from around the world this museum aims to be a repository over region's history and its perfected war that has divided tribes here for generations. the scene for us where there online once is american sign in yemen that peace is possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sept there people the little choosing between buying medication and eating basis is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist who's close to the story joining the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera i think this was difficult to say whether someone voting for someone is very rich it does matter i think it's how you approach an individual and that's what it is a certain way of doing it you can't just. story and i out. two

explosions in the afghan capital kabul just a week after a suicide attack killed at least sixty people there. logan peters over here in doha with the top stories from al jazeera and other news the syrian army says several of its military bases in hama and aleppo have come under rocket attack. demonized by the president but still seeking sanctuary a caravan of refugees reaches the u.s. mexican border plus. i'm wayne hay in southwestern cambodia where we'll tell you why farmers here aren't concerned about the falling price of peppa.

ok let's get you right up to date with a breaking story this hour coming to us out of the afghan capital kabul we have reports of two explosions the city has seen a number of attacks in recent months last week at least sixty people were killed in a suicide attack at a voter registration center jennifer glass joins us live now on the line from kabul jennifer what else do we know. peter the health ministry tells us that seven people were killed and twenty injured in those two attacks those numbers could invade rise as it is early days right now in the early hours happened just about an hour ago during morning rush hour in kabul in the shah strong area not far from the country's intelligence headquarters and as you said because there were two explosions a first explosion and then a second explosion some minutes later targeting apparently first responders we know that journalists are among the injured and the dead so targeting those who would have come to the scene to report on it or help the injured that's something new that makes the here as you said this comes just about

a week after another explosion here in kabul killed sixty people get their voter registration cards these attacks here and call peter have made the afghan capital the most dangerous place to be in afghanistan we've had a number of large suicide attacks over the last weeks and months is this area in effect a particularly soft target jennifer. not at all actually there's a lot of security in this area in that area it's not far from nato headquarters there are a lot of fortified streets there so and security has been beefed up around the afghan capital but clearly they haven't been able to stop these kind of attacks so low security to attack is clearly a good degree of coordination on their policy as well been absolutely a lot of coordination and working the best efforts of the afghan security forces and we will hear the refrain again as we have heard before the afghan people there is frustrated with their government and the security forces that they can't be protected and of course as always it is civilians who are the injured and the dead

very rarely are the made to tax do they reach security forces so it's another difficult day in the afghan capital any reaction from the government yet. not so far and again i think they're just accounting. get in trying to figure out how ok jennifer will talk to shore again pretty soon in the meantime thanks very much syrian state t.v. is reporting that rockets have struck several military bases and hama and the aleppo countryside now the army is calling it a new aggression by its enemies state media had earlier reported successive blasts in the west in hama province iranian forces a station in that area al-jazeera is in aleppo province. it's one of the strongest attacks on the military civilians in aleppo described

hearing a huge explosion and their description is in line with what the state is saying the first of the airstrikes killed eight people at military posts in the aleppo countryside but we haven't heard a full tally of deaths from the military yet it is clear the explosions were massive and the equipment used was sophisticated it is only like the strikes carried out by the western trio which had minimal damage what is clear is that the syrian military is still being targeted and this was a big hit after the u.s. led airstrikes. and a tablet is a syria expert at the washington institute for near east policy he says israeli attacks targeting iranian bases in syria have continued for some time now. it seems as if israeli strike is yet to be confirmed but the targets in the recent history of israel bombing inside syria would suggest that sousa responsible these are bases bases for iran and regime forces inside syria iranian forces are spread out

throughout the country they are the main backers of bashar al assad on the ground and israel has launched a new target its assets as they spread throughout the country these bombings and rocket attacks on them would have been going on for several months and i think we're going to continue with iran and its proxies against israel its allies in what way may be seen well ali a syrian state media was also reporting a deal between the syrian government and opposition fighters under the proposed agreement rebels will be evacuated from the camp area south of the capital damascus the syrian government has launched an offensive in the area last week to push eisel out one thousand civilians have been killed and a large part of a camp housing palestinian refugees in the area has been destroyed in the violence . donald trump's new secretary of state issued a strong warning to iran during his tour of the middle east like pump

a zero criticized tehran saying it's destabilizing the whole region pompei trip included visits to saudi arabia and israel and comes as trump is closer to a decision on whether it's a pool of the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal 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 and destabilize this entire region that supports proxy militias and terrorist groups that arms it is an arms dealer to the who the rebels in yemen. and iran conducts cyber hacking campaigns that supports the murderous assad regime as well compares 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 or command that took it and we

also think that iran should be dealt with by imposing further sanctions further 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 remains that people thought that iran's aggression would be moderated as a result of signing the 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 for the fourteenth of may the day the israeli state was declared seventy years ago maintained that final boundaries

within jerusalem were up for negotiation that the us 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 might pompei was a different proposition from his predecessor rex tillerson who spent most of his tenure as secretary of state in a state of it best same a detachment from the white house 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 two listens frequent messages that saudi arabia's blockade on cantars should and they also stress to the foreign minister that go for unity is necessary we need to achieve a report in the new york times said the message away from the cameras was more direct enough is enough stop the blockade by the time pump am moved on to jordan his chief aim seemed established laying the groundwork for tougher action against iran clear two of the obstacles the e.u.

russia and china have all warned against scrapping the nuclear deal the decision will be donald trump's the deadline may the twelfth are a force that al-jazeera west jerusalem. joel rubin is a former deputy assistant secretary of state he says pompei and trump are on the same page when it comes to the crisis in the gulf over the blockade of cattle after visits by leaders from doha angry at the same wasn't the case between trump and pompei of predecessor rex tillerson. visit to with president that really was a successful visit for the kids ariz where president trump was very clear in stating that he supported and to the blockade and pompei all got his marching orders in so going to the gulf being direct being clear after that meeting it's no longer possible for the saudis in this instance to believe they can work with terrorists in and work with trump and potentially have

a difference between the two they really are getting the same message and that's very important for the poems the have a secretary of state give the same message that said it's a tough message and it's not sure it's not certain that this is going to really create the kind of end game that we want from the u.s. perspective just delivering a tough message to say stop a blockade that's not enough there's going to be need to be more work done than just asking for it now they've been on the road for a month now and the so-called migrant caravan has arrived on the mexican u.s. border hundreds of people from honduras guatemala and el salvador fleeing persecution and have one aim to cross over to safety on u.s. soil while the u.s. president will trump has called the caravan a threat to america some fully supportive rob reynolds has the latest now from the center of border crossing just south of san diego. even as the group of people traveling from central america prochoice the border here at san ysidro california

to request asylum in the united states the border protection agency announced that it had already reached its capacity and wouldn't be able to process any more applications for at least the rest of the day now this means that those asylum seekers a may have to wait a day or even more as the bureaucratic process works its way forward but the u.s. is obligated to at least consider the claims of the people who have come up in central america seeking asylum doesn't mean that they will have to accept them it doesn't mean that the asylum seekers will get residence in the united states but they will at least get some sort of the ministry of hearing unfortunately for those people who have come up from central america seeking refuge in the united states about three quarters of all the requests for asylum from central americans to come into the united states are denied across the border and suman well or apollo

who has more from the mexican city of tijuana. it was supposed to be the end of a long journey for members of a migrant group finally arriving at the us mexico border crossing here in t one however u.s. customs and border protection announced that they would not be allowing individuals that lack the proper legal documentation to cross into the united states now spirits were higher earlier today members of this migrant group are celebrating at the u.s. border wall what they thought would be the end of their time here in mexico again these are individuals that are mostly from central america countries like salvator want tamala countries to having a high level of violence individuals members of this migrant group are fleeing the violence associated with street gangs others are fleeing domestic abuse others are fleeing high levels of of poverty and these are folks that have been traveling for a very long. time over a month now and it seems as though many will have to wait a little longer before they are able to turn themselves into u.s.

border authorities the nigerian president. is set to meet donald trump in washington on monday to discuss economic and military ties the talks take place at a time when both the u.s. and china are looking to strengthen financial relations with africa when interest reports now from a butcher on what the talks might actually achieve. he was. hardly came into office promising to defeat boko haram but with just over a year left through the end of his first term the armed group still poses a significant threat to the attacks in the northeast continue while he hopes to use his visit to washington to acquire military hardware to fight. in the heart of the nigerian president would be three pronged gained to secure nigeria to revive the economy and to fight corruption in whatever we have

america. would make you know in this three pro game the president will be talking with the american president on. the nigerian president is under pressure to tackle the rising violence in the country from boko haram attacks in the northeast to communal fighting in central parts of nigeria is expecting a delivery of fighter jets in arms from the united states but they're not expected for another two years a long wait for a government just product we need to war against iran with a beautician coming from the white house some believe the meeting could focus more on what the americans want the west is actually looking for important countries like nigeria for. political interest so. invited the nigerian president is important to see how. often it can be part of the american west and it's. your political interest for now there appears to be little american

opportunity for nigeria's hydro carbons after the discovery of huge results of shale oil in the united states the nigerian president will want to see the return of monies and i say it's stolen by politicians and government officials and stashed in the united states some of that has been tried down during the obama administration but two years later replied treating the assets is yet to begin. it's not clear if the visit will quick and process so money to save the trumpet ministration could also use the visit to father america's economic interests in africa at a time to come to an interested look into china for loans and economic aid with stringent conditions either say nigeria's general elections next year will almost certainly be discussed bible hari was a candidate and president trump ahmed al jazeera. still ahead here on al-jazeera more rallies in armenia a day before the crucial vote in parliament for a new prime minister. seven years in prison for insulting the king it's freedom now

for journalists in thailand. hello the wet and windy weather is finally blowing out from iraq it's come across the border into iran are still showers left in this very sharp edged cold front to susan g. and c. but it's on its way so it's not going to do too much more damage is lost the impetus of any warm water so it's just a few scattered showers are trying to get to monday it's left behind residual rain pockets there over in western iran just east of baghdad and running up to the caucasus and eastern turkey much quieter afterwards the baghdad if everything is warming up to the low thirty's i think by the time we get to tuesday the cloud building again in jordan southern israel for example and northern egypt and like my

producer sheryl to even a thunderstorm to similar sort of things happening to the south where we've seen it's clear skies i think about time we get to monday with the exception down here of yemen and possibly south of amman the cloud is thickening enough for us for the terrain possibly but this here which looks a bit nawin could well turn into a line of thunderstorms across the middle of saudi arabia up towards bahrain but things just plowed about how good of a hurry we have though more showers developing on the eastern side of south africa and the suit to i suppose it's early winter showers but they are of rain. every dinner is being analyzed it's being. measured. and it's not just. i mean most nothing's out of the state at the moment we are in a state of the universe that. did something that was x.

rather take the risks of democracy the risks of the dictatorship digital dissidents on al-jazeera. welcome back you without fear or a mind of our top stories at least seven people have been killed in two explosions in the afghan capital kabul a journalist among those killed twenty others are injured. syrian state t.v. says rockets are struck several military bases in hama and the aleppo countryside the army is calling it a new aggression by its enemies. donald trump's new secretary of state has issued

a strong warning to iran during his middle east tour might pompei of us as tehran is. stabilizing the entire region pompei as trip included business to saudi arabia and israel and comes as donald trump edges closer to a decision on whether to pull out of the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal. let's return to our top story those two explosions in kabul jennifer glass joins us live now from kabul jennifer what else do we know clearly a degree of coordination here. very much so peter a very grim morning here two explosions coordinated explosions as you mentioned journalists among the dead because that second explosion particularly insidious targeting those first responders those who are drawn to this site of the attack to either report on it as journalists are or to help the injured and the dead so two explosions in the middle of morning rush hour in the shushed iraq area of the afghan capital seven dead twenty injured according to the health ministry and as

you said journalists are among the wounded and among the dead this comes on the heels of an attack last week here in kabul that killed sixty people they were lining up to get their voter registration cards ahead of elections scheduled here for october but a series of attacks here in kabul have made the afghan capital most dangerous place in afghanistan to be sure the area was busy. busy at the time it is a secure area peters' lot of checkpoints in that area a lot of police on the street in that area not far from the country's intelligence headquarters so clearly whoever carried out this attack had some degree of coordination but also have the facility to get into the capital where security has been tightened for the last several months and able to carry out two attacks one after the other really very very. insidious difficult crime here in kabul it comes just a few days after the taleban announced their spring offensive and of course right

now no one has claimed responsibility for the attack here today the attack last week in kabul was claimed by the islamic state is it too early jennifer to say this was the work of suicide bombers. i don't think we know that at the moment all we know is that two bombs carried out suicide bombers are often the preferred method to do it because it's the easiest way to get into a crowd we have those see seen bomb stuck under cars we've seen a car bombs as well it's really difficult to know exactly what the method of this attack was yet. talking about the area in more detail for a second jennifer does it have any particular symbolism for somebody who'd want to perpetrate this kind of atrocity i don't know that it does it's not clear what the target of this attack was whether they blew up prematurely because they couldn't get to the site where they wanted to go as sometimes happens whether there was a particular building or something that it's hard to there doesn't seem to be anything of note at the particular spot where the attacks were carried out it's

just difficult to say whether it's this is just another fear tactic last week's attack was a clear assault on the electoral process here a clear assault on those trying to line up for elections today it's really not clear at all what the target of the attack was jennifer thanks very much. opposition activists in armenia holding more rallies ahead of a vote in parliament on tuesday to choose a new prime minister another demanding that the protest leader nicole pasha nya be chosen to leave the country the previous prime minister you see on brazilian the week ago after protests against him he'd taken the job after spending a decade as president of and for a state walker has more now from armenia second biggest city khumri. some of us will remember the events in one nine hundred eighty eight that happened in armenia a terrible earthquake which raised much of the city i am now khumri and

which left a great many people homeless thirty years on many of them are still living without adequate accommodation and that is just one example of why 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 further that the republican party is no

is going to field a prime ministerial candidate when parliament is going to vote on she stays expected to select a new prime minister that means that the people's candidate nicole passion and looks set to be the next prime minister of armenia 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 the u.k. home secretary amber rudd turns resigned after it was revealed she planned to step up the deportation of caribbean immigrants she came under intense pressure to step down amid the wooden brush scandal where caribbean migrants living in the u.k. for generations have now been threatened with deportation that the so-called wind rush generation they settled in the u.k. between one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and one nine hundred seventy one they were given the right to stay in the country but many many never obtain passports. the philippines president roderigo to turkey has permanently banned

filipino workers from travelling to kuwait for 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 is estimated about two hundred sixty thousand filipino still lives in kuwait the thai authorities have released a magazine editor who in twenty thirteen was sentenced to eleven years in prison for insulting the king some york proxy. used his magazine to campaign for the law to be changed he refused to plead guilty or seek a royal pardon critics say the prohibition on insulting the king is used to stifle political dissent scott who has more now from bangkok. it was a song that was released from prison early monday morning after serving seven years of an eleven year combined sentence he was convicted of last month to stay that was supposed to have him in jail for ten years and also the same in a senior military official those supposed to be one year those reduced to a collective seven years about eighteen months ago now we've been in touch with his

daughter straight the way through the days leading up to his release he came out much earlier than many people expected five am local time he's greeted by some dozens of supporters now coming out of just steps out of this prison that has been his home for the last seven years he has said he's going to stick to his cause fronting the idea that the laws of last month just a defaming the world family here they need to change that has been something he has held as one of the important things that need to change in the thai structure he also said that he's going to drop to join the pro-democracy movement here since he was in jail there's been a military coup in the military government is still running this nation he says he's going to join the cause for pro-democracy and to make sure that there are elections soon now this is a case that many are focused on it's called one one two here locally in thailand because since the military government came into control they're using these laws to jail political distance and also critics so again as we hear something out is going to continue with his cause and obviously see in the coming weeks coming days what

he's going to say more publicly about this and how this pro-democracy movement is going to incorporate him into their protest about having elections here in thailand . in pakistan tens of thousands of people turned up at a rally front to hear the opposition leader imran khan as he launched his election campaign for prime minister. the former cricket star who heads the pakistan key inside for p.t.i. party is taking part in the national election shuttle for july khan has emerged as one of the country's leading opposition figures in recent years. the price of pepper around the world has plummeted and is forecast to stay low because of an oversupply from vietnam and india however one remote region in the south of cambodia seems to be immune from the slump the people there claim to produce the most expensive pepper in the world wayne hay has that story now from camp hot. there is no machinery in sight to pick this precious commodity harvesting kempon

paper is labor intensive growers say hand picking is necessary to achieve the highest quality possible behind me let them that because they had a bomb maker bought we don't use fertilizers or chemicals and the weather here makes the pepper delicious and spicy it's different from other areas in cambodia in the other countries. the paper from this region has become sort after around the world two years ago it was given protected geographical indication status by the european union it's a standard used to identify products that have a link to a specific country all region like scotch whisky or palm aham products from here are exported mainly to the united states europe and japan which is in contrast to pick out from other parts of cambodia the cambodian paper industry is growing quickly but outside this region it has a problem it's competing with and to a large extent relying on its neighbor vietnam which is the largest producer of pepper in the world because of

a lack of infrastructure and investment most cambodian paper is sent across the border through middlemen for processing cutting into farmers slim profits the cambodian government is promising to invest more in facilities and marketing as an example it's looking to the success of campout which has benefited from foreign investment and is largely self-sufficient when it comes to processing it's also been immune from the price slump caused by oversupply that seen the price of black paper fall by around sixty percent to below three dollars a kilogram camp or prices have remained stable as high as twenty eight dollars a kilo still last year the regional so produced more than it could sell the industry leaders say don not concerned about low prices spreading to their products prices not throwing them through to the point that the methods but i think you can get a price for a. current level. don't know if we can finish market on the prediction with

growth the only thing here. it's a niche market with a big price tag that at the moment other farmers around the world can only dream about wayne hey al jazeera can port cambodia. this is al-jazeera these are your headlines so far at least seven people have been killed in two explosions in the afghan capital kabul a journalist among the dead twenty others were injured the city seen a number of attacks in recent months more from jennifer glass. seven dead twenty injured according to the health ministry and as you said journalists are among the wounded and among the dead this comes on the heels of an attack last week here in kabul that killed sixty people they were lining up to get their voter registration cards ahead of elections scheduled here for october but a series of attacks here in kabul have made the afghan capital most dangerous place in afghanistan to be syrian state t.v.

says rockets have struck several military bases and hama the aleppo countryside the army is calling it a new aggression by its enemies state media had earlier reported about successive blasts in the western province of hama iranian forces a stationed in that area donald trump's new secretary of state has issued a strong warning to iran during his tour of the middle east mike pompei o says tehran is destabilizing the whole region pompei his comments come as donald trump edges closer to a decision on whether to pull out of the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal. after a month on the road the so-called migrant care of from one jurist guatemala and el salvador has arrived at the u.s. mexican border the nearly two hundred migrants say they'll apply for asylum in the states president trump has called the caravan a threat to the u.s. . in the u.k. the home secretary amber rudd has resigned amid a scandal over people in title to remain in the u.k. being threatened with deportation came under pressure to step down after it was

revealed hundreds of people many of caribbean all region have been denied their rights to pensions benefits and health care. the authorities in thailand have released a magazine who in twenty thirteen was sentenced to eleven years in prison for insulting the king some york book psycho some sort of used his magazine to campaign for the law to be changed the editor published two articles by a writer who made what was considered insulting references to the late king of rama refused to plead guilty or to seek a royal pardon and you are right up to date with all the top stories up next is one of one east public. on counting the cost why iran's nuclear deal and other powerful factors are a new game of oil it could mean prices at the pump. and into. what would a thaw in relations mean for their economy. counting the cost.