i don't welcome to the al-jazeera news our life or my headquarters in doha. coming up in the next sixty minutes turkey takes its case against us to the world trade organization while donald trump says he won't give any concessions police in chechnya killed five people who targeted in a series of attacks. confusion in venezuela as the government introduces a new currency in an effort to stabilize the country's economy and part. of apology to all catholics. more cover ups of sex abuse in the church.

the trade war between the u.s. and turkey is escalating turkey has filed a complaint with the world trade organization of u.s. tariffs on steel imports well donald trump ordered a doubling of tariffs earlier this month after turkey refused to release an american pastor who's been detained for nearly two years the turkish government retaliated with tit for tat the u.s. imports both sides have sixty days to find a solution before the issue goes to the disputes body. there's no difference between the direct attacks on our call to prayer in our flag and the attack on our economy the goal is the same the goal is to bring to heel turkey the turkish nation to hold a captive we're a nation that prefers to be shot in the nick rather than to be chained to the new.

well u.s. president donald trump has ruled out as we mentioned he's ruled out making any concessions to turkey speaking to the reuters news agency he said i think it's very sad what to accuse doing i think they're making a terrible mistake there will be no concessions trump also said he wasn't concerned that the tower of smart cause further economic damage in europe and he said that up on the list point he had a good relationship with to president ed of the one but went on to say that it can no longer be a one way street. right so let's move on to staying with turkey where two people have been detained after bullets were fired two words the u.s. embassy in the capital ankara six shots were fired from a moving car early on monday morning they hit the gate and a window of a security post one of those detained was wanted for escaping from prison and the other also had a criminal record to accuse presidential aides said it was an attempt to create

chaos in the country no one was injured in the attack so a new guy you go has more from istanbul. 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 turkey 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 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 well let's get more on this now we're joined by best moment a professor of political science at the university of washington and she's joining us live from there very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so as we've been reporting president saying that he's going to give in to any took to secure pastor bronson's release and he's also interested he told the reuters news agency that he had already secured the release of a turkish national from israel with the understanding that that would cost a bronson's release to the latter part of that it seems like we're getting further away from the solution here. absolutely and we sort of have to both populist straw

men each feeling as though they are tough and have a base to appeal to obviously for donald trump having the release of this event priest or preacher is very important to him and his base before an election or wants to be one wants to be able to say that he's able to to get the release of. a sympathizer of hamas inside israel to be released but also get some relief in terms of. the united states on some charges so many different interests but more importantly two very stubborn personalities and now a complete loggerheads they're both doubling down unfortunately for turkey as we've seen with what's happened to its currency over the last week it has more to moves here in this ongoing dispute. absolutely and you know i think we can't really blame the united states for all of economic troubles of turkey because certainly

it's been in high debt situation increasingly of money allowing interest rates to rise enough to sort of combat some of these dilemmas a lot of dollar denominated that i mean it's very much i think a home grown crop some of which it wants or making certainly the announcements of tariffs on turkey and just the overall sort of you know instability brought into the currency market is definitely not to rattle a lot of people and this is going to cause turkey more headache and grief economically for sure and turkey has now taken the u.s. tariffs taking the u.s. over those steel an alum in the tariffs to the world trade organization of course not the only country that stuns so how is that going to affect the bad relationship right now and the situation do you think. well you know i think that was the right thing to do because of course the united states is claiming that there is some sort of national security imperative in putting on these tariffs and if so why been to

many countries as you said including canada which really finds its way so that's probably the right to you know right move to take but of course that's going to be very painful for turkey and i would also point out this hits turkey specifically an air to want and his political base because they're very much dependent on economic growth in the building sector in the construction sector so this is of course a very important but good having steel in construction is very important so it's going to hurt definitely many of those very close to early one himself and so will that mean that president everyone will have to do something about this before turkey faces a complete financial collapse as we saw or watch in two thousand and one thousand nine hundred ninety four i think absolutely look i think there is no other choice but going to the international monetary fund something of course everyone will want to avoid but there are simply not going to be the kind of you know international support in the financial markets to help turkey through this and it really is going

to have to resort to the i in math because it's a huge debt burden it's not going to be sort of quickly in the current account deficit simply put there's just not enough hard currency coming into the country in order to pay back those very important hard currency loans those dollars the dollar loss that you're sticking out for many many years less money it's very good to get your expertise on this that is best my money joining us live from washington and canada thank you. thank you right let's move on to other news now and police in the russian province of chechnya have shot and killed five young men who targeted them the attackers tried to run over two police officers attempted to stab another officer and failed to set off a suicide bomb eisel has claimed responsibility for the assaults but chechen authorities and says that the group does not have any support in the region. but

with their criminals tried to destabilize the situation but they failed thanks to the accurate and orchestrated efforts of law enforcement and security agencies their plan was for the situation in the territory of our republic is under control there are no reasons to worry there had been no losses among police personnel. or a challenge as following developments from moscow. well there are two notable things about this series of attacks the first is that it took place at all despite its warts on history these days attacks like this are a pretty rare event in chechnya the second was notable thing is the youth of these attackers or thirty's in chechnya say the youngest was eleven years old and the oldest of them was almost seventeen teenagers kids basically now the attacks three of them happens over the course of a short span of time one of them was an attempted stabbing on police

officers the second was an attempted suicide bombing which fails the attacker didn't kill himself nor anyone else and the third was a kind of hit and run in a car no police officers died in these attacks no civilians died in these attacks in the aftermath all but one of the attackers was killed by the security services so you could say that this was not particularly sophisticated in its execution and not particularly successful either the leader of chechnya ramzan kadyrov has said that they were. basically young people that had had their minds perverted by ice and indeed in the aftermath of this attack or these this series of attacks i still through its media channels has claimed responsibility. to venezuela now where presidential new monetary reforms are now in place and of the to control the

country's spiraling economy but many millions whalen's are confused by the measures and several of the country's main opposition parties have already called for protests more than two million venezuelans have fled to neighboring countries in the past three years all those countries have started cracking down on venezuelan migrants trying to cross the border well venezuela's oil rich but cash poor and these reforms are part of the government's response to sky rocketing prices inflation is projected to rise further up to one million percent this year that's according to the international monetary fund just to give you an idea venezuelans are now paying about two million for a cup of coffee so to solve the problem the government is introducing a new currency the sovereign which will remove five zeroes from banknotes it is linked to a crypto currency announced in february that is pegged to the price of oil the government is also raising the minimum wage by three thousand percent and president

wants venezuelans to pay more for what is currently the world's cheapest gas. it's a trick to make over the government is doing to the national economy it's a terrible deception five zero doesn't improve the economy at all but it will improve that. people are going to be confused there's new posters explaining how to convert the old currency to the new one people have to take money out of their accounts and divide everything by ten thousand they tell you look at this it costs five people are going to have to take out a calculator how many are five are they five hundred thousand or five million the government has to better explain to the public. he is monitoring developments from the colombian capital. then as well as business sector is criticizing the new measures put in place by the venezuelan government saying that they will make matters worse in the country economy that is already suffering by the worst inflation anywhere in the world this is not of course what the government thinks

president nicolas maduro introducing the measure said that this is the formula for the country to recover when it's in a just waiting to see what will happen on tuesday when banks will open and many business this is the monday has been a holiday in venezuela while this tradition transition is happening in the meantime the influx of police and fleeing the country continues across the region with more countries in latin america putting stricter rules for venezuelans trying to cross or stay in their country it has happened in ek whether for example there is no requiring passports and this has created a backlog of venezuela federal is also promising to do the same on august twenty fifth there and brazil is considering closing again it's an order border. well we have plenty more ahead on the news hour including we hear from

a migrant mother who was forced to leave her behind when she was deported after crossing the us mexico border plus. across the. people here. the weeks. and sound wisest of gold of the. best of the action from the asian games. at least eleven people have been killed in anti drug raids by police and military in rio de janeiro over four thousand soldiers launched raids in two of the city's most impoverished neighborhoods they were moved. to drug traffickers brazil's military isn't charge of security in rio de janeiro since february after the police

failed to curb violence. u.s. president donald trump has paid tribute to federal immigration officials during a white house event the federal agencies overseeing the nation's border have been an end to the debate over the administration's zero tolerance policy for the separation of migrant children from their families after they illegally cross the us mexico border democrats are hoping the fallout will help them in the upcoming elections but trump says immigration will be the defining issue. we will protect those who protect us the extremists who attack i said c.b.c. like to portray themselves as champions of social justice they are not but their radical policies are the ultimate injustice hurting innocent americans and spilling innocent blood people are dying because of their evil

a lack of knowledge lack of understanding or just plain stupidity. well maybe all the top of ministration is having trouble finding the porter parents of hundreds of children who remain and government care the children have been taken away from their parents after they crossed the border the spring of one of the family separations to end but reuniting them has been a problem. has the story. since being deported to guatemala two months ago or donna's lopez's lifeline has been her telephone each ring brings hope she'll hear the voice of her seventeen year old son jordan calling from two thousand kilometers away i always ask if he's ok he says yes but as his mother i know that's not true because he tells me mom my experience has been very difficult i never thought he'd be so far from me and he's heard mother and son had left guatemala together in may at the u.s.

border they used a raft to cross into the country then they turned themselves into u.s. border patrol. i thought i would find hope but instead i found this very cruel law the trumpet ministrations zero tolerance policy resulted in the separation of almost three thousand children from their parents was prosecuted for a legal entry and deported while her son remained in detention in the us i wonder that also it was very painful my intention wasn't to leave him in the united states my intention was to fight for him to fight together if us son is behind the gates of this government funded shelter near the us mexico border the children here are cared for they're fed they're even educated but they are not allowed to leave jordan has been here for nearly three months despite a judge's order that all children separated from their parents at the border be reunited with their families earlier this summer the government says the delayed

reunifications are due to the difficulty of tracking down more than four hundred parents who like ever had been deported without their children in washington a democratic member of congress called the operation a colossal mistake i know. systematically separate infants and toddlers from the very least seem to me. the government says it has no parental information of at least five children in its care effectively rendering them orphans of us worst fear is to never see her son again not a bit someone to say i'm all for i regret all of this because of the pain i've suffered all i had was my house i lost it but more important than that i lost my son the u.s. government has yet to say when or how her son will be returned to her until then

she says she thinks of nothing else. castro al-jazeera. afghan forces have freed one hundred forty nine hostages taken by the taliban in the north many a set of a woman and children security forces launched an operation to free three buses off to fight us ambushed them in the province officials say twenty one hostages still being held by the group the taleban rejected a cease fire offer from the president on sunday proposed a three month conditional cease fire on the eve of the muslim aid holiday al-jazeera this a.t.'s then 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 talib and 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 this 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 cease fire for three months of a day by presenting any. taliban has yet to answer this this question but according to our sources some members of the leadership of taliban are leaning toward accepting. the offer if not for three months at least four 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 of staying in a golf on the country is experiencing a drought so severe that two million people may run out of food in the next six

months more than eight hundred thousand have left their villages in search of water and thirty's and the u.n. fears that number may double ballasts reports from head of province in western afghanistan. at this mosque in rule herat province it may in h.b. only use this skin tells the toll of the harsh climate poverty and the encroaching three of the taliban now there is a new danger that's beyond the control agriculture the main livelihood is turning to dust. two thirds of afghanistan is facing a sieve. rain never arrived in the winter or the spring and now it's summer. we're suffering a lot because of the strauss we had so many animals and we lost all of them and there's nothing left for us and these animals that are left we are feeding just once a day and what we're just trying to keep them alive. at fifty sario is the matriarch

of her family the currency here runs in leases and they are wealthy at than most. she has kicked twenty sheep alive from her flock of one hundred fifty they go belly ahead we sacrificed our animals that they should be the first victim rather than losing our children. into one a village and across here our province agriculture provides ninety five percent of income so when the water dried up and their livestock and crops died many were forced to leave for the city the u.n. estimates more than eighty thousand people have abandoned their homes and travel to herat city the main hub in the west all in a search of water. and this is what they found blankets by sticks and could by rocks formalized into a community of people children suffer from skin diseases smell nutrition and eye and fictions from the dust that some people have been here for four months living

on nothing more than breed and water. is here with her daughter in law and two grandchildren when you were there last year that the drought made them poor and then her son was killed by the taliban. when my son died my life was ruined we lost everything we left average everything went like the wind and. i told my grandchildren that your father is not here to help you there's nothing here for us my grandchildren could die here you tell me what should i do wearing that's hannah . the numbers are expected to the u.n. cautions. the water will join up and more people will likely come here looking for that the afghan government is not providing the un is slowly filling the gap. in food from september. zero herat afghanistan. now pope francis has apologized for child sex abuse committed by clerics ahead of

his trip to ireland and an open letter he wrote looking back to the past an effort to beg pardon and to seek to repair the harm done will ever be sufficient looking ahead to the future if it must be spared to create a culture able to prevent such situations from happening but also to prevent the possibility of there being covered up and perpetuated when the pope's message comes just ahead of the online release of a list of child sex abuse as an island catholic church an international research group will post a list of names of priests and religious brothers and the allegations against them the church is still reeling from a scandal in the us state of pennsylvania where a report released last week found that three hundred priests had abused more than a thousand children over seventy years well let's get more on this now we're joined by judy lawson board member at snap of the survivors network of those abused by priests and she's joining us live from west valley city in utah very good to have

you with us on al-jazeera and so what did you make of this letter from the pope. it's more of the same that we've heard before the important question is is there one child who is safer now that he said those words. and no we have no real action that he has talked about that he's going to do to make things safer for children so how is he going to do this and that is a criticism that with her already hit from that and that tim's groups what action would you like seeing taken today of a child sex abuse i would like to see the church open these secret archives that they have and give that information to law enforcement and the people in officials who can do a better investigation of these things. having the bishops investigate

themselves. smacks of conflict of interest and why do you think that that hasn't happened. i think part of the problem is that pope francis is hampered by the old guard in the vatican who don't want to initiate his more liberal. initiatives so they're fighting him in his efforts to make a difference but he is the head of the roman catholic church so why is he so hampered by others who don't have the power that he does all they do they run the catholic church he's. maybe the pope and he may be the spokes person but when he gives them initiatives they give him reasons why he can't do it they cite

canon law or their own procedures the curia runs the church and so what can you know legal authorities and countries do when dealing with this with the situation when the church has its own measures in place for dealing with them. well i think the royal commission in australia is a good template for everybody i think that the. grand jury investigation that was done in pennsylvania should be done and also if the states and united states and other countries should follow the lead of australia. thank you for your time on this judy lawson joining us live from west valley city utah thank you thank you. now at least ten people have died after heavy rain and southern flooded a popular with hikers and only civil protection agency says at least eighteen

others were rescued after flash floods in the region of calabria it's not clear how many people are still missing and italian police have released photos showing the moment a major bridge collapsed in the northern port city of genoa the video shows heavy rain four minutes before huge chunks of concrete plummet to the ground at least forty three people were killed last tuesday when a two hundred meters section of the marandi bridge gave way and busy traffic. emergency workers in the southern indian state of canada have been handing out medicine and disinfectants in a bid to prevent water borne diseases more than one point two million people are now living in temporary camps after the worst flooding there in a century and a thomas reports from carola. and still it rains the downpours all less heavy less frequent and shorter than they were but in carola they are still coming to people here fresh rain lengthens the time they'll have to stay in

a camp. there are more than five thousand frost carola although really camp is to ground the words there simply community halls and schools which have opened their doors and quickly filled with people and each evacuee has a similarly harrowing story. and that's the water has destroyed everything we had it was up to my neck it even took my cows. and 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 first day and i've now spent four days living this public school of life others were rescued only on sunday having spent four days and nights on the roofs of

floors of their flooded homes both brits are 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 i also know that in the world thankfully and thanks to god there are not many communicable diseases or something like that we've just. been spreading because we're also getting off elective medicines i searched. so that they let us know if we can make it something like that that's all that's what we are really working hard for that. but people's mental health is suffering everybody is simply sat. in his efforts on monday distributed dramatic video of a toddler's rescue but most emotions evacuations are over and after the drama reality hits after thomas al-jazeera. carol. still ahead on the

news hour as more than two million muslims perform the annual has plenty of edge saudi arabia as a cancer vest and politics interfere with religion. and sahil men's return to his national team put south korea on the voyage to asian culture that's coming up and sports. hello are going to welcome back to international weather forecast where across united states we are watching one big system providing a lot of active severe weather across much of the north as well as down here towards the southeast possibly tornadoes damaging winds and hail could be a problem from tuesday as we make our way towards wednesday we'll be watching that very carefully over the next few days down here towards the caribbean though we have seen

a very quiet tropical season but we're still seeing plenty of rain showers especially here across much of central america over the next few days now for quite a malo we're going to be seeing those rain showers start to die down as well as nicaragua over the next few days so better conditions there but down towards costa rica as well as depan amman heavy rain shows could be a problem but out here towards east things are looking partly cloudy and mostly cloudy with rain out a minimal over the next few days there then make your way down here toward south america there's been a big temperature difference here all the last few days in the sun c.n.n. where temperatures on tuesday your high temperature only reaching to about nine degrees there that's that cold front making its way to the north but as we go towards wednesday temperatures going to be coming back up so a big difference few with warming conditions there were twenty degrees up here towards rio de janeiro twenty five degrees in your forecasts and make your way down here towards readers know a partly cloudy day with a temperature of about fifteen degrees.

they set sail for gold. but this cover their resource worth more than it's worth to him and be. driven by commerce enabled through politics and religion executed with brutality. in episode one slavery roots charge the birth and rise of the african slave trade mapping their history that there's going to humanity. for all the gold in the world want to just go a new year a new car many new developments for this chinese villages fledgling democracy the village committee has retrieved people's land but approval is fleeting frustration grips the villagers and as the saga began over a year before result is a. police call. for a six point zero spilled over five years. china's democracy experiment on the edges there.

it had with us on the al-jazeera news hour on these are our top stories turkey has followed the complaint of the world trade organization of a u.s. tariffs on steel an atom and towards donald trump ordered a doubling of tariffs earlier this month after turkey refused to release an american pasta they'd been detained for nearly two years. police in the russian province of chechnya have shot and killed five young men were targeted the attackers tried to run over the two police officers attempted to stab another officer and failed to set off a suicide bomb i saw has claimed responsibility for the assaults. and the

venezuelan president nicolas maduro is new monetary reforms are now in place in a bid to control the country's spiraling economy opposition parties have already called for protests neighboring countries have started cracking down on venezuelans trying to cross the border to escape the crisis well let's get more on this now in latin america at a tendency in human joins us live from the capital caracas so it is the first day of the new currency to see how are people reacting. this of if it's almost impossible to describe what the situation is or what was going on in the minds of venezuelans or just about anybody the streets are empty absolutely empty today it was declared a public holiday so shops were closed there were practically no a.t.m. nor money machines open for the most people haven't even seen the new currency but just to remind our viewers the canonical reforms include a three thousand percent salary increase

a almost one hundred percent devaluation of the previous currency and we were lucky enough to get these bills we're one of the fortunate ones these are ten new sovereign bolivia believe about these these will work yesterday the equivalent of one million of the old body of ideas but even so and this is the maximum amount that you can take out of a cash machine per day right now it is not enough to pay for a cup of coffee so people are just reeling they just they know they're going to be taking they've taken five zeroes of their currency but will that really change anything prices are already going up even before the salaries the new salaries come into effect which is on the first of september it is all so confusing can this actually help the currency or the economy. the problem is this time we just spoke to a reputable economist who says that it doesn't matter how many zeroes you take off

the currency or our menu add on the key problem is that the government is printing out more money than the country brings in that the government takes in it's raising corporate taxes but it's also raising salaries and promising in fact to subsidize those that three thousand percent increase in salaries for the next ninety days and yet production hasn't gone up it seems very cosmetic it will make life a little easier for accountants but in the long run it doesn't seem to be addressing the real cause of the economic crisis in this country is what lissie i thank you very much for that for now there's a latin america at its embassy in human live in caracas thank you. now police in uganda have used gunfire to disperse protesters in the capital kampala demonstrators were angry following the arrest of people including opposition politicians they were held on suspicion of taking part in starting a presidential convoy on the thirteenth of august president reality and seventy rejects allegations that the government has been torturing them on sunday one

person died and several others were injured when police used live fire and tear gas malcolm webb has more from camp pilar. the forces of the. wind started protesting in several parts of the city very. simply from the army with the plate right up there is in life gunfire and take i can see the remains of banning red blood just a short distance over here. angry following incident that began a week ago but the wind was campaigning. in a pile action in northern uganda campaign and completely and in violence the winds driver was shot dead by security forces of the wind that they were trying to kill him the president's office said that opposition supporters that the president's convoy right in the windows one of the vehicles that they were reacting to protect the president. was arrested. they say that they found the weapon in the hotel right

there is being accused of treason. here in front of the military courts in a couple of days' time laugh another country. in the streets. well south africa has always been a traditional inquiry into alleged corruption at the highest levels of government the hearing will investigate claims of for the public sector during former president jacob zuma is time in office the commission has a staff of mosque to investigate allegations of powerful family of origin from india influenced to give them government contracts family the miller has the subject for us. at the start of the commission of inquiry into state capture of the chief of the commission chief deputy chief justice raman saundra indicated that they it hasn't been as much cooperation from state departments as the commissioner would have liked at this stage. there are ministers that we have had to deal with and that ministerial level of those that we have dealt with have been

very supportive of been very cool or protective but sometimes there are challenges with regard to wealthy shows we have had delays. in. the dealings of the commission with the national treasury. over the past few months. so much so that. i've had. to interview this for many could raise questions possibly around how effective the inquiry could be and if prosecutions could come out of the recommendations that would be given to presidents or second later stage but that could take more than two years at this stage the legal team for the commission of inquiry is so far outlined some of the areas are allegations it be looking into which include the possible involvement of state owned enterprises in these

allegations if former president jacob zuma had any influence in this regard and his relationship with the gupta family who's alleged to have used their political connections to benefit politically and financially from state owned enterprises which range from the national electricity provider to public transport and even the use of their political connections for their citizenship here in south africa the french oil giant total has pulled out of its multi-billion dollar gas project with iran charter was contracted to develop the south pass gas field as a reaction to threats from the united states that any company doing business with iran would also face u.s. sanctions washington has re-impose sanctions on iran after pulling out of the two thousand and fifteen of our nuclear deal. now for the second successive year cattery citizens and ex-pat areas are unable to travel to saudi arabia for the pilgrimage to mecca that's because of the blockade imposed on by sal the and three

other countries and led to accusations that sell the is using hands as a tool and its foreign policy. has the story. for over fourteen hundred years this was the land of. hundreds of thousands of muslims from faraway lands flocked to these holy sites in mecca and medina to perform hajj the annual pilgrimage one of the five pillars of islam and faith in one nine hundred thirty two a bedouin clan by the name of. what was ruling in the desert region of nudged to the east and next to him 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 from 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 reigning 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 founded 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 her 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 dohc of social media platforms when it's granted three hundred visas to its new ally the lebanese christian maronite leaders. photoshop pictures of zara and his wife in head uniforms were circulated in the middle east media under his leadership and in coordination with the israeli army as for lunch party militias were behind the one nine hundred eighty two supper and shatila massacre in which hundreds of palestinian civilians were killed outside beirut with a blockade on qatar still in place qatar is and muslim expire two years living

there say they continue to be denied a basic religious and human right. mohammed. malaysia's prime minister is asking china to help with its debt despite spending billions of dollars of infrastructure projects mohammed made the comments after meeting with the chinese premier league and beijing the line to three year old was looking to renegotiate terms for the rail and pipeline projects that are financed by chinese laws and was signed by his predecessor. china has a greater increase imports of malaysian consumer goods especially during and palm oil. oh shoot pool get. being fees by the d. and old men and they believe they can we look see but that the boys so proud that we had good reason and to have us in diesel be some old fellow in

fiscal problems so. i think this. has been very proof. to the head. generation. and all that coming up with.

now tourism and nicaragua has been hit hard by months of protests and government

crackdowns the tourism minister estimates a third of restaurants have closed itself a month the capital has been a ghost town at night but that is slowly changing as john heilemann reports from managua. fools have been i work for the last three months that's been the signal for frights and residents to hurry home and unofficial curfews room naked i work as protest as main street barricades while government forces and paramilitary groups hunt them down. but in the last few days the captain's not life has begun to emerge again a few bravest souls are starting to venture out and the relief at restaurants like left is palpable elvis with us at this place could have closed down and we would have been without a job there's about fifty people that depend on it the barricades have been destroyed beyond most groups are less visible than before but that doesn't mean all these well everyone we talked to said they still scared people if they were going

to program going to be safe we just crossed them our house opposite this place they're still paramilitaries around six at night we head home and that's it we're not safe in this country. protests continue demanding the president's resignation that daniel will take his government insists that everything's going back to global so the pictures are dear in terms of people enjoying themselves in restaurants in these calls in. ten eleven in the night so i believe in in progress. the only hard challenge with what we saw him and i were outside of the capital location journalist told us the streets are even quieter mood tense the government's desperately trying to get the bar restaurant scene in the capital going again easing up restrictions on liquor stores and then in bars open up till five in the morning but there's no quick fix to regain trust with locals and for visitors tourism operators say that will take years. and that's only

if the fragile calm in the country holds. don't hold it i'll just hit a man i was. going to transport now his job. thanks very much china's swimming superstar son yang has won his second gold medal at the asian games in as many days it came in the men's eight hundred meter freestyle with it he becomes the first chinese male swimmer to win two individual goals at two asian games having already been a double asian gold medalist from inches on four years ago. she was the summer it's really nice it's my first asian games gold medal in the eight hundred metres i'm really happy it's the big games you only have it once every four years it's an opportunity that i have relished all the medals that i've won or the recognition of my hard work and as you can see my level has been stable. but son was unsuccessful

in helping china as a gold in the men's four by two hundred meter freestyle relay he and his team had to settle for silver behind japan extended their own records to sixteen wins in this swimming event joseph schooling led singapore to bronze. japan also won the team dressage gold for the first time since one thousand nine hundred ninety four beating south korea the silver medalist though have finished on the podium on all eight occasions the discipline has featured at an asian games thailand took bronze and in the men's trap shooting chinese taipei's yang couldn't paint equalled the world record with forty eight points to win gold north korea won its first medal of these games in the women's weightlifting research was victorious in the women's forty eight kilo category but she failed in an attempt to lift one hundred seventeen kilos and break the asian games record three more goals came in weightlifting and wrestling on monday bringing north korea's gold medal haul to

four in a single day meanwhile the unified women's basketball team continued to race towards a place in the knockout round they beat india one hundred four to fifty four on monday knockout spots were on the line in the final round of men's group four football matches mean mob set iran to qualify knocking out thailand in the process tottenham saw the young men scored south korea be kyrgyzstan to reach the last sixteen or hosts indonesia fought back from one real down against hong kong to beat them three one and take the group tie. so china continue to lead japan in the medal standing south korea third and with four gold medal so far these games host cindy sheehan have already equalled their performance from the last games they're also up to fourth in the table. but there's also some disappointment for japan as they sent home four of their basketball players at their own expense that softer they visited

a red light district in jakarta or apparently still in their team uniforms following a win over cattle last week the head of the country's delegation said on monday that the players had shamed japan which hosts the next olympics in tokyo in two years' time eight players remain the squad. the most. in what ways can we prevent these incidents the japanese olympic committee has already launched an integrity education program but as the head of all sports delegation if we fail to execute this we will keep betraying the japanese people this is an acceptable well the asian games incorporates over forty different sports and with an exhibition of east sports this year the list continues to grow because of that the age range and backgrounds of the participants is very diverse scott heide live 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 insurance 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 balboni hard tono is seventy eight years old and 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 proud and. i think i'd choose sports with scammers. so you can play when you're five or you can play when you're one hundred years old this is teamwork 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 or 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 a 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. liverpool have made it two wins from tuesday's start their english premier league season on monday you can copse team were away from home at crystal palace james milner his goal came before r n one beside it was sent off for the hosts studier money strike wrapped up a two no win india in a dominant position at the close of play on day three of the third cricket test against england the tourist start of the day on one hundred twenty four for two

caps a very courteous call to century to help the indians post a formidable title and set england five hundred twenty two as a victory target at trent bridge at the close of play the hosts were twenty three without loss now many motorbike enthusiastic enjoy popping a wally during a casual right but did you know there was actually a world championship for motorcycle we lease sessile bubba meyers of the united states is the straight line as motorcycle we leave the world champion after this amazing effort he was travelling at over three hundred twenty one kilometers per hour for a kilometer on his car was sacking on just one real he'd be town thirty four rivals to win the title. and that is all you sport for now have more feel later and that does it for the al-jazeera news hour thank you very much for watching. going.

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quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distant shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp. the government raised our hopes and then abandoned us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government failed. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories but it was in the truck tonight when the boy told through the eyes of the world journalists the images matter a lot in. the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most. third someone from the country who guides you to lead you to the story of the bar road listening post on

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