inside story baghdad. if the recount does go ahead it would impact about ten percent of votes cast overall but that could prove decisive in an election that produced no clear winner here's where things stand now. that our southers set your own bloc won the most parliamentary seats fifty four sutter though is not putting himself forward as prime minister. fattah party came a close second with forty seven seas he's known to have close ties with iran and had a coalition of groups i guess i still the incumbent prime minister hate that all about his victory alliance trailed in third place with forty two seats the elections in iraq were marked by a record low turnout but were free from serious violence. let's now go over fast of our guests joining us in baghdad. the director of the house of iraqi expertise foundation and senior foreign policy adviser to the speaker of the iraqi parliament in erbil judith nearing afirm journalist and founder of the independent media center in kurdistan in washington d.c. christin

do catch one but for the most part it's bone dry and it's very very hot we're into the forty's for baghdad and for kuwait city pleasant weather around that eastern side of the med by rate of around twenty seven celsius on saturday and similar fatties as we go on through sunday twenty eight degrees celsius the for jerusalem again back into the forces there for baghdad for q eight city and also in tehran thirty four there for karate for those numbers around here in kos i'm getting up to around forty celsius on sas as a forty two for abu dhabi notice a little more cloud just towards. my just a little more that cloud just sliding its way towards u.a.e. as well say feeling somewhat more humid for a time at least as we go on into sunday the humidity should ease off that cloud just slide this way to southern parts of saudi arabia meanwhile some thickening cloud also making its way into the western cape and into the selling cape all south africa see how it slides its way through when a the rain in cape town places say we may see some over the next couple of days that right slicing through saturday

and that the leaning tower of baghdad a symbol of how iraq so rich heritage is crumbling from neglect. the a. hello there we've got plenty of thunderstorms over europe still it's hope for many of us and we're also seeing also a very lively downpours one belt in the eastern part of our map and then plenty more further west this area of cloud and rain working its way across the valley arak island through parts of spain and up through parts of france as well and there is the risk that we could see some flash flooding out of this and some very large hail and gusty winds as well so this system still sticking around as we head through monday no massive change as we head through tuesday plenty of thunderstorms still stretching all the way up into russia to the north of that is largely fine and dry and here there's an issue every so dry that we might see some wildfires spark of certainly it's dry and still very warm force in stockholm even as we head through tuesday getting up to around fifteen degrees for the other side of the mediterranean we've also seen a fair few thunderstorms here as we

and then leaning tower of baghdad a symbol of how iraq's rich heritage is crumbling from neglect. trade talks in beijing of wrapped up with china warning the u.s. that any agreements between the two will be off if trump goes ahead with his threatened tariffs u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross has been holding talks with chinese leaders in beijing earlier in the day he praised his meetings with china's vice premier as friendly and frank last despite the two countries threatening to attack tariffs on goods worth up to one hundred fifty billion dollars each let's go live now to john hendren in washington so it looks like the chinese are digging their heels at. that's right president trump has been sending trade representatives all around the world trying to make a better deal for the u.s. and he's really focused on trade deficits some economists would say too focused on trade deficits after all i've got a trade deficit with ralph lauren i buy their suits they don't buy anything for me but in the end we both get something of value and in the case of china there's a three hundred seve

thick black smoke over the result of a district in eastern baghdad iraq's ministry of interior say the fire started in a building used to store ballot boxes and electronic voting machines from the disputed parliamentary election a month ago. iraq's parliament voted last week for a countrywide to manual recount of ballots of the allegations of voting fraud. one in peace at the fire was started deliberately and cooled on the government to better protect buildings where ballot boxes are being stored and i imagine how the brunt of this three warehouses there are important but it's books and firefighters are inside trying to present the fire earlier in the day nine judges were appointed to oversee the manual recount of votes nationwide the process is expected to take at least a couple of weeks. the government sanct senior members of the election commission which oversaw the vote counting prime minister hydrilla body has banned them from leaving the country and warned that anyone suspected of being involved in election fraud could face criminal charges iraq's first election since the defeat

there were no soldiers sent on to baghdad. i learned everything i needed to know about combat the first time i got shot at. you don't need any postdoctoral study in getting shot at. you learn everything you need to know. it is scary, and it is permanent. diverse coalition. the arabs were never going to let us go to baghdad, never. we didn't need to do it, so we weren't going to go. i love colin powell. i would have voted for him for president, but he enjoyed way too much influence. in the war termination effort that went on between powell and what led things to go the way they did. i think colin powell screwed up the end of the war. military factors. saddam's army was war-weary. he was beat up, he was tired. we captured guys who had no socks. we captured guys who could not speak arabic -- they were kurds. we got guys who said they just got here from chicago. we captured guys twice. i wasn't going to shoot him. i gave him a pack of cigarettes to share with the 14 guys he had with him, a bottle of water and 14 mre's and go that

and the leaning tower of baghdad and use of how iraq's rich heritage is crumbling from neglect. at over three days ago we had significant showers in lebanon and in syria those are still visible as these masses of cloud here and produce some pretty significant rain up in georgia for example in the caucasus as a result there was flooding and it's not finished yet you still got these green dots that extend to northern iran and still talking back through southern turkey back into syria and lebanon once more beirut being the recipient of significant showers possibly hail and small now beyond that is a dry picture an increasingly halt forty four is the forecast in baghdad with a wind up from the size possibly strong enough to bring a bit of dust with it and temperatures happen surprisingly high for the last few weeks around the gulf nations for example but if you just about the middle forty's in the middle of a month clouds increasing on the coast near samarra and they view this is the start of the heavy seems a little early but you never know it's about that right we've got three mon

the leaning tower of baghdad calls to repair iraq's crumbling area to be ignored. china has issued a warning to the united states if it goes ahead with imposing trade tariffs and any agreements to end the dispute will be void u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross has been holding talks with chinese leaders in beijing he said the meeting so far have been quote friendly and frank the two countries of straitened to protect tariffs on goods without two hundred fifty billion dollars each on stories live for us in beijing so it's all over what's been achieved. while it appears that not much has been achieved from this third round of trade talks between the u.s. and china now u.s. trade officials had arrived in beijing hoping to achieve a few things they wanted to press the chinese for firm commitments now the chinese had said they would substantially increase their purchases of u.s. agricultural and energy products the u.s. were hoping to push them for a specific figure perhaps persuade them to enter into long term contracts the us also hoping to discuss in better protecti

in baghdad's sadr city district iraq's interior ministry called it a terrorist attack a new group has yet claimed responsibility. the president of argentina's football association is apologize for canceling a friendly image with israel saying players' safety was at stake palestinians have protested against the man it's being held in jerusalem if it is it will normalize israel's claim to the contested city but israelis say the palestinians are crossing a red line by politicizing the issue but it's with reports from west jerusalem. moving a friendly with argentina from the port city of haifa to the stadium in west jerusalem has turned into something of an own goal for israeli football now israeli fans won't get to see leon all messy in the rest of the squad in a present world cup warm up on the palestinian prussia argentina has pulled out the palestinian football association accused israel of politicizing the game because it ignored the anger there is over the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital is a government that interferes moved from haifa to start talking that

now the bombs were detonated near a shia mosque in baghdad southern district iraq's interior ministry called it a terrorist attack no group has yet claimed responsibility. now the president of argentina's football association has apologized for counseling a friendly match with israel saying players' safety was at stake palestinians have protested against the match being held in jerusalem over fears it will normalize israel's claim to the contested city but israelis say the palestinians are crossing a red line by politicizing the issue ben smith reports are from west jerusalem. moving a friendly with argentina from the port city of haifa to this stadium in west jerusalem has turned into something of an own goal for israeli football now israeli fans won't get to see elian all messy in the rest of the squad in a present world cup warm up on the palestinian prussia argentina has pulled out the palestinian football association accused israel of politicizing the game because it ignored the anger there is over the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital is a government inter

the leaning tower of pisa is well known but baghdad also has a. tendency to tilt it's not the only heritage building which is suffering from maintenance and neglect as a celebration of aid reports from the iraqi capital the sixteenth sixty the year when the busier mosque was built but this is all that's left of it the cracks in the arches and fading tiles are reminders of the golden days of baghdad this is the victorian facade of the iraqi capital old governorate building it was damaged during the two thousand and three u.s. invasion and has been abandoned since this is part of the ottoman military complex on the banks of the tigris river it's a decrypt state symbolizes the degree of iraq's rich cultural heritage. and many people nowadays are not aware of the importance of these sites and the reason is that recently iraq has faced violence and internal fighting which led to a weak government the conscription zone baghdad's old minaret are feeding the caliphs mosque compound is over a thousand years old built by the caliphs after centuries of war t

stratford reports now from baghdad. allegations of voter fraud have been mounting since the may the twelfth parliamentary elections but no one expected this iraq's parliament voted for a total manual recount of all ballots across the country and to cancel results gathered strew the electronic voting system that was used in the poll there if it is for the political stability of the country if the recount is vastly different to the original result of the new up when i learnt of it at the theater i believe you are about to witness my changing dynamics and variables it could also be dangerous some political blocks might agitate the iraqi street and the country what plans are not restricted to the government alone there are proofs of frauds according to reports. the warnings have been clear from prime minister hydrilla body in his weekly news conference on tuesday he banned all high ranking members of the election commission from traveling abroad he said a ministerial committee had found what he called dangerous violations j

and at least eighteen people have been killed and more than one thousand injured and a blast in baghdad on wednesday a weapon in the basement of a shia mosque in the city district is ignited when cooking materials have been moved to the lofts. business owners in nicaragua as capital are calling for a national strike to pressure the government to end his violent crackdown on protests as a one hundred thousand people have been killed since anti-government demonstrations began in april and hollow reports when i go out. at the busy minute gaggle would be undone open air market in my now while thousands of vendors and shop owners are preparing for an act of civil disobedience a majority of the small business owners say they will no longer pay taxes or utility bills until the government commits to ending the violence that's gripped the country for the last six weeks the thought of a long war by adding the i one we're not going to pay for electricity because that's the money the government used to pay kidnappers in killing the lender headis owns a shop here and is one of the organizers of the

the leaning tower of baghdad calls to repair iraq's crumbling heritage are being ignored. france has won the u.s. it has only a few days to avoid a trade war leaving it up to washington to deescalate tensions over terrorists finance ministers from some of the world's largest economies say they're concerned and disappointed by president trump's new taxes on steel and aluminum but as john hendren reports from washington trump isn't backing down. with days to go before the g. seven summit in canada the economic alliance is fractured the allies are angry and openly talking about a possible trade war we we think this action is inappropriate we think it's absurd to consider canada a security risk the united states and therefore we've taken a targeted and considered approach to retaliation france's foreign minister also says unless the u.s. reverses its new tariffs on steel and aluminum from europe canada and mexico a trade war is just a few days away. at a meeting ahead of this week's g. seven summit in canada u.s. treasury secretary steven minucci and tried to his ways the alli

baghdad. thick black smoke over the reason for districts in eastern baghdad iraq's ministry of interior say the fire started in a building used to store ballot boxes and electronic voting machines from the disputed parliamentary election a month ago. iraq's parliament voted last week for a countrywide to manual recount of all ballots after allegations of voting fraud. one m.p. said the fire was started deliberately and cooled on the government to better protect buildings where ballot boxes are being stalled cannot imagine how did. this three warehouses there are important but it's boxes and firefighters are inside trying to present the fire earlier in the day and nine judges were appointed to oversee the manual recount of votes nationwide the process is expected to take at least a couple of weeks the government sacked senior members of the election commission which oversaw the vote counting prime minister hydrilla body has banned them from leaving the country and warned that anyone suspected o

am to the naming tower of baghdad course repair iraq's crumbling heritage are being ignored. and that sounds great but when. the weather sponsored by qatar airways hello there we're seeing lots of cloud at the moment over parts of the middle east we can see a whole trail of it from parts of iraq and iran stretching all the way out to work its way of attash can and into el monte as well so we'll see if you outbreaks of rain from that is slowly nudging its way eastwards looks like how marty will still catch a few showers there during the day on monday and as we head through tuesday the showers gradually begin to break up a little bit further towards the west we've got yet more wet weather here that's not good news for us in georgia where we've seen some flooding and more showers do mean more thunderstorms to even further towards the south and force in yemen we've seen this huge area of cloud that's been with us coming in going over the last day or so and it's given us a lot of wet weather and some flooding over parts of yemen as well so these are the pictures from santa and as

baghdad italy has threatened to close its ports to rescue ships if the island nation of malta doesn't take in more than six hundred migrants say this week old has brushed off the request saying it had nothing to do with the rescue off the libyan coast they were picked up by the italian navy and a european humanitarian rescue about italy's new interior minister any campaign strongly against immigration and the recent parliamentary elections. u.k. rights groups say saudi arabia has arrested two more activists in a campaign for the right for women to drive my answer ronnie was arrested after publishing a letter of support for detained campaigner. nineteen activists been arrested in the kingdom since the fifteenth of may. the saudi arabian traffic department releases a video showing women in riyadh receiving their driver's licenses it's been decades in the making with just two weeks before women are free to drive. but some women's rights activists will not be behind the wheel but behind bars has was the first to be arrested in a government crackdown began on the fifteenth of may. security

leaning tower of baghdad the symbol of our iraq which heritage is crumbling from neglect. and then in sport the washington capitals take control of the stanley cup finals as they stay on target first at the championship title. how about three days ago we had significant showers in lebanon and in syria those are still visible as these masses of cloud here and produce some pretty significant rain up in georgia for example in the caucasus as a result there was flooding and it's not finished yet you still got these green dots that extend to northern iran and still talking back through southern turkey back into syria and lebanon once more beirut being the recipient of significant shows possibly hail and small now beyond that is a dry picture an increasingly hot forty four is the forecast in baghdad with a wind up from the south possibly strong enough to bring a bit of dust with it and temperatures happen surprisingly high for the last few weeks around the gulf nations for example but if you still got the middle forty's in the middle of a month clouds increasing on the coast nea

the bombs were detonated near a shiite mosque in baghdad southern city district iraq's interior ministrycalled it a terrorist attack no group has claimed responsibility the vice president of the origin time football association along with other members of the team have welcomed a move to cancel a friendly match with israel the decision comes after pressure mounted from pro palestinian activists who say israel is sports washing its crimes against palestinians the president of argentina's football association did apologize for counseling that match saying player safety was at risk palestinians have protested against a match being held in jerusalem over fears it will normalize israel's claim to the contested city bernard smith reports from west jerusalem. moving a friendly with argentina from the port city of haifa to this stadium in west jerusalem has turned into something of an own goal for israeli football now israeli fans won't get to see leon all messy in the rest of the squad in a present world cup warm up under palestinian pressure argentina has pulled out the palestinian football as

the bombs were detonated near a shia mosque in baghdad's shia southern city district iraq's interiorministry called it a terrorist attack but no group has yet claimed responsibility. we're seeing in the region jordan's incoming prime minister. has pledged to work with other parties to reach a tax call that will suit everyone despite that promise thousands of people rallied there the prime minister's office in for a seventh straight night they're angry over a tax plan they say hurts the poor and middle class act the president of argentina's football association has apologized for canceling a friendly match with israel saying the players' safety was at stake palestinians have been protesting against a match being held in jerusalem over fears it had normalise israel's claim to the contested city but israelis say the palestinians are crossing a red line by politicizing the issue but it's with reports now from west jerusalem . moving a friendly with argentina from the port city of haifa to the stadium in west jerusalem has turned into something of an own goal for israeli football now isra

the bombs were detonated near a shiite mosque in baghdad suburb city districts iraq's interior ministry called it a terrorist attack no group has claimed responsibility. jordan's incoming prime minister has pledged to work with other parties to reach a tax law that will suit everyone despite that promise thousands of people rallied near the prime minister's office in amman for a seventh straight night they're angry over a tax plan they say hurts the poor and the middle class business owners and nicaragua's capital are calling for a national strike to pressure the government to end its crackdown on protesters nearly one hundred thirty people have been killed since demonstrations began in april many well it up no reports from managua. at the busy minute gaggle would be undone open air market in my now while thousands of vendors and shop owners are preparing for an act of civil disobedience a majority of the small business owners say they will no longer pay taxes or utility bills until the government commits to ending the violence that's gripped the country for the last six weeks the thoug

and at least eighteen people have been killed and more than ninety injured in twin bombings and in baghdad stronghold of most of the southern the bombs were detonated near a mosque inside the city district iraq's interior ministry has called it a terrorist attack business owners in nicaragua as capital are calling for a national strike to pressure the government to end its crackdown on protesters nearly one hundred thirty people have been killed since demonstrations began in april my two hour pollo has more from the capital managua. where we're really seeing the biggest impact on a meteor and you get out is when it comes to that was your because the guy was been working for years trying to build up this reputation as the safe country as a popular tourist destination for all the travels all around the world if you look around the city and if you look to some of the more popular tourist city like that now then later on there's been a lot. and there's just no tourism that compiled with the travel warnings from different from from different governments you can really see that the media impact

and the leaning tower of baghdad iraq's crumbling heritage a falling on deaf ear. and its course a win for serena williams the french open sets up a match with one of the oldest rivals. the weather. june should be a dry month in yemen particularly in the capital once again didn't matter to the weather itself may ended with the showers kept blooming and we had yet more big downpours the result almost inevitably is flooding this is the capital once again there are embassies couple weeks ago it does happen every now and again in may but it should really end before june comes in well the blooms happened again yesterday says more rain falling however forecast wise there's better news here whilst we see the monsoon bringing creasing clouds the money coast it looks like no more showers at least the next day or so than in yemen now that monsoon itself of course burst a little early as he went to india bangladesh is a bit ragged now you'd be hard pressed to see where the front of it all is but still had reports not to i'm going to beaches looks like a monsoon burst i mean c

now fire has swept through a building which houses half of baghdad's ballot boxes from iraq's disputed parliamentary election the prime minister. described the fire as a plot against iraq's democracy parliament had already demanded a nationwide recount of the votes now the recalls for the may elections to be rerun a. thick black smoke over the recent for districts in eastern baghdad iraq's ministry of interior say the fire started in a building used to store ballot boxes and electronic voting machines from the disputed parliamentary election a month ago iraq's parliament voted last week for a countrywide to manual recount of all ballots after allegations of voting fraud. one in piece of the fire was started deliberately and cooled on the government to better protect buildings where ballot boxes are being stalled. imagine three warehouses there are important but it's boxes and firefighters are inside trying to push out the fire earlier in the day and nine judges were appointed to oversee the manual recount of votes nationwide. the process is expected to take at least a couple of weeks.

baghdad. u.k. rights groups say saudi arabia has arrested two more activists who campaigned for the right for women to drive. ronnie was arrested after publishing a letter of support for detained campaign a no for general we nineteen activists have been arrested in the kingdom since the fifteenth of may charlotte ballasts reports. the saudi arabian traffic department releases a video showing women in riyadh receiving their driver's licenses it's been decades in the making with just two weeks before women are free to drive. but some women's rights activists will not be behind the wheel but behind bars. lou was the first to be arrested in a government crackdown began on the fifteenth of may. security forces then swept up blogger a man and activist and professor as easy use of human rights lawyer abraham moved a mic and one of the kingdom's early feminists money and she took part in one thousand nine hundred campaign to lift the driving ban they could face up to twenty years in prison the saudi state

and by reach twenty seven degrees reflects that sort of weather for the next couple days as i say baghdad was at forty one or up to forty two in fact the winds blowing out of iraq has been quite a strong and a hot one which is shown here by the forecast temptress still quite high in doha forty five or even forty six the next day or so it's cooler around the coast of usa obviously hotter atlanta no mom but the clouds increasing around the coast from out as yet so it hasn't started the harvey but you'd expect to be there is that three months if you like of drizzly cloudy weather is coincident with the southwest monsoon and a lower temp just so long as it's thirty one it's a possibility to get a few showers in yemen but not many. unpack it for us what were you here and what were you seeing whether online horrendous things humans told us there's absolutely no doubt about that or if you join us on the sat a lot of the major countries in the commonwealth so far bigger fish to fry and chips to eat bass is a dialogue about some of this that festive perhaps everyone has a voice what happens when t

baghdad. the united states as well could be announcement of a temporary cease fire with the taliban by the afghan president the holton fighting is set to coincide with the end of the muslim holy month of ramadan the government says it operations will continue against other groups like isis well jennifer gloss has more now from kabul. president gummies announcement of a unilateral ceasefire it seems to be a calculated gamble following on his offer instead of the afghan taliban for unconditional peace talks and a seat at the political table if they came to negotiations so far that hasn't borne any fruits now but he made clear in his announcement that this ceasefire only applied to the afghan taliban afghanistan your movie that the government of the islamic republic of afghanistan announces a ceasefire from the twenty seventh of ramadan until the fifth day if you don't fit are following the historic ruling of afghan religious scholars afghan national defense and security forces will only stop off

instability across the country many thanks for that child stop for there speaking to his life from baghdad. now the president of argentina's football association has apologized for canceling a friendly match with israel saying the players' safety was at stake there had been widespread palestinian protests after the match was moved to jerusalem over fears it will normalize israel's claim to the contest insisting that israelis say the palestinians are crossing a red line by politicizing the issue and they're filing a complaint with fifa and it's met reports from west of jerusalem. moving a friendly with argentina from the port city of haifa to this stadium in west jerusalem has turned into something of an own goal for israeli football now israeli fans won't get to see leon all messy in the rest of the squad in a present world cup warm up under palestinian pressure argentina has pulled out the palestinian football association accused israel of politicizing the game because it ignored the anger there is over the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital is a government interfere

baghdad. as the gulf crisis heads into a second year the fight to win support in the u.s. for the different sides continues president donald trump initially backed saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt. and their blockade of cattle article here and that's not the role lobbying has played in efforts to sway trump's administration. 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 reporte

baghdad the battle for control of. libya is intensifying down there is the last city not held by forces loyal to renegade general have to. his troops are bombarding the coastal city from the east and west using machine guns and heavy artillery they're trying to oust armed groups some linked to al qaida which are controlled down after years of the u.n. says it's worried about the safety of an estimated one hundred fifty thousand civilians living there. people are fleeing in greater numbers than at any time since heavy fighting began two months ago three hundred families who feared revenge attacks if the city falls to have to us forces have been rescued by red crescent volunteers the aid group is appealing for safe corridors to be set up to move others to safety but would head as more from the capital tripoli. the situation in the libyan eastern city of there is going from bad to worse as street battles and fights from one street to another and from one building to another go on between forces loyal to libya's really goo

fire has swept through a building which houses half of baghdad's ballot boxes from the ranks disputedparliamentary election prime minister. described the fire as a plot against democracy parliament had demanded a manual recount the votes. the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the listening post. al-jazeera. and. is it ever ethical for a journalist to fake his own life. even when i now know. this congress if. you like this i mean change it how can that change that it was. something that. a lot richard just heard in your at the listening post here are some of the stories we're tracking this week the bizarre spectacle of the reporter who faked his own death and what the story says about journalism in russia ukraine and beyond selective memories the persian language television channels that beam their way into iran from the us dubai and london uganda imposes a special tax on social media is the government in it for the money or the control . and the argentinean president provides cold comfort for his people and then feels the heat on social media. in more than eleven y

and formed his own group calling it the revolutionary council and based in baghdad . the iraqi regime once again hostile to artifacts leadership of the p.l.o. provided backing to abu nidal splinter. in january of one nine hundred seventy eight gunmen loyal to abu nidal assassinated site hamami at the p.l.o. office and. it was to be the first of many killings of federal palestinians that a little area. despite its talk of a two state solution the mainstream thought a hundred artifacts did not relinquish its arms struggle in march one thousand seven hundred eight a fetter unit led by a female commando element to be commandeered an israeli bus near the city of haifa . in the ensuing firefight thirty six israelis were killed. israel responded by invading southern lebanon and setting up what it termed as a security zone to drive p.l.o. forces out of rocketry which. almost a year later israel struck a massive blow against the p.l.o. by assassinating a. cylon he was in charge of artifacts personal security. over the years he had been developing contacts with the cia and was

little left for cost wise saying we're looking at sunshine thirty in beirut a ridiculous forty five in baghdad it will be forty five of course this summer but it's a little early in the year for that to happen this true dancer q.h. as well and beyond to the gulf states nothing much to relieve it the green is where the showers are normally around the caucuses still and we sent some pretty big hail storms up in georgia not so much i mean even as a possibility in the next down so as drops as i say it is pretty hot around the gulf states diehards for crossed forty five a little cool in abu dhabi forty but we're into the forty's easily is obviously could around the coast the monsoon starts influence the cloudiness the amman coasts allow or in particular whether he thought some point will kick in history months of cool drizzly weather it looks like it's trying to come in. south of all this should be quite a moment in southern africa for the most part the skies are in the clear that's what the satellite picture shows and the forecast simply confirms it. sorry. welcome back reminder of the top stories

reports from baghdad. it's been eleven months since a rocky prime minister. declared victory over in mosul much of what was iraq's second biggest city lies in ruins the fighting was described as the most intense urban combat since world war two. the search for bodies goes on civil defense search and rescue teams are concentrating on areas close to the banks of the river tigris it was here that the iraqi government forces supported by international coalition air strikes. and killed most of the last remaining leisel fighters in the city i saw bodies that were covered around seven hundred these bodies were all of that used to hide in these houses are often. and clearing these bodies out of the unexploded munitions hidden bombs explosive vests and rigged houses with i.e.d. as we are trying our best to overcome these obstacles. the remains of eisel fighters are being found close to dead civilians who were on able to escape it's estimated around ten thousand civilians were killed in a province in the battle against isis most of them and west of mosul. we have been

who go chavez made a big deal about going to baghdad. he was on the road to restoration, so to speak. there is a feeling among many that he has broken out of the sanctions. it won't be long before the sanctions fall apart. plus, he's adept in keeping the sanctions and the harm done to his own people. there was a lot of harm done. people starved, there were a lot of desperate conditions among the poor, particularly in baghdad and the surrounding areas. it's a feeling among many people that the sanctions were going wn. the bush administration felt that very keenly. >> host: did you support the war in 2003? >> guest: i did supported initially. i also believe there were weapons of mass distraction. the polls taken after president george w. bush gave his cincinnati speech in the fall 2002, roughly four or five months before the war were very high. americans supported the were almost 70%. we also do not for see some of the things that were going to happen in surgeon c. not having a good plan to implement once saddam hussein had been overthrown

thirty five temperature forty four in baghdad and fine weather conditions around the eastern side of the mediterranean generally and that's going to continue as we head on through into friday so moving into the arabian peninsula it is hot here this time of year should expect but really for some places hotter than it should be though have a temperature of forty four is probably fair enough to get the breeze pick up during the afternoon but little bit further inland the light sea temperatures high is forty five forty six and in fact temperatures getting a little bit higher as we get into the weekend so forty five is that if you like the minimum temperature in qatar elsewhere pretty hot there for rio two forty five a look at forty six for medina down into southern portions of africa the weather here looking largely dry and fine but again much as you'd expect or the resists circulation just as south america ask and i think will be showers generated across the southern portion of the island for much of south africa weather conditions looking pretty good at the moment not particularly warm

steering a renewed they were found during a renewed search efforts charles stratford reports from baghdad. it's been eleven months since iraqi prime minister hydrilla body declared victory over eisel in mosul much of what was iraq's second biggest city lies in ruins the fighting was described as the most intense urban combat since world war two. the search for bodies goes on civil defense search and rescue teams are concentrating on areas close to the banks of the river tigris it was here that the iraqi government forces supported by international coalition airstrikes flushed out and killed most of the last remaining leisel fighters in the city i saw bodies that were covered around seven hundred these bodies were all i saw all that used to hide in these houses are obstacles and clearing these bodies unexploded munitions hidden bombs explosive vests and rigged houses with i.e.d. as we are trying our best to overcome these obstacles. to the remains of eisel fighters are being found close to dead civilians who were on able to escape it's estimated around ten thousand civilians were killed in

and formed his own group calling it the revolutionary council and based in baghdad . the iraqi regime once again hostile to artifacts leadership of the p.l.o. provided backing to abu nidal splinter. in january of one hundred seventy eight gunmen loyal to abu nidal assassinated site hamami at the p.l.o. office and. it was to be the first of many killings of federal palestinians that a little area. despite its talk of a two state solution the mainstream thought a hundred artifacts did not relinquish its arms struggle in march one thousand seven hundred eight a fact that unit led by a female commando. commandeered an israeli bus near the city of haifa. in the ensuing firefight thirty six israelis were killed or israel responded by invading southern lebanon and setting up what it termed as a security zone to drive p.l.o. forces out of rocketry which. almost a year later israel struck a massive blow against the p.l.o. by assassinating. salam he was in charge of artifacts personal security. over the years he had been developing contacts with the cia and was seen as a point

up into two which is just north of baghdad this is the area to watch goes all the way back to the her doing seventy millimeters in two days so this is where the rain appears to be falling no huge surprise after all this is the average position of the monsoon this time the year it's lacking in this area at the moment but it has burst this far and by the first should be all almost to delhi which will be some relief of course in the mean time in the big story otherwise where the rain is currently forming in the next twelve twenty four hours where it's not forming and of course it's hot the temperatures are of the order of middle forty's an indian about up to about fifty in the middle of pakistan with no relief just yet. the weather it's. always. a new series of rewind a care bring your people back to life i'm sorry and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues from the till now or use distance rewind continues with australia's last generation of recovery from colonize ation is a really important issue suicide writes do a mind very high we're still t

fires engulfed a warehouse in baghdad with thousands of voting papers from last month's general election a stored the cause of the base is not yet known but the country is preparing for a manual recount of around ten million votes for an allegation of electoral fraud action spokesman says the fire won't affect the recount but the parliament speaker has called for the election to be repeated following the blaze populist shia cleric . was the surprise winner of the may twelfth vote. tens of thousands of people have linked arms in basque country to demand a vote on independence from spain they formed a human chain covering more than two hundred kilometers across the three capitals of the past provinces campaigners want the spanish government to give them a vote on their political future campaign or has relations forced from rhetorical stares. with chants of it's in our hands the tales of thousands of people have turned out in spain's basque country to link hands and form a human chain their aim is to link the three main cities in this region right up to the border with france now their dema

northern parts of iran but elsewhere it does look like he fought a draw to forty four celsius there for baghdad to sort a temperature we're looking forward to across arabian peninsula here in doha we're looking at forty four celsius generally dry a little more cloud across the southern end of the arabian peninsula into southern parts of a monitor the gulf of aden i think it should be largely dry but you marja squeeze one or two spots of rain now well as you try to across south africa southern africa the treatment out over the next couple days there you go it is generally set fan nine hundred for cape town on friday similar values are going to sas day but cloud right moving in. the wells pollinate says are in decline. in this episode. we meet entomologists on opposite sides of the planet protecting insects of all sizes crucial to preserving food chains. i've come to the u.k. to see how old industrial sites are being turned into bug reserves in an attempt to reverse this worrying trend. fighting insect to get on on al-jazeera. the again the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. president donald trum

hail and small now beyond that is a dry picture an increasingly hot forty four is the forecast in baghdad with a wind up from the south possibly strong enough to bring a bit of dust with it and temperatures happen surprisingly high for the last few weeks around the gulf nations for example but if you still got the middle forty's in the middle of a month clouds increasing on the coast near samarra maybe this is the start of the harveys seems a little early but you never know it's about that right we've got three months of it to come after all and thirty one degrees is the result of an onshore breeze and cloud in salalah was drizzle inland probably southern africa we have had some useful re recently in the western cape and deeds a little stripe of cloud coming across here as you can see but significant rain seems unlikely. the i.m.f. said riyadh's a breakeven oil price for twenty eighteen is likely to be around eighty eight dollars a barrel why is argentina again turning to the i.m.f. for help now we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on a

baghdad.protesters of ramallah are demanding the palestinian authority lift sanctions against gaza saying they are hurting both israelis and palestinians want palestinian president mahmoud abbas to and salary cuts for officials demonstrators are also demanding reconciliation between the west bank and gaza strip causes suffering from a shortage of basic goods and electricity after israel cut its power supply by almost half. the protesters have rallied in romania's capital supporting investigations into corruption at least twenty eight mayor senators and hundreds of public servants have been prosecuted in the past year the demonstrators are responding to a much larger rally on saturday against the investigations the ruling social democratic party claims that prosecutors have too much power and accuses them of unjustly targeting government figures. only two hundred thousand people formed a human chain across spain's basque region demanding the right to decide on whether they wish to become indepe

six th down countless territory baghdad they take on silently that thirteen seconds isolated on also said i'm done and also also was in terms of etsci that a slice dececision a. user iss great. as they say. halftime alright right cross posters. is that is that all charges to be totally. confident. chris christie that raising an area now knows anything they say yeah. it just didn't make any can. also sensitivities some pub. in fm wo toee treatment outcomes one in one of the tests couple ha s ordedered to get. techniques and in the seven seven seven seven eight cases a user i. s. yes. from of the messages which of us. forty one is it a good underground test test a baby one more across is expected to be jailed over four hundred thousand id but and and when twenty nineteen. bust us are george in the middle. of a so that parents certified fathers and. sons to. this. phenomenon to the to the teachings of his community bbc news i has actually controls when one of one them that are around. at right right because kcet ended in distinguish women's yeah gatherings exay sees. well i n around. he

about the political stability of this country i'll stop for that when breaking news coming out of baghdad thank you very much. now the president of argentina's football association has apologized for canceling a friendly much with israel saying the players' safety was at stake there have been widespread palestinian protests against the match being tallied in jerusalem over fears it will normalize israel's claim to the contest in city but israelis say the palestinians are crossing a red line by politicizing the issue and its make reports from west jerusalem. moving a friendly with argentina from the port city of haifa to the stadium in west jerusalem has turned into something of an own goal for israeli football now israeli fans won't get to see leon all messy in the rest of the squad in a pre world cup warm up under palestinian pressure argentina has pulled out the palestinian football association accused israel of politicizing the game because it ignored the anger there is over the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital is a new government interferes moved from paper to

iraq where at least eighteen people have been killed or more than ninety injured in an explosion in baghdad on wednesday a weapons stash exploded in the basement of a shia mosque inside a city it was ignited when cooking materials will be moved to the mosque. tell strafford has more now from the iraqi capital. the ministry of interior has launched an investigation into what it describes as the explosion of a weapons cache in a mosque in southern city that's an area of baghdad that is the stronghold of the influential shia cleric mark tother of solder just looking at the pictures of that area of vast crater left many buildings in the surrounding area destroyed we understand at least eighteen people killed and dozens of others injured himself has released a statement on his website denouncing the explosion and calling for patience saying that it was important people did not take advantage of what he described as the improving security and political situation in iraq he has also called for an investigation committee to be set up and he wants the results of that investigation to be released wit