requires refugees to register themselves in the first member state they arrive at a rule which mr salvini wants to see renegotiated as quickly as possible. al-jazeera rome. and al-jazeera investigation has found that saudi arabia played a bigger role in causing the gulf crisis than previously thought the report shows the cell that hacked the cats our news agencies website in may last year worked from a government ministry in riyadh the phones and computers were connected to a saudi communication company hackers posted fake quotes attributed to qatar amir this led to saudi arabia the us. and egypt cutting ties with qatar and imposing a blockade and as the one year anniversary of the blockade of qatar approaches there are efforts in the us to win support president donald trump initially backed the blockade in countries of saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain before calling on all sides to resolve the dispute political head looks at the role lobbying has played. the nation of qatar on fortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism it was a shock in washington and across the glo

and this james reynolds again, this time on how italians are reacting to mr salvini's ideas. in recentsalvini became part of the new government, his popularity has risen. he is meant to be, if you look at the numbers, the junior partner in a coalition with the populist 5—star movement but given his moves against migration last week which we saw in the mediterranean and subsequently his talking about the roma community, his popularity has been going up and at this point, essentially he is the de facto, strongest voice in the entire italian government. let's bring you up—to—date on day six of the world cup. day six of the world cup, and the hosts russia have just beaten egypt 3—1. no goals in the first half, then four in the second. here's one from russia. six points and certain to go through in the knockout stage. they are the lowest —ranked team in the tournament. this is decidedly against what we were expecting. egypt only scored once. striker mo salah was brought down, as he ran into the box, and was awarded a penalty. this is his first for egypt. he has scored many goals for premier

requires refugees to register themselves in the first member state they arrive at a rule which mr salvini wants to see renegotiated as quickly as possible so new diagonal al-jazeera rome. residents of a libyan town will be allowed to return home for the first time in almost seven years after a reconciliation charter was signed between the town of and the city of misrata the white again has been a ghost town since two thousand and eleven when misrata officials expelled its residents for allegedly committing atrocities against rebels during the uprising that toppled more market duffy let's get more now from al-jazeera there were heat in misrata. here in this room right behind me presented it from both seat is the city of misrata and the city of the would have just finished signing conciliation deal that is called any consolation a charter and that allows the people of that would have to turn it back home after almost six years of this placement the people of that would have i q's by misrata because of committing atrocities against rebels and twenty eleven during that evolution that toppled

migrants as you can so that they don't enter the boats and don't try to cross the mediterranean and mr salvini the rightwing interior minister is the very strict and very harsh on this policy but it is not quite new the italians already set in generally this year that they won't let the boats rescue boats in the harbor as they did it before also france and spain and now question to do something and there's a european solution needed for that but in the end the law also says that you can't deny a vessel with emergencies on board was pregnant women on board you can't deny them from entering the harbor the question is what happens with the people then are they allowed to enter the country or do they have to stay on the boat in the dark and bad to really get in brussels thank you. the migration has also taken center stage here in berlin the german chancellor and americal host spanish prime minister pedro sanchez speaking at a joint press conference i'm going to want to say europe wide migration plan would not be reached at a summit of a huge leaders later this week and that germany would continue

leaders like mr salvini what i can't understand is why it is not. meant to you know facilitate russia's efforts to become better. including by perhaps easing or lifting of sanctions. strong. relations between europe and. require. russia and my comment that you are mentioning. the position. there you have government and i will saying was that. risky for a newly established party. government going to use asking for money asking for money to support all the docs and basic income and at the same time diverged with a utopian view which is to go on with sanctions. until we have pressure from the states. and so we would be my point was if we have to go to brussels. and get something for the program basic income and. how can we at the same time at the same table and say we go on our way on position with russia the sanctions for. the ukrainian crisis as i'm sure you would agree with me it was a very specific. time and i think if we are on this then fair i think we have to recognize that russia's actions in your cranium may not like them but they were dictate

mr. salvini has said we will not be accepting that vessel. anchor: we will keep you updated on that. .hink you, josephine mckenna now to yemen, an internation coalition of countries led by saudi arabia has launched an assault against their main port. this is the battle for yemen's fourth-largest city. gunfire directed -- erupted wednesday. we have more. reporter: pro-government fighters are dotted along the edge of the red sea towards c', main point of entry for imports. the coalition by saudi arabia is trying to capture it. data are advancing to who to -- liberated from the rebels. troops led by the united arab emirates have advanced to the outskirts of the city area now the battle has begun n and heavy gunfire can be heard in videos on social media. a large amount of military and eight has come through the port since the start of the civil war which began three years ago. the u.n. estates 6,000 people lee here and in a a woworst-case scecenario, a batte could cost 250,000 lives. coalition wants to cutt supply lineses to the cacapital which

leaders like mr salvini what i can't understand is why it is not. meant to. russia's efforts to become better. including by perhaps easing or lifting of sanctions. strong. relation between europe and russia but. it requires. russian and my comment that you are mentioning. the position. not there yet government and what i will saying was that. would be risky for a newly established party. government going to you asking for money asking for money to support their policy all the docs and basic income and at the same time diverged with a utopian view which is to go along with sanctions. until we have pressure from the states. and so we would be isolated and my point was if we have to go to brussels to other parts and get something for the program basic income and. how can we at the same time at the same table and say we go on our way on position with russia the sanctions for. the ukrainian crisis as i'm sure you would agree with me it was a very specific. time and i think if we are. on this then fair i think we have to recognize that russia's actions in ukraine y

sixty percent approval rating i think that's largely and it does give you a little flavor of what mr salvini has tweeted to his supporters saving lives he said today is a duty turning italy into a huge refugee camp is not italy is done bending over backwards and obeying this time and there is someone who says no well clearly there will be people in italy who aren't in favor of this policy take a listen to a sampling of some of their comments. if you see how much we should be embarrassed with ourselves it's the first time in our history we have closed the ports i have no words you know because they said you still. i just don't think it was right i think it's really looks bad now spain has had to intervene i think unfortunately what our interior minister has done is supported by a majority of people in our country this is what he said during his electoral campaign many times stop the invasion it's clearly his point of view. he's moved on with regard to them being the migrants and well we are just need to remember how we were one hundred years ago. we have touched the lowest point in our geopol

that we have a new anti-establishment government in power in italy and the new interior minister mr salvini is willing in a way to send a signal that italy is ready to block the whole sammy the here is basically that nothing is agreed until everything if. france is trying to instill patriotism in its young of the country's education ministry has made learning of the national anthem the march so yeah it is compulsory for primary school children and pupils will be required to know the history of the national anthem and all of the french flags creation they will need not just to learn the lyrics but also to sing the anthem at school and children will also be taught to recognize the european flag and anthem the owed to joy. her or. reverse the national movement to have it we need to learn that our previous we'll have to sing is a master yes but honestly as an elite there is no need to know anything about the so-called european scene you know that's probably is a mr matthew smith would. give you something on the lead but on the other hand it forces you to accept something as you know it when you

it now appears mr salvini is putting those promises into practice. caroline rigby, bbc news.arabia in moscow. while thousands of fans will travel to the country, billions will be watching around the globe, giving russia a golden opportunity to boost its image after several recent diplomatic controversies. 0ur moscow correspondent, steve rosenberg, has more. russia's singing grandmothers are on a mission to give russia a friendlier face for the world cup. these bubbly babushkas have penned a world cup anthem and produced a video to go with it. the message to foreign football fans, you have nothing to fear from russia. "i won't scare you," anna says. "i'll hug you, i'll kiss you, i'll sing and dance for you." russians will even smile at you. ahead of the world cup, train conductors here have been taught to forget the frowns and give foreigners big, shiny smiles to match the big, shiny stadiums built for the tournament. isn't so impressive. a global sporting event of this scale is the perfect stage for a host nation to promote itself to the world and boost its image. russia know

government in power in italy and the new interior minister mr salvini is willing in a way to send a signal that italy is ready to block the whole sum me the idea here is basically that nothing is agreed until everything if. france is trying to instill patriotism in its young the country's education ministry has made learning the national anthem the bar so yeah it is compulsory for primary school children now pupils will be required to know the history of the national anthem and of course the french flags creation they will need not just to learn the lyrics but also to sing the anthem at school the lion's share of the french public some ninety percent are in favor of making children learn the march so yes. yes they should know this anthem because it's the anthem of the french republic since seventeen ninety two so they in general learned at school i don't know why mr macro all of a sudden realize that all children should know it in principle all children should know it and it's a school they can learn not somewhere else. i think it's always good to learn songs by heart as a child but person

mr salvini said the country shouldn't be ‘the refugee camp of europe' and promised to stop new arrivalsation: the best way to save lives is to prevent people from getting into votes. i will work with european partners in african countries to prevent thousands of desperate people from having the illusion that in italy, there are homes and jobs for everyone. there aren't even an homes and jobs for all italians, let alone half of the african continent. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news... the bodies of 46 migrants have been recovered after their boat capsized off the coast of tunisia. the defence ministry says 68 were rescued off svax province. tunisia is a departure point for migrants heading to italy. another nine people died, after a speedboat carrying refugees sank off the southern coast of turkey. early partial results in parliamentary elections in slovenia suggest a strong lead for the anti—immigrant sds party led by the former prime minister. a centre—left party led by a comedian turned politician came second. a hotel on the svaalbar archipelago off the

mr. salvini, we've seen tens of thousands of migrants reach the shores they seem to deport half a million migrants the spending programs don't come cheap looking at estimates of more than $100 billion euros a year in extra spending the challenge is going to be how they finance that. only half will be covered by revenues we heard from angela merkel, the weekend, that she did not want the european union or the eurozone to be a debt sharing union. the italians would face this, particularly the germans we've had the report about unicredit and socgen tying up and trying to compete with their american counterparts who are seeing much more profitable margins right now. so far socgen saying there is no merger and unicredit not commenting. >> this is a big story obviously like most of the banks there, it has been extremely troubled unicredit surprising it's not commenting. >> reporter: it's a big story here the man who's been brought in to clean up unicredit, he has a background in socgen so a tie up with socgen would be an opportunity to merge and build socgen's presence in places like italy and

of them. 0ur rome correspondent james reynolds told us how the italians have been reacting to mr salvini's an uncontrolled way, now having the levers of power and deciding to say things in exactly the same way. and finding also that what he is able to say, what he wants to do, is able to be borne out with the facts. bear in mind last week he was able to turn the direction of a migrant ship, moving away from italy and it was essentially accepted towards spain. whether or not he is able to conduct some kind of his own headcount of the roma community in italy or whether or not there may be legal cases against a partial census, we will have to see. james reynolds in italy. with the migrant crisis stoking tensions in the eu, and within her own government, the german chancellor angela merkel has been given two weeks to broker a compromise. her sister party, the csu, which forms part of the coalition in germany, says europe must take some tough decisions. the issue looks set to dominate next week's eu summit in brussels. today in berlin the chancellor was meeting with french president emmanuel ma

and at that meeting in tripoli, mr salvini told his libyan counterpart he wants migrants travelling tosed at centres on libya's southern border. translation: on thursday in brussels we willjointly support the libyan authorities in setting up reception and identification centres in the south of libya. to help libya as well as italy to block migration. gavin lee is on board one of the rescue ships off the coast of libya, the aquarius. he joins us live now from the deck. jealous when you are and what you are encountering. —— tell us where are enceuntering. —— tell us where” ,, ,, are. this ship has been you are. this ship has been operationalfor you are. this ship has been operational for three years and the question is is at a charity rescue boat, right now we are 30 miles from tripoli. to the west of libya is from the vast majority of migrants from the vast majority of migrants from sub—saharan africa set off through this route and it has been many boats packed up it is down to two boats and we have had the sport and the staff on—board many are exhausted because it had to go to spain wh

because besides a few goals that we are talking about one hundred not very high opposite to what mr salvini. people say they are not very high we are talking about to a few thousands maybe ten thousand twenty thousand people who have been able. to cross as a middy done in seeds as a beginning of say yeah to reach europe plays off almost three hundred million enough beaton's the figures are very small is not true that it is an invasion and we could receive these people and we could receive it with dignity receive them with dignity best that's not the case for political reasons mainly. all right we will leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us from paris thank you well you can watch this very personal story off a young girl iberian manage josephs journey takes him out of his native liberia to the sahara desert where he had north towards europe by crossing borders illegally eventually ending up in new york city it's a part of our rewind series it's on al jazeera dot com under the documentaries tab it's on our home page let's show you the scene right here this is the u.k. is tha

i put it to the bbc‘s sara monetta that mr salvini might be said to have a point when it came to thes not only that, we have to remember that there is a border between italy and france that has seen quite a lot of trouble about migrants recently. and french border police have been very determined in turning away migrants even when migrants were in the middle of snow, they turned away a pregnant woman who died in when she came back and it was recently also ice packed with thailand authorities when basically the french border police came into italian territory and they made an unauthorised raid on an ngo that was given information to migrants who wanted to go to france so this now is the tipping point of this simmering tension between the two countries. the one thing i want to understand, the italians turned away the boat earlier in the week but then since then another boat with even more people almost a thousand people has been allowed to arrive sicily so it seems inconsistent. we need to make a difference here, because the migrants who were rescued on the upper areas have been taken

as you heard there, mr salvini references that emmanuel macron is in rome. this as well. last week, mr macron accused italy of cynicism and irresponsibility for refusing to let the aquarius dock. a little while ago he held a press conference — and was sounding a bit more diplomatic. translation: i can confirm that france will be one of the few member states that will pick up people on the left find ship today. and french officials aren't already on their way to malta to be able to carry out the mission. more on those political tensions in europe in a moment. first, gavin lee is on board the rescue ship aquarius. this is his latest update. the aquarius is currently off the coast of italy and that's as far as we can go because the italians today has said this charity run ship and other ngo ships cannot go to italian ports in the words of matteo salvini the interior minister said to the bbc in now or anytime in the future. asa ship bbc in now or anytime in the future. as a ship with the group and doctors without borders, we have followed their progress for the

and that is of course many of them fleeing war fleeing destitution and repression but of course mr salvini is keen to point out that this is a first move as the interior minister he wants to show italy and also to a certain extent the european union that he wants to play hardball with this here in the coming weeks post to be meeting up in brussels with other european union interior ministers what he wants is a renegotiation on the doppler accord that is to put an end to people turning up to the first e.u. member states and claiming asylum there he says that puts it in a bit unfair position but whether he's able to do this in the face of of the european union is another matter the beleaguered jordanian prime minister may be on his way out sources have told down to zero that king abdullah the last prime minister. to resign in the meeting on monday that in days of protests in the kingdom after the government proposed raising income tax by at least five percent the government was also planned to increase corporation tax by as much as forty percent so as the hikes are needed to kick start the e

deal with in the region still that they say has been more of an issue rather than the issues that mr salvini has come out with his rhetoric that he has said that he would try and take money away from the whole system of the reception centers in the asylum system the processing and try and divert it to try and repatriate as many people as they possibly can who do not fit the requirements to stay here how he is going to do that he has not given any details and this is the issue that mr selby has what he talks a very good talker which really appeals to his supporters and perhaps those who do seem fatigued by the refugee crisis and italy's and the burden which italy has faced because of this and what they see is the lack of help from the european union as well it is a convincing argument however this kind of system here it does require funds to be diverted but he has not given any concrete plans as to how he's going to do that or how he would raise the money to be able to quicken the deportation system so this would presumably be his. image or not tick as it were to serve his strong initial role

and that is of course many of them fleeing war fleeing destitution and repression but of course mr salvini is keen to point out that this is a first move as the interior minister he wants to show italy and also to a certain extent the european union that he wants to play hardball with this here in the coming weeks pose to be meeting up in brussels with other european union interior ministers what he wants is renegotiation on the doppler accord that is to put an end to people turning up to the first e.u. member states and claiming asylum there he says that puts it in unfair position but whether he's able to do this in the face of of. of the european union is another matter let's take a closer look at the continuing flow of refugees trying to enter europe according to the un migration agency over thirty two thousand undocumented people have entered europe by sea in twenty eight hundred of these about forty two percent arrived in italy which is witnessing a rising sentiment against immigrants thirty four percent of them landed in greece which is where the boat that capsized off turkey on sund

in sicily a week before mr paul elections on the island region now outside the center of protesters chanted slogans against me and held banners reading welcome refugees salvini is head of the far right party which has demanded a crackdown on migrants and refugees. at least forty six migrants were killed when their boat sank off the news is solid and coast making it one of the worst migrant boat accidents in recent years sixty seven others were rescued near the city of facts according to tunisian officials. officials say a whale that died had eight kilograms of plastic trash most of it shopping bags in its stomach the animal died despite a five day effort to save it they said the plastic made the will sick and unable to hunt. the russian space capsule has landed safely in ca's a stand carrying three us generals from russia the u.s. and japan they were returning from a one hundred sixty day mission on the international space station another three astronauts are to be launched to the station later this week. is the video the country's wife will position has one parliamentary elections now the south eastern european country which used to be part of the former yu

see them just starting up there getting a translator sets ready of course salvini and seraj speaking with us and then mr. prime minister in italy is visiting tripoli and at the very beginning i'd like to welcome him is a company who did a geisha and. we all know the new government in italy has been there and the deputy prime minister is paying us his first visit ever and we will definitely. pave the way. in the proposal as i just. give him the floor at the very beginning. but i am proud of egypt. to have chosen libya as the first official. overseas visit as the deputy prime minister of italy and this way i have confirmed the friendship between the two governments and the two peoples of libya and italy and also to confirm the. common objective of solidarity and the commitment of the libyan. authorities to confront the whole problem of undercover illegal immigration from libya to italy we also have looked at economic commercial health and cultural issues. on which italy wants to lead in its relationship with libya. already on thursday at the european council the italian government will uphold the need to

mr trump had no need to use it as he had done nothing wrong. italy's interior minister says his country wont‘ be the refugee camp of europe. speaking in sicily, matteo salviniwho heads the far—right league party, said his country needs centres to facilitate the expulsion of illegal immigrants. critics have denounced his plans for large—scale repatriations. pope francis has called for an end to violence in nicaragua, where at least 15 people were killed this week in protests against the president daniel ortega. he said the catholic church always favoured dialogue— and an active commitment to respect of life and freedom. the home secretary, sajid javid, has said it may be time to raise the cap on the number of skilled workers allowed to enter the uk. it would be part of an overall review of the government's immigration policy ahead of brexit. businesses and parts of the public sector such as the nhs have been arguing they're struggling to recruit enough skilled workers. our political correspondent chris mason has the details. parts of the nhs are in desperate need of more doctors, but the number of skilled non—eu workers granted uk visas is capped. today, the

mr trump had no need to use it as he had done nothing wrong. italy's interior minister says his country wont‘ be the refugee camp of europe. speaking in sicily, matteo salviniexpulsion of illegal immigrants. critics have denounced his plans for large—scale repatriations. pope francis has called for an end to violence in nicaragua, where at least 15 people were killed this week in protests against the president daniel 0rtega. he said the catholic church always favoured dialogue— and an active commitment to respect of life and freedom. the home secretary, sajid javid, has said it may be time

mr trump had no need to use it as he had done nothing wrong. italy's interior minister says his country wont‘ be "the refugee camp of europe." speaking in sicily — matteo salvinillegal immigrants. critics have denounced his plans for large—scale repatriations. kim jong—un is reported to have replaced three of his top military officials ahead of his summit with president trump. reuters news agency said an unnamed us official has confirmed reports that more moderate leaders have been appointed to lead the north korean military. now on bbc news, dateline london.

mr trump had no need to use it as he had done nothing wrong. italy's interior minister says his country wont‘ be "the refugee camp of europe." speaking in sicily — matteo salvinio heads the far—right league party, said his country needs centres to facilitate the expulsion of illegal immigrants. critics have denounced his plans for large—scale repatriations. kim jong—un is reported to have replaced three of his top military officials ahead of his summit with president trump. reuters news agency said an unnamed us official has confirmed reports that more moderate leaders have been appointed to lead the north korean military. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to dateline london where, each week, some of the uk's best—known columnists debate the week's big stories, with journalists whose dateline is london, as they report those events to the world beyond. this week: donald trump declares war, but don't panicjust yet — it's a trade war. italy pulls back from the brink. spain topples over it. in the uk, the conservatives look for compromise over brexit. and donald trump marshals his diplomatic forces for peace. to discuss all of that with me — greg