trees were working together in a spirit of trust and that they had much that they call could cooperate on politically economically and militarily as well now there is good strategic sense in russia and china getting closer together at the moment they're both your asian neighbors with each other they share a border there are huge countries china has a vast economy that it needs to keep fed with resources and russia has lots of natural resources now they are working together in the military sphere as well as groups in painted out there the stock two thousand and eighteen military drills just starting in russia's far east and china has been invited to take part in that now that's a sensible move from the russian part because it shows to china that any fears that beijing might have that these drills are actually focused on china are untrue and

it also gives russia and china two countries that are trying to modernize and strengthen their armies navies and air forces at the moment via valuable experience at working together with each other now the chinese commitments is in huge say three thousand two hundred troops and thirty aircraft parts it does perhaps show them that they can work together that they could at some point integrate weapon systems and command structures and of course it sends a message to the west as well russia and china both have an increasingly antagonistic relationship with the united states and. if say push came to shove and there was any future conflict or the russian trying to don't have nato levels of alliance or coordination perhaps they might fight alongside each other and you know if donald trump's penn power relationship with kim jong un ever gets boring for the u.s. press. event and he decides to consider seriously

a military strike against north korea then these sorts of games are just the kind of thing that military planners in washington d.c. will be taking into account the security officers in afghanistan have confirms the taliban has taken control of parts of the northern province of jazz jam an area known as the calm district the head of the area's police force says more than fifty of his men were surrounded by taliban fighters with casualties on both sides when the officers say they did not have officials back up to handle the attack. still ahead here on al-jazeera why muslims in china say they're being targeted by the government plus. i'm going hey on the banks of the mekong river in northern thailand just across the river is laos and downstream from here the lao government is building another big dam we'll tell you why many people on this side of the river want it stopped.

hello again it's good to have you back we are watching a system coming out of the west pacific now this is going to bring some very very heavy rain showers large swells and the potential of flooding for the philippines just off the chart right there you can see the swirl of clouds that is typhoon that is making its way towards the west we're going to be watching this very carefully bring heavy rain showers not just to the philippines but also into parts of taiwan let's put this into motion from wednesday into thursday you notice that storm really start to get a little bit closer it's not going to be till the end of the week that we see it approaching the area we're not sure about landfall yet but we are going to be watching that very carefully so manila things are going to be deteriorating for you in terms of there are thirty one degrees in flooding across parts of northern luzon is potentially going to be happening here across australia we are watching in front pushing through adelaide right there with the clouds not a lot of moisture associated with this frontal boundary as it makes its way towards

the east but we are going to see those temperatures really start to stay moderate through the next couple of days from wednesday maybe coming up here on thursday but notice not a lot of rain there pushing across the region up towards brisbane though it's going to be a partly cloudy day a temperature of twenty five degrees and then very quickly over here towards new zealand we are looking at a nice day in auckland with a temperature of seventeen in christ church at about fifty degrees for you. it hurts a manager as much. as you tease brown's feelings for me he doesn't really need all these but. i am. done. with. my nigerian

on there. her again you're watching because there has reminded us of our top stories takis president is calling on the international community to take action to stop russian and syrian government attacks on the province of the warning comes as thousands of people have been displaced because of increasing as strikes that began last week on the rubble held territory. the u.s. has threatened sanctions against the international criminal court if it prosecutes its soldiers for war crimes and i.c.c. has responded saying it will continue its work on did. accuse the u.s.

of doing israel's bidding by allowing more illegal settlements and causing desperately needed aid to palestinians says the u.s. has left the negotiating table was breaking its own commitments made by president last yeah. and news just coming into us we're getting reports of a suicide blast in the east and afghanistan in the province of mango ha have afghan officials saying there were dozens of casualties we're hearing from our team in kabul the suicide bomber targeted a protest. and a government spokesman told him there around eight hundred people protesting local police when a suicide bomber exposed himself in midst of that protest will be keeping a close eye on that explosion in eastern afghanistan for you. now iraqi armed groups in bastrop have vowed to track down protesters who set fire to their offices in the past week promises body visited the city where people say corruption and

neglect are ruining their lives rob matheson has moved from baghdad. under pressure to resign the prime minister hide the body or arrives in the southern iraqi city of basra where protesters say his government is to blame for much of the corruption and neglect which have destroyed their water and power supplies and left thousands without jobs. what happened in a bathrobe was one hundred percent true to a political conflict unfortunately some political blocs have military wings and some of them wanted to burn down power throw off but thankfully there was stopped by the cooperation of the peaceful civilians yet they're going to get a body is facing calls for him to step down over the crisis in basra the iraqi government is deadlocked disputes over the result of an election in may have left politicians wrangling over power in basra fighters from the air and bite on the group known in english as the league of the righteous have paraded through the streets their headquarters is one of several private and government buildings

burned by protesters during a week of demonstrations against corruption which also targeted other pro iran shia groups the governor says the destruction is criminal part of many protest organizers and activists have denounced such actions and a criminal act should be denounced by the people of basra regardless of who had carried it out it is only allowed to have peaceful protests in order to deliver the people's messages to the government. three hundred kilometers to the north of basra is the city of samarra protesters there tried to storm the offices of the hickman political party but were pushed back by police the party's leader is shia cleric ahmad all hakim who is also part of the parliamentary coalition headed by fellow shia cleric. seen as a nationalist and anti iran solder is vowing to fight corruption he's demanded the protests should hold for forty five days in that time he says the government should

demonstrate that it's doing something to help but critics say this short visit by the prime minister won't achieve much. in basra there's a heavy military presence but there are fears that might incite more violence now there are armed groups too that could make politics and security even more complicated in basra rob matheson al jazeera back down. eighteen people have been killed in central line when a gas depo exploded it happened in the capital of state all than forty others were taken to hospital with serious burns. here and human rights chief has called on china to allow an independent investigation into allegations that mistreats hundreds of thousands of weekend muslims human rights watch accuses the chinese government of conducting a systematic campaign of rights violations in shin jan province and one com reports just practicing islam has become a problem for the chinese government. this man says he survived what the government

calls a reeducation camp muslim not enjoy any longer they want to exterminate muslim nations muslim writing muslim dress they are planning a nation that's a margin us everyone has to be chinese would turn it up but make it then and at the camp they taught us the national anthem songs praising mao zedong a song wishing one thousand years of life to president paying and the overall great history of china that you can download all the rights group says interviewed fifty eight people including mainly ethnic weakness and kazakhs they accuse officials of all the true detention religious repression and surveillance against thirteen million muslims the government says it set up the reeducation camps with the sole purpose of eradicating religious extremism and terrorism and secure what it calls ideological diseases. the un's new human rights chief of michelle bachelet has called on china to allow international monitors into asian yang to look into what

she calls a deeply disturbing situation human rights watch china director sophie richardson welcome the call but says much more needs done one of the challenges that everybody faces is of course chinese government restrictions on access to the region and beijing really has nothing to hide then it's time to correction i in areas perceived by beijing as. antigovernment hotspots many interviewee say half of their family members are in prison or in the so-called reeducation camps the report also cites what it calls a disturbing high tech mass of valence and says officials have a database of everyone's biometric data including their d.n.a. the chinese government has not yet commented on this report but it has denied accusations of mistreatment of muslims and jin yang it says the increased security measures a guard against the threat of separatists in the region iran card deserve. a second

meeting between donald trump and earn their first request by the north korean leader to the white house meanwhile a new u.s. envoy to pyongyang is on his first diplomatic visit to the region even begun as in seoul. and south korea's president says he wants to ease tensions along the border with north korea will visit pyongyang later this month has third meeting with the north korean leader talks are expected to focus on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula and regional stability. he went on now if we want to move on to the next stage where north korea abandons its nuclear weapons once again we need a grand conception and bold resolve from the leaders of north korea and the us north korea must dismantle its nuclear program and the us must respond with reciprocates of mrs in the process both countries must get rid of the deep distrust created from seventy year long hostilities i hope they resume the dialogue as soon as possible. lawyers for brazil's jailed former president. say he'll keep

fighting to run and next month's presidential election has been barred from running because of a corruption conviction in the supreme court has rejected his latest appeal on monday he met philander had dads who could replace him as the workers' party candidates are lost in america as to who said newman is encouraged. serving his sentence. it's a race against time for former president lula da silva and his workers party this is the federal police facility where the former president is serving out a twelve year prison sentence and it's here that the would be presidential candidate spent the day meeting with his running mate fernando had that it was widely expected that lula would give him a letter naming him as his successor to allow him to register in his stead as the party's candidate before a tuesday evening deadline for doing so runs out. outside supporters

who've been camped out in front of the prison facility remained on vigil. oh the man made them. we vote for lula's ideals we have a program for our country voting for dot voting it's the same thing for us because we are voting for a program but instead of a new candidate but they got was the message that is still not giving up hoping against the odds that one of two superior court appeals that he still has open will overturn an electoral court decision. ringing from running experts say it's highly unlikely that this will happen although legally lula still has options unless there's a favorable decision before september seventeenth it will be too late for him to run and that brings us back to the original question will lula and the workers' party risk it all and wait or will they give another candidate had that chance to run in lula's name they have almost no time left to decide. one million people in the u.s.

have been ordered to leave their homes as a powerful storm approaches the east coast conference is expected to make landfall on thursday in north or south carolina already a category four storm is projected to strengthen in the coming days you say people should leave the areas listed for evacuation by choose day the u.s. national hurricane center is warning of one hundred ninety kilometer an hour winds flooding and. laos is pushing ahead with plans to build more down the river a partial collapse of the dam in july killed at least thirty people the country says it wants to become asia's power source exporting electricity to its well their neighbors but critics warn of an environmental disaster when hay reports from child kong on neighboring neighboring thailand. fishing on the mekong river has never been an easy way to make a living but here where the river flows between thailand and laos fisherman say it's almost not worth the effort these days. in the past there were plenty of fish

here and they were big i could catch more than twenty every day now i've been fishing here for three days in a row and of course nothing for. many people in chiang kong northern thailand blame it on overfishing and dams built on the upper reaches of the mekong river in china the mekong is the largest inland fishery in the world and the people in this community for want the dam stopped they've been protesting against lao government plans to build a dam downstream from here in part bang which they say will impact the ability of fish to migrate up and down stream where it can chum comin up the dams that have already been built have changed the rivers by targeting them the currents have been altered which is causing the ecosystem to malfunction a coup. construction of two dams on the main stream of the lower mekong in laos is well underway there are plans for at least seven more including being the government wants to become the battery of south-east asia by exporting elektra's

from hydro power projects mainly to thailand much of the push to develop hydro power projects in laos is driven by electricity demand in thailand under the original proposal around ninety percent of the electricity generated by the pop bang dam was to be exported to thailand but that's now in doubt after the thais decided to hold off signing and agree. meant to purchase power from that project the electricity generating more authority of thailand wouldn't grant al-jazeera an interview but it seems it's realized that it may have enough power and would need to buy more from laos critics say another reason to reassess was july's partial collapse of a dam in southern laos which killed more than thirty people i think down business is quite being. sold there is no standout guideline save the procedure in case of back up you know when the dam breaks you know. the warning system roared

access to roche through a problem at the. the lao government says harnessing the energy of the mekong is vital to its plans for economic growth opponents believe the cost to the environment and livelihoods outweighs the benefits not only for laos but the whole region wayne hay al jazeera gen kong thailand. these are our top stories we're getting reports of at least twenty people being killed in afghanistan as bomber targeted protests and mandara district in eastern langar hall province around eight hundred people were gathering and protest against local police and the security instability in the region or the bringing more on the story as it develops turkey's president is calling on the international community to take action to stop russian and syrian government attacks on the province of their own incomes as thousands of people have been displaced because of increasing

as strikes that began last week on the rebel held territory. criminal court says it will continue its work although the u.s. has threatened sanctions against the court if it prosecutes its soldiers for war crimes security advisor john bolton also criticized palestinian efforts to bring israel before the i.c.c. for alleged war crimes. as a general and chief negotiator for the p.l.o. side erica has issued a statement questioning the u.s. as opposition to the i.c.c. . but. wants to dismantle the international order to ensure that it can stay above the laws and escape accountability if the u.s. is that much against international criminal court why did the u.s. lead the security council and trying to bring president imo to bashir of sudan to the international criminal court why did it support all

the applications against african leaders and the international criminal court i'm not going to speak of a double standard. i'm not going to go to the issue of racism i leave it to your thinking. leaders of ethiopia and eritrea celebrating the reopening of a joint border crossing for the first time since they fought a war twenty years ago the border post is on the main road linking the two horn of africa nations and our trial went to war in one thousand nine hundred eight and in disputes over this same border area tens of thousands of people were killed the move follows a peace deal in july russian president vladimir putin is holding talks with china's president xi jinping at the eastern economic forum and lot of austar the way the two leaders that meeting comes amid an escalating trade war between the u.s. and china and us as sanctions against russia have played out with all the headlines more news considering how on al-jazeera after my nigeria.

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stopping terrorism is creating a base is a dialogue and just the community is want to add to this conversation we need a president who's willing to be a villain or a short while everyone has a voice i'm part of civil society i need to go but i never get listened to by those in the corridors of both joining the global conversation. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha i'm martine denis coming up in the next sixty minutes. more israelis and the israelis they are more settlers than the settlers. palestinians say they'll continue their efforts at the international criminal court despite u.s.

threats. talk straight plays in geneva and fears of a humanitarian catastrophe in syria's italy province rise. pressure from the west russia's leader vladimir putin looks east. i'm joined again roscoe with the sport satire all racism a cartoon of serena williams outburst at the u.s. open is causing after all. the first we've got some breaking news coming from afghanistan reports of at least five people having been killed and thirteen injured in a suicide bomber apparently targeted protesters in mohmand daraa district that's in nangarhar province to the east of the country around eight hundred people were gathering in protest against local police and this security instability in the

region we will continue to follow this story as it develops. the outpost signs chief negotiator says the united states is an unreliable broker in attempts for peace talks with israel. the pair of those sexy generals saw it at a cattle have accused the trump of ministration of doing israel's bidding by allowing more illegal settlement building and cussing desperately needed aid his remarks come a day after the u.s. announced it shutting down the p.l.o. his mission in washington d.c. . well a cat says the u.s. is a recent behavior tools of palestinian shows that it's not committed to peace what the united states has done so far they have left the negotiating table they did not honor the commitments made to us by president trump personally and the meeting at the white house and method two thousand and seventeen which he believed that he would give a peace process chance for one year and he would refrain from any actions that may

preempt or prejudge issues that are there for parents to address. and then he decides that jerusalem as israel's capital and he decides to fiji's from that file of negotiations and he decides that settlements are illegal yesterday his national security adviser bolton became the first american official to describe their legal settlements as housing projects because of the two state solution six seven and then they threaten us and they come to them because of this and they come back and they close offices because we didn't come back to the negotiating table what negotiating table in every single meeting we had with them when it was the vem them with us but there's really very few. so what the united states have done with all its decisions so far and we never for any thought to have a confrontation with the u.s. by the way but how can anyone in their sin mind with all these american decisions

drum's decisions believe that these people can be honest brokers facilitators arbitrators in any peace process. the international criminal court the i.c.c. says it will continue to do its work on deterred the u.s. is threatening sanctions against the i.c.c. if it sees an investigation into american troops in afghanistan the national security adviser john bolton confirmed the u.s. is closing diplomatic mission in washington here's our white house correspondent kimberly how it. protests in the west bank is news filtered out washington was making good on its threat national security advisor john bolton made it official the u.s. is closing the washington office of the palestine liberation organization effort to put pressure on palestinians to return to the negotiating table amid stalled peace talks with israel the trumpet ministration will not keep the office open when the palestinians refused to take steps to start direct and meaningful negotiations with

israel the threat of the mission's closure seen by many as retaliation for actions by the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas last year at the united nations calling for the investigation and prosecution of israeli officials to the international criminal court you see actions in raged many in the united states who see the i.c.c. as a body rife with abuses and an infringement on u.s. sovereignty on monday bolton called for criminal sanctions against the i.c.c. if it moves ahead with investigating allegations of us were crimes in afghanistan those sanctions could even include blocking i.c.c. judges from entering the united states the united states will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court senior palestinian officials are enraged by the u.s. announcement following similar announcements of cuts to palestinian aid the move of

the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. and is blind to ongoing israeli settlement expansion this is an administrative mission this administration is that sort of a nation and. its policies of blackmail and extortion and undermining the peace process and. the palestinian mission opened in one nine hundred ninety four here in washington and palestinian leaders have long held that any closure of this office would undermine peace efforts despite ignoring these warnings the trumpet ministration says it's still committed to peace could roll out its plan in the coming months kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington but we've been speaking to jimmy doll who is director of the human rights program at the american civil liberties union and he says the u.s. is treating the i.c.c. judges as if they're war criminals. it's

a really very very dangerous act by by someone who really has been hostile and mr bolton himself as was mentioned earlier was a bush administration ambassador to the u.n. and within that administration he he went against i see now he has a chance under trump to not only to shut down the investigation as the united states but also to undermine the credibility of the i.c.c. as one of the foremost and the most important judicial bodies that is in charge of fighting impunity and i think this is really important and this is part and parcel of a general policy of the u.s. in particular under trump to deny any for injuries diction with regard to u.s. war crimes or crimes against humanity we saw the u.s. going to europe to germany to spain even under the obama administration pressuring those countries to sgt loz investigations that attempted to do what the u.s. government and the u.s. judicial system failed to do that is to hold the bush administration officials

accountable for the very serious crimes committed in the in the armed conflict in afghanistan china's president xi jinping is meeting the russian president vladimir putin invited all stopped during the recent economic forum the three day meeting brings together the leaders of russia china japan and south korea as well as five thousand delegates from sixty countries it will be the two leaders said meeting comes amid an escalating u.s. china trade war and us that sanctions against russia challenge has the latest from that of a stock. opening his meeting with cheating paying putin said that the two countries were working together in a spirit of trust and that they had much that they call could cooperate on politically economically and militarily as well now there is good strategic sense in russia and china getting closer together at the moment they're both eurasian

neighbors with each other they share a border they have huge countries china has a vast economy that it needs to keep fed with resources and russia has lots of natural resources now they are working together in the military sphere as well as groups in painted out there the stock two thousand and eighteen military drills just starting in russia's far east and china has been invited to take part in that now that's a sensible move from the russian part because it shows to china that any fears that beijing might have that these drills are actually focused on china are untrue and it also gives russia and china two countries that are trying to modernize and strengthen their armies navies and air forces at the moment via valuable experience at working together with each other now the chinese commitments is in huge say three thousand two hundred troops and thirty aircraft parts it does perhaps show

them that they can work together that they could at some point integrate weapon systems and command structures and of course it sends a message to the west as well russia and china both have an increasingly antagonistic relationship with the united states and. if say push came to shove and there was any future conflict or the russian trying to don't have nato levels of alliance or coordination perhaps they might fight alongside each other and you know if donald. penne power relationship with kim jong un ever gets boring for the u.s. president and he decides to consider seriously a military strike against north korea and these sorts of games are just the kind of thing that military planners in washington d.c. will be taking into account. delegations from russia iran and turkey a meeting in geneva for a second day of talks on italy the last rebel on klav in syria the u.n.

says thousands of people have already been displaced as syrian government and russian air strikes continue the population obviously has swelled over the years of conflict with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced syrians aid organizations home that any military campaign to retake the region would spark a humanitarian crisis we've got two of our correspondents on the story of syria we got seventy deca who's in antakya that's in southern turkey right on the border with syria first so let's go to david chaytor who's in geneva where those talks are taking place and david no doubt these are the people who are meeting these delegations or the meeting who are considered representatives of the guarantor countries will be talking about italy which must be top of the agenda given the disaster that is looming according to so many sources now.

martin you might say that but staffan de mistura who is the u.n. special envoy for syria has said he's very anxious that the regional plan for this meeting is not hijacked by events in italy what they're supposed to be discussing here what they were due to be discussing was in fact the forming a constitutional committee of some forty members to redraft syria's constitution and kick start the political process but of course they will be discussing now the the situation's humanitarian situation in libya and i've been talking to n.g.o.s here about exactly what is needed they say that there are some five hundred doctors there five thousand medical workers some fifty hospitals and two hundred medical centers now that might sound a lot but you're dealing with three million people in the province and they've learned a lesson from eastern guta and many of these medical facilities.