bernard really an opportunity to talk but with no senior palestinian or israeli officials there me what credibility does this conference have in the long term because that's what cushion a wants doesn't it sort of traction for the future well we know that we think the white house had wanted israeli political leaders government leaders of some level to be represented at this conference but pressure from the palestinian leadership on gulf leaders not to have the israelis here in those gulf leaders saying that the americans succeeded for the palestinians that's why there aren't israeli government officials here we understand there are some israeli business leaders in bahrain those are the palestinians are pleased with that because they don't want this conference giving too much credence the sort of credence as you say the giant questioner is hoping it will get because they aim really this is really a lot of israelis in the idea that the ideas that cushion is putting forward the

idea is essentially to try and make peace with the arab world 1st israel to talk and make peace we are the world 1st and then sort out an agreement with the palestinians rather than what is the current idea which is for israel to reach a deal with the palestinians and then make peace with the rest of the arab world this conference is sort of helping to create this scenario or this sets up where they are world and dealing with arab world comes 1st dealing with palestinians comes seconds is sort of chicken and egg situation sort of burnet i suppose because if you wonder what the long term aim that is the of the conference is with regard to the fact that the political part of the deal apparently isn't going to be released until after the israeli general election in september and therefore the ground realities could be very different bye then. well a bit where we do we do know that jarrett cushion has essentially said in the interview that he gave with al-jazeera before this conference started and in

a previous interview he's essentially said the 2 state solution is dead so we can expect from that whenever that political aspect is launched we can expect some sort of some sort of alternative to that while that is just not going to wash with the palestinians and it would be something that the leadership in the rest of the arab world would find it extremely hard to swallow because their populations would prepare prepared to swallow it so the idea i guess from this conference is to try and make the economic opportunities look so enticing for the palestinians and do not underestimate of course the palestinian economy is in desperate need of investment in the west bank and in garza so the idea is make it look so good that they'll be able to swallow whatever the political price is when the political aspect of this deal is presented but are the palestinians to expect the palestinians to accept anything less than a 2 state solution is

a very very big ask so who will leave it there bernard as you monitor events for us through the day thanks a lot moving on to saudi arabia and of course the military officials that say they've intercepted and destroyed a drone targeting homes in the south of the country the drone has brought down near the residential area of comedic michette which is also home to a military base is the latest in a series of attacks on the airports and infrastructure. photograph of a father and daughter who drowned in the river on the us mexico border is highlighting the dangers migrants face trying to enter the united states we do warn you that you may find some of the following images disturbing osca alberto martinez at a medicine does 23 month old daughter of the area from el salvador died last week the photographer says the father tried to cross with the area on his back while his wife returned to the mexican shoreline but he became tired and pearl were swept away by the current the bodies were recovered on monday the u.s.

house of representatives has approved a 4500000000 dollars aid package to help asylum seekers coming across the mexican border the bill includes money to help shelter and feed migrants in custody and improve standards for their care president trump has to veto the new legislation it comes down to the acting head of the u.s. border protection agency announced his resignation a more than 100 migrant children have been returned to an already overcrowded detention center in texas despite reports of appalling conditions lawyers who inspected the facility say children can't have or didn't have access to soap or toothbrushes and hadn't showered since they crossed the border 250 children were moved away from the facility on the outskirts of el paso a few days ago. present trump is delaying grades that's culturally thousands of undocumented immigrants from the u.s. but officials are still arresting those who show up a court of routine appearances kristen salumi spoke to

a pregnant woman whose deportation order was put on hold just hours before a removal was due to take place. the family of alamo centeno santiago anxiously awaits word the pregnant mother of these 2 american born children has been in jail for about 3 months and is scheduled to be deported to her native guatemala the following day. i saw media finally a call. and it's much time. she says she's had severe stomach problems while in custody at a facility dealing with a mumps outbreak she just went to the doctor but missed a meal in the process her mother is distraught for it's lower than most i could but i don't know what will happen with the children it's sad that they could deport her because they need her we all need her

a deportation order was issued for santiago because she missed a court appearance the 34 year old crossed the southern border 15 years ago and filed for asylum claiming she faced violence and threats back home. neither immigration and customs enforcement nor the jail would comment on her claims of in adequate medical care. santiago was arrested outside a local courthouse where she appeared to settle a domestic dispute according to the immigrant defense fund federal agents have made more than $200.00 courthouse arrests in new york in the last year that's a 17 fold increase since donald trump became president in 2016 the stepped up enforcement comes as the trumpet ministration pressures congress to make it more difficult for immigrants to obtain asylum but some to ya goes lawyer says she's entitled to due process she asked the court to stay her deportation until her appeal could be heard there's been no allegations that she is violent or that she

is a danger to her community she's a mother of 2 and to whisk her away and not give her access to the courts and not have her be able to reside. in forums in which we have those eye injuries all these kind of issues is just really an affront to our entire legal process and it's been hard on the children who don't know if and when they will see her again santiago told us she had nowhere to live in guatemala and if deported she would try to return kristen salumi al-jazeera queens new york. well still ahead here on al-jazeera the kills they have murdered saudi journalists demands the un take action on the recent reports about his death. and the u.s. tries to rally support for its new sanctions against iran those stories after the break.

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a debate the same kind of debate that we have you know history. book about watching al-jazeera with me it's a whole robin a reminder of our top stories white house advisor john pearse unveiled the economic part of the u.s. middle east peace plan in bahrain. palestinians are acceptance of what he calls the opportunity of the century is a precondition for peace. the palestinians oppose the plan saying it does not include a political solution to the conflict the leadership has called for mass protests and they are boycotting the barring down on a city and so refused to talk to the u.s. since it recognized jerusalem as israel's capital. and ultra president to veto new legislation aimed at addressing the surgery numbers of asylum seekers coming across

the mexican border the house of representatives approved a $4500000000.00 aid package which includes new standards for migrants in custody. now the u.s. acting defense secretary has traveled to brussels to shore up international support for the new sanctions imposed on iran senior leadership he says the u.s. wants to negotiate i want to assure them that we are not seeking topic but the iran united states is not going to go to iran rather we want to get into a diplomatic and i think my discussions with them will be and it has been beginning already is to work with us we need to kind of broaden our gauge one on this and we all need to work together to get iran on the diplomatic this is not iran versus the united states this is the iran certainly versus the region and arguably. the broader global environment so we need to all work together and get our diplomatic and reach a new better agreement the more we have. both france's foreign minister eve lots of

there has criticized iran's plans to further reduce its commitment to the 2050 nuclear deal is your guess your yen and iranian violation would be a serious mistake and a bad response to the pressure exerted by the united states to french german and british diplomacy is fully mobilized to make iran understand that it would not be in its interests. donald trump has threatened to obliterate parts of iran if it attacks american interests the u.s. president delivered the warning via twitter after tyrone condemned the new u.s. sanctions against its senior leaders as idiotic samus robbie has moved to the reigning capital. in his 1st public appearance since iran shot down a u.s. surveillance drone last week president hassan rouhani did not hold back he said the latest sanctions targeting iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei are the irrational actions of a confused government to try to know what they are suffering from mental disability

the white house is afflicted with mental retardation and doesn't know what to do you see he needs should the supreme leader occupy such a protected position in public life that in iran insulting him is illegal. the u.s. applying pariah status to someone so highly revered has angered leaders into iran. and a lobbyist has not only the leader of iran he is the leader of iran and those who love the revolution and all muslims shia and non shia all around the world iran's leader doesn't only belong to a ron many people in lebanon syria iraq afghanistan pakistan kuwait and everywhere shia and non shia love him follow him and obey him and someone who has lost his mind does such a stupid and strange thing and for. iran is under such sweeping sanctions that the latest american move is entirely symbolic but later this week washington has said it will add iran's foreign minister zarif to the sanctions list attacking the

country's top diplomat is something to her and says permanently closes the path to diplomacy main enemy if you're being honest and want to negotiate simultaneously do you want to impose sanctions on the foreign minister so it is clear that you are lying as the u.s. continues its pressure campaign russia has vowed to help iran counter new u.s. sanctions. iran has been and remains our ally and partner and we consistently develop our relations both bilateral and multilateral which means any attempt to portray tehran as a main threat to regional security or to bring it into line with isis or other terrorist groups is unacceptable to us. but some u.s. officials remain undeterred the president has held the door open to real negotiations to completely and verifiably eliminated iran's nuclear weapons program

its pursuit of ballistic missile delivery systems its support for international terrorism and its other malign behavior worldwide. all that iran needs to do is to walk through that open door on tuesday foreign minister zarif said once again iran's religious views mean it will never pursue a nuclear weapon and he also reminded people that america is the only nation to ever drop nuclear bombs on another country and world leaders want cooler heads to prevail and washington keeps saying that it wants to calm things down through dialogue but the decision to sanction iran's supreme leader is something so insulting that protect ron it might make a negotiated solution nearly impossible. to harass. the u.k. has issued new guidelines to companies selling weapons to saudi arabia that's after a british court ruled last week that the german government sorry the british government broke the law by allowing arms sales to saudi arabia due to riyadh's

involvement in the war in yemen the british government is seeking to appeal the decision new export licenses are not being issued to companies trading weapons to saudi arabia bahrain egypt and the u.a.e. now under smith is the spokesperson for the campaign against the arms trade the group that filed the case against the u.k. government in london he says the u.k. government won't be able to send further weapons until a review of previous sales is carried out. all the weapons that are already with this side of the military are with society military means that we can't do anything damage which is already been done but right now as we're speaking there will be u.k. made fighter jets flying over yemen who will be fighting u.k. made missiles and dropping you came made bombs however government is not able to send any further bombs and missiles until it has carried a afforded a view of the previous failed certainly it's not done but it certainly is something which will not have been welcomed by the u.k.

government who will fight tooth and nail it will not have been welcomed by the side of the dictatorship and that will have been very bad news for the arms companies because for decades now you say g.d.p. or has been by far the largest buyer of u.k. weapons anywhere in the world. the u.s. senate is trying to make it more difficult for president trying to push through cells without congressional review the measure follows translates $1000000000.00 deal with saudi and the united arab emirates which he couched as an emergency it's not clear when the full senate will take up the bill president trying post promise to veto it. but the fields say of murdered saudi journalist jamal khashoggi has called on the u.n. to take action on its findings about his killing un special rapporteur will present a final report on casualties death to the human rights un human rights council on wednesday she's already pushing for an independent investigation victoria gave me reports. as america you had just came to geneva to deliver

a warning the do for terri an oil rich states such as saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are in their words flagrantly violating human rights and that the international community must be more to hold the leaders of these countries to account chang is fiance jamal has shows he was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul last october she's called on the un to take action over his killing. bono for her this is an outrageous murder well beyond money oil policies if the u.n. and other major international organizations do not follow up such incidents all murders then who would do it. hedges is the british academic who was jailed last year on charges of spying in the u.a.e. he was in solitary confinement and now says he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder the president pardoned him after a campaign by his wife stays panelists myself included have been 1st time victims

and witnesses of the growing oppression mechanisms established by or for terri and states to suppress free thinking domestically and internationally. the saudi government has rejected the un's recent reporting to her shows she's murder as full of baseless allegations and clear contradictions but special rapporteur agnes callum ard says the u.n. must not allow the continued abusive unchecked state power i want to. suggest that the killing of mr cash is symbolic of many other killings of many hours of patterns of many other trends around the world for which the international community cannot. turn a blind eye to the un human rights chief michel basher lay says she regrets what she calls saudi arabia's dismissal of the un's report into her shoulder is murder his fiance says that such words falls far short of the action needed the tory gate

in the al-jazeera. and saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salon is on his 1st foreign visit since the u.n. report held the kingdom responsible for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi he's in south korea for a 2 day visit ahead of this weekend's g. 20 summit in japan it's the highest level visit to south korea by a society leader in more than 2 decades. and south korea's president mungy in says the u.s. has been holding behind the scenes talks with north korea for a 3rd summit earlier north korea called the u.s. extension of sanctions against pyongyang an act of hostility the measures were imposed over north korea's nuclear and missile programs a summit between u.s. president all trump and the north korean leader kim jong un collapsed in february without a deal. more than 1000 people in hong kong of march 2 foreign consular offices calling for international help to scrap the extradition bill they say hong kong's

chief executive kerry should have withdrawn and not just for spoke on the legislation permitting extradition to mainland china protesters are hoping foreign leaders will express their concerns at this week's g 20 and of sarka which the chinese president xi jinping is due to attend. now international food aid has begun arriving for refugees from their homes by fighting in eastern democratic republic of congo but they workers are struggling to reach tens of thousands of others trapped in areas where rival militias have been attacking villages. of paul's from neighboring uganda where many have fled. $7000.00 congolese have come to this complex safety on the shores of lake uganda boda they've escaped from fighting in the eastern province of the tory in the democratic republic most of them want to cross into uganda but have lost everything and the johnny is too expensive i don't know round one i'm leaving in this camp with my 5 children because i cannot afford

to go to uganda my husband was killed last weekend and i have to stay here to get food for my children. food aid has just begun trickling in aid workers are finding it hard to get help to tens of thousands of congolese still trapped in areas where attacks are still going on so that these people here i had planned that it was because of the visa ethnic balance they are here without anything that can help them see why this is a fast food distribution 4000 of the 7000 people in because i'm groups have been carrying out attacks religiously jew groups and the lake all but ariel the tour province for more than 2 weeks now some congolese say they're fighting over farmland fishing rights and minerals. even military offensive against the militias and so far dozens have been killed or captured government soldiers have recovered firearms and rescued nearly

a 100 civilians who had been taken hostage some of the troops have also been killed . 400000 people have been displaced and those who can are using boats to cross into uganda thousands of arrived and more coming they'll be brought to this research. where they'll be off registered as refugees uganda allows refugees to settle go to schools and move around the country so both here are luckier than most but we've talked to have told us that still not. patrick has been here for a month he was a fisherman back home he says his village was among the fast to be attacked. by now it will not go back there until even after this situation comes because the violence keeps on repeating itself on every time it is played and we get leaders of that are closer to where we are and who care about our beats back in the democratic

republic of congo people continue to flee from their villages this is what they're leaving behind abandoned homes death destruction and misery cathy zoi al-jazeera western uganda. your children their arms the whole room the reminder of our top stories white house advisor. the economic part of a u.s. middle east peace plan in bahrain. palestinians are acceptance of what he calls the opportunity of the century is a precondition for peace the palestinians oppose the plan saying it does not include a political solution to the conflict the leadership has called for mass protests and they are boycotting the bahrain gathering palestinians have refused to talk to the u.s. since it recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. this is essentially an israeli idea which is to make peace with the rest of the arab

world 1st and then solve the palestinian issue with israel rather than the other way round which has been for israel to 1st reach an agreement or deal with the palestinians and then get peace with the rest of the arab world this is the israelis would prefer the former the palestinians the latter because otherwise it takes a lot of leverage away from them and the un says donors have pledged $113000000.00 to help millions of palestinian refugees this year the only agency for palestinian refugees has been struggling with funds since the u.s. government cut more than 300000000 dollars last year and donald trump has vowed to veto new legislation in the dressing surging numbers of asylum seekers coming across the mexican border the house of representatives approved a $4500000000.00 aid package which includes new standards for migrants in custody study military officials say they've intercepted and destroyed a drone targeting homes near its border with yemen the drone was brought down near

the residential area of kimmey which is also home to a military base is the latest in a series of attacks on saudi airports and infrastructure by yemen's rebels the u.k. has issued new guidelines to companies selling weapons to saudi arabia and that's after a british court ruled last week that the government broke the law by allowing arms sales to saudi arabia due to riyadh's involvement in the war in yemen the british government is seeking to appeal the decision. and the u.s. acting defense secretary mark esper has arrived in brussels to garner international support for the new sanctions against iran president hassan rouhani says the measures are outrageous and it's a yacht those stories of course on our website at al-jazeera dot com more news in half an hour with me next it's the stream to stay with us. the countdown to the 2020 us democratic primaries has begun the televised debate sees candidates go head

to head to define themselves on the issues from climate change to foreign policy joins in miami on june the 26th and 27th for the 1st u.s. democratic debate. i have i mean ok i'm going to spain today who will be the democratic party's champion in the 2020 us presidential and i'm only could be allowed to explore some of the issues and feuds that emerged within the party ahead of the democratic debate in miami florida what issues do you want the candidates to address tweet us at e.j. stream or leave a comment in the you tube chat will do our best to get them into the conversation as have been listening to this comment from political historian allan lichtman who has successfully put it to the outcome of every u.s. presidential election since 1800 phone right now joe biden is leading in the polls

by a reasonably substantial margin among democrats but that simply reflects name recognition the best chance the democrats have to beat donald trump is to nominate an exciting inspirational charismatic nominee like the republicans did with ronald reagan in 1980 with his great one liners when the democrats did in 2008 with iraq obama's inspirational rhetoric that is the task for the 20 or so democrats at the upcoming debate who's going to have the great lines who's going to have the kinds of kind of rhetoric to inspire the democratic faithful it remains to be seen never pre-judge. i love that comment from allen it remains to be seen i have no idea yet 25 democrats vying to challenge and ultimately president donald trump next november on wednesday 10 of those candidates will present their case for becoming the democratic party's presidential nominee with another tank get

a new opportunity to do so. so many hopefuls competing for the top spot the skirmishes have already begun especially among the more well known contenders in the last week alone senator cory booker has called out former vice president joe biden's record on civil rights while senators elizabeth warren and bernie sanders are competing for the attention of more progressive minded democrats so how would a sign that makes play out on the debate stage returning to the stream to help us answer that question and survey the landscape republican strategist and the founder of the women's public leadership network brad jenkins is a democratic party strategist and host of the polkas fired up and in miami and correspondent for al jazeera english however you really get to see let's just see if you can pass this test we have a rails app panels 24 candidates so follow who's missing who's missing from back here. and then use that argument into the race.

i had no idea there was so many the question is you have 25 people. wanting to run for president what is the point. and why so many why would you even bother i think look in their defense when donald trump announce his candidacy for president everyone laughed at them and i think in many ways donald trump didn't think he was going to be president so i think that just this just shows in many ways i think it shows the whack unfortunately the lack of leadership in the democratic party when you had a transformational candidate like barack obama preside over a presidency for 8 years and kind of fold back. into a post presidency life there's a lot to fill that void and we haven't quite filled that void so i think it's look there's way too many i think samantha bee did

a great job of laying out all of the people that should be running for senate not for. a well known american well known american comedian sorry for the national. canadian but but i think that if you end of the day all of these candidates are going to continue on to these next to be this is the 1st large skirmish these 1st 2 and then that field will continue to whittle down thing you said there is so revealing and i think all these candidates reveal one thing and it's that the democratic party is fractured sadly we were talking offline and we talk about how republicans are unified they coalesce they get in line and that's what they did around donald trump and so there were many people who live 2 or establishment republicans who now have such loyalty to this president they laugh when it came down that go and that's the later so it's no surprise of course the other side would think that this is anyone's game and that anyone has a shot i mean the most recent entry is joe sestak a former congressman and he was missing already. actually use that it's been one of

the most really. things for me i've been talking to a lot of people who want to vote democrat over the in the 2020 alexion and a couple of them said to me there were just too many some of these people need to get out the way start by saying stop trying to raise the profile let's get this down to a sensible number and let's get on with it i think everyone of the panel nailed it so far you know the democratic party's going through an ideological crisis between the people the progressive left and the more moderate people but i think ultimately they just want to get this down from 20 something to just a few but allen at the start really didn't you know if you look at someone like julian castro he has only ingredients to be an obama type candidate young by nick he's just dropped off the radar the last couple of years so i think for those less and then candidates it's all going to be about getting the men. somebody worked out over the 1st 2 debates each candidate will get about 7 minutes in that 7

minutes they really need to come up with those one liners to make themselves stand out from the more well known candidates it's a big challenge not just for them but i think also the democrats waiting for the process it's commissions are no that's what we're seeing in the community many come serina here on twitter says i think if we can avoid the mistakes of 2016 namely the extreme mudslinging and this isness should come out of the primaries with a solid candidate that stands a real chance of winning the white house they've hashtags come alive here as they are 2020 so you know where serena stands but brad this is just viciousness and mudslinging are we already seeing that i don't think so i mean what i think the big difference between the real drag out fight between hillary clinton and bernie sanders that bernie sanders is not a democrat right he really ran against the democratic party he ran against the democratic national committee and so it's very hard to unify the party when you

have a candidate who is in many ways was trying to burn it down i mean he would say you try to reform it. but he was really railing against the system itself i think this feels very different there are still bernie sanders who still very much a viable candidate but every single one of these other candidates including elizabeth warren these are democrats right so i do think that even in the skirmishes that we've seen with center booker and senator biden there's a feeling of we are trying to your point. we are trying to come together we we realize that the number one priority for democratic primary voters is to not donald trump be reelected that is the number one but i do does it respectfully disagree with that i think bernie took the party more to the left and what you see today is a party that's sort of been remade in bernie's image they talk about these policies that are really more left of what we ever heard before bernie and that's what republicans seem entry point everything i'm hearing now from republicans that i work with i have a couple clients who are in the southern part of the united states and they love to

rail against socialism and they're railing against all of these candidates you see here because they think all of these folks want to take us toward socialism and so that is going to be the game plan for republicans as these folks try to show that they want the oval next year isn't going to be socialism kills we don't want that vote for trump again i honestly think at this point when people are looking to this election it may come down to the.