securing the peace ethiopia rolls out a welcome for every try as the old enemies put aside twenty years of hostilities. hello i'm down in jordan live from doha also coming up. police in nicaragua open fire more than two hundred seventy people have been killed in months of anti-government protests. u.s. president arrives in scotland as angry demonstrators protesters working visit to the u.k. . and hung out to dry how the west bank's once lucrative tobacco industry is no longer a money spinner for palestinian. president

doesn't work he's making an historic visit to neighboring ethiopia is the latest step towards reconciliation and peace between the long time rivals last weekend the leaders signed a pact to restore diplomatic and trade ties ending a twenty year military standoff catherine sawyer reports. days optimism for a change in the horn of africa rapid progress is being made after prime minister at the mohammad an expected to be made peace with their retreat and president at their wake he. was given a huge rose welcome when he visited the capital asmara last sunday thousands of their retransmit lined the streets flags flew side by side. these were once bitter rivals whose three year wall from one thousand nine hundred to two thousand led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. both countries. have since been in

a state of what's described as war but peace during their meet in asmara their leaders agreed to normalize relations by fast reopening embassies restoring flights allowing direct phone calls and easing economic ties now president up there where he's visit to ethiopia is cementing the throwing of frosty relations the sudden change to restore ties is surprising and is expected to have far reaching consequences for millions of their retreat and ethiopians who share close cultural and linguistic ties but who've been separated for many yes. well a two year war between ethiopia and eritrea killed about seventy thousand people under space tens of thousands it began in one thousand nine hundred eight near the border town of the disputed area under ethiopians control the two sides for the long one thousand kilometer boundary it ended in december two thousand with the signing of the algiers agreement

a border commission was set up as part of that peace deal but in two thousand and two a un backed ruling granted contested territories to eritrea including bad me but if european refused to withdraw its troops that was until the prime minister came to power in april this year and he since agreed to fully accept the terms of the algiers agreement normalize relations will conference or joins us live now from nairobi in neighboring kenya catherine clearly an historic meeting between the leaders of both countries what are we expecting to happen at the meeting. well daryn i'm being told that right now president is at the presidential palace with. the bay where he's being hosted to a private lunch he's going to head to. in the south of the country this is one this is an industrial city one of the fastest developing in ethiopia tomorrow on sunday. is expected to open an area chain embassy in the capital.

before addressing a public forum at the millennium hall so he arrived as you mentioned about an hour ago was received by the prime minister lots of had and smiles the government had told people to feel peons to come out to the streets in large numbers to welcome him and we've already seen many many people lining the streets of seeing pictures on social media of people you know just cheering on the convoy as they headed to their to the state house as you mentioned daryn this is an historic moment this is the best time that at their work is visiting. in twenty years and all of this has progressed very quickly standing observers as i mentioned in that story that ran there people say that it's only good news for both countries and the fact that it has progressed so quickly and the fact is shows that these two leaders really are committed to keeping this truce daryn and i say catherine things of happened

very very quickly how significant is this development to the rest of the region the horn of africa. hugely significant for stability in the horn of africa these are two countries for status that have that well for years and have been they have really militarized partly because of this mistrust they've had always been on the radio for one case something goes wrong countries have been accused of the staging proxy wars they've accused each other of finding and sparsely sponsoring militias to destabilize. each other so the fact that they are coming together shows that this tensions are going to deescalate when it comes to the economy it's only good news for the people for every chance in ethiopia as well they'll be able to trade freely for example if the opiah will be able to use that port in a retreat to appease

a landlocked country in this twenty year war daryn really a separated tore packed families and communities that share the same cultures share the same language so they're able now to interact freely so good news all around good news for thousands of very trans and we've seen by them coming out to the streets in a retreat on sunday thousands of came out to give a hero's welcome we're seeing the same situation in ethiopia people say that this is what we wanted we wanted peace we wanted this kind of friendship of course it's id days daryn to tell how all this is going to play out in towns of the future in towns all of lasting peace of course we don't expect things to just change at the drop of a hat we don't act that you know we expect that this mistrust this trust is going to be build with time but then again mike i said

a huge huge step indeed daryn all right catherine story in nairobi catherine thank you. know nicaragua a video has emerged of sudanese pleading for their lives as pro-government forces storm a huge. in the capital managua. the footage stream lawyer book shows the students taking cover pleading to loved ones as gunshots were heard in the background been months of protests and strikes across the country calling on president dunn the military go to resign more than two hundred sixty protesters have been killed since the unrest began in april money on assumptions as more from a moderate. well the red cross ambulance was able to finally go inside the premises of the university to bring out the some of the wounded the students wounded in there apparently to journalists as well were able to lease members of the clergy mid negotiated with paramilitary to allow these people to leave however and

not everyone has been able to leave. the university there are students still taken refuge inside that church that is inside the premises of the university and it's still surrounded by paramilitary of course many of these students are terrified that something will happen to them that night also today earlier today in members of the police. unit in uniform heavily armed even with their r.p.g. rocket propelled grenades shooting in the streets of war which is a neighborhood in the future of much of of my now where the capital there to apparently two people were killed there are these policemen if they did their apparently. when they precedented the need of they headed there today with his wife the vice president of. and thousands of followers in this caravan that they took

all the way to mass the president there talking about recalculation and peace however is that. not happening here at the university in the center of mine now where these students were unarmed were pleading for their lives with. paramilitary shooting from another from the other end of the barricade directly at the students u.s. president donald trump's expected to face more protests in scotland where he's on the third and final leg of his u.k. visit tens of thousands of people turned out in cities across the u.k. on friday devoid of their disapproval trump has no official engagements in scotland expected to spend time playing golf at a resort that he owns will not be in baba joins us live now from edinburgh not into donald trump's visit to the u.k. it's been overshadowed by these big protests what do you expect to happen there in scotland today. well daryn in about three

hours from now we're expecting thousands of people to start marching from the scottish parliament here in the scottish capital past the u.s. consulate through the city to a place called the meadows where they gathering for what they call a carnival of resistance including events like toss the welly donald's humorous ways over expressing discontent with his visit to the u.k. illinois is say that it's trying to send a message not just to donald trump but to prime minister trees a million politicians around europe that they reject attacks on migrants and and muslims and that's a topic that donald trump did actually address at the press conference with treason me on friday and the only time really that the two seem to be wildly divergent in their views is he said that immigration had been very bad for europe linked it to terrorism and then said quote they better watch themselves a lot of people out of anti racists campaign is hoping couple much reason may

refuse to to follow she actually defended the history of migration in the u.k. as a whole but she's not very popular here neither is donald trump there's no love lost between him and first minister nicolas sturgeon she's actually in glasgow leading the pride parade today but senior members of her s.n.p. party are among the speakers there are people from lots of different parties environmental groups and so on who will be talking to the crowd today saying why don't trump does not represent this nation the nation which some people would like to be an independent country but which as a whole if you look at the price and the message from most of the political parties here do say rejects donald trump's visit to scotland but he won't be anywhere near the protests he'll be playing golf with his son eric he'll be at the turnberry golf resort on the west coast he's got another one on the east coast where just this week it came out that the the construction there has partially really into sight of special scientific into. local residents certainly do have big gripes protesters

have gathered in small numbers around the golf courses on friday a green peace protest through about a saying don't know trump well below par over the the west coast go for results at turnberry amnesty have done a similar stunt for women's rights so expect to see small scale protests there but the big one will be here in edinburgh all right bob they never thank you betty. at least one hundred twenty people have been killed in southwest pakistan at a campaign rally just weeks before a general election the attacks happened on the same day the former prime minister nawaz sharif was arrested on arrival in the country obviously resulted in jordan has more. even before nala story arrived in lahore on a flight from london to face justice police were responding to two attacks on political rallies on friday in which more than one hundred were killed and many more were injured one happened in moscow in southwestern baluchistan province where

islamic state says it killed a political candidate at a rally the other attack was at a rally in bonn news in the country's north west the candidate there was not physically hurt but he was angry. they say there is a threat to our current iranian i want to ask this television channel that if you have such information you should tell us how do you get this information and where these people come from in the middle of the blind the former pakistani prime minister flew first class to law or where federal police were waiting to take him and his daughter mari him to a prison in roll pending an anti corruption court convicted the sharifs on july seventh stealing money from the treasury to pay for a luxury lifestyle corruption first revealed in the release of the panama papers now us jury has said he will appeal his conviction and ten year prison term sharif has been banned from politics for lunch the judiciary is set on rooting out

corruption impact. politics but neither fact may mean anything to pakistanis who want their government to work for them and are dying to make that happen. jordan al-jazeera for our time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back a senior u.s. delegation tries to smooth over ruffled feathers as it arrives in mexico out of national pride is running high in france on bastille day which is extra special this year more on that stay with us. i. mean the weather. hello and welcome to international weather forecast it remains pretty warm in many parts of europe although we have still call this area of low pressure which has been drifting around for days on end give me some heavy rain across some of the baltic states through into poland now as we look at the forecast well that would

like to see a further rain associated with this system but you also notice temperatures looking pretty good twenty seven degrees all up in oslo in norway in fact the warm air extends all the way up into the arctic circle still pretty warm across the u.k. and through france no sign of temperatures returning to more normal values it stays warm all the way through until almost the end of the month thirty degrees in paris on sunday some storms isolated storms but still quite potent for parts iberian peninsula fine weather across the bulk of the mediterranean with temperatures in the low thirty's for north africa fine pictures in cairo still some very warm across parts of algeria temperatures shows forty three here it could be pushing fifty in a few spots the chances and lifted dust across parts of more central africa down towards more tamia western sahara some big storms across parts of west africa and we'd like to see further heavy rain here and also in lagos nigeria the weather.

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welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here this hour president working is making an historic visit to neighboring ethiopia is the latest step towards reconciliation and peace between the longtime rivals last weekend the leaders signed a pact to normalize ties ending a twenty year military standoff some students are reportedly travel to university and nicaragua's capital managua but pro-government forces surrounding the area have been part of protests calling for president daniel ortega to resign over two hundred sixty people have been killed in the unrest. and us president donald trump's expected to face more protests in scotland where he's on the final leg of his u.k. visit tens of thousands of people turned out in cities across the u.k. on friday to voice their disapproval. mexico's outgoing president is urging the u.s. to quickly reunite families separated at the us mexico border immigration top the agenda of the meeting between and he kept pena nieto and u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh he's leading

a delegation that includes donald trump's son in law and white house senior advisor john on pay or later met mexico's president elect and the slope is open or the united states is committed to making measurable progress that ensures the security on both sides of that border americans must be able to see improvements to better protect our national sovereignty and the safety of our local communities. i respectfully reinforce the importance of the border issue in each of our conversations today now a six year old girl secretly recorded begging for a family at a u.s. detention center is back with her mother. cried while pleading with border agents that drew worldwide attention on trumped so-called zero tolerance policy and undocumented migrants the families now waiting for a date for their asylum hearing. anger at a botched attempt to raise fuel prices in haiti is now leading to a no confidence vote against the prime minister car has been restored to the

streets but there are fears of more violence if. refuses to step down a spokesperson for the president told al-jazeera he's ready to take action to relieve the crisis the reports from port au prince. lingering scars in a city amid deep political turmoil broken windows at a bank from rocks thrown from protesters the charred remains of a cell phone store set ablaze has been restored to the streets but the anger still burns and it's directed at prime minister jack. he is feeling pressure from all sides to step down. after his botched plan to raise fuel prices caused widespread rioting and looting on saturday parliament will discuss the prime minister's future a no confidence vote could mean he's gone but so far he's been defiant haiti's president joe when you go yes there's also a dear pressure to intervene on friday his spokesperson said the president is

analyzing all his options to end the crisis. at this point yes president has a lot of respect for the prime minister but he's also talking to everybody and thinking about what he can do and the president is prepared to take any difficult decision and listen to. in order to hold the violent street protests from a week ago said. government temporarily suspended the rate of increase on gasoline he were temporarily that rate increase through this country into political chaos we asked the government if they plan to re-impose it. this right now it is not the time to hike the gas price again we are focused on the political crisis the people have spoken we have listened. to have everyone back to work and back to normal. but it's uncertainty about what happens next that has an opposition making threats to take to the streets again and they're mad. in the morning what happened last

week was a warning to the president there will be more in the coming weeks it could be a defining weekend for a country where signs of unrest are evident everywhere gabriel is on. port au prince. a senior priest has appeared in court on charges of sexually abusing children. who held senior positions in santiago is accused of raping seven minors he was arrested as part of an investigation examining a network of abuse. france is celebrating bastille day it's national day the president emanuel mccrone the military operating along the shore sully's in paris these are live pictures from there now this year's festivities are extra special that joins us live from the french capital of tasha's so a momentous time for france lead in the world cup final tomorrow just by chance is bastille day today so what's the atmosphere like that.

yes it is a huge. celebrations here in france and as you say it kicks off with the july fourteenth bastille day celebrations france's biggest public holiday just behind big city lots of people have gathered there waving those three color flags because the military parade this annual tradition is making its way down the shelves and is a paris is most famous avenue a little later the french presence emmanuel mark will inspect the troops and then this evening there will be thought i would displays across the country and cities and villages but the party of course will not end there because it starts again tomorrow as france goes through to that final of the world cup it's going to be a huge moment france playing croatia and ever since france be belgium in the semifinal earlier this week i can tell you people up and down the country have been preparing we spoke to some of those people in paris. you're never too young to be a football and he doesn't get better than your team making it to the world cup

final these children say they can't wait to see their team france play croatia. i'm going to get lots of flags i'm going to shout i'm going to go to the show as it is they are somewhere with screens to watch. across paris people are preparing for a final few had. to imagine when the tournament began. during the semifinal we were worried but honestly the only thing we're expecting to stay mr wayne are super excited and crossing our fingers for the team. this is enough plus i love france and i'll be watching i'm not french so it's not about sports for me it's because i love the french business has been brisket this kiosk where anything sporting france's national colors has proved popular. many tourists are buying the french flag and hats i'm amazed i thought it only be the french interested but many people from overseas are supporting friends. with more than two hundred outdoor screens in

france security will be high it's here at the first of the eiffel tower one hundred thousand fans will gather to watch the final on that big screen very this whole area is being transformed into a huge fans are and if frogs weigh in thousands of fans will come here to celebrate on the show was a lazy day. when france last won the world cup in one thousand nine hundred paris is most famous of you was transformed into a street party that seemed to last for days. the winning team became a symbol of multiculturalism today's players were only children at the time star striker killem bapi wasn't even born but for the team the spirit of ninety eight lives on. a field to go to france is a country of many colors and origins we all feel french were happy to wear this jersey i'm very happy to have grown up in france to have french culture even if i left to play abroad early in that way france is beautiful it's how we love it and

how we will always love it. whether or not france bring home the trophy many fans are already proud that the team of made it this far there's no doubt though that if it tree remains the ultimate goal. and of course all these. national celebrations are wonderful for the people taking part but they are a huge headache for french authorities in terms of security and that is why the french interior minister said there will be more than one hundred thousand police officers extra forces mobilized over this weekend more than forty thousand firefighters across the country are going to have outdoor screens people will say i want to cafes balls restaurants you know there will be people everywhere on the street and that of course is something that the afraid to authorities are very worried about france is no longer in a state of emergency but is still a country on high alert all of the touch up in the french capital the tasha thank you. hamas has fired more than

a dozen rockets towards southern israel amid continuing tensions along the gaza border israel says its. system intercepted several of the rockets that were fired shortly after israeli jets targeted sites along the gaza strip hamas leaders say the rockets are meant to deter israel from further action. palestinian farmers have grown tobacco for generations but as jobs of dried up more and more people have turned to working in the unregulated industry the palestinian authority says it's missing out on multiple million dollars of tax revenue every month. reports from the israeli occupied west bank. and they helped his nephews pick the families tobacco crop in the north of the occupied west bank you won't see newsreel for more than two decades but israeli government restrictions on freedom of movement for palestinians forced him to quit his job five years ago part a single source he says the local tobacco industry has to be regulated because

farmers pay taxes. but it's easy money when there are so few jobs around. the palestinian authority then most people would stop growing tobacco they should make jobs for the young generation the university graduates who helped to back up the twenty to thirty dollars a day they studied science and finance and they have to do this to back needs very little to thrive palestinians have grown as in this area for generations but not on this scale they say israel's control of water inland resources means they have little choice but to grow it wherever they can the palestinian authority says unemployment in the occupied west bank has almost doubled to around nine hundred percent in the last twenty years feels like this one used to be used to grow crops like wheat and barley but. before israel building the separation wall in two thousand and two many people in this area used to work in israel but now there are

villages in this area every family is in some way involved in the business. this is one of many small tobacco processing plants in the area. farmers sell their dried leaves to traders for just over ten dollars a kilo. we were afraid the p.a. could confiscate his tobacco says this worker but others say the p.a. usually ignores them because it knows so many people depend only on regulated industry for their livelihood demand for tobacco is high. cigarettes of five times more expensive than those locally produced but it's estimated the p.a. is missing out on tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue a year from the local industry has some way to calculate how much of a deficit the tobacco industry would cover i'd say somewhere between twenty to thirty percent if we control the smuggled and locally produced tobacco. says he and

thousands of other people have no choice but to keep growing tobacco a plant that kills those who use it but one which many palestinians depend upon to survive. in the occupied west bank. it's critically endangered black rhino have died in kenya after being moved to a national park the ministry of tourism and while i've said is early investigations point to sort poisoning as a rhinos try to adapt to the more say on water in the park the surviving rhinos are being closely watched and further relocations have been suspended. all the news of course on the web site there what is on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com . stuff a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera eritrea's president desirous of

work he's making an historic visit to neighboring ethiopia that it's a step towards reconciliation and peace between the longtime rivals last weekend the leaders signed a pact to normalize ties ending a twenty year military standoff. some students are reportedly trapped in a university in nicaragua's capital managua with pro government forces around in the area. they've been part of protests calling for president daniel ortega to resign we're going to turn to the sixty people killed in the unrest marianna sanchez has more from managua. the latest we heard is that. the ambulance the international committee. to finally go inside the premises of the campus were these students were under siege and they have been able to leave with. two journalists and apparently three wounded u.s. president donald trump is expected to face more protests in scotland where he's on

the final leg of his u.k. visit tens of thousands of people turned out in cities across the country on friday to voice their disapproval trump has no official engagements in scotland and is expected to spend time playing golf at a resort that. twelve russian hackers have been indicted. as part of the investigation into alleged interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election they were accused of stealing and distributing information from hillary clinton's campaign the amount of money has led to calls for next week's planned meeting between donald trump and about a mere putin to be called off. mexico's outgoing presidents urging the u.s. to quickly reunite families separated at the us mexico border immigration top the agenda of a meeting between. the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh he's leading a delegation that includes donald trump's son in law and white house adviser jared kush no. later met mexico's president elect and his lopez obrador. hamas has fired

more than a dozen rockets towards southern israel israel says its iron dome system intercepted several of them they were fired shortly after israeli jets targeted sites along the gaza strip hamas leaders say the rockets are meant to israel from further action. francis celebrating bastille day that's its national day. the president emanuel and the military are parading along the shore sallies a paris these are live pictures from there this year's festivities are extra special day before france faces croatia at the football world cup final on sunday. but those are the headlines that he continues here now jazeera after walls of shame states you can see watching by foot. a new series of rewind a care bring your people back to life i'm sorry and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues. to. use distance rewind continues with the silver friends we're going back to

a poor south african neighborhood when using and tradition come together in an annual competition for the people. we want on al-jazeera this is the u.s. mexican border a harsh landscape that's become the focus a bitter debate between the two countries. yes ok ok well built along but always got a place. after the right got it right for. the film we're about to show you the first ad in two thousand and seven it questions a policy that's become even more contentious today.