jeem that's what it would have taken place so it took place because of the administration that's in power but what about the damage that it's cause to the rage and can that be of a pedal. to the trumpet ministration unfortunately not i think that all the parties involved and particularly qatar as seen some things that it would rather not see and sentiments expressed by other governments and by other populations so i don't believe that the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council will operate effectively after this is not operating effectively now and i think in the future not only cuts are but other countries in the g.c.c. not part of the blockade and smaller countries like kuwait and oman will also take a lesson from the blockade and that is some degree of distrust towards the larger neighbors more powerful more militarily ambitious neighbors particularly saudi arabia and the u.a.e. so i think it's had an irreparable damage with regards to the arab gulf states and

you say that that some pot because of the trump ministrations what you call in that sense that you ation with saudi arabia i want to ask about eliot engel comments about the united arab emirates and its role in conflicts and the rage and what do you think was behind this because we haven't heard much criticism off the emirates from the u.s. government. well we haven't heard much criticism from the u.s. administration and you're right we haven't heard much from the government generally but if you look at what people have been writing in washington d.c. what the policy experts in the think things have been saying people at least those of us who work on this are very aware of the united arab emirates role in yemen for example and of course even the major newspapers have written about this in terms of torture in terms of detention camps in terms of the violations of human rights the emirates role in libya and supporting believe the hype stars attempt to become

a new strongman there and also the u.a.e. as efforts to try to through military force or financial assistance or other pressure to really stop the arab uprisings and the movement for democracy in the region whether that's libya or other countries so people i think here and elsewhere are very much aware of the u.a.e. goals and efforts but you're right the administration hasn't spoken about it because it's not really opposed to those efforts. you know and as always have been live and nomen that thank you. repente more ahead on the news hour including attention. and another champion bag. has the details.

to venezuela now with the president of the opposition controlled national assembly has been arrested opposition leader one of the news on social media some had earlier said on twitter that he was being taken to the headquarters of venezuela's intelligence agency let's get more with our correspondent trays of oh she's joining us live from the capital caracas tell us more choices about some and the circumstances around his arrest. well late on wednesday evening there was a message going out to several members of the media of his own party of every out of somebody in a saying that he was going to be taken by the intelligence services here even if we let he was outside the headquarters of his political party and he was inside a car and because he did not want to leave the car intelligence services brought a toll a tow truck in order to take the vehicle away what's later reported that he was

detained inside the illegally there which is a very in a way infamous prison here in ca that as in he was not of the only lawmaker that was in a wave of what was about to be detained by intelligence services that were a woman and no more than is sort of refuge at the taliban embassy and what's interesting is what we've been seeing here in the past in the past few days the supreme court here gave the name of six opposition lawmakers who they accused of rebellion and treason later on the constituent assembly which sees the government control a legislative body that replaces in a way what we know as the national assembly that's controlled by the opposition well of that body the government body voted to strip from immunity seven lawmakers and what we're seeing that's happening today that at least one of them was detained and the other one was forced to seek refuge at the italian embassy what we have seen so far is a government that's been extremely careful in the past three months when dealing

with the opposition especially would go because the united states has said that they would take it very seriously any attempts to have been away damage his physical integrity but what we know so far is that fifteen lawmakers were stripped from immunity and three of them have already been detained and tereza can we expect the government to continue you know as you say being careful at least when dealing with the opposition there to one by the winners all of this the events of the last couple of weeks leave the political situation in the country both from of the littles government and the opposition. well it's difficult to say what the government is going to do next about to what we have seen so far is a government that i believe to when dealing with opposition leader who will be have been extremely current for them and they've been also been very careful on how to deal with this whole process i mean the supreme court's that controlled by the

government announced that they were initiating criminal actions against a series of lawmakers later on a legislative body street those members from immunity and we're seeing this evening that some of the members especially ever got to somebody who's the vice president of the national assembly has already been detained this is part of the tension that exists between the opposition and the government a government that insists that of those members of the opposition were involved in ten thousand to over so many and were basically the discourse of the government is saying that those persons that were involved in what happened here one week ago when we saw going on in a military base not far away from we are surrounded by members of the military well the government says that that was a cool and that those persons should be detained trying to thank you very much for that for now that is terry isabeau live in the caracas thank you now a group of left wing activists are refusing to leave the abandoned venezuelan embassy in washington d.c.

after president of the diplomats were expelled last month the u.s. government recognizes opposition aid on why though as the country's legitimate president but as diplomats have been unable to take up residence how does your castro has more. work none of the people living inside washington's venezuelan embassy since april are venezuelan officials or even then it's whalen they're members of an american left to screw cold code pink and they moved in after the diplomats of president nicolas maduro moved out for about four weeks now we have been living in inside the venezuelan and they see. as guests of the legitimate venezuelan government the only legitimate government of venezuela material administration code pink says the rise of opposition leader. who has declared himself interim president is the result of a u.s. led. that's an accusation these programs and his

wayland's strongly reject they same two thousand and eighteen election victory is in dispute and why do as leader of the national assembly is the rightful president i would love for them to read eventually. and. this is definitely not a jewish click. ok to emphasize that point the venezuelan counter protesters have surrounded the embassy trying to pressure those barricaded inside to leave. at times the tension has escalated into strewn issues i need to get up having made it through a network they don't even know where venezuela is because none of them have this this is my venezuelan id i'm venezuelan and that tony bennett told that the united states recognizes. as venezuela's president the state department says anyone inside the embassy without authorization is a trespasser but the vienna convention bars u.s.

police forces from entering to physically remove anyone and thus the standoff the protesters locked inside why dove's newly dispatched diplomats walked out. why dove's newly appointed ambassador to the u.s. can only stand outside the embassy door sill to clear government in waiting has been shot out of the united nations as well along with russia and china the u.n. continues to recognize as venezuela's president meanwhile sixty five countries support why go should be able to do what is. and he's being recognized by the major damages usually world but while there is disagreement in venezuela there will continue to be disagreement abroad the standoff at the washington embassy a proxy for that battled. castro al-jazeera washington. brazilian president michel tema is going back to jail

a federal judge ordered has returned to prison after he was briefly detained in march and then released days later he is a suspect in several corruption investigations linked to the wider scandal that led to the arrest of top politicians and businessmen tema denies any wrongdoing. the u.s. justice department is accusing democrats on the house judiciary committee of engaging in politically motivated attacks after they voted to hold attorney general william barr and contempt of congress for refusal to release and unredacted copy of the modern report on allegations of collusion with russia and stead to censored version of the report last month he's being accused by democrats of misrepresenting special counsel those conclusions to protect president trump and another development on the alleged collusion the us senate intelligence panel has subpoenaed the president some junior he's reportedly being summoned to provide answers about his contacts

with russia senators reportedly looking to question him about his twenty seventeen congressional testimony on plans for trump tower project in moscow and on another front democrats in the new york state senate have approved a bill that one of. the president state tax returns the bill has to be approved by the new york state house to refusal to release that information as a break from precedent for american leaders. is following developments in washington. after a long and in the house judiciary committee has voted along party lines to issue a contempt of congress citation against the william bar the u.s. attorney general this is all over the special counsel's report about potential collusion between the trim campaign in russia and obstruction of justice release a redacted version of the report the democrats who controlled the committee said that's not good enough they want to see everything that was blocked out they want to see the evidence underlying the conclusions they said the timeline did not give

them that report. issued this. both sides both parties trying to paint this as a very different issue democrats say this is about checks and balances republicans say this is about getting the president we have a constitutional responsibility to serve. as a check and balance on an out of control executive branch the attorney general is totally out of control he will be held in contempt of congress i think that the my democrat colleagues are still in denial that the president was actually elected so now it goes to the full house for a vote were it it's likely to pass then it seems like the democrats will try to get a judge to order bar to release the information or be held to contempt of court which potentially actually means jail time one thing making this even more complicated the president is claiming executive privilege saying that it's confidential and democrats and congress don't get to see this report again that is

something that is likely to be challenged in the courts chinese telecom giant says that when applied to postpone extradition proceedings against its chief financial officer. she appeared in court in canada on wednesday she was arrested in vancouver last year on charges of violating u.s. trade sanctions with iran the u.s. accuses mang and way of committing bank fraud one hundred fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering to south africa now a polls have closed the hotly contested national election a cold forty eight on the ballot of the governing african national congress is expected to win but with a smaller margin opposition parties say they expect to gain because the a.n.c. has failed to deliver on its promises to grow the economy and create jobs has moved from cape town. fs of africa's governing african national congress says it's confident it will win its six democratic national election and it's likely it will

that's despite internal splits factionalism the resignation of the president and a swarm of corruption allegations that stayed at the party for the career month we're going to get out of this election is to lead up the process of growing our economy on an inclusive basis so that we can address the plight of the needs of poor people in our country the month we're getting here is we must have service delivery and are going to say that i don't want any further excuses i just want us to work. almost a third of south africans are unemployed and the economy is in decline the a.n.c. is competing against forty seven other parties to win the election the highest number ever while most of them may be too small to challenge the a n c the main opposition the democratic alliance remains us through it having made gains in

recent local elections and newcomers the economic freedom fighters led by julius malema who was once loyal to the a.n.c. have attracted vote is unhappy with the governing party whatever numbers will receive from our people will welcome them with both hands it's a monday even one vote counts will accept that those are the results and this is what the people of south africa feel abode day. of the thirty five million south africans eligible to vote nine million did not register observers say growing voter apathy shows how one happy people all with all political parties vote is here say they're looking for change they say they want jobs houses and it's a living conditions while they have been small protests in various areas voting hasn't been disrupted here in the township of quality check in cape town people want to basic services like running water and electricity we didn't see any change

and then now that's why you will stand up for what i was going to say. and then we make you know watch out there whether you like this is that i mean by the people i was going to unfold or promote obviously progress through five years ago it's way which is low to rise david yeah there's a lot of sprawl is the zero illiteracy times are sometimes days no more time while millions of people want their lives team proved it made up result in them abandoning the a n c and that's what the party may be relying on loyalty and belief from its supporters at the a in c. will do better for me tamala al-jazeera cape town south africa still ahead on the news hour and life and next time we look at the plight of palestinian refugees living in lebanon and sports the king of clay shows why he still reigns on the tennis court peter perhaps right.

as we see a lot of rain over the southern parts of china recently this is what it looked like in high now and you can see how much rain we've had it's caused a few problems on the roads and i looks like there's plenty more. what weather still to come is a satellite picture showing the bright white areas of cloud that we've seen there i've a part of it now but also over the southeastern parts of china and the stretching up to is taiwan as well as we had three thursday so this whole region is looking fairly wet for the north here there's another weather system developing that's spreading its way eastwards but i think the shanghai should be dry fairly warm today with a top temperature of twenty six degrees a bit further towards the south and we thought our developing storm that's over the banda say and that one is expected to drift slowly towards the southwest now it's

already given us a lot of very heavy rain and they could be some flooding here i don't say some landslides in some of the tiny islands over indonesia and also in te east timor so a few problems are expected here away from that just a handful of showers i reports the majority of the wet weather on our map is in the north and that's where we're expecting it as we head through friday as well as we head up towards india there's a few showers here at the moment but really for most of us the problem is with the hate it's incredibly hot and it's staying that way over the next few days at least . sponsored by town. becoming a living legend to the young age was simply not enough. he transformed his influence on the pitch into political clout the bookies to recall. hosted by eric cantona football rebels begins with a look at the life he had talked about the football and succeeded with politicians

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good to have you with us on the news hour these are our top stories the united states has issued new sanctions on iran targeting its deal and mining industries earlier iran said it would roll back some of its commitments under the twenty fifty nuclear deal the vice president of venezuela's opposition controlled national assembly has been arrested this is the first major detention after last week's failed opposition push for a military uprising and a u.s. house panel has voted to hold attorney general william bar in contempt of congress for refusing to hand over and under a direct copy of the mother report on russian election interference he released a censored version of the report last month. about a pakistani christian woman who spent eight years on death row in a blasphemy case has left the country bibi's lawyers as she's in canada she was acquitted by pakistan's supreme court six months ago leading to mass protests baby was originally convicted in twenty ten after being accused of insulting prophet

muhammad during a fight with her neighbors. while staying in pakistan where faction of the taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack at a popular shrine in the city of lahore at least ten people including five police officers were killed twenty five wounded in the suicide bombing near one of pakistan's oldest sushi shrines the tour gate and he has the latest. to speak their attention on a police band damaged in the blast. it was parked outside a popular sci fi shrine in the city of lahore offices responsible for guarding the entrance for women inside the game. most of the wounded have been moved to mt hospital according to initial reports there are seventeen to twenty two wounded and rescue workers ongoing seven to ten people are in critical condition but we can't say with a bit dead or alive. a faction of the pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility

analysts say it marks a new wave of what they call religious fanaticism i personally think it's extremely what islam but i also believe that this faction is not operating in good in pakistan because there have been some previous attempts in the past have been foiled by the security agencies the data darbar shrine which dates back to the eleventh century has been targeted before a suicide attack nine years ago killed more than forty people in pakistan's government improve security across the country after an attack on a school in push our that killed more than one hundred fifty people mostly children that was five years ago but this attack shows that armed groups can still cause chaos in one of pakistan's largest cities victoria. through long as the president has vowed to crush the responsible for the easter sunday bombings. says

safe houses and bank accounts yes why the attackers have been identified followers caused by the army chief of people to resume their daily lives on an elephant and as and. she explains why one community is finding this difficult. farted is a muslim wife and mother she says she hasn't left her mother in law's house in culminate since the easter sunday bombings. we feel deep regret that people think all muslims took part in this we are also grieving why did they do it we think it's wrong but extremists are using it to their advantage we are free to go out it's a common fear among her community a fear that's keeping many people off the streets and shops empty the president of the gym a mosque in coleman is says he's seeing these concerns among many members. in a family if the wife and kids are afraid the whole family is afraid they can't

sleep or wives and children a scared now because of these developments. sporadic attacks on muslim houses and shops have increased those fears i'll just be robbed in this mobile phone footage of a group of people on the prowl attacking houses in the celica and the area. this house was surrounded and set on fire while people were inside luckily for them the police arrived to get them out in time violence between christians and muslims earlier in the week brought archbishop cardinal malcolm ranjit and muslim leader reason we move the together in the gumball the situation has to be controlled through intelligence not through emotions people sometimes you need become emotional they don't understand what is really happening they get lost by foolishness that's a situation the chairman of the human rights commission says she wants to avoid she

has appealed to the public not only be restrained when it comes to by that i mean using violence but also to look at fin or city sense as fellow citizens and as human beings who have feelings and emotions and sensitivity this country really needs to you know and we've had very be to learn lessons in the past and i would hope as a human rights commission is that what we've learned from that was beaten essence would now really be put to good you or the government says in the immediate aftermath of the attacks the commission has focused on ensuring the muslim community is not targeted does not face hate crimes and has worked to prevent calm you know violence while acknowledging the grief and anger created by the easter sunday bombings sergeant says it's important people realize the attackers who destroyed so many lives are few and did not represent most muslims in a land al-jazeera culminating essential. to saddam now will position as

a threat and to launch a nationwide civil disobedience movement after accusing the military council of delaying the transfer of power to civilian for the military leaders say they'll hold elections in six months if an agreement can't be reached with the opposition mohamed vall has the latest from khartoum. deadlock and threats of escalation marked one is these talks between the opposition and the transitional military council in khartoum along with the forces of the declaration of change the military had invited dozens of other political parties to the talks they have all presented ideas to get sudan out of the crisis. we received one hundred seventy seven proposals we analyzed and research them and that can give indication of a compromise policy solution on the transitional issues of the transitional government the meeting with the political committee of the transitional military

council in sudan aims to review the visions of the entities of the governing mechanisms in the transitional period. the protest leaders criticize the broadening of participation in talks as a delaying tactic by the m.t.c. designed they say to drag the process out and that evolutionary momentum for how will the military council is trying to twist revolutionary choices and use the same old ways to control and maintain power this contradicts what the council said in the beginning when they took power when they said that they don't want to stay in power and that they took the protester site now we have doubts about this because they have spent their whole months progressed in aiding. the military council says it found holes in a constitutional documents submitted by the forces of freedom and change earlier this week including your mission of sharia law as the source of the distillation of the f.d.a. if she says the document wasn't meant to be conclusive and ridiculed those remarks

saying they were merely intended to derail but the negotiations the t.m.c. said it would call a general election within six months if no agreement is achieved a measure which to the protest leaders means a certain and full return to power by the deposed regime with the help of the deep state which they say is to inform troll. of the fit with the vote we agreed to continue demonstrations and escalate our activism escalation in itself is not the goal the revolution has yet to achieve its demands we have not yet transitioned to a civilian government and we are yet to remove many of the elements from the old regime it is clear that the reappearance of security services and their resumption of their activities just like in the old days means that change has not happened. to address this issue the protest leaders say they are not only going to continue the sit in. they may soon call for civil disobedience across the country until

their demands are met by a desire. to turkey now where the main opposition party is calling for last year's general and presidential elections to be allowed the appeal comes two days after the election board decided to rerun mayoral election president party last year some course you want to has the latest. kirk is main opposition republican party submitted a request to the supreme electorial board to cancel last serious general and presidential elections as well as the march third two one course stumble districts and them. positions said even presidents add ons men men date should be a nod following the ousting of c.h.p. mayor in istanbul supreme election board canceled istanbul may overall result space based on the grounds that there were illegalities and irregularities in the

appointments of the ballot box officers and now the major position argues that the ballot box officials were appointed as in the same way as they were in last year's general and close for his then szell election following a revision in turkey is election rules in march two thousand and eighteen. in their request they had there was another issue that the main opposition raised this into a kid during local elections in one envelope you have four voting sheets that's you elect to your local administrators mayors. local councils and local municipal councils and local officials so the decision of the supreme court to council only stumble may overall result is not welcomed by the main opposition saying that it is totally unlawful that all district results should be annulled as

well so now the main opposition argues even the legitimacy of lawsuits presidential and general election is compromised by the decision of the supreme electorial board now the first ever global assessment of the world's longest rivers has revealed the impact of dance and reservoirs on the river river ecosystems and the communities who rely on them researchers from the world wildlife fund and universities around the world use satellite imagery and other data to create the first map of our planet's work and it shows only a third of the world's longest rivers still flowing freely impacting fresh water species and food security only a quarter. the mind to wander was longer than a thousand kilometers like the may call the blue nile and the amazon still have a direct connection from their souls to the sea researchers estimates there are sixty thousand large dams and more than three thousand seven hundred hydropower dams and development worldwide michelle team is

a freshwater scientist for the w w fund ephrata and she says the report is alarming . we are concerned about them in terms of the suite of benefits that we know that free flowing rivers provide to humans in nature and how these are being impacted due to the loss of river connectivity around the world these include everything from fisheries freshwater fisheries that people eat millions of people around the world depend on freshwater fish for their protein source also sediment delivery from rivers to coastal deltas and downstream flood plains is a critical services that are benefit that free flowing reverse provide in the case of dams and planning for dams we advocate for governments to take an early river basin wide approach so that we site what infrastructure is needed in places where it has the least possible impact so that you're lowering the loss of some of the

benefits that come from connected healthy rivers and also looking at other alternative options for development in the case of energy solar and wind is increasingly becoming very cost competitive and is a potentially less impactful option for meeting at her and she needs now drive us with to have switched off the absent and unprecedented strike action there protesting against what they say wages and working conditions measure this week at a set to begin selling shares to the public a move that we're very billions of dollars bought little trickle down to the men and women who drive the streets from reynolds reports from los angeles. apps all this is a rallying cry is right sure drivers stage will one day strike in over a dozen cities in the u.s. u.k. australia and south america how can.