but has now quit school and is working illegally as a cook in israel has a hundred. yes only or also a single one of eleven last day and all this stuff then that's. a big advantage of c.n.n. just my own ok. most of the seven hundred landmines in the jordan valley that dated back to the one nine hundred sixty seven war were removed by the israeli army in twenty twelve. in iran and by a dog mohammad that asma is now thirty five and with the help of physiotherapy he has learned to use a wheelchair. i wish better for us those governor are going to benefit. only a little more put forward to. since twenty seven thousands more palestinians have been injured by gunshot wounds from the israeli army.

some things have not changed the palestinians in the jordan valley still pay seven u.s. dollars per cubic meter of water and travel up to twenty seven kilometers to get to the closest water source. but since twenty eleven the number of military checkpoints in the jordan valley has doubled and. the israeli policy on settlements has also hardened in twenty eighteen it announced plans to expand fourteen of the twenty existing illegal settlements and build three new ones thereby doubling the israeli settler population. that will have. no business edge maggie my i love my wife maggie my meowed malcolm odds are all going well will slowly i would hold out yes.

since al-jazeera first filmed with her sitting her daddy got married had a baby boy and moved to becky the hammer in the occupied west bank but was significantly arrested for threatening the safety of the state of israel and jeopardizing its economy. she spent nine months in prison including three in solitary confinement. tellingly part of the case against her during her interrogation in prison was this program. had the form of that is the holy faith at the end of it i would have an admin with sort of cipher pulled it off the ballot and i was just in this room to settle. for love at the end but i look at it a lot of political settlement i said i can make a feminist after. it's striking how sitting on

a bull stockard and all the other palestinians in this film are just as determined now as they were in twenty eleven never to leave the jordan valley. the occupied west bank city of hebron is on the front line of the arab israeli conflict you don't really care after all well about palestinians you don't like it i didn't like it but you just don't care and no one mind is standing up to israeli pressure to sell his house for an unimaginable figure these people are getting near . zero world tells the story of the house that's the symbol of resistance to continuing occupation the hundred million dollar home.

how we got more blustery shadows fading that way down across southeastern parts of australia but they are in the process of sliding away and they're heading towards new zealand so i think is going downhill here where the weather front just making its way in there's a possibility of one or two spots of right as we go on through the second half of the weekend but nothing too much to speak of cold enough fourteen cells is fred light at all so if a city about twelve degrees that high in melbourne it will be a touch form of that for a perth at around eighteen degrees celsius come monday off name well maybe seventy top temperature here twenty six in alice and it's bad getting into the mid teens at this stage adelaide and also for sydney but notice the possibility welcome showers i suspect is that eastern side of new south wales not so welcome will be the

blustery rain that will make its way to most days even here we go with i rarely cloud which is fading towards the western side of the country eleven celsius in the heat of the day for christ church cool still as we go on into monday and you may will even see a little dusting of snow over the high ground over about four thousand meters so that particular present a little bit of a wintry feel for some meanwhile sunshine is showers into southern parts of japan on sunday but rain increasing by the middle of the week.

this is zero. hello i'm david pollan and you're watching our desire as news hour live from london good to have you here with us coming up saudi arabia and the u.a.e. admit the last month's bombing of a school bus in yemen was unjustified. the u.s. cut off all funding to the u.n. agency that provides schooling and health care to five million palestinian refugees . killed in a cafe bombing in ukraine the death of a pro russian rebel leader brings a sharp response from moscow. in sport asian games host indonesia announced their intention to bid for the twenty thirty two olympics the country has won its thirty first gold at this event the biggest ever medal haul out the games.

the saudi amorality led coalition fighting in yemen has admitted that last month's bombing of a school bus was unjustified fifty one people were killed in that attack including forty children an official investigation has ruled that those responsible must be punished as alan fischer has this report from neighboring djibouti. it was an attack which threw international condemnation and left the parents of forty children crying over their graves eleven others are also killed in the attack on a crowded market in who the hell diane in the north of yemen in early august initially the saudi led coalition claimed the attack was a justified military operation it was targeting with your leaders know it says it made mistakes. they are that the joint team based on the above information gathered is of the opinion that the coalition forces should take legal actions to try and penalize those responsible for these mistakes which cause collateral damage in that

area these mistakes are as follows first delay in handling down the iggs sheesh an order where the execution squadron should have been waiting for the target to approach a clear area free of civilians to avoid unjustified collateral damage in line with the approved rules of engagement in article fifty seven and fifty eight a political one of the geneva convention and the standard norms seventeen and nineteen. the findings came just days after two reports critical of the saudi led efforts in yemen the u.n. panel of experts said that both sides in the conflict including the saudi coalition could be guilty of war crimes and human rights watch accused the saudi led coalition of feeling to investigate allegations of possible war crimes it said too often that inquiries like transparency credibility and did little to stop strikes hitting civilians should be clear the report does not expressly condemn the killing of the children strike which targeted leaders didn't need to be carried out when it was because they pose no immediate threat to coalition forces and he says

information was not passed to the pilot who fired the. thirty investigators see those responsible must be punished. the joint team is also of the opinion that the coalition forces should take necessary measures to immediately review and verify the rules of engagement approved by them to ensure the total compliance in all military operations in yemen. there are suggestions the cities and their allies of come under u.s. pressure to do more to cut the number of civilian casualties the surprise admission of mistakes be gruesome week to improving relations the peace talks are still planned to be hosted by the u.n. this month. yemen analysts some donny says saudi arabia admitting error is a significant step towards preventing further deaths it could be a beginning of an apology you could make two things out of what they said and out

of them claiming that this is in fact a mistake one that potentially they could change their ways and now start claiming accidents which is a really good step because it's the first step to showing reparations to families of those who were hurt in this incident and then it's also a way to hold them accountable for their actions now another way to look at this and it would be a much cynical way of looking at it it's to say that the international pressure surrounding this specific incident specifically from the united states was really heavy that the saudi arabians had to come out and say that this is in fact their mistake and it is in fact important that they hold themselves accountable to international standards of law it's a first step to making sure that now that we are starting to claim accidents that saudi arabia ideally would have a commission created of outside parties meaning those who have nothing to do with the conflict investigate what went wrong in this case how did they end up targeting

civilians and then to put penalties in place to make sure that in the future you don't target schools you don't target hospitals you do not target historical sites and you make sure that those who are damaged and hurt specially those who are children woman that their families receive the reparations they need. after nearly seventy years the united states has cut all funding to a key u.n. agency that supports millions of palestinian or fiji and accuses the united nations relief and works agency of being irredeemably flawed and the palestinian leadership is calling it a flagrant assault on its people are a force that has more from rama in the occupied west bank. just this week in the face of its funding crisis on row was celebrating the start of the academic year at the reopening of its schools girls arriving for class in a jealous zone refugee camp in the occupied west bank welcomed by the agency's chief on raw has been scrambling all year to drum up the money to maintain its

services after the us withheld more than three hundred million dollars in funding now comes confirmation that those cuts permanent the u.s. state department saying the fundamental business model in fiscal practices that have marked an ra for years tied to a rise and this leant exponentially expanding community of entitled beneficiaries is simply unsustainable the united states will no longer commit further funding to this irredeemably flawed operation for the palestinian leadership the decision is not about the specifics of a un agency rather an attack on the palestinian cause the us may argue that it's taxpayers' money and there are free to do whatever they want to do with it yes but it will give them the right garber of the stealing of my land my future my spirit and my hopes my capital maxim was my only sceptic or church they have no right whatsoever. for palestinians the final status of the more than five million refugees who assert

a right of return to present day israel is like the status of jerusalem an issue to be settled by the go see a should not by a preemptive u.s. position that position is referred to at least in the language used in the us statement when it talks about the exponentially expanding number of people who rely on that suggest this isn't just a move against one specific agency but also against the continued refugee status of millions of people. for the sufi family home is the village of bacon a balance now in israel not the jailer's own refugee camp where most of them were born and raised. holy hell a human what can i do if i go back on my own a car to tend the land i want my children there before me we want them that the future is less and their children that have been used for a sufi has seventy grandchildren and great grandchildren among israeli jews there is all but political consensus that allowing all such families to return would destroy the jewish character of the state but is also concerned not least reported

within the israeli security establishment about the effects of killing off the main provider of aid in order to disrupt the politics but i think people are asking whether what we're seeing is the political instrumental isolation of aid and what you say is the wrong ability and the needs of the people are simply too great in the short term un role will continue to seek ways to plug its funding gap germany among the first donor nations to promise extra money warning of an uncontrollable chain reaction if we're forced to shutdown our aforesaid gemma's a refugee camp in the occupied west bank. so let's take a closer look at what's at stake here and our provides vital services including education and health care for more than five million palestinian refugees that directed refugees who are barred from returning to palestine and are forced to live in lebanon syria jordan the occupied west bank and the gaza strip that the u.s. provides more than a third of our ross annual budget and has been the top donor for decades but in

january under the trump presidency it only contribution sixty million dollars and withheld more than sixty five million. and joining us from washington d.c. it's dave harden he's the former usa idea assistant administrator and has worked in the west bank and gaza good to have you on with us thank you very much for speaking to us now is the u.s. has made it very clear particularly this administration which side its backing particularly with its decisions to back israel on many controversial issues does this now firmly show that the u.s. is behind israel and what does that mean for diplomacy then in the region well that's a very good question and i think the fact of the matter is that the u.s. is ceding political space and influence we're turning our back on the palestinian people and we're also putting israeli security at risk so this is

a decision that is fundamentally flawed. who is there is there anyone now now as they scramble to fill that gap left by the u.s. is there any other country or perhaps organization that can step in i think it remains to be seen there may be additional done urse put in money it could be you could be golf turners it could be a variety of others. but when the united states seeds this political space we will be less influential simply the bottom line and when we do this we are undermining our capabilities across the middle east. is there some merit so as we've seen that the u.s. has been the biggest donor to on for many years is there some merits now to the

fact that perhaps the palestinians and the territories will have to look at elsewhere for funding and other kind of backing. i mean so let's just take the example of the west bank and i believe that there are seven hundred fifty thousand beneficiaries in the west bank right now if if those operations and tomorrow then. there would be a vacuum and the palestinian authority would have to pay for those services and of course they're fiscally strapped so they would be able to do it israelis might have to step in and pay for those services or what would happen most likely is that we would give running room to hamas and other rejectionist so when we do this yes that vacuum that the united states is creating will be filled it's very unpredictable as to who will fill it however but should there be a move towards being less reliant on the u.s. as the u.s. this is mr nation has clearly shown that it may not be looking out for the best

interests of the palestinians should. our other u.n. member states step in now. you know today in washington d.c. was the funeral of john mccain and his message and the discussions today represented big american leadership an america that helps solve problems in america. that fight fires wherever they may be america that stands up for justice when we leave and we are no longer a part of the equation and if we're just backing one party over the other we are going to be less influential and for sure it will be filled by others i think as an american diplomat for twenty two years this is not a good thing and by the way i don't think it's good for the israelis or good for the or good for the palestinians either what i would like to see is a return to american power and influence and credibility and fairness in the

region and then we would be able to serve the function not make no mistake we are in a post oslo period and additionally needs substantial reform or even a fundamental reordering but cutting off the. today. put the shock into the system tomorrow thank you very much dave arden good to speak to you dave hardness former usa i.d.'s it's an administration administrator now a georgetown strategy thank you thank you the newly appointed u.s. representative to syria james jeffrey is making his first trip to the region stopping at israel jordan and turkey its visit comes as speculation goes that russia and syria are planning a military offensive and it led now the u.n. has warned that an all out attack on the rebel held province would cause many civilian deaths and even further displacement stephanie decker has the latest from

an attack at that's near the turkey syria border. what you're looking at is province and those tents are just a small part of almost eight hundred thousand people syrians who've been internally displaced in their own country these tents have been here for years and also there is a feeling that no one's going to be able to go home any time soon the concern now is of this looming offensive in a province turkey certainly doesn't want to have tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of people trying to cross the border it says its borders will remain shut in this is also why it's heavily involved in negotiating behind the scenes with a group incited live the one mostly in charge. that is of course the group that was formerly known as the nusra front believed to be linked to al qaida that russia and syria call terrorists and as of friday night turkey also added to the terror list a lot of political maneuvering going on what is clear is that the syrian government says it will take back it late province and what kind of shape that is going to

take place remains to be seen whether it's a limited offensive but of course the concern remains for the hundreds of thousands of civilians that remain within the province and that are very fearful now of this upcoming confrontation at least three people have been killed in a car bomb attack in the syrian city of a sas that's north of aleppo several others were wounded when the bomb went off in front from the government building there are reports of two other car bombings in the town from in the common. coming up this news hour. final farewell to the republican senator john mccain but not from the u.s. president. the fight against an invasive pest threatening hundreds of thousands of trees and johannesburg. and sports the golden goal of the games that mean south korea's football team will avoid military service.

the u.s. military says it has decided to cut three hundred million dollars of aid to pakistan the money had been suspended by washington which is accused of failing to take decisive action against armed groups in the region we can now speak to rob reynolds who joins me from washington d.c. for more details on this problem start with what the pentagon is saying. well the spokesman for the pentagon lieutenant colonel kone faulkner cited as you mentioned lack of pakistan ix pakistani decisive actions and he specifically mentioned two organizations that he said the pakistanis had not cracked down on the hakani network which the united states believes has been operating out of safe havens on pakistani territory to launch attacks on u.s.

and coalition folgers in afghanistan and as well as accused of killing afghan citizens and against a law which is an armed group that is fighting against the rule of india in the disputed province of kashmir a colonel faulkner also said the pentagon quote continues to press pakistan to indiscriminately target all terrorist groups the troubled ministration has made its impatience with pakistan clear earlier this year the president donald trump himself said that years of aid and support for pakistan from washington have been repaid with nothing but lies and deceit and earlier this year as well the u.s. congress voted to withhold another five hundred million dollars in aid from pakistan military aid i should mention so that brings the total that's being withheld to eight hundred million now the us has said that they want they're doing

this to change the behavior of pakistan they've been trying to say what other ways are they stepping up the pressure on pakistan and the new prime minister imran khan who just recently been sworn in. well you know pakistan is having some economic troubles right now their foreign reserves are dropping sharply so there is a lot of discussion as to whether pakistan might go to the international monetary fund to ask for a loan for a bailout the u.s. has the majority of votes in the i.m.f. so the u.s. could scupper any bid by pakistan to. get that money so and also the secretary of state might pump a zero and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general joseph dunford are both on their way later this month to islam about where they will presumably meet with their counterparts and possibly with prime minister imran khan as well and just to worth pointing out that the pakistanis do not have any lack of options here

as far as military aid the pakistani government recently signed a. a a memorandum of understanding on military cooperation with russia that happened at the beginning of august and also there's the possibility that they could ask for loans from china rather than the i.m.f. so a very complicated piece a series of pieces being put together rob reynolds live for us from washington thank you violence has broken out in the libyan capital tripoli once again despite a cease fire agreement in the city several days of fighting between rival armed groups that's left almost forty people that and more than one hundred others injured most of the casualties are thought to be civilians. head has the latest from tripoli. the situation is still very tense in the southern

suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli with the renewed kalash is between the seventh infantry brigade from the city of the homeowner and its allies from the city of misrata on the one hand and arm of groups bad to buy the u. and the bad. national accord government on the other hand we're getting reports from the battlefield in the southern suburbs of tripoli that the. bad government of national called forces are losing ground for the other infantry seventh infantry brigade and its allies from the city of misrata now that is a state of panic among civilians especially with the random shelling because there's been a lot of rockets random rockets being fired at densely populated areas that targeted many houses and properties including a hotel in central tripoli the v.a.

asian still being hold it in. port and all flights have been diverted to the misrata put in the city of misrata now a joint statement has been issued by four countries the united states the united kingdom italy and france condemning this collision of violence and the libyan capital tripoli and warning that those behind the violent actions will be held accountable russia has warned that diplomatic talks to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine are now impossible after the killing of a kremlin backed separatist leader on friday. accused ukraine of killing alexander jacker chang go in a an explosion at a cafe in donetsk or in challenge has the details. 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. security measures in the republic are heightened all the borders are closed a few people have already been detained they have already given evidence confirming that this was a ukrainian act of sabotage. 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 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 and it turned all our operation for the past few weeks and months. has been critical of some of its colleagues other deputies and that's the. n r r m n i e control the t.v. station and we're pretty much humiliated at their colleagues so i think come kind of the writing was on the wall that says they were were numbered moscow and kiev

are both accusing each other of having a hand it's a culture because death the most significant yet of the many deaths that have been ongoing feature in this murky war rory challenges zero mosque or pro and anti immigration protests have been how the eastern german city of kevin that thousands of farai demonstrators gathered for a second time in the week in the city left wing groups are also holding counter-demonstrations rallies follow the arrest of two asylum seekers suspected of stabbing a german man to death last sunday more than a thousand two hundred police have been deployed to keep the peace between the rival groups. model who was the stabbing victim the far right is exploiting his death by saying a german has been murdered it but he was ninety five just in people outside the city don't know that they've only heard a german this has to be published most people are just following and repeats what others say. and still to come on this program. i'm wayne hay in northeast

thailand where we'll tell you why some are blaming the emergence of a flesh eating disease on a big increase in sugar cane plantations. cutting back on facebook while a warning about the impact of too much social media. and in sports we'll tell you why things are a little one sided in the williams sisters showdown at the u.s. open. how we got the temperatures recovering across western parts of europe now fair amounts of sunshine into the eastern side of the continent clear skies here we can see this line of cloud which is running its way all the way up towards the baltic states big area of thunder a shallow as the just around the alps northern parts of the balkans then coming in

behind will have a say area of high pressure just nestled over the north sea well that is a blocking features that will keep the weather front set by you can see a little cloud just coming into western nolens pushing across towards cotton but twenty four celsius for london paris not too bad at all to go on into monday does make inroads but the cloud will start to thin and break so the rain band does filter out a little bit so it'll start to weaken twenty four celsius once again a little more clout but plenty of sunshine as well south clay will continue across central park showers a slight there way down towards the balkans as well but for solemn areas if you well he continues thirty three in athens thirty three therefore much rain as well a lot of warm sunshine here across northern parts of africa as per usual thirty celsius there for algiers we're getting up to thirty one inches maybe a touch warmer as we go on through monday and still hot enough in cairo with a top temperature of thirty eight degrees celsius.

this is life on the streets of live. from riyadh the discovery of the terror is an opportunity to school and become some americans for the generation of a play and it's promised a lifetime. in the lives of princess parts of the viewfinder and latin america series at this time. is new out.

perfectly. hello again here's a reminder for our top stories on al-jazeera saudi arabia and the u.a.e. says last month's attack on a bus carrying children was unjustified forty children were killed in the airstrike in movie controlled sought a few weeks ago. the u.s. has cut all funding to the un agency which supports five million palestinian refugees the trumpet ministrations says the agency is flawed. russia says that diplomatic talks to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine are now impossible

after the killing of a kremlin backed separatist leader on friday moscow has accused ukraine of killing alexander. and then explosion at a cafe and. some of the most fall novel victims of the war in yemen are women with many exposed to sexual violence and forced marriages but some charity workers are determined to stop.