quick line so who's the nuclear state in the middle east that's a just a fact within one week iraq syria lebanon and palestine it's not iran it's israel was is an address the dishes 7 know what what was addressed iran that is not the nuclear state and that has not aggressed for other countries just briefly on china do you think we've had now trump is talking about the president being somebody he can deal with the in memory go he was an enemy what what what do we we think about that change looks we've heard over the last several months since the beginning of the year so many statements from the american presidents on china including some that said within a week within 10 days this month soon enough the chinese want a deal they cannot but have a deal we've heard it with heard it many many times now if we could have at the end i don't know but the general perception is among economists and sort of just is we're not going to have a deal that this is a war of attrition that the trade war is a war of attrition and that might last long mona sheriff thank you very much indeed as well from europe and i'l

israel appears to be massing troops on its borders with lebanon and syria at all is a warning by prime minister benjamin netanyahu against iranian backed groups and the region over the past 2 days israel is believed to have conducted air operations in lebanon syria and iraq the u.n. says it's gravely concerned and has called for call from all sides. over the last few days we have seen in the broader middle east reports of drone attacks missile attacks and air strikes. all over the region israel in gaza lebanon syria iraq as well as saudi arabia and all since since friday i think all of these reports or of concern to us we're continuing to follow the situation closely and i think as as the secretary general has said and we consistently maintained the middle east region cannot afford any additional turmoil hundreds of venezuelan migrants held a protest at the ecuador colombia border demanding may be allowed to leave the country and they were stranded out their new visa controls went into effect on monday ecuador is the latest south american country to try to curtail the flood of venezuel

israel appears to be massing troops on its borders with lebanon and syria it follows a warning by the prime minister benjamin netanyahu against iranian backed groups in the region the u.n. says is gravely concerned and is calling for calm on all sides. over the last few days we have seen in the broader middle east reports of drone attacks missile attacks and air strikes. all over the region israel and lebanon syria iraq as well as saudi arabia and that all since since friday i think all of these reports or of concern to us we're continuing to follow the situation closely and i think as as the secretary general has said and we consistently maintained the middle east region cannot afford any additional term or. lebanon's president has called the israeli drone strikes against his country an act of war the lebanese group hezbollah is promising to retaliate against israel iran says it will support hezbollah as actions is in beirut. hezbollah is burying its dead in its stronghold in southern beirut 2 of its fighters were killed in israeli airstrikes in neighboring syria on sunday night the

operations in lebanon syria and iraq hundreds of venezuelans are protested in colombia at the border with their door demanding to be allowed in they were blocked out their new visa controls went into effect monday. refusing calls to step down the other escalation of violence and anti-government protests which is water cannons and fired a live warning shot over the weekend as some protesters barricaded streets in the 12 week of demonstrations activists are calling for a controversial extradition bill to not just be suspended to be scrapped and for the chief executive to resign as are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera more news to come inside story as that next. al jazeera. where every. 3 attacks in 3 countries israel is said to have hit targets linked to iran in syria in lebanon and in iraq so why is benjamin netanyahu escalating tension with terror on will iran respond and if so how this is inside story. hello i'm martin dennis welcome to inside story now israel is being blamed for a string of attacks against iranian allied forces in 3 countries over the weekend and that's rai

israel appears to be massing troops on its borders with lebanon and syria israel has carried out air strikes against iranian backed groups in lebanon iraq and syria in the past few days a lebanese president described it as a declaration of war those are your headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after the stream i will see you about. the nature of news as it breaks. creases in the. rows. with details coverage i was once known as the cold. and that's why people are not used to this situation. from around the world. it's been over a decade since i had seen her granddaughter. welcome to. a group of atomic scientists walls of the well it stands at 2 minutes to midnight that's their way of showing how close the 2 nuclear war can and to. the doomsday clock thoughts.

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still ahead in algiers 0 why israel is sending tanks and troops to its borders with lebanon and syria the state of emergency has been declared in the city of port sudan after tribal fighting least 17 people dead. hello there we have a few more thunderstorms across southern sections of china quite a massive cloud in the last few hours it looks a little bit worse than it is in terms of the rain they're expecting to see from this but it is quite widespread again across these areas in the south of guangdong and picking up some more rain hong kong it will be a wet day few on shoes day and then it should be clear as we head to wednesday when it does the time which is going to shoot up to 36 celsius feeling very hot meanwhile the rain is farther to the north so shanghai are all the wet day on wednesday with a high of 31 also very unsettled for the next few days across the northern philippines meant to pick up some fairly hefty amounts of rain it's a disturbance we're watching which is actually to the east of the philippines and is going to track over towards the west you can see it will clea

israel appears to be massing troops on its borders with lebanon and syria these tanks were spotted at one of the borders israel has carried out asterix against iranian backed groups in 3 different countries in the past few days lebanon iraq and syria lebanon's president described it as israeli aggression and a declaration of war in the next half hour a judge in the u.s. state of oklahoma is due to rule whether pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson should be held liable in a $17000000000.00 lawsuit it edges that its marketing practices fueled the opioid epidemic by flooding the market with painkillers there's the headlines the stream is up next more news for you after that thanks for watching by for. welcome to the stream my family ok a group of atomic scientists walls of the world stands at 2 minutes to midnight that's their way of showing how close the world is to nuclear war can actually nuclear activists stop the doomsday clock send off thoughts through twitter. the recent test of a u.s. missile has heightened alarm among anti nuclear activists that a reckless new arms race thre

described as the entrenchment and consolidation by the iranians on a military infrastructure in syria, lebanonq. and in a sense, the attempt by the iranians to consolidate their own de facto control of a kind of contiguous line of territory through iraq, through syria, through lebanon and to israel. that's been going on for a while. in syria there's certainly been -- we know of hundreds of israeli operations, it's now clear it's expanded to iraq and to lebanon. paul: so how many times a week are they hitting, are the airstrikes going into iraq? and can that continue? can the israelis keep doing that without some response from iraq? >> right. well, we know so far of four separate incidents, two in july, two in august. the last one august 20th. israel, of course, doesn't claim responsibility for these actions, but it looks pretty likely, you know? israel's the only serious candidate for responsibility. paul: right. >> i would say that iraq itself, the iraqi government is very much divided on this because, of course, israel is not hitting the iraqi security forces. israel is hitting the popular m

attacks against israel on monday israeli drones bombed the palestinian base in eastern lebanon near the border with syria that came a day after a suspected israeli drone crashed in a hezbollah stronghold in beirut damaging the iranian backed groups media office lebanon's president michel aoun cold israel's actions a declaration of war that justified a military response. thousands of people in sudan have been forced to abandon their homes due to heavy flooding at least 62 people have been killed and 100 injured health ministry says that roads are blocked and many buildings have collapsed a lot of farmland is underwater the military has been deployed to help the floods followed 2 months of heavy rain and while there i was situation here is very difficult almost 7000 houses have been completely destroyed the sudanese people here are in dire need of clothes and medicine we also need more tense because a number of tents we have isn't enough to accommodate all the families hong kong's leader caroline is rejecting calls for her to step down police used water cannon fired a live warning shot over the weekend tha

days it is believed to have operated in 3 neighboring countries lebanon syria and iraq nothing apple did say he gave the security forces a free hand to act in many renos against an enemy state hezbollah says the drone attack which damaged its media office violated the 2006 cease fire and changed the rules of engagement but at the same time the group is believed to have given israel a chance not to escalate tensions. the messages to the terror war telling the israelis any war will be costly and we are not alone i think twice. promised to support any action hezbollah takes against israel which doesn't seem to be backing down it is believed to be behind strikes on a position belonging to a palestinian faction allied to a long lebanon supporter with syria early on monday there is a real danger of further attacks by either side could escalate to war. beirut. saudi arabia is denying reports of a drone attack in the capital riyadh the rebels in yemen say the drone crossed the border and attacked a military target on sunday that they fired. missiles towards. brought home for hearts is an ass

the region but in the past few days it is believed to have operated in 3 neighboring countries lebanon syria and iraq nothing apple did say he gave the security forces a free hand to act in many a rino as a gay. and the state. law says the drone attack which damaged its media office violated the 2006 cease fire and changed the rules of engagement but at the same time the group is believed to have given israel a chance not to escalate tensions. messages to the terror war. israelis any war will be costly and we are not alone. promised to support any action has takes against israel which doesn't seem to be backing down it is believed to be behind strikes on a position belonging to a palestinian faction allied to run along lebanon supported with syria early on monday there is a real danger of further attacks by either side could escalate to war. my back 12 months this time last year barbados was being battered by a tropical storm nobody you know 12 months on here comes another one is here to tell us more about that rope it doesn't do you hunt around what last years was cool to know we've been fa

agreement.om sec.o: the islamic republic of iran and its proxies continue to foment terror in iraq, lebanon, syria, and yemen, with devastating humanitarian consequences. since the united states declared our intention to bring all iranian oil t purchaszero, the ayatollah has gone all in on a campaign of extortion diplomacy. sophie: for more on secretary pompeo's remarks, i spoke to karim djadpour of the carnegie endowment for international peace. what you make of his address? esrim: there is no doubt that iran has started tlate in the middle east and activated proxies throughout the region to go after.s. interests and allies in the free flow of oil in the persian gul the challenge that the trump administration has is in some ways iran is reacting to the harsh policy of american henctions. it is not clear toorld, it is not clear to those of us who live in washington, what is the trump administration's ultimate endgame in iran. sophiemike pompeo indicated that the sanctions are working. he is very clear about that. is there any evidence for that? karim: it depends on your denition of working. sancti

story is next. 3 attacks in 3 countries israel is said to have hit targets linked to iran in syria in lebanon and in iraq so why is benjamin netanyahu escalating tension with iran will iran respond and if so how this is inside story. thanks thanks thanks. hello i'm denis welcome to inside story now israel is being blamed for a string of attacks against iranian allied forces in 3 countries over the weekend and that's raised tensions across the middle east early on monday 3 israeli airstrikes reportedly hit a base belonging to a palestinian group in lebanon in the town of khowst saya right on the border with syria now those attacks came a day after 2 israeli drones calls damage in the capital beirut one of them hit a building which howls the media office of the iranian backed hezbollah in the city's southern suburbs another israeli drone explain did in the air in the same area. well israeli forces also carried out drone attacks in iraq and in syria israel did not respond to the accusations that it's a sort killed at least one fighter from iraq's popular mobilisation forces but benjamin netanyah

lebanon, syria and iraq. liz?esident trump said he would be open to french president macron's proposed meeting with iran, but under certain conditions. >> if the circumstances were correct or right i would agree to that. but in the meantime, they have to be good players one understand what that means. and they can't do what they were saying they are going to do. if they do that they will be met with violent force. they have have got know choice. >> let's take it up with general jack keane. great to see you, with general. what do you think, a nuclear deal with iran? >> we want more than a nuclear deal. that was the problem with the original one. it provided a threshold for nuclear weapons after 15 years, but it never dealt with iran's ballistic missiles. this president wants to discuss all three things, no nuclear weapons and no ballistic missiles, and you have to change your behavior in the region. when secretary kerry negotiated with the iranians, they took their behavior and ballistic missiles off the table or t

in which even russians have been bent hurt and russia's them huge amounts of work to support syria and. lebanonand iraq even in defending themselves and faulting the plague of that isis so you know how come no one says that hezbollah or the shah be all for example these groups in syria i'm not russian backed why iran but why why because the target is iran so why those groups is or israel put it move dangerously close to israel's borders led. well they're allowed to go anywhere within the border region of syria or iraq or lebanon this is their sovereign territory one might actually i ask why is israel occupying and stealing swathes of land in the golan which has no right to internet internationally it still owns it was stolen rather portions of lebanon such as the shebaa farms it has no rights over there i see no one questioning why israel is doing something or why israel is provoking the situation at the end of the day israel needs to understand that iran has said this time and time again that look you're playing with fire don't do this don't be silly behave yourself iran has no real interest i

by the end of 1946 iraq lebanon jordan and syria had all gained independence. british and french forces left but now there are sometimes differing views as to whether the borders the 2 powers true who are we to the root cause of the problems the arab world has experienced since. it's very hard to blame. regional problems in the 20th century on the ways in which the borders were drawn the the most you can say if there is a original set to speak oh it's that those borders were drawn without consulting the people who have to live with them and for never securing the buy in of those directly involved the borders with themselves to prove unstable it doesn't have a calm do well i don't know some trick with a mission estate there i mean there would be a common you've been a fool. welcome home let me have a hell of. a commie for a month because how well. a commie in here much of what you know. if i did the us and with a coffee for a lot of money i would have to add that $1.00 of the what i'd been more we don't want us that is if tenet what that is a scandal and more al

israel appears to be massing troops on its border with lebanon and syria israel has carried out air strikesagainst iranian backed groups in lebanon iraq and syria in the past few days the lebanese president michel own described it as a quote declaration of war you are right up to speed with all the top stories so far today next on al-jazeera counting the cost of. this story of a friendship between a filmmaker and a 13 year old girl. being this. piece of deep rooted tension between deliberate and the refugees. my syrian friend. an al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is counting the cost of al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week we check the pulse of the global economy the age of populist governments and ask is the independence of central banks under threat. unintended consequences the global economy takes a hit from trump's trade war with china and the i.m.f. warns of more pain ahead from the missteps of briggs it trade. it's been a pretty eventful year so far the.

playing a multilevel game where they have splat -- spread their influence and deepened it in lebanon, syria, iraq, yemen, and using multiple tools, media, cyber, and other things, to punch above their weight. where u.s. and their allies have conventional tools and we are not shaping the dynamics to our favor. >> but isn't it a bipartisan approach? we seem to continuation from the obama administration until now to work around. priority for the last administration and it's not a priority for this administration. isis was the of number one goal in syria, and we , people can haze say we are going to end endless wars as a slogan and ignore the facts of terrorist movements like isis still having deep roots. never an antithesis to policy, if isis reemerges as a factor, that was one of the things that led to this tactical cooperation with iran and places like iraq. if that emerges again, that places another conundrum for those in the trump administration who are trying to impose maximum pressure against iranian forces. to bring in fatima. backu want to take a step and look at the iranian role in ye

all over the region israel in gaza lebanon syria iraq as well as saudi arabia and that all since since friday i think all of these reports or of concern to us we're continuing to follow this situation closely and i think as as the secretary general has said and we consistently maintain the middle east region cannot afford any additional turmoil there with the news out from al-jazeera still to come on the program a new push in the u.k. to stop or no deal breaks it will be live in london. we'll tell you why a court has delivered a landmark ruling against a pharmaceutical jobs in the u.s. . and in sport into my hands to strike a means this is sure to turn up just by these words the mahdi. france's president emanuel mccraw has hit back at his opposite number in brazil over wildfires raging in the amazon speaking on french t.v. him across the world countless allow brazil's government to destroy everything files in the amazon came up during discussions of the g. 7 summit over the weekend on monday leaders there agreed to give $20000000.00 to countries tackling those fires but brazil's presid

border it's a position in rugged mountain terrain largely made up of tunnels it does connect lebanon with syria the p f l p g c is an enemy of israel israel has attacked that pace in recent years but this is seen more as a message to hezbollah the p.f. l.p.g. sea is an ally of hezbollah it's an ally of iran and hezbollah does control territory on the other side of the border in the reported strikes just hours after hezbollah promised to shoot down any israeli drone that violates lebanese airspace it is blaming israel for sending 2 drones to it stronghold in the southern suburbs of beirut one of those drones exploded according to the hezbollah leader they were on a suicide mission but there were no casualties in that attack the drone attack just hours after the israeli army knowledge ng that it carried out air strikes near the syrian capital damascus hezbollah acknowledging that its bases was hit and in fact 2 of its fighters were killed and while i was addressing it was giving a speech late on sunday yet another drone attack reported in iraq close to the syrian border there have been a series o

lebanon has mediated the release of a canadian national who was being held in syria the one of the top security officials in lebanon a bass for him was the man involved in this mediation effort he said that the canadian national mr baxter was detained last year for violating laws in syria they really didn't divulge much details concerning the circumstances of his detention this is not he's not the 1st foreign national to be released in the past month a few weeks ago and american national was released about him himself playing a crucial role now he's calling this a humanitarian gesture but many here believe that these are messages messages that the syrian government wants to give to the west as it tries to regain legitimacy as it tries to end sanctions at the end of the day these 2 these 2 foreign nationals who were held and in syrian jails are not among the high profile people who went missing and believed to be held by the syrian government so messages possibly from the syrian government to the west trying to regain lost legitimacy russia's government is accusing the u.s. embassy in m

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lebanon skies . we will bring down is really drones w when they i injure ski. if israel kills any of our brothers in syria will on --d to this killing 11 in lebanon. amy: on tuesday, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu responded to hezbollah leader nasrallah. >> i heard what has rolla said. i suggest to him to come down. he knows well that israel knows how to defend itself and to pay back its enemies. i want to tell him and to lebanon, which hosts this organization that aspires to destroy us, and i say it also to the chief of iran, watch what you say. and moreover, be careful of what you do. amy: so explain the responses here, rami khouri, the israeli prime ministers before that nas rallllah. >> the significant historical development is that has below over the last 30 years or so with significant iranian aid has been able to develop a very high level of technical military proficiency, offense e of and defense, camouflage, training, logistics -- which has essentially created a situation of mutual deterrence on the israeli have a lebanese border. the 1970's and 2006, could come in at will with attacks

lebanon has mediated the release of a canadian national who was being held in syria the one of the top security officials in lebanon about for him was the man involved in this mediation effort he said that the canadian national mr baxter was detained last year for violating laws in syria they really didn't divulge much details concerning these circumstances of his detention this is not he's not the 1st foreign nationals to be released in the past months a few weeks ago an american national was released about him himself playing a crucial role now he's calling this a humanitarian gesture but many here believe that these are messages messages that the syrian government wants to give to the west as it tries to gain legitimacy as it tries to and sanctions at the end of these 2 these 2 foreign nationals who are held and in syrian jails are not among the high profile people who went missing and believed to be held by the syrian government so messages possibly from the syrian government to the west trying to regain lost legitimacy. well still ahead on al-jazeera a beach in troubled waters we

border it's a position in rugged mountain terrain largely made up of tunnels it does connect lebanon with syria the p.f. l.p.g. see is an enemy of israel israel has attacked that pace in recent years but this is seen more as a message to hezbollah the p.f. l.p.g. sea is an ally of hezbollah it's an ally of iran and hezbollah does control territory on the other side of the border in the reported strikes just hours after hezbollah promised to shoot down any israeli drone that violates lebanese airspace it is blaming israel for sending 2 drones to it stronghold in the southern suburbs of beirut one of those drones exploded according to the hezbollah leader they were on a suicide mission but there were no casualties in that attack the drone attack just hours after the israeli army knowledge ng that it carried out air strikes near the syrian capital damascus hezbollah acknowledging that its bases was hit and in fact 2 of its fighters were killed and while i was addressing it was giving a speech late on sunday yet another drone attack reported in iraq close to the syrian border there have been a seri

so you see it's indispensable the arabs have been in syria to have some direct access to the mediterranean somewhere along the syrian lebanon and the way to total french control that would be impossible but that would mean positions would be split into between and often a softer syria. simply cannot be. political and military a bit strange would be impossible in such a divided territory. i'm not convinced but. it is nevertheless try to make that object. by dividing light it's good. from. a bit of funny you should be. in either party a big deal. or no one had. you have know how to get heavy. but you know. with a funny it's also a miniature should be sent. it was your. configured to walk. off on me. did not. well a while mandala respect all the enough to start teaching the better you get on it it will not be possible to persuade my colleagues to accept a line is found not says that that would exclude coats of all regions like the whole run from a sphere i see but for france to control territory that far south make it very difficult for our plans for railway line from the coast to baghdad i must insist on these points. and co

similar to a declaration of war and our country has a right to defend itself a series of attacks syria lebanon and iraq and people are pointing the finger at israel. at least they owned up to that last attack and usually accusations that israel's attacked another sovereign nation are met with silence from tel aviv but this time benjamin netanyahu justified the attack claiming iran was targeting his country with explosive drones according to him the situation was kill or be killed but it's good we'll go if someone rises to kill you rise up and kill him 1st in a complicated operation by our security forces we determine that iran's quds force dispatched a special unit of militants into syria to kill israelis on the golan heights with explosive drums i would like to emphasize that this was a mission if the wrong under the command of iran at the behest of iran. netanyahu often harps on about the supposed dangers of iran but when it comes to the facts the islamic republic is often on the receiving end of military violence about a year ago israel struck nearly all of iran's military structures inside

to annihilate israel it is trying to establish bases against us everywhere in iran itself in lebanon in syria in iraq in yemen really room with new york with the money meaning that if needed israel also operates in iraq nor can we are operating not just if needed we are operating in many areas against a state that wants to annihilate us. the gazan health ministry says at least 100 palestinians were injured during protests on the border with israel at least 50 of them by live fire several 1000 people were demonstrating along the border fence the protests and the tense we saw 3 incidents of rocket fire from gaza and retaliates 3 air strikes by israel israel's army says it's been restrained in the use of live fire israel says a teenage girls being killed in an attack near an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank she died of wounds from an explosion and near ramallah the israeli army says it suspects a palestinian was behind the blast and sent more troops to that area. the syrian army has seized the pockets of rebel territory in the northwest reclaiming towns last early in the conflict the

influence the soda leadership on some of these reckless and totally failed adventures in qatar and lebanon and syria and and yemen and maybe libya even too so the likelihood is they are consulting with each other they have to work closely together the image not to use on the saudi leaderships about 2011 when they are of uprisings broke out and you started getting elections and just 0 was all over the place and greater than ever with people hearing real journalism free expression all over the place elections muslim brothers winning the presidency in egypt and that's when they have it out there in the saudis freaked out and they decided we've got to put a stop to all of this and they came up with their strategy and it has been a total failure so they have to stick together because their fates are really entered intertwined i would just add another point to the image out these are not totally abandoning the yemen they're pulling out most of their troops from direct fighting but they're still funding and arming and training and equipping 100000 more troops they still got alliances with with various peop

a professor of political science at florida atlantic university and author of a book on syria israel and lebanon joins me via skype now in the last 24 hours we've seen attacks on targets in syria now in beirut how do you explain this. escalation by israel well it's an escalation. may only be used on israel's policy. according to the primer.

troops in syria it comes just days after suspected is really drone attacks in lebanon. coming up in the program president meets his turkish counterpart. of the $29.00 ers show taking place with the russian talks are currently being held between the 2 leaders took in the opening ceremony. around the clock across the world this is your r.t. international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome. we begin in the u.s. a judge in oklahoma has ruled that the drug maker johnson and johnson is responsible for dropping the state's opioid crisis and ordered it to pay a $572000000.00 fine he said the pharmaceutical giant had run a fall dangerous marketing campaign which. done played the risk of addiction directly contributed to many deaths johnson and johnson has said it will appeal the decision. we've got a landmark ruling today in oklahoma the drug manufacturer johnson and johnson a giant big pharmaceutical company in the united states has been found guilty and has been ordered to pay 572000000 dollars to the state of oklahoma in order to deal with the ongoing op