potentially hamas and hizbollah. so this is a bit of crystal ball gazing but who's next you know you've had palestine in pakistan now and if you want to go further back there's been this disengagement for all the paris climate of colds for all the trans-pacific partnership from all sorts of things like this now after is under review now as well i mean what could be next and i want to add also syria we've showed really pulled back substantially on syria and that's a tough case too because we've spent time and energy and blood and treasure in syria and when we liberate. iraq from isis that's a huge victory for the people that live in america and now when we don't provide the stabilization assistance there we are creating a vacuum that isis might be able to fill so i'm not sure what is next necessarily but what deeply worries me is this post world war two order is beginning to unwind

and it was an order that was established primarily by the united states and while it benefited the world i think this administration doesn't also anderson understand exactly how it is benefited the united states and so for instance i'll give you another example the chinese are setting up a competitor to the world bank that could have profound implications for the way assistance and development is handled throughout the world you are obviously deep into election season in the united states there are all sorts of internal issues the mother investigation donald trump's next tweet or his last tweet or whatever it might be i'm just interested to know if international issues like this really raise to mention other than the fact that this is trump following through on what he said he would do. i think it's concerning to me as a former diplomat that we are ceding political influence in space i don't think it will have much impact in the twenty eighteen mid-term elections if you don't get

a lot of traction for u.s. support to pakistan or are. cutting off aid to the palestinians i mean if anything there's probably broader support within the trunk base for that but the most concerning elma and i'm saying it over and over and over again is this unwinding potentially of the post world war two order dave harden nice to talk to you and it's a holiday weekend there in the states so thanks for coming in for us to appreciate it thank you thank you very much and hundreds of palestinian refugees have been protesting against the decision to cut u.s. funding from protesters gathered outside the un agencies office in jordan's capital amman the kingdom hosts more than two million refugees meanwhile over the border in israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu welcomed the cuts he said maintains the refugee crisis instead of solving it let us know notably. the us has done

a very important things by halting the financing for the refugee agency known as an ra it's finally beginning to resolve the problem the funds must be taken and used to genuinely help rehabilitate the refugees the true number of which is much smaller than the number reported. this is a welcome change. here's what's coming up for you on this news hour a rare show of discontent as thousands rally against the russian president vladimir putin's plan to change the pension age also. and i'm sorry for sit in one of the last places you might expect to find high level showjumping right here in the gaza strip. and in sport action from the u.s. open a moment of genius from roger federer. the group al-shabaab says it is behind a car bomb attack in market issues capital mogadishu at least six people were

killed after the attack a detonated his car full of explosives near a government building which wasn't far from a school more from. the loud explosion was heard across the somali capital mogadishu soldiers stationed near the entrance of district headquarters tried to stop the suicide bomber. the attacker tried to enter the compound with an explosive laden car and when the security tried to stop it the car exploded killing three of the soldiers the deputy commissioner for security and politics was also injured in the attack children were among those killed and injured as a nearby school collapsed i saw bodies scattered on the ground after the explosion before the ambulances and the paramedics reached there and the whole scene was very . the roof was blown of a mosque and homes in the area were also damaged. as you can see the explosion

caused a lot of destruction there are mosques and islamic schools next to the district compound. by the linked hardline group of shabaab says it was behind the attack a statement says the meeting in the district office was the target al shabaab has been carrying out attacks for more than a decade that includes a deadly truck attack last year which can more than five hundred be. people the un backed government which took charge in twenty twelve has not been able to control much territory beyond look at the issue. for mali is devastated health infrastructure has struggled to deal with casualties in the past. and as the war which began in the one nine hundred ninety s. goes on somali civilians continue to suffer some of the job out of there. at least eight saudis soldiers have been killed in fighting with yemen's hooty rebels according to saudi news agencies the kingdom's military says that for the attack along the southern border activists posted videos on social media showing captured hooty fighters including what they say is

a high ranking commander meanwhile human rights watch wants an end to all weapons sales to saudi arabia following the bombing of a school bus in yemen last month the rights group called the attack an apparent war crime on saturday in a rare admission the saudi amorality coalition said the airstrike that killed forty children inside that was a mistake more from alan fischer in neighboring djibouti. human rights watch uses very strong language to condemn the saudi led coalition operation in northeast yemen at the beginning of august which killed forty children and eleven adults they say it just adds to the gruesome record of killing civilians in yemen now you remember at the time of the show you said that this was a legitimate military operation they were targeting with the leaders who they believe were in the area at the time what human rights watch is saying is that they have spoken to survivors to eyewitnesses to people who are in the area and while they can't establish if they were the leaders were there the saudis must have known that by taking the action they did they were going to kill

a large number of civilians because there was a school bus a market and a number of houses there so the saudis conducted their own investigation they say that the recently attack should have taken place is not because it would have killed a large number of civilians but because the leaders posed nor major threat to the saudi coalition at that point and human rights watch also see that people who are supplying weapons to either side in the conflict could be complicit in war crimes now we also know that both sides are due to sit down around the negotiating table on the sixth of september under the umbrella of the united nations the problem is both sides don't want to be in the same room together so it's going to take some effort by the united nations to at least get a process underway that could lead to something that will deliver a peace in yemen and bring an end to what is an almost four year war that syrian state media has denied there was an israeli attack on an air base near damascus on saturday night. loud

blasts had been heard near the immense airbase on the western outskirts of the capital state media says an electrical fault led to a blast and ammunition stepparent stephanie decker is and kentucky and into 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 and outskirts of damascus israel's concern of course is always iran weapon shipments to iranian forces particularly hezbollah that can then 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 work will tease 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 targeted we won't be able to confirm but certain a lot of skepticism about that denial from syrian state television protesters in iraq's southern city of bouncer have been out again demanding jobs and better services they gathered outside an oil field complaining opportunities are often given to foreigners demonstrators also blocked a highway in the northern part of the city there have been similar protests to this going on since march. china is expected to put up billions more in aid and investment for african countries at a summit in beijing on monday president xi jinping has been welcoming fifty two

leaders and his trillion dollar belt and road infrastructure plan is topping the agenda now with investment of course comes people more than a million chinese migrants now live and work in africa and the number of africans in china is thought to be about half of that china correspondent adrian brown reports on the cultural impact all of this is happening. and. sandra is from cameroon but her son is chinese because he was born here both appear a lot these days on a popular chinese social media network marriage between a chinese man and an african woman is still a curiosity here so she and her husband decided to stream their day to day lives fans send virtual gifts which represent money and dollars but on one door china everyone is envious of me everyone likes to see me happy i do i like to see me dancing like me they're all my friends i'm missing napping sandra and xhosa

and shouldn married a year ago after returning to his village near dandong in northeast china. life can be harsh here especially in winter when the temperature drops to minus twenty in cameroon it's hot and humid most days given the tiny kisses and hearts flashing on the screens of their smartphones symbols for virtual gifts it's going to be a profitable day in a good month they can make a thousand dollars china's economic courtship of africa began twenty years ago one of the consequences of that relationship a new generation of mixed race children forty years ago it was all but impossible for a foreign man or woman to live in china let alone marry a chinese but today marriages like this are no longer exceptional marrying a foreigner is no longer regarded as marrying down in the way perhaps that it once was here. two dollars days and there are more and more international married is in

china or some other friends also marry foreigners the chinese have become more accepting of intermarriage. to begin with those mother was not so accepting. marry a black woman she can leave at any time that's why at the beginning both my husband i say no to this marriage. sandra's had more success making friends on social media having now mastered enough mandarin to thank them in song. adrian brown al jazeera in northeast china. struggling to make ends meet after their crops were destroyed by volcanic eruptions two months ago their fields just blanketed in ash and rocks they've had most are reports now from. the rich black soil on the side of this volcano in guatemala

is normally the stuff of farmers dreams but knows firsthand that what the volcano can provide in bountiful harvest it can just as quickly take away the deadly eruption in early june dumped tons of rocks an ash onto his field the twenty eight year old was counting on his corn harvest to feed his young family for the coming year but all was destroyed. a thought. that they had to think that. there was a layer of ash or thirty centimeters deep that was super hard like cement so all of the folk liable to get. it soft now because we've tried our best to work the ground but this corn won't give us anything like this plant here no cob no nothing. the rep sion of killed hundreds of people a few kilometers north of the scene of the disaster ash and volcanic rocks not only damaged thousands of hectares of corn and beans but also cash crops such as

vegetables coffee avocado and fruit trees ronald is just one of fourteen thousand smallholder farmers who lost their crops after june's volcanic eruption these people are already some of the country's most vulnerable and now they say they need help. in the highland town an hour away government help is starting to arrive guatemala's ministry of agriculture is providing shovels machetes and other tools to thousands of farmers official say that those who lost all their subsistence crops will also receive food assistance for up to three months. this is the agriculture ministry is first response but soon will be providing new coffee plants will also be giving away seed so farmers can replant their fields but these are medium term plans it will take two or three years to be able to recover these crops . in the meantime family is relying on public

donations in order to survive. their year had begun with such promise his family rented extra land and planted all the seeds that saved from previous year's harvest in the hopes of getting ahead now they have nothing to show for their efforts are enough to simply cookie paying for corn means buying one hundred to two hundred pounds every month depending on the size of your family so you could be paying around fifty dollars a month for corn but often you only make twenty dollars and we both work on our goals for the money doesn't go far enough. despite the setback ronald and his family are determined to get through the year ahead he and other farmers here have faith that the same volcanic ash that killed this year's harvest will help produce a bumper crop next year david mercer al-jazeera and the department of she wrote the now go what i'm all. more ahead for you on this news they were once banned from school now ranger refugee children have a chance to learn. bringing

a delicacy back to the waters off new york city of the big apple wants to once again be a global what's the capital. ferrari's hopes of winning the formula one grand prix on hunter immediately taken a nosedive tatyana will be here to explain. hello again well i do want to take you across the levant right now because temperatures in kuwait city are coming down but that's not necessarily good news because when the temperatures come down like that this time of year that also means that the committee is probably rising early we had temperatures in the last few days maybe forty six forty seven degrees so your high temperature on monday forty three but very humid conditions are going to be in place as we go from monday as well as into tuesday up towards tehran one day for you as well we expect to see about thirty two

degrees there now down here along the gulf we are looking at really a lot of humidity across much of the region towards riyadh the course dry conditions there at about forty two degrees a lot of clouds that we had down here along the coast of oman not really in the forecast here we may see a cloud or two just skirting over to the south of moscow but attempt to fume and about thirty degrees then as you make your way down towards the southern reaches of africa we are seeing in south africa a frontal boundary kind of laying out on the satellite image you can see those clouds right there now we do have a significant fire danger up here towards the north for for cape town really not looking too bad temper a few at about sixteen degrees but notice that front just off the coast as we go towards tuesday that front approaches bring some gusty winds as well and then on wednesday some rain in your forecast. optimism has faded. blue counties elected leaders

a divided tension grows as fears that a crackdown is imminent the targets the activists who fought for democracy divide and conquer hot. hot fire but a six part series of five years. who can china's democracy experiment on al-jazeera. taiwan. a sovereign island state or a renegade province of china that must soon return to mainland control. as the battle for taiwanese hearts and minds intensifies. people in power investigates the tactics of those to whom reunification is only a matter of time. taiwan spies laws and crossed very toys.

you're on the news hour here at al-jazeera and these are the top stories the state of emergency has been declared in tripoli as armed groups fight for control of libya's capital and its suburbs about forty people have been killed since the violence picked up again a few days ago mostly going on in areas south of tripoli the pentagon is planning to cancel three hundred million dollars in military aid to pakistan saying it's failing to take action against armed groups the u.s. congress will the final call pakistan denies giving fighters a safe haven and launching offensives in neighboring afghanistan. and at least eight saudi soldiers have been children fighting with yemen's hooty rebels

according to saudi news agencies the kingdom's military says that for hooty attack along that southern border activists posted videos on social media showing captured hooty fighters including what they say is a high ranking kemah into. israel's navy has fired warning shots towards boats attempting to breach the naval blockade on gaza the palestinian vessels were part of a flotilla that planned to sail off the gaza strip to join an international campaign against the siege there carrying students activists and several patients who can't get the urgent treatment they need due to the blockade you know there are still pockets of calm in garza places where people can spend a few hours just to escape the reality of living under siege harry force that has been to one of them. is the fierce heat of the day starts to it's time to get ready last minute grooming final checks on saddles and still rips. and then out into the arena. here in northern gaza given the territories recent history of conflict

blockade and economic crisis it's perhaps a surprise to find young people here competing in what around the world is viewed as an elitist sport. is aiming himself to be an elite showjumper taking advantage of the recent opening of gaza's southern crossing with egypt he traveled to jordan and then germany excelling in two five nation tournaments and i struggled for all of my ambition is to compete internationally in the recent tournaments i won first and second places some competitions allow us to qualify for the world cup but we've missed out on so many because of the siege and the closure of the crossings this is final training for a gaza wide competition unlike many sports in this conservative society here girls and boys train and compete together the contests a split according to the heights of the jumps not the competitors gender if event. there's no difference we like brothers and sisters and i'm ready to compete society does ban women from doing

a few things that contradict additions but i didn't catch all continue. but the egalitarian ism only goes so far this is an activity reserved for the very few in gaza who can afford it stabling cost about two hundred dollars a month some of the horses imported from israel even europe are worth thousands. most of gaza's horses are used to heavy labor not sport unemployment stands at forty four percent more than half the population relies on food aid all around the world this is a sport that carries connotations of elite isn't and wealth but here in gaza more than most places the contrast between scenes like this and the realities of daily life for so many is particularly stark. traina mad ramsey says working with horses helps children who no matter their relative wealth have had childhoods marred by conflict and siege but he says the costs are becoming harder to sustain. how. sad it has even well our families are now reducing their expenses

including on this port many will send their son to get trained but when they reach a certain level of competition in fees and so on then they stop. a few days later and it's competition time relatives friends nervous parents line the side of the arena star rider made is finding his horse car the gold a bit hot to handle he places third. day you know. i did my best and i trained very well and i hope next time to win a better place it's the kind of attitude required of young athletes around the world but perhaps especially of those growing up in garza harry forsett garza. egypt's president bill fattal theseus signed new laws allowing his government more control over social media online accounts or blogs with more than five thousand followers will now be monitored as media outlets even if it's just a single user journalist accused of publishing what's perceived as fake news can then be fined blocked or even face jail time rights groups say it's another sign of

the crackdown on freedom of speech in russia had there been more protests against unpopular pension changes the communist party organized rallies across the country because the government wants to increase the retirement age from sixty to sixty five for men and from fifty five to sixty four women president vladimir putin has made some concessions to the original plans but those have failed to quell people's anger we heard from an abortion who is a fellow at the washington institute focusing on russia's foreign and domestic policy she told us putin's government didn't expect such a public outcry. the way the government announced these reforms was at the time when russia was still hosting the world cup sort of hoping that the public wouldn't notice trying to trying to soften the blow up so to speak but more importantly the larger issue here is that these reforms demonstrate russia's economic decline of

the government's inability. to handle development because russia has a system that is not geared towards development of the country rather it's a system built on loyalty to the kremlin where those that are close to the kremlin get rewarded. and that you know there are such things as for example the government had stopped contributing to the pension fund to finance the crimea and excision. the witnesses so it's prioritizing political motives funding foreign adventures over a domestic development you know timidly never took responsibility when he made these concessions rather he sort of presented himself as this fatherly figure that is stepping in at the last minute a new u.s. army general is taking of a come out of nato forces in afghanistan general scott miller was sworn into the job in kabul nato in the afghan army under pressure to get on top of a resurgent taliban ahead of the elections next month the world recognizes that afghanistan cannot be

a safe haven for terrorism world recognize we can have. a no this is not a long fight it has been generational. for us. we have to have people. i understand the region we're fighting you know we're here you know terrorists would say for anyone to export more murder and attack unison revenue everybody's worried. we're probably going to want to really. be you know i was doing dollar to. u.s. president on the trump has warned congress against interfering with negotiations on a new north american free trade agreement nafta says there's no need to keep canada in the pact a day after both countries missed a deadline to revamp the deal talks are set to resume next week but on monday trump already unveiled a new trade deal with mexico alone the late us senator john mccain is being buried

in maryland outside washington today a day after america's political elite attended his memorial service the career politician and former vietnam prisoner of war died from brain cancer last week at the age of eighty one former president barack obama and george w. bush were among those who attended both of course defeated mccain's and his bid for the oval office no invite for donald trump for the america john mccain is generous and welcoming and board she is resourceful confident secure. she meets her responsibilities she speaks quietly because she is strong america does not boast because she has no need to the america john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great. no revenge of children or face some of the worst forms of violence and persecution by a million miles army three hundred eighty thousand ranger kids escaped to

bangladesh in the past year and no one charity is trying to give them a chance to learn as mama jumping 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 yob used to dream of becoming a doctor and then a one month of one now i don't know 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 z. obl 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 are 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 as rak kind state it's easy to understand why. and at it when we were on our way to class the army used to stop us and ask where are you going we said we were going to school they'd ask us what are you doing go 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 so trying to get them into some kind of learning activities gives 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. at the could you belong refugee camp in cox's bazaar bangladesh. now i will once plentiful in new york city's war has virtually disappeared now those scientists are helping them to make a comeback and kristen salumi has been following their efforts in brooklyn new york . long before lady liberty graced new york harbor its waters teamed with oysters sustaining generations of native american cabinet out in the water scientists along with volunteers are now attempting to return new york's waterways to their former glory as part of the billion oyster project in the fixed

hundred it was tough to navigate the waters because there are so many mystery it's over two hundred twenty thousand acres so this is a project that is native to new york's history. this site in brooklyn is one of eleven where the project is attempting to recreate reefs with shells collected from local restaurants and baby oysters some from farms on the east coast others grown at a local school with the help of students by nineteen zero six new yorkers had every last oyster their reefs had been dredged up or covered in silt and the water quality was too poor for their regeneration it stayed that way until one thousand nine hundred seventy two the passage of the clean water act which prohibited dumping sewage and waste into the harbor even now the waters aren't clean enough to eat what lives there but he always to reach have huge benefits for the local ecosystem. i have a little super hero very tiny but they pack a punch and they really they provide such habitat for in the biodiversity of new york harbor nicholas jacobson helped make the metal cages that create the reefs and

volunteered to help place them in the water the oysters slide in like a file cabinet so in the city there's not many options to really connect with nature it's mostly concrete and steel. but this really gives an opportunity within the city to kind of connect with nature and. i guess just give back to the environment because we do take a lot and when it comes to the health of new york's waterways cultivating that connection may be just as important as cultivating oysters christian salumi al-jazeera brooklyn new york. daredevils have hold fireballs at each other as part of a unique festival in el salvador every year people in a town near the capital so rags in petrol set them alight and throw them why wouldn't you it's to commemorate a seventeenth century volcanic eruption that's why some believe the five all symbolize a christian saints fight with the devil.