national. i don't know jewish. state whatever and i really feel ashamed disgusted by this because i i think sees another sign of us. or people who are not jewish but especially the palestinians and i think we lose our own humanity by doing so so my message to these rallies is stop while you still can too you know to save your own souls basically we cannot keep living there we have to leave together with our neighbors and it's an israeli and as a human being he's my obligation to make this crime so thank you very much live together as human beings this is the message of one of the main participants in the freedom flotilla coalition this year. a group that rescues migrants from the mediterranean sea is planning to file a manslaughter complaint against libya's coast guard pro active open arms says that a woman and child died when they were left stranded on the boat deliberately

destroyed. reports. that it was. a desperate rush to save lives it's the moment to rescue one person you stranded migrants in the mediterranean forty year old woman from cameroon is still alive but for another woman and a toddler it's too late. the difficulties we've experienced to save just one single life have been unbelievable aid group proactive open arms found the migrants and say the deaths were no accident it's accusing libya's coast guard of manslaughter the rescue team says libya's coast guard intercepted about one hundred sixty europe of bound migrants the two women and a toddler apparently refused to board the vessel as a result the rescuers allege the libyan coast guard abandoned the migrants and slashed their inflatable boat with a knife most of it. we have the knowledge that the court of power to me orca the

captain of the tree out is for negligence and for reckless homicide and we are going to do the same with the captain of the libyan patrol which is a member of the libyan coast guard for negligence and for homicide on saturday the rescue boat arrived in the spanish island of new york with the now hospitalized my one woman and the two lifeless bodies they say politics came before she minutes hereon assistance the rescue group says it was denied proper help which made their four day journey across the mediterranean longer than needed. both italy and monitor refused to let us disembark the corpses on the ground they only wanted to take charge of the medical evaluation but they did not accept the bodies the libyan coast guard denies the accusations it says it rescued one hundred sixty five migrants in that same area last week without leaving anyone on board but the rescue team insists this case has broader political implications spins out it's unthinkable for a country of the european union for my country to finance

a libyan coast guard which we can testify leaves people alive in the middle of the sea and is responsible for homicide a desperate journey with a tragic end that's claimed the lives of so many migrants now a call for political action when humanitarian help alone is not enough katia llopis of the young al-jazeera. weather update next year i was here at then we'll take a look at the political choices that are on offer as voters propel half of pakistan's general election this week and we're at the start line of one of the most unique open water swim races in the world. hello there is so very warm for many of us across europe at the moment but first sweden where we've got a major problem with wildfires there have been

a few showers there now the rain may well be quite welcome but unfortunately there's been some gusty winds associated with that rain and so that hasn't helped with the fires atoll elsewhere there has been more persistent rain that's been over parts of russia this stretching into ukraine we've also got some thunderstorms that are over the central belt of europe and they're just going to spread down towards the southeast there as we head through monday watch out for these because they could be some very large hail and some flooding rains out of them towards the west is generally looking bright for us on monday and hot again with paris topping at around thirty one degrees now for the other side of the mediterranean we're seeing just a little bit of cloud over parts and morocco and algeria and that is just giving us more in the way of humidity really keeping the temperatures down so twenty nine degrees the maximum they is but for hot air force in chu needs the area of tab just drifts a little bit further east with there as we head through monday so that will drag the temperatures in june is down for the central belt of africa lots of

thunderstorms here all rattling their way towards the west as you'd expect some particularly heavy ones over sudan there and they gradually work their way towards the west and into nigeria. egypt is now china's third biggest trading partner in africa more than ten thousand chinese a living in cairo and wanted to see the pyramids and september one thousand nine hundred five i came with my friends to egypt many started a small trade is better now successful in business shipped in that i began to do business in two thousand and three or two thousand and four at the time it was small but then it began to expanding al-jazeera well meets the growing chinese community in egypt egypt made in china on al-jazeera.

get this is al-jazeera our top stories this hour some white helmets rescuers have been moved out of syria's southwest via israel at the request of the u.n. the united nations says that it will resettle around eight hundred of the volunteers and their families in western countries. a truce appears to be holding up both sides of the israeli gaza divide funerals of been held for hamas fighters killed by israeli airstrikes in gaza friday dozens of hamas positions been targeted after an israeli soldier was killed and a group that rescues migrants from the mediterranean sea is planning to file a manslaughter complaint against libya's coast guard pro active or open arms says that a woman and child died when they were left stranded at the boat deliberately destroyed . nine years of war against boko haram in northern nigeria has taken

a toll on young people thousands of traumatised teenagers recruited by the armed group have now returned from the front line one hundred eighty three of them were recently released for reintegration into society but as i was a serious address reports now from my degree in borno state that is a huge challenge. after months and years in custody of these children accused of links to. are starting the long process of recovery. army commanders say someone potential suicide bombers were ready to shoot troops or suspected members of boko haram they were all held prisoner at some time in the conflict by both sides and children are coming out of places with a lot of. it's not a place for a child what we are trying to help the government of nigeria to do is to take every child individually through a process of the habitation the united nations children's fund and the regional

government are so far rehabilitated nearly ten thousand of them. there are provided medical support classroom education and skills training yet in baltimore state experts say more than half a million children require i don't psychological and social support whatever level facilities got khalid look after a few hundred at a time calculus yeah but they pose a serious security threat unless they get the care they need and the fear is some of them will rejoin book or arm for yonks just overheard some support reintegration is a difficult process especially to build their self-esteem and confidence. model was arrested by security forces after they fled to the regional capital made to greek to seek refuge. and i was picked up while playing football up to now i wasn't told what offense i committed i spent eleven months in custody all the twenty two year old thinks about is food clothing and playing football experts say after

escaping the abuses of book or arm children need the custody of government health services not the security forces. now you have the instrument of the state that is supposed to be. the seaview now act in any way that is that he's punitive the tendency is for these sets of young people to feel neglected. and when you know population if you neglected to take it out on the safety and there are thousands of them out on the streets of the northeast with neither the skills or education to compete in a fast changing world comment you breeze al-jazeera my degree nigeria supporters and opponents of nicaragua's president have resumed protests in the capital managua anti-government demonstrators want new elections and the resignation of president jalal take up or take accuses them of plotting

a coup with support from the catholic church of the u.s. . the head of the international monetary fund and finance ministers from the g twenty in argentina and that's brought thousands out onto the streets they're not happy at the government's decision to take a fifty billion dollar loan from the i.m.f. from one of stories of reports. left wing groups gathered to protest against the international monetary fund in one aside is on saturday. last month the i.m.f. stepped in to shore up the argentinian economy with a fifty billion loan agreement but people like the boy believe it won't help improve people's lives. we already had the i.m.f. and a crisis we know what happened in greece they will fire state employees they will reduce salaries and take away workers right what is today one. argentina's economy has been struggling in recent months due to

a drop in investor confidence in emerging economies the currency lost over forty percent of its value and inflation has continued to rise this people are protesting just a few blocks away from where the g twenty finance ministers and central bank governors are meeting but they were prevented from getting closer by security forces this people that you can see here i hope we are the director of the i.m.f. will side with me here at m.f. it be years that the austerity measures implemented by the government. will generate more poverty and unemployment but christine legarde who came to attend the g. twenty summit showed strong support with what is trying to do there has been significant progress in terms of monetary policy as well where clearly the measures that have been taken by the bank of restored and managed

a much better situation with less volatility more transparency. protests because of policy suggested by the i.m.f. are not unique to argentina there has been strong opposition in countries like jordan and haiti international n.g.o.s like oxfam and others have suggested at the i.m.f. should rethink its standard recipes that take away power from labor unions do not help lower unemployment and demand of government spending which leads in most cases to an increase in poverty levels. the essence of the i.m.f. is the same it is to prioritize the physical deficit. it's the same old i.m.f. with a change in discourse look at what's happening in other parts of the world like jordan and. and that's why many here are distrustful of the current government's economic policies because they believe it will only deteriorate the lives of those who need

government help the most. and yemen is at risk of being destroyed as fighting rages for a nearby city zab it is a unesco world heritage site with thousands of historic homes religious buildings and mosques itself of her data which the saudi u.a.e. coalition has been fighting to retake from the rebels now it's an annual international race swimming from one continent to another more than two thousand people are taking part in the bosphorus cross continental race in istanbul on sunday let's go live now to watch a cirrus cacio blue who's somewhere between both continents on a boat by the look of it sort of this is an annual swim across one of the busiest shipping channels in the world how does it work. and been this is one of the iconic open swimming events in the world bosporus cross continental system race right behind us behind the brits actually there was

a boat then more than two thousand swimmers jumped in the deep blue sea so if the bosphorus to cross from asian side to the european side of his stall will this is what makes the swimming race more unique and. compatible with the others more than two thousand swimmers are striking out. six point six points. this is the bosphorus and they are from more than fifty countries who have registered for this super race on fortune's all boats has already moved on you can't see the settlers striking out in the sea but they will be racing for more than an hour. last year's prize was fifteen minutes so probably they will be striking out six point kilometers in less than an hour and reaching the european side of the stump. it's going to be very interesting because it is the most

important open swimming. thing about me doing most of them is to. taking a trip on a boat on a sunday morning than swimming across the the chilly bosphorus many thanks indeed said of course the owner there in istanbul. so campaigning is in full swing for pakistan's election on the state below while. the head of the pakistan people's party the son of the former leader benazir bhutto has been holding rallies in the southern city of karachi but the vote is widely seen as a two way race between the parties of the former cricket saw him run and the jailed former prime minister nawaz sharif fell to serious is in a district near the border with afghanistan where he's been speaking to rural voters. awash majority of the budget gunny population lived in the rural area

where dime has. although day. regret they have not seen the kind of results from it by their leadership in a country where good option run in political political leader not a. typing all the billions of dollars from their country. people do not have clean drinking water. education. medical care and all do it. for nation building. and for political leadership. change. as it's never brought any change to our laws what i'm doing now is what i've been doing for many years there is no change for the poor in this country and it's going from bad to worse. for the poor elections only mean

a change of face nothing more but it matters. a lot to the elite class who are sucking our blood through corruption for their own good and they've gone from millionaires to billionaires but the poor are still suffering because of the associated media days now in a bad name and political leaders are getting a grilling from the population to what they have done and up by. government and goal by dad not being able to deliver on the promise of trying to better the lives of the watch majority of its population and therefore did a question mark after what happened next. women's rights campaigners have welcomed india's decision to scrap taxes on sanitary pads women in poor rural areas couldn't afford the items but a twelve percent tax was imposed last year girls often skipped school during their periods to avoid facing stigma the pads are now officially listed as an essential item. space x.

has successfully launched its latest and most powerful version of the full conniving rockets. liftoff happened a short time ago lighting up the skies over florida the telstar nineteen vantage satellite was deployed into war but only thirty two minutes after takeoff it will supply broadband services services rather to customers throughout the americas and north atlantic region. it is good to have you with us hello adrian for going to here in the headlines on al-jazeera some white helmets rescuers have been moved out of syria southwest of israel at the request of the u.n. the united nations says it will resettle around eight hundred volunteers that families in western countries is the director of policy analysis at the arab center

for research and policy studies he says the evacuation shows how complicated the syrian war has become. this will give more credibility to the story of the syrian regime who was scared wall from the very beginning because the white helmets have been accused by the syrian regime in many occasions as being linked to a muslim on the one hand and on the other hand being actually having the sort of corporation with days that it is. has been talking about this for the past couple of years in fact especially in the southeastern part of the country on the on the borders with the golan heights france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern syria the aid is being sent on a russian plane the first time that a western country has said material to government controlled areas with moscow's help government forces eastern ghouta in april after a siege lasting several years around half a million people live but very little aid has made it in. a truce appears to be

holding on both sides of the israeli gaza divide funerals have been held for hamas fighters killed in israeli airstrikes in gaza on friday dozens of mass positions have been targeted after an israeli soldier was killed four boats loaded with eight are on their way to gaza from the italian port of palermo the freedom flotilla coalition says it wants to bring a peaceful end to the israeli blockade of the palestinian territory it expects to take just over a week to reach israeli waters a group that rescues migrants from the mediterranean sea is planning to file a manslaughter complaint against libya's coast guard pro active open arms says that a woman and child died when they were left stranded and their boat deliberately destroyed. and those are the headlines on to zero i'll be back with more news for you in a little over twenty five minutes after today's edition of inside story next.

al-jazeera. where every. what's triggering protest in nicaragua president daniel ortega under pressure to step down after years in power of the form of revolutionary leader blames others for the bonds of turmoil so what's the solution this is inside story. welcome to the program i am hashem it's. the man who led the revolution in

nicaragua thirty nine years ago daniel ortega and his army of sendin a star rebels were victorious in deposing president anastasio somoza the left wing rebel fighters called him a dictator which is exactly what many are calling on. the three time presidents defied almost four months of protests against his rule at least three hundred protesters killed thousands injured and condemnations from all over the world from both friends and foes many living in fear roam the streets including in former rebel strongholds. reports from more nimble. thirty year old landis 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 man they 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 an attack going on we couldn't go out. since security and pro-government forces launched a so-called cleanup operation in the tuesday to lift barricades a caravan of heavily armed and masked gunmen have taken control of 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 mourning as a paramilitary continue to patrol the streets here i was thinking of food vendor who says she's out selling stew for the first time in more than two months but

she's still afraid if this is the way because of the situation we can't talk we can't say anything but we are ok because we are back to work. police say the clean up operation was ordered by president. 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 it's been a painful battle because we've confronted an armed conspiracy. violent protest to me that i will have left nearly three hundred people dead. morning both as 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 get over. again as i

just i just money we got our. the sandinista national liberation front or f s l n rose to power in one nine hundred seventy nine by overthrowing president and a start your somoza anding more than forty years of his family's war in one nine hundred eighty s. l.-n. revolutionary government led by daniel ortega introduced widespread land reforms to benefit formerly landless peasants two years later right wing rebels called the contras who were backed by the united states of america began to tax and a state of emergency was declared the control war led to the deaths of more than thirty thousand people in one nine hundred eighty four the first free and fair elections were held with a landslide victory for the f.s.a. len but in one nine hundred ninety of the sandinista were defeated the new

president elected was violet acho morrow with support from washington the united states immediately stopped backing for the contrasts fast forward to two thousand and fourteen when changes to nicaragua's consideration came into effect allowing a president or target to run for a third consecutive term he won the election in two thousand and sixteen and appointed his wife. as his vice president let's introduce our panel. in washington d.c. venice noire men the founder and c.e.o. of a scimitar consultancy that specializes in latin america in monstrous are you ok colin harding director of the firm locked in form via skype from. blunden student demonstrators in nicaragua welcome to all but. we talking here about an outcry against

a dictator or is it something else you know to thank you for having me on yes no it absolutely is an outcry against a dictator i'm on originated from venezuela and i have been on your show several times to discuss those dynamics what we're seeing here is very similar you're saying that there was a group that sort of couched itself in this left wing revolutionary you know rhetoric that had at one point some reason for being right there the green reform inequality corruption dictatorship at several one with us where we didn't have a dictatorship when the when these when chavez came in but what is happened is that these these guys the people have realized that what were these left wingers have now you know taken control of all the powers of state taken control of a lot of means. of production control of the media and they they want the repression to end this is what happens when people stay in power too long they

become authoritarian and repressive and they're under strain right now so that's exactly what this is this is a real outcry for democracy they want their rights back mr cullen says this is a satanic sect backed by the united states of america to undermine his government. well yes that's that's the government's arrest record. taken of never abandoned his left wing anti-imperialist rhetoric but of course when he was back in power after two thousand and six he implemented much more pragmatic policies he actually developed quite a successful economic model in conjunction with the private sector who were representatives of business included on the advisory panels and contracts government contractor handed out to the private sector and this worked rather well the economy was growing about four percent a year or more for several years until very recently and i think the reference to venezuela or alias is quite interesting because they're playing by the venezuela

playbook now venezuela bankrolled the ortega government in recent years about six hundred million dollars a year where solve all on very easy terms and credits flowing from caracas to acronis enabled this this model to to keep functioning it's when it started drying up and one of the things they have to do is increase contributions to pensions by both. workers and by that of the protests broke out alone you're a demonstrator tell us about how it feels being a protest. against dunnill ortega in the capital managua what's the atmosphere right now. so. we never. i mean. we

are. generationally pumping. we never. like this. so. we. they are playing my writing or you know but. now. it's harder because the government it's not making. to. to get out of this situation i like and that. i owe everything and. i love it if you work in ok can i ask you this question i learned g g g do you fear for your safety is just easy for you to come openly on the streets to denounce the government now i know. as normal.

body. you know i. not really say they're now. being peaceable. they have hundreds approached by the government seems to be paying off a piece for the time being do you think that's. in a way or another how this battle why i think he might i mean you know the parallels between the what's happening in the good our what happened in venezuela are tremendous i mean it's exact same formula and you know protests and as well as started for real in twenty fourteen so when as well as been at this for four years and the streets are you know there are actually many about thirty protests

a day but. but they have there is no end in sight to liberation you know to the dictatorship in minnesota so that lasted for years and this is more brutal and in the words this is sort of more people dead in a shorter period of time more effective government repression and more brutal government repression than we can see this lasting for a very long time as well other than sort of devolves into a civil war which of course you could al gore has a history of but the people are by and large not armed and the use of the paramilitary forces and the censorship and the paramilitary forces on motorcycles are particularly frightening and again we had that too is you know means that this can go on for a long time and it gives the government some form of like knowledgeable deniability you know down down the line but so you know that i unfortunately i think the the

people the student protesters have a very long battle ahead of them i don't see or think a letting go anytime soon and you know for the last three years at least that we. no of the russians have been training in arming the military and the paramilitary forces and it got out and so they and they have backing by cuban intelligence as well so this is not you know there are no amateurs ok mr cullen but at the same time we've seen thousands of pro old supporters on the streets saying that their revolution is now being hijacked by the west. well. this reflects the changes that took place in recent years the money particularly flowing in from venezuela unable the government to massively expanding the public sector the the the state bureaucracy there's a very large number of people in nicaragua dependent on on the state for employment

and the pro-government demonstrations are very largely composed of people who have been ordered by their superiors to to attend and they may know which side their bread is buttered on they don't want to lose their jobs are going to lose their livelihood and the sandinista youth organization particularly which are very young people who don't remember the sandinista revolution but they. they've been pros happened to the this regime they formed a large part of the. shock troops of the paramilitary troops of the regime i learnt there is no indication to suggest that there might be any political dialogue with or to go in the near future so what is the next step for you for the protestors what are you planning to do in the future. to get out of this. but there are.

government. they must support that is. why you're standing. up. and what they were getting that's the. same or. the. either we don't see like it's three or. isn't. it we're. trying to. everywhere but

i think it's. because he's. played here. because. blood from when i was thank you very much indeed for your time appreciate the thank you but this is it now boiling down to. what should be next for dunny adult is that opposed opposition didn't. must go now yes yes i think that that he must go i mean it's so beyond any point of. unfortunately i think of dialogue and i know i keep comparing it it's because the the the parallels are says striking you know we've had intermittent dialogue and the parallels are striking because it's the same people behind it it's

the same relationships that you know dialogue in minnesota has a war and it says non-current are not going to happen far off partly because you have all of these proxy interests of russia of cuba. that are that are propping it up so they really need to the fourth they've got to sort of stay stay in power and that's even more important to relate in some ways it's a it's a stronger older relationship for them there than it is and that's why so i don't see how dialogue is going to work then the other thing that does need to go i think that once you start murdering her own people you know because they want free and fair elections you. using paramilitary forces and he's been asking by the way another about is that they've been asking for and got and are getting are going to get forces from that as well that to help keep them a lot they got in power so if you're supposed to be a liberator who's against foreign intervention but apparently some foreign intervention is ok as long as it's backed by the same people so they're going to fight that turf war as well so there's no there's no there's no end in sight to go

there's no doubt about paternity i think for dialogue resolution here mr cullen you've been talking previously about the financial aid provided by the venezuelan government to. as like or to like to discuss the will all promoting or trying to advance the boulevard in form of socialism for you the undressed in lots of the americas is it a sign that boulevard in socialism doesn't work anymore well i mean it works as long as there's plenty of money i mean the thing about travel is of course you have very abundant oil resources which if they have to splash around at the same time undermining the basis of the economy so when the oil money started running out which i mean there was no productive capacity in the economy and the state controls as you can introduce movement there are no incentives for anybody who still had

a business to try and produce this of course means that this kind of model has a very limited lifespan and it was precisely because the venezuelan model started running out of steam with the collapse in the oil price that the aid to nicaragua started to including on this cost of the whole nicaragua to muscle into into into question as well but of course the liquor argue has learned to take has learned from my daughter from from from venezuela that if you are prepared to kill as many people as it takes you can dig in and you can defy both domestic pressures and also foreign precious to you. to give way. you have said that he's interested in dialogue but in fact he the bishops who are supposed to be acting as mediators in the national dialogue he's accused them of being mongers themselves the idea of having people mediating talks when the president one side regards them as trying to overthrow him it's obviously false the call is not going to happen venesa do you

think that the catholic church has the potential to salvage a political settlement and no i mean and only because i don't think that a political settlement is really going to work here unfortunately i mean your forgive my ongoing skepticism i do think that in theory with a slightly different set of circumstances they could they are they are credible they have moral authority this is central america the church is very strong which is partly why you see ortega saying that that that the ones trying to overthrow him are sort of some diabolical force right it's because religion still resonates so strongly not only that the church in central america even more so than in than in south and then in venezuela for instance is a huge provider of health care education and everything else it's very deeply rooted in the grass roots of you know the poor all areas and it also commands you

know the loyalty even of the highly educated you know professional class as you know so matter what you go to church you know so i think they could but they could bring sort of the business class and the poor class together but you know it's all about tonight can something so but. it's just not going to happen yeah mr cullen. some very strong words from the united states. states. what can the americas does it do they still have some leverage given their past involvement in the war well of course it's one of the. argument solved the government of the earth a government that was there fighting against imperialism this is a plot involving international organized crime in league with coup mongers a fair amount also with terrorists and the imperialists. so this does have a certain traction with some sections of the population the americans can do what they've done to venezuela they can introduce functions on named individuals

stopping them from traveling freezing their bank accounts and generally ramping up that kind of pressure to go beyond that is very problematic president trump has talked about it considering a military intervention saying that it's way over here i don't think even he would consider a military intervention in any character and of course it's not going to happen eventually there either because it would be very strongly opposed everywhere else in the continent they can try. why didn't the scope of the end of the individual sanction of course all kinds of international organization can come out with resolutions deploring what's going on calling on the government to enter a dialogue call off the paramilitaries and so on but this has very limited effect look at somebody who is determined to hang on to power but it's about the same time we've seen some sandinista for the allies over take a denouncing or at least distancing themselves from the glammed all the protestors

is this something that could convince ultimately ortega just say of. well i hope so but i still remain skeptical because we've also seen that elsewhere we've seen them going to so i mean you you do have some true believers right the sandinista movement had a reason for being there were people who believed that you know that you needed a very force and they they came into existence and you had based in a certain set of circumstances and they you have true believers in the rights of the poor equality and all of that so what you're seeing is the fracture of of the true believers versus the ones who have just sort of become a little cabal or a little cartel of power and money and they're rebelling there they view it as a betrayal of their movement now i would be curious to see whether the the people who are speaking out against them are perhaps not is not as deeply rooted in the

part of government money that's a possibility but i. will say mr cohen isn't it interesting that in more than eighty years ago it was run by two political dynasties the somoza and then the old with growing his wife to take over what is the problem here with the country is it more about the political elite or is it that the politics of the know the way we know it in the western world does not really function properly in a place like nicaragua well the institutions are not as well established. and of course the country does have. a history a recent history of instability of course you know these things take time to become yes wanted to be followed by another one and one of the features of your take your government is that one thing that exasperated the private sector is that increasingly sandinista militants and relatives and so on have been cornering what

bits of the economy are still functioning well we even buy a levy the general rate of growth has been slowing down. these things need time to for political institutions to to begin functioning but i think what we have in a number of. countries but particularly in determination by the government to make sure this doesn't happen to the new way forward under the present circumstances. the last question would be whether. international calls and step aside or stick to power for this annoying when colin harding thank you very much indeed for your presence today looking forward to see near the near future and thank you for watching you can see the program again and in time by visiting our website dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j.

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a sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like bring you to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to be the speakers for change joining the colobus. on al-jazeera . leaving syria at night through israel eight hundred members of the white helmets the families flee across the occupied golan heights. following a trip to the given this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up attempting to return to normality girls us markets a busy as a fragile cease fire holds. cleared of linked. the children are released back into

nigerian society. banging the protest drum demonstrations outside the g. twenty economic summit in argentina. some of the white helmets volunteers who've rescued thousands of syrians over the years have left southern syria through the occupied golan heights israel's military gave safe passage to eight hundred of the syrian rescue teams and families after a un request from israel being sent to jordan and then on woods to be resettled in western countries including canada the u.k. and germany with me in the studio one couple on the director of policy analysis at the center the arab center for research and policy studies the a lot of areas raised eyebrows of the fact that the israeli army was involved in

this rescue operation that these white helmets and their families went through the occupied golan heights to jordan what do you make of it all i think it seems to me that this is the last of the armed conflict in south western syria it's part of a deal that has been struck between days and ease the russians and the americans might have been involved also in this which actually allows the syrian regime to regain control of these areas and evacuation of the white helmet from from the area is part of their deal yeah i think this is an admission maybe by the israelis by the americans and the russians have won in syria and very assad would remain and empowered this is why i think the focus from now on would be on the humanitarian aspect of the crisis rather than on the political and on the political one and this is something that both might be your secretary of state the u.s. secretary of state and also the russian ambassador to washington. they had been

talking about and recent days when they said that there has been an agreement maybe between president and president putin at the helsinki summit that the focus from now on should be on returning to sea in the future used to their home country and they have been talking about one point seven million see them if you please. help us in the families of now arrived in jordan president assad's regime know full control of the southwest of the country how will israel feel about that in particular given the still iranian backed forces operating in that southwestern region well i think their government between the russians. allows the syrian regime to be in control because without that agreement i would see it would have been very difficult for the syrian regime and the russians actually to go in and start that offensive against the opposition but since the americans i mean they've told they told the syrian the syrian armed factions in the south that they will not be having

this sort of they will not enjoying the sort of protection they have been expecting from that many cans and that the agreement between the russians and the americans so i think now there is a lot edis believe that the nine hundred seventy four u. n. agreement should be put in place again and only the syrian syrian army should be in this despite of the country and that the iranians will be actually pushed back and the russians seem to have given the sort of god is it really is want actually about this. but one always good to talk to you many thanks for being with us all militias loyal to iran have stopped a group of fifty five buses taking syrian rebels and families to the country's north the buses were stopped and surrounded by fighters wearing military style uniform near the city of homs the convoy left could have trouble as part of agreement between the opposition and the syrian government to surrender positions

in the south meanwhile france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern ghouta the aid is being sent on a russian plane the first time that a western country has sent the tiriel to syrian government controlled areas with moscow's help government forces rito keester who put in april after a siege lasting several years about half a million people live there but very little aid has made it in joshua landis is director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he says the french move opens the door for others to engage with the outside government is a small amount of aid but it indicates that. with russia and with us in order to supply. many policymakers had said we're not going to do this no reconstruction no engagement with a side it will object in my eyes him it will legitimize the russians it will legitimize the iranians they want to roll back iran they want to squeeze on assad

and bring about regime change hence big economic sanctions but this little feeler on the part of the french to engage with the russians and with assad and just a small amount of aid many people are going to be hoping that it's going to open the doors towards greater acceptance of the fact that assad has won and we've seen yes with you with trump's meeting with putin with the israelis telling the russians that they're willing to accept assad if it's if the russians can keep iran away from their border that increasingly the international powers are accepting the fact that assad has one and they're beginning to look for ways to help refugees with turn they're worried that jordan and lebanon might blow it up the pressures are too great the sob big demonstrations in jordan demonstrations in iraq trade has to be

started again between syria and iraq syria and jordan lebanon and the west desire to squeeze syria is really counterproductive today. a truce appears to be holding on both sides of the israeli gaza divide a deal was brokered following a series of violent confrontations on friday israeli airstrikes and tank fire hit dozens of hamas targets after an israeli soldier was shot four palestinians were killed and at least one hundred twenty others were wounded stephanie decker reports . hamas is military wing because some brigades are burying their dead three of their members were killed on friday afternoon israel struck various ham ass monitoring posts along the border soon after an israeli soldier was shot from gaza he later died of his wounds sixty sites belonging to him ass were attacked by israeli forces late into the night a few rockets were fired from gaza in response and a cease fire was announced hours later it's the second ceasefire in

a week but i don't think this would last for a long time i think it's better for us. unfortunately we will have just. through this or. after that we'll have the same story because many problems of the. people and. the pattern of escalation the fire as elation ceasefire between israel and hamas well i continue on the long term plan to leave the situation for the people here almost two million people are living under this blockade and everyone says the same thing how impossible life has become here. i can't afford anything to work as a tailor in israel before the blockade i made around a thousand three hundred dollars a month of the moment i can't even make three hundred dollars a month exchanging money i work two shifts

a day morning and night the meaning of humanity is missing and most people are educated the confines work people have to straight on to pressed 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. palestinians here have little power to influence the political decisions made either in gaza or israel no one wants another war but as one woman asked us what do we need to do to be able to live like everyone else stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza let's go live. in gaza this fragile cease fire appears to be holding. that's right adrian yes no reports. balloon launching of balloons or kites those and send rebuilds and kites over night no reports the smalling so far anything being launched no as strikes no rockets launched by hamas either so yes this

fragile cease fire does appear to be holding for the time being all the tension now on israel certainly today that temporary blockade that israel put on all all oil and gas and cooking gas coming across from israel karim salim crossing now this is a say was a temporary block blockade made by israel last week following last week's escalation of violence in syria the east brady's supposed to be reviewing this today we on the sand certainly according to some ripples in the israeli media the israeli defense establishment is going to recommend to the israeli government those restrictions on oil gas and cooking oil lifted so these reports say as as a vital means of trying to maintain this cease fire we've spoken to the director of

abu salim crossing and he says certainly he's had no indication so far from the israelis as to whether those restrictions will be lifted it's also vital to mention the sea pull the fisherman as well those restrictions put on by israel last week also included further reducing the area that fisherman can can operate can fish in from six kilometers sorry six nautical miles to three nautical miles so as i say we hope to hear whether the israelis are going to lift those restrictions or not in the coming hours of course gas fuel cooking gas is vital here. so many thousands of households rely on generators full their electricity generators for powering their water pumps without cooking gas people can't cook as well so there's

a lot of anticipation as to whether this blockade these new restrictions will be lifted with israel if indeed the cease fire holds john's many thanks john strafford in gaza well four boats loaded with aid are on their way to gaza from the italian port of palermo the freedom flotilla coalition says it wants to bring a peaceful end to the israeli blockade of the palestinian territory it expects to take just over a week to reach israeli waters it will then hand over one boats to gaza fisherman abdel moneim elam nonny is in palermo and spoke to one of the organizers. well i am here at palermo italy the port of a little more in italy and behind me you can see allowed boats and how they now make means return return to gaza return to palestine this is the main boat of the freedom flotilla which.