fall of one of india's most powerful spiritual gurus on al jazeera. and live from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha to show terry welcome to the news grid venezuela introduces radical financial reforms to support a passion economy but critics say the measures will only add to the problems from venezuelans many of whom are leaving for neighboring countries in search of better living conditions the latest from the region. there is tension in the ugandan capital after police fired live round to demonstrators protesting against the arrest of an opposition leader musician known by his stage name was alive in kampala with the latest and waist deep in water and carola up to its worst flooding in a century and now there are fears of diseases more than eight hundred thousand people

seeking refuge in overcrowded temporary shelters. those stories you can see and comments throughout the show on facebook blogs or on twitter to see the hash tag if. you are with the news grid live on air and streaming online through your to facebook live and al-jazeera dot com we began with breaking news out of chechnya republic and russia there have been a series of coordinated attacks in several places by armed men some police officers have been injured when a police station was targeted let's go live now to orange felons who is tracking that story from moscow rory the story is developing as we are coming to air so what else have you learned. yeah as you say a series of coordinated attacks

a rarity these days in chechnya i have to say none of these attacks it seems was particularly sophisticated nor were they particularly effective but three different incidents in one man walked towards a police station and armed with knives tried to attack police officers at the police station in another and attempted suicide bombing went wrong when the attack killed nobody not even himself and in the third there seems to have been at attempts by attackers driving a car to knock over traffic policeman on the streets of grozny now the investigative committee of russia has opened a criminal investigations into this that's standard procedure of course the leader of chechnya mount cold ramzan kadyrov who has basically built his reputation built

his cue dos with the kremlin his position with the kremlin on being a man who brought stability to the war torn region with methods that are often decried as being overly tough he has said that it is i sill that is behind this that has been trying to co-opt them divert the minds of young chechnyans chechens and get him to do this and indeed in the last half hour or so it seems that i still through its media channels has confirmed that this was one of their attacks ok or a challenge giving us the latest on that breaking news we'll continue to follow it live from moscow roy thank you. venezuelans have woken up to president nicolas maduro drastic monetary reforms through the country's main opposition parties have already called for protests more than two million in his violence have fled to neighboring countries to escape the worsening financial crisis the brazilian state

is asking the supreme court to close their borders and is layla to all than israel inside is peru and ecuador have also tightened rules for new arrivals leaving thousands stranded at border checkpoints colombia though has granted temporary residency to more the end of two thousand and is wayland he is live in the capital bogota so alice andro as we just reported there to varying degrees a lot of countries in south america have not been open to accepting venezuelans and at a time colombia wasn't as well so why this change right now. well i think that these countries are trying very hard to see what's the best way to deal with this unprecedented situation we're talking about a number of migrants you know make as never seen before at least in such a short span of time and what i think is really lacking here is regional integration and how to deal with this problem and that's why we're seeing ecuador

peru moving out on a monthly creating problems in their countries as these migrants get back in colombia or somewhere else doing their journey colombia as you were saying it's trying to legalize the situation of almost half a million venezuelans that are here the colombian government think that there could be up to one million fifty thousand have a rise only in july many of them also have relatives here in colombia so the government is trying to legalize their situation to find a path for them to be here legally and work it's a very complicated situation though because there's also no end in sight to this crisis to the colombian government is insisting with minnesota that this is a problem that was created by their own policies these people are leaving because i would of necessity and that's one of the main issues is the fact that it's well it

is not recognizing the christ is not recognizing the number of people that are leaving venezuela and also is not willing to receive international aids which would help cording to call them in other countries in the region to stem this flow of people ok allison to get a life for us there and colombia talk more about the situation on the ground and then israel it is an oil rich country but it is cash poor that reforms are part of the. the government's response to skyrocketing prices inflation is projected to rise further up to one million percent this year as according to the international monetary fund so give me an idea of what that means venezuelans are now paying about two million dollars for a cup of coffee so to solve the problem the government's introducing a new currency the sovereign ball of our which will remove five zero zero banknotes it's linked to a crypto currency announced in february that's pegged to the price of oil the

government is also raising the minimum wage by three thousand percent and president maduro wants venezuelans to pay more for what is currently in the world's cheapest gas let's bring in venezuela analysts on a shot in washington d.c. she's director of the schott international consulting and we like to call on you at times like this so sonia do any of these change changes that i just outlined do they have a chance of working as you see it. hi ho where you know i actually know some people consider it is illegal and too late and actually it's going to worse the situation in menace where because if you consider they raise their minimum wage from three million to store one hundred eighty million believe it is a massive massive their valuation of the currency ok they mother a g.m. also announced a couple of days ago they are going to release or luis their restrictions on

currency cointreau in venice where so they are trying to tie the economy there in a swollen economy or they're in a swell and currency philip better which is her. link to the oil. price of the viral right now it's around seven seventy dollars. more or less so that would be the price of the petro but it is ready. the price so we don't know actually there he said main goal is to keep this sanchez imposed but the by the us in other quandary. in the union and even in latin america that's why he's trying to use stick a bed through the the korean sea in order to keep dissensions in its right to sort of dive and bring to life the economy military so it was so new wilderness weyler need outside help to stop the slide that they're on.

yes but their outside help at least in this side of the oral is leading to a political change in venice eve their mother or daughter a g.m. stock or transport and every elections in minutes where otherwise i don't see how they international community will help when i swear to improve the economy of course there are all the contras who will be willing to help but like china and russia and broadly india but the rest of the war os their international institution the all that unless they see a political change in venezuela and their return to their marker in minutes well ok we will continue to follow this on sanya thank you so much for your insight we appreciate it very much so clearly these are huge painful changes that venezuelans

are dealing with the president nicolas maduro has tried several ways to win their support and who has more on that answer thanks for show well president maduro went on facebook live late on sunday evening to explain some of the economics to his citizens he was online just hours before this new plan went into effect one that he's calling a historic moment for our homeland and this is i'm going to commit to an economy complete of we need a complete economic revolution like the one i have already activated and at the center of it is work the payment of work the protection of work and when i say work that puts the venezuelan community at the center the creative forces of the venezuelan community in a perfect formula. well that video has been seen around two hundred fifty thousand times just to give you a sense of how popular it wasn't also spurred a lot of conversation online but the rose name as you can see here was tweeted more

than a quarter million times in the past twenty four hours and interestingly the conversation has remained pretty steady through the night in venezuela now his supporters are using a hash tag called model may they oh i believe i said that right which means with madeira oh i put it all on the table and they've been posting pictures like this one from the central bank of venezuela celebrating this new crypto currency and saying that it quote seeks to combat the distortions produced by speculation in the illegal foreign exchange market now there's also this video from the central bank which explains how the new system will work it's been posted dozens and dozens of times on twitter and. there's also this clip of former president hugo chavez championing all kinds of victory for venezuela it's been widely shared by supporters over the past day so where are his opponents you may ask. well opposition leader maria kareena machado has been posting several times in our

denouncing the economic plan and criticizing majoris leadership we've also seen calls for a national strike on tuesday there's a youth group known as vent to hovan which posted a video on twitter calling for me to resign. the most mis syrian economic measure of venezuela needs is the resignation of madieu and his mouth you do not believe in our economy is experiencing a high level of instability that's why we see businesses closing their doors stopping production while also increasing the price of goods while salaries don't increase any momentum for the moment to unite under one theme objective enough of monroe and his power hungry mafia. so what do you think of venezuela's new economic plan you can let us know using the hash tag newsgroup or message me directly on twitter at andrew shapiro all right andrew thanks and you can also watch on this documentary it's an antacid documentary from our witness team al-jazeera on

a father's desperate attempt to feed his family through smuggling right there on our website at al-jazeera dot com and also get in touch with us we want to hear from you so continue to send your comments to all of our online platforms on twitter just choose the hash tag a.j. a news crew it or handle is at age eighteen let's cross one facebook facebook dot com slash al-jazeera or you can reach us on what's app and telegram it plus nine seven five zero one triple one four nine so more than one hundred people have been taken hostage after a taliban ambush in northern afghanistan they have been freed and u.s. had to be women and children buses or stopped on the to car quddus highway about three hundred kilometers north of kabul on sunday the president declared a three month conditional cease fire but the taliban has not officially responded to that al-jazeera soon as a scene has more from the capital kabul. less than twenty four hours after

president assad of twenty announced a ceasefire taliban today announced that they kidnapped dozens of passengers in. provence in the north taliban said that they. kidnapped those passengers because they received some intelligence that among those passengers were top security officials the security forces have their own story they said that the taliban did not free those passengers but the and the security forces managed to free them. but the main question asked by many afghans here in afghanistan is is that even going to accept the offer of ceasefire for three months offered yesterday by president. but even has yet to answer this this question but according to our sources some members of the leadership of taliban are leaning towards accepting. the offer not

it's not for three months at least for four or or seven days but some of the members in taliban leadership believe that the movement should keep the taliban should keep fighting the government and force them to offer more concessions in the future. the spread of disease has become a new worry for rescue workers in the southern indian state of carola one and a half million people have been forced from their homes after the worst flooding in a century really eight hundred fifty thousand people are living in temporary relief camps and her thomas reports on carla. and still it rains the downpours all less heavy less frequent and shorter than they were but in kara they are still coming to people here fresh rain lengthens the time they'll have to stay at a camp. for more than five thousand frost carola although really camp is to ground the words they're simply community holds in schools which have opened their

doors and quickly filled with people and each evacuee has a similarly harrowing story. that not the water has destroyed everything we had it was up to my neck it even took my cows. everything at home is lost and here there is nothing to do what can we do. it's hot in this hole there's no privacy or dignity some here were evacuated on thursday and a male spent four days living this public school and like others were rescued only on sunday having spent four days and nights on the roofs of floors of their flooded homes both bricks equally exhausted. the exhaustion shows. but there is enough food here enough drinking water and medicines. volunteer doctors at the center so they haven't yet seen outbreaks of disease as of now that

on the old thankfully and thanks to that are not maybe communicable disease or something like that we've just. been spreading because we're also getting prophylactic medicines acids so that they let us know if we're to make up something like that of that sort so we are really working hard for that. but people's mental health is suffering everybody is simply sign that. india's air force on monday distributed dramatic video of a toddler's rescue but most imagine see a fact. you ations are over and after the drama reality hits after thomas al jazeera i really can't. speak to dr george chandy enterable and india via skype he's a senior talked or at the believers church medical college hospital which is located in an area badly impacted by the flooding dr we appreciate you speaking to

us at a time like this what are the most immediate medical needs medical conditions that you're seeing we've been going to separate camps that are. well eight hundred or so i was in people whom around this area and been going from camp to gamble over the last four or five big lots of that is the section people have been reduced in water and their clothes away and they don't have anything the door so having been exposed to the color lots of fever i noticed the dream sections we know when they're very soon to be buried in diseases more and more of it is that rejection is going to go to but it isn't going to spiders are just very common in this part of the country it's a rat fever so we've already started it by using people to bathe doxycycline on a regular basis the where there is conflict in their thought what that would be affected so we are placing people too but we don't want to rule with twenty minutes

in order to make it safe in the camps there's a lot of fungal infection particularly. interested in this area is that the feet people have been standing lying down a waterfall for many many hours and so they're out there this is because of that and many people will be coming to go with pneumonia that the big problem is that no cat no go ahead bob. you know these people are certainly going to be moved out of their homes so they don't have their medications. hypertensive is that was the scheme eight hundred disease i don't think any medicine so we're in the hospital we're getting to work so they're going over to the camps and showing that we circulated with their medicines many of them don't even know what vexes they were so let me let me ask you this that are you here and this is the second time you write at medicine so you're talking about there are

people that were obviously already on medications on prescriptions and then you also talked about dr cycling being used really in a prophylactic way do you have enough of all of these medicines no doctor cycling in india is going to keep so they're getting knocked out whether fever medicines are expensive so there we need to try. more and more medicines and try to get them to these camps initially and try and see whether they're big and we could go into the camps but after going to a hospital most of them would be that dense of care lots of maybe. we don't have the medicine the funds to take care of such a large number so is it is it a matter of needing more donations is it a matter of better organization or or both. bills. what we've done to the hospital here is that initially we moved out of the big sort

of behind the back into areas that we were able to personally from the hospital saved seven hundred dollars b. but now we know it's the next phase that people don't have food and making sure that we give them as much as well they're good to fight. and treat that the next phase is going to be even more difficult with only a fraction of the baby diseases that are sort of three infections the demonio has to be you know we have a lot is a number of elderly people you know population so these people are certainly going to come back and we need to have the wherewithal to take care of them so that's where the nation's with a bus a lot so that the court in the face after that would probably be even more visible and be difficult because the lawsuit is that there is nothing. so trying to build their lives again their homes that their families again it's going to

be very very difficult task and i don't personally estimate that the minimum of five years to get them back on the ground you know we're going to go its own country will that be. dr george chandy thank you so much for the work you do and for talking to us we appreciate it very much thank you thank you very much on saturdays i show we talked about how the positive online conversation has been about the plight of people are focused on the rescue efforts and on survival tips sense then now the stories become a bit politicized her from rocky post a journalist an italian who talked us through how we got here. why most of the country is the most in support of the state with the most people believe in money and have come out in support of the stage some elements of the country have decided to meet this a communal issue. for example especially on social media there are a lot of people who was ovulating opinion such as get allies does that get allies

being flooded or again i deserved to be flooded because the heat there and because the of the globe's angry while this is appalling the fact remains that such he does not born in alaska the fact remains they get lies when the see you state in the country which is the rule of law unless you can buy. and it is also one of the few states in the country which is actively existed safran we have that is you know that is that that is spread across the country some still does and since two thousand for the elections then the my did and of our government even if our country has also seen an increase in who is asian it becomes a religious beliefs in our lifestyles and dozens of political allegiances if you notice the people that would be dull they didn't get along they were told another thing. that i would think distance rules without getting muslims and the fetus a hand saying that these people do not deserve to be headed because because very clearly because they do not support the two big government and if you will if you

follow the accounts of these people who are telling you are very clear you fire a people and a war but we all need their political into this very clear on their you know on their social media sites still exist loony marxist not just communist disharmony you are excusing not just an example of communist on me but also an example of political polarization they and their a section of people is demand being put into the legions in the gun for help in times of distress and the fact it hurts the ruling government does not to disparage this sort of behavior does not address the sort of the heat is a real problem. now real quickly before we move on from that from this story you all have really been engaged and affected by some of the videos and pictures you've seeing qual says that was too much destruction and loss of life global warming should not be ignored that's one of our comments from our facebook page so keep your comments coming in interacting with us as we continue to tell you the day's news nearly two hundred people separated by the korean war are meeting relatives

they have not seen in decades south koreans had to win a lottery to take part in this three day reunion at the at a resort rather in the north the leaders of the two nations are great to resume their role or unions after a landmark meeting in june that monaghan has more. they waited a lifetime to make this journey families separated by war will finally be reunited . they are the lucky ones tens of thousands applied but only a small number get to go. eighty five year old boxing him was a teenager when the korean war broke out in one nine hundred fifty she still remembers the horrors she witnessed as she fled after her parents were killed she made the perilous journey south get involved like a jet would come down with a loud noise in there would be bombs being dropped those massive amount of people would fall down to. her siblings in the north are no longer alive but she's looking

forward to meeting her niece for the first time jill oh no you cannot describe that in words and i'm probably not the only one who feels that way they share the same blood and i wanted to visit the place where i used to live another from the group this ninety four year old one suck her union will also be bittersweet. i did not get to see my son but i'm happy that i will be meeting my granddaughter. they set off on their journey north is just a few hours drive but for decades that's been an impossible distance from the road . when the moment finally comes many urges to two years say. they know this three day reunion will almost certainly be their last. month. i am so thankful and grateful that you could come all this way i finally get to meet you after so long. i know it was hard i remember how beautiful you.

thought. we were separated when you were two and i was four wow what happened to us what a world i'm so happy together they share memories of times past and stories of family they've never had the chance to know. only twenty reunions have been organized by the red cross since one thousand nine hundred five south korea's president has called for more its relations improved with the north. more than fifty thousand people in the south are still waiting and for many time is running out. al-jazeera. coming up if you are watching on facebook we have a story for you from our online team about community radio station in paris that's getting refugees a chance to be heard check that out also ahead. a decade of bailouts so what is next for the country and how much economic stability can it expects and if it acts

. sunshine across the middle east over the coming days no great surprise. still in place around the black sea the caspian sea but for the most part it is clear skies . the hot sun shines a forty celsius in kuwait forty five celsius there for baghdad a rather more pleasant twenty nine in beirut i will say in jerusalem the day with i shall is a little further north they continue to run across georgia armenia and azerbaijan they look but a cloud there in southern parts of pakistan you notice but again no real sign of any rainfall the dry weather that continues across central areas sort of iran down into the arabian peninsula warm sunshine here in qatar temperatures in doha to

around forty three degrees fair bit of cloud you know it's just a just around them on just about that eastern side of amounted to most scots much just catch one of two light showers as is the case too across the fos out of yemen as we go on into where the stakes see that cloud becoming a little more expansive but the dry weather will continue here in doha a lot of dry weather to into southern africa but a few showers just around the southern kite long line of play out here just making its way across cape town easing from west to east and a filter is why a little further race woods by wednesday.

some journeys are tougher than others. but this route is even tougher the car of the truck there it's dangerous and there's al-jazeera the world follows the moroccan truck drivers in danger with their lives. just to make a living if you crash them a place you're middle of believe in killing because of freedom is known for. the magazines just on al-jazeera.

as a lot of the stories that caught your attention on our facebook page al jazeera dot com have been ranked for us for some of the stories we're also discussing here in news grid so and some of the stories you can see there. there you go ha yes which we'll be reporting on and very very shortly and also what's happening as and russia is taking issue with the way the west is dealing

with that syria so how about for you shortly. greece is finally wrapping up the biggest finance. bailout in history that means no more eurozone funds in return for painful austerity reforms to its labor market pensions and public finances that many greeks if you will there's little reason to celebrate although the economy is now recording modest growth nearly a decade of financial problems has turned greece into a used for poorest country at twenty percent unemployment is still more than double what it was before the crisis and it's unlikely the government will be able to provide much relief to those without jobs or to pensioners to deal reached with other eurozone states dictates it will have to keep tight control of public spending until twenty sixty the speak now to read a phony in saying gallant switzerland he's a professor of international economics at the university of st galang we appreciate your time very much so. thank you this thanks for your joining us so this new

milestone how does it really affect the average greek citizen well indeed it's a milestone to be greece's speculates own feet again for the first time since a national crisis so deficit sess for a super us government but as you mentioned it isn't didn't know it is. a success of today yet what will have to happen in your opinion for the average greek citizen to finally start to feel this. well the end of the bailout and the cash property have now by the government some time time day should use to own the change reforms in their home states who only take their home or i think of it still takes a long time to get licensees if you want to open a business if you want to build a house on your site these are all elements so complicated grossi which harm story

city since and which still is a strangle hold for a colony and the time the government has not wish to do used to do this homework so do you think that the fact that they have come out of the other side at least somewhat will that give any and best earth confidence in greece. into geese in awareness or confidence because to uncertainty on the meal out is reduced as a positive signal but of course it needs a add on by the government at yri are willing to address the obstacle still hurting the greek economy what does this mean for the arizona it is a whole evening greek experiment stays on a positive track of course we are not really on a on any bad sign recall the greek depression twenty five percent below zero it

starts like to us in its great depression boxed recovery still takes much longer so even you don't see positive signs in greeks that's of course bad signals for us a lot about six for authors of the reason countries think of italy. rate of homemade joining us once a gallon switzerland thank you very much for your expertise from appreciate it thank you very much with that. and uganda there have been street battles between police and protesters in the capital kampala the police have used live gunfire to disperse anti-government demonstrators who are angry at the arrest and alleged torture of several opposition politicians let's go now to our michael ware who is in kampala with the latest so malcolm well how are things right now. supporters of one politician in particular bobby wine who's a pop star and also a member of parliament he's critical of the government they took to the streets today protesting in several different parts of the city blocking the roads setting

tires on fire so the army and the police moved in and violently broke up those protests using gunfire using tear gas and beating people with sticks so right now most of the streets are clear although this is every last in those places where those road blocks was set up one of the areas where there was some trouble was the slum area behind me down here and this is where the wind is from it's called. he's often known as the ghetto president he grew up here he has a music studio there youth center here and he see young people in slum areas like this particularly inspired by him and angry with the government the same government and president seventies been in power for thirty six years but we won and saying that must change and a lot of young people who are suffering from high unemployment and high poverty rates identify a lot with this message and then i agree it is a tension that is alleged that you mentioned earlier the government denies it and also a pending court martial government to try him in a military court. malcolm well but the latest there for us out of kampala and

uganda thank you very much and you all have been extremely engaged on this story before i turn it over to our social media expert answer schapelle some of the comments you've been getting on facebook one says. this seventy mesko that's from shabazz and long ago says justice to night anywhere is justice denied everywhere free bobby why and the other detained legislators so now let's hand it over to andrews and also monitoring your reaction online people are very plugged into this story and it's not just in uganda or even east africa but at this point as a lot of people who are showing interest in it only seems to be picking up steam as more people and organizations outside of uganda take some form of interest in it now international for one says it considers bobby want to prisoner conscience of. since who is in their words held soley for peacefully exercising his rights of freedom of assembly and association now according to his lawyers and his wife the politician showed visible signs of torture and ill treatment something amnesty

wants the world to know when there's a lot of anger online about this case and how he has allegedly been treated and also how other elected officials have been treated now norbert now is a politician in uganda who says the collective trauma of a nation has turned into outrage creating an explosive mix there he says uganda faces a defining moment we have a choice to save a regime or save a country so many posts that are using the free bobby one has or similar to this one here calling him a representative of a younger generation who is confronting a leader who's been in power for thirty two years now thirty two years that's longer than seventy percent of uganda has been alive so more now from one activist who is calling for his release but the way encompasses a three thousand seven faces in there are three things real in the threat is not as an individual the threat is the fact that the demographic dividend in uganda is not in favor of seventy young people i'm not going to vote in the saving whatsoever he

has to use violence if he has to keep in power and we know he wants to stay in power now president was seventy posted on his facebook page yesterday channeling u.s. president trump by saying fake news generators have been putting it out that our grandson the un disciplined bobby wine is gravely ill he cannot talk but cetera the president says he checked with doctors who told him that the m.p. quote has no head or chest injuries or bone fractures they informed him. so the president also warns media houses to quote do your mandate which is balanced reporting is a lot of reporters today especially catherine she works for the b.b.c. in uganda she says media workers are being targeted by the government security services despite government assurances earlier today a reuters photo journalist named james kenna was badly beaten and taken away by the military so there's a separate hash tag out there calling for his release as well now but members of

the media under pressure ugandans are going to social media for news and to share their thoughts you can see what people are talking about most on twitter in the capital kampala here but keep in mind a social media tax was introduced last month to cut down on what the president calls gossip so even if that tax is suppressing some activity this is still a huge story online there and some of the most popular posts on the story are actually coming from neighboring kenya kenya based activists bunny facebook wonga circulating a petition that you'll see here he's calling on me seventy to do the right thing and in his words release an innocent man a freedom fighter who's been held up on trumped up charges and he also spoke to al-jazeera told us why so many young people in kenya are following this story. is a freedom fighter will be one is up political prisoner not will be one is the hope of maybe i think guns that. you could issue going forward from the north that was

for the use of the south would be what is giving us young people the hope that if we come together people. who don't speak up in the seventy's able to silence will be white those would be repeated in uganda in booty does that mean in the rwanda and even in kenya if you seventy is able to use fear to sell its will be wind in jail it will be white that means that kind of slip of the african presented to the simple. so one of the reasons we're covering the story today is because so many of you got in touch with us on facebook so keep sharing your thoughts in the comments section if you're watching us on facebook live or on twitter just use the hash tag news grid i will read out some of your thoughts later in the show andrea thank you very much the ha issued is one of the five key pillars of islam and something that all muslims are meant to undertake and their lifetimes for the second successive year cotchery citizens and expatriates can't make the pilgrimage

to mecca and saudi arabia that's because of the blockade imposed on doha by riyadh and three other countries mohammad ball has that story for over fourteen hundred years this was called the land of his jazz hundreds of thousands of muslims from faraway lands flocked to these holy sites in mecca and medina to perform the annual pilgrimage one of the five pillars of the faith in one nine hundred fifty two a bedouin clan by the name of it would not was ruling in the desert region of mission to the east and next to his job leading to the creation of what is currently known as saudi arabia over the years the number of pilgrims grew to millions the saudi monarchy imposed a quota system limiting the number attending from each country in the name of safety and logistics. but for the muslim countries accused saudis of utilizing had visa restrictions to serve political goals in iran mr idiot i mean for the fourth

consecutive year saudi arabia refuses to give clearance the yemeni pilgrims even to receive official documents sent by our yemeni ministry during the last few decades it became more and more difficult for saudi arabia to insulate had from the impact of politics. in one nine hundred eighty seven saudi security forces killed about three hundred uranium pilgrims during an anti-u.s. demonstration which they staged in mecca in two thousand and fifteen iran accused saudi authorities of complicity in a stampede that caused the death of hundreds of iranian pilgrims the following year iran decided its citizens would not attend and since june last year when saudi arabia the united arab emirates behind and egypt imposed a blockade on qatar saudi arabia banned any coordination with qatari had agencies for pilgrims it said the qataris were welcome but because land sea and air routes were closed qatar is found it difficult to travel the absence of any consular

representation in saudi arabia also raised safety concerns and it's not just qatar is have had problems according to the french newspaper saudi authorities threaten to reduce had visa quotas to some west african countries with sizable majority muslim populations unless their governments cut ties with qatar. and during the last few weeks the kingdom became the joke of social media platforms when it's granted three hundred visas to its new the lebanese christian modernized leader. photo shop because of zazi and his wife in her gentle forms was circulated in the middle east media on the his leadership and in coordination with the israeli army. to militias were behind the one nine hundred eighty two subbranch in which hundreds of palestinian civilians were killed outside beirut with a blockade on qatada still in place and muslim exposed to use leaving the sea they

continue to be denied a basic religious and human right. mohammed fun. and you can follow their journey millions make to reach mecca through al-jazeera sunu enter active search just scroll down and you can track any country and track the flights people take from there so other stories we're following today at the u.s. embassy in turkey's capital ankara has been peppered with bullets and a drive by shooting they say they're looking for several people after an unidentified person opened fire from a car early monday morning several of the bullets hit a window of a security post but there are no reports of anyone being hurt sunny go has been following that story from istanbul. the drive by shooting took place at approximately five o'clock in the morning local time police are searching for a group of people who fled the scene in a white vehicle about four or five shots were heard by witnesses but this incident

has taken place at a time when there is unprecedented tension between ankara and washington d.c. not forgetting of course the ongoing dispute that there is over the arrest of the american pastor andrew bronson who remains under house arrest. nearly two years after he was initially arrested he maintains that he has had links to terrorist organizations and is also accused of spying but the american government and donald trump have taken on his case very vocally and using it to strong arm to also using coercive economic measures such as sanctions and also tariffs raise tariffs but it is the holiday season in turkey and this is not the first time that such an incident has occurred at the u.s. embassy in ankara and also the consulate in istanbul what is important to note that

this dispute is going to remain after the holiday period is over and there has been pressure on both sides to resolve this dispute diplomatically french energy giant total has officially pulled out of a multi-billion dollar gas project iran total had agreed to develop the south gas field but withdrew after threats from the united states that any company doing business with iran that they blocked from working with america. pulled out of the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal and has really imposed sanctions on tehran. the leader of the catholic church pope francis has written a letter to the catholic community condemning sexual abuse by the clergy and asking for forgiveness from victims the vatican issued the three page letter ahead of his visit to ireland that's where it entered national research group is expected to put information of the names of priests and other members of the church in the allegations against them organization wants the pope to disclose the names of all

irish clergy who have been disciplined for molesting children. next for a facebook you were a story about ty treasure hunters using homemade equipment to dive under water. with sport as n.b.a. star torn arcs and aims for asian games gold.

inor the hot topics are in sports day tatyana sort of tell us what's happening on day two of the asian games in jakarta thanks very much for shell where the games have been given some extra star quality off to the n.b.a. allowed one of the cleveland cavaliers to join up with the philippines boss could pull squad jordan clawson is hoping to help them win gold for the first time since nine hundred sixty tailless the long drought for a country with a huge fan base and the oldest possible lake in a chicago some with the philippines flag bearer at the opening ceremony he says the move is beneficial both for boss cool and i asia and for the n.b.a. you know for them to even let me play this is

a blessing you know i know we went back or. i had to jump on a plane the next day. in like a few hours knowing that they could be me. but i think the point they gave them is a lot of you know it's a lot it will pass in the best and all of asia so just being able to come here i think is a step forward in. both alaska is a sports anchor and reporter for a p.s.a. b n n joins me now live from manila thanks for joining us on news great firstly how much of a boost as a for the asian games to have a player like jordan clarkson released by the n.b.a. . well first of all it's very you rare to have a player was started for an n.b.a. team in the asian games and more so he's played in the finals like jordan parts out with the cavaliers but more than that it's also important for asian basketball in general to see that there are asians making at that level who are

still able to play in the asian games are also the two chinese players from the n.b.a. who were first allowed to join her mother team their mother country in the asian games and jordan clarkson was given a one time exemption because that was not communicated to the other things that their world ready to chinese players going to play in the asian games like a cyclops and has obviously really campaigned for this to be a part of the asian games one of the chances that the n.b.a. will start to fairly small player is for international tournaments well actually that it's a bit of a tricky situation that jordan clarkson particular is and because feedback has a rule that you have to declare your intent to play for a national team by the age of sixteen which is why the parts in official fee but tournament play as a naturalized player but in that sort of a situation if you're a naturalized a foreign player you would rather pick maybe a seven foot center who's also played in the n.b.a.

as an american most likely so that that's the bit of a tricky situation that jordan touches and the asian game just mean not for the men so he's able to play there for the philippines along with another. you know foreign player like chris that are here and others because the rule is really and feel but that you're only allowed one naturalized player which jordan clarke to be in this case and the philippines have a restatement paix for a very long time is that the goal now. actually the overall big picture is for the philippines to finally qualify for the olympic games for the first time since nine hundred seventy two that's what the whole program has been over the summer to be nice for the last decade or so which is why the philippines finally host people the qualifier for the first time in more than three decades where planning to host the world cup in the next few years and that is all in all

a big investment towards making it to the olympic games because you know outside of north america and china biggest strongest most. basketball fan base is in the philippines ok thank you very much belfast guy for joining us on the news great my pleasure thank you. now the list of sports and the asian games continues to grow and because of that the age range and also the backgrounds all of the athletes is very diverse highly reports from jakarta many of the competitors in the asian games are some of the most physically conditioned athletes in the world training and competing for years but with a wide range of events at the games it's not always about muscle strength and enduring and in the case of the bridge competition age does not necessarily play a role it's about skill and strategy this is the first year the card game is

a sport in the asian games michael bambang hard to know is seventy eight years old it is one of the top bridge players in the world and one of the oldest competitors in the games how does he feel about that very pound and. i think i have to say this poem. with skin was. so you can play when you're five or you can play when you're one hundred years old this is a team book you depend on yourself. and your. team . sports is a demonstration sport at this year's games and a host indonesian team is taking their practicing very seriously one movie idea is only nineteen years old he made it on the team after winning a competition and. i say.

they're fired because. good at this game and. so yeah i'm scared of the us i have to practice the team will be competing in the game arena about the practice in the offices of the company that distributes the game in indonesia so i feel that even though the east boards bring in younger competitors and interest they don't belong in the asian games unlike when an athlete uses a certain brand of equipment to compete like shoes in basketball rackets in badminton these sports are actually events created by companies so you get used to be a sports journalist he's concerned about the technology companies influence. and there's no physical activities involved no running swimming throwing nothing this is more about business and it's dangers it's more a technical thing. very fast there are six games in four years it will triple.

not all my degree of e-sports in the asian games but they will bring younger faces to the competitions good news for the organizers as for many of them this will be the first time watching the games it's got harder al-jazeera jakarta. as well as you can connect with us regarding the asian games three to september get in touch with us using the what's up number five zero one triple one four nine you can also use the hashtag as always it is a.j. news great or you can tweet me directly i am tatiana most well coming up later with joe in the one thousand nine hundred g.m.t. news hour and our thoughts are shall. thank you very much that is all for the news fred thank you so much for your time and tatyana gave you all the information a place to keep in touch with us our hash tag at aging is spread and there's plenty of other ways to reach us as well we'll see you back here to the fourteen fifteen g.m.t. . southbound

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attacks by armed men on peace in chechnya it's reported that i saw is claiming responsibility. one of them joining with all this is al jazeera live from london also coming up afghan forces free more than one hundred people abducted from buses by the taliban . that's a sweet reunions korean separated by the war in the one nine hundred fifty s. are united after more than sixty years. on demonstrators in uganda protesting.