no more cash for palestinians the u.s. stops all funding to be an agency providing health care and schooling to five million people. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also ahead a separatist leader killed by a blast at a cafe in ukraine and russia calls it probably cation. a less than warm welcome improve the venezuelan say it's better than staying at home. in the king of speed become a star football you same old makes this big game debut and australia. the

u.n. agency that provides schooling food and health care to millions of palestinian suddenly has a huge hole in its budget the u.s. until now the biggest donor is cutting all funding that have been 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 but the u.s. provided about a third of i'm responding at the top of ministration says the agency is irredeemably flawed but it goes criticism in israel were. has been seen as bolstering the idea that palestinians have a right to return to and lands. choices live from the zone refugee camp just north of ramallah in the occupied west bank so what is the

reaction from the palestinians harry. we've heard from senior members of the palestinian leadership one and i shall we of the p.l.o. the second general of the p.l.o. . who we spoke to a little earlier today and what they're saying is that there's no great surprise this has been trailed in recent days that the united states was preparing to make such an announcement i was in the process of finalizing this decision but there is a great deal of anger and outrage about this. saying that this is contrary to international law that the united states cannot be targeting this agency in this way that is not a palestinian authority organization it's a u.n. organization and he also said that the major of this was very much in accordance with what the united states had already been doing under the trump administration in terms of awarding jerusalem to the israelis as far as the united

states is concerned is the capital of israel trying to clear the decks of some of these hugely important palestinian issues such as the refugee issue the right of return such as settlements instead of leaving infant to go see ation at a later stage here's some of what he had to say to us a little earlier. the united states have talked at disqualified itself from from any at all in the peace process and they are a major part of the problem not only here but throughout the whole international community when it was in europe to china with everybody in the everybody everybody wanted and now in my neighborhood in jericho in accordance with the standards of this administration if somebody wants aright he doesn't need it with forecourts or peace you can go and go back if he has the power to do it. so that's that shipment of this administration palestinians and israelis have worked so hard for the kids in order to establish their culture of peace mission state of palestine to live

side by the state of israel in peace and security and to achieve peace who negotiations not violence and now all of this have been destroyed in the last eighteen months of the terms of misfortune. so the united states said in its statements that it saw as irredeemably flawed in its operations its long argued against some of the curriculum taught in schools which it says is anti israeli but it also in its language made clear that it was referring to the very status of these more than five million refugees their continued refugee status saying that there was an ever expanding exponentially expanding of number of people who relied on an ra and that was part of the problem as well in terms of the effect on the ground has already had to be dealing with a huge cut in u.s. funding this year the united states only provided sixty million of its supposed three hundred sixty five million dollars contribution they've been looking for extra funding advanced funding from some of the donor countries germany is

indicating that it will do more to try to address this funding gap in the short term but it will now require a much more permanent solution it doesn't just provide education in schools like the one behind me it also provides medical aid social work. employment and of course in gaza food aid emergency food aid and there are one point one million palestine refugees in gaza alone so the impact of this as well as the political which we're hearing about from people such as sagarika could be felt very keenly by people on the ground in refugee camps all right harry live in ramallah thank you because ghana says onerous and based in amman i asked him if he was surprised at all finding with cat. we didn't it's great because already this year the ministrations have cut three hundred five million dollars a small budget and we've been led to believe that there was a big question mark over anything more but this is nonetheless a regrettable decision we certainly reject any allegations about us that have been

made about our programs our programs are high impact and indeed it was the american minutes gratian which recently the few months ago praise of operations we deliver five hundred twenty six million children around a primary education to do nine million patients consultation a year we feel seven students people. doing those things which is why be read by the day in the community including by the u.s. ministration so what do you think changed when you need to ask that question that have been accusations which i've not made directly but i think people are asking whether what we see is the political instrumental isolation of. what we 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 after more than half a century of the israeli occupation what we're seeing in

a place like syria after 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 shrunken. merrily to the death of the old 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 on 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 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 and dancer 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 that 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 of 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. rebels and syria's alleged problems have blown up to

bridge a center an attempt to hender any government assault on the area there have been protests against any moves to retake the rebels' last stronghold russia's foreign minister says the syrian government has every right to chase me called terrorists out of their lives three million people live there including as many as seventy thousand rebel fighters unicef says and live civilians empirically 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 not far from the coast of syria russia is beginning a large military exercise or a challenge this following that from moscow. the official line from russia's

ministry of defense is that this military exercise in the mediterranean is not connected with what's going on in syria not connected with it they say that they're there to perform anti-aircraft and i'm the submarine drills the line from the kremlin though is slightly different twenty meter peskov the spokes person was asked about it earlier in the week he said that the situation in syria had substantial potential for escalation and therefore he said extra precautions were quite justified and grounded now it's unlikely that those boats and planes are there for some sort of offensive action the russian air force has enough planes stationed from a base in syria to assist the syrian army and the militias with whatever offensive they're planning against it what's more likely more logical is that this is

a defensive. minded the russians are certainly listening to reports and messaging coming out of the united states saying that the u.s. is prepared to strike targets inside syria if there is another chemical weapons attack so the logical thing is for the russians to throw more military hardware into the area and persuade the united states that that might be an unwise course of action. popstar turned opposition politician bobby wine is on his way to the u.s. he boarded a flight on friday night after the government allowed him to leave the country and is seeking medical care for entries he says he separate while in detention he has been charged with treason after stones were thrown at the president's motorcade. russia's accusing ukraine assassinating a prominent separatist leader alexander who was killed in a blast at a cafe he was the leader of rebels in the region of doneness dettori gate and he

reports. this is the aftermath of the blast that killed alexander because a blackened body can be seen lying on a stretcher donetsk went into lockdown after the killing with moscow in the russian backed breakaway republic itself calling this an active international terrorism but with. security measures in the republic are heightened all the borders are closed a few people have already been detained here they have already given evidence confirming that this was a ukrainian act of sabotage because the last pictures of zac a chunk of alive were from thursday laying flowers for the dumbass build single josefa he died earlier in the day that had been the prime minister of donetsk since november twenty fourth he was shuffled into the position at a time when attempts were being made to make the war in ukraine's east less like a foreign operation run by moscow a more like a homegrown independence movement as

a donetsk native and rebel military command he fit the bill. was present at both peace summit to minsk a negotiator at the first the d.n.r. is representative in signatory at the second plenty of other separatist commanders have met similar fates like the man known as giving killed last year and motorola who died in twenty sixteen but this ukraine analysts things one theory physical death stands out as the most likely to me it looks like this was an internal operation for the past few weeks and months it's a conference call has been critical of some of his colleagues other deputies in that so-called d.n.r. armament 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 perhaps his days were numbered moscow and kiev a both accusing each other of having a hand in sack

a chunk of his death the most significant yet of the many murky dead. if that had been an ongoing feature of this micky ward victoria gave him be al-jazeera putting more head on al-jazeera but their currency in freefall argentinians asked whether an international bailout will be worth the cost plus. i'm wayne hay in northeast thailand we will tell you why some are blaming the emergence of a flesh eating disease on a big increase in sugarcane plantations. how welcome to have a look at the international focus we call the usual showers there across southeast asia some lobby one still into the philippines little club just storm surge just on the western side of borneo just easing over towards say much catch a little bit of wet weather coming in here even northern parts of indonesia could

catch the odd shower as we go through the next day or so by monday the heaviest showers will be further north back up towards central and northern parts of the philippines a little bit of wet weather returning there to thailand bangkok around thirty two degrees and we had a little bit of wet weather making its way away from the southeast australia kwacha skies coming back in behind little trail of cloud there from sydney to adelaide might just catch one or two showers as the system makes its way out towards the tasman sea fourteen celsius in adelaide and also in sydney no great shakes here but twelve degrees for melbourne touch warmer for perth around nineteen celsius on sunday by monday well forty back to around seventeen degrees despite the northerly winds coming in here down to the southeast on the other hand those temperatures starting to edge up just notice the chance of wanted to showers there into that eastern side of new south wales more than just a chance of showers into new zealand over the next couple of days is looking blustery wet and at times rather cool.

welcome back let's recap the top stories for you right now the u.s. has cut all funding to the key u.n. agency supporting five million palestinian refugees around thirty percent of unrest funding has come from the u.s. now the top of ministration says the agency is irredeemably flawed and palestinian president mahmoud abbas calls the cards a flagrant assault on the palestinians russia's accused ukraine of assassinating prominent separatist leader alexander sarkar janko the russian backed leader rubbles in the don this region was killed in a blast at a cafe ukraine's government has denied any involvement. there on the pop star turned off position politician bobby wine is on his way to the u.s. for medical treatment he boarded a flight on friday night after the government allowed him to leave the country finds says he was beaten while in detention he's been charged with treason. argentina's government says it will discuss a fifty billion dollar bailout with the international monetary fund on monday

currency has lost half of its value against the u.s. dollar this year or lead america out of it with ian newman reports on but i thought it 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 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 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 end 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 meijer social unrest like the kind that brought down the government in two thousand and one. see mulan al-jazeera when a site is. the economic crisis in venezuela has sent hundreds of thousands of people into neighboring countries and poorer they're being met with racial slurs and hate speech but some of them say the anti immigrant attitude is easier to deal with than conditions back home are an essential support sampras capital lima. thirty eight year old 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 here in slurs against been a swings. 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 civilian is and caught on security cameras sparked a wave of anti been astroland feeling in. this honest compatriots are paying the price think. 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 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 will get official say the prices are going to swell and just have it in. in fact there was health and education systems there nearly thirty thousand little children in schools but they also say the impact is positively goody's the workforce many even as i believe the jobs through fields don't want to take. any peruvians reacted against public 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 the

fuel will come in escaping from inflation and food and medicine shortages back home make them choose to endure almost anything for a better future. former president loyce enough to silva has been officially blocked from running in october a selection. of judges on the electoral court delivered a ruling banning his candidacy he is currently serving a twelve year prison sentence for corruption convicted of a crime cannot run for the presidency and brazil but party registered him anyway it says it will keep up the fight to ensure he can stand. where killers are being linked to flesh eating disease as among farmers and northern thailand the government is now reconsidering the use of three talks six one of them paraquat is already banned and more than thirty countries when he has

a story. 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 researchers say contamination from agric emma cools 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 that are loaded with that but i have 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 it 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 sea to chart sea to port 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 non-board lump who thailand's. talks between the u.s. and canada to revamp the north american free trade agreement have ended without a deal the discussions will resume on wednesday donald trump had initially said friday as a deadline for a deal with canada canada's foreign minister is still optimistic an agreement can be reached in the meantime trungpa so congress he will press ahead with the new deal with mexico 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 the queen of soul aretha franklin has been buried

at a cemetery in her hometown the u.s. city of detroit musical legend was placed in her family's plot so now she 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 of remembrance purgatory its most famous resident. the fastest man on an athletics track has stepped into the world of professional football the same bolt came on as a substitute for an australian tame it wasn't a golden debut but many of the tens of thousands of fans who turned up believe that you make and can succeed at 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. so this is 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 have a guy that is so prevalent. 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 i want to play this brought together to get a central coast mariners a stretch of the legs the man as well 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 been able to 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 substitute. same boat played just the last twenty three minutes of the game and although his team did win comfortably he didn't fight much fault in the victory but this clouds all they seemed about balts. i think no i think he's presenting this. this was. more it was very trying to the president for the search for a better way to take. this to receive yet the central coast mariners have said both can stay with them indefinitely but does not mean does the two necessarily get a contract pool ratchet. and counters that

a strike. shall carry here with their headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. says cut all funding to the key u.n. agency supporting five million palestinian refugees it had been providing just over three hundred million dollars that's about thirty percent of unrest funding bush administration says the agency is irredeemably flawed palestinian president mahmoud abbas says the cut is a flagrant assault on palestinian save the p.l.o. says the decision is another destructive move against peace by the trump administration the united states him to disqualified itself for any role in the peace process and they are a major part of the problem not only here. but throughout the whole the whole international community but as the israelis have worked so hard for kids in order

to stitch that culture of peace mission state of palestine to the sun but so that the state of israel is in security and to achieve peace with negotiations and influence and have been destroyed in the last eighteen months or the terms of mr russia has accused the crane of assassinating prominent separatist leader alexander sarkar unchained go to russian backed leader of rebels on the done this region was killed in a blast at a cafe ukraine's government has denied any involvement rebels in syria is it live province have blown up two bridges center attempt to hinder any government assault on the area there in protest against any 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 a live three million people live there including as many as seventy thousand rebel fighters uganda's pop star turned opposition politician bobby wine is on his way to the u.s. he boarded a flight on crutches on friday night after the government allowed him to leave the

country by and is seeking medical care overseas for injuries he says he suffered while he was in detention he's been charged with treason for his alleged role in an incident where stones were thrown at the president's motorcade and the queen of soul aretha franklin has been buried at a cemetery in the u.s. city of detroit her hometown musical legend was placed in her family's plot 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 of remembrance for detroit's most famous resident. those are the headlines to keep it here on al-jazeera there's much more to come that axed is counting the cost. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world.

al-jazeera. has a seeker this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics after a week of nafta talks we'll look at the impact trump's approach is having on world trade. also this week how high can they go argentina has the steepest interest rates in the world after raising them to a record sixty percent why social media celebrities bloggers and instagram personalities may be forced to come clean about their product endorsements. so it's been a tense week.