thomas and andrew said this is a huge figure in india's modern history. state funeral is underway right now it's. the straits of. where there are hundreds of thousands of people. well went through security to get close to where that procession would pass and right now the reeds are being laid on the coffin we've had an arranger mody the current prime minister larry for his coffin manmohan singh has just laid one down from that cove in the president here so how many karzai afghan afghanistan's long term president is also laying flowers on the coffin there so soon the coffin will be taken to its final cremation spot and this prime minister will be laid to rest but as you say a major figure in indian politics he was the first prime minister to a full term he wasn't from the congress party he really brought the right of center b j p party from the fringe of indian politics right into the mainstream and of course with the renderer modi an all powerful figure now in indian politics very much his successor. by was really his mentor his guru as an arranger mody c

thomas reports. this lush and beautiful is how caroline should look and the trunks of his just as. tourism accounts for twelve percent of the southern indian state's economy and twenty percent of its jobs organist flooding has already hit the industry hard i think about thirty five creative person cancellations have happened during that. and everyone all the tourists. have gone back. a similar percentage of september's bookings have been cancelled to the floods damaged roads rail lines and airports making it hard for visitors to get around they also damage the places they might stay over is it. this annual boat race normally happens in august this year it was cancelled. but though many of those in kara when the rains hit left and many about to come change their plans not all days. after finishing a volunteer study and work placement arena both a llama and. stuck to their plans spending time in still in kerala but just south of the worst of the floods we were thinking about moving maybe to go of it at

legal immigrants from bangladesh but as andrew thomas reports from langley and some believe it's an exercise a nationalism ahead of elections next year. all have been nessa knows about her is that her youngest sister is ninety seven so she must be older passport she says has her date of birth wrong but she does have an indian passport she is she insists indian. yet when the state government of a sound published a draft national register of cisterns or n r c list two weeks ago her name wasn't on it. it's insulting i was born here my father and my grandfather were born here we are all from here. about thirty three million people in assam four million are not on the register has an unnecessary name is on the list but his wife's name is missing as well as his mother's he thinks the whole list exercise is targeted at muslims only one lord can be described as. i mean when you are no laura indian citizen i'm going in and you can be a pretty woman you. ethnically and religiously assam has always been one of india's most diverse states but there's a perception among some of rampant illegal immigratio

andrew thomas live in new delhi thank you so the u.s. has announced a new top schools to deal specifically with the wrong its aim it says is to persuade terror around government to change its ways secretary of state might pump a announcing new units as the u.s. increases economic pressure by reimposing sanctions earlier this year the u.s. withdrew from the two hundred fifty nuclear deal describing it as decaying and rocking. our hope is that one day soon we can reach a new agreement with iran but we must see major changes in the regime's behavior both inside and outside of its borders but also until who has more now from the united nations. the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has unveiled what is being called the iran action group trying to make certain that all parts of the u.s. government are working on a strategy to compel iran to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions as well as to stop its efforts of supporting groups such as hamas hezbollah the who these in yemen and other such organizations that have been listed as terrorist

thomas has more from kara. this is the sort of scene that is being repeated right across tara the reason the river between where i'm standing and as far as you can see that's normally dry land but a river about a kilometer that way has spilled its banks to such an extent that the water up here is very very fast like and that's why the roads are right along the right hand side as people walk across with their bags of rice and with bottles of water there's about five hundred people over there most of them don't want to leave their homes are living on the upper levels but they do need help and this is a scene that's going on the want to cross the state's. cattle as government has pledged five million dollars in assistance for carolyn's flood victims the emir shake tamim been hammered out phony amounts the package saying here knowledge the special bond with india and the contribution the people of carroll have made to katter emergency workers in this in trying to secure what's left of the bridge in general which co

and sherry rennie and i are questioning whether the disaster could have been avoided and as andrew thomas reports from the town of karbala some blame overdevelopment and the mismanagement of reservoirs. hundreds of people have died more than a million fled their homes but how that trip was carolyn's disaster the quantity of rain was unprecedented two and a half times the normal figure for office so far but environmentalists say properly managed its land and rivers would have absorbed it and channeled it to the sea over development in flood plains is to blame left but. claiming that even as an wetlands for other uses that one of them a good thing which we did was to do it another way the flood plains of the form of pride he was on about plants what are they going to accommodate on morsels of water . the floods were made worse a environmentalist by quantities of plastic rubbish clocking rivers stopping them flowing fast and really instead the rivers burst their banks but even with those issues the floods say some could have been avoided aside from the long term impact of environmental misma

thomas al-jazeera. opposition supporters in nicaragua have been marching to demand the release of political prisoners more than two thousand people have been arrested during the four months of unrest against president daniel ortega is rule john home and has more now from the capital managua. nicaragua when president daniel ortega now says that the country is back to normal but the thousands of people here on this march would disagree with that they're protesting particularly in this march against the tension of what they and n.g.o.s define as political prisoners and what the government says a violent provoke a tooth or even terrorists that we've been hearing stories from those that say the people have been grabbed eva from their homes or outside of their homes not just but by police but it will do so by the paramilitary groups that at the moment all roaming around in the crowd were several people saying they even haven't got the chance so they've had very little contact with the person with the relative

i'm andrew thomas in the northeastern indian state opus where there's real concern about a new register of citizens which is left four million people of its concerns there are about to be made streets. and fireworks to rafael nadal as he reaches the final in toronto tatiana appetite in sport. taliban fighters have attacked police headquarters and other government buildings in gaza is the battle for the southeastern afghan city enters its third day u.s. ak raft have conducted at least four as strikes in support of afghan national forces who insist the city is not under threat of collapse but lawmakers from guys me say the taliban is in control of much of the city after launching an attack in the early hours of friday morning. over one hundred people many of them members of the security forces have been killed al-jazeera correspondent eunice a.t.'s seen sent us this update from kabul. this is choice is very tense a source told the just that taliban fighters attacked the election committee office in the city and they said the building on fire. didn't provide any further information meanwhi

thomas al-jazeera. at least twenty two schoolchildren have died in sudan after their boat sank while crossing the river nile it happened in a. more town around seven hundred fifty kilometers north of the capital khartoum the state news agency said the vessel was carrying more than forty people the engine apparently failed in strong currents. now zimbabwe's rulings on appears parties trying to get the opposition's challenge to last month's election result thrown out the president and once the court to reject the petition filed by the opposition m.d.c. last week its leader nelson chamisa accuses him of rigging the presidential vote as more from our our. president in a similar god was legal team say they have a strong case they believe the evidence filed by the main opposition leader nelson chamisa doesn't prove last month's election was rigged there is no sound argument raised by. to challenge the electoral victory of president. here's no legal grounds to challenge one is not complied with the rules of th

the rain does appear to be letting up at least for now andrew thomas is our correspondent he reports now from van many. this is the sort of scene being repeated right across the state of kara believe it or not there is no river normally between where i'm standing in this far as you can see normally dry land but there is a river about a kilometer in that direction and it has filled its banks to such an extent that it is created this like a very fast flowing body of water coming across whatever you want to call it you can get across that have been killed and even risk being swept away so what's happening mostly is that men putting one around that yellow rope you can see on the right hand side holding a ball. bag on the other and taking it across about five hundred people live in a community of emory over there about two kilometers most of them don't want to leave the elderly have left and young children babies tell you but most want to stay without homes will be on the upper levels but they do need supplies and things like rice drinking water and maids and that's what they saw perorati

seem to have made it worse andrew thomas al-jazeera. the outer bands of hurricane lane have breached why people in honolulu have been warned to expect flooding and landslides the hurrican has been downgraded but it's still packing winds of up to two hundred ten kilometers an hour schools and universities have been closed and emergency shelters already j. gray is in honolulu let's give you an update on conditions here in honolulu right now we've seen the wind intensify at times the search been growing for hours here the rain's been on and off we're getting a break from it right now but this system has slowed down a bit and that means the worst of conditions from hurricane lane we will feel those here for quite some time across the island chain though we've seen severe flooding that a result of driving range as well as a bit of storm surge and winds of not downed power lines so you've got some without power here and it's a situation that's going to continue for the next several days here this is a huge and slow moving storm at this point

on andrew thomas in the northeastern indian state of assam where there's real concern about a new register of citizens which is left four million people. the concerns they're about to be made study. for the baltimore orioles break a fifty year record but it's not want to be proud of the town it will be here the sports. hello and welcome to international weather forecast certainly across western parts of europe we've seen some changes in the weather taking place as this low pressure system swings on through giving problems for the cricket the lord's showers falling on behind here in the course of monday but there's heavy rain pushing into the low countries down through france and into the alps so pretty warm across the iberian peninsula temperatures in the mid thirty's as we move on through to choose day quite a conditions coming in a still pretty warm for london at twenty six degrees but that low pressure center then pushing into the baltic some really heavy rain here likely in temperatures struggling in stockholm or the few days ago we had temperatures in the high twenty's now struggling

thomas al-jazeera. karen. her head on the bulletin we hear from my grandmother who was forced to leave her son behind and she was deported from the u.s. . from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello get a welcome back to your international weather forecasts we're starting this hour here across parts of central asia we are watching the temperatures really begin to warm up and more rain is coming into the forecast particularly down here across the coastal regions of china you can see extending out towards the south china sea as well temperatures though along the southeast coast are beginning to rise we're going to be seeing food show sing a high temperature there on tuesday of about thirty six degrees and as we go towards wednesday we are going to be watching it turn to thirty seven but up toward shanghai we're going to watch your cyclonic just off your coast that's going to typhoon soulik and that's not going to be late making landfall for you but it will be bring

sanctions regime will mean here it could hurt andrew thomas al-jazeera new delhi the entire state of new south wales and australia suffering from a severe drought as described as the worst in living memory the government is stepping in to help stricken farmers survive the dire consequences the dire conditions. reports. it's an overwhelming drought cattle swarm around a water truck in new south wales looking for relief from the devastating dryness the ground has become to bear for the grass to grow and the weather too extreme to predict farmers in eastern australia say the drought has taken over turning one's fertile lands into dust bowls or iran war and in a way just got a plan on how private ryan. to keep cattle alive some farmers have been forced to ship in hay and grain from other parts of the country that is expensive the national government is pledging nearly one hundred fifty million additional dollars to help offset the cost this winter has been particularly cruel you have to go back to knowledge in sixty five to see another winter like this one and you've got to remember that

thomas al-jazeera called them. hundreds of young people in chicago are taking part in a basketball tournament called hopes in the hood it aims to promote peace in one of the most violent cities in the u.s. john hendren reports. this is hoops in the hood it's a basketball tournament but it's also a statement about safe neighborhoods in america's most violent major cities each year about five thousand children participate they get together and with the help of the city they block off streets in violence hot spots across chicago and they play and these are violent streets last year thirty five hundred people were shot and more than six hundred of them killed in the city of chicago strada was a member of one of chicago's violent gangs now he's a coach we do have an issue of violence in our neighborhood and i think basketball and sports is just one way we can get kids to. do something other than look like them for some is happening with some and some of. this is the end of the morning rush hour so normally the streets w

thomas al-jazeera baccarat caroline. australia's foreign minister julie bishop has resigned two days after losing her bed to become prime minister bishop secured only a handful of internal party votes during a leadership challenge that toppled malcolm turnbull as prime minister scott morrison was picked to replace him instead australia's change from mrs not eleven times in a decade prompting some to call it the coup capital of the pacific. and whether it's plastic water bottles plastic trays opacic force the material they're made of has become a global problem and while many initiatives are moving towards a plastic free environment plastic production is still accelerating because it's cheaper to produce then to recycle but one major recycling center in the u.s. is trying to keep up but as gabriel is under reports from new york. at this recycling plant business is booming two thirds of all of new york city's plastic waste that's put into recycling bins ends up here where it's meticulously sorted then sold to companies to

thomas reports. the good news is it's been sunny almost all day on tuesday which means that the water level has gone down considerably over the course of the day we've spent to stay with a man who wants to return to the village he flats was rescued from on friday and he knew that on saturday a huge wall of water had come through his village and he want to go back and see how much damage has been done now early on tuesday we couldn't have done this we had to take a canoe to reach his village and when he got there he saw all the while there was mud throughout the place and it was a mess his house at least was still standing and his grown up son who had left there to protect the property and also help out neighbors well he was ok now over the course of today the water has gone down to such an extent that a couple of relief trucks have been able to drive in they have very big wheels so they can get through this and they've brought rugs and water and other essential supplies to the villages now we are abl

thomas al-jazeera man after a lot of. mean miles later and sang suchi says it's up to bangladesh to repatriate more than seven hundred thousand range of refugees the muslim minority group fled me in miles rakhine state after a military crackdown began last year suchi says the danger of what she calls terrorism is still real and present she says risks of intercommunal vile.

thomas says from new delhi. few of those filling up at this new delhi petrol station have a view on iran's nuclear program nor the merits of the deal to control it but the renewal of u.s. sanctions on iran could be felt here india is the second biggest importer of iranian oil after china eighteen percent of its oil comes from iran but rather present over there when petrol prices go up it's the common people like me and others who are affected. india also exports to iran some to see more rice the reimposition of sanctions so far does not cover food nor oil the full extent of what the united states expects of other countries will be no until november india is hoping exemptions can be made a waiver from the sanctions regime or freedom from consequences if it does continue to trade with iran. but indian exports to the us a twenty five times those to iran it can't afford to risk them the door does and will be taken by the wall meant it will be in the national interest. we have to strike a balance between who was. no

thomas reports now from the town of mazar where some evacuees and residents decided to return home despite the risk. we've met daniel thomas in an evacuation camp fisherman rescued him from his home on friday now he wanted to go back but on tuesday morning the only way back was by canoe. this is the way we can do it. because they usually go from there they go where we've already started.

thomas al-jazeera. carol. i don't get all of the problem and with the headlines on al-jazeera. to be inaugurated as president this hour the country's top court rejected a legal challenge by the main opposition leader nelson chamisa after a month what was declared the winner of last month's presidential vote. and all news u.s. senator john mccain has died at the age of eighty one after suffering from brain cancer mccain spent more than five years as a president of war in vietnam and more than three decades as a republican senator he unsuccessfully ran for president in two thousand and eight . afghanistan's national security advisor mohamed haneef has resigned but the government under increasing pressure after a spike in fighting with the taliban well some reports suggest could be preparing to challenge president ashraf ghani in next year's election his resignation has been accepted by valley but he's rejected the resignations of the ministers of defense interior and head of the national directorate of se

thomas al jazeera. carol. now is trained in promise to malcolm turnbull has survived and leadership challenge by hard affairs minister peter dutton to have won the vote forty eight to thirty five hundred signed as minister after losing the vote turnbull has been under increasing pressure and was forced to make changes to his energy policy this week after members of his own party threaten to vote against it. now the u.n. secretary general has praised efforts by north korea to build trust and confidence and. said he's looking forward to discuss ways to aid peace and denuclearization off the korean peninsula with the two nations president donald trump south korean president in a north korean foreign minister who are expected to attend the annual u.n. meeting in new york next month. afghan forces have freed one hundred forty nine hostages taken by the taliban in the north many said to be women and children security forces launched an operation to free three buses this after fighters ambushed them and provin

andrew thomas has more from guwahati . at the moment health care in india is pretty terrible for all but the very richest the country overall spends about one point five percent of its annual g.d.p. on health that is way down on the global average of about six percent more that means in practice is that only the very richest have access to hospital but it's like the only people like these can afford the private insurance they need to get it well what the national health protection scheme all modi care as it's being called by everybody here will do is it'll roll out a public insurance scheme which in theory gives about five hundred million people that's almost half this country's population access to health insurance policy that gives them up to seven thousand u.s. dollars equivalent to spend on health care each year if they get seriously ill now it sounds ambitious it sounds progressive it is but it comes with caveats this country does not have the infrastructure to support the extra demand that all those people wanting he

thomas al-jazeera gosford australia. and injury time when you saw ac milan beating wrong and it's a nice area that you're trying to watching on see gonzalez pass to make the final score. these morons first points of the new season after they lost to napoli in their opening game. well tempers flared in the handball final at the asian games where cattle beat bahrain the game had been tight through outs with the schools deadlocked at twenty five each in regulation time bahrain were unhappy with the referee's decision to award a penalty in extra time qatar converted that chance when sonce a win thirty two twenty seven is castle's second straight asian games title. japan of claim gold in the women's football after beating china in that final week or so so with the only goal of the game came in the ninetieth minutes. japan winning their first ever women's hockey gold medal at the games with a two one victory over india india had been aiming for their first title since one thousand nine hundred eighty two. and sara lee y z has

i'm andrew thomas in the northeastern indian state of assam where there's real concern about a new register of citizens which is left four million people off it's their concerns they're about to be made statements. and we'll tell you why these ballet dancers are being given the right of way on mexico's usually congested road. from the clear blue sky of the doha morning. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city of love. hello again will stop by look at weather conditions across central and southern parts of china and taiwan you see heavy rain for shanghai further towards the south in taipei probably ok during the course of monday but this circulation of low pressure is like to be bringing heavy rain to hong kong houseware plenty of showers across indochina vietnam laos meum are still looking pretty wet at the moment and wet weather extends across parts of bangladesh and into the far eastern states of india with not much change ready to head on through to choose the states you can see that circulation just the south of hong kong so it could be some really heavy rain and some strong winds develo

sanctions regime will mean here it could hurt andrew thomas al jazeera new delhi. time for a short break here and i'll just be around when we come back all draw your strain as most populous state grapples with an unprecedented drought. and its border we'll hear from a golfer who's in with a chance of completing a career grand slam more in that stay with us. welcome to look at weather conditions across the americas now in north america we saw some pretty warm air across the eastern seaboard there with temperatures in excess of thirty degrees for many areas and a door into canada there twenty eight in ottawa rain again in parts of the southeast fine conditions across many parts of the west and certainly the civic northwest looking pretty warm there seattle well into the thirty's calgary two looking pretty hot so move through into friday again fine conditions for calgary but slightly cooler conditions for seattle showers likely across the desert southwest you'll notice but los angeles driver temperatures thirty one down into central america and certain pacific coastli

thomas al-jazeera gosford australia. tempers flared in the humble final at the asian games where cats will be bahrain the game and been tight throughout for the schools deadlocked at twenty five each in regulation time bahrain was unhappy with the referee's decision to award a penalty there in extra time i saw converting that chance went on to win thirty two twenty seven. scuttles second straight asian games title. as part of climb gold in the women's football after beating china in that final reeky series salo the only goal of the game came in the ninetieth minutes. japan woman first ever women's hockey gold medal at the games with a two one victory over india india had been aiming for their first title since one thousand nine hundred eighty two. and sara lee y z has become the most successful hong kong athlete in games history she won the women's sprint cycling event that was her second gold of the week and fifty games title of her career. or just a couple of days of action left china are short of finishing top of the

thomas reports from vida color. this lush and beautiful is how caroline should look and the trunks of his just as. tourism accounts for twelve percent of the southern indian state's economy and twenty percent of its jobs organists flooding has already hit the industry hard i think about thirty five creative person cancellations have happened during that. and everyone all the tourists. have gone back. a similar percentage of september's bookings have been canceled to the floods damaged roads rail lines and airports making it hard for visitors to get around they also damage the places they might stay over is it. this annual boat race normally happens in august this year it was cancelled. but though many of those in kara when the rains hit left and many about to come change their plans not all days. after finishing a volunteer study and work placement arena both. have stuck to their plans spending time in still in kerala but just south of the worst of the floods we were thinking about moving maybe to go well but at the

andrew thomas has more from a door and carola. on sunday a lawyer twenty two thousand people were evacuated from their hard we saw some of those evacuations where trucks can get seen by all and they're bringing large numbers of people out but in other cases it has to be particularly the elderly who can't get into trucks they are being brought out slowly and then carried once they reach to draw a line. or even the other twenty two yeah pedro let me go back to you i just don't want to die and more than eight hundred thousand people now are living in camps that is only a small part of base because a much larger number of people are still staying in their homes mostly voluntarily they don't want to leave we saw many people whose ground floors of their homes were needy whites deep in water they're living up stairs they want to stay where they also the other room they go the people whose homes have been flooded they've been affected by this disaster is in the millions it really is a huge huge huge disaster in this part of india on monda

well nearly ten thousand people turned up to watch the game including our correspondent andrew thomas. a mine a pre-season friendly against a team of amateurs this was not the sort of match that would normally attract much attention or much of a crowd but this was different for one reason only. yes. so this is from. the same bolt is a sports make a star just not in this sport as an athlete he wanted gold medals and broken limb pick records in beijing london and rio as a footballer his debut was here at the central coast stadium in gosford an australian city a fewer than two hundred thousand about eighty kilometers north of sydney i think he actually has a lot to lose that i really want that. the average guy put itself in. bolt has done previous trial periods with dortmund in germany and at clubs in norway and south africa he's also played in charity games with television chefs but this was his first match for a professional club even though he wasn't playing in a professional capacity the match was against a collection of alex of players brought together to give the central coast mari

thomas al-jazeera man after a lot. of this week muslims around the world are celebrating the festival of sacrifice but in indian administered kashmir the holidays been marred by violence especially when he has more. the sounds of pellet gun shots yelling and smoke from tear gas canisters filled the air in several towns in the indian administered kashmir this week muslims are celebrating the e.t.l. adhoc or festival of sacrifice leaving many streets quiet. but not here in srinagar after evening prayers on tuesday hundreds of protesters demonstrating against indian rule carried signs hurled stones and even threw tear gas canisters back at police and not only that the year. many of our brothers are in jail many are injured with shotgun pellets and many have been martyred the indian forces are suppressing us with their minds here facing tyranny every day. here is a muslim majority himalayan region it's claimed by both india and pakistan many kashmiris have been opposing indian rule since independence in one nine hundred fo

thomas reports. this lush and beautiful is how carola should look and what the trunks of visitors. tourism accounts for twelve percent of the southern indian state's economy and twenty percent of its jobs organists flooding has already hit the industry hard i think about thirty five to eighty person cancellations that happened during that. everyone all the tourists were able. to separate years have gone back. a similar percentage of september's bookings have been cancelled to the floods damaged roads rel lines and airports making it hard for visitors to get around they also damage the places they might stay over is it. this annual boat race normally happens in august this year it was cancelled. but though many of those in kara when the rains hit left and many about to come change their plans not all days. after finishing a volunteer study and work placement arena both a llama and honestly going to have stuck to their plans spending time involved still in kerala but just south of the worst of the floo

so it might it was andrew thomas al-jazeera call them. again i mean there's a problem with the headlines on al-jazeera zimbabwe's highest court has upheld the result of last month's presidential election warning that there was no proof of every. president time and money god but now only won the vote the opposition has refused to accept what it called fake results. because it is dismissed with cause. in terms of nine to three subsection four. but a graph of the. number two number. is. there we. do. see. i saw the erotic coalition air strike me a camp for displaced people in yemen has reportedly killed at least thirty the media say it happened today the province meanwhile a new human rights watch report says the saudi coalition's investigations into alleged war crimes lack credibility. saudi arabia is reportedly looking to borrow money from international banks to help stabilize its economy according to the financial times the other seeking eleven billion dollars in loans it follows a decision to delay listing shares of the stage owned oil c

thomas al-jazeera man after a lot. made miles leader and sang suchi says it's up to bangladesh to repatriate more than seven hundred thousand range of refugees the muslim minority group fled me in miles rakhine state after a military crackdown began last year suchi says the danger of what she calls terrorism is still real and present she says risks of into communal violence will remain unless the security challenge is addressed. lots more so it's coming on al-jazeera including greece's prime minister announces the end of the ten year is just a very symbolic occasion to announce the end of the biggest international bailout in the street. on the hit film crazy bridge asians premiers to a hometown audience in singapore but it's had a mixed reaction on that stay with us. nice pink skies by the time my hot. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. however no shortage of hot sunshine across the middle east want to see showers though just around the caspian sea just around the black sea see a little bit of cloud showing up h

thomas al-jazeera baccarat carol. well still ahead here all al-jazeera sport. if you do this to. get some tools to sort it out because i think. australia's rugby coach fires back after questions over his future we'll have those details in sport to stay with us. desperate for a better life millions of people have sought refuge in europe sometimes their dreams of sanctuary are realized but sometimes disenchantment and hostility drives them home in the first of two films on these contrasting experiences people in power goes to the north german city where humane approach to integration is proving surprisingly effective. assimilation nation on al-jazeera. and instantly shifting news cycle they receive in change in america tweet the listening post take sports and questions the world's media double will be of the details the kind that cannot be conveyed in two hundred eighty characters or fewer exposing how the press operates it is their language is their culture it's their context and why certain stories take precedence whi

to have made it worse andrew thomas al-jazeera kabul m. a south korean appeals court has lengthen the prison sentence to be served by the former president park geun hye after prosecution appealed a sentence has been increased by twelve months to twenty five years in april souls' high court found her guilty of several corruption charges including bribery. now hundreds of young people in chicago are taking part in the annual basketball tournament known as hoops in the hood the event aims to get young people to come together and promote peace in one of the most violent cities in the u.s. john henry went to take a look. this is hoops in the hood it's a basketball tournament but it's also a statement about safe neighborhoods in america's most violent major cities each year about five thousand children participate they get together and with the help of the city they block off streets in violence hotspots across chicago and they play and these are violent streets last year thirty five hundred people were shot and more than six hundred of them kil

thomas al-jazeera. it has been thirty eight years since the end of a national literacy campaign in nicaragua tens of thousands of young people set off to live in rural areas in a bid to teach people how to read and write if it was largely successful but as john heilemann reports it hasn't led to the opportunities many get out. of the hard fighting of the revolution this was nicaragua's new start. they called it the literacy crusade in one nine hundred eighty ninety five thousand people many of them youngsters headed to the country's most i saw. ated regions to help the whole for the population that couldn't read or write it became a national obsession built around uniting rich and poor young and old eighteen year old gabriella trek to the small village of glasgow skeeters she studied for five months and among others francisco them forty she'd never been to school. no one knew how to read it was the saddest thing i remember when she was with us i was so happy and so sad when she left my girls gone i thri

thomas al-jazeera. thailand. as they scour the bottom of the river in bangkok looking for valuables lost travel into the water over the centuries but now their livelihoods are in danger of reports. for nearly fifty of his seventy years has been a treasure hunter since he was a boy he's lived on the child prior river and i spent a great deal of time in its murky water using his homemade equipment to dive for underwater treasure with bangkok skyline looming in the distance he heads up river like he has thousands of times before but it mitts he still gets excited before each dive i'm. being doing this for a long time and i don't think i will quit i will continue to dive until i die i am always away as of the danger because down in the river. and then dress things that might be carried by the karens then hits me. he and the other divers go as deep as twenty metres but with near zero visibility they feel their way around a river bottom as they search for treasure so don has decided to come to this spot for t

thomas reports from langley in assam some believe it is an exercise in nationalism ahead of elections next year. all hassa been nessa knows about her is that her younger sister is ninety seven so she must be older passport she says has her date of birth wrong but she does have an indian passport she is she insists indian. yet when the state government of a sound published a draft national register of citizens or n r c list two weeks ago her name was not on it. it's insulting i was born here my father and my grandfather were born here we are all from here. about thirty three million people in assam four million are not on the register has an unnecessary name is on the list but his wife's name is missing as well as his mother's he thinks the whole list exercise is targeted at muslims only one lord can be described as disasters i mean when you are normal or indian citizen a minute you can be a pretty woman you. ethnically and religiously assam has always been one of india's most diverse states but there's a perception among some of rampant illegal immigration from neighboring bangladesh

thomas al-jazeera baccarat carol. well that's a for this hour but don't go anywhere because elizabeth will be in this chair in just a moment ago to bring you the very latest conference involving as amazon men and got this warning. and nine hundred seventy eight. disappeared after boarding a plane to libya. for over thirteen days his disappearance remained in mystery. but after colonel gadhafi is down phone in two thousand and eleven new evidence came to light. al-jazeera world investigates the case of the vanished in. and out to syria. it was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them. to distant shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp say i'm going to be up at the gallop the government raised our hopes and then abandon us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight

thomas al jazeera man after a lot of. mean miles leader and sang suchi says it's up to bangladesh to repatriate more than seven hundred thousand range of refugees the muslim minority group fled me and miles rakhine state after a military crackdown began last year she says the danger of what she calls terrorism is still real and present she says risks of intercommunal violence will remain unless the security challenge is addressed. the danger of terrorist activities which was initial course a course of events leading to the humanitarian crisis in rakhine remains real and present today and this is security challenges address the risk of intercommunal violence will remain it is a threat that could have grave consequences not just for myanmar but also for other countries in our region and beyond lots more so it's coming our knowledge is there including saturday be added to the afghan president's deed message of sacrifice and charity is interrupted by violence and venezuelans are braving attacks to make their way into neighbor

thomas al-jazeera baccarat carol australia's foreign minister julie bishop has resigned two days after losing her bid to become prime minister bishop secured only a handful of internal party votes during a leadership challenge that toppled malcolm turnbull as prime minister scott morrison was picked to replace him instead australia's change from mrs now eleven times in a decade prompting some to call it the coup capital of the pacific. now whether it's plastic water bottles plastic trays opacic force the material they're made of has become a global problem and while many initiatives are moving towards a path six free environment plastic production is still accelerating because it's cheaper to produce ten to recycle but one major recycling center in the u.s. is trying to keep up. from new york. at this recycling plant business is booming two thirds of all of new york city's plastic waste that's put into recycling bins ends up here where it's meticulously sorted then sold to companies to make it into other plastics to meet skyrocketing global demand in the past twenty years the amount of

thomas al-jazeera call on the u.k. government has released its contingency plan if britain crashes out of the e.u. without a deal the break said minister has warned that companies that they may face a tangle of red tape or delays and costly credit card payments if the government fails sinegal an exit deal with brussels or insley has the details from london. there was a time during the long saga of brics it's when prime minister to resign may used to say maybe it is best to do no deal for britain is better than a bad deal for britain so i said on many occasions that no deal is better than a bad deal by which she meant that falling out of the european union without a trade deal was better than one which didn't reflect the referendum results but now it's becoming clear what no deal might look like and it's giving people the shivers food shortages if fresh produce rots at the border already stockpiling tins is actively being talked about would airports close down heathrow has borrowed a billion dollars to protect itself ag

thomas isn't chang going toward one of the worst affected areas. people in care are described the height of the water not in centimeters. but in relative to the. ankle deep only the waist deep. some walking kilometers to the nearest dry.

cremation marked the end of a new political giant andrew thomas al-jazeera new delhi. rescue workers are still digging through the rubble in genoa after tuesday's bridge collapse at least thirty eight people were killed and hundreds injured the government is now focusing its attention on its aging bridges and tunnels some of which are more than forty years old. or families continue to arrive at the us mexico border seeking a new life in the united states most remain hopeful that they will be able to enter despite the trumpet ministrations hard line policies that have jailed families and separated children from their parents. has more from texas for immigrants just released by the u.s. border patrol the first taste of freedom on american soil is this bus terminal in macallan texas here they enter in neat lines clutching plastic bags containing the first and only belongings of what they hope to be their new lives in the u.s. and the progress that is being philly's thank god i'm here i'm happy because i'm with my family i mean a lot and is doing it with. this man and his

thomas al jazeera man our carol. venezuelans are still trying to cope with president nicolas maduro his new policy is to turn the economy around he's devalue the currency ninety five percent in issued new banknotes venezuela has the world's largest known oil reserves even more than saudi arabia but it also has the world's fastest growing inflation sending the price of goods pirating out of control the international monetary fund says it could reach one million percent this year the current sea has become almost useless falling ninety nine point nine percent against the us dollar oil makes up ninety five percent of the country's exports but low prices and u.s. sanctions have had a major impact the new currency is done little to stop hyperinflation many businesses a close as they try to work out what to charge for goods in many cases what's available is already going up in price. venezuelans have been leaving to seek a better life elsewhere some of them are trying to move to neighboring brazil but as today's a bowl rec

major roads have been clear it's a help can get through andrew thomas has more from a door in carolina. on sunday alone twenty two thousand people were evacuated from there we saw some of those evacuations when trucks can get seen by all and they're bringing large numbers of people out but in other cases there has to be boats but they can't get into trucks they are being brought out slowly on boats and then carried once they reach the dryland. brazil is sending troops to its border with venezuela after hundreds of migrants were run out of town by locals dozens of brazilians attacked to makeshift camps and. where the thousand venezuela's have been living residents say the violence began after several migrants robbed a local shop of a magnitude seven point two earthquake has struck in deletion island of lombok the u.s. geological survey says it was a very shallow depth just hours earlier another six point five magnitude quake triggered landslides on the islands the taliban have promised to free hundreds of prisoners following the afghan government's offer its officers fire president ashr

thomas al-jazeera. carol. this is all just zero these are the top stories pope francis has admitted feeling shame about the catholic church's failure to prevent sexual abuse by members of the clergy in ireland has referred to abuse as repugnant he's trying to reinvigorate catholicism in a country which has seen scandals involving the church over many decades the take that really shocked us all was when he was talking to survivors of a cover up of corruption in rome itself he literally referred to these people as kaka his translator again was kind of shocked and asked the pope to clarify the pope literally that somehow just as i said kaka they are filled to the top. u.s. senator john mccain has died at the age of eighty one the announcement of his death came fewer than forty eight hours after his family said mccain was ending medical efforts to treat his brain cancer john mccain was the two thousand and eight republican party presidential nominee and a distinguished military veteran. peru has imposed a n

sanctions regime will mean here it could hurt andrew thomas al jazeera new delhi. more than one hundred fifty thousand people have been left homeless by the earthquake on the indonesian island of lombok the red cross describes sunday's magnitude seven quake as exceptionally destructive rescuers are struggling to reach those in need at least one hundred thirty people have been killed and that number is expected to rise as search teams reach isolated parts of the island. a photo journalist detained in bangladesh is back in police custody after being given the all clear in a medical examination shadow has accused police of torturing him in jail where he's been held since sunday he was detained hours after doing an interview with al-jazeera about anti-government protests more than a dozen journalists have reportedly been attacked by security forces or government supporters bangladesh's information minister says alarm was not attained for his journalism he has been out of. cones. we are looking into it but our first today. through the court the court ruled he said what