it's wrong to try to prevent turkey in law and for a pastor i am once again calling on both in america it is a pity you choose a pastor of your strategic partner in. german chancellor angela merkel says no european union member can dodge the challenge migration persis she made the comments while meeting spain's prime minister pedro sanchez as a migrant exchange deal between the two countries comes into effect on a go has more details. a city in southern spain may be an application for two european leaders to partner up over a divisive issue migration and agreement the german chancellor hopes will help quell the argument over the refugee crisis with the help of fellow member european union countries here and you can all think. we are just a few kilometers from the african coast similar to multiple sicily so this is a challenge we must cope with together and no country can dodge this task. the aim

to stop refugees and migrants using the border free schenkkan zone to travel to germany a country that has taken in already more than a million asylum seekers since two thousand and fifteen those who are already registered in spain will be refused entry at the german border and deported within forty eight hours. we want the solidarity of the e.u. and its members with this migration challenge that we are facing in our country but you also accept our responsibility regarding the control of secondary movements that are affecting in this case germany. if this bilateral agreement sounds familiar that's because it is it's based on the existing dublin agreement that was suspended by mrs merkel and twenty fifteen as a result of the refugee problems that year the german government has portrayed the deal as a breakthrough in the current immigration crisis a similar pact is also being made with greece and there was never any doubt that this agreement with spain would go ahead but spain has recently become the new

preferred route for asylum seekers attempting to reach europe and there are fears that it will be yet another transit point for migrants to reach germany germany is also working with italy to agree a similar deal a challenge given the anti immigration stance from politicians now in its government so nick i i go. i thought to come on this program then by way of supreme court honors whether to overturn last week's election results. and a quarter of a billion dollar rolling chemical dime on fantasy forced to pay out of the week keller. allen the big shop attentions returned to the caucasus you can see the white cloud

here and also turkmenistan the far north of iran if you're really lucky they probably you weren't the other one to shasta potentially around the caspian but i think iran is going to go towards tashkent beyond alamosa to find decent rain is still there in the far north of pakistan little less so in the south but again wouldn't. if you're lucky otherwise the picture is a dry one still a dusty run in iraq still around about thirty one mark on the coast of the with no i'm sure breeze of the east and met now recently the reasons come out of iraq has brought a bit more humidity with it to cut out the u.a.e. that's like to go back to the dusty size a dusty in eastern side of saudi temperatures rise as a result forty for the full cost which is rather hot in mecca the potential for showers is still there in yemen and of course the saudi if you still blowing in salalah big shots from tropical africa but in the south a useful addition around the eastern cape there's been a lot of cloud recently some decent rain and the system is just going offshore as you can see it doesn't mean be bone dry they for the next couple of days the still

of charles that clearly increase in the western cape and get a bit of rain into cape town itself which is sitting there about sixteen at the moment. just. counting the cost what the first wave of u.s. sanctions on iran means. companies doing business there the world's biggest oil producer says i'm climate change stamping out colombia's cocaine addiction counting the.

hello again hair reminder of the top stories on our. thousands of people have been protesting against israel's controversial nation state law the law of israel's jewish character but critics believe it makes non jewish minorities second class citizens. says the u.s. has turned its back on turkey after president donald trump announced that he was doubling tariffs on. the move. on the crisis us its currency it's an all time low. hundreds of families from informal settlements have a private labs in south africa and a protest against what they say is unfair land ownership. now whirled away from the death and destruction in this homeland gazan photographer as for training his life in exile at the arl festival festival in the south of france they would change

their want to see gaza's conflict through his eyes. where it seems small remote from the daily. but stepped into. that school. changes called home away from home the artist recalls a visit to his palestinian cousins in the united states we joined him as he took his two sons around the displays showing them their family tree and their cousins all members of the same diaspora all sharing the fate of exile from their homeland . they have pride of place on the wall singing verses from the qur'an their father took them to california where they were free to practice their faith to be taught at an islamic school to learn about their origins their language their culture and their roots it was

a performance the children of the gallery were enchanted and delighted by the ties ear still finds himself torn between two worlds. i have always been split between the desire to stay in france where i was training as an artist and where i have more opportunities and facilities for my work and a desire to return where i was born where i grew up where i have my family my friends and my roots millions of refugees are now begin to experience the feelings that this exhibition so intelligently explores but there's one tragedy that seems never ending and that's the conflict in gaza. thirty years if. you don't know how long the situation more last it's been six years since i went to gaza i don't even know when i will go back the idea you can take a plane ticket go home when you decide when you want it changes your life. it was very moved by what you have seen and discovered in america as of the facts.

and relatives that didn't see a long time and were only live. to tell you the phone control. ty's is fondest memory of his childhood in gaza was going to the beach defying the dawn to dusk curfew after the oslo accords he remembered the crowds returning and spending all night. it was just a fleeting moment to bliss he said the calm between two storms david chaytor al-jazeera are egypt's security forces say the for oil then attempted suicide attack they say they stopped a man wearing an explosive vest from approaching a coptic christian church just outside of cairo state media says the man detonated the explosives about two hundred fifty meters from the church killing himself but no others. other economy in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region has been struggling since the battle to push out i saw in two thousand and fourteen iraqi

kurdistan was once booming with economic growth and there were high hopes for a surge in foreign investment as natasha going to reports from air bill there are signs that things are improving but people say it's not happening fast enough. the story of fly air below is one shared by many here creating a first regional airline in northern iraq became a dream deferred. the war to purge eisel grounded the airline then a political dispute with the federal government in baghdad brought more delays in june three years after the airline was registered it began flying passengers from erbil to cities in sweden germany and holland to me fly at a b. and how to fly it is to make the name of it is well known internationally so people have more curiosity to visit the good to stun and it is the safest areas in iraq

and the most economically stable. can grow if things are stable construction cranes dot the or appeal skyline but there are also shells of buildings scattered throughout the capital of iraq's kurdish region reminders of the grand aspirations of luxury condominiums shopping malls and businesses yet to be fulfilled there are one point four million people working for the government and public sector in the semi autonomous kurdish region of northern iraq that's more than one fifth of the population employers have seen their salaries cut some months they haven't been paid. this stems from a dispute over oil exports and budget payments between baghdad and the regional government here in two thousand and fourteen the iraqi government stopped providing funds to the region the money pays the salaries of government and public sector

employees such as kahar hussein and his wife her teaching salary has been slashed in half they say they're owed twelve thousand dollars in unpaid wages and. there is a lot of pressure on us we can't afford any vacations we can only afford food and hope to survive every month and every year. this year the federal government resumed payments but not at the pre-teen and fourteen level or maybe country had any percent the hope of the people is that the economy goes back to where it was the political the social problems every other problem they all connected to the economic problems hussein says year after year they keep hearing the economy is improving when they finally believe it they hope to realize a dream put on hold by the economic crisis to give their daughter a sibling natasha going to name al-jazeera erbil. as a mother

a supreme court has two weeks to rule on legal challenge against president emerson electoral victory the main opposition party uncertainty leader won last week's vote but not a god supporters say the election is free and fair the president's inauguration has there been delayed and the legal battle has brought even more uncertainty to a country still recovering from years of oppression under the former dictator. our imitator has this report from harare. it's the first time in zimbabwe's history the inauguration of a president has had to be possible and the main opposition leader nelson chamisa filed a court application on friday challenging president in a similar election victory the move to stop sunday swearing in ceremony from taking place well basically. the country has to wait until it's. president and that is dependent upon what the court says and takes a maximum of fourteen days so that means of words to it including the international

community leaders in the opposition m.d.c. alliance say the evidence they filed in court proves last month's vote the first since robert mugabe was forced to resign as president was rigged they say nelson chamisa one we had an opportunity to myself but i'm going to do things right organize conduct and manage a free and clickable election which is a very simple task but decided that it must not be a simple task by interfering in this a little process election officials deny allegations of voter fixing officials in the rulings on it here party say they are not worried about the court challenge they know they were there when. you committed serious so it's going to happen it's going to be thrown out when it's thrown out what are they going to say oh the courts are biased that's a get out of jail card they want to play which is quite unfortunate again because that will mean you want to using. judicial system. western governor. and investors

will be closely watching to see how independent zimbabwe's you to should he will be this is will be no gration was supposed to happen the national sports stadium if the constitutional court orders a fresh election that has to take place within sixty days the military is busy to listen for the annual defense forces day celebrations on cheese day a public holiday but if you win here is key to know how strong the evidence by the opposition is and whether it could change the result how do we toss it out isn't. anti-government protesters are rallying for a second day in rumania after more than four hundred demonstrators were injured in the violence with police on friday these are live pictures from bucharest and many of the protestors and they kept so our romanian migrants who have returned home to demonstrate against corruption police have deny that they've used excessive force on friday when they used tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters. both of india's carolus state is on high alert after thirty four people died during one of

the region's worst floods on record heavy rains are expected joining the monsoon season this year is downpour as ravaged farmlands and forced more than thirty one thousand people to evacuate a chemical giant has been ordered to pay more than a quarter of a billion dollars to the school grounds keeper in the u.s. a jury ruled that a weed killer made by monsanto contributed to the man's cancer it is the first lawsuit to go to trial alleging a link between the disease and life all states about the world's most widely used herbicide mike hanna has more details from washington d.c. . claim of damages this was the first lawsuit concerning life os eight to go to trial and after a month of hearing evidence and three days of deliberation the jury decided that it had caused the wayne johnson's counsel did round up pro or ranger pro failed to perform as safely as an ordinary consumer would have expected when used or

misused in an intended or reasonably foreseeable way answer yes it was the round up pro or range of pro design a substantial factor in causing harm to mr charenton answer yes the size of the fugitive damages awarded to the jury's belief that the company monsanto had acted with malice and had not responded to the plaintiff's concerns during the years to use the product as a groundskeeper. what amount of punitive damages if any do you award to mr johnson answer two hundred fifty million dollars signed by the presiding dated august tenth two thousand and eight the world health organization has found in the past that by phosphate probably causes cancer but the environmental protection agency has not ruled on the matter as yet on some toes says it will

appeal the case and continues to maintain that its products are not carcinogenic but there are more than five thousand cases concerning the weed killer and it's a fix pending and following this decision the congo faces the possibility of more massive payouts to come i cannot al-jazeera. a still in plane has crashed in washington state in the us this video shows the aircraft performing stunts in the air i think looting an upside down loop fighter jets were scrambled off to be on authorized takeoff and chased the plane before it crashed it's believed the aircraft was stolen by a ground service agent at seattle tacoma international airport its condition is not yet known the first space mission to brave the sun is hot and harshad misfire has been delayed for twenty four hours because of a last minute technical glitch that says parker solar probe will fly closer to the

star than any other spacecraft before it is designed to withstand heat of one thousand degrees speeds of seven hundred thousand kilometers per hour and a journey that will take seven years she ever tuns he has more. as you might expect the key to loitering in the sun's atmosphere is not melting nasa engineers have built a carbon heat shield for the park a solar probe that's just eleven and a half centimeters thick they say it will protect the equipment that will be surveilling the sun as it sweeps through its corona or counteract misfire the real chill gets up to about twenty five hundred degrees fahrenheit which we're not going to do today but we are going to get it under degrees and what is the feeling. i see . on the temperature of the corona is just one of the counter intuitive mysteries that the poker probe hopes to solve why is it so much hotter than the sun's core several hundred times hotter science would suggest that the further away from the

sun surface the cooler the atmosphere should be the probe is named after eugene parker who formulated the theory of so no wind will be present to watch the launch of a spacecraft named in his own. in one hundred fifty eight he theorized that a flow of particles accelerated into space from the sun and that proved to be true but scientists still don't know how this phenomenon occurs theoretically such particles should cool down and dissipate the further from the sun they get not speed up so the wind streams could impact satellites in space and g.p.s. radio waves and electrical grids on earth they also cause rural when they crash into the earth's magnetic field and the deflected the probe will begin its first approach to the sun in november as part of its seventy a mission we will get hotter than anything is being before we are in that three million degree plasma region in the corona well gradually will close it will take set of seven giant steps closer to the sun until we're in that final region and as

it makes those dives towards the sun surface the park a solar probe will eventually become the fastest object ever created by humankind. well again these are the headlines on al-jazeera thousands of people have been protesting against israel's controversial nation state law the law fishley affirms israel's jewish character but critics believe it makes non jewish minorities second class citizens a u.n. delegation has arrived in gaza for meetings with hamas and a bit to lower tensions with israel they're expected to push for a more permanent seats far of their visit comes as peter olds are held for three palestinians killed by israeli forces during friday protests at the gaza border it's the twentieth week that protests were held. child stratford has more from gaza . nicholai mlodinow of the un envoy himself was supposed to come last week but

because of that escalation in violence that meeting between himself and i have never happened now these meetings have happened on a regular basis in the last few weeks when we've seen these escalations in violence despite efforts by the u.n. envoy to try and foolish try and maintain some sort of last thing ceasefire. the un special envoy to yemen says talks between warring parties next month will focus on disarmament international criticism has been growing over an airstrike by the saudi embassy coalition which hit a bus full of school children and the northern province many of the remains have yet to be identified yemen's who the rebels say at least fifty one people were killed in thursday's strike including forty children turkey's president has vowed to defy what he describes as u.s. attempts to undermine his country's economy. on roads an opinion piece in the new

york times warning the u.s. must respect turkey's sovereignty or their partnership could be in jeopardy u.s. president of trump announced this week that he would double steel an aluminum tariffs on turkey. german chancellor angela merkel says no european union member can challenge migration. a migrant exchange deal agreed with spain on wednesday comes into effect on saturday it's allows germany to send migrants back to spain if they have already applied for asylum there. those are the headlines stay with us for inside story that's up next. every weekly news cycle

a series of breaking stories. the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most. relations between the u.s. and turkey are at crisis point donald trump impose a straight tariffs on ankara and turkish president and the one who warns of the consequences of such action will ties between the countries deteriorate even further or can they be contained this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program how about that hamid tension is growing between the u.s. and turkey on friday u.s. president donald trump announce he is doubling tariffs on turkish minium turkey

warned it would be retaliated against a u.s. move they are fears the dispute could hurt turkey's economy more the turkish lira has hit record lows against the dollar in recent days the row is related to did that then sion of u.s. pastor andrew bronson on terror related charges in turkey but the differences between the two nato allies have been widening over a number of issues kimberly hackett reports from washington. it was just the beginning an unsuccessful twenty sixteen coup against turkish president wretch of tying up to one and when the us refused to extradite the cleric the tool of glenn accused by ankara of leading the attempted overthrow and who resides in the united states things got even worse this is the worst crisis and us turkish relations since the us congress imposed a total arms embargo on turkey right in the at the height of the cold war. on friday u.s.

president donald trump tweeted that he was doubling steel and aluminum tariffs on turkey saying our relations with turkey are not good at this time the latest move comes during a diplomatic route over this man an american pastor named andrew bronson he was accused of spying for the united states arrested and jailed in the aftermath of the twenty sixteen coup the u.s. denies the charges defended by even jellicoe christians like vice president mike pence pastor andrew bronson is an innocent man. there is no credible evidence against him after july nato meeting trump thought he had a deal to secure brunson's release instead brunson was placed under house arrest while his trial continued outraging trump the u.s. responded leveling sanctions against the turkish interior and justice minister the dispute over the pastor is just part of an escalating feud between trump and. last

year americans were outraged as heir to one watch from his embassy in washington or his security detail be peaceful protesters would later sanction by american authorities u.s. support for kurdish fighters in the battle against iceland syria particularly the group known as the y p g has also deeply upset the turks who consider the y p g a terrorist organization the dispute has sent turkey's leader up plummeting losing a third of its value this year president trogs tariffs against turkey only adds to an ongoing trade war with allies like the european union and trading partners like china in two weeks the us will tariff even more chinese goods it is an ass collating trade war now with a new front given the us and turkish leaders both have a reputation for not backing down kimberly health at al-jazeera washington.

turkish president has written an opinion piece in the new york times warning that the u.s. must respect turkey's sovereignty or their partnership could be in jeopardy he said at a time when evil continues to nerk around the world unilateral actions against turkey by the united states are of decades will only serve to undermine american interests and security. before it is too late washington must give up the misguided notion that our relationship can be as symmetrical and come to terms with the fact that turkey has altoona divs failure to reverse this trend of unilateralism and disrespect will require us to start looking for new friends and allies so let's bring our guests now joining us from rally in north carolina is robert pierson former u.s. ambassador to turkey in ankara routine at them and the rector of foreign policy

research a defunct asian for political economic and social research also known as sita and from new york by skype emitter beside the sea oh and co-founder of foreign policy interrupted an organization to increase female voices in the media was a focus on foreign policy coverage thank you all for joining us robert pierson let me start with you. pastor bronson was actually detained twenty months twenty one months ago in after mass of the failed coup why is that an issue now. it's been an issue since then there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that's credible if you read the text of the testimony against him it is absolutely not believable he's supposed to be cooperating with terrorist and at the same time he's supposed to be cooperating with mr arrogance closest political ally for ten years so there is

a solution to this problem if i may say so it's very straightforward mr bronson should be allowed to return to the united states for medical care and the charges can be left as they are but mr bronson can go home with his family and to his family and secondly on the economic side two simple steps are required one mr iraq can work with the group he described his press conference yesterday to announce a new reform program for the turkish economy based on turkey's own principles and one would be to use interest rates temporarily to re firm the lehrer's value and secondly to undertake a thorough reform of the turkish economy along principles that would help turkey be more competitive in the international arena and that would allow both countries to then turn to the issues that are in front of them without having to end up this

process by pointing the other by making the other one responsible for the damage so i hope that they'll consider these three steps because they could easily end this issue and we could go on to the more serious strategic issues that face us so. there is also a second u.s. citizen who is detained and tricky he is a dual national tricky to kish american ease and scientists but we hear nothing about him so is there more really than just the fate of pastor branson that is at stake here yeah i mean we haven't heard. the trumpet ministration talk about sarah connor who is the nasa scientist as you said it's all turkish and american citizens let's put this into perspective you know and they're up to twentieth century the united states and turkey had very much a a relationship based on geopolitics where it was on

a wide perspective and they looked at what is going to benefit both countries what you've seen over the past two weeks flare up precisely between trump an error once the individuals and cells is two individuals who are teaching cheap political shots domestic points the the the plane for releasing it into bronze and was really it's really a priest for to appeal to donald trump's conservative christian base here in the united states and it's precisely what we don't hear not only about the nasa scientists but we also don't hear about the three turkish nationals that are being held the three turkish nationals that have been working at u.s. consulates throughout to ricky and are being held on the scene charges the wrong brunson has been. detained not so you think that the release of pastor bronson could play in the midterm elections. you know i

i definitely think that i don't think of the trumpet ministration as thinking that widely i think that any six any political points that they can score i think right now you have to also take a look at trump on the world stage mean he really took a lot of flak for his appearance with a lot of your in helsinki and the way that he deflected. you know the notion that russia could have hacked in on our of the american elections and you even saw his his traditional base push back on him i think trump was feeling a little fragile on the world stage his performance at the nato summit last month did not go well it certainly did not go well when he went to canada for the g. seven summit and so i think what he's looking for is easy political points and you know meeting with kim jong un you know back in may certainly was a point to do that and i think trying to antagonize turkey which is

a majority muslim country does play into his base. move it in that amount from the american point of view there was a request from president to release a turkish national who was detained in the u.s. and he was released and according to some reports also there was another turkish national who was detained in israel who was also released so what happened there why is there is this blockage on pastor brunson. well. first of all i don't think the pastor bronson issue is. one of the main reasons for this tense relations between the two countries to me it's more it's much more a result of other issues other vital issues especially for the turkish side you know when you look at the last several years we have been witnessing that the

united states administration has been supporting two main terrorist organizations namely p k k and its affiliated organizations in northern syria and the fed which is widely believed that was behind the failed quit time two years ago and both actors are heavily supported by the united states so the timing of the branston issue is to me. is about american domestic issues it's not directly about turkish american relations so it's not a big issue for the two countries when it comes to releasing some and not releasing some others we see that you know thousands of pages of credible kling's have been sent to the united states to extradite the leader of the defector organization the

federal argue len which is hosted in pennsylvania but the united states remains reluctant all these all these demands from the turkish side so when. we see that the tramp and some of his men they have been they began to use attracting insulting and on fortunately you.