i'm fully back to this is the news our life for my headquarters in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. after a day of violent protest in gaza a cease fire appears to be holding between israel and hamas. the destruction of derive a ghost town that remains after rebel fighters were bussed away from their former syrian stronghold also this hour patrolling the streets to militias using violence to suppress santai government protests in nicaragua and thousands of square kilometers burned as wildfires take hold in sweden.

i am. thank you for joining us what's being called a restoration of calm seems to be holding so far between israel and hamas in gaza it follows the killing of an israeli soldier along the border and israeli as strikes that killed four palestinians at least one hundred twenty gazans were wounded in the seventeen successive week of friday protests israel had warned protesters of retaliation if they continued to set crops on fire by sending burning balloons and kites over the fence several hamas positions were attacked in iran gaza city how mosques argues the balloons are a peaceful form of protest at the brocade of gaza it says a truce brokered by egypt and the u.n. started at midnight local time let's get the latest from al-jazeera as challenge stratford in gaza for us chong's there is calm now but still the constant risk of

an escalation. that's right it's still very tense here in gaza are after this escalation yesterday and of course it's not forget what happened last week which was the described as the largest exchange of fire the greatest amount of violence between hamas and israel since the two thousand and fourteen war certainly today this what's being described by some as a ceasefire seems to be holding there was an instant an incident the smalling we hear from the israeli army that if i don't have mass position after what it described as having seen palestinian suspects trying to cross the border those so-called suspects returned to gaza and there were no reports of casualties. i think it's safe to say that there was expectation to be more of a retaliation from hamas considering the extent of israel's attacks last

night have asked reportedly only fired sri to at least of which were intercepted by the eye and it does. and there were a number of malta's fired this is before the cease fire happened so many people here are saying that this is an indication of obviously hammer us not wanting a further escalation in this conflict does the restoration of calm agreement that hamas agree to that is does it include. dairy balloons and kites that have been launched from gaza in recent weeks. well there are conflicting reports on this issue certainly as we have been reporting the last couple of days having spoken to have us officials that they have more than tacitly sapolsky to these protesters who launched these balloons with these incendiary devices i mean have us telling us that they sort is being a legitimate form of known violent resistance but however there were reports today in israeli media quoting and israeli official who said that ham us had agreed to

stop the balloons the people launching the blues and cards as part of this so-called cease fire deal now it's important to recognize that hamm ass so far have not come out with an official statement confirming that they have indeed agreed to stop these protesters using these devices so as you can imagine a lot hangs on whether these balloons will continue to be launched towards israel and as hamas have told us it's very difficult for them to control all these protesters so obviously that only adds to the sense of tension here in gaza today thank you for that live for us in gaza knowledge is there is stephanie decker is also in gaza with more on what life is like for palestinians living under these really brocades. away from the politics and away from the military escalation between hamas and israel it really is about the almost two million people who are

blockaded inside gaza life looks like it continues as normal it does continue as normal but everyone you speak to here will tell you the same thing that might come increasingly more difficult than many people will tell you that what they're enduring here is not a life. we can't live i make a maximum of three dollars a day and it isn't enough we ask him if he can make ends meet. i can't afford anything to work as a tailor in israel before the blockade i made around the thousand three hundred dollars. a month of the moment i come to make three hundred dollars a month exchanging money i work two shifts a day morning and night ma that's the meaning of humanity is missing in gaza most people are educated but can't find work people are straight on to prest people are willing to die those who are married cannot feed their children patients can't get medication and there is no electricity this is really painful and sad now this is

the second ceasefire between israel and hamas in the space of a week the pattern of escalation ceasefire escalation ceasefire will continue unless there is a long term plan that will improve the lives of the people here in gaza even the israeli military and the intelligence have been warning the politicians in israel that the blockade is not sustainable and this is what's happening behind the scenes there are talks about a plan that would ease the blockade it is complicated it hasn't happened yet but certainly people here will tell you that they cannot continue living like that. joining us now in the news hour is robbie sable was a professor of international law at the hebrew university of jerusalem and also a former legal advisor to the israeli ministry of foreign affairs his via skype from western islam thank you very much for your time sir so the truest old or a very fragile appears to be holding for now the truce between hamas and israel what will it take on israel's side for it to be in lasting truce. no violence they

know the words are the key is in his mother's hands they can choose either client build up the society economically or to try and use violence against israel it seems violence against israel will be met by armed forces we don't know considering it if there's no violence that we know you spoil him for service will and will be happy to be open trade it's a business interest to have trade going on it is israel's interest to see a prosperous gaza society the choice is that gaza hamas authorities so if we see if we see these incident very balloons and kites being launched a war to swell if that continues are you saying that will swell see more disappointment use of force by israel or do not produce proportional but if they continue to send incendiary devices and explosive devices is no will react without force how can how quickly the lines of balloons and you know and these kites how is it not disproportionate i mean when you consider these are being sent in there and

they're faced with as strikes on the other side it is a bit disappointing wouldn't you agree i agree that it sounds innocuous when you talk about a balloon or kite but if you take a helium filled balloon and you attach to it to incentivise and you send it to belligerence of israel in fields in israel and you attach explosives devices some of which were very hit their schools in israel and kindergartens that is illusory. how many israelis have been killed by these balloons and strikes luckily none and i hope he continues that way but if they can't play with far and all which they go to it's their choice yeah if they want to amuse themselves by sending seven israeli fields all far we will react with armed force on the other side you have a hundred forty mollison is who've been killed since march said. well they should not send on. new devices it's their choice when there were no incentive devices israel did not use on force but israel if attacked will do but it's ok using its own forces we're not going to send balloons to set the gaza fields on that's not

how an organized state. will use the palestinians protesting they've been protesting their living conditions in gaza and they have been doing so with these incendiary kites and balloons one hundred forty of them killed since the end of march. and it would seem that and unless the humanitarian situation improves in gaza these protests are going to continue so is israel willing to make a gesture to to improve the humanitarian situation in gaza and therefore end the protests morgan gesture we're willing to open to have. the border open for goods coming into gaza we're very happy to do it by the way egypt controls the other book or the start of the border is one has no control over to mention the fact we will talk about isil closing its border if they have a border with egypt to open it for the same reason egypt is afraid of the. muslim brotherhood trying to cause

a mess of egypt the ball is really in the court it was from us they can choose if they want to try and use violence both in sinai against egypt or against it will be met by armed force if they want try and build the society right build factories and streams and so on is will be more than happy to help you say that but at the same time israel has all but shut the only commercial border crossing left with the gaza strip you mention of course the got the border with egypt but israel has this week in recent days anyway all but shut the abu kerim crossing which is vital for the people of gaza so how can you talk about israel wanting to improve the humanitarian situation in gaza when it takes such actions i agree with you completely this is from us decision if they want to use parlance they can say ok we want to trade to do the same time there is essentially but you know some would tell you that israel is using collective punishment in order to punish hamas it's punishing the entire palestinian population in gaza. it's

a some us government. decided they're going to use violence they're going to said look it's a going to send missiles they're going to send helium balloons will expose the cult at the same time so all we want normal relations trade with you you can't have it both ways and israel is going to defend itself but with more than happy to have trucks going through it's israel israeli goods. it is also interest we do not want to see starvation but must have the stories and in fact they failed or trying to create a society it could be but it could be a poor girls of the population as your correspondent point out is well educated they could be manufacturing widgets for the world instead of which they are trying to set israeli fields on far it's their decision professor thank you very much for speaking to us and sharing your views with us robi satele professor hebrew university in charleston thank you very much thank you. in other world news syrian rebels who surrendered in the south west began arriving in opposition held areas of

the country's north more than fifty buses have raced a town of my broke in hama province the fighters and their families were given safe passage in a surrender deal with the government adam same is that. some of them have a lot of critical of the evacuation courses carrying people displaced from connector have arrived in hama province fifty five coaches containing more than three thousand people this is the first group from connecticut and will be followed by many others a total numbers will be more than thirteen thousand going from south to north this displacement followed a wave of offensives by the syrian and russian military says it takes place after negotiations between opposition groups and the government which resulted in the opposition surrendering heavy weapons and allowing people to leave from south to north syria this will take place today tomorrow and the day after there will be more people coming here coming from south to north there will need to be a lot of resources and a concerted effort to accommodate such numbers of people they will initially be

taken to already prepared shelters in northern syria. that deal follows intense fighting in the southern provinces of connecticut and laura burton manley has more a month of intense government bombardments in southwest syria and the devastation is clear the military offensive started by government forces backed by russia have recaptured dura in the neighboring province of canapes surrendering control of tourist city is a major defeat for the opposition. drop the birthplace of the syrian uprising seven years ago from where protests against regimes 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 passes 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 italy province in the north the displaced populations which i think this time it's around two hundred thousand people are unfortunately 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 display syrians sought refuge from bombing near the its radio golan heights last week but were turned back by israeli border guards. these 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 for 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 to government housing areas and the latter had their windows smashed by rebels besieged than the three years hundreds of rebel prisoners a-g. to be released in return although some internally displaced syrians are now making their way back home. it's a small percentage of six million who fled since the start of. al-jazeera. in yemen an ancient town is at risk of being destroyed by an offensive to take a city near by bed is a unesco world heritage site with thousands of historic homes religious institutes and mosques it's south of her data which the saudi u.a.e. coalition has been fighting to retake from healthy rebels aid agencies here the

battle could create a humanitarian catastrophe. a church in nicaragua that was besieged by the army in managua has reopened student protesters were taking refuge there last week when gunmen loyal to the president began shooting at them rise scopes have criticized president daniel ortega as violent crackdown on anti-government protests almost three hundred people have died in three months of demonstrations while gunmen are now roaming the streets of my saya city west of a capital managua after suppressing protests many are living in fear as mariana sanchez reports. thirty year old man this had disappeared for three days but on friday his family found his dead body at the coroner's office in the capital. his father a member says cuts to his arms show signs of abuse. he was tortured he was beaten here in the head in the back and was shot in the chest and

leg he didn't have weapons or mortars. his family says he wasn't involved in the protests but he was taken away by security forces. they took him away outside the house but since those images going on we couldn't go out. in security and pro-government forces launched a so-called clean up operation in messiah on tuesday to lift barricades a caravan of heavily armed and masked gunman have taken control of moneyball driving around in vehicles without license plates many businesses and homes here are still closed but the road blocks have been lifted there are still some tensions here in the neighborhood of more nimble as a paramilitary continue to patrol the streets. foodland or one of the south selling stew for the first time in more than two months she's still afraid and if you listen to that because of the situation we can't talk we can't

say anything but. we are ok because we are back to uk. police say the clean up operation was ordered by president of the no data and his wife vice president. says the government confronted protesters to bring back stability after weeks of turmoil . it has been our duty once again to defend peace for everyone and it's been a painful battle because we've confronted an armed conspiracy. violent protests in me that i will have left nearly three hundred people dead. a bastion of rebel resistance since the sandinista revolution thirty nine years ago and also during these months of protests on tuesday's confrontations at least two people were killed but the crackdown is not yet over.

plenty more ahead on the news hour including a new attempt to break the israeli siege on gaza this time from its elite class a chance for change we'll look at the major issues as pakistan heads to the polls and in sports with ken manchester city's latest record signing score in his debut. to the in. the open. now the general election in the world's six small squad venus country takes place on wednesday one hundred six million pakistanis will have the chance to choose a new parliament and prevention assemblies the election campaign has been marred by allegations of military interference and by deadly violence including a bombing that killed one hundred fifty people in a moment we'll speak to come out hyder in the opposition stronghold off in northern

pakistan but first we go to osama bin job it in the hole where many candidates campaigning osama tell us about the mood there with just four days to go until voting day. well in the provincial capital of the horror which is the political heartland of august anyone trying to form a government campaign the hardest to try and win the majority of people where the competition is going to be bogged down within the law and the party of a former prime minister nawaz sharif with behind bars on charges of corruption and pakistan very thin. cricketer and politician. who many people fear is responsible for thinking that the cream is going to be making sure that he goes he kept up the pressure to make sure that the market really is finally jailed and that is what is making this very very interesting and it's good i'm going to be running to be building downtown or here larry is there is

a lot of energy and there's a lot of. people who are. trying to. political and people here to be divided on both sides this is. the stronghold. and there are many people who despite. the conviction by the board see the innocent. victim. thank you for that osama bin chatted in the whore has crossed over to come out hyde and i was in the opposition stronghold in northern pakistan you are a rule. what is it like that the campaigning and what are the people's expectations from the. release of going to be a. green the pakistan tehreek led by ron kong and the nationalist. party already if you're going to there.

there's not much progress people don't have clean drinking water. and of course they've been making all kinds of promises so it did indeed going to be interesting to see who they represent their day at their time when there are serious allegations against the security forces but it should be remembered that security forces the elections would be imported really in a country which had been hit by a vote stated you cannot forget the fact that over one hundred fifty people were killed in baluchistan and also ahead in the city where they were all. their security forces. their request for them had been made by the civilian government bridger lost their security forces and make sure that the elections are held in a secure environment so people of the whole being. barred. of course as far as the

rural population are concerned they're not very upbeat or optimistic because they haven't seen gains for decades thank you very much for that it's. not a runway shopper is a feeling the pinch the value of the iranian reale has have been less than a year and there are further threats from the op imposition of u.s. sanctions and the loss of oil to donald trump pulled out of the nuclear deal while some iranians blame the americans others say their own leaders should have known better then the reports from tehran the price of one of america's best known exports is pretty much the same wherever you go but in iran the following value of the local currency the real means what someone here might have paid for a smart phone last year has doubled a thousand dollars in iran now costs twice as much electronics is just one sector feeling the effects of american foreign policy iranian say from food to clothes to

rent sanctions have made everything more expensive. this. i see the purchasing power of people has been reduced a lot inflation is going up rapidly instability of the dollar price has caused tensions in the markets and it causes problems for everybody i think we need a change in our economic administration this change could help our economy. the iranian president's chief of staff said last week a reshuffle was in the works to bring new faces into the federal cabinet to deal with economic issues but experts say years of economic uncertainty have created such a negative business atmosphere that no one seems to know how to turn things around . a common saying in iran is that the price of the rio always gets worse never better it's value has dropped so much in recent months that many exchange companies have stopped selling foreign bank notes just to get a sense of how bad things have gotten many iranians will hear the dollar rate to what it was in one nine hundred seventy nine when one dollar seventy rio's now that

price is nearly eighty thousand in the decade since the islamic revolution iranian men and women aged thirty or under have become the largest segment of the population many say they want to leave iran for a better future abroad and don't cha cha. i'm concerned about whether i can afford rent and food in this expensive city as a student i shouldn't have these worries i should have enough money to focus on my studies is empty and i'm very worried about what to do i think the cause of these problems is mismanagement it is said it's because of sanctions but i think that's just one part of the problem. while u.s. president donald trump is blamed for many of iran's problems iranians say their leaders should have seen them coming government leaders said the signing of the twenty fifty nuclear deal was the light at the end of the tunnel but for many iranians that life turned out to be a train. run. an intense heat wave in sweden and

reckoned. the worst wildfire. the government has appealed for help from other countries to fight dozens of blazes large areas of forests have been torched and smog warnings issued five say the risk of extremely high. of animal food being ordered to prevent animals. reeling and. the government is ready to take all necessary decisions and supply all needed the resources our duties to support all agencies so that they have what they need to get the fires under control and therefore the government is following the servant closely every minute every day to make sure the agency. i have the resources they need time now for a check on the world weather with steph coulter and a tropical storm is about to hit shanghai that's right from not enough rain in in sweden to way too much on its way to shanghai let's take a look at the satellite picture then around the southeastern parts of china because you can see this the cloud is edging its way towards shanghai but it's not alone

we've got plenty more cloud to the south and also to the far south as well this one has now given us reports of flooding in the northern parts of viet nam and there's plenty more rain to come there's another storm that's developing just to the north of luzon there that's already given a from flooding here and then there is the storm that's edging its way toward shanghai now is the one here that's going to hit first this one's edging its way towards the west already we've seen some rain in shanghai from the outer bands of the storm and we're expecting the aita more or less hit slap bang in the middle of shanghai at around zero g.m.t. on sunday so we are expecting a direct hit and fortunately the winds won't be too much of an issue they'll be around eighty kilometers per hour sustained winds it's the rain that's really going to cause us problems that could well give us quite a bit of flooding in shanghai and the surrounding areas as well elsewhere though with this other storm just to the northwest of luzon luzon has seen some flooding we've seen some in manila over the last few days and this storm is only making

matters worse it is expected to basically bypass taiwan and then make its way towards the east coast of china so more misery to come here thank you very much for that status video has emerged showing a man believed to be the last surviving member of an uncontracted tribe in brazil's amazon forest the man believed to be in his fifty's was filmed seven years ago toppling down a tree he said to be the only survivor of an attack by samas in one nine hundred ninety five years indian foundation said the man appears to be in good health and has no need to interact with mainstream society. still ahead on al-jazeera making connections china looks to africa in response to a trade dispute with the u.s. last. trump paving and russia baiting that's really the extent of the democratic party generate not meet the prady offering a different approach to politics in the united states and in sports the latest from

the open championship where there is a two way tie for the needs at the. a remarkable portrait of a little japanese village in the aftermath of the two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami. seventy years later how has the community of me are cool been able to move on and rebuild their lives. in japan aftermath of a catastrophe on al-jazeera. in the wrong waste inefficiency and a growing population i've learned to do when. you've been determined to attract water from any shores possible this is when you see isn't results now the country's

future it's. to try to change and innovative solutions are being funny people in power impressed picks the wrong small two crosses on al-jazeera. they're watching the news on al-jazeera with me reminder of our top stories palestinian factions have agreed to return to calm with israel after day of violence along the border fence between gaza and israel hamas spokesperson says egypt and the un mediated for palestinians and an israeli soldier were killed on friday. syrian rebels who surrendered in the south west began arriving in

opposition held areas of the country's north more than three thousand people have reached common province the fighters and their families were given safe passage after a deal with the government and a church in nicaragua that was besieged by the army in managua has reopened student protesters were taking refuge there last week when gunmen loyal to the president began shooting at them. now the arrival of the head of the international monetary fund in argentina has provoked more on thai government protests people fear christine the god will insist on austerity measures and government cuts as a condition for a fifty billion dollar bailout the argentinean government leaders say the loan will provide a safety net and avoid a repeat of previous financial crises. vigils have been held for the seventeen american tourists who drowned when a so-called duck boat sank during a storm the m.t.b.f. bus which becomes

a boat was overpowered by waves on table wrong in missouri nine of the dead are from the same family some of the thirty one passengers on board say the captain told them not to wear life jackets. us present donald trump says secret recordings made by his former lawyer about hush money for an alleged affair could be legal the new york times says the f.b.i. seized a recording during a raid on michael cohen's office is being investigated for tax fraud and breaking election campaign laws trump has denied paying former playboy model can mcdougal a white house correspondent kimberly hauck it has more. this recording seems to reveal the president discussing with his personal attorney michael cohen the payment of 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

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 trump 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. foals for twenty years now friends in just

a matter of weeks the pace of change as ethiopia and eritrea have embraced peace has been breathtaking it was just two weeks ago that ethiopia's new prime minister ahmed stood alongside a rich reus president isaias out a way and declared an end to the so-called state of war phone lines between the two countries were immediately reconnected ethiopia asked the un to drop sanctions against syria on monday eritrea reopened its embassy in ethiopia on wednesday the first commercial flight took off from ethiopia to eritrea and then a day later on thursday ethiopia appointed its first batter to eritrea the same day a rich area reportedly pulled it back from the border as a gesture of consolation now if the o.p.'s parliament has passed an amnesty bill for those arrested during protests in twenty fifteen in two thousand and seventeen prime minister abu ahmed released fountains of political prisoners and this ended

a state of emergency and announce an economic liberalization plan but many young people say only democratic elections will save their country mahmoud addle reports when a group of young men started protesting here against the location of the playground to a private developer little did they know all the was told to go build meant that the been to live to a change of leadership of the days of protests in the school told youths in other parts of me and neighboring omaha to region become protesting for political rights . university student. was one of the first to protest in. you know button it up but i mean. it's a sieve everyone else a whipping for a treat or the planned expansion of and a city which would take go inland from many from us poor one of the african grievance to rally a pawn 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 was arrested with one of the protesters at the literalist from prison as just. was tortured in prison they would heed to me all over until i fainted no medical treatment was a lot tensions among the four parties in the early coalition on how to deal with the protest led to the resignation of the then prime minister i led him to sell and after weeks of closed door negotiations for to two year old former army officer. was elected prime minister by coalition members the new prime minister is from the ethnic group he's elevation loadout intended as an olive branch to the rest of or more region. during the proctors the people of this region and what they call the historical marginalize the short of what people. call they had been pushed to the margins of mainstream with you here three months after one of their own was elected to lead the country some here are still uncertain whether the president's the new

deal there why do. we consider him just a pin and not a cure to what the o.p.m. the future depends on the next election with and whether they are free and fair. since taking office in approved 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 so as a result chasing everybody with. every issues we need to release them all though he enjoys considerable support prime minister but faces the challenge of calming the uncle 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 fall from unanimously behind. al jazeera. region now as the united states threatens more tariffs on imports china's president is pushing a message of free trade she sing bang is about to begin his first official talks west africa among the stops to senegal away china is the largest foreign investor nicolas hike reports on the capital dakar. 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 and no detail is being spared for his arrival everything has to be perfect for tiger you'll learn a former restaurant owner from sichuan who is now

a mason. 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. 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 its range from two hundred fifty thousand to two million chinese living in africa who are not all welcomed dozens of chinese

vendors have been killed in the past five years no arrests have been made. with so many chinese riot grants to zing to make this place their home there's a. t. chinese sense and 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. oh. 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 an 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. a protester has been killed at a rally outside the headquarters of a military unit in southern iraq twelve people have now died in two weeks of protest against poor government services and unemployment the demonstrations have spread to the capital baghdad from why iran contra ports the protesters face off with security forces in baghdad although a smaller gathering and seen in the last two weeks in the south of iraq it's still a significant number for the capital showing solidarity with protesters in the cell phone the issue of the moment so i am a mother unsure but we came out to protest the injustice and lack of job opportunities for the unemployed the government isn't listening to us. that even with a small amount of people involved we will continue to protest this time it's make or break for us the protesters break free of above two i couldn't set up by the

federal police the the protests spreading to the capital and the nationwide is a concern for iraq's leaders. the government i'd say the big quite simply the last one i put in place unprecedented security operation they say they are trying to beat the protesters demands but they may not be able to meet the and they're sold on frankly the least people want the the the challenge for iraq's government is meeting the demands of the protesters which include economic reforms an end to corruption job creation and a regular electricity supply. the government is looking for solutions that open talks is how to arabia and the deals been struck with kuwait the energy supplies will it be enough iraqis here say they will continue to protest until all the demands are met iran cause al-jazeera baghdad. protests have been held in several australian cities calling for the government to stop detaining refugees in offshore

camps in the pacific the policy to send asylum seekers to narrow and monis island was brought in five years ago one thousand three hundred people are forced to remain there with no chance of settling in australia human rights groups and immigration advocates have consistently criticised the policy. baby who became a symbol of the controversial us policy to separate migrant families has been reunited with his parents in honduras one year old johan boy so was taken from his father who was deported after arriving at the us border five months ago the toddler took his first steps and spoke his first words in a detention facility he appeared in court in a nappy earlier this month as sparked an international outcry against family separation. they told me what we are going to do is take away your child to separate you from your child i asked them well you go to the childish too young but they told me because you cannot be in the united states you

cannot go further with a child you cannot enter the u.s. with whom. he had his birthday there he will not turn one year old again that has passed and i missed it when he learned to walk not going to happen again either i missed that because of them they should not have done that he is a baby he can't defend himself he's not an adult to say he does not want that so if he wants anything. the u.s. is urging u.n. member states to strictly enforce sanctions and keep pressuring north korea to give up nuclear weapons secretary of state mike pompei all met south korea's foreign minister and u.n. leaders to discuss the ongoing talks with pyongyang he accused north korea of violating sanctions by illegally smuggling petroleum and coal the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley called on the security council to remain strict with. we can't do one thing i'm til 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 is going to hold tight to the international community we ask you to hold tight as we go forward the european union says the u.k. is new proposal is constructive but they are still major problems with the withdrawal plan prime minister theresa may has struggled to satisfy members of our government who favor a clean break from the block and others who want to maintain closer ties journal reports could this be the reason may's last stand she was in northern ireland promoting the benefits of a vision for brakes it 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 e.u. would have to provide for the frictionless movement of goods across the northern ireland border. equally clear is that his 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 a 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 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 longer. be transformed into or illegally operative text.

q predictions not for the first time in recent weeks of to reason may's imminent political demise the e.u. cannot sign off a deal without a backstop to reason is that that's the torpedo that option. and i would almost certainly resignation but not just yet for now the british government's plan remains alive and with it just about mrs may's premiership. london. still ahead on al-jazeera thousands mourn the death of an unnamed big figure skater who was murdered in his native kazakhstan details next in sports. the love of chess. after years behind bars he has to be strategic to stay out of prison with this friend and chess master he's planning his next move to give back

to society and share the gate that saved his life discovering new filmmaking talent from around the globe if you find latin american jazz private lessons on the houses in. what is the relationship between culture religion and a deeply divided city everything here is overshadowed by politics even the most basic of things food in two thousand and eight al-jazeera traveled to jerusalem to see a food could cross deep lines of division which is in it to build we call to build the we can assure the people that this we. rewind street food jerusalem on al-jazeera. when diplomacy fields and fear sweep then our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to

impose division and it's not a sixties instead of being an obstacle to toll east's it became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera. welcome back now the green party in the united states is hoping to capitalize on voter frustration with donald trump and other politicians in washington candidates for the mid-term elections in november i'm eating at the party's annual conference in salt lake city the party leader jail side has been explaining her aspirations to

our reporter kristen salumi. she is the woman democrats love to hate many believe jill stein cost hillary clinton the election in two thousand and sixteen arguing the green party candidate diverted crucial votes in swing states that nearly went for now president donald trump recent revelations have only fueled her critics we know from the moller investigation that the russians not only took out ads on behalf of donald trump but also on behalf of you are you worried about russian intervention in the elections one facebook ad with the kind of you know among i think it was three thousand ads if i'm not mistaken that were attributed to this russian internet agency those ads cost one hundred thousand dollars compared to know donald trump got six billion dollars worth of free air time from corporate t.v. why because he was quote damn good for their bottom line according to the

c.e.o. of c.b.s. for example so you know if you're looking for intervention in the election or interference how about the interference of big corporate media that had billions of dollars in free airtime to throw around for candidates that benefited their bottom line but then there's this photo of her sitting next to russian president vladimir putin and former trump national security advisor michael flynn at a moscow dinner in two thousand and fifteen i was in russia to talk about a peace offensive in the middle east to talk about nuclear weapons and to talk about climate change and ending fossil fuel use this was not selling out to the russians i did not receive funding i wasn't paid by russia they didn't even pay my way. and as greens put forward a slate of candidates running for congress in the mid-term elections she dismisses

concerns that their progressive platform would divide up. position to the party of trump as democrats work to retake control of the house of representatives people are not buying into trump hating and russia baiting that's really the extent of the democratic party generating i'm pleased it's its establishment its leadership you are ready for something different and the better alternative stein says is green kristen salumi al jazeera salt lake city utah. thank you so much foley joint leaders kevin costner and zach johnson are paired together for the third round of the open championship in scotland but as pat paul than they're worth reports things could have been very different for kister playing in the bitter afternoon conditions things were looking promising for first round leader kevin costner as he how to shot advantage going into the final home thank you but it's sick and shocked at the eighteenth was wayward and he found the barry

burn. that resulted in the double bogey for a round of seventy to play seven or thirty five holes i thought was pretty good. i've kept the ball in play and done everything i wanted to do all the way up into that hole clearly does that johnson had to contend with the worst of the weather. the twenty fifteen open champion is looking to become the first player to ever win majors at all just or some andrews and comes to. the reverence i have for this championship and specifically that trophy that clergy. i'm not suggesting that someone doesn't have a higher. reverence for it but i'm. how to argue with an. englishman tommy fleetwood is right back in contention after shooting the round of the day thanks to six on the past sixty five was the only bogey free round and leaves him just one short of believe i had some time on the range just night and stage to.

basically put in position all day and all the peoples in tough conditions and six five. really good round of golf really in the end defending champ jordan spaeth three shots off the pace is birdie on the third one of the shots of the day planted with al-jazeera. kenya's beatrice chap called smash the women's three thousand meter steeplechase world record at the dominant meeting in monaco the twenty seven year old won in world record time of eight minutes forty four point three two seconds that beat the previous record by more than eight seconds runner up american court the free chills was sixty seconds i. think and world champion caster semenya continued her dominance of the women's eight hundred meters the south african won her twenty sixth final in a row setting a meet record in monaco smellier has not lost in the distance since twenty five ten

. pre-season football tours are taking place all over the world english premier league champions manchester city were facing borussia dortmund in the opening game of the international champions cup in chicago and it was the german side to open the scoring through a penalty mario good to see a stepped up to put his team haven't met so he's a record signing riyad marez made his debut following his eighty million dollars from leicester city. the algerian striker failing to score his first goal with a free kick before half time. final score dortmund one city. fans at the tour de france continue to refuse calls for calm from organizers after a lit flare was thrown into the peloton near the end of stage thirteen defending champion chris froome and his team mates have been booed spat at and pushed through

out this year's race officials called for better behavior after ryder ended up with a fractured vertebrae and spectators caused him to crash on thursday peter sagen sprinted to the finish of friday's one hundred and seventy kilometers thirteen stage to hold on to the green jersey while thomas continues to wear the leader's yellow jersey with a minute and a half lead over teammate fruen i.o.c. president thomas bach says he likes the idea of including e sports and future olympia but clarity is needed around how it would fit into the i.o.c. existing rules asked these two players. what about what about doping and the answer no tests one then said we don't need it because duping does not play a role. i know this excuse from other areas. so.

there is a. serious and serious. of questions to which we have no answer yet and this is why we said we want to get to know each other. we want to better understand each other and then we will see. thousands turned out to pay their final respects to limping medal winning figure skater dennis tan the twenty five year old died from injuries he sustained in a knife attack in his native kazakstan two days ago ten was trying to stop two men from stealing his car mirrors when stopping happened ten became the first skater from kazakstan to win an olympic medal when he got bronze of the two thousand and fourteen such games two suspects have been detained over the killing. and that's all your sport for now more later. thank you for that that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera but do stay with us i'll be back with more news very shortly thanks will.

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