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help. talking. and gunmen attacked the head. and cricketers all over the world are calling for support for. the hash tag behind. politics. the news. online. dot com the national court. order in favor of qatar and the case of the gulf nation brought against the united arab emirates now the court says the measures taken by the

blockade against qatar amount to racial discrimination ordered the. families to be reunited. it also says students must be permitted to finish their education and the country is affected should be given access to courts and tribunals the u.a.e. is one of four countries that imposed an air land and sea blockade against qatar more than a year ago now and it sparked worst political crisis in the gulf in decades now here is some of what the un's top court had to say the court to note that the number of consequences apparently resized resulted from d.c. to asia and the impact on those affected seem to bear ceased to this day you really. have been separate. the student is have been deprived of the opportunity to complete their education in the u.a.e.

and qatar as have been denied equal access to tribunals. oregon in the u.a.e. and if barker is in the hague let's go to him live now so name this was actually a very very close vote but by no means a unanimous decision from this court tell us more about what happened. yes it was very close indeed to well the court has had about a month to consider the claims and counter claims made by castle in the u.a.e. that were first presented here at the end of june but now really they have given a kind of saw a chance to allow for provisional measures to be introduced which is exactly what consul wanted to know just explain what provisional measures is it's a interim directive by the un's highest courts that it is immediate and is legally binding to all signatories all of that key convention the convention on the

elimination of all forms of racial discrimination that the u.a.e. is accused of violating and the u.a.e. now has to make sure the families are no longer separated that so this shouldn't sue have been denied access to their education can continue their studies or at least have the documents to go elsewhere the people could also now access judicial services on a key message to both the u.a.e. and counsel that everything possible should be done to avoid an escalation of tensions any further ok parker live there and the hague that's just one angle of this very important story we have several more to cover as well ne thank you so let's take you to the heart of what this case was at the core of it are accusations by qatar that the united arab emirates has discriminated against its citizens under the interventional convention against racism qatar says that its citizens have been illegally expelled from the u.a.e. and stopped from traveling to or passing through the country qatar presented evidence that families have been kept apart and its citizens denied medical records

and other services like education since this blockade was imposed in june of last year that qatar argues is a human rights violation the u.a.e. saudi arabia egypt and bahrain are implementing the air sea and land embargo they say their katara funds terrorism which doha strongly denies the u.a.e. is one of the four is only one rather of four that's a signatory to the convention against racism and that's why its role was it was the sole subject rather of this case. a senior lecturer at the hague university of applied sciences he joins us now from the hague we appreciate your time very much so this ruling in favor of qatar ordering you to do these very specified things what's in foresman is there to make sure the u.a.e. actually does this. well luckily we don't normally need an foresman usually what happens is states comply with ninety nine percent of the time

states will comply because it's in their interest to be seen as a trustworthy state but if for some reason that were to happen and a state were not to comply. the state could always go to the u.n. security council but luckily that's never had to happen what was the bar that had to meet to prove this discrimination to prove racism. well at this point the case is only a provisional measures order so the overall case of whether or not there is or is not discrimination has not yet been decided that may be some time before that happens today they just have to show that there was an emergency need to make sure that people's lives are not going to be interrupted so all the court had to decide today was that there was a plausible argument that there may be discrimination discrimination on the basis of a sense of race or ethnic heritage so what type and i understand what you're saying that this is still provisional was still

a very long process here but still having said that what type of legal precedent does this set. well it establishes not a very big precedent for international law in the sense of this is just a provisional measures order so the overall case hasn't been decided there are two other cases on this same treaty one has been already dismissed on the procedural grounds and the other one is still pending so we don't have a whole lot of precedent so if indeed this were to go in the favor of culture then we would have a really strong statement that this kind of action would be considered racial discrimination so does this give any if there are any families you know that want to pursue some sort of legal claim for four losses or damages does this give them something that they could use something that they could reference. if what you're meaning is whether or not an individual could bring some but

together claims that's not going to happen. in this really big let me let me let me clarify on jim not to discriminate you know not to this particular body that's not what i mean obviously that's not how this court works but i'm saying if there were some other court some other jurisdiction where a family that had been affected by this wanted to a lawsuit for example is this something that could work in their favor. well they'd have to find a court that would actually have jurisdiction over this so that would have to be say a court in the emirates or potential court and there are some human rights treaty bodies there is a claim already pending at the committee for the elimination discrimination so there are a couple of venues where that with it could happen for this the president and of course we're talking about when the overall case is done the president would be that that this kind of discrimination which really on its face looks more like citizenship discrimination that this kind of discrimination would constitute racial

discrimination thus trigger that the treaty then the question would be whatever other court you go to whether it be a domestic order would be one of these treaty bodies if they also can enforce the same convention indeed they could look to this as a persuasive person ok well again a day has been ordered to do very specific things for united families to allow the students to continue studying and to give affected by this access to judicial recourse so we will have to see how this plays out william webster joining us from the hague thank you very much. i mean marked the first year of qatar's blockade last month with a documentary titled the siege of qatar as part of our special series that examines the human and financial impact of the biggest crisis at the gulf countries and the future of relations between them so go to our website al-jazeera dot com and in the program section you will find the siege of qatar in the special series category

fighter jets backing a syrian government offensive in the southern province have been pummeling eisel held areas near the israeli occupied golan heights they are targeting fighters holding out and a pocket near the dividing line the government offensive to retake the area has displaced more than one hundred thousand civilians and recent weeks many to the border areas stephanie decker has seen the attacks taking place from the occupied golan heights. can hear the oh there you go see they just to the right. this is such a close conflict as you're seeing now that is the syrian side but it's incredibly close to the fence i mean i can see the you can probably see it and it's very close to those tents in front but it shows you just how close it is a much some you can you see the fence there's probably a fence yes you can see the fence in your shot that is the line between the israeli occupied golan heights and the syrian side i can tell you who's jets it is but

certainly either syrian regime jet or russian jet what you've seen happening here throughout the last month or so is also the push by the syrian regime and the russians and then forcibly a negotiation deal with the rebels seeing those that don't agree then move further towards the north there's another one coming in so that this shows you the intention. many of those who fled the offensive escaped into jordan which is where volunteers have the white helmets were also taken after they were given safe passage out of syria more than four hundred members and families passed through the israeli occupied golan heights in the last forty eight hours the operation was coordinated by the united nations they'll be resettled in several western countries including the u.k. germany and canada meanwhile they also have government has condemned the evacuation saying the criminal operation carried out by israel and its tools in the region have divulged the true nature of the organization and the so-called white helmets

which syria has warned of its dangers on the security and stability and its and in the region due to its terrorist nature israel has smuggled hundreds of members of the white helmets terrorist organization and cooperation with the governments of the us britain jordan germany and canada and this has uncovered the support provided by the states to the terrorist organizations and there are gresham against the syrians a storming a standoff and a suicide bombing in the kurdish regional government building in erbil iraq came under attack on monday. took the security forces five hours to regain control the gunman shot their way inside in the early hours of the morning injuring at least two policemen one of the attackers later blew himself up the other two were killed but amir von will convert is a journalist at kurdistan twenty four english news channel he joins us now from our

beale an iraq and we appreciate your time so much so who is likely behind this attack and in your opinion. most likely it was isis although it's not clear yet because they haven't claimed responsibility yet but isis also that attacks in the past for instance in two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and fifteen so it's not the first time that isis would have attacked our bill but until now doing first the creation is still ongoing if it were to be i so how much pressure does that put on the iraqi government. isis has been almost defeated i mean they lost most of the third torii but in the disputed territories between baghdad and the kurds there are still some isis cells and also isis have been carrying out more attacks in baghdad soit does put pressure

on baghdad also because there are protests and solved in iraq and isis is not completely defeated yet because they still have some cells in some areas of the country irbil has has. been one of the safest places in iraq what does it mean that this is happening now. while i'm in diving talks in the past but in general speaking compared to the rest of iraq the kurdistan region have been quite safe but also there was an issue because free of the attackers were all kurds from arab bill so this shows that there were also issues with rather causation of local young people here in kurdistan by some mosques. so this is probably the result of this attack and there were also some kurds joined isis in syria and also in iraq but most of. them being killed. ok. mr of let amir van will give birth thank you very

much for joining us this is the ad more information about somebody claiming responsibility for this attack obviously we'll bring it to our viewers thank you very much appreciate your time. now i saw all of this was defeated in largely driven out by a coalition of iraqi and international forces with the help of groups of local fighters we have profiled the commander of one such group in the north a woman is popularly known as whom one nadi you can find her gripping story on our website in the program section it's called eye for an eye and as part of our people and power series the philippines president said his country's war on drugs is far from over or regard to terror tape made the comments during his annual state of the nation address he also promised to sign a new law to help curb violence in the southern mend in our region he wants to grant a tanami to indigenous moro muslims in a bid to dissolve the rebel group that has been fighting the government for decades

and tell us more about how this isn't playing out online you know it's been quite the topic among the issues the president tackled in his speech he said his illegal drug war is far from over many have been criticizing that particular point on twitter this is what some for the filipinos from our online community had to say. it's obvious that this has been the most behaved in the supply in song of the president i think he did a pretty good job in maintaining his school he did not there be it from his manuscript and so far as his daughter is concerned to think two more things here though i think you failed to deliver a defacto meet of the social political climate of the philippines especially the looming poverty it's the same things you said in the ranting about everson just dumping and regarding the endo he even passed on the obligation game congress which means that it's political that their mission is just an ash well he was lying obviously on some issues one he said that he was for human lives rather than human

rights which were the concern of his critics but how do you separate these two human rights or human ones so the philippines may now expect more state sanctioned killings as the president said that his war in progress was far from over and that this would be pursued relentlessly. the hash tag sona twenty eighteen it stands for state of the nation address it is trending in the country and people are using it to create a resistance movement against deter taze government one person tweeted saying that when will deter to address critical national concerns other than drug trafficking another saying despite not acting on the corrupt activities of his own people he says corruption must stop this is a lip service and another person says as much as i'm clapping to some statements that were made i'm tired of promises please make sure to have a checklist of these to accomplish them but of course that's not all anti-government sentiment this user here on using the hash tags on

a twenty eight hundred saying that he was satisfied with the speech and that he favors more developments in cities outside of the capital which he say are long overdue now many more people were active on the streets as deterred was speaking with different youth groups and organizations holding protests against his administration supporters of a group called bet they echo have also join the protests it started as an online campaign run by women's rights activists against what they say were massaging the sick comments made by the president many are holding colorful and artsy signboards as you just saw the artists are also involved in this on many different areas this man told us that he creates images to encourage the government to stop killing people who are linked to drugs. we want to stop this we want to stop yet that we want to get our message of those. pledges are just that you know our this is evidently this kind of thing we want to hear from you especially if you're using

the hash tag sona twenty eight thousand you can add on your comments with that just use our hash tag a.j. news grid you can also as always write to me directly at leo harding a.j. thank you leah and actually we have been monitoring that that hash tag and you've been commenting on what our lead story was that the international court of justice ruled in favor and katara in the racial discrimination case that they brought against the united arab emirates at least provisionally so you have some very strong feelings about it one question from someone on facebook is will the u.a.e. get a sanction if they don't follow the order and that was actually the first question that i put to our legal guys who said it's actually never played out that way that a country hasn't followed the orders from the i.c.j. so we'll have to see another common is if they can hold the u.a.e. accountable were there be anyone holding. israel sponsible for its settlements obviously not quite the same story of another comment as well the blockade is a joke and needs to stop so and one more that just came in i have been in the

u.a.e. for twenty eight years and i am shocked that the u.a.e. has enforced this blockade against katara so we will see how all of this plays out because the order just came out a few hours ago let's move on pardon me to our next story of a title tiny coastal village that is in greenland has been on edge for more than a week after an eleven million ton iceberg drifted next to the settlement it's the largest glacier many have seen and if it breaks up the waves would wipe out their community nick clark reports from the remote and what village and in a sort. helicopters in these parts of the lifeline for small communities they provide all services especially in times of crisis. below thousands of icebergs the result of the outflow of nearby glass is draining

the greenland ice sheet. then the iceberg in question it is huge one hundred meters by three hundred why behind it you can make out the settlement of in our suits sprawled off a hillside. on the ground a community of around one hundred seventy people there are families there are children that bread is on the water as they fish and hunt and they used to icebergs drifting by but never this close and never this big. i mean double normally icebergs are not that high their low white but this one is very high which made it frightening. this video shows chunks of ice cascading into the water causing life threatening waves to crash into the shoreline several homes had to be evacuated there was concern for the villages power generator and fuel tanks and boats were dragged up the hillside. we may through out towards the ice

but it has now shifted away from the harbor entrance not as dangerous as it was but still presenting a threat it could cause at any time fisherman could isn't has never seen it but this big so close. you can identity kept on it actually came pretty fast in front of the village they saw the danger and so they evacuated some houses and prepared for what could happen between now and then there was a big wind and it blew it outside here. it's hope the iceberg will now slowly head out to sea nudged along by wind and current evacuated residents are back in their homes life is beginning to return to normal making the most of the short summer a quiet time for the dogs head of a winter of sledge pulling they think about how dangerous it is to be here when there's a big iceberg in front of them and. and they cannot really sleep because they're kind of expecting that he's going to calvin a minute or an hour or so of course they're like they cannot really rest but they

won't change their lives for nothing and they want to stay here because of the fishing on which unities and hunting over the unities all year round so i want to make of all this there's no way that you can attribute this iceberg to climate change specifically there's no doubt that there's a growing incidence of ice bread production here in greenland over the last one hundred years and occurrences and threats like this one may continue as time goes on. and add to that the changing sea ice conditions these communities are witnessing it is very apparent that things are shifting here in the arctic where global temperature change is more keenly felt than anywhere else on that clock al-jazeera in our suit green. the finish line is in sight for almost four thousand candidates running for election to pakistan's national assembly and three hours campaigning officially ends takes place on wednesday more than one hundred million

people are eligible to cast a ballot it has been a contentious and sometimes dangerous election race or rallies have been targeted in bomb attacks while state agencies have been accused of taking sides on the binge of a joins us live now from lahore so just a few hours before the campaigning in sama will it be one of the a very tight election i mean considering how many candidates there are. absolutely it is going to be a tight race specially in the problems of a job where a majority of the the come from for the bugs bunny we've been out on the road going from one rally to the other we just coming from a rally of the bike a very. political gathering of the. people have been telling us that they are very excited about. that is. despite

the situation with their leaders. of the muslim league. with his daughter. again this is their stronghold but also on the other hand the fighting being led by i think you're going to politician in russia is also confident that now the tide is on their side they have reinvigorated the masses people are confident that they're going to vote for them but there has been a lot of criticism and there has been a number of security issues as well as you seem to be attacks on at least four different politicians there six. constituencies and national voting has been postponed that is going to be a tightly contested elections people are quite confident specially. in the open area that they're going to go out and cast their ballots and that is going to be the deciding factor on how many people both of these bodies in particular come out

and copy about. some of the hardline parties or really gaining some ground in this election i mean they're not going to overtake the major parties but can they still have some sort of influence. that is the thing that these hard line. which has been on the fringe for a number of years and now taking part in the election process for the first sign from all of the religious spectrum of the brain that the obama effect the shias and the believe are all involved and these are being seen by political analysts as this is they're not going to be able to win a lot of these but what they are going to do is they will break vote away from the traditional which means that there might not be. all of the political body they're going to vote and they will be very thin majority of men when they do come into the parliament they are likely to be in smaller groups and they'll have to be

coalitions we might be able to be maneuvered and manipulated. by the military. in pakistan and that remains to be the biggest. even if this morning we spoke to the human rights commission of pakistan who said that they're going in the media there's a certain political elite that is being persuaded by the media and people are not being given. a level playing field so to speak but they can come out in this and campaign and people are not hearing all that the story by the media but the voters . seem to have made up their mind and there are very few people who are still thinking. some of them today and of course election day approaches thank you. sports are actually playing a role in this election leah how so far for one the comments have just been flooding and online to keep them coming but pakistan's most popular sport as you

may know is cricket and it seems like by default one of the most popular candidates for prime minister this year is a former captain of the national team the support base for emraan khan is huge to say the least much larger than that of some of the other candidates that were seen online and in their latest push for the polls his supporters are merging politics and the pitch to try to get him into office it started with this tweet from the former pakistani cricketer coach he said that you have got what it takes skipper and honestly he even started the hash tag behind you skipper referring to imran khan's time as the captain or the skipper on the national team. the good. khan was very much the star player on pakistan's team from seventy six all the way to one thousand nine hundred two and was head of the team intermittently for ten years his political supporters are fiercely loyal but they say they love

and trust him regardless of his decorated sports career. i support iran because iran has a proven track record of reforming and delivering on things when he was a cricketer he introduced the culture of neutral empires in the cricketing world ventura damning from track and he became boxed and largest philanthropist best damaging a few results that are begun suppose that has established a university in pakistan just providing education to ninety percent of students for your cost and run time is leading in ending the afghan being in pakistan and i believe that he's the best man right now. i was up in fifth grade in one thousand nine hundred twenty still remember one hundred leaving for the world cup he said that he's going to bring back the world cup or barca star nobody really believed him but the millions like me and the same thing today in two thousand and eighteen after twenty twenty six years i believe he's going to win the election in two days and with the next prime minister of this country right behind you skipper you can do it we all know you can do it only iran can win is going to be times he can move

then he has the courage and the group sent. to france he had not made the impossible possible i my name is mohammed atta met and i'm warning for iran hand but not because of its cricket exploits but because of his honesty and integrity and the best thing he's the only dude who can bring on pakistan from the connection and the reason he was here in madrid. great responses from online keep them coming in the hash tag that we've been using to get those responses has triggered a strong political sentiment among the sporting fraternity iran's teammates and fans have been tweeting and his support and even supporter of him even drew a little stick figure version of herself saying i am literally behind you skipper people are also changing their profile pictures to this picture with a cricket paddle there in the corner with the name of the political party this just

be an example of one of the thousands of profile pictures that we've seen showing their support as pakistanis head to the polls on wednesday and of course we have all this talk of the p.t.i. party here but there are many more people vying for the open seats as of some a binge of aide was saying our interactive team has put this together to for you taking you through the country showing you which seats are open seats for women seats for minority leaders you can take a look at that and see what's at stake and how past elections have panned out it's under the interactive tab on our website and if you're in pakistan or love cricket we do want to hear from you i have a call out online asking you if you trust emraan khan because of his sports history or not mr gould here he just commented saying that we do trust him zubair say it is only hope for pakistan to have emraan great comments here i've been responding to some of you if you'd like to join in on that as always the hash tag script russia

and rightly so this is a landmark election it is only the second time in pakistan's history that a civilian government has completed a full term so to know everything about the election happening on wednesday you can find a single guy in the section under the features category a very interesting read it gives you a three hundred sixty degree view of the vote and how it could impact pakistan's future and some of you are at least very excited about this i see a comment on facebook from jason the fifth hash tag a lated hash to. anxious so if you want to get in on the conversation as well our hash tag is at a.j. inside story or twitter handle is at a.j. english and on facebook as well facebook dot com slash al-jazeera you can also reach us on whatsapp or telegram plus nine seven four five zero one one one one four nine and this is news for it so if you're with us right now on facebook live there's an extra a.j. plus story coming your way now at about palestinian children going back to school

and later to mark the fortieth anniversary of the birth of the first test tube baby as we used to call it change the lives of millions of parents around the world but it's not accessible or affordable for everyone. hello there we've been talking about the showers around the black sea for a while now they've been with us for at least a week and they gradually making their way towards the northeast towards the caspian sea but this certainly given the some heavy downpours and also some rather more active types of weather as well this water spout was spotted in the southwestern parts of russia so clearly very active storms that more still to come during the day on tuesday but i think for wednesday is generally looking drier and many of us could get away with a dry day still want to showers though are likely just around the coast of the

caspian sea so to the north of tehran could be a couple of showers hip elsewhere though and across the region is just hot as you'd expect at this time of year forty five degrees the maximum in baghdad now here in doha it's been pretty windy over the past few days but the winds are easing and that will allow the temperatures to sneak a little bit higher so i think we'll get to around forty four or forty five degrees as we head through the next few days to the south of us there is more in the way of clouds over parts of a man and into yemen could just give us one or two showers particularly around. if we head down towards the southern parts of africa largely fine and dry for most of us here not really a great deal of cloud showing up on the satellite picture at all we'll see a bit of cloud i think in the eastern parts of mozambique that could give us a shower. the world's primary could change producing nation. is at the forefront of the war on drugs we're talking about serious organized crime as a country where reaching

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take a look now at some of the stories that have gotten your attention on our web site al jazeera dot com and the first story will be covering a head a news crew in sports one of the stars of the german national team has quit saying

he's been facing a lot of discrimination also the second story there we've been talking a lot about and getting your comments on elections are tomorrow in pakistan a lot of attention being paid of course to former cricket star imran khan and two of the top ten stories are something we're about to discuss right now and you can see the trump. trade it's an angry threats and a sixth one they are do not play with the lion's tail the president of iran us on any warning donald trump so let's get to that story right now. the president's trading for us that's never good news but it's worse when the president is threatening each other or iranian and american historically major geo political rivals tension as the bubbling between them and donald trump was elected in two thousand and sixteen and then pulled the u.s. out of the nuclear deal negotiated by his predecessor that was just a couple months ago but the rhetoric escalated on sunday iran's leader haasan rouhani warned the u.s. against playing with what he call the lion's tail charla bellus reports. with

television as their platform a ratcheting up of threats between iran's president hassan rouhani and the trumpet ministration on sunday secretary of state mike compare spend a full twenty six minutes criticizing rouhani and his leadership the ayatollah are in on the act too judging by their vast well they say more concerned with riches than religion these hypocritical holy men advice all kinds of cricket's games to become some of the wealthiest men on earth while their people suffer the u.s. administration is attacking iran from multiple angles in may president trump withdrew from the twenty fifteen nuclear chord in august he will reimpose sanctions aimed at crippling iran's economy pompei are warned tehran its exports will be squeezed in the coming months and is pressuring allies to stop importing iranian oil by november its biggest source of income and now the us administration is seizing on protests in iran to begin

a media campaign president rouhani referred to the strategy and thracian trump against turning his people against him but don't machine was you're not going to change don't play with the lion's tail you will regret it forever you cannot carry out these measures it is out of your capability you cannot force during ins to act against their own country you have clearly shown you are against the iranian people . those comments got this response from president trump who tweeted in capital aces never ever thracian the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have a soffit before we are no longer a country that will stand for your demented woods of violence and death be cautious . you tweet is a flashback to trump and north korean leader kim jong il and kim was also at the wrong end of a new caps tirade last year for the two leaders came together at a summit in singapore in june. but the difference with iran has purchased the

soaring cost of living has pushed iranians to the streets numbers not seen since twenty twelve but analysts say a media campaign to win them over will be received as u.s. propaganda i think it's quite clear that as much as they are frustrated and deeply frustrated with the government of iran they're not jumping onto trump side anytime soon from california to tehran the high stakes ruble sparring will be watched by its target audience the iranian people shot down this zero. in washington d.c. now can really how could joins us live karalee a charlotte referenced in her story there rhetoric from donald trump heated rhetoric even via twitter is nothing new it happened with north korea then they ended up having a summit it's yet to be seen if anything substantial actually came out of that so there's a there are some parallels but in other ways this this is amped up even a bit more how is this playing out what is the reaction been to this. well what i

can tell you is that this is as you point out a standard piece of the donald trump playbook and that is sort of this heightened rhetoric often as a negotiation tactic often to bring players to the table as we saw in the case of north korea certainly there are indications that the trumpet ministration in the past at least what has been said that there has been some willingness according to make pompei out to hold talks with the russians leaders but the temperature right now seems to be that they're very far apart way if any possibility of that happening given the fact that the president in charlotte report there he's tweeting in all caps usually not an indication that there are going to be talks anytime soon in fact just the opposite after the pulling out of the j c.p.o. a by the united states that's the twenty fifteen agreement that was negotiated to limit iran's nuclear powers donald trump in fact said that this was just the beginning and now sanctions are coming to place not just in three weeks but even

tougher ones in november so it feels the two sides are very far apart ok can really thank you very much and as we go to same as robbie who is live in tehran one of the comments in saying that i'm seeing on facebook is he has the nerve to call someone a hypocrite referencing the speech the pot calling the kettle black that's from one of our viewers james so what is the reaction been tehran saying. well both for pompei of speech and for donald trump's tweet there's been a chorus of condemnation from iranian people online in the streets from iranian officials as well but there was one national security official a senior figure in the establishment who we spoke to earlier today whose comment stood out he suggested the trump is actually angry at himself for not being able to use sanctions to bring iran to its knees and for not being able to convince other

governments of other countries to isolate iran diplomatically on the world stage he also had something interesting to say about iran selling its oil to the world he said that i did side of power in iraq and syria the islamic state dietician was able to sell its oil and it's not even a real country so he said it was he suggested it would be silly to think that iran as an oil producing nation would be able would be unable to continue selling its oil in the future we asked him directly if iran intended on disrupting the international shipping lanes in the strait of hormuz and he said that while they were wrong did not want any confrontation or conflict but it was a part of the country's defensive strategy same bus arriving live for us in tehran thank you saying forty years ago this week the world's first i.v.'s baby was born brown was born near manchester in the u.k. the end vitro fertilisation a medical breakthrough that led to the birth of millions more way all the way

around the globe now the science museum in london is celebrating that anniversary that's where catherine stansell reports. i know christina and martina mccarthy have their hands full. their children zoe and santina are two energetic happy and healthy toddlers but they and their husbands would never have been able to experience the joys of parenthood if it weren't for the development of in vitro fertilization all i've put us is to copy very. yeah it was my only my only chance of conceiving if it wasn't for the treatment being if i did he wouldn't be here i think it's amazing that through this miracle of medical intervention we were able to have a beautiful healthy daughter it all began with louise brown she was conceived in a british laboratory in november one thousand nine hundred seventy seven after robert edwards patrick steptoe and jean purdy spent nearly

a decade trying to fertilize a human egg outside the body and was just shy of her fortieth birthday louise a celebrated at london science museum she's the focus of an i.d.f. exhibit which features the very desiccate or where her embryo was developed it's just amazing how many children have been born through the process. jaime lights in families is created and hope and joy is just. a mind prices be the first i.v.'s may be commonplace now but there was a lot of controversy when we as brown was born many religious leaders denounced the use of any kind of medical intervention and other critics said i.v.'s could pave the way for so-called franken babies louisa's family received many letters of support but they also received hate mail including letters splattered with fake blood not only has the perception of i.v.'s changed so has the availability it grew from one small clinic in the u.k.

to a multi-billion dollar global industry i gave has changed the landscape of humor production eight is talking about six million. bibi's i am a believer that it is much more because i.v. of technology has to reach remote areas in the whole world and it's probably unlikely for us to get feedback of how many babies were born in d.c. remote areas so it's an underestimate it's important to appreciate that currently predicted that by the end of the century there would have been four hundred million babies that is altered as from my view for white for christina and martina that pioneering technology gave them families they would otherwise never have had catherine stansell al-jazeera london. like me is the general manager of born hall fertility clinic in cambridge in the united kingdom he joins us live now. time very much so what would you say is the most significant development that has led to. a more successful. well i think to put

it in context i think there are two developments from the clinical side and probably three in the laboratory that made a difference over the last forty years in the airlie days when i was working with patrick steptoe and bob edwards the live birth rate per treatment cycle was round about seven to ten percent in other words one in ten cycles were successful now we're up to one in two cycles being successful if you're under the age of thirty seven if the woman is under the age of thirty seven things that have made a huge difference firstly was how we stimulate the ovaries to produce eggs that took us most of the early mid eighty's to get exactly right the balance of hormones that we have to use in order to gain. a crop of eggs for fertilization vitro the second clinical thing i think which revolutionized the field was a switch from collecting eggs by laparoscopy which was

a highly invasive in-patient procedure to the use of ultrasound collection which is commonplace and as an outpatient procedure so those are two things that made it much more convenient much easier to go through a cycle of i.v.'s it gave us eggs of better quality and those were easier to retrieve and the burra tree of course we've seen can turn your the improvements in terms of how we look after human eggs and sperm and embryos and really that that has it has made a huge difference from the desiccated that louise brown was first conceived into the high tech incubator that looked after these very fragile embryos what do you know the other thing is that the lab and the most significant. story carol if i can just jump in what would you say are some of the the single biggest misconception that women have when they come for i v f because as you said you know the percentages have increased but they're still not great there's still so many

factors for it to be successful what do you think is the biggest myth about it. the biggest myth or think is that it's going to work first time and part of our job practitioners in the field is to make sure that people are aware of what their probability of success is because it is probabilistic yes we are achieving better success rates than natural conception per cycle but we still fail more than fifty percent on each attempt however if you if your mind is set three cycles of five e.f. up to three cycles of five years we can give nine out of ten couples parenthood and it is still great it's moving oh i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm interrupting it's still is a business it is a business what push is there to try to make this as affordable and it's accessible to as many women as possible so that it's not just women of means who can do this

well here in the u.k. the national health service sponsors. for those people who can't afford five for a nobody who is eligible it's a bit of a patchwork a moment but we have and i see guidelines say. the entitlement should be provided by the n.h.s. unfortunately not everybody is able to access those. funding but you know i think you have to put i.v.'s into context with other medical interventions so i know if you have cycle is cheaper than a hip replacement. mr mike back to me and thank you very much and. congratulations on this anniversary it's a pretty significant milestone thanks for discussing it with. if you want to get in touch use our hash tag news great i'm sure you have some thoughts. maybe you have

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want to joins us now to tell us what it was attention online in the sports world are small bad news for german football can tell you that michelle or the football association of germany have rejected mistletoes ales claims of racism which from to the arsenal star to quit the national team they did however concede they could have done more to protect him was in was widely criticized after his share the photo with turkish president of us in the gun shortly before his elections he was also widely blamed by many fans that for germany shock exit at the group stage of the woke up in russia in a statement released on sunday it was a said he'd faced death threats on his home phone and accused the media over launching a racist campaign against him because of his turkish roots while he was also highly critical of the president of the german football federation saying during hard

grand dela believes that he's german when germany wins and an immigrant when they lose. well it was a is one of the world's most famous footballers and one of the most followed on social media where he usually shows videos and pictures of his family with his twenty three point one million followers on twitter the statement that he posted the following his decision to quit the german national team was read tweeted at least one hundred forty thousand times and he said the past couple of weeks have given me time to reflect and time to think over the events of the last few months consequently i want to share my thoughts and feelings about what has happened will form a by munich president uli hoeness was quick to slam the twenty nine year old accusing him of hiding behind his poor performance at the world cup those comments angered

many of us fans and this arsenal fans has posted the picture from a week of pedia page showing saying honus attacking and playing down contributions to the german national side here are the winners of demon hush after this flare of the year for the last seven years as you can see like mistletoes as name appears so many times this is how many times he won that award what was as words were very clear or this is another tweet which agrees with the holmes says words were very clear when he gave a shirt and two or two of the gun my president so he said himself he's not worth the german said uli hoeness is right mr rosen is not hiding behind to speak to and uses that racism will dominate cain has more now on what the reaction has been with in germany. reaction to ms that decision to retire from international football at the age of twenty nine has been pretty swift in germany certainly social media seem

to explode here in germany when he announced his decision yesterday and today angle americal spokesperson has thanked mr zale for everything that he achieved as an international player for germany and said that people of a migrant background are welcome in this country and that the vast majority of people with that migrant background are well integrated into society the interesting thing is the way the media has reported on this story certainly if you take a look at some of the newspapers the billionaire coulier here saying quite clearly that he has retired in anger and picturing president order one of turkey with mesut ursule that's a picture which certainly seems to contribute in the in the first stages of this round to creating this issue about certain players in the german international team the question will going forward will be how does society deal with the issues that messagers was raised saying that when the football team that he was playing in

succeeded nobody mentioned race nobody talked about it and that he was a hero but as soon as the team started playing badly people would talk about his immigrant background that these are central questions that german society the new german football will have to conjure with one of team sky as a key support writers has been kicked out of the tour de france that for striking another rider last year musk on was suspended for six weeks for racial flare and was also accused of hitting another rider but was later cleared the italian rider apologized and a video statement on file will be back with more at eighteen g.m.t. but for now i had a factor of fun at thank you that will do it for this news grid so you can keep in touch with us on social media we want you to write so our hash tag us at a.j. news grid there's all these ways to connect right here there is our twitter handle bass for what's out number you can say that you. you can't find as we want to hear from you in this conversation so we will see you here at the same time tomorrow

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