syria had the golan heights with a sort of almost a return to the status quo before the war what does that tell us about the state of the war itself is that all but all of the parties involved consolidating their power here and returning to the pre-war status quo of course talking about the entire city or the war is not over yet because as you said. we still have one third of syria outside the control of the syrian regime it's under a could this really sparked this forces and there is some parts of the fifty's and we still have the north east part of syria which is still under the control of the opposition but when we are talking about the south we are seeing the implementation of the agreement which has been agreed between russian president vladimir putin and the prime minister benjamin netanyahu during his latest visit to more school the two sides agreed in fact to reactivate the one nine hundred seventy four

disengagement agreement between syria and is that in one thousand seventy four disengagement agreement was reached after the one nine hundred seventy three war between the two countries. agreed to allow the syrian regime army to regain control over their territories to attack the opposition in fact and begin that there are trees and the control of the opposition. and russians agreed to move the iranian backed militias like eighty five kilometers far from the borders with ease about you yesterday aleksandar levante of special envoy of president put into syria he announced in sochi that iran will be removed the iranian backed militias actually will be removed from the area and they will be achieved be stationed like eighty five kilometers away from the water so this is an implementation of the agreement that the iranians will be moved away the syrian regime will go back to the b. two thousand and eleven was. in the south and we'll be battling the borders with

with these the e.u. and the activia the one nine hundred seventy four disengagement agreement between the two sides so that is the situation in the south but as you mentioned there are there's still fighting and other parts of syria and we've looked at the kurdish controlled parts but you have a situation where the kurds are now talking to the asad government and. assad has said that you know he's not looking he wants to take control moscow says that there will be no major assault but can we trust the government word here i think. it will be the future of it will be been very much on the understanding between the russians and the turks because. these collisions on an egg is the only remaining the exclusion zone from the atlanta process because the other three the exclusion zones have been actually retaken by the syrian regime so the fear now is that the region the syrian regime will be starting some sort of

a middle of france of against it but right now the russians seem to have given some assurances the turks that this would not have been soon but it might happen in the future because the russians are saying we will help the syrian regime actually regain control over all of syria and this is actually is also tells us something about the system of the fifty's areas which is under right now under the control of the kurdish forces we have seen in recent weeks talks direct talks between the syrian regime and kurdish forces in which could this forces in the region are expressing their willingness to hand over these territories to the syrian regime feeling that the key might actually be the beating the scenario of a freeing and that is symbolic of the fifty's and this is something is not far from the understanding between putin and president tom because we also believe that within and president from the discussed and agreed to support agree. and between

russia and these are it which we have talked about earlier and when when when one part of that agreement also would include the eastern euphrates in years so the united states might actually be encouraging some sort of at the time between the kurdish forces and the syrian and the syrian regime so all in all we are going to see the focus mainly shifting from the south now after. i mean that the recent development in the south into that is somebody of the fifty's and northwest of of syria in the next few weeks probably you are going to see some developments on these two fronts that's a couple on always good to get your insights on this thank you for your time. well we have plenty more ahead on the news hour including turkey reacts traveling after the u.s. imposes sanctions on two of its most senior ministers thousand sector the streets in bangladesh calling for justice following the death of two college students and former tennis world number one andy murray takes some none of that step of this

comeback concepts surgery peaceable have that story and sports. from prison to the polls that is the plan for kong former rebel leader shown here bemba who's on his way to fall for his bid for the presidency his home office spending thirteen years behind bars for war crimes before winning an appeal at the hague where katherine so i was with the chair in crowds and the d.l.c. capital kinshasa. in march from the airport in the democratic republic of congo's capital kinshasa thousands of his supporters went into a frenzy i know you go out of there there are many of them say they never thought to be back home any time soon. i have a contingent of police escorted his convoy was not allowed to make any stops to

address the many people lined the streets to catch a glimpse of him his first order of business was a meeting at his party headquarters he's expected to submit his documents to the electoral commission in the coming days so he can run for the presidency john the abend back in the window all the while he had poured in waving hundred of them here and they have been seen as brave and saying that really all you want you can provide a change of the leadership of the country are you reading the opposition together to support one candidates. or was arrested in belgium for crimes against humanity a decade ago he was sentenced to eighteen. as in prison by the international criminal court in twenty sixteen the judges held him criminally responsible for militias of his former rebel group convicting him of political killing raping and pillaging in the neighboring central african republic between two thousand and two and two thousand and three he appealed and in june the conviction was overturned

his supporters say the trial was politically instigated. unhappy because bamber has been vindicated by the certain call that convicted him now he's here and we're just glad to see him was we are suffering in this country children are not going to school things are not moving his return gives us hope member faces some hurdles in his bid for presidency the low say as a candidate has to be in the country where he stay yeah before contesting an election the fact that there has been away for ten years and still has a pending witness tampering case at the international criminal court could heart his chances. and catherine is joining us live from alabama being gathered heavily by police catherine as he free to move around as this normal. for just arrived here at the electoral commission will be inside filing the people

walk in we did on those questions in his party official who told us that we feel that he we don't go movement i've been told to use not being allowed to interact with his many supporters while he wanted to spend the day that he's here in his residence in a call gone by the police have paid no to that so now he spent the night at the office complex all by his family still very heavily guarded by police he thinks that he's going to keep paying them until they're allow him to go to go but we also did speak to the police commissioner of kinshasa who told us that then by three to go anywhere we asked him why we're not being. allowed. to draft them that when he was making a request to come to. he did not say that he's going to be addressing a need. he also told us that the reason why the police is not allowing him to.

be called. up. area and they do not want a repeat of what happened in two thousand and six let me briefly remind you thousand and six when last a presidential that could be locked in a presidential runoff to stoop to the street while in confrontations between he supported and police in another area several people died and that's the thing that will not allow you to go to the residents of the right catherine thank you very much for that for now that's catherine sawyer with the latest from the thank you. israel has announced it's blocking emergency fuel and gas supplies into the gaza strip defense minister only the man says fuel trucks will not be allowed through the mother said then crossing in response to incendiary cut being flown across the border or palestinians in gaza already suffer from frequent power cuts and rely on fuel to power generators stephanie deca has more from gaza. this is all part of wider political pressure that israel is trying to impose on how the israeli

defense minister avigdor lieberman saying it wants leadership here to stop the incendiary balloons and the kites and also quoting the friday protests the bigger picture here is that there is still a very fragile ceasefire a fragile tense situation between israel and hamas another interesting development we have a senior hamas leadership that are not based here in gaza coming to gaza today from cairo they've been in cairo discussing with egyptian intelligence and others this cease fire deal also potentially discussing palestinian reconciliation it is important why it is important because any of those things need to be done. to move forward here and improve the situation for the people it is unclear what is going to be achieved on the table we know certainly when it comes to palestinian reconciliation there is no trust between how mass in fact certainly more urgently the ceasefire needs to hold there been intensive efforts by the un special envoy to

the middle east peace process to try and maintain that ceasefire even though it is tense will have to wait and see how those talks develop and what the delegation of hamas brings to the leadership here brought to iran where hundreds of people angry at the state of the economy have protested and at least five cities iran's official news agency says the demonstrations were illegal and broken up by police that iranian ryall has hit record lows this week losing around half its value this year all markets are concerned about the reimposition of u.s. sanctions let's get more on this now we're joined by correspondent zain bus that avi is live for us and the capital tehran tell us more thing about these protests where they're happening and who's involved. well as you said the protests are taking place in about five or six main cities and provinces across the country we have heard unconfirmed reports that there may have been small demonstrations in the capital to run as well but most is interesting lou there have

been demonstrations in a city about an hour away from to her own called carriage where there was an attempt to burn down a mosque dozens of people tried but police did work that attempt and what this signals is that the protests which are relatively normal in iran it has to be said ongoing economic struggle has meant protests scattered around the country in towns and villages and in some of the largest cities happen on a near daily basis of what's happened in what's happened in the last forty eight hours is that dozens of protesters has turned into hundreds and these have started happening in multiple cities and the anger is rising and so what we're seeing is a response by the people to their economic circumstances and we spoke to one member of parliament from his fond province his constituency is in his farm one of the cities where we've seen some of the largest demonstrations in the last few days shiraz was another one as well but this member of parliament said that the demands of the people are good demands they are right demands that their businesses are

suffering they're not able to earn a living and what money they make is worth half of what it was at the beginning of the year and so he says that the demonstrators demands are correct he's met with the local governor to try to see how to address them but the problem is much bigger than local government what he said he is worried about is that economic demands will be overtaken by political ones and then these protesters demands will be lost their message of economic in betterments will be lost like it was last year when economic protests also took place so there's that main saying then that the government might not respond to these dumond's to these protests especially given that they are already under pressure right now from those u.s. sanctions. absolutely the protesters are not the only problem that this is ministration is facing the demonstrations are becoming political there are criticisms of the government of not just the president hassan rouhani but of the system of government people saying that it's not working and what we're seeing is.

is the government trying to deal with this there hasn't been any official response yet but there have been local municipalities that are calling these gatherings illegal and thereby police are breaking them up we're also seeing a very strong police presence in all the main squares in the capital city to try to quell any unrest that takes place and as i said the demonstrations aren't the only problem earlier this week the parliament summoned president hassan rouhani to come to parliament to answer questions with regards to his government's handling of the economy now president hassan rouhani has spoken in parliament before voluntarily but this is the first time that he's been summoned by parliament and he has a thirty days to respond a few days ago the head of the revolutionary guard corps also urged president hassan rouhani to be more aggressive in his handling of the economy and to get the falling value of the reality iranian currency under control and it's no small thing when the head of iran's revolutionary guard corps urges the president to do

something about the economy saying thank you very much for that finale that is aimed at the laces live and pat and thank you. now on extreme temperature wanted someplace in spain to swell towards a wreck or at highs and there's concern about what the next week could bring over one hundred firefighters are trying to contain a blaze at a natural park in under sea and the south the highest recorded temperature for spain as forty seven point three degrees celsius that's predicted it could reach fifty this weekend and that would be the hottest on record and continental europe. well it's time for the weather where the news that history let's look at a little bit more that weather that we're expecting over the iberian peninsula because it really is going to be incredibly hot and very unusually hot as well so as elizabeth was saying the highest ever recorded temperature in spain is forty seven point three that was last year that's when we saw the highest temperature there just across the border in portugal the highest ever that just

a fraction higher forty seven point four that was in two thousand and three so you can see we often you'll quite regularly get to the mid forty's but it's very difficult to get higher than that so to get high than forty seven would be really quite unusual because the highest temperature that we've seen anywhere in europe forty eight degrees that was in athens in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven so these records they do go back a long way so if we do get above forty eight degrees it will be our new record for europe and we could easily get to fifty degrees now of course we've had an extreme summer over many parts of europe the temperatures here have been very very high and there's been very low rainfall for quite a few weeks now in fact months now and now we've also got some very high temperatures elsewhere we had a heat wave over parts of tokyo before over parts of japan and now we're seeing more extreme heat over north and south korea as well there's a new temperature record for seoul of thirty nine point six and

a new one for pyongyang as well so this extreme temperature is continuing across many parts of the global is about not just europe stuff thank you very much for that right still ahead on the news our. drill wraps a new genre of music that critics say incites violence and of course our sort of started having fun again as opposed to when get air rumbles on. the middle east's most religiously diverse country is still going to be just communities you don't have one for the future you have ninety nine divided along sectarian lines the one percent system in lebanon has destroyed the only really real more and heavily influenced by regional allegiances and i was one preventing the other you have civil war so it's always this balance of you kept following its

first parliamentary elections and nine years people in power investigates the state of the not just. we here to jerusalem bureau covered israeli palestinian affairs we cover the story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of this story we have presence here all the time apart from being a tremendous source a very important to be a journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens there matters.

that have been with us on the al-jazeera news on these are our top stories place in zimbabwe have sealed off the opposition m.d.c. party's headquarters and hadi the move comes after soldiers opened fire on the opposition's opposing supporters during violent protests on wednesday president alison my god was calling for an independent investigation into the incidents that killed three people. russia says un peacekeepers have returned to the buffer zone between syria and the israeli occupied golan heights for the first time since twenty fourteen syrian government forces regained control of all that's territory along the. and israel has blocked fuel and gas supplies being taken into the gaza strip that's a move that will make it even harder for palestinians already struggling with a lack of electricity israel's defense minister says the measure is in response to protest. across the border. now the gaza strip has forty five kilometers of sand but not many people know how to swim that's where the

lifeguards common in the next generation but even the big is directly affected by the blockade stephanie decker reports. he is arguably the best known lifeguard in gaza also known as the teacher or the swimmer fifty five year old aymen is a veteran on these beaches. when children come to the beach you feel like they are releasing the depression they have inside because water is life when they enjoy the sound of water you feel like they need it it's like a mental really you know most people are given to think that this is a beach just like anywhere else in the world and even though it offers some sense of the state for the people of israel cedes remains ever present just a few kilometers off the coast israeli navy patrols the waters imposing its years long naval blockade and israeli navy vessel lies in the background we noticed it using a water cannon just before we started filming what we can only assume was

a palestinian fishing boat perhaps getting too close to the israeli imposed invisible border penned in even at sea. the blockade is also limited mohamad champion long distance swimmer he says he hasn't been able to fill his dream of competing abroad as he hasn't been allowed to leave a lifeguard for fifteen years he says they badly need equipment. we originally meet equipment because right now we have to do everything by our hands we need boats life rafts the minimum is the rescue we don't even have that so big number of people come on the weekend and it's really difficult to deal with so many people were told drowning is a problem many don't know how to swim. and for those who can afford it and wayman starts them off in the pool as seen parents the world will recognize but everything is different here forty five kilometers of sun kissed beaches but the waters are contaminated with rule of sewage the majority of gaza's two million

people have never been allowed to leave the economy has never been worse most don't have enough money to blockaded palestinian infighting in summer when up if you do every time they say there will be a solution things just get worse it's difficult to do a story on life in gaza these days without mentioning the crippling effects of the siege despite the seemingly carefree moments everyone without fail says life is the worst it's ever been stephanie decker or jazeera gaza. turkey is threatening to retaliate against the u.s. sanctions on top of its senior ministers as the latest effort by the trumpeter ministration to secure the release of an american pasta and her brands and was detained in twenty sixteen accused of helping them go to the turkish government blames for a failed coup alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . angry words have been exchanged between the u.s. and turkey over possible sanctions no the u.s. has decided to act at the president's direction the department of treasury is

sanctioning turkey's minister of justice and minister of interior both of whom played a leading roles in the arrest and detention of pastor brunson the two ministers targeted a senior figures in the turkish government still a man so i allude is the interior minister abdul hamad google is the justice minister the u.s. says they are involved in organizations responsible for the continued detention of this month american pastor andrew bronson the taxi he's a spy who was involved in the field twenty sixteen coup in turkey the americans insist he is simply a christian pastor who's been targeted because he met many people from different communities while in the country the u.s. sanctions says that any property or sharon property the two men may have in the united states is no blocked and it says that any u.s. citizen business or entity should no longer carry any transactions with the government ministers from talking. president has tweeted his support for the past

well vice president might pence has repeatedly called for his release the president . and the turkish government i have a message on behalf of the president of the united states of america release pastor andrew bronson now or be prepared to face the consequences. pastor bronson was recently released from prison it is me if it remains under house arrest he has yet been set for his trial i will fish or i'll just eat up at the white house well even before the sanctions were imposed to present treasurer of the month diplomatic ties with the us had been tarnished with. these threatening remarks against us will not benefit anyone we showed the best solidarity with the united states and nato we have acted together with them in korea together we put up many fights such a threat against turkey a country that still fights together with the united states side by side and shows

topknot solidarity in nato is not fitting for them and excuse us but we do not give credit for such threatening language so i'm cool see one who has more from istanbul . the first reaction came from turkey's foreign ministry with a written statement saying that it turkey strongly protest the u.s. decision to sanction turkish officials also turkish foreign ministry said the decision doesn't comply with state seriousness and it's an intervention in turkish judiciary system which is an independent entity also turkish foreign ministry recall mended that united states should go back on the strong decision as a damages the constructive efforts and bettering the by later relations if not turkey would respond in an equal and sway as far as we know turkish officials are now working on a sanction list in case also today we heard that turkish officials will also be talking to nato leaders and european leaders because this is the first time that united states is threatening a nato ally in is such

a strong way especially while the relations have have come to a better status but one thing is important yesterday a turkish foreign minister had a phone talk with peo upon his request and to morrow in singapore during that is in meeting turkish foreign minister and my point here will come together have a face to face meeting which can also be binding about is in the tensions between two countries the u.s. is planning even higher tariffs on chinese imports raising them from ten to twenty five percent the move will target two hundred billion dollars worth of goods and one high profile casualty of the trade battle is soybeans which of course are part of the chinese styled china correspondent adrian brown has more of what that means for farmers and a long john province. farmland is precious in china only fifteen percent of the country is arable that makes the russian fertile province of hay

long jiang very important especially now. close to the border with russia this is soybean country. china is the world's largest consumer of soybeans but it can't grow enough and so is reliant on imports to meet demand that means the decision to impose a twenty five percent levy on u.s. soil beans creates risk yet in this province the trade fight appears to be having a welcome impact. farmers like mn foundling are being urged by the local government to switch their fields to soil from corn offering subsidies as an incentive that'll raise incomes moon says he has a lot to thank president trump for who won when you know how when china stops importing from the united states is possible what the price of domestic soybeans welcome and that means we'll make more money. soybeans may flourish in this

province but only around ten percent of those consumed in china are domestically grown the instruction to local farmers to grow more soybeans was a political priority but the reality is this china is a long way from ever being self-sufficient in soybeans which means it's going to be reliant on imports for years to come hi everybody i am a soybean in this cartoon video china appears to be targeting u.s. farmers it's been airing on the international service of state t.v. and has a clear message in china can buy soybeans from other countries if that happens soybean farmers in the u.s. could take an even greater hit. and the soybean plays an essential role in the chinese diet used in cooking oil source tofu. as well as animal feed the government is now taking action to ensure there's no shortage of what the government is offering more subsidies to saudi and farmers so i believe the government has been

very supportive to the whole soybean industry in the past cheap soybean imports hurt chinese growers but the tariff war with the united states could secure their future adrian brown al-jazeera in a long jiang province northeast china. the world health organization has sent a team to the democratic republic of congo to help contain the latest a bowl outbreak the international delegation has set up in the town of beni in the province of north cleaver converse health ministry has confirmed four cases of a bowler is concerned that fighting in the region could make it harder to contain the virus well dr ali khan is dean of the college of public health of the university of nebraska and he says that rural communities need better education to understand how a ball is transmitted. what we saw in the last outbreak we hope to see in this outbreak which is a really active response back summation of contacts and hopefully hopefully shut

the outbreak down very quickly unfortunately this outbreak is in an active conflict zone on the border rwanda and uganda which is very different from the location of the last outbreak and that's going to pose a challenge itself in the response so there's no lack of information from a scientific standpoint we know exactly what happens the disease is natural in bats and people get infected directly from bats or from eating infected bushmeat and then if there can be a large amount of person to person spread during a funeral or potentially during a how cute they are in a health care setting so we know the science of ebola but what's missing is the education of communities to help them understand that sometimes in the midst of all these people who have fever and getting sick and dying there's potentially cases of a bolo that are very contagious and can infect others within the community so that's where the education needs to happen and to make sure that such individuals are quickly moved to health care centers to ensure that there aren't these funerals

where you keep touching people and infecting others and with them how care settings to ensure there's good infection control practices universities and high schools across the pond where they have been ordered closed for a second day after protests of the deaths of two students thousands of young people have been blocking streets in the capital dhaka since sunday and the protests have now spread to other cities the pair were hit by a bus witnesses say were speeding students according for improve security measures sunday challenge day has more from dhaka. the fifth day of protests by the students all across the country especially in the capital city dhaka intersection like this right i'm standing it's totally shut off there is a great loss all across the city and in other parts of the country as well we have never seen this unprecedented number of students even their guardians in the street supporting them they want some sort of major reform in the road accidents and

implementation of road transport laws by the government their demand is also the resignation of the shipping minister mr khan who is really ticked off the students there's also a general degree of frustration and mowing the student because that court on movement started by the university student was crushed by the government and the problem is was not met overall there is a general frustration among the public because there is no room space for demonstration or free expression and the press is very much cocktail there's not much room for freedom of expression in the country we are facing election down the road probably in december or november this year so there is a big political climate here and people are frustrated part of that expression is shown in the street and the students don't sense to be moving out of the street anytime soon unless most of their demands are met. today there are one hour the largest private private sector organization is accusing the ruling party of

engineering lands all over the country it says the government is trying to pressure or punish suspected opponents after four hundred fifty people have died in more than three months of anti-government rest and landowners are worried that they are the next target a latin america editor lucien human reports from just outside the capital. squatters settlements like this one are sprouting up over much of nicaragua and ride with his family just last week when he heard that this prime property on the outskirts of managua was pretty for the taking. but we've been told it belongs to the government of the commander during or. at least one part of what he says is faults it's private property owners say they were thrown out by the squatters with showed up with their land title. we have reported this to the police the public prosecutor the.