economy or ship type of an opinion piece in the new york times warning the u.s. must respect the sovereignty or their partnership could be in jeopardy he says his country will see new friends and allies of u.s. pressure continues u.s. president donald trump announced this week that he would double steel an aluminum tariffs on turkey yes. if you have dollars under your pillow take these out if you have euro's take these out if you have gold take these out i am talking to those who have them immediately give these to the banks and convert to turkish lira and by doing this we fight this war of independence in the future it's wrong to try to bring turkey in line for a pastor i am once again calling on those in america it is a pity you choose a pastor of your strategic partner in nato earlier we spoke to an assistant professor of wild history american university of iraq he says that despite advance threats turkey doesn't have many options. the one big problem for my side

turkey is that there's not a lot more that we could sell to russia or buy from russia or. in light of the events of the past couple of years to start receiving millions of more russian tourists in our country for turkey to basically you know sell and i guess you use the word tourism as a verb here to tourism it's way out of this crisis more than half of turkey's treat and i'm talking about exports here it goes to the european union and north america and the rest of the sort of you know quote unquote western industrial world it's trade with iran russia and china is is is is much smaller than that to the extent that turkey could actually grow itself or export itself and host tourists out of this crisis i don't think is very sustainable i don't think that's that's extreme that's very

a list that. still ahead for you on this news hour from london thousands turned out in bucharest to protest against the romanian government twenty four hours after a similar rally was broken up by police. zimbabwe's supremes core ponders whether to overturn last week's election results and rafael nadal storms into the semifinals in toronto as he goes in a close in on his first masters hardcore title in five years. the german chancellor angela merkel says no european union member can dodge the challenge that migration poses she made the comments while meeting spain's prime minister pederast sanchez as a migrant exchange deal between the two countries comes into effect sunday gager ports. 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. we are just a few kilometers from the african coast similar to malta all 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're facing in our country also accept our responsibility regarding the control of secretary 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 as 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 immigration stance from politicians now in its government so in a diagonal al-jazeera. antigovernment protesters are rallying for a second night in romania after more than four hundred demonstrators were injured in violence with police on friday many of the protesters in the capital book arrest are romanian migrants who returned home to demonstrate against corruption police

have denied that they used excessive force on friday and they deployed tear gas and water cannon to disperse the protesters is a journalist based in bucharest and says that the demonstrations struck a much more peaceful time compared to saturday's protests tonight protests were much karma and there was a sense that they were trying to. lest there were people sitting down in the crouse trying show a less confrontational approach there were maybe fifty thousand people as the estimates i'm still and the period of time the whole grout turned their back on the government building as you know show defiance against the government they were asking to resign but also you know again it's not it's a non-confrontational way of protesting and of the what we saw last night that was i think the most important thing. zimbabwe's supreme court has two weeks to rule on a legal challenge against president was electoral victory the main opposition party

insists its leader won last week's vote the ruling party zanu p.f. supporters say the election was free and fair are much hassle reports from harare. it's the first time in zimbabwe's history the inauguration of a president has had to be postponed 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 avoidance 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 he was forced to resign as president was rigged they say nelson chamisa won we had an opportunity. to do things right. conduct and

manage a free fair and credible election it is a very simple task but you have decided that it must not be a simple task by interfering in this electoral process election officials deny allegations of voter fixing officials in the rulings on a peer party say they are not worried about the court challenge they nor they will they will. look militarist so what's going to happen is 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 to want to easing of. western governments and investors will be closely watching to see how independent zimbabwe as you disagree will be this is where be inauguration was supposed to happen the national sports stadium if the constitutional. orders a fresh election that has to take place within sixty days the military is busy

rehearsing for the annual defense forces day celebrations on tuesday a public holiday but everyone here is keen to know how strong the evidence by the opposition is and whether it could change the election result how do we toss it out isn't there. a chemical giant has been ordered to pay more than a quarter of a billion dollars to a school grounds keeper in the united states a jury ruled that a weed killer made by monsanto contributed to the man's cancer this is the first lawsuit to go to trial alleging a link between the between this disease and by first state world's most widely used herbicide i can reports from washington claim of damages this was the first lawsuit concerning life phosphate 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 cancer 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 roundup pro or range of pro design a substantial factor in causing harm to mr chance an answer yes the size of the few minutes of 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 life os eight 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 by cannot al-jazeera iran's government says it suing the united states over sanctions that target a sale and export of hand-woven potion rugs last year alone iran sold one hundred twenty six million dollars worth of the carpets to the american market we have a say it's not just an attempt to block an important revenue stream but also an attack on iranian culture same astronomy reports from carriage. in iran there is a saying carpet weavers sacrifice their eyes for people's feet. making even

the smallest carpet means patiently toiling for months using tools and techniques that have been passed down for generations kartik montana this is what my parents did to my grandparents who doing so i learnt from them and now i'm in this career i love this our twin i'm not leaving i feel as if i'm sick on the carpet is just like a child to me i love it because this is an original persian art form the women in this workshop are artist employees basic classes to learn the basics and practice for months. the best students get to work on the most intricate designs. but there is something sad about this job the closer these women get to completing a carpet the less able they are to actually afford one of their own creations persian rugs sell for thousands of dollars and some of the carpets made in this very workshop sold for tens of thousands and depending on the detail and materials

used such as silk or even string spun from gold a persian rug can sell for millions it's no wonder then that in the business world carpets are a valuable iranian export second only to oil. but they're also an important part of iran's cultural identity in the two thousand and eleven farsi language film gold and copper a dying woman weaves carpets to pay for medicine and keep her family together. the script writer says the persian carpet was the engine driving the story but then you have a you know i need. iranian and global audiences recognize the iranian carpet as a piece of art it has been a little painful for me that the price of the iranian carpets has risen a lot and now it's on affordable to everyone in the past it was common for people to cover every corner of their houses in carpets. and especially sad irony for carpet dealers is that the united states is their largest market in the medical

procedure and latin america has put sanctions on iranian carpets but if you look at american buildings and family homes you see iranian carpets on the floor as i saw in a video i think even u.s. president donald trump's daughter has an iranian carpet in her room traditionally persian carpets are meant to portray the gardens of heaven iranians say the latest sanctions are an attack on the very fabric of iranian identity and an attempt by america to make trouble in paradise zain. carriage. still ahead for you on the news hour. we're going to bring you much more news sad very shortly a story from lebanon the green economy a country considers legalizing the export of cannabis for medical use. and in sport is back in training out of the season opener in the french football only.

how the heat waves gone for the most part swept away well quite viciously a facade at least certainly scandinavia this streak of cloud here which is a cold front is getting rid of that more of it is given some decent rights and heavy rain in austria slovakia is running east was overnight and i think most of the daylight hours of sunday going to find fairly wet and windy weather i think will be a good phrase through sweden through denmark on back towards the british isles south of that not far south is still warm twenty nine in paris the potential for big shasta exists in the alps not the roman valley immediately other that you cannot risk comes back gautami get into monday madrid thirty five reflects continued warmth in spain and portugal same is true through italy much of eastern europe were hovering around the thirty mark and the sun is still the predominant

type of weather as it is so out the magistrate i want to show has been showing up round subservient again but basically it's hot in fact showers in north africa are limited to algeria how being the last few days curiously still all but if you jump south and saw you still get big showers in the middle of chad and education lee says sudan ethiopia and further west and there have been some pretty big showers around recently there's no reason to suppose that shouldn't continue including in the air. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives other stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's well. witness on al-jazeera august on al-jazeera european muslims today of facing the consequences of having their faith linked to harm the attacks even though they too

a victims of the violence the largest multi-sport event on the continent asian games in jakarta will host athletes competing in a mix of traditional and the olympic sports a vibrant new series of character led documentaries from immigrant neighborhoods across europe a serious of reports about the state of the world's forests and what's being done to protect them in a three part series al-jazeera uncovers the motivations and impact of the brutal human exploitation system then lay the foundation of today's global powers ogust on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick look at the top stories this hour thousands of people have been protesting against israel's controversial nation state law nor officially affirms israel's jewish character but critics believe it makes non jewish minorities second class citizens. u.n. special envoy to yemen says talks between the warring parties next month will focus on disarmament international criticism has been growing over an as strike by the saudi i'm right a coalition which hit a bus full of school children in the northern province of sada. and antigovernment protesters have been rallying for a second night remaining after more than four hundred demonstrators were injured in violence with police on friday. and now a world away from the death and destruction in his homeland a gazan photographer is betraying his life in exile at the photo festival in the south of france they've achieved a went to see gaza's conflict through his. nowhere seems more remote from the daily

agony of gaza than the sudden french city of ours but step into ty's year but exhibition and that all 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 thais 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. three per year thrust forward you don't know how long the situation will 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 to change your life. it was very moved by what you have seen and discovered in america hours of the facts. and relatives that you didn't see since and a long time where you have only lived in since. the film contrary

ties years fondest memory of his childhood in gaza was going to the beach defying a 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 the economy in iraq semi autonomous kurdish region has been struggling since the battle to push out i.c.l. 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 it has for going to reports from there 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 out of 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 employees 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 lovel. the hope of the

people is that the economy goes back to where it was the political the social problems every other problem they're 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 get their daughter a sibling natasha going to zero erbil. most of india's carolus state is on high alert after at least thirty four people died during one of the region's worst floods on record heavy rains are expected during the monsoon season but this year's downpours ravaged farmlands and forced more than thirty one thousand people to evacuate for the first time say authorities have opened the gates of twenty five reservoirs to prevent any breaches well aid is continuing to arrive to the indonesian island of lombok where three hundred eighty seven people have died after

last week's earthquake the air force has delivered ninety tons of aid including food medicine tents and blankets medical facilities have been damaged and concerns of growing for people living in remote areas who can't access help almost three hundred ninety thousand people about ten percent of population and now homeless or displaced molly ivins are preparing to vote on sunday in a presidential runoff that's expected to return abraham boubacar catered to power for another five years is facing opposition to say who trailed behind him in the first round the vote takes place amid fears of ethnic violence and accusations of election fraud that marred the first round of voting in july mohamed vall has more from the capital bamako. the results of the first round two weeks ago gave cate our forty one percent of the vote while his main rival got close to eighteen percent was accused of fraud by opposition leaders but you are going.

to get a low result a male action is indeed heartbreaking but you cannot accuse president being behind that figure it's the decision of the million people which reflects their judgment of you. meanwhile was repeating their claims it was what was once again i'm asking you for your votes so that together we can achieve the dream and the destiny that i have from ali i don't need to remind you of the grave in multiple illegalities of the first round which amount to political banditry they were criminal breach of the law and of human dignity one day the reality will be clear to all and it will shame those who have to see their hands with fraud and corruption seceded borst of what he described as a major success in the first round he's the first opposition candidate in the democratic history of mali to take a sitting president to on off but his hopes of a united front by the other opposition parties have been partly dust by the refusal

of many first round losing candidates to endorse him the government has also closed down a local radio station that supports sisi accusing it of inciting violence and hate speach. sis's supporters organize a rally on saturday to protest the alleged electoral violations and to warn against a repeat violence was reported not least a fifth of the twenty three thousand polling stations on july twenty ninth no vote took place at all in three percent of those centers and four soldiers were killed in an ambush as the convoy carried election material since then ethnic violence has worsened in the central region of mukti as dozens of learned herdsman have been killed by rival bonzo hunters the e.u. has expressed concern over security and urged the government to govern t. a free and fair enough for the leaders the focus now is on the vote but for millions there is a desire to see that democracy does not fall victim to power struggles the

president is trying to stay in power he has supporters and means what he is opponents are preparing a fresh offensive and many are curious to see if mali is will for the first time manage to change their leaders through the ballot box. a man has died after stealing a plane and crashing it in washington state in the us this video shows the aircraft performing stunts in the air including an upside down loop fighter jets were scrambled after the unauthorized 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 now lebanon is the world's third largest producer of illicit marijuana now it's preparing to legalize cultivation and export the drug for medical use it might take months before there's a vote in parliament but they're hoping this will help revive a flagging economy in a harder has a long. it's illegal but cannabis is planted almost everywhere in lebanon's

northern because region in recent years the government stop destroying the crops because it couldn't provide the impoverished population with alternatives now it is considering legalizing cultivation for medical use but some farmers are concerned it could cut profits. the high supply means it's not very cheap so if they do go lies the cultivation its will have no value we have. the trade for twenty years and they were against it and now they want to do this to gain political support from the people who are fed up with the politicians. it's a multimillion dollar industry which an international consulting firm says could help lebannon struggling economy it would first have to introduce new seedlings that have medical properties a draft bill has been proposed in parliament proponent say the people of the region will benefit. my proposal to help farmers they have been the victims

they can't openly sell it because it's illegal so dealers benefit most by imposing a price on the farmers selling the product for higher prices and those dealers have political cover if. it's not the first time the idea has been put forward and it may take months before parliament votes on the bill. the farmers say they have little choice but to grow cannabis in order to survive people are poor and there are little economic opportunities they blame the authorities for neglecting their area the livelihoods of tens of thousands depend on this trade which is controlled by the region's powerful families growing cannabis is cheap and alternative crops can't survive the harsh climate here that is one reason why attempts to eradicate the cultivation after the civil war in the one nine hundred ninety s. failed there are those who believe the government should support this industry. today you have. been all. so it's very important

for to cultivate such amounts of land where you can get more than forty projects. you can just get it out of that. it's out of that the united nations says lebanon is one of the largest producers and exporters of cannabis in the world politicians now want to cash in on this lucrative underground market but in a country known for corruption some question the government's ability to control and regulate the trade so in a. northern because lebannon. still ahead for you on the program ready to travel a hundred fifty million kilometers and brave temperatures of a thousand degrees we look at the probe that's flying into the face of the sun. and wet weather gets the better of this most a g.p. rider in austria will have that story and more with tatiana in sport.

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