A united front rainy and officials meet to defend the twenty fifty nuclear deal as President Trump considers reimposing sanctions. Mia miles military admits for the first time that its soldiers killed muslim whose remains were buried in a mass grave. Searching for survivors in Southern California after mudslides and flooding sweep away homes killing at least seventeen people and the e. U. Releases a scathing report about kenyas president ial election but nairobi calls it political grandstanding. European countries are meeting and reigning delegation ahead of a u. S. Deadline to reaffirm the twenty fifteen nuclear deal Foreign Ministers from some of the countries that helped broker the deal are in talks with the uranium foreign minister mohammed jeffords or if its all happening in brussels russia confirmed its still supports the deal that was on wednesday the agreement has to be signed of every ninety days in the u. S. President has until friday to decide if he will stick with the deal all reimpose sanctions we can go to our correspondent there dean barber whos in brussels for us has the meeting got underway whats the status of this very important meeting. Well martin we think the the meeting is still underway in the building behind me the European Unions Foreign Ministry in effect chaired by federico maga rini the Foreign Policy chief of the European Union with the three european Foreign Ministers plus as you were saying the Iranian Foreign minister now its really aimed at sending a strong signal to washington and the timing is crucial because they said deadline were expecting a decision to be announced by President Trump on friday as to whether hill. Here reapply sanctions on irans oil industry its something that the u. S. President has to waive under the nuclear deal every four to six months President Trump did waive those sanctions last summer but hes been threatening not to do so people here are extremely concerned as he entered the building the German Foreign minister sigma gabrial told us that while he recognized the concerns about irans role in the region he said including in syria it was important to separate out from the importance of keeping the nuclear deal in place to make sure that iran didnt move its Nuclear Program towards a military use and thats something that many people in europe have been stressing there is of course a deadline coming up in the u. S. And thats why people are shouting louder than ever that President Trump has to listen to europe heres a report by my colleague me barkha. As the deadline for reinforcing the Iran Nuclear Deal approaches the worlds once again second guessing trumps next move. Is taking over the middle east the us president s repeatedly threatened to tear up the agreement it was so far hes reluctantly kept it alive. It was a landmark moment in International Diplomacy seven countries signed the agreement at a time of heightened tensions across the region some of irans neighbors have been talking about a possible military strike against the country. Irans made no secret of its arsenal of russian Ballistic Missiles israel and washingtons middle eastern allies feared it also had an active Nuclear Weapons program iran insisted its nucular agenda was purely civilian but under the deal it agreed to end research in return for the partial lifting of sanctions allowing it to Access Global Financial Markets and crucially sell its oil as part of americas commitment to the Deal Congress requires the us president to confirm every ninety days that irans up holding its part of the agreement trumps recertified the deal several times. But things could be about to change last october he announced a new iran policy iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal i am announcing a new strategy to address the full range of irans destructive actions its a strategy many iranians believe is motivated simply by trumps growing support for israel i think trump u. S. And israeli interests are closely aligned and i think main problem but iran is that a class for that simple reason so for that reason i would also add that should iran and israel relationship. Which is not on the horizon. You would see major changes in the. Trumps refusing to recertify the deal until Congress Amends it hes called for sanctions on irans revolutionary guard which he described as a corrupt personal terror force of irans leader. He also wants to extend time limits on the countrys Nuclear Research and could tell its Missile Program but as congress didnt draw up the deal its not down to them to change it any alterations it makes with the president would be in breach of the International Agreement it leaves donald trump with two choices recertify the deal and keep it alive reject the deal violate the agreement and almost inevitably trigger an International Crisis needs barkha aljazeera all right so this is a critical point yet again isnt it for this landmark diplomatic deal as weve already outlined nadeem what we have is germany plus four of the Permanent Security Council members all in agreement that the deal is worth maintaining are they hoping to persuade President Trump to sign that way they yet again. Well theyre certainly hoping so and a lot of people think that in fact he might do so i mean the voicing of concern has got louder and louder since october there was a joint statement vend by the leaders of britain germany and france stressing that the deal was the result of thirteen years of hard diplomatic work and also stressing that it was in fact term the only way to in effect keep irans Nuclear Program civilian just this week the head of irans atomic. Organization has said that iran has the capability to greatly increase its uranium enrichment if there was in his words a violation of the nuclear deal Boris Johnson the British Foreign minister before this meeting put out a statement saying that the deal is a crucial agreement that makes the world safer i think thats really what it boils down to here in europe theyre saying that this deal cant be unpicked if you do reapply those sanctions the deal will die it cant be renegotiated or not will make the region around the world a bit more arms safe so many people in the u. S. Agree with that democrats say they wont pass any legislative amendments unless they have the backing of their european allies and they certainly dont but even if those sanctions are waived once again its very likely that president trying will try by some means perhaps more targeted sanctions to push back against this deal something hes called the worst deal ever of course it was signed under president obama and hes going to efforts to to reverse many of president obamas policies so its far from clear where this will go next right now thank you very much barbara monitoring events in brussels forus today. Amnesty international has called for an independent investigation into alleged atrocities carried out by mia miles military now this comes after the army admitted for the very first time that its soldiers did murder ten muslim or he now their remains were found in a mass grave in Rakhine State last month its got a high level. For the first time in most military has admitted wrongdoing in its crackdown on the range of community a statement posted on the Facebook Page of the militarys commander in chief said troops and buddhas villagers murdered ten russians are muslims in Rakhine State calling the dead bengali terrorists it said the army will take action against those involved the bodies were found in a mass grave in the village of indian the one thing to note about the statement on the commander in chiefs Facebook Page is what it doesnt admit which is that this incident is not an isolated incident that in fact we had amnesty the un and Media Outlets around the world who have documented how theres a much wider pattern of killings of Sexual Violence and the burning of villages across Rakhine State and so we need to see justice and accountability for this enormous range of crimes and not a pretense that theres really just you know one or few isolated incidents the announcement comes two months after the military issued the findings of an internal investigation into its Security Forces following attacks by revenge rebels in august the military concluded no atrocities had taken place. The United Nations has been prevented by the government from undertaking its own investigation into what happened inside Rakhine State during august and september when an estimated six hundred fifty thousand people fled to neighboring bangladesh the un has called me on mars actions in rakhine textbook ethnic cleansing a charge the government denies. Even with this reversal of its own findings the military will face increased International Pressure to allow independent observers and investigators into Rakhine State scotland aljazeera well ive been cooper is mia mas representative at the center for humanitarian dialogue or i should say he is the representative of the center for humanitarian dialogue covering me amal and he says that is not a coincidence that mere miles army has now admitted to killing ten in Rakhine State on the very same day that to reuters journalists have been charged for violating the countrys secrecy law. Was a lot of speculation about that and the reason hasnt been formally stated. Some news reports for example the New York Times had pointed to the arrest of. Up. Last month yesterday under the official secrets act and the suspicion is that they were researching alleged abuses and that they had evidence of this so one theory is that the memo military is doing is trying to get ahead of the new story and show that the action before that story breaks and of course thats just speculation at this point or a number of people have drawn a link between the arrest of these two journalists from oysters and what weve seen today of the announcement from that moment i think what were going to see is a continued disconnect between the domestic position and the International Position in the International Position. On the u. N. And others to independently verify the allegations of abuses that have been made while its a mess that. Theres no pressure from the local population for. International organizations and they themselves will not i think satisfy the International Community so i think the gap between whats happening inside the country and. Lots more to come on this aljazeera news hour including the warring impact of flooding on a cholera outbreak in the democratic republic of congo. Fears for the state of cambodias democracy will look ahead to its election later this year and in sports olympic champion mo fire gets ready to start a new chapter in his career. Violence has continued between police and protesters in five cities during a wave of. Protests more than two hundred thirty people have been arrested over four days of demonstrations protesters are angry about the governments planned price and tax hikes the opposition is calling for the twenty to be scrapped the Prime Minister has urged calm saying the economy will improve this share. Of the. We would like to send a message to the protesters no matter what the government undertakes its top priority is improving economic and social conditions and ensuring the trust in the country and its institutions the government wants open dialogue regarding their demands. And in greece protesters have been fighting with the police in protests against planned austerity laws that the governments been debating more benefit cuts and measures to make it easier for banks to repossess homes from people who are in debt John Psaropoulos has our report from offense if the government has its way such protests will become a thing of the past the new bill submitted to parliament puts all options and foreclosures of property on line that means people who are in danger of losing their homes because they owe money to a bank all the taxman will no longer have anything to gain by protesting outside a court such forms of protest have been effective in the past forcing courts to cancel auctions and notaries public to go on strike which made auctions impossible but banks are on a schedule to liquidate thirteen billion dollars worth of property this year and next once this obstacle is removed at least seventeen people have been killed in mudslides in the triggered by heavy rain and destroyed houses and swept away cars in Southern California and rescue operations currently underway to find more than a dozen people who are still missing and to try to reach hundreds of others who are stranded but reynolds reports now for a month to see. The day after disaster struck monta seato mud and storm water covered highway one hundred one the main road connecting los angeles and Santa Barbara were crews in heavy trucks fire engines and police cars were the only vehicles plying the normally busy highway which could now remain closed for days. The force of tuesdays mudslide smashed metal barriers and swept cars downstream from the canyons above residents describe a terrifying night of poor in the rain and roaring flood the sound with boulders and huge boulders because after storms like this you can go down the creek and theres boat was the size of votes wagons left that you have behind eighty year old Bernard Sandler and his wife tried to walk to a pharmacy to get his heart medicine but they got stuck in thick unyielding mud two hours later were Still Standing up to our middle of our thighs. And i wife almost fell and i thought she would die and i have actually. Been married fifty seven years this month. And i really felt that. Many of the roads in the narrow canyons around this area are so badly damaged the only way to rescue stranded residents is by helicopter a u. S. Coast guard jayhawk helicopter rescued a maroon family of five including a newborn baby and two pet dogs on wednesday afternoon local authorities gave an update we realized that this is going to be a long and difficult journey for all of us and for our community. And we ask for your patience we ask for your understanding and i ask you for your prayers people here have lived through natures one two punch first wildfires then floods california. Theyve seen it all thats an attitude that will no doubt be valuable in the days ahead as the cleanup continues robert oulds aljazeera to seeto california. At least forty five people have been killed thousands have been left homeless after flooding in the democratic republic of congo aid agencies say the conditions are making a cholera outbreak even worse than a hoax has more. This was an unceremonious funeral at a local Community Center mourners gathered somebody to bury the latest victims of the flooding. Balance easily the lightweights of the childs coffin as they lay its body to rest the latest casualty after five days of heavy rains poured through the capital kinshasa last week. Were really very sad today my sister lost five children because of the rain shes inconsolable we will bury them today we thank everyone who came to support us. Away from the crowd these mothers sit together offering some comfort to each other as their children buried their neighborhood stands in ruins as more fortunate dig through the debris seeking my sister my son dishes like this all i have left are those two chairs that you see over there everything is gone if i had not been at home i would have lost my children but because i was at home i was able to get out with my children. Over five thousand people have been left homeless and anger is mounting against the government who they accuse of doing little to protect them from the devastation. These are the floods that brought such misery the trencher showers coupled with the poor sewage system flush makeshift shanty homes down the citys slopes will start to say most of the deaths were caused by drownings and landslides. Kinshasa is the third most densely populated city in the world and it currently counts twelve million residents aid agencies and warning these floods and mudslides and likely to antagonize the waterborne and cholera outbreak in the capital and in previous weeks we registered around twenty cases per week on average right now were getting more than one hundred cases each week in kinshasa nearly four hundred fifty have been registered the u. N. Says the democratic republic of congo is experiencing its worst cholera outbreak in twenty years the disease has killed over one thousand people over fifty five thousand cases reported across the country since july overcrowding unsanitary conditions and lack of clean Drinking Water these cases look set to rise. A must burial is taking place in one area after seventy one people died in violence between for lonnie has been and some as now this is a conflict thats been going on for a while where two communities find say the use of land to graze their cattle at least fifteen hundred people have been killed in violence last chair the killings have become a major issue for president Mohamed Juba Hari who has pledged to bring security and stability to nigeria ok we can go live now to benue state and our correspondent. There where the burials are taking place on it and just explain for us youre in the middle middle region of nigeria where this kind of conflict is a chronic problem isnt it for the residents of this part of the country. Absolutely that is this is very very. Chilly has college you know across North Central nigeria as you move down towards the south maybe goes on and on and on and its been like that for the last decade or so although there have been conflict between farmers and cattle herders over the past half a century in nigeria because this is. Recently with a movement of more hardass from outside the niger and i spoke to the governor been arrested yesterday who said most of these attacks are carried out by how its men who dont cause the south because of the war the grassland the fact of Global Warming takes effect more and more areas and they are ignored are becoming dry and dry at least its been moved down south and in the process the conflict between them and farmers is on the border and this year. Alone in this particular state seventy one people have been killed in benghazi because i was telling me that more than two thousand have been killed in the last five years in this state alone and this needs was. This. Prices are usually in the middle part of nigeria in the central parts of nigeria and these states number as high as eight more turn of the. Time in the nigerian government. Years and policeman to drive down however it looks like a major problem not only. In out of nigeria as well in the neighboring terrible. Came on the water ports not just today there was a similar attack that killed more than eighty people in the northeastern part of a state from the look of pain things are getting worse before they get better. Could be which is in venue a state in the middle part of nigeria thank you. That germanys chancellor and the Opposition Leaders say the major hurdles they need to clear before they can form a Coalition Angela Merkel is hoping for progress on a deal on the final day of talks in the end it would break a political stalemate thats left germany without a government since elections in september this is Merkels Christian Democratic Union party in the opposition social democrats are trying to find Common Ground before starting formal talks on forming an alliance. Weve made a lot of preparatory work but there are still big hurdles to clear i can say that will be constructive to find the necessary compromises but of course we will also focus on the knowledge that we have to conduct the right politics for our country. Here we are. Poised to be we will look at the progress made over the past four days in its entirety which is quite a number of issues we have identified together as common interests but there are still big hurdles to clear and it will definitely take all day. In just a couple of minutes rob will have the weather and also coming up on this aljazeera news hour well look at columbias Peace Process with his last after rebel group. The Peace Process in danger of. Its efforts to stop smuggling of a synthetic drug has led to a nationwide epidemic. Of top level football and basketball collide with mixed results playing everything coming up. From brisk nose in fuel. To the waters of southeast asia. Colorado whatever the infrastructure problems in kinshasa the weather did play a part in this increase in color that you just heard about two millimeters fell in twenty four hours which may not seem a lot to you in a tropical area but it is in comparison with what you might expect so far is here for two hundred thirty millimeters again not a huge time pool but the average is far less than that this is the wet season but generally speaking this is the dry part of the wet season the heavier rain in this part of africa has been further east particularly in tanzania thats more like three hundred seventy three millimeters in twenty four hours thats a proper cool tropical season daryn porn i would think that kinshasa will be revisited with these because the heavy rains are further south till the sun starts to return staying this level to us what we just disappear across the indian ocean and just show you what else happens because this time of the year the wet season exists in villages in indonesia similar sorts of figures are about to be found i think in the in potential as youre. Seeing as record one hundred sixty one millimeters so far this is just north of the equator but a development a little spin a mart suggested for singapore. And this whole part of malaysia weve got two very wet days still to come. The weather sponsored by cats are and always. Its unlikely for band members to travel to the birthplace of the music they love and share a stage with a legend they cherish. But did not. Ask for this time now does it. When the news breaks members of the knesset Israels Parliament setting a higher threshold for any future attempt to give up any parts of truce and the story builds. Up they did just what president say in the whole country that is not the other way and when people need to be heard china has a serious shortage of women and a lot of. Aljazeera has teams on the ground to bring the Award Winning documentary and live news on air and online. Take a look at the top stories here at the aljazeera news our European Countries are missing an iranian delegation in brussels ahead of a u. S. Deadline to reaffirm all not the twenty fifteen nuclear deal the agreement needs to be signed off every ninety days the president has until friday to decide whether he will stick with the deal or reimpose sanctions Amnesty International has called for an independent investigation into alleged atrocities carried out by me and miles military follows the armys admission for the first time that. It soldiers killed ten of or hidden german who were buried in a mass grave. Violence has flared between police and protesters in five to lizzie in cities during a wave of antiwar sterrett protests demonstrators are angry at the governments planned price and tax hikes more than two hundred thirty people have been arrested so far. That further leaks have emerged of attempts by the Egyptian Military intelligence to try to influence Media Coverage in the country in recordings that were broadcast by the. T. V. Channel an officer can be heard instructing a t. V. Presenter another station to attack the amir of qatar the officer also tells the presenter that pressure should be increased on kuwait to prevent it from supporting cast in the gulf crisis egypt the u. A. E. Saudi arabia and bahrain of all impose blockade on cata since june kuwait has been attempting to mediate in the dispute for this is the latest leak of these schools between military intelligence and media personalities in other resolutely revelations that officers could be heard telling present is that contrary to the Egyptian Governments public stance karo doesnt really have a problem with the us decision to recognize jerusalem as a capital of israel he said that egypt was willing to recognize israels illegal occupation of jerusalem with ramallah becoming the capital of a palestinian state he also admitted that military intelligence pressured the former Prime Minister ahmed shafik not to run in the president ial election in march withdrew his nomination less than twenty four hours after these leaks emerged now the recordings are raising concerns about press freedom in egypt dozens of independent journalists are in prison with many legit alleging mistreatment at the hands of state security services. Speak now to Mohamed El Masri who is chair of the Journalism Program at the. Graduate studies and thank you very much for joining us im just wondering there doesnt seem to be very much about this is surprising about the way the egyptian authorities conduct the whole issue of press freedom we know that they dont stand for it but its youre right its not very surprising this is entirely consistent with. Thor terry in government this is not anything new right in some ways the c. C. Government is a continuation of the earlier mubarak government actually did my dissertation on egypt almost a decade ago and in that dissertation i talked about advice calls that government officials like to give to these media personalities and newspaper editors and so on and so forth essentially suggesting this is how you want to approach this this issue right and its not really advice as much as it is kind of a command right and the consequences are understood the consequences of not complying with these with these commands so this is pretty consistent with Egyptian Government behavior and its consistent with the c. C. Government as you alluded to in your intro so press freedom is obviously doesnt really exist in egypt never has actually according to you what else did these leaks of this recording of this Senior Intelligence officer talking to me. What else did they reveal i think the bit about jerusalem is is really interesting i would argue that its also not surprising its not surprising that the government is on the one hand telling you gyptian public one thing right that they support the palestinians and then behind you know behind the scenes working the back channels essentially supporting the Israeli Government the government has a relatively long history of working with the government in israel this goes back to two thousand and thirteen fourteen and fifteen in two thousand and sixteen it was a very interesting diplomatic visit by egypts foreign minister to israel and he held that meet they held that. Meeting in jerusalem it kind of flew under the radar it was only reported by a few news outlets but this was a signal to the israeli state that egypt was shifting its longstanding policy and that it was willing to to bend on the issue of jerusalem Mohamed El Masry thank you very much indeed for joining us. Now kenyas government has criticised european observers who monitored last years elections the e. U. Observer mission released its final report in brussels on wednesday in it it said that it couldnt actually travel to kenya to release the report because of a lack of government cooperation now the head of the mission says the long and sometimes violent election process has had quote weaken the countrys democracy president kenyatta won the election eventually the rerun was held in october following the august poll which then was ninety five by the Supreme Court now the opposition boycotted that rerun kenyas ambassador to belgium is accusing the mission of what he calls contemptuous political grandstanding saying the chief observers actions were quote disdainful and condescending. Ok we can speak to the chief officer of the Observer Mission shaka shes actually a dutch member of parliament thank you very much indeed for joining us shes talking live to us from brussels you lead that Monitoring Mission as weve already pointed out to the original. Election carried out in kenya and then if i remember rightly you and your colleagues gave a glowing report of democracy at work in kenya whats changed. Well i am viju to review the reports that weve brought out throughout the process around the august elections and then again the president ial rerun in october where consistently weve pointed out where we thought and where we saw that the rights of kenyans were not respected and our final report that i published yesterday builds on those earlier publicly available statements and of course is along the same lines where we are pointing out what went well and what improved but also where the rights of kenyans were not respected all right well tell us specifically what what problems you found first of all you did give the oldest election you gave it the all clear tell us about the problems that you found there ofter no we did not ok tell us what i mean you want to correct that miss misconception all right because i mean the whole we dont talk in terms of free and fair when it comes to elections its a misunderstanding i think media are always interested in hearing those terms what we do is look in a great amount of detail to for example how the Legal Process was conducted in the case of kenya there were very very last minute legal changes to the electoral code which are not in line with good practices around elections we saw people being paid to attend election rallies we saw the police using violence including bullets and People Killed we saw. The abuse of state resources hate speech at times those are all points for great concern and then of course the kenyan elections saw a lot of use of new technology which in fact came with a lot of hope that they would improve the integrity of the process but we concluded that technology cannot replace trust and we recommend that for the future there is more testing of capacity and security of technologies used in the elections when there are just a few examples are find out what it whatever you say now i remember very very clearly indeed the whole question of of overseas monitoring all of the election in kenya was was strewn into doubt in disarray as a consequence of virtually every Foreign Mission giving the ok the thumbs up to what it occurred in the august election in the first since its and that was then overturned of course by the Supreme Court. I dont know what your question is but we dont talk in terms of thumbs up i encourage you to read our statements which have been critical where necessary and optimistic where appropriate all right thank you very much indeed for talking to us here on. Well Rights Groups are worried that cambodias general election later this year one speech free and fair the government has dissolved the Main Opposition Party and restricted nongovernmental organizations as part of a series thats looking ahead to major stories for they get twenty pride reports from. Twenty eighteen twenty five years since the United Nations organized election meant to set cambodia on the path to democracy after years of civil war. Today critics say it is starting to resemble a one party state dominated by Prime Minister. He has been in power for more than thirty years and could be virtually unopposed at the next election in july we dont have a democracy. Democracy it will survive as a democracy cambodias democratic journey has been deeply troubled political intrigue and then fighting sometimes leading to by law and clashes between factions but the country has generally held to the democratic vision planned for it until that is the latter part of twenty seventeen. The Opposition Leader was arrested at the beginning of september for allegedly plotting with foreigners to overthrow the government the Supreme Court then use that allegation to dissolve his party the c. N. R. P. The government says the party was a threat to democracy not the other way round. We create problems and then they never listen to. Them its a state thats the question they are waiting for. The political crackdown was accompanied by what Rights Groups say was a clampdown on Civil Society with the closure of a leading newspaper and restrictions on the activities of nongovernment organizations. All allegedly smoothing the way to the election most observers they expect the the crackdown and detentions to happen right before the election thats not the case as usually happen in the middle of the in the middle of the of the term and then its starting to actually cause harm before the election as twenty eighteen starts who knows the protests from abroad will mostly be forgotten and the changing skyline in phnom penh is a reminder of the Chinese Investment which now protects him from the risk of the u. S. And europe withdrawing funding allowing him to consolidate power with an election victory seen as a stamp of legitimacy rob mcbride al jazeera phnom penh. Colombias rebel group has urged the government to resume talks the president suspended the go see asians when rebels launched attacks after a cease fire expired eleven leaders say that shouldnt do the rail the Peace Process alexandra ramp yet he reports out from the colombian capital. A historic three months long ceasefire now over and in the worst way as the rebels resumed attacks in colombia many hoped for an extension of a truce which this. Had been considered a success. But on wednesday columbias last active rebel group perpetrated four attacks wounding two colombian marines and affecting many Important Oil pipeline colombian president Juan Manuel Santos spoke forcefully against them. Laura the government deplored the decision to restart its terrorist attacks on the general public the armed forces and on parts of the National Infrastructure we were always i repeat always ready to extend the ceasefire with the airline and negotiate very quickly a new cycle of talks even will she. Inexplicably not only rejected this process but chose to restart their terrorist attacks on the very day that they were obliged to initiate the new round of negotiations. From quito where peace talks had been expected to resume in leaders said they were hopeful the talks could restart but then explain the reasoning behind the attacks may some political shooting table was making progress during the cease fire so we maintain the decision to give continuity to what we achieved what we need a new cease fire the time becomes the difficulties of the first woman. President santos immediately recalled to the recently appointed negotiators for consultations experts say the failure to extend the cease fire shows deep divisions among the leadership this six or more. We. Will win. The match in this sense is not only that probably what will happen with this cease fire is what will happen with the table and the general process between the government and. The talks have long been complicated by a lack of confidence between the parties and to tangible results and we can now expect the Colombian Military to start a bomb being camping in rebels areas a full blown return of the of still it is that will make very difficult to resume the talks at least for now listen to just. Three Police Officers have been arrested in pakistan for opening fire on a group of protesters and killing two it happened when dozens of people attacked a Police Station hours before the funeral of an eight Year Old Girl zainab and sari had been kidnapped sexually assaulted and murdered the demonstrators say police havent been doing enough to find her attacker. The us is implementing new measures to prevent smuggling of the dangerous synthetic drug fentanyl its one of several opioids that are responsible for a nationwide epidemic of drug abuse pennsylvania is the latest of several states to declare an emergency using a protocol. Its usually reserved for natural disasters christian salumi has more. Of President Donald Trump has signed legislation aimed at preventing opioid drugs from entering the country the measures include allocating nine Million Dollars for chemical screening devices to be used by customs and Border Protection agents it comes amid an opioid abuse crisis that has affected swaths of the country in the state of pennsylvania governor tom wolfe declared a disaster emergency citing a skyrocketing number of deaths by Drug Overdose i dont take this action lightly. We know that this crisis has taken far too many lives has broken for too many families it is decimated far too many communities and it has gone on for too long newly released to to stick show a thirty seven percent increase in fatal overdoses in two thousand and sixteen four thousand six hundred forty two in total and initial reports show that number continued to climb in two thousand and seventeen when overdose related emergency room visits rose eighty two percent through the Third Quarter this despite state and local efforts to address the problem and clean up areas where drug use is rampant declaring a disaster emergency will allow the state to temporarily reduce regulatory burdens making anti overdose drugs more available and expanding access to treatment the governor is also establishing an Opioid Operation Command Center to better coordinate between agencies in South Carolina where theyve also declared a disaster emergency the governor announced a new Public Education campaign this is a different kind of spirit. Its a silent. Seems through things that are not old. Up to every citizen to take a part they used to say that this is so society is not a spectator sport you gotta get out of the stands and get down in the game while President Trump has resisted calls to officially declare the opiate epidemic of a National Emergency pennsylvania is now the eighth state to declare a disaster a disaster designation last ninety days but Governor Wolf left open the possibility of signing another one when this one runs out kristen salumi al jazeera coming up here on the aljazeera news hour find out whos playing in the opening round of the tennis grand slam. The President Trump says it is possible for washington to rejoin the paris climate deal but he didnt elaborate on what needs to change for the u. S. To stay in the president described the twenty fifteen accord as a bad deal for the u. S. When he announced washingtons withdrawal that was in june his comments come as new york city sues five all Oil Companies for contributing to Global Warming warming the mess says the city plans to withdraw five billion dollars worth of oil investments. Now the British Government is to announce new taxes on plastic bottles and takeaway cartons in order to reduce environmentally damaging waste the measures are expected in a speech by the Prime Minister to resign it follows the introduction of a mandatory levy on plastic bags in major supermarkets in england that to move cut the number of bags used by around ninety percent are u. K. Correspondent Bobby Phillips joins us now live from a recycling center in bristol so this is a major move than expected by the tourism a government. Yes thats right its an environmental plan which the Prime Ministers outlining right now. For the next twenty five years in a sense what shes trying to get the british british people to envisage is a very different way in which we consume in which we live our daily lives and the consequences of what she calls a throwaway culture well you can see them behind me here this recycling center can process three hundred tons on a typical day of all the plastic all the paper all the metal that we throw away in our daily lives well let me talk to one of the spokespeople of suez the company that runs this and. Add in the Prime Minister saying that we have to end the fro way culture that youre in the business of waste do you welcome our proposal we do so it is very easy to see government leadership on the issues with the productivity and wife management in a plot like this in a business like all is about getting all achieved. Through in any market you can leuven reproachful if we can move the light from mixed rubbish a mixture short to those of you. Call it so you can change the why did we can cheer you on the why you that we put materials out a collection and the why that we would have to back into consumption to retire the same way very much in support of all the British Public he did not message are we getting back to our recycling properly so that senses like this better follow up thing for cycling struggled in the last few years we plateau i would visit you how you terms of the resort to the city but i think with things like the blue planet with the marine lip service you think plastics in particular are now so far the defra roy some might be surprised its a i dont know department of the environment right so the british politician politicians obviously feel that this is something where they can make capital lets talk about the Global Implications in the past britain has sent huge amounts of waste material to china thats whats happening that i ball from the u. K. I was so i going to point to ten years of showing how small kids have been growing as ive been producing more. To go on the global study in recent months the number of missions to bring the level of contamination that i will say. Makes plastic has been too much fun for the use of effective falls across the world from the u. S. To the u. K. And europe what weve been doing is trying to jim ok but also i would feel the pull of the strike so were helping local authorities in the public get better material we fulfill to get these talks to facilitate to reduce the contaminants that means we can secure and to put that back to good use thank you adam for their insight into the enormous Global Market in recycling to follow the phillips live. Recycling center in bristol thank you. All right it is time for a look at the schools news is andy thank you so much marty more five time champion Roger Federer will start his Australian Open title defense against bed in a while womens top seed simona halep takes on home plate destiny i offer in the first round those days draws in of a joke of each seeded all saying that matched up with american donald young joc rich but his first match for six months on wednesday he continues his comeback from an elbow injury that hes opening grand slam gets underway in melbourne next week twenty sixteen Australian Open champion undulate kerber has continued her strong start to the season the german advancing to the Sydney International semifinals with a straight sets win here over dominic a simple close has been drawn by compassionate aniline afraid some in melbourne. As an ending that and says hes not worried about his future as a real madrid manager thats despite another poor performance from his team on wednesday while struggling to break down thirty side humanity in the cockpit all right they were held to a two two draw at home but do still progress to the quarter finals winning the title five two on aggregate the copper israels most likely route to domestic success this season their fourth in the League Sixteen points behind leaders barcelona. Last year i signed this two year deal but i always take things year after year and game by game i dont look beyond that it is what it is i enjoy what i do day after day i cant look at what will happen after two or three years because that is not what things are like here asked the manager also in vegas says he believes striker Alexy Sanchez will still be at the club at the end of this month transfer window such as started on the bench in wednesdays League Cup Semifinal with chelsea the much finishing nil nil the chilean is out of contract to the end of the season and Manchester City are attempting to sign the twenty nine year old. You know people dont know wait on rick sanchez this is a guy who was completely focused to play from what it was you know he came on today i warmed up like a player wants to play football and he can make a difference between whats going on outside and whats going on there on the football pitch really with facts not reason psychological theories and the fact is when you turn on the pitch you play football and you give hundred percent and thats what he does. One of the worlds most successful athletes will start a new chapter in his career on friday mohammed formerly mario farah is in qatar for his first road running event since stepping away from the track so how mark reports. Hes not about to become a professional footballer but most far is in the process of changing careers after winning six world titles and four olympic gold medals on the track hes in qatar to run the doha Half Marathon at first it towards his new goal of the olympic marathon gold in my name is to go to turkey at twenty twenty see how it depends on my body just work ive got to look after stay injury free stay focused stay hungry like you do want to do in and i am enjoying it i got is the most most far as the center of attention here in doha hes won so many championships and gold medals worldwide hes going to go down as a legend on the track the question is now whether he can achieve the same success as the marathon runner. To emphasize his change of direction britains most decorated athlete now wants to go by his full name ahmed again distancing himself from his former glories although it may take some adjusting to you know people think mo is a great trait my nose go on to go where those can you do in in america as a question and i dont like guys leave every guy. On the track that way lumo and asked are going to suddenly chapter was his journey to the top hasnt come without controversy. His relationship with Alberto Salazar has generated unwanted headlines far as former coach is being investigated by the u. S. Antidoping agency for whats called unlawful conduct. And the somali born muslim has been vocal politically criticizing dont trump the u. S. Ban on travel through a number of predominately muslim countries he thinks athletes need to stand up for what they believe is right plus important because the train architects and we do stand up for the right what things you know for me a song knew when i was local but dont know tom it affected me and my family and so many members of people who are in the same positions me. And the tracking says Long Distance success on the road is the only story he wants to be the focus of in the year ahead. So hell Malick Al Jazeera doha will miss. Kevin durants has become the second youngest player to reach twenty thousand career points in the n. B. A. The twenty nine year old effort only batted ball or bron james he did it at twenty eight durants reaching the milestone in a rare loss for the Golden State Warriors they were beaten by the l. A. Clippers no problem for the side just below them in second place in the western conference as the Houston Rockets crystal was growing season high thirty seven points they beat the full trial blazers one twenty one to one twelve that is their fourth win games six. Later this thursday the philadelphia seventy six ers and the Boston Celtics will play in london a promotional event for the game involving two premier League Football is that i didnt quite go to plan. Book voted ten. Million from Tottenham Hotspur that is younger talking about saddam hotspur along with his teammate eric diet trying to hand a basketball is the eighth time a regular season game is taking place in the english capital some of the visiting n. B. A. Star saying quote like to swap sports as well. So you have a writers room outside seven years old. And im really rather not going to marry you i dont know what it was all about a three minute walk or a bit out of three but i was going to start to feel that they were all sort of in terms of writing so. Hopefully that comes through my. Ok that is i suppose looking for now boxing. Thank you very much indeed now the Worlds Largest Electronics Trade Show is in full swing in less vegas and a new product that could make travel easier is really stealing the spotlight a chinese firm has unveiled a suitcase the fall issue of around the airport never gets lost the inventions cold copy one that uses a tracking device and g. P. S. So from this aljazeera news out dont go away though because jane will be here in just a moment. To. Arguments. The new poll ranks mexico city as the pool with 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 conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend youre very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened i think about how to react what do i do if this gets worse now mahdi army uses a new service its called learn to drive its for women passages only and drawn by women drivers. To some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven monitoring of drivers you are making very pointed remarks when theyre on line the main u. S. Response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been to criminalize or if you join us on say no evil person just wakes up over the morning and say i want to cover the world in darkness this is a dialogue and that could be what leading to some of the confusion online about people saying they dont actually know whats going on join the colobus conversation at this time on aljazeera. The European Union remains committed for the full and effective implementation of the agreements putting on a united front in you and to rein in officials me to defend the twenty fifteen nuclear deal as u. S. President donald trump considers reimposing sank
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