coverage of latin america and most of the world was a cloud cover included todd's tragedies of quakes and that was it but not how people feel how they look how they think and that's what we do we go in with five and a half months of demanding a good education system that was introduced to. latin america al-jazeera has come to fill a void that needed to be filled. and a president trump finding asylum in the u.s. has become harder than ever i am put in place a zero tolerance policy if you are doing a shot and then we will prosecute you and that child may be separated from you thousands of families escaping violence at home now face separation detention and deportation as the u.s. closes its doors no shelter on now.

i know i'm maryam namazie a quick look at the top stories iran's president has promised a crushing response off the gunmen opened fire on a military parade marking the start of the iran iraq war at least twenty five people were killed during the attack in the southern city of many were members of iran's revolutionary guard women and children also died as did the four gunmen both iso and an arab separatist group the national resistance of time responsibility for the shooting iran's government is blaming gulf countries with ties to the united states and israel. two days after a ferry capsized in tanzania where survivors been rescued ships engineer was found alive in an air pocket inside the upturned vessel after navy divers heard him knocking is one of forty one survivors at least two hundred eighteen people died

after the vessel tipped over close to the shore of lake victoria tanzania's president is blaming overloading and apparent negligence for the disaster he's ordered police to arrest the boat's owner. a woman who's accused president trump supreme court pick of sexual assault has confirmed she will testify before a senate committee christine ford says brett kavanaugh assaulted her at a party in one thousand nine hundred two she's to go before the senate judiciary committee next week out of cavanagh's confirmation hearing governor denies the allegations alan fisher has more from washington you'll remember that professor ford wanted to give evidence on thursday nor to monday that's because she intends traveling from the west coast of the united states a by car to washington d.c. she doesn't want to fly she wants to make sure that there are certain safety precautions taken that is because she and her family have received death threats the philippines has suspended quarrying operations in seven regions after the latest fatal landslide at least twenty nine people died and rescuers are searching

for forty still missing after a hillside collapsed on thursday they are limestone quarry and not a city on several island the collapse was triggered by monsoon rains and police in the maldives have raided the main campaign office of the opposition presidential candidate abram mohammad soli ahead of elections on sunday president abdoulaye amine who has been in office since two thousand and thirteen is seeking a second five year term in sunday's election you're up to date with all of our top stories much more coming up in the news hour in twenty five minutes time now al jazeera world the price of oslo continues. cape town's water running out city or storage he said people should use no more than fifty liters of top water per person per day. about a third of the city's residents live in informal settlements like this one then you

can see in about four percent of the water for generations they've already been collecting it and communal taps all sources say the city will reach day zero on the ninth of july that's when they'll turn off the water in the hopes to have it only the communal towns will stay on. the city's taps are fed by reservoirs this is one of the largest. because they'll gallop where four years ago they would have been on the twenty five meters of water since then the provinces suffered the worst drought on record. water saving measures would be postponed day zero bice three months everyone here is hoping the winter will see bring in enough rainfall to make sure the days erode never come. i repeat for the record in december nine hundred eighty eight p.l.o. leader yasser arafat known to his colleagues are. publicly renounced violence.

is. over the years norway had discreetly been talking to the p.l.o. . with arafat's renouncing violence norway was now ready to pay him an official visit at the p.l.o. headquarters in tunis so this will make long. for you the our brothers to talk to very little. of this crew on the journey. to school. for the first time and the reason for them in the p.l.o. it was definitely a successful visit because it was a breakthrough who faces. the same foreign minister told involves. the father of the prime minister on the way today. on a mission to arafat's in tunis in one nine hundred eighty nine. i thought a thing that

a hard. part. no one knew about the norwegians worked with arafat on creating a channel of communication between the p.l.o. and israel. from public scrutiny. the first time in a big splendid whole he saw. facts. being established and the idea of using out of each little search institution was the idea of mystery of the awful which. during the they had plowed or decided which research institute in no way up they they i agree it would be a good cover and they also agreed that. no mention minister of foreign affairs should pay for it all that was also i read in the document. fofo was a think tank in all slue founded by the trade unions and connected to noise labor

party it was chosen by the norwegian foreign minister as the perfect host for secret talks between israelis and palestinians it's direct. he would go on to become a key figure in the negotiations that led to the oslo accords. with funding from the norwegian foreign ministry in one thousand nine hundred ninety five who started to undertake research in the middle east its first study to examine the living conditions in the occupied west bank and gaza strip. circus and so forth. the living conditions of young people growing up under the intifada what kind of effect on them. maybe more on the sort of mental psychological effect of growing up in such. a violent.

and why meant but then it was more a social context it turned out to because because that was sort of the speciality. far for. it it turned up to be a little more on the sort of yeah more socio economic. i mean unemployment all these kinds of indicators of social economic life so who were the researchers that worked on this project from norway yeah they're very aware there were many. one of them that's a lot of us heading. that service down the hay bag who was the wife of. if he wasn't at the time that he later became the foreign minister you on the other holes. i was i was working in this out of what they call

their foreign ministers cabinet or the secretariat my husband was with fassel. legen lost a state secretary more now you know and i had studied political science in the university we had been skiing together we had been to. university camps together and her husband tell you that lawson i also knew from his work as an academic and his work in creation of farfel the trade union think tank so these were my friends when i became already when i became. the deputy of the top stories and book in the ministry of foreign affairs is often difficult for foreigners to understand the law is very very small time for the labor party house rule of law work for the most of the post war period so you have collections and you are almost probably is married together within the labor party

i almost feel sometimes call it a royal labor party because they are like a dynasty. this was very tight knit foreign minister stoltenberg appointed yun egeland as his deputy. and mona ual as a girl and secretary she was married to terry araud lawson the director of faffing . stoltenberg sister in law was marianne haile berg who worked in far from she was married to defense minister johan you're going holst this made holes and the foreign minister stoltenberg brothers in law holds himself later became foreign minister this extended political family became the norwegian team in the secret israeli p.l.o. talks they could use that research as it used their situation as a as a front for a diplomatic effort to to facilitate peace talks between the two parties and then

do that in all secrecy you are very critical about this why. i think research is in the should not usually be in the they will take two hats being double roles in tel aviv another research institute was also acting as a cover for communication between the israelis and palestinians. this was the economic cooperation foundation set up by israeli labor party m p u c baylen the n.g.o.s that we were leading huge for them myself and enjoy which was created earlier by bailey and his friend we were able to go between the two sites in jerusalem and pass messages and come with ideas and even bring the two sides i'm officially together and the hour of an ngo i was involved with talking to the

side for many years in a very informal way mainly we. are we in fresno husseini if from is jerusalem. with whom it was easy to talk. by nine hundred eighty nine with the palestinian intifada in its second year there were few signs of hope for peace. hundreds of palestinians had been killed and thousands detained. by the united states under president george bush started to increase the pressure on israeli prime minister yitzhak shamir the peace process will become for stuff to

stay just the first stage built in. conditions. this will ease. lord their full autonomy etc just such states did save act and it was she a result any good condition that the palestinian not ups and some other countries if they've joined they've never ceased we have heard it claim by our comedically own peace talks for their purpose they have ended told the minister territories that democrats believe. they believe. everything changed in the region when iraq invaded kuwait in one nine hundred ninety. the united states led a coalition of nations that retaliated against iraqi forces just two hours ago

allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq and kuwait. these attacks continue as. arafat's rejected a military solution to iraq's invasion of kuwait this proved a costly decision before the. p.l.o. to. big for that support from that have got states. off to the void because of. the. support to saddam hussein that financial support disappeared they came all it's of that. void very very cute and i think frank was also vulnerabilities. these c.d.'s then are more interested

in discussing with them often they go for that beef. we of course have crops that elections for the united states of america. they lie there defend and made the secret or we protect the piano or basically this she had some all over that system and based all no work with against it be a little bit of a medical event yes. in the aftermath of the nine hundred ninety one gulf war the united states and the soviet union co-hosted a peace conference in the spanish capital of madrid we have an opportunity. i think a real opportunity to see. arabs arab states. sitting down face to face in direct negotiations with israel. to let the will do. the a because you had to show me

a you. and norm one of them at the moment and. where you. men are all going for this the need that obama no. nash. our yell you do she. do yours in the only boy in a blue with him or him in know to borrow of them philammon e.c.s. in newark island. see. tomorrow. read. welford for the steamy otunnu you must. come out of the have. a look in your shot about. the israelis laid out a fixed negotiating position the only people were relieved in the land of israel without interruption phone nearly four thousand years. shafique led the

palestinians within the joint jordanian palestinian delegation at the talks but it's the union your islam the capital of our homeland and you would just. find that it's been in existence was present and future the settlements must stop now territory where for peace is it obvious to you and territory for illegal settlement of the shell israeli policy and practice. the three day conference ended with plans for further bilateral and multilateral negotiations between israel and the arabs. documents released after the conference revealed that shimmy a thought madrid a success. and that james baker said that the us did not support an independent palestinian state.

again. he feels to kill him was he him and now so far not to have. israelis who celebrated the end of hanukkah in washington arrived five days late an attempt to make it clear to the united states that back here on their own terms for spying to pressure off the madrid negotiations moved to washington d.c. we sincerely feel there are ideas. fully in conformity with the framework of this process as it was made ahead and we speak with a joint your very and palestinian delegation. good evening everybody. we met like we might in the morning. they had as of delegations. we discussed the

matter of procedures. and we could not three yet. and i give him an. israeli government shifted and. to the grounds returned and openly declared pollution all claiming all palestinian territory not conceding anything but this union. refusing to recognize. unit you. don't let the can you. share feeling hard on what few rushed about and i'm not. the last me year old jenny been a newbie can you say you keep it all this theatre and israel is the mayor more and more angry about these all the. talking about

it he said how come you have back palestine if its settlements all over so he had much more under the dash and there are much more. straightforward approach to peace. for the palestinians negotiator hider. kept the focus of his agenda on one burning issue the illegal israeli settlement construction in the occupied palestinian territories. by nine hundred ninety one the number of israeli settlers in the west bank and gaza strip exceeded one hundred thousand. or more than measured. by. the.

random afresh and worthless relief for the study in front of the rest room for with little more of a latino leader but there were profound sort of i would say one of the most important messages that we got in our almost daily contacts with the show we will say in the in. all of the palestinian leaders if p.l.o. will not be involved they won't be any progress and more so showing husseini very clear. showing first of all they told us something if you would like to have an agreement with a person partner can make concessions. there is only one endless and this is the feel. as i would like to leave us here with a policy the survey must always hear to the presented over the post-war. over the police force is if they disqualify the p.l.o. then they're not going to have any palestinian to talk from without washington but

that could do for were slower to wish to matthew ocean to work and to to me the committee were for. what. we do but if it could. be moved forward towards hillary. but. i'm relieved was that the. when nearly the most on that issue if she would suggest i didn't and then why the move for. the p.l.o. again approached norway to open a new and secret channel with the israelis in february of one nine hundred ninety two senior p.l.o. official ahmed khurana known as abu allah travelled to oslo while a campus we didn't miss with the home that is here now for. the

muslim mother managed to matter for her to yes. she is the man a man who was in her last thought about what they can and. p.l.o. starts to send signals to us here. comes that we no way could become their link to israel if israel was interested then came by some i will share if and he was even more explicit and said i am talking on directly i have a message straight from the top yasser arafat. norway should try to do this. and it has to be direct lee linked with p.l.o. tunis leadership on the minutes of their secret meeting in all slow reveal that bassam abu sharif told the norwegians that if there were peace the p.l.o.

would influence the arab world to stop the boycott of israel. it takes two to tango we did not have the israeli side i had met. bin before he was elected on one of my missions to to his friend april one thousand nine hundred two in april nineteenth two we met be in. the he came for breakfast and then wage an embassy and we asked him what is your approach to the palace here he said i am keen to see some kind of a negotiated settlement in one thousand nine hundred ninety two the israeli labor party led by yitzhak rabin won the general election rabin continued israel's policy of settlement building in public he spoke optimistically of progress in the peace negotiations did will be possible to reach an agreement was the palestinian

delegation about to stop the sh'ma and before me the first and most important task for a government. process. shimon peres was appointed foreign minister. you see balan here on the left was appointed his deputy and duri severe on the right there general manager. beilin was given the green light to start the secret to direct negotiate. ations with the p.l.o. in no way the point about mostly was because no way was out of the e.u. it head the independent foreign policy we had meetings with us and we teach people and be out of many many many meetings. but very little came out of it but then started to understand much better the mindset of both parties they lean actually

told the norwegians that it's good that they will make contact with his friend later i joined in order to facilitate you know that to let you know that you have liked to n.g.o.s to non-governmental dialogue this was the we met he met. with also before i met him april and later we found a brother in a way and many things were similar to our way of thinking his wife was the head of the office of the minister is that pretty and second is the minister and the deputy were close friends of laos and all of them from the labor party or old friends missed those told them was the foreign minister i knew him very well and the he was very very enthusiastic about. this thought that mitt shimon peres who was the. minister for defense research in new york talking about the

general assembly in september and in the. on the basis of those contacts in follow up contacts. the. total salt bathing meant that. tyvaso i try to follow the suggestion to me so i left out the p.r. on the fourth where exactly weak enough so this was exactly the time that israelis should choose to start negotiating with p.l.o. outside p.l.o. the force there was almost dead. and decided who to talk to when to talk the terms of the negotiations they talked no way no way could like it or dislike it they could. stay or

go. a new and self-confident israeli government and the p.l.o. still cast as outsiders by the world community. they were now on the secret road to the oslo accords but much would need to happen before the diplomatic phenolic on the white house lawn. twenty five years after the signing of zero world tells the behind the scenes story of norway's war in the oslo accords they wanted to have what they froze in the ability and revealed how secret negotiations were skewed. last year told his friend his everything at our compound and why they're still here to deliver on so much that was promised the price of oil is low on al-jazeera.

hello again it's good to have you back well this hour we are going to start in australia we did have some clouds pushing through sydney but over the next few days temperatures are going to be dropping particularly down here across much of the south first of all a sunny day across much of the area here on sunday brisbane a few clouds pushing out towards the east sydney at eighteen up to the north darwin is going to be a warm one at about thirty four degrees there but as we go towards the beginning of the week we're going to notice that temper start to moderate just a little bit with adelaide seeing about seventeen degrees there over towards new zealand though temperatures are going to be dropping over the next few days i'm going to show you what's going to be happening we still have

a messy scenario here in terms of rain and clouds but notice christ church on sunday sixteen degrees for you that is about average for this time of year but then as we go towards monday that really begins to drop down so high temperature only expecting to be about nine and even picking up a little bit of snow right there in the higher elevations so late spring snow for you but up towards auckland some winds in your forecast maybe sixteen degrees there very quickly appear towards northern asia we are going to be seeing not too bad of a day on sunday the front has slipped away but that's only one day because as we go towards monday more clouds in the picture we don't expect to see much in terms of rain but cloudy for tokyo and a warm day for you with temperatures of thirty. zero

. hello i'm maryanne demasi this is the news hour live from london coming up. iran claims its gulf rivals for an attack by gunmen on a military parade which killed at least twenty five people lawyers for the woman accused who accuse president trump supreme court nominee of sexual assault agrees to testify next week. a survivor is found in an apple two days after a ferry capsized in tanzania killing at least two hundred eighteen people. and why hong kong's new high speed rail link to the rest of china is provoking

protests despite hardening journey times. and i'm far as molly here with all the sporting clearing alex ferguson returns to old trafford for the first time since brain surgery only to watch his former side how to withdraw. welcome to the program our top story iran's president has promised a crushing response after gunmen opened fire on a military parade commemorating the iran iraq war killing twenty five people many were members of iran's revolutionary guard women and children also died as did the four gunman they attacked the parade in the southern city of avaaz around one hundred fifty kilometers from the iraqi border i still has claimed responsibility for the shooting so too has the national resistance an arab separatist group iran's military says the attackers were trained and organized by two gulf countries with

ties to the united states and israel iran's foreign minister said his government holds regional terrorist sponsors and the u.s. must is accountable for such attacks the page that is. iran will respond swiftly and decisively dosage of barring our ports. chaos and panic in the city of los in southern iran as an unprecedented scene unfolds during a military parade. an identified gunman opened fire year and prayed at the start of sacred defense week it commemorates iranians who died during the eight year war with iraq in the one nine hundred eighty s. . while the wounded were being treated people were warned to get down a revolutionary guard spokesman says four men dressed in khaki uniforms and riding motorbikes are connected to the al aziziya group which is supported by saudi arabia jordan a fat cattle released for people terrorists who had previously bought their weapons

to the area days before they hit their weapons then when people came to see the parade and gathered they grabbed their weapons and fired at the people with machine guns that would come with their eyes just in mass for six serial. in the middle of the parade and we realized that a group wearing fake military clothing who were armed to protect our children from behind us and then fired on women and children that they fought completely blindly . they weren't picking targets just firing. some or killed others captured when they come to launch an attack like this the i.r.g.c. in southwest and iran in and out of a populated region can back me. up there has been a bill and put out a plan in order to send a very strong message actually so there are elations to leave now and there are reasons to believe now that. this is been

a sack masterminded by the united states and the saudis especially because the attack hillary a solid terrorists of all that was the is supported by this all these you know have been recognized that been in charge of this attack the rare attack took place includes islam province which borders iraq and has the largest ethnic arab community in iran the province was a major battleground during the iran iraq war the obvious attack happened as president hassan rouhani was delivering a speech at the main anniversary parade in tehran he was briefed on the attack and continues his speech which it orating iran's position on its defense capabilities ronnie said they will continue to increase day by day and in africa as the investigation continues into the major breach of security dosage of ari al jazeera . well i mean high is the director of the iran project crisis group he joins me now from washington thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us so two

different groups i sell and a group called the national resistance have claimed to have perpetrated this attack what are your thoughts on who might have carried out the attack. look it's very difficult to judge one way or another there is a precedent for isis taking responsibility for attacks that it really didn't commit but it wanted to boast about its relevance and its reach. there is i think higher likelihood that this was done by the national resistance group who had probably an easier time penetrating into the security breaches of iran and perpetrating this attack. in terms of the reaction we've had from iran they have vowed a swift and decisive response but more specifically the country is some of the envoys of the netherlands denmark and britain over the shooting accusing them of

harboring iranian opposition groups in their countries well this is because there was international reza the resistance group has some representatives in these countries and some media outlets as well but i think the bigger risk here is that the iranian system believes that the u.s. and its allies are waging not just an economic war against iran through sanctions but are also trying to destabilize iran internally the very fact that saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon said last year that he would take instability in war to inside iran's borders gives further credits to dis narrative in iran that the end of the day the u.s. and its regional allies want to turn iran into another syria by stoking. sectarian and ethnic tensions within iran in borders there are concerns that an attack like this is deliberately orchestrated to provoke iran into

a sort of regional escalation how conscious are the iranians of this. i think the iranians generally perceive a collusion against them by u.s. and its allies to push them into a confrontation a military confrontation that could then significantly weaken iran so they are likely to demonstrate demonstrating restraint and as they have been doing in the past few months for example in not responding to israel's attacks against iranian assets in syria but the trouble here is you know if they're continue to threaten that they need to demonstrate to their domestic audiences back home in iran that they're doing something about this by for example putting more fuel on fires in yemen unfortunately this will only deepen sectarian tensions in the region and escalate. the current situation in yemen in syria and iraq that would then

eventually have a backlash inside iran's borders as well it's a vicious cycle in terms of the international reaction the russian president identities and expressed his condolences and also said that moscow would boost efforts to fight terrorism if this sort of external internal pressure on the government in iran continues how might it shape or impact the relationship with russia. i don't think it will have a significant impact on the relationship with russia iran and russia have a tactical partnership and syria that for now is working for both of them and they will continue. seeing as long as they can make sure that they will consolidate the assad regime they might have differences further down the road but at this stage i think they both sides need each other regardless of these kind of developments thank you very much from washington at levi's appreciate it. now to our other top story this hour lawyers for the woman who's accused president from supreme court

pick of sexual assault say she's agreed to testify before a senate committee christine says brett kavanaugh assaulted a party in one thousand nine hundred two she's expected to go before the senate judiciary committee next week head of kavanagh's confirmation hearing he denies the allegations let's get more from john hendren in washington so confirmation that christine the fold will testify against brett kavanaugh what the details need to be worked out john. it does look like we have a break in the impasse here her lawyer wrote in a note to the senate judiciary committee run by republicans she said although many aspects of the proposal you provided are fundamentally inconsistent with the committee's promise of a fair impartial investigation of her allegations we're disappointed with the leaks in the bullying that have tainted the process but we are hopeful that we can reach an agreement on this ends a kind of game of chicken in which the committee kept setting deadlines she kept blowing past those deadlines and making some specific specific demands there was to

be a meeting this afternoon in which they would hash out those details and among them the committee would like this to happen on wednesday they would like an outside counsel to do the questioning that may be because there are only male republicans on that committee and they may be concerned about how that looks with them partially questioning this woman who was a kid who has said she is a victim of sexual harassment cavanaugh also wants to go second and that's what the committee would like now she would like this to happen on thursday she wants the questions to be asked by the senators themselves and she would like to go second herself that also remains unclear exactly how long she would be testifying or whether this happens in public or in private those questions remain and the the vice president of the united states mike pence had something to say about this to a group called value voters this week here's what he had to say but honestly the way some democrats have conducted themselves during this crisis is a disgrace and

a disservice to the senate and the american people that big. the president are confident that senate republicans will manage this confirmation properly with the up most respect for concern and i believe that judge brett kavanaugh will soon be just as brett kavanaugh and take his seat. of the united states. the problem ministration backing brett kavanaugh about how might christie the full its testimony potentially impact his confirmation. well it doesn't appear to be influencing the republicans on that committee so far you heard mike pence talking there also mitch mcconnell the senate republican leader told a group of supporters that kavanagh will be the next supreme court justice of the united states it sets up a kind of he said she said situation much like the clarence thomas hearings in one

nine hundred ninety one in those hearings anita hill you may recall accused clarence thomas of sexual harassment they heard one side from her one side from him and went on and voted to approve him in that committee and then finally in the full senate with the democrats would very much like to drag this out that's because there is a midterm elections coming up in november and they hope to be in control of congress when all of this is over so they.