many children. stories. back home after processing the reception area and then on to a settlement which will be. the u.n. refugee agency says a large number of children are arriving it's a concern. they will have a different way of. it is the informing. them. and then i thought we were in. the. across the region government and catholic church he does are appealing for humanitarian help for up 240-0000 internally displaced. agencies i guess to get to those who most need help because the security situation remains volatile.

besides the hundreds of thousands displaced people and come we have more than $80000.00 still in some conflict areas in this situation is bad and sort of the old it's very difficult to get those areas to rescue them back in uganda prepares his bed for the night he's safe for now that his family able to escape to . make out but. u.s. national security adviser john bolton is in israel to meet prime minister benjamin netanyahu and other israeli and russian officials they'll discuss regional security as tensions are rising between washington and tehran. well while both in israel senior white house adviser jared is laying out the 1st part of his so-called deal of the century that's the middle east peace plan he says is based on $50000000000.00 worth of investment more than half would be spent on palestinian infrastructure over 10 years the rest would be split between egypt lebanon and

jordan and one of the main projects is a $5000000000.00 transportation corridor of to connect the occupied west bank and gaza nearly 2000000000 would also be injected into the palestinian tourism industry is trying to drum up support for the 179 infrastructure and business projects that of an international conference in bahrain next week palestinian leaders though are boycotting the event they refuse to talk to the u.s. since it recognized jerusalem as israel's capital in the 27 months and joins us live now from west jerusalem rob so what are you expecting to come out of this meeting with john bolton and the russians. well don we should be able to find i would say in just a couple of minutes because if i understand it correctly that john bolton and benjamin netanyahu are holding a press conference at the moment so there should be some more details about what they've been talking about is coming out and in the next few minutes this meeting this 3 way meeting and that's going to be held over the next couple of days was

originally put forward by the israeli president when he was in russia back in february and i just rob let me just interrupt you there we're going to dip in very quickly to that press conference with john bolton and the israeli prime minister let's hear what they have to say as a result of its aggression so i was pleased to hear president trump make clear yesterday that pressure will continue and that pressure will increase and i look forward to discussing this and other issues that affect affect the stability of our region with you. mr bolton john i also want to thank you for your willingness to participate on tuesday in a historic meeting that we're bring together the national security adviser's of the united states russia and israel the mere fact that such a high level meetings taking place between the great powers the united states of america and russia here in israel i think is unprecedented speaks loudly about the

nature of israel standing among the nations in this case case among 2 of the greatest nations on earth i hope and expect that this dialogue will be fruitful i'm confident that it's possible to both find common ground and chart a path forward that will help promote security and stability in the region particularly in syria john let me conclude by saying again what a pleasure it is to see you in jerusalem welcome to israel welcome to jerusalem welcome friend. thank you. well it's it's a pleasure to be back in jerusalem to meet with prime minister netanyahu and his team i appreciate the prime minister's leadership and vision his friendship and his true and lasting partnership with the united states demonstrated repeatedly when courage and persistence are required although i'm here for a previously scheduled trilateral meeting of the national security adviser's of israel russia in the united states hosted by prime minister netanyahu current

circumstances in the region make our conversations even more timely i welcome the opportunity to strengthen even further the deep cooperation between the united states and israel at this particularly significant point and to engage in strategic discussions with russia and israel together certainly there should be no doubt that under prime minister netanyahu and president trump the united states israel's security relationship has never been stronger and it takes strong leaders to make strong commitments especially in perilous times this administration has recognized jerusalem as israel's capital moved the u.s. embassy here recognized israeli sovereignty over the golan heights and brought military cooperation between the 2 countries to new levels these are not mere flourishes of rhetoric which too often characterize international relations these

are concrete realities and i'm sure there will be more to come. prime minister netanyahu strong relationships with both president trump and president putin augur well for the chances of success and greater alignment of the policies of these 3 great countries in a number of critical security issues president trump looks forward to meeting with president putin at the upcoming g 20 summit in osaka japan in the next few days where many of these same issues will be discussed i hope we can lay the groundwork for this meeting over the next several days here in jerusalem and as we meet threats to international peace and security in the middle east and around the world are on the rise iran has continued pursuit of nuclear weapons its threats to exceed the limits set in the failed iran nuclear deal in the coming days its continuing

build up of menacing could force capabilities in syria and iraq its supplies of sophisticated drones missiles and other advanced weapons the hostile surrogate forces in iraq syria lebanon yemen and afghanistan and its continued threats and acts of aggression against israel our allies in the arabian gulf and against u.s. personnel and assets across the middle east are not signs of a nation seeking peace neither iran nor any other hostile actor should mistake us prudence and discretion for weakness no one has granted them a hunting license in the middle east as president trump said on friday our military is rebuilt new and ready to go by far the best in the world sanctions

are biting and more added last night. iran can never have nuclear weapons not against the usa and not against the world. and as he made clear yesterday referring to his earlier remarks the president said i just right stop the strike from going forward at this time we expect that the new sanctions president trump referred to in preparation for some weeks will be announced publicly on monday stay tuned i'm delighted to be in israel once again and look forward to our coming discussions thank you thank you for watching a live press conference there in western was done by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu hosting the visiting u.s. national security adviser john bolton bolton is in israel to discuss ongoing regional security issues in places like syria and also not surprisingly u.s.

tensions with iran let's go back now to rob matheson who joins us now from west to east and rob so as i say the no surprise is iran topping the security agenda in that meeting. and that's exactly what we were talking about just before we cut away to the press statements that were being made there yes the initial intention had been by the israeli prime minister to focus on the trying to get iran out of neighboring syria of course iran and israel a very public enemies in israel does not like the fact that iran has been able to establish military bases as part of its part and the campaign in supporting the regime of president bashar al assad in syria it doesn't want those bases there he wants those bases out but as john bolton was making the points in those statements the situation has developed it's now no longer just the iranian bases within syria that is the subject it is iran itself and interestingly we will not yet have

key details about what's going to come out of those meetings although both men obviously setting out their stalls there benjamin netanyahu describing this as this 3 way meeting that will be coming up in the next couple of days as a historic meeting it will be a high level meeting it's unprecedented and john bolton clearly making the case again excuse me again for the u.s. stance against iran. it is being reported by the in the new york times on its online website that apparently john bolton will be also meeting officials from israel's atomic energy commission that's quite interesting because before the 2015 the nuclear deal with iran those officials were amongst some other is as really officials who were in the process of ordering practice bombing runs by the israeli military in order to practice at sacking

iranian military sites and that would include some nuclear sites as well let me close of so iran let me just jump in here because we're already in with may days but yeah we just put u.s. time sorry to interrupt you rob. has unveiled more details on the middle east peace plan but how but have the palestinians been responding just because they really pushed for time here. yes of course daryn the palestinians have basically been responding extremely negative lead the palestine liberation organization put out a statement on behalf of heinen who's a senior official there basically saying that the plan was abstract priorities and he said only a political solution would solve the conflict that's echoing statement that was made by the palestinian president mahmoud abbas on saturday hamas the group which controls the gaza strip has simply come out and said that palestine is not for sale

so absolutely determined that palestinians are not going to be in support of anything to do with an economic approach to trying to find a solution to this problem their view is a political solution has to be found 1st. in western iraq thank you very much andy . the residents of istanbul are voting on a controversial rerun of the mayoral election held about 3 months ago the opposition candidate was declared the winner back in march but that result was an old off the ruling party for the legal challenge over alleged irregularities what's in them cause joins us live now from istanbul some time so how's the voting going so far and how significant is this rerun. well this far as expected the participation is going to be the turnout is going to be high in the selection the turnout was around at least 83 percent on the march 31st but since istanbul residents believe that they are votes were.

declared as invalid by the supreme election boards which many many supporters of the opposition candidate it to mold to believe that that was a political decision this time the turnout is expected to be a bold $91.00 per cent how do we know and what the political parties are doing to increase the participation level while the ruling party is bringing some to stumble to residents who went to their home cities and i told you or other places in turkey and they are bringing those people with us there's just a vote in istanbul and then they are going to take them back on the other side of the opposition party who really provided a vet who really received a lot of votes on march 31st as did its best to consolidate those votes and not to lose any. on the march 31st the king maker or the election in istanbul was mainly the kurdish votes on the health of the opposition party candidate and remember more

little the ruling party had some moves to win the kurdish votes but due to the campaign retorting of the ruling party the kurds are is said to be offended. by it and that's why they're expected to vote for the opposition party. again this time however it is very important for both sides to win the stumble as it is see it cannot because of turkey it is the most populous city in turkey it is very it is going to be a next neck race again today but let me remind you that today people are voting only for istanbul mayorship the 6 mayorships were all are devoted and accepted by the supreme other boards on march 31st and among certain 9 districts it with 24 of them the ruling up party has the majority and the city council that's why even though the opposition party candidate wins the majority of the city council and that this 6 will belong to the ruling party which will be a challenge for

a commitment will if he wins on the other hand if the ruling party candidate wins everything is going to be all right for the after party we're going to see off the 14th year which is the time for the ballot boxes to be closed some of them. thailand's prime minister has called on the fellow southeast asian leaders to approve a trade deal that would form the world's biggest free trade area of china open the 2nd day of the latest summit of southeast asian countries known as a c. on in thailand he says a free trade deals is necessary to protect the block's 10 member states from what he called the winds of protectionism deal would include india and china but not the u.s. let's go to joins us live now from bangkok scott so lots of issues at the summit but will finally speak up perhaps on the raising the issue do you think. so far they haven't there and on the one hand the issue specifically you know it's been mentioned we know that certain nations of those 10 nations that make up asan have said that they want more done to. malaysia and indonesia but as far as

a body itself and saying something about how me and maurice handled the rink a situation that has not happened and there's uptick in the reason why there's this tradition if you will of non interference with these 10 nations interfering in internal matters mainly because some nations are concerned that if that lid is cracked off if they will start to delve they as an organization delve into each individual nations internal issues they too could be targeted so that's why it's kind of been a tradition where they won't delve into that so that's why we're not hearing it but again on the sidelines and directly kind of one nation to the body itself yes there has been discussion but as far as a statement coming out from members condemning how myanmar's handle the situation no damn that's likely to happen scott sonali like to see progress on the other bigger issues like trade within the region or at positioning all the block to the outside world. well that it's a very very important thing you know we just had that the kind of the closing press

conference from. the prime minister here in thailand and he really focused that speech on cooperation between the 10 nations but yes trade trade is a big issue right now generally because of what's been happening in the global economy but also specifically because of the 2 main trading partners the united states and china to us and they are in massive trade friction right now so some of the nations here are actually being forced to choose sides so what they're trying to do as you mentioned on that introduction there and that they're working on a bigger trade pact free trade agreement but that's going to be a very complex thing particularly when you look at how many parties are involved but even when you talk about aussie on as a bloc of 10 nations deciding how they as an entity are going to enter this trade deal that's going to take they say they'd like it to be within the year in the next 6 months but that's really a tall order because you have so many different nations again kind of picking sides between the united states and china but then also each nation has their own

interest going into that that is the goal but it's going to be a very lofty it is a very lofty goal and a lot of details need to be worked through there. in bangkok sculp thank you. protesters have been outside georgia's polman for a 3rd day that most have been peaceful after hundreds of people were arrested and injured in violence from police in tbilisi on thursday demonstrators tried to storm parliament off to russian politicians said a governor of give a speech in his native language in response but in the putin announced a halt in flights to georgia starting next month the nation's between the 2 countries have been strained since the 2008 war over south said here. are tough a quick check of the headlines here an al-jazeera ethiopia's military chief of staff has been shot dead in what the prime minister says was a coup attempt in a northern state state media has also reported the governor of the heart of state was killed along with an aide after being attacked in his office. the army the

democratic republic of congo has begun an offensive against an armed group in the town of jugo in the east the fighting in recent weeks has killed at least 100 people and displaced thousands of others u.s. national security adviser john bolton says his country will never allow iran to possess nuclear weapons bolton made the comments alongside prime minister binyamin netanyahu in israel the 2 have been discussing regional security issues amid rising tensions between washington and tehran bolton's trip also comes just days ahead of a planned summit in bahrain to discuss a u.s. peace between israel and the palestinians meanwhile the u.s. president says that he only stopped airstrikes against iran for now donald trump warned that military action is still an option from pulls up plans to impose additional sanctions on tehran iran right now is an economic mess they're going through hell it's a bit of a hard war sanctions are going to be put on a lot. it's hard to believe you could even but it is

a rod want to become a wealthy again. rob they call it let's make the run rate again that they make the run very good with me but never going to do it if they think that 5 or 6 years they're going to have a nuclear weapon i know too much about. a lot about it and let me tell you they're not going to have a nuclear weapon thailand's prime minister has called them fellow south east asian leaders to approve a trade deal that would form the world's biggest free trade area probably of china open the 2nd day of the latest summit of southeast asian countries known as in thailand the proposed deal would include india and china but not the u.s. . joint west african military force says it's killed at least 42 members and says they died in fighting on an island in lake chad the multinational joint task force is made up of soldiers from nigeria chad and cameroon but those are the headlines

the news continues here on al-jazeera to talk to us a statement. on counting the cost 2018 was the deadliest year for the aviation industry in years we'll find out just what went wrong also italy considers a new domestic current so you could lead to its exit from the euro but should you be worried about the kids having too much screen time counting the cost on al-jazeera. you. see. here at the u.n. they had a peace plan for libya it was though disrupted by one man general how leave power he is not our guest going to talk to is iraq instead this week we speak to someone who knows him well the former foreign minister and libyan m.p. . who they were in exile together in the u.s. and he also knew gadhafi during his schooldays he says that half is now resembling

the former dictator. i. former foreign minister of libya libyan m.p. thank you for joining us here on talk to each is 0 your country is in population terms a relatively small 16 or 7000000 people living on the side of the mediterranean most of them living in one part of the country with huge oil wealth. and yet we've seen only since the revolution in libya conflict and chaos do you think there will be a prosperous libya coming forward for sure libya lived for 42 years under the theory and good definition after 42 years of the aerial ship i think the country needs some time to regain its helped unfortunately many of the warlords and people who are are you know trained and that they get definitely jeem told that

this isn't a bush unity for them to a mess world and that created a vacuum in the country because that evolution in 1000 in 2011 had no leadership it was a bubble or revolution so many of the but even who were on it were good deaf ear people i suspect some of the problems in the revolution go back to the time of gadhafi and for most of your life he was in control of libya he came to power in 1969 what was life like on the gadhafi. well. what is life under any dictatorial regime lack of freedom leftover rule of law left of decency lack of development and human development and controlled development libya in 42 years after the end of the good there he is she the country was

worse than when it was in 60 night by the way he is my. we were the same age 42 but both of us were born in 42 and i knew him in grade school and they knew him after that even he tried to you know entice me to be with him in $72.00 to be one of his ministers i said i rather be teaching at the university and he then imprisoned you . and tortured you because how i was there because i was a nobody critic he didn't like or been critical of people who will could size him i was one of them how did you cast house of libya and what was life in exile like in 76 when i was you know outside of the universities you know most of the people who do libya at the time where my generation so i was able to get out of libya and came to the states because i knew the states very well i started my master's and

maybe the and i said this is a place i would like to stay i raise my family here and continue to study also islamic studies in michigan for a master beach the and. started in 1980 when he started his campaign to kill the opposition the there is outside grilling me he would say said some people to you know assess and it me we started the national front for the subversion of libya against him and since then i worked it out against him in aspects of what the voter availability unities just. it was a long struggle what were your thoughts finally in the beginning of 2011 when the revolution started well it was a dream coming through i mean we were not dreaming that they did they've been people will really involved but the arab spring in tunisia and in egypt gave

a new life what went wrong because everyone fought gadhafi and gadhafi fell but then it seems everyone 40 child i think when you and the allies the situation in libya the uprising has no leadership. so most of the leadership that came and turned the country were mostly people from the old regime or some expatriates who came under and joined them like yourself i didn't threaten dear i i was doing the work of training be able to be citizens so i did stablished the citizenship form and for 2 years i have been you know trained libyans from tobruk to day or 2 got thousands of be what i trained but the question is that because they could lease of ness of the society were broken or was a broken because of the rule dictatorial rules don't give you an opportunity to

build a relationship to build. solidarity is to build civil societies student unions were banned or were controlled 3 unions were banned or controlled all of the what you can call if you look at tunisia which has a very vibrant civil society in libya that is not. you've mentioned the role in 2011 of the international community in particular nato with its bombing was key in the military overthrow of gadhafi but did the international community do enough particularly in the keep period after gadhafi was toppled i think there is a bush unity mists by the international community because getting rid of get there was step number one building to be to really restructure itself was step number 2 and the community or the world community at large left libya

alone and that i think was a great mistake i was in libya in august 27th when catastrophe fled from tripoli and his government basically fell i was back of just a few months later in october when gadhafi was killed and it was interesting in that short space of time although on each occasion there was a great deal of euphoria it was clear things that come bad in the 1st few months militia already in control in tripoli oh yes i think there were among them was really the decision to give people who are fighting or who claim to be fighting the definite forces. mentalistic been dns so instead of 30000 forces the number. 20300000 evolution of forces most of them were not the fighters

and people have discovered that this is a very good opportunity to invest money. so we would have started to create their own militias and in every city almost we would have stablished new militias it is now such a complicated situation you have various different militias in different parts of the country you have rival governments rival parliaments well. under the surface yes and the l a t there is only one can isaac government which has been by braddock's of a sphere out political agreement it's called the now the government of national. accord in g. 8 and with it there should be 2 more major political organizations the state council and the house of representatives the house of representatives was hey

jacket and tobruk with under the control of the libyan national army the militia of couldn't have after and until have to attack it to billy the house of representatives did not come to tripoli but after they attacked tripoli members of the house of representatives from the western areas realized that this is the time to break away from to broke the political agreement. cold for the creation of a new parliament from people who were elected in 2014 and from the qataris like me . and we did it on a brutal 1st week of april after he affectively we really gathered in tripoli and more than 50 members of the house are written the started and new parliament and

said this is the bottom and according to the political agreement they were intimate in public it is completely out and because they made the statement aborting the attack of have to on. you bring up the subject of general khalifa haftar not many people have known him as long or as well as you have so let's just examine who this man is he was there at the time of the coup in 1969 with khadafi he was a close associate of khadafi yes yes he was one of the people who. did the coup against the king. and that's were the a no the agony of libya started in september 1989. again he was the commander of the libyan army who at that could chat and did the havoc in chad and he was defeated in chad and was in britain didn't chad get death even this isn't difficult

nice that he had an army in chad or he has to have that in chad so he disowns general have to be sold them he used think looking back now that episode might have been quite important in the psychology of general have to and how he's acting now i think so because in some of the conversations i had with after he said he was so mad about get deaf is denial of them being imprisoned in chad because in those days if the chad is have killed all of them nobody would say and you weren't he made the consideration would get deaf in the last 7 years or would that his life. death he. made approaches with many people according to him he gave him money he gave him a palace for his children in cairo he even bade wishing for his children to study

in cairo so there was a good relationship between him and get their feet in the final years of good that is let me just go back to chad he and his troops were imprisoned in chad eventually was the u.s. brokered his freedom i believe to what was then known as zaire now the democratic republic of congo then on to kenya and then to the u.s. to live in virginia the same place the cia based begs me to ask the question do you believe general hafta was working for the cia i think the narration of the situation goes back to where the national front for the salvation of libya has a program to attack libya and to liberate libya from get their fee from jet and they did the deal with the americans and with the chad ins that if they let the libyan prison there is a war.