the israeli prime minister spoke to the un there was one thing he hardly talked about the palestinians he instead focused on iran claiming israel had discovered a new nuclear storage facility in tehran he then went on to boast about the strength of his relationship with the trumpet ministration so i want to use this opportunity to express israel's appreciation to president trump and ambassador here really for the unwavering support they provided israel at the united nations the palestinian president gave his message the moment he took to the podium and put to lay settled by jerusalem is not for sale. but how the sharman and the palestinian people's rights are not up for bargaining he went on to express his frustration at the actions of the trumpet ministration a lot and we awaited his peace initiative with that most patient but we were

shocked by decisions and actions he undertook that completely contradict the role and commitment of the us towards the peace process and it is ironic that the american administration still talks about what they call the deal of the century. the palestinians believe that by his actions it's not just that president trump is not an honest broker he's actively on israel's side and when you listen to the way it's a news conference before he left new york he described the man he's put in charge of peace efforts his own son in law jared kush no it's not hard to see why i think the two state will happen i think we're going to go down the two state road and i'm glad i got it out and jared who is so involved he loves israel he loves his you know but he's also going to be very fair with the palestinians you understand it takes two people to be happy to groups of people to be happy everybody is going to be happy and that's why it's so tough the fact he barely mentioned the palestinians

i think shows the confidence of benjamin netanyahu and what's going to come out of the chair of the peace plan which we're being told we revealed in the next four months the palestinians meanwhile already i think believe they're going to have to reject what's in that plan james bays al-jazeera at the united nations so the head hair on al-jazeera must have been in charge of task it's a case of fraud plus. an andrew thomas in assam state india across rural parts of this country many people still believe in witchcraft now a new level of pain passed to stop the murders and some asides but all too often one of the accusations. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback.

how all the big weather in europe is happening top and tail north and south of iraq there's clearly a lot of cloud going through here and the circulation in the mediterranean two different effects so first of all this is although fairly windy mainly a wet features when estonia sixty four the. he says rain but in the last twenty four hours we've had a severe go blowing of the black sea in particular answer the gene giving seventy to ninety kilometers per hour winds has caused a certain amount of damage and that's all because of what developing in the mediterranean will come to in just a second now for mainland europe you still got this rather cold bit of it pushing down the rain's going to go eastwards and moscow's fourteen drops to rather lower temps the day after down to nine the same time or in the teens for most of northern europe that is not really warmed up much the wants is left in italy and still in spain and portugal but it's really gone from the british isles and for teens when i was in the twenty's which was brief reversion a couple days ago still quite warm down here turkey's up to twenty seven and

despite the great athens is showing twenty one the green of course being rain that comes out of israel and this is a medication if you like it's a tropical cycle or subtropical soccer the spinning thing with the characteristics of a hurricane particular the strength of the wind that's where it's going to be so friday in the ionian c. . the weather sponsored by qatar airways. the president trying to finding asylum in the u.s. has become harder than ever i am put in place a zero tolerance policy if you are going a child then we will prosecute you and that child may be separated from you thousands of families escaping violence a hundred now face separation detention and deportation as the u.s. closes its doors. and shelter announces iraq.

again you're watching out is there as a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.n. special envoy for yemen says he's pushing for warring parties to return to negotiations in an exclusive interview sara mohsin griffiths says among says other priorities is the reopening of sana international airport to commercial access. his presence. in germany on his first state visit in four years relations between turkey and its longest e.u. trading partner have been strained have a complaints about and has human rights record since the failed coup in two thousand and sixteen. and us and says have had testimonies for nearly nine hours from donald trump supreme court nominee and the woman who's accused him of sexual assault when they were teenagers christine gazi ford says he's one hundred percent

certain brett kavanaugh assaulted her allegations he strongly denies republicans say the committee will vote on cavanagh's fate later on friday. china has accused the us president of trying to damage his reputation after donald trump claimed beijing was trying to meddle in the upcoming u.s. midterm elections he said beijing's alleged interference is in response to his tough songs on trains in reports we found that giant it was a new and surprising allegation from the u.s. president it didn't go over well in beijing would you show where your feet and we advise the united states to stop this unceasing criticism and slander of china stop these wrong words or deeds that damage bilateral relations and the interests of both countries peoples he is responding to a moment from the u.n. security council they were supposed to be talking about nonproliferation when president donald trump took the occasion to attack china accusing them of trying to

interfere in the upcoming congressional elections they do not want me or us to win because i am the first president ever to challenge china on trade. and we are winning on trade we are winning at every level we don't want them to meddle or interfere in our upcoming election he didn't give any examples and his aides couldn't give any real evidence talking to reporters afterwards many in the u.s. brushed off the new unfounded allegations but analysts warn china probably won't china has a culture that goes back they can name their own of their emperors going back for five thousand years so they do not think that a president of the united states would say things that are careless worth less so they're going to find a deeper meaning in this then you and i are used to with just kind of donald trump's rant of the moment the president is clearly upset with these ads that china

placed in an important newspaper in iowa saying trump was the reason farmers were losing money he recently tweeted china is actually placing propaganda ads in the des moines register and other papers made to look like news that's because we are beating them on trade open markets and the farmers will make a fortune when this is over. the right now u.s. farmers are losing big and growing impatient this trade war is hitting the heart of his base and the president is clearly aware and frustrated that could have a big impact on the upcoming election particularly in al-jazeera washington. you know stations agency for palestinian refugees has received contributions of one hundred eighteen million dollars to help cover funding withdrawn by the u.s. and iran has been facing a severe financial crisis since the trumpet ministration cut all support last month

the us had historically been as large as contributor providing around three hundred fifty million dollars a year well then five million palestinian refugees rely on it's assistance it's very important as a step it's also a symbol and it's a hopefully a last push to be able to close the short form before the end of the year you know it makes the difference between keeping the schools open or having to close them keeping the clinics open or having to close them and that makes a very big difference for people in the region for decades the u.s. was a key contributor very consistent generous the single largest donor to honor that actually enabled us to do a great number of things in terms of human development in the region. the united states stock market regulators seeking to bar tesla's c.e.o. in our must from serving as the head of the electric car maker the securities and exchange commission alleges he committed securities fraud when he tweeted about plans to take the company private back in august how did you castro has more. the

regulators now suing the federal security and exchange commission says this all started with a tweet in early august musk tweeted to his twenty two million followers that he was considering taking tesla private at a price per share of four hundred twenty dollars federal regulators say there was never a real basis for musk to make that happen and in fact the way he came up with the four hundred twenty dollars valuation hording to the lawsuit is strange itself it alleges that musk made a general estimate and then round of that number up to four hundred twenty because of the numbers significance to the marijuana culture claiming. that it would amuse his girlfriend well the s.e.c. regulators say this was not amusing at all to the stock to the shareholders who bought more tesla stocks based on this tweet alone only to have lost their money once must retracted the plan of going private and not only was it not funny

according to this lawsuit but it was also illegal what it's asking for a judge to do now is remove musk as tesla's see this just illustrates another step in the continued decline in recent months once viewed as a brainchild of brilliant forward thinker and also a good business person he has now been ridiculed in recent months he accused without providing evidence that a diver involved in the rescue of those boys trapped in a thai cave was a pedophile musk is now being sued for defamation for that instance and he went on live internet stream a few weeks ago smoking marijuana that has all the road investors confidence in his company tesla and because of its tethered reputation to that of its eccentric founder and c.e.o.

the future of the company now is also in jeopardy. and for. over a lot of western iraq in two thousand and fourteen a year ago the government declared the group defeated and as the link between the two cities reopens locals are recognizing the benefits. to shining rails stretchy west from baghdad snaking through the desert for fifty seven kilometers by the other end is the city of fallujah accessible once again to rail travelers. flu jab today is not like flu in the past the railroad is a sign of life getting back to normal after getting rid of. these wheel tracks were closed when i saw fighters swept through the west of iraq in two thousand and fourteen. when iraqi railways reopens the bag that the for lucia line we didn't think of the economic benefit this is a message of peace to the people of fallujah after the dark days when eisel used to

rule those parts. after the defeat of isobel have been roads that have been open between baghdad and the fact that the security checks on that journey can take anything up to several hours but this train doesn't stop for checkpoints. the journey between baghdad and fallujah takes just fifty five minutes by railway and the high cost of fuel traveling by road is more expensive. basic train tickets for a one way journey cost just under two dollars. there's nothing going by the train is much easier we avoid traffic jams many checkpoints across the highway or even deadly car accidents it's also much cheaper than road transport. when the train arrives in fallujah fifty seven kilometers may not seem far. but this reopen track is a milestone for iraq's railways rob matheson al jazeera baghdad. with

prehistoric fossil should be able to capitalize on the wilds fascination with dinosaurs and the gong and china the capital of dinosaur but because for many it's got hundreds of reports. as you approach is gone on the main highway it's just one problem it's pretty evident what this area is know. it's home to one of the largest dinosaur fossil discoveries in the world the formation fascination for dinosaurs put the city on the map drawing in millions of visitors each year but it's ancient history was also the spark for a home grown industry about eighty percent of the world's large dinosaur replicas are made in just gone among the first of twenty five companies to start making replicas of some of the earth's first inhabitants was founded by gucci home he was born and raised here. to kong is a dinosaur tom i've been very interested in dinosaurs since i was

a kid and i majored in you like trolling engineering so i wanted more people know more about through our replica that's why i started this business but the business of manufacturing in distributing these prehistoric animal replicas of all shapes and sizes is facing a very contemporary issue tariffs imposed by the united states. now has to pay a ten percent tariff on his dinosaurs going to america and then on january first it goes up to twenty five percent can you know where they're warm and a good time you know this will definitely have a neck to fact our x. bourse where we're trying to talk to our customers in the states and i try to reduce costs we're trying everything to ease the pressure brought on by their trade or. he says this is one of the biggest challenges he has faced since he opened the factory doors some twelve years ago he hopes to continue shipping two

thousand dinosaur's a year without the need to downsize this despite the noise that's being made. by the leaders in washington and beijing. it's got harder al-jazeera is going. northeast and state government has possible making it a crime to accuse someone of being a witch. so called which is a problem across all parts of the country under thomas has been to done more to meet the woman who's let the campaign for change today she runs a shop but ten years ago i'm jolly has young husband supported the young mother and her child but when he got cancer and died and she rebuffed those who wanted to take his place she was accused of being a cannibalistic which a group of people beat her she needed. the men shouted she's been eating humans down toward the beat. i keep thinking about that it was the worst of my.

no one has ever been punished for the attack and wasn't the first twenty years ago drunk men accused of poisoning her husband one swung and others stripped naked and chased it down the street. in two thousand and six people said put domi rubber and put a spell on her sick neighbor she says dozens of villages attacked her with sticks screaming today you will die bloodied she was s'posed on to a bus to another state she had to pay her attackers to letter come home. in rural parts of india accusations of witchcraft are common since the year two thousand two thousand people accused of sorcery most of them women have been killed once branded a witch or self or robber has led an eighteen year campaign against such superstition addressing groups across the state of assembly to sort fact from

fiction i tell them don't believe in superstitious if you or your family is able go see doctors and nurses don't go to a witch doctors that's superstition it's a sin don't kill people for superstitions you're not killing witches you're killing women. in july but finally paid off when india's president approved a new law it outlaws spreading rumors of sorcery that lead to violence murder or suicide policy it was a victory but the job's not done. a new war is one thing but i have truth and beliefs need to change too so these presentations continue people in the to be persuaded that believing in witchcraft only spell trouble and or thomas al-jazeera a more state india. you're watching out there these are our top stories the un special envoy for yemen

says he's pushing for warring parties to return to negotiations and exclusive interview to al-jazeera mohsin griffiths says amongst his other priorities is the reopening of santa and stash will airport soon commercial access. it's going to be within weeks i don't think we can allow it to be delayed until kind of over the horizon because the problem with that is and i've been reassured this week reaching people here in new york that people lose the narrative of peace and once you lose the opportunity to talk about a settlement the narrative of war becomes dominance and that's what we must try to get away from. he's president to run is in germany and his first state visit in four years relations between turkey and its not just a huge trading partner have been strained over complaints about anchors human rights record since the failed coup in twenty sixteen there are protests planned across germany during his visit yes that is i've heard testimonies for nearly nine

hours from donald trump supreme court nominee and the woman who's accused him of sexual assault when they were teenagers christine gazi ford says she's one hundred percent certain brett kavanaugh assaulted her allegations he strongly denies the palestinian president says the u.s. is no longer an independent mediator in the middle east peace process mahmoud abbas used his address at the u.n. general assembly to launch a strong attack on the u.s. and israel and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu focus his speech on iran india supreme court has lifted a ban on girls and women of menstruating age entering a historic temple ago a court ruled that excluding women can't be seen as an essential religious practice from ten to fifty had been barred from entering a sub ramallah temple as some hindu religious figures considered menstruation to be impure. those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the

stream stay with us every week lee new cycle brings a series of breaking stories joined the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media focus on how they were called on the stories that matter the most listening post on al-jazeera. ok and then well it could be here in the stream today election meddling and u.s. relations but from a russian perspective we're hear what some washington think about the headlines dominating the u.s. media we also want to hear your take on russia u.s. relations minister comments on your twitter or live on you tube. the november midterm elections in the u.s. could end republican dominance in the house and also in the senate u.s. media is focusing on campaigns and also on the question of russian meddling will

the u.s. see a repeat of the twenty sixteen election interference as alleged by the f.b.i. and to what extent are russia's online trolls trying to influence american voters opinions today we want to hear russian perspectives on how they view this and other news stories as well as the bigger picture of russia u.s. relations and joining us to do that via skype from moscow are numb still bob moscow correspondent for the daily beast and newsweek and boston. a ph d. candidate at harvard university she studies social media russian politics and russia's influence on public opinion abroad and in new york mother shingo a journalist and contributor to russian media outlets including color sound expert t.v. and t.v. reign welcome to the stream everyone let's start with meddling i want to share a tweet sent to this stream from you while weber associate professor of russian and you. gratian studies at daniel morgan graduate school here in washington d.c.

this is what he says the meddling to whatever extent has dashed trumps and prudence hopes for a pragmatic relationship and turned russia into a partisan issue in the u.s. everything that democrats dislike about trump and his policies can be traced to the original sin in quotes there of russian help during the election are now when it comes to this issue do you agree with what you've also here i do but if we think. and look at things from russian perspective and i've been traveling around the russian region this year a lot. of people think that america is a threat and they more and more feel concerned about the relationship between the united states and russia getting spoiled more and more people are afraid all of the war my text a driver in siberia asked me

a boggle war if the war is coming and for as long as putin is the president he hopes that the war with the united states doesn't happen i'm just trying to explain to you how ordinary russians see the city they do not. they do not read about miller's investigation they just worry about if you change the future of the children i'm wondering what every day russians think about president trump and he did a particularly high profile press conference yesterday and we played a little clip of it he's talking about russian meddling here and have a look at by the democrats they know what what about the message that's being to do the same thing with the russian investigation they can to try to convince people that i had something to do with russia there was no collusion think of it i mean we scotch i mean michigan. i said you were not doing well i won both us states we're

not doing well let me call the russians to help anybody really believe that it's a con job and. they are now. to some of russians believe it's a con job he said something to this russian investigation how are you reporting it . well i'd say that generally speaking it does not seem that. russian media especially of russian state media coverage of the situation with miller's in the suggestion precisely and i'd say what the state propaganda in russia they just be and any outside of the country and blame that any need for everything we is not going well it's a very old saw a strategy when you know it's just easier to explain ordinary people. why they have

to deal with bad things as you know as. weak economy as mania laws that make their lives even more complicated and i'd say. i'd i'd say that the only angle we two against see. if i mean if we talk about the state media i'm not talking about all russian media because as we know there are some professional media outlets who still do their job very very well so when i i just want to emphasize the fact that when i refer to russian t.v. i was from was this tape or began so all all those great shows speak the states as a thread and obviously i'm. no it's nothing. that it's sad about us. on that shows but at the same time you know when comes

to discussing donald trump and they angle slightly changes so steele i'd see russian audience. doesn't really have access to quality coverage of the us affairs because while. t.v. is still they want full instruments of propaganda and only if you. liberals get to see that all i want to newspapers are a sound yeah thank you and early on i think that's an interesting point you're making about the view from state run t.v. here's a tweet we got from someone name a racer who talks about internet media in russia she says mainstream ones cover the president trumps trade war same sions military activities and sometimes they do analytics about the political shift in the u.s. but collusion is rarely mention as russians consider it to be overrated now of

course of someone who is here in boston you know collusion is a term that comes up a lot in the u.s. when it comes to russia can you talk to us about your research why this might be seen as overrated in russia why the collusion term seems to be overrated in russia so it seems to me that although the recent studies like pew research center and believe there was also a gallup poll indicate that russians overwhelmingly do not believe that russia interfered in the u.s. election. also simultaneously believe that something like eighty percent of all russians russian respondents believe that the us on the other hand interferes in elections around the globe and in the domestic affairs of other countries it seems that the average russian citizen believes that in a unit polar world in which the u.s. dominates these are sort of the means that are available to the russian state

this is what the russian state house at its disposal to counteract that unipolarity just a little bit to just change the balance a little bit in its favor and so because they believe it's a noble goal in this case the ends justify the means right i want to move on a little bit now and have a look deeper into the issue of online trolling have a listen to the twitter c.e.o. jack dorsey and facebook's sheryl sandberg they were testifying in front of a senate intelligence committee on this month we found ourselves unprepared and ill equipped for the immensity of the problems that we've acknowledged abuse harassment troll army propaganda through botched and human coordination misinformation campaigns and divisive filter but. that's not healthy public square when content violates our policies we will take it down and when our opponents use

new techniques we will share them so we can strengthen our collective efforts everyone here today knows that this is an arms race and that means we need to be ever more vigilant. a lot of these social problems right now are trying to get rid of what they're trying to get rid of propaganda and influences and news that is i hate the phrase along with a f. unease but news that is not actually news. from this is this is your wheel house this is what you study. from the other side from the east looking across to the west is this a this is this a of fantastic success story the digital world in russia oh that's that's an excellent question that's it's such a huge undertaking that these social media giants have in front of them because it's tremendously difficult to keep up with these accounts that keeps bringing up

so just recently in the news facebook has shared that again you know they're tracking. multiple accounts that are disseminating fake news stories and slanted news stories on syria that are again traced back to russia twitter is constantly dealing with the same it's by no means a success story it's something that is very much an uncharted territory how do you regulate the online space which should be democratic and open to all sorts of voices while at the same time not allowing it to become this sort of a divisive platform that is dominated by narratives that are clearly not conducive to you know to universal norms of democracy and human rights and things like dogs. and i don't hope i can do europe nobody i was going to go to you with a tweet and i'm interested to hear you have to say first well you know when i've been reporting on troll factory

a lot of his he being based in moscow and covering thing use. the factory in st peters for that. as we now belongs to mr preclusion who is also known on the west this putin's cook and has been growing bigger they now can buy bigger building and they employ more people who work on salaries who post. messages something and on twitter every day that's their job but i was also recently working must adorning where they hire trolls too so if it seems that. trolls as a job you know every day job a troll is a kind of a trend so young people don't mind to be working as trolls and getting paid you know for young people in russia energy hope is good because the economy is going

down and some young people hit the streets and they protest against goods and other kids are ready to. participate and put us propaganda and work for putin's propaganda machine out of do you call trolls trolls in russia what's the russian. yeah yeah you can call them trolls you can also call them propaganda perfect dragons it is with difficult to find a girl in south. that's a good question i've only interviewed one troll woman who did not that mean that she was a troll she just. the job she was angry because she was not paid enough money or the money she thought she was meant to be paid and. i should criticize the factory and she described to me hols the factory looks inside which is very interesting you know every floor. are have a special colbie you could not.