malnourished and that number is much higher among and that in a small island community is what david mercer reports. inside this makeshift kitchen in guatemala highlands to hwy prepares lunch for children her son alex looks healthy but the one year old is in medical terms chronically malnourished traditional diets here lack vital nutrients meaning children can be fifteen centimeters shorter than they should be but stunting also affects brain development and a child's ability to learn making it harder to break the cycle of poverty for the most of those. are children eat the same things that we eat and when there's a possibility to give them something extra you do it because you want what's best for your children i give my children what i'm able to but sometimes it's a struggle. around half of all what i'm all in children under five are chronically malnourished and in indigenous communities like that number is even higher what tomorrow might be one of the regions main agricultural producers but it also has the world's sixth highest rate of chronic child malnutrition it's a combination of pove

the same volcanic ash that killed this year's harvest will help produce a bumper crop next year david mercer al-jazeera and the department of. what amalek . israel has followed warning shots attempting to breach the naval blockade of gaza the palestinian vessels planned to sail from the gaza strip as part of an international campaign against the siege on board were students and activists as well as people who couldn't get urgent medical care that they need because of the blockade by israel and egypt they were forced to they were full spot to pull out by the israeli military. now hundreds of people have been protesting outside the offices of the youth united nations agency for palestinian refugees in jordan they are demanding the u.s. reverses its decision to withdraw funding to the organization the agency run schools hospitals and social services for more than five million palestinian refugees across the middle east two million of them living in jordan. brazil's president says hundreds of years of history of being destroyed in a massive fire at the national museum the two hundred year old bu

the government or private groups millions of children here will fail to reach their potential david mercer al-jazeera in one amala. said ahead on al-jazeera the oldest man in formula one is set to leave ferrari but can a petition from fans make him stay here i'll have that story coming. hello again it's good to have you back well we're going to start this weather report here across parts of turkey where just over the black sea we have an area of low pressure that's bringing quite a bit of rain across much of that area so for the not the cause of turkey tuesday into wednesday the rain is going to start to diminish a little bit a little bit cooler for ankara at about thirty four degrees but warmer down here across the eastern part of the med aleppo thirty five for you over here towards beirut we do expect to see about thirty one even getting warmer all up all those temperatures really rising above average for this time of year but down towards kuwait you are still into the mid forty's we don't see much of a break over the next few days as it make our way down here across much of the middle e

rebuild their livelihood since a huge swathe of agricultural land was destroyed by volcanic ash david mercer travel to not go to visit the farmers in that region. the rich black soil on the side of this volcano in guatemala is normally the stuff of farmers dreams but on the ground knows firsthand that what the volcano can provide in bountiful harvests it can just as quickly take away the flag of volcanoes deadly eruption in early june dumped tons of rocks an ash onto his field the twenty eight year old was counting on this corn harvest to feed his young family for the coming year but all was destroyed. a thought. they'd think that. there was a layer of ash here thirty seven meters deep that was super hard like cement so. it's off now because we've tried our best to work the ground but this corn won't give us anything like this plant here no cob no nothing. the rep sheen of killed hundreds of people a few kilometers north of the scene of the disaster ashen volcanic rocks not only damaged thousands of hectares of corn and beans but also cash crops such as vegetables coffee avocado and fruit tr

david mercer al-jazeera. what amala. publicised chief negotiator says the united states is an unreliable broker in attempts for peace deals with israel. sector general saw about a cat also accuse the trump administration of doing israel's bidding by allowing more illegal settlement building and cutting desperately needed aid has come a day after the u.s. announced it shutting down the payloads mission in washington d.c. . and what the united states has done so far they have left the negotiating table. they did not honor the commitments made to us by president trump personally in the meeting at the white house in method two thousand and seventeen which he believed that he would give a peace process the chance for one year. and he would refrain from any actions that may preempt or prejudge issues that are there for parents. and then he decides to jerusalem as israel's capital. and he decides. from that file of negotiations and he decides it's legal yesterday his national security adviser bolton became the first american of

the government or private groups millions of children here will fail to reach their potential david mercer al-jazeera in guatemala. ugandan opposition m.p. bobby wine has called on the us to stop supporting his country's military in an exclusive sit down interview with al-jazeera he said the ugandan government uses american support to stifle dissent at home and have a morgan has war. he left his country to receive treatment in the us after being arrested by the ugandan army and charged with treason but once doctors tended to him the musician turned opposition m.p. robert chegg lanny famously better known as the wind had a message for the u.s. government in exclusive interview with al-jazeera he urged congress to stop the eight hundred million dollars support for the ugandan military which he accuses of torturing him during his recent detention it's important. lack of say especially to the united states taxpayer to know that much of the military aid we get is actually used to oppress and brutalise the citizens of uganda not that the gun that killed my driver that would have probably killed

the government or private groups millions of children here will fail to reach their potential david mercer al-jazeera. one amala. let's go back to pop one you're going to now for more on the outbreak of polio by dr death of a call in and the capital port moresby has been monitoring the outbreak for the world health organization up to mcallen and i hope that you can hear me a little bit better now so why are we saying these cases all the polio and now some eighteen years off it was a radical when you're going to. yes this only of cases. eighteen years. of years because. you need when you look at. the immediate. years. there is a huge immunity but the children so that's why it's only you up and they get it only any after eighteen years when you say there's a huge drop of a major thing is that because they have they haven't been vaccinations and what is the plan and response to this outbreak now. yeah this happened because of in the past couple of the coverage of routine immunization was. below seventy percent so it was not out of this all to get more pollution and that's why we have now the

the same volcanic ash that killed this year's harvest will help produce a bumper crop next year david mercer al-jazeera and the department of the now go what i'm all the. time to support his task. thank you very much the asian games is the second largest multi-sport event in the wild games and with its closing ceremony into katar on sunday host indonesia has already turned its attention to launching a bid for the olympics in twenty thirty. with a ceremony described as a tribute to the athletes the two thousand eight hundred asian games drew to a close after sixteen days of more than forty competitions as expected team china takes home the most gold at one hundred and thirty two and most overall medals a two hundred eighty nine japan won the last gold of the games in the mixed triathlon and came in second in gold and overall medals south korea came in third post team indonesia came in a surprising fourth hoping for sixteen gold medals the final tally was almost double that at thirty one but the pride here also coming from how the games were organized and presented. and. i feel like we are now

the same volcanic ash that killed this year's harvest will help produce a bumper crop next year david mercer. and the department of the now go to mark. your geologist their arms the whole rabbit a reminder of our top stories a state of emergency has been declared by the u.s. backed government in libya after five days of fighting in the capital tripoli at least forty one people have been killed in the violence and more than one hundred others injured several armed groups are battling for territory near the city's only functioning airport forces backed by the government of the national accord have lost several strategic locations to a breakaway faction of the state saudi soldiers have been killed during fighting with yemen's who the rebels that's according to saudi news agencies the kingdom's military says that for the who theater along its southern border videos from saudi media show captured the fighters including what they say is a high ranking commander to reuters journalists accused of illegally obtaining secret documents arrived in court to hear the verdicts on their case. could face up

the government or private groups millions of children here will fail to reach their potential david mercer. hundreds of people are paying their respects to former united nations secretary general. ahead of his funeral. his body has been flown to his native gonna lie in state funeral the nobel laureate was the second african to serve as the head of the here when he died last month in switzerland at the age of eighty the legacy of inequality still persists in south african schools access to education as improving their concerns that standards are slipping and failing students a finishing school fall into the middle of reports from johannesburg. twenty three year old since then in charley dropped out of high school after he failed grade eleven when he went back to finish he failed again his now volunteering at the scheme unity center to keep busy he still wants to finish high school but says he's living conditions make it difficult i didn't think before as a feeling and that's then with the free time being clipped on ratings no electricity to even flow for a bite of a structure so when it com

the same volcanic ash that killed this year's harvest will help produce a bumper crop next year david mercer al-jazeera and the department of. what amounts . to people have been shot during anti-government protests in nicaragua. by unidentified gunman in the capital. tensions the mounting between pro and anti-government factions for months president recently it's spelled the u.n. human rights mission after i explained his government. crackdown on protests as activists say three hundred people have been killed in the armrest since april. brazil's president says hundreds of years of history have been destroyed in a massive fire at the national museum the two hundred year old building in rio de janeiro was engulfed in flames as workers tried to save some of the twenty million items inside they include human fossils and ancient egyptian it's a spokesman for the fog department said that efforts to fight the blaze were delayed because hydrants nearest the museum wasn't working. yemen's government has ordered a temporary halt to imports of luxury goods in an effort to prop up the struggling local a

the same volcanic ash that killed this year's harvest will help produce a bumper crop next year david mercer i'll just zero in the department of the one go what i'm all. for months after iraq's contentious election progress is being made in forming a new government sixteen iraqi public political groups have merged to create the largest bloc in parliament most crucially lawmakers from blocs loyal to the shia cleric my father and prime minister. the have to join the coalition and police have used tear gas to disperse three thousand protesters in southern iraq as the un has continues over poor public service and corruption they also want the government to improve the water system saying it's currently unsafe to drink. and still to come on this program we'll tell you how new york scientists revived the city's dwindling all oyster population to twenty six million plus. i'm sorry for sit in one of the last places you might expect to find high level showjumping right here in the gaza strip. the weather's lousy far to try across much of australia not all that we've got a little bit of cloud into the

the same volcanic ash that killed this year's harvest will help produce a bumper crop next year david mercer al-jazeera and the department of. what i'm all so is come here on the news and sport defending us open champion rough on a reaches the last eight in your details coming up the tough guy. well again tokyo celebrates its one hundred fiftieth anniversary this year as the capital of japan for me not as it oh it was read a md in eight hundred sixty eight during the meiji restoration which marked the beginning of rapid modernization and a studio in tokyo we met one photographer hoping to bring the past to life by using a photographer using photography from the dates back more than one hundred fifty years is tother he don't want oh i'm a photographer. so i think of my studio as a theme park where you can travel back in time i want to show everyone this is what it looked like back then. come into camera lovers come here to see the origin of photography others come looking for something different from digital for us. in london this is the second oldest photographic technique in the world in da

the government or private groups millions of children here will fail to reach their potential david mercer al-jazeera but what amala the leaders of if european eritrea have reopened crossing points on the shed order for the first time in twenty is if you have his prime minister ahmed in eritrea as president of work he attended ceremonies at the east and west and ends of the or death to cement the reconciliation between the former enemies each nation's forces which a car is stationed along the border will also be moved back to camps to ease tensions the move also means out as abo will now have a direct route to its former foes red sea ports or hundreds of people have been paying their respects to former united nations secretary general kofi annan ahead of his funeral on thursday his body is lying in state and across the capital of his native ghana kofi annan was the first sub-saharan african to serve as leader of the united nations and was joint winner of the two thousand and one nobel peace prize he died last month in switzerland at the age of eighty and ugandan opposition politician bobby

the same volcanic ash that killed this year's harvest will help produce a bumper crop next year david mercer al-jazeera and the department of the now go what amalek. your job as their arms the whole robin these are all top news stories to reuters journalists have been found guilty of illegally obtaining state secrets and sentenced to seven years in prison. arrested while investigating the massacre of ten running muslims the verdict has been condemned by the united states and u.k. the united nations has called for them to be released. today it's very disappointing not only for their. for all of us on the lawyers for the press. for your. country it's very disappointing for all of us it is bad and it is better friends and it is bad father for the. country. that luckily for. rule of law and for that freedom of press a state of emergency has been declared by the un backed government in libya after five days of fighting in the capital tripoli at least forty one people are being killed in the violence and more than one hundred others injured several armed groups are battling for territory near the

the government or private groups millions of children here will fail to reach their potential david mercer al-jazeera in guatemala. today marks the seventeenth anniversary of the september eleventh attacks of the world trade center site in new york rebuilding continues but what for a place a greek orthodox church crossed during the attacks has been suspended off the project hit financial problems. reports from new york. it was an unassuming structure that for more than eighty years was home to the st nicholas greek orthodox church in new york and for decades it stood in the shadows of the world trade towers until september eleventh two thousand and one when the towers fell the debris crushed the church. we stood there frozen. by allies. and. st nicholas was the only place of worship destroyed on nine eleven well the whole history of zero zero or one hundred s. . courts. other archives. a but also the memories of those the way out of chris and those the. those that were . visited the church the greek archdiocese vowed to rebuild st nicholas at the very world trade center site and this video

the same volcanic ash that killed this year's harvest will help produce a bumper crop next year david mercer al-jazeera and the department of the now go what amalek. take a celebrates its one hundred fiftieth anniversary this year as the capital of japan as one of the world's most modern cities then a country known for its inevitable technology we meet one photographer he uses a technique older than tokyo itself to capture the present preserving the past is his story and his own words. my name is to the human one though i'm a photographer. so i think of my studio as a theme park where you can travel back in time i want to show everyone this is what it looked like back then. coming the camera lovers come here to see the origin of photography others come looking for something different from digital for us. this is the second oldest photographic technique in the world and dates back to the eight hundred fifty s. . it's what people used before film and it came here in the eighteenth sixty's. i just bought the cameras decoration but had examined and repairs. that made me want to shoot with it. bu

democratic governance in guatemala joining us from guatemala to discuss this is al jazeera reporter david mercer and we have a demo and he has a human rights lawyer and director of the international commission of jurists office for central america and in guatemala city we have you respond he is a journalist and political analyst who works with the civil society group. welcome to the stream gentlemen so good to have you here i want to start on my laptop with just one of the thousands of protesters who've been out on the streets in guatemala this is brenda she writes i will continue protesting in the streets against the actions of this government to expel because this corrupt system has even stolen our fear but not our faith and a possible future with justice now. it is not every day that you see thousands of people take to the streets in support of a un backed agency but i want to give our audience a little taste into why that might be to take a look at this from on my laptop here this is public support for institutions and guatemala this is a study that will spill easterly or this year conducted

the government or private groups millions of children here will fail to reach their potential david mercer al jazeera what amala. around a million people have been demonstrating in barcelona to celebrate catalan national day since last year's event region has been thrown into turmoil with a referendum on independence from spain ruled illegal and many cattle and leaders jailed again baba has more from. a huge rally to demand a catalan republic. this national day included the usual celebration of catalan culture but it was the first since last year's referendum and subsequent declaration of independence which led to direct rule from madrid. and one of the main symbols was the yellow ribbon in support of the nine activists and politicians jailed on preliminary charges of rebellion and abuse of power citing. you know that as a consequence of these democratic events the government of the spanish state closed parliament removed the government imprisoned the great majority of members of the government and president bush to mourn and other colleagues had to exile themselves well in recent months m

the government or private groups millions of children here will fail to reach their potential david mercer al jazeera. what amala. lawyers for brazil's jailed former president louis ignacio lula da silva says say that he'll keep fighting to run in that france presidential election lula's been barred from running because of a corruption conviction in the supreme court has rejected his latest appeal on monday he met for nando her dad who could replace him as the workers' party's candidate a latin america editor lucien newman is in could it. litter is serving his sentence . it's a race against time for former president lula da silva and his workers party this is the federal police facility where the former president is serving out a twelve year prison sentence and it's here that the would be presidential candidate spent the day meeting with his running mate for the had that it was widely expected that lula would give him a letter naming him as his successor to allow him to register in his stead as the party's candidate before a tuesday evening deadline for doing so runs out. outside supporter

the same volcanic ash that killed this year's harvest will help produce a bumper crop next year david mercer al-jazeera and the department of she wrote the now go what i'm all. more ahead for you on this news they were once banned from school now ranger refugee children have a chance to learn. bringing a delicacy back to the waters off new york city of the big apple wants to once again be a global what's the capital. ferrari's hopes of winning the formula one grand prix on hunter immediately taken a nosedive tatyana will be here to explain. hello again well i do want to take you across the levant right now because temperatures in kuwait city are coming down but that's not necessarily good news because when the temperatures come down like that this time of year that also means that the committee is probably rising early we had temperatures in the last few days maybe forty six forty seven degrees so your high temperature on monday forty three but very humid conditions are going to be in place as we go from monday as well as into tuesday up towards tehran one day for you as well we expect to se

the same volcanic ash that killed this year's harvest will help produce a bumper crop next year david mercer al-jazeera and the department of the now go. israel's navy has fired warning shots towards boats attempting to breach the naval blockade on gaza the palestinian vessels to sail off the gaza strip as part of an international campaign against the siege on board were students activists and several people who called get the urgent medical care they need to use the blockade by israel and egypt they were forced back supports by the. let's fire the blockade they're all still so. recreational pursuits and guards that offer and escape to those living under siege by force it down one of them. is the fierce heat of the day starts to ebb it's time to get ready last minute grooming final checks on saddles and stirrups. and then out into the arena here in northern gaza given the territories recent history of conflict blockade and economic crisis it's perhaps a surprise to find young people here competing in what around the world is viewed as an elitist sport. ahmed i was r.c. is aiming himself to b

democratic governance in guatemala joining us from guatemala to discuss this is al jazeera reporter david mercer. and ngo we have in our own country and out here as a human rights lawyer and director of the international commission of jurists office for central america and in guatemala city we have you respond he is a journalist and political analyst who works with the civil society group. welcome to the stream gentlemen so good to have you here i want to start on my laptop with just one of the thousands of protesters who've been out on the streets in guatemala this is brenda she writes i will continue protesting in the streets against the actions of this government to expel because this corrupt system has even stolen our fear but not our faith and a possible future with justice now. it is not every day that you see thousands of people take to the streets in support of a un backed agency but i want to give our audience a little taste into why that might be you take a look at this from on my laptop here this is public support for institutions and guatemala this is a study that will spill easterly

democratic governance in guatemala joining us from guatemala to discuss this is al jazeera reporter david mercer and cows that we have. he has a human rights lawyer and director of the international commission of jurists office for central america and in guatemala city we have you respond he is a journalist and political analyst who works with the civil society group. welcome to the stream gentlemen so good to have you here i want to start on my laptop with just one of the thousands of protesters who've been out on the streets in guatemala this is brenda she writes i will continue protesting in the streets against the actions of this government to expel seasick because this corrupt system has even stolen our fear but not our faith and a possible future with justice now. it is not every day that you see thousands of people take to the streets in support of a un backed agency but i want to give our audience a little taste into why that might be to take a look at this from on my laptop here this is public support for institutions and guatemala this is a study that will spill east earlier this year

the same volcanic ash that killed this year's harvest will help produce a bumper crop next year david mercer al-jazeera and the department of. what amalek . their attorney roy says journalists found guilty of illegally obtaining state secrets have been sentenced to seven years in prison. who were arrested while investigating the death of ten ranger men at the hands of the security forces the un has said some military generals should be investigated for genocide. today's friday it's very disappointing not only for the moment for all of us on the lawyers for the press for. the people. who got it it's very disappointing for all of it is bad and it is better friends and it is bad for the for the. country. the luckily for the rule of law and for that freedom of press. and saving measures he's been declared by the u.n. backed government in libya after almost a week of fighting in the capital at least forty one people have been killed in the violence need tripoli one hundred others have been injured many of them civilians forces backed by the government of national accord have lost several strategi

the government or private groups millions of children here will fail to reach their potential david mercer al jazeera what amala. choose day marks the seventeenth anniversary of the september eleventh attacks was to replace a greek orthodox church at the world trade center site which was destroyed during the attacks has been suspended off the project hit financial problems. reports from new york it was an unassuming structure that for more than eighty years was home to the st nicholas greek orthodox church in new york. and for decades it stood in the shadows of the world trade towers until september eleventh two thousand and one when the towers fell the debris crushed the church. we stood there frozen. by our allies. and cry st nicholas was the only place of worship destroyed on nine eleven well the whole history of well over one hundred years read chords. i had qualms their archives. a but also the memories of those the with chris and those now with those that were. visited the church the greek archdiocese vowed to rebuild st nicholas at the very world trade center site and this video ani

defenses were worn down by a small group of right wing billionaires, people like the mercer family and charles and david a lot of time and money building alternative reality where science is denied, lies mascaraded as truth and paranoia flourishes. what is her relevance today? politics is so fickle, it's amazing we're asking. but as we head into the midterms. >> hillary clinton is a voice of the resistance, right? and she is sort of an iconic figure right now of the resistance in this moment in time. as i was saying, this is so much of the environment we're in right now, alisyn, is the after effect of her loss in 2016, obviously. and yet she does not have the most robust campaign schedule. democrats are not clamoring for hillary clinton to campaign for them. you have republicans reminding constituents that heidi heitkampf supported hillary clinton. so that's a negative. she has the update to her book and is going to do a bunch of fund-raising and hit the campaign trail a bit this fall. she's making the argument that the american democracy is under siege. yes, not only because of trump but also because o