lauren i think the political aspirations of this visit include trying to demonstrate to the u.s. president on. the importance of the so-called special relationship between the two countries to show that the u.k. has more to offer the u.s. than simply as a conduit to the rest of europe and the hope of course that some progress can be extracted on a possible trade deal between the u.s. and the u.k. . a lot to achieve so there is a real effort in the engagement so they lined up the first two days to pomp and pageantry at every turn short of a state visit dinner at burnham palace the birthplace of winston churchill with the prime minister breakfast with her country retreat checkers in the morning and then of course with the queen at windsor will it all work will donald trump is a president notoriously flighty with his favors he's professed support for breaks it for the idea of a trade deal but on this visit has already questioned the direction of breaks it talks and negotiations saying he's looking forward as well to seeing boris johnson

his old friend that's the foreign minister who resigned from to resume a cabinet earlier this week so some points of potential difficulty there in talks between them to be ironed out of the get anybody can confidently predict just how much of anything the u.k. stands to gain. hasn't been kept away from the protests. well it's difficult to imagine controversy ever being very far away from donald trump and certainly few here will forget the series of slights and embarrassments that have characterized the u.k. u.s. relationship since he took office at the very beginning to resume a the first world leader to visit him at the white house they emerged hand in hand he chose that very day to announce his muslim travel ban then last summer criticizing the actions of london's muslim mayor after those terror attacks in london calling it pathetic calling them pathetic and then broadcasting on twitter.

propaganda videos put out by the fascist right wing group britain first more recently of course as i said questioning bret to negotiations and saying on this visit the perhaps his easiest meeting will be on monday with vladimir putin and that is just to name a few that it will be people on both sides in both teams desperately hoping there aren't too many surprises ahead thank you very much. for watching our sara live from london still to come the future of iran's oil economy evidence that the international markets a shining tehran following u.s. pressure to find other suppliers. a win for activists as israel's supreme court spares this bedouin settlement in the occupied west bank for demolition. and many has his sights set on the coming of well champion. syrian government forces and their russian allies have raised the national flag

over darrow's old city an area that's been held by rebels for years it's a hugely symbolic moment in the more than seven years syrian war. senate harder now . it's a highly symbolic moment in syria's ongoing war did our city was where it all began back in two thousand and eleven the first protest against president bashar assad's rule happened here and the old town rebels who are besieged have now surrendered after an almost three week long government offensive the choice to raise the national flag near the mosque was no coincidence it was the focal point of the demonstrations the loss of did our city has sparked emotions among many and the opposition by the service there was an interview with fellow sivan years since the revolution began after all the sacrifices that were made the regime is raising its flags about buildings in the city and other places as well this is affected the

people badly people are depressed and disappointed but the revolution is in our blood and it will continue to run in our veins was these were the scenes of the incident that after seven years ago it was protests that spread to other areas was. serious to democracy were met by bullets fired by security forces. was there was a lot has happened since the protest movement turned into a war hundreds of thousands of people have been killed the syrian government with the backing of iran and russia now controls sixty percent of syria after steadily recapturing territory it lost to the rebels over the years the northwestern province of idlib is where most opponents of the i said regime live and defiance

remains. we lost everything our land in our house but the spirit of the revolution lives with us we haven't lost hope even if we lost we hope that all syrians will unite our revolt. and god willing their regime will form. the revolution will remain if the regime captured or rock just like it captured aleppo and homes even if it controls all the opposition areas the revolution will continue just like in the past we managed to revolt despite the presence of security checkpoints everywhere for the opposition losing the birthplace of their uprising is not the end of their struggle against what they call oppression but there is little doubt the latest military gains are yet another turning point in the government's efforts to crush the rebellion. beirut and its international says it has evidence to prove prisoners are being killed tortured and disappearing from secret jails operated by soldiers from the u.s.

in southern yemen the rights group says what's happening there could amount to war crimes has previously denied similar allegations from our choudhry has more. al-jazeera obtained a voice recording late last year of a man who said he'd been held prisoner in southern yemen operated by so which is from the united arab emirates. there are various methods such as the use of electric shock waterboarding as well as forcing detainees to strip naked this is how they torture us in different prisons they use different methods amnesty international says evidence from more than seventy families government workers and prisoners all show crew and unlawful practices in prisons run by amorality and yemeni forces some of these detention facilities are not actually official. what we and others have in our investigations is that there is a network of secret detention. the most egregious violations are actually.

a coalition of countries led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates has been fighting heathy rebels for more than three years to back the government of president months or hearty the who has created a humanitarian crisis and pushed millions of yemenis to the brink of starvation secret unknown you even detention centers in five governorates in southern yemen are detailed by the report says they say there are credible allegations of deaths in custody of missing detainees of torture and what's described as egregious detention related violations which cannot be justified under any circumstances other rights groups have made similar allegations and all of the warring sides are accused of human rights abuses. saudi arabia has just announced pardons for troops disciplined for their conduct in yemen saudi state media didn't specify their crimes amnesty is calling for suspected criminals to be put on trial and for the

united states to suspend cooperation with the u.a.e. including ending weapons sales america choudhry al-jazeera. earlier we spoke to andrea screed who's an assistant professor in defense studies at king's college london he told us both saudi arabia and the u.a.e. have been accused of war crimes before it's not the first time we have now a very long string of different reports from international independent watchdog. and different n.g.o.s who basically document how the u.a.e. and saudi arabia have conducted their military operations in the countries that we have a long list of different war crimes that were committed but apart from the war crimes that happened in operation we have these allegations which i think are very very plausible and are very credible about how they use a network of dark black sites that are actually extrajudicial prison sides where

people are being detained tortured and apparently even killed this is not something completely new i mean the u.a.e. run similar cams within their own countries and we've seen since two thousand and eleven there has been a purge of opposition and political people who are close to political islam people who've also been subjected to torture detention without any rule of law and disappearances so this is not something entirely new and these these allegations are very credible some of iran's biggest oil customers appear to be bowing to u.s. pressure to curb iranian imports after withdrawing from the twenty fifty nuclear deal president donald trump has been urging importers of iranian oil to find alternative suppliers iran remains defiant and is threatening to stop tankers leaving the gulf area and hunt reports. iran exported little more than a million barrels of oil a day before the nuclear deal and its top four customers were in asia nucleus sanctions were lifted iranian exports have now more than doubled but these four

asian nations still consume a big share that goes some way to explaining the significance of reports that india japan and even south korea heeding the u.s. demand to stop importing iranian oil and why iran is now threatening to block the strait of hormuz the vital seaway for the world's number one or oil exporter saudi arabia as well as around other oil producing rivals in the gulf. donald trump with the truth from the iran nuclear deal two months ago we will not allow our regime the chance death to america to gain access to the most deadly weapons on earth he warned countries to halt iranian oil imports by november when new sanctions start and threatened u.s. financial restrictions that could make accessing crude oil even more difficult u.s. allies in asia and heaven to consider their close ties with the u.s.

against the need for a reliable flow of oil financial expert to reuters and bloomberg was civis is quote shipping and industry sources who say asian countries are being swayed by trump's thrifts the sources report india's oil imports from iran slowed by almost sixteen percent in june some oil refineries in india and in japan have began scouting alternative supply is and september oil cargos from iran to japan could be the last . south korea has already made cuts of thirty percent but iran's a number one customer china is locked in in trade war with the us china sea is it won't comply with u.s. sanctions on iran but others will be looking for a new supply is an opiate reason lucian last month championed by u.s. allies saudi arabia allows oil producing nations to boost production and sure in

countries in the middle east at least are ready to make up the iranian oil shortfall which brings us back to iran and its threats to block the strait of hormuz it could account for an apparent softening of the u.s. stance on iran this week speaking from the united arab emirates secretary of state mike pompei or signaled the possibility of sanctions exemptions saying the u.s. is open to requests for the tough u.s. midges due to start in november to be waived the former pakistani prime minister now as sharif is said to return to the hall where he's not in to be taken into custody sharif was ousted by the supreme court in july twenty seventeen he was sentenced last week to ten years in jail on corruption charges related to the purchase of luxury apartments in london sharif hasn't appeal his conviction and has been based in london where his wife is ill in hospital a court in turkey has sentenced seventy two people to life in prison for their role

in violence during the failed coup attempt to years ago the defendants were accused of killing thirty four people of the season control of a suspension bridge in istanbul in twenty sixteen simcoe similar reports. this verdict has a significant importance for turkey as they stumble bridge right behind me was the flashpoint of the clashes on the night of the failed coup attempts two years ago on july fifteenth it was then renamed as life fifteen martis bridge as thirty four civilians got killed on the night of the famous core temp that was the first place the coup plotters closed down the roads and their prisons coal to his nation to take to the streets and challenge the crude plotters is stumble citizens walked to the bridge that night since the failed coup attempt at least one hundred sixty court cases have been filed against the coup plotters and more than two

hundred fifty people lost their lives across turkey that night and at least two thousand people got mourned it and since then turkey has been ruled by state of emergency and that these hundred sixty thousand people have been sacked due to their illiterate blinks with the. group which the government says was the owner of the failed coup attempt. israel's supreme court has temporarily blocked a demolition order for a bedouin community in the occupied west bank. was set to be cleared despite growing international criticism of the move the village consists of mainly makeshift structures of tin and wood which the israeli authorities say were built illegally harri force it has more from west jerusalem. well this is the very least a stay of execution for the people of a bedouin community of nearly two hundred people in the occupied west bank it did seem that a long threatened demolition was impending with the moving in of the heavy machinery

of the israeli state the israeli military in recent days as they seemed to be preparing the way for that demolition to take place there had been a legal judgment by the israeli supreme court at the end of may which said that such a demolition would be illegal and then last week there was a petition lodged by activists which said that an alternative plan that had been filed by them to the israeli civil war forty's allowing for coming to be made into a proper permanent community with plumbing and electricity that that had not been fully evaluated and accounted for and so they were petitioning against the demolition the supreme court has not accepted that but it hasn't dismissed it either and it says there needs to be a hearing on that question no later than or just the fifteenth western governments have been european governments have been petitioning or at least arguing for this not to take place there have been a number of diplomats from occupied east jerusalem traveling out to this community

to try to attract attention to what's been happening here so this is by no means a permanent solution it may just be a delay to the demolition but it does give activists a little more time as they try to get the israeli government to change its course of action on this village. the news hour live from london still ahead a new house and i mean that there is a hero's welcome back at base for the time navy seals who helped to rescue twelve schoolboys and their football coach from a flooded cave. in suspense people are angry a prime minister that so far has refused to step down and protesters with the man he does. to a port au prince a story coming up. and this lady is close to turning around what's been a miserable summer sport for germany we'll have the details shortly.

hello there there's not a great deal of cloud showing up on our middle east chance to tour at the moment we can see the winds feeding down from the north the picking up a little bit of dust as they do say but the showers mostly are in the far northern parts of our map around down mati and also in the west as well we're seeing quite a few showers make their way down from parts of russia into georgia and into azerbaijan and i think this is the region we're likely to see more showers as we head through saturday as well a bit further towards the south and here in doha the temperature or hour around forty three degrees at the moment we are seeing some winds coming from the east that's the direction that drags in or are humidity so it's still quite sticky forty two forty three degrees will be our maximum as we head through the next couple of days for the south coast of iran more cloud here as you would expect at this time if you might give us a little bit of drizzle times as well dentals in southern parts of africa and here

we've just got a bit of cloud along the far south coast that's giving us a fair amount of rain though and also bringing in some rather strong winds it's working its way towards the east and as it does say is going to drag down the temperatures so capetown no higher than around fourteen or fifteen degrees as we head through the next few days and they could be quite a good deal of cloud around as well that system gradually pushes up the eastern coast as we head into saturday durban is looking quite. of opinion and wits that take that view is no point to make an argument that i have no basis in fact or knowledge and esteem chamber of two banks i live in every important thing is an examination of the ideas the thinkers the theorists and the leaders so a lot of people see them as victories for me to infer from that i haven't seen victories for anybody search for itself in a few years a new series of head to head coming soon on al jazeera i got a briefing today from

a man named steele who has been out there working with the security forces a veteran about salvatore's war sent to iraq you seem to be without portfolio doing whatever it is that he wanted to take interest and x. about in counterinsurgency while this interview was going on with jim steele there were these terrible screams about pain and terror but what was his mission and what legacy did he leave searching for steal his iraq. one of the top stories homeowners there are some nature leaders are disputing u.s.

president donald trump's claims that the that he persuaded nature leaders to agree to a big boost in defense spending putting crisis talks in brussels. trump is currently in the u.k. for a four day working visit he's just left for a bed in palace where he's due to meet british prime minister to resume a thousands of protesters have been running against his visit in the capital london . syrian government forces and their russian allies have raised the national flag over darrow's old city the birthplace of the uprising against president bashar assad. haiti's prime minister is facing a vote of no confidence for and days of violent demonstrations spot by plans to raise fuel prices. is ignoring ignoring calls to step down before saturday's vote several people have been killed in the violent protests which forced the government to reverse its plans cameron is on the is in the haitian capital port au prince.

protesters again on the streets unlike the demonstrations over the weekend these remained peaceful the police closely watched the crowd and shut it down before the demonstration could grow in size the protesters say they will be back to underline their demand for the resignation of haiti's prime minister. the prime minister's trying to hold on to power his government in crisis after his call for sharp fuel increases nearly a week ago set off the protests he spoke briefly after meeting with the head of the parliament he gave no indication of any plan to step down. this morning i met with the head of the national assembly joseph lambert and we talked about our common interests and how we can move forward from the current crisis. has only been prime minister for seven months he had never held public office before there is now a growing consensus here both with the business community and also with the poor

that his government is weak and his days in power are numbered. a vote of confidence has been scheduled in the parliament for saturday but there isn't hence pressure on the prime minister to step down before then. a change of government won't fix anything the problem is the system it's rotten and can't bring change on its own we need to change the whole political system otherwise there's no hope for haiti. i hope the parliament votes the prime minister out of office we need a government that's more representative and a prime minister who can bring people together. more protests are expected in the days to come some haitians worry that if the prime minister refuses to go it could provoke the opposition and raise the risk of even more violence for now most here believe it's not a matter of if but when. joins us live now from the haitian capital tell us about the latest in these demands on the promise to step down as in this thing

that's all that. well by all accounts he has no plans to step down but there is intense pressure continues to build against prime minister napolitano. the pressure is intense and it just thursday morning here in port au prince the opposition held a press conference where their message was clear they're calling for more protests on friday. more protests which is typically the objective. to push the prime minister out of power but so far is shown no indications he plans to step down amid this growing economic and political crisis i want to put the lid on the state something. about the risks of continuing to protest they cannot convince that they need to. know there is deep worry here about

continued protests the streets of haiti are port au prince the capital are pretty calm right now but if you see over my left shoulder there that used to be a bank and you can see all of the windows that are shattered that's from the violent protests that happened over the weekend here and there is real worry in this city and really throughout the country that these protests could become violent again. it's fairly calm on the streets of port au prince but that could change at any moment and there's a real sense of that here the roads are not as busy because fred primarily people are not going out on the streets unless they really have to also the airport is very busy because a lot of people are trying to leave the country ahead of the next coming days let's remember the parliament is going to have a no confidence vote against the prime minister on saturday there's real worry that the next twenty. for the forty eight hours or so could be very tense in this country so listen people are moving forward here but there is

a lot of suspense and a lot of worry about what could happen when sunset starts to fall here when it starts to get dark the streets get very empty very quickly and that's just because people are worried they rely on the thank you very much indeed. war and the government demonstrations being planned in nicaragua despite two hundred sixty four people already being killed in nearly four months of unrest human rights organizations accuse president daniel ortega of ordering troops to use grenade launchers against protesters areas sanchez has been meeting grieving families in the capital managua. the family of eighteen year old alexander min thus i say he disappeared after taking part in a protest in may his mother might get the death says ten days later she got a call from the coroner's office she was asked to formally identify alexander's body by the world as it was the letters that i never imagined this would happen

that i would hear that the doctor told me both he died of natural causes then and that he got scared and had a heart attack eighteen year olds rarely die that way so my little went to an independent forensic doctor for a second opinion singapore to fix. and he said my son was strangled to death. but ready to then filed the complaint with me that i was permanent commission for human rights the group say it's been overwhelmed by such reports that. on wednesday the organization of american states described the situation in the ghetto one as grave. in costs that are there. considering the deepening and increasing deterioration of the grave human rights crisis in nicaragua the enter american commission for human rights calls on the international community to demand nicaragua immediately puts an end to repression and arbitrary detentions and all other human rights violations. but the new guy now when government dismissed the

oas report as biased. nicaragua rejects the report it was rushed prejudiced and lacks objectivity it requires a professional attitude to report the truth about what's going on. the government says the protests aimed to topple president there. here at nick at i was national university students and other government opponents have been entrenched for more than one month the government accuses them of being subversive a threat to peace. but the opposition accuses police and pro-government paramilitary forces are firing live rounds at protesters this week has seen some of the worst violence since the protests erupted nearly three months ago. we had i was long time president than a lot of data has rejected calls to hold early elections the opposition is just as determined but many here fear what's to come. with more teenagers like

alexander are likely to be caught in the crossfire of the country's political crisis. men know when to get out. the u.k. government has released a strategy document outlining its latest plan for brics in negotiations with the european union the so-called white paper was presented to parliament by the new brics it minister and chief negotiator. it proposes that the u.k. adair's to e.u. rules on the trade of goods and diverged on financial and other services it says the right to free your citizens to live and work visa free in the u.k. should end the e.u. has always said it went to breach any deal that prevents the free movement of people. now we've set forward a proposal that protects people's jobs protects people's livelihoods delivers on our commitment for the hard no hard border and green was management but crucially delivers on the voter the british people to take back control of our money our laws

and our borders. a german court has ruled that catalonia is formally to countless bridged a man can be extradited to spain on charges of misappropriation of public funds but he rejected a request to send him back to spain on more serious charges of rebellion the court decision is yet to be approved by the prosecutor's office which damone was arrested at the german danish border following a european arrest warrant in march accusations relate to nasty is unauthorized referendum on catalonian independence china says it is still working on its countermeasures against the us after the trumpet ministration added more tariffs in an escalating trade war washington is now proposing a ten percent levy on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods last week it imposed twenty five percent tariffs on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese imports which beijing immediately countered our china correspondent adrian brown has the latest from beijing. well on thursday we heard from

a spokesman for china's commerce ministry here in beijing this is a regular weekly briefing given by the ministry but of course in the current climate this briefing has a whole new significance he said there were no plans as far as he knew for any talks between china and the united states to try to resolve what could become a very complicated and protracted trade dispute he also said that china was still working on its counter measures against the united states and he once again denied the china forced foreign companies here in china to hand over their know how they're intellectual property as a condition for doing business here in china now of course at the moment china exports far more to the united states than it imports this means that it's going to be harder for china to hit back as hard as the united states is hitting china at the moment and that has led to speculation among some analysts that the chinese

might start harassing u.s. companies here in china stepping up inspections but of course the chinese have to be careful in that regard because some of these companies like boeing starbucks mcdonald's apple employ thousands of chinese workers in the meantime the media here in china is being told to be restrained and measured in its reporting i think the government wants to avoid any instability something that will cause panic on the markets which of course both dropped on wednesday so the word to the media is to not to get too excited to take the heat out of this debate and not to criticize in particular president trump directly. time navy seals who helped to rescue twelve schoolboys and their football coach from a cave have returned home to a hero's welcome the seals were mobbed by family and friends after touching down at their base near the capital bangkok they received awards for their part in the dangerous mission to rescue the boys from

a deep underground cave complex the commanding officer says the rescued boys could go on to be a force for good in thai society to merely look on has more from. the boys and the coach are expected to stay in hospital for the next few days this is while three of the boys are being treated for a lung infection while the rest are going through laboratory exams and forty after that they will be said home where they will still be under observation for about thirty days now during a recent press conference the thai government expressed gratitude and and basically extended its banks not just to its own forces but also to countries that extended assistance and sent their expertise over here this was a very complicated mission but it turned out quite successfully and even if it's something that happened a few days ago thailand is still in a celebratory mood while experts say this is how humanitarian agreements are for and this is going to be seen as a test case in future frameworks in future emergency assistance that will be

conducted not just in southeast asia but all across the world through come on and. it looks like there's a whole bunch of boats coming up times square. explores the aat mixed with virtual reality that's transforming time square in new york. on the government is slightly distracted at the moment you can probably guess why more details with.