on the story the most. welcome to the news grid. to break up. the crowds. we'll have the latest live from. president nicolas maduro certainly. in all sorts of. and repacking through all the

speculation and rumor that flooded online platforms including links to an apple want to tack on government buildings i'm a hell of a hundred senators both using the hash tag aging you spread and tension rises in ethiopia's east in somali region a place run by local leaders but now federal government troops have taken control as the capital is hit by losing rioting and the burning of church. but the newsgroup to live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live at al-jazeera dot com they say they wanted a peaceful protest but rubber bullets and tear gas have ended hopes of bangladesh's protests over road safety and the recent deaths of two students have become more violent this sunday tear gas has been used to break up the demonstrations in dhaka and activists say at least four people have been injured on what is now the eighth

straight day of protests in a moment we are live to the streets of dhaka with some via choudhry first the full story with paul shouldn't you. student protesters have blocked streets and bangladesh for the past week they're demanding government action to improve road safety traffic accidents kill at least seven thousand bangladeshis every year two young students were knocked down and killed by a bus last week and even though the net i'm going to we have been protesting on the roads for a few days with some of that demands with demanding justice for those students of the college killed by a bus and we want safe roads. over the weekend the peaceful protests became violent when police tried to break up the crowds demonstrators were further incensed by a government minister who questioned why there was uproar about two deaths in bangladesh and a lack of anger about thirty three dead in a bus crash in india the previous day i'm actually going to stop by the government that's out there we all are feeling threatened we wanted

a peaceful protest we don't want any trouble occurring around here yet rubber bullets were shot on our brothers at mirco neighborhood they were dispersed we don't one told us the government ordered schools and bus services to shut down the government's trying to quell the violence by cutting internet services to cripple social media and censoring both bangladeshi and international media on the topic i don't know that much the pro-government students attacked us we broke them lots of building around fifty boys and girls took shelter there and now the journalists how to us to leave the place the police fired tear gas and used the tongs pro-government students also attacked and roughed up those. pro-government students are seen in this footage beating up an associated press journalist government leaders say they're going to implement the stew's demands for improved road safety but more protests are feared as both the ruling in opposition parties campaigned for elections due in december paul chatterjee on al-jazeera and plenty of comments

already coming in on the line stream at the moment as a mother said we want justice in our hands of being tied another comment saying we need our children to be safe from gaza. and goings we want justice and international media support he is going to have a lot more of that online reaction in just a moment but you know there are two sort of two ways to look at these protests there is the cutest shoe of road accidents and then the bigger picture which that has now given rise to i want you to have a look at these numbers first of all in the past three and a half years more than twenty five thousand people have been killed on bangladesh's roads to put that in an easy to understand figure we're talking twenty people a day dying in road accidents and add to that in the same three and a half year period more than sixty two thousand people have been injured as well and if you widen out striking and protesting is actually been a feature in bangladesh for years this is an indirect from al jazeera dot com you're looking at ten years twenty third twenty two thousand three twenty thirteen and what you're seeing is the cycle goes around if you like in that circle is the

cumulative hours of protests and strikes that's all those sort of yellow bus or it's flicking a little bit you've got the orange and the red bars around the edge which is showing that they have been injuries and deaths and all of this protest mostly about things that political corruption and economic disparity let us check in with chandra choudhry he's been out live from dhaka all day well into the evening there now things perhaps a little quieter than out there but it has been quite a day there for you and for everyone there it has been a very volatile day today as well as yesterday right now it's late night and it's getting quiet very few traffic in the streets there's no public buses from the nightmare but. to get any public buses average lower income people have to ride scooters three will rickshaws some have to walk because they can't afford to take taxis or whoever services now this has been going on almost a week most people then complained they were giving their support to the students

because they also felt like the public transport system is in this condition accidents corruptions and the police would let them get away with unpaid by. young drivers with a driver's license playing the road all this is a major concern for decades now it's never been really. addressed in the right way and other governments say this is a police traffic week will crack down on that and the bus owners are still out on the road this is one segment of the issue and of course the crackdown on the students i've been looking very negatively the guardians and people who are supporting them are very upset because most of the students were very young school going students are some cases university student average age between thirteen to twenty one years old nobody really believes that government would crack down in such a way against them considering they were not political they were by and large peaceful group of protesters and top of that the journalist community is now very concerned

because yesterday. analysts were attacked by the ruling party wing in front of the police and today another six journalists were attacked one of them happens to be a.p. photo journalist he was badly beaten by ruling party supporters stand by didn't intervene or did anything in that regard the prime minister even criticised a segment of the media she said some people are trying to question their cloudy weather and then home minister came out with a stern warning the side that anybody trying to test the patience of the government will face the action the general secretary of the ruling party which also happens to be a minister for roads and communication that look at is not our fault it is the student who attacked police and that's why we strike back all this put together in a very tense and volatile political climax because they lection is this the opposition is also very upbeat about putting the show in the state before the

election. there's been another incident yesterday which made things very chance because the us ambassador marcy about it gets was attacked by some unknown man when she went for a dinner invitation and nobody was hurt luckily so put together situation in the streets are still very volatile and try and see what happens tomorrow and yeah we'll leave you there for now i'm very sure we will be talking to you again tomorrow time be a child in. right here i'm getting so many messages in already from people saying well actually i'm on here said thank you for the report please cover this news more and more it's great that they get in touch with us but it's not been easy to get in touch from bangladesh it hasn't but again social media has played a huge role call in organizing and drumming up the support for these protests especially when it all started but now we've heard that three and four g. data services mobile data services have been blocked this is now causing frustration among those who can no longer share their videos pictures or plans for

more demonstrations and they're worried about their safety as well so much so the people that we've spoken to have also not to be identified numbers limbaugh they she's are using social media as a tool to inform the use these platforms for expressing our solidarity and organise fundraisers they're also demonstrated in person from outside the offices of news corp's in major cities we mobilize because we wait for whether i will have change protesters are being attacked by members of chaps were they which is the student body of the one party with allegations of sexual violence against women also surfacing the poor for speedier need to see no internet connection to the concrete as we sit down by the government and people are now trying to reach to see the international media by spreading some social media arenas to have various social media sites and peace actually went out of hand when the british were attacked

by a group of men. who the british just green to be some group government activists. well the mobile blackout took place off the prime minister's office issued a warning about misinformation where they said such fabricated news is being spread to confuse the country's citizens including the young students demonstrating for road safety the home internet services though have stayed online and protests have been logging on to plead for international help and i spoke to another man who had just left bangladesh the holiday when this all started and he explained why he trusts social media more than local media to report on what's actually happening listen information minister has ordered most of the news outlets to not report or cover the student protests that's happening right now and that's most of the information we get. from back home from the news media outlets has been highly doctored with and that's the only people we can trust at the moment our friends

from the from line or facebook love. and we are getting a lot of messages on the story in bangladesh the keep them coming is the news great you can tweet me directly i met him haven't really we're not just getting a lot of messages nihad our social media produces just message me thirteen thousand people currently up on our facebook live stream watching this news grid and there's another nearly two thousand on you tube so clearly this is an important story for bangladesh facebook dot com slash al-jazeera is where you can watch the live stream at fifteen hundred hours g.m.t. every day thank you for watching today you can use that number to get in touch with us directly as well plus not sinful five zero one triple one four nine it'll cover you on telegram and on whatsapp as well the hash tag of course is a.j. news grid. now so the extraordinary scenes that unfolded in venezuela as an explosion went off while president nicolas maduro was addressing a military parade in caracas he says it was an assassination attempt using a drone packed with explosives but not everyone so sure i want you to watch this

how it all played out on live t.v. various nicolas maduro the boom is heard. good he looks up in shock and confusion and then look at that immediately his bodyguards around with these protective kevlar shields i guess they are checking he's ok and then they hurry him out of there as well then you've got this on the street the soldiers have been assembled in those neat military style roads suddenly wait for it when the bomb goes off they break ranks. and they scout running away and tara seven of them we're told are injured and then not long after this broadcast is caught you know. i have no doubt that everything points to the right to the venezuelan ultra right in alliance with the colombian ultra right and that the name of kleinman well santos is behind this attack let's talk to rob reynolds he's following developments from washington d.c. for us i mean the pictures in themselves rubble quite extraordinary as to what all of that going on what's been the reaction as we now sunday morning in the americas

well the president's national security adviser john bolton appeared on the fox news sunday public affairs program and he strongly denied that the united states had anything to do with it he said quote i can unequivocal bully i can say unequivocally that there is no u.s. involvement in this at all. kind of interesting in so far as president maduro did not blame the united states specifically blamed right wing elements as you just reported in the president of colombia a juan manuel santos for having some sort of involvement in it. bolton did go on to say that if the venezuelan authorities presented any kind of credible evidence to the u.s. that there was any cells or any individuals involved in this event

who are based in the united states then the u.s. government will take a look at that and and investigate but it was kind of a denial of something that hadn't even been asserted. very peculiar reprint life for us in washington d.c. thank you for that rob. we've got reva back again on this one because and i mentioned at the top of the show misinformation i don't say break news but it jumped it moved really quickly on this when there was just so many different details it was actually quite difficult to keep track of all and like we said it's actually quite a hot topic on twitter in particular now since the news broke we've seen almost seven hundred thousand tweets about monroe and much of the conversation came out of latin america with venezuela nicaragua and cuba trending the most and it's also popped up as far as germany and also switzerland rumors of plots against president

maduro constant in venezuela a country buried in political and economic turmoil but this time the government's official line is that maduro was targeted by explosive drones which if you believe the president was sent by colombia and paid by us finance he is now a juror supporters were quick to pick up that same message as they mobilize online telling outside forces to keep their hands off venezuela and mystery surrounds the group called soldiers for us which has claimed responsibility for this attack they posted this tweet on twitter saying we have shown that venezuela's government is vulnerable and the attack was not achieved today but it's just a matter of time now al-jazeera has not been able to independently verify this account another popular online thread is from people drawing parallels to an attack last year involving a rogue police officer by the name of oscar perez you may remember him he threw

grenades at government buildings from a sort of helicopter and was killed in a shootout six months later now soldiers from it was apparently according to some analysts involved in both attacks. another persistent burma is that the explosion was actually from a gas cylinder in an apartment close to where the ceremony took place as reported by the associated press many people are sharing this online and that version of events came from the firefighters and people online who have since shared images like this to back it up slim tack is a military analyst and he believes that this seems plausible because the shockwave from the blast seemed too big too too big for a drones payload. and adding to the commentary of doubt is phil gunson from the crisis group and then geo that works to study and prevent conflicts and he tweeted that the official investigation of the alleged assassination attempt against maduro takes the usual course it begins with the conclusions and works backwards and the

country where ninety eight percent of crime goes unpunished governments truths resolve this kind of case in a matter of hours well let us know what you think of the story especially if you are in venezuela use the hash tag a genius grant thanks for here we have an occasional series on al-jazeera called the big picture and there is this episode maryam namazie hosting it from our studios in the shard in london it is called the battle for venezuela are examining the present day crisis by exploring the divisions rooted in its past studio guests experts plus in the field reporting it is the type of in-depth stuff which if i can say so we do really well here it out is there have a look for yourself the battle for venezuela the big picture it's in the documentary section at al-jazeera dot com. now at least fifty people have been killed in eastern ethiopia where government forces moved in to arrest regional leaders in the somali region of ethiopian

a federal troops took control of the capital of that region jigga after being met with resistance by paramilitary forces loyal to the local government there's been reports of looting rioting in the burning of churches a province plagued by violence for thirty years after a bid for secession in the region so the region itself does need a little explaining they call it variously things that the state of somali the somali region the somali regional state it's within the ethiopia's borders are going to zoom in on for you here close to the northernmost tip of somalia itself come right down into the city there and it's if i just straighten up for a moment you'll see the border which is about sixty kilometers away they are the capital as we say it is to jigga population of around one hundred sixty thousand there and if you are going to work it is if we look at the ethiopian government website you'll see some ali is actually one of eleven such regional states or city

administrations as they call that has its own flags it functions basically as a as an autonomous region sort of autonomous region within. mohamad joe is over in djibouti reporting from there at the moment he knows all about this sort of. stories from this part of the region. there is a tense standoff in the city of to kick up a couple of the somali region of ethiopia federal troops continue to arrive some of them by planes and on friday residents of the city was surprised to see federal troops rolling into the city with tongues. at this point the local or special police exchanged fire with the federal troops and this created some confusion in which. began something that's so the entire market of

looted to churches and up to fifty people losing their lives the government in addis ababa justifies why it sends the troops saying that there was a rift between the regional administration and the federal government and that there were plans by the regional administration to announce a suppression or secession from the rest of its european something that course outrightly didn't mind by the original president. let's talk more about this joining us on skype from atlanta as you are is a lecturer and political science at georgia when it college nice to have you with us your highness when things like this happen and i mean a big government with its coming in and using force to it generally doesn't end too well what's your feelings on where this might move from here and what the regional government could or should i. take you for holly what we actually seem to get up and pretty much all across the nation now is that i will let you

stay single really a real challenge ensuring security and car intercountry and now he has somehow started a certain result and asters is the village in the country and what he's trying to do is out that if you've got a constitution by the way in title as a regional state is to establish part of military forces that's good halt making peace and security in the region that somehow these forces are now basically. hoping that we cannot leave his conference. at the center and they have now become a force that's not helping the many and that's what's meant in peace and security but basically the force that that is very much source of instability so what i think is that so far he's been playing a waiting game and now he's trying to act but it is very very difficult because

the leader of police or what they call the special courses that was headed by the united states president mr of the elite. eight thousand. and its new tensions are also very mounting pressure and as we just heard from the report there are churches be burnet and other ready to meet members of other it's new groups are also being a part of so very very. as i pointed out before there are these eleven regions or city administrations in ethiopia are there any such problems in other states i'm just wondering if it's the fact that because this is the somali community this is the people from another country as it happens that leads to more of these tension. absolutely we do have a nine originalists in sioux city administration so eleven is

a good number but we have seen a regional it's a nice nations between the origin and the been jungle the more the region we have been it's an expansionist we think that our. nation is another region in the south and also of course and measure isn't a. example of an extension between that and you're going to some of the region and the only other option we have witnessed over one minute it's in the koran or expelled from some other region and about some kind of thousands of it and it's online is also evicted from a romance so what we actually see is that if anything at all our enjoyment which was supposed to impart it's an equal and basically in part is that we've had our image station right is somehow held to ensure. you know the mechanics the with the balls also the peaceful coexistence of these groups so we have definitely talked to our lives and that the new are delicious and the

very very very clearly very clear it is progress towards ensuring is they really know how to get an allegedly on top. of whatever will leave it there perfect note to end it on your hand of saddam i thank you for your time today much appreciate and. in iran her sisters have been killed and three injured to end demonstrations in a tech suburb called cut out a fifth day now the anti-government rallies across iran people angry about high unemployment water shortages and a lack of basic government services. now on saturday's newsgroup dream brought you the story about five planes that were poised ready to fly to iran from france before the u.s. sanctions taken this week seeing as we're talking about the economy here they were this was the pictures out of toulouse photographed and tweeted by aviation watches

they are made by the franco italian firm eighty are but because the aircraft contain american parts they had to be delivered before the trumpet ministration started restoring sanctions the ones that were suspended on the twenty fifth the nuclear deal which trumps withdrawn from and now here they are landing in the northwestern city of mia early on sunday morning their arrival means iran and now has received thirteen of the twenty twin engine turbo props that it had originally or did you at the news grid thanks for being with us to keep your thoughts and comments coming to us so many of you on the live stream to the numbers that we're not used to getting actually so it's great now if you were watching us on facebook live you're about to find out why there might be some hope for coral reefs the ones being killed off by climate change for the bonus a jackpot story there and then later israel's prime minister tries to talk up what he sees as the benefits of his nation state law one others have compared to

a possible. welcome back time to look at the weather around the levant and western parts of asia it's a fine picture for the most part but we have got the risk of some showers on the southern side of the caspian sea so tehran just a chance of a shower meanwhile the side of mediterranean generally looking good we've lost most of the shariat city around the caucuses and that continues as it head on through into tuesday some mostly fine picture expected here temperatures in iraq right about forty three for bank down probably about forty seven forty eight for basra had a fairly decent breeze a little bit of lift the dust still a possibility moving down into the arabian peninsula temperatures in the low forty's and most part on the western side forty four forty five here into the breeze keeping the humidity level stance is not too unpleasant for those sort of valleys slight decrease in temperatures as the wind eases as we head on through

into tuesday so are of the much cooler at this time of year twenty seven degrees. let's head down into southern parts of africa way to expect fine weather us generally the case although we have got the risk of some rain for cape town at times and friday press wins but tends to of the brain tends to clear through brighter conditions for choose day but without flow temperatures struggling highs of just thirteen degrees into central parts of africa and here is looking particularly showery across parts of chad and also sudan. a survivor of the genocide there were people who begged me to kill them when they're suffering but it didn't have the power to do it who's dedicated his life to searching the woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. you know in the purest to go. you know hope of finally laying the past to rest and giving peace to the victims' families because you need to if i could just find if i could

bury him. on al-jazeera. their lives that. it created the modern world. the slave trade is the language the geography and the very fabric of human civilization upon it were built the great western palace and was constructed and hierarchy of races but how did it come about and what became of it. the slavery birds coming soon on al-jazeera.

headlines from al jazeera dot com and what's trending is well most buzz to say bangladesh but very high and what's trending given how many people seem to be coming to us for our coverage of this story don't worry it will continue very much star venezuela at number three there as well the latest on nicolas maduro as apparent assassination attempt if you look into something new something relevant something different it's all there at al-jazeera dot com what's trending this summer. israel's prime minister is once again defending the nation state law that his government's brought in the one which has

drawn huge numbers of protesters out onto the streets during a cabinet meeting benjamin netanyahu said the law hasn't harmed any individual rights and it will protect israel status as a jewish state for generations to come the latest minority however to demonstrate has been the druze community which like others is angry about this though the way it declares israel as an exclusive homeland of the jewish people and down grads the status of the arabic language official deep ties with the jews and our commitment to them are also essential we will establish today a special ministerial committee that will advance those ties and these commitments and in parallel will also recognize those who serve in the israeli military and security services from all religions and ethnicities. his under simmons covering things from west to resume for a standard the pictures of those jurors protests a quite stunning in a lot of people out there does it draw any official a political reaction. well yes it does that same and you

heard from the prime minister didn't really move anything on it has to be said i'm sure members of his own government would see it that way as well that's not will they won't they don't want to see any change in this law and that it won't see any real movement politically to placate those that are concerned about it the minority is furious at the druze among a whole range of other minorities still very angry about it and we're seeing lots of movement in the way of plans for protests persuasion from the government with various parts of the druze community the druze leadership although those talks last week with the government of the druze leaders had ended up in a very bad way with a reported rao and benjamin netanyahu walking out all these scenes subsequently is a quite a fierce social media battle going on and allegations that only in fact the labor

party of far as filed a complaint to the police about what it says is fake correspondence making out that activists for the likud party or the government party have actually been engaged in in saying that the labor party organize the protests on behalf of the druze effectively now that is apparently completely wrong and we're seeing this action in terms of reported to the police furthermore we have reports that a druse former brigadier general describes in the meeting the whole bill the whole law as being leading to an apartheid state and also racism now that apparently enraged the prime minister whether that was said in the meeting is in dispute but it has to be said it doesn't sound good for any real

peace move in the whole thing one of the thing andrew i'd like to ask you about quickly and that is israel and hamas who are any three weeks ago we were worried could be on the brink of another war where are negotiations moving between them at the moment. well they're moving and they're moving quick more quickly than they were before in the sense that the little i'm letting off of the u.n. special envoy who was in cairo and has been in gaza and has been in israel has now delivered something for the israelis to consider this move is believed to actually engage in a plan for step by step movements in this. ceasefire which is desperately needed for the gazan people and indeed israel as well on those of the party and what we're hearing now is that that is being considered in a security cabinet meeting which is ongoing right now it's unlikely we'll hear any

nitty gritty detail has to be said there are likely to be further moves but who knows the whole prospect of a first stage agreement could be on the cards although there is the thorny issue of the return of three israeli soldiers in exchange for any deal on a border crossing easing the border crossings and perhaps extending the fishing that it's that apparently is not part of this this first stage of the deal so that's causing some consternation amongst people in israel and that is could be a sticking point it remains to be seen but we're hearing optimistic tones from gaza over it remains to be seen in terms of the hopes for it garza really needs to breeze and israel may just go along the lines of having this troops and the seventh live in west jerusalem thank you for the update there will take

a little break from things here and ahead a moment get some other international news headlines here is lauren taylor in london. thanks very much a suicide bomber has killed one afghan soldier and wounded three more in an attack in the city of jalalabad it happened just hours after three soldiers from the czech republic were killed in a separate suicide attack they were serving with the nato force in eastern pa one province charlotte ballasts has more from kabul. this is tag has proved deadly for nato three nato soldiers killed one u.s. soldier injured and two afghan soldiers were due to just outside chary couch scapula power one province only about sixty kilometers north of kabul here it's the deadliest attack on nato soldiers since june last year during a firefight in provence it happened around six o'clock this morning taliban suicide bomber attacking a patrol with these nato soldiers and afghan soldiers patrolling for security around a village near cherry when the suicide tech approached and blew himself up as an

excursion now the taliban put out a statement a small thing on this but they have put out a number of statements in the last forty eight hours claiming a lot of similar type of attacks saying that they were killing nato soldiers wounding nato soldiers and within herat province and in the province where this attack took place today powell warned every time he called on that resolute support which is the nato mission here in afghanistan so it's simply not true this is propaganda and we're not taking casualties however this incident this morning did prove to be true at three nato soldiers have died the location of the tech is significant it was within ten kilometers of the u.s. military's biggest banks in afghanistan known as bag room this is sixteen thousand nato soldiers in afghanistan despite the conventions being wound down in twenty. but those sixteen thousand soldiers still regardless of whether they are in a mentor and. position helping afghan soldiers here they still suffering casualties

we've had three nato soldiers died this year and last time an attack on nato soldiers was this stately was june last year. egypt says its military has killed fifty two people and arrested dozens in an ongoing crackdown in the sinai region egypt launched an offensive in february targeting armed groups in the sinai the nile delta and the western desert it's also destroyed fifteen vehicles loaded with weapons and ammunition which it says were attempting to cross the country's western border. libya. at least three people have died after a powerful earthquake struck the popular indonesian resort islands of lombok and bali according to government there the seven point zero magnitude quake caused panic among residents and holiday makers a week ago a six point four magnitude quake killed fourteen people in on bach a tsunami warning immediately put in place has been lifted. temperatures in portugal have started to ease after reaching near record levels of almost forty seven degrees celsius the extreme heat has brought wildfires which have consumed

more than a thousand hectares of forest in the southern algarve region firefighters are also battling flames in a scrub area near portugal's border with spain six people have been injured trying to escape another five extra miles near the spanish border. the price of health insurance is set to go up for some americans as part of new measures under the trumpet ministration and the government has been pulling apart former president obama's affordable care act known as a pharmacare john hendren has more from chicago where residents will be among the first to find out how much their premiums will increase this is what helps me so our kids mill are. for on doing hampton health insurance is a life saver what would happen if you didn't have this coverage quite honestly did . i couldn't afford medication type one diabetes cost hampton this sight in his left eye in two thousand and four the medications he uses to avoid further problems

cost more than seven hundred dollars a month all covered by insurance americans like andre hampton have to make some difficult choices he's unemployed and gets his health care through the medicaid program for the poor but it only covers individuals who make less than seventeen thousand dollars that makes it hard to pay those premiums so he might be in a position where he has to choose between a job and having health insurance with the u.s. health care system in crisis being sick in america is getting more expensive we actually pay more. per person than every other developed country and we actually have a lower bang for the research from the lairs as the price of the most popular plans in the insurance exchanges created by the two thousand and ten act known as obamacare will rise on average fifteen percent that's due largely to the trump administration's cuts in federal subsidies and the planned repeal next year of the so-called individual mandate requiring every u.s.

resident to have health insurance for public hospitals like stroger cook county that mandate has been a money saver and has stabilized us in a substantial way financially in the one nine hundred ninety s. one in four patients at stroger had insurance now most do fifty eight percent tax payers spend less than a quarter of what they did in two thousand and nine if the teeth are taken out of an individual mandate or if the health care premiums on the marketplace go up because of a lack of will on the part of the government to underwrite and subsidize those plans then we will be back to the stone age again with more people who are uninsured showing up at her and our facilities under a hampton fears that could cost lives like kids no matter what race creed or color everyone gets sick you know. don't take away the care plan that we have now for now his remains

a success story in one of the few developed countries where life expectancy is going down john hendren al-jazeera chicago that's all for me for the moment back to come on and i thank you more from lauren in about twenty minutes now for about three years now these sorts of green boxes of filed into serious problems bringing rebel fighters and their fight and their families i should say from other places. that have fallen back into government hands just have a look at it on the map here really quickly this is it it's the north west corner a patch of opposition green surrounded by government red but basically what president bashar al assad is saying and his long civis is that he can take it in the back even in a green if an agreement with russia and turkey is holding that off at least for now it would take a very significant part as you can see with my rough coloring in the fall of syria

well reporting from neighboring lebanon they know what explains now water is at stake if assad's forces roll in. president bashar assad says it live is the syrian army's next target the opposition controlled northwestern province is home to almost three million people at least half displaced from other rebel areas after so-called surrender deals. but the syrian government's ally russia appears to be giving turkey a chance to what it called stabilize the province turkey is being asked to fulfill agreed commitments in the so-called fast enough process jakey has been accepting responsibility for the situation. expected to fight terrorists. russia says turkey was supposed to expel or dissolve the heat a sham the group formerly known as el nostra as well as what our city in the syrian

branch of al qaida those fighters are designated as terrorists by the international community they are powerful and they have in the past rejected ultimatums to disband. lenders all turkey wants to avoid military action so it's using the threat of military action to force to disband the announcement that see a rebel groups are united under one command is an example. part of it live lies on the border with turkey which wants to avoid any military offensive that would cause human suffering further displacement and the collapse of the ass in a process. that's wrong for three years especially in the sunni area trying to train. the story an army wife starts. for months now members of the so-called radical groups have been targeted in unclaimed attacks that some link to a campaign to eliminate the province from foreign fighters disagreements over at

liberty turkey and russia. evident during talks on syria and such the province was not mentioned in the final statement it was mentioned in a separate statement issued by turkey's foreign ministry emphasizing that the province's status as a deescalation zone must be preserved. turkey's military presence won't deter campaigns on the fringes of it lips that are aimed at opening highways linking government controlled cities and preventing attacks on the russian and syrian military in nearby province that is likely what russia syria and boy meant when he said there are no plans for a large scale assault on. beirut just to underline the importance of a better search through the archives around zero dot com for a bit of context remember the battle for aleppo right we're talking eighteen months ago like twenty sixteen back then we had this headline overwhelmed by influx of

aleppo's wounded at that time thirty five thousand syrians and left to live most of them headed for that relative safety in italy but think about it of the same thing's been happening in every subsequent battle that the government has won that means a lot of people sitting vulnerable in the one place and that's what i want to discuss now with my one cobbler is head of policy analysis at the arab center for research always nice to see you mo and it all just seems so. obvious it's been done in plain sight battle for aleppo the battle for a lot of places move them all to adlib and then it just becomes this one i mean this could be awful what could happen. this is the only remaining deescalation so-called deescalation zone of the us atlanta process you know i mean the russians they started this off the bike after the fall of some bought of aleppo in late two thousand and sixteen and the main goal actually of the deescalation zones are that time was actually to. to have the sort of fixing the battlefield

because there is at that time did not have enough manpower to fight on all these fronts against the opposition so what the russians did at that time is come up with this idea of the escalation zones and most of the contraries for actually when iran damascus one in the southwest of the country one north of homs and the last one. is it which is now the hot spot likely to be the hot spot of the syrian conflict but it's going to be in my opinion much more complicated than that i asked because because i'm here we are having all of the fighters of the opposition all have been gathered actually here because you know i mean most of those actually who have rejected the reconciliation with the regime has been actually moved to now it's a matter of life and death for them because there is no no no where else actually to move them to think is that is it if so he is going to be more complicated and

the addition is like seventy thousand men armed men of the opposition in this province of libya so it's going to be more of a battle is going to be tough but i have to how much does president assad have to listen to russia and to a lesser extent here in the end if he wants to go and if he wants to roll if he wants to take the rest of his country is going to do it i think i think it's going to be much more difficult for him actually. not to listen to the russians why because he couldn't actually make any sort of major progress on the ground without the russian air force russian in force was crucial in this whole walk. and if he decides actually to take india without the consent of the russians it's going to be very very difficult for him to do that but i think there is a new element here believe it or not but chinese are still being in. and i

believe that china will be actually supporting him. in that but i'm for it white because that took the turkistan army islamic army is actually located in italy and most of them are from the u.k. or that the eastern took a stand governance in china so the chinese they are having this interest believe it or not actually supporting bashar assad in order to destroy the islamic army and take control of so it's a complicated moment problem pleasure is a western he's going to lose interest. now just a quick story i wanted to bring you before we hit the break it concerns a place called the newseum in washington d.c. this is a museum about news hence news a him. and i will say as a journalist and as a tourist it's fantastic i've been there a couple times it's a real tribute to what we do is journalist and to the people who sacrificed so much in the name of a free press which is why this story got

a lot of people upset particularly in the media it was flagged up by a point or a journalism teaching platform in the u.s. which found the newseum was selling maggette hats maggo make america great again and also this was the one which really riled people up t. shirts which said you very fake news obviously a play on the musings of president donald trump but that's what got people annoyed he calls the media fake news and incites abuse from his supporters and yet the newseum is promoting and profiting from that when the museum's director responded by saying as a nonpartizan organization people with differing viewpoints feel comfortable visiting the newseum and one of our greatest strength is that which champions not only of a free press but also of free speech q the outrage journalists in particular were not amused here's steve reilly a reporter for usa today who points out that at the same time as selling fake news t. shirts a memorial at the newseum pays tribute to two thousand three hundred twenty three

journalists who died reporting the news many of them at the hands of foreign regimes hostile to the press and justin fenton for the baltimore sun says sure the newseum can sell the tissues if it wants but it's the fact that it's and typical to the newseum mission that's the issue the baseball hall of fame doesn't sell baseball socks t. shirts which is a good point and well made and in fact a lot of other people pointed out that the newseum does have some financial problems at the moment and that just maybe it was putting profit over purpose anyway twenty four hours later and the newseum puts this tweet out might seen this one coming we have removed the us very fake news teach it from the gift shop on line we made a mistake and we apologize a free press is an essential part of our democracy and journalists are not the enemy of the people. so a predictable bank down perhaps but it does raise questions about what is quite acceptable or not and the newseum in an earlier statement called the t. shirts tongue in cheek a satirical rebuke of the phase the phrase fake news but then what about this last

year i bought a t. shirt from the newseum itself a tribute to donald trump's made up words. of which the meaning is unknown now to me this is amazing and even the white house has poked fun at the word in one of its social videos others though may think it's just making fun of the president to send me your thoughts on that one that kemal a j on twitter with the hash tag changed. far as a sports hit in just over a minute stronger looking at what's been one of the real cinderella stories of twenty i take it a bunch of amateur hockey players on the brink of becoming world champion it's first but look it's and it's mostly.

we're 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 the story we have a presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to give journalists to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global the policy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens there matters. is what you are abducted and forced into sexual slavery by the japanese imperial army. to the so-called comfort women of the second world war decades have passed but the trauma lives on. witness on is the story of the women who campaigned with unwavering resolve for an official

apology for this appalling chapter in history. the apology on al-jazeera. bar is here to talk sports not often we talk about hockey and our other hockey the other only one hockey and the one that canadians are not very good for a story that has been grabbing people's attention on social media is the women's hockey world cup final it's taking place as we speak ireland against all odds made it through to their first ever final by beating spain three to win shootouts. to underscore the far shuffle. of the irish side is made up

entirely of amateur players who have to pay to represent their country they've never been to an olympics and last qualify for a world cup sixteen years ago sixteen ranked team now play world number one side the netherlands in the final after they beat australia the players showing their emotions as they interrupted the post match interview winning goal scored jillian pender. each player on this team had to pay around six hundred and thirty dollars just to participate at the world cup and here's what some of the reaction has been on social media beltin the irish girls who self funded their way to the hockey world cop who didn't book their hotel rooms through today because they assume they were going home who went into the tournaments ranks second from the bottom or playing in the final right now or journalist philip o'connor says irish women sport does so much was so little and when they win it engages the whole nation match they

don't have to beg for the crumbs from the table all the time and mark tweeted so there are many things rubbish about twenty eighteen but one thing that is awesome is that at last we're talking sports taking sport seriously when it's played by women and ireland let's fund it properly or earlier we spoke to hockey writer steven finn later who says the fact that ireland have got this far is already a triumph. it's a mixture of going to students and people who are working full time either complete lawyers doctors and kind of engineers and things like but in the science so they are all doing this on top of their their day jobs and things of that and when they're in the group all three of the other teams they played against india usa and the england were all full time professional program so it's it's really really huge up to two years ago they actually have not paid to play for their country they pay five hundred fifty euro into the program so they can get extra tours and extra things like that so you know like it's a real fairytale thing that they're managed to do this on top of their their other

commitments and going into the competition pretty much that they were just going to be happy if they're going to the group then they go through with one which was completely beyond the realms of kind of the expectation and things that they have a huge amount of them in and near misses in kind of coming up to about like two thousand and fifteen minister and the olympic spirit by the can with the post and you know they had a lot of these kind of hard hard luck stories going on the trail of the last fifteen minutes of games now that they have there's a lot more mental strength a bit of football now and one player that divides opinion among fans on social media is gareth bale with chris trying to win out are now gone for real madrid there's huge expectations for the welsh forward to fill his shoes and it seems just like he's doing now to be able scored a stunner in a pre-season friendly with eventis that's the time when all the left are out to play for raul winning this game three one the right one all the didn't play on saturday as he continues his post world cup break. by what do you fans think well

an overwhelming majority of people who voted in this poll by leading football website goal think they will play better now that we're naldo is gone but there are plenty of course plenty of other opinions the fan tweeting major trends really think bale will stay fit the entire season and we're place we're naldo that's like girls who believe in prince charming it's not real. so let us know what you think you can tweet me directly at. and we'll be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now practical thanks so much for that just a note on how to contact us we always have the details here for the you but that number there that what's that number if you want to send us a video or to the story in bangladesh go ahead to really help us tell a story and we would appreciate it see you right back here tomorrow.

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bangladesh warns students it will crack down on protests over road safety even as promises to tackle dangerous driving. live from london also coming up. colombia dismisses accusations by venezuela's nicolas maduro that its president was behind an alleged attempt to assassinate him using explosive drones.