history of a revolution. historic visit eritreans president in ethiopia just days after the two neighbors announce an end to a long running hostilities. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a chilling account of police violence in nicaragua hundreds have been killed in months of anti-government protests. mass demonstrations are planned for donald trump's visit while back home there are calls for him to cancel next week's meeting

with russia's president. out to dry out the occupied west bank swanson lucrative tobacco industry is no longer a money spinner for palestinians. as president doesn't work he says history is being made during his first visit to neighboring ethiopia in more than two decades it's 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. well a two year war between ethiopia and eritrea killed about seventy thousand people and displaced tens of thousands it began in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight near the border town of bought me a disputed area on the ethiopians control the two sides force 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 the peace deal and two thousand and two u.n. but fruiting granted contested territories to eritrea including bad me but ethiopia refused to withdraw its troops that was until prime minister ahmed came to power in april this year since agreed to fully accept the terms of the algis agreement and normalize relations catherine sawyer has more from nairobi. president after work he received a rousing welcome from ethiopians who lined the streets cheering on the two leaders as their convoy headed to the presidential palace the president is also expected on sunday to open. an embassy in the capital as well as address a public for a lot of ethiopians and eric and say that this is only good for the progress of the two countries they hope this is the beginning of what is going to be a prosperous friendship it was unthinkable to many of them just a few months ago that you know they would see

a president out there working on if you can so he hasn't been to a few people for the last twenty or so he has chosen thinkable as well for retreat and still see a prime minister in asmara the capital of the retreat as they did last sunday when he visited and this is also good news for the stability of the region this is a region that has several countries in conflict in the fact that you know this one situation as has been resolved amicably is just good for probably just good progress for the overall security context i here in this region the world countries have also been. very heavily made it militarized partly because of the mistrust they have for one another so we expect that situation to all those tensions rather to also be you know deescalated a lot of people watching the developments very closely of course it's still early days we don't expect you know this trust you know i mean. we don't expect this

trust to be rebuild a very quickly but a lot of people say this is indeed a very huge step and a very significant one as well. as in somalia have detonated two car bombs near the presidential palace in the capital mogadishu witnesses say they heard gunfire blast and saw a large plume of smoke rising in the area police say the devices were detonated after a gunfight between police and man comes just a week after an attack on the interior ministry compound in the city killed at least nine people. what was meant to be three days of peaceful protests in nicaragua us turned into a bloody scenes with pro-government paramilitaries surrounding student of us in the capital some of the students remain trapped in a university church where they've been live streaming that ordeal mara sanchez has more from managua. i don't know how much students behind barricades at me get i was national university. unarmed and terrified.

this student leaves a recorded message from her mother. because it was on this day of national strike they were now to defend the country but if our where and i mean and now they think they're going to die and. just a few hours before government supporters followed the lot they got in a caravan commemorating the day in the sand east of evolution thirty nine years ago and helped topple dictator and especially from us in that we thought they just spoke about peace. it took so much for most of nicaragua to find reconciliation and now there's a group of nicaraguans who don't accept it and that's because inside of them they carry the poison of hatred. or they the supporters say he's done a lot for he got our album out he's given most poor nicaraguans a guarantee for their rights to food education entertainment and freedom of

expression. but is the caravan left the city of the size uniformed police armed with rifles an r.p.g. opened fire in the neighborhood of money leaving two people dead. more than two hundred fifty people have died in almost three months of civil unrest pension reform protests turned into opposition calls for us resignation. letter on friday thousands of the guy once showed the president their support his cabinet the . day i was. right x. our government supporters at the baggage national they're straight. right. off the main highway the capitol menow and most of the country remained mostly shut down streets empty gas stations banks shopping malls most businesses closed. but at the immigration offices a queue of people maybe fearing for their safety by getting passports for her two

sons. they could be kidnapped just because these students and i want to protect them. three months of bloody protests and nearly did silent with civilians dying in the crossfire then one hundred twenty people who disappeared and hundreds wounded among them some of the students trapped under the gun they say of police and paramilitary but in a century. now saturday marks the third anniversary of the iran nuclear deal the u.s. a sense withdrawn from a warning it will reinstate full sanctions in november but european leaders are trying to work with iran to save the landmark deal. reports. that it was a moment many doubted would ever happen signing of a nuclear deal with the ranch. three years later its survival is very much in question european powers are doing what they can to keep the deal live but the

challenges may be too difficult to overcome the iran deal is defective at its core president donald trump denounced the u.s. withdrawal in may describing the deal as one sided under the agreement to rend limited its uranium stockpile and nuclear program sanctions were lifted allowing to her on to resume trading oil and gas on the international market. in germany britain france along with russia and china want to make the deal work without the u.s. but. talks in vienna have let a little progress and the may all face american sanctions if they continue to do business with iran but it ran on the other hand wants guarantees much more your cash for your boat what we want from the countries who signed the agreement is a clear commitment that preserves the rights of iranian its this includes all economic factors because the agreement is a nuclear political and economic deal at

a nato meeting in brussels trump seemed desk confident as never that iran would in the future return to the negotiating table and now they're having a lot of problems and their economy is collapsing but i will tell you this at a certain point they're going to call me and they're going to say let's make a deal and we'll make a deal but they are they're feeling a lot of pain right now. trumps administration accuses talk ron of what it calls destabilizing behavior in the middle east which is one reason why iran and more specifically its role in syria is expected to feature prominently during trump's upcoming summit with russian president vladimir putin iran has said the u.s. can't be trusted to keep its commitments for now tucker and is focusing on maintaining the core of the agreement and trying to limit the impact of the sanctions katia llopis of the young al-jazeera but more protests are planned against u.s. president donald trump 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 while not in barber joins us live now from any but not him so donald trump's visit to the u.k. service shadowed by these big protests what's happening there today in scotland. well don't you can see behind me a sizable crowd right next to the scottish parliament here in the in the scottish cup it's all there's a first speech just getting underway by a politician but it's not just the politicians here it's rights groups right across the board really environmental groups women's rights groups and the racist groups who gathered here as they did in gaza go in smaller numbers on friday evening to say that donald trump and his policies are not welcome we're expecting it to be fairly sizeable it is very peaceful and with that we marching through the city center past the us consulate towards a paul called the meadows for what they're calling a carnival of resistance it's mainly scottish protesters but also some u.s.

protesters as well and i'm joined by one of the u.i. rolf you've actually been based here in scotland for a couple of months now what motivated you to come today i was actually very excited when i found out there would be a march against donald trump because i was worried that people here didn't care and so i figured if they're doing it i have to support it and i've been very involved in the organizing and publicizing of it and getting things going yeah i mean there's a range of issues that you can see the farmers yes it's one thing for you to really need to change over time during. this morning it was reading the donald trump disrespected the queen of england i understand we're not under royal rule anymore but you can still be polite and he wasn't so that's really got me fired up today but generally it's the children that are being separated from their families at the

mexican border what he's allowing his agencies to do to destroy the environment in the united states and then presumably the rest of the world his trade wars his racism the rise of white supremacists and white nationalists in the united states that he is telling around with instead of denouncing. it's all of it it's everything i'm not sure if you followed the media in the last twenty four hours and the government reaction here a minister a cabinet minister has actually said that the protests in london embarrassed themselves i was presume you don't agree i don't think protesting is ever embarrassing i understand that some people think that. the sort of tit for tat he's going to act like a child so we're going to act like children. is embarrassing but i don't find that embarrassing at all i mean at some point you have to speak in a language that he might understand and i think that's a language understands the language and embarrassing and and being ridiculed for his juvenile mentality thank you so much for your time well i just

a reminder the president himself today on some morrow is over at the turnberry go for a result he. said before flying on to helsinki to meet president putin of russia there are small protests around but certainly not getting anywhere near the president but if he does look at the media here. in the press he will be aware that there is a sizable proportion if not a majority here of people who are very hostile to his president he sees presidents in scotland and in the u.k. or not in but then at about nineteen thank you tom for a short break here not just iraq when we come back calm is restored to the streets of haiti but there's more political unrest ahead. back in pakistan straight to jail no washer reefer turns to his homeland to fight his corruption conviction more on that stay with us.

welcome back we'll take a look at weather conditions across asia this time and the northeast now as we've got this active frontal system across northeastern parts of china and into the far east of russia but much as across japan it's all looking fairly quiet at the moment so good weather conditions here a very hot and humid temperatures there in the mid thirty's little bit of rain across the corridor but should clear otherwise we've got more rain coming in towards beijing that's going to be an active frontal system to give you some heavy rain during the course of monday temperatures over thirty six degrees in tokyo so moving down into more central and southern parts of china taiwan you can see we've got some pretty heavy rain for hong kong with this circulation taking place across parts of indochina some heavy rain lightly across much of vietnam laos is looking wet jangala meum are seeing some big rain reported there over the last twenty four hours and i don't anticipate any significant change over the next twenty four hours

so let's then move down into southeastern parts of asia is looking very wet across the philippines at the moment certainly central and northern areas but when she come further south it's jerry looking much drier though we still got some rain across parts of west proper is fine across much of borneo down through java are also expecting a lot of sunshine with highs of thirty two degrees in jakarta. a nation where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle to hold the power. how is this radical transformation. i mean. i mean if you were shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people.

welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here this hour eritrea's president is making a long mock 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 times ending a twenty year military standoff. all protests are planned against u.s. president donald trump 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. and several students remain trapped in a university in nicaragua as capital managua pro-government forces surrounding the

area they've been part of protests calling for president to resign all than two hundred fifty people have been killed me under arrest. now anger at a botched attempt to raise fuel prices in haiti is now leading to a no confidence vote against the prime minister calm has been restored to the streets but there are fears of more violence if he. refuses to step down a spokesperson for the president told al-jazeera he's ready to take action to relieve the crisis gabriel is on the reports now 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 cold 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 but 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 all sectors in order to halt the violent street protests from a week ago the government temporarily suspended the rate 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. 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 the al-jazeera port au prince. the iraqi government has held an emergency meeting after antigovernment demonstrations spread to the capital baghdad protests began in the southern city of basra of a high unemployment and a lack of basic services the prime minister visited on friday i'm a nobody she 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 fueled angry protests over the past week. how they know more than a german general here. g.'s 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 thirteen year old sarah was killed when security forces opened fire on crowds. prime minister hyderabad the 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. 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 i bet he is keen to calm frustrations as iraq struggles to build a new government two months after parliamentary elections that have been marred by controversy. al-jazeera. a senior priest has appeared in court on charges of sexually abusing children. held senior positions in santiago is

accused of raping seven minors he was arrested as part of the investigation involving fourteen other priests who investigators say may have participated in a network of abuse in march the vatican released a report accusing the church in chile of covering up decades of abuse. these around twenty people have been killed in south with pakistan at a campaign rally just weeks before the general election. on the same day that former prime minister on the washer reef was arrested on arrival in the country this is the moment sharif and his daughter marian where escorted off the runway by the country's military rose and 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 people 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 around the other attack was at a rally involve 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 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 to reach 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. hamas has five more than a dozen rockets towards southern israel amid continuing tensions along the gaza border israel says its iron dome 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. for generations but as jobs have dried up more and more people have turned to working in the unregulated industry. missing out on millions of dollars of tax revenue every month. in 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 worked in israel for more than two decades but israeli government restrictions on freedom of movement for palestinians forced him to quit

his job five years ago the palestinian authority 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 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 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 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. pharma 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. on 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 the 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. now france is celebrating bastille day the national memorial of the landmark moment of the french revolution president i'm on your marker on that the military parade along with paris this year's festivities are extra special a day before france versus croatia in the football world cup final in russia but reports from paris on the excitement building up ahead of sunday's big game. 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 bad

the last 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 semifinal 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. as it was 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 briskets square 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 wasn't easy. when france last won the world cup in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight paris is most famous a view was transformed into a street party that seemed to last for days. the winning team became a symbol of most. culturalism today's players were only children at the time star strike a kid in a back pay wasn't even born but for the team the spirit of ninety eight lives on. the flesh afraid to go to france is a country of many colors and origins we all feel french we're 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 natasha butler al-jazeera paris. only news of course on our website there it is on your screen the address al jazeera dot com that's al-jazeera dot com. for a tough a quick check of the headlines here eritrea's president stuff working is making a landmark 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. attackers in somalia have detonated two car bombs near the presidential palace in the capital mogadishu witnesses say they heard gunfire blast and saw a large plume of smoke rising in the area police say the devices were detonated

after a gunfight between them and armed men comes just a week after the attack on the interior ministry compound in the city killed at least nine people. more protests are planned against u.s. president donald trump 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. several students remain trapped at a university in nicaragua's capital managua with pro-government forces surrounding the area they've been part of protests calling for president daniel ortega to resign more than two hundred fifty people have been killed in the unrest at least one hundred twenty people have been killed in southwest pakistan at a campaign rally just weeks before the general election the attacks happened on the same day that the former prime minister nawaz sharif was arrested on arrival in the country but this is the moment sharif and his daughter merriam were escorted off the runway by the country's military. a senior chilean priest of the period in

court on charges of sexual abuse in children. who's held senior positions in santiago is accused of raping seven minors he was arrested as part of an investigation involving fourteen other priests who investigators say may have participated in a network of abuse in march the vatican released a report accusing the church in chile of covering up decades of abuse. and france's celebrating bastille day the national memorial of the landmark moment of the french revolution the president emanuel mark wrong let the military parade along the shores of these day in paris this year's festivities are extra special the day before france faces croatia in the football world cup final in russia french haven't won the tournament for twenty years well those were the headlines he's continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story section that's watching.

one of the so-called special relationship donald trump visits britain for the first time as president and insults prime minister. he says her rival will make a better leader and she ignored his advice on bread and migration how damaging is all that for the transatlantic this is inside story. welcome to the program. in the respect which is prime minister etc some may wonder whether this was really the best week.