ministry complex and that's something we have to give the problem that we have is that on this saudi side nothing new guarantees have been given or even put forward to guarantee that. problem movement would actually hobbyist's a voice in the political future of yemen and i think that's the main worry and you know the grandstanding over ideology of the military you know indoctrination i would say is going to get worse but the yemenis is not helping until the situation so i think that we need to to go back to understanding what. could fathom in terms of peace what they willing to stomach and so. i would not help the conversation in that they are unwilling to bend just even just a little bit and that makes things difficult to expect any real ceasefire any potential peace right now. so it's come on al-jazeera. palestine's market say they

call it the catastrophe. in israel protesters are calling for a boycott see the sears in your vision some contests in tel aviv. or the weather to dry across much of north asia warm sunshine for many cattle right in the process of pulling away from japan settling in quite nicely behind big area of high pressure places a fair weather cloud yes but just getting up to 23 in tokyo getting into the mid to high twenty's across the korean peninsula hotter still facing a 32 degrees on thursday ted woman she got one into for a little more cloud just spilling out of the yellow sea by friday of a towards the korean peninsula but japan stays in the sunshine will present the coming 3 over the next. couple of days then was

a pleasant into central and southern parts of china lots of cloud around big areas there sherry right there into central and southern passages about anyway i could see some lively showers from time to time this is the case in hong kong where we're looking is a rather wet weather over the next couple of days temperatures getting up to around 31 degrees celsius space in places of wet weather across southeast asia again the temperature is now 3132 here is well for the most part philippines looking lousy dry and settled over the next couple of days jealous of the shower from time to time share was made their way across the border as you go on through friday but largely fine and dry indonesia. just a few months after journalist jamal a special she was killed another arab dissident was under threat norwegian security officials had to take him from his home in oslo to a secure location after attempts at the saudis were targeting him. human rights

activist idol but the daddy talks town jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera quick reminder all the top stories this hour the u.s. state department's has ordered all non-emergency government employees to leave iraq immediately the order follows a warning by the u.s. military over threats from a rainy unlinked groups. saddam's military council has agreed with opposition groups to a 3 year transitional periods civilians will now have

a 2 thirds majority in parliament the 2 sides have yet to decide who will lead to the transition. and there's been heavy fighting near the southern yemeni city of to ease spites the resumption of your own book of talks in jordan the u.n. says who see rebels are withdrawing from 3 major chords partly as a great under a cease fire signed last year. but it's been 71 years since hundreds of sizes of palestinians were victims from their homes to make way for the creation of israel the day is known to palestinians as all mark bar or the. catastrophe these process have been happening in the occupied west bank they're also staging a strike against is really or keep ation in gaza well the schools palestine before not as it exists in the british mandate from 102248 or may 948 the state official was created setting

up a new borders well that triggered the 1st arab israeli war and forced more than 700000 palestinians from their homes. has been marked every year since 1968 times turning violence it highlights palestinian displacement on there to months to return so there luns. good name is in gaza she joins us now live and that's. where you are. the ambulances are on the move the number of people continues to grow and if you look over here behind me this is israel there's a very black and growing. plume of smoke unclear what that is but hamas has asked people to come out in large numbers on the 71st anniversary of the naacp but this is also the 2nd protest since the cease fire the latest ceasefire

between hamas and israel was negotiated 9 days ago that brought to an end the deadliest cycle of violence between the 2 since the gaza war in 2014 and hamas is message to people today is that we will continue to resist until we are no longer occupied and we have our rights now hamas since the cease fire has been looking to israel to abide what it says are israel's commitments agreed upon during the last these fire these are measures that would help ease the more than decade long air land and sea blockade that has been so. kading the 2000000 people of gaza and we've seen signs since the ceasefire that israel has taken bashers the zone in the mediterranean where fishermen can catch sea food has been expanded fuel has been allowed into gaza and on monday the 1st installment of qatari money $180000000.00 has been pledged to assist people have arrived now or has arrived so

the feeling among gazans is that this is ramadan after very difficult days and deadly days $29.00 people total died during the last cycle of violence but there's a feeling that people would like to live in peace to celebrate this month with their family i spoken to several people who have mentioned to me that their children continue to suffer from p.t.s.d. as a result of the airstrikes by israeli israel says that during the latest cycle of violence they hit $350.00 targets inside gaza and as you travel around gaza you can certainly see the number of buildings that were hit now on the israeli side security forces are on high alert there iron dome anti-missile system is at the ready throughout the country and yet soldiers according to the israeli media are being urged to exercise restraint apparently soldiers are being told unless your

life is in imminent danger in order to fire you need permission from a senior officer bear in mind this week thousands of tourists are in tel aviv the international spotlight is on israel as it hosts the euro vision song contest it's clear that israel does not want another escalation in violence and how musses said that in order to keep this ceasefire it will largely depend upon quote israel's aggression it's clear how that both sides don't have a huge. appetite for an escalation in violence however barring a long term political solution here in gaza there is always a sense that the next cycle of violence is inevitable and that's a good name joining us live from gaza thank you. well this is the abraham has more now from ramallah. we're standing in the squidward palestinians have marched here

about an hour ago sirens have there for 71 seconds to remember 71 years of catastrophe when it really all started for the palestinians and the world refugees here fear of american attempts to dig deep to talk about not returning the palestinian refugees to the lands they were effected from in 48 we have palestinians here who fear that the situation in the west bank and the increase of settlement building can also jeopardize their future here in the butt west bank under the prime minister benjamin netanyahu stand near you your organization said that around 20000 new settlement units have been built he enjoys the support of the us president trump who said he is going to be rolling this so-called deal of the century and palestinians fear that they are dead right of

return is not going to be included in that deal and also the u.s. has cut its aid to the united nations organization because refugees the owner so all of these are signs and are seen by palestinians officials that they are trying to deter mine and to undermine the right of return for palestinian refugees. also here in resources in israel are calling on people to boycott this year's your vision song contest in tel aviv israel scenes in the city early one choose 3 demonstrators say israel is using the event to mask rights abuses against palestinians in the occupied west bank and gaza are some broadcasters of come under pressure to withdraw from the competition ari faucets has the support so this is the latest in a series of process that are sort of say going to be taking place throughout the week here in tel aviv. tonight is also the 1st semifinal so coincides without

a morbidly for the activists here it coincides with the 1st anniversary of the moving of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and the border protests that took place in gaza on the same day within 60 palestinians were killed by israeli sniper fire the activists years saying that they want to make sure that that kind of message is attached to all the coverage of the year vision song contest it's an opportunity to busy say propaganda that like mike it is well as this cool more they call show european place well actually an apartheid state and posting it here is a political decision to all of the right device in the 1st innings israeli government is doing all it can to counter this kind of messaging it's set up a website that directs people who are interested in the b.d.s. moving boycott divestment sanctions something that looks like that but turns out to be about beautiful diverse sensational israel the khan public broadcaster which is in charge of the events as it wants to make the best eurovision in history and

there are performers who are saying it is important to keep these cultural ties out of this kind of music event can be a bridge and it doesn't mean they aren't interested in palestinian rights however as far as a protest is a concern the whole of israel needs to be seen of the state of israel as an occupying force and it should be boycotted in its entirety and they say that these protests their voice will continue throughout these weeks of us. now runs 80 people have been arrested after a wave of attacks against muslims and. the police chief has warns that officers will respond with maximum force see what he calls advice and mobs that have killed one person tensions have been high since the easter sunday bombings which killed at least 250 people. this is al jazeera. these are the top stories the u.s. state department's has ordered all non-emergency government employees to leave iraq

immediately the order falls a warning by the u.s. military over a threats from every me and linked groups last week the u.s. deployed warships to the gulf and a move it said was a message to iran where the warning from u.s. central command contradicts a statement by a british general the deputy commander of the anti eisel coalition in syria and iraq says there's been no increase in the threat level from iranian backed groups though there's been no increased threat from iranian backed forces in iraq and syria where aware of their presence clearly. and we monitor along with a whole range of others because that's the environment we're in iran's supreme leader says he doesn't want war with the united states during 2. news there is not going to be any war neither we nor them seek war they know it will not be in their

interest negotiating is poisonous as long as the u.s. continues with the same course of action and you go shooting with the present american government is twice as poisonous it's been 71 years since hundreds of thousands of palestinians were evicted from their homes to make way for the creation of israel that is known to palestinians as a bar or the catastrophe protests have been happening in the occupied west bank and the gaza strip are calling for an end to the israeli occupation. there's been heavy fighting near the southern yemeni city of tire is forces loyal to the say the u.s. coalition have been battling hooty rebels mean for you and brokered talks between both sides are taking place in jordan the u.n. says hooty rebels are withdrawing from 3 major ports partly as agreed under a cease fire signed last year and around 80 people have been arrested after a wave of attacks against muslims in sri lanka the police chief warned that officers will respond with maximum force to what he called rising mobs that have

killed one person tensions have been high since the easter sunday bombings which killed at least 250 people well those are the headlines the news continues after top soldier sierra. boom boom boom boom. just months after journalist jamal khashoggi was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul another arab dissident says his life he's also in danger. baghdad he is a pro-democracy activist and strong critic of saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin sound man the u.k.'s guardian newspaper reported that norwegian officials took him from his home in 00 to

a secure location there he was told the cia had warned norway's government that the saudis had him in their crosshairs well baghdadi gained popularity during the arab spring when he posted pro human rights messages on social media the palestinian activist was granted asylum in norway 4 years ago after being expelled from the united arab emirates for his criticism of middle eastern regimes 5 jonah how in oslo in an exclusive interview baghdadi discusses an unlikely friendship with the murdered washington post journalist jamal for shoddy and have continuing his work has brought him into the crosshairs of the saudi government human rights campaigner el baghdadi talks to al-jazeera. he had a daddy thank you for talking to al-jazeera thank you so much for having me i'd like to go back a couple of weeks now to the 25th of april when you 1st got the knock on your door

here in all slow telling you that there was a threat against you how did you react how did it happen well to be honest i wasn't that surprised that the showed up. and i believe the 1st thing i said to them once they introduced themselves told me their badge as well as something like what took you so long. i remember on that day you know from the corner of my eye i could see some activity outside i could see that i think they were standing there for a while. it seemed to me that they secured the area before asking me to go with them norwegians the norwegian security the norway we call them the p.s.t. they're kind of a combination of norway's you know kind of see if the i and security you know. special service you can see so they also provide security for politicians you know dignitaries. and they're known to be you know highly professional highly competent . so. at the time of course they were in plain clothes and what did they tell you.

they didn't tell me any details on the spot they simply asked me to go with them they didn't give you any sense of why there was a threat against you or where information had come from the only did that once i was safe and secure in that specialist secure location would do this and they simply sat me down and then they told me that they received a tip from a partner intelligence agency indicating that i've been the target of a threat and you now believe that to be the cia and the threat to be coming from yes such as a lot of the time i had a good i had a good. idea that it was the cia but i wasn't 100 percent sure and i believe i only this only was completely confirmed when the guardian did you know the work to confirm it and in the absence of real evidence to support this notion of a threat what gives you pause to think that it is credible that there is a real threat out there well to start i think the you know whether whatever you

think about this from a moral point of view i believe everyone would agree that there are competent. so i don't believe that this would have passed. if there wasn't something behind it. but i should also mention that i started to become concerned about my security as far back as october you know shortly after the murder is murder on october 15th i received a friendly tip from a saudi source indicating that you know i'm being discussed and that i should be concerned about my security. you mentioned other names as well. you know i also inform them. but i didn't take any drastic action back then. in february while i was working with bezos as investigation team i became i mean i started to understand how sensitive that matter is and i started to feel i mean

revisiting a lot of my old sources etc. i started to feel that i mean i don't want to be too dramatic but i felt like you know i have i probably have cross hairs on my back. and i did indicate my concern to a number of norwegian friends you know and in an e-mail that went around asking them for advice you know what you know someone who is in this kind of situation what do you do where do you go. in march i filed a police report with the police with the local police which is the normal procedure when you want to you know want to and want to indicate something like that but i believe it was over a month over a month had passed before. the p.s.t. came to my door so it was october last year the same month that was killed that you began to feel somewhat under threat yourself and you were friends with him where you know. and you work together well yeah i mean initially of course i mean i

tell people that someone like them all and i are not supposed to be friends we're not supposed to be friends the reason is for the longest time was one of the elites of saudi arabia he was a figure who was deeply loyal he continued to be deeply loyal to the saudi state to the idea of saudi arabia. and for the longest time i mean within my team we had a lot of frustration we had rants about about how should we you know like the guy who almost gets it the guy who would say 10 things 10 positives you know 10 things about democracy and human rights and free expression 9 of them would be things that you would. you know agree with and the 10th would walk it all back you know. and so i was always skeptical about that until that moment when he chose exile.

and something really amazing happened after that which was that once was unshackled from having to be concerned about his security and about you know his his safety once he was safe reasonably in the united states. he could have gone in any direction he could have gone to words you know he could have one of his dreams was to start his own t.v. station or could have done that he could have you know gotten a pretty decent position at a think tank for example in d.c. . eventually he chose 2 things 1st journalism his 1st you know his 1st identity and he gravitated towards activists was used to some kind of normal politics he was used to the old saudi arabia which had some kind of norms and some kind of traditions of how things happened. completely destroyed that and the end of normal politics eventually meant that you have to seek other ways of seeking influence and i think that's how he that's when he started to gravitate towards

activism m.b.'s. of course the crown prince in saudi arabia. eventually you found common cause with jamal khashoggi do you think that he was your association with him. the 1st put you on the radar of the saudi authorities to attempt to answer your question. we did a risk assessment and we identified 6 or 7 reasons or 6 or 7 things that i've been working on you and he not with jamal i mean generally i mean 3 of these or 2 of these were but the rest were basically other initiatives that were highly sensitive and i believe from my own informed opinion. would have been highly you know of concern let's see if 22 to the saudis well you knew you knew that what you were doing had the potential to get you in trouble you tweeted if they don't want to kill me then i'm not doing my job is the risk the danger is something that

you accept as simply being an inherent in what you do it is something that i accept i mean this is i mean it's not the easiest life but it is the life that i built and it's the life that i chose so let's talk about the period then after jamal khashoggi death in the saudi consulate in istanbul last october you took on along with these who's also been warned at the same time as you he lives in canada there's another individual who lives in the united states also warned by security services of a threat the 3 of you took on jamal's work and tried to carry it on and that's what brought you into contact with the i was in founder jeff bezos give me a sense of of how events unfolded after june miles of death and how they involved your work so your mother was very concerned about the state of free expression the main medium of free expression in the arab world post 2011 was social media particularly

twitter i think the nature of twitter. the fact that twitter is this unfiltered you know there's the algorithm or the algorithm is very light. and the fact that twitter became very very popular in saudi arabia i think saudi arabia and certain and certain. certain surveys tops the world when it comes to an attrition rate went up supporter. jamal himself was a twitter influencer as you know i mean he had i think 1600000 for something like that is a 1000000 followers i mean i'm nowhere near his influence on twitter i mean under that keep in mind also that he's influential in the arabic language which is the language that for safety i avoided even though i enjoy speaking. i mean and communicating in arabic it just happens that they were far more aggressive with arabic speakers because they wanted to control the arabic public sphere ok so you identify twitter as the sort of main battleground it was the main battleground the main i mean i remember as far back as 2011 someone called twitter the parliament of

the arabs it is where arabs go to express their opinion it is where arabs go to to get informed. likely exactly so take me on in how you went about picking up where jamal left off trying to finish what it was he started. you might be aware of the project. was working on and of course is a project that was structured in association was about actually. and the idea behind it is you know these guys the saudi regime they weaponize twitter they manipulate the media they manipulate the platform in order to do really dark things to justify really dark things why don't we do the same but in the in the opposite direction in other words why don't we also manipulate twitter to push our own narratives which are basically you know pro freedom pro pro freedom of expression pro-human rights et cetera. so that was one line of attack and i would i would

mention here that i have a certain philosophical difference let's say with this approach of course i was not involved in that project at all but i have this philosophical difference because i think maybe fighting fire with fire is not the best strategy because they simply have so much more fire. the 2nd approach i mean there's 3 approaches i prefer not to mention the 3rd approach at least for the meanwhile because it's very much a work in progress and it's highly sensitive and it's starting to bear fruit. but i would mention the 2nd one with the 2nd one basically was. jamal's desire to create. what we eventually came to describe as an arab state media watchdog so he actually gave me a call i believe it was if i'm not mistaken it was august 7th.

and this was after after we had communicated.