al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for again this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the u.s. says it's cutting off all funding the u.n. agency that helps palestinian refugees. talks between the u.s. and canada on a new free trade agreement missed the deadline we'll look at what happens next. a pro russian separatists leader dies in a bomb blast in ukraine moscow and kiev blame each other for the killing. of the final farewell for aretha franklin. at the queen of souls fuel.

a flagrant assault on the palestinian people that's palestinian president mahmoud abbas is describing the decision by the u.s. to hold all funding to the u.n. agency that helps palestinian refugees known as annorah the latest declaration by washington comes a week after the trumpet ministration said that it was causing more than two hundred million dollars in economic aid to the agency it will in effect and decades of financial support spent on health education and food security well the u.s. state department spokeswoman heather not released a statement saying when we made a u.s. contribution of sixty million dollars in january we made it clear that the united states was no longer willing to shoulder the very disproportionate share of the burden of costs that we had assumed for many al-jazeera sports reports.

palestinian president mahmoud abbas says the decision by the united states to stop funding the un agency helping palestinian refugees is a flagrant assault against his people more than one million of them rely on food aid handed out by so the decision by the us not to pay the anticipated two hundred twenty five million dollars this year could leave many without enough to eat the shortfall in one rez budget will mean the closure of primary health clinics and the end to relief and social services projects that runs forward should palestinian refugees these provide human development and emergency assistance for millions of people. also operates hundreds of schools for half a million palestinian children in gaza the occupied west bank jordan lebanon and syria they opened their doors this week with uncertainty we have money to run them only until the end of september and the end of that. will be running and we won't

have enough money for all schools to pay out twenty two thousand teachers go a few days ago the commissioner general of an ra said the agency has been trying to diversify its sources of funding it's appealing to longstanding and large donors and arab countries to contribute to annorah and keep their schools open have had the first multi-year agreements with countries like the russian federation and we have very significant contributions from gulf countries we've had to india increase its contribution very significantly as has china so they are dynamics there and they're also dynamics in the world bank and the islamic development bank to provide more stability for the long term annorah says half a million students without a school will lead to regional instability the real losers will be some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people in a volatile part of the world paul schrader john al-jazeera. let's get more on this now from rob reynolds who joins us live from washington d.c. robot robot at the now it made it quite clear that the u.s.

was no longer willing to shoulder the very disproportionate share of the burden of on risk costs is there more to it than that though. well first of all ages in the share is somewhat disproportionate the u.s. contribution is about thirty percent of the budget but it seems that what is going on here is an effort to create a new dynamic in so far as the arab as the as the israeli palestinian conflict goes and especially with regard to the right of return of the right of return is something that is held really as a primary tenet of the palestinian position i.e. that those people who were forced to leave their land in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight when the state of israel was established and their descendants should have a right to return israel has long opposed this in an email. that

was published earlier this year jared pushed or president trump son in law on his point man as it were on the middle east said that a sincere effort must be made to undermine and in heather nauert statement earlier today the state department spokesman spokesperson she. made some fairly broad hints that the idea would be to have the palestinian refugees become the responsibilities not of not of the u.n. but of the states to which the in which they reside i.e. syria jordan lebanon and others. the administration also reportedly plans to issue a report saying that the five million refugees with the right to return claim by the palestinian side do not really are not real refugees the only refugees are the ones who are actually alive in one nine hundred forty eight and that's only about

five hundred thousand people is what the u.s. is really doing here is unilaterally abolishing can it do that. no it cannot do that is a u.n. agency and in fact. the president mahmoud abbas of the palestinian authority in addition to that statement that you you read earlier about a flagrant assault on the palestinian people he also said it is a defiance of u.n. resolutions that the u.s. cannot unilaterally abolish the institution it is its mandate is renewed every time it comes up for renewal by the united nations by a wide majority however if for example the united for example israel refused to allow an ra to operate in areas under its military control that could effectively

neuter the organization wrote many thanks i was there as well brunell said live in washington mohammed oasis is a political analyst researcher who specializes in the us and the middle east he joins us now live. from washington good to have you with us so what's your reaction to this latest interview then from the trumpet ministration. well since the president took office there are many measures he took many things many actions he took and tie palestinian things trying to please their base and america they once. zionists christians and the israeli zionist in order to maintain power in the united states but most of his or all of his unilateral behavior does not stick you cannot it takes two to tango it takes two parties to a conflict dissolve the conflict with the with cutting the funding for the un or what that means he is trying to put more hard on the palestinians

i am one of these palestinians who i was born in a tent in the refugee camp i was raised in that if you see camp without the honor and the help of the owner why would have not had clothes or food or schooling or a college so if you take the palestinians who live only i'm talking about the two million palestinians who live and lebanon syria jordan egypt and iraq these are about two million people who have no safety net except the other well including health care education housing and employment if he cuts for the palestinians yes it's going to be difficult on these palestinians but it is not going to change the fact that israel still occupies palestine and israel is refusing to allow the palestinians to return to palestine and the refugees the internal refugees inside palestine proper also are not going to have

a place to go so. thinks he is the center of the universe but he forgets that there is a united nations there is about hundred and ninety seven countries and that is what will vote against his united lateral actions. does. have the authority to close the honor was no he cannot. can solve the middle east issue no he is complicating it for truth what you're saying is that if if if peace is to be found in the middle east and is a vital component you can't do without them wrong. you can't do it without the palestinian refugees and all the palestinians the palestinians who live and that education and the west bank and gaza are always being blockaded by egypt and israel and without helping the palestinians in order to help shore them up there will be find return to their countries because let's face it the palestinians who live in

syria jordan lebanon and egypt do not have identity cards when i came to america i had no identity card card except a card saying that i'm your officiate it is still the same since nine hundred forty eight it will continue to be the same because the palestinians belong to palestine not to countries thought the horse them on behalf of israel because israel is occupying their land could still do so many thanks indeed for being with us mohamed always there in washington thank you u.s. and canada have missed a deadline to revamp the north america free trade agreement talks on friday broke up without a deal but there resume on wednesday earlier president donald trump told congress that he will press ahead with the new bilateral trade agreement with mexico the move leaves canada in the cold but its foreign minister says that she's top domestic a deal can be reached it is going to take flexibility on all sides to get to a deal in the end and what i can speak to is the canadian position and i really

want to assure canadians that we're working hard to get a good deal we are confident that a win win win deal is possible and we're always going to stand up for the national interest and for canadian values. study a lack joins us now live from toronto they've missed this deadline trampas notify congress of the deal with mexico where does this leave canada. adrian i think the canadians have had a rather tough week on monday they awoke to news that the u.s. and mexico negotiators have been meeting without them for about four or five weeks had come up with the outlines of a deal that would replace the north american free trade agreement that's hugely important to the canadians it's more than a third of their g.d.p. but basically the prosperity of the country depends on it so they flew to washington and resume talks with the u.s. president put them under heavy pressure by setting up this friday deadline threatening automotive tariffs that would effectively shut down the canadian car

industry but the deadline came and went with no sign of agreement between the two sides there was even a rather sour mood in the talks today because president trumpet said a couple of times in off the record comments that were released that they weren't going to give the canadians anything so the news that they're meeting again next week wednesday is probably the best they can hope for out of this all right so one of the main sticking points why did they miss this deal this deadline i'm sorry. it's a it's traditional sticking points between the u.s. and canada the sort of thing the canadians have pushed in free trade agreements in the past they're dairy industry is highly protected here in canada and u.s. wants to import more milk butter and so on into the country and also the americans in any trade relationship almost always have the upper hand if you want access to their market while you play by their rules and they break them from time to time and canadians want independent trade arbitration that they have had in the past and the americans want off the table both the foreign minister that we heard from

earlier and prime minister justin trudeau say those are both red lines no go areas they're sticking to their guns for now but any new deadlines that come up they'll have to probably take more seriously than the one that passed this week to anybody thanks data. live in toronto. here with the news hour from our series still to come on the program revelations that the united arab emirates has been spying on leading figures across the middle east. go back home people escaping venezuela's economic crisis receive a cold welcome in peru. and in sport the spread legend getting a run out for a professional football team will find out what the fans thought of the same bolts debut before. russia has accused ukraine of assassinating prominent separatist leader alexander soccer chank oh in eastern ukraine the russian backed leader of rebels in donetsk

was killed in a blast of the cafe in the city center i was here as rory chalons reports from moscow. this is the aftermath of the blast that killed alexander as a car or a blackened body can be seen lying on a structure outside the cafe donetsk went into lockdown after the killing with moscow and the russian backed breakaway republic itself calling this an act of international terrorism the last pictures of her alive were from thursday laying flowers for the donbass born singer years of cubs one who died earlier in the day so hard have been the prime minister of done yet since november two thousand and fourteen he was shuffled into the business at a time when attempts were being made to make the war in ukraine's east look less like a foreign operation run from moscow more like a homegrown independence movement as a disney esque native and rebel military commander who fit the bill. or was present

both peace summits in minsk a negotiator of the first the d.n.r. representative and signatory had the second three potential theories springs to mind for who might have been behind this killing it could have been ukraine secret service the s.b.u. perhaps it was separatist infighting or maybe it was moscow doing some extreme housekeeping amongst the rebels. plenty of other separatist commanders have met similar fates like the man with a nod to get give the killed last year and motorola who died in two thousand and sixteen but this ukraine analyst thinks one theory of a psychotic is death stands out as the most likely to me it looks like this was an internal operation for the past few weeks and months the constant corps has been critical of some of its colleagues other deputies and that's all the n.r.o. meant i.e. control the t.v. station which pretty much humiliated and their colleagues so i think come kind of

the writing was on the wall that they were numbered moscow and kiev a both accusing each other of having a hand in subconscious death the most significant yet of the many deaths that have been ongoing feature in this murky war very challenge is how to zero mosque or john herbst is a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine and is director of the aeration center at the atlantic council he says that russia is waging a war of aggression in ukraine and donald trump needs to get tough with moscow all senior officials in the trump initiation under the president believe that russia is committing a war of aggression boss russia is pursuing a revisionist foreign policy with the focus on ukraine and the united states must hope ukraine stop russia in. that list includes vice president secretaries of state

on paper matters and national security advisor both the president's own statements are much softer on russia but the policy of the administration has been quite quite tough whether some sanctions would help from congress or supplying javelin missiles to ukraine which was a presidential decision. now schools of russian diplomats after the kremlin poisoned the russian. factor in britain i believe that we should make russia pay for its aggression ukraine to persuade russia to lead therefore i welcome decision the trumpet ministry and job missiles i think we should send additional weapons and we should impose additional sanctions on the problem or is ongoing aggression in ukraine the russian people don't support this war this is a criminal war against the people of ukraine there's no question that sanctions have an impact that's why every day about the kremlin complains about them and russian economic officials have said that for example in two thousand. the

sanctions cost cost of one to one point five percent. this year or last year cost them anywhere from a half a percent to three quarters of a percent. of the sanctions a painful. mr putin is hoping that the ukrainian presidential elections in march of two thousand and nineteen will lead to weaken leadership who to be disappointed were woods ukrainian elections were strong policy it's offensive ukraine's territorial integrity don't bus at that point i think that russia may reconsider its position but not until after the ukrainian elections at least twelve yemeni fishermen have been killed in a saudi and iraqi coalition air strike according to hootie links media they say it happened of upon the island which is part of what they had a province the coalition says the boats were being used to smuggle weapons more from alan fischer who's in djibouti. the picture is slightly confused what we were

told initially was that seventy pressure men were missing after the coalition targeted three ships near this island that has no been revised to the media reporting that nineteen pressure men are missing presumed dead although no one can get to the area of what exactly what has happened certainly the saudis are saying that the targeted three boat that they believe were carrying weapons to the no that comes just twenty four hours after the u.s. stopped a ship which they say was carrying one thousand people working seven rifles again heading towards the good things but it's not clear at this point if the cellulite coalition try to stop these vessels or the just simply attack there are those who would suggest that these were simply fishermen going about their mission but certainly it shows the concern that fishermen along the red sea have they believe they're being targeted by the coalition but also they have to navigate past the

mines that are being laid all around this area and they say it's almost making it untenable for them to go out to sea to try and make a living qatar's calling for action after the united arab emirates stands accused of using israeli spy technology on leaders in saudi arabia and lebanon the new york times revealed attempts to listen to phone calls by lebanese prime minister saad hariri the u.a.e. also tried to tap the cattery amir's phone in twenty fourteen and the saudi prince the newspaper obtained leaked e-mails from lawsuits against an israeli spy with sonny ham the is editor in chief of international interest a current affairs used magazine he says the emirate spying is part of its wider ambitions in the region. i think it's been one of those were the worst kept secret in the middle east that there are these underhand dealings with israel particular goes to the emirates i think what is quite profound is that idea that you were you

were spying on some of the saudi princes there is often this belief that this is the and the u.a.e. are partners in crime or partners in war the partner whatever probably not the best expression to use but the idea that they are very much you are as close as possible whereas in reality there is this undercurrent of a power struggle struggle going on the u.a.e. sees itself as trying to expand itself as a key major force in the region and using these type of underhanded techniques there fits what in line for i think it's very interesting that the report really that it was my mother like that prince meant to have been abdullah with the arrival of mohammed bin that man who is a very good friend would be if. i didn't there's my own sad and heavy in lebanon as well so i think with regard to you ease kind of tactics are part of a wider admission that it has in order to adopt rather a more sinister style since the version of cattle project in which the spread of influence across the region argentina's government says that it will discuss

a fifty billion dollar bailout plan with the international monetary fund on monday the argentinean pesos lost half of its value against the u.s. dollar this year and it's raising concerns about even more hardships of people there last in latin america and it's all you see in human reports now from what a status. it's a move the argentines have seen before their currency losing its value at a record low and at a dizzying speed. all eyes were on the city when the cytisus financial center. after losing another fifteen percent of its value so as day the government managed a modest recovery after infusing almost seven hundred million dollars into the currency market to stop the hemorrhaging. that didn't diminish the long queues of people seeking refuge in the u.s. dollar. these abrupt and deep explosions in the currency such strong devaluation is concerned me because they symbolize an unstable country an unstable economy.

arjen times think and save in dollars and with good reason given their economies history of boom and bust and when the dollar goes up so do prices while the value of people's wages starts tunneling down and that is exactly what is happening today a waitress for example told me that back in april she was making the equivalent of six hundred dollars a month today she is making three hundred or only half that much and that's just in the last four months. the devaluation of the pestle increases inflation already one of the world's highest the government says it will announce new economic measures on monday before going to the i.m.f. to negotiate terms for speeding up the release of a fifty billion dollar bailout loan they include further austerity measures. but many economists warn that the cost of turning to the i.m.f. is too high the i.m.f.

lends money but as we all know there are a series of very stringent conditions which and up sinking the economy explain to me how you come out of that on top. and you don't basically so are headed for another crisis i mean we are in a crisis but we're heading for another major crisis. and if that's true not only could south america's second largest economy risk a new default but also major social unrest like the kind that brought down the government in two thousand and one. see in mulan al-jazeera when a site is. venezuelans leaving their country of finding life just as problematic in neighboring peru racial slurs and hate speech have made it hard for many of them to feel safe that but they say the anti immigrant attitude is easier to deal with the conditions back home money on the sanchez reports from lee about.

thirty eight year old the bush man keeps an eye on municipal police well selling a traditional rice string from venezuela he still doesn't have a street vendor permit trying to make a living far away from home is hard he says but worse is hearing slurs against venice women's classical form. especially to people like me a street vendor people tell me move get out of here go back to your country. an armed assault mainly perpetrated by even a fearless and con and security cameras sparked a wave of untied ministry and feeling in. this honest compatriots are paying the price thinking that. people have to understand we are not all the same the great majority is here to work and send money to our families to get them out of the inferno that venezuela has become. businessmen you to do stop textile employee and say the number of in a swill as working here is grow where they peruvians save in

a swill and are taking their jobs i'm a big deal some businessmen here have laid off peruvians because they say venezuelans charge them less the anti immigration sentiment among many people who vians was fueled by a conservative candidate ylem s. mayoral race in october he gained popularity by same venice will answer threatening security and jobs. but government officials have condemned cinephile big slurs produce open border policy has let more than four hundred thousand in a swim in the country nearly seventy thousand have already been granted work permits were again official say the press is over this way let's just have it in fact there was health and education says that there are nearly thirty thousand innocent children in schools but they also say the impact is positive and it is workforce for many even as well as i believe the job floridians don't want to take . any peruvians reacted against growing scene a father. sentiment by opening their homes to shelter migrants and refugees twenty

one year old alexander torrealba is sleeping with fifteen other venezuelans in one room. i feel lucky to have been offered this shelter but it's a pity many compatriots have been mistreated we know we're here because we want to be but because we need to be. however the majority of us will say they feel will come in escaping from inflation and food and medicine shortages back home make them choose to endure almost anything for a better future and the innocent or so just see that. in venezuela twelve people have been arrested accused of causing power cuts in a major oil industry hub an electrical substation exploded in the city of matter kibo the justice minister called it sabotage and said that those detained were acting for people in neighboring colombia the government has blamed previous explosions on the opposition but the city's infrastructure has been failing for

years due to that as well as economic crisis rescue workers in myanmar are struggling to reach thousands of people stranded after a dam burst on wednesday water flooded at least eighty five villages four people are confirmed dead more than sixty three thousand have been forced from their homes wait a reports from neighboring thailand. repair work is underway at the dam site to try to stem the flow of water the breach happened on the dam spillway a structure that was once one hundred twenty meters high vast areas of big-o. region remain submerged beneath muddy water in some places it's starting to recede but it will be a long time before once fertile farmland can be used again several people are still missing and the military and other rescue personnel and never gauging the murky waters searching for survivors people living in the area had voiced concerns about the water level in the reservoir before the disaster they say they should have been

some warning but just days before the breach will thora he's had given the dam the all clear. we're going to. be for one day one hour before we're going to begin the repair work is also started on a bridge that was damaged causing traffic chaos it's on the main yang gone mandalay highway that links me and miles to biggest cities and it's the wit season in this part of me and and flooding is common the questions will be asked why the dam didn't cope this time and whether those responsible for its management and maintenance could have done more rain hey al-jazeera bangkok the queen of soul aretha franklin has been honored at a marathon farewell ceremony that lasted almost a. home city detroit it was the fourth day of remembrance for the singing legends john hendren reports from detroit. it was a requiem fit for

a queen. john. paying tribute risk or of political civil rights in hollywood luminaries or in be royalty. a political and a one time head of state to remember and pay their respects to aretha franklin the queen of soul. i think the secret of her greatness when she took his massive talent and this perfect culture razor. and decided to be the composer of her own life so. it turned out to be outside stood a line of pink cadillacs a tribute to the current aretha's freeway of luck perhaps the luckiest people here are the members of the general public more than a thousand of them. they would get

a chance to see the queen these are the people. who get one last chance to see the queen of soul. one after another to speakers in performers paid tribute. she was a preacher's daughter raised by a single parent she had two sons by the age of fifteen and got her start in her father's choir. with the people of the motor city remember a legend who always stayed true to her hometown. john hendren detroit. will get a weather update. with the rest when it comes to. the. gold medal is decided in the.

hello again we're here cross united states we are entering a holiday weekend and we are going to be seeing things changing for some locations appear to the northeast not too bad up towards new york on saturday tempter there of about twenty five degrees but we have a lot of moisture we have a lot of the flow now coming out of the south and when you have that that means those temperatures are about to go up so from twenty five degrees here on saturday we are looking at those temperatures rising to about twenty six but washington about thirty degrees and then as we go towards the middle of next week expect those temperatures to go back to into the mid to low thirty's there out towards the west coast seattle a pleasant day if you partly cloudy at about twenty two what we are watching a few tropical disturbance is here across the caribbean notice these clouds right

here to the north of santa domingo we're going to be watching that very carefully over the next few days because what's going to be happening is the national hurricane center is looking at it they haven't put anything out they don't expect a development in the next three to four days but notice the rain right there passing with the turks and caicos that starts to make its way appear towards the northwest and as we go towards sunday very heavy rain across parts of parts of the bahamas so for nasa thirty one degrees for you and even towards havana clouds are coming in with a temperature of thirty. optimism has faded. blue counties elected leaders under. detention as fears that a crackdown is imminent the targets the activists who called for democracy dividing contact. hot fiber six part series filmed as

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it is good to have you with us adrian from going to here with the news from up zero our top stories this hour the u.n. agency that helps palestinian refugees says that it's surprised by u.s. decision to cut all funding the move by washington ends decades of financial support towards health education and food security a study and president mahmoud abbas has called the move a flagrant assault on the palestinian people. the u.s. and canada have missed a deadline to revamp the north america free trade agreement talks on friday broke up without a deal but official say that was you what stay. russia has accused ukraine of assassinating prominent separatist leader alexander couch and co in eastern ukraine the russian backed leader of rebels in donetsk was killed in a blast at a cafe in the city center russia says that ukraine carried out the killing to try to reignite war and to destabilize the region. rebels in syria as it played

province of blown up two bridges they say to prevent an expected government assault people protested against moves to retake the rebels' last stronghold but russia's foreign minister says the syrian government has every right to chase what he called terrorists out of it lib three million people live there including around ten thousand rebel fighters with some sokal is a teacher in it lippy says that it would be hard to escape. i just need to go now but if we are we are committed place i give the police now the term because if it is not the means it is no longer safe in any place in the in syria that we might finally be aquaman on the map it looks like a small area but it's a huge impact i need for five or six hours from one side to another guy that you or me at least and we have like who these people saw we are not the

usual puppet. you. lack but here i get for can make up for that. as long as work is not getting to the area life will a normal. way of chilling that will target the hospital that usual cannot go. and again use a turkey helps a lot when even in our interest they are in the british they are put a lot in the pool of people the us children's agency is urging the warring sides to spasso billions. we think it's particularly important when we're having all this military rhetoric that we start hearing that we don't forget that there's more than a million children inside there are children who in some cases have been displaced two three four five six times from different cities in they are children who've

coping mechanism has been very much eroded by all these displacement and who are particular risks so that's that's what's happening at the moment that's the risk we're facing the u.n. high commissioner for refugees says that many areas in syria still not safe for refugees to return to philippa grandy has been visiting jordan and lebanon which have taken in millions of syrians displaced by the war is a harder reports now from beirut. the united nations reiterating its longstanding position that a refugee returns is still premature to organize large scale returns because the situation in syria is still not safe these returns cannot be in the words of the head of the u.n. h.c.r. sustainable he said philip ground a that they have been talking to refugees and we have been talking to refugees and refugees are concerned for a number of reasons even though the fighting has died down what are they going to

return to many of the towns and villages have been destroyed their homes have been destroyed there is a lack of services lack of infrastructure no schools and no hospitals in some areas and they're also concerned about the not finding a job or being forced to join the army if the male the men in the family are forced to join the army who is going to work to feed the children but more importantly a lot of them are afraid of retribution they feel that there are no safety guarantees in place to make sure that the syrian government does not take any measure against them simply for leaving or accuse them of supporting those supporting the opposition so filippo grand they touring the region talking to officials in damascus both syrian and russian officials about these refugee concerns and telling them that if indeed refugees are to return the united nations needs to have a presence for the program they did not say what response he got he did say that they discussed the russian plan for the refugee returns we asked them to elaborate

on that and he and he just didn't give any details so refugees are concerned why because host nations like lebanon like jordan have been stepping up calls for refugees to return home saying that the situation is not safe in syria and that they have been a burden both on the lebanese and jordanian governments and lebanese that the lebanese president told from the program that we don't need to wait for a political solution for before refugees return so refugees are concerned the united nations. making it clear that it is still not safe for these people to return home. u.s. politicians have been paying their last respects to the late senator john mccain a military guard of honor carried his casket to lie in state at the capitol hill in washington where the republican served for thirty five years vice president mike pence and speaker paul ryan delivered tributes mccain supported military infant interventions in afghanistan and iraq and backed israel's twenty fourteen war in

gaza he will be buried on sunday strongly as catholic church has rejected proposals for priests to report sexual abuse of children revealed during confession the decision will put the country's biggest religious group at loggerheads with the government a five year inquiry had recommended that priests face criminal charges if they fail to report abuse the catholic church has accepted ninety eight percent of the reckon . with a real commitment that related to the catholic church. the only recommendation relates to removing the seal of confession or priest penitent privilege as it's sometimes called and that will be no surprise i imagine to most of you kathy kesselman is the president of the blue not foundation which helps a virus of child abuse she says it's time for action rather than words from the catholic church. look i think we've seen

a lot of rhetoric from the catholic church i think it's time that we actually see real cultural change where by child safety is absolutely priority the crime of sexual abuse against children can no longer be tolerated zero tolerance we've been waiting a long time and let's hope that there is a very rapid generational change because we've seen in this country an absolute this is them asian children within systems of peer and and pushing the catholic church. featured a lot in their rule commission there's a lot of pressure on the vatican no i think there's a certain you know apology is one thing but real action is another and will take a long time to rebuild the trust in the catholic church when we see that children are actually safe and that victims of believers and that justice is is brought to bear this recount a serious been looking at the threat to forests around the world in efforts to save them one in four people depend on them for their livelihoods but the world has lost

nearly half its forests this map from global forest watch shows tree cover across the world in green the pink areas are the three hundred thirty seven million hectares of tree cover that was lost between two thousand and one and twenty seventeen that's an eight point four percent decrease since the year two thousand the united kingdom has one of the lowest levels of woodland coverage in europe and campaigners say that it's a risk of deforestation unless more trees are planted that's why the government has backed a plan to create a new forest and the hayward report style for more than england in the final part of our series forests under threat. it's hard to put a value on nature but jane in d n a trying to establish the environmental value of trees in terms of reducing pollution and the carbon they store in greater manchester they're working on a project to plant more trees and eventually establish where

a new forest stretching from one side of the country to the other will go the northern power east is an ambitious plan to turn part of england's industrial north green during the next twenty five years conservation charity the woodland trust wants to plant fifty million trees they all about tre say we're hoping that will come up with some suggestions of where large scale plantings games could be it will help us to identify gaps in tree cover that help us to find you areas to some of these trees in the country as well as the fifty million about thirteen percent of the u.k. is couplet in woodland but in the area for this new forest it's less the landscape a really began to change during the industrial revolution at the start of the nineteenth century since then the population has gone up and so too has the need for housing and industry the tree population die and parts of northern england has

dwindled to under eight percent conservationists say more trees need to be planted across britain to counter the future affects of climate change and the impact of big construction projects such as a new high speed rail line and plans to build hundreds of thousands of homes not far from london is haul wood nestled next to ancient woodland is the culmination of a decade long project to transform arab land into a new native forest environmentalists say hundreds of ancient woodlands in britain are under threat the aspiration is to plant five thousand hectares of new york to berlin. in the last plan. anting season on your thousand haters were planted in a season for only seven hundred hectares were planted which was the lowest in a generation each year you miss the target just gets further away the u.k. government says it's committed to planting eleven million trees by the middle of twenty twenty two in greater manchester conservationists are thinking long term to

secure a green ablation for the peach or emma who would al-jazeera in northern england the venice film festival as followed in the footsteps of cam and cider gender parity pledge but organizers have rejected claims of sexism that reports from various. a gesture that some say is over due on friday the venice film festival signed an agreement promising greater transparency over how it selects films and gender equality across the organization followed similar moves by rivals like counted locarno. before the festival started the european women's audiovisual network published an open letter to venice denouncing the fact only one film in the main competition here is directed by a woman and demanding changes to what they called a rigged system that favors mainly white males. now it seems change is on its way but for the festival director actual quotas are

a step too far quaters is something which is in the fair and right in politics for example. we can use the quote has been in art the only katie to talk for hours is the quality of their work is. soccer marx's presenting her first feature film of venice previously she directed a documentary on the french prison system. along cass is showing outside the main competition it's about a young man looking for support when he comes out of jail his mother played by sort of being born air has severe depression and he finds himself dragged into criminality the director says her gender hasn't been a problem when it comes to getting her work see. the complicated judgment of previously to a staff but now there are more and more women directors in france there are plenty and lots of women have paved the way like kathryn bigelow at the start it was hard

for her because really there were no women directors in hollywood. and some industry watchers say the debate about how many women directed a film screening first of all those masks a deeper problem what we need to be talking about is getting young school girls when they're in school to think i can be a director and when that happens we're going to get far more women directors and we're going to get better for. coming from some of those women directors a lot less than a quarter. when it comes to who makes the films audiences get to see hear and in cinema but changing. the industry discussion is just the film. just ahead on. american sloane stephens successfully continues the defense of the u.s. open time.

well again the sport has andy. thank you very much for you sign both says my it is debbie for a professional football team and the champion wasn't so far away from marking the occasion with a goal. the sprint legend out of brief run out of the substitute for australia's central coast mariners in a pre-season friendly here against an amateur but was on the pitch for the final twenty minutes of the game with his team already six still up the thirty two year old is on trial at the elite club and ice yet to be offered a professional contract. right now i'm just trying to get used to the guys i don't

want to hold moment to actually get a chance to play a guy live a playbook so boss off that's what i'm happy about i think along the line when i start winning championships in the theme come i believe in them then that is the moment you get higher and higher and higher but i know i'm starting to be an almost ten thousand fans went to the game and as our correspondent andrew thomas discovered many believe the jamaican can succeed in his new sports. a minor pre-season friendly against a team of amateurs this was not the sort of match that would normally attract much attention or much of a crowd but this was different for one reason alone i. say about this is around. the same belt is a sports megastar just not seen this sport as an athlete he won gold medals and broken limb pick records in beijing london and rio as

a footballer his debut was here at the central coast stadium in gosford an australian city a fewer than two hundred thousand about eighty kilometers north of sydney or i think he actually has a lot to live but i really want that. the average guy put itself in every orifice. bolt has done previous trial periods with dortmund in germany and at clubs in norway and south africa he's also played in charity games with television chefs but this was his first match for a professional club even though he wasn't playing in a professional capacity the match was against a collection of balance of play. this brought together to give the central coast mariners a stretch of the legs the mariners were as expected the much better team boat was as expected perhaps their weakest player but also their biggest star. coming on a subject the same ball played just the last twenty three minutes of the game and although his team did win comfortably he didn't fight much part in the victory but

this crowd well they say it's all about balls it was a big no i think he's prevented this yet it was. more it was very trying the credit for a better way to battle this thing. you see on the central coast mariners have said both can stay with them indefinitely but does not mean the two necessarily get a contract for graduate from andrew thomas al-jazeera gosford australia. and injury time when you saw ac milan beating wrong and it's a nice area that you're trying to watching on see gonzalez pass to make the final score. these morons first points of the new season after they lost to napoli in their opening game.

well tempers flared in the handball final at the asian games where cattle beat bahrain the game had been tight through outs with the schools deadlocked at twenty five each in regulation time bahrain were unhappy with the referee's decision to award a penalty in extra time qatar converted that chance when sonce a win thirty two twenty seven is castle's second straight asian games title. japan of claim gold in the women's football after beating china in that final week or so so with the only goal of the game came in the ninetieth minutes. japan winning their first ever women's hockey gold medal at the games with a two one victory over india india had been aiming for their first title since one thousand nine hundred eighty two. and sara lee y z has become the most successful hong kong athlete in asian games history she won the women's sprint cycling event that was her second gold medal of the week and fifty games title of her career. or

just a couple of days of action left in china are assured of finishing top of the overall medals table they've got one hundred eighteen gold medals have a look at the country in third place south korea well down on the gold medal counts of four years ago with forty three they want seventy nine titles and they hosted the event in twenty eight fourteen defending u.s. open champion sloane stephens is through to around four in new york the american number three seed beating former world number one the tory was ranked in straight sets six three six for the finals. and they had believed to be a little rocky in the second set i started off well and i managed to have your dad in fact was good throughout so really pleased. in the men's draw on the line c. dominic team came from a set down to beat america's taylor fritz that puts him in the fourth round team now i'm for the first ever u.s. open quarterfinals. that's one of his official saying umpire went beyond protocol

when he appeared to give advice to australian player nick kiryas during a match the notoriously temperamental curious looked on course to lose against pierre baer and umpire mohammad the highly decided it was his job to deliver a pep talk to the players curious went on to win four sets for the harley has been given a warning but will carry on in his job at the events. the same things happen to meet up in the showroom for whom we all know what was you know that moment show the referees are the same thing it's not good for the integrity of the sport it doesn't have a good look. and through someone who's you know being rough they get worn you know if you keep doing this you can get a lot of things that have no effect at all three of them. was five two down so i mean obviously at all former n.f.l. quarterback colin cap'n it will be allowed to take legal action against team owners the thirty year old claims the owners are in

a conspiracy and once employment because of his protests against racial injustice requests by the league to dismiss his complaints has been rejected tapenade has been without a team since obscenely out of its san francisco forty nine ers contract last year in formula one driver marcus eriksson walked away unharmed from a huge crash in practice ahead of the italian grand prix. eriksson sabba car had a technical fault affecting his ability to break the swedes at no further past in the session which had to be stopped for twenty minutes ferrari sebastian vettel also suffered a high speed spin but was still able to step the fastest lap time champ chip leader lewis hamilton was third quickest. ok but as we spoke for now more lights added many thanks i'll be back to update you on the day's top stories in just a few moments see it.

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the u.s. says that it's cutting off all funding to the u.n. agency that helps palestinian refugees calling it an evil irredeemably flawed operation. well i'm adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up no deal yet talks between the u.s. and canada on a new free trade agreement missed the deadline will look at what happens next. a pro russian separatist leader dies in a bomb blast in ukraine moscow and kiev blame each other for the killing. of the final farewell for the franc in a star studded field.