spies lies and prostrate. on our. i protests continue in the iraqi city of basra of a corruption and unemployment with the iranian consulate storm. has i'm sick of this is a live from coming up. i. demonstrations in it live in syria against looming military action by asset and russian forces to retake the region from rebels. you need to vote because our democracy depends on a re intervention by a former u.s. president barack obama takes aim at the current state of u.s.

politics. i'm joined now in sweden a country anticipating its most important election in years the battle over values and identity with the rise of the far right. now iraq's prime minister has ordered an investigation into security protection of official buildings in basra that's after protests to set fire to the iranian consulate in the city demonstrators are angry at iran's influence in the region as well as unemployment poor services and corruption and what has more. has been a day of tension culminating in the iranian consulate. after being stormed by a group of protesters they tried to set it alight the day before but were pushed.

this time though it was left. demonstrators bending their anger about iran's alleged involvement in iraqi politics and its failure as i say to deliver key services to the city people here believe the politicians have turned their backs on that neglecting government corruption has caused a systematic decay of its infrastructure yes. why eleven come to parliament and inside the green zone while we were out here dying of hunger and thirst why are young people in graduate school in the market selling onions all the government jobs are restricted to the parties. at least fifteen buildings connected to politics and the author artists have been targeted in the past few days this is the shell of the provincial government office says. some iraqis have been killed in what's regarded as iraq's shia muslim heartland in northern bass where hundreds of

people were attending a funeral. these are protesters. protesting unemployment the water crisis the bad services how to. kill them. during friday prayers the representative of a rexx leading shia cleric condemned the violence against both the protesters and security forces guarding the buildings he also criticised politicians for being too interested in buying the power to shop at sabotage the patient people cannot afford or lack of interest from the officials in solving their increasing problems and the crisis they're competing between themselves for political gain and gaining governmental posts along foreigners to intervene in the country's affairs. iraq's parliament is expected to hold an emergency session to discuss the crisis on saturday and he would. a turkey says it can take in more refugees of

a syrian and russian military offensive is launched to retake italy province president richard type of wine is warning of a bloodbath in the last rebel held province he met the leaders of iran and russia to talk about a looming humanitarian crisis for three million people trapped at the same restaurant he has more from tehran three leaders of modern nations born from ancient empires around the table into iran they plan the future of a country whose leader was not in the room. as the presidents of russia and iran patted themselves on the back for a job well done keeping syrian president bashar al assad in power turkey's leader reminded them that the mission was far from accomplished we do not want a bloodbath in italy and we expect you to support us in this regard a decision which we reach in relation to the fates of it live will also shape the future of the region much of the to her own summit was spent talking about the

future of the syrian city and province where armed groups and opposition rebels are preparing to make their last stand against syrian government forces and russian warplanes for the underwriters of the syrian conflict it blue is a clearly a point of divergence iran and russia see it in national security terms the syrian government needs to regain control of the city to combat what it calls terrorism as well as asserting national integrity turkey already home to three and a half million syrian refugees. in humanitarian terms president recha paper to one said the majority of men women and children there are not fighters and have suffered enough and the turks can't cope with millions more fling it iran's president acknowledged that the vast majority of people in ad lib are civilians. so c.n.n. . is sensed it because terrorists use civilian people as human shields they hide themselves among people to continue their shameful lives we should try to separate terrorists from people fight terrorists and protect civilians in this area but if

iran's leader held the middle ground russian president vladimir putin whose military involvement turned the war on us as favor has a different view if armed groups are willing to use civilians as human shields he said what happens next is their fault. those are good jobs that terrorists do the same thing everywhere all the time they use human shields the russian military always tries to spare civilian lives soon after the duran summit ended the united nations peace envoy for syria warned the security council that any battle for ad lib would be horrific and the time has come to evacuate the city throughout the day leaders in tehran discussed a future syria free from terrorists with new buildings a new constitution and even elections while leaders in new york were left to weigh the potentially disastrous consequences of what seems like the inevitable battle for it live. a diplomatic at the james bays has more on

that u.n. security council meeting from headquarters in new york but many diplomats believe it's not now a case of if there is an offensive in need lived but when despite that though stefan de mistura the u.n. special envoy has come up with a new plan to stop the bloodshed he first said he'd like to give the security council the plan in a private session but then and thus the nikki haley the u.s. ambassador who's the current this month president of the security council said no we want to hear your plan in public and this is what he said ideally all militant fighters should be asked with a deadline to move their own military presence baith this way i did beat away from populated think. at the same time and here comes the message and the message i got from the population. i mean.

indicating that this is what they've been asked from door. to move out of they may how the day may city crimi don't people going to be mobilized on that so one of the leavers for this plan is that people power guessing the civilians in it live to say to the fighters you need to move out of the built up areas out of the villages and towns and cities the other lever he says is the turkish government putting pressure on those fighters but i think there is a big question here if you are a fighter or a commander of one of those fighting groups who's been fighting now in this war for more than seventy years why would you now leave areas built up areas among civilians where you may feel more safe and instead go into the countryside when you know that the syrian government and the russians have aircraft ready to bomb you the u.s. is making further cuts in aid for palestinians this time for cancer treatment and

other critical care at jerusalem hospitals last week it cut funding for the u.n. relief agency that helps palestinian refugees and gallacher reports from washington . well this is the third week in a row that the trumpet administration has removed or as the state department told us reprogrammed aid to palestinians in this case is twenty five million dollars to the east jerusalem hospital network that is a collection of six hospitals that provide treatment that is not available in guards or all the west bank so we're talking about things like critical care cancer care child dialysis and that twenty five million dollars really does go along way but this as i said is the third week in a row last week we saw three hundred million dollars in palestinian aid removed from the united nations the week before that it was two hundred million dollars in humanitarian aid so altogether we're looking at a half a billion or just over half a billion dollars in aid to the palestinians removed by the trumpet ministration

president himself says the angle he's taking here is he wants the palestinians to talk about peace if they don't this is a way of him getting back at them but clearly the treatments that have been put in place or provided by these hospitals really will affect the most vulnerable people among this is dialysis for children so that gives you just some idea of what removing this kind of money will do to palestinians israeli soldiers have shot dead a palestinian teenager doing more protests on the gaza border pursing in the health ministry says the seventeen year old was shot in the chest ninety four others were injured including thirty would live bullets ballasting is have been protesting every friday since march to demand their right of return. all right still ahead on nigeria when we come back with the front runners in hospital or in jail in you name emerges in brazil's race for president. caught in the middle of the u.s.

and china battle for influence of the north korea's future. we still have the rain clouds around for a good part of the united states a lot of the showers showing up here some of them pretty big and fun during the west the weather from what was tropical depression gordon is making its way further northwest look further west and here in california in northern california just around oregon just around the border there we have seen another here's another wildfire burning away it stays dry here as you go through the next few days further north a little more cloud into the western side of canada and i will make its way into central areas to saskatchewan and alberta further south well here we go with the remnants of our old tropical depression that's the golden just making its way up to

illinois very heavy downpours still in the forecast the right still stretching down across a good part of texas new mexico and it is south of the border some wet weather to just around the eastern seaboard great making its way to new jersey into new york for thomas was sunday looks very wet or the other side of the appalachians big downpours rolling back down towards louisiana for to try to the east of that fondant dry further west notice a little spin is just making its way to that western side of canada i mean what across the caribbean well it's sunshine and showers the heaviest showers but the great trying to ease. in indonesia palm oil is a billion dollar business want to win east investigates the price the country's paying. to feed the world's paul mullett picture. on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. where every. again you're watching i just you know reminder of our top stories this hour. iraq's prime minister has ordered an investigation into why security forces didn't do more to protect buildings in the southern city of basra protesters stormed and set fire to the iranian consulate and other government buildings. turkey's president and the united nations are warning of a bloodbath if syrian and russian forces push ahead with an offensive to retake the

last rebel held province the leaders of turkey iran and russia have been talking about how to prevent a humanitarian crisis enabling. us is cutting more aid for palestinians the latest cut his cancer treatments and other critical care of jerusalem hospitals last week the us government ended funding for a un relief agency that helps around five million palestinian refugees. a former u.s. president barack obama has criticized his successor donald trump and the republican party in a rare political speech obama urged people to vote in november as midterm congressional elections which could have a major impact on the trump presidency our white house correspondent kimberly how could reports accusing current president donald trump of capitalizing on resentment former u.s. president barack obama delivered a blistering attack on trump's time in the white house this is not normal these are

extraordinary times and they're dangerous times obama is back on the campaign trail advocating for democrats in advance of a november vote that will determine control of the u.s. congress and offer what he believes is a much needed check on his successor the politics of division resentment and paranoia that's unfortunately found a home in the republican party. obama's fiery speech took aim at some of trump's most controversial moments as president losing his response to white nationalist protests in charlottesville when trump blamed both sides for the trouble we're supposed to stand up to discrimination and was sure as heck supposed to stand up clearly and unequivocally to nazi sympathizers. how hard can that be saying that marx's are bad obama's attack comes as trump is

also campaigning for republicans in north dakota trump responded i'm sorry i watched it but i fell asleep i shot back at obama who said the economic recovery started under his presidency if the democrats got in with their agenda in november of almost two years ago and said that having four point two i believe honestly you'd have four point two down and you'd be negative you'd be in negative numbers thank you no it was still obama's speech is a stinging rebuke of a sitting president with a distinctly different vision of democracy kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington a former campaign advisor for donald trump is going to prison for two weeks for lying to the f.b.i. george papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about his contacts with the russians during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign he's been

a central figure a special counsel. investigation into russian interference in u.s. politics patrick o'brian reports from washington. so in this courtroom george papadopoulos learned that he will spend at least fourteen days in prison coming up in the next couple of months he's also going to have to serve two hundred hours of community service pay a nine thousand five hundred dollars fine and he will be on supervised release for an entire year now who is george papadopoulos really one of the key reasons why the f.b.i. looking into the potential of collusion between russia and the trump campaign potential russian interference in the twenty six thousand election how is that well he was drinking in the london bar. a diplomat from australia and he told them russian officials had told him that they had to worry clinton well after her those d.n.c. the democratic national committee e-mails were released they notified the f.b.i. and that is what the investigation so the sense of fourteen days that's because.

admits he lied to the f.b.i. when they tried to question him about it he said it took about six months when they came back at the arrested him. cooperate but they say he did so begrudgingly and didn't give them a whole lot of helpful information still the judge did say that it was a very serious crime and so he said he was going to sentence him to fourteen. sweden's far right could shape the next government security and immigration a big issues in sunday's general election hostility towards margaret has been rising among some voters since the country took in big numbers of refugees from the middle east in two thousand and fifteen reports from stockholm. is no quite sure what country she's living in i felt. he made me feel very small. born in sweden to muslim parents who've lived here for decades far came face to face with unfamiliar prejudice when

a job interview was terminated after she refused on religious grounds to shake the hand of her male interviewer she won her subsequent claim to the swedish labor court if you have asked me this to nothing years ago my answer would be that they are very accepting but. i am not sure i would answer the same thing because. i think that racist people in the stomach are sowing themselves more and they are encouraged to so themselves more so people are not afraid to say i hate you because you're for us therefore i hate you because you're wearing the far right party that speaks for them these call to sweden democrats with neo nazi roots and its image cleaned up to appeal more broadly now this once fringe movement is poised to play in the political landscape as sweden's second largest priority i think that what we're seeing is a sweden this is very important to kind of strive for our classical is as we say

it's swedish values and it has to do with the equal we have a gender equality that is very very strong in comparison with other place this is about keeping sweden swedish that's an additional thing sweden together i say it's a message resonating widely in what used to be one of europe's most open and free thinking societies expert magazine sweden's leading investigative journal has long charted the rise of the far right the catalyst of the of naziism which is this weekend yeah i mean the party has been through some. changes of course but there is a sort of a core of a radical nationalism a quest for home and generosity in sweden and placing immigrants and minorities at the center of everything that's wrong in society the relentless rise of the right here the sweden democrats winning five percent of the vote in twenty ten almost

thirteen percent four years later and this time perhaps one in five votes twenty percent tells the story of a country changing fast reacting in part to the huge influx of refugees since twenty fifteen of which some people nostalgic for a simpler time a more culturally homogenously past a lot of people are telling their to the swedish society but i'm worried. that so what. a question of identity that lies at the heart of this election joho al jazeera stock. far right supporters rallied in the german city of shame minutes for another night of protests they're angry about the fatal stabbing of a german man last month to migrants have been arrested and charged with manslaughter over the killing marched under the motto security question it's. the front runner in brazil's presidential election is not likely to return to campaigning and after next month's vote doctors say. lost forty percent of his

blood when he was stabbed at a rally on thursday a lot in america and it's only seen him in reports. just when it seemed brazil's presidential election campaign couldn't get more unpredictable traversal leading candidate was stabbed in the stomach during the street crowd. were too conservative evangelicals i.e. the device of law and order candidate sent this message to hospital. the world. is men can so evil of never home anyone. but many brazilians disagree also nat'l is facing the supreme court trial charged with making inflammatory anti gay and t. black and massaging the statements which promote hatred and condone rape all of balsa novels rivals strongly condemned the attack against the former army captain even former president rousseff whom he once said deserved to have been tortured during brazil's military dictatorship. is now whoever did this has to pay

whoever did it. equally controversial would be leading candidate lula da silva continues to fight for his right to campaign from his prison cell where he's serving a twelve year sentence for corruption still brazil's most popular politician he's been barred from running but he's appealing the court decision but given the likelihood he'll lose he's expected to cede his candidacy to his vice presidential choice for nanda had that before wednesday the deadline for registering the former south paolo mer from the left wing workers' party is also now being accused of receiving indirect payments to his two thousand and twelve campaign he did nice any wrongdoing. what does the prosecution have in his hands the word of a band-aid who lied eight times to decoy. it's. regardless opinion polls show the head that is unlikely to herit list popularity. also not as divisive and pro-gun

stance also frightens me resilience. all of which means that the thirteen chanted race is still wide open unless there is states attack actually gives both the edge he needs to win in a first round next month you see in human al-jazeera. china's president xi jinping has canceled his trip to pyongyang for a military parade to mark the seventieth anniversary of north korea's founding she may be disappointed at the north's lack of progress to give up nuclear weapons such as a correspondent adrian brown reports. it's three months since kim jong un made a vague promise to president donald trump to give up his nuclear weapons at this summit in singapore three months ago trump said he wanted it to happen quickly but it's not working out that way trump says there's a simple reason for that china. and part of the north korean problem is caused by

they are trying to spin it with china trump says he has a terrific relationship with china's president xi jinping he's now accused him of encouraging kim to drag his feet over denuclearization so china can gain leverage in its trade dispute with the u.s. china's foreign ministry spokeswoman says the trumpet ministration is in comprehensible i mean the downs here america should reflect on itself first instead of flip flopping and blaming others regarding america's attempt to pass the buck i am sorry we would rather not accept kim jong un and she jinping has met three times this year those meetings all happened in china the last encounter just a week after the singapore summit. these get togethers were intended to imply a warm personal relationship between them a year ago they weren't on speaking terms one chinese political commentator says

the trump kimchi relationship is a complex one based on the new pew lation by all three. new young tries china is using north korea to fight the united states while the united states is using those korea to weaken china china's relations with north korea are improving president xi jinping had been due to attend this weekend celebrations in pyongyang but it's now being confirmed he won't be going no official reasons being given but one analyst suggests that she may have wanted to avoid antagonizing trump at a time of heightened trade tensions between china and the united states as north korea's neighbor it's fallen to china to enforce u.n. sanctions most of what the north needs for its survival comes across an aging bridge spanning the yalu river at the port of dandong exports of coal iron ore and seafood remain banned but chinese officials have indicated that they're not ready

to go along with further penalties against the north should the talks or the denuclearization remain deadlocked adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. the leaders of serbia and kosovo called off face to face talks in brussels on friday it's a blow to hopes of a deal involving a land swap the could allow both nations to move towards e.u. membership so again no reports from press or closer to the serbia cost of a border. it's the first week back at school for these young students at the ybor him kelmendi primary school in the town of pressure it's the largest one of its kind in serbia all the pupils are albanian as they settle in the school itself prepares for what could be the last time it teaches the serbian curriculum and what they hope will be a fresh start for the school. in the twenty minutes there's hardly been any

investment here since ninety sixty five everything's in full condition and we have no bread we're opening in textbooks. the possibility of a land swap between serbia and kosovo has been uppermost in people's minds here pressure of us population is ninety percent ethnic albanian the u.s. and the european union had always discouraged the idea until now and apparently straightforward solution on the surface but has the potential to reopen old wounds in this part of the balkans which has already suffered brutal conflict following the breakdown of yugoslavia. one of the plans that people here fear is being discussed is moving the border to this railway track now while that would put the town of pressure firmly within the borders of kosovo it would mean that these outlying villages would still be in serbia and leave thousands of other albanians still stuck there. moreover there is still uncertainty as to what serbia would want

to return but would likely demand dominated northern kossovo which it views is non-negotiable yes we would like to be part of republic of course or both or we have to be very careful in order for regionals in terms of you know or for republic of course or to be. a lot of sacrifices being done by all the organs including the greens or. we don't want to interfere in this process this also poses another dilemma for the region's leaders if borders are to be redrawn on the basis of ethnicity it could provoke more calls for land swaps from macedonia which has more than half a million albanians living along its front here is even the goal of eventual e.u. x. session of the balkan countries cannot allay the spheres disclosed we don't find discussion about and between kosovo and serbia conducive to reaching the goal we think it will

reopen to many old wounds in the population and that is why we are very skeptical. it is a huge gamble with the risk of reigniting ethnic conflict here a political process that will take it had normal amount of delicate negotiation from all parties involved sunny diagonal al-jazeera pressure. this is al-jazeera let's get a roundup of our top stories iraq's prime minister has ordered an investigation into why security forces didn't do more to protect buildings in the southern city of basra that's after protesters stormed and set fire to the iranian consulate there was demonstrators are angry at iranian influence in the region one protester died on friday taking the death toll since monday to twelve. turkey's president in the united nations are warning of

a bloodbath if syrian and russian forces push ahead with an offensive to retake the last rebel held province the leaders of turkey iran and russia have been discussing how to prevent a humanitarian crisis in italy. the u.s. government is again cutting aid for palestinians the latest cuts will hit cancer treatments and other critical care of jerusalem hospitals that's after last week's decision to end funding for a united nations relief agency that helps palestinian refugees and gallagher has more from washington all together we're looking at a half a billion or just over half a billion dollars in aid to the palestinians removed by the trumpet ministration president trump himself says the angle he's taking here is he wants the palestinians to talk about peace if they don't this is a way of him getting back at them but clearly the treatments that have been put in place or provided by these hospitals really will affect the most vulnerable people among this is dialysis for children so that gives you just some idea of what

removing this kind of money will do to palestinians a former campaign adviser for donald trump is going to prison for two weeks george papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about his contacts with the russians during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign he's been a central figure of special counsel robert miller's investigation into russian interference in u.s. politics other death of the engineer in charge of the grand renaissance dam project in ethiopia has been ruled a suicide simic new book ailey was found dead in his car in july with a bullet wound those are the headlines one east is next. like joel finds a beauty is bronze to the point he doesn't even need to call you. just we just see the club. i've only got. all.

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