his entire family he now lives in the popular destroyed house with his father and grandfather. solace for the purpose his son for the first day in school is hopeful new friends would hope is that a company. is that we should. what he's trying to do is to the region should. donald trump attacks his former lawyer who has admitted to lying to congress about a russian real estate deal. and the u.s. president's canceled the meeting with vladimir pearson at the g. twenty summit because of russia's standoff with ukraine. hello i'm the star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up people in

senegal speak out about an internet crackdown months before elections also freed at the age of fifteen but hundreds more young palestinians are still locked up in israeli jails. pressure is building on u.s. president donald trump after his former ally admitted his former admitted lying to congress michael cohen says he made the false statements last year during an investigation into alleged russian interference in the twenty six thousand presidential election as he called reports from washington d.c. . mobbed by reporters michael cohen said nothing leaving the court but inside a guilty plea he lied to congress now admitting that he was trying to arrange a real estate deal in moscow during the time it was clear donald trump would be the republican candidate the cohen was in fact going to travel to russia to work on the

deal and the president knew about it all things cohen had previously denied bruce fein worked in the justice department and he says this is a big deal so this is a time where we have a criminal information that identifies the president himself secondly it also indicates that president trump or then candidate trump felt vulnerable if it was known that he was dealing. in russian enterprises or because he would need to curry the favor of mr putin nothing happens in russia of important without mr putin's approval the president dismissed the news in his usual fashion badmouthing his former top aide is a weak person. by being weak god like other people that you watch he's a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about i mean we were very open to where the kohen did plead guilty to crimes that completely related to trial pain of women who tried had

an affair with so they would stay quiet before the election and while it might not have been illegal to do a deal in russia while he is under investigation for potentially colluding with russia to win the election it would have looked suspicious this makes six six close aides to the president have now pled guilty as part of the special counsel's probe democrats say this is bad for the president you've got all these closest associates of the president one after another pleading guilty often pleading guilty about their ties to russia and russians and what are they covering up for and we also have a white house that still seems just obsessed about this investigation it's believed the special counsel has filed several indictments that are still under seal which means it is quite likely michael cohen won't be the last to face the cameras or the court in washington. mike hanna is also following the story and joins us live from

washington d.c. mike tell us more about the wider implications of cohen's admission for the miller investigation and the president trying. well michael cohen statement is absolutely critical because he says in the court papers that he lied to congress in order not to publicly contradict an individual named as individual one in the court papers subsequently identified as donald trump the reason for this is that donald trump throughout the presidential campaign continually insisted publicly that he had no building business dealings in russia whatsoever michael cohen severance that negotiations continued for trump properties operations in russia until at least june one thousand nine hundred sixteen by that time president trump was a candidate in an election still conducting business deals that would appear with russian figures having been warned by intelligence agencies that there were some

russian actions against the electoral process so certain this very very damning evidence given by michael cohen president trump dismissed as a tease just tweeted in the last few minutes saying that this proves that there is no collusion well very much the opposite it indicates that individual one that is president trump also had negotiations and talks to members of his family to michael cohen himself a rising here the possibility of the subordination to purchase the question is did donald trump at any stage instruct any members of his family or indeed his personal lawyer at the time to lie about what was happening in terms of those dealings with russia mike hanna in washington d.c. thanks very much for that mike. well donald trump has now arrived in argentina joining fellow wild leaders for the g. twenty summit but saudi crown prince mohammed bin cylons attendance has

overshadowed the broad agenda so too has the trump administration's trade war with china to resemble reports from when is aries. the mothers of last i mean my your have been demanding to know the whereabouts of their missing children since they disappeared during argentina's dictatorship forty years ago. the g twenty gives them a chance to take their message to a wider audience. the city is under siege it seems like we're under curfew but we made it here and once again we call on world leaders to stop the policies that create hunger poverty and that hurt the working class. they were into thousands of people are promising to take over the streets of one side is on friday in spite of these protests this is a historic event for argentina and an opportunity to be at the center of world affairs even though there are several issues overshadowing the main objective which

is to build consensus on crucial issues like climate change and inequality. among them the presence of saudi crown prince mohammed bin salomon and the request by human rights watch to investigate him over the murder of journalism i go. skilling has changed relations between saudi and the western world. gone says he's ready to talk to the crown prince about what happened. to egypt's a clear sure i have always been very clear on the case of saudi arabia and i will inevitably have the opportunity to discuss it with the saudi crown prince on the margins of this g. twenty meeting we will have the opportunity to discuss it among european leaders as i requested before the g. seven donald trump arrived in when a site is on thursday evening ready to discuss the trade war between the united states and china he's cancelled he's meeting with russian president vladimir putin after the seizure of crane and ships by russia at the crimean peninsula. this

protester came all the way from the united states carrying a baby trump. he's been an activist opposing the u.s. foreign policy since the vietnam war we would like the president of the united states that are a little bit more mature that's if i was going to boil it down to just one statement it would be that we think it's asinine that he's on twitter we think it's asinine that he's casual and that he. picks fights seems to want to take the smallest and lowest road instead of the high the g twenty begins proper on friday this mass yoga session was organized to help leaders concentrate on resoldering their differences. the protest around when a site is will remind them how hard that task is likely to be. a scientist. alan fisher is also when is areas and has this up days. oh a number of issues have dominated the run up to the g twenty they aren't talking about

the agenda they're talking about mohammed bin salminen who will meet the saudi crown prince we know already that donald trump isn't going to do that we know that president putin would like to we know that mohammed bin salman has requested to meet president of the one of tuckey that may well happen but everyone's going to be watching to see who shakes his hand who welcomes him to the dinner who sits beside them who he stands next to in the family photo all of this will give an indication on whether or not mohammed bin selman is being welcomed back into the international community if the international community is ready to put aside the issues they have particularly over the killing of jamal khashoggi in fact one senior royal said at the weekend that if you want to talk about the global economy if you want to do business then you really have to deal with the saudi government and that means dealing with mohamed ben solomon but the organizers of the g. twenty and global leaders are also hoping that crucial issues will be discussed things like global warming things like the global economy there are some experts

who say we could well be heading for another recession not quite as bad as two thousand and eight but something that would cause untold misery for many people around the globe while the u.n. secretary general is in argentina he had a news conference earlier on thursday and i asked him how he can get everyone pointing in the same direction and trying to bring global solutions to global problems live. stock that they're seeing the central problems of all. just because. there's of course a problem with. the woman you until you get here is understands where the fault lines are and i asked him you know what the problems are how do you get everyone pointing in the same direction and coming up with a solution he said i don't know you tell me i pointed out i wasn't the u.n. secretary general but that perhaps sure is his frustration the. the twenty biggest economies are involved in individual rows rather than looking at the big picture

and working towards solutions there they're hoping at the end of the g twenty there will be an official communique it would be unusual if there wasn't but given the divisions given the problems it's by no means guaranteed if they were able to get a statement which discusses what has been achieved and where they need to go that that would be progress well britain's prime minister plans to raise the matter of jamal khashoggi and the war in yemen when she meets the saudi crown prince and what is areas to reason may arrived a short time ago speaking to journalists on the flight in may reiterated that she'll push for a full investigation and for all those responsible for the killing to be punished u.n. sponsored talks between yemen's warring parties are expected to start next week in sweden as western powers press for an end to a war that's pushed the country to the verge of starvation u.n. humanitarian chief mark local has visited the capital sana which is controlled by

her few rebels they're fighting against the government which is backed by a saudi u.a.e. military coalition also visited families in areas west affected by the conflict and says many people have been left with nothing. this family behind me i've been in these terrible conditions for four years now. women with their husbands and children they have nothing and they have tiny rudimentary shelters there's not enough food they're very not an already very welcome in the local community who got nothing and. it's a very insecure environment none of the children going to school. the lot of the times as part of my job in this. terrible desperate by this war needs to end these people need a better future the weather is next to that the democratic republic of congo is ebola outbreak becomes the second largest on record. she begged them to kill

a member of china's weak and minority tells of had torture in a detention camp. i will see some rather heavy rain pushing into western parts of the u.s. much of that west side of north america a loss of cloud coming through here must needed rainfall with some of that has been very heavy at times things are quieted down here as we go through friday brought to skies comicon behind the rain turning to snow as it pushes over the rockies it is where a little further east was in the process michael way further east around the appalachians some where the liveliest showers just ganging up here that will lead to push its way further east over the next couple days and there was some snow on the northern flank just about pennsylvania upstate new york into ontario all easing further east

which as we go through saturday by sas day system pushing out of the rockies really bringing some heavy downpours here across the great plains and as you can see quite a bit of snow in the forecast over the next few days of a merriest down into the southeast. the possibility of some localized flooding could see a little more flooding too towards california as the next system pushes in again with some snow. nevada's maybe we got a little bit of pushing in across say carabine lots of dry weather lots of sunshine is certainly the case into the lesser antilles great scientists could see some town . friday but looking dry on the saturday. they said what do you think of waterboarding i said i think we absolutely need it we should add and if we can we should have people in power investigates the private companies and. complicit in the illegal use of torture under interrogation

the sun will rise once a day in sets where not a few are in the hands of the cia you can make the sun shine or not rendition visited. on out is iraq. welcome back i'm just. a reminder about top stories this hour the u.s. president's former lawyer has admitted lying about what he did on a real estate deal for donald trump in russia michael cohen made the false statements to congress during its investigation into claims of russian clues and in the twenty sixteen election the u.s. president has arrived in argentina for the g.

twenty summit but he's canceled a meeting with russia's vladimir putin and trump is blaming russia's west standoff with ukraine. and as that crisis escalates ukraine's president is asking the wilds for help petro poroshenko wants nato to deploy strips to the sea of as of where russia has been broke ating ports russia's also deploying more surface to air missiles to crimea border regions in ukraine and now under martial law including the city of cock from where andrew symonds reports. second city is very evident more police on the ground and extra vigilance but most of the emergency powers now available to the president being held in reserve. sophie and counted scar is a journalist who was here outside the city's russian consulate when it was fire bombed on sunday night nationalists demonstrating against russians action off the coast of alex crimea she says later when president petro poroshenko warned that

russia had tripled the number of tanks on the border people were startled some fearing an invasion and its karma. rather than more which local officials have assured people that moves which will restrict the constitutional rights will on the be brought into effect if russia starts an open act of aggression such as an invasion people here in hockey live in a strange state is there a full war or isn't there. paper boats remain outside the consulate passive resistance to the russian confrontation city officials won't comment and were understood to be seeking more clarification about the martial law or some politicians are still cynical about the president's motivations with their actions at the end of march next year the fact that a bill like to only buy back in twenty fourteen it should have been done and

everyone would have taken it normally it could have been an adequate response to the situation but now honestly it looks ridiculous. an estimated thirty percent of hockey these people are ethnic russian and the border is only forty kilometers away if the conflict was to escalate drastically how kieve would certainly be in the firing line and this is the city that built thousands of teeth thirty four tanks its legendary armor believed by many to have been one of the main reasons why the soviets defeated the nazis in the second world war. now work to build and maintain ukrainian tanks is virtually nonstop with exports halted. it's not necessarily what's happening on the ground that's alarming it's what's going through people's minds conscription for example it applies to young men between twenty and twenty seven years of age warning for graduates eighteen months

for non-graduates special exemption for young people from serving on the front line but could this all change. a student's depart from a day's study in a university get a hint of their nervousness. if not to brotherly nations are fighting each other there needs to be a peaceful solution without the loss of human life but for the new boy. but i will be in pain if my brother's conscripted because i don't want him to go to war to fight somebody. it's a strain time and it's short history is independent states the message from ukraine is one of strength and determination but there's divisiveness in its internal politics and simmons al-jazeera hockey ukraine the united nations general assembly has been debating a number of pro palestinian resolutions on the annual international day of solidarity with the palestinian people the day marks seventy one years since the un

adopted a resolution partitioning palestine and to jewish and arab states israel's ambassador called the resolutions a mockery that the palestinian ambassador nations to act the dangers of this prevailing situation cannot be overstated the huge gap between the lofty convictions and realities on the ground must be quickly remedied before it is too late for palestinians. and for the region as a whole well one of the youngest palestinian children imprisoned in israel has been released he spent almost three years behind bars accused of processing an attack which he denies as natasha going to reports from ramallah his case highlights concerns about the mistreatment of palestinian children arrested by israeli forces . with three birthdays spent in prison fifteen

year old child sievert the media attention after crossing the calendar checkpoint in the occupied west bank and returning home to palestinians. it's the best feeling in the world the feeling of freedom nothing like. fara was twelve when he and his friend ahmed zaatari were arrested in their village in two thousand and fifteen israeli authorities charged him with possession of a knife and plotting an attack despite taking a plea deal he denies this thanks to his mother's tireless efforts emerged as the face of palestinian children in israeli prisons human rights groups say they're often coerced into confessing to crimes they didn't commit the palestinian prime minister's office says there are two hundred seventy children in israeli jails this year more than nine hundred have been arrested children report being subjected to physical violence and put in solitary confinement during

interrogations according to the rights group defense for children. during the interrogation and whenever we say something they don't like they turn the cameras off they beat us they put us through psychological torture but it was worse for our family as a spokesman with the israeli police didn't respond directly to the allegations but explained their procedures there was a clip protocol that we go according to notify the parents of their being involved in an attack notify a lawyer if necessary as well and of course according to the standard procedure they will appear before the court that is what takes place in israel and of course in many cases as well everything of course is documented and even filmed human rights groups say israel needs to be held accountable a lot of. innocents. to try to ask

international community to. in the coming days weeks and months human rights groups say once the euphoria dissipates forum may very well have difficulties coming to terms with the trauma of three teenage years spent in prison natasha going to aim el does era ramallah. a civil rights suit has been filed in a u.s. court against a vacation rental company a b. and b. over its decision to ban listings from illegal settlements in the occupied west bank the americans who brought the case accused of discriminating against jewish west bank homeowners saying the company doesn't have a similar policy in other disputed territories a b. and b. announced last week it would take about two hundred properties off its web site the outbreak in the democratic republic of congo is now the second largest on record behind twenty fourteen's epidemic that killed thousands in west africa the world health organization delivered the assessment to congress health ministry announced

there have been almost four hundred fifty cases since the start of august two hundred fifty people have died it's spreading in the country's north east where attacks by rebel groups are making it difficult for health workers to contain the disease t.j. hotez is the dean for the national school of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine he told us more about the threats facing health workers in that part of the world. this part of eastern congo is one of the most destabilized. regions of the world they've had almost continuously violence for practically twenty years and you might say well what does violence and conflict have to do with disease well what happens is that collapses the whole health system infrastructure so when you want to be concerned about safe aerials which are a big problem during outbreaks or contacting potentially infected individuals this presents a really tough problem for health workers were poor area the good news is that we

have a vaccine that was we didn't have a vaccine on hand but twenty fourteen outbreaks in west africa so we have a very effective and relatively safe accident available now. so that's the good news and so far more than thirty thousand doses of vaccine that's been deployed but the problem is working in such an unstable area you have to ensure the safety of the health of the vaccinators and you have to be able to trace attentional contacts and get them back and they did so in theory this should be. a non-problem we should be able to quickly contain this through use of the vaccine but because of the massive political instability one of the most difficult parts of the world there really slows things down and unfortunately so far more than two hundred people perish senegal's government is tightening its grip on the internet just months before elections the president says it's all about stopping the spread of misinformation but those who've fallen foul of existing laws say free speech is

under attack nicholas hack reports from dakka it is a joke shared on a private whatsapp group that landed senegalese t.v. news reporter ole mani in jail when sunday night she shared a photo montage of president monkey self portrait one in the good muscular man's body to seven other women saying that he looked cute. a month later plainclothes officers arrested her and sent her to jail for three months for conspiracy violating decency and causing offense to the head of state. if that's true but so have lots of a reputation and so has my family before i was free to chat on mine are right on facebook my thoughts freely that freedom has been replaced by fear now i'm scared to say what i think or even to make a joke members of parliament voted a new law to regulate the internet some human rights groups say it allows the state

to shut down access to social media and censor content online it looks like they're not very comfortable with the freedom of expression in freedom of speech and the internet easy huge tool to many africans to expect their views and been relayed around the globe. there have been two hundred sixty four internet shutdowns in the last three years around the world and more and more governments are cutting access to the internet especially in africa in the english speaking regions of cameroon where a presidential campaign took place the internet is down for almost a year now tanzania uganda been in egypt are some of the countries introducing new internet laws the governments say this is not about censorship but stopping fake news and regulating the telecom operators who for now have complete oversight on how people consume online with the boom of smartphones in africa data has become

the new gold and governments here want to have more control over it. said they'd that new legislation comes just months before a presidential election where campaigning is taking place online because. we have a tradition of debate discussion and laughter under the bridge tree with so many people now living away from the communities in the cities the internet has replaced the village truly it's important that this tradition is preserved online shunned by her peers since her release from prison monday has lost her job as a news reporter instead she works at a call center and sells textiles on the streets. it is only in the privacy of her home that she goes back online in search of a safe place to talk. nicholas hawk al-jazeera car. a member of china's weekend minority has addressed the u.s. congress detailing the torture and abuse she says she experienced in a government can miracle tests and cried as

a translator described how she was interrogated for days without sleep and subjected to intrusive medical examinations china's detained up to two million in detention camps the government denies they have brainwashed or abused saying the centers provide training and education. the second time i was detained i was taken to a special room and the place in the ha ha. band held my arms and the legs in place and tighten and when they pressed a button to gods put a how much on my show you the head each time i was electrocuted my whole body would shake weiland three and i could feel the pain in my veins. i thought i would rather die than go through this torture i begged them to kill me doctors nurses teachers students and civil students have gone on strike together

and the spanish region of catalonia they demanded the regional government end spending cuts and focus more on managing the economy rather than splitting away from the rest of spain the catalan parliament declared independence in october last year after a disputed referendum and respond spain's national government imposed direct rule sacking the local administration and calling new elections. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories the us president's former lawyer has admitted lying about where he did on a real estate deal for donald trump in russia michael cohen made the false statements to congress during its investigation into claims of russian collusion in the twenty sixteen election trump is accusing cohen of lying to get a reduced sentence. he was convicted of various things unrelated. he was given a fairly long jail sentence and he's

a weak person advice being weak i'd like other people that you watch or use that recursion and what he's drawing to do is get a reduced judge so he's learning about a project that everybody knew about every we were very open with that we were thinking about building a building i guess we had to reform it was an option other than what you call it we decided i decided ultimately not to do it there would have been nothing wrong if i did do it if i didn't do it there would have been out the room the u.s. president has arrived in argentina for the g twenty summit where he's canceled a meeting with russ's about to me a person trump is blaming russia's west wing standoff with ukraine he's also ruled out meeting saudi crown prince mohammed bin sound and the united nations age chief is in yemen's capital to review the humanitarian crisis mark local says the situation for many people is desperate and he's repeated calls for an end to the war the boat outbreak in the democratic republic of congo is now the second largest

on record behind twenty fourteen's epidemic that killed thousands in west africa the world health organization delivered the assessment after congo's health ministry and nouns there have been almost four hundred thirty cases since the start of august it's spreading in the country's northeast where health workers fit attacks by rebel groups a member of china's weaken minority has addressed the u.s. congress detailing the torture and abuse she says she experienced in a government in ten min camp medical tests and cried as a translator described how she was and interrogated for days without sleep and subjected to intrusive medical examinations china's detained up to two million weak is in detention camps the government denies they are brainwashed or abused saying to them to provide training and education those are the headlines join me for more news here to people in power. descend on al-jazeera a from hospitality to hostility toward hotels tells dramatic stories about high

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