i'm andrew thomas with tourists in the rural chinese village were talking about changing paying spent his formative years although explaining why this place matzos president xi as it is policies congress in beijing he taught his grip on. powers.

i'm andrew thomas in sydney all australians a recent survey suggests as many as one in four people here but despite this country being one of the most multicultural in the world. we begin in barcelona where thousands of people are protesting on the streets after spain's prime minister announced moves to impose direct rule over catalonia that angry that is taking steps to suspend the autonomy of a castle and regional government he's asked for article one five five to be triggered which would mean castle and his leaders including its president carter. and a snap election is called measures must now be approved by spain senate next week says madrid had no choice but to take these unprecedented actions. the government has had to trigger article one five five of the constitution that was not our wish or intention it never was i think that most of spain society knows this article one five five is part of our constitution and it is only invoked in extremely extraordinary circumstances no government in any democratic country can accept. the law is ignored or changed this is done by trying to im

i'm andrew thomas with tourists in the rural chinese village where taking that sheen paying spent his formative years i'll be explaining why this place max's presidency has had his policies congress by using. his grip on power. hello there the rain is still tumbling into parts of north america so we're working its way into the northwestern parts over the past few days and is the western parts of canada i think where we're going to see most of the wet weather as we head through the next couple of days as it does so a lot of that will be turning to snow over the high ground now ahead of it we're seeing some fairly strong winds that are firing their way down through the northern plains but. the howling this next weather system here this one has been working its way east with it is bringing us some very heavy downpours and also a bit of a change in the temperature of as well so as the system sweeps its way eastwards behind it it's not feeling as warm so nineteen degrees will be the maximum in new york there on wednesday that sixty six in fahrenheit and for washington d.c. on that some wil

congress she's expected to be confirmed as leader for another five years let's get more now from andrew thomas who joins us live from chatham and square in beijing so andrew president she's name and thoughts are to be inscribed in the chinese constitution forever i mean he's clearly consolidating his grip on power is. he really is i mean is congress has just wrapped up in the last hour all the delegates been pouring out of the great hall of the people behind me and where not to the party to spread the message right across china and that message will primary is that right. control as you say in a vote tuesday of the party members here the working papers part and that means the thought as it's called will be all in shrine in the constitution as you say only chairman mao has ever had his thoughts on in the constitution before even deng xiaoping only have a theory which is seen as a letter to the communist party but you play very. very significant that not only within his own lifetime but within his own presidency just five years into it president xi jinping has his lot in the constitution exactly

andrew thomas is following developments from sydney. getting information from an aside and is difficult at the best of times i have been a man of saddam but recently papa new guinea has been denying me visas whenever i've shown any inclination to go to minus sign and so we're alliance on the information that we get via social media from refugees who i have met in the past inside the prison and what they are telling us is that overnight locals from elsewhere amount of saw and broke into the now facilities the australian godson. have left they broke in and have stolen physical items like accusation is anything of value so father of three no reports of anybody inside the prison has been injured but that is there. twenty fourteen locals brought into the prison when the word god. many aside and say because one refugee was killed their faith full of more events now the prison is unguarded they don't want to leave for the same reason they feel unwelcome they say on mount assad and his government says that these claims of violence are overblown

i'm andrew thomas in sydney all australians writes it's a recent survey suggests as many as one in four people here that's despite this country being on paper one of the most multicultural in the world. how the weather is lost he said barack ross eastern parts of the us but we've got some increasing class spilling into central parts seizing up across the deep south texas will see cloud and rain coming for him another band of cloud and some wintry weather will push its way in across the mountain state that cloud that will stand up towards the northern plains easing up into the canadian prairie sunshine for the eastern side of the u.s. into eastern parts of canada further west we are going to say that really wet weather pushing in across the good parts of seattle pushing over towards oregon into the western side of kind of a little sneak a little further research as we go on through sunday so washington state oregon seeing some of that wet weather look at the rain really popping up across central parts of the u.s. just twenty three celsius in dallas and those heavy downpours extend right

i'm andrew thomas with tourists in the rural chinese village where a teammate changing paying spent his formative years although explaining why this place mats is president has at his policies congress. his grip on power. from the waves in the sand. to the contours of the east. hello that is mostly dry across the southeastern parts of china at the moment there when the feeding down from the north there it's not too hot either we're looking at twenty in shanghai and around twenty seven in hong kong there won't be a major change as we head through wednesday even towards the west a bit more in the cloud in the way of cloud to bringing us a fair few showers a chum do some of the shows could be wrong all the heavy now towards the south we've got some very heavy showers in the northern parts of borneo very beefy downpours here this crash may have broken up over the past few hours and i think as we head through the next couple of days going to be in the northern parts of alma where we see the wettest of the weather so stretching from the philippines across into parts of vietnam and into thaila

i'm andrew thomas in sydney all australians right system a recent survey suggests as many as one in four people here are that's despite this country being on paper one of the most multicultural in the world. iraqi forces have claimed control of all of coca province after intense fighting but kurdish peshmerga forces the army says they captured the last play which is situated at a base and with the help of shia militias stephanie deca reports from the front line with some peshmerga to fill the been betrayed. the new front line opened early friday iraqi forces together would have still shabbier shia militias move towards peshmerga positions. in kurdish it's around thirty kilometers south of erbil on the road to kirkuk. yes they are attacking in out and play another attacking from dbase also and there's nothing we can do about it. the coalition forces to come in and help as it hit the peshmerga no doubt we have martyrs. a steady stream of reinforcements were sent throughout the day blankets and mattresses packed in with the soldiers ready to defend their positions many here feel betrayed by

four of them nationally to an increasing conversation about racism could have a beneficial effect andrew thomas al-jazeera sydney. and protesters in australia demanding the legalization of same sex marriage a week before postal service closes the biggest crowd was in sydney with thousands marched through the city calling for equal rights the latest update on the ballot should almost eleven million votes have been returned that's around sixty eight percent of the total sent so far the result of the poll is expected in november. at least three people have been killed in a landslide at a building site in malaysia firefighters say the incident happened during the construction of two tower block blocks in georgetown the capital of penang state emergency teams are searching for eleven workers believed to be trapped in the mud and rubble. rehearsals for the state funeral of thailand's king who passed away last year taking place in bangkok the funeral procession is expected to be attended by at least a quarter of a million people the lavish event will last several hours ahead of king pin the palms crem

bring you more from sydney and that is always sport for now so that's great thanks a hoot against andrew thomas a football so i will have more. flexibility with falling back from j.b. and the team thanks for watching the news out. for years japanese have gone into countries lush course for what they call. green or forest baby thirteen years ago dr levy was one of the first to conduct research on forced bathing he concluded that the essential oils the trees produce to protect themselves from germs and bugs can boost the human immune system. a lot of fun to side or essential oil is found in the forests my research has shown that forest front to sides reduces stress hormones can relax us in the future the time may come when doctors prescribe a forest in the state of medicine what are you seeing. a suspected terrorist people of all faiths fell victim to a suicide bomber in manchester but if the bomb was indiscriminate was the placing of blame this is nothing to do with us this is about an individual who's psycho you know nobody could do this unless they were completely unhinged now manchester's mus

league and of course a selection of gentleman that will be in charge of the country let's bring in andrew thomas we were expecting a very specific protocol when it comes to the president will come but you know because we know the president is going to speak and he's moving to the podium now so we'll listen to the chinese president with a translator and come back to in a short while. so. we don't seem to have a translation at the moment of the president speaking but let's just. well. we do and i know that you have done a lot of coverage today congress very well just listen to the pride of the president through translator let's see what he has to say. these reports have. their widest concern from the world and the world and i would like to stand by how so thanks to all of you. was concluded yesterday the party congress has received extensive and they've held reporting our friends from the press with many of you coming from the far. you have worked very hard and your media coverage has captured the attention of the world i want to say a big thank you to you all. the time where you are. you going yo

andrew thomas has from beijing. after their week long kong these are the members of the communist party pouring out of the great hole of the people behind me getting onto buses and to go back and spread the message of a china what is that message that's come out of this congress well first and foremost that president is an absolute control. only is his name going to be in shrine into the communist party's constitution that was confirmed on his bolt will be part of the he's also stamped his authority on the personnel in the there was a seventy percent in the membership of the central committee of the communist party the four hundred members of that the overwhelming majority of the new appointees officially elected to the point they are the supporters on wednesday will find out the membership will be a wimple. and the seven member standing committee again we can expect to see. that the next five years will be absolutely he's new era as he states the specifics well this congress was very light. but this will be she's a

i'm andrew thomas in sydney all australians right system a recent survey suggests as many as one in four people here that's despite this country being on paper one of the most multicultural in the world and in sport lewis hamilton breaks the record as he closes in on another world championship the details coming up a little later with. al-jazeera continues to demand the release of its journalist mark porter saying who's been in prison in egypt now for more than three hundred days he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny and the hood has repeatedly complained of mistreatment during his incarceration he was arrested in december while visiting his family. at least eight police officers have been killed in an attack on their base in western this year several others were wounded in the incident close to the town of io near the border with mali this year's interior minister says that investigation is under way but the u.s. is shifting its counterterrorism strategy to focus more on africa defense secretary james mattis discussed the changes w

remaining which would mean that this time would head to thirty minutes of extra time our correspondent andrew thomas joins us now live from the stadium in sydney and andrew regardless of what happens next in this match most people hadn't expected the syrian team to even get this far. couldn't they score up one one at virtually full time it's the same score that took them a full ninety minutes in malaysia to achieve on the one want to go here it was achieved within and it was syria that went ahead in the seven minutes. he scored in the seven minutes and it was a very quiet stadium i can tell you i was in there the australians who dominate the spectator and as you can imagine ninety five percent of the things taken by australians they went very quiet while the five percent of troops or forty thousand of them in there they went wild but just the six minutes because then that long time start you're saying hey that's up with an incredible header and equalise and i was in a thirty minute and i haven't been a goal since but. the five things australian certainly had the better of the match but they have bee

before then nationally to an increasing conversation about racism could have a beneficial effect andrew thomas al-jazeera sydney. and protestors in australia are demanding the legalization of same sex marriage the week before postal service closes the biggest crowd was in sydney where thousands marched through the city calling for equal rights the latest update on the ballot should almost eleven million votes have been returned that's around sixty eight percent of the total center so far the result of the poll is expected in november. at least three people have been killed in a landslide at a building site in malaysia firefighters say the incident happened during the construction of two tower block blocks in georgetown the capital of penang state emergency teams are searching for eleven workers believed to be trapped in the mud and rubble. rehearsals for the state funeral of thailand's king who passed away last year taking place in bangkok the funeral procession is expected to be attended by at least a quarter of a million people the lavish event will last several hours ahead of king queen pal

absence until then means for her a political career break joyce's absence could break the government andrew thomas al-jazeera britain. in colombia thirty of cali is an animal refuge like no other for two decades abused animals seized from drug lords or the circus have been sheltered there but now environmental authorities say the refuge misquote. yeti took a trip back before the doors are closed for ever. jupiter delight you might appear to have the same of a cat in the wild around this adopted mother. house. is one of many exotic animals that and authorise shelters or. animal refuge and. trade which connects them all is that they were abused in the past. or on their own she had gone with her head on molly or now. you want to get a circus rode a lion and a tiger one lion was crippled they broke his power by lashes another line was crossed like more and more animals kept arriving because the lack of space to life for twenty six years i have done the work of the state run there in this is. going to start at one time police ended over a steady supply of animals many seized from drug lords on the road

i'm andrew thomas with tourists in the rural chinese village where teenage paying spent his formative years i'll explain why this place matters to president xi as that his party's congress by using its grip on power. plus seeking new solutions to a lingering crisis european leaders meet in italy to discuss the flow of migrants across the mediterranean. and in sport the countdown is on the flame for next year's winter games in pyongyang has been lit at the birthplace of the ancient olympics. china's president's name and ideology have been added to the constitution cementing his status as one of the most powerful leaders in decades the announcement was made on the final day of the communist party conference she's in ping's thought follows in the footsteps of former leaders not said dong and deng xiaoping see she has described his concept as central to making china a great modern socialist country by the year twenty fifty. the chinese people in the chinese nation embrace brilliant prospects and a bright future living in such a great era we are all the more confident and proud and also fe

create new accomplishments befitting of this great stride forward to an ever promising future andrew thomas has more for us from beijing. after their weeklong congress these are the members of the communist party pouring out of the great hall of the people behind me getting on the buses and to go back and spread the message over china what is that message that's come out of this congress well first and foremost that president xi is an absolute control of his party not only is his name going to be enshrined into the communist party's constitution that was confirmed on his thoughts will be part of the constitution he's also standards authority on the personnel in the party there was a seventy percent turnover in the membership of the central committee of the communist party the four hundred members of that the overwhelming majority of the new appointees officially elected but appointees they are she supporters on wednesday will find out a number ship of your important policy right and the seven member standing committee that politburo again we can expect to see she supporters dominating that

i'm andrew thomas with tourists in the rural chinese village where a teenage paying spent his formative years i'll be explaining why this place matzos president as of his policies congress. details are emerging of what's being called a massacre in the syrian town of attain and witnesses say isolate fighters carried out a revenge campaign killing more than one hundred people before the town was seized by government forces the setting observatory for human rights says the killings happened during a three week period i saw the queues this event of collaborating with syrian government forces. they attacked us like animals they came to kill us they killed children and women broke the arms of the women and burned them before killing them they killed more than one hundred people from the families of both civilians and military while the conflict continues in syria children are dying of hunger in eastern guta on the outskirts of the capital damascus the region's being besieged two thousand and twelve few aid convoys are reaching people in need and doctors warn hundreds of children are on the br

before then nationally to an increasing conversation about racism could have a beneficial effect andrew thomas al-jazeera sit general made his is to cut production and jobs at a plant near the u.s. city of detroit they blame big changes in the u.s. auto manufacturing industry john hendren reports. a slowdown in motown has general motors cutting back. auto sales in the u.s. it dropped nearly ten percent so far this year but it g.m. the fall is nearly double that this plant makes cars buicks cadillacs and chevy volt hybrid but it's s.u.v.s that are selling now so the detroit hamtramck assembly plant has gone from two shifts to one this month it's slowing down production. very quickly don't use of assemblies and do what they want downtime to to deal with excess amatory so they're quicker to riyad yes. they don't play with that one on nov twentieth this plant will shut down entirely until january while demand catches up with production when production restarts it will do so with two hundred fewer of its eighteen hundred workers alternative fuels may be the way of the future volvo is going all elec

i'm andrew thomas in sydney all australians writes just a recent survey suggests as many as one in four people here that's despite this country being played by one of the most multicultural in the world. and in sports closes in on his first title victory since winning the masters in april. now to iraq where it's been another day of angry protests by hundreds of kurds and billed for the second day in a row the demonstrators gathered outside the u.s. consulate to express their frustration with the international community the protesters feel betrayed by the u.s. and the united nations last week iraqi troops seized control of all the disputed areas in northern iraq including the city of kirkuk stephanie decker has more from . there is a feeling of tension here in erbil people are not sure how this is going to play out certainly the protesters that took to the streets are really rich orating their cool's of the feeling that they've been stabbed in the back they've been abandoned by the international community by the united states saying that the pressure of the kurdish forces the kurdish sol

and president xi jinping is in absolute control of it all right andrew thomas there in beijing andrew thank you. now you know such a state rex tillerson has been holding high level talks across the middle east he was in iraq on monday and met prime minister hideout a body that follows tension between the two countries about iranian backed militias in iraq to listen once they pop in a member nation forces to be sent home but how about of defending their own innocent old i made a brief stop in afghanistan to discuss the fight against the taliban we have to continue the fight against the taliban and against others in order for them to understand they will never win a military victory and there are we believe moderate voices among the taleban voices and they don't want to continue to fight forever they don't want their children to fight forever so we are looking to engage with those voices and have them engage in a reconciliation process leading to peace process and therefore involvement in participation in the government well tell us in his next stop is pakistan where the taliban is expe

i'm andrew thomas in sydney all right great system a recent survey suggests as many as one in four people here oh that's despite this country being on paper one of the most multicultural in the world. and it was a somewhat stressful day for the chelsea boss on day one explain why in sports. history is so often told through the eyes of leaders but in amritsar india just thirty kilometers from the border with pakistan this old building is being transformed into a new museum mallika ahluwalia is the driving force behind amritsar as partition museum it's really shocking because if you think about the fact that within a few years of nine eleven happening and nine eleven museum was there and they are now numerous holocaust museums it's not beautiful of new zealand so countries around the world have walked to memorialize these events that have shaped them by dition is not about the political events that led up to partition it's about the impact on each person who went through it it's really important that we highlight the stories of humanity hopefully one outcome on this would be that we remembe

decades to come will be talking to an economist about this shortly but first our correspondent andrew thomas' been to lying to her to find out more about president she's humble beginnings when she paying lived in liang jaya her in the early one nine hundred seventy s. it was a rural village where people lived in caves and in poverty now people ride in on electric shuttle buses most villagers have left their home turned into an open air tribute museum honoring the man who's now president. some very young tell a sanitised version of the she story what he learned here what he did here and how loved he was visitors see the bed in which both flea infested she is said to have slept they hear how he built dams and duck world's most groups are brought here by communist party workers and photographed in front of she's wise words. she was born the son of a senior communist party member in beijing but in one thousand sixty nine his father fell out of favor the family was banished by chairman mao during the cultural revolution fifteen she was sent to remotely angle her he spent seven years farming in fe

longer be made in australia as the entire industry collapses thousands of jobs will be gone as andrew thomas reports now from sydney the change is also point to a new economic drive us. so i just started making cars in australia back in one thousand nine hundred sixty three and in the fifty four years since more than three million total cards have rolled off its production lines in this country the closure of a factory in melbourne what is the direct loss of two thousand jobs with a further three thousand people depended on that factory for their livelihoods because they were in supply chain companies some of the classic totem poles were brought back to the melbourne factory on tuesday for a ceremony to mark the closure of the factory last year ford closed its last car manufacturing plant in australia and in two weeks' time holden which is the australian brand name for general motors cars what's known as a known elsewhere in the world it will close its last factory and that will mark the end of all car manufacturing in australia costs are simply too high compared to manufacturing costs elsew

the roof should be transferred to australia or another country able to resettle refugees safely andrew thomas is following developments from sydney joins us now live from there so first of all andrew clarify for us what the situation is when we say there is looting in the camp inmates under attack. well the first thing i should say is that it's very difficult to get reliable information from an aside and we as journalists are denied access to mount aside and when papa new guinea occasionally gives us these they specifically say we are not to go to mount so we are a lion talking to the refugees inside the prison and elsewhere on the island and n.g.o.s who want to have them all out into the sort clip there from a refugee who i've talked to and met many times abdul aziz right before that report there and he has been speaking to amnesty who are on the island today and you saw his plate that he is reporting that locals from elsewhere amount of saddam's have been trying to break into the prison now he doesn't say they're attacking prisoners which was the favorite he has said that they are looting t

we need to draw from this experience and continue to modernize the governance system of china andrew thomas isn't beijing so enter the composition of this new standing committee what does this tell us about his ambitions. well you've made the point really these are all relatively old men they're all in their sixty's at this point in a ten year presidency traditionally by convention you'd expect to see somebody in their fifty's elevated to that top tier she himself was ten years ago when he was fifty four he was seen as the coming leader the man of waiting in the wings she does not want that he doesn't want anyone to be seen as the coming leader someone who could eclipse him over the term of his presidency and as a result all these men are in their sixty's that in itself is very significant there's also an admission of women you german mao said that women hold up half the sky has never been a woman on the standing committee of the communist party and there isn't now so that hasn't changed but i think you all seriousness the most important point is the age of those who are on the standing com

on friday holden they're shutting down its plant in adelaide after more than fifty years but as andrew thomas explains the loss of the domestic manufacturing industry is not expected to hurt the country's overall economy. in australia two thirds of people drive to work big distance road trip holidays a common classic car fare is a popular affinity with cars here is cultural and ingrained but after friday calls will no longer be made in australia it's lost car factory will close the company closing its general motors owned holden has been a fixture of australian industry and culture but decades holden is in likened to a strike like the kangaroo in the make pies and i was brought up with the hole in cars my father bought one example is from holden brain you. holden's advertising played on there is being all of the cars they'll continue to sell cars in australia they'll now be imported from europe asia and the united states where production costs are lower a study is over on car industry was not a huge it is peak it made me hot a million cars a year but that was when it was protected against imp

holden has sucked down the last remaining factory ending nearly seven seventeen years of history andrew thomas looks back on the end of an era when in australia two thirds of people drive to one big distance road trip holidays a common and classic car fare as a popular affinity with cars here is cultural and ingrained but after friday calls will no longer be made in australia it's lost car factory will close the company closing its general motors owned holden has been a fixture of australian industry and culture but decades old is in likened to a strike like the kangaroo in the make pies and i was brought up with the holden cars my father bought one example is from holden brain you. holden's advertising played on there as being all of the cars they'll continue to sell cars in australia they'll now be imported from europe asia and the united states where production costs are lower a study is over on car industry was not a huge that is peak it made really hot a million cars year but that was when it was protected against imports at one point there was a tariff on them of almost sixty percent as

absence until then means for her a political career break joyce's absence could break the government andrew thomas al-jazeera britain countries across latin america have been marking the fiftieth anniversary of the death of shane guevara several thousand people have attended a ceremony in the cuban city of santa clara to remember the revolutionary fighter became known for his role in the cuban revolution of one nine hundred fifty nine fighting alongside fidel and raul castro michael casey is author of face after life the legacy of an image he says they're calling image of god are a helpful to revive support for the revolution in cuba. the book really was an attempt to try to come to terms with how this what image i would argue is the most reproduced image in history and i'm actually talking there about all the derivative works that built upon it. not so much like just a massive replication of an image like marilyn monroes it was and when you talk about shaders. castro in my view was instrumental there was there was a lot of moralizing of that time and the image was placed in the public consciousne

engineers in australia and it will help its thousands of former factory employees to find jobs andrew thomas al jazeera sydney org a little nudge in the direction of our website al jazeera dot com is the address there plenty of comment and analysis on all the stories that we're covering al-jazeera dot com is the address headlines coming right. alright let's look at the top stories here on al-jazeera and suicide bombers have targeted two mosques in afghanistan killing at least sixty people the latest in a string of attacks in the past week police say one bomber detonated explosives inside a shia mosque in the capital kabul killing thirty two people a separate attack at a mosque in the lima province has killed at least thirty people jennifer glass has more now from. it really shows the kind of challenges the afghan security forces face here in afghanistan they face a number of militant groups now in the taliban the control or contest almost forty percent of the country but also a number of anti-government groups from the islamic state to internal rivalries that they have to police here it's tr

next five years listening in of course is also our correspondent outside an interior minister andrew thomas he's been taking and of course the detail of what you have to say lester is begin with the line or perhaps no great surprise is there around drew the five new faces in the standing committee were perhaps known to that inner circle. they were there all very close to she this really does show that he has consolidated his power very interesting though there is no obvious successor among those five new men at this stage in the presidency you would expect one of them at least to be in their fifty's in other words to have a chance of taking on the mantle from xi jinping in five years time because of the retirement age by convention in china you'd need to be under fifty eight at this stage to stand a chance of doing the full two terms from five years' time and all of these men are in their sixty's none of them are in their fifty's and that in itself is very significant she is suggesting at the moment that there's no rival to him on that highest tier of the party they are all men of course no

as a rarely used to spot so-called terrorists could mark a big step forward in massive agents andrew thomas al jazeera sydney human rights watch says armed groups in central african republic are using rape and sexual slavery to terrorize women and girls investigators documented more than three hundred cases of rape torture and sexual violence in the past four years some women and girls were held a sexual slaves for up to eighteen months they tim say they've been targeted by both muslim seleka rebels and christian fighters but not a single person has faced charges says there with her president. in twenty thirteen fighting has killed thousands of people and more than a million have fled their homes thirteen thousand united nations peacekeepers are struggling to contain the violence imran khan has more than a warning you may find some of his reports upsetting. hidden beyond the tall grass and veiled behind curtains survivors in the central african republic talk of barbaric acts cruel and brutal crimes that are still unpunished. one of them took a grenade and they put it in my vagina then they

a half thousand people already visit every day but a lot more expected for many years to come andrew thomas al-jazeera liang jaya her central china well you can find out much more about the stories we're following on our website it's all at al-jazeera dot com. a quick reminder now of our top stories on al-jazeera the united nations secretary general antonio the terrace has arrived in central african republic for a four day visit he's supervising efforts to keep the peace between rival factions roughly split between the christian and muslim populations egyptian president abdel fattah el-sisi and french president a man will not call have a firm their economic and military cooperation during cc's visit to paris reporters without borders are against france signing agreements with sisi citing evidence of torture and repression by his regime but the french president says the leaders do have common goals. the first bottle that we have to give aid to fight against terrorism egypt like france has been suffering in the last few years and president sisi and security forces have to cope with the scourg

citizenship if they're forced from office the government could lose its one person majority as andrew thomas explains from. as a senator for australia's green party the recent quarters spent as much time in the capital canberra as a home in queensland that's changed waters resigned in july after finding out that she held canadian citizenship as well as australian the clause in australia's constitution citizens of foreign powers from parliament that implicitly includes those with dual nationality both waters parents are australian and they brought her to australia as a baby but she was born in canada and canada automatically gives citizenship to anyone born in the country waters hadn't known so she hadn't renounced it. when i found that i was canadian i was really sad because my work's not finished and i want to keep going. since attention focused on the clause seven m.p.'s have been found to be jewel citizens not all have resigned something not knowing another country consider them citizens and the clause shouldn't apply this week australia's highest court what's will decide if they're right

strains and of course in particular bought the farm more now from our correspondent in sydney andrew thomas. the high court's decision was essential a n.e.m.p. who'd been born abroad even to australian parents or whose parents had been born abroad should have done some investigation as to whether they had citizenship of another country and if they didn't then they were ineligible for australia's parliament when they stood and that applies to five of the seven m.p.'s that they were considering crucially they have ruled that bobby joyce australia's deputy prime minister is in eligible to sit in holland so that has to consequences first it means that australia's governments which only had a majority of one in the lower house of representatives no longer has a majority a tall and if barnaby joyce does not win a by election now due in december in his area then the government in australia could fall because of this but second because australia is that the prime minister has also been a minister in the government making decisions when he wasn't eligible it throws into question all the decisions th

ok andrew thomas live for us in beijing thank you. is now in india the latest stop in a tour that has taken him to saudi arabia qatar afghanistan iraq and pakistan as you can see they are rex tillerson and his counterpart there are coming to the to the stand there to begin a press conference meeting with the media after this meeting that they have had looks like they're about to get underway and just a moment so again that it's rex tillerson as you can see and is indian counterpart . so roger let's let's pause for a moment to see if they're quite ready to get started. and basically what you're kind of hearing is simply just the formal introduction of these two and this is something that pakistan will be watching very closely as well . this is the first meeting. from the indian nation on myself. and this trip in india. it has been a very successful trip for the secretary of state he's been to saudi arabia qatar saudi arabia iran and pakistan. and it is in india so that means that he has stand in five days six nations. but it is. a happ

the roof should be transferred to australia or another country able to resettle refugees safely andrew thomas al-jazeera sydney prime minister to resign may's vying to crackdown against complaints of sexual harassment in the british parliament but with a political career spanning two decades many are asking why she only making the statement now john a whole explains. the british parliament is a long way from hollywood but the harvey weinstein affair resonates here to the palace of westminster gripped now by allegations of sexual harassment and abuse current and historic by m.p.'s and ministers against colleagues volunteers and junior staff few individuals have been named so far international trade minister mark garner is one revealed to have asked an assistant to buy items for him at a sex shop a claim he hasn't denied and a dossier according to british media reports details allegations against dozens of m.p.'s including serving ministers of inappropriate behavior and sexual advances towards both men and women while the growing scandal is not confined to any one party those listed are all mem

for them nationally to an increasing conversation about racism could have a beneficial effect andrew thomas al-jazeera sydney. welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera live from doha top stories the spanish cabinet today expected to trigger article one five five of its constitution imposing direct rule over the autonomous region of catalonia and now the decision follows weeks of political deadlock between madrid and the cattle and regional government after catalonia session referendum two rockets have landed near the international military headquarters in kabul this comes less than a day after i source said it carried out one of two attacks targeting mosques which killed at least seventy people in one attack a man walked into a shia mosque in the capital kabul and then detonated an explosive vest the mosque was packed with worshippers attending friday prayers the second attack happened in the central gore province where a suicide bomber struck a sunni mosque the u.s. is to shift its counterterrorism strategy to focus more on africa the defense secretary james mattis disc