you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. if you are in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when mess was that somehow time as aiming to replace america and around the world all the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china. on a jersey a go. so

this thought bomber set the bombs off within minutes of each other killing twenty five people afghanistan's capital. flowing down jordan this is our zero value from doha also coming up rockets hit syrian military bases in hama but there's no word yet on who's responsible. us or just have just the palestinians to reengage with israel that's he visits jordan on his middle east told. us border guards turned away refugees and fled central america saying they can't process any more songs he has for now. at least twenty five people have been killed as suicide bombers set off their explosives within minutes of each other in central kabul the first happened close

to afghanistan's intelligence headquarters the second was triggered as people rushed to the seemed to help the victims are still has claimed responsibility and afghan police in southern afghanistan say eleven civilians have been killed during a suicide attack on a nato convoy there tell us it happened on a highway south of kandahar jennifer glass joins us live now from kabul jennifer so what more details are emerging about these latest explosions in the capital. but the islamic state has claimed responsibility for those two attacks about eight o'clock this morning the first suicide bomber he was on a motorcycle in shuster iraq the islamic state says the target of that attack was the intelligence headquarters but it was civilians who bore the brunt of that explosion and then about twenty minutes later a man dressed as a journalist blew himself up in a group of journalists of cameramen reporters photographers eight journalists have been killed eight journalists among the twenty five killed targeting second you know targeting first responders in this very brutal attack here in kabul it's the

sec. an attack by the islamic state here in the capital in just over a week last sunday about sixty people were killed and more than one hundred ten were injured when the islamic state attacked voter registration and a long line of people standing in line registering to vote for elections scheduled in october kabul has become the most dangerous place in afghanistan for civilians away from the capital jennifer what do we know about this attack on a nato convoy in the south of the country that happened in kandahar province in the south the french a police down in kandahar tell us that eleven civilians were killed when a suicide bomber in a minivan detonated his bomb on a nato convoy so eleven civilians killed there nine people injured including six remaining in soldiers and two policemen that according to kandahar police we have reached out to nato headquarters here they have not come back to to confirm that

but the afghan police kandahar police telling us in the south eleven civilians killed in a suicide bombing there the attack on a nato convoy with six remaining nato soldiers injured and two as well as two policeman or jennifer glass then kabul jennifer thank you well the new u.s. secretary of states on the final day of his diplomatic talks the middle east pompei is now in jordan weighs held talks with the foreign minister the underscored the importance of jordan's role in helping solve conflicts in neighboring countries in particular the palestinians to reengage in talks with israel while also commenting on the recent protests of the gaza israel border and which many palestinians were killed by israeli fire about the activities in gaza over the past days and weeks we do believe the israelis have the right to defend themselves and we are fully supportive of. key to that as you know for us in jordan is the

palestinian israeli conflict this is we believe the main cause open stability in the region and its dissolution is the key to achieving the lastest lasting and comprehensive peace that we want the two state solution remains the only path to the pieces we believe in jordan it is the solution that would allow for the emergence obama an independent sovereign palestine state with jerusalem as its capital and the lines of june fourth one nine hundred sixty seven there is a deadlock in peace efforts now and we know that the status quo cannot be maintained we have a difficult situation but the challenge in us all is to make sure that this difficult situation does not get worse and how to abdel-hamid joins us live now from the jordanian capital hala so u.s. secretary of state mike pompei of the palestinians to reengage with the israelis how is that likely to play out then. well i think it's probably going to fall on deaf ears at the moment i mean you have

to go back to this ember when president made his the resume declaration which paved the way for moving the embassy the american embassy from tel aviv and to jerusalem and that is due to happen on may fourteenth ever since the palestinians have been very angered have said that the u.s. is certainly not that mediator anymore and we saw that anger also when mike pence was visiting the region he was also supposed to meet with palestinian leadership that did not happen and during this trip well from what we understand at the u.s. secretary of state didn't even make an attempt to meet with the palestinians now to have the palestinians and israelis engage face to face directly without anyone around them that would be extremely complicated especially that if you look at the past few years well as the jordanian foreign minister said the negotiations have been all but dead they were at

a deadlock it is nothing that has been able to kickstart them and certainly at the moment seems also very far away as you say it's clear that jordan is very concerned about a lot of progress in the peace talks is an issue which dominated the press conference admit. yes absolutely and you have to also put it in juxtaposition you have to compare it to do press conference that might be held yesterday in tel aviv where the word palestinian was mentioned mention only once and the overarching. conversation there was about iran well not here in amman certainly it is a very difficult time to jordanians are saying that it is the main cause of instability in the region mike is seem to think otherwise he said with all what's happening around syria yemen iran while he doesn't necessarily agree that this is the main cause of instability but i think at the moment dean is also concerned

along with the palestinians because you have also emerging new emerging ideas for example just lately there was a conversation leaked in the u.s. media about words that were said by the saudi crown prince mohammed bin some man in which he would have told. us jewish leaders that the palestinians basically should accept what ever did trump administration puts forward or in his words shut up now you know we've been president trump has been talking about this ultimate deal and no one knows the details about this ultimate deal maybe to be jordanian government does know some of the details but the palestinian leaders we spoke to over the past few months told us they were never given any details they don't know exactly what this ultimate deal is and in the words of mahmoud our best lately he said ultimate didn't know until. they collaboration was a slap in our face and at the moment unless we find another mediator they will be

no peace negotiation and that is certainly a situation that concerns jordan very much specially because of the tensions that are expected over the next two weeks with the move of the embassy as i mentioned but also with israel celebrating its seventy seventy three year of independence which for the palestinian translates in seventy years of catastrophe so certainly a lot of tension and head and for the jordanians a main cause of concern hala thank you. missiles of hit syrian military bases in what the government is calling new aggression from its enemies without specifying to at least eight people were killed in the strikes which happened late on sunday night in a hammock province and the aleppo countryside iranian state media denies any of it syrian military bases were hit despite reports they were targeted meanwhile an evacuation deal has been reached between the syrian government and some rebels in southern damascus pro-government forces have surrounded key rebel and eisel

controlled neighborhoods after nearly two weeks and ground offensive the deal includes the government a palestinian refugee camp set out to has more from beirut in neighboring lebanon. another evacuation deal are what really amounts to a surrender a sham that's an armed group formally known as they've agreed to surrender to lay down their arms and to leave the enclave they control in southern damascus they will be bussed to the north western province of idlib which is under the control of the opposition along with their family members but they have been forced to give even more concessions to the syrian government the group has agreed to release prisoners and the group is allowing thousands of people to be evacuated from two loyalist towns and lived before and could fray at their besieged by rebel forces up to five thousand people what we understand will be evacuated am taking this area which really has become a burden for the syrian government and its allies because every time they launch some sort of an offensive against the rebels the rebels retaliate by targeting

these towns where you know thousands of people live so high up. evacuating its enclave in southern thomas this u.s. border guards have turned away hundreds of refugees and migrants from central america who are seeking political asylum they have trouble for weeks through mexico as money or apollo reports on mexican border town of tijuana they're being forced to wait to see what happens next. hundreds of central american migrants and activist gathered at the u.s. southern border they've been on the road for over a month. it was an emotional moment for some for others a chance to celebrate. a few even climb the border wall stopping short of crossing into the u.s. most of these people are from honduras el salvador and guatemala they were forced from their homes by violent street gangs extreme poverty or other forms of persecution. volunteer legal experts spent days interviewing them to determine if their cases were strong enough to qualify for political asylum the rest were baes

to stay behind. the hundreds marched on the streets of the one to the u.s. border gate only to be told at the last minute. that most would not be allowed to pass with this is that i meant that the truth is we don't know anything we're all adrift here we can't say anything because we don't know what's going on we have to wait and see what we're told after the initial confusion only a small group was allowed the rest of we half of them children were forced to wait . until ok most of the ego we have cooperated as much as we can they knew we were coming they know these people are waiting we know donald trump has power over customs and border protection these people deserve their day in court. and we want those who are not allowed to pass gathered with their families preparing to spend the night in the open for many arriving at the border gate was supposed to mark the end of their time in mexico it seems they will now have to wait some more with no

certainty over what comes next and right up until they want to. know what the check is next and then still to come freedom for the journalist and soldier the king of thailand plus. i'm wayne hay in southwestern cambodia where we'll tell you why farmers here aren't concerned about the falling price of paper. and over time and has been very very wet recently we're seeing plenty of cloud on the satellite picture you can see them the shower clouds here just ballooning giving very heavy downpours and some of this in parts of thailand have seen around one hundred sixty millimeters of rain just in one single day so incredibly wet here are more showers still to come in fact i think the choose day they'll be spreading a bit further south safe to k.l.

and singapore we could also see some very lively downpours jeer in the day towards the east scattering of showers will be with us the over parts of borneo i'm going also see quite a few over the philippines as well looks like luzon particularly in the west. it will have the best chance of getting away with a dry day over towards australia for most of us here it is dry we do have a little bit more in the way of cloud over tasmania making things hit rather grey and roll the damp but that should clear away as we head into tuesday and even if we should have a fine day as well so then all the temperatures are behaving as of late they're up to twenty four degrees the temperatures will be rising over the next few days there is this weather system works its way towards us that's going to start to draw all the warm ed down from the north so twenty six will be the maximum in adelaide that and we had out towards the east the temperatures easing off for us across in new zealand say fifty as a maximum in christchurch. zero

. in. each one. one. it is going to be. with me to my. own interests you. welcome back a quick recap the top stories here on al-jazeera responsibility for a double suicide attack in central kabul which killed at least twenty five the

first blast went off close to afghanistan's intelligence headquarters the second was triggered as people rushed to the scene to help the victims. the new u.s. secretary of state is on the final day of his diplomatic tour of the middle east mike pompei is now in jordan where he defended his role as right to protect itself when asked about israel's use of deadly force against palestinian protesters in gaza. and at least eight people have been killed in missile attacks on a number of syrian military bases and what the government's calling new aggression from its enemies tax took place in hama province and the aleppo countryside iranian state media denies any of it syrian bases were hit despite reports they were targeted. now the e.u. is chief negotiator michele bachmann is an island to discuss the potential impact of bragg's it on the irish border he'll cross over that border and visit northern ireland in the coming hours for northern ireland will be the u.k.'s only land front here with the e.u. after it leaves the bloc both sides want to keep the border with island open but

finding a way to do that has proven elusive so far lawrence lee joins us now from the our city of dundalk lawrence. so a car and michel barnier meeting now how important how significant is this meeting . well it's it's very important clearly because the status of the irish border is and remains the biggest issue for the european union in what the british government plans to do in terms of leaving because the british government can't come up with any sort of coherent plan about what it wants to do the best of it to them and just finished giving a news conference but nothing really they can say apart from restate their position which is that they want the borders remain open that very much like the u.k. to stay inside some sort of economic agreement with the european union of the customs union or the single market afterwards but they can't do anything past that because the u.k. government can't say what it is he wants to do loads of interested parties here

people from for example the dundalk chamber of trade a little organization yes but every single company they sold me here has a deal with people across the board in the desperately worried about what will happen if road blocks go up and they can't get their eggs or their cheese or their milk across the border to the process and then come back the other way the irish council for human rights is meeting with your body at lunch time before he goes up to the north they regard the ability to cross the border as a human rights but then mr vanier will try seven fifteen minutes to northern ireland from here he will go over the open border you can't even see you going from one country to another and then you'll meet a load of people in northern ireland who will express exactly the same concerns and what it will demonstrate in terms of optics is that isn't it nice that the board is open and look at all these people on both sides who we in the european union really worry about what are you going to do inside the british government about all this yeah lawrence major our peoples in british politics over brags that now the home secretary has resigned over an immigration scandal this is bound to increase the

pressure on terrorism isn't it. well it just lends to a sense of the british government having no sort of order or structure in being in a general general sense of chaos it is true that she didn't resign over brecht's it she resigned over the complete inability to explain why they were deporting in denying the human rights of people who had the right to be inside the u.k. and she didn't want to go to the made in one of the go but she had to go because the pressure was too much and she will be replaced by someone or other but clearly we know that the inner circle of the u.k. government is riven between people who want to abandon every bits of the european union as some who want to keep a bit of a relationship going and in terms of all of eighteen you see the body is trying to make capital out of this today look how organized we are weak we can tell you what our position is the british government actually can give us

a clue and i think in all of this what they're trying to do is press home their advantage at this moment when the british government is looking particularly weak trying to force them into accepting some of the things they want particularly to keep the border open lawrence thank you. must protests have been held for the third consecutive day in spain against the acquittal of five men charged with gang rape. tens of thousands of marched in pamplona after the men were jailed for nine years for the lesser crime of sexual abuse the gang known as the wolf pack the video of the attack during the bull running festival two years ago then laughed about it online thousands of nicaraguans have taken part in a protest demanding justice for the killing of anti-government protesters at least forty three people died during demonstrations against the government's proposed social security reforms catherine stansell has more. the center of the capital managua turned into a sea of blue and white as thousands of demonstrators were calling for an end to

the rest. it began on april eighteenth when president daniel ortega announced an overhaul to the welfare system that would have seen taxpayers paying higher contributions in exchange for lower benefits he since backs down on the proposal but it didn't stop the catholic church from organizing this second demonstration if it will may go a day where really got to this is the moment when the people have to take control no one owns nicaragua it is up to the nicaraguan people to decide this story and their future but hey that's your boss. this is a march for peace and justice peace only comes from god all the person is a here to protest against his criminal government murderers who cruelly killed people all of us standing here say enough is enough. these are the largest street protests in nicaragua since the end of the civil war in one nine hundred ninety and have been the most violent during our take as rule at least forty three people have

died in demonstrations and confrontations with police the u.n. accuses the government of using excessive force as well as trying to shut down t.v. stations purporting the unrest or take a has agreed to hold talks there no date has been such it's not clear who will be involved or if there will be conditions attached the catholic church has agreed to mediate or take a is the last of the latin american revolutionary still in office despite facing the biggest direct challenge to his rule he's given no indication that he will step down or bring forward elections due in twenty twenty one catherine stansell al jazeera. malawi's former president joyce banda says she is not afraid of being arrested after she returned home from four years of self-imposed exile police of confirmed an outstanding warrant for corruption allegations marian one hundred ports. a jubilant crowd and preparing to welcome home the woman

many cool a mother and dad who will yet and who are being asked i'm as happy as a woman who just delivered a baby because we missed our mother this bundle joins me on the is back and is as free as any citizen of malawi. many supporters had feared malawi's former president might never return for years after leaving malawi under aggression cloud joyce banda is back on home soil my daughter surprised but many of you tend. to recall that you came bundle was malawi's first female president and the second woman to lead an effort in country but that league a-c. is being overshadowed by the biggest financial scandal in malawi's history widely known as cash gate it came to light during her time in power politicians civil servants and business people all stand accused of pilfering tens of millions of dollars of government money through companies that didn't take to provide services

more than thirty million was taken and just six months foreign donors pulled a hundred fifty million dollars in aid devastating for a country reliant on made around forty percent of its budget it also hit bundy's really action bid she lost the vote in two thousand and fourteen and left malawi accused of abuse of office and money laundering the warrant for her wrist is still active speaking to al jazeera bunda said she has no reason to be afraid if she has done nothing wrong. you know what did you sell them and i will not be imprisoned in twenty two out so what happened before and. peter methody could took over as president coming to power with a vow to clean up the system and get be a donors back but on friday thousands of malawians matched in protest at alleged corruption and poor governance during the city because four years in office. bundeswehr to encamp his malawi prepares for elections next year local media

reporting a possible deal between new thirty k. and panda but banda would not be drawn on his plans for now she says she simply wants to see family and friends after four years away maidana her and which is here . in thailand the magazine editor and democracy activist has been released from prison after a supreme court judges cut his eleven year sentence for insulting the king. is valid to continue his calls for democracy and elections which are delayed by the military government the campaign was jailed five years ago for publishing articles calling for changes to the law which protects the monarchy critics say the law is used to stifle political dissent. pashtuns in pakistan protesting against what they call decades of oppression by security forces a voice their grievances in a taliban stronghold in the swat valley say thousands have been wrongly killed over the years or of disappeared a solid binge of aid reports. ethnic wish to judge demanding rights enshrined in

pakistan's constitution following rallies in the shower in lahore protesters gathered in swat 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 two and a half is 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 is up to 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 to. the traditional gender that's a gathering of politicians and elders has been formed to discuss the demands

a military command agreed last week that some push to leave and says 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. people who would be absolutely it's always in uniform because they want to sell to people like this and do more extrajudicial killings or there was doubly seron writ not the writ of the constitution. the counter rally was held on saturday to show support for the military the speakers questioned why the bush girls were protesting when the p.t.'s demands are being addressed the accused to push the movement of being a tool of afghan nationalists and forces against the pakistani state what. i see. 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 criticised for not giving coverage to push through protests median it was denied 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 are some of the job made out as there are now anyone who likes to sprinkle pepper on their food are enjoying a slump in prices worldwide and prices are forecast to stay low because of an oversupply from vietnam and india but one remote region in southern cambodia seems to be immune from the industry's troubles zeros wayne hay reports now from come pots with farmers say they pick the world's most expensive pepper. there is no machinery in sight to pick this precious commodity harvesting kempe paper is labor intensive growers say hand picking is necessary to achieve the highest quality possible behind me let him that he had a bomb maker bought we don't use fertilizers or chemicals into whether he makes the pepper grecians 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 or region like scotch whiskey 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 pepper 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 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 price is not so important to disappointing that method but i think you can get a price for. that for an. because if you finish market the production with growth so 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. all the news of course on our website there it is on his screen the address al-jazeera dot com that's out of

his era. tough a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera i saw less famous sponsibility of a double the suicide attack in central kabul which killed at least twenty five people the first boss went off close to afghanistan's intelligence headquarters the second was triggered as people rushed to the scene to help the victims jennifer glass has more from kabul it is civilians who bore the brunt of these twin suicide bombings the first one at eight am it was an attacker on a motorbike and setting himself off in the streets and then about twenty minutes later as first responders arrived at the scene and journalists came to cover the event a second a suicide bomber blew himself up among the journalists at least eight journalists are among those twenty five killed in that attack more than forty have been wounded . and police in southern afghanistan say eleven civilians have been killed during

suicide attacks on a nato convoy tell us it happened on a highway south of kandahar. the new u.s. secretary of state is on the final day of his diplomatic tool of the middle east might pompei is now in jordan where he defended israel's right to protect itself when asked about israel israel's use of deadly force against palestinian protesters in gaza. missiles of hit syrian military bases and what the government is calling new aggression from its enemies without specifying who these people were killed in the strikes which happened late on sunday night in the hama province and in the aleppo countryside iranian state media denies any of its syrian bases were hit despite reports they were targeted meanwhile an evacuation deal has been reached between the syrian government and some rebels in southern damascus pro-government forces have surrounded key rebel and i still control neighborhoods after a nearly two week ground offensive dealing clews the yarmuk palestinian refugee

camp he used chief briggs it negotiator michele bachmann is an island to discuss the potential impact of bragg's it on the irish border he'll cross over that border and visit northern ireland northern and will be the u.k.'s only land front here with the e.u. after it leaves the bloc both sides want to keep the border without an open but finding a way to do that has proven elusive so far. all right those were the headlines and is the problem as the news on thirty minutes after witness statement than so much of life and. on counting the cost why iran's nuclear deal and other powerful factors are at play in a new game of oil it could mean people prices at the pump. and into korean summit what would a saw in relations mean for their economy. counting the cost.