and speaking to other analysts abdel today they were saying they think this is a big victory for bashar assad and all say it will see a huge swathe of support for him to amongst the syrian people. how do you see the future of the charlotte. well actually are i see you know i said the state believe this kind of experience on the military fields gave him a huge boost and huge credibility i meet a lot of syrians those people who were on the opposition side they are saying not we want to go back we want to go back to syria we need a strong president we actually we can solve our problems ourselves without any help from outside you can see you know to class for seven years of continuous war ceasing. alliance of the american europeans. but which countries and manage actually to stay in there and after that retake all the areas which were actually kept up by devils and military liberals and syria i think this actually will get him back and huge credibility among the syrian people because we remember that many people believed that he wouldn't last two months or one month or something like that h

bywe will hear an address his excellency abdel fattah al-sisi, president of the arab republic of egypt. i request protocol to escort his excellency. [applause] >> on behalf of the general assembly i have the honor to open to the united nations is excellency abdel fattah al-sisi, president of the arab republic of egypt and invite him to address the assembly. >> thank you, mr. president. in the name of god the compassionate the merciful mr. president of the general assembly. allow me at the outset to congratulate you for assuming the presidency of the 72nd session of the united nations general assembly. inish you all the success carrying out your duties. i also seize this opportunity to express the utmost appreciation to mr. peter thompson, the president of the 71st session of the general assembly who has most ably overseeing the work of the session. mr. president, every time we meet at this august body we returned to the hopes and whomations of the people we are honored to represent and serve. to provide them with peace and development. to us toations look up realize their dreams for a

urged the kodesh leadership to cancel it calling it a matter of national security on the abdel-hamid is life or is now an air bill the capital of the kurdish region in northern iraq and how do we just mentioning the opposition to this referendum is there a continuing sense of defiance among among the kurds. well at the moment we haven't heard any reaction to the statements coming out of there ron but i don't think it comes as a surprise to the kurdish authorities and maybe probably also to the kurdish people iran has made it very clear since a very long time as much as turkey did that it was against any kind of move towards independence by the kurdish region and i think this is this is because of several reasons mainly and ask any courage here that the answer you would give you is that iran itself has a large kurdish population estimated at around ten percent of the you are new in population a lot of the kurdish opposition parties are based here in northern iraq and probably is a bit worried that if this referendum goes ahead it might boost also the aspirations of the iranian kurds a

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we've made peace with jordan and egypt, whose courageous president, abdel-fattah al-sissi i met here last night. i appreciate president al-sissi's support for peace, and i hope to work closely with him and other leaders in the region to advance peace. israel is committed to achieving peace with all our arab neighbors, including the palestinians. yesterday, president trump and i discussed this, all of this, at great length. i appreciate president trump's leadership, his commitment to stand by israel's side, his commitment to advance a peaceful future for all. together, we can seize the opportunities for peace, and together we can confront the great dangers of iran. the remarkable alliance between the united states and israel has never been stronger, never been deeper. and israel is deeply grateful for the support of the trump administration, the american congress and the american people. ladies and gentlemen, in this year of historic visits and historic anniversaries, israel has so much to be grateful for. one hundred and twenty years ago, theodore herzl convened the first zionist con

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that alice reza terrorist organization had not changed with this commentator abdel bari atwan gave us his take on the story they actually the american they have a plan b. don't want the syrian army to. which is very close to being iraqi border being don't want pool to to create or to allow some sort of connection between or perceived between the iraqi army and the syrian army in that part of syria but you sort of see that this is this is the most dangerous thing it seems that america they actually would like this boulder to be closed for ever and the same time they don't want to let the syrian army took control there is simply because it feeds it has gas fields and also it is very strategic position and they see the army there is all war this will be the last war on the syrian territory so maybe the americans they would like to prolong this war well as long as they can. to spain now where tensions over the upcoming independence referendum in catalonia are reaching boiling point in the latest developments an eight hour standoff in bath between police and protesters ended with officers

region of northern iraq however vows so press ahead with a vote on september twenty fifth but as hoda abdel-hamid reports from penned when many kurds are worried about the consequences of the referendum. on the streets of silliman it's business as usual here there are no signs of the historic referendum is just a few days away many believe it will be called off for the last hour others like shotgun there would be a worried about the consequences even though she plans to say yes because i want my country to be independent and name is enough for me in so many because we don't trust after there in front of our future is invisible we really don't know enough next year we don't know what next month and tomorrow what. opposition to a vote now is strong going to diminish the main drive is coming from president. and his party and here they have little foothold. his political opponents believe that the timing is wrong we don't have a strong. economy going for a structure we don't have national institutions we are fighting corruption unity among the kurds. and we need to build that trust between citizens a

and others like it are particularly controversial in this story but let's begin with al-jazeera hoda abdel-hamid who is in the kurdish regional capital erbil erbil is the stronghold of muscled barzani the kurdish leader of course and i imagine a lot of enthusiasm for the vote there today what's to turn up in like. well we just actually heard things from the electoral commission year in there been the first one is that actually voting has been extended by one hours instead of ending at fifteen year and sixteen hundred g.m.t. also the first indications of turnout from the electoral commission is a seventy six percent however we don't have a breakdown of that now looking at why haven't throughout the day and speaking to people on the ground we do know that in the hope and it would be the traditional stronghold of masoud barzani and his k.g.b. party turnout was quite high we also know that there was quite a high turnout in the lab and insulin many here we are hearing actually conflicting reports i have to say i was there just a few days ago and you see none of the atmosphere you see here behind me w

our hopes for a brighter future we've made peace with jordan and egypt whose courageous president abdel-fattah. i made here last night i appreciate president r.c.c. support for peace and i hope to work closely with him and other regions and other leaders in the region to advance peace israel is committed to achieving peace with all our arab neighbors including the palestinians yesterday president crump and i discussed this all of this at great length i appreciate president trumps leadership his commitment to stand by israel side his commitment to advance a peaceful future for all together we can seize the opportunities for peace and together we can confront the great dangers of iran the remarkable alliance between the united states and israel has never been stronger never been deeper and israel is deeply grateful for the support of the trumpet ministration the american congress and the american people ladies and gentleman. in this year of historic visits and historic on a verse or ease israel has so much to be grateful for one hundred twenty years ago theodore hertz will convene the first sinu

his younger son abdel moneim, also a campaigner, told me he knew the risks, but he wanted to speak foritalian giulio regeni. translation: my father actually expected that he might be stopped at the airport, but he chose not to let fear control him. he took the risk to bring the voice of the victims to the un, and the entire world. your brother has disappeared, your father is now behind bars. are you worried that you could be next? translation: i'm living with this fear. it's difficult, but history will remember that i did something. human rights groups say as many as 1,300 people have disappeared off the streets in egypt over the past two years, taken by the military or national security agencies. they say most reappear weeks or months later, in custody, having been tortured. last year, the italian researcher giulio regeni was tortured to death after he vanished in cairo. egyptian authorities denied involvement, but rome recalled its ambassador. though there has been nojustice for regeni, a new italian ambassador has just arrived here. human rights campaigners say that sends the wrong

detract from the need to defeat islamic states and to reconstruct regained territories with hodder abdel-hamid is in erbil the capital of the kurdish region in northern iraq this might be diverse explicit statement coming out of iran but certainly there have been several warnings by the iranian government over the past few months relations actually between duran and the kurdish authorities have been strained for quite a while now. at the bottom line iran sees this as a threat to its own national security in the sense that iran has a sizable kurdish population several iranian kurdish opposition parties are based here in northern iraq and iran fears that this referendum even though non-binding if it goes ahead might. aspirations of. just those are exactly the same fears that turkey has for example now the mood here remains the fire and over the past few days. he has held rallies and he has said very bluntly that the referendum will go ahead because the alternative put forward by the international community. and the u.n. is actually clear enough is not binding enough in the sense that. it. is to

the region's oil revenue and border crossings will get one guests in just a moment but first top the abdel-hamid sets up our discussion from a bill. to no more international flights to and from the airports of evidence eliminator and that should last until the end of the year from now on only for many emergency and military flights will be allowed to land or take up with prior great initiative with the authorities in baghdad domestic flights. as scheduled that many of the people who were leaving today especially because of the wet come here to. part of referendum they said they had cut short their holiday here simply because they did not feel safe to transit through the airport in baghdad now the kurdistan regional government is also refuting to adopt any of the measures demanded by the iraqi parliament the twelve steps that have been issued on when his day the government here say that those are unconstitutional you hear the same word unconstitutional coming out from prime minister here he calls unconstitutional that the referendum that took place earlier in the week at the moment there doesn't

is something they expected even though everybody is a bit nervous thank you very much for that hoda abdel-hamid live for us you know bill in northern iraq. still ahead on al jazeera the pressure grows on over its nuclear program or its north korean businesses in china to shop by the end of the year. and the land down under decides to liftoff australia announces plans to own space agency we'll tell you more. welcome back as we look at the weather across southeastern parts of asia we've seen some pretty heavy showers affecting parts of borneo certainly malays in borneo seen some big rainfall totals with lightning climbing the mountain at kota kinabalu with seventy two millimeters of rain coming down i'm lazy in borneo does get more his fair share of showers during the course of saturday elsewhere we've got some showers scattered across the philippines manila could be quite wet at times for the search party looking largely dry and i was you move up through them and a peninsula is looking pretty wet singapore kuala lumpur and through up into thailand lots of heavy showers expected here could be qui

president massoud barzani is remaining defiant insisting the plans will go ahead but it's hard to abdel-hamid reports from pendry and many kurds are also worried about what about the consequences. on the streets of silliman a year it's business as usual here there are no signs of the historic referendum is just a few days away. many believe it will be called off for the last hour there's like should be are worried about the consequences even though she plans to say yes because i want my country to. name is enough for me. because we don't trust what will happen after their front door our future is invisible we really don't know not next year we don't know what. happens tomorrow what. opposition to vote now is strong gets eliminated yet the main drive is coming from president. and his party and here they have little foothold. his political opponents believe that the timing is wrong we don't have a strong. economy going for a structure we don't have national institutions we are fighting corruption unity among the kurds. and we need to build that trust between citizens and the authority so people

declaration of independence how long that will take is something nobody knows how many thanks of zeros hoda abdel-hamid in abele. the u.s. russia and china have all weighed in after comments made by the north korean foreign minister on monday we on the whole accuse the president donald trump of having declared war on pyongyang russia says that using sanctions against north korea is a strategy that's almost exhausted and china for its part says they'll be no winners in any war on the korean peninsula and the u.s. dismissed the accusations from north korea's foreign minister as absurd but defense secretary james mattis has said that america wants to solve this crisis diplomatically kathy novak reports now from seoul. as he left his hotel heading out of new york north korea's foreign minister read young ho addressed reporters. last weekend trump claimed that at leadership wouldn't be around much longer and ends at last he declared a war no country or do you guys the more that given the fact this comes from someone who is currently holding the seat of the united states presidency this is clearly a declarat

as we have been listening in so as hoda abdel-hamid who's been listening in from iraq's in iraq's kurdish region basically he seems to be making the case for why they are going ahead with this vote. saying that it's it's time kind of giving a bit of a history lesson on what the kurdish people have been through and how patient he says they have been and this is their right to have this vote. making it clear that he's still considers. many people in syria considers everyone their brother as he's . trying to like i said basically litigate why he feels this is important for this to happen and bring in as well has been listening and reporting ahead of this vote that it's going to happen the ballots have already been passed out but how to how would you characterize this he seemed to be trying to make the case for why this matters and it is the choice of the kurdish people it's very important for their rights for this vote to go ahead. absolutely and i started by saying he was. community to the people around the world to explain his position and the position of the kurds over this referendum tha

of oil revenue and border crossings it says the vote was unconstitutional live to al-jazeera hoda abdel-hamid who's sacked erbil international airport for us how to tell us about what's been happening there and how worried are people about the suspension of. a certain degree of worry were we have been witnessing throughout the day is people leaving specially those of the kurdish jasper allowed to come here either on holiday or to take part in this referendum and say you know they had to cut short their time in the kurdish region visiting their families simply because they didn't know what was going to happen next and they didn't feel comfortable as. to go to fly to either fly to baghdad or to go by road to baghdad because the roads are still open there now we've also seen over the past few hours or so a good number of foreigners leaving some of them saying they were scheduled to leave and some of them say that their companies told them to leave earlier than scheduled now the old two more flights left one to. istanbul and one chooses and after that we do the billboard any more international fl

international airlines have stopped landing at airports in the region after a request by iraq hoda abdel-hamid reports now from bill. the last passengers to catch a plane before the closure of the airspace two international flights over the kurdish region four and. it's meant cutting short of a kitchen that was two years in the coming. it was the first time his two year old son born in new york visited the homeland he says he didn't feel safe transiting through baghdad. the measure was taken by the central government in baghdad after the kurds went ahead with their referendum against. iran as the first to close its airspace to the kurdish region a few days ago. that. this airport. for a period of three months only will be allowed but with prior approval. anyone else wanting to travel from here. will have to transit through one of the domestic airports outside of the kurdish region or they can travel around. to the rest of iraq by land but some drivers told us they have avoided going south because they felt unwelcome iraq's government says it's. the whole country to preserve its unity and kurdi

turkey just on the iraqi border turkey fiercest fiercely opposes that referendum let's start with hoda abdel-hamid who's in a bill the capital of iraq's kurdish region given that this referendum is non-binding how enthusiastically are people voting. actually they're very interesting when you speak to people especially the older generation they will tell you that it was something they had lost hope. in their lifetime and really what we've been one of the been seeing for the past two hours since the polling stations open is that you see entire families coming vote bringing their young children i was speaking to one woman asking her why are you bringing the children she said well this is a historic moment we are voting we are saying yes for the future of our children and even if the children come vote we want them to witness and remember that day now the question that. people are asked today is actually world the kurdish regions and areas outside of the kurdish region but under kurdish administration to be part of an independent state this is the ballot and you have the question in four languages kur

region continues to mount for al-jazeera or bill let's take a live update on that one for you hoda abdel-hamid joins us live now from bill so hard to demands from iraq and turkey to how is that being received there. well. when one man speaks the other one immediately happen over the past few days now we haven't seen the official response of the airport authorities we are told the press conference. their position however shortly after. president barzani spoke and he sort of seemed to brush away he didn't really address. that would be collective punishment really. closing the borders i think this is three day period now before that really happens the deadline being friday. three days is a lot of negotiations going on behind the scenes probably involving. iran and then we just have to wait and see at this stage. an immovable object in the middle of this debate and sovereignty for the sovereignty for the iraqis both of them want to maintain that. that is the sort of the impasse but the reality is that there was this non-binding referendum and that the kurdish region of today is exactly the same on

well correspondent hoda abdel-hamid has more now from the capital of the kurdistan region will. this was the final time we hear from kurdish president. before the reverend and takes place on monday and he had some very harsh words for the government in baghdad he said the didn't you iraq the kurds participated in building and went willingly to baghdad for back in two thousand and three turned out to be practical and think tarion country he said the kurds did all what they could they believed a key role in ratify the constitution back in two thousand and five but they did not get what they expected in return then he went on speaking about all the current problems with the central government in baghdad and he said that after the vote they will still be a time for negotiation that independence won't come on the next day and maybe it will take a year or two or even more depends on how good these talks would go but within minutes the prime minister either allowed by the gave us choice statement and he also didn't mince his words he said that baghdad wind never accept the disintegrati

closed the airspace in response to monday's vote for secession baghdad wants the results canceled hoda abdel-hamid reports from a bill. the last passengers to catch a plane before the closure of the airspace to international flights over to kurdish region footage but as a bari it's meant cutting short of a kitchen that was two years into coming. it was the first time his two year old son born in new york visited the homeland he says he didn't feel safe transiting through baghdad. it was. the measure was taken by the central government in baghdad after the kurds went ahead with their referendum against. iran was the first to close its airspace to flies from the kurdish region a few days ago. that. this airport. for a period of three months only special flights will be allowed but with prior approval from authorities in baghdad anyone else wanting to travel from here. will have to transit through one of the domestic airports outside of the kurdish region or they can travel by agreement. is also linked to the rest of iraq by land but some drivers told us they have avoided going south because they fel

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still palpable andra simmons from the turkey iraq border there let's now speak to al-jazeera is hoda abdel-hamid who is in the kurdish regional capital hoda first of all is there any news of when we are going to get the results of the referendum any any signs of results come. well . they have seventy two hours. before they move to declare do a results now we spoke to the electoral commission a while ago and they said that the recounting is still going on they did reveal one figure which at this stage the turnout seems to be at seventy two percent more than that we don't know they said that they hoped that maybe by tomorrow the results will be out but they did say that it was a very high turnout the ballots of you have counted by hand not electronically so it is a process that will take a few a long time but maximum after tomorrow. with those they should have the results if not earlier before we move on to the question of you know the prospects for a future kurdish state i want to put your question here from one of our viewers on facebook mahmoud doro asks whether the involvement of the turkish p

protect its people if the referendum leads to instability that affects turkish national security as hoda abdel-hamid reports now from bill there's also tension within the kurdish region of iraq about this vote. after the vote i think everybody is expecting very tough negotiations whether it is with the central government in baghdad and also within the various political factions here in the kurdish region i mean everyone will tell you that the idea of a kurdistan state is one shared by all kurds but there have been some political disagreements of the various factions for example the second strongest party in the region was against holding this referendum now saying that they are other priorities at the moment for example the economy for example political unity among the kurdish factions military unity among the kurdish factions because you have to bear in mind that the kurdish region has traditionally been divided between two parties each having their strongholds. each having their political parties each having their military and their own intelligence so some people are a bit worried that they will

amy: president trump met with egyptian president abdel fattah el-sisi on wednesday. ahead of the meeting, trump said he's considering resuming military aid to egypt. last month, the u.s. denied egypt nearly $100 million in military funding and other aid, and withheld another nearly $200 million in foreign military financing saying the money would be released when the human rights conditions improve. sisi's government has launched a wide-ranging crackdown against human rights activists and press freedom advocates in egypt. former president barack obama has slammed the republicans' latest effort to repeal and replace the affordable care act. pres. obama: when i see people trying to undo the hard-won progress for the 50th or 60th , to those most affected, for whom coverage once again would be honest unattainable, it is aggravating. and all of this is being done without any economic or actuarial were plain common , it frustrates. amy: that was former president obama speaking wednesday at an event sponsored by the bill and melinda gates' foundation. the health insurance i

a pardon -- despite video showing azaria firing a single shot into the head of the palestinian man abdel fattah al-sharif as he lay immobilized on the ground. meanwhile, the international police organization interpol said wednesday it will add the state of palestine as a member nation. the move came despite fierce opposition from israel and the united states. palestinian foreign ministry spokesperson omar awadallah welcomed the move. >> this is a great victory for posted in diplomacy, one that assures the political leadership are working to put palestine on the international stage and to be a member of the international organizations. bangladesh, aid groups say the number of rohingya muslim refugees who fled ethnic cleansing in neighboring burma over the last month is nearing 500,000. on wednesday, boats carrying hundreds of refugees arrived at bangladesh's coast. refugees say they fled a natural board -- to avoid vigilantes and travel by boat to avoid landmines planted by the burmese military along the border. village is surrounded by buddhist people. they want to kill us. that is why w

is also opposed to how the abdel-hamid is live for us in a capital of because this region in northern iraq why now has a wrong step to. i think iran now has been maybe more explicit but all along iran has been hinting that any attempt or any move from the kurdish region that would be hinder its own national security is a red would be considered as a red line for iran now the background to all of this is that iran has its own sizeable kurdish population there's also several kurdish iranian kurdish opposition parties who are based here in the kurdish region more in the north east of the of this region and iran does fear like turkey exactly that if this referendum goes ahead well it would bolster the aspirations of its own nash its own kurdish population and i think at the bottom line that's the main issue you have to also add to that the close political and military relation that iran has with baghdad it has one with a good history but certainly not as close ties as with baghdad and baghdad has been firmly opposed to this referendum president barzani standing quite solid saying this isn

abdel meskini was supposed to deliver money and a cell phone to ressam. o'neill's agents arresd m. >> arrests were made that had they not been uncovered... the plot had not been uncovered and those arrests made, we could have had horrific tragedies around the millennium. >> we have two million people, two million people compressed in a small area here in midtown manhattan. >> narrator: o'neill was one of those two million people. if al qaeda struck here, this was where he wanted to be. (crowd cheering) >> five, four, three, two, one! (loud cheering) (music playing) >> and i remember talking to john shortly after midnight. there was a sense of accomplishment. we had just made the arrests in the ressam spin-off, and, you know, certainly we believed that we got everybody that we needed to find, but, you know, you're never really 100% sure of that. >> and so, i think a lot of the fbi leadership for the first time realized that o'neill was right, that there probably were al qaeda people in the united states. they realized that only after they looked at the res

ellora's zaria was jailed in january after the incident in the occupied west bank last year he shot dead abdel fattah a sheriff who was lying wounded on the ground the shooting was caught on video by a human rights group and spread widely online. rights groups are welcoming the king of saudi arabia is the creed to allow women to drive from next june saudi arabia is the only country in the world where women are forbidden from driving and critics say the driving ban is only one of the discriminations that women face in the kingdom burnet smith has more this woman was arrested for her open act of defiance in saudi arabia now not only will lifting the driving ban next june give women more freedom but also helps to rid saudi leaders of a significant public relations embarrassment saudi arabia's ambassador to the u.n. seem relieved that he'll no longer have to defend a policy that critics used to highlight the kingdom's particular interpretation of islam royal decree has been issued in saudi arabia giving women the right to drive . this is a historic day for saudi society for men and women and we ca

the united nations and we are hearing from of course of various leader and leaders next to speak is abdel fattah el-sisi the president of egypt egypt of course one of the country being kept. because. mr president let you. president of the general assembly. to congratulate you for assuming the presidency of the seventy second session coming up of the united nations general assembly which i mean it's looking good i wish you all the success in carrying out your duties and also seize this opportunity to express the utmost appreciation to mr peter tomsen the president of the seventy first session of the u.n. general assembly who has most able to oversee all the work of the session. mr president every time we meet this august body we rekindle the hopes and aspirations of the peoples whom we are honored to represent and serve. to provide them with peace and development of a lot of new generations look to us to realize their dreams for a decent life within a fair international order long haul order that can face challenges. i thought by such as climate change natural disasters of diseases and epi

abdel rahman thank you very much for joining us. pyongyang's top diplomat said president donald trump's tweet that leader kim jong un won't be around for much longer how it was a declaration of war and north korea now has every right to take countermeasures he clued in shooting down u.s. bombers outside of its airspace. last weekend trying to claim that our leadership wouldn't be around much longer and he declared war on our country. the fact that this comes from the united states president is clearly a declaration of war. since the united states declared war on our country we have every right to make counts measures including the right to shoot down united states strategic bombers even when they're not yet inside north korean space. let's go to our diplomatic editor james bays at the u.n. headquarters in new york jane we seem to really have universal course to dampen down the rhetoric but it just got ratcheted up yet another notch today. yes the north korean foreign minister spoke on saturday to the un general assembly but even str