suffering from a weak economy the closure of the border crossing was a crippling blow but there was a political price to pay both lebanon and jordan did not cut off diplomatic relations with syria during the past seven years but they weren't engaging with the damascus government in an official capacity now that these borders are open and means that they are acknowledging that president bush is here to stay and acknowledging his government in the words of the jordanian government spokesperson this crossing is vital for two brotherly nations. goods can now go from lebanon through syria to jordan that's going to boost the economy both countries what about people is it going to allow people to move between the two countries i'm thinking particularly about about families torn apart in syria. yes is this going to allow the movement of people and damascus is really hoping it is celebrating the reopening of borders we have to remember just

a few days ago the iraqi foreign minister wasn't damascus and they were talking about reopening borders between syria and iraq they're celebrating this is a victory to show the world that syria is stable syria is returning to its pre-war stuff this is a transit it is very important for the damascus government to reengage with arab countries to reengage with the international community but that is easier said than done jordan in lebanon they need syria they need this road but gulf arab countries we still do not know their position and they're quite worried by the fact that iran is the most influential one of the most influential players in syria and what about the international community and the west they're refusing to deal with bashar al assad's government unless they agree to a u.n. credible political process that would lead to free elections so we're still at the beginning but what we are seeing is the start of damascus you know ending its isolation economically in the region so many thanks a lot of the live crossing between lebanon and syria. a palestinian has been killed

three others injured after israeli forces launched airstrikes on gaza according to the israeli military it was targeting a group firing rockets israel's defense minister ordered the closure of the s. and. crossings following the attacks in which three people were injured harry forsook reports now from west to roost the israeli response to this strike on bush is underway as strikes have been taking place through the night and into the morning on wednesday no comment yet on the number or the nature of the targets israel just saying that it is attacking what it calls terror targets in the gaza strip one person so far reported killed israel saying that that was during the course of another attempt to fire a rocket from the northern gaza strip there's no question that israel sees this strike on the shaver which is some forty kilometers away from the gaza strip as a major escalation it's only the second time that a rocket from gaza has fallen in that area since the twenty fourteen war in august

the previous occasion it fell in fields during a round of major exchanges between israeli forces and hamas this strike hamas has denied responsibility for it in a statement which was also cosigned by islamic jihad and other palestinian fighting factions inside the gaza strip it said that it condemned any such irresponsible actions that would act to undermine egyptian efforts to negotiate a long term truce with the israelis the defense minister however before this rocket attack took place on tuesday he had just been meeting with senior army officials saying that now is the time to deal i'm age a blow to hamas and the only art to such a blow which essentially reads like a call for a major military action war on gaza only after such an attack could there be a long term truce the question remains whether the israeli army is signed up for that whether the israeli prime minister is signed up for that setting there is a lot of reporting. in the israeli media that that is not the case we're going to

weather update back to zero then we'll take a closer look at the so-called reeducation camps set up for a week of muslims in western china atmospheres of a no deal breakers that drove some countries around the e.u. will already preparing for the worst we'll take you to the netherlands. through tranquil arabian can you. can feel it seems and it's a nation gone to live. hello again to welcome back to your international weather forecasts were here across parts of france we saw a lot of active weather and flooding over the past several days the good news is most of that city has been pushing down here towards the south so we're going to be seeing some better weather across much of that area over the next few days is what it looks like for this afternoon particularly heavy rain showers are going to be in the western med just south of that area that was flooded but we're still going to

dealing with other areas that we have the flood potential as well we're talking about corsica sardinia as well as parts of italy as well take a look the forecast as we go from wednesday to thursday now the nice thing is here across the central part of europe we're looking at basically high pressure and that is keeping most of those clouds away now as we go to thursday some rain showers are coming back towards spain and we could be watching those very carefully now that same area of low pressure is going to be causing problems here along the northern coast of africa you can already see the clouds right there across algeria over the next few days we do expect to see some thunderstorms and in those stunning storms that gusty winds and we could be seeing some hail and of course we can't rule out the flooding along that northerly coast so we're going to be watching that carefully for wednesday and then as we go towards thursday tunis is expecting some very heavy rain as well as out here towards parts of morocco where localized flooding could be a problem. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. when they're online for humanitarian to get out there's gold as if we're talking about

numbers on a spreadsheet or if you join us on assange and i guarantee you know what apple has a back story like yours this is a dialogue harmless tired of seeing negative stereotypes about native americans everyone has a voice. and that's good comments here questions i'll do my best to bring them into the cell to join the global conversation on al-jazeera. again the top stories this hour here on al-jazeera a plan of the saudi consul general so that istanbul by turkish police has been

cancelled due to a lack of cooperation from saudi arabia officers are investigating the suspected killing of a saudi journalist jamal khashoggi he hasn't been seen since entering the nearby consulate fifteen days ago. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is in ankara having been in riyadh looking for answers from the saudi leadership over the case he's met with turkey's president put a wand and he's foreign minister. and one palestinian has been killed three others injured after israeli forces launched airstrikes on gaza the israeli military says that it was targeting a group that was firing rockets israel's defense minister ordered the closure of the areas and. crossings following the attacks in which three people. chinese state media has released video of in term of camps for a week of muslims in the western province of shin john despite international criticism the government has defended its treatment of the minority group it claims its reeducating people so that they can be part of a modern civilized world up to

a million weekers have reportedly been detained in the camps beijing corresponded adrian brown reports. well for months china's government has denied the existence of these camps but this week the government appears to have broken its silence on tuesday night state controlled t.v. aired a documentary showing conditions inside these camps it says they are not reeducation camps but simply vocational training centers where we girls get to learn new skills like carpentry and sewing as well as learning a language mandarin and getting another lesson on religious extremism the aim of these camps say the chinese authorities is to put a shield to protect we girls from islamic extremism now there have been a number of attacks in shin jang during the past few years the china's government has blamed on groups seeking an independent shin jang one of those attacks happened

after a visit made by president xi jinping to the regional capital a room she in may two thousand and fourteen now human rights groups say that up to a million ethnic muslim weekers are being held in reeducation camps and that eventually they say all ethnic muslim we will have to pass through these camps now in early november which is perhaps why this documentary has been released now the united nations will have a meeting in geneva of one of its human rights panels this body has been investigating what's going on in shin jang and officials from china's government will be invited to present their side of the story also the outgoing u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has said during the past twenty four hours that what we're looking at in shin jang may be the biggest in term and of people anywhere in the world. especially so if you're rich richardson who's trying

to direct for human rights watch she joins us now via skype from geneva so if you could to have you with us what do you make of this video released by chinese state media and china's defense of the week a community these claims of reeducating them so that they can be part of a modern chinese society well of you know about chinese government propaganda is going to answer our increasing calls for accountability which weren't governments in the u.s. and in the media about human rights violations in the shingi i mean i think the real questions to ask are you know if these are vocational training programs why can't people leave why can't people call their families why are they guarded by you know armed guards and surrounded with barbed wire and i agree entirely with even his list of reasons as to why the chinese government is responding to this now i'd add to that beijing's disappearance of interpol president monk hong way a week or so ago which is really adding to the incredible reputational damage

control beijing is now facing as it showed towards its sort of right through here and see that in a few weeks ok what is the future for for the week now in china well it's looking fairly bleak you know beijing is very clearly trying to break we years and other target muslims of their identity of their own language of their culture in their religious practices you know clearly the goal is to force these people to abandon any distinct mark because of their identity and make them want to go only to the chinese government the chinese communist party. you mentioned just a few moments ago what you think he's might be behind the reasons why china has is going on this but once a propaganda offensive is that. it it's your and simple it's something sort of out of fifty it's the sixty's so you know the claim is that people aren't there or how what we you know they're acquiring skills that is all through their you know for

their well being really do strain credulity alongside of you know accounts and we and others have you know there are people who it's for us that we detained tortured psychologically tormented held for months at a time in family members overseas who've been terrorized and providing information about its use to get people in the camps so if china wants its ethnic minorities to live in a more civilized china how should it. be treating them. well the chinese government just about in itself respecting people's rights you know if it really wants the kind of harmony it claims that's about respecting rights to religious freedom to the kinds of autonomy ethnic minorities are guaranteed under chinese and international law letting people educate their children in their own languages and with being of the per base of surveillance they've endured for decades so if you're really going to talk to many thanks indeed so if you're richardson the china director for human rights watch. an election town that has

been killed in a bomb attack in afghanistan as violence threatens to disrupt saturday's election the last happened in the southern province of helmand at least ten candidates been killed now in the run up to the election hundreds of people have been injured in attacks right across the country is in a shot at venice reports from kabul. it was cold inside his a literal office and lashkar gah home in provence this morning a bomb was planted under his cheer eight people were wounded in the attack three people died later of the injuries the taliban took responsibility for this attack they had warned they would do this ahead of the elections and on election day the parliamentary elections here on saturday he died in the blast he was a very well know one politician here in afghanistan a former military general who had been a politician here ever since the fall of the taliban in two thousand and one he had worked in helmand for the last three years he was determined that they would just

it wouldn't be a fight a military fight between the govern the taliban he wanted to speak to them he wanted to negotiate and people called him a dreamer and yet he continues this morning people who had a lot of supporters a lot of people would have voted for him on on saturday but as soon i mean and which in dari means champion or here and for a lot of people here this morning his surname. three separatist fighters and a policeman have been killed in a gunfight in indian administered kashmir that happened in the city of srinagar indian troops of cordoned off a neighborhood and were searching for the rebels protests followed the incident resulting in local internet availability being caught to prevent the spread of demonstrations for decades now indian security forces are for with kashmiri separatists who want the region to be part of pakistan. hopes are fading that a deal on the u.k. leaving the european union could be agreed with a march deadline getting ever closer e.u. leaders due to meet with british prime minister to resign may of the coming hours

in a cemetery brussels on tuesday european council president donald tusk said that he's not hopeful about a breakthrough in talks with the u.k. negotiations of stuart once again of what should happen with the irish border after the breaks it will some e.u. nations are already excel or easing preparations for a no deal breaks it down to zero as lawrence lee reports now from the dutch city of rotterdam. the dutch love to grow tomatoes the netherlands is the world's biggest exporter of the fruits in the some of the u.k. gets really hard of all its tomatoes from here or at least it has done the assumption is that a no deal bricks it will mean a no some are so britain are you talking on or about empty shelves on the u.k. side for the price in fact. probably but at the same time it's for a. product that is not going to market so it has to find. the new

markets the british relying just as much old rotterdam europe's biggest ports to service the demands of consumers it is a model of efficiency. freedom of movement of goods services money people is the most treasured achievements of the european union in its purest form rex it says no to all of those things but because the british government still can't decide what sort of breaks it wants the dutch it had no choice but to get into worst case scenario planning. no trade deal with the european union would mean fruits vegetables and meat having to be checked this new border to ensure it all meets hygiene standards it means the dutch employing nearly a thousand more customs officers it means queues backlogs turning away from the u.k. in seeking new markets and it isn't only about dutch tomatoes it's about goods produced across the e.u. that british people want to buy so all the production from germany twenty five

percent of the trade is coming from or is going to germany today have to prepare as well and that is where the real challenges are dating repairing as well as rotterdam as for the poverty bret's because if they are not prepared then it still stops here across western european capitals the same conversations are being had how to get a deal done when the british government is riven by dissenting views and still we don't know where we're lending our lending with a chaotic back set aren't ending within that customs union without a customs union and do we have two or three years of transition period or not sell off in a year and a basic mistake was made before the notification of the article fifty letter so you still see that british politicians are negotiating among themselves. what should look like and that question should have been settled by now the british government has warned the brics it could lead to food shortages though such talk is dismissed by purest breakfasters as scaremongering gradually though the e.u.

is coming to the view that the u.k. may have to put up with the consequences of its lack of direction lawrence li al jazeera rotterdam. ethiopia's prime minister has appointed women to half of his government's ministerial posting clued in the job of defense minister of the country joins rwanda as the only african nations with equal gender representation in the cabinet since taking office in april the ahmed has made peace with neighboring eritrea he's also created a new ministry of peace to tackle ethnic violence. it is good to have you with a seller adrian for getting here in doha the top stories now to syria turkish investigators have been stalled again in the search for clues over the suspected killing of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi the turkish interior minister is reported to be seeking agreement from saudi arabia to allow investigators to enter the consul general said residence in istanbul sean she hasn't been seen since

entering the nearby consulate building fifteen days ago where u.s. secretary of state mike from peo is now in ankara having been in riyadh looking for answers from the saudi leadership over the case he's meant to accuse president drafts of top of the one on the country's foreign minister at the head of the international monetary fund has become the latest name to pull out of a major investment conference in saudi arabia later this month the i.m.f. says that christine lagarde is deferring her middle east trip which was to have included her attendance at the event dubbed davos in the desert. one palestinian has been killed three others injured after israeli forces launched airstrikes on gaza israeli military says that it was targeting a group firing rockets israel's defense minister ordered the closure of the edges and chem abu salam crossings following the attacks in which three people injured. chinese state media has released video of internment camps for weaker muslims in

the western province of shin journey despite international criticism the government has defended its treatment of the minority group it claims that it's really educating people so that they can be part of a modern civilized world up to a million weekers of reportedly been detained in the camps and election candidates has been killed in a bomb attack in afghanistan as violence threatens to disrupt saturday's elections the blast happened in the southern province of helmand at least ten candidates have been killed in the run up to the election but hundreds of people have been injured in sacks of dross the country three separatist fighters and policeman a policeman have been killed in a gun fight in indian administered kashmir it happened in the city of srinagar indian troops and cordoned off a neighborhood was searching for rebels protests followed the incident the decades now indian security forces of four with kashmiri separatists who want to be what

the region to be part of pakistan. those are the headlines of war for you to zero right after today's edition of the stream next getting to the heart of the matter the three big challenges facing human prine in the twenty first century. climate change and technological disruption. whatever is there is not in me it is in the people of canada hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. and. how to print write and combat climate change that's just one of the questions that i will be off for president. in our special show today if you have more questions comments let us know on twitter and.

mary robinson has an all special reputation as a stateswoman and a defender of human rights now she is focusing on how grassroots activists can tackle climate change robinson has a storied career in politics and advocacy she became island's first woman president in one thousand nine hundred ninety three surface seven years before her appointment as the un's high commissioner for human rights efforts were key to placing justice and equality the very core of the un's work other major u.n. responsibilities followed including a year serving as special envoy for the great lakes region of africa and that was in twenty thirteen more recently robinson has focused on tackling climate change she served as a un envoy on climate change in twenty fourteen and a un special envoy on el nino ag climate in two hundred sixteen she's now merging her commitments to human rights and the environment through the mary robinson

foundation climate justice the organization places justice equity at the heart of responses to climate change and those values are also at the heart of the new book climate justice hope resilience and the fight for a sustainable feature so mary joins us from dublin ireland to discuss climate justice and her lifelong commitment to human rights mary robinson is so good to have you on the street. great to be with you for me you dedicate your climate justice book to those whose stories of hope and resilience inspired the actual book i would love you to tell us a story about a ugandan woman who had the remnants of a house still standing no roof and a multiple number of people all staying with her because that was one of the moments that pointed you to realize that there was a link between human rights and climate change. yes it's

very true i mean i'm quite humble about it because when i was serving for those five years as u.n. high commissioner for human rights i didn't make the connection between human rights and climate change it was when i was in africa and meeting people like constance of keller's from a village in uganda who became a claim as wise woman she was found in fact by oxfam and i was on re president fox oxfam and i first met her when i sat on a tribunal with our spirit doesn't tutu and we listen to five farmers from different countries in africa and four of those five are women which makes sense because women do someone so much of the farming in africa and it was constance when she stood to say very with great dignity you know when when i was asking is this a question of farmers always complaining about the weather and she stood and she said no she said this is outside our experience and that really struck me and i wondered you know in an african village how long is that. and i work

though to myself if you think of a grandparent talking to a grandchild and that grandchild talks to his or her grandchild that's probably the best part of two hundred years and so what constant was saying was this is so different and. in two thousand and seven a huge flood destroyed her village and destroyed school and she formed a women's group to fight back and become more resilient and first of all had to beg for food and then got micro-credit planted trees began diversity begun teaching began to learn about climate change and became this voice of various conferences now in a very good friend where grandmothers together with grandma so on twitter lots of comments and questions for you mary here's one from dee prints climate change is a big threat in africa it's impacting hard on agriculture products drought flood except try to mitigate this effect we need to adopt c.s.a.

measures and the majority of our local farmers lack the basic knowledge of climate change and measure to mitigate its effect. it's very true and you know there is also the gender dimension that affects women even more they have to go further for water further for firewood have to put food on the table maize doesn't do well in extreme drought and so on so you need the diversity of crops and so we need far more attention to supporting farmers and in particular even with learned rights supporting women to be able to become more resilient and to cope it's amazing what women are doing and i'm very impressed but they're not getting enough help and farming communities are at the front end of the injustice of climate change because those farming communities in africa that are sort of factors haven't been responsible they don't drive cars they don't have big manufacturing and central heating in fact they often don't have access to

electricity which they should have and that's that's the upside of what we must do for climate justice is get off grid clean cook stoves and solar and other hydro and wind power where it's appropriate so that everybody has access to electricity so they can take themselves out of poverty and cope with the shocks of climate change i heard you talk about climate change as a manmade problem with a feminist solution that is pretty radical in terms of feminism can actually take the world can your path at a little bit marry. that's part of the podcast that i'm doing on mothers of invention and we make it clear that you know climate change is the man made problem which includes the generic term that includes women and the feminist solution definitely includes men in fact our most recent episode which we did live in new york during climber's week at the end of september included do you

know head of amnesty international and he was delighted as a man to be talking about the feminist solution so it's you know that's the way we approach it but we listen to mostly women of different from different countries from different walks of life incredible stories of what they're doing either coping in the way that constance or colors was coping in her village in uganda or inventing inventing. digestible. cups first of all and then straws to sort to get rid of plastic straws and two young women in the united states are developing. plastic straws that are edible to avoid the plastic we have an enormous range of women. from various parts of the world who are showing their inventiveness their entrepreneurial spirit but also their commitment to climate justice and you know black lives matter young black

lives matter person who is also a woman who's working on also on environmental issues impressed me greatly i want to show our audience a pale one has a little bit of your pockets anything someone says sex and this is a little a little accept from episode one where very young climate change warrior climate action where he's deciding to take some action in the united states have a listen. my miss kelsey cascadia rosalie on i'm twenty two years old i live in eugene oregon and years old i filed a lawsuit against the governor of oregon then when i was nineteen years old federal government. there's twenty one young people from across this nation who feel strongly enough that yes this issue of climate devastation is important to them yes they're feeling the harms right now from climate change and yes they want to

represent their voices but also their peers forces and future generations voices in front of government through the courts. so agatha says on twitter about the poll cost i love the dynamic between mary and mays hagan's at how mary's long career is shared so honestly providing both a learning experience and a source of inspiration from made and the audience and how they approach the climate change issue from different angles profiles different climate warriors so this is an accessible way to get into the whole issue of climate action and climate justice you also have a barometer mary which you use with taxi drivers as you're driving around your home which is what is the taxi driver barometer that you use. well you know ten years ago taxi drivers were the most skeptical and they do talk a lot and they know everything they think they know everything and they knew everything that denied climate change they have completely turned around there are

no very strong advocates for arlen doing more our country is not doing enough on climate change they want electric cars they want hybrids at least and you know there are a real voice no which is good because the do the clip that you just did is a very very important case the children's trust case it's coming to hearing in the court in oregon this month. the federal government that the federal government is not protecting people from climate change this could be an extraordinarily important case and is only one example of the the what i've learned from those that were interviewing on the program but of course move keeps these very funny remarks room we were talking for example about waste and the fact you're on the on the series on plastics that countries of the west of sent their waste to countries like china and china is refusing to take the waste now from developing countries and

catherine wilkinson an expert was talking on the program and she said you know it's not even recycled waste it's often dirty nappies and then move starts to rant about the responsibility of babies to these dirty nappies we all rural africa and you know i like that because it. you were is important and i think young people you know a very able to take their serious points with a lot of human which is really good i want to introduce you to mary to another young person her name is the hendra and she is a climate y.f. an organization peer peru court activity parin she tweets first of all that the key to climate justice and gender justice in peru understanding the feminize ation of the countryside where women stay to work the land while men migrate to cities to work increasing both women's exposure to natural disasters and constraining their financial capacity to respond so much in that tweet and then she has this to ask you mary have a listen. my name is one hundred thirty s.

and i'm from lima you know. i think one of the biggest challenges that we're facing now is well summarized by the most recent i.p.c.c. report which states that we need to peak global emissions rapidly and drastically my question for you would be as a former head of state what strategies do you think are most feasible in this current political context to make those changes happen we know change needs to be from the bottom up but there also needs to be clear cut action taken from the top down thank you. so mary thank you for such an important question i agree with you about the importance of that report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change telling us what staring at one point five degrees of warming means to the world and the difference between one point five degrees and two degrees and that's really important that we understand that two degrees is the outer limit of dangerous and but we must stay at one point five degrees to have a safe world.