people who live them. on al-jazeera. the u.s. says that it's cutting off all funding to the u.n. agency that helps palestinian refugees calling it an irredeemable irredeemably flawed operation. i'm adrian from again 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 well 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.

and the final farewell for the franklin a star studded in the u.s. for the queen of soul. a flagrant assault on the palestinian people that's how palestinian president mahmoud abbas is describing the u.s. decision to hold all funding to the u.n. agency that helps palestinian refugees known as annorah it follows last week's announcement that the trumpet ministration is causing more than two hundred million dollars in aid to the agency it will in effect and decades of financial support on health education and food security well the u.s. state department's spokeswoman heather not said that when we made a u.s. contribution of sixty billion 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 years of serious rob reynolds reports

from washington d.c. . the u.s. contributes about thirty percent of the budget so this drastic cut could have significant effects on already dire living conditions in places like gaza and elsewhere where palestinian refugees live under a says there are five million palestinian refugees these are people who are considered by the palestinian side to have the right to return that is the people who were removed or fled from palestinian territories when the state of israel was founded in one nine hundred forty eight and their descendants have the right according to the palestinian and side and according to u.n. resolutions to eventually return israel of course has opposed this from the beginning saying that any such influx of palestinians would swamp and alter the

completely the character of the jewish state so this appears to be an effort by the united states in tandem with israel to try to undermine that right of return by reducing the number of palestinians from five million who are eligible to actually return to only those who were really alive during the conflict in one thousand nine hundred forty eight those people number about five hundred thousand the u.s. and canada have missed a deadline set by the trumpet ministration to revamp the north american free trade agreement talks ended on friday without a deal but then resume on wednesday president donald trump told congress that he will press ahead with the new bilateral trade agreement with mexico kind of the us foreign minister says the cheese sum up to mystic the deal can be reached. it is going to take flexibility on all sides to get in the end and see what i

can speak to. 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 more from tony alack in toronto. this was a week that began badly for the canadians talks that they'd been left out of between the u.s. and mexico but not them produced some sort of an agreement that was announced on monday by president trump and president pena nieto of mexico on the speakerphone and president trump immediately turned around and said well we can do it with or without canada but they've got to really give ground canada's foreign minister flew to washington d.c. and joined the talks and three rather intense days of negotiation followed but friday's deadline that was set by president trump he was going to notify congress that a deal with or without canada was going ahead well it came and went with the news

that they were going to resume talks next week the main sticking point seemed to be traditional areas of discontent that the americans have with canada they want access to canada's dairy market it's highly protected here high tariffs that keep foreign producers out and also canada once dispute resolution mechanisms it sounds rather boring but it's really important to the smaller economy canada is in this relationship because the american market is what everyone covets canada depends on it for its prosperity and if the americans change or break the rules that exist canada usually wins those disputes under nafta dispute resolution panels that the u.s. wants abolished canada says those are red lines they won't cross them but the new negotiations will be even more intense than the ones that have just passed we'll have to see if anyone gives any ground. russia has accused ukraine of assassinating prominent separatist leader alexander and co in eastern ukraine the russian backed leader rebels in don the ex was killed in

a blast of the cafe in the city center rory chalons reports from moscow. this is the aftermath of the blast that killed alexander as a car chink 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 position 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 to fit the bill. i 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 spring 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 the nom de guerre give 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. 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 kind of the writing was on the wall that. were numbered moscow and kiev are both accusing each

other of having a hand in psychotic as death the most significant yet of the many murky deaths that have been ongoing feature in this murky war rory challenge how to zero mosque or. john haps is a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine and is director of the razor center at the atlantic council he says that russia is waging a war of aggression on ukraine and that donald trump please to get tough on moscow all senior officials in the trumpet ministration under the president believe that russia is committing a war of aggression don't boss that russia is pursuing a revisionist foreign policy with the focus on ukraine and the united states was hoping praying stop russia in the boss that list includes vice president pence secretaries of state and defense on pay would 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 with us on sanctions with help from congress or supplying javelin this will lead to take missiles to ukraine which was a presidential decision. 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 of the trumpet ministry and job with 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 and thirteen the sanctions cost cost of one to one point five percent. and 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 will be disappointed whether woods ukrainian elections will pursue a strong policy it's a fence of ukraine's territorial integrity. at that point i think that russia may reconsider its position but not until after the ukrainian election the queen of soul aretha franklin has been on a at a marathon a farewell ceremony that lasted almost eight hours in a home city of detroit it was the fourth day of remembrance for the singing legend john hendren reports from detroit. it was a requiem fit for a queen. paying

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

a chance to come in to see the queen these are the people wearing the white wristbands thank you to give one last chance to see the queen of soul. one after another just speakers and performers pay 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. the people of the motor city remember a legend who always stayed true to her hometown. john hendren al jazeera detroit. these are live pictures as the body of aretha franklin is taken to its final resting place you can see that the convoy including that nine hundred forty cadillac. she'll be buried in the same senator as her father and siblings u.s. politicians have been paying their last respects to the late senator john mccain

a military got of on up carried his casket to lie in a state in state capitol hill in washington where the republican served for thirty five years vice president mike pence speaker paul ryan to live attributes became supported military interventions in afghanistan and iraq and back israel's twenty fourteen war in gaza people continue to stream through the u.s. capitol to pay their respects to the late senator these are live pictures from washington d.c. john mccain will be buried on sunday. we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then go back home people escaping venezuela's economic crisis receive a cold welcome in peru. but a step towards gender equality how the venice film festival is doing its best to reform the and spain but it streams.

from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello again it's good to have you back well here across parts of asia we are looking at very heavy rain across much of the coast of china that has been the trend over the last several days things are going to get a little bit better here along the southeast coast but along the south coast anywhere from hong kong over towards annoy that is where most of the rain is going to be a little bit further to the north though it is still quite warm still quite humid temperatures for food show thirty five degrees there on saturday thirty six degrees with more sun in the forecast as we go toward sunday in shanghai clouds feel at about thirty four as well we're down across parts of to carve out what we are still seeing some rain showers as a lot of this moisture is making its way towards the south so as we go towards saturday clouds and rain in your forecast at thirty three but up towards the philippines we are watching a little bit of a tropical storm winds there and that means more rain in the forecast thirty one

degrees there really staying across the region with southern parts of the philippines reaching to about thirty two degrees then very quickly over here towards parts of india very heavy rain out here towards the east that is going to continue over the next several days but as we go down here towards the southwest it's mostly clouds for carol a state temperature there about twenty seven degrees up to the north new delhi right on the edge of the rain we do expect to see a temperature of about thirty two degrees. the weather sponsored by cattle and release. as europe's public opinion shifted. admission. where human exploitation took on new homes as a full slate that became the hidden face of europe's industrial revolution the history of slavery is not a black history and it's not just the history of white colonization but the history of human inequality it is the legacy for all of us the slaveries new friend teens part three of slavery it's on al-jazeera.

but i get the top stories this hour on al-jazeera the un agency that helps palestinian refugee says that it's surprised by the u.s. decision to end all funding it will end decades of so much financial support for health education and food aid palestinian president mahmoud abbas says it's a flagrant assault on the palestinian people. the u.s. and canada have missed a deadline to revamp the north american free trade agreement talks ended on friday without a deal but they will resume on wednesday president donald trump told congress that he will press ahead with a new agreement with mexico. russia and ukraine are accusing each other of killing

a separatist rebel leader in eastern ukraine alexander. died in a blast at a cafe and on yet russia says that ukraine is trying to destabilize the region. at least twelve yemeni fishermen have been killed in a saudi ever ossie coalition air strike according to who the legs media they say that it happened off by an island which is part of call data province the coalition says the boats were being used to smuggle weapons more now from alan fischer who's in neighboring 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 they

targeted three boats that they believe were carrying weapons to the no that comes just twenty four hours after the u.s. stopped the ship which was carrying one thousand seven rifles again heading towards the good thing but it's not clear at this point if they circulate coalition try to stop these vessels all they 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 fisherman along the red sea have they believe they're being targeted by this so you like 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. is calling for action as the united arab emirates is accused of using israeli spy technology on leaders in saudi arabia and lebanon the new york times obtained leaked e-mails from lawsuits against israeli spy ware that reveal attempts

to listen to the phone calls of lebanon's prime minister saad hariri the. show the u.a.e. also tried to turn the qatari amir's phone in twenty fourteen and that of a saudi prince. australia's catholic church has rejected a call for priests to report child abuse revealed during confessions the church responded to a recommendation by a five year inquiry into the issue the commission heard more than eight thousand testimonies about abuse in churches and schools it says that priests should face criminal charges for failing to report abuse. the catholic church has accepted ninety eight percent of the regular doses from the world commission that relate to the catholic church. the only recommendation we can't accept 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 cathy kesselman is president of

the blue not foundation which helps a five or some charter produce she says that 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 sheridan's whereby child safety is absolutely prioritize 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 i'm asian children we didn't systems appear and pushing the catholic church. featured a lot in our 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 brought to bear . uganda's pop star turned opposition politician bobby wine is on his way to amsterdam he boarded a flight on friday after the government allowed him to leave the country one was seen walking on crutches at the airport outside the capital kampala he's seeking medical care overseas for injuries he says he suffered while in detention he's been charged with treason venezuelans leaving their country of finding life problematic in neighboring peru racial slurs and hate speech of made it hard for many of them to feel safe there but some say the anti immigrant attitude is easier to deal with the good dishes back home sanchez reports from leaving. thirty eight year old the bush man keeps an eye on municipal police will 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 ghana swain'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 bed to be honest compatriots are paying the price thank you and then 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 infernal doctrine as well as become. businessmen you do stop textile employee and say the number of in a swill is working here is school where the great peruvians save in a swell and are taking their jobs and the big deal some businessmen here have laid off peruvians because they say venezuelans charge them less the anti immigration

sentiment among many of us was fueled by a conservative candidate illness mayoral race in october he gained popularity by same venice will answer threatening security and jobs. but government officials have condemned sin a for the next nurse but also open border policy has left more than four hundred thousand venice williams in the country nearly seventy thousand have already been granted work permits were again official say the presence of the swell and just having an impact there was health and education says that there are nearly thirty thousand innocent children in schools but they also say the impact is a positive and good news workforce for many even as well as i believe the shop floor against don't want to take. any peruvians reacted against growing see no fog . 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 just. rights groups in nicaragua say the government has ordered the expulsion of a un human rights team investigating abuse allegations president daniel ortega dismissed a un report accusing him of his government of ignoring human rights violations during anti-government protests the report accused ortega's ministration of illegal arrests torture and closed trials guatemala's president to shut down a un anti corruption commission in the country president jimmy morris says that he

won't renew the bodies mandate when it expires next year the commission has been behind many high profile corruption investigations involving politicians and business people. argentina's government says that it will discuss a fifty billion dollars bailout loan with the international monetary fund on monday the argentinian peso which has lost half of its value against the us dollar this year stabilised on friday a latin america editor lucien newman reports from one of solace. it's a movie arjun times 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 thursday the government managed a modest recovery after infusing almost seven hundred million dollars into the currency market to stop the hemorrhaging but 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 valuations

concern me because they symbolize an unstable country and 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 waiter's 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 pistol 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 the venice film festival is followed in the footsteps of cam and signed a gender parity pledge but organizers have rejected claims of sexism and insists the real problem lies elsewhere but in barber reports from venice. 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. 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 he says to me fair and right in politics for example. we can use the quaters in him in art the only katie to talk for us is the quality of their work is.

southern 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 film screening plus devils 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 are

going to get better films coming from some of those women directors. less than a quarter of all film submitted to venice this year were by women there's clearly an imbalance when it comes to who makes the films audiences get to see here and in cinema but changing that could mean reforming the industry and that discussion is just starting with the barber al jazeera journalists. it is good to have you with us hello adrian from going to here in doha with the top stories on al-jazeera the u.n. agency that helps palestinian refugees says it's surprised by the u.s. decision to end all funding it will end decades of financial support for health education and food aid palestinian president mahmoud abbas says that it's a flagrant assault on the palestinian people the u.s. and canada have missed a deadline to revamp the north american free trade agreement talks ended on friday without

a deal but they will resume on wednesday president donald trump has told congress that he'll press ahead with a new agreement with mexico callas as foreign minister though is still optimistic that a deal can be reached. it is going to take ability. to get in the end. what. we're working hard to get. we are confident. possible and we're always going to stand up for the national interest and. russia and ukraine are accusing each other of killing a separatist rebel leader in eastern ukraine alexander and co died in a blast in a cafe in donetsk russia says that ukraine is trying to destabilize the region the queen of soul aretha franklin has been on it at a marathon the farewell ceremony in a city detroit. is the shins and

politicians paid tribute to her at an ceremony featuring the most memorable songs she died two weeks ago back pancreatic cancer. u.s. politicians have been paying their last respects to the late son as a john mccain a military god of all carried his casket to lie in state in the u.s. capitol in washington where the republicans of four thirty five years for president mike pence and speak of paul ryan delivered tributes. calling for action of the united arab emirates is accused of using israeli spy technology the new york times revealed attempts to list the phone calls of lebanon's prime minister. and a saudi prince the newspaper obtained leaked e-mails from lawsuits against an israeli spy with. more news on i was zero days inside story thanks to.

the battle for the syrian government and its main russia appear to be preparing for an all out offensive for the rubbles it would likely be the last stand after more than seventy years of fighting beyond the military and human cost what will an assault on it live tell us about syria's future this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. syria's civil war may soon and but not without one.