Again youre watching aljazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also ahead the u. S. Defense secretary and nato secretary general arriving in kabul trying to sell a new afghan policy but may not be all that. Verdict guilty local media in thailand say the former Prime MinisterYingluck Shinawatra has been sentenced to five years in prison for corruption. New accounts of Sexual Violence targeting women and. The Kurdish Regional governments transport minister has rejected a demand from iraq to relinquish control of its ports baghdad says it will ban International Flights from landing in Kurdish Regional airports from friday it follows mondays session vote unofficial estimates say the referendum was passed russia hold on iraqi and kurdish leaders to avoid pursuing actions that may further destabilize the region lets get more on that for you joining us live from bill is our correspondent key question i guess is what happens next. Well thats the key question here when it comes to the airports which is really the. Conversation today in this part of the world. Civil authority has also notified the foreign airliners. International flights to both the airport and the minister from fifteen hundred g. M. T. On friday our every did say that domestic flights will continue. As. Borders as we know as of now the borders are still open whether those are the ones with iran or with. Open and actually the Prime Minister of the kurdish region. Has been as we are talking now just confirmed everything at the moment is as normal what will happen next he asked. This question and he said were waiting for the developments from the regional governments were waiting to see what baghdad will actually do beyond the public statements and then we will take. Action. Any further as were having this see that the iraqi Prime Minister has demanded the unknown moment of the kurdish vote so given that seems to be happy or content to go for some sort of stranglehold if needs be on the region of kurdistan how would that be perceived. When i dont think that would be perceived in any positive light i mean just listening to the words of the Prime Minister he said the real question is not why did we go ahead with the referendum the real question is why did baghdad let this. Why did it we told them more than once that we did not feel heard that we had real fears. Everybody ignored it he gave us he gave two examples he said well he was talking about the shia Paramilitary Forces and he said well we have these forces who have been working and were being secured this part of the country since two thousand and three we took a leading role in the war on mosul and he said well up our military forces have been have been put now on the official umbrella of the Security Forces theyre giving Financial Support theyre given military equipment and were not given anything he said the same thing about for example the Financial Aid granted by the i. M. F. He said the kurds arent receiving anything so why are we supposed to feel kurdish now he went on saying that he was hoping that they will be negotiation he did sort of. Wasnt very worried about what would happen with the International Borders especially the one with turkey underlining that there was a lot of trade going between the two countries that there was a pipeline and. Oil that already functioning from here to turkey and is one gas that is in this final stages and is going from here to turkey to europe and that turkey has a lot of financial. Gain out of that pipeline so you didnt seem too worried about that but about the relations in baghdad. That is exactly the reaction of baghdad underlines exactly the fears of the kurds and this seems for him that that government in baghdad is a thick terry in government as he put it and that the more they act like that the more the kurds will become stubborn on their referendum thank you. Has taken thirty Iraqi FederalPolice Officers hostage in ramadi on government controlled areas fighting remains in the city despite Security Forces retaking it from the group nearly two years ago now last week iraqi forces launched offensives against the last major eisel strongholds near the border with syria and around the northern town the a wheelchair. I woman has died in a rocket attack near the airport in the Afghan Capital kabul just hours after the u. S. Defense secretary james mattis arrived there for a visit two children were injured the tour by masses with the nato chief u. N. Stoltenberg fall as u. S. President Donald Trumps promise to send more u. S. Troops afghan Security Forces are struggling to defeat the taliban the group has been on the offensive since the u. S. Led nato combat troops started withdrawing in twenty fourteen we will suffocate any hope that alqaeda or dash or carney or the taliban have of winning by killing i want to reinforce to the taliban that the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement we welcome those who commit to a peaceful future for afghanistan we should port afghan led reconciliation is the solution to this conflict and the sooner the taliban recognizes they cannot win with bombs the sooner the killing will end and recall were not taught the strategy of america and nato is now clear and general mattis has decided that they will send new troops to afghanistan other members of nato as has been requested by secretarygeneral start and will take part in training and supporting al forces thats how the ban and other terrorist groups have used our people as human shields i have instructed all our Security Forces that during the operations they have to protect the lives of civilians. Thailands former Prime MinisterYingluck Shinawatra has been jailed for five years for corruption she was convicted of negligence over a rice subsidy plan her government set up before she was toppled in a coup in twenty fourteen the scheme to help farmers lost billions of dollars in law wasnt in court to hear the verdict as she fled the country last month when he has more now from bangkok. It took the Nine Supreme Court judges four hours to deliver their guilty verdict for the former thai Prime MinisterYingluck Shinawatra and to hand down a jail sentence in absentia of five years of course the verdict was greeted with sadness and disappointment by supporters of Yingluck Shinawatra had gathered outside the Supreme Court here in the thai capital bangkok but there probably also was an expectation that they would be a guilty verdict and some sort of gjelten given that on the twenty fifth of august which was the original date that the verdict was supposed to be handed down there were some severe jail sentences handed down by the Supreme Court judges for others involved in deals linked to the rise pledging scheme like a former cabinet minister in china wants government and a rise exporter who are both given more than forty years in jail as being like you know what well her legal team says it will consider the verdict before deciding whether to appeal. Ranger refugees whove escaped the military crackdown and me and. The army of raping women and girls four hundred eighty thousand fled to bangladesh in the last month the chief of the uns Refugee Agency is just back from bangladesh and heard the stories of Sexual Violence. The combination of limited Health Facilities who are sanitary and hygiene the conditions and the overcrowded sites you can well imagine hes a recipe for disaster in terms of possible epidemics unicef and probably a chore working with the government to the ministry of health in stepping up. Immunization campaigns that the risks remain very high the other. The other striking feature of this particular refugee flow is the trauma that these people carry with them ive spoken to several women who had been raped or had been wounded because they had resisted rape and most likely those are those who are survivors because other had been killed well in myanmar itself the government denies those rape claims but has also refused to allow in the National Observers to investigate john hall has more now from could a polo long across the border in bangladesh. Two sisters twenty five year old me and twenty two year old aziza share their story of escape from me and my both say they were raped by soldiers. The military tortured they murdered our parents even our sisters they took us to the jungle they pushed us down on the ground there were two of them they raped me and then i became unconscious. Some people came and rescued us and took us to a group of people who were going to cross the river to bangladesh but they wouldnt take us in the boat as we had no money we told them either you kill us or take us with you. Its estimated that more than a third of nearly half a million refugees who arrived in bangladesh in the past month are women and young girls i met survivors myself whove told me their harrowing stories about how one sister was gang raped and killed in front of her how one was raped and then a baby was killed in front of her they have experienced its extreme amount of pain the fled some have walked for days not even if you say trauma its an understatement they are severely traumatized it is of course impossible to verify the stories weve been told but n. G. O. S are hearing this sort of testimony every day now as this vast population of refugees slowly gains access to health and Counseling Services but despite the best efforts of aid agencies the task of reaching all those in need is nowhere near complete the sisters have had no direct help. We are young girls where can we go we dont have anything left they killed everyone only my sister and i are alive. Whether or not Sexual Violence is being used as a weapon against the fleeing richenda is something that may be proven in time when dissident and sang suchi was fighting for democracy in myanmar shes on record as saying that rape was used systematically by the army against minorities now as the countrys leader shes had nothing to say about the latest allegations nor has her government granted access to International Agencies to investigate jonah how aljazeera bangladesh. In south africa tens of thousands of people are taking part in a nationwide strike against government corruption and unemployment is being led by the biggest Workers Union and a branch of the governing African National congress which says the party is suffering from leadership failures the trade union has threatened to shut down the country since he holds banks and the chamber of mines its demanding the president jacob zuma step down and an investigation into state corruption tanya page has this update from one of the rebels in johannesburg. Some of. The streets. And. Her range of issues primarily president jacob zuma to step down. And one in which. To capture. That refers to understanding the belief that some private. Decisions. By sight rising unemployment rising. Simply unacceptable but the question is really how much influence does have its alliance with the African National congress and the south African Communist Party but even. That hasnt. Aligned. And that the saudis and is waiting. Still to come here and out in this one more space to tweet you wont have to limit yourself to just one hundred forty characters. And its a Welcome Break from the fear of an. There x. X. South korea holds a Film Festival calling for peace. Had iran has been spreading from china to south korea and to japan at this combination band one camera from the south one from the north is fairly active and is given seventy six millimeters in the last twenty four hours on the island just the south of the major on to japan and of course its going to be mostly honshu to see the rest of that rain push through too as well behind it sounds come out so that in south korea now twenty degrees insall on thursday and a good part of china is finals as beijing is also dry but shanghai is in a rain belt and has been in and out of it for the last day or so whilst the sun returns to japan that rain belt in china brought probably stay more or less where it is drifting slowly south is given equal figures a sixty seven reason twenty four hours in the shanghai and and also the sichuan and near do as i say its not moving far the same time with a feed of moisture in the South China Sea hong kong right on the edge of potential development of thunderstorms again or at least rain showers thats three grand or right back to the border with vietnam so the drive it is becoming a little wetter whereas malaysia still frequently west is going to be joined soon by indonesia the showers are pretty widespread the wet season is showing itself with some force now as it develops. Determined to live life to the. Very limited sight. That i can distinguish. Because. For inspiring people. As they seek to prove that seeing isnt everything at this time. Headlining story so far today the Kurdish Regional government in iraq has rejected amman jordan. International flights for landing as of friday. Yes from iraq in a referendum on monday. The u. S. Defense secretary is in afghanistan told the president that america nato forces will not and. Taliban. Is in kabul with the. Former Prime Minister of thailand has been sentenced to five years in prison corruption. Last month the first ever female convict the. Subsidies. The kenyan president to order kenyatta and the Opposition Leader riley meeting the Electoral Commission ahead of next months rerun of the president ial election on tuesday hundreds of people protested outside the commissions office calling on staff to step down lets go to latest now from nairobi and our correspondent Stephanie Decker i think it really does depend who you speak to kenyans a very much politically aware educated and they feel passionate about this you have diehard supporters on each side but i think there is also a feeling that people just want to get this done now the fact if you off people here they dont really like to talk about it on camera but the economy is suffering and businesses are suffering Foreign Investment also something that is pretty much being affected by this because it is this sort of air of uncertainty nobody really knows how this is going to play out nobody really knows whats going to happen to these elections if they do it and indeed take place of course is still a question mark they should but you know whoever loses will be accepted so there is this feeling that people just want to sort of get this over and done with and there is this constant back and forth has been saying of both parties you know in the Media Politicians accusing each other sorts of issues you know it can get quite aggressive language but the people yes this is a country relatively on hold twitter is ending its one hundred forty character limits and giving twice as much space to tweet the social media giant decided to change all that after analyzing how much space different languages used to say the same thing increase to two hundred eighty characters is currently an experiment but it is likely to be rolled out to all of us twitter uses lets take that to kate bevan in london a technology and social media analyst great cates great to talk to you again do you think this will actually work. Well it actually worked i dont even know if its actually going to be rolled out actually peter i think theres a lot of backlash on twitter about it and i think as a strong sense that it has got other bigger problems to fix so i do wonder this will ever actually get beyond its pilot stage its only a very small number of users at the moment is part of the issue here is one of those bigger problems are talking about the fact that twitter has never made money. There is that the reason its not made money or one of the many reasons its not made money is this perceived to be quite a hostile place to users with abuse im trolling and of course increasingly of late the rise of the armies of bots who are trying to influence political discourse as well i think its felt to be an increasingly unfriendly and difficulty use platform that drives away investors and advertisers what makes a facebook an easier platform to use and why the people on facebook say feel safer than they would feel if they were on twitter. I think its because facebook is a symmetrical platform if you like twitter is asymmetric if your tweets are protected anybody can follow you and in theory anybody can send you a message whereas on facebook you choose more than you interact with you can choose who your friends are you can restrict in a very granular way who sees things i use lists a lot of facebook so for example my mom cant see half of the things i post so its you have much more control over who sees things and who interacts with you on facebook on twitter its much more of a free for all you maybe never want your mom or my mom to see what you would see on facebook but thats a different d