and in london and the hijacker layla khalid was taken into custody. then at the f.l.b. member in bahrain hijacked a british airliner and forced it to fly to dawson's field to join the other two hijacked planes. this spectacular act of air piracy was masterminded by a senior b f l b leader called where the i had. the p.f. open was born from the remnants of the arab nationalist movement and headed by george bush it adopted the revolutionary marxist doctrine one hundred was one of its co-founders he had become a mastermind of airline hijacking. beginning in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight hundred had put his theories of revolutionary violence into practice by hijacking several israeli and western aircraft but the multiple hijacking in one thousand seven hundred was his most important feed to date it required meticulous even scientific planning at the end never shut it off during the planning stages when he had sent in g.'s and surveyors to those on field they had returned with

a recommendation that their own way could handle modern jets well yeah dad has shit or atilla make and yes he can yak a bin up but i had to get done what you had that spoke in charge or he was obviously the man in charge he told our chief of staff to pull the jordanian tops back he added that if we didn't comply it would immediately blow up the planes within seconds and he emphasized that in english by saying i mean it ain't i remember this clearly. on september twelfth the p f l b removed the passengers and blew up the planes. with his hold on power rapidly disintegrating king hussein formed the military cabinet to finally deal with the anarchy and his country. the cabinet included intelligence officers are now on a board getting ficarra letty directly when the military camp. it was formed on

september sixteenth i became minister of information. told me i would be the principal negotiator with the palestinians he said we would scare them into coming to the negotiation table he never said anything about driving them out of door to. prime minister was peter's conciliatory approach did not win the day the jordanian army had other plans and deployed in full force into the streets of amman and jordan's other cities vicious street battle soon erupted between army troops and palestinian areas fighting for their lives the fedayeen put up a stiff resistance in the face of a jordanian army bent on exacting revenge for all the humiliations it had endured at the hands of the us casualties mounted with the palestinians estimating that around four thousand people were killed most of them civilians in iraq and any. civilians bear the brunt of urban warfare we estimate that we lost around one

hundred and fifty fighters in black september and as for the civilians out of fact exaggerates and says around ten thousand died but the real figure is around forty five thousand civilians killed. in the region out of anger mounted at what was perceived as an attempt at liquidating the palestinian liberation movement promises of military assistance to the palestinians from iraqi forces stationed in jordan failed to materialize or whatever. the iraqi forces stationed in jordan were non-sale to assist the palestinians their duty was to aid the defense of jordan against israel they did allege the palestinians down while iraq kept its forces out of the fighting the rival bathurst government in damascus sought to intervene in syria mobilized its armed forces and sent them into jordan to support the p.l.o. fighters however syrian defense minister half of the assad refused to provide air cover to the advancing syrian army king hussein contemplated the unsavory option of

requesting israeli air support in a bid to beat back the syrian advance first the israelis agreed to mobilize their forces to get the syrians attention. and then and that's all they did actually but they were ready to use the their air force if requested. we managed to get the message back to them that the king doesn't want you to go in on the ground we don't want you to but mobilization is fine don't do anything until we say to that is get ready to to act if necessary but don't do anything and as you probably know this was a dramatic moment. king hussein used his own air force and. stood down the syrian air force he knew that the israelis might go into action if the syrian air force acted on the loudly that can. and you can left it on a milk of hell for that i said the law and i'm not sure what the determining factor

was for us. was it is the relationship with the jordanian regime or any was intended power struggles within syria but it had anything to do with the threats he was getting from the americans and the israelis not to intervene and he was aware of all of this and he may have used the circumstances to his advantage because shortly afterwards he mounted a coup d'etat and came to power. as a position at this time would be a precursor to his future split with the us about effect the palestinians were now on the run. an arab league delegation headed by sudanese president just an ameri and including kuwait's defense minister ship. arrived in the jordanian capital and managed to whisk abby sieged yasser arafat out to cairo. at. the arab delegation came to a man they dressed arafat in kuwaiti robes and smuggled him out check sad was a hero on september twenty seventh one hundred seventy nasr brokered the cease fire

agreement which was signed by artifact and get closer to. the following day nasser died leaving the palestinians without their. i thought the hussein signed a further agreement regulating the presence of palestinian fighters and doors but some palestinians refused to accept the deal. they remained collapsed and in july nine hundred seventy one king hussein continued his attack. the jordanian army overran the remaining p.l.o. bases and positions forcing the palestinians to capitulate. some palestinian fighters chose to give themselves up to israeli forces across the river jordan

rather than surrender to what they viewed as a grim fate at the hands of the duties. and so forth the palestinians would term the events that led to their expulsion from jordan as black september. the p.l.o. had held sway over large areas of jordan now it was drones formed into a broken movement in search of a sanctuary. one effect us leaders otherwise known as abu iyad was determined that the p.l.o. remain a force to be reckoned with despite the defeat in jordan. and tom mammal him sob little that apple yet gathered a group of us and said you have to prove to the world that the revolution has survived. you must show the world the long arm of the revolution. the brilliant announced the birth of

a new group which came to be known as the black september organization taking its name from the conflict with georgia. in november of one nine hundred seventy one at an out of the finance minister's council in cairo black september struck its first blow. the target was this man jordanian prime minister was done on palestinians accused of responsibility for their expulsion from the. cupboard now be on it and if that was one of our group decided to assist and it was by any means possible. there were four of us in the hit team i was under the command of and abbas and seller. they ordered us to go to egypt it was sunday november twenty eighth one thousand nine hundred seventy one three of us waited for was fit in the lobby of the cato sheraton as soon as he entered the hotel we opened

fire on him we shot him fourteen pounds then we gave ourselves up. that was the plan that we were to kill him and then go to try to gain maybe exploit. the role that yasser arafat played in forming black september and planning its operations has always been open to conjecture today al jazeera can finally reveal the truth. out of five new everything. he wasn't a guitar player he was the leader of the revolution and the canister. with a foul mob. used to act in concert with arafat when we were preparing for an operation in jordan arafat came to our camp that didn't meet with us then came by helicopter and met with us while arafat was another room in the camp he didn't want to meet with us but later on he denies it us on. the assassination of tel was just the opening shot of the black september organisation

. a more dramatic operation was carried out the following year at an event chosen by the palestinians because they knew the whole world would be watching. at the one nine hundred seventy two munich olympics black september operatives infiltrated the olympic village killing two israeli athletes and seizing another eleven as hostages. the kidnappers demanded a prisoner swap and the plane to fly them out of western. holding the hostages at gunpoint the kidnappers were transported by bus to an air base and then flown by helicopter to an airfield where two of them were shot dead by german snipers when they went to inspect the aircraft. german authorities

claim another of the kidnappers then lobbed a hand grenade into the helicopter killing all of the israeli hostages to this day one of the principal planners of the operation remains under patent. law death from. the hostages were all army off. we killed only army officers who were dressed in sports track suits the israelis kill unarmed civilians we did not murder children or unarmed civilians but two months before munich the israelis bombed the school killing children so the world must have a more balanced outlook. further acts of violence ensued grabbing the world headlines. in march of one nine hundred seventy three black september gunmen stormed a diplomatic reception at the saudi arabian embassy and. the

siege ensued which ended when the gunmen executed the american ambassador to sudan his deputy and the belgian chargé d'affaires. at the classified u.s. state department cables stated the operation was carried out with the full knowledge and authority of yasser arafat the report also stated one of the primary goals of the operation was to strike at the united states because of its efforts to achieve a middle east peace settlement which many arabs believe would be inimical to palestinian interests. by the end of one nine hundred seventy three the p.l.o. leaders had decided that the black september organization had outlived its usefulness. in the aftermath of the october one nine hundred seventy three war a new political climate had in which yasser arafat now recognized that there was a limit to what military action could achieve and that the palestinians must present an acceptable political program to the world if their liberation movement

was to achieve its goals. defeat in jordan and a series of headline grabbing acts of violence had ensured the survival of the palestinian revolution but damaged it in the eyes of the world. a fact decided that from now on the gun would only support but not supplant his political agenda. but the spoon was not shared by other palestinian factions nor did it prove realistic as the p.l.o. was soon drawn into a civil war in a neighboring arab country. the time had come for the p.l.o. to seek a new and peaceful solution. pursuing a path of diplomacy but what was to turn their agreed look to draw from lebanon into one of the most realistic civilian massacres of modern times women children we

couldn't but she says chronicling the turning story of the struggle for a palestinian our. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. cape town's water running out city all sorts he said people should use no more than fifty liters of time water per person per day about the third of the city's residents live in informal settlements like this one and you can see in about four percent of the water there for generations they were already being collecting a communal taps also as you say the city will reach daisy on the ninth of july that's when they'll turn off the water in the homes to have it be the communal council stay on. the city's taps of fed by reservoirs this is one of the largest. because ales gallop where four years ago they would have been on the twenty five meters of water since then the provinces suffered the worst drought on record.

water saving measures have already postponed day zero bice three months everyone here is hoping the winter will see bring in enough rainfall to make sure they never cop. a landing rick from its indigenous people. plundered for its resources. to now long held resentments attorney violent with deadly consequences you cannot use that as an excuse to go over some impacts people in power travels to south america to discover the finds of the macand cheese and algis and. al-jazeera. us where ever you.

and then are over seven billion live in this war each one a story that demonstrably join. up with many documentaries to open you eyes on as you see it on. i didn't like the site but the feeling of families being separated the u.s. president makes a dramatic turn over his controversial policy of spitting mad men children from their parents. down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up accusations of rape electrocution and beatings at prisons run by the united arab emirates in yemen.

they are now. a police says a nicaraguan why peaceful protesters are languishing behind bars and the dumping ground for electronic waste how the problem is spreading to other countries following a ban in china. the u.s. president has bowed to pressure and signed an executive order to end his controversial policy of separating migrant families at the border with mexico children will now be detained with their parents for up to twenty days but donald trump wants to extend this island fisher reports from washington d.c. you can have a lot of happy people faced with growing outrage a real retreat from president trump on his controversial policy of separating families who enter the u.s. illegally we're going to have strong very strong borders but we're going to keep the families together i didn't like the sight of the feeling of families being

separated. those who enter the u.s. illegally will still be prosecuted the continuation of trumps the zero tolerance border policy but families will be kept together while they wait for a hearing before an immigration judge but the trumpet ministration can't keep children in detention indefinitely under u.s. law in what is known as the florida settlement you have to be placed with a close relative or friend normally within twenty days and those who are in custody have to be kept in the least restrictive conditions possible the executive order that the administration announced today is going to set up family incarceration camps on department of defense facilities around the country but the executive order itself acknowledges that that is not a long term solution and kids will not be allowed to remain in those facilities for the duration of their proceedings trumpet ministration will no seek an auction court hearing to modify that agreement to allow them to detain families for longer if you're really really felt that a clean weak country is going to be overrun with millions of people trumps

executive order is only a temporary solution to the broader problem of immigration reform meeting at the white house republicans argued for measures to stop migrants entering the u.s. and then disappearing without appearing before an immigration judge as president you know you're a real plan if you. take. all the law requires the children to be separated if you let the adults in the country they never show up seems to me that we want to keep the family together and have a parachute off of their core democrats dispute trumps claim he was simply enforcing the law when it comes to separating children from their parents democrats argue it was a choice the uses what amounts to government sponsored child abuse as political leverage a bargaining chip in his effort to force through an extremist immigration agenda the house of representatives will vote on immigration legislation on thursday but with competing ideas on the best way forward there's no clear idea of what might

get enough votes to succeed and this issue isn't about to go away alan fischer al-jazeera washington well as a law professor at the university of michigan she says trump's executive order won't make much of a difference. i think this is a situation of smoke and mirrors by the administration there saying ok we'll start to examine separations but the policies that they've announced are very likely to continue with family separation and they're just trying to diffuse the growing protests rather than to actually solve the problem in many of them are still in the country and some of them are not the administration has disavowed any intention of reuniting those families so some of them will be reunited through the efforts of lawyers an advocate to figure out ways to get through the administration's roadblocks but the administration itself is not lifting one finger to reunite those people and is in fact getting in the way and has said they have no interest in changing what goes on with that twenty three hundred

a stolen babies stolen children the saudi erotic coalition in yemen says it's taken full control of the airport and her data these exclusive al jazeera pictures show deserted streets after locals fled to nearby towns it's a key step in its offensive to push to the rebels from the city the army is now blocking the road between a data province and the capital sana'a an effort to cut rebel supply lines for seven former detainees of prisons run by the united arab emirates in yemen have described what they call systematic sexual torture that told the associated press they were raped and abused by yemeni god's working under u.n. offices but the u.a.e. denies managing or running prisons in the country than the korean reports a window into what's being described as a world of rampant sexual torture impunity these drawings were smuggled out of iraq to run prisons in yemen made on plastic plates with ink detainees held without charge or trial described humiliation to the associated press news agency one

caption in arabic says it's real terrorism and another drawing prisoners being transported in a pickup truck are naked blindfolded and handcuffed. seven former detainee spoke to reporters about what they've witnessed they say rape electrocution and beatings took place at five detention centers including at the iraqi forces headquarters in the country the u.a.e. mission in geneva tweeted that it has never managed or run prisons or secret detention centers in yemen but the accusations don't come as a surprise in march human rights groups accuse the united arab emirates of making arbitrary arrests in southern yemen we have. asked that the u.a.e. is responsible for. over an arbitrary detention. for months many residents demanded to know where their missing relatives are you a

military commanders in yemen have repeatedly denied running secret prisons there. the head of government said it best to go with the u.n. he has continued to flatly deny and he will use again but abuses continue and all the prisoners have. rights to. the three year war in yemen has caused a complete breakdown of law and order especially in the south where militias operate beyond the control of the courts and the internationally recognized government in addition to the disappearances in torture there have been reports of executions and assassinations diana carom by al-jazeera well alex semin is a reporter with the online news publication the intercept and covers human rights issues he says the u.s. is ignoring what's going on. what we've learned in this associated press report is that in m.r. audie run prisons and yemen mass rape is being used as

a weapon of torture and interrogation and humiliation it's a war crime on a pretty epic scale and that the u.s. is turning a blind eye to it completely i know from my own reporting that the u.s. government is not being frank even with u.s. lawmakers about what the u.s. role in these prisons are and so we're a long way from having any kind of public accountability on what's going on in south yemen i mean i find it really hard to believe with the a.p. reporting last year that u.s. officials have gone into these prisons and conducted interrogation i find it impossible to believe that they didn't notice handcuffs on the wall or the equipment you need to electrocute someone it's just implausible so the u.s. is turning a mat either turning a massive blind eye or they're being openly deceptive about the role in these prisons and one thing i would add we just in the united states we just got through a several months long confirmation process for our cia director gina housefull that

centered on her role in bush era torture programs and she told members of congress this is in the past tortures in the past we've learned our lessons but it's quite clear that the u.s. is still heavily reliant on torture as long as someone else is willing to do our dirty work. south sudan's driving leaders are holding talks meet the opiate and the five year old civil war president salva kiir and rebel leader rick michel haven't met face to face since a peace deal fell apart in twenty sixteen leaving mashad to go into exile the opiates helping to mediate the talks tens of thousands of people have died in the fighting and millions have been displaced and so it has more from iraq be in neighboring kenya. this is hugely significant considering how the two leaders badly fell back in two thousand and sixteen during that violence in the capital juba react much are fled the country has been under house arrest and in south africa both sides of the queues each other out of starting that fighting so there's

a lot of bad blood between the two leaders and a lot of mistrust as well to the fact that they have actually come to the south of by an ethiopian are actually need thing in talking that alone brings a sense of renewed hope in south sudan so why would they be talking about going forward we are told that they will be discussing mainly among other things a power sharing do we expect any deal to be signed a lot of south sudanese are waiting and it's going to be interesting to see how all this plays out going forward. very low. optimism levels in south sudan right now because these leaders have met before they have signed peace agreements before but those peace agreements and peace deals have been broken so it's going to be interesting to see what happens in the war in south sudan is also complicated father because now we have multiple fighting groups for various. interests but a lot of people i've talked to are saying that the fact that react much are in

president salva kiir have actually come to the negotiating table actually wheeling to talk that alone may move forward the peace process and give hope to south sudanese who have suffered for such a long time. eritrea's president says he's ready to put a decade's old dispute with neighboring ethiopia to rest it follows ethiopia's prime minister announcing his country is ready to accept the terms of an agreement from eighteen years ago i spoke today reports the peace deal signed in two thousand between the two african neighbors has never been upheld. at the martyr's de memorial eritrea's president on are those killed during its war of independence from ethiopia and welcomed an olive branch extended to his country from ethiopia as a new prime minister. opie's now at a turning point it remains a priority for us to be actively engaged for this reason we will send a delegation to addie's abacha and come up with

a plan for future action eritreans fought and won independence from ethiopia in one thousand nine hundred three but the two sides went to war again in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight over the demarcation line between the two neighbors more than eighty thousand people were killed. but on the losses incurred in time wasted have been huge but as the damage accumulated in things became increasingly in bearable it spurred the wrath and rebellion in the people of ethiopia who said enough is enough the un brokered a peace deal the two countries signed in algiers in two thousand but neither side has observed the troops. strict military conscription laws have prompted thousands of young men to flee from eritrea as red sea coast line for europe israel and other african countries ethiopia's a new prime minister over to start talks with eritrea.