iran summons iraq's ambassador after its consulates was torched during protests in the southern iraqi city of basra. my name's peter w. watching al-jazeera live from my headquarters here in doha also coming up turkey warns it will not watch from the sidelines if an offensive against syria's last major rebel held area leads to civilian deaths. a third cut in aid in as many weeks the trumpet ministration pulls twenty five million dollars meant for specialist medical care for palestinians plus. 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. iran's minister for foreign affairs of some of the iraqi ambassador rafter protesters in iraq's southern city of bones for an attack the iranian consulate a week of violent demonstrations has seen several major buildings in the city being torched at least twelve people have died security forces blamed unidentified gunman for the deaths correspondent zain bus ravi is in tehran zain what's the iranian reaction to this. well overnight peter the foreign ministry condemned these attacks and said that the iraqi government needs to find out who is responsible and they demanded the maximum penalty for this crime and they also summoned the iraqi ambassador to teheran to protest the burning down of

this consulate now the foreign minister said sorry the foreign ministry spokesman said that this action was an attempt by overt or perhaps covert actors to try to drive a wedge between iraq and iran and hurt the historically friendly relations that the two countries have enjoyed so while he did seem to place blame on perhaps forces outside of government control for this happening in the same breath he also said that not protecting this diplomatic mission was a failure of the iraqi government and he said that the police and bus russia have done more to secure this iranian facility now the spokesman of the parliamentary committee for national security and foreign policy has also made a statement and said that the parliament will investigate exactly what led to the destruction of the iranian consulate in bus so political leaders and government federal leaders here are taking this incident very seriously here in toronto zain

thanks very much. the turkish president. says he may intervene if the expected syrian government offensive in italy causes major bloodshed mr one tweeted that he would quote neither watch from the sidelines nor participate in such a game if the world turned a blind eye to killing trilateral talks in tehran with iran and russia on friday and said any military offensive to retake the last remaining rebel held province could result in a humanitarian disaster it is on the border with turkey which is already home to four million syrian refugees russia iran and syria all appear set on launch an offensive to clear it lid of rebel fighters the united nations special envoy meanwhile to syria stefan to mistura has presented a plan which he said could stop a humanitarian disaster during any military offensive in italy mr de mistura was

addressing the un security council now he's calling for a public campaign within the province to demand that fighters leave built up areas and then go to the countryside he said the turkish government could influence some armed groups to abide by the plan diplomatic go to james bays has more on that u.n. security council meeting from the headquarters in new york. i think many diplomats believe it's not now a case of if there is an offensive in need live 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 bay the way i did beat

away from populated that village is at the same time and here comes the message and image i got from the population i meet them being indicating that this is what they've been after from that door that i'm going to move out of they may haue the earth day mate. crimi don't people going to be mobilized on that so one of the leavers for this plan is that people power getting the civilians and ad libbed 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. ok let's go to stephanie who's in kentucky on the turkey syria border stephanie these proposals from stephan de mistura how will they work in reality. well i mean james expressing some skepticism that i think that's quite accurate it's going to be very difficult to have the rebel forces move out of any populated areas because they are so entrenched in them in the sense that they've been there for years and again you know why would they do that it all boils down to turkey really turkey is the guarantor of the rebel groups under the u.s. down a process it's the one that has to speak to them it has been speaking to them it continues to speak to them to try and see if they can sort out the you know the

upcoming italy the fences and try and get some kind of middle ground i think it's interesting certainly looking at what happened yesterday the turkish president then tweeting seven times he doesn't usually tweet he certainly doesn't to it in english he tweeted in turkish in english in russian and an arabic about how it should be saved how the people should be saved and how it wouldn't stand by the sidelines but the bottom line is this peter it is in a very difficult position i think also we saw that play out on live television those opening statements you had those three leaders making it very clear there's a back and forth live on t.v. that no one really agreed to anything the main offensive yes it hasn't started there is a low level conflict that particular in southern italy province in more than half of that's been going on for the last week or so but nothing is clear so it is down to turkey to try and get groups like h.t.s. high of the hill sham forming and isn't this refined affiliated with al qaeda to lay down their arms that from what we understand at the moment they are not agreeing to it has it been quiet around area over night.

there's been some shelling in those southern areas of adlib province north and how much of this is a line that we've seen those russian airstrikes of the last couple of days also some back and forth shelling and rocket fire between opposition groups and government backed forces this is the area really and there's been rumors about this for weeks that will be the first stage of the offensive what was interesting yesterday the turkish president saying that the russian. military base which is in the talking needs to be secured and all means can be done to achieve that reading between the lines on that is that there may be a first scale offensive in those areas of southern province there are less populated relatively speaking peter but of course there are civilians in those areas there how already been the movement of civilians around a thousand people from what we understand that have fled to sort of the aleppo countryside so there's

a low level movement of this starting but again everyone you speak to will tell you things are still very much i'm clear about how this is live offensive is going to play out it is clear that russian iran are behind damascus that they're going to take back the entire province but it may take some time stephanie thank you the u.s. government has for the slowest aid to palestinians the latest cuts twenty five million dollars will affect cancer treatment and other critical care the jerusalem hospitals last week could stop funding for the u.n. relief agency that helps palestinian refugees gallica reports now 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 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 a bit clearly the treatments that have been put in place or provided by these hospitals that 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 shot dead a palestinian teenager during more protests on the gaza border the palestinian health ministry says the seventeen year old was shot in the chest ninety four others were injured including thirty with life bullets sweetens far right could

shape the next government security and immigration a big issues in sunday's general election hostility towards migrants has been rising among some voters since the country took in big numbers of refugees from the middle east in twenty fifteen jonah hole has more now from stockholm. is no longer quite sure what sort of country she's living in i felt humiliated it 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 ask me this from a few 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 sow 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 the school 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 just values and it has to do with. 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 and 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 and with some people nostalgic for a simpler time a more culturally modernist past a lot of people are telling their to the swedish society but i'm weren't. there so

what. a question of identity that lies at the heart of this election jonah how al-jazeera stock. plenty more still to come here al-jazeera including with the front runners in hospital and in jail a new name emerges in brazil's race for the presidency and. i'm waiting for a reporting from colombo where the sri lankan government says it's trying to clear up a mountain of debt left behind by the previous administration will tell you what it desperately wants to avoid in the next few years so. how we've got quiet weather pushing into central parts of here would seem fair bit of rain just making its way out to scandinavia down across germany pushing down towards northern parts of the balkans by the reese quite

a rash of seattle area of low pressure just spinning away here around the black sea pushing some showers up into ukraine high pressure. fun into right here warm sunshine as well twenty five celsius so you can see the showers they will continue further south some of the live besides a big unfunded downpours and the possibility still a few showers into the balkans for the west is looking lossie dry across a good part of the outback into france clear skies now starting to push in but a fair amount of cloud to the north of that across in the wells right in there into our land that also feeding into scotland the night is a fair bit of cloud into that western side of the mediterranean had some lively showers here over the past few days still looks pretty disturbed over the next few days sunday was pretty wet course that eastern side of spain into the valley areas squat about the making its way back into the united kingdom twenty five celsius or paris a warming up here twenty five for vienna as well and notice for moscow we could have twenty six by this stage by the south africans at thirty one degrees more warm

sunshine here warm sunshine across northern parts of the mediterranean algiers a little cloudy twenty nine. and i. like to look back at you it is point. of view for this just we just see. i am imagining i've only done. all of. my nigeria on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching also zero a lot of your top stories so far this hour iran's minister for foreign affairs of some of the iraqi ambassador to protestors in iraq's southern city of basra attacked the iranian consulate a week of violent demonstrations are seen several major buildings in the city being set on fire these twelve people have died. the turkish president. says he may intervene if the expected syrian government offensive in it causes major bloodshed tweeted he would quote neither watch from the sidelines nor participate in such a game if the world turned a blind eye to killing. the us is causing more aid for palestinians twenty five million dollars meant for cancer treatment and other critical care in east jerusalem hospitals is being slashed last week the us government ended funding for the un's relief agency that helps around five million palestinian refugees. in

yemen the who these are demanding u.n. safety guarantees for their delegation before travelling to geneva for talks with the government that says his representatives will not leave son are. unless they receive assurances that their flight will not be checked on both legs of the journey in the meantime protests against rising costs and food shortages are continuing in yemen and are simmons reports now from djibouti just across the gulf of aden. another protest over a shattered economy much bigger than previous demonstrations this is the booty rebel held capital city of sana'a what. they want to starve our people to death shame on them we will triumph no matter what the saudi and american enemies to the devil may be in the detail of preconditions for talking in geneva but with the hooty delegation still here the motivations of both sides seem unclear and the

hopes of many people for dialogue are diminishing. in government held areas in aden and southern yemen here the aftermath of a six day of protests with shops all closed down but central to whichever side people are on isn't so much the cost of living it's the cost of survival demonstrations continue for and against the saudi u.a.e. coalition backed government and different reasoning for some of the unrest there's anger shown by those joining the fighting this man says fighting for the u.a.e. earns a fraction of the money paid to those fighting for the saudis and with the currency worth so little now it isn't enough. we want our burning tires because our people are exhausted compared to those in a saudi salary we find prices extremely high hunger and everything else is here we are protesting against what we call corruption and the situation's way to yemeni

people have to suffer they store fuel from the petrol stations and fell on the black market people keep the days to get people back in santa suit is united with their enemies in one interest getting by here in the old market plenty of produce but it can only be afforded by a minority with enough cash this is a country in deeper crisis than ever before in yemen it's the unspoken thoughts of such a. last number of civilians the hungry the bereaved the injured the destitute that could speak so much louder than all the protest slogans one n.g.o.s tried to convey some of the thoughts of those people by saying this it's time to put aside strategic and political ambitions and consider the future of yemen and the children all of those children who have been so recklessly treated under simmons' al-jazeera

djibouti. u.s. president on trump is threatening to slap tariffs on nearly all chinese imports mr trump said on friday he has a package of new judi's ready on goods worth two hundred sixty billion dollars this is in addition to tariffs already announced for imports totaling two hundred billion dollars the move is seen as the most dramatic escalation in the trade war between china and the u.s. . one of china's highest ranking officials is set to attend north korea's seventieth anniversary celebrations president xi jinping was due to visit pyongyang for the ceremony but the visit was called off now he's reportedly disappointed over the lack of progress on the nuclearization china correspondent adrian brown with more now from beijing. it's three months since kim jong un made a vague promise to president donald trump to give up his nuclear weapons at their 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 incomprehensible mainly downs here america should reflect on itself first is that a 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 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 now a former campaign adviser who worked for donald trump has been sentenced to two weeks in prison for lying to the f.b.i. george papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about his contacts with russians during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign he has been a central figure of special counsel robert muller's probe into russian interference . the frontrunner in brazil's presidential election is unlikely to return to campaigning until after next month's first round vote because of severe stab wounds doctors say. last forty percent of his blood when he was attacked at a rally on thursday in america editor the c n human has the story of the just when

it seemed brazil's presidential election campaign couldn't get more unpredictable the point of russia leading candidate was stabbed in the stomach during the street crowd was put to conservative evangelicals i.e. the device of law and order candidate sent this message to hospital. the world. is men can so evil i've never harmed anyone. but many brazilians disagree well so nat'l is facing a 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. now whoever did this has to pay whoever did it all. 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 is appealing the court decision but given the likelihood he'll lose he's expected to cede his candidacy to his vice presidential choice fernando had bad before wednesday the deadline for registering the former south america from the left wing workers' party is also now being accused of receiving in direct payments to his two thousand and twelve campaign he did nies any wrongdoing. what does the prosecution having his hands the word of a bandit who lied eight times to the courts. regardless opinion polls show the head that is unlikely to inherit lula's popularity. also not as divisive and pro-gun stance also frightens many brazilians. all of which means that the thirteen candidate race is still wide open unless there is states that attack actually gives

both nat'l the edge he needs to win in a first round next month to see in human al-jazeera. an opposition movement in sri lanka is using the country's economic issues as a political weapon against the governing party now the government is struggling to deal with a mountain of debt inherited from the previous administration when a story from colombia it's in the small markets that macro economic changes can often be felt most prices of sri lankan food staples like coconuts have been fluctuating at the moment buyers are enjoying a slight reprieve but in the markets of the capital colombo prices have increased about seven percent from a year ago and then in the in the you know we didn't it's very difficult the moment because things have become so expensive we find it difficult to manage because prices keep going up if you let him he government says at three point four percent general inflation is not a problem but it is trending upwards and is one of the economic issues opposition

groups a seizing upon as they try to force the government out but some experts believe by sowing political instability the opposition is in fact undermining the economy at the very time that she needs more investment the investors seek predictability of policies their lives could be your political environment and the uncertain economy political environment is. in this month from march i'm sure lanka has also entered a period where it needs to find cash to pay big debts the government says it inherited an economic mess when it took over three years ago perhaps the biggest mess was debt it's now into what it calls a peak period of structured repayments over the next four years it needs to pay back seventeen billion dollars to foreign lenders among them china the previous government took out big loans for infrastructure development like

a one point three billion dollar port in the southern city. when repayments became too much the current administration leased it to a chinese state company for one thousand. in years the sri lankan government says it's determined to reduce its debt burden. and never ever before it and that. north chance that that's going to happen in the future i. guess and seriously and we really mean it all our commitments to achieve that it says fiscal discipline is paramount and that includes slowing down the practice of taking out more loans to pay existing debts other measures have been taken to like tax increases and the removal of some farm subsidies the government says overall it's in good shape but these are uncertain economic times and in the markets people are also having to watch what they spend when hey al-jazeera colombo. one of china's wealthiest men

jack ma has stepped down as the chief of an e-commerce giant and mr moss says he wants to focus on philanthropy and education the billionaire founded alibaba nearly two decades ago it's since become one of the world's biggest internet companies with a market value of more than four hundred billion dollars. welcome if you're just joining us this is al-jazeera these are your headlines iran's minister for foreign affairs has some of the iraqi ambassador after protesters in iraq's southern city of basra attacked the iranian consulate a week of violent demonstrations has seen several major buildings in the city being set on fire at least twelve people have died security forces blamed unidentified gunman for the deaths. the turkish president. says he may intervene in the expected syrian government offensive on it live if it causes major bloodshed mr one

went on twitter saying quote he would neither watch from the sidelines nor participate in such a game if the world turned a blind eye to killing at trilateral talks in tehran with iran and russia on friday mr erdogan said any military offensive to retake the last remaining rebel held province could result in a humanitarian disaster the u.s. is cutting more aid for palestinians twenty five million dollars meant for cancer treatment and other critical care in east jerusalem hospitals is being slashed last week the us government ended funding for a un relief agency that helps around five million palestinian refugees talks to end the war in yemen are in jeopardy after hoofy rebel delegates failed to travel to geneva for talks with the government martin griffiths the un envoy to syria says they're demanding safety guarantees before making the journey to see say they have not been given an aircraft or permission from the u.s. and saudi governments to fly out of yemen almost ten thousand people have been

killed since the war began. and three years ago. the u.s. president donald trump earth threatened to slap tariffs on the all chinese imports trump said on friday he has a package of new jersey's ready on goods with two hundred sixty seven billion dollars this is in addition to tariffs already announced for imports with two hundred billion dollars one of china's wealthiest man jack ma has decided to step down as the boss of the e-commerce giant and mr maher says he wants to focus on philanthropy and education the billionaire founded nearly twenty years ago now it's since become one of the world's biggest internet companies with a market value of more than four hundred billion dollars you are right up to date with all the top stories up next it's inside story i'll see you soon. on counting the cost austerity in argentina but will harsh medicine fix the economy and what about before out for emerging markets plus the good the bad and the ugly the corporate in fact society and the environment. of paying attention. counting the

cost on al-jazeera. thousands of white workers stayed in south africa their anger their employer is giving company exclusively to blacks they say that's racist discriminatory and unfair but what constitutes fairness in the post apartheid era this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. for the first time in south africa's history thousands of white union workers have staged a strike they're furious their employer one of the country's energy companies has introduced.