factor that contributes to this low turnout is demoralizing as more lies ation on the on the part of the some of the opposition leaders and their supporters opposition leaders have refused to respond to favorably to a call by their opposition leader some i listened to rally behind him when he you know united front against president before him. so some majlis is he got only eighteen percent in the first round he was he was capitalizing on probably a unified opposition behind me in the second that i know of but that doesn't seem to be happening and many people are you know feeling that there is a fait accompli here in front of millions they have to accept the fact that the president is running bucket or is going to when to win this election or see what does happen still a few more to go before the polls close look about two through the day thanks murmured. israel's palestinian minority has that a mass protest in tel aviv thinkings the controversial nation state law it

officially affirms israel's a jewish character but critics believe it turns jewish minorities into second class citizens thousands turned out to show that anger at the bill which was passed last month became the week after israel's truce community also rallied against the war stephanie deko was at the protest in tel aviv. the museum is going to rise by israeli policy. what is next for the calculation of the moon there's a lot of jews of the usa are saying that they are not the direction was really the message is one of unity. we owe it because we don't need this of this and you don't loan off netanyahu that. enough but you event this is not i'm not. giving him to look i don't citizens this is

amazing this is. the item number that i was. fighting for something and this is the real story of god the. people that really believe in democracy and equality we have and take democratic moves taking place in many things in the towards gays towards women in wards and towards arabs and this is the fascist regime is turning into a fascist that is still not there but it's going in a bad direction and we need to stop it as well as soon as we can. they're trying to . force the end of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and there is a big question of whether the. going to continue with this dimension the coming war against this government a message from. right. the measure pushed

through by prime minister binyamin netanyahu declares the right to exercise national self-determination in israel as unique to the jewish people it also says that hebrew is the only official language downgrading the status of arabic and previously they were both official languages and it establishes jewish settlement as a national value that the state must encourage. still ahead here on al-jazeera over there has been looted history books six hundred days in prison we look at the state of beauty of freedom in egypt. tightening security around the white house out of plan demonstrations by right wing activists the republicans to stay with us. hello there we've got plenty of showers over the northern parts of asia at the

moment the satellite picture is showing some quite lively ones there over beijing they've been very very heavy and then we've got more towards the north and all of this is sort of joining forces and edging its way southward as we head through the next day or so so we'll see some heavy rain particularly over the northern parts of china there for monday and that system sinks southward as we head into tuesday bringing heavy downpours to the northeastern parts of china and across the border into north korea as well a bit further towards the south and we've been watching a storm edge its way toward shanghai there's plenty of cloud ahead of it as well so shanghai is already seeing some cloud of rain pretty wet there at the moment actually the system itself there is it's a tropical storm so not too intense wind it wise but we are going to see some heavy rain as it makes its way across as so here's where we're expecting it to be on monday some heavy downpours here and there's also some very heavy rain in the southern parts of china at the moment to this is another developing feature is working its way north was and it's already given us over two hundred millimeters of rain here so monday and tuesday both looking wet they could well be flooding out of

the system as we head through the next few days and before the south it's generally a lot drier here most of the wet weather is in the philippines. denied citizenship. health care and education. forced from their homes to live in camps. subject to devastating physical cruelty al-jazeera world investigates one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. their own. silent abuse.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm still robin a reminder of our top stories after twenty two years of negotiations the leaders of russia iran azerbaijan kazakstan and turkmenistan have signed a convention on the legal status surrounding the caspian sea iran says additional agreements will be needed in a territorial dispute over the sea the caspian lies above one of the world's largest collections of oil and gas reserves. mullins have been voting in the runoff presidential election president ibrahim karkare won the first round with forty one percent of the vote but opposition candidates the money as he said them afford the first from vote was marred by violence as mali struggles against armed groups. and israel's palestinian the minority has led a mass protest in tel aviv against the controversial nation state law it officially

affirms israel's jewish character the critics believe it turns it on jewish minorities into second class citizens thousands turned out to show their anger in the veil which was passed last month. a prominent saudi arabian scholar has been arrested in the latest crackdown on dissent obama is extremely popular on social media with more than six million followers on twitter he was detained on chews day in mecca it's a foreign tear what the charges are against him but other clerics have been arrested for being critical of crown prince mohammed bin. it's been six hundred days since i was there a journalist mahmoud hussein was arrested and jailed in egypt without charges hussein is accused of broadcasting false news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions he indulges there are strongly denied the allegations and the network has been demanding his release laura bird medley has more. locked up in solitary confinement al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein is yet to have any formal

charges brought against him the egyptian national was stopped questioned and detained in december two thousand and sixteen after traveling from doha where he was based to visit his family in cairo he's been held in the notorious tour a maximum security prison where he's complained of mistreatment hussein and al jazeera strongly deny the allegations against him that he broke last false news women writing letters even asking. african thing to be in a lot of the good offices. democracy in the country by his lot of people which include press freedom and freedom of expression egypt level similar charges against al jazeera trio bonhomme homage mohamed fahmy i'm peter greste day five years ago and as there are explore my editor in chief ibrahim helal was sentenced to death and absentia two years ago. reporters without borders ranks

egypt one hundred sixty one out of one hundred eighty countries in this year's watch press freedom index it says at least thirty two journalists are being held in egyptian jails few have been put on trial most of been detained for months or years and over a being held on trumped up charges. those imprisoned included gyptian journalist mahmoud abbas say it known as shock and he's been locked up for five years reporting on the robbers square protests in cairo where hundreds of protesters were killed and thousands injured recently shall can be nominated for unesco is press freedom prize and multi award winning journalist well about us had its home raided a may and was arrested and detained. as authorities egyptian. target what they describe as fake news new laws were passed in july to support the arrests of

journalists they allow the state to block social media accounts and detain journalists who have more than five thousand followers and existing laws which are already being used to grassroots. susman your freedom new laws and more wishes. many more people who are not even journalists would be honest and because they want to express their opinion supporters of president abdel fattah el-sisi say they will safeguard freedom of expression but rights groups say it will give a legal basis for egypt to crack down on criticism or dissent nor about manly al-jazeera. a confidential report by israeli military investigators say an armed drone deliberately killed four palestinian boys on a gaza beach in twenty fourteen that's according to the online publication the intercept but report has testimony from officers involved in the attack you say the children were mistaken for hamas fighters in broad daylight on the morning of the

attack israeli army had said live video feeds from drones help them avoid killing palestinian civilians the killing of the four cousins aged nine to eleven years prompted an international outcry and explosion northern syria has killed at least eighteen people in a five story building collapse in sort of murder in italy province the cause of the blast is unclear but opposition activists suspect a rebel post was detonated thousands of people displaced by a group boko haram in northeastern nigeria are returning home despite reports of new attacks more than thirty thousand left the relative safety of cans and made a good read to start rebuilding their lives but as if there is reports many don't want to take the risk. they set off on a two hundred eighty kilometer journey home most of them are going to their town for the first time since both quote i'm over on it five years ago. the destruction

that greeted them was unimaginable yet most are glad their home nigeria's government says four hundred thousand homes were destroyed in borno state alone over nine years about one hundred thousand have been rebuilt despite the huge challenges in the process of constructing it we experience. back does this one the second difficulty don't we we have the transportation the building materials which is also another problem. another issue is deplorably you know skill level two added to that is a lack of money while some displaced persons have returned home thousands more i mean in camps like this they say it's still on safe to go back to be villages despite assurances from the security forces their worry now is whether or not they will continue to receive help in the camps many of the people here in my degree say

they would rather remain in relative safety of the city but risk attacks by boko haram fighters and one myself there is no adequate security there no schools or shelter that's why we're not going back there but for some communities the road to recovery is a bit smaller. file much elegy whose husband was killed by boko haram got a two house now to later on we are grateful that we have a reef a go ahead but it's been quite a struggle living without him there's no want to help us out have religion was rebuilt from scratch it now has a water supply civil authority and a few soldiers more importantly the local school is up and running. people here say the school is a symbol of defiance the book or arm was ideology opposes western education and influences how meant it greece al-jazeera know these nigeria. and he races

protest as have lost through the streets of charlotte so you know after the violence that killed one person this time the demonstration was peaceful amid a heavy police presence president trump refused to speak out against the white supremacists but on saturday he tweeted he condemns all forms of racism. while rallies are expected on sunday was a promise this will get outside the white house john hendren has this report from washington d.c. . a year ago to the day liberal might that the old right now police in washington d.c. want to keep history from repeating itself. on the anniversary of the deadly white supremacist rally in charlottesville virginia that left a counter demonstrator dead when a car drove into a crowd as many as four hundred white supremacist marchers prepared to converge on lafayette square in front of the white house so do more than a thousand left wing marchers who call themselves anti fat or anti fascist jason kesler who organized that unite the right march is leading this one day that you

hear around you that is a and to my right i'm leaving many here fearing another round of violent confrontation and i think something serious could happen i think something terrible would happen let me just say i. charlottesville kessler's charlottesville out richard spencer is not expected in washington so his ideas are. yes i mean america story please undoubtedly a white country we're headed in a very different direction what we're saying rings true what we're saying cuts right to the heart of the matter and that's why people are attracted to us that's why we're growing hundreds of city and u.s. park service police will line the streets with one simple goal well to make sure be to make sure that nobody is injured and nothing gets broken barricades will play a key role police say they've learned lessons from charlottesville and their main

goal. it will be to keep the two groups apart even as they converge by the hundreds in this relatively small space it's a colossal task counter-demonstrators are already filling the streets i think it's an absolute affront to human decency to. the white supremacist time to come here and march in front of the white house on this somber anniversary a police force with perhaps more experience than any in the world in handling protests tries to allow the march but not the mayhem john hendren al-jazeera washington no one announces mr bush's space missions has blasted off. three two one zero lift off the park a solar probe closer to the sun than any previous satellite the mission will last seven years for cisco to get it's an astronomer at the university college of london he says the knowledge gained from the mission will be priceless much like this place got is going to fly into the inner part of the solar caught on that this sort

of caught on is the extent of the sun we see charged with energetic particles magnetic fields is very thin kind of plastic but it interacts with the earth this sun and the air interacts through this sort of corona and we get all these kind of out of the particle super tomic particles so magnetic fields distort us is really magnetic storms that can affect our satellites and they probably have the disable some of our satellites on the earth they can produce enormous damage through. our power distribution networks here on the grades of the earth can produce a massive block of stuff that's happened several times in the past when we have very powerful magnetic storms in the sun so we need to learn more about all these things and this is the mission of the spacecraft. there is he's not cost d.c. an investment might limit jody to of the cost of the spacecraft goes into the salaries of the scientists and technologists that of building it. the spacecraft

itself is not that expensive these days is the people that build it so the technology which is being developed for example in this case where the value of being very high resistant hubris to start refractory materials like carbon carbon components later i mean which are on board of these spacecraft are protected that classifications here on earth and we must remember that we have space travel missions to the moon and mars that will be subject to the solar storms and the more we learn about it the more we learn about how to mitigate the effects of these on their on the health of the astronauts. you're watching are just there on soho raman a reminder of our top news stories after twenty two years of negotiations an agreement has been signed which could settle a territorial dispute over the caspian sea the leaders of russia kazakhstan iran

turkmenistan and azerbaijan which border the caspian sea are meeting in the present port city of act now they've signed a convention on the legal status of the sea but so far no details on what they decided have been released it's all over how much of the caspian sea each country can claim as their. russian president vladimir putin said an agreement was crucial to regional security and beyond. bizarre busses to the un security is very important and this is what underpins our agreements in this region has an influence on afghanistan on the middle east so this really affects the basic interests states and we need to pull together to combat the threat of terrorism and trans boundary criminality millions have started voting in a runoff presidential election present it brahim boubacar katter won the first round with forty one percent of the vote but opposition candidate somalia seasick uses him of fraud. three attackers thought to be behind a bombing in jordan have been killed in

a police raid security forces stormed this building in salt where several suspects were hiding they eventually blew up the building four police officers were also killed and five other suspects were arrested. it's been six hundred days since al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein was arrested and jailed in egypt without charge hussain is accused of broadcasting false news and receiving the foreign funds to defame state institutions here and there are strongly denied the allegations and the network is demanding his immediate release one of the us as most and vicious space missions has blasted off three two one zero left on the park a solar pro ball flight closer to the sun than any previous satellite it's designed to brave extreme temperatures of more than a thousand degrees at speeds of seven hundred thousand kilometers an hour. those are the headlines more news in half an hour daryn jordan next on al-jazeera

its inside story to stay with us. relations between the u.s. and turkey are at crisis point donald trump and close a straight terrace on ankara and turkish president and no one warns of the consequences of such actions which 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 minion 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 due to 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 recha tie up to one and when the u.s. refused to extradite the cleric for tula 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 in 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 when his trial continued outraging trump the u.s.

responded leveling sanctions against the turkish interior and justice ministers the dispute over the pastor is just part of an escalating feud between trump and air to one 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 u.s. 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. turkey's 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 she 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 their 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 in chickie he is a dual national turkey 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 throughout the 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 tromp 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 preferred form 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 brunson could play in the midterm elections. you know 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 extra's it the leader of the defector organization the fit of argue lent which is who 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 unilateral aggressive language towards the the turkish administration which created the consulate asian of a kind of national unity against the united states and it with a high anti-americanism in turkey you know just yesterday and today the leader of the leaders of the opposition party event.