we demand one thing that they be given their freedom and that they be allowed to return and what israel has deliberately done is gun them down the mere fact that the protests started you think it's a call to people conscience to say why is it that two million people have been forced to live in a situation in gaza that the israelis have imposed upon them people are caged in unable to leave unable to have the basic elements of of of freedom and of dignity all because israel continues to impose a brutal siege on them on the israeli army has closed roads leading to the village of qana hama in occupied east jerusalem which is scheduled for demolition scuffles have broken out between soldiers and palestinian protesters who were angry at israel's decision to flatten the village to make way for the building of illegal settlements last week israel's supreme court gave the go ahead to reject c.n.n. feel sorry for as it has more from common. it was a couple of hours before midday prayers here in kandahar on friday that the israeli

forces moved in it was israeli security forces and and mechanical earthmover of that vehicle put up some barricades to some of the smaller access points to the village and also during that time they were installed sun large metal swing gates that give access from the main israeli fire way through a tunnel under that highway here to the village so it seems that this is the latest phase of preparations ahead of this impending demolition there were some scuffles some confrontations during that period it has now though quiet and down again for the residents of this village though it does seem that there are increasing moments of activity as israeli forces come in and really pave the way for this demolition if and when it happens the plan is for them to be removed to a satellite town on the eastern fringes of occupied east jerusalem the international community many members the international media are very much against

this those european parliament resolution on thursday opposing this one on the grounds that it effect that it is in violation of international humanitarian law by creating this forcible removal of the other one of course is about the future of a possible palestinian state that what they fear is that this is paving the way for more illegal settlement building in this very sensitive area which could really affect the territorial integrity of such a state the question now is when this operation will start in earnest we're moving into the jewish sabbath there are jewish holidays in store in the beginning in the middle of next week so there are limited occasions it seems for the israelis to move in it may well be that they will do so after those holidays next week. super typhoon monkhood has made landfall in the northeastern philippines more than five million people are risk from two hundred forty kilometer an hour winds which make many good equivalent to consecrate five her can thousands of people have already

been evacuated from the area she has been gauging the mood before the typhoon hit northern. we drove around to get her out city today and spoke to civilians who are now taking shelter in several schools across the city they tell us they were forcefully evacuated of course for good reasons because they were in the storm's path more than six million people are expected to be affected here in the region of luzon alone and that is expected to hit hard not just this area but also across the country and that is because the region of luzon is the food basket of the philippines majority of those evacuated those who are in the storms are farmers and fishermen who now say that beyond the immediate security threat that they're facing they're also concerned about the loss of their livelihood this is why some of them in fact refused to leave their farms and their cattle behind and

that's something that the government understands it understands the need for that beyond the immediate emergency response there is an economical impact that must be taken cared of and of course since two thousand and thirteen the philippine government believes it has learned its lessons from the very devastating typhoon haiyan and then it remains to be seen just how prepared the government is now what we know though are civilians continuously taking shelter fearing for their lives and just basically dreading something that they've gone through several times before. tempers have flooded a gathering of the international whaling commission in brazil the proposal led by japan to lift a thirty two year ban on the commercial hunting of whales has been rejected by the global conservation body the move was backed by forty one members with twenty seven votes in the games two member states russia and south korea abstained while one monica did not participate a lot in america to lose in human is in the brazilian city of florida where the

vote took place there were many contentious proposals here at the sixty seventh international whaling commission meeting in friday on all parties but by far the most controversial was the proposal put forward by japan with the support of countries like norway and iceland and in fact a lot of small the civic island nations as well the idea was to allow for what they call sustainable commercial whaling to end the band that was imposed in one nine hundred eighty six japan argues that it's time to revisit the whole thing says that the whales are no longer in danger of extinction that science would indicate that this is the case of course those opposed vehemently to lifting the ban say exactly the opposite in the end japan's proposal was struck down by a quite large number of votes but japan has come back saying that after this it may withdraw from the i.w.c. altogether which means that it may be a very short lived victory for conservationists north and south korea have opened

a joint liaison office in the north border town of qana song it establishes a permanent channel of communication for two nations that have no formal diplomatic relations it comes just days before south korean president is juge to meet the north korean leader kim jong un for a second time from slowly as more. another step towards cooperation and perhaps pianist's officials from north and south korea officially open an office in the border town of in north korea. starting from today. and discuss issues regarding the improvement of history and relations with peace and prosperity of the three interviews twenty four hours and three hundred sixty five days we will meet face to face and to exchange ideas and solve difficult problems together. it's a first for the two countries who are technically still at war when the korean war

and at sixty five years ago they signed an armistice but not a peace treaty and went into korean relations were at their lowest officials had to communicate using loud hailer across the border. by opening the north-south jointly . candidly discussed issues regarding into korean relations and take necessary measures relations between the two countries have improved this year there was the historic summit between south korean president. and north korean leader kim jong il and that led to another first a summit between a sitting u.s. president and a north korean leader which brought renewed optimism that north korea may dismantle its nuclear weapons program but things haven't quite progressed as hoped a recent report by the u.n. nuclear agency says north korea is still developing nuclear bombs last month u.s. president donald trump canceled secretary of state visit to pyongyang at the last

minute citing the lack of progress in denuclearization talks but south korea is still committed to improving ties with the north leaders from the two countries will meet next week and the white house has said it's open to holding a second summit with north korea and understanding perhaps that the best way to neutralize a new. threats from north korea is to keep the lines of communication open science truly al-jazeera. a huge film has made landfall in the united states a rescue attempt is underway in north carolina off to hearken florence that hundreds of people who ignored evacuation advice of waiting to escape their flooded homes almost five hundred thousand homes are out of power with many towns surrounded by floodwaters the slow moving cats agree one hearkened is expected to drop up to eight months worth of rain in the next few days. we're tracking the storm around the clock we were to touch the storms in areas that

run the storm i just talked to the neighbor right here. he will be ready to get them where they need help. through this challenging. let's say trying to get to her joins us live from wilmington north carolina and the eight months of rain in just a few days it's going to be a terrifying proposition this is not. i mean i think that's the most the most dangerous threat of the moment from this storm because it seems that certainly here in wilmington north carolina we've escaped the worst of it even though the eye of the storm came ashore here around seven o'clock in the morning at one point to note is that all down at the cape fear river a couple of hours ago the end of the street here off to my right and that's flowing in the wrong direction because the ocean is just this dome is pushing the ocean water up if that christs that could cause problems here certainly some of the communities north of us have been inundated with flood waters was heard about this

rescue attempts the shelters there are filling up but the big keith right now is the fact that hurricane florence is just lingering in this area and one hundred twenty centimeters of rain predicted over the next couple of days past storm surge may have not been as big as forecasts a semi was going to be but assuming that rain will cause a lot of problems for both north and south carolina but it's important to note also this is a very slow moving storm a very slow moving unfolding situation so it's hard to say just what that rain will do but certainly here woman to may seem to escape the worst of it plenty of locals here ignored those mandatory evacuation orders and i think they're breathing a sigh of relief having had made the right choice certainly just for here in wilmington but it's far from over that storm is moving at about walking pace it's going to be here for at least another two days and tell us a little bit about the infrastructure and what's at risk there.

well i mean basically what i'm one analytical firm was talking about one hundred fifty hundred sixty billion dollars with the damage but we were thinking this morning we were going to wake up and see the first floor of all these buildings behind is inundated with that tidal surge that didn't happen here it hasn't happened in other places as bad as the forecasters predicted but that rain is the issue to look at because the storm isn't going anywhere it's lingering it's powerful it's very big and it's very wet. that is eight months of rain and a couple of days you can only imagine what i will do on top of a storm of this size i do thanks very much indeed speech game is the day goes on that i'm going. it's been two years since the iraqi army drove i still find is out of fallujah but the city is still struggling to recover the government has been working on reconstruction projects creating jobs and handing out compensation but many residents say that little has changed and that resources are being unfairly distributed from madison reports now from baghdad. for two years the people of

fallujah have been struggling to rebuild much of the city was destroyed in twenty sixteen as iraqi forces battled eisel fighters some residents who live through the devastation say little has changed. electricity and services is so weak in the city as for the compensation there is now neighborhoods are almost entirely devastated my house is completely destroyed but i haven't received any fair compensation. that compensation is vital for people who've lost jobs businesses and homes they say the money is in gold is fairly distributed. we haven't had fair compensation so far our house was destroyed and the entire neighborhood was leveled to the ground compensation is being granted only for those who have ties with the corrupt officials who have no connection or sometimes getting half the compensation they should get volusia in the center of iraq has been a battleground for decades suffering some of the highest casualty numbers in the

one nine hundred ninety one gulf war in two thousand and four u.s. forces invaded and forced gunmen from control of the city after the fall of saddam hussein. by spring twenty fourteen large areas had been seized by eisold fighters. two years later fallujah was freed after a long seized by the iraqi army but much of it had been destroyed the local government says it's rebuilding as fast as it can and that's giving some iraqis hope for the future. but when we got back to fallujah after the liberation we saw so much destruction and we estimated at least five years for the total reconstruction of fallujah now we're seeing some sort of efforts to rebuild the reconstruction of fallujah as part of a bigger building program in iraq which is being managed from here in baghdad at the ministry of construction and housing budgets are tight and it's up to the individual cities to manage the money to get. new projects are needed to improve

things after i sold and also to fix the huge damage that affected the city as a whole this would require much support from the central government. but getting the proper compensation would help more people than for live from day to day rob matheson. back to start on this life on less than two dollars a day watchdogs warned there is no end in sight for the hundreds of millions living in extreme poverty. nearly ten years on from the financial crash to shock the world we meet one family still feeling the effects. however we've still got a fair amount of warmth into much of europe will see temperatures again getting into the high twenty's and thirty degree mark for some areas of cloud to go

somewhere whether they're just around australia czech republic and parts of germany into poland and over towards that western side of russia but coming behind warm sunshine largely clear skies there for a good part of france and spain part of england too and into southern parts of well so temperatures get up to around twenty two celsius there for paris twenty one inch it is still getting up into the thirty's for madrid that a bit of cloud around that western side of the med into southern parts of france but the thick of clout the lively showers are a little further east so we have got some wet weather there just pushing into ukraine just coming out of powder want to see showers system around the balkans as well and also around the black sea but lots of warmth around more warmth more sunshine as we go into sunday temps getting into the mid twenty's for paris could touch twenty two in london with thirty degrees there in madrid still some bits and pieces of cloud and some rain just around the iberian peninsula and that cloud of

rain also affecting the far north america as we go through saturday and little wet for northern area. overthrown and exiled them point and say we'll all miss you an intimate film about the struggle of the elected leader of madagascar to return to his country and reinstate his presidency you know. so your state might pump and hold a news conference at the state department let's have a listen and. you know like who are doing such good work that our government's help is there and we still continue to encourage every american who is in the threatened path to listen to government officials and and take heed to their words were also aware that there's a typhoon in the pacific ocean right now which will take a toll on our friends of the philippines our prayers are with them as well state

teams are ready to deliver the propre help to the region at the right time. as you all know on wednesday president signed an executive order that made clear that our administration will not tolerate foreign interference in our democratic processes elections are the foundation of our democracy and preserving their integrity is a matter of protecting sovereignty and american national security foreign malicious hackers have used information technology and social media to open new fronts in their efforts to undermine our democracy in our core institutions these actors want to turn americans against one another and convince us that our institutions are deals for defective but we're resolved to defeat these efforts and make clear that those who in a few with our interfere with our liberties will pay a price in the last few years russia's been particularly aggressive in using its cyber capabilities this information and other covert means to attempt to sow

instability in america as this executive order makes clear for sure any other foreign government or persons acting on their behalf interfere in a united states election there will be swift and severe consequences. the order provides for mandatory sanctions against board persons determined or participated participated in interference in our elections it also provides for additional measures that could be capable of devastating or interfering in our country's economy. and if the government of the country authorized director sponsor support of election affairs we're going to come after them the state department will continue to work closely with other agencies to identify expose and expose foreign interference directed against american elections no matter which and tittie initiated it will also continue to work with our partners around the world to stand against these threats to democracy wherever and however they rear their head i want

to spend just a few minutes on this friday afternoon talking about the team here at the state department as well yes there was a great day as a proud day after senate confirmation present term conferred on four of officers the position of career ambassador for the state department's finest philip goldberg david hale undersecretary for political affairs michele sis and dan smith. this is the highest and most prestigious rank at the foreign service they should all be very proud i know i'm proud of them the american people too should be proud of phil david michelle and dan representing our country they have all proven over many years of service that their outstanding diplomatic skills and leadership qualities are much needed and that they are delivering their inspiration to their great leaders i congratulate them all on behalf of all of my state department colleagues it's a good step toward strength of the state department leadership something i put at the top of my priorities that in my first now several months here i know that

american diplomacy is most agile most effective we have our entire team in place we need to have that senior leadership team empowered to that end we do have some new leaders are already making an impact i mentioned david hale spender secretary for political affairs. we also have director of policy planning karen skinner who i've not mentioned at the podium before she is a highly distinguished academic knowledgeable across a broad range of issues she's going to make sure the best foreign policy ideas rise to the top here in the state department. when i went before the senate foreign relations committee i only made a couple of promises about one of them was that i would get the team on the field i knew that this was critical to a strengthening the finest diplomatic corps in the world and that's what i said that day i told them i'd do my part that i would fill those positions would work with the president to get the individuals nominated and we have made great progress getting conformable positions filled and we need that progress to continue the

places where we still have gaps places like western hemisphere where we have challenges in venezuela and nicaragua. and in mexico and the northern triangle important areas we need a leader we haven't had an undersecretary for management here for quite some time we need a confirmed person and in near eastern affairs a place that i've spent a great deal of my time in these first months we are still looking for a confirmation of our system secretary the list is long i could go on and i am just hopeful that we can finish the process so that. both the executive and legislative branch will have what it is i know each of us wants to fully feel capable team executing america's foreign policy. and with that happy to take a few questions. on. one. short. good afternoon. i wasn't asked you about your interior decorating plans of your new

house but i thought i would sit in stead start with something a little bit more monday on the policy wise and that is that the ball is on a policy question that is that last night president trump tweeted about one of your predecessors secretary kerry saying that he was having quote unquote illegal meetings with iran's foreign minister and what others have said is of temple undermine or subvert or coach iranians on how to get around or avoid the new your new hard hard cover policy and i'm wondering if you share the president's view that these meetings are illegal and whether you do or not. if you have noticed in your attempts to get the europeans and others to get them on board with the new u.s. policy and that efforts by secretary kerry or any other foreign or former official for that matter as is interfering in or undermining your your efforts soley the legal determination is to others. but what secretary kerry

has done is unseemly and unprecedented this is a former secretary of state engaged with the world's largest state sponsor of terror and according to him right i don't have to take my word forty these are his answers he was he was talking and he was telling them to wait out this administration. you can't find precedent for this in u.s. history and. secretary not to secretary kerry not to engage in that kind of behavior it's inconsistent with what foreign policy the united states is as directed by this president and it is beyond inappropriate for him to be engaged as i remember i saw him i saw him in munich. at the security conference he was there with if i have my facts right i think i saw them all with

my own eyes secretary monet's and wendy sherman the troika and i am confident that they met with their troika counterparts although one can perhaps asked secretary kerry if my recollection with respect to that is accurate. i wasn't in the meeting but i am reasonably confident that he was not there in support of u.s. policy with respect to the islamic republic of iran who this week fired katyusha rockets toward the united states embassy in baghdad and took action against our consulate in basra. where i disagree it hasn't had an impact is it or your efforts that's just it or. i think you i think you understand what i wish it is that former secretaries of state all of them from either political party not to be engaged in actively undermining u.s. policy actively undermining u.s.

policy as a former secretary of state is literally unheard of. right. secretary get up today and i want to reach out to you i regarding russia and china suggesting at the security council that you should be the united states and others should be easing sanctions against north korea even. progress in their. denuclearization faces what signs are you seeing that they are perhaps not sticking to the sanctions and how is it damaging you and it's a trying to get a fool denuclearization. so two things to say in this regard. one is that i spoke with ambassador hill about this earlier today russia has actively attempted to undermine the u.n. security council resolutions they work of the seventeen eighteen committee the committee at the u.n. that evaluates compliance with sanctions by time to change the language there i

hope that the seventeen eighteen committee will do what it has historically done. remain independent and report on the facts of the know it and not allow a single country in this case russia to draft language and have it in sort of i hope they will publish the original document that they intended to publish which shows. that it shows it shows clear activities related to sanctions and sanctions violations it's important it's the data set that underlays not american sanctions but the world sanctions from the u.n. security council. your question was broader than just that. the united states is as committed as ever to continuing to enforce those u.n. security council resolutions we believe they are central to president trump's efforts to convince chairman kim that full final denuclearization of the korean peninsula is necessary and that it needs to be done. in

a way that the world can see that there's been this strategic change in chairman kim core understanding of how he will provide a better future for the north korean people he said it at the summit in singapore and we are still continue to have many conversations with the d.p. r. k. about how to effectuate and cheating all the commitments that were made during that singapore some of these. thank you good afternoon mr secretary unsub by september thirtieth the administration has to give a determination or a decision to congress about the levels of refugees that will be admitted into the u.s. for the next fiscal year and there seems to be a debate or a discussion among some who are thinking of it as more of a national security issue and want to keep the levels consistent at a level around forty five thousand while there are some that think it should be significantly lower than in the twenty thousands i'm not sure if you want to give

a specific amount but can you talk to us about your thoughts about how you're seeing the level of refugees that should be coming in in the near future. so there there will be an announcement soon that the date the deadline is in fact this fiscal year and so i'm i'm confident that the national security team will deliver the president's recommendation will make its decision about the appropriate level it is absolutely a national security decision and it is also worth everyone here remembering. that this is the most generous of nations when it comes to accepting persons from outside of our country. i'm incredibly proud not only what we have done as a historical matter but the way the trumpet ministration has dealt with this issue as well i am confident that the decision that comes out of this issue with respect to refugees for next fiscal year america will remain among the most generous

nations with respect to taking persons from outside of our country we always have and i fully expect will lead leave the state my pump it was he held his press conference said last night he said the state department talking about that many manifold things from foreign interference in the democratic process to form such a state john kerry and his involvement with iran and indeed talking about russia saying that russia has actively work to undermine u.n. sanctions on north korea that is compare. the palestinian president has slammed comments made by jarred cushion of the u.s. president's son in law and one of his top aides on thursday krishna was quoted in the new york times saying palestinian leaders deserve to lose a lot of in a fine the u.s. administration the palestinian presidential spokesman said that his comments showed ignorance krishna's the comments come off the troubles decision to cut all funding to an era an agency for the palestinian refugees well the statements come as u.s.

officials say they're in the predawn phase of their long awaited middle east peace plan a white house correspondent can be how it has more on the story. president trump's son in law gary cushion our is defending the administration's hard line tactics when it comes to trying to achieve peace between the israelis and the palestinians of course in recent weeks the administration has taken a number of hard line positions including closing the p.l.o. office here in washington cutting aid to the palestinians and of course the moving of the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem so despite this string of punitive actions christian or says that and insists in fact that this will have no effect on efforts to achieve peace between the israelis and the palestinians in fact he says this will improve chances because what he believes has occurred is that the united states has stripped away what christian are calls quote false realities but

a former u.s. ambassador to israel under president george w. bush insists that gerrard kirshner misunderstands the intricacies of the process think with comments reveal is a basic ignorance about how to negotiate a complex deal he thinks as he said in the article that this is another real estate venture and maybe this kind of activity works in real estate but it's not going to work here when you have a party that has independent decision making on the part of the palestinians just as the israelis do the party is doesn't see any benefits and only is seeing the pain being inflicted by u.s. policy. christer is defending the u.s. approach saying this is a radical break from the past indeed it is a break from the framework that has existed for decades the oslo accords still insists that peace is achievable even though essentially one side has been shut out

of these negotiations before they've even started and that is the palestinian still question or says that the united states is set to unveil its plan is peace plan in the coming months every new tippin is being made for hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day the overseas development institute says drastic changes need to be made in order to eliminate extreme poverty the world bank defines extreme poverty is living on less than one dollar ninety cents per person per day eight hundred million people survive on that now and that number is expected to have by twenty thirty but the london based think tank says that extreme poverty will persist without increased investment in health education and in social protection is calling for an immediate redistribution of international aid with a focus on countries which are the most vulnerable fourteen million south africans are currently living in extreme poverty the government there along with the world leaders has set

a goal to eliminate extreme poverty by twenty thirty but economists say that south africa is unlikely to meet this talk that meeting miller has more from johannesburg . the sprawling township of soweto is rich in contrast while there is a growing middle class in a vibrant economy many here live in poverty one of those people is rosy. she's unemployed and looks after four grandchildren with a government pension of one hundred dollars a month. it's too little money to feed four growing boys the money runs out before the month is over with struggle to survive she brings the children to this community center with they have what is often their only meal of the day government statistics show that poverty levels have increased since twenty eleven with fourteen million south africans now living in extreme poverty surviving on less than a dollar a day thirty million south africans live in poverty that's just over half the population and most of those affected are children while the government launched

a national development plan to eradicate poverty by twenty thirty levels are still rising the poorest of the poor live on just thirty five dollars a month spending a third of that on food reported by the overseas development institute says that up to sixty countries are unlikely to eliminate extreme poverty by twenty thirty almost a third us of africans are unemployed often relying on the government social grants to survive but with low economic growth economists say this is not sustainable real progress singular on direction when the moment of population growth is higher then are we can on the growth of population growth rate as more than one and a half percent per annum or economic growth rate as we all know is if they get there if we are in a recession and are sort of salt of the on the back of pickup prices so for africans getting poorer according to the o.d.i.

the world is managed to more than half the number of people living in extreme poverty still hundreds of millions like rosie continued to be at the burden of hardship for me to al-jazeera johannesburg. talk is president is accusing the united states of launching an economic attack that has caused the turkish lira to for forty percent against the u.s. dollar this year the central bank has raised interest rates to try and stop the currency crisis despite strong opposition from president president resupply put away at the six percent increase to twenty four percent cause an immediate rise in the value of the lira blame the banks mistakes for the high inflation before its rate rise decision or joel rubin as a former u.s. deputy assistant sector state and he says the interest rate increases that turkey has a central bank independent of the government the fact that the central bank raise interest rates in order to stem inflation to deal with that change rate with the united states and strengthen the euro that that's

a strong sign and western economies need to have independent central banks we can't have presidents a controlling monetary policy that's when economy is really going through its nelson and so while the economic situations difficulties are great this is a good signal to international markets that central bank is taking seriously the fiscal house getting that in order and demonstrating that the management of the economy isn't as strong as that the people leaving the finance ministry as well and those advisors around the president they really need to demonstrate that they have a plan to rescue our service economy from this period if they don't that will decrease international cautions what outside today marks the tenth anniversary of the collapse of the u.s. investment bank lehman brothers which triggered the worst financial crisis since the great depression a loss the effects reach across the world its roots lay in small towns in the united states and vulnerable families pursuing the dream of home ownership rob reynolds has been to meet some of the victims. what was the why just

before the crash life was good for betty nikka nor her parents and her kids they'd recently bought a brand new house our house was just huge it was a really big house it had five bedrooms four bathrooms all of all of that it just seemed so perfect but the dream house proved to be a cruel illusion a salesman had convinced her father may nardo to sign an adjustable rate mortgage on a property worth seven hundred fifty thousand dollars but the family's income was only sixty thousand dollars a year in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine the area's housing prices plummeted like they did nationwide and their home payments rose higher and higher unable to make the monthly payments they reached out to their bank and we tried to refinance they wouldn't help us three weeks later menard zero lost his job and the dream house was sold what was the home worth by the three thirty and you

bought it at seven hundred seventy thousand dollars yes and it was worth less than yes the family wound up nearly broke with their credit ruined i would get her for three years i know this area of california riverside county was one of the hardest hit during the housing collapse and the recession it had the third highest rate of home foreclosures in the entire us. fabian casarez his organization helps low income people with home ownership it was chaos here we were ground zero the market was just you know upside down here it was it was it was chaos it was total chaos and you know it took years to get out of it and i was there and i was still going to say that was the limit the nikken orse struggled to get back on their feet my mom was the one who took it the hardest she went into depression you know my dad was just like broken into he was like you know i can't

believe this happened to was gloria nikken or suffered a series of strokes and heart attacks and earlier this year may nardo nick and nora was diagnosed with colon cancer he's had surgery and has to wear a portable chemotherapy pump but he continues to work every day the nick ignores have saved some money and are now in the process of buying a modest house nearby a step toward security after a decade pain robert oulds al-jazeera parents california. in washington the congressional black caucus is holding its annual conference it's made up of african-american members of congress trying to ensure that marginalized communities can achieve the american dream but critics have long accused the group of wanting to be part of the establishment instead of challenging it she had written and this report. massachusetts made history

last week iowa presently a ten term congressman by almost twenty points despite being outspent she will now almost certainly be the state's first african-american member of the house of representatives and as with so many successful progressive candidates she built a coalition of young white voters and minorities on a platform of the right to health care education and economic and social justice. policies that have become so ingrained in our daily lives this to a bar most convinced ourselves that there wasn't anything we could do about. but as we now know. when. one group was notable for withholding its support in fact it supported white opponents the congressional black caucus for president supporters that wasn't really a shock were clear about what cyber were on the side of grassroots rather thought of working people were on the side of an insurgent left. that's talking about the

issues that folks have been have been frankly in the black community these are issues that that we've been in front of as black voters unfortunately there's been a centrist political class that's been sort of stymieing that debate and now it's coming to the fore here at the c.b.c.'s annual conference delegates can see the blast left. a multi-racial electorate across the country and winning with candidates who argue the goal isn't just to fit in to the u.s. a social and economic system but to transform it even to overthrow it but the c.b.c. has long been criticized for seeming to argue that all black america ones is to fit in corporate america pours tens of millions of dollars into the c.b.c. and questions have long been raised as to how the bounce affected the policy positions of c.b.c. members from weakening financial regulations on the banks accused of predatory

lending to black communities to voting for the militarization of the police or the expansion of the us is wars abroad the congressional black caucus said it was unable to provide us with a representative to interview. the polls show that fear of trump will not suffice to get voters to the ballot box candidates offering genuine alternatives will in two thousand and seven the c.b.c. didn't even endorse barack obama preferring hillary clinton now it faces the same questions that led to that decision what does the c.b.c. stand for and does it comprehend the changes taking place in the united states she ever time c.l. jazeera washington. thirteen members of an aid organization have been arrested and charged in greece they're being accused of smuggling refugees into europe among them is a syrian swimmer who helped save the lives of eighteen refugees when their boat sank in the mediterranean sea john's reports has more from the greek island of lesbos on the front line of the refugee crisis. the emergency response

center international or c.i. which operated on the island of lesbos is now closed thirty of its members facing charges in greece including spying and alleged people trafficking if convicted they could face life imprisonment it means refugee rescue is now the only group operating in the aegean sea it's cruise inform the greek coast guard each time they go out so they're not suspected of acting in secret we understand our ability to operate is contingent on the fact that they trust us and they recognize that we are the that we are very skilled that we are very professional cia says it followed exactly the same protocol its founder spoke to us from an undisclosed location as he prepared to turn himself in to authorities we were working. we were.

private search and rescue has become politically controversial charities like the i seek to work with or for agrees to bring as many asylum seekers as possible safely onto european shores but european policy is increasingly keen for non european coast guards to keep refugees in the middle east and north africa the european union's twenty sixteen agreement with turkey and italy's bilateral agreement with libya last year have helped cut refugee numbers to europe by ninety percent compared to twenty fifteen among the e.r.c. i members facing charges is twenty three year old sarah martini a syrian refugee who with her sister used a lympics swimmer saved eighteen refugees from a sinking boat in twenty fifteen says that on the dates of several of the alleged

offenses she can prove she was in germany where she has been granted asylum and enrolled in college he says the police evidence is scant then warden of this guy he wanted to charge of espionage is based mainly on the fact that some people have listened on the radio conversations between the greek and your pain coastguards these conversations which you referred to a state secrets all took place in open channels anyone can listen to open channels in fact sailors are obliged to tune into channel twelve so they can hear the coast guard so this is no state secret or espionage the shifting politics of asylum in europe have militarized borders and cast suspicion on open hearted humanitarianism distinguishing this from criminal activity is an increasingly frequent challenge jumpstart ople us al-jazeera lesbos. plenty more of course on a website is not in the direction of that al-jazeera dot com is the address among the top stories trending there is the super typhoon in the philippines the top

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refining all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests they're more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international list of threatened species. oh on the clock and a lot of the top stories here on out is there the u.s. president's former campaign manager has pleaded guilty to two criminal charges as part of a deal with special counsel robert mueller full mana ford has agreed to cooperate with his investigation into russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election. as the latest. he was walked into court with a kind of swagger promising he would fight till the end but the end came today

a subdued paul man afore told the court he would plead guilty to two felonies and hopes for lesser prison sentence cooperate with special counsel robert mueller the tough day for mr balfour for his accepting responsibility and. he wanted to make sure that his family resample you remain safe and live a good life he's accepted responsibility and this is for conduct that dates back many years the charges date from a decade ago but run through twenty sixteen when metaphor was working to get donald trump elected president they involve work he did for the progress in government in the ukraine and ties to russian oligarchs he is the highest official yet to flip he once had the title of trump's campaign chairman and he was in the meeting with the kremlin linq lawyer who promised dirt on hillary clinton the president's son and son in law were there too they say there was no dirt man a fort will now tell prosecutors if that is true the president had called man

a fort brave for resisting and not flipping and somewhat unusually he has yet to tweet about this development but the white house released a statement saying quote this had absolutely nothing to do with the president or his victorious two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign muller will ultimately decide if that is in fact true and now he has one more key witness to help him figure it out patty calling al jazeera washington. the rebels in yemen say fifteen people have been killed in saudi emirates he led coalition asterix in the port city of how data fighting there has escalated as the coalition tries to take a day to from rebel forces the two sides are battling for control of kilos sixteen highway the main supply route from the port city to the capital sana meanwhile saudi arabia says it has intercepted a missile five by the rebels in yemen and a statement published in saudi state media military forces say the ballistic missile was fired towards the city of jazz and they say the rebels have so far

fired one hundred ninety five in cells toward saudi arabia killing one hundred twelve civilians antigovernment demonstrations have been held across syria the protesters are angry at plans to launch a massive military offensive to retake it live in the united nations says it could unleash the biggest humanitarian crisis of the war more than three million people remain trapped that at least three protesters including a fourteen year old boy have been shot dead by israeli fire during friday protests in a garza's border with israel the health ministry in gaza says dozens of others have been injured more than one hundred seventy palestinians have been killed by israeli fire since we keep protests began on march thirtieth. three people including a mother and baby have died after hurricane florence made landfall on the east coast of the united states in north carolina hundreds of people who ignored evacuation advice away say on rescue services to escape their flooded homes almost

five hundred thousand homes are out of power in many towns flooded a slow moving category one hurricane is expected to drop up to eight months worth of rain in the next few days. we're tracking the storm around the clock we were touch over the course in areas very close to what i just talked to the neighbor. that. he will be ready to get there and what they hope here. through this challenging. all super typhoon man good has made landfall in the northeastern philippines more than five million people are at risk from two hundred forty kilometer an hour winds which make him and could equivalent to a category five hurricane thousands of people have already been evacuated from the area right up to take the top stories here on our desserts they were returned the president is coming.

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