in their own words how did you know to trust them not to trust. a stranger came to town witness on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. watching the news hour live from sixty minutes of news and comment today after a day of rapidly escalating tensions hamas says calm has been restored with israel . in syria government forces move closer to reclaiming complete control of the country sucks. donald trump up says threats in the growing trade war with china.

also ahead the new president finds a new enemy in the country's catholic bishops. a friday a protest son death along the gaza fence with israel has been followed by a truce but also a great deal of uncertainty palestinian factions say they've agreed to what they call a return to calm starting at midnight but there's been no official confirmation of that from israel charles stratford begins our coverage. these men say it's their duty as palestinians to protest against israel's occupation. they put together their kite clipping its tail which they say will keep it balance as it carries the burning cloth over gaza's border fence they soak the sackcloth in petrol and oil because they say it helps it slowly. we are here to prove to the whole world that we will never leave and we're going to launch burning kites towards that

occupied land and i'm not afraid of the israelis only afraid of. from us leader ismail haniya sits close by he has come to support the protest as. i must say the kites and balloons to carry the burning rags into israel are a peaceful form of protest israeli snipers have been targeting balloons that the protesters have been launching well behind the main demonstration these protesters say they will continue launching their fights holding those incendiary devices until israel lifts the siege. the men like the rag and the kite drifts all too and now it's the build a fence israel says spies started by protesters have destroyed large areas of crops and private planned. protests to set fire to tires which they uses color from his radio on the snipers positioned along the fence. he's ready tanks talk to hamas

positions along the border often news that an israeli soldier had been injured these radio me later reported that the soldier had died from his wounds in the protesters climbed the walls of a building being used by the israeli soldiers. the army responded with tear gas a mold sounded like live ammunition. and is ready drone flew overhead one hundred forty protesters have been killed since the weekly demonstrations started four months ago the israeli army shot this man in the leg during a protest in april i'm not bojo to sell to the left by sending a message to the occupiers that this is our land and you came and took it from us you jews who came from france and england and around the world here it is our land and we inherited it from all grandfathers and before them. the israeli government is under pressure by some politicians to launch a large scale military offensive to stop the protesters. as the day ended

israeli fighter jets targeted various hamas bases across gaza including this one in the densely populated neighborhood of z. tune. the ministry of health says at least three civilians were injured in this attack. but al-jazeera gaza al-jazeera as mohammed jump jhoom following developments out of west jerusalem after hours of escalation in gaza has a cease fire been reached well that very much depends on who you ask according to hamas a cessation of hostilities has actually been achieved how must postmen fozia but whom issuing a statement saying that with egyptian and united nations efforts it has been agreed to return to the era of calm between israel and palestinian factions that all being said however israel israel's army has not commented on if a cease fire has actually been reached we've been reaching out to them repeatedly since the and now it's meant by hamas that that cease fire has been reached there

has been no comment from israel's army the last several hours we have heard from israel's army that operations have been ongoing in the gaza strip that israel's army had targeted upwards of sixty five targets also there had been reports through israeli media outlets that for the last several hours israel security cabinet have been meeting to discuss the ongoing operations in the gaza strip we've also reached out to israeli officials and israel's army trying to find out what if anything was being discussed and when that meeting might end but no details have been forthcoming all of this of course happening at a time when tensions were already escalating now the question have has a cease fire actually been reached is it going to remain calm or will tension once again flare up. let's talk now to jeremy pressman he's associate professor of

political science and director of the middle east studies department at the university of connecticut he joins us on skype journey pressman clearly if this column is going to turn into something more substantial there has to be strategic level negotiations if that happens where would it come from well in the past it would usually come from the united states but the united states has affectively sidelined itself you need a really costly relationship so we were looked at other possibilities maybe the united nations could clear all of the special coordinator has been quite vocal you know in the last week or so about trying to deescalate so that's one of the possibilities but we're in new territory here with the trumpet ministration approach what's happened to the cushion a peace plan or his his saying i've got people on board and everyone wants peace but then what that was a month ago now that's gone precisely no place i assume. yeah well that they've had a very difficult time as we all know in their relations with the with the

palestinian authority and absent a relationship with at least part of the palestinian national movement it's very difficult to put a floor any kind of negotiations that require both the government of israel and the palestinian authority to be to be present just in recent days we've seen an important opinion piece written by three of the most important u.s. officials involved in this mr bush or the master friedman and jason green blair and the opinion piece in the washington post did not indicate in any way i think any kind of ability to mediate between the two sides as opposed to a preference for endorsing the israeli position on the current fighting are the palestinians more splintered than the should be if they want to achieve peace here i mean you've got hamas and fattah historically of course that's a very difficult relationship but on top of that you've got the people that are organizing they're organizing the marches on the ground every friday right up to the border with israel and they're sending out messages that don't chime in their

entirety with what how massive saying. i think that i think that's fair i'm not sure what should be but i can tell you that in a practical sense the splintering of the powers the new national movement between hamas and fatah in part plays into israel it sounds right it allows the government officials play the two parties or two sides affably each other but it also suggests that there without reconciliation without those two parties coming together it's going to be very difficult for any international media here to patch together some kind of package of steps and agreements that could lead us away from this kind of constant up and down of the tactical exchanges the only suffering particular on the palestinian side but suffering that goes on and we have to imagine things like p.t.s.d. on both sides as a result of the fighting but absent the ability of hamas and fatah to work together

in some way i think it's going to be difficult to move beyond that is there any chance for a little bit of movement given that israel and the state the obvious here has one prime minister we've got benjamin netanyahu it's not the similar scenes to the going back to the early ninety's when we had benjamin netanyahu a good barak followed by ariel sharon you know the israeli prime minister's job kind of lurched to the right of a neutral ground that arguably existed but then disappeared way way back. right benjamin netanyahu has been one of the longest serving israeli prime ministers he's closing in as we know it was prime minister in the one nine hundred ninety s. and now he's closing in on another decade of serving as prime minister someone who has been quite adept at managing israeli domestic politics and staying in power that said his particular ideology and ideology of many of the ministers in the israeli government right now is not an ideology that's particularly open to him but

r.j. the idea of palestinian self-determination and certainly not an ideology that's welcoming of the notion of a two state solution which as you suggested earlier periods particularly one nine hundred ninety s. at least there was a back and forth in the israeli body politic about a two state solution so i think on the one hand you could say you have a powerful prime minister who is in a you know you know been in a pretty strong domestic position for a number of years on the other hand you don't have an ideology that is particular compatible with the kind of resolution that the international community has viewed as the most likely resolution a two state solution ok jeremy good to talk to as ever thanks very much ok thanks for having syrian rebels in the southwest province of can a truck have started leaving the area after giving up their fight against government forces now the surrender is a big victory for the president bashar al assad his forces are close to reclaiming complete control of the south of the country has laura but in many a month of intense government bombardment in southwest syria and the devastation

it's clear the military offensive started by government forces backed by the russian ally a trying to recapture dura in the neighboring province of can a trial. surrendering control of draw city one of the last remaining rebel strongholds would be a major defeat for the opposition. drop the birthplace of the syrian uprising seven years ago from where protests against regime's torture of teenagers spread nationwide. i in some areas near syria's border with the israeli occupied golan heights government bombs have been replaced by buses in deal struck last month between the syrian government and rebel fighters anyone who refuses to live under the rule of president bashar assad so we move to the eclipse province in the north the displaced populations

which i think this time it's around two hundred thousand people fortunately going to face the same. the same conditions faced by other communities who have left. and in homs before and most likely to be taken to. dozens of displaced syrians thought refuge from bombing near the it's radio golan heights last week but were turned back by israeli border guards. people left their homes weeks ago looking for safety trying to protect their families they have been stranded without shelter without. without any kind of help but a while and what we are asking for is an act alone in the fighting or even it's very able to reach the population. the can a trivial is similar to others elsewhere in syria. buses transporting people from

for want of trying to government house areas and the latter had their windows smashed by rattles besieged and the three years. hundreds of rebel prisoners the g. to be released in return although some intensely displaced syrians are now making their way back home it's a small percentage of more than six million who fled since starting the war nor about a manly al-jazeera those morons still to cover for you here on the news hour including these ones trade and investment the focus as the chinese president makes his first official visit to west africa. as warnings grow that the u.k. could crash out of the e.u. with no deal we'll look at what that could mean for people in the u.k. and across europe. and in the sports news as tiger woods is facing a tall order at the open we'll have the details in about thirty.

nicaragua's president has now turned on to catholic bishops trying to mediate between anti-government protesters and the official forces and paramilitaries who rallied against them daniel ortega has called the bishop's satanical terrorists and coup mongers in addressing crowds on the thirty ninth anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power the same six year old protesters to end what he says is a u.s. backed conspiracy to topple him nearly three hundred people have been killed in antigovernment demonstrations in the past three months mariana sanchez has more now from a neighborhood in the city of messiah. the situation has finished three days ago when members of the police and paramilitary forces attacked and cleared the roadblocks that have been set up for nearly three months here in the neighborhood of money in the city of. the situation is calm there are some cars

there are some people going out slowly. but a lot of fear i can tell you few. food vendors here tell me that this is the first day that they have been able to go out to sell their food in three months and of course there are paramilitary forces going around patrolling this area they are massed they are armed they go in their vehicles that are have no plates and a lot of fear of course because the their presence for the people here is very intimidating. the british man who became ill after coming into contact with the nerve agent has been released from hospital charlie rowley was admitted last month his partner died after also being exposed to the couple found a bottle containing not a child in the city of seoul spring where the former russian double agents and his daughter were poisoned the u.k.

government has blamed russia for the attack on the script miles. the european union says the u.k.'s new brics it plan is constructive but there are still concerns about the withdrawal agreement that u.k.'s prime minister's reason may is balancing the demands of the prove that faction within her party with the need to maintain close ties to the e.u. after london formally leaves john a whole new story. could this be the reason may's last stand she was in northern ireland promoting the benefits of a vision for break city upon which her survival is staked a deal that would keep close trade ties between the u.k. and the european union in return she said the e.u. needed to evolve its negotiating position and then there was this the reality is that any agreement we reach with the you would have to provide for the friction this movement of goods across the northern border equally clear is that as the united kingdom government we could never accept that the way to prevent

a hard border with ireland is to create a new border within the united kingdom and with that to resume a rejected the e.u.'s idea of a backstop or contingency plan that would see northern ireland maintaining special ties to the e.u. in the event that no deal is reached over breaks it with a new economic border emerging between northern ireland and the rest of the u.k. and since a no deal scenario is on everyone's lips at the moment with the venal nature of british politics right now that seems like pretty serious stuff it wasn't long before the e.u. used chief negotiator responded the block he said saw some basis for negotiation in the prime minister's plan but the absence of an agreed backstop was something the e.u. couldn't accept we are open to any sort of issues. any solutions as long as. it can be transformed into a legally operative text. for do we draw agreement q predictions not for the first

time in recent weeks of to resume a's imminent political demise the e.u. cannot sign off a deal without a backstop to reason maze of actually torpedo that option social. and i would almost certainly perceive state her resignation but not just yet for now the british government's plan remains alive and with it just about mrs may's premiership tone how al-jazeera london the new york times is reporting the doll transform a lawyer michael cohen secretly taped a discussion with him about payments to an ex playboy model who claims to have an affair with mr trump the newspaper says the f.b.i. seized the recording in april during a raid on cohen's office he's being investigated for tax fraud and campaign lore violations ahead of trump's twenty sixteen election current lawyer rudolph giuliani has confirmed mr trump did discuss the payments with cohen on the tape but says the payments were never made it is

a white house correspondent kimberly hulk it. this recording seems to reveal the president discussing with his personal attorney michael cohen the payment of house money in the form of check fully one hundred fifty thousand dollars this is problematic for the president given that he has denied he ever had an affair with karen mcdougal the playboy model the white house saying this was fake news and that the president never had such a relationship the recording seems to contradict that statement of course the president at the time of this alleged affair also married with an infant son certainly problematic on a personal level so this really brings up the question of what the president knew and when he knew it it's also a concern given the fact that there is a separate investigation that is ongoing in all of this and that is the one being conducted by robert muller the special counsel well these two investigations are separate the one into michael cohen trumps personal attorney and the one into

whether or not there was russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election and whether the trunk campaign colluded with russia with this information is shared it could be problematic for the president given the fact that if michael cohen in order to save himself from the charges he is currently facing he could decide to cooperate with the special counsel and that could certainly be risky for donald trump the chinese president xi jinping is on his first official visit to west africa one of the stops is senegal will be joining is the largest foreign investor to shoes trip the chinese population there excited nicolas reports now from the capital dhaka. until two years ago shimla and was a rice farmer in henan province in northern china now he's making the final touches for the you know gratian city girls first wrestling stadium. is due to be open on saturday by china's president xi jinping who's making his first visit to west africa. no detail is being spared for his arrival everything has to be perfect for

time and you'll learn a former restaurant owner from sichuan who is now a mason. thank you we've been working here for years we're proud of what we've done and we want people in china to know what we've built here it's more than just a stadium with one point six billion dollars in investment the chinese government says it's senegal's largest foreign investor and with it has come an influx of chinese migrants who've made to carve their home this is where they live chinatown is right on the capital's main avenue most migrants come from china's poor provinces after working in construction some set up shop selling chinese goods descending lease customers. that i have been living here fifteen years my system my aunts my brother in law all own a shop around the corner senegal is my country too. although there are no government migration statistics as to it's range from two hundred fifty thousand to

two million chinese living in africa who are not at all welcome dozens of chinese vendors have been killed in the past five years no arrests have been made. with so many chinese riot grants to make this place their home there's a. anti chinese sentiment not just here in senegal but throughout africa and so china's government is now on a charm offensive trying to win over hearts and minds in countries it's investing in. this is one of forty newly opened confucius institutes in africa here the chinese state offers classes in the martial art type cheat and making green tea as well as mandarin language lessons for adults and children. i want to see the great wall of china eat their food and speak their language because my mom says it will be useful one day she didn't bring is due to sign additional agreements with senegal's president mikey sol including the first chinese garment factories in west

africa promising thousands of new jobs for both senegalese workers and chinese migrants alike. nicholas hawke al-jazeera the car waves of plastic and deborah you have washed up on the coast of the dominican republic conservationists say they've already removed thirty tons of garbage at a beach in the capital santa domingo but there's just so much of it that the military has been called in to help with the cleanup operation charles morris founder of. research foundation a member of the plastic pollution coalition he joins us from long beach california charles moore across the atlantic in the pacific where are we right now in the fight against these these massive spaces of floating plastic. we're losing the battle i predicted this twenty years ago that it would happen when i discovered the great pacific garbage patch that dozens of miles from shore now it's invading the

biosphere it's in our salt our sugar our water our air our honey our beer and just because we see big pieces floating up now people are taking notice but when you see a bunch a little bit plastic you gotta understand there's a bunch of micro a now no size plastic as well and that's invading our bodily tissues so this is a worldwide problem and we've got to deal with it and it's invading our bodily tissues because it's also invading the bubbly tissues of the fishes yes and it's not only through and eating fish it's also through breathing our air just used to be mineral in nature now dust is a all american pound. is it too late. it's too late to put the genie back in the bottle but it's not too late to turn around our probably got lifestyles we got to stop throwing things away

everything is a resource everything can be really used everything can be put back into service it's got to be respected but it's also got to be feared or plastic gives us a great amount of freedom and we must not abuse it is it as simple as saying to people you should not use that use it and been it plastic water bottle or use it and been it plastic stroll use it and been the one the one use coffee cup that you get on the way to the office. area the big ones were the size of city blocks but cannot take why ask if its volume is so great all the ends are overwhelming every been in every city that i visit is overwhelming we've got to reduce the amount of plastic that we consume it's plastic substitutes for things that were formerly really usable here in our office we sell reuse of old bill of all things you use over and over again and we must that

constantly be throwing stuff away in order to make new stuff the issue that you're talking about here as a central issue has the time now come for that to be front and center the only issue that governments around the world deal with i mean i'm thinking about the paris climate accord talks about pollution talked about lessening lowering levels of pollution if you look at say the w c o's website it talks about international trade but being good for pollution so the issue is existing on the periphery of what these big global organizations that bring governments together want to achieve but instead of that has the time come to flip it and make plastic in oceans the only issue that another organization focuses on. well you got a point there and let me tell you why. in a sense we've given up on climate change we're all talking about adapting to it now we're not talking about reversing it we must not get to that point with plastic

where we talk about adapting to plastic pollution we expect the ocean to be have plastic have fish by is a middle of the century given current lifestyles and current production figures we must not let that happen we must not adapt to it and this is something we can stop it's we've been talking as an environmentalist about externalities of our capitalist system for decades now the xterm now these are visible they're absolutely shocking and people can make choices so yes the time is now to put it on the front burner if we don't we're going to see awful horrible dantes and furnace of plastic surrounding our biosphere in living in between landfills that's will be the only space available what does this potentially do to the food chain not just the food chain but the food chain in the oceans because

fish mammals they we designed to process vitamin fruits meat chicken at central all those things fish are designed to just digest food they're not made to just digest plastic is this going to lead to certain species becoming extinct. that was our focus myself as a researcher will be leaving on a voyage august sixth article are the most common fish in the ocean fish you've never heard of the lantern this family make total today makes is the largest bird road on the planet and big or accident prone they've seen it on the surface at night they eat plastic and they're becoming less spit they're the base of the food web in the ocean if we give them non nutritive food which actually has parts of genet so not only are we private in them putting them want to plastic diet depriving them of calories we're also giving them persistent organic pollutants

instead so we're reducing the nose of the entire biosphere and the ocean and we're next will land is not exempt the ocean is just the canary in the coal mine it's the signal it's downhill from everywhere it's showing us the result first we're next charles a really open conversation thank you so much charles moore the founder of the marine research foundation. still to come here on the news for you and weeks off to an election triumph a ten million dollars fine for the posse of mexico's president elect. and pakistan's pressure to a minority prepared to vote in the autonomous tribal regions first general election and the sports news will tell you which formula one team dominated practice at a german course we will follow in about fifteen minutes. i. mean the weather sponsored by cattle.

welcome back southern china and indochina are looking very lively weather wise at the moment this area of rain we've got is partly as a result of the tropical storm will form a tropical storm. across northern vietnam through especially and also into b.m.r. is going to be very wet indeed we've had huge amounts of rain coming down a lot more to come and i think this low pressure center will probably inch use more showers to come off the bay of bengal as well so very wet indeed further north where the conditions all look rossetti fine and dry but so move on through into sunday you can see this circulation coming into the shanghai region and this is another tropical storm system it won't reach typhoon status but it is likely to bring some very heavy rain to shanghai of the following twenty four hours a bit of a storm surge as well possible with it now as you move down the southeastern parts of asia it's really heavy rain over across thailand parts of cum bodi vietnam and

also northern parts of the philippines the first so if you get across the region generally the better it is once you get into java bali it should be dry and fine but we have got showers across a scattering of showers across border and then up through the main we've got fine conditions then for singapore and kuala lumpur but again getting up to bangkok showers are likely highs here thirty two. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. seems. to me to. be public support. some discussion. questions like this what comes to mind how do you respond before how. could we see. winning programs. around the. houses here the pressure for fifteen thousand people posing an imminent threat to israeli snipers

as they were. told israeli diplomats. people are going to write no no they are the same thing then when the bay are sending them to die it's a cultural tradition when they come and attack us it's a war zone he was attacking his son goes head to head with. what israel's doing is deliberately choosing to slaughter houses. al-jazeera. welcome back this is the al-jazeera news out these are your headlines palestinian factions have agreed to return to calm with israel after a day of violence along the fence separating gaza and israel and hamas spokesman

saying the agreement was mediated by egypt and the u.s. for palestinians and an israeli soldier died in the latest violence on friday. syrian rebels in the southwestern province of kony truck started leaving the area after giving up their fight against government forces the president bashar al assad's government is now close taking back complete control of the country. the girl he was president has turned on catholic bishops have been trying to mediate months of violent on breast daniel ortega called the satanic cult terrorists and coup mongers speaking on the thirty ninth anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power. the authorities in pakistan say they've identified the suicide bomber behind an attack at an election rally that killed one hundred forty nine people the blast last week in the us told in the southwest targeted the candidate siraj aris amy who

was killed police say the attacker hafiz now was and his brother were from the southern sindh province and they were members of the isolating group lashkar e jhangvi. well the news comes as pakistan's autonomous tribal region prepares to vote for the first time in next week's general election it is home to five million people mainly from the pashtun ethnic group they say they've been victims of government oppression including ethnic stereotyping and forced disappearances military operations against armed groups in the region have displaced large numbers of people as more now from the tribal pass to belt the khyber agency. are getting ready. for the country but for the tribal book. it is more. for a time. guarded. by treasure and if you're going to

a problem. we have. their tribe or. they really are all the harder. and they will spend their efforts and for their. pride and this is after all and. they are always. well worn. and. there's a good representative. in the tribe and. the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei says economic sanctions need to be fully enforced against north korea to keep pressure on for denuclearization mr pompei o made the comments after meeting south korea's foreign minister can walk and u.n. officials to brief them on the ongoing talks with pyongyang also accused north

korea of illegally smuggling petroleum and coal in violation of u.n. sanctions the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley also called on the security council to stay strict with pyongyang. we can't do one thing until we see north korea respond. to their promise to denuclearize we have to see some sort of action and so until that action happens the security council's going to hold tight the international community we ask you to hold tight as we go forward u.s. president donald trump says he's ready to put tariffs on five hundred five billion dollars worth of chinese imports now washington has so far impose tariffs on thirty four billion dollars of chinese products which beijing immediately counted the international monetary fund is warning the tit for tat tariffs could damage the global economy i raised fifty were down five hundred some people would say three

hundred seventy five billion i'm not talking about a million i'm not talking about pennies i'm talking about we're down three hundred seventy five billion but other estimates could say five hundred seven it doesn't matter so it's in between there or it's there we're down a tremendous amount i raised fifty and they matched us as a. movement at a key crossing terminal in the libyan tunisian border has been suspended for more than a week a local chain as soon leaders are prevented libyans from entering the country in a tit for tat response to the libyan customs officers preventing certain goods from entering tunisia. reports now from the border. the route to the russes deal terminal is almost deserted. and security officers say only libyans seeking medical treatment are allowed to cross the border into tunisia the border gate has been closed by tunisian customs officers for ten days now dozens of trucks have been turned away some carrying food others transporting.

traders are preventing libyans from entering the capital tunis by sitting up road blocks between being good down city that is in these plans to a decision by libya's customs agents to benton asians from taking libya in goods. libya's government says libyan exports to tunisia harm the economy libyan border officers say they close the border white diplomats in the foreign ministries of both countries work to find a solution. for you made before quite often. we have the sort of the stop libyans from moving into the newsy inside just to protect them that's because they've been abused there and it's an easy enough dorothy's have been sending them back. to going home aren't sure if they will be able to return to libya a balloon where he can hardly carry all his belongings and rest is for a while before his exit he cannot hide his frustration. confessional.

i know i might not be able to get back to my work in libya but i'm very sick and i have to go home to get medical treatment what can i do i have no other choice. during the past few years the russes dave terminal has been closed several times due to unrest on the tunisian side of the border that affects many people especially tunisian traders but many libyan travelers here say the deletion of the route is sure doing enough to ensure their safety libyans returning home from the capital tunis have histories deterred khalifa bushido was planning to spend every occasion with his family in tunis but was turned back he says they had to make a one hundred and fifty kilometers detour to alternative border crossing at was in . after we left the tunisian customs gate

locals stopped us then the authorities there asked us to wait we were stuck a whole night in the car it was terrible there us is deal terminal crossing is a lifeline for tunisians whole make their living by trading across the border and vice versa for libyans too until the dispute is resolved maybe travelers would likely have only a one way trip home. would have to do a hit. on the libyan tunisian border. and ethiopian journalist has been reunited with his family after eighteen years in eritrea as capital as mara in two thousand hugged his wife and its low who is eritrean took their two teenage daughters back to her home country for a visit but soon the two sides were in a state of war and for eighteen years there was no transport no transport links telephone lines or postage between the two nations but after ethiopian airlines flights to us mara resumed this week reconnected with wife and children and met his

grandson for the first time. and there are other planets in the moon other than again now the darkness is gone and i'm able to see my wife and sunshine for my children and i've met my grandson it's like winning the lottery without buying a ticket. i spent years going to church and crying there so that my children would not see me today this emotion is not really crying it's like a laugh because the time of cry is over if european parliament has passed an amnesty bill for those arrested during protests and twenty fifteen and twenty seventeen the prime minister has overseen the release of thousands of political prisoners ended a state of emergency and announced an economic liberalization plan but many of the appears you say only democratic elections will save their country as mohamed atta when a group of young men started protesting here against the location of us school playground

told private developer little did they know all the while starting a movement that they've been trying to lead to a change of leadership after days of protests in the spall town dudes in other parts of all media neighboring them harder region become protesting for political rights university student. was one of the first to protest in. you know both or neither but i mean. it's a sieve everyone else lived in for a treat on their planned expansion of and a city which would take only land from many for most part one of the african grievance parady upon and then we started calling for more freedoms. hundreds of people were killed during two years of protests from two thousand and fifteen tens of thousands wod arrested. as one of the protesters at the literalist from prison is just chest was tortured in prison they would he to me all over until i fainted no medical treatment was it not. tensions among the four parties in the

ruling coalition on how to deal with the protest led to the resignation of the then prime minister olmert imbecile and after weeks of closed door negotiations forty two year old former army officer. was elected prime minister by coalition members the new prime ministers from the ethnic group his elevation loadout intended as an olive branch to the restive or more region. during the proctors the people of this region and what they call the historical margin lies the short of what people emphasize that they had been pushed to the margins of mainstream midfield here three months after one of their own was elected to lead the country some here are still uncertain whether i'd be about their presence but noodle there why did they think. we consider him just a pin i'm not a cure what ails ethiopia the future depends on the next election with and whether

they are free and fair since taking office in approve the new prime minister has hit the ground running promising widespread economic and political reforms and ordered the release of political prisoners in their thousands the prime minister fully believes on love unity as well as forgiveness saw. the chasing everybody resign. every issue is we need to release them all though he enjoys considerable support prime minister but faces the challenge of calming the angle of ethiopia's young people and there are many of them in the population of one hundred million who complained they are politically and economically marginalized he will have to deal with hints of discontent within the ruling coalition whose one hundred and eighty council members are far from unanimously behind him. al jazeera. mexico's president elect is being condemned for his response to

a ten million dollars fine imposed on his party for violating campaign finance laws the penalty on andrus manuel lopez obrador as party was imposed on western states john holeman is in mexico city. miscarries president elect andres manuel lopez obrador ran a one a landslide victory on a promise to eradicate corruption but already his party morena has been fined around ten million dollars for irregularities during the campaign the national electoral institute has penalized the party for setting up a trust fund for earthquake victims it says that the fund should have been set up by a political party and the way it was fed in part with big anonymous cash payment was also against the law corruption experts we've talked to said that the judgment of the electoral authorities seems based on sound evidence what's particularly worrying they say is lopez obrador is reaction to it he's called it a bio act of revenge by authorities after his win now this is

a pleader who's opponents have often said that he doesn't respect the country's often severely flawed institutions and attacking the country's electorate authority in this way before he's even in power is not going to do anything to dispel those criticisms now india testing ways to restrict how users in india forward content is the latest attempt to curb violence and lynching sparked by a rumor spread on the popular the facebook owned firm says what's the users everywhere will now be able to forward messages just twenty people instead of two hundred fifty six but the more than two hundred million indian users won't be allowed to forward to more than five people at once it'll also remove the quick forward button next to media messages to deter the mass forwarding of photos and videos but the company has rejected demands from the indian government to enable the tracing of messages. in the past two months twenty one people have been killed

by mobs of unfounded allegations spread on the app the rumor blamed for many of the recent incidents was that strangers were sedating and abducting children. kageyama chahta is an associate professor at the philip merrill college of journalism that's part of the university of maryland in the u.s. she says more needs to be done tackled the problem i think it's probably going to make some sort of temporary difference but i think the question is not really one of technology the question really is why is this happening and you know certainly the affordance is upset but media forms make some of this easier but i'm not convinced that this test is either enough or that it's actually going to prove very effective in the long run particularly because i think we found a technology that mostly people will find some other kind of what. if they're really motivated to spread misinformation or woman it's a country where there isn't always a lot of trust in institutions i know sometimes we see these surveys saying india

does have this great trust in the government will their trust in the media i actually think that it's a country where trust is often in very short supply and so people sense of trust comes from you know trusting people in their social network maybe friends maybe relatives maybe community members and so i think that's where really the challenge lies so people will still want to get their information from people that they think are credible and very often those people are people in their you know whether they're people within the bounds or by strong ties or whether they're bound to them by weak ties i think that's where they're trying to get the information from and so i'm not as i said before i don't think that either regulation or you know trying to get whatsapp to do you know limit you know put away the quick forward button is necessarily effective at least fourteen people have been wounded in a knife attack in the knowlton german city of lubec the male suspect talked to people on board a bus before being overpowered and then taken into custody no one was killed in the

attack. still ahead here on news out in sports news we'll have the details about a new policy aimed at boosting confidence in the integrity of our flex. egypt is now in china's third biggest trading partner in africa more than ten thousand chinese are living in cairo and wanted to see the pyramids so 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 to when 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 troops but al-jazeera world meets the growing chinese community in egypt egypt made in china on al-jazeera. that allow for chess. after years behind us he has to be strategic to stay out of prison with his friend and chess master he's planning his next move to give back to society and the gay

that saved his life discovering new filmmaking talent from around the globe you find lots in america chess life lessons i was using. hello again time for sports news is far. thanks very much to player share the lead at the end of round two of the open championship in scotland one of those is kevin kisner who was leading from the previous round the car to a one under seventy that's quite a double bogey on the team hits or shares the lead with fellow mark. zach johnson

his birdie on the eighteenth meant he finished with a sixty seven and his six under par. tiger woods is still in contention but only just he had a seventy one and finished level on par woods last won the open championship in two thousand and six. i played a little better yes. today it wasn't it wasn't quite as good but a bird. so that's such a process. right now expect. by the days and i think i'll be more than that. it'll be pretty leaderboard and. i'm sure you're right there in. kenya. smash the women's three thousand meter steeplechase world record at the domini league meet in monaco the twenty seven year old won in world record time eight minutes forty four point three two seconds at speed in the previous record by more than eight seconds runner up american court in a free russian's was sixteen seconds behind. olympic and world champion caster

semenya continued her rule of the women's eight hundred meters the south african won her twenty sixth final in a row setting a meet record and co sonya has not lost in the distance since two thousand and fifteen. a new transparency drive in track and field has resulted in a new policy from now on all details of the athletes facing disciplinary proceedings will be made public the athletics integrity unit has released a list of more than a hundred elite athletes who have been banned or provisionally suspended paul that are worth reports olympic three thousand chase champion ruth jibbitz is just one of the big names released as part of the little contiguity units new public disclosure policy the twenty one year old is facing disciplinary proceedings over positive test for the blood booster e.p.o. . her gold medal is one of eighty five olympic and world championship medals that

have been won by people are the provisionally suspended or already serving bans all but two of the one hundred twenty cases relate to doping and almost half the cases involve russia chairman david howman who's the former head of the world anti-doping agency says the transparency measures will help instill greater public confidence in the integrity of athletics the unit says there's still a lot of work to be done to restore the sport's repudiation but despite that they say they're ready to take on the challenge of kicking cheats off the track or with al-jazeera. world champion peter sagan has clinched his third when this year's tour de france the vacuum rider claimed the stage thirteen of the race a one hundred and sixty nine point five kilometer leg he completed in less than four hours sagan beat out alexander christophe for the win arnaud de mar was third britain's thomas retains the overall leaders yellow jersey. mercedes driver

valtteri bottas will stay at the formula one team for another year the twenty eight year old from finland is in fifth in the driver's standings fifty nine points behind teammate lewis hamilton who is currently in second place behind leaders about vettel vaults as contract extension comes just a day after hamilton agreed a new two year extension deal. but it was team red bull who was the fastest in both practice sessions ahead of the german promptly daniel carter was just a fraction faster than lewis hamilton in the morning session where carter was teammate max for stop and set a record breaking last year after beating both hamilton and voters to the top. good balance of the car short and long. of course and to be frozen in the second practice is of course always very nice but we have to wait and see what's going to happen tomorrow when they turn up the engines in qualifying but at leeds is a positive start for us compared to silverstone the blockade of capture is check

mating chats players they're being unwittingly caught up in the thirteen month long diplomatic dispute has been ten monaghan reports. this tournament in doha is a chance for katter's chess players to move up in the international rankings but opportunities like this are proving harder to come by many of these players were looking forward to competing in the arab regional chess championship but host country the united arab emirates banned them from taking part so i didn't even know before one day of the total what i was i didn't know if i was going to go to law and that gets train of thought i kept my hopes up lots of was just this was very disappointing and i just wasn't allowed to play as much as i was taking over the u.a.e. ban follows controversy at a global tournament in saudi arabia two months earlier cattery players were initially denied the right to compete under their flag and there were delays in issuing visas the saudis relented at the last moment but the cattery missed the

competition at the opening ceremony ahead of saudi arabia sports authority denied there were any problems but refused to refer to concert directly by name and that if you like is that any three of us now we will focus on the tournament and we will not be bothered by this mini state i assign someone who will deal with this many states because they are irrelevant the political chess game playing out in the middle east to see moved to isolate catherine all levels diplomatic ties been severed and trade routes been closed sports and games traditionally brought together even rival countries in spirit a friendly competition but here too blockading nations are working to freeze out catherine despite what happened in saudi arabia the ban by the u.a.e. still caught many by surprise its very that is to ensure you as if the mission or was that all my friends but the they didn't the most of the court you know the very way that we know each other since we have video. thirty years ago you know we used

to play chess together. catherine players have complained to feed a the world chess organization but they aren't optimistic physic and if the tournament is belongs to freedom this is what championship. but for of the region i don't know the i don't think they went into theatre and they say ok guys it's your problem you know it's just me doing to take one side of the feed a has a slogan again when a sumus we are one family but that message of unity rings hollow in the gulf players have become pawns caught up in the politics of a region divided into monaghan al-jazeera doha. and that's all you're sport for now more later ok we are done that was your news sixty minutes of news and comment from al jazeera english for shelties in this seat three minutes you can tweet me i'll tweet you back. alternatively check out the website at al-jazeera dot com i'll see

you soon. the former bishop of hong kong says the pope is sending out china's catholics but on the pieces of things out there on those information. sending the church cardinal joseph then talks town jazeera. the nature of news as it breaks although thousands of women have reported rape and other sexual atrocities in south sudan sewer rats are going to say that figure is likely much higher with detailed coverage nearly fifty schools took part in the drive each one responsible for the whole acting a different diet of school supplies clothing from around the world to settle for still very you have with the players a very old for that they won't be able fully maybe will want to play on the

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printed buildings are causing some just. counting the cost on al-jazeera. death in protest along the gaza fence israeli strikes into the strip now palestinian factions say there's a deal for a new call. this is al jazeera live from to i'm richelle carey also ahead syrian government forces move closer to reclaiming complete control of the country's south. sense a tannic old terrorists in iraq as president attacks the clergy trying to bring peace between the government and protesters and senegal rolls out the welcome mat

for its biggest foreign investor china's global push as the u.s. pulls back on train.