today the arab world dies with every bomb that the saudis and iraqis dropped on you many's is a very insightful opinion piece read it on our website at al-jazeera dot com. now on to other world news and british prosecutors have charged two russians over the poisoning case that's cause one of the biggest east west riffs in decades these two men they say are the ones who tried to kill former russian spy sega's krypton and his daughter yulia with a nerve agent in southern england and the evidence so it's like something out of a bond film russia though says it's never even heard of the suspects named by the u.k. as alexander petroff and bush evolves well we have two correspondents on this story shortly we'll speak to rory chalons in moscow but first let's go to. lawrence lee in london who's been following this story throughout the day a significant development lawrence in the script case walk us so for us the timeline of what we learned today. just to be clear they haven't been charged

under british law they're accused and the police say that they're confident that were they ever to be arrested that they could be charged and face a criminal trial but it's certainly been a very dramatic day here because for the last six months almost to the day since sergei script and his daughter were poisoned the british government has insisted repeatedly that it was the russians that did it but there haven't been able to provide anything approaching proof of that and that lack of proof has been used by the russians to say you can't say that and how dare you say these things about us but today that dynamic seemed to change because for a start the police reveals that they had tracts to prime suspects off a plane arriving from moscow to a hotel in london to the scripts house and back out of the country to moscow again on the weekend that the poisoning happened and then the bombshell to reason made the british prime minister said we believe that these men were agents working for

the russian state in other words we told her we were right the british police believe these are the men who attempted to assassinate a double agent on the streets of the u.k. alexander petroff and roussillon bashir of probably aliases and now the prime suspects in the attempted murder of circus cripple the police have images of the two men near the strip malls house apparently moments before novacek was smeared on the front door. the scribbles were found slumps near their home in salzburg the case has caused a massive diplomatic rift with russia which has consistently said the u.k. could provide no proof that it was responsible the u.k. now believes that is exactly what it has and not only that the prime minister said to a stunned parliament the british security services believe that sue men are military intelligence officers of the russian state i can to day tell the house that based on a body of intelligence the government has concluded that the two individuals named

by the police and c.p.s. offices from the russian military intelligence service. also known as the g.r.u. . the g.r.u. is a highly disciplined organization with a well established chain of command so this was not a road operation it was almost certainly also approved outside the g.r.u. a senior level of the russian state after months of work the police have offered a detailed timeline of the movements of the two prime suspects they say the russians flew from moscow to london gatwick airport on aeroflot flight to five double eight on march the second they then stayed at the hotel in east london before catching a train to souls pre on the afternoon of march the third and returning to london on the same day then repeated the trip on sunday march the fourth where the police say c.c.t.v. footage shows them near the scripts house by the evening they left london and were flying back to moscow on aeroflot two five eight five. at the hotel in east london

the police say they found trace elements of novacek so small that they didn't pose a risk to health but it still counts as evidence we know part of their main street the second of four to stay sitting staring. without the remains stated we know that when we find. out which hotel i stayed on the second we took control. i mean that really we found traces of. both a police and international chemical agent body the o.p.c. w. have said it was the same batch of navi chalk that was used against this cripples which then killed dawn sturgis and seriously injured her boyfriend charlie rowley they had found a fake per fume case with a bottle inside adapted to release the novacek the couple had assumed it was puffy and she sprayed the novacek on a self this case and that of this cripples and now directly being linked in the criminal inquiry the last time the u.k.

had prime suspects in an attack on a spy it was the alexander litvinenko case which ended with a look of oyo named as one of the killers eventually made a member of the russian parliament the u.k. can't get the two prime suspects in the scripture case extradited it's against russian law and anyway it would be hardly worth the effort the scribbles have survived but u.k. russian relations a stock in the freezer. so let's something extraordinary happens now this seems to me to more or less not the end of the story and i think for the british political and security establishment they'll be a certain sort of mixture of emotions on one level i think they'll have a a sort of a sense of satisfaction that in terms of most of the court of public opinion if you discount conspiracy theories and people like that i think they will have probably won their arguments and convince most people that they they were right in in saying that it was the russians the did it but that will obviously be tempered by the fact that they know perfectly well there is absolutely no chance of bringing these these

men to justice and it left sarees m a the prime minister in parliament saying we were right all along but in the same breath saying and if these men ever leave russia we will get them but she knows perfectly well that that won't happen now and thank you for that now and stay in london for us let's get the view now from moscow and bowie chalons joins us live on the news great rory quite the revelations there from british prosecutors what's the crime in same. well whatever has come out from the british police today and from to reason may in parliament it hasn't made any difference whatsoever to the russian message the russian reaction to the whole script our affair it has been since the beginning since march early this year a case of denial really nothing to do with us the british have not included the russians in the investigation as the russians have basically demanded since the beginning the british position has been why would we do that when it's russia that

is our prime suspect here but this is being used by the russians as a way to say that essentially they are being kept out of things that they can't believe any of the evidence because they can't see it themselves and that's the message that we've heard today as well it came from the russian foreign ministry nor is a car of of the spokesman there says once again we urge the u.k. side to switch from public accusations and information manipulation to practical cooperation through law enforcement agencies we also heard from europe who should call for is the current eight he says this is all very confusing the doesn't quite understand what the british authorities are trying to do with all this information you can understand it so again we have a denial for something that the russians are going used all of it's not just the script files of course it's lots of other aspects that have been taking place in

international affairs over recent years the downing of m.h. seventeen. killing civilians in syria the war a dumbass that sort of thing it's a standard response yes and we nations really between russia and the u.k. are already very bad to how much more is can they get after this. well i would certainly don't think they're going to get better after this we heard from the reason main parliaments that she was pointing the finger directly at the g.r.u. this branch of russian intelligence that is actually part of the military and i think a focus on the g.r.u. and what it is alleged to have been getting up to over recent years in various parts of the world is going to be perhaps a bit uncomfortable for russia i think that this is a this is a an aggressive risk taking parts of the russian intelligence community that obviously likes to operate in the shadows that the spotlight is being put on them i

think will perhaps cause them to adjust their behavior a little bit but then we also heard from the reason may saying that she would like to see tougher sanctions for offenses against chemical weapons convention she would like to see that being pushed through in the european politics she would also like to see tougher sanctions against cyber warfare that sort of the exotic i don't think this is the end of things for the russian government they are going to use this or try and use this as a platform for tightening up their responses against russia tightening up global response against russia recently responses amongst their allies they would like to see more sanctions they have asked the europeans to go ahead with further sanctions like the u.s. did a few weeks ago the europeans or so far said they were and do that but perhaps after this new evidence that they've seen today perhaps they'll be a change of mind might be interesting to see what happens in the next few days and

we thank you very much for challenge for us in moscow and the story of the poisoning scrape on and his daughter amid news bulletins in britain and iran the world for several weeks this summer this episode of the listening post on al-jazeera dot com looks at how the british and russian media have competed to tell the script story much of the coverage as you'll hear has been no on facts and high on conjecture and speculation watch a report by clicking on the shells about al-jazeera dot com and then listening posts. crimes against humanity are going on unabated in burundi says u.n. investigators say u.n. investigators who blame it in part on hate speech from the president brought the plans into crisis three years ago when pierre and governance these are sort of he is the contested third term in office hauntingly the un says they are fewer bodies in the streets and before but this it adds just shows a shift in tactics. the commission of inquiry will be submitting

a report to the human rights council in which we find that in the past twelve months there has been a continuation of the violations that we found in the previous year that's the say arbitrary killings torture cruel inhuman and degrading treatment arbitrary arrests and detention sexual violence and other similar violations in other words really serious violations of human rights but the form of one particular violation appears to have changed in the past twelve months last year in the report we documented many bodies being found in the street so you were able first to know that a person had been killed and second to identify the person this year what's happening instead is that people are taken away often at night and never heard of again so the disposal of bodies is happening in a much more secret fashion as a result of which it appears that there is few of violations occurring but it

doesn't mean that in fact fewer violations are occurring. and what has to has more on the report and the situation in broddi. some political analysts say bruni's recent problems began three years ago when president announced he was running for a third term the constitutional court ruled in his favor was protesters took to the streets they said couldn't deezer was violating the constitution which then limited presidents to no more than two terms in office security forces violent protesters killing some injuring in arresting. some army officers organized a coup when couldn't caesar was at a summit in neighboring tanzania but it failed the government shut down some privately owned radio stations accusing them of participating in the overthrow a tent. tens of thousands of civilians continue to flee to tanzania rwanda and the

democratic republic of congo meanwhile currencies are pushed ahead with plans to stay in power in july that shia he won a third term in the presidential election with seventy percent of the votes many in the international community say the election was marred by violence and intimidation and try to intervene the african union wanted to send in five thousand troops to protect civilians two years ago the boring the government refused to accept outside interference. here opinion suspended direct financial aid to the brutal indian government in protest against the violence in defiance indeed became the first country to officially withdraw from the international criminal court. shortly after the pullout last october i.c.c. judges announced they were investigating whether they'd been crimes against humanity in burundi and why at least one thousand two hundred people were killed in the last three years. the streets of beijing border are now quiet there be no major

protests in a while opposition leaders say that's because many of their supporters have fled or are scared local groups such as the people attached to the ruling party the which is really a party as you swing are taking land of people taking property of people and doing sign a climate of total impunity because the government won't tactic against them because these are the people in two thousand and sixteen who went on the streets beat protesters and so forth and so the government owns these people. the indian government denies security forces targeted government critics the leaders of the ruling party say many people have returned from exile but aid workers and human rights workers say many remain too afraid to return home. now online satirists in saudi arabia have been put on notice with new rules that could see them locked up social media producer easier to tell us more fully well

it's another attempt to crack down on social media use in saudi arabia which has thrived despite strict cyber laws governing what you can and can't say now saudi arabia has the most active twitter users in the whole of the gulf region and every day you'll find an arabic cast trending like this one it's trending at number five today and it's usually trending worldwide and that originates from the kingdom itself now the new announcement adds to the existing pile of rules and emphasizes that satire can now also get social media users in serious trouble and we're talking an eight hundred thousand dollars fine and up to five years in prison and the saudis are serious about enforcing all of its online rules now take the story of will send a was a saudi teenager who became an internet sensation in twenty six scene there having struck up an online friendship with american blogger christina croquettes and videos of their chats went viral but unlucky for him the saudi government got wind

of it and i was sent was soon arrested for violating decency and religious values now upon his release ten days later he posted a clip telling followers he repented now the most prominent cleric to have been arrested is solemn and done if you have a look he's got forty million fourteen rather million followers and that's just on twitter he's got plenty more on other social media platforms a very prominent person. so devolved to solve the problem or and this is the latest video the outspoken critics posted online that was almost a year ago before being detained now on tuesday a saudi prosecutor demanded the death penalty as a lot of faces thirty seven terrorism related charges including incitement against saudi arabia's rulers now his family and supporters say he was arrested after posting this tweet endorsing warmer relations with cats all which is under a blockade by saudi behind the u.a.e. and egypt now in the past year under crown prince mohammed bin sultan men there has

been an increased crackdown on dissent that has reportedly seen dozens of women's rights activists human rights defenders even is influential islamic current but that person then intellectuals detained now that's despite the crown prince appearing suppose phin new reforms and hand them in the mossad it is a sound he who lives in exile in london the political satire is told us that his freedom and lots of millions of others from the kingdom are under threat. what happened to me was reported to the police and as far as i know there is no arrest has been made so. trying. to scare me but i won't be scared they try to stop me but i want peace but i will continue to. for freedom in saudi arabia freedom for man freedom for women freedom who are liberal and religious and this is all right to confront. right now after that incident that happened to me i am afraid of for my safety and

other safety of this it in top of. there are too many so the dissident if into if that house is in u.k. after what happened to me. if the current administration of my mademoiselle not a willing to go that far too. is. so dissident therefore we shouldn't be surprised that there are those in your local cyber low and they will be missing using this low against the saudi people as we all know where the saudi arabian government has misused tourism low and the executed people based on their own. well if you're a political satirist then let us know what it's like pricing comedy in your country i'm outside of highlights on twitter sarah thank you very much for that and it's

been almost a decade of petitions and protests but now the israeli high court has given the go ahead for palestinians in the occupied west bank village of qana to be forced from their homes and the buildings to be demolished it lies between israel as illegal settlements of mon ad and kufa a demand a few kilometers outside occupied east jerusalem the bedouin tribes living there were originally malls dot of the negev desert more than five decades ago israel wants to relocate them to an area next to a landfill which advocates say is against international law. that. israel is now starting a new era of destroying the villages of the palestinians but to what extent should this operation under the international cover given to israel by the united states go we are not surprised at all by the supreme court's decision we have been preparing ourselves for this difficult moment in order to stand firm against this decision and the ruling in order to object to the displacement of palestinians. or

let's speak to as there is bernard smith who is in the village of qana bernard for our international audience tell us first why the location of this village is so important why it matters and why the fate of these villages gone and so much international attention. well this village and this school behind the school is going to get destroyed demolished along with the village is right in the middle of the territory that israel wants to use to expand illegal settlements it wants to bring those two big settlements together effectively creating this circle around jerusalem cutting off the west bank effects of a cut in the west bank into because they'll build so far into the west bank that all sliced into making a palestinian contiguous state pretty much and almost impossible to achieve and circling jerusalem with israeli illegal settlements and that's why this caused so

much concern also the size of the community don't really is one hundred eighty people living here and it's the size of the community that is going to be destroyed by this that has attracted a lot of the international attention to this particular case also the children in that school one hundred eighty of them a hundred eighty people affected by this immediate decision but a much wider community brainard will be affected once the school is immodest. yeah because the one hundred eighty children those children not just from this village but from better in villages nearby as well i walk here every morning for school actually started school. this. week early this year in the hope that that would persuade the supreme court to delay the demolition the supreme court said no that's not it doesn't going to make any difference to us so the kids who come from the other communities as well as this community will have to find alternative schools and the problem with that is those schools will be an hour or two hours drive probably away many bedouin parents may feel it's not worth the hassle of

sending their children so far to schools or they won't go to school and they'll miss out on their education foley thank you very much for that al-jazeera has been in smith reporting there from the palestinian edwin vennochi. in the occupied west bank now nora byrd manley takes a look at other israeli plans of settlement expansion into occupied palestinian land. palestinians living in her own a lot more have forged israeli demolition orders for close to a decade now the village was built in one thousand nine hundred fifty two near what later became the illegal settlement of a far to me i'm bedrooms living there complained of being attacked by settlers and harassed by israeli soldiers now it's just one of forty six villages threatened as israel pressures palestinians to leave now these sweep across the occupied west bank from occupied east jerusalem to the jordan valley there and areas see is

marked here in blue and it takes over roughly sixty percent of the occupied west bank this is on the full israeli military control area be here is under israeli military and partial control of the power scene authority what's left of these little islands known as area a and they are under palestinian control well israel is expanding its illegal settlements so one such plan is called eve one and that seeks to expand our other main settlement from this. to this essentially arche around occupied east jerusalem and there are other government plans including jerusalem twenty twenty which aims to build about four thousand new sesame units inside the ones. but one could be most dangerous for palestinians is a private initiative called jerusalem five thousand eight hundred and this is the hebrew calendar for twenty fifty well it's an ambitious plan and one divided

israeli politicians angered palestinians and found favor with those who want jerusalem and israel to be exclusively jewish and identity is the plan of jerusalem five zero zero zero zero in this we are the close call international this international court was. the most experienced people it is well thought of design and planning and the location of the ball between the bed. we are already there married. we want to call it the international airport. well let's now speak to in west jerusalem he's the executive director of the israeli human rights and thank you very much for being with us these really defense minister has congratulated the judges and accused the palestinian president the left european countries of he parker see on

the issue of our what is your reaction first to this is really high court ruling today. the defense minister said that this was a courageous decision by the judges but it's exactly the opposite it's cowardly it's immoral and it's outrageous of course the defense minister that desires to advance israeli policies to the splay says many for the students as possible outside of the sixty's of the west bank it was explained as named as the a c. so of course he's pleased with this decision but the decision by the high court justices only demonstrates that these are the high court is working not in the service of justice doesn't deserve to live or justice talk about for the stadiums but the simply working in the service of the keep asian and there's yet another example in which we see that the occupied people cannot find a justice in the courts of the occupied areas of the occupiers where does this

ruling leave other occupied villages it looks like israel is going to expand settlements all the way across the west bank is this do you think the sort of evicting more palestinians to make way for new settlements. the desire all the time is twofold on the one hand to displace for the stadiums and at least to minimize their footprint in major parts of the west bank use of jerusalem in south hebron in the jordan valley and so on and so forth and at the same time the expense of the moments so what we see all the time is this two fold process in which for the stadiums are pushed back pushed into a and there the of the settlements are gradually further and further expanded that's the process that's the policy of this is it a government in previous isn't it governments but what we're seeing now is that this is a government is acting with a glaring green light that it identifies it sees from washington from the americans and with that backing and the with the lobbying of many people inside israel they

want to see this implemented or they want to see this implemented soon a question from all of us how. about where these palestinian villages once or victim. where are they going to go for the residents have come in ahmad the israeli government had said they would move them to temporary homes before relocating relocating them again to a new site i understand south of jericho has that will that happen and you know what future do these palestinian villages have after this or any now. both of these sites are simply lies they're not really attentive sites one of them as you mentioned is located next to a garbage dump the other one is located next to it wastewater treatment facility a fact that they nationally the state has tried to hide from the court and then the judges actually simply just accepted it and ignored that the lie is so in a tentative isn't a fear of the other tive isn't really presented to the but it's things in this

community or in other communities that are facing forcible offense for but the essence of this policy remains the same doesn't matter how many high court justices repeat the same illegal decision forcible transfer of protected the people in occupied that italy is a war crime plain and simple and now we have even more or is it a high court justices that are backing the implementation of the war crime this is can never become legal such an action it can never be legal can they be action from the international community think or is it you know this this is nothing is going to happen after this. the international community is extremely important in this regard that as a community has responsibilities to safeguard human rights anywhere in especially in this out of the image but it's the news of in living for already more than half a century under the matter of give asian and not just

a minute occupation but also an occupation that the zire is the advance settlements of the displaced by the syrians a process that is happening in broad daylight this is not happening in some obscure part of the west bank this is happening just a few kilometers is of jerusalem and many indeed of the diplomats based in jerusalem based in the mullah have been in person in qana homo and have been part of the expression of international support for this community because of its significance because of the rights of the people that live there and because of the presence of the school they're built from mud and tires thank you for shedding light on this important issue for us. at director of these early human rights and geo beds and i'm joining us there from western was going thank you for your time and there's a very good info graphic on dot com explaining israel's settlement expansion how they came about what type of settlements why their locations matters and very important questions covered on there the not just settlement in the occupied west bank houses more than sixty four thousand israeli jews it has its own man as went

to school shopping malls and medical centers some settlements even have their own universities some very good insight on what's happening on the ground right now in the occupied palestinian territory. and we're getting quite a few comments from all of us on this story one here from on facebook rather from she on facebook on common law and these really court ruling today she says demolishing the town and the schools is simply evil they will never be satisfied no matter what and how much land they take thank you very much for your comment we're looking forward to hearing more of your thoughts on this and other stories we're covering on the news great today all the different ways to get in touch with us on your screen right now don't forget to use the hash tag a genius great moving on and bosses from facebook and twitter all being questioned about how they're working to prevent their platforms from being used for fake news campaigns which threaten to impact the u.s. midterm elections the senate intelligence committee wants assurances from social

media companies after facebook said it was aware of new attempts to spread this information possibly to influence the outcome of the vote twitter said it has stepped up its campaign against fake accounts and is deleting more than half a million suspicious loggings every day we found ourselves unprepared and ill equipped for the immensity of the problems that we've acknowledged abuse harassment troll armies propaganda through bots and human coordination misinformation campaigns and divisive filter bubbles that's not healthy public square we've made significant progress recently on tactical solutions we're now removing over two hundred percent more accounts for violating our policies were identifying and challenging eight to ten million suspicious accounts every week and we're thwarting over half a million accounts from logon to twitter every single day as speaks. castro has

been following these hearings for us in washington so how do you do the senators appear satisfied with what big tech companies are doing to counter foreign meddling . fully certainly this is a more positive attitude that the senators have taken while questioning sheryl sandberg and. jack dorsey the see facebook and twitter as especially compared to what mark zuckerberg the founder of facebook had feared had faced that fierce questioning interrogation that lasted three days before congress back in april but today the highlights here from the executives are the progress they have made you just heard twitter's c.e.o. and he took responsibility for the slow this to act back in two thousand and sixteen and in particular facebook is highlighting the actions it's taken in recent months in removing more than six hundred accounts that it said were linked to foreign actors in iran and in russia also improving the transparency of political

ads letting users see exactly who bought those ads and what other advertisements are listed under their name and increasing the number of content review or employees of facebook to now twenty thousand reviewing content in more than fifty languages notably though there's not quite as rosy of a picture painted by the former security chief of facebook who just resigned from that position a month ago alex stamos left with a memo that said that he feels the us are have already has failed to protect the upcoming november midterm elections he is pointing the finger not only at facebook and the other big tech companies for not doing enough to combat this and acting quickly but also at the government saying that the obama administration failed by not publicly acknowledging russian interference before the two thousand and sixteen

election and now the trumpet ministration has still yet to wholeheartedly except that this meddling continues and the response to all of this today coming from the senate intelligence committee members is that there are so. strong hints that government regulation is coming with one senator saying that the era of the wild west in social media is now coming to an end. for us in washington d.c. as heidi mentioned there is a lot of concern that more groups may target the u.s. midterm elections we have a special page up already on al jazeera dot com on the vote we'll have extensive coverage in the next few weeks says the elections in november increasingly looking like a battle for the future of the u.s. that special page on our website at al-jazeera dot com. now to an air traffic control a strike that's been causing turbulence in the skies around ethiopia's international airport and important east africa still here to tell us more about this is just going to bring out the details then now we're getting reports that most of the

strikers are now back at work after a controversial deal with this european aviation authority but nine are still under arrest for choosing to walk out in the first place and the pay to speak appears now to have created another problem this time around safety so how did all this begin well last monday air traffic controllers stopped working saying they needed better salaries working conditions and overtime pay on average they are paid five hundred forty dollars a month a lot less than the two thousand dollars a month in neighboring kenya for doing that same job now if european government says the strike is illegal and arrested some of them for disrupting traffic now while the strike was going on al-jazeera was contact contacted by a group it's an organization of four thousand pilots dispatchers and controllers from of the around the around the world who raise the alarm about flight safety risks in the skies around if your presence national airports and if european airline working with give aviation authority puts out this statement saying it had

replaced strikers with other employees bought air traffic controllers out of retirement and in the city help from other countries as well and it maintains that its airspace was and continues to be safe while this video is shared online is said to show radar images of the moment two airplanes were headed for each other now we're not able to independently verify that video but group says the across and the same as space in ethiopia because pilots haven't received the right instructions but in the end an accident was avoided they say thanks to the safety systems in both the aircrafts now the head of the aviation authority called the questions raised around flight safety ally adding air traffic controllers around the world how fix tendency to collaborate in a show of solidarity when issues related to benefits pay are raised and we have informed this to the international civil aviation body. well we had from our great

leader he's the founder of ops great and we're very concerned in our scroope about the situation the critical issue that we are worried about is the trustworthiness of information that is coming from the civil aviation authority in ethiopia in a normal operating environment airline equals commerce and aviation authority calls safety and the to keep each other in check and here the two of merged and the airline is being allowed to lead the response to this air traffic control strike. which naturally massive conflict of interest probably our biggest concern is that they're not making air crew. that use the airspace aware of this risk in the last week ninety five percent of the controllers are off the job that means that for any flight over flying ethiopia or landing it out as the person you're talking to is not an air traffic controller and most crews are not aware of that there's no no towns there's no notices to airmen what there is instead is vehement

declarations from the airline and the civil aviation authority that its operations normal and that is simply wrong misleading unsafe. air traffic control is not some back office function it's a complex job it requires years of training and experience and when you try to swap those people out with volunteers you create naturally an unsafe situation we simply want all air crew to be given the full risk picture so that they can make up their own mind as to what's a. well if you have a story you think is wes sharing with us then you'll find us on all the main social media platforms and i want to. thank you very much for that. says he wants.

so i was here with the sports and the world cup feels like it was like it was such a long time ago exactly just probably yet while we were in have to wait too much

longer to watch international football again in fact thursday sees a new competition launched in europe while cup champions france get underway they'll play germany in the opening match of the u.a.e. for nations league it replaces international friendly's the idea as france's coach explained his is to make matches more competitive. received a measure of prestige these are prestigious games with the status we have while opponents will look to raise their game against affronts team who are world champions this new dynamic will make our opponents change the way they look at us and they will be more determined to win well the thing is the new format is proving a little tricky for all of us to grasp england's harry maguire has also admitted he's still not sure of how the league actually works despite courage gareth southgate's explain us so listen up the competition takes place every two years with fifty five countries taking part and essentially splits european football into four leagues the top tier features teams like france germany spain and england they

play for a trophy and a title but there's also promotion from us and relegation to the lower leagues to make everything that much more exciting and countries will also play for four year and twenty twenty spots available through the league lee wellings explained small. well this is undoubtedly one of the most complicated formats i have ever seen in sport doesn't make it a bad format the more you look into it the more sense it makes and i think football fines will come to understand it particularly when we get so finals being played so if you're one of the best teams in europe for instance germany on the opening night it means there are more glamorous lucrative big games against nations at your level and this rules out playing the minnows too much and it rules out playing so many meaningless friendlies and that is something that football fans

wanted to move away from you ready for say the middle by sions will be placed in that i don't really have a chance of promotion but i've got lots of competitive games that i can win and of course a chance to qualify for the european championship by the eventual playoffs the smaller i also have that carrot dangled in front of them someone luxemburgo bellicose well actually get a chance to play against another small same for a precious place in the actual european championship finals so they're trying some might this football that is meaningful and actually ends up with big games and finals that the public understands in north america they've already been impressed they have adopted a thief is the thing to adopt it so the downside well nations like brazil and argentina for instance will miss out on some of the lucrative friendly against top european nations and also the clubs wildly happy because more meaningful games with more demand on their players. well another football story that's got fans

talking on social media today david beckham has announced the name of his major league soccer team it's going to be called club internacional the football miami or just into miami if you prefer they have a logo as you can see there but the team still doesn't have a stadium despite being less than two years away from making their debut beckons been explaining why he chose a spanish team name. i always gravitated to you know the old south american crests and the logos and the colors and that's one thing that i felt reading maybe to go into this logo the south american flavor that we wanted in there we also needed a modern twist as well because it's what miami is all about and i just hope we've created something while i know we've created something that our fans are happy with i just hope of created something that everybody would be happy with what was seems that every football fan has an opinion on this name and the logo certainly in all

sports department anyway but here's just a few of those on social media beta genius seized on the quote from the launch pack the sun's seven razor an almost to the career of david beckham and him to the number significance for the club in addition they symbolize the seven seas that bring people to miami from the seven continents and he calls that exquisite marketing nonsense it's alan club also we're thinking out loud about this one into miami. then kirk says the discrepancy between club internacional and the football miami and into miami f.c. is going to nag him to eternity but thomas pickles can't wait to get his hands on a shirt the pink and black color scheme is well smarts well played becks well played everyone ok well like the name or not so you can tweet me and let me know joe get your oscar i'll be back in one thousand nine hundred g.m.t. but for now back to probably jon i thank you very much for that that will do it for

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land. the village chief is in prison. and forced underground the filmmaker has become part of the same. crackdown in the concluding paderborn china's democracy experiment on al-jazeera. british police released images of two russians they believe a behind the nerve agent poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter. live from london also coming up. the u.n. tries to get yemen's warring factions to geneva for the first talks in two years

the rebel delegation is accused of storing it says it's being prevented from attending. an israeli court says the government can go ahead with the demolition of a bedouin village in york applied west bank. and just days after slashing aid to pakistan the u.s. extra state is in islamabad the talks with new prime minister imran khan. hello britain has identified the two russian military intelligence officers it says carried out a nerve agent attack on a former spy on its soil prime minister to resign may says there's enough evidence to charge the two men for poisoning so i guess cripple and his daughter in the town of souls bring in march she's also called a u.n. security council meeting to discuss the incident where she was called a warlike act by russian president vladimir putin launching reports the british police believe these are the men who attempted to assassinate

a double agent on the streets of the u.k. alexander petrol and. probably aliases and now the prime suspects in the attempted murder of circus cripple the police have images of the two men near the strip malls house apparently moments before novacek was smeared on the front door. the scribbles were found slumps near their home in salzburg the case has caused a massive diplomatic rift with russia which has consistently said the u.k. could provide no proof that it was responsible the u.k. now believes that is exactly what it has and not only that the prime minister said to a stunned parliament the british security services believe the two men are military intelligence officers of the russian state i can to day tell the house that based on a body of intelligence the government has concluded that the two individuals named by the police and c.p.s. offices from the russian military intelligence service. also known as the

g.r.u. . the g.r.u. is a highly disciplined organization with a well established chain of command so this was not a road operation it was almost certainly also approved outside the g.r.u. a senior level of the russian state after months of work the police have offered a detailed timeline of the movements of the two prime suspects they say the russians flew from moscow to london gatwick airport on aeroflot flight to five double eight on march the second they then stated the hotel in east london before catching a train to souls pre on the afternoon of march the third and returning to london on the same day they then repeated the trip on sunday march the fourth where the police say c.c.t.v. footage shows them near the scribbles house by the evening they left london and were flying back to moscow on aeroflot two five eight five. at the hotel in east london the police say they found trace elements of novacek so small that they

didn't pose a risk to health but it still counts as evidence we know part of their brains for three seconds before the rush to stay or assistance knowing. we had to remove a stated we know that when we find out who they were found out which hotel they stayed on the second we took control of. i mean not really we found traces of. both the police and international chemical agent body the o.p.c. w have said it was the same batch of navi chop that was used against this cripples which then killed dawn sturgis and seriously injured her boyfriend charlie rowley they had found a fake purr fume case with a bottle inside adapted to release the novacek the couple had assumed it was perfect and she sprayed the novacek on a self this case and that of this cripples and now directly being linked in the criminal inquiry. was at exactly the point when the british police were briefing journalists in london about

all this the russian foreign ministry was tweeting this derogatory video comparing prime minister may's dancing ability with that of the foreign ministry spokeswoman as a signal he could hardly have said we don't care any more bluntly the last time the u.k. had prime suspects in an attack on a spy it was the alexander litvinenko case which ended with a look of oyo named as one of the killers eventually made a member of the russian parliament the u.k. can't get the two prime suspects in the scripture case extradited it's against russian law and anyway it would be hardly worth the effort the scribbles have survived but u.k. russian relations a stock in the freezer largely al-jazeera london for a challenge has more from moscow on the russian reaction to this latest news. rush's approach to the whole script our affair since it blew up earlier in the year has been to deny deny deny they say that the u.k. has not been know to produce any evidence that it was nothing to do with russia or

that russia has constantly asked the british government for access to the investigation access which has been continually denied and even after the british have produced considerably more evidence than they have previously been able to do the message is the same from russia we have heard from the foreign ministry earlier which said once again we urge the u.k. side to switch from public accusations and information information manipulation to practical cooperation through law enforcement agencies the ministry of foreign affairs also says that the two suspects that have been named by the u.k. mean nothing to them they don't know who they are the focus of this military intelligence outfit the g.r.u. could be problematic for russia has been for the last few years one of the more aggressive risk taking outfits of the russian intelligence community a greater spotlight on them might mean that they have to change their behavior slightly.

humans who say they've been prevented from the flying to attend u.n. sponsored peace talks in geneva the rebel group says preconditions agreed by the un have not been met according to the who sees the un was meant to evacuate injured civilians to amman for medical treatment but the sound of that coalition did not authorize a larger plane talks and due to start on thursday and would be the first public meeting between the warring parties since twenty sixteen. let's go to david chaytor who's in geneva first david what's the latest on the start of these talks bearing in mind those delays in getting the city delegation to geneva. well let me update you immediately we've just heard from the u.n. here in geneva that the start of these consultation talks here at this building

will be delayed for twenty four hours they will only start on friday now that is clearly. as a result of the delay caused by the the hooty delegation not being allowed to take a larger plane with the injured civilians for medical treatment in mon and now that means as far as the special envoy for yemen is concerned martin griffiths the former british diplomat that he's relaxed about the idea of a delay he says that he is consulting with all parties this may take time and this is the reason why there is a twenty four hour delay in the start of these consultation talks but he's very relaxed about it as i say and he thinks this will go ahead each side and he's been in close consultation with them have both said that they want to get a peace process going once again because it's been in limbo the past two years and every day that passes causes more deaths what else has he been saying about the

prospects for these talks well because it's been so difficult to failed negotiations before now he's trying once again to build new measures he suggested perhaps that the warring parties can establish trust with a vaccination program they both agree on so many children need these vaccines in the emmen and also he suggested perhaps a prisoner swap could be arranged he admitted it was very very difficult but he said these are the measures that are needed to actually bring the sides together let's hear what he said. consultations will focus on turn main. to reactivate the peace process as i say in suspension these. past today the groundwork on the basis of discussions we'll have this week for formal

bigger share actions which will come later and the second. aspect is confidence building measures confidence building measures the designs need to help build this trust through dream and so on them partly to actually deliver some benefits to the people of yemen and partly to send a signal to the international community and people given that something is happening people given like in any of the conflicts are desperately in need of a signal of. the united nations have described this is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world at the moment and they desperately need a new plan to bring a political future to give what martin gryphus the yemen special envoy said a flicker of hope because that's what they most need there have been ten thousand deaths so far in this in this war and two thousand two hundred of those are

children so it's clear that all sides now agree that there must be a future there must be a political future and they realise that it's their responsibility to stop this death toll growing any larger and that's why the both parties agreed that they will go ahead and whole consultation talks but as i said they'll be delayed for twenty four hours and mind of problems as martin griffis the special envoy for yemen from the u.n. said that he believes that the delay won't cause any problems and delays anyway are part of the process so we do expect these these consultation talks to go ahead but starting the lawn on friday david try to thank you very much indeed israel's high court has approved the demolition of the palestinian leadership camera in the occupied west bank the ruling means that the israeli authorities have seven days to destroy the village which israel says was built illegally the national european

union and rights groups have opposed the move saying it enables is it israeli settlement expansion which would cut the occupied west bank into a huge prospect of palestinian state even dimmer by the smith has more from the village of qana. the community here economy and the occupied west bank of exhausted all legal avenues now by court order homes and importantly their school will be demolished the one hundred eighty children who go to that school now have to try and make arrangements to travel to other schools maybe an hour or two hours away the order is for the demolition of the homes it is not for the eviction of the people living in them so in theory the better when living here say they can come back and rebuild their homes but they will only be destroyed again by the israeli military and the sense of men and had a victory is not about stopping the demolition it's about stopping the transfer fire.