holds for these palestinian farmers shepherds of the jordan valley on a 0. this is al-jazeera. 800 hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera i'm to mall santa maria and this is the news hour. by bracing reminder of the terrible cost to all of us will return our backs on our shared humanity. the horrors of hang heavily muted commemorations 25 years south to the genocide. in the news iran's president says the sanctions hit economy can't afford to shut down again despite another was an corona virus

outbreak. it's 5 people been killed after dozens were taken hostage at a church this is in south africa and heritage last conflict neglects commercial pressure they have been bulldozing a centuries worth of architecture in baghdad. and. all the sporting curating f one the reigning world champion lewis hamilton topped the time sheets in qualifying and will start in poll position that front days accompli in austria. 25 years ago the town of srebrenica was on the verge of infamy today it has been a place of mourning on the anniversary of the area being taken over by bosnian serb forces people of remember the more than $8000.00 muslim boys and men who were murdered over the ensuing 11 days it was a massacre that would go on to be ruled as genocide the only one in europe since

world war 2 support from sun you're going to go. more and they came to grief. but in a pandemic far fewer were able to gather together to remember the dead. once just a regular municipality in eastern bosnia now a town scarred by the very worst of what humanity is capable of and still control normality scorched by the horror of what came to pass here 25 years ago. on saturday the bodies of recently identified remains of 9 victims were laid to rest in the memorial cemetery. dignitaries gabaa to hayworth's from international leaders now and then remembering the lives lost of what was termed ethnic cleansing and acknowledging how the international community allowed this genocide to happen

a quarter century ago the united nations and international community favor the people of. this former secretary general kofi annan said this failure we all are history for ever confronting the past is a vital step towards rebuilding trust more than 8000 bosnian muslim men and boys were massacred by bosnian serb forces fathers and sons forcibly taken from their families. one of the women and girls subjected to torture and rape while the bosnian responsible for the massacre spending the rest of their lives in prison many still deny what took place mr lederach the government of the bosnian enclave. has repeatedly questioned the number of bosnian muslims killed in . and continues to indoctrinate schoolchildren with his rejections of the $995.00 genocide do we have survived in many experience genocide the only country in the

region which does not have the law which prevents. so we're becoming. really. the extremists can flourish and with their statements in the speech the massacre that happened in $78.00 so was ruled to be the only want to have taken place on european soil since world war 2 the recognition of that vitally important for the survivors and their families. and for the international community for whom the phrase never again has been outed too often and little effect sunni triangle al-jazeera. doing research with al-jazeera balkans and srebrenica here he explains why the remains of some victims may actually never be identified at this

moment in the identification center there are 1009 and identified victims there are yet to be a date identified although there was a large wide scale in a sample gathering now the experts say that the problem the probable cause why. they are still to be identified is that there's just no next of kin you know there's no close enough relative that could guarantee a d.n.a. match now that tells you that whole families have been wiped out of existence here in eastern bosnia in threatening and that tells you that the massacre of evidence in the end was a genocide and that was confirmed by basically every court that ever touched the case including the highest court in the world the i.c.j. which confirmed that the massacre amounted to the crime of genocide both by the acts of physical violence but also by the intent now imagine surviving all of that the victims find genocide as

a slap in the face and not just that the genocide watch organization has classified has found that all genocides always happen in phases in stages. there can be 8 or 10 different stages the pending on the methodology but not to go into the details the point is that the last phase of the genocide is genocide denial and that is an indicator that. it could happen again so denying it genocide for the victims is not just a slap in the face and recognizing genocide is not just honoring their suffering but also they consider it they perceive it as a sort of a shield for potential future suffering we got some perspective earlier from a former guantanamo bay detainees he now works with the u.k. based campaign group cage but he spent a lot of time in bosnia before the massacre delivering humanitarian aid and he says

the kind of hatred that led to srebrenica still persists. we remember 70 today but 70 so was it happen in a vacuum and it was a culmination of multiple approaches atrocities that were taking place that led to the deaths of tens of thousands ethnic cleansing mass rape and rape as a weapon of war that was used to impregnate muslim woman it's so that the so soldiers that you will give birth to the next generation of of of serps the mandate of the united nations was as peacekeepers now the problem is being a peacekeeper is when one side is much more militarily advanced and has much more firepower and is carrying out atrocities and in that sense in that place you don't keep the peace there you stop the aggressor and that's what they didn't do because their mandate didn't allow them to do so i spoke to many soldiers from various united nations forces who told me that they were deeply upset and troubled that

they couldn't they were sitting there arm and their tanks helicopters and aircraft and armed to the teeth but what's the point of being in that situation when you're not allowed to do do anything about it and though i have been myself attached to the united states american have suffered torture at their hands i will say that united states intervention did actually bring about an end but the end happened after the european forces let it happen and nothing could be more vivid than what the dutch forces did intrapreneur and laing internally displaced people to come into sharp relief only then to abandon forces. and then of course the rest as we know is history. we move on to other news and iran's president says his country just can't afford to go back into lockdown even though there's a sharp rise in new corona virus infections the number of cases has now topped a quarter of a 1000000 there the idealisation a kid tatty be a castle caught we cannot hold toa konami collectivities any longer that there is

no country in the world capable of doing so the only way to break through this tough time is to observe the social distance. recommendations a lockdown is the easiest measure that can be taken against the virus but the economic repercussions of the lockdown and resulting resentment among the public we have to ban gathering in the same clues weightings funerals and conferences any similar groupings are not necessary we also have to urge oh people to adjust their way of life during this period of time as the number of infected cases has risen over the past weeks. more from now in teheran he reports the government doesn't want to see a repeat of the economic anger that spilled into the streets late last year the economy just can't gild it going into this pandemic inflation is around 41 percent the country has seen an increase in unemployment the country has lost value against the us dollar but also the economy is under u.s. sanctions so what president hollande is essentially saying is that the economy cannot deal with it but also he acknowledged that the government does fear that

there will be opposition from the public and it was only in november last year that we saw widespread protests against the government fuel price increase but the government are trying that made face masks mandatory in enclosed spaces they've been running campaigns on state t.v. telling people that the crown of ours is no joke but they do face a challenge according to the health ministry adherence to social distancing and some of those regulations started off 80 percent at the start of the pandemic now is down to 10 percent but here at the iran support centers that have close contact sports are not now closed so impulse a close and reception holds that host wedding ceremonies and mourning ceremonies of having told not to host those and that's seen as a key factor in the spread of the virus now president rouhani did go on to say that iran has dealt with the virus better than some european countries something that he said in the past saying that despite all the sanctions iran is still doing well but he encouraged the public to observe social distancing to abide by the rules and to face this challenge together. at least 5 people have been killed your in a sage at

a church in south africa police say gunmen stormed the church on the outskirts of johannesburg over a leadership dispute there have been 3 sections feist's of control following the death of the church leader 40 years ago some of the men i was at the scene and so as hosts as the church is a huge membership it's. over 40 people have been a risk to me and they have been a shooting and then a hostage situation at the church just behind us just south of johannesburg it seems that there was a factional battle of these 3 factions of this church with their members with at least 3000000 members across southern africa so it back till really was about the leadership of the church since the previous leader passed away in about 2016 at the time of his death it seems that he had left behind in a state of at least $26000000.00 so i wonder standing at this point is much

of the tensions around the leadership of the church is related to income of the church membership of the church and its results of in a hostage situation that so at least 200 people who look on the premises kicked in the church while these factions vassal did out at least 5 people were killed and in fact all of them were killed in a vehicle just outside of the church and it seems that they will burn up burnt to death it's not quite certain given what the police have said so far but their bodies were found in those burnt yoko and we also know one other person who's been killed and all of the people realize that they're also members of the police the national guard or as well as the metropolitan police which really is quite bizarre given agree it didn't all go violent the napoles church during the course of the day. now look at a story out of the philippines now the shutting down of the country's main

broadcaster a b s c b n it's been a controversial decision made by the philippines congress which refused to renew the operating license rights groups are calling it a dark day for purse freedom. and as a report. to deny a.b.c.'s french application is here but adopted it is seen as a crushing blow to press freedom 70 out of 84 lawmakers voted against the renewal of the broadcast license of the country's biggest media network e.b.'s c.b.s. . it looks highly political highly highly political but that being said i respect their decision of the nader spread what they have done. i will accept that it's been for. the ruling a sparked a public outrage and criticism of congress where most members are allied with the

president through 3 go to terror to join. the decision comes as the government is a ready grappling with its response to the coronavirus pandemic which has led to millions of filipinos losing their jobs maybe a c.b.s. closure threatens the livelihoods of another $11000.00. we're moving the channel from there also means depriving many people of information in remote areas where it's often the only one available the government spokesperson denies the president was involved in influencing congress. but president of the go to tear down has repeatedly tried to a.b.s.e b.n. in the past saying that the network did not air his political campaigns during the 2016 presidential elections and instead to brenne most of the ads of this political opponent choice and next year if you are expecting.

him sort of. euro. rights groups a do terror to as often treated journalists with contempt and the closure of the network is the grave assault on media freedom under the current administration it isn't the 1st time that the media network was forced off the air in 1972 it was also shut down by then president for didn't markers when he declared martial law and maybe as c.b.s. only reopened in 1986 after the dictatorship was toppled by a people power revolution this is b.s. . they say the network is being punished because of the tear it is grievances and that this issue will further damage the already troubled nation. will reporters without borders says the philippines has actually become one of the

most dangerous places in the world for journalists when president or do you go to turn take him to power in 2016 he publicly warned reporters they were not exempt from assassination that's how he put it he said freedom of expression and try and the constitution can't help if you've done something wrong the union representing journalists reports 13 killings and 2016 there's the news website rappler which angered the president over its criticism of his government the editor maria ressa is now facing up to 6 years in prison found guilty of what's called cyber libel charges but even before deter terrorists journalism was a risky business back in 2009 members of a powerful political clan murdered 32 journalists and media workers on the island of mindanao here's the justice reporter for the investigative news outlets rappler which we mentioned she says the government is sending a message with this closure of a b.s.c. b.n. . it's really an assault on press freedom because a.b.c.

venice the largest television network in the philippines that that's been in existence for 50 years if this largely symbolic of our estimation of press freedom in 1972 at the shop at down with 11000 jobs on the line it's really sending a clear message that if you don't knock that with a line in the government then you're going to be next. fax from the administration so it started with a newspaper that used the biggest newspaper also the philippine daily inquirer and then wrap that came next and then the unthinkable shutdown of a busy bin has happened so that you really think the white house about what you're right and what you published but i mean we are we the are a country to space this attack on press freedom before so we're just trying to hold the line and trying to do our jobs as best as possible under circumstances that are a west side and only last friday and yesterday this this happened so there's there's really been a chilling effect because i think there are

a lot it's widely seen by critics a crackdown on on on this and people are human rights advocates jury and the lists are in are often are against this law and a dozen petitions are going to be filed in the supreme court to try to revoke this law which they say will really have any crack down on the sets. today more news coming up for you in this news are corrupt and unprecedented a leading republican blasts donald trump's decision to cancel the prison sentence handed to his former adviser roger stern passport with santa and lot ceo's fading title hopes of suffered a major blow the fallout from a little act. there a protest sin israel right now over a new restrictions that have been put in place because of a recent surge in coronavirus cases we've got pictures here live pictures out of

tel aviv. thousands of people and their demonstrators who are angry about not receiving an aid package that was promised by prime minister benjamin netanyahu back in march. more than a 1000 people have been infected over the past 24 hours plenty of people out in tel aviv on the saturday evening protesting obviously not much chance for any social distancing there either live pictures from tel aviv there now thousands of people in eastern russia have protested against the arrest of a regional governor who is accused of ordering several murders. i. alleged crimes happened 15 years ago the 4th circuit for the girl and to politics he was elected governor by a landslide in 2018 candor of a supporter by president person demonstrators chanted and he put in slogans as they demanded his release but we've got with us now

a lecturer in modern european history at queen's university in belfast a russian political analyst as well thanks for your time alex i think 1st of all we should deal with the allegations accused of ordering several murders 15 years ago. is there anything behind that. well we would we don't know for show but those he came from a very. region which is going to vanish away for his community in the far east and he was involved in the. very you know dangerous type of business selling. metals and so forth so i mean it's not completely both of all but well basically we don't know that special so that's that's 2 to be to be seen but they have the timing of the unstudied soul comes 15 years later and it's only becomes usual when it's convenient for the government politically is certainly points to the fact that even if those crimes were committed it's not the real reason why why they being

brought up to fail him to face now he's been arrested. for a girl can he be just removed from office by president putin we know president putin's got a lot of power can he do that yes he can he can nothing and i think that's a bit of that plan for the kremlin because that's what they want to wait out of a referendum has been out of the way if they remove him from bottom now that president has the balls to do so they can install somebody else for now the acting governor before the next elections are called in september 20th 21 so that would give the new appointee hopefully from the credit point of use that fission time to establish themselves and we next elections bonds looking at the sentiment on the ground in the fall race that's a very big gamble by the grammarian we've just been looking at some pictures of the protests in a couple of. the fact that people feel confident enough to go out in the streets in

and openly chant and see putin slogans and the like that's quite something to tell us more about the region that just because it's you know fought further away from his stronghold that they feel they can do that. what i think that the far east of the russian far east has always been a pretty much agreed in full of the soul that so far as the central authorities are concerned it's always been a stronghold of the liberal democratic party which is basically a russian nationalist party and in russia since 9999 kids and this has serious protest but then show. you know good cause why above all right you have reasons of remoteness from mosco so serious that they cannot make problems within the region you know low employment little side of race lots of people leaving the region to go to the central russia work and living conditions are better sold those things. kind of giving these. days is full of

a much larger demonstrations and there are you not to draw the main program and bought jam the previous governess really had been completely obliterated in that region in the last 2 years so the strength of the 1st movement against more school quite substantial so that's why you know this strengthens their numbers and they that they feel they can live in the can do is interesting we keep an eye on this one on the state of thank you for joining us do appreciate it molly's opposition is calling on supporters to stay out on the streets there after 2 more protest leaders were detained security forces raided the headquarters of the influential cleric mahmoud dicko who is part of the opposition alliance his followers blocked major roads around bamako in response in response i doubt thousands in occupied parliament and the state television demanding the president's resignation they say bring him to become kate that is responsible for economic woes corruption and it's

failed to defeat. we've got mohamed salah how with us now freelance journalist based in mali's on skype from bamako. but how do you know anything more about the protesters what's happened to them and what sort of life the protest movement has in it. right now you might call it is a show on. and turns because of the protests. in some districts of insight about record. around where around 60. have been arrested and looting the last leader of. the beliefs of the president and civilian does of this obvious sense. but we can see in burma who are streets. of the military and and just on so the military like to come out and you've try to get

crowded and denounce the do not stick up with a shot up to the national assembly and the constitutional court according to the last loses at least he will die and at least 6 seats in cement the overt person who are in truly saw him and knew him as it did now get to see you shine is not color you know we're looking at some pictures now as well i mean the people i want change in the end don't they they want political change at the top is there any chance they would get better. you know people are claiming change what change they're clinging because as you know when. they consistently count as problem it didn't definitively result of. just what did election people where because that they say that those election.

results weren't just so they want to they want to the president to do to. do the president of the. cult and also to to to disallow it also the national assembly saw we knew they'd get on once this is up to the president or to the president of mali to decision so and the president has called for calm of the president was already called for and who is the leader of you brought this the door did not speak until now. mohamed so how we thank you for that keeping us up to date with what's happening in mali thank you. there is also deep political instability in democratic republic of congo and the justice minister there 17 turned to has now offered to resign he's

a political ally of former president joseph kabila hasn't given any reason for his decision but it does follow a fight with president felix to get it over some proposed laws that would give politicians more control over criminal prosecutions bolzan violent protests in recent days mainly over the nomination of the head of an election commission. who grab a break on the news when we come back preparing to take on beijing pro-democracy activists in hong kong gear up for an electoral basle and sporting a simmering rivalry that boiled over between these 2 nascar racing drivers. we've got more that intense heat across the middle east over the next couple days not too much clout showing up on the satellite picture base increases the clout the

into i'm on my celebrity drizzly right into the fosse out of the country as he should to at this time of the year it's really about the the temperature is $47.00 celsius therefore baghdad be getting up to $49.00 in q a pleasant sunshine around the eastern side of the mesa $29.00 celsius for beirut and also for jerusalem in doha getting up to around $42.00 over the next couple of days the way in civvies but it is looking rather humid from time to time so sticky feel to the weather as we go on through the next couple days sunglasses steaming up when you go out those that sort of thing in the hay plenty of heat meanwhile across northern parts of africa yes showers too into central areas just around south sudan central african republic all the way across into cameroon still some lively showers there even into northern areas of nigeria and i shall stretching across my. shelf west africa faso seeing some very heavy rain from time to time heavy showers there were to senegal and also into the gambia as we go on through the next to die also

joshi the showers they are set to continue across a similar area with the possibility of some localized flooding to some. of the. in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami a remarkable more trade of a remote japanese village. that is later how has the community of me akka been able to move on and rebuild their lives. rewind to japan aftermath of the catastrophe. on al-jazeera. a scandal that's rocked the nation to its core and exposed hundreds of court official . brides just to show the most dangerous commodity on air sometimes take a spot of their own edifice to blow up

a custom of fine against judicial corruption as in my town i am i think i come out of my account in an exclusive documentary al-jazeera and examine one man's extraordinary battle for justice in ghana at this time. or root for or. to. you're in the news here at al-jazeera these the top stories a developing story actually out of israel. pictures from tel aviv a very large protest over the new restrictions put in place because of the recent surge in coronavirus cases demonstrators say they're angry about not receiving an aid package promised by prime minister benjamin netanyahu back in march. also at

least 5 people killed during a siege at a church in south africa dozens of people had been taken hostage police say the attack was over the leadership of the church and our top story the survivors families and dignitaries who gathered in east in bosnia and herzegovina to remember the trip and it's a genocide it has been 25 years since bosnian serb troops murdered more than $8000.00 muslim men and it's. those who were murdered had been under what was supposed to be the protection of dutch un troops the thing is these days most young people in the netherlands have no idea here about that part of their history step valsin reports from the hague. it's a monument to the victims of a genocide that's missing from dutch history books these photos of young bostonians now living in an adolescent at an exhibition in front of the dutch ministry of defense should give a face and a story to the thousands who were killed after dutch troops handed them over to

serbian forces like the father of most of it she was 14 years old when she was separated from him at the compound guarded by dutch troops the stage but what is really painful to me is that until now they say they did not think we were in danger that's a blunt line and that hurts me maybe even more than the genocide back then. don't create awareness has told her story in a podcast made by 2 young journalists who themselves had no idea of this a brain needs are killings researchers say nearly 60 percent of young people between 16 and 29 have no idea of what happened in somebody needs to change that young bosnian women have started this campaign to ask corporal monument and to give the genocide a more prominent role in that history books a 25 years after the largest massacre since world war 2 so vital say they're still struggling to be heard for the last year after a long legal battle the dutch supreme court found the state partially responsible

for the deaths of hundreds of bus and young men to prime minister margaret and the former members of the dutch battalion has this message i think that the best what they should do is to travel to strip in its act together and be respected the victims only then they will show that they don't look away anymore how powerful would that image be we don't want to continue to put the blame but we want to be seen and heard former dutch soldier elise bed burka bomb was 19 years old during the fall of her brain eater she says a collective visit to the graves of the victims could help members of the battalion to deal with their trauma they have faced accusations of cowardice for their role in the massacre she also urges to un and dutch government to admit that they send the dutch through. still an impossible mission exile so vague as. if i was the prime minister i would be much more open about what happened just admit it a lot would change after this but in the netherlands it is so difficult to self reflect i know other soldiers are still struggling with this but i never had the

feeling that i could have done more maybe no we sometimes wonder what we could have done but at that time we were totally overwhelmed it was total chaos the. brody events in taipei need to people in the netherlands and in boston for rafa connected only with that shared responsibility we can together prevent that genocide ever happens again on the european continent just like we promised after the 2nd world war a shared history that needs to be remembered together to make the dark chapter of scribbly need more bearable for everyone who suffered step fast and al-jazeera the hague protests are expected to go on through the weekend against the serbian government's handling of the corona virus pandemic the president also accused of becoming increasingly authoritarian. some in the crowds through fireworks at police on friday night here in then

responded tear gas demonstrators defied a ban on gatherings of more than 10 people to call on president aleksander to resign rallies began on tuesday after attempts to reimpose restrictions on friday serbia did see its highest daily death toll. germany and belgium are working on a last ditch initiative to get cross border into syria after the un security council failed to reach an agreement to keep deliveries going to separate proposals did not pass the 1st was vetoed by russia and china they want to cut the number of crossings used into syria aid agencies are warning of dying consequences though for people living in camps many in northwestern syria depend on aid coming in from turkey just to have a little look at these cross border a deliveries the u.n. and humanitarian groups say 2800000 people in syria's rebel held north west depend on those just to crossings for aid russia insists only one is necessary at the

border because it accounts for 85 percent of aid deliveries but the u.s. says 1300000 people living in northern aleppo depend on the other crossing which is known as. his senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school who says divisions are an extension of bigger divisions over the fate of syria as a whole. it's the latest phase of this war in which regional and external powers like turkey and iran and china and russia and the us are all chocking to maximize their strategic influence and position they've all essentially said that aid can flow to the people who need it but they want to this russians of the chinese want to make sure that they use this process to maximize the reassertion of control in northern syria by the syrian government of bashar less that they're

afraid that if you have too much international aid flowing that this weakens the syrian government then strengthens the opposition already to border of course to border crossings for aid from jordan and iraq will close earlier this year and they're now down to 2 in the north they may be already renewed for 6 months now a sort of one year so this has to be seen as part of the regional strategic game very complex game which includes kurds and syrians and tribal groups and russians and turks all kinds of people who are physically in northern syria and jockeying for position back to you is round now these pictures from tel aviv of huge protests over new coronavirus restrictions harry forth and joining us he's actually in west jerusalem but keeping across developments there hairiness lot of people coming out to protest. it is an extremely large protest local media reporting some

10000 people and now in rabin square and the surrounds the roads around there been closed since 5 pm local time and the numbers have been swelling throughout the evening this is a protest against the policies of the current government against benjamin netanyahu handling of the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic and the organizers have said that they are apolitical they haven't invited politicians of any party to come and speak there are people there who are talking to the local media saying that they are coming out because promises have not been met this is particularly to do with the self-employed with small businesses with industries such as hospitality and entertainment and the creative industries where there are potentially the same sorts of safeguards and safety nets as there might be with other more regularized forms of employment and it's also about the fact that there have been self admitted problems with getting some of the economic aid through to such people even during

the 1st wave and they say not enough appears to be being done now that we're in the grip of the 2nd wave in israel just in the last 24 hours another 1200 cases have been reported 1200 new cases benjamin netanyahu met with some of the groups involved in these protests on friday so that he tried to assuage some of their concerns he announced on thursday a new package of measures including some $1700.00 every 2 months for small businesses. with larger amounts for bigger businesses but you can see by the numbers who are out on the streets of tel aviv on this saturday night they feel more needs to be done and his partner in government former rival now alternate prime minister benny gantz appears to have come out very much indorsing these protests and saying that the government needs to do more than he will argue for more. are these protests violating if i can use that word any

lockdown restrictions i'm just wondering how strict things are as you say now into a 2nd wave of infections in israel well no there's no national lockdown at the moment 5 cities neighborhoods in 5 cities were announced as restricted zones on thursday night into friday morning but that is only to do with localized hot spots but even in the very height of the lockdown a couple of months ago political protests were still allowed in so that continues to obtain now the police said that they wanted to ensure that people could express their opinions in a proper way there were promises made or at least acknowledgement of the need for social distancing and mosque wearing organizers talking about expectations of that and you had seen extremely almost geometrically arranged protests some months ago during the lockdown against benjamin netanyahu this seems to be

a bigger protest and less regimented and an expression of what is a very real sense of anger even desperation among people about the way that businesses and jobs have evaporated israel has a unemployment rate of 21 percent and rising it was at 25 percent at the height of the pandemic the 1st word and there are concerns that a lot of these jobs may have gone not to come back unless more is done harry force that is in west jerusalem thank you these pictures though from tel aviv robin square harry tells us where around 10000 people are out protesting the new packages put forward by prime minister benjamin netanyahu overcovered 19 recovery lots of people out saturday night protesting in tennessee. now opponents from outside and indeed within donald trump's republican party are expressing outrage after he commuted the prison sentence handed to

a long time friend and former adviser basically want to the way roger stone who was convicted of lying to congress during the russian investigation republican senator one time presidential candidate mitt romney tweeted this unprecedented historic corruption in american president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury. of lying to shield that very president's let's talk to mike hanna in washington d.c. about this what's been the reaction to that because mitt romney has become one of very few republican or dissenting republican voices. well actually at this stage the only republican voice to have spoken out in strong protest against president trump's decision romney has a long history with president trampy has opposed him on a number of other issues but the rest stop the republican party has stayed silent

on this or else it welcomed the announcement lindsey graham for example to close friend of president trump said that it was deserved to because of the age that roger stone is so the reaction once again completely partisan democrats to a person not absolutely opposed to this move describing it as the house speaker did as the most corrupt action she repeated what romney said in that tweet that president trump is essentially commuting the sentence of someone who was sentenced because of his actions to protect the president so certainly it's a partisan reaction from the democrats absolute condemnation from the republicans apart from one at this stage complete silence but the impact of this is still going to be felt in the days ahead come out ok mike hanna in washington with that thank you mike. u.s. citizens living in china are being warned about an increased risk of being detained and barred from leaving the country the state department says people could face

prolonged interrogations and extended detention for state security reasons it added american citizens could also be deported for sending private messages that are critical of the chinese government tensions between the 2 countries have been rising again to the u.s. criticize the security bill imposed on hong kong and voters in hong kong are casting their ballots to narrow down the field of democratic candidates who will run in upcoming election campaigning zbig people will have the weekend to vote but it is that newly imposed national security law which is overshadowing the main election in september baghdad is struggling to hang on to its architectural heritage after decades of conflict neglect and commercial pressure iraqi capital had around $5000.00 traditional buildings back in 1904 it's them a quarter of them a lift today though growing demand for residential housing and commercial interests

are taking over the traditional neighborhoods simona fulton now reports on the banks of the river tigris one can still get a taste of what baghdad looked like a century ago yellow brick buildings wooden balconies call china shield and ornamental arches were once common features of baghdadi homes but after years of war and neglect many traditional houses have been destroyed and those left are in dire need of restoration. i said our family has lived here for generations. his grandfather used to build china but the craft has almost died out along with the architectural features that once defined but the. show is there will be will be made there's no use renovating it's fragile inside in the expertise needed to restore it to where grandfathers used to no longer exists. owners say it's also more expensive to renovate than build a new house from scratch and so modern structures are gradually replacing old ones

unlike other countries where buildings of historic value are usually owned by the government more than 90 percent of all traditional houses in baghdad are in the hands of private individuals who have few incentives to preserve them in addition regulations to protect the properties are often not enforced and the construction in the old neighborhood must be approved here in the minister polities heritage department among half of the lead engineer says it's difficult to force private owners to abide by her department's guidelines. person comes to us and wants to destroy the old heyse we say no because the building is of significant headed so what does he do he leaves the walked on for a week and it collapses from the inside another man sets his on fire and says it was an electrical fire. a bus has come to submit his request for a building permit in the cover me a neighborhood his is

a new building but because the plot is located near a heritage site the facade must contain certain characteristics to preserve the area's historic look maybe and not as they inform me that there are small issues so i have to change parts of the designs that i can get certification but few builders appear to go through the tedious process which can take months to complete we visit the ties plot in the media and find it abutted by modern buildings many exceeding the maximum of 4 floors allowed here. in most of the street there is no her to building i'm the only one who's building a traditional house that resembles the old cuda mia or baghdad. real estate is a lucrative business here every year millions of pilgrims flock to the shrine of them the 7th of the 12 in mom's venerated by shia muslims their visits have fuel demand for hotel accommodation but the heritage department at baghdad minister told

al jazeera that all of them are illegal. why don't they build in the kind succumbs issues a fein and that's it he continues heritage experts say what is needed to preserve baghdad's old houses is sustainable investment coupled with strong law enforcement but with iraq's government distracted by other priorities including a deepening fiscal crisis the capital's architectural heritage is addressed disappearing simona fulton al jazeera back at sun as along with their supporters in a moment. once again in the rain f one action in just a. the ultranationalist marks connected with one of the world's worst humanitarian crisis we doe as illegally migrant joining with the military to impose

a deadly political agenda we have 2 photos of our nation what has happened to the engine that's one of the biggest stains on the country as a whole. is another religion this is the politics me and an unholy alliance on al-jazeera. i'm allowing an orphan. raised in a chinese buddhist orphanage. faces a momentous life decision. a personal story of competing identities. the chad light on a growing cultural types. down in africa a witness documentary on al-jazeera.

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details thank you very much well reigning formula one world champion lewis hamilton will start from pole position that sunday's gone clean austria the mercy destroyer has said in the past how rains always been a friend to him and he flourished in the wet conditions in qualifying his this play was a massive recovery from being just 6 quickest in friday's practice red bulls a max 1st up and will line up in 2nd with mclaren's carla science and. what a tricky day the weather is overseeing incredibly difficult out there for all of us a lot of the time you can even see where you're going and i had one big moment i think before the loss i got the plane which defeated my heart in my mouth well last year syria total dream suffered yet another setback they were beaten by so-so low for their 3rd defeat in a row francesco computers injury time a header grabs a solid $21.00 victory at the statue of him because event is now have the chance to

go 10 points clear of the beautiful until late run and atlanta could go up to 2nd if they would. have had to step back as they look to lock down a place in next season's champions league at the 3rd place side were beaten 3 nil by sheffield united it when would have put them 4 points ahead of 4th place less than 5 in front of man united and 5th the top 4 automatically qualify for europe's elite club competition. japan's major sporting leagues are now starting to allow limited numbers of fans into stadium the league is the latest composition to permit reduced capacity crowd the maximum number is 5000 or 50 percent of the stadium capacity whichever smaller. wickets on day 4 have set up a thrilling final day in the 1st test between england and the west indies in the windies bowlers had a destructive final session in southampton in which they took 5 wickets it means

england lead by 170 runs with just 2 wickets remaining going into day 5 the bron james and l.a. lakers are now inside basketball's quarantine bubble the biggest and name in the sport has arrived in the florida ahead of the n.b.a. restart later this month james has a back to the league's plan to resume action venue's within the disney world resort is returning a negative covert $1000.00 results are back training after a 4 month layoff social issues in the us also had players debating whether the league should receive. you know it was a roller coaster of whether we should play or not i think also. we have an opportunity to use our voices. i don't take away by start to leave i don't think it's taken away of what's important issues in our

world i think we can still address those. more so to. all players health is the other key concern. brandon robson says the players have been far from united about the restart plans. it depends on who you ask i said down in the team's one call with joel embiid of the philadelphia 76 ers earlier this week he expressed. just that he's on he almost decided not to play with a certain fee on his part. he doesn't know what it's like and if you pay attention to the news cycle the other day he showed up to orlando i would have not made whole body. mask and gloves and all you know there are depends on who you ask in the n.b.a. there are some players who have expressed to me that they are excited they can't wait to play you know there's all on the fence and there are some of the players

have made mention of the fact that they don't like the food in the bubble but i think that's the least of their worries youngest son played put a product on the floor because if they don't play and they don't fulfill travelgate you'll be able to pull your dollars i think from a bronze rings i'd be pretty motivated and then the family got the key to the other day when he flew out to orlando be going to be missing this family for some time and i think that's something that's very understated some of these guys are married and have families and they've got to leave their families for 3 to 4 months while their peers as there has been for the bubble so for le bron james obvious that they had the crown that you wear it's got a lot of things we've considered and you know hopefully he and the like to stay safe and you know they can compete in the end for october chris based on the greatness its tightest game of the season off last they the twins that face off against the table topping you know who stalks the strongly with 3 runs in the 1st

ending the twins that battled back oh and would even bill the 6 we need them fortunately for them as they couldn't pull off the upset the dana rally that with came song walk home wearing an 8 to level the game final score 6 all. the simmering by the way between 2 nascar drivers that reached a fairly ugly conclusion on friday no of grayson and harrison hurt in this group punches at each other half to race in kentucky the 2 collided in the final laps it with both cars brushing the race organizers spoke to both drivers but no penalties or suspensions are expected and that's it for me come on santa thank you so much. that is it for this news hour but more news in a moment. along from london do want to leave you there with some more pictures from sherborne it's a 25 years on people have been honoring the victims of the 1995 genocide and come

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