make the rebels think that they're going to attack from a particular direction when in fact they will choose a different one so these are sort of things that happened in this phase of any conflict following that the ground troops will move in judging by the way the syrians have fought in the past is very unlikely to be a full frontal assault what they tend to do is. tuck just nipping away at various bits of territory consolidating gains straightening their lines and so on and so i think what they will see is a very slow deliberate march towards the goal which is to get rid of the rebel forces within the whole of it although one complication for them is that. the turkish army is believed to have some presence in bits of it live and very likely there will have been some

court nation in the recent summit to avoid any conflict with with the turks directly seeing as you mention the turks what do you think about what president one is saying at the moment he i'm looking at this tweet from earlier we will need to watch from the sidelines nor participate in such a game that puzzled me a little bit because it sounds like a contradiction what do you think turkey is. it sounds exactly this six ounces actually the same to me it is a typical gun contradiction which allows him room for political maneuver he's one of the most agile politicians in the world he will go one way one minute in a different way or another and i think that a lot of that is rhetoric he wants it to be known to the russians and to the world that they're not happy about this and their primary can. is the over spill

of of refugees many of those refugees are likely to contain the last remnants of isis or dies shock either another extremists who be taking this opportunity to get out of syria and they were enter turkey and one of the strategies that mr erdogan obviously has having failed to dissuade the russians and the iranians is to try and get the europeans to put pressure on president trump to to put pressure on russia not to go ahead because what he's claiming is that these refugees will some of them will end up in europe and of course we have some problems in europe with refugees and with terrorism coming in into europe you know listening to the way you described there it just made me pause for a moment because i think a lot of the talk around it leaders of the big it will be the final battle and it

could be the quote unquote end of the war in syria from everything you've just described there not the end it all of the problem gets pushed further afield. well i think the last time we spoke amal i said wars typically in the region and these days hardly ever and they just change and what we will see is a continuation of this conflict in many different ways we've got to remember that while sidley may be the last bastion of these rebel extremists a very large chunk of syria state still remains outside the syrian government and regimes control the kurds are very prominent in there some of these kurdish forces have u.s. backing and there is a very difficult situation for turkey because turkey doesn't want certainly the why p.g. with its affiliations with the p k k recognized terrorist organization to have any

presence on its border from where it can make life difficult for turkey so there are enormous local regional and geo political complications here and we should not. in any way look at the future with optimism because the tensions between the geo political players are such that any small miscalculation can result in unintended consequences that would harm people across the globe we must never forget that we have two or three nuclear armed forces in very close proximity here and it's only one error that could lead to an intended consequences and it's very. pleasure talking to you again thank you for your time. here's what's coming up for you on this news hour referred to cuts in in as many ways the trumpet ministration pulls twenty five million dollars meant

for specialist medical care for palestinians also we'll find out why canadian dairy farmers are worried about the revamp of nafta the north american free trade agreement and in sport the moto g.p. world champion has a day to forget steering qualifying for the san marino grand prix. we'll look at egypt now where rights groups have criticized the death sentences of seventy five people for their part in protests against the twenty thirty military coup amnesty international called the mass verdicts disgraceful and as demanding retrials fifty others were given a life sentence including the former muslim brotherhood spiritual leader mohamed but they shot bellus as more. it began here in cairo as robust square in august twenty third protesters had staged a sisson demonstration against the military coup which deposed egypt's first

democratically elected president mohamed morsy security forces moved in within hours more than nine hundred protesters had been killed rob's other two from you know us just secured ours just to come out and now five years later president foster government has decided to kill seventy five more. of those who are its main mohammed rush one and you seen how mature men are sentenced to death. they were part of a mass trial of seven hundred thirty nine people all arrested as they protested against cc's twenty thirteen take over most were detained during the robot massacre the group was charged with murder incitement to break the law illegal gathering and membership of an illegal group that group is the muslim brotherhood the now. former president morsy its spiritual leader mohammed badie a is one of forty seven people who received a life seem to nearly four hundred others will spend at least ten years in prison.

you consider this meant to be a completely unfair one because of its nature its a master if you're prosecuting a large number of people let's say it's impossible to prove individual can the responsibility in that case one of the most well known of the detainees is photo journalist mahmoud known to show he was detained at the rubble protest as he photographed security forces moving in on the crowds he is expected to be released in the coming days after receiving a five year seem to its which is already served in pretrial detention. was that show can has nothing to do with anything he's a journalist and he has no affiliations with anyone he was holding a camera and taking pictures not a weapon or anything like that. he recorded a day that changed the lives of many egyptians five years ago or a recorded voice warned protest is to end. i

everyone wants to avoid any bloodshed it seared the bloodshed was not avoided being in and may not be now the egyptian courts have ordered the execution of seventy five people lawyers of the accused say they'll appeal. shallot ballasts al jazeera . well it's happened again the u.s. has announced more cuts in aid to the palestinians president donald trump says the funding cuts are meant as a way to force the palestinians back to the negotiating table with israel the latest cuts that will affect cancer treatment and other critical care at jerusalem hospitals and gallagher reporting from washington d.c. . 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 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 the members of the trumpet ministration reportedly met with rebel leaders in venezuela to discuss the overthrow of president nicolas maduro new york times is reporting this saying white

house officials held secret meetings with military officers several times and then decided against the plan russell and jordan is keeping an eye on this one from washington d.c. fascinating story rosalie. it's fascinating come all and already critics on social media are saying this is extremely disturbing given the u.s. has a long history of meddling in political affairs in latin america the new york times is reporting that these conversations went on because at the behest of members of the venezuelan military who wanted to overthrow nicolas maduro the president of venezuela one of those people according to the new york times is on a u.s. sanctions list so it does raise eyebrows that the u.s. would be engaged with someone that he has placed on a sanctions list because of his legit abuses of venezuelan citizens rights that

said come all the ministration according to the new york times decided to back away from backing any effort to overthrow them a dual government it does not really specific on why the trumpet ministration decided to do so but certainly in light of things that have happened going back to one nine hundred fifty three in guatemala in one nine hundred seventy three in chile in the one nine hundred sixty s. with the whole does in brazil and in argentina. it could be surmised that someone might have pointed out that the u.s. efforts to try to effect regime change in countries in latin america in the past have not turned out well for the united states or for haps more important for the people living in those countries remind us rosalynn because it can be hard to keep up with this administration how vocal publicly vocal has this trumpet ministration been about venezuela and about president maduro. well

apart from all of the political intrigue and the crises here in washington there has been regular commentary from members of the trumpet ministration perhaps most notably the un ambassador nick nikki haley about the ongoing political situation the ongoing economic crisis the ongoing political crisis in the us there's been a real concern about people fleeing for respite or refuge in neighboring countries and the u.s. has been urging other countries to let people come in while the political situation in venezuela is sorted out but it's not getting perhaps as much attention as you might expect because the russia investigation is perhaps the dominant issue that is here in washington rosalynn jordan's in washington thank you for that the former u.s. president barack obama is to headline

a rally for seven democratic congressional candidates in california that's coming up later today in fact we're looking at a live shot of the podium verify exhibit america the united states and the californian state there an event which will mark obama's return to politics ahead of the crucial midterms in less than sixty days friday in a red political speech obama broke with presidential tradition by attacking his successor and instead took direct aim at donald trump kempley how could with more 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 and resentment and

paranoia is unfortunately found a home in the republican party obama's fiery speech took aim at some of trump's most controversial moments as president putting his response to white nationalist protests in charlottesville when trump claimed both sides of the trouble were 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 nazis 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. he 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 you'd be negative you'd be in negative numbers thank you illinois. still obama's speech is a stinging rebuke of a sitting president with a distinctly different vision of democracy kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington. so that was friday and today saturday i think it's happening in anaheim in california anaheim probably most well known as the home of disneyland actually president obama will be speaking the hash tag on the lectern you see it there take it back for the democrats to take back the house of representatives at least in these midterms and as we say president barack obama former president barack obama coming out now quite openly against donald trump where in the past he really isn't even mentioned him by name in interviews he's just talked about the current

situation now it is about donald trump. well we have got to find cross with us now from washington she is the co-founder of the beat d.c. a political news platform nice to have you with us tiffany. actually i almost can't wait over here myself when i said it's about donald trump because it shouldn't be it should be about the people being elected into the house of representatives and the senate but this is now looking especially with iraq obama coming forward like a sort of iraq versus donald's fight old. no i don't think that's what it is at all i would echo the former president's sentiments when president obama said that donald trump is not the problem but he's a symptom of the problem and long before donald trump became president you had a different network than this extreme right wing of the party who were echoing these types of racist and hateful rhetoric throughout society and certainly in our politics and i think that underbelly of society helps well down but i don't think

that barack obama stoop to the level of direct conflict with somebody who you know believes i'm sorry go ahead no no it's a let me let me put it a different way then maybe i didn't quite phrase that correctly is there a concern that it could be viewed as trump versus obama by the by the electorate by the media. perhaps i mean i think that certainly will get people clicking on headlines and watching given cable news networks the spike in the elections but i would say that this is about democracy you know what happens in america cast a really wide net of influence across the globe and i think that was president obama's point when people keep asking him what are you doing for midterms i think it was the right question asked no what are you doing we can't make this about two individuals but i think the voters and the people of america have to make this about something bigger i think when we see the current administration slowly tipping away at the record and democratic principles that americans hold so dear

that that's really cause for concern that's the flashing red light it's not so much down old chum but you also have people in congress who support his agenda you have people across the country a small minority unfortunately but you do have a small minority of people who support his agenda so you really have to elevate the discourse in the country and have healthy intellectual engagement and i don't think we're we've seen that for the past two years and i think that was president obama's point and it was a message that people were thirsty to hear and you saw even fox news c.n.n. all the american cable news networks carry that live when he was speaking because i do think that the american people and perhaps even the globe was eager to hear a thoughtful leader take out and take the stage once again tell me about more fuel for one sort of how energized the electorate is in the united states i listen to a lot of political pod cast but that's what i see from a distance but they seem to talk about the fact that you know registration is often people and that is you know so many people more people running for office and more women and more minorities and that these these are the biggest midterms that we've

seen. you know i think any time in any society when the pendulum swings one way it will inevitably swing back and that's what we're seeing right now i think there is unfortunately a huge portion of american citizens who just do not participate in the electoral process right there's a lot of people who just don't exercise their civic engagement i think somebody like donald trump has to come along to show how politics can impact everyone's lives i always tell people you can either impact politics but please believe politics will always impact you and if people are saying that you do see more progressive candidates getting their names on the ballot and not only getting their names on the ballot but winning and then seeing some of the more traditional candidates that you're seeing right here in american massachusetts in boston ayana presley just unseated a longtime congressman you see and you get them in the gubernatorial race in florida which is a battleground state that's a huge race here in america and you see people like him kicking off a somebody who was a presumed winner you saw alexandria coffee of course has in new york who unseated a long time democratic congressman so even the democratic party you have people

saying wait a second we're not we're not happy with the way we see our politics are going you also have this this court within the republican party and i think that's another thing that donald trump is highlighting i don't want to give people the impression that it's just you know rock obama versus donald trump or constituent versus family trump you even have republicans versus donald trump as evidence by omarosa of the book and the bob woodward book and now this anonymous new york times outfit there are certainly people within his own party within the white house even who are crying and you know a plea for help saying wait something is not right this president is challenging our core democratic principles and something needs to be done quickly just need to go back to a point you made at the start of that on so you said you feel it's still americans are not necessarily exercising their democratic right. that surprises me why do you think that is. you know i think people are so used to their normal everyday life not being impacted or they don't recognize the ways in which their normal everyday lives are being impacted and so you know america is

a young democracy and we've never been tested on a global scale we've never been tested to the point of having foreign adversaries interfere with our elections and having the people who allow this cast a shadow over some of the regular everyday things that are happening in people's lives from your ability to peacefully protest inequality in the justice system to your health care to the wage that you're paid and so now i think that people are seeing how their lives are impacted after years of not necessarily being involved you know you and i get paid to consume the minutia of politics we read eight papers a day and we're constantly in these conversations but for people who are taking kids back and forth to school and going to work and paying their mortgage this is not their everyday life so they had to have something major impacts how they live their lives to say wait stop this is an emergency and i think that's why you're seeing so many people who were not involved in the political process before start to pay attention and really get involved and i hope it continues i think america is unique that way where people maybe take our democracy for granted and don't realize

how fragile democracy can be if the people stop participating in it and i think it's been a learning lesson for the country and i hope it's one that we don't soon forget to the girls from the bait d.c. pleasure talking to you thanks for joining us. and as we said president obama for president obama there you do still say i should point out you do still refer to them as president obama due to speak in anaheim california supporting a number of tickets seven democratic candidates in the state under the hash tag. back. still ahead for you on this news hour more trouble for the electric want to make it tassler as executive step down and it is strange behavior from c.e.o. the lawn mask told driving down the stocks. and installed the first japanese woman to reach a grand slam final getting ready to take on serina williams at the u.s. side.

yesterday i felt to find fifty degrees even forty nine we're down to forty seven in the hottest parts of iran and iraq closing in from both sides the potential for a few showers in pakistan in turkey and possibly in the northwest of syria or southern turkey as well white tie represents and it's there in the forecast as well turkey the main beneficiary temperature wise there was still up in the forty's obviously the thought forced to involve baghdad forty one also in kuwait means in between the two you can probably expect forty five forty six maybe forty seven so it's starting to come down and little bit there's not been much for prevailing breeze recently around the gulf states the humidity is up and this represented now by this potential for a lot of clouds which possibly means thunderstorms in the mountains recent months now the rest of this peninsula is dry but the chance of showers breaking out at

this time of year increase of the high ground of saudi and yemen of course of a month the time being how he still blows over salada we've had some useful rain in southern africa as well particularly on the eastern cape then you go through the city just was the land and the two lines of rain still so this one's going through cape town will probably dry up just on the eastern side and up through well mozambique it looks wet. 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 oil addiction. on al-jazeera.

as india was updating its citizenship records around four million people in the state are at risk of becoming state less mr deals with. infantry these are the majority of both. does apply to both sides of this issue to al-jazeera. in the news here at al-jazeera and these are the top stories.

it's one of dozens of air strikes in the syrian province of idlib just a day after warnings of a bloodbath there these pictures from an al-jazeera crew which was caught up in one of the strikes the turkish president said he may intervene if the syrian government backed by russia and iran were to carry out an all out offensive on the rebels last stronghold. iraq's parliament emergency session to work out how to contain protests in the city of bastrop a week of violent demonstrations has seen several major buildings in the city torched among them iran's consulate. several top u.n. officials are in pakistan's push our province for talks about the treatment of afghan refugees pakistan hosts around one point four million afghan refugees many of been in the country for decades this from come out. the un high commissioner for refugees had been focused on to see for themselves how they repaired creation of.

some of the seven million off one's pakistan home at one time or another at many. the camp on the outskirts of the city of the wall was set up by the un to help those who want to go home. ground day with the processing center and drop to refugees about the problems they face. outside algiers waited for their turn to complete. the high commissioner to the number of returning trough because of security concerns but due to mains optimistic about the future i think that the most important thing away just for focus on afghanistan on finding a political solution to the conflict there are talks of peace talks which are very important and i think kids around that we need to prepare for development for long term development. we create

a solution for refugee problem. and pakistan for being one for almost four decades but north the country can only do so much that we have to continue to support pakistan and other countries the refugees are not rich countries they are mostly in countries with few resources so the rich countries have to have ordered four million of one refugee and have already gone back home for the three million remaining and. they don't want to go back on day to day but. outside the center we meet and much and his family he has been living in pakistan for thirty five years i've had not decided on understand it read should be. without a good life here but it's time to go to her country. he hears he's already made arrangements for his family in nearby killer bar in recent years to explore

different throws and force some of fundraising to return home with a new prime minister and government crackdown appears to have been really bad at least for now giving the u.n. more time to implement the wall and feed the pageantry. not only the road to the raf. camp on the outskirts of the british role. now a few interesting events going on in greece this saturday first of all you've got the prime minister alexis tsipras who is speaking right now in the city of personality he's unveiling his plans for the future of the country that is economically and politically speaking however there are thousands of people are already protesting on the streets of greece's second city and they were doing that before he even started at this beach have a look at these pictures from earlier clashes with riot police on a number of major roads rounds of tear gas have been fired they were molotov cocktails there was well one of the protest was over the state of the economy and

austerity measures which is what separate us will address but also clashes over the deal reached over the name macedonia after decades of debate greece agreed that the neighboring former yugoslav republic of macedonia could use the title of north macedonia which upset greek nationalists the german chancellor angela merkel is also in macedonia showing some support for an upcoming referendum on the name change their name change policy austerity speech from the prime minister all resulting in protests out on the streets of thessaloniki in sweden there's talk of a growing far right influence as it prepares for elections on sunday security and immigration have been big issues in this campaign and hostility towards migrants has been rising among some voters since the country took back sorry took in big numbers of refugees in twenty fifteen china how has the full story from stockholm. fara is no longer quite sure what sort of 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. in a few years ago my answer would be that they are very upset. but. i am not sure i would answer 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 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 swedish 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 it's a it's a message resonating widely in what used to be one of europe's most open and free thinking societies expo 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 or 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 modernist past a lot of people are telling their so this. 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. still ahead on this news hour sports news with andy and olympic champion caster semenya suffers a rare setback on the track back in the west and i'm. in

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