people saudi arabia has denied reports it cut secret deals with al qaeda in yemen and that comes after the associated press of the kingdom paid fighters to leave some cities and towns its report also said hundreds of al qaeda members were allowed to keep their weapons and recruited to join the coalition the saudi relations been fighting the war in yemen for more than three years now israeli tank fire in the gaza strip has killed two members of hamas and wounded others those killed were reportedly members of the al qassam brigades the military wing of hamas the israeli army says it retaliated against gunfire aimed at its troops under simmons's in gaza with more. the attack took place in the north of the gaza strip on a watchtower man but they all could sprigg aid which is the military wing of hamas now military spokesman for israel has posted a video on twitter which shows he says fire coming from that watch tower in response a tank also opened fire and it was

a direct hit and i says two of their fighters are dead two twenty three year olds and six people were injured now how mouse has made no reference to any preemptive action it has to be said but this does cause concern about possible retaliation from the hamas military wing there is a flurry of activity to activity politically right now because the talks over a long term cease fire are to critical stage with israel mentioning no would really about its response but clearly it seems amyas are not entirely happy they've said that they want a full lifting of the blockade of gaza and there has been no further word on that but too early to tell whether there is disruption of the talks at all there is always a question of posturing on both sides and it would appear that egypt will definitely be intervening right now to make sure there is no further action on either side

they will certainly attempt to do so last time there was an attack there was a threat from hamas that they would retaliate that didn't happen it was clearly the egyptians who intervened to keep things calm rescue teams in indonesia have yet to make it to some parts of the indonesian island of lombok as the search goes on for survivors from sunday's earthquake at least twenty thousand people have had their homes destroyed all badly damaged badly damaged roads and bridges will be immune is proving difficult for emergency crews to get around the magnitude six point nine quake has left nearly one hundred people dead but many more if you're trapped under rubble start vasant has more now from penang on long island. added stop right now it's a big store where a couple was a very odd that the rubble that was the wife is already it's on safer ground but let me show you what they're doing right now because you can see that the rescue workers don't really have the appropriate weapon to do it is rescue missions you

can see that they're basically taking with their bare hands they're using some kind of sticks they're using a drill but they don't really have any like really fear your ip a weapon that only probably make up that available on the island and the u.s. house where right now there's another a mosque where around twenty people seem to have been buried trapped on the rubble that's also where this man who was rescued yesterday that's where there have the equipment is abstract now but here it's just a manual basically and from the smile the location where i am now we can actually come close that probably not alive anymore. human rights groups are demanding the release of journalists arrested for covering student protests in bangladesh photographer and journalist. was detained off to an interview with al-jazeera his family says he's been tortured human rights watch wants the government to investigate reports that he was beaten in jail students have been demonstrating for monday's know for tougher traffic laws tumbi

a child is in dhaka. the capital city sense to be superficially calm down parties are in control right now there is no reports of new clashes compared to the bloody monday yesterday where at least forty students were injured today our around noon time in various places journalist made rallies and had a protest gathering over here we were standing there main demand was the government to bring those to justice who attacked them targeted only in recent days when they were covering the protests rallies they get the government seventy two hours ultimatum to bring the people to justice and we also know a prominent photographer and social activist. was arrested and produced and quote yesterday he himself told the court that he was tortured while in david custody but instead of giving him bail or sending him to jail the court allowed the debate to take him back for five of their interrogation this is a major concern here for the media community generally has been harassed and

attacked targeted lee as well as those who are in custody been tortured now the u.n. u.s. based human rights watch and amnesty international has hours of the government to release showed as quickly now we also know that situation could father escalate in a very tense political economic bangladesh facing general election end of the year so the students could possibly come out again to protest not against traffic but attacks against their fellow students in recent days still to come here on al jazeera and of the peace in the middle you see and corruption scandal is seen to run spankers the form of d.m. is summoned back to court. this is the people these are. the talk show host who counts president trump as a fan is banned from several social media platform.

hello there across the northern parts of asia there's been some very wet weather recently we look at the satellite picture we can see these little areas of cloud that then really bloomed and gave us some very heavy downpours for the northeastern parts of china and across the border in north korea we did see some disruption out of this thanks to the heaviness of the rain and we've also got this little swell here this is all typhoon that's running its way towards japan don't think it will reach us by round lunchtime local time wednesday but it'll be in the evening and overnight into thursday when it gets very very close to tokyo we're not expecting a direct hit we think it's just going to nudge of little bit further towards the east but certainly iran nine pm is where we're expecting the worst of the winds and the heaviest of the rains and then later on thursday it will begin to pull away towards the northeast a bit further towards the south a for many of us here there's

a good deal of dry weather around at the moment shanghai up thirty five degrees maybe getting to the thirty six as we head into thursday but still staying dry the way to weather it down towards the southwest and we're also seeing some heavy rains across parts of the philippines at the moment here force in luzon really is very very soggy it's a bit different towards the south are many of us in borneo it's fine and dry as it is across many parts of java and into bali to. a survivor of the genocide there are people who beg me to kill them when they're suffering but i didn't have the heart has dedicated his life to searching the woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. in the future is to go. you know finally laying the pass to rest and giving peace to the victims' families because in egypt if i could just find a think i could bury him bone hunter on al-jazeera.

but come back these are your top stories so far this half hour new american sanctions on iran have now come into effect exactly three months after washington pulled out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal with tehran they target the iranian car industry food production and car protect sports and they are likely to further weaken its currency that the e.u. which is also a part of the twenty fifteen deal has called on its companies to increase trade with iran. saudi arabia state airline is suspending flights to toronto in an intensifying diplomatic row with canada on monday riyadh froze new trade and

investment and expelled the canadian ambassador that was in retaliation to canada urging saudi arabia to freeze human rights activists. and in indonesia rescue workers are still facing difficulties to reach some of the areas worst hit by sunday's magnitude six point nine earthquake two people have been pulled out of the rubble alive but many of you are trapped under collapsed buildings every one hundred people have been killed and at least twenty thousand people are now homeless. lazy is anti corruption agency says the former prime minister najib razak will be charged under the money laundering act when he appears in court on weapons day this comes as a luxury yacht at the heart of the country's biggest ever corruption scandal arrived back in the country after being seized in indonesian waters the two hundred fifty million dollars boat was allegedly bought with money stolen from a state fund not cheap set up in two thousand and nine florence lu is in kuala lumpur florence we expecting to see

a fresh round of charges here. that's right this is what the malaysian anti corruption agency has confirmed in a statement issued just of while ago now it said it's going to be charging mr not with additional charges including on the anti money laundering act now already faces several charges for crim no breach of trust for abuse of power and this is all in relation to allegations that he misappropriated ten million dollars from a state company known as s r c international now not chip is also alleged to have stolen four and a half billion dollars together with his associates from a state investment fund that he it set up known as one and b. and the luxury your that you mention is somehow caught up in this whole corruption scandal this york is also part of a u.s. department of justice and secret talk o.c. investigation part of a civil forfeiture action to recover assets that are believed to have been stolen

and do that believed to have been bought with money stolen from one empty now this vessel is registered to an entity in the cayman islands but it's all to meet and rail on is believed to be a malaysian citizen a fugitive by the name of low take joe this man has a warrant of arrest out for him he has not held any positions in government in the previous administration but he is believed to be the real mastermind behind the complex and sophisticated plan to steal billions of dollars from one n.d.b. how much control does he have over the fund. well that's really hard to say because he wasn't you know his name was and he didn't appear he wasn't an officer in the in the fund but he was believed to have really strong ties close connections with family members of not just of people that not your browser trusted so he knew not. quite well and they had connections so but it really we don't know

it's the malaysian government is still trying to unravel just this how complex this whole relationship between government officials between between low take joe really was now and then also not just looking into the assets that were. the assets that are believed to have been bought with money stolen from one m.t.v. they're also looking at other government projects that may have links to one and now they've recently announced the suspension off contracts involving chinese companies and government officials have said they believe that some of this money may have been used to pay off debts old by one m. d. and the government has also just recently announced the closure of a saudi arabia backed center that was set up to combat extremism this was a center that was set up just last year after the saudi arabian king visited the country and the government has announced a reason for the closure but saudi arabia had very close ties with the previous

administration led by former prime minister. and in fact when it was found out that seven hundred million dollars deposited into his personal bank account not just said that money was a donation from the saudi royal family. thank you. venezuela's president says the outgoing leader of colombia was behind an apparent assassination attempt against him to drones were apparently launched towards a public event when nicholas my daughter was speaking the venezuelan government says they were armed with missiles has been its myth that. there were flags posters and t. shirts showing venezuela's president but the man himself was a no show at a pro-government rally in caracas the few hundred supporters are gathered less than forty eight hours after nicolas maduro had been targeted by what the military says were missile laden drones speaking from the presidential palace but dora repeated his accusation that colombia's president was behind the assassination attempt on

the son of one the oil santos has said he said the end of his base in the field said by one man with sandals who some member of the killer colombian or leader keith what can you expect moros hosting an outdoor rally for the national guard when according to security forces two drones will launch towards the stage in that says warm fell on to an apartment building the other was diverted according to the government. colombia's president dismissed allegations he was involved in the attack is story good and i am really going on there are accusations that i am with a venezuelan right wing plotting to assassinate the president of venezuela by god i said to the president of venezuela that on thursday i was on much more important things i was baptizing my granddaughter. venezuela's economy is collapsing with most of the population enduring widespread food and

medicine shortages president maduro says right wing plotters in the us and columbia a trying to bring him down bernard smith al-jazeera. the former business partner of paul man of forty is testifying in court that he committed crimes with him rick gates says he stole money from donald trump's former aide and helped him to file false tax returns charges against paul men of war to include money laundering and making false statements about lobbying for pro russia party in ukraine the u.s. special counsel robert muller charged him as part of a probe into alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election she had pretends he has more now from outside the court in alexandria virginia. brigade's was unequivocal he for he said knowingly conspired to deceive the us government falsely underreporting the amount of income paul amount of force was receiving and not declaring several foreign bank accounts all of that illegal however gates also

had to admit that he was embezzling money from pomona for hundreds of thousands of dollars from those foreign bank accounts and that's key to the defense they say this is an unreliable man a man doing what he can to save his own skin and he is being pressured in order to say what the special counsel robert moore no one sympathetic to indict to indict paul mount a for to get him out of fort to begin cooperating with the special counsel on russia. some social media platforms in the u.s. have banned a talk show host for promoting hate speech the info wars host he's called an extra and has a huge online audience and pushes many conspiracy theories including a claim that the sandy hook school massacre in connecticut was a staged event alan fisher has the details this is their plan people these are. we as a national radio show more than two million you tube prescribe and a website called in florida that's made him a wealthy man but alex jones is facing an increasing number of platforms who will

no longer publish his content in the last few days he's been removed from i tunes and the also you chip with his video rants wreck up millions of hits first demonize him for wars lie about a spilled straw man then sue us to add credibility to that then have a few fake strikes on you tube and facebook with nebulous terms like bullying children and islamophobia jones is a controversial figure he claims the sandy hook school massacre was staged by crisis actors as a way to change gun laws in the u.s. one of the families is no suing him for libel the first hearings in the case have been held in his texas be. he believes the nine eleven attacks were organized in cali don't buy the. yes government and the government kills people by controlling the weather under president donald trump is a fan he appeared on his radio show saying his reputation was amazing and he wouldn't let him down on a pioneer i don't explore other human and this one analyst rejects

the idea joins is removal of freedom of speech implications first amendment does not give you a right to have a presence on a website persimmon only limits governments from censoring you so what facebook and twitter are doing is not censorship it's private companies making decisions just like newspapers have always made decisions about who they will bring to their apple has dropped his podcasts as have other online streaming services facebook removed four pages linked to his in four wars website in a statement the company says upon review we've taken it down for glorifying violence and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are trying to gender muslims and immigrants which violates or hate speech policies in his recent child custody case joins us lawyer insisted he was simply playing a character and though he'd be doing that to a much smaller audience on fewer platforms. alan fischer al-jazeera washington.

welcome is just joining us you're watching al-jazeera your headlines new us sanctions on iran have come into force exactly three months after washington pulled out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with tehran they target the iranian car industry food production and carpet exports and elected to further weaken the iranian currency but the e.u. which is also part of the twenty fifteen deal has called on its companies to increase trade with iran. we are encouraging small and medium enterprises in particular to increase business with in iran. as part of something that for us is a security priority i want to make this very clear because we're talking about trade and economic relations with iran because this is part integral part of the

nuclear deal so the arabia's state airline is suspending flights to toronto in an escalating diplomatic row with canada on monday for new trade and investment and expelled the canadian ambassador that was in retaliation to canada urging saudi arabia to free human rights activists israeli tank fire in the gaza strip has killed two members of hamas and wounded others those killed were reportedly members of the al qassam brigades the military wing of hamas because really army says it's retaliated against gunfire aimed at his troops. saudi arabia has denied reports it cut secret deals with al qaeda in yemen it's after the associated press that the kingdom paid fighters to leave some cities and towns his report also said hundreds of al qaeda members were allowed to keep their weapons and recruited to join the coalition the saudi coalition has been fighting the war in yemen for more than three years. in indonesia rescue workers are still facing difficulties to reach

some of the areas worst hit by sunday's magnitude six point nine earthquake two people have been pulled out of the rubble alive but many are still feared trapped under collapsed buildings nearly one hundred people have been killed and at least twenty thousand people are now homeless malaysia's anti corruption agency says the former prime minister najib ryans razzak will be charged under the money laundering act when he appears in court on weapons day this comes as a yacht at the heart of the country's biggest ever corruption scandal arrived back in the country after being seized in indonesia those are your headlines the news continues after inside story i'll see you tomorrow bye bye for now.

is peace possible in south sudan they fought for independence from sudan and when they got it government forces and rival rebels bored with each other for years now another power sharing deal has been signed but will it hold this time this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program my mama june the warring leaders in south sudan are giving peace another chance but is the agreement signed on sunday in sudan finally the one which will in five years of civil war many ceasefire deals have been signed then collapsed within hours and the fighting which is kill tens of thousands and up rooted millions didn't stop now a second power sharing agreement has been struck between president salva kiir and

rebel leader rick machar the president says he's confident this one won't collapse we'll get to our guest shortly but first here's what morgan has more. another agreement signed between south sudan's government and opposition groups and renewed hopes of ending five years of war this time regional countries brokered more than a month of direct discussions in the sudanese capital khartoum between the leaders of the worrying signs. the civil war started less than three years after south sudan gained independence from sudan in twenty eleven president salva kiir accused his former vice president riek machar of attempting a coup since then tens of thousands have been killed and a third of the tell when he and population forced from their homes the latest agreement gives an eight month period after which you rick machar is due to return as face president the deal stipulates thirty five ministers in a transitional government twenty from cuba's party and nine from much ours the rest

represent of the pie. parliament will have five hundred fifty legislators including three hundred thirty two from peers group and one hundred twenty eight from my chars opposition leader rick machar says the latest deal will bring peace a power sharing deal science three years ago so much i returned to his position months later only for fighting to soon restart some such as florio are also what's happened then are cautiously optimistic now. we're one of those again when the two thousand and sixteen fighting happened to be we're trapped so much has changed since the war my sister lost a husband and we also lost another relative we couldn't do anything we just had at home now we just one piece. around six million south sudanese rely on foreign aid to survive with the economy devastated by were many are hanging their hopes on this agreement he will morgan al-jazeera.

already just over seventy years old south sudan is the world's youngest country again in the pendants from sudan following a referendum in two thousand and eleven a political dispute two years later between president salva kiir and his vice president riek machar turned into war a cease fire agreement was reached in two thousand and fourteen but it didn't hold for long peace talks and deals all failed the first power sharing peace agreement was signed in two thousand and fifteen which saw the return of much charas first vice president the deal collapsed within a year fighting resumed in the capital juba and much are fled the country. all right we'd like to stress that this program made several attempts to invite a spokesman for the south sudanese government on the program today but nobody was available to speak to us so let's bring in our panel for the show joining us via skype from nairobi researcher at the institute for security studies office in kenya in washington d.c. allie verjee visiting researcher at the united states institute of peace and in

london i met sally mann a researcher in the africa program at chatham house welcome to you all now ali i want to start with you sunday's deal is just the latest cease fire it's the latest power sharing agreement what makes it different this time any hope that it will last i think it's first important to know that this isn't the final deal even though it's been reported that way there will still be subsequent negotiations on security masses the second point to make is that this deal does not repeal the earlier twenty fifteen peace agreement that you mentioned earlier that is still in effect but it's not clear what exactly will be implemented and what will be implemented from this agreement and how one selects between those things the third is that it sets a very long time table for actual implementation and so in these eight months that are being talked about a lot could happen a lot could change there is also a limitation because not everyone who's fighting has been involved in the process

in khartoum and not everyone who signed yesterday appears to be fully representative of their own parties as well so we can expect over the next few days to see various statements perhaps some denunciations of the agreement there's still a long way to go before this agreement lead south sudan to peace there let me ask you many observers are saying that the structure of this agreement thus far looks very similar to the accord that was signed in two thousand sixteen and those they are worried that it's going to collapse what do you think. don't say that it's not . different this time because of the community of the regional governments the commitment of the parties themselves because there is a lot of. a lot of. optimism from the groups. and it's not good to us the main groups that is. of course one of the groups

that cannot be not and could cause serious problems as manically yes just not it but i think that bolton is to the involvement of the entire region remember that this is him it was sound in was negotiated in almost all of that debris a little slope made c.d.'s of these vigilant so that makes it a little bit different from the rest or blow it is to see in letter and and speech governments i mean you heard there there just talk about regional involvement certainly. you know neighbors of south sudan far more involved in this deal than they have been other deals do you think that that is going to help this out more this time. well i think the neighboring countries countries are the negative always been extremely important to the gad peace process do you mean what seems to said this current peace deal apart is that you have largely sudan

and uganda leading the process and this process has been taken in the khartoum process so it's essentially the leverage that the sudanese government provides on the parties who are signing as well as ugandan government which has been a strong supporter of president kay's sidney's government during that this period that we'll see if if the deal can be one that last someone holds and of course what we do know is that there are important economic incentives so both parties. economic crisis of course in south sudan but there's also one in sudan on the promise that some of the oil. fields in the state largely will be re constituted and and start producing oil again to feed into that the economies of

sudan and south sudan is an important part of this this deal what we don't know for example is how that oil money is going to be spent what the oversight over that kind of financing is going to be whether or not it's going to go when it goes into an escrow account whether or not the international community will have any of that so there are lots of areas of this deal where potentially it could be a success because of the high level engagement of the region but also perhaps it could fall short because it's airing gauge. ali you just heard ahmed talk about you know the issue of oil and you know the ink was barely dry on the signing of this accord before president of sudan omar bashir was talking about the fact that he foresaw that oil would be flowing from south sudan starting in september first of all i want to ask you do you think that's realistic and secondly sudan of course has been accused of meddling you know in the war in south sudan in the conflict so

can they be trusted as a guarantor of a peace deal. well of course there is already oil flowing there has been oil flowing continually there are two main areas just referred to the unity the other area of oil production was largely unaffected by the conflict and so the hope would be that in this short time you could somehow rehabilitate the damaged oil fields and turn up production in that respect i think that's actually going to take much longer than anybody has indicated whether the various oil ministers or indeed president bashir so any immediate impact in terms of oil revenue will will take much longer of course oil prices are rising generally and that may increase revenue to both south sudan and sudan in that respect there is a long history between sudan and south sudan which makes their relationship fraught because of the border because of water because of oil because of the migration of

people the idea that sudan is somehow a neutral mediator think we all can agree that that isn't the case but that doesn't mean that sudan can't necessarily be forced to influence a process more positively i think there are two limitations one is that sudan's own interests can't really be separated from the possibility that it isn't a neutral or isn't a trusted mediator let's say between all of the south sudanese elements inside the country certainly there is a degree of what so sudanese interests more than anything else but also this idea that there is a way to compel compliance is something that is extremely difficult so if the government of south sudan or the new government of south sudan doesn't live up to certain elements of the deal what can the sudanese do about it part of the problem of the peace process is that the compliance the mechanism for enforcement oversight whatever you want to call it doesn't necessarily lead to concrete actions we see

that now with violations of the cease fire for example where. having violations documented by the regional monitors from these same countries and yet there's very little action or consequences as a result of those violations so the deal itself has the same limitation as the same problem i don't see how the sudanese can do anything different in that respect on the basis of the current framework though the civil war in south sudan has been very complicated from the start it's been fueled by by personal and ethnic rivalries i want to ask you what role does tribalism play in this conflict. is it please the second row that you just played in seven or african countries where no new example of my own country kenya. even to the stage of independence you see how are those. ethnic interests coming to collect coming to play in

a lot of issues that are being discussed at the national level so when you have elections there you can see that coming up so when you look at. death you're going to see that when it comes to did a vision of resources because this is a country that is just beginning to rebuild and each one of those ethnic groups is going to want to get a good share of the cake and. a thief that if that is not carefully planned and carefully done it is likely to of course a lot of problems the other cases that. it could only. get it to the economy issues they also their political issues their division of political pieces that he vision of boyton in-situ governance those

also believe portends and that we be looked at very very critical by that but is that involved do you want to see how many of their people are william deputy shows and lead us in presenting those governments in the government and you now did but mentor and ministries of the government so for.