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 at 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. 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 church 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 last week it was

pulling out of hungary that's a loss to free thinking society but a win for one of europe's most illiberal governments that looks increasingly unassailable jonah holds al-jazeera output of list. still to come on the program we'll tell you why things are going from bad to worse for spain's former prime minister mariano rajoy back in just a moment. hello there the weather still fairly unsettled across parts of the middle east at the moment we've still got that area of cloud in the far eastern part of our map a more cloud from syria drifting its way across the caspian sea as well so plenty of clouds and not a great deal of rain for us as we head through wednesday just a few bits and pieces but it's pulling itself together and on thursday that's the way today looks like that rain will be stretching its way eastward so georgia

seeing more heavy rain there and it's gradually pushing its way towards the caspian sea once more we still have those showers in the far eastern part of iraq as well they've been plaguing us for a good few days now but further south largely fine enjoy hot now baghdad right help forty five degrees i mean for the towards the south and it's also pretty hot for many of us here doha will get to around forty two on wednesday thursday will be the hotter day will get up to at least forty four forty five degrees it really will feel very hot for many of us on thursday towards the south of rome and more in the way of cloud air as they have been over the past day or say and that could just give us a little bit of drizzling rain at times down tools in southern parts of africa and here's our active area of low pressure just pushing a bit further northwards now giving us a few showers over parts of madagascar we also catch one of the two showers around the eastern parts of mozambique as well.

we do not and we will not tolerate with people who fund terrorism is necessary we need to achieve one year into the gulf crisis al jazeera examines its political economic and human impacts join us for a special program at eighteen g.m.t. . our mind of the top stories currently on al-jazeera iran has told the u.n. it will increase its uranium enrichment capacity but this will be within the limits

of the twenty fifteen it clear to. the search and rescue effort is continuing in guatemala after the eruption of the volcano the sixty five people have died or the three thousand people and i've been housed in temporary shelters. parliament is debating a bill that would make it a criminal offense to help asylum seekers proud of a crackdown on immigration by prime minister victor or bans right wing government. where people in qatar have been out on the streets of the capital doha to signal their support for the country one year into a blockade imposed by neighboring countries it began in the early hours of june the fifth two thousand and seventeen and saudi arabia the u.a.e. buck grain and egypt cut all diplomatic ties with qatar they accuse the gulf nation of supporting terrorism the claim the doha strongly denies and issued demands

including cutting ties with iran and shutting down al-jazeera qatar is refusing to give in to those demands look i'm just foreign minister has broken to al-jazeera he discussed we said before threats of military action against doha from riyadh calling them on justified. do you believe that qatar could face an attack from saudi arabia first for just that let us make it very clear that the purchase of any military equipment is a sovereign decision which no country has. anything to do with so there is no legitimate grievance behind this letter and threatening it's violating the international law by writing all the international norms and. most importantly it's violating the. g.c.c. charter which is the countries of the g.c.c. should not launch and any attack against each other so we believe that this letter

has nor any legal basis to justify. any action we have been subject to a unilateral measure which was taken by by the saudis unfortunately as reckless behavior from what do you make of the saudi claim that it would disturb the balance of power it represents an escalation for qatar to obtain the s four hundred says well it's unfortunate that they see this as as destabilisation because other option is not of presenting any threat for the saudis but what most importantly we have to look at the behavior of the saudis since the past year when we see the actions how it's going in yemen or what they have done with the prime minister and recently. the president of france himself he said that he saved the country he said the region from war according to the information you have do you believe this report in the press that saudi the saudi king ready made this threat

do you think it's credible world we are seeking for a form of confirmation from the french government and have you received any response what are they said to response. should be to more. if it's confirmed what would your response be to the south where we are going to respond legally by. as as a response of a country that this is not violating international law and as a threat for our country which is not acceptable by the international community joining us live in the sea do is a senior political analyst marwan bashara marwan interesting to hear that interview particularly the tail end of it talking about the potential threats of military action from riyadh let's start there and also talk about this missile system well look one of the unfortunate reality is of the middle east and specially the gulf region is arms race there's an arms race going on there's israel and iran

there's therapy all of them are well armed and so on and so forth but there's also saudi arabia and the united arab emirates as well as cover all three countries have surplus income and are capable of buying expensive weapons the saudi crown prince just agreed that so the king agreed two hundred plus billion dollars worth of arms purchased from the united states alone they u.a.e. the united arab emirates is the second largest importers of sophisticated arms in the middle east and both of them are blockade in qatar she would expect qatar that is also well to do dubai you know to catch up. at least defensive weapons in order to be able to defend itself no i think it makes sense for the qataris although i think an arms race in general does not make sense in the middle east not at this point not when wars plunging of entire region but for

a tiny country that is basically defenseless otherwise it makes sense to buy expensive defense systems simply because it doesn't want to be blackmailed by blockading countries that are far more powerful with far more strategic depth than the tiny cut of him so why have attempts at mediation failed in this case i mean we see numerous attempts have we kuwait spin and solved we saw in the new york times the cuts of a foreign minister talking about gulf collaboration maybe moving beyond the g.c.c. but that seems like a very far away reality and i think if there was a if there was goodwill on the part of the bloc of the countries i think this would have been resolved from the first week because qatar as well as the mediator said look let's discuss what is actionable where can we meet what exactly do you want from us that does not affect our sovereignty and where you know we will be able to

discuss but i think the the blockage in countries were so arrogant because they are far more powerful in their demands that they basically imposed on qatar humiliating conditions now some people on you know would argue that you know qatar is a tiny a country should in punch above its weight and so on so forth so why not accept some of the conditions. the cut that for mr in particular this man that we just heard said look we are willing they may have got there said we're willing to meet you in a thousand miles if you would meet us one mile so if you would just show us what exactly that is that is reasonable but we can do you know what that's why don't we just let the united states mediate these things and we had the second the of state of the united states former secretary and said look here is my mediation efforts got accepted so the arabia of the projected so then what is the end game what's the point of continuing i think strategically speaking in terms of the analysis we

say when the powerful meaning all four blockading countries versus the less powerful meaning cutter when when they apply ns to means meaning a lot of pressure in order to subjugate cutter to humiliation and it doesn't work time is a factor meaning the more prone this thing is the more powerful party loses in the process because when the strong. confronts the weak for a long time it's the strong that loses because if you cannot bring it into a conclusion that means you lost in so many ways a year later it's clear to everyone first of all and now we know the facts you know in the beginning when we sat here a year ago we didn't really know all the facts no we know the facts we know that the cut the news agency it was hacked we know that there was excuse me for saying that a conspiracy against cutter that this was prepared weeks months in advance that some

of it was prepared along with the american president when he was in riyadh that there were steps taken that there were cooperation among the black of the countries in order to besiege blockade and humiliate qatar so we know with what was at stake well know it all failed so what do you do well you're going to have to climb down the tree i think it's tough for these block of the countries to climb down the tree because they raise the bar so high they don't want to fail flat on their faces unfortunately is probably going to take too long you know some countries themselves in a long term wars just because the at one point they don't want to withdraw and i think at this point in time the saudis they were out there still think that maybe they can get more and i think they don't want to show to the world that in fact in this crisis not only where they're on the wrong side but they're also on the failing side marwan bashar journeymen the city of milan thank you. well let's go live lines until we can speak to stephanie decker our correspondent there hi there stephanie

so what's the feeling then in qatar itself. while people have been very united got that he is an ex-pat so like is of course a country where the population is majority behind this government behind the emir decree when it happened of course there was shock there was uncertainty about how things were going to play out you know an air and sea blockade causing quite some panic will support there was that twenty four hour period when people raced to the supermarkets but a lot of respect to this government that then very quickly managed to resupply from different groups like iran and turkey or the goods that had been coming in via saudi arabia saudi arabia and the emirates there's also a lot of feeling here judy there is outrage because of how personal these countries have made and it's not simply a political crisis where you've had the withdrawal of ambassadors know what these countries of have prevented citizens from going to saudi from going to the emirates

is of course the gulf is interconnected people are intermarried families cross-line students can no longer go and continue their studies so there is a lot of anger at the fact that countries have brought it down to that level but i think what more on was saying there as well people here feel the cup that has come out on top cop that has taken the moral high ground maintains the moral high ground and they say that certainly they don't believe that this government should make any concessions to the countries so yes you know if you ask anyone here in doha people not particularly that aware that it is the one year anniversary but of course people extremely aware that this is an ongoing blockade and people will tell you they don't expect it to end any time soon seventy deca there live from doha thank you. well we'll have a special program marking one year olds the crisis takes on tuesday including a look at the political economic and of course the human impacts of the blockade that's coming up in just over an hour and a half eight hundred hours g.m.t. right here on. the wife of malaysia's former prime minister has been questioned for

three hours as part of a corruption investigation the couple's being investigated for allegedly stealing billions of dollars from the state fund which now j.p. rostock sets up during his nine years in office questioning his wife rules for months or after they found luxury handbags jewelry and cash in apartments linked to the family. the american fashion designer kate spade has died the fifty five year old was found in her new york apartment following an apparent suicide she started her business in the one nine hundred ninety seven handbags and then added clothes accessories and jewelry lines brands has more than three hundred shops around the world kate spade has also been celebrated for charitable work which included empowering women empowering around one hundred fifty artisans in rwanda as merchandise is now supplied in her stores spain's former prime minister mariano rajoy says he will step down as leader of the conservative people's party

after fourteen years he was ousted this prime minister last week when he lost a no confidence vote in parliament to several former party officials were frank guilty of corruption from madrid david cheeta reports. some say all political careers ended but marianna records has been swift and the gates removed no confidence vote he described as a very grave president by mr michael c. he told his studio colleagues at the people's party headquarters in madrid it was time to go. get you one moment i think the time has come to bring this to an end and for the people's party to continue under someone else's leadership. it was an emotional farewell after more than three decades in politics but he will remain in place in a caretaker role until a special party conference decides who will replace him. it was the shadow judges

called institutionalized corruption within his own party the brought him down but roy said the socialist government was extremely weak and spain was now facing an uncertain future. in a bitter attack on new prime minister petro sanchez he said a frankenstein government was being formed with disastrous traveling companions in the past nationalist uncatalogued separatists who backed his no confidence motion. so that political scientists believe with a new leadership the people's party could reinvigorated space and distance itself from the taint of corruption the government of the whole would leave and never face these political crises they use the mundane all the part of the as he was before the make any kind of regeneration of the parties the socialist prime minister spent the day naming new members of his cabinet they included a catalan as foreign minister who had opposed last year's secession referendum the

full catalog of president carter's push for more fighting extradition in germany described him as a violent who had escalated hate in catalonia not an encouraging start of the sanchez this hope to deescalate the separatist crisis chaytor al-jazeera address. well you can buy that much more about the stories we're following on our web site hates to head straight to debbie debbie debbie does al jazeera dot com. it could command ever headlines here on al-jazeera here honest told the u.n. it's increasing its capacity to enrich uranium at its natanz facility but within the limits of the twenty fifty nuclear deal the agreement allows who wants a bill parts for centrifuges as long as they're not made operational within the first decade last month the usa impose sanctions on iran after president trump

announced his country was pulling out of the deal. israel's prime minister says he's not surprised by iran's plans benjamin netanyahu is in paris as part of the way to european tour trying to persuade them to fall of the u.s. and leaving the nuclear deal. search and rescue effort is continuing in guatemala after the eruption of the volcano the sixty five people have died and more than three thousand people are now being housed in temporary shelters the government has promised to release funds to help with reconstruction dave mercer has this update locator started out today with a lot of moderate explosions in a camp for hours and you could see volcanic ash sprouting up into the sky now rescue operations actually operations are still ongoing but at this stage there isn't any expectation to find any survivors an army spokesman in this era says three female suicide bombers have attacked the city of differ killing ten people the spokesman said the attack happened on monday night during ramadan prayers the

armed group will call her arm based over the border in nigeria has launched several attacks in differ in recent years jordan's king abdullah has ordered a review of a controversial income tax law which has caused mass protests that led to the prime minister's resignation former world bank economist has now been tasked with forming a new government. hungary's 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 right wing government. qatar's of foreign minister says his country won't back down from plans to buy an anti a russian anti missile system despite reports that saudi arabia was threatening military action if it did so his comments coming year into a blockade imposed by saudi the u.a.e. upgrade and egypt those are current headlines inside stories next we'll see you lisa.

collateral damage or indiscriminate bombing the u.s. led coalition was fighting icily and the syrian city of raka but it's accused of killing hundreds of civilians and it's international says that could amount to war crimes so can the coalition be held accountable this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i am husham how about

a report by amnesty international says there's strong evidence the u.s. led coalition fighting violated international law and may have committed war crimes here are the reports main findings hundreds of civilians were killed and thousands wounded by coalition asked why it's this crime disproportionate and indiscriminate i sell use civilians as human shields by the coalition didn't take enough because shien's to avoid casualties british and french forces were also involved by the us was a responsible for more than ninety percent of. more attacks were launched on than an aware since the vietnam war called on the coalition to investigate claims of violations publicly acknowledge the scale of devastation and compensate victims a coalition spokesman says persistent efforts were made to minimize harm to

civilians. the u.s. led a four month campaign dubbed a war of annihilation by defense secretary james mattis to flush ice a lot of raka coalition warplanes and special troops supported an offensive launched by mainly kurdish syrian democratic forces as d.f. to take the city rocker lies in the north of syria and i still declared it the capital of its caliphate into a thousand and fourteen i still controlled large territories of iraq and syria rocka was a main stronghold the planning center for attacks around the world especially after mosul fell to iraqi forces but in a toll it's also lost iraq part of the much of the city is in growing and many of its three hundred thousand population fled during the fighting let's bring in our guests joining us from london home to hide syria consulting

research fellow of the chatham house from bollywood. military analyst and retired general in the lebanese army and by skype from a writer in italy is just well and this director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma thank you all for joining us. can the outcome of the report for illegal action against the u.s. led coalition well basically that the scale of. casualties on the ground among civilians is what the report i thing is asking for because we don't know the scale exactly what we know so far is that their report confirms what locals have been saying for months during and after that that gorica they have been saying that a big number of civilians have been has been killed they also mentioned civilians

in other parts of syria not only iraq. was killed by u.s. led coalition strikes but so far we don't see serious efforts from the coalition in order first to investigate and to be transparent about the results of those. investigations so unless that is basically clear and transparent we cannot really assess what the scale of the vacation that we are talking about here in the. syrup or talks about the sport or disproportionate and indiscriminate attacks that could . be described as potential war crimes how significant is this report from a military perspective. yes. it is a war crime when you kill hundreds of civilians to say that this is collateral damage is not an excuse the u.s.

led coalition should resort to other means in order to. win the battle for example if they impose a seizure on iraq and try to negotiate with the people inside and try to. reach a settlement with them and the other solution better than one being if with. thousands of air sorties or thousands of. artillery rounds and killing the innocent with the. men together instead of that they should have resorted to peaceful means in order to to minimize the damage and to save as much as they can civilians from the damages of this war we understand that the ask that the coalition is fighting isis which is

an. organization. with great terrorist actions where all over the world but the doesn't mean that they include civilians with them and harm the civilians and kill them. so i think that the center for international airport should. the base of for an inquiry mission in order to make all of these people said all right around double what they have done just what the coalition says that it has it took extraordinary measures to minimize civilian casualties but i made you see the amnesty international report. testimonies from activists on the ground basically saying that areas were completely wiped out during the campaign to evict eisel from iraq. yes we've seen this over and over again if we look at ramadi we look at for the new

show we look at it with a look at russia that's of course on the coalition side all those cities eighty eighty five percent of the house and completely destroyed lots of firepower many civilians will undoubtedly killed. but if we look on the syrian and russian side of course we saw the same thing we saw a tremendous condemnation on the part of the west towards the bombing in aleppo homs many other places and most recently of course the suburbs of damascus and odorless and all of these places very similar situation it just underlines how difficult it in warfare is and how brutal all war for it becomes we look at this in reflection of the second world war for example where the war was ended in japan of course by first fire bombing tokyo the single largest day of deaths in the

second world war and then the japanese did not surrender after one hundred thirty thousand were killed in one day hiroshima nagasaki two hundred thousand mostly women and children incinerator not because they were a strategic importance neither city was but because they had been unbent and they could be a demonstration effect and this of course caused the japanese to surrender and this you know in a sense this lesson of using overwhelming brutal force breaking the morale of the people. is in a sense a lesson that lives on and every army tries to do it use overwhelming force we see there to end up many wars and it leads to this kind of all out brutality and we see it here again and of course the coalition tried to cover up their tracks to a certain degree by saying smart bombs were being extra careful we haven't killed civilians and being duplicitous lying about the numbers of so they killed and yet

we can't escape the fact just has wrecked tremendous human damage and we're seeing the same thing in yemen where we keep on getting reports of ten thousand people killed because nobody's counting anymore and all newspaper journalists are complicit in it keep on using the word two thousand and we know because insane is it's massively more than now you know if there's just one is there some of those areas journalists are restricted from going to those areas to independently verify exactly what's going on hides following up with with what mr just was saying do you think that this could pave the way for activists operating on the ground different organizations to come together to try to uncover exactly what happened in iraq well definitely since the fighting stopped i think we have a great opportunity for people to be able to verify what happened there but for that to happen there are

a few issues that need to be taken into consideration the first one is the groups and individuals should be allowed to enter their area and be protected in that area and they should be given access to different different people in different areas meaning whether some people were displaced to other cities or where the thin or their they're living in despair scans outside the fact that's one initial the other issue is that they should be allowed to give access to military or for mission. and stand up some of this information might be a classifier but there are those without access to those information people will not be able to verify what happened what they were for basically i mean action was you was what the number the official number that was reported in order to compare it to that the number on the ground so few issues need to be taken into consideration in order for people to do that so far we don't see that happening

that. basically did a geisha when there was given access to people on the ground but i think they were not given access to military information and this is why they were not able to compare notes and they were not able to come out was basically concrete. figures as the. u.s. led coalition in its attempt to try indisposed to defeat ice it has been using overwhelming force particularly in in syria and also in mosul in iraq the find is now of amnesty international to what extent could change the rules of engagement in the near future if the coalition meets similar situation in different places amnesty and its. report said that they added a few of dozens of people each one of them told what. was with them and their families many people from their families were killed and the one being of

the. coalition and the cats the still and from of these witnesses who saw their families. been killed so there are people killed there are someone who killed them the u.s. led coalition so to do what verification doing need now other then this witness and this proof from the u.s. led. war planes or artillery or missiles or other things so i mean there is the necessity for an inquiry mission in order to put an end of this bad conduct during the war. thought that the syrian army is not to do. what they're called for to amende and the

conservation and some of the fight the shores to leave the area to another safer area for them and others chose to stay. safe. you know a lot of the. really and we contest that a through and that means you know going to affiliation why did they don't garnishing did not know this you know it is that we cannot see is syria government as an example they have used barrel bombs in different areas killing thousands of people more than half a million people according to different as it is so that i don't think there should be as a as a next example but let me go to just where this is a totally different well just well what can you expect the international community to react how what should be the appropriate reaction to the findings of obviously international a united nations inquiry a judicial disarray case what should be the case well first of all you know we can

talk about what should happen and what will happen what will happen is that this report will probably disappear with many other amnesty ports in the war part of the coalition is france great britain united states all members of the security council . the u.n. will not be able to investigate this in any meaningful way i imagine and and it only underscores the brutality as you were just mentioning of this entire war and it if an investigation is brought into iraq of course the americans and the coalition will say well then you have to investigate isis you have to investigate the brutality of the syrian regime or the russians that everybody will want to investigate everybody else and they're all guilty of course of killing many people this is going to extremely brutal war and. you know in many ways this this

underlines. also the control of the media in a place like rocko where there was almost no media coverage of anywhere we didn't have anybody inside russia getting information out there were very few groups there was this one rucka group that that was reporting and it have information from inside but it didn't have good coverage and it's also the demonization of the enemy which is part of modern warfare it's much more effective than it used to be and because isis was demonized and one can say well rightfully it was demons but it allowed the coalition to carry out this war of total destruction and with the with the insistence that all isis members should be killed on the battlefield and captured and this meant that there was a great hesitancy to negotiate and this is what we've just been hearing from your

other commentator here in beirut is that negotiations are crucial you cannot demonize the other side to the point where it becomes ok to kill large numbers of civilians in order to and we've seen in this war on every side civilians have been tracked and they've been used as hostages because air power is so devastating the only place for groups like isis or other militias to harvest in urban areas and they have to maintain the population with them in order to try to scare you know the coalition or the syrian and russian air force not to bomb because they'll be worried about the collateral damage and this leads to an escalation and in a in a sense or parousia point where yet i mean we've seen the media has spoken about the moment it was taken over by the butt of a since there's not much about about the city it's what's the situation like over

there now. well i spoke to many people over the past weeks who are either a luck or in the countryside and they said basically more than ninety percent of the city is completely destroyed people have not been able to basically go about their small number of locals were able to was able to go back there but the problem is that they're facing many issues there the first one is that isis before it left the city it left many mines and booby traps and this is why people cannot do that themselves many people try to demonize in their homes and they were killed in the process or this is one of the biggest challenges so far so unlike unfortunately not much is being done in order to have been on the front the second one is that basically there is no services to people if they're willing to go back there there's no water there is no can get to cities or they're basically suffering on so

many different levels on top of that many people question that is to misuse of there is the if and the groups affiliated with the ruling the city so you have many challenges that are basically preventing locals from going back there and we don't see much basically a force in order to change that change and basically allow people and encourage them to go back to if yes the city itself could you know well another be symptomatic of the overall picture of syria that is an ethnic divide the as the and the other factions the tribes and that the regional interference turkey is concerned and accuse a saudi arabia and other countries of interfering their syrian military is willing to move forward to take over the city how do you see the future of stability of those areas. i mean the future of the area should be in the hands of the coalition. if there is an intention to have deleted

alaca under the construct some homes or and for a fraction of the city then we will see that some people or most of the people will be back to their homes but so far there is no intention nor any movement on the ground that indicates that they want to. bring back the people to their home so if they want to wait for the interest of turkey or the kurds or of the government or saudi arabia or any other. the caves and if there is real estate or when there should be a decision from the us that coalition in order of first the mine and too big of the tribes and then to bring from you know

a contract of that will be conferred something or to allow the people back to the country if this yeth joshua d. . i said has been evicted from more salt from iraq but is still that in different parts of the of syria and iraq. does that leave room for i still to sage any come back any time in the future. i don't think it is going to make a big comeback isis bread because of the collapse of governments both in iraq and of course in syria with the civil war there and the uprising. there though that situation has changed the iraqi army is much stronger than it used to be it's much better armed the syrian army in fact it's also stronger than it used to be in many ways even though it's a few in number and it's exhausted and it doesn't have money i don't see you know

the united states is also there i don't see a big comeback you know the best outcome of course would be if this report could spur the united states to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more money and hasten the process as your last commentator the us has sent they need bulldozers in order to clear the area to d. mine they need big. bulldozers that can quickly be mine areas without hurting the people these have not been released the government the american government does not want to spend a lot of money and it's not doing it with any great and that needs to be you know that would be the one in a sense salvation if this report could serve the coalition into spending hundreds of millions more dollars and really putting you know putting some fire in their attempts to rebuild because otherwise the underlying point you made in your last

question which is things are going to go wrong it may not be isis it comes back but we're going to see a lot of trouble in this region this is in the poorest region us for decades it's troubled as you say between kurds and arabs there's tribal violence there a lot of other minorities and of course the geostrategic situation is terrible with america turkey. the russians all at daggers drawn it's at tend to box and reason bad things will. the reason why i asked you about i sort of a reliever same question to hide is basically we've seen eisel given a chance to leave just a few days before he was captured by the but there are pockets of resistance in the south of the country on the border with jordan and also in deals all also in libya where i still emerges from from from from time to time the issue here i

totally agree with what you're saying and i think the possibility of isis reemerging mostly as an insurgency is big because if you look at that basically the circumstances that allowed the group to flourish in the first place it's just a symptom of the conflict in syria and basically the grievances in syria and iraq so it's not a cause it's a sentiment this is why we need to look at the causes that allowed this group to florence and emerge in the first this so far what we have been seeing is that there has been oily military strategy in order to defeat that group and capture the directories that was under its control but there has not been any comprehensive strategy in order first to deal with the grievances and deal with the root causes that allowed this to take place i love the group america for example that the large scale killing that the rejean russians and the iranians are doing in syria that

will basically allow isis and other groups who use that as a grouping tour or for four years to come so all those issues should be addressed and the needs of the people on the ground should be addressed in order to prevent the group once and for from reemerging i don't wise unfortunately we will most likely see its hide in the u.s. for this is always good to have your the program thank you very much indeed. thank you too for so you can see the program again and it's by visiting our website. just gushing go to our facebook page facebook dot com a.j. inside story you can also join but. that is. enough.

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the daily reality piece in some of france's underprivileged communities. does your own world hears firsthand accounts from suburban resident. of all. paris. a divided city. of. new yorkers are very receptive to algeria because it is such an international city they're very interested in that global perspective that i'll see our lives. it's been one year since its neighbors imposed a blockade on qatar by land sea and air. a move that shattered the region's jew political landscape alliances have shifted and qatar has grown more self-reliant. but what caused the rift between g.c.c. countries is there and their insights and can the gulf ever be the same again the

siege of qatar on a just zero. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al jazeera. this was the moment the g.c.c. crisis was born coordinated a multi platform attack on council state media outlets. saudi arabia bahrain egypt and the u.a.e. say their severing diplomatic relations with qatar. have taken this step. with great pain no one has give them the right to look at my country no one is giving

them their voice to separate families and displaced people. nations came together and spoke to me about confronting. they are trying to intimidate a small country which has the closest relationship with the united states. this is the long awaited list the list of demands include cutting ties with a muslim brotherhood the closure of the odyssey our media network. the damage to do one a little puddle and a shot of john and i look up at the fish in a duck that. our children feel is a red line. we don't accept anybody interfering in our sovereignty.

it's just past nine pm here in doha the sun is down people around enjoying ramadan celebrations having broken their faults to a little over two hours ago but it was one year ago the celebrations had been unexpectedly interrupted in a way no one could quite believe was suddenly under blockade by land sea and air and its relationship with its gulf neighbors had changed perhaps permanently. hello everyone i'm come on santa maria welcome to the special broadcast here on al-jazeera for the next hour as we mark exactly one year since the start of the gulf crisis now it's not the kind of anniversary which is exactly welcomed celebrated here because as residents have been marking the day it's generally a quieter time of year given it's the holy month of ramadan but even so this procession happened a few hours ago led by members of the local bikers community with flags and pictures of support on display and i just reminded before we get going that this broadcast is going to be streamed live on twitter at a.j.

english also at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera so if you want to get involved and send us your comments and your questions then please do so on those platforms right so let's begin how did we get to this point it needs explaining it needs some context and with that here's alexia brown. i'm going to take you through a timeline of events now but we have to go back to before the severing of diplomatic ties because they were already signed something that was up may twentieth the u.s. president donald trump lands in saudi arabia to meet king solomon and other arab leaders trump later took credit for saudis move against in a series of tweets linking it to the summit just three days later may twenty third and the cops a news agency is hacked it attributes false statements to the emir of their broadcast on saudi and iraqi media despite the qatari government saying its fake news then on june fourth leaked e-mails from the u.a.e. and besa to the u.s.

reveal what appears to be a long running effort to discredit kata and that brings us to june fifth when diplomatic ties are cats and an economic embargo is imposed not to understand the impact of the gulf crisis it helps if you can see how the region's laid out the four blockading nations egypt saudi arabia bahrain and the united arab emirates they accuse qatar on this peninsula here of spreading instability and supporting terrorism claims doha strongly denies on june fifth saudi arabia causes causes only land border causing a run on the supermarkets and forcing alternative suppliers to be found excess to the say is restricted as well to bypass the blockade has had to ship directly through ports and mom and air routes were also closed pushing to make major detours kasuri families with relatives in other countries and vice versa are torn apart at

this point calls for dialogue and that's taken up by the emir of kuwait weeks later the four countries released a list of demands they include wanting to scale back its diplomatic ties with iran and close a turkish military base here they pressured to cut all ties with what they call terrorist organizations including the muslim brotherhood and they called for the shutting down of the al-jazeera news channel as well as other media outlets funded by the qatari government. right so that's how we got to this point but a year on the diplomatic stalemate continues carter and its people are still under a blockade but what has changed is that the country's made a giant leap towards self-sufficiency and through some friendly overtures cemented its relations with its allies. explains now. it has not been an easy year for qatar but for now protests from all over the world fill up store shelves

cranes other most visible sign of the huge push to build mega projects in time for football's world cup in twenty twenty two but a year ago on the fifth of june during the fasting month of ramadan qatar is work up to and president of crisis saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind rein and egypt cut off diplomatic ties with qatar and imposed a land sea and embargo the blockade in countries accuse the qatari government of sponsoring terrorism accusations doha strongly deny it attempts by the emir of kuwait and regional leaders to and the diplomatic feud have made no progress so far unfortunately we don't see any credible indicators to suggest that there will be a solution in the near future i think there have been cedars at the send the past.

invested to broker this crisis and to reach an agreement but unfortunately the parties are still stuck in their positions and unable to move forward with a solution. the four arab countries were hoping to see the blockade isolate internationally but what followed was a qatari diplomatic offensive led by shared i mean been hammered thirty who met world leader as his country signed major arms deals with friends it's ali the u.k. and an agreement with the u.s. to combat terrorism financing. in april the emir met president donald trump in washington d.c. the u.s. leader had qatar as a force of stability in the region and trump who also. saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin sultan than around the same time he expressed concerns about the

fallout from the crisis it's a very unstable region and the gulf has always been the most stable part of an unstable region and this crisis has kind of thrown this region into a quagmire that they didn't have to be in and i think the trouble is treasure realizes that you know at least we have to provide one pole of stability and the center of gravity of the arab world in general has been the gulf in recent years so why the region there it crisis there is something that that had to be avoided at all cost. trump has invited the g.c.c. leaders to meet in the u.s. in the hope of finding a political solution but that invitation has been delayed a the blockade in countries insist no talks will take place until qatar meets their demands. is iraq and that's not going to happen we've heard that directly from cutter's foreign minister mohammed bin me he told sam is that carter will not back down from plans to buy a russian anti missile system despite reports that saudi arabia is threatening

military action if it did so french media has been reporting that saudi arabia is threatening that military action first formed just with us make it very clear that the postures of. any military equipment is a sovereign decision which no country has. anything to do with so there is no legitimate grievance behind this letter and threatening to cut them and violating the international law by writing all the international norms and. the most importantly it's violating the. g.c.c. charter which is the countries of the g.c.c. should not launch an attack against each other so we believe that this letter has nor any legal basis to justify. any action we have been subject to a unilateral measure which was taken by by the saudis unfortunately as reckless

behavior does cut the need to take any defensive military steps in light of this reported through we are going to take all the necessary action to defend our country but the world what do you counter was this is first of all this is not there is nor any serious military threat out of this but it's the way it's been used to justify it. or to create any disturbance in the region is just unacceptable so. is going to treat this. the same way they have we have treated their legal blockade we are going to seek or the international fora to make sure that this behavior is not repeated. right so it's about here in doha we're starting at qatar of the cultural village here in doha with our reporter stephanie hi stephanie how would you describe the mood of people not just there but the mood of people in the country these days one year after the blockade began.

people are just starting to trickle in here it is of course if we're seeing a couple of people arriving notice full as it will be in a couple of hours but the people we have spoken to many of them actually not aware that this is the one year anniversary but of course everyone aware of this blockade the mood in the country as we both know is one of defiance one of the girls said you know we will remain strong you know the impact of it the consequence of it is that this country really rallied behind its leadership behind the america behind the government cut that is an ex-pat so like this is a country of a majority population who are ex-pats you have sketches a famous now sketch of the profile of the emir on buildings on cars whether it's company or of the ex-pats so there is a real feeling of unity but there's also a feeling of anger of course because these countries have made it so personal it's not a political crisis in the sense that diplomatic ties have been called the withdrawal of investors know what these countries have done have stopped the citizens from

traveling to saudi arabia for example to the emirates this is a culture the g.c.c. you know there's intermarriage there's families so this is deeply personal it's affecting families seeing each other it's affecting students who are stuck in a so that is something that people here feel deeply upset about but the general mood is one that has come out on top of her that it has taken the moral high ground and everyone still remaining very very strongly behind their leadership and certainly don't want this government to concede anything do you think people have gotten used to it at all stephanie because you could call it a crisis one year of a crisis or you could call it an actual shift a complete change in the way the culture relates with its neighbors over a good many number of years to come. absolutely and i think in a sense this is you know we're seeing life continue as normal many people not aware that it is the one year anniversary i think it's also many people will tell.