in the next episode of science in a golden age exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of chemistry they transformed the superstition of alchemy into the science of chemistry. many of his coming of those which may still be used today. science in a golden age with professor jim miller at this time on al-jazeera. hello i'm don jordan doha with a quick reminder of the top stories here al-jazeera a meeting of the arab league in cairo has descended into a shouting match as ministers of the four states blockading the gulf nation that insults the u.s. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt all cut diplomatic ties with qatar one hundred days ago. meanwhile president trumper spoken to the crown prince of the united arab

emirates in an effort to resolve the ongoing dispute. he's a professor of conflict resolution at george mason university he says the meeting in cairo should have been a platform for diplomacy but it wasn't. this is a reminder of what the reality of the arab league has been for the last two decades we all remember the famous exchange between the saudi king. and lately we. also will remember the heated exchange with the syrian leader geisha in cairo so the arab public is wondering once again where what are we doing with our conflict when they. should be addressed this claim before and number two i think the cairo made it also provided the platform for certain nations to solidify the counterterrorism narrative and.

accusations against. radical called terrorist organizations so on the one hand we have an issue with the muslim brotherhood the strategy of the egyptians and all the nations. who would the smoove moment in terms of where we should stand on that we saw in in a nutshell it was a platform for an diplomate dick diplomacy. leader and sang suchi has canceled a visit to the u.n. general assembly later this month she's been widely criticized for failing to condemn violence against range of muslims in rakhine state at least three hundred seventy thousand rangers have escaped in nearby bangladesh front slowly as more from younger. it took a nearly two weeks before she made any public comments on the matter and even then she said this was a longstanding. problem that dated back to pre-colonial times and she asked for the

world's patience in allowing her government to deal with the matter and then she finally relented a day later and she said yes myanmar has a duty to protect everyone in this country but she made no direct reference to they were fleeing in large numbers to bangladesh fifty five people are now confirmed dead in the united states and across the caribbean from hurricane wilma it's now we can to a tropical depression and continues to cause havoc with torrential rain and flooding in the u.s. . french president the man you're mark rohr surveying the damage on st maartin eleven people died on the caribbean island which is split between the netherlands and france micros promising to boost security as people rebuild that's really a priority and what we're focusing all our efforts on is returning the island to normal life or as normal as possible in terms of public older we have massively deployed police military police and soldiers which will come from list region and

from france and from ghana. boost the number of security and military personnel by two thousand and that number will rise to three thousand by the end of the week north korea has rejected the latest round of u.n. sanctions and is threatening painful consequences for the united states the measures aimed at reigning in pyongyang's nuclear program include restrictions on fuel supplies and a ban on textile exports president donald trump is warning of stronger action in the future the lower house of the philippine congress has approved an annual budget of just twenty dollars for the national human rights commission its twenty seventeen budget was nearly fifteen million dollars the right body has repeatedly criticized president regurgitate his violent crackdown on drug crimes. and the dominican republic has invited delegates of venezuela's government and opposition to see if they can resume talks to end the political crisis around one hundred thirty people have died in anti-government protests since april demonstrators blame president maduro for high inflation and

a shortage of basic goods well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after trafficking that's what. antiquities trafficking is one of the most profitable illegal trades in the world estimated to be worth several billion dollars a year it ranks off to illegal arms and drugs precious objects plundered or discovered in clandestine excavations find their way onto the official market into museums and galleries. the main victims of the pillage nations are now demanding the return of their stolen treasures for a long time these demands board ignored.

blood systematic ransacking of heritage sites meticulously staged by the islamic state of iraq and the levant isis has caused a global outcry and has reopened the debate with changing public opinion efforts to halt the trafficking have gained a new urgency but are nations prepared to act from berlin to beijing from rome to the syrian border an investigation into trafficking that's at the heart of an economic cultural and diplomatic war. paris february two thousand and nine crowds flocked to the ground poly to admire

the treasures contained in the private collection of eve sun the home and pierre ballsy one of the most prestigious in the world a few days later these precious works were to be auctioned off by christie's. dozens of masterpieces would be changing hands including these two eighteenth century bronze heads a rat and a rabbit which had once been housed in the imperial palace in beijing their sale sparked an uproar in china. was. but the present owner who doesn't agree to that issue has given you credit it is there is there. own mark showing the shake anything away and wonders of your book would be to pray for

a cone that laid it actually. except that these heads were stolen back in the nineteenth century it was an eight hundred sixty june the second opium war when french and british troops plundered the forbidden city and ransacked the summer palace. still today the destruction and faffed are a deep scar for the chinese people. beyond their aesthetic value the bronze heads are considered as priceless items of chinese heritage. should p.r. bags in their former return. we see our kids are in a way to raise only by due to the federico do it as she knew our surveys it be it it every day is a dick. if you are right so you guys are as big. as your heart for

that is your fate which probably publicly. took on the issue. there he had to go on the boulevard to do sex. it was. it. was. very. soon you. knew. the two heads finally went for a combined price of twenty eight million euros the conclusive bids came from

a chinese businessman who asked to remain anonymous but five days after the sale the mysterious bio revealed his identity at a press conference in beijing and his announcement was more than unexpected. ways is that in a city that's already been what. does it look on what it is here in atlanta. as the buyer refused to pay for the objects pillage from his country the big was cancelled and the two bronzes were returned to p.r. budget. in china people continue to demand the restitution a demand which took on political dimensions beijing viewed it as a way to exercise a national humiliation but also to confirm its newfound international clout the two bronzes in the sun the home begs

a collection had become symbols of the plundering of their country by the west for christie's it was urgent to come things down with the chinese in twenty thirty the owner of christie's full swap you know himself sent emissaries to directly negotiate the purchase of the bronzes with. were to be agreed we could see. their care from france where pino. there. she is for was. officially francois have been no returned the heads to beijing out of friendship for the people of china but that wasn't all a few weeks after the return of the bronzes in the presence of the french businessman the chinese government finally gave christie's permission to operate in the country and exchange as described it.

the much publicized case of the summer palace bronzes is far from unique more and more pillaged countries are demanding the return of their cultural assets the trophies of the renowned museums of the western world. pillaged countries have a legal tool to negotiate for the return of their stolen treasures the nine hundred seventy unesco convention signed in june the era of de colonization imposes on all nations to return objects obtained illegally. in recent years the pressure on renowned museums has a. intensified. the pergamon museum the most visited i'm ballin is obliged to know the origins of its collections. you start to understand that what you have here is not just archaeological object but it's part

of the cultural heritage of the region or of these countries and at that point you realize you're talking about a political dimension or a cultural political dimension as a director i cannot say i don't know when somebody asked me how did your collection actually come into being so my responsibility as director of this museum is to know everything about the objects. well the key documents in this file the ones that tell us basically that it was ok to take up the objects and this we have to do for everything and i'm considering that we have roughly five hundred thousand objects you know that this is a huge task ahead for us something that has to be done over decades really five hundred thousand objects all in here so that's an ongoing process that will take until i'm retiring but the important thing is somebody is doing it every day

because you have to have a lot of i was to his work. going to close on the. bush said you know. the piece by example in just. a. designer. all the friends you see here have been pretty good. and we would be acquiring stuff and the program on stopped acquiring in the one nine hundred thirty s. forty years before the signing of the unesco convention which isn't retroactive this is. so the museum's collection is seemingly protected from demands for restitution but that's not the opinion in turkey especially in the city of gazi on tap young these are guys and if they should use me i can find committed or told of a live for so often only their enemies are. you know seeing me i think nameless and

i don't have walked at all and i don't at all my given ever sat down on that was a question i was the man i should when there was a debate the internet and i was. yes and i shan't do you and i never meet and then say and then i said enemies many people and if if from this is now you know that i've had. this black list includes objects on show in the british museum in london but also in the pentagon in berlin although they were all acquired before nine hundred seventy turkey still wants them back. it's not a question of museums anymore because it's a request of the state of turkey. they also are in the process of overcoming. colonial attitudes towards cultural heritage and in this process they have started to realize that. countries in the west have not

always been upfront about their practices of acquiring collections begin to do yeah savation. given busy i'm. busy i'm no gunson shante can and can't and then. the ritual is set. and i made. sure that in this they are musing in. the pillagers happened over a century ago but turkey isn't ready to forget. like china and italy turkey has made the restitution of its treasures a political priority. within its culture ministry the turkish government has set up a special restitution unit. forty or so lawsuits have already been won

resulting in the return of over four thousand objects. one of the special units successes is the restitution of this music of orpheus stolen in the nine hundred fifty s. then purchased by the dallas museum of art after several years of legal wrangling the museum was obliged to return it. while village nations like turkey have a legal framework to demand reparations this isn't the case in the private sector where only the market rules. in this antique shop window how many artifacts have a perfectly established origin in many cases it's practically impossible to verify . does the private antiquities

market have its own rules immune to international legislation you know asco had attempted to extend its nine hundred seventy convention to better control private transactions a new convention adopted in one thousand nine hundred five the unit the convention on stolen or illegally exported cultural objects obliges sellers to prove the legal origin of an artifact it also obliges buyers to demand proof but although the original unesco convention is recognized by one hundred thirteen nations only thirty seven party states have committed to the united wired convention. so the market is winning thriving with its own often shady rules chadian as

embodied by the freeport system one of the main thoroughfares of art market trafficking. the best known are here in geneva but the exist throughout the world free ports were originally special economic zones which stocked in transit merchandise to reduce or avoid customs duties are dealers were soon renting space in these huge warehouses to discreetly store artifacts by allowing people to store all kinds of objects without the slightest control free ports have long been considered as a hub of antiquities trafficking it's estimated there are over a million works deposited here more than twice the number contained in the movie. this swiss establishment guarantees its clients one hundred percent confidentiality its high security site is protected from theft but also from prying eyes artifacts

can be stored safely here for years simple as up a problem on the. left you know can also i know of. no i mean join would you like to find a not understood it was in zones should one image with one on source fish out when you're at access on a t.v. i would order to keep the tax. no taxation and appealing advantage for our dealers while the works remain inside of freeport they can be sold and bought without being subjected to any kind of tax customs duties are only paid once when a work definitively leaves the freeport a perfectly legal tax haven right in the heart of us.

these facilities explain why the gallery phoenix keeps most of its merchandise in free ports and the showcases only a small part of the collection is displayed the gallery belongs to tom one of the biggest antiquities dealers in the world. in twenty ten customs discovered an alley tons warehouse in the freeport of geneva this is second century roman sarcophagus since then it has been the center of a complex legal battle. the stock of. tools will awful no online logic to prevent thank our love on do i live on this on the on it off and off on doctor to find us of hope to be put on their own music. so to saturday and don't. know jane i'll come problem.

first i said proposition the don't assume she miss you want you i think the director do say that i just don't know. will perform a shop will add me read of get this used extraordinaire in p.s. the get don't get always the large i met count down to. earth going there next year cities used to get an exam play a good new don't say i'm a modest shock silliman are they more. often than not they're learned the calculus pretty near zero lead you cannot as your phony palomar shown sitting success on the course that the president asked for don't know haven't. really had many and depend on the year the. mariana kids who are out there here yes just the most ridiculous who belong on get heated this is soccer first elapse of the documentation please understand see levity the question more in the clear goodness.

faced with doubts over the object origin the sale was finally cancelled as the so called because it was probably looted in turkey swiss authorities decided to allow ankara let your idea for me do cool let your key sit there. but said you will poison you i did it was a zero jerky man who thought they did agree. to set this exposed as short as the food called the steam percent last year to put it in for it so it doesn't keep as to the tumble blues don't. all around way are on a lot of the story of it with a document i live only the longer to the club they are allowed one or both on the. except that after being restored in london the so called for because didn't return

to geneva until two thousand and nine so the turkish lawyer heading the case believes it comes under the new swiss law which demands every approachable origins for all works of art imported after two thousand and five in september two thousand and fifteen swiss justice finally ordered the repatriation of the second office to turkey but ali abu tom continues to claim ownership based on a certificate delivered by the company art loss register all for years that if you get a positive early. because of us buyers it adds to the glare is that if you get our last netters you don't go board is a really really classic may see both. down. you are getting new or. is sucky sucky sucky due to a for me. what is an art loss register certificate the precious open

sesame of the art market a document which states that an object wasn't stolen. founded in london twenty five years ago as a private information service with over four hundred thousand listed objects art loss register owns the largest database of stolen artifacts in the world for a fee any buyer or seller can ask art loss register to verify that a piece is not listed on its database. these registrations these. could also be registrations from a museum just in case items ever started on the register them on the database just in case they show off for sale somewhere else the most obvious examples are the surface from the national museum of iraq. in two thousand and three twenty thousand full. and what was amazing is they were very careful and you can tell it was well

planned because they went into the basement once they started and everything and they destroyed all the documentation for the objects so that people would know what had been stolen unfortunately the major objects have been recorded elsewhere. yeah you can say actually they're different words that we've entered just to help bring that up so here they were. they were put. braided have something like that and. in the case of the baghdad museum an inventor really existed so stolen objects could be captured on to the database but in war zones very few museums keep precise inventor his and there's no way that objects discovered during illegal digs will ever be listed obviously that's incredibly difficult when you're looking at looted archaeological material that has been looted out of the ground it was taken out of the ground and potentially the only

people that even know of its existence of the people who dug it out. and yet this certificate is widely used on the antiquities market as is the case for ali abu tom's sarcophagus. i wish i had a clue powers. i would say. it's we've always been very clear about what our certificates are for and they state very clearly that an item is not in our database and it's not been registered with us but that not every theft or loss or looting event is registered with us so it's not complete. the art loss register certificate nonetheless remains the main document supplied by a seller to prove his or her good faith a precious certificate which can multiply the price of an object by ten but why is

this service provided by a private company and not by a public body at least on a european level changes in national laws you go across an interesting nation state in the make it very difficult to resolve issues relating to stolen art in particular because suddenly limitation periods change principles of acquiring good title change is something that people take advantage of to get around the system. from the icy mountain steps of known goliad to the flooded lowlands of south

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general assembly later this month she's been widely criticized for failing to condemn violence against range of muslims in iraq and state at least three hundred seventy thousand rangers have a scaped in nearby bangladesh frontally has more from young on. it took her nearly two weeks before she made any public comments on the matter and even then she said this was a longstanding problem that dated back to pre-colonial times and she asked for the world's patience in allowing her government to deal with the matter and then she finally relented a day later and she said yes myanmar has a duty to protect everyone in this country but she made no direct reference to. fleeing in large numbers to bangladesh fifty five people are now confirmed dead in the united states and across the caribbean from hurricane it's now weakened to a tropical depression and continues to cause havoc with torrential rain and flooding in the united states you know french president emanuel mark royce

surveying the damage on st maarten eleven people died on the caribbean island which is split between the netherlands and france promising to boost security as people rebuild north korea's rejected the latest round of u.n. sanctions and is threatening painful consequences for the u.s. the measures aimed at reigning in pyongyang's nuclear program include restrictions on field supplies and a ban on textile exports president trump is warning of stronger action in the future the lower house of the philippine congress has approved an annual budget of just twenty dollars for the national human rights commission its twenty seventeen budget was nearly fifteen million dollars the right body has repeatedly criticized president to territories violent crackdown on drug crime thousands of people have been killed by the police over the past year and the dominican republic has invited delegates from venezuela's government and opposition to see if they can resume talks to end the political crisis around a hundred thirty people have died in anti-government protests and say pearl demonstrators blame president maduro for high inflation and a shortage of basic goods but those are the headlines the news continues here on

al-jazeera after trafficking so that subject by philip.

and. with the absence of common legislation and with skyrocketing prices trafficking has taken on industrial proportions. that it might be in. there i mean it was very very good but there is an indictment that this bill is even though they don't meet their look it up but they. come and join us and repeat their story to us a lot of the semester the second that out of second at the argument and in the race at the bus if you know if you're generality and if you don't know is that the teacher just. got to go in there. today is have direct access to the market all they need to do is post their object

online where it can be sold anonymously in recent years the number of websites selling archaeological artifacts has increased our hundredfold on one of them we found this clay nail probably from iraq officially this type of object has been banned from sale since two thousand and four but on these platforms no one cares about origin export licenses or legal documents it's the final stage of what has become global trafficking. believed to be the third highest illegal trade in the world antiquities trafficking was rarely in the public eye and. yes it has gone unnoticed for years but footage of destruction by the islamic state of iraq and the levant isis has caused a major international commotion. on any i being here oh me me me

me me me let the. moon. the music it did tweet music. live music was so dizzy did this wish on you hike you. say and save i'm not a super thought about i gather. eon street buy me a classic a sit on me if i can talk a present of the. good the tweet. produced song battle in the city limits you know dancing i don't going to come i said petition that c'mon they're demented he said hugh. the state's destruction by eisel hides another reality much harder to measure mass looting.

since its founding has been suspected of part financing its activities through antiquities trafficking. poor. since now and again i guess what i should not stay. in created and that's to secure in the through so nandan executed it is like yes i thought. this was a key subject at a press conference to present the new red list published by i called the international council of museums for fifteen years i come has been publishing lists of rare objects from various countries which threatened to turn up on the international art market this time it concerned antiquities from iraq and syria suspected of financing eisel operations as proof that the subject is being taken

seriously several international figures attended the meeting including richard stengel representing the us government who would launch the offensive mr we just don't go and essentially has to. be department. also why. are you going to. evening i'm delighted to be here. what we've seen over the last year is i saw as weaponization of information and the cultural destruction that they are practicing is the weaponization culture so this is a destruction of history and destruction of culture and the destruction of human beings thousands of human beings at the risk of being too graphic. i would say that the buying or selling i mean artifact is where finances the beheadings of muslims

in the middle east. that's one quick solution thank you. know by now salim is a very good slogan it's obviously impossible to completely police it and to be certain about it. one of the things that we've seen is that isolates using existing criminal markets that have existed over ten twenty thirty years in the region are using those people as middlemen to finance their operations. but how do we know what exactly is going on in the field absa the association for the protection of syrian archaeology has been recording cases of plundering in syria the association based in strasbourg and founded in twenty eleven at the outbreak of the country's civil war is headed by syrian archaeologist. according to

information gathered by absa eisel isn't the only armed group plundering sites in syria all the actors in the conflict are to blame. really military. will act here in mass military talks here young. man year. more active. an example. this is the. city in many of the many p.s.u. . asiri. what's the extent of this trafficking and how do the local networks that supply it operate to find the answers you need to go into the field

most makes regular visits to turkey. to meet other members of his association. early in the war his correspondence could easily cross the turkish syrian border but turkey recently closed entry into its territory. because the same year the stock of. the c.e.o. but they are. not the sessions on the piece they did that you. push it up to the cover. we see you. got to get a kitty don't use it on the whole case for the increase every year but you know his lawsuit was the best able to come up it will only to find. it easy but little more to mitt romney that it takes let me know so little to do that they said let me ask

you. and i limited as i need to one moment most new vanished joint program here is repeated on your people be any possible did not know me. sick it can't have it in this world i don't why do you speak. nobody. should have been meant for levy you didn't get stoned on those you prove also why he personally am if not to respond it's there you are going to continue to contact . b.s. guy it will go to others or more you know

a lot of it but. not so long ago it was still possible to cross the border and large quantities of merchandise alive here in gaza and ten sixty kilometers from the syrian border. according to several sources this turkish city is a hub for the trafficking of objects plundered by eisel. answering. doesn't have is full of antiquity stores in one window check most spots what he thinks artefacts smuggled in from syria. before.

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the. sikkim keep on i'll buy it if you can actually i'm. if you can be chic they could actually. stand the thought that the sun don't. count on the lead the. yeah the caustic on their heritage like you're not supposed to. say. it's normal group possible to publicly sell all purchase an archaeological object without legal documented proof of origin. the pressure on private collectors has

increased. any of their acquisitions can be examined at any time. soon. as they were. reporters who. were going on when you said is that when you don't have your walking with us perceivably much more he is a pretty good question you. know you are in the gallery and sources say forty killing everybody loses its legality. i really question the clues each year and took my two kids like you don't know me a place go to school going to see if they move knowing me into the p.s. room sumanda p.s.u. fwiw i think it was just a tree and what i thought that it nor. there. some

don't say on excepting of course in the. scheme you are. off for a school they will forces you to get you fired. and somebody creating their own is a sense of power so i'm sure i'll survive this because when you come i'm waiting on . the funding the talk all but it was our. last to do. since he will probably go on his offer. with ripple global rules and he will see the day i saw his across one when i was uplifted divorcing it in a new regressed moment when yalit in the sure. order for fuel or me a gal or the little girl it was. after an eight hour search the customs

officers seized one hundred and twenty three pieces archaeologists have estimated the value of the collection at ninety five thousand euros the collector will be questioned further the customs offices is facing three years in jail. she got it took it as the shuttle is ok. if you were there if you. know it. they would be calling you what if you had not said it but. suppose you. and. they got in the shop. as european dealers and collectors are subjected to a growing number of controls they now represent only a small part of the international antiquities market far behind the chinese a new category of collector has appeared every year in europe they flock to special

. actions led me to spend fortunes to buy back their national heritage. a spending spree that has seen prices skyrocket here i'll guarantee. that you don't care i care very good. on ah i see. there's a month assume the. whole event don't want the taliban for. me puppet to wear certain subjects so you'll be impressed when i these examples. but you're venting the knee. along with the whole thing can only look like usual place hold on i mean your meals are so mean to me you know. yes he's still in you but he wants you know. that's right barry i'll head back to

where you're coming up afternoon on a jet sheen that's it i know you don't got voice even though i've got a young. fella so much rather a elated don't pee on me you saw her softer august second felt it it did. such a good to do or not but i could put that question right on about him. some place i'm not don't tell and this only present doctor don't. want to proceed. but that silly pop where dad said they didn't know shit deferred revenue so so happy again. the reason bernard gomez is sure he'll find a nato's prepared to buy this chinese steel is because wealthy chinese buyers are willing to invest fortunes in highly symbolic assets. these assets include a good number of plundered national treasures objects with

a high financial and ideological value purchases are driven by a strong patrie arctic feeling and encouraged by the state. your hundreds. of feet down toward and the crazy. life and shit down obama will be when the one with him well to go draw away your hard yards hanging surety you. this is barbara leaves that those who wish to become cultured should invest in safeguarding national heritage she has even founded an association which aims to repatriate historical masterpieces through any means. so much. pressure you didn't feed how shitty means that this is your father said

that he could see him truly that john fit how you show that. the government is regularly visits mrs barnes home at headquarters to collect the funds necessary for buying back plundered chinese works that are sold in europe i am a foreigner working in china since long time i understood that when there isn't a question of really. there is no beyond of china's but only one voice it's a national really it belongs to our national and everybody sings the same things you know is very different than our country's. german soldiers. did. but hear what you're there to hear don't have to do it or.

perish or coming out the twenty the only just two were shot and. what the sound and the band are told are so much. so so quiet so gentle so jennifer usher she go well we are there for it ha ha. said saw that. she had gathered. the message got across in the west to plundered artifacts must be returned to china otherwise sooner or later you will be held accountable former president of the french union of antique dealers christiane did you personally paid the price in the late one nine hundred ninety s. he bought a collection of chinese gold plates the for selling part of it to french businessmen is wrong swapping know for one million euros later the two men donated the plates to the queen mainly newseum in paris. one of the most welcome again yearly pleas

from me a few years after their donation the chinese announced that the plates had been looted and beijing demanded the repatriation in two thousand and seven the first lawsuit was filed but not pursued eighteen years on did he receive a phone call from the french culture ministry is old you. see your huge lizard g.d.p. you knew no. don't see it if i see you don't also son you prove i knew later don't as you me for this and that you'll be doing it. but only real non-lawyer qantas is usually more secure than as you know she is she ok. so christian did cancelled his donation to the green a museum and flew to china to return the plates to the authorities the other generous patron of the arts françois pino would return his plates in person to the

chinese ambassador in paris a month before the official visit to beijing by french foreign minister fabulous a model for cultural diplomacy. is i set emperor hakan uneek. dar. or me me needs to proceed on you know as they are dani baggage but you have a claim as you all were demanded of a whole called. civil a campaign but all. the dead he says so give him your film it is yours as if it was a little less all fed little johnny the buzz you had cray you had to deal guess your.

bargaining that has taken on a new dimension. and. parity is now being used for political leverage as a bargaining chip and between states. the status of antiquities has changed once thought of as part of the heritage of all mankind cultural assets are now being held hostage by armed groups and used by states for narrow nationalism of political and economic agenda as. action is needed by imposing tougher rules recognized by all through international organizations a cultural heritage may regain its true place in our societies. with

. hello there we've got a few bits of cloud of the drifting their way across the northern parts of iran at the moment showing up on the satellite picture here just edging their way eastwards maybe giving one or two showers nothing more than that still the temperatures in toronto can to around thirty two degrees on wednesday before the south is far hotter than that still in kuwait it's been very very hot for the past few months forty seven degrees the maximum there on wednesday no real change for us even as we head through thursday before the south is not that hot here in doha and that's because it is more humid and the winds are likely to pick up a little bit over the next few days so feeling even stickier if anything looking at around forty or forty one degrees further south where with a bit more cloud around the coast of should see a little bit of drizzle at times twenty eight degrees will be our maximum down to

the southern parts of africa and here there's a bit of cloud in the southwest in parts of our map that's ensuring cape town's not too hot will only get to wear around sixteen degrees that sixty one in fahrenheit all men's day and no huge change really as we head through thursday maybe you're just a degree or so high but what you will notice with a bit more sunshine it should feel a little bit warmer towards the east a little bit more in the way of cloud around when that will make things a little bit cooler than they might be twenty one degrees the maximum for us but in the sunshine antananarivo will get to twenty eight. i just want to make sure all of our audience is on the same page where they're online and want to produce to us citizens here and what puts people of iraq point one in the same or if you join us on say i was never put a file been looked at differently because i'm dacogen all the people that i'm a lot this is a dialogue tweet us with hostile a.j.

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