what is iran strategy here i mean iran as we know is under painful sanctions it's feeling the pressure economically financially it's been close to very close to a military confrontation as we've seen here last night so what's the thinking in iran how does iran get out of this iran believe this this kind of chapter of confrontation with the united states has started from washington when trying decided to withdraw from the deep and they want to actually to tell the americans and that you made a mistake you have to fix it i think they believe that if this pressure economy the pressure on them continues there will be a serious ramifications on the stability and of the country and that's the reason i do believe that why they push this kind of confrontation to the edge because they want different parties different you know countries to intervene to to to have an effort that's the reason why what we when we saw the advisor of the senior advisor of the. microloan into iran we use we see now the military minister of turkey in and around a lot of diplomatic efforts to deal with this so just

a final thought then on the key regional players i mean we know saudi arabia and israel would want to see iran get a bloody nose from the u.s. but i mean how worried are gulf states the broader international community about i suppose the terrifying consequences of a full blown conflict between the usa and iran any kind of confrontation in the gulf oil will pay the price there's not let's not forget this is this is the region which provides 60 percent of the oil to the world and one of the american will be influence that something doesn't want to see any confrontation will affect the stability will affect the economy of the country the economy the with the effect of the developments the countries has made i believe that all parties do want to weaken iran however they don't want to see this war because the price will be very . much as we're going to get your thoughts thank you frank so much. our time from a short break here now to 0 when we come back. i'm gabriel's on good portland maine in the 4 northeast of the united states where this gymnasium has been turned into

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a very basic question this is where millions lost their homes in the u.s. alone who's held responsible i will be fabulously wealthy and i will pay and price for it thank the lord the man who still looms on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on the al-jazeera donald trump as reported to have all that and strikes on iran but then changed his mind as warplanes were in the air and ships in position u.s. president astride the shooting down of a u.s. surveillance drone by iran as a very bad state. iran disputes american assertions that the drone was downed in

international airspace is foreign minister says it will not show where the drone was intercepted violated its space. now thousands of demonstrators in hong kong occupying roads around police and government buildings they want the complete withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill the government headquarters has been closed with protesters outside calling on the hong kong leader to resign mass demonstrations have been held over the past 2 weeks against the bill which would allow criminal suspects be sent to mainland china the trial run mcbride joins us live now from hong kong so the protesters are back out on the streets again many of them behind you there just bring us up to date with what's happening on the ground this morning . that's right there and there has been gradually increasing numbers of protesters throughout the day they now probably number several 1000 plus they have taken over again this area. that has a couple of the busiest highways they stretch down this highway and around the

corner here of what is the police headquarters this is the focus of today friday's demonstration there is a lot of anger here about the way that the demonstrators say police have overreacted to protesters to peaceful demonstrations using what they say has been access. force the police i deny that so there is a large demonstration outside the front of the headquarters completely besieging the headquarters we around the back of the police headquarters where again we have a large demonstration and this was just over an hour ago the scene of a very angry clash between police and demonstrators who really almost surged through the back gate here what happened down there was there was a police van that had become stranded by the demonstrators as they took over this highway several officers were inside they weren't in any danger but they weren't being allowed to move forward or back will get out of the van so after a couple of hours the police finally came out from the back of the police headquarters surrounded the van and dragged it all that allowed it to get inside

the headquarters and then the crowd surged forward in very nearly got inside the police headquarters there was a lot of pushing a lot of shoving a lot of scuffles police at one stage looked as though they were going to use tear gas and pepper spray they embroil as went up as we have seen before but it does give you a sense of the anger that still exists here amongst these demonstrators down and rob this controversial extradition bill remains suspended for now at least so what happens next for the protest movement. well the concern for these protesters is yes the government has effectively shelved this for now it effectively kills it for the next couple of years but their work the worry is that this government at the behest of beijing is gradually rolling back some of the freedoms hong kong people have enjoyed don't what's to say that future government in a few years from now once these demonstrators are here and there isn't such

opposition what's to stop the government trying it again that's what these demonstrators fear they also do seem to come to the conclusion that mass rallying maybe isn't the way to go how can you top 2000000 people taking to the streets in a city of 7000000 people so they do seem to be taking this more direct civil disobedience action having occupation here and also targeting a number of government offices around the city down to red mcbride there in hong kong rob thank you now the saudi u.a.e. led coalition fighting in yemen says it's targeted who the rebel sites in the port city of her data the attack was in response to a drone strike on the saudi city of jazz on a date as yemen's main entry port for a delivery last month who has pulled out of the port as part of a un brokered deal when all the world food program says it's partially suspended its aid program in yemen that decision's been made after it failed to reach an agreement with who the rebels and how to deliver food to yemen's most vulnerable

people the u.n. agency has complained that submits food supplies have been diverted to north korea's state media says its leader kim jong un and china's president xi jinping have agreed to strengthen ties between their countries and announcement on friday came just before she left north korea it confirms beijing support for its ally as pyongyang faces u.s. led sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs. fighting in libya is forcing migrants there to escape into neighboring tunisia are going to eventually cross the mediterranean and reach europe but as some of the reports from the to museum beach resort this many have drowned in their attempt or survivors are stuck in a refugee center. it was supposed to be a passage to a new life but it turned out to be one of the deadliest shipwrecks in the mediterranean this year in may 60 people drowned when a boat carrying them from libya capsized off the tunisian coast near the city of

facts only 16 survived after they were rescued by a chinese in fishing trawler. these are men that made it out alive navigating their lives as asylum seekers in tunisia their home for now is this refugee center. they are free to take up casual work when it is available but without proper documentation it amounts to the bare minimum emraan who's from bangladesh manages to stay in contact with his wife but he has no idea when he will see her or their baby son again moreland was the one of them. before the shipwreck he says he spent months in libya where he was kidnapped and tortured for ransom listable gets me this manholes. approaching me. flows of money. they collect money they give money.

it. was one of the fisherman who helped save the men that night he and others have witnessed the increasing death toll from such shipwrecks as the northern mediterranean countries such as italy continue to prevent boats from libya landing on their shores by criminalizing such rescues shamsuddin insists it won't stop him from saving lives. i don't care about politics or the politicians we are all part of humanity and we have to help people we as fishermen are not going to stop saving people even if the tunisian politicians are getting pressure from europe despite the incredible danger there will be many who will take a boat from libya just to get to the other side of the mediterranean sea in the hope of finding a better life in europe there's absolutely no guarantee that they will even survive the journey and those who don't make it will invariably wind up washed up in this

part of the 2 missing coast. this is the makeshift so a tree where the bodies of the dead are laid to rest the graves of the children who drowned at sea identifiable by the small mounds with his own resources shops a dean also tends to the graves and make sure that the victims have a proper burial a final acknowledgement for those who died nameless on a foreign shore with nothing more than hope to guide them so al-jazeera. the race for the u.k. conservative party leadership is down to the final 2 contenders the frontrunner pro briggs and m.p. boris johnson will face off against the foreign secretary jeremy hunt will be announced on july 22nd will become the u.k.'s next prime minister. russia's foreign ministry says it's committed to improving ties with georgia it's in response to the

georgian president calling russia an enemy an occupier violent protests and taken place in tbilisi after a russian politician was allowed to address parliament branka gupta reports i was thousands of protesters trying to storm the georgian palm and incensed by the presence of russian politician surrogate gavrilov earlier inside i protest as faced off with white police and then pushed into retreat. the cycle repeating much of the night leaving dozens injured we must go on not to allow this day but they do not hold a lot to hold you to but to see him. to use it she beat and so now these protesters along with some opposition politicians want snap elections tensions were already running high on

thursday as sergey gavrilov who was visiting as part of an assembly of petitions from orthodox christian countries addressed the parliament in russian something that many in this form was soviet republic found that acceptable well not tolerate russian expansion to georgia and will not tolerate rationalization of the georgia which happening unfortunately under this dormant for the last 7. 20 percent of georgia state's 3 has been under an illegal russian military occupation off to war in 2008. moscow recognized south of satyr and as independent states and set upon its military bases there the 2 countries haven't had any diplomatic ties since and most influence in a country which wants to join the european union at me too is often a flashpoint in georgia's domestic politics russia there are doubts if any players

even. in these 2 old historic territories members of the russian duma and that's another question whether the actual parliament because there is no opposition there with these individuals in our view must not have been allowed into georgian territory. georgia's prime minister is blaming the opposition for thursday's violence moscow things radical political forces are behind what happened it's deputy foreign minister says russia will keep trying to normalize relations with georgia that's something these protesters will do anything to fight priyanka gupta al jazeera. u.s. immigration agents are trying to work out why there's been a surge in the number of asylum seekers from africa crossing the border from mexico some of been sent to a new arrival center thousands of kilometers north in the state of maine. as a meeting solve them. for mubako john garcia it was not a choice but rather a matter of survival to flee his native democratic republic of congo he tells me

police officers back home stabbed him in the stomach mistakenly thinking he was taking part in anti-government protests he decided the danger was too much for him and his family earlier this year they left the d.r. see boarding a boat for south america in search of a better life in the u.s. at one point they walked through the jungles of colombia for 7 days with no food fish mistook on news of a we were very hungry and all our food ran out so i would grab a banana off a tree and start a fire and cooked a banana eat and kill the hunger so me and my children were able to sleep that's all we had. his 8 year old daughter jessica witness something along the journey that no child should ever have to see and lights them and almost misses them one night people were trying to cross a river but the water was strong some people die i saw this. nearly 5 months

later this is now home a few cots in a makeshift shelter in a gymnasium in portland maine 3700 kilometers from the southern border at last count this emergency shelter is also home to 223 other asylum seekers all from subsaharan africa most from the d.r. c. and angola they've all arrived in the last week and requested to come to portland while there are a silent cases are being reviewed. this gymnasium is now completely full there are beds everywhere during the day the migrants usually leave here go out into the city and try to find work outside the shelter we find this man a 31 year old taxi driver also from the d.r. see portly for levon months but still is not legally permitted to work.

but i'm still waiting for my documents to be able to work and make my life better without work it's a little hard so right now i am a volunteer at a place in exchange for a place to stay with children and some food. he says his dream is for his daughter to be able to go to college someday. a human drama playing out in real time far from the southern border but with families from africa just seeking peace. al-jazeera portland debate and. time for a quick check of the headlines here this hour u.s. media reports say the u.s. president donald trump all that and strikes against targets in iran but then withdrew the order with planes in the air and ships in position the planned attacks were meant to be in response to iran shooting down a u.s. surveillance drone washington says the drone was shot down in international airspace but iran disputes this. and iran's foreign minister has released

a map saying the drone was intercepted off violated iranian airspace to iran says it was shot down thanks to southern iraq. congressional leaders and the u.s. president trying to proceed with caution. we have an untrustworthy adversary the hi kanchan wires are up in the region for a lot of different reasons some by lateral region some. are. 3rd we must act in a way that does not that does. and does not escalate the tensions and the situation the. thousands of demonstrators in hong kong are occupying roads around police and government buildings they want the full withdrawal of a controversial extradition the. chief executive caroline announced last week she would suspend the bill but has yet to cancel it completely mass demonstrations have

been held over the past 2 weeks against the bill which would allow criminal suspects to be sent to mainland china a trial. north korea state media says its leader kim jong un and china's president xi jinping have agreed to strengthen ties between their countries that announcement on friday came just before she left north korea she was there for 2 days. the saudi u.a.e. led coalition fighting in yemen says it's targeted who the rebel sites in the port city of her data the attack was in response to a goofy drone strike in the saudi city of. daters yemen's main entry port for a delivery last month who he's pulled out of the port as part of a un broken deal russia's foreign ministry says it's committed to improving ties with georgia that's in response to the georgian president calling russia an enemy and occupier following protests have taken place in the capital tbilisi after a russian politician was allowed to address all of the. well those are the

headlines the news continues on al-jazeera of the stream stage of the us watching. 8 years after the fall of gadhafi more is still raging in libya but it's not just a domestic showdown outside powers are involved too spoke about the axis of evil the abu dhabi this over these and egypt. talks to al-jazeera. welcome to the stream hundreds of people in bangladesh have gone missing over the last decade with family saying that state agencies of the light and many of those disappearances. i really could be alive today will hear from relatives pushing the government for answers and ask what these cases say about political freedoms and underbrush in your thoughts through twitter and you tube.

the death of a father sister brother or mother one of the most emotional tests that any family can face but when a relative just found the lack of closure makes the loss even harder to cope with that's the situation many families in bangladesh facing as days without their loved one turn to months and then yes several families say their relatives were simply snatched away by police and paramilitaries because of their links to the political opposition or activist groups. or mothers call is one organization that regularly protests for information on the whereabouts of those who are missing last month families braved the heat during ramadan to once again call for justice civil society groups say there have been more than 500 enforced disappearances since january 2009 that's when the awami league led government of current prime minister sheikh hasina came to power and cases are still mounting on saturday house and mahmud a leader within the opposition bangladesh nationalist party was taken from his home

by the elite rapid action battalion his family says the ira b. denies arresting my moon whose precise location is unknown for more on this we are joined from the bangladeshi capital dhaka. she's director of why i doubt that's mother's call which is campaigning for the safe return of family members who have gone missing personally i'm clearly is an exiled independent journal. this focusing on human rights issues he's in the swedish city of namo that we start out is a secretary general at the international federation for human rights which recently released a report on missing people in bangladesh she joins us from paris we also invited representatives from several bangladesh government offices to join us including the home and foreign ministries but instead they sent us a statement i will be sharing part of that statement with you during the program but i guess it is good to have you here to explain what is going on in bangladesh for some families let me share a family picture with you this is

a very sad one this is a mother with a son who disappeared many years ago you are very close to this family sanjeeda this is part of your family can you tell us the story about what happened to your brother. my brother changed the islam she won 2000 turning 4th of december he was abducted by a rapid action back lee and it was just before the election of 2000 people the general you know you are not the world that the election and before that it action huge abduction happened by the law enforcement agencies in violation and my brother shows those function one and with him there were 5 other prince who were staying in bush in daraa and rapid action well in reptilian he came with their double garver and uniform and abducted and then from there. we got all the.

and from that day we have started going to the office to seize it we were grabbed off we separate quarter from my family but they have denied and then there was they were saying that there was no opposition happen. in on that time with them but they were not actually even searching or taking any case we have we have tried to file a general diety we have tried to file it in the fire but police was not taking the case because we want to mention that a rabbi was arrested them and. it is like 6 years and within these 6 years from our side we doll these 6 families and including on that what led the night to our the other person was also abducted by rab. so families we have started doing. some reading back to cations then all the legal documents to the law enforcement agencies including the open history. a rabbi office is police police

office of business and then all the. branch offices our. headquarters but deal now or we have never had any order of investigation or any any reply from their right here side and i did that as indeed i think you for sharing that story because i know it can't be easy to talk about your missing brother in front of an international audience and to have to relive that every time you do so thank you for sharing it's powerful and you're not alone we got a tweet from someone who describes an attempted abduction so this is an organization. they say alert attempted abduction of boko bangladesh human rights defender nor khan director of human rights organization we got a video comment from noor himself who talks about the experience of what he believes is this attempted abduction have a listen to what he told us and i live in my office close my home. one micro bus.

and then striker's down on the step child and bear all right course. and. i don't think that's going to lead me. against and for does it bends and expect to be shot for. they. maybe try to get me to 3 days before they try to collect some information regarding my movement from our stuff. so to steam his rickshaw was stopped in traffic he ran back to the office i mean this sounds kind of like a harrowing experience there but how common are stories like this and what do you know about nor story. well i was actually reading a story in

a report that came out in a model today but this is very common we know that is he these are micro buses are used by these agencies reputation battalion is one the director general of course intelligence is a not a detective bunch is another so all of them use these very fancy is he these obviously bought it using taxpayers' money to abduct the citizens and keep them as secret prisoners so in bangladesh it is a very common thing that people are abducted and they are kept in secret detention as secret prisoners it is a it is a one party police state right now debbie i want to show you a clip from a report the al-jazeera dated back in february it's about a student of the bangladesh national spotty who was abducted on the way to

a birthday party and this is one of our correspondents talking to his wife have a nice and happy. there's husband was abducted on his way to a birthday party he was a student leader of the bangor this nationalist party the main opposition force in the country that i was number of they are it was on the 2nd of december 2013 it was his friend son's birthday hugh went out with 6 friends 4 of them are standing together at one corner and the other 2 are in front of the shop suddenly security forces got out and picked up 2 of them put them in a van both were white. very i'm just wondering with all of these cases these stories coming out of bangladesh are you working out who is it that is being abducted why are they being adopted are they all the same kind of people i think what's really scary to understand is that while the cases of people seem to

oppose the ruling party have been targeted or have been highlighted you sensually the feeling is that anyone can be taken at any time it is a very strong climate of fear people do not feel safe whether they are going out of their house or even staying at home any time of the day and in this case simply going to a friend's birthday party could soon a position of being grabbed and so that there's there doesn't seem to be very much consistency there's no sense that well i'm a high level or organizer and danger there are people who simply went to a rally or simply said something on facebook and they disappeared to. let me share this with you because i did say that the government of bangladesh sent us a statement i'm going to share this with you. reading treatise to how you respond to this the government strongly disputes reports about so-called disappearances of people in bangladesh the allegations of being manufactured to discredit the

government by its political opponents and have no basis in fact in many cases these disappearances of turn out to be attempts by people charged with crimes to avoid prosecution sangita help me out with this the sum in your brother yes he was a criminal. no actually they can check there was no case against any criminal case in the police stations and where from our side our family are going to them to find him out wherever he is he is their responsibility to find him how do you know from independent country no one can we get is that they're like this. all right tell you when you were a smiling laughing but no in a happy way when i read that statement and well i'm in the the statement if you look at it i mean it takes a special kind of psychopathy would do to come up with this kind of apology

i mean what they're claiming essentially is that more than $500.00 people have just disappeared have just decided that they're not going to meet their mothers they're not going to meet their daughters they're not going to meet their son brother sister and they're just going to do some i don't know elissa in wonderland kind of ripley's simply because they want to discredit the government i mean i was expecting the government of bangladesh and india i mean obviously these are very smart people in charge of efficiently running a state or can would have done better. you know like instead of coming up with this loss it will cover story. actually there is no you the thing is that you need actually bothered to come with some kind of manufactured excuse but if you talk to send you down to other families of disappeared as i did i managed to meet with some

of the families of the disappeared when i was in bangladesh recently they went to the police and they were not they were not just told they not to give a report the police refused to take every part when he went back and he kept assisting they were not just told chased away but then later on track then with being disciplined themselves because they were also your family also if i can add it is not only the families that are realizing it and you just not only know like journalists like me your human rights activists their duty i mean the former chief justice of bangladesh as who undergo marcin hi has written a book in his memoir he specifically mentioned how the d.j. for i actually adox people and keeps them in a secret prison equal to cut. their use is not the instance where a senior police officer has actually had me to during a seminar you were.