station i think from station that nobody wants nobody needs and a confrontation from which everybody would loose a listing years in gaza for the last decade through three conflicts israelis across the fence who live with a constant threat of rocket attacks for the last decade this cycle has to stop it has to end it's going to you know from who's an activist and palestine policy fellow for the shabaka palestinian policy network she joins us now live from ramallah thanks for being with us what are people there in the west bank making of what happened in gaza how important is it to them. thank you very much for having me i think people in the west bank as with palestinians are very angry and saddened by what's been happening in gaza especially with this latest round of. strikes against the people of gaza killing

two teenagers who were playing in the park so you know i think this is incredibly. straightening and devastating for palestinians but it's important to note that this latest round of the trustees is not something new it's part of a continuous attempt to eliminate palestinians to force them into a tiny tiny space so this is not a new thing just to highlight as well the fact that there's still ongoing protests in gaza that many palestinians in the west bank are supporting and standing in solidarity with and yesterday as well they also killed teenage protester at these protests so feelings are very heightened and people are very upset because they consider themselves the gazans as part of the palestinian population so how are people there in gaza showing in the west bank showing their support for the people of gaza. so usually when there are

these israeli bombardments and attacks people often palestinians often take to the streets and show their support in a variety of ways in demonstrations but there's been a very interesting campaign over the last month and a half which is actually doing something very different it's targeting the p.a. sanctions the palestinian authority sanctions against gaza and this is something that we haven't seen before a group of young palestinian activists coming together to directly demand that the palestinian authority lift the sanctions against the gazan people which is actually exasperating the israeli siege making the suffering a lot worse and it's a very interesting campaign because it's uniting palestinians from all different geographic areas and also from different political affiliations so this is a very important show of solidarity and i think it's very exciting because and

inspiring because it's actually moving toward something that's tangible and achievable what do you think the chances are of the palestinian authority the lifting the sanctions. with the movement is actually gaining in popularity and the protests are increasing in numbers and the campaign is spreading to all areas of palestine and i think that's very important and i think the fact that this is something tangible dumond's and also very tangible and they're not excessive i think that this campaign has a real chance of making the pay less than making them lift the sanctions here how are we good to talk to every section for being with us. here with the news out from al-jazeera still to come on the program more protests awaits donald trump ahead of his meeting in finland the one that's worrying diplomats. plus fears that many nigerians will go hungry as floods wash away crops and farm. and later in

sport belgium walk away from russia with the best ever finish of the world cup. at least seven people have died in a suicide bombing in afghanistan's capital kabul police say the target was a u.n. vehicle that was trying to enter the ministry of rural rehabilitation and development six other people were wounded well attacks like this one in jalalabad last week helped to contribute to a record number of civilian deaths in afghanistan a report by the united nations has highlighted recent attacks that have killed scores across the country several bombings have targeted security forces and hotels in kabul well the un says that at least one thousand six hundred ninety two people were killed in the first six months of this year and the number of wounded civilians is double that the u.n. mission in afghanistan says that most civilians were killed or injured in suicide

bombings and attacks involving multiple fighters including the taliban and eisel and the u.n. expects the violence to get worse with elections coming up in october more than three hundred civilians have already been killed or injured in election related violence. but just as a gathering in finland's capital helsinki ahead of monday's summit between the leaders of russia and the united states it'll be donald trump and vladimir putin's first official stand alone meeting and that's something that's worrying diplomats more now from our diplomatic editor james bays. helsinki a city that joining the cold war was used as one of the few places where western allies and the soviet union could talk some believe relations. a cold war level again yet one leader keeps talking up the positive and i said putin may be the easiest of the more you never know the biggest blow to relations was russia's

seizure of crimea from ukraine the first time a part of one country had been stolen by another in europe since world war two at the time it was condemned by the us nato and the e.u. . however in recent days two news conferences in belgium and the u.k. president trump was asked if russia should give back crimea and each time he dodged the question what will happen with crimea from this point on that i can't tell you well we'll have to see what happens far from here the syrian war seems to be entering its final phases the assad regime would support from its allies iran and russia has the upper hand the u.s. and israel want to reduce iranian presence in the country and its influence in the region could there be a grand bargain in the works. only days ago israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was in moscow putin could perhaps persuade

a sad to ask iran to leave his country trump could lift objections to russia's control of crimea far fetched perhaps but just listen to the way the ukrainian ambassador to the u.n. is clinging to previous statements by members of the u.s. administration on crimea i think that. that will come from several times by boat by many many other u.s. officials thrum. and mr bolton to the the the spokesman for the white house and many other. officials who come from the principal ballers who yes wolf they've assumed that the illegally fish no crimea but actual should never be recognized remarkably for part of this summit in finland's presidential palace trump is likely to meet putin alone just as he did in singapore with kim jong un in june the u.s. is closest allies are worried what this most unpredictable president might agree to

behind these walls james bays al-jazeera helsinki maria lipman is an independent russia analyst she joins us now via skype from moscow good to have you with us john bolton but actual security adviser has just said that as far as that the meeting with between trump and putin is concerned we're not looking for concrete deliverables what does that mean what you think we can expect. well i think we can expect just no concrete deliverables i think there were direct indications from the summit has been creative i used or at least described as the least prepared summit between russia and the united states in the cage. and without preparation of course you cannot expect any concrete results also it was already been announced at least by the russian side that there will be no joint communique after the summit began in indirect indication that notes of substance is expected what may be

expected is president trump seeing once again that he is the best the summit has been as he likes to say very very good and he that he has achieved something that none of his predecessors in the white house has achieved before in terms of u.s. russia relations and i think it suits at this point to our. show through the world the initiative came from the united states president that russia is not isolated that there is a summit in that. they have been statements and i think they will have been statements. we will cooperate in the future we will benefit from cooperation so there you had a diplomatic as or a few moments ago talking about trump's avoidance of the crimea crime in crimea issue dodging the questions could as we heard just then be a grand bargain in the works as far as crimea and syria are concerned. well i don't

think there can be a tradeoff of all ukraine and syria these are two entirely separate issues and whatever the two presidents will talk about will not convert and will not be converted into a policy at least no time soon there can be discussions and i think there is a reason for ukraine to be concerned because indeed has spoken as if there is still an option for crime yet the big recognized is a russian something that seems to be totally unacceptable for the u.s. administration and they have been statements already after president trump said the crimea is well there is a chance of it to be recognized as russian. the white house did we emphasize that our policy has not changed that. is that we will not recognize crimea and of course

it is the same in europe so whatever it may say in a one on one with which will be converted into a policy into a recognition of course not on actually on. syria but only. has mentioned in the note once that the u.s. may withdraw from syria this would of course suit which and this would mean an expansion of control over syria by president assad not a hundred percent but an expansion and russia may be expected in a kind of deal there to art to ryan persuade iran to withdraw does russia have leverage over iran well it's hard to say probably not but it can probably all services incident in theory maria another john bolton close he's just said this it's hard to believe that putin didn't know about russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election president trump says he's going to direct the os the question

what sort of answer will he get. well president within his said many times and i'm sure he will not changed his stance that russia has not meddled in the american election period he said this so many times that i think we can very well expect that this will be once again whether the issue will be raised it is hard to say of course there have been indictments made into yes against well russian intelligence officers that they were implicated in. in the meddling in the u.s. election in twenty sixteen and this again was. denied in in a very i would say confident over confident and thereby the russian foreign ministry once again denied and described as a farce is it farcical like you say sions that have no relation to reality so i am

sure if the issue is raised this will be woodson's reaction once again very good still to many thanks live in moscow a new era of friendship has begun between former rivals in the horn of africa eritrea as president. has made his first visit to ethiopia building two decades it's a step towards reconciliation after the two leaders agreed to end years of hostilities as muhammad reports from madison of about. it's a new era of normalization of relationships between eritrea and ethiopia two countries that have the bitter enemies just weeks ago the visit by at a tram president the size afford it what it is feeding on this general sense of exile and within the ethiopian public that finally peace is possible between eritrea and ethiopia not been achieved already the two leaders have agreed on that a connection or phone lines that have been used for the past twenty years the reopening of embassies in both capitals and also the first flight from at this hour

but for the first time in two decades later this week. what many people are waiting for is when these two countries start discussing the nitty gritty of what actually started about war in one thousand nine hundred eight in which tens of thousands were killed where will the border pass which a village that is disputed will either go to eritrea or would come to ethiopia but they are saying they're willing to compromise for the sake of peace between the two countries flooding and heavy rains are affecting many parts of nigeria dozens of people have been killed as of address reports crops up and lost raising fears of food shortages more dire cheez a community in mourning sixteen people from this village recently died in a boat accident that was caused by two racial rains or more workers survived the

accident but the death of his brother means he will have to take on the additional responsibility of looking after the large family he left behind two wives and sixteen children. for ten years we've witnessed floods but this year's is the most tragic we lost a brother most of us can't farm anymore even if you wanted to all of the victims are buried in the cemetery near the village. this is the spot where thirty nine farmers like killed just a few days ago they were traveling in an all well ordered wooden board like this one when it sank and many are still missing locals here say the floods and death and that are also affecting their culture production despite the devastating loss mahamudra nick you say sorority back at work after losing a large chunk of his farm in the flooding he really has no time to mourn the loss of three family members. we've lost twenty hectares of farmland

including the crops the losses are huge i can't afford to take a break his priority is to grow food for the family now he would have to replant his crops if he is to harvest enough many pharmacy actually depend on rain to help produce crops. the situation in what i choose repeated in many farming communities throughout nigeria and experts are warning that more heavy rains are in the forecast the question is what it will have effect on agricultural productivity and the quantity of profit that will be produced farming is only means of survival of these people and if it continue yet in yet out with out me to get in the menace of this flood in definitely be pushed curity situation will deteriorate as a rain speak in a few weeks time many farming communities living in nigeria's five b.'s ins are bracing for more losses why did implications on the country's agricultural output i

meant it greece algis into more debt. well it's not just in nigeria this flooding affecting other parts of west africa to his or explain meteorologist richard language richard face adrian yes it's some it's a double edged sword really the rain that we get at this time of year tends to come down very heavily and because much of the ground is baked hard it causes a lot of flooding and indeed we've had real flooding issues in other areas the shots coming from the ivory coast boys in the southeast but of course with the rain you don't get the fertilisation the crops and then you have other issues being see that extent of the flooding is hard here very heavy indeed and across other areas you see these big storm systems these amazing scale convective systems that come through in the easterly flow and certainly you've had some decent rainfall totals been reported all the way into mali and also from new share so as i run the

forecast sequence you can see there's plenty of storm development over the next twenty four hours not just along the coast in fact that tends to be a little bit of a gap just along the coast because it's relatively cold water here tends to be slightly further inland but never less across chad and share mali early likely to be further heavy storms and also affecting parts of west africa to liberia seen some pretty heavy showers as you move further towards the east the rains here ten to more fragmented more broken nevertheless you can see we have got some rain there across parts of south sudan and also across the ethiopian highlands we have us all got some we have also got some rain moving up to the south into parts of mozambique imeem see one or two showers eventually getting into tanzania. richard many thanks indeed you're with a new series still to come on the program that will be. safe students walk free from a siege of nicaragua but there's no end in sight to months of on rest. european leaders china to meet

a crucial condition before opening the door to more business plus. i mean richardson in moscow what six sets of players counting down i think it's going to. building a new life on an entirely beach living off the sea and. a dream shared by so many but so few make it a reality. a family business led by a remarkable woman with a flair for cooking and desist. island kitchen and out to sea and. i had a briefing today from a man named steele who has been out there working with the security forces a veteran of the. war sent to iraq you seem to be without portfolio doing whatever

it is that he wanted to take interest and i guess about him counterinsurgency while this interview was going on with jim steele there were these terrible screams about pain and terror but what was his mission and what legacy did he leave. his iraq. it is good to have you with us hello adrian to get here in doha but the news from us here our top stories this curfew has been imposed in the iraqi city of bias for up to police used water cannon and tear gas on protesters who tried to storm a government building people have been demonstrating over the past week against

high living costs or the lack of basic services. has officially been handed the reins to host the twenty twenty two football world cup russia's president vladimir putin passed the ball to catalyze at nearby fifth as president at a handover ceremony in moscow that israel has reportedly accepted a gyptian brokered cease fire with hamas after an escalation of violence in gaza on saturday israel targeted the group with what it says were its most powerful daytime ass trikes since the twenty fourteen gaza war at least two palestinian teenagers were killed. the first rebels and their families are being moved from southern syria as dead province they were given safe passage to leave after russia brokered a cease fire between the government and opposition eight days ago the government is now in control of most of data. two hundred university students and nicaragua have been freed after a siege at a church they took refuge there after occupying

a university campus as part of anti-government demonstrations president daniel ortega has been accused of using excessive force to try to end the protests that are calling for him to resign sanchez reports from what i want. after more than fifteen hours in the suit students at new get i was national antonymous university where freed. the cardinal your beloved in. a mass armored tank negotiated the release with gunmen. who pleaded for her life during the siege came out alive. we fought back with stones and mortars but they shot at us with high caliber weapons a k forty seven and i don't know what else the priest come out with a white flag to the ceasefire. this student says they all thought they would be killed. at some point we didn't have any more mortars or molotov cocktails to respond with i didn't think we'd come out alive. for hours families sang and

prayed the access near the church was blocked by police while heavily armed gunmen shot at the students. it was a desperate wait to see their children florida says she's also afraid because her home has been under attack these past days. and see what the barrier their last hours have been tragic we haven't slept or eaten but we were at on a grateful to god our children only wanted which forms. the government calls protesters terrorists and coup plotters it blames them for the deaths of policemen and three months of bloody confrontations around the country but rights groups say the majority of attacks are perpetrated by government forces the seed has left many. one family's devastated but the question is whether the government will continue with the use of force or will sit at the they go she table

this week. cardinal brain is said this by the clergy has also been targeted they want to resume peace talks between protesters and the government on tuesday however they're worried about the safety of the students and their families. we will also continue to conduct negotiations with the government so the lives of the students and that of their families are respected. but the lives of these students and their families may continue to be a risk for protesters say they will continue to fight to topple president than a lot bigger. and well government forces do nothing to arrest the gunman in plain clothes and heavily armed shoot in plain daylight with impunity. i guess sanchez i just see them and now when he got out. but i said newman is the last in america analyst of the foreign policy research institute she joins us now via skype from washington d.c. that's a good to have you with us or take it isn't going anywhere to protest to show no

sign of backing down how does this end. i'm really glad about i'm afraid. so what is happening in the get out what is very very similar to what has been happening in venice well accept it's worse it's more violent more of that in a shorter period of time but the playbook of the parties involved the proxy fights the proxy supporters and how this is unfolding is exactly the same and that's because the undergo any factors are the same so given that we haven't seen a resolution in venice well that it happened with the protests started with the protests in twenty four g. and we're now in twenty eighteen i really don't see and the similarity of the pattern others see how this is going to be result in the get out a lot anytime soon except really with some sort of you know as fully beilenson and done up until eventually your biggest removed one way or another but he's not going

to go out he's not going to resign but as well as a country in complete chaos the regime can't really function anymore people can't afford to even the most basic of goods is nicaragua going to get by far when it descended to civil war before then do you think. well there are differing opinions on this so so you have your the two different types of arguments one is it all what is a country that has a history of civil war of factions of right wing versus south when don't forget this was one of the main battlefields of the cold war are drawing the eighty's right this so. even before that the soviet union versus the us in proxy wars in central america and russia is very close they are big backers of so you have the cuban intelligence services are very much back in order to go the same the same way they are going to split up and it's no secret we know how many weapons and what it is exactly what military support the russians have been giving to get out so you

have almost that repeat or pattern here's the difference to the way it made out is that the civilians are really not armed and who since you had the c.d.r. the disarmament demobilization and reintegration process after the civil war is this if millions don't really have what this which is why you see you fighting back with molotov cocktails so it's far more one sided this way and the americans aren't arming the americans want no part of a proxy fight in central america so it's like it's like a cold war with only one side really fighting so it's it's very unclear we haven't seen how this unfolds but i started a quick answer from you here if you can give me one please yes the catholic church of their efforts to to mediate some sort of peace you'd give that a zero percent chance of working out because here yes i don't think i really don't they that will work they have tried to mediate now basis they have a lot of credibility of course and

a lot of popular support because there are look line you know the provider of health care and welfare assistance within the country but they they haven't been effective in other countries and i don't think that there won't be any got out for that's a great to talk to many thanks when i see the human the less america analyst to the foreign policy research institute in washington. haiti's prime minister has resigned after days of violent protests. lawful intense government has been under pressure since on veiling a plan to remove fuel subsidies al-jazeera has gave us on the reports from the capital port au prince. he arrived to parliament is a prime minister facing his political fate and calls to resign jacques de la phone tones unpopular fuel price hike which he abruptly suspended after riots a week ago that his government in deep crisis the chamber of deputies had planned to force the prime minister out with a no confidence vote on saturday but abruptly resigned instead of.

before even coming here i sent my letter of resignation to the president. the resignation it a week of political tension in haiti most people from the middle class to the poor say the prime minister who had only been in office seventeen months needed to go and the calls for him to do so grew louder by the day that the gas price hike and reversal were just seen as another sign of an ineffective government his eventual downfall came on a day of tension in the capital. the streets there were protests not nearly as large as the ones last week that turned violent but still anger at the government and coals for more resignations delay oh you know you have. this is also a message to the lawmakers a warning to everyone telling them to be very careful our problem is not only with the ex prime minister but to everyone in this corrupt system including the

president. was going on in parliament that day of confusion members of the chamber of deputies yelling at each other as they debated the prime minister's future before they knew he was going to step down but after colm was restored in the prime minister resigned they focused on what it all meant. now we need a new government one that inspires confidence with all sectors we need someone who understands the political dynamic that works across the board we need big changes that can have systemic. haiti currently now has no functioning government right now now that law has stepped down all of his ministers go with him so what happens next it will be the president as well as the two heads of the parliament that will decide who the next prime minister will be. left parliament quickly after stepping down without taking questions the country now hoping the political chaos of the last week also goes with him. port au prince cuba

is looking to improve its economy by reshaping the government and creating a new constitution the political changes will divide the roles of the head of government and head of state elsewhere the free markets and the right to own private property will be recognized the plans need the approval of the national assembly and a public referendum to reuters journalists arrested in myanmar last year will go on trial on monday after more than six months of pretrial hearings the pair was investigating the killing of ten real hinge of men and boys when they were arrested they've been charged with violating the official secrets act and could face up to fourteen years in prison step person reports. why loan and child say they were just doing their job the journalists who are investigating the death of ten were in german and recurring state last december and police officers invited them to dinner they soon discovered what was really on the menu they say the arrived were handed

some documents and were put under arrest shortly after the journalists of the news agency reuters and now charged with breaching the official secrets act dating back to nine hundred twenty three after a pretrial that lasted six months. we didn't commit any crime but i would like to say in relation to the court's decision today is that we will not give up the court's decision is not the decision that we are guilty even though we are charged we are not guilty we have an opportunity to defend ourselves in the upcoming sessions we will testify to our innocence we will not tremble before the charges laid on us the charges lead to condemnation worldwide and are seen as a test for press freedom in myanmar you have had evidence introduced which effectively said that the case against the two journalists while alone and jaw so was a put up that the police intentionally handed them documents precisely so they could arrest them and charge them under the official secrets act by any international

measure of judicial process has been a farce so far right it's been a travesty of justice the government of nobel laureate aung san suu kyi is facing international condemnation after a military crackdown on the range a minority that the u.n. has called textbook at nick lancing it is estimated that thousands were killed more than seven hundred thousand have fled to bangladesh in a recent interview the night the case against the two journalists is connected to the investigation into the killings of. what i'm trying to achieve while the elections three years ago maybe are me and mark turn from one of the most restricted in asia to one of the freest of these new freedoms didn't last long rights groups say that now media me and my have become a not a victim of the crackdown against go ahead.