is a mess to whoever came to aleppo to visit didn't leave without buying loral so this industry is a national treasure for all the syrian people it introduced foreign currencies as we were exporting soap like saudi arabia exports oil like switzerland exports chocolate and like germany exports cars. the city used to be home to around a hundred so factories like this just twelve are in operation today many manufacturers moved to damascus during the fighting across the border into neighboring turkey according to the bailey aleppo's soap makers used to make around thirty thousand tonnes of it a year at the height of the conflict here he says that figure dropped to under a thousand tons since aleppo was retaken by the al assad government and twenty sixteen production has expanded again but it will take a long time for the traditional industry to return to what it was before the breakout of civil war in syria. the world's leading stock exchanges in new york and london could soon be playing second fiddle on the global financial state that's according to a study by pricewaterhouse coopers it

s of conflict in syria has left a trail of destruction aleppo is among the places hardest hit and with it its famous soap making industry of the civil war has since moved on now the city's trademark industry is slowly beginning to return. soapmaking as in his sham good bailey's blood the workshop owned by his family dates back to the eighteenth century it's in the center of aleppo's old city still marked by the ravages of the battles that raged here for years the city was once famed for the household product . and then these. may there is a master whoever came to aleppo to visit didn't leave without buying laurel so this industry is a national treasure for all the syrian people it introduced foreign currencies as we were exporting soap like saudi arabia exports oil likes what's our land exports chocolate and like germany exports cars. the city used to be home to around a hundred so factories like this just twelve are in operation today many manufacturers moved to damascus during the fighting across the border into neighboring turkey according to the bailey aleppo soap makers used to ma

had hundreds of attacks on syrian territory including one last night in the industrial district of aleppo so i don't think there's going to be any change there at all and i certainly don't think that the syrian government is going to be provoked into some kind of reaction in a wider scale war but there is there is concern in the north of syria there is. there's now a buildup of troops despite some saying he was going to withdraw troops from syria there's a buildup of u.s. french and u.k. troops in that part of the country the fact that israel has been bombing them yes they were bombing aleppo yesterday sense a dangerous precedent as well because obviously we have al qaeda in italy still bombing aleppo in the regions around aleppo so it's just looking like western allies the so-called coalition is actually allied itself with al qaida so in terms of the golan i don't see anything. and it's any real change there i think strategically serial way and choose its moments of retake its own territory in terms of the immediate repercussions i think this is certainly something brewing in the north a

syria's state news agency is reporting a number of asteroids have hit the northern city of aleppo. the syrian arab news agency says it was an israeli attack in syria as their defense is intercepted several missiles videos have been shed on social media showing explosions in aleppo syria has not yet been able to verify the claims. meetings are taking place to decide the fate of forty thousand syrians trapped in a remote camp the un is taking part in discussions with the russian military and syrian government representatives of those at the rug rock when the come near the borders with jordan and iraq the united nations told us there are the majority want to leave but they have not been given any security guarantees so how to reports now from beirut. it's no place for children is how the united nations describes camp makeshift schools provide some sense of normalcy but since the beginning of the year twelve children among their newborns have died of malnutrition and preventable diseases conditions are desperate for the forty thousand syrians stranded in this remote corner of syria las

got involved in twenty fifteen then they moved down to hammer they moved to aleppo then to delta and then back all the way up now to. this is this is the age old strategy now since the conflict began to pick and choose certain communities in areas to convince the international community that there is some sort of the escalation or a ceasefire or whatever you want to call it or cessation of hostilities allow them to focus their limited ground forces whether it is the regime in the militias in the i.r.g.c. forces with russian air support to cordon quote cleanse those areas of their inhabitants and any displaced people there and certainly any fighters and that's how they have regained most of the last areas that formally was under opposition control so i'm very worried about the obvious. violence that's being inflicted upon the population and the potential massive displacement that we probably have not seen since the fall of aleppo in twenty sixteen richard the other not the other more than one but one of the other areas to watch of potential conflict is between the the turks the kurds

once again the scent of laurel oil floats out of aa small soap workshop in aleppo. the residents of the city laurel soap is an icon in producing it here once again. is a source of great pride. can the leaves in a high level you ever camame to visisit a alo did not leave without buying the little soap. this industry is a national treasure all of the syrian people jobs so we can lay at two the owners of the factory fled their home town during the fighting. they were forced to shut the workshop down in two thousand twelve and we're only able to re open it last month. but even during the worst of the fighting they never stopped producing laurel so. we went through so much hardship and many people still was working during the crisis. only a small number of the managed to continue working in the laurel soap industry. thankfully i was able to continue i moved my factory from one place to another. to continue working in the soap industry and to avoid losing my customers. in and outside syria. thanks to the limited renovation he carried out shammi hopes to produce around fou

by two thousand and twelve armed officers groups began seizing control of parts of their eastern aleppo and homes the syrian kurds had also begun to effectively control kurdish dominated areas after the withdrawal of government troops then in june twenty fourth teen abu bakar of bugs that he announced the coalition of so-called eisel callus it and within a year i saw fighters had captured large parts of syria in september twenty fifth dina russia sent warplanes to enter the conflict tipping the balance of power towards a regime government forces regained control of rebel held areas such as eastern aleppo that i and all and that brings us to twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen where we saw the final push against iso by u.s. led coalition troops which forced fighters to retreat from their strongholds and here's where we are now the government has regained control of much of the country the opposition is confined to the northwestern province of idlib the kurds control nearly a quarter of syrian territory and i still is on the verge of losing its last remaining on clay. the war may be wind

had to help the syrian people is because you were living in one of the last standing hospitals in aleppo how people traveled the very end. of that had to have been incredibly difficult and yet on the one hand you're filming this as a documentarian and as a journalist on the other hand you're living it you're living in that hospital you're seeing people commit to that hospital talk to us about those split emotions and what that must feel like now actually it's the whole time what is the relish about it's because i was the son journalist to where they're trying to determine their sinks and the other hand i was living with out of the wife and trying to live my own life you know they say in this place and all of the footage was like when we start to do this film applause makes between like like the journalist and the woman who lives there and you know it was as i told you it wasn't just my friends that's my story it's my life and this is what i don't want people to know about. i've been wanting to make. a film about syria pretty much since the revolution began because i think through the who

had to help the syrian people is because you were living in one of the last standing hospitals in aleppo how being people to the very end. that had to have been incredibly difficult and yet on the one hand you're filming this as a documentarian and as a journalist on the other hand you're living it you're living in that hospital you're seeing people committed to that hospital talk to us about those split emotions and what that must feel like now actually it's the whole time what is the really like about it's because i was the son journalist to where they're trying to determine their syncs and the other hand i was their mother their wife and trying to live my own life you know they say in this place and all of the footage was like when we start to do this film it was mixed between two with this like like the journalist and the woman who lives there and you know it was as i told you it wasn't just my friend that's my story it's my life and this is what i don't want people to know about. i've been wanting to make. a film about syria pretty much since the revolution began because i think thr

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syrian state news is reporting a number of air strikes targeting the northern city of aleppo. the syrian arab news agency says the incident was an israeli attack and claimed that serious air defense forces intercept says several missiles they do is have been shared on social media showing the explosions in aleppo al-jazeera has not yet been able to verify the claims. meanwhile the united nations security council has been holding a session to discuss u.s. president donald trump's recognition of the occupied golan heights as israeli territory they are that meeting came at the request of the syrian government's on monday signed a proclamation in which the us recognize israel's annexation of the area that's despite its un resolutions that called the golan heights an israeli occupied territory israel occupied the area from syria during the one nine hundred sixty seven arab israeli war. hamas is political leader ismail haniya has made his first public appearance in gaza since his office was bombed israeli jets destroyed a number of buildings on monday and cheesy nights dozens of roc

new chapter syrian state news is reporting a number of airstrikes targeting the northern city of aleppo. the syrian arab news agency says the incident was an israeli attack and added that syria's air defenses intercepted several missiles videos have been shared on social media showing explosions in aleppo al-jazeera has not yet been able to verify the claims. the united nations security council has held a session to discuss u.s. president donald trump's recognition of the occupied golan heights as israeli territory the urgent meeting came at the request of the syrian government on monday trump signed a proclamation in which the us recognized israel's annexation of the area that's despite u.n. resolutions that call the golan heights an israeli occupied territory israel occupied the area from syria during the one thousand six or seven hour of israeli war. as political leader ismail haniya has made his first public appearance in gaza since his office was bombed israeli jets destroyed a number of buildings on monday and tuesday night dozens of rockets were fired into israel and they have de

think it's not the whole country that is in ruins parts are destroyed especially the big cities like aleppo for for example and if it goes to rebuilding it's important to have to to look for one particular building how it looked like and how it changed and which information is important for for for to rebuild this building but in general it's the work of the syrians they have to do it we can only give some information from the background. at the moment it looks like president bashar al assad is firmly in power and there he's not going anywhere and how does the political aspect of reconstructing syria. what does it mean for you do you have to be careful in the work you're doing no because we are working men in germany and nobody is. caring about things like that but we have at the moment no official context we are in the context we have on a personal level too to the people who work in the field in syria they must really personal contacts the architects and engineers and all of those architects and engineers in syria they haven't had any problems with what the government with the syrian regi

one of its arms pictures also tells a sad story the great mosque of aleppo and twenty eleven and this is how it looks today at that time i couldn't imagine that this this is you could for a minute it would be destroyed after two years of the picture. the project has been running for six years now the result is the most comprehensive syrian archives outside of the country documents which help preserve the memory of these cultural sites and more. than one thousand this day it is of course particularly important that we lay the groundwork for the country's reconstruction which hopefully will get underway some time in the future when the country finds peace again and circumstances change something that we all hope for. then we can offer specific data on individual sites and share it. it's an exhibition which shows what syria used to look like and perhaps how it could look again in the future photography exam has shot and his team hope their work will someday help achieve that goal. and for more on that project i'm joined now by cocking puts the coordinator of the syria heritage archive pr

libya syria's state news agency is reporting a number of air strikes have hit the northern city of aleppo the syrian arab news agency says it was an israeli attack and serious air defenses intercepted several missiles videos have been shared on social media showing explosions in aleppo but has not yet been able to verify these claims. from egypt or in gaza for discussions with my hamas and other palestinian groups on the recent violence between hamas and israel israeli jets destroyed a number of buildings on monday and tuesday night and dozens of rockets were fired into israel a key border crossing between gaza and israel that was closed off to the airstrikes has opened for days after being shot down there as crossing as one of the gaza us lifelines. and the british parliament moved to wrestle control of the brags that process from prime minister terrorism a has ended in chaos with no agreement on an alternative deal to her deal. to the all eight options for the country's withdrawal from the e.u. and earlier may promise she'd step down if her twice rejected deal is off by parliament she d

on syrian state news reporting a number of the strikes targeting the northern city of aleppo the syrian arab news agency says the incident was on his radio claim that syria's air defenses intercepted several missiles. the u.s. energy secretary has authorized several companies to sell nuclear power technology to saudi arabia that's according to media reports the reuters news agency says the company's a request to the deals be kept secret russia south korea and the u.s. are all competing to strike a deal with the kingdom which is planning to build at least two nuclear plants there are concerns it could fuel a nuclear arms race in the middle east but we'll see a trend is a nuclear security specialist he says saudi arabia cannot be trusted with any type of nuclear technology. there's a pretty big difference between the iran nuclear deal and the trumpet ministrations attempts to sell nuclear technology to the saudi arabians the nuclear technology that we want to sell to saudi arabia is civilian it's for their civilian energy program which is a big difference than what we suspected that iran

new chapter syrian state news is reporting a number of airstrikes targeting the northern city of aleppo. the syrian arab news agency says the incident was an israeli attack and added that serious air defense forces intercepted several missiles videos have be shared on social media showing explosions in aleppo al-jazeera has not yet been able to verify those claims. meanwhile the u.s. has been sharply criticized by the other fourteen members of the united nations security council over president donald trumps that commission that syria's golan heights are israeli territory the council met after a request by the syrian government's on monday signs of proclamations saying the us recognized israel's amec sation off the area in violation of longstanding un resolutions israel sees the golan heights from syria during the one nine hundred sixty seven arab israeli war. hamas is political leader. has made his first public appearance in gaza since his office was bowman's israeli jets to stores a number of buildings on monday and choose the nights dozens of rockets were fired into israel and into cl

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syrian state news is reporting a number of as strikes have hit the northern city of aleppo. the syrian arab news agency says an israeli attack in syria defenses intercepted several missiles videos have been shed on social media showing explosions in aleppo al-jazeera has not yet been able to verify the claims. that lines here on got more news coming up right off the al-jazeera investigations how to sell a mask of death go to websites al-jazeera dot com its interests all the news we're covering you can find that. they're like thank you so much for how as. a right way and these people that. i and then i had a vision that they would make a decision on triumph i thank you we even got the glory right through to the fifth best school. in america's midwest and is a gathering to help promote the organizations newly endorsed presidential candidate . rogers rebut what it's all good you have here is there enough of you know the police chief that all you got to get those drugs that you have you have. rojo funds a recurring message amongst those assembled here destroy use strict jungle w

the bombardment forced us to leave our home in the northern countryside of homes we escaped to aleppo and to east homs. and know it had to move from the front lines and there is nowhere safe. there is little peace even in government controlled territories where rights groups report arbitrary arrests and a return to repressive rule so-called reconciliation agreements in former opposition held areas are not being respected. the most recent cases were documented were six volunteers with the time for no reason there are many other cases where people are afraid to provide information because they fear the intelligence services. the absence of the rule of law and accountable security agencies or some of the reasons why syrians were belled in two thousand and eleven the regime refused reforms back then and chose to crackdown pushing the opposition to take up arms. the syrian president is still refusing demands for change the international community wants bashar assad to engage in a credible political process that would lead to a new constitution and free elections but political reform would

syria's state news agency is reporting a number of asteroids have hit the northern city of aleppo. the syrian arab news agency says it was an israeli attack and syria's defenses intercepted several missiles videos have been shared on social media showing explosions in aleppo al-jazeera has not yet been able to verify the claims new zealand has welcomed facebook's decision to ban any support praise or representation of white nationalism on its services and social media giant has come under increased scrutiny since a gunman used facebook to lifestream his attack on two mosques in christchurch and richelle has this report. since the christ church mosque shootings two weeks ago new zealand's government has been calling on social media platforms to take responsibility for any hate speech posted on their platforms well now facebook has announced it will make changes to its services next week and on instagram now the company says it's always blocks hateful comments about people based on their race ethnicity or religion but it also banned any praise support or representation of white natio

you pause it that the trump probably doesn't know what or where aleppo is.u think he gets away with not always knowing the facts? >> because he's not asked questions that require fact based responses. he's asked questions like what are your thoughts on syria and then he'll say something like, oh, we'll see what happens. i'm talking to a lot of people. he'll move on to the next question. he needs to be asked questions like which countries border syria, which is a basic fact that somebody making american foreign policy in relation to a country that's one of the biggest conflicts in the world should absolutely know and some people might say that's a gotcha question, it's only a gotcha question if you don't know basic facts about u.s. foreign policy. the analogy i use in the piece, if you've ever forgotten someone's name, you do remember, but if they ask you, what is my name, you cannot change the subject. he needs to face more questions that require him to respond f factually. >> the president calls upon certain more conservative outlets righting in those massi

syrian state news reporting a member of the strikes of an old in city of aleppo the syrian arab news agency says there were an israeli attack inflame a series a defense is going to stop to several of the sides. but it's only in malta say migrants have hijacked a merchant ship that rescued them it happened off the coast of libya the ship is believed to be heading towards malta hundred night migrants are picked up by the cargo ship and i believe to seize control after they realize it was taking them back to libya my head has been following developments from tripoli. italy's interior minister salvini accuses the migrants of hijacking the tanker tanker picked up the migrants in the international waters and according to a sylvania it was loaded with the migrants and was sent back to the libyan capital tripoli we understand that the international waters were the migrants were picked up or risk you'd. patrolled by libya's coast guard and libya's coast guard officials say it's their right to their may grants and send them back to libya because they believe that the migrants have violated lib

the syrian state news says reporting a number of air strikes targeting the northern city of aleppo the syrian arab news agency says the incidents was and is really a tyrant can claim that syria's air defense forces intercepted several missiles the videos have been shared on social media showing the explosions in aleppo but i'll just zero has not yet been able to verify those claims. five cases of cholera have been confirmed in mozambique's badly damaged port city of beira two weeks after a cycle in it i slammed into the area the u.n. fears the disease will spread sense says it needs there the three hundred million dollars in aid to help mozambique's one point seven million vixens it i killed more than seven hundred people across southern africa well tony pertly travel to one community in mozambique has been cut off for twelve days. it's a race against time to reach isolated psycho survivors before mao nutrition and disease break out helicopters are scouring the three thousand square kilometer disaster zone in central mozambique searching for the vulnerable and overlooked who desperatel

got involved in twenty fifteen then they moved down to hammer they moved to aleppo then to delta and then back all the way up now to. this is this is the age old strategy now since the conflict began to pick and choose certain communities in areas to convince the international community that there is some sort of deescalation or a ceasefire or whatever you want to call it or cessation of hostilities allow them to focus their limited ground forces whether it is the regime in the militias in the i.r.g.c. forces with russian air support to cordon quote cleanse those areas of their inhabitants and any displaced people there and certainly any fighters and that's how they have regained most of the last areas that formally was under opposition control so i'm very worried about the obvious. violence that's being inflicted upon the population and the potential massive displacement that we probably have not seen since the fall of aleppo in twenty sixteen richard the other not the other more than one but one of the other areas to watch of potential conflict is between the the turks the kurds ho

on syrian state news reporting a number of strikes at the northern city of aleppo the syrian arab news agency says they were an israeli attack and claimed it was a defense is intercepted several missiles. now the u.s. secretary of state says the trumpet ministrations still working to identify who was responsible for the murder of the saudi john this. might pompei i made the comments of a congressional hearing where he was being questioned of a foreign policy roles in jordan as more from washington d.c. . u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is on capitol hill on wednesday to argue for the upcoming years budget for the state department but it's not just a matter of deciding how many diplomats should be hired or how many facilities should be remodeled in the coming fiscal year the secretary of state also took questions on a number of foreign policy concerns including the investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi a saudi journalist who had been living and working in the united states this is what my pompei o told the committee on wednesday we are continuing all across the governme

got involved in twenty fifteen then they moved down to hammer they moved to aleppo then to delta and then back all the way up now to. this is this is the age old strategy now since the conflict began to pick and choose certain communities in areas to convince the international community that there is some sort of deescalation or a ceasefire or whatever you want to call it or cessation of hostilities allow them to focus their limited ground forces whether it is the regime in the militias in the i.r.g.c. forces with russian air support to cordon quote cleanse those areas of their inhabitants and any displaced people there and certainly any fighters and that's how they have regained most of the last areas that formally was under opposition control so i'm very worried about the obvious. violence that's being inflicted upon the population and the potential massive displacement that we probably have not seen since the fall of aleppo in twenty sixteen richard the other not the other more than one but one of the other areas to watch of potential conflict is between the the turks the kurds ho

syrian states news is reporting a number of airstrikes targeting the northern city of aleppo the syrian arab news agency says the incident was i was really attacked can claim that syria's air defense forces intercepted several missiles. a questions have been raised in the u.k. parliament about british involvement in the war in yemen the opposition labor party is demanding answers after british media reported that special forces had been involved in far fights with yemen's battles the government's has also been questioned over allegations the british forces may have provided supports for child soldiers as parts of the sides e.u. e.u. coalition. there is one especially disturbing allegation in the mail on sunday's report which was that off forces are providing support to locally recruited saudi funded militia where many of the fighters up to forty percent it was a day are children as young as thirteen years old so i would ask the minister of state if that is in any way true because if he is then he will confirm the offices are not just a party to this conflict but witnesses to war crimes

tour of the country gripped by an economic and political crisis at a rally in the northern city of aleppo he pledged to deliver a better life for struggling venezuelans. thousands of people have taken to the streets across germany to protest against racism and right wing political parties the demonstrators rallied under the banner march against racism in the capital berlin and other cities the protests were part of the international week against racism. the latest round of yellow vests demonstrations were the most violent clashes in paris since december police used tear gas and water cannons against protesters as they left fires and ransacked shops on saturday the demonstrators the demonstrators accused president emanuel mccraw of ignoring ordinary people and favoring the country's elite instead. of protest in numbers had been to undoing in recent weeks but saturday saw many more of the so-called yellow vests joining rallies in several cities across fronts in paris protesters called for unity. the poster who will say you are going to have been a convergence of calls as much as early of th

had to help the syrian people is because you were living in one of the last standing hospitals in aleppo how people till the very end. that had to have been incredibly difficult and yet on the one hand you're filming this as a documentarian and as a journalist on the other hand you're living it you're living in that hospital you're seeing people committed to that hospital talk to us about those split emotions and what that must feel like now actually it's the whole time what is the relish about it's because i was the son journalist to where they're trying to determine their sinks and the other hand i was a mother with a wife and trying to live my own life you know they say in this place and all the footage was like when we start to do this film applause makes between like like the journalist and the woman who lives there and you know it was as i told you it wasn't just my friends that's my story it's my life and this is what i don't want people to know about syria i've been wanting to make. a film about syria pretty much since the revolution began because i think through the whole histor

also on the show after years of death and destruction of aleppo's industry is slowly making a comeback. welcome to do business asia. good to have you with us thailand is heading to the polls this sunday after nearly five years of military rule the economy has recovered since the coup in twenty four team growing four point one percent last year and while the upcoming election means political uncertainty most international investors are optimistic including german car parts manufacturer g f. o. it's the moment michel vika turned his team have worked hard for over the past two years the grand opening of s g f first manufacturing plant in asia including the traditional bali who. is a global leader in the production of drive shaft couplings a medium sized company from the variable started thailand operations with sixteen employees its main customers are auto makers from china japan.

the country which is gripped by an economic and political crisis at a rally in the northern city of aleppo the promise to deliver a better life for struggling venezuelans. germany's biggest bank deutsche bank and don't mistake rival commits bond have confirmed a plan to open talks on a possible merger to asia banks that in a statement it was quote reviewing strategic options adding that there is no guarantee that a deal will be reached. until today only one country had withdrawn from the international criminal court will now the philippines makes it to the country's president rodrigo to charity announced plans to pull out a year ago after the court launched a preliminary investigation into possible crimes against humanity linked to terror to his drug war the i.c.c. probe focuses on allegations that a tear to his government is behind thousands of extrajudicial killings while despite the charges the brutal campaign against drug dealers and users shows no sign of abating. another family torn apart. mary jane can't understand why salvatore had to die shot in the head before the odds of their f

visit a aleppo to di not leave without buying the laurel soap. it is a national treasurure. >> the owners fled during the fighting. they were forced to shut the workshop down and were only able to reopen last month. during the worst of the fighting, they never stopped producing lalaurel soap. many people started -- many people stopped working during the crisis. only a small number managed to continue working. thankfully, i was able to continue to working. i moved my factory to continue move -- to continue working and to avoid losing my customers. renovation, hee hopes to proroduce around 400 ts of soap this yeyear. that is s half of his prewar output. before the war, they had around 100 soap factories.s. today, only 12 are in operation. businesess,,f for employees making off-color or inappropriate comments have cost them jobs and left their employer screamingly --- control.ing for that is it for business for now. >> stay with us. we are taking a short break. we will be back in a few minutes. helen: in westetern civilizatio, we have this idea of a

tour of the country gripped by an economic and political crisis at a rally in the northern city of aleppo he promised to deliver a better life for struggling venezuelans. now until today only one country had withdrawn from the international criminal court and now the philippines will make it to the country's president rodrigo to territory announced plans to pull out a year ago after the court launch preliminary investigations against him for crimes against humanity the alleged offenses include thousands of extrajudicial killings as part of the war on drugs that he launched after taking office in two thousand and sixteen despite the charges the brutal campaign against drug dealers and users shows no sign of abating. another family torn apart. mary jane can't understand why salvador had to die. shot in the head before the eyes of their four year old daughter. they found drugs on him but if that was the reason for his murder. it's likely she'll never find out. the grim reality in a country where extrajudicial killings are encouraged by the president it's been almost three years since preside

tour of the country gripped by an economic and political crisis at a rally in the northern city of aleppo he promised to deliver a better life for struggling venezuelans. thousands of cotland independence supporters marched in central madrid on saturday they were protesting the ongoing trial of twelve separatist leaders who faced years in prison for their role in organizing a failed independence bid from spain in twenty seventeen. to twelve are on trial at the country's supreme court. thousands of people have taken to the streets across germany to protest against racism and right wing political parties demonstrators rallied under the banner march against racism in the capital berlin and other cities the protests were part of the international week against racism. now until today only one country had withdrawn from the international criminal court now the philippines will make it to the country's president. announced plans to pull out a year ago after the court launched preliminary investigations against him for crimes against humanity it legit offenses including thousands of extra judicia

compute she was born in one nine hundred twenty two in the syrian city of aleppo his father died when he was very young so he grew up an orphan. at the age of eleven he joined the brazilian monastery in there to shield in lebanon where he completed his primary education lemon is our last day at canada how i did last march arsenic i'm usually could have was a lot. you know what you'd be the last two out of. were you the sober mother sunny you had to live in you have a look that i mean are by then beautiful because for those on the philosophy you were allowed to you let me give you a few days of the sheer. awful sleep was that us of a day look at these quotes for our show phoebe day at the. shuffle well nerd. shae that we i need has very well yet that she'll. go. on the twenty second of july nine hundred forty six the jewish armed group good in bomb the king david hotel in jerusalem. she was deeply affected by the bombing leads her writing in his memoirs. i was the only student who left the center and ministry that. i saw the destruction and the bodies of the ninety english and arab vic

tour of the country gripped by an economic and political crisis at a rally in the northern city of aleppo he promised to deliver a better life for struggling best way. a russia is marking the fifth anniversary of its controversial annexation of ukraine's crimean peninsula countries do not accept russia's move just missing it as a violation of international law but russia has planned a whole program of events to commemorate the occasion it celebrating what organizers call crimea's reunification with russia back in twenty fourteen moscow events being marked with a three day festival called the crimean spring. our next report takes us through the events leading up to that annexation. march sixteenth twenty fourteen tens of thousands celebrate in crimea. have been insular had voted to become part of russia the man who is today crimea as prime minister congratulated the crowds don't know if we're going home a phrase repeated over and over on this day this time backed up by the russian national anthem. the previous month had seen violent protests in ukraine's capital kiev the demonstrators want

beginning a tour of the country gripped by an intimate and prices at a rally in the northern city of aleppo he promised to deliver a better life for struggling venezuelans. paris's cleaning up after another bout of protests by the so-called yellow vests movement saturday's rallies in the french capital saw the most violent clashes since december police used tear gas and water cannons against demonstrators who lit fires and ransacked shops it's now the fourth month of rallies by activists angry of president emanuel mccracken's economic reforms they accuse him of ignoring the needs of ordinary people. protester numbers had been too undoing in recent weeks but saturday saw many more of the so-called yellow vests joining rallies in several cities across france in paris protesters called for unity. reports general council so you don't think there should have been a convergence of calls as much as early of a no so this can continue we need to merge we need everyone to wake up we need to stop expecting the riot police to grow people to. well i don't walk. but despite starting out peacefully the la

med that will make its way further east with the monday eighteen celsius the beirut and also for aleppo ninety celsus of baghdad no great shakes hail the temperatures but the race but this is where we got that wet weather some really heavy rain there just around town pushing for the race was heavy rain there into pakistan northern parts pakistan seeing some heavy downpours we some snow once again into afghanistan at a low try to make its way further east was a few showers some of the wintry do travel away and behind but temperatures starting to edge out the place to say twenty celsius by rate nineteen celsius in jerusalem on choose day off name a while some of the weather now in the process of pulling away from the gulf that west assad of iran bright skies here in doha quite brisk winds through monday so a little bit of lift it doesn't sound the wind will ease as we go on into choose day twenty five celsius in much of the potential staying dry and sefl dry and settled into good parts of south africa with a mozambique and to zimbabwe the flooding rains set to continue. the ultranationali

tv sayssyrian state there's been a series of eight strikes -- airstrike near aleppo airport and the nearbyustrial zone believed to be carried out by israel. it says they intercepted the missiles. there were no reports of casualties. a session of the united nations security council is underway to discuss u.s. recognition of the golan heights as israel territory. the meeting was called by syria. live now to james bays. that move by the u.s. incredibly controversial. tell us what is going on with the security council. reporter: in the security council now for nearly 45 minutes, we've been listening to the council members speaking. dominican republic speaking now. it is a picture of 14 against one around the security council table with everyone opposed to the u.s. move. it feels to me and maybe to you watching a little bit like the film groundhog day. 24 hours ago, the security council talked about this in a meeting on the middle east. all of the members of the security council weighed in on this. and now a specific meeting on the goal and. i think that is the most important thing. allowed thi

gulf states to be honest leaving behind a better picture admittedly the sun is out in beirut and aleppo's has warmed up and should feel pleasant may not be the last system there now in the media future saturday sees an increasingly strong southeasterly breeze coming across. to us die hard fans if anything will probably warm things up so forecast and turn on sunday twenty nine degrees but that will be accompanied by likely thunderstorms which will spread across and be i think rather bigger on the iranian side of the gulf temperatures lower in riyadh hundred twenty five and even mecca struggles to get to thirty. up to. the carter center. to stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al jazeera i mean that in every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the welts janin ace that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the and i'll ation of israel that is not what that phrase means at all he joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media and focused on how they w

deal did syrian state news is reporting a number of air strikes have hit the northern city of aleppo. the syrian arab news agency says there an israeli attack and syria's air defenses intercepted several missiles videos have been shared on social media showing explosions from the left. a massive political leader ismail haniyeh has made his first public appearance in gaza since his office was bombed israeli jets destroyed a number of buildings on monday into the night dozens of rockets were fired into israel a cease fire brother egypt is now in place. all right so those are the headlines the news continues here al-jazeera investigations how to sell a massive state you're going to watching now. the. full three years old is here is being investigating the pro-gun lobby just. filming with hidden cameras inside america's national rifle association. the only it's not a bad guy with a gun is a good guy. good entrenching a political party from a stranger as they seek millions of dollars from the us come i'll be right through and million dollars a week when he actually washpot the face of the

saturday that rain does expand you can see how heavier it does get across much of that area so for aleppo it's going to be a rainy day for you at twelve degrees beirut rain in your forecast at fifteen degrees as well jerusalem also see some rain there were here across the gulf we are going to be seeing some windy conditions particularly on friday for doha now the visibility will be coming down across much of the area sometimes during the day but by the time we go towards saturday things do get better temperatures come up to about twenty six and abu dhabi we do expect to see a time to there of twenty seven degrees for you and then here across mozambique of course we have been following the storm system that is making landfall in mozambique bringing very heavy rain and flooding conditions across much of the area and that is going to continue on friday and the system is going to weaken but still bring some very heavy rain across much of the area as we go towards saturday down here towards the south though it is drying out across parts of southern africa for durban it is going to be a warm da

syrian state news is reporting a number of air strikes have hit the northern city of aleppo. the syrian arab news agency says that an israeli attack and serious air defenses intercepted several missiles videos have been shared on social media showing explosions al-jazeera has not yet been able to verify claims meanwhile the united nations security council has been holding a session to discuss u.s. president donald trump's recognition of the occupied golan heights as israeli territory the agent meeting came the request of the syrian government on monday trump signed a proclamation in which the us recognized israel is an extension of the area that's despite u.n. resolutions that call the golan heights an israeli occupied territory israel sees the golan heights from syria in the one nine hundred sixty seven arab israeli war. hamas as political leader ismail haniya has made his first public appearance in gaza since his office was bombed israeli jets destroyed a number of buildings on monday and tuesday night dozens of rockets were fired into israel and he had declared victory and

the signing triggered a wave of protests across syria on tuesday including and aleppo and damascus the country's two largest cities. it also drew the ire of u.n. security council members even washington's closest allies have emphatically rejected the move saying it sets a dangerous precedent. this decision is of critical critical strategic and security importance to the state of israel the decision by the united states to recognize the israeli substantive over the golan heights is in contravention of security council resolution four nine seven like you should we are concerned that this unilateral decision not only complicates the prospect of finding a comprehensive settlement in the middle east is that would lead to instability in the region trumpeted in the strait apparently wants to show some generosity towards israel we would suggest the americans not to lay their hands on what is not theirs the golan heights either it will always be even heard of sovereign territory this is their plate many others it has taken before all showed their willingness of the united states to honor realit

syria's state news agency is reporting a number of and strikes that have hit the northern city of aleppo. the syrian arab news agency says it was an israeli attack and syria's air defenses intercepted several missiles videos have been shared on social media showing these explosions in aleppo al-jazeera has not yet been able to verify the claims when meetings are taking place there to decide the fate of forty thousand syrians trapped in a remote camp the u.n. is taking part in discussions with the russian military the syrian government and representatives of those at the top on camp near the borders with jordan and iraq the u.n. told al-jazeera the majority want to leave but they've not been given any security guarantees so you know what this report from beirut. it's no place for children is how the united nations describes camp makeshift schools provide some sense of normalcy but since the beginning of the year twelve children among their newborns have died of malnutrition and preventable diseases conditions are desperate for the forty thousand syrians stranded in this remote corner of s