well a human what can i did if i go 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. used for a sufi house 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 longer 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 herefore sit out zero

refugee camp in the occupied west bank where dave harden is a former usaid assistant administrator who worked in the west bank and gaza he says that cutting funding means the u.s. will lose influence in the region. there may be additional dinars 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 filled 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 then we would be able to serve that function this is the news from al-jazeera still to come on the program politicians from across the u.s. political divide on a john mccain with one notable exception. a bust a policy from much loved oasis in moscow has been jungle. at its core but gold and gold at the asian games the beat south korea's football team will avoid military service. the united states it's only france and the u.k. a condemning a surge in violence around libya's capital tripoli at least forty people have been

killed aboard one hundred injured and several days of fighting between rival factions most of the casualties of civilians gun battles and shelling have damaged areas around the pool so serious about to what had. reports from tripoli. the situation is still very tense in the southern suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli where 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 armor groups bad to 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 collision 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 meza airbase close to syria's capital damascus. military commanders initially said that israeli airstrikes have caused the explosion but syrian state media contradicted

that by saying an electrical fault led to a blast at a munitions dump. at least three people have been killed in a car bomb attack on the syrian city of us hours north of aleppo it happened in front of a mosque near a government building there are also reports of two other car bombings in the towns of donna and such a keep both in italy province the newly appointed u.s. representative to syria james jeffrey is making his first trip to the region he'll be stopping in israel jordan and turkey to his visit comes as the syrian government prepares to retake it lip the last rebel stronghold in the country to syria stephanie decker reports now from red handley 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 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 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 when it's clear that the syrian government says it will take back it province it was kind of a 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 there are very fearful now of this upcoming confrontation russian forces have begun a week of large scale military and naval exercises in the mediterranean sea moscow says the focus will be on empty aircraft and empty submarine defense systems it's

russia's largest naval deployment in the area since the country's intervention in syria three years ago russia was one of the keep backers of syria's president bashar al assad. u.s. president donald trump has warned congress against interfering in negotiations on a new north american free trade agreement on nafta trump says there is no need to keep canada in the packs a day after both countries missed a deadline to revamp the deal talks are set to resume next week on monday trump unveiled a new bilateral trade deal with mexico which pressured canada to speed up to go see a sions. leftist politicians are in control of mexico's congress for the first time in twenty years with almost as many women as men john heilemann reports from mexico city on 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 old party morena and its allies with the board giving

populist president elect and his money well lopez obrador a legislative power not seen in twenty years it's used 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 like 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 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. let's get a view now from robert the lead the deputy world editor of a newsweek he's reported widely on latin america where he was based he joins us now via skype from new york to tell you with us robert in the context of mexican politics how significant is this the shift in congress to the left. well first of all thank you for having me on your show it is definitely significant let's look at the last eighty years of mexican politics only three parties have actually had access to power in mexico but of course the left has a clear shot especially in the context of lana marie kelis not forget venezuela and other countries in latin america with left his policies of course the nomination and the eventual. you know the election of under his mom look that's what i look

you know scared some people in mexico because they build a narrative that mexico will become another venezuela of course many experts disagree with this point of view but the fact that he had a pretty successful government as a mayor of mexico city was a pretty good you know platform for him to launch his presidential bid last year a couple years ago well he's he's run for president a couple times but this time he had the opportunity to control bulls the executive and the legislative branches so on paper we can see that he has all the power in his hands to advance his economic and social programs and what are we to make of the fact that there are now very nearly as many women in congress as men. absolutely and i think this is very important because mexico has actually a one of the high as numbers of female or gender representation in politics across

the world and this has been the trend not just in mexico but also the united states and other parts like argentina and let's not forget a big scandal that occurring two thousand and nine the so-called one leaked us scandal in which a group of women had to relinquish their positions to men now it is almost you know it there's basically a law that forces mexico to have a quarter representation and as we've heard from the report it remains to be seen whether women can advance their policies but it's certainly an important investment in the right in the right direction so we have to have people in mexico of fed up with with politicians and the excesses of political life how do you describe mexico's political political class right now and how and how it's changing. well the fact that i'm low as and as well no locus or other he's also known as he

was basically building his platform from a populous point of view he is considered another trump in the sense that he wants to spur production and local competitiveness and that involves the disadvantaged population of mexico and he wants to reduce poverty levels so obviously as you mention the fact that you had the pretty the institutional revolutionary party that is completely unpopular alongside the cup and yet so if you remember there was a big scandal couple of years ago with his white house multi-million dollar property in the outskirts of mexico city when people saw that the excesses that you're mentioning people want a real change and on this one going up is what i look clinched a pretty high number of votes sixty percent of the of the of devoted to polling went to him so no other he has the power basically to make these changes obviously

he has a pretty big compromise he has to basically uphold what he promised otherwise mexicans will grow disillusioned and maybe we're going to see another shift in power in the next six years so it seems that he has a clear path but of course let's see if your ocracy and the power of other parties will come into play robin really gives talk to me thanks dave a valency that from newsweek thank you very much politicians across the political divide have come together through the u.s. senator john mccain who died last week at the age of eighty one former presidents barack obama george w. bush and bill clinton were among those at the service in washington gave us on the reports. a farewell to a giant of american life a man who served his country in war and in politics for over a half century more than two thousand invited guests at the national cathedral at the memorial service of senator john mccain. some of the most powerful people of

american political life were present to pay their respects president donald trump was not there mccain's family did not invite him at the memorial service nobody spoke trump's name but it was hard to miss their repudiation of his politics while channeling mccain's spirit the america of john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great thanks so much of our politics a public life or public discourse can seem small and mean and petty it's a politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear john called on us to be bigger than that george w. bush spoke of mccain's courage perhaps above all john detested the abuse of power

could not abide bigots and swaggering despots there was something deep inside him that made him stand up for the little guy. just before forgotten people in forgotten places outside the cathedral people gathered to watch and listen to the memorial service any way they could there was deep respect for mccain i think he's a great american hero and a great person and i think that democrats and republicans should emulate him alike mccain embodies that whole brotherhood of veterans. he's not just the a military hero book he's an american hero on sunday mccain will be buried in a small private funeral at the u.s. naval academy in annapolis maryland it will be the culmination of a week long celebration of the life and legacy of a man who will go down as one of america's most important political leaders of his era gave rolls on dough al-jazeera washington we're going to weather update next

here on the chance to learn how someone helping the revenge of children get an education while their lives in limbo. some people might need to be reminded that life is more than just you know showing other people what your life is stop scrolling or look at a campaign to get people off social media and to appreciate life all slime. and it's for the fastest lap and for me to want to history ensures that ferrari dominate qualifying at the homegrown three. from the clear blue sky of the doha mooney. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city of love. how i once again well it's been a pretty wet week for southeastern parts of china so pleased to say things will dry up and brighten up as we go through the next couple of days there was

a chance of want to see showers towards hong kong they're in the process of easing that as we go on into monday should be largely clear and dry temperatures at around thirty one degrees celsius clear and dry to when two were taiwan we some rain just making its way to was shanghai and down towards the southwest around heimat fair amounts of wet weather still coming in here the rain also affecting a good part of india china fair amount of rain to into the philippines the usual heat of the day showers there for that western side of borneo some are just still seeing some lively downpours similar picture to into a good part of the mill april inshallah see want to two showers just making their way towards bangkok thirty three celsius here over the next couple of days i was a little more extensive as we go on through monday but for much of indonesia is looking fine and dry some more sunshine hot sunshine there for jakarta thirty two degrees celsius on sunshine for pakistan hot sunshine two to the far north west of india but the northern plains over tools east side of the country i was lucky

showers they are set to continue the monsoon rains of course well and truly tucked in heavy downpours too for bangladesh and also me and my. the weather sponsored by cats on race. september on al-jazeera the fourth eastern economic forum is to be held in the city of bloody post-doc as russian looks to expand its influence in the asia pacific region on television and online the stream continues to tap into the extraordinary potential of social media to disseminate news the president of russia turkey and iran will meet in teheran for another summit seeking an end to the war in syria we'll have extensive coverage people in power continues to examine the use and abuse of power around the world the united nations general assembly hall the seventy third session what action will it take on atrocities in me in march and demand we'll bring you all the news of september on al-jazeera. capturing

a moment in time. snapshots of other lives other stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's world. witness on al-jazeera. it is kids every with us hello patriot sitting in here and with the news hour from al-jazeera our top stories the saudi ever aussie led coalition fighting in yemen as admitted that it made mistakes in an airstrike on a school bus last month forty children were among fifty one people killed in the attack in saddam province the coalition says those responsible must be held accountable. the united states is canceling three hundred million dollars in aid to

pakistan because it says the country is providing a safe haven for armed groups like a stone denies that it's giving taliban. linked fighters in afghanistan a place to regroup after launching offensives of the united states italy france the u.k. condemning a surge in violence around libya's capital tripoli at least forty people have been killed and more than one hundred injured in several days of fighting between rival factions. children burned from school by myanmar's army are struggling to get a formal education in the country that they've escaped to three hundred eighty thousand kids moved to bangladesh in the past year and many of them aren't in school one charity though is trying to give them a chance to learn has been have a jump jhoom reports. in this child friendly space in bangladesh young real hinge a refugee are getting a chance they were never afforded back home in me and more. and they're in

a happy mood as they proudly show off their reading and reciting skills. save the children's daphne cook tells me how the informal program aims to teach more than just letters and numbers these are kids that haven't had any kind of education at all what that means is they might not know how to cross the road safely they might not know how to wash their hands so it's really basic stuff like that to keep kids safe and healthy in their day to day lives outside the learning center though a grim reality confronts you at almost every turn like these children who should be in school instead they're selling vegetables to help support their families or these teenagers who should be having fun with their friends instead discussing what little they have to look forward to before fleeing to bangladesh sixteen year olds yob will used to dream of becoming a doctor. then on one i thought if i can continue to study i would be able to do

anything with my life i wouldn't have any skills i'm very worried that this could mean i might end up a thief one day just so i can survive i want to study ziada will completed the seventh grade in me and more but he hasn't been back in a classroom since he and his family fled the violence there go to almost any camp for the displaced practically anywhere in the world and you find more often than not that in those settings it's extremely difficult for children to get access to a proper education but when you speak your hindu refugees who fled me and more over the course of the past year you find out that their education crisis started long before they arrived here it's estimated that upwards of sixty percent of the or hindu are illiterate when you hear how these boys were often barred by soldiers from attending school in myanmar is rock kind state it's easy to understand why and at it i did not think we were on our way to class be used to stop us and ask where

are you going and we said we were going to school they'd ask us what are you doing going to school unicef simon ingram explains how dire the situation has become so over the past year we've had something like three hundred eighty thousand school aged children arriving here from across the border trying to get them into some kind of learning activities give them some sort of shape to their lives give them some sort of hope for in terms of learning and their education for the future that has had to be one of our biggest priorities while aid workers are cautiously optimistic that consultations with the government of bangladesh will result in a formal curriculum that's ready to roll out by october most of the refugee children don't hold out much hope. for a while they may not be in school they learn each and every day just how cruel the world can be how much enjoyment is eat it at the could you belong refugee camp in

cox's bazaar bangladesh. there were further rival rallies in the eastern german city of candidates on saturday far right and left wing supporters turned out again following the arrests of two asylum seekers suspected of killing a german man last sunday it's the third day of protests in a week more than eight hundred police officers would have cloyed to keep the groups apart. at the venice film festival movie premiers and big names obviously attract most of the attention but this year crowds have also been queuing up for the documentaries on offer as nadine barber reports for the doors of the. layout what kind of mother said. the boy recounts how i saw beat his mother and how he dreams of taking revenge isis tomorrow the lost souls of mosul was filmed before and after iraqi forces recaptured the city and it's a rare insight into the psychological damage done to young people by the conflict

including the children of ice all fighters many of whom now live in camps like this child and the love for. their lives will not genius well since. the mood there i mean they want to be marked here it's open so you know if you support one year after you it's a condition in his life you just knew by your lonesome and war and return yes i will can you grow up you know the way documentaries like these are a tough watch but there's clearly an audience for them they don't offer a simple answers rather they raise questions about how societies can overcome years of unimaginable violence sick of the sure scriptural to be in a facility really understand what war is it's people dying it's children dying and this really makes you reflect you're not worth the three month look i'm shaking

it's never happened to me in thirty years of coming. so well done to the director. mark another documentary attracting attention in venice is the latest film by cambodian director ricky pan need to take on it this is him taking part in a ritual as he searches for information about his own missing relatives victims of the one nine hundred seventy s. genocide under the camaro rouge which kills nearly two million people. it's a deeply poetic and personal film but the director says he hopes it will help his compatriots to confront the past. let main audience is young cambodians the generation born after the khmer rouge genocide because their parents didn't tell them what happened but their own cause their grandparents are dead each family was affected by the crimes. like the camaro rouge i saw has also relied on recruiting children this film suggests bringing them back into

society and ending the cycle of revenge will be a long process. al-jazeera veness a new law allowing egypt's government to block social media accounts has come into force president a bill fattah el-sisi ratified the legislation on saturday online a council blogs with more than five thousand followers will be monitored as media outlets journalists accuse of publishing so-called fake news could be fined or face jail time rights groups say it's part of an ongoing crackdown on press freedom a charity in britain is urging people to give up social media for a month or at least to cut down their time online the royal society for public health says that while going online can help many of us feel connected it can sometimes lead to anxiety and depression ever he would report. sometimes it feels like we are constantly connected liking posting uploading and updating social media is a big possible lives whether it's checking for the latest news on twitter watching

the british prime minister dance or dog drive a speedboat i feel like most of us are addicted and if the people that say that they're not that just. the way that the campaign is in britain or urging people to take a break from personal social media for september or reduce usage to give them time to re-evaluate what makes us feel good and what makes a scale bad the balance of the impacts for most young people from research we've done does of the name seem to be a negative one where actually young people consider comparing themselves to i'm a distant but idealism based realistic depictions of people's lives globally instagram has an estimated billion followers facebook more than two billion users and twitter hundreds of millions many of us around the world to have at least one social media account here in britain more than forty million people now subscribe

and teenagers are the biggest consumers of social media some are on it but more than four hours a day scientists have warned about the dangers of becoming addicted to social media and link it to pull sleep and depression it is compulsive at the berry least giving it up then or at least turning off the traffic even for a few days isn't an easy prospect site you mean it to get. to the end of brinkman. break. and something they hear bieber sounding in his posse for your last what a. little much time to be honest. face to disconnect some people might need to be reminded that life is more than just you know showing other people what your life is closing. on social media thirty days may give some people a much needed break campaigners say companies and individuals who use it they did think people they post about the impact the next click might happen and he would

al-jazeera. in south africa a tiny beetle in the fungus it carries is killing trees johannesburg is the home to one of the world's largest urban forests but around two hundred types of tree are under attack from the past and scientists are worried from either miller reports from johannesburg with ten million trees johannesburg is regarded as one of the world's greenest cities but hundreds of thousands of trees could be under through it from a tiny beetle and the fungus it carries. with it so it's a crisis. manmade forests is under threat because of those people. and you are not enough is being done from a. maybe a government or a city level at a local school trees surgeon julian or trying to stop the spread of the beatles which bore into trees

a fungus that the beetle brings to the tree is actually clogging up in layman's terms of vascular system in the tree that's transporting the water the nutrients up and down the tree so it interferes with that and it's basically because the water neutrons can't pass through that affected area or that damaged area it the tree on the top dies back. so it's basically starving the tree nearby an entire tree lined street has been infested south africa's not the first country to be affected the beetle which originates in vietnam has already decimated trees in israel and the united states now a south african company has developed what it says is the world's first effective treatment it's a combination of a pesticide and an antifungal solution that penetrates the tree the company says while the treatment will be sprayed on to trees it's safe for the environment but there's by killer still has to be approved before it can be used but that could take time and even if some trees are cut down the bug could spread if the trees are

not properly disposed of after discovering that trees in his backyard had been affected little fryer developed an app to monitor the spread of the brutal beetle across south africa and the various interest groups have all been paying attention and collaborating. and certainly the people in the private space are working very aggressively to try to find solutions the institutions like the department of agriculture there were some really great people but they're under resourced and they're also dealing with other crisis some say the infestation is reaching crisis point and up to half a million trees could be lost in the next five years if nothing's done and experts are worried that the pissed if not stopped could hit farm crops next for me to miller al-jazeera johannesburg moscow is celebrating the ninetieth anniversary of one of its most beloved places gorky park.