnessed on the ground and for the most of life. we need the government to carry out some conservation work deforestation over farming has made the soil prone to sliding most survivors in time call have sought shelter in the local charge others have chosen to live in the open not sure when if ever their lives come to return to and its sense of normality. tom call in north western kenya a saturday night coalition says it will start easing restrictions on yemeni aspace so that people who need medical treatment can fly out of the capital sanaa airport has been closed to commercial flights since 2016 a spokesman for the coalition said flights out of rebel house and i will be operated in cooperation with the world health organization the coalition has also released $200.00 hoofy rebels to support peace efforts aimed at ending nearly 5

years of war i meant a lot of has more than stellar when and many people are in desperate need of medical assistance abroad. i have talked to senior officers here and the son are but the the told me that they have heard they have just heard this news about the reopening of the santa national airport but on the ground there is no complete mation and that the. many officers are hoping that the international airport will be open especially for those who are in need for urgent medical interventions. 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. its report says that over 45000 people have died just. over the past year and the 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 for. 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 at least 15 people including 8 children have been killed after their car hit a landmine in afghanistan and the families were on their way to a wedding when the roadside bomb was treated no one has claimed responsibility for the attack in the northern province of can do is that the taliban have been blamed . still to come on al-jazeera rescue workers in albania race to find more survivors from tuesday's deadly earthquake. and celebrations in guinea-bissau where 2 former prime ministers are thought to be

a through to the election runoff but not the president to find them. hello there we have had some much needed rain in 2 more eastern sections of new south wales it is not caring out of the picture because cooled the ad down somewhat as well however there was a downside and this is it looks some pretty strong winds away that these storms that actually came through so a lot of damage was done trees being brought down. some homes damaged as well so the care process is fairly wide this is actually gold in the suburb of sydney so as i say the storm has passed through it ok skies not. 25 in sydney not too bad in brisbane either 29 may be just a chance for showers across into melbourne is still very warm out into western australia that you want to stay in a bit cooler on friday 29 degrees celsius need while we've got quite

a bit of cloud working its way through the interior and that'll keep the time which is down into melbourne to get just a chance of a shower there all the time which is a real high so if you washington 29 on thursday not that warm up into all clear but there's quite a dramatic cooldown when some because we're going to front sliding through that could be a few showers but in the wake of that just 19 degrees celsius but that shouldn't feel too bad compared to a japan over the next few days a distinct very wintry mix and as you can see on friday just single figures in tokyo at 9 celsius. as flames engulfed the world watched in horror but behind the smoke screen a marquee gold is devouring the forest and its inhabitants killing pull the person police standing up on differently before back elian send some message to everybody

in the community fold lines meet those on the front line of defending their environment and. to keep the flames in both scenarios brazil. on al-jazeera. and again you're one of the top stories and there are a curfew has been imposed in the iraqi city of najaf after anti-government protesters stormed the iranian consulate and set fire to the building it's pretty of staff were evacuated from the concert before the incident. as i know growers in the eastern democratic republic of congo over the un's failure to protect civilians another 19 people have been killed in a brutal rebel attack. on

a saudi led coalition says it will start easing restrictions on yemeni airspace so that people who need medical treatment can fly out of the capital as well so released 200 hoofy rebels as part of efforts to end many 5 years of war. 60000 people have been told to leave their homes in texas after a 2nd explosion at a petrochemical plant and evacuations are being ordered in 4 towns around the plant in the state's southeast. still battling the blaze which broke out in the early hours of wednesday. yes media is reporting that president on trump was aware of a whistle blows complaint against him when he unfroze military aid to ukraine trump is facing an impeachment inquiry over allegations that he withheld the money to force ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden a new york times says white house lawyers informed trump in august before they told congress and interview with former fox news host bill o'reilly trump has sought to

distance himself from his lawyer rudy giuliani's activities in ukraine saying he had not directed him to work on ukraine matters. the same interview president trump also revealed that he's working on officially designating mexico's drug gangs as terrorist organizations is that it's in response to the number of deaths resulting from drugs trafficked from mexico base can president responded by calling for a corporation rather than intervention by the u.s. fish and fish or has more from mexico city. the death of 9 americans in a cartel ambush earlier this month sparked widespread outrage the victims 3 women 6 children were traveling through a remote area in northern mexico when they were attacked jule u.s. mexican citizens the family the labatt ins demanded the white house days ignorant mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations you're going to do a telephone interview with a right wing talk host president donald trump said that process is underway i've

been working on that for the last 90 days you know designation is that that is you know i don't go to a process of mexico's drug cartels or huge operations they control large chunks of the country and they're involved in drug trafficking assassinations kidnapping and political corruption being designated a terrorist organization by america means it becomes illegal for anyone to knowingly support the groups if banks realize they handle any cartel funds they must block the money under and form the government a new members are banned from entering the u.s. and so taking this move while it might benefit the president in the united states and it might make people feel righteous and justified in satisfied here that we're taking stronger steps ultimately may make it harder to do business with the mexicans and we need to be a team with them in order to get this problem solved mexico's policy on fighting the cartels has changed under the new president and today's man well the door has been in office almost exactly

a year he believes in hugs not bullets and that social conditions need to change to make the cartels less economically powerful got bit as young see cooperation yes intervention no. but one expert says if the u.s. president follows through on his threat to clear out the cartels and uses military action there could be significant mexican backlash with this they do a so he can stay in mexico on organize who are one attack or something against a mexican government in mexico soil and this is the problem because mexico is being assume a listing that because of that contrie. osip any difference of that the mexican government has had donald trump make threats like this before remember when he threatened to close down the entire border and then backed away they will of course start making plans but they're hoping that the white house will back away from what

many people here see as a dangerous and dramatic overreaction alan fischer al-jazeera mexico city spanish police have seized a homemade submarine that was carrying 3000 kilos of cocaine across the atlantic the 20 meter long wessel was intercepted off spain's northern coast after an international police operation it had been deliberately sunk by its 3 man crew to ecuadorians have been arrested one more is on the run submarines are a commonly used to smuggle drugs in south america but place a this is the 1st to be intercepted in europe. rescue workers in albania racing to find survivors from tuesday's powerful earthquake at least 26 people were killed and hundreds injured when the magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck they'll pena's 2nd largest city of duress chancer a police report. the day after albania's most powerful earthquake in decades rescue teams are still digging in search of survivors but

their relatives are worried this man's daughter and granddaughter are under the rubble of this apartment building he spoke to them by mobile phone in the 1st few hours after the building collapsed but has since lost touch he is too distraught to talk to us the state machineries our thoughts are still geared towards rescue of those people still trapped under the rubble and in this once 5 story apartment block behind me 2 families are said still to be trapped and rescue crews are trying to pull them out but one and a half days after the earthquake that leveled this building there is now only a hangover of hope that they may still be alive this woman's son and her family were lucky to be pulled alive from the rubble of their apartment building soon after the earthquake but they are now homeless and so is she a person being given these. i've been on the street for 2 days i slept on the beach the 1st night i'm still in the streets i don't want charity i want food oh clothing

i just want to know what's going to happen with my home the army has set up this tent city in a football field and organizes food distribution but capacity is limited after the break and her neighbor would turned away like that like me they think we went to the camp in the soccer field and we gave them our names they told us there was no room and that we should go away and register with the municipality and we have no way to go. the scale of the problem is enormous all over do this a coastal city of 200000 people there are cracked and broken buildings whose residents dare not enter them until engineers declare them safe some homeowners and business owners are risking their safety to salvage what they can like the owners of this heating and cooling business who pulled files of dollars' worth of machinery from the basement albania's president says there. just be a reckoning for the human suffering wrought here. do you think there are going to there's going to be an investigation about that for sure that for sure. it's clear

that some of this constructions were probably out of the standards of security but it will take time the people of do this are still nervous a 5 point aftershock on the richter scale sends them running out into the streets fearing the collapse of already damaged buildings saving lives is what matters now and sheltering the homeless but this earthquake will likely leave economic and political scars as questions are raised about why so much of albania's prosperity was apparently built on sand jumps out awful us al-jazeera us. 2 former prime ministers have made it through to a run off presidential election in guinea bissau but not the current president as. well as pereira finished 1st with 40 percent of the vote it was his 1st prime minister that was sacked in 2015 in the december runoff he'll be up against. ballo

who got 28 percent of the vote in bello was also one of the 7 prime ministers as fide during his 5 years in office president was himself initially a distant 4th with just 12 percent of the vote he pledged to respect the result but has already said election was rigged because hack reports from the capital base out . outside the party headquarters are going to be sounds presidential candidate tomorrow she's a call and barlow hundreds of his supporters gathered there they didn't expect him to get through to the 2nd round but he did with 20 percent of the vote for his movement for democratic alternative party because. we are tired of 50 years of the ruling party who are duping people selling drugs nepotism and corruption the people have come to say no calling for a new generation of leadership. many of them both supporters are pouring in from the countryside and felt ignored by political rivals in particular the african party for the independence of getting the south and cowbird also known as the ph d.

c. the party has been in power since independence its candidate. who campaigned as a modernizer fell short of a clear majority to win out right of a professional i've been involved i have some records show and the whole north. to work for the south and do my utmost to be possible in the way i look after itself and bring people together have a look at the full. appeal to voters in the capital be so in those be so guinea and now living in other countries. most of the voters are however in the countryside many villages have no running water no outlets electricity and school all the medical centers are shut down the state has been so much of this election results reflect that anger among the people with their politicians that have failed them.

incumbent president who stood for the independent party came 3rd in the election with only 12 percent of the vote it's been an expensive election and some are wondering where the money came from to finance it the country's law enforcement agency suggests some could have been drug money $22.00 tons of cocaine was seized over the past 5 years worth billions of dollars that in a country where most of the people live on less than 2 dollars a day. the choice down for voters is between para and umbrello one calls himself the man of the moment the other the general of the people both believe they can solve going to be sales problems and offer you hope in the u. direction for its people because hawke al-jazeera. a court in bangladesh a sentence 7 members of a group to death for their role in a 2016 attack which left 22 people dead in the siege on the holy autism cafe in dhaka killed mostly foreigners the men say they will appeal the charges which

include training in the attackers and supplying explosives and phones unions and student groups in colombia holding a nationwide strike to support and to government protests is the 2nd strike in less than a week the rallies quickly turn violent with several people killed and subway stations destroyed just as a measure the police have used excessive force colombians are angry about a series of issues including corruption and proposed changes to wages pensions and taxes just as the n.p.t. is in bogota where he says the demonstrations have been largely peaceful. colombians have been on the streets for nearly a week now in anti-government protests this is the 2nd national strike that was called by the leaders of the protester paralyzing most public services transit schools both public and private here in the capital. and this time the national strike was called after the start of negotiations failed between the

leaders of the strikers and the president to do care in the pretty what the president is doing is ridiculous he needs to address a list of tomorrow he says it's clear he doesn't understand the reasons why people are in the streets you know what a serious negotiation looks like the demonstrations have mostly been peaceful but people are increasingly anger towards what they see as a very violent response some part of the police especially during the 1st few days of demonstration and on saturday when a teenager was hit in the head by a project tile thrown by police man had the land cruiser maybe year old student that had died so many of the people are on the streets honoring him and now 'd asking for 'd the government to this mantle columbus' anti-riot police. and there is no excuse for the way that they have been attacking people that have been

marching peacefully they're taking away our right to protest the president even to commit a series of concessions as part of what he's calling a national conversation that here has started the way to different social and political sectors in the country he said duke is saying that he's going to cut the sales taxes for the poorest people in the country trying to reduce the said health costs for the forest pensioners he also announced 3 days in colombia without sales taxes but most people here can see there are those populists concessions that now. i think have to do with the people reforms that the protesters are demanding which means that these demonstration at least for now will continue. the major new opinion poll in the united kingdom is predicting a clear majority for boris johnson's conservative party the hugo of times m.r.p. model says the conservatives will get a majority of 68 in the election in just over 2 weeks time the poll uses

a new methodology which accurately predicted the shock results in the last election 2 years ago if accurate and the result would likely have johnson a mandate to push through brics it would want if you have any time on our web site address about his al-jazeera dot com. thank you thank. him on a top stories are now jazeera a curfew has been imposed in the iraqi city of najaf after anti-government protesters stormed the iranian consulate and set fire to the building it's believed star for the consummate were moved to safety before the incident meanwhile iraqi security forces have denied reports that 2 protests as were killed in baghdad after live ammunition was used to disperse demonstrators there why would join jim has more and more of what would be told by our i wouldn't. choose to

brown to be the iranian consulate in niger and that they've been there are huge the building itself or people. that surround the building still awaiting more details of the product. but it is clearly significant. nudger. at least 19 people have been killed in a brutal rebel attack in the volatile eastern democratic republic of congo this amid growing anger at un peacekeepers for failing to protect civilians united nations is now saying one of its peacekeepers shot and killed one of the protesters who died in the last few days they say new evidence is emerged and an investigation is underway a saudi led coalition says it will start easing restrictions on yemeni airspace so that people who need medical treatment can fly out of the capital a spokesman for the coalition said flights out of rebel held san are will be operated in cooperation with the world health organization the coalition has also

released 200 to 3 rebels to support peace efforts aimed at ending nearly 5 years of war at least 15 people including 8 children have been killed after their car hit a landmine in afghanistan the families were on their way to a wedding when the roadside bomb was triggered in the northern province of can do. 60000 people have been told to leave their homes in texas after a 2nd explosion at a petrochemical plant evacuations have been ordered in 4 towns around the plant in the state's south east firefighters are still battling the blaze which broke out in the early hours of wednesday. those are the top stories to stay with this fault lines and burning is coming up next and morning after that thanks for watching. talked to al jazeera we were told to get to be about betrayal or a shit as this been addressed by took we listen to what these the proposal. for

a couple on we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter to 0. in these van. kagame landed on. n.t. and find if i. am a good. one. i'm not that just 3 days. in august the world watched in horror as images like this commander brazil a flames destroying vast parts of the amazon the world's largest rain forest. there have been over $80000.00 fires in brazil already this year.