well the trump administration is seeking to scrap even more environmental regulations setting its sights on fuel efficiency standards for american cars and trucks activists warn that this will be bad for both consumers and the planet brunell's has more from. the proposals would freeze fuel efficiency at the level mandated for twenty twenty discarding higher standards that would have gone into effect in two thousand and twenty fine the standards were negotiated between the obama administration and the auto industry environmentalist say the move would cost consumers money harmed public health and increase climate changing emissions rolling back or or freezing feeling condominium and and weakening pollution standards for cars will drive up oil consumption it will drive up climate pollution. the real winner in that scenario is the oil industry because they'll be selling more product to consumers taking money out of their pockets and

out of their communities and into the pockets of big oil as part of its reasoning the trumpet ministration said better fuel mileage would make driving cheaper so people would drive more resulting in more accidents logic that puzzled many transportation experts the white house spokesperson brushed aside reporters' questions about the emission rule change machines were simply open enough for a comment period and will make a final decision at the end of the. postals would directly target california which for decades has had the power to impose efficiency standards over and above the federal standard the new rules if approved would strip the state of that privilege many other states follow the california standard california governor jerry brown called the effort to weaken the emission standards quote a reckless scheme a betrayal and an assault on the health of americans everywhere california officials are promising an all out legal battle with the trouble administration

over fuel efficiency standards a fight that could go all the way to the u.s. supreme court robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. still ahead here on out there why hundreds of farmers are holding a hunger strike in an immigration detention center in the u.s. . plus angry protests in iranian cities at the state of the economy ad of b.m. pays to u.s. sanctions. through tranquil raby in kenya. and if the gondola. hello and welcome back as we look at levant and western parts of asia it's a largely fine picture where they're all want to share is on the southern side of the caspian sea so expect the odd show in tehran the caucasus still looking west some big storms here at the moment lot of hot air generating some severe

thunderstorms meanwhile around the eastern side the mediterranean weather conditions generally looking final though we've got some showers in the southern side of the black sea solely for the mediterranean coastline plenty sunshine highs of thirty one expected in beirut into the arabian peninsula a fine picture here with temperatures just in the low forty's on the western side of the peninsula here in doha we've got a high of forty three degrees humidity creeping up a little bit the weekend because the winds are going to be very light but this should be coming back during the early part of next week driving the humidity levels back down again into southern parts of africa it's largely fine picture bruce breeze there in cape town halls of nine hundred looking pretty decent and as we head into the start of the weekend there are threats of showers for cape town and general along the southern portion of the country is this low pressure system develops but otherwise generally fine condition sunshine and twenty three degrees in harare central africa are seeing some showers some heavy ones too could see wanted to far north a scar too in sudan. the way the sponsored by race.

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a reminder of our top stories this hour. has been declared the winner of zimbabwe's presidential election with just over fifty percent of the vote it's the first time since independence that robert mugabe has not been on the ballots. led coalition in yemen has denied carrying out an ass data that killed at least twenty six people if you rebels say fifty five people died meanwhile the u.n. special envoy for yemen is convening a new round of talks in the latest bid to end the three year civil war. and tech giant apple has become the first company to hit a valuation of one trillion dollars on the u.s. stock markets what was reached when apple share price tipped over two hundred seven dollars. well then five hundred fathers are holding a hunger strike in an immigration detention center in the u.s. state of texas the calls county residential center currently houses hundreds of new t.v. united migrant families according to races that's an advocacy and legal services group the father's a striking to urge the government. expedia that cases u.s.

president little trump was forced to end his zero tolerance family separation policy last month amid public outcry well the us item a gratian and customs enforcement or ice has reiterated it stunts on hunger strike saying in general i split respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without and to ferentz does not retaliate against any in any way against hunger strike as ice explains the negative health effects of all eating to all details of not eating to all detainees for the health and safety ice closely monitors the food and water intake of those detainees identified as being on a hunger strike to have a fall at his communications director the races organization she says striking fathers are in limbo leaving them desperate i think that it's absolutely devastating that these fathers feel like this is their only. way to have their voices heard at this point some of them have been to the universe for three months

while seeking asylum in reno that's a violation of international and domestic law and i think it's absolutely devastating that even the sons are participating in this strike in their own way by not participating in school activities throughout the day they have asked us to share their stories and the and definitely advocated on their behalf and shared some of those clips with the public and definitely got their story out to media to select people understand that while there were families reunify and release there are still family family detention here in the united states and there are also families who have not be reunited yet in the u.s. . hundreds of iranians 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 have been broken up by police iran's currency the reale has hit record lows this week as concern builds about the v.m.

position of the us sanctions the reports. 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 fun 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 bold 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 carriage there were a few dozen people to try to set fire to a mosque there were demonstrations there but the police sure 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 street not just in the capital to her on but in several places around the country and that's likely a 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. russia says un peacekeepers have returned to the buffer zone between syria and the israeli occupied golan heights for the first time since two thousand and fourteen that's when the un pulled out after forty five peacekeepers were killed kidnapped by al-qaeda linked fighters syrian government forces say they've now regained control of all territory along the frontier after a six week military campaign against isolate fighters and other rebel groups israel

however says it carried out an air strike on thursday on ice all targets in the area moscow says it will deploy military police and set up wondering post there to avoid any possible provocations israel's defense minister says he believes the fun to be quieter with president bashar al assad's rule restored bangladeshi government has closed universities and high schools as anger grows at the deaths of two students thousands of young people block the streets across the capital dhaka for a day when this is say the students died after being hit by a speeding bus on a sunday turned their child free 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 industry 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 the press is very much cartel there's not much room for freedom of expression in the country we are facing election down the road probably in december or november of 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 since to be moving out of the street anytime soon unless most of their demands are met. now in the philippines the unusual for disgraced leaders to stage presence will come help of whomever is

currently in power rights groups and judges and corruption watchdogs are persecuted when they call out erring officials are going to been speaking to the outgoing about the country's struggle against corruption and government. was who was those unfamiliar with philippine politics might find it strange that a former head of state becomes house speaker much less a former public official who has been detained and charged with plunder but that's exactly what happened with former president gloria macapagal arroyo when she staged a coup during president to get it there to state of the nation address last week. another former president joseph is charged with spore simply removed from office in two thousand and one he was later detained and convicted of plunder but pardoned him and he's now mayor of the capital manila it may seem like

a dizzying political circus but comebacks like these are not uncommon here. in one thousand nine hundred eighty six the family of the late dictator president for didn't marcus fled the philippines after a popular uprising. they were charged with corruption and human rights abuses but decades later they are back in power former first lady emailed the marcus is now a congresswoman her daughter i mean a governor and her son bongbong became senator and even ran for the vice presidency . all of them have one thing in common they are now allies of president de go to tear to. one of the churches that main campaign promises to rootless the fight corruption in government but many observers believe the territory is attacking institutions meant to keep checks and balances like the ombudsman former and woodsmen conchita carpio morales had filed cases against high ranking officials

despite threats against herself and her family and her office was even investigating members of detectives family over allegations of accumulating illegal wealth to tear to threatened to have her impeached i didn't they could sitting down i thought back you see we president was saying that i am grow up. i should shut up so i had to answer back i was just doing what was expected of me being corrupt i'm sorry to disappoint him i am not corrupt. her retirement is seen by many here as the end of efforts to punish corrupt leaders this is ministration has really been deliberately assaulting the institutions that are in place the democracy itself is a burial the philippine government denies all this in his recent state of the nation speech the third to says he had to fire friends due to corruption meanwhile

he has just appointed a new ombudsman who has a long record of favoring the characters policies. dog and al jazeera manila. africa is bringing a heat wave to europe prompting health warnings about sahara desert dust and high temperatures say the all time temperature record in europe could be broken this weekend in spain and portugal the current record is forty eight degrees celsius and the session athens in one nine hundred seventy seven farmers in many areas are battling the effects of drought and wildfires. francis has changed the catholic church teachings on the death penalty saying it can never be sanctioned because it attacks the inherent dignity of all humans the church previously sanctioned the death penalty in some cases the key question here is human dignity ok and what pope francis is saying is that no matter how grievous the crime for which someone should be punished and they should be punished there's nothing so bad that it takes away

their human dignity and certainly the church always always teaches about redemption to. at least twelve people have been arrested in argentina in connection with the multi-million dollar corruption scandal dating back to one christina kushner was president the case centers around eight detail kept by a driver who worked for a once powerful minister has been ordered to testify by a federal judge has more from when it's aries. this the investigators believe is only the beginning with politicians and several leading business people arrested in a corruption scandal they say involves millions of dollars and threatens to reach the very top. investigation centers around this man. a former driver for the number two in the planning ministry in the governments of both nestor and christina kitchener the movie that she has been summoned for questioning he died in two thousand and ten argentines are still coming to terms with the news it seems

everyone is involved here i don't know if the businessmen share the same responsibility of the politicians maybe the politicians are more to blame but it is overwhelming we are already tired of all this anymore we need time to do an evaluation this is still very volatile it's still difficult to know what still means. officers have been searched in vehicles seized all as they usually do have denied the charges or refused to comment the driver kept detailed accounts of the trips he made over many years delivering sacks of cash to the presidential residence and the private kitchen the home as well as to business leaders allegedly paying to seal big public works contracts are. also implicated is the former planning and public investment minister who you are the beetle confidant of nesta kitchener and already in custody on other corruption charges some say that this

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a fishing port and fish markets near the main hospital there if you rebels say fifty five people died meanwhile the u.n. special envoy for yemen is convening a new round of talks in the latest bid to end a three year civil war mali's presidential election will go to a runoff after no candidate has secured fifty percent of the vote election commission and early results with president abraham boubacar winning forty one percent rivals. came in second with seventeen percent millions of people cast their ballots on sunday but the vote was marred by violence in thousands of polling stations and some election convoys were targeted by government. the health ministry of democratic republic of congo says it has identified the strain of a bowler in the country's latest outbreak medics say its desire strain which has been successfully treated by a vaccine in the past and international team is in the town of beni in north kivu where the outbreak was detected on wednesday twenty people are confirmed to have

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should a gun violence in the united states be treated as a public health issue for some people it seems like there should be an obvious say yes to that question but in the united states public funding for research into gun deaths and injuries has been severely curtailed so yes for more on this we're joined from northampton massachusetts by meghan ranee she is chief research officer at the american foundation for firearm injury reduction in medicine known as a firm that's one of the groups that wants more research into gun violence adam skaggs is chief counsel at the giffords lost in churches prevent gun violence he joins us from new york craig deluce is director of legislative and public affairs at the firearms and policy coalition which advocates for gun rights in the u.s. he joins us from sacramento california and here in the studio is lauren smith he is executive director of the national organization for changed. he's also co-founder

of the upcoming national march on the n.r.a. the national rifle association and that rally goes ahead on saturday welcome all of you to the stream and i want to start with a member of our community who heard we were doing this topic and tweeted in this this is dan asked who says if something is dealt with as a public health issue that's not to say that it is just one more service that health professionals provide it is an approach to dealing with health issues google public health approach and you'll see issues like seat belt use bike helmets tobacco use megan that all sounds rational and reasonable why then is gun control and gun use not on that list that's a great question and so the biggest reason gun violence and gun injury is not on that list is because as you said earlier there just hasn't been funding to address it as a public health issue at its core gun injury is no different from any other type of

injury like car crashes or poor drowning or poisonings right and we've dealt with all of those public health issues over the last four or five decades we've developed a whole thing behind preventing injury and we haven't done it for guns simply because there has not been funding to do the research and epidemiology and the intervention trials that we've done that have successfully decreased car crashes over fifty percent that have decreased. by carbon monoxide and so on and in the something called the decay amendment which if i don't bring it up someone else will bring out for our international audience just explain what that means. sure the chickie amendment is a. a law that was passed that basically prevents federal agencies like the centers for disease control from conducting gun research. these were passed in the one nine hundred ninety s. after. the c.d.c.

began researching a number of different gun issues and looking at the causes and possible ways to prevent. gun injury in the united states and this was passed in one thousand nine hundred six senate essentially said that funding that was appropriated to the centers for disease control's couldn't be used to advocate for or against gun controls the practical effect and it was the federal research stopped and we haven't seen any federal dollars of any research will now going to dedicated to studying this problem since the midnight psych so that the challenge there is he's already contradicted himself he said that it didn't allow for research when specifically he just restated the words of the amendment which mean it didn't eliminate the ability to do research what it said was you cannot advocate for gun control meaning you cannot advocate for implementing policy restricting the constitutional right to keep and bear arms then the problem is that the folks at

the c.d.c. if they can't advocate for gun control than they do then for some reason they've chosen that's ok i got mine and then i think any of their thought after that and then with path congress actually took away from thirty three the amount of money that they were spending on fire injury firearm injury research and and actually any adult any young channel any any congress is any congress can decide to put those resources to put resources towards that and that doesn't even include the discretionary resources that they have amongst the hundreds of millions of dollars they have to do research so much i'm going to do it and i think on the point that the congress could any congress could appropriate those dollars and allow the c.d.c. to begin doing this lifesaving research. it is unfortunately we haven't seen it done so there hasn't been any advantage and general dollars and i can give you that i don't why you haven't seen it done is because congress is terrified of the n.r.a. the reason why is because the n.r.a. and gun manufacturers they have the ability to move voters so they are terrified of

the n.r.a. and if the congress is to push for c.d.c. research for gun control. well i'm going to go and lawrence i'm going to just one thing in so research it's not a partisan issue right so we have successfully decreased deaths from car crashes without taking cars off the road we actually have no one cars on the road now than we had in the one nine hundred fifty s. and so good i mean by the way and find us ways don't let people who. don't want this right use with the idea that we should be doing research the problem is that when you go into research with the idea that guns are bad and we need to ban guns within your research is obviously going to be when was the last leg with michael research where we would all like research what we would all like to see is research that is. does not advocate but is actually unbiased research and unfortunately for the groups that do do it it's anything but i suggest let me i'm on the side just want to get to community and i want to get this perspective you know taking into

account what you all are saying here this is mike ph d. and he writes in in terms of funding for health and gun violence i think it's a couple of things politics has reduced available funding fear of being seen as political and awareness that there are fewer funds has prevented scientists from submitting relevant grant proposals but then he takes this and this next week to a more personal level an issue we've covered here in the stream but i think it's important to remind people he says that lack of awareness that suicide accounts for sixty percent of gun deaths and believes is incorrect ideas has led people away from prioritizing projects looking at suicide and firearms and gives a stat that around half of all u.s. suicides result from firearms that's from the c.d.c. lawrence i want to go to you with that because that's bringing it down to a personal level and i know that you can relate to that and yes. i went to a poor community i lived in a poor community i went to

a poor school where our questions were and with like thirty plus kids i have seen students hide guns in their book bags. i have seen students high guns in their shorts and we had metal detectors and usually our school system they they talk to us about this they say hey we're going to have you know gun violence in your area when someone dies because we know not to expect a child to one of our friends to come to school there is literally no research for the african-american community where mental health is being around ramp it literally i walked in on my mother trying to kill herself i lost it on a lost him. so you know i don't want to see that happen to anyone in research will take that a long way it is sad that we are now seeing more gun violence and we are seeing car accident i lost three sisters in a car accident and bamber actually already actually most recently they discovered there are actually more people going to be a car accidents by gun violence but i agree let us research suicide and suicide

prevention and there are groups like both the n.r.a. and the national shooting sports foundation that are working with suicide prevention organizations in order to help address the issue and i don't disagree but when we talk about gun violence we're forgetting that it is a violence issue when you were talking about when you're talking about gun suicides you're talking about a suicide issue we're focusing on what you want to focus on the tool and we're saying focus on the problem and i hear what you're saying though i think that that community member who tweeted and said it's. the fact that these things are readily available that makes that but i want to i don't i want to push on just a little bit to a story that has been generating plenty of headlines over the last few days you all know it's three d. printed guns now u.s. federal judge on tuesday blocked a texas organization from publishing the schematics for such weapons that was just hours before they were about to go blind i'll just as robert announce has more. in

three d. printer technology machines extrude minuscule layers of plastic or resin that gradually build up three dimensional objects using patterns we asked professional three d. printer peter minardi to make one for us consumer printers are available for as low as three hundred dollars so anybody that has three hundred dollars can essentially print one three d. printer guns have no serial numbers so they're untraceable they don't require permits or background checks so anybody can have one and because they're plastic they can go through any metal detector. so you hear the the issue laid out there i want to play a comment that we got from the c.e.o. of a three d. printing company when we heard he but we were doing this story this is what he told . open source gun designs have been around for as long as i can remember before the internet you can get them by mail order by am at a gun show. and the tools to make guns have been around since well since the

luddites fail to stop mechanization. let's say we were successful at batting or stopping people from uploading and publishing gun designs on the internet that really wouldn't do anything there are many ways to acquire and capture the data today there's low cost laser scanners and three d. digitizers that you could put any object under and it will capture that three d. data in a matter of minutes so really this whole conversation is pointless. it's pointless adam back against that what do you think well look you know we're dealing with a situation as package that you just played demonstrated where putting making downloadable guns available to anybody anywhere means that somebody who can't go to a gun store and buy a gun because they'll fail a background check maybe their domestic use or they have a long criminal rap sheet whatever the reason somebody who is unable to pass

a background check and buy a gun can just download one off the internet with a click of a mouse only if they have the three d. printer that's problem one as we heard these are untraceable so law enforcement can't trace them in any way that makes an illegal gun traffickers dream come true and because they're plastic they can be smuggled through traditional metal detector technology so you know this is a serious threat it's a problem that warrants a very strong sponsor and to just shrug your shoulders and suggest you know nothing to see here this doesn't matter at all i think really vastly understates the real risk presented here and craig i want to show something from your twitter thread because you tweeted out the president of the united states he says i'm looking into three the past that guns are being sold to the public already slight to the n.r.a. doesn't seem to make much sense knew that and in a sub tweet it's called free speech and the second amendment at real donald trump they make a perfect stance on pat that more. ok well understand what we're talking about here

is not giving people is not giving people three d. printed guns it's providing information to resources to understand exactly what they are for example it is a by the way it is illegal to print or manufacture and detectable firearm so it's already against the law just like it's against the law to manufacture to create multiple cocktails but yet i can go get a copy of the anarchist's cookbook which includes information on how to create a how to create a molotov cocktail understand what we're talking about is free speech we're talking about the ability to communicate make and simply because we don't like the information simply because i don't like the arab nation have we think we can infringe on it that we have just yet like to push back on those restrictions except i would say we have restrictions based on kind of the idea of public health and a lot of things that can potentially create problems for the wrong people so you

know you can't buy things right before your certainly. and so why make it where we can i'm sure you know when talking about fundamental right smoking is not a fundamental right. free speech the right to keep and bear arms are both fundamental constitutional enumerated rights is always the time when they were putting so much emphasis on the second amendment right but we do not put that much emphasis on our fifteenth amendment right the right to vote we have so many a lobbyist arguing and fighting for the second amendment right but we literally have no one out there fighting for the fifteenth amendment right and still can't deal with guns are deployed on a good look just like your toy a reason why he like f.p.c. the reason we're going to like the foreign policy coalition the n.r.a. work it's not because of lobbyists and corporations it's because of the millions of individual voters who inform themselves and show up to the polls so young man i would have to disagree with you there well i'm going to disagree with you craig when it comes to the idea that this is a first amendment issue that is just like

a book that gives you the instructions of how to make amounts of cocktail if you've got the book the anarchist cookbook a human being can read the printed page that written speech gives communicates a message to the person who can then choose to go out and build on top of cocktail or not what you're talking about with these downloadable guns it's not a bunch of ones and zeros that are communicating to a person who can decide to do with that message what they will or not this is a computer code that speaks not to the people but speaks to a printer and when you click the buy what comes out of that is a play i'm sorry to tell you that you are selling straight and i think you need another lack of understanding about of exactly what this is so. i didn't then i guess you've got no logic now but a great weekend i just want to run their voice and as well just as people know who is in our community so when gen y. is in the gallery just say ok it's a little bit so this is the socialist rifle association and they say as it had been three d. printed guns will not fire without necessary metallic parts such as the firing pen

and ammunition they cannot pass through a metal detector undetected for this reason and they go on to say work to build a society where people don't feel the need to own guns start. addressing poverty racism police violence this way is harder but more beneficial i mean right so i guess we cannot have a gun control conversation without paying attention to the new wave of young activists who are influencing this debate so over the last couple of weeks the march for allies to you fred organization has been on its road to change tour for u.s. cities now it's part of their effort to change gun laws in the wake of the deadly hartland shooting have a look. kids

use small any why don't. you know that's something i want to hesitate to say maybe about a year ago if we were going to have somebody of your age on a show like this you would be here as a victim telling your story not involved in what happens next i think in the last year this is changed yes it has changed dramatically especially at the park when shootings. the youth are getting pissed off basically they're mad they're frustrated they're upset that no one is listening to us we are we are literally screaming for help we are dying we are screaming for help and no one wants to help us because the guns are such a polarizing issue in america for some reason when it should be our right to vote because we get affected by it and the african-american community just like we get

affected by balance in african-american communities our voices need to be heard so that's what we're doing we're standing a wave of youth all across the world not just in the united states of america are standing up and it's been happening in europe and france well before parklane even happened and now today the united states you are standing up and the n.r.a. wants to push back against that by issuing threats like come on threat six thirty at a park when shooting multiple times the n.r.a. released videos especially. caution we think of her name then or a spokeswoman video deanna louche if i had a name right she basically told the parkland students there was a direct threat like your time is gun activists to have been working for the past sixty fifty years the n.r.a. has just been pushing back against them for what reason like if we can sit at the table this is all what the youth want we want to sit at the table talk with the n.r.a. come up with a plan that works on both sides that push for to protect people second amendment

right but also push for safer communities schools and sintered for students and young people because young people are out there dying i don't have i don't feel like i should have to worry about my brothers or sisters going to the store and not coming back or my mother walking to work and not coming back but going to activists out there like these are our guns and i just want to make the point clear you are not out here to take your guns were are here for simple background checks. to repeal the dickie amendment two guys right here fighting for a lot of stuff yes but i think our whole thing is what we want to do is we want to make a change we want our voices heard we want to tell people that just because of our age and you are killing us we are a part of this problem too so that's what i say and as a physician. who has spoken out on behalf of the victims the hundreds of victims that i've taken care of for my fifteen year career as an emergency physician at taking care of the suicides the homicides the assault and many of us have been

trying for a decade plus to get folks to listen to the fact that exactly what you said this is not about gun control versus gun rights this is about public health and safety and i just want to thank you for bringing your voice. but public policy is all has always been about trying to take away trying to take away the big scary guns you want to talk about the real challenge with gun violence in this country eighty to ninety percent of it eighty ninety percent is either drug or gang related you could actually be. true at all and i'm totally if you take if you take out suicides eighty to ninety percent of it is drug related but you can't take. those trying to make a point about vibe about violence particularly when you can talk. about is a so was there but then what you were talking about is the suicide problem and let's just take for example the country dacian of japan which is number two of industrial nations number six overall. and they don't even have as we lead the

nation in the guns and guns and we believe the nation in guns i mean we are failing in education what kind i sense does that make it is something you know but if some talk about style and it's going to side in flail. around and go on to live i don't know if you can and would have some i want to know that we're talking. i hear both your points i don't know that our audience does so i'm going to jump in there and use that as my chance to bring in this. your comment this is from john on twitter he says march for our lives he's talking about. movement i will let you finish i will pose this next thing to you but i want to push on just a little bit because i want to get our viewers comments and john says the march for our lives has done a spectacular job of taking tragedy to manifest action towards opening up a conversation that's long overdue and i'm often inspired by the dedication of these young activists so when we talk about taking tragedy this hasn't just been about guns per se we got a video comment from

a parklane student who talks about how he's taken that tragedy and channel it into making an impact on the ground this is and this is what he said. we've had to address the larger issue at hand we need to address mental health because our students are under a lot of stress and they don't know how to supplement their stress and all those negative emotions in a positive outcomes we need to teach students how to be their best selves and how to take negative emotions and reach positive outcomes that's something that we haven't really been focusing on as a society and so he is the founder of the societal reform corporation and he's all about mental health and making sure that young people have access to the how that they need to promise i'd let you finish but keep that in mind what do you make of that well here's the thing and i agree with the points that he's made when we talk about the issue that the gun is just the tool he's talking about why or why are people committing suicide why are young people engaged why is that why are young people going to schools from and they're shootings occurring in schools why is

there gun violence in urban inner city communities let's look at the reasons why and not necessarily focus on the tools but the other thing we need to do if we're going to have a conversation is we have everyone has to be able to be able to sit at the table what winds up happening is and you look at what happened in the c.n.n. debate or the c.n.n. discussion and all of these is the great you know you generally have one person talk just. kind of just people start talking over them and start shouting them down like as i took as a one time it does explain what that c.n.n. debate was it was a huge big town of which cool people's attention it was just off the pot and shooting and it blew up in a big way and it was it was a huge big moment for the united states and the brew consing and having that conversation let me just wrap up now we could actually do this show every single day and still not be done with the debate type for me just for a moment actually for the show i'm going to be honest here for the show you know

and there's a much coming up in a sentence tell us about the much alright so saturday saturday august for park and students will be joining forces with the founders of the march on entering who have been working so hard. where we are taking over the streets of fairfax directly from the n.r.a. to our knowledge we looked at the research that had never been done before so. right and the system marches around as well. if you're interested you can look at w w w n n r a dot org and in the interests of being fair balance. go to their patient have a take action page and their time to take action is as passionate as you will take action that is the debate in the united states right now. who says disarm today let the moms dads siblings and families who tragically lost a family member decide future weapon regulation and craig thank you for joining us

thank you for bringing your insights into the conversation about.

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technology found went from humble beginnings to the world's most valuable company. and kidnapping death threats and prison the reality of life in nicaragua under a new anti terror laws aimed at the sun. amazon has been declared the winner of zimbabwe's presidential election but the opposition m.d.c. alliance says it would jaques the results and has evidence of electoral fraud the days since monday's ballots have been marred by protests and violence that have killed at least six people a man who became president after the roof removal of robert mugabe is the leader of the ruling zanu p.f. passim he won six of the ten electoral. vince's taking over just fifty percent of the vote and it's enough to win the presidency without the need for a runoff his rival nelson chamisa who is president of the movement of democratic

change alliance one forty four percent my god was won the popular vote and zimbabwe's rural areas was chamisa as more popular in the urban areas how much us are reports from harare. after days of tension the winner of a sublist presidential election is finally declared therefore. of the party is therefore julie declared elected president of the republic of zimbabwe with effect from the third of august twenty eighth. opposition supporters are not happy some try to announce their own results saying they have evidence the election was rigged. yes. election officials deny the allegations of fraud so to do supporters of the ruling party it's unfortunate that raising these claims because there are procedures that

state. that if you claim that you have been rigged you can operate the courts the streets of our area car but tense after violence on wednesday when soldiers dispersed opposition supporters who say the vote was stolen some shops and businesses were close of the day as people waited to see what would happen next the police have taken away opposition supporters who had been staying at the party's headquarters they say they want to question each person to see if they're committed any crimes if i was a police. it was absolutely there was nothing it was not. the day vision people should be focusing on the release of the results now rather than our own and this is my issue which is the one which the army and police asked. in the streets of harare and guarding important is jewish and western diplomats election observers and human rights workers say the military used

a necessary force to disperse protesters who had been accusing election officials of vote rigging the police had cordoned off the area outside the opposition party headquarters in harare for a while people weren't allowed to go inside or outside the building that's changed now the doors has been opened but opposition supporters say it should not happened in the first place. international observers say if political leaders aren't happy with the result they should take their grievances to the courts and not resort to violence. mali's presidential election is set to go to a runoff after no one candidate secured fifty percent of the vote the election commission announced provisional results with president abraham boubacar kater winning forty one percent rival somalia came in second with seventeen percent millions of people cast their ballots on sunday but the vote was marred by violence in thousands of polling stations and some election convoys were targeted by gunmen . warlord turned off position politician and democratic republic of congo. has lost

his application to run in the upcoming presidential election the rebel commander arrived home on wednesday after eleven years in exile ten of which were spent in prison after reports from the capital kinshasa. john pierre bemba arrives at the electoral commission offices to submit his candidacy for president the last twenty four hours have been a whirlwind for him has been heavily guarded by police party officials say his movement has been restricted he's not allowed to publicly address his supporters and the government has denied him access to a residential home in the suburb called in the capital city. the police are telling us that. residents this is a violation of his words he's come home and should be able to freely move around and leave where he wants. kinshasa as police commissioner is in charge of security

arrangements he says all this is for his protection but they will not allow him to go to court which is also a presidential area so. security measures have to be taken his home is very close to the president resident in two thousand and six he supporters crushed with the presidential guard and people we are trying to avoid anything like that happening again. and the electoral commission offices had to first register as a vote before filing his candidacy he's been away at the hague for the last decade was arrested in two thousand and eight in belgium for war crimes committed by his militia in central african republic between two thousand and two and two thousand and three he was then convicted to eighteen years in prison two years ago by the international criminal court that decision was over time on appeal in june has just finished. and.

before it. next week some of the political have been here out. on. the commissioner's office you. see. it took him hours to clear up with a commission and now he has to wait for a few more weeks to know for sure if he'll be on the ballot paper in december. kinshasa. a saudi that coalition and yemen has denied carrying out an asteroid and hug data that killed at least twenty six people the strike hit a fishing port and fish market near the main hospital the rebels say fifty five people died meanwhile the united nations special envoy for yemen is convening a new round of talks in the latest bid to end the three year civil war reports from the united nations the families of at least twenty six people who data yemen are now planning their funerals the victims were killed in a saudi coalition air strike near the hospital in the city center on thursday this

as the u.n. special envoy for yemen announced he will host talks between the government and who think rebels in geneva on september sixth these consultations will provide the opportunity for the park is among other things to discuss the framework for negotiations. to agree on relevant confidence building measures and specific fans for moving process forward griffiths argument keeping her data open to delivery of humanitarian aid to millions of yemenis is important but it's much more important to end the war the un's humanitarian aid she described just how bad the situation has become for ordinary people three years of conflict have left two million people displaced from their homes eight point four million people do not know where their next meal is coming from and the worst cholera outbreak in the worm deckard in yemen last year with one point one million cases the humanitarian situation is

indeed shocking both in scale and severity and these figures they represent a call for urgent action the saudi coalition which backs the government of president abdulla robbo monsour hadi and iran which gives the who these military support are not invited to griffiths talks but they'll probably go to geneva to keep an eye on things and then there's the u.s. under fire for giving military support to the saudi coalition and a critic of tehran support for the who these the us ambassador used her security council remarks not only to chastise iran for destabilizing yemen but also to send a message to riyadh about its air war against the who these we've hit a new day now in yemen and we've had a new sense of urgency and u.n. and that if this is what started to happen civilians are at risk infrastructure is at risk but in the last three years at least ten thousand people have been killed

in yemen another forty thousand injured the risk for civilians already a reality rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the united nations. tech giant apple has become the first company to hit a valuation of one trillion dollars on the u.s. stock markets a million million rock was reached when apple share price tipped over two hundred seven dollars it's the second company worldwide to hit the trillion dollar value petro china did it very briefly eleven years ago on the shanghai exchange market analysts expect amazon and alphabet the company that owns google to be next chris of the loonie 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 ras 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 to 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. 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. to finish the

c.e.o. of social flow which advises social media companies he's also a commentator on social media and technology he says these results are a reflection of the moyl to the users but also the strength of the tech market. the tech sector surely has been performing phenomenally the growth in these tech companies had a few bumps lately with earnings releases the past couple of weeks but still you're talking about companies that are worth more than half a trillion dollars and now for apple to get to this one trillion dollar mark is certainly it's the best of the best all of these tech companies are being rewarded for stellar growth and sometimes they're punished when we saw what happened to facebook you know facebook had record earnings a couple of weeks ago when it was punished pretty badly because the growth was not quite what was expected you look at apple's numbers and the growth was there and so clearly the market loves when the tech companies.