to meet german security requirements for the merkel government this is a sensitive issue particularly given china's status as germany's leading trade partner by chance the chinese vice president was also visiting bergen on friday next in line to meet merkel off the pump a headline there was no comment for the media at this point but the beijing government roundly rejects american accusations dominic came out 0 earlier. well for more on this because b. to romney curry he's a journalism professor at the american university of beirut he joins us via skype from the lebanese capital thank you for taking the time to speak to us so perhaps a somewhat awkward meeting there between pomp aoe and. then we know that the u.s. and germany are odds on a number of key international issues chief among them iran would the u.s. take the step of penalizing anyone associated with this mechanism that the europeans want to put in place that to bypass u.s. sanctions would with the u.s.

take a step like that judging them by their behavior they probably would have done things to their allies and canada mexico europe or other places. raising a tariffs and doing all those things so they probably would if they think it was going to achieve their objectives in washington the problem is the united states is going crucially isolated around the world and being seen as a bully who's pushing its own policies and prepared to hurt other economies really seriously with germany for instance they're trying to get the germans not to buy gas from russia which the germans want to do and they're telling people they can't buy oil from iran and other things like that which i know a lot of weight and things of that nature so it's becoming a global issue and the germans the russians the chinese the indians others are going to some point at the other and push mark. the u.s.

perhaps isolated in some parts of the world but certainly still president trump certainly appears to have allies in the gulf and he seems to have certainly empowered a number of countries in the region we see now the organization of the oh i see meeting that meeting is currently getting underway and obviously iran was front and center of the recent summit in mecca what are your expectations from from these meetings. very little from the r.c. meeting the u.s.c. is not a very robust organization it's ok of technical things they you know they align postal policies and training issues and stuff like that but they don't get into serious political and ideological confrontations. they've never really done anything of that nature of the city summit sort of the 3 gatherings taking place in saudi arabia this week are all consecrations exercises the saudis are generally

afraid of iran most of the world thinks that the trigger is highly exaggerated but the americans and the israelis on the so do seem to agree on this and therefore they keep pushing this line and they also the rest of the world is saying look if your own is doing bad things there's ways to deal with it such as the agreement that they had 34 years ago or go to the security council and get sanctions which the world did some some years ago as well but this sort of unilateral pushing bullying i mean there isis is trying to smash the iranian economy by preventing it from selling all this current extraordinary and therefore the iranians of course are going to push back they're not going to sit there and a one sided confrontation take place where the u.s. squeezes iran and tries to strangle it and it does nothing so the. sea is not going to do anything we were serious enough but i suppose the the worrying thing is that the economic pressure that the u.s. is existing on iran is also accompanied by military pressure they've been deploying

warships to the region but also the month of may has been quite extraordinary in the way some of these tensions have played out you've had iran being accused of sabotaging warships of targeting saudi assets even if it was saying that saudi arabia fears iran i mean even if iran saudi arabia and the united states don't want a war is there a way of is there any way of coming off this collision course. so there is only one way which is to do it through diplomacy and to sit and talk about there are genuine legitimate complaints about iranian policies some iranian policies and there's equally strong complaints about american policies especially now with the american time to to strangle iran the economic lee so they have to sit down on the notion that there's a very slim chance that the oem that the country might emerge as a mediator of theirs an attempt serious attempt to have which has good ties with

iran good ties with the united states as the prime minister of qatar was at the meeting and saudi arabia today so it's possible that might be a route to do this to kuwait these are trying to do it before between qatar and saudi arabia on the didn't work very well but now with iran you need more serious mediation and that's the only way to do it sit down and discuss these issues and reach a diplomatic agreement that the americans are waging war against iran through their sanctions unilateral sanctions and they're expecting iran to sit down and just watch it on t.v. and that's not going to happen they're going to push back they're going to fight back to their proxies are going to do things and these are some of these things we saw in the last saw a couple weeks these attacks against the pipelines and so eurabia against the ships in the gulf airports and in the emirates and saudi arabia these are almost certainly retaliatory attacks against what the united states and the so there's no moralities are doing against iran and they're terrible that shouldn't happen and

neither side should be attacking the other but it's not realistic for one side like the saudis today were saying that there can we want to have relations without interference in other people's internal affairs on the saudis are going bombing him and for 3 years and boycotting. helping other wars around the region as a matter of his have to and many other people have in the region as well including iran and the egyptians and others so this political statements that are being made are really not credible by almost any of the actors unfortunately thank you rami khouri sharing your thoughts joining us there from beirut. with the news hour live from london there is more still ahead a show of force for the palestinian cause rallies are held across the world to mark jerusalem day. buried grief the operation to identify more than $100.00 victims of

a massacre in bosnia. and the raptors take a may just step in making basketball history have all the action from the n.b.a. finals. protesters in sudan a worried the long running sit in will be dismantled by the ruling transitional military council a protest in hard to help bring down president tomorrow bashir last month but major general off man hamad of sudan's paramilitary rapid support forces has dismissed the demonstration as a threat to the revolution meanwhile u.n. chief antonio terris has called on both sides to resume talks over handing power to a civilian led authority. well to don's foreign ministry a summoned cattles ambassador in heart to him after al jazeera is bureau was closed and our reporters banned from working in the country the network sees the closure as an attack on media freedom professional journalism and the basic tenants of the

right for people to know and understand what the reality of what is happening in sudan the network deplores the decision and assures its audiences in sudan and globally that it will continue its coverage of sudan despite this political interference by the sudanese authorities john henry is the associate director of the africa team at human rights watch he says the moves to restrict media freedom are warring. it's just the recent days that we've seen some worrisome signs and the closure of al-jazeera is one of them in the last couple of days there's been violence and we've heard of a couple of people having been killed from that violence and so that does definitely signal the possibility that more could come and we've seen protesters recently issued a statement warning that that could happen. and urging the authorities protect the rights of protesters to continue so it really is

a day by day situation we all should be watching it carefully and sending the message to the authorities to make sure that this violence stops as we as we documented along with others there were many protesters killed in the lead up to the ouster of the share dozens and dozens the estimates are close to $100.00 and that though it happened over several months is obviously a significant number of people who lost their families have lost them and we are pressing for accountability for those deaths as well. iranians have timed out in force across the country to mock jerusalem day demonstrations are also being held in to show support for the palestinian cause it comes just weeks before the u.s. government presents the economic cost of its long awaited peace plan which donald trump has called a deal of the century how much engine has been on. the into iran tens of thousands of people came out the occasion could stay 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 it stands 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 loud 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 nowhere. 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 that 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 cause they've got the dogs will have 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 but there is a wide rejection from the peoples that will make this conspiracy fail. jerusalem day 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. we go to algeria now where police have reportedly arrested dozens of protest as thousands have continued to rally every friday demanding the change after former president i'm jealousies because of a step down last month elections are scheduled for july but demonstrators want all the ruling elite gong before a new vote is held. now the hunger and authorities are warning of a prolonged search for 21 people still missing after a terrorist capsized on the danube rebels were violated on wednesday at least 7 people have been confirmed dead heavy currents and poor visibility hampering efforts to find 19 south korean terrorists and to hunt gary and crew members on rescue diver was swept away during an attempt to reach the wreckage on fidei

morning and had to be saved by colleagues the search area has now been extended to neighboring. to 75 but i'm sure it's going to take a long time to steam tossed a ship the danube south of the city we are also culprits of the supreme authorities . thanks for the launch of the mean talk we have to say the conditions are completely against us and iranians who work in the search and rescue price extremely difficult and dangerous conditions divers went down on thursday but it was impossible to get close the wreckage visibility is eroding on the water. a new effort is underway to identify more than 100 victims from a 992 mass killing jaring the bosnian war more than 200 civilians were shot dead and dumped in a ravine by a bosnian police unit it's taken me 3 decades to uncover many of the remains and return them to their families for proper burial for brennan reports in the garden

of his home in term napoleon 78 year old passes his retirement in silence his 2 sons emin and amir were in their early twenties when they were both killed a quarter chinese cliffs after 27 years has now been told there remains a finally been found. a job and was found 10 or 12 years ago but they didn't know which of them it belonged to now the food 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 burden's father father dan 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 around 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 taylor 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 you'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 off forensically examined at the 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 would 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. teaches senator was killed by one of his former students and there was another one of his old students who founded our main one 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. also i have for you on the program we follow south africa's emergency paramedics to face down the gangs and violence when they go out to rescue people. more trash talk between the philippines and canada as a ship full of garbage is deployed to vancouver. and liverpool arrived in madrid added the champions league final against tottenham.

how did i throw friday there was under storm warnings for bulgaria you probably see circulation of clouds it principally is over bulger it has been a big admitted lee because the circulation of the is going to continue into saturday and probably sunday there is some variation where the heaviest downpours are admitted lee but you see the general idea anyway from the balkans from the competence of structure out up through ukraine to western russia warm but potentially very wet in these thunderstorms at the same time the warm says they're further west without the suns to look at the temple in london in paris for example on sunday or indeed and sunder up to 30 in paris by the time for so reproaching spain's valleys there was a bit further west and it's to expect stormy dust out of the water so the oranges

in the reds are reappearing in western europe and to some degree even underneath the sun the storm potential as you can see this extends i think at its highest dancer's spain and portugal into most of north africa but as has been the case for a few days you could not ensure breeze which is clearly not the case in morocco the temperature kept down to the middle maybe low twenty's as the case for argyria tunisia and in libya and in libya something of a massive produce some locally but quite interesting some storms. al jazeera was goes on a roller coaster journey in iraq and discovered how for an entire refugee community itself beliefs and identity. i'd like to prove to the world cup comes up. i will be able to prove myself to my town from friends and myself.

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welcome back you're with the news hour a quick look at the headlines that mexico's president has criticized donald trump for threatening to tariffs on mexican imports because of immigration under his money lopez obrador says mexican people don't deserve to be treated that way. and he sending his foreign minister to washington for talks. the u.s. secretary of state is one that america will not relent on its sanctions against iran visited germany to pressure europe to back washington as tensions escalate with attack iran and sudanese protesters fear that a long running state in which was instrumental in removing a lot of bullshit from office will be dismantled by the military an official from saddam's paramilitary rapid support forces says the demonstration in khartoum is a threat to the revolution. when all the stories are following a missouri court has ruled the u.s. state's only abortion clinic can stay open for now planned parenthood has been

granted a temporary restraining order allying it to continue operating intell choose day when another hearing will take place in missouri department of health declined to renew the clinics license several southern u.s. states of attempted to restrict access to a portions. so what's going to happen what is scheduled to happen on tuesday i mean it's a pretty quick turnaround i'm usually quick is that there's a hearing set for the request for a preliminary injunction which is the next level you get after a temporary restraining order and a temporary restraining order is in place until the judge rules on that lynn neary injunction so that's what's going to happen on tuesday and then in terms of how abortion is regulated these are the other services and other employees surgical centers it could be very different it's considerably more significant and not only people getting between patients and high quality care right now are the politicians

in an apartment house they are instituting the requirements like an extra invasive pelvic v.m. for political or not and it's not good for people's health and safety to have the politicians and bureaucrats pretty and all these other theories up to their carriages want to be clear about that violence against ambulance crews in south africa's cape province has become so rife they have to rely on armed guards for protection that means longer waiting times for patients in poor communities in the latest in our series on 1st responders from a to minute joins paramedics in one of the so-called red zones and a warning this story does contain images some of us might find disturbing. so it's a good or evil bill paramedics dk abrams begins his night shift with a prayer for safety money on. books to save lives but often his own is at risk in areas in cape town so dangerous he needs armed police protection. the 1st call of

the night comes from mitchell's plane where a woman says she's been physically assaulted the crime rate the videos i feel physically the late that it's the worst it's not only what you do is load and go but we don't have a choice now because the world begins when we have to get to stabilize as the crowd grows the police keep a close watch the need for security is an all too familiar reality pacific's patna susan we have a big. bank and when we ran outside to we saw that people were breaking into our vehicle 2nd incident when we need to call people see that we kind of liked and they started checking makani and they stretch it to us another crew heads to what's known as a red zone an area of high crime paramedic candace mox can only respond when police arrive this is hanover park overcrowded poor and riddled with violence they don't

with their lights on. but there were things that for this attack move people to the scene of. the incident is you know this guy was standing so they would feel that people that maybe it was you were a patient in one year there were more than $280.00 attacks and paramedics in cape town alone most of these neighborhoods are in the grid so it's with paramedics say they're increasingly under through it often they're held at gun or knife point and their equipment stolen waiting for a police escort him being it takes longer for paramedics to respond to emergencies but they say they don't have a choice. as midnight approaches we hear there's been a shooting in manenberg on the cape flats 3 men have been shot we're told by wyvil gang members this is often the type of situation that the paramedics respond to and

while they work if police stand guard. but so many people on the street paramedics don't know who could be a threat and if gang members are watching them sidique tells us he's been threatened before the guy was killed to go toss with all because the. salt would be. there when we cleaned the finishing off you wanted us to complete the institution in the storage room of the home so simple doesn't work that way in the me god why i live in your 30. the paramedics were quickly spending as little time as possible at scenes with has been violence. the so many believe it's growing into a small start to compound delivering a baby in the dock and you get to thank you from a mother. a thank you from our ward that's priceless the city of cape town says it's using security cameras and installing panic buttons in ambulances but for

these emergency workers going to work every day brings with it and enormous risk from al-jazeera cape town. in the democratic republic of congo supporters of the late. have been paying tribute to the veteran opposition leader is body is lying in state in the capital ahead of a funeral on saturday to she died more than 2 years ago in belgium but political turmoil prevented his body from being allowed to return home. has more. than the supporters of it into the kitty are calling this a huge victory the fact that they get to be a hero on diaw soil on saturday is a huge momentous occasion for them he is a man who participated in politics for decades and stood up against former leaders like novelties as the sequel laurent kabila and joseph kabila he participated in several elections but he never became president that changed when his son philip

the katie was inaugurated president earlier this year of the geography but there was some controversy some congolese believe martin for you an opposition leader general who won the election that happened a few months ago but the constitutional court ruled that it was indeed religious hitting the one question i've been asked what kind of leader is he going to be would he be a formidable force like his father was and some are even speculating that maybe he won't be this time and those who believe that he was put in power by joseph kabila and some of them actually say. that shows you the man doing things behind the scenes telling you to katie what you did. 69 containers full of rubbish have been loaded onto a cargo ship in the philippines heading to canada the philippine government says the garbage was shipped illegally in 20132014 mislabeled as plastics meant for recycling. and has more. 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. your garbage. to the. 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 set him a 15 deadline for the waste to be sent back but nothing happened in response to the terror to recall the 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 grounds of toxic 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 cruelty and be for research and these 2 soon

there we stoop will countries simply because the poor countries have neutralized maybe even a little to their economy activists see what's happening with canada's we steer is an example of what can be achieved in cleaning up the global recycling industry blog and al jazeera manila and un rights experts as war wiki leaks founder julian assange is suffering from psychological torture 47 year old missed a court hearing in london on thursday because of ill health he's fighting extradition request from the united states of a charge is related to leaking government secrets but the un special rapporteur on torture says a son shows signs of severe psychological trauma and would face a politicise show trial if he was sent to the united states police in india now minister of kashmir say they've killed 3 members of an armed separatist group villages in shopian district where the police raid took place say

a teenager is among the dead have been violent protests across the region with security forces using tear gas against stone throwing protesters demonstrators are calling for the international community to resolve india and pakistan as rival claims to the territory. it's been 10 years since the end of sri lanka's civil war around 100000 civilians and fighters from both sides were killed among them a group of 5 tanel students who reportedly executed on a beach the case known as the 5 remains one of the highest profile cases of the wall and is still being heard in sri lankan courts a father of one of the victims is vowing to find justice. for her. father of late son to go for. one of her. alleged to produce a. son's murder 2006 general the 2nd really

very quiet son is the court of table tennis association is going to be a doctor but clearly these parties don't the boys as healthy help me help us help us like that then suddenly the open fire after that i heard in my own message that there were 2 boys safely and other 5. lost their life. when there are services to the hospital they will. want to. open the door for us what is my son's body in sri lanka

can't get the proper justice. i want a hybrid quote the international criminal court in the desert i've never dressed this a limb and some of the goddess i am rebels with a me repeat think brady from sri lanka i want to justice only. i only international justice will my son's death. are there ways are murder father of. a new memorial has been unveiled in new york honoring those still suffering from the 911 attacks it's estimated half a 1000000 people were exposed to the toxic dust that fill the m. months after the disaster hundreds of 1st responders have since died from related illnesses kristen salumi has more from new york. in the park where the twin towers once stood the unveiling of the new memorial highlights the lingering imp.