palestine is definitely becoming more popular among the palestinian officials just the other day mahmoud abbas said that palestine is for the palestinians it is not as the jews claim the land of their ancestors so he does seem to be questioning israel's right to exist on those lands and i wonder if that does not make it easier for israel to paint you as anti semitic rejectionists president mahmoud abbas went to the security council in february twentieth two thousand and eighteen and his speech last week of the palestine national council and iterated our commitment to the two state solution where the state of palestine where these duracell limits its capital will live side by side in peace and security with the state of israel and he called for an international conference and he was willing to come to moscow then with asian president putin to meet with the with prime minister netanyahu and prime minister netanyahu refused then with asian present put in place not once or twice and accepted we are with a two state solution with. israel did not recognize us since one thousand eight hundred w

those imprisoned included gyptian journalist mahmoud i was a it known as shah can he's been locked up for five years reporting on the rubber square protests in cairo where hundreds of protesters were killed and thousands injured recently shall can be nominated for unesco is press freedom prize and multi award winning journalist well about us had its home raided a may and was arrested and detained. as each or. of course he's target what they describe as fake news new laws were passed in july to support the arrests of journalists they allow the state to block social media accounts and detain journalists who have more than five thousand followers they exist already being used to. suppress media freedom the new laws. many more who are mostly one journalist but will be honest and because they want to express their opinion supporters of president sisi say they will safeguard freedom of expression. but rights groups say it will give a legal basis for egypt to crack down on criticism or to send more about al-jazeera . now one of nasa's most ambitious space missions has blasted off. three two

those imprisoned included gyptian journalist mahmoud i was a it known as shall can he's been locked up for five years reporting on the robbers square protests in cairo where hundreds of protesters were killed and thousands injured recently shall can be nominated for unesco is press freedom prize and multi award winning journalist had its home raided a may and was arrested and detained. as the egyptian authorities target what they describe as fake news new laws were passed in july to support the arrests of journalists they allow the state to block social media accounts and detain journalists who have more than five thousand followers existing laws which are already being used to. suppress media freedom new laws wishes. and who are mounting unjust. we're realistic because we want to express that opinion supporters of president c.c. say they will safeguard freedom of expression. but rights groups say it will give legal basis for egypt to crack down on criticism or to send. al-jazeera. rebecca vincent is the u.k. bureau directive for reporters without borders and joins me in the studio now

a flagrant assault on the palestinian people that's palestinian president mahmoud abbas is describing the decision by the u.s. to hold all funding to the u.n. agency that helps palestinian refugees known as annorah the latest declaration by washington comes a week after the trumpet ministration said that it was causing more than two hundred million dollars in economic aid to the agency it will in effect and decades of financial support spent on health education and food security well the u.s. state department spokeswoman heather not released a statement saying when we made a u.s. contribution of sixty million dollars in january we made it clear that the united states was no longer willing to shoulder the very disproportionate share of the burden of costs that we had assumed for many al-jazeera sports reports. palestinian president mahmoud abbas says the decision by the united states to stop funding the un agency helping palestinian refugees is a flagrant assault against his people more than one million of them rely on food aid handed out by so the decision by the us not to pay the ant

to head hospital at the bed of nine year old mahmoud oh. yes ma'am and then picked up our west from morocco. to the. situation that got so bad that i decided to leave the source of my children my hands. and the other part of we were about to cross a bridge when one of the people accompanying us stepped on a landmine just. cannot go in but now it killed him his wife. and two of my children that. i know will have the larger cans that in about forty my daughter was ten years old. and here with them was the shrapnel killed her instantly woman then i'll have a look on her brother was just two and a half what i mean they were walking hand in hand at the time that i was. he was killed. or janet misc either who or. i have two children left in the us mahmoud is nine years old. and my other son a six. oh the phenomenal success and a lot of jobar and eastern suburb of damascus was the front line for months now it's rubble a testimony to the horrors of the syrian war it reveals a powerless europe's failure to stop the united states russia iran saudi ar

she's helped by mahmoud a friend and former smuggler. oh sure but then you know sometimes my contacts in syria hear about people who've been kidnapped from people who've just been freed they might send me a photo of a kidnapped boy and ask if i know him can i ask around whether anyone is missing a boy if so we go rescue him not. ask me. sometimes the islamists allow their prisoners to cool their families and sometimes the families are asking for help she calls the kidnappers and fishes for information trying to find out where they are. i get them to trust me then i ask them things like what's happening where they are how many airstrikes have already hit what. mahmoud and i are in touch with the iraqi security forces and forces in syria to tell us about is strikes. we compare information to localise the people we're looking for other jobs and. they work with smugglers in syria to bring the former prisoners across the border they say they freed more than sixty people so far they mostly only works though when the families pay a ransom to th

she's helped by mahmoud a friend and former smuggler. sometimes my contacts in syria hear about people who've been kidnapped from people who've just been freed they might send me a photo of a kidnapped boy you can ask if i know him that i ask around whether anyone is missing my boy if so we go rescue him. sometimes the islamists allow their prisoners to call their families and sometimes the families are asked for help she calls the kidnappers and fishes for information trying to find out where they are. what would you shoot at if i get them to trust me then i ask them things like what's happening where they are how many airstrikes have already hit what. mahmoud and i are in touch with the iraqi security forces and forces in syria to tell us about is trikes. we compare information to localise the people we're looking for that. they work with smugglers in syria who bring the former prisoners across the border they say they freed more than sixty people so far. here mostly only works though when the families pay a ransom to the islamists or

party to decide whether they should be sentenced to death i among those on trial is photojournalist mahmoud known a shower he was arrested for taking pictures of the security forces as they broke up the protest. god willing the trial is fair with no injustice he's a man who's been wronged at the end of the day journalism isn't an insult or a crime. more than a thousand people were likely killed on august fourteenth two thousand and thirteen that's according to human rights watch. no one from the egyptian security forces has ever been charged with any offenses relating to the massacre. al-jazeera . a community radio station in france says providing practical solutions to recently arrived refugees their show connection is run by volunteers in several languages about reports the chance for migrants to share their stories is becoming more important. at a studio in paris recording begins for a weekly radio show aimed at helping refugees in france hello and welcome to sunday night connection to the stunning grad connection was created two years ago by a group of volunteers refugees who named it a

going i mean mahmoud was a tunning from a citizen of mit things with official so president of the rebel masood hard this government which has base itself in the other and since two thousand and fifteen he escaped with minor injuries but some of his security guards and aides was say to have been killed in the us hog bless us rushed to the scene and security forces were quickly deployed to the in my neighborhood of other than where the talk or cotton or group claimed responsibility for it all the local officials are blaming it that there's been an increase in the number of roadside bomb and drive by shootings in of them in percent among something officials say signifies an uptick in al qaeda activity in the city. afghans living in the embattled city of gosney are running out of food and water as a fierce battle between the taliban and the military continues at least four hundred people have died in the financing shyness bellus reports. residents of gaza a flee from afghanistan's new frontline in the war between the taliban and the military. and the taliban was stationed at the building in

that's right to spokesman for palestinian president mahmoud abbas said the u.s. rep decision represents quote a flagrant assault against the palestinian people and a defiance of u.n. resolutions that's a reference to the many resolutions the united nations has passed by large majorities continuing the mandate of an era to work with the palestinian refugees he also added that the u.s. no longer plays a real role in the region and is not part of the solution the palestinian foreign minister riyadh all molecules called on arab nations to step up and provide some of the funding that will now need to be made up after the us decided to cut those those millions of dollars ok rob reynolds with more on the decision of the u.s. to cut funding to the palestinians thank you for all those details. the u.s. and canada have missed a deadline to revamp the north american free trade agreement talks broke up without a deal although trump says they'll now resume on wednesday in the meantime the white house says it will press ahead with a new trade agreement with mexico so that movi

palestine is definitely becoming more popular among the palestinian officials just the other day mahmoud abbas said that palestine is for the palestinians it is not as the jews claim the land of their ancestors so he does seem to be questioning israel's right to exist on those lands and i wonder if that does not make it easier for israel to paint you as anti semitic rejectionists president mahmoud abbas went to the security council and february twentieth two thousand and eighteen and his speech last week of the palestine national council and iterated our commitment to the two state solution where the state of palestine with these duracell limits its capital will live side by side in peace and security with the state of israel and he called for an international conference and he was willing to come to moscow abandoned with a sham president porton to meet with it with prime minister netanyahu and prime minister netanyahu refused then with asian present put in place not once or twice and accepted we are with a two state solution with. israel did not recognize us since one thousand eight hun

it's been six hundred days since i was there a journalist mahmoud hussein was arrested and jailed in egypt without charges hussein is accused of broadcasting false news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions he indulges there are strongly denied the allegations and the network has been demanding his release laura bird medley has more. locked up in solitary confinement al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein is yet to have any formal charges brought against him the egyptian national was stopped questioned and detained in december two thousand and sixteen after traveling from doha where he was based to visit his family in cairo he's been held in the notorious tour a maximum security prison where he's complained of mistreatment hussein and al jazeera strongly deny the allegations against him that he broke last false news women writing letters even asking. african thing to be in a lot of the good offices. democracy in the country by his lot of people which include press freedom and freedom of expression egypt level similar charges against al jazeera trio bonhomme homage mo

mahmoud who did survive the blast it happened in aden province several other people injured in these attacks and shootings have been escalating in that area in recent days we're covering yemen from djibouti with mohammed mohammed tell us more of what you know welcome all come on the governor i mean a mood was of autonomy from a series of meetings with officials of president of the rebel most sort of his government which of course is basis in other cities two thousand and fifteen. when he's home but was passing through that in my neighborhood where immediately after the blast as rush then security for the lord there he escaped unharmed but some of his security guards and aides was killed in that tug no group has yet claimed responsibility for the local officials blaming. there's been an increase in the number of drive by shootings and roadside bombs in and around been in recent weeks something officials us saying indicates an uptick in activity in the area that's mohammed with an update on the situation in aden he's reporting from today thanks mom. on this day five years ago at least

those imprisoned included gyptian journalist mahmoud abbas say it known as shock and he's been a lot. up to five years reporting on the rubber square protests in cairo where hundreds of protesters were killed and thousands injured recently shall can be nominated for unesco is press freedom prize and multi award winning journalist had its home raided a may and was arrested and detained. as the egyptian authorities target what they describe as fake news new laws passed in july to support the arrests of journalists they allow the state to block social media accounts and detain journalists who have more than five thousand followers and existing laws which are already being used to cost you. your freedom new laws. many more who are mostly known journalist but would be arrested because they want to express their opinion supporters of president out of hostile sisi say they will safeguard freedom of expression. but rights groups say it will give a legal basis for egypt to crack down on criticism or to send durables manly al-jazeera. the libyan coast guard has rescued sixty migrants and refuge

governor i mean mahmoud was a tunning from a citizen of mid things with official so president of the rebel masood hard this government which has base itself in other and since two thousand and fifteen he escaped with minor injuries but some of his security guards and aides was say to have been killed in the arts hark says rush to the scene and security forces were quickly deployed to the in my neighborhood of one where there are talk or card nor claimed responsibility for local officials are blaming. there's been an increase in the number of roadside bombings and drive by shootings in of them in percent among something off which will say signifies an uptick in al qaeda activity in the city. afghans living in the city of gasoline are running out of food and water as the battle between the taliban and military continues for the fifth day residents say the taliban has captured more than half the city afghan forces say nearly two hundred people have been killed in the fighting. residents of gaza may flee from afghanistan's new frontline in the war between the taliban and the military. an

chancellor angela merkel has wrapped up a three day africa visit in nigeria she was received by president mahmoud hari in a biggio her trip which also took in ghana and senegal focused on strengthening economic development and containing migration from the region. and as we just heard on the americal in nigeria as part of a three day visit to west africa nigeria is africa's second largest economy and the german chancellor is keen to see greater investment by german companies there the oil rich country with nearly two hundred million people is a growing market but it's also one of the world's most corrupt countries. the niger delta is the country's biggest revenue source oil production was launched in the one nine hundred fifty s. now daily production is some two and a half million barrels nigeria is among the world's leading oil exporters but more than half of the population lives in poverty on less than one euro a day that's according to the world bank and made rampant corruption much of the oil revenue is siphoned off by the country's elite police checkpoints and ubiquitous instead of in hansin

over the employee radio system, a store manager told mahmoud to stop complaining." >(grant) another witness says mah-moud briefly held the customer at gunpoint on a bench outside the store... the manager was not injured. (grant) new tonight (grant) new tonight (grant)(grant) new tonight at nine... caught on camera... the inside of a ross store-- as a family of (vicki) new video tonight-- showing up to 80 cars set on fire and exploding... with people watching nearby... this happened overnight in sweden... in three different places ... another 40 cars were vandalized... and whats shocking is that police there say these kind of attacks are not unusual this time of year because they are happening a week before schools reopen... the ones responsible appeared to have been highly organized and mostly youths.mostly youths. officers do say they have never seen this amount of vandalism done in one time... (vicki) a flash flood caused major damage for many communities in pennsylvania and new york... the was so much rising water that boats were used to rescue stranded residents

detained based on requests from egypt he was the minister of poland to affairs under phone present mahmoud abbas's government is a known opposition figure and has been living in exile in europe since july two thousand and thirteen when the military coup happened. the u.s. is that him to impose even higher tariffs on chinese imports upping the ante from ten percent to twenty five percent oppose levy will cover two hundred billion dollars worth of goods tariffs have already been imposed on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese imports president trump accuses china of unfair trade practices and is putting pressure on beijing to reform adrian brown reports. is precious in china only fifteen percent of the country is honorable that makes the law shouldn't fertile province of very important especially now. close to the border with russia this is soybean country. china is the world's largest consumer of soybeans but it can't grow enough and so is reliant on imports to meet demand that means the decision to impose a twenty five percent levy on u.s. soil beans creates risk yet in this provin

name lad i was in doha on tuesday talking to the cottage cheese you have the palestinian president mahmoud abbas he's in qatar arrived late wednesday will be meeting today you have a senior how master allegation of their political leadership who had been in gaza very rare meeting back in cairo talking to the egyptians you have all this movement going on we know there's various tracks of these talks there are difficulties it has to do the palestinian reconciliation which is incredibly difficult it has to do with the long lasting cease fire the end game would be to ease the siege on gaza i think people will tell you this is that we're going to keep seeing this happen this is not a surprise if there is no real long term solution for gods and there is an acknowledgment in the israeli establishment and from the military and from the intelligence that it needs to happen i think i think we're still going to have to wait and see how this develops over the course of the day but yes i think as always with this conflict it is incredibly ficelle it is volatile and anything can happen but we're still a

go on i mean mahmoud was a tunning from a series of mid things with official so front of the rebel masood hard this government which has base itself in the other and since two thousand and fifteen he escaped with minor injuries but some of his security guards and aides was say to have been killed in the us hark on bless us rushed to the scene and security forces were quickly deployed to the in my neighborhood of one where the talk nor yet claimed responsibility for the local officials are blaming. there's been an increase in the number of roadside bomb and drive by shootings in of them in percent month something off which will say signifies an uptick in al qaeda activity in the city. now it's been five years since egyptian security forces killed hundreds of protesters in the capital cairo they were protesting in the rebel square against the military coup was deposed the democratically elected president mohamed morsi human rights watch describes it as one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history and smith reports. the wizened and you'll sit in warm

i have two children left in the us mahmoud is nine years old. and my other son a six. oh the phenomenal success. jobar and eastern suburb of damascus was the front line for months now it's rubble a testimony to the horrors of the syrian war it reveals a powerless europe's failure to stop the united states russia iran saudi arabia and turkey from reigniting the war time and again. supporters of assad's regime. and their cult of death. hezbollah fighters and their martyrs have become part of damascus scenery. as have those of their sworn enemies israel and the us. the marketplaces and souvenir shops also offer new wares. its all sounds way of thanking vladimir putin for saving his regime. they had jhana shelter near damascus for displaced persons from the radio. they're safe now but they will spend the rest of their lives as victims of the war. three hundred families found shelter here including children who have never known peace. tinsmith mohamed habib and his family also live here. for well i don't have any work right now sometimes something comes through but most of

mahmoud and i are in touch with the iraqi security forces and forces in syria who tell us about airstrikes. we compare information to localize the people we are looking for. reporter: they work with smugglers in syria who bring former prisoners are across the border. they say they freed more than 60 people so far. it mostly only works when the families pay a ransom, to the islamists for at least the middleman. >> the families have to borrow the money. if they can't get enough can we help them. i have friends in europe and america, and they give us the money to buy the women free. reporter: one woman was held prisoner for four years. her family paid for her release. >> i saw how they killed my mother. it was awful. they tortured us and forced us to pray. they beat us and they put a price on us and sold us from one man to the next. reporter: she says she was on the brink of killing herself, but then she came across a mobile phone. she secretly sent her family photos and video. three months later, she was found. her family paid 13,000 u.s. dollars to get her back. >> i want you to free all th

those imprisoned included gyptian journalist mahmoud abbas say it known as shock and he's been locked up for five years reporting on the rubber square protests in cairo where hundreds of protesters were killed and thousands injured recently shall can be nominated for unesco is press freedom prize and multi award winning journalist well about us had its home raided a may and was arrested and detained. as a to. some authority is target what they describe as fake news new law also passenger lie to support the arrests of journalists they allow the state to block social media accounts and detain journalists who have more than five thousand followers the existing laws which are already being used. suppressed media freedom new laws more wishes. many more who are not even journalists but will be honest and because they want to express their opinion supporters of president sisi say they will safeguard freedom of expression. but rights groups say it will give legal basis for egypt to crack down on criticism or to send more about manly al-jazeera when you're the news group if you're watching us

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. —— mahmoud abbas. the palestinian leadership are not good at the moment. house's point of view that they are not coming to the table to discuss peace. that is something they really want. ever since donald trump took the decision to move the embassy in israel tojerusalem, that has caused problems between the two leaderships. we have a growing problem into straight to get them back on the same page there might be some pressure in this, but also undoubtably a feeling that the programme in place at the moment does need to change. chris buckler, they're in washington, dc. —— there. the united states is halting its funding for the united nations' —— in china, evidence is growing that up to a million muslim uighurs are being held by chinese authorities in so—called "re—education camps". the uighurs are a muslim ethnic minority group with central asian roots. they're mostly based in china's far—western region of chen—jang, an autonomous region within the country, and they make up around 45% of the population. un human rights investigators say they're increasingly

photo journalist mahmoud known as shall count he was arrested for taking pictures of the security forces as they broke up the protest. god willing the trial is fair with no injustice he's a man who's been wronged at the end of the day journalism isn't an insult or a crime. more than a thousand people were likely killed on august fourteenth twenty thirteen that's according to human rights watch. no one from the egyptian security forces has ever been charged with any offenses relating to the massacre bernard smith al-jazeera. north and south korea have agreed to hold a summit in pyongyang in september a trip by the south's president mungy into the north's capital will be the first such visit in more than a decade both sides say they're committed to a thaw in relations despite pyongyang is continuing dispute with the u.s. over the terms of its denuclearization deal. so i had to. make the perfect stop for his new club with that story stay with us. welcome back now google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you specifically tell it not to the results o

welcome back we're still with the former president of the maldives mahmoud why he. had the why mr nasheed was so popular was his famous demonstration of climate change in the power of climate change i mean what is your opinion about the latest scientific evidence that suggests your country will disappear it within eighty years. unfortunately that's the reality we have to face but in the meantime you know in the immediate near future we're going to be experiencing rough weather third of the maldives islands ordered severely you know as a politician you go around the island number one demand today is help us protect the beaches just recently one of the southern islands which is the only island at all in the world it's called formula it's is. below sea level but it has a rim around it. that protects the ocean from coming into the country but that is eroding now and just last month they had major flooding and they have two three freshwater bodies on the island they all can contaminated now because of this so more lives is threatened absolutely and it's not a long term t

the battle against illegal immigration her comments came at talks near berlin with new president mahmoud. his country's i'm a refugee transit state medical also urged european states to invest in education and development in african countries where migration is high. u.s. president donald trump has revoked security clearance for former cia director john brennan the unprecedented move means that brennan an outspoken trump critic no longer has access to sensitive information white house spokeswoman sara sanders made that announcement citing brennan's quote erratic conduct and behavior. of officials in afghanistan have blamed the so-called islamic state for a suicide bombing in a mainly shiite neighborhood of the capital kabul authorities say thirty four people were killed in the blast which targeted an education center just hours after the suicide attack downman opened fire on a spy training center in kabul violence is marring the run up to elections in two months time. democrat voters in the u.s. state of vermont have nominated a transgender candidate to run for governor christine helples

homes but now there's a financial crisis hit in the country and that support is starting to fade mahmoud other one had reports from misrata. it's time for people who fled the water but razi three years ago to leave this compound in misrata this man like many others here is worried if he shows his face supporters of the warlord have to might go after his relatives in. the compound owners have recently demanded the government to return the property because it hasn't been paying its bills jan mahmoudi says her house in bonn was destroyed by the war she and her husband have been living here with the help of a charity's notion we were asleep in the street if they don't find a solution for us what can we do we've got only ten days ultimatum to leave. since have to launch his military campaign back in two thousand and fourteen more than one hundred thousand people have fled their homes after his forces took full control of the city in december last year but many here are still afraid to go back more than two hundred displeased family. have lived here on this beach compellent for the past three

generation many areas endure lengthy blackouts and constant electricity cuts are affecting their economy mahmoud reports from the capital tripoli. struggles with power cuts he says his business his own basic line because he's fridges don't keep the meat as cold as they used to and the changing power levels have ruined his equipment in many cases power switches. by a sudden voltage current. we find spoiled meat in the fridges every day even though we use power gen. others when the electricity goes off at night for several hours we also pay a lot of money to menton our ruined machines. generators have become a grown trade but they are taking a toll on the environment and people's pockets to all these subzero with power generators to run their businesses and you can hear their sound all over the city frequent power cuts have affected almost all sectors and during the summer months they it usually forces many people out of their homes families flock to public parks like this one for some cool air although sustain their cars for long hours just to use the air conditioners. solar energy is used in som

they succeeded you know at the moment you have a senior hamas political delegation in cairo you have mahmoud abbas in doha you had the u.n. envoy ravin up in doha on tuesday all these talks are ongoing we're going to have to wait and see again whether those efforts can deescalate the situation and convince all sides that a long term solution is the way forward and certainly not another war stuff you know the potential flash points of course is the friday protests where we see hundreds if not thousands of people from goals and heading towards the security barrier with israel what are we expecting from tomorrow. well i've uncovered covered the last three and inside gaza the numbers are smaller than we saw in the very beginning so it's less than one percent of gaza's population that goes to that fence but it's keeping the pressure on israel one of the criteria of this cease fire is the end of those protests including what really was born out of these protests twenty weeks now laura is these incendiary kites and balloons that are being sent across the border they are far less but they do continu