they've claimed these attacks they also do receive support from iran so given that the u.s. is blaming iran does that make any difference whether whether it was iran whether it was the he is in terms of the political dynamics of the situation. yes not maybe at the senior level in certain aspects where the u.s. just likes to blame iran and if it decides to hit iran you know at that level without a lot of analysis that could occur you know one trumps is locked and loaded it could be locked and loaded to hit like iranian oil capacity or something like this but in terms of what the u.s. defense department intelligence agencies state department do in their analysis and when they recommend what types of actions the u.s. president could take certainly the details of what happened and who did what is extremely important particularly under the international principle of parity you know that if you're if you're retaliating for something done against you you have to do a similar thing and so you know that it's unclear going forward what will happen i

would predict one thing trump will either take an action or explain that the saudis asked him not to you know have some sort of way out but he's not just going to let this lie as he did in previous occasions because the hit was so devastating to the short term saudi oil production well it looks like there have been some divisions within the trumpet ministration because when when john bolton left it looks like the u.s. stance on iran might have been softening and there was talk of a trump rouhani meeting at the at the u.n. general assembly but now trump is also saying he's tweeted this morning that it's incorrect he was willing to meet iran with no conditions so has something shifted here. it's hard to tell certainly if one thing shifted trump is not going to signal to anyone right now that he's willing to meet with iran at all and certainly that makes sense given this moment and given that trump is looking for foreign policy successes in the 5th means he

can do a strike without over escalating this conflict he might do it but in terms of the overall posture the u.s. has been wanting to arrange some sort of meeting with iran at the u.n. general assembly and it was really interesting that today and yesterday u.s. officials were saying that this meeting is not off even though trump is saying that the meetings not on and of course his representative on fox news was saying we just don't know trump will tell us later and so i think trump likes the idea of both taking act military actions against but also meeting with u.s. adversaries it's sort of in his wheel house of what he thinks he can accomplish as president but it will be interesting to see going forward. how that becomes possible certainly if trump takes a strong military action that would rule out probably any meeting in new york other than to just try to deescalate the latest military confrontations. from george

washington university if it's called of international affairs thank you feel inside professor pleasure. well our correspondent also jabari has the view on all of this from tehran. iranian president hassan rouhani commented on the latest accusations made by the us government that iran was involved in the attacks in saudi arabia has on iran he said that the united states instead of pointing the finger at other countries needs to take a look at its own role in creating this instability in this region lonnie said that the united states is supplying arms to saudi arabia and the emirates he led coalition that is waging this war in yemen he urged all parties that the way to resolve this conflict and have some kind of stability in this region these suits were dialogue their reunion said over and over again that they're willing to mediate between all the parties involved to bring some kind of an end to this conflict iranian president hassan rouhani has also said in the past that these

kinds of accusations only further ties between tehran and washington do not help to create any kind of dialogue between the 2 countries that is something the u.s. president donald trump a sudden he's interested in having a meeting with the iranian president at the united nations later this month but given the current climate and the accusations that have been coming at the rate in officials it is very unlikely that president hassan rouhani will be open to that kind of meeting until these sanctions are lifted on iran and that these kinds of behavior that iran says has been waged them is changed for the time being. there's plenty more ahead on this news hour including rebuilding the bahamas between operation resumes and the islands battered by both the tropical storm and hurricane . new gun laws and texas that make weapons more accessible despite mass shootings. and then for peace will be here with action from spain's foskett for

wealth cup final when i have options. now ballots are being counted in tunisia after nearly hoth of registered voters turned out to choose their country's next president official results on to expected until tuesday but supporters of the 2 candidates. have both claimed to have won the 1st round and already celebrating sunday's for it was too noisy a 2nd presidential election since the 2011 revolution stephanie deca reports from tunis. half an hour before voting was due to start a small queue had already formed tunisians waiting to have their say on who is going to be their next president. i came here to vote in order to get someone who can get this country out of the crisis the economic crisis the financial crisis we have lots of debts it's very frustrating for me i'm not fully convinced about any

of the candidates because there are so many and i haven't seen them from the beginning it's the 2nd time tunisians are electing their president since the revolution 8 years ago tunisia is often quoted as the only democratic success story to come out of the so-called arab spring the 1st country where its people took to the streets bringing an end to the 23 year rule of president saying. this is democracy in action yes there are many different candidates to choose from but the question is what can they offer to people are they going to offer real change or is the next president going to be more of the same voters here are telling us they're tired of empty promises. the next president is pressing issues to deal with unemployment is higher than it was before the 2011 revolution the security situation is a concern and corruption remains rampant the new leader will face a population hungry for change especially the youths many have told us they don't

trust the politicians to move these elections are a good thing it's the 1st time we've had a debate on t.v. with our presidential candidates we used to watch the debates on t.v. the united states and now we're watching the same thing here in tunisia that's the 1st. national and international observers were polling stations across the country we knew. people but interestingly we saw many elderly coming in very in the morning and being very well organized and there has been no issues and so so far. good which is hoping that by no the young people would have come on world only increase the percentage of luminary results that you later with the official announcement don't choose day the winning candidate will need more than 50 percent of the vote and no one expects that to happen the likely scenario out of 24 candidates the top 2 will head to a runoff in november by the end of the day tunisian should know who they are

stephanie decker 0 tunis. and algeria is due to hold its presidential election on december 12th the date has been announced by interim president have been salah the country has been rocked by months of protests since former president otherwise is that a freak i was forced to resign back in april after nearly 20 years in power. 8 operations have resumed in the bahamas as tropical storm humberto moved away from the area after dumping rain of a parts of the archipelagos northwest some communities are now coming together for the 1st time since hurricane dorian hit 2 weeks ago our correspondent allen sent this report from freeport on the island of grand bahama. for many this was the 1st time to come together since the hurricane the church a source of comfort after some difficult days once more the hugs were warm the

tears were real the stories of survival frightening we watch our house and our home discard destroyed i mean limb by limb or whatever you want to call it. sometimes over 20 feet. over the roof into the roof because you know sustained some damage in that area we saw that but luckily dad didn't see us there sharing what they have one man and his family are sleeping at a friend's one woman has a working well so is sharing water community coping together we lost everything everything we might as a salvage some little shoes and pants and stuff i got to get all the stuff into a few of my church members i've lost everything you know so i thank god that i didn't have that major damage in my house like some of them but we're all alive and we're holding on. just a short distance so we in the hudson neighborhood the work to rebuild has already begun. many buildings survived but have been left to shell by the storm waters.

is probably about a kilometer from the sea but at the height of this storm the water was so high it would have been above my head simply inundating all of the houses in this area. people are saving what they can but there's not a lot left to see most of it is. salt water and sewage backing up into the building. but the everything is you know. wild seeding. contamination sewage george like many families here is hoping things will start improving before the end of the year getting back to normal that's not even under consideration for no alan fischer al-jazeera in freeport on the island of grand bahama. workers and u.s. automaker general motors are due to go on strike on monday for more than for the

1st time in more than a decade $48000.00 people are expected to walk off the job at 31 factories across the country the united auto workers union is pushing for better wages health benefits and job security guarantees and they've threatened to stay on strike until an agreement is reached the talks to continue on monday well earlier we spoke to michael martinez who is a reporter for automotive news which is based in detroit and he says workers are demanding a greater share of profits and explains how the strike will impact general motors is. it could cripple g.m. if the strike lasts long enough currently the automaker has been preparing for some type of action and they have a 77 days supply of new vehicles on hand that number fluctuates depending on what the able you're talking about and they're more profitable more popular at c.v.s. and trucks they have a lower day's supply in the fifty's but if this drags on and then it essentially

means they can't build any products dealers won't be able to sell those new products because there won't be anything there this is a very significant action it's sort of the last resort that the union has in the gauche asians that have reached an impasse and we don't know yet what the impact will be on general motors it depends on how long the strike last but workers in less than 10 hours now will leave the assembly lines and form picket lines outside of all jails facilities workers are looking for higher wages they're looking for retention of very lucrative health care benefits that they've been able to keep. they're looking for a greater share of the profits that general motors ford and chrysler have been able to amass over the years and they're also looking for protection for temporary workers to try to find a way for them to reach full time permanent status as the u.s.

congress continues to debate possible gun control measures texas has moved in the opposite direction making guns more accessible and that's despite 2 mass shootings in the cities of el paso and adesa an organist alone how does a pastor has more from mission in texas. last month's 2 mass shootings in texas took at least 29 lives. and here at the mission skeet and trap club the incidents have apparently driven up business it's gone up extremely yes ma'am the shooting range manager jeff simpson says the number of people who have come to practice shooting to qualify for a license to carry a concealed handgun in texas has more than doubled what do you think is behind that . it's people that are. hoping to protect ourselves simpson says he is a prime example he says last week he had to use his gun to scare off several adult male migrants here near the mexico border who wanted to take his phone i carry

a gun. all the time that i'm here so i didn't pointed out i pulled it out i did my paulding i didn't chamber it i didn't pull it out but it made them leave me alone since the reason mass shootings in texas it's actually become easier to legally own and carry guns in this state 8 pro-gun new laws passed prior to those shootings took effect this month they include allowing guns in school parking lots apartments and churches texas governor greg abbott a conservative republican responded to the latest mass shootings with executive orders to increase police training and public awareness he rejected calls from democrats for more gun control this is absolutely the wrong direction for us to take it's going to be measured in the lives lost not in the lives saved but it was a gun carrying good samaritan who ended the 2017 attack on a church in sutherland springs texas an armed bystander chased away the shooter

after he killed 25 people but before he could kill more. at the shooting range members say owning a gun requires discipline and practice but even here there is support for removing weapons from people who. more likely to use them to cause harm to drop people feel they're safe by just having what that's not the case texas has the most registered guns of any state more than 700000 whether that makes texas safer or more dangerous is still unclear. castro al-jazeera mission texas. still ahead on al-jazeera palestinian fallenness names of the fight to protect their land from the legal settlements. beyond frustrated why palestinian refugees living in lebanon demanding asylum.

and your tale of a full time cop with an incredible comeback pacer we'll tell you just how they did it and. we still got some showers of fighting southern parts of china at the moment still want to see from the head showing up here the majority of the show is over towards the southwest all of the country and that's where the heaviest downpours the flooding rains have been a recently hong kong ship brought an opposite dry up temperature 31 celsius on monday a tad warm as you go on it's tuesday the wet weather still in a similar area next to some very heavy rains still continuing across northern parts of the philippines we have seen flooding in of course over the past few days you can follow that long chai the storms rolling across southern parts of vietnam

cambodia will work across into thailand again see some flooding in thailand to law in a very wet weather of the system monday going on into choose they just nudging a little further north woods from malaysia for indonesia stan retry and generally sunny. and studied segments of the far northwest of in the pakistan as well that we are still seeing plenty of showers up towards much of but showed up but still some very heavy showers around move the eastern corner of in the end move the same as we go on through the next couple of days i shall still sink in the way down the west and guess what 2 showers to the sri lanka. the weather sponsored by catherine is. odd you know that corruption has reached a level like never happened before in our country. rank outsider. to president of the united states. the power was in the data we will

the american people with the truth and nothing else discovered. for winning the white house unfair game on al jazeera. when the news breaks. when people need to be heard and the story needs to be told pretty remarkable too to valerie it died last week and crossing from mexico to the united states with exclusive interviews and in-depth reports we can move according to the official wifey is exceptionally algis iraq as the teams on the ground to bring more award winning documentaries and lightning.

hello again i'm just. a reminder of our top stories this hour saturday's drone attacks on saudi oil facilities have triggered a record jump in brant crude futures trading u.s. president says he's authorized the release of oil from america's strategic reserves to fill the market gap if needed and. also he says the u.s. is quote locked and loaded waiting for a confirmation of attack to riyadh soil facilities secretary of state has already accused iran for the attacks that have been claimed by yemen through the rebels tehran has denied involvement. and ballot papers are being counted in tunis he is presidential election official results on the expected until tuesday but supporters of the 2 candidates on the bill carter we who have both claims to have won the 1st round already celebrating sunday's fighters. well that's now return to our top

story the effect of drone attacks on saudi arabia's oil infrastructure that's now caused the biggest sudden disruption yet to global oil markets earlier i spoke to vanda hari who's the founder and c.e.o. of energy market analysis group found the insights and she says the lack of information released by saudi arabia is making the markets even more volatile. clearly this is a big supply shock for the markets we're looking at close to 6 percent of the global supply that has been shut down after the saudis have said that they hope to restore at least a 3rd of close to about 2000000 barrels a day of production today but again you know that's not an official statement and i think the market is going to be quite a bit of a wait and watch mort and of course there's going to be a lot of nervousness and i expect plenty of volatility in trading as well we've had

major disruptions outages if supply lost from iran from been is doing you know what the market when it looks back that's what it can get find in terms of supply disruption examples but then you know we had about 2000000 bottles but the iranian supply out of the market as a result of u.s. sanctions we have more than a 1000000 barrels of day of venezuelan supply that have gone out as well but this has a lot of those have happened over several months both of those have been highly anticipated event it was well known so that the market always to pick has a coping mechanism for that something like this you know this magnitude being taken out of the market just like that you know in a matter of one day it's huge it's going to cause a lot of knowledge not just because of the amount of. supply lost but also because that's just not enough information coming out of saudi arabia officially and i think you know that's going to be quite concerning for the oil markets israeli

prime minister benjamin netanyahu has threatened to annex large parts of occupied palestinian territories if he is re-elected now the palestinian government and farmers are vowing to protect their land and one of the ways to do that is true agriculture need to even have reports from the occupied west bank where a new project is underway ahead of cheese days of action this is the 1st time to manage but it has plenty to use on this piece of land of. his harvest of a goddess should make him a profit in 2 years but once the climate is not a threat the location is. the land is an area c. a term describing more than half of the occupied west bank falls under full israeli control here palestinians need israeli approval to build or develop their lands but all around the new israeli settlements are sprouting up here and. it's a risk but if we keep being scared then we won't do anything yes israelis have the

stronger hand when it comes to control but we shouldn't leave our lands. jim and received support from a palestinian government project to farm the land the government says it will disregard israeli control over the area but that might be easier said than done. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has promised many times to apply jewish sorrentino with. the latest his pledge of annexing the jordan valley if he wins the palestinian leadership says it's not just the threat of course who is using this as a ploy to pander to his extreme right wing racist base but at the same time he's been implementing this on the ground gradually below the radar and some cases but now with from this administration and the u.s. there is no need to fly below the radar he is now concretely specifically carrying out these steps and declaring them announcing them whether netanyahu remains in power or not observers say political progress in the occupied territory is unlikely

. to result in the terminology used in israel to discourse knowledge a political settlement that sees keeping the israeli settlements and. we talk about the jordan valley as a place they can go there was never a consensus about this issues in the past for many palestinians it doesn't matter who leads the government as israel shifts more to the right this radio elections heavily influence palestinians lives but they don't have a say in. the occupied west bank and palestinian refugees in lebanon say they don't have enough money to live and are demanding asylum in countries such as the u.k. germany and australia protesters say a government crackdown on foreign workers is adding to their plight and a quarter reports from beirut. they're demanding a dignified life a future for their children palestinian refugees have been gathering outside western embassies in the lebanese capital beirut demanding humanitarian asylum.

to live. we want. to give our children indication palestinians are criticizing a recent lebanese government crackdown on undocumented foreign labor as refugees they believe they should be exempt lebanese law already bans them from working in many professions and denies them access to public services as part of a long standing policy to discourage them from staying. if we are denied the right to work and open businesses then how do we pay for medical treatment for example and it was says it covers 100 percent of the cost but that is not true only 10 percent of my father's operation he was a cancer patient and he has since passed away international aid for palestinian refugees has decreased in recent years the un relief and works agency which supports palestinian refugees says it is providing services to all of them but it

needs $120000000.00 to be able to fund operations until the end of the year palestinians have been living here for more than 70 years since the creation of israel but now the situation is getting worse unemployment was already a problem before the recent decision by lebanese authorities that requires them to take work permits are not only expensive but they are also difficult to get the palestinians who own shops like us are were also affected by the government crackdown this 27 year old lost his livelihood in a country going through a severe economic crisis. told me i have no right because i'm a palestinian. many of us are graduates. of children. they are not allowed to work there is anger and resentment among the almost 200000 refugees they say they should be given special stock to be treated as foreign

workers but many have lost hope in their host country and they're looking for a better life outside. beirut a former health minister from the democratic republic of congo has been arrested accused of embezzling $4300000.00 of public funds that were raised to tackle the above the epidemic police allege that was planning to flee the country and escape justice something his lawyers deny the about outbreak is the 2nd west in history with more than 2000 people losing their lives over the past year and doctors in zimbabwe are protesting over the alleged abduction of their union leader they say peace and disappeared after he called for a strike over pay the doctors say he received death threats several government critics including a comedian and a teacher's union leader also said to have gone missing just over the past few weeks essentially unfortunate that he ended up coming to teach we've.

not been able to afford to be going. and seeing it just moving down towards the end isn't that good to be done. we are not putting our boat there looking our boat bright in cars going to turn up with anything just to survive just to be able to look the way. we've done for. dozens of passengers are missing after a boat sank in the democratic republic of congo police say 76 people on board were rescued 36 others are fair drowned in. the boat went down overnight in the congo river as it headed for the capital. and at least 13 people have died and dozens are missing after a boat capsized in india it happened in the very river in the southern stage of under pradesh local media reporting that $61.00 people were on board including 10 crew members and only about 14 people have been rescued so far

a memorial in honor of a refugee camp set up in india for polish people during world war 2 has been unveiled poland's deputy foreign minister attended the event where the camp once stood and housed a $5000.00 polish people fleeing the war apart from barracks that also included schools a workshop and a catholic church this was one of 2 polish refugee camps in india several people who found refuge there during the nazi occupation of poland attended the ceremony now the taliban says it will revoke its ban and allow red cross workers to be in afghanistan is how to exclude the group along with the world health organization in april accusing them of carrying out suspicious activities during vaccination campaigns the taliban also says it will guarantee the security of red cross stuff in the areas that it controls. well there's been more violence in hong kong after

tens of thousands of people defied a police baton and marched through the city center it was the 2nd mass mass demonstration since the territories neda withdrew an unpopular extradition bill now the protesters are demanding more government concessions and political reforms to morale and oregon reports from hong kong. another day of the representative unrest. hundreds of thousands of demonstrators defy a police ban to march through central hong kong once again. there is no shortage of anger here the turmoil in hong kong is well into its 3rd month and protests continue unabated. informal groups of volunteers from 1st aid medics to lawyers and religious leaders show that support for these demonstrators is far reaching a full withdrawal of the proposed law to extradite suspects to china was announced by chief executive care really lamb last week

a concession by beijing's leaders but observers say it may have been given too late . protesters say they're refusing to give in until their other 4 demands are met demonstrators say care really is just unlucky and. everyone knows she's not sincere to face to people in her call as low as she doesn't response to all demands we will continue to protest. the government is full of. it's the government that undermine the rule of law police are using on reasonable violence the protesters are using force not ballance it's violence only when it harms people. water cannons police tactics which have so far only emboldened protesters to surging forward for the last few months these have become familiar scenes the streets of hong kong have become a battleground this is hong kong on edge young people here tell us they are forever

transformed by the recent political turmoil and they are risking all to resist what they call creepy authoritarianism from. 0. now time media say that at least $86.00 tigers rescued from an infamous tourist attraction 3 years ago have now died wildlife officials confiscated nearly $150.00 tigers from a buddhist temple where visitors took selfies with the animals and fed them the temple had promoted itself as a nature sanctuary but was later investigated for wildlife trafficking and animal abuse officials say the tigers immune systems were weakened by inbreeding and many fell victim to a virus. about 50 fires continue to burn across queensland in new south wales in eastern australia about 20 homes have been destroyed and another 30 damaged

favorable conditions on sunday help slow down the pace of the destruction but crews remain on alert with hotter windy a weather forecast for the next 2 days fires have been burning across the states for more than a week destroying an estimated 55000 hectares of land. we've just been through. was unfeeling and jumped through over rain forest over river and. i always thought for a movie come up there it will never get across the river and now a battle is underway for the survival of the largest forest of its kind in east africa kenya's government has affected hundreds of thousands of settlers from the mal forest over the past 20 years and as nicholas hack reports indigenous people in the region say their homes are at risk and so is the area's rare wildlife. deep in the forest or people who communicate with honeybees. these concerns are intentions explained secure my children if you collect the honey with

a pure heart she says that you will be unharmed hanging from the branches or wooden hives people built to protect the bees it's a really.