Yes a lot of uncertainty there weve been talking to people in goma who are trying to cross to the other side of the border town. And border town of the seine and theyre saying that they have been turned back whove also been talking to one resident on the other side of the boat and us into not being allowed to cross into gold mine appears that the border has been closed but then its important to note that weve not hired a new word from the. From the round of forest tees with the statement from the presidency of the democratic republic of congo and it says that if this is true to unilaterally this is a decision that was made unilaterally and the congolese authorities deplore this decision which runs counter to w. H. O. Recommendations not to close borders we are also seeing media reports from both countries that the border is closed but again very important. No word yet from london authorities catherine thank you very much for that for now thats Catherine Sawyer with the latest live in nairobi thank you. Still ahead on the button why the u. S. Central bank has cut its main entrance straight for the 1st time in a decade. And 6 months after it was at the center of a deadly attack by alshabaab functions a kenyan hotel we are. And i was flooded yesterday in Northern England as the very unseasonal low this wall of cloud here went through now this is a total and frontal system from it along not there will be yet more rain i dont think would be any flooding necessarily but you can see that that is part of the joined up system within which is quite cold and 60 degrees in moscow about 7 or 8 degrees below normal now the rest of this chart pushing all of europe is more or less where it should be hard twentys low thirtys occasional big shows on the big issues i think were going to be on that frontal system that run down through germany through austria to rumania the winds to large in the north sea but its coming down the British Isles however towards denmark or even the low countries when will be in theres a pool are running your overnight now so the picture on friday has produced yet more showers now in northern italy Southern Alps the austrian alps and down through the northern balkans as well with a fair scattering of whats potentially thunderstorms in this part of europe from germany eastwards its fine to the west in france spain and portugal the sun is the predominant feature the wind direction was to temperatures along north coast of africa although you see cloud coming if you look at the direction it is coming from the side so you think certainly tunisia is now feeling pretty hot. Sponsor. I have been looking at your Instagram Account and reading the atmosphere behind the scenes this is a dialogue when donald trump announce his candidacy for president. Everyone has a boyce. Chance for democrats to be. Inspirational charismatic join the global conversation on your thoughts get twitter. On down to 0. Its good to have you with us on aljazeera these are our top stories there are reports of casualties after 2 separate attacks on Security Forces in yemens port city of aden the 1st explosion hit a Police Station but the fighters say they attacked a military camp using an armed drug and and a Ballistic Missile while. Irans president has denounced u. S. Sanctions on the countrys top diplomat as childish washington says foreign minister mohammad job and zarif is promoting what it calls the reckless agenda of irans Supreme Leader and a 3rd a boulder case has been diagnosed in the city of goma in the democratic republic of congo a one Year Old Girl tested positive on wednesday the same day that her father died from the virus. Now the frontrunner in the race to be the democratic partys nominee to challenge donald trump has had a tough night former Vice President joe biden faced attacks from 9 other president ial hopefuls during the 2nd night of debates john hendren reports from detroit. The front runner spot was joe bidens to lose any plan to win or go down fighting in debate one comolli harris attacked biden got a boost in the polls. On the way in to debate to easy minutes later on question one he has sailed her plan for publicly funded health care the senators had several plans for you cant be president trying with double talk on this plan we are now paying 3 bill a trillion dollars a year for health care in america over the next 10 years its probably going to be 6 trillion dollars we must then inside detroits fox theater came an avalanche of counterattacks on immigration it looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasnt on criminal justice because you stood up and used that tough on crime phony rhetoric that got a lot of people liked it but destroyed communities like mine and on Climate ChangeWashington State governor jay inslee called bidens plan in adequate his disagreement with his response with me it did. When he said. Theres no working this out this is our last chance in the next presidency we had to move our house on fire were going to put it out. Had a target on his back it was hit again and again by his critics. Back over the next few days the polls will determine whether those repeated attacks left a lasting mark to win against president democrats who have to win in states like michigan which won in 2016 Detroiter Mario Mauro has some advice come here often work hard make sure they connect with the voters make sure there is some type of connection with issues. Just black issues black folks like everybody else want to talk about those issues that are going to be successful in the future student loan. In his Closing Remarks biden bungled his own fund raising from number he meant to see checks joe to 30330 instead he said go to joe 30334 and help me in this fight the repeated attacks that apparently rattled the leading candidate john hendren detroit. Now u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o has met his chinese counterpart meeting of Southeast AsianForeign Ministers and bangkok the 2 are believed to have discussed issues including trade and security on peo is also meeting with members to reassure them of washingtons commitment to the region as a visit to bangkok as the 1st stop in a week long trip that will also include australia and micronesia. China as preventing a many of its citizens from traveling to taiwan the decision to stop issuing travel permits will affect people from 47 mainland cities which one of you is taiwan as a breakaway province and tensions between beijing and taipei have been rising in recent months when haye has more from shanghai. In the 1st half of this year more than 600000. 00 people from china visited taiwan so this decision will certainly have an Economic Impact and that seems to be the motivation behind it to apply pressure on the government in taiwan led by president sighing when who very much opposes the one china principle we have the election 2 coming up in january next year and theres no doubt that the government in china would prefer to see a more pro beijing person in office in taipei the decision also comes after some fairly provocative events recently we had the latest arms sale announced by the United States to taiwan worth more than 2000000000. 00 that certainly angered beijing there was a visit also by president sighing when to some caribbean nation some of the few countries that still have diplomatic relations with taiwan on her way there and back she stopped off in the United States words which also angered the government in china and the government in taiwan is also offered to provide sanctuary to protesters in hong kong who have been rallying against their own government and also increasing influence from beijing. That u. S. Central bank has cut its main Interest Rate for the 1st time and 11 years in an effort to boost spending the head of the Federal Reserve says hes concerned about the Global Economic slowdown and the trade war between the u. S. And china she had bhutanese has more from washington d. C. The chairman of Federal Reserve cited 3 main factors for the rate the weakening Global Economic outlook the weakening outlook for u. S. Trade around the world as a result we conflation in the United States his argument seems to be look the u. S. Economic indicators are humming along why dont we just give them a little bit of a boost with this quarter percent rate cut he denied any political pressure but we do know the dog has been pushing for a rate cuts from. If i had larger than this one that is because clearly dont trust once the economy to keep on expanding into the 2020 Economic Cycle drone pilot 1st saying that he didnt see this is a long succession of rate cuts but then he clarified that suggested that there may be more rate cuts to come perhaps all job will get him more rate cuts simply because of his Economic Policy the uncertainty over trade as a result of his trade wars and trade rhetoric but also the Economic Policy that prioritized enormous cuts for the wealthy and corporations and not Sustainable Investments into the u. S. Economy itself so he he may yet get his his rate cuts but he wont so much. The Israeli Army Says its killed a palestinian man who crossed the garza fence to shoot at soldiers the military says 3 of that soldiers were injured its also reporting that it targeted a nearby hamas military post during the incident. Now turkeys defense minister says his country will set up a socalled safe side and Northern Syria where the without the u. S. And nato allies will resume talks in an effort to reach an agreement but as they know how the reports from gaza and southeastern turkey divisions between them randi. More soldiers arrived at already heavily fortified positions the show of force coinciding with turkey repeatedly warning it might carry out a possible cross border operation its military wants a safe zone inside the y. P. G. Controlled area in northeast syria it considers the Syrian Kurdish armed group a threat to its National Security but it is also an ally of the United States which has warned turkey against taking any unilateral military action we know that there are officially 2500. 00 u. S. Soldiers and nearly 220. 00 u. S. Military facilities in the region so in case of a military operation there is a risk that. Not all militaries come face to face there has been a marked increase in u. S. Army patrols close to the border with turkey in what seems to be a message to its nato ally they have deep disagreements this fight months of discussions over the creation of the zone turkey does not just want to wipe e. G. To disarm and withdraw from the border area it wants control of the zone thats at least 30 kilometers deep and would stretch from the syrian town of gerard loss to the iraq border that would include why peachey controlled cities and towns like oh bani commission. As well as members. Turkey says the u. S. Needs to end its support to the y. P. G. Which it considers an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party or the p. K. Kate it is also not satisfied with the buffer Zone Solutions proposed by the United States those proposals reportedly involve a zone with a depth of 10 kilometers that excludes the main Population Centers along the border. Right e. G. Supporters have held protests against a possible turkish takeover saying theyll only accept an internationally enforced zone in turkey and the Syrian Opposition say areas under y p g control are historically hours and a proposed zone means millions of refugees can return to syria. Turkey dependent. Or russia so i. Say that it is hard to make a prediction about. Steps. Cooperation with russia has allowed turkey to clear the white b. G. From at least 2000 square kilometers along its border since 2016 but russia doesnt seem to want turkey to increase its influence in syria it says any safe zone needs the consent of the authorities in damascus for now it is under u. S. Control but if u. S. Policy shifts how long that will remain the case is unclear jennifer there. Now a hotel has reopened and kenyas capital 6 small this after an al shabaab attack 4 gunmen and a suicide bomb a stronger and killing 21 people welcome webb has the story from. The d. C. D. To hotel in kenyas capital nairobi wants the world to know its open for business once again and. It was a different picture 6 months ago gunmen from the somali Armed Group Alshabaab attacked it says it wants kenyas army to leave neighboring somalia. One of them detonated a suicide bomb i just saw Something Like that got like a gas explosion tracy 10. 00 so it always was something i saw like an explosion from here so i saw a hind that i dont know whether it was a hand or it was a leg for you down there so she hid inside the hair salon where she worked into police came but since that day i have feel like even to do when i came in i just shed tears because they act like i so how could risky get me into such an emotional moment for me. But the message of the Hotel Management and politicians is defiant. This. Is. Not what we. Visitors coming to see. Soldiers and Police Arrived about half an hour of the attacks starting they swept through the buildings they rescued hundreds of People Killed the remaining attackers and the whole thing was over in less than 24 hours the security agencies with phones with scene is much more effective than in previous attacks. When i sent gunmen to the westgate Shopping Mall 6 years ago the attack blasted hours but Security Forces besieged it for days shops were looted by soldiers dozens died. The bloodiest attack in kenya by alshabaab was a university in 2015 nearly 150 students were killed repeated requests for security at the campus had been ignored. The attacks began when kenyas army entered somalia 8 years ago along with its allies who controls the major cities a terrorist group could be degraded their military power could be diminished as been consistently done in somalia but that does not mean that the they cannot mount attacks inside somalia in kenya and other places to carry out attacks to announce the read of. The. Movie back up on its feet the security is now tighter here. Kenyas conflict with is far from over. Malcolm webb aljazeera nairobi kenya. Russias president has all of the military to help fight wildfires in siberia nearly 30000 square kilometers of it affected a state of emergency has been declared and 5 regions some fires are common and russia botch temperatures in siberia and now about 10 degrees celsius above average and the fires have spread further than usual and a fire and an explosion at a texas or refining has injured at least 37. 00 people it happened at an exxon mobil plant a houston the company says most of the engine suffered minor burns the cause of the blast is being investigated. Hello again im Elizabeth Ron im in doha with the headlines on aljazeera there are reports of casualties after 2 separate attacks on Security Forces and yemens port city of aden the 1st explosion hit a Police Station while what the fighters say they attacked a military camp using an armed drone and a Ballistic Missile. Irans president has dismissed u. S. Sanctions on its top diplomat as childish the americans say foreign minister mohamad jobs of relief is promoting what it calls the reckless agenda of irans Supreme Leader. Has more from tehran weve heard from the foreign minister again this morning he tweeted the following saying that we know that calling for dialogue and peace is an existential threat to the bt and since reason for deserting me is my words would u. S. Persons need a c. License to engage with me by reading my. Writings or listening to the interviews this is the Foreign Ministers reaction saying that really he has absolutely no interest in what the United States is saying their reason behind his resignation the sanctions on him is really something that he said is irrelevant to him he has absolutely no assets in the United States even though he was irans permanent member to the United Nations from 2002 to 2007 a 3rd of all a case has been dog learns to the city of goma in the democratic republic of congo a one Year Old Girl tested positive on wednesday the same day that her father died from the virus. The frontrunner of the race to be the democratic partys nominee to challenge donald trump has had a tough night former Vice President joe biden faced attacks from 9 other president ial hopefuls during the 2nd round of debates and detroit biden was challenged on a range of policy issues from health care to immigration. 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