one of the nice reveals china's underwater hunt. on al-jazeera. you what you will just their homes the whole robin these are all top news stories congressional negotiators in the u.s. have reached a funding deal just days away from the latest government shutdown deadline the agreement covers border security president trump has been addressing supporters at a rally in open said texas near the mexican border he's promoting his long promised wolf but the deal doesn't appear to have met his demands as ivor's walking up to the stage they said that progress is being made with this committee. to say you know we're building the wall anyway they say that.

i. just now i am i said wait a minute i got to take care of my people from texas i got to go why don't even want to hear about. el paso in texas president trump ventured here to el paso a city on the us mexico border to call again for building a substantial border barrier or wall along the u.s. mexico front cheer the president spoke for several thousand supporters who gave him a warm welcome in a coliseum here in el paso but outside a protest of president trump's visit was organized and underway led by the former congressman from el paso and potential democratic presidential contender for two thousand and twenty. we know that walls do not

save lives walls and lives. in a remarkable piece of timing the president's trip to el paso coincided with an agreement being reached in washington by negotiators who say they have a deal in principle that would fund some of what trump asked for in terms of oh border war this would avoid another disastrous government shutdown like the one that occurred in december in january but the amount of money that is being discussed here is hardly what president trump had asked for he originally wanted more than five billion dollars the deal would give him one point three billion dollars that's enough to build about eighty eight kilometers of border wall more aid is on its way to venezuela's borders as the u.s. and its allies pressure president nicolas maduro to let in tons of food and medicine are already stockpiled in neighboring colombia maturer has ordered

soldiers to block the a describing it as a political show by countries trying to force him out of power his government is attempting to seize the opposition leader's assets saying accepted money illegally are the real the they don't really mean he has received money from both international and national sources without any justification on the constitutional and legal powers that have been established as the general auditor of the believer and republic of venezuela i have started an assets order on cities in one tonio. where any footballer hakimullah baby has landed home in australia after spending two months locked up in thailand the footballer was arrested in november last year while on honeymoon in thailand he fled his native country in twenty four team and received refugee status nil strayer but bahrain wanted him to return to serve a ten year prison sentence for arson charges he denies. yes i would defend the

oyster all young business amazing physiology be with their audience be boiled to media is a word to me and i just know what they think they generally don't mean every word i would think it is and then it's why i do much more money i would not think of too much and i think if the media would say i would write and thank you on there i would be more i don't want to spend thirty antigovernment protesters in haiti have been financing with police for a fifth day in the company port au prince when he wanted president seven and was he to resign the angry about rising inflation and the government's failure to recover billions of embezzled funds you can see all of those stories of course on our website at al-jazeera dot com more news in half an hour we continue with delta their world iraq's dying rivers stay with us.

down on the banks of the river tigris in the iraqi capital baghdad. the river source is in turkey and it flows southeast through the capital until it eventually meets the euphrates. for centuries since the first urban settlements grew up in ancient mesopotamia thousands of years before the common arrow fishing has been

a lifeline running in families for generations. this is the story of the fishermen and women living now in the land often known as the cradle of civilization. college lives and works on the river in baghdad. with. only an email into their uncle. and while you were trying. i didn't hear so i hope. that. this was where i don't have to limit. the euphrates flows from turkey through syria and iraq and is the longest and one of the most historically significant rivers in asia. the vast ancient mesopotamia and marsh lands sits where the tigris and euphrates

meet in southern iraq. tens of thousands of iraqis live in marshes like the. likable hideout and his wife who rely almost entirely on fishing to make their meager living. alleys carlos's. i don't know a lot as i left i don't know. why there are no higher than what. the tigris and euphrates meets in basra province in the south of iraq where they form the shut the waterway were camel fishes on one of the trawlers. and i was out of the that wave with that this fellow. said that i would tell. you about it when i don't want to fit in god you know how they all get up and about

how to get out of a fight. with. this bass channel flowing into the arabian gulf is iraq's only source of marine fish on which the country's once thriving fishing industry was built. near here and it is a foul and iraqi port on the borders with kuwait and iran and the center for landing and auctioning marine fish for many decades.

this is a region steeped in ancient history and its relationship with water the rivers and the scene goes back thousands of years. the tigris and the euphrates made ancient mesopotamia part of what was called the fertile crescent where agriculture and. earliest human settlements grew up. fishing continued to develop in mesopotamia while it was part of the ottoman empire and then under british rule in the twentieth century. the country became one kingdom under king faisal of iraq in one nine hundred twenty two then gained independence ten years later. fishermen sold their catch in the baghdad fish market to merchants from other iraqi provinces as well as to the

citizens of baghdad. now when baghdad and in the marshes of the south and on the shuttle a lot of waterway whole ways of life are under threat as outside forces and manmade pollution are damaging the tigris and euphrates in reversible ways for all his commitment to a life on the tigris. days as a fisherman may be numbered all of those. are all had. well what about short. on a so it has shifted the only way busyness off of. it. was said that it was. for the better. the better machine want

to own more than it. does have a she was just. on a fit and she got a launch into to go. daddy dot. com it's phishing is very small scale especially compared with. there are fewer boots on the tigris compared with when he started out with his father. making a living here is tougher now than after. god has been through a polling of people in the past three decades and that has affected the river environment as much as the land. a layer.

of whatever. well i'm going. to lodge with one essential at. all out of hand and with. you know what i know. i like i want to hear when i'm strong. as the capital baghdad has been the focus of the outside attacks and internal turmoil that have hit iraq in recent years. but for. the people of the marshlands in the south disruption to their way of life goes back further to the one nine hundred fifty s. am in some ways little has changed here for the past hundred years. are still produced

and hung just as they've been. the long fishing boats are still builds to the same design as they were in the one thousand. between the one nine hundred fifty s. and one nine hundred ninety s. large. river system where people like his wife live were trained. the reasons were political to force people. out of the area. and to punish them for their part in an uprising against the government in one thousand nine hundred one.

saddam reduced the nine thousand square kilometers of wetlands in the one nine hundred seventy. to just seven hundred and sixty square kilometers when his government fell in two thousand and three. the displacement of infer two hundred thousand marsh arabs and the campaign of violence against them let the international community to condemn it as ethnic cleansing. the united nations has described the draining of the marshes as a tragic human and environmental catastrophe on a par with the deforestation of the amazon rain forest. but the marshes were lead to be flooded and the high didn't his wife returned to the water. and i'm not proud of her and i gotta run we are. all here. remember the

heart of the middle very. very well you know we are home without you in our life you were one hundred people when our long one dogma on our homicide didn't mark. well. i don't know if there had been a little holy on a fatalist in atlanta why did we hate him. and why that. and not hating a whole. long list of what a divisive acquited wise policy but i'd learn even their faith and laugh it would have been why had i didn't go through that like me but other than the. no i'd let us know finale never had a love a sly look at involved with another seven no one has an oddly other to live on. or what i plan on the hell out of having she was actually over sick of the melody

of god and the same thing was i got honest and she was the one had well thought of and listen to your heart all of the why they have this admission that. now there was a headlock not only let me only. live. here if you were in one. of the little article you.

didn't have to have no. will for one. you know. love it. and want a lot. of champaign is now recovering thanks to the reflooding following the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three. large areas of the marsh and three ancient cities have now been included in us schools list of world heritage sites but the reflooding has not restored the wetlands to their pre-drawn . the damage to the iraqi environment has also not been limited to the marshlands. iraq as

a whole has suffered massive turmoil in the past thirty years. saddam's invasion of kuwait in august one nine hundred ninety led to the first gulf war and defeat by a coalition led by the united states the effect on the country was described as near apocalyptic taking iraq back to the pre-industrial age. then the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion of iraq and fall of saddam hussein's government the occupation and violent insurgency caused further widespread destruction the armed group i saw was a major part of the postwar insurgency its military activity in iraq and the campaign against it by the iraqi government and western forces have led to huge damage to infrastructure and the environment. the tigris in baghdad where ahmed khalid ekes out a living has been badly affected by this prolonged period of violence and instability

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a question any in the head and fear. the instability and tighten security. have led to an increased police presence on the river. harvey. said i want to. know something to come or so not when we. just it is about the fellow with them going to war innocent the kid to get them i mean the moment i think. right. in the way. i believe i got. my lodge and they didn't. want to.

know. that i was on the one on the back with a gun because i want to. its problems on the tigris are to do with restrictions on his movement but on the euphrates in the south the issue is with water quality. salt levels have risen because of dams higher up the river in syria and turkey there is waste from agriculture. and sewage from cities all it. used to.

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the war. couldn't lives in our city a city where people cannot drink the water from the euphrates because of the drop in water level increasing its salinity. furthermore in late twenty eighty when tens of thousands of freshwater fish died in the euphrates south of baghdad and soaring pollution is believed to be a major factor behind the sudden death of the fish. i mean how wildly how. monopolists.

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well just. the dams built up river on the euphrates in syria turkey and iran are also having an effect on the marshlands in southern iraq. this is impeding conservation and restoration efforts in the wetlands the dams have reduced the flow of water reaching iraq since one nine hundred seventy by as much as the hof. hundreds of people have been forced to migrate from iraq's once fertile central marshes because of the lower water levels still at night and all i got out of and i've never had all the of a live there she quite know that at all and i've never seen or made it hard to have so much of living well. now then we are now he'll be

ok i am not here to flee i hope. of lego star i got here early one would have. a little one with the war room so i didn't want to do it all on my. world on monday you know did i was that good i did my little i would argue. the. front on my wall thing and i know he didn't know how. one might and i didn't. know why the young lad did in any of them how but i. know we had it in. my head right now as is the one lot of knowledge that you. i

don't know. but the problems of the marshes and the upper rivers extend on a larger scale beyond the points where the to ancient rivers the tigris and the euphrates merge at basra. from here the vast channel of the shuttle out of waterway runs through basra province into the gulf. coming up the shot to the heart of waterway faces an environmental catastrophe it's taking with it livestock and fisheries and i really they're going to get out there looking at it over. there and mark what i say and as this year at nine majority malitia and i start here yeah even russia. and iraqi fishermen say they often fall foul of the kuwaiti indian we need these patrolling maritime borders on the frontline of a dispute that once led to out an outdoor others out all the years the output and

where. were abdullah. then they are now out of them in. public work but not me that bellman of me and me and others in the rubble adults. many. of us are in yellow. take the worst possible material eurabia grounded into dust comparable to flour and make a deal out of it and put it into a place where people live it is a cause colossal event. as well and so many people a few here this is the silent heat that doesn't make you feel nice you feel like a move of we have created an enormous normal mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. with

a big breaking news story can be chaotic frantic behind the scenes. people shouting instructions a big deal trying to provide the best most curious pop today's information as quickly as you can. it's when he come off air on things to pin realized he witnessed history in the making. afghanistan has the geology of both mentally resources and i refer to why are they so poor the measuring of you guys when trying to form a government that may have been the toughest and went essentially nowhere and the more we would close down the more they push back we knew it was coming to the question was do we sit back and wait or do we surprise them with a preemptive strike on the bottom or on just a. moment

. they're watching others their arms the whole rubble and these are all top news stories congressional negotiators in the u.s. have reached a funding deal just days away from the latest government shutdown deadline the agreement covers border security president trump has been addressing supporters at a rally in el paso texas near the mexican border he's promoting his long promised wall but the deal doesn't appear to have met his demands as walking up to the stage they said that. progress is being made with this committee were just so you know we're building the wall anyway they said.

the it. were i see where a manager i got to take care of my people from texas i got to go why don't even want to hear. borat is on its way to venezuela's borders as the u.s. and its allies pressure pressure president nicolas maduro to let in tons of food and medicine are already stockpiled in neighboring colombia but or has ordered soldiers to block the a describing it as a political show by countries trying to force him from power his government is attempting to seize opposition leaders assets saying one guy i doze accepted accepted money illegally other is the real the they don't go in the end he has received money from both international and national sources without any justification on the constitutional and legal powers that have been established as the general auditor of the ball evolving republic of venezuela i have started an

assets order on cities in one of our doe antonio go away don't mark is bahraini refugee footballer keim of a.b. is back in australia after spending two months locked up in thailand the footballer was arrested in november last year while on honeymoon in thailand he fled his native country in twenty fourteen and received refugee status in australia but bahrain wanted him to return to serve a ten year prison sentence for arson charges that he denies and to government protesters in haiti have been fighting with police for a fifth day in the capital port au prince many want to preserve a known was said to resign they're angry about rising inflation and the government's failure to recover billions of embezzled funds those are the headlines more news in half an hour during a gator to stay with us here on al-jazeera. for thousands of years two famous rivers the tigris and euphrates media iraq one of the

most fertile regions in the middle east. the first urban settlements grew up on the lines between them the cradle of civilization. but today things are dramatically different for the rivers and the people who depended on them decades of war sanctions upstream dams pollution and a phone in water levels have seriously damaged iraq's engines rivers and water resources. the sutta lot of waterway runs one hundred eighty four kilometers south from the confluence of the tigris and the euphrates in basra province and forms the border with iran. it provides access to the arabian gulf iraq's vital source of commercial sea fishing. either the saudi and how i just tell us i am zero out of the literal

and i was resolved so i. counted donal's. dollars on a. soap they commit a lot of work as a woman does not at the mossad at the garden already look what some out of saudi are known as law a model of the how will. and etc. as they are i have been on the right here then mark will power in the dollar. as some of the as i thought i was there a thousand dollars dollar mark mckay me out of. dollars now that are not as ours are out alive. have a collective human is going to. have

an image on it unless i have us to our car lot jonatan it was the guardian there i know what how far left but give me a message to mr g. to be how hard to serve on your machine doesn't matter how it stalled here at the car i've got to start over but first i'm a sodom of our god to our love we are god and the show on the american average that has not only an amazing yard to be a lock on until that last march of death and while that effort she is only in the army on some sort of time while on the market in the world the logic of this. world is so i don't see her to talk about those who are with her bourbon but millions of mothers have been a million in most of the support which is with. your do was with that was most of the hundreds of other the most of us are so bottom with the how it is as most begin to come to. how still going on with us today also of the world of us alone. so the me any of them see this. is that.

these boats now stand idle in the port of an foul at the south east end of the and fall peninsula on the right bank of the shuttle. rusting old diesel boats pollutes the waterways. and foul has around forty thousand inhabitants and is a traditional fishing community but town officials admit that's hundreds of families have now left in search of other work leaving the ports in danger of becoming a ghost town. without. an eternity. i was just going to go but nothing. about me that got. me arrested beat. me.

but when my father. here did it if they were. right i want. out of. that is we're. on. our blog at that time our. one side of peninsula is a fifty kilometer stretch of coastline peace in kuwait. the other as the shuttle watch away which runs alongside the marshes of southern iran. pollution in the shop. and produced fish stocks in their own territorial waters. the iraqi fisherman to risk sailing close to. the water is believing them richer in

fish stocks or to deliberately trespassed into foreign waters in the hope of a quick and easy catch. these fishermen used to be protected by the iraqi navy but that's now to peter and largely carting the country's oil terminals. out of we out of it really a lot. out of me i'm. just right. we are not and i thought i would tell you that i invest heavily to append. to us because i will either through or so i will equip throughout my had the money. there

is neither why i left. they are going to. hear of how the me i am. moved out of money will be a. mess and a living will do it on me then no other. alternative where there are four of them. not my robin is yet to do and i will say i do enjoy then. go out on them in. public where for me that moment of the mean mean there is a lot of adults. many. of us on. as this pollution. and the perceived threats from kuwait and iran were not enough the fishermen on the shuttle are up and in the gulf have to deal with iraqi security

checks. as once young women are developed out of a lot of the good market as you accused of are going to be they're no longer you could dorio about it i didn't even go to the hours that i'm going to. go or gee it out because of the border of unlike all other cities are going to me you know that will have a lie or the gravel on it that they're going to do with those i don't buy on the out on a lot of want it will. go to. the wrestle for control of the shuttle out of watching way was one of the causes of the long costly and

bitter war between iraq and iran throughout most of the one nine hundred eighty s. . that border dispute is still not settled. or. kuwait and iraq have also yet to agree on a sea border in negotiations which have been going on since the dam for sainz invasion of kuwait in one nine hundred ninety eight that sparked the gulf war. many fishermen at the docks iraqis are viewed with hostility by iranians and cretins who are still bitter over their conflicts with iraq in the one nine hundred eighty s. and ninety's. on the shuttle the in basra province this is not the size of fish or catch the disease men meet to earn

a living. it's a turn for a day on the watch. the shuttle out of here suffers from increasing pollution with industrial waste domestic sewage and agricultural fertilizers after finding their way into its waters no surprise then that fish stocks are diminishing. the salty tide from the arabian gulf has also advanced north up the shuttle ata resulting in an act of fresh water.

some fisherman have also resorted to damaging ways of catching fish including using poison to bring them to the surface league syria or jordan. join us and with. jani i had an oil. as i sent you and i. know if there was. a and i. can work it up i id nine am man. john. and that's it all with. the animals and what are they and as this year said now in majority my list up as southie a jelly the bash up the month off and i've got a market i tell you they've been making i might as shop where i know i live off i don't mind me no job us no one god then and had

a man met that i didn't wise when i didn't much already i would and i could outta shut the. room or hide them i died i didn't murder my child. to learn that i'd have a fight. but. i'd be good yada yada dial if you will but i will be a test player. in the thirties was it me what it is i just really just hate to be locked into the chicken yard he said and said i said i was then exactly when i said

i got the bit i did when you look. he doesn't have to play i don't want to how do i not do with another guy. yeah you have said this a lot of well you know her. well luckily not just because but. when i see justice and. know what i am i not to mind a shop and not at will with that at the shop. i shall go see general john or a second russia of course i was there when i might you know most of the younger i do are when i shot. back in baghdad. now talks in a similar negative way about life on the tigris. not had minute. not had a law missed me i walk out of the. lot. i had not thought of not as high as

it like. and how long hand has a bit of it i know. and on the southern marshes inch by inch the u.n. environment program sees that thirty seven percent of the permanent twenty lands have now been restored. their food recovery will take many more years. what if you buy your mom market we're going to look at another john model here when i was you know a while when i was in the world and i was you know another now when i was in the i have already goggle i'm going to very much

a little further in the woods near all of it i would than the amount of coverage i'd like i had my own more than i had a live there and i got to work out a human and got five hundred ideas and that was yard undercover i was there now i got in i. you know you i give your my i give you not only any.

but away from the problems facing professional fishermen and the pollution of the euphrates and shut. down there is one positive heartwarming story. i mean. by that. doesn't come from a fishing family but has befriended a local tigris fishermen. and discovered a mob of the ancient river. all acting. like

a god. or their. hair. back out and. giving their more. beguiling to get one of the air. at the other betty. where mother bear. does a lot of us a lot of hair said i was so with it. at that but there i said. at letters. just. a matter. so what i need yet i am.

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a quick obvious i look at communism come in and say that i said just lost a job. feel really them and they are so weak. and you know i didn't even middle i know none of them. were not man. but i am not. one of the first one i had no. they are now coming where there are about five not anywhere and there are seventy of them. having a relative and not so much countrymen me and a camera and you really were a mother i am going to run your ad were. running about money showing.

up for hand immediately semester for both have to look at the non hi-fi you. have done and you are far far higher with the metroid. than you. and you only shine your life your. the leather way. then mash up the demigod that. know how to read that and if i were you to get how it would not have another human you marc.

that loosely travel the. owner as it is it and the palace shuttle. mission on this the i'll be out as out as i'm on auckland largest what i'll let the illusion of well. i watch our early. earth understand that love for a lot of cattle well. that's just a. mess good is a traditional mr putting in dish made by cooking seasoned fresh water car on the fire. i've done cooked it in the marshlands and it's often considered iraq's national dish. but that prides itself in making the best mess go with the up you

know was district almost dedicated to the dish in its dozens of fish restaurants. have built culturally. so i live i live. i one what i never thought of when. as being. us is you me push us and i just. that i. suggested story shows how iraq's greet each inch rivers are still close to the heart of its people. today's crisis means that iraq once so abundant in water resources now imports sixty percent of its fish but above all it's threatens the roots of iraq's identity.

between the two rivers the tigris and the euphrates on which the country and its people have depended for thousands of years. a story of revolution defiance and murder them feelgood a major figure in the war against the french occupation about the french. who is brave or even impressed and it's untrue inspired others in the fight for independence after death that if you're good you're going to be banned mcgeady the algerian revolutionary on al-jazeera.

hello once again welcome to the look at the international forecast we will see the weather improving across the middle east over the next couple days after a rather wet sad at times wintry weather but a cloud still in place across central and eastern areas of iran that's all pushing of the east which as we go through the next day or so you may have seen that snow in tehran recently ten celsius the brightest guys come back for tuesday believe that wet weather lots of it that could well be some flooding that will push its way to that western side of pakistan as we go through chews day snow there for afghanistan and more so as you go on into what is a bit brighter skies by that time for a good part of iran the dry weather stretches across iraq a little bit of cloud just making its way into syria lebanon warming up in beirut to around nineteen degrees celsius nineteen there for baghdad and also for kuwait city we're a touch warmer than that here in doha our wind will freshen things up there temperatures around twenty two degrees so

a wet weather there just around the straits of hormuz just pushing over towards that western side of iran then choose to going on into wednesday brightens up or the west sunshine twenty three celsius the top temperature then in doha meanwhile across southern africa we've seen some lovely showers continue for the eastern cape with more of them on tuesday. you know what i think they are no selfish and i believe simply you can finish. very quickly for him he. i know of fifty. we have been playing see do it but it's not funny that we have a separate call me and me right yes it is definitely going to but we want to do a good way for the future then she gave me a few test frames that i'm not losing somebody in your bed this year has been in

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