well we have our own fact. as president donald trump thanks iran for fairness after the 2 countries exchange perseverance and what's been called a humanitarian gesture. and we shall carry this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up several saudi nationals in the u.s. are questioned over the deadly shooting at a naval base. and escalation of violence and iraq sends thousands on to the streets to protest what they call this slaughter and baghdad. and russian athletes will soon find out if a doping scandal in leads to a banned from the a month and all other international sports for the next 4 years. has

thanked iran for quote very fair negotiations that led to a prisoner swap between the 2 countries there are diplomatic breakthrough was brokered by switzerland and comes as the u.s. maintains tight sanctions on iran over the nuclear program and for schapelle has more. 2 men caught up in tensions between the united states and iran able to reunite with their families after a prisoner swap american graduate student. and iranian scientists must sued sulaimani a stem cell expert who'd been treating stroke patients at the best hospital in the nation the mayo clinic in minnesota so the money was arrested last year while trying to take medical materials back to iran it was far cheaper to buy in the united states prosecutors said that was a violation of u.s. sanctions going to be. welcomed with tears he's back with his family and patients after spending a year in jail and that you know i told them that i had patients that needed my

help and they said who cares let them die michael duffy on the same tarmac incirlik she was welcomed by the point man of trump's maximum pressure campaign brian hook a graduate student at princeton university chinese born wang maintains he was conducting research in iran for a history degree when he was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 10 years in prison recently recent readings by only his wife who campaigned for his release for 3 years said he was criminalized for his american citizenship. saturday's prisoner swap a rare acts of cooperation between the u.s. and iran president trump even thanking iran for a very fair negotiation i think it was a great thing for her and i think we wait to go then we can do something that might have been a a breaker there as to what could be done dozens of iranians remain in u.s. prisons while at least 4 americans remain behind bars in iran returning them

a priority for both countries whose long list of grievances rarely see such moments of cooperation and or chapell al-jazeera. both korean state media says the country has conducted a very significant test at its satellite launch site hours earlier appealing yang said to nuclearization was off the table in any future talks with the u.s. for now earth korea's ambassador to the u.n. added washington's efforts for ongoing dialogue were soley for its own domestic agenda talks on the nuclear station have been largely deadlocked since a summit between donald trump and kim jong un failed and february the saudi student hired a deadly attack at a u.s. naval base in florida is reported to have played video games of mass shootings at a dinner party earlier in the week on friday mohammed saeed. 3 of his fellow students at least 8 others were injured before he was killed by a sheriff's deputy and best skaters are now questioning 10 saudi nationals in connection with the shooting just offense secretary says it's too early to call it

an act of terrorism. course we extend our condolences to all the families affected by it and touched by it and our military community around her but no i can't say it's terrorism at this time i think we need to let the investigators do its work tell us give us the facts and we'll move from there i can as in washington and says investigation is focusing on whether they can then acted alone very early days in the investigation being carried out or headed by the f.b.i. both in the u.s. and also f.b.i. agents sent to riyadh to cooperate with saudi intelligence authorities there but certainly the latest news that at least 10 saudi nationals have been detained on the base indication of the possibility of a wider conspiracy and not just the act off an individual equally that individual the gunman who carried out the attack his reports about a twitter feed that he had indicated and the like the allegiance to an alliance

with the sama bin laden as well as intense criticism of u.s. policy in the middle east in particular relating to jerusalem another indication of some kind of outside involvement was an associated press report that one of the saudi nationals detained on the naval base filmed the entire attack while it was taking place inside a classroom complex on the base but still as we heard from the secretary of defense investigators nowhere near any firm conclusion they will continue to do their work in a step to showing what the real motive was behind this attack. as president of france says saudi arabia was sending its condolences to victims' families but did not say a free i was helping in the investigation i spoke with the king of saudi arabia. they are devastated jodi arabia we're finding out what took place whether it's one person or a number of people and that the king will be involved in taking care of family and

loved ones feel very strongly very very devastated by what happened what their life . to her semi is director at the center for middle east studies at university of denver he told my colleague dan jordan authorities could soon be looking at the involvement of other saudis present at the base at the time of the attack while the reporting that we are receiving does suggest that this attack. involved more than one person i mean this idea that several of the saudis on this at this air base where she only knew the attack and some were watching from the car and then there's this report that the attacker had a twitter account where he was echoing statements that are similar to the world view of osama bin laden does suggest that the investigation unit is heading in the direction of a wider sort of terrorist plot here and president comes response so far has been

quite restrained in contrast to some of his posture actions to violence by people from muslim majority countries is that because of his cozy relationship with the saudis. well i think that's largely what it has to mean that marge explains trump's response recall that he's spent a lot of political capital and energy trying to cover up the murder of jamal khashoggi he's praised the saudi crown prince they're trying to put the controversial issues in u.s. saudi relations related to the murder of jamal khashoggi and the use of u.s. weapons in yemen to commit war crimes trial to try to put that all behind him and say that you know things are going very smoothly there's a lot of money to be made with between the 2 countries let's move forward this event if it's proven again if it's proven to be a wider terrorist plot is going to make life very difficult both for donald trump and for mohamed bin so on yeah and that's an interesting point you make because how

embarrassing is this shooting for the saudis who as you say have been trying to project an image perhaps of moderation off of the will this shooting now undermine those efforts do you think. well i think it does because it's going to raise questions you know is this particularly if it involves you know more than one person the obvious question is to what extent. are the behavior in the world view and the the radicalized positions of these attackers to what extent do they represent you know public opinion among young people in saudi arabia that's a huge embarrassment for the saudi crown prince who is trying to project this you know image of of moderation and of progress but for donald trump it's also embarrassment on another point where i mean i know the point that i'm speaking of is the question of the muslim travel ban saudi arabia is not on that ban will other countries are and this is going to raise questions about. the muslim travel ban

about you know why saudi arabia is not on that list of countries and it's going to be i think very embarrassing for both countries not just a final question to you i mean this isn't the 1st time that saudi nationals have killed a u.s. citizens on u.s. soil just go back to 911 to think of that is it likely then to revive coles by us know mike has long been demanding a complete overhaul of u.s. saudi relations well absolutely there's a lot of saudi sentiment in the united states both at a popular level and in congress all of the major candidates who are running for president in the democratic party have publicly stated they want to re-evaluate and reassess u.s. saudi relations so this incident if it's proven to be a terrorist incident involving saudi citizens is going to raise the political temperature and raise the call and the demand for rethinking u.s.

saudi relations so it's it's a big deal. there's been a dramatic escalation of violence in the past 2 days on saturday an armed drone targeted the home of prominent shia cleric. he was not home at the time his spokesman has warned such an attack could lead to a civil war. at 3 40 am a drone was carrying a bomb which fell near the home of mr bush brother which is an unfortunate and unacceptable incident groups that want to incite conflict but our brothers of the southern movement are dealing with the situation with lots of wisdom as they initiated the call for calm. and is following developments in baghdad just as the government's response to the violence has been slow well the ministry of interior has said it has begun an investigation into last night's attack attack but as of now it's still uncertain who is responsible president barham salih issued a statement just a few hours ago blaming the attack on criminal gangs and outlaws so it's still

unclear at this point who exactly is responsible the protesters themselves have blamed militia as well as parties for this attack but this is something that hasn't been confirmed at the moment the parliament has also called for an extraordinary session tomorrow morning several military commanders to try to better understand this situation but for now the slower the response of the government has been very slow and has raised concerns among protesters that as this violence really risks escalating even more the government should take a much stronger stand and push for a fast investigation to really bring those responsible to account. is a legal advisor to the national council for iraqi opposition is the protesters demands are becoming more credible every day. that humans are being what crystallized as as time went by i think the call for the uprooting of the entire

political system that was founded 2003 invasion of iraq is now for the people pulling on the ears of people who are understanding and appreciating and sometimes accepting what these protesters are saying. we are talking about an entire political system that is corrupt and that is backed by all political factions most of those on political actions were accused by the group just this yesterday of carrying out the attacks on them so the question is being asked how could i how can a corrupt system how can a corrupt system corrupt elements. correctly reform itself that is where the difficulty lies and that's where the that's where the grievances that's where the grievances are hounded and hence i think the monster that the entire political system is uprooted and completely replaced under under the supervision of an internationally i need your national body preferably in the united nations it is

actually a very credible demand at least 32 people have died in a fire that swept through a factory in india's capital the victims were laborers who are asleep when the fire broke out at the 6 storey building in new delhi place 20 people were rescued in the fire is now under control. so ahead on al-jazeera. keeping the beat alive rember endeavor one community is determined not to lose its culture and it's using music to do that. and the new u.n. report has dire warnings about our oceans. still quite a bit of the crowd radicals in the western and northern areas of iran i'm not just

glad we've seen military base and the rains and snow and not to stay in the 4 cars as we head through sunday also a few shots beginning to gather along these essentials of the mediterranean and that rain becoming more widespread on monday in particular we could see some heavy amounts of rain pushing across into syria this no good news on the heels of the recent flooding sunny's those areas further to the north i want to show as well into southern sections of iran and in fact those showers working the way south was across the arabian gulf throughout sunday want to showers possibly working their way through that u.a.e. and on into more northern sections of oman and generally quite a bit of cloud along these coastal areas here and across into ethiopia quite a bit of cloud and rain around this is really all the remnants of the recent tropical cyclone is setting to say tending to withstand the picture as we head off into monday if you wish as likely again you can see here down in the southern coast of iran and again across the into more northern shores of the arabian peninsula meanwhile farther to the south into southern africa but if you rain showers into eastern portions of south africa some thunderstorms as well as we're watching the

latest tropical cycle and study by monday expect to see some rain showers into north america. weather sponsored by catalona. what was the last thing the president said to you about impeachment when you last spoke to him for i was what you called your old society it's not about you. if you don't really get it should tell you it was only if you go too long how worried are you that the conditions will still work for another i think they are right join me man of the house from above put up from questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on out.

there watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now the u.s. and iran have prisoners in a rare sign of cooperation tehran released chinese american and she lay weighing who was arrested in 2016 on spying charges and exchange the u.s. released iranian scientists lawsuits over money. or korean state media says the country has conducted a very significant test of its long range rocket launch site hours earlier pyongyang said to nuclearization was off the table in any future talks with the u.s. for now and the defense says he cannot label friday's attack on a naval base as terrorism yet a saudi national who was there for training shot dead 3 people before killing himself investigators are now questioning 10 saudi nationals at the base. president to punish people traffickers after dozens of gambians died in the shipwrecks mauritania's coast they were trying to reach spain's canary islands at least 85

people survived and were brought ashore. some of them to file this report from northwestern mauritania. 2 nephews were victims of the boat which capsized on wednesday she's a migrant. to mauritania a few years ago. and that of the boat was anchored on the sea shore this markers were scouting for passengers my grandson and 2 others heard about this and they decided we were hopeful that they were going to succeed. out of 150 mostly gambian migrants 85 managed to swim to safety and were found by the mauritanian military near the northern city of what they were given food cloth and shelter by mauritanian authorities and various you want agencies including the international organization for migration. the room to receive treatment at the local hospital the

bodies of dozens of priest buried outside on thursday i paid more than $700.00 to get to europe i took the ship with gambians and the single when the disaster happened we were on the edge of death thank god we are risk youth by the mauritanian authorities i am from the republic or senegal i was on my way to spain for better work it was a cruel journey and we were deceived. deceived too where these families back in gambia who thought the smugglers could help that relative city cheer up. this woman in the town of lost her 17 year old grandson in the boating accident good guy put it you know we didn't interview him they went without the migrants. many others drowned on that board i know about it from my family in gambia no one deserves that . on friday and other boat carrying 100 of the 92 migrants also mostly from gambia was intercepted by motor team a coast guard comparable to that of the t.v.

show of voyages across the mediterranean sea the atlantic to the nearest spanish source is about 1600 kilometers trying to make it on a smuggler's boat is seen by some as an act of suicide yet hundreds on this voyage every year. the i.o.m. says up to 158 people have died so far trying to reach the kind of the islands. the death toll was 43 the current surge is causing concern in african and european countries trying to curb the flow of illegal african migration to the west. and disease. north and more tenure thousands of probation protesters rallied in hong kong on saturday they want an investigation into recent local elections which saw pro-democracy parties when an outright majority anti-government protests in the territory began in june over an extradition bill which call for sending criminal suspects to mainland china the proposed law was later scrapped at the

demonstrations have since turned into a wider movement to maintain more democratic reforms place in india use water cannon on protesters demanding justice for a woman who died after being set on fire by the man accused of raping her. was that a number of protests across india police say the 23 year old was on her way to a court hearing in her rape case when she was attacked she suffered a heart attack while being treated for burns. and roles have been hell for a group of protesters who rallied against the president of ghana despite the killings opposition leaders say demonstrations against president alpha condé will continue. i think the coffins of 8 men are carried along the streets of guinea's capital opposition leaders say they were killed by security forces for speaking out against president alpha condé and his government 3 of them were shot dead during funerals for fellow protesters the youngest was 15 years old so missy

what i did internet is we are here to bury our children they are killing them even when we are out within our rights to protest they come out and kill us we are tired of this government. 6 6 the killings reflect the power struggle between guinea security forces and anti-government protesters tens of thousands have taken to the streets in the past 2 months. led by the national front for the defense of the constitution they are against president konitz plan to change the constitution which would allow him to seek a 3rd term next year the 81 year old has been in power for 9 years so it's been said they went toe to oppose a change to the constitution they're opposed to a 3rd term for president condit but they were shot while protesting. government leaders say the people should have the option of voting to extend qantas presidency several opposition leaders have been jailed for organizing protests but despite the

killings demonstrations have continued so there is a shortage the decision is going to be things need to change they need to change for all youth and all the innocent people who have been killed one called imagine what it feels like the government is promising to investigate the killings but the opposition says that's not enough the protests they say will continue katia locus of the young al-jazeera. the us house judiciary committee has released a report explaining constitutional grounds for the planned impeachment of president . the report comes after the top democrat in u.s. congress nancy pelosi announced earlier in the week their party is moving forward with drafting formal articles of impeachment the case enters on allegations trump tried to use military aid to ukraine as leverage by trying to get its leader to investigate its political rival joe biden a 3rd consecutive day of a nationwide strike and france's cause travel chaos over the weekend of

a transport flights and hospitals are all disrupted again protesters are angry at president plans for pension reform and government insists the strikes will not stop the changes though from happening. scientists are calling it the ultimate wake up call to humanity they're warning that levels of oxygen in the world's oceans are dropping and they blame climate change for that oceans cover 70 percent of the earth's surface and are central to all life climate change in nutrient pollution are the major drivers of ocean oxygen loss oxygen depleted zones on the seabeds are being caused by rising sea temperature that's caused by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions scientists say the loss of oxygen is increasingly threatening marine species such as sharks tuna and marlin and millions of people will also be affected unfair politically motivated as how russia is describing a proposed 4 year ban from international sporting events the world anti-doping agency accuse russian administrators of manipulating doping records and it's due to

decide on monday if the ban will be imposed. ban or not russian olympic gym that are training for gold their target the olympics in tokyo next year among them silver medalist and the 2016 olympics in rio de janeiro events threat of which he also won the world title in stuttgart 2 months ago. too strong as a country therefore there will always be talks of some sort because we are strong competitors let them say whatever they want we will move forward and keep preparing . the world anti-doping agency wada recommended imposing a ban on russia after the sas the results of athletes blood and you read samples found in a moscow laboratory were incomplete or fabricated the scandal follows the international outrage after the sochi olympics in 2014 when a government sponsored doping scheme was revealed russian athletes continue to be

banned from international track and field competitions because the world athletics body sass russia hasn't done enough to tackle doping but government and sports administrators in russia reject the latest findings as being politically motivated they continue to count the days towards the tokyo olympics. what it is just water and that's it what is what is responsibility in the world can you tell me to they have a criminal responsibility for their actions against an athlete who has dedicated 10 years of his life to the sport the proposed penalties not only jeopardize russia's versus a patient at the olympics but all the high profile international events of the next 4 years including the football world cup in qatar they are russia's bright young athletes who are working hard to book their place at the olympics but dreams could be scattered as russia is banned from taking part in many here are angry at the possible sanctions others say russia could have prevented this.

rise. you began as is on russia's frontline against doping as head of russia's anti doping agency despite the threats he has been receiving he continues to want sports officials that it's time to change this not only the corruption this is so real. to rich against the state against our country against the always poor so i think we're the deep and complete investigation ghana's house we commanded the dismissal of all national athletic coaches and the creation of an international working group to investigate doping cases but is not optimistic of avoiding a world wide ban that might one option for even strive to reach to compete in tokyo by wearing his gymnastics outfit we don't russia's flak stop passing al-jazeera

moscow and anthony just as once again boxing heavyweight champion of the world beat mexican american and avery's junior and saudi arabia the 1st ever world heavyweight title fight in the middle east where they fall 12 rounds and the and won it by unanimous decision and doing so events as shocked to see 2 or ways in june and won back 3 major world titles the last in the mexican american. have been considered sacred and assemble of unity sense ancient times now young children are being taught the ritual dance to keep their heritage alive athlon saw it as a story from to shore a. bizarre some of these best dramas they leave in home to the famous royal drums and a culture of drumming that dates back centuries the ritual of the royal drugs is now in the can last call heritage least. leads drama he

tells us this compound in the heart or entering a significant wound is ancient king came here seeking refuge when belgian colonizers wanted to kill him at the time of the 19th century he later surrendered but the drumming he loved stayed on to mark the bravery of those who helped him. when people heard he was here they brought him a gift of. you slaughtered them for a feast and used to make 2 roll drums which exist to date in this century. this is a special heart where the most important drums are kept including this too we are told there are about 100 years or conserving the culture is important to everyone here. every time the drums beat shara the whole neighborhood comes out of this sad stories one of the country's main tourist attractions and

a source of livelihood for most people here. says she once has to learn the tradition women are not allowed to be dramas. every thursday after school my son comes here to learn from the older dramas teaching the young generation will keep the culture alive. so twice every week young boys come here for training sessions lining there are. affecting their moves. i started drumming when i was very little my father and grandfather were drummers i'm hoping one day i'll be able to be 30 trumps in other countries. royal drumming is not only allowed in official functions the government says this is to avoid commercializing the culture the showstoppers in functions like this presidential events are often the children through these future dramas catherine

saw al-jazeera. our web site is right there on syria dot com take a look when you get a moment and keep it here for a wrap up of the headlines in just a 2nd. and we shall carry a let's take a look at the headlines right now on al jazeera the u.s. and iran have swapped prisoners in a rare sign of cooperation tehran released chinese american she way way who was arrested in 2016 on spying charges in exchange the u.s. released iranian scientists masood cilla mani he was arrested at the airport in chicago last year for violating u.s. sanctions on iran trump says the exchange could be a sign of future cooperation we're very happy to have our hot back the old british . university community is very true. there was a water on one hot walk and we are very actually i think to great things

and i think with great joy that we can do something that might have been a precursor to what could be done but we have our own back we've begun to get it back and we've taken during the obama rage and we got him back during the drop straight away very apropos of. our korean state media says the country has conducted a very significant test at its long range rocket launch sites hours earlier pyongyang said to nuclearization was off the table in any future talks with the u.s. for now. the u.s. secretary of defense says he cannot label friday's attack on a naval base at terrorism as terrorism or least not now saudi national who was there for training shot dead 3 people before being killed and the skaters are now questioning 10 saudi nationals at the base in iraq there's been a dramatic escalation of violence in the past 2 days on saturday an armed drone target the home a prominent shia cleric. he was not home at the time. at least 32 people have

died in a fire that swept through a factory in india's capital the dead were laborers who were asleep on the fire broke out in new delhi at least 20 people have been rescued the fire is now under control damaeus president is vowing to punish people traffickers just days after dozens of gambians died in a shipwreck off our chains coast they were trying to reach spain's canary islands at least 83 people survived him abroad ashore an increasing number of migrants have been spotted along the so-called western route to europe this year so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera more news to come up front that's up next. they're bringing the whole years of political goodwill to the brits at referendum on the air you still have to be deployed to really a general election in december the told is old everything going to boris johnson kendrick's it but where does the u.k. go from here fully believe general election or don't you. from kashmir to

to religious minorities is pakistan willing to take responsibility for its human rights abuses i lost the human rights minister in imran khan's government. here in missouri thank you for joining me on up front you are the human rights minister in a government that is perhaps the world's number one critic of indian government human rights abuses in kashmir abuses that we've covered on this show very recently but what about pakistan's own contribution to that human rights christ.