the inside story. >> now at its new time. weeknights, 11:30 eastern. on al jazeera america. >> diplomatic efforts ramp up to find an end to the conflict in eastern ukraine. >> we'll be live in paris. >> isil attacks villages in northeastern jair and kidnap dozens of christians. >> leaked cables reveal behind the scenes dealings between the u.s. israel and the palestinian authority that they'd never admit to in public. >> greece hands its much anticipated reform plan to its

lenders. we're in athens to find out if the proposals go far enough. >> first to the crisis in eastern ukraine and diplomatic efforts to stop the violence. le foreign ministers from russia ukraine germany and france are meeting in paris to discuss a shaky ceasefire deal signed more than a week ago. all four parties are asking for an increased monitoring presence and want all side to say withdraw heavy weapons. we'll have more on the talks in paris when we speak to our correspondent, peter sharp in just a few minutes. >> meanwhile france's foreign ministry confirmed a french national has been kidnapped by armed men in yemen's capitol sanna. the identified woman was reportedly working for an international organization. her car was intercepted while on

her way to work. the gunmen took her to an unknown location. >> the president of yemen adou rabbo mansour hadi has told all staff working in aidan to return to their homes in the north. he's withdrawn his resignation at president, trying to build a power base in the south after escaping house arrest by houthi rebels in the capitol sanna. we have more from aid june just a few days after arrival to aden president hadi has made it clear to his supporters and to the outside world withdrawing his resignation officially. he has asked minister to say come to aden, but many are being prevented or most of them by the houthis. one of them tried to drive to aden yesterday, who was arrested by the houthis 100 kilometers south and sent to the capitol. in the face of this situation

hadi is waiting to see if they can make it here, otherwise he will probably appoint a provisional government here in aden and at the same time, president hadi is meeting with top security advisors, and making some security arrangements in the presidential compound to make sure no disruption happens. those arrangements consist of sending back all the staff members who long to the sector back home because some might be in fill traded in those presidential compounds some might be loyal to the former president or oh the houthis. hadi received signs of support from the outside world from the regional powers, announcing their support and rally behind him. those are positive signs for him. some of the diplomatic missions in sanna might be thinking of

shift to go aden. that's more signs of hadi probably being successful in his efforts to make a fresh start and rule yemen from aden. >> human rights group in syria said islamic state of iraq and the levant kidnapped people from christian villages in the countries northeast. we have more. >> according to the syrian observatory for human rights, 90 christians from the ancient syrian christian minority were kidnapped in northeastern syria. they come come from two villages which are close to a town under kurdish control. we understand that early on tuesday morning isil fighters launched raised and attacks. clashes broke out with the kurdish-syrian fighters there and as a result, the kidnappings

happen. these kidnappings coincide with the major push by syrian kurdish fighters in northeastern syria and close to the border with iraq that ever compounded heavy losses for isil and kicked them out of areas that they had once controlled. as well, these kidnappings are believed to be in retaliation for these attacks by kurdish grooms and to take revenge of what the kurdish groups were able to do by pushing out isil by basically kidnapping a large number of people who belonged to a minority in syria that kurdish fighters are protecting. these kidnappings come just over a week after isil and libya issued a graphic video showing the executions of 21 christian egyptians and until now the fate of these dozens of christian syrians remains unknown. >> news of another kidnapping in

afghanistan, afghan officials say armed gunmen of foreign or inkidnapped people from the ethnic community in southern afghanistan. they were taken on monday afternoon. >> a bomb exploded in northeast nigeria. police say 12 people have been killed and 35 wounded. this happened at a crowded bus station. it's the second attack there in the last few days. a girl thought to be as young as seven blew herself up sunday, killing seven. let's get more from the nigeria capitol. what more are you hearing about this attack today? the death toll seems to be rising. >> that's right. information about the death toll just came into to us, 12 dead, 35 injured and 12, including the suicide attacker, still varying accounts about what happened. one eyewitness tells us that it

was a suicide attack, meaning an individual apparently board add bus and the bus exploded and people were therefore killed. another eyewitness has a slightly different story. they talk about seeing a di series of some kind in a bag nearby the bus which then went off. not clear whether the perpetrator escaped in this version of events. it's a remote area, very difficult to get accurate information. the authorities in the area, meaning the military, the police and the national emergency management authority are not giving anymore details about what they think happened, safe to say that of course there have been casualties, quite a number of people injured. it comes as you were saying just a couple of days after the same area was hit by a suicide attack on sunday. >> what does this all say about the security situation? there is nigeria military presence in this area. why do we keep seeing these attacks happening?

>> well it really dependency who you ask. when you talk to the authorities, i mean the government and the security services, they say this is all part of the war on terrorism in nigeria, that even though they're battling boko haram there will be incidents like this that boko haram have not been completely eliminated but are winning the war ultimately. in the last week or so, every other day almost, they announce publicly the recapture of various towns in the northeast that were under the control of boko haram. when you talk to victims when you talk to people who are in the option, they say this is inaccurate in the sense that the authorities, they say are paying to protect lives and property, that what we're seeing now in terms of the step-up in security and the step-up in the recapturing of the towns is all too little, too late.

there's gross incompetence on the part of the security services, and events like this just not should be happening. it really dependency who your, but overall was it's very upsetting for the nigerian people, coming just a few weeks before elections are being held and people are worried. people are still on edge about insecurity in the region. >> thank you so much. >> al jazeera's investigative unit has been given leaked documents which show how the united states put pressure on the palestinian leadership over its bid for u.n. membership. it was around the same time that the c.i.a. was trying to establish contact with hamas despite an official ban. as one of our series of spy cables, we have an exclusive report. >> the spy cable show us just how the u.s., israel and the palestinian authority play political games with each other.

>> the general conference has thus voted to admit palestine as member of unesco. >> the state of palestinian was given full membership in 2011 and its president abbas has sought wider u.n. recognition since. the cables illustrate how the americans and israelis fight that policy to the highest levels. one cable reveals a secret phone call from the white house to the palestinian authority leader. president obama threatened president abbas if he went ahead to the u.n. bid. just as the u.s. was pressuring the palestinian authority it now emerging they were seeking to establish contact with hamas a group it consider as terrorist organization. a secret cable reveals a c.i.a. operative in east jerusalem asked his south african counterpart to put them in touch. the south african writes that the c.i.a. seems desperate to

make in roads in hamas and gaza. he said south africa would benefit in that we would establish collective priorities and they would know what the c.i.a. is up to. meanwhile in 2009, south africa's spy chief gets a direct phone call. he's shocked at the protocol and orders his staff to verify the number. prominent south african jurist richard gold stone led a report and crucially the report said israel committed numerous war crimes. the palestinian authority leader was said to privately support the israeli position and wants south africa to vote it down. according to mossad's top man.

the cable reveal how they are privately forming clandestine alliances they would never admit to in public. >> one of the claims in the spy cable has been denied that president abbas with the help of israel tried to persuade africa not to approve the report. take a listen. >> i'm not aware of this, understand i am surprised. i don't think that president abbas employed or needed israeli lobby evident its particularly this type of lobbying at all. >> we heard from a senior hamas

official. he says that never happened. >> i am surprised to hear such news because i think until now we don't have official communication with the c.i.a. or united states administration. i can say that in the last four or five years, we met a lot of americans, some of them, they are from the academic sector, some of them state that they are very close to the united states administration, but until now we didn't hear that someone say he is coming officially from c.i.a. or from united states or from official department of united states. >> we'll bring you new top secret spy cables at 18:00g.m.t. here. you can read the original spy cables related articles and analysis on our exclusive website at

aljazeera.com/spycables. tell us what you think on twitter with the hash tag spy cables. >> still ahead australia's government plans a report into the treatment of children in its detention centers. >> find out why new rules for european farmers could put the fair trade movement in the developing world at risk.

>> today on "the stream". >> how one man's inability to read drove him to become one of the country's biggest crack dealers, and the consequences, on "the stream". >> "the stream". today, 12:30 eastern. on al jazeera america. >> welcome back. our top stories on al jazeera. an explosion at a crowded bus station in northeastern nigeria killed at least 12 people.

35 were wounded. this is the second attack in the town in three days. >> the syrian observatory for human rights said isil kidnapped 90 people from christian villages in the northeast. the area is near the scene of heavy fighting between kurdish fighters and isil. >> foreign ministers from ukraine, france and russia as well as germany have met in paris, calling for a strict implementation of the ceasefire and urge both sides to withdraw heavy weapons from the front line. for more on that meeting in paris, let's go live to peter sharp. tell us more about what they said after this meeting today. >> the meeting lasted about three hours and broke up about half an hour ago. so far, we have heard from the french foreign minister. he was unhappy i think about the way the ceasefire had been

handled. he said that the o.s.c.e., organization for security and cooperation in europe had 30 members on the ground trying to monitor this ceasefire simply wasn't enough. they're not big enough and they haven't got enough reinforcements and backing. all four parties at the talks reaffirmed that. they called on the pro-russian separatists to allow the o.s.c. in to monitor in the conflict zone. i mean, really, we saw from the start of the ceasefire when it was brought into effect on the 15th from day one, they were given no access to anything on the ground. it's impossible for them to monitor the situation. what came out of this meeting is a commitment from all side to say boost the numbers of the o.s.c.e. on the ground and give them the reinforcements they so obviously need. >> thank you very much.

peter sharp in paris for us. >> the european commission welcomed a list of reformses submitted by greece. if approved, greece will receive more bailout money to pay its debt. the country needs $8 billion for immediate repayment. the old agreement has austerity on greece, the new allows reforms. they must be approved by international lenders and put forward to national governments. we have more from athens. >> the leftwing government in athens has had to sign on to a lot of the measures that have been promised by previous governments and which it had hoped to simply interrupt, to not sign on to. those include more strict enforcement of value added tax on retail sales and also the consolidation of pension funds and much stricter cross

referencing of all the benefits that it claimed by pensers through the social security system. all of these measures had been mentioned in emails back and forth. the government has managed to incorporate very prominently in this memorandum what it has been saying it wants to achieve in the next few months as part of its own governing agenda and prominently among those features are for example strengthening the independence of the taxing authority so that it is free from political interference, no matter who is in power create ago more impressive tax scale so that more of the tax burden is transferred to the better off and more of the let's say lower wage earners and the middle class of relieved of tax pressure which has proven too great for them to handle during the years of austerity.

>> to the maldives, the former penalty say he is mistreated by security forces and denied access to his lawyer. he has been arrested on terror charges over the arrest of a judge. there were dramatic scenes as he went to face court. >> this is the former president of maldives. the first democratically elected head of state. he said his arm was hurt as police dragged him into court. he was pleading to be allowed to walk in by himself. he was denied bail and access to his lawyer, who said the case is politically motivated. >> we say that this case is politically motivated because like i mentioned earlier every step through administrative action through today, they have not been able to register some

of us and some of the lawyers working in the case as lawyers able to represent him in the criminal court. >> the charges relate to the arrest in 2012 of a criminal court judge for alleged corruption. the party accused him of becoming too powerful. his arrest and violent protests then saw him stepping down. now he says he was forced to resign and security forces colluded with opposition parties to mount a coup against him. he lost the election in 2013 to the brother of the former president. critics accuse him of being too autocratic. government leaders say they will never buck toll international pressure and the judiciary will continue to operate independently. relations with china have been improving recently. >> we urge all concerned to calm

the situation and resolve their differences within the constitutional and legal framework of maldives. >> back in the capitol mali, the democratic party doesn't expect a fair trial accusing government leaders of trumped up charges of terrorism to influence the results of the trial. the islands are best known for being a tranquil destination. >> indonesia's president says the execution of 11 drug traffickers on death row won't be delayed. his comments cob side with an indonesian judge rejecting an appeal by two australian against their executions. he warned fortune countries not to interfere with the capitol punishment laws. >> australia's government has criticized a scathing report on conditions faced by chirp held

in immigration detention centers. the country's human rights commission found children faced rampant abuse and were left traumatized by their experiences. >> he now lives in sydney and is studying to be an accountant but before he was given a visa as a refugee, australia's government held him in a year in detention centers. he was 14 years old and alone, but he came to australia by boat. he coped in detention, he says but saw other children who didn't. >> i saw kids who are cutting with pens. it's not something that i can forget. we are damaging those kids. we are damaging mentally and we are damaging physically. >> his experience is similar to

many detailed and human rights reports on immigrant children detained by australia's government. >> our findings are deeply shocking. we found that all the medical evidence confirmed that detention causes and compounds mental health disorders amongst children. >> more than a third of children detained require psychiatric support. there are allegations of sexual abuse against children. many have self-harmed. >> on tuesday, officials from australia's immigration department confirmed a 16 year old girl in detention threw herself off a building last week. >> this is a shocking report. only australia automatically locks up immigrant children. serious damage is being done to those it does, but shocking, too, has been the government's reaction to the report. this, it says is a travesty. >> more children were in detention under the previous government than the current one. the report, the prime minister says, should acknowledge the

government success in stopping refugees from coming to australia in the first place. >> this inquiry is a political stitch-up. it's a political stitch-up and it will be called out by members of this government. >> i totally reject any suggestion that this report is a politicized exercise. the facts, frankly, speak for themselves and this report speaks for itself. >> australia's policy towards refugees is deeply political. elections have been won and lost on the issue. children, though, are among those who feel its consequences. al jazeera, sydney. >> in lockdown, new cases of ebola emerge. the national center will be under quarantine for 21 days. six cases were discovered there last

week. >> the damage to the forest is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. >> the fair trade movement has been hailed for lifting huge numbers of farmers out of poverty, but new e.u. rules to protect european farmers could put livelihoods of many producers in the developing word at risk. >> if you could take the idea of triumph over adversity and bottle it, thissed be it, olive oil produced by palestinian farmers under occupation in the west bank, who's trees are under constant threat of israeli settlement expansion. the organized which made this trade possible is organizing with the farmers who grew the trees. fair trade opened huge markets as well as being a mark of

palestinian nationhood. >> the fact that our products are palestinian oil exported to 24 countries around the world is a sign that we exist as a land. >> it has doubled at least the market for palestinian product. at least it's made it also while we were operating in an area where it was basically preaching to the converted who wanted to support palestinian farmers. now it's gone out to people who now buy it based on its excellent quality. >> as much as fair trade has been proven to work, it now appears millions of farmers who produce sugar contain across asia and the caribbean are at huge risk by the policies of the european union. the long term downturn in the euro zone led europe to lift trade quotas to protect european farmers at the expense of these people. fair trade said it's a complete

double standard. >> it smacks of contempt for the value of farming, the value and importance of farming to communities and it's completely hypocritical. this will make people poorer around the world. that's not in anyone's interest. >> some say it proofs how flimsy the west is for pulling people out of poverty. >> we need to put farmers first and put farmers back in control of their food systems. >> the whole point of the fair trade model is to put power back in the hands of people who grow food for western consumers. europeans like this when their countries can afford it, but in hard financial times it seems those ideals may not apply and in the end many farmers left powerless. >> officials for football's governing body recommended that the 2022 world cup in qatar

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