al-jazeera. where ever you. al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara sorry you're watching al-jazeera news hour live from london thanks for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes. a 100 air raids a day the furious onslaught on syria's last the rebel stronghold that's forcing hundreds of thousands to flee towards turkey. thousands of people go on strike in sudan demanding the military hand over power to civilian rule. serbia reportedly

deploys troops to its border with kossovo after a police raid sense tensions are soaring in the region. and on time how much would all the sporting putting all the action from the french open as both the wall number one and the defending champion to survive a scare in the 1st bomb. hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing a wave of airstrikes in northwest syria as government and russian warplanes pound rebel positions. at least 27 civilians have been killed in tuesday's attacks but that number is expected to rise as the government intensifies a furious push from the south health officials in the opposition held province say government walkers have destroyed a hospital in the town of confiding the board and aleppo have also been targeted

forcing syrian civilians to flee towards turkey meanwhile the u.s. state department has called the escalation of violence reckless syria's humanitarian situation has also been the focus of talks at the u.n. security council our diplomatic editor james bays reports. time it's been raised in the security council since the offensive by the syrian government and russia started yet again though division among council members means there were strong words but no prospect of action for a top humanitarian official made this appeal conta this council take any concrete action when attacks on schools and hospitals have become a war tactic that no longer sparks outrage is there nothing to be said or done when indiscriminate barrel bombs are dropped in

civilian areas ambassadors from the us and europe talked of war crimes and the need for accountability attacks directed against protected medical facilities are prohibited by international law and are in defiance of many security council resolutions including 216-522-6824 extension 49. there must be accountability for the forces and leaders who planned and conducted any such strikes russia was represented at the meeting by one of its deputy foreign ministers he said his country's military will working with the assad government to fight what he said were terrorists. the russian aerospace forces are providing the necessary support to the syrian government forces to force the terrorists out of the regions that are used to bombard russian bases and the positions of the syrian everyone has to go he's right there are groups operating in

international humanitarian law is clear it says military forces must show proportionality and as well as the armed groups there are 3000000 civilians living in the province. at the united nations russia and turkey had reached an agreement last september which was supposed to protect over fears for the safety of the $3000000.00 people in syria but since then an armed group formally allied with al qaeda has seized large parts of the area triggering the regime's latest offensive reports. the intensity of strikes like these is increasing and so is the number of civilians killed across southern adlib and northern russian and syrian jets are carrying out more than 100 raids a day. most are hitting crowded residential areas marketplaces are reduced to rubble hospitals clinics and schools have been destroyed in the

offensive in northwest syria that is entering its 2nd month. but. many civilians have been killed the planes have returned to hit moderate and moment the people are panicking afraid opposition activists are accusing the government and its allies of using internationally banned weapons like cluster. and white phosphorous they say it is part of a strategy to depopulate a belt of territory on the southern edges of a glib province to secure 2 international roads more than 200000 syrians have moved north towards turkey's borders seeking safety in open fields but tens of thousands are believed to be caught in the area of hostilities the russian backed syrian government offensive has barely changed the lines of control government forces are trying to recapture territory to connect cities under their control and revive trade but they haven't been able to take much ground russia too is trying to push

the rebels nourse so that its military base in lucky i will no longer be within the opposition's firing range. opposition forces have united and are fighting back and some of the armed groups say they are getting military support from turkey which wants to strengthen its negotiating have to many believe the offensive is about pressuring turkey which is trying to balance relations between moscow and washington there are reports that turkey is holding behind the scenes negotiations to try and revive last year's cease fire deal and create a demilitarized zone that fighters from the share or h. t. s. and the syrian army will respect. that you don't answer. all i ask all those. us must.

mortars artillery. sometimes. it's best not although a ceasefire would save lives there's no sign of a deal but for now through their proxies russia and turkey are reminding each other how costly it is when they're not working together. big but. process leaders in sudan are increasing the pressure on the military to hand over power to a civilian run administration a 2 day strike is underway with workers nationwide walking off the job protesters hope it will force military leaders into a new round of negotiations imran khan reports now from khartoum. on any other day this would be the main transport hub for the whole local to you but the central bus station is shot and the general strike is holding disruption to the capital's

airport would strike is displaying signs saying we will build our country however the ruling transitional military council criticized the strikes saying the army was part of the revolution i don't know who the ins armed forces are part of the revolution by god is. part of this or the russian island without us. and have been followed by god i'm telling you no one would have been able to remove him god was out us. a handful of shops and government offices did open but the strike is widespread enough for the organizers to deem it a success the plan today walkout was organized by the sudanese professionals association on behalf of the opposition coalition speaking on monday night before the strike started organizers said they were forced into taking action because the transitional military council are not negotiating in good faith. i mean liz so what are the sole guarantor of the revolution are the sudanese people and the law and

order in what we agree upon as a constitutional declaration or otherwise this is the guarantor of the revolution not a military rifle for the workers who have walked out they hope that the military leaders who replaced ousted president omar al bashir will listen to their demands for a civilian led government 2 so he just likes to do this right but we're going for more they don't. want her she was a little shocked at one of the 1st the transitional military council was criticizing the strike saying it won't hand over power through an unstable civilian government it's also said that the army is the most popular institution in the country according to these people that's not true however the transitional military council will be very concerned that the strike is holding and it's what's the white the opposition coalition will be hoping that the strike gives them negotiating power and that the transitional military council will have to listen and reopen

talks if they don't opposition leaders say they will take further action such as more strikes for now the padlocks remain firmly closed as do the talks between the 2 parties. which is there are. a group of gunmen in northern nigeria has launched an attack on 2 villages killing at least 23 people the killings happened in zamfara state while the victims were eating breakfast local reports say the gang had carried out raids on other villages stealing cattle and burning homes authorities don't believe the attackers motivations are political. thousands of students and teachers of marched through the capital in protest against the ruling elite now keeping up the pressure on the military demanding sweeping changes in their country nearly 2 months after president of the fleet have resigned army chief gade salah has been calling for mutual concessions between interim leaders and protesters but there were strangers a want him and others from beautifully his era gone before new elections are held.

still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour will it be mr or ms europe the fight begins over who will take at the top jobs in the e.u. as european leaders gather in brussels for negotiations meanwhile austria hosts a climate summit amid a surge in support for europe's green party and then sports are more bad news for nehemiah as he loses the captaincy of brazil's national team. but 1st serbia has reportedly deployed the troops to its border with costabile after course of our police made several arrests in a northern territory dominated by serbs the police say they were targeting organized crime but serbian leaders who don't recognize kosovo's independence say the officers were sent to intimidate them for a challenge reports. in the air and on the ground kosovan police.

are on their raid into parts of the city which prompted serbia's army to be put on combat readiness. this morning at 629 as a commander in chief of the armed forces ordered full military readiness of our armed units in case of any serious disturbances or danger to life of serbs in kosovo armed forces will protect people. serbia's ally russia has called it a provocation the u.n. says a russian u.n. worker has been released by cost of and police after angry protests from moscow for his detention. the u.n. is demanding the release of another employee also alleged to have been detained and injured. the river and makeshift barricades divide the 2 ethnic harv's of the city

majority albanian kosovo declared independence from serbia in 2008 a decade after nato stepped in to support kosovan forces in their separatist war with belgrade but north mature still has a population that is mainly and many of them like serbia itself still do not accept kosovo as an independent country nato is peacekeeping force in kosovo ok for is playing down the incident at the moment there were no signs. but this is. the cause of and president insists the operation is about law enforcement and nothing else for the new yorker to belgrade in order to the

audience that i am sorry but belgrade should not under any circumstances be an address that protects those involved in crimes and regardless of their ethnicity. with its bloody history and complex ethnic and religious divisions the balkans have long been a focus for international tensions anger is rising there once again chalons al-jazeera. serbia's president says he will try to preserve peace and stability but is ready to protect ethnic serbs in the region in a glow shirts has this update from the serbian capital belgrade. the very tense morning situation boat in kosovo and serbia seems to be peace who now earlier today serbian president alexander go teach confirming that serbian forces are ready to act if necessary but just 2 hours later he changed that statement and said we are ready to protect their people but i'm not talking about any military intervention so what we saw today was still very different interpretation about what happened

also the police arrested 33 people who as they said who were involved in corruption and organized crime also close to the police said that their action took place not just in the region they would supermajority but also in that there were 3 all costs of about serving the president said of course the police have used force against an armed sit ups supremum thought this claims this action was organized to scare syrian people in cos of this all situation is happening in the moment when cost of war is a big issue even serve in public but also in serbian parliament it is the last 48 hours the members of surveilled parliament were discussing the report on costs of and that was the 1st time of the 6 year is also what is the topic in serbian parliament remind you that dialogue between belgrade and pushed enough has been stopped 6 months ago of the cost of a major decision on 100 percent taxes on products from serbia says than syria built

or this has underlined that that says must be withdrawn for the dialogue to be continued yesterday sort of when the president said that normalization is only a new solution for peace today alexander who added that after this situation in cost of the things will not be the same off that the facts as he say relation to negotiators will be different so solution is unlikely to be found soon the negotiation process just become even more tense. kosovo is almost entirely. ethnic albanian but used to be part of serbia as yugoslavia broke apart in the 1990 s. guerrillas calling themselves the kosovo liberation army began an insurrection to gain independence as the rebellion escalated serbia launched a bloody crackdown that included civilian massacres an ethnic cleansing of the albanian population nato eager to avoid another genocide like that in neighboring bosnia launched a bombing campaign against serbia to force them to withdraw from the territory

hitting targets in kosovo and belgrade under the protection of western allies kosovo eventually declared its independence from serbia in 2008 but belgrade has never recognized this and this feud between the countries remains the main sticking point concerns the entity of north call civil dominated by serbs and keen to reunite with serbia last year there were reportedly negotiations over a proposed land swap that would see north kosovo returned to serbia. well jeffrey nice is a british barrister who was the lead prosecutor in the case against former serbian president slobodan milosevic at the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia and he joins us now in the studio sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so 1st of all what do you think of the events that led to this latest potential escalation you know where it could be a non-story this could be a straightforward. police process that the coding to president is being conducted

across the whole of course of earns nothing special about the bit that happened to happen in north course over and remember that on this particular issue the size of government the president and the prime minister did have sometimes been divided on issues are entirely united so to that extent it could be a non-story but anything that happens there is used by one side or maybe the other to keep alive the tension that arises from the fact that serbia cannot accept that having blundered in the way that it did between 995 and 999 it lost cause of the. how on the other hand you reconcile serbia making as much as you can out of an incident like this how that fits with serbia's knowing it has to recognize kosovo if you want to get into europe is a puzzle and of course one of the men involved was a russian a u.n.

employee. who the president ashen touch he says was come of flies under diplomatic veil to hamper the police operation of course the key word here being russia and i suppose that's always an element of it but how russia would react to what's going on yes and also i think the term i saw use was an associate diplomat so his diplomatic status seems to have been a bit murky although for whatever reason he has been released but of course having russia serbia's support serbians patron involved in any tourney stand just raises the tension and raises the stakes and although it may be properly viewed historically if ever one ever does a non-story that doesn't mean the smallish non-story couldn't be the turned box because effectively it's just not resolved amid the claridge independence back in 2008 serbia does want to try to get into the that's

a big stumbling block do you ever see this changing. year so i think i do i mean always you can't be certain. serbia's interests and europe's interests and therefore the broader political interests are in these small countries of service not so much more joining europe and serbia simply has to recognize that it has to recognize kosovo. so far kosovo new can feel really sorry for the citizens it's not their fault. they wanted independence it was some of them did they got it they want to be a new state and every turn they're blocked either from getting into unesco or recently even from being a member of interpol and this is all part of the political business we don't want to recognise kosovo but ultimately i think serbia will have to back down would have to recognise cause a vote and then cause

a burden it's citizens can start making the progress they need to make geoffrey nice british a barrister and who was lead prosecutor in the case against the former serbian president slobodan milosevic sir thank you so much for sharing with lamas thank you . european leaders are meeting in brussels to discuss who they want to fill the e.u.'s top jobs. have already begun to appoint the commission's president and the other heads of the various institutions the elections a soul center right and center left parties lose support and nationalists liberals and greens taking advantage of voter anger with the current direction of the e.u. they have a change of reports now from brussels. who's next for the top job in brussels the german chancellor angela merkel arrived with the name of only one man on her lips to replace john cloud as president of the

european commission not to me is this one included soon the month that truly is a great coalition i support manfred but not all coalition partners do the same it's kind of the 46 year old but varian has never held an elected office in his life but as the leader of the european peoples party tradition at least recently dictates it should be good as we know that we cannot celebrate a big reveal lost seats but we are still 2nd as a 1st party and that's why we are ready to talk now is everyone to sit together to find a common understanding prosecutor. the french president demand your macro though was clearly against his judgment part of choice and he's gaining support among other leaders. but you don't want today to speak about a name and to turn to names i think we must take into account what came out of the polls what european people expressed we must also have decision makers who have the credibility required to be able to react the presidents and prime ministers of

europe or thrash out their differences over dinner but no quick decision is expected. no party in the european parliament now has an overall majority each decision on policy each decision on appointments will take time and calm provides. the british prime minister to resume a run out of both of those commodities in her the gauche ations with europe as the breaks it does matter a great regret to me because i have been able to deliver an address but of course that's masteries now for my successor and they would have to find a way of addressing the very strongly held views on both sides of this as this issue as she left to join the other european leaders for dinner to resume a might have been reflecting on president backgrounds warning at the summit everywhere the extremes are rising and what it is thriving on on fear and on lies

david chaytor al-jazeera brussels. well as green parties make their strongest ever showing in european elections an international summit focusing on ways to curb climate change is being held in austria un chief antonia good peres says subsidies that promote the use of fossil fuels are destroying the world dominic cain has this update from vienna. and the austria world summit has been all about combating climate change and particularly prioritizing clean energy production again and again the delegates inside the auditorium referred to what more could be done to prioritize that one of the particular issues at this particular conference as being the rise of the green movement politically drawing some substance from the european elections that took place between thursday and sunday of last week in which green parties right across the board performed particularly well especially in germany but one of the things that the keynote speakers at the venue have been stressing is

the need to combat climate change mao we heard from the swedish teenage campaign a good created soon be. saying that time was running out people had to realize what was going on and governments had to speak the truth finally one of the local citizens as it were from austria the former governor of california arnold spots and had pretty strong words for multimedia for the large multinational companies saying that their time was running out it was as if they were letting sound fall through their fingers it was going to leave a mess in their hands that they couldn't deal with that's a pretty good summation of what people here feel about what's happening with climate change. a british financial watchdog has named the u.k. the world's greatest enabler of corporate tax avoidance according to the tax justice network british territories and oversees the pending make up for of the world's top 10 countries that have done the most on that companies pay little or no tax at all move back of reports now from london's financial district.

taxes have been described as the price that we pay for civilization we may not like them but they're responsible for keeping our economies and our societies afloat paying for roads health care education defense social security the list goes on all companies pay corporation tax on their annual profits but according to a new report an estimated $500000000000.00 worth of taxes maybe being deliberately avoided by some of the world's largest multinational companies that's roughly the same as the economic output of sweden or 20 times the un's humanitarian aid budget now for the 1st time an index of worst offenders has been published the top ten's dominated by a british controlled network of jurisdictions the british virgin islands but muta the cayman islands and the island of jersey also in the top 10 is the netherlands

switzerland luxembourg singapore the bahamas and hong kong according to the index these 10 places are alone responsible for her. half of the world's corporate tax avoidance big companies are free riding on the global economy and in many cases causing enormous damage to their pre-writing facilities the harming market quality they might also be harming the countries where they're operating by not enabling those countries to invest properly in educating their workers training their workers providing health services for their workers so this is harmful activity. tax haven such as the cayman islands a british overseas territory in the caribbean provide offshore banking services to wealthy foreign companies and individuals allowing them to avoid paying tax in their countries of residence and it's all largely legal 100000 companies are registered here including british petroleum and even by just united for the past few years the corporation tax rate here has been 0 but it's not for everyone it

requires wealth money to invest and to pay for expensive advises the authors of the corporate tax haven index say this isn't a question of legality but it is a question of fairness over a system where only the rich can afford to get even richer. al-jazeera london. it watching al jazeera live from london still ahead on the program a new report documents massive human rights abuses in the sinai peninsula where egyptian forces are trying to drag the kate i saw the court case in the united states that could determine the future of the fight against opioid addiction and the women's world at number one comes close to being knocked out of the 1st round of the french open after a comeback in the major sport. hello

there there's still plenty of very heavy downpours eva parts of europe at the moment we still got the swirling mass of cloud over the central and eastern parts and it's still giving us some very heavy downpours to the east of it it's really quite warm but for the west it's quite chilly and this is the boundary between the hawks and that cold air is sweeping its way eastwards and as it does so this ambush isn't really dropping for many of us so warsaw will only have a maximum of around 15 degrees as we head through the day on wednesday ahead of it though kiev will be all the way up at 27 the thunderstorms are rumbling their way towards us there with the temperatures will begin to drop as we head into thursday meanwhile towards the west this sudden sunshine to be found but in the showers begin to start it gets a bit messy as you head up to the northwestern parts of europe so london $21.00 degrees but a good deal of cloud around at times is hotter towards the southwest madrid will be all the way up at 30 degrees in the whole weather stretches across the other side

of the mediterranean as well so for roberto maximum will be around $27.00 degrees and there will be a cooling breeze off the sea for the east them for many of us in libya is going to be quite grey and at times rather sandy there's also the chance of seeing a few showers out of the system that's going to stick around for wednesday and for the day too. an investigation into the real powers that control the world health organization their obligation to their shareholders completely overwhelms any consideration of public health can they be trusted with building a healthier future if their loyalty becomes questionable views of the people that are about to be h one n one is it getting much difficult for you now that w h o yes there's a chance bruce has done here in terms of trust that you trust who on al-jazeera after decades of being programmed with instructions data on greek computers can

only on their own identifying patterns and predicting human behavior. artificial intelligence can monitor ombudsman. and decide on our future the big picture because the world according to ai and exposes the bias inside the machine coming soon on al jazeera. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera syrian government forces have made further advances into rebel held it live in the northwest of the country syrian

government troops are advancing under an aerial bombardment that's reportedly hit several population centers in so that in a 2 day strike has begun this protest leaders and the country's military remain divided over a future government protesters are demanding a return to civilian rule after the regime of omar al bashir was ousted last. and serbia has put its soldiers on high alert have to cost of our police made several arrests and it's sort of the dominated northern territory course of a police say that they were targeting organized criminal gangs. activists in argentina are launching a renewed effort to legalize abortion after narrowly failing short last year lawmakers are introducing a bill to legalize terminations of pregnancy up to 14 weeks a similar measure had been passed had passed last year in the lower house of congress but was then defeated in the senate and the heavy opposition by religious organizations has more now from when. we're here in front of argentina's congress

were pro-choice activists are once again presenting the possibility i don't want to present a bill to legalize abortion industry and decriminalize it. is illegal argentino with exception of in cases of rape or when i went life is at risk this is happening after what happened last year when bush and me made it to congress it was the abated it passed the law but it was rejected in the senate and that's why hundreds of women are gathered here today once again to demand the legalization of abortion let's talk to one of them right here he's been here all day demanding the legalization of abortion argentina why do you think it's so important i think it's super good because they reach out. mean rich people are going to for some abortion they don't surrender is to die. in places.

like a dentist or somewhere else this is you don't have any safety right here i think it's some family. so you've really got. i mean. what why do you think it's going to be different this time with the catholic church obvious. pushing for this not to happen i guess. i hold that peace sign we can fight and we. met the last time a lot of the lamie really give us a lot of pictures look about how many we were and who may need the other people out of the other side where you can see that their government fighting for these. they don't even look at them i mean be just be just dirtbag. excuse themselves some love oh oh yeah we we give you information at schools but no it's true i didn't know anything at school so i mean that's safe for kids thank you so much so

this is an election year electoral year in argentina presidential elections are expected to happen in october and the senate here is the same senate that last year rejected the bill the abortion debate is something that cuts right through party lines there is those who support it and those and detractors in all political parties in argentina and many believe that this year the possibility of passing the bill this year is to be extremely difficult mostly because most politicians at this point are afraid of angering the catholic church let's not forget that the pope francis is argentinean and most politicians in the country do not want to have a bad relationship with him. a test case in the u.s. is looking at whether individual states can hold pharmaceutical companies responsible for widespread addiction to prescription drugs millions of americans are hooked on painkillers which resemble other opiates such as morphine and heroin

and then the gallagher reports lawyers in oklahoma argue that a drug manufacturer is to blame for the so-called opioid crisis. in a small courthouse in norman oklahoma a trial that aims to take on a pharmaceutical giant is underway if you oversupply people will lawyers for the state say johnson and johnson downplayed the addictive nature of powerful painkillers and flooded the market with their products and ultimately played a role in fueling a crisis that swept the u.s. according to the center for disease control nearly 48000 people died in 2017 in opioid related overdoses more than a 3rd of those were using drugs prescribed by doctors this trial is so important emily walden son died from an overdose in 2012 he was 21 years old she says companies like johnson and johnson need to be punished and it's time to be held accountable you've killed thousands of people across this country maybe not some of

them directly but many and directly and you lied about your drugs you marketed them and appropriately and it's time to pay rather than go to court to drug companies and settled out of court given the state more than $300000000.00 but health experts say the cost of long term addiction treatment programs will be almost $90000000000.00 it's not anywhere compared to the damage that the epidemic has done to oklahoma and it's not going to be enough to abate the problem and to get us back to where we were before they started releasing these medications irresponsibly over the next few weeks state lawyers will present the evidence to the judge attorney general my concept told the court that johnson and johnson only care about profits at the end of the day your honor i was sure one word answer. group this good you have drug addiction has plagued the us but proving that johnson and johnson played a role will be difficult big pharmaceutical companies aren't breaking the law by

selling painkillers but lawyers here aim to prove they acted irresponsibly if they win here the knock on effect to around 2000 pending court cases will be significant johnson and johnson denies any wrongdoing and says they marketed their drugs responsibly if oklahoma wins this case though it could end up costing the pharmaceutical industry billions well and he joins us live now from norman oklahoma so i mean what's the state's strategy on the 1st day of this big case for barbara the 1st day of this huge trial is just wrapping up at the moment it could go on for weeks or even months and this is being live streamed from the court behind me which is a fairly unusual move and it's a judge that is hearing the evidence now the strategy from the lawyers from oklahoma is is a very difficult one to prove because they have the onus of proving that johnson and johnson and other pharmaceutical companies did something illegal and they

didn't because what they were selling painkillers is not a legal process what they're trying to do is say that they didn't warn people about the addictive qualities of these powerful painkillers they flooded the market with drugs and in other words acted irresponsibly they did that very well in court this morning johnson and johnson lawyers came back with a rebuttal saying they haven't broken the law but ultimately this is a very important case it's the 1st one in the u.s. to come to trial there are around 2000 other cases that are pending filed by municipalities native american tribes in other states so whatever happens this one will be watched very closely in particular for the strategy that oklahoma's lawyers a using but as i said this trial here could go on for weeks or even months. and if they win that and the what do you think the ramifications will be. i mean to put it bluntly i think this country has simply had enough of this drug addiction according to the center for disease control in 2017 around 47000 people died

a 3rd of those died from opioid abuse from what was prescribed to them by doctors so all the states across this nation to dealing with this terrible scourge of drug abuse and drug addiction and all these cases are watching what's happening here if oklahoma wins as i said in my report there are fixations for not just johnson and johnson but the pharmaceutical industry as a whole are huge they could end up paying out billions of billions of dollars to 50 different states potentially it could cost them a fortune but campaigners say this could be the beginning a day of reckoning and a day when this country can finally get its hands around a drug addiction has taken so many lives gallagher with the latest from oklahoma and the thank you. iran's foreign ministry says it won't engage in talks with the u.s. until it starts respecting international agreements iran hasn't budged from its position despite sweeping sanctions designed to cripple its economy and bring its leaders to the negotiating table reports now from tehran. in his 1st

media briefing as iran's new foreign ministry spokesman abbas moussavi wasted no time getting to the point if the united states wants talks with iran the starting point is returning to the 2015 nuclear deal. we won't have any negotiation is the united states and on line has always been respect for international agreements to restate could return there with. and based on delusion so we have no prospect for negotiation and in dates for developments. as to offers by 3rd parties while iran's leaders are open to hearing from concerned friends mousavi says mediation isn't necessary yet stubbornly sticking to its guns seems to have worked in the iranian government's favor the u.s. has rolled back hawkish language and even with the american military buildup still in the region

a war seems much less imminent iranians often say they don't care about iran's strategic victories or even standing up to america they care about things like the price of diapers for their children the value of their real currency fluctuating from one second to the next and generally being unable to afford a happy life. in my opinion everything should be solved through negotiations but out of politics should be separate from social issues because innocent people are being grouped into political games if iran and america. get better during a visit to japan this week the u.s. president struck an optimistic note i do believe that iran would like to talk and if they do. to talk we'd like to talk also we'll see what happens but the iranian government says the u.s. pullout from the 2050 nuclear deal has shown negotiating with americans is a fool's errand and as long as meaningful reduction of sanctions remains unlikely talking is a waste of time through already

a slowing me down iran is not interested in empty rhetoric and pays more attention to behaviors and they'll decide up and then iran seems to be meeting american sanctions and military threats with more soft power doubling down on a policy of strong links with other countries to build a chain of consensus and condemn america's role in the middle east to that end the new face of the foreign ministry often iran's loudest voice on the world stage made it clear iran remains wide open to diplomacy with everyone except the united states zain. senior white house adviser jared cushion there is in morocco as he looks to drum up support for a plan on the future of palestine and israel questionnaire and the team of u.s. envoys will also visit jordan and israel later in the week the u.s. is unveiling the economic part of the plan at a conference in bahrain next month but the palestinians have already rejected the

plan and urged arab nations to avoid the conference mike hanna has more now from washington d.c. . the white house has confirmed that jared cushion is traveling to morocco then on to jordan then a west jerusalem before going on to join president trump on his state visit to the united kingdom now he's accompanied by special representative jason greenblatt and the u.s. iran representative brian hook it would appear that this trip is connected to the conference for bahrain next month at which the jared cushion the says that economic aspects of his settlement proposal for israel palestine are to be discussed he's insisted that the economic aspect of this deal needs to be settled before the political aspects can be addressed down significantly the king of jordan king abdullah has not indicated whether he'll be attending that conference in bahrain equally morocco has not made clear whether it will be attending the palestinian

leaders have made very clear they will not be attending that conference insisting that they no longer see the u.s. as an honest break in the ongoing conflict between israel and palestine so very important for jared to convince king abdullah to convince morocco to take part in that conference otherwise it could well lose whatever credibility it may have. afghan officials say the taliban has targeted 2 security checkpoints in the west and east of the country at least $23.00 members of afghanistan's security forces have died in an attack on monday taliban fighters overran an army checkpoint in the district of brekky back killing 5 soldiers. where years of war and poverty have had a devastating impact on afghanistan's health care system the country's largest children's hospital treats up to 1200 patients every day but children need to share

beds and a lot of the equipment just doesn't work stephanie decker has more. she's barely a year old but little roy is struggling to stay alive it took her family 6 hours to drive here and there is little they can do now but wait. you would we took her to a local hospital in our village and but it didn't help her health condition was getting worse so we came here there is only one intensive care room here and it's full their tiny bodies share the beds. a stand that it is completely against all medical standards but we have no choice it is the lack of facilities that we're faced with that the current condition is stressful for doctors and nurses and it has a negative impact on treatment. every day is a challenge inside afghanistan's largest children's hospital they desperately need money it's not only a lack of space but the equipment needs to be fixed and updated some of the

machines don't work a tool we need to 1st of all invest more in. the basic brackets for health services because the current investment isn't sufficient and the system isn't able to serve. the whole population of afghanistan and children are always the most vulnerable so the impact there is is the worst through all these challenges doctors tell us. at least these children managed to reach the hospital their families able to afford the trip there are many more children across afghanistan who urgently need medical care but have no access. to people including a 14 year old boy have been killed in a marketplace bombing in thailand's patani province a military spokesperson said it was a revenge attack for the killing of a wanted rebel leader it's believed the insurgents destinated a motorcycle bomb at

a crowded marketplace which also injured 4 military rangers thailand's 3 southernmost provinces have been plagued with conflict between ethnic humor lame muslim rebels and the buddhist majority thai state since 2004. at least 10 people have died after drinking tainted alcohol in northern india victims drank the alcohol at a state run shop on monday night the government has ordered an inquiry into the deaths and also suspended 10 government officials and to police officers. mass arrests and force this appearance is an extrajudicial killings just some of the allegations being leveled against egyptian security forces in the sinai by a new human rights watch report thousands of soldiers are involved in the military campaign against eisel affiliated groups in the region launched in 2013 there are at least $40000.00 troops in sinai today in the report says the military and police have made more than $12000.00 the arrests including children as young as 12. human

rights watch says the trainees often face abuse and as many as a 1000 are being held without trial at one of 3 secret sites violence in the sinai peninsula has forced tens of thousands of people to flee both warring sides are blamed for human rights abuse against civilians amounting to war crimes since egypt began its operation in sinai arms imports have grown by 215 percent making it one of the biggest arms importers in the world we document and reveal in this report abuse is that the government has been hiding for more than 5 years in the course of the military operations against the islamic state method to sinai peninsula all independent reporting is perhaps journalists have been sent to military persecution the army has arrested understood thousands and actually disappeared

hundreds of them in 3 main military detention sites. the family of al jazeera journalist would hussein says a new investigation against him has been opened just days after an egyptian court ordered his release hussein has been held for more than $880.00 days without charge trial or conviction after he was arrested in egypt while on a family holiday al-jazeera demands his release. still ahead on the program the world. could this old lady be the most momentous of the baseball season summer will be the sport. for. the law. business updates. going places to get.

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and now it's time for sport here santa. thank you very much barbro women's tennis number one now oh saga has avoided a big upset in the 1st round of the french open she lost the 1st set 6 love to slovakia's and occur in a new low for who is ranked number 90 that's 90 in the world the japanese was then 2 points from defeat in the 2nd but forced a tie break to level the match at one set all her opponent caved after that all soccer winning the decider 61 to reach a 2nd round and continue her quest for a 3rd grand slam title in the us. or number 47 i tell me i know of it chagaev defending champion simona halep a bit of

a scare as well this rally one of the highlights of their matches but lost at the 2nd set to the australian came through in the end though 623661. men's 5th seed alexander's fear of overcame australia's john millman and a battle lasting 4 hours and 8 minutes the germans acrobatic helped him close out the match in 5 sets to reach the 2nd round. several plays in spain's top 2 football leagues have been arrested over suspected match fixing it is alleged that players and officials of from some clubs formed a criminal organization to profit from fixed games spanish police released this video of what they said it was the search of former real madrid player raul bravo's house they said that he was one of those arrested on tuesday after league fired 8

complaints about matches in lower nonprofessional divisions and international friendlies legace says none of its complaints relate to games in spain's top league . ac milan's failure to qualify for next season's champions league led them to part ways with the coach. saw on choose day. far less success in charge than he did as a player the former wall cup and champions league winner could only lead milan to 6th and 5th place finishes in 18 months as coach that's still the best performance in 6 years though it's tan and says he won't ask milan to pay him the rest of his contract your ma has been stripped of the brazil captaincy ahead of their hosting of the corporate america next month he's been replaced by p.s.g. teammate danielle fessor for the upcoming friendlies against the root to make

things worse of the former boss the striker limped out of the training in real on tuesday there are has been under pressure because of disciplinary problems. it was the bruins have won the opening game of the stanley cup finals it wasn't easy though they had to rally from 2 goals down to beat the san louis blues so hammock has all the action. thank you still thank you for the boston bruins have come into the stanley cup finals playing some of the best hockey of the season based what the eastern conference finals for nothing against carolina but playing on home ice in the stanley cup open i guess they knew it things install well but i did tell thing they went one down in the 1st period with great interest in scoring for the blues thank. you would you say things got worse for boston as a lot of new townshend could double st louis is advantage was

a boston no with thing or 2 about dealing with pressure having gone to a game 7 decided in the opening round we we conduct and got the fight back started i was and then charlie mcavoy scored on a power play to go into the final period to all. thanks from their soft and dominate with shaun curry put them ahead thanks and brad muschamp seeded the comeback win with an empty net thanks i was final score 4 to boston our team has been resilient all your if you watch our group not necessarily from comebacks but just you know different guys in the lineup different guys producing we're generally going to go up and down why don't get guys that are going to play hard to stand the bruins are looking for a 7th stanley cup title or they'll have the chance to take

a step closer to that when they host game 2 on wednesday here. 6 wire malik al-jazeera. will finish it with some incredible reactions in major league baseball and take a look at this. wish i had. matched the. shot a narrow escape but had great catch too for the milwaukee brewers that pitcher jeremy jeffress i guess at minnesota saving a both his face and the game as the brewers won 54. and that's it for me i hand you back to barbara in london sun us thank you and that is it for this news hour member you can get the latest on everything that we've been covering on our website there it is now and you can get the latest line as well on our top story of course the onslaught that's continuing on syria's last rebel stronghold will bring you the latest from the u.n.

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al-jazeera. $100.00 air raids a day the furious onslaught on syria's the last rebel stronghold that's forcing hundreds of thousands to flee towards turkey. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up sauza as a people go on strike in sudan demanding the military hand over power to civilian rule serbia reportedly deploys troops to its border with kossovo after a police raid sense tensions are soaring in the region and will.