of saudi chat at times camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snowed up it's as the technology improves we're finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests there are more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international least of threatened species. sixty seven words the promise for one people. but disaster or another. the bled to the establishment of a jewish homeland at the expense of the palestinians. the story of the british declaration the change the middle east bound for seeds of discord on al-jazeera.

palestinians gather along the israeli fence in gaza whether been holding a protest every friday for over a month these are live pictures. still to come. some information. caught offguard top white house official struggle to defend president trump and differing versions of the scandal involving a former porn star. the campaign to free knowledge they were journalists in jail we'll look at egypt's crackdown on the media plus. a huge restoration project it's home to some of the world's rarest.

palestinians are gathering near the israeli border fence in gaza for the six friday of protests each week the israeli military has fired on the groups killing at least forty one people and injuring many more is a live pictures coming from gaza the protests are planned in the lead up to may fifteenth the anniversary of the creation of israel an expulsion of palestinians calling for the right to return to villages where their families once lived which are now in israel are a force that joins us live now from the border fence just bring us up to date with what's happening there today. well so far things remain relatively quiet in comparison to the early protests this is a similar pattern it seems what happened last friday when the early stages of the process were relatively peopled we just had the break up of for. at a prayer service numbers are swelling somewhat and commensurately we've just seen

the biggest barrels of tear gas fired by israeli side so far today we are getting reports yet of any injuries up and down the border fence although last friday it should be clear that the main arrivals took place about three to four pm in the afternoon it's just after two pm here now and that was when we saw hundreds of people rushing the border fence at a position close to where we are now one other interesting development so far today we're hearing that about one hundred palestinian protesters israeli palestinians have gathered on the israeli side of the border near the northern crossing point the areas checkpoint so it seems there's a sort of a statement of solidarity coming from palestinians within israel manifest today and hairier statement of apology coming from the palestinian president mahmoud abbas after comments he made was seen as anti-semitic what more can you tell us. that's

right well this week has also seen in the occupied west bank in ramallah a rare meeting of the palestinian national council which is the sort of quasar parliamentary body of the palestine liberation organization and he opened up on monday with a long speech in which he talked at one point about the persecution of jews in europe not being down to their faith but to their social behavior in particular money lending usury that was interpreted as no real distinction by many people around the world that it's just another encapsulation of anti semitic prejudice and that by talking about the social behavior he was giving some kind of legitimacy to anti jewish persecution even the holocaust so he's come out today and said that that is not what he meant to say that he's sorry if people interpret it that way especially jewish people he reiterated what he said was his respect for the jewish faith and his view. of the holocaust holocaust as the most heinous crime in history

and also condemned anti semitism in all its forms such a strong retraction really on that point seems to be the result of the kind of a condemnation he got from the e.u. and also very strong condemnation from the u.n. special coordinator here in the middle east as well the very sorts of institutions and bodies that he wants to see as alternative partners in the peace process going forward having rejected the united states in that process or carry for them gaza harry thank you now the syrian white helmets rescue group says the u.s. has put its funding on hold washington provides a third of the organizations money in march president donald trump put a freeze on two hundred million dollars worth of funding allocated for recovery efforts in syria it's unclear if the review of the white helmets is linked to this decision the group says it's rescued more than one hundred thousand people during the war well ismail of dollar is a rescue worker with the syrian civil defense also known as the white helmets he

says their work will go on despite any funding issues. for us so it's a big problem for our and for our operations and rescue people our vehicles our cure bent. if it's big problem for us but for our centers for our that aren't two years in or so you know we're continuing working with our partners. but north of a lot of years we're continuing to scoop people to see if people from under the rubble this is volunteer job we still started do a thousand and thirteen up to now and we would work and will continue. china's official state news agency is reporting that talks with the u.s. delegation have led to both sides committing to resolving trade issues through dialogue the u.s. and chinese delegations met in beijing for a final day of talks to try and avoid a trade war there are reports both sides reached

a consensus in some areas but big disagreements remain in others the u.s. team has now left beijing china in the us are two of the world's biggest economies and both have proposed high tariffs on each other's goods well there are plenty of other issues the two countries differ on the u.s. has long accused china flooding the global market with metals at low prices market access is also a problem the u.s. says american companies can't compete with the chinese on a level playing field it's also difficult for u.s. businesses to trade in china and then there's the trade deficit that gap hit three hundred thirty seven billion dollars last year which is more than half of the total u.s. shortfall in goods and services donald trump wants china to reduce that by one hundred billion dollars let's cross to our china correspondent adrian brown he's in beijing adrian so what's your assessment then of the talks so far is the chinese side saying anything at all. well just a short time ago china's main nightly news bulletin aired

a report about the talks as a short report with the announcer basically saying that the talks have taken place and that more talks will be taking place in the future and that china and the united states we're going to set up a mechanism for more talking down the line so you know i think as we said in our earlier conversations darrent both sides have been doing their best to sort of play down hopes of any breakthrough and now we know why the bullet in mention that the two sides had reached agreement in a number of areas but of course there are plenty of big disagreements and we know i think what the stumbling blocks have been i think china was prepared to do a deal on terrorists it was player prepared to do a deal on the trade deficit but i think where china has been pushing back is over its industrial policy its plans to pour billions and billions of dollars into new technologies these are state sector companies that we're talking about and the united states saying this creates an unfair playing field making it very hard for

u.s. companies to compete now very few details actually have been given about these talks the media have been kept well away from the venue where the talking has been taking place not for nothing is china number one hundred seventy six on the world press freedom freedom index and of course now we know why this is another example of how on these occasions the chinese always like to keep the media in the dark i would imagine the once the u.s. trade delegation gets back to the united states they'll be perhaps a more detailed briefing but certainly it's being reported here in china but not in any great detail and what have been china's red lines in these talks. well i think you know they they've had a number of red lines but that the number one red line is that you know china does not want to be bullied by foreign powers china wants to resist anything that seeks to contain their economy and the problem is at the moment we are seeing friction on

a number of levels between china and the united states and really what is underpinning i think all of this of the moment is a recognition by washington that while in the past china has been a partner it is now a strategic rival and we're seeing that played out in so many areas over taiwan north korea and now over trade so i think you know this is going to go on really for years to come adrian thank you. now more than a thousand economists have written to u.s. president donald trump warning his tough stance on trade could plunge the u.s. into another great depression the group which includes nobel peace prize laureates all concerned mistakes have been made like they were in the one nine hundred thirty s. they say the u.s. withdrawal from trade deals and calls for new tires could see americans eventually paying a heavy price. on the u.s. president has changed his story about hush money paid to an adult film actress

stormy daniels says she had an affair with him a decade ago donald trump denies this and says he didn't know about the one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment but learned about it later a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. a shifting story from u.s. president donald trump appearing at the white house rose garden ironically on the national day of prayer trump spoke about the importance of faith but nothing about a lie he told reporters a month ago aboard air force one the. three. stormy daniels is an adult film star who alleges she had an affair with trump a two thousand and six trump's lawyer michael cohen paid her one hundred thirty thousand dollars during the presidential election campaign to keep quiet and for the first time a member of the president's legal team rudy giuliani admitted the president knew about that payment from overall from the president repaid that could put the

president in legal jeopardy because the campaign never disclosed the pavement ad it exceeds the twenty five thousand dollars legal limit for contributions that that money was not campaign money sorry i'm giving you a fact now that you don't know it's not campaign money. but melanie sloan a former federal prosecutor says that legal argument is flawed if they made the payment to stormy daniels with the intent that it influenced the campaign it can be an in kind contribution which also can be a felony given the amount on thursday trump defended the move on twitter saying payments like the one to daniels are very common among celebrities and people of wealth the white house press secretary defended the president's shifting story of the night she'd ever lied to reporters instead suggesting the president had also left her in the dark and the first awareness i had was during the interview last night and i'm giving the best information i have some information i am aware of and

some when i can answer i will but beyond that i really don't have anything to add the latest scandal follows a shakeup and donald trump's legal team two lawyers have left in the past two months just as there are more questions about another controversy whether or not trump's presidential campaign colluded with russia kimberly helped at al-jazeera at the white house time for a short break here on al-jazeera when we come back a major victory for a mine as in south africa the contract to play to lung disease on the job. plus how lions tigers and bears in war torn aleppo in syria found a new home in northern jordan more on the stay with us. and as the sun's out again some of us japan and the korean peninsula the frontal

systems just off shore so beautiful structure from the point of view of meteorology at kohls back in here that's where the cold air is in the far northeast china recent sort of russia and sort of a bit of snow potential here but for the most part enjoy the sunshine it's current in beijing same sort of ten shouldn't. twenty two but it warms up again come sunday when directions change the sun's come out and we've got more right now coming out of china heading toward south korea and just touching the sas west of honshu twenty seven in tokyo enjoy your sunshine albeit rather humid sunshine now it is certainly spring right season in china you saw what happened as a little taylor green went north to the united states i was the yangtze valley which seems prior to getting wet weather on saturday potential flooding here a good breeze keeping humid in hong kong chances are the rain will start to produce itself again along the coast and will be at hans just east of what happened what spells flooding very likely is a normal thing for this time the year there's bit of

a gap and to get out the sudden vietnam and central philippines this looks like the area where the most intense thunderstorms will be of the next couple of days coming as far west of course as thailand and meanwhile. he was the world's most wanted man the last meeting i had with a once off to. finland was very nervous about nature did not match a western reporter biffle in part one of an exclusive two part documentary al-jazeera speaks to those who met osama bin ladin he never showed hostility towards me of the west i knew bin laden on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick recap our top stories here this hour palestinians are gathering near the israeli fence and gaza for the sixth protest stage weak israeli military has fired on the groups forty one people have been killed so far they called to palestinians to be allowed to return to villages but our families once lived which are now it's really. china's official news agency is reporting the talks with a u.s. delegation applets of both sides committing to resolving trade issues through dialogue us the chinese delegations met in beijing to try and avoid a trade war there are reports both sides of reached a consensus in some areas and more than a thousand economists of written to u.s. president donald trump warning that it's tough stance on trade the punish the u.s. into another great depression they say the u.s. withdrawal from trade agreements could see americans pay

a heavy price. now they are they were journalists are saying there's now been an egyptian jail for five hundred days he was detained without charge by authorities and twenty sixteen during a holiday to cairo where the egyptian national is one of many journalists heris to threaten or threatened with arrest in a government crackdown to stifle dissent some of the nj of a reports. five hundred days locked up and counting hussein and al jazeera deny provoking sedition incitement against egypt and spreading false news the un condemned his arbitrary detention hussein was stopped questioned and detained in december twenty sixth seen after travelling to cairo for a holiday since then he's been in solitary confinement and has yet to be charged the office of the un high commissioner for human rights says indefinite pretrial detention is the egyptian government's tactic to restrain anyone who dares to act independently the un human rights what he says the policy is a cornerstone of egypt's suppression of the media civil society and protesters the

committee to protect journalists says egypt. is a leading jailer of journalists at least twenty one in prison the advocacy that we can do by documenting attacks and repression of journalists and using every opportunity that we have to bring this to public attention around the world. egypt's government has targeted other al jazeera journalists in a trial condemned almost unanimously by rights groups and journalist organizations egypt leveled similar charges against al-jazeera is by her mohamed mohamed fahmy and peter greste and jail them five years ago the former editor in chief of al jazeera arabic ibrahim helal was sentenced to death in his absence two years ago and a new antiterrorism law passed last year targets are than mediocre nations as well the committee to protect journalists says the law furthers the government's crackdown on the media it enables police to put journalists acquitted of terrorism related charges on a watch list that restricts their finances and other rights every morning so

everything long says you hear of of a case of over journalese that you know in directly being and difficult situation and there persecution and there are these appearance and their arrest censorship intensified this year during the reelection campaign of president a bill for the c.c. journalists critical of him or who interviewed opposition candidates but arrested entertainment and satirical t.v. shows have also been shut down egyptian journalist mohammed there was a bonus show khan was jailed five years ago for reporting the rubber square protests in cairo hundreds of protesters were killed and thousands injured show khan's been nominated for unesco's press freedom prize for his resistance and commitment to freedom of expression and reporter for the times newspaper in britain was arrested and deported from egypt without official explanation the international journalist unions accuse the egyptian government of creating a climate of fear and reporters don't know if they will be next to be jailed osama

bin job is there a large as heroes acting director general moustapha so i guess attending a conference a world press freedom day in ghana he says the channel will continue to raise awareness of not hussein's imprisonment. in this little difficult days. of course is it about two years and then the b. . diction the third is for denying you your freedom. for abusing this military and believe our to fight among sleazy buddies full my. money to escape anything that is against the government or if it's a little opium according to the government and freedom of expression and freedom of the media is completely to say is that egypt which i mean is anybody believe. it might react to the worst ever in the history. because it is

a big country and one of them even. that kind of behavior would be one of the highs with serious implications again to say things that are illegal immigrant countries to flee the thing now is. emira us and of course in the conflict zone in syria young non-deceptive i say this is a vis a vis issues and the visitor has been working tirelessly to keep the issue alive so people wouldn't forget to see jail for five hundred days now we've got to cry and it's a myth that we discovered is one of the journalists who has visited professional and do we job. oh a court in the u.k. has ruled that human rights campaigners can proceed with a legal case aimed at stopping british arms sales to saudi arabia the campaign against arms trade says british weapons are being used in violation of

international law in the war in yemen and the u.k. has sold six point two billion dollars worth of arms to the country since the saudi led air campaign began in twenty fifteen the un estimates that more than ten thousand people have been killed in the conflict well earlier we spoke to peter westman from the stock international peace research institute he says weapons trade is actually not as important for the u.k. economy as is often portrayed it is very hard to believe that the u.k. government is going to change its arms export policies to work saudi arabia out to great extent i mean that not cool thought it has to be really stroke for that to happen i mean it's going to be very own course and that you kowtow to those steps to prevent weapons are being used in iran where i have to immediately attitude is that on the bottom and there is potential amount of money involved in this if the youth that the next do which is being negotiated right now between saudi arabia

and the u.k. will take glazed it's going to be in order a few billion. pounds worth of comment out craft and bombs and all that but it's a substantial sum and we should always remember that the actual impact on the u.k. economy is very small compared to the u.k. economy these deals are not as big as domenico traffic the nobel prize for literature will dump be awarded this year of accusations of sexual harassment what members have left the swedish academy responsible for the award following the allegations involving the husband of an academy member last on the award was postponed it was during world war two. just i would like to say that we actually had the capability to award the prize we still have that capability in the academy we've come very far in our work toward the prize is done with the shortlist which has to be ready before the summer the reason is the lack

of confidence around the world and we have to respect that but we'll continue with the prize work throughout the year as usual the difference is that we award twenty eighteen's prize in twenty nine thousand instead now the gold mining companies in south africa have agreed to a four hundred million dollars settlement to compensate thousands of miners since the one nine hundred seventy s. numerous cases of silicosis a fatal lung disease have been recorded among black gold workers al-jazeera as malcolm where met some of them thomas lipo to his lungs this badly damaged i said he struggles to breathe if he walks any faster than this. he won't think gold mines in south africa for more than thirty years we met him here at his home in the mounting kingdom of. he told us the conditions were bad and worst on the report tide. there's been a lot to how there was a lot of dust i wouldn't even be able to see a person standing right next to me they would instruct us to go in and we need to

stick is trying to use the water to listen that we had no choice it was the part of . the refuge job here in the states say that's why thomas traveled to south africa to look for work many millions from neighboring countries of them the same and his story is typical of many of those he worked in the mines when he became too sick to work he lost his job he told a missed son could be sent to replace him so he came home and he's lived here ever since. a rock from a blast blinded him in one eye that's what cost him his job he was ready have tuberculosis. doctors since told him the t.v. was because of his work that he also had silicosis permanent lung damage caused by inhaling silica dust now he might finally be compensated. he's a man thirty thousand miners he was represented in a class action the first of its kind here the lawyers behind it have announced that

affected miners will be tape in the settlement with six gold mining groups they say it's time to fix progress that helped they didn't know a lot about silica dust and that was they knew it existed and they knew of course a liquors but they didn't know how much of it should be in the last year it's been a lot of advances on hard to make the last and how to prevent the dust from being in the atmosphere that. there's been gold mining in africa for one hundred. the lawyers say the case is silicosis because it's like gold miners since the one nine hundred seventy s. we can just do a little something to hold these companies that are still here to hold them accountable to change this account to root this culture of impunity and to bring some relief. to the victims who are still alive today thomas might be eligible for about twelve thousand dollars for his lung damage he says he'll invest it in his

small farm he says the mining company took his health forever. now you might get something in return malcolm webb al-jazeera the secretary. wild animals rescued from the syrian city of aleppo found a home in northern jordan a lions tigers and bears are now living in a nature was dedicated to resting creatures from conflict. zone reports. of its kind in the middle east. so does a two year old lion and has been through a great deal he's one of many animals rescued from a warzone and brought to this sanctuary in northern jordan we are currently have twenty three in total we have seventeen lions we have four bears into tigers and they all come from somewhere from the in middle east last summer several animals were rescued from a zoo in the syrian city of aleppo during heavy bombing they were moved across the

border to turkey for treatment and eventually brought here when the animals came from syria other tigers were very very weak malnourished and very very skinny the two asian black birds when they arrived they were very very stressed so that can be from you know their living conditions it could be from the travel it was it was a very trying experience for them to bring them out of syria into turkey and then here into jordan. similar operations took place in iraq and gaza. today the animals live in a peaceful refuge where lions tigers and bears are recovering at the sprawling nature and wildlife reserve jordan's ministry of foreign affairs says the country will continue to carry out its humanitarian duty towards the one point three million syrian refugees in the country as well as provide shelter to all other casualties of war bradley said xander al-jazeera. the world's largest victorian

glass houses reopened for the first time in five years in the u.k. it's home to fifteen hundred species of plants many of which extremely rare and require specialist care charlie and i went to kew to take a look. an architectural wonder and heaven for horticulturalists kew gardens a vast victorian greenhouse is open again to the public it's taken five years of restoration moving in ten thousand plants from the world's temperate climates where it's not too hot and not too cold this is the largest victorian glass house in the world it's nearly two hundred metres long it actually consists of five separate buildings each grade one listed this is unesco world heritage site and it's open to the public every day of the year as well so dismantling this building restoring it taking all the plants out returning them it has been a hugely complex project. inside a plant that can feed the world like the end said a staple quote but ethiopia a cousin of the button on a plant which q. scientists hope could be used throughout africa there are plants that supply

medicine and plants that a purely beautiful thing all these plans on the one we face pretty positive picture of global biodiversity in the wild fish the species at risk of stiction the foundation of life the farming logging development and climate change a putting them with the species a part of q gardens living collection used by scientists in charge of them is scott taylor we grow plants of really high scientific value notably conservation he was a conservation organization we've got about two hundred fifty species growing in a hail of fifteen hundred to have got conservation writings about from vulnerable to extinct in the wild for our species here extinct in the wild which means you don't find them anywhere else in night shirt one of those now extinct species is the end. which survives is the time when dinosaurs rode a favorite here with botanists all specimen hair has actually been a community of engine twenty is which is spectacular and the story behind this is

quite unique and all it'll last psychotic time is an offset of the original specimen found in the only male specimen found in the wild these plants a part of everyday life from the food we eat to the clothes we wear the materials we use and the medicines we take too often we take them for granted al-jazeera london. part time for a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera palestinians are gathering near the israeli fence in gaza for the sixth friday of protests each week the israeli military has fired on the groups forty one people have been killed according our policy for palestinians to be allowed to return to villages where the families once lived which are now in israel. palestinian president mahmoud abbas has apologized for remarks about jews which were condemned by israel the un and the e.u.

last week he said the hatred of jews in europe before the holocaust was related to their professions rather than religion about that it was not his intention to offend and he fully respects the jewish faith china's official news agency is reporting that talks with a u.s. delegation have led to both sides committing to resolving trade issues through dialogue u.s. and chinese delegations met in beijing to try to avoid a trade war the u.s. president has changed his story about hush money paid to former porn star stormy daniels says she had an affair with donald trump a decade ago now admits reimbursing his lawyer for a payment made to daniels but says it was not part of campaign funds earlier he'd said he didn't know anything about the money. that was there a journalist but hussein has now been an egyptian jail for five hundred days he was detained without charge by authorities and twenty sixteen during a holiday in cairo egypt's national is one of many journalists who've been hire a store threatened with

a wrist in recent years the prestigious nobel prize for literature has been postponed this year as a result of sexual harassment accusations board members have left the swedish academy responsible for the award following allegations involving the husband of an academy member and at least fifteen hundred people in hawaii have been ordered to evacuate their homes after the killer way a volcano erupted steam and lava threatening at least one residential neighborhood a series of earthquakes likely triggered the volcano well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story stating that so much i think.