ah, we know what's happening in our region, we know how to get to places that others cannot. affairs, i said, i'm going on the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference. ah, no official state, no general election and 15 years, but the occupied westbank is voting at a local level. and there's a push for more inclusivity. ah, hello from doe harbor, and i'm kim all santa maria. this is the world news from al jazeera and economic lifeline is been reopened in afghanistan as the u. s. government allows family members to send jeff desperately needed cash to the country. began didn't congolese troops battle tough terrain as they tried to flush out a troublesome rebel group?

new gun laws, an indian administered kashmir, threatening the tradition of hand crafted firearms. ah ha, from local elections and begun in the occupied west bank with about 400000 palestinians eligible to vote. they are the 1st poles in 2 years. but the leaders of fata and hamas remain at odd. busy so for when to hold the next general election, whilst one of those was 15 years ago, we'll speak to nita abraham in the occupied west bank shortly. but 1st, a look of what the local polls might tell us about the big political picture in palestine. these women are running for the local council and our cedar shamaya village. in the north of the occupied bank. the visiting potential voters to campaigned for the electoral list more than 6000 voters in the village are eligible to choose 11 council members. 20 percent of local council seat half to include

women by law while while women here are active in the campaign, photos of them were missing from the campaign. posters. in many villages, faces of women were replaced by pictures of flowers or other graphics because of conservative views. if he mill activists in the village has, she's pushing for a better representation of women in politics. let odyssey, we like a political will to advance women's rights. we are not there just to fill the female quotas. hi, we need laws that ensure that women are not being ignored. the walk local councils are responsible for basic services such as water, electricity, and infrastructure. they don't pass legislations or deal with national politics. local elections could improve day to day issues for palestinians, but many say they want a general election to choose their political leaders. it's been 15 years since palestinians voted for a parliament because of political infighting. 6 months ago, the palestinian president, my mother beth again postponed the general election and didn't set

a new date. the law firm of drew robin, there are no indications that we are getting any closer to holding any parliamentary or presidential elections ahead of him. and now it's really important to hold the elections to change the reality on the ground and to improve the economic situation. burnett. her math has boycotted the local elections because the movement wants long delayed general and presidential elections. but some of its supporters are running for municipal office, while others planned to vote. the ruling 14, the westbank for the ready has wide support in these local elections will lead to dead with the head of pulls at the palestinian center for policy and survey research. he conducted the pool in some of the villages where elections are being held ill by lay her bobby. people usually choose their candidates based on familial relations and not political affiliations. also into math is not running. we can't measure the popularity of political factions based on those elections. half of the

1800 people pulled described the status of democracy in the west bank as bad, or very bad need of her reporting. there she is now in the village of soda town near rome muller in the occupied west bank need it. how much interest do you thing in these elections this morning? i mentioned it was 400000 people eligible to vote. we're not seeing large numbers of people coming to vote here in sort of the village. there is around 3500 people here and there are 5 lists competing for 11 council members. but all in old people usually start showing up around noon. they don't wake up in the morning and go vote. so there is some sort of an interest, but we will see as the day goes by, how much that interest is and how many people are going to vote just to give you an idea. these elections are taking place in more than 150 villages across the occupied west bank, but there are 500 and more than 570 lists competing. so all in all,

we are talking about 3 candidates for a seat, and this is a place where, or these villages are places where already enjoys wide support. we're talking about inclusivity and you mentioned in, in your report as well need or a big push to get women involved into politics. there is a lot of controversy that has been going on on social media about this specific topic where some people were saying that there has to be a need for empowering women and not to be there in the electoral list. because the law says that they have to be among those competing lists. so there's a lot of push by women activists to include women in the public life, not to have them there just because they want to fill quotas. when i was in cedar village, the ladies that we've seen in the report,

they were saying that they didn't feel that this is a big issue. it's a small village. people already know each other. they blamed it on the designer. they say he just acted out of habit, put pictures of flowers instead of pictures of these women. and they said that they soon tried to change out those social media. it was too expensive to kind of print out new campaign posters. but the still, it's an issue that many women activists look at with a lot of caution with a lot of alarm. let's say, because this hasn't happened in the past. this has only been happening in the past few years. as many say that the society is getting more and more conservative the day for him reporting from the occupied west bank that i think you need. on to the news, the world's leading nuclear inspector has told al jazeera iran needs to grow more access to its atomic facilities. if it hopes to establish some international trust . latest round of talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers still

going on in vienna. the head of the international atomic energy agency, the once surveillance cameras reinstalled and says the iran is need to be more transparent about just what they're doing. the agency and iran are trying to come to an agreement on or basically 2 things. one is the capability or the ability of the agency to return to one facility, one specific facility in iran, where we need to reinstall cameras that need to be there. and it has been difficult to do this, so we have been talking about these. and the other thing is how to address a number of issues which need to be clarified. the agency found traces of nuclear material in places that had not been declared before and the full interview with the i. e. a chief raphael groceries on the next tradition of talked to 0830 g

m t tomorrow sunday. a dozen people have been injured in an explosion in the lebanese that port city of tire that happened late friday evening in a palestinian refugee camp in the country. south security forces of now launched an investigation. people in the united states can now send money to family members in afghanistan involving financial institutions control by the taliban. and how connie network or the groups are otherwise subject to us sanctions, but money's a lifeline. so many afghans with global remittances making up 4 percent of g d. p. last year. it comes with the world bank says donors of agreed to transfer $280000000.00 to unicef and the world food program to provide nutrition and health services in afghanistan. the u. n. was nearly 9000000 afghans of facing famine. this winter mo, from roslyn jordan, following this one from washington. the fact that some 9000000 people are facing

the prospect of famine, which is of the most serious level in a country that is suffering from food insecurity, is very much the impetus. but this decision by the us treasury department, is a very narrowly crafted decision. people here in the united states can send money to individuals in afghanistan, and they can do so through u. s. banks, which then may be engaging with financial institutions controlled by the taliban, or the ha connie network for the express purpose of putting that cache in the hands of individuals inside afghanistan. the money can't be used for rod nonprofit organizations, humanitarian a, our charity, a groups, for example. it also cannot be used to give to people who were trying to set up businesses. this is strictly to give people the ability to buy food and medicine to

acquire of fuel to heat their homes. as winter is closing in, in afghanistan has met sharma have a founder of rise to piece piece building policy organization. it was also former us counterterrorism adviser and afghan is done and he says there's still a lot more work for the taliban to do before it can be recognized by the united states. there are options in terms of the u. s. is discussing and i think from our realistic perspective we're looking into the us, his interest at the end and the actions of the tall and not the fancy wars. but it's a hard decision. i think kind of the pulling out of an honest on it was a big decision to make for bite administration the same way. recognizing the tall one. i don't think it's going to happen soon if it, if it did that thing, it's going to take a whole international or collateral multi different nations and regional efforts. but the tall one has to 1st deliver and actions that do have a little quieter. and they're not going to use an honest on to attack the u. s.

soils and allies. i think that is the 1st question that needs to be 1st resolved in order for the us to make a decision. but we're talking about millions of africans are uncertain about the future of their country and do ask ones who are, who are able to exit. i'm honest on your little path limbo. do or just for example, we had interviewed one after the family that he said, well, i was able to get out of honest on but how can i help my family at this situation? i think this general license 16 and this exact that afford a will allow that person to wire money to his family who are in launched on right now under this protection. uganda and soldiers cross the border into democratic republic of congo last week to take part in a joint operation to track down gunman from an on group known as the allied democratic forces. now for people on the ground, there is hope. but there's also some unease about this partnership. as malcolm web

not reports. over the last 10 days, the people of this small board of town in democratic republic of congo have seen thousands of uganda and troops crossing you can, his army says it in congo to hunt down an armed group called the allied democratic forces abs, which is blamed for killing thousands of civilians in this area over the last 7 years. you got an army been accused of meddling and looting minerals in congo several times since it 1st invaded 25 years ago. i mean, to be honest, we did not celebrate the arrival of began to troops crossing a border, but we hope they can help deal with the insecurity that we've been facing for a long time. the adf fight as a hiding out in forest to the gun and tanks and armored vehicles have struggled to advance on the muddy road. so they brought in great as to repair them. uganda

and major general kind him of hunger is commanding the operation. we have come, we only want if you don't have the machines to look for void, you don't have a machine. is the route for day one is we don't have machine is cut by the only thing we have is our gun fight. read. you can the government claims the adf for 3 suicide bomb explosions in the capital can paula last month. the adf is a reasonably from uganda, but his fighters have been hiding in the forests of congo for more than 20 years. you can then opperation is the latest in a series of failed attempts to defeat the armed group. since some of the roads impossible, the ugandan commanders had to walk to meet their congo least counterpart. they say the joint military operation conklin, drove component of good news. so more congolese, people need to understand that we're facing a situation of terrorism in which we must unite our forces with others dady f as

part of an international terrorist movement. some of their attacks are claimed by isis in the presence of fighters from different countries like uganda, somalia and tanzania confirms this sunday suit dog investigators say b adf has been in contact with iso and other regional armed groups. the extent of any collaboration is unclear about the 80 s political and business interests in congo and uganda have been more apparent including cocoa and timber export, congolese soldiers repairing the roads to it's just the start of what you, candice on congress armies say will be the end of the adf. every one who's tried before has failed. malcolm web al jazeera. in the news ahead cases and hospital admissions are up, but to south african signed to say there's no sign i micron is causing more severe disease. and high court in london quiz. the way for the wiki, expanded julian assange to face trial in the united states.

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than we've got this plume of moisture for the eastern shores of the adria to see the closer to the sea. you are the more rain you will get a but the further away and over a higher ground we'll see a swath of snow. so sorry, a about $5.00 to $10.00 centimeters cross grease severe thunderstorms also on tap as well, especially toward the east through the g. and we'll see those winds wind up to about 90 kilometers per hour. this becomes a story for western turkey on sundays when this weather broadcast in north africa, words, whites and wendy for elders and tunis, tunis has a high up 14 degrees. that's it. we'll see again soon. oh, the weather is sponsored by cats. all right, ways. the listening post cuts through the noise let's, we'll pick it up competing. now, seeing monday tools being used to perpetuate there's competing narrative separating space from fuck all 3 versions of the story and then some element of the truth. but the full story remains and coaching, unpacking the stories you're being told,

it's not a science story at all. it's a story about politics, the listening post your guide to the media on a jesse utah ah, the one out there, these are the top stories, this our palestinians, and they'll provide west bank of voting and local election, the 1st poles and 2 years. however, the leaders of mass remain at odds over when to hold a general election. last one of those was 15 years ago that was leading nuclear inspect it down to 0. iran needs to grow more access to its program if it helps to establish trust tools to revive the 2015 nuclear dealer ongoing in vienna. and

people in the u. s. can often money who have dentist on using financial institutions controlled by the taliban group is otherwise subject to us sanctioned view. and it's warning nearly 9000000 afghans facing famine. this one now covered 19 use for you, a new law in germany. first of all, which is requiring health workers to get vaccinated. and politicians are also considering making coven vaccines, compulsory for all german adults. that law could be debated. in apartment the next month. in south africa, scientist say there's no sign the only cron berry and it's causing more severe cases of current of virus. hospital data shows admissions are rising sharply, but patients so spending less time in care and death remain low of africa report and more than 19000 new cases of kind of it on friday and 20 debts very promising sides, but largely ambitions. even those who had it was below a mile,

many of them at incidental. they came into the hospital for other reasons. other illnesses. and because when you have to be admitted, you have to test that 1st. and many of those who had come for other reasons have tested positive the deadline for the u. k. to approve fishing licenses for french boats in british waters as passed without a resolution. france was threatening legal action if the deadline set by the u wasn't met. power still waiting for the u. k to approve nearly a 100 licenses for its fisherman. both countries have been involved in the long running post breaks that dispute over the right to fish in territory waters. of the migrants in san and think is from central and south america have blocked a crucial highway between mexico city and the state of pueblo. the group is traveling north to the us border with many beginning that weeks long journey without any food or warfare has been an increase in the number of margaret's trying to reach the u. s. in recent months and elsewhere in mexico and investigations,

begun into the depths of 55 migrants and asylum seekers. as many as 200 of them were crammed into a truck when it overturned in the southern state of champ us manuel rapids following developments from mexico city. a small roadside vigil in southern mexico . residents from the city of duke's law in chiapas state paying their respects to at least 55 central american migrants who were killed in a vehicle accident on thursday. rescue workers a see the outpouring of support for the survivors of the crash has been massive. his last night it was known, we had 34 injured migrants here, and that, that are people who are only guarding where they are wearing. unfortunately, right now, not even their clothes are in good condition due to the accident, locals joining to the night, healing materials, groceries and food authorities in southern mexico, say the accident occurred when

a truck carrying as many as 200 people crammed into its cargo space flipped on its side scattering men, women and children across the road. more than a 100 people were injured many seriously. although others say it could have been much worse as a family on him. thank god, nothing serious happened. i only have a broken arm, but at least i am fine immigration policy experts say the accident reveals a clear case of human smuggling and is directly linked to the ongoing migrant crisis. playing out on mexico's southern border, international observers are calling on regional governments to do more to protect the rights of migrants, the u. n, saying more than 4400 have died in mexico this year to. and if this latest incident isn't a reminder for the world and from ever states to agree on controlled and managed migration,

i'd ask unclear to see what is law enforcement from the state of chiapas, say the driver of the truck carrying the migrants fled the scene. they say an investigation into the fatal accident is underway. manuel rap a low al jazeera mexico city. and haiti has stage new protests against the gulf and over the rising cost of fuel acting president ari on reordered, the price increase after subsidies, card hazy theme, severe few shortages, and an increase in gang related kidnappings. following the assassination of president giovano noise in july, these 2 people been killed several others injured after a tornado ripped through eastern parts of the united states. in illinois, the extreme weather caused a roof to collapse at an amazon warehouse emergency crews are still trying to rescue dozens of people trapped in that facility. also, 2 people died in a nursing home in the state of arkansas or with president. joe biden says he is very concerned about a supreme court decision to keep abortion codes in texas by them. the hail part of

the ruling, the doesn't allow abortion providers to challenge the state law, which bands the procedures after 6 weeks that law came into effect in september. it is the strictest in the united states. barring abortion at a time, when many women don't even know they're pregnant, vice president common hires criticize the ruling, saying a woman has the right to make decisions about her own body. the ruling today is an attempt to undo it in terms of what's happening in texas, that the and around the country is an attempt to undo 50 years president. and as far as i'm concerned, and as far as registration is concerned, a woman's right to make decisions about her own body is not those. and so we continue to fight for the constitutional rights of all women. to make decisions about their own body without interference by some legislative group of people that think that they can replace their judgment with her. let's take you to

the u. k. just now, where foreign ministers from the world's wealthiest democracies are all set to meet this as delegates from the g 7, as well as in athenian nations. their meeting in liverpool expected to discuss whole lot of global issues. of course, vaccines for cove at 19 post pandemic economic recovery are the bill of russian forces on ukraine's border as well. so live pictures from livable, foreign ministers in the g 7 meeting. the big final event of the that you case presidency of the g said earlier, the a you had warned russia though, needs to scale back its military build up and threatened more sanctions. if troops were to invade ukraine, european commission president arrested of until i made the comments during a joint news conference on friday with germany's new chancellor. she says the block wants to improve relations with russia, but it's hostile stance towards its neighbors is undermining europe. security. now

tied to rules on gun ownership in indian and minister cash meter of push traditional firearms manufacturers to the brink of closure. only 2 factories remain open in the region which used to be a thriving hub for hunting rifles support from elizabeth per on m. nasdaq, missouri, who was one of just 7 gunsmith left an indian administered cush meat. he works in this factory started by his father and 1953 when cush media guns were famous for the workmanship. they were mostly bought for hunting and sometimes self defense. but decades of violence in the region lead to the indian government, limiting the number of guns manufacturers are allowed to produce. and more recently, a van, a new license is being issued to gun owners or ho than 25 workers were employed in this factory. but now the only tool, we hardly make new guns, but most people come for repairs. our children aren't willing to carry forward the family legacy because there's hardly any money in the trade. messy used by the federal looks as trademark wooden bots, like this made cush, miti guns,

famous overseas juggling garages. it takes 10 to 15 days to make a gun gun making needs a great deal of experience. most of it is hand to make the rifle, but is made of walnut wood with a fine finish. and it looks beautiful, hawk wrote, historian, say the once thriving industry has become another casualty of worsening security in the region. doctor turner, why do you do uncertain situation here? gun me goes, have come under tremendous scrutiny. you there was objected to. jackson had esmond by the authorities, but they got scared. and as the armed conflict raged, they abandoned their profession. the violence has led to the decline of many traditional woke kitchens in the brush meat of an shall have athletic one of hundreds of workers who have lost their job. he now makes electrical equipment for a living. i says you are gone, gone, gone for generations. my family was making guns in this neighborhood, there were 15 factories and all of the men here used to work these factories. 13 of

closed because of strict rules. so i had to open this workshop to provide for my family, then making as in my blood and it'll never die. as eda smith owns one of the last 2 factories and is asking the government to lift its ban on gun licenses, i reward on the street as dying every passing day. the government's excuses that the security situation in the region is not good. but what have you got to do with that? the guns manufactured here have never been misused. they are useful hunting and not for vaught or god forbid for any militant activities. as the 0 brothers put the finishing touches on their guns, they say they hope they won't become the last of the regions gunsmith, elizabeth per annum al jazeera new delhi. now the legal team for a wicked exam, jolena san say they will try to appeal his latest set bank at the supreme court. assange lost a bit to stop the extradition proceedings to the u. s. where he would faced charges for leaking military secrets. i caught in london overturned an earlier ruling,

that a son would be a suicide risk if he lost his sanctuary in britain or the support from that in barbara in london. oh, the support is of julian assange. it's a worrying moment. 2 judges at the high court in london have ruled the wiki leaks, found a can be extradited to the united states, to face espionage charges, as and his partner with whom he has 2 young children, was there to hear the decision. it's been almost a year since i stood outside court with our victory as the blocking alley, extradition for the past year. and the past year, 2 years and a half julia has remained in bell marsh prison. and in fact, he has been detained since the 7th of december 2010 in one form for another 11 years for how long can this go on? the decisions based on assurance is presented by lawyers for the u. s. government at october's appeal hearing. they said assigns wouldn't be subject to solitary

confinement or held at a maximum security prison. they also said they had diplomatic assurances he could serve any prison sentence in his native australia. judges here effectively decided there was now no reason to believe assange would be a clear suicide risk, which the original ruling had found. the u. s. once assange to face trial over the release in 2010 of thousands of classified military documents relating to the u. s . wars in afghanistan and iraq. but amnesty international has denounced the decision saying the u. s. charges represent a serious threat to press freedom. something echoed by his supporters. ricky leagues was a organization of whistleblowers. it made it absolutely safe and secure for whistleblowers to her to bring the truth to the public. all he has done as tell the truth and on his general dentist top right is upset their leads, but he has done his job to tell us what's going on. this decision is clearly

a big setback for the campaign to free julian a science. but it's already taken years to get to sports and it could be a long time before we know definitively whether he'll be sent to the united states . the case has been sent back to the lower court. so a judge can refer the extradition to home secretary, pretty patel. but julian assigned his legal team so they'll try to login appeal with the supreme court, challenging the american assurances that he won't be treated humanely. nadeem barbara al jazeera london. ah, how fast they are and these are the top stories, palestinians in the occupied west bank of voting and local council elections. first poles in 2 year.