the fires, climbing up the hill just behind it on the ground. this is what the business of fighting fires looks like. painting back inevitably of mother nature's fury is dangerous and exhausting work. we're trying to give whatever with the hope is the fire will stop when it runs out of fuel. but for the moment, the fuel is everything in sight. ah, 17 foreign missionaries, including children are abducted near ports of france, the latest victims of an explosion of kidnappings by gangs in haiti. ah. hello there, i'm dealing with donald. this is al jazeera, alive from london, also coming up with the battle rages on for gibbons energy ridge,

maribelle province, where the rebels said they were advancing, and pharmacists have been displaced at least 19 day. and after a torrential wade sweep through villages and trigger land slices of an indian state of carola plus the legislature, giving animals to one of the streets in socket. take tests the latest battle ground between mexicans, multiplying no gags. ah, patient please have confirmed the kidnapping of 17 people by an arm to gag. the group has 17 missionaries including 5 children from a u. s. space organization have been visiting an orphanage east of the capital. it's just the latest in a wave of kidnappings which have risen dramatically since the assassination of the president. in july, mike, hannah reports heavy clouds room over the christian age ministries headquarters in

the us state of ohio. the mission regroup has been operating in haiti for decades. with a 9 month break, 2 years ago, following a previous bait of gang violence, the organization released the following statement. we are seeking god's direction for resolution, and authorities are seeking ways to help. it continues. the group of 16 us citizens and one canadian citizen includes 5 men, 7 women, and 5 children in the haitian capital. puerto prince, the news of yet another mess. kidnapping comes. there's no surprise statistics indicate that more than $380.00 people have been abducted in the 1st 8 months of this year alone. from my dear, i'm going to tell you sincerely in regard to security. we cannot talk about this. on the security point, i can say it has been 0. there's been

a mess of up search and kit nothings to the assassination of the country president of july this year. removing the last vestige of a functioning federal government, the prime minister as seen as being involved in the president's assassination. and so the population of the huge lump and proletariat port, a prince and the other cities of haiti, are basically left to their own devices. and this is allowed a space for these criminal organizations to emerge. patient police, an armed criminal, gang, known as 400. my wife was responsible for the abduction. loosely translated as 400 inexperienced men. it said to be responsible for some 80 percent of the kidnappings. this year, a u. s. security delegation has been in haiti and recent days. it's free to consult with the haitian national police on ways in which the us can help restore law and order. here in d. c, the state department has issued

a statement saying it is aware of the situation and is continuing to monitor at the christian age ministries in holmes county. ohio. nothing can be done apart from to wait and pray by cut out 0 washington. manuel. a do home is the director of police c k, a think tank based in haiti focusing on economic development. she says, kidnappings are becoming more frequent because of the lack of law enforcement. no, many reason why we are witnessing this. one of them is impunity. therefore, the kidnapper of the end of an incentive to keep doing what they are doing because do risk of being arrested. all go to jail are relatively low. i haven't heard of in the kidnappers of ends night members of, in, against being arrested in the past years. and also because they keep that people

injurious of dying in the, the families they know that the police is likely to interview. therefore, they do everything they can to fade ransom, the people in volume kidnappings, they know that their families are going to do whatever they can. we're going to sell whatever they have to, to parents in the end every day i'm seemed and you'll see i keep dropping people in all in just kind of climate give opportunities for any anyone, for any small gangs to do whatever the award cause thing is, is you know, just because those, not that many control, therefore anyone who has something against you can do sante de risk or higher now than they used to be. and i can only imagine what is, is like 4 or people will stay on the ground. less than 2 weeks will they kidnap a friend of mine. and every day one we what, watching the mules all, when we'll check it out for you know, what stop is really, is used by

a lot of people in haiti. and whenever something has been received and was up in, when they kidnapped someone before we know they keep not we'll have to chip, we followed one with our friends to see if they are safe. ah, 7 years asked again and civil war began fighting his escalating in the battle for a key oil and gas producing region of the country. they ran back, who's the rebels, say they've seized 2 districts in mary province, and 3 more in neighboring sham what this after the satellite coalition, which backs the government said it had killed a $160.00 hilton fighters in air strikes. were anchor dr. reports in yemen. 7 years civil war, the guns have rarely fallen silent. now, a fierce battle for control is being waged in the northeast, who the rebels are fighting to capture my robe. the oil rich province is

a jamini government's last strong hold in the north. after weeks of siege and fighting the hoot, the se, then circling and capturing more areas, including a strategic gateway to mark up city, and parts of neighboring shop or province. belmont, the hell is merely a areas of 3200 square kilometers. hundreds of the mercenaries had been killed and wounded, including elements from al qaeda, an iso and many weapons had been seized. the armed forces salute the role of the tribes of marin and chubb war and people of both provinces, against the aggressors. the armed forces will continue the liberation of more territories. he saw the batty i'm ne, government forces and their ally tribal fighters are pushing back with dozens of airstrikes and a ground offensive and married. and i don't know will. and the whole act, the seller allowed to who like there are infiltration and penetrations made by the who, the fighters and all of dia, and in lapka valley. but the ongoing resistance is still there,

as the war continues. these healthy infiltration and penetrations will soon come to an end that i can look for both sides. the controls of mario is critical, and where yemen swore is likely to be decided is basically the last northern stronghold that the many government has as far as they're concerned. we cannot afford to lose that because that would mean and the losing their switching and nausea and shades. the hope she, you have a significant piece deal and actually allow for some, some level of the power share with movement cannot afford to do that region of human because i would need essentially losing control of natural resources that would allow for the her see to basically claim to have a completely independent north in yemen. mario already hosts hundreds of thousands of displaced people from across yemen. the un says thousands more have been displaced by the fighting in the province in the last month. a,

c h by who these is stopping humanitarian aid and critical medical supplies from reaching those who need them. the un is urging both sides to allow safe passage for civilians and 8 workers. but so far, those calls have been ignored. brianca gupta, all severe. at least 19 people have been killed after heavy rains caused landslides and flooding in india's careless state. it's the worse flooding since 2018 when more than 500 people were killed. teams from the national disaster response force are working to save those still in danger. the hiding force ah streets turned into rivers. entire hillsides appearing to melt under heavy rain. marin. okay there in baltimore. the rain from the top is accumulated here. the water has entered our veranda in our house. it has been raining continuously since morning.

such heavy rainfall in the indian state of carola was unexpected and has claimed several lives. soldiers have been flown in to help with rescue efforts. this team is trying to reach others trapped beneath shifting mud, while this fruits and vegetables vendor does what little he can to save his business. but no one will not an ottoman all over dinner at around $330.00 or 4 pm water started rising. and most of our stuff was damaged. we managed to save some vegetables like onions, but most of our vegetables have been destroyed. the monsoon season ended in september, and after months of heavy storms, locals were not expecting another one. bringing such wet conditions. farmers here rely on reins to produce crops, but too much creates problems like waterborne diseases. while the clean up and

rescue work goes on, the waters are slowly starting to recede. we are hurting al jazeera demonstrations taken place in the lebanese capital. they were marking 2 years since mass protest calling for the end of sectarian politics, comes at a time of high tensions just 3 days after 7 she and listens were killed. they were marching to demand the removal of the judge investigating last year's deadly ports explosion. bernard smith, before it's not from the louis ah, powerless in the face of an entrenched sectarian political elite. this was the modest turn out the lebanese civil society groups mocking to years since nationwide . protests demanding a new state. it's extremely frustrating because with all the protest movements, everything that the people have done, those murderers, booty, main and power refused to give in to the need to change. they are not resolved any of the problems, despite all the demands by the people in the streets over 2 years. back then tens

of thousands of people took to the streets in an unprecedented display of solidarity across religious and political divides. ah, but months of protests got them, nothing except a new government. with the same old faces, the economy has imploded, the currency, losing 90 percent of its value. even the horror of last year's bay report explosion hasn't dislodged those in power. they've been trying to get the investigating judge terry baton removed as he probes rampant corruption at the polt bill. after all, the hon. little official, obviously the lebanese regime is responsible for the explosion due to its corruption and has bola is at the head of this regime, they'll try to stop any one who tries to target the system. they played a role in choosing the children, but they didn't think he'd be a fighter who take home this issue. he said the 2nd allah, and this is abraham, or tate spokesman for the families of the victims of the pope blast, saying,

judge baton should step down. i accept that's never been the collective view of the families. many suspect tate was speaking under duress in another effort to frustrate the investigation or take denies. los alamedos says him of a book the hey was it's obvious the political parties don't want this investigation . that includes has belong, every one who supports them. let out. if this investigation is stopped, then it won't just have a psychological effect on the families, but on the whole nation. lebanon's constitution divides power between christian and muslim sects, and neither popular protested nor economic collapse, nor the port explosion have succeeded in changing how it's government elections here shed yield for the end of march. unless hope amongst independent candidates and groups that they can harness popular frustration to challenge the status quo. but that depends on them building united front to draw people away from sectarian voting and it relies on the parliament not finding a reason to postpone the votes. bernard smith, al jazeera,

they root still to come this half hour going up in the east, but ending up at the western world table before she leaves office. he goes to the time that made angle america and confirm a russian director. natur slammed back on our ass in the 1st. never so shit in space. ah hi there. thanks for stopping by. we've got a lot of rain coming at you for northern sections of vietnam and the rain total's here will mounts in the days to come. $1200.00 millimeters of rain cannot be ruled out. you know, for a hong kong, we've seen a pretty fierce seabreeze over the last few days, getting up to about 55 kilometers per hour. but i think the strongest winds will

remain off shore, hong kong, twice, 7 degrees, also a dry day, and shanghai with a hive 20 now across japan, that cooler air has really filtered in so cag ashima just getting up to 14. it wasn't long ago. you had that long stretch of 30 degree days while that's now been broken. and next we're going to go to southeast asia. we've got some plentiful storms here as per usual, but seen some heavier pulses towards the western portion of borneo on monday. down under right now, we do have heats through the outback, alice up to 38 and some storms. they could be severe through queensland, affecting brisbin on monday and remains unsettled for victoria. so melbourne, a high of 19 degrees. rain is starting to peter out across both islands of new zealand. but here's the thing. we do have a wind warning impacting the capitol region. we could see gus in exposed places up to a 120 kilometers per hour. that's it. that's all. ah,

has never been disrespect, but nothing can stop them in their trucks chasing the american dream, escaping poverty. but the illegal route is their only option and their hope for a better life can lead them into trouble breathing tough conditions. gambling. they'll put their lives in danger, just risking you know, when else ah ah, welcome back. reminder of our top story. so on al jazeera group of 17 christian

missionaries, including children, have been kidnapped in haiti, where they've been building an orphanages 16 of the ocean res, are from the u. s. and one is from canada. fighting in yemen, 7 years civil war is escalating him to key strategic regions. suits, you eval, say they've seized new territory in the oil and gas producing provinces of merit and shop. waffles and floods and landslides have killed at least 19 people in india, southern careless state, more than a dozen people including 5 children and reported missing psychotic as state in central mexico has become the latest battle ground between mexico's ever growing number of criminal gangs. and as john hallman discovered is turned the small community of last of meet us into a ghost time in the past 2 months. the bells haven't wrong unless a meet this for a month with the villages. animals have the run of the streets

for they shoot out in september, lead to people fleeing or mass leaving another empty town in mexico and the violence in this country continues to spread. and the state is, i can pick, has this become the latest epicenter. there's a multi way fight for it, but the heavy weights are a division of the sin, a lower cartel, and heli sco new generation. it's because i could take is a hub, a vital network point to get drugs, ingredients, money, and guns from mexico's ports up to the north. for the cartels, it's about profit for the towns people. it's about fear and powerlessness in their own homes. though she talked to us didn't want to be named seattle athena. the bullet came in through the door. this is where my wife cooks, thanks to god, she wasn't cooking, then you don't like us. here's the bullet hole, and there's the gas cylinder. the bullet hole is here, and that's where my daughter sleep. yeah. like you haven't gone. he fled off to the

fire fight. now he's back trying to plough stories with some of the holes in the shop. but there's always more the trauma and fear won't go away. even though villages trickling but an able to afford staying away longer. selling was korean, the me for media and because i swear that i've been running with my sister and my father in law fled without a change of clothes torres to seek asylum in the us because of the wind speed. my sister was shot in the hands of the army and the police say that everything's okay now that the here you worried about the future for to see teeth broken up. ok. yes. because the here just for a year. what will happen after that? and we're not going to take us with them. what will happen to us and our families. so this is a home, this is our community. where are we going to go for there? can we go without children? won't be a future for them. we're just going from house to house and city days. the army

checkpoint and the state police station did the shut up village school a trying to provide reassurance. they gave us a ride around town. a lot of people have now returned to lawson meters to the village to has quite subdued add to it. there's no law of causal people in the street, apart from the soldiers and the police who with now one man who hasn't showed the states, new governor, or any one from his cabinet. even though last to meet this is just an hour from the capital. the shopkeeper had a message for them. if i want to let you guys at the number thing, if the model i ask the authorities to please answer this call and we are people to be that we want to live here in our community, our homes, in our land. please be aware of that, and as the song says, you know, sort this out between you and them. do whatever deals between yourselves, let us work. let us live in peace is not a call for justice or the application of the law just for an agreement to be reached. so that when the soldiers and police go,

these people can still survive. john home and i'll just hit a 2nd. texas ceremony has taken place in paris to mark 60 years since the massacre of algerian pro independence protested by police in the french capital rights groups and members of the algerian community joined the march on the anniversary of 1961 atrocities. please attack the demonstration at the height of algeria is war of independence. some historians say several 100 protested, were killed on saturday. man wilma column became the 1st french president to attend a commemoration. he stopped short of issuing a formal apology. lady policies over the harsh we will be away on a journal. the place were full of rage. as soon as i saw now jerry, in that demonstration of they wouldn't spare that. you have to imagine pirate boiling point, your. that's why there was so many debts. nobody up, a government dealt with it and it was a policy. the 17th of october was not an accident. it lost it for years and years.

we just reached a peak on october. 17th was an incredible level of monstrosity. it's a symbol of the treatment during the entire duration of the algerian war. gilbert jerry, the far, avery and president le home bad boy, has launched a new political party following his acquittal by the international criminal court. it's for just hope his left wing african people's party will be a springboard for a presidential election run in 4 years time. he spent nearly a decade in the hague, facing war crimes charges for he was acquitted and returned to his homeland and shoe by bullets refusal to concede defeat to alison watch. right after the 2010 elections triggered a civil war, which left around 3. i was in people dead. dozens of shoreline confession have staged a demonstration at sea to demand that the government stops what they say is illegal . fishing by indian bolts, they wanted to implement existing regulations to protect fish stocks. in al fernandez reports now from colombo. they say they're taking

a stand to protect their way of life. fishermen from the town of military witness into lanka, sale to the northern tip of the island. they're demanding, the government stops. what they see is illegal fishing by indians and the use of band fishing methods, inter lanchen territorial waters joined by boats along the way. the flotilla had a key message, save our fish. and when i got a pan like a bill yet, oh, the indian trawlers can be easily seen and they come very close to the coast. they're not being punished at all as even this certain shock mileage is 0. few years ago, the trawlers have big wooden planks which i used to scrape the ocean flow. while a large net scoops up everything in their wake, the fishermen not angry and frustrated. they say the indians both are not only fishing illegally, but also damaging the marine environment and future fish stocks, as well as their livelihood. their main demand that the government implement the

law. to stop this, there are 2 laws that the fishermen are demanding must be implemented. one that benz bottom trolling, and another that regulates foreign vessels, was cruise must obtain a license to fish in sri lankan waters. so, so still dodge 0 that the pandemic has led to an increase in illegal fishing. as the navy and coast guard avoided contact with indian fishermen in case they were infected, they say up to 500 boats sometimes into she lanchen waters in a div. india maintain said the fisherman issue must be resolved on the existing bi lateral mechanisms in a humanitarian manner. a tom and member of parliament who helped introduce the legislation, joined the protest, perfectly, all fishermen art back rips and ram ever go below see that and we're both costly on it when they got them in the morning. and so i destroyed it proper

way by this dollars, but i'm glad you got one down but see, but i need to this again, shuttle to work with this, but the law is not being unfair. researchers see with indian seemingly getting away with bottom drawing the number of local boards taking up the method has increased. community leaders said the only way to resolve the problem is for sheila duncan authorities to enforce the laws. and if they don't, the livelihood of thousands of local families are at stake. miller fernandez or j 0 colombo angler. miracle is in her final months as german chancellor staying on as leader until close coalition negotiations determine her successor. in her 16 years in office, marco has barely mentioned her roots and communist east germany. but she's now publicly criticized negative remarks about her upbringing steadfast and travel to the foreman east german town where merkel grew up a. this is how

a russian teacher remembers anglo merkel, shy, but hard working, growing up with little freedom in the town of sampling and east and germany. merkel focused on our education and won a russian language contests. a skill that came in handy decades later. george, during often tough meetings with russian president vladimir putin, grey, who didn't had that article. i shouldn't say it was with who sion of all people that she made a mistake with. she never made mistakes. she's sitting there in houston and his large dog were brought in. she told him, i'm afraid it will ease me. she meant by it, but she said, eights merkle recently sat for the 1st time in public that she had felt insulted by negative remarks about her background in the east kind of warner. am i not a born federal german? not a born european. someone who learned to be european or there are 2 different kinds

of germans or europeans, the originals and the trainees with the. here were the house where she grew up and for my eastern germany, anglo merkel learned at a young age. that freedom is not a given, according to her biographer, this experience has influenced her years and office. but she also learned that as a girl from the east she had to do better than the rest to be successful. and while her successes, as a leader, have been lauded internationally many here in the form of g d r. i disappointed. there were high hopes at merkel being what german school and asi, someone from the east would make a big difference in her homeland. but 16 years later, the reality is that many people have left for the west to find work. towns are getting empty and industries have died. most we are becoming extinct in the east. nobody in the g d wanted this and when we die, our houses will become empty to vote. this boat is all the form of fisherman has to remind him of his family history, etc. his business collapsed years ago,

despite several meetings he and his colleagues had with anglo merkel since 1990. when the outgoing chancellor and the politics after the fall of the iron curtain testing hospital. that's why many people in the east did not understand why all went down his. they were angry at man because shipyards close down fisheries disappear. of course, we believe she would help us because she was one of us. when i'm going to merkel was awarded an honorary citizenship in tempe. lean. it was a former teacher who told me or not to make a big fuss about it. if i didn't, he liked enough people. he would be even angrier. they would have asked, what did she do to deserve this for hands? you are him bull, it makes no difference. if the next chancellor doesn't have roads in the east, like many others, and for my ease germany, his experience with merkel made him lose trust and politicians steadfast and al jazeera reuben. it is now 4 weeks since the volcano on the spanish island of la palmer began erupt. thing scientists say there is no indication when it might stop

. the lava stream is now buried more than 7 square kilometers, destroying farmland and almost 2000 buildings. and 7000 people have now been evacuated to russia filmmakers back on earth after returning from the mission to make the 1st movie in space. actress julia paris, sales and direct to claim ship hankle landed in conflicts down after 12 days from the international space station. in filming the cation scenes for their thriller, the challenge about adults, a sense of a space station to save the life of a russian cosmonaut, a months ahead of a competing hollywood project featuring tom cruise, which was announced last year by the u. s. space agency, nasa. well i'm, it's ab goetia is a former chair of the science operations working group for nasa. and he believes the public interest is already there for film, shots on location in space. the more you see, both grief stories growing up, common people without much streaming,

without formerly being an astronaut. public attention is focused on speech right now. if you, if you think last, maybe 2 months or 3 months, how many times says space tourism in the being the good news with jeff bezos them richard branson and everybody going to speak. so i think it's a market opportunity for the best. if you remember though, the firm called the martian starting bad treatment, nobody taught movie about bars would attract maybe box off is structured, but it was a very big ah a quick reminder of those top stories on al jazeera, a group of 17 christian missionaries, including children have been kidnapped in haiti. they were on their way to the airport in the capitol, porto pranced when they were taken by armed men in the area of guns there. 16 of the missionaries who were building an orphanage or from the u. s. and one from

canada, haiti, of course, is injured years of economic and political upheaval, but the situation worse and after the assassination of president joe.