feld couple who is the deputy director of programs at the western states and to she signed an open letter with more than fifteen hundred organizations to mobilize voters his u.s. vote is against anti semitism thank you very much for speaking to us and so we were just seeing some pictures there of president trump in the city of pittsburgh he seemed very determined to visit the city despite objections from some of the people there and from local leaders why why did he insist on on making this trip do you think. well first let me just acknowledge that massacre at the tree of life congregation in pittsburgh over the weekend is an assault on our collective humanity in the united states and in flies in the face of our shared values that nobody should be targeted or hurt because of who we are who we believe we feel like this is an attack on our democracy right of course it's the result of

hideous anti-semitism but it wasn't indiscriminate as your reporter was just sharing many feel that this is the direct result of rhetoric that even the president has continued to echo that demonizes jews and celebrates political violence you know we of course will be in protests in pittsburgh if we were there ourselves and as you shared we've worked to mobilize more than one hundred fifty organizations to sign arms and an open letter to america again to any and those organizations are working. their communities to make sure that we are all voting in november against each candidate relies on anti-semitic rhetoric and i can certainly identify with protesters and it's for who feel like the president at this point has really no credibility come and offer comfort given and so many opportunities now second your station and to denounce white nationalism and if i am i if i might just

put the opposite argument to you. obviously the president and those around him would say that they want to come to pittsburgh to pay their respects to those that were tragically killed in this indiscriminate attack is is he does have many jewish supporters his daughter he says is a convert to the jewish religion and he is also very supportive of the government in israel so tell us more about about why you are linking what has happened that some of the rhetoric we've we've heard from this president. sure will be atlantic city her team at the end of the week that also included a number of bombs being mailed to progressive leaders including george soros a holocaust survivor and philanthropist and as. ben widespread reports

president truman has called george soros a globalist which is anti-semitic throat and refers to any anti-semitic. fact at his own. press conference to talk about the bomb threat he. repeated the crowd saying a lot about george soros if you look to. tell us the. responses from this administration regarding. you know equity diversity and inclusion right you know anti immigrant sense mitzi national he has continued to create a political environment where folks who have resistant anti-semitic ideologies feel emboldened to speak out and act and bigoted ways and he's done nothing to denounce that and his policy it's it louder and you know empty words that we heard

all right well thank you very much appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this story with us amy hatfield couple deputy director of the programs at the western states and thank you. thank you silat for you on this news hour from london deep sea divers search for the black box recorders of a plane that crashed off the coast of indonesia killing all a hundred eighty nine people on board also the race is on for the top job in europe's biggest economy is german chancellor angela merkel prepares to step down. and later it's gymnastics start samone biles picks up what could be the first of many gold medals at the world championships in doha. oh yes president donald trump says he wants to use an executive order to end birthright citizenship for babies born in the country to non-citizens and illegal immigrants is also ordered more than five thousand troops to the u.s.

border with mexico in a bid to stop a migrant caravan from marching from central america the military has been deployed to harden entry points along the crossing in arizona texas and california on twitter trump called the caravan an invasion of our country and said our military is waiting for you more than four thousand migrants are now walking towards the u.s. while another three thousand remain at the mexico or somalia or death. well mike hanna joins us live from washington mike first of all why is announcing this plan to end birthright citizenship. well it may be linked as well to the very reason why he's announced a plan to harden a border when would be immigrants are still hundreds of kilometers away and that is midterm elections he's getting discussion going he's insisted at a rally after rally that the whole question of immigration is going to be a centerpiece of his campaign in these midterm elections and of the republican campaign and certainly the birth right issue is one that many have dismissed out of

hand in the past the idea that you could not have a child born in the u.s. being a u.s. citizen is absolutely ruled out of hand for decades in this country but it is part of the debate and president trump made available his comments in an interview that we broadcast this weekend saying exactly that clearly attempting to fuel this ongoing debate as the midterms approach and as the migrant caravan continues to make its way towards the u.s. border the u.s. president has deployed to the military what has he been saying about the movement of troops what do you know about what's happening. well we've heard that the troops will be moved in in phases had least eight hundred salters are already on the border in position they are from a engineering battalion the others will be coming in the following days

the officer commanding saying that the priority is to get the soldiers into place as soon as possible president trump has characterized this caravan as it is described as an invasion saying as well in a tweet earlier this week that the army is waiting for you once again he's talking up the whole scenario what you have at the border now it's five thousand two hundred soldiers that number will be there soon you've got more than two thousand national guards officers and you've got your normal bulk to ploy and border patrol offices so certainly there's a huge amount of people now a guarding that particular border remembering too that the caravan the big caravan that president trump describes as an invasion numbers between three to four thousand people at most having diminished in size greatly likely to diminish it didn't diminish even further in the weeks ahead that it will take them to get to the border if they do so what you do have at the moment is more police officers

more army and more national guardsmen at the border than the total number of immigrants that are supposed to be attempting to cross thank you very much mike hanna with the latest on that story from washington. well many of the migrants might was mentioning them marching towards the united states from honduras on during military forces been deployed near the border with gaza to discourage people from making the crossing money rap and has the latest from. legal observers in honduras say that between one hundred fifty and two hundred hundred migrants are leaving the country every day through the different border crossings into guatemala here at the border crossing between hunters and what they myla we're seeing small groups of migrants that come together and join and join other migrants from different parts of the country they'll make it over the border hitching rides from trucks that are passing by or simply walking moving their way toward the border between but then my life in mexico well they're joining even bigger groups

ultimately making their way toward the u.s. southern border the honduran government is facing increased pressure from the united states to prevent more hundred nationals from leaving the country this is part of the reason we're seeing an increased presence of military police and army this however doesn't appear to be dissuading migrants from crossing into guatemala either through this official border crossing where we are and or through the coffee fields in the surrounding area the vast majority of migrants say they are fleeing extreme poverty and poor economic conditions in honduras but despite these warnings from the united states saying that hundred migrants and central american migrants will not be allowed into the country and despite promises by the honduran government that might be migrants will be given jobs if they return to the country the general sense is that the constant flow of migrants leaving the country will only continue. now the united nations has warned that it's too soon to return wrangle refugees after bangladesh in myanmar agreed to begin repatriations by the

middle of next month officials from myanmar plan to visit rangar refugee camps in bangladesh around three quarters of a million rangar fled across the border after a military crackdown the un has described as genocide u.n. investigators warm atrocities are continuing and say refugees must only return on a voluntary basis one joined now by charmaine mohammed the head of refugee and michael writes amnesty international and of course the key point about this is that if people do have to move that they are move all in terribly from what you know of this plan at the moment are any members of the ranger community in bangladesh actually being aust if they want to go back well i think that's been an absence of the very beginning government in the manner of a government have already signed to agreements in the last year regarding returns for bringing the refugees and to date we've still not seen any true representation or consult with the refugees themselves as to what they actually want these are

just consult about this issue as that would be affecting them directly and we've seen the complete absence of if and when such a plan is implemented what sort of measures would be taken to ensure that people are not being forcibly moved so first of all though you have to consider the issue of voluntariness it's not just about somebody saying yes i want to retire it's also about being informed to make that decisions about includes about the conditions of where they're going to what the situation is in their home but also includes having other options and that includes having the option to stay in bangladesh if they choose to do so and so we would like to see those. bare minimum standards around voluntariness met before we could really say that this is the true form choice by people and potentially how would repatriation work then on a practical level given that the. the homes in the villages belonging to wrangle have been destroyed where would they possibly be moving to well this is the second

issue are these returns going to be safe and are they going to be dignified first of all on the issue of security we have still have serious concerns around the safety and the high risk of persecution for refugees if they return to myanmar there's been no progress from the government to dismantle the system of apartheid that amnesty international has documented extensively there is structure discrimination until that's removed how can there be actually insurable or a safe return also in terms of infrastructure yes a lot of the villages were burned down by the military last year we've seen no signs of reconstruction furthermore the access to the areas her state is still extremely limited and restricted both to you and agencies and others working so until very effective access to real reconstruction plan put in place and also moved to end of the systematic apartheid against then we can see these returns would be durable in any way and you just cut to the heart of the issue it is this

a party that exists that predates the recent atrocities that's kind of led to the dehumanization that resulted in these atrocities that have been committed against the rangar. really can there isn't anyone there isn't any one that can really compel the the military leadership to to change the structure of discrimination is there well it's it's been a long history of persecution against the ruling structure discrimination in terms of access to education health care and other basic services in rough time. but furthermore it's not just the history we see that there is evidence ongoing of this the recent u.n. refugee agency assessment and they released the report just very recently saying that there is still restrictions on freedom of movement and livelihood fix the true for her communities who remains though and. i thank you very much appreciate you taking the time charmaine mohammed head of the refugee and michael rights national

thank you now to indonesia where the government has ordered inspections of all brand new boeing seven three seven jets of the same type involved in monday's crash one hundred eighty nine passengers and crew were killed in the second worst added astron indonesia's aviation history deep sea divers are now searching for the line at plane's black box recorders to determine exactly what happened after it took off from jakarta while in hey is there and sent this report. piece by piece search and rescue teams bring back what the found floating on the java sea id cards passports and other personal items belonging to some of the one hundred eighty nine people on board are being sorted. body parts are being taken to a nearby hospital where relatives have the harrowing task of making identifications that most people had of the many. families still hoping she survives we still have a big hope for that but if she did not survive we pray that her remains can quickly

be discovered so we can take a home to be buried. finding out what happened in the final moments of lion air flight six one zero and why it crashed into the sea soon after takeoff is likely to take a long time. my father was on board but we still don't know we're still hoping for the best because there hasn't been an official statement from lion air so we are still hoping for the best but increasingly speculation is turning to a problem with the instruments in the cockpit giving false readings lion air has confirmed there was a technical problem with the plane before it took off from bali to jakarta on sunday it says the issue was fixed but during that flight the pilot reported problems with the flight control system and satellite data collected by independent flight monitoring websites shows unusual fluctuations in speed and altitude soon after it took off from bali the situation stabilized in lyon is says the problem

was fixed again when it landed in jakarta and it was cleared to take off on monday morning it crashed some twelve minutes after it left the indonesian capital small pieces of debris being found but the search for the main wreckage continues how the new area today we've adjusted our calculations and widened our search areas to eighteen point five kilometers on the job a c. more than eight hundred people are involved in the search for debris bodies and clues to what happened to lyon air flight six one zero wayne hey al jazeera jakarta so i have for you on this news hour from london a german nurse on trial accused of killing one hundred hospital patients and lester opens a book of condolence for the late owner but confirmed they will play this saturday .

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yes. i would use iraq where ever you. insult career around two million dogs are eaten every year but now animal rights groups want the ancient tradition taken off the menu want to an east investigates korean dog. food on al-jazeera. welcome back just a quick look at the top stories now sources tell jazeera the saudi public prosecutor in istanbul is refusing to answer questions about where saudi journalist jamal khashoggi body is this as the u.n.

human rights chief calls for an independent expert to be involved in the murder investigation. the u.s. president is in pittsburgh paying his respects to the victims of saturday's synagogue shooting president trump was greeted by demonstrators who say he's not welcome in the city until he denounces white nationalism. and the u.n. has warned it's too soon to return rangar refugees off to bangladesh and myanmar agreed to begin repatriations by the middle of next month more than seven hundred thousand rango fled a military crackdown in myanmar state last year. and now saudi arabia is amassed one of the largest and well funded lobbying operations in the u.s. that's according to the center for international policy which says the kingdom is pumped millions of dollars to buy influence on capitol hill but in the wake of the scandal some p.r. firms are dropping riyadh as a client our white house correspondent kimberly how it has this report. for decades congressional support for saudi arabia has been broad and bipartisan but the

conflict in yemen has many in congress questioning the u.s. saudi relationship. despite outrage over attacks on civilians death and suffering from a humanitarian crisis there's been no congressional action to end u.s. support for saudi arabia's targeting of who the rebels in yemen here's why the saudis are arguably one of the most influential lobby in all do see a new report shows the saudi government spent ten million on lobbying in twenty sixteen. by twenty seventeen the year donald trump was. born it is president that number ballooned to almost twenty seven million contributions to political campaigns were also up and in a dozen cases firms representing saudi arabia met with and made cash contributions to u.s. politicians to buy influence all in a single day it's the thousands of times their lobbyists have contacted members of

congress it's the four hundred thousand dollars in campaign contributions that we saw going from lobbying firms representing the saudis to members of congress in spite of that sort of spending the killing of. by saudi agents in turkey has lawmakers reevaluating the relationship this puts the white house under tremendous pressure to take action and congress is not going to forget about this the pressure will probably increase on congress to take swift action or will it twenty sixteen many argue saudi lobbying led president barack obama to veto a law that would have allowed riyadh to be sued for its alleged role in the nine eleven attacks those working in the white house defended the veto the united states government u.s. service members u.s. diplomats and even potentially u.s. companies are risk of being hauled into court in countries all around the world still a top obama official feels the trumpet ministrations relationship with the saudi

crown prince mohammed bin solomon has gone too far president trump's inexplicable infatuation with prince mohammed must end former national security adviser susan rice wrote in the new york times and he must recalibrate american policy so that it serves our national interests not his personal interests or those of the crown prince the white house says it's weighing its options and has not ruled out sanctions against the saudi government at the highest levels for the death of jim. can really help at al-jazeera the white house. now the tunisian government minister says monday's suicide bombing in the center of tunis was an isolated act fifteen police officers and two teenagers were wounded when a woman who has been happy parky baffin you in the city center they've a child has more from tunis. the scene of the suicide attack in the very center of

tunis minutes after the explosion the group has yet claimed responsibility the thirty year old woman who detonated was thought to be a set of grenades has no known connections with any so-called extremist groups the majority of those injured were policemen manning a checkpoint but five civilians including two children were also caught in the blast tunisia's president shared the shock and dismay of the people in the capital the no in the heavily nightly i regret to say that security personnel are always paying a heavy toll paying it in blood we thought we had driven terrorism from our cities into caves now it is in the heart of our capital the target of the attack was a street called the shans elisi of this pact was shops and restaurants has been reopened for the public but with police on every junction. tourism is the main earner to the country's beleaguered economy struggling with high unemployment and

inflation tunisians are afraid the latest attack will once again undermine an industry that was making a recovery most of five years what's happened was terrible carried out by cowards who just want to take over to newseum we started it we're all against terrorism because terrorism is a very bad thing if he allows more money on something like this happens in the capital it is the end the country has been in a state of emergency for the last three years since this rate of attacks which killed scores of people in twenty fifteen including many british tourists shot dead at the peak resort the police and security forces now will have to step up their efforts again to remove the threat to new zealand is the country where the arab spring started and the only one to successfully establish a stable democracy but this latest attack could undermine those gains and provoke political instability already threatened by harsh austerity measures david chaytor

al-jazeera shoot us also news from nigeria where police have shot dead and other shia muslim protester in the second day of unrest in the country's capital violence erupted after members of the islamic movement of nigeria took to the streets on monday the number of dead is disputed group says twenty four people have so far been killed but the government is saying it's three the movement is demanding the release of its leader who was jailed during a crackdown on the group in two thousand and fifteen. now the race is on for the top position here its biggest economy after german chancellor angela merkel and else she will leave politics at the end of her term in twenty twenty one it's not just a contest for the job but a battle of ideas about what's best for the future of germany and the barbara ports from berlin. on her way out but hoping to guide her country for a few more years chancellor angela merkel remains of course a central figure on the world stage well she's day she was hosting a g.

twenty conference to promote private investment in africa but now she's set to quit as leader of the center right c.d.u. party where does that leave germany. because grand coalition with the social democrats has already been weakened by the success of the far right alternative for germany or if the party. supposed to accuse the di of exploiting isolated incidents of crime to incite anti because the league's but it's been taking votes from the city you around the country is now the official position of the german parliament real tough decision. to take next year for example is. whether to form coalitions with the local and the state level or for example states. if he is in a very strong position and the left part is also a very strong position somebody whose vision for germany's further to the right there merkel's is health minister. sharon is popular in the cd use conservative

wing and he's seen as the most ambitious of the potential leaders he opposes jule citizenship for young foreigners and advocates policies such as banning the burqa in public. but it's an open secret that as she battles out as party leader merkel has her own favorite to replace her and it could come carol bartz no company has a k.-k. is the cd use general secretary and former head of a small region of azhar and she's earned a reputation as a moderate liberal attitude really gracious is aligned with merkel's there's merkel's long standing rival friedrich admits the conservative pro-business figure is the first to officially announce he's running for the c.d.u. leadership by stepping down as party leader chancellor merkel hopes to give the c.d.u. time to revive its fortunes before the end of her term in twenty twenty one but nobody is ruling out a collapse of her ruling coalition before then and that really could change the dynamic in the race to become the next chancellor the dean barber al-jazeera belin

. a man who is already serving a life sentence for murder could be germany's most prolific serial killer the former nurse is on trial accused of killing one hundred patients to hospitals and he would reports. nails hogle hit his face as he entered the quilt already a convicted killer and now accused of the murder of a hundred patients to hospitals in germany prosecutors say the former nurse was motivated by vanity that he wanted to be seen as a hero by trying to resuscitate the patients who were given a lethal dose of medication to pittodrie van horn got more meals her goal is accused of hundred counts of murder he's believed to have abused his professional position to administer medication to patients which was not medically prescribed in order to make resuscitation necessary his aim according to the state prosecutor was

to professionally distinguish himself with his knowledge in these situations her goal seen here at his last trial in twenty fifteen is accused of carrying out the killings between one thousand nine hundred ninety nine and two thousand and five at two different hospitals in northern germany asked in court if the charges against him were valid he said they were but a trial will still take place to try to establish what happened to the victims it's reported that death rates and we saw the taishan zz rose when he was on ship he's already serving a life term the two murders and two attempted murders his earlier trial prompted the orthorexic is to investigate the deaths of hundreds of other former patients this trial began with a minute's silence for the victims the families of you for the food what's important to me is to find out what happened and that this man gets a just punishment if that's possible and maybe once the trial is over i can finally close this chapter on the families of the victims are hoping they will get some

answers during the next few months the trial is expected to last until may emma haywood al-jazeera. russia plans to test missiles off norway this week in an area way nato is carrying out its biggest military exercises since the end of the cold war well than fifty thousand military personnel from thirty one nations of taking part in the nato war games the two week show of strength is intended to project western readiness to deter russian aggression moscow's call the action a provocation alex could top us reports. familiar weapons were on display a mock beach assault laid on for the press but as the media day for netas biggest war games in decades got under way secretary-general stole biggs attention was focused on the possible collapse of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty no treaty can be effective if it's only respected by one pot and therefore we

called on russia to ensure that they are in full transparent full and transparent compliance with the un is treated because we don't want to nuances the treaty was a confidence building measure signed by the united states and the then soviet union designed to make it harder for one side to launch a surprise attack from the other now the united states is threatening to unilaterally pull out of the cold war treaty as it excuses the russians of violations something the president knows nato secretary-general had a clear message for any potential bursaries nato is ready and nato is able to protect all allies against any threat the exercises go beyond reassurance fifty thousand troops from thirty one militaries practicing to fight alongside each other brings its own sets of challenges with training helps overcome fear every joint operation you should know. very well and that's what this exercise means for

me and my troops some of the newer members of the alliance he used to train alongside soldiers from the soviet union now practice with their former enemies the manchurian for this is where the corporate day to day activities in all across during the combat all have to act together as the various militaries here today pack up and leave what wasn't on display where the weapons are going to make a decisive impact in any future conflict new war fighting concepts namely cyber warfare the ability to blind and destroy the computer. systems of one's adversities will be crucial to winning the next war despite that the hardware of war isn't disappearing any time soon for these military exercises a key to reassuring nervous alliance members worried about increasing russian military activity alex could topple as al-jazeera been a set norway coming up in just a moment we'll bring you all the thrills and bells. and the sky diving

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