nine hundred sixty seventy six days that redrew the map of the middle east this record of victory of the israeli army in that war was the greatest tragedy in the history of islam fifty years later al-jazeera explores the events leading to the war and its consequences which are still felt today we tried everything we went to the united nations tried to make. contacts through different countries and it was clear that all this was just north of the wall in june at this time. it's just race full and laughable on the defensive the white house tries to stop the release of a controversial book about donald trump's presidency. i know i'm right about this and this is all just here live from doha also coming up

a suicide attack here in the afghan capital kills at least eleven people. scrambling to fix a bug funding computer chips tech firms rushed to patch a security flaw which could affect billions of devices worldwide. a so-called bomb cyclon sweeps into the eastern part of north america with states bracing for record breaking cold. the white house is fighting back with threats of lawsuits over a damning book about u.s. presidents donald trump the upcoming book fire and fury inside the trump white house paints a highly critical picture of life inside the oval office that a president described as mentally unfit for the job and estabrook as more. president donald trump's press secretary came out swinging thursday saying americans are more concerned about policy then

a new book on the white house i don't think they really care about some trash and author that no one has ever heard of until today or a fired employee wants to peddle earlier attorneys for the president sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher and author demanding the book not be released they also threaten former white house strategist steve bannon with legal action for telling author michael wolff that donald trump jr was treasonous and unpatriotic for meeting with russians before the twenty sixteen presidential election after excerpts of the book were released wednesday and enraged president trump said of bannan when he. he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind initially ban and fired off a tweet saying i won't speak about who lost their minds or ever had one but he later tweeted that the president was a great man that prompted president trump to downplay the vitriol at a white house meeting thursday don't really tell me

a great man last night so you know you obviously changes tune pretty quick the book is a distraction for a president who is trying to advance his policies in the face of a deepening special investigation into russia's meddling into the twenty sixteen presidential election author michael wolff says he spent eighteen months and conducted roughly two hundred interviews with president from senior staff during the transition and the first year of his administration in a column thursday wolf seems to question the president's mental fitness for office it used to be inside of thirty minutes he'd repeat word for word and expression for expression the same three stories now it was within ten minutes the book is prompting speculation that the twenty fifth amendment to the constitution could be used to remove the president from office but former federal prosecutor melanie sloan says that he is unlikely to imagine the majority of the cabinet and the vice president of the united states actually sending a letter saying that the president of the united states is mentally incapacitated

is very hard to imagine and there are many commentators who believe this could lead to a constitutional crisis sions sloan says impeachment is a more likely scenario but with the congress still controlled by the president's own party that two seems unlikely at least for now dion estabrook al jazeera washington on most things a trial lawyer and he says it would be difficult to come up with a strong case to stop the book from being published all they can really do and now . they can. filing libel suit against bad in the publisher if there is any liable in the book and from next for the excerpts that i've certainly heard i don't see any libel most of that is opinion of me to say that mr trump is not fit for office is an opinion to say that there is chaos going on one has an opinion. to characterize what don jr did as

traitorous. perhaps gets close to liable but he's really just can't he's just giving an opinion as to what that meeting essentially boils down to so i don't think there's any chance that any kind of lawsuit would be successful if nothing donald trump does would surprise me you know he is incredibly thin skin. and just cannot take anybody criticizing or the fact that it's somebody so close to him i'm sure really really irks him. so i wouldn't be surprised if he's makes threats of a lawsuit but i really do not believe they're even will file because they'll just be embarrassed if they do. the u.s. is imposing new sanctions on iran over its ballistic missile program that was set in motion before the ongoing protests in iran but donald trump is warning there

could be more sanctions to come and the measures target five running entities involved in the development of the missiles many international sanctions on iran have been lifted and the twenty fifteen nuclear deal but the latest u.s. action is being taken unilaterally protests currently taking place in iran what initially sparked by the struggling economy which the government blames on sanctions well the u.n. security council is set to meet on friday to discuss those demonstrations iran's army chief says the process are over but insists his troops already to intervene if they're needed at least twenty two people have died in the week long on rest rallies in support of the government have been held for a second day zain but the reports from to. the size of these pro-government rallies is a message to iran's critics at home and abroad. iran's government has plenty of public support and is here to stay speaking to a crowd in the northern city of mush even

a political rival of iran's president in the last election said the predictions by foreign foes of an imminent overthrow of the government was a miscalculation. that. this crowd is glorious and meaningful when iranian people felt the footprint of the enemy they came to the scene and declared their hatred of america zionists and all the arrogant powers. rallies in recent days would suggest that a majority of iranians are in favor of maintaining iran's way of government especially in the face of violent instability. but they don't necessarily support president hassan rouhani policies the economic problems that sparked the now waning anti-government demonstrations in the first place are still a challenge for the rouhani administration. the main issue for the papal is currently inflation and the economy economic problems have resulted in corruption and moral issues in society economic stability is very important everyone who takes office makes some promises but they can't fulfill them at. the recent protests

because of high prices things shouldn't be so expensive that people have to cry out it was because officials didn't care about the people the cost of living is on the rise as unemployment and the economic boost draw any promised with his reelection has yet to materialize despite the partial lifting of economic sanctions following the nuclear deal in two thousand and fifteen government supporters are calling for all iranians to be a part of solving the country's problems. the government should adhere to its promises the promises talked about during the election and be accountable the whole country can help solve the economic and political problems here for now public support for the government appears to have ended a violent week of anti establishment protests what comes next will depend largely on how iran's leaders deal with the country's economy and what even if they are the legitimate grievances of their own people. egyptian wing of isos

calling for attacks on the palestinian group hamas has released a video asking its followers to attack the gaza based group before showing the execution of a man it said was a collaborator claimed responsibility for recent killings in egypt the latest saw nine people shot dead outside a church near cairo the new i saw video sites hamas is failure to prevent the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital it also blames the palestinian groups crackdown on the groups in gaza as reasons for attacking hamas protesters in the french capital have condemned israel for arresting a palestinian go arrested for a slapping a soldier in the face. the the activists marched through paris demanding the release of sixteen year old tommy she was detained last month and has been indicted on several charges including the sold to me made news two years ago when she was pictured biting a soldier who tried to arrest her younger brother. an explosion in the afghan

capital kabul has killed at least eleven people and wounded twenty five others claimed responsibility for the attack which targeted security personnel the blast happened as police were carrying out an operation trying to find people who was suspected of selling alcohol illegally delish one hundred has more from kabul. a suicide bomber detonated his explosives among the crowd of protesters on thursday now the protesters were demanding their businesses to be open afghan police have been greeting each businesses in shops in kabul. area where these shops are reputed to be selling illicit substances like alcohol which is banned in afghanistan these shop owners were demanding their shops being opened the afghan police try to stop these protestors clashes broke among the

protestors and afghan police and in these clashes number of protesters and also police wounded now taking the advantage a suicide bomber detonated his explosive among the crowd of police and in the protestors. and it turned the whole protest into a blood shed by killing number of people and dozens of people wounded the u.s. has confirmed suspending security aid to pakistan he blames islamabad failure to take decisive action against taliban fighters targeting u.s. troops in afghanistan on monday donald trump tweeted that washington had foolishly given pakistan billions of dollars in aid with he said nothing in return but lies and deceit pakistan's government rejects the accusations saying it's made huge sacrifices to help the u.s. fight in the so-called war on terror rosen jordan has more from washington d.c. . the state department spokesperson heather nauert says it should not come as

a surprise to officials in islam abad that the trumpet ministration the suspending security assistance to pakistan she explains why suspended at this time does not mean that it will be suspended forever to stand has the ability to get this money back if you will in the future but they have to take decisive action they have to take decisive steps people have long asked you know why don't you do more about pakistan and i think this sort of answers that question obviously pakistan is important an important relationship to the united states because together we can work hard to combat terrorism perhaps no other country has suffered more from terrorism than pakistan and many other countries in that part of the region they understand that but still they aren't taking the steps that they need to take in order to fight terrorism it's not clear yet how much more money is at risk already

more than two hundred fifty five million dollars that is supposed to be used to buy military equipment has been put into an escrow account so that once pakistan improves its behavior on bringing in members of the hakani network the talabani and other groups to the u.s. to satisfaction it can once again gain access to that money however there is some concern among some al was here in washington that the pakistanis might decide to retaliate by closing off the border pass from its seaport it order to get u.s. military equipment inside afghanistan the last time that happened back in two thousand and twelve there was a significant impact on the u.s. military's ability to equip its troops who have been trying to stabilize afghanistan for you some time now and lots more still ahead on al-jazeera a group struggle to cope with the head injury refugee crisis with ten. news of

thousands of new arrivals expected this year. and saying against the passage of time efforts to save the ancient cinema. mini spinning sky and spy the taj mahal. are as the sun sets in the city of angels . and over the rains beginning to pep up for some of us and china as we head through the day on friday there's just a few bits and pieces of cloud and a few showers around but then those showers really begin to get going as we head through into saturday and the northern part of the map as you might expect a lot of that is turning to snow but further south we'll just see some heavy rain and it will be very very heavy at times before the towards the south and here we're seeing some shop showers as well mostly in the western parts of our shots head we've seen some very sharp showers over k.l. and across singapore and there's likely to be

a fair few more of those as we head through the day on friday as we head into saturday doesn't like to draw a picture here but elsewhere they'll still be some shop showers particularly across the philippines and forcing job educators looking fairly wet if we had across towards india and pakistan here the weather is mostly dry unsettled at the moment but that is giving us a problem with the air quality no improvement really as we head through the next couple of days new delhi not that woman the moment only around nineteen or twenty degrees of course it is mild a force in colombo but hit that yes the risk of a shower here in doha well winds will be picking up over the next few days that not just yet so twenty four degrees will be our maximum on friday on saturday will see it's a little bit milder we'll get up to around twenty six so we're day. there with sponsored by the time. comes i just really. raw cheese musical pioneer. uses to be silent in spite of the. and the

cycles of violence. to the school for young gun. krause to be easy. with this documentary this time on al-jazeera. you're watching all of us here a reminder of our top stories the white house is threatening legal action over an upcoming book about donald trump's presidency it paints a highly critical picture of life inside the oval office and a president described as a mentally unfit for the job. the u.s. is imposing new sanctions on iran over its ballistic missile program that measures

target five iranian entities involved in the development of the weapons that was set in motion before the ongoing protests in iran donald trump's warning there could be more sanctions to come. an explosion in the afghan capital kabul has killed at least eleven people on board a twenty five others claimed responsibility for the attack which targeted security personnel. tech firms have admitted a serious flaw in chips that power billions of computers and smartphones around the world experts are now scrambling to fix the issue before sensitive information stored in the chips becomes vulnerable to hackers all platforms that are at risk including apple and microsoft brunell's reports. the world's biggest technology companies are scrambling to fix critical cyber security flaws that could compromise every computer smartphone insert. oversold in the past twenty years packers if they

are able to install some malicious software on a computer and then go the extra step to take advantage of this problem they can access some really sensitive information including passwords encryption keys that let them access even more sensitive data security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in computer chips used in nearly all devices the flaws dubbed specter and meltdown by security experts would allow intruders to steal any data on the systems companies involved including apple microsoft and google the flawed chips are made by intel a r m and a m d google's project zero security team said it found the flaws some time last year the company announced details of how it is working to protect users of google cloud and android devices it says a new version of the chrome browser debuting later this month will include fixes

microsoft is also developed an emergency patch that will automatically be applied to all devices running on windows ten apple has not publicly disclosed any fixes for its operating systems those patches will address the melt down bug but they could significantly slow down device performance in some cases by as much as thirty percent if i have news for you got no device and will become more vulnerable to hackers if you go to a new device it may slow down if it's a government chip inside it the other flaw called specter is harder to fix and will ultimately require a redesign of the chips themselves rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. the u.s. says there won't be any military exercises with south korea during next month's winter olympics souls' bins concerned that if the drills do go ahead they won't have enough armed forces to provide security for the games president donald trump

spoken with his counterpart moon j.n. by phone on thursday trump says he hopes good results will come from planned meetings between pyongyang and sold the talks are set for tuesday and will mainly focus on north korea's participation in the olympics. save the children says thousands of pregnant woman and new mothers in revenge or refugee camps in bangladesh are urgently in need of care the aid organization says it expects as many as forty eight thousand babies to be born in the camps in twenty eighteen that's more than one hundred thirty women had they given birth often in unsanitary conditions without adequate medical help that are now more than eight hundred fifty thousand range of refugees in bangladesh and it's estimated that sixty percent are children and almost five percent are pregnant woman among the conflict and humanitarian advocacy advocates advise and i'd save the children he's recently returned from a hinge of camps in bangladesh he says there are limits to what aid agencies can do

. it is six hundred fifty thousand refugees who came over in the space of just a couple of months into an area that wasn't really prepared to to except them in terms of the conditions the size of these camps the sheer scale of it is like nothing i've witnessed was work as an aid worker and there are huge issues now there in these camps and just the die a living conditions that agencies like save the children are trying shore these vulnerable women vulnerable children dying perish from completely preventable causes it is just so many people who are desperate and completely in need of humanitarian support and there is only so much the agencies can do to to meet those needs and in fact on my my last day in the camps just before i came home we had a very young child probably the smallest baby ever seen coming to one of our health centers. by on and she'd been born prematurely. about three hundred

meters away from the health center in and literally on the bamboo on the top pulled in and it was already too late and you know we were able to rescue that child and they perished and unfortunately that was a real haim hailes tragic you know when you're working on these responses that actually is only so much you can do and die situation now is that even the children who do survive those who are born who are healthy the conditions are so bad that there's a real very large chance you know they'll be set for disease to mount a tradition and that they might not reach their fifth birthday. the president of togo has broken his silence following months of protests against his rule forty nothing day has called for dialogue with opposition groups weekly demonstrations have been taking place since august with more than a dozen deaths reported protesters want new rules limiting presidents to two terms in office lasting way and his father before him have ruled the west african nation

since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the president reached out to his opponents and his miriam message back to its. idea compartments dialogue must remain the preferred way of resolving disagreements between political activists. recently our culture of shared life of courtesy and brotherhood have often been affected by attitudes positions and behaviors that to die metrically opposed to our values the situation is in tol'able and is detrimental to our common project in zimbabwe a u.s. citizen has been released from jail after serving two months for insulting then president robert mugabe and social media twenty five year old moto doll of an was freed after prosecutors failed to provide a trial date she could still be summoned back to jail but departure as president would make appear to make vats unlikely or donovan was charged with subversion for allegedly calling mugabe a sick man on twitter. turkey has accused the u.s.

of unprecedented interference in its domestic affairs after an american court convicted a turkish banker of helping iran invade sanctions and that ha kind of taylor and eight others have been found guilty of moving billions of dollars worth of iranian money through u.s. banks disguised as sales of food and gold turkish president of egypt a about a one has also been implicated in the case. this is a scandalous to see show of a scandalous case it was clear from the beginning that this case was a setup aimed not interfering in turkey mystic affairs i just tearing up turkey's dumbest politics illegally shameful a scenario he's been put into practice now we want to how long the us administration we don't allow fear to look willing to let work with blood demi can just assist them in their favor through the lean they how to stop. i want to storm system known as the bomb cycle own is causing travel chaos in eastern us the mayor

of new york city has declared a weather emergency as there is expecting up to twenty five centimeters of snow fall they stream weather has forced schools and offices to close and left many travelers stranded and fights canceled and we never get you from the show it will be canceled. we didn't know and we next. it wouldn't be an entire city. it insurance and you know. you just you know when. you return to school. this map shows the areas on the east coast that will see the worst of the bomb cycling's so-called according to the national weather service heavy snow and record breaking freezing temperatures are not expected to taper off until late friday that's when the storm moves towards canada. in china least three airports have been shot and nine others

are experiencing delays because of heavy snowfall there the weather alerts been raised to its second highest level parts of the central northern and eastern regions could see up to thirty centimeters of snow thousands of government workers in argentina have protested in the capital want to say is over job cuts the recent government layoffs are part of a series of reforms by president but it's your mockery to try to lower the difficult deficit and attract investors the unions say at least twelve hundred federal employees have lost their jobs since december. a son of tennis champion bought his backers says he's pressing charges against a german nationalist politician who insulted him using a racist slur in social media know a backer whose mothers of german and african-american descent described the remarks by jens mayer as unbearable and racist as an m.p. for the alternative for germany party which campaigns against mass immigration and what it calls islamization he lashed out at back on twitter after the twenty three

year old complained in an interview of racism in berlin. there may be in golf has a rich maritime heritage dating back thousands of years but the construction of the traditional diables is under threat charles stratford has been milking museum boat builders trying to keep the ancient workmanship to life. history books a downs have been sailing the warm waters of the gulf for two thousand years. but exactly who invented this ancient type of vessel is lost in time maritime scholars believe they could have originated in china around six hundred b.c. . the sales have been replaced by an engine but they are still used for trade fishing and tourism along the coasts of the united arab emirates saudi arabia qatar yemen. taliep kafeel nasri has been sailing

tourists along oman's coast the twenty year is a school. i live in create on the sea and the sea is everything to me it's a type of therapy i've spent my life on the ocean on boats like these which are so important as symbols of our heritage. the historic pulte of sue situation dona lagoon in eastern oman was once home to a fleet of hundreds of dals the portuguese the dutch and the british hold their boats in these waters over the centuries all keen to benefit from its ideal trading location. it takes only five days to sail to india from here. maritime trade started flourishing here in the seventeenth century with places aspera field advantage of all india and africa and so also became a major center for the ship building industry a tradition steeped in history and culture but is now struggling to survive.

this is the only dal building yard in saloon now. this boat is being built for a country owner when it's finished it will cost more than three hundred thousand dollars and that's without the engine. in keeping with tradition it's being constructed almost entirely from a cd and. originally these boats were literally lashed together using rope. and even now little metal is used as in the past the wood is imported from asia and africa allie's family had been building dallas for more than three hundred years the had the. main challenge we face is the introduction of fiberglass fiberglass dhows are easier to build than they are cheaper but wooden boats last much longer fifty to sixty years of course this is our heritage and we must protect it people must know their traditions and protect the without our traditions who are we.

many of these predominantly indian fishermen spend weeks at a time at sea many of their fathers also sailed fishing and trading down to and from india they are reliant on their dals the name of which is actually a swahili word originating in east africa the arabs simply call them meaning ships. a testament to the commercial and cultural impact they've had over centuries in the gulf and well beyond a tradition that people such as captain say they will teach to preserve. that al-jazeera. i'm about to some of the headlines in al-jazeera the white house is threatening legal action over an upcoming book about donald trump's presidency it paints

a highly critical picture of life inside the oval office and describes the president as mentally unfit for the job white house press secretary said a huckabee sanders has spoken out against the author of the book. it's just graceful and laughable if he was unfit he probably wouldn't be sitting there and wouldn't have defeated the most qualified group of candidates the republican party has ever seen the u.s. is imposing new sanctions on iran over its ballistic missile program the measures target five iranian entities involved in the development of the weapons that were set in motion before all of the ongoing protests in iran but donald trump is warning there could be more sanctions to come. an explosion in the afghan capital kabul has killed at least eleven people and wounded twenty five all those those claimed responsibility for the attack which targeted security personnel the blast happened as police have been searching for people who were suspected of selling alcohol illegally the u.s.

has confirmed it suspending security aid to pakistan and blames islamabad failure to take decisive action against taliban fighters targeting u.s. troops in afghanistan on monday donald trump tweeted that washington had foolishly given pakistan billions of dollars in aid with what he said was nothing in return but lies and deceit pakistan's government rejects the accusations. turkey's accuse the u.s. of unprecedented interference in its domestic affairs after an american court convicted a turkish banker of helping iran invade sanctions ma'am and a hook on the tiller and eight others have been found guilty of moving billions of dollars worth of iranian money through u.s. banks disguised as sales of food and gold i want to storm system known as the loan is causing travel chaos in the eastern u.s. the mayor of new york city's declared a weather emergency is the area is expected up to twenty five centimeters of snow fall extreme weather forced schools and offices to close and many travelers have

been left stranded those are the headlines now in an al-jazeera it's inside story by. donald trump threatens to cut all financial aid to the palestinian authority and the palestinian officials and islamabad how strong it pushed back against the u.s. president so what's behind. this is inside story.