it's source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. everything you do is being analyzed it's being weighed and it's being measured i don't need to go to school this month. and it's not just i phones that's almost my face i mean most not phones of these days at the moment we are in a state of the universe let's start and did something that was that i would rather take the risks of democracy to the risks of. digital dissidents on al-jazeera.

we were many people who serve the rest dangerous the rest is rule of the region. a strong warning to iran as trump's new secretary of state towards the middle east. and maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up north korea's leader kim jong un promises to dismantle its nuclear testing site as the u.s. says there's a real chance for a deal. central american migrants attempt a controversial crossing of the border into the united states. and a protest leader is the surprise favorite to be manias new prime minister after the ruling party quits the contest.

our top story the united states says it's deeply concerned by iran's destabilizing and malign activities in the middle east the newly appointed secretary of state might on bio made the comments after meeting the israeli prime minister in tel aviv jaring his as it to the region earlier the former cia director held talks with saudi arabia's king salmon calling for unity among gulf allies as washington tries to muster support for new sanctions against iran to curb its missile program ari force it has more now from west jerusalem in the middle east mike pompeo double down on the theme that has dominated his first international trip as secretary of state iran's threat to the region and the world and the solidifying u.s. threat to pull out of the iran nuclear deal iran destabilizes this entire region that supports proxy militias and terrorist groups. it is an

arms dealer to the who the rebels. and iran conducts cyber hacking campaigns. that supports the murderous assad regime as well as arrival in riyadh followed a barrage of eight ballistic missiles fired into saudi territory by hooty fighters in yemen the u.s. and saudi arabia say such missiles come from iran. we also think that iran should be dealt with by imposing further sanctions for its violations of international laws relating to ballistic missiles iranian missiles are a chief concern of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu his focus on the risk of being fired from iranian bases in syria and by hezbollah from lebanon with his talk of a u.s. pullout from the iran deal and new sanctions against tehran pompei as language was almost into changeable with netanyahu we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east the remains of people thought the yuan's aggression would

be moderated as a result of signing to do the opposite has happened and iran is trying to gobble up one country after the other both men welcome the u.s. embassy move from tel aviv to jerusalem shuttled for the fourteenth of may the day the israeli state was declared seventy years ago on paper maintained that final boundaries within jerusalem were up for negotiation that the u.s. was committed to a lasting peace between israel and the palestinians there was no mention though of the recent demonstrations along the gaza border fence where israeli snipers have shot unarmed protesters killing dozens and injuring hundreds my pompei was a different proposition from his predecessor rex tillerson who spent most of his tenure as secretary of state in a state of at best semi detachment from the white house peo is seen as very close to president trouble in particular on the issue of iran and so that gives his words extra weight even perhaps especially when they mirror one of to listens frequent messages that saudi arabia's blockade on cantars should and they also stress to the

foreign minister the gulf unity is necessary when. it was a report in the new york times that the message away from the cameras was more direct enough is enough stop the blockade by the time pump moved on to jordan his chief aim seemed established laying the groundwork for tougher action against iran clear to the obstacles the e.u. russia and china have all warned against scrapping the nuclear deal the decision will be donald trumps the deadline may the twelfth are a force of al-jazeera west jerusalem. joins us live now from washington bumpus trip seems to be aimed at reassuring america's traditional allies in the region what's been the reaction there to this trip from washington what we're hearing today from the president's national security advisor john bolton who says at this point there is no decision on the iran nuclear deal he said the white house is actually still considering that plan that french president emmanuel mccrone laid

out last week that for the four pillar plan which would entailed keeping the deal but then expanding it and then today on the sunday talk shows one of the sunday talk shows senator roy blunt who's a republican who sits on the intelligence committee said that he would endorse that plan as well so sticking with the plan but expanding it but we have a president president trump who has been very very critical of that plan over the last few years ever since it was announced he campaigned on it and now you see him surrounding himself with people that are more hard line against iran people like mike pompei o in john bolton you don't have those moderate voices in the white house like you had just a few months ago so it would seem that sticking with the plan might be difficult and the clock is ticking that the administration has less than two weeks to make a decision whether they're going to stick with this deal or they're going to pull out of it so how does might pump as more hardline approach compared to his

predecessor rex tillerson and to listen strained relationship with the president. well what we're seeing you know with with mike pompei oh somebody who is is much more hawkish than what we saw with rex tillerson rex tillerson was a moderating voice within the administration and he was at odds with the president on a lot of issues including iran. pompei always in the military when he was in congress he was very very critical of the deal although during his confirmation hearing he said that he would be open to try to keep the u.s. in the deal but now that he's there he does have the president's ear they are they do sort of walk in lockstep with each other so you would expect that you don't have this moderating voice like you had before with rex tillerson and he may be more of

the mind as president trump is of maybe scrapping that deal and seeing if they can possibly come up with something better down the road but maybe just scrapping it and the clock is ticking they have less than two weeks to make a decision thank you very much dion as to broke with the latest from washington. has also been speaking out about north korea saying there is a real opportunity for a deal when u.s. president meets its leader kim jong un next month he specifically said young man must show it is taking irreversible steps to get rid of its nuclear program and according to south korea there may be hope for this off to kim pledge to dismantle its nuclear testing site in friday's historic summit kathy novak has more now from seoul. the world saw the smiles and handshakes on friday now the south korean president's office is revealing more of what was said behind closed doors at the historic summit south korea says kim jong un promised to close the pool the nuclear test center next month and invited american and south korean experts and

journalists to inspect it days before the summit north korea announced it would shut down the site of all six nuclear bomb tests kim referred to speculation that test explosions had so badly damaged the site it couldn't have been used again anyway. should on chairman kim said when they come they will see that we have to bigger tunnels than the current test facilities and they are in good condition is the willingness to allow visitors to the test center appears to be another concession before the planned summit with donald trump and the north koreans by this is the necessity but a condition for any kind of negotiations because if they don't see that they want every inch it was cited as the nuclear weapons nobody is going to talk to them. moon phoned the u.s. president to brief him on the into korean talks the declaration signed there included a broad reference to denuclearize ation of the korean peninsula trump and moon

agreed that more specific measures on getting rid of nuclear weapons should be discussed at the u.s. president's meeting with kim kim jong un is also reported to have said even though the united states is inherently hostile towards north korea once they talk with us they will get to know that i am not the kind of person to launch nuclear weapons towards the south or target the united states across the pacific south korea says kim intends to eliminate another sign of division by changing pyongyang's time zone by half an hour to realign with the south north korea said its clocks back three years ago saying then that japanese imperialist had imposed tokyo time when korea was an occupied colony moon also briefed japan's prime minister and told shinzo abyei that he had conveyed japan's willingness for talks with north korea a willingness kim jong un said was mutual kathy novak al jazeera sold.

hundreds of migrants from central america trying to enter the united states from mexico after a month on the road they reach the u.s. border with protesters on the american side of the fence there to welcome them the migrants including many from honduras and el salvador hoping to seek asylum in the u.s. but the trump administration has vowed to crack down on immigration so rob granules joins us live now from san ysidro border crossing just south of san diego and we know that u.s. officials have been reacting to the caravan's arrival rubble more can you tell us. well we have a bit of news on the whole subject mari i'm the customs and border protection agency has advised the media and the public that they're they have no longer any

capacity to process any people who are coming to this border crossing in order to claim asylum or try to get refugee status they say they have limited numbers of agents who are able to do that and they're basically they're done for today now we know that for on the other side just behind me here the bulk of that group of central american migrants has not yet attempted to come forward and claim asylum so it seems likely that they will have to wait a while perhaps even several days they have been waiting in tijuana in migrant hostels and in other of the charitable facilities while they are preparing to cross it looks like they're not going to be able to to cross today and we'll just have to see in how this pans out the customs and border protection agency did indicate however that they would receive their requests for asylum when they are able to do

so what is the political calculus behind on a face full president donald trump. well you know donald trump. campaigned on building a border wall and mixing it making mexico pay for it east stopped talking about making mexico pay for it but he still is trying to get his border wall built and he's had zero success with it really congress has shown very little interest in allocating the twenty five to thirty or even more billion dollars that would it would cost so in the light of that the president began making quite a large deal out of this group of migrants saying that they represented a danger saying that they were. included they included drug dealers criminals etc and so forth this is red meat to his conservative base they they they want him

to be very tough on immigration they want a what they consider a very tightly secured borders on the other hand this does not. help donald trump in terms of people who oppose him they are energized by this kind of thing and the very large and growing hispanic electorate in the united states which is which holds the balance of power in certain states has taken notice of this and they have become galvanized and incentivized to go to the polls in november and vote against republicans thanks so much rob reynolds with all the latest on this story from sanusi dry that just south of san diego. u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say they've stopped with syrian army from taking several villages along the border with iraq this statement was made just hours after the syrian army said it had retaken those villages meanwhile the government

says it's made a deal with opposition fighters to evacuate areas around southern damascus and syrian government launched an offensive in the area last week to push i still out well in all the developments in just the last hour the syrian army is saying the rockets have struck several military bases in hama and aleppo province describing the attack as a new aggression by its enemies to residents in hama of toil told the reuters news agency that the blast came from a military base which is reportedly used by iran backed forces but will stay across the story and bring you the details as it develops still to come for you on the program malawi's former president joyce banda tells al-jazeera she knows nothing about an arrest warrant against her. and another show of force from pakistan's pashtoon as a ques the government of denying them basic rights. hello

there are still showers on the east coast of australia new south wales and queensland otherwise weather's fabian quiet we've got mine a little trust going through the bite which tends to give you showers every now and again but in the immediate future persecuted fine and quite warm twenty six melbourne's down to eighteen adelaide between the two it's a bit of a circulation here which is edging in this general direction which means fairly settled weather for the most part which couldn't be said for new zealand the last two days in particular the wet the cloud is still revolving slowly this is coming down from the north such fairly warm with tropical potential for the amount of rain that's falling out of it but it's a dying features or you've got twenty no can just a few showers i think by monday and christ church is it twelve clearly cooler but

even brighter skies as well so the picture is an improving one for new zealand they're not exactly dry and whilst we're in the western pacific which has moved up to the other islands in the northern hemisphere nice bit of spring here twenty five in tokyo in the sunshine simly right across the korean peninsula and back to beijing there is cloud around green one or two she has admitted leave it for the most part very enjoyable. three big stories generate thousands of headlines copper each with different angles from different perspectives. this is the only evidence that russia was responsible for this separate the spin from the facts that's why i only got. the misinformation from the journalism the issues here go far beyond one data mining company and one

election with the listening post on al-jazeera. welcome back a look at the top stories this hour the united states says it's deeply concerned by iran steve's stabilizing and malign activities in the middle east the newly appointed secretary of state my palm made the comments after meeting the israeli prime minister in tel aviv chairing his visit to the region. also been speaking out about north korea saying there is a real opportunity for a deal when u.s. president trump meets its leader kim jong un next month the north korean leader has promised to dismantle his country's nuclear testing site since next month and

hundreds of migrants from central america trying to enter the united states from mexico after a month on the road they've reached the u.s. border with protestors on the american side of the fence that are welcomed. when other stories are watching armenia's ruling party says it will not block popular opposition leader nichol passion yun from running the country demonstrators have been rallying in support of the head of tuesday's parliamentary vote to choose a new prime minister i mean his previous prime minister. resigned a week ago after mass demonstrations against him robin forrester walk as well from armenia second biggest city of qom. and some of us will remember the events in one thousand. which raised much of the city i am now cuba to. which left a great many people homeless thirty years many of them are still living without adequate accommodation and that is just one example of boy so many people in our

media are frustrated and angry with the government that has been in charge here for twenty years the republican party whose prime minister the opposition movement successfully ousted at the beginning of this week back on monday and. all of a sudden we are now seeing the possibility of a new leader emerging in our media who is not from the republican party but who has led this opposition movement. and he has been talking about dealing with the corruption and his message has been very simple and has appealed to so many armenians and this is why tens of thousands of them have been on the streets with today's developments just galvanizing them that the republican party is no is going to field a prime ministerial candidate when parliament is going to vote on tuesday is expected to select a new prime minister that means that the people's candidate. looks set to be the

next prime minister of all media and this is really an extraordinary turnout for this opposition movement and that's why we have again seen many people coming back out onto the streets of yerevan to show their support for him to maintain their momentum until that crucial vote on tuesday. three palestinians have been killed by israeli forces in separate shootings in gaza israeli army says one was shot dead after trying to damage the fence on the israel gaza border and then in southern gaza two palestinians were killed when they crossed the perimeter fence and threw at israeli forces in all the developments the palestinian national council is set to meet in ramallah for the first time in nine years are expected to look at suspending the recognition of israel in recent political escalation as stephanie dec reports from gaza palestinians say they are living in

a crisis increasingly frustrated not just with the israeli blockade but also with their own leaders. continue up this road along gaza sea front and you will reach the israeli controlled areas crossing for the vast majority of palestinians that's as far as they can go and we're told life in gaza is the worst it's ever been not only due to israel and egypt's blockade but also because of the seemingly never ending infighting between the palestinian factions or miss amman mohamad or parents to eight children and their desperate. i have three sons living at home the oldest is forty all of finished university and have no work is almost dead there is no income and so there is no demand for anything the government instead of paying salaries for people to survive have cut the salaries well because fatah and hamas constantly disagree last year the palestinian authority which is based in the cut the salaries of its employees here in gaza by thirty percent this month

salaries have not been paid to the lack of cash stifling in already suffocating economy one of the first things you notice when you enter gaza is the division between fatah and hamas that checkpoint belongs to fatah and just a few meters down the road is another checkpoint and this one longs to have mass the two groups are as divided as ever and it's having a major impact on the people here the palestinians in. eleven years. is. a high levels of poverty unemployment. between girls on the outside world and. the mughals was taken by president mahmoud abbas about a year ago to do it. on monday the palestinian national council is due to meet in the i'm it's supposed to represent all palestinian factions and its decisions are binding but many groups such as hamas islamic jihad and the popular front for the

liberation of palestine a staying away more bickering among the factions. well life here is becoming progressively worse so many people we talk to say they're fed up with all of the. one of the little. no no no they do nothing for us i don't care about their meeting and saw many meetings all with no results all they care about is their own power. even many of the children will tell you there are no opportunities here they see their parents struggle their elder siblings complete their studies but find no work they've never left gaza and yet still seem aware that something is missing stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza now malawi's former president joyce banda has told al-jazeera that she knows nothing about an arrest warrant against her for corruption allegations and the return to the country on saturday after four years abroad and was greeted by hundreds of supporters and left malawi after losing power during a scandal known as cash gate and tens of millions of dollars were stolen from the

state police say an arrest warrant issued in july last year remains valid but banda told us she's not planning another presidential run but wouldn't rule it out if that was popular support by law we did anybody being what they are. i don't want to and then it would be so i always wonder. i am not going to start dancing on a one you know there are. not and i am not going to and he does not mean this is out of line for michel only the president but i know i was president. and i am the first president but i want to read the letter for. who and people went there i want to. meet your time even my route where people are going well as. you did or did it is argument i will not be imprisoned in twenty two out so what

happened before and just on my part might but by. tens of thousands of people have marched through the spanish city of alona to protest against the acquittal of five men on gang rape charges. it's the third consecutive day people have demonstrated against the ruling which ordered the men to be jailed for nine years on a less a felony of sexual abuse men are accused of gang raping a teenage girl at the san fermin running festival in twenty sixteen they're alleged to have recorded the attack and then laughed about it afterwards on a whatsapp group well ukase interior minister has resigned amid a scandal over the treatment of immigrants from the caribbean a rod was under pressure after the newspaper the guardian printed a letter where she talked about a target to increase the deportation of immigrants the british government's been

forced to apologize for its treatment of people who arrive to work decades ago as part of the so-called when rush generation of migrants who came to fill the u.k.'s labor shortage after world war two philippine president roger go to territories permanently banned filipino workers from travelling to kuwait to work a temporary ban was imposed in february after a series of allegations of abuse and even killings of filipino workers in the gulf nation it's estimated about two hundred sixty thousand filipinos to live in kuwait it's the latest move in a diplomatic route between the two countries with each recalling their ambassadors last week pashtuns in pakistan's swat valley are continuing to demonstrate against what they're calling decades of oppression by security forces the protests began in february after police killed an aspiring model over alleged ties to the pan the taliban but no evidence was found for this question say thousands of bin unjustifiably killed over the years or have simply disappeared zala binge of aid

reports. ethnic which tunes are demanding rights enshrined in pakistan's constitution following rallies in the shower in lahore protesters gathered in swap when a military operation against the pakistani taliban was carried out a few years ago the protest movement began in february against the extrajudicial killing of a bush two man in karachi now it's been transformed into a wider call for rights by the bush doing the half as movement or p t m it wants missing people to be found and landmines removed the b.t.o. is also demanding the truth and reconciliation commission for what it says are crimes carried out by the military during the so-called war on terror to pakistan other passions have made sacrifices for the country so we urge the military and state institutions to stop the harassment and force disappearances the missing if innocent should be released those guilty must be produced before the courts thousands of families are worried about their loved ones. a traditional jirga that's a gathering of politicians and elders has been formed to discuss the demands

a military command agreed last week that some pushed in grievances are legitimate and the behavior of some check for security personnel is harsh but the p.t.'s angered commanders by insisting the armed forces must be held to account. the absolutely it's those in uniform because they want to sell the people like this and do more extrajudicial killings are those stably seron writ not the writ of the constitution. a counter rally was held on saturday to show support for the military speakers questioned by the bush twins were protesting when the p.t.'s demands are being addressed the accused the push to movement of being a tool of afghan nationalists and forces against the pakistani state what. i say to those conspiring against pakistan your aims will never come true our faith is in this land and you will never let him succeed local media is criticized for not giving coverage to push to protest media networks deny they have been instructed to

ignore them for years pakistan's military and politicians have been accused of ignoring the people of the federally administered tribal areas places which the government administers but doesn't govern as the rest of pakistan some of enjoying it does their. of the sixteen refugees will be transferred from camps in nauru to the u.s. under resettlement deal between the u.s. in australia this group includes afghans pakistanis and wrecking the us agree to take in more than twelve hundred refugees from australia's overseas prison camps in narrow and papa new guinea's mannus island so far they've only allowed two hundred forty people refugee advocacy groups say the deal is a failure now to nicaragua where tens of thousands of joined a protest against organized by the catholic church against the government of president daniel ortega they are dividing a peaceful and nationwide debate on social security reforms at least forty three people died in a recent crackdown on protesters they were angry about plans to cut state pensions

which have since been abandoned a commission has been announced to investigate the violence. look at headlines for you now the united states says it's deeply concerned by what it says is iran's ambitions dominate the middle east the new secretary of state might made the comments after meeting the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in tel aviv he was there on a brief visit to the region having already been to saudi arabia we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east remains. the united states is with israel in this fight and we strongly support israel sovereign right to defend itself regarding the j. c.p.o. at present i'm feeling pretty good this deal is very flawed he's directed the

administration. and if we can't fix it he's going to withdraw from the deal it's pretty straightforward. well pompei is also been speaking about north korea saying there's a real opportunity for a deal when u.s. president trump meets its leader kim jong un next month he specifically said pyongyang was show it is taking irreversible steps to get rid of its nuclear program and according to south korea there may be hope for this off to camp pledge to dismantle a nuclear testing site during friday's historic summit with president one jai end. hundreds of migrants from central america have reached the mexican border with the united states they've spent a month on the road and hoping to cross into the u.s. and seek asylum now a story we've been tracking over the past hour the syrian army says that rockets have been struck several military bases in hama and in a province describing the attack as

a new aggression by its enemies to residents in hama told the reuters news agency that the blast came from a military base which is reportedly used by iran backed forces on the news ruling party says it will not block popular opposition leader nicole question yun from running the country demonstrators have been rallying in support of russia and ahead of tuesday's parliamentary vote to choose a new prime minister armenia's previous prime minister search sarkozy and resigned a week ago after mass demonstrations took place against him. set for myself in the team here in london witnesses coming up next it's impossible to underestimate the size and scale of the economic crisis it's not just about the police believe the day it's not just about the banks it's not just about to go to my real people.