Hello and welcome to this aljazeera news hour live from doha im on team that is coming up in the next sixty minutes two suicide attacks on mosques in afghanistan killed schools of people that ending a deadly week for civilians in which hundreds of died. Iraqi Government Troops complete the seizure of Kirkuk Province from the kurds after fierce fighting. A month after Hurrican Maria and eighty percent of puerto rico is still without power of the island is in ruins. And more of us die every year from ed pollution and dirty water than in all the worlds conflicts a natural disasters come by and so says a new report. Now i see. Has claimed responsibility for one of the two attacks targeting most in afghanistan more than seventy people were killed in a hole in one of the attacks a man walked into a shia mosque in the capital kabul and set off an explosive vest at least thirty nine people were killed in that particular explosion dozens of others were injured the most was packed with worshippers attending friday prayers in the Second Attack that was in goal province where a suicide bomber struck a sunni mosque this time at least thirty three people were confirmed dead in that attack including a man described as a warlord who was apparently the target of the attack. Right after the cleric started the prayer as i was passing by the mosque and the explosion happened chaos amongst the people all the windows of the mosque were shattered the police from a nearby checkpoint arrived to try to control the crowd all the wounded victims in the shattered windows were taken to hospital by ambulance and the dead bodies were lying there. For lets take a closer look at some of these recent attacks in afghanistan forty three soldiers were killed on thursday after the taliban stormed a military camp that was in my wand district setting off two suicide car bombs before a gun battle feiss also attacked a Police Headquarters in the southeastern province of me that was on thursday and was the Second Attack on it this week and the group was responsible for an ambush in the northern valcke province in which Six Police Officers were killed on wednesday this after it was after eight on least a wave of attacks on tuesday targeting police compounds and government facilities with suicide bombers and killing at least seventy four people. Well omar samad is a former Senior Advisor to chief executive of afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah hes also a former afghan ambassador to france and canada he joins us live now from washington d. C. And its a terrible terrible week for the civilians of your country isnt it what is behind what what is the rationale would you say behind this this spike in attacks in your country. Well its been awful weve not only for civilian use but also who are Security Forces as you mentioned in the news item. This spike that we see happening right now at the hands of what we consider as being either taliban or this talk of Islamic State that has certain cells in the afghanistan pakistan Central Asian region which is called a risky peak. Acronyms these people are seen to be behind this now i think on one hand you have a seasonal issue coming up because as we move towards winter usually its tradition for predators in afghanistan to increase their attacks on one hand but these types of attacks where they are using suicide attackers they are very brazen. Go deep inside live military installations or inside mosques that are somewhat protected in symbolised or in the provinces sure that the taliban and was the highest cells are trying to disrupt any attempt that may be be happening behind closed doors to try and it political solution to afghanistans problems on the one hand at the same time i think theyre sending some messages to the United States to regional powers to the Afghan Government to the Afghan People and that message being what i mean do they want to be part of any potential Peace Process or do they not. What software they have and you know its been almost twenty years more or less than the collarbone have been around they have tried to capture the whole country not control any major territory the controlled territory but not media cities or audreys or even any single province. I think what im seeing is an a in uptick in attacks in order to strengthen their hands in case there are political negotiations coming up in also at the same time i think they want to tell the americans who have announced as as you know recently a new policy towards afghanistan and in the region itself especially targeting pakistan but even more responsibility on pakistan that the taliban will will not bow and will not accept any terms they want to show that the have the upper hand at the same time i think what they are trying to do is the more allies the Afghan Forces were strengthened over the past few years and there are claims by the americans and nato to further strengthen Afghan Forces i think they are trying to send a message that we will try to deter your attempts at strengthening the Afghan National security and that meant that message is coming over loud and clear isnt it i mean the fact that this week has been so dreadful largely for four afghan civilians highlights doesnt it the deficiencies if you like of the afghan Security Forces but also raises the added problem is the fact that the Afghan Defense forces a dealing with a multitude of fighting forces its not just the taliban. Absolutely. Thats what makes afghanistan more complex and i think as we move forward you have an issue is becoming more complex there are more regional players involved i think there are reports that the russians have a new agenda the iranians now getting more heat from washington be on the order some of their agenda and the pakistanis have had image for many years which has not elk and then find stability and security and what the Afghan Government needs to do is on one hand to make sure that there is better management and better leadership at the head of the Security Forces in also in middle management. The commanders need to make sure that we protect their forces to protect their bases i think that is absolutely crucial in the same time the project of strengthening the african causes in order to protect afghanistan and to stabilize afghanistan needs to go on all right omar samad thank you very much indeed. Now lisa Police Officers have been killed in a shoot out in egypt thats according to a security spokesman the attack took place in deezer that is southwest of the capital cairo theres been no claim of responsibility yet so iraqi forces of claim control of the whole of Kirkuk Province now from the Kurdish Peshmerga forces the army is same that it has captured the last town ill turn capri which is situated very close to erbil which is the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan with the help of shia militias just a few hours earlier seventy deca reported from the battle zone where Kurdish Peshmerga sent reinforcements for the fight. A new front line opened early friday iraqi forces together with shabby or shia militias move towards peshmerga positions now to pete the kurdish its around thirty kilometers south of erbil on the road to kirkuk. Yes they are attacking it out and play and not attacking from day base also and theres nothing we can do about it im urging the Coalition Forces to come in and help as it hit the peshmerga we have martyrs that. A steady stream of reinforcements were sent throughout the day blankets and mattresses packed in with the soldiers defend their positions many here feel betrayed by Iraqi Government leaders in baghdad some fellow kurds and the international community. In reality when we used to fight everyone used to play the peshmerga they are brave they are fighting for the world and now they have done this plan they are attacking us as i see right now everyone is turning their backs on us. Mortar shells machine guns were fired throughout the day all its going to everyone here is tents. On mine and theres a heavy presence of ambulances here waiting to take any of the injured person back to our be. Prime minister hi there labatt is ordered iraqi forces not to enter abele and to stick to what he called the two thousand and three lines this is all about disputed territories longstanding on resolved issues between baghdad in erbil about what the peshmerga gained more territory since two thousand and fourteen as it pushed myself out of many areas the iraqi army used to control and last months referendum on secession seems to be the final straw for the Iraqi Government and neighboring countries who oppose kurdish independence the irony there were very similar scenes just a year ago as the peshmerga Iraqi Government forces and shia militias all moved in to ward a common enemy i saw but now their guns are turned on each other Stephanie Decker aljazeera on the road to kirkuk now kurdish fighters who are part of the force that drove out of rocca in syria saying the people of the city will determine its future Syrian Democratic forces or the s. D. F. Which are backed by the us recaptured the syrian city which had been i saw selfproclaimed capital now there formally handed over control over to a council of local officials and tribal leaders most of the city has been reduced to rubble and less than three thousand people still live there. And that is not. Yet in. The future of iraq will be decided by the. Iraq. This is quite important. And the family of the governor right will administer there. By themselves. Every country and every peace loving people and every peace Loving Organization to come and take part in the reconstruction rebuilding of the city and its countryside now the u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has congratulated the s. D. F. For their victory in rocca but the turkish president has not been terribly things hes been voicing his anger over the kurdish presence in the city president condemned the group for displaying a giant poster of the leader of the credits on Workers Party which of course turkey considers a terrorist organization. In syria theyre collaborating with a terrorist organization like the white p. G. To defeat another terrorist organization this kind of logic is unacceptable. There waving the poster of the terrorist leader in iraq or hows the United States going to explain this. Were going to a lot more to come on this aljazeera news hour including find out what defense secretary mattis is been telling us lawmakers about his new counterterrorism strategy. And why catalans are being urged to withdraw one hundred fifty five euros from their bank accounts. The l. A. Dodgers reached baseballs world series for the first time in twenty nine years defeating the defending champion details coming up later in sports. Now apparently the u. S. Is going to shift its counterterrorism strategy to focus more on Africa Defense secretary james mattis has been meeting members of congress on friday to explain the change and this comes of course as the white house has been under pressure to be more forthcoming about the deaths of the four american soldiers in the air two weeks ago now after the meeting senior republican Lindsey Graham talked about u. S. Strategy the war is morphing youre going to see more actions in africa and. Youre going to see more aggression by the United States toward our enemies not less were going to have decisions being made not in the white house but out in the field now support that entire construct so the rules of engagement are going to change when it comes to counterterrorism operation were going to move to status space targeting so if you find somebody who is a member of a terrorist organization then we can use lethal force they dont have to present an immediate threat. Ok we can talk to Lawrence Korb now hes a former assistant secretary of defense hes also former assistant secretary of defense and he joins us live from washington d. C. Good to talk to you this incident in asia two weeks ago is stirring up a plethora of issues in the United States isnt it perhaps the most interest the most interesting being this shift in u. S. Counterterrorism policy well theres no doubt about it we did not know about that until this incident happened this is something that certainly the congress should have been made aware of its certainly something that the American People should know because if you send their sons and daughters into battle we ought to know exactly whats involved and what other countries are we talking about i doubt that most people even knew we were in a jail where and according to the pentagon they were soups were not advise and assist mission it was not a combat mission we didnt have any air power we had the french were supposed to come and help us out but they couldnt drop bombs they lost one of their soldiers so it was run very very chaotic way there so what is the specific issue then that the president if not his defense secretary has and what are the questions that have to be answered specifically with regard to the new. Disaster. Well again what were the rules of engagement there why did they not get all of the dead soldiers out you know the military is very strong about you leave no one behind you know how to how did that happen what was the role of contractors that ended up a contractor not a u. S. Military person or Civil Servant was in there and you know on how many of them are there i mean and how much are we spending on this we have an Africa Command why didnt they call him and tell us right after this happened what was going on and did secretary mabus just change the rules of engagement now after this incident or was a something that was going on before wasnt going well thought out you dont want to have we know we know mystical deadly that this president this one thousand u. S. Troop presence in the air was in place before President Trump this was under the Obama Administration well its no doubt about it did the president obama and his secretary of defense did they Tell Congress to i mean this this is i think is is is a critical issue was it going on did they change the rules of engagement one of the things President Trump has done hes delegated more authority to the field commanders obama was criticized for having too much control did he do that and then they had this mission without you know proper supervision and what are the dangers of of of allowing more more flexibility with the commanders on the ground whether the potential danger is that. Well that their chances are that they would be more willing to use force you probably could have more civilian casualties as weve already seen for example in yemen since she changed the change the rules of engagement so yeah that is the danger in other words you could win the battle and lose the war if you kill civilians and it would feed into the narrative of these terrorist groups all right so now lawrence called thank you thank you very much thanks for having me now Somali GovernmentOfficials Say the number of People Killed in the countrys worst attack has now risen to three hundred fifty eight the president says alshabaab was behind last weekends twin bombings the armed group though hasnt claimed responsibility but the accusation is prompting fears about future tactics Mohammed Omer pulls out from the capital mogadishu. Some of the seriously wounded in such as bombing in mogadishu being airlifted abroad for treatment somalia hospitals of received much needed medical supplies patients time the way by all but one place patrols in the hours and days after the target finally getting attention. The talks become more lethal medical workers say they are forced to improvise their treatment plans for the main done. Is the time when you can see. How extended. The. Blast yet to be published u. N. Reports. New ways of constructing improvised bombs and increase their destructive falls it says the wait till the explosives has also increased and along with military good devices the group uses. But also fuel and gas canisters to maximum damage. Two thousand and yet they continue to considerable influence and help with all that complex system in which many businesses give them monthly contributions and with the. Help become. Collecting millions of dollars for their campaign of violence. The United Nations illegal taxation scheme simple expulsion and other socalled fees. On the strength. Of the witness of the Somali Government help the fight to succeed so money is going to be as angry and i stress and it. Seems theres a huge amount of you know you know and then you and the e. U. And im so on and. If you want to. President say its time to act i believe its time for us to come together and. To unite against this. Foreign ideology which we have which has nothing to do with islam which has nothing to do with our country. Doesnt remain missing and many families are in mourning for them this is a massive blow in the war against al shabab Mohammed Atta while just. Now the Spanish Government to secure support from the opposition to dissolve Catalonia Parliament and hold new elections their Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy says hell unveil the specific measures on saturday morning to impose direct rule on catalonia after its secession castle and separatists are now calling for a new kind of protest as Andrew Simmons reports from barcelona. And online message from a Pro IndependenceCampaign Group saying peaceful direct action shows the power of the people. For. The cause to take some money out of banks that are moving their registration out of catalonia in case of independence withdrawals of one hundred fifty five euro the number of an article in the constitution being triggered to impose direct rule on catalonia by madrid why because the spanish dictatorship is unbearable limited look at the manipulation i think putting pressure on is a good move with thousands of people doing the same thing their Financial System one program i mean some ed symbolic the government still has no mood for any compromise. In catalonia there are movements that want revolution so they want civil disobedience today there was a call to withdraw money from banks. Then came a message from the Prime Minister himself saying the crisis was at a critical point and his party and the main opposition were agreed on action. They have broken the rule of law a basic principle of the European Union they have deprived the representatives of the opposition of their right to exercise control and government imagine if i decided to close parliament so nobody could question me it would be a scandalous situation. Article one five five from the one nine hundred Seventy Eight constitution will take power away from the Regional Government here it could mean elections it could mean a formal declaration of independence it might lead to public disorder in barcelona and now you really sense a fear of the unknown on both sides of the divide in this crisis shared by politicians and the people alike we fear that we are going to need. So to me as a danger and that maybe we will not be able to push back when we are there and thats a feeling that they sing we all are in barcelona half right now. On saturday will hold we will hold an emergency Cabinet Meeting its unlikely to calm the situation right now and theres a risk it could mean calls for peaceful direct action could turn into something more dangerous Andrew Simmons aljazeera. The french president emanuel says talks on how much the u. K. Will pay to leave the European Union and not even halfway through the summit in brussels britains Prime Minister to resign may call for more cooperation from e. U. Leaders in the slow moving talks jonah how reports. To resume a new in advance thered be no major breakthrough fellow e. U. Leaders made clear that insufficient progress had been made to move talked beyond the current deadlocked difficulties over money and to begin talking about future trade she instead issued what sounded like an appeal for help by a politically weakened Prime Minister whos come as far as she can and desperately needs something in return if we are going to take a step Forward Together it must be on the basis of joint effort and endeavor we must Work Together to get to an outcome that we can stand behind that works for all people what she got in return wasnt much there were encouraging words from some e. U. Leaders including the all important angle or merkel. As we have made progress and it is perhaps the nature of the thing that we look at it step by step i have absolutely no doubt that if we are all focused and the speech in florence was a contribution that we can get a good result and there was an end of summit commitment by the other twenty Seven Members of the e. U. To begin preparatory talks among themselves about what sort of future trade deal theyd like to see. That means least some work will have been done on trade as the pluck takes down to braggs it so that if the green light is given to the next Council Meeting on december the fourteenth for talk to move on well theyll be just a little bit ahead of the game it is the very smallest of concessions by the e. U. Where the bar for such minor victories has been set its creamy low but in order for talks to move on the e. U. Wants britain to go much further than its offer of over twenty billion dollars to meet outstanding commitments and liabilities that something the Prime Minister may not have the Political Capital to deliver jonah how aljazeera brussels. The European Union has sent a letter of protest to israel demanding compensation for payments it made for palestinian buildings that were later demolished now eight e. U. Countries are asking for forty six thousand dollars if israel doesnt return equipment that was seized more than one hundred fifty buildings owned by palestine was seized or demolished in the occupied west bank between march and august this year many of them were funded by the European Union theres been a month since Hurricane Maria hit puerto rico eighty percent of the island is still without power crews are working around the clock to try to fix hundreds of kilometers of power lines but the governor says it could be another two months before full power is restored because of lack of money and workers the u. S. Government has been criticized for its slow response to the crisis alan fisher has more from san juan the capital. This is normally the Convention Center in san juan the capital of puerto rico but for the last month this has been the coordinating hub of all the rescue efforts across the island the federal Emergency Management agency the department of defense a number of local agencies and a number of charities are all based here trying to coordinate relief efforts but one month on after the hurricane many people are saying theyre seeing nothing nothing from any of these agencies coming into their communities to help them there are many people here still without food still without electricity still without Drinking Water there are real Health Concerns as well because people are turning to polluted water just to try and sleep their thirst or even doing simple things like washing their clothes in water that is highly contaminated so theres a real risk that theres going to be another Health Problem just a few weeks down the line that the people here arent unrealistic they remember a hurricane one thousand years ago and said that they expected things would take some time before they even started to get back to normal but theyre deeply concerned that its taking longer than any normal expectation they are saying they expect to see a lot more of the government they realize that they cant just drive trucks here that youve got to bring things in by plane and by boat but they say they feel theyre being neglected one example of that is that someone from fema said recently that they do so many blue tarpaulins catering for the hurricanes in florida and texas there simply werent enough to bring here to puerto rico and the people here believe they are being forgotten and they want that to stop and to stop no. So to come on the aljazeera news. We got folks who were deliberately trying to. Coax a. U. S. President on the attack against the white house i mean is the breaks a longstanding tradition of remaining silent. Women in mexico city take the wheel in a bid to stop the attack threats they face in taxi. And food for thought book signs a saying about the n. F. L. Decision not to punish protesting play is more on that coming up in. How the weather is lost a set fire across eastern parts of the u. S. But weve got some increasing clouds spilling into central parts seizing up across the deep south texas will see cloud and rain coming for him another band of cloud and some wintry weather will push its way in across the mountain states that will stand up towards the Northern Plains easing up into the canadian prairie sunshine for the eastern side of the u. S. Into eastern parts of kind of the further west we are going to say that really wet weather pushing in across the good parts of seattle pushing over towards oregon into the western side of kind of a little sneak a little further research as we go on through sunday so Washington State oregon seeing some of that wet weather look at the rain really popping up across central parts of the u. S. Just twenty three celsius in dallas and heavy downpours extend right up to the lakes he can see but on the other hand staying fine and dry with pleasant sunshine twenty one celsius there for new york jason im out of sunshine into parts of the caribbean but the central and western palms we have seen a lot of the showers in the forecast some wet weather coming through jamaica was we go on through making its way further west was that western side of the caribbean increasingly wet. Across the globe breathtaking efforts to clean up the planet saturn around the way in Milan Companies are turning to a radical solution biodynamics a man toxic pollution so this really is a living building thats constantly interacting with its environment earthrise trees its the from tears of the battle for the environment trying to steer an ice and a pioneering a new technique to reduce emissions earthrise look for new ways of preventing air pollution at this time and. With bureaus spanning Six Continents across the. Correspondents living green the stories they tell. Their own food in world news. Here without a zero these are our top stories i saw has claimed responsibility for one of the two attacks targeting mosques in afghanistan more than seventy people were killed in the attacks. Which happened in a shia mosque in kabul and in a sunni mosque in the Central Province of call in both attacks an individual detonated an explosive vest. Iraqi forces a claim control of the whole of Kirkuk Province from Kurdish Peshmerga forces the army says they captured the last town alton capri which is situated close to a bill with a. Forces the u. S. Has come from the Iraqi Government to avoid further clashes. The u. S. Defense secretary has told senators the military is counterterrorism efforts will now shift to focus more on Africa James Mattis is meeting senators to discuss the deaths of four u. S. Soldiers in an ambush in the air earlier this month. Now in syria rebel groups have signed a cease fire covering Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of the capital damascus and the deal is fragile and the rebels are worried its being used as an excuse for the government to start a major push to recapture their strategic area. Plays from hard time in neighboring turkey these are fighters from a raman a Syrian Rebel Group thats controlled. A neighborhood on the outskirts of damascus the area is a rebel stronghold. They engage almost daily in skirmishes with Government Forces the army has been trying hard for years to take back these areas to help secure the capital and you. Would have thought alina the government is tightening the siege to break our resolve but it will never happen were not scared of the airstrikes the daily showing and the armys reinforcements we are committed to fight to the death the rebels are digging tunnels that run from to the rest of. These tunnels a vital lifeline for the rebels who are short of a munition and may not be able to defend their territory for a long. Well you know about authentic it is hometown it means a lot to me my family my loved ones my memories are all linked with this i will fight here to the death eastern border has been under government siege says to thousand and thirteen u. N. Aid convoys have only been allowed in a few times. Civilians have nowhere to go cobbled it is. And food prices on the rise. We suffer daily the army attacks us with missiles rockets and warplanes the seizures made our lives hell for the time being the fighting has stopped in this area but no one knows whether the ceasefire that was recently we would hold some water was the focal point of the two thousand and eleven demonstrations in syria it became a rebel stronghold but six years later the army backed by russia is gaining ground using c. As a weapon to force the rebels and civilians out of their area or they might with facing starvation. On turkeys border with syria. Now conflicting reports have surfaced about why thirty nine refugees were shot dead by soldiers at a camp in the democratic republic of congo now the soldiers apparently opened fire on a crowd of refugees last month who say they were being targeted because of their religious beliefs but the Congolese Army says the refugees attacked them first welcome web sent this report from the town of come on your lawyer where the shooting happened. Esperance and sherry manor says bullets broke the bones in her arm when soldiers shot dozens around her died theyre buried in this graveyard she says she was among a crowd of other refugees from burundi protesting peacefully here last month who said she was lucky to survive a perch at russia plant there was i cant remember everything because i failed and conscious when i was shot but i remember people throwing stones at a house and painting us and then soldiers started shooting. A community of refugees belongs to a unique catholic sect from the really they fled conflict at home to come to the neighboring democratic republic of congo their religion doesnt allow them to eat processed un food or to buy a metrically register in the u. N. System so they temporarily camp here outside a base of u. N. Peacekeepers in the town of kemah yola they say that day they wanted the release of four men from their community has been arrested by congolese soldiers this camera phone video was taken as the crowd gathered and sang. When the shooting began but only when the refugees came down the road from this direction they say they met soldiers about where the blue truck is they say the soldiers opened fire without any provocation you can see bullet holes in the wall here they say the machine gun fire went on for several minutes but the Security Forces tell a different story. Captain involved a kill him it was there he says the refugees overpowered him and other policeman stole a gun and used it to shoot him in the leg and attack the soldiers who then fired back in self defense one soldier was killed and theres an exam if you have never seen such people were not afraid of bullets one kind of bible and they all kept singing and advancing. Refugees deny they took a gun or attacked the u. N. Says in any case the army should not have used lethal force but the army told us they acted as any army would solve the new. Game threatening and throwing store not yet in the host country what country can tolerate that they were caned them but they didnt know what happened in nearly a hundred refugees were injured many are still recovering the government says an inquiry is underway. Refugees meet twice a day to pray in the camp they say they were attacked after officials stirred up hatred against them because of their own usual religious beliefs congolese or thought if you deny it the refugees say they were persecuted at home then persecuted here so theres nowhere they can be safe welcome where aljazeera come on in the democratic republic of congo the former u. S. President barack obama and george w. Bush of spoken of their concerns about the current Political Climate although neither of them referred directly to donald trump or the white house by name many have interpreted their comments as being implicit rebukes of the incumbent president his White House Correspondent kimberly halkett. In modern history its unprecedented among the elite group of living former president s turning on the newest member of the club is almost unheard of but thats exactly what two of Donald Trumps predecessors have done bigotry seems embolden the forty third u. S. President george w. Bush lashed out first weve seen nationalism distorted and it made a vision for god in the dynamism that immigration is always brought to America Barack obama also didnt mention trump by name but campaigning publicly for the first time at a rally for a gubernatorial candidate his target was clear we would go out folks who were deliberately trying to make folks saying to demonize people who have different ideas. To get the base all riled up the white house says its wrong to assume theyre talking about donald trump so those comments were not directed towards the president and in fact when these two individuals both past president s have criticized the president theyve done so by name still it appears an unwritten code of silence among president s has been broken in many ways its personal donald trump repeatedly disparage both obama and bush while campaigning for the white house as a candidate trump labeled obama the worst president in history and in a debate blame george bush personally for the september eleventh attacks the World Trade Center came down during the race. For trump bush and obama reflect the political establishment he ran against and won his victory is a reflection of the values of a body of American Voters those lining up to criticize include Republican HouseSpeaker Paul Ryan using humor to poke fun at Donald Trumps appearance at the same dinner a year ago i know his comments according to critics went too far. Some said it was unbecoming of a public figure and they said that his comments were offensive well think hardys wonders listen. Trumps continued verbal assaults have and continue to galvanize supporters making the tone and tenor of trump style politics the new norm even if it offends those who once sat in the oval office kimberly hellcat aljazeera washington a new report thats been published in the medical journal the lancet says that pollution is linked to more deaths the war and natural disasters now the study blamed pollution for one in six premature deaths worldwide in the year twenty fifteen thats around nine Million PeopleSubsaharan Africa have the highest rated deaths per capita and somalia child and Central African republic rather surprisingly lead the field there but india had the highest death toll of all almost a quarter of all deaths say some two and a half million were blamed in part at least on pollution china came in next with almost two million David Hanrahan is the author of the report hes a Senior Advisor purif and he says is the first time all the figures on pollution have been collected at the same time. Its a shock to all of us when we saw the numbers a lot of the danger comes from. W. H. O. The World Health Organization and theyve been collected for a while and recently they have started looking at the risk factors as we look into what are the risks that cause a lot of these diseases. Then the Analysis Shows the sort of numbers coming out broadly the risk factors come through air pollution and thats outdoor and indoor which is one the lot of people underestimate but it is huge water and sanitation or lack thereof or problems there of and then increasingly the chemicals suggest. We are coming into what we call the year of modern pollution where more and more chemicals are getting into our environment and into our bodies the chemicals are broadly the first group from mining. So every time. Gold is produced a lot of material lost their chemicals used in doing that the Chemical Industry and related industries does it and. Small and Medium Industries are actually of their own quite a serious problem. If youre very poor youre living in a slum you lots of pollution around you you have a sore running past you but secondly a lot of the poor people are actually working in the middle of these activities theyre people doing die tending mining a lot of these they themselves are actually in the middle of the pollution theyre partly creating it but theyre very much suffering from it now mexican city women regularly face threats and even assaults from taxi drivers but now theres a new app that is trying to improve safety by using only female drivers john homan reports. A new poll ranks mexico city is the fourth worst in the world for Sexual Violence many women are attacked while moving in the crowded spaces of the metro buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers the arrival of right hand has meant that many feel safer but the rape murder of. The at the hands of her cabin driver dented that perception then this month another woman was killed this time by four men in a car registered with. The conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend you know very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened think about how to react what do i do if this gets wes. No money and he uses a new service its called loud drive its for women passages only and drawn by women drivers grown occur was one of the first. I picked up a girl that asked me can i sleep for a bit of course me so i said you cant do that with a male driver you think one of me says something or takes me elsewhere with a female driver you know you can trust her. Its only eight months old but mile drive already employs nine hundred women and has been downloaded eighty two thousand times in the current climate business is growing in the double digits the apple for some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven monitoring of drivers if they feel their risk. Is about perception as well what women feel when another woman is at the wheel them getting into a car with a man they dont know makes many women in mexico feel vulnerable off the bad experiences those weve talked to say those incidents of Sexual Harassment and definitely diminish but not start with right meaning and when they do occur often companies dont want to take responsibility. To stay on the now drug cost ten to fifteen percent. All the new book and is currently available only in the capital that means it through geography and price is not accessible to the majority of mexican women but demand is so high that its already planning to expand to more cities here and if that works other countries around the world join home and. Mexico city still to come in sport with despite several high profile exits russia will have a representative in the kremlin cup final. Sport coming up in just a little. Training start slightly but the pace picks up quickly as these grannies work out a long lifetime of frustration. At eighty five years old intombi sword what trains as hard as anyone and. I feel so good i feel fresh i punch this side and decide like this and like that i really love this i dont like things like soccer because i will bring these ladies are tough and i take their training very seriously. So you feel a. Little more energetic the feel of a life. Has peta. Thank you very much the Los Angeles Dodgers are headed to their first world series in twenty nine years they ended the chicago cubs defense of a Major League Baseball title on thursday with a stunning performance from one player in particular. To ensure that was just the way its been one hundred eight years since the Los Angeles Dodgers last won a world series but now theyre a step closer to ending that drought. Last season the dodgers run was ended by the now defending champion chicago cubs this time the dodgers got their own back now deep at the center field that is. Was he was ok. And and as hes had a lot on his mind of late his father has been battling cancer and his home country of puerto rico was devastated by hurricanes last month so his performance in game five was more remarkable when he followed that home run in the very next inning with Something Special that the second was to thank god that god said. Ok i am back. With the dodgers now up seven nothing that grand slam energize them further towards victory. Even when the cubs finally got on the scoresheet in the bottom of the fourth. The joy of their fans was short lived to treat them as a five five to get what you can now was to get their status quo out of the k k k one and as the first dodger ever with three homers in a postseason game with that the dodgers sealed and eleven two one win and a three two series victory and kiki to have a huge night three homers tonight just providing so much energy for us and we fed off that tonight. And its a very good bottle over there and those guys are the world champs and they fought to the end but died fortunately we came up on the on the good side of things this year i want to congratulate them on their victory the Better Team Won over the course of these five games they played really well. They kind of up its just in Everything Else so give them credit for two thousand austere the dodges were the first to admit the comps were the better team at the campus over the last two months to arcturus how it was on the piano the dodgers are headed to the road series for the force to be with you. This time and i got the better of that champion rifle so. Was i want to get your osca aljazeera. Its a good offense view of the issue dominating american sport the n. F. L. Decided not to punish players protesting the games for Racial Injustice by taking a knee during the National Anthem we know it infuriates President Donald Trump so aljazeera is rob reynolds went to oakland to see whats right is supporters make of it. This is one of the Great American sports traditions the Tailgate Party a chance to barbecue drink some beer and enjoy the camaraderie of fellow fans these Oakland Raiders supporters showed up early to party in the parking lot near the stadium where their team played the Kansas City Chiefs thursday night. Its the first pro Football Game since the National FootballLeague Owners weighed in on the controversy will play or protests that have made the sport a political football with the leagues commissioner said players would not be forced to stand and this is something that what we try to do is deal with the underlying issue and understand what it is that they are protesting and try to address that matter in response President Donald Trump tweeted not forcing the players to stand showed quote total disrespect for our great country the president the players and now the team owners have all had their say so we came here to find out how the fans are feeling michael and lindelof and say trump has twisted the meaning of the players protests people if we get and what the original message was it was the protest Police Brutality in the black community with the its been politicized now the flag stands for more gay military the flag stands for equal justice and liberty for all mary all over believes the protests are inappropriate its that their right to exercise free speech. But. I feel that. The flag and then the National Anthem represents our freedom and the hands of what our soldiers have bought for what most fans agree the players had a right to express their opinions if they want to neil i dont personally agree with. Say nylander they are going by greed that if they want to do that they have that right theres no disrespect not not on it out not it out more but what they do before the game starts is their business and i think its just a distraction in a topic thats not needed right now with all the other cast going on in the world others say its a shame that political mudslinging has soiled the game they love no i just here just watch the Football Game leave Everything Else behind and just just watch a Football Game before the raiders chiefs game got underway several players did kneel in protest players are making political statements and the president is playing to his Political Base and fans who just want to have fun are caught in the middle while promotes aljazeera oakland california. Despite the elimination of several top seeds and hometown players russia will have a player in the final of the crimean cup on saturday after all her name is a diary a cassock keener on friday she faced. In the semifinals the twenty year old actually defeated the remaining quite easily six two and six three she is ranked twenty eight in the world and already has a first singles title under her belt after victory in charleston earlier this. And earlier in the day julia good guests put paid to any hopes of an all russian final this was up against natalia victory and save but it was the german who came out on top in this one in a tough three said battle six two two six and seven five to get. Through lanka slam to you millie ating defeat in the fourth of five one day cricket internationals against pakistan an embarrassing run out of one of the best batsmen epitomizing their struggles in sharjah Dinesh Chandimal caught in a mix up with the hero to the man who went on to top school with sixty two but a paltry total of one hundred seventy three was never going to be enough. And showed malik both getting half centuries as pakistan won by say the wickets with the never notice to spare its the eleventh straight o. D. I. Defeat for sri lanka. It was hamilton could wrap up the formula one championship at sundays us grand prix hamilton is on target for his fourth title hes fifty nine points clear of Ferraris Sebastian Vettel but the mercedes driver is refusing to concede the rivalry is over. I mean i was such a massive margin i went through such attentions throughout the season up to september but theres much less tension now from from your point of view approaching right now and changing me when everything is exactly the same as it was going into last race into the second half a season is exactly the same mentality mentally for me so. Maybe a change from your perspective for me has been fair enough the odds are stacked against australia ahead of the final bledisloe cup or rugby test match against new zealand all blacks in brisbane on saturday captain kiran reads World Champions have already tucked away the trophy with two wins in the three match series so far and the wallabies are out of the picture having beaten new zealand just once in the past eighteen bledisloe battles sneak a champion Ronnie Osullivan its got the run around from a fair and that the english over the five time World Champion was close to wrapping up his third round match against chinas jang young women right on cue a spectator slipped past security of the passing the pink sullivan let the woman get in on the act giving her a shot at the black she would go on to prove her that some things are best left to the fish as sullivan says he saves the fans from the usual fate of game invader is a rugby tackle. 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