for the yemeni government still a geisha heading home to a war wrecked country with little immediate hopes of peace david chase to al-jazeera geneva abraham fry it as a professor of conflict resolution at the institute he says the failure of the geneva talks to get under way shows the deep distrust mistrust between the two sides i assume actually when martin defense makes such an announcement with international commitment and attention for the negotiations that they cared to take place in geneva that he secured or agreed the explicit unconditional approval from the saudis is that this would happen but for the saudis to insist that know they can come on any and all money in a plan and they can come on you want to you want a plan it would be something that the talks to the you know indigenous leadership positions of with a list of these things because. at the end of that the an old man the head of the and would not be smuggling weapons for them give them the money had a plan and live in congo the let's talk about the agenda it's really

a shame that the negotiations even failed to launch that we have this agreeing or even you know how they get there well in fact you know this speaks to the underlying causes of this and how the crisis is the mistrust between the the two fathers that the whole thing to think that it's the angels for them to come in and you want a plan for the so does the think it's something discreditable central on an old man to play in but in fact this is that affliction of the deep mistrust between the two parties and obviously the your and fear with the. parliament has held an emergency session to discuss the unrest in basra in which at least twelve people have died a curfew has now been lifted but security forces remain on the streets following a week of violent protests or testers are angry over a lack of basic services high unemployment and corruption matheson as the latest from baghdad. struggling to find

a solution to the unrest in basra iraq's parliament descends into fury as accusations and blame fly back and forth leading shia cleric. says the government should fix those problems within forty five days he also says protests should be halted at the same time to see if the government delivers members of saddam's parliamentary alliance are now demanding that the government should step down. we should draw a distinction between the political factors on the other issues namely security and services unfortunately events have developed rapidly since the parliament's first session of monday last as a result of the escalating political wrangling which if turned into armed confrontations will be gravely dangerous we are keen on steering away from plunging into such danger now the situation in his own or control. hours before the politicians began arguing boss robocall on saturday to destruction

the charred remains of a night's frustration the people of basra struggled with constant power shortages their water supply has been saturated with salt which poisoned thousands last year and many more have been out of work for a long time they say corruption and government neglect is to blame. this should have made an effort to provide good job opportunities from the beginning and should give water to people what do people want what are these protesters want they just want to live well and in peace. both sides of the political divide in iraq's parliament say they're forming coalitions after the recent disputed election each saying they will create the political sibylla t. iraq needs but battles are unlikely to end soon if the politicians are also fighting rob matheson al jazeera baghdad. but you are in the news hour including revelations of a secret u.s. plan to bring down venezuela's president nicolas maduro. from sydney to san

francisco a global day of protest a call for action on climate change. and sport the moto g.p. world champion has a day to forget during qualifying for the san marino grand prix. human rights groups have condemned egypt for sentencing more than seven hundred people for taking part in protests against the two thousand and thirteen military coups death penalties were handed down to seventy five people another forty seven were jailed for life and quoting the muslim brotherhood spiritual leader mohammed badie a most of them had survived a massacre by security forces at a public square and cairo charlie bell us has 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 with a now as more than nine hundred protesters had been killed robs others from you know us just secured hours just to come out and now five years later president government has decided to kill seventy five more of those who are. on and you seem hemet suleiman are sentenced to death. they were part of a mass trial of seven hundred thirty nine people all wristed as they protested against cc's twenty three. 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 a muslim brotherhood and. a former president morsi it's. leda muhammad body is one of forty seven people who received a life seem to nearly four hundred others will spend at least ten years in prison

he considers meant to be a completely unfair one because of its nature it's a master if you're prosecuting a large number of people lives. in 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's expected to be released in the coming days after receiving a five year seem to its which is already served in pretrial detention yet it 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 recruited a day that changed the lives of many egyptians five years ago or a recorded voice want to protest is to.

everyone wants to avoid any bloodshed it seared the bloodshed was not avoided being in a 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 al-jazeera is condemning the sentencing of the network's journalists and absentia hey he's been handed a fifteen year sentence he was arrested in two thousand and thirteen in jail for a live in a month without charge he was released after going on hunger strike. and separately al jazeera journalist ahmed a saying has now spent six hundred twenty seven days in an egyptian prison without charge he was arrested in two thousand and sixteen while on holiday and accused of broadcasting false news his detention has been extended sixteen times al-jazeera strongly denies the accusation and is demanding his immediate release barack obama said the campaign trail drumming up support for democratic congressional candidates

in california added november's midterm elections at a rally in anaheim the former u.s. president said the upcoming vote is a chance to restore political sanity it follows a speech highly critical of president on a trumpet he made in illinois on friday where there's a vacuum in our democracy when we are not participating we're not paying attention we're not stepping up other voices field of war but the good news is in two months we have a chance to restore some sanity in our politics was we end the chance to win the house of representatives and make sure i wasn't i was going i cannot tell you all across the country you can feel the energy you can feel people saying oh i know it isn't there for more on this we're joined by political analyst joe watkins on skype tremont randolph new jersey he's a former white house aide to president george h.w. bush thank you so much for your time joe we appreciate it so you could be with the

speech friday brock obama called out donald trump by name which is extremely rare we've talked about that now going forward he's on the campaign trail but in some sort of perspective what it is for a former president to go on the campaign trail. well it's very unusual for a former president to go on the campaign trail. right after his presidency is now so rock obama's term ended in december of two thousand and sixteen where january twenty seventh fish really and here it is in twenty eighteen years on the campaign trail for democrats he's doing that in part because dollars jumpers really called out the obama administration and worked hard to overturn a lot of the obama policies and so i think barack obama feels a real need to respond to trump and especially given the fact that in the midterm elections democrats stand a very very good chance in recapturing the house of representatives so do you think that this will have a positive effect and the passon barack obama has not always done very well on

campaigning during the midterms and a lot of past presidents quite frankly don't always help out a lot during the midterms even though they you know matter what their popularity is . well the president obama has been very smart about this because all the polling data that we've seen in the united states says that the democrats have a seventy to seventy five percent chance of winning the house of representatives that's a pretty substantial opportunity for them they've got to win twenty four states in order to be to have control of the house and right now all the polling data that i've seen shows them winning as many as thirty or thirty three seats so they have a very good you have to take the house of representatives and president obama started this race starting this campaign in the fall knowing that the election much is only going to be two months away so it's good to be in his part and he knows that he has a greater chance of being successful in this part of the analysis said donald trump when and this is something that barack obama said as well is that donald trump's

election some p.r. at least in part was a backlash of a pretty asian nation against barack obama so having said that if iraq obama's on the campaign trail might this fire donald trump voters to go to the polls for their candidates. well it really depends on where you are in the country and the democratic seats that are going to be won will be won in places where there's either the districts have been reshaped or changed or perhaps it's an open seat we're now for the first time and democrats want to get a couple of republican for the force on because a member of congress is retired so. trump supporters are always going to be fired up to come out to vote but clearly president obama knows as well that he needs the democratic base to be especially fired up to make sure they elect those democrats who have such a good chance of winning especially on the east coast of the united states also in the west coast of california new york because the way you look for for

a message chooses look for a number of new members of congress from those states barack obama obviously is is the star of the democratic party still but do they need a deeper bench going forward do they need somebody else that they can call on in times like this besides harking back to barack obama. well they do ideally but really the problem is that you have about maybe twenty or thirty democrats who want to be president of united states who want to run for the presidency in two thousand and twenty and because they have their own particular interests but don't really have high name i.d. they may not be so useful in the cycle and so you haven't seen many of them in the cycle other than maybe but like it was with warren or joe biden joe biden would be a leading candidate for the democratic nomination in two thousand and twenty so with elizabeth warren and there are a number of those but there are about twenty or thirty of them who would like to be that person you know the problem that democrats face is that they don't have a strong enough message besides a message that they want to replace the trouble because they don't like to. dollar

talk was made good on most of his campaign promises to rejuvenate the economy the economy is very strong right now the rate of unemployment is at about three point eight the point nine percent and likewise he's given americans a tax relief by. the tax rate that came about last year so president cup is going to be able to say to voters that i've done everything that you wanted me to do you may not like the scandals the other problems but i've certainly done everything that i promised i would do that makes it hard for democrats to say that they would do something different or better ok to walk in cyprus and thank you but thank you michelle and the new york times is supporting at the top administration secretly met venezuelan military leaders to discuss the coup attempt against president nicolas maduro and then u.s. officials and a former venezuelan military commander told the newspaper that the plan stalled donald trump has been critical of material in his handling of the economic crisis which has led to a severe shortage of food and medical supplies rosin jordan has more from washington d.c. . according to the new york times the secret meetings between the trumpet

ministration and members of the venezuelan military who wanted to overthrow nicolas maduro started in the fall of two thousand and seventeen just about a year ago u.s. officials had instructed a u.s. diplomat to basically listen to the military officials and to take notes and to take questions about their plans to try to replace the venezuelan president with someone else not to offer any u.s. guidance not to offer any u.s. support according to the new york times one of the military officials involved in those talks who happens to be on the u.s. sanctions list and so cannot come to the united states. with any americans said that they were actually hoping that the americans who have had a long strained relationship with caucus would actually offer them support or advice on how to depose the venezuelan president when that support wasn't coming if

then fell on to the military leaders to try to figure out how to remove the dual role and other top officials from office however after several attempts to try to plan a coup those in which that details were leaked to the public and so the officials had to scrub their plans in the meantime the trumpet ministration apparently decided that these were not people with whom the u.s. should be doing business with in terms of managing the relationship with caucus and so they stopped the series of meetings the white house has not independently confirmed this report but he did send a statement to the new york times indicating that it has an obligation to listen to all parts of venezuelan society as it's trying to figure out a proper response to the political crisis in that country. a candlelight vigil has been hell for the far right brazilian presidential candidate who was stabbed during

a rally on thursday childless in our ows supporters gathered outside the south pole hotel where he is hospital rather he is recovering opinion polls show he's likely to win the first round vote next month but he's unlikely to return to the campaign trail before that. still ahead on al-jazeera. i'm joined now in sweden a country anticipating its most important election in years of battle over values and identity with the rise of the far right. still no deal canada's dairy prices sour nafta negotiation talks with us. defense of his us open title comes to an abrupt and painful and. hello tropical storm golding which made landfall along the mississippi coast went

up there syfy and is now a cold top and he has some way that this is a slow moving frontal system has been producing a lot of rain anyway so gordon full of tropical moisture would just make it worse over the appalachians for anywhere from the lakes science was it looks pretty wet at the peak of the heavy rain may well end up being somewhere around new york or even elsewhere for the north in new england for this could turn into a circulation look at the temperature in new york's or we've dropped from thirty degrees down to about eighteen rather rapid drop very pleasant for those playing tennis i'm sure but they might replace it i mean that greed is still there now it admittedly does most of the most here is much try to answer georgia and all were down towards the out about mississippi mississippi coast but the potential for heavy rain still exists in form in texas just not as bad as it was pacific coast looks fine not particular i know but that's how it is the moment when the sun shine in the sky south of all this regular showers all the things they've been showing

themselves because big around the western end of cuba citing kluges have dharma dancer jamaica's pun euro and the brightest white tops are in places like nicaragua and still costa rica and panama. overthrown and exiled they appoint again say it will all this race between you an intimate film about the struggle of the elected leader of madagascar

to return to his country and reinstate his presidency you know is that the truest fortunes but and you. know to go for french position is that all the interesting days return of the president on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera let's take a look at the top stories syria and russian forces have carried out their heaviest bombardment against rebels and look province activists and rescue workers reported more than sixty here strikes on friday russia and iran backed a military campaign to take back the last couple help us. human rights groups have

condemned egypt for sentencing more than seven hundred people for protesting against a two thousand and thirteen military coup death penalties were handed down to seventy five people and forty seven jailed the life most of them had survived the massacre by security forces at a square in cairo the new york times says trump administration secretly met venezuelan military leaders to discuss a coup against president nicolas maduro passed on critical material and his handling of the economic crisis which has led to severe food and medical shortages . protesters have been rallying around the globe to urge world leaders to take more action against climate change part of an international day of demonstrations to coincide with the united nations climate talks in bangkok to limit global warming and gallagher joins us live now from washington d.c. so any tell us more about these this this event. well this is called rise for climate it is a coordinated global effort to raise awareness about climate change so you've got

big demonstrations in places like san francisco paris and sydney and what these people are doing by taking to the streets essentially trying to make voices that are so loud that politicians can't ignore them they're calling in places like california for a very quick switch to renewable energy in australia demonstrate as a concern that the australian government just missed the paris climate accord deadlines for the figures that they were supposed to meet so it really is you know we're a reflection of a growing global concern about things like rising ocean levels polluted air and a reliance on fossil fuels and the organizers say a lot of people taking to the streets not just here in the united states but around the world because they're concerned about donald trump's policies the united states still remains one of the biggest polluters in the world and of course on top was made a real point to undo a lot of the obama era policies undo the clean coal act and just tonight in

a rally or a few weeks ago rather he was talking about how wind farms were useless when there's no wind showing a basic misunderstanding of how the technology works so it's those kinds of things that are driving people to take to the streets across the world to raise awareness but ultimately to get politicians to pay attention and take action so how to that end what type of m. pact do protests and things like this have and what they really make a difference. i mean just last year here in here in washington d.c. there was a protest very similar that tracked it close to a million people it's something that really is concerning people not just here in the states but around the world because people often think of climate change as something that is coming and yet it is something that is already here in places like louisiana you've got coastal communities who are being forced to move away because of the rising ocean levels what difference all of this makes to policies that moment is hard to say in australia the government there are perhaps talking about pulling out of the power of climate records which is deeply concerning to

environmentalists of course in the united states donald trump is never going to change his mind he famously called climate change a hoax but this is a movement that is growing these are voices that are getting louder all the time and these are concerns that people are living with often the most vulnerable in society are the ones that are affected most directly so this is not a campaign and these aren't voices that are going to go away any time soon and i think sooner or later politicians will have to sit up and notice and gallagher a live press in washington and a thank you but a partisan sweden have held their final rallies ahead of sunday's general election prime minister and social democrats leader stephon urged voters to unite against extremism recent polls suggest the far right could win a third of the votes and become the second largest bloc and parliament. you could really get ugly. we're not going to retreat one millimeter in the face of hatred and extremism isa's others seem prepared to work and cooperate with a party that attacks the media and spreads fear about minorities this is jews and

the certainly can't be real swedes a party that is muslims are not real people again and again they show their nazi and racist roots they are trying to destroy the e.u. at a time when we need that cooperation the most are using sentiment against emigration has left many swedes worried about the future china hall has more 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 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 because. i think that racist people that. 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. equal we have a gender equality that is very very strong in comparison with other place this is about keeping sweden swedish looks and it is moving 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 quare are 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 fifty in every some people nostalgic for a simpler time

a more culturally homogenously past a lot of people are telling their so this. but i want. that so what. a question of identity that lies at the heart of this election jonah how al-jazeera stock. great police have fired tear gas at demonstrators in the northern city. thousands of grapes have been protesting against a recent diplomatic agreement aiming to and a quarter century name raul with neighboring macedonia the deal would see the balcon state the balkan state that is renamed north macedonia which the great national park s. are subject to they see the name macedonia as being exclusively it's estimated around fifteen thousand people were in fact crowd. service president warns there's still a long way to go to ending a ten year of stalemate with kosovo alexander says he wants to be on friendly terms with kosovo but doesn't recognize its two thousand and eight declaration of independence from serbia and land swap deal has been proposed to help mend ties the

plan involves for several valley in southern serbia with its mostly ethnic albanian population joining kosovo and return serbia will take over an area in kosovo north of the bar where there's a majority of serbs. i would always look for a solution so we get the most and lose the least how will this work out some a future i don't know there's a long way ahead of us there will be a lot of obstacles on that road i only hope that we will be able to preserve the peace and this in future we will have more understanding for each other. doctors are warning that the latest u.s. cuts to aid for palestinians could create a health crisis the state department has withdrawn twenty five million dollars for the east jerusalem hospital network that provides lifesaving treatment not available in the west bank and gaza two weeks ago the trump administration canceled two hundred million dollars of aid to fund programs in the palestinian territory

and last week it pulled all two hundred ninety million dollars of its years funding to which helps palestinian refugees in the last few months countries including india qatar the united arab emirates and saudi arabia have stepped up with two hundred thirty eight million dollars in extra funds to offset some of america's cuts. is the c.e.o. of augusta victoria hospital and secretary for the issue some hospitals network he says patient patients should not be caught in the middle of a political issue. this is diverse to think you know we're very sort of this is this is you know i cannot describe such a decision and its effect on our people in jerusalem we are the only entity in the whole of police time that provides services that are not available elsewhere including radiation therapy to cancer patients including open heart surgeries to children at because in hospital including haemodialysis for children at the list of the this is immense this is of protest afic nature i mean you don't use it as

elements for food negotiations for for peace i mean this is not a low but this is this is inhumane this is very cruel i used this as a platform for the international community to intervene we cannot continue the lives of patients are at risk i'm talking about patients who are severely sick who are about to die who have you know who already put so much effort to arrive to egypt because of accessibility issues because of barriers at areas checkpoints in gaza and other sick points out on the west bank and now come up with the with the issue of finances this is not acceptable by many standards this represents about twenty five percent of our annual budget for each of them most of which is about one hundred million dollars so it adds up and it makes a big difference particularly in view of the usual accumulations of that that are

owed to us as six hostages so yes it does not go that far but i mean it's at least it keeps us go going for a couple or three months till we find alternatives you know i was in contact with our minister of finance and now we're in the middle of chaos will take two to find alternatives you know we we we call upon the word today the arab and islamic word our friends in europe please intervene don't let us close don't let us go down the drain this is not something that we can afford stopping this these are services essential to the very lives of palestinians. the u.s. and canada say a negotiations to revamp the north american free trade agreement are going well but still there's no deal in sight for the main sticking points is canada's dairy and history which gets protection from foreign competition and a lack reports from holton ontario. i don't think the

supply management system should be even involved in the nafta it wasn't involved twenty years ago when it should be involved now with a herd of sixty five purebred dairy cows roland egger and his family work hard on their farm near toronto the milk quota they have with the government guarantees a fair price if they meet quality and other standards he says abolishing that system as the us wants would be unfair for canadian farmers consumers and taxpayers a lot of people i don't understand and dairy farmers to median supply man is farmers are not subsidized but anyway the american dairy farmers are quite heavily subsidize you always read in the press how they can't survive how the markets the milk prices so cheap. canada's dairy farmers say theirs is an industry that produces quality products for a local market and they're tired of trade negotiations using them as a bargaining chip for now canada's nafta negotiators are defending the canadian dairy system against u.s.

demands for open borders but as these long running talks enter a feverish final phase the pressure is growing on canada to either join an agreement already made with mexico or be left out entirely they want to get access for wisconsin farmers into the canadian dairy market so it seems donald trump has brinkmanship is actually quite good he's put canada in quite a vulnerable situation we're in iraq and to the extent they focus in on barry canada's going to have to give something. quite simply canada needs access to us markets for most of its exports even though the government signed free trade deals with other countries and the european union more than a billion and a half dollars worth of trade flows across the border every day and restricting that could be disastrous truly we are the envy of the world sitting right next door to the united states and we have to find a way to make this relationship work it will not be our.