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. national pride is running high in from some bastille day which is extra special this year. there are as president working is making an historic visit to may bring ethiopia is the latest step towards reconciliation and peace between the longtime rivals last weekend the leaders signed a pact to restore diplomatic and trade ties ending a twenty year military standoff catherine sawyer reports. these 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 be was given a huge rules welcome when he visited the capital asmara last sunday thousands of their reach. lined the streets flags flew side by side. these were once bitter

rivals whose three year war 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 no peace during their summit 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 his 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

and displaced tens of thousands it began in ninety ninety eight near the border town of bab made disputed area under ethiopia's control the two sides fought along their 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 in two thousand and two where un backed ruling granted contested territories to eritrea including me but ethiopia refused to withdraw its troops that was until prime minister came to power in april this year since agreed to fully accept the terms of the algiers deal and normalize relations well catherine sawyer joins us live now from nairobi in neighboring kenya catherine clearly an historic meeting between both leaders what can we expect to happen today. the president and prime minister prime minister. ahmed al currently at the presidential palace where the president. it is being hosted to launch and

just talk about the reaction of the ethiopians in the capital addis ababa daryn you just need to see how many people really showed up in addis ababa as well. at the airport there were so many people many others lined the streets just cheering on the two leaders as they headed to the presidential palace this was darren and thinkable to many ethiopians just a couple of months ago that they would see the president of a retreat out on if you can soil unthinkable for regions as well who also welcomed prime minister a big on sunday in. march a lot of people have been talking to darren saying that they hope this is the beginning of what is going to be a successful and prosperous a friendship so the president is expected this afternoon we're told to travel to

a place called smart this is a city in the south an industrial city that is one of the fastest growing in ethiopia tomorrow on sundays expected to open an embassy and address a public forum so a lot of people very excited about this news cos a lot of people by surprise things have progressed very quickly destroying how perhaps committed this leaders are in keeping this to start as you say castro in this team or in diplomatic relations happen very quickly how significant is this development to the rest of the region the horn of africa. hugely significant this is a region i mean the east african region is a region that has several countries in conflict is speaking about south sudan you're speaking about somalia and i was so the fact that you know one situation is able to be resolved without a lot of problems to be resolved amicably that alone is as good as that. you know

for the security context on the continent so that is a good thing something else is that these two countries have been heavily militarized partly because of the mistrust they have for another have accused each other of sponsoring militias to destabilize one another so these tensions we expect to deescalate it's good for their kaname as world people will be able to trade freely for example if. it is going to start using the poor. in. the landlocked country and this point here was one really that has separated has torn apart oakum you need seasoned families that share the same cultural linguistic . linguistic bad ground and they've not been able to interact freely so now they'll be able to do this a lot of people that we've talked to say that going forward they hope that this is just the beginning of what like i said before it's going to be a very good friendship of course we expected to take time for this trust to be

rebuilt after such a long time but this like you mentioned it is hugely significant and a big step not just for the region. and ethiopians as well all right catherine story there in nairobi catherine thank you. nicaragua students of use facebook to plead for their lives as pro-government forces stormed a university in the capital managua. a live stream shows the students taking cover on appealing to their families as gunshots were heard in the background they've been months of protests and strikes across the country calling on president. to resign and more than two hundred sixty protestors have been killed since the unrest began in a fairly small from managua. where the red cross ambulance was able to finally go inside the premises of the university. bring out some of the wounded

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 feel 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 during that night also today earlier today in members of the police. unit in uniform heavily armed even with the r.p.g. is a rocket propelled grenade shooting in the streets of amman in bull which is a neighborhood in the future of my of of my now well a capital there too apparently two people were killed there are these

policemen if they'd there and apparently. when they precedented that meal of they headed there today with his wife the vice president of honeymoon and thousands of followers in this caravan that they took all the way to mass the president there talking about a recalculation and peace however is that not what was happening here at the university in the in the center of my now are where these students who were unarmed were pleading for their lives with the. paramilitary shooting from another from the other end of the barricades at directly at these students this president donald trump is expected a very small protest 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 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 he owns not

a barber has more from edinburgh. on saturday thousands of people are expected to march here at edinburgh starting the scottish parliament going past the us consulate and ending up at a place called the meadows where there is going to be what they're calling a carnival of resistance now organizers of this event say that they're trying to send a message not just to donald trump but he's not welcome in scotland but to me the british prime minister and politicians across europe saying that they reject attacks on migrants and muslims in fight migration was an issue that donald trump talked about at his press conference with trees in me in southern england on friday saying it had been very bad for europe and saying quote they better watch themselves that's something that's alarms many anti racist campaigners in here in edinburgh they'll be people from anti-racist groups from women's rights groups from environmental campaigners and also representatives of nearly all the political

parties here including the ruling scottish nationalist party the first minister nicola sturgeon herself who is no fan of donald trump has stayed away she's in glasgow leading the pride parade there. members of her party will be talking here as well it's going to be fairly good natured with lots of humorous stunts like her an event called toss the well. donald. friday in glasgow similarly we saw lots of homemade banners at a smaller demonstration in the city center lots of people coming with their own slogans using scottish vernacular to satirize donald trump but also to say that they really rejected many of his policies such as the separation of children from their parents at the border now these protests might not be as large as those in london on friday but they certainly have been supported as well by the national press and as i was saying by most of the politicians here so expect a lot of color and

a lot of anger. twelve russian hackers have been indicted as part of the investigation into alleged interference in the twenty sixteen us presidential election denouncement has led to calls for next week's planned meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin to be canceled towns he reports from washington d.c. . the deputy attorney general said the twelve alleged russian intelligence officers hacked into the clinton presidential campaign and disseminated stolen information the goal of the conspirators was to have an impact on the election in addition the department of justice alleges state election boards were hacked and the details of five hundred thousand voters stolen among those subsequently in touch with what the d.o.j. says was an online persona created by the russians to help spread the information was someone in touch with the trump campaign that person according to the indictment didn't seem very impressed with the information provided and there's no evidence that the person knew they were speaking to alleged russian spies there's no allegation in this indictment that any american citizen committed

a crime there's no allegation that the conspiracy changed the folk can't or affect in any election result. that was seized upon by the trumpet ministration would release a statement that said today's charges include new allegations of new involvement by anyone on the campaign and new allegations that the alleged hacking affected the election result this is consistent with what we have been saying all along earlier in the day donald trump said he would ask about the allegations and i don't think you'll have any gee i did it i did it you got me there will be a period mason here i don't think but you never know what happens right but i will absolutely firmly ask the question and the allegations are allegations possibly never to be proven the accused russians are highly unlikely to appear before a u.s. grand jury to defend themselves over some democrats say the summit should possibly be called off there should be no one on one meeting between this president and mr putin there needs to be other americans in the room secondly the president and his

team are not willing to make the facts of this indictment a top priority of the meeting in helsinki and the summit should be cancelled but deputy attorney generals are just at these indictments were to come as a surprise to all from as he took with the queen roadracing steinfeld briefed the president earlier this week before his trip to europe the al-jazeera washington. but also to come here in al-jazeera including braving the intense summer heat iraqis stand up against rising unemployment and poor services. and hung out to dry out the occupied west bank swan's lucrative tobacco industry is no longer a money spinner the palestinians more stay with us. welcome back will start off forecasts this time in southeastern parts of asia and

a space in north split towards the north some big rainfall totals being reported further south looking largely drawn find obo was a bit surprise. see some heavy rain there and sarong in west papua but basically for borneo for much of java bali all the way through towards east timor and sumatra weather conditions are looking pretty fine the same goes all the up through them in a plane until you get to thailand and then we're looking at heavy rain in many parts of thailand seen some really quite big downpours of rain the same goes across cambodia southern parts of vietnam also seeing some rain and i think really for loose on the potential there for some flooding temperature of twenty nine expected but we could well see some very heavy showers at times then into a strategy of the weather here is just basically dominated by high pressure but under high pressure under clear skies we've had some pretty cold air dubrow which is to the north west of sydney had a night time low of minus five point eight the cold this weather experience there for some flight seventy eight years so those are the daytime temperatures get a little bit warmer for alice springs there you'll notice at twenty three degrees

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back a quick reminder the top stories here on the al-jazeera eritrea's president. is making an historic visit to neighboring ethiopia was 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 trapped as pro-government forces around the university nicaragua's capital managua protesting for the resignation of president. two hundred sixty people have been killed in the unrest. and us 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 u.k. on friday to voice their disapproval. about the standard 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 that former prime minister nawaz sharif was arrested on arrival in the country as a result in jordan as 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 what happened in boston 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 iraq i want to ask this television channel that if you have such an information you should tell us how do you get this information and where these people come from in the middle of the violence 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 life the judiciary is set on rooting out corruption in pakistani politics but neither fact may mean anything to pakistanis who want their government to work for them and are dying to make that happen. in jordan al jazeera. the iraqi government has held an emergency meeting off the demonstrations spread to the capital baghdad protests began in the southern city of basra a high unemployment and a lack of basic services the prime minister body visited on friday hoping to calm the demonstrators d.c.

has this report. it's nearly fifty degrees celsius in iraq's southern city of basra and people have been feeling the heat. the city's unstable electricity grid and dwindling infrastructure fuelled angry protests over the past week. how they know more than a german general here a bustling muslim just. these protests of the oppressed people of we are asking for what is rightfully ours the government should provide clean water. electricity and basic infrastructure these basic needs are the responsibility of the prime minister and the company. demonstrated you burning tires blocking roads as they marched on government installations even attempting to storm a bus or oil facility to protest escalated after thirty year old sad jeff toobin months when he was killed when security forces opened fire on crowds the prime minister hyderabadi flew to buster and met with the city's governor as well as security officials to try and ease tensions. busways iraq's richest oil province

but despite the city's wealth in natural resources unemployment rates have skyrocketed and that's mainly due to most of the jobs in the oil industry being filled by foreign workers rising living costs contaminated water supplies and lack of basic services in the city aggravated frustrations with the government. there are presented of grand ayatollah ali al sistani expressed his support for the demands of the shia majority city a lot. all we can do is show our solidarity with these people in their righteous cause we feel their suffering we are concerned about their difficult living conditions and it's all due to the incompetence of former and current officials the prime minister has vowed to revive the economy which has been ravaged by years of conflict abed is keen to calm frustrations as iraq struggles to build a new government two months after parliamentary elections have been marred by controversy and al-jazeera. hamas has five 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 sides along the gaza strip hamas leaders say the rockets are meant to deter israel from further action. palestinian farmers have grown to back of the generations but as jobs have dried up more and more people have turned to working in the unregulated industry the palestinian authority says it's missing out on millions of dollars of tax revenue each month reports from the israeli occupied west bank. and they helped his nephews pick the family's tobacco crop in the north of the occupied west bank he won't be 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 uses the local tobacco industry has to be regulated because farmers

pay taxes. but it's easy money when there are so few jobs around and. the palestinian authority finds other work 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 tobacco needs very little water to thrive palestinians have grown in this area for generations but not on this scale they say israel's control of water and land 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 not anymore before israel started 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 where virtually every family is in some way involved in the business. this is one of many small tobacco processing plants in the area. dried leaves to traders but 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. 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 tobacco industry. if we're to calculate how much of the deficit the tobacco industry would at 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. some breaking news we're getting here to al-jazeera reports of two explosions in somalia's capital mogadishu witnesses told the reuters news agency that gunfire was heard near the presidential palace we'll bring you more on that as soon as we have it. now france is celebrating bastille day the national memorial of the landmark moment of the french revolution president taking part in the military parade along in paris these are live pictures coming from there now but this is extra special let's bring in the butler who is in the french capital so a momentous weekend of celebrations with bastille day today and in the world cup

final tomorrow tell us what we can expect. that's right it is a huge returns of celebrations for the french as you say starting with this why the forty day parade we've see the parade start you might be able to see the crowd behind me there waving the french tricolor flag it is an annual tradition it is steeped in home consider merrily and french symbolism and later of course there will be fireworks displays and parties across the nation the party won't stop bret because tomorrow france is. there called the world cup final they'll be facing croatia and ever since they qualified by beating belgian earlier this week the excitement has been extremely high here in france when we spoke to some people in paris they've been preparing for the big day. you're never too young to be a football fan and it 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 day to imagine when the tournament began. during the summer a final we were worried but honestly the only thing we're expecting this time mr wayne was super excited and crossing our fingers for the team which 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 square anything sporting france's national colors has proved popular. many tourists are buying the french blags 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 foot 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 huge fans are and if frogs weigh in thousands of fans will come here to celebrate on the show was a leisurely. when france last won the world cup in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight paris is most famous our view 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 full do your 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. well of course there. was a reason i should say a lot of excitement about these two days of celebrations the july fourteenth parade on the world cup final but it isn't momus security headache for french officials now the french interior minister says more than one hundred thousand police officers will be deployed across the country more than forty thousand firefighters all in the name to try and shore up security they're going to be moving two hundred screens people so want to make cafes restaurants and can imagine the sort of crowds there we're talking to and of course everyone wants to wait here that one for twenty years and if they do as we said in that package there will be perhaps up to a million people right here where i'm standing on the shores of the heart of paris

. in the french capital thank you. all the news of course on our website there it is on your screen the address al jazeera dot com that's al-jazeera dot com. the top stories here we're getting reports of two explosions and somalia's capital mogadishu gunfire was heard near the presidential palace i'll bring you more on that breaking news story as we get it here on al-jazeera. president. is 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 normalize ties ending a twenty year military standoff. some students are reportedly tranter university in nicaragua as capital managua pro-government forces surrounding the area have been

part of protests calling for president daniel ortega to resign more than two hundred sixty people have been killed in the unrest we're going to sanchez has more from managua. the latest we heard is that. the ambulance the international committee of the red ambulance was able to finally go inside the premises of the campus where 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 in 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 area of. 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 announcement has led to calls for next week's planned meeting between donald trump and validate putin to be council. houses fired more than a dozen rockets towards southern israel israel says its iron dome system intercepted several of them they were funded shortly after israeli jets targeted sites along the gaza strip i mostly to say the rockets are meant to deter israel from further action. france is celebrating bastille day it's national day president emmanuel micro-loan led the military parade along the shore sillies a paris. this year's festivities extra special just a day before from space is croatia in the football world cup final on sunday. that's the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the cost structure and that sorting by foot. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives other stories.

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