from iraq of all emergency government employees and many iraqis are increasingly anxious that after suffering use of conflict and political instability there may be more to come chill struck but i'll just baghdad how do you castro joins us live now how are these developments playing out in washington. well or in that criticism that are the step this isn't that charles was just talking about in his report of this intelligence that the white house has received about what it says is a very credible threat toward u.s. forces from iranian backed backed groups that is the question here and it is the secrecy of that intelligence that members of congress want to unveil in fact bob menendez the ranking democrat on the senate foreign affairs committee has asked for an immediate briefing from the white house on this intelligence his concern is indeed that it may be exaggerated it could even lead to an inadvertent war and he

very pointedly compared this moment to a chance to prevent what he called another weapons of mass destruction moment which was in reference to the 2002 incidents of faulty intelligence leading to the u.s. invasion of iraq and what about any attempts by the u.s. to try to deescalate tensions with iran. or has that is the greatest concern of all here in washington because there appears to be at least no public moves to deescalate coming from the u.s. side and the greatest worry here is that this escalation may stumble into an unintended war the president donald trump has been on twitter he has used comments that are quite incendiary saying that if iran does anything it will suffer greatly iran for its part has done little to back down on its rhetoric and so it's been the allies of iraq and great britain that have been calling for cooler heads to prevail

here or minding everyone that it is a no one's interest to go to war or in how does your question thank you very much indeed. still ahead on the hours or news hour dozens of palestinians are injured in day protests as they mock the day israel was created 71 years ago. the leaders of france and new zealand joined forces with tech giants to crack down on online extremism and the school steph curry is pushing for another game winning play off the field the golden state warriors. un says there's been progress in yemen where the who feel rebels have begun withdrawing from the port city of her data is part of a deal to establish peace in st strategic ports and is being hailed as a significant step towards ending 4 years of rule or different if you go to james

base report. the port of who data the humanitarian lifeline for yemen a place where the u.n. once again has access after an inspection by the head of the international monitoring mission general michael lawler's guard who declared the who thiis had carried out a key part of the redeployment of their forces something that 1st agreed to do it talks in stockholm 6 months ago for the un this is an important step as this will allow us to start supporting the management of the ports the saudi led coalition is very skeptical claiming that hoofy fighters have handed over to the coast guard but the that unit itself is under the effective control of the hoof these but in new york at the security council the u.n. special envoy martin griffiths was positive about recent developments and mr president this moment is significant and it's worth cherishing such moments which

are not as frequent as we would hope of this of course is only the beginning these redeployments must be followed and i'm sure will be followed by concrete actions of the parties to deliver on their obligations under the stockholm agreement the security council also heard from top humanitarian officials from the u.n. who warned that life for people in yemen was still very difficult with the specter of famine and cholera cases on the rise this year this meanwhile was growing tensions between iran and the u.s. the search for a wider political peace settlement in yemen could be even more difficult the acting american ambassador fighting used his speech to attack the who fees and iran the who these must cease you avi attacks against their fellow citizens and their neighbors iran needs to stop supplying the who these with weapons to do so. attacks this week against saudi infrastructure are just the latest example of how destabilizing that is the u.n.

are hoping that developments in her data will give diplomacy in yemen fresh momentum but the situation inside the country is extremely complex and the regional dynamics are becoming more difficult and dangerous james zira of the united nations or representatives of yemen's warring factions have been holding talks in jordan's capital amman discussing how to manage revenues from 3 vital ports including the strategic city of her data yemen's government says all money should be handed to the central bank in aden but the truth is say it should be used to pay the salaries of civil servants including those in rebel held areas. 71 years since hundreds of thousands of palestinians were forced from their homes to make way for the creation of israel. oh oh protests have been held in the occupied west bank to mark the day known to palestinians as nakba or

the catastrophe as syrians are also staging a strike to highlight their oppression on the israeli occupation c. and his $47.00 people have been injured during that but day protests at the gaza israel border israeli troops fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators. well this was promised on before as it existed under the british mandate one 122948 or may the 15th 148 the state of israel was created setting up new border has triggered the 1st arab israeli war and forced more than 700000 palestinians from their homes by day has been marked every year since 48 its displacement and their demands to return to their land and to her name has been the protest in gaza and said this update. compared to previous protests the numbers were modest on the 71st anniversary of nakba hamas had been urging people on this day off from school and

work to turn out at the border in large numbers and send a message saying that we must resist the occupation and we will not stop until we have our rights hamas is also in the midst of a 9 day cease fire with israel it was the deadliest round of violence between the 2 since the gaza war in 2014 hamas has been looking to israel to abide by pledges it made to help ease the effects of the air land and sea blockade a blockade that has lasted for more than a decade and has had a crippling effect on gazans and this week we have seen a bit of relief though modest money $180000000.00 the 1st installment of that from qatar arrived to provide financial assistance fuel has been arriving and of the zone in the mediterranean for fishermen to catch the food was expanded hamas has said that its ability to maintain the cease fire would quote depend on the israeli

aggression for its part israel stepped up security at the border there were media reports that soldiers are being urged to exercise restraint and only fire bullets if they were facing imminent danger otherwise they needed to clear it with a senior official it's your. vision this week israel is hosting it there are thousands of tourists in tel aviv and the international spotlight on israel and there is a general feeling that israel as well as hamas want to continue to keep the ceasefire at least for the moment. it's been one year since several leading women's rights activists were detained in saudi arabia the rights group amnesty international is calling it the kingdom's year of shame amid the 15th last year the campaigners have thrown in man and. youssef were arrested all 3 effacing trial for the human rights work in the past 2 months john and yousef were provisionally released but i'll have

to remains in prison tens of other female activists have been detained without charge since july last year including the human rights defenders. and some. and at least 14 people have been arbitrarily detained since april as the kingdom widened a sweeping crackdown on journalists academics and activists family members. u.k. m.p. layla moran has called on the british government to take tough measures against riyadh . the saudi arabians continue to arrest people for things that we don't even understand why they've been arrested for and i think it's now come to this critical stage where the individual stories of these extraordinary women is now coming to the fore that britain needs to take responsibility and we have things that we can do we've trained on it's now time for us to train our cousins in canada. and to speak out because it doesn't take liberal democracy then who else is.

live from london still ahead but israel is opposition leader one god or defy is a military blockade at the national assembly. anger in alabama to the statehouse is america's toughest immigration law. and bangladesh are building up momentum and of the world cup details coming up in sport. and the weather still pretty miserable over parts of eastern europe in fact for some of us it's been really horrible over the past few days we've had a lot of flooding and some damaging winds as well so when out of this swirling mass of cloud and that's going to stick around as we head through the next couple of days in fact that system just going to move and expand across other parts of europe

as well so as we head through thursday it will be the northern posit poland and through germany where we begin to see that what weather and then that will gradually spread its way towards the west as we head into friday so more of us here will see some clouds maybe old spot of rain as well we're also seeing another weather system push him from the atlantic that's covering parts of britain and ireland down through france and then popping over into the mediterranean and that's where we'll see and it larry. of low pressure begin to develop and that could be quite a nasty one so very strong winds and heavy rain out of that as we head through the day on friday for the other side of the mediterranean there have been a few showers here but the worst of theirs are now clearing away so i think for most of us from thursday and on friday there are plenty of sunshine around and the temperatures will be recovering for us in chain as well get up to around $28.00 degrees for a battery would be quite that will get to around $21.00 this central belt of africa is looking more lively now plenty more showers around particularly over parts of cameroon.

anything you say tight brows can be held against. food lines investigates how governments are using israeli software to turn critic cell phones into the ultimate tools of surveillance just exposure your personal world doesn't just stop what you write it extends out to the people you care about trusted you and it makes you toxic cross border and he phones anywhere targeted by text on al-jazeera. when the news breaks. when people meet to be heard and the story needs to be told will shout it out in all of radio with the exclusive interview see dangerous for journalists to editors publishers all around the world and in-depth reports are real be made important here without jazeera as teams on the ground are not my world to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news.

than one of the top stories here as era talks between sudanese opposition leaders and the minutes of council on the transfer of power have been for space and indefinitely it comes just hours after gunfire broke out at a major protest site in the capital. but the u.s. state department has ordered all non-emergency government staff to leave iraq immediately before as a warning by the u.s. military the threat from iranian linked groups. the u.n. security council has heard yemen is the crossroads between peace and war with the rebels began a withdrawal from 3 key ports on saturday as

a significant step towards ending 4 years of war. yes president donald trump has signed an executive order barring american companies from using telecommunications equipment made by firms that pose a national security risk move paves the way for a ban on u.s. businesses working with china's technologies that he would also declare as threats against information and communications technology a national emergency. it's going to have a chance in washington d.c. apps are significant to me business. it's rather fascinating actually we know the administration has been talking about this for a year or so and we should be very clear this executive order doesn't name any country any company that this will this will specifically affect and doesn't name the companies that americans american companies can no longer buy equipment from so

no mention of china no mention of how a in fact they'll now be $150.00 day period in which the commerce department and other agencies will work out what this executive order actually means practically which leads that question well the who are the foreign adversaries that the administration is targeting and how could you not think about huawei about and at that point and china because that's clearly where that where the debate has been over the last year or so especially with the u.s. trying to discourage other nations from not doing business with weiwei as they were allowed a new generation of 5 g. telecommunications networks the fascinating thing is though that just as recently as february donald trump was tweeting that he wasn't inclined to prohibit the sale of highway 5 g. equipment in the u.s. he tweeted what they suggesting even that that such a move would be would be kind of a way of cheating a way of not being able to compete not competing with china on the basis of technology and u.s. economic prowess but by sort of cheating and doing it by the back door something is

clearly changed now he has signed this executive order but in this vague way there's a way that doesn't mention china specifically it doesn't mention huawei specifically but you have to see this of course in the context of the trade talks of the car of the under way is this part of some some some good the decision making process has been affected in some ways by the trade talks appear to have stalled in recent months what effect like they have on trade talks if the u.s. doesn't truly sanction huawei says that american companies can't buy always telecommunications equipment these are all the quest. we're mulling over there was a background briefing with just about an hour ago the administration was was also repeatedly is this talk in what way is this talking china it ministration refuses to say as far as practically how what this means there if hallway is is is targeted at the heroes of a limited impact in the u.s. because the main carriers already don't use chinese equipment already to use weiwei regional carriers small telecommunications companies do use while way so they'll be

huge implications for them if they have if the equipment they are using now can no longer be used in the u.s. but right now we have more questions than answers i'm afraid as to war exactly this will mean who is being targeted and what the significance is for any of the other issues involving trade and the trump of ministration our share of a chance of thank you very much a bomber has passed the strictest abortion law in the us by outlawing the procedure in almost all cases and education which is passed by $25.00 male senators makes it a crime to perform an abortion at any stage of pregnancy the only exception being when a woman's health is at serious risk senate is in missouri also debating a new abortion bill it's similar to laws in mississippi kentucky ohio and georgia that ban abortion once a heartbeat is detected overrule abortion rights have been restricted in 16 u.s. states so far this year and the calico reports. it was no mo there was a motion to be made a motion in

a limo commotion mrs alabama's new abortion bill aims to be the toughest in the u.s. if passed it will make performing an abortion even in cases of rape or incest a crime those kinds of exemptions of angered the state's democrats say the consequences for women's reproductive rights will be dire this bill would you would doctor up to 99 years in the class a felony instead of alabama if they perform an abortion in even if there is not in abortion this deal will put a doctor up to 25 years and so i think that is wrong this deal basically right doctors out of the state of alabama. alabama isn't alone in legal moves to effectively ban abortion in all more than 2 dozen states are considering new restrictive laws georgia's governor brian campus already signed a bill that will ban the procedure once the heartbeat of a fetus is detected and set to take effect on january the 1st if you look at a child in the womb with a beating heart with a distinct blood type yeah scott

a preschooler small child what are you looking at they say that they would look and say that's a big we recognize what science law and common sense told us today that those in utero in georgia with a human heartbeat with a 4 circulatory system and all the components of humanity should get full protections of our laws supporters of alabama's bill expect legal challenges but with 2 new conservative judges in the supremes court there's a renewed push to challenge a landmark laws known as roe v wade that legalized abortion in 1973. alabama's bill which allows abortion only if the mother's health is at risk will now go to the state's republican governor planned parenthood is a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health care in the u.s. it's called the move a dark day for women in alabama and across the country but supporters of restricting abortion rights and moving closer to challenging a law they've long considered immoral and

a gallica al-jazeera. washington has suspended all flights between the u.s. and venezuela starting reports of violence near ports in the country it comes as opposition leader who defied the military blockades to enter the national assembly in caracas the national guard had surrounded the building for a 2nd day tuesday session was cancelled after police barricaded the building over an alleged suspicious package position politicians have called the move an act of intimidation. on earth america dissolution human joins us from the capital caracas to see that the suspension of flights how will that affect that is where. the lore and that is it's really actually a formality at this point to american airlines which was the last u.s. airline that was flying to venezuela. in march when the blackouts began here there was a nationwide blackout pilot said that the conditions were just not safe enough to guarantee safe passage into venezuela and since then american airlines just hasn't

resumed its flights but now this makes it a formality and not only will a u.s. based airlines be able to fly between both countries not rather be able to fly between both countries but neither would have it is whale an airline from here to there so it just further isolates. at this point there are many airlines from all over europe in latin america as well as the united states that have stopped flying to this country over the last few years mainly because they couldn't be paid and so that leaves just a tiny handful that is still allowed to come here that is that brings passengers to and from this country that is becoming increasingly as i say physically as well as diplomatically isolate. the international response been to the governments moves against the opposition. what we know that the european union today issued a rather stern declaration saying that this was don't conducive to finding

a. did a peaceful solution to the ongoing crisis in this country they said it was an act of intimidation to have suspended or rather removed the legislative immunity of at least 14 of the opposition deputies from the national assembly in less than a week in visiting at least one of them another one is technically missing because we have them in brought before the courts that is the vice president of the national assembly and all this is happening just on the eve of what we're expecting to see of the huge delegation from the european union as well as 5 other latin american countries arrived here and that is under the auspices of mediators from norway that are supposed to try to kick start some kind of negotiations between the government and the opposition to see if it is at all possible to end this conflict peacefully. in human thank you very much. for the 17 soldiers from being killed in an ambush by rebel fighters near the border with mali the troops

were attacked near the village of. an area where several groups are active authorities are still searching for 11 soldiers missing since tuesday's attack 31 people who appeared in court in connection with a wave of attacks against muslims in sri lanka the night curfew has also been extended into provinces tensions in the country have been high since the easter sunday bombings which killed at least 250 people earn a smith reports from north of the capital. oh yeah to figure out an appeal for calm from one of the 9 mosques attacked in a wave of violence across northwestern sri lanka this week. and from these catholic priests a show of solidarity with they told us their 1st visit to a mosque there 3 weeks ago on easter sunday suicide bombers targeted churches and hotels in sri lanka killing 253 people. it's so sad that things like this had

happened in. the church had been digging. ourselves in order to look previous working in these has become that people don't you can never know. there are certain rules you know the more diverse you know and but the gunman months put a stop to these sri lanka's minority muslim population is now living in fear they break the ramadan fast behind drawn curtains. there's no visiting friends and neighbors a curfew empties the streets the mosques usually busy in this muslim holy month a closed. we're not sure what will happen we're hearing reports of attacks in different places and we don't know what to do we don't really trust any government in the witnesses describe what they called mobs of sinhalese young men smashing up shops in and around 30 towns and villages the businesses in this town are owned by

sinhalese people who are mainly buddhist as well as muslims. jessamy watched helpless as bricks rained down on this mosque and these people who are blames the government there my but it joined our military when really we knew this was coming and the government warned there would be atrocities but they wanted this to happen to us the government thought we'd leave these areas so those goons could unleash mayhem and. true lanka's prime minister says the country will be destabilized if sectarianism escalates more than 70 people have been arrested and are in custody facing charges related to this week's violence nightly curfews have been keeping a lid on the violence and there'll be another want tonight it's wednesday but they're only a short term measure the much greater challenge is repairing the into community relationships which have been so badly fractured by the easter sunday bombing burnet an al-jazeera northwestern sri lanka.

violence has broken out during campaigning ahead of india's 7th and final round of voting this weekend it happened in kolkata as prime minister narendra modi's ruling party was campaigning the city is in the state of west bengal that's led by rival party scott hadley reports from new delhi. thousands marching on the streets of kolkata these people are denouncing the violence the played out on their streets just the night before between supporters of opposing political parties wish it was this is not the culture of bengal we had ashamed of this filthy culture fully going to zoom in courted by the political parties in brisbane all political parties have co-existed. i am a farmer is true then the may political parties are destroying a what educational institution we are protesting against this we are not fired off

any political party we don't want any political party to hijack about our political protest. the chief of the ruling baath party john to a party. was leading a campaign for 8 when violence broke out of the groups such as the capital of west bengal state and b.g. was the point i walked with money and resources into its campaign here in new delhi the b j p holding a protest after what happened in kolkata west bengal is a critical battleground state for the party because they fared poorly there in the last election in 2014 b j p leaders say this silent protest is their effort to counter what they claim is a threat to democracy in west bengal lodged but if someone's or somebody just the fact that he's beaten the. odds the fall of media people who was attacked are not at that point then how can one call it. but no matter what political parties say

about the state of democracy here the people of west bengal will decide this weekend which ones will speak for them scotland al-jazeera new delhi. police in bangladesh shot dead 2 suspected rohingya human traffickers outside a refugee camp in the southeast earlier this week with ortiz intercepted more than 100 refugees about to make the journey to malaysia by boat and there she officials say traffickers targeting the 740000 who fled a brutal military crackdown in myanmar. a taxi driver in south korea has died after setting himself on fire he was protesting against introduction of ride sharing mobile apps bryant has more from seoul. it seems the driver wanted his protest and his death to be as public as possible taking place right here in downtown seoul and in front of the city hall it was here in the early hours that he set himself on fire sustaining injuries from which he later died in hospital it's

all part of a dispute with south korea's taxi drivers that's been going on now for several months and which has claimed other lives in december and then again in january 2 taxi drivers took their own lives through self immolation it's all over the use of car pooling good ride sharing apps that the taxi drivers of vehemently opposed to we're not even talking about car hailing app such as google that's caused controversy in other parts of the world those aren't allowed to operate here in south korea carsharing is normally something that is welcomed as a way of reducing pollution and congestion especially here in south korea where they have such good mobile internet but according to the taxi drivers it simply takes away too much of their business the government here has brokered a deal limiting the numbers of hours that these apps can operate during the day

taxi drivers here say it takes still too much of that business some of them feeling so strongly about this it seems they're willing to take their lives. the french president emmanuel macor new zealand's prime minister just in darden have launched a global pledge to get tech companies to combat violent web content leaders from the e.u. candidate jordan and indonesia gathered in paris along with representatives from facebook twitter and google the launch of the christ church call comes in response to attacks in the city of march when a gunman opened fire 2 mosques killing 51 people is sold was live streamed on facebook for 17 minutes before being taken down never before have countries and companies come together in the wake of her if it can take to commit to an action plan that will deliver collaboratively were kim new technology built to make our communities ultimately safer facebook has made

a start with changes to the community rose around live streaming. our objective was simple that what happened in christ church should never happen again it was not merely an acceptable terrorist attack. the internet. aiming to destroy any form of. partner has been following events in paris or new zealand's prime minister and the french president have teamed up in order to try lourdes what they see as a global fight against our online violence and hate speech now they have launched what they're calling the christ church school and what it does is a aims to urge governments and tech companies to do more to remove violent content and to better regulate websites and online media especially of course social media never invited representatives from tech giants to the elites say facebook twitter

google all sent representatives there world leaders including the prime ministers of canada and britain all together they signed this pledge but militantly absent was the united states only sent an observer u.s. officials later said that they believed that this pledge could in a way could free speech and that's why they didn't want to sign up or just the idea for the christchurch call after the massacres in march when 51 muslim worshippers were killed by gunmen who lifestream the attack on facebook that video was then seen more than a 1000000 times before it was removed by facebook god and says it's the sort of thing there should not happen again. the prestigious cannes film festival comes with a price tag of around $20000000.00 all that glitz and glamor wouldn't be possible without big brands sponsors that cover half the budget challenge and take a look at how product placement is playing an increasing role in cinema. at the

cannes film festival the only sight more commonplace than film stars is these $300.00 official black cars that ferry guests to the red carpet sponsored by french carmaker renner every film is photographed getting out one of their cars priceless visibility in this social media era. we don't need to really know toyota you know we everybody knows real norse was a world we need imagine more glow. trendy and sexy so if we can invite all our product cars on the red carpet was beautiful celebrities. imagine you stick to these so really nice people can is one of the most covered global events in the world and more brand see cinema the plaque.