all the arab initiative of two thousand and two unfortunately netanyahu has not chosen the stretch however if you try to narrow down what we are not how they sect ink to only friday saturday sunday monday this is not that another matter and again here we are so much blood and treasure has been spilled to no avail thank you very much for your analysis and thoughts on that. let's go live now to our man in jordan and bring in mind rabbani he's a senior fellow at the institute for palestine studies let me start off while skiing you the same first question do you think this cease fire is going to hold. probably not i think what clearly happened here is israel felt compelled to achieve a cease fire because of a calming national and international events in which particularly the euro vision

song contest in which has invested a lot of money and prestige and you know the contestants are ready there are journalists and tourists and so on on their way and israel was very keen to showcase this and therefore i think was was very keen to have the ceasefire once we're past the singhs i think we'll probably see israel reverting to form were fails to implement commitments has made under the ceasefire in terms of siege relief blooding goods and let me jump in and bring to your child and i guess it's all knower of all time just made we see a new configuration as he put it in his narrative there was an understanding for calm between hamas and israel the wild card the party that started all of this trouble is this law mcjob because they decided to disturb that calm.

well he's wrong on two counts the first is that israel was only partially implementing previous understanding's and although he is right that the situation began to escalate on friday it did not begin to escalate friday evening when a slam makes you had snipers wounded two israeli soldiers but rather friday during the day when israeli snipers murdered two palestinian demonstrators in this fifty seventh weekly great march of returned march demonstration rather and also wounded over one hundred how it was and where they. were there had been firing across the dancing that is here and it was no use to live the israel from. that has been an ongoing process it was condemned only the last few hours by the u.n. secretary general in his statement. well the palestinians have not been continuously firing rockets from gaza there is

i mean one need only look at the news reports and your correspondents can confirm that this firing of rockets by the palestinians began only in the context of the latest escalation by israel on friday and saturday and in that context it's indeed true that the palestinians began firing large numbers of rockets i remain convinced that not only that but also hamas and other factions came to the conclusion that they could use this as leverage with israel in the context of these upcoming events we discussed in order to force israel to fulfill its obligations under previous understandings and it's also my view that once these events are behind this israel will revert to form and therefore a further escalation perhaps even a new major conflict is more or less on avoidable in the course of the summer.

thanks for your thoughts on that to. the most still ahead on the news hour including a visit by former sudanese president bashir to jordan two years ago is at the center of a case that the international. interest in because the corruption. is. we examine the reasons behind the rise in the among young africans. and it's the kenyan running champion. impossible. u.s. president is stepping up pressure on china to resolve. the u.s. will raise terrorist. two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products or twenty five percent on friday his announcement comes two days before

representatives from both countries are scheduled to resume trade talks stock markets reacted nervously with losses in the u.s. hong kong and shanghai. i think the top priority now is that the u.s. and china could work together and meet each other halfway today who can see interspaced on mutually risking being a prince growth which is not only in line with the interests of china and the u.s. there but also makes the expectation of the international community don't want is an analyst at the economist intelligence units access china's service she says a trade deal would be more a win for the u.s. . this very aggressive tour it does seem to be in sharp contrast to the to market sentiment in the past few weeks but what i think is that this is not really talking to china present a trauma is trying to talk to us to muster voters that what a tough deal maker he can be and if there is a geo then it's mostly because he worked out a magic but if there is not

a that mostly because china doesn't comply so either way it's more win for him rather than for other courses i would be very surprised if the trade talk collapse at this point because if we look at how this negotiation has evolved in the past a year in fact that the likelihood of both sides are reaching an agreement has been increasing not decreasing and at this point there is even no point for either side to step out of the talk mainly because there is this in force and term to reach a deal which i think is very likely for china to commit to buy more things from the u.s. especially agricultural product financial services and also open up more of a domestic market and even this deal would be very much a win or a gift to the president trauma already because it would fulfill his a commitment to reduce the u.s. china trade deficit democrats in the u.s.

say they'll start contempt for seedings against the top law enforcement officer if he doesn't hand over the full model reports politicians gave attorney general william barr until monday to provide an uncensored copy to congress who was appointed by trump has roof use the request for joined now live in washington d.c. for more on this so democrats are saying hand it over or else what is the or else on this one. yeah well the or else has some pretty serious consequences sammy i mean this is just a major escalation a continuation of the showdown as you put it between the justice department the attorney general pointed by the donald trump white house and the house of representatives or congress at least that lower body controlled by democrats and so in terms of the escalation we saw the dramatic developments last week with the attorney general not showing up to the hearing on thursday that was controlled by

democrats saying that you know there was concern about the process but this is been again and ask because what democrats are accusing the attorney general of is essentially protecting the president that may have potentially committed misconduct and as a result we heard nancy pelosi the house speaker even accuse the attorney general of committing a crime in other words lying to congress so if the attorney general now has not met this deadline which has come and gone what the body can do is essentially begin contempt proceedings they have said that they are willing to do that it appears that's what they're marching towards and has a very serious outcome it could mean this could be the civil case in the court system it could even mean jail time. it's being of course framed in the terms of the cold the rights of congress the legal process but to what extent americans

viewing this really as good old politics would be elections in twenty twenty not too far away. yeah that's exactly how americans are viewing this what this has done has really not swayed many americans in terms of whether they're republican or whether they're democrat that might be the sad part about all of this and the american two party system of government because sadly we've seen this movie before well william barr is being threatened with contempt of congress we know under barack obama the attorney general then eric holder was held in contempt of congress when republicans were in control of the house of representatives so what americans are seeing is this movie played out again only with a different party in control this time the democrats and so it all of this the the sad part is that what the democrats are and what sorry what the republicans are accusing democrats of this time is saying look at this is just political theater

all you're trying to do is influence the outcome of the twenty twenty alexion by bringing in the attorney general that was appointed by this president in order to try and score points with the voters it may work in the short term but in the long term what we see is just ongoing discussed by americans with their congress that does have a constitutional right to conduct oversight of the white house but that no one really trust because they feel this process yet again is being highly politicized all right we'll leave it there for now thanks so much committee how. the military council is expected to unveil a transition plan among various protesters continue their demands for civilian rule the military in protest leaders a deadlocked over who controls the government two sides agreed to form a joint military civilian council last week they failed to agree on who should be in the council a coalition of opposition parties have submitted draw for pose rules for a way forward and i know is long for us in called to him so what is the plan how is

it shaping up. well we're waiting for a response from both the transitional military council and also the opposition called lucian that calls itself freedom for the forces for freedom and change they are supposed to be reacting to a poor poor rule from a committee of eminent sudanese personalities people respected within the society who have been tasked with the responsibility of breaking the deadlock between them when they failed to agree on the creation of the transitional council and now this committee has come up with a proposal for the creation of two different councils one. dominated by the military which will have more to do with security and defense issues another one that will have a civilian head of state heading it dominated by people from civil society and

opposition groups and which will then the head of state will then continue and. appoint a covenant made up of technocrats of course it will be interesting to see how the military will react to these because. the proposal seems to confine them to the preference of security and defense while they've always wanted to have the greater say in how sudan is. is led during this transitional period. thanks so much for that the international criminal court has ruled not to refer jordan to the u.n. security council or failing to arrest former sudanese president omar bashir two years ago is wanted by the i.c.c. for crimes committed in darfur by militias aligned to his government corsairs jordan should have arrested bashir upon its request for the visit of a man in march two thousand and seventeen. stephanie decker has more from the hague

. it took more than half an hour for the judge to read out the background and the verdict of jordan's appeal basically unanimous of all judges saying that jordan should have handed over the former sudanese president omar al bashir to the i.c.c. when he visited a man in two thousand and seventeen but they will no longer be referring jordan to the un security council it really had to do with the issue of the immunity of a head of state sudan is not a signatory to the i.c.c. but jordan is now the judges here ruling that omar al bashir did not enjoy that immunity that jordan failed under its legal obligation as a signatory to hand him over but the bigger question really is this is where does the i.c.c. stand what kind of power does it have what are the consequences of actions like this the case against omar bashir the arrest warrant has been out for ten years now the i.c.c. accusing bashir of genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity he is of course at the moment in

a high security prison in sudan the sudanese military has said he will not be handing him over and that they intend to try him in sudan. the u.s. is deploying an aircraft carrier group to the middle east to send what it calls a clear message to iran the u.s.s. abraham lincoln and support ships have been dispatched national security advisor john bolton says it's in response to what he calls preparations to her on may be taking for an attack on u.s. interests in the region. is a professor at the department of american studies at teheran university he says the latest move by the u.s. could benefit the iranian government. people hear about a military confrontation so the money that the government spends iran's military now it's very much justified because there is a serious threat of military is dominated by. republican guards corps which john bolton put the terrorist organizations

a few weeks ago and so the support for the military increases in iran we have this. is really the flag and that's what's happening in tehran people understand that their own honey administration has been trying to reduce tensions with the new united states that's why we had the nuclear agreement. with the obama administration and the fact that the us got out of the agreement without any reason any serious reason and the fact that they are talking about sending. ships to the persian gulf and talk about. military confrontation in reality is something that worries the iranian people and that is actually in benefit of the iranian government. least fifty five people have been killed and dozens more seriously injured when a fuel tank exploded in the capital now make it happen overnight in the airport

district near the station at least thirty people were taken to hospital. ten civilians have been killed in russian and syrian government as strikes in northern syria. rebel held dozens dead the victims include a volunteer from the white helmets an underground hospital was also hit. under-cut chapal all the way over here is how's it looking over in the us a pretty stormy at the moment and it's going to stay that way over the next few days at least let's take a look at where the storms have been and on the satellite picture you can see this bright white line of cloud that's working its way eastwards following the last storm system that's now moving away we're still seeing some damaging gusts of wind over parts of florida from that first system but over a man that once cleared now we've got to watch the next one that's heading its way across us and as you can see we've had plenty of tornadoes the little red blobs here show where the tornadoes have been they've been through parts of texas kansas and up into nebraska we've had twenty two sightings of the not confirmed as yet

certainly it's been stormy though and there is more damage still on the cards because that storm system is going to stick around for the next couple of days at least so here's what we're expecting to happen on monday that system tries to move eastwards but it just can't make headway so instead it taps into the moisture from the gulf of mexico and just encourages those storms to form i think most risk will be late on tuesday and into wednesday and then again later on wednesday into thursday that's where it's going to be most at risk parts of north western texas and then that storm moves eastwards as we head through the next few days and although the storms are mostly going to be confined to the south further north where we've already got flooding here it looks like there's just going to be a ton more moisture. thanks so much was that i had on al jazeera. cover francis is in gary about victims of sex abuse by the catholic church in london to say it's time for him to come home and explain why and installed

a new name but the same result for cycling is leaving. the country beset by poverty and lack of infrastructure. sometimes we risk our own lives in taking these road split scared to saving lives is a dangerous job it's a vaccine so it's on a good twenty four hours there are patients waiting for his mother since who must be in pain life's worth risking their lives a week ago one of the gang stops some vehicles on the road but that can do it with luck for them risking it all guinea at this time on al jazeera. the climate is changing and time is running out i've never seen an elephant like. this in the new series earthrise meet some of the people driving the struggle to

save the environment telling us that we have just twelve years to make i passed any changes to transform every part of our economy and our society that's right coming soon on and. you're watching out to see a time to recap our top stories this hour there's a ceasefire agreement between israel and palestinian groups in gaza but an egypt brokered the deal to end days of cross border attacks twenty four palestinians and four israelis were killed in this latest violence u.s. president donald trump says the u.s. will raise tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products to

twenty five percent on friday but beijing says it will still attend a meeting to try and resolve the trade dispute. democrats in the u.s. say they'll start contempt for seedings against the attorney general if he doesn't over the form of the report william barr was given until monday to provide an uncensored copy to congress. life on earth is in decline with more space is threatened with extinction than any time in history and humans are to blame it's part of the findings of a un agency responsible for assessing the state of our planet almost five hundred experts work together over three years the struction of natural habitats cutting down trees. climate change pollution and the plunder of the land and sea are all singled out as major drivers of the line around the million plant and animal species face extinction many within decades if we don't accept the report's authors

and says that the climate can be slowed even stopped in some cases but it will require a global commitment to make change. is that unesco headquarters in paris and joins us now live from there it's a very bleak picture but not entirely surprising right now tasha. it is a very bleak picture that's been painted by our hundreds of environmental scientists and researchers more than one hundred thirty countries around the world they've released this report which basically says that nature is in crisis people are destroying by a diversity at such an hour unsustainable rate that is actually affecting humanity could affect the human species the human race in the future it is a bleak report and the man behind it is robert watson joins me here at unesco he's from he bests this report robertson i mean it's quite incredible one of the

findings as perhaps most interesting is that you're saying that the destruction of biodiversity could lead to human beings dying out one day. probably of terror extreme but what we are saying is if we continue of destroying our forests destroying the color mangroves the way we produce energy in agriculture it will actually undermine in the long term our own human will be it will undermine our ability to produce food this affordable and ethically produced it will undermine the way we produce it in the so yes destroying nature can undermine human well being and who are the main culprits. agriculture is it development. over the last fifty or so years one of the major cultures is we've converted a lot of our forests and our grasslands into agricultural systems when we do that we lose a lot of species in the ocean with over fish through overexploited the oceans so

we're losing fish stocks around the world so it's an issue of how we producing our food how we're producing our energy how we've reducing our timber and in terms of what can happen i mean this report of course comes up with some alarming think is what are you hoping will happen next well i think this report demonstrates that by the verse is not just an environment solution is a development an economic a social and the moral and ethical issue and i'm hoping that the evidence in this report will demonstrate not only to governments but to the private sector and the individuals in the street we've all got to do our bit to try and save by the verses because it will matter not only to this generation but our children and our grandchildren and we can act better better policies better technologies and better individual choices all right robert watson from his best thank you very much indeed the organization behind the report that was released in unesco here today and world leaders will be gathering at the end of twenty twenty and it is hoped that they

will launch at that time a rescue plan for nature. so much and trash about that of their. increasing ocean temperatures are threatening the arctic cawed a fish considered to be a delicacy around the world and the clunker warts from the nile and in arctic norway. this is what made norway rich long before oil take told all scray in then millions filled drawing rocks across the lafave denial and winter off the wind fisherman here have cashed in on the annual migration south from the barents sea it is a tradition that goes back thousands of year is called his colt it's got it and then it's hold out to dry for several months and what you end up with is a dried fish that retains nearly one hundred percent of its nutrition apprise delicacy from its me to nigeria this is what supplied the vikings on their long voyages to far off lands and still now is

a big part of the norwegian economy with millions of dollars the fish comes from the barents sea and its goals to look for to spawn. and that's because of the atlantic stream to the left extreme it stops by locals and brings food it brings to a higher temperature even though it's not warm but it's high high enough to spawn and it's a very delicate ecosystem in norfolk that fragility is spelled out by a remove scientific research as a changing climate and warmer ocean temperatures upset the balance of the marine ecosystem meaning the scray may be forced out and then it's a question of where they go obviously it keeps things keep warming some of those true polar species might. not have a whole lot of places to go if they're being out competed by sort of these other species moving north and where you see might see some considerable changes there this is a good nielsen cold thirteen thousand kilos of cold it's been

a pretty good season but he's worried about the future climate change could change everything. they're called suddenly stopped because they'd be warmer and going a longer and longer north so then being we have a big program every arab spring comes they called lead their return has always been a certainty and in the city not just for the fishermen if the seals see birds and whales that feed on them now this extraordinary feat of nature is under threat the outcome as ever depends on the political will to act in a time of global crisis the clock al-jazeera let's go to night and norway millions of young south africans won't be voting in wednesday's general election some of them say turning their backs on politics because they feel ignored for made them in a reports from. cosmetics i legit decreeing fake honesty but the eventually is

broken if in fact his expression of africa broke trying to get a degree people told me to get into would say the life that i've been it's through music that clearly is on the express is how he wants to change his life for the twenty two year old student belongs to a group of musicians our. stuff first time voters in this election care about do you feel like your issues have this guy who's twenty six students are those issues being addressed not necessarily what will still wait now those people all political parties making a lot of promises that don't deliver but now we just stuck in the middle we just have to make a choice like any random choice right now i just feel like i'm just going to vote in vain because i've been given the opportunity of two votes not because i feel like the urge to vote i'm just going to vote in vain to be honest with you i think there's a lot of corruption in politics and that's why. for me i'm stepping away from

politics is not interested in politics because the corruption that's going. to be under a few. hundred piers let me get a degree people told me to get into if we say the life that i think the odds are with the things that i think i'm seeing this kind of progress if we hope in science and history the energy jobs and the substance of why that should have all the amongst the group is an information technology graduate and a civil engineering student they both worry they won't find jobs when they qualified like of course in article malo he's been without work for years qualified entertainment thing is not working. when applying applying apply but still i have nothing. that's my reason lots of old government statistics show that a half of young people don't have jobs more than nine million south africans why eligible to vote haven't registered more than five million of them under thirty the number of young people aged between eighteen and nineteen hoover where just

a to vote for the first time has dropped by almost half compared to the last election five years ago many young people feel that instead of voting their voices of better heard in other ways in the last three years thousands of students have protested against high universities and demanding free education for students from low income families if you look at the poverty line this is it and this is the people so it doesn't make sense for us to just keep on voting just for the sake of politics that apathy may hurt the ruling african national congress the party scene is responsible for liberating black south africans from a part eight many young voters say the freedom they enjoy today means little if their government is corrupt crime levels are rising and they don't have jobs. al-jazeera durban south africa. aviation authorities in russia have recovered flight data recorders from

a plane that caught fire as it made an emergency landing in moscow on sunday at least forty one people were killed as the details. plane's burst from air flow to fight fourteen ninety two as it came in for an emergency landing at moscow's sheremetyevo airport and bounced off the runway. by the time the sukhoi superjet one hundred came to a halt it was engulfed in fire seventy eight passengers and crew onboard. only thirty seven made it off alive the flight a taken off from the same airport just thirty minutes earlier heading for the northern city of months. the airline said it was forced to turn around due to technical reasons flight radar tracking shows it circled twice over moscow before making the emergency landing russian investigators have launched a criminal inquiry but some i looked on there were seventy three passengers and five crew members twenty eight passengers are now at the terminal investigators on

psychologists are working with them five people have been hospitalized thirty seven out of seventy eight people on board of the plane survived thirty three passengers and four crew members a super jet one hundred came into service in russia and twenty eleven the first new passenger jet developed since the fall of the soviet union a year later a plane on a demonstration tore to indonesia crashed on mount sanuk killing all forty five people on board that accident was blamed on human error through the intensity of the fire it may consume a lot of physical evidence so we'll have to wait and see i didn't see any. rescue equipment in the early pictures at the scene so that may be an issue as well where was the equipment and what kind of equipment they have available what the fire oh what the recorders will give us some in the case. well in this type of action i think the the cockpit voice recorder may be the most beneficial this is i believe

it's the third accident in total for this type of airplane and so it's it's been proven to be a pretty reliable platform so it's going to be interesting to see what comes out of it so corey has struggled to convince international airlines to buy its jets proving the planes are safe will be crucial to the future of a project that had been a source of russian pride for healing mohammed al jazeera. pope francis is on a three day visit but he's being urged by campaign is to return to his native argentina to deal with the revelations of child sexual abuse committed by roman catholic clergy. has more from one side of us. these are victims of abuse by catholic church clergy those who have found the strength to speak out to demand justice they say there are many many more who are still too traumatized still summoning up the courage to talk. for ten years i

could not speak about what had happened to me throughout my adolescence i could not put it into words i couldn't ask anyone for help. thirteen years old when he was sexually assaulted by a priest at his school he did finally manage to name his abuser who have ventured he was tried and jailed richard fifty morning with our testimonies our voices and stories in public stimulation energize other victims to lose the shame to feel that they can share and take a step forward but the tide he says is turning in argentina in the around the world activists from the united states are in argentina to meet victims the share experiences of a global scandal if we can cite several cases where bishops recently have refused to disclose information to prosecutors about crimes by their priests. and they can get away with it here because they are.