that the ron's government has been saying for many years now the only difference is that whenever an incident like what happened at saudi aramco turns the turrets towards to iran whenever something like this happens that prompts iran's critics or enemies to come at it again in a public way iran's leaders take that as an opportunity to reiterate their point and recently in the past few months we've been seeing those reminders of their standing policy that a singular attack will be the beginning of a war that iran will attack american assets american allies in the region these warnings have been getting louder and more assertive and it's perhaps a sign that iranian leaders into iran are worried that a u.s. led attack of some kind by the administration of president donald trump is something that is getting more likely every day then the same time how's the domestic discourse shaping up that. that's that's an excellent question the fact is that what we hear from people like

the foreign minister divides are really for president hassan rouhani the people that are public figures in iran that are known to the wider world that's really a tip of the iceberg if you listen to speeches made locally during commemorative events of some kind of military parades by for instance r.g.c. commanders or deputy commanders or a local officials to a local audience the vitriol against the united states is angrier and much louder and really what it is is the country not only preparing iranians and the iranian public for a potential attack by the united states or by allies of the united states in the region what they're trying to do is prepare iranians for a counter attack by iran because iran well knows the experts that we've spoken to here say over and over again that they know the reality that the united states is a military that has the capacity to level entire cities that it knows it wrong here know strategists military officials politicians know that any sort of conflict with the united states will not bode well for iran but the fact is they keep reminding

people that iran has the capacity not only to react and retaliate but also to change the ground reality to change politically and physically the landscape of the middle east as we know it and that's a point that they want to remind international leaders about but one that they also want to prepare their own people for so the the audience they speak to the domestic speeches that are made are much more potent much angrier and have a lot more anti-american sentiments when those speeches are made and we have a military events coming up to commemorate the beginning of the iran iraq war in a few days we're likely to hear more of that rhetoric here inside the country so i must be that from iran. now meanwhile the u.a.e. has joined an american led coalition to protect waterways in the middle east the task force was formed after attacks and raids on oil tankers in the waters near our man which the u.s. has blamed iran for the u.a.e.

announced its support for a coalition a day after saudi arabia did the same joining australia. and the united kingdom dozens of people have been killed in 2 separate attacks in afghanistan and their strike carried out by government forces with u.s. support has left at least 20 people dead in the eastern province earlier at least 18 people were killed and 96 wounded in a taliban suicide bomb attack near a hospital in the southern zabul province defense ministry official says the intended target was a nearby training base for afghanistan's national intelligence agency from a private small from kabul. a devastating bomb blast in the southern provincial capital of cal at the taliban which is claimed responsibility says it was targeting the headquarters of the n.d.s. this is the afghan intelligence service but images arriving here in kabul show that

predominantly the people who seem to have been killed and injured have been civilians women children and also a number of medical personnel and doctors nurses because the building that was being targeted is right next door to the provincial hospital which has been devastated by this explosion part of the problem for the 1st responders for the rescuers has been to where to take these casualties normally they will go to the provincial hospital the very hospital which is now devastated so they bit by having to be taken to the neighboring city of kandahar for treatment meanwhile details are emerging about a nother attack in the province of on the border with pakistan of which the details are being contested now the provincial governor's office says that this was a drone attack on an ice all hideout and that number of islamic state fighters around 20 were killed but petering accounts say that these were

civilians a local provincial councilor and also now some local government sources are saying that these were people who come to nangarhar province to harvest pine nuts and were in a field nearby to where this attack took place saying that maybe as many as 30 civilians were killed with up to 40 injured as always the truth is probably somewhere in between the 2 probably there was a targeting of an i saw hideout but it does seem as though once more civilians have been caught up in this attack. but they've also had on the news hour including not responsible for a nuclear disaster top executives are cleared. in sports history back ends for mexico's superstar boxer hall be here to explain why shortly.

al-jazeera journalist mahmoud assign a spent $1000.00 days imprisoned in an egyptian jail he's accused of defaming the state and spreading false news is yet to be charged or face a trial more about manly has more. no formal charges no trial and no conviction mahmoud hussein has been locked up an egyptian jail for 1000 days egyptian government prosecutors accuse him of broadcasting what's described as false news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions hussein strongly denies the allegations and soldiers al-jazeera the journalist base in qatar flew from doha to cairo for a holiday almost 3 years ago after he landed he was stopped questioned and detained hussein has been helpful long periods in solitary confinement in the

notorious tora prison in cairo and refused medical treatment 20 broke his arm echoing international outrage the u.n. has been calling for his release saying he's been exposed to cruel inhumane and degrading treatment according to egyptian law he should have been freed within 24 hours but he was kept in prison. amnesty international says detainees are trapped in the revolving door of egypt's arbitrary detention system it says they gyptian authorities practice of reordering the detention of detainees and blatantly fabricated charges just as are about to be released is an alarming trend that illustrates extent of egypt a cage justice system over the past few years gyptian police have arrested several al jazeera employees former director of news at al-jazeera arabic. and a law. was sentenced in absentia to the death penalty for endangering

national security. for me and peter greste they were all imprisoned for over 400 days while 7 other colleagues were sentenced to 10 years or denied accusations of spreading egypt pools false news. egypt is ranked one of the lowest in the world for press freedom freedom which mahmoud hussein and dozens of other journalists continue to be tonight. al-jazeera. well joining me now here in the studio is my stuff dr mustafa suad he's

the acting director general of the al-jazeera media network good to have you with us let me 1st of all so get me you to respond to those allegations from egyptian authorities that mahmud was spreading false news he was defaming the state what do you say to that well of course i mean the egyptian authorities wouldn't have arrested him without 1st of all preparing this fabricated and fake conditions mahmoud has been. working as a during this for a long time he has never been accused of any such a thing in his career and in the last several years after he left egypt to work here in doha he was not even dealing with egyptian. issues he was working in the newsroom as a producer and dealing with international news in general however this kind of accusations are very well known. to be to be

used against journalists mahmud. ali is one of the many many journalists who are imprisoned in egypt some of them even died. in the prison some of them have very serious. health problems with no help etc so we don't expect the egyptian authorities to do less than fake a news itself right not our journalists it's been a 1000 days now and he hasn't even been charged yet are authorities offering any explanation. when you communicate with them as to why well probably as you know last may 1 i think he concluded. 2 years a little bit over 2 years he was actually in court and the courts released him. and the prosecutor decided to. to take to

reject the release. and to go to the higher court. the higher court released him again i mean supported the law court decision however the prosecutor took him straight away to a police station or whatever and then. later on. he was put in the tora prison which is very well known to be such and curious prison with no accusation that it's the same thing however i would say it's like a revolving door after arrest with you see this is this is one of the problems with the egyptian legal system it's not an independent system it's not a legal system anymore because the legal system have to follow the rules of the law then when you violate the constitution the the legal system of your country

the human rights law the international human rights law what is the law it's a political institution or illegal a situation that is actually working under the instruction of the political and the security for there's not a legal. system where we certainly hope that justice will be done and will be released soon thank you very much for coming in and talking. now a 2nd photo of canada's prime minister has emerged of him wearing brown face makeup both pictures date back to 2001 the 1st was published in a school yearbook the other in the news last a while justin trudeau works as a teacher the pictures were taken at the school's annual dinner which had an arabian nights' the tradition says it was a mistake facing a tough reelection fight maybe and go to the polls on october the 21st i attended

an individual gala for the theme was arabian nights. dressed up in a lot in costume and put makeup on. i should have been. should have known better but i didn't. and then those sort of. daniel like joins us now from toronto so how damaging is this photo in this whole issue. particularly damaging to a man like justin trudeau who for most of his political career has championed what might be termed progressive values he calls himself a feminist he's spoken out against racism and he and his candidates and activists have frequently accused parties to the right of his liberal party of backing white supremacy ism of being tolerant of it so he's now caught by his own petard if you will by is own words you heard him express his apologies and his contrition there

well i think that's not the last time we'll be hearing from him it's also particularly troubling to mr trudeau and his governing liberal party as they campaign for an election result that is not guaranteed he's in a dead heat with his conservative party opponent and this has been a campaign that's been well let's say it rather dull so far the issues have been few and far between the canadian media this morning is totally captivated by this the talking heads are talking about nothing else this is this is a story that's going to run and run for mr trudeau. or i will leave it there for now thanks so much daniel lak. time to get some weather and evidence here for us how's it looking well it's looking a little busy in the atlantic at the moment and beyond if it benign sammy off into the gulf of mexico and the sense out of the pacific look at the satellite picture let's start in the gulf of mexico where we have this system swirling away that is probably called depression media making its way northward says we go on through the

next couple of days it's a real slow mover that was kind of stuck 136 millimeters of rain in port arthur over the last 24 hours and the next 24 hours could see something similar coming in it is a weakening system having said that but along with the break down polls that we've had the lively storms we have seen a few tornadoes reported as a result of that so there's been wind damage along with the flooding rains that are set to continue for some time then as we go on through the next 2 or 3 days see have still expecting a huge amount of rainfall here maybe as much as 20300 millimeters of rain eastern parts of texas pushing across into louisiana it will slowly make its way further north has been more big downpours as we go on through the remainder of the day we go on into friday and you see still looking pretty busy at that stage take a look down towards baja california we've got a tropical system making its way in here this is her a can lead in making its way further towards western parts of mexico we've got

another system out in the atlantic pulling away from bermuda and then we've got another one pushing in sammy. thanks so much i was and while still ahead here on al-jazeera the threat of u.s. sanctions dashing hopes of construction companies in jordan who are trying to benefit from rebuilding syria. broken homes and broken promises 2 years on from the devastating earthquakes in mexico and special delivery to cyclists complete 820000 kilometer journey to the rugby world cup final be here with all the details coming up. from the family of the still navigating dangerous rapids from the time we depart to the time we finish are scared to the fish and dicing with death. i'm afraid of falling i'm afraid of dying but if i don't go i can't think my family meet the man

who go to the extreme just to make a living. but you have to be a strong swimmer otherwise and certainly risking it all vietnam on al-jazeera. we will take this fight of course the. united states army this overlying is going to close under the cloak of dependency we have a mismatch between. the reality of the 21st century. the persians that are sitting out you should. not. it's really located on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now israel may have a new prime minister benny gantz the main rival to prime minister binyamin netanyahu has announced plans to form a unity government with him as leader he says the government will be for all the people of israel he did not mention that and yeah. the u.n. has sent a team of experts to investigate the attack on 2 major saudi arabian oil facilities it comes as the u.s. and iran accuse each other of trying to start a conflict iran's foreign minister says a strike against the country or by the saudis would trigger an all out war. and strike carried out by government forces with us as supporters killed at least 20 people in afghanistan's eastern province earlier at least 18 people were killed and 96 injured in a taliban suicide bomb attack in southern province. is outlined the

changes it seeking with the braggs deal to the european union spokesman says forward proposals will be submitted when ready meanwhile the u.k. supreme court is holding its last day of hearings on whether prime minister barak suspension of parliament is legal government lawyers say it's political and not for the courts to decide. opponents argue this is brain gin is meant to impede parliament's ability to scrutinize boris johnson's plans. go to charlie and now she's live in london so how's that shaping up cause at this point. a few hours earlier the judges from a lawyer representing the former conservative prime minister john major and he said that johnson's cited reasons for suspending parliament for 5 weeks made no sense in

the court would be naive to believe that you might remember the prime minister said he needed that 5 weeks shut down to lay out a new domestic agenda it's a pretty stinging attack from the former prime minister major someone who understands those rules. the parliament he defended himself in 997 folks his argument to the case that the prime minister. the judges are now hearing from the lawyers acting on behalf of the prime minister and they are maintaining the same argument they've had from the beginning the courts have no jurisdiction on this matter it is a parliament only and should be thrown out of the courts is going to be 13 minutes left of argument and then the judge to say they will try and come to a decision very quickly but quick by supreme court standards is very different version of quick so we hoping to have some kind of the earliest on monday and charlie at the same time the u.k. or boris johnson been outlining what changes he wants from you do we have any idea

what that is. so we understand that the government has some technical papers on the mend that means these are just proposals it's not an official proposals out for discussion not an official written proposal which is what brussels were hoping for in terms of the details well. and is always kept his cards pretty close to his chest that's always been part of his negotiating strategy we know that in there somewhere will be a proposal on an alternative to the irish backstop that's the insurance policy to prevent a halt and so we can expect some details that. in terms of going forward we know that the brics expected to stephen bach he will be meeting michel barnier the e.u.'s chief negotiator on friday and they will be continuing discussions and banja has said he wants to work night and day to try and reach

a deal that both sides can agree on now finally with something to work on that what might just again. all right charlie angela from london. a new agreement between turkey and russia has been reached on a demilitarized zone in northwest syria its perimeters will be different from one agreed upon in sochi last year but it will once again depend on the cooperation of armed groups on the ground in a hole the reports from beirut. the revolution hasn't died in syria's north west these people were forced from their homes in the recent russian backed syrian government offensive that took control of the northern countryside of hama province and many towns and it limps else including. at least half a 1000000 syrians have been displaced since the end of april. we the people of harlem shake around we are not asking us to allow us to return to

our town we will never accept his role our revolution will continue until the downfall of this criminal regime it's been relatively calm since the august 31 ceasefire but many people living in fear it's only a matter of time before president bashar assad's forces resume their military operation that has already killed more than 1000 civilians the syrian opposition believes there is a deal to prevent the humanitarian crisis from worsening. there was an agreement between turkey and russia to create a demilitarized zone free of weapons and fighters on the international terrorism list the zone will be patrolled by russia and turkey the syrian interim government will take over governance from hyatt. which will have to be disbanded. the situation and it was discussed this week between serious power brokers who support opposing sides but work together under the so-called asked and a process turkey made clear its priority is to prevent a humanitarian crisis and

a large influx of refugees into the country russia and iran focused on the fight against those they call terrorists but it seems they found middle. ground there may be limited operations in terms of time and location by. the other side of the. ongoing process and it depends you know it's ever. been off because there's a precedent for. other people there many syrians have taken to the streets demanding high at the lead a sham leaves a glib they accuse the armed group of abusing power and failing to defend territory h.t.s. is considered a terrorist organization by the international community because of its links with al qaida. was the reason why last year's deal between turkey and russia on the creation of a demilitarized zone and it was never implemented it refused to cooperate forcing

it to withdraw would have required mainstream opposition factions in gauging in a internal war that would have weakened their position vis a vis pro-government forces it's not clear if h.t.s. will cooperate this time or whether there is a timetable to this apparent deal between turkey and russia but it seems a large scale offensive has been put on hold for now and russian president vladimir putin is openly discussing limiting anti terror operations and it lip. beirut. construction companies in jordan are hoping the end of the war in neighboring syria will be good for business when it eventually comes but the threat of u.s. sanctions is dashing their hopes of restoring business ties broken by the 8 year long war reports from. cement is an essential building block for just about any construction project jordanian factories produce millions of tons of it each year but the plants here are only operating at about 50 percent capacity local

demand in the building industry simply isn't there as the jordanian economy struggles so jordan's builders are looking outward hoping to reenter neighboring countries cut off by conflict. building on exporting a port and it is in syria will provide a huge number of job opportunities in jordan but no one can get into the city or market because of the sanctions and other obstacles. whenever the war ends in syria reconstruction should mean contracts worth hundreds of billions of dollars but with syria being an international outcasts there are few international investors willing to fund the rebuilding projects there still jordanian contractors are trying to be the 1st in line to go back in for joint investment projects. we the privacy and we cooperate with businesses anywhere and everywhere you know we're

trying to avoid the political issues but at the end of the day we are affected by politics for jordanian firms hoping to profit from reconstruction projects in syria from rebuilding hospitals schools and other infrastructure there are considerable obstacles despite being right next door a former trade minister told us that he and other jordanian business leaders were warned by the u.s. government not to go back in syria and work or face u.s. sanctions the jordanian business association says it was briefed by u.s. officials earlier this year about the cesar syrian civilian protection act the proposed u.s. law which would sanction any non american providing construction or engineering services to the syrian government it's passed the house in washington and is up for debate in the senate race over the who could help in rebuilding syria so far we would not be in. good to see you. tender proposal from the savior but differently jordan

a contractor would be more than happy to help in the structure of syria while intended to punish syria's government for attacks on civilians u.s. sanctions actual or threatened are crippling syria's ability to trade and rebuild and the potential for companies in jordan to make money by helping repair and rebuild their broken neighbor and or chapell al jazeera among. 3 top executives from the japanese firm which operated the fukushima nuclear plant have been cleared of responsibility for the 2011 disaster the plant was crippled by a magnitude 9 earthquake off the northeast coast of japan and the tsunami that followed the former officials from the tokyo electric power company were facing up to 5 years in prison if convicted it's the only criminal trial to have been brought since the disaster sean burney is a senior nuclear specialist with greenpeace he says he's expecting an appeal

against the findings they are guilty who are as not. the evidence was very clear over the last 2 years. evidence that that's 4 times yes it in 2000 alone was only is 2000 to running up to 2008 documents that themselves mission sure the risk of earthquake but also particularly if you point 7 metre tsunami hit the site and it's clear from the documents that were submitted to the who works are the chap who designed it not to act not to build an additional hire and meter aren't seen on war oh there's only one excellent war criminal case but there are multiple civil lawsuits both in the past and gone through the court system but also many still coming up citizens have firearms some justice in some of

the poor decisions where district courts aren't bought step 2 that's the company that owns. and the japanese government guilty of the don't see action to prevent this accident and those lawsuits will continue there maybe possibly be an appeal from today's decision the japanese citizens the thousands of citizens who who worked in today's case they will continue their efforts to pressure on both the nucleus nearly all of the reactors but also the japanese government u.s. president dan trump has stripped california of its authority to set its sound vehicle emissions standards which are tougher the national ones he's also banned other states from setting similar rules the existing law requires automakers to build cleaner vehicles then federal requirements demand trump says the move will lower car prices and is unlikely to impact emissions california's governor says he will fight it it's about the oil industry period full stop it's not about the car

manufacturers not about consumers it's not about the health it's not about our economy. it's about oil companies and the irony of the final words here we are the precipice of more unrest in the middle east a time when we've yet again been exposed for our dependence on foreign oil that now has a trajectory to get us back into conflict in the middle east. it's now easier for women to get abortions in the u.s. state of maine for a new law was put in place which pushes back at reason that it is to restrict access to the procedure across the country prison salumi reports. romain may inspire artist tanya hollanders work but when she decided to get an abortion her home state presented many obstacles for its administrative requirements and lack of available doctors meant she'd have to wait nearly a month for the procedure after discovering she was pregnant putting her at risk of

exceeding the 10 week limit for medical abortions which are induced by pill i felt betrayed by my community honestly by doctors by. politicians by all of the people that protests like you have no idea what it's like . to add all of those burdens on when you're making a really hard life decision she ended up making a daylong trip to another state where her insurance wouldn't cover the cost of the procedure but a new law will mean less of a wait and mean it allows nurse practitioners like julie jenkins to perform some early in office abortions this is well within my scope of practice we are well equipped and have similar efficacy rates for docs and advanced practice clinicians those who oppose abortion on moral grounds had argued the change would put women at

risk. but jenkins says the procedure is similar to another she already performs after a miscarriage since 2011 many states have passed laws restricting access to abortion setting up a possible supreme court battle that could alter abortion rights nationwide here in maine though they've been moving in the opposite direction looking to protect and expand access ever since democrats took control of the state house in 2018 abortion providers say the law will make it easier for women who have to travel long distances to get the procedure from a doctor sometimes somebody can live fairly close to one of our clinics but there are so many obstacles and so many challenges for people things like care getting off or. if they're an abusive relationship and maybe their partner does not know about the abortion and that's not the point of gathering the funds all of these things impact their ability to even make it to a clinic nearby. particularly in

a state like maine with snowy winters and little public transportation were not all women have the means hollander did.