communities and organizations addressing some of the greatest manmade environmental problems threatening our planet. a new season of earth rise coming soon pointed out to zero. to one predictable digits i've been working on north korea policy for almost thirty years i can't tell you what the u.s. policy is towards north korea vine first to know what they want to deter an attack from the united states as the u.s. struggles to define its foreign policy lines examines the potential fallout we don't see really is a strategy designed to get those talks started if they expect to surrender fire in fury trumps north korea crisis on al-jazeera is no one way of telling the story keeping is telling right and to be respected best artist is a great way to get to know the person for the text.

i'm sam is a down in dar with a look at the headlines here on al-jazeera now donald trump has threatened to cancel planned talks with north korea's leader if they're not fruitful the u.s. president and japan's prime minister both insist the pressure will remain on kim jong un really ends his nuclear program. reports from west palm beach. as japanese prime minister shinzo of a wrapped up two days of meetings with u.s. president donald trump the parish reporters their relationship has never been closer. yet there some it held it trumps florida mara lago resort was largely overshadowed by the trump it once again sidelined america's top asian ally confirming he'd sent his cia director mike pump ale to secretly lay groundwork for a meeting with the north korean leader kim jong il and in a matter of weeks he just left north korea and

a great meeting with him we. have got along with him really well really really it's an an orthodox move for a nation that's traditionally consulted with japan on both matters involving north korea still as ah they saw security assurances truck made clear there's still the possibility talks with north korea's leader may not happen at all if the meeting when i'm there is not fruitful i will respect for lee leave the meeting ave implored the international community and the united states not to reward kim just for showing up to direct talks but to demand concrete commitments to denuclearize. just because north korea is responding to dialogue there should be no reward maximum pressure should be maintained it's a promise trump says he'll keep and will work for the release of three americans currently being held by north korea there's a good chance of doing it we're having very good dialogue we will keep you informed but we are in there and we are working very hard on that. we have come

a long way with north korea during their summit the two leaders enjoyed a game of golf still trump did not extend exemptions he's granted to other nations on the foreign imports of steel and aluminum but even as trump was highlighting what he believed to be a summit success overshadowing that headline was the news the confirmation of trump's pick for secretary of state was in doubt. a growing list of u.s. senators say they will not vote in favor of the confirmation of mike pompei o to be the next u.s. secretary of state it is a concern for the trumpet ministration given it is preparing for historic talks with north korean leader kim jong un in a matter of weeks can really help at al-jazeera west palm beach florida miguel diaz colonel has been nominated by cuba's national assembly is the only candidate for

president as the first from outside the castro family nearly sixty years but the results won't be confirmed until thursday that's when the canal is expected to be sworn in to six year old raul castro will stay on as head of the communist party. government of open fire in a u.n. team in duma in syria forcing their withdraw they were assessing if it's safe enough for investigators to examine the site of a suspected chemical attack eleven days ago the head of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says it's now unclear when the team will enter duma turkey will have presidential and parliamentary elections much earlier on june the twenty fourth initially the vote was scheduled for november next year the polls will be held under a state of emergency carter is signed a two and a half billion dollars deal with the u.s. for defense technology military spending is at record levels during carter's ongoing gulf standoff with saudi arabia egypt the u.a.e.

and. last year finalize arms deals worth at least twenty billion dollars thousands of demonstrators have swarmed armenia's camp so the out of for a sixth day of anti-government protests dozens of people have been arrested have been rallies throughout against the election of surge started to see this prime minister has already served two terms as president say it's a power grab. those headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the caylee. the caliph. a form of rule in a slam. that lasted for almost thirteen centuries.

from the death of the prophet muhammad. to the overthrow of the last ottoman caliph in one thousand nine hundred twenty four. the arabic ten for caning against twenty five which actually in essence simply means a successor or and deputy. the ruler of the islamic world would call himself confederacy would have no success so ultimately. through the centuries. the title of qana is a term that has been used. at the time of use. in june two thousand and fourteen. a militant group calling itself the islamic state in iraq and the levant or i so. declared the establishment of a caliphate. a call rejected by most muslims around the world.

i still took root and expanded in iraq and syria. two countries flung into violence by the political turmoil and foreign intervention of recent years. the turmoil revived sectarian differences that go back for ten centuries between sunni and shia are most. of them will be done at them is us yes you are not the only thing that what. in the sun i just miss you know talking for all to sunday all the talk is a little bit about that. i'm living as a human you know. this is the story of the great split within islam. of how the split a rose from a dispute of who should succeed the prophet i'm like.

this is the story of the common. in. the by our mosque. outside mecca and saudi arabia.

it was here in the year six twenty two that a delegation from the town of medina made by on a pledge of support and shelter to the prophet muhammad. shortly after he left mecca. and the greeting to medina with a group of followers. over the next ten years muhammad built the first islamic state. but in june sixth thirty two the prophet died in his capital medina. leaving the young state without a leader. there's

a tradition that says that the muslims on that day were like sheep on a rainy night they were frightened and huddling together and it's not clear whether or not the prophet had made any plans for his succession. within hours of the prophet's death senior figures in the most in community came to. whether to choose a successor to the prophet a caliph. the debate was long and intense. it was the emigrants from mecca was on. the was chosen to be the first caliph in islam. and it was so with that i will leave him alone but about the muscle was so with the

knee. that a belly and with. food while home their men the value to him and how they were. but though they were from his tribe. not the immigrants were from the prophets close family the hashemites. the descendants of muhammad's great grandfather passion. at that time in our society the family was understood as a much larger unit collateral lines uncles brothers cousins and so long were all considered to be part of the clan. sr among the hashemites was a highly muhammad's cousin husband of his one surviving don't fall to mother and father of the prophets only living grandson has. undone hussein.

but when the decision to choose the caliph was taken. was busy elsewhere. at the time of the prophets death we know that he was early who was in charge of the barrel arrangements. as a jew to full respectful son and all cousin with caring for the prophet's body. the next day in the medina mosque i will walk was given by on the oath of allegiance by the majority of the muslim community. ali however was not one of them. what happened that day but saw the seeds of a political divide that would gradually evolve. into

a deep religious schism. the division of a slam. into soon and she. if you ask a sunni or shia muslim about that moment of mohammed's death and the decision about the leadership you will get two very different answers the sunnies suggest that he hadn't actually made any clear plans for his succession eyes death the shia would say that he had and that he was to be succeeded by his first cousin and son in law ali. three months before his death. the prophet muhammad made a famous speech here and he had the home. an ancient resting place on the route from mecca to medina. a speech that has been

interpreted ever since in two very different ways. all people of forms whoever i've been must that. i live here just to be his mouth to. be supportive of whoever supports him. and then enemy of whoever opposes him and david that through the fact. there's this moment where if your silly you believe the prophet. gave away the leadership of his family if. you believe he gave the leadership of the family but also the whole community. the prophets been just celebrated by shia to this day. each year a feast is held on the anniversary to commemorate what shia see as muhammad appointing ali to be his successor.

but the mainstream majority the sunni have no such priests. and no doubts about the legitimacy. and the caliphs who succeeded him. shortly after becoming caliph. i will buck faced his first major challenge a tribal revolt against the islamic state. in this moment of peril. chose unity over division and gave the oath of allegiance to the color of. the man i merely sell em back their

thinly with that in more i.e. enter says shell i'm ok send. in a film s.l. or somewhere that she has been mostly mean. the whole theater harbor. fee was she had a kettle in the kind of slam and the whole. the better part. of a box room lost to just two years. as he lay dying in nominated almost as a successor. ten years later and six forty four. on the second caliph was assassinated. while leading don't prayers in medina. on his deathbed he

dictated how successor should be chosen. six of the closest companions of the prophet. would confer together and choose one amongst. the four days of deliberation last month was named the third caliph. once again ali chose. passed over by. and then to him the man when he's. in favor of. the new caliph came from a family of the christ tribe called the it's. the founder of always coveted the leadership of christ. standing in his way was

his uncle hashem the patriarch of the house you might see. this rivalry but what fester through the centuries. how that's roots in mecca decades earlier. in the pagan years before the birth of the slack. in the year six ten. in this cave outside mecca muhammad received the first revelation verses of the koran which set him on the path of prophecy. the emergence of a prophet among the hashemites antagonize the my it's. and their leader abu

sufyan. and. another now been as a bin man of one. and them a lot of that with a muzzle on. darwin a noble one of them and i know an addict. for twelve years the maids led a campaign of persecution against muhammad and his followers in mecca. persecution which culminated in their emigration to medina and six twenty two. but when the prophet returned to conquer america. and realized resistance was futile and joined slammed. by six forty four. the rising islamic state had expanded into

a vast empire. and the caliphate that come into the hands of an almighty. off mun. with man was a genius but employed far too many of his young cousins to me odds where they are stick rat of mecca and they'd been great leaders the pagan resistance and soap or making these characters who were his lovely cousins was also you know a bad political position. a rebellion erupted against off man's alleged nepotism. in six fifty six. and after twelve years this kind of. he was killed in his house in medina. by the un has. a sufficient lead what was it then him and the nest the half of that in a how when and. how and

when i can buy that that it was had to and i must the hutton islamiya the wily and yes that he. was yahoo has you all know when saddam. almost a quarter of a century after the death of the prophet. ali finally became the fourth kind of. who are bashed if we. let the n.r.a. you know about it with a mind of enough fan that it while i'm. missing my been abused. a sham. many of us moms relatives were hostile to all these leadership i'm always demanded that all the hundred of the killers. the dispute quickly escalate.

and to strengthen his position i removed the capital from medina to his own power base in kuwait from iraq. because nomic state was now divided into. east under a hush in my calif and the west under i know my governor. and the you should fit in which. she on the. shia. it was all we did. and you know lost and that could limit she. meant that my heart did and when the american that. the sheep for did what they put.

in six fifty seven. ali marched his army into syria to crush the mob yes mutiny. off to days of bloody skirmishes and on the last day of the bottom. the army of malia was on the first shock defeat. in my mind and i'm also that famous malia. malia. you know. that it can. be kind of ingestion of i don't. know who was on that. kind of slots and another to have. water when the heads up when i can hold a company that well that it can color that it's. little enough. that had the whole. covered idea months achin that the whole month at the time then

thought of the matter then the clutch of. these dissidents from ali's on me how it is fixed on the roof this way to bring an end to the struggle. the moment it was chosen fresh dawn prayers of the twenty seventh of january sixth sixty one. the seventeenth day of the holy month of ramadan. three assassins made their way to three different places to fight for ali damascus for. and forestall to egypt from ma yes. other the us saw the finale of his work at the wall of the surf and saw the finale to be a force that he could help with saudi especially when they. wobble. not

just in iraq. a holy place to sheol most of us. they believe is buried here. for them is more than a kind of. he has any man. imbued with religious authority that could be passed on only through his bloodline. so on ali's death the caliphate passed to his older son. but he would not be long in the post. can the system do fifteen hour they can and no lame kinda cool in iraq. adroit there's a lot while we have there's

a lot of media what the fuck are and yet then as it has an even highly and even hillary well camera has a and i do with one at the as i know of focus yes huma. damascus. thirteen centuries ago the my you capital. though the caliphate remained in the chorus strike. it had passed from the hashemites to oh my yes. and there it would remain for the coming century. the crunch point really comes late in not always rain when he designated his son. as his successor and this was a real touch point for generating controversy and opposition.

is each succession on the death of malia and six or eight. triggered the series of events that resonate to this day. in a defiant show of opposition a ha saying younger son of ali refused to pledge allegiance to his ear and set off towards mecca on pilgrimage. on the way. he began to receive messages asking him to come to iraq. where his supporters plan to installing a scallop. he gathered together his family and decided to move to confront his father's. former capital. unfortunately for sane

his plan got to the a myatt governor of iraq and he was able to block his route to the city of kuta and so hussein was trapped without substantial military support at a place called tabbouleh. and it was at karbala in october six eighty that hussien and his small band of supporters met their bloody fate. about the makati team let in middle of folly when they said. that the two at that is the. yanni and the mad war well how to do it at the. bottom of the us would in their image that i see that. he and his entourage many of his family were massacred and his head was sent to his ied in damascus.

each year on the anniversary of the battle of karbala. around the world marked the event in public displays of penitence and. extending sometimes even to ritual self punishment. to atone for their forebears failure to support the crossing. it's really seen as the great tragedy of his law from the she respective this is vic the great disaster is that the prophets family didn't get to take caliphate into leeds muslims. but seventy years after karbala. the revolt would finally succeed in bringing the caliphate back to the family of the prophet. the hotshots.

he ruled for nearly half a century a controversial political figure in the cold in the middle east and one who was never far from crisis at home or abroad. in a two part series al-jazeera world tells the story of king hussein of jordan episode two on a knife edge. at this time on al-jazeera. fifty three member states. one night comic figurehead as leaders of the commonwealth to send on london for its biennial meeting al-jazeera asks how much does the commonwealth matter in today's world and where does it go up to queen elizabeth all of the commonwealth heads of government meeting on al-jazeera.

i'm sam is a dam in dar how they look at the headlines here on al-jazeera dan trump has threatened to cancel planned talks with north korean leader kim jong un if they're not fruitful us president says he looks forward to meeting kim and hopes the talks will be successful i hope to have a very successful meeting if we don't think it's going to be successful mark we want to have it we want to have it. if i think that it's a meeting that is not going to be fruitful we're not going to go if the meeting when i'm there is not fruitful i will respectfully leave the meeting and we'll continue what we're doing or whatever it is that will continue but something will happen so. i like always remaining flexible and will remain flexible here. miguel diaz can and has been nominated by cuba's

national assembly is the only candidate for president he's the first from outside the castro family in nearly sixty years m.p.'s have voted but the results won't be confirmed till first day that's when the ice canal is expected to be sworn in eighty six year old that old castro will stay on as head of the communist party gunmen have opened fire in a u.n. team in doomer in syria forcing their withdrawals who are assessing if it's safe enough for investigators to examine the site of a suspected chemical attack eleven days ago the head of the organization for the prohibit of chemical weapons says it's now unclear when the team will enter duma turkey will have presidential and parliamentary elections month journey on june the twenty fourth initially the vote was scheduled for november next year the polls will be held under a state of emergency. law that has signed a two and a half billion dollar deal with the u.s. for air defense technology military spending is

a record levels during carter's ongoing gulf standoff with saudi arabia egypt the u.a.e. and behold last year it finalized arms deals worth at least twenty billion dollars . thousands of demonstrators have swarmed armenia's capital yet of on for a six day event think government protests dozens of people have been arrested and we've been rallies throughout armenia against the election of serge sarkozy and as prime minister as the headlines the news continues after caylus. at home i'm a southern jordan. in

the eighth century it was a settlement of one of the two major branches of the hashemites. the prophet's own family of the christ tribe. known as the bus its these were descendants of a law bus one of muhammad uncles the other branch where the islets descended from ali the prophet's cousin and son in law. and seven sixteen abdulla one of the eyelets arrived in and how my with a strange story. had i thought anybody that we thought it must i live and if it informally sulaiman it up to many of the middle who had. well.

you know what shall be modeled for. some minister they met. our beloved died in and my mom. but in his final hours he confessed to his a bust of cousin muhammad that he was the head of a plot to topple it's. not a do. is be a living i'm a little to the and the only min and me in the living into someone that even if you thought of in a. home a limb you really know me and then i'm going to do what in the my little realize i'm gonna sure i don't see our own free b. day living we have men and the monument. over the next thirty years this message persuaded many islet she has to join us it

goes. in seven forty six. the secret movement turned into full blown revolution in the eastern part of the islamic empire in what is today the shia state of iran. it's very very hard to say whether the abbasids used the attic. they certainly wanted to accrue as wide a support base as they possibly could and they were certainly wanted those who supported and made kael if to join them movement. within three years the opposites had captured coup for. the colorful capital of ali . it was in this mosque

that the name and identity of the caliph in waiting were finally revealed. they proclaimed a man a scale if called abu allah. and he was a descendant of one of the prophet muhammad's uncles and he based his claim to the caliphate on that kinship with the prophet mohammed. and seven fifty. bastards and to damascus capital of the mighty mighty it states. the largest empire yet you know. but in the years to come they would struggle to maintain the unity of the vast state they now controlled.

by the mid century the bus and said seize control of the caliphate but did little for their cousins. a sense of betrayal to cold and fermented among the islands. in a bold and dangerous move they declare the rival caliphate in medina. and i busted army was rushed to the city. its roof to sleep crushing the rebellion. in the midst of the but deluded enough machine and move it and. as the moment they let the assault of a. and then they had led the coup in a minute little minute to libby. as she did at low enough she.

the sun the opposites consolidated their dominance of the center of the state from their newly built capital but that. but they had failed to exert the same control over the provinces of the far west. in seven fifty six and homemade fugitive prince called abdulrahman reached under new c.e.o. . only six years after the collapse of his grandfather's kind of. he succeeded in reviving the oh my it's been a stick with. as its capital. and

them up as it will get over that will send them what you want to be done is not a hold of the defense if you must come up obviously done on your own don't you know us look a number. one and i bet you know more the simple thing i thought when i was on the other have you not enough of a club doesn't fit out of that for me is that me or the dolphin and that was. the omega and the written under the cea was the first to break from the caliph it. but it would not be the last. soon another states at the western edge of the muslim world and the magic would break away from their bus routes. and this time it would be their own cousins

the islets. but at the car one another that was i don't know if. and when it's it must look in the event i don't because they got it all off i thought i thought let's. just say no and the whole you. had. in seven eighty eight you did east and alledge fugitive arrived here in the moroccan city of my will a decent room. a city that now carries his name. recognizing him as a descendant of the prophet's local berber tribes were quick to offer him their oath of allegiance as ruler of the region. and so was born the at the recent emirates the first independent state. that is how.

you'll get until the. sort of assessment of. what the will be for said if. they did and. the would up. that may have been that but it might have. but with the new and expanding state just three years old is to be nice guy. he was laid to rest here in the city that still bears his name. it priests had the allegedly been poisoned on the orders of harun al-rashid. the most famous soviet bus caliphs.

the statue of shah and shot i said to invest that. the two main characters of one thousand and one nights. legendary stories inspired by the opulence of her own little sheets court. the golden age of the a bus in calif it. but that a spot but you know to do nia then who had it in bed you know you had. for that the hell could all of them look at him with a few. little could not. or could one day see island the bad island one of that excitement here on emma.

under all she'd scholars began the great task of transcribing and translating the cultural and scientific works of former civilizations. encouraged and supported by the ambassador caliphs. muslims began adding their own scholarship to the stock of human knowledge. laying the groundwork for europe's run of songs and centuries to come. in siena or the west gnosis and the center had written not only philosophical texts but also a very important treatise and medicine was translate into latin became the standard textbook for european medical schools for centuries. but the golden age of the a bus its was destined to be short lived. in eight thirty

six the eighth a bus it kind of a not awesome moved this capital here to some era in iraq. it was also to be a military base for the caliphs new army. an army of turkic mercenaries. toughened by life on the steps of central asia. an army. that would soon erode the power of the caliphs. but that i'm certain i would be yet died she and she and i'm a sigh and it all more about. how you like that. martha sim in the letter that was wow home. and no. in eight forty seven here and some era turkic army commanders installed a motto

a kill as the tenth of a bus a caliph to. do. and for a century to come. they would effectively root the caliphate. appointing deposing torturing and even killing a string of twelve caliphs who were little more than puppets. yanni. me was sherry at that can you believe that one of us but you know what's even worse what. the caliphate really had become symbol and we had no effective power anymore and in the muslim world we had a multitude of different political regimes in the various reaching from the us

today spain to this continent often this period is seen as a period of decline because of these political divisions. but it wasn't just a matter of the slow fracturing of the state. as its western edge and new threat was on the rise. matter. this small town on the two newseum coast would soon emerge as the seat of a rival caliphate. and this new caliph would not be sunny. but she. it on heartland of shiite islam in the modern world. today shia make up around fifteen percent of the global muslim population of more than

one and a half billion. in their belief it is the title of the man and not caliph that confers the right to rule. the vast majority of shia in the world are known as twelve years. they follow a hear read a terry line of twelve immense descended from the prophet's cousin and his wife fatimah the prophet's daughter. a line ending with the last eman al mahdi. the twelve or she i believe holds that on maddy disappeared then sum it up and eight seventy four. he will reemerge at the end of the world as the ultimate savior of mankind. you know she has been in the mimic them

a human being has shia. militia it would be no clue to look. here with if he. should live that a shrewd maneuver that he for people whom. in body were bit dirty feet in a hoodie in. for the better will she be well a shirt with a tease. but this holy commandment was no protection against the deep divide the belief. of cause him a mosque that. the shrine of the man who marks the division of she has him into two strands. it is the tomb of the seventh of the twelve years in man's. who died here in the year seven ninety nine.

of those however dispute his status. they consider the real seventy man to be his brother is my. they came to be known as this my. the two over. which additionally. not interested or did not strive to take political power because they believed that they were waiting for the return of the maya the so that at that point the righteous regime would be installed and anything in between. heaven. and its land. but for the ismaili shia. there was to be no waiting for the return of the man. by the late ninth century. there preaching the taken root among the berber tribes in

north africa. a new movement was on the rise. with this roots firmly in the shia tradition. added an outward i. had a. very definite. goal i'd been a couldn't sleep i'm not often. yet again for an assess how dekha then it was. but the balance on have a what a community added bait. in the year nine hundred the nine in cairo on tunisia. all by the law a man claimed to be a descendant of a smile was declared the caliph of the first ever shia caliphate. it would be known as the phantom in. after fatima daughter of the prophet muhammad. an

ancestor of all the men. the concept of the ismaili caliphate is completely different from the abbas that kind of thing because of the claim to divine inspiration and divine guidance which the fatah needs put forward they certainly developed institution which was theoretically completely different from the abbas that. the fatah meds now began to expand their state westwards into the market. but this would lead to a clash with another major muslim power. and soon the islamic world would find itself in a surreal position. baghdad

. by nine hundred twelve they all made emirates in under sia was over a century and a half old. ruled from cordoba by the eighth i mean. the third. after crossing all rebellions. and uniting under the sea and he looked towards expanding southwards across the mediterranean. yes banishment of the fucking caliphate what is no. we. meant a big threat for them i guess terms of the political control of the better but

that existed india. to strengthen his position. in nine twenty nine. of the rahman declared the under the sea an emirate an independent almighty caliphate. three centuries on from the founding of the title the islamic world was now divided between three colors. to sony and one. the ultimate result of that really was a decline in the value put on the notion of the caliphate itself so it leads to rifts politically speaking within the community as well as the religious differences that these different caliphate.

and. the suffering of the abbas of caliphs continued under turkish military domination. but by the mid tenth century a new force had emerged. a persian dynasty. but an end to turkish control of a caliphate. but no boy was home. when my baloch up. live and all our lives now are. minor in that i'm old and look at the american on a well known level and of the i have a sunni when i'm on the ground going up because we're going to. we're still what's to come for the our bassett's. and nine sixty nine

a phantom of army captured egypt. three years later the forefront the macallan and moyes abandoned his capital maggie and tunisia and headed east. for the next two centuries the newly built city of cairo which serves as the seat of the shia. the fatah it's considered back caliphate universal so ideally they wanted to expand that palace from their original base in north africa back into each it on into syria and ultimately to encompass the whole islamic well they weren't able to achieve that and were instead happened in the tenth century was the islamic world became divided between a number of different caliphates. meanwhile

in the west. a storm was gathering. christians uniting under the banner of the cross. were looking eastward to conquer the holy lands. and. the approaching struggle could not have come at a worse time for a divided muslim world. and for the caliphs or at their weakest point as they turned to face the crusades.

a story fourteen hundred years in the making. a story of success. and just the story line. and. the count of. three. they whether settling down nicely now across much of the middle east as one would expect sorry a cloud will bring some rain simply and some snow into the higher ground over the next couple of days in between his family financial i believe some warm sunshine baghdad thirty three degrees celsius by a rate of around twenty six to grace as you can see is generally settled because he says sod off the medics right now but as we go on into friday there will be

somewhat of weather just not seeing its way in spite say little cloud of rain just drifting down across southern parts of the northern areas of syria with a bit of wet weather in between the black sea and the caspian sea so well swimmers generally try and wintry mix that we have further east is in the process of easing out of the way generally try to work across the rabi and peninsula was a chance of one of two spots of rain anyway you see the cloud central parts of saudi arabia if you want to just the possibility that spots of right here because as we go on through friday but for the most part it is looking warm dry and sunny temps and thirty four degrees well the wet weather continues meanwhile across the central parts of africa the long range still pushing some very heavy downpours there into tanzania and all the parts of mozambique come further southeast and be dry fine and sunny.

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