russia and turkey these are the 2 countries right now that are really holding. the key the keys to to resolving the syrian conflict to some to some extent they still need to agree actually and for the names for the establishment of the constitutional committee we expected actually this round of talks as a process to put the 2 countries actually to agree on these 4 names and and say that we will start from now on and working on the on the constitution of syria but a petition for presidential elections in 2021 but they haven't really done that so i think we still need to see where some time maybe until the 2 countries agree on also on the constitutional committee so all in all actually i believe that this is this is not going to change much of the of the scene at the moment about it thank you very much indeed for your insight thank you now humans who the rebels have for the 1st time released images of the ballistic missile system they've used to target saudi arabia who say the medium range birken misawa is domestically produced 11

they say they'll continue launching attacks on the saudi coalition stops its airstrikes were let's speak to mohammed live from summer so the who things have been showing off this missile they say hit the military camp in saudi arabia what more they've been saying tell us. yes during his press today the hope is mr spokesperson you hear syria mentioned that this newly domestically produced missile can have targets far away from riyadh and that the all of these saudi and the united arab emirates vital targets have become under fire range of the whole of these so here one more ballastic missiles will be launched by the whole fees such targets and what you mentioned that the saudi aggression. stops in yemen he mentioned the newly did domestically. produced

can 3rd which is means the volcano. has the capability also to be launched from. launchers or from launchers he also mentioned that the. have carried out the old saw the attack in aden with fuel which all resulted to the killing of a 39 during their parade in aden he will mention in next press about this new domestically made. whole so he moved to talk about the were all operations that have been carrying out during the last month he mentioned that over. 1600 sniper operations have been carried out during last month during which 12 saudi soldiers ok all the 26 sudanese soldiers were

killed also a moment of time we have to leave it there thank you very much indeed thank you thank you. now where thousands of people have turned out for nationwide anti-government protests for the 24th consecutive week president abilities but a free car resigned in april after 20 years in power but demonstrators are pushing for greater change to the country's ruling elite presidential elections planned for last month were canceled because of a lack of candidates. so dan's military has dismissed and detained 9 members of a paramilitary group it says are responsible for the killing of protesters in the l a bade doctors say at least 5 people were killed during nationwide marches on thursday demonstrators were rallying against the killing on monday of at least 6 other protesters the military is blaming the paramilitary rapid support forces for these deaths lots more to come here the news hour including hong kong's pro-democracy movement widens as a new protest is called in defiance of government mornings. and his popularity

ratings may be high but mexico's president is getting tough on public spending we'll tell you why some people are worried and as we meet the female boxer fighting for equality in god that's all still to come. conflicts around the world last year killed or maimed a record number of children and it's a new report the united nations says 1800 children were killed or seriously injured in syria mainly from pro-government their strikes including the use of barrel bombs and cluster munitions attacks on schools and medical facilities where the highest since the 8 year war began in syria and elsewhere children continue to be recruited as soldiers more than 2000 in somalia where hundreds of cases of sexual violence were reported and 65 percent of all child abductions worldwide happened in that country. but it's allowed to be out in nations where mike hanna is standing by for

us now mike so how significant is this u.n. report and what do we learn from that particular conflict zones like syria. well it's an annual report produced by the secretary general under discussion in the security council at the moment and certainly the secretary general himself as expressed great disappointment and sadness at the fact that the facts contained within the report which indicate a massive increase in the killing and mutilation of children around the world this is what the secretary general's special representative has just told the security council in 2018 very fide cases of children killed and maimed to reached record levels since the creation of the m a m i a cause they think that the dinner is concerned that unprecedented numbers of violations with attributed to national and international forces it is vital that this council redoubles it if wants to ensure

that all parties abide by the principles of this think of proportionality and military necessity unlike i suppose the question is is this un report like it's a make any difference on the ground even with the un naming and shaming those actors and countries who say they're trying to protect children in conflict zones. well that's a significant point because the last year's report certainly had no impact whatsoever shown by the fact of the increase in these figures are those a dent in that you referred to the list of shame not these are an excess included by the secretary general at the end of the report list a and list b. list a contains parties all countries that are taking no action in protecting children to be lists countries that have taken some form of action but not enough not what is significant here and where the debate is going to center on is that a large number of countries are listed in the report for at brigade ting the

children protections but are not listed in the annex for example the u.s. led coalition in afghanistan was responsible for a large number of children's deaths as was the afghan national army israel is listed in the body of the report on a number of occasions for the mistreatment of children but does not feature in either of the annex says saudi arabia is in list to be for the 3rd year in a row now critics are pointing out that if it remains in the list to be for 3 years then it is not doing enough to remove itself off the list now the importance of these annexes is as you say a list of shame which would allow these security council to point fingers and in some cases take action but bodies like human rights watch contend that this kind of disparity in actually listing the countries or bodies and minds the report as a whole mike hanna there at the un in new york mike thank you. the u.s.

has formally pulled out of control agreement the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed with a former soviet union during the cold war but the u.s. administration says russia has not kept its side of the bargain a white house correspondent can help get reports. it's a treaty u.s. president donald trump has repeatedly accused russia of violating right guys not here in the agreement they should have been done years ago the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed in 1987 by then u.s. president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev for 31 years it's ban both sides from deploying medium range land based missiles halting the arms race between the 2 superpowers but washington and moscow clashed for years over russia's development and deployment of a cruise missile system the united states and its allies say was prohibited under the cold war pact in february us secretary of state mike pump

a 0 announced that of russia did not begin to comply with the agreement the u.s. would withdraw on august 2nd russia has jeopardized the united states' security interest and we can no longer be restricted by the treaty while russia shamelessly violates them announcement prompted russian president vladimir putin to warn the united states against deploying new missiles in europe well showcasing next generation russian weaponry i'd like to tell you about the hypersonic missile which can travel at about 9 times the speed of sound has a range of more than 1000 kilometers for months nato leaders urged russia to comply with the deal to prevent its collapse the u.s. concerns on nato concerns about a new russian missile ones have been raised with russia over several years but last minute pleas to keep that deal intact failed in july putin signed a law suspending russia's participation in the agreement. now hopes are diminishing

for preserving the last remaining arms pact between the united states and russia the new start treaty signed in 2010 and set to expire in 2021 trumps national security adviser john bolton has called the treaty flawed i fear that without now and with the attitude of mr ball with a lack of interest and focus of president we end up without a new start treaty as well we go into a nuclear arms race like we saw in the 1960 s. only more expensive and more dangerous the pentagon has announced it will begin flight tests of new intermediate range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles by the end of this year and it's requested funding to develop new missile systems that previously would have been prohibited under the eye enough treaty kimberly helped at al-jazeera the white house imran khan has more now from moscow. the russian

reaction has been brief book quite strong the russians say that the us has made a serious mistake in pulling out of the treaty now the foreign ministry goes on to say that they would like to see a moratorium on both sides of any deployment of short and intermediate range missiles on either side's borders now what does that actually mean well it means that russia doesn't want to see missiles being deployed to europe close to its borders but it has said that if that happens it will react in kind and it will place nuclear missiles within range of both europe and the us and that's an escalation in itself now the kremlin will be waiting and watching to see what the us is next move is and they'll react accordingly now the real thing of course is that this will cause some kind of nuclear arms race they'll be costly for both nations and it will be an escalation here in moscow it's very much a case of the americans have made a mistake here and it's

a case of the russians waiting and seeing what the next american move might be. well the u.s. has imposed sanctions on moscow over the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter in england last year so again you need a script or a talk with a chemical nerve agent in the city of salzburg the russian foreign minister says the sanctions will further damage relations which are already strained particle again joining us live now from washington d.c. patty so while these sanctions being announced now give it's been so long since the poisoning. well because really he had to this is response to the u.s. congress they passed a law basically that allows them if anyone uses chemical weapons to say action the government that use them now this happened last year the state department came out months ago and said they couldn't certify that russia wouldn't use these weapons that russia wouldn't allow inspections of their chemical weapons and for that if that doesn't happen then the law says they have president has to impose sanctions

and congress gave him a list of about 56 different things that he can choose from he's chosen to and these are easily the most minor versions that he could have chosen which basically bans international financial institutions from doing business with russia and bans most bank loans from the u.s. institutions the things he could have done as he could have banned u.s. russian flights from all u.s. territory export permissions import prohibitions he could have suspended diplomatic relations so the president was told to pick 3 he picked 2 but he's been under pressure from both sides that they're out to do this for months and pass in terms of diplomacy is this the marking of a new phase by hops in the special relationship between the u.s. and the u.k. with boris johnson now as prime minister. the president's made no secret of trying to put his thumb on the scales for boris johnson in interestingly enough the president had 2 phone calls we're just now finding out about yesterday one with a lot america putin here the president did talk about that yesterday but now the white house is saying he also spoke to the u.k.

prime minister so this could be a chance for johnson to come out and say see i have a special relationship he's finally moved on this as for that conversation with vladimir putin what was interesting is reporters asked the president did you talk about election interference did you talk about the i.n.f. treaty and he said no we simply talked about forest fires they have really big forest fires over there and i offered u.s. assistance because he said the u.s. is really good at putting out forest fires so to for interesting phone calls now in light of what we know now thank you. libby is interior minister has a lot of the closure of 3 migrant detention centers all to criticism from the u.n. over conditions 2 facilities on the coastal cities of misrata and combs the 3rd is into july that's a suburb of the capital tripoli forces loyal to the warlord and he hit that facility in the man strike a month ago killing at least $52.00 migrants officials have been evacuating the centers but it's unclear whether migrants being sent people in france have been

protesting against what they say is that government support from libyan warlord to leave the hospital they've been demonstrating in front of the french parliament in paris after on launch an offensive in april to take the libyan capital tripoli from the un recognized government of prime minister also raj the fighting has killed more than a 1000 people and forced tens of thousands from their. time for a short break here not just when we come back i think he wants to make a deal but frankly he's not going fast enough. president trump ups the ante in his trade war with beijing. and the floods are receding but the threat to millions is rising. and his whole tone of blame us tonight speaks out on the president's desire to put a fresh details coming up after the break. i

know that cooperation across much of the middle east we've seen as someone said no showers across areas of pakistan be very dry the last 24 hours and really the weekend looks pretty much the same you can see but there on the satellite images city tops the table here day 46 degrees celsius 43 degrees in baghdad meanwhile into the north of turkey but about to couple days ahead of temperature wise i mean might just see if you show they just brushing by that north coast then further to the south through the arabian peninsula the heat of course really is on here and the cloud is still very much in the picture lingering the south coast of oman and again into the southwest region of yemen to the north of that a little bit low those temperatures in. has picked up a little bit actually brushing through the. a little bit less hot and humid and then you know we get a kid if finally a clearing of all this cloud along. that is such an improved picture that we had

into southern africa the clouds sketching by the south coast slightly brushing by cape town and also she basin pieces just pushing into but it should stay dry south of a high of 22 celsius a fairly good 19 in johannesburg. and then sunday 16 degrees again. combining also untuck knowledge. to challenge soviet era methodologies. busy through making creating and performing. turning a generation of children. into the trailblazers of tomorrow. after school armenian part of the rebel education series. on al-jazeera. adored by millions for challenging social issues head on what women don't say is

mexico's longest running such. as the program celebrates its anniversary the producers revisit one of the most powerful storylines. and discover how the show has affected the women who inspired it in the 1st place. now i have a voice sank back to mexico on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick amount of top stories here on the news hour syrian government representatives on the opposition of agree that a ceasefire at the last rebel held province of idlib the opposition says it has

already withdrawn its heavy weapons under such a great. conflicts around the world last year killed or maimed a record number of children and it's a new report the united nations says of 1800 children were killed or seriously injured in syria alone. and the u.s. has impose new sanctions on moscow over the poisoning of a former russian. and his daughter in england last year russia says the sanctions will further damage relations which are already under strain. as amounts more tariffs on goods from china he says he's not happy with the progress of trade talks and wants a 10 percent tariff imposed on the remaining $300000000000.00 worth of chinese imports alan fischer has more now from washington d.c. . the chinese u.s. trade talks have been going on for more than a year and the americans thought they had a deal a few months ago but see that the chinese suddenly changed their position and that put everything into a state of flux and created the climate where more discussions were needed they

also brought 25 percent tariffs on $250000000000.00 worth of chinese imports into the united states no further target of swer put on hold when the 2 leaders donald trump and the chinese president met at the g. 20 in japan but after trade talks in shanghai over the last couple of days produced no real advancement donald trump said that he was going to impose far the tariffs on u.s. goods this time 10 percent on $300000000000.00 worth of imports speaking before he left for a rally in cincinnati he said he believes the chinese want a deal they're simply not moving fast enough now i think i think president somebody i like a lot i think he wants to make it but frankly is that going he said he was going to be buying from our farmers that he said he was going to stop it all from coming

into our country it's all coming out of there he didn't do that well is it thousands of people felt that all and this was 2 things to highlight 1st of all the united states believes that china is dragging its heels on making a deal for 2 reasons 1st of all that the longer this goes on then the u.s. economy me we can and make donald trump very keen to do a trade deal with china the other with the 2020 alexion on the horizon they wonder if a different president might be easier to negotiate with the other thing is that donald trump has proven that yet again at the rally in cincinnati in ohio he doesn't quite understand what. seeing that china is pouring money into the u.s. economy that is not true it is businesses and people here in the united states who end up paying the tabs in fact there was a report just last week that see the trade war with china which you remember donald

trump said should be quick and easy to when it's costing the average american family of 4 somewhere in the region of $2000.00 a year but as you heard the u.s. president donald trump is back on the campaign trail taking his 2020 reelection bid to the city of cincinnati that's in ohio that he launched a blistering attack on his democratic rivals but the issue of immigration soon became the big talking point castro was at the rally 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 immigrant leaders by name a practice his opponents had labeled racist instead trumped double down and 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 seen the tree and i don't know how that's racist if to say a place is trash he's not racist at all these is merely pointing out problems city exists in our society and we're just going to have the correct trump pointed to the declining number of border arrests as a product of his hard line policies despite criticism of his ministrations 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 foreign 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 ohio as the battleground between front and the democratic nominee joe castro al jazeera

cincinnati ohio the governor of the u.s. territory of puerto rico is stepping down but his replacement is facing political and legal challenges because that will say oh it was forced to resign after widespread protests have been leaked obscene messages and government corruption he's put forward former congressman that will appear lisi to take over but some members of the house of representatives say the senate must approve that 1st. now as mexico edges closer to recession the government has embarked on an ambitious program spending cuts present on that as money and lopez obrador says they've already saved $6000000000.00 but while many mexican support the measures of as a word that vital services are under threat from home and reports from mexico city . there's a new buzzword imix kampala ticks all stare at him under his money his open doors more than home of his salary so the presidential plane and flies economy his supporters love him for it his approval polls are in the sixty's dim but hey it was

always the people who had to tighten their belts and now it's the government that's the change no waste no luxuries austerity is going to be the country's congress has followed his lead both houses have cut back on benefits some thousands of aids for the most part for me i've read a lot and i like that i see if we can look people in the eye and say we haven't got bodyguards we haven't got cars we haven't got private medical insurance or saving ports for when we finish the people aren't carrying our costs as they did in the past but while slimming down fact politicians is popular other cuts in the public sector and less so cost cutting the public hospitals with the waiting rooms precarious medicine supplies and start shooting jews said the head of social services he resigned but protests like this will continue. for much education in child care programs have also been cancelled the budget for the arts has been slashed and some funds for scientists you know will cause us to sadly in some cases

institutions have had to cut back so much that they've been asking people not to plug in electronics and to go home before sundown to save on electricity projects and lines of research have stopped institutions that were going to be inaugurated have been cancelled. some are seeing the far reaching us there are to drive with more and more alone. most mexicans would agree that some major surgery was needed to cut out the overspending and corruption in much of mexico's public sector the complaint for many like these medical residents is that the president's doing that with a chainsaw rather than the scout for. president argues that the cuts are right. actually just to reach channeling of funds what's his priorities to stay all company and programs for the poor and elderly. for a total worth or an economist who supported lopez obrador the songs don't add up. just this week they cut $2000000000.00 in public sector salaries that means less

demand less growth in the internal market less business for mexican companies and that's not countered by the social programs for young entrepreneurs or people planting trees they don't compensate for the reduction in public spending. the latest figures showing economic growth almost at a standstill seem to bear him out is a cut that appendix that hasn't put off the president your story to drive he says is working and will go on john homan. now a year after boehner was detected in democratic republic of congo the number of cases is rising to more people who tested positive for the virus in the eastern border city of goma the 3rd and 4th cases of the wife and one year old baby of a man who died on wednesday under briefly close its border with the sea on thursday as a precaution welcome with has more now from nairobi. health officials talking about how they can ramp up their response to this spreading outbreak now that it's in the

regional capital of goma which has a population of at least $2000000.00 people in its adjoined to the neighboring city of concern is basically want to have an area with a border running through the middle and with a growing number of cases on the congolese side people are wondering now how this outbreak of the virus can be further stand with many people live in poor housing in cramped conditions and health responses already faced challenges throughout eastern congo being able to communicate to people and also to be able to convince people that health service providers are there to help you this is an area where people have a lot of skepticism about governor. and i will forward the following decades of conflict the lack of public services and. of mistrust among the population towards those who are in power. now more than a 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 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. so 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 bangladesh lives in rural areas most of home rely on agriculture 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 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 britain's new prime minister barak's johnson has suffered his 1st electoral defeat his governing conservative party lost a by election in brecon in wales leaving it with a one vote working majority in parliament the seat was taken by the pro european union. democrats and that will make it harder for johnson to pursue his plans for a possible no deal breakers it. thousands of civil servants in hong kong have defied government warnings and rallied in support of pro-democracy protesters they want an independent investigation into alleged police brutality and for charges against demonstrators to be withdrawn it follows weeks of escalating protests triggered by a controversial extradition bill thomas has more now from hong kong. have been a lot of protests in recent weeks here but perhaps none as significant as this one because things people are real civil servants they would pull the government the

government their employer that they have come out to protest against and that is despite an open letter published on thursday by the government to carry land saying that civil servants should not take part in this protest or any other so as to preserve their impossibility but they come out to meet spain's of thousands filling this square here to capacity all the main roads around here are blocked with crowds hundreds of feet as well people i've spoken to here say that they felt they had to come out to show their support for the test as they say it has nothing to do with their employer the government what they do in their free time i spoke to a math teacher i spoke with translates to this is well say the least he's moving for frankly what they do day to day in terms of working for the government now this cycle has been a completely peaceful protest or a move right test planned over the weekend too on saturday at the white on sunday and on monday calls for a strike right across from. a powerful earthquake has hit off the indonesian island

of java emergency authorities have ordered people near the coast to head to higher ground in case of a tsunami a magnitude 6.8 quake hit at a depth of about 40 kilometers or so father been reports of minor damage but it was felt as far as the capital jakarta. it's a political standoff that's plunged relations between. ban and south korea to their lowest levels in years south korea says it will remove japan from its list of preferential trade partners that's a no sponsor to tokyo's earlier decision to drop south korea's fast track export status from a bride has more from seoul. at an emergency cabinet meeting call to discuss the deepening rift with japan president moon j.n. of south korea laid the blame squarely with his neighbor general jaan. 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 he was responding to the

latest escalation in the trade dispute with japan removing south korea from the so-called white list of countries allowed to receive exports of sensitive strategic components that it needs for its high tech manufacturing. it comes on top of restrictions last month on the export of raw materials for the production of semiconductors in south korea with fears of a knock on effect to manufacturing in neighboring countries. japan denies it's linked to a decade's old dispute over its will time record. deal this move was approved to revise japan's export controls appropriately and was not intended to hurt japan south korea relations or to craft counter measures japan has been angered by a supreme court ruling in favor of victims of forced labor joining world war 2 with several japanese firms ordered to pay compensation that's despite japan's

insistence that an agreement in $965.00 was meant to have resolved the issue once and for all. but those studying the history of the turbulent relationship say it's clear the 2 sides have always held opposing views on the nature of that agreement. up until now they have lived with their separate interpretations but this state of agreeing to disagree has been shaken and can no longer stand after this court decision and now we are at a most critical juncture in korea japan relations and now south korea is saying it will retaliate and remove japan from its list of preferential trade pact this further worsening the dispute rob mcbride al-jazeera sole. coming on al-jazeera off the bike and out of the sport it was a day to forget for this money driver in sin and to the rest of the sport coming up next more on that stay with us.

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you. welcome but now it's considered the single biggest celebration of arts and culture in the world and it's kicking off in scotland this year's edinburgh fringe festival featuring more than $50000.00 performances and that range from comedy shows to dance and musicals johnny anja has more now from edinburgh. we're here on the royal mile where artists are desperately trying to move your audience to their shows using any means possible mostly flyers plastered everywhere and that's because there is so much competition here some 4000 shows from $63.00 different countries will be informed in every nook and cranny of the city over the next 3 weeks they'll

be theatre 1st cabaret comedy musicals all artistic is on those are covered now the themes all largely political 2 years ago we saw a lot of threats it seems shows this year it's climate change that you're seeing called an emissions of mass extinctions and global warming forming the backdrop to a lot of performances one show cooled $1.00 degrees will feature x. is reading the i.p.c.c. report that intergovernmental panel on climate change report in full and that's going to take 5 days but it is a chance they say for audiences to delve beneath the headlines because the artists i've spoken to him say they don't see climate change as the technological political problem anymore but as a cultural one and they're using their voices to try and transform public opinion. now his far there and thank you so much england's worry burns's been the standout performer on day 2 of the 1st ashes test it winner is approaching a century in birmingham he's on 92 not out his efforts had put england in very

strong position but they've lost 2 wickets in the last half hour there on $194.00 for 4 in trail australia's 1st innings total by 90 runs a top level international cricket is set to make a rare appearance in united states india getting ready to take on the west indies in 2 t 20 s. with the 1st game coming up on saturday in florida. cup winning forward killing the says he told him his team mate neymar he wants him to stay at paris and sherman the brazilian was back training with his side ahead of their pre-season match against iran and china teammate seem to be making jokes that neymar as expense the 27 year old brazilian had been eyeing a transfer out of the french league he arrived at p.s.g. from barcelona 2017 in a world record move p.s.g. said they would let neymar leave with a good offer came in i don't need to say this is

a good book we all know the importance of this play off but he leaves of course i don't want him to leave i want him to stay he wants to stay with us i have already spoken with him he knows what i think of him and he knows what i think of his situation so everything is going well between us we have a relationship based on honesty and respect. boxing legend and promoter oscar de la hoya has blasted the decision to strip canelo alvarez of one of his world titles kilo who is the star fighter of golden boy promotions was told on thursday that he is no longer the idea middleweight champion it follows the mexican's team not being able to agree terms for a fight with mandatory challengers surrogate. canelo is the world's highest paid boxer and believes they did more than enough to make the fight happened the lawyers said the truth is that i'm now certain they never had any intention of making a deal but instead they want to force us to relinquish canelo is belts he added

this is an insult to boxing and more importantly an insult to the boxing fans of the world. the densely populated community of book outside accra in ghana has produced some about for his finest boxers including as a man nelson widely considered to be the continent's finest ever fighter our correspondent went to meet some of the young boxers hoping to replicate that success. this is one of 20 boxing gyms. it's a steer it's crowded with the bishop's young men wanting to following the footsteps of their heroes. 17 year old philip trained here every day for the last 6 years. like many boys and girls in the community he dropped out of school to focus on boxing. every day of the year we wake up to the gym and fart and some people see me

as a potential well champion but his parents wanted to stay in school but says right now it's focused on his ambition. his coach says boxing up as a life to young men like philip who otherwise would be on the streets with bad company. a little. give him some cardio. not a little bit just a little of this. but out of sight of the strain and the $100.00 decision community . everyone in. the game it's a tough neighborhood. a limited wide that this area has africa's best roxas. a short distance away. on a continental championship. and growing up she had to dream. to join the army and be a good boxer. she believes doing well in the competition will achieve

a 2nd ambition but she's not happy with the lack of opportunity for girls in the sport if we are being given treatment. there's no way we're. going to will be get out of. this the way we come to training in the law much of it was. 40 days confident of reaching our goals of becoming a professional boxer but not many young women and girls can see that. that was a fairly put on the other hand has a lot of ground to cover. as competition here is stiff and there is little help coming his way says he is determined to give his best to get there. al-jazeera. goner. the australian swimmer who failed a doping test ahead of the recent world championships has vowed to clear her name was withdrawn from the australian team just days before the championships began initially swimming australia decided not to make the news public jack has

previously claimed she was pressured by swimming bosses to keep quiet to be completely honest with you sharon has been nothing but supportive of me and we've been a unit through the hype whole process every decision that we've made has been together and we are very happy with every decision remains she would like or. we were a unit and it was a team effort the whole time and they've been nothing but supportive telling you to please not. a people a beginner even bands after the mass brawl that broke out in baseball in a baseball game between the cincinnati reds and the pittsburgh pirates 6 players and both managers have been hit with suspensions all the players involved have made appeals against the decision. and finally some spectacular pictures coming out from day 2 of the rally of finland finland regarded by many as the spiritual home of rallying the country has produced a team of world champions for you to read encourage add that to the list of the future but probably not this year let's go to driver suffering

a big crash leading to his retirement from the race. ok and that is all your sport for now daryn back to you flora thank you very much indeed that's it for me daryn jordan so this news out don't go away out of back in a moment with much more of the day's search of that so much. demain the intersection of reality and comedy and post revolution tennessee a. mission to entertain educates and provoke debate through satire

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investigation into how billions of euros are made from supplying arms to saudi arabia a leader of the coalition fighting a war in the south the case is interesting to watch because the amount of money involved yemen war profiteers on al-jazeera coming. up. like. a conditional cease fire is reached in syria's last rebel held province off the fighting and in the kill hundreds in 4 months. alone down jordan the soldiers there are live from doha also coming up fears of

a new arms race as the u.s. officially withdraws from a 31 year old landmark nuclear agreement with russia. new u.s. sanctions on russia for the poisoning of a form a double agent and his daughter in england. and a year since the latest outbreak of the bone democratic republic of congo the death toll keeps rising. syria's government and the opposition have agreed on a ceasefire the last rebel held province of it live it's been announced during the 13th round of the so called a stand up talks in kazakhstan the opposition says it has already pulled out its heavy weapons under the such agreement which it accuses the government and its allies of breaking but the opposition insists it will abide by the ceasefire as long as the government doesn't violate it. we withdrew the heavy weapons following the sochi agreement but the regime violated this agreement and took advantage of the withdrawal so they can launch their cunning criminal attacks if the regime

commits to the cease fire we will commit on our end and there will not be any need to talk about heavy weapons in the area under simmons as the latest now from north . on the face of it there does seem to be a will for a ceasefire although there are many questions about how long it could last all parties say they intend to move forward with the agreement but there are technicalities which could cripple it very quickly one of them is whether or not all guns all removed from a 20 kilometer which was agreed in the socially agreement back in september 28th seen this just in from the opposition spokes person ayman samy he says right now there is no trust right now there are no heavy weapons will be withdrawn again unless there's a signed agreement by russia and the turkish sides then we can talk more about withdrawing our weapons now that was

a precondition from the syrian regime in actually agreeing to the cease fire in the 1st place so that's one problem and i asked the russian special envoy what he felt about this cease fire. will hope that it will last for a long time but the toll depends now you should understand on those radicals. because the main problem is that according to the source agreement. it's necessary to create a demand that. a lot of. members of the writers of. situated right now there is no trust right now no heavy weapons will be withdrawn again unless there will be signed guarantees from various parts on the russian and turkey side then we can talk more about we withdrawing our weapons and another problem is the civilians $3000000.00 of them living in the northwest region under so much pressure so much suffering the civilians have to be protected how can that happen

to rear says that the 1st sign of any offensive towards them they will fire back so can the guns keep silent there is a lot of concern about whether that. we'll continue there's also the issue of the political settlement which is being part of these talks as well they're all provisional agreements but nothing could be moved forward it would appear until there is a certainty that the guns are going to remain silent in the northwest region more now from saying. they're turkey's border with syria. the guns have fallen silent but what happens next is not clear this is a very ambiguous cease fire according to the syrian government is that it is conditional on the implementation of the sochi deal now the opposition saying that we won't withdraw our heavy weapons unless we have guarantees from turkey and russia and you have high authority to share which is the main opposition group but the strongest group in saying that we reserve the right to retaliate if the truce

is violated without without even mentioning whether or not it plans to implement that sochi memorandum h.t.s. was the group that refused to withdraw from a demilitarized zone making it very very difficult for turkey to create this cell and in fact this is why russia kept on criticizing turkey saying you're not fulfilling your commitments under the sochi deal will turkey be able to do that this time around so there is a lot of concern that this is just a short term agreement or an arrangement at the end of the day we keep talking about the opposition and the government but it is russia and turkey that brokered this deal the 2 powers who support their warring sides on the ground and both of them really have to reach some sort of a compromise because turkey had political leverage if the rebels were holding ground the government was not able to make any significant advances the russians and the syrian government were targeting civilian areas killing civilians pressuring the rebels to try to surrender so there was

a need to reach some sort of an agreement this specially since turkey and russia don't want to rupture their relationship but whether or not it will be short term or long term well we have to wait and see yemen's who think rebels have for the 1st time released images. of the ballistic missile system they've used to target saudi arabia who say the medium range burqa missile is domestically produced in yemen they say they'll continue launching attacks until a saudi u.a.e. coalition stops its airstrikes mohamed el tardo has more now from santa during his press today the hope is mr spokesperson has syria mentioned that this newly domestically produced missile can have targets far away from riyadh and that the all of the saudi and the united arab emirates battle targets have become under the fire range of the whole thing so here one more ballastic missiles will be have launched by the whole thiis targets the saudi

aggression. stops in yemen he mentioned that the new leader did was to clear produced. 3rd which is means the will cain who. has the capability also to be launched from. launchers or from text launchers he also mentioned that the b.b. have carried out also the attack in aden winter which carried resulted to the killing of us least $39.00 salter's during their parade in aden. russia says the u.s. has made a serious mistake by pulling out of a lot of control agreement on friday the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed with the former soviet union during the cold war but the u.s. administration says russia has not kept its side of the bargain a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. it's a treaty u.s.

president donald trump has repeatedly accused russia of violating right guys not here in the agreement they should have been done years ago the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed in 1987 by then u.s. president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev for 31 years it's ban both sides from deploying medium range land based missiles halting the arms race between the 2 superpowers but washington and moscow clashed for years over russia's development and deployment of a cruise missile system the united states and its allies say was prohibited under the cold war pact in february us secretary of state mike pump a.o. announced that of russia did not begin to comply with the agreement the us would withdraw on august 2nd russia has jeopardized the united states' security interest and we can no longer be restricted by the treaty while russia shamelessly violates

them announcement prompted russian president vladimir putin to warn the united states against deploying new missiles in europe well showcasing next generation russian weaponry i'd like to tell you about the hypersonic missile which can travel at about 9 times the speed of sound has a range of more than 1000 kilometers for months nato leaders urged russia to comply with the deal to prevent its collapse the u.s. concerns on nato concerns about the new russian missiles have been raised through there with russia over several years but last minute pleas to keep that deal intact failed in july putin signed a law suspending russian. participation in the agreement now hopes are diminishing for preserving the last remaining arms pact between the united states and russia the new start treaty signed in 2010 and set to expire in 2021 trumps national security adviser john bolton has called the treaty flawed i fear that without now

and with the attitude of mr ball with a lack of interest and focus of president we end up without a new start treaty as well we go into a nuclear arms race like we saw in the 1960 s. only more expensive and more dangerous the pentagon has announced it will begin flight tests of new intermediate range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles by the end of this year and it's requested funding to develop new missile systems that previously would have been prohibited under the eye enough treaty kimberly helped at al-jazeera the white house imran khan has more now from moscow. the russian reaction has been brief but quite strong the russians say that the us has made a serious mistake in pulling out of the treaty now the foreign ministry goes on to say that they would like to see a moratorium on both sides of any deployment of short and intermediate range

missiles on either side's borders now what does that actually mean well it means that russia doesn't want to see missiles being deployed to europe close to its borders but it has said that if that happens it will react in kind and it will place nuclear missiles within range of both europe and the us and that's an escalation and itself another kremlin will be waiting and watching to see what the us is next move is and they'll react accordingly now the real thing of course is that this will cause some kind of nuclear arms race they'll be costly for both nations and it will be an escalation here in moscow it's very much a case of the americans have made a mistake here and it's a case of the russians waiting and seeing what the next american move might be the u.s. has imposed sanctions on moscow over the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter in england last year so gay and u.s. cripple were attacked with a chemical nerve agent in the city of souls great russian foreign ministry says the

sanctions will further damage relations which are already strained article again has more now from washington d.c. . u.s. president donald trump a complying with something congress told him to do last year after the poisoning of surrogate script all the u.s. congress passed a measure saying that because chemical weapons were used russia has to be sanctioned in less they can certify that they would never do it again and allow for inspections the state department months ago said that didn't happen so now congress has basically just been waiting to see if the president would impose these sanctions the law says that he has to pick 3 from this list of options the president is picking 2 and the 2 that are least likely to cause damage to the russian economy he's forbidding financial institutions in the u.s. from giving loans to the russian government and also international financial institutions from doing business with russia.