the u.s. question is to impose more sanctions on to the as abrasions agencies down grade the country's credit rating. and welcome to al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha with me elizabeth parata also ahead a new u.n. report proposes ways to help protect palestinian civilians. the indian state of facing the worst floods in a century more than three hundred people have died and rescues ongoing and. cricket star turned politician and mancala said to be sworn in as pakistan's prime minister on saturday.

two major credit rating agencies have low wood the grades for the move by moody's and standard and poor's puts more pressure on a country that has been rocked by both an economic crisis and deteriorating relations with the united states gabriel reports from new york. for the turkish lira it was a week that could not in soon enough he week that started with the lira sliding to a record low of seven point two against the us dollar the currency has lost nearly forty percent of its value against the dollar this year alone as a full fledged economic crisis continues to simmer the trumpet ministration this week threaten to impose additional economic sanctions on turkey over the country's continued house arrest of a u.s. pastor on terrorism charges the diplomatic standoff led trump on friday to again

say sanctions are justified turkey has in my opinion acted very very badly so we haven't seen the last of that we are not going to take it sitting down they can take our face but some analysts say the u.s. is being overly aggressive with the sanctions and use them to march and use them to recklessly if you don't have allies on board when you use the. erode their effect of this over time however there are some signs of potential relief on wednesday qatar's emir tahmima bin hamad out funny visited ankara bringing with him promises of an investment package worth fifteen billion dollars the money will mainly be injected into turkey's financial markets and banks turkey also promised to inject more money into the economy here on wall street they're watching the events in turkey very closely but most analysts say they have not seen any significant signs yet that events there are objecting the u.s.

stock market but elsewhere that's not the case markets in asia remain mixed and european stocks were mostly down primarily because many european countries remain heavily exposed to turkey's debts while the list of grievances between these two nato allies is substantial this crisis ultimately boils down to a battle of wills between two leader. there's the big question now which one of them will blink first until then how far will the lira fall in the meantime gabriel is on to how does it new york. out a mesh is a national security and foreign policy analyst and he says to his economy doesn't stand a chance against u.s. sanctions the vast majority not if not all of the civilized world banking and trade sort of transactions go through one and one and only sort of transactional route and that's new york that's american transactional routes if the

united states decides what sanctions and those which control the vast majority of the banking transactions world. turkey doesn't stand a chance now you can get some direct investment from qatar it's being get some direct investment from other sovereigns but again your banking system is beholden rely and also that and then on american watching american institutions even a broken clock is right twice a day american president president trump with all his faults flaws and problems and stability he's right about this case present on its checkers that there's a correctness maneuvers need to come back to the watchtower allies this year turkey sobber it's kept turkey prosperous a lot kept turkey away from a lot of threats facing east and north let's move on to other news now the united nations has published a report listing for proposals for increasing protections for palestinian civilians

and this commission to look into ways to protect civilians in gaza and the palestinian territories from excessive and discriminate force by the israeli and the tray let's get more on the smell cost ponit rosslyn joining us live joining us live at u.n. headquarters in new york so what does the report say vase. well elizabeth the report issued by the secretary general and tell you good tannish says that there are four possible ways of protecting palestinian civilians between the clashes between palestinian protesters and the israeli military it's important to note that tanner's is not endorsing any of these four options but this is what he has come up with after. filling out this report at the behest of the u.n. general assembly basically these four things include increasing the number of you would personnel in the occupied palestinian territories in order to help provide

financial economic and educational assistance to the palestinian people he also says that it's also a way of protecting the palestinians by providing more buddy for those very things that i just listed the last two issues which would both require action by the u.n. security council would be either the deployment of an observer bishop that could act as a local bta to force between the israeli military and local palace studio at flashpoints such as border crossings or put there seems to be some sort of brewing confrontation between the two sides the final option which also would require u.n. security council a bad date would be the deployment of some sort of armed force whether there peacekeepers or some other place here is a clear but that would essentially be a way of keeping the two sides away from each other and preventing the dubber of

clashes that we have seen since the end of march including a very deadly day on the day when the u.s. opened its embassy in jerusalem. how likely is it that any of these proposals these suggestions would be implemented given that they will have to be put to the u.n. security council. well it really is going to come down to a matter of vigorous debate if the members of the security council even want to take up this issue because when they discussed the matter of protecting civilians as well as non-governmental organizations a journalist and other civilians from being really in the crosshairs between the israeli military and palestinian protesters a resolution that could have compelled this very report was vetoed by the united states and that's why the general assembly took up the matter so it's going to be first a question of whether or not they could even decide to even discuss what was passed

in this general assembly resolution and they had to try to see whether there would be a way to put together such a document that could survive a u.s. threat of a veto if not compelling or at least convincing the u.s. to have stayed from voting on the better but the chances are it's very low it's worth noting again that does not it dorce any of these recommendations but it certainly does set the groundwork for more discussion on how to break the tensions down between the israeli military of the government and the palestinians notably those living in gaza where the vast majority of these clashes and the deaths of palestinian civilians have happened since in the past five months or at roth thank you very much for that for now that is rather than jordan with the latest live and new york thank you now israeli police and diverse them have closed the gates of the

mosque compound offshore knife attack they say an israeli palestinian man tied to stab an officer and also say before being shot dead the closure means worshippers will be unable to pray at the mosque jordan which is the custody an off the some off the compound has urged israel to immediately reopen it. meanwhile at least two palestinian protesters have been killed and two hundred and seventy wounded during demonstrations near the gaza israel border fence palestinians have been staging protests every five day since march they calling for a return to abscess to lands that their families feel forced to leave they're also demanding an end to the israeli led blockade of the gaza strip which on stratford as add a medical tent near the fence. the medics here tell us that this man has been injured by a live round that has gone through both his legs. the medics here say that the majority of those injured are injured in the lower limbs and they say that ninety percent of

the time these bullets are live ammunition if you come over here this man. is one of the countless people. suffering the effects of tear gas inhalation medics saying they're seeing people like this all the time is not a man here who so dull to tells us has been injured by what he describes as an exploding bullet obviously we can't independently confirm this but don't to say that he's ready soldiers are using a type of ammunition that explodes in middle of a meeting and the shrapnel obviously flies out and many people are being harmed this way now hamas says that the palestinians of gaza have every right to continue these protests and as we heard earlier today in the mosques there were calls for these protests to happen in various locations across gaza hamas says the people here have every right to protest until israel's sea is lifted and that's

despite the countless injuries we're seeing here every week. now the chief minister of the indian state of cattle says it's experiencing an extremely grave crisis as the monsoon rains continue to battle of region more than three hundred people have been killed this month and the damage has been described as the west and needing a century then it smith has the nicest. hundreds of soldiers have been sent to caroline to lead the rescue effort. thousands of people are stranded across the southern indian state at least two hundred twenty thousand people have sought refuge in relief camps. hundreds of homes have been swallowed by floodwater. north and central carola have been worst hit by the floods but the entire state is on red alert as heavy rain is predicted for several days if you have a fresh spell of flags inundating another bostonians. we have deployed our

forces over there in seven districts. the government says ten thousand kilometers of perilous roads have been destroyed. the international airport is flooded and have been temporarily closed. monsoon rains are a fact of life in india but these are the heaviest since one hundred twenty four millions of dollars worth of crops have been washed away. indian prime minister narendra modi says he's praying for the safety and well being of the people of canada bernard smith al-jazeera. to now with the government says it may take over the responsibility of the motorway system after the collapse of a bridge and genoa at least thirty eight people died and hundreds of others were injured david chase has more from genoa they've already started to bury the dead in a series of private funeral but the search for survivors still continues under the rubble of the collapsed bridge the rescuers are using heavy lifting the scenery and

search dogs. but hopes are fading with each hour that passes here that anyone else can have survived under such a weight of concrete. many of the families of the victims are boycotting the day of mourning called in the city this weekend they say it was a tragedy caused by government negligence and they want no part in the official ceremony for the marriage general or did little to reassure them in their grief this is a way of thinking this very every problem may become an opportunity in a society where they see it right now i mean we're going to have some investment from the from the government to the collapse of the bridge which was opened in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven as fed growing concern about the state of at least aging roads and bridges and the quality of the cement used in the construction boom across the country it does seem that this was created more than fifty years ago and the sheer volume of traffic these bridges are now taking not

only here but in many other parts of the italian infrastructure simply was not allowed for there was too much traffic it was well known since years since and decades ago that this infrastructure was not enough for supporting all the traffic the city traffic bortz related traffic and the regional and even international traffic prosecutors in the city say ten to twenty people are still unaccounted for and a warning the death toll is expected to rise the collapse occurred just a day before italy's busiest summer holiday david chaytor al-jazeera genoa. still ahead on the bulletin the move by the trumpet ministration some say signals as withdraw from the conflict in serbia and malaysia's new prime minister vives in china with a message for his hosts it's time to renegotiate the duals his predecessor struck.

through tranquil review. journal. and its image going to. hello there for many of us in china there's been a lot of wet weather recently we had one tropical storm that worked its way into the east of our map here and that's still disintegrating over the northern part of our map here as we head through the day on saturday so very heavy downpours here and even if we fast forward to sunday that system is still with this it's moving away northwards but it's still giving some heavy rain we also had another storm that worked his way towards the northern parts of vietnam that also caused flooding in the southern parts of china that is now away towards the west but you can see it still giving us some heavy rain there as you work your way across through me and ma and into bangladesh for us in china we've got more showers cropping up here they gradually pushing their way northwards as we head through sunday and into monday

even further towards the south and four is in the philippines lots of showers at the moment but to the south of that it's actually looking largely fine and dry for many of us across borneo down through java and into bali towards the west more wet weather here and looks like some of us in thailand seeing yet more heavy rain not only on saturday but also on sunday too of course we've been hearing about the flooding that we've had in kerala recently and the showers here are set to continue as we head through the next few days we've also got plenty of what weather towards the northwestern parts of india as well for today. there with it sponsored by cattle and raise. them they set sail for gold. but discovered the resource worth more than it's worth. here will be. driven by commerce enabled through politics and religion executed with brutality. in episode one slavery roots charge the first in the rise of the african slave

trade mapping your history with the streets of humanity. for all the gold in the world and of just. good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories ratings agency moody's has cut turkey's credit ratings and to junk status early on friday that we are weak and once again after a turkish court rejected an american pastas opinion for release washington has freshened to impose more sanctions on korea if he isn't freed. the united nations has published a report listing for suggestions for increasing protections for palestinian civilians that was commissioned to look into ways to protect civilians from

excessive and indiscriminate force by the israeli military and more than three hundred people have died in widespread flooding in the southern indian state of carola tens of thousands have been left stranded with troops and local fishermen staging desperate rescue attempts. now just a few hours i'm wrong collins expected to take the oath of office as pakistan's new prime minister calls thirty k. and south party became the largest in the national assembly after law. sponsor that but he still needs to form a coalition government confiscates the mammoth task of preventing an economic crisis and boosting jobs. the first thing we will do is crack down on corruption i promise you in front of god that whoever stole from this country and burden us with. a single one of them. come out hi there has more from islamabad. august on the new parliament has children emraan khan and there during the second

prime minister of pakistan there were chaotic scenes inside parliament and the opposition made a lot of noise shouting slogans against emraan khan and shouting and favorite roles now why should the prime minister who was disqualified and sent to jail his younger brother should be for the opposition candidate for the prime minister. however the differences between the politicians in pakistan has meant that the opposition airlines had already fallen apart of august on people's party decided to abstain from the war during and of course had given emraan khan a clear advantage imran khan has spoken on the floor of parliament saying that is going to be bigger an accountability and he's going to deliver on the promises he made to the people of august on who have voted for change in iran started his political party back in nineteen ninety six and in twenty two years has become

their greatest second prime minister. malaysia's prime minister mahathir mohamad is in beijing on her first trip to china since winning may's election he recently said he wants to cancel or renegotiate some of the deal struck between his predecessor and the chinese government florence lowy reports from kuala lumpur. the chinese have long had links with the mill a peninsula is to teach it to look asian the convenient midway point for chinese traders plying the east west route even now commerce is at the heart of the relationship with malaysia accounting china as its biggest trading partner but of late the actions of malaysia's new prime minister mahathir mohamad who came into power in may as concerned china has suspended three chinese led projects and said earlier this week he was aiming to scrap or at least renegotiate the deals it was

a crucial part of the platform which bucket of higher up party which now it's a federal government was elected a body that were perceptions that these projects that the culture is governing them world upside that wasn't favorable to believe that it could probably access a bit of depth or even jeopardize our sovereignty to the. the contracts were signed by the previous government led by not to pasok who's been charged with corruption and money laundering officials are investigating whether the previous administration used money from the projects to repay debts owed by the scandal ridden fund one set up by nudging. of the three projects that have been suspended the biggest is the twenty billion dollars east coast rail link which would connect the eastern states of peninsula malaysia with the capital kuala lumpur and southern thailand it's part of china's so-called boughton road initiated an ambitious plan to link it with europe and africa through

a network of ports roads and railways. analysts say chinese officials desire to see the initiated succeed where projects in other countries have hit hurdles may influence how they view martin's request if both sides could come to some sort of compromise in terms of the construction cost in terms of for example in the future types of investments i think malaysia and china economic cooperation was due for had a malaysian government advisor visited beijing last month to lay the groundwork for maha things first visit to china since his election ultimately the two countries need each other but nation wants to reduce its debt but not at the expense of future investments china needs a friend and ally in the region just recently the chinese foreign ministry said any disagreements between the two countries should be resolved through talks and indication perhaps china is willing to renegotiate the terms of its deals with

malaysia florence we. the united states says it's cutting two hundred thirty million dollars allocated for stabilisation programs and seven it says the funding will only be provided to syria and gauges and a credible peace process led by the u.n. is being seen as a move to extricate the u.s. from the conflict as committee hellcat reports. it's yet another signal of the troubled ministrations desire to withdraw from a visible role in syria on friday and announced it was redirecting two hundred thirty million syrian stabilization funds frozen in march to other foreign policy priorities move comes following contributions from pledges totaling three hundred million by coalition partners to help rebuild parts of syria no longer held by isis among the contributions announced this week one hundred million from saudi arabia. president trump since the start of his presidency has been carefully cultivated.

his relationship with the kingdom but the donation is a fraction in comparison to the reported four billion trump reportedly requested in march for syrian assistance and rebuilding still the u.s. says in former eisel strongholds like rocka one hundred fifty thousand displaced residents have been able to return the city's drinking water is now safe. according to a recent u.n. report up to thirty thousand eisel fighters remain in iraq and syria syria has called saudi arabia's contributions to the u.s. led rebuilding effort morally unacceptable through its state news agency it argued the coalition's only goal is to fragment the region that's what the u.s. contends is the goal of iran in syria and throughout the middle east is pushing for the withdrawal of iran's forces in syria we're going to continue to counter the iran regime is more an activity. to support iranian voices and to galvanize

international support for efforts the u.s. denies the shifting of funds for syria signals a lessening of its strategic goals it says its humanitarian assistance is not effective and defeating eisel remains a top priority we continue to be committed to this fight and we're not backing down from that isis needs to be defeated in the u.s. government stands firmly by that for years president trying to complained about u.s. allies not sharing the financial burden for efforts in syria including preventing syrian president bashar a law saad and iranian allies from creeping into newly liberated areas it is a goal all saudi arabia says it share kimberly help get al-jazeera washington. the united nations has invited yemen's government and yvonne back to the rebels to geneva next mom for talks on resolving the country's civil war the september beijing aims to revive un backed negotiations which broke down and twenty sixteen

nearly ten thousand people have been killed since the conflict began more than three years ago the u.n. says much of the population is on the verge of starvation mohamad though has more from neighboring djibouti. call for the yemeni government on whole thing looks across the willingness for our book talks in geneva you know an official saying that the initial talks will dwell on breaking the drawing of a framework for talks before putting the attention to establishing some hope of a polish sharing agreement between the purtiest the difficult issue of the ports you through if they do that which is a lifeline for millions of human isn't expected to dominate the talks. over the fighters of expressed some willingness to hunt over the pool. with the the. an administration voted supported by the united nations but the city itself something that you or you say this is unacceptable on votes coupled with. other issue or for

. this fire before event the talks begin and it's who do you. think invited to the conference and thinks a limit more of a success. now german chancellor angela merkel is shorter to hold talks with the russian leader vladimir putin on saturday dominic a new ports on the complex relationship between berlin and moscow when i'm going to merkel need to learn to move putin on saturday it will be for the second time in just three months on the table of the conflict in syria the situation in ukraine and the controversial nord stream two gas pipeline under the baltic sea but hanging over the meeting is this statement from donald trump a july's nato summit but germany as far as i'm concerned is captive to russia because it is getting so much of its energy from russia so we're supposed to protect germany but they're getting their energy from russia explained to him the

way you know russia provides only around half of germany's annual energy consumption but most is in the form of natural gas and that is why the nord stream two gas pipeline is so contentious it's a network which when complete will transport natural gas from russia under the baltic sea to western europe bypassing the existing land based pipelines through ukraine and it might deprive the government in kiev as much as three billion dollars a year in revenue ministers in kiev say the project is purely political moscow insists it's just business but i sure wish i knew when you have the stomach stick that lets us get them up let's talk we have always treated this project as exclusively economic we have always kept this outside the scope of any political process i would also like to say that after the launch of nord stream to stopping the movement of russian gas through ukraine is not intended. but russia's role in ukraine continues to concern leaders notably angle americal specifically moscow's

immoveable see over the minsk agreement which broke in a cease fire between government and separatist forces. we hope to move forward on the issues of the minsk agreement with ukraine and russia france and germany took on responsibility many years ago we are saddened that still no day goes by without a violation of the cease fire but we don't give up hope and we know that through this the relationship with russia could be significantly improved. ukraine assigned to the two leaders do have common ground such as in keeping the run nuclear deal both share concerns about the trumpet ministrations tariffs and diplomacy but their relationship has never been easy i think both sides have accumulated a lot of skepticism mistrust mutual reproaches and grievances that overshadow their relationship which is why few people in the german capital expect any breakthroughs

as a result of this research dominic. and this reminder you can always keep up to date with all the news and much more on our website al-jazeera dot com. and again i'm a little problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera turn major credit ratings agencies have lowered their grades for turkish debt the move by moody's and standard and poor's puts more pressure on a country that's been rocked by both an economic crisis and deteriorating relations with the united states washington has threatened to impose more sanctions on korea if a u.s. pastor jailed and turkey twenty sixteen isn't free. well just been a problem for a long time they have not acted it. will be what they have a wonderful group that's just wonderful the front. they made up the

phony you are getting. you going through a drought write down your goals. they should have given back a long time ago. in my opinion are very very badly so we haven't seen the last that we are not going to get down. so you will see what happens. the un has published a report on how to better protect palestinian civilians it was commissioned to look into ways to protect them from what it called excessive and indiscriminate force by the israeli military more than three hundred people have died in widespread flooding in the southern indian state of carolina tens of thousands of thing that stranded with the military and fisherman carrying out rescues. just a few dollars and run khan is expected to be sworn in as prime minister. and soft

party became the largest in the national assembly after last month's election but he still needs to form a coalition government among the many challenges will be preventing an economic crisis and boosting jobs the us has imposed sanctions on form of the tree and police commanders and to its and they refused of ethnic cleansing against one hundred muslims while they offer tougher sanctions so far the trial the ministration did not target the highest level of the tree well those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us and side story is coming up next thank you very much for watching i'll have more headlines in just under thirteen minutes.

as italy comes to terms with the bridge that collapsed killing thirty eight people the government is turning its attention to the aging infrastructure engineers are warning hundreds of bridges and tunnels could be dangerous so what can be done to ensure safety this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm adopted hamid with dozens now dead and the hope of finding any more survivors diminishing by the day the general a bridge collapse has many across to woo.