he began. trying to calm a troubled waters ethiopia has a reassuring message about water shortages on the nile river. alabama lakes he didn't quite become a typhoon but it became a tropical storm and you see very obviously on the satellite pictures that cold there which means it's grazed home should give a lot of heavy rain and strong winds to tokyo but basically eastern honshu and it'll carry on moving up to the went data card on tuesday which means at least behind sunshine given that tokyo's in the shelter from the west of the wind it's a nice warm twenty seven similar figures out for the korean peninsula where the more clouds a bright day and slightly warmer in beijing is the two and with reason a good quality as well now in southern china it's the wet season we've had a day off haven't seen a tropical storm go through

a tropical depression but the rains coming back again up through hong kong inland like up one hundred cases back to cause some flooding but i speak spec to this time the is heavy rain in the philippines too of course the monsoon trough was brought to run it through india has been hitting hard on the west and gas and the last twenty four hours really heavy rains just crossed the border from cox's bizarre in which it's over refugee camps at the moment it was to be expected in the smallest in line with where you would expect the monsoon trough to be so this is the wet area of course ahead of it is still hot we've seen forty eight and forty nine in the spotty popped area of russia stands at forty four still in delhi. uncovering full d forensic analysis by the f.b.i. more than twenty years ago reports being written without my knowledge or authorization equipments dirty just a morning being given that's way beyond people to produce the state has announced

its intention to attempt to retry john after trees crimes for which he's already served thirty their evidence was the only physical evidence put really manning in that car the system with juvenile in jail on al-jazeera. watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you right now the wait is almost over for tuesday's historic summit between donald trump and kim jong un in singapore sector state my comp a.o. told reporters that talks between the two countries are moving rapidly he says the u.s. will only accept a deal that includes the complete two nuclearization of north korea united nations

is trying to negotiate a cease fire and gammon to avert an attack by saudi amrani coalition forces on the main port the un's warning attacking her data could mean mass casualties food shortages and diseases as suicide bombers upon himself up in the afghan capital kabul killing twelve people and injuring at least thirty others and earlier security forces of the city of jalalabad so they managed to kill three attackers before they detonated their explosives. as a freelance journalist who joins us live from kabul now so what do you make of the timing of this increase and violence is it about the late up to this attempted cease fire. i think what afghanistan is experiencing are very painful and difficult times afghan cities of become the new front lines the announcement really created some drawing hope among afghans who have been really waking up to these deadly explosions losing their family

members at this stage i think what is clear that afghan cities including kabul or infested with what counterterrorism officials would describe them as sleeper cells . afghan officials close to the president and chief executive officer of the law of the law have been very adamant that now it's up to the taliban to really show some good well in in. some action in terms of the cease fire but what i think is the reality on the ground that this will be a very long and difficult process and the hope here among ordinary afghans is that they will finally be able to have some sort of peace that's missing now for generations of afghans what incentive does the taliban have to participate in any type of peace process. if you look at the ground in terror treated the taliban control there the strongest over the last

seventeen years so one explanation could be did the taliban have also come to the conclusion that fighting is not an option that they cannot really remove the afghan government they cannot defeat the international community but at the same time there's also this realisation that the afghan government can also not when so there is some hold and there's a lot of optimism among western officials as well as afghan officials that afghanistan like many other conflicts could come to end with some sort of a peace deal but at the moment the complications here are how organized are the taliban do they have one voice what about the afghan government what about the lack of unity among afghan leaders and what about the emergence of the islamic state in the country so the moment the people of afghanistan continue to really

not be able to have some sort of peace that they were expecting that they could have so the u.s. had said some time back that they would send more advisors to perhaps. alleviate some of the violence with something like that actually make a difference or is this more for. afghanistan to solve i'm really sorry i couldn't hear you clearly no worries i'll gladly repeat it i said that some time back the u.s. said that they would be sending more advisors to perhaps help get a handle on the situation will something like that actually make a difference or is this much more a situation for afghanistan to handle. what we have seen is a very concerted. campaign by the americans as well as by the rest of the international mission here that has not made a huge difference yes the taliban have lost their mid-level commanders yes they're

losing their fighters but there seems to be no shortage of people wanting to draw on the taliban for various reasons and the taliban have made a very clear shift in strategy in terms of targeting in attacking major cities including kabul and i think from the ground reality from from the perspective of the taliban military field commanders every single international survey is in their favor i don't think the taliban think that they're losing they are strong they're much more brutal they're much more deadly on the other hand the afghan government is too busy fighting with each other over who gets what ministry the morale of the afghan national security forces is very low there are a number of national projects that are still actually pending because of the lack of security but as well as the lack of political unity among the president as well as his chief executive officer of the law the law so afghanistan unfortunately

seems to be having a lot of challenges on its hands it's not only the issue of security what most afghans really want is a state that they can belong to what most people in a city like kaza want is that they should be safe these people are getting killed not in the front line anywhere in the rural areas they're getting killed right here in the capital. in other major cities it seems like what you're describing is a lot of disarray really for all parties involved thank you so much for your insight from kabul we appreciate it. warning the war against iraq destroyed entire cities including mosul and ramadi at least ten billion dollars is needed to rebuild the capital of on bar that's the largest province in iraq but that's a fraction of the reconstruction nationwide. reports. it's estimated that up to eighty percent of ramadi lies in ruins. around three hundred seventy five thousand people mostly sunni muslims used to live here before the capital of the province

was seized by isis fighters. after months of fighting and repeated i still counter-offensive the government announced victory in ramadi in february two thousand and sixteen. almost two and a half years later reconstruction has barely begun iraqis who have returned since then lived amongst the rubble and a struggling to rebuild their lives coming out of the out of. more than a thousand houses were flattened the rest are almost destroyed people are trying their best to rebuild their properties but they don't have enough money no government official has visited us and they listened to our problems they just came briefly before elections and promised us the same promises but nothing happened. the iraqi government says large scale reconstruction across the country hasn't started yet because it doesn't have the money. almost ninety billion dollars is

needed to rebuild after fifteen years of war and chaos since the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three but iraq's allies pledged only thirty billion as a donors conference in kuwait in february it's estimated that twenty two billion dollars is needed to rebuild and province including ten billion for a modern low. thousands of people live in camps on the outskirts of the city as it was not. only asking the government to provide us with their missing documents so we can return home and leave the camp as you can see we are fasting despite lack of basic needs and services and we don't even have cold water to break our fast with. them two million iraqis are forced to live in camps across iraq because their homes were destroyed analysts say one of the reasons the rise of eisel happened in cities like ramadi is because of years in the legs from the shia led

federal government they say cities like ramadi and mosul were what they describe as incubators for extremist ideas to take root amongst a small percentage of the population iraq's sunnis suffered some of the worst atrocities on the eisel the united nations says failure to help iraq rebuild risks fueling resentment and possibly even violence again. baghdad. several large explosions have been heard near the syrian capital and this happened in the fire and need to mask its countryside an area known for its many military bases government media says the explosions happened in an ammunition depot an initial reports suggested could have been caused by high summer temperatures protesters in ramallah are demanding the palestinian authority lift sanctions against gaza saying they hurt both palestinians and israelis they want palestinian president mahmoud abbas to end salary cuts for government workers and they're

demanding reconciliation between the occupied west bank and gaza which means the siege people suffer shortages of basic goods even electricity the u.n. says italy and malta must allow six hundred migrants stranded on a rescue boat in the mediterranean to disembark a charity boat picked up the mostly african migrants in a series of operations over the weekend they include more than one hundred thirty children and seven pregnant women italy's threaten to close its ports to rescue ships and once malta is to take the vessel instead to malta says it has nothing to do with the rescue operation. human chain of around two hundred thousand people has been formed in the basque region of northern spain calling for the right to decide whether or not to remain part of spain as karl penhall reports the show of support may aggravate already turbulent political times. it sounds a little sweet to be a protest song yet it is

a call to vote and before. this demonstration in the basque region marks the start of a new bid for greater self rule or maybe even to break away from spain together. we've been calling for our rights for years and today is another chance to see that there's a significant percentage of citizens who want to vote and this site. last month the armed separatists organization announced it was disbanding that gives peaceful campaign is the chance to draw a line between themselves now violent uprising which lasted decades these are the last links in a human chain that stretches from here more than two hundred kilometers or one hundred twenty miles away right up to the border with france it wound along the highways and byways through one of the richest corners of spain the northeast basque region already has wide ranging devolved powers over health education and

even taxation but some like quantrill of course who came with his grandson dream of having their own country when. there are steps to be taken first self-government and so and then independence i'm not sure what that will look like but it needs to recognize people's rights some days event comes amid turbulent times the dispute over catalonia is attempt to declare independence from the rest of spain is far from over and earlier this month the central government in. dritte was toppled by a corruption scandal the incoming socialist administration has no real george no room to maneuver on key issues great to solve display in various regions. but organizes except it may be along the campaign. different factors mean will close the one chapter and beginning another we must base this new chapter

on democratic values and the will of the people it's hard to see how government leaders in madrid would ever accept moves to carve up spain into independent states . but i ask these basque demonstrators join together they chant the power in the future is in their hands called pendle well just zero victorious spain . if the o.p.'s problem is saying that building the largest dam in africa will not cause water shortages that is in egypt if the prime minister abu akhmed has had two days of talks in cairo he says hydro electricity from the four billion dollar nial river dam is vital for ethiopia's development more now on that historic trunk him summit in singapore so the bill for hosting the talks will add up to twenty million dollars with half of that amount going to security but singapore's prime minister says it's a cost they're willing to pay for regional stability and the summit proves that

standing in the international improves as it standing in the international community so let's take a closer look at this island city state trump is staying at the shangri-la in downtown singapore it's about a ten minute walk from the st regis hotel work him it's believed to be and the presidential suite both leaders have already met the singaporean prime minister at the a stonor working office and the official residence of the president of singapore and on tuesday they'll head to the capella hotel on the tiny resort island of sentosa where the historic summit will take place. speaking to south koreans on the streets of seoul to get their views on these talks and what they hope comes of it. i can tell you how it will get you the most essential thing you said all nuclear weapons should be removed for the sake of will peace and my wish is that the world can finally enjoy peace in the region with the north and south korea lee into reckoning through dialogue. with the. what we are now seeing is

being pushed around by kim and as a south korean citizen i think it's inappropriate we must take a stronger stance a lot of south korean people are disappointed that we're being pushed around by kim jong il and so i hope we see an outcome from this talks that south korea want with the north koreans and kim jong un giving up their arms because the opposition and north korea always acts nice in the front but behind our backs they change their attitude like thugs as we saw in the council the high level into korean meeting just ten hours before and well the sinking of the navy ship. we will see people criticizing the north again when something bad breaks out i'm not expecting much from these talks i don't want to be disappointed in you taking doing the thinking joining us a little bit different from his father's generation he seems to have a more open mind so i hope he embraces progressive talks with leaders from other countries and attends to talks with consistent policies without lying toit's.

the us army is technically protecting our country but i'm worried that they might become indifferent towards our military alliance we're not going to completely unify with the north and the war may not be officially ended so as long as that is the case the us has to defend us. i want north korea to be recognized as a normal country and i hope that people from the two koreas can come and go freely helping north and south become economically strong we have the same people so i really want to see that. take up the headlines for you on al-jazeera why it is almost over for tuesday's historic summit between donald trump and kim jong un in singapore secretary of state mike pompei o told reporters that talks between the two countries are moving rapidly he says the u.s. will only accept a deal that includes the complete nuclearization north korea so we are hopeful the

summit will have set the conditions for future productive talks in light of how many flimsy agreements the united states has made in previous years this president will ensure that no potential agreement will fail to adequately address the north korean threat the ultimate objective we seek from diplomacy with north korea has not changed. the complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the korean peninsula is the only outcome the united states will accept the united nations is trying to negotiate a cease fire in yemen to avert an attack by saudi coalition forces on the main port of the un's warning attacking who could cause mass casualties food shortages and diseases previous efforts to end the three year conflict have failed suicide bomber has blown himself up in the afghan capital kabul killing twelve people and injuring

at least thirty others earlier three suicide bombers stormed the education department in the eastern city of jalalabad security forces there say they managed to kill the attackers before they detonated their explosives the un is warning of a bloodbath in the syrian province of idlib that's calling for a full investigation into government airstrikes on the area which is considered a deescalation zone under an international agreement or that eighty people have been killed during a heavy bombardment in just the past three days the u.n. says the fighting is leaving the two point five million people in and live with no place else to go. the u.n. says italy and malta must allow six hundred migrants stranded on a rescue boat in the mediterranean to disembark a charity boat picked up the mostly african migrants in a series of operations over the weekend italy has threatened to close its ports to rescue ships and wants malta to take the vessel instead but also says it has nothing to do with the rescue operation those are the headlines keep it here on

al-jazeera much more news to come inside story that's next. is the drive to modernize serbia arabia taking a wrong turn more women activists top arrested days before the kingdom lifts the travel and female drivers as economic political and cultural reforms are implemented saudi leaders sending out mixed messages this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program today with me peter davi female activist continue to be arrested in saudi arabia too in the past three days rights groups say mia was detained for posts on social media expressing support for abdul aziz. who's also been locked up citing security forces have arrested seventeen activists in the past month most of them women who've long campaigned for the right to drive a car that is about to happen in two weeks' time the first driving licenses have been astute before the kingdom lifts its controversial men only ban state media has accused the arrested activists of being foreign agents the saudi vision twenty thirty has a plan to reduce dependence on oil but reforms proposed by the crown prince mohammed bin solve are controversial in the religiously conservative kingdom dozens of members of the world family government ministers and business men were arrested in a purge against corruption most were released after giving up their assets or paying

billions of dollars to the government been cell man's pledge to move some. to a more open and tolerant interpretation of islam the reforms affect education law and the courts traditionally controlled by the religious leaders in the country for the first time in history women are being allowed to drive and to attend sports events and almost forty year ban on cinemas and cultural events has indeed been sell man plans to build the world's biggest sovereign wealth fund as well as a five hundred billion dollars futuristic city called neon and a stake in the national oil company around coke is up for sale. ok there we are here we go let's bring in our guests from london we're joined by sami hamed the editor in chief of international interest that's a current affairs analysis magazine with a focus on the middle east and from amman on skype data that mena regional

consultant for equality now and also from london mamdouh selami an international oil economist welcome to you all sami handy if i can come to you first just explain to us for you why do you think women are being detained in this way in saudi arabia . i think what we have to understand is that the whole code allowing women to drive in saudi arabia was mainly a p.r. move it was not designed by mohammed bin so meant to be a sweeping revolution revolutionizing the saudi system however the problem in saudi arabia now is that because they've allowed the women to drive for mohammed bin so man suddenly the activists are asking for more they're asking for too much too quick to change something that mohamed disseminate is not prepared to do and something that he perhaps cannot do because the pace of change if it is too quick it and if invites a revolt it invites protests domestically from the ridge authorities and even from the common people from the common population because we have to be aware of one thing in terms of how these reforms are being received and how liberalisation is

being received it's being seen as a copy paste version of europe in that those advocates of liberalization are seeking to establish almost another acquires a european state in saudi arabia i say this because the european version of liberalization emerged in the aftermath of the bitter war with the church and as a result it relegated the religious influence to the personal and private sphere the arab world the islamic world has no equivalent of this war this britta traumatic war that europe went through in other words islam in the arab world in the islamic world is considered a kin to prosperity to glory to everything associated with the golden age so one would have a been said man is bringing new concepts from europe from america when it's being pushed by the us by europeans by liberal activists there is a sort of reservation amongst arab society in general not just mohammed bin said men so even if mohammed bin send men wants to implement these measures he's very wary that there will be a backlash you have to remember that arab society they are taught that it is the

pious saladin who conquered jerusalem it is the pious it lucy know who was the father of medicine it was the pious hamadan of his early who inspired st thomas aquinas who inspired adam smith the father economics it was the pious and jabbered who established algebra in other words it's all to do with religion. so when one hundred percent man is talking about liberalization talking about moderate islam talking about a more tolerant islam these are rhetorical this is retired that is dominant in europe and in the us and it has been received with much reservation in the arab world so in terms of these activists have been arrested i think the key problem is this mohammed mr mann is basically saying to them don't get over excited i let you drive and i gave you the right to drive but you guys are pushing this case weight and way too fast and this big hysteria that you have you need to calm down so i need to teach you a lesson and put in prison for a bit ok later all the main issues here that we're going to discuss the next half hour or so do you know where these women are what sort of conditions they're living

under and what's the point do you know when they'll be released. well we don't really have any information about where these women have been now i mean in which prison they are we don't have information from saudi arabia and that is a complete sign. from actually the government also about where they are and their why they have been arresting them and in addition eban activists who are still outside the prison or who have not been arrested they are also afraid to reveal any information if they know. the situation is very much alarming in saudi arabia and maybe i i contradict or i am not really supporting what my colleague has said a little bit about you know having all these developments in saudi arabia as it westernized. issues this is not quite true i mean i am living in jordan

and i am all my life i have been i am and out of and palestinian and we have we are witnessing so many amendments and so many developments in regard to the developments of and enhanced meant of women's rights in the region. so if you look at what's going on in tunisia and more typical in algeria even in jordan last year they have defeated. some parts there are some articles in the person or in that penal code where rape laws has been repeated in jordan an independent soul the women's movements in that region they are calling for or for for their rights for years by now it's not really a westernized. issue it is more that women are aware that they are citizens and they need to be treated as citizens in their communities and then in their

societies understood so i just wanted to cut a little. some boiled those down and put them to monticello me remember sodomy if your m.b.a.'s if you're the crown prince and you have a reform program surely a reform program is a whole it's it's it's an entity you can't reform a little bit you've got to reform everything you've got to be more liberal you've got to be more outward looking and that's what we're talking about today i guess is a symptom of that as opposed to a cause of that well. let me start by saying that saudi arabia and its budget depend on the oil resources to the cure of nine comparison and since a discovery of oil in saudi arabia and nine hundred thirty eight they have never diversify that economy now they're out of talking and they talked before about

diversification so vision twenty thirty is another name for value diversification. using reducing dependence on oil in their economy still i don't think that the reform program covered by vision twenty thirty will achieve much i must admit it's a step in the right direction but i don't think it will at cheve bunch add certainly not in the short tail for instance when the vision was launched to sixty and. it included a clues that said they need to create ten million jobs because unemployment among the young in saudi arabia and the saudi population is very young indeed they needed ten million million jobs before twenty twenty i don't

think that will be at chiva been in even it twenty years short of expelling expecting it's out of saudi arabia then you are talking about reforming the oil in the city the talk has been for the last more than fifty or sixty years and they have not achieved much they are still dependent on oil and they are still excessive in their spending of the oil wealth of saudi arabia ok you talk about education. and you find that their universe it is order more of them on the up gear that they'll produce people who are employer been in that one give her this century ok sammy hamdi let's put that point to you it occurs to me that raising a voice is an offense but it's not being codify it as being something that we could that we could number that we could label because for example one of the women

drivers her lawyer has been detained as well simply for talking about this in public so if you go public about the issue what's going on there. i think peter this is nothing new this has been the arab world for the last thirty forty fifty years i mean if you're talking to me as an arab this doesn't feel like anything strange this is what governments have been doing for ages this is doing it just across the border in most of the arab countries this thing these things take place as well i just want to mention peter in terms of the honorable guest who said that you know that is not the problem the westernization i'm not saying that i'm talking about the perception people are perceiving this as a westernization as mohamed listen man trying to bring in western a zation and even if we talk about personal experiences living in jordan or the like we should be aware that there are some very important signs about the resistance to liberalization that is taking place in the arab world think about the elections after the arab spring in the first free and fair elections who dominated it was

islamist leaning parties they're the ones who dominated the liberals were very very far behind look at the reaction to this turkish drama on netflix their religious editorial which is taking the muslim world by storm why it doesn't have any special hollywood epic scenes it's only because the the the hero is somebody who believes his success comes from god or comes from his religion in other words this is there it's deeply rooted in society and the reason why i say this is because the implementation of liberalization as it's being advocated today is counter to what many people in the arab society want in other words it's coming in as you have to think about it why is liberalization in the arab world according to many arabs according to many muslims it is the result of a rabid colonial oppressor who came in and demolished and islamic empire that had deviated from islamic principles so in other words liberalization today is simply the victor imposing their own values on a people that i'm societies are saying look you have a ready made recipe for success it is in islam and islamic principles if we're talking about women's rights islam guarantees human rights pursue it in the

framework of islam doc a framework of liberal to a solution which has an aura. of.