about some anonymous source within the administration probably was failing and probably here for all the wrong reasons now and the new york times is trailing if i weren't here i believe the new york times probably wouldn't even exist the white house spokesperson issued a statement calling on the author to quit labeling them a coward meanwhile some republicans were quick to try and downplay this unprecedented editorial but i didn't think that anything was relayed in that op ed that was new i think this is what all of us have understood to be the situation from they want so again it's not very it didn't reveal much to me i understand this is the case the president took to twitter casting doubt on the existence of the source but then said if they do exist they must be turned over to the government for national security tweeting a simple word treason this is a president in many ways under siege under pressure from multiple investigations

and now undermined by a member of his own staff in a most public way pedicle hain al-jazeera washington. parent us embassy in israel television from jerusalem reversing a decision made just months ago in response israel says it will close its embassy in paris the country's previous president has moved the embassy following the u.s. and guatemala palestinians condemned the move they consider occupied east jerusalem the capital of a future state so to come here at al-jazeera strength by sri lanka's former president tens of thousands come out in the capital calling for the current government to resign. and help pregnant women in bangladesh getting medical care some of them for the first time.

from a fresh breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello there we've got plenty of violent thunderstorms over parts of europe at the moment we look at the satellite picture we can see one area of cloud is in the east over the black sea lots of thunder and lightning at the moment and then further west we've also seen some storms here those are working their way eastwards over parts of france now and across into the mediterranean this whole system that will work its way eastwards as we head through the day on thursday behind it it's going to be fresh with london getting to around twenty degrees for the east though those thunderstorms are going to continue with this so for thursday no must have change for us to expect some more very heavy thunderstorms with some hail and maybe with some flooding rains as well as we had our way through into friday we'll see that system especially working its way across germany now and down into the northern parts of italy so more heavy downpours are expected here and the temperatures are

dropping there in london to around eighteen degrees a bit further towards the south of a most of us here it's dry and falling we are seeing a bit more cloud just make its way across morocco throughout the area and towards choosey of there to the north of that it's not too hot looks like twenty four will be our maximum robot but ahead of that system it is hottest so thirty two way the maximum in chuen is for sin as one we've seen a few dust storms recently but it should be clear effort friday. there with sponsored by qatar race. in instantly shifting news cycle the listening post takes polls and questions the world's media exposing how the press operates and why certain stories take precedence while others are ignored the listening post on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every.

take a look at the top stories here north korea's leader kim jong il says he's ready to push on with denuclearization of the peninsula it's also hinted an official end to the korea war could be declared after sixty five years he'll meet his south korean counterpart in two weeks' time. the death toll is rising after a powerful earthquake in northern japan on the island of hokkaido the six point seven magnitude quake struck in the early hours of thursday bringing landslides down to many villages thirty people and feared missing. and anonymous article in

the new york times crane senior members of the trumpet ministration are working to undermine the president's policies the newspaper says it's written by a senior white house official president tramples demanded the paper reveal the right his identity white house spokeswoman sara saunders has called for the author to resign. the leader of iran russia and turkey friday to talk about the future of syria top of the agenda will be the syrian government's planned offensive to retake that's the last remaining rebel held province turkey fears a major push hundreds of thousands of refugees over its borders stephanie decker reports. over the years the province of it live has offered somewhat of a refuge for almost a million internally displaced syrians but that seems like it's all about to change with the expected government offensive backed by russia to recapture the last province left under opposition control turkey's preparing for

a worst case scenario already rematch with the head of turkey's red crescent just as he returned from visiting it if any. inside or other borders now we are preparing. refugee camps in sight syria turkey already hosts more than three million syrian refugees and it doesn't want any more the turkish border with syria has been closed for years unfortunately there is no clear line for armed groups there are. settling down inside the societies so it is really difficult to target the military points so. it's been a repetitive cycle for years despite endless political negotiations it's the military option that always seems to come first millions of syrians are homeless in their own country dependent on aid unable to rebuild their lives this factory belongs to

the turkish aid group i h it sends one hundred fifty thousand bags of bread to live every day each piece representing someone who cannot feed themselves the individual desperate stories often getting lost in a mass of lives interrupted. those who fight it is that we're sleeping with predator now they're facing death once again they have no plan b. in the last few years we've tried to build both a permanent structures into this place or today we're back to square one setting a basic intents to prepare for a new wave of humanitarian corridors are being proposed by aid agencies but they will remain inside syria and the question remains to where most people don't want to go to the government controlled areas which surround it lib and that leaves the turkish controlled northern part of the country but many are reluctant to go there to no one wants to be displaced again even though aid agencies are preparing for what they fear will be

a bloody battle everyone is saying it's still too early to predict how exactly it will unfold that they say will be decided at the negotiating table between iran russia. turkey but there is a consensus that the battle will be the final major battle of this war. on the turkey syria border. argentina's sinking economy and currency crash is starting to have a negative impact on one of latin america's most stable economies neighboring chile has seen its slump in what's being called the time it is a latin america editor lucien human. santiago's cost the net a center is one of latin america's largest and most modern shopping malls until recently it was full of origin times conspicuous because they'd come with suitcases to shop til they dropped now they're still conspicuous by their absence. argentina represents fifty two percent of our tourism maybe we've been too

dependent on them because when they fall into their periodic economic crisis the impact here is very strong. the fallout from argentina's currency crash has already reached chile arguably latin america's most stable economy. at a five star hotel but. for us the drop in tourism will be terrible especially now that the summer is coming. to give us work and the so-called tangle effect goes further. there is a direct impact on a large number of chilean companies who've invested significantly in argentina their stocks have dropped and so will their profits it also affects trade because now it has become more difficult to export to argentina. while the overall impact may not be devastating it comes at a very bad time chile's currency has dropped to a two year low because of the international trade conflict and that sharply push

down the price of copper chillies primary export. argentina the economy here is solid and much better place to ride out adverse international conditions but in these times of global economies when a neighbor like argentina gets pneumonia tilly at the very least catches a bad call. talks to end the war in yemen it used to begin on friday in geneva it will be the first time the government and the healthy rebels have met since twenty six meanwhile on the ground in yemen itself there's growing frustration over a struggling economy andrew symonds reports from neighboring to p.t. . a full day of protests and reports of violence away from here at one gathering when police intervened to disperse protesters a security official says they opened fire and some demonstrators were injured this street band i was torn down and thank the united arab emirates which backs the

local administration. eyewitnesses say a number of roads have been blocked by demonstrators in government controlled. since sunday demonstrations have been going on in many parts of the south people who find themselves in poverty as the economy of yemen collapses its currency is now at its lowest values ever against the dollar food prices have never been higher what the civilians make of the un's attempt to get dialogue going between the warring sides i shall be adding i don't know how the people are destroyed and the situation requires mutual agreement if we really are arabs and we really are patriotic we have to compromise and can see each other and god willing we will all succeed and the country will have a space for us all no one wants anything but peace that. we call on all the parties and those disagreeing to unite under one banner in order to relieve the people from

the division they reached and relieve them from suffering and also to end the siege and the recent deterioration of the currency also to put the country's interests above their own personal interests and shun their differences some hope then despite an underlying cynicism what conceivably ins do other than wish for some sort of progress towards peace in geneva the diplomatic the woods. our confidence building while in yemen the key words are different increasing desperation the un's world food program says eight point four million people are now on the brink of starvation and the norwegian refugee council says that the collapse of yemen's economy could cost more lives than in the war itself andrew simmons out zira djibouti. india's supreme court has ruled that homosexuals sex should not be treated as a crime gay rights campaign is celebrated as the landmark judgement was delivered

it strikes down a colonial era law which made homosexual acts punishable by up to ten years in prison. tens of thousands of people have rallied in sri lanka's capital angry at economic conditions and a delay in provincial elections former president. is leading the charge as wayne hay reports from colombia. the leaders of the protest movement said it was going to be their biggest show of force yes their predictions of hundreds of thousands fell short nevertheless the streets of colombo were choked for several hours with protesters from communities throughout sri lanka they came to the financial heart of the capital to deliver their message to the government that they want change. the tax burden on the difficulties we're facing that brought us here we can voluntarily spending our own money to be here. yeah yeah we came here because we want mahinda rajapaksa back he's the only one who can deal with the country's problems mahinda rajapaksa is beating the opposition campaign he was president for

nine years is seen as a hero by many for ending the almost thirty year long civil war with the tamil tiger rebels he lost the two thousand and fifteen election to former health minister my trip to the same after accusations of human rights abuses and corruption of president saddam hussein and the government was seen as a fresh start but critics say their failed to deliver on many election promises. there are many things working in my hand to rajapakse is favor right now there are the everyday issues that are brought people onto the streets combined with what's perceived to be a weak unstable government into someone who is regarded as the strongman of sri lankan politics who clearly sees an opportunity the government says it is achievable goals but need. small time mahinda rajapaksa son who's seen as a potential future leader of sri lanka says time is up for the governments and so people doesn't want the teams where they get higher there to be

a higher tax i'm sure the people doesn't have on a change that they're all that has certainly stopped their losing jobs and that done employment it is going up mahinda rajapaksa is calling for political change but he's barred from becoming president again because of the constitutional two term limits but as he proved when he was in power the constitution can be changed and he clearly still enjoys plenty of support wayne hay al jazeera colombo. thousands of ranger refugees are struggling to survive in bangladesh and aid agencies are warning of a growing health crisis among the most vulnerable of pregnant women as mohammed jam june reports. during the hottest hour of the day in the world's largest refugee settlement these rural hinge a traditional midwives are searching for a woman who needs their help. raji a big room and sod are two of the one hundred thirty community health care workers

who have been recruited by the united nations population fund or un f.p.a. from among the or hinge of residing here in bangladesh. when they find regime who already has two children and is about to give birth to a third they explain how they'll assist with her delivery and outline all medical options available he. tells me she had no idea care like this was possible. that a doctor not love i didn't get to see any doctor recently and the doctors there are buddhist they wouldn't treat us because we are muslim in another part of the camp these newborns and their mothers are being looked after in a facility run by un f.p.a. . a novel experience for a population of refugees harboring largely conservative attitudes toward reproductive health one of the biggest challenges has been trying to convince her hinge a women here to voluntarily go to clinics and that's because of the unrelenting

persecution they faced in me and more it's left many of them distrustful and fearful of medical facilities like this one since august two thousand and seventeen saudia bedroom has come to the aid of numerous really enjoy women subjected to extreme physical psychological and sexual violence by members of me and mars military as plainly and painfully as she can she explains why the women she helps are so fearful. leganes the boy these women are always scared that the doctors will kill their babies. despite the obstacles aid workers say providing service is the aim to ensure not just safer pregnancies and childbirth but also options for family planning are already having an impact and we've seen a real increase in the number of women. to have a long acting contraceptives we're also seeing a big increase in the number of men who are being supported with their wives during

the night a lot of women have decided that they've had enough children. and they want to get on with their lives in a new skill and don't have any more children down another alleyway and saudia locate a refugee pregnant with her first child dispensing wisdom to the anxious mother to be they do what they can to provide a kind of comfort this woman has never known so. it could to prolong refugee camp and cox's bizarre on the dish. take a look at the top stories here of north korea's leader kim jong un the says he's ready to push all in with denuclearization of the peninsula and has spoken of some frustration with the u.s. he's agreed to meet his south korean counterpart in the again in two weeks' time.

the death toll is rising after a powerful earthquake in northern japanese island of hokkaido the six point seven magnitude quake struck in the early hours of thursday it sent tumbling off of shelves and left cracks in the roads and the. support. the leaders of iran russia and turkey are preparing to meet on friday to talk about the future of syria turkey fears that major fighting in italy would push hundreds of thousands of refugees over its borders a government ground offensive to retake the country's last remaining rebel held province appears imminent u.s. secretary of state and the defense secretary james masses are in india the focus will be strategic and security issues including washington's demand that india stop spying on oil from iran the u.s. also wants to dissuade india from buying a russian weapons system india's supreme court has ruled that homosexuals sex should not be treated as a crime and strikes down

a colonial era law which made homosexual acts punishable by up to ten years in prison her ago i will move its embassy in israel back to television from jerusalem reversing a decision made just months ago in response israel says it will close its embassy in paris. now there's a new president in paris. by the way has an arab last name or at least his family is of arab descent he says he's putting things back to where they were he says he wants power to contribute to regional efforts to help bring about a diplomatic and lasting solution to the conflict in the middle east the u.k. has called for a u.n. security council meeting to discuss new revelations in the no veto poisoning case u.k. prosecutors have charged two russians with trying to kill former spy. yuliya. today there is a place is headlines history is next. as india was updating its citizenship

records around four million people in the street are at risk of becoming statements to be viewed. through these are. signs of this issue talk to al-jazeera. ok and you're in the stream the u.n. agency providing assistance to millions of palestinian refugees is facing the biggest crises in its seventy year history after the u.s. announced it will no longer make funding contributions imo we could be a lot of today will consider what this means for those in need send us your comments your questions and i'll pose them to our panel as always at a.j. stream.

more than five million palestinian refugees in the occupied palestinian territories jordan lebanon and syria are waiting to see how u.n. services they rely on will be affected now that the u.s. has stopped all future contributions the u.s. has long been the biggest funder to the u.n. agency known as on the run it granted more than three hundred sixty four million dollars to the organization and twenty seventeen but on friday the u.s. state department called on iraq and irredeemably flawed operation while announcing future contributions will be cancelled those cuts to are just a week after the u.s. canceled two hundred million dollars in direct assistance to palestinians so it's you as a id agency take a look at how the budget could affect some services. for

more on this we are joined by our a spokesman chris gunness he joins us from moscow from does that we have in tomorrow here she's a dental student hundred universities and has received assistance in the past. and white haven asked again ma'am eighty eight he's a graduate student on a joint program for the university of north carolina and juke university and he has worked as an education specialist at hello everybody it's really good to have you here chris me reels off a whole lot of stats and figures and what the impact might be but if we go beyond

those figures into real people's lives what difference does it make that the u.s. is no longer going to give money to authorize an agency. well i'm sure that the homage will talk about the humanisation of the story because i have to say one of the joys about this program is that we've told real refugees because the humanities been taken out of the schools that were talking about numbers on a spreadsheet show and i think it's important to restore the science we have to learn the history going back to. what happened how one was great one was created i think we have to reconnect and i think it's important to understand we talk about located in gone own over a decade and more than fifty iraq impatience with compassion in the west bank and more than seventy or one of the most brutal conflicts or age. in that context than the terrible things being done to individual people with individual dignity and the

and the humanity that really has to be respected not of this program develops we can actually begin to get under the skin of the humanity of the two of again because the real law of. the being profoundly affected by these decisions. and to do just that chris i want to start with this tweet from abderrahim he says trunk decision to cut all aid to on rock which serves five point four million palestinian refugees is meant to liquidate the palestinian refugee cause so to hear from someone who would be affected by that that liquidation as they call it is that a person we got a video coming from actually received several video comments from young people who when to unrest schools in their youth and this is i've been carrying he's a translator and a writer who sent us this comment from the jabaliya refugee camp and north gaza have a listen. i was born and raised in jabalya refugee camp which is only one kilometer square with over one hundred and twenty thousand people living in that small area

that area. schools were the only shelter that we take to keep to as we started the blade there have fun there even after we finish school we would go to the school to play there because in the if you can there is no place there's no space left for children so there is to play the see shock a real shock and it will increase our suffering. so how many for advocating here this is more than just about school this means actually a place of refuge for him can you relate to that absolutely and i would like to start by making it clear that i wouldn't be speaking on behalf of an organization or anyone besides myself beside me muhammad there fiji who grew up and if you come southern of palestine. exactly as has been mentioned by became there if you can is

the oil the whole life we have experienced schools when we talk about schools and education program. actually receives two thirds almost two thirds of the u.n. budget it's not just about school it's those places have been used as shelters you are in conflict doing military assaults the places where people evacuate to. the mental health department the mental health counselors of those chords they provide the only almost only free hand mental health care service for children. and they want to quick question a quick question or two but you went into we talk about under a as if it was the beginning of the end of your horizon because frankly as we just heard from that clip of you now you know. where your horizon and actually when i look at cancer somebody looks lives outside gaza your horizons being shrunk and you deserve to have your all political rights you deserve to live in a place which is under blockade which does the restrictions which doesn't fit the

fence just a kilometer or hundred meters away george has done you know the limits of your horizon should be far beyond under you know not completely opposition around the world young people to rise or capitals and you know career is that of all sorts of different places. yourself and i know you're not there now but also. your horizons a shrunken i'm not really. into is not in as you're speaking into me let me show you this picture you've also add just as well this is you at school and let me just think i think you're down here holding a stick it tell us what's happening in this picture where are you what's happening . well i want to show my personal experience as an undergrad graduated student. in my life is not short on its lifelong interest also to send a list selected to represent palestine in an international human rights program

supervised help i was taught that not only this program has wasn't just a passing experience it was alive in one month i got to know about humor new cultures new friends new knowledge. this experience has given me the life the deacon a lot of us call my light on a boat in my future goals and much that i know has given me the chance also apply for an international scholarship called my class a scholarship to improve my english language skills my social responsibility on my leadership skills and engaging in this experience also left again to be a dissenting solace in an international aid program in iowa and now i write stories behind the numbers i don't happen even if i am today which is spoke in confidence social activist writing and it doesn't a student a great mixture that i'm proud to be an appealing sorry size student who can't hardly experiences we can't teach in these opportunities because it's up to the

cutting of these funds to enter into a not really not such a beautiful and i have to say person but really illustrates the fact that. can be sitting. on all the things you just heard in some of the tragedy is one of the government for. young women having opportunities in human rights in being people achieving their full potential that seems to be the very government that limiting the restraint and financial power on a huge army there are people who might know how much was in who could really achieve screw potential and indeed against all the old but how much more they could achieve is honorable in the terrible financial situation no chris i'm glad you raised that because i want to bring in this tweet from someone who's handling

this is that as they write i do believe iraq has been used by the international community to manage the occupation the un has done very little to help end the israeli occupation this person says palestinians need a real. change the way an ra is managed to provide sustainability and real protection from the occupation so my men take this on for us it's a little bit of criticism here they're saying the un in general but they're saying the issue here is that people are forgetting this is about the occupation this isn't just about one country removing its funding. well it's absolutely different facts and could factors contributing to the crisis on touching back on what chris have mentioned the owner is that the end goal for us i wouldn't be leaving my family behind and coming here to the u.s. if the iraq or there if you can but all i have in my life what scares me most is that where i started and the thing i would like to i'm proud of mentioning is that where i started with only one want to have ended i'm now in two of the most

prestigious universities in the u.s. and i'm lucky enough to be doing this program i started to from there if you can being the young small kid running in the camps to you living in this small house i have received doses i have received important but how bored the new generation will be receive the same moment when i think about it i'm even more lucky than the new generation is my times have been better than their times you know thinking about different factors yes absolutely. working in the humanitarian field we have always been instructed to ignore politics to focus on humanitarian effectiveness how to deliver aid better how to focus and to material aid but the same time we can't ignore politics we can't ignore the fact that it's ok patient of you said as you said. but then again you and united nations relief and works agency how much they do work related to politics i would love to get a focus let me put to you and i think it chris hall type from i mean we just put

this to you i want to show you a graph of who is contribution to. as as intimate and as mohamed as you're telling us there's so much more than just food aid all coupons there's education there's health that's building up the economy as well and helping people with small businesses but look at this this is what the u.s. was complaining about they were complaining about the millions that they called tribute and look at the rest of the international community the e.u. is away behind germany u.k. sweden saudi arabia japan they were complaining that they were having to give all the money most of the money looking at that graph chris. it's staring us in the face. look let's be clear about it in the last eight months generally since we heard the news about the trouble ministration we have raised two hundred. million it was an unprecedented successful fundraising campaign fifty million.