sure so as we go from thursday and into friday notice that we do particular some overnight showers across much of the area also into parts of eastern turkey where that will remain as we go into friday as well that day though clouds in your forecast as we go towards friday with the temperature about $44.00 degrees we have crossed the gulf not much of a change over the next few days tempters into the low forty's for many areas down along the coast though that is where we're seeing some clouds and also some rain coming in off the arabian sea and that could bring some a unity as well so for salon we do expect to see attempt to there of about 32 degrees clouds in the forecast as well as quite humid over the next few days and then very quickly across parts of southern africa we do expect to see some clouds remaining anywhere from cape town all the way over here towards durban windy conditions could also be a problem across much of that area but dry across much of the interior as well as the north we're going to sing harare with a nice day for you at 24 degrees johannesburg maybe a few clouds at 19 but over here towards durban things improve for you with sunny

conditions on friday at 20 degrees there. the weather. data and. i really want to get down to the reality where on line. with our global federation it is really hard to get a pilot or if you join us. this is a dialogue everyone has a voice to talk to us in our live you tube chat and you too can be. joining the global conversation on our.

top stories here on al-jazeera the un is putting. on the escalation of violence this week also announces closing its embassy doctors say the latest military crackdown is that more than a 100 people. notice the talks will continue on thursday in washington where mexican officials are trying to prevent a 5 percent president warning the taxes will come into force at mexico doesn't stop illegal immigration and group of u.s. senators is trying to block weapons sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan bypass congress last month by declaring an emergency because of growing tensions with iraq. health officials are warning that lead poisoning is threatening the lives of thousands of children in northwest nigeria hundreds of died since the 1st case was reported nearly a decade ago but it just reports violence is hampering efforts to help those affected here in nigeria some for a state these children are sick from lead poisoning. but it's difficult for their

parents to get the help they need tensions between farmers and herders of access to land have led to armed gangs often attacking people in this region making it risky to try and reach hospitals the money as i see it a lot of his condition deteriorates let alone have to take him to the doctors on a motorcycle in a little come to sleep because of insecurity and that's the scene with all children affected. for years muhammad watched his son's health deteriorate until he was unable to walk or eat today now you can only be fed through a tube grafted into stomach there's heavy concentrations of lead in the earth here and aid organizations say many children began inhaling lead dust when a rapid rise in gold mining started around a decade ago. some are contaminated when they work in the mines others

when their relatives return covered in dust or when or is crushed at war. health workers say the levels of lead falling children's blood treatments can often be free tell their range was staggering between $1400.00 micrograms of lead participant or blood above $100.00 really it is said that most victims die right but there is no all safe blood lead level even 5 micrograms of lead participate or blood or even below the russe some serious consequences in terms of neurocognitive. deficit. but with attacks now happening almost every day so parents here say all they do is to wait and. and they aren't the only ones who have been advised by security and. who because

it's all of exposure to our team and this is affecting the treatment that we give to the children and we're very worried that this will be to reach the situation for me see more problems with late in the community nigeria's strict mining rules are forced many workers you know minus underground they are bringing to process exposing many children to contamination idea contamination project carried out in several villages 4 years ago is now at risk. for many here mining for gold is their only way to survive but by making a living this way they are putting their lives at serious risk comedy agrees al-jazeera about a lot worse nigeria. when as you mentioned earlier u.s. president donald trump is an island the latest stop on his european tour trump said he believes arlen to be left in great shape after briggs it and the border on the island will not be a problem you obviously the leader of radical responded by saying it's country

wants to avoid a hard border with northern ireland which is in the u.k. veronica used his meeting with trump to underline i was concerned of a briggs that was the u.s. president strongly supports earlier trump and that his 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 the 2nd world war barca reports. away from the politics of the protests of the past 2 days donald trump was back in the limelight shoulder to shoulder with queen elizabeth's world war 2 countries long since reconciled on behalf of the entire country. indeed to her own free will. that i should change you all saying hill. is 75 years since the normandy landings the decisive turning point in the war with britain the u.s. and the 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 set upon a mighty endeavor that brings some concerns about donald trump's presence in that he would in some way to track from the solemnity of the cajun 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 he's the president under their country he does what the people want and 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 watch towers snipers $22000000.00 worth of security a letter from captain and w.g. skinner british prime minister theresa may will step down in the coming weeks in the past few days trumps held meetings with several possible successors intervening in british politics like few american leaders before him and. for trump of 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 1st of all you have to have someone or a staff in the white house who are listening because there's a 2nd term i can't 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 barkha al-jazeera ports with the trumpet ministration has imposed new restrictions on medical research using fetal tissue and a major victory for opponents of abortion government scientists will no longer be allowed to use fetal tissue for studies into conditions including several counselors the u.s. health department says it's trying to balance pro-life and post science imperatives . russia's president says both moscow and china want the crisis in venezuela stabilized putin made the comments while hosting china's leadership things in a state visit both countries are allied with venezuela's president nicolas maduro and also said ties with china and president a level as both countries see closer relations due to tensions with the u.s.

. following 70 years of development relations between china and russia have reached the best level yet faced with opportunities for new development we decided to make full use of our experience together maintain our friendship and open up a new era of comprehensive strategic cooperation. has more now from moscow. the relationship between both russia and china has reached an unprecedented level that's the message and president vladimir putin has sent to the world today they have been signing a series of documents and agreements counting up to 22000000000 us dollars and interestingly at a lot of trade national currencies russia of course is facing sanctions by the united states because of the crisis in ukraine and also china is facing trade tariffs so they both want to show to the united states that they have other friends

as well to turn to last year in 2018 both countries had the highest level of trade 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 $110.00 so whatever happens in the future and how i'm president of their relationship will be for the time being as the spokesman of good in this private russia will still be looking to the west the russian eagle will fly both ways. and the same will be done by china now every year a report on freedom in the media documents the state of journalism worldwide this year's review by freedom house blames politicians for declining public confidence in the media and even putting journalists lives in danger in some countries alan

fischer reports now from washington d.c. . you are the enemy of the people go ahead let's go trump is known for his attacks on the media but a new report on press freedom says the constant onslaught leads to a loss of confidence in mainstream outlets the report says it's a template being copied by so-called populous leaders elsewhere in the world it highlights viktor orban in hungary and serbia's alexander footage as 2 leaders who've concentrated media ownership in supporters hands pushing critical voices to the margins journalists no longer believe the us will help when basic rights are violated here in the united states we really need to think about the example that we're setting present tense attacks on the past are are really really toxic both here at home and in the world and we need to. turn that around and bring our best friend. report also discusses the death of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi killed in the city consulate in istanbul last year it says while his death is perhaps the

most famous case it's hardly unique with journalists all around the world at risk almost every single day freedom house says the biggest drops in press freedom have come in eurasia and the middle east north africa areas the report says examples include new legislative restrictions embellished further arrests and convictions in lebanon and heightened insecurity and fatalities in war torn yemen people with in the countries need to understand the value of they be independent past the value that it can bring to their country and how it helps promote everybody's freedom freedom house insists it's not all bad news it highlights ethiopia malaysia armenia ecuador and gambia as places where improvement in democracy has led to partly all gains in media freedom and it says media freedom can easily bring spac from even long periods of authoritarian intervention but there's a warning to you about social media and how authoritarian governments and state

actors can manipulate. the online space to manipulate and undermine democracy it calls on the tech giants and governments to improve transparency which in turn improves press freedom and by extension democracy itself alan fischer al-jazeera washington. you choose says it will ban what it describes as hateful videos the video sharing platform owned by google block content deemed to promote or glorify racism and discrimination it will also remove any videos that deny well documented historical events such as the holocaust is the latest step by the tech industry to filter out hateful and violent content but some free speech advocates say hate speech shouldn't be censored well erica goldberg is from the university of dayton ohio she says the move could backfire. 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 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 tube 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

now an exhibition has opened in the u.k. city of oxford which could reframe the way we look at a robot called aida is having her 1st showing of the works have already been sold bringing in more than a $1000000.00 charlie rangel has more. like any artist ada says she's a little anxious revealing her art to the public for the 1st time. to create core traits like this takes a picture of her subject using the camera and her eye an algorithm then interprets that photo and randomly translates it into corners she plots paper the outcome is loose and expressive almost abstract a result of deliberately adding flaws into what would otherwise be a very expensive printer her creators argue that she is innately creative in that what she produces is new surprising and of value her works have all sold bringing in over $1200000.00 but they also wanted to stimulate debate about the future of

artificial intelligence and how it will change humanity by technology. of automation because of dramatic effect on the world. it's deeply worrying we need to have a public debate about this as to where this is all going and art is a great vehicle to be able to do that it is our the mode is abstract interpretation of trees the c. and b. producing fragmented pictures been painted over by humans here at oxford university professors are exploring the new frontier that is artificial intelligence but some don't believe that robots like helping the debate what ai and automation will look like in the future is not humanoid robots but more like mechanical arms and warehouses or checkout tills at tesco and so when we have embodied robots that

show women young attractive women we're kind of doing a disservice to the conversation we could be having about the future that we want for humanity ada's work is art by algorithm highlighting some of its limitations but also its potential and as we give machines more decision making power in areas like health care transport and security this world view seen by algorithm could become the dominant reality charlie al-jazeera oxford and you can catch up with all the news on our website there it is on his screen al-jazeera dot com. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the u.n. is putting some of its start out of saddam for an escalation of violence earlier this week the u.k. has also announced just closing its embassy doctors say the latest military

crackdown has left more than 100 people dead protest leaders are projected an offer of talks from the transitional military council emergency talks will continue on thursday in washington where mexican officials are trying to stop a 5 percent. president trump is warning the taxes will come into force if mexico does not stop illegal immigration. who the fighters in yemen say they have crossed the border into saudi arabia taken control of more than 20 military positions who they say they have killed dozens of saudi troops during heavy fighting in the southern city of nashua a group of u.s. senators is trying to block weapons sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan president trump bypass congress last month by the clearing an emergency because of growing tensions with iran he approved $8000000000.00 worth of arms sales which the bipartisan group of senators want stopped. 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 donald trump is an island the latest stop on his european tour trump said he believes ireland will be left in great shape after brigs it on the border on the island will not be a problem but the obviously the leader of radical responded by saying his country wanted to avoid a hard border with northern ireland which is in the u.k. as a vocal supporter of the u.k. leaving the european union russia's president says both moscow and china want the situation in venezuela stabilized flatmate putin made the comments while hosting china's leadership ping's in a state visit both countries are allied with venezuela's president nicolas maduro.

well those are the headlines the news continues. after street. cricket's biggest total it has come to england the morals 6 weeks tell me tell you . how. to find the charge for good fun and win a world cup tie with al jazeera for the latest on the 29th cricket world cup. here in the stream today hospitals under attack in syria why are medical facilities still being targeted by syrian government and russian forces also in the show a social media warning from behind and where what you follow online could land you into legal trouble and finally in australia why did federal police raid the country's public broadcasting offices we are live on al-jazeera and as always you

can join the conversation on twitter or on our you tube lifestream. this doctor says even this children's hospital couldn't escape the regime's shelling despite cord tonight's being shared with the u.n. . during the airstrikes my wife and daughters were also at the hospital but they had to keep them here to be able to evacuate the others the hospital was full it was tough to decide and keep the crew safe at the same time we have only 2 options either stay or die following the syrian regime's latest airstrikes targeting the health facilities in medical workers think they are being deliberately targeted aid organizations are scared to send crews into syria leading to a shortage in medical supplies people say here it is much easier to find weapons than finding medicines. that report was from al jazeera seen i'm close with and it features one of more than 25 how facilities have been bombed in northwest syria

since the syrian government and russian forces began their offensive in rebel controlled it why are the attacks allowed to continue and what impact is it having on syrian communities over that to discuss this is. founder and president of the n.g.o.s mad global. welcome to the story welcome back to the stream you were just in it how are hospitals and medical staff coping. they're praying for the best i mean i visited that we come back in chicago where things are. able for our patients here in the hospital we have access to health care and we spend. tons of money to save one life the doctors and nurses struggle to save the lives of their patients and save their. businesses.

all of them have been already about their future and whether the us standing in the next week or not and then life that 25 those that were bombed in southern lebanon or them. by the way when a hospital means that you are depriving the local population from health that mean if you are sick you cannot take them to the hospital back to need them all month pregnant and deliver our baby when someone has a chronic condition. and that will lead to displacement oscillation in the last 4 weeks according to the united nations about 300000 syrians have been displaced from so there is little or no than how much one of the main reason targeting and bombing schools and markets of course targeting civilian infrastructure and that targeting comes in the headlines like this so have a look at this from the independent doctors in italy will no longer share fortunate that hospitals with the united nations after repeated attacks from russian and

syrian forces so online of course the consequences for their tweets circulating like this one resign who says this will be a good time to lobby all u.n. member states and up holding their responsibility to protect it is necessary now more than ever the u. when of course is that body that so many people look to for safety and for help so the idea now that doctors and medical staff are deliberately having to go out of their way not to tell the u.n. about their locations for their own safety seems to. seem strange seems odd and scary talk to us about that. it's actually absurd to talk about this process which is called the conflict thing which is basically sharing your g.p.s. coordinate with that but national the u.n. expecting that the u.n. will protect you and expecting also the members of the u.n. security council not to talk. we're talking about specifically here russia but it

is also part of our norms and ethics as humanitarian and medical community interest community not to target those ambulances and doctors even the time for 450 years based on geneva conventions protocols doctors hospitals and beyond that should not be targeted should not be had should not be doctors should not be killed nurses even in the time of war even if they are treating the injured fighters we're talking about are treating communities here treating kids i mean i visited these hospitals the birth center in our you were shooting children and women and they are worried that they will be targeted and bombed like any other hospitals that were bombed and then you know by villages they are now doing most of their operations in the basement of the hospital not in the upper floor because they're more likely for the upper floor to be bombed some of the hospitals are even digging the hospitals and building them inside a mountain digging them inside the mullahs in that cave to protect the heart

doesn't that vision and inside of that they are being so this the conflicting process is not helping 9 of the $25.00. shares your audience with the u.n. there was no investigation about that there's no accountability and that's why you are keeping keep hearing about these news of the those being targeted that person that you any reports about that but to investigate them and sign accountability and this is not happening even though that you have 550000 that were bombed according to physicians for human rights from the beginning of that crisis russian and syrian government forces had been criticized of course and i want to play a clip from the u.n. ambassador the russian ambassador because they've been criticized for violating humanitarian law so have a listen to vesey lead his russian u.n. ambassador and this is his defense to the u.n. on may 17th. but it's mr president we categorically reject accusations of violations of international humanitarian law neither the syrian army

nor the air force of russia or are conducting attacks against civilians or civilian infrastructure our target is the terrorists and this is what some of you prefer not to mention new bullets so he says it's about quote unquote terrorism what's the response. and there's little problem is there's 3000000 people 1000000 of them are children what i've seen in my eyes in all of these hospitals that i visit this city and who are being treated children newborn and you could get those women who are having the fictions and delivering patients with chronic diseases. that happen the same day that i was visited. there was an open market that i visited it was bustling with with my because people are shopping for the month of ramadan right after we left it was hit with a mother and her 3 babies were killed in that market these are not dead already

these are civilians who are living in their cities and villages because that's what they live they don't want to be i see them actually there is no way for them to be refugees because turkey has killed or died in the north so the only way that they can do is to stay living and they're in their neighborhoods and cities and these are basically killing them displacing them mutilating them and causing a lot of stress on the civilian population i think. about that should be a shame that not only that government is supporting a government that is targeting civilians and hospitals and schools in a way that we have not seen and that he's been conflict this is you know never happened it was also he's lying about that so i want to end with a comment we got from the president of the syrian american medical society of course of what he used to be a part of this is that actually and here's what he told the stream. many of our doctors and nurses lost their lives in syria. many of our hospitals were targeted

and destroyed over the last 2 years. we went to serve food we made sure that our patients are see. now it is time for the law to protect us. we want to heal everybody in syria we want to heal syria. i think for that comment we'll have to pause the conversation on syria now per now but thank you for giving us that update our next topic is in danger which is warning its citizens to think twice before following social media accounts that share negative opinions about the government the country's ministry of interior sent a text message late last week debating the phones saying citizens could face legal action for following accounts which are biased or incite discord so how are behind the activists responding and berlin save use of a. blogger and human rights activists from bad aim is vice president of the group

democracy and human rights and in melbourne australia. is a spokesperson for the gulf institute for democracy and human rights welcome to the stream both of you and we also reached out to the government to share their views in this segment and they have not yet responded so saeed what was your reaction to the announcement. well i think this and i was paid by the government to get it to consider it and showed the think about him and that is not interested at all if you don't i mean and then there won't it's a different mission for a position. i would say at a position fair was famous in the street many wrote this way to many protests that were executed and even victims to do it executed more than of photos that politically put a day to a set for a political reason. to go in and now that government.

is dead that oppression reached with the social media not only in this city and so it is a skill a thing that would show that the government is tired of getting all people who are criticizing the government on social media and not only that but even following on social media is sick is a crime and you know i want to share with our audience and you too as well a couple of tweets from the ministry of interior so this from june 1st anti cyber crime countering and citing social media accounts that promotes addition is a national duty and it's part of the community partnership to protect the security and the safety of the nation here is another one individuals providing support and backing to those accounts through comments will be held accountable so what do we know about that word accountable what do we know about the legal recourse and what the government is planning. of course the government is planning to take illegal

legal actions they would enter gay people who follows those accounts they will arrest some of those people they would accuse them of inciting hatred into the community and disturbing the public order the government of bahrain does not accept any kind of criticism and does not accept any kind of demanding that people's basic rights end to freedoms they are campaigning there are reading all of all the kinds of freedoms and in the country the people are not allowed. to speak about their demands about the rights they are not either to speak about their human rights abuses and my relations they are subjected to. as they said i want them for 4000 political prisoners and the bahraini jade's those prisoners are subjected to every kind of torture you can imagine and nobody is a lot about them anybody who would dare to speak about these motivations and abuse it is going to be arrested is going to be accused of state charges

and is going to be subjected to torture to do on says. to contest that he did commit doest charges and to sign on those free confessions so the government is trying to silence all the critics the government is trying to silence all the people in the country they are trying to control what what do they think in the months so when we talk about control i want to audience just to be clear because definitely for the people that are watching the stream now and will watch it later social media is a part of their daily lives so mark owen jones as a writer and a professor writes this is verging on the absurd but i am is now saying that simply following accounts that spread discord which isn't defined is illegal clearly made by people who really don't understand social media and say that's because following an account doesn't necessarily mean that you agree with without account has to say do you think this is a surprise taking it to this stat. i

didn't feel predicted that's ok the idea of following someone on social media for some online seems like it's a bit of a far reach what do you make of that. well i think it's these since scientists by the government i mean but it is using the legal profession to silent these it like i just give you one example like my critique and friend nebular jab who was sentenced to 5 years in jail for a tweet it's also a clear example of how the government started getting those who are to criticize think them and turn it another. example to surprise him cheviot who was also recently arrested for tweets. he posted on social media so i mean it's clear that there is an oppression on those people who are criticizing their

government and the internet also i want to. report that without board that $167.00 out of the. country in the interest of free press and so that show you with a liberal of progression to where we are facing and biting you mentioned there be a lot of his word on this show several times we got a comment from someone who also mentions him and other people who might be affected by this this is joyce she's the head of advocacy at the index on censorship and she sent us this video comment and it's not censorship it's extremely concerned about the latest crackdown of rain and we're not surprised because it's part of the past regimes suppressing freedom of expression and persecuting human rights defenders such as an appeal for jobs for example who is in prison and. we think it's the extremely important of the international community should lose its disposal something to move relationship our brand of this is not acceptable. well it's about

how will this impact people's daily lives especially those who are involved with criticism or critiquing the government. the government is. making. a it is the one thing fear among this isn't so there are any citizens are now free if they want to just count out if they want just to read about something like it was on facebook or anything else they feel that they are not free to do so the i'm not 3. to do whatever they want on social media any word or any like to like something on facebook or in return which will lead them maybe 2 to prison and. not 2 meant not to forget to mention that the government had closed they only independent newspaper in the country i was at a newspaper. late in the previous year so there is no and no press freedom of the

country not even the overexpansion and people are being restricted. from everything they want to do or they must be covered. many em on twitter says this is an absolute infringement our rights to freedom of association and expression it also sets a dangerous precedent as it's basically a green light to the police to police even the simplest forms of civic engagement that is all the time we have for now on this subject but thank you saeed and fatah in our community for joining us and on to our final segment but all police in australia have raided the headquarters of the national broadcaster a.b.c. police are searching for information related to a series of reports from $27.00 team called the afghan files and it a.b.c. journalist cited leaked classified documents accusing australian special forces of unlawful killings and afghanistan here's the a.b.c.'s editorial director craig

mcmurtrie. to have a warrant executed on the headquarters of the national public broadcaster in this wakhan stated enough is an unwelcome development it is really serious and we take it very very seriously and you know. it feels uncomfortable because this is a pistol comment it's not the australia i know for example i've been a reporter in this country for a long long time and it's not what we expect that's why it feels so unusual and uncomfortable it should be uncomfortable and we should stand up and call of that out. so here with us is peter charlie executive producer of al-jazeera as investigative unit for al-jazeera he was a journalist and documentary producer in australia and a contributor to the a.b.c. so peter welcome to the stream this a.b.c. story went out 2 years ago so why is it that we're seeing this happen today well that's a very good question and one i think that will is for journalists who are asking

you conservative government was voted in just last month and it's curious the timing of this raid and a raid the day earlier on a news limited reporter who'd also reported on national security issues does froze the question why now and why coming why are they coming down so hard on journalists really for the 1st time in my memory. course the other raid is definitely circulating on twitter you see this week from tim who says yesterday it was today it's the a.b.c. a.f.p. 2nd raid on journalists in as many days so what a fact of course is this going to have its new so then also what effect will it have on journalism and australia well the great danger with this of course is it's going to have a chilling effect on whistle blows clearly the a.b.c. road was not necessarily at the reporters involved they were named in the in the search warrant. trying to identify and together evidence on the whistleblower

himself and the most likely logical outcome is that was so close will be afraid to step up know they'll be afraid to come forward with information they believe is of important public interest in this of course this is a beast the story is a very important public interest story so here's the a.b.c.'s editorial director craig mcmurtrie again commenting on the afghan files have a look. this was outstanding reporting its 2 years ago was it was challenging continent it was looking at the conduct of special forces in afghanistan it wasn't an easy subject matter to report on but i invite anybody who wants to have another look at that content to take a look at it because it was clearly in the public interest and sometimes difficult truths have to be told. difficult to see hear him there of course defending the reporting and defending that report what was your reaction and as

a journalist who's worked there who's worked in australia now is a broad what was your reaction when you 1st heard this i was horrified i think it's an absolute outrage that there's a could when i woke up to this news this morning i was mortified to hear that my colleagues at the a.b.c. had been braided. revealing this very important story and as you pointed out it's 2 years since the story went away so why now these trailing federal police coming in would such a road i mean there are many questions that need to be honest here so there's 2 opposing ideas on twitter among our community the 1st is lochlyn who says the raid set a dangerous precedent for police authority the power granted by the warrant is in direct contrast to a free press a free press is a core element to any democracy and i worry that today's events have put us on a slippery slope to autocracy and media censorship but on the other side of that spectrum is a lot of tweets some journalists have made this out to be the end of free speech

over this investigation indicating their careers are finished i don't believe so and i respect quality journalism without breaching the rules so it's not breaching rules part because he's not alone there with that sentiment online what do you make of that what does this what does this indicate to you well look i disagree entirely with the 2nd tweet and i agree with laughlin who were to express the 1st sentiment rules being broken i don't know exactly what's meant by that reporters here have revealed to the public what i think is an extremely important public interest story about an investigation ongoing in the department of defense about allegations of the special forces killing civilians under a child and i think the australian public has a right to know that and the fact that the police are trying to start. you would see that sort of whistle blowing is very very troubling to me and i think i'd take

it a step further than craig mcmurtrie his comments i think it's an agreed it's overreach on the part of the government and the police you mentioned the change in office so the prime minister and the home affairs minister both say that they have nothing to do with this timing of course online people are saying the timing is here yes what do you make of the timing just from your and and a little view of this from afar well it raises a number of questions and it just seems very very peculiar that just a couple of weeks after the election of a conservative government these raids take place years after the stories went away so you know i think a number of questions need to be answered and further investigation is required yes the prime minister and the home of his minister of distance themselves from the right but the raids had to have been referred to the federal police by someone and i think that's the that's the important question we need to answer other tweet here from laughlin who says setting

a precedent which allows for the government to barge in with a warrant and shut down journalists each time they're being held responsible for atrocious crimes is both reckless and dangerous from journalists from your fellow journalists back in australia what are you hearing from them now they're very worried i mean this is govan as the journalistic community in australia and there's a real sense of concern and fear within the journalist community that this may represent the 1st of possible through the steps encroaching into journalist a good dependence and trying to posing a chilling effect on investigative journalism and the sense of freedom that whistle blows may have once felt that they can come forward with information they feel the public needs to know peter charlie thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us that's all the time we have for now thanks of course our community for joining us. and thank you for watching at home you have a story idea that you want to see on this stream tweet us at a.j.

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people most of them refugees from sudan's blue nile state even this remote town and look to be a band hospital for all their medical needs they would has destroyed almost the infrastructures which are especially in the upper layer. almost all the way including my local hospitals are still living there in the process of who you know vision of the mother to work into the capacity that they're supposed to. the u.n. removes some of that start from the death toll from a military crackdown on protestors rises above $100.00. 11 down in jordan assad is there on live from doha also come. up emergency talks of

the white house to discuss illegal immigration from mexico but donald trump is still threatening to impose tariffs by monday. them bring d.-day world leaders gather on the british coast to mark 75 years since the largest seaborne invasion in history. i think. in iraq. thanks to peaceful. create. leasing good quality. art by algorithm an exhibition of images produced by the world's 1st humanoid ai artist. the united states has condemned the latest attacks on protesters in sudan and which at least a 100 people were killed washington's urging a resumption of talks between military rulers and opposition groups demanding

civilian government the united nations is pulling out some stuff while the u.k. has shut its embassy and one british citizens against traveling that warning stephanie decker's report contains images some viewers may find disturbing. the muslim holiday of eid marked by gunfire this man appears to be shot for getting the full picture of what's going on across sudan and it is difficult. these are the 1st images from outside the military headquarters where thousands at camp had to monday's crackdown it's been described to us by someone there as hopes and dreams destroyed the potential heart of a future sudan now with its arteries and veins cut off. the head of sudan's you military council made this offer in an ied message on national t.v. . the other day when the military council open our hands for unconditional talks and negotiations for the sake of our country's interests in order to complete the establishment of a legitimate authority that represents the variety of aspirations of the sudanese

people's revolution. this is a u. turn just 24 hours after but han halted negotiations with the protesters the death toll keeps rising since monday's attack on the protest camp and wider clampdown bodies are being pulled out of the river nile at least 40 so far according to sudan's main doctors group they're believed to been dumped there on the day of the crackdown by the rapid support forces or r s f formerly known as the gender weed militia and accused of committing more crimes in darfur the man in charge of them then now the deputy head of the military council. it is do you know the aim of the rapid support forces and this is an important point is to be on the side of the revolution of the sudanese people this is what we are convinced of after the talks and the negotiations i feel sorry to say things were not on the right track. the military's being accused of confiscating mobile phones to try to stop the violence

being documented and shared al-jazeera has correspondents in sudan but they've been told to leave the country and are currently confined to their hotel such of us report a paramilitary group is rated hospitals looking for injured protesters and the medical workers treating them and one of the rapid support forces came in and attacked me and hit me here and over here as well may god punish them. the doctors union says the beating suffered by patients and their colleagues are part of a wider campaign of violence. the miniatures apologized for the violence and says it will investigate its called for elections within 9 months something the opposition has rejected. just weeks ago protesters gathered full of hope the talks of the military council were on the verge of a breakthrough now that hope has turned to anger and protesters say they won't back down stephanie decker al-jazeera. i'm a senior center nice opposition leader has been arrested and beaten that's

according to his party last year our man had recently returned home up and living in exile for years as people's liberation movement is part of the main opposition coalition lastly the ministry hunter ordered our man to lead the country. a mexican delegation would hold more talks in washington on thursday to try to resolve the dispute over illegal migration president trump threatening to impose tariffs unless mexico stops undocumented migrants attempting to enter the u.s. or wednesday's talks ended without a deal she botanising reports for the 1st time he's been here as a present united states speaking in ireland before the talks president trump was unequivocal about his threat of imposing tariffs on mexican imports beginning monday. if mexico didn't act against undocumented migration into the u.s. if they don't terrorists will go on and if they go high the companies are going to move back into the united states and so it's very simple people are going to have to worry about paying the tax because the companies are going to move back in to the united states there won't be any care after the talks the mexican foreign

minister said both sides would reconvene on thursday. we don't discuss tried it like i said charts. dialogue west's focus and very rich we are optimistic because we have a good meeting with respect respect position from both parts and president to express a sliver of optimism following the meeting progress is being made he tweeted but added not nearly enough. republicans in congress are making their opposition to the imposition of tariffs clear even raising the prospect of a potential veto proof votes to prevent them from going into effect there is not much support in my conference for terms such as sure most of us hope. that this mexican delegation it's come up here and discuss. the. challenges at the border and what the mexicans might be able to do to help us more than they. will be

fruitful there should be noted that congressional republicans have grumbled a president of the post only eventually to fall in line. washington with the fighters in yemen say they have crossed the border into saudi arabia and taken control of more than 20 military positions who they say they have killed dozens of saudi troops during heavy fighting in the southern city of not run the saudi american aid coalition as long as dan strikes in the area of the possible days. from the capital sana'a. the host these have also inflicted heavy losses on the saudi backed forces most of them have been recruited from. southern yemen to defend the saudi southern borders this recent escalation and also retaliatory attack 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 need to do this it backs in 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 they 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 jordan president trump bypass congress last month by declaring an emergency

over iran they approved $8000000000.00 worth of arms sales which the senators want stopped particle has more from 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 jets they are concerned that these could be was 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. donnelly saudi arabia the united arab emirates but to the president but what 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 you know if they are able to get enough republican support in the senate then they'd 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 changing the law so the president 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. time for a short break here now to 0 when we come back we'll tell you about the invisible threat to nigeria that's killed hundreds of children and is being blamed for making

many of the sick states. hello again and welcome back well we are seeing some clouds and some rain here develop across much of the eastern med and into the middle east over the next few days there's that line of clouds right there making its way on shore so as we go from thursday and into friday notice we do pick some overnight showers across much of the area also into parts of eastern turkey where that will remain as we go into friday as well that day though clouds in your forecast as we go towards friday with the temperature about $44.00 degrees where across the gulf not much of a change of the next few days tempters hovering into the low forty's for many areas down along the coast though that is where we're seeing some clouds and also some rain coming in off the arabian sea and that could bring some humidity as well so

for salon we do expect to see attempt to there of about 32 degrees clouds in the forecast as well as quite humid over the next few days and then very quickly across parts of southern africa we do expect to see some clouds remaining anywhere from cape town all the way over here towards durban windy conditions could also be a problem across much of that area but dry across much of the interior as well as the north we're going to sing harare with a nice day for you at 24 degrees johannesburg maybe a few clouds at 19 but over here towards durban things improve for you with sunny conditions on friday at 20 degrees there. capturing a moment in time they're snapshots of other lives. other stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's world. inspiring documentaries from him.