new yorkers are very receptive to al jazeera because it is such an international city they're very interested in that global perspective that al jazeera lives. palestinian unity fattah and hamas agree to set their differences aside and govern gaza together.

alone barbara sara you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program the u.s. has pulled out of the un's culture and education body accusing it of anti israel bias spain's national day marked by a parade of unity in madrid but the mood is more divided in barcelona and free after five years in taliban hands a us canadian couple and their three children are released in pakistan. rival palestinian political movements fatah and hamas have signed a deal to help reconcile their decade long split negotiators from the groups have been in cairo for talks on a deal for a unity government in gaza the palestinian authority will take full administers have control of gaza by december the first that rough a border crossing in gaza will be handed over to the unity government that it will

be operated by the presidential guard of president mahmoud abbas that is shed jeweled for november the first around three thousand police officers from the palestinian authority will be redeployed to gaza as part of the unity agreement which will also see it take over the civil and security sectors what previous a sticking point seven clude had control over the arsenal of how masses armed wing as well as the fate of thousands of hamas as public servants while no detailed information was given on this both sides say all the problems will be sorted out let's get the latest from harry forces now live for us in ramallah in the occupied west bank i mean harry s. falls on the face of it this is obviously a good news at least you know the two palestinian factions coming together after ten years but it is quite worrying that the really is a lot of a lack of detail on a lot of very key issues. that's right we

expected to hear i think more of more of a statement of the precise nature of this agreement some of these details have been coming out in dribs and drabs through the day even we heard from the resistance groups inside how massoud who had a news conference they said they weren't entirely ofay with exactly what the terms of this agreement were however as you set out in the introduction there are some key targets that have been put in place for instance november the first for having full control over the borders under the palestinian authority presidential security guards even there is some potential for problems the rougher crossing is currently undergoing some redevelopment on the egyptian side will it be ready for the palestinian authority security services to to fully take over a number of ember the first will it really happen on the ground it's a real prize for hamas the control of that crossing of course it is part of this agreement also december the first for the unity government will president abbas

himself mahmoud abbas travel to gaza there's there was talk of him going within a month and we've heard from another fire figure saying that that there isn't really a precise time scale yet people saying that if he does go he won't be a visitor he will have to go as the for president of the gaza strip so on the one hand you can look at it as did the head of the fatah don't delegation. in cairo saying that there are these metrics in place there are time scales and targets and that's why this will work along with the egyptian backing where previous agreements didn't work you could also see those as opportunities for mutual trust to be undermined if those targets aren't met if things don't go according to plan on the ground i guess we'll have to see if those targets are met i mean some of them are just a few weeks away but tell me a little bit about reaction in ramallah to this hour what mistake would you say that the people there are because as you've said as we know there have been attempts to reconcile the can the two factions before and they failed.

that's right i mean people here that we've been speaking to over the last few days have been saying that obviously they are in favor of this some people telling us that you know that even psychologically here it's very important for the two sides of this divide to reconcile and to become one palestinian people once again are saying if it fails well we're already at a low anyway with no prospect of a peace deal in the offing how much worse can things get as for the politicians here i mean we were speaking to the head of the central committee the secretary of the central committee of fatah he's saying that we don't want to go there just to provide services and allow hamas to have its militias and allow it to be governing underground while we do the you know the difficult things in terms of addressing the humanitarian crisis in gaza we want a fully unified national consensus not just on the details in the gaza strip but going forward how we address the occupation how we we address the issues of war

and peace and certainly mahmoud abbas made it clear that he didn't want to see a lebanese star situation with hezbollah style separate entity i.e. the military wing of hamas having its own decision making capabilities there has been talk of a tacit agreement perhaps in the works whereby any use of that military wing would have to be subject to a national consensus decision but these are things that that haven't yet been agreed in this deal it's very much a starting point and there are opportunities for it to go right there opportunities for it to go wrong in the coming weeks and months herefore said with the latest there from ramallah in the occupied west bank harry thank you. and we are going to be getting more analysis on that story a little later in the program first let's take a look at this the united states is going to pull out of unesco that's the united nations cultural agency that the situation by the u.s. state department comes into effect at the end of the center washington says the

move comes off the back of what it describes as the need for quote fundamental reform in the organization and continuing anti israel bias where you know a school is headquartered in paris and a corresponding with a butler is live for us now any reaction from unesco itself to this the hush up. close you can imagine is never good news when major organizations like the next case of the mossad unity consensus ends up losing one of its main members united states a founding member of the un's truly seek so it's obviously something that everybody is talking about here that said to the complete surprise of relations between washington and us if the great over the past year has been for you next decision to grant listing in school membership back in twenty eleven now at the time the u.s. decided to cut its funding to unesco we're talking about eighteen million dollars

a year huge amount of money to unesco business today with that decision israel cut its cut its funds soon and the trumpets ministration has been talking about cutting ties with unesco now we have a date is going to be at the end twenty eight teams that say the first time the u.s. has pulled out if you know a school they can get it back in nineteen eighty-four because if you see organizations being out and see anti american pro circuit union and then george bush really into the organization safe and absolutely necessary to end the relationship that said the director general because the spoke a short while ago and she said she deeply regretted. u.s.s. decision. i express my deep regrets. remember what i said in two thousand to eleven already when the united states alone schizo voting rights and suspended payment to the united states method for your next school and

unesco methods for the united states in fact if you go back into history we will see not only that. united states is a founding member of unicycle the whole idea that you can build peace through education science a culture communication. is a secret in the american idea. natasha we just heard there from the current scuse me the rector general of unesco but u.s. of course is right now these days voting for a new one we could hear the results of result of that vote any day now is that likely to happen in pop everything that's happening and the us withdrawing might have an impact on the vote for director general. before we hear the noise around it's extremely busy at the moment because this focus on going this fifty eight member executive in this case is trying to take who they want to

be to be the next director general but it's been a secret ballot so we will take forward our we could go on until to morrow because one candidate has to get thirty days two weeks like become the next director general we have three three countries candidates left in the running the qatari former culture minister a medical quarries one of them and also the french will go to minister. of trade as we lay she's also one of the leading candidates catto fronts tied with egypt in third place now with the winds though they really face some pick challenges us to trying to create put it back on the phone in which we don't see countries putting out new focus settings. we sing them out in the city within the organization that directs general to heal divisions and even be somebody trying to persuade washington to the first sit decision. pulling out. cash about later their

unesco headquarters in paris very busy unesco headquarters and surprisingly in the fashion for the moment thank you. to more analysis now from al-jazeera senior political analyst not one sharon more when we were hearing that from a cache that the u.s. has pulled out of unesco before that in the eighty's it had called funding from unesco much more recently so why now and also there is it matter if the u.s. pulls out of moscow well of course it does i mean at one point it used to be something like one fifth of the unesco budget like the united nations would come from the united states the richest country in the world superpower you know with a with a huge influence around the world and unesco of course serve the american interest as as the secretary general of the u.s. go sad in terms of education in afghanistan libya iraq whatever the united states creates a mess they must who goes out there cleans tries to clean the mess by educating people on for moderation against extremism us on so forth but clearly the american president does not miss a chance to human error his allies because you know in the end of the unesco as

a whole is hosted in paris france make sure that their units go would remain to be a very you know vibrant important educational heritage type organizational so and so forth just like president trump humanists of the germans own a bit of france the french climate change probably next on the iran deal now in the u.s. go this america first doctrine if you will strategy seems to say america first the world last meaning we don't give a damn about the rest of the world you know us work and go do go to hell but in the end of the day the united states owes they must do six hundred million dollars of has to pay and i think they're trying to probably get away with that as well as you know create those false pretenses that they risk goes against israel because they are just cold by the stinney and sights palestinian. for many this is quite

hypocritical let's now go to our main story actually speaking of palestinian sides palestinian territories we're hearing that the two factions fatah and hamas have reconciled in some way as we were here for a very force in ramallah still a lot of details a little bit obscure on on key issues but what has been your sense of this is a step in the right direction but could this really lead to political unity. you know barbara they say. necessity is the mother of all inventions and clearly there's a necessity for both palestinian men factions to reach a deal because both factions have come to a dead end the fact that faction and president are in the diplomatic process with israel in the united states that came to ended and twenty four years after the austral process and hamas has come to a dead end in the gaza strip completely incarcerated completely bankrupt it's just it's administration of gaza's not working its strategy over systems is not working and this whole division among the palestinians is really counterproductive for both

factions and certainly for the rest of the palestinian people so necessity being the mother of all inventions there are really inventing all the right justification for why they're going to make a deal ten years after they want into this conflict in gaza over who rules gaza be that as it may i think what they've done is they agreed on the mechanism of how to move forward that the agreed that they need to come together in a some kind of a national consensus government future elections joint security apparatuses sorts of or so they agree on that mechanism about these things and they signed the first protocol about administer in gaza and the border crossing between gaza and egypt which is apparently a very important question for egypt because it talks about security stability also so forth so certainly this has become a priority will this continue to move forward on a number of another a number of other important issues probably it will i mean they will continue to

sign those particles they would agree on a number of things by the end of this month's next month and maybe in a year if the circumstances allow that and the international quartet meaning the united states russia united nations european union would push for elections there might actually produced it. so there would end the fighting the infighting that would end the killing and the imprisoning and the incitement between fatah and hamas but will that liberate palestine will that create an independent palestinian state will that put an end to the israeli illegal settlements would that with an end to israeli assaults in occupied east jerusalem of course none of that this is just for them to get their house in order in order for them to be one united people with one united program that's the least they can do there's a lot of discussion on this and i know you'll be with us in studio for the next few hours we will talk about it again for the moment and i want to share a thank you now the pakistani army has rescued a family held captive by the haqqani network an armed organization aligned to the

afghan taliban the army says canadian joshua boyle his american wife caitlin coleman and their three children or saved in a tribal district along the pakistan afghanistan border after a tip off by u.s. intelligence agencies they were kidnapped in afghanistan back in two thousand and twelve while they were backpacking well president out of trouble has been talking about the rescue mission and says it shows that pakistan is all knowing requests to do more for regional security and want to thank the pakistani government want to think pakistan they they were very hard on this and i believe they're starting to respect the united states again it's very important i think a lot of countries right now a lot of countries are starting to respect the united states of america once again we hope to see this type of cooperation and teamwork in helping secure the release of remaining hostages and in our future joint counterterrorism operations. well

still to come here on al-jazeera a checkpoint is closed in northern iraq between baghdad and the kurdish regional government intensifies. i'm christian and manhattan where the chinese artist ai wei wei has painted one of the later. coming up i'll tell you which famous new york are you trying to meet. hello central vietnam suffered flooding a couple of days ago and it may not be over it's not obvious from this chart here at the moment it looks like part of coastal shows you'll find vietnam but look what's happening of the philippines now developing tropical depression will bring physical flooding rain to luzon rain to taiwan increasing cloud he would say and

then eventually some rain i think to the coast child maybe his father also shanghai involved in the flow but then will probably move towards a vietnamese coast bringing yet more heavy rain and if not by saturday when does not like it will be by some day then sunday or monday that is the likely direction of travel now you may remember the last few days that the monsoon cloud and some right has been pushing back up again towards that again there's not been much rain from it but there's been a little bit considering that. the monsoon season but as far as that the heaviest has been way about expected to be still up around kolkata and towards carolina but would be between seeing the heaviest downpours there full cost wise the other side of the arabian sea that pushes had something of an influence and it's increased the cloud briefly back to somalia but now it's just a picture of cloud and also a wind. in

the heart of the imus and libyan families put their lives in peril to harvest presume. that it's getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. risking you to believe you know. at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera rival palestinian political movements

fatah and hamas have signed a deal to implement a unity government in gaza which could help reconcile their decade long split the u.s. says it's pulling out of unesco at the end of the year the scribing the cultural agency as needing fundamental reform and having continued the anti israel by us and us president donald trump says the pakistani army is rescue of a north american family held captive by the hakani network shows islamabad is starting to respect america again. spain has celebrated its national day with a massive military show of unity while the pressure remains on catalan the catalan leader the same whether he's the calais or the independence or not military parades flyovers and marches took place in madrid with smaller anti spain demonstrations in barcelona lawrence lee reports now from madrid. if the last fortnight hadn't been dramatic enough the spectacle of national day provided the finishing touch madrid

laid it on thick the whole military display the flags of the regions used as an opportunity to say to the cattle lands just look how united we are nobody wants your independence the crowd of course loyal supporters of king and country. more than a money are here today we celebrate the day of spain which is the day of all spanish people but there's a group of us spaniards who are bent on breaking up our shared country. they should understand you've got to learn you that we belong to one country which is spain and not just a republic which they are pushing for. for the first time in thirty years a national police were invited to rapturous applause. the government said the decision to all of them came after the barcelona attack you know oldest bases of course the same national police which own referendum day tear gassed and fired rubber bullets at spanish citizens in catalonia. six of them are incredibly

provocative it would read wanted to rub the capsule on his nose in that does this is how you do it the first year in barcelona the pro independence faction held its own protest march it was tiny compared to madrid they're on the back foot now the splits in the movement being exploited by the national governments but how they hated the spanish national police being celebrated by madrid's what about us i mean it's shocking as the national police are occupying forces it's as if they sent in the tanks you don't want them here they're not our police force from a government that does not represent us. and as if to demonstrate how divided catalonia remains there was a simple ten years approach spanish wryly the police had to make sure they were at some distance from each other on one occasion they failed and the prospect of them pro-capital and. fate has made it entirely clear what they thought of one another. so much it knows it has the catalan president in

a trap now whichever way he decides on the independence question he risks losing part of his base on this day it felt like the dream was in a triumphant losing. gloriously al-jazeera in madrid. back that has the night accusations that it's planning an imminent attack on the autonomous kurdish region of iraq kurdish authorities closed roads overnight saying that received a warning from the iraqi military of a planned the attack on credit controlled areas. in northern iraq. this is the last kurdish peshmerga checkpoint on the air bill most of the road. the kurdish authorities closed it and another route into nineveh province for a few hours overnight saying they had received messages from the iraqi military that it was planning attacks in kurdish control. pressure is mounting from baghdad on the kurdish regional government ok argy following the recent referendum on secession from iraq many people say they feel punished and afraid they rocky

government is trying to fight the chaos economically wanted to close its land borders they have already closed the international airspace they have cut the federal budget to the k. are cheap it's all coming from a bad government this is not right civilians should not be punished like this the federal government in baghdad denied any responsibility for these messages that the k r g said that it received last night from the iraqi military and shia militia groups saying that they were planning attacks around the oil rich city of kirkuk and north of mosul but the closure of this road last night as a result of those messages shows just how nervous the kurdish regional government is getting a federal court has issued arrest warrants for members of the kurdish regional government electoral commission. like dad says it wants federal control over kayla jeep banks and telephone networks both turkey and iran have held

a joint military operations with the iraqi army close to the k r g international borders and a spokesperson for the turkish president received type earlier one says turkey will eventually take control of its k r g border in coordination with baghdad and teheran the kurdish regional government says baghdad's action amounts to collective punishment this is a clear prove that that is not ready for democracy or for dialogue we from our side we are violence we reject confrontation we are not force collation and we do not want to provoke but but likewise we expect that to respect the will of the people of iraq you prime minister hyderabadi says military confrontation is not the solution. but he says there will be no dialogue with the kayleigh ji until the referendum results are made no and avoid all the ninety two percent of those who voted said yes to eventual kurdish succession the k r g says the kurdish people of

iraq have spoken strafford al-jazeera northern iraq. senate has approved a new amendment to the electoral that will enable the disputed presidential poll to be rerun without opposition leader. now doing a withdrew from the rerun in the hope of triggering a fresh election the government has also banned protests over the measure citing an imminent danger of breach of peace the government says them a stranger is looted and that tactic police stations but the opposition accuses it of clamping down on the same. one of liberia's leading political parties is calling for the announcement of the election results to be delayed citing irregularities in the vote the liberty party said it would consider taking legal action if the national elections commission doesn't act on its demand the party's candidate the child's a bronstein was considered a front runner to replace president ellen johnson sirleaf the ne c.

was originally expected to release preliminary results on thursday discussions are surrounding the ukase exit from the european union are deadlocked over the usual money breaks and negotiator michel back in the air representing the e.u. and david davis for the u.k. have been meeting again in brussels there has been progress on the issues of the irish land the border and the e.u. citizens in britain but there's been no sign of a deal on what bill the u.k. will have to pay to leave the flaw in your don't because you believe there has been no negotiation on the financial settlement we've only had technical discussions useful but technical regarding that specific issue were to deadlock which is very worrying for thousands of businesses everywhere when you are up and also looking for tax payers. chinese artist ai wei wei has installed more than one hundred wire fence exhibits of various sites across new york city the exhibition which is titled

the good fences make good neighbors is aimed at highlighting the plight of refugees and government policies towards immigrants are desirous kristen salumi has more on the outspoken artists latest creation. two people cut through the fence that now blocks the triumphal arch in new york's washington square park a giant work of public art inspired by the global refugee crisis it's called good fences make good neighbors but these fences found in parks and on sidewalks all around new york city have openings one of things i love about the park system in the city is that you never know what you're going to put across so there's always that sense of adventure and exploration and when there's something like this it's very thought provoking and enjoyable i think it's beautiful i think it has a lot of good work that like people can interact with it starts a conversation it's creators the chinese artist ai wei wei lived in the city for twelve years but at first hesitated to take on the commission as

a savior loves so much is not a using for me to do the just. sculpture in the city i have to do sums and to. pay back my respects to my love these days i way way is an international superstar known as much for his political activism as his art but while sculptures like these may be warmly received here in new york they haven't always the light of the authorities back home. i has at times been detained and harassed in his homeland of china this time he's taking aim at the west his gilded cage painted to match trump tower just a few blocks away. time this note the color ins and. divided on the. collar reads religion nationality. which is i think it's

a complete good. going back warts. the message is universal but has a special resonance in a city of immigrants new york city is very open it excepts people from all kinds of backgrounds and i think that was a very profound experience for him so i think he will be values that and he wants to make sure that we think about it in don't take it for granted i's boundaries are fluid meant to provide comfort not divide and circling the community with the masses that all are welcome here christian salumi al jazeera new york more on all our stories on the website al-jazeera the call. and the reminder of our top stories on al-jazeera rival palestinian political movements hamas and fatah have reached of reconciliation deal the move could signal

an end to a decades long divide between the two groups hamas and fatah met in the egyptian capital cairo to agree to formation of a national unity government terry force that has more on the deal there are some key targets that have been put in place for instance november the first to having full control over the borders under the palestinian authority presidential security guards even though there is some potential for problems the rough a crossing is currently undergoing some redevelopment on the egyptian side will it be ready for the palestinian authority security services to to fully take over november the first will it really happen on the ground it's a real prize for hamas the control of that crossing. the united states is going to pull out of unesco that's the united nations cultural agency the decision by the u.s. state department comes into effect at the end of the sender washington says the organization

in is in need of fundamental reform and has continued anti israel bias israel's prime minister says his country is also preparing to withdraw spain has celebrated its national day with a massive military show of unity as pressure builds on the catalan leader to clarify whether he has indeed the cleared independence military parades flyovers and marches took place in madrid with smaller anti spain demonstrations in barcelona. the pakistani army has rescued a family held captive by the haqqani network an armed organization aligned to the afghan taliban the army says they were saved in a tribal district along the pakistan afghanistan border after a tip off by u.s. intelligence agencies president donald trump says the rescue shows pakistan is beginning to respect america again kenya's a senate has approved a new amendment to the electoral law enabling the disputed presidential poll to be rerun without opposition leader. the government has also banned protests over the

measure citing an imminent danger of breach of peace well those are the top stories risking it all bolivia is next and i'll have more news in half an hour see you then .