just sort of you know locus on that and just just try to bring them to the table and facilitate direct talks between. as our correspondent sort of few minutes ago that a lot of moving parts here what is ultimately this all about what message is the u.s. sending to park stone well i think ministration has been very clear with not just locks out of other countries as well that you know president trump especially is very tired of the u.s. the into an advantage of the u.s. you know giving all sorts of aid to various studies and not getting anything done so by the sounds are falls in into the bundle but that said i think you know this is a time where your socks on deletions are going out at a point this is you know enough time as it is and you prime minister this is the first time and you know in a while that the that the u.s. administration has actively said that they want to even find a sponsor and in order to do this they need to stop for better or for worse so i

think you know what's showing is that at the top of ministration is really serious about making foreign policy transactional and i think oksana will actually really need to reevaluate how much it depends on u.s. security military aid and whether or not it's in its interest to maintain such a dependent on a ship that it's good to talk to some how many thanks to its account there and only to the geneva. jordan is warning of dangerous consequences after the u.s. cut all funding to the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees provides health care education and food to millions of people israel's backed the decision which the palestinians say is an attack on their people are a force that reports from 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 are arriving for class in the refugee camp in the occupied west bank welcomed by the agency's chief unruh 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 us state department saying the fundamental business model in fiscal practices that have marked an rougher years tied to an endlessly and 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 the x. bears money and there are free to do whatever they want to do with it yes but 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 subject her 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 sion 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. with a sufi family home is the village of beit in the balance now in israel not the jailers own refugee camp where most of them were born and raised. well a human what can i did if i came back on my own a car to tend the land i want my children there before me we want them where the future is less and their children. user 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

there's also concern not least reported within the israeli security establishment about the effects of killing off their 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 or aid and what you say is that the wrong ability and the needs of the people are simply two grades 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 herefore sit out zero refugee camp in the occupied west bank dave harden is a former usaid assistant administrator who worked in the west bank and gaza he says that cutting funding will mean a loss of influence in the region for the u.s. . there may be additional done urse that put in money it could be the e.u. it could be coughed honors 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 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 felt by by others i i think as an american diplomat for twenty two years that 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 and then we would be able to serve that function this is the news hour from out zero still to come on the program politicians from across

the u.s. political divide on a john mccain with one notable exception. some people might need to be reminded that life is more than just you know showing other people what your life stop scrolling will look at a campaign to get people off social media and to appreciate life offline. and its course asian games hosts in tunisia hit a record high as the gold medals just keep on coming. the united states italy france and the u.k. condemning a surge in violence around libya's capital tripoli at least forty people have been killed more than one hundred injured in several days of fighting between rival factions most of the casualties civilians gun battles and shelling have damaged areas around the airport in tripoli but up the walk and reports now from tripoli.

the situation is still very tense in the southern suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli where the new wood kalash is between the seventh infantry brigade from the city of the horn and its allies from the city of misrata on the one hand and armor groups bad by 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 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 i.v. asian still being hold it in. port and all flights have been diverted to the misrata airport in the city of misrata and now a joint statement has been issued by four countries the united states the united kingdom italy and france condemning this collation of violence and the libyan capital tripoli and warning that those behind the violent actions will be held accountable loud blasts have been heard near the message close to syria's capital damascus. the assad government has previously accused israel of targeting the base which is tonight israel has struck iranian military targets in syria over the past few months at least three people have been killed in a car bomb attack in the syrian city of a north of aleppo the blast happened in front of a mosque near

a government building there are also reports of two other. bombings of the towns of donna and seller kid both of which are in providence the newly appointed u.s. representative to syria james jeffrey is making his first trip to the region he'll also be stopping in israel jordan and turkey his visit comes as the syrian government prepares to retake the last rebel stronghold in the country al-jazeera stephanie decker reports now from hamley near the turkey syria border. what you're looking at is the 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 is 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 and this is also why it's heavily involved in negotiating behind the scenes with

a group incited led the one mostly in charge. that is of course the group that was formerly known as the nostra front believed to be linked to al qaida that russia and syria are 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 live 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 russian forces are beginning a week of launch scale military and naval exercises in the mediterranean sea moscow says the focus will be on anti aircraft and anti submarine defense systems it's being described as russia's largest naval deployment in the area since the country's intervention in syria's war three years ago russia was one of the keep backers of syria's president bashar assad the kremlin says the talks to resolve the

conflict in eastern ukraine are now impossible after the killing of a russian backed separatist leader alexander. died in a bomb blast at a cafe and on gets called friday russia and ukraine blame each other for the killing of a serious challenge reports from moscow. the motor about exams as a coaching career in the nets come friday is certainly a significant event in this ongoing war leader is there a saying that say it was. go on punished and the speculation is that the moment that the bomb in the cafe was hidden in a lamp and detonated by mobile phone there is a big question which is how this is going to affect the peace process for what it's worth in eastern ukraine now so a lot of role of the russian foreign minister says this is an open provocation aimed at hindering implementation of the minsk agreements under current circumstances it is of course impossible to speak about coming meetings in the

normandy formats as many european partners wanted now the minsk accords which was signed by angela merkel to me a putin and petro poroshenko amongst others is aimed at resolving the four years old war there it was not in particularly good shape before this killing and it seems to be even worse shape now. u.s. president donald trump has warned congress against interfering with negotiations on a north american free trade agreement or nafta trump says that there's no need to keep kind of in the pact to both countries missed a deadline to revamp the deal danny alack reports from toronto. president trump has long said nafta was unfair to his country and he was visibly pleased when he announced last monday that u.s. and mexican negotiators had reached a deal to replace it canada was left out and trump said the canadians had until

friday to give in to us demands so it could join the new pact that deadline is passed with no deal and trump is keeping up the pressure because i love canada but they've taken advantage of our country for many years they have tremendous tremendous trade barriers and they have tremendous tariffs. the sticking points remain what they've been for months u.s. demands for access to canada's highly protected dairy industry. and auto was desire to keep independent trade dispute resolution part of a new nafta something the u.s. opposes canadian negotiators say they're still hopeful they can reach a deal on an agreement that doesn't leave canada out we know that a win win agreement is within reach and now it's what we're working towards with goodwill and flexibility on all sides i know we can get there canada's economy is highly dependent on trade with the u.s. more than a billion dollars a day in business flows between the two countries president trumps threats to slap

high tariffs on canadian built cars would be disastrous for the country's workers and manufacturers both the u.s. and mexico say canada can be part of a deal to replace nafta many members of the u.s. congress some of them from donald trump's republican party agree but a protectionist trump administration has so far been demanding far more than canada's negotiators have been prepared to give daniel lak al-jazeera toronto. for the first time in twenty years leftist politicians are in control of mexico's congress with almost as many women as men john holdren reports from mexico city and what's behind the changed political landscape. going to see it's a historic new mexican congress for the first time since democracy the left has a clear majority. for your own party morena and its allies swept the board giving populist president elect and his money well lopez obrador

a legislative power not seen in twenty years it's used that to promise a new austerity plan that would have the salaries of lawmakers and dramatically cut their perks bodyguards teams of consultants and international travel. they say something that a public tired of rich out of touch politicians needed to see where there can't be such a marked inequality in society so much poverty in the countryside and a group of privileged politicians with everything. there's another big shift for the first time they'll be almost as many female lawmakers as men in part the result of a quota system where. there could be a different vision with women involved in the country's direction not just to highlight the problems we have femicide domestic and social violence but to do things differently with sensitivity honesty dedication those values are more prevalent in women but there's a challenge ahead say female lawmakers getting more access to big policy decisions

rather than just being relegated to so-called women's issues we can't yet see how this is all going to play out but congress is definitely opening with a real change of tone in particular the cuts to pay and perks of grab the attention but analysts say the what's going to really make a difference is better oversight to how lawmakers are spending public money not just blanket cuts up until now there's been a real lack of checks and balances what a media change that should make politicians more willing to play the transparency game is reelection introduced for the first time i expect and i hope that this incentive structure will really focus on politicians to go more to their grassroots result in a virtuous circle of going more to the constituency and really try to to get good results source so us tour and bought this three years for the new lawmakers to

prove all know that this time around they're prepared to put the country before themselves john homan. a weather update next day on the news out then away from the red carpet for the fans turn their focus to some confronting documentaries venice film festival. and in sports the fastest lap in four we don't want history ensures that ferrari dominate qualifying at their own home. we've had severe storms moving across eastern parts of the u.s. eastern parts of canada as well nasty little clutch of storms just feeding their way towards pennsylvania and in the space of just three hours look at that for a rainfall total two hundred seventeen a millimeters of rain little wonder that we have seen a widespread flooding this is the scene here as

a result of those heavy downpours that thunder rewrite is now in the process of raising a little further but you can see just how nasty that was in such a short period of time so the more still be a few showers in the forecast as we go through the next day quite a scattering of showers across the eastern half of the u.s. lots of heat still in place twenty six celsius for new york not as hot as it has been for the ten days of course but still plenty hot enough was he temperatures at around twelve thirty degrees celsius starting to nudge up again as we go on through monday for new york and the shabby rain still not too far away from the legs and so finally once again and pushing down into those central areas further west it's lousy clear and dry twenty one celsius for san francisco twenty seven there for may more well some pretty lively showers also affecting the greater until is lots of clouds showing up his eyes looking wet full cuba for chip maker but not too bad for the east.

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