and the chaos was of thing from that conflict especially around the streets of baba house meet the even more risky for refugees one hundred five of this year some one hundred thousand migrants and refugees ended yemen last year according to the international organization for migration the vast majority of them a feeling poverty and persecution in their home countries of ethiopia and somalia last february the i.o.m. followed some seventeen thousand migrants trying to reach the tons of a juror on the coasts of djibouti from there they usually attempt to undertake the sea crossing to yemen where they often face for long detention torture sexual abuse and conflicts they typically had to sound eurabia in search of work and better live being living conditions even though some five hundred thousand if european migrants in the kingdom off base in deportation and many are reporting abuse by saudi authorities not to talk some more about this let's bring in india osman who is a research associate at the school of oriental and african studies in london she

focuses on the root causes of migration from the horn of africa thank you very much for joining us we often hear of course of the dangers migrant strace trying to make it to europe but they also seem to be facing similar perils if not worse when they attempt to reach the gulf first of all are they aware that there's a war in yemen when they embark on this journey. thank you very much for having me the issue is that most of them are aware of the information that they are given is this information that isn't quite giving them the complete picture of what it means to go through a country that is in a state of course that so the smugglers and the traffic would inform them that yes the state has collapsed but this is actually good for you because it means you can enter yemen and leave yemen undetected now that there's no more checks and balances put in place this is what's encouraged a lot of them to continue pushing ahead despite knowing that there is a conflict going on in yemen now the gulf countries that they're trying to reach as

we know have very strict rules of entry the sponsorship system which is the only way really to work legally in these countries how how are they able these migrants to make it into a country like saudi arabia what's their point of entry how are they able to get in even if illegally. and the smuggling networks have really been able to capitalize on the conflict that's happening in yemen by expanding their vast transnational network so they now have bases that stretch from the horn of africa places like mosul and put land. route to good use but then also throughout the gulf countries and in yemen and so they're able to essentially take the migrants from the journey where they begin in our land to then take them through the smuggling networks that were illegally take them to the gulf countries now lot of these migrants tend to be repeat my friends i mean there are research you know the last year alone we've

picked up that about twenty to twenty five percent of the migrants that are making it to to saudi arabia are repeat my parents so they've already been deported but they would tell you that they're coming back because they don't have any hope of where they are and so they're constantly living in this state of hope and between states of hope and see that they might be able to find better economic opportunities employment opportunities in saudi arabia despite knowing that it is what group conditions tell us about those conditions that if you can what once they reach these destinations in the gulf whether it's sad they're outside arabia or another country in the gulf what sort of work are they doing in these countries what conditions do they face. often i mean they find themselves in horrible conditions because they don't have a great deal of rights and that includes human rights labor rights so when they do make it to two saudi arabia and actually employed by family as like a lot of the times. the migrants they tend to be similar migrants are employed as

domestic labor and so they've become the under the responsibility of their employer which means they have no employment rights and that puts them up for huge levels of exploitation they often don't get any holidays they get abused physically emotionally mentally they often don't get paid even the ones that do get paid to pay very little so they're completely at the discretion of that employer with a way that they're going to treat the men often we find that they treat them in quite horrible conditions a very unfortunate situation thank you so very much for speaking to us and you can read more about our guests thoughts on this situation that migrants face in the horn of africa why they're fleeing to a country like yemen in this piece by a deal last man who we just spoke to she explains that while various agencies have been campaigning to raise awareness of the dangers of embarking on the journey to yemen the awareness campaigns are not enough you can find that on our website at

al-jazeera dot com and quite a few comments coming in to us on the situation in yemen one here from our regular viewer my wood or on facebook live who says international community the international community must come forward to rescue many who are already suffering from famine fight rebels but don't destroy the innocence another one in on facebook live also on yemen from elizabeth who says instead of trying to end conflicts like this one some leaders in the international community are perpetuating it the only way to change is if we demand our leaders to stop thank you very much for your comment you can get in touch with us on this and other stories we're covering on the great of course all the different ways to do that on your screen right now don't forget to use the hashtag eighty you know screed. moving on to other world news now and french president. and the canadian prime minister justin trudeau have held a news conference ahead of this weekend's g. seven summit in quebec while the seven nations are at the annual event they've been close long cold this year's meeting comes at a time of heightened tensions the u.s.

president has imposed as you know punishing trade ties on other g seven countries which in turn have promised to retaliate mccoll has warned the u.s. again starting a trade war with its allies sickly moves you please to keep the complete books on the going to me the measure sic in our culture productive even for the u.s. economy but for me it's a matter of principle we can't which is true or against friends we're all involved in conflicts syria iraq in sub-saharan region to different areas of the world where allies we exchange critical information for soldiers stand side by side to defend our freedom and values that we cannot decide in such a context of a trade war or me it's a matter of principle. but present doesn't appear to be toning down his rhetoric ahead of the summit he did this so a short while ago isn't it ironic getting ready to go to the g. seven in canada to fight for our country on trade we have the worst trade deals ever made then off to singapore to meet with north korea and the nuclear problem

but back home we still have the thirteen angry democrats pushing the witch hunt let's bring in john hendren who is covering this summit for us in quebec city so john a lot of people saying that this could be more of a g. six plus one then an actual g. seven just how tense of a meeting is this going to be. that's right for a g six meaning everybody else versus donald trump in the united states because everybody else is on the same page when it comes to trade last week there was a meeting of finance major leaders here and they all agreed they signed a statement saying that they were disappointed with the u.s. approach on trade so donald trump comes into that situation there was speculation that he might not even come to this g. seven meeting so it is definitely tense the meetings ahead of time like the one between trudeau and mccrone are all about people talking about how they can talk to donald trump it's it's almost like an intervention preparation here like group

therapy for everybody talking about how they intend to convince donald trump to drop those tariffs but as you point out he's not backing down that tweet suggests that he wants to go forward with this he says he's fighting for america and that speaks to the fact that he's talking to a domestic audience here one in the u.s. of his base that really wants him to get tough with trade he might be using this to barter he's also trying to negotiate a new north american free trade agreement with canada and mexico this is just a chip he can use in bartering there we don't know exactly where he's going with this but we should find out in a couple of days yes so what else are they going to be doing in combat besides trying to avoid a a trade war. well that'll be topic number one everybody will be focusing on that that may be decided in the first number of hours there most of the business here gets done in these bilateral meetings and and mccrone will each have

a bilateral meeting with trump so while trade will be issue number one they're also talking about things like order fishel intelligence gender equality sustainable development that's another word for climate change with her which they're trying to avoid because the americans won't use it they have talked about environmental resilience so they're going to try to come together with a statement at the end of all of this that they can all agree on and they hope very much that trade will be part of that statement emanuel mccrone was saying this morning in the news conference that he's hoping they can all sign an agreement trump included in which they all agree however it might end up being an agreement on odds and ends in the central issues that they want to talk about the big issue will be trade no matter how many meetings there are on all of these other topics felt all right john thank you very much for that john hendren live for us in quebec city how trump played choto an interesting opinion piece on al-jazeera dot com

about the deteriorating relations between the u.s. and canadian dia's award winning investigative journalist andrew mitchell says canadian prime minister justin trudeau is conciliatory approach towards has failed miserably and he believes should've taken a tougher stance with chom from the get go a very interesting perspective read it on our site at al-jazeera dot com. and there's another summit that's about to get underway this time in washington japan's prime minister shinzo abbay is meeting president donald trump within the next hour it's a second time the leaders have met in just two months and it comes to just days before trying to do to hold a summit with north korea's leader in singapore before leaving tokyo bay said he hopes to closely coordinate and agree with john on how to approach north korea and let's take a look at some of the main issues with respect to north korea that she. is likely to raise at that meeting with donald trump first and foremost among tokyo's concerns is security missile tests have shown that japan is well within the range

of north korean firepower and. to ensure pyongyang commits to getting rid of such weapons and there's also the issue of abductees over a dozen young japanese citizens were kidnapped by north korea in the one nine hundred seventy s. and one nine hundred eighty s. and social media producer has been following this issue for us how big of an issue is this for the japanese government the issue of abductees or foley it's certainly a highly emotive issue on japanese social media at least on the plight of these a tease is often highlighted in the japanese media outlets as well and give you a sense of how important this is for the government listen to these remarks by prime minister of iran wednesday just before he left for the united states. zero dimensional ahead of this is us north korea summit i will meet president trying to coordinate in order to advance progress on the nuclear issue missiles and most importantly the objectives issues i want to ensure the u.s.

north korea summit will be a success. now he may have been responding to this statement put out by north korean state media on monday saying that japan is bound to be ridiculed by the international community and driven out of history if it persists in escalating confrontation with the d.p. r. k. under the pretext of the already resolved abduction issue failing to a climatized itself to the new situation now the so-called abduction issue started in the late one nine hundred seventy s. and early eighty's when japanese nationals were abducted by north korea to teach japanese language and culture to north korean spy's now as folly mentioned earlier the government has officially recognized seventeen of them but the japanese police say there are more than eight hundred cases of missing people where they simply can't rule out the possibility of north korean abduction they have more than four hundred names listed on their website along with background stories there and with every year that goes by it's less and less likely that these individuals will be

returned home alive since the average age of these abducted ease is now around sixty eight years old here's what me some more moto says about her sister's case. on the set that message my name is me similar motor i've been looking for my twin sister who is missing fifty four years ago at the age of twenty she's highly suspected to be in north korea is one of many abductees i believe that my sister is tenaciously living in north korea placing for help without giving up we would be left behind if trump left out the abduction issue and went ahead with removing sanctions if america wish to benefit from the talks recently three american detainees were freed and when i saw that i wondered why can't america safe them and japan count. now last year president trump and the first lady met around two dozen relatives of the abductees while they were in japan and in a nationally televised televised news conference president trump committed to work

with prime minister to return them to their families and precedent has been set for family reunifications in some cases as you can see from these pictures from two thousand and two north korea and japan have held at least fourteen rounds of talks over this very issue leading to some long lost abductees being returned to japan so let us know what you think and if this should be the biggest issue for the japanese government more than or greater than north korea's nuclear and missile program you can share your thoughts as always with us using the hash tag a.j. newsgroup or message me directly amanda shapiro thank you very much for that and joe let's bring in alan fischer our correspondent in washington d.c. on the charm abbé summit so alan before there's a trump came summit there's a chance abbe summit what message is the japanese prime minister brain to washington. well he's got concerns there's no doubt about that this is the second time that the two of them have met is on his way to g. seven as is donald trump but they felt that rather than just have

a meeting on the sidelines of that gathering this should sit down and talk about specific japanese issues know he is considered to be much more hardline in his approach to north korea than the south korean president and donald trump has forged a relationship with him over the last few months and that he wants to make sure that when donald trump sits down and makes a deal it's not just a deal that looks good for america and americans and for dollar trump space but actually considers the entire neighborhood and japan is at the core of that and he wants to make sure that the key issues as far as japan is concerned are raised at that summit and that includes the alleged abductor and also the fact that north korea has long and medium range ballistic missile program that could easily target cities in japan so there's a lot of growing to cover and he wants to make sure that donald trump is aware of japanese concerns before he heads off to singapore yeah and that's a big meeting the big summit that everyone is waiting for of course the kim summit

in singapore any more information from the white house about how this is all going to unfold or are they keeping mum about this. well they say that the talks that are ongoing at the moment in preparation for the summit are going well you remember that white house official said that it was unlikely because donald trump initially canceled the meeting that it would go ahead on june the twelfth it know piers that everything is accelerating towards that date and then there was a slight fly in the ointment in the last twenty four hours when rudy giuliani who you'll remember is donald trump's past no attorney he has no position in the united states government but suddenly on a trip to israel decided to say that kim jong un came on his knees to beg for the summit that language we thought me trigger the north koreans because they were very upset with the language that john bolton they used before when he made references to north korea and libya and moammar gadhafi but there was no immediate reaction to

that comment from rudy giuliani but the fact that he said that jim cote kim jong un was on his knees begging for the summit and that's the position you want to keep them and certainly suggests that donald trump is going to go with a hard line agenda to get denuclearization of the korean peninsula and he keeps saying that if it doesn't look as if the meeting is going well he will walk out and the one thing the american seem to be forgetting is well is that that cuts both ways so king joan may well decide that he's not getting what he wants and he could also walk zero which would be a diplomatic red face for donald trump at the very least so i think the americans and the north koreans are working very hard to make sure that there is enough progress made maybe not going the whole way but enough progress made to keep both leaders in the room ok allan thank you for that alan fischer life for us in washington d.c. there were news great on al-jazeera if you're watching a slide on facebook coming up next a story about scientists were joining an hour round the world race to discover the

extent of the ocean's micro plastic problem and still ahead on the grades nicaraguans are trying to stop a government. down by staging a national strike will be live in minot what do stay with us. how the weather settle down it's quiet and surprisingly house in a few places not so much in love and but in iraq you can see from the satellite picture and a lot going on so it's so much the forecast thirty in beirut forty four in baghdad the green the showers in eastern turkey in the caucasus and if you like in the mountains north of tara now these terms of come up fairly swiftly and that's true not just in iraq we're down through the gulf states as well they came up you know fairly rapidly beyond forty at the end of may they stay there the focus of doha was

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it's affecting the economy manual rapido reports from nicaragua's capital. well at the busy minute gaggle would be undone open air market in managua 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 walk by out of the out 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 our own people with more than twenty thousand shops and stands the mick gatto audience 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 the way i may

have come up with action as business owners is to apply pressure in a legal way that means declaring civil disobedience and not paying taxes why. 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 take so that we can all went to a place fully. outside the market anti-government demonstrations 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 and export are says the longer the crisis drags on the harsher the impact will be on the overall economy is. why if this conflict continues into the end of the year economic growth will probably drop but a percentage points this would potentially mean more the nine hundred million

dollars in losses political unrest has spilled into some of nicaragua's most. ocular 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 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 me got out of work and manual joins us now live from nicaragua capital money how are things in the country right now in terms of the violence is a situation more stable now. well as you had mentioned before we know that there are at least one hundred thirty people that have been dead another three individuals young men that were killed in the city of june and they just last night we're also hearing of masses of people that are leaving the town of my science

which is about forty five minutes from the capital managua which is where we are right now the city of my sayah has in many ways become a sort of symbol of this resistance against the government of the new order and a lot of the violence that we've seen over the course of the last few weeks has been concentrated in messiah and the contacts that we have on the ground there a lot of them are members of the volunteer medical community tell us that that there is a sense that something is building in that city the people both with the civilian population and anti-government demonstrators seem to be keen on on removing the local police force from there removing the local government officials from the city they've set up a number of barricades and completely cut off the roadways so there's no access from any of the points. to enter the city of messiah we're also hearing reports that all of the different entrances to the to the city of mine i was also being cut off so that's part of this this national act of civil disobedience that many members of the private sector have been calling for to cut off all commercial

traffic into the city as a form of peaceful pressure against the government of president saying that the end of the crackdown on dissent in the country meanwhile the catholic church money has been trying to mediate and trying to find a solution to this crisis has there been any progress on that and. the catholic church did begin a national dialogue with the government members of civil society on may sixteenth but given the ongoing violence the church that announced that they would no longer be facilitating that national dialogue we did hear an announcement by the archdiocese today saying that they would be hosting president then you know they got some time this afternoon to discuss the terms of. that national dialogue between the civil society and members of the government but that's. mentioned before this is a process that has stalled given the ongoing violence and what seems to be a lack of commitment by the government to stop the violence that once again as

claimed the lives of at least one hundred thirty people since the start of this conflict which began on april april eighteenth thank you so much for that update many manual repair know our correspondent live there a new managua nicaragua live not a multi you wall here on the news great taking a look at the different pictures we're getting in this is under sand and search operations continue there. volcano hundred people killed in guatemala after the explosion at that volcano and the search for survivors as you can see continues hundreds and hundreds of people remain unaccounted for and nearly a hundred killed let's not take a look at the other stories making headlines around the world his necke clock in a london new center heinecke. very much first of afghanistan's president has announced a week long ceasefire with the taliban coinciding with the end of the muslim holy month of ramadan the town of and i haven't commented on the announcements that he's been stepping up attacks recently and they've captured

a number of districts the ceasefire does not include other groups such as eisel carita. jordan's incoming prime minister says he will withdraw a new tax legislation that sparked protests in the streets. demonstrations continued for a seventh night in a row in amman the bill's objectors say the tax plan hurts the poor and middle class. and what he. believes is. inspired by the king's letter of appointment we've decided to withdraw the tax trough law says very important law it touches every citizen and all changes of society he didn't take enough time for discussion any income tax law will be a controversial issue we need dialogue to present to each other. president vladimir putin has reiterated that he has no plans to pull troops out of syria anytime soon he's being quizzed about russia's role in the conflict and a range of other topics during his annual call in t.v.

show putin said that russia benefits from its military activity in syria despite announcing earlier that moscow's goals had mostly been reached. in the words an m but our forces are deployed there to secure russia's interest in this vital region of the world which is very close to our territory and they will remain there as long as it's beneficial to russia. in guatemala rescuers have suspended the search for survivors of the volcano eruption to safety concerns hundreds of people remain missing since the disaster on sunday of the whole villages were buried under mud and so far the death toll stands at one thousand nine people the government says face criticism for mishandling the situation and as david most reports now from for you some people have taken it upon themselves to search for their loved ones. trapped in a state of uncertainty the tamal family gathers together to wait for news of their loved ones daughter sons brothers nieces and nephews haven't been seen since the

fire go volcanoes violent a rupture and now more than three days have passed since the deadly explosions and the family is prepared for the worst so what he had on this he say spared. sixteen people died in the house there will be a brotherhood even went to giving just one single house and they all didn't 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 through 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 itself at risk to search for his missing family on tuesday we met others looking for answers in the disaster zone. where you're from where this man was searching for his pregnant daughter i'm going to get me going to. 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 us lattes are still missing but with their 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 is almost more so made i mean there's a lot of folk anik material that is built up we calculate is around fifteen to twenty kilometers with material this material needs to come out and the more material accumulates it will also have to come out this is a recipient to disaster 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. the supreme court of the united kingdom says that norm not in the

strict abortion laws are incompatible with human rights but it also ruled that the organization that brought the case did not have the right to do so and so the court cannot force a change in the law or brennan as the latest for us from the supreme court in london. most observers expected the judges to come down one way or the other in relation to the compatibility of northern ireland's abortion laws with human rights legislation but in fact what the judges decided was that the human rights commission in northern ireland didn't actually have the jurisdiction to bring the case in the first place but that said it was very interesting to see that the supreme court judges felt the issues so compelling and so important that they decided to look up anyway despite the fact that the commission didn't have jurisdiction on the majority of those judges decided even though it's not legally binding they decided that the human rights law is not compatible with northern ireland abortion which particularly in relation to fatal fetal syndrome that is

where i'm going children have a syndrome where it's simply not possible for them to survive through to full term but those people who are campaigning for women's rights so that they will now launch a petition in belfast for a formal declaration of known compatibility notwithstanding what happened here at the supreme court so this this issue is not going away any time soon. or oh that's it for now it's back to fully go thank you very much nic president trump has granted clemency to one woman serving a life sentence for nonviolent drug offenses after a reality t.v. star stepped in and is here to talk a story to tell us thank you folly while alice marie johnson is a sixty three year old grandmother who was serving a life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense that she committed in the one nine hundred ninety s. and trump granted her clemency one week after she met with her when we got there he met with kim carr bastian west who had publicly advocated for her release on the

white house announced the commutation in a statement saying that while this administration will always be very tough on crime it believes that those who have paid their debt to society and worked hard to better themselves while in prison deserve a second chance this is the moment are about to see here when alice johnson was reunited with her family after being behind bars for more than two decades i'm feeling no hanker after nothing. i'm free to hold my family. i'm free to live life. i'm free to start all over i cannot. this is the greatest day of my life i cannot heart it's just bursting with gratitude for what has taken place what is happening to me today i will not waste this second chance in life i believe that god has given me this second chance so that others may one day have a second chance so i have an obligation not only to my family who is waited all of these years for me but an obligation to the people who have been left behind so

thousands of people have used the hash tag alice johnson to share their reaction to her release we've also heard from card asking west who celebrated the decision she says that she'll never forget the phone call where she told her that told her the news that she was getting out of prison and heard screams while they cried together in a short while ago u.s. president added good luck to alice johnson and have a wonderful life now others are using johnson's case to criticize the lack of sentencing reform in the country lexie here says that johnson's clemency is fantastic but it pains her that trump acts on a car dash and advice yet ignores experts on drug policy reform there's others who think that this decision has nothing to do with justice but with popularity instead leon here thinks that trumps pardon of alice johnson has less to do with her situation and more to do with trying to appease and gain popularity among black voters and that's where part of this controversy comes into play the president's

intervention is bizarre to many people because it explicitly goes against a broader policy agenda he's argued before that drug dealers and drug traffickers should face the death penalty earlier this year he said if you shoot one person they give you life they give you the death penalty these drug dealers can kill two thousand three thousand people and nothing happens to them. this move also contradicts the policies enacted by the trump administration's justice department attorney general jeff sessions last year ordered federal prosecutors to pursue the toughest possible charges and sentences against criminal defendants were for reversing barack obama's efforts to ease penalties in non violent drug cases and while obama commuted the sentences of three hundred thirty other nonviolent drug offenders grants income more coming. to more people than the past twelve presidents combined trump has generally only acted on high profile cases brought to him by

associates and allies and former contestants on his t.v. show there are still thousands of other prisoners serving at similar sentences for nonviolent drug crimes so we'd like to hear your thoughts on the story you can tweet me directly at enter chapelle or to see the has tag it in his grid andrew thank you very much more on the guatemala story coming up very shortly on facebook live you'll see how rescue workers they were forced to temporarily stop best efforts as if waco volcano continues to erupt and then what's in a name well explain why protesters and we lying again a neighboring country but first a look at the global way. it

was cool welcome back who does alexander the great belong to the historical figure from twenty five centuries ago is one of a long running name dispute between two european neighbors the name macedonia is unacceptable to greece which has repeatedly brought macedonia as attempts to join nato and the european union but now they are signs of a compromise but tens of thousands of protesters oppose any deal. reports from the northern greek region also known as macedonia. i to the

people of northern greece macedonia the renown is their second national anthem the folk song celebrates an identity they cherish as much as greek innocent self it's not just ancient history they're proud of their great grandparents fought to wrest this land from the ottoman empire these high schoolers have heard the family stories of sacrifice and bloodshed they feel it's their duty to fight to keep the name macedonia exclusively greek the greeks feel they are defending themselves from a peculiar crime the first of a component of their nation hood the body matters we cannot give away our property our historical pride of being greeks and macedonians certain people cannot take what doesn't belong to them and get in on this i think sharing this name will be the biggest forgery in history mastodon is this saw where we stand this don't say that history says it. the archaeological record leaves no doubt here in pella

buried beneath cotton fields lies the four hundred hectare ancient macedonian capital it is from here that alexander the great set out to conquer asia and a few miles to the south archaeologists have found the royal tombs of the ancient macedonian dynasty. such finds do not exist outside greece but the talks between athens and scope here are designed to share macedonian identity the country that has called itself republic of macedonia since the second world war would retain that name with a qualifier such as northern or upper opinion polls suggest three quarters of greeks are against that unless the name is in the native slavic tongue of the yugoslav macedonians greece has reasons to compromise its economy is in tatters after eight years of recession it needs trading partners and former yugoslav macedonia wants to enter the european union and nato cultivating good relations now could give greece a better position in those organizations and then there is greece's real worry the

increasingly tense relationship with turkey their decor as the country emerges from its economic crisis it shapes an area in which it can act and with which it can grow this is because it frees up strength to deal with the real geopolitical geostrategic problems these are not former yugoslav macedonia or albania they come from the east for these greek macedonians however history and identity matter above all else jumps at all costs. and finally on the news great today us present polls rhetoric and policies of anger the muslim community has also this first time dinner at the white house to celebrate ramadan but as i am estabrook reports the event is drawing 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 that 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. well the proposed ban sparked protests and outrage in cities across america the u.s. supreme court will soon begin hearing legal challenges to them last year president

trump 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 commitment 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 trump did strike a more conciliatory note with the muslim community last month when he extended a greeting at the beginning of ramadan but some muslims wish the president would extend that kind of geniality to his policies dion estabrook al-jazeera washington . well that's it for today's news great remember to keep in touch with us at all

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a better life facing a riff and abuse and torture. iraq shiite cleric calls for calm after a huge blast killed eighteen people in his stronghold in northeast. and hundreds are still missing after sunday's volcanic eruption in guatemala now some people are taking for their relatives to the right. so the leaders of france and canada have been busy forming a united front ahead of what's to be a tense g. seven summit in quebec on friday and meanwhile macron justin trudeau both harsh critics of president trump's decision to impose tariffs on steel and on a million they say they will not be intimidated by the united states and warned once again about the dangers of a trade war. some call to pull duty complete books only going to be the measures taken are counterproductive even for the u.s. economy and again for me it's a matter of principle we can't wait to trade war against friends we're all involved

in complex syria iraq and subsaharan reach into different areas of the world where allies we exchange critical information or soldiers stand side by side to defend our freedom and values that we cannot decide in such a context on a trade war or me it's a matter of principle. i think it's been a feature of the relationship that i and certainly emmanuelle have maintained with the president that allows us to be blunt and frank and we have been throughout our exchanges with the president from the very beginning i can certainly speak personally to say that i have consistently stood up for canadian interests consistently demonstrated where we disagree but done so in a polite and cordial context i think that's what canadians have always expected of me and that's exactly what we're going to do well let's go live now to john hendren he's standing by in quebec city enjoying the six against one friday's g seven is

going to be an interesting affair. that's right in the six plus one as they're calling it here it's almost like they're preparing for an intervention where the guy hasn't yet walked into the room and everybody else is talking about him and how they're going to talk about him that's what happened this morning with justin trudeau and emanuel mccrone they're talking about how they were going to talk to donald trump the main issue there is trade trumps tariffs on steel and aluminum of course they have a number of other things that they want to talk about but the trade has just hijacked this whole meeting this week everybody wants to try to get donald trump to back down on these unilateral trade tariffs canada has called them illegal and is taking this to the debbie a t o but donald trump does not seem to be backing down he tweeted just a short while ago in the midst of a tweet storm this morning getting ready to go to the g.

seven in canada to fight for our country on trade he adds we have the worst trade deals ever made so donald trump is continuing to stand by his tariffs that may be a negotiating ploy he's speaking to a domestic audience there his base is really in favor of him negotiating new trade deals and this could just be something he's using to barter because after all he's trying to renegotiate with canada and mexico the north american free trade agreement but we may hear more very soon here. the gathering of world leaders was supposed to be is celebration but instead of highlighting the global economic expansion the talk at this year's g.'s even summit is all about averting the trade with. the great disruptor donald trump and his america first agenda levying tariffs of twenty five percent on steel and ten percent on aluminum coming from allies in canada mexico and europe the trouble ministration has managed to alienate systematically almost all of the allies who would be involved in this so

canada mexico the european union or new additions it's going to be a tense meeting i wouldn't. canada's prime minister displayed diplomatic anger and announced retaliatory sanctions somehow this is insulting to them the idea that the canadian steel that's in military military vehicles in the united states the canadian aluminum that makes your out your fighter jets is somehow now a threat the idea that we are somehow a national security threat to the united states is quite frankly insulting and unacceptable. europe's leaders are also irate and threatening sanctions on a litany of iconic american products from levi's jeans to kentucky bourbon to harley davidson motorcycles. all made in the republican states trump needs to keep his party in control of congress in this year's midterm elections instead of celebrating their usual unity diplomats from seven of the world's largest economies

are scrambling for common ground there was consensus under trump's predecessor barack obama on iran and climate change now there's a budding trade war that threatens to turn allies into adversary but some analysts expect a last minute agreement to avert an escalating trade conflict it's mostly done for posturing and because trump sees this as part of his base is particular the swing voters in midwestern states that got him elected and he wants to show or pretend that he's doing something but again i don't think these tariffs will stick with a family photo of world leaders that traditionally ends the meeting depicts an awkward alliance with the usual show of unity is largely up to the man from washington. trudeau and mccrone this warning on thursday signed an agreement to take a multi lateral approach now that's a bit of

a slap in the face of a president who is taking a unilateralist approach and that is deliberate some of trump's brashness seems to have rubbed off on the other members of the g seven in the way he talks mccrone this morning was was talking was asked about trump's approach and he said look whatever happens here trump won't live forever this agreement and the things that we do here last beyond our lifetimes so they also seem to be prepared to take a hard line at the end of this whole meeting the g. seven hopes to be able to sign an agreement saying we all agree on these various the. the one thing that they're not able to do now is agree on trade and that will be the big issue here all weekend long all right we'll see how it works out. come friday thanks very much john hunter. now the red cross says it's pulling seventy one star out of yemen because of

security incidents and threats concerns a mounting of a possible offensive to take the port of her from. the port is the main lifeline for humanitarian aid into the war torn country and ninety percent of yemen's food is imported and most of it arrives into a pro-government forces backed by the u.a.e. which is part of the saudi led coalition fighting with the rebels have closed in on the city when say they dropped leaflets telling people to rise up against these united nations says any assault on the city will have documented terror and consequences and united states is also warning against an offensive to capture the port or the conflict and humanitarian crisis in yemen is not stopping the increasing flow of refugees and migrants from africa yemen is on the direct route from east africa to the oil rich gulf states the majority of escaping war or extreme poverty in countries like eritrea somalia and ethiopia some pass through the tiny coastal nation of djibouti while others head straight to yemen they then

head north to wealthier countries looking for work in saudi arabia and other gulf states as mohammed reports it can be a brutal journey. their voyage started from the port of bosaso in some audio on tuesday headed for yemen but they'll smuggle a boat never made it to shore these pictures of survivors believed to be each open were provided by the international organization for migration their boat capsized the day break off the coast of yemen a sports city of aden on wednesday from over one hundred migrants on board nearly two thirds drowned forty six confirmed dead and sixteen are missing. it's the latest in a series of similar accidents involving african refugees and migrants trying to reach yemen the iowan estimates more than seven thousand people take a dangerous journey every month it says they face difficult conditions and appalling treatment at the hands of people traffickers there's an awful lot of the

use of these migrants when they come across they don't necessarily have as many resources as those comical west africa do but the my at the those predating on those who pick them up on the road in the take the most sellers and torture them are doing exactly the same thing they're burning plastic bottles out of their skin getting to call their families back home in ethiopia primarily so they'll send whatever they can and quite often it might be twenty fifty dollars is nothing in january last year three hundred people were thrown into the sea by smugglers off yemen a southern province of szabo in the gulf of aden most of them teenagers from somalia and ethiopia more than one hundred of them drowned pushed by war and poverty in the horn of africa many choose yemen because of its proximity and with the hope they can cross into wealthiest table gov countries in sets of better living conditions but in yemen they're often kept in miserable detention centers and face systematic deportation. on saturday one hundred thirty eight europeans were sent back to the

country from the port of. yemen is already devastated by a civil war that's led to what the u.n. calls the worst humanitarian crisis and the chaos resulting from that conflict especially around the streets of baba has made the even more risky for refugees one hundred forty. turkey has suspended a deal with greece which allows us things to return refugees and migrants who have crossed from turkey it's in retaliation for greece's refusal earlier this week to allow the extradition of turkish officers who fled to greece after the two thousand and sixteen let's say this on a little more brought in seen and joins us now from. tell us more about this and what it means. well nick actually this is a dispute between greece and turkey since the failed coup in two thousand and sixteen because those who are turkish soldiers who have been released by the greek

courts today have fled turkey after dick during the coup with a helicopter stolen by the turkish army so turkish government and turkish course have been accusing those soldiers for being in wolves indeed quicksand which was said to be orchestrated by if it's a lucky a cleric a turkish cleric based in pennsylvania united states so basically turkey has asked many times for extradition of those soldiers but courts have denied it and those soldiers have actually applied for asylum in greece the fact is as you know turkey and the e.u. has signed a readmission emigrate refugee readmission deal a couple of years ago which stopped see it regulate immigration to europe also before that in two thousand and one turkey and greece have signed a bi literal deal again in that term.