in security for international waterways maritime movements and energy security our approach will create solidarity unity and coordination with the countries of the region. iran's peace plan comes at a critical time pushing a message of peace and hope in her moves at the un general assembly in new york rouhani will be trying to sink the latest american backed international coalition being formed in the middle east this time to patrol international shipping lanes in the gulf the u.s. floated the idea of a maritime coalition after attacks on oil tankers earlier this year america and gulf allies blamed iran for the explosions investigators said they found no conclusive evidence to say who carried out the attacks countries that have joined the maritime patrol mission so far britain bahrain saudi arabia more recently australia and the united arab emirates following attacks on saudi oil plants last week also blamed on iran without definitive proof iran's leaders will be concerned

about the u.s. plan gaining more support see it is. not all him those who want to link the region's incidents but the islamic republic of iran lying just like that which have been revealed if the truthful and really seek security in the region they must not see him with pins 5 digits bombs and psalms to the region. this week of events in cities across the country will mark the beginning of iran's 8 year war with iraq in 1900 gulf arab states supportive venner rocky president saddam hussein something rouhani reminded iranians of in his speech but he also said that all can be forgiven if there is unity among islamic countries that the united states is only interested in dividing the region and pillaging resources and that the security of the region lasting security is only up to the people indigenous to the area. or president trump is expected to make the case against iran in his address to the

u.n. general assembly next week he says he's not planning to hold talks with iran's leader in new york but secretary of state mike pompei is said the u.s. government's policy on iran is to avoid war john hendren has more from washington. president donald trump is sounding newly optimistic about iran tremendous progress with was made with iran so we'll see we'll see but don't get a workout always does we get it to work out if it doesn't sometimes takes a little longer but i get things to work out the u.s. rhetoric in general on iran has taken a turn toward diplomacy the u.s. secretary of state who initially accused iran of an act of war for last week's attacks that have saudi arabia's oil production now says the u.s. seeks a diplomatic solution above all we do want a peaceful resolution of this that's our objective president trying but i both want to give diplomacy every opportunity to succeed but make no mistake about it if we are unsuccessful in that and iran continues to strike out in this way i am

confident the present trump will make the decisions necessary to achieve our objectives both trump and iran's president hassan rouhani plan to attend a united nations general assembly meeting this week but trump says they won't be talking to each other nothing ever on the sabbath completely but i have noted that this is a baby with iran denies any role in this saudi oil attacks who the rebels in yemen say they are responsible in our valley more tensions have risen since the u.s. pulled out of a 2050 nuclear agreement with iran last year the u.s. says its maximum pressure campaign is working but there are few tangible signs of progress since then iran has shot down a u.s. drone and the u.s. has blamed iran for attacks on oil tankers on the saudi oil site with the united states sending hundreds of troop reinforcements as well as anti missile defense systems to both saudi arabia and the united arab emirates iran's foreign minister sounds pessimistic i'm not confident that we can avoid a war we i'm confident that we would not stalked war but i'm confident that whoever

starts one written up be the one who finishes it so this standoff continues which both sides say they want to end with words not weapons john hendren algis. washington. still ahead on this news hour from london white israel's arab parties are backing a former military chief to be the country's next prime minister. donald trump joins india's prime minister for an unusual joint rally dubbed howdy modi at a stadium in houston texas. it was a controversial victory the singapore grand prix more details of pisa coming up its . first day hong kong police have clashed with protesters outside a shopping mall which was vandalized along with a metro station the demonstrators trampled on

a chinese flag and lit fires as they targeted stores links to china it is the 16th straight weekend of anti-government protests sarah clarke reports from hong kong. they arrived in the hundreds taking over some of the city's largest shopping malls at the new town planners are in shock teen they converged on every floor shops like to buy land with a target this time some stopped on china's national flag before ripping it up was for hours they sang and yelled abuse story writers suspected of being pro beijing or pro hong kong government benchley stores and restaurants were forced to close. outside the mall protesters used umbrellas to hide their faces before smashing security cameras and burning barricades. specialist right place then moved in issued a warning and fired several rounds of tear gas to disperse the crowd.

was at another boiling kalou around $200.00 protesters marched through the shopping center chanting slogans such as fight for freedom and revive hong kong the gatherings like this. shopping malls are a new tactic being used by protesters it's a peaceful means of getting a message across at the same time the targeting chinese own companies. but the police didn't last long police moved in after protesters bad light stores and a metro station the crowd was chased out of the mall the station closed despite the chaos caused few demonstrators took pot compared to the previous 16 weeks of sunday protests. tom goldstein executive carrie lamb is due to host the 1st in a series of public meetings which she hopes will end the crisis protesters say why back down until the demands for greater freedom and better control from beijing.

sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. israel's president says the country's next government should include both prime minister benjamin netanyahu could party and benny gantz his blue and white alliance we're going rivlin is leading 2 days of talks to choose a leader for a coalition government but also week's election which was israel's 2nd in 5 months failed to produce a clear winner palestinian israeli parties are recommending benny gantz high force that has been monitoring the talks and has more now from west jerusalem. well the head of the joint list the mainly palestinian israeli grouping of parties says that they have made history here at the israeli president's residence here in west jerusalem this sunday just days after his reelection by recommending a candidate for the prime minister of israel they say they're recommending benny gantz to be that prime minister it's the 1st time since 1992 that such a grouping has made such a recommendation and i'm annoyed i said it was after years of being diligent to my

eyes by the administration of benjamin netanyahu that they had to take part they had to act to end that era but let's assume i'm not with the we usually do not endorse israeli prime minister is so without doubt there is an historical side to what we are doing now we want to put an end to the era of benjamin netanyahu therefore will endorse spinny gantz to form the next government a minute it also made it clear that this wasn't just about removing benjamin netanyahu is also a reflection of a shift in opinion among palestinian israelis polls show a real appetite for greater engagement in israeli politics more results from their politicians on things such as crime social policy economics and he said in terms of trying to repeal the nation state law which made palestinian israelis into 2nd class citizens in this country as for the reaction from the other parties well could its delegation here said that no israeli government should rely on and honest

arab parties to try to confer legitimacy on it and the blue and white delegation its head said that it would sit in coalition unity government but only with zionist parties so explicitly ruling out the joint list the other big question though remains how and whether there will be that unity government between blue and white on one side and likud on the other ballooning presence of benjamin netanyahu appears to remain a stumbling block to that happening much now depends on the actions of president rivlin himself. there'll be a 2nd round of meetings like this on monday after which at some stage over the course of the next week or so he will have to decide to whom you will give the 1st opportunity to form a coalition government if that fails then it may well go to a 2nd attempt perhaps even a 3rd and then the thing looming behind all of it that president rivlin says he wants to avoid at all costs a 3rd election trading on egypt's stock exchange was suspended for 30 minutes on

sunday after the e g x $100.00 dropped by 5 percent or less said the fall is linked to the protests which broke out in cairo and other cities on friday and saturday thousands of people rallied to demand the resignation of president of the fattah el-sisi over corruption allegations against him activists say 365 were arrested during the demonstrations egypt's media authority has also warned journalists it's monitoring coverage of the protests to ensure they abide by quote professional codes well meanwhile an egyptian rights lawyer says prosecutors aboard the brother of a u.s. based egyptian activist remain in custody for 15 days in cairo hasn't gone and was arrested on thursday and detained on allegations that he joined an outlawed group and spread false news his brother while going to him led a facebook page that helped ignite the 2011 uprising he says his brother's arrest was retaliation for his recent criticism of president sisi. tens of thousands of

indian americans packs into a texas stadium for an unusual joint rally by the indian prime minister narendra modi and the u.s. president to hold trump the event in houston dubbed how the modi was a show of support for foreign liza or u.s. soil but that also thousands of anti modi protesters who gathered outside a white house correspondent kelly how close has moved from houston. those who came to protest the appearance of the indian prime minister alongside the us president say that they are frustrated that. he was granted what they see as legitimacy by beat allowed to appear alongside donald trump on the same stage they say this is the wrong message to send to the international community concerning the fact that there has been strong criticism of many of the heavy handed tactics of modi's government namely the actions in kashmir

a stripping of its autonomy communications blocks and also the spike in attacks under modi's government against religious minorities still the pair sought to highlight their economic ties between the united states and india they're hoping to ink a trade deal between the 2 nations one that would allow for the united states to see its products going to india and for india to have back special trade status so that's a deal both are working on india hoping it will be sluggish economy donald trump looking for a trade deal when after his prolonged trade battle with china and now this is not the last time the 2 will meet we know the next stop for an orange or modi willing clue to new york when he meets with trump and other world leaders at the united nations in new york. a remote part of indian administered kashmir is due to come under direct rule from new delhi after the indian government revokes its autonomy last month the dock is divided almost equally between but this and share muslims

and many in the region are welcoming the separation from kashmir but others are worried that unique ethnic and religious identities are at risk as priyanka gupta reports. lead duck a cold himalayan desert in northern india. here put this monasteries in the district to flee have been standing tall for centuries. winters are harsh for 6 months a year this remote region is mostly cutoff people are late depend mostly on tourism local political and say the regional government of jammu and kashmir has long neglected them we are under represented in the by indian parliament and also in the state assembly and it was completely really centric. administration. in place in the state secretary in srinagar and.

there's hardly any. the people of lee have long demanded a union territory for. the decision to put their region under the direct rule of new delhi has had a mixed response from the communities determined to preserve the unique ethnic and religious identity as well as the land they know gost prime minister nuri through modi said he wants to open the region to investments and development. nearly all the people of laid off from tribal communities and many are concerned about the changes outside les mis my 3 to the local economy and culture result. to resume is our backbone 2nd is agriculture we will not say no to outside investments but we have so many or what their year and travel agents of own and many hotels are running empty so when our own people are suffering how will outsiders benefit. more than 200 kilometers away many muslims in cargo district are also anxious being

clued farmers like mohammad the boss. we are scared because genuine kashmir was earlier under protection and now that protection is gone you're scared that outsiders can come and buy our land outsiders who have a lot of money. most of the people living in cargill are shia muslims the opposed splitting of indian administered kashmir and say they want safeguards becomes a union territory or u.t. i tell my question today we're in a no man's land we didn't demand a u.t. status no one asked as it was imposed on us earlier we had lamb protection job security and we could make our own laws. the government is also working on several investment and infrastructure projects in the region how all these changes will affect people's lives here they can only wait and find out. the al-jazeera. a bus has crashed in northern pakistan killing 26 people police say the vehicle was

traveling along a mountainous road in the chill ass district when its brakes failed around 20 people were taken to hospital for treatment road accidents are common in pakistan where most wrists often ignore traffic rules and safety standards or worn out rights. there is plenty more still come on this including a potential holiday from hell hundreds of thousands of people risk being stranded abroad at the world's oldest travel company goes bust. a funeral march is held in switzerland to mark the loss of an alpine to global warming. i don't support man is the man for england as they get their rugby world cup campaign on the back.

had other nights as new drawing in days getting shorter so you expect the weather to change as often comes in you'd be right much of the weather in europe comes in from the west and the atlantic is wet and windy series of frontal systems eventually works its way across the slow movement at the moment so the picture for monday is going to be this for the clouds got this far into germany in parliament down towards remain here with that line of green light to be i think physicians rain is substance or italy there's a bit of a gap the next one is coming in so when the rain now that means eastern europe is going to have a fine looking day not as quite as cloud free as it is or was on sunday or the 70 degrees or more so because moscow the place is going to feel the real code if i run 24 hours he's also not far away the as current of the north so he's 6 degrees should be 14 this time of the year at the same time the clouds dispersed to some degree in central europe rains come down to the balkans towards greece and the sun is more prevalent in southern france spain and portugal have done badly sarette

this year notice so standard change of weather type there is still a few more showers to come through to near 0 thing come monday with attention to this is to 32 degrees dropping a little bit with the breeze on tuesday and then the sun's out for 2 days here algeria america. as britain prepares to exit the e.u. people in power investigates disturbing allegations about the tactics used by the winning leave campaign we know that the law was broken and we know that campaigns overspent we know that russia tried to build a relationship with one of the key campaigns who paid for breaks it people in power on al-jazeera. when the news breaks it looks like if your vote in order to get someone who can get this country out of the crisis when people need to be. a little

cross that border area without that they should just be around as teens on the ground for the last few months these have become familiar with the call. to police looking in trees and lightning. and online. power again and reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera ahead of the un climate summit in new york a damning reports warning that the impacts of global warming a speeding up it says global sea levels are rising at that fastest rate as carbon

emissions have hit new highs. iran's president has told western powers to leave the security of the persian gulf to breach all nations led by terror on he also promised to unveil a regional peace plan at the u.n. next week to secure the gulf region without the need for foreign intervention. hong kong police have clashed with protesters outside a shopping mall which was vandalized along with a metro station the demonstrators trampled on the chinese flag that fire and targeted stores linked to china. now u.s. senator elizabeth warren appears to be gaining ground in the race for the 2020 democratic presidential nomination she is i've taken former vice president joe biden in a poll in the key states of iowa which votes firsts in the primary race the survey put warren ahead with 22 percent of the vote among likely participants as compared to 20 percent for biden and 11 percent solid as joe biden though still leads in the

national polls. well the u.s. congress may have no choice but to pursue impeachment if an investigation shows president trump pressured ukraine to investigate joe biden that's according to the u.s. house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff u.s. media reports claim donald trump called the ukrainian president asking him to investigate whether biden misused his position as vice president to help his son the cole was reportedly the subject of a complaint by an unnamed whistleblower trump insists he's done nothing wrong as far as my conversation was perfect it was a perfect conversation it was it could have been any better but we'll make a determination about how to release it releasing it saying what we said was an absolutely perfect cover sation problem is when you speak in a foreign leaders you don't want foreign leaders to. feel that they shouldn't be speaking openly and good you have to be talking to people and the same thing for an

american president you want them to be able to express themselves without knowing that that every single word is going to be going out and going out all 'd over the world well out there as mike hanna joins us live now from washington d.c. so mike it doesn't look like the issue all that ukraine phone call is going to go away any time soon. no it's not it's certainly being central in media coverage of president trump ever since the story broke in various forms and one must remember too that the acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire has been subpoenaed to appear before the house intelligence committee later this week coming on thursday so certainly there's going to be a lot of speculation leading up to that particular point now he's been subpoenaed and this is the important point to actually explain why he will not release the letter as he is legally required to do so the allegedly we do know from the in the

head of the intelligence gathering department the the chief executive to actually who investigated the complaint in the 1st place and the inspector general of that intelligence department recommended that this was important material that was credible but tiriel of an urgent nature now normally that should be released to the congress oversight committee within a week off the director of the national intelligence reading it that has not been the case so president trump may say well we are considering whether to release it but illegally many observers content this should be no down to at all that that letter at least all the material at least should be going to the intelligence oversight committee it will why given all of that how difficult is this going to prove for trump to get either. well trump's allies are fighting back in a way that is pinning joe biden to an extent they argue very strongly that joe biden used influence to get rid off the prosecutor in the that same selve

country ukraine when he was vice president because they claim up investigations into his son's participation in a ukrainian company so all the discussion about president trump but his conversation with the ukrainian president is being used by trump's associates against joe biden so this is certainly something that's going round and round and round biden himself dismisses any form of involvement in that corruption issue pointing out that the obama administration generally wanted to get rid of the prosecutor as did many within the e.u. but this is not going to go away and it's not going to go away until the reports of the complaint the official whistleblower campaign is made public or at the very least made available to the intelligence oversight committee as the law most observers contend dictates that it should be done mike in washington thank you.

now as afghanistan prepares for its presidential election next saturday many voters living in taliban controlled areas are planning to ignore the ballots they fear reprisals from the armed group if they do vote following the breakdown of talks with the u.s. to end the 18 year war the taliban has stepped up its campaign to disrupt the election but the bride has more from kabul. this is the front line between government forces and the taliban in the northern province of kunduz the local police commander in kind of district points to taliban controlled territory a couple of fields away. the one that's the front line with the enemy this is the main road in this area is under government control right now as he talks some of his men fire into taliban territory a common occurrence here. signs of the ongoing conflict are everywhere as parts of kunduz often change hands between the afghan army and the taliban the strength of

the taliban here means it's dangerous to defy their order not to vote. and for farmers such as imam muhammad who has seen elections come and go without any change in his life there's disillusionment. no i'm not voting we're taking a risk voting for these guys a doctor words we only have empty promises some of my relatives voted in the past and the taliban came and took them because they had income their fingers and they beat them very badly. the use of indelible ink when casting a ballot makes it easy to identify voters in the past the taliban have cut off his fingers without saying whether he thought such a punishment was just or not for the taliban commanders such as. say it will continue while afghanistan is at war with itself. that we need to create a system to bring peace to afghanistan a system where you have stability where there is no peace and stability these kinds

of acts will take place the taliban argue that in the election can't be held while there's so much violence and instability but their critics argue that by their violent attacks against the election process they're the ones helping create this atmosphere. but after the gradual withdrawal of u.s. and nato forces over the past 5 years the taliban are stronger than ever right now sadly the situation is very different because they control more territory. there also their capabilities project file and it's higher than any time before. the government in kabul is hoping that with the majority of afghans living in cities under its control sufficient security will allow a meaningful vote but voting is likely to be any vote and for voters in much of the countryside such as this part of can do saturday's election could largely pass them by bright al-jazeera kabul. the world health organization is urging governments to

spend more on health care in coming years to eliminate glaring gaps in coverage is published a report that says barely hauffe of the world's 7700000000 people are getting essential health services and among those who are covered more people are running into financial hardship from paying too much for health care from their own pocket reports authors say things will only get worse unless countries spend an extra one percent of their g.d.p. on primary health care by 2030 the world health organization has also taken the unusual step of complaining to tanzania about its failure to share information on the a bowl of virus the times are in government denies a boner was confirmed in 2 patients who suffer from an unknown illness recently the w.h.o. says tanzania hasn't she has any clinical data or the boers for tests up to now tanzania shares a border with the democratic republic of congo where more than 2000 people have

died in an ongoing outbreak sudan's new prime minister abdullah has launched an independent inquiry into june's deadly crackdown on protesters it's estimated that around 130 people were killed and hundreds wounded in khartoum when security forces violently dispersed a city in spite of previous investigation by the military protest leaders had demanded an independent inquiry as part of the country's power sharing agreement an investigation will be led by a 7 person committee and seek support from the african union as needed. a humanitarian ship carrying dozens of rescued refugees and migrants is sailing back and forth between is silly and malta awaiting permission to dock the ocean viking rescued 4 groups of migrants fleeing libya on unseaworthy boats last week 35 people were allowed to disembark on saturday as their boat had been in malta search and

rescue zone when it came under distress but 180 people including 13 children are still stuck on the charity ship that request a doctor so far been rejected by both its lake. the u.k.'s opposition leader is under increasing pressure as his party struggles to unite. with a snap election expected in the coming months party officials well hoping to present a government in waiting at the labor party's annual conference instead the event has been overshadowed by infighting with some senior figures pressing jeremy corbyn to campaign to remain in the e.u. but in baba has more from bryson. stuff. on occasions like this he tends to get treated like a rock star but as jeremy corbyn to write for day 2 of the labor party conference the mood music behind the scenes was far from soothing labor announce a potentially vote winning policies on sunday including scrapping charges for

medical prescriptions in england but they're being overshadowed by divisions within the shadow cabinet over bricks it policy is that of course that whole bit was asked on national television about his plan to negotiate a new bricks it deal and hold a referendum on it you'll get the deal you want do you then come back to the british people in a referendum and sell that deal we put both fuse to break the deal we will put both to use and say look this is the best deal we could get this is the remain and hopefully reform option these are the choices before the labor leadership's line is that when it comes to formulating bricks in policy ahead of a general election it has to take into account not just its overwhelmingly pro remain membership but the many labor voters who backed leave in the referendum particularly in northern areas but some commentators say the reality is different there's a great line one shadow minister says my labor leaders are more labor in the lead but my labor remain will remain and their labor sort of risk lots and pieces of

a company assisting is that by trying to please a group of voters here almost a week later whatever. members will voters will come in later in their droves and you see from the model take a look dems got from that revoked policy last week that that is a real and. even before conference began there was an unexpected push by cauldron loyalists to scrap the role of deputy leader held by tom watson who insists labor must adopt a clear and bricks it stance. intervened to stop that move but on monday conference is set to vote on competing motions on bricks of policy labor government when address the rads. and despite the clear promises on things britons care deeply about it's far from clear labor can come up with a bricks it stance that will win over undecided voters if a snap election is called the dean barber al jazeera brighton the world's oldest travel company is on the verge of collapse with lenders threatening to pull out of

the $1000000000.00 rescue dail executives from britain's thomas cook have been holding talks with creditors in london in a last ditch effort to keep the company alive without some agreement hundreds of thousands of people could be left stranded on holiday and 20000 jobs could be lost as catherine stansell reports. it's britain's oldest travel company operating in more than a dozen countries with $19000000.00 customers a year but thomas cook struggled to be profitable. despite a $1000000000.00 injection of cash earlier this year the company said on friday it needed an additional $250000000.00 to stave off collapse but. bad news for the 600000 people around the world on thomas cook holidays when word spread about the dire financial situation this hotel and briefly refused to let holiday makers leave to.