weapons inspectors arrive in du damascus, the opposition claims people are being being starved to deathust a few kilometer as way. welcome to al jazerra live from doha. also on the program, italy's government confront a challenge from enter plus scone i holding a vote of confidence in the coming hours, president obama's postponed his trip to malaysia to deal with the government shutdown. and we are

weapons inspectors arrive in du damascus, the opposition claims people are being being starved to death just a few kilometer as way. welcome to al jazerra live from doha. also on the program, italy's government confront a challenge from enter plus scone i holding a vote of confidence in the coming hours, president obama's postponed his trip to malaysia to deal with the government shutdown. and we are in cambodia for the latest on the flooding that's claimed does ens of lives. hello we hope to have more on syria in just a moment. but first a partial government shutdown in the united states continues. it's the first in 17 years, a number of public services have closed. all because politicians have not agreed on a new binge he had. and government staff forced to stay at home might not be paid. kimberly explains more in this report. >> reporter: they are no closer to resolving the crisis that has partially shutdown the u.s. government. feuding petitions are refuse to go negotiate to end the deadlock and instead, both parties traded jabs over who is to blame. >> my goodness, they won't even

two bombs have exploded in syria's capital du damascus. tv says its building was hit and pedestrians walking outside were hurt. seven red cross aid workers have been kidnapped in the northwestern province of italy. the court ruling in malaysia banning the use of the words allah by nonmuslims have brought protest to his the street. the court ruled that other religions may not use the words. 111 people have been killed while taking part in a hindu festival. thousands of pilgrims were heading to a temple when they were caught in a stampede. let's go there. pretty close to where this all hand, so tell us about the circumstances. we are getting more and more details from not only witness buzz the police as well. police having admitted that they did charge the crowd. >> reporter: well, those are the reports that have been coming out since yesterday when the stampede occurred. now, we spoke to the district deputy district collector in this area this morning and he said he could not comment on that particular story. what we do know is they were at

also in syria, thousands of people have been allowed to leave a besieged rebel-held suburb of du damascuse syrin government with the help of the red crescent escorted 3,000 civilian to his safer areas over the weekend. international aid workers some been trying to reach that area for months. some in the town have died of malnutrition. since the war began more than 2 million refugees have fled syria. supporters of egypt's ousted president mohamed morsi are calling for protests against the military-backed interim government. they are asking for small marches around the country. they are advising against a large take over of cairo's square where massive protests have often ended in violence. dozens of protesters and security forces have been killed during demonstrations in the past two weeks. an american detained in an egypt jail for more than six weeks has been found dead hanging in his cell. the man was identified by the state department as james henry lund. he was arrested in august for breaking curfew. lund, who was a retired army officer is the second foreigner to die in egypt custody s