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hello again and welcome to our live from doha i'm martin dennis also coming up. it's now time to get back to healing a world that is shattered and broken. down old trauma says the u.s. and russia can be friends but he's backing the cia's view that moscow meddled in the presidential election. mass graves of suspected i so victims are discovered in northern iraq. palestinian unity for the first time in ten years the yellow flags of fatah a waved in hamas controlled gaza in honor of yasser arafat. the saudis say t.v. has shown pictures of king soundman meeting lebanon's prime minister as lebanese

leaders continue to demand he returns home saad hariri hasn't returned to beirut nor made any public comments since unexpectedly announcing his resignation in the saudi capital eight days ago there are suggestions he's being held against his will in a power battle involving saudi arabia and hezbollah or which is supported by iran saudi leaders say he's free to go but he fears for his safety then the holder has. from beirut. posters are springing up across the lebanese capital beirut expressing support to. the resigned prime minister whose fate really is unknown uncertain times in lebanon the country finding itself at a crossroads for the past year this country enjoyed relative stability in a very turbulent region but things have changed and lebanon finds itself in the middle of the saudi iranian rivalry playing out across the region it's many like him and i think for quite some time since two thousand and five i guess it's when

he really thinks things are really assassination. and we have two polls like saudi arabia and iran and those two polls have people on the ground iran has done this others economics and in the middle of all this i think and live on a lot of special part of the sions what they do best is that they they they lie and they say things. to make people more and maybe scared and to put this like political pressure on everyone just to get what they want we are in a mainly sunni neighborhood hold many people here feel that the current crisis is going to march and allies them even further this in the community has long complained of iranian dominance in lebanon and now they're blaming their own ally saudi arabia of robbing them of their leader. now. we want to know the reason behind his detention lebanon can't handle this

crisis thank dignity the detention of the prime minister is unacceptable sort of the can the this is a loss for all of lebanon hariri is loved by everyone we're all upset by his detention no one will accept what is happening this is humiliation for lebanon we won't be quiet we will demand his release. and let's go live now to and i who is in beirut and behind you we seeing a lot of people who are taking it rather easy it must be said given that this is the beirut marathon. or yes a yearly sporting event but really it's taking on and new meaning because this event really aims at bringing people together but lebanon passing through on certain times many people here feel that their prime minister seidel how d.d. is in one way or another detained that he is being prevented from returning to levon on it after that sudden announcement that he resigned on saturday we've been

seeing images of the prime minister meeting the saudi king images of the prime minister sitting out with the rulers in abu dhabi but we haven't heard from him we've been talking to people here and what they tell you is that whether or not we support him or were against him this is not the point lebanon feels very humiliated the dignity of this country has been hurt they want their prime minister to return to the country in fact there are some posters that it has sprung up across the capital as you've seen earlier demanding his return so people from different political parties from different sects all coming together with one voice really they want their prime minister to return home and just wondering whether those new pictures broadcast by saudi t.v. of saad hariri meeting king solomon at riyadh airport whether that will have any effect whatsoever on the can prevail in lebanon today. no those images will not change the mood in fact there are reports now we haven't been able

to confirm them that the prime minister may speak in a live interview either later tonight or in the coming days we've been asking the people here you know if you hear from the prime minister in saudi arabia will that be enough to prove to you that he is not under house arrest or he can move freely and they said no we want him to come back home. if the lebanon's president michel aoun himself has said that whatever he says the public remarks he makes if they're not made in lebanon they will not be taken officially we have to bear in mind that yes saddam how did he has resigned but his resignation has not been accepted by the president there demanding that he returns home so right now there is this unity a rare unity across lebanon's political divide that how do you need to return to the country definitely the political differences are still here you talk to some people and they say well yes hezbollah is our fault hezbollah should disarm and hezbollah should stop you know imposing iran's agenda in lebanon but they still

insist that the prime minister must return all right for now and then i thank you send a honda live in beirut now president trump has sought to clarify his remarks on blasphemy putin and the issue of russian meddling in last year's presidential election it's also called on all nations to work together and he said that he just wants to get along with russia and north korea he was speaking in vietnam and he addressed questions on whether russia meddled in last year's presidential election and he said he accepted the u.s. intelligence assessment that moscow did interfere but he also excepted the russian president's belief that russia had played no part i believe very much in our intelligence agencies now at the same time. i want to be able because i think it's very important to get along with russia to get along with china to get along with vietnam to get along with lots of countries because we have

a lot of things we have to sell i believe that president putin really feels that he feels strongly that he did not meddle in our election what he believes is what he believes what i believe is that we have to get to work. well he also talked about support for his cause against north korea saying that all responsible nations should act to stop its nuclear and missile threats he emphasized also the importance of all nations working together for the greater good we have to get to work and i think everybody understood this they heard the answer we have to get to work to solve syria to solve north korea to solve ukraine to solve terrorism it's now time to get back to healing a world that is shattered and broken those are very important things well graham on the web is a research fellow at nanyang technological university in singapore what did he make of president trump which. he does sound like the great globalist except for many

observers in the region he isn't using a globalist he is an isolationist in the least the messaging that he is delivering right now as we speak while he's visiting. the philippines is creating confusion increasing confusion rather than lessening it over the last few months we've been receiving mixed signals from the trunk ministration about the exact specifications of the role of the united states here in this region in economic and security terms i think right now optimism has and hasn't grown it's lessened there's a signal perhaps you've been assigned in the cards that i can ask you one has to get on with doing a great number of things on its own. the syrian province of aleppo is again under heavy bombardment by government more planes that are targeting rebel fighters the bombings began this week and they have forced thousands of civilians to flee the

area and to set up makeshift camps in the countryside the u.n. has expressed concern over the continuous bombing by russian backed syrian government forces also have been jade is following developments for us from gaziantep on the turkish side of the border with syria. aleppo is a busy big province and the city is part of it so on the outskirts of aleppo city there are pockets that people fled from aleppo city which are still under rebel control this particular area where this latest campaign by the syrian government is under way it's close to the aleppo it live border these are the two provinces and these areas were held by rebels and now syrian forces are pushing to words and it's worth noting that this is an area that is just on the outskirts of the deescalation zone as well so it is perfectly ok and legal for syrian government forces and their russian ally for them are the very end and push the rebels back and this is what the contention of the syrian opposition has been that they have been saying that

the escalation zones rather have been helping to bring down civilian casualties but they're also an excuse for the assad government and its allies to consolidate their control and push rebels back to words these areas where they would if they fire back they would be in violation of the noise and it is very difficult for the people who've been displaced from place to place from aleppo city from other parts of provinces in these areas which have come under relentless bombardment in the last five years to try and set up shop here is a few of them who told us how it feels and what do they have now as they move from their homes. we don't have any shelter new tents no cover when we left we didn't take anything the syrian army went after us with airstrikes and now the children sleep while there. is no water no power no roads just remove a lot for god's sake have some mercy we run with just the clothes that we were now here in

a tent in the land. and you have again. the villages and towns in the southern countryside of aleppo faced a wave of civilians fleeing towards the east there are one thousand seven hundred thirty four families from the south one thousand three hundred families in the northern countryside of hama after visiting the random camps in the area we evaluate the humanitarian situation as a disaster people need tends to protect themselves from the freezing winter and as you can see that the desperation among the people who fled from these areas and who are continuing to flee from the various the tents that you seen these pictures are not new these are tense. because international get there because it's an active battlefront and hundreds of people have been living out in the open and it's worth noting this is the onset of winter and it's get very cold at night in. countryside for these people so it's a struggle to survive and they don't know what's going to happen to them next.

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short stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds. i prepared for the four hundred one you know here to be on time. to be on the bed i don't get fed up because people everybody one al-jazeera selects at this time. i remind you of our top stories here at al-jazeera saudi state t.v. has shown pictures of king solomon meeting lebanon's prime minister as lebanese leaders continue to demand he returns home saad hariri hasn't gone back to beirut

nor is he made any public comments since unexpectedly announcing his resignation in riyadh eight days ago. donald trump says he accepts president putin's denial of russian meddling in last year's u.s. election campaign while also accepting cia assessments the brusha was involved in his election which made the comments on the final day of his visit to vietnam. rebel fighters in syria are again under heavy bombardment by government warplanes thousands of civilians have fled days of bombing in aleppo province the u.n. says it's concerned by the continuous bombing campaign involving government forces backed by russia. iraqi military helicopter has crashed during a training exercise killing all seven people on board the crash happened over iraq's was seat province just east of the capital baghdad so far the cause of the crash is. mass graves containing at least four hundred suspected eisel victims i

think found in northern iraq the sites were discovered near a military base close to the town of how we imran khan has more from the iraqi capital baghdad this find will be very significant not just for the families but for investigators as well a lot of families are wondering what happened to their loved ones by identifying the bodies within the mass grave they'll be able to get some sort of closure hopefully for investigators this would be a way to find out exactly how many people died. this mass grave was found in which is one of the main towns it was in a former military base which allegedly used as an execution ground according to locals now this isn't the first mass grave that the iraqis have found they certainly won't be the last as they go into the areas that i saw used to control and try and dig and look for information on any potential mass grave sites that there are now i've actually seen one of these mass grave sites

a couple of them in fact actually up in this enjoy mountains in the north they are very gruesome places to come visit everything has to be kept logs of bones are being dug out of the ground forensic scientists are looking and investigators are looking at what they find just to see how many people actually were killed now in this particular great we're hearing that at least four hundred people had been killed. the united states has joined calls for the saudi led coalition to lift its blockade of yemen but it also says it recognizes the coalition's concerns about stopping the movement of weapons to who the rebels the blockade is causing a humanitarian crisis with the u.n. saying the closure of yemen's borders is pushing millions of people close to the point of starvation mariana hond has the latest. her son is desperate to get out of yemen these pills of what's keeping his wife alive her condition requires treatment in egypt but on monday their planes were put on hold

when the saudi led coalition imposed a complete blockade from the lend ear and see it was in response to a ballistic missile fired into saudi arabia by humans who three roubles but not everything is hanging on this treatment it is critical for my wife's life humans national airline says it will resume international flights out of a ports in the southern cities of aden and say your own both of which are operated by the saudi led coalition but that offers little relief for her son and his wife they live hundreds of kilometers away in the capital sunnah which is part of the sixty percent of tierra tree under the control they must prepare for a dangerous and difficult journey on a road papered with checkpoints run by both sides of the conflict. the who the rebels are backed by iran and troops loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh the saudi led coalition of arab nations joined the war in early two thousand and

fifteen launching thousands of the strikes in support of the government the saudi led coalition says it shut down humans borders to stem the flow of arms to the who thiis from iran but the united nations says the blockade has created even greater hardship for millions of yemenis. already the poorest country in the region before the war the u.n. says yemen is now in the grip of the world's worst humanitarian crisis around seventeen million people don't have enough to eat every day seven million of them are on the brink of famine more than two and a half years of war has forced almost three million people from their homes and left yemen's infrastructure in ruins and since april more than two thousand people have died in the world's worst outbreak of cholera. hospital staff working in sanaa say things have never been this bad patients accommodated out on the streets and

medical supplies now only trickling in. our sufferings have doubled the shortage of medicine is getting worse and what aid is given out disappears the misery for people here is just getting worse. the u.n. and aid agencies say nothing but a complete lifting of the blockade will do without it they warn human could be just weeks away from the world's worst famine in decades. and al-jazeera. now bahrain is blaming and pipeline explosion and what it calls terrorism linked to iran the iranian government denies any involvement in friday's blast in the village of brewery. now for the first time in a decade the people of gaza have marked the anniversary of the death of yasser arafat for the last ten years girls has been run by hamas a faction which until recently was in better opposition to faster which arafat founded last month still for fast and hamas to unite led many gazans i hope for an

improvement in their living conditions and the thirteenth anniversary of yasser arafat's death became an occasion to celebrate their new found unity. and reports. tens of thousands gathered in gaza city to honor yasser arafat for many here the late president and longtime leader remains a symbol of palestinian statehood. we love him and it's our duty to commemorate his revolution. but this gathering is also a symbol of palestinian unity the first in ten years for fatah founder in hamas controlled gaza last month the two political factions signed an agreement to end the rivalry. it will allow the fatah led government in the west bank to control gaza. hamas has ruled gaza since it one more parliamentary seats in two thousand and seven. the anniversary of arafat holds pain and hope

pain of his death and losing him as he sacrificed himself for palestine and hope which hamas and all of the palestinians want hope of achieving unity and reconciliation and rearranging the internal palestinian house. yes or out of lead the fatah movement for nearly five decades until his death in two thousand and four from what was reported to be a month long illness but now zero investigation in two thousand and twelve found out of it was poisoned by radioactive talk since palestinians blame israel for his death an accusation israel has strongly denied but here in gaza they still want answers. at the moment i believe it was assassinated and i demand to investigate his death and find the criminals. and was not out of the us we all came children and women young and old people from all over gaza to commemorate a symbol of the palestinian cause. yes our fight is

a symbol of free people all over the world i think all revolutionaries should commemorate this anniversary with the recent reconciliation of fatah and hamas the onus is now on the current leaders to deliver on the long held hope of a palestinian state culture durgin on. about four hundred refugees who are refusing to leave a decommissioned prison camp on mannus island and had to build makeshift fences from cloth to keep people out of the new guinea has dismantled large parts of the fence at the former australian mining camp in a bid to force of refugees out the men are refusing to move saying they fear medicine and locals could attack them some of the refugees. have moved to new accommodation outside the facility. the coal mines and still plants have germany as a rule region about the country for more than a century but since the industrial how fell into decline one of its major cities is

now looking to tourism to recharge its economy and it clock reports from essen. his stands a ghostly relic to a time now just one of the largest industrial monuments in europe the silver and coal mine the last miners descended the shaft in one thousand nine hundred six but in its time zone verein was a key cog in the german economic machine for many going underground was a way of life the region was the beating heart of the nation's industry its coal mines and iron and steel plant the country for more than one hundred years. this is the largest of the region's this use coal mines and back in the day it employed eight thousand people around the clock producing twenty three thousand tonnes of coal every twenty four hours now it's a unesco world heritage site and the old coal washing plant is the room museum

where once machinery thundered and tens of millions of tons of coal were processed now there's an impressive curation of the region's history we sought for people who came from outside to build one place. to have a window to look in the history of this region beginning at three hundred fifty million years ago when cold starts to exist today to the present so these days there mining the tourist dollar sees one and a half million visitors a year bringing in more than sixty five million euros. seventy. a day and i think. like a lot of money. everybody can come here today and just. the process and green space now blankets much of the city's industrial past with here

and there a looming reminder this fight back against environmental degradation has led to the e.u. namely the city as a european green capital for two thousand and seventy when. we are a model for change how to create something when a complete branch of industry breaks away first we are interesting for europe and the rest of the world how if a crisis or evolved a chance and we are now entering a green decade. of course is not all good news despite some major energy companies still being based here local unemployment remains high at nearly eleven percent but there was a time when they were a river was a toxic flow now it's a stunning clean i mean it with no end of profitable potential by honoring its industrial heritage while shaking off the coal dust and looking to tourism this is start city may just reinvent itself. al-jazeera s. in germany. a dow made entirely out of recycled ocean plastics and flip flops is

being billed on the kenyan coast is being assembled using two hundred thousand recycled flip flops and twenty five tons of plastic waste from the ocean katherine sawyer has been to see it. it may look like an ordinary boat being built on the shores of the ocean in lumber along came a skull but there's nothing normal about this boat. called bookmakers a building what they call flip flop in using mostly plastic waste and discarded flip flops that often washed up ashore if it works the plan is to eventually build a sixty foot down like this one which is usually built with wood it will sell to south africa with the hope of creating awareness about the devastation brought about by plastic dumped into the ocean it would be a good message to the world because this is a moving object you know people have done different types of recycled things but

this is not one hundred percent everybody sees it but rain is a moving object to ridge to many parts. this is one of the cleanest beaches on the coast. local residents load trash they've collected for the last two months plastic bottles polythene bags flip flops which will be used to make the boat. the waste ends up in a factory in more than two hundred kilometers away this is where plastic waste is crushed off credit then melted using that machine and molded into planks the dow will need the factory receives trash washed ashore from countries in africa and asia and also rubbish collected locally. getting an end product that is strong and safe to withstand the ocean has been tough we are making the first. nobody's ever made of being out of plastic that's ten metres long no point two centimeters wide

twenty five's and rivers. that's a piece of plastic so all we have tried multiple ways of doing it mark what types of materials stabilizers and all kinds of things to make sure it gets better and better. back in alice kaunda and his workers give us an idea of how the boat and eventually the dow will look like it will be covered using this colorful print made from war than two hundred thousand used flip flops they say they're not only campaigning against ocean pollution but also for what is a dying culture of traditional making catherine soy al jazeera on the kenyan coast . traverse take a look at the top stories here at out zero saudi state television has shown pictures of king soundman meeting lebanon's prime minister as lebanese leaders

continue to demand he returns home saad hariri hasn't returned to beirut nor made any public comment since unexpectedly announcing his resignation in riyadh eight days ago he made no public remarks in senate and there are suggestions he's being held against his will. donald trump says he accepts president putin's denial of russian meddling in last year's u.s. election campaign while also accepting cia assessment the russia was involved in his election when president trump made the comments on the final day of his visit to vietnam. i believe very much in our intelligence agencies now at the same time. i want to be able because i think it's very important to get along with russia to get along with china to get along with vietnam to get along with lots of countries because we have a lot of things we have to sell i believe that president putin really feels that he

feels strongly that he did not meddle in our election what he believes is what he believes what i believe is that we have to get to work rebel fighters in syria are again under heavy bombardment by government warplanes thousands of civilians have fled days of bombing in aleppo province the u.n. says is concerned by the continuous bombing campaign involving government forces backed by russia. mass graves containing at least four hundred suspected victims of i still have been found in northern iraq the bodies many in prison uniforms were discovered near a military base close to the town of how we the u.s. is joined calls for the saudi led coalition to lift its blockade of yemen but it also says it recognizes the coalition's concerns about stopping the movement of the rebels the blockade is causing a humanitarian crisis with the u.n. saying the closure of yemen's borders is pushing millions of people close to the

point of starvation. tens of thousands of people in gaza have marked the thirteenth anniversary of the death of the former palestinian president yasser arafat. right those are the headlines. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. just wasn't. him.