it is very clear that the it is the backstop that has caused all of the difficulties with the withdrawal agreement and therefore that needs to be the subject of focus negotiation to deal with it and therefore we will support the prime minister and other parties say that backstop is essential to prevent a hard border they're worried what they call the prime minister's hardline strategy will backfire and see the u.k. leave the e.u. without a deal but in their view would inevitably lead to physical checks at the border between northern ireland in the republic of ireland and fission facing the main nationalist party it could even be to push for a referendum on uniting north and south we've made it clear to him that the extensive planning that he tells us he is carrying i was in respect of a potential crash frank says has to include the constitutional question of the issue of a border poll here in ireland. she and feigns ultimate aim is and always has been achieving a united ireland and a clear warning to the prime minister is the way he's going about brics it could

make that prospect a great deal more likely. for now the action at stormont is outside the parliament not in sight even if the assembly does against all expectations resume its work in the near future the challenge of protecting the good friday agreement that created it could make delivering any kind of breaks it an uphill struggle de barber al jazeera belfast israel's security cabinet has approved the permits for the construction of 700 palestinian homes in the occupied west bank it was announced ahead of a planned visit to israel this week by senior white house advisor jared krishna how the force that has more from western recent health. well just days after carrying out an extremely controversial series of demolitions of palestinian homes in occupied east jerusalem the israeli government is now sanctioning the construction of some $700.00 palestinian homes in the part of the occupied west bank which it controls known as areas see at the same time notably talking about the approvals of

some $6000.00 units in illegal israeli settlements as well all of this coming at the same time as a tour of the region by president donald trump's son in law gerrard and his chief envoy to the region jason green blatt will be visiting both jordan israel qatar saudi arabia and the united arab emirates at a time when the israeli press is reporting that the u.s. intends to host a summit at camp david the presidential retreat for arab leaders to brief them on the details or at least the broad outlines of the trump peace plan now according to that reporting president trump intends to talk about in hard seeing palestinian autonomy but stopping well short of palestinian statehood and that is a message that his ambassador to israel david friedman has also been putting out an interview on c.n.n. he said that autonomy would only be enhanced or increased up to the point that it does not affect israeli security so stopping well short of a palestinian state the palestinians of course will be entirely opposed to that in

fact there has been. action from the p.a. foreign ministry saying that this is all it intended to achieve 3 things to increase as in yahoo's chances prime minister netanyahu has chances in the israeli elections coming up in september also to consolidate normalization between israel and other arab states before the resolution of the israeli palestinian conflict and thirdly to try to achieve peace with the exclusion of the palestinians something which of course the palestinians will resolutely opposed in hong kong 44 protest as it appeared in court charged with rioting their supporters stood for hours outside the courts in the rain and briefly blocked a police vehicle if convicted the activists face up to 10 years in jail the charges relate to recent violent protests in the chinese government's office over a proposal to extradite suspects from hong kong to china most of those arrested have now been granted bail and orders not selling paul cole until

a further hearing. nicaragua's plan to build a $50000000000.00 shipping waterway to rival the panama canal appear to have stalled the mega development project was announced 6 years ago it was a partnership between the government and a chinese billionaire at risk john heilemann reports from the city of reeve us there's little sign of progress. it was meant to be the culmination of a century of nicaraguan dreams the country's very own great canal linking the pacific and atlantic oceans when doing it by chinese billionaire handed a generous concession by the government in 2013 everyone was talking about it we found not a stone's been late abyss point there was a big ceremony too in or great the building of the canal but as you can see 6 years later there's nothing here but a dusty road. why has the canal failed to materialize the short story the

billionaire lost most of his billions before work could get started but the ripples still being felt particularly in the form of a law passed especially for the project that says any properties needed can be exported predated that law is still on the books. there are still other arrests that thousands of campus senos could have their land expropriated and occupied by private interests that's why the citizens demand that the law be struck down. it's a permanent worry for custer lenore and her family when the canal was 1st planned workers showed up to measure out their house when they protested things turned nasty. but i'm not that as i be almost broke our heads the national guard had us lying down on the motorway and if we lifted our heads they stomped on the sward ass hit us with sticks they broke my brother's ribs. just a full state of white a state repression in the country when police run sacked and then occupied her

office monica lopez fled to costa rica custer lenore's family still fears they'll be targeted again. they will yet while this government is in power we are not safe everyone that they grab them putting in jail is at risk and the government still budgeting for the canal authority it set up despite the lack of progress we went from office to office looking for the man who heads it money well coronel but couldn't find him or interview requests to the government also went unanswered. to all intents and purposes it seems this is now a ghost project but while it exists at least on paper it's still hanging over those who never wanted it in the 1st place john holmes. because i was. still ahead on the program sri lanka rediscover their groove after a disappointing world cup. business

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business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. again now with. a thank you so much the 29000 ashes starts on thursday england will host australia in the beginning and birmingham earlier both captains face the media with the trophy this will be joe root 2nd ashes series as england skipper while tim payne is making his debut as an ashes captain says the words a former u.k. prime minister had been motivating his team in recent weeks. ago as i understand

what's expected of them a role models you know not just for good all around the world and. you know there's been a quite. this week from winston churchill actually and that's that behavior doesn't want to we can talk a lot about how we're going to behave ultimately you go as we say how we behave and you have to judge for yourself. cricket in this country is probably an all time high it's probably got interest it's not hard for a long time and we've got an opportunity as a team to to make this some a very memorable one. and that's exciting you know to be involved in that to have that chance that carrier in front of us is a team. is really pleasing one and it's very motivation a great motivator sorry for the whole squad shalako bounce back after their disappointing world cup campaign they completed a 3 no white wash in their one day series against bangladesh sri lanka posted 294 for 18 games 3 and colombo michelle mendis and angela matthews both getting half

centuries and made short work of the bangladesh batsman sri lanka bowling them out for just 172. the court of arbitration for sport has overruled the decision to replay the african champions league final they could read a ration of african football's executive committee rule the game be played again after the 2nd leg was abandoned cinesias esperance won 21 on aggregates after readouts players left the pitch in protest they were upset when a goal of theirs was disallowed and could not be reviewed because bar wasn't working both teams felt they should have been awarded the match and large peals to cast. football's world governing body pfieffer and europe's top 4 domestically star among those who signed a joint statement demanding saudi arabia take action against the illegal sports channel b. out you know it has been showing live football games despite not having the rights to do so the statement says we the rights holders of various football competitions

collectively condemn in the strongest possible terms the ongoing theft of our intellectual property by the pirate broadcaster known as the q and call on the authorities in saudi arabia to support us in ending the widespread and flagrant breaches of our intellectual property rights taking place in the country. codes the nadine's dan admits his team's defending must improve ahead of the new season well had to come from behind after conceding an early goal against fenerbahce in munich. karim benzema on the back in the game on 12 minutes he went on to net 2 more leading reale to honestly win even though the spanish side won the scame they've conceded 16 goals in 5 pre-season matches. to homelessness and we're going to resolve the defending we're going to work hard and i am one with my players i know we're going to push on and we're going to have

a really good season and that's it nobody likes to concede goals but the important thing for us is the victory. the fans approve the expansion of the women's football world cup to 32 teams in 2023 and has reopened the bidding process for potential hosts meanwhile the coach who guided this year's champions the usa to victory is stepping down from the role jill ellis is the 1st coach to win 2 women's world cup titles she's also been nominated for best women's coach by the game's governing body the 52 year old will officially step down after a 5 game victory tour of friendlies around the u.s. . caster semenya says she will cite for her own rights and those of other female athletes the south african made the comments there her lawyer after being denied the chance to defend her 800 metre title at the world championships and in september the double limping champion had suffered a legal setback in her challenge to testosterone rules affecting female runners as

was temporarily allowed the south african to race while awaiting a court appeal only to reverse its decision on choose day so many as lawyers say she will appeal the ruling we are appealing because this case is about fundamental human rights human rights of female athletes who are exceptional and to stand out because of. the eye at once to force female athletes to submit to very intrusive physical explanations you don't have to be a woman to understand how you 1000000 each in these examinations on no man has to go through this. and the baseball teams with a history of bad blood live down to expectations cincinnati reds pitcher a mare garrett making the bold decision to take on the entire pittsburgh pirates dugout. reds manager david bell faces a suspension after he ran onto the field to join an in spite of having already been injected from the game of pittsburgh went on to and they're long this losing streak

in 8 years with an $11.00 to $4.00 victory. ok and that is all your support for now it's now back to full stay in london thanks so much for the just bought it from me on the news but join us again in a couple of minutes time with more of the day's news thanks to. combining until. to challenge soviet era methodology.

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from the same family are quarantined in the d.l.c. over concerns they've been infected with the abode of virus. protest leaders who for a 1000000 man march in sudan to demand justice for the deaths of 6 demonstrators. the u.n. security council's urge to convene after north korea carries out a 2nd ballistic missile test this week. follow the u.s. treasury department has imposed sanctions on iran's foreign minister mohammed javid serif it includes freezing his assets in the u.s. as well as travel restrictions u.s. officials have also said they do not consider as a reef a significant decision maker in any future talks about the iran nuclear deal let's take you live now to al-jazeera and jordan she's in washington d.c.

for us a significant decision this rolls what other reasons has the trumpet ministration given for sanctioning saree. well the primary reason why the administration says at least in legal terms that it is sanctioning mama job and sorry thier running in foreign minister is because he leads an office that cooperates with the office of the supreme leader the ayatollah ali husseini hama ne and the offices efforts to crush political dissent within the country to destroy human rights to basically support groups such as hezbollah and hamas as well as to try to do stabilize other countries through the deployment of its own g c. soldiers or to fund other insurgent groups the us says that because it's a reef leaves the foreign ministry which works hand in glove as it were with the

supreme leader's office that he was of course a prime target under the terms of a new executive order recently issued by the president donald trump they also say that more specifically because he is considered a trusted confidant of the telecom in him that it would be untenable for the u.s. to continue to watch a job it's a reef basically fly around the world serve as a spokes person for the iranian government and not be held accountable for the actions that either he himself has carried out or those who work for his ministry have carried out a get at the behest of the supreme leader's office so that is why the sanctions are being imposed it's also intended to send a message that the u.s. is simply not going to allow iran to try to develop any nuclear weapons even though

the iranian government has said repeatedly that it has been abiding by the terms of the 2015 iran nuclear agreement a deal which. most will recall the us pulled out of just about a year ago yet also means the reef as we know is the mandible wolds is used to dealing with on behalf of iran he's been a frequent visitor of course to the un in new york how would he sign sions affect their visits would he be able to go to the u.n. well he has to apply for a visa to be able to come through u.s. territory in order to reach u.n. headquarters and an official who was on the press call earlier on wednesday indicated that the u.s. will look very carefully at his visa applications to make certain that the u.s. doesn't interfere with his right to go to u.n. to conduct business at the u.n. on behalf of his government because that is something u.s.

is obligated to do but it could very well leave the room open to find a way to deny zarif permission to come to the united states or it could allow him to travel to the u.s. travel through an international airport but then be very very limited on where he could go how he could get between 2 or more locations while he is doing business at the united nations and then perhaps set a time limit on how long he could actually be in the united states while on a u.n. related business so there is a possibility that he might want for example to come to the opening of the next general assembly session in september and he might not be allowed permission to travel to the u.s. fort we'll just have to see if that actually does happen well the judge in live with the latest in washington thank you. well the recent self has responded to the

sanctions on twitter saying the u.s. is reason for designating me is that i am iran's quite prime respects person around the world is the truth really that painful it has no effect on me or my family as i have no property or interests outside of iran thank you for considering me such a huge threat to your agenda. as there is still such a bari such as this update from tehran that certainly will be just another example the iranians will point to the fact that the united states doesn't really understand how the islamic republic system works the idea that they think by sanctioning that the foreign minister they will get to a more powerful person in the system to talk to is really absurd because the foreign minister is somebody who is a very very close to the highest authority in iran the supreme leader the supreme there and sells quite a lot of company in the past has expressed his satisfaction with how the foreign

minister has conducted these negotiations over the nuclear dream and he thanked the foreign ministry called or asked for. the idea that by bypassing the race they will get to somebody powerful in the system that will they will be able to talk to is unheard of really it will never happen the iranians chose the foreign minister as the person to lead the negotiations to bleep the dialogue in the international community about it or not or to put it. back their nuclear program in order to open up the country's economy to the world and that is what was passed to the foreign minister well our sharma she is a national security and foreign policy analyst joins us by skype from new york thanks again for being with us on the program the u.s. doesn't want to deal with mr zarif who will it deal with now when it comes to iran . that's a very good question so on the one hand before mrs every if we give foreign minister

of iran for a while the chief nuclear negotiator from iran was not the foreign minister to give you an example francis during the years of president mohammed khatami rule iran from 90 well it was president you don't rule iraq let's say from 97 to 2005 it was mr auntie was now the currents president who was iran's chief nuclear negotiator he was sort of and in fact the chairman of iraq's national security council not intellect like that official later on during the years of this admonition are these sort of hardline presidents who had much of a national terms of getting the attention of the world media all the wrong reasons it was missed a lot a joint who is now the current speaker of the iranian parliament who was at the time again the head of the iranian national security council who was in a fact in charge of nuclear negotiations a member of the cabinet lightness as that if as foreign minister being intrusted

with the negotiations was a new things that's one thing secondly we all know it's no secret to anybody that in the iranian a hierarchy in the iranian structure how are elected officials whatever you make up that make up those elections anyway the elected officials don't have much power strategical is a book structure structurally and institutionally it keep because it is a decision makers special when it comes down to national security affairs military affairs intelligence nuclear and so on and so forth is the superior ayatollah and the common e and his clothes. you see folks and so on and so forth most of whom if not all are selected they're not elected and the they do not answer to any send or sort of semi democratic bottom so what happens if you eliminate that eve from the negotiating process 2 things happen either. ok iran will say well we're not going to send anybody to negotiate or beat if they come to our senses they will say well

you know even though this was not the best move by the us the next person who will have some authority on behalf of god knows whom will be able to negotiate but to go to even think to even pretend up a one second. common and god like you know supremum leader of iran who sort of if you want to be a logical propaganda is the the senate of of prophet mohammed and also the successor of his rage and his religious rule is not going to sit at the negotiating table nor is he going to accept as or and they're going to take audience with any american officials for that matter or any negotiators for that matter said that they very best you're going to have some appointed official just like rouhani were law to join you so on and so forth as i said where previously in charge of iran's national security council i'm not sure if this move in addition to just being

symbolic what does it really accomplish but let's be clear here tensions have been on the rise and as much as i do not want to sit here for a minute and defend some of the horrible policies both domestic and international policies of president trump even a broken clock is right twice that the islamic republic has expanded its influence in the region islamic republic has increased tensions and islamic republic has tried to justify its malign activities based on a mystique and that mystique was president trump's unilateral withdrawal from the iran deal last year and said that they you look at areas of trouble in the region and it appears that appears that is it clear that there is a proxy war going on between the saudis and iranians and this price is being paid by the people in the region so to. big 3 big big big things in this you know sort of big scheme of being right. tensions are going to go on beyond the horizon be i'm

not sure maximum pressure alone without any light at the end of this convo is going to be effective pressure for us to go pressure is not effective pressure is the fact that with the iranian ok what are some sort of carrots and there's a rise out of us i'm sorry to cut you off we are out of time appreciate your side thank you. thank you doctors in the democratic republic of congo have quarantined 15 people in south kivu province of affairs they've been infected by it by a lot until now the area has managed to avoid the epidemic that has swept across the eastern d.l.c. all 15 members of the same family and recently returned from going that where a 2nd person died from the villa on wednesday catherine so he has more now from my .