after perhaps attempting to to make sure that the likes of al jazeera we're out of town but still you know the pictures all around the world so there are competing interests here in the us as is said you know that this is not ok that they wanted to stop it some of their allies that are better involved in sudan have a different agenda how does how does that affect what's happening there but is actually one of the most interesting mixes it is very clear that the u.s. allies in the region particularly egypt saudi arabia and the rest some of the other gulf states directly involved and perhaps almost subtly if the change of tone and direction by. the u.n. to in sudan but at the same time the u.s. has been hostile to fix maybe the need is the u.s. can do today is to tell their allies to tell his guys to come down but also to directly intervene and tell this beef with the luke you know if you continue doing

what you've done in the last several days you face the consequences and again as i say i actually don't know who advises these days what they've really done in the last few days in this day and age there's no way in which this is something that's going to go on funny just of a political analyst joining us from london preset your insight thank you so monies are being held in northern france to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the d.-day landings and as president and britain's prime minister are in person there and normandy to lay the 1st stone for a new memorial these are live pictures right now the site overlooks gold beach which is one of the locations of the d.-day landings yes president will join other dignitaries in france for more commemorations on thursday. and a day earlier trump ended his state visit to the u.k. enjoying world leaders and portsmouth to honor those who died in the 2nd world war and parker has more. 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 world war 2 allies and countries long since reconciled on behalf of the entire country. indeed to her own country well that i say to you all think. it's 75 years since the normandy landings the decisive turning point in the war the brits and the u.s. and that 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 bring some concerns about donald trump's presence in that he would in some way to track from the solemnity of the occasion 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 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 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. so i had on al jazeera.

thanks to. my art by algorithm at exhibition produced by the world's 1st humanoid artist. 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 is that line of clouds right there making its way on shore so as we go from thursday and into friday notice we do predict 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 to is friday with a temperature of about 44 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 attempts 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 be seeing harare with a nice day for you at $24.00 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.

watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories this hour an emergency meeting is being held by the african union to address the crackdown on a protest camp and sudan that's killed at least 100 people united nations and the u.k. embassy how both announced they were moving some of their staff from the country but the fighters in yemen say they have crossed the border into saudi arabia and

taken control of more than 20 military positions the saudi marotta coalition which backs the many government has neither confirmed nor denied the who the advancements ceremonies are being held in northern france to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the d.-day landings france's president and britain's prime minister laid the 1st stone for a new memorial the us president will join them later on thursday. a parliamentary committee investigating sri lanka's church bombings that killed more than $250.00 people in april is meeting senior government officials it's looking into causes that led to the series of coordinated attacks on easter sunday the top member team will also look into what action needs to be taken tension between muslims and buddhists has resurfaced following those attacks ministers resigned on monday after demands from national lash alist buddhist monks and all fernandez joins us live from colombo so now what's happening with this us session today.

right now this is the special parliamentary select committee on the easter sunday bombings happening just behind me in parliament just outside that committee room it is the 3rd day of hearings and this committee is seeking to try and get some kind of understanding as to what exactly happened that allowed that carnage on the 21st of april now today we've got the police chief inspector general of police which is just under who is appearing before the select committee incidentally he is on compulsorily sent on compulsory leave by the president in his capacity as the head overseeing the police but you have the i.g.p. presenting his case essentially we do know that both the i.g.p. and the former defense secretary had been blamed for a multitude a century of failures that allowed that to take place and now you have the police

chief saying his piece russia so now we have heard claims counterclaims all types of information about the intelligence is anything clearer with this information that's coming. again it depends on who you're hearing from russia right now as i said the police chief 5 talking of some of the things that had been the practices with regards to intelligence with regards to the national security council for example we heard a serious sort of a claim from the police chief that from october last year 2018 that he did not attend the national security council sessions literally until one week after the easter sunday bombings and there too when his presence was sort of required but he basically told the select committee that he had been told that his presence was

not needed now the october sort of bio storm or you remember the show is when we had that constitutional crisis here in sri lanka huge power struggle between the president bipartisan sienna the prime minister and a victim a singer who was in charge of what and all appears that security national security ultimately is what paid the price with all that loss of life so as the committee as i mentioned to you goes on behind me with that evidence from the police chief more and more information coming out but still no clear sort of indication of what exactly happened russia right now fernandez live for us in colombo thank you. the debate over what to do with the relatives of fighters is back in the spotlight that's after their repatriation of 8 americans with ties to i saw from northeast syria they included 2 women and 6 children are among thousands of people who have been detained in towns controlled by kurdish forces this week hundreds have been

allowed to go home as the details from washington d.c. . 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. traps and fences are being built around south korean pig farms to stem the spread of the highly contagious swine fever after an outbreak in north korea the virus is yet to reach south korean farms and officials say authorities across the border have ignored calls for a joint response the farming is

a major industry for south korea with more than $11000000.00 animals but as easy as harmless to humans but is decimated pig herds in china and other asian countries lawrence louis has more from south korea. well here on gungho island one of several places designated by the south korean government as a special surveillance area following an outbreak of african swine fever in north korea were really close to the border with the north it lies just beyond the riverbed about 2 kilometers away an endless island that about $35.00 pig farms african swine fever is harmless to humans but it's fatal to pigs to prevent the disease from spreading south korea's agriculture ministry is taking several measures access to and from pig farms is now on tightly controlled farm workers have been told to carry out disinfection and then fences and traps have been set up to prevent infected wild boars from coming into contact with domestic pigs not many

wild boars will be able to cross the bob wire fences or make it across the heavily mined border area but there's a possibility that some of them may be able to swim across the river and get into south korea and that's why the south has proposed to the north that they work together to prevent the spread of the disease and that is the political dimension to this story relations between the 2 countries have cooled considerably since a february summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il and ended without agreement on the outbreak of the disease cannot come at a worse time for north korea which is already experiencing a severe food shortage following its worst harvest in a decade but while some analysts say the promise of aid may not be enough to north korea back to talks there are others who say that humanitarian assistance may lead to other exchanges perhaps even in the political arena and that could possibly be what south korea's strategy is. artificial intelligence has now entered the art

world a robot call is having her 1st solo showing a portrait from real life and is charlie and over parts of the u.k. city of oxford the works of already been sold working and more than a $1000000.00. like any artist ada says she's a little anxious revealing her art to the public for the 1st time. to create cool 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 coordinates which she plots of paper the outcome is loose and expressive almost abstract a result of deliberately adding flaws into what would otherwise be a very expensive printer the creators argue that she is innately creative in that what she produces is new surprising and of value her works have all sold printing in over $1200000.00 but they also want her 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 because the scale ability of the . if it were we we do need to have a public debate about this as to where this is all going and all it is a great vehicle to be able to do the ages of the mode is abstract interpretation of treaties the c. and b.'s producing fragmented pitches 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 aid as well if 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 and al-jazeera oxford. richelle carey these are the headlines on al-jazeera an emergency meeting is being held by the african union to address the crackdown on a protest camp in sudan has killed at least 100 people the united nations in the u.k. embassy have both an elf they are removing some of their staff from the country with the fighters in yemen say they have crossed the border into saudi arabia and taken

control of more than 20 military positions the rebels also say they have killed dozens of saudi soldiers during heavy fighting near the southern city and i was drawn these pictures are run on a television station the saudi marotta coalition which backs the many government has neither confirmed nor denied who the advancements in. a group of u.s. senators is trying to block weapons sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan president donald trump bypass 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 and saudi arabia's reportedly expanding its ballistic missile program with technology from china that is according to unmanned intelligence officials and a u.s. media report president donald trump has been accused of not disclosing this information to keep members of congress discovery has heightened concerns among congress over a potential arms race and the middle east. a parliamentary committee investigating

sure along this church bombings that killed more than 250 people in april is meeting senior government officials it's a king in 2 causes that led to that series of coordinated attacks on easter sunday the 12 member team will also look into what action needs to be taken tensions between muslims and buddhists has resurfaced following those attacks that killed 250 people muslim ministers resigned on monday after demands from nationalist buddhist monks ceremonies are being held in northern france to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the d.-day landings france's president and britain france's president and britain's prime minister are in. normandy to lay the 1st stone for a new memorial the site overlooks gold beach one of the 5 locations where ally forces landed u.s. president will join other dignitaries and france for more commemorations on

thursday which are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera i have another update at the top of the hour and sad story is next. and the difference is. this in minorities and cultures of. al-jazeera. the impasse in the gulf 2 years since carter was blockaded by 4 arab nations 2 years of regional isolation and still no end in sight so is this just the new normal in the gulf or is it a crisis which could actually be solved this is inside story.

hello everyone i'm come out santa maria welcome to inside story of lots can happen in 730 days except it seems in the gulf crisis in fact arguably the standoff between qatar and the group of 4 arab nations which blockaded it is still where it was some 2 years ago you'll remember those 4 nations saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind and egypt cut their diplomatic and economic ties with qatar they closed the only land border and imposed an air and sea blockade on june the 5th of 2017 kuwait stepped in to mediate but even as recently as last week saudi arabia's foreign minister was saying quote hopefully there will be a solution if qatar comes back to the right path suggesting there's been little or no compromise made in that time so where to now i discuss in is coming up after this report from victoria gays in the. a handshake between saudi king salmon 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 year is the g.c.c. is still in crisis and very much divided. we had reservations about many parts of the statement these elements include 1st the issue of only condemning iran and the escalation against in the absence of any moderate policy to engage in dialogue with iran. the statement also mentioned the united ago where is the united goal for we have 3 gulf states blockading another gulf state ever since saudi arabia the united arab emirates 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 city 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. be 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 has the war in yemen and the humanitarian disaster it's caused. the amorality is 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 carter 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 gayton be al jazeera. so 2 years

on let's introduce the panel to you here in the studio as he was actually 2 years ago when this crisis began abilities a whore who is an academic research or he contributed to the book policymaking in a transformative state the case of qatar so welcome also in london with got him other than algebra a political commentator there and running out of power from lancaster in the north of england is simon mobile a senior lecturer in international studies at lancaster university gentlemen welcome to you all a quick question for each of you the same question and i'll just go around you to get a very quick thoughts to start with and i'll start with you abilities what has been achieved in 2 years what has this blockade achieved other than disunity in the gulf actually this is a very good question is because it. if you remember last year i said we bleed they bleed we lose a dollar they lose a dollar and this is what what happened actually you know what the gulf region is

the most resourceful region it's a hub of energy it's a hub of a world with its it has been a practicing and helping a lot of countries in the region what we have lost is this unity what we have lost is the the cut of social relationship among families who are really into related what we have lost or as the people who cannot perform there and what we have lost is people who cannot to manage their assets and the blockading countries what we have lost as people who lost i mean getting their qualifications and certificate from the the last simister or one loss to either of their studies this is what we have lost so i don't think we have

achieved anything by the blue kade and as i said even last year it's a clear act of war against qatar. in london your thoughts on well as abilities put losses and gains. well in fact just one point i would like to to mention about out there he said that by the hodge many ways for the people and qatar to do the hedge but the other the brokers from them for the insight we have this we don't have for the protocol it with conditions we don't have follow. up with what. we want to cut out how to do that i hear anything from this away from so do you out to be at all when the door for the how much of the cutout by the government of qatar to stop that so hard that we have to be honest when we got all this a lot of thoughts you know the way you talk we have to mention the people i thought i had my own time and i'm going to jump in we have got what you have got on the

dollar beyond any doubt and no bitterness is not right of people but if you haven't had just come into us we cannot hear what either of you are saying you know that my life is stopped you are so i don't know why you like to do just too much of this anyway ok madeline you've made the point about how this why from sold out of but that got a government broke that way anyway this is not the end of the day there is a situation for this this is a crisis because it isn't the end of the day we are losing from each side we are losing it is not good for the future but there are 15 to mines the cutting edge i'm sure. but apply for this sort of one for this but don't tell me what i mean open the door how the knocked to finish this a lot of getting their money's ok i'm sorry to hear it as a student you know everything as it is becoming back to up to the states that are is i mean i mean there's the 3 it's a 15 do my style as it is chilled let's bring in simon my bow now your thoughts.

so i think it's a really interesting question and i think as well you've seen from the different perceptions the way that people answer this question is contingent on their own backgrounds their own experiences their own unique takes on this this particular crisis i think what we have seen is the doubling down of the various positions involved we've seen 2 years of diplomatic rhetoric we've seen 2 years of of posturing and we've also seen the rise of qatari nationalism i was in doha a couple of months before the crisis and then again about a year afterwards and and what i saw was the real emergence of a strong the nationalist sentiment that saw the depiction of the amir everywhere across qatar and i think that's one of the real things that we're starting to see out of it whilst we see the entrenchment of positions we also see the emergence of a strong nationalist sentiment from one of the smaller gulf states so i think it's

quite interesting to see that and to see how that has then manifested in qatar's behavior trying to carve a new path for itself away from its larger more powerful neighbors but when the problem is that nothing's really changed i made this point in my introduction if you look at where we were 2 years ago you could say yes there has been talk that has been mediations but as a model being pointed out the demands are still in place the 13 demands and mediation doesn't seem to have produced anything mediation by the kuwaitis simon yeah i think that's entirely accurate there has been very little movement in terms of getting this situation resolved we saw in the past that there was a resolution to a previous crisis between these various actors but that was resolved through mediation this one hasn't been and i think that tells you a lot about the concerns that various sides have and that these concerns and these suspicions really mana fest and that behavior towards each other i think one thing

that we have started to see is that qataris try to assert. independently of the other members of the g.c.c. it's carving this new path for itself it's trying to become more self sustainable it's tried to get a new economic direction and it's starting to do that in a successful way according to the i.m.f. at least so i think that's one thing that we have seen but of course that does not get a resolution to this crisis and i think that whilst it was many would hope that it would be mediated and resolved by by one of their own let's say a member of the g.c.c. it may well take a more powerful external act to like the u.s. who possess a strong ties with with both the saudis and the turkey's as a way of actually trying to get this thing resolved in a muddle did in your opinion what's happened to the mediation process now for example we had the numerous summits in saudi arabia last week and the cut the trees were invited and the qatari prime minister to go i mean that seemed like a positive step but as we've discussed there with some of the actual mediation

process is well it's almost inactive it happens when it happens in your opinion what's going wrong with that. well to be untrue we were really happy that you know the prime minister of qatar then to appraise us would be something opened the door to finish this program for 2 years but suddenly after the senate they changed their mind which is really to surprise you know we are 4 observers when when we saw that action. review surprised us because you know in the beginning it was good and he was there he has no objection why you when he left back he has his objection and then refused this is that he did surprise me something whatever beyond this action something i shot or something from iranian regime because this is our biggest problem because the qatari. stand by the. iranian regime and there are egypt sectarian. control of for out of the country is a still

a project sectarian project and then our alliance and dividing our societies so this is why one cut of stunned by the iranian regime this is the problem furthermore even the president of the usa always repeated that the terrorism comes from iranian regime so why out of a country is part of the art of the quartet leave us 8 to go to stand by the iranian regime this is the confusing and the solution by the hand of the leadership of gutta to stop that things i mean stunned by the iranian regime the sectarian regime and be back to that of a quarter because they are part of us. of the actually to let me go back to the list of 13 demands actually one of these demands is to shut down. the horst of this gentleman over there as is the the war on the freedom of

speech and the demand is to sign a plane check to embarrass these. countries i mean and the 3rd demand is to fires and consent on your sovereignty so not new and different insolvent country will accept even to discuss the list of demands and these demands has expired 15 days after the demand so fine friend does not know that this list of demands has has been expired by those who issued these demands this is the new news for him the 2nd point regarding the iran if he thinks or he claims that qatar enjoys a strong relationship with iran let's talk about u.a.e. there are $10000.00 iranian companies in new way the trade between us and iran is $11000000000.00 u.s. dollars there are more than 700000 people iranian people living in the u.a.e. qatar the trade between qatar and iran is $2240000000.00 u.s.

dollars on li there are like around 141-5000 iranian people in there and qatar and there are less than 40 companies iranian companies in qatar who enjoys that elation share with the with the with iran 95 percent of the trade in the gulf states with iran is with us he not not with with their with qatar what has. this please i mean if we are talking about their relationship with iran listed the facts not not that the claim of the good relationship with the of iran is amiable if we have a g. joint. field with the with the it on what we are asking with the it on is to stablish a framework to deal with iran not to fight iran and to create instability and other instability in the region. yemen is there levy is there syria is there i mean

what do we need to add more wars in the in the region modeled in i'll give you a quick chance to reply before i go back to simon i don't get about him obviously. i did as he is obviously very clear connection we don't talk about the politics we don't talk about they can have a problem we talk about the political problem. study and maybe destroy iraq destroy syria so we talked end up over politic on the problem not economical problem so not only on it contrary to see what other. thinks with a an economic direction but we talking about the political subject iranian ha's sectarian political project on the out of the class and destroy iraq destroy syria well 7 and going on and on and yemen don't mission in lebanon so this is the problem it is part of the kind of problem don't question that going to come from this actually i mean we have we have this limited edition show with iran however we

disagree or fish really we disagree with iran and their and their intervention in syria we disagree with iran and so many issues but we don't have to fight with iran because we disagree with them we have to know how to manage this disagreement with other countries you don't bully countries because you are here you have differences with them you talk you dialogue when you have differences with the with people and politics and in other places as well ok i'm going to leave that there only because this will turn into a complete conversation about iran if we're not careful and we want to talk more about qatar and the gulf countries simon let me come back to you you made the point that one of the impacts i guess of the gulf crisis was that the cut. re nationalism and other things like the industries which have popped up here dairy agriculture local manufacturing all these sorts of things that have been positive i wonder if in some sense already there's actually no rush to end the blockade from the local

perspective it's been in a perverse way a positive. yeah i think that's an interesting point and there's certainly a positive to be derived from the qatari economy in the sense that it's force members of the qatari state to think about how they can address certain socio economic challenges in an innovative and creative way that that moves beyond a reliance on their neighbors for for access to a range of goods and services we know the qatar got a great deal of it of its food supplies via some of the larger hub ports such as those in the u.a.e. and what this crisis has done has prompted a serious strategic rethink in terms of how qatar positions itself within global supply chains and we've seen of course some innovative approaches to those challenges of course having a great deal of money has helped smooth over the process and get over the initial hardships but i think moving forward it may well be

a positive for the qatari economy and that suggests to me that might not be in quite as much of a rush as it once might have been with regard to getting it getting at result if of course there were economic hardships and people were struggling that it would be in a much more sort of much more pressured situation to get this result but it's not so there's very little little incentive for the heart to go back to the saudis and the m r r t's and to say ok well there are the 13 the months so we're happy to meet you on the mend and to discuss them until there is a certain amount of pressure being placed on the qatar is that it's got very little inclination to go and give up 13 incredibly powerful things. but maybe i'll put this to you. simons made the point that there isn't an economic hardship here as such. but still a lot of money was spent in making sure that supply chains carried on when the crisis began and that's been going on for 2 years and and you can't just keep

spending all that money to fly in things because the land borders close. it can't go on forever actually that was the beginning now even even shipping cost has has decrees for example of china to door her used to take $26.00 days it will jebel ali now it takes 16 gears with 50 percent lists cost to import to from china the growth of qatar 2018 was $2.00 and expected to be 30 percent in 2019 more than higher than the growth in all of the g.c.c. countries the patient has increased by 18 percent the exports of the. products has increased by 55 percent number of companies are just in 2018 it was more than 20000 companies has been just and 2018 food

security now we have food security for 2 years enough for 3000000 people we have water storage is for for for so many. months actually so actually qatar has become more self. reliance if the the even even the reserve in the central bank now it's back to the what it was before the age of $58000000000.00 us dollars and a museum in the central bank rating of qatar has increased and the bonds issued by qatar where very very attractive. to the investors international investors ok gentlemen let's talk about solving this crisis the 4 of us aren't going to manage it but i'm sure we've got some ideas the model the let me start with you because you raised importantly early on the 13 demands which were laid down by the 4 blockading countries made the point that no country would want to

just suddenly seed those 13 things so surely another way has to be found to get around that. we're always supposed to be through dialogue 15 the mines definitely some of them very essential very important like you know to stop terrorism. qatari support some of some of groups such as some some brotherhood and other things you know. not a front in syria and other this is must be stopped some other points maybe you know flexible too but through the dialogue and what might saudi arabia will give up what might they compromise on will obviously be talking about. really terrorism comes from the iranian and some we have to say it's some points acknowledged by the qatari regime that you know they support the muslim brotherhood and some other some missed tourist and then the area so this is very important for

the whole region not just for the qatari and the relationship with with the iranian doesn't really high question and the other thing about compromise not free night on the other side a little bit has not answered the question but because but the command that qatar support terrorism the foot with the for the blockade in countries fail to approve and to submit to submit any evidence that this is what they did ok let's not as doing so it's here i mean i don't think just because it's all just running down the chain of nonsense a government groundless o'clock am adult in your answer and then a final word from simon. it is as i said acknowledged by the qatari supporting the muslim brotherhood and this is the last stop for a lot of the condit countries decided this total isn't must stop so cut it their ships are supposed to respect this for out of according to these and cut their support and their assistance to the muslim brotherhood or they are the motherhood

of the most of the terrorists islamists and then in the area. i'm going to interrupt because we're starting to run out of time and i want to get a quick final word from simon there's got to be compromise somewhere along the way doesn't there. sure there really does and in order to actually get something moving forward you have to have dialogue you have to build trust and building trust is incredibly difficult when there's been such animosity to build trust both sides are going to have to have some degree of compromise they going to have to find something to give up that the other side has been particularly worried about and in order to do that we're going to have to find someone to mediate it's going to have to be someone powerful as got a vested interest in the domestic actions of both sides of all the different parties involved and of course there are some suggestions the united states would be an obvious one given that it has a strong relationship with the saudis got this continued military base in qatar and i think that figuring out a way that trust can be built with a mediator is the only way that this is going to happen because we've seen 2 years

with very little movement very little by the lateral relationships bilateral dialogue we're still in the same place it needs something to change and that's probably going to be an external mediator to try and bring them all on the same side simon move on in lancaster a model day in eligibility in london and outputs of these are who are with me here in doha thank you for joining us and hopefully maybe we won't be having this conversation one more year from now and thank you for watching as well plenty more few online it down to 0 dot com inside stories in the show section if you want to see this or any of our other episodes again we're at facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story we are on twitter at a.j. inside story and i'm at. the tweeting directly thanks for joining us for inside story and we will see you again soon.

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christchurch new zealand what i want to best to gay people for could have done more to prevent this massacre on 00. 0. every. ramping up. the pressure on sudan's military gentle world and regional powers call for an end to the crackdown against protesters. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera life and doha also coming up. with the rebels

claim they have captured more than 20 saudi pows and killed dozens of soldiers. on the. standoff with us mexico border border officials stopped migrants from crossing over ahead of talks on new tariffs by washington plus. the heroes of d.-day 75 years on the world remembers the invasion that changed the direction of the 2nd world war. african union is holding an emergency meeting to address the deadly crackdown on a protest camp and sudan doctors say more than 100 people were killed in the assault by a paramilitary forces it's a dance ruling is disputing that figure saying 46 people have died since monday's attack outside the military headquarters in khartoum international pressure on. the

gentle is growing united nations has announced it is pulling some of its staff out of sudan while the u.k. is warned its citizens against traveling there and it too is removing staff from its embassy the u.s. meanwhile has renewed calls for the resumption of talks to form a civilian led government however on wednesday protest leaders rejected an offer for talks with the military junta stephanie decker upset developments and a warning her report contains emonges some of the oars 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 to know these are the 1st images from outside the military headquarters where thousands that camped until monday's crackdown it's been described to us by someone they are as hopes and dreams destroyed the potential heart of a future sued on 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.

and said that. we in 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 off to britain halted negotiations with the protestors 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 there 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 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 is 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 reported 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 in 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 minute you 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 less of a channel is a political analyst he says there are a number of competing interests in the region. it is very clear that the u.s. allies in the region particularly egypt saudi arabia and the rest some of the other gulf states directly involved and perhaps almost certainly. the change of tone and direction by. the joint in sudan but the same time the u.s. has for how to fix maybe the nearest the u.s. can do today is to tell their allies to tell these guys to come down but also to directly intervene and tell these people that you know if you continue doing what you've done in the last several days you face the consequences and again as i say i actually don't know who advises these gays what they've really done in the last few days in this day and age there's no way in which this is something that can go

unpunished whoever is advising them it may also be argued that maybe you know the perhaps running scared and they thought because some of these guys are guys with extensions to the genocide in darfur they thought perhaps the old system the old way of basically general intimidation or use of excess power and violence that the this object to the people of sudan elsewhere could be attempted in the streets of khartoum in broad daylight like we've seen in the last several days albeit after perhaps attempting to to make sure that the likes of al jazeera we're out of town but still you know the pictures are all around the world but the fighters and yemen say they have crossed the border into saudi arabia and taken control of more than 20 military positions bridles also say they killed dozens of saudis soldiers during heavy fighting near the southern city of misrata and these pictures are run by a hoot the linked television station the saudi marathi coalition which backs the many government has neither confirm nor deny the hooty advancements in iran the

coalition had launched air strikes in the area over the past 3 days or more on this we're joined by retired air force general. and thank you so much for joining us we appreciate it so are you are you surprised by this development. not really. but operation is progressively more effective than you know 2 or 3 years back and that's think is really changing the calculus of war this is one of the offensive operation accompanied by surprise i could see on the 3 along 3 axis and the really controlled the area now 40 kilometer square no comment from this day or so and so d. now is really. to air supremacy of the colonization air power

so i could see it also. play a great role for the who see as i call it as a force multiplier and fortification from the air power nor the local tribe there very well and there is some collaborator with them regarding this or france base and good intelligence and good planning they got where they got the objective and that matters having said that this is a strategy plead not significant that we want to see an expansion of the attack and this will be remain as business as usual had turned around and controlling france and count out of france the cetera so how have their tactics changed over the past . a little bit to tell us more about how the tactics of the who jesus is changing. we'll do that you know using like

a normal state the using the massage the using the. the using this go back to. this sort of having this sail made situation between them and the coalition the coalition air power alone won't be fictive to gain ground to try you'd need troops in the ground that's is missing from the coalition but the old so there is this strategic aims or the objective of the coalition is different from. the. the legitimate government so the situation will stay as is for the time being. retired or cheney an air force general no are joining us thank you so much a group of u.s. senators is trying to block weapons sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan president donald trump bypass congress last month by declaring an emergency because of growing tensions with iran and also approved $8000000000.00 of

the farm sales which the bipartisan group of senators wants stopped saudi arabia is reported to have improved its ballistic missile capability by buying technology from china us media report cites 3 unnamed sources for the previously reported classified information president donald trump is accused of not disclosing the intelligence to congress which isn't carrying jemma kratz as trump refuses to rule out military action with iran the saudi missile report heightens concerns of a middle east arms race mexican officials have blocked hundreds of central american migrants from heading towards the u.s. border. they were forced to board a bus and taken to a detention center and the u.s. has threatened to impose tariffs on mexico if it does not limit the flow of migrants chair batons he reports it is the 1st time he's been here as president and states speaking in ireland before the talks president trump was unequivocal about

his threat of imposing tariffs on mexican imports beginning monday i if mexico didn't act against undocumented migration into the u.s. if they don't tariffs 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 tariffs off of 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 on migration we are optimistic because we have a good meeting with respect respect for 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. 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 she every time 00 washington ceremonies are being held in northern france to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the d.-day landings president and britain's prime minister are in for some air and normandy to lay the 1st stone for a new memorial the site overlooks gold beach one of the 5 locations where allied forces landed the president will join other dignitaries in france for more commemorations on thursday let's go now to a toss about le who is.