more plan for the movements are meant something that is a no go area for the taliban it seems that since then there has been reassurances provided that this will not be discussed at least for the time being done that the clear agenda that was initially agreed upon when these talks started some this is the sixth round so many rounds of call will be pursued the namely what's being looked at. withdrawal of u.s. troops some sort of not necessarily immediate one hundred percent suspicion of hostilities but at least the reduction in violence that will take place as well as some sort of national consensus or unity government looking at how the governance of itself will move forward something that is particular importance to the current government in kabul and something that has been put as a condition by some of the western forces participating in these talks that there

shouldn't be some sort of powerful state between the taliban as a movement as well as the government taking place but there are sticking points here for example the taliban are adamant that u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan should happen within a six month period the americans have been talking about something between eighteen to up to eighteen months up to three years the taliban are not happy with how they would be referred to or haven't reached to an agreement on how they would be referred to in whatever peace treaty is actually signed currently the u.s. and others are referring to them as the taliban movement they want to be referred to as the islamic states of. these are some antics to some extent for the outsiders but for them it is something very important so there are still sticking points but the fact that this is continuing is important it is showing that there is a political traction to bring an end to this eighteen year war occupation as some would see it inside of that and that's why it's seen as

a positive step that going into ramadan going into all the months that there is some sort of discussions that continue to take place. live for us there on those talks taking place here and go by the runoff election for a new president is underway in the newly renamed republic of north of macedonia candidates from the governing social democrats and the opposition conservatives failed to win an outright majority in last month's election both parties have argued over the recent name change aimed at ending the long running dispute with greece and its province of macedonia my a blowjob sky joins us now from the capital scope so what are the main political stances of these two candidates my. we're expecting here for the finnish exit polls suggests very time presidential race both candidates today are university professors they will spend out of it is

the candidate of the government. he is saying that he will continue will lead six of the government nato in new integration under the new your name of this country but from the other side the candidate of the opposition also university professor go to the knesset. she is against the named deal degrees and she's saying that she will keep gives question where the high incur presidential again she said the name changing was done against the constitution of this country and against international law so for these candidates the question is not closed so the biggest question after the election will be respecting or better accepting the new name of the country as the outgoing president george given of never accepted a new name not my cydonia all right my pleasure joining us there from sky thank you

. our online computer gaming generates billions of dollars around the world and its popularity has also grown in iraq a parliament has now banned several popular online games chiles traffic reports from baghdad. glued to the screen and virtual reality battle to survive an online gaming is big in iraq. the most popular game is play on known battleground. developed in south korea three years ago it's become a global sensation with players around the world being parachuted on to an island and fighting for survival by any means. but iraq's parliament has voted to ban it saying it's harmful to the health culture and security of a rocky society. student only a place for a couple of hours at least four times a week. it is an exceptional game and very realistic it gives you the

opportunity to compete with and build new friendships with other players around the world it's ok if they ban it for children but not for adults we're old enough to know how to manage our time. players are known battleground is one of the most popular computer games of all time in two thousand and eighteen there were over four hundred million players around the world now be affected by the computer games on the you must be long debated by psychologists and social commentators and it's an especially heated debate here in iraq because young people have experienced so much violence the ban which is expected to come into effect in the coming days as calls on line protests these iraqi girls dressed as characters from the game posted pictures of themselves online iraq's high commission for human rights says a teenager recently committed suicide after he was influenced by the game. you have

the feeling. when we analyze the iraqi personality we find that consecutive wars and violence have traumatized and shape that iraqi psychology in general to be more receptive and prone to aggression confrontation and trauma due to these harsh variables and dynamic that is why these games provide a subconscious venting platform. shops full of the games merchandise small computer business is a doing a roaring trade for many gamers their own line life offers an escape from the challenges of growing up in iraq etc. when they play gamers are able to break away from and forget the bad situations they are living in many gang has especially the older ones say the government should be doing more to eradicate the causes of real violence in iraq ali and his friends to say they are old enough to know what's right and what's wrong. but that still ahead on edge is that all the

sport the n.b.a. champions find out why putting james harden in a bad mood isn't a good idea. to . start. in the united states i learned that the first amendment really need to be. played i'm. going to be. limited to the resources that are available but it's al-jazeera story is that we just don't tell you. what the subject of the story

wants you to know the government is not going to do the one thing the demonstrators want to apologize for that's what al-jazeera does we ask the questions so that we can get closer to the truth. skittles for now here's paul thank you very much we start with the n.b.a. playoffs and the houston rockets have fought back against the reigning champion golden state warriors in the western conference semifinals it was a game of contrasting fortunes for the team's rival stars james harden and steph curry so how has the action. so the houston rockets needed

a big performance from the da man james harden their saving second best to steph curry in the golden state warriors with two nothing up in the western conference semifinals things got heated early on in game three harden with dotted line i put my warriors veteran drain on the green. thanks to that however did little to damage the spoke you. had the rocket headed into the break nine ahead houston continued to impress them to chris paul on target from long range twenty three for break i. thought it was golden state that played the better basketball in the second half in particular kevin durant katie's efforts helping golden state get back into the game which couldn't be settled in regulation time he scored a game high forty six points i was showing just why he's been the best offensive player of the postseason thank. god and scored five points less but was on target when it mattered the most. if three opening up

a six point lead the warriors would need to fight back again but they usually were live with jeff perry couldn't deliver. hard and grabbing the crucial rebound to help use them clinch a vital win final score one twenty six to one twenty one rockets you've got to be aggressive you can't if you're timid or you're not aggressive good news when down to one houston we need more big performance this ramadhan to turn this the reason around so he'll malik al-jazeera. english premier league title rice will go to the final day of the season after liverpool pulled off a light victory at newcastle liverpool led twice in james's park but newcastle second put that title hopes on the line with six minutes to go develop a reading got a crucial goal to clinch a three say when liverpool are two points clear of manchester city if you play leicester on monday we do everything absolutely everything the boys throw whatever they have on the pitch so that means. will be general is this to me it's like this

. so liverpool have another date with destiny on tuesday when they play barcelona in the champions league semifinal second leg the catalans have already clinched the league a title they lost to know against celta vigo but did rest leonor messi and luis suarez ahead of the trip to england. f.c. porto recovered from losing top spots you benfica last week with a big win over deportivo aves in the portuguese premed a league with far getting the third here in a four nil victory porto stay two points behind benfica in the race for the title with two games to play. out in danger of dropping out of the italian sorry after the first time in twenty four years they got a glimmer of hope as they kept into milan at bay on saturday but the nil nil draw means you deny they haven't won a match in nearly a month their one place above the relegation zone with three games left.

triumph turned to despair outs one of the biggest horse races in the world on saturday as the winner was disqualified for the first time ever at the kentucky derby maximum security the horse lewis saves the rider there in the pink romping home to finish at churchill downs. i. got an objection was raised horse and rider accused of varying into the path of another runner on the home turn so runner up country house took the prize instead of this the hundred forty fifth kentucky derby the first time in history to keep track of a proper series the boston bruins have gone to the brink of the eastern conference finals in the n.h.l. playoffs after beating columbus four to three the blue jackets had fought back to tie this one up through first playoff goal but david pasternack got his second of the game to win it for boston who had been to one down in this series the now three two up going six on monday. greek tennis player maria sack he will move into the

world's top fifty after winning her first title she rallied from a set of break down to be. britain's you know how to counter the robot grand prix in morocco saturday's win comes thirty two years after her mother also reached a ranking of forty third. mexican boxer canelo alvarez has added another championship to his collection he beat american box at daniel jacobs in las vegas on saturday the victory in points takes jacob's world title to increase his tally of major world middleweight straps to three. now retirement can be tough for sports stars cooked on the high adrenaline of competition but x. dutch footballer house found something to replace the thrill has taken up darts the former i.x. and real madrid player made his competitive debut at the denmark open he won his first round match but lost in the second not quite as heartbreaking as his world cup final defeat to spain in twenty ten. all right outside of and i

will have more lighter stuff thanks very much so paul and that is it for this news hour but we'll be back in a couple of minutes with more of the day's news for you stay with us for that. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you

know is that each other's lives but it is but the good because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended used to do the work in depth in the museum we don't feel inferior we're good audience across the globe. but i mean the fish every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump town through the eyes of the welts jannah least that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means at all he joined the least named kindest as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they were caught on the story so that matter the most embed is a free palestine a listening post on al-jazeera. to stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world.

al-jazeera. on council because this week trump gambles the world economy all shutting down iran's ability to sell oil. in the start the ball phone screen about chinese tech giants of the f.b.i. stick. we'll talk to the inventor who suspects this technology was stolen counting the cost on al-jazeera. israel's prime minister orders no letup in the military offensive on gaza as the palestinian death toll rises to eight.

i'm about this and this is all just here on live from doha also coming up an uneasy stand off with soldiers on the streets of three mean the opposition call for international mediation after last week's election. facing major challenges south africa's ruling a.n.c. party rallies the votes ahead of next week's election. and bad news for iraqis looking for a virtual escape why the government switching off massively popular video game. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is ordering the military to continue its attacks on gaza a day and night of israeli airstrikes and palestinian rocket attacks of left nine people dead israeli warplanes attacked several areas with more than two hundred air strikes on saturday evening eight palestinians have been killed in gaza including

a pregnant mother and a fourteen month old baby the israeli attacks coincided with palestinian fighters firing hundreds of rockets into southern israel one is really man was killed speaking in the last israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he has no plans to slow down the bombardment on gaza. this morning i instructed the idea to continue its massive attack against terrorist elements in the gaza strip and i've also asked to buffer the forces around the gaza strip with armored forces artillery and infantry hamas bears responsibility not only for attacks and actions but also for the activities of the islamic jihad and it pays a very heavy price. but the reality inside gaza shows the impact of israeli attacks . after prayer someone called me and said he is from the occupying israeli army he asked if any members of the media were in my building i told him yes he then

told me to document the building within half an hour then they came and hit the building with five rockets exactly half an hour later. area is safe and away from the borders and the military locations so we didn't expect our area to be targeted in fact during people from everywhere live they places and came to us what happened proves that all of gaza is not safe there is not a single safe area they used rockets and destroyed everything that i have the force is joining us now live from the israel gaza border some very strong words from the israeli prime minister there. yes indeed he said that there will be a continuation of what he called these massive attacks against what he says are terrorist elements inside gaza and that's been backed up with the deployment of extra troops to the area as he said both infantry artillery and armored cause stuff from the israeli army heading in this direction and also in the last few

minutes we've been hearing of what is a potentially very dangerous development in terms of the potential further escalation of all this as well as the two further deaths that we've now had confirmed from the palace the health ministry in gaza bringing the total there to eight people killed and one person killed here in israel we've heard the last few minutes that four israelis have been critically injured two of them. in the midst of a rocket strike on a factory in ashkelon a city north of the gaza strip two others injured less seriously a woman critically injured with a rocket striking her car in this part of israel very close to the gaza border and one further critical injury as well and the more of these sorts of fatalities and injuries that take place then of course that gives both sides a motivation if not a necessity to strike back and that makes the entire situation

a good deal more difficult it is clear that israel is targeting fighters in a way that it bats didn't in previous escalations it's also clear the sheer volume of rockets coming out of gaza does risk causing much greater casualties and fatalities on the israeli side and i think we can hear just now in fact more intimate in fact i can see the more i mean deceptions that if you can settle the camera there are past the past the telegraph was there and you can see the rocket trails and the plumes of smoke where there have been more interceptions of rocket fire coming out of gaza just as we were talking that. perry as you were mentioning earlier on of course. there have been similar situations in the past i'm thinking particularly in the run up to the israeli election which was the last one in april and at that time when we saw the escalation but then we saw both sides being able to pull the escalation back is there any indication whether or not bad might be

able to happen this time around. or is it that and certainly there are efforts underway both from the egyptians and the united nations acting as mediators trying to do the same thing again what the sort of thing they've been doing over many iterations of these escalations that we've seen in recent months most recently in april of course there had to be the beginnings at least of some kind of longer term deal under way the israelis extended the fishing zone out to fifteen nautical miles from the coast there was also reportedly promises of it increasing the amount of qatari money coming into gaza to forty million dollars a month that has yet to happen and the other kinds of easing of the restrictions also have yet to happen so that in part potentially explains why the situation in gaza is that is it as it is and perhaps why islamic jihad and hamas of chosen this period ahead of the universe and song contest ahead of israeli national day to try to increase the pressure and that is

a real pressure that the the israeli government israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu probably doesn't want to see a full escalation towards war ahead of those important dates however he's also authorized a very significant series of strikes on gaza there is a large volume of rocket fire coming out of gaza so whatever each side really wants to happen in the coming days it might be academic if this develops a momentum of its own thanks gary. iran is vying to use what it calls the gray market to bypass u.s. sanctions for oil customers iran's deputy oil minister says all of the country's resources have been mobilized to continue exporting oil a gray market involves using a legal but unofficial channel to export oil on thursday the u.s. lifted sanctions waivers on eight countries that import iranian oil accusing to iran of using the revenue to destabilize the region. the youngest brother of algeria is ousted president is under arrest the beautifully cut was the country's

effective ruler after his brother the lazies suffered a stroke six years ago protesters have been calling for his arrest for weeks demanding a complete overhaul of all genius political system that's a little bit of the on reports. another well known face of algeria as a lead under arrest sign a beautifully go was detained on saturday after a police investigation he's the youngest brother an advisor of former president of the law says beautifully who was ousted last month for sixty one year old site has a fact of leaving the country's leader for the past six years since his brother suffered a stroke the main architects of the part of the financial problems that has been yeah having seen it for the twenty the last twenty years you know the guy is that he's six and that custody. of her as you do though the head of the army up may kind tell it has vowed to arrest and prosecute corruption suspects the police have

recently detained several prominent algerian businessmen linked to beautifully guessed inner circle a mouse was. the latest mass protests demanding change were held in the capital on friday for the eleven successive weekend. the arrest of sign would a fleet that has been a long running demand of the demonstrators. these protests and pressure from the military force beautifully cut to end this twenty year rule was high ranking officials a link to his regime have also been ousted the demonstrators say that's not enough we are very skeptical and we are very cynical toward the situation because it doesn't really satisfy or you or he doesn't really respond to people demands which is the the complete dismantlement of the former regime. algeria's presidential election is scheduled for july fourth but critics say the electoral framework is tainted with corruption and nepotism

a complete overhaul is needed they say for fair and democratic elections. the opposition hasn't publicly announced its support for alternative candidates but most agree anyone connected to the ousted president including the interim president and prime minister should not be in power cuts e.l.o. piece of the young al-jazeera. pyongyang has released pictures of kim jong un overseeing rocket launches from north korea's east coast the country's leaders said he was satisfied with the tests on saturday and called on troops to stay on high alert south korea's president says he is concerned by the developments meanwhile u.s. president donald trump tweeted that kim jong un doesn't want to break the promises made to him before going to commitments on denuclearization tom said but i believe that kim jong un fully realizes the great economic potential of north korea will do nothing to interfere or end it he also knows that i am with him and does not want

to break his promise to me deal will happen well minter all but as a former u.s. state department diplomat as specializing in north korea he says trump's focus on economic growth and north korea won't be enough for it to give up nuclear weapons. there is a belief that north korea desperately wants to bolster its economy and that if only it would get great economic aid from the united states it would completely denuclearize and the united states is certainly right that economic incentives do matter in some way to north korea especially partial sanctions relief but it certainly will not get north korea to completely give up its nuclear weapons the president said a deal will happen but i see no evidence that we are anywhere close to a nuclear deal with north korea north korea probably does not have the domestic political space to take any of the bold risks or maneuver maneuvers that would

restart the diplomatic process and washington for its part has not been creative enough or flexible enough to really take advantage of this diplomatic process and get us closer to a deal it has always been the case in both the obama administration and the trump and ministration that with an issue this important and this high profile the white house takes the lead and it sets a general policy direction and the state department really implements it drives diplomacy it comes up with ideas but the direction is at the white house level president trump and his subordinates have been on completely separate parallel tracks on north korea and it almost seems like they don't consult each other or coordinate their message and that's a huge difference from past administrations and that i think has a lot to do with the dysfunction we've seen in u.s. north korea diplomacy and it's very concerning.