inviting in its labor on thursday and this video appears to show syrian government forces bombing villages in nearby hama more than $400.00 civilians have been killed in northwestern syria since late april for talks aimed at ending the syrian war a taking place and has at san our correspondent andrew simmons is following developments in the recently renamed capital news nor still than. this is where the main session of talking is taking place on friday in the 13th session of a start of talks sponsored by iran russia and turkey but could this round table start the final chapter of a war that's cost so many lives. looming over all of this is the bombing and killing of civilians in libya province by russia and the syrian regime forces and now the development of the u.n. secretary general announcing a board of inquiry into a number of attacks the syrian opposition even before that development was saying

that it would make no concessions until there was a full ceasefire ahead of these talks starting there had been a token gesture in northern aleppo province an exchange of 15 regime prisoners and 15 opposition prisoners but as far as goodwill goes there is little in the way of optimism in the syrian opposition camp. on thursday there was a range of bilateral meetings the head of the iranian delegation told al-jazeera after a meeting with the russian delegation that he was optimistic of a good outcome over a political settlement and seen is set for some sort of settlement with observers from the neighboring countries of iraq and lebanon on here for the 1st time and jordan is also here but is there any traction for

a political settlement which will see a constitutional committee formed much as work has been done on this but with it there is a problem as far as a civilians are concerned who have suffered so much in this conflict the saying well as talk there's hope rings a very very dull tone in their ears and it's hardly surprising. now women in saudi arabia will no longer need the permission of male guardians to travel or obtain a passport after the kingdom is here just series of decrees the changes are part of sweeping social reforms led by crown prince mohammed bin solomon it's unclear when the order will take effect saudi arabia has long face international criticism over the treatment of women as 2nd class citizens. lots more to come here including a vote for any democrat in 2020 years a vote for the rise of radical socialism. back on the campaign

trail president trump makes immigration top of the agenda. the floods are receding but the threat to millions is rising well have the natives from bangladesh. and i this good some of the cross much of europe but also some some of thunderstorms a little air is a cloud on the satellite in the last few hours in particular this massive cloud here lying across the alps as switzerland oh northern asli some very strong amounts of rain. as well and that will stay pretty much in the forecast route friday due to some warnings in place across this entire region just pushing down to into the northwest the balkans for against strong thunderstorms and strong gusty winds even

the risk of tornadoes as well as a northwest were in between 2 systems on friday so a mostly dry day across much of the u.k. through much of northern central france a warm day in paris with a high of 28 celsius about the same really on saturday but that is when that next system pushes in across the u.k. and that kind of trading down into fall north and west of fronts but a bad day in kid 21 degrees celsius on saturday there is that rain working its way further towards the east book arrest could be what a few with a high of 29 degrees celsius warm and dry across much of northern africa want to put some piece of clouding say has some just streaming across those coastal areas of algeria but a warm day certainly friday into tunis 140 degrees celsius 30 celsius mbanga for you better in robot with a high of 25 and about the same the as we head off into saturday. whether sponsored by catalona is. bigger and potentially more dangerous that's the best way to describe what's happening with the smoking alternative known as favorite i enjoy

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companies that have preferential trade status. the south korean military says north korea has launched a short range missile from its eastern cares if it's confirmed it would be the 3rd such launch in just over a week if the rebels in yemen have carried out a major attack the saudi backed forces a military parade was hit by a missile in aden and it comes just weeks after the u.a.e. began to reduce its military presence in yemen. sudan's military jointer has dismissed and detained 9 members of a paramilitary group it says a responsible for the killing of protesters in amman and el obeyed doctors say at least 5 people were killed in nationwide marches on thursday demonstrate. were rallying against the killing on monday of at least 6 other protesters the military gent is blaming the paramilitary rapid support forces for the deaths. a year since the outbreak of ebola in the democratic republic of

congo and the death toll is rising 2 more cases have been detected in the major city of goma and that's from to draw under to briefly close its border with. catherine soy has more now from the kenyan capital nairobi. on a normal morning this main border crossing between the democratic republic of congo and rwanda is busy with people going back and forth 15000 people use this crossing daily as families visit relatives and traders stick their goods to the market millions of dollars a maid in buda trade every year but for a few hours on thursday the barriers were closed the rundown government saying it wanted to evaluate a boiler situation in the congolese city of goma. the decision taken by a wonder to close the border it's not a good decision where people. have been checked

a bit yeah on the border. we crossed over yesterday and we didn't have any problems here but a large quantity of corn but this morning we came back to get our goods and before bidders from crossing into rwanda because the customs office was not working quiet about it and he said it's because of the polar. health workers in goma say they're well prepared and are continuing to trace people who could have made contact with a ball of victims when the world health organization declared ebola in the d.r. see a public health emergency of international concern of the shawls want countries against closing borders saying people may start using informal crossings where there are no proper medical check points and this could just make things west we're talking hundreds of process more. so that's kind of it's counterproductive because it interferes with their insultingly feeling find another way or more

remote here is where if you can go across the need to find a different way. a vaccination campaign is underway and other regions in the eastern d r c but a controversial proposal by the world health organization to deploy a new 2nd vaccine for clinical trials is raising concern this new maxine that's being discussed is one that requires 2 doses about 56 days apart so there's a lot of discussion about if we know we have an effective vaccine that's being used and has taken so long to get acceptance by the population if there's enough of that deck scene and we know it's effective why introduce another vaccine into into this outbreak for now at the border travelers are relieved that operations are back to not only but many people in this city of around 2000000 are afraid of the disease that has arrived on the doorstep may spread catherine sorry al-jazeera nairobi

kenya. the u.k. prime minister barak's johnson has suffered his 1st electro defeat his governing conservative party lost a by election in brecon in wales leaving it with a one vote majority in parliament the seat was taken by the pro e.u. liberal democrats. and that makes it much harder for the prime minister to post through his plans for a possible no deal breck's it impala meant let's go live now to our correspondent in london rory chalons so he now has this way 5th in majority of one seed how should we interpret what should we read into this result yet just 8 days into his premiership boris johnson has had a bit of an electoral cold shower yeah as you say his majority in the house of parliament has been whittled down so just one seats what this means is that he is

going to have to rely on the unity of the conservative party and the support of the democratic unionist party northern arash politicians who helped to prop up the reason may's government as well they will be instrumental in propping up boris johnson's government it will he be able to pass any significant legislation is going to be very difficult to do that because as we all know we've seen multiple different examples of this over recent months the conservative party is essentially in open civil war over brecht's it with different ways of the conservatives wanting to take the country in different directions and we have only less than $100.00 days to go until brett's it's so this is going to be a very difficult position for us johnson's try and work his party through barrie chalons live in london thank you. and president john

boehner is back on the campaign trail taking his 2020 reelection bid to cincinnati ohio there he launched a blistering attack on his democratic rivals but the issue of immigration soon became the big talking point how did you castro was there. democrat lawmakers care more about illegal aliens a protester holding a banner reading immigrants built america took the air out of trump's speech for about 5 minutes but the president largely avoided attacking minority and immigrant leaders by name a practice his opponents had labeled racist instead trump doubled down on criticism of the majority african-american city of baltimore the homicide rate in baltimore is significantly higher than el salvador honduras guatemala i believe it's higher than afghanistan thousands of supporters have lined up for hours to

attend the rally he's only saying the truth and i don't know how that's racist if to say a place is trash he's not racist at all he's just merely pointing out the problems that exist in our society and we're just going to have to correct trump pointed to the declining number of border arrests as a product of his hardline policies despite criticism of his administration's detention of children in squalid conditions trump lauded his crackdown at the border and the numbers are way down you'll see that way way down. democrat lawmakers care more about illegal aliens than they care about their own constituents they put forward citizens before american citizens we're not going to do that the last few days have seen the democratic presidential candidates in the spotlight back to back televised debates with trump attacking their performance

polling shows democratic front runner joe biden leads trump by 8 points in ohio at this early stage of the election season a vote for any democrat in 2020 years a vote for the rise of radical socialism and the destruction of our great our beautiful our wonderful american dream we're not going to lead our country ever go down the route of socialism. the trunk campaign says ohio is a must win state in 2020 this bellwether state has in fact the presidential winner nationally going on more than 50 years and so we will hear much more about trial as the battleground between front and the democratic nominee joe castro al-jazeera cincinnati ohio. the puerto rico's governor is sitting down but his replacement is

facing political and legal challenges ricardo's rosé who was forced to resign after widespread protests over leaked obscene messages as well as over government corruption he's put forward former u.s. congressman droopy or louis c. to take over but some members of the house of representatives say the senate must approve it. saving measures in being declared in 6 provinces in indonesia for as far as a burning across the country almost 6500 of his have been sent to control them satellites have to take. tive 96 separate places on some ultra and borneo lands alone they've raised more than 30000 hectares of land on forests many may have been lit deliberately by farmers to clear land for planting. more than 100 people have been killed in weeks of flooding in bangladesh now as the waters recede health

workers are concerned about a new problem the spread of disease time to challenge the reports. thousands across bangladesh have lost their homes due to heavy flooding and landslides over 7000000 people have been affected and 163000 hectares of cropland damage in 28 distinct according to bangladesh red crescent society families have been struggling with the impact of the floods the worst in 2 years many are now facing the elements without any kind of protection shilpi big mother of 6 children is finding it hard to cope with the situation. it's hard to compete the children a full square meal when there's so much water still around and their father can't find work when there's a flood we somehow manage to survive on dr rice pops many communities are finding it difficult to access food and little aid has arrived so far. if

we got some financial help then we could rebuild our home somehow we could then manage to live a normal life that's all we want. over $40000.00 children are been kept out of schools which have either been too damaged to access or are being used as makeshift shelters and. there is water everywhere in my home and at school i can study at home and now we are lagging behind in study. the majority of bangladeshi lives in rural areas most of home rely on every culture for their livelihood and it's this communities that have been hit the hardest according to environment experts bangladesh is becoming increasingly more vulnerable to climate change especially those living in river islands and coastal belts severe flooding has left many bangladesh is at risk of disease and hunger crops up then washed away a life stock sale and fisheries room although water is receding in some places what

effect that communities have lost their means to make a living and which are very well just set up for bangladesh. find out more about all the day's top stories on the al-jazeera website al-jazeera dot com lots of analysis lots of background lots of good pictures to. thank you look at the top stories here it is near a south korea's president has issued a strong warning to japan describing his decision to remove his country's preferred trade status as reckless at an emergency cabinet meeting. in blamed for worsening the situation and threaten to retaliate tensions have been rising since south korea supreme court ordered japanese firms to pay compensation for using force labor during the 2nd world war. oh japan's

decision is a reckless decision that projects diplomatic efforts to solve the problem and rather worsens the situation i express my deep regret and north korea has launched a short range missile for missiles from its eastern coast according to the south korean military is the 3rd launch in just over a week north korea's state media released these images on thursday of leader kim jong il overseeing the test firing of a new rocket launcher system south korea says pyongyang fired 2 short range ballistic missiles. here's the rebels in yemen have carried out a major attack on saudi backed forces a military parade was hit by a missile in aden killing 36 people it happens just weeks after the u.a.e. began to reduce its military presence in yemen. and syrian state media reports

a conditional cease fire has been reached in the last rebel held province of italy but so far there's been no response from the opposition at least 2 children were killed in fighting in it say and this is video that appears to show syrian government forces bombing villages in nearby hama more than 400 civilians have been killed in northwestern syria since late april. that women in saudi arabia will no longer need the permission of male guardians to travel or obtain a passport after the kingdom is either a series of decrees the change is a part of sweeping social reforms led by crown prince mohammed bin selman it's unclear when the order will take effect saudi arabia has long face international criticism over the treatment of women as 2nd class citizens. sudan's military has dismissed and detained 9 members of a paramilitary group it says are responsible for the killing of protesters in on do

a man and obeyed doctor say least 5 people were killed in nationwide marches and say. the stream is next. the saudi u.a.e. war on yemen has led to thousands of deaths and left millions hungry what role has the u.s. played in the world's worst humanitarian crisis longest is the entity that has the right to begin and end wars robert malley a top advisor on the middle east to president obama talks to al jazeera a. must sell for the cover of a magazine if i ever had a dream it was my people just overcoming a beverage zeem a wonder woman be seeing part of me wasn't sure if he ever really did some sort of silly pride or thought of some of how a philistine how did it they told us the true form is the part that i learned not to hold out hope of them a power run it never jumped about being a celebrity a be an iconic i was content with my serger just play

a mastani understand i came from pain and torture akon never dream about the fame and fortune how was just happy i wasn't named abortion but now that i'm here i'm proud i'm here only for standing ovations don't get a better. today the stream welcomes hip hop musician k.m. for an exclusive interview a life plan performance and. tell us about the challenges he's faced as a muslim artist and what inspires his music and your thoughts through twitter and our live you tube chat. us to help with the sounds of the middle east and north africa they live in america musician relates tales of struggle while expressing the power of political engagement. the son of a libyan pro-democracy activists he was an opponent of then leader moammar gadhafi go bass rapper has campaigned for a host of activists causes he was a headline name among several arab american artists who joined the employer 5 peace

saving syrian lives tour in 2017 now k m is preparing to release his most personal and focused work yet. ok i have it's good to have you in the stream hello. it's a pleasure thank you for having me were almost shaped by at parents our family but your story about how you became what inspires you comes directly from your dad even mentioning right at the top of the show you sent us some pictures this is your dad tell us about him and how that influenced where you ended up going up so. my father you know obviously was a political prisoner in libya. our form of position movement and we grew up in lexington kentucky almost a community of political dissidents and i just remember my father being very jovial very kind very loving even with my mother they were never too shy i would be affectionate towards one another you know different or maybe

a stereotypical north african a middle east of the he was a poet he was a wordsmith he used to make up songs and freestyle around the house about anything about a food i don't like about being in parts and. a little rhyme or a little a little fire that he told you as a kid to still in your head i mean i know and like libyan dialogue go ahead ok make a show i used to not eat for like food and. so he used to be like kind of. a little whore looking. forward with just saying basically like. all of the bread and leave in the fall of me just like anything that look at that job by their job their job. and fool of course being father beans which i don't like him either so i can relate there so i want to share this with you we're talking about family this is new to who says his music has a special place in my heart i often listen to it when i need that dose to ease my soul and uplift us especially when thinking of the evils in society 8 years ago i

was listening to his song at home and my now late father began dancing with his music delighted by my father's humor i big began recording the dancing it's a memory and a video recording i am glad to have my father in other words even such a powerful song can have light effects which is a powerful quality an artist so thank you to new day for sharing that but. take us us into the realm of what this means to have it connected to family because as you mentioned your father was a poet but he was also a leading opposition activist and you spent the 1st few years of your life on the run. as beautiful to me but i would thank you for sharing that. i mean for us family was everything and ironically we were separated from our family we were exiled we had no communication but i grew up with the closest bonds that i think human beings can form with one another because this collective group for awhile my family was bouncing around and they were. iraq. london and in those days

assassinations and so for prevalent and they decided collectively to move to united states sic asylum and continue their organization over there so i grew up in a community of people who only have each other and you know we struggle together we overcame poverty and deaths and consoled one another so for someone who didn't grow up with a lot of blood family around i know that i have way more human connections and the average person. you know to have been there is officially just shy which is your mom and dad and you at the front and the. your little brother is behind you you can actually see the love of the bonds there for somebody who is living in america and there was a moment for you where you actually had a chance to go back home to libya for the very 1st time and meet your family you can see that in a document you have to be released yet but it's called sing freedom i want to share just a moment of you eating with your family have

a look. oh well but it has to. do good. but not. i don't know about it but i'm sure you know that. right well. that's a beautiful moment i don't feel at home. how does that influence how you do you know what your music. you know i learned a lot about myself during that trip and this actually that feeling has inspired my current concert series or storytelling series called the long way home and i realized growing up you know 1st libya was always home lexington always has a home a place in my heart but when i go back to visit the people that i grew up with

aren't there in the moment it feels like a place i spent a lot of time in but if they're there it feels like home libya when i got there for the 1st time. it moved me and i had emotions that i couldn't articulate it really felt like home but at the same time from being very transparent with myself and honest but you know as soon as i step off the plane and i'm not from that you still stand i think you won't know what is it does a close this is on all of us anybody in the studio if you go overseas so i started thinking maybe home is only a physical place maybe it's a mental place for me my home is my people and that's when i'm surrounded by people that i'm vulnerable with that i can be at peace with their understand my struggle and understand my journey so of course libya is a huge slice of that but i feel like i can step in a few different circles and really relate to that home feeling so ok and your home is your people which is a great segue for your next song never been heard before publicly him and his band will now play a new song medlock wrote as he gets settled here's a video comment from. a fan and a fellow

a rapper. a guy so the thing about crime he's so deep down to earth i met him one time this event fan and i shook up with him another time at i heart he's such a personable guy and the thing about him is that you don't really feel like you're meeting an artist you feel like you're meeting a person and growing up in a muslim community as a brother and also raps amish just assume he's a great source of inspiration and hearing the story about his father in libya just really keeps you perseverance and always having the thought in your head about why you're going to become better which. was. he. was the believe was. sweet woman was a. fully present boston strong love love for. this community that what.

we all enjoyed in the one state sex of the. circut all so there was like 2 blocks to life forms to a new place to. go with that much money started ever had a lack of love lol i'm bringing such little foolish. things called. white america wasn't for the libyan livin in time where was it inside like in the baby in my little habitat link up on the caps pets my father had escaped the savage jackson. got the battleaxe painted the country cadillac back the rate of family on the highway everything i would rather read some. blood but we lived together there were a lot of things that was to get through to bridge the gap of their lives no longer

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i want to thank you so much you always talk about school k n can you give us some props them to us welcome to the streams what yeah some blessed always say when we get together avengers assemble is a superstar we've got dan alexis on the vocals we've got ice on the keys welcome amir too bad grace with the phone and trumpet we've got greg the guard on the base of silk coleman on the drums it's our international superstar ronnie malley switching between the guitar and the road today thank you so much scott we have more for you in just a faint have come back to the task in our community really love that people

commenting live on you tube this is rahman who says i. i'm so proud they're saying 5 year but i want to switch over to tweet because they're getting those into just some praise here mohamed says. meaningful work goes beyond his artistic lyrics can't take my freedom which is a song that you will hear coming up with a key advocate presentation that spread through the world i remember my friends who aren't libyan told me that song made them more aware about the situation in libya so also being a person who spreading awareness there but this last comment i want to bring to you is via instagram because we got so many questions and comments when our community heard that was coming on the show so i'll start with this one here from someone who says what does freedom mean to you and i'm going to take that a little bit further because freedom in the sense of knowing that you weren't free to travel for a very long period of time talked about the. freedom of movement as well.