mismeasure from the israeli government has come as something of a surprise given all the talk that had been in recent weeks and months about trying to improve the situation humanitarian economic situation inside gaza for security reasons that have been the argument of the israeli army it has been the argument we understand of jason green glass and jarred cushion of the u.s. envoys who were here recently trying to get some international and israeli support for some sort of restructuring inside gaza economic assistance to try and stave off this security problems and indeed give some traction potentially to donald trump's middle east peace plan yet to be public published instead we have this announcement from the israeli prime minister in which he said he was acting with a heavy hand against hamas because of the continuing use of kites and balloons carrying incendiary devices burning material over the gazan border and into israel east israeli territory where forests and fields have been burnt for many weeks now there have been a good deal of pressure on him to act more firmly from his own coalition partners

but this action will also be felt hugely by the two million residents inside gaza the four hundred or so trucks and day that come to caroms shalem as it's known in israel. as it's known to the palestinians they bring all sorts of goods humanitarian goods food livestock animal feed medicine will still be allowed through but all industrial commercial goods will be banned the gaza chamber of commerce has told us that that will be catastrophic to the gazan economy there will be millions of dollars worth of goods stranded on the israeli side prices will spike inside gaza already gazan unemployment is running at more than forty percent the economy has been teetering on the brink of collapse so we're told by numerous analysts over recent weeks and months this could be a decisive measure and one which could further destabilize gaza. so the common this half hour claims that russia is violating a ceasefire deal as rebel held areas of their city surrounded by syrian government

forces and are living in a time of p.r. and very triad jointly declare they are no longer at war. hollow plenty of sunshine across the middle east normal service really has been resumed here barely a cloud in the sky actually it is going to be dry as we go through the next few days the winds of greater significance i suspect take a look at the temperatures mid forty's to kuwait city and also for baghdad that keen wind that sliding out of iraq pushing down towards the arabian peninsula twenty celsius and by really lovely sunshine here this is the place to be similar valleys as we go on into the middle part of the week so still getting up into the mid forty's there for baghdad at forty six celsius so thirty six the for

a couple of praise here as well the much as he wanted to showers the into is back in style but otherwise it's generally try southeast of pakistan could see a little bit of wet weather now right in the forecast across the maybe potentially more sunshine that came wind continuing here in qatar over the next couple of days hopefully easing off a touch as rick i wanted to wednesday but notice bit of an easterly feed so that my will just pick the humidity up once again meanwhile while this last you draw across southern africa a little bit of cloud into the southeast of south africa having said that eastern side of the country seeing a little more in the way of cloud possibility of one of two showers just around the mozambique channel. with over forty thousand people killed under his rule it took twenty five years to bring him to a court of law but why for so long it was such

a brutal dictator considered an ally of the west. to the congress that the press. al-jazeera unravels the history of trads notorious former president is saying dictator on trial on al-jazeera. for reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera britain's pro breaks that foreign secretary has resigned plunging prime minister to resign is that moment in the crisis or a strong center is the second senior minister to quit in twenty four hours as many struggles to keep her cabinet united over the strategy for britain leaving the

european union. aid schoolboys have now been rescued from a thai cave where there were stranded for more than two weeks for more boys and their football coach are still inside the head of the rescue mission says he needs three more days to get them out and israel has shut down day care about crossing into gaza it's a major economic lifeline in vital access point for supplies in the territory. it's quite to our top story now all those resignations in the u.k. were boris johnson supporters consider him a politician with genuine charisma and a popular touch but his critics say limitless ambition and would do anything to one day become prime minister but everybody agrees is one of the most distinctive figures in british politics one of the phillips takes a look back at his colorful political career. even his enemies in these days there are many would concede that boris as everyone knows him is unique for years he

defied the laws of political gravity playing the clown didn't hurt him it helped him to win election then reelection his mare of london a conservative in a labor city many said a future prime minister. but then this will be advocating but leave boris johnson's surprise many colleagues by campaigning to leave the e.u. he arguably did more than anyone to ensure a victory for. the battle for bricks it was ugly it left scars many cannot forgive boris johnson for using a full statistics and his enemies say for exploiting divisions in british society what do they know the impact of the integration. when david cameron resigned after the break boris hoped to become prime minister but his colleagues deserted him and he had to settle for a foreign secretary he struggled against the perception that he was

a diminished man representing a diminished country at one time. but not when he's foreign secretary not when he has a serious job to do and that's where i think been the clown playing the joke always . it just doesn't work because politics is a serious business where you've got one of the big posts in a cabinet for it just doesn't like you can hack it anymore and i think he knows that he can see that he's losing control he's been written off many many times before not least due to his personal scandals remember he was sacked by michael howard for lying over an affair and everyone forgets that the amazing thing about boris is the sort of teflon is that he has these terrible things often self-inflicted this one is. he always comes back so i would never write a more. ambitious clever boris will still dream of making it to the very top but

he's now a divisive figure both loved and loathed within his party and the country as a whole and part of the phillips al-jazeera london staying in the u.k. police say they still don't know if the death of a woman from the nerve agent. is linked to the attack four months ago on a former russian double agent and this daughter of the one star just died on sunday just over a week after she fell in the name of an england that's a few miles away from seoul's brain where circus cripple and his daughter were poisoned in march star just as shown here on a shop surveillance camera less than twenty four hours before she fell. this latest horrendous turn of events has only served to strengthen the resolve of our investigation say as we work to identify those responsible for this outrageous reckless and barbaric act. the investigation is being led by detectives from the u.k.'s counterterrorism police and network. and they are unable to say at this moment whether or not the nerve agent found in this incident is linked to the

attack on the script. however this remains my line of inquiry syrian government forces have surrounded rebel held parts of the ras city where the uprising against president bashar al assad began seven years ago the siege comes just three days after a russian brokered cease fire was agreed for there are province and opposition fighters say russia has not made good on one of the key promises of the truce saying a hold of reports from beirut. most of the province is now under government control tens of thousands of displaced people have returned to their villages they left makeshift camps close to the border with jordan after a cease fire deal between the rebels and the russian military which has been negotiating on behalf of damascus but there are tens of thousands of others who are still camped out along the border with the israeli occupied golan heights. some of them are wanted by the syrian authorities for engaging in opposition activities it

is risky for them to return without international guarantees. the people here are really shocked from what's been happening lately we can't believe how rebels have been handing over territory to the government with no real guarantees the russians for example guaranteed government forces would leave for towns under the cease fire deal those troops have been left and people can go back they fear arrest and executions and now some of them are under siege the rebel controlled part of the divided city of daraa is surrounded by government troops a few thousand people are trapped inside among them fighters their family members and members of the opposition rebel commander say the russian military is violating the cease fire deal by failing to provide safe passage to those who don't want to reconcile with the state they were supposed to be bussed to the opposition held areas and the norse that evacuation may now happen on tuesday. government forces

are already in control of more than seventy percent of the province either through military force or surrender deals the opposition was in a difficult position the rebels didn't get any support from their regional international allies they were divided and they faced what they described as a scorched earth policy the government and its allies are close to regaining complete control of the province where the uprising against president bashar assad's rule began over seven years ago they have taken most of the areas along the jordanian border except for the valley under the control of the eisel affiliate armed group khaled and they consolidated control over the last strip of the main highway to the syrian capital damascus their target is not just they also want rebel areas in the neighboring province of connector they have the upper hand and the government is on the road to a final victory in the south. beirut six civilians including four

children have been killed in an airstrike by the saudi and iraqi coalition in yemen it happened here in the southwest of the country coalition air support is being used to back a government forces in the fight against who the rebels in yemen wretch of the bed of the highway has been sworn in for a second term as turkey's president that a ceremony and ever that also seems sweeping new powers after a controversial referendum on the role of the president in april last year critics though say the changes changes undermine the strength of the countries the mako see and centralize decision making in the office of the president meanwhile turkey's economy is struggling the currency has fallen significantly in recent months. the japanese prime minister has canceled their upcoming foreign trip as the number of people who have now died from flooding and landslides increased to one hundred fourteen sixteen while others remain missing after record torrential rains inundated many areas of the southwest region pride reports this was

the first day cold water in his father could return to see what's left of his house and possessions he abandoned it with his wife and young children in the middle of the night a stalled waters inundated his neighborhood. we were told to move to safety to leave so that's what we did we took nothing with us except what we had on the new stock on this day he showed us how the waters quickly rose to the upper floor of his house his father can't remember rains like it we're going to cross because you think i've never experienced anything like it. is not a city that is apparent disasters. this part of crash city was one of the worst affected areas here as elsewhere the river simply couldn't handle the incredible surge of water and it broke its banks in three places inundating

thousands of homes and sadly claiming lives with the break in the weather and waters receding emergency teams have stepped up their efforts to look for the missing the rising death toll has already made this one of the most lethal storms japan has experienced in decades at its height a broad swathe of western and southern japan were affected stretching emergency teams to the limit many people couldn't escape the unprecedented rainfall in time and had to be rescued. thousands of people remain displaced wondering when they can go home along the banks of the river rinku russia keep pumps work around the clock to bring down water levels in the coming days for the cold water family rebuilding their lives will take a lot longer. and it's hard to express my feelings in would start so you tells us that he hopes he'll never have to again. bright al-jazeera

a pretty picture japan. of course in myanmar has charged two jailed reuters journalists with obtaining secret state documents both journalists pleaded not guilty to the charges telling the judge they followed the journalistic ethics while investigating reports of the death of. the efface of the fourteen years in jail. rebels in south sudan have rejected a peace plan reinstating opposition leader as vice president saying it fails to dilute the president's strong power base mashal was president salva hears a deputy until two thousand and thirteen when a political disagreement between them the generated into a war that has ravaged south sudan ever since the deal naming rashard vice the first vice president was reached the entire bit in talks mediated by uganda's president you know what i'm listening. longtime regional rivals ethiopia and their

tray are no longer at war as the two countries leader is assigned the declaration of peace and friendship the decision to restore diplomatic relations came during a landmark visit by ethiopia's new leader ahmed to eritrea on sunday priyanka gupta reports. with smiles and handshakes if you o.p.'s prime minister left eritrea and their decades long military standoff behind him at the abbott's visit was high on symbolism but also led to the most significant steps yet to its peace between the two longtime regional rivals at the discovered you don't know where you are now the chances and the opportunities were there for us and we were hoping to use them but they were locked away from us for the past twenty five years twenty five years is not a short time the loss we incurred in the past twenty five years cannot be recovered but today we feel like we have not lost anything we feel as if what we've lost has been regained suffered. the wall that was built between our people against

their will for the last twenty years needs to be demolished the war that took the lives of thousands of waited many years and cost us dearly financially and finally become war without. abuja took the first steps weeks ago by surprise and controversial decision to accept the terms of a peace deal they signed of the year two thousand that ended a two year conflict over their shared border and now the two leaders have decided to take it a step further by opening that border and reestablishing their embassies physio in flights and developing ports. but the forestall to peace has some sobering reminder there are a number of disputed territories along the border and territories will move both directions. and there are going to be communities like resists being finding themselves transferred to another national jurisdiction or divided by

the new order so the implementation is going to have to be handled very carefully the border dispute has taken a toll atreus isolated regime and its focus on the conflict with has the thousands of people flee the country mainly to skip its mandatory military conscription. wants to put landlocked a few back on track as one of africa's spots to score economies with access to eritrea threats seaports but for many it's a coming together of the better force that have raised hopes for peace in the horn of africa. al jazeera. and now the top stories on al-jazeera britain's prober exit foreign secretary has resigned plunging prime minister to resign may's government into crisis boris johnson is the third minister to leave the u.k.

cabinet in twenty four hours as may struggles to keep her officials united over how britain will leave the european union johnson stepped down just hours after britain steve bracks it negotiate to quit in protest against may's proposal to keep the closest possible trading ties with the e.u. this is not a trial we will end free movement we will end the jurisdiction of the european court of justice we will stop sending vast sums of money to the european union every year we will come and the common agricultural policy will come out of the common fisheries policy i believe that is what people they should call when they go to leave and we will deliver in face with the british people. it schoolboys have now been rescued from a thai cave where they were stranded for more than two weeks all the children have been sent to hospital after two days of rescue operations for more boys and their football coach remain in the cavern in chiang rai the head of the rescue mission says he needs three more days to get the other five out israel has shut down

a key economic lifeline into the gaza strip that carry rubble salim crossing is a vital access point for supplies in the besieged territory israel's prime minister says it's in response to palestinian protesters sending incendiary kites and balloons over the border border to burn fields syrian rebels in the ross say government forces have surrounded the opposition stronghold that's the spider russian brokered cease fire to a friday for the province. british police say they still don't know whether the death of a woman from the nerve agent chalk is linked to the attack on a former russian double agent and his daughter just died on sunday just over a week after she fell in the names bree in southern england well those are the headlines i'm going to have more news for you in the al-jazeera news hour that's coming up in about half an hour stay with us coming up next inside story but i.

ethiopia and eritrea no longer at war the one face to face have started a new chapter in his prime minister in eritrea president find the joint declaration of peace and friendship enough but what are the challenges to unlock saying this is inside story. hello there and welcome to the program. it's been an unprecedented few days in the

horn of africa new prime minister made as stark visit to eritrea as capital asked laura for a peace summit the two countries fought a bitter war over a disputed border nearly twenty years ago and they've been sporadic clashes of a sense. at this report. with smiles and had cheeks if you o.p.'s prime minister left eritrea and a decades long military standoff behind him out he atmospheres it was high on symbolism but also led to the most significant steps yet to its peace between the two longtime regional rivals at the foot didn't know or you don't know the chances and the opportunities were there for us and we were hoping to use them but they were locked away from us for the past twenty five years twenty five years is not a short time the last we incurred in the past twenty five years cannot be recovered but today we feel like we have not lost anything we feel as if what we've lost has

been regain. authorities say i saw forty. the wall that was built between our people against their will for the last twenty years needs to be demolished the war that took the lives of thousands of wasted many years and cost us dearly financially and finally become war without death. appiah took the first steps weeks ago by surprise and controversial decision to accept the terms of a peace deal based side of the year two thousand that ended a two year conflict over the shared border. and now the two leaders have decided to take it a step further by opening that border and reestablishing their embassies physio in flights and developing ports. but the forestall to peace has some sobering reminder as there are a number of disputed territories along the border and territories will move in both directions to eritrea and ethiopia and there are going to be communities like resist being finding themselves transferred to another national jurisdiction or

divided by the new order so the implementation is something that's going to have to be handled very carefully. the border dispute has taken a toll atreus isolated regime and its focus on the conflict for the has the thousands of people flee the country mainly to escape its mandatory military conscription. viol wants to put landlocked a few people back on track as part of africa's prosess creek connelly's access to any tourist ritzy ports but for many it's a coming together of the bitter force that every step hopes for peace in the horn of africa. priyanka gupta to zero. let's take a look back on the important events in relations between these two neighbors their train people's liberation front captured us more in one thousand nine hundred one which was then part of the larger federation of ethiopia two years later in one

thousand nine hundred three eritreans voted for independence and joined the united nations becoming africa's newest state at that time but in one thousand nine hundred relation soured with ethiopia triggered by a dispute over their shared border that led to a costly two year war which killed nearly one hundred thousand people then relations improved dramatically in recent months with ethiopia's new prime minister agreeing to the terms of the agreement that ended the conflict ok let's bring in our guest now and joining us via skype from at this hour of a new day program director of a money africa that's an independent policy think tank covering african affairs in london martin plot senior research fellow at the institute of koalas studies and the author of understanding eritrea inside africa's most repressive state and from athens in the u.s. state of ohio abrahams there day executive director of penn eritrea in exile which promotes freedom of expression of i will welcome to all of you how aliyah this is

such a momentous moment isn't it that these two countries how significant was that leader's embrace. it was very significant. especially you know it was not just a closure to two years of unnecessary and brutal war between the two countries and its hundred years of sentiments. it was also it had also power to embrace had a power to heal you know the certain years of war if you have not as a fear of war yet of what if you keep it as if you had. the former you can governments so you know for a person who looks at the faces in emotions of the people on the streets of u.t.m. and the reaction of the people you know it's a bubble and many other place across across ethiopia it doesn't look like he was

a peace process between two countries who had a very bitter war and bribery in the past in the past two decades so it's certainly opened a new chapter because the two countries abraham what do you make of the speed of this turnaround and how have you seen or heard our trends reacting to it all i think it's moved surprised everyone in the press has been very very fast very the pace has been a kind of nobody imagined this kind of past because i've been in this but it's tell me for the last twenty years and then we were most people when i was about to kind of give up what that was from was leadership and this happened at a time when egypt was also kind of facing a difficult difficult time while it's a pet it's not as a kind of face and it's got on for a long time. so deceptive as most of us was to the people sorry the blood was not beautiful and the development of the country just surprised everybody i guess ok

amount of a lot of people by surprise we had fine words from the in eritrea saying the bridge of love has destroyed the border but in reality how much work how much hard work is now needed to implement this peace deal well there's certainly a huge amount that needs to be done there are many many issues and i'm sure we'll explore some of them in the next few minutes but one shouldn't underestimate the huge amount of work that it took to get where we are today this didn't just happen there have been a long history of attempts some by the churches some by diplomats of the united states for example has been working behind the scenes and it's taken a long time to get here but the key issue was the election of the prime minister in ethiopia which really broke the deadlock and that allowed the president to

silence enough or off working in eritrea to say well you know it's a new government we've got rid of the t. p.l.f. regime that agrarian regime which was in charge of ethiopia for so many years and we can now have a new a new beginning but it's taken a lot of time and there's been a lot of arm twisting so how do you what do you think it was that abby was prepared to accept that was about this peace deal that his predecessor so resolutely rejected. i think the major reason why this piece today was accepted by the government you know smart eyes i believe it was done by he was extended the only branch was extended by a person who came to power in spite of the t.p.m. live for the two pm people in front a party that was the forefront of you know the the water that happened with you spock so. the government in syria had this very strong bitter

relations between. a man with with the g.p.l. left and message was received because the government here believe that he was genuine and they believe that if you tell it was not on the front seats anymore so i will believe that i'm going to get out also be recognition that the twenty years of you know the water and the stalemates the status quo was not sustainable and there were also an element of external intervention there were some going on terrorists that have been pushing from outside to to coincide to into the two countries but i think the most important factor here is of. people believe that you know what i believe that he was making this initiative even though i mean there were some danger it was not really new. believe that i mean they could engage with

him without a significant influence from the few dead ok abraham is getting a lot of credit. internationally what presents a s.a.s.e. is should he be getting any credit for this breakthrough as well i guess he also deserves some credit for just does accept and this kind of this offer. out say because we have a very difficult state before this process and it was also good gigs if it was for business as africa and for old ordered you to accept this force is process. so i'll say this come not as an option but it's kind of necessity to do just most of the still minute. if we look at some of the practicalities now we've got the border area but there's no line is there's a demarcated border that exists there so most of what happens with this border and those towns that sits along at the families the people i mean are they going to be handed over to one side and the other we're going to see families divided are we

going to see them reunited what happens now. well you have to go back to the peace deal that was signed in algiers at the end of the appalling border war in which something like eighty thousand one hundred thousand people died and perhaps a million people were displaced and when that took place in two thousand the both sides came up with a formula which was that the border would be adjudicated by an independent panel or set up in the hague but that they would do it x. a clear it bono now it's a latin but of latin what it means is without regard to fairness and justice it had to be done purely legal listicle e according to the existing treaties and international law so that is what both sides agreed to and when the border was finally published a couple of years later. eritrea discovered that it had won the key ton of bud

bates a very small town on the border really not much more than a village and ethiopia was absolutely horrified and that was why the ethiopians then said no no no hang on we now need to discuss this a bit further and the eritrean said talking we have nothing more to talk about the border must be demarcated so the border has now been demarcated by the international boundary commission they said the border goes from here to here and they give an exact coordinates and they did it x. bono without regard to fairness and justice it cut through towns it cut through through towns to perhaps through villages through homestead churches from their congregations but that is what both sides asked for now in the current situation the key issue is will both sides be a little bit more flexible it is of course up to both of them to decide yes that is the international border but it will be generous we'll allow this little area to go this way that will air to go that way because there are big areas on both sides

that both sides can gain. will gain and lose the border gave chunks of land to eritrea chunks of land to ethiopia but what they can mitigate the impact this has on the local populations which are severe. if they want to but that requires a spirit of trust generosity and that is what we haven't had in the past do we have it now i hope so but we will know when that when they get down to the detail ok how leah what do you think when you see abby's process is what ethiopia this fall is what the two sides together is he prepared to continue being flexible and open. i think there's a general belief amongst course that. the border war was not primarily about the border there were economic political ideological and structure of the state state structural. reasons for for the warm and i think to go forward

even though there is a high level of optimism and excitement from all sides and there is into the ism and commitment to pursue that the path of peace and reconciliation. there must be a proper reflection an examination of you know what caused the war what was the underlying problem you know that broader to brotherly people brotherly and sisterly people to the conflicts to a bit better bitter conflict don't result in the days of under some in advance of thousands and the displacement of another another thousand so. right now i think we're in that we're going to face off excitement and enthusiasm and we me. more actions more decisions from most both sides that can consolidate. the peace process ok how they're going to open that because not everyone's excited of anything we look at people in this town of bad may that have been brought up on the

border they lost they've been fighting on the front lines they've got a lot of people lot of people are buried that they are going to be reluctant to be handed over to the eritrean side. i mean the demand for reconsideration received here was primarily coming from the degraded region and you know. you know. for for it to be up the r. and the still made up for a lot was the single most issue that defined its interest or mystic in foreign policy it was not to see important european its impact was mostly visible integral right. and most common if you go if we zoom down it's significantly affected the lives and livelihoods of people living in only of the border so all. the strong demand for resources of the conflict was coming from you know absent politicians from that specific region going to great region

and. so. and you know active simple petitions have been making these demands to the problem for the prime minister for example that's going to jump over to abraham because the president are tracking his use this conflict hasn't he and in the way that he rules the country uses it to justify a brutal crackdown do you think that that might change now. i'm afraid this would be a kind of the beginning of. a long journey because there are lots of outstanding issues and into we need kind of. these people are taking this as a step to cut their improvement that let's have our standing issues of militarization people are expected to have to do this in the military service we have made it issue of resume that in that street was never. released but it got prisoners without dozens of political prisoners in the country now implement the

rule of law implement going to shoot up lots of outstanding issue and i also think that the roads are a very talented special for recess and for it sounds as well. but isn't one of the most socially and economic isolated country in the world you've written about about that fact do you think this is a chance an opportunity for the country to come in from the cold oh i think that it certainly is i mean something has already taken place there is already a letter from the secretariat of the regional organization in the international internet intergovernmental or forty on development this is the actual letter and it says to the eritreans this is happened we'd love you to rejoin our regional organization so there is already an attempt to bring eritrea out of its isolation

but there are also sanctions which united nations brought up because eritrea was backing our shabaab in somalia and was interfering in djibouti and as a result there were sanctions against the eritrean government not against the people they weren't economic sanctions they were military sanctions against the people against the government and it is quite possible that the. the ethiopians who are some of the prime supporters of the of the sanctions regime will now say well look we think these issues have been resolved let's lift the sanctions and if that happens then certainly it could easily go through the united nations the sanctions would be lifted but you know there are so many issues that can trip this whole process up and you know both sides are going to be pretty suspicious of each other you can't have this amount of hostility twenty years of hostility and all these

deaths and just wiped them away in one moment i hope there are no stumbling blocks but one can't be sure that they won't be how will you what are the main issues that we should be looking out for here. when you know when the war happened in ninety eight the power missions between the governments in a smaller and. we're completely different from the partitions that exist now and it will be has significantly changed in the past two decades economically militarily and politically. not dominant the same cannot be said for four. and there were some i'd always called differences for example with opening off the borders and movement of people there would be movement of ideas where just to give one one possible point of contention could be you know if you get has a federal system that's based on identity and it's in the city and the farce one of

the national groups will leave balls sides of the border they have an autonomous region in ethiopia they have their own capital they have their own government the and they have the right to use their language for governments for justice for education on meet it so there are these are a ready existing movement. a farce movement that he manned somehow you know some kind of status within. you know so it could for example you know. it could exacerbate all this nationalist movement to nationalise feelings and demand for recognition a demand for representation in autonomy in u.t.v. ok however he has been mentioned that this particular conflict has spread to other conflicts in the horn of africa in the region we've got proxy wars happening in south sudan and somalia do you think that stability between eritrea and ethiopia

could spread throughout the region. i hope so because. this country has been plain ketones in c. but when someone in somalia if i was in the win against. against against iran's or it country have been playing some or is it going to the country so i believe if this had been sand it also have elsewhere at today they sent this debate in the two countries that it does a secure security and peace in the region in the horn so i believe if implemented properly this could be a kind of again in the region the horn. you mentioned earlier that the u.a.e. and saudi arabia are volved in bringing these two sides together just how heavily is their involvement now. oh i think it is very important is you mustn't forget that eritrea really broke out of its isolation

because of the war in yemen the they joined the saudi and u.a.e. effort against the hoofy they broke their ties asmara broke its traditional ties with iran and it established its relationship with saudis and the u.a.e. instead there are even suggestions that there are some air tran troops in yemen fighting gates that movies they also gave the port of a sub has become a base for the u.a.e. and the saudis operate from there and there are also planes which fly from eritrea to bomb the goofy positions inside yemen so they've been very much involved in this whole process there are also stories human rights watch say that some of the people captured in the yemeni war are then brought to eritrea and tortured so there is a really intimate relationship between the eritreans and what happens on the other

side of the red sea so that has played a big role and the what the first thing that happened was that president assad's went to saudi arabia and while he was there the saudis said to him or why didn't you just pick up the phone to the. prime minister and i said no no i'm not going to do that subsequently after some meetings which took place in the united states at which dawn the animoto who is the african leader for the trumpet demonstration was he's just been he's just been replaced he actually brought some of the trance and the ethiopians together there were discussions there and then subsequent to all of that. president assad goes to. goes to the u.a.e. and is basically i think told really you must move you must not take take your chance you make. deal with with promised abby and there was apparently a lot of money was was put on the plate for him to do so that is i mean i don't

have that confirmed that that is the story so you know everybody has been playing a role the other thing that we shouldn't forget is that today the united nations secretary general is flying to at this hour barber he's going to have a talks with prime minister abby who has flown back from us mara so everybody's getting involved the americans the saudis the u.a.e. everybody is trying to make this happen i'm sure the the african union is also doing what it can and they're all trying to buttress this twenty year long still make no peace no war constantly undermining each other wherever possible is ended and it would take one huge problem off the plate of everybody in the region if it can succeed but as i say there are lots of stumbling blocks as. put it it's a long journey absolutely we will keep following it closely has been a fascinating look at some very big changes that we have seen very rapidly in the

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emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. and language here bill because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that moves us forward to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life it is part of life it's culture. al-jazeera . hello there i'm barbara sarah this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes johnson becomes the second senior british minister to quit as breaks it threatens to tear apart terrorism ase government. loan to safety for more boys are brought out of the flooded cave in

thailand and their lives at the hospital. choking off key economic lifeline israel announces the closure of the main crossing for goods into the gaza strip. with the day's sport including roger federer a storm of the wimbledon quarter finals and closer to a ninth title at the all england club. u.k. prime minister to resign may has lost two key cabinet ministers as disagreements over britain strategy for leaving the european union threaten to tear her ruling conservative party apart first david davis resigned as breck's it minister he was swiftly followed by the foreign secretary boris johnson a leading figure in the referendums leave campaign paul brennan has more. on friday

the british prime minister theresa may announced agreement for a breakfast strategy in which the u.k. would align itself closely with many e.u. rules three days later it's all falling apart the resignation of boris johnson as her foreign secretary goes beyond policy differences this has the potential to become a leadership contest boris johnson was a figurehead of the twenty sixteen campaign for bracks it and he has long held ambitions to be prime minister himself the news of his resignation came shortly before theresa may came to parliament to explain friday's agreement and she was met with laughter and derision from the opposition and stony faces from her own side in the two years since the referendum we have had a spirited national debate the his. way through past years echoing around the cabinet table as they have on prepress tables up and down the country how can anyone have faith in the prime minister

getting good good deal with twenty seven european union governments when she can't even broker a deal within her own cabinet. first late on sunday david davis the man tasked with actually negotiating breck's it with the e.u. chose to resign rather than present a strategy he did not agree with in his resignation letter he wrote the general direction of policy will leave us in at best a week negotiating position and possibly an inescapable one to resubmit a reply i do not agree with your characterization of the policy we agreed on at cabinet on friday i'm sorry that you have chosen to leave the government when we have already made so much progress the internal divisions of the conservative party were one of the reasons the previous prime minister david cameron called the two thousand and sixteen british referendum and the narrow victory for the leave campaign has done nothing to resolve the political gulf between the hardliners who reject the e.u.

entirely and. other members who want to so-called soft bricks it's staying closer to the e.u. but one such hard line a says it's not yet time for this prime minister to quit this is about policy and also about the individual child but the policy needs to get back to what it was before the status quo and after mr davis' departure the prime minister quickly promoted a junior minister dominic rod to replace him whether she will last long enough to appoint a replacement for boris johnson is uncertain paul brennan al-jazeera. well it speak to john the westminster journalist david davis of our stance and it had been rumors about them leaving well for months years really almost since the beginning of this government how potentially fatal could this be to terry's amazing leadership. well it almost had very immediate consequences with a meeting of the rank and file of

a party the so-called one hundred twenty two committee m.p.'s parliamentary backbench m.p.'s she was due to do to appear before them to sell them the virtues of that famous friday deal struck with a cabinet of checkers which was meant to point to which is sort of softer breaks it in business terms anyway and also point to this terrific unity behind which the cabinet as a whole had coalesced in terms of this breaks of negotiation with the e.u. due to kick off probably next week or so with that unity barely made it of course as we know through the weekend it was seen by many that when boris johnson resigned that might have triggered his intention to launch a leadership contest that could have happened this evening at that meeting because all that needed to happen was forty eight people had to send a letter into the chairman of the one hundred twenty two committee saying they want to devoted no confidence in her and so it would be that's just fifteen percent of her parliamentary party well she seems to have escaped unscathed the moment that meeting is over she left to loud applause and so we are told if some of the m.p.

or some of the piece coming out of it rather one of the new cases to general button saying there is no chance now of a leadership challenge she warned them he said that splits in the party could lead jeremy corbin in as the new leader and others said there was dissent but broad support for the moment at least what happened the resignations of david davis and boris johnson have not proved fatal for tourism a so i guess there's some stability . that's some reaction from the e.u. the european council president tweeted a few hours ago. he said politicians come and go but the problems they have created for people remain i can only regret that the idea of bret said hasn't left with davis and johnson but who knows so perhaps some slightly exaggerated optimism there from donald but what does this thing. to the break

between government and the e.u. . well the negotiations go on as they must and will in essence turn a new page open a new chapter in the next week or two after this new deal the chicas deal is put into a government white paper that's now expected sometime next week and is then scrutinized by the you. the copy sticking it can't be stopped it can't be turned back there is an expectation of some sort of trade deal in. britain is out next march and the question is this much vaunted deal struck on friday that. david davis of resigned or will the e.u. even accept it they certainly welcomed the fact that it happened but probably more so for the fact that it indicated some form of unity rather than its substance because of course the breach is a very firm red line of the twenty seven that they felt from the very beginning simply that you cannot cherry pick its way towards

a good economic deal this is pure cherry picking they want free trade but no other freedoms of movement and freedoms of services and so on so on the face of it it looks to the e.u. to do anything but reject it i think all we can say now is unity in cabinet seems to have vanished the e.u. knows that they may well use that against britain in negotiations to come. from westminster. while the resignations of. threes amaze attempt to hold. gether the warring factions of our conservative party may took over as prime minister two years ago after the surprise winner for the live campaign in the bronx referendum led to the parcher of david cameron and the chancellor george osborne his key ally they gave senior roles the leading breaks of campaigners. foreign secretary and putting davis in charge of the new department for exiting the e.u. with those who go in the maze cabinet is likely to be more supportive of her plan

for a softer breck said but a challenge to her leadership is also much more likely barnaby phillips takes a look back now at the colorful political career of boris johnson. even his enemies in these days the rim any would concede that boris as everyone knows him is unique for years he defied the laws of political gravity playing the clown didn't hurt him it helped him to win election then reelection his mare of london a conservative in a labor city many said a future prime minister. but then this would be advocating but leave. surprised many colleagues by campaigning to leave the e.u. arguably did more than anyone to ensure a victory for. the battle for bricks it was ugly it left scars many cannot forgive boris johnson for using a full statistics and his enemies say for exploiting divisions in british society

what do they know the impact of integration. when david cameron resigned after the brics it boris hope to become prime minister but his colleagues deserted him and he had to settle for foreign secretary he struggled against the perception that he was a diminished man representing a diminished country. but not when these foreign secretary not when he has a serious job to do where i think. the job. always. it just doesn't work anymore because politics is a serious business where you've got one of the big posts in a cabinet for he just does not like you can hack it anymore and i think he knows that he can see that he's losing control he's been written off many many times before not least due to his personal scandals member he was sacked by michael howard for lying over an affair and everyone forgets that the amazing thing about

boris's is sort of teflon is that he has these terrible things often self-inflicted this one is. he always comes back so i would never write a more. ambitious clever boris will still dream of making it to the very top now a divisive figure both loved and loathed within his party and the country as a whole to be phillip's al-jazeera london. for more schoolboys have been brought to safety from inside the flooded cave in thailand bringing the total number rescued eight they're said to be recovering well in hospitals that vasant has the latest finally they saw daylight after spending weeks deep underground in a flooded cave the second batch of boys emerged much sooner than expected after a dangerous for kilometer journey to level flooded passages with fully into the hands of cave diverse let flown in from all over the world to guide them out. boys

are being kept in isolation to make sure they didn't get any infectious diseases inside the cave an agonizing wait for their parents who were allowed to see them but not get near to them yet. last night once we successfully completed our mission there was another team ready to place the equipment for us immediately we were able to complete our mission earlier than expected by around four or five hours if the weather stays like this and we're able to prepare ourselves faster we can conduct our operation foster parents feared the worst when their boys disappeared more than two weeks ago after entering the caves just before it got flooded only to be found nine days later and relative good health it was a tough call to make to rescue the boys to console him nor die for this flooded and narrow gate way it could only work if the boys wouldn't panic.