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i am al-jazeera. and live from studio three a team here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha i'm fully back to gold welcome to the news breaks i saw again in afghanistan dozens of people had killed including nine journalists after a suicide bombers set off their explosives in central kabul it's the worst attack on journalists in afghanistan since the start of the war in two thousand and one we'll explore isolates increasing presence in the country and the threat it poses it's also on the grid a potential turning point in palestinian politics the p.l.o. prominent is convening for the first time in more than twenty years top of its agenda what future relationship with israel and what options for the peace process at the meeting has promised indians divided kerry fossett is standing by in

ramallah to tell us why and coming to america i jarius president mahmoud abbas said to be the first speaker from sub-saharan africa to visit the trump white house after a series of false starts could this mock the beginning of the trumpet ministrations africa policy the diplomatic route between kuwait and the philippines continues to grow over the treatment of domestic workers i mean i'll take a look at the videos that led to this escalation and. now i am in the news breaks on al-jazeera live on air and streaming online for you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining us it's been a day of bloodshed in afghanistan dozens of people have been killed in a series of attacks in the capital kabul twenty five people died as suicide bombers set off explosives within minutes of each other close to the intelligence headquarters eisel says it carried out the attack nine of the dead were journalists

who had rushed to the scene after the first explosion making this one of the worst days for media in afghanistan since two thousand. in one and in the south police say eleven people including children were killed in a suicide car bombing targeting a nato convoy in khandahar nine people were injured in that attack including six romanian nato troops the taliban has claimed responsibility jennifer grass has more from kabul. i know of almost zero zero the first suicide bomber was on a motorbike i saw says the target was intelligence headquarters but the explosion killed civilians and policeman in the street every day added their limb for policemen and from district nine who were at the front line but were among those matson and three policemen were wounded as well emergency workers rushed to the scene to aid the wounded. afghan cameraman reporters and photographers who come to cover the news became part of the story when

a second suicide bomber disguised as a journalist blew himself up such attacks could create existential threat against press freedom and freedom of expression in afghanistan which is considered one of the biggest achievements of the country in the past seventeen years i've got to start who's got the most vibrant media in the region this is supposed to be a secure part of kabul home to not only intelligence headquarters but nato the u.s. embassy and various aid organizations in the capital these days nothing feels safe . another eisel bombing last week killed at least sixty people and injured one hundred ten afghans lined up to register to vote were the target not only in kabul but elsewhere too in kandahar in southern afghanistan a suicide car bomb attack on a nato convoy killed at least eleven civilians including children several nato soldiers and afghan policeman were injured the afghan president has described these

attacks as were crimes terrorist acts in conflict with islamic values and human rights and the afghans blame the government for not doing enough to prevent them jennifer glass al jazeera kabul well let's bring in our social media producer and bella nine journalists among the dead in kabul and joy and much of the outrage and tributes are being shared online certainly true condemnation of this attack was swift and global the afghan ambassador to the u.k. saying that there is no term. well enough to condemn the evil and despicable acts of terror that we've seen today that killed many of afghanistan's best talents and most courageous journalists the a.f.p.'s f.p. news agencies chief a target for in kabul i was among them and if you go and look at his twitter profile image it gives an added chilling sense of how dangerous this job was showing him giving an interview to the b.b.c. about journalist deaths and afghanistan mariah began working for the agency in one thousand nine hundred eight under the taleban he leaves behind

a family of six children and a legacy of amazing work as you can see here documenting afghanistan and its people over twenty years these are just a few of the eighteen thousand photographs a.f.p. distributed over his career one tribute i saw today in the atlantic magazine cited his ability to capture humanity in almost any situation other reporters photographers and cameramen from one t.v. michele t.v. asahi radio and solo news were killed an al-jazeera camera man was also injured in this attack christopher war he's the secretary general of reporters without borders says that this is the worst slaughter of journalists in afghanistan since the beginning of the war and the afghan journalist safety committee considers these killings crimes against humanity and according to their data this problem in afghanistan keeps getting worse twenty seventeen was already declared the bloodiest year for journalists and media workers in afghanistan's history eisel killed at least eighteen journalists and media workers last year while the taliban killed two

. but i saw the taliban in the commie network aren't the only culprits in many cases of violence and intimidation of journalists in afghanistan according to the a.g.'s see government workers police army and local officials were responsible for a third of the cases last year finally recognizing this troubling trend the u.s. embassy in kabul says where media at were me were media are in danger all other human rights are under greater threat so let us know what you think about the story especially if you're in afghanistan you can tweet us your thoughts using the hash tag it in his greater message me directly on. andrew thank you very much for that more now on the security situation in afghanistan with michael semple who is in afghanistan expert in a visiting professor at the institute for the study of conflict transformation and social justice at queen's university belfast very good to have you with us on al-jazeera this is a second attack isolates claiming responsibility for in kabul in a week what does it say about their presence and strength in afghanistan it

tells us that i so is now locked into a competition with the taliban movement in which both movements try to prove that they are at the forefront or what they call the job of the conflict in iraq is done and they're trying to prove got through violence and particularly through you know very public acts of violence like the one we are today how far as i saw willing to go able to go in afghanistan you think could we see them start recruiting afghan taliban you talk about a competition between the two groups which one of them is in the lead right now. at the moment they the taliban movement is well ahead in the sense that they account for well over three quarters of all you know violent acts you know by the

insurgents in the country they are much bigger than i still they have a presence across the country and they you know there are they're well organized they suppress them you know they present themselves as a sort of a shadow government so isis is behind but what isis has is its you know the ruthlessness of its tactics have something which appeals to some of the fighters ice of so you know portrays itself as being uncompromising unsung frankly extremists inside they hear out of the taliban who have a deed going over to them this is far from a cake ice is actually a really are in a sense a a real life threat to the government not a position to topple anything to change anything in afghanistan but they can certainly pull out pull out you know deadly attacks like we saw today a question here michael from one of our viewers on facebook as siebel asks what is the role of u.s. troops in afghanistan why can't intelligence play a role in preventing attacks like the ones we saw today. what is

a very good question and they here am i if i were to characterize they you know what they u.s. troops are doing in afghanistan is they're trying to back up the afghan government and to you know profit top in they in the face of the taliban insurgency and to how to conduct some counterterrorist operations against their particularly dangerous targets but this has been happening for a long time and still we see attacks like this in kabul be it because you know there is essentially a cat and mouse game being played between u.s. and pro-government intelligence networks and the terrorist networks in kabul and elsewhere many would be suicide attackers you know have indeed been picked up some of those have been responsible for organizing the other previous attacks after have been detected and picked up but unfortunately there are always plenty of other

people prepared to take their places and dot's why we see attacks like the that one that happened today so how do you see the afghan government then any international forces dealing with the dual threat that is the taliban and i so because until now it is and for a long time as you said they've been a dealing with the taliban threats but now it seems that they ought to threats happening at the same time do they have the ability especially the afghan forces to address this challenge. you know there are of course there are important security here at u.t.s. and they have their government have to be at the at the for the not there is you know there's a lot they have to do in combining in combating these however as you know we have discussed on this you know on this channel quite a few times before in dealing with the taliban a political approach is also important and the taliban have demonstrated that they can carry on fighting for you know perhaps have prompted definitely the afghan

government is also demonstrate it's not about to corrupt even though to be control of any promises so this war can drag on you need a political solution to end today at the conflict with the at the taleban i see no prospect of political accommodation with i so however if the afghan government and taliban do come to terms i still will find it impossible to operate because in the kitchen in the case of some form of a hero or a reconciliation between off grounds involving the the taliban the afghan population will again be cooperating fully with security forces and in such circumstances i still cannot operate. michael semple as always very good to get your insight on this thank you so much for joining us on the news great from belfast and i want to point you not to this great documentary on our web site al-jazeera gained unprecedented access to eisele central leadership in afghanistan in i saw and the taliban will look at the group's growing popularity how it made

steady inroads into the country and the threat it poses for the future of afghanistan is an excellent documentary watch it on our website at al-jazeera dot com and some comments here from some of our viewers on the security situation in afghanistan and the deaths of those journalists nine journalist killed today in that attack in kabul including a lot of other civilians have made here on facebook says it's heartbreaking and devastating we forget how much we owe to the media's willingness to be there no matter what the risk thank you very much for your comment hamid we look forward to hearing more on this story and others we're covering on the news great today from you you can connect with us on social media using the hash tag use great. now on to other world news and for the first time in twenty two years the palestinian national council is officially meeting in the west bank city of ramallah to discuss several critical issues top of the list is whether or not to suspend the recognition of israel the national council meeting is scheduled to last three days

beginning with a speech by palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas on monday evening but a handful of palestinian factions including hamas and the popular front for the liberation of palestine are not attending the meeting comes as relations between palestinian leaders and the trumpet ministration have broken down ahead of the controversial relocation of the u.s. embassy which is set to open in the divided holy city of jerusalem on may fourteenth palestinians of consistently demanded that the arab eastern side of jerusalem be recognize their future capital now let's take a closer look at the palestinian national council it's a parliament of the palestinian liberation organization the palestinian national council has seven hundred forty members is recognized by more than one hundred countries as a sole legitimate representative of the palestinians fatah the party of palestinian president mahmoud abbas dominates the council but other popular groups are also represented one of the key functions of the council is to elect the eighteen member

executive committee of the p.l.o. which rules the whole organization as speak so obvious there is harry fawcett who is in ramallah for us in the occupied west bank ramallah harry where you are a rare gathering happening there today of the palestinian national council what's on the agenda and what are the objectives. well look the main thing on the agenda tonight which is the official opening ceremony for this as you say reg other ng is a speech by president mahmoud abbas in which he's likely to set out a couple of things the need for unity in the face of the trunk declaration on jerusalem the need for the various palestinian factions to come together and face off what he sees as a threat not just from united states but from israel at this time of increased alliance between israel and the u.s. there are also number of very important procedural things to do with restocking the

numbers of the palestinian national council and the executive committee of the p.l.o. there are also indications that he might want to take some of the power transfer it or least have the ability to transfer that power to a smaller body to get him potentially free rein and cement his power i'm joined here by dr hanan ashrawi a senior member of the executive committee of the p.l.o. let me put that to you first what is the significance of the timing what is that the real purpose of this event and there are several purposes this event comes at a time in which the palestinian cause as a whole is facing serious existence and challenges from the israeli measures on the ground expansionism in the letter lose the use of unbridled violence the building of settlements and so on and at the same time press that the unholy alliance between tampa and the most extreme hardline government in the history of his own. at the same time said that of any chances of peace at this moment and then the into

devitalized city and i'm surprised the whole palestinian political system internally we need to end the left we need to strengthen the institutions of the p.l.o. we need to reinvigorate its presented to the capacity and we need to move ahead to be able to maintain sustained the palestinian people on the ground that is in the end seventy two they stand on these challenges and that sounds and at the same time we need to do. just the start people delivering a system of good governance and we need to send that message to the one that we are not defeated on the will not succumb to what is a message that that some are seeing coming from this is that not one of us wants to is essentially wanting to do it and to make something of a power grab to allow him a freer hand to operate without perhaps some of the restrictions of it of the p. and c. having to be reconfigured every time he wants to make a big decision for instance on a potential trump plan for the middle east peace not only i think about us as how

the for the hand to one of our kids isms and the p.l.o. executive of him is the fact that he white often takes this isn't some his own so he doesn't need to have it and they has one latte needs to do is be able to empower and strengthen and democratize the palestinian institutions in order to be able to buttress the political system and to take the sea these decisions that have to be taken but can you call this a democratic process there you know actually that election that this is a step it's a step in the direction of again the legitimizing the vitalizing out institutions i really think we should strengthen the p.l.o. not weaken it i believe we should take decisions but then into the and to them things that do it and put them into the. challenges we're facing including the so-called the. to be able to send a message to the palestinian people that we will democratize if you want. you want to expand your institutions if you want to be inclusive and diverse and so on you need to do is do this as a result of the b. and c.

this is a not a proud or not before you can be any mean if you want to change by laws and regulations you need to have a meeting in order to do that and i think we need to be able to have a mars slim streamlined active and effective p.l.o. to bring it up to date to bring it to understand the needs and the concepts and the changes in the world and we need to include more young people young men young women more women certainly and to be able to have a deal but secretary democracy without convening this meeting you cannot do that this is the first step towards ericson's we have an amazon and i know you haven't been very briefly one which similar line is there's no new hamas there's no p.s.l. t. knows i'm a jihad i mean that's a significant undermining isn't it not be evident he is has always been a member and it will be a member and times of the institutions of the pm no it's a shame that they are not attending this council but it doesn't mean they left the p.l.o. hamas and islamic jihad have not been that members of the p.l.o.

we believe they should be and we believe they should be on the basis of a broad national election process thank you very much dr sorry i know you are in a hurry thank you very much and so that is the situation here we await to hear from mahmoud abbas himself i was told it's like to be a long speech one getting underway and irises time thank you very much for harry foster live for us in ramallah where the palestinian national council meeting is about to get underway very shortly and if you want to find out more about who represents the palestinian people check out the short fam on al-jazeera dot com it's a good explainer of the different movements and factions and what they stand for as you heard many palestinians feel increasingly disillusioned by the multiple voices failing to speak as one. meanwhile the new u.s. secretary of state has urged palestinians to reengage with israel my poem pale as hell talks with jordan's foreign minister immensity in amman on the final stop of his first trip to the region as a top u.s.

diplomat he refused to criticize israel for the killing of dozens of on armed palestinian protesters and on the gaza israel border in recent weeks about the activities of gaza over the past days and weeks we do believe the israelis have the right to defend themselves and we are fully supportive of that we certainly believe that the israelis and palestinians need to need to have political engagement we urge the palestinians to return to that political dialogue it is an important piece of achieving middle east stability is to resolve this conflict and know that it is incredible priority for the united states to provide whatever assistance we can to allow the two parties to come to a resolution of this incredibly longstanding important. conflict in related news an israeli media report says saudi arabia's crown prince has criticized the palestinian leadership mom had been summoned reportedly told heads of jewish groups

based in the u.s. that palestinian leaders must accept conditions for peace put forward by the administration of u.s. resin donald trump and stop complaining the comment does said to have been made during a closed door meeting in new york last months let's get the view of our senior political analyst who joins us on the news great from nandan marwan so much shit to talk about for us that start with these comments reportedly made by the saudi crown prince are you at all surprised that he would make such comments. unfortunately i am not surprised but just in case these were not exactly his comments or he did not make those comments and simply israelis are trying to plant news of that sort fake news if you will in order to create tensions between the saudis and the palestinians then one expects a certain clarification from riyadh because this is quite an escalation in this

collation if you were and i think that will eventually lead to major tensions if indeed the company's said what he said and that would mean if you said what he said that there is a totally not only new leadership in saudi arabia but a new approach to regional issues even to what for a long time there called sacred issues in the region and if you remember even in saudi arabia itself the monarchy there called the other big summit that could summit that jerusalem summit and vowed support for the palestinians so if the crown prince is doing that why his father's doing something else in saudi that means someone is lying that means someone is deceiving that means someone is betraying the palestinians behind their back my pump a zero on the new u.s. secretary of state has just wrapped up his visit to the region he went to saudi arabia he went to israel jordan didn't meet with the palestinian leader as you know we've talked about this new regional order that's unfolding for some time now for

the last few months anyway what does this all say about the u.s. and trump in particular his policy his strategy in this region going forward. you know most american presidents and circle war from eisenhower truman before him onto bush clinton bush jr on to obama they have all had a certain dr a lot of it had to do with communism and containing or confronting communism most of them at least since the one nine hundred sixty s. basically anchored their doctrines in the middle east so there was something about supporting greece not cups like saudi arabia and iran and in the early seventy's or the mid seventy's or it was confronting terrorism dual containment of iraq and iran and so on so forth well this time around it's becoming clear after something what fourteen fifteen months of the trumpet ministration that the focus

is on iran isolating confronting humiliating and perhaps breaking iran and everything else in the region including that total utter forgetting about palestine onto you know getting israel on board and getting saudi money and support it's all going to be focused on iran iran iran along with israel and saudi arabia you talk about my one forgetting about palestine and the fact that the peace process is all but dead now but what about the responsibility of palestinian leaders in all this i don't know if you were able to hear it just a short while ago the palestinian national council is meeting in ramallah for the first time in many years mahmoud abbas has said the u.s. is no longer an honest broker in the peace talks but he's not just fighting a battle with israel and the u.s. he's also fighting hamas how does this palestinian leadership step up to the plate

today. well you know since this is. the fifteen news hour or from stood you fourteen as it were with a lot of social media involvement i would suggest a trend and that is palestinians unites or wither melissa news tonight or die because really the palestinians never faced such a momentous moment in their entire history of dispossession and occupation never have they been betrayed so much never there have they been a stabbed in the back never have they been humiliated weakened conspired against never have they felt weaker without their arab and muslim and european allies and sold so forth so for them at this point in time to be going after each other for them to have one conference in ramallah and they didn't for another so called

alternative conference in gaza and continue with the heated accusations against one another further deepening that division is not only suicide though it is worse it's shameful on this policy to the ship so once again if they do not unite they would die moron bashar as always good to get your thoughts thank you very much for joining us on these great from london and if you're watching as sun facebook live coming up next a story about religious persecution in myanmar it's not only will hinge on muslims who are being targeted and still ahead on these great syrian rebels inside and damascus agreed to leave or take a look at the conditions that led to the to this day. i am. hello there we've got a fair amount of cloud of rain that's pushing across the middle east at the moment

this system here is also working its way through parts of us becky stan and into kazakstan there and it's giving us some fairly lively downpours mati will see some rain there during the day as the temperatures make it to twenty degrees for tashkent we'll just see the cloud beginning to clear as the temperatures get a little bit higher than that for the south and for a couple also looks like there's the risk of a shower but it's going to be a warm one with a temperature of twenty seven degrees further west bits and pieces of cloud around a few outbreaks of rain perhaps over parts of turkey drifting its way eastwards breaking up a little bit as we head into wednesday a bit further south and for many of us across the arabian peninsula there's quite a good deal of cloud around probably not for doha very thirty six will be our maximum topping at thirty seven as we head through wednesday and thus the day where we're more likely to see more cloud and just the outside chance perhaps of the old shower as we head down towards the southern parts of africa we've seen quite a few funder downpours here and the latest showers

a here of the eastern parts of south africa the main focus of the system is moving away but still for some of us around parts of mozambique there's likely to be some fairly hefty showers on choose day for the west it should be dry there you kate. there are seven billion lights in this school. each one a story. that one of the. that's going to be heard that demonstrably. if this guy will be a. witness document still. on. the most memorable moments with al jazeera was when i was on air as hosni mubarak fell with the crowds in tahrir square talking.

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a balance between striking and carry and being limited strike like this at the same time promoting gets the terence but that means that they would like to expand the scale of war anymore so they will keep on doing this limited because the ability of the opinion influence the war houses. shortridge. the width of the which the union militia or on the bases in syria elsewhere in syria an evacuation deal has been struck between the syrian government and some rebels in southern damascus the agreement takes in the yarmouk palestinian refugee camp the largest of its kind in the country pro-government forces have surrounded the camp after retaking several neighborhoods from i saw and other rebel groups in a harder has this report from beirut in neighboring lebanon. another evacuation

deal another surrender fighters belonging to him. an armed group formerly known as al nusra front are leaving their enclave in southern damascus they were face to little choice they were under siege and under fire their families are accompanying them to the opposition controlled northwestern province of idlib. is powerful but the armed group had to make concessions such as agreeing to release dozens of prisoners and allowing thousands of syrians from the besieged loyalist towns of poor and can freyja to leave to government controlled territory pro-government forces have long wanted to fully evacuate the predominantly shiite towns because that would deny the rebels the ability to pressure damascus by threatening to target them it's another win for the syrian government and its allies it's a force agreement of its kind in recent weeks rebels have already surrendered eastern hutto which was their main stronghold close to the capital and the pocket of territory in the column one region northeast of damascus and then

a few days rebel factions linked to the free syrian army are expected to hand over the districts. in southern damascus in order to stave off a military operation. that will leave a few districts in southern damascus still outside government control. is in control of that pocket of territory it's almost been two weeks since government forces and their allies launched an all out assault to recapture the area eisel fighters have been putting up fierce resistance. pro-government forces have made some gains but the battle is not easy their heavy weapons are ineffective in built up areas the government however is pushing ahead with its military solution to the war focusing on recapturing all the remaining areas besieged by bashar al assad's forces. the northern countryside of homs province is among them the biggest town in the. decision controlled area rest on has been coming under heavy fire in the

region is strategically important for the government it's close to the main road connecting the government controlled cities of homes and how much rebel factions have been offered an evacuation deal if they refused reconciliation so far they haven't given and that may changed if the military pressure continues sent up with their beirut. now the growing tensions between the philippines and kuwait over the treatment of foreign workers andrea you reported on this two months ago and they've been some dramatic developments over the last few days sort of folly this week we've seen videos of allegedly rescues of philippine domestic workers and expelled diplomat in a tense exchange of criticism between these two governments but first let's take a step back and look at what started this diplomatic routes the story of least now she was working in kuwait when she was killed by her employer and found in a freezer in february more than a year after she'd gone missing the middle east is just one of many filipino maids

who have been reported to be abused in kuwait and her case was apparently the last straw for president roderigo deter tech in february he imposed some restrictions on filipinos going to work in kuwait and on sunday he banned them altogether there would be no motive goldman. specially to mystical or would like to address story but with the same company. now this is because over the past few months there have been all these complications between these two governments because of this the philippine department of foreign affairs made several videos like this one public showing embassy workers helping maids in kuwait escape from their employers homes the department said at least twenty six filipino domestic helpers who asked for help were found and rescued this way from april seventh to the nineteenth the philippine government has since apologized for releasing these videos but for kuwait's it seems that this was too little too late kuwait's foreign ministry said

that the embassies actions in these videos were a quote full flagrant and grave breach of rules and regulations that govern diplomatic action and the philippine ambassador to kuwait was then expelled just days later so now there are no new filipino workers going to kuwait there's no ambassador left there to greet them anyway and according to some groups at least not the greatest prospects back home either on sunday international said we cannot expect our overseas filipinos to come home if the root cause of their migration poverty due to landless this and a lack of decent jobs is actually worsening can the president provide for all the needs of two hundred sixty thousand overseas filipinos in kuwait once they return here so what do you think it'll take to resolve this conflict you can connect with us on twitter using the hash tag a new secret. andrew thank you very much for that in about two hours now the nigerian president is you'd hold a news conference in washington with the u.s. president donald trump and we plan to bring that to you live here on al-jazeera

when it happens mamadou bihari will be the first president from sub-saharan africa to visit the white house since trump took office more than a year ago and many will be watching the talks very closely after the controversy over the u.s. president's alleged use of a derogatory word to describe african nations lead speak to can really hope that in washington d.c. so it can really work on the agenda of the meeting then officially from the white house we're told that the focus of this meeting is to discuss the two nations opportunities with regard to security and economics with regard to security we expect that the two leaders will discuss some of the challenges that president bihari faces with boko haram particularly in the north east of the country and also growing instability in the center of the country we also expect that there will be some discussion about the ongoing contribution of the united states with regard to the training of nigerian troops and as well there also has of course been the

recent sale of counter-insurgency aircraft to nigeria which is something that may also come up a deal that was held temporarily by the trumpet ministration given concerns over human rights but eventually pushed through so so with regard to security and that's what we know will be on the agenda in terms of the economy there is some concern about the recession that has occurred in nigeria as a result of volatile oil prices of course an oil rich nation so expect that that will be another area that the tool be talking about not only when they meet in the oval office which is set to happen imminently but also the press conference as you point out and we're part of the controversy can really over the alleged iraq the tree commons president trump made about african nations a few months ago is that over gotten about now. i don't think that a lot of people of african nations are forgotten about it and certainly here in the united states people remember that comment so i expect that there will be

a question about that at the press conference i'd be surprised if there wasn't i know that what i've heard here at the white house is that there is the feeling that this white house wants to put that behind in terms of this relationship and perhaps president bihari hoping that that can be something they can accomplish as well but again this is an awkward moment between the two given the fact that the president never denied the president trump said this and so you know there may be a need for an apology i doubt that will take place in the press conference but the private moments in the oval office will perhaps that is something they may discuss as well ok kimberly thank you very much what i can believe it is a white house correspondent will bring that press conference see of course live when it happens later here on al-jazeera and more on the nigerian president's visit to washington and the expectations from africa in this very interesting opinion piece by richard mamai says bihari needs to speak for all of africa not just nigeria read his views on al-jazeera dot com we are now at

a multi view wall here at al-jazeera on the news group taking a look at the different pictures the news agencies feeding us this is the news conference for the champions league later today which is happening i can't tell you who's playing because i don't follow football but now we will check in with sue turton an island a new center for a look at the day's other news sue. thank you finally the chief cracks in the gears here to has called for an agreement only an irish border and ahead of a summit in june michel barnier has met irish officials in a town on the border between north and island which is part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland is his third visit to ireland since negotiations over the u.k.'s withdrawal from the e.u. began well obviously is in the border town of knew it for as long as the chief negotiator says it since may very well warmly welcomed when you are. yes he's

been both sides of the border sue today and obviously the timing is very important because there is a crunch e.u. summit coming up at the end of june and as it stands at the moment the u.k. keeps saying we want to keep the order open but we want to leave the customs union and break our economic relationship with the european union and michelle bonnie says well you can't do both so tell us we're going to do and the u.k. won't give them an answer and so he's very cross and frustrated in the republic of ireland this morning he was basically given what you'd only call a hero's welcome by the prime minister his foreign minister and the leaders of every single political party in a college there who basically said thank you mr bunny so much for trying to defend us against what we see as the worst excesses of bricks s. and please help us keep the border open because what they fear is the bad old days of the fighting between archer probably in the british army when the border was shut and cross border trade was all existence and the whole thing was a complete horror and they're terrified that it might go back to those sort of days

bunny then cross the open border to neary he's in this building now talking to northern irish business people who fear exactly the same thing now clearly is one thing him doing all this in the republic is quite another him coming to the u.k. and saying to businesses look we in the e.u. can defend your interests better than the u.k. government can but that is actually what he's saying at the moment and obviously he's doing at a point in time when the u.k. government is very wary weak but he knows that time is running out and they're really on the front foot along as wanting the fallout will be news that the u.k. home secretary has resigned as to where you are at the mo what with the impact you think. well clearly she didn't resign over the issue resigned over there can complete catastrophe other immigration policy and was forced out against her will but it does demonstrate that the british cabinet is it is riven over bricks it's it's in a very weak position frankly i don't think they like being here very much certainly

the leader of the democratic unionist party which he supports and props up the governments thinks that he's he's basically got no business here that's what they've said today and i think the british government will find it very irritating as i say is one thing in being in the republic is another thing in the coming election british business is about where the better off dealing with the european union than than with the u.k. government but it demonstrates overwhelmingly that the direction plan for the u.k. government has really does not serve the interests of the border communities not just on the the e.u. side but on the u.k. side as well and the u.k. government simply doesn't have a proposition to put to the european union that is it's all workable at the moment of the freight but it's just a fact many thanks leslie that life for us in new. armenia is opposition leader has been formally nominated for the post of prime minister nicole passion yan has led the march towards year of central square a day ahead of a parliamentary vote on the country's new leader it's a culmination of two weeks

a process that ousted former prime minister and me and says he's the only man who can wait mania of corruption and poverty. i tell occasion from the un security council is a mammal to investigate the hinge a crisis the fifteen delegates are due to meet with defacto and san suu kyi in the capital for travelling to russia kind state some seven hundred thousand muslim or hinge are being forced to flee the region after a military operation was launched last august suchi has faced heavy criticism for her failure to speak out for the ranger and con den the army. in thailand a journalist has been released from jail after serving seven years of an eleven year sentence for insulting the king. wants free after his prison term was cut by the supreme court's a magazine editor was detained in twenty eleven full commission articles calling

for changes to the law which protect the mana cake he says he will continue his campaign for democracy as it from a phenomenon back to folly so thank you very much for that sin ahead on the news great airplane image and how it's created a major dispute between the egyptian circle association and stop am on its salad and i'll have that story very shortly after a look at the world. my

. right and our people are talking about it's forces tatiana thank you very much folly this has several fans talking right across the arab world it is people tween star player mohamed salah on the egypt surplus association the in dispute over the use of his image his management there on half a picture of him is been plastered over the egyptian national team's jet which is sponsored by a telecom company that rivals the laws own personal sponsor the egyptian minister of the used in sports the stepping down and stepping in to try to mediate the issue this behind the scenes issue has very much spilled on to twitter as well mohammed salaam cell phone tweeted on the matter an hour packed arabic to his five and

a half million followers saying that he was very much insulted by the matter. lawyer and agent rami abbas also tweeted saying we've not even been contacted for resolution nothing complete silence what's the plan we just see more and more billboards and ads coming out which we've never authorized this warned the arabic hashtag support mohamed salah a lot of tweets using you'll never walk alone the theme song and saying of salon's club liverpool blind support coming from some including this fan who says no idea what's going on to be honest but asking about supporting him i'm willing to give my kidney to him if he wants it this is the poor has broken the sim card he has this support is broken this inquiry has with the rival telecom company to sell us whilst the law himself tweeted again to thank all his fans for the support and promise they're working on a solution just look at this heat map that shows an explosion of tweets across

egypt using the hash tag last night plenty coming from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates as well where there's a big a gypsy an ex-pat community and a lot of mahomet's a lot fans well let's speak to someone who can help to explain this issue a bit more frustrate cohen is a sports lawyer and joins us from london jake thank you for coming on the show when they say image rights what exactly does this mean. well first of all thank you so much for having me it supposed to be. in simple terms image or ease or just the player's ability to sell control license and otherwise monetize the players like this and so what i mean by the point is right now is that to be anything from his name is nick his image his photographs his autograph his voice anything unique to that player their own characteristics why this is such a big issue is the mohammed the law and his legal team it must be

a lot of money on the line. yeah i think you're just given the timing you know mrs salahi is generally speaking probably want to the five most popular footballers at the moment in terms of his overall market ability and is. his desire to be a potential brand partner if you look at what he's done at the domestic level he plays for one of the biggest clubs in the world is putting together one of the all time greatest individual seasons in permalink history at the champions league level he's happily liverpool to a point where they're ninety minutes away from the champions league final eleven games he scored ten goals is another four says he's a huge part of the pool success add on to the fact that he's less than fifty days away from leading egypt to the first world cup appearance in twenty years is a very very valuable proposition to potential and existing sponsors. and his best interests to ensure that his image rights which are still in mixing valuable right

now are protected what steps do you think can be taken to resolve this issue. i think in the best case scenario for barrett the egypt that mr saw and is existing sponsors as well as egypt f a's existing sponsors is coming to an amicable resolution as soon as possible i think the last thing they want to go on to say especially the egypt f.a. is to see disputes spill over publicly and to potentially detract from world cup and which egypt making the first appearance in twenty years they have a very strong team with great potential to not only when the group but all situated bads into the knock around and i think all parties involved especially if the faggy want to see the focus on the pitch and seeing egypt accept seed rather than a public spirit with its very best player off the pitch well there is a wildcard as you just mentioned coming out of egypt first since ninety nine to

what the site has seen that there'll be some big commercial dail involved in the this is an issue that has to be sorted out before hand. yes i think you would hope that this issue is solely as soon as possible just to give a little bit of background on what most national associations agree with agree to with their employers in terms of commercial partnerships in the united states. all of these images issues are addressed the same thing goes for england and the f.s.a. and both the u.s.s. surf and the english f.a. do have the right to use their players images however in order to protect the player's own personal image the words each player in the u.s. must be within a group of six so you cannot put one player by himself because that would be seen. or could potentially be seen to have the player give a person those when in fact they're not given a person or spit in england that's war is

a group of three or more players in egypt are ever it does appear that the egypt f.a. is allowing their their commercial partners to use it as a slight image buy and sell we're going to miss their boss tweed times the other day i'm so sorry we're going to have to leave it there but thank you so much for joining us on the show today thanks so much i'm your appreciate it well how about this the picture of the day oh as always we're going to have to leave it there share your thoughts with us using the hash tag i don't use grade or tweet me i'm at i am tatyana i'll be back with more sports at eight hundred g.m.t. beth no it's not hard to fully that and i thank you very much for that anyone who likes to sprinkle pepper on their food are enjoying a slump in prices worldwide and price is forecast to stay low because of oversupply from vietnam and india but one remote region in southern come badia seems to be immune from the industry struggles wayne here reports from compost where fama say they pick the world's most expensive pepper. there is no machinery in sight to pick

this precious commodity harvesting kemp paper is labor intensive growers say hand picking is necessary to achieve the highest quality possible behind me let him that i had a bomb make bought we don't use fertilizers or chemicals and whether he 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 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 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 so we pull them through to the point that the method but i think you can get it the price for a. current. so low risk because this is

a huge market on the production with world helio so you know. 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. right before we go some live pictures from ramallah in the occupied west bank where a meeting of the palestinian national council is underway it's the first official meeting of the body in twenty two years this is the. parliament palestinian president mahmoud abbas is expected to address the gathering very soon and top of the agenda there is what future relationship with israel and what options for the israeli palestinian peace process have more on this in an expletive here on our just here in just a few minutes to stay with us. i am.

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