of a has been confirmed in go my this one year old girl is in a treatment center her mother has been put in isolation waiting for her results and her father died on wednesday from a bullet here's a story we did. this is the clinic in goma where the man sought help before he died he fell sick days after returning home from an infected area where he was working in a mining area the clinic is now closed some clinicians have been vaccinated and health workers are trying to trace people the victim made contact with. more than a 1000000 people live in this city on the border with rwanda. we do not know what was happening we just saw people looking like doctors carrying him away they said they will come back to the mater. we are free and resident because we have seen how people are dying it would term burn beni mightn't be the

2nd worst outbreak in the country's history was declared a year ago and has since claimed the lives of 1700 people it's 2nd only to the outbreak in west africa that killed 11000 people 5 years ago health workers trying to combat the outbreak are having to deal with militia groups and communities both hostile to them as well as poor infrastructure in vast regions where villages are hard to reach. for to mark a humble is an airball a survivor who spends her time taking care of children whose parents are the sick or dead she also talks to people and have believed in the town of benny about the importance of health care some congolese want to know about a new ball a vaccine they've hired out from other gender but some people are saying the new proposed vaccine isn't good health workers need to seem surprised people so they can understand because this virus needs to go away the proposal by the world health organization to use a vaccine for clinical trials east controversial critics say the drug is

experimental and shouldn't be tested on congolese people the. vaccination is important for the such experimentation is very clear we need to call to. trial to get more information on the. effectiveness we are loath to of more concrete recommendations the best work rules that the colaba not break the law putting. for the search box doctors try to work out how to stop the disease from spreading health workers in goma say the wall prepared to deal with this situation they've set up hand washing points in different parts of the city they say the treatment centers are well equipped and they have enough personnel but they're also warning people to keep vigil avoid unnecessary contact with each other not to warry but people that we've been speaking to in goma a telling us it's very difficult to keep calm at this moment catherine soy

al-jazeera nairobi kenya still ahead on the bulletin the top u.s. and chinese diplomats mate with trade and security on the agenda but have the details from bangkok and why the u.s. central bank has cut its main interest rate for the 1st time in a decade. china sea is full of removing the remains of tropical storm rita which means there's not much to the south usually this takes away in g.r. the out of the atmosphere if you get a tropical system of any sort around however you fall right down this crean there's been some pretty heavy showers in this western side of the pacific not mostly in the west pacific of course we're free of land which means borneo is for example very cloudy and you see occasional showers that's the case the forecast the next 2 days was over denise here is dry most i'm

a lazy or not oh well that's not true for thailand cambodia or sudden vietnam where rains wet solomon nonsense in some pretty heavy showers australia rather not in fact this great shortage of rain particularly new south wales they're already think he will have a foreign season could be a bad one it's been i think 2nd hottest july on record in the city and bridges been sort of water and the warms continues with a great 2 in the way of rain or wind direction to change things but it's warmer still in perth the winds coming out of the interior so 22 degrees or thereabouts the next front hasn't yet made it yet still disappointingly cold and wet again in tasmania 10 mobeen slightly better than 30.

get closer to the age together f.c. boy scouts are always going places together. it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera and these are our top stories dozens of people have been killed in 2 attacks on security forces and yemen's port city of aden the biggest was on a military camp or chanting last week was being used by emraan hashmi forces in the

coalition with saudi arabia the fighters say they carried it carried out that attack meanwhile an explosion inside had a police station in a separate attack. iran's president has denounced u.s. sanctions on the country's top diplomat as childish washington says foreign minister mohammad job that if is promoting what it calls the reckless agenda of iran's supreme leader and rwanda has partially closed its border with the democratic republic of congo earlier a one year old girl became the 3rd patient to test positive for the border virus and the congolese city of goma close to the rwandan border. the frontrunner in the race to be the democratic party's nominee to challenge donald trump has had a tough night for vice president joe biden faced attacks from 9 other presidential hopefuls during the 2nd night of debates john hendren reports from detroit. the

front runner spot was joe biden's to lose any plan to win or go down fighting in debate one comolli harris attacked biden got a boost in the polls. on the way in to debate 2 he asked her to go easy minutes later on question one he has sailed her plan for publicly funded health care the senators had several plans for you can't be president trying with double talk on this plan we are now paying 3 bill a trillion dollars a year for health care in america over the next 10 years it's probably going to be 6 trillion dollars we must then inside detroit's fox theater came an avalanche of counterattacks on immigration it looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn't on criminal justice because you stood up and used that tough on crime phony rhetoric that got a lot of people liked it but destroyed communities like mine and on climate change

washington state governor jay inslee called biden's plan in adequate his disagreement with his response with me it did. when he said. there's no working this out this is our last chance and the next president we had to move our house is on fire we're going to put it out. had a target on his back again and again by his critics on the day. he struck back over the next few days the polls would determine whether those repeated attacks left a lasting mark to win against president democrats will have to win in states like michigan which won in 2016 detroiter mario morrow has some advice come here often work hard to make sure they connect with the voters make sure there is some type of connection with issues. just black issues black folks like everybody else want to talk about those issues that are going to

be successful in the future student loan. in his closing remarks biden bungled his own fund raising phone number he meant to say tax joe to 30330 instead he said go to joe 30330 and help me in this fight the repeated attacks that apparently rattled the leading candidate john hendren al-jazeera detroit. now the us central bank has cut its main interest rate for the 1st time an 11 yazid an effort to boost spending the head of the federal says he's concerned about the global economic slowdown and the trade war between the u.s. and china the outlook for the u.s. economy remains favorable and this action is designed to support that outlook it is intended to insure against downside risks from weak global growth and trade policy uncertainty to help offset the effects these factors are currently having on the economy and to promote a faster return of inflation to our symmetric 2 percent objective shihab rattansi

has more from washington d.c. . the german federal reserve cited 3 main factors for the rate cut the weakening global economic outlook the weakening outlook for u.s. trade around the world as a result and we conflation in the united states his argument seems to be look the u.s. economic indicators are humming along why don't just give them a little bit of a boost with this quarter percent rate cut he denied any political pressure but we do know the dollar trump has been pushing for rate cuts from the fed larger than this one that is because clearly don't trust once the economy to keep on expanding into the 2020 economic cycle drone pilot 1st saying that he didn't see this is a long succession of rate cuts but then he clarified that suggested that there may be more rate cuts to come perhaps orszag will get hit more rate cuts simply because of his economic policy the only certainty over trade as a result of his trade wars and trade rhetoric but also the economic policy the prioritized enormous cuts for the wealthy and corporations and not sustainable

investments into the u.s. economy itself so he he may get his his rate cuts but he won't so much u.s. secretary of state my problem has met his chinese counterpart one year's meeting of southeast asian foreign ministers and bangkok the 2 are believed to have discussed trade and security compos also meeting with members to reassure them of washington's commitment to the region his visit to bangkok is the 1st stop in a week long trip that will also include astray and micronesia scott hardly has the latest from the summit. diplomats from the 10 members have been meeting amongst themselves but also with foreign ministers from outside the region but there have also been bilateral meetings one particular interest earlier in the day was between japan and south korea they have a trade row in the process there was hope that there could be progress toward resolving that situation but the meeting ended and there are no positive statements

coming out of it so the assumption is that there really wasn't any kind of agreements made also a bilateral meeting to have a lot of attention between the united states and china again not too much coming out of that a lot of pleasantries actually there were no specifics about how things are going to be handled between the 2 nations in north korea but just that they'll continue to coordinate as this peace process moves forward and hopefully another summit with chairman kim and president trump also out of that meeting between china and the united states they say how they're going to work together in the situation here in the region but again no concrete ideas of how they're going to do that just a lot of diplomatic speak with all these diplomats here in bangkok that we're moving into friday and there will be a big regional east asia regional summit where all the members will sit down those from those from east asia but also from abroad sit down that will be the biggest venue for these 4 or 5 days of meetings again we're not expecting any kind of tangible results of that but obviously they're going to be a lot of topics to be discussed because of what's happening in the region we've got tension over the south china sea you've got the situation on the korean peninsula

and you have these trade issues as well and the trade war between the united states and china so those will all be discussed so as a kind of moving shifting over to friday and the east asia summit. now china is preventing many of its citizens from traveling to taiwan the decision to stop showing travel permits what effect from 47 says he's china views taiwan as a breakaway province and tensions between beijing and taipei have been rising in recent months when haye has moved from shanghai. in the 1st half of this year more than $600000.00 people from china visited taiwan so this decision will certainly have an economic impact and that seems to be the motivation behind it to apply pressure on the government in taiwan led by president sighing when who very much opposes the one china principle we have the election to coming up in january next year and there's no doubt that the government in china would prefer to see a more pro beijing person in office in taipei the decision also comes after some

fairly provocative events recently we had the latest sale announced by the united states to taiwan worth more than $2000000000.00 that certainly angered beijing there was a visit also by president sighing when to some caribbean nation some of the few countries that still have diplomatic relations with taiwan on her way there and back she stopped off in the united states words which also angered the government in china and the government in taiwan is also offered to provide sanctuary to protesters in hong kong who have been rallying against their own government and also increasing influence from beijing. as well as the army has killed a palestinian man who it sells crossed the guards a fence and shot at their soldiers 3 soldiers were injured in the attack the israeli army says the man was a member of the military wing of hamas and israeli tank targeted a military policy conduit us from gaza and response there are no reports of

injuries. now turkey's defense minister says his country will set up a so-called safe so it in northern serbia where the without the u.s. and nato allies will resume talks in an effort to reach an agreement but as they know how the reports from gaza and southeastern turkey divisions between them run deep. more soldiers arrived and already heavily fortified positions to show up. force coinciding with turkey repeatedly warning it might carry out a possible cross border operation its military wants a safe zone inside the y.p. g. controlled area in northeast syria it considers the syrian kurdish armed group a threat to its national security but it is also an ally of the united states which has warned turkey against taking any unilateral military action and we know that there are officially $2500.00 u.s. soldiers and nearly 220 u.s.

military facilities in the region so in case of a military operation there is a risk that too metalized who not all militaries could come face to face there has been a marked increase in u.s. army patrols close to the border with turkey in what seems to be a message to its nato ally they have deep disagreements despite months of discussions over the creation of the zone turkey does not just want to wipe e.g. to disarm and withdraw from the border area it wants control of the zone that's at least 30 kilometers deep and would stretch from the syrian town of girard loss to the iraq border that would include why p.t. controlled cities and towns like co bonnie tell commission. as well as members. turkey says the u.s. needs to end its support to the y. p.g. which it considers an offshoot of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party or the p.k. cape it is also not satisfied with the buffer zone solutions proposed by the united

states those proposals reportedly involve a zone with a depth of 10 kilometers that excludes the main population centers along the border . right e.g. supporters have held protests against a possible turkish takeover saying they'll only accept an internationally enforced zone in turkey and the syrian opposition say areas under y p g control are historically ours and the proposed zone means millions of refugees can return to syria. in turkey dependent to. the u. s. or russia so i. say that and me it is hard to make a prediction about just steps. the operation with russia has allowed turkey to clear the white b.g. from at least 2000 square kilometers along its border since 2016 but russia doesn't seem to want turkey to increase its influence in syria it says any safe still needs the consent of the authorities in damascus for now it is under u.s.

control but if u.s. policy shifts how long that will remain the case is unclear jennifer there are. a fire and an explosion at a texas or a refinery has injured at least 37 people it happened at an exxon mobil plant near houston the company's has most of the injured suffered minor burns the cause of the blast is being investigated. and is a problem in doha with the headlines on al jazeera dozens of people have been killed in 2 attacks on security forces and yemen's port city of aden the biggest was on a military camp which on 2 last week was being used by iraqi forces of the coalition would solve the arabiya put the fighters there they carried out that attack meanwhile an explosion also had a police station in a separate attack and what the rebels say they've fired

a ballistic missile into saudi arabia they had a military position in the eastern city of the mom the whole thing is have been targeting airports and military installations inside saudi arabia they say it's in response to the solve the immorality coalition's military campaign in yemen. and other news rwanda has partially closed its border with the democratic republic of congo on wednesday a one year old girl became the 3rd patient to test positive for the ball a virus in the congolese city of goma close to the rwandan border iran's president has dismissed u.s. sanctions on its top diplomat as childish the americans say foreign minister mohammad job of the reef is promoting what it calls the reckless agenda of iran's supreme leader asad begg has more from appeared on. if they did sanctions come month after donald trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions against the supreme leader here and that's all a part of what washington calls its maximum pressure campaign and this is going on

since you at the united states unilaterally pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal last year now these latest sanctions are seen by many people here as an indication of the fact that the united states doesn't understand how this line republic works if the u.s. thinks that they could negotiate with anyone high almost seen it in the foreign minister they greatly mistaken and it will affect future negotiations the frontrunner in the race to be the democratic party's nominee to challenge donald trump has had a tough night former vice president joe biden face attacks from 9 other presidential hopefuls during a 2nd round of debates and detroit u.s. secretary of state mike pompei of has met his chinese counterpart wangi at a meeting of southeast asian foreign ministers in bangkok with trade and security discussed well those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us people in power is coming up next. the wilderness of cambodia is under threat.

pillaged for profit by an illegal timber trade when one east investigates the plunder of cambodia's forests. 100. america seems more disunited than it's any point in recent history is politics undermined by partisan divisions consensus on almost anything impossible to achieve so what's tweaking the policies that once held a huge democracy together where could the disbelief in the 1st of 2 special reports the base that was the thing to investigate.

america today is a house divided now by slavery which abraham lincoln warned would lead to the u.s. civil war between sixty's but by toxic partisanship between democrats and republicans the nation's 2 main parties i'm angry at democrats because of what they do to our country right now we have people in congress that hate our country. we have a president who intentionally purposely is trying to go boy a dog loved by the cold i was scared by all joined up to the republicans have become complicit in bringing down the character of the united states president trump keeps just fooling knowing it that character and our republican friends think your shrug their shoulders. partisan rancor has worsened since the release this

year of special counsel robert motors report on his investigation of president trump and russian interference in the 2016 presidential race appreciate very much what mr muller did for the country. i have read most of the report for me. it is republicans believe that the mother report clear trump the real scandal they claim is that the f.b.i. spied on his campaign has the f.b.i. ever launched a counterintelligence investigation of another president that you're aware of not to my knowledge that's the real crisis here if this can go on in the united states of america we don't have a democracy anymore democrats counter that mothers report provides ample evidence that the president obstructed justice and committed other misdeeds that warrantees impeachment we took an oath to protect and serve the constitution of the united states of america and the way we do that is we began impeachment proceedings now.

each side is so convinced that they are absolutely correct that they are morally. and truly correct that the other side is dangerous liana mason is a professor at the university of maryland her recent book on civil agreement examines why partisan polarization in incivility are so extreme now in the united states trump isn't the cause of a lot of the discord that we're seeing he probably makes it worse. but but one of the things he has done is actually to bring out into the open these divides that have been accumulating between the parties so you argue that the democrats and republicans represent 2 mega identities today we've seen a process of what i call social sorting and what that means is that basically between the 1960 s. and now the parties have grown more socially distinct from each other their republican party has become largely white christian rural somewhat more male

and the democratic party is sort of everyone else and so it starts to feel like every election isn't just about our parties competing it's about our racial groups and our religious groups and our geographical groups and if you lose it's not just your party that lost it's all the things that make up your individual identity all the groups that you feel attached to its almost like they've all lost to this sorting of people into 2 political camps fuel stereotyping and distrust in the 2018 poll by nielsen 70 percent of republicans and 60 percent of democrats agreed that the opposing party is a serious threat to the united states as we become more socially distinct as partisans it's a lot easier to dehumanised the other groups and so we start to think of the other side as not only opponents but actually enemies and dangerous why is the rise of partisan mega identities a threat to democratic norms but the constitution wasn't written for parties if you

care only about whether your party wins or loses and you care about nothing else then there is no. running there is no accountability there's no impeachment the only thing that matters is beating the other side and being winners again. in order to investigate political division in the us what americans think about toxic partisanship and where it's taking the country we headed to north carolina the state is a hotbed of partisan conflict north carolina is ground 0 when it comes to polarization and that's been true for decades now rob christiansen is a political author and reporter and worked at the rally news in observer for 45 years the problem trying to figure out the state of the strategy is that the states not one thing it's many things that has a little bit of alabama in it state has a little bit of silicon valley in it state has a little bit of berkeley in it the state has little bit of harlem in it i mean it's a really interesting mix and am very volatile mix in 2020 the republican national

convention will be held in north carolina underscoring the state's importance in the presidential race north carolina has been very very close and with every presidential election in recent decades barack obama carried north talented $1008.00 but it was a small slaughter of any state kerry and so the closeness of races in both parties think they can win it one day we're going to win the great state of north. 2016 donald trump campaigned hard in north carolina and won it by 3 and a half points down trump was in part a backlash against barack obama i think it was just total shock and an acceptance by some substantial minority of the population to see a black man as president states in 2007 whites in the us were just as likely to identify with democrats as republicans who bites fled the party during obama's presidency by 2016 there was a difference of 15 percentage points do you think race is at the core of

polarization in north carolina and the nation as a whole race is certainly. a very very powerful issue of women having yet come to grips with north carolina played an important role in the american civil rights movement in 1964 african-american college students in greensboro sat down in a white only lunch counter at worst apartment stored daughter coffee they were arrested sparking a bunch counter sitting that lasted for 6 months so how old were you when you participated in the greens were still i was 19 years old student at binik college and we had just gotten the word of on johnson picketed at woolworths and sat at the counter herself she currently serves on the greensboro city council. when the 4 gas set down here we were so excited that it was an opportunity to get rid of some of that injustice that we had been experiencing all our lives what was life like for african-americans here in north carolina in 1960 i'm the product of segregated

schools there gated waiting rooms colored and white water fountains sydney in the back of the bus so it was it was harmful it was terrible how did the word sit in come to an end it came to a new when the mayor and the powers that be got together and they began to open businesses to african-americans to restaurants and facilities to and spread like wildfire this tactic that could work in the woodward city and was a catalyst for a youth led sit in movement that helped create momentum for the passage of the civil rights act of 1964 in the 1965 voting rights act moderate democrats led the fight for the legislation setting the stage for the regional sort in between the parties that we see today i do take this back to the mid 1960 s. when the democratic party chose to be the party of civil rights that really angered

a huge portion of the people who identified as democrats namely white southern democrats the changes a gradual for some people but it helped pull away a lot of conservative democrats into the republican party they started voting for people like george wallace who was a democrat although he ran some point this a 3rd party and then the century they began crossing over to voting for richard nixon or ronald reagan or don't trump that this is happening all across the south dividing up along racially polarized lines but you know that's true down. a good example of this racial shift between the parties took place in the north county north carolina there were once plantations with slaves here and in kinston there is a replica of a confederate gunship in the center of town at the visitor center we met up with mike parker the commander of the local chapter of the sons of confederate veterans all of us are descendants of confederate soldiers more manned in the civil war than died in all the other wars we've ever fall put down here it involved almost every

same lee and this is one reason i think why in the south the civil war is such a big deal there are about 800 sons of confederate veterans chapters across the american south how big a battle was it here the lines went on for several miles too bloody civil war battles were fought in kinston are you concerned about the divisions in american society today yes i'm concerned because it shows a tremendous lack of open mindedness and respect down here is there a racial split between the parties i would say most african-americans are a service democrats and probably 2 thirds of white voters are registered as republicans so that's a shift from years past yes do you think that racial tensions got worse as a result of president obama being elected to the presidency it's too easy to just say well he was a black man therefore white people didn't like him. there are there are people who

just say look we don't want socialism we don't want these huge government programs and i think obama also put in you know he constantly seemed to me to play a race car or what race car do you think he played i think he played a card i think he played the blackguard. do you support president trunk i support him on many things i think his economic policies are sound i think his position on trying to secure our borders is signed on. and parker supported president trump's response to in august 2017 unite the right rally in charlottesville virginia trump acquitted white supremacist organizers of protesters who came to confront but at least. i think it is blamed on both sides and i have no doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it do you think the rally was organized to protest the removal of a statue of confederate general robert e. lee violence or rocked it in more than 30 injured when

a counter protester dead. but you also had people that were. very fine people on both sides he wasn't talking about there being good people among the white supremacy and client. there were a lot of other people who were there that were defending that monument who were the good people that were there defending the monument i'm sure that there were some people who were just history buffs i mean not everybody who thinks the monument should should stay where they are is a racist one doesn't need to be racist in order to. still be ok with a system that systematically oppresses nonwhite groups. and that's what's affiliated with the republican party it's not that everyone in the party is a racist it's that the party is not interested in addressing any type of systemic racism white voters without a college degree flocked to trump in the 2016 election partisan tensions are heightened by the fact that white americans are expected to become

a minority within the next 30 years that's a huge factor there is a sense of threat that white americans feel about that and ultimately it's going to create a situation in which republican candidates are going to have a much harder time winning elections and so they really have 2 options one is to reach out to racial minorities or to bring the system in fact republican attempts to rig the system are also fueling political anger in north carolina it started when republicans won both houses of the state legislature in 2010. republicans pushed through a new voter id law and redrew election districts in their favor it provoked a fierce backlash the moral monday movement led by the reverend william barber the 2nd then head of the north carolina and.

again. last may reverend barber was back at the state capital supporting teachers who had come to pressure legislators from more education funding why did you launch the moral monday movement to legislate. in the 1st 13 days of the getting in 2013 they attacked everybody from the teachers to the poor to the sick then they attacked voting rights they knew that voter id would hurt minorities women and student but it wasn't just vote they wanted to roll back same day registration early voting day to be more 1718 year olds to pre-register the vote this was an all out war on the ballot then double a.c.p. mounted a legal challenge to the republican voter id law in 2016 federal appeals court judges struck it down saying the law was designed to target african-americans with almost surgical precision we want we want to voter suppression and the people found out that even didn't you don't just have to wait until there's an electoral season

but this past december north carolina republicans passed another voter id law the n.w.a. c.p. and other voting rights advocates are challenging it again in court do you think race is at the core of division in america today that racism is always in play it in this country but the problem is how we talk about racism we tend to talk about racism when something like schollers will happen which is a form of ugly vile racism or racism when someone to call somebody a name but the racism that is deadly in terms of the long term health of the country it's a statement racism to or kind of racism people can actually shake your hand look at you never call you to in where but when they sit in office they pass racist voter suppression the republican senate leader and house speaker in north carolina declined our request for interviews nationwide 25 states have made it harder to vote since 201015 passed voter id laws claiming it's needed to combat voter fraud

democrats say the claims of fraud are an excuse to suppress the vote and have introduced legislation in congress to stop it we heard loud and clear from the american people that they want to be able to get to the ballot box without having to run an obstacle course. we have this $5050.00 politics in which elections can really depend on the 1000 votes here or there and both sides have come to believe the electoral system is not legitimate on the republican side it's voter fraud there are quite excited voter suppression the drug man is a senior fellow in the political reform program at new america his book breaking the 2 party doom loop will be released later this year what i call the doom of his way of describing a kind of reinforcing feedback loop that keeps getting worse and worse over time and partisan polarization is like that because once the parties distrust each other more which then justifies more and more aggressive actions and the rhetoric in flames upon itself and you get to this point where where that you've created this

unbridgeable chasm manipulating the boundaries of an electoral district to ensure it has a majority of voters favoring a party what's known as gerrymandering also feels partisan distrust gerrymandering which republicans have been particularly aggressive in the last decade creates the sense that whatever the outcome is somebody cheated. in 2018 republican candidates for congress in north carolina got 50.39 percent of the vote but won 10 of the states 13 congressional seats last march the u.s. supreme court heard a case challenging republican gerrymandering in the state republicans in north carolina and maps to create safe seats so they could ignore the will of the people but in june the courts republican appointed a majority ruled against the effort to rein in partisan gerrymandering every indicates shows america to be the least well functioning democracy of any establish democracy andrew rannells a professor at the university of north carolina helped develop the standards used

to measure election quality around the world they using computerized maps to literally draw lines around. one way streets and an tiny little houses in farm country. you can pick out every house you want to be in a district what you're doing is you're just making sure your party can almost never lose that district so the real contest is not in the general election but in the primary contest where candidates vying to be the nominee of the party favored by the gerrymandering when you create safe seats the democrats appealed to the extremes of the democratic party republicans its appeal to the extremes the republican party if districts required you to appeal to the moderate center then we would see very different type of republicans being elected but when you draw a district that relies upon the primary then they're going to rally the faithful with dog whistles with racism with homophobia with behavior is that

create fearfulness about the other the mexican coming in the latino i want a wall that's what we saw in the north county truck to help shoot down the socialist radical agenda in the republican primary for a safe congressional seat candidates were trying to outdo each other as diehard conservatives calling for his life and when the radical left cherry late term abortion and infanticide i felt called to found our most vulnerable children. one sort of talk station f.m. one of 7 am to a 40 ok today is voting day and you have until 732 goes to the polls and primary game for that house conservative talk radio host lockwood phillips was filling the airwaves with calls to turnout been a lot of discussion of course by all the candidates supporting the president his radio station was the 1st in the state to a right wing radio host rush limbaugh and is an affiliate of fox president trump's

favorite news outlet is president trump popular in this part of the absolutely because he's not part of the ruling elite class that we in north carolina and many blue collar voters perceive washington d.c. has become are you concerned about the hyper partisanship in america today yes it's removed a willingness on the part of local voters and participants. to sit down and talk and the den of 5 the problems that they have at their immediate community i do think that race is at the root of the i proportions and should to know you don't know we have racial issues in this country but they are being solved the problem is you've got folks in certain quarters and i have to say liberal quarters who don't want that solution because it's a great way to keep the community stirred up you know if you take the confederate

statue issue or black lives matter it's that people are raising new issues and they want them to be addressed i appreciate that they want to be addressed but for what purpose it's identity politics if you have an agenda the 1st thing requirement is you must become a victim you must have an identity what about a white identity after president obama there was a shift of like 15 points of white folks into the republican party your point is i'm missing that identity politics encompass more than just democratic identity politics there's a republican identity politics oh arguably yes there's no question so what do you feel is driving hyper partisanship to the real issue and i've got it my hand and i want to display it is this device that digital environment has oxer moronically counter-intuitively shut down the communications because what happens is people go into their echo chambers what about some of the material that comes awful fox i

mean it's pretty inflammatory right i don't know what you call it inflammatory it's insightful they are simply providing the information they get and i with a fox studios alert to which is officially over the mole the report is out and the president of the united states has been totally and completely vindicated essentially what people do when confronted with information that they don't want to be true if they find a lot of ways to argue against it and one thing that helps is to be given a list of those counterarguments and often if you turn to partisan media i'll tell us all the reasons that that the true thing is not true. and then we get our answer if we feel satisfied and we and we can move on there's very little objectivity so what we end up doing is we maximize our differences which in many places are moderate they asked are you concerned about the divisions in america today do you think they're worse than in the past i think that the sixty's was about like today

you know it was an awful lot of on rails so i don't think it's necessarily more but i think you today we minimize the things that we have in common stars i know everybody believes in free speech everybody believes in freedom of the press everybody believes in due process of law i'm not sure a president trump believes in the due process of law the court what the mother reported shows mahler's report basically said there was nothing that rose to the level of crime it was pretty obvious there was no effort on the part of trump to use the russians or the russians she used have you talked about obstruction on your radio show no well it's come up once or twice it's again something that. is in the eyes of the beholder quite frankly the moeller report or shack test for your partisan politics if you're a democrat you think that there's got to be something criminal in there if you're

a republican you think that trump is exonerated do you think race and identity are the central dividing line in american politics today yeah the 2 parties are fundamentally split over race and identity race and identity is the core dividing line in american partisan politics today. we had a divisive period the 1960 s. but those divisions cut across the 2 parties there were racial liberals and both the democratic party and the republican party so there was a forum for working out those divisions within the parties as challenging as they were and now those divisions are amplified in reverberated through a lot. politics because we have a 2 party system and it forces people to get into one camp or the other so i think if we had partisan polarization that was purely sectional north versus south as we did in the 18th fifty's we would be on the verge of civil war right now next week the schisms over immigration and religion tearing america park.

america is divided like never before all is said is so convinced that they are absolutely correct that the other side is dangerous heaven has a wall and strict immigration policy elders not people and how investigates the partisan politics eroding civil norms vital to american democracy are you concerned that the political divisions today could lead to violence. when we have this strange death of american civility. on al-jazeera business updates by qatar airways going places together.

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consider serif the foreign minister an illegitimate spokesman for iran new u.s. sanctions this time against iran's top diplomat the iranian president accuses the americans of childish behavior also ahead you stood up and used that tough on crime family rhetoric we got a lot of people liked it but destroyed communities like mine tough questions for the former u.s. vice president joe biden in the democratic party race to replace donald trump in support tarty trophy huge rivalry england and australia face each other in the 1st actually they're serious players just getting underway in. ok let's get going beginning with breaking news coming to us of the south of yemen where dozens of people have been killed in 2 separate attacks on the security

forces both were in the port city of aden the largest was on a military camp which is a base for amorality trained and supported forces a senior commander has been killed in the fight to say they carried out that attack with a drone and a ballistic missile but no one is claiming responsibility for a separate attack on a police station in the center of a. also today the who sees claiming to have fired a ballistic missile into saudi arabia they say they hit a military position in da mom the capital city of the oil rich eastern region and the fighters of recently targeted airports and military installations inside saudi arabia the group says that's in response to saudi u.a.e. military campaigning inside yemen let's talk to mohammed live for us here on the u.s. from santa mohammed a very fluid situation clearly what else do we know. yes.

this latest incident was taking place as you mentioned the net and these are how these are. on a demand in a non military targets the ministry spokesperson warned also international companies that the should hold to their operations unvaccinated that the more attacks will be or will follow. this. he will he mentioned that this attack is also a warning and also in response to the saudi a military campaign inside yemen and that they will continue their attacks and till such military campaign is port to a halt so also the this incident. the death toll all for the how these are on the military parade. military camp has reached so far over 30. per military personnel we have received

many fodor's that confirm that there. has targeted. the of in their near. this military parade. where many soldiers have been killed many others injured including the commander of the us a commander. of the his name is not known as the. one of the commanders of the award being assigned by the united arab emirates in the. security fence of the united are in these aden so far also the other side which has taken place in a share of man where the suicide bombing had targeted the police station their least 10 people have been killed. from both incidents. did to rise as the those who have been seriously injured are in

a big number at least 2 people as i mentioned 10 people were killed dozens others injured. the 1st one is the 1st one was the these suicide bombing and all the 2nd one was the the how these attack on the military personel and military camp thanks very much let's bring in our senior correspondent who's covered the region extensively he joins us here in the studio in doha it feels as if the mosaic of the conflict is shifting the tectonic plates are moving but to become what to become an unprecedented situation in the country we're getting into a complete mess in in yemen it shows that the whole thing is despite the campaign which has been going on for the last 4 years to undermine the has not worked well because they can still manage to send buckets into areas in the deep south of them

in particular. in i don't it shows there this this isn't by the u.s. you to pull out from yemen is definitely going to create more problems for the yemeni government but above all for the saudis who seem to be now in a very critical situation they don't see a way out from this particular crisis and the who these are no way to be defeated and the country is more fragmented vent ever do we believe this claim that they managed to get a ballistic missile all the way across up today because there was a point about 4 weeks ago when they got a drone up on a similar line of latitude to the capital riyadh but this is up beyond bahrain this is a long way away from yemen i wouldn't be surprised for 2 for 2 reasons the 1st reason they did something similar back in 2015 with the targeted a camp in one of the killed dozens of u.s. soldiers and started its campaign fighters it was one of the heaviest casualties among us. the soldiers a was

a ballistic missile that was fired from the northern part of the of a number 2 we're talking people sometimes tend to forget that the who things are not operating on their own they have managed to own the institutions that prevails before and within that institution of visited many of those military camps in the past and have seen some of the highly trained highly advanced facilities in the region which were run by the elite republican guard which was loyal before to president ali abdullah saleh but when i was killed all those units shift of their allegiance to the who these are the who these are using that know how that hardware those units for that to advance their own agenda what's driving the u.e.s. logic here are they simply being pragmatic or is it something more significant but i think they realize that there is no way out of the of this crisis and that they have made significant mistakes just to show you some of the the the things about yemen when the saudis and the u.a.e.

lost the campaign in 2050 of the said our goal is to defeat the whole thing because they consider the whole things to be process of iran and willing to promote a radical shiite geology in the region but when the start of the campaign the undermined the most important well organized group in yemen that could help the saudis and the u.a.e. which is the islam a group with affiliation affiliated with the muslim brotherhood and you know from a u.a.e. and saudi perspective the muslim brotherhood is that existence a threat by undermining the healthy the pave the way for the whole thing is to move forward and further consider dave the grip on power number 2. the u.a.e. are accused by the yemenis of stoking a pro independent sentiment in the south and this explains why the u.a.e. in the past built the belts belts are units backed finest and equipped by the u.a.e. to maintain security but they're widely seen as you say proxies those bells. in the meantime trying to build more consensus toward breaking away from the north of

yemen this has created an unprecedented for augmented reality of this point as we're talking up i don't believe that the united nations the international community are at a point where they can say you know what we can step in when we can solve the crisis is beyond being fixed in the times and i think it will take them. mammoth task huge amounts of cash and assistance it would take them a lot of time to put an end to what we're seeing now in yemen it's an incredible situation where the potential for more disintegration is a really now if the hope is have targeted the military parade in that mr camp and then you have suicide bombing targeting a police station i didn't and i've been to many times in the past this is a place where you have different tribal factions you have those operating in the past not only united but in other than in a b. and different parts of the country you have bribery groups you have these laws on one hand you have the secession is on the other hand and you have a government based in aden but that government has absolutely no say over politics

it has been completely undermined and guess what it's been undermined by the saudis and the u.a.e. in particular and this shows you that the saudi led campaign in yemen does not really seem to have a clear compas about what to do and where to and this has paved the way for the whole thing is to do what they have been doing today and i think this is a political message to show that if they can manage to target a pipeline near subject up to riyadh and they can target an airport in the last year and they can manage to target military facilities in the deep south of yemen which is reportedly seen as a strong haven for the u.a.e. and the for the study let's go listen it's a mess is that more than 4 years after the since the start launch of the ms recount in the whole thing is still the most formidable political and military group operating inside yemen thanks so much let's talk now to catherine shack burm she's head of the yemen department at the next century foundation

a peace building think tank she joins us on skype from crawley in the u.k. catherine great to talk to you again i mean what hashem is saying there is a perfect breakdown of what aden is and to aden is a bellwether of where the yemen war is heading so given the developments over the past few days where do you think we're going with this. so there there's a lot of unpacking to do i think we need to get to the allaire years you know true to this military action by the hearse and i think that one of the 1st thing that they want you to do is that at some moments in time when the uys actually read during cold mountain i think they want you to share this time when they are losing support and there and allies there who see all quite capable of actually hitting them and he did them quite a haul of where they felt them was called to be where they felt that they had a stronghold in additon to be showing that the on not on board with this idea of a secession in yemen and that they would do everything that they can to actually

quell the style than movement in yemen that they would not agree with a brick you know up of yemen i think this is quite clear also i think trying to sound i would say a tribal message in a way to to mohamed bin hammam and telling him that the northern tribes of yemen are united that all quite strong militarily they can hurt saudi when they are at the weakest point and i think there's a lot of perception now in sanaa that the saudis are losing their grip not just on their meet its recruiting but politically speaking in terms of the international consensus to was the school in yemen that they all being seen as being weak economically speaking as well and so for them it is the time to strike and show and sure.