their culture in their context and why. we can have a better understanding of how this is created we're going to have a better understanding of what. the listening post. welcome to the. weeks of rhetoric and military build up syria's foreign minister says they are ready to go all the way in the last rebel stronghold the un is warning against an offensive that's calling for a safe corridor. also on the grid lives ruined in an instant the. collapse. is pretty devastating sixty people displaced follow the latest on the

rescue efforts and also. from the rain in the four counts and another move to make football more inclusive. providing free products in the women's toilets so. we can hear directly from the students behind. a cartoon competition in the netherlands is causing outrage and i have to say the reason why the competition will be featuring pictures of the. harding and we have more on that story coming up . streaming online through you tube facebook live in an al-jazeera dot com it seems only a matter of time until italy province becomes the final battleground in syria's war it is the last rebel held province in the country and the foreign ministers of both syria and russia. have said this is an area full of terrorists their words who need

to be wiped out have a quick look at the who controls where what maps from al-jazeera dot com and you see why it live is so important it's where everyone is not along the lines of the government is now look at all those red areas those the government areas areas like homs areas like aleppo areas like there are which have all been taken back by the government and russia and people have been moved to this north west corner and to province that's why it's so important it is all that is left really of the syrian resistance here quickly is some of what foreign minister lavrov from russia has had to say. so they're doing it constitute a list of the relationship was with satisfaction that we know to the majority of the syrian arab republic is now freed of terrorists who we need now is to wipe out those terrorist groups which persist particularly in the deescalation zone in italy . here this would be the decision of the syrian leadership is to tell

news or a front whatever the sacrifices are we are ready to exert every possible effort not to harm civilians meanwhile moscow's ambassador to the united states fears the americans are planning airstrikes and is warning against what he calls groundless and illegal aggression in syria the u.s. has threatened to retaliate if the syrian government forces attack opposition areas with chemical weapons so let's start with rory chalons live in moscow for us on the newsgroup hi rory let's talk more about what foreign minister lavrov said his his words today seemed a little more muted but he's i mean he's using things like white down and liquidated i think the other day as well. yeah over the last few days certainly the language coming from moscow has been a heartening thing many people have been asking a question of whether there will be an assault on it live well i think we can get

rid of that kind of language because it's not going to be weather anymore now it's just going to be when and also how severe it is the a soul is going to be essentially the turkish came here the turkish foreign minister a few days ago pleads ankara's case in moscow to say that he already has three million refugees inside its borders it doesn't want a huge new influx resulting from a russian and damascus assault on it. so the russians do actually have a bit of a balancing act to play here because they want to keep the turkish on sides they want to keep the iranians on side they want to keep the governments in damascus on side as well of course and we have the saudi foreign minister coming here to all of them basically saying do it oh i do the way we want it to be done and moscow has to

kind of listen to all of these and try and find a way of settling this of doing what lavrov just said wiping out these terrorists but a way of doing that without perhaps triggering a new wave of exodus and new refugee surge that might destabilize turkey when it's actually going through a fairly destabilizing period anyway and so i think moscow has a difficult job to do here of but the feeling does seem to be that it is going to take action and that action will be military ok thanks chalons in moscow for that update the united nations is trying as we heard to prevent any major military escalation in the special envoy to syria staffan de mistura says the financing could put millions of people at risk. there is a perfect storm based on warning counter warning which is gathering around and

do today lemme which is a true day limit on how to defeat terrorists in need leap in at the same time avoid affecting a huge number of civilians one having you would be one not accelerate militaristic elation and give a libby more time for this type of discussion to allow him facilitate a credible credible humanitarian corridor to a lot of libyan population to temporarily create to a safer area. in beirut for more on this you know the thing which strikes me is that it was one of these so-called deescalation zones it's where people have been sent from all over the country when other areas have been taken over now they're in the phrase here but sitting ducks there is this assault could begin in any time. yes people are worried the syrian government the syrian president himself

reiterating that they want to recapture the whole country and they're going to capture it live by their through military force or reconciliation deals deny to nations really has been expressing a lot of concern three million people are virtually trapped because the turkish government has made it quite clear that they do not plan to open their borders to allow the civilians to reach turkey and you heard the mystery of the u.n. special envoy offering to personally go to live to ensure what he called a credible humanitarian corridor because in the past when there have been government operations against rebel held areas the united nations was never on the ground a third party to give security guarantees to people to actually leave because many people who engage in opposition activities simply being a medic is considered a terrorist in the eyes of the syrian government they do not have any guarantees nowhere to escape so the people of it live no way to escape but one thing is clear yes everybody's talking about the possibility of an operation but what we

understand is that the russians and the turks are still in negotiations to try to find out they're trying to agree on what to do and they all agree that the target this nostra and all al qaida related groups they are the dominant force in english but there are also the so-called moderate opposition turkey has been in talks with those moderate rebels and there could be the possibility of reconciliation deals but the question is will turkey use those forces to take on. al qaida groups that way you would avoid a carpet bombing of what we understand is that the turkish the turks and the russians are still talking yes the syrian government can say what they want but at the end of the day they need the green light from russia because they need russian air cover in order to push into it. so include in beirut thank you more now with moment ashara senior political analyst joining us from london you know more when we've had previously the battles for dead and homes and aleppo we've heard all this before does it look like this battle for it could be i mean possibly the worst one

yet given all this buildup and the fact that as we said with all these people have been sent there. yeah kemal one find it very difficult to imagine how it could get even worse in syria after those long years of war there of the civil war and of the regime aggression against various parts of the country and yet yes it seems like the three million people within the province are now hostage to some cynical calculus on the part of many including in moscow and washington and that they are. you know more likely than not be subjected to a military operation by the russians let's remember that throughout the war a place in september thirtieth one thousand nine hundred fifty two thousand and fifteen when the russians intervened they have been quite consistent in fact that russians have been consistent more than anyone else including the americans that

there are acts they arrhenius the saudis and even the syrian opposition for the russians it's always always military calculation first political second humanitarian third and i think we will see that prioritization going into it so they would be no way of stopping this would you think i mean i hear what the u.n. is saying about this shouldn't happen they should be humanitarian corridor or let's face it no one really listens to the u.n. particularly when it comes to russia and syria. you know i don't want to be too judgment on or make. specific critique of mr de mistura when he when he proposes himself physically and and and soley to go in to adlib and to help with this is fired and so on and so forth and with the humanitarian evacuation etc that's of course quite formidable but on the other hand mr de mistura has been so much

a man of the season and now that the russians have the upper hand in the syrian regime has the upper hand he is not exactly acting. as a mediator or as a neutral person an employee of the united nations in fact he's really being quite pragmatic with the times and in so many ways he speaks of the terrorists he speaks of the humanitarian and not a word about the syrian regime that is at the root cause of the whole problem. if one and maybe i should say when the syrian government takes back full control of it and read the full control of the whole country where do we then stand are we banked preety thousand and eleven syria has probably changed irrevocably since then but is it just what's it all been for than if we're back to a point where bashar al assad is completely in charge again. that's that's a very important question and it goes beyond syria and to the entire arab world pre

and post two thousand and eleven when the arab spring that abbreviations and indeed civil wars began in the likes of libya syria and yemen look in one phrase i would say the following after will never be like before first of all it's impossible and second for those who have wishful thinking like best that like the regime or like the egyptian regime or like others who think they can turn the clock on what has happened and that all what it needs to be for now is to win the war and simply take back the country and get some investments back in and reconstruct and all would be ok i would tell them that is an utter wishful thinking in syria it's more so than anyone else because the threat to human situation the cost of war has been so immense the treasure that has been strained so deep

it will take syria years decades to heal and i think bashar al assad will never again rule over syria he might for the time being with the assistance of the russians and the iranians be able to run one military battle after another and one military victory after another but the political governing of syria united like it was before two thousand and eleven that's just impossible very sobering thoughts they are my own bashar a senior political analyst in london thank you. maybe you want to get in touch with us you can do that on any number of platforms as long as you use that hash tag a.j. news good we're going to find what you say you might go to twitter at a.j. english we put a tweet out there just before the show you can reply to the thread and osama is our producer on duty looking for your responses at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera the live stream to watch and comment as you go talk to them talk amongst yourselves

talk directly to us or use that number plus months of a full five hour one triple one four nine that'll cover you on telegram and on a channel on whatsapp. channel on telegram and. telegram and what's up i'll get that right at some point goodness me right next story yes this wall of water that was unleashed eighty five villages smashed more than sixty thousand people forced from their homes and it all happened so quickly the collapse of this irrigation dam in mars' triggered a major rescue operation even though just days ago and despite the concerns of residents inspectors had given it the old korea what's happened could it all have been averted we begin with this from florence the. this is the. region central neon the spillway of the dam collapsed on wednesday morning after days of heavy monsoon rains sending torrents of water into nearby towns and villages in some places the surge of water reached nearly two and

a half meters the military police and red cross are working on the rescue and relief effort. water came so fast into a village and we didn't have time to run we have never been flooded before nothing like this has ever happened. eighty five villages have been flooded and more than sixty three thousand people affected. they've lost more than just their homes. i got back to our villages and soon after we got there waters were already rising behind us we lost our carts pigs and engines everything including. flooding at the dam site has receded all the transport remains disrupted and a badly damaged bridge will need to be replaced. we're going to build another bridge in place of the damaged. days before the disaster the ledges raised concerns

about the dam but government leaders reassured them it was safe and said there was no sign of anything wrong. because hydraulic. only we can see only. we're going to. be for one day before one hour before we're going to. this accident now puts the spotlight firmly on safety concerns about dams in southeast asia another dam collapsed in neighboring laos last month killing at least twenty seven people and forcing thousands from their homes florence li al jazeera the impact of this is monsoon has been catastrophic in several countries across as it is on a run either a few as lawrence said last month the dam collapsed in laos the official death toll was thirty six but up to one hundred people are still missing the rising waters forced thousands to flee their homes including in vietnam and cambodia you've got southern india still dealing with the words floods in a century a million people displaced and carola entire villages swept away in at least two

hundred killed there and in japan just last month eight million people were told to leave areas in the south after record rain unleashed floods and mud floods seventy thousand workers sent in to clear that devastation and to search for survivors but at least one hundred seventy nine people were killed we're going to try to make sense of all of this with kevin corriveau one of al-jazeera meteorologists joining us in studio with me and my first of all. what can you tell us about i guess the forecast the progresses for exists going to be crucial in that's right levels not coming up in search of two parts of the story when we talk about the reservoir of course we're in the monsoon season in july august is the peak of the monsoon in the area of course if there's going to be any force on any dam or any barrier this is going to be the time that it happens so if there's any weakness you know it's hard to obviously this you know tessie spillways you only really know their spillways until you get the water because you turn over them anyway we are in the middle of

the monsoon season it begins to taper off as we go to september but for miramar there don't we drive month soon completely in chile and the middle of october oh ok or month and a half then you have yeah ok wow so then can we widen out a bit because i talked about all those other regions around asia what is there. some sort of specific weather event or trend that is happening to make things so particularly wet this year not necessarily i mean we're looking at we have seen some very devastating errors some of these have been partially related to some man made intervention because of did they release enough water did they inspect close enough did they get a scenario like this before the d.m. in laos for example there were cracks in the dam that they knew about and you also thought we can even go to california last year the orval spillway that one completely once the water came over it completely collapsed and never expected something like that so it's not to these crisis happen that you know you have too

much water for the rest of india for example we were looking at a normal monsoon season for the central part of india it's down towards carola that were actually above average this time of year out to the eastern part of india were actually below average and my goodness right kevin corriveau from our major team thank you so much for that and the al-jazeera weather team keep you informed online kevin along with steph everton and rob have a weather section in the more menu at al-jazeera dot com as you see all our weather and climate related news plus the geotagging will automatically give you the weather in your neck of the woods forty degrees in doha today at twenty past six in the evening full of them on twitter as well at age eight with a. now imagine going home and finding your loved one is missing they've been taken maybe from the streets or their office and you just don't know where they've gone that is an agonizing reality for thousands of families worldwide and today is a special day to remember the victims of inforced disappearance was carried out all

through commonly by governments often to clamp down on political dissent but armed groups are also responsible the practice has been documented by rights groups across the world mexico sri lanka egypt. perhaps not surprisingly syria among the worst offenders eighty two eighty two thousand people have we say not just disappeared have been disappeared since the war began in two thousand and eleven because these are forcible disappearances many of them go into government run institutions. and in fact of course the little info graphic here from al jazeera dot com just to show you really quickly this is actually from a couple of years ago so the numbers aren't completely up to date with it eighty two thousand but it gives you an idea of where they've gone obviously a lot in and around damascus it is a government stronghold there but think about some of the names you've heard a lot of places like in the south. aleppo in the north all those rebel strongholds where people who have been against the government have found themselves being

forcibly disappeared well interestingly the philippines also has a long history of disappearances the military regime used them against critics during the one nine hundred seventy s. democracy has of course since been restored but it is still common for political dissidents to go missing jamila island and has that story. the pattern or the disappeared is a theater play in manila that aims to remind young filipinos of the horrors of the recent past. scenes here hope to recreate the atmosphere of fear and brutality during the time of the big dictator president for didn't marcos. brother her mind was a human rights lawyer who was abducted by military agents and has been missing for more than forty years the loss is immeasurable she says not just for her family but

also for the country the political dissenters during the marcos the dictatorship where on long the finest men and women our country has ever produced they were really consciously deliberately silent. because they were very critical rights groups say the practice of enforced disappearances by state agents started during martial law and continues to this. almost two thousand people are known to be victims of enforced disappearances but rights groups believe the number of unreported cases is even higher. than longs for her daughter surely the pardon was deliberate activist who was abducted in two thousand and six by military agents when gloria macapagal arroyo was president early in the feels that even if a case reaches court the odds against people like her are much higher because they

are poor and get very little government support. the building. when they faced the perpetrator or their own will be toppled by ron in court there were so many soldiers protecting him but there we were the. with no one on our side and then i realized this is the government to protect women as these are relics and memorabilia of filipinos who were abducted tortured and killed over the years it may seem like the horrors but curators say it is necessary to preserve the memory on these recent historical tragedies. there's been a resurgence of protest art in recent times really i mean we hear it over and over again never forget always remember because history is

a cycle and we have to break it families who mourn for their discipline to say even though they are no longer there their struggle for fundamental freedoms continues if anything their absence has only made it stronger. zero. so that's the picture in the philippines we want to turn to egypt now where human rights activists say there has been a rise in the number of people going missing at the hands of the government in twenty fifteen we're told amnesty international up to four people were abducted every day three hundred seventy eight cases of enforced disappearances between august twenty sixth dean and august twenty seventh in hera's hussain bomi who is an egypt researcher for amnesty international joining us on skype from tunis. the thing which strikes me here is that there is no accountability for this if it's the government that is forcibly disappearing people then who's going to police it. well

i mean isn't a good question would have been asking that question for a long time but the issue is that this isn't actions that sanctioned by the political leadership isn't action it's supported by the political leadership it's not just individual members of the security forces that are getting having people forced disappearance in for their own personal gains it's not just gangs it's not just armed groups no it's the security forces acting as part of the state and as if it is protected because leadership is protecting them from any sort of questioning brick on timidity i mean when you are hundreds of people that have been forcibly said you cannot not a single individual into who security forces have been brought to trial even investigated sin you can see that is the practice that skeery systematic and here you sanctions by that leadership what's broadly speaking happened is it more that

people disappear and out say again or are they. killed in captivity is there any sort of trend or changes in the trend over the years. yeah i saw it actually is a conservative have probably streamlined the process or enforce its appearances so that it's feed back into other than the bill for teen son sixteen people who disappeared for days and no one know what happened to send now now i mean people disappear or twenties if you from the base even even little children but the majority of them in the reappearing with a new case likely end up appearing as defendants in cases against them in some cases we have any evidence that innocent is is confessions that are they can envision why is he spares and have been disappeared and why is it to use the security forces without a lawyer present so clones of service against a man without knowing was it would be what would be easier future we do have

a number of people that actually end up. dead and the security forces clinton's unit killed during gun fights so so that we and then we have people who work year after lifelong torture sessions and then using also two cases so yes so basically whenever someone disappears so you really at a point of incidences you don't see don't know what an easier future if you don't know if he will live no you don't know what happened to sentencing families are seeing a pretty good seat on most universities and again or no city and the polings at least. if you're charging into some cases just quickly has a man who can make a difference here we're talking about it so it's out in the open but is it up to. allies of egypt and anyone with a friendly relationship with president i'll say to make some noise about it. i mean is it is a vase this is really as its creation is egyptian or source and asians are visited but as i mentioned earlier is the practice of sanctioned by the egyptian political

leadership and so far a series nor course seated with continues this was in court was a practice of importance of appearances and egyptian allies exception for its allies in say u.s. and in europe and supplier of arms the simply simply seans that is that you don't treat cares that much about human rights in egypt the importance of the city why it's why it's i mean they have said it spent but they're not willing to actually meet sufficient noise about it and simply pretty ignorant game and political sort in britain against even in the u.s. one of their citizens really regime was kidnapped and tortured and later if. there is if they are showing signs of backtracking one's interest in knowing what happened to should do is really regime me from international great talking to you thank you. can you pick up on this one for sale because to make the point it is a an actual u.n.

day to mark and false disappearance as to that it is and it's clearly a global conversation just for the way that we've covered it we're out of philippines syria egypt they're in the hash tags day of the disappeared still no answers and enforced disappearances are being used all around the world to mark the state now the united nations has a special committee that documents violations and enforced disappearances by country they break it down for you the u.n. calls for people to help spread awareness here and to join in on the conversation by using hashtags like hash tag stand for human rights they say that that type of activism does make a difference and since we know this is a global issue it also impacts journalists especially in war zones family and friends of american journalist austin tice he went missing in syria and twenty twelve his family are campaigning online for his release the hash tag free austin tice has been shared by hundreds of people and media organizations especially in the u.s. now people around the world are also campaigning for journalists jump

a yes who was kidnapped also in syria and twenty fifteen now syria like we've mentioned here is one of the most dangerous places especially for journalists and it's impossible really to know just how many people have gone missing since the conflict began but there's a european based organization called the violation documentation center and they've been trying to keep track of literally every single person and different places in different times of disappearances all within syria so far this group has been able to identify two thousand eight hundred and nine people whose whereabouts are still unknown and the red cross is taking advantage of this day by also focusing on missing migrants in europe within the initiative trace the face people can search for their loved ones if they went missing after trying to migrate to europe especially around. mediterranean sea and on their website people can upload pictures and basic information and their network of contacts will do the rest in

come all it does seem to be a deeper issue and the more we dig really the more leaves that we find should does thank you for that. just a quick final note on sri lanka which we did mention a court has ordered the arrest of sri lanka's top military officer in connection with the abduction and murder of eleven people at the end of the civil war which admiral revenge. who is the chief of the defense staff and allegedly assisted with this crime there is a very strong case that al jazeera dot com about forced disappearances in sri lanka it's from sarah and drew ambrose from the one i went in fact right down the balsam after all the quotes and photos and text is i think it's called abduction island that is there one i want to dish and if you want to watch that if you see if you just search for sure lanka disappearance it's from may of this year for you with the news good and if you're watching us on facebook live it up on the stage at

a story for you now about french anger over an advertisement featuring a girl with a headscarf and then later we're traveling inside the world's second largest rainforest in the democratic republic of congo for the first time in sixteen years the government plans to welcome back industrial longers with a look at the fallout. hello again well this hour we're going to start our weather forecast just out here across the mediterranean particular over here towards the west bank where the drought situation there has been going on for just over five years and they're dealing with it the best they can salinity levels in the well water has been coming up so really unusable to use there and they are really changing their crops more towards days because the dates plants can actually handle the drought situation just a little bit better over the next few days not any rain in the forecast and fortune

we are looking at temperatures into the lower thirty's that is really going to stay there in kuwait city a little bit further down here towards the south you're going to be seeing forty seven but over the next few days the temperature will come down but we do think humanity is going to go up and speaking of humility it has been very uncomfortable here across much of the gulf we are seeing temptress for doha about forty one degrees but relative humidity is anywhere between seventy and eighty percent during the worst time of the day that's really not going to change too much but in terms of temperature coming down on saturday to about thirty nine degrees and over here towards miska about thirty two degrees for you then very quickly over here across much of south africa we are looking at very nice conditions across cape town the clouds are staying down here towards the south just for the next few days and we do expect a c. seventeen degrees. full of struggles. yeah if it came over except for

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a plane and so more on the dutch patterns but going to talking about that in just a moment is getting some online reaction with leaders from that well that is what's trending for you. as a sign anger in pakistan over the actions of a dutch politician. who has received death threats since the announced a competition to draw cartoons of the prophet muhammad lawrence lee has our report from the hague. the netherlands self-styled european capital of tolerance but populism and its full clown with islam are resurfacing again kid billed as leader of the far right wing freedom policy seen here before last year's elections as announced a competition to help him plaster the walls of his office with cults too much of the prophet mohammed that. the news of the stunt reached pakistan with predictable results one political party call for diplomatic retaliate. because

the dutch ambassador should be immediately deported and pakistan chicago back its ambassador this is our simple demand and the government should meet it but it seems others have different retaliate in lines within a day a man was arrested at the main railway station in the hague after he allegedly posted on facebook that he was going to poland to target builders. and a former pakistani cricketer then posted a video on twitter offering twenty thousand euros for villas murder. villas himself tweeted crazy that this happens after announcing a cult soon contest of course builders knows that what he's doing isn't really a cartoon competition at all but a deliberate attempt to try to provoke muslims and in that he's clearly succeeded as well as apparently making himself a target but he has received some support from the dutch prime minister who says that he backs filled his rights to freedom of expression even if it's offensive.

since getting twenty percent in last year's elections support in the netherlands for builders policy has slumped one elsewhere in europe the far right torch has been picked up by matteo salvini of the italian league who shares a mutual admiration of hungary's viktor orban builders himself who want nothing more than to be back in the headlines alongside them even or perhaps especially if his tactics lead to a threat to his own safety lawrence lee al jazeera the hague. if all of this sounds a little familiar that's because it is and i went back to the arkansas down to zero dot com today just for a little bit of a refresher you go right back initially to this is february of two thousand and six the cartoons which were published. in denmark which caused outrage across the muslim world it led to again rallies in pakistan as we've seen today as well it even led to and this is an interesting point with making in this case

a yemeni editor was fined just for reprinting the cartoons not to say they don't necessarily support them but his true newspaper chose to reprint the cartoons and then more recently of course you have a. magazine in france in this case again caricature of the prophet muhammad. if people have this as we saw in the ring and i report them and they're tweeting about it they're very frustrated but especially in pakistan and perhaps frustration is a complete understatement here so hash tag blasphemy and prophet and islam are trending in pakistan and most of the conversation though is all about hateful conversation pretty much all about things that are dutch especially the elders who we just heard from the former politician holding the cartoon competition others are asking what the ambassador of holland that they are a master of holland rather be expelled from pakistan and they're also using the

hash tag boycott holland that includes boycotting all dutch products like the oil and gas company shell there are reports of a band of all shell gas stations in islamabad others are asking for help calling on the un and other international players to step in and to try and stop the competition that will have the prophet muhammad depicted as a cartoon dozens of times something that is blasphemous and offensive in islam so far though this is not a trending conversation in the netherlands we want to know what you think of this do you think the cartoon competition should be protected under the freedom of speech laws or should it be stopped because of blasphemy you can connect with us as always with our hash tag a genius for it they are thank you for that iran is continuing to comply with the terms of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal according to the united nations watchdog that is despite the u.s. of course withdrawing from that agreement back in may the other signatories china russia germany france and the u.k. are also sticking to the deal but the u.s.

has imposed sanctions putting pressure on global companies to stop doing business with. and that's led to doctors in iran saying those sanctions are endangering lives they're worried they won't have enough drugs to treat patients foreign companies can't sell medical supplies to iran but banking restrictions are making that harder than ever before zain looks at that. he has been struggling with hemophilia since he was born it's a blood disorder that his parents know means he'll never live a normal life. but the medical treatment he gets at this clinic gives him a fighting chance. he's a boy he should play with his friends and pretty much if he does he has to go to the hospital to get an injection so it affects his spirit and he could not enjoy his childhood for a boy of seven he seems too serious his father says his condition makes him a little weak but like any other kid his age he has dreams. he

wants to be a police officer when he grows up he says because then he'll get to catch criminals for a living his parents are hopeful that the treatment he's getting now will make him strong enough to take care of himself and turn his dreams into reality. when. i have something to tell the americans they shouldn't mix politics with haitian issues and they must separate these things from each other the iranian hemophilia care center treats thousands of patients in dozens of clinics across the country. in the past blanket sanctions on banking made it nearly impossible to find companies willing to sell medicine and equipment to iran. and so iranians began domestic production taking matters into their own hands half of the medicine views to treat many of the patients in facilities like this is made right here in iran the other half is imported from pharmaceutical companies outside the country but

it's the second half that has medical professionals worried once again. iran can't make all the medicine it needs on its own. as governments play political games aid workers say civilian lives hang in the balance. i'm saying this to the leaders of western states and americans you may have political conflict with our government but your methods actually hurt people in classic war when it's guns. but with sanctions we have no rules i call it a silent battle without sound of guns the first victims in this war are the civilians it's women it's children u.s. president donald trump and his administration say they will impose the most stringent sanctions on iran the world has ever seen the white house says sanctions are designed to weaken iran's government but people in this clinic want donald trump to know that at some point that means fighting kids who are fighting for their lives. well just take

a look at some other stories making news around the world today and good news for argentina which is seeking a bailout from the i.m.f. to overcome an economic crisis the u.s. is going to ease quotas on steel and imports washington has also given relief to south korea and brazil steel president donald trump signed the measure on thursday and of course the u.s. slapped levies on steel and aluminum imports from e.u. countries mexico and canada back in march justifying the move on national security grounds tariffs on u.s. goods were of course imposed in response according cambodia has extended the detention of former opposition leader came for another six months the leader of the dissolved cambodia national rescue party has been in custody since september last year on charges of treason the accusations are widely regarded as politically motivated. the world's second largest rain forest is at risk in the democratic republic of congo the government there is planning to end

a ban on industrial logging this is part three of our series forests under threat malcolm webb has a report. it takes about eighty years for a tree like this to grow in just a few minutes to cut it down. any jobs here in the east of the democratic republic of congo where he was a teenager accused of a poem by learn to use a change to how to survive. this is my life it helps me to feed my wife and my two children and pay for their school fees it's the only job i know. the forest provide a small income for thousands of people who live in and around them each of these timbers sells for about two and a half dollars out of the whole tree. about one hundred dollars worth of timber five dollars has to be paid to the landowner is an annual license fee for using

a chain saw the rest of the money is divided between the five people that it takes to do the work it's low key and it's informal the government gets very little revenue the environment minister says the government could be making a lot more timber the carried out of the forest and exported congolese hardwoods of demand all over the world most end up in china europe and the us. the government hasn't granted any industrial logging concessions for sixteen years supposedly to preserve the disappearing forests but it now plans to welcome back industrial loggers he says to fund development projects moved from don't fall we sell what we can it can be mineral resources it can be any resource it can also be the resources of the forest they are ours we want to turn them into resources that help the wellbeing of our people the forests and also home to about half a million indigenous people who've lived in them sustainably for thousands of years

lower miss emmy says they'll be among the many victims if the government goes ahead with its plan. your government has been lying for a long time about development which was never realised the big companies would just take the profits from the forest and leave the population in poverty the government should abandon this plan to benefit the local population not only for ecological reasons. the out is no logging is supposedly regulated but widespread corruption mean it's not the world's second largest rain forest and disappearing steadily and it's loggings industrialised it'll go a lot faster and it'll never grow back. malcolm webb al-jazeera it turi in the democratic republic of congo. we're going off the grid now with lia to lebanon i don't often get to say this but you stink right that is what they're saying and love. i will not go without personally well since twenty fifteen lebanon has struggled with trash essential of the main landfills are full

and towns and cities do not want new ones for obvious reasons protests have been going on there for three years now with many using the hash tag like mall said you stink to draw attention to the issue and talk about online but because there is nowhere to put the trash the government has resorted to burning it instead. what's your market value because it burns for two to three days and then they dump it again and the bulldozers come back and stack it up do you see how it looks like a hilltop when they burn the trash i lose my breath i can't take a breath i use this inhaler because i can't take a breath my daughter also takes these medications the trash is causing us physical and psychological trauma the deputy middle east director at human rights watch has said that although the government moved the garbage off the streets of beirut though more than nine hundred open dumps across the country continue to pose and veyron mental health risks she says the government needs to show leadership on this

issue and put in place a solution that respects people's right to health now in january the lebanese health minister ordered the inspection of open dumps looking for violations and trying to end open burning the cabinet approved a waste management plan trying to stress recycling however lebanon still does not have solid waste management laws if you're in lebanon we do want to hear from the of aardman chatting to some of you online send us pictures or videos of how the trash buildup has impacted you especially if you can smell it burning you can get in touch with me directly leah harding a.j. . a.j. just quickly before we hit the break i haven't been able to get to many of your comments but someone's been asking about me and what is the death toll there we don't have any concern deaths just at the moment for people missing but officially no casualties still waiting to hear what's happening once again for the crew on facebook live you're about to see a story about the debate over serena williams and her outfits that's what our friends and i did plus and then spoke with farai the asian games title when it's

bringing her more than just medals that's coming up.

well that would support his far thank you so much to all the asian games wrapped up in just a few days we've been focusing a lot on the athletes. or is riding on winning a medal and just personal achievements the reports from jakarta. in this house shared by four generations to get the martin remembers her glory days as a. champion she won numerous medals while competing in the indonesian form of martial

arts at the asian games individual gold medalist get just over one hundred thousand dollars as a bonus that surprises money though the most she ever saw eight dollars a month while she was in school she feels a bit let down but agrees with the idea of bonuses. being an as it is not easy in a money for training transport and. during my time it was difficult to make money i had to skip school a lot this new system is extraordinary it's definitely encouraging for internation athletes. some observers feel that the bonuses are good for the athletes but there are concerns about funding. it is still a question mark we don't know if it's fair for everyone for a different country. but for developing countries struggling economies a bonus seems excessive because they are paying tax payers money. for twenty six

year old handy who won the men's double pincheck see that gold for indonesia the money will be a life changer he returns home for the first time since his big victory he's the main breadwinner for the household. they need to be honest as a human being money can motivate me i want to get the bonus so i trained hard now the result the money can help me make my parents happy and improve the quality of life but for some athletes winning medals here at the asian games is not about the money so my professional is worth millions of dollars and for one south korean footballer it's about the possibility of mandatory military service. south korea some human place for english premier side tottenham hotspur and earns a big money as one of the club's. top star. he's playing here at the asian games because if they win gold on saturday night he gained an exemption from his mandatory twenty one months of military service and he will use his bonus to

hopefully improve life for his family and cause criticism about paying national team athletes shallow they're doing a service for the country he says and that requires dedication and sacrifice not to mention spending a great deal of time away from family scott either al-jazeera jakarta. ok so one of the most eagerly anticipated off the pitch moments of the european football season is about to take place the draw for the group stages of the way for champions league happens in just a few minutes time watching that draw will be live welling's who's live for us in london alley a team that really stands out in the draw is red star belgrade they won the tournament in one thousand nine hundred one but haven't qualified for a group stage for twenty six years tell us more. yes the ninety ninety one was actually quite a famous european cup final it wasn't the champions they then were to become the champions league let's talk about great of just not managed to reach those groups i just they're no longer a power of course in european football but they always were and in most you won

they had a fantastic team to the breakup of the former yugoslavia gave them a lot of problems and they had to play that much as the next year out of belgrade and never really recovered from that but i have now on a fantastic victory against red bull so expect that with two goals down they managed to fight back and go through and i think a lot of people on social media are giving them a lot of love because they are a traditional superpower of european football and they feel that verb or bit of a a plus the comp fairly or unfairly one thing to look out for though their funds and over exuberance they can win the pitch they took the players show they've already been. such a bunch of races chancing this season so i might be for some problems let's hope they make their stories with their play on the pitch are rightly willing is thank you so much we just want to quickly tell you about a campaign being run by three female fans of celtic that's gone viral it's called the on the ball initiative and its aim is to provide free sanitary products and the

bathrooms of football stadiums across the u.k. the campaign has just gone on a massive boost organizers tweeted this congratulations to the in brighton and hove albion football club for the first premier league team to get on the ball with free period products for their fans well done to fan thomas for taking our campaign to his club and more people have been asking their local clubs to also get involved staff tweeted come on liverpool your turn to be on the ball or we spoke to one of the organizers aaron slavin who challenged other big clubs around the world to get on board. remember expect that to have as much of a point to say i think that michael moore anger seems on board that the school and they have you know who are victims really and you know we get buying them board in an obvious effort to number eight in so it's huge and you know the claim early is

often status of a stake in the weather as the be able but you know what has gone on so here is to have a primary ongoing process is just decided as you know in the five opinions and actually . came and it laodicean feedback from other women and i mean and her just to live again this is way out in case i think that nobody excel at the for no . as always we'd like to hear your thoughts on any stories you can tweet me directly at underscore a smile paul will be back with more eight hundred ninety but for now i'll hand you back to well thank you so much for that and thank you for joining us for this newsgroup if you want to get in touch with us those are the details just to clarify my earlier word salad which came out i was trying to say that number one what sets a message just directly and that means questions comments video as well if you want to comment and we have a channel running telegram if you use that app as well we're pumping out content there as well and you can get in touch with us through telegrams or otherwise hashtag and we'll see you right back here in studio fourteen at al-jazeera at

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a. new yorkers are very receptive to al-jazeera because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective that al jazeera provides. fears grow a massive offensive to retake it lip from rebels in syria will happen syria's foreign minister says damascus is prepared to go all the way. ellen malcolm devika pollen and you're watching are just there live from london all of that coming up argentina raises interest rates to whopping sixty percent in a bid to prop up the tumbling path of. rescue teams struggle to reach thousands stranded in man bar after a dam collapse that masses of water across villages. and where there are republican

and the democratic republic of congo home to the second largest rain forest in the world but.