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Go when the consulate was set on file all the right police in their job and the Security Forces started firing and as if we were burning iraq as a whole the right police fired tear gas canisters intensively on the Security Forces rangers heavily with live bullets. Protesters say iran is exerting too much power in iraq and they want their Iraqi Government to take action to limit it. According to analysts its not just this attack that significant but also the symbolism of where it took place this is the city where the Ayatollah Khomeini used to live its considered to be you know the heart of the shia muslim world and iran thought that it had the population the iraqi shia population on its side in terms of its you know regional policies clearly thats not the case of the this is the 2nd time this month that an iranian consulate in a shiite majority city has been targeted by iraq the demonstrators 3 weeks ago Security Forces killed 4 demonstrators who stormed the consulate in the city of karbala both attacks feed into the wider antigovernment protest movement thats engulfed to iraq since october. By early wednesday violence in the yet another shia majority Southern City dozens killed or wounded in nasiriyah when Security Forces opened fire with live rounds and tear gas to disperse crowds of protesters hours later military announced the troops would be dispatched to southern iraq to restore order antigovernment demonstrations have been raging in iraq since early october with protesters accusing the government of corruption and demanding a complete overhaul of the countrys political system since the unrest began at least 350 people have been killed and thousands wounded. Political analysts say the only way for the government to find a solution is by pushing for reform to talk about what to go into to issue a new electorial role for the best of the people to hold early elections off to be rocky parliament dissolves itself and the government resigns but many protesters say much more needs to be done day after day the demonstrators that we speak with be they in baghdad or other cities tell us they dont feel the government is taking their demands seriously they say that no matter the risk they will continue to come out and press for the rights and opportunities they say they deserve i am a gentleman visitor by that u. S. President donald trump says his government has resumed talks with the Afghan Taliban he made the comments during a surprise visit to afghanistan trump met president ashraf ghani and addressed u. S. Troops at a thanksgiving he said he believed the talk about in afghanistan are open to a cease fire dozens of yemenis have been welcomed back home from jail in saudi arabia as part of a prisoner swap 128 men were flown into such as International Airport aboard red cross planes they were greeted by who think commanders and some family members their release comes amid a new push to end yemens 5 year war. Prodemocracy activists in hong kong are calling on World Leaders to follow the u. S. After president signed a bill supporting human rights in the semi autonomous chinese territory thousands gathered for a rally saying they want to give thanks to the u. S. For their support asian is accused of sinister intentions and has vowed to respond the law allows washington to sanction chinese and hong kong officials guilty of human rights abuses. To stay with us death by design is coming up next thanks so much for watching us in a bit. Im attached to my phone my computer my tablet. Indeed amazes me how in just 20 years theyve completely changed the way i live and communicate. Our devices are sleek and elegant. We store our lives in a beautiful cloud. Led. I started making this film to explore the impact of our digital revolution. And then secrets the industry tried to hide for years began to spill out. Legit legs. Our electronics are made and unmade is dirty and dangerous i love it its a global story of damaged lives environmental destruction and devices that are designed to die. Iloveyou. Elected. In china mess. Industrialization ive put a huge pressure on our ecosystem and on the environment. When it comes to i t. Industry many people think its. Its green or natural its rain or some people think its even think its virtual but in our investigation we find its not like that. This pollution is having different consequences but i think that the impact the biggest impact is on this Public Health we have nearly 300000000 who are residents who dont have access to sufficient saved drinking water. Going to see what they almost see the how to shows you how many. To come to your show you should get them to check. The over there its hard. To just its as if you hold one was invented i guess it was shot then the ultimate. I keep thinking about the moment when i face all those environmental and social damage. River you know which carries all the ways to 2000 lake beside river and place old ladies suddenly down done on their knees in front of me. I know im not the only. One i dont have any sort of government administrative power and dont have much Financial Resources to deal with this but i told myself at that moment in front of those ladies i told myself that. At least i need to bring the message out. I need to make sure that all the users of old as gadgets they need to be informed about this. I moved to this area in 1969 to go to law school because i said i wanted to help people who didnt have the means to represent themselves. It was a time when most people not heard of the semiconductor industry. But within a few years people started seeing the the birth of what has become the you know Global Electronics industry. Top names were companies Hewlett Packard apple intel advanced micro devices. Virtually the whos who of the Electronics Industry. And of course the granddaddy of them all was i. B. M. When i got a card and i. B. M. That was great that was the company to work for at the time i could go any place where he worked i. B. M. I dont need an id you just write a check. It was that easy i. B. M. Had that much clout i was the 1st marker processor buyer for i. B. M. In the early eightys the idea of a personal computer which was was on oxymoron right i mean personal computer what and what would you use it for anyway but it got legs and we started the p. C. Business the 1st year they shipped 50000. 00 units and so we went from a 1000 a week 240008 week and at that point the p. C. Was launched. From almost the very beginning you heard electronics and Semiconductor Production was a clean industry they said it was as clean as a hospital but what they werent telling people was that it was really a chemical handling industry and that the magic of making these microcircuits relied on the use of hundreds if not thousands of very toxic chemicals and thats why they have clean rooms thats why they have money suits to try to protect the chips it was never designed to protect the workers it was always designed to protect the product itself over like that those of a lot of different chemicals they built the disk drives would have to strip them out and then would have to dip im in severe gases and with a sponge and just with armed with severe i didnt know what it was its i just knew it stunk really bad and you couldnt get it on your skin because it would burn you like nobodys business. Well what happened was people started getting sick with very strange kinds of illnesses things that didnt seem to make a lot of sense didnt seem to hang together but increasingly as this happened more and more there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to the Chemical Exposure on the job. One put music on yeah right i want to turn on the music for mom. But some good music on today. Right there. Beside me theres a thing i tried to do the. 1975 i was 18 years old and i started working in the Electronics Field i went to spector physics and they just hired me just like. I was making the end of the laser and i would have to mix up this chemical in i used to call it green go. And get the consistency and then put into a spray gun and i would have to heat that up after a glued on together that was just all the way that i did. Invest in know the material she was using turns out to be probably in the vicinity of 50 percent little excite she didnt know she was exposed to lead in tell her that i got pregnant with mark in 1079 and that was full term my months and were just really happy about it. That he doesnt even know to cross the street and not know a car is coming to stop going to the restroom you know i have to go with him in there so i have to system with everything. Number one or youd better know it if i knew what i know now how to ram out a specter for the acts of the time it was unnecessary it just. Breaks my heart that i could avoid it. Oh were filing this lawsuit against your employer and its a lawsuit for his son who was born with severe Developmental Disabilities and is a suit concealment of systemic chemical poisoning and case of a vet and for the direct injuries to mark. Marks condition isnt like a cold take antibiotics and youre going to be fine in 5 days this is life. Youre. Just overrides all that and you do what you gotta do to stay i still do that. Im sorry getting. But. I discovered i. B. M. Had a corporate mortality. Which they kept for 30 years and it kept track of the causes of death of their choice the most dramatic findings were about cancer for the company as a whole this was 33000. 00 deaths that were in this corporate mortality file so included people who had worked all over the u. S. But then when you look at specific plants like the i. B. M. Plant in san jose there was some extraordinary excess costs of deaths one was brain cancer the other was not hodgkinson fall another was melanoma of the skin and in the women Breast Cancer was 3 and 4 fold higher than expected. That was the heart of this settles a lawsuit. In a santa clara courtroom today the 1st trial out of more than 200. 00 similar lawsuits filed against i. B. M. Former i. B. M. Workers jim bore and a lighter hernandez say they developed cancer from exposure to toxic chemicals at i. B. M. San jose facility in the late seventys to early ninetys i mean literally tried to prevent the results of the tally analysis from ever seeing the light of day in fact they went to the judge and said this cant be used in this case a lot of hernandez is not dead shes going to be in the courtroom and not only was it not relevant the judge said it prejudiced the jury if they saw what these excess costs dusts were and so he denied the use of it in the court many of the brands will respond to questions by saying no one has ever proved to me that a Single Person has died from exposure to these chemicals either within inside their factories or outside of their factories and of discussion but thats not the way that we approach environmental or Occupational Health in the world we are not flying blind here at all especially on the chemicals at issue here in the Electronics Industry actually and most of the common chemical used in all industrial manufacturing weve been at this work for 40 years. If you look at the pub listening generated by i. B. M. You would think that we lost everything and thats simply not going. After the trial i. B. M. Matters were resolved for hundreds of people whose claims to not go to trial. What can you tell us about the settlements. Im not going to be able to talk about any of the resolutions of the cases and i. Can you give any details at all. Did you have to agree not to reveal the details as part of the settlement all i can say is that the matters were resolved thats what im allowed to say. Here in Silicon Valley Chip Companies and the other Electronics Production Companies Used hundreds if not thousands of toxic chemicals and the most of the chemicals once theyre used in making the components needed to be disposed of as waste the companies ended up storing them in underground storage tanks all over the valley. But what the brilliant people who were designing these systems didnt quite think through all the way was that the solvent swer really good at dissolving things and so when you put them into a tank eventually theyre going to eat their way through the tank. Solvent that the Electronics Industry used in production in Silicon Valley in the seventys and eightys are now on in the groundwater and if you think about putting a drop of ink in a bathtub. That spreads really quickly and its really hard to get that dropping back thats what were dealing with except were dealing with multiples of gallons of the stuff that is in the groundwater. In the late 1981 there were over 100 families in one little neighborhood who had Serious Problems and the state Health Department discovered that the families that were drinking the most heavily contaminated water had significantly higher rates of miscarriages and birth defects then did people in other neighborhoods. Well the Chemical Industry will often say if i had not a dime for every time i heard this that even water can kill you the most non toxic thing of course it can but only if you stick your face down in the bathtub or fall into a you know fall into a large body of water so that has the traditional approach to toxicology is that the more stuff youre exposed to the more harm it causes you but what were seeing in particularly around cancer and around hormone disrupting chemicals is that its when youre exposed to at the time of exposure so if youre in 3rd trimester and you get even a perp or 1000000000 or part for truly an exposure it can actually cause significant damage. We formed this Silicon Valley tuxes coalition and we did a summer organizing project getting people to sign petitions asking the e. P. A. Step in with their authority into the Superfund Program yesterday. Yes. Yes. And i went to a meeting in washington and presented these thousands of petitions saying we need e. P. A. To come in its time for e. P. A. To exercise your authority and to everybodys great surprise they agreed to do that. So Hewlett Packard became a superfund site until became a superfund Site National Semiconductor Advanced micro devices i. B. M. You name it they were there and they were all superfund sites. The cost of cleanup for i. B. M. As well as all the other companies has been tremendous its an enormously slow and tedious process. If you look right over here also this is a major residential neighborhood just directly across the street from this industrial site. Most of the People Living here today are unaware of this huge toxic plume. And those same chemicals that are still right under where were standing are now beginning to seep back up out of the groundwater through the soil and theyre actually coming into the offices of these Software Engineers a google. And this is the one that e. P. A. Said might take 300 years to clean up. This is so complicated the devastation is so enormous that were really talking centuries of cleanup not just years or decades. The problem is that it just keeps reoccur. At least when companies started moving away from Silicon Valley to china i think that they were the only too happy to have the government off their backs. The Chinese Government made an offer to multinational corporations that they couldnt refuse. You need a land and you need money and you need government approval and you need lots of people to put it all together well they have all of that in china. Just. One of the primary purposes of outsourcing is to enable Companies Like apple to make what are essentially an reasonable demands on manufacturers that they wouldnt and couldnt make if they actually had to employ the workers directly apple doesnt have to worry about what it means to workers when they insist on a tripling of the pace of i phone production. And sons of those who. Come in the new. All. 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Didnt move from the truth to the injured in the costume. And be turned over the longer one of the 2 ladies. A. T. M. Challenged usher and he later. He told me. Change him. Land. Mass. Killing. 150000000. 00 trees disappear every year into the clothing that we all wear from uk cycling to say that for instance the famous yellow dress fade from blue jeans. To conserving the worlds dwindling wetlands 3 of the aids worlds global bird migration intersect right where we are to basic discovered a treasure trove it is one of the most special that lands on the path. Ecosystems inland it announces the era. Descended on aljazeera as this year comes to an end we look ahead to 2020 and the stories that may shape the year people in power investigates the shocking treatment of disabled people in Eastern Europe scabies an exclusive look at the Worlds Largest conference on h. I. V. 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Ameritrade are not over the top stories on aljazeera at least 33 people are reported to been killed after Security Forces opened fire on antigovernment protests in the Southern City of nasiriya but it was sources say live ammunition and tear gas canisters we used the army earlier dispatched commanders to the provinces with instructions to restore order were also hearing of 11 People Killed and 800 injured in the city of not jeff where protesters set fire to the iranian consulate on wednesday the us President Donald Trump says his government has reviewed talks with the Afghan Taliban and made the comments during a surprise visit to afghanistan trump met president ashraf ghani and addressed u. S. Troops ahead of thanksgiving he said he believed the taliban and afghanistan are open to a ceasefire the taliban wants to make a deal well see if they want to make a deal is going to be a real deal but well see but they want to make a deal and they only want to make you feel good you do a great job that your leaders they want to make of you so i want to thank you and i want to thank the Afghan Soldiers dozens of yemenis have been welcomed back home from a jail in saudi arabia as part of a prisoner swap 128 men were flown in into some as International Airport aboard red cross planes they were greeted by hoofy commanders and some family members their release comes amid a new push to end yemens 5 year war its prodemocracy activists in hong kong are calling on World Leaders to follow the u. S. After president all signed a bill supporting human rights in the semi autonomous chinese territory thousands gathered for a rally saying they want to give thanks to the u. S. For their support beijing is accused of sinister intentions and has vowed to respond. A french president in one year michael has welcomed nature sector general installed in a vote for talks in paris last month my course trying to criticize the organization calling it brain dead comes ahead of the organizations 70th anniversary meeting in london next week. The death toll from tuesdays earthquake in albania has risen to at least 41 people rescue workers are continuing to search for survivors amongst the rubble of collapsed buildings but hopes of finding anyone alive are now facing the magnitude 6. 4 earthquake was the most powerful to hit the country in decades theres a top stories do stay with us death by design continues they still have a news after that. And i hope i will die from the conflict in the fall down season is obviously youngest of our city workers died and 15 others were injured after an explosion at a foxconn factory in training do self was trying to talk to some of them don king but you know you just tell your whole body that all students occurred at around 7 pm in a polishing workshop it appears to have been triggered by an explosion of combustible dust in the duct. No one to be surprised that aluminum dust if its in a high enough concentration and there is an ignition source it will produce explosion and fire this is a hazard which is extremely well known. So the fact that apple suppliers have an explosion in chengdu in the plant means that they have very poor housekeeping very poor production processes thats terrible. Whats completely unacceptable is that 5 months later at another plant within the apple supply chain they had another explosion and fire. Its outrageously inexcusable that they had a 2nd 15 months later. They set up these supply chains exactly the way we want them they monitor these private chains with exacting scrutiny so they know exactly whats going into their products at every point along the way. Here. Or we have a town hall i fix it all began said will show you how this is up with all that happened and stood. So i have an i phone 5 here and im a show you a little bit about whats inside what makes it tick and some of the Design Choices that apple made putting it together to the 1st thing out paul has on the bottom is to proprietary penta loeb screws this is a security screw that apple designed to keep people out of the phone once you get the phone open we can start to see the guts. This isnt really a phone its pretty much a full blown computer that can make your phone last for 8 hours or you need a really big battery. Batteries and phones last about 400 charges every cell phone i have ever had just popped the back off you could pull the battery out swap a new battery and every year or 2 you have to replace the battery apple has decided with the i pod and now the i phone that they dont like that model so what they are doing is building the batteries in the phone and using proprietary screws on their end attempt to limit the lifespan of the phone to about 18 months which is around the time when they have a new phone and they want you to buy a new one anyway. I fix is a company that wants to see everything get fixed so we show people how to fix things and provide the parts tools and guides to enable them to do so helping everyone fix everything so thats the challenge its a big challenge because theres millions of devices out there and luke and i are reluctant capitalists we get excited selling screwdrivers even though thats seems like a boring product because were selling people a capability with able to do something that they wouldnt have otherwise we want to make it simple and easy for me to repair their own stuff. The amount of Raw Materials that go into the products that we use are staggering to over 500. 00 pounds around material go into making in a down self. So heres an example of a Circuit Board in this you waste bin this is out of apple laptop from a few years ago even if you make this Circuit Board in the most environmentally friendly way its still going to use a ton of water a ton of money probably literally a ton of water lots and lots of materials. Books when we know for those of you know. Nothing is different. Electronics industry is close in ways that through this the american manufacturers are. Theyre selling a thing and theyre saying well you have it but you dont really own it. Theres no way were ever going to be a. Ford would never sell you a car were not going to make tires available to keep your car running after 30000 miles you have an entire ecosystem an entire industry thats built on secrecy and were one organization thats trying to pry open the show people whats inside. And weve kind of been conditioned by manufacturers and brands to leave yourself on the outside dont worry about the details we make this product we give it to you and you just use this product when it stops working you go buy a new one. When we originally started my fix it was just a way to provide people with some solution to fix broken devices. And over time weve realized both the manufacturing and the environmental problems are all huge concern. Over the last few years ive been to china on a regular basis a lot of that related to our tool manufacturing. Were looking at getting Circuit Boards manufactured. This is the big Rechargeable Battery and this is the main Circuit Board in here so considering its just a flashlight you can see its surprisingly complex Circuit Board and ive got these basic schematic of the Circuit Board once we decide it will leave them with them and has been. Finding this supplier that is environmentally friendly has good quality and has reasonable pricing all 3 of those at once is probably going to be a challenge. For the next photo. Visiting factories weve found that its surprisingly effective to show up on short notice. In general any factory of its not willing to let you see the factory is an immediate red flag at least for someone that we dont want to do business with. This is the big line. Factory said this is where theyre edging it bringing all these nasty acids and other chemicals in. You got a little bit of acid believe you you can see gilboa acid on the outside of the machine. I walked over to where there were some storage tanks and there was basically acid all over the floor. And the moment i looked over that they told me get back away from here and this isnt giving me a good feeling. As far as making sure everythings done correctly environmentally it doesnt seem like thats a priority for them. And there is no doubt the mouse whoever it is the fact that it was so dear to you is the price you have to pay for the last 30 years of development you. Dont want to buy from them. Would do that was the time to somebody. From all that i hope. I didnt finish the front of me. With gods fiat it sounded. Like 1. 100 or. So since i will be sure so i said no she brings my sins at the time to buy them just source. I said what the idea what thats like a model of model. Im going to do a lot of the document template on so that it. Doesnt you know but fox you know buy new things and. Theres a new thing the woman sitting on went to see these sudden and so when we should. Do it its a traditional hypot. By us but to get dont you think you. Do you see. The bit. That is constantly changing. You know. Its been a lot of time. This is definitely the most professional of the factories visited. The fact that were being taken through this Water Treatment facility is a really promising sign. You start out with incredibly yucky water and it goes through a progressive series of filters and other process and eventually you end up with hopefully acceptably clean water. The coolest thing when the water is coming through the Treatment Facility some of the water comes out and dumps into this thing and they have been here in the factory and i said well i know the Water Treatment is working ok as long as the fish are still alive a little unfortunate for the fish because if something breaks maybe the fish die but its clear to me that this would definitely be the factory to buy from up the one weve visited. From the institute of public and Environmental Affairs module. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen im truly honored and humbled to be the 1st chinese citizen to receive the school award thank you thank you i set up this institute of public. Affairs. And our 1st project. To be a National Water pollution database. Though this records comes from the government sources the public can access the information by click on the locations on the map because people want to know you know who should be held responsible for such a bat what a pollution situation and so far we got some more than 110000 records of violations in our database. In april 2010 we filed letters to 29 i. T. Brands to check with them whether those polluting factories whether they are their suppliers. All of them responded to except of one that is an apple. Apple just give us one statement that is we have a long term policy not to disclose our supply chain. Not to. My june contacted me and we began to Work Together to apply additional pressure to a company with headquarters here in the United States my mission singled out a number of facilities that he believed were in apples flagship that it had a very heavy Environmental Impact in their locality and when he level of those charges apple was shot and is sort of in denial that this type of problem out to this extent could really exist in their supply chain. I think its important to understand that this is not just about apple you know this is about the id industry. They all share a printed Circuit Board manufacturers they all share chip manufacturer is you know despite their audit protocols there is a lot more talk than walk on Environmental Impacts in the supply chain you say to yourself how could they not know about any of these problems but you know its its always you ask and its all you look for so if you are there and you have a checklist of what you need and you need it now and that checklist does not include whats going on at the end of the pipe of your wasteWater Treatment plant its actually conceivable that you know exactly where its being made you just dont know exactly how its being made and what the impact is and thats whats going on not just with apple but with all of these companies. 40 years of operating the Environmental Protection agency in this country these are american based companies hard to believe. We still have this industry which is discharging so much waste not just normal waste Hazardous Waste. In just one supplier it generates more than 100000. 00 tons of Hazardous Waste in one year. How could we dispose stuff you know in a safe way so how much a time bomb this industry is gonna create. In electronics at this moment in time i believe were in the dinosaur age. Were using too many resources too many Raw Materials and the life of a computer is a typically 3 to 4 years. For a Small Company in r. And. A mission is to juice a fair trade computer. In the early days i repaired this component levels on the computers on the one imports. From i noticed that there was huge amount of waste in the computer industry. So we started designing and building a database of graven reusable computers. This is my fathers environmental drill and all my trusty and just you know such and such just. How can you build a computer without plastic how could you build a computer without lead mercury p. V. C. s brominated flame returns and all the other heavy metals. That was our gold the material we use is wood so its technology of 100 years ago but its perfectly good our computers will last 7 to 10 years because home users nontechnical people can repair and replace im never place in the memory you can extend the life of it by upgradability. Today is is there a major launch in europe. Weve lots of say invite sent out to people. We were awarded the worlds 1st european. For integrated Desktop Computers it was the worlds 1st ever achieve some wart i thought time i thought wow the the gates when open with the artist flooded in thought that was not the case maybe a little bit of naive essay on my part its hard out there like Government Agencies some people like that there is no room for environmental they are totally just bottom line. Im looking at it now its one little step at a time the what we need to do is it work harder build more computers and get people to join us. Americans toss out a lot of gadgets every day. If we look at the 3000000. 00 or so tons of electronic waste that gets generated the United States every year probably 15 percent of that gets recycled. And some percent of that gets recycled in a responsible fashion. Part 2 will crumble she says t. V. The good density a movie about all get that idea of the wind. Or. The movie all that you want so more say on the phone by. The end of the woods dont react. To your characters who are in. The green knee or many try to hide your should. Come out dishes those with the. Sun the feet hunting down. Al queda hides a. Shit dont lose your shit good. The lies of pete. So nice which is what she and tommy lee and chintzes to the decimal. So sound happy that he goes hell hide up. To. Those. Have you coons she needs. To. Use a male voice here that has a ph a b. And shield up there. We think ok well send our you ways to china let them burn it let them have the pollution but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe. That pollution is getting lost into the atmosphere and coming right back to us. Metals metal is a metal you know and its theres no other form for it to convert to you can convert it from being in the soil to being in the water to being in the air but you still have a metal. In our work we fly through clouds and we sample the cloud droplets and we measure the chemistry of each one very fast as youre flying through a cloud. Theyre flashing as fast as you can imagine on a screen and we collect all that information and what we get is whats a chemical fingerprint. In california with getting rid of lead in gasoline weve reduced the amount of lead we have and so when lead shows up that is one of the tracers that we say this could be from elsewhere and we can trace it back in time and say you know 4 days ago this air was over asia. And you have more pollution you have more aerosols those go into the cloud and so you have so many they cant get big enough to fall and lead to rain. And its giving you these extremes of either not enough water in some places and way too much water in other places. What happens if we push it too far. Well start to see more of these extreme events things like flooding and hurricanes. These are what people often refer to as tipping points and not so thats what were very concerned about happening. My attachment to my devices is more complicated now. Its hard to get excited about the next new model or upgrade knowing what they really cost to make. The industry in its constant search for cheaper workers and land is moving on to new countries with few government safeguards or inspections. We all have a share in this problem. But we can use our voices and our buying power to demand real labor safety and greater Environmental Protections. The digital revolution has improved our lives in so many ways. We need to make sure it doesnt rob us of our health and our planet. H. I. V. Aids is still a major killer and african nations are struggling with the highest infection rates thousands of experts will meet in rwanda to Exchange Ideas and work out how to come from one of the worlds most Serious Health challenges special coverage on aljazeera. Hello there we have a few. Eventually into the southeast of australia victoria tells mania and New South Wales you can see the cloud gathering across the west by friday we could see just wanted to show. Its a warm friday in sydney at 29 degrees celsius not really much rain in the forecast though that day 29. And then today just a little bit milder 30 degrees celsius cloud but generally staying further to the what we could see on saturday. To eastern sections of New South Wales 27 in sydney we have to hope that the winds as they were with the previous storm. Damaged that we had across the towards new zealand friday here as well 900. 00. 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And this is the hours of their news hour live from london coming up iraqs military boosts its response to mass protests while in the south dozens are killed as Security Forces opened fire on demonstrators. The u. S. President makes a surprise visit to afghanistan where he says talks have resumed with the taliban. Welcomed home but dozens of yemenis returned to some not