this month parliament voted to expel foreign forces after the us killed a top iranian general qassam somani locusts have been swarming in the billions 'd across kenya somalia and ethiopia causing so much havoc the un has called for international help to avert a crisis kenya is facing its largest invasion and 7 decades insects have destroyed thousands of crops and the u.n. is concerned that that will impact food security in east africa at the invitation to unseasonal rains last month that caused the locust population to blow those are the headlines keep it here one on one east us up next here on al-jazeera. talk. about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they all the endemic corruption. we listen so if you replace china as the enemy of the with and that's really vendors we meet with global news makers and tweek about the stories that. 0. following the tradewinds of the silk road the belt and road initiative is china's ambitious plan to link the country to the rest of the world sure enough so little differences that hard. to tell yet again the police officer. chinese leaders say all countrie

airstrikes targeting major general qassam somani on friday the formal funeral for the top iranian commander as well as of a wadi alma hondas the deputy commander of the iran backed popular mobilization forces is on the way on this will later be buried not in iraq mani's body will be flown to iraq let's go live to some more fulton who's in baghdad similar so this is a chance for people to pay their respects. that's correct and that's what they've been doing since the early morning hours the processions began here in baghdad in the car the area where holy shrine of them is located and the procession is now under way and part of it has reached the area a part opposite of the fortified green zone where the u.s. embassy is located now earlier today we saw actually just about an hour or half an hour ago we saw the crowds actually reaching up to one of the gates of the green zone now the procession that included the bodies of the 8 people who were killed in the strike including so him and his and mohandas they were allowed to go through but then when the broader crowd allows the security forces ba

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assassination of qassam cilla money nothing indicates that that path has been changed since the recent fighting so we have to be very very eyes wide open that more can happen do you think killing somani was a mistake. maybe there is a tactical justification for it from an american military perspective but it's a real strategic blunder in that it's not as if the i or g.c. the revolutionary guard corps that he led suddenly has been dismantled it's still there number 2 came in his lieutenant is now the leader of it he became a full hero inside of iran and so the united states we didn't really achieve a strategic deterrent victory they're not necessary state pompei a said deterrence has been restored but that's something that we heard back in june after we withheld against the strikes and and laid down some tough rhetoric that's something we heard when we bomb syria a couple of years ago after a chemical strike and then chemical weapons were used again so it's going to take a more robust comprehensive policy to change the direction of this relationship assassinating one leader like this has isolated us as well and i do want to mention that it's put us on our heels and our variety of our