provinces but in the end who decides putting pressure on the kurdish region on friday it takes back control of the airports i think that the money of the votes is yet to happen and madrid's doing all it can to stop it but both regions under the microscope also on the ground don't find out from his feuds with the n.f.l. in the media and actually gets down to some policy he's on by what he calls a once in a generation chance to reform the u.s. system we're going to look at whether it's what the democrats are just tax cuts for the wealthy and we'll have part two of our exclusive look at the contact of tribes of the amazon on wednesday we told you about the tribes people reportedly killed in the name of natural resources today we find out why brazilian government level of tension for them that's fallen so that. he'll have the head of the playboy bunny empire has died leaving behind a mixed legacy but how will you remember with him powering for women or massage honest i mean a hard. you with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook life and al-jazeera dot com if you're looking at the secession votes in either iraq or spain right now there is an overarching feeling of the unknown both of them what'll happen in spain when the drill is doing all it can to stop sunday's vote including confiscating ballot papers can the poll even happen and in only a few hours in iraq baghdad will begin blocking international flights to the kurdish region as it demands the regional government surrender its airports again what happens if it doesn't comply could force be used these are all the unknowns i'm going to be discussing them shortly first here's what's been happening this thursday turkey's president reject type erdogan has weighed in warning against ethnic division following the vote. the issue in northern iraq is not related to any party's right to establish a state the main issue here is the support for the parties are willing to go away for endless clashes in the region by destroying the unity togetherness and solidarity of the region's people the region has already suffered a lot due to sectarian tension and the ethnic conflicts will hurt more we have to calculate who benefits from this situation so just to step back a little for a moment because we're always conscious of the fact that we're talking about a region that not everyone is that familiar with so i got my trusty info graphic here from al jazeera dot com which we've shown you before showing the regions that we're talking about here in iraq it is the yellow region which is the officially officially administration i should say. the kurdistan regional government but there are these other areas in green and red which are disputed areas well but look at the size of that compared to the rest of iraq it is a large part of the country it is an oil rich part as well this is why it is considered so important so we're going to start our coverage right here in erbil this report is from one of homemade the. coming from iran and turkey is that they consider this referendum a threat to their own national security you have to bear in mind that they have a sizeable kurdish population and those two countries and while the referendum that was happening here they were sort of celebrations or they were even messages of support from those kurdish populations whether from iran or from turkey towards this referendum actually on the main square of the celebrations the night of the referendum itself. kurds who had crossed the border where to come here not to vote but to be part of the day and many say that it was very symbolic even for them even if it had no direct repercussion on that they were hoping. it would be the way for them to also forge ahead with some sort of maybe autonomy or any kind of so that the deputy. so the go that is iraq on the issue of kurdish secession in spain as we mention it is the region of cuts alone you know which wants if not to break away then at least to have the chance to decide for itself and on thursday it has been the students marching in support of that controversial independence referendum regional leaders insist the vote will go ahead as planned on sunday even though spain central government and courts of law in the whole exercise is illegal police chiefs have even met to discuss plans to block people entering the voting sentence holds covering this one as he has been for well weeks now call from barcelona in tokens through this one college just seems sit at the top of the show the are known there's so many factors going on we just don't know how it's all going to come together on sunday. so many factors are unknown come on one of the interesting things is exactly how people are beginning to organize so that they can go ahead and vote in this referendum thousands of high school and university students march to be possible on that day now as you can see where in the quad barcelona university students have occupied and we with one of the organizers i know delgado now tell us i know what is going on here why the students even here this time we have been buying this is the faculty of philo the sheep of the university be a best seller now since friday and we the main objective of keeping a bare minimum mobilization of the yoke and students of catalonia so we can keep on doing something for that if it in them as this money just a piece in the letting us have a normal campaign. we are giving the information to the people outside here for example telling them where they can go to vote the area handing over posters favors anything they want now that's because they've closed down a lot of the web pages that were giving out that information so you guys had to go very low tech and you just literally set up tables outside is that right yes that's exactly. what we're doing we're just telling the people they come they bellows why do they leave and what is their idea and we just have a somewhat they do slip and look at least where the information can be fired from so we just. doing the say in there maybe a day at work between that what they do we don't are still open and the people who come asking now also understand that the date that the central government the spanish government is all the police to go and shut down schools because they could be used as voting centers now the students here and other people are trying to organize to make sure those voting stations stay open tell me about that that's true we are the one thing the students with the other political and social asians trying to make sure that their schools will be open on sunday so from here in from many other places we will probably go and defend the school see from this is a everyone is prepared. so as you can see kemal a lot of organization a lot of grassroots organization going on right now but all the students here know like many other catalans that they're taking a step into the unknown come out stronger stuff isn't it penn holding a great job as always in boston and think you want to look at why this is such a contentious issue particularly and to do that we really need to look back at what is a very strained relationship between catalonia and spain and actually how different they are this northeastern region is home to some seven and a half million consulates and they culture their history then language composed be different to spain's also important it's a wealthy area it makes up a fifth of spain's economic output and it's helped fuel spain's development during the industrial revolution but this powerful position has made it a bit of a prize for spain not surprisingly a push for separation was suppressed back in the one nine hundred thirty s. i'm a catholic and language was actually banned for some time under the dictator francisco franco there have been independent votes before as well we must say the last non-binding one was. actually in twenty fourteen win eighty percent of voters were in favor of independence which was of course rejected by the central government in madrid but just because there is a big push to hold the referendum it doesn't exactly mean everyone wants independence this is very important to remember there was a poll conducted by the regional government in jude's not that long ago and it showed only about forty one percent of people would actually vote yes to splitting from spain so with all that in mind let's talk too about this and give us a flavor of what you see online as far as support for the referendum goes well there's only a twitter battle going on this has been the top conversation and span for several spain for several weeks when the conversation is this big it's really hard to ignore especially when it impacts literally everyone in the country now the ruling party in spain posted this video on twitter and they're accusing many politicians of fear mongering and of lying in the video is meant to denounce cuts a lot of politicians who the spanish government say are trying to damage the central governments and that and they're doing it with hashtags the caption to this video online reads it's not democracy it's hispanic phobia it's a term the government is using to criticize what they call anti spain sentiments in catalonia the hash tag took off and was the top trend in spain this account for example the person who tweeted this picture said that hash tag hispan a phobia exists as many are now afraid of putting the spanish flag out but the move quickly backfired and catalans started using that same hash tag and using it to denounce acts from the spanish government against catalonia and its people this user posted this picture and tweeted saying that the prosecutor's office threatens protesters mayors and teachers along with policeman they ask will they soon threaten kids another smaller hash tag catalona phobia is being used to denounce the government's attempt. one user said don't be fooled behind his spent a phobia there is catalona phobia in catalonia we don't have any problems with spain but with a right wing government now this is just an example of the type of twitter battles that we've been seen between madrid and barcelona if you're in spain we definitely want to hear from you you can reach out to us on our what's that number plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine or you can always use the hash tag ingenious grid lovely thank you just quickly something i noticed today down to zero dot com i typed in catalonia independence into the search bar obviously lots of entries came up but look at some of the dates in the middle if you can actually read them but let me go down a bit further here we go catalonia hales independence vote september twenty fourth teen. support him no august twenty ten that won catalonia rallies for independence in al-jazeera we have been covering the story for some time because it's always been there in some shape or form this desire for independence has been an issue not a bad idea to go back and have a look at some of these and see how the issues have changed or indeed have changed the push for independence exists this is all at al-jazeera dot com now live well what do we got here at the moment this is the house majority whip steve was addressing congress the first time since he was actually shot down if you remember this one it's a congressional baseball team practice back in june for republicans actually showed him that it was an illinois man james hodgkinson he was killed in a shootout with police and now this is addressing his colleagues for the first time ok in the box next to him for the state are in london heartlessly more international news from you. come on and we begin with the range of crisis where at least fourteen range of ten children and four women have died after their boat capsized off the coast of bangladesh the bodies were found in a nonny beach in cox's bazaar the boat was carrying one hundred thirty people. well international aid groups say more than half a million range of refugees have fled to binah desh since violence broke out in mammals rakhine state it is the largest mass movement of refugees in the region in decades and it's created a major humanitarian crisis as government and aid agencies struggle to provide people with food water and shelter john hall reports from the border district of cox's bazaar. the government hospital in the town of copses bazaar is the next best thing to the clinics in the camps it receives some of the more seriously injured and sick including new arrivals in the last few days. it's hot it's filthy and it stinks. but for mohammad saleem and his family it is a haven from the horrors of their journey to bangladesh woken up at night by gunfire in the village they ram for their lives but two of the children were left behind that can. only do what the years when the shooting stopped i came out of the jungle and found my wife where my other children were i did not know i have three children i found my wife on the floor and the baby i saw that my wife had been shot three times in one leg and in the other a bullet went in one side and out the other. mohammed picked up his injured wife and baby and fled they don't know what's happened to the other children aged two and three so they knew that the exit i felt like my world had changed for ever thinking about what i had left behind leaving my children behind i had left my own children behind did i feel like carrying on i didn't even feel like taking a single step forward. the couple believe they hope the children may have been picked up by fleeing relatives it feels like they forsaken place. this hospital people on the floors on benches the rubble patients and there are beds more stories than we were able to tell. we also met her. beaten by soldiers as she escaped me and with her children and grandchildren good thing that i did. i left at three am so the buddhists wouldn't see me everyone was crossing the river they were shooting people and killing them everywhere there were dead bodies floating in the river. did she know i asked her why it was happening that i'm not even killing men children brothers not letting teachers or him observe vive not leaving any rich people alive but just killing everyone to finish the job the job as the un has said is an organized campaign of ethnic cleansing jonah how al-jazeera bangladesh yemen's cholera outbreak is now the world's largest on record and it is still spreading the british charity oxfam expects one million cases of the disease by november that's more than the seven hundred fifty thousand cases in haiti when outbreak lasted five years from twenty ten will than two thousand people have died from cholera in yemen since may the caribbean island of dominica is still being is still reeling rather after being devastated by her career with fears it could take years to recover eighty percent of buildings have been damaged or destroyed and most of the aisle remains without electricity food or water gabriel as longer has more from the dominican capital. i'm here in a side street in the capitol of a road so you can get a sense of how bad this hurricane was there just destruction here everywhere now look at this vehicle that i'm about to show you again it shows you how strong the winds were and how ferocious this storm was you can see a helicopter about to land here this is near the stadium and we see a helicopter various countries. thirty minutes when we flew into the country what we saw was absolutely devastating this is normally a very lush green island but it was all brown the force of the hurricane winds just ripped all of the trees and vegetation completely out of the ground it was absolutely astonishing when we got to one of the main airports we saw aid convoys that were arriving from various different countries helicopters also large military planes as well aid is finally starting to get into the country and it's needed desperately on the drive we saw more of the extreme devastation that's been hitting this country at one point there were people with gathering water from a precious water stream because that's the only access to water that they had very very bad way off to the right it believes are just. the steroid the water. in the room and. we came here to speak to the country's prime minister roosevelt skerritt this is what he had to tell us complete devastation and every street and every village in the country. it's as it is it is very painful to see the suffering and on which people well aid is starting to come into the country it's very clear the recovery of domenico is going to take weeks months know it's going to take years. here in london let's talk about. let me thank you. see there from gabriel's reports the effects of that are really still being felt across the caribbean. in the u.s. territory of puerto rico for food and water supplies are running low in the united states has sent navy ships to help with the growing humanitarian crisis this report is to raise about one. he's still trying to recover her belongings from the damages caused by hurricane. she lives in san juan puerto rico's capital because. i didn't want to leave my house when the hurricane came i stayed inside with my two sons and tried to protect . just like in the rest of the capital in this neighborhood there is still no water or electricity in. one of the poorest neighborhoods many of the houses here have been completely destroyed mostly because they were built with metal and wood those who are living here had to seek refuge in a shelter and that's where they remain in days after the category four hurricane hit this u.s. territory in the caribbean the united states government says aid is on the way to address the growing humanitarian crisis in some parts of the island the federal emergency management agency has said badly damaged airports and seaports are making it difficult to get aid and personnel. so puerto rico has tremendous problems with floods and with damage and collapse but we're still looking for people we're still looking for people but i'm going to be going there are tuesday and i may also stop at the virgin islands the governor there is delayed to reflect on the streets of san juan people are lining up for hours to get fuel and cell phone towers have not been fully restored people like my t.s.a. aide is going to slow. me down when i go i still haven't received any help do you see much going on around the city it's like nobody kid is many here feel the same way as they struggle to get by every day. and just see it at some point. or story we've been following here around zero it's developing this hour a lebanese court which is just handed down its sentencing for the controversial sunni cleric. you may remember this when he was charged after being linked to a battle with government troops back in two thousand and thirteen eighteen soldiers and civilians were killed in that his i'm just tired in beirut what is that sentence in. that's right jamal after hours of deliberations hours of closed door sessions these judges who are presiding over this military court here in lebanon have come down with a ruling a ruling or sentencing if you will that many had suspected but many had believe may not have happened given the fact that we haven't seen something like this since two thousand and four that sentencing is death that alice here has been sentenced to death for his involvement in what's known as the battle of sidon which you rightly point out eighteen lebanese soldiers were killed two civilians and between thirty and forty of his supporters were also killed in the two days of fighting we also understand that eight others of his coat accused have also been sentenced to death and a number of others have been caring given varying prison sentences now this case and indeed mr alice years certainly very controversial here in lebanon not least because of that battle but we have to remember that he was also on the run for over two years in fact he was only taken into custody when he was at the airport here in beirut in disguise trying to travel on a forged documents when he was taken into custody since then the trial has faced many delays and many had feared certainly many of the family members of those soldiers and indeed civilians who'd been killed in that fighting had feared that we may never get to a point where we see a sentencing but here we are the sentencing has come down but earlier today very quickly come on i was at the courthouse and there were dozens and dozens of supporters here and perhaps more specifically his kohak use their family members wives daughters and the like they are saying that this trial in their words is a sham that it is something that has been orchestrated again in their words by iran and they don't by this verdict a verdict which we must point out or rather sentencing which we must point out that can be appealed there is still the appeal process so this case still ongoing thank you for that update. let's get to a few of your comments contact details are going to come up on screen for you now if you want to get in touch with us hello mother in india many in australia and marlo in singapore thank you for writing in thank you for watching specially america's i know it's about three in the morning. really good comment here on the referenda situation remember at the start of the show we talked about this whole idea of who really decides and who's watching on facebook live has said if more than ninety percent are in favor of independence this is in the kurdish situation why the concern nations suppressing their rights if the people of the vatican or san marino or monaco can live as an independent state then why can they not and that is a really good way of putting it thank you for that comment i just on twitter at a.j. english the live stream is up and running facebook dot com slash a.j. news grid the what's at number five on one trip or one for an i bashed grid we're going to grab a quick break but if you are watching on facebook live stick around they were hindu children lost in refugee camps during the famine what's being done to reunite them with their families and then ahead on the grid new york's guggenheim museum polson exhibits involving animals and explain why. welcome back now across western asia and the levant weather conditions mostly fine you see across some we have got some shower activity i'm sort of pulling colder air from the north of tosh count there which is thirteen as a mix from elsewhere we've got a few showers in the southern side of the caspian sea you know kuwait city still stuck with temperatures above forty degrees and that is likely to be the case through the remainder of the next four five days heading on through into saturday again forty three here we've also got some shows around the eastern side of the black sea extending in across the caucasus following conditions from beirut in lebanon for the my sort of twenty seven here in the arabian peninsula dry and hot and sunny across a mecca medina that into the low forty's here in the gulf states not quite as humid and maybe not quite as hot but still temperatures coming in the thirty nine degrees in dropping very slightly as we head on through into saturday now heading across into southern parts of africa weather conditions here looking largely fine made you see the old show on the eastern cape otherwise one of two showers for the coast of mozambique but for most part it's sunshine all the way the stock about zambia coming in with highs of twenty eight but across central parts of africa are some really heavy showers across parts of central africa public in cameroon in particular. a great. white blanket coverage follows ex-pats and politicians often platitudes and sound bites and sable leadership trying to play the media and shape the message in an age of simplistic narratives the listening post critiques the mainstream response today is the. day of this administration exposing the influences that drive the headlines at this time on al-jazeera. we don't know if. this. is over the option. yet. by contrast. the headline from al-jazeera dot com and what's trending as well it's an interesting one of the top the man who saved the world from attack i have no idea what that one's about might be worth a look if it's trending a number one as well plenty more on the referenda happening in iraq with up until ready happened and then the one in spain as well have a good look at baskin looking for something new something different that's what's trending and. present donald trump is proposing the biggest tax system a whole in three decades calling it i once in a generation opportunity adding that finances is something. he's very good at among the changes reducing personal income brackets from seven to three slashing the corporate tax rate as well he's selling these reforms as a boost for the middle class and promised it wouldn't help the country's wealthiest tax. the working people middle class the people that really haven't been treated right pay and they have been treated for it really for a long time have not been treated right also it's going to be for business is where they're going to employ jobs where they're going to bring in so it's for jobs this is a tax plan for jobs and growth growth for our country it will be the largest reduction in terms of dollars of any plan ever in the history of the country off of the white house we go kambli how good is there for us hi kimberly talking about obviously because that's what he does well i've heard other phrases like ambitious being used to describe this what's your type. well the truth is as there often is in washington a somewhere in the middle the republicans or conservatives are really keen about this overhaul this proposed overhaul democrats not so much and it really comes down to your perspective on whether or not well should be scared especially among the highest income brackets or whether or not there should be in the incentive to earn that wealth and keep at the bottom line donald trump is trying to deliver on a big campaign promise he hasn't had a lot of legislative victories really at all to this point so he's looking for tax reform as one of his key campaign promises he can deliver on it's going to be a tough sell but the bottom line at all of this is that what he's proposing is a major tax cut to the wealthiest americans corporate tax cuts going from thirty five percent to twenty so that companies that have gone to places like china where the the comparable tax rate is just fifteen percent will say yeah we'll come back and we'll create jobs for the middle class but the big criticism from the democrats is if this happens can we trust these corporations to really keep their promise and deliver on those jobs once they get the benefit of that lower rate ok so there is some good logic behind it it does make sense but it's still going to be controversial because and this is always been the fear tax cuts for the rich tax cuts for the business big businesses and everyone else still has to pay the same if not more. that's right i mean you've heard about this before it's been tried before in the reagan years it's called trickle down economics it's something that democrats do not like because they say in theory it works but in reality we don't see it happening what we see is the rich getting richer and then that wealth not being shared so it comes down to where you are on the political spectrum i can tell you there are some things that a lot of people agree on in this proposal that still has to get through congress so it's not a done deal but there are things that a lot of people think are absurd in the united states about the tax code the fact that you have to hire someone to help you do it because it's so complicated that you're penalized if you die if you get married donald trump proposing some credits for the elderly and children so there are some things that a lot of people like about this but again it comes down to your philosophy and what you believe is well something that should be redistributed as many to the left of the political spectrum believe or or if you're on the right side you believe that there should be then sent of to keep the wealth you earn and that's where the debate's going to come in congress and believe me it's going to be a lengthy one oh yes thank you kimberly from of a busy looking white house lawn with a building behind there of a excavations going on. it's all secret and they've haven't told us exactly what they're doing but it's taking a long time. ok cool thank you thanks for that kimberly lovely bit of inside information there now obviously a lot of challenging stuff out there about donald trump but we always try to bring you all sides in all opinions detroit not have johnson is right this race and they find reasons to like donald trump you can read them for yourself but there's a little court here down and the middle which i was quickly read while i do not value watching the american presidents in bipartisan politics crash and burn i am afraid that this might be what is needed to realign the american people to the promise of the constitution and the spirit of the american dream it's an interesting read five reasons to like donald trump have a look it's in the opinion section dot com. now brazil's amazon the rainforest home to the largest number of known contacted or recently contacted indigenous tribes in the world these have been people. otherwise unknown and now living in reserves which have been set up for their protection but the country's economic crisis and the growing pressure to exploit the rich resources almost reserves could lead to the extinction of many of those communities as you would have seen on yesterday's ground zero is the first to get access to the job of the indigenous reserve since the alleged massacre of several tribe members a latin america editor at the scene human now with part two of her special series hello from the job id indigenous reserve what you see behind me was one of the jungle bases of brazil's national foundation for indigenous affairs which is in charge of protecting everything inside the reserve especially its communities but as you will see this space like so many others has been abandoned. the amazon rain forest is a wealth of diversity home to six tribes which have contact with outsiders and about a dozen which do not. in the java the indigenous preserve tribes people are meant to be protected by the brazilian government body called for night. but when we arrive at the full night base along the strategic river you find it's been abandoned for months i don't know the true villagers are guarding what's left of the base so it won't be pillaged here when there's no petrol for the patrol boats anyway we are authorized to police the river so if there's an emergency we can't do anything. with the canned food gone the volunteers make do with bananas. the reserve is the size of austria and it's near brazil's border with peru and colombia making it a drug trafficking corridor. with a full night base abandoned colombian fishermen are again poaching this coveted amazon species called got by. and brazilian gold miners bloggers and cattle farmers are increasingly invading tribal lands. that's why indigenous communities fought to have a full night base established to protect our people and resources it's known that several tribes were once wiped out by loggers and rubber tappers who invaded our region all this is marked our lives and we don't want to return to the days of such abuses against indigenous people minority a former for nine specter claims government leaders far away in the capital they've nearly have trained eyes already limited budget forcing dozens of regional offices to close. hardest hit is the area responsible for protecting the most vulnerable the un contacted tribes last month ten tribesmen were reportedly massacred by gold miners the is one of the isolated tribes as they're called here live very nearby we're told of their deep inside this rain forest precisely because they don't want to be contacted they know that outsiders are dangerous not just because of their weapons but because of the diseases they carry for which they have no immunity. and that in my own of the my i do not tribe says the east sometimes leave their tracks after stealing bananas but he has only seen them from a distance. they look like us they paint their faces like we do maybe there myron a two but we've never actually spoken to each other maybe the day we do we'll find out that we are related. but both contacted and known contact in tribes the serious threats to their way of life. lawmakers representing brazil's powerful agricultural lobby are pushing to lift restrictions on exploiting this part of the amazon and president michelle temora needs their support to block an impeachment trial in congress many here seafood eyes budget cuts as a first step towards losing all protection. if the state does not have a strong indigenous policy in defense of our communities we don't see much future for our people many tribes are in danger of extinction we're living in sad times. the amazon region has long been at the center of a conflict preservation versus exploitation dispute that's putting in peril not just the rain forests vast natural resources but the lives of those who lived in it for thousands of years. but the outlook does not look good one of the reasons is because president michel tamar is now facing new corruption allegations and will need to keep appeasing congressmen that represent the powerful agro business sector in order to avoid an impeachment trial and if he makes the kind of concessions that many people fear it will be difficult if not impossible to turn the clock back at least in time to save some of the most vulnerable communities in this reserve fantastic reporting from the sea newman if you missed the first part go online and find that latin american news section in the news section of the top click on that and that is it it's right there on the front page brazil progs amazon massacres by a legal mind as it was a really really excellent report and well with watching if you didn't see it on yesterday's good but now we're waiting for a meeting between the russian president vladimir putin and turkey's reject tired. due to happen any minute in ankara an interesting gathering remember back in two thousand and fifteen things got pretty tense when turkey down the russian jets near the syrian border relations have improved since then and now the two leaders are expected to discuss of course ways to deescalate the fighting in syria as well as that controversial referendum in northern iraq we talked about a little bit earlier so if we go to ankara now here's andrew simmons what's changed since things got a little bit frosty between these two. what a difference a couple of years makes with global politics. yes that downing of the russian jet was a colossal problem for turkey afterwards the way it handled the situation was seen by some as not ideal russia took great offense the way it was handled now we have a situation whereby the two countries have a lot in common and similar situations abound there are a raft of issues which they're cooperating on it's pretty ironic really that russia backs. sad in syria whereas turkey has always opposed him and now here we have the two sides coming together to talk about peace possibly in syria there are a number of issues that relate to this reproach small it's more the reproach more really it's also a slap in the face for the west and indeed nato itself whereby turkey is has actually already ordered s four hundred missile systems from russia which are not compatible with nato systems that is caused a lot of derision in nato and they so headquarters there is a lot of concern about that and warn think tank member here had this to say about the situation. putin is in turkey to draw the wage between turkey and the west. that he has drawn in the first place and he's doing this very successfully but it turned in limbo are there are similar current issues on which turkey and russia i have common interests and i need to work really close in with you know one of them obviously is the most current one. but also this situation in northern iraq in the aftermath of the referendum. just to update you now president putin has touched down on the door i'm told of his plane has just opened and the opening ceremony will begin soon now just to go through these issues you heard there reference to the syrian position the four deescalation zones turkey iran and russia will be sending monitors to. a province turkey is being relied upon here to try to actually deliver a situation whereby you have so many opposition groups some of them seen by the russian. ministration as being hard line terror groups there is a difficulty in trying to marshal the situation but turkey is engaging hoping to get cooperation with putin over an area to the north of africa and where syrian kurds have control the y.p. g. and of course that is right up against the turkish border one president one wants to see that situation defused he doesn't want to see the kurds next door so there's some bargaining to be done there furthermore the situation in iraqi kurdistan russia hasn't been as hard as many countries in its opposition to the referendum and also it has to be said that there is a lot of investment that's been going on by the partly privatized partly state owned a rosneft oil corporation in russia it's spent around four billion that's the report on investments in kurdish oil so there's going to be some discussion no doubt whatsoever between the two presidents on whether or not it really is a case where by old one feels he can cut off the oil flow from iraqi kurdistan come all right we will wait to hear from that meeting between those two presidents thank you andrea. the world's oldest and most prestigious medical journal the lancet has released the results of a major study into abortion and the findings are pretty frightening almost half of abortions carried out annually worldwide are done in a hazardous manner putting women at risk of serious complications or even death the study reveals how unsafe abortions remain a major problem especially in developing countries oh here's the numbers for you the evidence research study does have collected over five years to find out how many abortions fit within the world health organization's definition of unsafe and they discovered on average first of all fifty five point seven million abortions are carried out and you lay between twenty ten and twenty fourteen around twenty five million each year were performed in circumstances considered unsafe and put women at risk of serious complications you break that down further seventeen million were described as less safe meaning the abortion was a the done by a trained provider or used in advise method but not both and eight million were considered least safe so let's talk more about this joining us dr bell i get not through who is a scientist at the department of reproductive health with the world health organization in geneva and we thank you for your time can you give me a bit more of a breakdown first of all on what unsafe really means here and can you give sort of i guess that going into too much detail examples which people can can sort of understand. well we consider abortion actually has fallen into three different categories safe which means it falls within the w.h.o. definition of having a train provider and using a safe method. less safe where only one of the two criteria are met either the method is safe but it's being used without accurate information or access to health services or maybe train providers are using outdated obsolete methods like sharp cura touch which persists in many parts of the world and the one that most concerning is the category of least safe or dangerous abortions which is untrained people using dangerous math that it could be ingesting things like acid or bleach putting things like herbst and roots into a woman's pipe private parts coat hangers and these are the complex these are the abortions that lead to serious complications and death my goodness is this a primarily developing world problem or did the numbers suggest this is happening everywhere well the numbers actually suggest that ninety seven percent or overwhelming majority of unsafe abortions and almost all of the least safe abortions happen in the developing world and africa in particular has a particularly high rate of least safe abortions and almost one in two abortions in africa fall into this category even so did it surprise you that number the fact that out of what was it fifty five million every year that are around the half of them would be considered unsafe it does seem a very high proportion. yes it it is surprising and it six dreamily surprising because the technology to make safe abortion available is actually very very simple it's a primary care level technology it can be provided by a number of health workers and you don't even need a specialist position and despite that we have a situation where women in many parts of the world have to access abortion services and on safe circumstances dr bill are going to drum glad we could talk to you about that's a really important story in some court extraordinary numbers thank you very much thank you. now something completely different a well known magazine editor died today he was age ninety one he passed away at his home in california and i am describing him as nothing more than that at this stage because trying to describe or indeed put a label on one hugh heffner is not easy so i'm leaving it to you that is the biggest album of all of a given i never thought we'd be discussing this yeah i know he's good but here we go here we go let me give it a try well who he is all depends on who you ask you have no or will definitely be remembered in different ways for one he founded playboy magazine and created and empire that made nudity less of a taboo especially in the sixty's vonnie look clerk is a journalist and said that hugh hefner was not a feminist she says i repeat he would have no was not a feminist objectification is not women's sexual liberation nicol keeney here she says hugh hefner dies and with him goes a generation of massage me and sexual exploitation she uses the hash tag good riddance old man however you have another perspective this person here says that people can try and slander him if they want but hugh hefner paved the way for sex positivity and was an l.g. bt ally before it was safe to be one then you have lucas and same similar things in that hugh hefner apparently created adam apparently advocated for gay rights as early as the one nine hundred fifty s. he says that it was beyond brave to do so and says cheers playboy also featured the first black female cover star that was in one thousand seventy one and it was three years before american vogue had their first black female cover start and it and its height in one nine hundred seventy s. playboy had a monthly circulation of more than seven million magazines a month and ran a global chain of nightclubs casinos and resorts but over the years the magazine has taken quite a bit of a hit. only sold eight hundred thousand copies a month in two thousand and fifteen that also impacted the playboy brand well known as the playboy bunny more than half of its annual revenue now comes from its merchandise but what was once a power for powerful worldwide brand has diminished over the decades because of the availability of free pornography especially online even still the company is still worth an estimated five hundred million dollars regardless of what you think of him the magazine has come quite a long way since its first edition marilyn monroe was on the first cover in one thousand nine hundred fifty three when the magazine only cost fifty cents many of hefner's playboy bunnies as they were called have taken to twitter to say their goodbyes to him hefner was ninety one and will be buried in his iconic so pajamas and a grave that he bought right next to the first cover model marilyn monroe be sure to let us know what you think of this iconic man whichever way you think of him tweet me your opinions with the hash tag a.j. news. thank you they just leave that there from now so it's quite peculiar talking about anyway but he is as someone who generates a lot of discussions i do get in touch with us has. new york now and a chinese exhibition that isn't happening the guggenheim museum has canceled a new show following threats of violence because of animal cruelty and the shuffle picks up the story now. the video grabs you and is disturbing to watch attack dogs chained and running to exhaustion in a futile attempt to reach each other it's just one of three exhibits the guggenheim in new york is removing from a show titled art and china after a one nine hundred eighty nine theater of the world art created between the time of the tiananmen square protests and the two thousand and eight beijing olympics another video exhibit shows decorated farm animals mating in front of a human audience and the third is a live display of insects and reptiles by chinese artist one young ping it was planned that a local pet store would replenish this exhibit periodically as the entrapped lizards and bugs died off or devoured each other then williamson is with people for the ethical treatment of animals one of several groups opposing the exhibit if that happens in the wild show that this is where the animals live but how that in and often is in. foreign amusements. beggars belief in events first century that this is still going on protesters marched outside the museum this past weekend and an online petition drew more than half a million signatures in a matter of just days now the museum is backing down releasing a statement that reads in part the guggenheim regrets that explicit and repeated threats of violence have made our decision necessary as an arts institution committed to presenting a multiplicity of voices we are dismayed that we must withhold works of art and that decision has drawn criticism as well notably from chinese artist ai wei wei not involved in this show who called it tragic that a museum cannot exercise freedom of speech and would be forced to limit its offerings the museum has not provided details of any specific security threats and says freedom of expression remain will. in a paramount value moving forward activists say the guggenheim has done the right thing it's not cruelty to animals and it should be rightly left out of museums the art pieces in question have been displayed elsewhere but when the show funded in part by a us government agency opens in new york next week these troubling and powerful metaphors for life in modern china and the modern world won't be on display at one shop or al-jazeera washington d.c. . the un is here to talk sport now getting sent off a cricket field i never thought i know theory something we only hear about in football but there is the new rules which i tell you about just now thank you kamil new cricket rules came into effect on thursday that the biggest changes to the game in seven years the main difference is disciplinary measures players cannot be sent off as come all fed off the failed the bad behavior but has behavior really got worse when the wedding's report. the rules of world cricket have been made at the famous unloads cricket ground for one hundred seventy three years the mala bone cricket club m.c.c. accustomed use of a game that was always meant to be played in a so called gentlemanly manner but a perceived deterioration of behavior means it's time for a change there has been a spotlight on confrontation in international goings currently dealt with via disciplinary points and suspensions now if a cricketer takes their aggression too far i will be sent from the field there is a growing trend in the behavior protective lower levels of the game less so the international level but in the recreational game is declining to the extent that many empires are leaving the game or choosing not to go into empire but now there are four levels of discipline level one is for such misdemeanors as excessive appealing level so includes deliberate contact a mains conceding five runs level three including intimidation would mean timeout like being cymbidium other sports for the most serious offenses including actual violence a player will be sent off signal is sort of waving of like that and then followed by a sort of the signal tiles about the legendary english cricket to w.g. grace suggest a sense not new to cricket in one incident he was clearly out but said to the umpire people have come here to see me but not to say you're one pile i refuse to leave the crease the kind that behavior has worsened in modern cricket is debatable remember confrontations like. encounter in perth in ninety one or gutting versus umpires shako vonna in far as about six years later. mike sutcliffe was played the game as man and boy from village greens to captaining his mc say to him at lord's he agrees behavior in amateur cricket is slightly worsened but overall cricket retains a spirit of fair play. as a player i was in that i want to retire. but he did. ok. reputations to recent critique has been you get a survey of them on yeah and spiritual cricket is fundamentally important to our great our great school i know after thirty forty years of playing it to you levels on. and it's really important which is we don't question which again totally again is just because of the spirit of the game cricket world governing body the i.c.c. want this to work as a deterrent not to see players regulate banished to the pavilion but the boundaries of acceptable behavior have been removed for good the wellings al-jazeera but those cricket ground in london well let's have a look at the reaction to the changes on social media cricket australia have tweeted the opinion of as many khwaja he's australia's top order batsman who has voiced his disapproval at the changes cricket australia have called his view and interesting tighe on the situation so they seem to be mildly backing him you could say they're certainly not against what he says this is just tweeted self saying a ball hitting a close infielders helmet and a court shouldn't be out it's not a compulsory fielding position keeper is understandable now take a look at this tweet there's been some players the poor showing for these rule changes south africa's captain five two plus they welcomed the change on a wednesday as you can see here he said the umpire's call is a very good chimed while bad behavior off the field has left the international career of one of the game's biggest stars in doubt ben stokes will not feature for england until further notice having been arrested in bristol on wednesday accused of assault he's been released under investigation this video shows what happened exactly on the night ben stokes that court on camera stokes has since apologized to the england and while cricket. don't forget you can always share your videos or get in touch with us the hash tag is a.j. news great or tweet me to write pay. down a bit and i'll come all it's back to you thank you tess the end of that serene mind or isn't it the story that someone's always got a camera haven't they in fact if you've got one and you've got something interesting to share with us preferably not someone being beaten up well this is a story we should be covering get in touch with us the 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