57 member countries spread over 4 cotton it's making it the 2nd largest organization after the united nations it was established 60 years ago to safeguard and protect the interests of the muslim world in the spirit of remoting international peace but critics say it's failed to achieve its goals because of divisions among some of its members they are icy meeting will mark the 1st time iran has had a seat at the table during these emergency summits and a message to attending leaders iranian president hassan rouhani seemingly criticized the gathering as well as the u.s. and israel saying at a time the islamic world needs maximum solidarity convergence and cooperation against a common enemy unfortunately it is witnessing some divisive actions that serve to distract public opinion in the islamic world about the issue of palestine the main problem of the islamic world speaking earlier of the previous summits palestinian president mahmoud abbas has echoed that same message. we called for an end 2 days really by this time on this topic to me an independent state on the borders of

967 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. it is a professor in the department of american studies at the university of tehran he joins us from tehran we appreciate your time very much so picking up on what assad rouhani and abbas said do you think there is any hope that the palestinian issue could be a unifying force and this meeting tonight. but it should be this is a meeting of the arab league and the siniora. logic dictates that arabs and i believe there should be a concern about what israel is doing so it's palestinians but israel is doing to its arab neighbors what israel is doing in bombing women and children in other

strips on a monthly basis basically so that should be a consent only problem is that the dictators that have gathered in saudi arabia don't care about their own people they don't care about palestinians what they care about is president trump and his deal of the century and as of a of diverting this acting attention to what's going on with the palestinian cause they have to have a book the man they have found iran to be a convenient bogeyman for them and they have consented and iran in a sort of concentrating on israel today as you know mark jerusalem the international. jerusalem they had millions of people in tehran and other cities around the world marking the stay in support of the palestinian cause and then you

had the arab dictators in saudi arabia more of this supporting the israeli initiative and you had the king of bahrain that's actually hosting israelis to basically forget about the palestinian let me let me ask you this is it is it fair to say that saudi arabia clearly they are very much aligned with the president on that that's factual that's not up for debate is it fair to say that they don't care about the palestinians. i think that's fair to say if they cared they would not cooperate with the israelis in implementing what they called the deal of the century and the sad fact is that they're also paying for it so they're losing their dignity they're losing the public opinion in the arab world making that i was against them and they're also paying for the whole project and what president tom said

a few weeks ago with regard to the saudi monarchs not being able to rule and being go through and if it wasn't for the u.s. support is a great humiliation for any country and the fact that they don't mind this type of humiliating statements from the white house and very much in line with what the white house dictates and they're trusting that there is some year old son in the u.s. president to make the decisions for them is a sad fact that we are facing. professor at. tehran thank you very much. as i mentioned a moment ago iranians have turned out in force across the country to march or a sunday demonstrations are also being held across the region in a show of support for the palestinian cause the marchers are just weeks from the white house presenting its economic part of its long awaited peace plan in bahrain

. mama jam jam reports 8. into iran tens of thousands of people came out the occasion and could state also known as jerusalem day iran's annual display of solidarity with palestinians which it has marked since the start of its 1979 revolution the islamic republic once again made clear its stance toward u.s. president donald trump's plan for peace in the mideast hayom it was it was seen as 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 his slouch against jerusalem has been successfully 1st they tried making jerusalem the capital of the egresses 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 and all the international community accepted that now they're off

to the deal of the century i believe it will be the bankruptcy of the century it will definitely go no way. the. trump so-called deal of the century is expected to include proposals for large scale investment in palestinian territories from arab countries even before its unveiling it has been rejected by palestinian officials many in the mideast wonder if it will be dead on arrival. in iraq at a time when but the dad is trying to calm rising tension between the u.s. and iran people held rallies to mark jerusalem day iranian backed shia brigades carry pictures of iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali how many will move was the end of the little house a lot through sunday in baghdad and the other iraqi provinces and across the world expresses the people's rejection of the deal of the century which is being planned by trump in order to dissolve the palestinian cause in his own special way that there is a wide rejection from the peoples that will make this conspiracy fail jerusalem. a

falls on the last friday of the fasting month of ramadan but this year's demonstrations also took place less than a day after the conclusion of a gulf cooperation council summit in saudi arabia one in which saudi king said mom called on arab states to confront iran its timing is a reminder of the deepening rifts and growing rivalries in an already volatile region and how much. is secretary status in berlin trying to ramp up the pressure on europeans to support its policy towards iran and its 1st official visit to germany my palm pale and chancellor angela merkel discussed the rising tension with tehran germany is party to the 2015 nuclear agreement that the u.s. pulled out of last year european leaders have said it set up a framework for trade with iran to avoid u.s. sanctions. we'll have plenty of issues to discuss today the world is in unrest indeed 1st and foremost is how can we make sure that iran doesn't have any

nuclear weapons how can we prevent further aggressive actions on the part of her. visit comes on the day the u.n. nuclear watchdog reports iran has stayed but then the required limits of its atomic activities the quarterly international atomic energy agency says tehran has remained within caps on levels and which is uranium is set by major powers dominic cain has more from berlin. the issue of how to deal with iran has become a difficult one for the german government these are the the trump administration certainly mr pompei or had been expected to visit angola machall some weeks ago this month but called that meeting off abruptly perhaps as a show of displeasure with the magical government about its position the point to make here is a lot of of the resentment and problems in the relationship revolve around in states the scheme set up by the e.u. 3 countries who were involved in the deal with iran france germany and britain about helping iran circumvent sanctions it's something that mr pompei referred to

during his meeting with angle americal we've been pretty clear about trade with iran there are items that are sanctioned in there items that are not those items that are subject to sanctions we will do our best to enforce the american sanctions regime that is put it been put in place but for those that are for humanitarian goods things that are permitted to move whether they move through in stacks or through another mechanism those are lawful in appropriate didn't are permitted to continue under under the sanctions or the sanctions laws that we've put in place iran was not the only contentious issue for mr pompei in his visit to berlin when he spoke to his counterpart here in germany heikal mass he raised the issue of china specifically the telecommunications giant huawei and quite how appropriate it was for huawei to become involved in the phone networks and other communications networks in the e.u. countries saying effectively that the united states government would have to reconsider the amount of data and intelligence it shares with the e.u.

countries that seek to have more profound dealings with huawei showing that from the united states government's point of view there are still clear policy differences between itself and leading e.u. countries to do with foreign policy. the afghan taliban has carried out a car bombing in kabul killing 4 people 7 others were wounded including 4 u.s. service members the bomb targeted the military convoy in the city's western college it was their district protesters in sudan's capital khartoum are defying warnings from the military to stop their sit in outside the defense ministry this is a scene as people took part in friday prayers in front of the military headquarters on thursday a senior army official said the sit in had become a hub for criminals and was creating a danger from the state and al-jazeera has denounced sudan's closure of its bureau in khartoum saying the network sees this as an attack on media freedom professional journalism and the basic tenants of the right for people to know and understand the

reality of what is happening in sudan the network to poor citizen and assures its audiences in sudan and globally that it will continue its coverage of sudan despite this political interference by sudanese authorities so now the committee to protect journalists has issued a statement in response to the action against al-jazeera the middle east and north africa coordinator and says the raid and closure of al-jazeera is khartoum bureau is a worrying sign sudan's military rulers intend to suppress coverage of pro-democracy events this action belies military leader statements and they should immediately reverse course and allow al-jazeera to operate freely human rights watch has also expressed its concern saying this the news the transitional military council shut al-jazeera and other media is of great concern this repression was a hallmark of the old ruling party and seeing it repeated certainly sounds an alarm that media freedoms are not being respected and that in a sense spokesperson has also commented on the recent happenings in sudan. we are

concerned about some of the recent tensions we want to make sure in the coming days that all of the fundamental rights and liberties of the people are fully respected and that would include freedom of expression of course and in that regard of course we want to make sure that all media are able to do their work in sudan without harassment i just spoke as a member of griffin that's a nonviolent resistance movement in sudan he says final assignment eneral is now under threat you moving the freedoms of press and trying to have the world not see what's happening is a big here. and there i think this is a turning point because what happened after april 11th and the collapse of the government said only the government allowed journalists from all over the world to go sit in to come to sudan and to cover this and for them now to decide that no the world doesn't need to see this anymore is

a sign for us that some things are changing and we're going back to them a crackdown and it means and we're actually getting ready for a crackdown on the protests there i mean what's happening with the negotiation between the. the regime for freedom and change who are talking from the point of their stories with the transitional ponselle they reached a point where we're supposed to have a civilian government and they reached a point where they are not moving forward. and somebody council is going to give up our civilians or they're not going to do it and now we're more than $55.00 days into this situation and we're thinking that now is the time or we have to go back to fighting this government in another way because they're not giving the military doesn't want to give up power so we were like waiting for them to give up power and if they were serious about giving up power they were not going to do a crackdown on the media so we're like worried now. algerians are protesting in the streets despite police reportedly arresting dozens of people in the capital algiers . hundreds gathered in the city for the

15th friday calling for an armed president and solid to leave office immediately became president after the ailing longtime leader abdel aziz beautifully down last month and then public anger at him running for a 5th term elections are due to be held in algeria in july. still ahead on al-jazeera a new memorial in new york to honor those who responded during the 911 attacks i p e l a and there are simply. there is a buzz around the u.s. national spelling bee after historic the ban. and the raptors take a major step to making basketball history actually and the n.b.a. finals it's on.

hello again and welcome back we're here cross live all we are seeing some scattered showers across the area temperatures are on the rise as well see on the satellite those clouds passing through particularly heating of the day so for tehran not bad in terms of temperature but we do so expect to see some more rain coming through as well here on saturday baghdad on saturday 43 going up to 45 degrees as we go toward sunday in kuwait city an expected high fuel 41 degrees there where here in doha temperatures are on the rise as well we do expect to see 44 here on saturday getting up to 45 degrees as we go towards sunday very very very very hot conditions here but dry conditions maybe some clouds pushing through in the overnight hours over here towards misc out though it is going to be a fairly nice day compared to the rest of the region with a temperature of 36 degrees there and then very quickly across parts of southern africa. we are going to be seeing some clouds pushing through parts of cape town as well as port elizabeth durban is going to be not too bad as we go towards saturday

may have some clouds pushing in we do have a flow off the water though johannes very is expected a high of 18 degrees and as we go towards the rest of the weekend we're going to be seeing it dry conditions across madagascar we did the showers to the south attempt a few of 21 degrees and harare attempt of 21 as well. risk neutral. coming soon. i don't want to live in the world where everything is designed in california maybe

china the cutting edge is in the hands of the corporations the only way to be subversive used to be able to control the technology but my simone bonzi has built a chip that anyone can use to build anything. like a pizza spearheading a global movement to democratize technology. part of the rebel geek series on how to 0. washing out to 0 let's recap the top stories right now and that's important to travel to washington to meet with u.s. officials over the threat of u.s. terrorists. kill and pose tariffs on goods from mexico unless it stops illegal

immigration. iran has rejected accusations that a summit of arab nations that it's a threat to regional and global security. have taken place in mecca and the 3rd is due to start later on friday. at the start. the 4 nation tour is searching for him partners to isolate iran and to stop using technology from china's huawei. at our top story the tariffs that are being imposed by the u.s. on mexico christopher wilson is the deputy director at the wilson center s mexico institute he says trying to focus on immigration takes precedent over washington's entire relationship with mexico well traditionally in u.s. mexico relations there's been an effort to put these things on separate tracks to make sure that there's not contamination from trade to migration security issues to other things because there's such a big complex relationship between the 2 countries and so what this does is it shows 1st of all just how intent and focused president trump is on this might

ration issue on control of the u.s. border with mexico but it absolutely holds some risks at risk contaminating the entire relationship it risks preventing the passage of the u.s. m.c.a. renegotiated erson of nafta in the congress of mexico and potentially also in the united states it puts at risk actually the very cooperation on migration issues it's true that in the 1st 2 months of the new administration in mexico in december in january there was there were more vicious eases issued to central american migrants and you were detentions and deportations of central american migrants but at the u.s. urging in recent months mexico has been working very hard to not just try to protect migrants and their human rights but also to work on deterrence with united states so there's not such a massive flow of migrants coming from central america so to have a threat of tariff starting at

a 5 percent level just rising and rising and rising throughout the fall if the numbers don't drop it strikes me as a very strange thing to do to the united states best partner in managing this this regional challenge. chinese tariffs on $60000000000.00 worth of us have gone into effect the battle between washington and beijing is taking a toll on america's midwest many farmers are struggling as this trade dispute escalates but for now president support from the region ports of call backs illinois. as the u.s. administration plans ahead in its trade war with china american farmers say they're getting crushed between the world's 2 largest economies we grew a record soybean crop record corn crop and then you take the fact that our largest buyer just disappeared you know we created a huge ending stockpile that is it's going to take years to eat through it not to mention we tripled what we normally carry china's retaliatory tariffs on corn

soybeans imported hit their mark american farmers deep in trim country across the midwest are suffering this is private and one of the toughest years that i've experienced in my 40 plus years of farming are bankers i'm starting to get nervous next year is going to be. a tough time and some farmers are not going to get their operating loans they're not going to pay off their operating loans from this year and they're not going to be able to get credit to put a crop out next year for the 2nd straight year president trump signed a bailout for american farmers this time $16000000000.00 worth but that won't bring back lost markets buyers who've moved on to other sellers their silos are full of surplus crops that oversupply his tank prices for corn and soybeans farm income levels are half what they were 5 years ago across the midwest corn and soybean farmers are filing for bankruptcy in numbers not seen for more than

a decade and losing their patients i'd like to see that light at the end of the tunnel and know when things are going to turn around and get better so you your patience is wearing a little a little yeah this year farmers are dealing with high tariffs. prices and now his store grains that have left their fields flooded but while china's tariffs are striking their intended targets they have not achieved their goal of turning the farmers who are among president trump strongest supporters against the president is it fair to say that farmers still by and large support president trump i think that's fair we believe the president is doing the right thing to live on a farm as an old agrarian saying has it used to be schooled in patience for now those laboring behind america's plows seem willing to wait a little longer john hendren al-jazeera colfax illinois. i'm going authorities are warning of a prolonged search for 21 people still missing after a tourist boat capsized on the danube river late on wednesday from across to

felicity bar in our european broadcast center felicity thanks michel yes have a current some poor visibility hampering efforts to find 19 south korean tourists a 2 hungary and crew member missing in the river while rescue diver was swept away during an attempt to reach the wreckage on friday morning and had to be saved by colleagues search area has now been extended to neighboring serbia downstream from budapest of the site of the accident. say the death toll is likely to rise. as old or 70 but that is going to take a long time to search the entire stretch of the danube south of the city where also cooperating with the serbian authorities. thanks about setting foot on shutter meantime we have to say the conditions are completely against us and our aims he says who work in the search and rescue pricey extremely difficult and dangerous conditions divers went down on thursday but it was impossible to get close to the

wreckage if visibility is eroding on the water he's a new effort is under way to identify more than $100.00 victims of a $9900.00 must killing during the bosnian war well the 200 civilians were shot dead and dumped in a ravine by a police unit it's taken nearly 3 decades to uncover many of the remains and returned and turn them to their families for proper burial ground and reports. of people in the garden of his home in term napoleon 78 year old passes his retirement in silence his 2 sons emin and emir were in their early twenties when they were both killed at college chani cliffs after 27 years has now been told there remains a finally been found. burials and hours in a 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 are

exempt from a site 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 bosnian serb police the corpses are only now being recovered. there had been father ferritin was one of the victims who have now been identified he will be buried in july. even the most part it's all about who is found and who wasn't the people responsible for the crimes being prosecuted why some didn't get more prison time those sorts of things haunt us terror 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 this. is not easy but this time around we're 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 bones offer and sickly 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 will be any we have here remains of slain sons and their parents siblings neighbors or kept it together this isn't the way a unique situation you could say that this was a family mass grave. each victim has a story who is a senator was a teacher. preferred a. teacher senator was killed by one of his former students and there was another one of his old students who found the remains one committed the crime and the other one did they could. 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. u.n. rights expert has warned that wiki leaks founder julian assange is suffering from psychological torture the 47 year old missed a court hearing in london on wednesday on thursday because of ill health he's facing an extradition request from the united states over charges relating to leaking government secrets. and this was some shows all the symptoms of a person who has been exposed to psychological torture for a prolonged period of time to be speaking about is severe stress and constant stress chronic anxiety and severe psychological trauma and seriously gravely concerned that if this man were to be extradited to the united states he would be exposed to the politicized show trial in grave violations of his human rights or right that's it for me here in london let's go back to rachelle.

thanks for a city government has released 50 more prisoners detained her in protests over the past year but about against public demonstrations remains in place for the opposition the only former protesters under the watch of faith leaders alexia ryan 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 a lot 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 or back pocket i sat there over the past year the government stepped up repression of political dissidents and journalists. protests 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. and a show of good faith for the mother's day holiday the nicaraguan police released 50

political prisoners they were to get government is also committed to releasing all political prisoners by june 18th brian al jazeera. dozens of containers fuller brush been loaded onto a cargo ship in the philippines headed to canada will bring government says the garbage was shipped illegally in 20132014 mislabeled as plastics meant for recycling going to as the details. 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 sets the me 15 deadline for the waste to be sent back but nothing happened in response to the terror to recalled its philippine ambassador and other diplomatic officials from ottawa greenpeace says impoverished communities like this one in downtown manila are the ones who suffer the most from the disposal of hazardous waste waste wherever it goes waster it is unacceptable because it impinges on the human rights of people who are at the receiving end of the waste so it violates their right to a healthy life right to health right the livelihoods right to a proper living activists say the philippines is just one of the many countries in

southeast asia that had become dumping rounds of talks like waste. from developed countries this is why there is a growing pressure on the philippine government to impose a total ban on the importation of waste the malaysian government also says it will send back some $3000.00 metric tons of non-recyclable plastic waste to countries like canada australia and the us it is costly and pay for research and to send their wishes to pull countries simply because the poor countries have no choice may be the. economy activist see what's happening with canada's wastes here is an example of what can be achieved in cleaning up the global recycling industry jim ellenbogen al-jazeera manila a new memorial has been unveiled a new york offering those who lost their lives in the 911 attacks many of the 1st

responders continue to suffer from being exposed to talks and early 18 years ago christian salome has more. in the park where the twin towers once stood the unveiling of the new memorial highlights the lingering impact of the september 11th attacks particularly on 1st responders nearly 400 of them have died from 911 related illness so far thousands more are sick at the ceremony they are mixed with dignitaries amid the slanted stones meant to honor them bridget gormley father william was a firefighter whose company was one of the 1st on the scene that day everybody initially had an island off the world trade center it wasn't until 2016 though that he was diagnosed with bladder cancer that killed him 6 months later this memorial is shifting the narrative to where it needs to be shifted not as what what happened what what.