narrative certainly inside syria is that israel was never really a friendly ally i think we can put it that way is there for them to come that close to the fence into also for help really gives you an indication of how desperate the situation has become and israel is tightening its siege on almost two million people living in gaza by further restricting the flow of goods into the territory is planning to ban all fuel impost. crossing the fishing boats from gaza has also been home to three nautical miles charles stratford reports. trunks gather at the column of border post it's the only official crossing for goods and fuel into gaza from israel but the israeli government has now closed it it says it will let food and medicine in on a case by case basis but is not a fuel essential for powering gaza's basic services many of the almost two million people here only get electricity for four to six hours a day and at the moment in the summer the most serious then you know this fuel

blockade doesn't last because it will cause hundreds of problems and life will stop sewage and rubbish will pile up and other projects will come to an end people will not be able to go to work the ministry of health will not be able to treat patients and official in gaza city will say tells us that gaza needs around seven hundred thousand liters of gasoline and diesel every day just to meet its basic needs now with these new restrictions by israel that fuel simply isn't coming in any more of course gaza's have already suffered twelve years of israel's land and sea blockade in these latest restrictions come after the worst escalation of violence between hamas and israel since the two thousand and fourteen war. israel says it launched dozens of air strikes at hamas targets in the gaza strip in response to palestinian protesters kites or balloons carrying molotov cocktails across its goals offense

hamas responded by launching around two hundred rockets mortars and incendiary devices and egyptian brokered cease fire was announced on saturday night israel says fires caused by the coyotes have destroyed more than ten thousand hectares of crops and private land in recent weeks has also put further restrictions on gaza's fishing industry reducing the area fishermen can work in from six to within three nautical miles is just amazing to at least fifty thousand families are in some way involved in fishing in gaza. has been decreasing our fishing area for years they have killed and injured fishermen and confiscated boats they are trying to get out of to say and put further economic pressure. between hamas and the israeli military is holding but hamas says it can stop every palestinian from protesting using the kites and balloons israel says it will continue to target them until they stop.

the program. and the challenge. future. however throughout eastern europe has been it just a poll of clouds it's produced many thunderstorms so much have been useful most of which just decorative and the arc which is remaining is pretty obvious nowadays north of austria running up through poland it sits over an area fairly woman middle twenty's but where it's gotten its return to thirty one for example in bucharest is

typically thirty's around the south and to the west is what we have again in france it's still pretty hot in spain and it's increasingly warm offer dismal start to the summer really for portugal now given what's going on the sun still shines on the western side to europe but that mass of green is still the remain to that clyde it's warm enough to be sundry in warsaw at twenty nine degrees and despise and all the wind we still got twenty seven in stockholm in fact as a heat warning out for all of finland the last two days well to parts of sweden as well nothing much changes next forty eight hours this is the air if attentional thunderstorms some which will be useful i do mean use focus as a drought for example in latvia and belgium but most probably won't be and the sun prevails mostly to the west although a hint to sharon's developing the baby ski suggests something rather more sundry potentially in western france and in northern spain.

egypt is now china's biggest trading partner in africa more than ten thousand chinese are living in cairo and wanted to see the permits in september one thousand nine hundred five i came with my friends to egypt many started a small traders but are now successful in business. i began to do business in two thousand and three or two thousand and four at the time it was small but then it began to expand ridge al-jazeera world meets the growing chinese community in egypt egypt made in china on al-jazeera. welcome back reminder of the top story on al-jazeera u.s.

president donald trump is forced into an embarrassing climb down after a media storm following his seeming defense of russia and the claims of meddling in the us elections in now says he believes his intelligence community's conclusion and russia had interfered in the twenty sixteen votes and his speech to the nation iraq's prime minister about the house promised to address the concerns of protesters in the south of the country they're angry of a poor public services and lack of on the i'm employment and a new investigation has revealed documents detailing an expensive lobbying efforts by the u.s. and britain and the united states. the un's human rights office is calling for an end to the use of lethal force against demonstrators in the it says the police and security forces have tortured and killed protest them present people without due process and estimated three hundred mostly anti-government demonstrators being killed since protests began. in the capital.

family members are burying twenty year old jenna vasquez on friday he was one of dozens of students and trenched inside a church for more than fifteen hours spare a military forces shot at them. his family says he was hit by a bullet from an a k forty seven according to other students agonized for more than an hour. on this allowed ambulances to take out the wounded friday night she was not one of them died on saturday morning as the siege at the church to. something meant to come across from us all we feel helpless seeing our brothers getting killed and we can't do anything because we don't have weapons to defend ourselves and we don't really want them because nicaragua is no place for civil war. the government says students and other political opponents are terrorists and coup plotters and are responsible for the deaths of policemen during the crisis on this

masked men who are supporting the government say they will attack anyone who builds a barricade rights groups accuse them of going around the country terrorizing the population. they say paramilitary and government supporters have attacked members of the national dialogue group sabotaging the resolution to the crisis that will leave. you with this policy the government is not contributing to a peaceful resolution it's creating obstacles yours them to open child for real dialogue. nearly three months of protests around the country have left more than three hundred people dead and many say the crisis is far from over many analysts say the government doesn't really want to negotiate they say it will continue to respond to protests with the use of force as they did here at the church where the students took cover where you're like well i think i can say categorically that the government has obstructed dialogue the talks are going nowhere the government

doesn't want to negotiate they would rather the talks broke down. completely. political opponents say president and his wife vice president do you want to hold onto power indefinitely but the president's allies say our biggest term in office ends in two thousand and twenty one and they will stay. friends have to ask this pleaded to fight the president until he beats office in this small cemetery of the capital they bury their friend singing the national anthem for will for their fallen hero. now when we get our south africa has been marking one hundred years since the birth of former south african president nelson mandela his time in office the birth of the rainbow nation as harlem the taso reports many challenges still remain in post south africa.

nasser attended the truth and reconciliation commission hearings in south africa shortly after apartheid ended she wanted to find out why government soldiers shot her brother at a train station in one thousand nine hundred three she was never really told the truth about why he died and says she can't forgive and forget she's now part of a group where people like her me to try and find a way to heal really wanted you know there were three bodies that lay on the side of the tracks the had been shot a week later we were told his remains were at a mortuary i had to go through body bags looking for him. nelson mandela so that because first black democratically elected leader made reconciliation a priority of his presidency one of his biggest achievements was his role in sitting up a truth and reconciliation commission it investigated crimes committed during apartheid on both sides to try and unify a racially divided nation political analysts say it worked to a certain extent at that time there was uncertainty by the country's future and

whether the different races could live together but more than twenty years later south africa still struggles with the race and other challenges factions in the ruling african national congress threaten to divide the continent's oldest liberation movement millions of black south africans continue to live in shanty towns with little access to running water electricity quality healthcare now also mandela's legacy of father and and reconciliation as mean threatened or will be years by social conflict in south africa this country has one of the highest rates of inequality in the world the poor black majority said they want jobs and land some south africans feel the promises of a better life for all made in one thousand nine hundred four haven't materialized in many countries fifty percent. and are they going to see employment in their lifetime it's a question that needs to be arsed repeatedly some young people born after apartheid are starting to ask questions about with. mandela spent too much time focusing on

reconciliation instead of improving conditions for the poor. and others in her group say they admire my dad his willingness to forgive people even those who refuse to apologize for the crimes they committed german apartheid she says she still trying to find that strength and hopes today's leaders work harder to build a more racially and economically inclusive south africa the kind of country some say mandela would have wanted to see how to al-jazeera. and exactly three weeks time the first wave of u.s. sanctions against iran will come into effect iran's economy as expected to be hard hits and the government is desperately trying to secure support from other nations as a must rob reports at a news conference of iran's atomic energy agency more defiant rhetoric from a government that knows it's running out of time in a matter of weeks more crippling u.s. sanctions will hit the already struggling iranian economy of course to some measure

. the. eventual. eventual increase in the level of. vision if. iran has consistently threatened to restart production of nuclear material that is considered weapons grade. and despite its best intentions leaders here believe europe will be unable to meet obligations under the twenty fifty nuclear deal for now iran is still abiding by that agreement but restarting nuclear activities may be inevitable two thousand and eighteen has already been a difficult year for iran's economy and august sanctions won't be the end of it or sanctions take effect in the event this time targeting the country's biggest source of revenue the oil and gas and earlier this month iran's president was in switzerland and austria to secure trade ties a senior advisor to the supreme leader was in russia to discuss investing in iran's oil industry and iranian on boys were in india and pakistan this week to reaffirm

cooperation in iran also hopes china will continue to be one of its biggest oil buyers even in the face of american threats. iranian leaders are even taking america to court on monday foreign minister zarif announced that iran has filed an official complaint with the un's international court of justice to quote hold us accountable for its unlawful re imposition of unilateral sanctions. as the us president met his russian counterpart in helsinki this week he was also recognized at an awards ceremony and to her on donald trump is the winner of this year's wet gunpowder award an iranian accolade recognizing the most hated international person of the year trump has now won two years in a row. already attend all show mark mr trump we know you as someone who pretends to be a human but you have no human features are told we know you as someone who breaks

probably says i'm sorry for the people of america for having such a president he says one thing and the next hour he says something else iran's money has lost half its value in less than a year trying to do damage control iran's government has been cornered at every turn this may seem like a lot of pomp and circumstance to call the american president names but as the deadline for more sanctions gets closer it seems all iranians have left to do is mock the man they hold responsible zain bus ravi old a zero to her on a ceremony has been held at the international criminal court twenty years since its founding treaty was signed they only see sense not to provide justice for the victims of the world's worst corning's genocide and crimes against humanity john holl is at the hague. critics have called it an expensive display of western arrogance with more than a billion dollars spent on just four convictions so far all of them african some

member nations have threatened to quit but supporters argue the international criminal court does what it set out to do provide justice to victims and a deterrent to perpetrators of some of the world's worst atrocities yes the community has closed it. it may not be perfect it is not perfect by any means but we get going. focus on what happened when there was none at all as the i.c.c. founding statute of rome turns twenty this week commemorative events at its smart new headquarters in the hague look to the future we must. resolve to create a world that's six justice crimes universally applied and blindly. let the world started continue to guide us towards that better future for all the i.c.c. was founded as a permanent court of last resort from which no leader rebel group or army could

hide now despite rumblings among some of its members severe budgetary constraints and the difficulty of arresting indictees without an international police force at its disposal the permanence of this court isn't in doubt but there are significant gaps in its reach and in global commitment to it big powers like russia china and the united states armed members and while cases can be referred to the court by the un security council all of those countries hold veto powers russia is blocking efforts to send syria to the international criminal court even though the assad government really with putin's backing has deliberately targeted civilians as a way of waging this war china seems to be standing in the way of sending myanmar. even though it ethnically cleansed seven hundred thousand muslims in the course of the month you know the united states is continuing to try to protect israel to

protect saudi arabia so there is a very unprincipled approach to international justice all of which puts alleged war crimes in syria and gaza beyond its reach but the i.c.c. is broadening its scope with new investigations in venezuela the philippines georgia and afghanistan but it must also compete with the rise of nationalism and growing disdain for global institutions signs for the strengthening of international justice jonah al-jazeera the hague. that's the top stories now in the u.s. president has been forced to backtrack from his defense of russia. meddling. there was outrage from intelligence agencies which comments during thursday's press conference where the russian president's house thinking he now says he expects

intelligence community's conclusion russia happen meddled in the elections but he maintains that actions have no impact on the result i have full faith and support for america's great diligence agencies always had a i have felt very strongly that well russia's actions had no impact at all on the outcome of the election let me be totally clear in saying that and i've said this many times i accept our intelligence community's conclusion that russia's battling in the two thousand and sixteen election took place. of the people also. a lot of people out there. iraq's prime minister has promised to address the concerns of protesters in the south of the country. battens and rubber hoses to disperse to hundred fifty percent who gathered and signed an oil field in the city of since demonstrations began days ago processed us

have attacked government buildings branches of political policies and even the international airport in the. u.k. based investigative agency has obtained documents revealing and expensive lobbying efforts by the us in britain and the united states the report includes e-mails from an arrow lobbying group time to influence the b.b.c.'s coverage of the arab spring it's alleges secret meetings between abu dhabi's crown prince then british prime minister david cameron with threats to pull out of billions of dollars worth of deals unless the u.k. designated the muslim brotherhood as a terrorist organizations. israel is tightening west two million people living in gaza are further restricting the flow of goods into the territory is planning to ban all fairly. commercial crossing into gaza say with the streams coming next.

hi emily could be today india's economy is booming about many indian women have chosen to remove themselves from the country's labor markets we'll explore some of the reasons why i'm going to have a dean and you're in the stream live on al-jazeera and you tube so tweet us and leave your comments in the chat we'll do our best to get them into the conversation . that i had. them in this new our industry. india is among the world's fastest growing economies but fewer women are

participating in its labor markets the world bank estimates that just twenty seven percent of working age indian women have paid jobs figures for those working in the agricultural sector projected to be even lower the world economic forum's twenty seven thousand global gender gap report also ranked india one hundred eight out of one hundred forty four countries one of the widest gaps in south asia despite increased female enrollment in educational institutions but like countless women around the world many are prevented from joining the workforce to to social and cultural pressures prime minister narendra modi's government is trying to close the labor gap through their promotion of skills programs and in two thousand and seventeen parliament passed a bill to double the amount of paid maternity leave to twenty six weeks but even that move could potentially cause women's jobs to disappear so here with us now to help unpack the reasons why there's been such a drop in india's female labor force participation rate. data journalist based in

chennai india in pretty bad india i need to on is the director for come first india that's a communications consultancy firm and enter in italy share saying barack is the program manager for the international labor organization training center he previously served as deputy director of ilo india welcome everyone. to the stream of course to our online community i want to start with the tabs this article has been circulating online from the economist not too long ago it was released the missing two hundred thirty five million why india needs women to work and in particular scrolling down to the stat here shows that female employment rate in india this is both the formal and the informal economy tumbled from an already low thirty five percent in two thousand and five to just twenty six percent now look many what's going on how do you make sense of back. i think citizens

this is happening on the diseases as movement speaking of education and a family to chose from two weeks to move it doesn't and then. when the economic necessity but some of these and i definitely some of them have to do. something nice i thought that they're just i'm. good enough jobs for women and some of these. it is. even when the family. and i. think. we families. do want to jump in there on your take on why we've seen this significant drop. thanks and i think many hit the nail on a number of the key issues so indeed participation of women has folded as you noted in the intro during

a high period of growth and this is being attributed to you know increased involvement of girls and women in education that's something positive but at the same time there is a concern around access to jobs and i think it's important to stress that the largest pool happened in rural areas that particularly with women withdrawing from agriculture we in itself is something positive in the sense of women withdrawing from the back breaking work in agriculture but the question then remains where are the other jobs that women are aspiring to. you know take up and join that market and you know i'm sure you have something to say about this but before we get to i want to share with you what i asked on our community has said while the literacy rate specifically among female children has increased in india the women in the labor force has drastically decreased there can be plenty of reasons for it she cites lack of support early marriage pregnancy or inability as she says to to

keep up with work and human i guess it's homely duties in your experience what do you think is the cause and what do you make of that juxtaposition. i think it's very true the comment because. you know the india is is a very old and a very traditional society it's very futile it's speech. it's there's a lot of hedge in the and the traditionally roles for men and women have been. very much divided it is very clear that men go out to do the work and women stay home and the whole notion of well work at home is never defined as well when you take care of the home and the children and the spouse. the in-laws the elderly it's never considered well work is defined as something you do when you step out of the house and you get economic compensation and that's globally. the

nomenclature for work but i'm talking specifically about work outside the home that for a very early age both men or women are socialized to believe across the board that women will eventually grow up get married have children and men will grow up and have to work and support their families and despite the fact that we modernized with the fastest growing economy we're very large. and just and adding to what many said there are positive signs the reasons why women are not going to work the fact is that women to be out of the well force is not good for society and not just economically it's because women need to feel relevant outside of the home and the society really it's men and women scientists just jump

in there yes just on that i just on that point i think it's it is important to you know in our in our group in what was just me to just said but i think it's. it's important to stress that you know i think the sixty six and i'm sure all of us are not suggesting women are not working they aren't you know they're working very much in the household is that the burden of domestic care except in the crux of the matter is working outside the home and what are the opportunities and the choice to . join the labor market is find jobs in growing sectors and from another perspective we would stress the importance of accessing well ity employment as well and the opportunity to also start their own businesses and in seeing that perspective i think what it of many just hand out and balancing i mean this is something that actually has toned down reporting around this but i am not personally feeling is because i'm lannister that essentially the government

doubling of maternity leave us is past my second to be an a-list past midnight in that i have not even an evil to do this and i have been to a transmission. hour i think has been that i think that. that in there is a little piece of shading of domestic the mystic burden can't implement and it is much harder going to be too much you know it's interesting we have a video comment talking about. maternity leave specifically let's hear from padma just to see what chance they will come right back. so first let's talk among the organized sector of the media from the beginning the old and i think the face is not lack of modernity him are far too few movies he doesn't put on a t. he's not progressive legislation was gordon which mine down on the mound of maternity leave that women get from twenty three was raised to twenty six weeks the thing is that most small companies whether it be in this emmys or start out they would not though not employ him an add on and give this kind of benefit because

twenty six weeks of unpaid leave the woman busy according to these companies needs them unproductive i think so far from benefiting women that actually may just have work to drive women out of the workforce and again. i mean i see you nodding but were you nodding about well i agree completely with the person which is scary and. i also had twenty eight years ago when i was living in the chilean working for an insurgency i went back after three months. i felt that that that i was to step over i wasn't grist i guess if i was there were like three more months but i do know one thing a lot of work in women's organizations and women have worked for me and i have worked for them that it's very important for women to stay in the war force because like the common man if you're out for twenty six weeks chances are you're going to be

out of the workforce because what comment was very organizations carry on or to have women be away for the law and to rehire you know there's a whole slew of women that are coming to the walk force you know that a lot we are asking for time to take the child to the doctor and to take care of their mother in law or day care of the child because the child is there the all the social conditions which are never discussed actually. these are all statistics. yes. so i mean i think that i think what's so interesting about what you said is that twenty six weeks is too long and this is speaking as someone who is in the unit where we don't have any mandated maternity leave and that sounds like a dream but i want to i want to pick that apart

a little bit and i'll throw that to you took me because i know you're nodding your head there if that is too long and that is the government's plan to help encourage women in the work place in the workforce what that is the answer. so but i disagree that it's too long and i don't think that i am basically in leave because i'm in the position i think of it as if he's leading any give. him any desire to take on me that even. when he says. don't leave and haven't suffered for it in fact of opportunity leaders and that can be a that. and i would see that the employer and the customers mental disability lesions like relieving minimum wages are increasingly. compensation and i believe his employees there's only pushback from them. as a country people who have a clear gulf between the work of benefits and work and. i would run my country what i would want because i'm going to. even put movies be hanged

security. and then let me just jump in there quickly as well. yes sorry i just i don't you know support group he said because you know countries that have even more generous attorney benefits have even a much hyped just gratian rights and have been able to find that speak only bream. you know employees of course. you know supporting the this and of course it does tell some cost but also that the government and workers as well they don't need to be some sharing of those responsibilities and i think you know india is working towards that and that is a positive step but it's not the full picture of course in terms of the response is needed. and it's certainly not you know to try and give a little fuller picture a lot of people talking about you know you mentioned a few other countries making comparisons perhaps to countries in the region but what about the western paradigm in all this venkat on twitter saying for example first of all western media should stop doing the role of women in society through

prison and expect the life of women everywhere to follow the same trajectory as the west reason being modern west as a rights driven society whereas countries like india are duty bound society of course this is an argument we. here often with many issues in terms of you know the lens but then quickly before i hear from you anita on this tweet we just read chandra responding saying i would say that's a regressive thought rooted in our patriarchal society this idea that western culture would take over indian traditions no progress has ever been achieved anywhere in the world by keeping women within the four walls of home and what's wrong in following western culture if it's good for the nation and home and you know you're smiling. i'm not. going love it just that i think that role models are great i think work. developed western on a means especially in europe managed to achieve is awesome seriously but the truth if it is that comparisons can only go so far we can use them as role models but we

also have to look at the reality of india they're yelling at you because we have a very large population that is looking for well and if you extend since we're talking about a maternity act and since many many people have lobbied and it would be very empty feminist and it would be very and you're going to criticize it but i have openly said that it's not a good day because eventually it would be this woman when you look at the big picture it really beatles and employers will push back and say we can do this they're going to not hire women they would not take the women by it's getting to. she looks like he did die get up and then share here then it's right to take on this issue of norms and you know try and. see what the part would be for india you know i think it's important and you know those in india can confirm but you know and it is of young women in particular changed drastically over recent

years with education and in the work that we did and in particular while i was there i saw a very you know very firm views on on their aspirations and their desire to join the workforce in not you know in this arena western contacts for example starting their own businesses or becoming developed his eccentricities we should be careful to assume that you know social norms and the cultural rules are fixed in time because by. then i. should see the progress that is also being made in many areas oh sure you're actually if i ever look say but i think we need to scrutinize the laws and traditions and not saying we should accept them and you're one hundred percent that aspirations of women aspirations of society are changing very rapidly and since i entered the workforce in one nine hundred seventy which is a very long it's amazing it's amazing. and it's such

a joy. for us and it's such a shame that more. i mean because you know because you talked about the reality forgive me i want to just bring this up because we're getting live commentary about what that reality really love is like in india paul saying it's dangerous for example for women to travel to work do the treatment by indian men as perceived by media reports and then we also heard earlier from has son who said this hypersexual is a sign of the indian media landscape combined with the increasing penetration of smartphones has created extremely potent safe spaces and feedback loops indoctrinating and enabling someone a society defined by a heavily stratified social structure and he goes on to describe how you know it's a bit verbose but his point there being that it can have a positive and a negative in fact do you think that's true in the hyper sexualized of women in media maybe we can ask where is that is that in fact are. well i don't know if i could comment on that. but i think it is true that safety is

a concern and safety for women particularly this will act as a barrier so you know i would discourage women from from working or commuting to work etc so there out there are concerns deep in the metros around the safety of women. maybe others are better. you know positions which are comments on. the underlying issues around safety are concerning and the steps are being taken in cities to try to improve so if you security but these this remains a key challenge i can see written and any nodding their heads there i want to i want to bring up this week that we've got many and i'll track this to you this is from peter who is talking about something that i need to brought up she said we need to scrutinize our traditional norms so peter here says well a lack of support from families combined with stereotypical belief that women should be concerned with domestic chores more than the corporate world is playing into this i pulled up this headline here someone who might seem to agree from life

meant the marriage penalty on women in india wrote me what i'm wondering though is that india is not unique in this we see this all over the world and indeed even in the united states and western countries so what is it that makes india unique. there's definitely a combination of issues that i think one thing that's important is that the the felted unarmed and the guys didn't notice fictions and then in some sense get thoughts about it and they can mention india then. that is brought into it i think you know maybe talked about motive like station countries or even some other south asian countries and such again so it doesn't but i think that this is that these numbers are being carried out in india this focus is being put on in europe because sometimes you know these issues on discuss what example and then they just. look like the distance to the ends of it isn't that people don't usually associate get

that example head governing you know the people were not fit to speak about of this station that there's this is equally a debate that should be happening in india you know distinctions i'm women's ownership of. property all of the means on bank accounts essentially have to sort of usually just in the strongest six hundred mins or doesn't mean. how much how much is education factor into this and yet i'm curious because a lot of the comments we do have talked about educating women educating children education opportunities leading to to employment and a country on twitter says educating our brothers fathers friends is hard to do because of the taboo discussion but it is the only way we can dispel the myths around women hood women are brought up to think their existence burden society how is that empowering as our you are brought up and is not a factor in this preventing women in the workforce. i was rather very differently i

had a very progressive parents and no brothers in the family so there was no no need to favor one sex and with the other so i was one of the lucky ones but i think that is a tremendous school for awareness raising and many women's organizations and some men's of medicines are doing this in india but i want to point out something which i think is is quite deeply entrenched in indian society and molokai us this question of looking really about what makes you need i don't know if you need is the work but it's a particular problem we have in any any society that is moving from a traditional and leap frogging into a modern society so in some ways you know we say we're empowering women we're giving them choices we're giving them education we're giving them degrees and skills and of course we can will do well they get to be equal to men ok we sail that but deep down there is

a deep distrust of women and if we give them too much freedom what they're going to do with that if we allow them to work and make their own money are they going to become the bosses of men are they going to start pushing families around is it going to go to the head so in some ways it's a very schizo finnick kind of messaging that comes to women for example goes up well you can be whatever you want to be but we know that's not true because we lost in the issues to point it was you look at sexual harassment the right section has spent in public johns or on the street you know so there are all these obstacles that we must consider and i mean obviously our family structures and relationships and dynamics are shifting and all of that schizophrenia to use your word a mere want to say in the sharing one experience this is her personal experience in a joint family to go to. lucky enough to find hanley.

quite an apologist chinese. model or an experience congressman and comedian partington it should be an equally important to the army to be able to provide jobs or tell the world to women who do want that. and that again something utterly sure that there is

a significant percentage of women who are in. need work life and the ability and health that domestic you didn't tell you or anyone to deliver will want to have that kind of need to be providing justice and partly through funding for the evening and. share yeah well i just you know that's that's really spot on because i would stress that word choice and i think no one is suggesting that women have to work because in the poorest countries in the world the labor force participation of women is the highest because they had no choice but to work it's really about the choice to go to work and also work decent work jobs productive jobs and so this is really the crux and i think you know porton positive trend has been the increased education of of girls and young women in india then a really important gains have been made in the two thousand during this period but that you know the the real challenge is once these young women have education and

you know there's a passing you know boys in secondary school they're you know up to twenty six percent of circle for young women in tertiary education once they had this education how they're able to use it in terms of accessing better quality jobs in where they are and this is where you know these some of these constraints still matter so if you know rural part of india and you have some education what are your choices why are you going to have to move to a city or can you work me by and this is what i've heard also doing field work in hope parts of rural to predation you know the largest indian state in the north and spatial right to some of the laws you know i mean some of these poorest communities you know. goes i'm getting educated and this really blows it by this i'm well work wise alex would be in this village well the next village that's right it's a restricted thing barrack i have to pause you there thank you so much for your thoughts and need to on and rock many of us thank you for being part of our conversation that's all the time we have for now but of course you can continue this discussion by following us on twitter or act a.j.

stream the next time. a bit of a strange day to start the center fuse we just heard today to city of aleppo has fallen. or should we say liberated. one. for astonishing stories tode and their own why it's how did

you know who to trust and not to trust. a stranger came to town witness on al-jazeera. i don't really still liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as it always does with his job. a remarkable portrait of remove japanese from the in the aftermath of the two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami. seventy years later how has the community of media call been able to move on and rebuild their lives. in japan aftermath of a catastrophe on al-jazeera. the nature of news as it breaks although thousands of women have reported rape and other sexual atrocities in south sudan's war threats are going to save this figure is likely much higher

with detailed coverage nearly fifty schools took part in the drive each one responsible for collecting at different aida school supplies clothing from around the world settle for whole is still very new hebrides players are very confident they won't be able fully maybe will want to play on the international studies. at arm suits us in london with the top stories. the u.s. president has been forced to backtrack from his defense of russia relegations of election meddling there was outrage from all parties on the intelligence agencies i would all chance comments during thursday's news conference when the russian president in helsinki he now says he accepts the intelligence community's conkling sion that russia hot metal in the elections but he maintains their actions had no impact on the results. i have full faith and support for america's great and value

to its agencies always had and i have felt very strongly that well russia's actions had no impact at all on the outcome of the election let me be totally clear in saying that and i've said this many times i accept our intelligence communities conclusion that russia's meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election took place could be other people also. a lot of people out there. the white house correspondent can really help the latest. what i noted first of all was the fact that the president was sticking to the script something that he rarely does he almost was reading this very much example of the white house in damage control mode where the communications team has worked very hard to parse the statements of the

president and what he said in helsinki and try to turn it into something other than what many people believe they witnessed and that was a president standing apart from his intelligence agencies and the conclusion that russia meddled in the twenty sixteen u.s. election what was very notable was the president says when he spoke and said that in fact he doesn't see any reason why russia would have meddled in the twenty sixteen election it's that word would that he says was actually incorrect what he meant to say was i so see no reason why it wouldn't. now i'm getting myself twisted but the point is is that he says that word is really critical that was misperceived and that is what spawned this out of control essentially what he was trying to portray was that he has never departed from what the intelligence agencies have been saying all along he says that he has been consistent all along

and this was simply. misspeaking in that one critical word but i also found really interesting so you see what you make of this but when he first said that he has the full faith and support of u.s. intelligence agencies bizarrely the lights dimmed in the room and the president had to start speaking once again and really played his statement or say it one more time i don't know what you make of that but certainly interest added to the drama in what has been a very intense and very perplexing twenty four to forty eight hours iraq's prime minister. has promised to address the concerns of presences in the south of the country. and rubber hoses to dispense with a fifty percent since the governor was selling an oil field leave the city of basra some inspirations being in the ring days ago. to government buildings launches of political policies on the even stormed the international airport in the general. the u.k. based investigative agency has obtained documents revealing an expensive lobbying

efforts. in britain and the united states the report includes e-mails from an emerald lobbying group attempting to influence the b.b.c.'s coverage of arab spring and so ledges and secret meetings between crown prince then prime minister david cameron with threats to pull out of billions of dollars worth of deals alessi u.k. designated the muslim brotherhood as a terrorist organization israel is tightening its own almost two million people living in gaza are further restricting the flow of goods into the territory is planning to ban all fuel imports through the. crossing which is the sole commercial crossing into gaza residents are reliant on the imports as a territory only get six hours electricity a day as the top stories next up its al-jazeera world.

won't honor god. god . in the egyptian capital cairo a chinese community has established itself reflecting the growing business relationship between egypt and china. the two countries have developed a robust relationship in recent years overall trade between egypt and china has

exceeded eleven billion u.s. dollars. egypt has awarded lucrative construction contracts to chinese companies and indorsed china's plans to build a global trade route the road in the belt initiative. the chinese community in egypt has grown to more than ten thousand. this is the story of the chinese who came to study work and opened businesses here. and who have discovered an affinity for the life and culture of the most populous arab country. to lead you to listen. to when this is yes it's a. home that in.

that fashion on. the walk. around the cheers. from you would. go. if you try to push up on you in the shoes you. are sure. it's. true that they're for that. well don't. easy your. eyes. starting in one nine hundred fifty four egypt was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic and economic relations with the people's republic of china.

in one thousand nine hundred five china and egypt signed a trade agreement that boosted business relations. cheap goods and services flowed from china into egyptian markets. by two thousand and two china had become egypt's six largest trading partner. today that relationship has grown further and china is now egypt's second largest trading partner. but on a much smaller individual scale bean and her brother won't change seized a local business opportunity and sell clothes in the cities and rural areas.

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