arrests including as you mentioned earlier one of the the veteran opposition leaders. so unless there are really firm guarantees that this sort of thing is not going to happen again and that there really is a proper commitment to. to a transition to a civilian rule it's inconceivable that the democratic forces will come back to the table do you get the sense that the military is in a little bit of a rush here to stamp its footprint unequivocally on the country before the international reaction gets stronger than it's been just over the past 24 hours. i think the the military is divine did i think the professional military of the sudan armed forces who over the many months of protests against the former president omar al bashir showed remarkable restraint in not firing on the protesters i'm sure most of the officer corps of the sudan army are appalled at

what is happening what we have in a way is the revenge of the join you we army was not ready to fight in many of the counter-insurgency campaigns in darfur in other parts of the country in previous years they had a tank battalion they had their aircraft but the ground forces during the fighting were the irregulars led by their ruthless and bold but also an educated paramilitary commanders like general who met he's not really a general he was promoted to a general but he's never going to stop and these are the people who have seized power who are actually making the running but they have no constituency outside themselves so exactly what they're going to do with the power that they've seized other than causing havoc is really not clear to anybody briefly sir cause we are almost out of time is it your sense that the military the kind of people you are now talking about will never really want to accept being subservient to

a civilian administration i think once they have shed blood in this manner they have backed themselves into a corner they have crossed the rubicon so any compromise will involve demands for accountability demands for justice and that's something that is going to be very unpalatable to the men who are who are managing this crackdown at the moment and so what we appreciate your insight many thanks. lots more ground still to cover for you here on the news hour including a new era of friendship the leaders of china and russia say they're committed more than ever to closer relations. with. and not by algorithm an exhibition of images produced by the world's 1st humanoid ai artist. for congress in paris where the president

try to empower. the fighters in yemen say they've crossed the border into saudi arabia and they've taken control of more than 20 military positions that movie say they've killed dozens of saudi troops during heavy fighting near the southern city of not ran. coalition at war in yemen has launched air strikes in the area over the past 3 days . as more from santa the host these have also inflicted heavy losses on the saudi backed forces most of them have been recruited from areas southern yemen. to defend the saudi southern borders this recent escalation and also retaliatory attacks by these. come in context with the.

recent call by the leader. holds the who called for the launch of over $300.00 retaliatory attacks that include. also missile attacks. these recent school ation also in response to the delay and also in the to the sit back and the fulfillment and also the. to complete the. fulfillment of the sweden peace agreements and the hope he's described that the saudi backed forces haven't have not yet fulfilled their parts of the agreement say that they have already withdrawn from the from the sea ports we have withdrawn 5 kilometers to the east of the seaports so that's why the say that we have launched the. a group of u.s. senators is trying to block weapons sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates

and to jordan to president donald trump bypassed congress last month by declaring an emergency because of growing tensions with iran and he approved $8000000000.00 worth of arms sales which the bipartisan group of senators want stopped practical hain is in washington. this is a bipartisan group of senators most notably the republicans or some of the president's closest allies in the senate but these are offensive weapons they're smart guided bombs they're mortars jet engines for fighter jet they are concerned that these could be used in the war in yemen there's also concern over the killing of washington post columnist marcus shoji so the senators want to send a message to donnelly saudi arabia the united arab emirates but the president but one. actual impact will it have well not much less several more republicans get on board the president can simply veto the measure a number of senate republicans are beginning to say we need to constrain the

president the way the congress has traditionally constrained the executive branch i'm hopeful but i'm also skeptical let's hope that this time it's different let's hope that these murmurings among republicans about the saudi arms sales and about the tariffs are real and they will actually stand up to him which is what a congress should do even when they're of the same party as the president now if they are able to get enough republican support in the senate then they have to do the same in the house of representatives and that seems like a much longer shot there has been some talk among democrats about change in the last of the president's couldn't declare emergencies like this the larger goal is likely in the senate where they can debate this for weeks or months they can threaten to hold up the entire white house agenda in the senate by talking about these resolutions intil the president decides to go through congress and try and get their approval for the saudi deal now the white house has given no indication

that they are not going to continue back in saudi arabia in particular the crown prince mohammed bin salma. u.s. intelligence shows saudi arabia has significantly escalated its ballistic missile program by purchasing technology from china that's according to a u.s. media report that says there is a suspected missile factory west of the capital riyadh the u.s. president mr trump has been accused of not disclosing this information to key members of congress the discovery has heightened concerns among congress over a potential arms race in the middle east let's talk now to jeff stacy he's a national security and development consultant who worked at the u.s. department of state during the obama administration is in washington jeff stacey what's the difference between not disclosing and covering up. very little indeed and that's exactly what congress thinks both sides of the aisle this isn't a very alarming developments and especially as the president says they're basically

celebrating a successful alliance this runs quite contrary to the interests of that alliance washington is going to wake up tomorrow and be hopping mad on both sides of the aisle about this new development and the key question is this administration in any way not just aware of this but colluding with this are they a party to this how much information have they been actually given by the saudis how much have they decided to look the other way encourage even possibly broker in some way shape or form this is a major adversary of the united states in the west named in the trump national security strategy and so now we we've going to have questions is there collusion not only with russia but also with china what are the potential implications of this. well they cascade in numerous directions 1st of all you

have the white house misleading congress so there's been heavy oversight on this for months and months related to a show killing related to civilian deaths in yemen and what have you this ups the ante much more and makes everyone think about the relationship between the president's son in law the crown prince of saudi arabia and other matters so there's that and then if saudi arabia base of the increases its capabilities significantly we need to see what's going to be produced in this factory are they tactical weapons are they. series of medium to long range cruise missiles or we have to find out what they are china has technology for all of these things and the u.s. may be aiding and abetting this this what could be in an arms race in the middle east and right when the u.s. has moved major assets into the area with a crisis of its own creation with iran so what is iran supposed to do what are the

other cuts are and others thinking about with regard to this and that means the hoodies as well which are not controlled a strictly by iran as everyone thinks so there's going to be now an incentive for others to maybe not only increase their own capabilities but to lash out right when all of this newly arrived weaponry from the u.s. has arrived in the theater in the gulf does this also mean that the that the powers that be in rio are in direct violation of standing strictures custom and practice arrangements when it comes to being in violation of standing agreements point number one owns a point number 2 does this mean that if what is being built in this alleged facility is as bad as you think it might be but my knowledge other countries into doing something similar but completely off the radar. true and so we have the nuclear nonproliferation treaty right here that the saudis are

a signatory to what is going to happen the un security council is basically got fetters on it these days maybe a president state but it could be issued but that's doubtful who really is going to stand up and the hold approach of violator a proliferator 2 accounts it's very difficult in the current international environment and then you have the chinese what are the chinese doing here china is showing itself to basically be thwarting not just the interest of global south countries all over the world through these stacked deals with regard to infrastructure then they've been building up their islands now we haven't heard anything about attacking taiwan in a while but this is a very significant development and we're going to have underneath the president and his nephew a whole series of u.s.

intelligence agencies the the department of defense state others who are going to be hopping upset about this very concerned and want it stopped but with the president and his nephew stopped them just they say we must leave it there thank you so much my pleasure the debate over what to do with the relatives of eisel fights as in foreign prisoners is back in the spotlight now that's off to the repatriation of 8 americans with ties to eisele from the northeast of syria they include 2 women and 6 children they're among thousands of people have been detained in camps controlled by kurdish forces this week hundreds have been allowed to go home is in washington. not much is known about this group of 8 u.s. citizens said to be 2 women and 6 children being brought back to the united states from northeastern syria where they apparently have been living in a refugee camp it's not known whether they're going to be immediately returning to

their home communities or whether there's going to be some sort of transition process the u.s. state department says it can't reveal any of that information under federal privacy act considerations now this would be possibly the 2nd such repatriation of at least a woman and several children in recent weeks another family a family of 4 has already been brought back to the united states but the u.s. has also repatriated 18 people it says took up arms for eisel 13 of them are on trial it does raise the question about whether there is a consistent policy to repatriate those who joined the caliphate between 2014 and earlier this year when the caliphate fell to u.s. and syrian forces this is also a situation where you're asking now what actually happens to those people who have

survived the end of the caliphate how are they rehabilitated do they pose a security risk and in the case of the 10s of thousands of children can they go back to their home communities can they be reintegrated will they be cared for or will they suffer the damage of having been raised in the middle of a war zone. fighters linked to a slipping blame for monday that killed 13 civilians in a village in the democratic republic of congo fighting between the allied democratic forces and the government in the resource rich eastern part of the country has intensified over recent days. another attack in the village near the city of binny in the eastern democratic republic of congo villages a victims was shot and stabbed government officials believe attacks by the allied democratic forces or a group relieved to be linked is responsible for several attacks in the area the violence has bored more misery and discretion to

a community. of conflict. we are demonstrating because we are tired of idiot rebels killing our people we also don't like it when government troops display the bodies of rebels that they have killed on the street this will make the rebels come back and take their revenge on us. the fighting between the a.d.f. and congolese forces seems to be intensifying people in this area have witnessed decades of violence it's believed more than 100 different groups are vying for territory and control in east india and the ones in the mineral resources are also a source of conflict they deal is home to the world's largest was. used in mobile phones and electric cars as well as significant quantities of cobalt copper diamonds and gold. the world's largest un peacekeeping force. some other people under constant attack say they feel authorities aren't doing enough. to support

those who we call upon the international and national communities to understand that these killings are no longer taking place in the forests they're taking place in the town of benny. for now burying the dead is all the civilian population can do many know given the long and brutal history of this area . even less would like to hear what we want security restored since the mobutu regime i have never seen security forces who are so weak we are facing terrorism the authorities need to act. the containing violence is happening if is to contain the sick and west people of the epidemic on record the number of cases hit 2000 this week as a rate of infection accelerates adding another problem to an already deadly mix. do stay with us here on the news hour still to come we'll tell you about the invisible threat in nigeria that's killed hundreds of children and is threatening the lives of thousands of others also ahead why cuba is almost becoming

a no go country for americans as the u.s. government again gets tough with its communist neighbor. and in the sports teams south africa's cricket world cup campaign goes from bad to worse as they lose again this time against india. the web and sponsored by cattle and raise. hello again and welcome back well cross parts of china we have seen plenty of rain that is going to continue over the next few days it really depends on which day and where that rain is going to be here the heavy showers on our satellite map particular along the coastal areas but as we go towards thursday most of the rains are going to slowly move and shift up here towards north shanghai is going to see the wrang few shows going to see the rain as well 34 degrees is expected high but it's going to be mostly cloudy for hong kong

on thursday but the grain could be coming back by the time we get to the weekend but we do expect to see though it is going to be quite humid so the relative humidity and the heat is going to make it feel more like 35 to 36 degrees as the heat index here across much of the philippines we are going to see some clouds across the area where it is looking quite nice down here across indonesia most of the islands are going to be partly cloudy and drier but for parts of alasia it is going to be quite wet over the next few days as well as towards the southern portions of vietnam so what you meant heavy rain in your forecast as well as over here towards much of thailand of the next few days bangkok a high for you of about $35.00 degrees and then very quickly across parts of india we're still dealing with a severe heat wave across much of the central area temperatures are hovering into the mid forty's there but it is cooling down across much of the south where temperatures into the low thirty's. the weather sponsored by cattle and ways capturing

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welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera news on my name's peter dhabi here in doha these are your top stories so far this hour the u.n. pulling some stuff from saddam after an escalation in violence earlier this week the u.k. has also announced it's closing its embassy up to say the military crackdown has left more than 100 people dead emergency talks will continue on thursday in washington when mexican officials are trying to stop a 5 percent imposed tariff president trump is warning the tax will come into force if mexico does not stop illegal immigrant. and in yemen who sea rebels say they've taken control of more than 20 military positions on saudi territory. from sin

island the latest stop on his tour of europe mr trump said he believes island will be left quote in great shape after bricks it on the border won't be a problem the irish prime minister the tee shot clear over it could responded by saying island wanted to avoid a hard border or a wall mr varadkar plan to use his new scene with mr trump who's been a vocal supporter of bricks it to underline irish concerns earlier donald trump ended a state visit to the u.k. by joining world leaders in the city of portsmouth to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the d.-day landings a decisive turning point in world war 2 was there. away from the politics and the protests of the past 2 days donald trump was back in the limelight shoulder to shoulder with queen elizabeth world war 2 allies and countries long since reconciled on behalf of the entire country indeed to her own free

well that i shit you all think. it's 75 years since the normandy landings the decisive turning point in the war with britain the us and their allies launched the most ambitious seaboard invasion plan ever this poignant moment of remembrance trump stuck to the script with a prayer almighty god our sons pride of our nation. this day have sent upon a mighty endeavor that bring some concerns about donald trump's presence here that he would in some way to track from the solemnity of the cage and draw attention away from the veterans of d.-day many of them in their ninety's who were young men when they went to war so it's about respect and we can keep politics out of the situation and it's more the legacy of the united states and their importance to the day that i think he it's important that he's here as well as all of the all of representatives all the other nations as well as the president under their country

he does what the people want but all these people around him moaning and groaning. get a life. is 25 years since a very different us president visited portsmouth for the 50th anniversary of d.-day then bill clinton mingled with the crowds today there's a gulf between the u.s. president and the public extensive fortifications around the main enclosure watchtowers snipers $22000000.00 worth of security a letter from captain and w.g. skin british prime minister theresa may will step down in the coming weeks in the past few days trumps held meetings with several possible successes intervening in british politics like few american leaders before him and. for trump the state visit is a p.r. coup back home with the u.s. audience obsessed with the royal family for many brits his visit was a reason to protest i almost wonder if this is. sort of beyond repair

personally have to have some uncle as a staff in the white house who are listening because there's a 2nd term i can imagine what will happen for instance just in the case of iran. a country that wants peace. is being forced in another direction. as the 2nd world war is remembered the shadow of another potential conflict looms in the middle east between america and iran against the advice of many of america's allies leave baka al jazeera portsmouth. thailand's new parliament has voted to keep the prime minister approved in power the military joint chiefs secured the 375 votes required in both houses of parliament becomes 10 weeks after thailand's general election was held the opposition says the polls will hold the just a minus military dominance in governments the latest from bangkok it was

a very long process in parliament and at the end of us there was no surprise that. was elected to continue as prime minister because the system was basically rigged in his favor the military was able to hand pick all 250 senators sitting in the upper house of parliament so almost regardless of what happened in the lower house the party a party backed by the military and the party that nominated prior to become prime minister knew that it could probably rely on all 250 senators to deliver it the numbers that it needed on the other sides a pro democracy bloc led by the poor thai party that was removed in the coup in 2014 and the party that won the most seats in the election in march will parties in that block allege that this was a dirty campaign by the other side that millions of dollars was offered to members of parliament to switch allegiances and vote for prior to continue as prime

minister put i didn't nominate one of its own to be prime minister instead it went for the leader of the new future forward party that performed so well in the election its leader tonnage on june kit performed a remarkable campaign really and is clearly now a force to be reckoned with in thai politics even though he couldn't quite get the numbers to be prime minister clearly the military is concerned about the threat that he poses now to there are several dubious legal cases against him that could see him banned from politics or even thrown in jail. the russian president says both moscow and china want the crisis in venezuela stabilized let it be a putin made those comments while hosting china's leader xi jinping he's on a state visit both countries allied with the venezuelan president nicolas maduro mr putin also said ties with china are at an unprecedented level as both countries seek closer relations just sanctions with the us beijing is locked into a trade war with washington while moscow's ties with america have been damaged over

the conflict in ukraine step vasant is in moscow. relationship between both russia and china has reached an unprecedented level that's the message both teachin ping and president vladimir putin have sent to the world today they have been signing a series of documents and agreements conjuring up just $22000000000.00 u.s. dollars and interestingly clinton sat at a lot of trade the be done and the national currencies russia of course is facing sanctions by the united states because of its crisis in ukraine and also china is facing higher trade tariffs so they both want to show to the united states other have other friends as well to turn to last year in 2018 both countries had the highest level of trade after more than $100000000000.00 u.s. dollars and also on the international front russia and china have said that they want to stick to iran deal and also that the solution in north korea should be

definitely a peaceful one but we have to bear in mind that the economy of russia of course is a lot smaller than that of china it's only 110th so whatever happens in the future and how i'm president of their relationship will be for the time being as the spokesman of fulton described it russia will still be looking to the west and the russian eagle will fly both ways as you describe it and the same will be done by china. a deal between fear and rhino that would have created the world's 3rd biggest carmaker has fallen apart chrysler blamed the political climate in france for pulling out of the possible merger and said the french government which owns 15 percent of rona would stop the deal from being a success the combined company would produce nearly $9000000.00 cars a year falling behind volkswagen and toyotas. you tube says it will ban what it describes as hateful videos the video sharing platform owned by google will block content that promotes or glorifies racism and discrimination it will also ban and

remove any videos that deny well documented events in history such as the holocaust in unspent is the latest in a series of tech industry moves to filter out hateful and violent content but some free speech advocates say hate speech should not be censored or if it goldberg is an assistant professor of law at the university of dayton in ohio she says the move could backfire and end up being counterproductive. but there are a very small number of private entities that basically control the conversation on the internet now and by doing this you tube is appointing itself arbiter of what topics we can engage in it's discriminating on the basis of viewpoint basically and that raises a lot of concerns because this speech will get out there but now it's going to be driven underground where other people can't really engage with it and might not change people's minds and that leads to a sort of further radicalization so it is

a concern that youtube has so much control now over controversial topics that counterproductive problems with doing something like this is you create free speech martyrs you kind of conflate 1st amendment for free speech concerns with the truly sort of objectionable views that people want to express and when a private entity that is so powerful like you to censors these opinions or you know doesn't treat certain opinions the same as it treats other opinions you create people who say well now i'm not only expressing this opinion but now i'm championing free speech principles and you create a group of people that feels even more eliminated and marginalized and may already be on the sort of margins which is why they have kind of offensive in the 1st place the u.s. government is imposing new travel restrictions on cuba the treasury department says it will no longer allow educational cultural groups to travel to the island one of the most popular forms of tourism from the u.s.

if you also deny permission for private and corporate craft and it's part of efforts by the u.s. to pressure have anna for its support of president nicolas maduro in venezuela and a guy like her has more now from miami where many of the u.s. cruises bund for cuba depart from. when president barack obama landed in cuba in march 2016 he became the 1st u.s. leader to do so since 928 it was the beginning of a new era of so-called normalization between the 2 nations. the loosening of travel restrictions cruise companies airlines all lined up to meet the demand so called people to people exchanges were designed to exchange cultures and perhaps put money in small business owners pockets in cuba at the top administration has now changed all that banning all vessels and even people to people exchanges these are very tight restrictions but not all analysts agree it's a good move this is a government that for good or ill has outlasted 6 decades of u.s. sanctions the u.s.

doesn't have much more leverage to try to push the cuban government to make changes that it perhaps would want to see these sanctions just reinforce an all bilateral dynamic that's going to go nowhere fast the new restrictions of the travel industry and something of a state of chaos cruise ships are already diverting to other destinations but those that run educational programs many for americans whose roots are in cuba say this is a great loss i think ultimately there's a sense of disappointment whenever an announcement like this is me here but one has taken over 150 millennia to the island to connect with their heritage and with their families ultimately i think that cuba one will continue to look forward in supporting the cuban people and making sure that people understand that travel to cuba is the ultimate way to engage in move forward in space the trumpet ministration says cuba represents a communist foothold in the region they also point out that they are island support of nations like venezuela and nicaragua is a problem ultimately this administration doesn't want to see u.s.

dollars propping up a regime they want to see change the decades old embargo remains in place but these new restrictions will affect both nations. the trumpet ministration has imposed new restrictions on medical research using fetal tissue and a major victory for abortion opponents government scientists will no longer be allowed to use fetal tissue for the research this issue is usually taken from elective abortion abortions which would otherwise be discarded. lead poisoning is threatening the lives of thousands of children in the northwest of nigeria that's the warning from local health officials hundreds died since the 1st case was reported nearly 10 years ago as a committed risk reports violence is hampering efforts to help those affected here in nigeria zone for a state these children are sick from lead poisoning but it's difficult for their parents to get the help they need to.