andrew thomas al-jazeera newcastle australia. all right still ahead on al-jazeera when we come back french president emmanuel mark wrong expected to give a speech shortly a cheering those commemorations of the one hundredth anniversary since the end of world war one would bring it to life. later in sport frustration for ferrari as sebastian vettel is bad behavior tips the scales in favor of savings. it is murder when you throw a firebomb into someone's home and need sheets off trash you know. that's not insignificant in the numbers that insignificant ideologically the insignificant evil is a crime gang. very significant by dictating big government in the fucked up policy dows shalt not kill the radicalized series on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where every. all right i will support his lia thank you japan's kashima antlers have won the asian champions league for the first time the most sought after trophy and asian club football they were two nil up from the first leg but their running opponents persepolis were in-bred had one hundred

region is growing and you caledonia independent of france would quickly become a target andrew thomas al-jazeera over here and you caledonia one of the biggest farms in the world a mug farm in south africa was closed for years but now it's back in business thanks to a government bailout in an area of high unemployment. from adam miller reports from the eastern cape. just months ago these tea fields along the wild coast region in the eastern cape were abandoned and overgrown but a government injection of almost eight million dollars into the mob what t. farm means it now has a second chance stretching for more than one thousand eight hundred hecht is the management says this is the largest operating t. farm in the southern hemisphere to survey lenders and by the community and the go into frosty is a government owned company and release the land from the community and obviously tronic through as many people from the local community as possible the climate is soil conditions are ideal for growing black t. the farm was first established as a job creation project in the one nine hundred sixty s. and

ended in violence the territory is a strategic military foothold for france in the pacific al-jazeera as andrew thomas reports. new caledonia is nearly twenty thousand kilometers from paris yet the pacific island territory has been since eight hundred fifty three parts of france but after sunday the bones could be broken new caledonians will be asked whether they want their territory to cede full sovereignty and become an independent. opinion polls suggest those of european descent like those on this rally in may want to remain french think played only i'm france is the best that we can have. but the french state and the french president to visit new caledonia earlier this year are officially neutral that has a lot to do with history in that ninety seven people of indigenous quranic descent boycotted a referendum because they saw the process then as rigged in favor of french loyalists the following year on the outlying island of ear supporters of independence resorted to violence on the twenty second of april night in eighty eight a big group of pro independence cannot command stormed the play station

andrew thomas al-jazeera newcastle australia. time for another short break and come back with the sport less to cities fans and players to remember the man that was behind one of football's most unlikely success stories more on that england's. stories of life. and inspiration. a series of short documentaries from around the wound. that celebrate the human spirit. against the arts. al-jazeera selects hunted. time for the sport. thank you very much will japan. form the asian champions league for the first song they drew the second leg of the final against iran's persepolis nil nil and soran enough for a two nail aggregate victory packs fight eighty thousand fans at these are the stadium setlist in red what ains become the first training team in twenty five years to win the continental title the eight time japanese champions but standing the pressure to get the result they needed to lift the most important. in asian club for. our correspondent zain distraught he was game in tehran where the fans who couldn't get into the stadium wer

descended into squabbles over policies actions and words and donald trump wasn't even there andrew thomas al-jazeera port moresby police chiefs from around the world of method by to elect a new intern of president after former leader main hallway went missing in china chinese authorities say mangos detained this part of a corruption investigation but his wife says his arrest was for political reasons interpol secretary general told police chiefs men could no longer serve as president his term was due to end in two thousand and twenty on the seventh of october we have been receiving the resignation of our former president mr mang from the people's republic of china the same day we have been receiving an official information from the ministry of public security of the people's republic of china . our former president mr manning is not a delegate of the of of china or for the organization for interpol anymore which sounds a little technical but again that automatically leads to the fact according to our rules that he is not the president anymore. thousands of people have been protesting in haiti's capi

andrew thomas al-jazeera newcastle australia. let's have a look at what's on a. lot of the bad weather has a relented and when osiris meaning the final of the call thought about how doris can now go ahead the match between fair city rivals boca juniors and with a play to should have taken place on saturday it's been a frustrating time for the fans who are waiting to see two of argentina's most famous teams meet in the final for the first time both cards home for the first leg it with kick off just minutes away. correspondent aneesh raman is standing by at the bomba nera stadium danielle first of all this could have been a headache for the official how could how keen were they to get this game played today. oh absolutely very very keen i mean this kickoff is about twenty three hours after it was scheduled as you mentioned just minutes away now so the kickoff for this one more narrow stadia sitting behind me a few late stragglers coming in to take their seats i mean one hundred millimeters of rain fell on saturday that's more than you would normally falls in the wh

descended into squabbles over policies actions and words and donald trump wasn't even there andrew thomas al-jazeera port moresby. police chief from around the world have met in dubai to elect a new interpol president after formally the main hallway was detained in china they went missing while on a trip to china in september authorities there say he's being investigated for corruption but man's wife says his detention is for political reasons on the seventh of october we have been receiving the resignation of our former president mr manning from the people's republic of china the same day we have been receiving an official information from the ministry of public security of the people's republic of china. our former president is the man is not a delegate of the of of china or for the organization for interpol anymore which sounds a little technical but again that automatically leads to the fact according to our rules that he is not the president anymore our government ministers in tanzania have two hundred thousand tons of cash to nuts on their hands government or the country's entire crop to try a

descended into squabbles over policies actions and words and donald trump wasn't even there andrew thomas al-jazeera. rescuers are continuing to search for thirteen hundred reported missing people after california's deadliest wildfires at least seventy six people have been confirmed dead so far ryan is expected to fall this week which would help to douse the flames but there is also a risk of flooding or christian salumi is in chico california and joins us live now and kristen what is life like for those who have had to flee their homes as a result of these fires. it's really been day to day for a lot of evacuees just finding some place so sleep some place to eat and making sure their basic needs are taken care of that rain that you mention not only is it a concern for flooding and mudslides it's also a concern for people who are living outside in tents like what you see behind me here i'm at the parking lot of a wal-mart where a lot of people have set up camp to try to come together and find a place to stay and with that rain coming there's concern that this area is in a flood zone and it could be

pacific region is growing a new caledonia independent of france would quickly become a target andrew thomas al-jazeera over here and you caledonia of course you can find out much more about the stories we're following head straight to w w w dot al-jazeera dot com. our top stories here on al-jazeera turkey's president says he believes the orders to kill the journalist jamal khashoggi came from the highest levels of the saudi government writing in the washington post says he wants the so-called puppet masters of the plot to be revealed while he didn't believe king solomon ordered the hit did not say the same for crime prince mohammad whose close ties to some of the suspects in that hit squad have been exposed to has more on this on how tartly is piling on the pressure they are trying to say they're not naming the nominee. one hundred percent but they don't trust the saudi now to this explains why they are now all the offensive. putting all this political pressure on the saudi government to try to give them more details about what happened of this seem to be willing of this particular moment to get some

descended into squabbles over policies actions and words and donald trump wasn't even there andrew thomas al-jazeera port moresby a crucial talks to entry lanka's political deadlock failed president multi-polar city senior chaired a multi party meeting on sunday to try to end a crisis that's gripped the nation for weeks but he could not achieve a break through the turmoil began when sarah seen a satirist prime minister and replaced him with former president mahinda rajapaksa government leaders in tanzania may soon have two hundred thousand tonnes of cashew nuts on their hands they plan to buy the entire crop to try and end a price dispute between farmers and traders catherine sawyer reports now the army has been brought in as processing workers are sent home. di ness number is have a sting the last of her cash crop that it's been a bad idea a disease or dries of food has meant she's only managed to fill seven sacks instead of the usual forty on average to make matters worse middlemen offered to buy them at and acceptably low price that of course the government to intervene and buy tanzania's and hir

andrew thomas al-jazeera newcastle australia. this is al-jazeera these are your top stories the u.s. and french president say saudi arabia should shed more light on the murder of the journalist. the turkish president once in paris he met donald trump ahead of the commemorations marking the end of the first world war it follows revelations from the one that ankara shared audio recordings of a shock she's lost moments with several world powers. leaders from seventy countries were in the french capital for the one hundredth anniversary of the end of world war one around twenty million people died in the conflict leicestershire the latest pictures coming to us live from the early sue palace in the new war. along with mrs merkel welcome various presidents prime ministers and other dignitaries from around the world plus seventy people are going to sit down to an early lunch together the agreement on the bank which german armies of course required the latter to leave all occupied territories in western europe they had two weeks to do it

around including forty luxury maseratis from italy has been controversial and unpopular andrew thomas al-jazeera sitting well still ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour you know to states nelson's plans to curb in cigarette sales targeting young people and in sports history his job with a team gives himself a chance to reach the semifinals of the a.t.p. world tour finals in london told one of its details and spoke. from one flowing island in the winds to an enchanting desert breeze. hello there we've got lots of rain over parts of china at the moment in fact on the charts over the next few days as a good swathe of blues here indicating where that wet weather is likely to be and the darker blue is indicating where it's likely to be heaviest so plenty more in the way of heavy downpours as we head through into saturday to the northern edge of that where is just about cold enough we will see some of that wet weather heading to snow for the south a good deal of cloud there over the philippines but nothing too heavy rain wise it's like the wetter weather would just be in the southern parts there and

andrew thomas al-jazeera newcastle australia. while the. memories of world war one do live on in france hundreds of thousands of soldiers lost their lives during one of the history's one of history's bloodiest battles to reports from france. it was the most intense artillery barrage the world had ever witnessed after three hundred days a great longest battle three hundred thousand soldiers both french and german had sacrificed their lives in the trenches around that down when the guns fell silent the front line was back where it started there's a damn a moral museum is still teaching the futility of war to each new generation. the displays are graphic and sobering but as world leaders gather in paris to mark the hundredth anniversary of the great war's end has anything really changed or knows will be a no here we have today an economic and political environment that is not very different from a century ago that's why our mission is so important we must convey this memory to the young generation that will all this group of germans schoolchil

countries the presidents the hope if that in time the same can happen with this proposal andrew thomas al jazeera australia. this is al jazeera and these are your top stories the u.s. says sanctions are being prepared against the saudis involved in the killing of jamal khashoggi suddenly it is a so far resisted the international pressure to reveal who ordered the journalists murder because of course disappeared after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul it was exactly a month ago the mother israeli prime minister's commented on the khashoggi case for the first time what happened is the book consulate was horrendous and it should be. the same time i say. it's very important for the stability. of the region to that saudi arabia remain stable and i think that we must be found to achieve both. in other news protests have been called off these are the ones against the pakistan supreme court judges who acquitted a christian woman of blasphemy there have been two days of demonstrations over the verdict the woman was sentenced to death for insulting islam eight years ago the trumpet ministration has

andrew thomas al-jazeera newcastle australia. welcome if you're just joining us a quick recap of the top stories so far this hour the u.s. and french president say saudi arabia should quote shed more light on the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi the turkish president's in paris he met donald trump ahead of the centenary commemorations marking the end of the first will war it follows revelations from mr erdogan that ankara has shared audio recordings of her showed she's lost moments with several world powers this period we have shared the recordings with saudi arabia the americans the british the germans with everyone they've listened to the conversations on those recordings they know what's been said there's no point in distorting this fact among the fifteen suspects they know who the murderer is all murderers are and saudi arabia can bring all this to light by making those fifteen suspects speak meanwhile leaders from seventy countries are in paris for the one hundredth anniversary of the end of world war one for the u.s

region is growing and you caledonia independent of france would quickly become a target andrew thomas al-jazeera over here and you caledonia a turkish ship has begun drilling for oil and gas in the mediterranean sea for the first time the five month long exploration off the coast of cyprus threatens another showdown in the disputed waters with neighboring greece turkey's energy minister is warning of retaliation if turkish warships are harassed by the greek navy seal of course all reports from antalya. the is soon mediterranean is the new frontier for oil and gas it's home to libya thome and time are gas fields of the israeli coast the source field facing egypt and also aphrodite discovered by the greek cypriots and the region's underwater wealth appeals to turkey which is dependent on energy imports all the g. and g. studies and everything is telling us it is the right locations but you never know without doing so ankara is sending its first ship out to drill for natural resources this is the ship that turkey is using to drill for oil and gas she is called fatah which means the concur the first

region is growing and you caledonia independent of france would quickly become a target andrew thomas al-jazeera over here and you caledonia. a lawyer representing a christian woman in pakistan acquitted of blasphemy has left the country in fear of his life saved moloch's says he had to leave so he could continue to represent i said maybe with conviction was overturned on wednesday by the supreme court that he had spent eight years on death row officials have now agreed to stop her from leaving pakistan to end violent protests of the courtroom of charges pakistan's minister of information he says the deal with the protesters was struck within the constitutional framework. well you have successfully been able to disprove the situation you know when you have been the cruciatus i think the biggest challenge for the government was not to use you know the date much or not to follow that process there because you are lifted catherine or you know the some of the something happened that it's a bad impression so we have been to fix a little bit to the tensions and diffuse the protests but out hurting any

pacific region is growing and you caledonia independent affronts would quickly become a target andrew thomas al-jazeera oh via new caledonia one of the world's biggest t.v. been given a new lease of life a farm in south africa closed for years but thanks to a government bailout it's now back in business and providing much needed work in an area struggling with high unemployment. report some. just months ago these tea fields along the wild coast region in the eastern cape were abandoned and overgrown but a government injection of almost eight million dollars into the mob what t. farm means it now has a second chance stretching for more than one thousand eight hundred hc days the management says this is the largest operating t. farm in the southern hemisphere to survey lenders and by the community and the mobile into prosti is a government owned company and release the land from the community and obviously trying to as many people from the local community as possible the climate is soil conditions are ideal for growing black t. the farm was first established as a job creation project in the one nine hund

region is growing and you caledonia independent of france would quickly become a target andrew thomas al-jazeera over here and you caledonia well let's talk to dennys fischer she's an australian diplomats and former stray and consul general for new caledonia she joins us via skype from canberra so why is this referendum happening now and just how important is it to the island nation. well we'll this is the very last day actually legally possible for it to take place under a series of records that put an end to that. bush will civil war that took place in the nineteen eighties that darron was speaking about and so this is the the end phase of that process it's a promise that france has kicked and he's keeping today and from our perspective in this corner of the world it's quite a momentous thing to see this vote today many of the pacific island neighbors called for it in the one nine hundred eighty s. have supported it and they have sent a delegation of observers to the to the vote today so it's something that has been very long sought after and be seen as part of the phase of decolonization of c

region is growing and you caledonia independent of france would quickly become a target andrew thomas al-jazeeraover here and you caledonia. strong winds have destroyed an ancient pine forest in the italian alps thousands of centuries old trees were uprooted in the dolomites environmentalists so worried about the long term damage to the region's heritage have also brought trolls cutting off villages base twenty people have been killed by the storms across italy this week still ahead this news our intimate stay on course in their mission to break the stranglehold you venters have held on the italian title they will be here with that and the rest of the sport to. eradicating leprosy in cambodia relies on education and treatment in equal measure on. the embody early you know disability yet in jail we will be wait until three year old four year more he will have this ability to play as of this and didn't know wait for the next generation of antibiotics may just be waiting at the bottom of the ocean maybe this but today now that it's over so. revisited on al-jazeera and monday put it world on. us and

andrew thomas al-jazeera newcastle australia. this is all just here are these are the top stories turkey's president has increased the pressure inside a radio to reveal what he describes as the truth about the murder of journalists jamal khashoggi there's a part of one says he's shared audio recordings related to the killing with saudi arabia the us france germany and the u.k. has more from paris. it was a crucial moment for president who was hoping to push the americans towards a tougher stance against sandy arabia against a backdrop of the murder of the saudi journalist. turkey wants the international community to keep up the pressure against the saudis for the kingdom to come out and say who gave the order to kill. he has somehow dominated the agenda of some of the meeting specifically the meeting between presidents donald trump and a man well they said that they wanted the saudis. to give more details about what happened to the saudi journalist the death toll from a far burning in northern california has doubled to at least t

andrew thomas. still ahead on al-jazeera expensive elections nigeria's next presidential vote could set a record. and the ancient love story is reinterpreted as a warning against prejudice and division. al are still reading little bit in iran but the frontal system that was so active is a little less so as it just slowly eastwards and southwards there's a lot of clouds to the north of this area so from afghanistan back through the northern caspian the caucasus to turkey this is i think where the ash we were cold comes in contact was warmer and wetter in turkey's case in point in fact the whole of the eastern med will end up being like that eventually had to spread the risk of shout chance shout out to jordan tunnels and saudi again the same time ashanti seems possible running through turkmenistan but up to thirty now masses of foreign capitals at fifteen degrees in the arabian plates they were active weather's been around recently there's a bit of a day off of a breeze running down through bahrain and qatar swells back through the empty quarter dusty had been going up western side of society wher

al-jazeera. i'm andrew thomas in new castle australia i'm on the deck of a ship that's going to be sent to the ship wrecks a vessel sunk in the second world war there are more than three thousand at the bottom of the south pacific ocean alone and they're leaking oil. live pictures from paris there were expecting to hear from french president. later in the hour marking the one hundredth anniversary of the end of world war one. a cup upset in argentina as game one of the final is washed out by the rain will be here with the details. from the knights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. hello the first world war battlefields of northeastern france and belgium flanders fields if you like when the tourists are still in the tourist in the weather does its part in making them as well and even today it is raining in this part of europe the whole of northwest and the western europe has been wet for days if not weeks on end the pattern of weather seems to be somewhat stuck and that's what to expect for the next three hours from paris probably to copenhagen it's likely to be raining all off now the bigger