died and the us has to take into account the economic and human loss if it decides to wage war and this is what is preventing the war well he also went on to say statements by gulf leaders about unity are undermined by their blockade of cut off that i have to tell you yeah fifi my probable there is a very funny paragraph in the gulf summit communique namely paragraph 4 which read emphasizing the strength impregnability and unity of gulf cooperation council member states in the face of these threats all this while they have been blockading the state of catarrh and people for more than a year leaders of muslim majority nations have condemned the u.s. for moving its embassy in israel to jerusalem the organization of islamic cooperation has been meeting in saudi arabia delegate said any recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital undermined the 2 state solution we shall not accept rewrite the history exchanging just this economy benefits and disregard the dignity and legitimacy because of palestine on the goods through always remained

a core issue for all of us any peace deal reached doesn't throw away the creation of an independent and soden state of palestine within the 1067 borders with shareef as its capital we'll be rejected by the ois the community. time for a short break here and i'll just be around when we come back why it's taken more than 2 years for the body of a veteran company's opposition leader to return home plus. our own he and a m e t you are. made way tie means a record number of women is leading some without the end of the u.s. national spelling bee competition or not stay with us.

the web sponsored by cattle and wings. we've got more storms across central parts of europe at the moment every single way little further east plenty of heat in play the high area of high pressure just around the alpine regions and that is keeping things pretty settled and pretty warm as well you can see the the largely clear skies aside last because we have to well cloud just spinning its way into the far northwest into arland in scotland in particular but some warmth ahead of that 25 celsius in london 27 in paris 32 in madrid hot one the for the champions league football and so those numbers are out of book arrest as in cloud of right 23 celsius here i'm still getting into the mid twenty's there across ukraine and up to that western side of russia the showers remain in place say there will be a fair bit the thunder as well possibility of some localized flooding was coming back a behind me still getting to the mid twenty's for london on sunday afternoon to 30 for paris to touch 34 in betrayed by this stage will see

a dry weather and slushy clear skies across much of northern africa because see this this area cloud just rolling across libya will be thinking of that size to produce a few spots of rain that's going to ease its way through the break as it makes as well little further east which for sunday ahead of that we get up to 38 in cairo at a 31 behind and repat. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. big stories generate thousands of headlines with different angles from different perspectives on just a long standoff with international border is finally separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the journalism protesters complain about the under reporting of police violence the sensationalizing the demonstration with the listening post on al-jazeera.

welcome back about of the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. police say a disgruntled employee has killed 12 people of a local government complex in virginia beach several people were injured the suspect died after a gun battle with police. mexico's foreign minister says he will hold talks in washington over the next week of president trump's plans to tax all mexican goods trump wants mexico to stop the flow of migrants or face tires which could climb to 25 percent. and leaders of muslim majority nations have condemned the u.s. for moving its embassy in israel to jerusalem delegates attending a conference in saudi arabia say the decision undermines the 2 state solution.

iranians have turned out in force across the country to mock what's known as jerusalem day demonstrations were held across the region in a show of support for the palestinian cause mama june reports. into iran tens of thousands of people came out the occasion and 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 its stance toward u.s. president donald trump's plan for peace in the mideast hayom it was it was seen in 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 no way. from 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 cause they've got the dogs will have a lot through the day 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 a man 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 better. hundreds of people also marched in the indian administered kashmir to show their solidarity with palestinians on jerusalem police fired tear gas and shot to disperse the crowd who threw stones in the town the nation. people in democratic republic of congo have been paying tribute to veteran opposition leader etienne tshisekedi they attended a ceremony 2 years after he died in belgium at the age of $84.00 political turmoil had prevented the return of his body until now reports from kinshasa. supporters

are. calling this a huge battle if they get to be a hero. in fact. momentous occasion for them he is a man who participated in politics for decades and former leaders like. laurent. painted in several elections but he never became president that changed when he. was inaugurated president earlier this year. the but there was controversies. leave marks and. one. that happened a few months ago but the constitutional court ruled that it was indeed the one question. what kind of leader is he going to be would he be a formidable force like your father was and even speculated that maybe he won't believe this and those who believe that he will be in power. and some of them

actually say that. putting things behind the scenes telling you what you did the u.s. military council in protest leaders to return to the negotiating table. on religious groups showed support for the military council which has been in power since president omar al bashir was deposed in april outside the defense ministry thousands demand in civilian rule defined warnings from the army to stop. on thursday a senior army official said the protests have become a hub for criminals and was posing a danger to the state. a spokesman for the u.n. separate general says it's important that upholds human rights including freedom of expression and assembly. we are concerned about some of the recent tensions we want to make sure in the coming days that all 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. hungary's said will take some time to find the 21 people missing after a tourist boat sank in the danube on wednesday at least 7 south korean tourists have been confirmed dead while another 7 were rescued the river's murky water and strong currents of stop divers from being able to inspect the wreckage the search area has been extended to neighboring serbia. now you an expert has warned against the extradition of the wiki leaks founder julian assange is to the u.s. saying he's suffering from psychological torture the 47 year old missed a court hearing in london on thursday due to ill health the u.s. is demanding his extradition for publishing government secrets. shows all the symptoms of a person who has been exposed to psychological torture for a prolonged period of. speaking about this severe stress and constant stress of chronic. severe psychological trauma. seriously gravely

concerned that if this man were to be extradited to the united states he would be exposed to the politicized trial in grave violations of his human rights. record has ruled the u.s. state's only abortion clinic can stay open for now it has to be closed at midnight the state health department said the clinic did not pay enough attention to patient safety has been granted a reprieve allowing it to operate until tuesday when another hearing is due to take place. but it's not all right all the. more to do and if there's going to be possibly another court date early next week so we're glad that that happened we're glad that at this facility can keep providing these services these valuable services to people that need them. the abortion rights activists stage a sit down protest outside the to make in support of its closure its all but. united states unity things. like.

now u.s. government watchdog has issued a report on overcrowding at a migrant detention facility in texas the inspector general of the department of homeland security says immediate action must be taken to address the problem is regret this. the report called a management alert describes dangerous standing room only conditions at a detention center for adults in el paso texas in one cell 76 women are seen jammed into a space designed to hold 12 people some people stood on toilets to gain breathing room the detainees faces were blanked out in photos made public by the u.s. department of homeland security's inspector general inspectors say at 190 people were crammed into the facility which was built to house just 125 this image

shows 155 people in a cell meant for 35 in another photo an armed border patrol agent is seen in a room crowded with women d h s inspector said the detention center staff routinely confiscates migrants belongings and dumps them in garbage piles the report says some single adults had been held in standing room only conditions for days or weeks agents told the inspectors of their concern that rising tensions among detainees could turn violent the alert describes the overcrowding as dangerous and said it requires immediate attention and action tens of thousands of migrants many from crime ravaged and impoverished central american countries have made their way to the us mexico border in hopes of getting asylum in the u.s. at the white house spokesperson sarah sanders admitted u.s. officials are unable to cope with the influx we can't process them and we're being

totally overrun as we're seeing the numbers get worse and worse president donald trump is threatening to levy tariffs on mexican products if the mexican government doesn't somehow stop central americans from passing through its territory just this week we had over a 1000 people that moved is a massive group through mexico and came to our border. i'm touched they could have easily broken up this group arrested them or sent them back home more than 98000 people were apprehended by u.s. border patrol agents in the el paso sector alone between october 28th teen and this april an increase of 619 percent over the same period in the year before rob reynolds al-jazeera. now environmentalists an indigenous groups last weekend house against a us government plan to allow oil exploration in an alaskan wildlife refuge there's been a decades long battle between activists on energy companies over the pristine both

at sea coast but also thought to be billions of barrels of oil beneath the plains which have been off limits to drilling until 2017 that's when a republican controlled congress pushed through approval a while lot of groups say there hasn't been enough work done into the potential impact of the oil spills and climate change on the region 7 james an elder in the arctic village council which come pain the guns told exploration she says resisting the plan has been a struggle it is a trade bait climb right now because the in the report. or are. from that time became really are. there. were that our government through government could point this issue. that or that and. art of the coastal plain arctic national wireless

they leave c. b. their 8 words our way of life for ever. now it was a cutthroat competition packed with suspense and emotion nearly $600.00 youngsters under the age of 15 took part in this year's us spelling bee and for the finalists it was a test of endurance with a spellbinding outcome as there was gable is on the reports. oh d y o c o y l thank you very much and just like that not one not 2 not 3 but 8 co-champions in the end who scripps national spelling bee it was the 1st time in the 92 year history of the event more than one spelling whiz kid claim the trophy there was a long night of spelling words most people had never even heard of and by the end organizers had run out of another challenging words when we get to the end of

rounds 20 we will take an extraordinary step of declaring as co-champions those of you still remaining in the competition. house in the final round was high drama and. you as. a u t m style you are correct well there were a few slip ups i mean you are 80 i you and i are a sham. i ration the still higher ratio who in the world can spell that thank you so much but it's the final round went on it was clear no words could stump most of these kids correctly the oil overwhelmed with exhaustion. you see you. correct. others just in shock.

what in the world is fucus according to the dictionary it's a brown algae found in sea water i don't know what it was let alone how to spell it but clearly these kids are better at spelling that i am each of them will now receive $50000.00 in prize money gabriel's on doe. a l j a z e r a new york. all of it was of course on our website there is on your screen the address al jazeera dot com. top a quick check of the headlines here at al-jazeera u.s. police say a disgruntled employee has killed 12 people at a local government complex in virginia beach the suspect died after a gun battle with police we do know who the suspect is we have not been successful

in notifying certain family members once we are able to do that we will release his name once we're going to mention his name once and then he will be forever referred to as the suspect because our focus now is the dignity and respect to the victims in this case and to their film. officers who are processing through what could be described as a war zone the lordship of. the u.s. businesses are warning that billions of dollars of trade could be affected if president trump threat to impose tariffs on all mexican goods goes through mexico's foreign minister is heading to washington for talks on the taxes which trump says will stay in place until the flow of migrants is stopped and u.s. ports have started collecting higher tariffs on chinese goods president trump increased levees on may 10th but allowed a grace period for sea cargo that had left china before that date imports

a list of more than $200000000000.00 worth of goods now face a 25 percent tariff up from the previous rate of 10 percent the last round of trade talks ended without a deal u.s. secretary of state mike pompei i was on a european tour seeking support for washington's hardline policy on iran he began his trip in germany where the government still favors the 2015 nuclear agreement leaders of muslim majority nations have condemned the u.s. for moving its embassy in israel to jerusalem. it was a sion of islamic corporation that has been meeting in saudi arabia delegate said any recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital undermined the 2 state solution protesters for and against sudan's military leadership have demonstrated in the capital khartoum pro army and religious groups should support the military council which has been in power since the removal of president omar bashir in april outside the defense ministry thousands demanding civilian rule defied warnings from the military to stop their city and. well those are the headlines the news continues on

al-jazeera after listening to this stage of them so much. as politicians in washington defines who are aboard rules we talk to the people at the center of the story many of them just said oh no it's very dangerous because since the many guns are there and it's not it's a very safe place migrants smugglers and people who live along the border talk to all just 0. u.s. officials charge we carried out caution with violators that's not shy sorry $270.00 here's a question i asked my permission to oh so just before just about every question what is whistle blowing was a spine. hello richard guess what and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week the u.s. department of justice raises the stakes in its case against wiki leaks is julian

assange john trial or is american journalism is real and the documentation of palestinian memory the archives it keeps under lock and key beijing versus washington many american companies have been established in china and then very profitable and trade wars turn into anchor wars and. some of the hunger games fasting and furious for rob about 7 weeks ago when julian assange of wiki leaks was dragged out of that embassy in london headed for possible extradition to the united states the sites editor christian crabs and told us the legal charges waiting for him in the u.s. were just the tip of the iceberg that there would be more coming and last week he was proven correct u.s. prosecutors have expanded the indictment against the sanj by another 17 counts is maximum jail term has jumped from 5 years to 175 years and the u.s. department of justice is going after him. under

a different law and now the espionage act that law has been used against whistleblowers before wiki leaks source chelsea manning included but never against a publisher the alarm bells including from mainstream media organizations that fear the press that such a prosecution would set have been going off ever since the a sanch case isn't really about him or wiki leaks anymore it has implications serious ones for journalists just about everywhere our starting point this week is washington d.c. . this indictment all 37 pages and 18 charges in it is the u.s. department of justice putting its cards on the table laying out its should julian assange the founder of wiki leaks having been expelled from the ecuadorian embassy in london be extradited to the united states then he will be tried under the

espionage act it is ironic that the charges also serve as a different kind of indictment is he a criminal or easy a journalist of all those journalists and news outlets all the alleged experts and legal analysts who initially argued that the case against the sand was his to fight alone so you really you really think we all say we are the journalist you think we have it wrong and that he is actually not a pariah we should be praising him and that there were no implications for more conventional news organizations because the real indictment provides primer facie evidence to the contrary for about 5 decades it's been well understood since the pentagon papers case that the u.s. constitution and specifically the 1st amendment of the constitution protects the receipt and publication of government secrets and this is the 1st time the government has brought a charge under the $917.00 world war one era espionage act which is supposed to cover spying not disclosing information to journalists it's the 1st time that the

government. brought charges under the espionage act based exclusively on the receipt and publication of government secrets this would foreclose and in fact obstruct all kinds of journalism throughout the united states and from other countries in the world there is no legally meaningful difference between the work that wiki leaks in gauged in and the work that the new york times or the washington post engaged in and in fact we know this to be true because president barack obama's administration declined to pursue a prosecution against wiki leaks back in 2013 they were faced with something called the new york times problem which was if they prosecuted wiki leaks then they would essentially be saying that they had the authority to pursue and prosecute a reporter or a news editor at the new york times. when the department of justice announced the indictment it held a closed door briefing for reporters on the record but off camera the head of the

department's national security division was widely quoted on giuliana sandra's journalistic credentials the department takes seriously the role of journalists in our democracy he said it is not and never has been the department's policy to target them for reporting but julian assange is no journalist the question about whether to in their silence the journalist or not is irrelevant the 1st amendment does not the sto on journalists a certain set of rights they still everybody those rights whether they call themselves a journalist or not luckily we live in a country where the government does not license journalists and i think everyone can agree that donald trump shouldn't be the one deciding who is a journalist and who isn't and the d.o.j. has highlighted a narrow set of facts that distinguish julian assange and wiki leaks from traditional responsible journalists. and those include feel legit agreement to.

track a government password and irresponsible publication of the names of human sources neither of those things are activities that typically engage him however the indictment includes charges that relate to the solicitation the receipt and the publication of classified information and those are things that good national security reporters do every day. the use of the espionage act by the department of justice galvanized media outlets alarmed at the implications not for julian assange and for themselves the washington post called the case a blueprint for making journalists into felons the new york times editorial board said the indictment aims at the heart of the 1st amendment and the guardian's former editor called the charges a grave threat to free media all that pushback felt like too little too late julian assange has been treated like a pariah by those same news outlets take the new york times in 2010 the times the

u.k. is guardian and germany's there should be legal all collaborated with wiki leaks resulting in the publication of the iraq war locke's it was big news but on day 2 of that story the times ran a lengthy profile piece on a sandwich describing him as imperious dictatorial saying he was given to delusional grand jury it was an odd way to treat a collaborator on one of the papers biggest stories in decades. and one essential later sought refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london saying he feared for his freedom the times as well as the guardian failed in their editorials to come to his defense the sexual assault allegations in sweden may have affected their thinking but anyone familiar with that case and the numerous irregularities in the prosecution's handling of it would have to be suspicious of the motives at play and

even now with all. be a sanj indictments out there those news outlets are clearly more concerned with the possible legal precedents affecting them than they are about the fate of their one time source news media organizations that have reacted to this with alarm have done so with a full appreciation of the signal that this indictment sounds to us you can be critical of julian assange there may be many good reasons to take issue with the way that assad has conducted himself and the way that wiki leaks has released information to the public but the charges brought against him in this indictment sweep much more broadly into the realm of typical journalistic practice if media organizations can do it all over again i would suggest that they go back to 2010 when the grand jury was 1st m. paneled against wiki leaks and they speak out loudly against the obama administration pursuing this dissident media organization substantially documents

for because what was happening back then was laying the groundwork for investigations that could target more traditional media organizations whether they were based in the united states or outside of the united states. the rise of wiki leaks is attributable not only to the advent of technology but also to changes in u.s. government policy. since the $911.00 attacks in 2001 the american defense and intelligence establishment have gone on a classification binge in the name of national security more and more material field reports assessments interagency communications the kind that used to be available to the public have now been classified an organization like wiki leaks that makes no secret that it's in the business of stealing secrets has plenty to work with and there's a market out there millions of clicks to be had that news outlets are well aware of

and the american authorities are to. what they are essentially trying to do here is change that dynamic they're saying we're going to prosecute julius ons for publishing classified secrets but you know we may not stop there that our court systems have this precedent and then can be used against other news organizations and this is why many people are saying that this is really just a stalking horse for the trump administration to go after other journalists and without the receipt and publication of classified information without the free flow of that information to the public many of the most important national security stories of the past 5 decades including the pentagon papers but also including torture of post 911 i think my natural feelings after 911 all of these stories could not have been written without legal protection. for reporters accessing

classified information. and occasionally publishing. the discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers marcella. marcella this past wednesday we saw a trade war the one between the u.s. and china turned into a television spectacle and the actors involved weren't just moderating this debate they were in fact debating so let's start with the channel's involved. yes well the debate pitted an anchor for fox's business channel trish regan against lucian of china's state owned english language broadcaster c g t m 4 weeks these 2 had been trading tweets about tariffs trade wars and technology eventually regan challenging you to a live show down the format was far from journalistic with these 2 presenters are going in effect on behalf of their respective governments in washington and beijing

how do american businesses operate in china is there a risk for having their property their ideas their hard work you have to ask american businesses whether they want to come to china or whether they find coming to china and cooperating with chinese businesses has not been profitable or not and they will they will tell you their answers as far as i understand many american companies have been established in china and the very profitable and the great so you have 2 anchors are doing a surrogate spokespeople for their respective governments how did this program go down in china before the debate the spokesperson for china's foreign ministry big the event asking everyone to watch it because you know in china we have a saying the truth becomes clearer through debates it was a rare opportunity to have beijing's position on an ongoing trade dispute broadcast on an american channel you ssion was an obvious choice for the chinese side since she's a reputation.