stephanie decker has more from montauk air near the turkey syria border the first you know the first thought and the first for a lot of people certainty is that israel would have been behind this it's not the first time that israel has struck this military base outskirts of damascus israel's concern of course is always iran weapon shipments to iranian forces particularly hezbollah that can bend threaten israel security israel never comments on these strikes however they do admit that yes they do target these kinds of weapons shipments or weapons storage is syrian state television quoting military sources saying it wasn't israel it was an electrical fault but there is a lot of skepticism about that there's other syrian military sources being quoted saying that israel was behind it the syrian observatory which monitors the war saying that israel was behind the were casualties we do know there were reports of ambulances racing to the scene last night multiple explosions so again these things are very difficult to confirm independently always of course

a lot of skepticism when it comes to a particular attack like this or an explosion in a weapons depot in a very important military base whether that was a form of an electrical hook up or whether that was israel terms we won't be able to confirm but certain a lot of skepticism about that denial from syrian state television lots more to come here at al-jazeera including warnings of catastrophe after the us pulls funding from the u.n. agency that supports the palestinians. rival armed groups battle for control of libya's capital with civilians caught in the crossfire. from cool briskness and fuel. to the one trying call to those of southeast. hello you know about international weather forecasts we're here across central europe we are watching one area in particular that's area of low pressure here

across northern italy bringing a lot of rain now it's moving so slowly we could even see some localized flooding but what's going to be happening as we go through the rest of day today heavy showers all the way from rome towards vienna up towards berlin temperatures in berlin twenty four degrees but as we go towards tomorrow that shifts a little bit more towards the east and the temperatures up here to the north begin to come up slightly we are going to be seeing berlin warmer about twenty eight degrees down towards croatia some heavy rain few as well but over here towards the west in the u.k. not looking too bad for london more clouds coming into the forecast so a nice day on sunday getting a little bit cloudy or as we go towards monday well here across morocco as well as into algeria we do have some clouds and in those clouds we do have some rain showers as well temperatures along the north coast well into the low thirty's we do expect those to start to come up a little bit as we go towards monday and then some clouds extending up towards gibraltar and into parts of spain as well then very quickly i want to take you over here towards the western part of africa very troubled very big tropical rain

showers out here towards the west those are going to continue for the rest day today and rain towards across with attempt a few of about twenty seven degrees. the weather sponsored by cats on race. unless we have new generations growing up to understand that population of the natural. soon will be nothing and will suffer primatologist and conservationist dr jane goodall.

let's have a look at the top stories here and out there are. witnesses are speaking of a huge blast in the somali capital mogadishu smoke has been seen rising from the scene several people are reported to have been killed and others injured that's all we know at the moment from the situation in the somali capital but as soon as we get any more detail of course we'll bring you right up to date but these are the latest pictures that have come from. as you can see the big hole a smoke overhanging the capital. a human rights watch has called for an end to all weapons sales to saudi arabia following the bombing of a school bus in yemen last month on saturday the coalition admitted the attack was unjustified fifty one people including forty children were killed. the u.s.

is planning to cancel three hundred million dollars in military aid to pakistan saying its fake. to take action against armed current pakistan denies giving taliban fighters safe haven after they have launched offensives in afghanistan. ranger children have been banned from school by mere army a struggling to get a formal education in the country they've managed to escape to more than three hundred fifty thousand one hundred kids have now moved to bangladesh within the past year alone and many of them still aren't in school but there is one charity that's trying to give them a child's mom a gem 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 are 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 used to dream of becoming a doctor. then i won 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 ziad 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 to him to 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 as rock kind state it's easy to understand why and they are at it i don't 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 age 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 the education for the future that has had to be one of the 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 mohammed. at the could you belong refugee camp in cox's bazaar

bangladesh palestinians have reacted angrily to u.s. president trumps decision to end funding to a un agency that helps millions of refugees palestinian officials describe the move as cruel and they're responsible while jordan says it could have dangerous consequences the announcement to cut funds comes a week after the u.s. cut two hundred million dollars in separate aid to palestinians carry forth it has more 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' arriving for class in a jealous zone refugee camp in the occupied west bank welcomed by the agency's chief an ra 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 on rougher years tied to a rise and asli an 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 u.n. agency rather an attack on the palestinian cause the u.s. may argue that it's taxpayers' 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 holy subject our 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 bacon a balance now in israel not the jealous 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 and a cot tend to land i want my children there before me we want them that the future is less and their children and. 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 amount of minutes 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 gemma's on refugee camp in the occupied west bank . china is expected to commit billions of dollars in aid and investment to africa at a summit in beijing on monday president xi jinping has been welcoming leaders from fifty two african nations ahead of the forum on china africa cooperation on the agenda president she's belton road initiative which is a trillion dollar infrastructure plan but there are concerns the project is overloading horak countries with debt. protests is gathered outside an all field

in iraq's southern city of basra amid anger over poor public services including a shortage of electricity on friday hundreds of iraq is a try to break into the provincial government headquarters political parties are attempting to form a coalition government after the may twelfth parliamentary election was tainted by allegations of fraud the u.n. secretary general is calling for an end to violence in the libyan capital tripoli at least forty people have been killed a move and a hundred others injured in several days of fighting between rival factions the backers of tripoli's un recognized government a calling for urgent calm the u.s. is really france and the u.k. put out a joint statement warning that those who undermine stability will face consequences mahmud up to one head has the latest from the libyan capital. the situation is still very tense in the southern suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli with the

renewed clashes 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 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 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 r.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 here's president abdul fattah el-sisi has signed off a new laws allowing the authorities to control social media online accounts blogs with more than five thousand followers will be monitored as media outlets journalists accused of publishing so-called fake news can be fined or sent to jail rights groups say it's part of an ongoing crackdown on press freedom. at the venice film festival movies premieres in their big name stars attract most of the attention but this year the crowds have also been queuing up for the various documentaries on offer the dream barber is there but he was lovely he added get us

through the scene and. lay out 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 eisel fighters many of whom now live in camps like this one i cherish the love for. the only genius will see its. moment to their means they want to be marked here it's open so you know that 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 surest of sure 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 here so well done to the directors he's on the shit in love with. another documentary attracting attention in venice is the latest film by cambodian director richie 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. 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. the main audience

is young cambodians the generation born after the khmer rouge genocide because the parents didn't tell them what happened but their own cause their grandparents so want to be 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. that al-jazeera venice. traverses take a look at the top stories here it out there the. responsibility for a car bomb in somalia several people have reported being killed and injured in mogadishu. this last the government's human rights watch has called for an end to all weapons sales the saudi arabia following the bombing of

a school bus in yemen last month on saturday the saudi a morality coalition admitted the attack was unjustified fifty one people including forty children were killed alan fischer has more from neighboring. human rights watch see that even if the saudis were. the leaders and that the saudis are insisting then to carry out an attack in a market place when so many civilians were nearby then that is the possibility that the saudis created committed a war crime certainly human rights what you're saying that the devastation from the bombing was so great that many of those who lost their children were not able to bury even one single part of them. the u.s. has announced that it plans to cancel three hundred million dollars in military aid to pakistan saying it's failing to take action against armed groups pakistan denies helping taliban linked fighters the u.s. secretary of state. go to islamabad to meet the newly elected prime minister on.

syrian state media is contradictory reports of an israeli attack on a military air base. near the base which is close to the capital damascus the state media says the explosions were caused by an electrical fault egypt's president. has signed new laws which allow the authorities to control social media online accounts with more than five thousand followers will be monitored as media outlets journalists accused of publishing so-called fake news can be fined or sent to jail . the u.n. secretary general has called for an enter violence in the libyan capital tripoli at least forty people have been killed in several days of fighting between rival factions the u.s. italy france and the u.k. are warning that those responsible will face consequences there is next.

this is our foundation. i try to. use the best day of my life. forever. in the world it was born for me to eat and eat you see. i'm malcolm webb income paula the capital of uganda which is one of the countries where thousands of chimpanzees can still be found after the highland forested slopes because other countries they've already completely disappeared and wherever they live there on the tremendous pressure chimps like humans living through the

same feelings they used tools these are qualities that were discovered only in the one nine hundred sixty s. for young british woman she lived with chimps. and grew closer to them than anyone before jane goodall widely seen as the world's leading primatologist conservationist talks to al-jazeera. you one of the world's most recognized expert from chimpanzees what's so special about chimpanzees our closest living relatives on planet earth we share ninety eight plus. of our d.n.a. with chimpanzees a great deal of our communication non-verbal is the same kissing a brazing holding hands patting on the back swaggering shaking their fist begging for food what you group of chimps you know exactly what they're about because we do the same they were the first wild animals in the scientific community to

demonstrate tool using and tool making and it was that observation where chimpanzees were picking grass to fish for termites but also picking leafy twigs and having to modify them beginning of tool making by stripping the leaves on the side branches and it was that that brought in the national geographic society to fund my research when the first six months money ran out so you know since then we are. the life history of chimpanzees in the wild and in captivity because we work on captive chimps as well learned about the different cultures in different countries and like in west africa the rocks used as hammers to open the same nuts are gone but they don't use that so it's a cultural tradition passed from mother to child we've learned a great deal about the importance of the mother mothers have different personalities some are much better mothers than others and the good supportive

mothers are the ones whose offspring do well the males get higher in the male hierarchy the females are better mothers so that the thing that's to me exciting about that is the reason i've done what i've done i had a supportive but what were the most interesting things that you discovered and greatest disappointment as well as the greatest similarities for as i've said in my non-verbal communication but in addition they actually have a kind of primitive war and they are territorial and the males patrol the boundaries at the territory and if they spy an individual from a neighboring community they will follow give chase keep very quiet for maybe over an hour looking they're looking for individuals and then they will kill them they will actually kill them so you know they have war on the one hand but also altruism

and love and compassion so in both of these ways the aggressive and the loving they're so close to us and when you first meet some of these discoveries you came under quite a lot of criticism for the implications that you made about done chimpanzees but also about humans in the press including criticism you as a woman were making discoveries about mankind that was possibly controversial enough in your. what kind of things did the what did you think about. what i was criticized for was first of all when i saw tool using and the scientists said well she's just as i haven't been dealing versity we couldn't afford it. and so they wanted to disregard everything but then when the geographic center you gov and loic and he filmed it they could no longer deny what i had seen in fact even before that my sister came out i said i don't want anybody coming but she sounds like me and

she looks a bit like me so she came with a camera and she actually filmed termite fishing so. then they had to believe it but the next thing was the aggressive behavior because at that time in the early seventy's it was a it was a political issue and science was divided i guess more than science but certainly science as to whether human infants are born with like a clean slate everything is learned from your culture from the society from your mother. and then on the other hand. those who said well there's a lot of learning involved and. chimpanzees and human beings learn by watching each other and learning about their cultures so it was a very political issue believe it or not and we had one of the first russians primatologist taking part in an international conference and when it came to

a question before he said a word he had to go off and telephone his boss in moscow so eventually i went to cambridge university after i'd been with the chimps for two years. so i had a supervisor who was wonderful for me but he was also one of the top people are just . and when we had this conference he was there too and he was on the side of everything is law and that's what he talked about and i was saying you know. some things are inhabited it's instinctive that we have these aggressive so i know as a mother because when your child is threatened you get this surge of adrenaline and sometimes anger it's not rational but it's there so when i sat down with him to have a cup of coffee i said what do you really believe about with that aggression is it

mate do you know what he said to me he said jane i'd rather not talk about what i really believe that gave me such a bad attitude toward science i thought how can you be like this so these things aren't has progressed since then in his understanding of these things mainly the people who who. don't believe in all this inherited stuff and don't believe that animals have personalities and emotions and so forth they're mostly the people who are either in primate research labs where animals are tortured still or intensive farming and we know how cows and pigs are treated chickens and turkeys but it's mostly those people who don't want to admit. but animals have personalities minds and above all emotions and one interesting observation which i never forgot when you were thinking about different personalities. the other from

hell at that time mike. i think it was humphrey anyway an aggressive male so when an infant began screaming because his mother wouldn't nurse him the aggressive male went to attack the infant screaming so of course the infant screamed more and that blew any chance of a stranger however another male on another occasion the same infant old hugo was so much more gentle individual and when the infant made a noise he went and embrace him so you see the difference in the two personalities this is what's so fascinating there is different from each other as we are you're going from gum arrive and what's there why are you going when i first came to uganda it was in the mid sixty's and it was in the days of the mean. and at that time that was the intent. and they had i think about eight or nine infant chimps

whose mothers had been shot for bushmeat and they didn't have proper cages they didn't know anything about them they wouldn't really wire netting cages they had nothing to do they were very disturbed and so i managed to find as do people from london zoo who volunteered and her parents gave her a car so she could get around and gradually they had built up cages proper cages and introduced you know for chimps and many other animals to boredom is one of the awful things you see and in bad zoos they have nothing to do think of their lives in the wild and then think of being confined in a small space so one of the things that she did was give them paper and paint brushes some of them paint not a picture but they'd make fan shapes or circular shapes and began selling them which raised money so that was the beginning of it and from there it led to some of

the chimps being relocated on to an island i don't know its name but somewhere near the sioux. then we wanted to create a proper sanctuary for the chimps so the island was created for often chips whose mothers were either killed for bush meat or they were poached so that the infants could be sent off and sold as pets or entertainment in foreign countries so they'd get confiscated so it was a mixture of mothership for different reasons conservation programs in you know africa even though we're half a century after. european colonialism continue to be dominated by white foreigners why is using that is well i'm not sure that it always is true. i'm not sure i think african politicians africans in all walks of life

women are coming up and taking their rightful position in society and we got past the time when women in order to succeed decided they have to have male characteristic of oppression and pushing us that now women are beginning to fall into place with the characteristics make women i think a little bit different you know nurturing compassion because of the inference that we raise. so yes there is some male dominance and money coming in from outside but it is changing you can't expect change to happen overnight after all brutal colonialism which actually destroyed some of the best people who might otherwise have taken over more quickly i mean we really didn't that culture we were in so much about african society before european colonialism this was one continent maybe the last continents in the world where humans did live in

a relatively sustainable way with wildlife and when the european colonial this came they hunted at a rate never done before they destroyed habitats as a rate never seen before and then created nature reserves in almost every country which involved of course displacing people off the land and to this day many of those communities living on the periphery of those parks still in poverty having lost access to natural resources they want do you think that the preservation of this wildlife a similar. story of great injustice for many communities in this continent huge injustice i mean what white colonialist did i think can never really be forgiven and that.