oh apologies for that we'll try to reestablish a connection there when some of it does. bring you all the latest on the latest strikes the scenes in confrontations in and around the stupid port city of the data in yemen with the news hour live from london much more still ahead for you in his hand up the selection jumpin ben ben makes his presidential ambitions officially. you diplomatic territory for syria and jordan as they look to reopen a key border crossing. former tennis world number one adding mari takes another big step this comeback from foot surgery he's so have that story and much more. democratic republic of congo opposition leader. his application to be a candidate in the presidential election the former rebel commander arrives home on wednesday after eleven years in exile in prison catherine sawyer reports from the

capital kinshasa. john pierre ben but what may be guarded by police when he came here to the electoral commission can prevent the bait but reporters right here while the police use them back quite. they were thinking and dancing and they didn't hear you support them are you know we did speak to some of you to a peaceful day that he more than had been could killed not being allowed to interrupt we many support the they pay that he wanted in the period that he's here in can show that. they want to be ready to live in a cold gone but we have made note of that call now he spent the night. one of the complex of the office complex that he finally told again very heavily guarded by police we did speak to the commissioner of police called that that is

all then. well protection i fade like. free to go anywhere but then they will not let him go to he's ready denting gone because gone be able to a presidential area and they do not want a repeat of what happened in two thousand and six let me remind you back in two thousand and six when he lost to president joseph kabila in a presidential runoff he supporters due to the street and all of the violent complex confrontation between both supporters and the police several people were killed the police aimed at trying to avoid doubt at all cost. in the developments the world health organization has warned that they could be no vaccine option for the new outbreak in the democratic republic of congo an international team is in the town of beni in north kivu where the outbreak was detected on wednesday twenty people are confirmed to have died from the disease and for others it will officials have not confirmed the strain of. all now more on the latest developments in yemen

where there have been further saudi led strikes on the strategic port city of her data mohamed a dough is following the story for us from djibouti mohammed what more do we know about the latest attack. rescue workers not a tip to a journalist how they saw body parts strewn all over the market which is just twenty minutes away from the gates all whole the whole spittal one of just one hundred all medical facilities a professional in the day that the else that acts well like the unexpected according to residents of the day that because both the fighters and the so do you equally should have a modest that they were going to seize hostilities in another round today the whole a few weeks to give you peace a chance that of course the international red cross which supports the hospitals sent. such a cool supply stuff would be enough to treat up to fifty patients in fifty

condition. and i meant that there has always been this fear about what an all out conflict and had a day it could mean for the country and for humanitarian aid shipments. indeed this is a must have really important calls to the whole humanitarian relief for thought is going on in yemen of the moment more than seventy five percent of aid shipments go through the ports of the day that and the you and aid agencies are creating that continued flight to the day that could cause a disruption to these which is needed by twenty two million yemenis in order to survive else but i also calm our thoughts time when the aid agencies out war outbreaks of diseases the. senate taishan and. infrastructure of human has been destroyed by these strikes and the left to outbreaks often call it

out before now they are warning that the country could be just one aspect away from another outbreak of the hostile disease thank you very much for all the latest developments. now israel has blocked fuel and gas supplies from entering the gaza strip the defense minister avigdor lieberman says the measure is in response to protest it's sending in century kites and balloons across the border gaza suffers from a severe lack of electricity and relies on fuel power generators jury outages that often last for hours at a time all spittles in particular struggle with a lack of resources earlier we spoke to know will secure is the head of the u.n. office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs in gaza he talked to us about the impact feel restrictions are having on palestinians that. we are providing almost a million leader of fuel two critical facilities i'm talking here about critical facilities so essential fifty five also be dogs and the rez goes to.

the sewage. treatment centers across the town so if we run out of fuel this was directly affect more than two thousand passions who are in intensive care in you and i thought services. but that's one of the problems one of the problem is how we stop the fuel but also how do we continue the service even when fuel is available by by the turn of august we were run out of funding and we have called to many times the international community to provide additional funding for the emergence of. this new restriction. came today so we hope that in the coming in the coming days we will be able to to have a solution and a low to import fuel to continue provide these essential. services to to the police or pollution here in gaza or the gaza strip has forty five kilometers of blue waters and sandy coast but not many people that can swim that's where the

lifeguards come in teaching the next generation to stephanie decker reports even the beach is directly affected by the blockade. he is arguably the best known lifeguard in gaza also known as the teacher or the swimmer fifty five year old ayman 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 sandaled water you feel like they need it it's like a mental relief you don't most be forgiven to think that this is a beach just like anywhere else in the world and even though i would offer some sense of the state for the people of israel cedes remains ever present just a few kilometers off the coast the israeli navy patrols the waters imposing its years long. naval blockade an israeli navy vessel lies in the background we noticed it using a water cannon just before we started filming

a 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 buoys 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 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 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 effect of the siege despite these seemingly carefree moments everyone without fail says life is the worst it's ever been stephanie decker. now hundreds of iranians angry at the state of the economy have been protesting in at least five cities iran's official news agency says the demonstrations were illegal and have been broken up by police iranian currency the reality hit record lows this week so lost around half of its value this year as concern builds about the reimposition of u.s. sanctions which start next tuesday they must robbie has more from ron. paul we're seeing these protests break out in the main cities about five or six different

provinces the biggest demonstrations in the city of this fallen and ensure rise now protests in iran have become relatively normal with the economic struggle that the country's been seeing for the past several months so dozens of people protesting in their cities in the towers in the villages is not something that generally makes the news but what we have seen in the last forty eight hours is dozens of protesters in a few pockets around the country turning into hundreds in main cities in multiple provinces and that's really what is interesting here we also saw or have heard unconfirmed reports of small demonstrations yesterday and the day before in the capital but what is interesting is that about an hour outside of the capital in courage there were a few dozen people to try to set fire to a mosque there were demonstrations there but the police through or did that attempt to burn down a mosque what we're seeing is the number of protesters are swelling people who came out protesting economic conditions those slogans are now turning into more

political chants and to government protesters are also coming out not just people protesting the economy and what we're also seeing now is a government effort to try and quell that as soon as possible there is a very large police presence out on the streets not just in the capital to her on but in several places around the country and that's likely response to a call by several anti-government media organizations based outside the country that have called for another round of protests to take place later today. well joining us now from washington is jamal abdi the president of the national iranian american council thank you very much for speaking to us that has been this general sense of unease in iran since the beginning of the year the state of the economy has long been a concern do you expect these latest protests to continue i think they probably will continue i think that the iranian state is well versed in containing these protests but we have sanctions that are coming down on iran

starting next week another round will come down in november and so i think we're seeing the combination of an already limping along economy now converting into ascensions economy and reverting back to some of the policies that were in place before the nuclear deal and as a result we see inflation and we see these protests which i do think are likely to continue how much worse are the economic conditions likely to get. i think it remains to be seen the iranian government i think is taking steps to make that transition to this so-called resistance economy which is really what the status quo in iran some of the hardliners the supreme leader really favor. a resistance economy rather than an economy that is integrated with the rest of the world and this i think really shows the. damage of what has happened with the

nuclear deal to moderates inside of iran to those who actually wanted to be more engaged with the rest of the world so now we see that the economy is suffering you know the inflation on the black market. has lost almost one hundred percent of its value. and so so i think that the economy is converting into this new form and whether or not these steps that are in the near term causing inflation lead to a stabilization i think is dependent on you know what happens with the negotiations with europe on whether europe can actually salvage the deal and make sure that the sanctions relief actually stays in place and then what happens with china and russia what happens in terms of the oil production and how much oil iran is allowed to export so these are all factors that are going to determine just how bad it gets you know what we've often heard about a rising middle class in iran either in terms of political and civil society

movements or in terms of business people and entrepreneurs tell us more about the segment of the population involved in these protests. well i think that these protests beginning with when they when they started in late december have been different than some of the protests we've seen in the past that have really been protest movements with some degree of organization and tie to political factions these protests that we've seen now at least they started in more remote areas that wasn't the sort of cosmopolitan. groups in iran and reformist activists but because they were you know these are economic protests largely this is involved you know there have been unions there have been shopkeepers truck drivers. and others who are not and so i connected to a political movement i think that in the u.s. there is a risk of the trouble ministration viewing this as

a big win as if this is a validation of the policy to exit the nuclear deal because it's putting pressure on the iranian government i think actually the real pressure on the iranian government comes from the middle class from these organized political movements and that these protests because they are not necessarily organize because there's not necessarily a structure to them are probably something that the iranian government believes that it can contain and that it can actually i mean you know hopefully not but potentially end up using violence to contain these protests all right thank you for your perspective on the story from washington joining us there from the national runyan council. still ahead for you on the news. on high alert as another he played looks set to break temperature records in spain. i'm adrian brown in the heart of china's country where local farmers say they've got a lot to president from find out why on al-jazeera and in sport

london rivals chelsea to kind to climb back. hello there there are showers a still clinging on around the black sea we look at the satellite picture we can see that area of cloud hair over the northern parts of turkey and then it stretches its way eastwards across the caspian sea and this region is still going to be really quite unsettled as we head through the next few days they do expect some more showers and some of them are going to be very heavy for the south is just dry and hot for many of us here look at baghdad about forty four degrees forcing kabul will be up and around thirty six a bit further south in the winds of the now here in doha our temperatures generally hovering at around forty three degrees at the moment down in the south coast of

oman a little bit of cloud might come and go at times but really the thick cloud is out towards the west for some of us in eritrea looks like we'll see quite a few thunderstorms at times during the day down towards the southern parts of africa and generally for many of us it's fine and dry the brightest white area on the satellite picture away from land moving its way away from us so most of us will get away with another dry day on friday then temperatures where we're looking at around nineteen cape town probably the temperatures here they're dropping as we head into saturday that's because they'll be more cloud with this and some rains pushing its way towards us so turning cooler and also wetter as well. august on al-jazeera european muslims today are facing the consequences of having their faith linked to all the attacks even though day two of victims of the bugs the largest multi-sport event on the continent asian games in jakarta i will host

athletes competing in a mix of traditional and the olympic sports a vibrant new series of character led documentaries from immigrant neighborhoods across europe as a rainy and brace for u.s. sanctions due to get back in place on the six the bogost al-jazeera will cover the developments from town wrong in a three part series al-jazeera uncovers the motivations and impact of the brutal human exploitation system to lay the foundation of today's global powers ogust on al-jazeera. once considered a war criminal now an aspiring presidential candidate in the democratic republic of congo. after his conviction was overturned by the international criminal court in the hague jump talks to al-jazeera. banned.

a quick reminder of the top stories this hour now zimbabwe's electoral commission is to announce presidential results in a few hours time after official observe is it to move faster to avoid further violence police have sealed off the opposition party headquarters and cleared the streets in the capital harare. israel has blocked fuel and gas supplies from entering the gaza strip defense minister of the says the measure is in response to protest is sending incendiary kites and balloons across the border. and hundreds of iranians angry at the state of the economy have protested in at least five cities iran's official news agency says the demonstrations were illegal and have been broken up by police. all in all the stories we're following russia are saying that united nations peacekeepers have returned to the frontier between syria and these

radial keep by golan heights for the first time since two thousand and fourteen the un patrols on the border we're joined by military police from russia major ally of the damascus government syrian government forces regain control of all of the territory along the border on wednesday following a six week campaign against ice ill will relations between syria and jordan could be turning a corner off to the defeat of rebels order damascus says it's planning to reopen the road to the front here the closure of the nasib crossing in two thousand and eleven as affected the economies of syria and neighboring states as well saying a hoarder reports now from the jordanian capital amman. jordan wanted exports to flow through what was once a lucrative trade route the syrian government's recapture than a sea crossing from the opposition in early july was welcomed by officials here damascus says the road is now ready for use and is waiting for jordan to officially request the resumption of commercial activity it may be using this as leverage to

define a new relationship. a syrian regime they have their own political agenda they will make demands and impose conditions on jordan the opening of the border won't happen right away from my experience with the regime jordan for something in return that could be an official recognition of syrian president bashar assad's legitimacy officially jordan was one of the few arab states that didn't diplomatic relations with damascus and kept the channel for military cooperation and intelligence sharing open but ties were affected in the early days of the conflict jordan's king abdullah called on assad to step down that approach later changed with the priority being the protection of national security interests it has been a difficult balancing act for jordan it likes to describe its policy toward the syrian crisis as neutral it called for a political solution and it didn't call for regime change as a condition to end the crisis the kingdom to

a certain extent followed an independent course from its allies who were supporting the opposition despite its cautious approach jordan along with the u.s. and saudi arabia did back the opposition in southern syria but when damascus was close to victory it convinced many rebels to surrender it is enough for them to reopen its embassy in damascus and this would be tantamount to acknowledge them and of the digits. bashar to stick but not the player. or definitely clearly in favor of the regime so russia is going to want there's no question about that. with that you have a neighbor like this you need to deal with that many jordanians accuse the assad government of crimes against humanity but public opinion seems ready to accept the reality because of the benefits to the struggling economy now it's a fact that assad would steer syria and everybody wants him you know to see that russia and if anybody. want to see it's very good for our economy and our people

were aboard the water boards with the neighboring countries are on the road toward restoring relations but jordan will first have to pay a political price for their ashes into a man. tech giant apple has just become the first company to violation of a trillion dollars on the u.s. stock market that's a million million dollars or one with twelve zeros it came when apple's share price on wall street went over two hundred seven dollars the second company world wide hit the trillion dollar mark china did it very briefly eleven years ago on the shanghai exchange market analysts expect i'm isn't the company that owns google to be the next hit the festina. christensen in me has more from new york. there was some concern that apple a company known for its hardware had little room to grow given saturation of the cell phone market but its latest earnings report put that worry to rouse apple

posted earnings of fifty three point three billion dollars in the third quarter an increase of seventeen percent over the same time last year and that is driven by strong demand for its most expensive phone the i phone x. but it's not just hardware behind the company's success the tech giant is also seeing growth in its services business which includes the app store apple music and apple pay sixty percent of the company's sales are international in every region except japan reported double digit growth this is the fourth quarter in a row of double digit growth for apple pushing it into trillion dollar territory at a time when other tech stocks like facebook and twitter have struggled up what a good quarter so they sold yet again fifty million phones and if the phone sales were a little soft why unit number the average price rose because the axis was very high average selling price so apple continues to be the most profitable company in the world now apple may be the first trillion dollar company in the united states but

others are hoping to follow suit including amazon and google zoner alphabet. hot air from africa is bringing a new heat wave to europe prompting health warnings about sahara desert dust and high temperatures forecast to say the all time temperature record in europe could be broken this weekend in spain and portugal current record stands at forty eight celsius and was set in athens in one nine hundred seventy seven farmers across the continent have been battling the effects of drought and wildfires cull pennell has more now from one turf in southwestern spain and the extreme he warnings that have been put out by the splash and spanish national weather office are expected to last right through to the weekend so more hot weather to come in those coming days the significance of this town montoro is this is where that the spanish record was set last year forty seven point three degrees and so today all eyes have been on the

thermometer has to see if that record will be broken i don't think that is going to happen today from our measurements in the shade temperatures have been around forty two degrees standing out in the direct sun of course above and beyond fifty degrees very hot indeed but talking to some of the older generation in town they say the way to deal with these extreme temperatures is really to go back in time to the old methods the old methods of building houses with thick stone walls using natural fibers and also they point to this spanish air conditioning here both men and women use fans may not be good as good as normal air conditioning but it certainly will help you with your electricity bills talking to one of the oldest generation that i could find a ninety two year old olive farmer he said that he's been noticing year after year temperatures have been getting hotter and he said quite simply one of these days the world is just going to burst into flames. several major artists are pulling

their way out of an exhibition at one of the u.k.'s leading museums in protest the london design museum is hosting an upcoming event by an international arms dealer barker explains. it's one of the most well respected museums in the u.k. but it now finds itself at the center of a controversy dozens of graphic designers and artists have arrived here demanding their work currently on show in the museum be given back their protesting against the museum's to season to host an event organized by a company called leonardo estimated to be the world's ninth largest arms dealer the has some controversial customers including saudi arabia the philippines and turkey . so. so the arms industry that we felt that we had no choice but to work from the exhibition unless the museum committed to not take money from the

fossil fuel industries that we see is. they've had arms dealers events the national gallery natural history museum at the science museum every single time in protest every single time they. have been essentially kicked out of those buildings and so why on earth did did design museum not realize that this was going to be a controversial booking of course they knew the irony is that the exhibition of the artists what they were drawn from is called hope to know was meant to celebrate the relationship between technology and graphic design and political activism among the big name artists with drawing their work is the design a behind the barack obama hope poster and the creator of the i love new york logo that is being picked up on behalf of milton glaser up in new york. we dedicate our lives to activism and fighting for inclusion and fairness pointless and for free and that's absolutely dogs with the hosting of leonardo who would profit from death

from destruction the museum's director says he regrets their decision to remove their work we have a mixed economy we sell tickets we have two shops a cafe a restaurant and events business and that events business means that we will rent out the building. two universities accountants individuals meriton. and some commercial events which are not part of our program not indoor sports but a private event work that was once inside the museum has now been brought out on to the street museum says what's left of the exhibition will be free to the public but the issue of how this museum and others supplement their income is now in the spotlight leave barca al-jazeera loved the bangladeshi government as close university and high schools as anger grows over to the deaths of two students thousands of young people block streets across the capital dhaka for a fifth day witnesses say the students died after being hit by

a speeding bus on sunday a protest as a calling for the arrest of the driver and better road safety measures. at the united states is increasing the pressure on china over trade by threatening even higher tyrus on chinese imports president trump accuses china of unfair trade practices and is pushing pressure on beijing to reform but china's retaliated with tariffs of its own that's affected china supply of soybeans as china correspondent adrian brown reports from heilongjiang province. farmland is precious in china only fifteen percent of the country is arable that makes the lush and 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 for one would you know hard on all of that when china stops importing from the united states is possible for the price of domestic soybeans welcome up 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's now taking action to ensure there's no shortage of what the government is offering more subsidies to sort farmers so i believe the gardens been very supportive of me through 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

a struggling mining company in south africa says it will slash thirteen thousand jobs as it battles to stay afloat impala platinum which has seen violent protests in the past over pay will cut its workforce in rustenburg and lessen the number of lines operating there to reduce labor costs the government has criticised the decision calling the job cuts careless and reckless when out in nicaragua where the largest private sector organization is accusing the ruling party of engineering land seizures across the country it says the government is trying to pressure or punish suspected opponents up to four hundred fifty people have died in more than three months of anti-government unrest you see in human reports now from messiah just outside the capital. squatters settlements like this one are sprouting up over much of nicaragua manila arrived with his family just last week when he heard that this prime property on the outskirts of monarchy.