but we struck up a relationship this is a dialogue tweet us with hostile a.j. stream and one of their pitches might make the next show join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera we know the culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that it might take an international network for months to be able to do in united nations thank you for your ploy i'm tired you know. you are challenging the forces were challenging companies who are going to places where nobody else is going.

what can i wear and it's clear from the nature of the steps taken and the rhetoric used by the blockade in countries that they don't want to solution to the crisis. says its neighbors have underestimated the strength of his people and living on the block a. lot jane this is al jazeera life and it was a coming up. a day of mourning in iran after an earthquake kills at least four hundred fifty people and leaves tens of thousands homeless. exonerates itself of blame over the crackdown against the range and rakhine state. and in italy they calling it the apocalypse as they football team fails to qualify for next year's world cup.

the mayor of qatar says the blockading countries have no desire to end the gulf crisis been hammered all funny spoke at a session of cats as parliamentary advisory body. why now. i'm talking to you with all transparency we mean what we say when we say we are ready for agreements through dialogue based on mutual respect for sovereignty and shared commitment but on the other hand we know that the indications we receive say seach countries don't want to solution these countries with this attitude have opened a new stage in the relations between gulf countries we have benefited from this experience it brought out the best from the people we contributed to shaping its national identity and reinforced the national unity with the leadership. joins us now in the studio. that was more about what he had to say about basically we come so this is a crisis the emir of qatar remains defiant he basically says that the blockade in countries have violated all diplomatic norms even between. enemies and number two

that the measures taken by the blockade in countries were meant for this crisis to continue for as long as it goes number three while qatar is willing to negotiate a compromise with all the parties but there is absolutely no way allow for its sovereignty to be violated he went into some few details like for example how the blockade in countries last an attempt to try to destabilize the local currency and that the ultimate aim of the book aiding countries saudi arabia the u.a.e. . it was basically to create a shock in qatar. and then for then they would move into the country and impose their will saying that this is something which is never going to happen all right and the knock on effect you know what's happening mirroring the reforms in the country tell us more about exactly i mean he says that. saying that this has been an opportunity for us to get together. has been a factor bringing qatar is more united than before and saying that this crisis is

the want of this crisis to they want us to be bogged down in this crisis not to think about anything else i says this is a job. it's an issue for us to move forward we're talking about moving forward basically the need to continue the political and economic reforms. started elections two thousand and eight for the municipal council now the advisory council the to our council. appointed by the any one third. is elected now the hope is to see if this council being fully elected like like kuwait which remains the only exception in this part of the world is that they're looking into the. laws governing this by the end that as soon as it's over qatar will finally have will join kuwait in being the second country in the region to have an elected parliament so that they would like to continue in this path of political and economic reforms and we see women for the first time thanks for their missing.

rescue workers in iran have spent the night digging through rubble searching for survivors after a powerful earthquake struck near the iraqi border an estimated four hundred fifty hundred people were killed and seven thousand were injured in the magnitude seven point three quake the u.s. geological survey puts the epicenter on the border between iran and iraq semi autonomous kurdish region most of the deaths reported so far are in iran's mountainous. province the worst hit town appears to be. on the iraqi side reports of extensive damage in the nearby town of the bundy. john a bell is reports . after sunday's earthquake on iraq iran border a community retreats they did from the rubble the loudest sounds of morning come from iran's kermanshah province more than three hundred of the dead lived here

thousands more were injured. i was under the rubble of a destroyed wall it collapsed on my head infrastructure has been devastated so medics improvise in a field iran's government has sent in twenty helicopters and created four field hospitals using trucks of medicine and buses to treat the wounded those whose injuries were too severe were transferred to the capital tehran oh no there were no facility has no access to electricity or water in the seconds that the earthquake rolled through at nine eighteen on sunday night and the estimated seventy thousand people became harmless iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world several major fault lines crossers. in iraq the less common but this time the destruction cross the border. home of the earthquake i was lying

in my bed because i wasn't feeling well my sound started shouting mom wake up there's an earthquake we all ran to the corridor and you could see the house collapsing behind us and hear the sound of things falling. it's believed many people are still under the rubble communities in iran and iraq scrambling optimistically to find out. the building was flattened by the earthquake that struck yesterday at a fellow a seven member family we managed to rescue only five of them while the other two were killed it was the first time i've ever seen an earthquake the divine act that no one can prevent because of feel losses professionals have been brought in and they visibly their work will see the death toll rise. the area was already fragile economically and politically the earthquake has broken their independence. the turkish read cresent has deployed fifty five cargo trucks of eight to kurdish held

areas of iraq and iran tuesday has been declared a national day of mourning the true cost of this earthquake slowly becoming clear. al-jazeera. military has cleared itself of committing any atrocities against the rangar muslim minority in rakhine state rangar refugees accuse me on mars security forces of massacres rape and burning of villages but the military says it carried out its own investigation and is found no wrongdoing the army crackdown forced more than six hundred thousand people to flee to bangladesh scott had a joins us now from me in mosque capital ny but also the military has issued the findings from an internal probe on the violence and aftermath who's to blame. well jane they say it's definitely not them this is an internal report that's been carried out for the last several weeks and it was issued actually by the the commander in chief's facebook page late on monday and it says that it conducted

this investigation in interviewed over three thousand villagers saying that the military on the ground there in rakhine state over the last several months to three months conducted themselves with the rules of engagement so all these accusations that have been told to u.n. officials to n.g.o.s officials in bangladesh those six hundred thousand people who fled rakhine state those were i wouldn't accounts they're saying the military here is saying that they're wrong they say their military officers carried out the process they say was this process to wipe out terrorists as they call them with proper rules of engagement so obviously there's you know some outcry from the human rights community around the world calling this a whitewash this report saying that obviously these hundreds of witnesses thousands of witnesses who have said exactly the opposite in bangladesh and that this report comes out and says conducted by the military here myanmar saying that they had no

wrongdoing. u.s. secretary of state thanks tennyson is in the capital on wednesday what's he up to and he's going to be talking to. he'll be speaking to the military leaders we know that he met on the sidelines of that ossie on meeting down in the philippines he saw on songs who cheat they didn't make any statements on camera they just had a photo opportunity so he had a sideline meeting with her so most likely he'll focus on and there's not too much word jane coming out from either the ministry of foreign affairs here in myanmar or the u.s. state department officials who are traveling with restaurants and the secretary of state what's going to be happening here on wednesday but what we heard before the weeks leading up to this visit is that he'll meet with military leadership now it needs to be said the united states government has been critical of the way the military here in myanmar has handled the situation we're kind state so we can imagine that those meetings will be pretty pointed conversations we don't have any idea if there are going to be any on camera public statements made after these

meetings here tomorrow in the capitol maybe door but we do know is leading up to this they have been very critical of how the military has handled the situation in rakhine state and the range of refugees and they have said that they need to be held accountable the united states saying about those military leaders there's even been discussions within the government and in the senate and congress in the united states that sanctions should be possibly re implemented here in myanmar if they need to be taken to that to that level but will be interesting to see how these meetings are conducted on wednesday and also if we hear anything about the details of what happens inside those meetings thank you for that scott. canadian prime minister just in today is also. at the s. and summit he said he highlighted concerns about the treatment of the referendum minority in light of events in myanmar is routine state i've named a special envoy to the region i've asked him to engage in diplomatic efforts and

identify ways in which canada can support the response of the situation in the place of the muslim minority. canada will continue to support us and humanitarian political efforts to find a sustainable and just solution to the ongoing crisis and we will also continue to work with the governments of me and mar and bangladesh to allow for the safe return of displaced peoples during my excellent discussions with the state councilor we discussed the importance of the recommendations put forth in the final report of the advisory commission on the rakhine state which will help chart the path forward towards a peaceful resolution of the conflict and we discussed how canada can help achieve this goal. he also spoke about the human rights with the philippine president rodrigo de tat that was something u.s. president donald trump failed to do and it led to angry scenes in manila protest his call for trump to go home often felt condemned detaches brutal war on drugs the

crowds burned a giant u.s. flag u.s. president donald trump is true that twelve day visit rather to asia has been his longest foreign to yet it was aimed at getting support from allies and pressurising north korea to give up its nuclear program can be helped reports. he promised to speak frankly to the chinese reassure japan over is north korean fears and deliver a strong message on trade in the end president donald trump's messages were muddled at best. on his trip to tokyo trump checked all the right boxes on security in north korea visiting with families of people abducted by the regime but will alain japan's fears about a north korean attack later insulted kim jong un personally in a tweet even suggesting in the same tweet he may someday want to meet the north korean leader visiting china the president took no questions from the press at

beijing's request something they always ask of u.s. presidents but are not always granted and well he talked tough on chinese trade it was this remark that got the most attention after all. who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country. for the benefit of its citizens i give china great credit. indeed many analysts believe china not the united states emerged as an even bigger power following the trip while trump criticized asian trade practices she praised open markets but he's got a lot of cash that he's throwing around. and so are a lot of countries they are wary but they also are beneficiaries of that comes another problem many presidents in the past have used foreign travel to downplay domestic trouble trump did the opposite he failed to press the issue again of

russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election when meeting with russian president vladimir putin every time he sees me he says i didn't do that and i believe i really believe that when he tells me that he means it that prompted widespread criticism forcing trump to clarify his remarks during a press conference i believe that he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election as to whether i believe it or not i'm with our agencies in the philippines the trumpet ministrations said it raised the issue of president rod rico do territories human rights abuses but that claim was later denied by two terror taste spokesman still donald trump is promising a major policy announcement on trade on wednesday a potential chance to correct what many believe may have been a missed opportunity abroad kimberly held at al-jazeera washington let's go back to the meeting with the leaders have agreed to start talks on drafting

a new guideline for the south china sea with china the philippine foreign ministry says countries will negotiate an effective code of conduct over the long displayed territory but it gave no details on when the talks will begin for more than a decade leaders of the ten member bloc of struggle to reach a deal with china which claims most of the strategic waterway. still ahead on al-jazeera victims of suspected war crimes in libya are looking for justice at the international criminal court. and tension at an art gallery in the u.s. which plans to sell precious works to raise money for the future. how i was very unsettled weather across central parts of the mediterranean massive

cloud rolling in the air swirling away bringing some very heavy downpours followed storms is the area of low pressure responsible for the big storms and some heavy snow too on the northern flank of that tightly packed ice about as well that does indicate some very strong winds across southern parts of france and way and pretty uncomfortable conditions coming through his just for. just about getting up into double figures there you know just for london and for paris but only fifty eight celsius in madrid which is not too fantastic fifteen celsius in the cloud of the rain to fall rome the heavy showers the blustery winds will continue as we go on into wednesday still a pretty similar picture there was some snow there just around the generic alps further north a touch warmer for london around. we're getting into a cool spot of weather so make the most of that it will get cooler in the coming days and weeks northern parts of africa fifteen celsius in the cloud and the rain that's a disturbance there across central parts of the med fifteen celsius here twenty

degrees in the sunshine forward some decent spells of sunshine coming through in fine weather too across the northeastern corner of africa car with a high of twenty seven.

begin your zero mind of our top stories this hour the cats says the blockade in countries have no desire to end the gulf crisis to mean been a month of funny spoke in the session of a parliamentary advisory body saw the lead group said it ties with cats in june and imposed a land sea and blockade rescue workers in iran have spent the night digging through rubble searching for survivors after a powerful earthquake struck near the iraqi border an estimated four hundred fifty people were killed and seven thousand injured in the magnitude seven point three quake. meanwhile the military is cleared itself of committing atrocities against the regular minority in rakhine state refugees accuse me and my security forces of

massacres rape and the burning of villages the military says it carried out its own investigation and has found no wrongdoing. for the first time in sixty years italy's football team of failed to qualify for the world cup the four time cup winners drew near all know was sweden in a play off it was a game they had to win legend legendary goalkeeper john. announced his retirement ending a twenty year international career that included winning the two thousand and six world cup so you know. we're all tears this evening because we did our best and this will chase us forever it's incredible delusion even now we're struggling to realize more than sixty people have been killed in airstrikes in a rebel held town in northern syria the syrian observatory for human rights says three strikes hit a market in the countryside town of near aleppo it's inside one of the so-called

deescalation zones which were agreed between turkey russia and iran it's not clear who is responsible for the strikes i saw five years of recapture the city of our book close to the border with iraq just a few days after the government and its allies took it it's thought eisel fighters had been hiding inside tunnels in the heart of the city which was the group's last stronghold inside syria iranian backed shia militias from iraq it helped to capture the city last thursday israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he's given notice to the united states and russia that israel will continue to take military action in syria despite their attempts to build a cease fire. i made it clear to our friends in washington and our friends in moscow that israel will operate in syria including saddam syria according to our security needs the head of lebanon's maronite church is in saudi arabia for a rare visit as political tension escalates between the two countries petra raw is

the first lebanese official to visit the kingdom since prime minister saad hariri unexpectedly and now nst his resignation more than a week ago hariri insists he's free to leave riyadh but lebanese officials believe he's under house arrest for sharia rise expects to meet with her really as well as the saudi king and crown prince. lawyers for victims of suspected war crimes in libya have filed a suit at the international criminal court over what they say are wrong ongoing atrocities accuse renegade general hurley for hafter and forces loyal to him of carrying out mass executions and torture. reports from tripoli. the crimes allegedly committed by forces loyal to or in a good general hurley for have to in libya have caused anger locally and internationally mahmoud it would fully one of have to as a leading officers is wanted by the international criminal court for war crimes

including killing without trial. the failure to arrest him highlights a major challenge as case and instability plague the country the court has enough evidence to prove that have is the commander the superior of war fairly and that's what i said in her statement before the security council when she had to have to go to a rest there were fairly and hand them over to the libyan authorities so he can be handed over to the court so. without with video or without video it's proven that he is the superior over or fairly and thus the doctrine of command this possibility he will be held responsible thirty six bodies were found last month in what appears to be mass murder in the village of lobby are about seventy kilometers east of the city of benghazi the areas controlled by forces loyal to general have

turtle the corpses had gunshots to the head and signs of torture witnesses say the victims who were arrested by have to his forces months ago and haven't been heard of since have to the forces have been repeatedly accused of committing atrocities since is there any good general launch it operation dignity in two thousand and fourteen a campaign he said or drive out. armored groups of from libya last march pictures emerged a legit lee showing have to his forces and earthing graves of opponents mutilating the corpses and setting some on fire in a district west of one of the. victims of families have been denouncing what they say are trust cities against civilians in benghazi and several human rights organizations have been accused have to this forces of committing crimes against humanity. some suspect have said as forces will continue with

impunity because hefted is supported by regional and international powers including egypt united arab emirates france and russia since the fall of moammar gadhafi lawlessness and impunity have created a breeding ground for committing atrocities in libya it will be up to a court to decide whether hefted his forces and their commanders are responsible for war crimes they remain at large and tracking them down and putting them in jail is expected to be a difficult task if the ever are convicted more that go ahead al-jazeera tripoli. al-jazeera has obtained an audio recording of deposed egyptian president mohamed morsi in court in cairo on monday the former leader's already serving a life sentence in prison but faces further charges he says he's not getting a free trial. since september the twenty fourth i've been completely isolated from

the court there are double glass paris i've tried to talk about the case but the court has not seen or heard me i can't hear witnesses and i can't talk to them and i should communicate with the court when i have things to say at the previous sitting i heard the witness and i want to comment on what she said but i couldn't she said force words that are not true i'm being tried in absentia but they say i am present i don't know where i am now the u.k. foreign secretary has apologised for causing distress to a british citizen jailed in iran. is facing charges of spreading propaganda boris johnson is accused of complicating the case explains. the u.k.'s foreign secretaries been accused of cloud issue incompetence over his handling of nasa teams that gaar iraq lives imprisonment not to mention mounting calls to resign now an attempt by boyce johnson to set the record straight the

british government has no doubt the missus agree rectally was in iran on holiday and that was the sole purpose of her visit and i knowledge that the words are used were open to being misinterpreted no i apologize i apologize to mrs cigar iraq and her family if i had inadvertently cause them any further. dozen names or garri radcliffe was arrested in iran last april she was charged with spreading propaganda and jailed for five years she said she was in the country with her baby daughter to see her parents that are iraqi lives husbands been urging the government to do more for the past twenty months with johnson's own political future in the spotlight the case is now getting more attention and i mean honestly i think it's good for nothing that people know about case and can see the injustice that's going on but obviously many high stakes politically and make this other politics going on and that's all quite intimidating beyond what we're interested in which is just. prime minister theresa may is health phone call to the iranian president to discuss the

case further the british government is said to be considering diplomatic protection to safeguard her release more details are expected but there's now a new sense of urgency to gaar iraqi was being monitored for possible breast cancer course i apologize for the distress of the suffering that is being called a broad deals cast a shadow over british iranian relations and brings the competence of to reason may's government into question the park al-jazeera london. a judge has halted the controversial sale of two paintings by the american artist norman rockwell at the heart of the masses whether the museum has a right to set of works that with donated to it for safe keeping the museum says it needs expected fifty million dollars sale to pay for renovations a presence in amy has. the works of norman rockwell provide a window into america's past small town twentieth century life whether it's after

hours fun seen here at shuffled his barber shop or the bustle of blacksmith's boy these paintings were donated by the artist to the berkshire museum in the one nine hundred fifty s. but the museum in the state of massachusetts where rockwell lived and worked for the last twenty five years of his life fell on hard times and decided to sell them my grandfather gave them to be viewed by the people the birchers probably in gratitude. to the director and to the museum i think the museum is losing its soul i think it's. you know it's very clear that it is a mission around science history an art and has decided to sell the art in order to invest in the other parts of the mission. norman rockwell's descendants aren't the only ones upset about it but the museums board which turned down our request for an interview says it's been losing a million dollars a year and needs to raise money to revamp its site to attract new visitors. a

massachusetts court has delayed the sale after the family of the state attorney general's office sued the state argued the sale also opposed by the association of art museum directors and the american alliance of museums may violate the museum's responsibility as a charitable trust are critically rosenbaum says the move would set a bad precedent allowing cash strapped institutions to potentially convert public treasures into liquid assets the metropolitan museum couldn't find the money for its expansion that it's planning to do but it didn't sell the rembrandts that's not the way to do it what you do is you pause you postpone you make some cuts i mean laid off some people and you just wait until you can get the consensus and the donor support that you need or risk the sale of iconic works such as those of norman rockwell to private collectors where the american public won't get

a chance to see them kristen salumi al-jazeera. thank you and this is are these are the top stories of cats says the blockading countries have no desire to end the gulf crisis to mean been home at all funny spoke at a session of cats as parliamentary advisory body. i'm talking to you with all transparency we mean what we say when we say we are ready for agreements through dialogue based on mutual respect for sovereignty and shared commitments but on the other hand we know that the indications we receive say seach countries don't want to solution these countries with this attitude have opened a new stage in the relations between gulf countries we have benefited from this experience it brought out the best from the people who contributed to shaping its national identity and reinforced the national unity with the leadership of rescue

workers in iran have spent the night digging through rubble searching for survivors after a powerful earthquake struck near the iraqi border an estimated four hundred fifty people were killed and seven thousand injured in the magnitude seven point three quake meanwhile is military has cleared itself of committing atrocities against the rangar muslim minority in rakhine state rangar refugees accuse me and security forces of massacres rape and burning of villages but the military says it carried out its own investigation has found no wrongdoing canada's prime minister has highlighted the suffering of the rehang get a meeting with myanmar as leader and sons who cheat at the assy and some adjustments said he also talked about human rights for the philippine president rodriguez at the ted to that was something u.s. president donald trump failed to do and it led to angry scenes in manila proteus has called for trump to go home after a failed to condemn detaches brutal war on drugs the crowds burned a giant u.s.

flag for the first time in sixty years italy's football team of failed to qualify for the world cup the four time cup winners drew near nil was sweden in a play off it was a game they had to win legendary goalkeeper. for announced his retirement ending a twenty year international career that included winning the two thousand and six world cup. those are the headlines inside story is up next. swear in for us. is this a massive breach of privacy in india government leaders want to expand the world's largest biometric database and link more than a billion id calls with lowball.