in sudan the network deplores the decision of the shows its audiences in sudan and globally that it will continue its coverage of sudan despite this political interference by the sudanese authorities barbara triomphe is the executive director of the international press institute she says they've registered several attacks on journalists in sudan. we find it very disturbing that the transition to military. council which has been charged with ensuring a peaceful transition to democracy democracy is itself aiming to respect the fundamental principles of press freedoms which we believe are absolutely core to any successful in a catholic transition this is exactly our main concern at yahoo has been monitoring developments in sudan over the past month with great concern we have registered numerous attacks on john i list from tensions to physical attacks to administer b.

of measures when the mission of or for i desire is joint is for example to operate that way are withdrawn a couple of months ago. we were hopeful that the transitional military council would have acted differently and would ensure in june a list of ability to work in sudan without fear of retaliation and. we all believe and it is proven that the free exchange of news and information is core to any society where a conflict exists it is vital that the different groups in society are able to express their views their opinions in order to allow the democratic process and eventually voters to cast their vote least in algeria reportedly arrested dozens of protesters thousands of people continue to rally every friday that a matter for the change of the president accusing it of flickr a step down last month's elections for july. iranians have turned out in force

across the country to mark jerusalem day demonstrations being held across the region in a show of support for the palestinian cause iran has got the day since the start of its 97 tonight islamic revolution comes just weeks before the white house presents the economic powers. of its long awaited peace plan for the region in bahrain. hey ahmed was there was. the message of jerusalem day is that palestine will live forever and jerusalem belongs to all muslims and over the past 2 years none of the plots of the enemies of islam against jerusalem has been successfully 1st they tried making jerusalem the capital of the aggressors we saw that other than one or 2 small countries no one else accepted that then they tried to give the golan heights to israel no country nor the international community accepted that now they're after the deal of the century i believe it will be the bankruptcy of the

century it will definitely go nowhere iran has hit back at accusations made by arab leaders that it's a threat to global security to describe their condemnation as baseless and said that saudi arabia was dividing the entire region the leaders attended emergency summit in mecca where saudi king solomon called for arab states to confront iran iraq refused to sign a separate communique urging action on terror warning that aggressive rhetoric could make the situation worse and the palestinian plight was also higher the agenda with president mahmoud abbas calling on the leaders to reject president donald trump's proposed peace deal with israel. we called for an end to days israeli occupation of palestine and the stablish meant of a palestinian independent state on the borders of 1987 with east jerusalem as its capital i would like to also reaffirm our absolute stance against american attempts

to undermine international law with what is called the deal of the century to abolish the principle of a 2 state solution and catalyze prime minister attended the talks it was the 1st high level meeting since the 27 team blockade on his nation began andrew symonds reports. this is the 1st high level contact between cattle in saudi arabia for nearly 2 years the qatari prime minister shaikh abdullah bin nasa being funny and saudi king salamander bin abdel-aziz the saudis are trying to show they have wider backing in their effort to counter what they say is iran's growing influence the qatari prime minister here briefly shaking hands with the king of bahrain kuwait zimmy or trying to encourage some dialogue as he has done since 2017 he's been attempting to mediate in the dispute between cats and the blockading countries of saudi arabia bahrain the united arab emirates and egypt. what the

saudis want to do is to try to project a united front to. the iranian regime interfered in our internal affairs and develop ballistic and nucular weapons it affects navigation in international oil this is a naked aggression against our stability and international security but iraq objected to a communique attacking iran issued later which supported the rights of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to defend their interests following what they say were attacks on shipping and oil installations and i quote any if when you have that as in what proper what i my brothers in the midst of this tense time and the quick developments and a tense regional and international environment full of threats we are watching before our eyes the escalation of a regional and international crisis which can turn into a war that will engulf assault. the saudis may have the support of the united states but some observers think their tactics are high risk when the g.c.c.

is so divided instead of uniting and unifying the gulf region to stand as a bloc a solid block they are actually dividing it into different countries they are this integrating. regional organization the g.c.c. . a reference there to the blockade of counter after allegations made by saudi the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt but the country backs terrorism accusations firmly denied by category leaders saudi arabia isn't giving the impression any breakthrough is imminent. cats are participated in previous summits so it is not new it is true this time they were represented by the prime minister the saudi stance like the other countries is that we are looking for a solution for the cause of the problems and the crisis between these countries and qatar hopefully there will be a solution if qatar comes back to the right path. but the issue of iran dominates

the thinking and talking saudi arabia may regard support from the g.c.c. and the arab league as a diplomatic advantage but with opposition led by iraq the message isn't warn of arab unity andrew symonds al-jazeera the arab league leaders are in saudi arabia and turning their attention to the organization of islamic cooperation with its 57 member countries spread over 4 continents the oh i see is the 2nd largest organization after the united nations it was established 60 years ago to in its words safeguard and protect the interests of the muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace but critics say it's failed to achieve its goals because of division among some of its members let's go to view now from abraham fry at associate professor of conflict revolution resolution at the doha institute he's with me now in the studio could see you abraham said he really likes to see itself as the the leading nation in the region not all of its neighbors though happy to go

along with that they wanted to project a united front at these summits and that's not what it goes well actually this is very important in terms of leadership because of the core of this live between iran and saudi arabia it's about leadership in the muslim world so i think what. saudi arabia is doing is it's trying to put this on full display and it's challenge with iran and trying to bring the arab and muslim were injured and trying to secure the diplomatic support that needs in terms of in order to confront to challenge iran and its foreign policy so if the region isn't entirely happy to go along with saudi arabian money is it is it possible for any sort of consensus particularly over iran to be reached at all well let's admit that saudi arabia has secured strong diplomatic support in the. summit was held just of the

with the exception of course of iraq that. withdrew from the final statements of the summit but other than that i mean. the security of the gulf region to the national security of egypt king abdullah of jordan said that a pillar of security in the region. danis and president as well even the policy the president spoke of in full support of saudi arabia to defend itself however let's not forget that this is all talks you know this is all diplomatic support how much this can be translate them into action this is the question that saudi arabia should be thinking about and should be asking because sisi who give the strongest support of your sort of the in his speech that he's linking the security of the gulf to the national sick of the region he made similar statements in the past when it came to the war in the yemen how much he was able to how much he was willing to

deliver but he did not deliver the list so they're able to go for war in the m.n. without the cc's support. in that war so that's a similar situation that you know which makes us be very aware of how much this diplomatic support can be just the right. it's simply only lip service nothing more than about what about where it stands out in the cold for the last 2 years its significance the prime minister was invited and attended these summits because it has along with q. ways and a man relations with iran could be a key to helping to ease this tension between iran and saudi arabia when the gulf crisis on the qatar crisis broke there was a bloomberg report 2 days ago expecting that there might be something big to come out of this and terms of ending the book it. for that that did not happen so far so

nor nothing has been achieved that now in terms of qatar playing a key role or an important role in the. easing the tension with iran sifton lee i think that is an important role that qatar kind of play here and we have seen this in the visit of the qatari foreign minister to run which was seen as going with the blessing of the united states in order to ease that the engine also so that a b. and the u.a.e. did not think that the saudis this visit that he made to the iran though. of the look it that they cited in the past was about competition with iran so we did not see that kind of criticism we saw also the senior foreign policy minister overtures from iran visiting and meeting with the. meeting with the government here however in my view i don't think we should exaggerate you know how much this

qatar in addition can do i think there is an important role here that can help with you know neutralizing factors like perception and miscommunications that are important factors in any crisis on any conflict but in order to prevent the war it takes much more. maybe a shell of the cup of mediation love so the the point is the of that the cut the addition can help especially in terms of miscommunications import improving the surgeon but that takes more than that in order to prevent a war or to you know reach an agreement because i think the positions between iran and so there and the united states on the other side the heat the gap is enormous it's a huge and i don't think just a mediation can bridge this and bring it to a peaceful solution as we saw with the nuclear the and that all men did about 3 years ago always good to talk to everyone always learn something that he thinks of

days thank you again. also at the summit in mecca saudi arabia defended its position on the war in yemen the saudis say they reserve the right to defend themselves from foreign attacks the kingdom says that iran has been providing support to the hooty is iran insists it is not operating in yemen russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has addressed the issue surrounding iran he said that some gulf countries may be considering to iran's initiative for a norm aggression treaty years most of. i am aware that certain gulf states not all of them are ready to consider the initiative we are prepared to contribute to the process. of the afghan taliban says that it was behind the car bombing targeting a military convoy in kabul 4 people were killed in the attack 7 others were wounded including 4 u.s. service this. hungary's prime minister viktor orban says that he wants

a thorough investigation into a boat accident on the danube on wednesday at least 20 people are still missing feared drowned at least 7 others are confirmed dead rescuers are still searching the river for survivors police have detained the captain of the larger vessel that hit the sightseeing boat it was carrying 35 people when it was struck and sank within seconds. tens of thousands of students and teachers in brazil have rallied against plans to cut spending on education demonstrations took place and 80 cities the government's also tightened the budget for universities hospitals research grants and high schools it's the 2nd round of protests by students against brazil's . reports will protest in sao paulo. the government of president. says that the cuts to the education budget are essential if brazil is going to be able to afford what he says is major reform of the pension system

coming up while the country is heading for economic difficulties the economy has contracted a bit many people here say that the cuts will disproportionately affect the working class people at the bottom end of political society and that will make life very very difficult for them you don't have this imagine such an over the years many people like myself coming from the lower middle class have gone to university i'm now a professor in a public university who had the opportunity to study but instead of pushing to improve the education system to have more equal growth in brazil the government 3 said occasion as a threat to monitor something suitable i think would say i will never be able to pay for private education i want to be a lawyer and go to one of the best public universities in brasil but i'm 100 that might not happen. although the protests are only likely to get bigger more than a 1000000 people marched across brazil in the middle of may when the cuts were

announced many more marching across the country today the president himself is unlikely to be swayed by he's accused professors working in the public education system of indoctrinating students with left wing ideas and urge them to report that their teachers to the all corot is a but many have said that this is a battle for the heart and soul of the brazilian society other protests are likely to go on with an increase. polarize a shadow of those who support for them and many of those who oppose him. in need of boats to get around in some parts of the us rather than at the moment record flooding his tell us more is kevin corriveau that's right yesterday we were talking there were there was over 500 tornadoes being reported this month and that's all because of the storms that went through those storms have already have left their imprint in terms of rain across the region now we have cleared out in terms of the storm but all those storms and the rain really here across the central plains it has caused a mess particular across many of our rivers here in the united states and this one right here where little rock goes through this is the arkansas river 8 records have

already been broken on the record on the river and this is what has been looking like just yesterday as a drone shows all the water there has crossed over levees flooded fields businesses towns communities as well it is going to take weeks for this water to go down and the water is going to have to make its way down towards the south and into the mississippi so we're going to be watching more flooding particularly as that water pushes south and that's going to be a big issue there but dry conditions are going to be the trend days so that does help i want to take you down here across parts of mexico we are dealing with potentially some flooding there we do have a tropical disturbance that is in the making we are going to be hitting hurricane season officially starting tomorrow there's an area of low pressure just off the coast there in spring a lot of clouds as well as rain in terms of accumulation we're talking southern mexico all the way up to the caribbean side of mexico but also parts of the guatemala could be seen as a very heavy rain anywhere between $150.00 to potentially $200.00 millimeters of

rain could fall over the next 3 days kevin many thanks indeed still to come on the news why some in nicaragua say that they're living in a police state after a year of political chaos. returned to sender the philippines ships tons of waste back to canada where it came from. sport it's party time at the dread liverpool of talk of fans alive for the champions league final. plan. june on al-jazeera people in power returns with an investigation into why india's capital delhi has some of the worst air pollution in the world 2 years into the blockade we look at the future of the g.c.c. crisis and its impact on life and the top join us for special coverage of the big picture examines the power of potential unprejudiced of knowledge official intelligence as it used to shape world leaders from the group of 20 nations will

gather for the 14th g. 20 summit to be held for the 1st time in japan and in brand new episodes we follow people from around the globe who are risking it all just to make a living june on al-jazeera. it is good to have you with us hello adrian from going to here in doha with the news hour from houses here at the headline says the u.s.

secretary of state by pompei was in berlin at the start of a formation he's urging european partners to isolate iran and to stop using technology from china's part way. chinese tariffs on $60000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods will take effect in a few hours time that's in response to president trump's move to increase to g.'s on $200000000000.00 worth of chinese products. that iran has rejected accusations made of an arab summit. nations that it's a threat to regional and global security 2 summits taking place back a 3rd is choosing begin later on friday. the body of veteran opposition leader at the end she's acadians arrived back in the democratic republic of congo he died 2 years ago in belgium at the age of 84 after a long illness but his funeral in the democratic republic of congo was delayed over fears that it could spark protests. reports. some

and emotional moments at kinshasa airport as people gathered to receive the body of the man who led the congolese opposition for decades. it's been 2 years since. died in brussels at age 85 after a long illness. gigi differences with former president joseph kabila efforts to repack trade his body from belgium had failed until now as if it had a son felix is in power his supporters say his return represents a victory over the former government. me as one of the congolese people a came to cry for the one who fought for me described as charismatic and a freedom fighter kerry is widely remembered as a veteran political campaigner who took a stand against the abuse of power and corruption in the d.r. see why our butts never achieved the top job he sustained a long career of playing friend and foe to former ruler mobutu sese seko during the

cold war he served briefly as prime minister 4 times. after mbutu was toppled from power to shake heady oppose laurent kabila a rebel leader turned head of state who was then assassinated. below was succeeded by his son joseph who ruled the country for 18 years but the 2 tussled for power as could be the refused to step down and delayed limiting presidential terms in office chickadees death triggered violent protests in kinshasa between supporters and police of the ballots held last december were marred by allegations of fraud the election of chickadees son felix a considered the 1st peaceful transfer of power in the d.r. c. since independence. he is our father he fought for us and this is how we have the presidency in our hands today with felix she said. a state funeral will take place on saturday in the eastern town of in selling the

nation's final farewell to a longtime opposition leader mohammed al jazeera. and u.f.o.'s on the way to identify more than 100 victims of the 1992 mass killing during the bosnian war more than 200 people were shot dead and dumped in a ravine by a boston police unit it's taken nearly 3 decades won't cover many of the remains and to return them to their families for proper burial records. in the garden of his home in turn napoleon 78 year old mohammed passes his retirement in silence his 2 sons emin and emir were in their early twenty's when they were both killed at kota chani cliffs after 27 years has now been told their remains have finally been found. and origin of jawbone was found 10 or 12 years ago but they didn't know which of them it belonged to now the full remains were found in that musgrave i mean and they were exempt from ascites known as the stone mass grave the corpses

were hidden under a thick layer of rocks in august 1902 a group of more than $200.00 bosniak men were transported to the edge of the ravine made to kneel and then shot dead by police the corpses are only now being recovered . they had ins father father dan was one of the victims who have now been identified he will be buried in july. the most part it's all about who was found and who wasn't have the people responsible for the crimes being prosecuted why some didn't get more prison time those sorts of things haunt us taya fix faces having to say goodbye to his brother all over again he already buried some of his bones found a car a china cliffs now a significant portion of the rest of the skeleton has been identified yet. it is not easy but this time around stronger still i thought i was done with this 5 years ago i guess this time i'll get actual closure. on 6 umed the burns off forensically

examined at this center 112 sets of remains are currently awaiting final identification here the final number of newly identified victims will reach 18180 people whose relatives have spent nearly 3 decades wondering. what their thought we have here remains of slain sons and their parents siblings neighbors or kept it together this isn't the way unique situation you could say that this was a family mass grave. each victim has a story who is a senator was a teacher. teaches senator was killed by one of his former students and there was another one of his old students who found his remains committed the crime and the other one did a good deed. in 2004 the leader of the police unit which carried out the massacre was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to 17 years in prison but it's only now that these victims can be properly buried that their families can

have closure paul brennan al-jazeera. wiki leaks founder julian assange has suffered psychological torture that's according to a united nations special report for bales said that his health was critical and that he should not be extradited to the united states to face charges of espionage . shows all the symptoms of a person who has been exposed to psychological torture for a prolonged period of time who were speaking about this severe stress and constant stress. of severe psychological trauma. seriously gravely concerned that if they were to be extradited to the united states he would be exposed to a politicized trial in grave violations of his human rights italy's economy is struggling and analysts are forecasting 0 growth this year the slump is hurting the also industry in particular which was once the driving force of the economy

some of the job has been to turin in the heart of italy's motor valley to find out how carmakers are coping. almost every car enthusiast in italy has a connection to fabric or it's an automobile or fia. the car manufacturer is now free at chrysler automobiles but still one of the biggest employers in turin italy automotive hub. rallies former colleagues to fight for their rights and thousands of other workers in the diminishing auto industry here chrysler has temporarily read off more than half its workforce at this plant for what it calls more than a. multiple they work very little and this is very serious it is clearly the result of no longer having the italian automotive industry rather it's become a multinational company. representatives have met unions in say more than $5000000000.00 will be invested over 3 years and there will be

a return to full employment this factory was inaugurated in 1939 it has seen the height of fiat's production but since then the company's headquarters have moved to the netherlands its financial headquarters are now in london and the bulk of the production is done in detroit. wants. to tens of thousands of workers too in the shadow of its former production of 6000 cars a day jobs the once booming car industry changed talian lifestyles it made them more and more but that's all in the past. it's very difficult to imagine a future for the italian automotive industry because in 20 years the number of workers and the number of cars manufactured has reduced tremendously. it's only so-called mortars still produces fewer but bigger price tag cars such as for romeo ferrari and lamborghini. and some entrepreneurs are using it despite italy's

skyrocketing public debt and recession fears. this family owned business which used to make seat belts for passenger cars and both is now a manufacturer of seeds seatbelt and motor sport products. founded the company in the 1970 s. but he sees a future only if the government pays attention to it least slowing industrial production would need to. be the big challenge that the country. we have 11 percent unemployment. is part of the coalition governments commission for economic development we are lowering taxes. tax. is not. a job problem unemployment. the real test for europe's 2nd

producers will be to endure this economic pressure and in an industrial rebound. to. austria has appointed a successor kurtz who was ousted as chancellor in a no confidence vote on monday. is a constitutional. judges decide to become the country's 1st female chancellor courts was forced to step down after a corruption scandal involving the leader of his governing coalition the far right freedom. nicaraguans government has released 50 more prisoners who were detained during protests over the past year but a bad against public demonstrations remains in place for the opposition the only form of protest is under the watch of faith leaders like c.e.o. brian reports. police and armed paramilitary forces have spread out across much of the nicaraguan capital to enforce a nationwide ban against public protests or demonstrations that could be considered

critical of the country's president daniel ortega. i feel pain sadness and outrage because after one year we still don't have justice. it's mother's day in nicaragua and protesters have gathered at the catholic church downtown demanding justice for the hundreds of men and women who've been killed by pro-government forces since the start of the political crisis more than a year ago this time last year hundreds of thousands of nicaraguan citizens were marching on the streets calling for the government to be held accountable for the deaths of demonstrators. at least 15 people were killed and 200 others injured when pro-government forces opened fire on protesters and what's remembered as the mother's day massacre. i said and over the past year the government stepped up repression of political dissidents and journalists. processed on the streets of

the capital have become quite rare still there are those who continue to speak out and i mean i think. the regime is taking control of the streets we live in a police state where we cannot even lift the national flag or have any sort of public demonstration they want to silence the opposition. in a show of good faith for the mother's day holiday the nicaraguan police released 50 political prisoners the ortega government has also committed to releasing all political prisoners by june 18th brian al jazeera 69 containers full of rubbish loaded onto a cargo ship in the philippines heading to canada the philippine government says of the garbage was shipped in legally and 201314 mislabeled as plastic spent to recycling. reports. it's taken more than 6 years a diplomatic fallout between asians and a threat of war finally more than 60 containers of toxic waste are now heading from

here in the philippines back to where they came from canada more than 100 containers or about 2500 tons of waste were shipped here from canada in 201314 the bureau of customs exposed it then and said the containers had been mislabeled as recyclable rubbish. for years the philippine government has appealed for canada to take the trash back but canada said its own laws prevent that then the philippine government said to me 15 deadline for the waste to be sent back but nothing happened in response to recall the philippine ambassador and other diplomatic officials from.