their overall posture strategically is one of. stabilizing and controlling coastal cities and the commercial roads routes which are of interest to . whereas the saudi involvement has been much more involved with incursions into saudi territory by the who thiis the activities of certain tribes in the north and has much more to do with the longstanding dispute between northern yemenis and saudi arabia over the border and over security conditions in southern saudi arabia so a different constellation of activities and of interests the fear of influence is not one that spoken about very much in the region we talk about saudi we talk about iran how influential are they and how much are they affecting conflicts the conflicts that we're seeing. they're very influential and of growing influence and of course this is an interesting. slate disconnect between how dubai views the

world and how abu dhabi views the world abu dhabi tends to be much more aligned with the saudis whereas dubai has its own let's say regional vision and commercial vision the u.a.e. was instrumental as you may know in the arrangements this fall in the horn of africa negotiations in ethiopia with eritrea and when you talk to the heads of u.a.e. think tanks and officials from the ministries they talk a lot about the horn of africa southern arabian peninsula the commercial routes and they kind of u.a.e. led security and commercial vision for the entire region which is in many ways much larger than the saudi vision and of course you know the whole blockade against qatada was against qatar having an outsized view of its own role in the region and not lying lining up with the others but in many ways the organ can be made that u.a.e. is doing exactly what qataris accused of which is playing a kind of

a regional hedging monica role and playing the role of stabilizing and of asserting an economic vision beyond just what the g.c.c. decide is important for the region well in lawrence from george washington university great to get your analysis thank you. well there's plenty more ahead this news hour including. life among the ruins we'll tell you why people in mosul are struggling to rebuild their shattered city. another show of defiance by antigovernment protesters and so dollar as the government is trying to maintain its state of emergency. and you wait for the events that investigation into manchester city about allegations it broke the spending rules joe we'll have those details in sports.

other been calls for an investigation into how i sold fighters were able to launch an attack in afghanistan's capital a killed three people and injured dozens more the group attacked a gathering of the nic minority group and politicians in western kabul charlotte dallas has this report. from a sushi to a battlefield kabul becoming the front line of a battle between i saw an afghan forces so much an attack on senior politicians a more than one thousand dollars gathering to commemorate his our leader abdul alim azhari. it began peacefully broadcast on national t.v. with c.e.o. of dollar bill or the former president hamid karzai listening to speeches. rockets were heard in the distance to make it go to baghdad don't stay in your places the incidents are far from here you're running creates a lot of risk but the rockets go closer some politicians flared others tried to

calm the crowds though sure everybody telling them to leave quietly but. then the first explosion in the elder followed witnesses reported rockets mortars landing in and around the gathering explosions and heavy gunfire. but it was the other. as our leader mohammed hockey sit on the microphones a bit targeting the gathering and told us to escape from there as i was feeling i was hit with shrapnel on my back. there was confusion as hundreds of people try to find safety. was soldiers and police unaware of who was attacking and from where. afghan special forces on a building began a clearance operation to stop the remaining attackers it's. very dozens of people to hospital most injured by rockets and mortars are through over. one mortar hit in the back of the crowd and then another followed by the third one hit close to may

shrapnel hit me and also a soldier he was lying there and i was in a lot of pain and i don't know what happened next. in a report last month the un security council is to made it up to four thousand in afghanistan many arriving after being pushed out of syria and iraq last year they carried out nearly forty attacks nationwide desirous of a primary target as most a shia muslims as our leader mohammed who escapes took to national television after the attack and accuse president danny of being complicit it looks like there was a lot of weapons stoked up i felt like i was in a battlefield i strongly condemn this barbarian attack and my condolences for all the families who lost their loved ones people are angry at such a serious security lapse in the aftermath there are questions as to how i saw in particular can continue to carry out such complex attacks in the heart of the city

which is shia minority price shot at dallas al-jazeera. hundreds of people have escaped the last remaining pockets of syrian territory held by eisel more than six thousand people have left the eastern village of goods in just a few days and u.s. backed syrian democratic forces are trying to push the armed group out hundreds of eisel fighters have surrendered. well in jordan some syrian refugees are taking president bashar assad's government to the international criminal court they accuse outside forces of crimes against humanity including torture rape murder and chemical attacks syria is not a member of the i.c.c. but jordan this and that may give the court jurisdiction to take the case the un says hundreds of people who fled the town of soran in serious hama province because of fighting are slowly rebuilding their lives in twenty sixteen they escaped when armed groups took over the town families who left for lebanon turkey or other towns

in syria have slowly started to make their way back the u.n. says they were among about one point four million internally displaced people who returned to their homes in syria last year for those who make the decision involuntary we come back here we must provide them with at least for their busy comedian their initial integration in their community. more than a year and a half after it was recaptured from mysel the iraqi city of mosul is still in ruins three quarters of public buildings were destroyed and thousands of homes were due to rubbles in just nine months of fighting the government has allocated money for residents most in need but as natasha her name reports much of that funding is yet to materialize. i do selema he says he's dead inside an airstrike killed his son the home he built is uninhabitable and he and his family pay three hundred fifty dollars

a month to live in the rubble of someone else's partially destroyed home. get a hint of that younger man on before life under ice all emerges when the seventy two year old describes jumping from roof to roof and hammering beams for fifty years in mosul's old city. with these two hands i built so many houses so the happiness of people felt pride now i'm helpless to rebuild i feel a sense of hopelessness inside that i can't contribute to rebuilding my city it's difficult to find a home or building in the western side of mosul not damaged or destroyed during the battle to purge i saw a member of the nineveh provincial council says there are eleven thousand six hundred destroyed homes and forty five surrounding villages are levelled the iraqi government estimates it could take one hundred billion dollars to rebuild the country after its battle with ice all since twenty seventeen its allocated money in

the federal budget for people who submit claims for compensation however allegations of rampant corruption and too much red tape mean few are getting the money they need to start over yet here is among the more than one million people who filed claims in mosul and across the nineveh province fewer than one percent of the people who filed claims have received assistance members of parliament could not tell us exactly how much money has been earmarked and distributed in claves what is that. people have nothing to rebuild their lives with we are going around in empty circles and no proper solution is given everything is ink on paper. the frustration is as overwhelming as the mountains of debris and choking dust. the only thing we need from the government is to haste in the process of compensation and turn their attention to this calamity otherwise the situation will

remain bleak for generations. yes and his family complain about the absence of grocery stores the rodents that have found a never ending feast and the stench that comes from decomposing bodies deep under the wreckage especially after it rains but they won't leave the old city they have roots here they say it's one of the few precious things they have left latasha going to aim al-jazeera mosul. government protesters since the dawn are defying a government imposed state of emergency political parties aligned to the government say they're committed to starting talks aimed at ending almost four months of demonstrations but it's unclear who the government can talk to because the protest movement doesn't have all the u.s. leaders here but morgan has this report card but. you don't have a drama at all coming from university campuses to districts of how to thousands

continue to demand the resignation of president obama to bashir protests calling for the end of his thirty year rule are now almost four months old there are a billion shows no sign of abating despite promises from the government to improve the economy and the declaration of a year long state of emergency that bans public gatherings and protests. the government is corrupt as a pressure may enter into people's houses and beat them now all our brothers are heading to the street and the beating men with sticks of really tear gas as a violation of rights or were probably she's a lawyer they don't represent the sudanese people even the state of emergency is a long time because there are no soldiers on the streets. the protests which started in mid december in the northeastern city of algebra were sparked by a rise in the costs of basic goods some opposition groups say protesters have legitimate reason to take to the streets demonstrators say they want to voice their demands peacefully but have been met with tear gas and bullets fired rights groups

say security forces have killed at least fifty people since demonstrations began the government puts the figure at thirty two the un human rights council has criticised the government response and its use of force president bashir met the committee formed to resolve the crisis and repeated his call for dialogue as well as announcing the state of emergency bashir has stepped down as head of the ruling national congress party with talked about preparing the environment for. political prisoners. so we can create an environment for a national dialogue because every side sticking to their positions. but it's unclear who to talk to most of the protests have been called for by opposition groups and an unofficial body known as the sudanese professional association but some say while they participate in the protests neither the opposition nor the association represent them so nearly four months on anti-government protest remain largely leaderless making it difficult to start talks to settle the crisis. ahmed

bashir has presided over sudan for three decades coming to power in a bloodless military coup in one nine hundred eighty nine to overthrow the democratically elected government the current wave of anti-government protests is in the first day of the most serious and persistent his remaining defiant and so are the protesters leaving no solution in sight to end the deadlock. state media have released a letter said to beef from president of the lizzie's beautifully co warning of chaos as mass protests continue against his leadership the letter warns of foreign groups infiltrating demonstrations protests have been taking place for the past two weeks against his bid for fifty armed with a flake is currently in switzerland for what the government describes as routine medical tests. meanwhile lawyers in journalism held anti-government protests of their own hundreds marched through the streets in downtown algiers demanding would flee as resignation and elsewhere in the city journalists held

a sit in demonstration at press freedom square they're accusing the government of pressuring them over their coverage of the demonstrations new fatherhood is the executive director of the nordic center for conflict transformation and he thinks the protesters don't just have to contend with the president but also with larger forces within the government. there are several moving pieces in the crisis in algeria and what we get from this are two main messages that we get from these two letters first of all this is the first time in the country in which the young women and men and young men in the streets the people of algeria have one message which is they are against the fifth term they are not against bitter flicka they haven't said much about the regime or the deep state the second point. i would like to make is that harm the deep state and the regime in algeria are dealing approaching the crisis in algeria you have built decades in which the use of blackness and obscurity in dealing with this kind of crisis there are still moving pieces of it

out there and we have to wait for the next days to see how it's going to go they want to keep is actually a state of power that they have until today some kind of start to go that benefit a certain hidden networks of power within the algerian regime they know that but at the good luck i will be going but perhaps they don't see yet a leader that can replace him and they can actually function in the same way beautifully i was functioning there was a far right politics in parts of europe has been matched by a growing reluctance to accept refugees one country that's bucking that trend is portugal which is actively seeking your rivals ensley has the support from less than. six years ago raf fats was a student in damascus since then his dad's been killed he's traveled to jordan and egypt before finding himself of all places in lisbon now he runs

a restaurant stops by other refugees it's quite a story but he's happy. i really like being here for different reasons i like the country the people the climates like home and the way they treat us i don't feel like a stranger here i can speak portuguese now and to make things much simpler. there's been has become similar taney asli the most welcoming and yet least well known potential destination for refugees everything happening here is the opposite to the rest of the european union portugal finds itself in a minority of war on the inside the european union the only country actively trying to encourage refugees to come and settle here the problem is trying to get them to do it and then trying to get them to stay portugal has reached out to greece and italy and is in advance talks with germany about relocating thousands of people the country has accepted many more from turkey and egypt portugal's interior minister

makes the case for doing this in a way you almost never hear anymore inside the european union that it isn't only morally right so accept refugees as an economic and social opportunity area been packed off refugees. know what companies is globally positive we should be prepared be prepared for there is not a crisis the sea is a situation that we should see. along a long time around and we should be prepared. portugal's problem is that it wasn't on the refugee route it has no natural community from the middle east even though there is virtually no racism here as the country finds it hard to convince refugees to stay so they hope that more places like the rest building a community will change things. like anywhere else the refugees are looking for opportunities spirit says that when they feel welcome and integrated they don't

want to leave. over the last five years the countries in europe with the loudest voices have been those claiming the refugees threats and the social fabric of the continent portugal's voice is much quieter but it offers a friendship which doesn't exist elsewhere. lisbon. dissolves one of the country's main opposition party.

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the kingdom to cooperate with the un but best to geisha and to the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. protesters have rallied in southwest yemen for a fourth day over the killing of a witness in a child rape case demonstrators say was killed by fighters from a group backed by the united arab emirates. and donald trump's former campaign manager paul bought a ford as a wave. in his prison sentence at a court in alexandria in the state of virginia he faces up to twenty four years behind bars for financial crimes. well the lower investigation that led to mount a fart's conviction is just one of several focused on the us president had to explain. the living it's a term he seems to use daily which on which i tweet and it is great but he might need to start using the plural witch hunts because u.s. president donald trump has a lot more to worry about than special counsel robert muller's investigation into

potential obstruction of justice and collusion with the russian government trump is surrounded by investigations in new york federal prosecutors are already sending troops former lawyer to prison and they are looking into who gave and how one hundred seventy million dollars was spent on the inauguration a former trump advisor went on the president's favorite fox news program to warn him he's in danger this is why i've said all along with the southern district this is much more worrisome than mother because they have no restriction on what they can look at mother has to look at russia and that's it right these guys in the southern district can look at anything the washington d.c. attorney general is also investigating the inauguration specifically he is looking into whether trump personally benefited financially by renting out his d.c. hotel for events perhaps unknowingly the president recently praised that attorney general and a special thanks to attorney general. car already she was car car. great

job thank you very much you were very helpful everybody said girl i feel like you're like i know you that's pretty good. is about to learn even more about the president along with the top lawyer in maryland he's also suing trump for possibly violating the clause of the constitution that says a president can't take foreign money in new york the state attorney general is ramping up investigations into trump's businesses and the possibility he's been cheating on his taxes for years and in new jersey that attorney general is investigating if the term country club broke the law by hiring undocumented migrants and then there is congress newly in power in the house of representatives the opposition democratic party says it is investigating all of these things and much more you just have to take a look at the president's twitter feed you know he's pretty much fixated on the investigations but with so many looking at all aspects of his administration his

campaign his businesses he can tweet but he can't stop them particularly al-jazeera washington so germany says it doesn't want to ban chinese telecom giant hallway from building its five g. networks but it says it will tighten security criteria for companies offering the new services earlier huawei had announced it's taking the u.s. to court over a baton government agency is using its technology our china correspondent adrian brown has this report from chen's and from the wall way success is clear just part of it sprawling complex in the special economic zone of shenzhen. while ways name literally means the achievements of china but the trumpet ministration says those achievements more to cheating and stealing than the sort of innovation on display here allegations its top executives deny on thursday they held a news conference inviting selected media organizations including al-jazeera to

confirm that while away has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. government over a ban which restricts federal government employees from using its equipment we are there is no less. challenge for. these men only. but also oh this was me and us she was once more they insisted while ways not in the pocket of china's government and accuse the us of hacking its servers. and. it has carried our service and this story and given us since while ways top officials were once like china's leaders they rarely spoke to the foreign media but the arrest of the firm's chief financial officer in canada where she's now fighting extradition to the united states has changed all of that and the firm

has now begun an extraordinary legal and media offensive. huawei is a success story that chimes with many chinese people's sense of patriotism and pride it's not clear who's behind this music video now circulating on social media praising it smartphones the firm insists it had nothing to do with it. well way is fighting another legal battle in canada where its chief financial officer mongering joe appeared before an extradition court on wednesday she's accused of breaking u.s. sanctions and money laundering monks' lawyers argue her arrest was politically motivated weiwei is trying to weather the storms on many fronts the copycat european architecture is not a theme park but the firm's new research and development campus the company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been

closed adrian brown al-jazeera. germany and the u.s. are warning of more sanctions against venezuela's president nicolas maduro washington says it will target banks supporting them adore government and germany's foreign minister says europe is not ruling out further sanctions the diplomatic standoff between them with their government and western leaders backing opposition leaders on why do as intensified after venezuela expelled the german ambassador on wednesday. well as the politicians battle for power venezuelans are struggling to survive trying to cope with food shortages medicine and the world's highest inflation rate and some children are going to extraordinary lengths to attend schools by crossing the border into neighboring colombia and well apollo has this report from. most of the children waiting in this launch line or from venezuela they travel across the colombian border every day just to attend school but since

venezuelan authorities blocked off access through the official border crossing students are having to find other ways to get across thirteen year old catalina russell says she was scared the first time she had to sneak over the river that divides the two countries but it's the only way she can get to class where when he was that it was dark we were very skat people were terrified we didn't know what was going to happen is a very difficult situation because you wouldn't expect to have to cross an unequal rate to get school. it doesn't mean you're at this elementary school in cuckoo to colombia only a short distance from the venezuelan border ninety five percent of students are from venezuela the school's director had a much better bessie says since the border has been closed attendance has dropped significantly as a single sample inland in this way these children have problems in venezuela because there aren't enough schools because teachers don't make enough money and most have quit and left so children migrate to our country especially this school because it's the closest one to the border. and if you get outside the building

parents are waiting to drop off more children once their lessons are over many of them will make the journey across the border back into venezuela i think when we cross back if there is any kind of conflict or gunfire out children's lives or our lives are in a great risk or nearly faculty members at the school say many of the children who arrive for class haven't eaten and it's become part of the institutions mandate to make sure that children are fed before they begin their lessons half of the students in this class did not show up to school today the director of the school says that a humanitarian corridor between been a swell and colombia is desperately needed to guarantee young but as well as students access to a formal education. an estimated three thousand children are travelling to and from venezuela across illicit routes every day humanitarian observers say the conditions these children face on the border is another example of human rights violations by

the venezuelan government. thailand's constitutional court has dissolved a prominent opposition party and bandits leaders from politics for ten years tyrone charge was found guilty of violating election laws for nominating a member of the royal family as a candidate for prime minister elections are due later this month when he has more from bangkok. there was a somber mood among the leaders of the thai rocks a charge party as they arrived at the constitutional court in bangkok they knew these would probably be the final moments of the party's existence. they didn't have to wait long for confirmation the nine judges took less than forty minutes to deliver a unanimous verdict. we considered the act of the party as an attack an instinct towards the constitutional monarchy the court has ordered that the party be dissolved the fourteen members of the party's executive committee were also banned

from politics for ten years. to party executive members and i are deeply sad about that the solving of our party it is sure to have an attack on basic political rights the verdict came a month after thai rocks a chart announced that princess would be its candidate to become prime minister in the election hours later the palace said the move was inappropriate and unconstitutional from that moment it seemed unlikely the party would survive in a country where the monarchy is seen as untouchable. still the campaign continued until a week ago when it held what would become its farewell rally in bangkok this is the third time the constitutional court has dissolved the party backed by former prime minister taksin shinawatra in fact six out of the nine judges that made this ruling were also involved in one or both of those previous cases jackson was removed from power in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile it would in a jail sentence for abusing his power which he says is politically motivated.

charge was seen as a potential coalition partner for his. main party put a tie which was in power during the last coup in two thousand and fourteen the court verdict will be seen as yet another move against the shinawatra clan and its influence on politics by the military and bangkok's elite that surround it. the holding as we designed the constitution all the development that have happened. was designed to keep talks in the dissolution of thai rex a charge made galvanize support for this you know what's well deepening the country's political divide it seems thailand is it for another unpredictable and potentially volatile political periods wayne hay al jazeera bangkok disgraced french cardinal silly barbara has offered his resignation after being found guilty of failing to report child sex abuse by one of his priests the case has highlighted the catholic church.