many of his top advisers at the time well now we're getting indications that trump is backtracking from that a little bit with this announcement that the u.s. will keep two hundred troops within syria for an undetermined amount of time. the readout that came from the white house indicated that the phone conversation with trump and on the both sides indicated that they wanted to do what was right for both of the country's interests within syria and that really comes down to what they're calling this potential safe zone there in northern syria now that turkish air go on he wants this safe zone area stablished and in that part of syria in order to clear the kurdish militia forces out of there considers them to be terrorist organization but the kurdish fighters were very much allied with the americans and helped very much lead the fight really in many ways the fight of

clearing syria from eisel fighters and so the americans standpoint is they still want to protect the kurdish fighters in a lot of ways too so there's still a lot of unanswered questions on how this is all going to be coming about but clearly we're getting indications that trump indicates that these two two hundred troops remaining in syria will be good for the united states and it appears in some ways at least that this potentially is agreeable with erda one as well now the turkish minister of defense will be in washington on friday meeting with his american counterpart the interim secretary of defense for the united states will be continuing these to these discussions what is also unclear is well is how this decision will affect european allies particularly the u.k. and france they announced that they would also pull out of syria if the u.s. did that as well but now with these two hundred u.s. troops remaining remains to be seen if the u.k.

and france remain in syria as well. and staying in syria at least twenty people were killed in an explosion at a market and village near a dollars or various held by the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces and is close to an oil field and s.t.'s fighters are continuing to battle i saw in the group's last pocket of territory in eastern syria it's believed about three hundred deisel fighters remain in the village of booze an unknown number of civilians are also trapped so had on al-jazeera as prosecutors outlined the detailed plans kept by a man they accuse of being a domestic terrorist want outbreak of measles in the philippines is worsening quickly. we've got some wet weather across southern parts of borneo pushing down towards

indonesia sixty six millimeters of rain here in twenty four as a seasonal rains of course they're tending to as their way a little further north with as they should do this time of the of a still plenty of showers here as we go on through the next day or two that issue celsius with a few showers there into job jakarta java seeing some bits and pieces of right little bits and pieces of rain too in just a matter of the blame. on a dry just not just little area showers there in the gulf of thailand bangkok gets up to around thirty six degrees over the next few days a little more clouds that will hear it as we go on into sunday show as well they may well create their way back down towards the north of indonesia as we go on through sunday but many areas will be fine and dry as is the case across the strait another five and dry weather coming through here we have got that disturbance just out in the coral sea very close to queensland towards the sunshine coast winds picking up the waves certainly getting rather big and certainly the possibility of

some beach erosion you can see just how gusty some of those winds have been it doesn't light it to stay offshore see go on through the next few days starting its way little further south. from sunrise to sunset cross asia. and the pacific explore untold and fascinating stories one on one east on al-jazeera. the week began with news of a ninety day truce in the tip the u.s. china trade will lose largest supply of objectified natural gas is leaving the biggest we'll call to we bring you the stories of the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost zero.

you're watching out of syria let's recap the top stories right now israel's border with brazil has been closed as president nicolas maduro steps up attempts to stop the usa from getting at. is considering closing the border with colombia as well. palestinians across the west bank will rally to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of a massacre at a mosque and have drawn twenty nine worshippers were killed when an american israeli settler opened fire in one thousand nine hundred four and u.s. president donald trump has pulled back from plans for a complete withdrawal of troops from syria two hundred will remain on the ground forming what the white house described as a peacekeeping force. data of a meeting at the vatican looking at sexual abuse by priests will say more testimony from victims some of them have already dismissed an action plan presented by pope francis on thursday is not going far enough out of the roman catholic church has

been hosting a four day summit to address the scandal or a challenge for us is live now from that again city so worry as we said there's already a plan that's been put out there it's a it's a twenty one point plan but survivors at least some of them are not really keen on it tell us more about the plan. well this is essentially as he said a kind of working template for the senior gathered here at the vatican to. basically build on and see where they can take it it's cold reflection points and it has lots of technical language in it things like listening structures and share procedures but what it boils down to a is a template for a practical handbook that can be used across the catholic church in all corners of the world to deal with sexual abuse cases when they come up and it would involve giving both the accused and accuses

a fair hearing and the reason why the survivors groups who are here campaigning outside the vatican at the moment don't like it is that they don't think it goes far enough they don't think that this zero tolerance policy that they would like to come out of this meeting is properly reflected in this documents and by zero tolerance they mean that any priest will close the member that is guilty of sexually abusing children is thrown out of the priesthood and anyone that covers up that abuse is thrown out as well and they don't see this zero tolerance reflected in this document yet so it is with said and they are testifying and the vatican again invited certain survivors today so that others were not invited and why.

well i mean the catholic church is like most religious organizations. an inherently conservative structure it doesn't like moving fast it is the guardian of centuries of doctrine and when crises erupts that needs nimble feets structures like this like the catholic church are not particularly good at adapting quickly as we heard from a vatican insider that we spoke to yesterday so things are changing and this culture of covering up that used to exist is then no longer bots it's a process that is ongoing the pressure groups that are here like the cia ending abuse they want much foster shifts in the way that the catholic church operates so when they call for you know it's zero tolerance that's something that they want

adopted here and now and there's this tension i think between what they want and what the catholic church is is willing to do they don't want to be bounced into something by an outside group they like looking after their own and they like making changes at their own pace and i think that's why we have this kind of discrepancy at the moment between the groups that are outside the vatican and those survivors who have been invited in or giving their video testimony inside the meeting or a challenge in vatican city thank you. card lieutenant is under arrest for plotting to murder journalists and democratic politicians prosecutors say the forty nine year old man is a white supremacist it was preparing to carry out of the master terror attack i did hear cast over parts. when investigators entered the washington suburb apartment of christopher paul house and last week they discovered this cache of weapons fifteen handguns and rifles more than a thousand bullets also steere oids police say hassen had been planning to take to

be a more lethal killer the sheer number and force of the weapons that were recovered from mr haskins residence in this case coupled with the disturbing nature of his writings appear to reflect a very significant threat to the safety of our community the forty nine year old u.s. coast guard lieutenant and former marine is now under arrest on weapons and drugs charges but prosecutors say more serious charges are to come their court filings say hassen is a long time white supremacist who wish to establish a white homeland i am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on earth he wrote in a draft e-mail in two thousand and seventeen i think a plague would be most successful but how do i acquire the needed spanish flu botulism anthrax hasn't compose an apparent list of targets including the names of prominent media personalities and democratic lawmakers and in january use the

internet to search what if trump is illegally impeached and best place in d.c. to see congresspeople with the house plans to wage an attack were thwarted hate crimes and hate groups are on the rise in america the civil rights groups southern poverty law center says twenty eighteen saw white supremacy groups surge driven by extremists fear of losing a white majority by twenty forty four we've had a real backlash in our country to a changing demographics we've seen that in the growth of hate groups really for the last twenty years trump has exacerbated that but he didn't create it in the first place one concerning twist to the. hausen case is his connection to the u.s. military the lieutenant now labeled a domestic terrorist worked in the headquarters of the coast guard here in washington in fact he used government computers to research his targets

a spokesperson for the coast guard says it was internal agents who led the investigation into hasn't but this wasn't the first time in recent months that the coast guard has been tainted by white nationalism in september twitter users noticed an officer flashing a sign that can mean white power in the background of a televised interview the coast guard never identified the man but said his actions do not reflect those of the united states coast guard the cases while isolated expose concerns the u.s. military is fertile grounds for elements of white nationalism a growing fear in troubled times. castro al-jazeera washington some armed groups and it a mr kashmir or warning of more attacks they've been using social media to get their message across to people in the disputed region best parts from new delhi.

have been reading the latest message on twitter thought to be from the armed groups his blood you have beem of several base and indeed administered kashmir it's in response to last week's suicide attack claimed by another group jaish e mohammed that killed at least forty one paramilitary troops the unconfirmed message says in part the coffins of your soldiers will continue to fill the days and far when our fifteen year old children will strap explosives on their bodies and barge into your army vehicles. separatist leaders in indian administered kashmir say armed groups are gaining because there's no negotiation over the disputed region this is also a huge issue for the years old twenty five years old odd becoming suicide bombers this is something which the which the world community has to look in that how generation off is being pushed by the indian state. many rights advocates are not surprised young feel frustrated. never listened to them then you.

have the young blood they have. the social media is the name of the game this former advisor to the indian government believes the main point behind the message put on social media by armed groups is to remind the public they are still active so sometimes they are claiming things sometimes they are they want to raise a banner. to show that they're still going strong these messages are keeping tensions high and throughout india as there are fears there will be more violence and as armed groups speak out about last week's attack india's military is doing the same. on tuesday the head of indian forces in kashmir held a news conference throughout the rest of the month of august mir. there are some who have. these young men listen to the general's words but it's not necessarily changing

their minds i mean obviously people who can push people to the wall and then expect not to people. as the battle for hearts and minds in kashmir goes on local kashmiris continue to feel stuck in the middle of the conflict without an end in sight as jamil al-jazeera. amazes outbreak in the philippines is quickly getting worse close to eleven and a half thousand people have contracted the highly contagious virus since january and at least one hundred eighty nine people mostly children have died you know alan dogan reports from manila. well health officials have announced that there is a sharp increase of measles related cases just over the last few days from a few days ago eight thousand children being afflicted of measles just today more than eleven thousand cases have already been reported more than one hundred eighty children have died and this is from just the start of january alone this is something that could have been prevented according to health officials because as

early as two thousand and seventeen they have been warning that an investigation that started then a very public investigation involving a research related vaccine was going to create a vaccine scare in different parts of the country that did happen with joint health officials a few weeks ago when they conducted the what you call a back to vaccine program encouraging mothers to have their children vaccinated they hope that some that something that government agencies will help them to do so even though manila is not the only is city or area here in the country affected by this measles outbreak the tendency for the city to actually have a sharp increase of measles related cases is expected to get even worse that is because of a very dense population here at the capitol the health officials are calling on different government agencies to get involved to actually encourage. filipino mothers across the country to have their children vaccinated hoping this will be

the start of an important lesson that the country and government officials can learn. supplies are being threatened by a decline in biodiversity that's the dire warning from the united nations a new report that says food production is becoming increasingly susceptible to shocks like pests disease and weather that's because only nine plant species make up most of the world's population out of a possible six thousand and eight castration the u.s. food and agriculture organization who commissioned the report explain more about the study's findings. we're losing plant some crops and livestock i mean i shall leave for four natural response on and climate change but also they were stationed in the consumers. of the biodiversity for who are going to cause are we are forgetting what all were grandparents ate and now all more than sixty six percent of the relation where all eat in from nine crops and from ten fishes

species why over grandparents you know they knew all about six thousand different plants and more than five hundred different fish and slowly we are being you know industrialised sun and and commercializing only this us species and our diet diet is being with us we think this is one of the problems for the population increase in their way to becoming overweight and obese and also is put in a risk. long term sustainable use of the buy in a bit biodiversity in general meaning by the livestock plants. fish only by ignoring and neglecting what we called the fork for got that food that our grandparents use.

and we shall carry these are the headlines on al-jazeera and israel's border with brazil has been closed as president nicolas maduro steps up attempts to stop the usa from getting any better or says he's considering closing the border with colombia as well opposition led volunteers were trying to get the first delivery end to venezuela by saturday at the army is blocking them. as president donald trump has pulled back from plans for a complete withdrawal of troops from syria two hundred will remain on the ground forming what the white house described as a peace keeping force and staying in syria at least twenty people were killed after the slogan at a market in. a village near stars or areas held by the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces and as close to an oil field palestinians across the west bank will rally to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the massacre at a mosque in hebron twenty nine worshippers lost their lives when an israeli settler opened fire in one thousand nine hundred four i picture some vatican city of or more testimonies of victims are expected on day two of the first ever conference on

sexual abuse by priests some of them about ready dismissed an action plan presented by pope francis on thursday is not going far enough. food supplies are being threatened by a decline in biodiversity that's the dire warning from the united nations a new report that says food production is becoming increasingly susceptible to shocks like pests disease and weather events that's because only nine plant species make up most of the world's crop production out of a possible six thousand india says it will divert water away from pakistan after last week's attack an indian administered kashmir that killed forty paramilitary troops under a deal signed in one nine hundred sixty eight pakistan and india agreed to divide water in the region and the currently allows water that it is not used to go to pakistan but it's not clear how and when new delhi plans to stop that supply a japanese spacecraft has landed on an asteroid thought to be as old as our solar system for celebrations at the exploration agency and tsunami horace when the probe

touched down in the asteroid it's traveling through space three hundred forty million kilometers from earth explorers expected to return in two thousand and twenty with samples of the asteroid as your head lloyd headlines keep it here when i went east it's next. when chinese authorities clamp down on what they see as and want you or illegal activities. in not only make arrests the pressure of the accused to confess on television. lawyers book publishers activists though. they've all been paraded on state media often before any formal conviction. i'm steve cho on this episode one east investigates china's public confessions are they real or just for show. they're feeling.

very sorry. displays of contrition. works and i want to say that was. eight years old. admissions of guilt are they had of what happened he would deeds auditions his home. televised to audiences of hundreds of millions of people across china and beyond. since at least two thousand and thirteen chinese authorities have subjected dozens of alleged law breakers to this kind of treatment think that televised confessions are regularly presented as interviews and embed it in news programs previous high level country in two thousand and four some reports like this one featuring swedish citizen wayman high are also repackaged for audiences outside china i got quite

clear sense that he had been tortured for example when he or he was that hanged. it's a serious allegation. but quasars businesses. lamb winky says she too confessed under jurists. norio. water. gains you know where you're going thirty five as i would be boy or girl like that. they put me in this chair they locked me in it and locked the page where all these camera lenses proclaim through the bars of this cage i have myself been made of stars and planets television against my will. if i for self and mr humphrey i represent your corporate investigator peter humphrey and activist peter darlin have since been released they're now turning the spotlight back on to the platforms

that at their confessions accusing chinese state media of human rights violations the media are not just innocent bystanders forced through broadcasts these things they help make up that help produce them to help extract them. it's no secret china has plans to extend the global reach of its stay toned t.v. network. but there are now growing calls for the international community to hold its journalism to international standards actually they are not media we are a part of commies and. yet thousands and yet you know. so well what i'm saying about lam when keith never intended to be an activist. but these days he's a regular at pro-democracy protests in hong kong and an outspoken critic of the

chinese regime. up until two thousand and fifteen though lamb led a quiet life managing this bookstore on a busy streets in hong kong. it's the need. market customers came looking for gossipy political books banned in mainland china. but then one after another lamb and four men linked to the bookstore mysteriously disappeared. lam says his ordeal started when he went to visit his girlfriend in mainland china. or one as your uncle some government guy who was hundred and i just thought you know someone. summoned the whole. hour and i'm old. source of stop signs or do not jr go it will never go.

all. back in hong kong speculation grew but the booksellers had been kidnapped and were being held in mainland china or. thousands of people took to the streets demanding answers. inside his cell in mainland china cut off from the outside world had no idea what was happening in hong kong could be anything yet. he didn't realize he'd appeared alongside three of its bookstore colleagues in a report produced by hong kong based phoenix television in it the men confessed to smuggling banned books into mainland china. unit usual. for months no one outside mainland china knew what had happened to lam. then in june two thousand and sixteen he reappeared in hong kong chinese police had

ordered him to return to the city to retrieve a hard drive containing information on his bookstores customers he used the opportunity to access the internet and what he read affected him deeply. you know how much of a guy home girl can get. you all although you would have one guy. you ladies are not feeling well quite. i w. and what i. would like and how i don't know. instead of returning to the mainland lamb called a press conference where he spoke about his disappearance and t.v. confession oh yeah. ok.

beijing's response was swift china's ministry of foreign affairs issued this report all but a later you don't see should you what i mean i thought you were to me we found out john what our family john what are your plans on them and mention your chair. we've come to berlin to meet another accidental activist. for the past three years and you look away has worked on a difficult oftentimes exhausting campaign to compel chinese authorities to free her father lamb's fellow bookseller a min hi a swedish citizen originally from china. i do think it makes a lot of sense into all advocacy here as my father is a resident. really here. and he has lived here for many years yes property. away disappeared from another of his overseas properties on october the

seventeenth two thousand and fifteen. close circuit t.v. footage shows him returning to his condominium in the thai resort town of petaca. a man appears to be waiting for him. then unload his car before driving off again marking the start of a bizarre saga that is still unfolding here in jungle why do you mean you will die by the jungle saudi and all but when you're five for which she isn't charging in january two thousand and sixteen away appeared on chinese state broadcaster c.c.t.v. the report said he returned to china to turn himself in for allegedly killing a pedestrian while driving under the influence of alcohol thirteen years ago really well as well so i just. got sorcery. so the.

battle. on the snow high that's the. border. war waged war there your sense of me and. his daughter angela spoke to one o one east shortly after the first confession and back then for security reasons we agreed not to show her face we are asked how she felt about her father's t.v. appearance i couldn't watch the whole thing because it was too missionary along. clearly the best that i saw seemed very scripted in october two thousand and seventeen two years off the way disappeared from thailand china's foreign ministry announced that he was a free man would be

a high you don't you'll. be a pun for the young yet you are. you treating one. you are reading each in your shirish it's yours. volume. and all of reading. but three months later the bookseller was in the news again. he'd been seized by plainclothes chinese agents while on a train from shanghai to beijing with him to swedish officials. angela who had been allowed regular skype calls with her father in the months following his so-called release says she now believes the chinese government never meant to free him i got quite a clear sense that he had been tortured for example when he was detained. and he also did tell me that they did not or the people or his friends as it were.

did not want him to leave china. he showed me a particular set of photographs taken of him as sort of smiling and sort of doing the peace sign with his fingers on some sort of a segue in a park. you know only told me that was taken by his by his friends and the. in the tone of voice in which he said that made you know made it quite clear he's friends wire and i think you know that the setting of the image also very sort of heavily suggests that the image was produced as kind of evidence that he was having a good time to turn into eve the fleet of china nearly three weeks off that being seized from the train away resurfaced smiling and in seemingly good spirits as he took part in an alleged interview arranged by china's ministry of public security chinese state media were invited to the event.

which hong kong's south china morning post or i.c.m.p. was also present at the so-called interview and released this video. i think their c n p handled this whole situation appallingly badly and they continue to do so i believe. they still haven't owned up to what they did which was to. don't presently participate in the circulation of propaganda. in an email to the newspapers editor in chief angela wrote the interview scripted point by point rebuttal of the criticism against china's treatment of my father might as well have been a statement from the foreign ministry you still decided to run the story knowing these could not possibly be my father's own words why

editor in chief tammy tam replied to angela saying with regard to your father's case i assure you categorically that we did not collaborate with the chinese authorities to portray your father as speaking freely while in custody the south china morning post declined our request for an interview but in a statement said it was staunchly independent we had to choose between meeting in a stage managed setting it said or having no access to him at all and we made the decision to proceed based on news merits. peter darlin never wanted to be a prominent activist. for years he kept a low profile quietly working at the beijing based legal aid n.g.o.s he co-founded with chinese lawyer wong ciarán jiang but in the summer of two thousand and fifteen

or thirty's took one as part of what is now known as the seven zero nine crackdown on lawyers and human rights activists. and then five months later they came for darlin. it was a massive operation fifteen to twenty state security officials that sort of came to my home in the evening cameras rolling lights on and it was state security not the police. or sheriff's. office or. while in detention don and realised the only way out was to agree to a taped confession. he relented ought to spending days being watched around the clock by guards and ensuring long interrogation sessions. there was a real. little they had a script writer we had you know the camera people we had

a director. then me and her the c.c.t.v. journalist us two actors and literally just reading the lines like a rehearsal except you don't see the papers. since his deportation dollin has lived in chiang mai thailand he's now preparing to leave asia folk good. film in dollars mindful that mean high disappeared while holidaying in this country and of the fact that darlin is still recovering from his old deal i had a pretty intense sort of p.t.s.d. related symptoms to deal with when i first relocated here like my girlfriend disappears in the supermarket to go get something without telling me and you know they'll have a minor freak out standing in the aisle like what's going on. you know that's really what i want you know. in late december scuffles break out outside a courthouse in the northern chinese city of chen jin as darlins former cofounder

one choice junks trial gets underway. he's been held without access to his family or lawyers for more than three years. the courts hands him a four and a half year sentence for subversion he is one of the few people that have refused to make a forced to be confession. he would choose to be tortured to death before submitting to something that he know isn't wrong like making a forced to be confession admitting some kind of crime but he doesn't consider a crime. others swept up in the seven zero nine crackdown appear to have buckled under pressure though. in august two thousand and sixteen one of china's most celebrated human rights lawyers appeared in at least two separate t.v. reports. wang you said she was rejecting an award conferred on her by the american

bar association. wang you has since made clear she agreed to the so-called interviews for the sake of her son the teenager was attempting to flee china when he was stopped at a border town in myanmar his father long john says chinese authorities used him as a bargaining chip. we're going with you all to move to the general room. says hi go on for one year of a mildly this is your new book of job joy you will want malaysia to. but what exactly is the aim of such confessions activist and academic dr tung bell believes that beyond intimidation and she merely ation they serve another purpose.

rather than the permits and incentives. i lose face and i know i would be criticized by other humans activists. and i may lose my. right makarios to continue my work tongue knows what it's like to butt heads with the chinese government. he was once a human rights lawyer who took on some of china's most high profile causes and legal cases tongue was detained multiple times and now lives in exile in the united states he says he too was filmed making a confession but the footage never aired. that me and tortured me and and sauced me to two concise interactive in new video

since he thinks of enemies and. i would be community arraignments. but it you know. who this person was was like you know our happiest moment in our village is highest to good i'd be great on the we were so brave enough to risk. we were arrested. not all televised confessions involve critics of the chinese government. peter humphrey and his wife ran a risk consultancy in shanghai. in two thousand and thirteen they were asked by pharmaceutical giant glaxo smith kline or g s k to conduct background checks on an employee. that same year as authorities intensified

a corruption probe into the drugs company humphrey and his wife were also arrested . people have been arrested my friends and i think i did time bomb forty people. shortly off of those riots because i. just carry informed me. that the person we had investigated for them was coming off for us. weeks after his arrest humphrey appeared on chinese state television. he's never gotten over the experience when they. paraded me in front of the cameras for the first time in office of two thousand of the pain. i had been held in conditions of great duress. virtually two months almost two months.

humphrey says he was given a sedative just before the so-called interview then let into a cage and strapped into a chair. woman of course you got city it was so each other long hot you horse shit. i was very drowsy but i was still trying to resist saying anything the would amount to confessing to a crime that i never committed. but psychologically what do you do when you're locked opposite caged animals in handcuffs in a locked chair in a last cage and even though you've never been convicted of a crime. humphrey and his wife spent nearly two years in prison after a court convicted them over legally acquiring information. he developed cancer

cheering his time behind bars and suffers from p.t.s.d. but he's recovering and he still wants justice. today we're in chizik london looking for the new european headquarters of the c.g. t.n. the international arm of chinese state broadcaster c.c.t.v. . we find the right building but it's hard for humphrey to be here for long berto you when i'm doing some and i think any moment i think something was going to come and grab us. it's just the recurring nightmare from what i went through and i stand here in my own country breathing free fresh air and you know i'm supposed to be free past all of this nightmare of what they did to me and i'm standing outside you know the building which is soon going to be occupied by an organization that assisted

the police in doing the. complete form the two peters are joining forces with the last week we've been. backed by darlins n.g.o.s safeguard defenders humphrey is lodging a complaint against city t.n. and c.c.t.v. . here. i have here and thanks to our calm the british broadcasting regulator i'm going to visit their office and i'm in this morning. i'm feeling a little bit nervous because this is a very emotional. emotional moment for me. to actually launch what i think is a significant compliance a significant milestone on my efforts there winning the right. in his complaint humphry accuses c.c.t.v.

of working in active collaboration with the police and the chinese state his confessions he says were procured under conditions tantamount to torture. he concludes c.c.t.v. and c.g. t.n. should be denied licenses to broadcast in the u.k. for violating of comms rules neither c.c.t.v. nor c.g. t.n. responded to our request for comment but this is the chinese government's reaction to humphrys complaint warmachine unevil no way were missional me for you ok i don't condone mission and bad. juju choose again. where you assume in general gloom you so or you or you or john or the child when you are in a written statement to one a one east chinese authorities also stated china is

a country ruled by law the british citizen peter humphrey already pleaded guilty and showed repentance when he served the sentence and he was released on june the ninth two thousand and fifteen. lamb winkie peter dahlan and angela gray have also filed complaints tof com. come back up here and low ball thing that all you have on all fours i'm a bankruptcy. and a mob are you going in on. our own printers or if you gotta live on what i am or you are. he's lost his bookstore and his livelihood and says he still receives occasional threats but lam says it's worth the risk to draw attention to china's forced confessions.

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ante in his attempt to stop u.s. aid from getting into his country he shot the border with brazil on thursday and says he's considering doing the same with colombia well then have volunteers are trying to get the first delivery into venezuela by saturday but the army is blocking them a lot of america and human reports from san antonio on the venezuela colombia border. a caravan of opposition deputies scuffle with national guardsman trying to block their way to the colombian border that's where opposition leader vows to defy the government's prohibition to bring in tons of food and medicine donated by the united states and others. pretending that humanitarian aid is not going to reach bin as well is an act of cruelty. as opposition leaders slowly make their eight hundred kilometer journey to the border the binational bridge that joins colombia and venezuela is quickly becoming the stage for

a bizarre jewel. on the colombian side of venezuela aid live concert with world famous pop stars in support of israel as an opposition movement. and not to be outdone on the other side i hands off the israel a concert called by embattled president. jewel to get underway in unison on friday as you can see the stage on the venezuelan side of the bridge is almost ready for the battle of the bands but this doing music event is framing a bigger battle over who. who's going to take credit for providing food and medicine for venezuelans desperately in need what a. president mother insists he can provide for his countryman and says shipments of medicine from russia and china have just arrived to prevent opponents from attempting to bring in stockpiles supplies from neighboring brazil he's ordered the border sealed until further notice. but so far here in the border with colombia remains open and thousands of volunteers have been crossing into. and say

they're preparing to confront the armed forces to bring food and medicine back into the news whale on saturday when bill gives the word. we know the government has blocked the bridge with containers but we're here to make it possible to bring in that humanitarian aid by whatever means necessary why go says he'll be bringing the supplies across four bridges here in patchy da as well as two ports in northern venezuela. exactly how the u.s. backed opposition plans to do it without being stopped is still a mystery and that's exactly what's raising the suspense and the tension on both sides of the border you see in human scent that israel. juno has been following events from brazil since the border with venezuela was shot and sent this report from the stop. now the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has closed venezuela's border with brazil the question is what exactly is brazil going

to do next we've heard for the past forty eight hours that brazil is going forward with a plan in which aid comprised of medical supplies and food stuffs will be delivered to brazil's border with venezuela at which point a convoy from venezuela will cross into brazil we're told this would happen on saturday february twenty third would pick up that aid in within take it back into venezuela for distribution now the question becomes is this process going to get a lot more complicated going forward at this point there are still a lot of unanswered questions when exactly is that aid going to get here boa vista which is the capital of northern what i'm a state how exactly is that aid then going to be transported to the border to the town of pocket imo which is right on brazil's border with israel it's the main entry point for venezuelan refugees and migrants who have been crossing into brazil

and what exactly is going to happen after that nonetheless officials here reiterating as they have over the past few days that this plan will go ahead we expect we will be hearing more specifics in the hours to come but i'll just era had a chance to speak to brazil's vice president off of venezuela made that announcement he said brazil will help its neighbor but wouldn't be crossing the line. we're not going to pass the border ok what. we can do we can put supplies from the border in a forgiving as well as want they can come and get it but i don't think this will work ok because. you see from until the river it's almost a thousand kilometers and all the space in venezuela so there is not enough population there to come to brazil to to reach for supplies ok i think that the

main points for g.'s humanitarian aid would be the ports and hours of the border. pairing for demonstrations tomorrow twenty five years since a mass shooting inside a mosque in hebron in the occupied west bank twenty nine palestinians were shot dead as they prayed by a far right settler this is protests are happening as israel's prime minister seeks support from far right groups out of elections in april. it's early morning on a hill above her bronze old city and a group of palestinian activists is on the move their mission they say to a school children safely to school to the city's divided streets but their approach is barred by israeli soldiers the army has declared the area a military exclusion zone off limits to nonresidents the activists say it's to prevent them recording and drawing attention to instances like this filmed a few days earlier when they were confronted by israeli settlers documentation is the most important ever happened here but how can you show them to the word if we

go in the future to the i.c.c. and statistics that we have for the future if we're talking about the tech and kids and the un we have to come up with with the statistics until last month such documentation had been the job of observers from the temporary international presence in hebron or to if it's twenty five year presence in the city reporting on violence and human rights violations was brought to an end by the israeli prime minister who accused the monitors of working against israel tips mission began in the aftermath of the massacre in one thousand nine hundred four of twenty nine palestinian worshippers inside the ibrahimi mosque whose neeraj abby was praying that day near the front when an american israeli settler opened fire from the back of the room. where i think about it all the time i was tripping over people lying on the floor the dead the wounded calling for help it's an unforgettable tragedy the gunman goldstein was a follower of the far right jewish rabbi and politician merica hanna whose party was banned as racist in the one nine hundred eighty s. now days before the massacre anniversary israeli prime minister has pushed for

a current day kahan his party which includes members who celebrate goldstein to form an alliance with one of his own coalition partners the head of april's election a particularly bitter israeli election campaign along with the objection of the monitors makes for a potentially explosive backdrop to friday's demonstrations marking the anniversary there also to protest against the divided militarized nature of daily life in the. part of hebron twenty percent of its area that remains under israeli control this was the commercial hub of hebron old city but since the division the palestinian shops in this market have been shuttered only israeli traffic is allowed to drive down these roads there is a a heavy security presence everywhere it's yet another illustration of just how otherworldly the city has become over the last twenty five years it's noted by this group of french muslims on a tour one tells me the checkpoints look like they're for cattle not humans. it's present in a jewish group that came in days earlier under heavy army escort the guide calling

the activists in their observer vests terrorist supporters twenty five years since the mosque massacre hebron remains a place of close quarters friction a frequent flashpoint to violence. well ben has made his live for us from damascus gate an occupied east jerusalem and we'll talk to him in a minute but first let's go to having four sets in hebron very point intervent in palestinian history so what does today mean for palestinians in hebron living under israeli occupation. well yes it means a great deal this was a hugely important tragic event in hebron sr twenty five years ago the actual anniversary will fall on monday but this is the closest friday to that are diverse and that is why we're seeing this protest which has been taking place for the last half hour or so outside this closed off. to the heart of the old city which is under israeli control of what's quite interesting is that last year

a similar protest by you figure in settlements activist group that we still will not report on they were prevented from even getting to this area this time it seems israeli forces have allowed them to come here have allowed them to pray. also that sort of just return to regular and so we are expecting another process to be carried out by people affiliated to the fatah political faction so this is the initial protest or those you know not you know you're going to the law it's going to the media. oh my god it was just get it wrong keep on going out. we've also seen the israeli forces. single find the gates we've seen patrols come out trying to ensure that the area is in their turn circular their israeli soldiers are good things around us but so far they've been looking on they haven't been intervening in this protest yet how are you just seeing what happened to you there

just just a few seconds ago we can already see that hebron being a flashpoint i mean could that be trouble on the streets later today. possibly i mean i have to say so far most of the trolls most of the disagreements are between being between a promise to. outside the gates here some of whom don't want to protest there was one person who didn't want the protests to take place here because he was worried about the potential for violence and for tear gas and the effects of that on his children and certainly in past years there have been clashes and so that is why members the media are in protective gear it is why there were preparations being made on both sides it seems before these protests began this is a small protest is only about thirty or so people we wait to see what happens when what we expect to be the larger protest takes place. in a few minutes time maybe now it's time to have a force at there in hebron live for us how we thank you stay safe let's toss out the two bernard smithies lie.