two rides. for. the old dogs prime minister may be forced out after days of protests over austerity cuts. the tough road ahead for refugees in europe as another country elects an anti immigration party. at least seven people have been killed in a service side bombing in afghanistan's capital that happened as more than two thousand religious scholars were leaving a gathering at kabul polytechnic university earlier then on to the korea against the war in afghanistan and urged the taliban to accept the government's peace officer offer for war in this jennifer gratz joins us now from kabul what more are we learning about what happened jennifer. well we've had a little confusion about the death toll initially it was seven then raised to twelve the ministry of interior came back to us and said take seven dead nine

injured in that bomb blast it happens at the end of this meeting of religious scholars and clerics that have been taking place for much of the morning here in kabul more than two thousand of them had gathered on what is called the loya jirga tent it's a big conference hall the biggest conference hall here in the afghan capital and as they were leaving that me meeting after as you said making that declaration about the war calling it an islamic and calling any suicide bombings against the islamic religion as they were departing that hole which is at the end of a long road and the gates of the polytechnic is there that's when the bomb went off killing seven and injuring nine and just as that bomb as just as we were hearing news of that bomb and we're hearing that there were casualties from that another bomb went off here in kabul it was hidden in a truckload of watermelons it was a magnetic bomb and that injured three civilians it seems like jane we hear these reports over and over again different kinds of attacks here in and around kabul

despite tightened and heightened security and the best efforts of the afghan government or the basij jennifer thank you. at least twenty five people have been killed in guatemala in one of the most violent eruptions of the volcano in decades thousands more have been forced to leave their homes as the volcano spews rock hot ash and smoke several kilometers into the david mess from guatemala i scenes of devastation in guatemala after sunday's volcanic blast houses near the base of the volcano were buried by a mixture of mud and lava dozens were killed and many have been injured survivors expect the death toll to rise. you know not everyone escaped i think they were buried we saw the lava pouring through the cornfields and we ran towards a hill more than three thousand people from several farming villages near the volcano have been evacuated from their homes rescuers say their operations will

continue through the night and they hope to be able to reach areas that have been cut off from help what a mollusc president has put the country on red alert. that we decided to call for a cabinet meeting we are going right now to the presidential house to issue a declaration of a state of emergency we believe based on a legislative law that we can declare a state of calamity in at least three departments volcanic ash spewed into the sky six thousand meters above sea level and fell more than forty kilometers away in guatemala city authorities were forced to temporarily closed the city's international airport that i was sort of. we shut it down as a precautionary measure for the planes because volcanic ash is harmful to the turbines right now we are carrying out inspections and we have found a lot of. the photo volcano is one of central america's most active volcanoes this

is it second eruption this year and the biggest in decades in experts say the four go volcano spirit might not be over yet david mercer al-jazeera what amala. david rother is a vulcan ologist and professor with open university he says it's not the lava flows that pose the biggest danger he's a pirate trusting slows a lover is molten rock relatively slow moving lots about erupting in hawaii at the moment what's how what happened at the way you go is an explosive eruption and it was a fast cascade of fragmented hot rock and gas sweeping down the mountainside the troubles of one hundred kilometers an hour it's very difficult to escape from if it's coming towards you and that seems to be what killed people in the case of franco it's it's been. particularly active only year and the have been some smaller events. with hindsight people might start to ask why were people not evacuated because

people were killed tooling the sails if this is being done in indonesia people would perhaps have been evacuated before her seismically it is gone quiet so there's limited information going on can see from the quotes and local knowledge is they are suggesting that the eruption is over. japan's prime minister jordan rather the prime minister may be forced to quit after days of anti austerity protests sources have told al-jazeera king abdullah is expected to ask county i'm ok to resign the government and unions have been unable to reach a deal to end the standoff over planned price increases and a new income tax at least sixty people immune arrested since demonstrations began on wednesday and alex has more on the thousands marched in the streets of amman on sunday night heading towards the prime minister's residence chanting we are coming . the is the fifth night the road protest is smooth in the streets the area surrounding the prime minister's residence has been classified as

a military zone now. the government must step down the tax law must be withdrawn these demands and we don't when the next government to implement the same policies either protesters according for a nationwide strike on wednesday that demanded the prime minister hani moki step down and for the i.m.f. back tax increase to be repealed sources have told al-jazeera that he could resign as early as monday. that's the typical me if the government doesn't respond to want monson it will be a general strike on wednesday just like the one last week who will be calling for the government to step down because we do not want a government pressured by external involvement we need a government that represents the nation. under international pressure muki impose state income corporation taxes to cut the kingdom's whopping thirty seven billion dollars debt. the pro western kingdom experienced an economic downturn coupled with

rising unemployment in part because of prolonged conflict in neighboring syria and iraq and a large influx of refugees from those conflict areas which added to the growing crisis. many jordanians feel they've been squeeze financially by the government and they say these new taxes would decimate the middle class then drive the lower class further into poverty it's hoped king abdullah's meeting with the prime minister and other members of the government would be able to calm the raging crowd how to hook out is there. an al jazeera investigation has found that saudi arabia played a bigger role in causing the gulf crisis than previously thought the report says cats are news agencies web site was hacked in may last year by a group working from a saudi government ministry in riyadh the phones and computers were connected to

a saudi communications company hackers posted fake quotes attributed to catalyze amir and led saadi arabia the u.a.e. grain and egypt cutting ties with cattle and imposing a blockade and as the one year anniversary of the blockade of qatar approaches there are efforts in the us to win support the president on top initially backed the blockading countries before calling on all sides to resolve the dispute particular looks at the role lobbying has played. the nation of qatar on fortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism it was a shock in washington and across the globe a u.s. president publicly going after cutter a close ally that houses the biggest u.s. base in the middle east siding with the blockading countries. at the time many believe the saudis fawning treatment of him in riyadh played a part but we now know thanks to e-mails leaked to the associated press that the push to get the president to side with saudi arabia and the united arab emirates

began months before the emails are from brady a big time republican fundraiser according to the a.p. he was working with george nader who said he was close to both of the crown princes from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. broady reportedly lobbied the president and later received hundreds of millions of dollars worth of defense deals from the u.a.e. in one e-mail bertie boasted about his role writing trumps vocal support of saudi arabia at this summit quote is a direct result of the campaign we have led over the past two months to highlight the funding of terrorism by cutter and the muslim brotherhood brody is suing cutter he says they hacked his e-mails a charge they deny but cutters facing more scrutiny because of another court case prominent guitars are being sued by rapper ice cube he says they didn't pay him as promised in a business deal and his partner testified that they tried to use them to get to steve bannon in testimony describing their offer as

a bribe which they also deny all sides of spent millions of dollars on lobbyist trying to sway the traffic in a straight line country in the gulf region is a threat to global security are put ads in the president's favor cable channels placing op eds in prominent papers lobbying lawmakers stand with the united states to defeat terrorism and. there are a lot of guys who are making an awful lot of money and mr former lobbyist steven billet thinks they're likely waste. millions of dollars because you never really see any evidence of it later on you know you don't see decisions made at a later time that indicate that there was a positive outcome according to the new york times the saudis and u.a.e. offered to help the drone campaign before the election it's unclear if anything was done on his behalf with their money but it's an allegation special counsel robert muller is likely looking at the man at the center of many of these questions george nader is cooperating with the investigation. al-jazeera washington.

tuesday will mark one year since the blockade began we'll have a special program looking at the political economic and human impact of the crisis that's at eight hundred g.m.t. on tuesday here on. still ahead. a former philippine president appears in court over a vaccination campaign that may have put lives at risk. a big future for the children of gaza the worries about how many are confronting mental health problems . hello there for some of us in the northern parts of asia it's going to be pretty warm as we head through the next couple of days we've got this weather system here that is nudging its way eastwards but behind that it isn't going to be cool act

tall for beijing the temperatures will be soaring full two degrees on choose to every hot and sticky day for us not quite as blistering hot as we head into wednesday this time thirty seven in not thanks to a little bit more cloud around that area of rain will continue its jet eastwards it's here over japan for wednesday giving us some rather heavy rain the wettest of the weather will be in the southern positive plan and here it does look very very heavy may give us a problem with some disruption but over the towards the south you see a distinctive circulation hair this is our tropical depression that's heading its way northward is expected to make its way towards high now and reaching the coastline around twelve g.m.t. on tuesday which is around eight pm local time and then will continue his journey northwards very very slowly so this whole region is going to see some very wet weather over the next few days and they could well be some flooding anywhere along the coastline of china or down into viet nam further towards the south end because that's where all the energy is for the south it's actually looking a good deal dry that it has been borneo looks mostly fine unsettled as it does in

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over there you watching al-jazeera the top stories this hour at least seven people have been killed in a suicide attack outside cobbles polytechnic university in afghanistan more than two thousand religious scholars meeting there had urged the taliban to accept the government's peace offer at least twenty five people have been killed in guatemala in one of the most violent volcanic eruptions in decades thousands more being forced to leave their homes as the volcano spews rocks hot ash and smoke several kilometers into the sky lava flows have buried at least one village. jordan's prime minister may be forced out of today's events he austerity protests in the capital amman sources have told al-jazeera that king abdullah is expected to ask had to resign in a meeting at the world palace. police in france are clearing two more migrant camps in paris after some operation last week hundreds of people have been living in the

temporary accommodation last wednesday police moved more than a thousand people from another camp under the main paris ring road those who were forced to leave were taken to shelters across the city savannah has become the latest country to elect a populist party after its neighbors it's an eon hungry although former prime minister younis young right wing party won the most votes in the election and fell far short of a majority tanya novak has more from the piano. he's a former prime minister was disgraced by a corruption scandal but now yanna sanchez and his slovenian democratic party are back on the political map his hard line on immigration secured his party a victory in this election immigration has been at the top of the political agenda since two thousand and fifteen when half a million people playing ball pass through slovenia on their way to the best in europe close a playful pose almost foreign challenges that are part of the domestic challenges

include the modern crisis so it's a challenge for the whole of the e.u. during a biggest wave of mass migrations we told our european partners that a better large should be in short supply back in their countries and not in europe listed on his nearest challenger was comedian turned politician martin charles leader of the new center left party whose three more trussell trust the first it is impossible to bias he said it publicly before the elections that we will not enter a youngish onsides coalition let's give time to the relative let's give him the chance to form a government and then we will see what happens if we have this opportunity they will form the government. the snap election was called after the sudden resignation of prime minister. he stepped down in much due to a failed railway a project he's credited with boosting slovenia's economy up to recession but it wasn't enough for voters here. slovenia once a part of former yugoslavia joined the european union in two thousand and four

a government led by younis which leaves lavinia to the right and add an anti immigrant voice to the analysts say young has a big challenges ahead the electorate this year in the voices of all its. you know go after go after and immigration policies well after that you will know. he's a leader who has had the chance as and done it so far will he do it this time around it's a big question but the bigger question is can he even form a government even though his party won't most votes in this election. in a difficult position and it will be very hard for him to find a willing partner in the other party won a coalition most of them don't share his political view is. breaking news coming to from jordan we are hearing that the prime minister maliki

has just submitted his resignation this was expected after days of protests in the capital against the anti austerity measures taken there in force on them by the i.m.f. this is according to reuters by the way but we had been told that king abdullah was going to ask for his resignation and he has resigned the president of spain's catalonia region is meeting the job leaders of october's failed a bid for succession him to resign visiting the nine leaders a few days after his government was sworn in he was handpicked by former president carter's pushable tori's pushing for talks with spain's new prime minister pedro sanchez on the cattle and regions future they have a chart as more from madrid. the catalan president has been in talks in the prison behind me outside madrid with five of the imprisoned catalan

politicians in free trial custody what he wants to do is find out how they're doing what their ideas are for progressing the situation in catalonia and he wants to make sure if he can that he can press the the new socialist prime minister pedro sanchez to move them move them much closer to home move them closer to barcelona so that their families don't face such a huge round trip once a month to try and meet them they meet. in front of a large glass screen and they have any a telephone contact and that means it's very distressing both for the the imprisoned politicians and of course for their families and the next thing he wants to force is also to get an amnesty for those in exile and for those behind bars but that will depend very much on trying to open a window of opportunity now at the very beginning of the socialist promises to get

some talks going with pedro sanchez now sanchez does appear to be open to that idea he said of course any of those talks will have to be within the boundaries and the constraints of to speak of the spanish constitution so we'll have to wait and see exactly what will happen we are expecting a press conference at any moment oh in torah the cattlemen president comes out after meeting the imprisoned politicians and perhaps we'll get some idea of the progress being made with contacts with country pedro sanchez israel is going to take money from the taxes it collects for palestinians to compensate israelis for fire damage to their land it says palestinians protesting in gaza carried out arson attacks damaging forest and farming land and twenty one palestinians have been killed by israeli soldiers since protests at the border began in late march and

it's with has more from west jerusalem. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu wants to make the deductions for damage he says has been caused to agricultural fields and nature reserves and forests by the burning kites that have been floated over from guard into israeli territory the palestinian authority says to do this would be robbery and a cowardly aggression israel collects some taxes and revenues on behalf of the palestinian authority and sends them over to the p.a. every month and previously israel has threatened to withhold taxes for actions taken by the p.a. that israel doesn't approve of there's no indication yet of how much israel is threatening to withhold the book the tax off already has previously estimated the damage just to agricultural land has come in at about one half million dollars and it suggests that if you add nature is. fields in other areas to that that could

increase the cost for staying in gaza on the brink of a mental health crisis that's the warning from the charity save the children which interviewed a hundred fifty kids in the palestinian territories found two thirds of them experience nightmares isolation or aggression because of conditions there a force that has more. in gaza sundown truly is magic hour a time to turn our eyes to the horizon and the days hardships fall for a while into the shadows. during ramadan it's also a time to break fast with a simple if tired dinner on the beach but good talking to some of the parents here it is clear that such moments the fleeting everyone worries about what kind of future their children face about what life here is doing to them now i don't wish to learn how to get them but how can i meet my children's needs when everything is so expensive and our income is so limited top the future is difficult but even if i can provide my children a good education i can't give them jobs that's the main problem that's waiting for

them. india has lived all of her eleven years under the israeli blockade but her childhood blighted by three wars with israel during the last twenty fourteen she became too scared to sleep alone started bed wetting becoming terrified by loud noises the symptoms persisted for years she became withdrawn at school her father's joblessness adding to the stress as sad because of course i will be sad with all these catastrophes especially when my father can't buy me clothes or help me to continue my education i feel sad when there's no food at home and i'm hungry i feel sad too for my father who is struggling without an income. the last year though has been getting treatment so-called resilience training building her confidence her ability to cope with stress new research by the charity save the children suggest such help is needed by hundreds of thousands more children in gaza save the children interviewed one hundred fifty children for their research ninety five percent of whom reported at least one of four key symptoms hyperactivity depression

aggression or a wish to be alone experts tell us that anxiety is the overarching problem prompted by conflict the poor economy and the continuing deterioration of life in gaza. gaza's deepening poverty is deepening despair the u.n. says two hundred ninety thousand of its children are in need of psychosocial support that a fifth of twelve to seventeen year olds have suffered psychological violence more than a fifth of experienced physical violence in that response all of their family it was the father is an employer and cannot provide them in our need as they said to the family of course it wouldn't be reflected on the children for example that it meant over the father in somehow an unconscious way to the wives of their would be nervous the wife will displace it on the children so that children will be by themselves unhealthy and not behaving well he says summer. his young patients

to suffering post-traumatic stress from the last war have been taking part in the recent protests at the border for some he says it can exacerbate the symptoms for others it brings a rare opportunity for self-expression such is the torment for so many in gaza that among tear gas snipers bullets and death children can find movements of solace. gaza the former philippine president benigno aquino has appeared in court accused of ordering a vaccination campaign before a drug was fully tested and despite warnings of health risks eight hundred thousand children receive the vaccine against a mosquito borne dengue virus it's now been linked to a number of deaths. has more from manila former president been ignored keno appeared before a court here at the department of justice in manila together with several members of his former cabinet they submitted their counter affidavits they're accused all

the technical mob or station of government funds criminal negligence and graphs there's been no tchiowa until now that has started and even members of the prosecution did not appear to date but this vaccine scandal is something that has been dragging on for many months in fact these government keno together with several members of his cabinet already appeared before a long dragged out kong rational hearing led by the allies all by the current president he says that they are ready to file and to answer all the allegations but he also wonders whether this is all part of an attempt to discredit his government as you know several members and appointees of president big government the removed or have been put behind bars. in eight days time the eyes of the world will be on singapore the city state will host the historic summit between donald trump and kim jong own while excitement is building secrecy surrounds much of the planning

a scot highly reports. one of the smallest countries in the world is about to host a summit that could very well be the biggest diplomatic event in decades. u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong are due to meet at last and potentially diffuse one of the world's most dangerous flashpoints versing. because of the dramatic back and forth mystery over the location and the personalities involved a summit is in gauging people who previously had scant interest in dio part of. singapore has a history of hosting top level high security events including two critical taiwan chinese meetings and the annual shangri-la security and defense summit the whole security apparatus is very robust there's a lot of surveillance around the island as significant control of dissent as control of the media such that any events that may be deemed unhappy unhelpful can be quite tightly controlled and put down traffic meets kim is

a big story in japan. does network has had teams in singapore since it was first named as the summit venue a great deal of the time playing cat and mouse with the north korean delegation to do could we have covered news in singapore a lot before this time the security stricter and more difficult for us to work with the police presence is heavy news underlying the interest and excitement for the summit singapore newspaper the straits times conducted a readers' poll asking singapore where they felt the summit would take place most out there would be at one of the large hotels here that can be locked down for security singapore will reportedly pay some of the expenses of the north korean delegation people here are proud to host the summit but maybe not to pay for some of it if we had neutral he just makes it be peaceful to thank you that i'm posing to eat but i don't think we have to be free to be doing is singapore is good for us because. being a small of the country but we are able to host such

a big event. it's good for us the government says so much preparations are moving forward smoothly but with it intricate maze of protocol to. navigate from the proper amount of doors of meeting rooms to making the delegations from one of the richest nations in the world appear equal to one of the poorest singapore certainly has a tough eight days ahead a task they say that was happily taken on sky harbor al jazeera singapore. is al-jazeera these are the top stories jordan's prime minister. has submitted his resignation to king abdullah and follows days of protests in the capital amman against proposals to raise taxes the measures were backed by the international monetary fund at least sixty people have been arrested since the demonstrations began on wednesday at least seven people have been killed in

a suicide attack outside kabul's polytechnic university in afghanistan while in two thousand religious scholars were meeting there they issued a decree against the war in afghanistan and urged the taliban to accept the government's unconditional offer of peace talks jennifer glass has more from kabul as they were departing that hall which is at the end of a long road and the gates of the polytechnic is there that's when the bomb went off killing seven and injuring nine and just as that bomb as just as we were hearing news of that bomb and we're hearing that there were casualties from that another bomb went off here in kabul it was hidden in a truckload of watermelons it was a magnetic bomb and that injured three civilians at least twenty five people being killed in guatemala in one of the most violent full cannick eruptions in decades thousands more being forced to leave their homes as spews rocks hot ash and smoke several kilometers into the sky lava flows have buried at least one village. the president of spain's catalonia region is meeting the jailed leaders of failed bid

for suspicion him to is visiting the ninety eight is a few days after his government was sworn in he was handpicked by former president carter is pushing more towards pushing for talks with spain's new prime minister pedro sanchez on the catalan regions future. police in france are clearing two more migrants camps in paris after some operation last week last wednesday police moved within a thousand people from another camp underneath the main paris ring road. the u.s. is urging china for a full account of those killed or jailed during the tiananmen square massacre in beijing twenty nine years ago the chinese government is never released a death toll from its crackdown on the pro-democracy protests in one nine hundred eighty nine estimates from human rights groups range from several hundred to several thousand those are the headlines the news continues but first it is inside

story to stay watching. the biggest anti-government protest in here is tax wise is the cost of living in else terry t. measures are still king demands for the prime minister to resign what role are regional powers playing in the crisis this is inside story. on welcome to the program fully back to hundreds of jordanians have spent the past

few days voicing their anger at proposed tax increases and what they say is the already intolerable high cost of living they accuse a government of covering up failed economic policies and demand the resignation of prime minister. jordan's economy has struggled in recent years because of the conflicts in neighboring syria and iraq and a shortfall in foreign aid so can a compromise be reached to avert a full blown crisis or put that question to our guests in just a moment but first how to talk so has our report. they're the largest anti-government rallies in five years in what's regard as one of the most stable middle east countries the protest movement initially started by trade unions has swelled nationwide as jordanians showed their frustration. ostrom up with the how local white citizens now have no power the searching for the children's daily food women are looking in garbage containers to feed their kids and every day we are surprised by rising prices and you taxes the problem is not just the tax law

the jordanian citizen right now. his pockets are empty are completely empty. saw the government has to listen. to the sound of the people jordan is one of the most expensive. countries in the region and on the top of the wards too with no resources that's on just for the people of jordan. the increase in sales tax and employees being tax move has infuriated the protestors and they want the government to resign king abdullah has stood by prime minister hani milky despite calls to fire him the king's been instead calling for talks between m.p.'s and government ministers but moki is under international pressure to reform jordan's economy and cut its thirty seven billion dollar debt that is equivalent to ninety five percent of g.d.p. and then. the international monetary fund approved

a seven hundred million line to jordan two years ago to lower public debt and increase growth jordan relies heavily on financial help from the u.s. u.a.e. and until recently saudi arabia which has cut funding king abdullah is a key u.s. ally in the strategically important region which borders syria israel and iraq with regional time or has worsened the kingdom's money problems and sheltering one point .