general abdul karim is leading that effort.an, he recently returned to basra from the fight against isis in the north of iraq. 0k, we're going to go and meet some people whose been arrested. wow, 0k. when did you arrest these guys? where were these guys arrested? police say consumption of meth has been doubling year—on—year. so you found all these weapons? that's crystal meth. how many grams? 0ne. 1g. so why has crystal meth taken hold in this city? weak border security has meant drugs have flooded into the country, and economic collapse with youth unemployment at almost 50% means there's a ready market for the drug. after years of war, occupation and insurgency, the locals here had hoped their city would become the next dubai. but there are no skyscrapers here, just high unemployment, crime and corruption. at basra general hospital, psychiatrist doctor al sabbagh has been seeing more patients come forward with meth addiction. what is the scale of the problem? in 2015, the iraqi government, together with the us department of he

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abdul karim ali in this family eat today tomorrow. that's another battle alan fischer al-jazeera djibouti. aid agencies in india say it could be days before the full extent of flood damage in the state of carol is known there's been no rain for the last three days but the vast areas of the tropical region remain under water many people still don't have drinking water or electricity and thomas has this update. and team has moved away from where the worst of the flooding is in kerala so i'm not suggesting by any stretch that all of the water level has dropped to this sort of level nevertheless it has been sunny across the state on wednesday and that means that water levels are dropping that's good news of course but it does mean that pull out of water like best are being left behind this is getting pretty stagnant it's smelly it's the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes and that's a big concern because mosquitoes of course carry diseases now the relief efforts continue they're not yet into a reconstruction phase they're all about get

abdul karim ali and his family today tomorrow. that's another battle. alan fischer al-jazeera djibouti. changes in coal mining technology could be behind the rise in black lung disease cases in developed nations including the us it's now being diagnosed in many younger miners as dion easterbrook reports last time that you remember that your breathing was perfectly normal that your lungs were fine seventy year old chris byron recently traveled halfway around the world from australia to chicago to find out how far his black lung disease has progressed to heart. he was diagnosed two years ago after forty years of mining i kept getting my new. lady of the lungs from the two thousand. and four. byron was among a half dozen australian coal miners undergoing testing at this black lung clinic at the university of illinois and northwestern hospitals. long term exposure to coal dust causes the disease the respiratory illness began declining in the u.s. in the one nine hundred seventy s. and was thought to be eradicated in australia decades ago because of better r

abdul karim ali and his family today tomorrow. that's another battle. alan fischer al jazeera. this week muslims around the world are celebrating. the festival of sacrifice but an indian administers kashmir the holidays been marred by violence and i am has more on that. the sounds of pellet gun shots yelling and smoke from tear gas canisters filled the air in several towns in the indian administered kashmir this week muslims are celebrating the eat or festival of sacrifice leaving many streets quiet. but not here in srinagar after evening prayers on tuesday hundreds of protesters demonstrating against indian rule carried signs hurled stones and even threw tear gas canisters back at police a modern you know. many of our brothers are in jail many are injured with shotgun pellets and many have been martyred the indian forces are suppressing us with their mind we are facing tyranny every day. here is a muslim majority himalayan region it's claimed by both india and pakistan many kashmiris have been opposing indian rule since independence in one nine hundred forty seven. cars got in

abdul karim ali in this family today tomorrow. that's another battle alan fischer al-jazeera djibouti. a massive cleanup is underway in southern india's carolla province after the worst floods in a century more than a million people are living in camps with aid workers warning of more damage even as floodwaters are receding andrew thomas has more from kuala. india's government has been offered more than a hundred million dollars by other governments towards the relief effort predominantly those in the middle east where a lot of people from terror work but according to a report in the times of india india's government is going to essentially say thanks but no thanks india can stand on its own two feet the relief effort is really going at full speed now one hundred million people still in refugee camps and they are being targeted for with food water medicine as we've seen all of that but some people are choosing to leave the evacuation camps and beginning to head home. we've met daniel thomas in an evacuation camp fisherman rescued

abdul karim ali in this family today tomorrow. that's another battle alan fischer al-jazeera djibouti. a former cambodian opposition leader has been denied bail chems circa has been in jail for nearly a year pending trial on treason charges those lawyers say they're worried about his declining health so because cambodia national rescue party was forcibly dissolved just before july selection when hay is following the story from bangkok in neighboring thailand. there had been some hope that kim would be granted bail by the courts in phnom penh given that over the last few days we've seen several people released from prison either having received pardons or having being granted bail such as journalists land rights activists and in one case a political analyst but it seems that releasing at the moment was seen perhaps as a step too far for the government and a judiciary that seen as far from independent will remain in jail awaiting trial on treason charges he wasn't in court for the bail hearing in fact he's only been to court once si

abdul karim. today tomorrow that's another battle alan fischer al-jazeera djibouti i mean mars leader aung san suu kyi will lose another international award for refusing to condemn violence against range of muslims should be stripped of her freedom of edinburgh on a day after she defended the military's crackdown on the minority group in the hind state former nobel peace prize winner has lost seven accolades over the past year she blamed what she called terrorism for the violence that forced more than seven hundred thousand injured to escape to bangladesh a tech giants facebook twitter and microsoft's a hackers are still trying to influence the political debate in the u.s. and beyond they deleted hundreds of fake accounts and websites in twenty four hours paul cheddar jan reports. some of the biggest names in cyberspace on the offensive stopping how groups and deleting hundreds of fake sites and accounts microsoft disappointing its finger at the kremlin accusing russia of trying to manipulate the

abdul karim ali in this family today tomorrow. that's another battle alan fischer al-jazeera djibouti saudi arabia is seeking the death for a female human rights activist for the first time. was arrested two years ago she took part in protests against the discrimination of the shia minority in two thousand and eleven she's one of five activists facing execution human rights watch says the charges against her don't resemble any crime. a newly printed currency has done little to stop hyperinflation in venezuela most businesses remain closed as they tried to work out what to charge for goods after the ball of all was devalued by ninety five percent latin america. venezuelan government supporters tried to rev up with enthusiasm for the newly introduced economic measures described by president reagan as an economic revolution to defeat hyperinflation conspicuously absent from a rally in front of the presidential palace this model himself hasn't made a public appearance since an apparent assassination attempt on august the fourth. if th

abdul karim ali in this family today tomorrow. that's another battle alan fischer al-jazeera djibouti. greek prime minister. officially declared an end to the era of austerity as the nation exits the biggest ever international bailout three hundred billion dollars in loans since two thousand and ten helped greece of void bankruptcy but the past eight years have had a profound effect reports. prime minister alexis tsipras may have been trying to custom self in the role of a hero when he chose to send a message to the greeks that their economic odyssey is over this is the island home his hero odysseus finally returned home to after twenty years of war and adventure and live the same this see america today a new day has dawned for our country historic day the bailouts of austerity recession and a social desert are finally over our country began to the right to shape its own future and fortunes like any normal european country without external device blackmail or sacrifices by our people for this group of young people the news comes t

abdul karim ali and his family today tomorrow. that's another battle alan fischer al-jazeera to. take a look at the headlines right now on al-jazeera the longtime lawyer of the u.s. president says he's ready to talk to the special prosecutors team investigating russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election earlier michael cohen pleaded guilty to charges including put paying hush money on the orders of trump a top democrat in the u.s. senate says cohen's guilty plea is further evidence that special counsel robert miller's investigation should continue president trump's personal attorney pled guilty to federal crimes president trump's first national security advisor pled guilty to federal crimes. a foreign policy adviser to his campaign plead guilty to federal crimes and more trials are coming orders news agency is reporting that saudi arabia has called off both domestic and international stock listing as state oil giant around co that was going to be the largest i.p.o. deal in history the plan was central to be to saudi crown prince but then solomon's raft of reforms t

abdul karim ali in this family today tomorrow. that's another battle. alan fischer al-jazeera. the scenes al-jazeera is going to round up of our top stories u.s. president donald transform a lawyer says he's ready to talk to the special prosecutors team investigating russian meddling in the twenty six thousand election earlier michael cohen pleaded guilty to a charges including paying hush money on the orders of trump and gallagher has more from washington. if michael cohen has information about that now infamous trump tower meeting in which i don't trump jr attended a meeting where he met a russian lawyer to get dirt on a political opponent that could have massive implications implications for donald trump as well as the fact that michael cohen stood up and said that the sitting president of the united states is my coconspirator in two payments made to alleged lovers to which broke campaign finance laws so this is essential a double hurricane for the president of the u.s. national security advisor says a lot more pressure will soon be applied on iran over its nuclear plans and

last week and the right wing identity tarion movement held a festival interest in our colleague abdul karim was there he spoke with activists and other visitors at the event and ultimately became a target of racism himself. much to death i don't want germany to stay germany and light i said what does that mean how does this that's not it means what i said if you don't understand that that's your problem then you've got a big problem then i want to encode this because i'm an immigrant you're going to kazan you're just a german citizen. but not a german or part of german society or the german people just walk. some dodge of my point of view you don't belong to the german people in this village the camera on i know this works or veto have doesn't work explain so it's. kind of only what you can even broadcast of it you know what if you don't like it here then it all somewhere you like better just against the dog it was it wasn't it up out the back where you came from. it's interesting to hear one of the speakers in that incident deprecating german citizenship essentially saying you are only a g

i sat down with earlier today here in new york city to talk about the important case of the lao abdul karim an american citizen and controversial journalist in syria who believes he is on the u.s. drone assassination kill list and is now suing the u.s. government i started by asking matt what drew him to this incredible story. you know i've been following drone stories for a while i've been looking for a way to write about this because i think it's kind of and unexamined issue in american life we sort of briefly after nine eleven there was this moment where we decided kind of collectively that we're going to start assassinating people around the world a week after nine eleven we passed a law allowing ourselves to do that and then the public kind of forgot about it and suddenly i saw that there was this lawsuit last year that involved an american citizen who was going to court because he said he had been bombed five times and the implications of this lawsuit are enormous there's already been one drone assassination that we know of involving an american that's anwar a lockie but this case if

jafar abdul karim's first book examines issues facing germany's community from the perspective of a mediator between two worlds that's nothing new for the door to villager analyst in the last ten years karim has covered issues such as female genital mutilation forced marriage and so-called honor killings he's often reported from arab and african countries including crisis regions. every week karim and his team produce the socially critical youth shabab talk reaching an audience of millions in arab countries. his book strangers and friends will first be published in german it describes his encounters as a reporter in other countries and with people from arab countries who now live in germany the book also highlights his own experience as an arab born journalist who feels very much at home in berlin. and it's my great pleasure to welcome to five of them in the studio with us welcome to fight in reality listen if you look is coming out as you see in straddling two was the arabic world as well as germany one of the issues young people that the arabic would feel strongly about and how different f

abdul karim ali in this family eat today tomorrow. that's another battle. alan fischer. here's what's coming up for you on this news hour supplies for the stranded floodwaters start to recede but new dangers look for those cut off in the set of carola. and sport a rare setback for team china at the asian games and into nature the details about him coming up a little later. so yes those floods in carroll are aid agencies in india say it could be days before the full extent of flood damage is knowing there many people don't have drinking water they don't have electricity and the indian government is turning down offers of foreign aid saying it can cope with the disaster and thomas and kara. and team has moved away from where the worst of the flooding is in kerala so i'm not suggesting by any stretch that all the water level has dropped to this sort of level nevertheless it has been sunny across the state on wednesday and that means that we will see levels are dropping that's good news of course but it does mean that pull out of water like this are being left behind this is

to say without cliches or prejudiced just far abdul karim mediates between two worlds raised in lebanon and switzerland he is a resident of berlin his coverage has included female genital mutilation forced marriage and so-called honor killings kareem has often reported from arab and african countries including crisis regions. every weekend his chain produce a socially critical news show shabab talk which reaches an audience of millions in many arab countries. in his book friend order for indian strangers or friends karim describes his encounters in the field his meetings with people from the arab world who are living in germany and his own experience in this country. a tale of the first ball and the chance when i was still a foreigner is really exciting for me personally. at a certain point i decided i was no longer a foreigner in germany but i had become a part of german society and felt very comfortable here from then on i didn't want to hear someone say you belong here but instead i decided for myself that it was already the case and that's a good thing. just one of the koreans book

germany at the moment and right in the middle is the w's award winning correspondent for abdul kareem now up to karim has just launched his first book at an event here in the heart of berlin the book delves into the complex picture of arab communities in germany and abroad and it is a call for a better understanding of the importance of cultural differences. jaafari . has worked at don't develop for ten years primarily as an anchor and reporter he and his team have already received several awards now his first book is being published. this book is a journey of discovery through our communities both here in germany and abroad what values do they stand for what moves them what do they think what do they want. without cliches or prejudices jochum don't carry mediates between two worlds raised in lebanon and switzerland he's a resident of berlin his coverage has included female genital mutilation forced marriage and so-called honor killings has often reported from arab and african countries including crisis regions. every week he and his team produce a socially critical youth show. which reaches an audie

this is in cleveland, ohio and you can see bill russell, dan, later karim abdul jabar but the guy all the way to the left, you see carl stokes, the only nonathlete and carl stokes two weeks from the photograph will declare race for the mayor -- to become mayor of cleveland. next is walter, with brown that is won championship in 1964, they shut down, 27 to nothing, he was the cornerback, but walter is still alive and walter and i have probably talked 25, 30 times about all of this. when he was going through his life as an nfl player, he was from detroit and met malcolm x, the one we listened segments of but he will be one of the last guys to talk to fred evans before shooting starts. he's a very important guy to me. a wonderful human being, in fact, most of our telephone conversations end with him saying, peace and love, jim, peace and love. and that's appropriate, i think. that's his big tag line. so stokes is running, again, you won't see king with him, but king was there very much and when he came to cleveland he met with pastors but he made sure to include ahmed evans who was the m