arms an archaeology graduate from iraq he's also a part time going to billings pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in babylon most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several berlin museums taking part in the project called a meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasize the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture of peace and language here building because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life is part of life it's culture. the united states strongly backs lebanon's independence and wants other countries against using lebanon in a larger proxy fight in the region. now

that i'm dealing with all this is the al jazeera live from london also coming up new pictures emerged showing the squalid conditions amana silent where refugees and i living without fresh water food a power. we are not going to let the united states speak taking advantage of any more tough talk from u.s. president donald trump to the apec leaders meeting in vietnam plus. only ten minutes away by boat from jakarta and these villages here are drowning because of the effect of global warming i'm stuck fast and reporting from because in west java . welcome to the program good to have your company the u.s. and france have intervened in lebanon as political crisis calling for stability in the country. saying they backed prime minister saad hariri and we announced he was

stepping down while and we had earlier this month claiming and so few wins from iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah there are fears seize being held in the society capital against his will but his office denies them that's going to add to our state department correspondent particle hayden hi there patty so we have the strong statement now from rick's hyllus and what has he been saying it really is a very strongly worded statement that just was released by the state department secretary of state rex tillerson putting out this paper statement basically saying that the u.s. respects the sovereignty and the independence of lebanon its government its political institutions went on to say that parties within and outside need to respect the independence and the integrity of both the government and the armed forces and then it went on a little bit further to say that love and on should not be used as a proxy war between other countries obviously trying to send a message to saudi arabia that whatever its next moves are the state department

will fight against it obviously when saudi arabia ordered all of their people out of lebanon it raised a lot of alarm bells here in washington so it is definitely the secretary of state sending a message to the saudi government now the big question always is does the president agree and patty is this statement going to be seen as kind of a reprimand if you like for saudi arabia. i think that's really the only way that you can read it now here's the big question second donald trump president donald trump put out a tweet saying that he basically backed the crown prince mohammed bin solomon in his moves to arrest all of those princes and four and former ministers so he knows what he's doing so the big question was is that basically a car blash green light to do whatever they wanted to do next obviously the trump administration the president particularly has signaled that he wants to see saudi arabia take

a more aggressive stance against iran now the big question is now that the secretary of state has reiterated what seen as more of an establishment a war typical response from the u.s. government is the president going to back him in this we've seen in the past when saudi arabia took steps exact for example against qatar with the blockade the president came out was all for it only to have the secretary of state say wait a minute we're not ok with this stop it the president then basically threw him under the bus and then there was apparently a big row with in the white house and since then we've seen president donald trump take a much more measured tone so are we going to see a repeat of that well the president should be tweeting any time so we'll see. him there live from washington d.c. patty thanks. well the leader of hezbollah hassan nasrallah is accusing riyadh of holding lebanon's prime minister against his will and forcing him to resign his position he also said saudi leaders who are ging israel to attack lebanon and then can thailand and certainly the the resignation was a sight

a decision the prime minister saad hariri was dictated and obliged and the resignation was not his well nor desire nor decision i think all the lebanese politicians journalists agree with this conclusion that the announcement was done and saudi arabia why was the man not allowed to go back to lebanon ten once this resignation from lebanon this is another question mark even the written text always a lebanese we know the literature between ourselves and we know the words that hariri used to declare this text was not a lebanese this text was written by citee and the literature is saadi is in a has more now from beirut. sadil how did he is our political opponent but he is also our prime minister those are the words of the secretary general of hezbollah hassan nasrallah he gave a very conciliatory speech he avoided political escalation in fact he didn't touch upon the political differences between the rival camps in lebanon instead he called

for unity he said that to the lebanese should be aware that there are attempts by saudi arabia to ignite the internal strife and that the lebanese should stay away from the streets he's not the only one actually warning of the possible consequences as a result of the latest political crisis all of lebanese leaders from across the political spectrum have been calling for the need to be mature and the need not to be dragged into some sort of a conflict there's also a lot of concern about the whereabouts of the prime minister saddle how d.d. who resigned and it was a sudden resignation last saturday there are concerns about his well being hezbollah adding its voice believing that saudi arabia is holding the the resigned prime minister against his will the president has been holding contacts with arab and western western diplomats in lebanon to find out more information and subtle how do these old political party the future movement suggesting and implying that saddam had he does not have the freedom of movement but at the same time his

political party saying that he must return to the country to maintain the internal balance and this is really key because levanon system is a sectarian the power sharing system and the office of the prime minister is held by a son a muslim and saddle he is seen as the leader of the sunni community and many in the senate community today will tell you you know what has happened really hurts us at marginal marginalized us even further if what they're trying to do is to confront hezbollah and to confront it's its influence and iran's influence in lebanon what has happened is that the sunny community is being marginalized even further so dangerous times in lebanon it looks like it's going to be a prolonged political crisis and there isn't much information really on if and when he will be able to return to lebanon. the un has called honestly and papa new guinea to show restraint as

a deadline to clear them out of silent refugee detention center the new guinea has said it will forcibly remove an arrest anyone who's still there on saturday the power of water been turned off but hundreds of men remain barricaded inside reports . protesters and milburn and human rights activists want global leaders to pressure australia's government to move refugees and the menace island prison camp to the mainland activists are concerned over deteriorating conditions at the camp and pop on new guinea even for somebody who knows the situation intimately. i was utterly shocked at what i saw human rights activist and attorney shannara on a sunny was part of the team that filmed the footage inside the camp she says conditions are worsening every day since australia cut off power water and food supplies you know it was an air of devastation and decay. it was oppressively hot there was no water in the camp paypal were drinking running water from top

gathered from the rain and they were storing that water in rubbish bins the sewage system is blocked flushing waste capacity anymore the camp is home to hundreds of refugees from war ravaged places including me and maher afghanistan and iraq asylum seekers had hoped to reach australia but did up on mount a silent for the past four years australia paid pub or new guinea to house refugees australia's immigration minister says refugees are to blame for the conditions they're living in trashed the accommodation and as was pointed out there's new accommodation purpose built but i've been for a couple of years people have known for months that this indite was coming up and really the conditions that we see in the photographs today i don't resemble at all the conditions in which people have been living over a long period of time those remaining in the prison camp say they are afraid and

are threatened by madness island residents they say they would rather shelter inside the closed prison than rely on pub when you get the military and police to protect them my fear. in this extent. to relocate. a little girl in the. force and the o.p.'s force i know a woman we will all. know this is the problem activists say australia needs to put politics aside and immediately resolve the six trim humanitarian emergency paltrow durgin on al-jazeera. donald trump's appearances dominated a meeting on economic cooperation in the asia pacific region with a strong message the u.s. won't accept trade deals that require it to surrender its sovereignty china's president xi jinping meanwhile told the some of the economic globalization is

a process that can be reversed way he has more now from in vietnam. often the most memorable event at an apec summit is the leader's photo opportunity at the garland dinner of this year's traditional costume chosen by the host vietnam was fairly low key that was in contrast to the days earlier events that included a speech by u.s. president donald trump he went straight on the offensive seeming to attack china's trade policies without specifically mentioning china they engaged in product dumping subsidized goods currency manipulation and predatory industrial powers they ignored their rules to gain advantage over those who followed the rules causing enormous distortions incomers and threatening the foundations of international trade itself trump has vowed to correct some of the trade deficits the united states has built up particularly in asia but the america

first policy then he campaigned on ahead of last year's election is seen as protectionist it runs counter to the multilateral globalist approach of most other apec nations including china. president xi jinping spoke soon after trump and painted china as a champion of globalization. openness brings progress while seclusion leaves one behind we. know this too well from our own development experience we should put in place a regional cooperation framework that ensures consultation among equals with participation and shared benefits. that's what the trans-pacific partnership trade deal is supposed to achieve it doesn't include china or the united states after donald trump withdrew the remaining eleven members are hoping to come to some sort of agreement during a pic but a planned leaders' meeting to sign off on a provisional agreement didn't happen when she joined on friday because of last

minute objections by canada. deborah helms has been and. negotiations in the past and says if a deal isn't reached in vietnam the whole thing could be in jeopardy as we've just seen in the last few weeks with the change of government in new zealand new demands on the agreement the canadians have had a government change not quite so recently but that's part of what's driving the problems in t v p now every day that you wake is a day in which the whole thing could follow god bless the united states of america if it survives quietly hope the united states will eventually rejoin but under president trump that's unlikely wayne hay al jazeera vietnam still ahead on the program poland's independence day is highlighting the political polarization within the country. by sudan's shipping industry is still struggling despite the lifting of devastating sanction.

out of the trough or depression that we saw yesterday is now being named as a tropical storm it's in this massive cloud here and its track probably takes its. heart on towards the vietnamese coast it's not certain. being mostly it's over water no but it's inducing a change in the flow hong kong's weather will get cooler claudia and quite possibly west along with the rest of this part of the coast of china it takes out some of the energy from what's been feeding in to produce rain in land in china and as yet and we've got to sunday the picture of vietnam's coast looks bright one but not so wet one may still be to come. with the monsoon rain still concentrated out in the southeast corner of india and sri lanka the thing is reported downpours are huge and drinking really for example fifty five millimeters in sri lanka but that's the

wet area as i'm sure you know this whole northern plain of india pakistan is suffering from very low movement slow movement so it's foggy misty and more especially is full of smog pollution unfortunately there's no chance that's going to be very hard quickly there's no wind to move it and it's that time of the year on the arabian peninsula the picture is largely a fine one. ambitious in deference to create proof crops amazing to think that the plan b. sawyer that look. looks completely alive and international efforts to combine the posts the press and so they bring in their samples they show you the impact of crops just like a doctor write your prescription you're doing the same thing here you're writing a prescription for the farmer and six blows inspiring advances to farming for the

future. al-jazeera. the mind of our top stories here on out is iraq the u.s. and france have declared their support for lebanese prime minister saad hariri unitas resignation whilst on a visit to saudi arabia there are fears he's being held there against his will human rights activists are demanding his trail you need to be resolved the worsening conditions a mammoth silent refugee detention center in. the apec summit the apec summit in vietnam the u.s. wants except trade deals the require it to surrender its sovereignty in an apparent veiled attack on china. the as chief breaks it negotiating has given the u.k.

a two week ultimatum to make concessions on the divorce agreement if talks are to proceed to the next run michel barnier says it's vital for the u.k. to increase its offer on an exit bill which some u.s. officials say could be as much as seventy billion dollars peter sharp explained. time does appear to be running out for the british breck's at negotiators as the your representative field in this question at the end of the second day of talks in brussels mr brown you confirm for me that you will need clarifications or concessions whichever you prefer from the u.k. within two weeks in order to move on to the second phase in december. my response says michel barnier is yes in december either leaders in brussels will decide whether sufficient progress has been made of the two sides are to move on to

discuss important future trade deals we remain ready and willing to engage as often and as quickly as needed to secure this outcome over the weeks remaining ahead of the december european council. the united kingdom will continue to engage and negotiate constructive as we have done since the start but to the prime minister's exasperate the former british ambassador to the e.u. left open the possibility of leaving breck's it altogether it's not inconceivable he said we can change our minds at any time while we're in where. well the divorce talks proceed the party is still married. reconciliation is still possible. theresa may who lost two ministers in separate scandals this week is now determined to impose her authority over rebel anti breck's it m.p.'s writing in the daily telegraph she made her position clear we will not tolerate attempts from any quarter to use the process of amendment to this bill as

a mechanism to try and block the democratic wishes of the british people to try and slow down or stop our departure from the e.u. the prime minister has specify that the time and date of brics it will be written into law at precisely eleven pm march twenty ninth two thousand and nineteen on monday delegation of senior business leaders will be meeting the prime minister here in london and will be bringing more bad news it's expected they'll tell mrs may that her plans to implement breaks it in just two years are simply unrealistic peter sharp al-jazeera in london a u.k. court has upheld the ruling that it were gyrus are entitled to workers' rights such as minimum wage unpaid time off a multi-billion dollar company argues its drivers work as independent contractors in need supporting the over driver said they should have the same employment rights a similar business says it would have already announced they'll again peel friday's decision. that of mba the eleventh as poland's independence day and the nation is

geared up to spend saturday celebrating but in recent years the day has increasingly become a focus of right wing nationalism far right parties are gathered in the capital warsaw along with nationalists from ukraine still in a russia and the united states and as david cheeta reports the country is becoming increasingly politically polarized. warsaw has become a magnet for near nazis and ultra nationalists this martial arts group from russia is just one of the far right organizations attending a congress on friday promoting white supremacist ideology should this would a. and without a will is like a knife without a blade every year the extreme right celebrates poland's independence day with a march through the capital their opinions are no longer confined to the margins here the ruling laurent justice party has adopted the nationalist rhetoric and placed it in the mainstream of the country's politics their leader because in ski

warned that refugees from the middle east would bring in parasites and diseases so . our message is a wake up call for europe so that one can live in peace without terrorism and islamic radicalization so that we can live in peace and love and. nobody thought the pundits effects. would last harf a century for poland. first germany attacks. then soviet russia the controversy surrounding this short animated film shows how much the political scene is changing in poland it's being screened in the museum of the second world war in the danske and illustrates how the country's past is being rewritten by today's politicians to secure that own future history is not a comic book and right now it's like they are treating our heroes us comic book characters like fantastic four to get their i do believe. to get to some

political. advantage so. it's horrid it was to be at this film at the museum that was taken off the screens the government didn't like its message about the suffering of the civilian population in the war in syria and the plight of the refugees ultra nationalism and xenophobia gaining new recruits in a new generation here in poland there's been a vast increase in the number of racially motivated attacks directed mainly at the muslim minority here just forty thousand people in a nation of thirty eight million. throughout the capital and throughout the country ceremonies will be taking place to celebrate poland's day of independence but it's now become a political battleground between the resurgent right and the liberal left. al-jazeera. pope francis has spoken out against the concept of nuclear deterrent

saying it gives countries a false sense of security the head of the catholic church is hosting a two day conference on nuclear disarmament attended by nobel peace laureates all with delegates from nato and the u.n. warns that nuclear weapons remain a danger even if they're highly unlikely to be. we can't help but feel a deep sense of unease when we think of a catastrophic humanitarian and environmental effect and the employment of nuclear devices therefore if we also take into account the risk of an accidental destination as a result of an ever of any kind of threat to their use as well as with a possession is to be firmly condemned. sudan is hoping to rebuild that shipping fleet after it was devastated by twenty years of u.s. sanctions it's now been a month since the sanctions were lifted but recovery has been slow morgan reports now from port sudan whenever he looks at the port has and says he remembers the days when his import business was still up and running but that was before the

united states slapped sanctions on sudan. you would think. i used to bring in clothes for people to design and customise now the ships have to stop at other ports the goods are unloaded there and then when shipped here that has increased the cost of shipping so now i've been forced to close my business. as i am isn't alone the point is the country's logistic help and gateway to the arabian gulf it exports not just from sudan but also from landlocked neighboring countries like judd and south sudan all the ships at the port are now foreign but it wasn't long ago that sudan had its own fleet of fifteen ships which transported goods and passengers but one thing happened that slowly killed the industry until last month the u.s. had imposed economic and trade sanctions on sudan it meant the government couldn't maintain its own fleet of ships and had to sell them to cut its losses the last almost sold almost a year and a half before the sanctions were lifted the sanctions came into force in one

thousand nine hundred seven when the us accused the then of human rights abuses and sponsoring terror it was designed to hurt the sudanese economy and so it did and all but destroyed the shipping industry the news authorities say with the sanctions lifted they'll try to rebuild their fleet but it won't be easy on the target for years building ships takes a lot of time making one from scratch takes at least two years so we don't expect it to happen in the near future only after quite a while will students shipping fleet again it strengthen the port is becoming more active though hopefully by next year we will have more development in the industry analysts say the government should focus on modernization of. lifting the sanctions gives us a chance for the government to bring in new technologies to make the port and its industry able to provide better services for now but won't help the economy maybe in two or three years it will especially through transit services to the neighboring landlocked countries. has and knows his days of bringing in goods by

sea are over but he hopes with a new post sanctions era the younger generation could export trade beyond the harbor he now only visits he morgan and is there port sudan. doctors in new delhi say current pollution levels are making the city unfit for human habitation hospitals in the indian capital say they're dealing with a twenty percent surge in emergency admissions pollution levels are more than eight times what's considered the healthy limit some experts say that's about the say the smoking two packs of cigarettes a day you delis already poor air quality is being worsened by illegal crop burning near by so i was going to. there was a burning sensation in my throat i thought breathless now after the oxygen mask i feel better president daily is unfit for human habitation it's causing on measurable it's causing immense amount of damage to lungs to our heart to

a brain and to every part of the body it's going to shorten the life of each and every person who is breeding this toxic air. greenpeace activists have sent a message to delegates attending the un climate talks in the german city of bonn they projected this sign reading no future in fossil fields onto a coal power plant alongside faces from the pacific islands well the stunt is meant to draw attention to the impact that emissions from germany have on the pacific while this year's climate talks have been overshadowed by president trump's decision to pull the us out of the paris climate agreement meanwhile millions of people in indonesia are already having to deal with the effects of climate change that the acid reports from java rising sea levels are destroying not just homes but livelihoods as well. is losing his battle against the sea the ocean started creeping into his house seven years ago and most nights he and his

family are having trouble finding a dry place to sleep. around at night we only see water and garbage nothing else that is fairy scary. his neighbors of all flat the houses destroyed by the waves salame and his family are now closest to the sea there has been a huge change when i arrived in this village in one thousand eight hundred two it was very beautiful and prosperous business was easy we all work at the shrimp on's and we are doing very well we never thought our family would sell for like this barbie a village little remaining happy village looks nothing like that anymore half of its population is gone and the ponds are destroyed rising sea levels and the destruction of the seabed and mangrove trees are to blame the north coast of the island of java has lost nearly eleven thousand hectares to the sea so far it's hard

to imagine it only seven years ago people were living right here farming shrimp and now the sea has taken over their land forcing hundreds to flee those who remain are watching how their village is slowly but surely swallowed by water the house where i was born has lost its first floor and its courtyard. this used to be our playground we play badminton here and together with our family we would raise deflate to celebrate independence day. and his siblings are the only teachers left to educate the children that remain here when we ask the students if they know what climate change is this is their answer about planning our. obama gleam what they do know is that they're scared. i'm afraid i want to have a place to live anymore when the water is high children are often crying. and solemn knows that action has yet to be taken with europe and we always hear them

talking on t.v. on this and that combating poverty etc but i am not convinced politicians will help us too many countries are involved the government has tried to save the village by planting mangrove trees but many fear sea water will rise faster than trees can grow and a village just say if no dam is build soon the happy village will completely disappear in the next five years step five al-jazeera but gussy west java we can find out much more about the stories we're following on our website we've got video on demand and stories from our correspondents and contributors all across the globe and you can find all of that debbie debbie debbie al-jazeera the home. our mind and of our top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. and france have intervened in the evidence political crisis with both countries

declaring their support for prime minister saad hariri he announced he was stepping down was in riyadh on saturday because of interference from iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah there are fears he's being held there against his will which his office the nice state department correspondent particular hate has more. and secretary of state rex tillerson putting out this paper statement basically saying that the u.s. respects the sovereignty and the independence of lebanon its government its political institutions when i'd say that parties within and outside need to respect the independence and the integrity of both the government and the armed forces and then it went on a little bit further to say that love and on should not be used as a proxy war between other countries obviously trying to send a message to saudi arabia donald trump's appearance has dominated a meeting on economic cooperation in the asia pacific region in a speech to apec leaders in vietnam the us president appeared to china china's trade policies without specifically mentioning china its president xi jinping told

the summit that economic globalization is a process that can't be reversed human rights activists are demanding a stray immediately resolve the worsening conditions at the man asylum detention center new pictures show the squalid conditions faced by the six hundred refugees who are refusing to leave the center closed down last week leaving them without power or knowing water the e.u. breaks the secretary michel barnier has won the u.k. has two weeks to make concessions on an exit agreement if it wants to move on to the next phase of talks next month early on friday the man who helped write the legislation used by britain to lead the e.u. said it's not too late for the government to stop breaks it. pope francis has spoken out against the concept of countries owning nuclear weapons as a deterrent he says it gives them a false sense of security the head of the catholic church is hosting a two day conference on nuclear disarmament attended by nobel peace laureates along

with delegates from nato and the united nations. those are the top stories stay with us the earth rises next we'll be back at the top of the hour see them.

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