to do this at this stage what about the international community and what we saw happen just under 24 hours ago the security council unable to come together and find a common position on sudan and they seem to be now turning towards the a you for a firm position are you optimistic that the african union will be able to come up with some sort of response. oh no not at all i mean the african union has almost no record of ever taking a really firm stand against the repressive regime but they want to show should also ask what about the arab league where are they and they are not active either i mean what's very interesting is the united states has now reached out to saudi arabia and said to the saudis who have put put in something like a couple of 1000000000 dollars worth of aid to sudan in the last few months please would you intervene can you do something about this and that is one way forward the other way would of course be for the army itself to act against the repressive forces of the jungle week to effectively in power now but at the moment there's no

indication of that so unless the army acts or the outside forces maybe saudi arabia acts i can't see any way forward there's a lot of reporting on saudi arabia and the united arab emirates as well as egypt vying for influence in sudan and we know that saudi in the u.a.e. have billions into sudan just put this into context for us martin cloud what's in it for them for these regional arab states. well for the egyptians of course you know in a sense they put down their own their own arab spring so why would they want to see another one next door for the saudis and the u.a.e. they deeply involved in the war in yemen and the the sudanese have been sending troops some of them said to be child soldiers into yemen to bolster their war effort in fact they're the ones who doing the dying and it said that they have paid up to something like $10000.00 if they do die now why would the saudis and the

u.a.e. want to stop that by cutting the bike route putting that kind of those kind of cannon fodder those child soldiers at risk if they saw a real regime change in sudan so i think that they have no interest in seeing any kind of reform in sudan which is an absolute tragedy for the people of sudan who desperately want change and what we're reporting from is only khartoum they've been many other places around the country where people have resisted and where those resistance has now been put down and and back to the situation in the country the military council though has said that it is willing to hold elections within 9 months this is a plan that's rejected by the protesters who are also calling for a civil disobedience campaign to what extent is there a strategy right now in the rejection of the elections and this campaign an effective one. well you can see why they would do this because after all the

easiest thing for the military to do is to go into show we say a form of retirement to say that they're going to take a leave of absence from the army to appear in civilian clothes and then fight an election where they say well i'm a civilian now i can i can participate in it and you rig the elections and there you are you've got the reemergence of the military in part but let's not be under any illusion the military of effectively been in power in sudan since 1989 when al bashir overthrew. held staged a coup i mean you know they have they really believe that they are the ones that should hold the power in the country they're not going to step down they're not going to move away from that why should the enjoying the lifestyle that they have and it also brings in all sorts of forces from outside the capital who look upon the people in peoples like the doctors and the lawyers as really in the lead who

really have run the you know have have enjoyed the benefits of the country while the people who further afield have not and they are the people who are the most ruthless in their pressing the change martin platt we thank you very much for speaking to us on the new south in egypt an attack is reported to have killed at least 8 security force members in northern sinai commanders say it happened at a checkpoint in the city of heidi's during morning prayers no one has claimed responsibility for previous attacks in the sinai have been blamed on what the government described as a terrorist group linked to i saw. police in australia have carried out a 2nd raid on journalists in as many days the offices of the australian broadcasting corporation in sydney were searched and files seized relating to the national broadcaster its investigation of alleged war crimes in afghanistan charlotte dallas reports. arranged by the australian federal police is underway at

the a.b.c. offices in sydney australia media reporting on a range of one of their our police into the headquarters of the strangely broadcasting corporation with a warrant after a broadcast classified material in 27 tane the raid focused on investigative journalist daniel oakes and same you clarke they reported a series of stories called the f.b.i. and files based on hundreds of pages of secret ministry of defense documents leaked to the a.b.c. . they alleged unlawful killings and misconduct by a stray in special forces in afghanistan including the alleged killing of an unarmed man and his 6 year old child in a raid on their home as well as the killing of a detained taliban fighter at least 2 incidents are the focus of an ongoing defense force inquiry. the police raid targeted emails between the journalists and their sources and written notes draft scripts passwords photos and videos related to the

afghan files in or more than $9000.00 items the warrant was served under the century old crimes act that the bids publication of classified material it's very unwelcome and serious development i think for people maybe who aren't in the media business sometimes talking about priests freedom can sound a bit like a cliché it is extremely unusual for an authority to exercise a warrant on a national public broadcaster like this and it is very serious on tuesday police searched the home of. the award winning political editor of the media organization . news corp following his story on plans to expand domestic surveillance extremely alarming that incident then used to come on the back of it really just was. the government glazer attempting to stop me freedom of the press which of course is so . in recent years amnesty international has been calling for more transparency by

these trailing defense force for its actions in afghanistan the a.b.c. says it stands by its journalists we will be doing everything we came to limit the scope of this and we will do everything we can to stand by our reporters. and as a general observation we always do whatever we can to stand by our sources of course police deny there is a link between the 2 media raids although they are related to the reelection of prime minister scott morrison this government 2 weeks ago shelob ellice al jazeera let's bring in emily how we in melbourne she is the legal director of the human rights law center thanks very much for speaking to us and talk about what this actually means for press freedom in australia in a moment but 1st give me your thoughts on the timing of these 2 raids but the timing of the raid is clearly quite unusual in that we've got 2 raids happening over 2 days and by one story that actually were published over

a year ago so that certainly raises some questions but i think for me having a look at the timing things right it's really part of a very long and worrying trend you know strayer governments cracking down on whistleblowers and public interest journalism and unfortunately this is really just another in a long line of. really worrying trend yeah and you've said that the government's new laws passed with the help of labor last year raised concerns about the future of journalism in australia how far reaching are these laws in your opinion. last year and they end the offense of espionage to make it an offense 25 years to life imprisonment the people who deal with the information that impacts on national security and that means that for journalists and whistleblowers in situations such as they are there in the dreadful situation where they could

be full falaise laws and actually prosecuted something like that and we're looking at lock in prison what do you make of the response of the prime minister morrison speaking in london he clearly attempted to distance himself from the raids saying that this was a matter for a.f.p. and he was untroubled by the upholding of australian laws what do you make of his reaction are you concerned. i think it's really wiring we need to have a government that makes it very clear that it supports press freedom in australia and australians right to know that information in the public interest is dead what we saying at the moment is just have. to be a public interest journalist or a whistleblower in australia we've got laws that actually criminalize people revealing information in the public interest so that the prime instead to fall back on the law and is

a safe thing that's actually really quite inappropriate the laws don't provide the science because that way nagin is trying to allow the truth to come out about what happens behind closed doors or you know. our government's attempts to spy on us our rights really how we thank you very much for speaking to us from melbourne. thank you. plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including why cuba. for americans the u.s. government again gets tough with its communist neighbors. blamed for the fall in public confidence in the media. rivalries renewed at the french open federer prepared to go head to head. but 1st the u.s.

president says military action against iran is still an option donald trump made the comments in an interview with piers morgan on i.t.v. good morning britain on tuesday it comes amid rising tension between the u.s. and iran. iran is a place that was extremely hostile when i 1st came into office there were any terrorist nation number one in the world at that time and probably maybe are today and they were a funder of terrorism but president obama made a deal the iran nuclear deal which was a terrible deal because it was a short term deal and i was very much against said i was very much against the deal i terminated the deal and iran is a much different country today you will need to take military action there's always a chance to i want to know a grab the knot while the u.s. president is marking the 75th anniversary of d.-day on the 3rd and final day of his u.k. state visits 15 world leaders will attend the event in portsmouth they're expected to sign a declaration to ensure the horror of world war 2 is not repeated veterans' families

say they want the event to focus on veterans and not trump the barker joining us from portsmouth so commemorations about to get underway need what sort of day can we in trump be expecting. we're going to be queen of the drive. because reading put the word to iraq. the basic right now on the way for the author of the war in the mold of the government not to leave the president with a large bundle but part of the really enough intrigue of some of those well attended thing that certain place the former president from away from the party for a month is out here for the purpose of a bit of a birth but the moment the last thing of all the course of their sacrifice for us here. the european allies there are those who write what they wore at the proceed

donald trump with pride for all of the bad things so let's just see over about 3 days he lost their lives during the whole of the landing but then there are others that say. look at the. early results from the late super by the how effectively before all right me we'll let you go for now we thank you for that update from portsmouth. it's the 2nd anniversary of the start of the air sea and land. by its neighbors saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and others accuse qatar as leaders of supporting terrorism they consistently denied dance and say talks can settle the dispute peacefully so let's take

a look back at how that diplomatic dispute began may 20th 2017 the u.s. president donald trump lands in saudi arabia and other arab leaders trump later took credit for a saudi's move against cats are in a series of tweets linking it to the summit's just 3 days later may 23rd and the qatar news agency is hacked attributing false statements to the emir there broadcast on saudi media despite the qatari government saying its fake news then on june the fort leaked e-mails from the u.a.e. ambassador to the u.s. revealed what appears to be a long running effort to discredit qatar that brings us to june the 5th when diplomatic ties are cut and an economic embargo is imposed more from victoria. a handshake between saudi king soundman bin abdulaziz and the qatari prime minister but if anyone saw this is a sign of warming relations between the 2 countries they'd be wrong that was a week ago and despite the most high profile meeting between the qataris and saudis

in 2 years is the g.c.c. is still in crisis and very much divided and also we had reservations about many parts of the statement these elements include 1st the issue of only condemning iran and the escalation against it up in the absence of any moderate policy to engage in dialogue with iran. the statement also mentioned the united ago where is the night of the gulf war we have 3 gulf states blockading another gulf state ever since saudi arabia the united arab emirates behind and egypt imposed a land air and sea blockade on cattle in june 2017 the gulf cooperation council has been at olds. the g.c.c. has held 2 summits in saudi arabia and one in kuwait which has led mediation efforts at the 1st summit since the blockade began a catalyst to mean been hammered out that he attended but his adversaries said the foreign minister is their absence was seen as

a snub to kuwait's attempt to heal the rift throughout the dispute catto has strongly denied claims made by the saudis and generalities the doha supports terrorism or is too close to iran. groups have been engaged in cattle's foreign ministry has arranged meetings with representatives from dozens of countries with the i'm a and foreign minister touring the world riyadh and abu dhabi will say being busy with media campaigns against cattle including one targeting the 2022 world cup yet both have been dealing with crises of their own the killing of saudi jenna's jamal khashoggi in istanbul and accusations that it was ordered by crown prince mohammed bin salmond have damaged the kingdom's image. so here's the war in yemen and the humanitarian disaster it's caused. the amorality s. and saudis have been accused of committing human rights violations there and cattle 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 outlet al jazeera and others are operating freely despite demands by the saudis and them are artie's for their closure qatar 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 councils 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 let's discuss this with and he's the head of policy analysis of the arab center for research and policy studies based here in doha thanks very much for

speaking to us on al-jazeera there was some speculation as you heard in that report that the recent summits with qatar's participation in saudi arabia was a sign of perhaps improved relations between the heart and the gulf states but they don't really do anything to change the fundamentals after the gulf crisis not cd maybe we're back now to square one because many had hoped as you said the participation of qatar on the level of the prime minister at this summit of the g.c.c. summit in mecca with the 2 some i mean nobody was expecting a breakthrough but at least some sort of between qatar and saudi arabia at least because we know that the united arab emirates is playing. the. they're all of a hawk in this in this crisis but that tend to be mere illusion because the fundamentals of this crisis have not changed so far the contraries are so demanding

that qatar should comply with the 15 demands they put forward at the very beginning describes says qatar cannot. give on any of them because qatar says all of them actually are sort of infringement on s. sovereignty so qatar cannot actually meet any of these demands so the fundamentals are started actually seem so we haven't seen any change actually in the course of this crisis so as this particle remains unresolved it is a case where the gulf countries as well as allies like the united states are just trying to find ways to work around the gulf dispute in order to be able to at least ensure a minimal level of cooperation when it comes to important issues for the region where the u.s. position actually is very important in this crisis because at the very beginning we all remember the president in particular he took the position of the blockade in concrete by accusing a total of supporting terrorism and then he actually changed his position.

under pressure from the institutions the state department the defense department in the united states they had to remind him actually that qatar is a very important u.s. ally and that qatar is hosting the largest u.s. military b.s. outside the u.s. territories. and that is actually is playing a very active war on the war against isis in syria and in iraq so we have seen this shift in the position of the u.s. president and actually he came to the conclusion that it's very important for his strategy actually to confront iran that this country's must unite again he tried to actually to put some pressure on the saudis on the humanities but so far nothing has actually come out. from that from that. we expect the americans to try. as the increase the pressure on iran to try again actually to unite the g.c.c. countries. we have seen signs actually that the americans will be doing just that

but as we have seen. we believe that the americans believe that someone will actually end up in summits in order to bring those g.c.c. countries to got that actually to discuss the issues that are confronting them specially in terms of security terms of how to confront iran but that also failed actually it did not work out as we said earlier so we think that because we'll be trying again but analysts we see a change a shift in their position of the saudis and the immoderate is in particular we don't we don't believe that the americans are going to succeed actually in this if what's ok thank you for your analysis your. no no tea no coffee i'm no alcohol that's the government's warning heat wave sufferers in india temperatures as high as 50 degrees celsius are causing huge stroke for many and on everyone's

being advised to avoid going out around midday the annual monsoon is late and meteorologists fear less rain than usual this year in a few moments while the weather with our meteorologist stuff go. ahead right here on al-jazeera inside cats cars art scene which is thriving despite the 2 year long blockade by neighboring countries. were at the united nations headquarters but why the silence on the 30th anniversary of the month square massacre in china. brazil star neymar is back in training after an injury but his teammates are not taking it easy details with later in the program. sponsored by the time the ways. hello there as daryn was just telling us it

certainly has been hot in india over the last few days in fact yesterday we got to 50.3 in new delhi just 2 days before that we got to 50.8 that is incredibly hot and the monsoon is only now just beginning to get on board in sri lanka further south and things are very very different in australia there certainly not hot here where in the other hemisphere of course it's winter here and it's looking wintery as well poor person would have done better had he managed to stay on his little toboggan there but still lots of snow in parts of new south wales and that has crossed the border into parts of queensland which is pretty unusual there's also been a lot of snow for some of the ski reports already as well so $71.00 centimeters of snow is on the ground there in new south wales that's the most snow this is early since the year 2000 so the ski ski is rubbing their hands in glee now there is a bit more cloud there at the moment that's going to bring some showers around the coast over the next couple of days but i don't think there's going to be any new snow instead the more active weather for australia is going to be towards the

southwest this is quite an intense area or whether that's working its way towards us more cloud forest in perth there on thursday then the cloud thickens up and we begin to see that rainfall cooler by the time we get to friday pretty windy as well . ways. a natural resource that's gone untapped for more than 2 decades alison is found off the coast years before israel despite its al-jazeera world tells the untold story of gaza's unexploited gas fields because a lot of it is only made us of the bill as you know so it's a lot of money and how this valuable resource could have transformed palestinian lives. because the gas deal on al-jazeera a journey of personal discovery my great grandfather he was a slave of the leave property al-jazeera is james gannon explores his family's

legacy of slave ownership you know like my family status and wealth has benefited from their choice to enslave people and america's debt to the black people today some over soul scar we even scared to speak out because it's a problem. al-jazeera correspondent a moral debt. fellow again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour a sudanese doctors say more than 60 people are known to have been killed since monday dozens of people are still missing the head of the ruling military gentle insists that he's open to dialogue but

a day earlier he said all talks with the protest coalition were called off. australian police have carried out a 2nd raid on journalists in as many days officers of the a.b.c. in sydney have been searched the raid relates to the national broadcasters investigation of alleged war crimes by australian special forces in afghanistan. it's been 2 years in saudi arabia the u.a.e. . egypt and bahrain began a blockade of qatar doha dialogue can bring about a peaceful settlement of the disputes. while qatar has spent billions of dollars of the last few years collecting world famous or to show in museums despite the blockade by neighboring countries doha continues to unveil more projects visited a new exhibition to find out more with nearly a 100 pieces of art from over 6 decades the horses of the sun exhibition is testament to one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century for the hissing

the controversial modernist painter from india was given refuge in qatar in 2010 following protests at home movies depictions of hindu goddesses has since died the following year but the legacy of the artist who called himself a nomad continues through displays like this ever since exhibition here at the mataafa our museum and one artist part of a cultural exchange of india it explores the artist's visual engagement with the world through different ideas such as childhood society and religion all themes that transcend culture background and even geopolitics. ambitious new arts and cultural projects are opening as qatar gears up to welcome a flood of visitors for the world cup in 2022. the new the open national museum is another eye catching project that costs hard a $1000000000.00 with a past in the future meet through immersive arts the buildings radical and complex

desert rose design is a symbol of national identity history and deeply rooted bedouin culture. the landmark is another sign of qatar becoming a regional cultural hub despite the 2 yearlong located by neighboring countries including saudi arabia the united arab emirates and behind you know the growth of a country based on the growth of the artists that are growing in this country and i think qatar has been a major contributor to our ages in the region culture endorses the understanding and tolerance and i hope that remains a key sector in the growth of nations around the world to promote sustainability and universal dialogue it's exactly that dialogue that's m. of his scene trying to convey through his art the exhibition includes his quote take life with you take creation with you if you have to keep moving take the whole world with you sort of played out the. chinese president xi jinping has arrived to russia for

a 3 day state visit to mark 70 years off diplomatic ties or talks between the chinese leader and his russian counterpart are expected to focus on the korean peninsula and syria venezuela the trip also coincides with an economic forum in st petersburg let's bring in service and she's joining us now from moscow so what is the 2nd meeting by the 2 men tell us about their relationship. well there you can say that president xi is quite a regular here in moscow he has visited moscow more than any other capital in the world and in fact the 29th meeting between put an end. since 2013 and the 2nd meeting in just a couple of weeks is also an interesting timing of this meeting because it comes amidst of this trade war between china and the united states which observers say is bringing moscow and beijing closer together if you look at the trade figures from

201818 you see that the trade between china and russia has significantly increased or has actually reached more than 100000000000 u.s. dollars which is still not as much of course as china and the united states so you can say that the relationship is strong or than it's ever been since 1950 s. but as the spokes person of what and sat pascoe freesat we won't just look at the east the russian eagle will look both ways and that will also be the same for china so what should we be watching out for a step in the hours to come what's the expected outcome. well the international problems are my only agenda things that china and russia sort of have similar positions on like north korea both countries want a diplomatic track check to be followed russia putin has said and bloody well stop

just after you mad that he is really in favor of reopening the 6 party talks and that's also something that china is interested in they will also talk about iran the nuclear deal is something that china and russia think should be followed they will talk about venezuela and syria but they also will sign a few contracts this still more room for chinese investment. the spokesman of and there will be also the opening of a big car factory from china here in russia they will talk about cooperation on the pipeline and on space but they also will have a cultural program because it's a 17th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the 2 countries all right sebastian thank you. trumpet ministration has granted to licenses for the export of sensitive nuclear technology with saudi arabia not long after the killing of journalists. the us department of energy gave out the 1st license on october the

18th just days after the died with the 2nd granted in february u.s. intelligence agencies have concluded that saudi crown prince mohammed bin ordered the murder the kingdom denies the allegations. after 52 years of israel's occupation of the west bank and the gaza strip land remains at the heart of the conflict between palestinians and israelis palestinians say israel your forties are denying them permission to build homes and with a lack of lands for developments their way of life is under threats the reports in 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 village israeli permission is needed to carry out any construction. of. the population is always increasing but the permitted building areas 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 they're 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 the militia. but when it comes to illegal israeli settlements critics say the situation is reversed peace now organization says during the past decades i don't 20000 new israeli settlement units have been built here in the west bank illegal israeli settlements are expanding at the expense of palestinian lands these already. they're off limits for palestinians but some of them are still building anyway even though they don't have permission from the israeli authorities. taking that risk of building even though many people he knows have received demolition orders or had their homes destroyed but. we want to have houses one of the choices that 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 would choose. the occupied west bank the trumpet ministration is imposing major new travel restrictions on americans visiting cuba the try.