one erotic motif to qana painted in several variations was the name of the spring. london art dealer mark weiss says he's fortunate to be able to offer one what it was a painting which we directly from the french noble family had had the picture of probably for some hundred years the price of this painting is in piles three million two out of the fifty thousand piles. the duchesse on a money a library going by my one of the world's major historical libraries. here seen after its recent renovation. in two thousand and four a fire consumed a large part of the building destroying tens of. thousands of the replaceable books . during that night the library director michel had to run into the burning building and risked his life to rescue one more from the flames the oldest complete bible in german translated by martin luther and illustrated by the kanaka workshop. these are new to. this list their bible is the first joint edition of the old and new testaments by martin luther and dates fifteen thirty four. it's an outstandingly produced object that has beautifully painte

viro qana is the name of the great buddha justice and true. the buddhist teaching has almost unlimited wisdom is preserved in these too long and too small buildings under the shelter of these roofs lies what is certainly one of humanity's greatest treasures the korean trape talk. for asia this is a treasure as important as the library of alexandria long burnt to the ground or the pyramids of egypt or the few other genuine wonders of the world. more than eighty one thousand printing plates were stored here they were made almost seven hundred years ago and record the knowledge and the thinking of the time along. with the buddhist teachings and some sort of dress not found in other collections. eighty one thousand printing plates made in the thirteenth century almost two hundred years before your highness good and bad developed a modern method of printing in europe. the plates are made of birchwood the mirror image characters are worked in high relief the wood remains sound even today there is no decay no wood one. for three years the wood was le

more than eighty people were killed when the nerve agent sarin was dropped on the rebel held town of qana could. the son of equitorial going to as president has been found guilty of a beslan money to buy property and luxury cars to your door and obiang who's also the country's second vice president was tried in absentia by a french court of young has been given a three year suspended jail term and a suspended fine of thirty five million dollars u.n. human rights investigators say they are deeply disturbed after hearing accounts of mass killings and rape by myanmar security forces against the. investigators say the accounts were among the worst that they have ever heard from conflict zones around the world. those are the headlines on al-jazeera the wanted eighteen is coming up next. you. and then nine hundred eighty seven i was just. living with my family in a few chicken. most of the time we didn't go outside. boarding life. the only thing we could do indoors was reading coming. in the city and camp i knew that i'm pasting it even that i never been to. and they only saw my homeland and th

three people including children were killed in a suspected chemical attack on the rebel held town of qana in northwestern syria in april u.n. war crimes investigators say they have evidence that syrian government forces were behind the attack. the u.s. senate has passed a discussed a recovery funding bill of over thirty six billion dollars large parts of the u.s. recover from hurricanes wildfires and floods and government watchdog says the cost of climate change is set to rocket the government accountability office estimates that by twenty fifty climate change could cost thirty five billion dollars a year and it's urging president trump to take action and he gallacher reports from miami. over the past few months the u.s. has witnessed the most powerful atlantic hurricane season in history hurricane harvey devastated parts of texas a few weeks later hurricane slammed into florida and the u.s. territory of puerto rico continues to make a slow recovery following hurricane maria scientists say these catastrophic events like the ongoing wildfires in california and made worse by global warming

we're stopping in rumble qana is just a few minutes by took took to sri lanka's biggest tourist attraction. the pinto well an elephant often it's. the daily bath in the maya or your river is a sensation. baby elephants and injured adults are nursed back to health here in pin a well and. this is the need. for found the members he's now about sixty years old was first brought . in one thousand nine hundred seventy five so in nineteen seventy five. this organization it started off with five baby elephants and he was brought here as a baby now he's a very big one and he has fathered about five babies for us. right now. so and he said when and if when. there are four baby elephants. making the tourists happy here at the moment they are bottle fed six times a day getting up to seven liters of milk the animals are clearly happy. some of them have been brought from the jungle some of them have been born near the sea . separated there have become because of accidents like next indians and sometimes fight within the jungle so we keep them here treat them and give them a good life. we start ascending

don't know whether you heard that some people were arrested and being taken to court but people like qana now already have little access to the courts and justice before embarking on the treacherous hike back to her home village and of visits her mother in the camp. anna says she feels abandoned by her husband who has gone underground to fight with a rebel group by the international community because of the continual difficulty to keep food on her table and above all by her own government. whose soldiers she lives in fear of as she makes her way back home. the proportion of women in the german bund to stalk has dropped to thirty one percent since the september twenty seventeen election buckling the trend since the early one nine hundred eighty s. now the idea of introducing a quota is attracting growing support. for claudia looking mischa its over. after four years as a member of parliament she has to clear out her desk like many of her female colleagues partly because her cvo party did so badly and partly because women lost out in their own party rankings. we have a core and that says ev

go well but the talks for example that would outlined the future of catalonia the fiscal it talk of qana me would be seen by investors as much more productive in case they don't get that and a show of force from madrid for you is a renewed independence push from the side of the catalans well then companies will still have their contingency plans in the bag and they can be sure that other regions within spain would scramble to host the businesses that they would take out of the region in case the situation deteriorate. in frankfurt their own the situation in spain thank you very much. has been another bruising day for japan's coby still its stock plunged another twenty percent as the scandal over the safety of its products deepened japan's third largest largest steelmaker sold many m and copper products using falsified documents the possible used in cars planes and high speed trains customers have been scrambling to find out what's affected and if there's a safety risk. the first conference started with the usual boeing off except q-tips admitting guilt and with an admission that shook up

killed when the nerve agent sarin was dropped on the rebel held town of qana. a presidential election. and four counties has been postponed due to violence the election commission estimates a forty eight percent turnout in the election that was boycotted by the opposition leader. and the crisis in catalonia has deepened after its president refused to call for an early election. to martin says he hasn't received enough guarantees from the dread that it won't impose directly if a new election is held meanwhile the spanish senate is due to vote on friday on whether to trigger article one five five which would allow madrid to directly administer catalonia. let's return to our top story now on syria and the report by the u.n. war crimes investigator we're joined now by juan cole professor of history at the university of michigan and author of engaging the muslim world his joining us live from ann arbor very good to have you with us on al-jazeera mr cole as always what can the u.n. do its own findings that the syrian government was responsible for this her attack wel

has only so many engineers let's say sixty percent of the engineers are white and forty percent of qana. then you can say seventy five percent of the jobs must be for engineers of color on it only twenty five percent of all whites they aren't sufficient literary and people of color to full the posts so in an unbalanced way affirmative action has led to that service the liberty has led to bad management has led to losses has led to. mal administration of budgets not because the people involved are people of color but because they haven't been turned sufficiently for that job so that's not a point that do they not specialists but they are put into specialist positions we can just carry on and carry on for ever on that basis there needs to be an organized in the meantime we are experiencing a brain drain not only of white south africans emigrating but also black and colored and indian and south africans emigrate because they feel that they are not given sufficient opportunity within the economy and the industry of south africa itself being a president and commander in chief certain operati

pose problems test drives are not allowed even starting the car is prohibited risky business for the qana says of the scene. said. this used to be more interesting but since they let everyone come here private people are splitting our business the auction room is packed the mess around he stands at fifteen thousand euro's despite being an almost ten year old gas guzzler. the offer is way too high many here think. it still goes for twenty eight thousand. who is very keen on a german made car eventually has to let it go competition here has become fierce you had warned me before the city with the highest offer was fourteen thousand euros he told me but it just went higher and higher he leaves bitterly disappointed . because. the state earned three hundred eighty thousand euros today a new record but there's still plenty left and anyone who believes much of it belongs in the trash can there are plenty of those here too. governments normally get criticized for tax and spend policies but this one is a hit that's it for today good bye for me and the whole team see you next time. the by the f.c.

qana last kill. kill kill joy own and to build a support network among senior officials who would experience severe anger is children. you would be much more difficult for him to build relationships with these are going to have been for his predecessors. when you again there was no real connection between him and the other leaders. the problems of power was divided among various factions and it was decided by intimidation and even violence. it was you know i think that there probably is a lot of internal churn in there because what seemed to be clear is that after kim jong un did take power he was trying to move some of the business concessions and the political power in the military that his father put there right his father believed in so-called military first politics and move it over to the party or at least balance out the party in the military all of the generals that were with kim jong il and by the hearse of his father in the funeral procession are all gone none of them are left and so very c

don't know whether you heard that some people were arrested and being taken to court but people like qana now already have little access to the courts and justice before embarking on the treacherous hike back to where home village hannah visits her mother in the camp. hannah says she feels abandoned by her husband who has gone underground to fight with a rebel group by the international community because of the continual difficulty to keep food on her table and above all by her own government who soldiers she lives in fear of as she makes her way back home. let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world in afghanistan at least fourteen people have been killed in an ongoing suicide and gun attack at a police academy the taliban has claimed the attack in the eastern province of the militants also earlier killed seven people in nearby got the province office setting off a bomb outside the police headquarters and then storming the building firefighters in portugal are battling hundreds of wildfires in the north and center of the country so far at least thirty six people

three people including children were killed in a suspected chemical attack on the rebel held town of qana in northwestern syria and those are the headlines more details on the website al jazeera dot com coming up next it's inside story life at. pakistan gets a warning from the u.s. do more to stop aiding groups secretary of state rex tillerson is on his first visit to islamabad at a time when the u.s. is considering giving india a greater role in the war in afghanistan can washington a.n.h. pakistan one of the risks this is inside story. welcome to the program i'm jane dutton ricks to listens a visit to islamabad on tuesday was as much about pakistan's neighbors as us pakistan relations in particular the usa free of state once the pakistani leadership to stop taliban fighters launching attacks in afghanistan from their side of the border at the same time pakistan's prime minister it's a kind of boss is trying to dissuade the u.s. from inviting india to play a bigger role in afghanistan will get i guess in a moment but first natasha good name has this report pakistan has been basking in ra

conducting this investigation for example of this is about the chemical attack that took place in qana shaken but no o.p.c. w. investigators have ever been to the site of the chemical attack they've made their determinations based on samples that they've received that have been sent to them by third parties and some of these third parties have some rather controversial backgrounds a lot of questions are being raised about the samples they've received now this attack took place on april fourth and it resulted in seventy four people dying and over five hundred people being injured the o.p.c. that you had reported that sarin nerve gas was the agent that was used in the chemical attack but the o.p.c. w. has not determined who was responsible for carrying the attack out and they have not made any speculation about who is responsible they simply in the past have said that they don't have enough information now that hasn't stopped the leaders of the united states and other western countries of blaming the syrian government calling for action against the syrian government based on this but no

didn't actually visit the site of this attack in qana shape and they didn't actually visit the site they simply did their investigation with samples and these samples were sent by third parties furthermore the previous report didn't identify who was responsible for the attack however western leaders were quick to blame the syrian government for it and actually there was there was a response now this is this is the attack that took place in concho there were seventy four people killed and over five hundred people injured the o.p.c. w. has determined that it was sarin nerve gas that was used in the attack and now the russian ambassador also pointed out that the united states and washington seem to be fueling media hysteria in the lead up to the voting at the u.n. security council this is what he had to say. a few days before publication of the report the jim a resolution is her is rushed to extend it by a year before that a powerful campaign in the media is launched. ambassador healy gave an interview in which she clearly cues drescher of trying to undermine and torpedo the work of the jim

says the government used deadly sarin nerve gas against the rebel held town of qana kohen syria has denied using chemical weapons. the world food program says myanmar's government has given the go ahead to resume aid operations to roll hinge of muslims in northern ca kind state the u.n. agency suspended its work in august after myanmar security forces began targeting the muslim minority group hundreds of thousands of for him to have now fled into neighboring bangladesh. was kenyan election officials continue to count ballots in the country's presidential election rerun the cost of this divisive vote is becoming ever more apparent one person was killed in clashes between protesters and police today bringing the overall death toll to at least five kenya's been walked in political uncertainty ever since the supreme court an old presidential elections that were held back in august fears of further bloodshed and now it authorities to once again postpone voting that had been planned for saturday in some opposition strongholds. the streets of kenya's capital nairobi are unusually quiet worried ab

extend their investigation now this is the investigation into the chemical attack which took place in qanashaikh coun now this was russia's previously criticized this investigation russia has pointed out that the o.p.c. have never actually visited the site of the chemical attack and furthermore the o.p.c. that you didn't visit the airbase that was bombed by the united states where u.s. leaders were alleging that this chemical attack had originated from so as of the moment we're still waiting for the o.p.c. w. to present their report russia says at the time that the o.p.c. w presents their report that point it will be up for discussion whether or not to extend the investigation but at the moment they did veto the resolution that would have extended the resin their investigation prior to prior to the results of the investigation so far being revealed so many questions are are waiting we're all waiting to see what happens next when the o.p.c. w. does present the results of their report so far but at the moment the proposal that would have extended the investigation this proposal has been veto

don't know whether you heard that some people were arrested and being taken to court but people like qana now already have little access to the courts and justice before embarking on the treacherous hike back to where home village kind of visits her mother in the camp. hannah says she feels abandoned by her husband who has gone underground to fight with a rebel group by the international community because of the continual difficulty to keep food on her table and above all by her own government who soldiers she lives in fear of as she makes her way back home. the challenges facing south sudan you're watching the news coming up ahead it's crunch time in the champions league for bundesliga side and life and dortmund well both searching for their for continental wins of the season. but first tonight joins me from the business desk and germany's biggest airline just cons on a buying spree had in the case it is and rita is going to very long shopping list of course it did just parts of a now it's setting its sights on a tally of germany's largest airline lift answer of course putting in a bid f

truly and that's why i don't know what the some people without being taken to court but people like qana now already have little access to the courts and justice before embarking on the treacherous hike back to her home village hannah visits her mother in the camp. anna says she feels abandoned by her husband who has gone underground to fight with a rebel group by the international community because of the continual difficulty to keep food on her table and above all by her own government who soldiers she lives in fear of as she makes her way back home. and here's a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you u.s. backed syrian forces have retaken rocket a city militants had considered their capital local military leaders say an operation is underway to clear out dozens of iowa's fighters who have refused to surrender iraqi forces are celebrating their capture of the northern city of kirkuk from the kurds but as thousands of civilians flee both the un and the u.s. have expressed fear is that tensions between the two could escalate into conflict and pro independent supporters

for a lethal attack in april in which more than eighty people were killed in the sarin gas attack in qana. somalia's former president also put as money that will be tried on corruption charges on friday a judge ruled in favor of a request by the country's prosecutor to charge him with bribery and tax avoidance totaling several million dollars. on counting the cost of italy's wealthy northern region safe seats of more autonomy who are the forces reshaping european politics how might china's new leadership line up the economy plus why trade is the hong kong stock exchange just saying bye bye to the back country because at this time on al-jazeera. emotions are high in barcelona. the intense political drama as catalonia pushes for independence but can the region afford to go it alone what are the economic costs of the split from spain and why is the european union so cold to the idea this is inside story. hello and welcome i'm patty kahane events are moving quickly in both madrid and barcelona the political situation has been confusing but this much is certain catalonia is drive for independe

don't know whether you heard that some people were arrested and being taken to court but people like qana now already have little access to the courts and justice before embarking on the treacherous hike back to her home village hannah visits her mother in the camp. hannah says she feels abandoned by her husband who has gone underground to fight with a rebel group by the international community because of the continual difficulty to keep food on her table and above all by her own government who soldiers she lives in fear of as she makes her way back home. in sports news bundesliga clubs dortmund and to leipsic are in action at the champions league tonight but the big back everyone will be watching israel madrid versus tottenham both teams go into group clashes with perfect records madrid's attack will of course be spearheaded by christiane although the reigning world player of the year already has four goals in this season's champions league but tottenham have their own in the form forward in harry kane who has scored five goals in europe and will be desperate to prove himself against the

with an eighty people many of them children were killed when sarin gas was dropped on the town of qana she cooed the u.k.'s ambassador to the un says the security council must now follow through on its promise to hold the attackers accountable it's now the fourth time that the gym has found the syrian regime responsible for using using poisonous gas against its own people that now falls on the security council to act on these findings and to deliver justice not just for those kills and maims on that tuesday morning six months ago but also for all the victims of assad's brutality the british navy has dismissed nine sailors after they failed a drugs test the true served on h.m.s. vigilant one of four royal navy submarines which carry nuclear missiles earlier this month those submarines captain was relieved of his command after what was described as an inappropriate relationship with a crew member at least thirty one people including eleven children have been killed after a bus crashed into a river in nepal it was filled with passengers coming back from the hindu festival but it skidded o

government for an attack in april over eighty people were killed when sarin gas was dropped on the town of qana she whom the u.k.'s ambassador to the u.n. says the security council must bear follow through on its promise to hold the attackers accountable it's now the fourth time that the gym has found the syrian regime responsible for using using poisonous gas against its own people it now falls on the security council to act on these findings and to deliver justice not just for those kills and maims on that tuesday morning six months ago but also for all the victims of assad's brutality there is demanding the release of its journalist mahmoud hussein who's now been in addiction prison for more than three hundred ten days is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he ended his era strongly deny it has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail archaeologists in the gaza strip have managed to stop the destruction of a unique bronze age site for now discovered nearly twenty years ago it offers a glimpse into what life in the region might have been like thousands of years ago b

for a lethal attack in april in which more than eighty people were killed in the sarin gas attack in qana. the. former president also presently there will be tried on corruption charges on friday a judge ruled in favor of a request by the country's prosecutor to charge him with bribery and tax avoidance totaling several million dollars. on counting the cost of italy's wealthy northern region safe seat to more autonomy but who are the forces reshaping european politics how might china's new leadership be economy plus why traders at hong kong stock exchange are saying. it can't be because at this time on al-jazeera. the emotions are high in barcelona. could be that intense political drama as catalonia pushes for independence but can the region afford to go it alone what on.

jam dozens of motorists stuck in their cars hundreds of bystanders too and so the explosion caused qana the woman to show them cover couldn't have come out this was the biggest explosion i have ever heard the car exploded at the center of the busiest junction in mogadishu it caused huge destruction some more than twenty dead people around the street and there may be more than that in the collapsed buildings i myself and i've never seen a scene like this ever before all the buildings around here have collapsed there are close to two hundred people in these buildings i hope everyone is ok ok five is in a bustling commercial district of mogadishu with many shops hotels and businesses the blast happened outside the safari hotel not normally used by government workers and so it's not clear whether the hotel itself was the intended target or possibly the somali foreign ministry nearby it's emerged too that the police were actually following the truck at the time of the explosion. two hours after the truck bomb blast a car bomb detonated in the city's medina district two people were killed the

in a pull over eighty people were killed when the nerve agent sarin was dropped on to the town of qana shaken at least three people have been shot dead in election related violence in kenya prompting officials to delay the vote in four counties about a dozen others were injured in the opposition stronghold of kisumu which is one of the four counties where voting materials have not been delivered overall forty three people have been killed in election related violence since the august election victory of president goodluck yeah so this was the later overturned by the supreme court prompting thursday's rerun mamadou sent us this update from ny will be. well in most parts and particularly in oppositions small hole there was while and particularly young people relentlessly trying to pull vaulters from accessing the polling stations and also more to allow him altogether polling station polling officials from taking polling material to the different stations where votes were supposed to have been cast darkness falls independent electron bombs commission to time the elections and the polls ho

person has been killed and six others wounded after iraqi forces opened fire on kurdish protesters in qana keen the kurdish demonstrators were protesting against the takeover of the city by iraqi forces and i came as claimed by both the kurdistan regional government and the central authority in baghdad well about one hundred thousand kurds have now fled the cook region since it was retaken by iraqi forces the u.n. says it's worried by reports civilians are being forcibly displaced in their houses and businesses looted and destroyed from air bill in northern iraq stephanie decker reports. in a dusty abandoned housing project on the outskirts of reveal these are unexpected occupants. kurdish families who fled their homes in kirkuk and surrounding areas just a couple of days ago now scrambling for basic supplies. to man abdul kareem says she left because she was scared of shia militia fighters called her who arrived alongside the iraqi army but they weren't good with kurds they didn't trade as well they used to take and imprison them even hit women my husband is dead all i could do is take my

then our visitors can personally observe the marvels of the sky as seen from here in qana alto. our main activity is research for science so the number of nights we can devote to this activity is certainly limited but it's something we're committed to. we're going to keep it going and there are circumstances a lot will expand and enhance it. in the evening the experience begins. i want to see what you see through a telescope with a vast range of lenses you have i've heard the resolution is so high you can see the moons of your anus that's what i want to see. the special guests are invited into the scientists work spaces. we think they scientifically is more appropriate people who have already had some previous experience with telescopes. because if you have never looked through a telescope before and looked through this one for the first time you'll never want to look through any other want to know if i could meet up with them about. as darkness falls the dome opens. in one thousand nine hundred seventy five this telescope manufactured in germany was the first telescope to go op

outrage in april people were killed when the nerve agent sarin was dropped on the rebel held town of qana shaker . three people have been shot dead during kenya's repeat presidential election. and in four counties due to violence the election commission estimates a forty eight percent voter turnout in the election boycotted by the opposition. and us president has declared the declared opioid addiction a public health emergency the government will now have more power to address the issue and more freedom to change legislation it's estimated more than sixty four thousand americans died just last year due to pure addiction and overdose. the president and yemen has spoken exclusively to al jazeera about alleged torture methods used in secret prisons run by the u.a.e. and its allies dozens of detainees have gone on hunger strike in the city of aden saying they're being abused. the report. human rights watch says there are at least eighteen secret prisons run by you a forces in southern yemen they include bare akhmed prison in aden al jazeera has obtained a voice recording of one detainee he sa

syria's deadliest chemical attacks at least eighty three people were killed in the rebel held town of qana in april the u.n. war crimes investigators say they have evidence that syrian government forces were behind the attack. the kurdish regional government in iraq has suggested freezing the results of a secession referendum which triggered a row with the central government the cards say they're ready for talks with baghdad and want a cease fire but a special forces have been fighting government troops near a key oil pipeline ma'am are in bangladesh have agreed to work together to repatriate hundreds of thousands over who fled violence in me and most northern iraq on the state more than six hundred thousand people have made the journey to bangladesh in the last two months and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after death by design all see in about half an hour by the now. this new film. as you see it youngest of us you do it has died and fifteen others were injured after an explosion at a foxconn factory in chengdu south with trying to. get around seven pm in a

three people including children were killed in a suspected chemical attack on the rebel held town of qana in northwestern syria in april u.n. war crimes investigators say they have evidence that syrian government forces were behind the attack mike hanna has more from the u.n. headquarters in new york. the annual mandate of the joint investigative mechanism of the u.n. which is investigating chemical weapons attack in syria expires on the seventeenth of november the us wanted to renew that mandate now however russia together with bolivia and the security council argued strongly that they wanted to wait until the next report of the gym comes out and that's in two days' time u.s. insisting that russia is holding off on extending the mandate for another year because it wants to see the contents of that jim report before deciding whether it will russia insisting that it doesn't want to politicize everything but it does need to hear the report before it commits itself to granting jim another year's access to investigate syria's chemical weapons use so the situation now it does not mean that the

jam dozens of motorists stuck in their cars hundreds of bystanders too and so the explosion caused qana vanish on cover couldn't fire coming out this was the biggest explosion i have ever heard the car exploded at the center of the busiest junction in mogadishu it caused huge destruction i see more than twenty dead people around the street and there may be more than that in the collapsed buildings. myself and i've never seen a scene like this ever before and all the buildings around here have collapsed there are close to two hundred people in these buildings i hope everyone is ok ok five is in a bustling commercial district of mogadishu with many shops hotels and businesses the blast happened outside the safari hotel not normally used by government workers and so it's not clear whether the hotel itself was the intended target or possibly the somali foreign ministry nearby it's emerged too that the police were actually following the truck at the time of the explosion. two hours after the truck bomb blast a car bomb detonated in the city's medina district two people were killed there and

whether you heard that some people were arrested and being actually taken to court but people like qana now already have little access to the courts and justice before embarking on the treacherous hike back to where home village anna visits her mother in the camp. and hannah says she feels abandoned by her husband who has gone underground to fight with a rebel group by the international community because of the continual difficulty to keep food on her table and above all by her own government who soldiers she lives in fear of as she makes her way back home. you know coming up ahead this abuse allegations surrounding movie producer harvey weinstein has sparked a social media trend stories of sexual harassment having to live under the hash tag need to find out how large an impact it's having. that and more coming up short hair what you need to do stay with us. he survived hell on earth my suit on he was freed from islamic state torture chambers after two hundred eighty days. now my suit has escaped to germany and he's hunting down terrorists on his own doing something against isis he said

create a transmission line ones and i don't recall our example from from from north of the lake to qanafive hundred kilometers of transmission lines have to be built in order to bring the pole or to load main load centers in kenya so is it isn't that what africa needs what this country needs at the moment help from the outside and if so why has there not been more progress. now i think what i mentioned in in a lot of countries the environment is not in place which attracts a private sector to come in so for example what we have seen were for off grid solution is a suitable solution for small in medium size companies from africa to provide sustainable energy for in rural areas but this requires also to some extent the sustainable environment which is a private sector can also take the risk of for long term investment as all of this is why we push very much within the compact with africa the african countries will create a discount of environment which helped also africa to make much more use of the huge potential to have in renewable energies bono and of the german investment and develop

more than one and a half hours ahead of his nearest rival danny so it's nick of belgium the out of qana is rippin reputed to be the driest place on earth with altitudes averaging twenty five hundred metres the competition is part of the wider four deserts race which includes treks across the sahara and the gobi. while at that annual barcelona sailing regatta that just off a tree asked italy the italian boat spirit of port to kyoto discovered by the brothers ferry and gabriele the news has successfully defended its title it came in almost thirteen minutes ahead of the second place bowed moxy enough from slovenia. the barker law is one of the most crowded with god has in the world drawing in about thirteen hundred boats various categories and hundreds of thousands of spectators. also to come on the show imprisoned and tortured for their sexual orientation we'll bring you the first installment in an exclusive series of reports this week looking at what it means to be gay in russia . and in our sports news a germany confirms their place in the twenty eighteen world cup after thumping azerba

any any discussion about what it is they they actually want the effect that this could have on their qana me how they would exactly how they would actually exist as something being completely separate from spain. will there are a lot of people i mean i spoke to warm a member of one of the alliance groups and he started off as a young man voting socialist he didn't believe in secession just give you an example of of warm trial you know he is a software operator he is an intelligent articulate young man and he was telling me that as far as he was. the way this had been handled the way the government had and also retiring way made mention that he felt yes i should focus procession parties because where all we now it's just going to fall however on the other hand he thought that well business is going to be devastated by this move and when you look at all the indicators right now well we've had this sort of. business with bricks at you know all these figures coming up and being messed around and i'm portrayed as either for or against a political move but the bottom line is that the spanish gr

but people like qana now already have little access to the courts and justice before embarking on the treacherous hike back to where home village kind of visits her mother in the camp. and. hannah says she feels abandoned by her husband who has gone underground to fight with a rebel group by the international community because of the continual difficulty to keep food on her table and above all by her own government who soldiers she lives in fear of as she makes her way back home. for now let's bring in john philip schultz he's one of the t.w. journalists behind that report from south sudan and joins us now on the line from lagos nigeria a young fellow first of all give us an overview if you can of the scale of the disaster in south sudan. and it's quite. valid six million people need surgeons have this is the majority of those who don't need and in many parts of the country especially in the northern regions where there's direct i think between the government troops and the rebel forces those you end can are really the only places where civilians can find many number of security outsi

more than eighty people were killed when the nerve agent sarin was dropped on the rebel held town of qana. u.s. media reporting that a federal grand jury in washington d.c. has approved the first charges in the investigation of a russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election the charges led by special counsel robert mueller said to be still sealed under orders from a federal judge let's get more on this now with bruce fein a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general and constitutional lawyer he's joining us live from washington d.c. mr fein always a pleasure to have you with us on al-jazeera this hasn't been independently verified yet but what can you read from what c.n.n. is reporting. we know that the charges are very serious they must be a felony if it's an indictment the alternate way of charging an individual the crime isn't information but that is for punishment for wrongdoing punishable by one year or less it's also very likely given the public knowledge that search warrants were directed and executed against paul man a fort that he is probably the

attacks on schools and hospitals both the saudi led coalition and who three rebels are being blamed by qana reports from the un. the report lists four thousand recorded violations against children by government forces in some twenty zones of conflict along with over eleven thousand violations by non-state groups but in a carrot and stick approach the format of the report has been altered those states or non-state perpetrators that have been gauged with the un and committed to improving protection for children are placed in a separate blacklist from those parties that have shown no remorse or concern about their actions the saudi led military coalition in yemen is placed in this category what became of vanden clear he said there were some listed parties even through many years to three years that had generally been attempting to put in place may shows that i mean they had acknowledged the problem the creation of the category may be an attempt to persuade perpetrators that there is political value in engaging with the u.n. but critics contend it could also be a patent attempt to diminish the

person has been killed and six others wounded after iraqi forces opened fire on kurdish protesters in qana keen the kurdish demonstrators were protesting against the takeover of the city by iraqi forces and i came as claimed by both the kurdistan regional government and the central authority in baghdad. what about one hundred thousand kurds have fled the cook region since it was retaken by iraqi forces the u.n. says it's worried by reports civilians are being forcibly displaced in their houses and businesses looted and destroyed from air bill in northern iraq stephanie decker reports. in a dusty abandoned housing project on the outskirts of erbil these are unexpected occupants. kurdish families who fled their homes in kirkuk and surrounding areas just a couple of days ago now scrambling for basic supplies. to man abdul kareem says she left because she was scared of shia militia fighters called hostile shabby who arrived alongside the iraqi army. they weren't good with kurds they didn't treat us well they used to take em and imprison them even hit women my husband is dead all i could do is

have climbed to a two week high we discuss the market boost and conflict with international or the qana missed. the immediate impact comes from the clashes in cairo cool so far these clashes have added one to two dollars to the price of. the care cook oil field and care for region is very important for iraq's economy because iraq's economy is dependent. ninety per cent on oil revenue and the oil fields have been employed using since ninety one to seven and they are continuing to produce oil and they the amount they have been producing already sent than they see the four hundred fifty to five hundred thousand barrels a day so it is almost ten per cent of the oil production. now another new seedling two key members of the catalan independence movement have been detained and questioned on charges of sedition they are accused of playing crucial role to known in organizing catalonians disputed referendum which madrid says was illegal and it's provoked yet more protests in barcelona. i thank thank you. catalan leaders were in attendance at the latest demonstration holding a minute's silence a