and rubber coated bullets observers say the government of prime minister sharon is concerned the protests could become larger and he's using tactics it's used before . i just got back from bangladesh and my impression is. this government is behaving in a way that bangladeshi governments are very used to behaving in terms of this and they just see people selling dissent even though they're young and what they're protesting in way beyond any kind of party political issue they haven't been able to show anything other than the usual way of responding which has been a lot before. it all began ten days ago after a speeding bus killed two teenagers in late july shooting demonstrators took to the streets calling for tougher law enforcement of bangladeshi road traffic the government says it's going to introduce the death penalty for some road traffic accidents. human rights groups have weighed in as the government crackdown has

spread to arresting journalists shuttle islam a photographer who was arrested sunday after appearing on al-jazeera and criticizing the government human rights watch runs an investigation into allegations he was beaten in jail after these pictures emerged of him in court and also saying ruling party workers attacked protesters. the government's deny the allegations that its activists were involved bangladesh's government has been accused of arresting thousands of opposition activists in recent years there's widespread anger about that on the road deaths on social media the government has responded by restricting internet access imran khan says it. colombia's new president is due to be inaugurated in the next hour i've indicated the youngest colombian needed to be elected in a popular vote faces a number of challenges including shoring up an increasingly shaky peace process diffusing tensions within his whaler carbon cocaine production let's go live to manuel reply was there manuel so that's a pretty long to do list there what's his biggest focus going to be.

where we are right know in bogota there is a crowd gathering behind me these are all people who have said that they are the one thing they have in common is they're all opposed to the new government a president even ducat these are people who are members of the ultra be t.q. community women's movement activists human rights activists people who say that they feel marginalized they don't feel represented by the government of president but the president is going to be faced with quite a few challenges a whole list that you already mentioned whether it be venezuela whether it be illicit crop production we were in southwestern colombia just yesterday we visited a field where. illicit crops are being grown and farmers are worried about the eradication efforts this hard line that the new government is taking toward toward you lissa crops and a lot of that is based on on pressure from the united states but the reason we've

seen such a high spike in alissa production of marijuana illicit production of coca which is the raw material for the production of cocaine is that it is the foreign peace deal three years ago. it gave rise to to these other group. whether they'd be dissenters from the far corner or new armed groups that are trying to fight over control of the territory where these illicit crops are being held so this is one of the big challenges facing the incoming in his administration the other of course is the question of venezuela we know for instance the president has said that he's not going to be appointing an ambassador to venezuela signaling that the diplomatic relations between the two countries are practically non existent and we're seeing an influx of everywhere anywhere from a thousand to two thousand venezuelan refugees coming into colombia almost on a daily basis so there is a whole slew of issues that are going to be front and center for president coming

into his administration and manuel to other high expectations if i can put it like that from such a young president i mean why do people depart from the norm and those who man. i think there are high expectations and one person that i spoke to yesterday said something that was quite poignant to me. despite the fact that this was a runoff election and that there is still quite a bit of support for for. who was the the candidate the last of the election this gentleman said to me that there is a tense optimism about what's happening here people see this new this new president coming in as a fresh young different face for columbia something different something that could bring something new but in terms of certain policies whether it be narco trafficking it's policies that perpetuate a lot of what we've seen so we're getting a lot of mixed reactions kind of a symbol of the division that still exists here in colombia. and level because the

line from over time i'm not saying to you. well you're watching the news hour here from london and there's much more to come on the program on to zero as a given rare access to the detention center where teenagers who once worked for eisel are learning to turn their lives around mexico's new president long. his national forum is to try and stop the country's spiraling drug violence and hussein bold says his ambitions to become a professional footballer are still on track holds here with that story later in sports. while the diplomatic dispute between saudi arabia and canada over human rights is deepening among the saudi arabia for all new business with canada and education agreements to the immediate losers will be more than fifteen thousand saudi studying in canada they've been ordered to leave along with their families were

going home could get slightly more difficult though saudi arabia's national carrier says its counseling is for weekly return flights between jet and toronto it's unclear how the saudi ban on new trade with canada will affect existing trade worth about four billion dollars namely oil from saudi arabia with vehicles and defense equipment going the other way well there's also a big question mark over a thirteen billion dollar defense contract signed back in twenty fourteen under which canada is to supply nine hundred armored vehicles to saudi arabia but saudi arabia is only canada's twentieth biggest trading partner with the ghost emetic product of more than one and a half trillion dollars for canada almost seven hundred billion for saudi arabia the loss of trade wouldn't make too much dead in either economy or kristen salumi has more night front to wrong too. canada is not backing down from this fight foreign minister christian freeland says that the country will continue to stand for human rights including women's rights and freedom of expression the tweet that

led to canada's and bassett are being sent home had to do with samar but the sister of activists raised but dowie now both of them are in prison in saudi arabia race but tao his wife is now a canadian citizen so this is a story that canadians are very familiar with in fact prime minister justin trudeau has been under pressure to sever military contracts with saudi arabia because of their human rights record interesting lee not clear how those contracts will be affected going forward because of the demand from saudi arabia that future business ties be cut we know there will be an impact from this decision economically for canada flights from saudi arabia into toronto will stop on august thirteenth students that attend university here in canada from saudi arabia have been called back home the government will stop paying their tuition that's estimated to be

about fifteen thousand people so that's millions of dollars in lost facing canadian universities but again the canadian say that this is the right thing to do and they're not going to change their position. well bill lost the director of gulf matzos which provides analysis and journalism from the gulf states he joins me now via skype from on the table a very warm welcome sir to the pool graham so what side is it key using canada all by sending this tweet. well basically their view is that kind of is for infringing on saudi solar energy but it's. showing a huge amount of disrespect to the saudi judicial system that in fact canada has no right to raise any issues concerning human rights abuses in south. the arabia this is very curious because canada in the past as the united kingdom as america have frequently made criticisms of the saudi human rights record which is abysmal

so from the saudi perspective it's almost a less a measure say how dare you criticize us it's quite an extraordinary way in which is an unfolded very quickly in a very high handed imprint tree manner for me it has all the markings of mountains all monster rather brash and rather arrogant handling of pretty much all of saudi arabia's foreign affairs he's not very skillful at this and i think many canadians and indeed the canadian government are just perplexed at why this is the rock did so quickly and in the manner in which the saudis have have really gone after the canada think about fifteen thousand students being suddenly told to go home and the point was made that they won't be able to fly in saudi airlines because the flights been canceled this is all well over the top in my opinion and bill i think what makes it perhaps more curious is is that that the sam taking it is all about

pushing this new agenda at least outwardly anyway of all of being more moderate and pushing that image for the country so so what do you. think is the real wesen behind what i think a lot of people i think he's quite an extreme reaction. well i think that the saudis decided that they are getting fed up with being criticised constantly on the human rights front they decided to go after canada i think they've made a mistake though the canadians are. were very polite were very friendly are also very determined and on the issue of human rights kind of has been absolutely crystal clear they will continue to defend human rights issues and the fact of the matter is that some of it doll weight is a sister in law of the wife of. richard already and so haidar and so she's and she's a canadian citizen so canada has a stake in this nato stake in defending the human rights issues that. are before

them i think that this is another mistake but. if you said can someone on say i think it's one hundred some on who effectively runs the country this is another mistake by him after all you think that he announced the war in yemen it was going to be finished in three weeks so four weeks four years later it's still going on you launch this attack on qatar expecting it to be over in a few days it's going on a year later qatar has adequately defended its over and the accusation that canada by making this treatise threatening saudi sovereignity is risible it really is and also the fact that the saudis are saying they will interfere in canadian domestic affairs if the canadians don't stop criticizing the human rights on the human rights issue that too is its logic bomb i think it makes mountains on mon and the saudis look look a bit of a fool on the international stage they shouldn't

a pick this fight it's all that they've chosen to do it now why they've done it perhaps they thought they could send a message they go after canada and then other countries cross who tone down their criticism it's not going to happen the law joining me there. thank you. mexico's new president is launching several national forums concerning pacification and reconciliation that will allow people affected by the country's drug violence as well as business people local government and gang prisoners themselves to discuss how to tackle the problem the country is experiencing is most violent year on record with a first time to host a forum is c. with dad water is from where john holeman joins me now hi there john so this is a whole new approach. yes certainly is the incoming government is trying to change things well from what was quite a full frontal strategy trying to combat organized crime with the army with the military and with police to one that keeps parts of that but is

a lot softer that's trying to create more opportunities for the poor mets cryptically that could get drawn into organized crime and they say that their own person to civil society defining that strategy and that's why they're in eighteen of these sort of town hall style meetings across the country we hid inside out quarters which is really been emblematic of the violence across the country and we're in a newspaper called the audio that's really been chronicling that for more than a decade with sandra rodriguez who's a journalist here who's who's all from also an author of books about violence and impunity sounds about the new government or the incoming government strategy what do you think about it we are kind of hopeful because of this you know you have pro-choice. that he's. been missing there are enough there full frontal confrontation the has being so bloody and violent and we are church that.

the separation of the last ten years has just been cosima more and more balance this is that very good stacked actually i support this new government because of that offer. there is a lot of things that has to be done there damage she's very deep there is a lot of victims and i know of people disappearing and i feel p.r. need to you know they don't so that's that. sites of the charities and especially here in florida is it's really borne the brunt of impunity there's a lot of victims that we saw at the town hall meeting what do you think has to happen for them also it's being clue did and to believe that some sort of change could happen justice to keep the answer to all of this mess is just that the people who are obese hope meeting asking for justice. prosecution of the people that killed their relatives etc and i think that's the only way to send

a message that you cannot kill and get along with your crime and has seen so many tears get so many killings in so high levels of impunity like in this city like ninety seven percent of the cancer mean unsolved in their mess as if you can kill and nothing happened so really as you can see from what sandra said there really there is a vast job on the hands of the incoming government they've talked about an amnesty which has been very controversial for those in the lowest rungs of organized crime to try and or try and offer them a way out but of course there's a thousands of disappeared in this country there's thousands of victims and their families are also going to be asking for justice for their police if they're around to be found and some sort of resolution to something that's been going on for more than a decade here in mexico so hold on there live from cedar. stay

with us on the news hour still to come on the program as a bubble in court bills dozens of opposition supporters accused of taking part in post-election violence bus i'm joined now in georgia that's the breakaway region of south over there ten years after its war with russia this is a country still in the grip of a frozen conflict and we'll hear from the cricketer who's progressed from the school field to the international arena inside two years that's coming up a bit later in sports. hello there we're still seeing plenty of wet weather across the black sea and the caspian sea we look at the satellite picture we can see a great deal of cloud just a few bits and pieces of gray cloud that's indicating that most of the cloud here is low cloud but it's still giving us some rather violent storms so a few showers during the day on wednesday but i think it's looking wet if the

thursday some of us here particularly in the northern parts of turkey are looking at some very heavy rain that could be accompanied by some gusty winds as well for the northern parts of iran there's a risk of a shower here but i think for thursday it should be a bit drier towards the south it's just hot for us now baghdad forty five degrees here in doha it's not been too humid over the last few days and our temperatures will get to around forty one degrees on wednesday and again not meet the winds coming down from the northwest thursday will bring a change though the winds this time will be drawn in from the east amount will bring in more humidity so it will feel very sticky along the south coast of oman and into yemen there be a good deal of cloud here that could give us a few spots of drizzle at times down towards the southern parts of africa and here it's generally fine at the moment but it's changing as we head into thursday we've got this developing system here that's going to give us some heavy rain and some snow over the mountains as well so expect a wet one here. to

train and equip the opposition in syria so they can help push back these terrorists people in power investigates how the us supplies soviet style weapons to its allies through private companies the us government could wash their hands and say well we didn't know where it was coming from so weapon that was supplied by the us government may well end off being pointed at us soldiers we pick it up listening to the professional america's secret pipeline to syria on al-jazeera. full of struggles at the mouth but i mean on them when they're there without the same human guinea full of pleasure may go and make. me funny and it was only having an intimate look at life in cuba today if you go to rome and i don't know what again today doesn't move again and so it has i don't know what are the new my leave. my cuba on al-jazeera.

all lying to all the top stories here on al-jazeera iran's foreign minister has been holding talks with his north korean counterpart hours after new u.s. sanctions came into force china russia and the e.u. have all criticized the u.s. . columbia's new president is due to be no greater than the next hour ivan duke is the youngest colombian needed to be elected in a popular vote. a diplomatic dispute between saudi arabia and canada with human rights is escalating the kingdom's national carrier counseling is flights between

jeddah and to rome to. zimbabwe in court has built twenty seven opposition supporters accused of post-election violence six people were killed last week when soldiers opened fire on opposition supporters in harare. is in the capital. the police say all those who were released on bail were arrested last week when they took to the streets protesting. saying it was a protest where the ruling family can't poteet. elections they say these people will file and they can use them of building tires and trying to burned out buildings the police say they could be called that's why they call it the army but boy it's a visit that was disappointing to say the tajik with a politically motivated. charge and committed to a vigorous i lay to the. meeting we can use the state which we also highlighted during all submissions we have no doubt that these people are going to

be vindicated these people are going to be acquitted in fact it is the worst of the states that is true even for securing these people the police say six people died last week some of them was shot into not succumbing to has condemned the violence but they say they're walking the fact that president elect i'm assuming that he's going to set up a commission of inquiry to look into what happened to try and find out who's to blame for the violence and the dates for most of bobbins it is about economy big know that these elections if there aren't endorsed by the international community it could mean the country won't be able to reengage with other parts of the world nearly two decades of international isolation they want jobs they want immigrants to come to zimbabwe some of them fear the violence they saw last week could have scared some people. human rights watch says zimbabwe's security forces and identified gunmen have been beating up and harassing dozens of people in a crackdown on the the opposition following last week's election well to more about this we're joined by my associate and africans are human rights watch very warm

welcome to the program and tell us more about your report. i mean we're kind of. underground in harare but the last few weeks before the election and during the election and the post-election period. all of this period we have been documented in a balanced. opposition party members by individuals identified as a supporter of the who are doing. as well as obviously you know i dented flight soldiers police and other informed men who are going to hold sort of be interviewed who are also. operating or or being that were in place is all of the shells of the opposition movement for democratic change alliance in many of these cases those who were not actual

connected whether they were relatives or just neighborhood or people will happen to be in the wrong please at the time that these either uniformed men or going to fight men came into the premise is were beaten brutally some of their who are also abducted from or in at least one case they were to came to a local police station in harare so clearly you know what the team has told us about the identity of the of the act as being that these men. really because they were out in that and that is included in a woman who had a three month old baby form and they will tell you what it is and interrogated about the whereabouts of the f.t.c. alliance officials that the police were searching for and they were beating for not knowing where they weren't before that what we did and many other cases across the

high density area. of. documented magazine on the plaza and i just ask you why do you think this is happening after the elections. obviously already in power why is this kind of activity then ongoing. i mean i think i think that poor form for many of all that is what has surprised him. or bought. the. big gun and it went before the declare ishaan of the weekend of the election when people wrote you know went out on the streets to protest what they thought when my new position at the prospect. but as i think you know historically this has been the situation in zimbabwe in the been the u.s. that a republic upbeat was the president and. it was that what the vice president but meant against up when and if you know members of the m.d.c.

alliance and. under the right one had been targeted for all you know election violence around. the runoff election in two thousand and. ten years ago and you know death toll of the actual event is by president and got word that you know there was an arrow of course to respect for question our law and the rule book right we are seeing the exact opposite happened people have been beaten for you know reasons sorts you know what's in it against. the president you can do or he has won the elections in areas where you know the election polls show that the opposition won to me joy to all those people have been punished for that happening area. but he she didn't there joining me from a thank you if he'll be assigned an agreement and hostilities with the

a little more liberation front the group which was fighting for independence of for the or me air region had previously been declared a terrorist movement by the government how to deal has more now from neighboring djibouti. doug grimm unsigned in else what are today's a huge boost for prime minister a b a homage to or a more liberal sean from was set up in one nine hundred seventy three to fight for the rights of the or more people and also sick independence for the region from the rest of the stupid the largely cut it out of talks against government is delusions in mainly the oral region of ethiopia prime minister a b. himself is on all want to have in a rebel group from his own community fighting his government would have been a huge setback for the raft of reforms that he has initiated in the country but there are other reasons why the oil have signed this agreement in a smarter with the government in ethiopia and the hostilities with the state they

were getting most of their support from that a trend government and now got the better trained government has normalized relations with the if european government thought support was not forthcoming the ethiopian government removed or it will liberation front from the rule of terrorist organizations a distinction they were labelled by the former government just last month. al-jazeera has been given where access to his attention center in northern iraq has in teenagers accused or convicted of committing crimes for myself they were arrested by security forces in the sami autonomy's kurdistan region over the past two years to actually get a met some of them in our bill where they're taking part in a rehabilitation program to turn their lives around. in this juvenile detention workshop inmates are learning how heat can break down and revolt even the toughest of materials staff have been trying for the past two years to do the same

to their most challenging inmates all convicted or accused of committing crimes in the name of the art on the phone often on a book that is out of my head and i change my behavior and i have some skills in a trade i want to work and become a professional football player there are seventy five eiffel teenage inmates isolated from the rest of the population they're all male and as young as eleven years old their crimes include murder and rape. the warden admits at first even staff are afraid of these young men the rehabilitation program doesn't just include learning trade skills such as cutting hair or repairing air conditioners. or they enjoy the simple pleasures of music and playing football pastimes often forbidden by eisel in

their previous lives. they feel like they belong somewhere they think that once again people care about them they are transformed from a destroyed person into someone who has a life that. the attack on the regional government headquarters in or feel last month is a reminder of the challenges and limitations of any rehabilitation program the security council of the kurdistan region says one of the man arrested from a suspected eisel sleeper cell involved in the attack used to be in this program so hard with him to tell you the truth they don't always change one hundred percent there is a fifty fifty chance they will change. five hundred eisel juveniles were arrested during the iraqi army's offensive to recapture the city of mosul in twenty sixteen it was jailed for what is described as terrorism related offenses most have been

released and as far as the warden knows haven't committed any additional crimes but part of rehabilitation involved in bates acknowledging their crimes and accepting accountability those we spoke to denied belonging to ice all and maintain their innocence. ali is serving a five year sentence for weapons training with ice all now all of us a little i'm angry there were two hundred members inside here it was everybody knew that they committed crimes all of their sentences would have for years and they have been released why does my sentence have to be five years when these men are eventually released from detention in the kurdistan region they're worried they might find themselves behind bars again serving time for the same crime but this time they would be in a jail run by the federal government in baghdad natasha going to al-jazeera erbil.

funerals have been held for two members of hamas killed by israeli time fire in the gaza strip they were members of the al qassam brigades the military wing of hamas israeli army says it was retaliating after its soldiers were fired upon the u.n. in egypt are trying to mediate a long term truce between israel and hamas to end a four month upsurge of violence along the israel gaza border andrew symonds is in gaza. shortly after the funeral of the two fights is in an online briefing from because some brigades the military wing of hamas it was said that this was a military parade down the shooting was part of it now in the video published by the military spokesman for the israelis you could clearly see the shooting. also the return fire from a tank which was a direct hit and now the israeli spokesman claims that this was definitely an attack so how massive responded by saying the israeli occupation can't impose

a new reality by targeting the resistance security sites a members without paying a price and the palestinian resistance has the capability to repulse that aggression will there be some sort of retaliation unclear the egyptian part of the talks for a long term cease fire is actively putting effort into keeping some sort of truce together right now and in the talks between hamas other factions and also fatah there is now some progress it would seem although the israeli offer for whatever it is doesn't appear to be accepted right now they're all traveling to karo and they'll be more talks on tuesday it's been ten years since war broke out between russia and georgia when george attempted to recapture the breakaway state inside the setia the six day war ended with triumph for russia and humiliation for georgia several hundred people were killed and thousands of ethnic georgians were displaced

by that conflict so how reports from the georgian bindery with the setia. it was a war that lasted only six days but which had a profound effect on a country and a region on the edge of europe. i think the. ten years on buildings have been repaired but the pain of loss is still felt that. it had so much she was my only child. life is very hard to miss out. the bombing by russia of an apartment complex in the georgian town of gori claimed fourteen lives among them sits you know. only daughter forty three year old my newspaper reports show her watching over her daughter's body in the rubble. nothing was achieved they just abused us

our nate there but it is so so our they made me get through the end of. a war that destroyed for.