didn't trump was heavily backed by the national rifle association in the last election the n.r.a. is on the record against any form of gun control really but in specifically against these background checks they say they would have made a difference in the past so shooting for example and while the majority of american voters republicans and democrats alike have expressed support for universal background checks in many past polls the republican party really has not been willing to take it up as an issue in fact earlier this year the democratic controlled house of representatives passed legislation requiring universal background checks but the senate refused to take it up it went nowhere now we have the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell saying that this will be a front and center issue when congress returns from its summer recess so that's a huge change now for democrats it's not soon enough they were calling on congress to come back into session to get on this right away some of them want assault

weapons bans as well so there's some skepticism about how serious and how substantial changes would be supported by the republican party but again the fact that they're even discussing this is a major shift and this meeting. with executives on online extremism anything come out of that. you know there's a a lot of discussion it's an issue that's on everyone's mind how to rein in extremist speech on line it's believed that the shooter and passo may have learned a lot of his extremist ideology online and he was credited with posting racist comments on law and that message board that he posted on has since been taken down but in terms of this meeting social media and technology leaders at the white house it was behind closed doors the white house describes it as constructive they talked

about how technology can be leveraged to stop hate speech how to identify people with mental health issues that could be dangerous but at the end of the day they said they encouraged the industry to continue talking about it and to try to rein in domestic terrorism but not a lot of concrete plans came out of it no serious kristen salumi reporting live there from washington christine many thanks. this is the news hour from al-jazeera still to come on the program how the u.s. trade war with china could provide a windfall for mexico. why ethnic minorities in canada are struggling to get lifesaving stem cell treatment. and later in school today it's been sent for and joshua's rematch against and the crew is to the britain's shock defeat in june. north korea's 5 unidentified projectiles the south korean military says the devices

were fired into the sea off the north eastern coast last week north korean leader kim jong un inspected several missile test launches he says the tests were a warning to the united states and south korea over their joint military drills earlier the u.s. president said he'd received what he called a beautiful letter from kim that he wasn't bothered by the resoled recent missile launches accordant chang is the author of nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world he joins us now live via skype from blue mountain ontario good to have you with us so what it was just yesterday or still today where where you are that the president was hailing this beautiful letter and playing down the launch of these earlier projectiles that was friday saturday morning north korea goes and does it again what's the north up to. well the north is up to a 1000000 in the present united states you know just hours after the president

posted about under kim kim fires off these missiles and you know on one level you can say well the president's not perturbed he's letting the north koreans just play this out but we've got to remember that this is the 1st stage of an escort toward a cycle the north koreans will continue up that stage and when they do it will be much more difficult in the later parts of the cycle to stop it and certainly much more dangerous so i think president trump needs to sort of changes policies and impose some costs on north korea for violating these u.n. security council resolutions on missile launches is to say that north korea is humiliating the president why then is he apparently so relaxed about where we are he was keen to point out that these are these have been short range no ballistic missile tests he says no long range missiles no nuclear tests. you know i'm not in the president's head and that's a great question you know this sort of hark back to his predecessor president

obama's policies of strategic patience you just ignore what the north koreans do and don't appear to be bothered by it but the problem is that north korea is continuing to produce solid material and it's continuing to improve its missiles so this is not a good story for the united states you know the north koreans are not making any concessions we're making all the concessions this is not good the u.s. north korea south korea rather have downgraded their annual military drills to launch the computer simulation exercises i mean surely that's provocation and office far as the north is concerned doesn't it. well the north is pressing the advantage after that historic. singapore summit last year president trump said he was going to suspend major exercises and that's why we no longer are conducting culture free to guardian or foul illegal exercises what we're seeing right now are

very small scale ones ones that are designed not to be provocative but kim jong un just feels why not press the advantage so that's exactly what he's doing and the important thing is he here is that our readiness to defend south korea is declining dramatically because of the failure to hold these large scale exercises all this while north korea conducts its massive winter training cycle and summer training cycles this is this is just terrible good still just so many thanks deep in being with the squad in chang thank you adrian the u.n. secretary general says that he's deeply concerned about violence in yemen the something port city of aden fighting has continued there for a 3rd consecutive day with reports of at least 20 people killed government forces backed by the saudi led coalition the battling the separatists faction which is supported by the united arab emirates the violence has exposed

a rift in the saudi led alliance which has been facing huth the rebels in yemen since 2015 luth the say the younger brother of their leader has been killed the rebels issued a statement denouncing the death of abraham brother dean. but they don't specify the cause of his death and blaming agents of what they say is a u.s. israeli saudi coalition. thousands of food the supporters have been demanding the reopening of sanaz international airport has been planned for almost 3 years despite a deal in december to reopen as the sa based transport minister says that sick people have been unable to receive treatment aboard the airport is in who think territory but the airspace has been restricted by saudi arabia's military coalition since 2060 the world food program says that it will start distributing food again to people in yemen's capital un deliveries to sanaa stopped in june over concerns that supplies were being diverted deliveries resuming after an agreement was

reached between the world food program and yemen's who 3 fighters the u.n. secretary general spokesman says the positive steps as he called them a welcome. peace said we will resume food distribution following the festival for the 850000 people inside the city who have not received food rations from devon a.f.p. for the last 2 months w f p's also beginning to roll out a smart car driven beneficiary management system that will register $9000000.00 people in areas of yemen controlled by the sun abased authorities these vital measures provide for the protection and privacy of the people of peace service and the independence of humanitarian operations. libya's un recognized government has agreed to a cease fire during the 4 day holiday starting on saturday the u.n. mission in libya made the request it includes

a ban on airstrikes that call on the fighters loyal to war khalifa haftar to follow the cease fire to after us forces ability to take the capital city tripoli the u.n. mission will be responsible for monitoring any violations 80 migrants of been rescued by a french french run rescue vessel from a dinghy off the coast of libya a group doctors without borders posted photos of the migrants being ferried to the norwegian flag rescue vessel the ocean viking italy's interior minister says that he's preparing to sign a ban on the ship's entry into italian waters under a new government decree the ship risks a fine of just over $1000000.00 it comes as a libyan coast guard ship rescued another $45.00 migrants including women and children from a sinking dinghy of the coast of tripoli the islamic authorities in jerusalem according to the closure of the city's mosques on sunday and a mass eat bread to be held at a mosque compound instead of a series have

a very force that reports now from west jerusalem. islamic walk feel 40 which runs the locks the mosque compound in accordance with the jordanian government it has decided to close all mosques in the local area calling on people instead to come to our itself and the surrounding area to carry out the prayers the main prayers for eat have been delayed from sunrise to the 2nd pres of the day at 730 local time in the morning presumably to maximize the number of people who can attend them and also that coincides with the time that usually the site would be open from the other side to non muslims now there are right wing and religious nationalist jewish groups that are calling for access on this day despite the fact it's a major it was them 1st or because it also falls on the same day that jews mark tisha by have that as a commemoration of the falling of the 1st and 2nd temples and the jewish exile the background to this is that there has been

a wide ranging political effort by the right wing in israel and the religious nationalists to get more access to x. the mosque compound site known as the temple mount to jews a lot of what happens next will depend on the actions of israeli security forces and police there has been a precedent going back many years that normal thems are not allowed access on a major it was the festival day but that president was broken earlier this year in june the end of ramadan coincided with the jerusalem day which is when jews and israelis mark the seizure of east jerusalem by israeli forces in 1967 there were limited scale wishes at the site as a result of the police decision then to allow jews in on that day a lot now depends in terms of how confrontational this sunday becomes a lot now depends on the actions of israeli security forces. number of people in mecca for the harsh pilgrimage has passed 2000000 with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees celsius 350000 air conditioned tents have been provided while clinics and

ambulances are on stand by on saturday the pilgrims will climb mount arafat's to pray and to recite the koran before performing the ritual stoning the devil. is one of the 5 so-called pillars of islam. there's been further unrest in hong kong with a standoff between security forces and protesters at a police compound. this time hundreds of demonstrators used religious symbols to voice their anger at the government purchases through burning religious papers into the compound and shown laser beams at police. thousands of protesters began a 3 day sit in at the airport hong kong's leader kerry lamb is refusing to make concessions accusing demonstrators of reckless behavior of destroying the economy. bride reports. i this was the site that greeted international travelers on friday hong kong airport swamped by protesters i they took over the arrival

holes to explain his many different languages as possible what their struggle to stop the extradition law is about as they begin a 3rd month of protest the government says the proposed law has been shelved but opposition groups fear china still wants to further erode hong kong's freedoms watch after protesting for 2 months the government still hasn't responded to our demand i don't mean law i wanted it to rescind what is happening in hong kong and hope they will show support to the protesters on the frontline most visitors seemed supportive of the action by local more than. others seemed to be welded and a few angry angry. they're all traitors shouted this woman. the unrest has left the government and its leader carry land beleaguered in one of her

rare news conferences she blamed the protesters for the damage being done to the economy they did not mind destroying hong kong economy they have no stake in the society which so many people have helped to build. and that that's why they resort to all the violence and abstractions causing huge damage so economy and so daily life of a people the day ended with the symbolic burning of offerings observed by local and international news media who flown in to see what happens next in this unprecedented challenge to the hong kong and chinese government's last weekend's demonstrations culminating in a day of strike action saw the most widespread violence yet on hong kong streets the government will be hoping that is as bad as these protests get and things will improve from here or it may have marked the start of a new more dangerous phase in this protest movements bright al-jazeera hong kong.

typhoon lekima as he hit eastern china causing widespread power cuts and flight cancellations the storm made landfall in the province of jang bringing high winds and torrential rain china's weather bureau has issued a red alert for the region its most severe warning like ema has already battered taiwan killing at least one person and leaving 60000 homes without power but at least 60 people have been killed in southern and western india as monsoon rains lashed the country $22.00 of the victims were in the state of carola where landslides and flooding of cut off some areas and forced the closure of a major airport carola is still recovering from last year's floods which were the worst of the century meanwhile more than 200000 people have fled their homes of the western states of maharashtra go and kind of talk of this but a series of explosions at 2 russian military installations the state nuclear company says that 5 of its staff were killed when

a rocket engine exploded or radiation levels temporarily rose in towns in north western russia the military has blamed lightning for the blasts of the death toll in siberia charlotte bellus reports. an investigation tain meets near a military facility in russia's far north moscow says they're investigating the explosion of a rocket engine at noon your site is used for testing missiles for the russian navy russia's state nuclear company since staff members died in the blast u.s. analysts suggest it was likely a new nuclear powered cruise missile president putin said russia was producing in march last year the united states formally withdrew from the 30 year old intermediate range nuclear forces treaty with russia last friday russia's defense ministry said no dangerous substances were released in the explosion although local authorities closed waters north of the site to shipping for a month greenpeace cited government data showing

a radiation spike 20 times above normal in a city 30 kilometers from the test site some of. the biggest threat is the release of radioactive substances on the inhabitants of a settlement located next to that military base nevertheless for the inhabitants of several beings a city they could also be a danger depending on what kind of substances were released and whether they reached the town. residents took no chances they bought medical iodine known to block the absorption of radiation. event have shaken up the whole town people started to panic within a matter of an hour although i you didn't and i you didn't continue drugs were sold out. yes. 4000 kilometers away in eastern siberia another explosion at a military ammunition dump site the government blamed it on lightning. there was a bigger explosion i saw

a colored mushroom cloud it was very bright i was slammed by a door that sent me flying. a fire triggered powerful explosions at the facility on monday it was home to more than $40000.00 shells thousands of residents were evacuated. russians in both regions are now demanding transparency from authorities and the potential risks posed by the blasts. we're going to weather update next here on the news out then another raid by police encourages stomp raises fears of political instability. we hear from a bahraini activist who feared that he'd be tossed from the roof of his country's embassy in london. and this destroyed in legend is making a return to cricket the details coming up in sports.

we got some really bad weather now making its way into eastern parts of china in the form of a typhoon look came very close to shanghai and that big swathe of cloud rolling in the system of course becoming a little more disorganized now that has made landfall but lots of very heavy rain that saturday's picher push on into sunday that wetter weather will not just way further north as but over the next 2 or 3 days some parts could see maybe 30350 millimeters of rain further south some showers longer spells of rain here into southern areas as well but nowhere near as bad as the flooding rains and the damaging winds that we have across that eastern side of china right warnings in force across 7 provinces across the country further south we got some rather wet weather trying desperately to pull away from the philippines still tied in with

a typhoon look he must still some showers along the spells of rain in place just around luzon manila turning a little drier saeco on into sunday nasty try across parts of borneo still some very heavy rain there just tucked in across a good part of thailand joining up with heavy rain that we also have pushing up towards me and are plenty of cloud shang up here where this weather continues right up the west and gets into a good part about how russia. whether sponsored by cattle or a. scholar and lawyer. thinker. and politician. radical and prisoner in a 2 part series al jazeera world tells the story of one of the most enigmatic figures in saddam's turbulent history. whose influence is still felt on events in the country today. i'll to robbie's life and politics on al-jazeera in

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was here at least a dozen people have been killed or injured i'm sorry in srinagar styles and is running against india's crackdown on kashmir's autonomy police fire pellets and tear gas to disperse protesters in the indian of men's region which remains under a security lockdown the u.s. president has called for commonsense solutions to address gun violence but donald trump sure of the national rifle association with his views at their views rather would be respected this comment. come on this week up to bash shootings in ohio and texas that killed at least 31 people and the u.n. secretary general says he's deeply concerned about fighting in yemen southern port city 18 government forces supported by the saudi led coalition have been battling an ever rotty backed separatist faction for 3 days now. placing target start of rated the t.v. station owned by the former president back at them by of his arrest on thursday and raised fears of instability and

a potential power struggle with the country's current leader al-jazeera is laura but merely reports. he's off air and ordered out start at the t.v. station owned by kurdistan former president sent in the latest move again. he was arrested in his home last week. that this followed a violent confrontation between his supporters and police one officer was killed and dozens injured. attend b.f. remains in police custody after failing to cooperate in a criminal case attendee of a previously been accused of corruption parliament stripped him of immunity after he fell out with presents a room by jean the call of. a 10 bia who served 20 eleventh's 2017 rejects the charges and accuses the authorities of a piece of office looking to capitalize on the political fallout

a more backdrop and off he's a former president to contend and it's returned to the country after fleeing 2 years ago when he was accused of inciting ethnic hatred. i want to note the arrival of baghban off won't destabilize the situation now everyone is looking for the next parliamentary election and 2020 political parties including president jeenbekov and baba knobs will unite for the sake of stability the timing is perhaps coincidental the same day as bob return from moscow russia's prime minister made a scheduled visit to the country. achieved. in my opinion it's obvious that in the 21st century kurdistan has reached its limit for revolutions and it would be really bad if these events resulted in any political and consequently economic instability in the country with us. with the former soviet nation his team to form

a leader to post an uprising think 1901 many in the capital bishkek 5th political fallout. i want to address both jane because of a tom by of police sort all your issues without involving the people we're tired of political tensions and instability. during. the month of august is the busiest period for tourism and we're worried work and business will be affected. and there's no sign that the political tensions will. have supported the fowling further protests and there are fears the country could be thrown. out of. a political crisis in italy is deepening one of the 2 governing parties has put forward a motion of no confidence in prime minister is that the contrary deputy prime minister salvini is far right league party is hoping the move will trigger a new election the heads of political groups in the senate do surveys on monday to

shed the no confidence vote so that he says the differences within the ruling coalition cannot be mended and that a general election should be called soon. spain's acting prime minister pedro sanchez will hold more talks in a bid to break the deadlock over forming a new government there he says he'll meet the far left for davis party and others including catalan separatists by the end of the month sanchez has twice failed to secure a power of a parliamentary majority in support of his administration the socialist leader has 6 weeks to be confirmed as prime minister or put forward another candidate for the job failing that a new election will be called for november phenology have. a sample at the end of august we will have an open progressive proposal ready we will discuss with the different political parties that could support the confirmation of the socialist and spain's government we will talk with the national party and we will also talk with the cost of our national forces

a logically we will talk with today most to see if we can reach an agreement that forms the government portugal has declared an energy crisis will start russian rationing fuel nationwide as fuel tanker drivers threaten the strike drivers want higher wages and better working conditions motorists will face feel restrictions from monday to ensure supplies to key services are not disrupted. britain's economy has contracted for the 1st time in almost 7 years output fell 0.2 percent in the 3 months to june amid rising briggs's uncertainties and weakening global growth the pound is fallen more than 4 to half percent against the dollar since the start of july. about freddie activist says that he feared for his life after staff beat him for climbing onto the roof of his country's embassy in london during a protest in july it was so how bad was protesting against the executions of 2 bahraini dissidents zeros lawrence lee reports now from london. in the dead of

night mussa mohammed used the cover of scaffolding to gain access to the roof of the embassy. once there he unfurls his banner i'm risking my life to save suman about to be executed in the next few hours that reads we did many protests we do send them letters for their human rights organization under you and as well it doesn't stop but i feel in my in my heart there's something i can do to save their lives that's why i went to the top of any embassy shortly afterwards the police arrived and for a good 10 minutes nothing much happens as they try to work out how to handle the situation on the roof mr mohammad appears relaxed sipping from a water bottle occasionally calling on the british prime minister to call the king of bahrain to the country to respect human rights. a god i love a lot. but suddenly everything changes and figure it is

a leak next to the protest and the police response to dramatically. look at it again it's at this point that mr mohammed says he was beaten with a stick almost forced off the roof. mr mohammed can be seen being pulled from the ledge to the. around during this time she says she was treated and being beaten today we want to pull from here as a sheep and no one is going to help you here even though your cable. even the thanks was gone and the 2nd time they said even. if they can't they can't help you no one can come to ours here and there in our land and so you are quite clear that you thought that they were going to beat you to death inside the embassy it's was a clear and they say this is well certainly his friends filming it all from the ground a terrified of the police to do something obvious is forced to push them back.

are you there you are going out. within a minute or 2 the fire service has forced the doors of the embassy and offices go in and some numbers the embassy has said it regards mr mohammed's process as being in support of what it describes as terrorists and in the end what happened on the roof is their word against his but what was extraordinary was the police response because officers plainly were so concerned about mr mohammed safety that they had no compunction in breaking every rule in the diplomatic housing book and ordering the forcing of the doors of the embassy of another country mr mohammed says when the embassy staff realized the police were in the building the attitude changed entirely the 3rd man who told them. the break in the door and before the before now and that's when they stopped attacking you was it yes he told them don't

beat him as for the 2 men mr mohammed was protesting for their executions went ahead as planned i mean allegations that they've been tortured in jail and in london an indication of how concerned the police are about what might happen to protest as inside the walls of the embassies of gulf states lawrence lee al jazeera . a canadian citizen held in syria since december has been released in lebanon kristy lee baxter was freed following mediation efforts by lebanon's chief security chief. just like the thing. in the 3 elf. you know. very. like i think. very highly. very.

more now from our series in a hold in beirut. lebanon has mediated the release of a canadian national who was being held in syria the one of the top security officials in lebanon about for him was the man involved in this mediation effort he said that the canadian national mr baxter was detained last year for violating laws in syria they really didn't divulge much details concerning the circumstances of his detention this is not he's not the 1st foreign national to be released in the past month a few weeks ago an american national was released about him himself playing a crucial role now he's calling this the humanitarian gesture but many here believe that these are messages messages that the syrian government wants to give to the west as it tries to gain legitimacy as it tries to end sanctions at the end of the day these 2 these 2 foreign nationals who were held and in syrian jails are not

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