saudi arabia and bahrain egypt and u.a.e. say their severing diplomatic relations with qatar not a single shot was fired a full blown war of words was engaged. to store the other the most c.e.o. of magic ties or flight accusations and counter-accusations this claim this encounter claims were made by all sides the media served as the main battleground. early on monday the fifth of june two thousand and seventeen bufferin state television read a statement from its government in them look at the. earth a little mercy and the ability to have all the knowledge up only. a short time later saudi arabia followed suit. up our lala cutted the message out well for the model let it. be as so they are we don't let the u.a.e. and egypt announce they tune we're cutting ties with qatar. the code. ordinated move by the four countries has caused the greatest rift in years between some of the most powerful arab states the larger country this particular saudi arabia followed by. the holy see dependent foreign policy as a threat to their narrativ

egypt and bahrain and. claiming it supports terrorism denies the allegations donald trump's former campaign manager has been tampering prosecution for has been indicted by u.s. special counsel. tried to send encrypted messages to two former coworkers while he's on bail. to revoke bail and put him out of fortune prison and at least sixty five people have been killed and hundreds more injured in a volcanic eruption in guatemala the government says around two million people have been affected by the explosion let's get more on our top story now the fall out of the gulf crisis which has a second here while the airspace restrictions by the blockade in countries on. airlines has had a huge impact on both passengers. and kabul but qatar airways has adapted to the new reality good name reports from a modern to national airport here in. qatar airways seems to be adhering to an arab proverb that says right the bad things in sand the good things on a piece of marble the state owned airline says despite the challenges

was behind the attack next comes the big move june fifth bahrain the u.a.e. saudi arabia and egypt cut diplomatic ties with cancer and impose an economic embargo they accused of supporting terrorism which doha denies other neighbors try to ease the crisis q eight begins mediation turkey sends cargo planes full of food to casa and iran opens up its airspace on june twenty second the blockading nations released a list of thirteen demands including the closure of al-jazeera u.s. support for the blockade starts to waver in july as secretary of state rex tillerson visits council home to the biggest u.s. military base in the region in september me addresses the un general assembly saying the blockade was an assault against a sovereign state not a violation of human rights but the blockade in countries refused to sit down at the annual g.c.c. summit with count as a mere in december meanwhile ties between the u.s. and canada are continue to strengthen president trump welcomes the amir to washington where he praises him for taking a stand against eisel a new secretary

more destinations when it lost access to routes in saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain it added them elsewhere and it forged international partnerships in the united states and italy but qatar airways has seen a drop in passengers. the cargo division has managed to fill the void not only has it not posted any losses it is managed to maintain its perch as one of the top three cargo companies in the world. for more cargo perspective it's a lot easier to redeploy that capacity so what we have lost with the g.c.c. countries we've managed to redeploy the challenges are still to be able to serve eighteen days to missions. we used to serve the c.e.o. of qatar airways says the airline can shoulder losses for the foreseeable future and there's no need to ask the government for a bailout but he admits it will be a very different scenario for the company if the blockade becomes a long term reality for qatar natasha. doha. one of the major challenges of the blockade came when the four countries stopped selling fresh produce to count so immediately stocks needed to be replaced on su

wrote this letter to unesco to coincide rather with unesco's world heritage committee meeting in bahrain. what exactly are you accusing the australian government of and what are you hoping the un will do. well you string them and is not meeting its commitment to the world heritage committee that it made back in twenty fifteen their commitment was to improve the water quality of the great barrier reef which is very poor and the poor water quality is exacerbated by deforestation in the great barrier reef catchment and unfortunately it's been a huge increase in the ration clearing of the catchment and this training government is just not done enough to stand that problem well what should it be doing and how exactly is land clearing affecting the reef and why do you believe it's turned turnbull's responsibility the government responsibility to do something about. well what happens when they ended cleavage which is mainly what breaking development is that at least three so with a certain and you get a heavy rainfall it results in the sort of washing off into what of course is this inflow into

bahrain and egypt imposed an unprecedented blockade on the states of cattle the cues to its government of supporting terrorism a charge doha has strongly denied now one year later and a special day of programming will take a look at the continuing crisis the blockading countries of employed a variety of pressure tactics including saudi arabia's latest threats to take military action against cats or if it goes ahead with the purchase of russian military hardware we spoke to katz was foreign minister has some of what he had to say. first for just that let us make it very clear that the purchase of any military equipment is a sovereign decision which no country has. anything to do with so there is no legitimate grievance behind this letter and threatening violating the international law by writing all the international norms and. most importantly it's violating the . g.c.c. charter which is the countries of the g.c.c. should not launch and the attack against each other so we believe that this letter has nor any legal basis to justify. any action we have been subject to a unilateral measur

egypt and bahrain imposed a blockade on the. whole of the supporter of terrorism denies the allegations the qatari foreign minister has told al jazeera that the country will not make any compromises. let us make it very clear that the purchase of any military equipment is a sovereign decision which no country has. anything to do with so there is no legitimate grievance behind. threatening its violating the international laws by the thing or the international norms and. the most importantly it's violating. which is the countries of the g.c.c. should not launch an the attack against each other while the airspace restrictions by the blockade in countries on a couple states has had huge impact on both passengers and cargo box cutter airways has adapted to the new reality natasha good name has a story. qatar airways seems to be adhering to an arab proverb that says right the bad things in sand the good things on a piece of marble the state owned airline says despite the challenges of the year old blockade it received numerous industr

father rashid bahraini passport runs out next year he believes if he continues to defy an order by bahrain to leave cattle he'll lose his behind passport and be stateless once my passport expires what do i do do i stay here and not pursue my future because i don't have a passport because i did not want to go to the country that i hold the citizenship nothing else but the citizenship and that's in some sort of leverage that they have against me it's not just families living in limbo students to have had their lives turned upside down last year at least seven hundred m. a rotty bahraini and saudi students were forced to abandon their courses at universities like this warning cattle after they were ordered to return home by their government hundreds of qatari students with them back to doha unable to complete their courses or take their final year exams we spoke to students at georgetown university in cattle in the days following the blockade being imposed and again one year on to find out what life has been like since you say that some of the students don't have records you see that they're

egypt and bahrain before calling on all sides to resolve their disputes petty culhane takes a look now at the role that lobbying has played in the crisis. the nation of qatar on fortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism it was a shock in washington and across the globe a u.s. president publicly going after cutter a close ally that houses the biggest u.s. base in the middle east siding with the blockading countries. at the time many believe the saudis fawning treatment of him in riyadh played a part but we now know thanks to e-mails leaked to the associated press that the push to get the president to side with saudi arabia and the united arab emirates began months before the emails are from brodie a big time republican fundraiser according to the a.p. he was working with george nader who said he was close to both of the crown princes from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. broady reportedly lobbied the president and later received hundreds of millions of dollars worth of defense deals from the u.a.e. in one e-mail bertie boasted about his role writing trumps vocal support of saud

and bahrain cut off relations with qatar last june. north korea's state news agency says the syrian president bashar al assad is planning a visit the kim jong un in pyongyang the comments haven't been confirmed by the mask is said there is no indication that a trip has actually been set up the two countries have maintained good relations for decades united nations monitors have accused north korea of cooperating with syria on chemical weapons a charge that north korea denies it's go to slovenia an hour early results from the parliamentary elections show the rightwing anti immigration party led by the former prime minister janish winning more than a quarter of the votes that puts his party in the lead i am sure isn't on course to win an outright majority he says he wants to form a coalition but other party leaders have said they will refuse to work with him because of his immigration stance. but joining us now via skype from zagreb is luka oreskovich he's a research associate at harvard university sir thank you so much for joining us he

and bahrain cut off relations with cathy last. well an investigative reporter has found saudi arabia played a bigger role in causing the gulf crisis than previously thought and investigative report has found the cell that hacked to the website of the katherine news agency in may two thousand and seventeen work from a saudi government ministry in riyadh and the phones and computers were all connected to a saudi communication company the hacking of the catheter news agency led to the fall out between qatar and its gulf neighbors saudi arabia and bahrain last june. turkish president purchased. the massive campaign rally in the predominantly kurdish city of deborah kerr telling the thousands of supporters that the turkish state also belongs to kurds he's campaigning ahead of the june twenty four election . was there. turkish prison addressed. today he spoke about more economic development he spoke about investments and he spoke about more security measures at that should be taken against workers party p.k. but this was not the kurdish

bahrain and egypt all diplomatic ties with cats are they accuse the gulf nation of supporting terrorism a claim doha strongly denies and they should demands including cutting ties with iran and shutting down al-jazeera catto is refusing to give in to those demands the country's foreign minister has spoken to al-jazeera he discussed recent reported threats of military action against from riyadh calling them unjustified do you believe that qatar could face an attack from saudi arabia first for just listening with us make it very clear that the purchase of. any military equipment is a sovereign decision which no country has. anything to do with so there is no legitimacy grievance behind this letter and threatening to cut that violating the international law by letting all the international norms and. most importantly its violating. g.c.c. charter which is the countries of the g.c.c. should not launch an attack against each other so we believe that this letter has nor any legal basis to justify. any action we have been subject to a unilateral measure which was taken by by the saudis unfortu

because well because we have base in bahrain we're fully involved so without because of the iranians would see us as being part of it so therefore you might as well be involved in it rather than take all the flak and be shot at blown up not being part of it so i see it as extremely dangerous i think is very very dangerous and yes of course we could you know with with america and all the allies we could take out the bulk of their new capacity even the ones they've had no way you know we know at least. they had stopped doing it they'd stop doing it yes all right in the future they could start they had stopped. now they'll be a lot of the street the hardliners in iran saying well to hell with this we should start doing it again you know so if we didn't attack us all right we could take up those things but then what do you do you know they would they would kick off all the various terrorist groups that they control around the globe and there are lots of them who would they be saying right start doing things with a lot of it in bahrain you see it all over the place so that would all start

saudi arabia and bahrain egypt and u.a.e. say their severing diplomatic relations with qatar riyadh a single shot was fired a full blown war of words was engaged. to store the other the most c.e.o. of magic ties or flight accusations and counter-accusations this claim this encounter claims were made by all sides the media served as the main battleground. early on monday the fifth of june two thousand and seventeen behind state television read a statement from its government in them look at the. little mercy and the ability of her father nala. a short time later saudi arabia followed suit. up our lala cutted the message out well for the model let it. be a so they you know we don't let the u.a.e. and egypt announce they tune we're cutting ties with qatar. the code. ordinated move by the four countries has caused the greatest rift in years between some of the most powerful arab states the largest country is. followed by what it's. see defendant foreign policy as a threat to their narrative to their consensus there were. only one

saudi arabia and bahrain egypt and u.a.e. say their severing diplomatic relations with qatar riyadh a single shot was fired a full blown war of words was engaged. to store the other the most c.e.o. of magic ties or flight accusation this encounter accusation this claim this encounter claims were made by all sides the media served as the main battleground. early on monday the fifth of june two thousand and seventeen behind state television read a statement from its government in them look at the. little mercy and the ability of the higher father not only. a short time later saudi arabia followed suit. up our lala gutted the message out well for the model let it. be as so they are we don't let the u.a.e. and egypt announce they tune we're cutting ties with qatar. the code. ordinated move by the four countries has caused the greatest rift in years between some of the most powerful arab states the larger country this particular saudi arabia followed by what it's. see dependent foreign policy as a threat to their narrative to thei

saudi arabia and bahrain egypt and u.a.e. say those severing diplomatic relations with qatar not a single shot was fired a full blown war of words was engaged. to be at the store the other the most c.e.o. of magic ties or flight accusations and counter-accusations this claim this encounter claims were made by all sides the media served as the main battleground. early on monday the fifth of june two thousand and seventeen behind state television read a statement from its government in them look at the. earth a little mercy and the ability of her father nala up only. a short time later saudi arabia followed suit. up our lala cutted the message out well for the model let it. be a so they you know we don't let the u.a.e. and egypt announce they tune we're cutting ties with qatar. the code. ordinated move by the four countries has caused the greatest rift in years between some of the most powerful arab states the larger country this particular saudi arabia followed by what it's. see defendant foreign policy as a threat. to their n

when saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt all severed ties with qatar on the fifth of june last year the region's news media were quickly deployed to play their part in the diplomatic showdown the rift was triggered by a piece of news that mysteriously appeared on the website of the qatar news agency although the q. and a denies putting it there the country's amir was quoted in that piece making incendiary remarks about regional leaders and purportedly criticizing donald trump as well as praising iran news reports of since emerged alleging that operatives in the u.a.e. were behind that hack however in the days that followed media outlets in the gulf especially from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. seized on the fake story and rolled out what seemed to be a coordinated campaign to put pressure on qatar the political crisis in the region played out in an unusually public way and over the past year a spat that would have traditionally been managed behind closed doors was aired across the news media coverage designed to portray guitar as a regional sponsor of terrorism and t

still involved a year later a year after the blockade by saudi arabia not that of emirates egypt and bahrain let's go to cebu from now on right just so that we have to repeat all four. countries names. then the the basic point here is that the blockade in countries continue to pressure and part of the pressure is psychological warfare so i think the letter to the french president will probably involve a lot of pressure on the furnished but pressures on the qataris hence it involves psychological warfare against kata i think that's continuing now we've heard and we heard in the beginning of the crisis from the emir of kuwait that kuwait was able to stop a potential attack against got there so there was a natural real threats against got there so it's just normal for qatar as a sovereign nation to the rich nation to be able to buy the kind of weapon it needs in order to defend itself i you one of the see the blockade is very much as we sit here still every ality there have been attempts at mediation you mention. kuwait city. why have these attempts failed also mention the g she's the g c c and

was behind the attack next comes the big move june fifth bahrain the u.a.e. saudi arabia and egypt cut diplomatic ties with cancer and impose an economic embargo they accused of supporting terrorism which doha denies other neighbors try to ease the crisis q eight begins mediation turkey sends cargo planes full of food to casa and iran opens up its airspace on june twenty second the blockading nations released a list of thirteen demands including the closure of al-jazeera u.s. support for the blockade starts to waver in july as secretary of state rex tillerson visits kasa home to the biggest u.s. military base in the region in september immy addresses the un general assembly saying the blockade was an assault against a sovereign state not a violation of human rights but the blockading countries refused to sit down at the annual g.c.c. summit with cutters and the air in december meanwhile ties between the us and canada continue to strengthen president trump welcomes the amir to washington where he praises him for taking a stand against i saw a new secretary of

against it declared illegal under international law the countries that are blockading cateye or egypt bahrain saudi arabia and the u.a.e. filed counter complaints to try to say that i could not hear. concerns but according to katter as minister of transport the organization has dismissed those complaints and will hear them will hear what catherine has to say medicine when obama said the next step is that the council of international see. aviation organization will announce its final decisions on friday meanwhile will submit more documents in order to find solutions but i think the blockading countries will file an objection arguing that the council is not competent to consider qatar's complaints. they're requesting the case be transferred to the international court of justice so we're confident justice is on our side. the current session of the governing council of the international civil aviation organization ends on friday so if there is to be a decision on this it's going to have to happen before then because then i k o basically takes off the rest of the summer it's also not clear whether

egypt and bahrain imposed a blockade on claiming it supported terrorism. allegations. pain manager has been accused of the witness tampering prosecutors say a poor man a fourth who's been indicted by u.s. special counsel robert try to send encrypted messages to two. while he's on bail. a judge to revoke bail and put man to fortune prison. and there's been outrage across the u.s. after donald trump says he has the right to pardon himself from any charges related to alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election the president insists he's done nothing wrong but said appointing special counsel to head the probe was unconstitutional. evonne supreme leaders has his country has no intention of curbing its ballistic missile program and will respond if attacked. how many issue the latest warning on monday he said iran's missile program is crucial to the country's defense and that will attack ten times more provoked by western nations. europeans are talking about both iran coping with the sanctions and to limiting our defensive missile program which is essent

more destinations when it lost access to routes in saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain it added them elsewhere and it forged international partnerships in the united states and italy but qatar airways has seen a drop in passengers. the cargo division has managed to fill the void not only has it not posted any losses it has managed to maintain its perch as one of the top three cargo companies in the world. for more cargo perspective it's a lot easier to redeploy that capacity so what we have lost with the g.c.c. countries we've managed to redeploy the challenges all still to be able to serve eighteen days to missions. we used to serve the c.e.o. of qatar airways says the airline can shoulder losses for the foreseeable future and there's no need to ask the government for a bailout but he admits it will be a very different scenario for the company if the blockade becomes a long term reality for qatar natasha going in. doha. one of the major challenges of the blockade came when the four countries stopped selling fresh produce to count so immediately stocks needed to be repl

bass and hope that perhaps because today mouse the fourth international yoga day from ireland to bahrainaustralia to italy gatherings are planned to celebrate the spiritual and physical practice but no other festivities as numerous or as impressive as in india in particular a gathering at the city led by prime minister narendra modi this is not your average yoga class some fifty thousand people came together for this celebration among them some of india's most prominent yoga masters and the country's prime minister. the very. be pretty janzen. anxiety. these benefits just some of those promoted by modi he spearheaded an initiative to reclaim the discipline as an historic part of indian culture. as modi took his place at the center of this gathering yogas reach extended across the country these policemen practicing the sun salutations in the indian himalayas just one of five thousand yoga day events in india. in myanmar to and across the globe people on it are practice credited with balancing the body mind and spirit. the word yoga means to attach to join to yoke and today in india and el

saudi arabia bahrain and egypt cut diplomatic and trade ties with carter last june carter says this is violated the rights of its citizens and residents the blockading countries have accused of supporting terrorism something called total denies it's return now to our main story the meeting between the u.s. president donald trump the north korean leader kim jong un that skit rejoin once again our diplomatic editor james bays in singapore james. thank you sami we are reaching the end we think all towards the end of this historic meeting and now we're all waiting to see what sort of statement or declaration comes out of it look at the times going forward we think that kim if he sticks to his plan is supposed to take off about an hour and a half from now so we're getting near the crunch point in terms of what they've managed to achieve the start of a process we think but we're looking very closely at the words i'm joined again by graham on the web who is our expert looking at all of this graham if we're going to declaration in the next hour or so what do we need to look for in the words th

this is news coming to you live from bahrain as guatemala mourns its dead time is running off to find more survivors just one hundred people are dead following sunday's massive volcanic eruption and many others are still missing and there are warnings of the erupt again in the days ahead also coming up from campaigning in balance for and against the text residents citizens living in germany have begun to the cons of the country snap election good their votes have an impact on the outcome. of the ministry of the japanese citizens abducted by north korea we meet the mother of one man who disappeared the me was one thousand years ago and she tells the w a how she found out what happened to him and more than two decades ago. of a bomb welcome to you i'm on the. time is running out in the search for survivors of guatemala fire with warnings of new imminent eruptions the deaths to foreign sun this eruption is risen to at least ninety nine with close to two hundred people still missing this during criticism but early warnings of the deadly eruption and offers of international aid were largel

saudi arabia bahrain and egypt began nearly thirteen months ago. the u.s. vice president's arrived in guatemala the final leg of his tour of central america the region's migrant crisis will top the agenda during my pence's talks with the presidents of guatemala el salvador and honduras manually apollo has more but. when it comes to u.s. support for latin american countries dealing with an influx of migrants it appears humanitarian assistance can depend on just where those people are heading in brazil u.s. vice president mike pence met with venezuelan migrants and announced ten million dollars in humanitarian assistance to the brazilian government for their continued role in accepting thousands of migrants we are with you we stand with you and we will keep standing with you until democracy is restored in venezuela on a free country tour of latin america the u.s. was president announced a similar commitment in ecuador this time two million dollars the last stop for mike pence was guatemala it's the home country of an estimated forty five percent of migrants t

hacking of account on news agency led to the fallout between cats as gulf neighbors saudi arabia bahrain and the united arab emirates last june well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after al-jazeera with statement that's a watch alive now. zain . the atlas mountains in the south east of moral call a tough and full given environment but it's hard to leave and make anything. but the region has been home to the i thought the tribe of nomads for centuries a people committed to a life that many might call wondering poverty. and she. and possibly a comment. but they never stay in one place for more than as few days or weeks at a time as long as the animals have grass to eat. then they move on in search of respect in what seems to the outside world like and never end in print cremation. but there are no official figures for morocco's number population but people say it's a decrease in. the amazon speaking out that people face in fundamental changes to their traditional way of life. good are good yes i was voted out. in order to. sort it out and again i learned a li

headlines on al-jazeera it's been one year since saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain imposed a blockade on cathay claiming support for terrorism denies the allegations the three foreign minister told al jazeera that the country of ahmad make any compromises. with us make it very clear that the purchase of any military equipment is a sovereign decision which no country has. anything to do with saw there is no legitimate grievance behind this letter and threatening to cut that it's violating the international law it's pirating or the international norms and. the most importantly it's violating the. charter which is the countries of the g.c.c. should not launch any attack against each other at least sixty five people have been killed and hundreds injured in a volcanic eruption in guatemala temporary shelters have been set up for three thousand people david mercer has more. one of them was an incredibly green country especially during the rainy season which has just started and everything was great everything was everything was covered with a very thick layer of. this tow

egypt and bahrain imposed a blockade on carter accusing it of supporting terrorism it is a claim that has strongly refuted in a special day of programming al-jazeera is looking at the causes and effects of the standoff and we spoke to foreign minister mohamad been up to the man who says cover want to make any compromises in particular to the latest reports of threats of military action by adding up first for you just with us make it very clear that the purchase of. any military equipment is a sovereign decision which no country has. anything to do with so there is no legitimate grievance behind this letter and threatening to cut them and violating the international laws by writing all the international norms and. the most importantly it's violating the. g.c.c. charter which is the countries of the g.c.c. should not launch and any attack against each other so we believe that this letter has nor any legal basis to justify. any action we have been subject to a unilateral measure which was taken by by the saudis unfortunately as reckless behavior from what do you make of the saudi claim t

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international court of justice over human rights violations the united arab emirates saudi arabia bahrain in egypt boycotted qatar starting last june they cut off diplomatic relations and transport ties how to say is this has violated the rights of citizens and residents the bill caving countries of accused of supporting terrorism something katahdin eyes while international human rights lawyer tabi cadman says a process to fog the court is very slow. the qatari has taken an important step in in taking that to the international court of justice now of course was the united arab emirates is a member and accepts the jurisdiction of the i.c.j. the other members do not so it would only be able to be brought against the u.a.e. at this stage of the proceedings before the international court of justice and fortunately. they will of course be an attempt to to mediate which ordinarily precedes a full claim being which is what we're likely to see now. the un office of the high commission for human rights has has acknowledged that a complaint has been filed against the u.a.e. and so there would ordin

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was behind the attack next comes the big move june fifth bahrain the u.a.e. saudi arabia and egypt cut diplomatic ties with cancer and impose an economic embargo they accused of supporting terrorism which doha denies other neighbors try to ease the crisis q eight begins mediation turkey sends cargo planes full of food to casa and iran opens up its airspace on june twenty second the blockading nations release a list of thirteen demands including the closure of al-jazeera u.s. support for the blockade starts to waver in july as secretary of state rex tillerson visits council home to the biggest u.s. military base in the region in september immy addresses the un general assembly saying the blockade was an assault against a sovereign state not a violation of human rights but the blockading countries refused to sit down at the annual g.c.c. summit with cat has a mia in december meanwhile ties between the u.s. and canada continue to strengthen president trump welcomes the amir to washington where he praises him for taking a stand against i saw a new secretary of st

and bahrain cut off relations with qatar last june and the blockade has been standing since well joining us now in the studio is below who is a journalist and analyst with the gulf matters thank you so much for being with us here as the first news broke on friday and it was just france that we're seeing that actually pressure is being put on the u.k. and the u.s. as well i mean first of all is this pressure going to have any kind of. any kind of change because the europeans powers powers especially it's kind of been standing back from the gulf crisis yeah it's an odd thing isn't it because those who begins with going to macron and then to the washington then we're told to to to london why would you go to the russians this is a question that i don't understand which is that simply if you're upset about the russians selling this s. four hundred a very sophisticated missile defense system to the qatar is why don't you go to the russian and say look because the russians are already in a deal with the saudis on selling this system to the saudis they've already sold it to the turks for two poi

organization rejected objections filed by the four countries behind the ban saudi arabia egypt and bahrain imposed the blockade a year ago. office of one of the netherlands leading newspapers was attacked by a suspect driving a van on tuesday's surveillance video provided by dutch newspaper the telegraph showed a white van ramming into the building the driver did that twice before setting the khan fire no one was injured in the incident as the headlines the system mandatory sentencing continues every year in pakistan hundreds of women are victims of so-called honor killing one on one east searches for the truth in a case that exposes the growing clash between old beliefs and modern life on al-jazeera. in two thousand and nine fifty three year old. was convicted of aggravated assault with a firearm in the state of florida while it claims he was firing a warning shot to scare away his teenage daughter's boyfriend and threatened his family with violence. which two were sentenced to twenty years to state prison as a mandatory minimum place is going to just. with all due respect. i protect myse

egypt and bahrain levied a blockade on qatar claiming doha was a supporter of terrorism qatar denies the charges the qatari foreign minister told al-jazeera the country won't make any compromises. let us make it very clear that the purchase of any military equipment is a sovereign decision which no country has. anything to do with so there is no a legitimate grievance behind this letter and threatening its violating the international law it's pirating or the international norms and. most importantly it's violating the. g.c.c. charter which is the countries of the g.c.c. should not launch and any attack against each other. u.s. president donald trump says he has the absolute right to pardon himself from any charges relating to alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election the president insists he's done nothing wrong but said appointing special counsel robert muller to head the probe is unconstitutional the white house press secretary says the law is clear. i guess the question is does the president believe the framers envisioned a system where the president can part of itse

saudi arabia bahrain egypt and the u.a.e. say their severing diplomatic relations with qatar. have taken this step. with great pain no one has give them the right to look at my country no one is giving them their voice to separate families and displaced people. nations came together and spoke to me about confronting. they are trying to intimidate a small country which has the closest relationship with the united states. this is the long awaited list the list of demands include cutting ties with a muslim brotherhood the closure of the odyssey our media network. the damage to do one a little puddle and a shot of john and i look up at the fish in a duck that. our children feel is a red line. we don't accept anybody interfering in our sovereignty. it's just past nine pm here in doha the sun is down people around enjoying ramadan celebrations having broken their faults to a little over two hours ago but it was one year ago the celebrations had been unexpectedly interrupted in a way no one could quite believe was suddenly under blockade by land sea and air and its relationship with

bahrain and egypt to cut ties with impose a blockade that's the first anniversary of the blockade of cats are approaching is their efforts in the u.s. to try to win over u.s. support president donald trump initially parked blockading countries at the blockade in countries rather before calling on all sides to resolve the dispute article haim looks at the role now that lobbying has played in the crisis. the nation of qatar on fortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism it was a shock in washington and across the globe a u.s. president publicly going after cutter a close ally that houses the biggest u.s. base in the middle east siding with the blockading countries. at the time many believe the saudis fawning treatment of him in riyadh played a part but we now know thanks to e-mails leaked to the associated press that the push to get the president to side with saudi arabia and the united arab emirates began months before the emails are from brodie a big time republican fundraiser according to the a.p. he was working with george nader who said he was close to both of the crow

egypt and bahrain before calling on all sides to resolve the dispute political head looks at the role lobbying has played. the nation of qatar on fortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism it was a shock in washington and across the globe a u.s. president publicly going after cutter a close ally that houses the biggest u.s. base in the middle east siding with the blockading countries. at the time many believe the saudis fawning treatment of him in riyadh played a part but we now know thanks to e-mails leaked to the associated press that the push to get the president to side with saudi arabia and the united arab emirates began months before the emails are from elliot rudy a big time republican fundraiser according to the a.p. he was working with george nader who said he was close to both of the crown princes from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. broady reportedly lobbied the president and later received hundreds of millions of dollars worth of defense deals from the u.a.e. in one email bertie boasted about his role writing trumps vocal support of saudi arabia at this summit quo

bahrain and egypt the foreign ministry minister says that his country won't be intimidated by reports of saudi threats of military action if qatar buys a defense system from russia. there is no legitimate grievance behind this letter and threatening it's violating the international law it's pirating all the international norms and. the most importantly it's violating the. g.c.c. charter which is the countries of the g.c.c. should not launch an attack against each other so we believe that this letter has no any legal basis to justify. any action we have been subject to a unilateral measure which was taken by by the saudis sultan baraka as the director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the doha institute he says the blockade has made castle more resilient but it's covered a huge economic cost. the population has rallied around the emir. very much galvanize socially there's a strong social cohesion internally within qatar and it has pushed the qataris really to think harder about ways of building their own resilience and you can see this in terms of food security. is

bahrain and egypt the foreign minister says his country won't be intimidated by reports of saudi arabia and threats of military action if qatar buys a defense system from russia and mexico has announced tariffs of up to twenty five percent of u.s. steel agricultural goods or tell you to similar levies from washington and mexico's government has filed a complaint with the world trade organization. rescuers in guatemala continue to try to reach remote areas after the four a volcano destroyed villages and killed at least sixty five people thousands more been forced to leave their homes al-jazeera as david musta reports. in the village of san miguel a slow days there is evidence of destruction everywhere a massive volcanic eruption unleashed a torrent of lava mud in ash which engulfed the community. the flow raced down the side of the flag a volcano giving people little time to escape rescue workers struggled to find bodies many of which were buried inside their houses. access is very difficult and it's really hot in the places we're trying to dig bodies out of the ash the deeper you dig th

egypt and bahrain initiated a blockade on qatar claiming doha was a supporter of terrorism it's a claim that qatar has strongly refuted in a special day of programming al-jazeera is looking at the causes and effects of the blockade and how twelve months on the g.c.c. remains fractured and we secured a wide ranging interview with qatar's foreign minister mohammed bin up to rahman i thought he says qatar won't make any compromises and in particular to the latest reports of threats of military action by saudi arabia. first for just that let us make it very clear that the purchase of any military equipment is a sovereign decision which no country has. anything to do with so there is no legitimate grievance behind this letter and threatening to cut that violating the international law by writing all the international norms and. most importantly it's violating the. g.c.c. charter which is the countries of the g.c.c. should not launch an attack against each other so we believe that this letter has no any legal basis to justify. any action we have been subject to a unilateral measure which was

hacking of the qatar news agency led to the fallout between qatar and its gulf neighbors saudi arabia bahrainand the u.a.e. last june. a second french newspaper is reporting that saudi arabia is threatening military action against council if it acquires russian weapons le figaro says the saudi crown prince has written to u.s. president donald trump and british prime minister to resign made to warn that it's ready to retaliate if council requires the s four hundred defense system it was revealed he had written a similar letter the french president emmanuel micro on friday. of the moscow said in january that his country intended to acquire the missile system below as a journalist and i'm a list with the gulf matters he says he doesn't think the saudi threat is serious to begins with going to macron and then to the washington then we're told to london why would you go to the russians this is a question that i don't understand which is that simply if you're upset about the russians selling this s. four hundred a very sophisticated anti missile defense system to the country is why don't you go to

. >> thoef won a contract to produce f-16 fighter jets from bahrain. the contract is worth $1.1 billion. shares of lockhd were unchanged following the news, but closed down a fraction today at $299.38 wr. >>>mall caps are on a bit of a tear. last time he was on last pvember heked spider dow jones industrial aj f, the i share's edge momentum etf. say that ten times fast, folks. and that is higher by 12%, and van guard europe etf lower by 1 %. jason brown is chief investment strategist at fun dex. jason, you are picking a couple of areas here, small caps an ch, that have momentum behind them. sometimes that's something to worry about. his is awhy you think smart play now. >> sure. at fun dex what we've observed over time is that most trends when it comes to large cap versus small, value veorus growth,gn versus domestic, they actually last years. at least several months.ll the s cap trend in particular is relatively new. you mentioned thegy techno that's had some momentum behind it for some time now. the other thing that we've served is that because these

egypt and bahrain imposed a blockade on accusing it of supporting terrorism as a claim that has strongly refuted well in a special day of programming al-jazeera is looking at the causes and effects of the standoff we spoke to. says want to make any compromise this ad in particular to the latest reports of threats of military action by riyadh first for just let us make it very clear that. the purchase of. any military equipment is a sovereign decision which no country has. anything to do with so there is no legitimate grievance behind this letter and threatening to cut that violating the international law by writing all the international norms and. most importantly it's violating the. g.c.c. charter which is the countries of the g.c.c. should not launch and the attack against each other so we believe that this letter has nor any legal basis to justify. any action we have been subject to a unilateral measure which was taken by by the saudis unfortunately as reckless behavior from what do you make of the saudi claim that it would disturb the balance of power it represents an escalation for

well i think the fans arriving here at the bahrain or in leverkusen will be i will have a lot of questions but we'll be looking at two players in particular we heard about manuel neuer in the report there he is a player who as we had missed out a lot of this season through injury back just at the right time but still he's he's missed so much football every game for him at the moment is a test both of his fitness and of his form and the same goes for marco royce you know he also missed a lot of this season through injury and he's like no he's back at just the right time but his direct replacement or most direct replacement lyrics when i was left out of the squad so it's really important for germany that he hits for now that he's back to germany against the saudi arabia who will also be at the world cup what can we expect from the well yeah and it's a really important game for saudi arabia because they of course open the world cup against the hosts russia next thursday so they need to take something positive from this game going into the start of the tournament they are one of the lowest ran