as damaged as the conservatives are hoping it will not do as much damage as the media playing and making it out to be the 1st cut that you see on twitter and this social media and the 1st letters to the editor that are beginning to form in well the main national newspapers in this country clearly show that more skinny and sad when i read grading this thing out why don't we assess what he has done and why don't dress says what he or the opposition proposes to do or discipline c.d.c. shoes in this country of ongoing racism or ongoing discrimination that he should let me need to be dealing with as opposed to how he did it how they would like this of course you know he should not have done it but it was not deemed to be as he says as we deem it today have a right and use the mall has evil or not that's the only shoe and i think he has herons the great to get your insight thank you. my pleasure. all

those plants wants to lead this news hour including a political showdown birds in the us as a whistleblower complaint of portably involving donald trump s block from congress . on violence in afghanistan just mine days before the presidential election. and supports the world number 2 rory mcilroy has a day to forget at the p.g.a. championship will have all the details in our sport ground up. now the leader of israel's opposition blue and white party benny gantz he should be the nation's next prime minister he appears to have rejected the current prime minister benjamin netanyahu is offer of a power sharing unity coalition making a 3rd election in less than a year more likely. went to the polls on tuesday with 1009 percent of the votes counted gans's center right party has 33 seats that's just ahead of netanyahu is

conservative look good party which has 31 seats but both are well short of the 61 seats needed for a majority in israel's parliament president groovin rivlin has now has to decide who has the best chance of forming a coalition and he says he will do all he can to avoid a 3rd vote. our correspondent carrie fawcett has the details from. a symbolic handshake between rival would be prime ministers benjamin netanyahu and benny gantz choreographed by israel's president reuben rivlin at a memorial for shimon peres a man who held both positions really doesn't have direct political power but he does have influence and in the current deadlock a lot of freedom of action in who to give the 1st chance of forming a government and then i hear loud and clear the voices calling for broad and stable national unity government and i can gradually to you mr prime minister and joining that call this morning then you know who recalled the deal done between peres and

his political rival yet section near to share the premiership on a rotating basis in the mid 1980 s. a clear hint that he was seeking something similar after conceding earlier on thursday that he didn't have a way to form a right wing government and appealing directly to gantz binny we must set up a broad unity government as soon as today the nation expects us to both of us to demonstrate responsibility and that we pursue cooperation this is why i call on you binny let's meet today at any time to start this move which is the need of the hour but benny gantz is in no hurry rejecting netanyahu the proposition that his likud join a government as part of a bloc including 3 other right wing and religious parties and making it clear that he expects to be prime minister. we will listen to all but not surrender to any dictates the negotiations will be led by me responsibly and with reason in order to achieve the best results for all israelis within the shadow of this political

situation we will keep to our principles there will be no short cuts senior figures in his blue and white alliance with more direct selling netanyahu is presence is what is preventing a unity government and it's time for him to step aside it's just the start of a bumpy bruising and unpredictable path towards coalition. the opposition is already accusing benjamin netanyahu of obstructing it some see netanyahu is public approach to guns as a way of setting him up to take the blame if coalition talks fail all together and looming behind it all the 2 things as you know is corruption cases is 1st pre indictment hearing is due in october the 2nd and if all else fails a possible 3rd election in less than a year our aforesaid al jazeera westerners. russia and china vetoed a u.n. security council resolution demanding a truce in northwest syria it called for an end to hostilities in the lead that's the last rebel held province now russia is the government's main ally and this is

the 13th security council veto in relation to the syrian conflict our diplomatic editor james bass has this report about the defense here are you going to use your features you will see it was clear by the time the russian ambassador arrived at the security council that he was likely to yet again use his veto on a resolution about syria 3 members of the security council kuwait germany and belgium have been working on a resolution calling for a cease fire need lived for over a month their draft allowed for what they called counterterrorism operations but only if they didn't breach international law is there a chance for last minute negotiations to avoid a russian veto the stage we do everything possible to reach our goal and that is to protect civilians and have international humanitarian law being observed. i'm afraid we will witness another very sad day for syria as your know the situation in

syria is worse than ever in the real tragedy in the council chamber as predicted russia backed by china were the only ones to vote against the resolution this the 13th russian veto on the issue of syria it is deeply regrettable. that the council was not able to agree to a cease fire resolution that would have saved lives in italy. is especially as the assad regime and its allies prepare to launch another offensive on the people of. russia then put forward its own rival resolution it failed to pass with only russia and china voting in favor throughout the syrian war which is now lost it 8 years 2 of the main things that have kept aside in office are russian air power and russia's unwavering support for its our law in the un security council province is the last target of the assad regime the board meant is likely to continue and for

the people of more than $3000000.00 of them there is nowhere to flee to james. at the united nations. but a new deal between turkey and russia has been reached on a demilitarized zone and it will a province its dimensions will be different from the one agreed in sochi last year but it will once again depends on the corp of armed groups on the ground there no harder reports from. 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 a hole in at least half a 1000000 syrians have been displaced since the end of april. mostly selling them out of the way we the people of harlem shake whom we are not asking assad 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 cease fire but many people living in it live fear it's only a matter of time before president bashar al 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 aston 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. by. the other side of. ongoing protests in egypt as you know it's ever. been off because there is pressure. but the people there many syrians have taken to the streets demanding high at the lead a sham leaves 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. the u.s. justice department is being accused of playing a key role in reportedly withholding a complaint against president donald trump by a whistleblower the head of the u.s. house intelligence committee says intelligence officials were blocked from passing on to the complaint or passing on the complaint to congress the u.s. media is reporting that this relates to a phone call between trump and a foreign leader trump has labeled the story fake news and here's what he said on twitter another fake news story out there it never ends virtually any time i speak

on the phone to a foreign leader i understand that there may be many people listening from various u.s. agencies not to mention those from the other country itself no problem. mike hanna joins us now live from washington d.c. mike 1st a little context here where did this complaint originally come from and what is congress doing now. well somebody within the intelligence services made a formal complaint to the inspector general michael that kenson who has been investigating that complaint now atkinson went to the house intelligence committee in the course of the day and brief them on the nature of the initial investigation he said according to several lawmakers that the complaint was credible and that it is of an urgent nature however he did not give any details of the complaint itself or even confirm that it related to president trump this he

made clear is up to the acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire now joseph mcguire on the advice of justice department is refusing to pass on details of the complaint to congress congress insists that he is legally obliged to in terms of the whistleblower legislation so here is the situation there is a complaint being made that's been confirmed by the inspector general however the acting director of national intelligence not willing or refusing to discuss that complaint with congress with the house intelligence committee as the intelligence committee itself insists he is required legally to do so mike how serious is this ongoing argument then. well it could be very serious indeed given the fact that the inspector general is describing this as urgent and as a very very credible investigation now the other to bit of information that came

out of that briefing from the inspector general was that this does not just concern a single incident you may remember the 1st report was off a phone call allegedly made by president to another national leader however the inspector general says he has investigated a series of incidents that are contained in the complaint so where we are now is a serious. fight infighting between the congress of the committee in congress the intelligence committee and the department of justice which congress is saying is actually intent to prevent real important national security information from coming to congress in a bid to protect the president importantly to says congress it completely abrogates the principle of separation of powers that be will come to mind that legislation that governs whistleblowing this is what the chair of the house intelligence committee at to say the whole point of the whistleblower statute is not only to

encourage those to report problems of uses violations of was but also to have a legal mechanism to do so and not to disclose classified information because there's no other remedy. that whole purpose is being frustrated here because the director of national intelligence has made the unprecedented decision not to share the complaint with congress. now the acting director of national intelligence has been subpoenaed by congress to appear before the next thursday he will all in all likelihood continue to refuse to divulge the information congress is seeking legal opinion as to whether it can prosecute the acting director for not doing and you've heard from the house intelligence committee chair that if necessary of congress will take away funding from the national intelligence agencies so certainly this is brewing into a major dispute between the justice department and congress and directly between

president trump and congress my cannon or she did for us thank you. to afghanistan now where dozens of people have been killed in 2 separate attacks at least 18 people were killed in a taliban suicide bombing outside a hospital in zabul province and 20 died in a government airstrike in the province of mcbride has the latest from kabul. a blast that reduced buildings in the city of color to rubble the taliban says it was targeting the local headquarters of afghanistan's intelligence agency but the provincial hospital next door took the force of the explosion it soon became clear from the schools of casualties that civilians among them hospital staff were the main victims with no hospital to treat them survivors had to be transported by road to neighboring and most you can sound like there are many civilians who are

martyred mooned it and you cannot even see one military officer among them but taliban has stepped up its attacks head of the upcoming presidential elections and there's also reportedly been a rise in u.s. military strikes. but an air attack wednesday night in one province is now the subject of claim and counterclaim. 1 1 in cook county district they have been burying their dead it's close to the tora bora mountains a traditional stronghold for different groups of fighters. the local governor's office has said there was a drone strike on a nice old hideout killing a number of men at that meeting. but these people say they were villagers to fill it with gone into the mountains to collect pine nuts when you were. all of those killed were civilians each of these houses has lost 2 or 3 men. their grief is mixed with and go all the security services all of the government should listen

to us shout these men stop this cruelty. then others join in with the chant death to america. while most of the bodies have been brought back for burial the villages say some people are still missing. but the most that are good about my message the government is to stop it we shouldn't kill civilians anymore for god's sake stop killing ordinary people. in a statement the u.s. military has said it carried out a drone strike on an islamic state target and that it was investigating claims that civilians have been killed what's clear is that in another violent 24 hour period there have been attacks by both the taliban and the u.s. military and that once again civilians have been killed and maimed robert bright al-jazeera kabul. and still ahead in august. and anxious wait for britain's prime minister the supreme court will give its judgment next week over his decision to

suspend parliament. and who poured from the u.s. state expanding abortion rights at a time of nationwide restrictions. and later in sports we'll hear from the formula one drivers called time on one of the greatest one of the sports greatest ever comebacks. how i welcome to another look at the international folk got some really heavy downpours across the deep south of the u.s. into the east side of texas pushing across into louisiana a nasty system this is the remnants of tropical depression imelda of course for the heavy downpours coming through here over the next couple of days maybe seeing another 20300 millimeters of rain there will be some flooding some sharp shadows further north as well up towards the plains pushing across the canadian perris and

here is going to really set in as we go on through saturday again you could see some alone plus for the midwest weather that we have in the south will not it's way up across soccer so i flew home maybe even into parts of new mexico as well to the east that is fodder dry sward 30 celsius in d.c. 28 in new york and to the west of that will generally not see bad just notice some snow showing up over the iraqis at this stage meanwhile come down into the caribbean and it's a fair old mix actually a fair bit of wet weather in place here some well a lively showers driving their way in the cross a good part of the all is just about anywhere to see some showers some long spells of rain the west the weather will not its way little further west which as we go on through saturday of anna and kingston at 31 celsius the showers also central america. when the news breaks. when people need to be heard and the story needs to be told

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again you're watching al-jazeera let me take you through our top stories this hour iran's foreign minister says there will be an all out war at the u.s. response to attacks on saudi arabian oil facilities by taking military action against his country the attack was claimed by yemen's hutu rebels but the americans and the saudis say the iranians were behind it. canada's prime minister justin trudeau has apologized for a 2nd time after another photograph and video emerged of him wearing blackface makeup the deepening scandal is threatening to derail his reelection campaign. and the u.s. justice department is being accused of playing a key role in importantly withholding

a complaint against president donald trump by a whistleblower the u.s. media is reporting that this relates to a phone call between trump and a foreign leader. in britain they supreme court hearing on the legality of the prime minister's decision to suspend parliament ahead of the october 31 bags the deadline has ended and a ruling is expected next week jonah hall has more from london. boris johnson on maneuvers visiting soldiers promising more money for the military ahead of an election whenever it comes promising also progress on brakes it i don't want to exaggerate the progress that we are making but we are making progress and what we need to do so people understand we need to find a way whereby the u.k. can come out of the e.u. and really be able to do things differently not remain under the control of the e.u. in terms of laws and trade policies. johnson's plans may yet and ravel after

a 3 day emergency hearing supreme court justices will soon rule on the more fulness of the government's prohibition of parliament on thursday they heard evidence delivered by council from one former conservative prime minister john major against the current conservative prime minister john says the in a skeptical inference to be drawn is that for aggression just for vent not exercising its right to disagree with the government at legislate as it sees fit it's an inference the government says that is not for the courts to judge we should actually start by recognizing that the pro geisha was a for sitting in parliament which falls within the ambit of article 9 of the bill of rights and they don't have to give. the government will hope of course that the supremes court upholds the english high court's decision that the prorogue a sion of parliament was a purely political not legal matter but the court could just as easily side with

scottish judges who'd ruled that under the circumstances they could get involved because they said of the real motive behind the suspension of parliament the silencing of m.p.'s over breaks and it was a decision that in effect meant boris johnson had lied to the queen. away from the courts there are sometimes questionable efforts to reach a new bricks in. deal the e.u. had demanded full written proposals from the u.k. by the end of the month an artificial deadline said the u.k. and they go over instead a set of notes with a final offer still to come papers for now until we have looked and i will not correct to rise beyond 1st the british government has few obvious cards left to play on breaks it and the pressure may grow next week when the supreme court delivers its verdict on a whole al-jazeera london well the french president won't be europe's fault if the

u.k. gave the e.u. without a deal speaking to time magazine a man of all micron said he'll put his country's needs 1st while negotiating we should look at the situation as it is the british people decided to leave not the european people british people this deadlock is a british deadlock is not a european that look the final curtain will be the british one because they always have. the possibility to. 50 nobody should forget that i mean at a bunch of time if they don't have a good decision to step they can with 50 so. we always be at the end of british decision. mexicans have been commemorating multiple earthquakes 3 decades apart that killed more than 10000 people between them. president and there's lopez obrador led

a memorial ceremony in the capital the 2 earthquakes in 2017 happened 32 years after the country's most sadly quake so far the government has only managed to rebuild less than half the homes destroyed 2 years ago many people say the authorities have repeatedly broken their promises and are our upper low reports from mexico city. that she is visiting her house near the outskirts of mexico city it's the home she used to share with her husband and 3 children. got. 2 years ago a massive earthquake split open the ground underneath the property due to the threat of the structure collapsing authorities told she would be relocated to a government home that new home however as well as thousands of others promised to earthquake survivors never materialized has been this has been it's exasperating to live outside your home we've organized marches matings and round tables with government representatives it's the only way we've seen any solutions but it's not

enough the emergency here isn't. the 2017 earthquake claimed hundreds of lives in the mexican capital and the surrounding states thousands more were displaced as homes and buildings were toppled or at least severely damaged once the dust settled the mexican government announced that $800000000.00 would be set aside for reconstruction. but little. is actually known about where much of that money went and transparency advocates warn the problem isn't isolated to this one natural disaster we are a very. unique country is in this is that we have a lot of europeans a lot of earthquakes and we need to be better prepared for. the mitigation. and for for the last. the mexican government still lacks a mechanism that tracks emergency spending this is

a matter mexico's president has promised to correct. we estimate that by the end of 2019 we will have 40 percent of reconstruction finalized hoping to be completely finished by the end of next year public records show majority of reconstruction funds were allocated toward public school buildings homes and historic monuments most of the rubble may have been cleared but there's still plenty of reconstruction to be done here in the delmarva neighborhood near the eastern end of mexico city there are still fissures in the streets places where the ground sank by nearly one meter and there are still dozens of damaged homes that have yet to be demolished after going to says she'll continue to pressure public officials to act but she says she knows many other earthquake survivors who have given up. mexico city. former president zine el abidine ben ali has died they 3 year olds had been in intensive care for the past 3 months ben ali was in saudi arabia where he had been

living in exile since he was so overthrown after the 2011 revolution he claimed his rule gave stability to denise but was criticized for suppressing political freedom and widespread corruption. now al jazeera journalist mahmoud hussein has now spent a 1000 days imprisoned in an egyptian jail he's accused of defaming the state and spreading false news but has yet to be formally charged or faced a trial laura burden manning has more. formal charges no trial and no conviction mahmoud hussein has been locked up in jail for 1000 days egyptian government prosecutors accuse him of broadcasting what's described as false news 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 when he broke his arm . echoing international outrage the un 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 and. amnesty international says detainees are trapped in a 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 'd. 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. the man the al-jazeera. mamadou saints daughter says her family has been living a nightmare since her father's arrest. my dad psychological health is very bad when he sits with us he does not speak he feels powerless we all feel powerless i have been in touch with many human rights organizations but i'm not getting any help and i'm not sure what to do 1000 days is a shocking number to our family every day gets worse than the previous one it's been like a nightmare during the 1000 days many things happen in our family and we were in dire need for our father i got married and he was not next to me i am his eldest all my brothers needed him at different times we don't know when he's coming back and it feels terrifying. for taking

a stand of solidarity with mahmoud hussein a website has been launched free mahmoud hussein dot com where the public can sign a petition for his release the effects of climate change can be costly for both the governments and communities but the price of inaction is far more expensive well that's the conclusion of a new report by the international federation of the red cross it shows that the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance could nearly double to $200000000.00 by $2950.00 if climate related disasters are not properly addressed providing support to victims of floods droughts and wildfires can average about $8000000000.00 a year and that number could grow to 20000000000 dollars in the next decade now according to the iowa farci investing in infrastructure and improving emergency response methods could help save money and lives francesco rocca is the president

of the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies and he says monday's un climate summit will test whether the leaders are willing to act. number of storms whether it related events is increasing the year by year and this is affecting the light especially of divorce mourner about and because of the temperature a racing these will affect me and send me to a smaller one of them they did biggest consequence that we have each day huge. flux of migration that we will go in we are going to do have compared to the car and want to consider a big threat that medians morrow we will be on them or if there are as they are the inaction going to be on the climate change these up to the government side caught today the climate the mission not this is something that is really urgent they are used and.