and so i will return to the korean peninsula as we go through the next couple days particularly into south korea but sounding very wet with the risk of flooding japan . the philippines is asia's largest catholic nation priests are treated like gods but the church has a dark secret when used investigate sexual misconduct inside the most powerful institution in the philippines at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello there i'm barbara sarah this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes north korea threatens retaliation as the security council

prepares to vote on new sanctions within the next hour sanctions which have already been watered down the u.n. human rights chief says myanmar's crackdown there him just seems like a textbook example of ethnic cleansing irma's cuban victims at least ten people were killed as the hurrican tore through the island. parkway matthew barnes. new york remembers the victims of the nine eleven attacks sixteen years ago. in sport big time cricket asserts returns of pakistan for the first time since two thousand and nine amid tight security world eleven has arrived in lahore for a pivotal event in the country's sporting history.

north korea is facing new sanctions over its largest nuclear test to date as the un security council prepares to vote on the measures in around an hour stime the us is being forced. watered down its draft resolution to win the support of pyongyang's allies russia and china last week's test was the sixth and the largest carried out by north korea pyongyang has warned that it's ready and willing to respond with measures of its own while the sanctions are thought to include a ban on all countries hiring north korean workers and the importing textiles from the country these are two of its key sources of foreign currency but the u.s. has had to remove other tougher sanctions to win support from russia and china it had wanted to ban all natural gas exports to north korea but both those countries a supply pyongyang with its oil needs now the original draft also involve the

freeze on all foreign financial assets of the government and this leader kim jong un as well as a travel ban school i've asked james bases at the u.n. headquarters in new york james obviously the vote hasn't started yet but do you think the watering down of the resolution will be enough to get russia and china on board. yes i think the word we're getting is it looks like there will not be a veto from either russia or china and we don't think they'll be an abstention from either country either on this new resolution from the united states we know that the us ambassador nikki haley was the one that was driving this resolution she will be having a final meeting behind closed doors of the security council in about thirty minutes time that's half an hour before the vote is shared and i think that simply for the u.s. to try to make sure that everyone is on board that no one has any last minute concerns

because the u.s. does not want a veto on this resolution that's why this is the resolution they're going to vote on and it's quite different from the one that al-jazeera obtained just last week the one that was circulated to the security council this one some of the key provisions have been taken out of it the u.s. would have liked those provisions in it but they feel that security council unity is more important one of the u.s. is key allies of course on the security council is the u.k. their ambassador matthew wright graph says that the new version is still a pretty strong one. was called negotiation and that's what we do here in the security council there is a significant prize in keeping the whole of the security council united and i very much hope that all my council colleagues will vote in favor of the revised draft the version on the table is strong it is robust it is a very significant set of additional sanctions on imports into north korea and on

exports out of north korea and other measures as well and that james just walk us through what exactly what's meant to happen over the next hour and then beyond that . well as a say in about twenty five minutes a final meeting behind closed doors with the u.s. ambassador explaining the new version of her resolution to the other members of the security council the other fourteen members of the security council making sure they're all on board half an hour before the vote which will take place now in just under an hour's time of the u.n. security council and then as ever at these things we hear each of the security council members speak about their view of the way forward and certainly interesting not only to hear from the trumpet ministration and from their holy their representative but from two of the other most important players here who i think were concerned about the earlier tougher draft of this resolution and that is

russia and china both countries feel that yes sorry actions are important but they are not going to solve this on their own and they would like there to be a fresh opening to north korea and fresh talks the trumpet ministration i think is not closing the door on that but it believes that there needs to be punishment of north korea the fact that it keeps defying the international community it's worth remarking on the fact that a few years ago when we used to see north korea carrying out a test you'd see the security council after some time coming up with a response with tougher sanctions and then north korea used to go quiet for months and months before something else would happen this year since president trump became the president maybe that's just a coincidence it's all changed the security council takes action north korea though doesn't seem to back down in fact it further retaliates with further action in terms of missile tests and most recently a nuclear test or james you'll be with us over the next few hours to bring us the

latest as things develop there in the security council the originals both at war and war. and we're joined now by amy o'dell who's a research fellow in nuclear policy at the royal united services institute here in london thank you so much for for being with us we were hearing there from james bays that that resolution has been watered down enough that we think that china and russia what will actually get on board and not veto it but in a sense does it mean that it's been so watered down that yes you get it through the security council but ultimately it doesn't bite north korea enough to actually get what every one of the security council wants for them to back down on their nuclear program i think at this stage we know sanctions are really going to make north korea give up its nuclear weapons give up with missile capability that is now a lost cause for sanctions but there bunch of other things the sanctions can achieve and that is making it harder for north korea to operate abroad making it harder for north korea to gather that's acknowledged material that they need to go further in their nuclear program and also constraints of the regimes abilities to

actually carry out beisel functions within the within the country ok it's a seeing as basically china and russia have like the involvement with you know north korea's energy needs do you think the resolution as it stands would do that that these new sanctions would actually stop north korea expanding its nuclear program i'm not sure and we also have to keep in mind that it's only been about a month since the united nations security council passed the last round of sanctions and those sanctions were were cast as the toughest sanctions ever and china signed up to quite a lot then what i think is really important is that we focus on implementation one thing is talking about these different measures that we can bring against north korea and others into mentation and we haven't seen that incrementation yet so it's not about the scope of sanctions and how much can we bring against north korea it's about how many countries can we actually get up and and and fully enforce sanctions

wholeheartedly once and for all so something like a travel ban for example we've seen a water that version of that do you think that that would be a. i do not think that we will see a travel ban against kim jong un kim jong un doesn't travel much to begin with but i don't think things like that are going to change north korea's mind about having and you can see they have a new capability because they see that as their last resort against the united states in the region rightly or wrongly but that is their perception and sanctions at this point are not going to bring them in what could is the parasite is something else so we remember the iran nuclear deal was achieved by tough sanctions the near total isolation of the iranian economy but on the sidelines of that we had a very clear and structured negotiation process we haven't seen an inkling of that in the north korean case we haven't seen the trump and inspiration been even willing to engage the it with but the thought of having and i find that quite

problematic well though i know that you're going to be with us for the next few hours just to talk us through especially when we get results from this vote at the security council for the moment the from thank you meanwhile still with the u.n. the institution is the scribing the treatment of the range of minority me and more as nothing short of ethnic cleansing the bangladesh government says at least three thousand rangers have been killed in recent weeks from thing an exodus of refugees across the border from me and why their villages of either burned to the ground or are actually still on fire and is the bigger problem reports now from the camp the large numbers of refugees arriving daily is actually putting a major strain on resources the un human rights chief has condemned the violence against the right hand to muslims. hussein is demanding an end to me and mars military operation situation or seems

a textbook textbook example of ethnic cleansing. the myanmar government should stop pretending that setting fire to their own homes and laying waste to their own villages this complete denial of reality is doing great damage to the international standing of a government which until recently benefited from immense goodwill. i call on the government to its current crew a military operation with accountability for violations that have occurred and to reverse the pattern of severe and widespread discrimination against the ranger population. the u.n. says more than three hundred thousand people have fled to bangladesh in the past three weeks joining the four hundred thousand that are already in the country. almost everyone at this makeshift camp has a story of how they survived an attack on how they lost a member of the family. what it will be like yeah in front of my paddy field the

military shot my uncle and killed him. both her sons were also shot by security forces but she says they made it across the border alive you know. like this man that the military came to my village and burned down my house they shot me when i was running away he tells us it's a miracle he's standing here his relatives carried him throughout the twelve day journey to bangladesh. muhammad ali arrived here nearly a year ago after his village was attacked his family rely on food and supplies from international aid agencies and local n.g.o.s but that help has now dried up since the new hunger carry mace being very hard to get supplies some of my relatives of all survived but even we can't survive as we have nothing so i can't help. the balotelli camp set up last year after a military crackdown and me and maher sent hundreds of thousands across the border

. on the edge of a camp a new settlement is forming the workers here tell us they're building homes for the new arrivals who managed to escape with some valuables refugees pay around one hundred twenty five dollars to secure a piece of land and have a shelter like this built it's all part of a new economy that's forming around the hundreds of thousands of rohingya that are in the air. with demand for building materials and basic necessities growing daily prices have nearly doubled in the past two weeks. as the number of daily it is now a fight for food water and other necessities and the relief of having made it to safety wears off and you refugees say they now have to face a new reality and struggle to get through. the al-jazeera. bangladesh's agree to free two thousand acres of land so a new camp can be built to shelter some of the people fleeing tanveer chadri is at

the border district of. something. about southeastern bangladesh thousands several hanger refugees have taken shelter in this area and by the main road these are temporary shelters built by them some of them were donated by local n.g.o.s by of those government is also accounting under intense pressure from opposition party as well as from the mainstream public to do something about it and pressure on me on my to stop the crackdown on their owing i was on our count province by of the foreign minister yesterday had a meeting with all the diplomats he was highly critical of myanmar government the human rights commission chairman was also very critically threatening to take those who are part rid of the crime to international war crime tribunals unless things don't improve bangladesh needs to persuade the international community to exert pressure on me and not to stop the crackdown and stop the inflow of refugees because bangladesh is simply unable to cope it doesn't have that right food supply

infrastructure to feed these people and in such a short time it needs all kind of diplomatic help to solve this problem. well coming up in this news hour from london this transition or belated power grab u.k. politicians divided over the government's withdrawal bill. vote on in the coming hours doing their patriotic. iraqi kurds lining up to give blood growing numbers. from the heavyweight champion hoping to usher in a more polite and professional boxing. cuba says at least ten people were killed by hurrican over the weekend that takes the total death toll from the struction in the caribbean the forty one cuban

authorities say that some were killed after ignoring evacuation orders and several provinces state media is also reporting significant damage to the country's sugar industry. between a huge catastrophe in my home and my business everything is ruined i am a self-employed carpenter i try to lift up things by the water. everything is. done the. house has been flooded we don't know how bad it's been affected because we can't get there now we did move all the belongings to higher places but with the current water levels some of them are probably dream we never thought the flood waters could rise to such a height the water in our house was as high as my waist at the beginning and then it rose to almost the height of my nick. least three people have been killed in the u.s. and nearly six million homes and businesses left without power in florida after hurricane battered its way through the american state erma first hit the florida keys in the early hours of sunday morning as

a category four storm with sustained winds that reached up to two hundred fifteen kilometers an hour it gradually lost strength as it moved inland weakening to a category one hurricane by monday morning as it passed through tampa that's to the west the florida irma was downgraded once again this time to a tropical storm forecasters predict the eye of the storm will stay over florida and then move into georgia alabama and tennessee with warnings of storm surges people in georgia say that they're already feeling the effects al-jazeera say the show castro has more now from tampa and florida. people in the city of tampa on florida's west coast are breathing a huge sigh of relief it had been thought the region of four million wasn't hermas direct path but the hurricane that's founded forecasters already veered east the reported damage in tampa so far minor orlando sheltering many of the more than five

million who evacuated from other parts of the state was pummeled by wind and rain but the real destruction is in south florida after leveling parts of the caribbean are made to florida landfalls first hitting the keel islands with two hundred kilometer an hour winds with bridges still inaccessible the number of people who defied evacuation orders and died is still unknown then irma took aim at marco island where it made a second landfall her path of destruction scars florida from a storm surge that inundated downtown miami to tornadoes that destroyed mobile homes on the east coast. police rescued this couple from their sailboat it's my home it's everything i own self i was doing everything i could to save it millions in florida are without power and hundreds of thousands are in emergency shelters now as people begin to return to what's left of their homes in florida irma

continues to churn north toward georgia where she's expected to inflict more damage heidi joe castro al-jazeera tampa florida well let's go live now to allan fisher who is in eastern and southeastern florida in miami a we can see everything looks relatively ok behind you right now allan but just give us a flavor of you know what people are waking up to today and what what the damage looks like. well this is the financial district of miami and we were here twenty four hours ago if you just take a look down here you can see that the roads are operating fairly normally there's mud on the roads there's a bit of localized flooding businesses are planning to be reopened again tomorrow behind me there is a road where there was a tree that was down it has been cut up and reopened but we're just going to call up the pictures from twenty four hours ago and you will see there's quite a bit of difference because at this time on sunday. and the water from the sea

which is probably about a third of a kilometer half of a kilometer away had come all the we in line and was here up to probably about my knees so you can see just in time the water has eased the way and that makes the cleanup operation here easier no there's trees down and there's a lot of debris on the road that have been has been cleared to the side that will take a bit of time to clear away but on the whole miami seems to think it's getting back to normal a lot quicker than it feared because you remember exactly a week ago was monday and we were told by the forecasters at that point. i was going to hit miami with the force of a category five hurricane perhaps going to be the strongest hurricane that ever made landfall in the united states and so although the damage is bad there are houses that were impacted in flooded the businesses that have lost

a lot of their products and there are other places that have been hit by the weather a lot of people think miami certainly hasn't done as badly as the forecasters were predicting exactly a week ago and allan miami is no stranger to these kinds of hurricanes these kinds of storms i mean obviously erma was particularly fierce but you know in that part of the world especially around this time of the year hurricanes i'm calling someone people rebuild they really rebuild with that in mind you know you never know when the next storm is going to come and how fierce it's going to be. well you know florida is going to a very long time without a major hurricane in fact i think it was something around ten years before in the gaps between one big hurricane and another many people here still remember hurricane andrew that was twenty five years ago and at that point we changed a lot of the building regulations in miami and said we can't go through that again because billions and billions in damage it cost sixty five lives here we've got to

make sure that things improve and improve they have the state has still been impacted there's still more than three million people who are without power and many of them will get power back for several weeks because the infrastructure has been so badly damaged there is more than one hundred thousand people in shelters they will go back they will check their home today and if it's difficult for them because there's no power or it's been submerged in water there is a chance that they will be in shelters for several more days to come but this place does know how to rebuild and so many people have been praising governor rick scott for the position he took a week ago by essentially pressing the button on emergency procedures many people thought was a bit too early but because of what he did there are many who are saying that he saved lives the don't side of that is that people who oppose rick scott he's a republican people who are against rick scott as the governor of florida say this is a man who insisted that florida could not use the phrase climate change in any official

documents while they look at what's happened here look at what's happened particularly those in the florida keys but this was a storm that impacted all of the state of florida and they say perhaps the discussion needs to be had about how they can perhaps prevent this in the future not just rebuild and does that mean talking about those two dreaded words for rick scott climate change yeah be interesting to see how hurricane arma will change the debate certainly in the united states over that for the moment alan fischer in miami allan thank you and emily wilkinson is a senior research fellow. with the overseas development institute's risk and resilience program she joins us live now in the studio thank you so much for being with us alan fisher was mentioning there that even though in that part of the world obviously there are hurricanes miami itself hadn't been hit with such force in a while but is it a fact of life the we are going to be seeing these extreme hurricanes more and more often. it certainly seems to be the case i mean the climate science is telling us

that climate change is having an impact on the intensity of tropical storms and so although we don't know yet whether there's going to be more hurricanes there are certainly going to be stronger more intense hurricanes and that has a serious impact on parts of the world that are affected by hurricanes and sightlines and we can see obviously that miami seems to be getting back on its feet are already how important are building regulations then in preparing for what i guess is the unexpected because we don't really know how strong the hurricanes are going to be yeah extremely important i mean we can see here that there was a lot of preparedness planning and that has been extremely beneficial and that has improved and i think we can we can say that that that has been relatively effective and that people on the whole did evacuate and that and that's and that's been really good but the building regulations and the land use planning and the zoning regulations are really important because for a lot of people located in very high risk areas they're living on the coasts that

are going to be are are affected by storm surge they're living in flood prone areas so where those so many regulations are not in place or they're being ignored they're not being enforced then more and more building is taking place in places where people are going to be affected by these kind of events and there's a real juxtaposition of the places that have been affected i mean we see florida generally the united states obviously one of the world countries in the world and then we see the caribbean the devastation of hurricane irma right there not obviously that's because for example in miami the hurrican slightly mr miami but how difficult is going to be for countries that simply perhaps cannot afford the kind of building regulations the kind of more secure buildings that the u.s. can for example it's more of a challenge certainly i mean in forcing building regulations in and of itself is not expensive it's not something that necessarily requires a lot of resources but it does require strong govern. systems it requires that the

state is able to actually monitor and in force these building regulations and that's really difficult when there's a compelling reasons why in these countries in the caribbean they want to allow businesses to develop and vessels to be made in coastal areas you can see why that might be attractive and why it's very difficult to provide incentives to do to ten twenty five people to do otherwise so a real challenge and in places where it's difficult to employ to ply those building codes and also where a lot of housing is going up informally people don't have a choice necessarily about where to live they're leaving in cheaper areas that they can afford so you have this sort of combination of difficulties in the caribbean but what we also saw in the past few weeks is these incredibly strong storms in quite quick succession we had harvey then and then though it wasn't as the struck there is any way of predicting because obviously hurricane season still has a few months in advance not wrong so is there any way of predicting if there are

any other storms brewing to the scale i mean we expect more hurricanes the season hurricanes with names which implies that they will be a strong strong events. there's no certainty around how many there will be or what the track that they will take so we don't know which places will be affected by the hurricane season goes on until the thirtieth of november so we've got some time left and there are certainly appear to be a number more hurricanes coming through the region later this thing that certainly over the people affected that no more on the way certainly not on the scale of a for the moment emily wilkinson thank you so much for joining. now the u.k. government says it's confident that a major piece of bread legislation will pass in parliament on monday m.p.'s are due to vote in the next hour and a half or so on the e.u. withdraw that would convert european union laws into u.k. law breaks it minister david davis says the bill is essential to ensure an orderly exit from the e.u.

but the opposition has criticized the bill as a power grab by exam by the executive so for more on this line three joins us live now from outside the parliament i mean you can see what the people pushing for the spill wanted to lawrence because it would be an absolute headache to change every single law that the e.u. law that's govern the country for decades into u.k. law just tell us a little bit more about why the people who oppose it feel so strongly about it. yes i mean all of those things that you've said a true the government line is it's really complicated you got to let us get on with it and we will try to ensure they say that parliamentary solvency isn't on their mind but the debates been full of agonized conversations about whether or not british democracy is being undermined one labor m.p. said that it was a source of power grab worthy of demand of turkey or putin of russia and even if you think that that's what the talk is is really an exaggeration it shows you how

worried some m.p.'s are about the idea of the executive government ministers being able to change laws without asking parliament because after all the idea from the probe lobby was that leaving the european union makes the u.k. more democratic with more parliamentary solvency and yet here they are doing something potentially very undemocratic to get their way on the other side of course you have government support again piece saying look it's the will of the people whatever it takes we've got to go and do it and then somewhere in the middle you've got quite a lot of m.p.'s saying we really don't like it very much but i guess we're going to go with it because it is the will of the people a bit further on the line we'll try to make sure that it's tweaks and messaged to make sure parliament gets a say and so in the end what you have is parliament kind of stumbling through how to get from here to there with a lot of agonized conversations along the way that just shows you how difficult the whole process is because they don't really that they can figure out as a body of people exactly what the best way of doing it is in there too to some

extent making it up as they go along that from everything we are hearing it does seem that this is going to pass through parliament when the vote is on in a few hours or so so assuming that that does go ahead what are the next steps because of course the clock is ticking and i think it's one march two thousand and nineteen and by that point the u.k. is going to leave the e.u. one way or another so how much more work is there to do effectively. there's there's millions of different moving parts barbara in terms of this there are lots of different committee stages and a lot of them pieces i say hope that in those committee stages some level of parliamentary scrutiny will be returned so the government is able to do exactly what they feel like but there's all sorts of other things as well tomorrow tuesday for instance they go to discuss the rights of european union citizens living in the u.k. and then by proxy the rights of the u.k. citizens living in european countries as a whole debate about whether the u.k.

needs to pay the european union tens of billions of pounds for the. for actually being able to leave there's also things about the european court of human justice and the customs union and what happens in northern ireland on the borders and all these things going on at once and as you say i mean eighteen months might sound seem like a long time but the speed at which is going so. it really doesn't seem like a lot of time to get all the stuff to get out of those that can actually tell the people of this country what anybody's great vision is what is going to look like until they go through all these things at the moment so i think for the population a lot of frustration no one really seems to know how it's going and they want people to get on with it but it's the direction is most most unclear. where they never said it would be easy or did they. thank you. now much more to come on the program including. hundreds of thousands of catalonia celebrate their

independence just weeks before a crucial referendum and we'll tell you why the north korea tensions are not putting off chinese tourists from flocking to the border plus. the premier league race is under way of the first victim of the season. hello the weather really does look autumnal across a good part of europe now we've got bands of cloud and rain streaming in from the west still a big massive storms thunderstorms just banging away across central parts of the med for the age we are taking to the balkans and just sliding up into that western side of russia still some pretty heavy downpours to come here then as we go on through the next couple of days ahead of that still warm and dry will see

temperatures in book arrested twenty nine thirty five in ankara some very warm sunshine here the other side of that will twenty ourselves some betrayed don't see babba further north it's very blustery we've got a lot of wind blowing across london and paris will see temperatures here around seventeen or eighteen degrees over the next couple days perhaps a touch warmer for paris on wednesday but you can see the bands of cloud and rain never really too far away from that northwestern corner through the british isles into france germany and the low countries further south it looks fine and dry once again ankara thirty two celsius and thirty two will be the top temperature for a good pass hole for greece as well all the parts of africa generally stay financial i more hot sunshine there into cairo temperatures here but around thirty eight thirty nine degrees over the next couple of days not quite as warm as that across the northwest but warm enough for a bat with a high of twenty eight. in the next episode of science in

a golden age exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of chemistry they transformed the superstition of alchemy into the science of chemistry. many of his chemical procedures and all those which may still be used to do it. all while. science in a golden age with professor jim alleve at this time on al-jazeera. if you turn your back on the fire. this would be collateral damage. this would be an overreaction. at the operational cost. of. clarity point trust.

looking back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the un security council is preparing to vote on new sanctions against north korea but the us said to watered down an earlier draft resolution to guarantee russia and china's support range of villagers say security forces have set fire to more homes in me and mars rakhine state as the un human rights chief accuses the government of ethnic cleansing and cuba says at least ten people have been killed by hurrican arma after it battered the country over the weekend irma is now in the u.s. state of georgia and has weakened to a tropical. one. mexico has withdrawn its offer to send

aid to hurricane victims in the u.s. state of texas because it's emergency services are now too busy dealing with the aftermath of its own earthquake mexico's government had offered to send help but then an eight point one magnitude earthquake struck off its southern coast late last week killing at least ninety six people at least two and a half million people have now been left in need of aid while heavy rains have severely stretched emergency services syria's army has sent massive reinforcements to territory it controls and there is or ahead of a final push for the i saw the eastern half of the city syrian forces of scored major advances in recent days breaking the ice will see john and capturing territory around it but i so still holds much of the province and half the city as well as a pocket of territory in your homes and hama for the west where the fight against

northern iraq continues to cause many casualties ascending the demand for blood transfusions soaring thankfully though more iraqis are donating blood than ever before the war imran khan reports now from a to b. on the voluntary donations proving to be a vital lifeline for iraq's civilians. giving blood is not only a medical procedure here it's also an act of patriotism. a steady flow of people arrive daily to give blood in an appeal in the kurdish region of northern iraq but the kurdish and iraqi security forces continue to battle eisel fighters and blood transfusions a desperately needed the war wounded as well as the refugee crisis is stretching medical services. kids donating blood in ever growing numbers doctors at the central blood bank say around seventy five people donated before the war with isis started now it's more than two hundred fifty a day at this center alone actually. the rate of one hundred donation was before

the conflict with isis but the response of our people is very good and when they see that the blood banks and is no need for blood there's mostly very good. such as a bill so tarred with decided to donate every three months while others come more frequently. that you know with the bush all of the come i used to donate blood occasionally in the past but since kurdistan got involved in the fight against i still i and others have a regulator united blood for the injured kurdish peshmerga fighters and others who need it this is the least we can do for those who are defending our lands we take pride in our humble sacrifice in on a of the greatest sacrifices by the peshmerga. the kurdish regional government has mounted several campaigns to encourage blood donation the central blood bank says the campaigns have been crucial in instilling a sense of passion it isn't that what won the fight against eisel escalated the

thora tees including the health ministry started to promote blood donation campaigns and urged people to visit blood centers to help primarily peshmerga fighters and other urgent medical cases as well our campaign has helped to. patriotic and humanitarian awareness. from the central blood bank the product is distributed to around forty five hospitals and centers across the erbil region now the central authority will be hoping that the sense of patri altogether the reason people are giving blood will long continue imraan khan out is there a bill cut that his foreign minister has told the u.n. human rights council the three month blockade on his country is violating civil social and economic rights mohammad the bin abdul rahman are funny says the diplomatic and trade sanctions imposed by four arab states are hurting individual capitals he says though i has filed

a twenty six thousand cases of violations with the un human rights council there are certain violations for the international declaration for the human rights without its about. the families of the unions or education freedom of education the freedom of transportation and freedom of ownership and freedom of expression and freedom of speech. rights i think that the best for a. human rights council. today is to engage with with the community here and to engage with. the presidency of the human rights council in order to encourage them to stand up to their responsibilities and. the countries that look at the countries to the three from the actions they have taken against them meanwhile katherine's emir has visited the air base the

largest u.s. base in the middle east the combined their operation center for the u.s. central command coordinates military strikes against eisel in both iraq and syria the emir discussed u.s. cut her defense cooperation and efforts to combat terrorism. norway's right wing government is on track for reelection members of the conservative party and their allies have been celebrating after official projections said they would win eighty eight of the one hundred and sixty nine seats in parliament prime minister and party and its allies on the cut taxes in a bid to boost growth while the opposition labor party seeks tax hikes the better fund public services more than a million people have taken to the streets across catalonia to celebrate its national day it's a commemoration of the fall of barcelona in the spanish war of succession in seven hundred fourteen but this year demonstrators were looking to the future not the past the event comes less than three weeks before

a controversial referendum on independence karl penhall reports now from barcelona . from the sky you see the scale on the ground you feel the pulse. of the drumbeat of independence the catalonia. cameras and. we want independence for catalonia so we can separate from the spanish government some did not agree with us that this is a coup d'etat this is a rebellion in catalonia as national day began here the general government leaders pay tribute to the defenders of barcelona in a battle over three hundred years ago they've called a referendum for october the first to vote on breaking away from spain that set the stage where new battle perhaps the biggest political crisis since the end of general franco's dictatorship. central government says the referendum is

undemocratic and illegal and is even threatening to fine and jailed regional authorities. but i thought maybe that let's enjoy the freedom to express ourselves and that live with the hope of a better future. on a podium a few streets away. a former guerrilla fighter is firing up support for independence in the seventy's and eighty's he staged armed attacks in the name of a separatist catalonian state. there will be a clash between the central and regional governments over the referendum but this will be democratic or perhaps there will be mass street protests down to barcelona port one of the political parties opposed to independence prepared its own rally volunteers laid out cattle and spanish and european flags a call for more integration not a split in the balance for a while what else do you want money. i honestly don't see don't see where it leads

i just think. it's more of an emotional. movement and rational what. just a feeling. for independence is hard to. swallow here is the wealthiest when you know it's a little bit like the belgian its economy is larger than. we saw in. the region language culture these demonstrators know they'll have to struggle hard for independence but even the smallest seem ready to play their part. whole al-jazeera barcelona spain it's sixteen years to the day since the september eleventh attacks morial services have been held across the united states to mark the anniversary and remember the thousands that in what was the worst ever attack on u.s. soil but as gabrielle is on the reports now from new york city this year's commemorations

come at a time of new allegations about the events of september two thousand and one. it will always be much more than a date on the calendar at ground zero another annual solemn day of remembrance for those killed on september eleventh for more than four hours the names of the victims were read aloud like they are every year a reminder of the human toll of that morning two thousand nine hundred seventy seven killed in new york city alone but sixteen years after the largest act of terrorism in u.s. history a lawsuit continues to raise accusations that saudi arabia was involved do you have any doubt in your mind who provided material and financial support for nine eleven no who was it among others that gave. the kingdom of what saudi arabia. documents based on f.b.i.

reports allege diplomats at the saudi embassy in washington paid two saudis living undercover in the u.s. to fly from phoenix to washington in a dry run of the nine eleven attacks the f.b.i. claims that two men were on the saudi government payrolls and had links to some of the nine eleven hijackers last year congress approved a bill that allows u.s. citizens to bring lawsuits against foreign governments in u.s. courts for their involvement in acts of terror segments of the saudi government and then the other defendants provided the support to al qaeda that allowed three thousand people to be murdered and billions of dollars destruction of property and lives. the lawyer tells us that this lawsuit is a culmination of years of investigation and hundreds of thousands of documents from u.s. and foreign government agencies like saudi arabian government continues to deny volved

meant in the september eleventh attacks while nasser an attorney who represents two saudi non-governmental organizations also says the claims are unfounded the government has asked the lawsuit be dropped the allegation that the government itself simply because many of the hijackers were saudi that the government itself had a direct agenda against the united states and helped commit that tax there has been no evidence that has done that and. that. a judge is expected to rule next year if the case will go forward until then friends and family commemorate the days so many people lost their lives gabriel's al-jazeera new york . ukraine's president has criticised former governor mikhail saakashvili for illegally crossing into ukraine from poland second freely in a small crowd of his supporters shot their way through

a line of guards in the ukrainian border on sunday the politician had his ukrainian citizenship citizenship removed in july by his former ally president better part of shank go after they fell out sexually resigned as governor of the odessa region in november accusing poroshenko over obstructing his efforts to tackle corruption that was for the crisis on the korean peninsula and the threat of more sanctions affecting trade many chinese tourists can't see what all the fuss is about they're still flocking to the border city of dandong to peek at their neighbors and to buy cheap cigarettes are china correspondent adrian brown went there for a day trip. it is an unlikely but increasingly popular destination for chinese tourists posing in traditional korean costumes is part of the experience. most visitors come to dandong because they're curious about their neighbor while others appear unaware about the north's latest

test. we all want to come to the border to take a look i've never heard of any news on missile launches or nuclear tests those who are better informed know are losing patience yet some work somewhere like china is angry at north korea it's like a crying baby but you can't throw away this baby even though it keeps growing sanctions of calls the volume of chinese trade with north korea to fall but tourism officials say it's growing now accounting for around half of down dongs g.d.p. so i had a nice watch so it's hard to say if north korea's behavior is stimulating tourism or the opposite but we are expecting a increasing demands during the golden week holiday in early october. less than ten percent of chinese people have a passport boat tours along the yellow river that separates the two neighbors mean those without one can feel they're abroad without actually leaving home. it offers

a chance to indulge in some illicit trade such as buying judy free north korean cigarettes. the border between china and north korea stretches for more than fourteen hundred kilometers but here the north is literally just a jump away unlike the demilitarized zone that separates north and south korea the atmosphere here is very relaxed. so relaxing in fact that some chinese swimmers seem unfazed about getting so close to north korea. and this newly wed north korean couple weren't inhibited. a few times a year north korean tourists come this close to china's border mostly on public holidays and they make the most of it adrian brown al-jazeera in downtown. and still to come on the program the champions league group stages are back and get

underway with a contest between two of europe's biggest sides coming up in sport. business update brought to you by chance are they always going places together.

business update brought to you by chance are they always going places together. ok time to get all the sports news now with andy in doha. thank you so much barbara while some of the world's best cricketers have arrived in pakistan for what could be a pivotal event in the country sporting history a world eleven seeing set to take on pakistan in a three match t twenty series the games are seen as a crucial step in bringing international cricket back to pakistan the visiting team

is made up of players from seven says nations no major test site has told the country since a gunman attacked a tree lanka's team bus in lahore back in two thousand and nine well that incident happened as the sri lanka team were arriving at the gadhafi stadium in lahore eight years ago six members of the side were injured while six pakistan policemen and two civilians were killed subsequently pakistan have been forced to play how much she's in neutral countries with the united arab emirates hosting the majority of their games in twenty fifteen zimbabwe played games in pakistan and earlier this year the final of the pakistan super league was held in the hall that was the first time high profile cricketers from outside pakistan applied in the country and now this world eleven is getting ready for tuesday's series opener each one of them nor that this trip is not just about cricket it's about something more something more historic. and therefore. they have learnt their short go to this effort.

and i am very grateful to all of them for making this trip. the people of pakistan welcome them these cricket is a go to play their part in the safe and steady return of international cricket in pakistan. so that the enthusiastic and diehard fans and followers of pakistan cricket can once again start watching their stars and their heroes and. now the champions league group stages get underway on tuesday was a huge game between two of europe's biggest sides in the opening round of matches barcelona face last season's run as an event to see actually not basser out in the quarter finals barcelona going to the match having won three straight games in the spanish league you have the same record in syria. without any doubt you venters is a powerful team and also last season's defeat is still quite recent we know they are very good when they have the ball they also try to play with pressure in our

area they put our team on the real difficulties last year and we must take that into account and try to overcome them the new look perry said and your man also in action they play scottish champions celtic while manchester united return to the competition having won last season's europa league. what division is very. is very high. sink in that simple as you go. four or five teams weeds. an incredible level of quality of experience of nor how. and that's what makes the difference west ham have picked up their first points of the english premier league season to some of the pressure on their managers lovability how to feel conceding their first goals of the season in that sunni defeat the boy has become the first premier league manager to be sacked this season crystal palace in the league of recorded nine points and no goals the club have now

got to hire a six manager since november twenty thirty. saudi arabia's al hell hour into the semifinals of the asian champions league at the united arab emirates was poised to go into the second like. but a hat trick for a brazilian said wardo ensured a relatively free night for al hillah. two time champions progressing in the last four here with a three africa. olympic leaders are gathering in peru is they mapped out the next decade of summer games later this week i see president thomas back set to confirm that paris will host the twenty twenty four games with l.a. taking on the twenty twenty eight event costs concerns so all other bidding cities drop parents but parents insist the games can provide a chance to build a worthwhile legacy. many times that every city is working so hard to the end to the infrastructure they can't think about the environment they can't think about

the economy they can think about the health of the people so in the last six weeks i've been excited about a decade ten years to think about that to reimagine that and to deliver that. formally build what you need all the you know do with the existing or the temporary and that's exactly what we did ninety five percent of all venues are existing or temporary and what we're building is actually very useful for the people. there is a sense of purpose and world heavyweight champion anthony joshua's how things are sure in a more polite era in professional boxing he's getting ready to defend his belts against book areas of that fight coming up in october the britain says he doesn't believe in the sort of trash talk there was evidence out of the recent concerts between qana mcgregor and floyd mayweather. the trash talking isn't so much trash talking it's more river. character and you can be just so but then it comes to a stage where someone to disrespect this person this respects and one back into the comes a bit more of

a fight before the real one and we don't need to get into one ok. now let's get back to proper and london and they thank you very much for that and that is it from me for this hour do stay with us i'm going to be back in a moment with more of the day's news and of course we are expecting that vote at the u.n. security council on further sanctions against north korea yes that back if you.

and your level of a cage. it's really true that they too may get a very busy. day but if you look at believe sure it. meets you don't. believe. but. feel it some. day. along europe's baltic borders tensions are increasing as nato strengthens us defenses and russia gears up for war games of its own of course we'll weren't worried about unpredictability of russia we have to be prepared and we have to react to it but will the conflict rehearsals ever translate into the real thing as they say if you don't want a war prepare for war and people in power reports this tony are going on

a bear hunt at this time. with its economy stagnant mexico's president implemented drastic and controversial energy reforms mexico's oil owned by the mexican people for seventy five years is being sold to private international companies. and as with the country's agricultural sector it's exposed to exploitation by profit driven multinational corporations crude harvest at this time on al-jazeera. north korea threatens recalibration as the u.n. prepares to vote on new sanctions which have already been watered down.

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