tenth of this year we heard a different tone from the u.s. president when he referred to mir of carter as a friend of mine and quote a gentleman do you see a change not so much in the overall u.s. position but particularly and specifically the white house position on carter will . the u.s. position is the u.s. institutions ministration has been since this illegal measures being taken against the state of qatar remember very supportive to me in calling for the escalation and for unity within the g.c.c. . the president tweets at the beginning of the question is not reflecting. what we are as a single evaluating our nation with us based on. the president has been informed by his institutions about the relation between qatar and the united states and. we have very strong and very constructive. engagement with the president himself and

the president himself here he has spent a lot of efforts in the escalating the situation and calling for the unity of the g.c.c. trying to convene a meeting between the g.c.c. countries in order to feel that that can reach a solution you've had has has had an impact on the white house has had an impact on the u.s. president and perhaps softened his position. communication mainly happen between within the system but our communication remained at the highest level. since this crisis started and the u.s. president himself from the first call with 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 or for that you see as well following the blockade a number of other nations from chad in af. occurred to the mole these in asia cut

relations with carter now is that a year is passed i mean how much impact or damage has this blockade done to causes foreign relations which you handle well we see the damage in the foreign relation between a lot of. other states has been almost. very modern and there are a few just a few countries accepted that 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 role in 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 one of the countries created more than three hundred thousand jobs in north africa and some other countries one need so the programs of development and then vestments and the strong relationship that has built with the international community was built on a trust was built on mutual confidence on this relationship. with them in resisting power for the blockading states but 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 mention 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 their 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. . we had we had 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 episode when the meeting between them meet and the president all right so you do feel there's been a change and 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 off of their tweets we cannot build on it everything because it

was just a to it 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 to 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 that it's thanks to sustained government spending it's thanks to the deposit being of some twenty six billion dollars by the government in banks how long can you go on with that sort of effort. as a theist. a critical economic distressing plan by. blockading

says for sure there were spending by the government in order to stabilize the economy in order to help building their resilience of the economy itself but this has been for the last year that we consider that as an investment not as a cost but our 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 a lot of what our 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 part of 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 know how vulnerable do you feel the situation is in . we believe that situation very strong and we don't see the only one. realty we see here is this iteration of the families which should

be separated as an impact of the blockade we have seen that one ability in our regional 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 as 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 it 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 them vestments we invested in the substitute of our traits so there is nor cash loss. amount but of this amount which has mission where the deposits which is which stabilized 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 they are doing the opposite so that remains open to any possibility of dialogue which is based on respect of the international law based on respecting the

solvent you off each and every country based on the respect of the independence of each and of the country other than that they are not willing to engage in a solution it's very little 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. 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 yet 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 now do 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 gain how concerned are you that the interests of 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 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 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 actually actually offer should meetings happen and the transition period 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 an attempt 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 the administration so any administration which will be an upcoming administration the very last meetings between the upcoming the transition team and the foreign governments it's not a process blockade is still dragging on. how will qatar function differently do you think in a year in five years down the road at least 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 a goal and this vision that qatada will be added liable active and technicians member of the international community and we will promote for peace and stability of what our region muhammad bin on the right man and family the foreign minister of carter thank you very much for talking to al jazeera. a history of the war front on my. own is a scene created from the steepness population. for their. one

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braved the great international peace organization the united nations a momentous event which lies at the heart of ongoing conflict to this day seventy years on al-jazeera tells the history of what palestinians call the catastrophe. that the iraqi parliament orders a full recount if it's may election would slide to a victory for. the soldiers or a life from a headquarters and. also a heads nicaraguans try to stop a government crackdown by staging a national strike where with families still hunting in hot ass for hundreds of

people after guatemala's volcanic disaster plus. to each of you and to the muslims around the world ramadan will barak why there are protests as u.s. president donald trump marks the holy month of ramadan with an if tards and. fellow iraq's parliament has ordered a manual recount of every vote cast and last month's elections it comes a day after prime minister had that he said. there had been serious violations parliament also approved the cancellation of overseas votes and those of displaced people in some provinces and itzhak the election chemists and charles stratford reports from baghdad. allegations of voter fraud have been mounting since the may the twelfth parliamentary elections but no one expected this iraq's parliament

voted for a total manual recount of all ballots across the country and to cancel results gannett's through the electronic voting system that was used in the poll there if it is for the political stability of the country if the recount is vastly different to the original result of the new up when. i believe we are about to witness my changing dynamics and variables it could also be dangerous some political blocs might agitate the iraqi street and the country what plans are not restricted to the government alone there are proofs of frauds according to reports. the warnings have been clear from prime minister hydrilla body in his weekly news conference on tuesday he banned all high ranking members of the election commission from traveling abroad he said a ministerial committee had found what he called dangerous violations juror in the election yet it did criminal charges might be brought against those responsible on wednesday parliament voted to freeze the work of senior election commission members

nine judges will be delegated to oversee the manual recount instead. prime minister hyderabadi has blamed the electronic voting system for this crisis he says that it proves that the system was not properly tested before the vote now it's believed the manual recount across this country could take at least two weeks and that means the process of forming a new coalition government will be delayed. by. roxanne farman firm aiyana is a lecturer in politics and international studies at the university of cambridge she says the recount is a good first step there was a great deal of concern about the corruption and also the credibility of running this particular election especially as in kirkuk for example there will be a further election coming forth in december about it status and then till something like this restores confidence something like that is very difficult to conduct it's

already sparked a number of demonstrations all over the country and particularly in the north so one would imagine that will continue and in fact this will prolong the process of the entire electoral not only count but the outcome therefore who is going to be politicking in order to create if it's government which by the rules of the constitution is in any case a long drawn out process and at least ten people including two children have been killed from twin bombings in a baghdad stronghold off most of the sudden. the bombs were detonated near a shiite mosque in baghdad suburb city districts iraq's interior ministry called it a terrorist attack no group has claimed responsibility. jordan's incoming prime minister has pledged to work with other parties to reach a tax law that will suit everyone despite that promise thousands of people rallied near the prime minister's office in amman for a seventh straight night they're angry over

a tax plan they say hurts the poor and the middle class business owners and nicaragua's capital are calling for a national strike to pressure the government to end its crackdown on protesters nearly one hundred thirty people have been killed since demonstrations began in april many well it up no reports from managua. at the busy minute gaggle would be undone open air market in my now while thousands of vendors and shop owners are preparing for an act of civil disobedience a majority of the small business owners say they will no longer pay taxes or utility bills until the government commits to ending the violence that's gripped the country for the last six weeks the thought of a long war by adding the i one we're not going to pay for electricity because that's the money the government used to pay kidnappers in killings the land ahead is owns a shop here and is one of the organizers of the action and. money will no longer be used to move to our own people with more than twenty thousand shops and stands the

middle is the largest open air market in central america it generates hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and taxes every year it lend us says the civil disobedience is the most peaceful and efficient way to protest what i mean that. action as business owners is to apply pressure in a legal way that means declaring civil disobedience and not paying taxes. not everyone at the market is on board with the strike some vendors here blamed the demonstrators for inciting the unrest knowing it was you know way i will not participate in the disobedience we want to pay for so that we can all whip to pace fully. outside the market anti-government demonstrations to. take place every day dozens of barricades have been set up by protesters along roadways across the country donna the director of the naked eye when association of importers an expert who says the longer the crisis drags on the harsher the impact will be on the

overall economy. if this conflict continues into the end of the year economic growth will probably drop by two percentage points this would potentially mean more the nine hundred million dollars in losses political unrest has spilled into some of nicaragua's most popular holiday destinations damaging the country's most important source of revenue tourism the government accuses right wing activists of infiltrating the protest movement in order to destabilize the government experts say it is still too soon to determine the impact of the unrest has had on commerce construction and tourism but they do agree that every day the conflict drags on is another step backwards for the people of my made up of. my one homes are still being evacuated in guatemala three days after the four hugo volcano erupted at least ninety nine people have been killed and hundreds are missing rescuers have been sifting through

a hot ass in search of survivors david mercer reports from the disaster zone. trapped in a state of uncertainty the family gathers together to wait for news of their loved ones daughter sons brothers nieces and nephews haven't been seen since the flag over ok knows violent eruption now more than three days have passed since the deadly explosions and the family is prepared for the worst said what he had on this he say spare sort of thing in a way sixteen people died in the house there will be a brotherhood even went to giving just one single house and then. we still haven't heard anything about them. rather than wait for news out of road decided to join the search he walked. for hours to the disaster zone hoping to get close to his brother's house but the ash was too hot and the house too far up the volcano alberto was forced to turn back but alvarado isn't the only one who put themselves

at risk to search for his missing family on tuesday we met others looking for answers in the disaster zone. where this man was searching for his pregnant daughter and given to me. my daughter live here but nobody has found her that's why we're here struggling to find her her husband of thirteen family members living with them and they're also missing. hundreds of people from the town of san miguel is last days are still missing but with the meters thick layer of ash and mud carpeting much of the town the hope of finding survivors is gone now the question is how to prevent more disasters like this one here is demonstrate more so i mean i mean there's a lot of broken it material that has built up we calculate is around fifteen to twenty kilometers with this material this material needs to come out and the more material accumulates it will also have to come out this is a recipient. this tragedy has brought guatemalans together in

a country beset by natural disasters uncertainty about the future is one feeling shared by all david mercer al-jazeera a little mango what amala. the u.s. has evacuated two more employees from its consulates in the chinese city the chinese city of show they appear to have the same symptoms as a colleague who sustained a brain injury more than two weeks ago u.s. secretary of state michael peo says it was a result of a sonic attack similar to last year's cases in cuba. the us president donald trump whose rhetoric and policies have inflamed the muslim community hosted his first if hard center at the white house to celebrate ramadan but as diane is to brick reports the event is drawing sharp criticism from muslim groups. at the white house wednesday night president donald trump and guests observe the muslim tradition of breaking a day long fast during ramadan by sharing

a meal tonight we give thanks for the renewed bonds of friendship and cooperation we have forged with our valued part is from all across the middle east the white house would say who received these forty invitations but the council on american islamic relations said none of their members got one how can we say no to so they held a counter dinner across the street in lafayette park it's not an american muslim advance and really it just shows that the same ministration is not willing to reach out to american muslims. president trump's contentious relationship with the muslim community began during his campaign and deteriorated immediately after taking office with a series of travel bans that targeted muslim majority countries. e.g. . the proposed ban sparked protests and outrage in cities across america the us supreme court will soon begin hearing legal challenges to them last year president

drew additional criticism for being the first president in recent history to break the tradition of inviting muslim leaders to the white house during ramadan the koran teaches that islam is a. mitt meant to live in peace hillary clinton as first lady hosted the first holiday dinner in one thousand nine hundred ninety six as a way of reaching out to the muslim world both presidents george bush and barack obama continue the tradition in honoring these familiar values together of peace and charity and forgiveness we affirm that whatever our faith we're all one family president did strike a more conciliatory note with the muslim community last month when he extended a greeting at the beginning of ramadan butt.