not a single dollar more the u.s. cuts all the funding to the u.n. agency providing health care and schooling to five million palestinians. this is al jazeera i'm richelle carey live from doha also coming up a per russian separatist leader dies in a bomb blast in ukraine moscow and kiev blame each other plus. thailand we will tell you why some blaming the emergence of a flesh eating disease on the big increase in sugar plantations. and the king and speed become a star at football you same bolts makes a big game debut and all struck.

at the u.n. agency that provides schooling food and health care to millions of palestinians suddenly has a huge hole in its budget the u.s. until now the biggest donor is cutting all funding and even giving more than three hundred million dollars. schools hospitals camps and social services for five million people it was set up in one nine hundred forty nine to help stabilize the region after the arab israeli war at the time hundreds of thousands of arabs were homeless after being forced from their land the u.s. provided about a third of funding at the top administration says the agency is irredeemably flawed echoes criticism in israel were existence has been seen as bolstering the idea that palestinians have a right to return to and stroll lands. harry fawcett is live for us in ramallah in

the occupied west bank area why is the u.s. doing this now. well it's something that's been trailed for several days there was a report a week ago in the israeli media about a leak on this suggesting that the united states would be doing this and indeed potentially more that the u.s. would be with would be trying to redefine the status of palestine refugees i.e. not just those who who came out of what was then palestine were forced out or fled during the creation of the state of israel but also their descendants that is the current definition of the palestine refugee the united states was reported to want to redefine that to only include those who physically lived inside palestine before the creation of the state of israel it hasn't done that in this statement but it's very clear that that is one of the key issues it has with the operation of an ra and indeed the status of these refugees in general the statement from the

from the state department talks of endlessly an exponentially expanding community of entitled beneficiaries so what has been reported in recent weeks is that jerad question or the chief and the person that donald trump is charged with coming up with his peace plan as wanted not just to take jerusalem off the table the status of jerusalem as a potential future capital of the palestinian state the united states in recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital of course as far as the palestinians are concerned entirely rejected their claims on it but he also wanted to clear the decks as far as the refugee issue the right of return issue is concerned and so they have been targeting and rather the agency which provides for these people for some time only sixty million of initially pledged three hundred sixty five million dollars was given by the united states at the beginning of this year the united states has in recent years been providing up to a third of unrolls funding so throughout this year the agency has had to be

scrambling around getting people to advance existing commitments to. make new commitments it even now says it only has enough money to operate until the end of september there's still a shortfall of more than two hundred million dollars and so. and indeed the palestinian authority have entirely been rejecting this move the other p.l.o. second general side erica calling this against international law saying this is a u.n. agency not a ph and c. the united states has no right to try and target it in this way or the p.a. is also saying that other countries will come to the fore we're seeing some indication of that there's a statement from germany saying that it was preparing a significant new funding contribution but make no mistake this huge traunch of money that iraq has been used to getting from the united states will no longer be there and it will make make a huge hole in their operations in their budgets going forward all right harry us live for us in ramallah thank you very much now chris christie gannets rather as

spokesperson based in amman i stepped in a few minutes ago i started by asking him whether this decision was anticipated we get anticipated because already this year the trumpet ministration had cut three hundred five million dollars smart budget and we certainly have been led to believe that there was a big question mark over everything more but this is nonetheless a regrettable decision we certainly reject any allegations about that have been made about our programs our programs our high impact and indeed it was the american ministration which just recently as a few months ago praise our operations we deliver to five hundred twenty six million children around released a primary education doctors do nine million patients consultations a year we feed but seven good insecure people that contribution to doing those things which is why we wrecked i started doing a community including by the u.s. but it's ration so what do you think change. well you need to on that question lee

there have been accusations which i've not made directly but i think people are asking whether what we're seeing is the political instrumental isolation of. what you say is the ability and the needs of the people are simply too great what we're seeing now in a place like that after more than a decade of blockade what we're seeing in a place like the west bank cost more than half a century of the israeli occupation what we're seeing in a place like syria more than seven years of one of the most brutal conflicts of our age is a sense of humanitarian desperation now already the political of the right of the refugees we have shrunk and. marilee to the death of the us the peace the cold people are seeing around them is shrunken pliska horizons and this highly regrettable position is going to add further to that sense of abandonment and

marginalization what areas specifically are going to suffer the most immediate impact. well education education education we educate more than half a million children in the middle east of gaza the west bank including east jerusalem jordan syria and lebanon and you know this is a un protected population and for palestinians education it's impossible to dignity we've been over there to open our schools but we only have money to run them until the end of september that one hundred will be running on empty that's education our one hundred fifty just under one hundred fifty primary health clinics also but still now because of this defund and all relief and social services programs to vulnerable women to children to disabled refugees in gaza we gave an education we gave so much games to two hundred thousand children all the awful girls all of those sorts of programs are now under threat so is it possible i realize this is

a huge gap the u.s. is leaving is it possible that other countries can step in and fill some of that gap it has to be possible already this year we have rates nearly a quarter of a million dollars of new money by launching a global fundraising campaign but don't visit the remains at two hundred seventeen million dollars but as i say we simply have to fill the gap because the alternative is too grim and comes with rattles and serious ad lib province had blown up two bridges in an attempt to hender any government assault on the area they were in protest against any moves to retake the rebels last stronghold russia's foreign minister says the syrian government has every right to chase what he call terrorists out of a live three million people live there including as many as seventy seventy thousand rebel fighters unicef says civilians and children should be spared from war fighting. i 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 stephanie decker is that in talking under the turkey syria border what is the latest with this offensive and it led. well there's a lot of behind the scenes diplomatic action going on rachelle you had the syrian foreign foreign minister in moscow yesterday you're having intensive talks between the turks and the russians you have the u.s. special envoy to syria coming to the region he'll be in israel then jordan then turkey all discussing what the next moves are when it comes to how this offensive is going to take place remains

a big question mark i think we know it will take place the syrian government has made it very clear it was always going to take back it live and it's left it as almost like a last stand in this war it's been interesting however because turkey really is the guarantor of these rebel groups inside it live it's part of the deescalation zone that was agreed in a stand it's been talking to the key group really called sham this is the group formerly known as the nostra front associated with al qaida but they last night came out and designated it as a terrorist organization now this is in line with russia with syria with the u.s. with the united nations what does that practically mean because turkey is talking to the group to try to negotiate some form of a deal on the elite but has sort of informal relations with it inside the province so it's a lot of political moves going on whether that's buying time or not i think the real challenge is that it is different when it comes to anything else we've seen inside syria when it came to aleppo there was a besieging of the area of the city they bombarded it into submission and then

opened a humanitarian corridor mostly into it just recently and that we watched that unfold a lot of reconciliation deals that the government made with the rebels that's why it fell so quickly those who didn't agree were taken to live well now we're talking about. i guess the u.n. talks about humanitarian corridors but there were no real rebel held areas left for these people to go so this is a real concern of those inside the province they don't want to be under government control it is going to happen so a lot of complicated negotiations going on but i think it is clear there will be some form of movement the question is when and what form it's going to take several more about the civilian situation so many civilians there what will the situation be like for them. absolutely and this is key you know we talk about the political maneuvering we talk about the military maneuvering and there are almost three million people displaced half of those have been displaced from other areas inside syria as i mentioned you know those de those those deals people fleeing

there there are already hundreds of thousands of tents along the border with turkey turkey's borders are closed richelle turkey says it's not going to open that this is a nightmare scenario for turkey which already hosts three million more or less syrian refugees inside this country so if there is a conflict a you're going to have problems with aid getting to those tents inside because there will be an active battlefield be where the people going to go they don't want to go to areas under government control and turkey is not going to let them in this is something turkey is not going to want to deal with so it's hugely concerning these are people that you know have very little already desperate situation so this is something that's going to try to be avoided but the bottom line is richelle when it comes to the humanitarian element it always seems to be an often thought when it comes to the interests of all the players in this conflict all right stephanie decker live for us on the turkey syria border thank you stephanie uganda's pop star turned opposition politician bobby wine is on his way to amsterdam he boarded

a flight on friday night out for the government allowed him to flee the country seeking medical care overseas for injuries he says he sustained while he was in detention he's been charged with treason for his alleged role in an incident or stones were thrown at the president's motorcade russia's accuse your train of assassinating a prominent separatist leader alexander was killed in eastern ukraine the russian backed leader of the rebels in the region don yes died in the blast at a cafe or a challenge 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 stretcher outside the cafe don't yet squint 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 how much inca had 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 who fit the bill. or was present both peace summits in minsk a negotiator at 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 such a cause death the most significant yet of the many deaths that have been an ongoing feature in this market war rory challenges how to zero mosque or. i might have on al-jazeera hoping for a new start in peru venezuelans aren't being welcomed with open arms that is just to have.

a look at a welcome back to international weather forecasts we're here across europe we all watch the clouds making their way down here towards italy so unfortunately through the weekend we're going to be seeing quite a bit of rain with this system as it becomes fairly stationary so the rain's going to continue saturday as well as into sunday it's going to get a little bit better as we go towards sunday but still heavy rain could be some even localized flooding as that water starts to really start to come up there across the area up towards berlin a nice day for you at twenty five degrees in london is looking quite nice as well we expect to see partly cloudy conditions with a temperature of twenty four well here across much of the northern part of africa world here temperatures here into the thirty's to tunis about thirty four that's a little bit higher than what we've seen over the last few days clouds across algeria those are gone we're seeing better conditions in terms of the sun there but otoh it's been gazi winds out of the north temperature for you at about twenty nine

not changing too much as we go towards sunday with cairo seeing about thirty eight well we did have one big tropical wave make its way out of senegal that system is now making its way towards the cape verde islands but we are looking at a lot of tropical moisture here across much of the coast lagos is going to be rated if you at twenty seven in accra at twenty six degrees there. just. with every you.

watching out of the top stories for you the u.s. has cut all funding to be an agency supporting five million palestinian refugees around thirty percent above risk funding has come from the u.s. the trump administration says the agency is irredeemably flawed house and president mahmoud abbas says the cut is a playground assault on palestinians russia has accused ukraine of assassinating prominent separatist leader alexander. the russian backed leader of the rebels in the don yes region was killed in a blast at a cafe ukraine's government has denied any involvement. uganda's pop star turned

opposition politician bobby wine is on his way to amsterdam he boarded a flight on crutches on friday night after the government allowed him to leave the country and is seeking medical care overseas for injuries he says he suffered while he was sent attention he's been charged with treason. the thai government is reconsidering the use of three toxic weed killers one of them paraquat is already banned in more than thirty countries it's been linked to flesh eating diseases and farmers in northern thailand when he reports. in parts of rural thailand red marks the spot it's an indicator that farmers used to show that sprayed paraquat a toxic weed killer banned in many countries and the european union its use is blamed on a number of illnesses including a flesh eating bacteria disease which is emerged in northern thailand some farmers have died others have lost limbs in the province of. where researches say

contamination from agra chemicals is severe. i really want to see people stop using the chemicals last time i went to the provincial hospital the staff told me there were a lot of patients with similar symptoms as i had thailand's become one of the world's biggest uses of paraquat partly because of its effectiveness on sugarcane plantations as the price of rice fell the government encouraged farmers to grow other crops like sugar which in turn increased demand for paraquat the health ministry recommended that it be banned along with two other chemicals but that was ignored and they continued use approved by a government appointed committee there are now allegations that some members of that committee had conflicts of interest with companies involved in importing the chemicals. to look at the members of the committee their position is not groundless but so far we have no imperial evidence to accuse any of them thailand

wants to become known as the so-called kitchen of the world but the largely unregulated use of toxic sprays is leading to concerns about food safety most of the world's paraquat is made in china which has also decided to ban its use in thailand it's important mainly by foreign companies the biggest thai company dealing in that is c.p. group were johns among other things convenience stores it's also one of the world's largest food producers. al-jazeera contacted c.p. group and other companies involved but none would give an interview and none have ever been to see see to put to ask him what happened he says he can never farm again but hopes one day the fields here will be chemical free wayne hay al jazeera . thailand. argentina's government says it will discuss a fifty billion dollar bailout with the international monetary fund on monday the currency has lost half its value against the u.s.

dollar the share a lot america deal with the newman reports and. all eyes were on the city when a site is his financial center. after losing another fifteen percent of its values 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 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 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 we're 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 economic crisis in venezuela has sent hundreds of thousands of people into neighboring countries emperor oh they're being met with racial slurs and hate speech but some of them say the anti immigrant attitude is easier to deal with then and asians back home are essential supports him for his capital lima. thirty eight year old the bush man keeps an eye on municipal police will selling a traditional riced ring 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 been swings a signal or more 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 silliness and caught on security cameras sparked a wave of anti even astroland feeling in. this honest compatriots are paying the price i think in the. people have to understand we are not all the scene 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 get to stop textile employee and say the number of in a swill is working here a school where a peruvian save in a sweet lunch are taking their jobs and the baby though some businessmen here have laid off peruvians because they say venezuelans charge them less the anti immigration sentiment among many was fueled by a conservative candidate illness mayoral race in october he gained popularity by same business women so threatening security and jobs. but government officials have

condemned seen a ford explorers 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 officials say the presence of the silence is. i didn't mean fact there was health and education says that there are nearly thirty thousand minutes with 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 jobs through fields don't want to take. any peruvians reacted against growing sentiment by opening their homes to shelter migrants and refugees twenty one year old alexander 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 you know here because we want to be but because we need to be. however the majority of us women say they feel will come in be do escaping from inflation and food and medicine shortages

back home make them choose to endure almost anything for a better future in a sun just. the queen of soul aretha franklin has been buried at a cemetery in her hometown the u.s. city have to troy musical legend was placed in our family spot where she now lives alongside her father and her siblings earlier she was honored at a funeral service that lasted almost eight hours it was the fourth day ever membranes for the towards most famous resident. the fastest man on our athletic track has stepped into the world of professional football the same ball came on as a substitute for an australian team it wasn't a golden debut but many of the fans watching believe that you make and can succeed and your thomas reports. a mine a pre-season friendly against a team of amateurs this was not the sort of match that would normally attract much

attention much of the crowd but this was different for one reason only. well. yes i do. you think it is a sports megastar just not seen this sport as an athlete he won gold medals and broke a 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 to. see have a guy put itself in our presence and bolt has done previous trial periods with dortmund in germany and it 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 i want to play this group together to get a central coast mariners a stretch of the legs the mariners were as expected the much better team both was as expected perhaps their weakest player but also their biggest star i don't want to hold moment to actually get a chance to play a guy never be able to sell football so. i think along the line when i start winning championships it seems about believing them then is the moment you get higher and higher and higher but i know i'm not going to be. coming on a subsidy saying don't play just a loss. twenty three minutes of the day and although his team did win comfortably he didn't play much part in the victory but this cloud well they say is all about faults. i think no i think he's presenting this. system as. more of these very trying times the credit for a better way to believe that this is the receipt you see at the central coast

mariners have said both can stay with them indefinitely but does not mean does the two necessarily get a contract pool bratcher three q. and. a strike. and we shall carry these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera the u.s. has cut all funding to the key u.n. agency supporting five million palestinian refugees around thirty percent of funding comes from the u.s. trying to ministration says the agency is irredeemably flawed palestinian president mahmoud abbas says the cut is a flagrant assault on palestinians chris gunness his spokesman he's calling for other nations to help fill the funding gap. we certainly reject any other day she says about that have been made about programs of programs to deep it was the

american ministration which just recently as a few months ago praise all operations we deliver to five hundred twenty six million children around the middle east the prime rib the creation of doctors do nine million consultations a year we've been seven students you know people. doing those things which want to be right so i started doing the community including by the u.s. ministration. russia has accused ukraine of assassinating prominent separatist leader alexander. the russian backed leader rebels in the don yes courage and was killed in a blast at a cafe ukraine's government has denied any involvement rebels in syria's edler province have blown up two bridges that are now time to hand or any government assault on the area there been protests against any moves to retake the rebels' last stronghold that russia's foreign minister says a syrian government has every right to chase what he calls terrorists out of it live three million people live there including as many as seventy thousand rebel

fighters unicef says good lives civilians are particularly children and should be spared from more fighting uganda's pop star turned opposition politician bobby wine is on his way to amsterdam he boarded a flight on crutches on friday night after the government allowed him to leave the country is seeking medical care for injuries he says he separate in detention he's been charged with treason the queen of soul aretha franklin has been buried at a cement terry and the u.s. city of detroit musical legend was placed in her family's plot where she now lives alongside her father and siblings. keep it here much more to come on al-jazeera and sad story is next thanks for your time. unless we have new generations growing out to understand that other nations should. soon number be nothing. and will suffer primatologist and conservationist dr jane goodall.

the battle for the syrian government and its russia appear to be preparing. for the would likely be the last stand after more than seventy years of fighting beyond the military and the human cost what will 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.