and accusations that it was ordered by crown prince mohammed bin salmond have damaged the kingdom's image. so has the war in yemen and the humanitarian disaster it's caused. the immoralities and saudis have been accused of committing human rights violations there and cateau says that's the real reason it's being targeted by its neighbors but the blockade appears to have had little effect in the past 2 years trade between cattle and iran has increased and qatari media outlets al-jazeera and others are operating freely despite demands by the saudis and them or ati's for their closure is a country that is immensely grown and has a lot of positive developments since the crisis because they have a lot more freedom to maneuver freedom to choose their suppliers choose their partners in the region without being hamstrung or tied down to. a dictator as the g.c.c. crisis and does its 3rd year division and distrust between the council's members

appear to be becoming the norm and if people in the gulf begin to accept that reality that could make changing it more difficult in the long run victoria gate and b. al-jazeera international human rights committee in qatar says it's for say more than $4000.00 cases of complaints from caterina's who've been affected by the blockade and there have been 661 complaints about family separations and lengthy procedures to obtain visitor permits 525 in the area of education with students being asked or forced to discontinue their studies and more than 1300 complained they had no freedom of movement around kabul and joins me now instead is head of the policy analysis at the arab center for research and policy studies thank you so much for joining us for those you're this human rights cases that we just named as qatar i know they've pursued some of these cases do you think that that that may end up being some sort of productive area to get some sort of breakthrough i mean these are families are being separated or clear. i mean those people actually had

being caught in the middle of this political dispute between the blockade in countries and qatar and this indeed has nothing to do with those people in fact or the issue of terrorism because simply i mean you can't actually support terrorism while you are the united states best ally in the region don't forget after all that qatar is hosting the biggest or the largest get to be because u.s. military bases outside u.s. territories. this whole issue is about qatar foreign policy it's about qatar pursuing its own independent foreign policy especially during the arab spring revolutions between 20112015 so this is a political dispute between top blocks and the region on one hand we have qatar to one extent turkey supporting democratic change in the region and on the other hand we have so. many us who are actually against the. evolutions and change in and in the region people. and all sorts of the of the blue

kid in countries have been caught in the middle of this conflict so as the report said actually we have several families who have been separated because. marriage is between qatar and other other other other countries would nationals from other countries are common in this part of the world so the early stages of the conflict the coffee is the qatari national is to leave within 2 weeks so many of them actually are married to nationals from those consular that they have to leave their families behind them they have to leave their properties you you talked about students actually who we are studying here in in qatar they were also asked to leave so we have all these humanitarian issues that's exactly the point when you talk about that these countries have been very close and there are marriages there is businesses there cross lines etc etc if these summits that just happened last week do. offer a ray of hope which they didn't seem to is for is in the u.s.

hasn't been able to do anything is this the new normal. this is. the more sea view crisis in the history of the g.c.c. since it was established in 1981 we haven't seen something like this before we have seen many political dispute between the different countries in this part of the world including border dispute between saudi arabia emirates saudi arabia kuwait saudi arabia qatar for example in 1902 there was border confrontation between qatar and saudi arabia but we haven't seen actually people of these countries getting affected directly by these conflicts traditionally these countries used to keep their citizens the social fabric of the of societies intact and not affected by their political differences but this time is completely different as as as you said and this shows how. how difficult this dispute makes until somersaulted.

and i think that blockading countries they climbed a very high to see qatar did not actually give in to any of the conditions as you remember the put forward like 15 conditions for qatar to come by with in order to normalize a relationship a couple actually a few years to give in because most of these conditions actually are infringing on kottaras solvent the as a sovereign state so the only way actually to put pressure on qatar is to put this pressure on the qatari citizen saw that he can sway their government on this with their government to give in and and and sort of these meet these demands or conditions by that look at in countries so far this did not happen so we expect this crisis to go on as long as these countries are not backing down seem to be the new normal thank you very much thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera. as

the west bank and gaza prepare to mark 15000 years of occupation we look at the issue of land the heart of the conflict. hello daily summer showers all thunderstorms are raging in good part of central europe this circulation is very obvious we've had some significant dam falls in the last few days actually in bel darien serbia this general area fresh there was flooding in serbia if not $64.00 min because it did fall in just 6 hours is probably more like an hour and a half but the 6 hour total comes out $64.00 there's been more significant rain further west it's a frontal system come from the atlantic change things complete the temperatures down in london paris for wednesday to the teens to 290 that suggest sundry weather in switzerland and northern italy and madrid stand by

a good 10 degrees and about 23 degrees as cool change in western europe still showery in the war bits here but rather less so i think ounces a bit of a change though through power in western russia more significant rain is still there on the warm side as it is in germany all this happening over a lot of prompted by the sunshine over north africa the temperatures still hovering on the high side in tunisia 36 in tunis and 35 in courage but in russia back to the on shore breeze again a loss of about 10 degrees in the last couple of days wednesdays at 21 and thursday is about the same. a $150000000.00 trees disappear every year into the clothing that we all wear from uk cycling to save the forests the famous yellow dress fade from blue jeans. to conserving the world's dwindling wetlands. aids global bird

migration watch reacher 6 right where we are the basic discovered a treasure trove it is one of the most special low clouds and the place that for ice ecosystems inland it on al-jazeera. watching out to syria let's recap the top stories right now protest leaders in sudan have called a crackdown by the military giunta a bloody massacre and doctors say at least 60 people have been killed since monday the head of the ruling gentle insists he's open to dialogue as long as certain conditions are met. australian police have raided the offices of the public broadcaster a.b.c. it's linked to a series of reports in 2017 highlighting alleged war crimes carried out by special

forces in afghanistan. it's been 2 years since saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain began a blockade of qatar doha rather says dialogue can bring about a peaceful settlement of the dispute. thousands of internally displaced people at a camp in northern syria had been threatened with eviction some of them as for suspected of being the wives and children of eisel fighters the group was on the 1st of a large number of departures led by the kurdish administration because hello reports from the province. this is one. the many camps that the syrian internally displaced people could find refuge after the syrian regime intensified its bombardments in the solve this problem is mainly in this southern cities and towns and there are nearly 1500 civilians residing in this camp and that most of them to this camp in the month of ramadan when rush hour assad and his allies began airstrikes and the

civilians here are taking refuge under these all of trees and they they have covered the coward around the trees with the blankets they have and some other materials that they can have they are telling us that when their city was bombarded it was only their clothes and a few blankets that they could hardly take with them and they ran away from their homes to the turkish border here to find refuge the situation is very dire in the camps their supplies are cut the hygiene is a huge problem here as you can see here they have water problem as well this water for instance is being used for washing purposes and they are they are short in drinking water as well they're telling us that telling us that they were delivered 8 during only during the month of ramadan a one meal a day and which is not enough for $300.00 families living in this camp. the

problems are that little look at conditions we will change we want supplies research to get all of growers we are waiting for help from the international community. saying it's very bad there's garbage right there in sex a lot of disease children to seek some women gave birth here are better at the front line so we don't have to monitor this lives we caught up previous properly here the majority of those 1500 people deciding in this camp are mainly women and children and children are suffering because of hot weather they're suffering from diarrhea dire. and their mothers tell us that they have no access to the hospitals and some people die because the ambulances aren't fast enough to take them up but the worst thing is that here the owner of this then is telling those 300 families in this camp. as soon as the islamic fees and they tell us that they have no idea where to go or what we are hearing that the local government here the local

administration is doing is some proof. for them and some n.g.o.s are trying to. trying to. 10 send their supplies for those people in case an attack happens. but in short these people are left vulnerable here and at that at least 14 security forces are reported to have been killed after an attack at a checkpoint in egypt's northern sinai security officials say the attack in the city of a roof happened as morning prayers are being held to mark a muslim holiday of no one has claimed responsibility yet the top administration has granted to licenses for the export of sensitive nuclear technology with saudi arabia not long after the killing of journalists. the u.s. department of energy gave out the 1st license on october 18th just days after he died with the 2nd granted and february u.s.

intelligence agencies have concluded that saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon ordered the murder but the kingdom has denied the allegations after 50 years of israel's occupation of the west bank and the gaza strip the land remains at the heart of the conflict between palestinians and israelis palestinians say israeli authorities are denying them permission to build homes and what the lack of land for development or way of life is under threat it abraham reports from the occupied west bank. low rise buildings were once common in villages in the occupied west bank but not anymore even in older areas that are now how the buildings that many say are destroying the traditional nature of these villages life in palestinian villages once revolved around farming in single story stone houses in the village of caught on the north east of jerusalem this is how much things have changed over the last decade. an hour's drive from qatar village it's mayer says efforts to maintain its heritage are often hampered due to lack of land in most part of the

villages really permission is needed to carry out any construction. is that. the population is always increasing but the permitted building area shrinking demand goes up and there's a limited supply of people trying to expand to the areas controlled by israel but they prevent us from building there so we go back to areas we can build on since they also agreement between israel and the palestine liberation organization in 190360 percent of the west bank has been under israeli control and israeli human rights organization been calm says only one in $100.00 requests by palestinians to build have been approved in these areas land in the remaining areas falls under palestinian control and as demand has risen so has the price the palestinian population in the west bank has increased 5 times since 1967 while the land that allowed to build on has remained limited and that's frustrating palestinian urban planners this is part of the construction is natural development but the problem is that we're losing them and we're starting to see

a mix of elements and the overall image doesn't have a palestinian identity high buildings are built up and wrong places without planning there's random building and random demolition. but when it comes to illegal israeli settlements critics say this is tuition is a verst organization says during the past decades i don't 20000 news release units have been built here in the west bank illegal israeli settlements are expanding at the expense of palestinian lands and these open areas are off limits for palestinians but some of them are still building anyway even though they don't have permission from the israeli authorities. is taking that risk of building even though many people he knows have received demolition orders or had their homes destroyed and when the should win then we want to have houses what other choices do we have if i build here i won't find other places land prices a very expensive so i build on the rooftop. with a growing population in the west bank and limited land to expand into palestinians here are having to adapt to

a new way of living and it's not one many of them will choose. the occupied west bank or catholic cardinal george pell has appealed his conviction for child sexual abuse offenses in australia its 1st appearance in court senses 6 sure a sentence and march lawyer said the jury's verdict was on a reasonable and the defense was off from showing the video and their closing argument was found guilty of the abuse of 213 year old boys while he was archbishop of melbourne 20 years ago. no t.v. no coffee no alcohol that is the warning from india's government to people living in the desert state of rajastan as the heat wave sweeps across the region temperatures have led to a search and he strokes people have also been told to avoid going out during midday hours where it can be as hot as 50 degrees celsius monsoon is running a week behind schedule. the chinese arm of the ford motor company has been fined $23000000.00 for price fixing chinese officials say chang and ford which is partly

american own broke anti-monopoly laws by controlling car resale prices the fine comes in the midst of china's escalating trade war with the u.s. it's one of the millions worldwide obsessed with nutella have to ration supplies workers at the world's biggest chocolate and hazelnuts bread factory are on strike 160 in france walked out to demand better pay and improved conditions trucks are blocked from the factory in normandy produces 600000 jars of nutella a day. al-jazeera let's take a look at the top stories right now stands opposition leaders call the military changes crackdown on protesters a bloody massacre there when military council says it's ready to return to dialogue with the protest coalition if an appropriate environment is created doctors say at

least 60 people have been killed since monday more than 300 injured many critically then security council has met on the deteriorating situation in sudan and fail to reach a joint position china and russia blocked any action against the military rulers but 8 e.u. states expressed concern do you need. to see some. appointed government and co for elections we see in the 2 short period of time this of great concern was supposed to be put up sudan in search for and i create an old 30. by civilians and for them to a stop to the conditions for elections we have to be free and. we call it for no agreed transfer of power to a civilian government as the people of sudan place in australia have raided the offices of the national broadcaster a.b.c.

and there were a series of stories from 2017 on killings allegedly carried out by australian special forces in afghanistan the network says it stands by its journalists that the raid raises concerns over media freedom on tuesday police entered the home of the news corp sunday political editor over work she published last year plans to expand domestic surveillance i think every media organization in the lead and sometimes has difficult moments with government agencies and with already use but to to have a warrant executed on the headquarters of the national public broadcaster in this way constitute enough is an unwelcome development it is really serious and we take it very very seriously the chinese arm of the ford motor company has been fined 20 $3000000.00 for price fixing chinese officials say chang and ford which is partly american anti-monopoly laws by controlling car resale prices fine comes in the midst of the trade war between china and the u.s.

so the headlines keep it on al-jazeera inside story is next. cricket's biggest total it has come 2nd england's own wild 6 way tell me tell you 11 venues 40 i can australia to defend the card for will and would finally win a world cup play with al-jazeera for all the latest on the 29 so you cricket wild card. it's 30 years since chinese tanks and troops crushed pro-democracy protests plus the legacy of the tiananmen square massacre and how have the killings in beijing shaped modern china this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm here 30 years ago tens of thousands of chinese

people protested in beijing for democracy and freedom the government answered with tanks and bullets that c.n.n. is square massacre is a highly sensitive issue in china security in beijing is tights on the anniversary and any public discussion will land you in jail but sympathizers have been holding vigils in hong kong and macau to semi autonomous chinese territories where freedom of expression is allowed small services were also held in taiwan and washington d.c. . well the 1989 protests were sparked spider's eth of former communist party leader who we are back on who had been pushing for a more open political system and the conna me in april that sheer thousands of students gathered channel and square to mourn his passing that demonstration grew into a nationwide poll for greater political freedom a month later with more than

a 1000000 people taking parts chinese the chinese premier declared martial law after trying unsuccessfully to end the protests on june 4th the chinese army tanks rolled in and soldiers opened fire on protesters to clear the square the government has never said how many were killed others estimate the total at around 1000. well al jazeera sangean prime reported on the massacre at the time here's his firsthand account while tiananmen square was closed on tuesday just as it was 30 years ago a heavy police presence around the ceremonial heart of beijing for this most sensitive of anniversaries i recall on the afternoon of june the 4th 1989 making my way up chang an avenue with several colleagues using the trees as cover and across the avenue of a turn or piece or chang an avenue there was a line of soldiers behind

a protective barricade and they were firing warning shots at people who incredibly were defying orders to get off the streets around us there was a tangle of charred vehicles buses army vehicles i remember very clearly seeing 2 bodies that have been flattened by tanks the tread marks were still visible there was an icky and for a time we really didn't know who is in control as i reported at the time meanwhile the men who control the army and perhaps now the government have issued another all minutes warning stay off the streets or face the consequences no one knows of course how many people were killed in the square but many other people were killed in other parts of the city and during a round up that followed thousands of people were detained now china's communist party 30 years on still refuses to express remorse for what happened in the reason for that is to do so would be to raise questions over the legitimacy of china's

communist party so instead the government remains unrepentant saying if the army hadn't taken the action that it did then china wrist slipping into civil war and china never would have joined the world trade organization to stage the olympics or become the world's 2nd largest economy and it continues to insist that the people of china are with that verdict adrian brown the inside story in beijing. well let's bring in our panel in hong kong we're joined by claudia moore legislator and pro-democracy activists who attended the vigil in washington d.c. in the research kellen american attorney weaker heritage and not ingham in the u.k. andries fulda author of the struggle for democracy in mainland china taiwan and hong kong welcome to you all if i could start with you could see

a more in hong kong howie you were in china straight after the events the crackdown by the armed forces you have witnessed the transformation in the last 30 years how would you say china has changed it was time well china has changed in. some ways they claim they were. staging economic liberalize. put them on a little front. conservative it's obvious they are tightening its rope only chinese people and that is spreading the. ideological good. as well. and if we could cross to washington d c. how would you say china has chipped tianna man has changed china itself to you certainly we talk about lessons being learns after 989 the world has said never

again and yet we do seem to see this repression of people happening right now. i grew up during that period 1000 eighty's and early ninety's i had that firsthand experience enjoying some free. life. in during that period and i was also us college student around that period when the students took to the streets to demand a mic the mock receive for china that over the years in the last 30 years the same government same party. take the country back to the warsaw version of itself as we speak the chinese communist party under the leadership of xi jinping is committing crimes against humanity by locking up more than 2000000 weaker and other

turkey minorities in a modern day concentration camp with an intent to stamp out the weakest ethnic national identity and suffocate and reprogram centuries old tradition religious practices and way of life and what is what is there the world need to be reminded of an important fact after the tiananmen square 30 years ago their western leaders decided to engage with china that turned out to be an appeasement if the world has taken a different approach we may have had a different type of china today but with a less problem and let me underscore this reality that china chinese authorities massacred thousands of students demanding democracy 30 years ago and today not only they oppressing the of their own citizens by using technology but they are exporting these surveillance technologies around the world and trying to create

a new a digital of that there it is i'm ok well come on so the way to international percent perspective in a 2nd but if i could turn to you andrea food at certain the china. it was a very different place in 1989 so the china we see now was very much an economic powerhouse and global player in 2019. how you would use a. vent since yana men have made the country the country china is today. well i think the activists certainly learned a couple of lessons from the crackdown for example they realize that without a strategy without a functioning organization it would be very hard to actually engage with the party and so in 1988 there was an attempt to register an opposition party to china

democracy party now that was suppressed as well but for example in 2008 some of the form activist of 1989 decided to promulgate the charter or 8 which we it was a pivotal moment in the democracy movement because it's for the 1st time kind of stated the objective to overcome one party rule and introduce the rule of law rights protection federalism and constitutional democracy and i think when we talk about 989 we do need to look at these milestones in china's democracy movement which has really developed by leaps and bounds it hasn't changed the political system evidently however we should not hold that against you know the political activists who really have exercised leadership and are continuing to exercise leadership to the present day but with the greatest of respect and various

foods if we look at charts of recent years that there hasn't changed anything we have now as the leader of the communist party the leader of china. who is he's managed to dispense with term limits amassed comparable amounts of parity chairman mao himself. you know you're absolutely right i mean when i describe the political system right now i would say that she didn't pings ideology world view and leadership style can be described as follows he is basically a stalinist who's presiding over. leninist party state using maoist tactics and this trinity of stalin is leninism and maoism of course is not very becoming for china it is a real threat to the social and political development of china but i think what a person like she's in pain is all over looking in

a way is that chinese society has actually. already developed further to think that somehow trying to side can be just changed at will socially engineered and for example we just heard the treatment of the weaker since injun were sent to concentration camps and were basically being assimilated and they have to become hunter and yes that is of course a very very worrisome development and something that. we should resist in the 21st century we cannot simply accept that one part of china of course which does have a democracy movement is of course concordia more you are part of that pro-democracy movement how do you see the effects of. events in tiananmen shaping the way the communist party and the leadership in china how do you see that impacting efforts to maintain democracy in hong kong. you know i hope

nobody would want to. ban him. with the. swiss with the i perfectly agree with all the points made. certain it takes. this time and that's. in the much farther. ready back in 1990 it's a water. main. in china as a british colony and they came it came with all kinds of promises and at the time being this is an extradition arrangement you must have. a team that's why they say extradition of the rings meant i should ready exclude mainland china because hong kong off of china's judiciary we just have no trust no

confidence in china in this legal system and so that was a 5 year war against. the chinese law practice being tracked is. today they suddenly say we need. this loophole and instead of a fog of war they call it a loophole we must block it and at the end of the day anyone in hong kong not just hong kong is anyone living in hong kong or they're just passing through you could be you could face extradition to china whatever happens without one country 2 systems right we're supposed to be different from the mainland the fact is hong kong the stick only piece of chinese land where you unfair and still be remembered publicly and openly why is there no such thing and trying to because aspirants not

allowed to go every year on june 4th 10 am in the square with me to be cleared out and there is such a thing as a 10 hour minimum of us they are the mothers of the government did 30 years ago and hong kong is a relatively free of the hong kong government is say oh you're some free you can say anything you want the such a freedom of expression in hong kong what are you complaining about but we are wrong to bring our we're really rotten behind the facade that's exactly what we're trying to protect. i was so not losing all the freedoms which we have been enjoying for the last 30 years now making sure that they would take it away they say don't worry we will take care of you and indeed they will and if i could just ask you andreas just how important is democracy to the average person in china ok

sure look i had the good fortune to live and work in mainland china for 7 years and i've had a lot of conversation with reform minded congress socially engaged academics and civil society practitioners i'm quite familiar with their thinking i would say among the politically conscious elites in the country there is a clamoring for.