women driving but at the same time jailed women activists have championed the right for women to drive he took to jail activists prominent human rights activists but still has his own people say this is a visionary man how do you see him with former oil rust buttin well he very clearly is a man of dynamism he understands that change has to happen for the long term well being of saudi arabia some of his suggested reforms are very sensible in the economic sphere i think and some other areas but the way he has done it this autocratic way is creating probably resistance and also he doesn't understand something that every single arab leader in the last seventy five years has failed to understand which is you can't just open a faucet like a water faucet and you open a reform force it's ok we're going to reform now and we're going to let cinemas or

we're going to let drive in movies and we're going to let people have concerts on woman drive but that's all a little bit you can't do that these are dealing with human beings are dealing with tens of millions of human beings who just want to live normal lives as human beings and normal life means they want to be able to think for themselves be involved in the public life not to be revolutionaries or crazy people but just to be normal people and the reform process has not necessarily promised normalcy and human dignity it has simply promised more leisure activities driving cinemas more malls cellphones and privatization of companies so there's a fundamental weakness in the nature of the reform process because it was not based on any serious consultation with the citizens of saudi arabia and this is the problem that every arab leader has made we wish we should watch jordan now if they start doing serious reforms. morocco possibly algeria possibly there are they're

all you know good prospects for reforms that have to be done egypt decided to didn't want to reform but so. i think is is a genuine reform minded person who doesn't know how to form and he didn't say he's not going to show him how to do that ok sayed are you the same fear that without going into profound changes of the saudi society itself we're not going to see and it really sounds in the near future if he continues down this path well i do not believe that i'm innocent not of the foremost of any service in any sense because before him we hear that king i'm not one to be homeless but we saw we saw nothing before and during the reign of the law so i think it is a lot of the faith yes it's coming in a sense but he's also giving advice i think he is made to them by. christ as an advocate and by since. i don't i think yes he has

succeeded for example in pacifiers for example and also emphasized sudan yet he got them on both tried out except on the satire he has and when i was on people here i wondered what i think is only one that will yemenis that will deliver the kind of that he's at war with libya but obama has been invaded not it would not have been it is at war with the people of egypt we did not just stand. so he is it is. an agenda that had been invited by. their president around and also the military are what. then.

but then let me go to accommodate what are you have many people in saudi arabia particularly young people saying basically this is someone who is committed to diversifying the economy put in an and to the old political institutions the have prevailed for many years and that saudi arabia could generally become a vibrant democracy in the near future under m.b.'s. well hashem nobody in the middle east would like would like to diffuse this kind of wishful thinking i would say or pipe dreams the actions on the ground like actions are much louder than words what's he doing to egypt what's he doing by supporting the talk crissy of dictator like sisi in egypt what's he doing with the betrayal as suffered and how allie the recently detained scholar called it betray of to the palestinian cause

but i'm communicating with the israelis by approaching the israelis differently what's he doing to the cutter is their brothers in blood and neighbors what's he doing to the young man is and what's he doing to with the west in general with donald trump with the investment he is doing this doesn't give any sign that this guy is good in terms of bringing any kind of change to the eurabia to the hopes of the people on the ground it's merrily superficial reforms that didn't do any genuine it's an example in the army said it's a gain of entertainment it's just a kind of luck sure years things that the people are not looking for they're looking for genuine changes in terms of the mocker a say in terms of stability in terms of job creation on the ground and army you seem to be saying basically most of you that this is these are all cosmetic changes and the glamour done as part of an autocratic streak in the country from your own perspective rami what do you think should be the indicators of

a genuine reform in saudi arabia please a last than a minute. well you are going to have to look at the response of the business community you're going to have to look at explicit public support from the royal family members very few a form of spoken out you have to look at the religious establishment again explicit public support the problem is that people in saudi arabia don't speak out if they're critical of the government they're afraid as they are in most countries so i that's what i look for public expressions and this is something that's going to have to become more clear in the next six months or so just one last quick point the idea of getting closer to netanyahu is fascinating because we know from public opinion polls that most of the people and they are worried about eighty percent are against normalization normalizing ties with israel until the palestine issue is resolved quickly so he so we need to see more clarity on that showing through but

the key point is the saudi people need to be involved in the process to make it work and we wanted to work everybody wants it to work we'll leave it on that note but i had on the whole the say this you have to thank you very much indeed for your insights and for your time and thank you to for us you can see the program again and its time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com focus last a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is a j inside saudi for me hashem but on the whole team here i found out.

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a marshall and we're talking. the speed. of the bolt this is zero. this is a news out live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes. two teenagers are killed by a wave of israeli airstrikes on gaza as rockets are fired from the territory interest. eritrea as president promises to resolve his conscious dispute with ethiopia as he begins a three day visit to this alba plus over. protected

from the protests against his you came visit president trump practice weighing on goals. and i'm sorry a small be here with all the day's sporting including the countdown continues to the world cup final as x. practitioners building both france and croatia out of sunday's showdown. we begin this news hour angle so well israel has launched its biggest daylight attack since the gaza war in twenty forty two palestinian teenagers were killed by as strikes as israeli jets targeted several night. hood's. the military says it has struck dozens of hamas targets meanwhile hamas has fired more than seventeen mortar bombs and rockets at southern israel three israelis were likely injured while

nearly a dozen rockets were intercepted in a minute we'll hear from our correspondent stephanie jacker who is in jerusalem but first let's go to bill burns smith who is in gaza ben and when we spoke to about an hour ago we could see hail still hear some of the explosions in the background and you said some rockets were still going off is it still carrying on through is being quiet for the last hour or so we now have confirmation from through the major groups in gaza from hamas and from islamic jihad that they have agreed to a ceasefire we haven't heard that yet though from the israelis and we have though in gaza come as close as it has. in the last four years to a real major escalation of hostilities between forces here in gaza and israel israel hitting those targets across the gaza strip overnight and throughout today mainly hamas targets they hit but they also hit close here into gaza city normally

over the low the years the targets are training grounds outside of major population areas but one of the targets was right here in gaza city a couple of kilometers from where i am it hit a building there were people near the building two teenagers near the building were caught in the eye in that attack and they were killed unfortunately another dozen people were injured so very serious garza but for the last couple of hours calm and you do inch and about the cease fire which we think is now going ahead how did that come account can't ban it. we know that the egyptians also the u.n. were involved in this mediation is mainly gypsy egyptian security forces they mediating between israel and hamas and it's understood that the egyptians are the ones that came up with this deal essentially israel has been infuriated over the last few weeks by an century balloons burning kites drifting over from gaza into israeli territory and setting fire to crops in israel and the prime minister has

been under enormous pressure to stop this is threatened how mass with a hard hit harder tally ation if they didn't stop these balloons the balloons haven't stopped the seems to be israel's response to that so that's ben smith in ghana so let's think to stephanie dhaka who is in jerusalem and stephanie bennett was just talking there about the action that the israelis have taken into gaza what about the rockets have landed in israel can you tell us a little bit about what's been happening on the ground. as will the army says it over and ninety rockets and mortars been fired over the last twenty four hours most of them causing no damage or earlier drop to the last two hours or so some rockets hit a synagogue also a car and we understand four israelis were lightly injured so this is it does show you sort of as you mentioned before how severe this escalation has been the most

severe certainly that since the war two thousand and fourteen as bernard says yes there's talk of a cease fire yes we know these talks have been ongoing for a while but the army has said that it will not stop unless these kites and these balloons stop go across the border these roads say that over seven thousand hectares of land have been burnt because of these their makeshift balloons and kite sue with a sort of a burning rag that the palestinians have put together but there are calls are a major headache for the prime minister because also he's under pressure from these border communities we have heard from netanyahu in the last couple of hours he said that if the mass doesn't understand the message today that he will understand it tomorrow also the army saying that they will escalate their attacks if need be so i think the next few hours will be crucial just you know couple of minutes ago i've heard had alerts on my phone that basically and the alarm alert when the israeli alarm system goes off to rockets i mean that's not confirmed but certainly does

show that things are still not very clear i think the next few hours will know how this is going to play out whether there's a cease fire or not just briefly israeli security cabinet will be meeting tomorrow also to figure out how to move forward and indeed if it promises by the minute and you know who that is driving this forward when he meets with the security camera is he going to get the full backing to carry on as you say there is still antagonism coming out of gaza. well this is the interesting thing that you've had the israeli army and the israeli security services the intelligence telling the politicians the political waiting for ages really that gaza is at breaking point that it has never been as bad as it is i was there just last month and absolutely i've covered it for years it is at breaking point it is not sustainable the situation as it is at the moment they've closed the only goods crossing kerem shalom salim yes still allowing medical medicine in but certainly you know the

small drip of goods that still sustain the economy has been closed and now what we're understanding is that the army is saying that they will not stop until these you know the incendiary devices the balloons the kites stop so we're trying to decipher what exactly is going on yes of course the prime minister is under pressure he's also facing corruption charges many people will tell you sometimes he likes to divert attention from himself the one thing that has east somewhat is that egypt has opened the law for crossing that's been open since ramadan and thousands of palestinians have managed to leave but again getting a permit to leave is not easy the way the palestinians see it is that nothing has been achieved since these protests started the way israel sees it they will say these balloons need to stop what kind of concessions are going to be made who's going to blink first are going to have to wait and see but certainly at the moment is still a lot of rhetoric angry talk that they will escalate and continue these attacks unless hamas stops these balloons incendiary devices across the border good to

torture stephanie decker that line for us in jerusalem. every trius president says history is being made on his first visit to neighboring ethiopia in more than two decades as i as i received a warm welcome to the capital only three zero pm prime minister. is the latest step towards reconciliation and peace between the longtime rivals last weekend the lead leaders signed a pact to restore diplomatic and trade ties bringing an end to a twenty year military standoff eritrea split from ethiopia in one thousand nine hundred three after a long battle for independence but they fought another brutal border war just five years later it began in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight near the front town of bad and a disputed area under ethiopia's control around seventy thousand people were killed and tens of thousands displaced fighting along the one thousand kilometer border only ended in december two thousand with the signing of the algiers agreement

a border commission was set up as part of a peace deal in two thousand and two u.n. barracks ruling granted contested territories to eritrea including badly but if you refuse to read joe is troops that was until prime minister came to power in april this year he has since agreed to fully accept the terms of the algiers agreement and normalize relations muhammadan has more from this of a. general so so rick weidman here the whole raft of if you have here could really move the last thing. and there is a lot of it like about presidents who are his visit the fourth time. in three years not first of all time because if you please also the state of african union and the five hundred. bowls of reagan union summit one held.

the review of conflict now he's a real excitement of hope partly it's well explained to you bill and. with which he was welcome back to. help of thousands lining up the streets between the airport the prime minister's policies where he had a meeting with the prime minister. the highlight of the size of course his visit on sunday when you're going to get off an embassy which. you know this ago was recruited for continuing. let's get more on this finesse that vera is and the eritrean human rights activist and founder of one day say an organization that works for the release of people who've been unjustly imprisoned in iran thanks very much for talking about this with us first of all there's a lot of optimism a lot of excitement about this this friendship now that's being formed between the

two leaders are you optimistic things are really going to change in eritrea. if you look at situation in eritrea you see that everything has happened since the end of the war in two thousand has been justified by this war the unjust imprisonment of several journalists politicians does it and voices the question of national service program the last indefinitely the fact that the constitution hasn't been implemented has all been done in the name of this war so the fact that the war now is over as good news because that means that it says that they are trying governance used for their oppression is gone but that is not necessarily mean that they're fashionable and it touch on journalists and understand your uncle has been locked up for quite some time just tell me a little bit about why he was locked. so the first elections in eritrea was supposed to happen in two thousand and one and there was a general discourse in the tree and community that discussing nothing happening about this election there were no preparations being made there more are more. oppressive politics being implemented and several people who were criticizing the

government were eventually imprisoned my uncle was one of them he was one out of ten journalist but there's also a group of politicians from within the government that have been internally and then eventually externally criticizing the government and the president and they're all eventually imprisoned a week after nine eleven when the entire world was watching nine eleven and new york the government side to turn the country into a dictatorship and that was a circumstance of my uncle's arrest and the creation of a train dictatorship do you now think would you have confidence that the government will recognize that people like your uncle human rights activists even opposition politicians should we know bill east if you look at what's happened with the peace deal that has been a single mention of the united states that have been happening in the name of this war even dr obvious comments of remarks about as i spoke has been very mantra sizing and there's been a kind of neglect of the human cost of this war on the air tran side of it there are people have been suffering immensely for the past seventeen years in the name of a war that has not been proportionate to the effect that they have been on the people

the fact that it's been a standoff on the border cannot justify the fact that people have been unjustly imprisoned for seventeen years that young people are forced to work for a national service almost a free indefinitely it is completely disproportionate and this hasn't been addressed neither by the. president. nor by their tran president so i'm not i am obviously happy about this peace deal because it's such a big change. in politics nothing has happened for the past seventeen years but i'm optimistic because no one to even address these very very crucial issues if you could say something to both leaders at the moment and if they were sort of watching right now what was it your priority should be now for them as they establish this friendship and really an end to hostilities for a long time i would first of all turn to my own president or to the leader of the of my country and urge him to implement the constitution first of all implement the rule of law release of prisoners give them a fair trial and the release of of our people they desire to live

a free and dignified life in our country and they cannot continue to use the war as a justification or any kind of justification for that anymore let's hope for their superior thanks very much for joining us. five people including four attackers have been killed in separate car bombings near somalia's presidential palace they say one explosive went off after a gunfight with armed men to the checkpoint the second device was detonated in the same area shortly afterward the armed group has kind responsibility for the attacks . iraq has placed its security forces on high alert as anti-government protests spread across the country south the arrest began in they sometimes city of basser six days ago a high unemployment and a lack of basic services. it's nearly fifty degrees celsius in iraq's southern city of basra and people have been feeling the heat. the city's unstable atrocity grid and dwindling infrastructure fuel angry

protests over the past week. they know more than a german general here. geez 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 is the responsibility of the prime minister and the governor. demonstrated you burning tires blocking roads as they marched on government installations even attempting to storm a bus or oil facility to protest as collated after thirty year old sarah was killed when security forces opened fire on crowds. prime minister hyderabadi flew to basra and met with the city's governor as well as security officials to try and ease tensions. busser is iraq's richest oil province but despite the city's wealth and 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. share cleric. their representative of grand ayatollah ali al sistani expressed his support for the demands of the shia majority city a lot more on all we can do is assure 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 amid the al jazeera. coming up on this news hour in haiti where the prime minister is facing a major test of his leadership over his handling of

a fuel sector reforms the latest from nicaragua our church has now ended but students activists have been killed and in sports another epic semifinal when we have the details coming up in sport. i. ten thousand people have been protesting against donald trump in scotland as the u.s. president spends the weekend playing golf at his luxury resort. some of the demonstrators even made it to the edges of the president's goal of course and term bery was snipers have been deployed as part of tight security measures trump has now no more official a gauge wins in the u.k. before heading to have a sinking for a summit with russian president vladimir putin on monday and indeed one has more from the demonstrations in edinburgh. well they're calling this

a carnival of resistance and one of the ways that the thousands of protesters gathered in this park in edinburgh a trying to register their opposition to donald trump is through schumer and that joy in believing over there showing the u.s. president as a baby in a nappy featured in the london demonstrations and it's now made its way up to scotland to those they weren't allowed to fly it over the temporary go for where donald trump is spending the weekend well away from the protests this stage it was a flight over the scottish parliament as well that's where they say opposition march set off on saturday but now that it's here is getting lots of attention and in fact along the march through there have been plenty of homemade banners that people have brought along using humor to or to ridicule the u.s. president but also to remind does it of the stations that there are issues that they feel very strongly about teaching children is not ok separating children from

their fear and so on to caregivers is not ok any which way you proceed and detaining them separately or with the parents is no case we didn't make a sound if we shared bodies on the street how will america notably our son with them half of magma and half of america who did least not the way that they meet now that the world stands with them ha ha ha ha ha ha. ha. well on sunday donald trump travels on to helsinki for a summit on monday with the russian president vladimir putin there are protests already being organized there but these are demonstrators in scotland hope that they've made an impact. meanwhile scuffles broke out as a small pro trying rally in london demonstrators showed their support for the u.s. president many wearing red hats with the slogan make britain great again i called only you can two adults trunks and immigration policies and price what they call

the strong. and decisive leadership. haiti's parliament is debating a no confidence motion against prime minister jacques guy left unturned after days of violent protests the unrest started after haiti's government unveiled a proposal to remove fuel subsidies which in turn would have hiked fuel prices by fifty percent it was part of an agreement between haiti and the international monetary fund oftentimes to announce the plan would not go ahead and protesters are still demanding his resignation. is in the haitian capital port au prince so what is the latest about the vote in parliament by the lawmakers gave. well it's d.-day and when i say d.-day i mean decision day for the future of the prime minister of haiti mr. he is here at parliament where we are at now the session is going on with the parliamentarians just not too far format i've been

going inside and coming back outside i can tell you it's very tense inside at times when the session began where lawmakers started debating the fate of the prime minister there was a couple moments where there was some shouting back and forth between lawmakers a little bit of pushing and shoving but things were quick quickly restored back to order but it gives us a sense of how tense things are and how important this. no confidence vote that we expect to happen in the next hour or so is if the no confidence vote goes through it would mean potentially the. government here he would probably be pushed out of power now many lawmakers including the vice president of the national assembly which we interviewed just a short time ago as well as many people on the streets are calling for to step down he has refused to do so so for and that's why he's here right now at the

parliament building excuse me and that's why the parliamentarians are saying we're not going to wait for him to step down any longer we are now going to debate his future ourselves that's what's going on right here in haiti at the capital port au prince we should find out about his future here in the coming hours so once the vote is taken so tennis is signed. on the street. protests out on the streets there was real worry that there would be violent protests and that's why the riot police have kind of set up up positions outside parliament here but we are we are hearing that there are protests right now in several different neighborhoods of the capital port au prince and many of those protesters are going to be descending here on the parliament we're told here in the coming moments. protesters number one are calling. to step down but also some other protesters are still calling for the president to step down as well a lot of dissatisfaction with this entire government for these proposed gas increases but that was just the last straw so to speak that was just the last.

people. dissatisfaction with the prime minister and also. focused primarily on the prime minister and people are hoping that. there's some sort of decision that's taken they will invest political price crisis let's not forget haiti is a country that two thousand and ten more than two hundred thousand people died in that terrible earthquake two thousand and sixteen a hurricane destroyed the entire southern half of the country so this is still a country that. now facing political crisis one needs to get passed as soon as possible. capital port au prince the saudi and coalition in yemen. after months of protests. at ports.

the changing. the country. for. a success in negotiations roughly one year after taking over the. southeast in yemen the coalition has agreed to give up control it will now hand it back to local civil authorities it's the such move in yemen civil war and the decision follows months of protests from local tribes. who were given control of the airport friday morning the public all the way in all the civil aviation gates this is opposed to step from saudi. having control of the airport is one of the six demands issued by protesters any student yemen this victory is inspiring other communities to take action. in the city of tire as people are calling attention to

other problems with local governments from corruption to lack of security. three years into the war thousands have been killed entire communities displaced the fight between who the rebels and government forces backed by the saudi u.a.e. coalition continues in other parts of the country getting control of al guided airport is important for those who live in the year.