promising he rescued the country's impoverished population but it might not be that simple i'm john homan and i'll tell you more. hello and welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia we've all but lost the showers across find there and down thirty degrees.

has given them just enough to survive and those like a year or more voting in the hope of change john homan how does it make to account the strain on government is one of major trade disputes have its plain packaging laws for tobacco products the well to trade organization has ruled the laws have helped improve public health cigarette manufacturers are required to remove all logos and branding from their products to introduce the losen twenty eleven but if a strong opposition from tobacco producing countries. and manufacturers like philip morris would sued the government for what it called brand damage the case was thrown out and the tobacco firm was ordered to pay the government's legal fees the latest complaint to the w t o was filed by cuba douras and dominican republic and indonesia all tobacco producing countries who claim the law was damaged international trade and violated intellectual property rights but that claim was rejected and the ruling is expected to accelerate the rollout of plain packaging laws in other countries some chap is a public health professor at the university of s

presidency one of the crucial facts and the election with a little less hoffa vote and the thirty five john homan has more from mexico city. a quick tucker break before a national louder and beyond the get on with cramming for their finals to finish in university at a critical moment the mix camillus tour race is gearing up and they clear what they see is the key issues that i for. example work that at least there is work for those of us who are heading out of university that and crime we don't have security almost anywhere pollsters say that ties in with what many young voters want more a better paid jobs lower murder rates and less corruption of the candidates should be listening the young vote is all important this election almost forty five percent of the electorate is under thirty five they could swing it for the winner. they're overwhelmingly urban online a more educated than their parents are also more likely to vote left good news for front runner money well and that as lopez obrador that is if they turn out to talk well why the young vote tends not to a mexico is notoriously corrupt poli

crop of leaders will have the chance to show if they can protect the mexicans including them so john homan. still to come on the news hour. with a major there. are not. the world cup details . business updates. business updates. opec ministers i gathering in vienna with a big decision on global oil production expected saudi arabia and russia rushing opec to increase oil production again after eighteen months of tight control but iran and other members from maine fiercely opposed to friday's ministerial meeting is like basically one of the toughest in recent memory paul brennan reports from vienna will they or won't they that's the question vexing energy analysts ahead of friday's opec ministers meeting with the ministers agree a compromise or is opec heading for a splits it could be a shortfall by the end of the year something like one point six to one point eight million barrels a day it will take time for anything to filter through say whatever they decide to do in the next few days it will be installed but it will have an impact on the market but they also want to ensure against is that

it's been a violent campaign activists say they've been one hundred fourteen political killings john homan reports. on his way to a rally merril candidate pascual turner were passes a grim reminder of what happened to the man he recently replaced on air and was the candidate before me here they stopped him and killed him he was lying here and so the police found him with his car engine still running. past. our own bella is one of more than one hundred politicians killed local level and what may be the country's deadliest election season. says he's not scared elizabeth martin is on the other hand admit she's terrified she's received death threats addressed not just to her but also her daughter from this what's up account to vocal middle yes i live in fear i try to beat it every day i turn of the whatsapp in the night i'm frightened of the messages that arrive after eleven pm. dirty into party politics play some part in the violence but experts say it's mainly due to mexico's multiplying criminal gangs they're increasingly pushing politicians to turn a blind eye or join in with their illegal

crop of leaders will have the chance to show if they can protect the mexicans including them so john homan. quibbler the u.k. says that e.u. citizens who want to stay after breaks it will be able to apply using a new registration system the government insists it wants to make the process of staying as easy as possible. many europeans living in britain worried about their future as well ports. that has left italian composer dimitris colorado in a limbo is among three and a half million citizens living working and paying taxes in the u.k. who will now have to pass government checks in order to be able to remain in britain after it leaves the e.u. . will have to undergo criminal checks. undergo proving that you've been continuously resident here. yes it will be fine for the majority mother will be lots of cases where we've got lots of look both american fans and i can witness love a lot of anxiety lots of fear. the british government's promise to allow mostly you citizens to stay in the u.k. providing they've been in the country long enough haven't broken any laws and pay a registration fee t

has given them just enough to survive and those like a year or more voting in the hope of change john homan how does it make to account . valley's international airport has closed and hundreds of flights are canceled after a volcano erupted on the indonesian island ash and smoke shot more than two kilometers into the air from mountain kong at least four hundred fifty flights were canceled affecting about seventy five thousand people officials fear when could carry ash towards java indonesia's most densely populated island on a gun began erupting last year forcing tens of thousands to evacuate the health minister of the democratic republic of congo says his government is just weeks away from declaring the country a bowl of free the last outbreak killed twenty nine people the government says vacancies given to more than three thousand vulnerable people were very effective vaccines that is an ebola epidemic in two thousand and fourteen killed nearly eleven and a half thousand people across west africa a stunning government has won a major trade dispute over its plain packaging laws for tobacco

has given them just enough to survive and those like a year or more voting in the hope of change john homan how does it make to account . a spacecraft that's taken off from cape canaveral in the us is set to be the last of its kind three two one. we have ignition and lift off the falcon nine rocket pilot companies they say resupplying the international space station is part of a nasa mission but the company says it's. the last time it'll use this type of rocket it will now focus on producing rockets that can be used after returning from space. you're watching al-jazeera i'm still robin these are all top news stories more than one hundred refugees and migrants are missing feared drowned after their boat capsized off libya's west coast the bodies of three young children have been recovered at least sixteen people survived. but then. there were one hundred twenty people on board on our way different broke a wooden piece pierced it and then the boat started sinking and the water started to rise everyone died women children elderly people mean all of them died. i was forced to get on board famil

veterans but the young should still play a vital role in who gets in and how the country moves forward john homan mexico city now the u.s. is being accused of playing a dangerous game by stopping terrorists and steal an element of them from some of its closest allies canada mexico and the e.u. are planning retaliatory moves in what could be the start of a trade war economists say it could damage the u.s. economy and a gal who reports are from miami. like many states florida's construction industry has been booming for years demand for new development is being driven by a strong economy and in this state alone half a million people working construction but the rising cost of steel and allen minium could say developers deal a serious blow to the entire industry it hurts us a lot in the fact that unpredictable makes it very difficult for us to sign contracts that i know for sure we can complete for the. number that the developer really needs us to do it for consumers to could end up out of pocket as u.s. manufacturing prices rise and the agricultural sector braces for retaliation from the e.u. canad

has given them just enough to survive and those like a year or more voting in the hope of change john homan how does it make to account . if your peers economy has grown as a faster rate than any other african country in the past ten years but foreign investors and local businesses complain that a shortage of foreign currencies are a us dollar holding back the private sector mohamed of the reports from this. this is the great if the opener missiles dumb on the blue nile nearing completion the project has been fully funded by the government and the people of ethiopia it's a fact that many here are proud of yet them vicious infrastructure projects like the dam have put pressure on the country's foreign reserves which are already short supply for in kind of the shortages the worst that i've witnessed in my entire life and it's all time lows that we have heard of and seen and this is because look at they kannan me look at the construction sector and you look at the manufacturing sector that imports everything and the government projects all those that have been planned and viciously have slowed

crop of leaders will have the chance to show if they can protect the mic seconds including them so john homan does it or whatever. al-jazeera has launched the second phase of its international press freedom campaign when the news is restricted and censored the press. it condemns the harriss ment of journalists and urges people to demand press freedom around the world the launch comes one year since saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind any chip imposed a blockade against qatar one of their demands is the closure of this network. china's ban on important plastic waste means other countries are being forced to find new ways to deal with their rubbish it could end up revolutionizing global recycling by making smaller countries improve their own collection and handling of plastic florence three reports some kind of lump or. plastic getting a new lease of life as waste is refined and turned into small pallets they're packed in this factory in the southern states in johor and sold to manufacturers the plastic is then turned into other goods anything from piping to home appliances c.r. ken who has spent hi

crop of leaders will have the chance to show if they can protect the mexicans including them so john homan does it or. i was there as long as the second phase of international press freedom campaign when the news is restricted and censored the press is not free it condemns the harassment of journalists and urges people to demand press freedom around the world the launch comes one years and saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt impose a blockade against qatar one of their demands is the closure of this network. and al jazeera journalist backward hussein has spent more than five hundred days in them ships and prison his daughter has issued a public appeal for her father's release. my father. and. my dad. citizen who hasn't done. anything that would harm his country who he loves. who are the release of my father and. who can support to support. china's ban on importing plastic waste means other countries are being forced to find new ways to deal with their rubbish it could end up revolutionizing global recycling by making smaller countries improve their own collection and handling of plas

veterans but the young should still play a vital role in who gets in and how the country new steward john homan al-jazeera mexico city. itself is there these are the top stories spain's new prime minister pedro sanchez has been sworn in and he takes over from marion out of why he lost a confidence vote in parliament following a corruption scandal but then his party also being sworn in is egypt's president of the fact that i'll see he secured a second four year term after winning ninety seven percent of the vote in the election in march most of his opponents were jailed or threatened against running. summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un is back on in ten days time made the announcement barely a week after canceling it following a meeting with north korea's former spy chief kim young children. the u.s. is blasting china for what it called a grace of military actions in the south china sea speaking at an international security conference secure defense james mattis accused beijing of using pressure tactics on its neighbors despite trying to claim to the co

has given them just enough to survive and those like a year or more voting in the hope of change john homan how does it make to account . so i had this problem a program trying to blend then many asylum seekers his safe haven in south korea and now face an uncertain future facing the death penalty the egyptian photojournalist arrested for taking pitches during a military crackdown five years ago. and in sports argentina's men's team struggled . three the world cup female players are in a battle for equality. welcome to another look at the international focus is sloshing fighting dry across the middle east as one would expect little more cloud over towards the east inside of afghanistan maybe also into pakistan with the heat very much on some lively showers if you do catch one but for the most part it's bone dry and it's very very hot we're into the forty's for baghdad and for kuwait city pleasant weather around that eastern side of the med by rate of around twenty seven celsius on saturday and similar fatties as we go on through sunday twenty eight degrees celsius the for jerusalem again ba

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has given them just enough to survive and those like a year or more voting in the hope of change john homan how does it make to account . a spacecraft that's taken off from cape canaveral in the u.s. is said to be the last of its kind is the private company space x. is resupplying the international space station as part of a nasa mission we have to pay those says it's the last time that it will use this type of rocket it will now focus on producing rockets that can be re-used after returning from space. good to have you with us adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories here on al-jazeera more than one hundred refugees and migrants are missing feared drowned after their boat capsized off the west coast of libya the bodies of three young children have been recovered at least sixteen people survived. there were one hundred twenty people on board on our way different broke a wooden piece pierced it and then the boat started sinking and the water started to rise everyone died women children elderly people mean all of them died. i was forced to get on board families with children were miserabl

has given them just enough to survive and those like a year or more voting in the hope of change john homan how does it make to account well social media's played a significant role in mexico's election the statistics website statistic dot com says eighty five million people are on facebook in mexico and it's because it seems that it's seen as an alternative source of information compared to the mainstream media either looking now at some examples of what's been done to the bank i'm sick of saying it. this very interest. so in the lead up to the elections this weekend there have been a lot of cases of social media manipulation eskimo says fake news but networks like facebook are trying to address this by deploying content moderators and fact checkers and set up a community standards page addressing hate speech and violent imagery misrepresentation propaganda and also distance information and together with google and al-jazeera they've created the first independent fact checking organization and that's called very thick oddo twenty eighteen which means verified so far they've debugged hundre

veterans but the young should still play a vital role in who gets in and how the country moves forward john homan mexico city the u.n. mission in libya has called on all parties in the city of nerd to take more precautions to protect civilians the eastern city is controlled by several armed groups including some with links to al qaeda but fighting escalated in april when the self-proclaimed libyan national army launched an offensive to take the city the l n a is loyal to the renegade general khalifa haftar the u.n. says at least seventeen people are being killed in the past two weeks and downer is experiencing severe shortages of water food and medicine you know there's a new yorks to call for millions of syrians who want to go home after fleeing the seven year war more than six million people have been internally displaced by the fighting another five and a half million syrians are refugees in other countries now many of them stand to lose their homes a syrian law passed in april allows the government to seize property from people who can't prove ownership the move worries countries hosting the

three weeks to election day the result that barring major surprises seems increasingly inevitable john homan. city. antarctica has lost almost three trillion tons of ice since the early one nine hundred ninety s. according to a new study scientists have tracked the thawing by satellite data and they discovered sea levels have risen almost a centimeter causing a risk of flooding from the pacific islands to florida there have been sighs of relief in the u.s. after river coon swapped the safety of the ground for the terrifying heights of a twenty five story building in minnesota there were fears that rocky could fall as it climb from ledge to ledge the adventure was tracked by nervous followers on social media but the raccoon made it to the roof of the skyscraper on wednesday after animal control enticed it there with cat food still ahead on al-jazeera. i'm joined now in rome where the government is embroiled in a diplomatic standoff with from so brits migration policy while hundreds of refugees and migrants turned away from me to look ahead to spray. on that refugee crisis in europe is bringin

i want to thank president trump and vice president pence gonzalez, john fury and director homan, theyver given up on us. aviac is a group we started because we were tired of not having anybody to go to to get information. when sarah was killed january 31, 2016, i had nobody. but was thankful for politicians in my area, and, you know, president trump was one of the first ones to reach out to my family, and he has been there from the beginning. never left our side. now we just need to get my daughter's killer found, again. my separation is permanent. sarah's never coming home. i never get to take a selfie with her again. i have no more pictures of her. so please, thank you, guys for everything. keep up the great work. our police officers, our border patrol, please continue to fight. thank you. [applause] . >> my name is mary ann mendoza, my son sergeant brandon mendoza was killed on his way home from work by a three-time legal limit drunk who was high on meth. he drove over 35 miles the wrong way on four different freeways before slamming head-on into my son's car. as you know, they cou

i want to thank president trump and vice president pence, barbara gonzalez, john ferry and director homan for all their support. they have never given up on us. aviac was a group we started because we were tired of not having anybody else to go to to get information. when sarah was killed january 31st of 2016, i had nobody. but i was thankful for my politicians in my area and you know president trump was one of the first ones to reach out to my family. and he has been there from the beginning. never left our side. now we just need to get my daughter's killer found. again, my separation is permanent. sarah is never coming home. i never get to take a selfie with her again. i have no more pictures of her. so thank you for everything. keep up the great work. our police officers, our border patrol, please continue to fight. thank you. >> thank you. >> my name is maryann mendosa. and my son was killed on may 12, 2014 on his way home from work by a three time legal limit drunk who was also high on meth. he had drove over 35 miles the wrong way on four different freeways in phoenix before slammin

director homan, thank you so much, you've become an incredible friend. john fury, barbara gonzalez and my new friend kierstrstjen niel. thank you. >> i said would you like to speak? you said no. she said i've been crying too long for too much. it's fine, right? >> yes. >> i want to thank everybody for being here. i know these families, i know many more families that have gone through the same thing, and i cannot imagine it being any worse, but we pledge to act with sdpreth with resolve and in the memory of those who have been lost, so needlessly, and it's because of families like yours that my administration created the new office of dhs, the victims of immigrant crime engagement, which has been doing, i hear, a fantastic job. we call it voice, so your voices can be heard. we released the first voice report within the first months of voice. we opened more than 2800 victims registered to receive information on their perpetrator. we're following these people. we're following them. so it can't happen again by that individual. voice assisted hundreds of families