within the system but our communication command at the highest level. since this crisis started and the us president himself from the first call with the enemy at the beginning of the crisis he expressed his support for this relationship and his desire for this relationship to continue. to be stronger and calling for the unity for the g.c.c. as well following the blockade a number of other nations from chad in africa to the maldivian asia cut relations with carter now is that a year is past i mean how much impact or damage has this blockade done to causes foreign relations which you handle will we see the damage in the foreign relation between. other states has been almost. very modern and there are a few just a few countries accepted the blackmail of the blockading states and.

followed their policies but the rest of the world the stood very firm against all these measures and they didn't follow any of the of the policies of the blockading states build a strong and robust relationship with the international community has been an active player in the international committee playing a constructive on this international community a total when you look at it in africa or asia or anywhere in the world you will see it has been. with the international development education creating jobs and economic empowerment celebrated this year education of ten million children and. countries created more than three hundred thousand jobs in north africa and some other countries one need so are the programs of development and then vestments and the strong relationship that has built with the international community was built on a time. was built on mutual confidence on this relationship and. them in

resisting power for the blockading states that it's do you think that some of the information which you're mentioning to me was lost on some of the world leaders was because. perhaps didn't have a very robust communication policy again coming back to you mentioned the tweets by donald trump do you think some of that was simply fuel by a lack of appreciation or knowledge on the part of the u.s. president to the realities in this region i cannot. talk about what's the background of the tweets because simply i don't know but when you communicate now with the with the white house do you feel that there has been an evolution in the understanding of the u.s. role as we heard we heard very intensive conversation with the white house even before the blockade before the crisis started that this communication which

we need to build for any new administration coming in a place and this communication has resulted positively as we have seen last there poland the meeting between them yet and the president all right so you do feel there's been a change in perhaps the line from the white house as a result of the communication well we believe that the change has. first for the first impression of their tweets we cannot build on it everything because it was just a tweet and when we deal with the states we build our policy assessments based on the policies of the country and the institutions economically has not been crushed as perhaps the blockade countries were hoping i looked up some economic facts and figures called into an i.m.f. report in march carter's economic growth is expected to actually speed up to two point six percent this year the fiscal deficit has shrunk we're told from nine.

ninety six percent of g.d.p. forbes says your foreign reserves have increased to two point nine billion dollars those are all very positive numbers but are they sustainable though because some economists point how that it's thanks to sustained government spending it's thanks to the depositing of some twenty six billion dollars by the government in banks how long can you go on with that sort of effort. is a theist very critical economic and distressing plan by. blockading says for sure there were spending by the government in order to stabilize the economy in order to help building that is the end of the economy itself but this has been for the last year that we consider this as an investment not as an as a cost but the economy became more robust more self dependent more resilient than ever we have opened a new markets we have opened

a new trade lines proved in the off the block here that it said a global energy source. is the largest exporter of l.n.g. in the world we have countries who depend on us and their energy japan thirty percent of japan energy almost is coming from china south korea united kingdom so all those countries has this strong partnership specially in the energy sector but approved one of them that it's unfair but there you are you saying that sort of ability to trade and to export. for the response for the shock of the blockade of course there were some cost in order to invest in them for a structure for that there were some course but we consider those cost as an investment for the future of can you sustain that for sure but of course the other economy is at our best economy is resilient economy can sustain four of what. they

told you it proved in this year of the blocking of their. trade and economic partner our achievements like that though. dependent on the sort of alliances which you can build on trying to get a sense of when you go home and i how vulnerable do you feel the situation is in. we believe that situation very strong. we don't see the only right ability we see here is this intuition of the families we should be separated as an impact of the blockade we have seen that one ability in our region and security because we see the amount of tension and the solution is increasing and unfortunately it's increasing because of this impulsive behavior conducted by the blockade in the states so that's the main concern is we are looking at as a country. without thinking about those two main factors. thanks god blessed with

the resources blessed with good governance has proved that its openness and its policy reforming policy which adopted twenty years ago where the blockading still. start there always refer to the twenty years of bad relation between them and not that i'm complaining about qatar for the twenty years which was the year of starting their reforming policy of the peace know bloomberg reported a figure it said the blockade is cost forty three billion u.s. dollars in financial losses can you confirm figures like that we don't see a basis for bloomberg analysis because real losses of the blockade were as i told you then vestments we invested in the substitute of our traits so there is nor cash loss at this amount but of this amount which should be as mission

where the deposit switches which stabilize the financial system and the cash reserves which is still an investment still as a cash they are saying that at the central bank. is there any sign of an end to this blockade that you can see will topple or was engaged in a constructive manner with the emir of kuwait with the president of united states in order to put an end for this crisis our concern is about our people and the problem that caused because of the crisis the separation of family our priority is the regional security we see that their region is in a period which is which which has a lot of disturbance around us and cannot afford any to this crisis so we need to see a solution for this crisis because of those two reasons but this solution should be . in a logical way they cannot impose demands on a sovereign country if they have any concerns or any grievances they have to sit on

a dialogue table and discuss those. concerns and it has to result with a collective obligation on all of the countries they cannot point a finger on li on the to be committed to do something and they are not coming and we are doing the opposite so that remains open to any possibility of dialogue which is based on respect of international law based on respecting the solvent you off each and every country based on the respect of the independence of each and every country other than that they are not willing to engage in a solution it's there and they're not on the horizon is there any initiative and the thing going on that you would say to viewers that offers some hope that this may be resolved i mean of course it is calling for a meeting between the gulf states unconditional meeting to discuss the crisis but

that respond was positively i have delivered respond from. their mere yesterday to them of course it. we hope that the blockading states would respond this is i'm sure you're aware it's been reported that. in the united states is investigating individuals with ties to the united arab emirates like george. about whether they tried to influence u.s. government policy on issues like the carter boycott as well as russian influence in return for private gain private business again how concerned are you that the interests the fate of entire nations like qatar could be impacted if not decided by the business interests of individuals we have a confidence in the u.s. and the u.s. as a country as administration as that agency or as an agency is as a president as one we have a confidence in the relationship between the u.s. we see that this confidence has paid and we see that this partnership has been

strengthened as well so you're not concerned about these sorts of reports and when we think we believe that we have a strong enough relation that we can't rely on do and i'd like to get a comment on the counter claim from the other side do the pictures of officials from cultures investment fund for example mr ahmed the meeting with members of the trump transition team in december two thousand and sixteen do those sorts of things indicate that carter tried to do the same thing to buy influence within the u.s. government that were actually actually the office of meetings happened in the transition period it was with the transition team it was a normal process between any foreign government to introduce itself to the new administration so there was never a ten by carter if issues to there is there is a lot of this is live in business this is happening this is happening with all of the administration so any administration which will be an incoming administration very there lot of meetings between upcoming the transition team and the foreign

governments so it's not a process blockade is still dragging on. how will carter function differently do you think in a year in five years down the road when it comes to foreign relations as a result of this blockade what i thought i mean an act of. an act of part not for its international partners and allies so we would we ought to manning and. of conflict resolution we are demanding and any off international development that appalls has said liability. and we believe that a lot of nation which we have built throughout the years. would continue to be much more stronger as well and we would walk on. achieving a lot of agent which we have. which we have determined they kids ago and this vision that qatada will be added liable active technician and member of the

international community and we will promote for peace and stability of what our region mohamad been on that a man and family the foreign minister of carter thank you very much for talking to our disaster. conservation ease helping to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat at a touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves we're

finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest ever. suggests there are more cats than previously acknowledged but this snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the kurds on the international list of threatened species getting to the heart of the matter if the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facing reality is what do you think reunification would look like there are two people think the peace for unification is the only option for prosperity or for south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera we know the culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that it might take an international network for months to be able to do in united nations he'd be fired i think lloyd i'm tired. you are challenging the

forces were challenging companies are going to places where nobody else is going. benjamin netanyahu we said french president manuel my concert rally support against iran a said ron and i and says plans to increase its enrichment capacity. at the end julien macdonald this is al jazeera live from london also coming up is in just fifteen minutes we've seen four bodies pulled pulled out there's not

a lot of hope for survivors a grim task in guatemala rescue workers pull more bodies from under the dust of rubble left by the way go. a crackdown on immigration or an attack on human rights we'll have the latest on the new bill being debated in hungary. and qatar defends its right to buy the f. four hundred anti missile system on the one year anniversary of the gulf diplomatic crisis. a very warm welcome to the program iran has told the u.n. that it's increasing its capacity to enrich uranium but it's not breaking the terms of the twenty fifty nuclear deal supreme leader ayatollah khomeini said on monday that iran would not accept limitations on its nuclear activities at the same time as economic sanctions u.s. reimpose sanctions on iran last month after president trump and i was just country

was pulling out of the deal european leaders want to stay in the deal and i've been trying to figure out ways to keep it alive. for israel's prime minister says he's not surprised by iran's plans but jamin netanyahu is on a tour of european countries to try to persuade them to follow the u.s. it believing the nuclear deal is due to speak alongside the man well met call shortly in paris well to tell you about that is in paris for us hi dan it's hashes so after iran's decision what can we expect from this meeting do you think. well i think what we can probably expect is by the french president and the israeli prime minister to really put their own perspective their own spin on this announcement from iran that it will be increasing its enrichment of uranium the israeli prime minister is of course in france trying to persuade the french president he's been on something of a tour of europe he's trying to persuade the french president and other european leaders to scrap their support for the iran deal which messam yonder binyamin

netanyahu says is dangerous and in some ways you can expect that he might be saying to my own look look at this announcement from tehran i told you so because we heard from the israeli prime yet little bit earlier today and what he said was that for him it was quite clear that iran had the intentional of creating building a nuclear weapon in order to wipe out israel but those were his words now on the other side of course we have the french president and it is likely that what he will say is that the decision by iran really proves exactly why european leaders are trying to save this deal because during this deal op until the u.s. pulled out we didn't have these sort of announcements from iran tehran by all accounts was complying to the deal and that's untrue and some form of peace and stability so we also heard over the last few weeks french leaders saying look all

to the u.s. pulls out there's a real risk here of not just tensions and pressure increasing in the region but also a real risk of conflict so i think that they'll be looking at that announcement from tehran with a lot of. concern indeed and the touch i guess tehran's decision puts at european leaders including the french president in a sort of awkward position. it does put european leaders in the very old good position because they have spent the. last few weeks since the u.s. pulled out of the wrong deal trying desperately to salvage it they say it is the best deal that is out there that it can ensure a certain amount of peace and security especially the french president he's been very vocal back over this deal in fact what european leaders have been trying to do is find ways to block the sanctions that the u.s. says it will impose on iran the problem is of the last few weeks we have seen company off the company closing for example the french energy giant total say they

can hold continue to do business with iran and europeans really seem to be almost losing the battle on that front but they're a little bit position because in one hand they have the u.s. and israel putting more pressure on them to try to scrap this deal together on the other hand they have is they have iran saying look i do come up with some solutions to save this deal or else but then there live from paris and sasha thank you. guatemala rescue is a continuing to sift through hot ash and debris in search of survivors from the eruption that foible volcano entire villages were destroyed in the death toll is now at least sixty five people thousands more have been forced to leave their homes david moore has more from psychotropic. in the village of san miguel it's look this there's evidence of destruction everywhere

a massive volcanic eruption unleashed a torrent of lava mud an ash which engulfed the community the so-called pyrotechnic flow raced down the side of the flag a volcano giving people little time to escape rescue workers struggled to find bodies many of which were buried inside their houses. access is very difficult and it's really hot in the places we're trying to dig bodies out of the ash the deeper you dig the more intensely. by morning the scale of the disaster was becoming clear the volcanic mudflows buried entire families this is the epicenter of the slide and it's the focus of the rescue efforts right now rescue workers pouring out across this area going into houses and pulling out bodies in just fifteen minutes we've seen four bodies bowl poll out there's not a lot of hope for survivors. sunday's volcanic eruption shot ashmore than six

kilometers into the sky and sent lava streaming down a highway it was the flag of volcanoes most powerful eruption in decades. more than three thousand people fled to temporary shelters but while they might be out of harm's way the memories still linger oh i wasn't going to be bundled up on one level we were all yelling run and get out because some people didn't believe what was happening so many people died it was horrible all we have left is what we were able to carry and really look around was the. president visited the site on monday he promised to release government funds to help with reconstruction. of the family in the final remit until the early hours of the morning to ensure that all the legalities an agreement is functioning not just to go back to the congress to produce the sources and opposition with complete transparency. but for many of those who survived it's difficult to imagine what it will take to recover the scale

of this disaster is simply too great david mercer al-jazeera has a pick is what a mullah well he did not get more say he sent us this update a short time ago. we were very close to ground zero of this disaster the village of san miguel a small base just behind me here the volcanic way go which of course at least that massive eruption a couple of days ago is shrouded in clouds back behind me volcano started out today with a lot of moderate explosions eight to ten per hour and you could see volcanic ash sprouting up into the sky now rescue operations are actually operations are still ongoing but at this stage there isn't any expectation to find any survivors and they're simply going in there and trying to recover as many of the bodies as they possibly can it's going to be a lot of effort and that's going to be required in order to find that they spread

out over a large area a lot of these houses in these farming communities now the government has come under a lot of pressure and there's been a lot of accusations against that disaster management agency for not getting people to fish and warning in order to get out of their houses in time and the government also said the other day that there wouldn't be any money allowed for reconstruction they countered that they came back on that yesterday and the president said that disaster relief funds would be released but really for the people who have lost everything in this disaster it's hard to put themselves forward to imagine what their lives might be like in the coming weeks coming months or coming years things move very slowly here in guatemala there are lots of accusations about government corruption and people here are going to have their eyes very closely trained on what the next steps are going to be. an army spokesman in a sheriff says three female suicide bombers have attacked the city of defier killing ten people this will smith said the attack happened on monday night during ramadan prayers the armed group boko haram based over the border in nigeria has

also launched so launched several attacks in different in recent years jordan king abdullah is calling for a review of the controversial tax law the draft legislation has caused mass protests and led to the prime minister's resignation on monday almost all results a former world bank economist has been appointed prime minister and his task performing in the government. congress parliament is debating a bill that would make it a criminal offense to help asylum seekers it's part of a crackdown on immigration by prime minister viktor orban this rightwing government and could mean up to one year in prison for anyone i'm guilty joho before it's time from budapest. where once there was an open border of the european union now there's an electrified fence migrants and refugees still trying to enter europe on welcome in hungary. alone slide when in parliamentary elections in april as encourage prime minister viktor orban and his party to go further fulfilling an

election promise to protect hungary and its christian values despite protests by the e.u. and local activist groups brand new legislation will criminalize any supporting looting legal advice given to the mainly muslim asylum seekers who do make it through access to justice and due process their fundamental values and this legislation specifically targets that and there are real concerns that the government will not stop there we are afraid of anybody who dares to criticize the government. for any reason. maybe a tag may face serious threats like we do now those who work with refugees who are promoting the rights of refugees and equal human rights for all. the advance of viktor or ban has been unstoppable in three successive elections the advance meanwhile of illegal migration of fear much promoted during the election campaign

has been pretty comprehensively stopped there are more than a few hundred successful asylum seekers in hungary it is as if these new measures being debated are aimed less at migration itself and more civil society. which brings us to the other great fear that stalks hungary's prime minister the billionaire financier george soros and the network of liberal minded n.g.o.s he supports the government spokesman explained he made it fairly clear what kind of future he thinks of europe he's pro democracy he's probably get it all. right the kind of the moccasin the form of democracy he promotes and his organizations are promoting are very far from real democracy because they rely or would like to relight so-called n.g.o.s that have been founded and financed by the shore and the like minded people. the new measures are collectively known as the stop soros bill in response to soros funded open society foundations announced law.