Political uncertainty in zimbabwe as military vehicles roam the capital and reports of explosions there. And Richelle Carey this is out there live from doha also coming up on the defensive this attorney general faces tough questions about alleged ties between russia and Donald Trumps president ial campaign. Also telling voters say yes to same sex marriage plus. The border from austria with one of the would make it to the toting about time on construction. To begin with the breaking news coming to us out of zimbabwe and explosions have been heard in the capital there harare there are military vehicles and soldiers roaming the streets warders is reporting that the army may have taken over the state broadcaster however zimbabwes ambassador to south africa says no coup against president Robert Mugabe is underway he also told the words news agency that the government remains in tact the exact words now several images have been posted on social media that show very unusual military activity as you can see here this is all inside the capital tension is very high in the country and rising big since the head of the army criticized a purge of the president s ruling saying no p. F. Party their party responded by choosing the just. Constantino treasonable conduct so its kind of tell you how we got here Robert Mugabe is ninety three years old he has rules involve ways since the country gained independence and one nine hundred eighty last week he fired his Vice President emerson and then gaga who was widely considered a possible successor flood the country but has vowed to return the first lady grace mugabe has been pushing for his removal for some time she may now be in a position to take over after her husband so all of those events prompted the military to weigh in what the warning against purging senior members of the ruling party alex mcgrath so worked as an advisor to zimbabwes former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai who says there may be factions within the army that would not support any action against mugabe. This is the first time that were seeing a really tense situation pitting the military making some very tough comments and threatening to take drastic action although without specifying what drastic action that would be and of cause i think a lot of people are worried there is also a lot of excitement people are really fed up with the government of mr mugabe and theyre saying whatever it is that helps them to get rid of the system that theyre welcoming it you must not forget also that hes also a beneficiary of the military intervention in politics for a number of years since two thousand and two the military has come out in support of mr mugabe and thats why some of us are saying hes being eaten by a monster that he created theyre now threatening his presidency theyre also threatening the ambitions of his own wife whom he seems to have been promoting over the last few months he may have people within the military who support him there is no indication that the whole military or security establishment is in support of those who are against mugabe there may be people in there who support him and they will probably defend him in the event that there is a conflict and that would portend some very difficult situation for zimbabwe. Well continue to follow the developments coming to us out of harare the capital there in zimbabwe so keep it here. Rescuers are digging through the rubble of buildings toppled by sundays powerful earthquake on the iran iraq border in a desperate search for survivors more than four hundred thirty people are known to have been killed almost all of them in iran the many victims are still buried so that figure can actually be much higher the number of people injured in that seven point three magnitude quake is now almost eight thousand the quake destroyed more than Twelve Thousand homes leaving seventy thousand people homeless the worst hit was the iranian town of star poll is a where former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered the construction of many low Income Housing projects through the quakes epicenter of Northern Iraq many people say theyre afraid to return home soon because yellow met a family in dar been taken where the rebuilding will soon happen. People in the smelly kurdish town and province are trying to recover from disaster for iraqis already suffering from the fact so poor and prices last year were changed by sundays both quake near the border with iran. Fergal and his by frazier escaped war four years ago back then their home was demolished in baghdad now once again they have nothing left. And dirt from their home. I can still feel the shake it lasted so long im still shaking i just cant get over the shock. We just managed to escape officials told us to evacuate the neighborhood for the last two days we have been sleeping in the city parks at night but thank god they have survived a few buildings collapsed during sundays quake the ones which are badly damaged and the same so people are afraid to go there so so with the nights becoming cauldron iraq aid groups are providing mats and blankets for those who fear they have no option but to stay outside. Aljazeera. Northern iraq the us attorney general has denied he misled congress when he testified before politicians last month its part of a probe into allegations of russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen president ial election speaking before a Congressional Committee on tuesday said that he simply forgot about a meeting or a former adviser boasted about ties with moscow. Reports. Is raise your right hand. Swear that this isnt the first time the attorney general has been accused of not being honest with congress but Jeff Sessions was adamant i dont think im. Is right there me doing something wrong i had no participation in any wrongdoing at issue sessions previous testimony that there were no contacts between members of the Trump Campaign and russians claiming to represent the kremlin since his last congressional appearance to Trump Campaign staffers have testified that they told sessions they were in contact with what they thought were russian officials and thats sessions memory i do now recall that the march twenty sixth team meeting at the drop out tail that mr papadopoulos attended but i have no clear recollection the details of what he said at that meeting after reading his account into the best of my recollection i believe that i wanted to make clear to him that he would not authorize to represent the campaign with the russian government or any other Foreign Government for that matter democrats on the committee working to pursue another issue as well its emerged that the department of justice is evaluating whether to appoint a special counsel into Hillary Clinton and to among other issues lingering questions about Clintons Foundation donations and government policy while she was secretary of state for example republicans welcomed the prospect but were impatient whats it going to take to get a special counsel democrats were less enthusiastic in a functioning democracy is it common for the leader of the country to order the criminal Justice System to retaliate against is political opponents their department of justice can never be used to retaliate politically against opponents and that would be wrong however sessions reiterated his. Commitments made during his confirmation hearing that were there to be an investigation into clinton he would recuse themselves she ever term see washington. Lebanons Prime Minister has tweeted he will return home from saudi arabia in the coming days side every also called for calm he said as spam he would be staying in riyadh earlier hurriedly met with the head of blood Church Patriarch bashara is the first lebanese official to visit the kingdom since three very unexpectedly announced his resignation more than a week ago after the meeting rice said he supported her earrings reasons for resigning lebanons foreign minister says the only way for assad really to prove that hes not being held against his will is to return to beirut he also said that if saudi arabia has an issue with the ron it should not punish lebanon if. They can be it is solved if they have problems with iran let them have these Problem Solved with iran iran is not lebanon lebanon is not syria lebanon is not iran we have an independent Foreign Policy when the end terrorist of lebanon comes first australians have voted in favor of changing the law to allow same sex marriage more than two thirds of our potential voters responded to a non binding Postal Survey an issue of results found more than sixty two percent support changing the law Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull promised to make same sex marriage legal if a majority fact the idea. Is striking people have spoken in their millions and they have voted overwhelmingly yes for Marriage Equality they voted yes they innes they voted yes for a commitment they voted yes for a lot of. And now it is up to us here in the palm and of a strike to get on with it to get on with the job the astrology and people of tossed us to do and get this done this year Kenyas Supreme Court is hearing three petitions challenging last months president ial election which was won by the incumbent who a kanada to the legal cases filed argued that the polls outcome is void because the election board did not hold fresh nominations after the first vote was in the old the third is against the opposition blaming them for civil unrest the minimal reports from nairobi. This is the second time in three months that the Supreme Court is hearing petitions against the results of a president ial election back in organist it had ruled they should be new elections because the ritual commission paired according to the court committed irregularities in telling the final result it then called for fish elections this time around petitioners are again laying the fault or the blame of irregularities at the feet of the Electoral Commission around a number of issues but the two most important is one that nations were not held before the elections took place and they say without fish nominations the main candidate standing in the election incumbent president working out of was not a valid contender and the election shouldnt have been held in the other issue is around the withdrawal of the main contender one of the other main contenders raila odinga in the election once he withdrew the election should have been cancelled now this wasnt the case and the petition is a saying that the Electoral Commission hasnt fulfilled its constitutional mandate the Electoral Commission as well as incumbent president to rick and his say that these petitions are a waste of time and that to the final results from the october twenty sixth election should be upheld the case should be strode out and who cannot to should be sworn in before the end of the month. Still ahead on aljazeera deep in debt than this while it says it cant pay its bills and it blames the u. S. And Foreign Investors. A new pill can tell your doctor whether youve taken your medicine at the right time and the right dose but that raises a lot of other issues. By this guy nine Information Harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. Weather looks logic quiet across southern parts of china over the next couple of days the north easterly winds as youd expect at this time of year still driving a few showers there into vietnam fos out west china perhaps in a little bit of wet weather that will its not little further north which is we go through a Day Hong Kong stays fine and dry twenty seven celsius and wetter whether theyre just pushing into central and southern parts of over the next couple of days the usual rashness showers as one would expect on those northeasterly winds and of course a good part of Southeast Asia heat of the day showers and they do extend through malaysia down into indonesia were seeing some heavy rain in jakarta recently that we wore that as we go on through the next few days you can see first it does look like a rather weigh day we got some rather wet weather push towards the southeastern corner of india at present with a massive cloud more welcome right pushing up across northern parts of pakistan into the Northern Plains of india hopefully that will help to shift the small the toxic smoke thats been plaguing the region over the past few days this nasty weather hopefully well see something of a temporary arrest by but im afraid its never really going to be too far away was the weather will push its way through and notice some very heavy rain pushing right of the eastern side of india this coming week. 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Theyre watching aljazeera lets take a look at the top stories the breaking news were following out of some way explosions have been heard and the capital harare there are military vehicles and soldiers roaming the streets as you can see there the Ruling Party Accuses the head of the armed forces of treason zimbabwes ambassador to south africa says there is no coup right now against the president Robert Mugabe we will stay on that for you as attorney general has tonight he misled congress in his october testimony for a probe into Donald Trumps Campaign Contacts with russia Jeff Sessions told a Congressional Committee on tuesday that he simply forgot about a meeting or a former top adviser boasted of ties with moscow. Australians have voted in favor of changing the law to allow same sex marriage this Research Results found more than sixty two percent support the measure Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull promised to make same sex marriage legal majority backed the idea. Russias Defense Ministry has been accused of lying after releasing what it calls evidence of the us working alongside eisel turns out that footage was taken from a video game where a challenge reports from moscow. When russias ministry of defense accused the United States on tuesday of affectively collaborating with eisel in syria it wasnt the first time that it had made such accusations but this time it said it had irrefutable proof photos which were put out on the ministry of defense is facebook and twitter accounts grainy drone images apparently of a convoy being left alone by u. S. Forces but it didnt take too long for eagle eyed observers on social media organizations like citizen journalists belling katz and Conflicts Intelligence Team to see that they had noticed these images before and actually they werent what they were trying they had come from what is one of them from a mobile phone computer game called the a c one thirty gunship simulator others from this collection of images had come from a two thousand and sixteen video put out by iraq e forces showing them attacking a convoy leaving for lucia it didnt take long after that for the ministry of defense to delete them although they stood by their original accusations they have since subsequently admitted that this was a mistake and theyre blaming it on a civilian employee at the ministry of defense and say theyre launching an investigation many Officials Say the city Like Coalition has bombed the airport and the capital sana there are conflicting reports about the extent of the damage control the airport say the runway and ground navigation towers were damaged the u. N. Says most of the facility is intact and can receive shipments when saudi arabia loosens its blockade of the country riyadh announced monday it will reopen sagna many ports. Venezuela is not only facing a humanitarian crisis it is also suffering a debt crisis the Rating Agency standard and poors has declared the nation in selective default after it theyll to make two hundred Million Dollars in repayments for its global bonds two in october but as well as leaders say u. S. Sanctions are making it impossible to refinance its debt john hendren reports. Then this whale is in default with apparently little hope of paying off its creditors the declaration by the ratings Agency Standard and poors comes after venezuela with sixty billion dollars in debt in just nine point six billion in its Bank Accounts missed the second deadline on a debt payment the red carpet was rolled out for a few Foreign Investors who might be willing to keep the country afloat at a price that as well as Vice President tariq ali seamy said the country is the victim of an economic war being waged by the us and foreign lenders and. This is salt of the Us Government has made jointly with the venezuelan opposition today venezuela is limited to seek financing find and also is faced with the need to consider a new formula to get out of this complexity critics say then as well as leaders have prioritized clearing debt over a growing humanitarian crisis that has left many of its people hungry and children dying in hospitals with medical shortages venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro blames the u. S. For his countrys crisis so hes turning to his traditional rivals will compel me if i think that im not sure not recall that i pulled a couple International Agreements with the peoples republic of china are working perfectly and will continue to go that way i could announce that we have reached a renegotiation a refinancing agreement with the russian federation. In spite of president lee duros plans u. S. Firms still own much of venezuelas debt and the trumpet ministration wary of providing an economic lifeline to his administration has blocked americans from protests a paid in any debt restructuring talks with diminishing cash revenues venezuelas financial problems are likely to get even worse john hendren aljazeera. Bolivias the only nation in the world war child labor is legal working age was lowered from port tainted ten years old in two thousand and fourteen the idea was to regulate and safeguard children but that legislation has been condemned at home and abroad and reports from santa cruz. There are so many child workers in bolivia selling on the streets of mixed heavy traffic or hidden in these markets that theyve blend in with the practice appears almost normal. Is one of those striving to ensure that child labor is not excepted does not become normal. If a child wants to work catching sugarcane like their parents when they grow up thats fine but they should have the opportunity to choose because theyve had an education if they want to be an architect they could be an architect we shouldnt deny them the dream of being Something Else shes helped create spaces like this one like children working in the santa cruz markets come to study in play come to be children and the Regional Government with unicef backing is building schools in rural areas where most of believe years child labor is work many of them cutting sugarcane they are mostly from migrant families in low paid and Seasonal Work man now twenty started work when he was thirteen. Kids in the countryside have always worked to help themselves or they work when their parents a sick so they can eat. And it can be difficult to get the children to school and the teachers are ms or says to the children. Sometimes we have to go and get them and bring them back here for their classes is difficult because laid off and dont have the books or pens so we have to do what we can to improvise with these children work but now they also study with every child should receive an education is the most a fundamental right is basic it is complicated here. In bolivia by many things by prejudice by tradition and by poverty. All families need the extra income their children bring in dorothys are reluctant to end their forces want to keep wages down. Low prices somehow that do see the benefits of eradicating child labor. These children will be educated to live in better conditions with Better Health schooling and food without sacrificing themselves physically but to live their lives as they should as children. Its a message taking root in santa cruz that poverty in bolivia should not make child labor inevitable that children should be able to study in play to be children in often hall. Santa cruz believe. Your secretary of state Rex Tillerson will be travelling to me and mark for talks with. The two met earlier on the sidelines of the apec summit refugees accused Security Forces of massacres rape and torching villages the claims have been backed by the un which describes the violence as ethnic cleansing. Environmental Group Greenpeace is launching an ambitious legal challenge to norways oil industry has gone to court in the capital oslo ending to prove that the granting of government licenses to all for oil in the arctic is unconstitutional and peace argues it violates her ways constitution because the government signed up to the paris accords which aimed to stop the use of fossil fuel before the end of the century. Our aim is to get the court to invalidate the licenses that the government has handed out which will set very important precedents for how much and more mental damage a government is allowed to do. It is. A major source of pollution that often goes unnoticed is the Construction Industry building the concrete jungles of the worlds cities has created a huge amount of c o two emissions now some architects are turning back to an older form of Building Material thats cheaper faster and more sustainable that clark travel to the austrian alps to find out more. In the austrians illa tell theyve been building houses out of wood for as long as anybody can remember but now the Global Demand for timber construction is soaring business is booming at the bin to hold sole mill every day twenty thousand trees go through the system six Million Trees a year the scale of production is staggering. Its not the trend its a main stream and i think that the mainstream arrives because we have to change. Back to the nature absolutely everyone is talking about green living much of the wood is compressed into a production note its cross laminated timber or c l t incredibly strong and durable and surprisingly fire resistant. It is the material of choice of more and more architects around the world especially in the u. K. Like this Residential Development in dalston in london its faster to put up than traditional Construction Materials and five times lighter we dont tend to think of the Carbon Footprint of buildings but concrete and Steel Production is actually responsible for up to eighty percent of global emissions. Really suck in c o two and when the timber is used for construction read the carbon remains the way. Nearly all been the holds to make comes from within one hundred kilometer radius all sustainably produced air is a felled off the fifty or sixty years of growth and then tree regenerate sorted by size and quality and logs are huge into planks to be used around the world and for more local projects. Architect thomas uses e. L. T. For many of his designs. That its in that the big advantage of it is that it presents new possibilities with the traditional way of building the carpenter creates an a three d. Plan and sends it to the sales a machine for the parts to be made and its all put together like a puzzle on site at the sawmill anything that is not turned into timber is burned to supply district heating for nearby communities and electricity to the National Grid there is next to no waste in the whole process the wooden age may not yet to ever turned but mankinds original Construction Material is making a definitive comeback and the clock aljazeera zillah tell austria. Get trouble remembering to take your medication all a first of its kind digital pill unveiled in United States is designed to let your doctor know when you forget but as our business kristen salinity reports the pill is raising questions about the presence of big brother and medicine patients who dont take their medicine as directed not only risk their health they cost about one hundred billion dollars a year according to one study about avoidable costs in medicine thats because the patients often end up sicker or needing additional treatment enter a new digital pill just approved for use by the u. S. Food and Drug Administration in people with schizophrenia bipolar disorder and other forms of Mental Illness it actually lets your doctor know if youve taken it the problem of not adhering to treatment when its administered on a regular basis daily multiple times a day and. The way that that compromises the effectiveness of the treatment is a huge problem in medicine and particularly in treatment of mental disorders the pill sensor is made of copper magnesium and silicon ingredients already found in foods it generates an electrical signal when it comes into contact with stomach fluids that signal is that picked up by a wearable patch on the patients rib cage the patch sends the date time in patient activity level via bluetooth to an app on the patients mobile phone and a database to which researchers have access through the app the patient can have a record set of every time he or she takes the pill to up to four people family members or caregivers but the Technology Raises questions about privacy medical ethics experts find the fact that the pill is prescribed for Mental Illness especially troubling if you give someone a pill thats going to record for someone else whether theyve taken the medication ought it poses problems these are people who may not understand all the issues because they had involved because it was like a condition many people with psychiatric condition can understand all the issues their problems because this be feed into their paranoia they may think oh my god people want to spy on my and now the doctor saying hes going to give me a drug thats going to spy on me the cost of the drug is another concern prompting experts to say more study will be necessary to weigh the risks versus the benefits and make this pill easier to swallow kristen salumi aljazeera new york. And you get a moment visit our web site to aljazeera dot com for all the latest news keep it here. This is aljazeera only began with breaking news coming to us out of zimbabwe explosions have been heard and the capital harare and there are military vehicles and soldiers in the street the Ruling Party Accuses the head of the armed forces of treason. To south africa deny support of a coup against president Robert Mugabe continue to follow that rescue work continues in iran and iraq with more than four hundred thirty People Killed in sundays earthquake along the border most of the casualties are on iran and the number of dead is expected to rise the seven point three magnitude quake injured almost eight thousand people and left tens of thousands homeless yes attorney general has tonight he misled congress in october on testimony on a probe of Donald Trumps Campaign Contacts with russia Jeff Sessions told a Congressional Committee on tuesday that he simply forgot about a meeting where former trump advisor boasted of ties with moscow australians have voted in favor of changing the law to allow same sex marriage initial results found more than sixty two percent support the measure. People have spoken in their millions and i have voted overwhelmingly yes for Marriage Equality they voted yes for the famous i voted yes for commitment they voted yes for love and now it is up to us here in the parliament of a strike to get on with it. They get on with the job the australian people of toss just to do and get this done this year lebanons absent Prime Minister has tweeted he will return home from saudi arabia in the coming days. Also called for calm he says his family will stay in riyadh earlier ham met the head of lebanons maronite church. A first lebanese official to visit the kingdom sensory unexpectedly announced his resignation more than a week ago rice says he supports reasons for resigning the primal Group Greenpeace says launching a beagle challenge against paraguay squirrel industry but argues the granting of government licenses to drill in the arctic violates always constitution because the government signed up for the paris accords those are the headlines news continues right here on aljazeera after inside story keep it or. Whos to blame for the in the g. C. C. Crisis. Says hes ready to talk with the locating countries have to do so so what will it take to break the deadlock this is inside story
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