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stayed for the 2nd straight year. our friends in the last secured their sports in the round of 16 falling home victory. ah, we begin in iran where a day of sweeping protests has taken place across the country. as people marked the 40th day since the death of massa, minnie, that's the traditional morning period in iran. security forces confronted some of the thousands of people who traveled to him in his grave. a 22 year old died while in custody of the so called morality police for violating strict dress codes for head coverings. dr. tomorrow ports from the capitol terran o chanting women, life freedom, thousands of people gathered at i'd she cemetery in kurdistan province the final resting place of massa mimi warners, or heard calling their province the fascist graveyard hours later. this was the

scene in the city of sack, as a security forces fought with people. semi official news agencies say nearly 10000 came out to mark the 40th day since massa mooney died in police custody in teheran oh, university. students across the country also remembered her. this group is singing from the blood of the youth of the homeland tulips have grown. scuffles broke out in another university across the city. and police use tear gas this for students in at least 2 institutions into iran. the student protests were not just in the capitol, but across the country. this was the scene in the city of cottage with many chanting freedom. and in the 2nd largest city, mashhad students have been protesting since the death of massa media last month. protests are not limited to only schools. this is terrance grand bizarre. on wednesday. nasa was visiting relatives with her brother in the capital when she was

detained by the so called morality police for not wearing the mandatory headscarf properly. the police released the security camera footage of saying it shows massa arriving at a facility for so called a re education class on the religious benefits of wearing a headscarf. according to the official autopsy and a government investigation, massa had a pre existing health condition and suffered heart attack. her family says this is not true and says she was beaten while in custody. government supporters also rallied across the country. the president addressed the issue in a live televised interview operational firm to her in i told her family that this news was shocking. not just for me, for every iranian void of criticism in dialogue on various issues, have a place in the constitution and can help us in the decision making process all. but the distinction between protesting and ryan should be defined a room. earlier this month, president racy visited an all female university in teheran,

where he praised the achievements of women in academia. at the same time, these university students chanted racy, get lost outside the building. this is the area where iran's morality police arrested massa minnie on a tuesday afternoon since then they haven't been seen much in the city. whatever happens next you're regardless of which version of events people believe it is clear that massa minis, death has changed this country door such a bari al jazeera terran washington to miss ab is a director for me, known organizations supporting women's rights in the middle east. and north africa region stores me now from washington, d. c. thanks very much for it for being with us on the program. regular. how significant, when you say that the protest particularly at, at the, at the gravesite all off to the 40 days of my so many so death. well, the protest her significant, they're national, they're nationwide. and there were public calls for protests from inside the

country, which hasn't happened so much, you know, since the since immediately after massa was killed in custody, there haven't been public protest by known figures and known groups. and this was happened this time, people who publicly called for protest and it's significant. it's extremely significant because it's round the country, their protests in south. there's where masses from where she is buried are significant in the fact that the security forces tried to prevent her family from holding the ceremonies for the 40 day marking her death. and the family refused to do that. the family was threatened, has been repeatedly threatened even threatening to arrest her brother. but they decided to that they weren't going to issue a statement, calling off the ceremonies and they blocked. the security forces blocked the roads, but people managed to get there anyway on foot. they abandoned their cars and went on foot. some we have videos of people crossing rivers and mountains to get there.

and so despite all of the attempts by the security forces to prevent a ceremony and a protest from happening, people did show up. so it's very significant, and in the meantime, they showed up a large number they showed up and large numbers. and in terms of the rest of the way to participate in playing out, can you give us an idea of the number of people who died or been imprisoned as a result of the the, the crack down on purchase. wellborn made us figure that we have that i, that i've seen that the been confirmed figure from human rights activists news agency, herano is almost 13000 and people arrested. and these are, i think these are very low numbers because it's very difficult to, to validate this and 244 from last week. people who been killed and 32 of them are children. they're children under the age of 18,

even as young as 7 years old who've been killed. well, what about that kind of, if, if people are arrested, what was the conditions that they kept in and what's the processes are there for them? the prison conditions for what we're hearing are terrible. most of the prisons are extremely full. they don't have enough prisons to hold this level of you know, prisoners. this is about this number of prisoners. so there are a lot of makes it prison's, they're very crowded. they don't have ventilation, they don't have facilities to meet the needs of people. there are a lot of people are being transferred after being violently beat beaten, they're injured. some are injured with public gunshot wounds. there is no attempt to provide them with medical care in prisons, and i think many people probably saw that some days ago there was a fire at every in prison where a lot of political prisoners and a lot of human rights defenders are kept. now we're hearing the counts of the prisoners in the prison and they're saying that this fire was set intentionally by guards and by security forces. and many of them do not feel safe,

they feel they live in danger. and so have actually expressly said that they feel their lives are in danger, and they're afraid they're going to be killed in prison. i mentioned earlier that the, the process sped around the country and that was, it was significant. so what, what do you expect in terms of response from the, from the government you expect to become, how should this continue to, well, how do you see it playing out? it has continually gotten harsher and it's very harsh. it's very violent today. we saw people, you know, most of the videos that we've seen, people are peacefully chanting, many of them are just chanting that and then dig. he also dear women, life freedom or other, the other the which is freedom. that's all they are chanting, but they're being met with bullet wounds and we have a french from god, xen, where it really literally looks like it's a war zone that people are just chanting. and here are guards with their faces covered completely covered so that nobody can tell who they are, but shooting right into the crowds. and we're even seeing videos of people getting killed as they're filming what's happening. so even people who are filming are been

targeted and killed intentionally so the violence is extreme and hopefully it won't get more extreme. but you know, history has proven that the iranians did can be extremely violent and probably will be more violent. susan, to miss ivy. thank you very much data for your notice. i thank you. thank you. in a separate incident, at least 15 people have been killed in iran, southern city of shiraz. a gunman opened fire in a shrine before being shot by police and taken into custody. and he's 21. people have been injured. i saw his claim responsibility for his ideas, associate professor at the faculty of war studies at the university of terran. he says, the sight of the attack is significant. the shrine obviously is a religious place. the ink was to attack worshippers. it came at the sunset time when people go for prayers and he has killed

a lot of people. so the countries are chalk, iran doesn't see this type of those attacks normally. and this is on the, for the day of passing of master armine. so this is, whoever did this was trying to show sympathy codes or events in the last for the years, for the dates in, in iran. and this is actually back fighting among the population because people don't like terrorism in the country. you know onions as human beings like to other people around the world. they don't like to see people going to a warship place and not coming back. terrorism is not something that people tolerate. coming up on the seas are from london. pope francis welcomed the family of murdered out as the hr journalist sure, in a booklet to the vatican. as

a winter draws in ukraine, acknowledges weather conditions are making a southern counter offensive. more challenging and in sport, liverpool confirm their place in the knockout stages of the champions league ah, hundreds of syrian refugees who fled to lebanon to escape the war and making the uncertain journey back home. lebanese officials say more than $700.00 to be involuntarily repatriated, but as a 100 reports from our sol in lebanon, right, scripts are concerned about their safety. they're leaving behind a life in exile. i've got crossing the border back into syria. lebanon is where hundreds of thousands of syrians escaped to during the war. there is mixed feelings and a lot of uncertainty. some don't have homes, nor jobs,

but many say it's dire economic conditions that are driving them back. because i guess it is better to die there than to die here. the situation is difficult here. i can't even afford bread for my children. it will be the same there. at least there, we can find a place to be very the repatriation process is being organized by the governments in lebanon and syria. they insist this is voluntary. but right group say it lacks transparency and have documented cases of return these facing abuse back home, even after receiving security clearance. they also point to policies by the lebanese government that makes life difficult for refugees. between 80 to 90 percent of syrian refugees and the non don't have legal residency in the country, which means that they're subject to arrest and deportation. at the same time, you have politicians from across the political spectrum and up and on. really am

ping up as n a. so big and hateful rhetoric towards refugees living on says it can no longer cope with. so many refugees and officials have gone as far as to accuse the international community of not wanting syrians to return to their country. they believe refusing to redirect a to syria is a way to put more political pressure on damascus. live in the sea that are a very limited number of political refugees. we can stubs, punctuation process because of them. the you and hcr should settle them in the 3rd country. the u. n. refugee agency says it is not facilitating the return of refugees at this stage. as syria is still not safe for them. it themes many syrians feel the same since 2016. the u. n. has verified nearly $80000.00 have returned and less than $3000.00 have signed up per repatriation in recent weeks. that's a small number. those who don't return are from former strongholds of the

opposition in syria and could face persecution in pro government areas. and many now live in fear as lebanese authorities say this voluntary repatriation process is only beginning. seneca, they're al, jazeera, our cell, northern lebanon, a syria network for human rights says moral 3000 refugees who returned to syria since 2014, have been arrested. almost 250 of those children. the rights groups, as the arrests were by syrian regime forces, nearly 1200 people remain in detention among reported cases. 864 are classified as enforced disappearances, and most were refugees returning from lebanon. jordan and took ear cannon, deer, bizarre medical, humanitarian worker, and coordinator of the voices for des, space syrians, former platformers, that representing more than 40 syrian engineers. he joins us live via skype. thank you for being with us to what information do you have about? how safe it is for people to return?

well, why it hasn't been like this, so it has been going on for years now and it's kind of frustrating that we have to explain that a war zone is not safe. no, nevertheless, we did like just to have some evidence base information, unlike units are who i'm afraid are not always able to have 2 access areas. in the syrians, in different parts of the country are thrower partners. we were able to actually conduct the research asking, returning from different parts of syria about their experiences and the results speak for themselves when we are talking about almost half of them are describing their return not to be voluntary. and like the, i think in the regime holder is only 3 percent of return knees, that having trust in the, in the lower formats system, et cetera. so it's quite worrying that again,

we have to explain this. we do understand that. or if your hosting companies do have their own, like their owned the challenges, the burden also who uses. we do acknowledge that. but in no way, if we are in a post war situation. and so what would you say the main reasons for people being, i mean, you say it sounds like they're being obliged to pretend, what would you say the main reason for that? right, you did mention a couple of numbers from the human rights watch rights watch. i would also referred for example to the year to last year's amnesty report here, going to a death where again, i'm not going to list the economic reasons as safety because it must be like a common knowledge. but for me, what really like straw strike me was an experience, but mother with a 5 year old son who were both afraid, raped her during their like return process. and the person from william who said

that, oh cool. but this action did tell them this is for you. so you remember not to leave syria like this is again, one of many cases that are documented ad. so we're, we're, we're talking about the gender based fathers. we're talking about the discrimination against attorneys. so a lack of education, working a civil documents as well. and we're talking about people who are either unable to return to their place of origin or they are unable to go back to their own houses in the sense that they're either they're either destroyed or they don't get security clearance. what is also worrying is the lack of, of, of tracking, of any tracking mechanism in a sense, where we do know what the number of people returning, but to be there is no way we can actually see how they're doing. are they like possibly a detained or were they able to be reading with their own community?

so well, a lot of people do it like there's a lot of interest on the economic situation, which is definitely a burden and different theories for kilometer drawn. it's of the court reason is may lead protection concerns columbia. thank you very much and will fit on her. thank you. in us nations is adding malaysia to stop defaulting refugees back to me and mark saying it had received reports of hundreds of cases in the past few weeks. it says the deportations are a violation of international law and expose those people sent away to danger. the secretary general firmly believes in his core that no refugees should ever ever be forced to return this special to a country. oh, that is unsafe and still oh, facing a high level of comfort. at least 100 men. more nationals were filed back to me and

more including defectors, who will be facing in my opinion or torture. and most probably execution. i brag. we be surprised if they're alive, their life right now. this is outrageous. it is unacceptable. and it is a gross violation of international law process as blessed the family of murdered out. is there a journalist during our clay in vatican city? a special memorial mass was then held in rome for the palestinian american. sharon was targeted and shot dead by israeli forces on assignment in the occupied westbank city of janine in may. stephanie decker reports a brief and intimate moment with the head of the catholic church. his holiness pope francis bless is sharina brother tony. her 2 nieces and sharon sister in law, we came as a family to the van to come to get our message across and continue advocating for

hours one and on the shaheen. oh, we were here to call on accountability and just this. the family will submit cardinal pietro paddling the secretary of state of the hoody sea. and with cardinal sanity, a vatican diplomat. the families visit to vatican city, the seat of power of the catholic church and receiving the pope's blessings, is of course a significant moment. however, almost 6 months on. and despite the family's tireless lobbying of various different government and the international criminal court. justice for sure, marine has still not been achieved should in the shot dead by his really forces while on assignment for al jazeera in jeanine in the occupied west bank on may. 11th at her funeral is really forces beat back mourners and who bears, causing her coughing to nearly hit the ground, to widespread in the nation. tens of thousands attended her funeral,

a testament to how loved she was by those whose life she reported on. investigators in the united states and in the end, israel found that there was a high possibility that trugreen was killed by his ready soldier. but that it wasn't intentional that there would not be a criminal investigation. in other words, there would be no justice as much as we appreciate all officials and a religious leaders who continue to support those. oh words are not enough. at this point, we need more than words. we need action. we need concrete accountability to hold the perpetrators, the soldier who killed shooting accountable. so that we don't, ah see this happening again. we need to put an end to this. so no other family should have to suffer like ours. a poignant to the day. you book this memorial mass health for sitting in the italian capital. aside from the public, political and diplomatic efforts by the family to seek accountability and justice

seemingly so hard to achieve. a reminder to that, this is a family struggling with a very painful and personal grief. stephanie decker al jazeera vatican city is when the forces of rate in the home of a palestinian activist who was killed in august, troops attacked abraham noble seas house in nablus. and reported the arrest in his brother e. add. the operation is the latest to the series targeting members of the palestinian on group lyons den in the occupied west bank britons nearly to richie soon. aca has been put to the test of the house of commons in his 1st prime minister's questions . he defended the re appointment of sue and bravo manners, home secretary, after she was forced to resign just last week due to a data breach. and fisher has more fragmented little more than 24 hours is taking the top job. richie sooner stood in the house of commons for the 1st time as prime minister from the opposition labor party,

an acknowledgement of the historic moment. my welcome, they prime minister, the fast british, asian prime minister is a significant moment in our national story. but there was a quick return to rody partisan politics and the coal ordinarily general elections . that working people have their sy, i'd call a general election richie sooner and echo from his words on tuesday, insisting his monday was clear. our monday is based on a manifest so that we were elected on to remind him an election that we won and a lot elliott you prime minister, met his leadership team for the 1st time, but he's already facing criticism for his appointment of so l a. braverman as home secretary, the you case, interior minister. she was sacked just a week ago by las trust for a classified data breach, an appointment as soon as i was forced to defend contact the home safely made an error of judgement. but she recognised that she raised the matter and she accepted

ha miss day. far away from westminster. the political upheaval has exhausted people who are at least willing to give the new man a chance. i just want a booster, that is he, i think it's like everybody else. and obviously we need to know where we are and, and how much things are going to cost very in each are times. and it a think it san, difficult a body in different countries. so yet if people a chance richie sooner has warned of heart economic choices ahead, but the announcement of how the government will repair the countries finances has been delayed by the change at the top. it's also extremely important that that statement is based on the most accurate possible economic forecasts and forecast public finances. and for that reason, the prime minister and i have decided that it is prudent to make that statement on the 17th of november. and as prime ministerial debut school,

this was perhaps as good as richie sooner could wholly free, but the issues facing less trust happened, disappear. please questions, and there will be tougher days ahead. alan fisher, al jazeera, westminster, french president, emmanuel mccoy and german chancellor, olaf shouts have met in paris to try to resolve differences on policy. and the 2 nations of clashed over europe, position on energy defense and the war in ukraine. after the meeting shots said the pair had a good and important discussion on the it is a palace issued a statement pledging their renewed commitment to solidarity principles. i somehow borrow has more from paris on the franco german relationship. the used to c i to i, when it comes to the major issues in, in europe to the point where 20 years ago they established the franco german council, a joint cabinet meeting where they would meet on a regular basis. it was, it was, it was always sending the positive message about 2 countries determined to move

forward together. they knew what they want to do and then you exactly what they want to achieve. except that this time, things seem to be a change. and this is why the french are very skeptical, worried about what could happen in the future. they saw that the german center, while shoals is moving to words, the ease with his trip upcoming trip to china. the french were hoping to see president manuel macro, traveling with him to show that the e remains united in its bush to ask the chinese to redefine what they want to achieve as far as europe is concerned. but it was the fall out of the was an invasion of the crate. the has completely changed the dynamics of what's happening in europe. and this is where the french are pretty much concerned. just to give you an idea about the divide, which is growing between the 2 nations. when the germans decided to put a $100000000000.00 to modernize the military. the said that they were going to buy

a $35.00 fighter just from the americans, and also to acquire an anti anti besides system from the, the americans and these rally and from german or companies, the french said why, when we have this scarf, which is a next generation fighter jets built by europeans with the aim to take over the raphael and i saw that the french feel like the germans utter a won't from now onwards to act on their own us. most of us come the south tipping the scales. news even marks in historic moment, reaching and majority of women in parliament will take you to nairobi where a film festival is aiming to unite global communities. lou down with catch racing. i sure to hear about what it means to be seen for the world cup. ah

hallo, the weather remains res, remodeled across a good pass if you re, mouth over towards that western side, if you happen to remain very unsettled, as well as a cloud piling into western parts. nice autumnal storm fading in, but as i said it is mild winds coming in from a sadly southwesterly direction around our area of low pressure, which has been churning away in a similar area for the last few days or so. so we're looking at temperatures getting up into the 20s once again across the western side of year, we could well get into the low twenty's there, into berlin, so well above the sea, no average. there is some unsettled weather around. we have got some outbreaks of cloud and rain once again, mainly affecting those western parts. streams of wet weather coming into ireland into wiles, pushing into scotland still some very wet weather there, into portico,

western parts of a spy, and that makes its way a little further east, which as we go on through friday, the 1st said filarious, as you can see, it is largely dr. 021 celsius bomb conditions here on the try, whether they're across so much of the mediterranean, a lot of drive by the to northern pass of africa. can you show as still there down towards the gulf of guinea. they are slowly but surely sinking the way further south as i should do. but i do extend to liberia. ah, but in these turbulent times, up front returns for new seasons. join me, mark them on hill as we take on the big issues. they are literally being turned back. how is this not a contravention of international law? this is exactly the place for us to interrogate people about issues that matter from the state of democracy around the world. to the struggles faced by the under represented. those voices have to be brought to the table they have to matter. we have to start to talk about the issue. we will challenge the conventional wisdom up

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or one of the top stories here now to 0. confrontations are taking place between iranian security forces and demonstrators. in hometown of massa, many thousands of protesters marched to the cemetery where she was buried to mock 40 days since her death in police custody. these 15 people have been killed in iranian southern city of shiraz. please say a gunman went into a shrine and open fire. he was shot and taken into custody. and lebanon has started repatriated, hundreds of syrian refugees. officials say they returning home voluntarily, but rights groups are concerned about their safety. ukraine has acknowledged that it's counter said offensive in the south has become more challenging due to weather conditions, and the terrain keeps forces of piling, pressure on russian troops in these strategic region of house on threatening president vladimir putin with another big battlefield set back. but the prospect of a new setback from moscow as fuel fears that it could use a nuclear weapon. very force. it has more from keith,

ukraine's long counter offensive for her son grinds on. but despite russia's recent order to evacuate civilians and reports of some military drawback, the message from ukraine is at the russians. a digging in for a fight. manipulable federal bureau or changing positions are intelligence confirmed that they have been reenforced by very many recruit the levels that they are strengthening, their flanks. they take up trenches because they fear our air force. and if you're artillery and soldiers lose, a thin of new quote was destroyed. russian army tells the tale of ukrainian gaines . the russian general in charge of this war recently talked of difficult decisions having to be made around her son. attracting speculation that ukraine might soon retake it in time for winter. but ukraine is now talking about russian reinforcements and obstacles to progress towards the end of the month. the situation on the front line itself is very tense. the enemy has dug itself in, and at the moment it seemed they do not intend to leave. it is noticeable that they

worked to reinforce their dug out. trenches and fortifications went away from ukraine. russia's armed forces, we're carrying out exercises on wednesday, simulating coordinated use of nuclear weapons launched from land sea and air. or the russian military says it's in preparation for a response to an enemy attack. russia's president, making more unsubstantiated claims about a nuclear threat from ukraine, including a radiological or dirty bomb, is that you hold them. they ignore the statements of the cave regime about the desire to get nuclear weapons. after all, the key authorities said that openly, no, every one is keeping quiet. there are also plans to use a so called a dirty bomb for provocations. russia state media is amplifying such claims still further saying that ukraine intends to put a dirty bomb inside, a fake russian missile, and designated overture noble. at every turn, such accusations have been dismissed by ukraine and its allies as absurd, dangerous, transparently false, either escalate, re,

russian grandstanding or an indication that rusher itself intends to use such a device. but conventional weapons continued to do damage enough here and to me pro a petrol station set ablaze by a russian strike emergency cruise said 2 people, including a pregnant woman, were killed every faucet, al jazeera keith, meanwhile, has been more shelling in the east, a russian missile strike target into a college building interest give car south of cannot ask in the internet's region out there as a bag. is there ukrainian say that this culture building with the early hours of this morning by 300 rocket now they say it's a college building. we've seen the rubble, we've seen have used the textbook and the mouth of the burning and the dust is still very potent in viet this college building. it's rounded by residential flats,

half all the windows have been blown and the clean up clean up operation has been taking say all morning and you can see the result of this last not window does not cover. they've been working all morning to try to restore to some of these apartments. and some of these people will just have to move out because they can't say neither ukrainian military or saying that the russians continue to mount defensive in the east and in the south in their cranium. say that they've managed to repel russian attacks. but they said in the last 24 hours, this mean 30 strikes over 100 rocket strike. one person was killed, one pregnant woman was killed. and the need for a picture station is undecided to say because of the weather because of the rain you offensive. ukrainian offensive has been slow down because it's difficult to move military personnel as well as military equipment. but it's difficult to know exactly what's taking place in cost on because ukraine is, do you have a media blackout as impossible to impossible to get access to the area. but here in

the east, the battle continues and back to the south of us. but as i said, this area here was hit in the early i was, i caused a lot of destruction. ukraine's deputy prime ministers urged refugees who fled the country to stay abroad this winter because of severe constraints on the power grid . up to 40 percent of ukraine's energy facilities have been seriously damaged in russian strikes. to save power, the government is already implemented. rolling power outages up to 4 hours across the country. did risky, pos, perky one in there. what? which to were. i'd like to take this opportunity to ask the refugees, not to return. we need to survive the winter, john. unfortunately, the electricity network won't survive it. what you can see, what russia is doing. every one sees every thing to return now is to risk yourself and your children, your vulnerable relatives who may be ill, bed ridden or elderly. a russian court has dismissed claims that jailed opposition

leader alexander valley has been sent to a punishment. cell. pneumonia dressed the court via video link from prison, he says he was kept in a punishment cell for 2 months by himself. and another time for calling an officer by his name, no only was arrested in russia last year on his return from germany, where he'd been recovering from nerve agent poisoning, which he blames on a kremlin. he serving a 9 year sentence on charges of fraud and contempt of court allegations he rejects as politically motivated, usually even home considered the worst offender. and i am in solitary confinement because of systemic fabrication of ridiculous violations, or even ashamed to admit, i addressed an officer by his name. seriously. how else can i address him? i'm alone and a punishment. so for 2 months, there is nobody in a punishment. so there are people in cell type rooms, but there is no one and a punishment. so, but me residence of india's capital, new delhi,

say the city is soaring, pollution levels are making them choke. schools or people have queued at hospitals . air quality is deteriorated days after devali celebrations, thousands of people it firecrackers to celebrate the festival of lights, despite a government ban, burning crop residue, neighboring areas, as also added to pollution levels and united states. midterm elections are fast approaching. a few key races could determine which party controls the senate. one is in the state of pennsylvania, where the 2 leading candidates faced off in a highly anticipated debate. christian salumi reports by read 47 studios in harrisburg, in the 1st and only pennsylvania senate debate. the key question was whether democrat, john ferryman, was up to the job after suffering a stroke more than 5 months ago. and you may notice these large monitors that are behind us. this is part of our closed captioning system. and despite seeing the questions in writing,

the man once considered the candidate to beat at time struggle to make his point here on raising the minimum wage. that's, that's the most american bargain. that if you work full time, you should be able to live in dignity as well. true. and i believe they haven't have any businesses being being oh, you can't have businesses being subsidized by not paying and individuals that just simply can't of have to, to pay their own way. money. republican ma'am, at oz has been trying to capitalize on growing concerns about the economy. he's not released cognizant of the real challenges of business owners who got the balance that with employees. thankfully, we have a solution at john, you didn't answer the question, you can't put businesses out of a commission in order to pay more wages because they won't be to wages will go to 0 regardless of their performance, whether it was restoring the right to an abortion on a national level for democrats or rising crime for republicans, both candidates largely stuck to their campaign talking points. pennsylvania

embodies the political tug of war in this country between democrats and republicans . donald trump won the presidential election here in 2016 joe biden in 2020. and in this year senate race both candidates are sticking closely to their party platforms, while at the same time attempting to show that they're more pennsylvania and less washington d. c. it's a contest of personalities. political scientists to sara nibbler has been following the race. they're both running as political outsiders. right? no one wants to be part of the, the washington establishment or, or, you know, government in washington. inflation is weighing heavy on pennsylvania voters. i'll forget any one has gone to a grocery store and bought some eggs or milk or anything like that and found out how much you know their own increased for some party platform is more important than debate performance. it turns into an argument that's not in my opinion, won't help me make

a decision. it just turns me off. an pennsylvania voters with so few senate races and serious contention could very well determine which party controls in the senate . kristin salumi al jazeera harrisburg, pennsylvania. you zealand is marked to historic moment as it reaches a majority of women in parliament. sariah peaky mason has been sworn in replacing the former speaker. trevor mallard. she brings the balance to 60 women and $59.00 men. the country is among only 6 in the world where women make up at least half of parliament, globally, only 26 percent of elected politicians are women. i think it's a proud though for new zealand that we've reached a significant more so after all, we were the 1st country to grant women the right to vote. a unique film festival has been held in kenya that aims to tell human interest stories based on sustainable development goals. some of the films were screened in canberra, a well known, informal settlement in nairobi. organizers say the goal is to connect communities

around the world. catherine, sorry, reports a tale of a woman living with disability in kenya. it's an uncomfortable film about maneuvering physical and sexual challenges in a conservative country like kenya. so it was one of dozens of forms, all that honored excellence in bringing to life the un sustainable millennium development goals. global leaders set an agenda 7 years ago to and poverty hunger protect the environment, among other things. but it has been a struggle. ledia motta warned the top award. she sees her film called some gura or rabbit in swahili is a story that needs to be told. we can decide that that woman does not dissolve. what we hold pushes poor because she is from a southern please,

because she has on disability. and stds it's about you know, artic score. it's about that there are many people who are excluded from busy rates . the theme of this year's festival focused on covet, 19 climate change and conflict. this is the 2nd time the ceremony is being held here in kenya. and the idea is to tell more stories on the impact on communities in the world. some of the films was screened in canberra, one of the most famous informal settlements in the city. or do you need to say it shows the contrasts and successes of the global goals? those who came to what the screening said, the mostly worry about bread and butter matters because i know that it's going to be rather, it's as you're going through a lot. but my, what you got may wasn't be the feel that now like give me another perspective of late of olive people are in the you know, the handle as we reached before. another form that captivated audiences was about

the race to save a shin forests from logging companies in north america and columbia. what happens a lot in north america as people just think these are regional stories. and, but i think it really shows that, you know, the cutting down of fours is, is a universal theme from country to country. and the filmmakers see the intent to continue to use that platform to tell stories that mata to millions of people. catherine's soil 0 nairobi, sports is coming up after the break. and the champions league barcelona, is horrible. campaign gets even worse at the hands of by munich. ah ah.

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off taking care of at 3. know huh. grabs the with the ultimate goals. coming from darwin, news and harvey elliot pool are 2nd in the group behind natalie. and they'll have to be the italian side next week. at least full goals to change, hopeful thought themselves ticket to the round of 16, but they still leave that group full thing. listen, went ahead in their 1st half before and feel the rodrigo been thank lives and the ac is minute. thought them thought they found a winner in the zine seconds. the goal was overturned for offside manager and tony conte was furious. you can see that he received a read called protesting the officials, the match finished on one and port. so through to the knockout stages. calling for new victory over group leaders club, bruce victory left us that's coming through needing to be by and have

a consent. but they only managed to draw the spanish side were given a penalty off the full time through the a all. but not only did they miss the kick, they somehow missed 2 more shot from the rebound. the me now will cut thongs. i've been catchy throughout the years. everything from pit bulls. we all want to secure is walker walker. well, now we have high higher collaboration between is national thing is on a country office with only 25 days to go to the big tournament. the girl sky looks at how the world comp husband, pivotal to developing the else and the culture, seeing and cuts off. this is the amphitheatre at the katara cultural the lead share . this is really the heart of the art music and culture scene in doha. and the stage is literally right now being set for the world cup. because this is one of the places where there'll be lots of music. another entertainment happening for the fans that are visiting for this tournament. and the arts and culture scene and the

music scene in kathy has really blossomed over the last few years. i spoke to one and catherine singer who went from posting her videos on instagram to finding herself singing the welcome song. 6 ah if you don't know this song yet, by the end of the world cup living rent free in your head. ah, i a high up better together was the 1st track to be released for council 2022. i got to meet one of the stars of the song catch re singer. i am so thrilled to be speaking to you. we're all singing in the office higher, higher, higher for what does higher, higher actually mean? so the meaning in arabic, me is like, let's go it kind of, it's kind of calling people to get up and, ah, celebrate,

enjoy. so that's like the general meaning of the word pe. and when i 1st became aware a few, you were posting videos of your singing on instagram, to blue. how did you go from posting your videos on instagram to then suddenly singing the well cut song? i think it has a lot to do with people's reaction to my music. my singing. ok for me i was just doing it for fun. i never like, never thought that i would be here just because i'm forcing things on the moon. ah, i think it was very rare to see like a guitar, a woman singing on line. ah, i remember you walking out on to the stage in april at the fee for draw,

singing your song higher, higher. it seemed like such a groundbreaking moment because like you mentioned earlier, we hadn't seen singers looking like you on such a global stage. tell me about that. there was another life changing experience for me. i just really focus on myself, focus on whatever mission i have to fulfill in that moment. and i don't think i just don't think i just feel and that's how i will like go through it. and then when i'm done, that's when i look back at the videos and i'm just like what, what did i do? how did i really do that? i just do that. you know, that's when it hits me that, like it's such a surreal moment. such a big achievement. ah, when you're standing on stage in your scene, do you feel that you're singing for your country and for cattery women? definitely. i definitely feel like i have a mission and i it's not an easy one. ah,

although i'm getting a lot of support, much more than i ever thought i was going to get ah, but it's still emission. i'm still doing something that's different. i'm. i'm still opening a new door. but just being that initiator for other women, so it makes it worth it. i'm happy to be that person for other woman. i'm happy when i get videos from little girls are singing my song. you know, they just gives me goosebumps, it makes me very happy because i feel like growing up. i needed that. and i'm happy to be that for someone else. i get up and celebrate. the message is higher, higher, but the impact of ices performance on the song. one last long past the find this to pull, i'm joined now by sad else away d in this wonderful venue. perhaps you'll be performing hey one day that tell us about yourself. well, my name is sally sweetie. i'm 27 years old and i am

a local custody wrapper here in the music scene. tell us about this music scene in cat. ha, how does it look? well, it's definitely over the past years started blossoming and started developing into something that's on the global skills. you know, we have a lot of the younger generation coming from outside studying abroad coming back into the country and really having a passion for music and adding their own touch to the traditional sound. so i'd say over the past years, it's really developing something beautiful and artistic. how did you get to rap? i got into ra when i was, i think about 15 years old. i started writing down like poetry and then my brother told me why don't you put it on a beat. so he was producing my belief, the sound that i, i rap on and just from there on since 2017, i kind of went to head on 1st with it. i understand he's prepared something for us, so take it away. yes, i did. okay. big body car is 7 in the garage. busy all white though, been a chris. no, i got diamonds on the cuff, italian lead. they're not all. i'm chilling in the my just come,

hey york to all this was visionary. i'd be extra. never ordinary me more fair. some people was they stationary? let's prevail. and then excel, we put work into this, go check the details. you see the most hated the most debated and i am the towns greatest your girlfriend's favorite. and i don't swear to thing i was born in this heat, not mahala b a but it is just as sweet. you know, we represent deafness for ridge. we don't play no gains, just go ask la eve and we're gonna ball out. like every week you think we've reached the pinnacle we are yet to peak because i'm from the city that's like paradise. that's no surprise watching us like it's televised. i'm on one. they got me feeling how and life world cup. you know that we're about to strive. what do you want people to know about doha, before they come here? what i want people to know about does that, if not what they think, if you haven't been to doha, when you come here, you're going to be in for a shock, but a good shot because it's definitely a country that is flourishing. and i think right around the world cup hits on to

some on november 23rd. it's going to be a big celebration side also. 80 everyone. wow. that was quite literally a rap this venue empty now because it's the middle of the day, but seen in the next few days, it will start to fill up. there'll be lots of events here. as i mentioned earlier, music festivals of fashion shows as well. and there's a really, really nice beach here, so fans will want to enjoy that too. katara is really all about culture and it's a great place to come and meet and understand the culture of cattle. to help you with that al jazeera, we'll be covering every single game will have reporters all over the place. will be it every single kick from rap to afro beach. because one of the songs that you heard earlier that i show the singing was called love. and one see from nigerian artist to see k, i listen a now

c k which i'm post excited about is heading to catalyst for the world cup. and i need to say we spoke to the 27 year old and started by asking him about his younger, of music, afro beats everything to me it's my cultures. be excited, dr. catching up to me right now, you know, last year with such a huge by no doubt that you love everything. you please. this is music that came from afternoon either to chuckled all to the route. i think it's a very interesting times. it's witnessed this explosion. applewood add even more excited to be at the forefront. really excited to know. i have been on

the past on transit, so it would be a huge pleasure to be in cuts out for the 1st time. and i also like very too many shoes moment like to book special with foresee we didn't qualify for the woodcock, but she still nigerians in the walk, you know, with the music and away we're still there. you know, just can't get rid of what. so you spoke for now and me think that i'll be more late, i'll hunt you back to london. sorry, thank you very much need and that's it for me on taylor for snoozer. i'll be here in a moment with another full run of today's news. thanks so much watching bye for now . ah

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