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problem coming out for the next sixty minutes celebrating a lucrative partnership as saudi arabia's crown prince meets u.s. president donald trump at the white house. facebook executives will appear before the u.s. congress is there are more revelations in the duck to break scandal involving millions of users. the death toll from syria's war visors and both damascus and the nearby rebel held suburb of east and. at the u.s. state of texas a city is on edge after an unexplained string of bombings. saudi crown prince mohammed bin salon has met the u.s. president to the white house but donald trump using the encounter for an unusual photo opportunity he displayed large cards to illustrate the benefits of being solved to riyadh but rights groups say those sales should not be made to saudi

arabia which is leading a campaign in yemen against the rebels alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . it was a looky arrival for such a high profile visit the crown prince from saudi arabia did not go in through the front door but soon found himself in the oval office and the u.s. president donald trump addressing merely a domestic audience took the opportunity to outline the financial importance of the cited relationship some of the things that have been a. and are currently under construction and will be delivered the city review very soon this is mohammed bin soundman second visit to the white house in a year and he was keen to point out this was the continuation of an old alliance we have all this ally for us of america in the middle east right now more than eighty years but there was a warning from the president to saudi arabia and others in the region whether it's on arabia or other countries as we know there will be no funding it is we have

a zero tolerance for the funding of terrorists among the things to be covered in the talks the iran nuclear deal security across the middle east. and the war in yemen which was also being discussed across time with some u.s. senators expressing concern about america's continued support of the saudi led operation in the country u.s. forces have been actively engaged in support of the saudi coalition in this war providing intelligence an aerial refueling of planes whose bombs have killed thousands of people and made this humanitarian crisis far worse crime prince's visit here to the white house marks the start of a three week trip to the united states he'll meet business leaders oil executives academics representatives from silicon valley's high tech companies and the movie industry all aimed at reshaping his kingdom's image here in the united states but one analyst says there are bigger issues to deal with closer to home for saudi arabia of course saudi arabia has transformed itself as a from

a status quo power to it but to an activist party in the region which has put it directly at coalition course with iran and sets the stage for a very dangerous and unpredictable environment there was no mention of the ongoing gulf crisis in the oval office treated bargo against qatar as no been in place for ten months and donald trump has moved away from his offer to host talks for everyone at camp david mohammed bin salman has a long list of things to be discussed to be. didn't agree during this u.s. trip but he does so believing his relationship with the president is deep strong and mutually beneficial alan fischer i'll just say that at the white house. and shortly after the prince's visit to the white house the u.s. senate killed a resolution that would have prevented continued american involvement in the cell the led war in yemen the vote was fifty five to forty four but let's get more on this visit now we're joined by john. jay sal the journalist and columnist and he's

joining us live from washington d.c. via skype very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so let's start with what's happening in yemen and why do you think the senate killed that resolution even though that campaign the saudi campaign in yemen has killed thousands of civilians . the argument probably of senator crocker the united states should being gay to saudi arabia does consist mainly members of the congress to kill. the proposal but that does it mean that it is moving away from its involvement it will continue in supporting those early to come to the host east but in the same time i think there will be more and more political and the logic engagement vents but there are the states there is rumors that that decision is developing. some peace

process in the world and in yemen and i think the time is right saudi arabia also. began to support a peaceful solution for the world in yemen and everybody wants human and the success you know that sound they want and gehman started wallet mohamed bin psalm on this defense minister it's one of many advance of recent years that he's been at the send to all of the kingdom is trying to portray him as a forma do you think he is. i think here is his reform and he's making a huge change in the country when it when it comes to already kill is own it comes to education response to well i'm sorry no doubt i see him as a reformer and he's we've but we want more of him we want more political openness that will complement his reform do a lot of voices for the leave it is becoming and do you think that there is going to be more political openness and openness when it comes to things like media

freedom censorship no as we speak right now i can see signs of that but i think it's inevitable it is part of. reform and eventually you will come to learn and. really is we don't have much to present and the world is not really given much for. going to the states and other was the one country is very much in sort of blue shield with the social reform rightly so because it's long overdue you also saw the departure from the radicalism that is something now america's been demanding for the. for the last thirty kid and he is living there and it is good for us the people who work for those dead on the wall so nobody is president for the current form right now what as well as a lot of much needed reforms in the country there's other work to be done as well

and i know that you watch a very interesting article about why you think that detroit the city of detroit michigan should be one of the places that should be on that muhamad been psalm on strip it is and why do you think that is. because we should look to do six jobs for the saudi people and. fixing. leading to do if you will in many many of the cities before we go into futuristic cities we should fix what he what he has and that will bring foreign investments and that our partners in in egypt and we are it is very much still all. require fixing and as much as president from is concerned with providing jobs for the american i'm sure about some of the month should be concerned but what about the job and that is the essence of revitalization in detroit is to provide a good life to bring investments but to the city to

a future city. so he should fix what he has and. the and he also have a number of projects that was launched by king of the law that hasn't succeeded yet and on his watch right now there were not in his watch in the past but that and it was right now like in our bill of financial city seventy four building that is still very pitiful complex of los facade buildings that need investors need the business the movie and that is a big job to do so why should he go into futuristic cities when he has a job right in his hand and he should go out go out into you know fairs or i missed a show gee thank you very much for your time manual and alice on this that is jamal khashoggi joining us live from washington d.c. thank you. let's move on to other news now and facebook will brief the

u.s. congress on wednesday over a scandal involving the data breach of millions of its users cambridge and a little political consultant sea based in london is accused of gaining on authorized access to the details of fifty million facebook users the firm worked for donald trump's presidential bed and the breaks that campaign in the u.k. its chief executive has been suspended he's been secretly recorded boasting about the firm's ability to sway elections will news of the scandal hit facebook shares the company's stock fell two and a half percent on tuesday that followed an almost seven percent drop on monday sixty billion dollars has been wiped off the company's value over the past two days it's on your guy a go reports. a virtual world with a very real money making data trail uses of social media platforms unaware how profitable the information they have is for those willing to access it the scandal involving facebook may make many of us reconsider that. cambridge i listed is

accused of misusing the data of millions of facebook users we've had quite a few with a whistleblower who worked at the british based data mining firm says the information was used to build a system which may have influenced voters in the us presidential election as well as all the votes and how a company even had dealings with russian interests we made it pretty damn clear to a lot of people in russia that we had this giant data site and that it was all sort of prepackaged with you know predictions about what's going to influence people and their political you know orientation. and that that can like plug right into you know like online display networks and advertising networks. and and that that data was being modeled by somebody who was also working in russia on

russian projects that were very similar to some politicians the advantage of using information harvested from social media be used as a try and get into the minds of potential voters but there's been little questioning of the consequences which is now why the information commissioner wants that search warrant to get into the opera. and to get an audit abbess. the details of millions of facebook users were reportedly gathered by a university professor using a personality testing out he created called this is your digital life while users gave their permission for information to be used by him it's alleged the data was then sold to a third party cambridge analytic are in violation of facebook's own policies but cambridge analytic denies doing anything wrong and says it deleted all records when it discovered how the data had been attained from facebook not only is britain's data protection watchdog after proof of data was wiped facebook says it wants that

proof to the. the social media giant has since hired a digital forensics to find out how the data was leaked and assurances that it was destroyed but its response may have come too late facebook share price fell almost seven percent wiping nearly forty billion dollars of its value the company's chief of security alex thomas is reportedly to leave because of internal disagreements at how facebook should deal with its role in spreading disinformation politicians in britain and the u.s. are now pushing for facebook's chief executive mark zuckerberg to appear before them to answer questions of the massive data breach meanwhile the accusations against cambridge analytic are rapidly growing since. an undercover investigation by britain's channel full secretly taped a cambridge analytical executive appearing to boast about the firm's ability to sway elections by entrapping politicians in compromising situations.

and conducting fake news campaigns something facebook's accused of enabling and failing to tackle effectively sony diag al-jazeera london. can go it is a senior fellow at the center for american progress and he says further breaches of facebook user data can be expected. think the most alarming thing to learn about this particular incident with facebook is that it's probably not unique from what we've learned for the last couple of days from whistleblowers and investigations is that facebook has basically built its business model from two thousand and seven on words about allowing app developers to use its platform and its services to design that harvested data from facebook users and the manner in which this particular incident with the app that was designed by the cambridge university

professor and then that. information was transmitted on to cambridge analytic the political consultancy is very similar apparently to basically how hundreds if not thousands of apps were developed for facebook and on facebook's platform and so what we could be talking about here is a systemic type of data transfer from facebook users to third party apps and then after it makes that transfer we just don't know at all what's going to happen to that data. just more than sixty civilians have been killed in battle how parts of east and they died in attacks by the syrian military and its allies and another thirty five people died when a rocket fired by rebels landed in a market in a government controlled part of damascus that had been the area close to the frontline in the fighting between government and rebel forces saying

a hold of us following the story from beirut to neighboring lebanon this is not the first time civilians in damascus in government controlled territory are killed by rocket fire rebels have fired rockets into damascus since the pro-government alliance launched the bombing campaign over a month ago in fact over thirty civilians have been killed this is a way that the rebels have been retaliate thing it is also one of the reasons why according to the government they have launched this campaign to recapture east and with it to eliminate this threat now the bombing that targeted the busy markets in damascus. coinciding with renewed escalation in eastern who the rebel pockets the rebel pockets in eastern libya coming under heavy fire over the past twenty four hours dozens of civilians are being killed continue to be killed in this ongoing campaign and the united nations is also warning that the immense human suffering is only going to get worse so it is. under attack the northern

pockets of what is now. why did rebel enclave is again a battleground there was a brief lull in the violence but the boredom and has resumed after what syrian military sources say is the collapse of negotiations with. one of the three rebel factions in eastern. congo. she controls it is defending what is left of a stronghold syrian military sources say the group refused to accept demands by a russian military delegation the pro-government alliance says it will step up military operations to force a surrender or pressure racialist back to the negotiating table was. the bottom of the new draft of the shelling is targeting civilians and it hasn't stopped. this is an air strike right now as you can see the plane is bombarding residential areas of

bombardments haven't stopped since yesterday until this very moment. tens of thousands of civilians are trapped in eastern hooter's largest population center cynthia salt was launched more than a month ago syrian government forces and their allies have advanced deep inside the rebel controlled area outside damascus splitting it into three pockets aid managed to enter to my joining recent weeks but one of the warehouses was hit in monday's attacks humanitarian agencies said the supplies that were delivered were far from enough but they were desperately needed by a population that has been under tight siege for months the group ceasefire into also allowed dozens of wounded and sick people to be evacuated to hospitals the delivery of aid the evacuation of medical cases and a cease fire are what the rebel factions are demanding but it's not clear how much bargaining power they have they have been weakened after losing a lot of territory the pro-government alliance has the upper hand on the ground.

and its aim since the start of the bombing campaign is to recapture eastern. and the president of the opposition in the area. the syrian army is now clearing its terrorists and is removing all the explosive devices and after. all the way until we reach job or until every piece of. the battle has caused immense human suffering the united nations is warning of a further deepening of the crisis it says more than forty five thousand people have been displaced seventy percent of them women and children and they along with hundreds of thousands of others trapped in the rubble pockets face what the united nations calls a catastrophic situation. beirut now a power vacuum left by the syrian government operation to retake east and go to a scene i saw move into another area near damascus the syrian military has been forced to send to cover himself of the capital after the area was overrun by isis

fighters that had been left largely vacant doing fighting in other areas the u.n. has voiced concern that the chaos in syria could allow for a revival of what's lost much of its territory last year. and the united nations says it wants full access to civilians forced to flee. and another battle for the north and what it says is a massive new displacement. according to your staff the needs are overwhelming and growing by the hour there are also serious health risks all existing shelters are extremely congested and overcrowded and like basic sanitation people queuing for line in for hours to use restrooms we have plenty more heads on the news hour including students prepare to march on washington protesting gun violence yet another school shooting this time not far from washington itself. the world's last male white rhino has died at the age of forty five and the sports lead on messi and

argentina get paid to take on italy as preparations for the well top top. police in texas of responding to an explosion at a charity store and austin they are on high alert after a series of bombings in the state the small but say the latest and flint as not related but let's get more on this now john hendren is joining us live from austin to tell us about this latest incident john. i do apologize we will be speaking to john and just a moment but first we have a report from him. police in texas say they are hunting for a serial bomber we are working under the belief that this is related to the other bombing incidents that have occurred in our community over the past week and

a half package bombs in the state capital austin killed two people injured four others people are scared you would be too you know random packages explosive people dying for no reason i'd be scared to on tuesday a fifth package exploded at a courier distribution center in the city of shirts near san antonio a package had been traveling along the automated conveyor when it added have exploded. one employee that was standing near the explosion later complained of plaintive ringing in the ears. she was treated and released we were very fortunate that there were no injuries police say the eventual destination of that package was an address in austin and would have come here next brian himes in sixty other employees of a courier company were evacuated after another suspicious package was found here it gives me. that packet in soon as i set it down and explode then i go and sort of

the truck goes and then that truck is full of the other drugs phone a gas and diesel and a whole fedex vicinities all destroyed and everybody strapped in there you scared now not scared the fed explosion was the fifth in a series apparently detonating early the first three packages were left on doorsteps like deliveries then the pattern went from specific to random a fourth bomb on sunday injured two pedestrians who stepped on a roadside tripwire you can hear the blast in this surveillance video. not since the attacks by so-called unabomber ted kaczynski in one nine hundred ninety five police faced a bombing spree like it the bombers progressing he's feeling extremely powerful he's got the city yardage and he's reveling in the fear that he's producing five hundred federal state and local law enforcement officers are trying to find the bomber the triggers on the bombs are sophisticated but police say there is no set pattern to them now they're asking everyone in this city of one million to consider

every package suspicious until they find the bomber and stop the explosions police addressed the bomber directly we want to understand what brought you to this point and we want to listen to you a plea for the start to talk and an end to the bombings. joining us live from austin now and john as we reported earlier there has been an all the and student saying that the latest is not. that's right this is just evidence. on edge this city is what happened was apparently there was a second hand store and some kind of incendiary device was found there turned out to be unrelated but the first the first notice we got was the police department sending out a notice that there had been another incident so that sent hundreds of police and

there are five hundred federal local and state police officers out here sent them on alert you could see some of them behind me probably and we talked to people here who said this is really begun to struck to strike home they've had five explosions one bit of good news for the police is that a sixth bomb was found and detonated that means they have some evidence they can look at they can look at the handwriting on there if there is handwriting they can look at how it was wrapped how the bomb was made and that might give them some clues but the people we've talked to when you heard some of them in that story said that they have fear here that they never had before no one really knows why this is happening john thank you very much for that finale that's john hendren with the very latest from austin thank you. a student who opened fire on classmates in the u.s. state of maryland has died it's not yet clear whether the teenager shot himself or was killed by

a school officer while tuesday's attack which left two others injured comes just days before thousands were expected to march on washington demanding tougher gun laws castro has more from maryland. before the morning bell could signal the start of class of the ringing of a gun shot echoed through the crowded hallway of great mills high school in maryland police say a seventeen year old boy named austin rollins hold out a hand gun and shot two students one a sixteen year old girl had a prior relationship with rawlins the other is a fourteen year old boy both remain hospitalized when this shooting took place our school resource officer who was his station inside the school was alerted to the the event and the shots being fired. pursued the shooter engage the shooter during which he fired a round at the shooter the shooter died at a hospital police say they get to determine whether he shot himself or was killed by the school officer meanwhile terrified parents reunited with their children sit

out the school to get an education. call this shooting people at the school. were. the shooting here was the twenty first incident involving gun violence or threat of violence in u.s. schools since feb fourteenth. that's the day nicholas cruz is accused of walking into a florida high school and killing seventeen students and teachers with a semiautomatic rifle he's now facing the death penalty for the murders because he was scared i want to come out the next day the six thousand five hundred students at great mills had joined in last week's school walkout in honor of the florida victims and to demand a tighter gun control laws now following a shooting on their own campus the students have a more personal reason to protest many say they plan to attend a student march on washington d.c.

this saturday organized by the survivors of the florida school shooting the event is expected to attract half a million students from across the country whose message will be simple that children's lives are more in short gun. castro algis year at st mary's county maryland. and students from florida's marjorie's steinman douglas high school have criticized politicians for taking money from the national rifle association to shoot a threatening video of journalists accusing them of bias survivors was speaking at harvard university about the shooting at their school last month which left seventeen people dead. if a terrorist organization had sent that video out to be united states everyone would be on high alert because by someone slipping over an hourglass and saying your time is running out that's a threat to america and that's a threat to the american people and that should not be people politicians should

not be taking money from a group that says to their constituents your time is up a police officer in the u.s. state of minnesota has been charged with murder for shooting an unarmed australian woman last july muhammad no shot forty year old justin dimond while responding to a nine one one call about a possible sexual assault near her house prosecutors say they found no evidence of officer nor and countering any threat at the time. still ahead on the news hour vaunting dry years of drought in south africa but farms and jobs a risk. the woman working to save to nancy is ancient medina and serena williams digs deep at her home tournament as a tough first round opponent awaits her in the miami. from the clear blue sky of the doha mooney. to the fresh fruits and grease in the

city of. hell it's got cold again for eastern china a significantly serving the temperature in shanghai at best is eight degrees at least the rain has gone by wednesday i think you feel the chill down in hong kong to the twenty three degrees by thermometer humidity has gone down as bit of rain still around us is choking due for a change underneath the cloud and the wet weather snow in the high ground of course for the west for that disappears by thursday shanghai's temps up to sixty in hong kong's much the same probably feel a little bit better south of this and it's a road to dry picture through southeast asia in the philippines and these malaysia there are some big showers around parts of borneo the heaviest rain has been into d.c. here in west papua and also in sumatra nearly a hundred millimeters in about six hours on the other somaya as it has it got sort of peaceful event i suspect singapore kuala lumpur looks less likely to be places

you know nurses the rain is still around in java and sulawesi picks up once again this of course this comes thursday some useful rain in a slow circulating system is obvious via satellite over afghanistan that runs through northern pakistan the hindu kush as well that disappear into the sunshine behind it might disturb the air a fairly hot new delhi. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media and state p.r. machine go into overdrive. but just who is influencing. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between what can be said and what conduct. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for outside the polling the media opinion the listening post time on al-jazeera.

running six continents across the. al-jazeera is corresponding bringing the stories they told of this was another look at the bottom of the on a lesser scale. we're at the we're still barrage count for palestinian al-jazeera in world news. it's good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour these are our top stories saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin saddam on has met the u.s. president at the white house donald trump used large cards to illustrate the number

of u.s. arms being salt's today on. facebook will brief the u.s. congress on wednesday over a dollar for breach of the millions of its users cambridge adolescent a political consultancy based in london is accused of gaining on authorized access to the information and more than sixty civilians have been killed and rebel held parts of eastern ghouta after attacks by the syrian military and its allies thirty five others have also died after a rocket fired by rebels landed in a market and the government controlled part of damascus. now the nonprofit organization water aid as one that more people than ever before are struggling to find clean water close to their homes the group's annual report says six out of ten people now live in what's described as water stressed areas eight hundred forty four million people need to walk more than thirty minutes from home to find drinkable water nearly three hundred thousand children under five die every year of

diseases caused by dirty water inadequate toilets and poor hygiene but the report also highlights progress of ghana's far has most improved its people's access to clean water the united nations hopes to make clean water available to everyone everywhere by two thousand and thirty while one of the many cities affected by a lack of water in south africa's cape town farmers near the city is still suffering with thirty thousand seasonal workers laid off and many more may lose their jobs if it doesn't rain soon and the latest part of our first series smell come web reports from cape town. as the water runs out the monday buthelezi vegetables that dying she's among seventy thousand people who grow their own food in south africa's western cape robbins suffering the worst drought on record it's a disaster. god knows because one of the reasons that we try and grow our own gardens well i'm employment for one we're trying to save as much money as we cane

so it's going to have a huge impact we would be forced to use the little money that we have to go and buy growing vegetables in sandy soil isn't easy at the best of times but it's a key food source for the many only employed in town soups like this one. out in the countryside the large commercial farms are usually much more productive but the drought means jobs are on the line. this farm grows great for wind harvest a down to the high as about a third of the people it used to. i'm standing in one of the farms reservoirs farmer says in twenty fifteen the water was almost at the top twenty sixteen it was about here twenty seventeen came down to here and this is all that's left the farm manager told us he need substantial rainfall in the coming winter i've been following from all those twenty years of never seen something like this so

maybe fires start forming up to bed differently i can save it for another year or two but i don't know i've never ever felt what it western cape home to twenty percent of south africa's agricultural production. wind fruits and grains from here exported industry representatives say that drowns making it harder for the country to balance its books that doesn't only play against the agricultural economy in terms of the output that we get but it also plays a case on the trade balance side we're already seeing now that imports for example of wheat will be the second highest level this is on record in south africa around about one point nine million tons of which that will need to be imported or is that is because of the implications of this drought two hundred thousand seasonal workers are employed in the provinces farms their families depend on the income thirty thousand of already been laid off and without rain so will many more. now

where al-jazeera western cape south africa. front of former president nicolas sarkozy is being held by police of allegations his two thousand and seven election campaign was illegally financed and part by then libyan leader moammar gadhafi investigators are looking into claims that gadhafi gave sarkozy as much as sixty million dollars when he was running for office he denies wrongdoing that report. nicolas sarkozy only served one term as french president he swept to power in two thousand and seven promising a new style of leadership but he left office amid allegations that his presidential campaign had received illegal funds from libya in two thousand and twelve a french news website published documents suggesting former libyan leader mohamed gadhafi had agreed to give sarkozy's campaign fifty million dollars today the editor says it's one of more than france's biggest political scandals. when the

arab spring kicks off starting in tunisia and people start rising up there are real questions about this twenty eleven war where france with nicolas sarkozy overstepped the mandate of the united nations to the point where a regime was overthrown allowing for a dictator to be assassinated one can wonder if there was not a dimension of private war to destroy the evidence for thirty plus the allegations of overshadowed sarkozy's political career some people in france questioned why just months into his presidency sarkozy and find to get daffy to paris for a lavish state visit at the time gadhafi had been eager to shake off his image as a political pariah and reenter the world stage then in twenty thirteen a french lebanese businessman said it carried millions of dollars from tripoli to paris for sarkozy's campaign. we are the facts yes yes gaddafi pates

a cozy. he paid for the complain he paid for other things it's not my problem. techie dean's accusations helped end sarkozy's third presidential bid. what a disgrace a university shamed to be giving publicity to a man who's been in prison he's been convicted numerous times of slander who is a liar so cozies under formal investigation into other corruption cases but so far police haven't established a direct link between the former president and any illegal libyan money foreign campaign funding is banned in france nicolas sarkozy is always denied receiving any illegal funding from libya i know that the news he has accused his opponents or the political smear campaign now that he has retired from politics it will be harder for him to use that line of defense convincingly that are so popular al-jazeera

paris. twenty three russian diplomats and their families have left the u.k. in the wake of the poisoning of a former double agent in salisbury russian says moscow was behind the attack on service and his daughter two weeks ago both remain critically ill in hospital at the kremlin rejects the allegations and has retaliated by forcing the same number of british embassy staff to leave russia barnaby phillips reports an abrupt farewell to colleagues and to london some eighty people diplomats and families are believed to have left the russian embassy for those on their way and those left behind this is not been a happy day. the ambassador held a reception for those leaving a few days ago the mood appears to have been somber. ambassador said those being expelled would resume their diplomatic careers elsewhere. so the diplomats and their families have left they will argue that their lives have been cruelly and

unnecessarily disrupted the british government argues that the spying capacity of that embassy has been severely weakened the british prime minister lead a national security meeting the outcome britain's borders have been tightened against those who threaten it other measures against russia are being considered. a attack will be discussed at this week's e.u. summit. they arrive late at night. in the coming days both the u.k. and russia seek to persuade global opinion two very different versions of what happened insoles prove to be phillips al jazeera. the white house says donald trump is not considering firing u.s. special counsel robert muller that follows a series of tweets from the president which criticized the investigation into russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election last week melissa payne of the trump organization to turn over documents including some related to russia

for ryan says he's been assured that job is not in jeopardy. to tennessee and now where many fear that too little is being done to care for the country's rich cultural heritage ancient buildings have fallen into disrepair while traditions and crafts are being lost to history now one entrepreneur has taken it upon herself to try and tackle a part of the problem the homage on june went to meet her in tunis. there is no place more in chanted when she discovered this house several years ago it was a transformative event. i walked. i know it sounds funny but. who is passionate about preservation worried that not enough was being done to protect tunisia's cultural heritage. so she bought the property which was built in the seventeenth century and

decided to turn it into a hotel the datta been gusen is located in the medina of tunis a unesco world heritage site every corner has a story of. gypsum carving the works carving. everything is how. the entrepreneur says the restoration process was extremely difficult but she was determined now she puts money back into her community so that other spaces can also be restored and more jobs can be created. there are thousands. of products. especially with. purchasing power is increasing. in the. decreasing lots. a growing number of tunisians say the medina which is considered the historic heart of the country's capital is falling into disrepair while its narrow streets still contain

a rich sampling of tunisian artistry and craftsmanship vendors are growing concerned down one of the alleys plies a trade he inherited from his father and grandfather making a traditional tunisian she adds his family has owned and operated this business for close to one hundred years to get ashes she when you see it somewhere in the ward it's like you are seeing the tunisian flooding because of how it exists only in tunisia like many other merchants here struggles to get by. he also worries an important piece of tunisia's cultural past may be slipping away. there used to be lots of other shops around here now as you see they are all closed not that many people are active anymore in this field. but not all hope is lost and not all traditions are being forgotten in another part

of the medina tunisians come together in a colorful celebration of the past this is an example of our heritage is working to turn these hands today because the next day after this terrible dresses when it's a day when men and women young and old gather in the medina they marched through the old city's alleyways and wearing their country's traditional attire. here generations of tunisians are attempting to build a better future on the foundations of their shared heritage mohammed. tunis then israel's president has accused the united states of persecution his country and criticized president donald trump's decision to ban americans from using venezuela's new cryptocurrency called the petro the cash strapped country is the first in the world to launch its own version of that coin. i

denounce the persecution illegitimate illegal and absurd of the imperialist government of mr donald trump against the people of venezuela the financial monetary criminal persecution but besides that i denounce it to the world and i ask for the solidarity of the people of the world i also tell the venezuelan people men and women of my country petro won't be stopped by anyone venezuela won't be stopped by anyone and we are going forward with the petro long live the petro of venezuela . spaces of the rhinoceros as well one step closer towards extinction after the last male died in kenya bet's end of the life of the northern white rhino records are dying when his health worsened but there are hopes that d.n.a. samples and develop technology will help revive the species catherine sawyer has more veterinarians at the conservancy in central kenya put sudan to sleep because he was in too much pain and could not walk he had been struggling for years with

complications that got worse in the last few months but he leaves a reach and the last his life managing to stay clear of poachers wiped out the entire population of north and white rhinos in the one nine hundred seventy s. . named after his country of back now south sudan he ended up in kenya from a zoo in the czech republic with a few others to help them breed in an environment which was more like the natural habitat but the program proved difficult as sudan got older he became weak and his sperm count was low so now researchers are watching on ways to use in vitro fertilization to save the species from extinction this will be the fast of its kind a delegate expensive and risky process we want to do everything but it's possible we even tried to keep them next to the southern white rhinos to see whether you know we could get down to be

a little interested so we brought in your girls and we said please you know can you talk to them and quite please stand and eyes but he just didn't respond while the north and why trials are the most endangered of this species the black rhino is also in grave danger all poached for the horn now why expensive than gold but measures a nine place to protect them in kenya in the last four five years you'll notice that for the case of kenya poaching on rhinos in particular has reduced by up to eighty percent and that is the effort to try and make sure that we protect them it's a pity that we get to this point for the not on white rhino as humanity we should have done better sudan was forty five years old they've lent all of about ninety human he as he leaves behind his dough tonight gin and grand to there now the world's only north and white rhinos the survival of the subspecies depends on them and the technology that has never been tried before cathy zoi al-jazeera nairobi

kenya. well we're just two females left conservationists face a difficult task reviving the northern watch rhino when saddam was born in mind hundred seventy three there were seven hundred northern white rhinos in existence by two thousand and eight which invented them extinct in the wild the black rhino also saw a dramatic drop in numbers down to two thousand four hundred ten and nine hundred ninety five and the southern white rhino has been rescued from the brink of extinction in the early one nine hundred fifty to one hundred left they now number around twenty thousand well kate ford is from save the rhino international and she says demand for poaching is increasing. from our point of view that say the rhino we've got three of the critically stink ronna populations job. and the the black rhino so there's fewer than one hundred of the job and smarter than we need to

support these critically endangered species because otherwise the same thing will happen to them poaching prices is increasing we're seeing demand from places like vietnam and china increasing but there is incredible work being done on the ground but we have to do more pitching you know has made this sub species go extinct or functionally extinct and we are seeing people really struggling in the ranges on the ground trying their best but it's not enough we need to do more you know conservation is a extremely difficult complex human death but you have to look at you know the community level on the ground in africa or in asia you need to look at your demand reduction in these countries can you do campaigns can change behaviors what could you do to bring everyone together science research all these things to stop poaching happening.

thanks very much the countdown to this year's world cup in russia is well underway and top teams are putting the finishing touches to their preparations with international friendlies this week you know messi arrived in manchester earlier on tuesday to join up with argentina as they got ready to face italy on friday argentina failed to press in the qualifiers needing a hat trick for messi in their final game to make the finals in russia south

american rivals brazil are getting a glimpse of what to expect at those finals there in moscow for friday's friendly with hosts russia it will be the five time world champions first game of the year of course they're still without star player neymar remains in doubt for the world cup because of a broken foot but he's made a rare appearance that when exactly put his country at ease the striker limped his way into a south polo nightclub on monday to celebrate his sister's birthday he was on crutches and wore a protective boot so as not to exacerbate the injury since his surgery two weeks ago neymar was expects to be out for three months we need still hard to know if you'll make june's tournament. well as well as giving teams a chance to hone their world cup preparations this week's friendlies also mark an important return to football for iraq fifa lifted a twenty eight year ban on the country hosting internationals on friday.

but. this was the welcome the syrian team got when they arrived for a training session iraq will play syria next week in but first of all face qatar on wednesday. serena williams will continue her comeback to tennis following the birth of her first child at her home tournament's the miami open on wednesday where mrs won the event a record eight times but she's been handed a tough first round draw this year against the newly crowned indian wells winner naomi saka ahead of that blockbuster clash williams helped to launch the construction of the new fan you for the miami open from two thousand and nineteen the joint men and women's tournament relocating to the home of n.f.l. team the miami dolphins which williams owns a stake in the thirty six year old who grew up just outside of miami has high ambitions for the future of the. we want this to be the best tournaments ever

we want this to be the best experience ever we want to read we want the players to feel like this is the best stop we can't wait to get here we never we never want to miss it this is exactly what we're looking for and that's what we're going for well there's a hot debate happening right now on the tennis circuit about equal pay and it's got nothing to do with the players it involves to form a grand slam champions who are now in the commentary box martina navratilova who's won forty nine may just singles and doubles titles has found out that she gets paid ten times less for her work on the b.b.c.'s coverage of wimbledon than john mcenroe who himself has sixteen grand slam titles to his name and she's pretty upset. it's shocking if really then this happens to me then you know for me it's a part time job it's two weeks of my life. but for the women that work there full time it's extremely unfair and you know it makes me angry for the other women that

i think go through this the b.b.c. might say well john mcenroe does more hours or he's on hair longer sometimes as much i don't think so and i don't know the details of what's going on. and i don't think it's appropriate i certainly feel like it's going to be appropriate real soon to come out. because it's somehow making him like poor johnny mac's the bad guy in this and so. we'll see what happens here's some of what the b.b.c. said in response john martina perform different roles in the team and john's role is of a different scales scope and time commitment they are simply not comparable martina is one of a number of occasional contributors the b.b.c. believes her pay reflects what she is to do her time commitment a level of broadcast experience profile and track record and expertise defending champion of one hundred valverde has taken the overall lead in cycling's tour of

catalonia after winning stage two the race on tuesday the stage took an hour longer to complete the scheduled with riders setting and usually slower pace over the one hundred seventy five kilometer course nothing slow about the day when it came to down to sprint finish though the spanish rider who also won this event in two thousand and nine takes a full second leave into day three american football in golf on sports you think have many transferable skills but former dallas cowboys quarterback tony romo is proving otherwise later this week romo will make his debut on the p.g.a. tour at an event in the dominican republic. i feel comfortable you know in venues with size and people around them that part of it probably won't be that much different i do feel like. the fact that. you know it's a two or even i understand you know how important this week is it's i took people

earlier it's like a free agent football you're only afforded so many chances you know if you're the first pick of the draft you've got a few years before they're cast aside so you know when you get an opportunity in life you want to be prepared and be ready for it and that is all useful for now more later. thank you very much joe and that does it for this al-jazeera news out but do stay with us because funny is here with another full news bulletin in just a couple of minutes thank you very much for watching. the scene for us there on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is almost possible but not what happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that there are choosing between buying medication eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and just posted

a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. the nature of news as it breaks this was a great election about it was going to win but it was about by how much with detailed coverage the syrian civil war most of them said to the states what is new or different is that each day some people will live until to morrow many innocent people will die from around the world the bats and balls are several years old when really good players could end up trading cricket at headingley and maybe one day play for the national team. what went wrong in society that opened up the space on the image but it is the european problem and it's not accountable and it's impossible for going to people to build a school or link up our people don't want to take more of a lead i do hope for a stronger man or some. woman you are getting the growth of rejectionism of this world because the model those of us europe's forbidden colony episode two at this

time on al-jazeera. in syria citizens are collecting evidence and all of the knowledge bill has shot of crimes committed against civilians we've moved out of syria will go six hundred thousand pages of material so that one day they can bring the assad regime to justice it puts a she will face on the charges it's a dead human face but it's a human tricks syria witnesses for the prosecution at this time on al-jazeera. said of breaking a new critic on a shape as saudi arabia's crown prince meets u.s. president donald trump at the white house.